E OREGON MI
VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 18.
NO. 16.
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TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items of Iinnortanoe From Domestic
and Foreign onro.a Cream
r tha Dispatches.
... Portland, Or., experienced tingle
earthquake shook of brief duration.
Two massive boilers of the Planter'
oil mill In Ureenrille, Miss., exploded,
wrecking the mill property end oaus
lug the death of Are men.
It if asserted that the Traniraal got
eminent 1 about to offer England the
assistance of tha burgher foroos to
ornab the Matabele uprising.
Ten person were burned to "death in
a fire at 116 Union square, Brooklyn.
The building wa a four-story tenement-house,
oooupled by Italians.
A train on the Bt Louis & Ban Fran
oiaoo railroad wat held np by masked
men three miloa from Lebanon, Mo.
Express offloUla lay that they aeoured
bnt $1,277.
F.-ederlok A. Humphrey, said to be
the oldeit Freemaaon In the United
States, died in Jauesvllle, Wit., aged
SB. He belonged to the Masonic fra
ternity for 74 year
The garment worker of Baltimore,
who have been on atrlke for five week,
have returned to work where they
oould get their plaoes. Over 6,000
persons bare been out
The Missouri supreme oourt hai
affirmed the sentence of the Taylor
brother, oonvioted of having murdered
the Meek family, near Milan. Elocu
tion wa set for April 80.
The president haa appointed B. F.
Franklin, a former member of the
booee, a governor of Arizona. The
term of the preaent governor doe not
expire nntil April 1, 1897.
Mme. Dure Berthel, a leading oon
tralto of Loalivllle, Ky. , one of the
beat-known vooaliata of the South, bar
been itrioken blind, and tbe probabil
ities are that her a fit lotion will be per
manent. In hi annual menage, President
Dlax, of Mexico, vigorouily uphold
the United State in the stand it ha
taken In tbe Veneauela matter and ex
presses hi partiality for the Monroe
doctrine.
In Victor, Colo., Edward Caskey
waa killed and Joseph Wlgand waa
fatally injured by an epxloalon of giant
powder, they were thawing on the
oookstove at their mining olaim on
ProspeotHill.
In Prague, striker attacked the
weaver who had resumed work, and a
serious conflict took plaoe. Finally
the polioe were oompelled to oharge
with drawn swords and several per
son were wounded.
A Mew York Herald dispatch from
Rome say the negus Menelek has or
dered the massacre of number of
prisoners and sick person who have
fallen Into the hand of bis force dur
ing the present campaign In Abyssinia.
Judge Hanford baa granted an order
for tbe sale of the Seatlte, Lake Shore
& Eastern railroad, tbe aale to be cade
In Seattle on or after May 13 next,
Tbe bondholders, under the reorganisa
tion plan, will be bidder for the prop
erty. Hereafter the Northern Paoifio will
rnn two transcontinental train Instead
of one. The time between St. Paul
nd Portland will be shortened eight
hour by putting on a fast mail train.
Tbe time eaatbound will be shortened
six hour.
Senator Davis, of the judiciary oom
mlttee ha reported favorably the bill
making It nulawfnl to shoot or throw
any missile into any railroad looomotlve
or oar, or to shoot at any person there
in. The bill ba particular application
to the Indian territory.
It is now known that one-half of the
Texas peach orop ba been killed by
frost. Corn has all been planted, but
yet no ootton, although the gronnd
ia prepared for it Owing to the late
season, oaused by oold winter, the aore
age will not be so large a last year.
A special to the New York Herald
from Madrid say a violent attaok upon
Senator Sherman wa published in the
Imparoial, whloh oalled him a former
slave-trader, and asserted that he
wants tbe Cuban rebellion to suooeed
In order to re-establish slavery in Cuba.
The Cutter Silk Manufacturing Com
pany, of West Bethlehem, Pa., has
made an assignment to ex-Postmaster
John Field, of Philadelphia. The fail
ure 1 a heavy one, a the oompany i
oapitallsed at 1000,000 and has, in ad
dition, a bonded Indebtedness of
$100,000.
T. Simon Sam, formerly minister of
war for Haytl, ha been elected presi
dent to suooeed General Hlppolyte, de
ceased. 'The eleotlon wa made by the
senate and house of representative.
Perfeot tranquility prevails, and there
are no indications of dissatisfaction
with the oholoe of the executive.
Seoretary Morton has let a oontraot
for 10,180,000 packets of vegetable
aeeds, to be distributed under the re
oent aot of oongress, to D. Landreth &
Sons, of Philadelphia. The price is
170,000. The seeds are to be delivered
ready for mailing. Tbe oontraot for a
million packets of flower seeds was let
to L. L. May & Co., Bt Paul, Minn.,
at half a oent a pnokage.
The Chloago board of eleotlon com
missioners has deolared that 40,000 of
the 870,000 voter registered for the
oomlng spring eleotlon are fraudulent.
The commissioners discovered whole-.
ale registration fraud in nearly every
ward. They say the number of names
stricken from the list i greater than
the total vote oast in Montana, North
Dakota, Delaware, Florida and Nevada.
Three men boarded the eaatbound
train No. 1 at Trnukee, Cal., taking
position on the "blind baggage." It
appeared that they wore standing on
(be platform In a careless manner., and
when tbe train was rounding a curve
near Booa, a lurch threw them off.
One of them, William Morse, whose
home 1 in Taooma, was killed. B. F.
Evans, of Chicago, was badly injured.
The third man wa not injured.
A move ha developed in Nebraska
to oontest tbe right of tbe government
to regulate the liquor trafllo of tbe
fort in this state. At every post .the
"oanteen," operated by privates, Is
oouduoted without state or oounty in
terference. At Fort Bobinson oounty
authorities Issued warrant against
tbe oanteen owner, for selling liquor
without a license, and writ to confis
cate the wet proper t. Tbe military
authorities refused to permit the sher
iff to serve his warrant and that ofli
olal ha appealed to the seoretary of
war.' .
The Chinese government has decided
to enter the postal union.
H. E. Topping, a furniture dealer of
Astoria, committed suioide by blowing
his brains out
The schooner J. B. Leeds is long
overdue at Gary' harbor from Guay
ams, Mexico, and great anxiety Is felt
for her safety.
Tbe London Times correspondent In
Vienna says: Tbe Vaterland publishes
a communication from tbe superior of
tbe Catbollo station at Orfa, declaring
that 8,000 Armenian have been mas
sacred there.
Tbe money order transactions
throughout the United States during
tbe last quarter of 1896, beat all pre
vious records in volume. The aoounts
have just been audited and show tbe
receipts to have aggregated $16,678,
971. A foreign dispatch says: It Is be
lieved tbe dervisbe lost 6,000 dead,
wounded and prisoners in the engage
ment at Mount Moeran on April 8,
with tbe Italian native battalion com
manded by Colonel Steveni from Cas
sala. Fire broke out in the Washburn &
Moen Manufacturing Company' plant,
at Qulnslgmond, Mass., resulting In a
loss of from $160,000 to $166,000, fully
insured. Two hundred men will be
out of work until tbe building is re
built Tbe Genessoe river is higher tban in
twenty year. It 1 over it bank in
the southern part of Rochester and has
washed away part of the Erie tracks.
Tbe houses are surrounded by water
and tbe occupants have had to desert
their homes.
Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingra
bam, two faotory hands employed in
Haverhill, Mass., engaged In a prise
fight, and as a result the latter, was
killed by a blow on the jaw. Tbe
flgbt was to be a friendly one to settle
the title as to who was the better man.
A novel measure, almod at high
theater hats, wa enaoted into law by
the Ohio legislature. It provide that
any manager permitting any person to
wear a bat or other headgear in a thea
tei obstructing the view, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and shall be fined $10.
William Kemper and John Llmpke,
of Otis, Ind., engaged in a friendly
oontest for boxing aupremaov in a sa
loon at that plaoe. After a few passes,
Kemper (truck Llmpke In tbe abdo
men. The injured man fell unoon
solous, and remained so nntll he ex
pired soon after.
It ha been announced that a ohalr
of tbe Russian language will be estab
lished at Harvard next year. Protes
tor Leo Welner, of tbe University of
Minnesota, a native of Poland and a
well-known scholar of the Slavonic
tongue, ha been appointed to the
ohair for five year.
Edward David, a prominent farmer
of Cox Lake, wa shot and instantly
killed by Julius Zilke, a farmhand
working for him. David had inter
fered to prevent Zilke from atriklng a
young man in a quarrel, and Zilke
waited for David to oome borne, when
he (hot him In tbe presenoe of Davids'
wife.
John Solman, the vlotor of no less
than twenty fatal shooting affray in
Texas, the exterminator of "bad" men,
aud tbe slayor of tbe notorious John
Wesley Hardin, wa (hot and killed by
United State Deputy Marshal George
Scarborough. The men had a quarrel
over a game of cards, wbloh resulted
In the shooting.
Letters received from Rainy river,
on the Canadian boundary, report the
death in Rainy river of the entire
party who aooompanled Colonel A. F.
Naff, United State speolal ' agent.
They were on tbe way to Investigate a
report of timber stealing by Canadians,
and were ascending tbe river in
sleigh. They broke through the ioe
and all but Colonel Naff were lost
At a meeting of the bondholder of
the Northern Paoifio railroad held in
Berlin, it wa unanimously resolved to
accept the reorganisation plan. The
Northern Paoifio plan of reorganisation
has been adopted by two meetings, one
of third mortgage bondholders, repre
senting $4,971,000 out of $7,846,000,
and one of second mortagge bondhold
ers, repeseuting $8,844,000 out of $0,
448,000. There has been oonsideralbe rivalry
between the masters of the sailing ves
sel plying In the ooal trade between
San Franoisoo and Nanaimo for the
past year, and some very fast passages
have been made, several of them inside
of twenty days. The Wilna, Captain
Slater, arrived at San Franaisoo, mak
ing the round trip in sixteen days and
four hours, whloh is by far the beat
time on reoord.
ATST.TIIOMAS'GIIURCII
Marriige of Gen. Harrison to
Mrs. Dimmlck.
THE AFFAIR WAS A PRIVATE ONE
After the Ceremony, the Couple Left
for Indianapolis Tha Bride's
Wadding Clown.
New York, Aplrl 8 The marriage
oi Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmiok to Gen
eral Benjamin Harrison was solemn'
laed at -St Thomas' oburob this after'
noon at 6:40. Dr. Wesley Brown, tbe
rector, officiated at the oerem"ny. Tbe
marriage which took plaoe in the pres
enoe of twenty relative and select
friend of tbe blrde and groom, wa a
very private affair.
Tbe edifice waa not decorated in the
lavish style that marked the nuptials
of Mis Vanderbilt and Mis Whitney,
the two most important weddings of
tbe season, but tbe flower used, lilacs
and asoenslon lilies, were arranged
with exquisite taste and the ohanoel
looked even prettier and more effeotive
than at tbe two previous weddings.
Mr. Dimmiok arranged all the detail
regarding the deoirations. The altar
was relieved with palms, tropical
plant and bank of white lilac sur
mounted with bunches of asoenslon
lilies.
General and Mrs. Harrison, after
the ceremony were driven to the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinobol, and at
7 o'clock took the regular train for
Indianapolis, oooupying the private
oar or President Frank Thompson.
Immediately after the train pulled out.
dinner was served on tbe oar.
Mrs. Dimmiok' wedding gown.
wbioh wa of pearl-gray gros grain
silk was made by Mme. Denoit-Mathie.
Tbe skirt was plain, with a abort train
falling from tbe waist in full, soft
godets. A Louis XVI coat, opening in
front over a full vest of white oblffon,
with broad revere, draped with rare
old Honiton laoe, halt a yard In width,
extending down eaoh side of the front
and draped over the hips, formed a
oo t effect Tbe sleeve were long and
full, tapering to tbe arm below the
elbow and extending in a fall of laoe
to the wrist Around tbe neok there
was a plusb collar of palest blue vel
vet, over which was entwined a rope
of magnlfloent pearls, fastened with a
diamond olasp, the gift of the bride
groom. She oarried a large bouquet of
lilies of the valley. The bonnet worn
by the bride waa a dainty French crea
tion, composed of laoe and blue velvet,
beld in plaoe by jewel pin.
The groom wore a well-made Prince
Albert ooat, worn oloaely buttoned,
with trousers of dark grey. White
glove and a white silk four-in-hand
tie completed the bridegroom's attire.
He wore a buttonaire of lilies of the
valley. .
ONE DOLLAR WHEAT.
Armour gays Thl. Price Will Be Reached
., In tho Near Future.
Chloago, April 8 P. D. Armour
aid in an interview today: "I believe
that wheat will aell at $1 a bushel or
near that figure soon. This is speak
ing from the standpoint of a merchant,
and not as a scalper. It ought to sell
here on Its merit, and will, unless
something now untorseen occurs. I
have felt bullish for several weeks, but
never more so than now. What any
individual or operator says, has no
reference to the aotual market condi
tions. The advance will not be a mat
ter of sentiment although I believe
business men all over the country are
beooming more confident and cheerful.
This grain may be singled out for im
provement' I believe that, all other
product will be helped. Corn and
oat may sell up a few oent, although
conditions of supply and demand are
entirely different In them than in
wheat, but provisions are at a range of
plroea where they are sure to be bet
ter." BALLINQTON HOLDS OUT.
The Meeting; With Mrs. Booth-Tucker
Waa Without fleet.
I New York, April 8. Ballington
Booth and hi lister. Mis. Booth
Tucker, had a protracted oonferenoe
lasting from 10 oolook last night nntil
4:80 this morning in Ballington
Booth' residence at Montolair. There
wa no laok of cordiality, but it ia un
derstood the entreaties of Mr. Booth
Tucker addressed to Ballington to re
turn to the Salavtlon Army were with
out effect A oonferenoe was held at
the Salvation Army headquarters in
this olty today, there being present the
Booth-Tuokers, Commissioner Carle
ton, Major Melan and Seoretary Lewis.
The following statement was made
by Commander and Mrs. Ballington
Booth in the headquarter of the Vol
unteer: "We are, however, anxious to have
it dearly stated that this interview
wa of a sisterly and brotherly oharao
ter, and apart from the matter in
controversy, on which we must differ,
there exists with us, a there alway
has, the warmest affeotlon for Mrs.
Booth-Tucker as a sister.
Down an Embankment.
Cahto, April 8. Tbe Ukiah &
Eureka stage, leaving Willlts shortly
after dark last night, toppled over an
embankment twenty-miles south of
here. Driver Ethelbert Whitoomb wa
evidently instantly killed. When
found this morning, his body was
burned beyond recognition, one leg
and both arms having been burned off.
Tbe stage was turned bottom side up,
the driver being oaught underneath
the stage wbloh was heavily laden with
express and mall matter, all of whloh
is a total loss. Whitoomb was unmar
ried, and resided at Wlllits.
RAID ON FISH TRAPS.
The Aetorla fishermen Set a Number of
Them Adrift.
Astoria, April 6. A number of fish
ermen of this oity made a raid on' tbe
fish traps south of Sand island, in the
vicinity of Baker' bay, this morning,
and, with tbe aid of a snagpuller be
longing to the Fishermen' Protective
Union, the piling of a number of
traps were drawn, and several pile
drivers were wrenched from their
mooring and sent adrift over tbe bar
into tha ocean. Tbe affair oaused in
tense excitement among the trap own.
era and custodians. An ineffectual at
tempt wa made to prevent tbe destruO'
tion of tbe property. It i supposed
that the cause of the aot waa the re
cent combination formed among the
oannerymen here, and tbe resolution
reducing tbe prioe to be hereafter paid
for raw fish, the fishermen evidently
being determined to hold out for high
prices, and to prevent, meanwhile, tbe
oanning of fish caught in traps belong
ing to tbe oannerymen.
The removal of tbe trap piles, will,
It is thought, cause serioua trouble be
fore tbe fishing season is far advanoed.
Tbe gillnet men assert that tbe traps
were romoved so a to save their lives.
It is well known that many lives have
been sacrifioed a a result of boat drift
ing into flshtraps, the lights on wbloh
bad been extinguished in some manner,
and the gillnet men have always stout
ly resisted the attempt of trap men to
locate their traps near what is known
a tbe out-off channel. This, ohannel
la near the Great Republlo spit, and
for some years has been a favorite
drifting ground. The location of
traps, tbe fishermen olaim, would
quickly destroy its value and menace
tbe lives of all who should drift In
that direction.
The aotion of tbe gillnetters in cast
ing the plledrivers adrift is pretty gen
erally deplored, but the pulling of tbe
piling' finds almost unqualified ap
proval among tbe members of the
union, and no little indorsement among
the citizens generally.
LAND CASES DECIDED.
Two Decisions of Interest to the North
western People.
Washington, April 6. Seoretary
Hoke Smith has reversed tbe aotion of
the general land offloe in the case of
the United States vs. P. J. Lynch and
W. D. Gilbert, transferee, involving a
pre-emption cash entry in tbe Seattle
land distriot in Washington. Tbe gen
eral land offloe, on the strength of a
special agenVe report, had beld bis en
try for cancellation for non-oompllance
with law in tbe matter of residence
and improvement on the land.
This waa reversal of tbe ruling of
tbe local offloers, after a bearing.
The seoretary says that a careful con
sideration of the whole evidenoe, and
of the reoord, fails to show suoh a
want of good faith as would warrant
the cancellation of the entry In the ab
sence of any adverse olaim, and tbe
burden of proof was on tbe govern
ment Another reversal is made In the oase
of E. C. Masten, who made a timber
land entry in tbe Oregon City, Or.,
distriot Masten claimed under oath
that his entry was oanoelled because '
the land, although heavily timbered,
yet, when oleared of its timber, could
be made fit for agricultural purposes.
Seoreatry Smith says that, so far as
the general land offloe decision was
based on that allegation, Masten' en
try was Improperly cancelled.
Delinquent Tax Llets.
Olympla, April 6. Judgment has
been affirmed by tbe supreme oourt in
the oase of the state of Washington, ex
rel. Whatcom oounty, appellant, vs.
E. W. Purdy, treasurer of Wbatoom,
respondent This was a proceeding in
mandamus to oompel tbe respondent,
as treasurer, to furnish the delinquent
tax list required by law to be pub
lished in. April, 1896, In the oounty
offloial newspaper. Tbe commissioners
of that oounty had designated the
Champion as the offloial organ, and'
had made a oontraot with that paper
to do the oounty printing. Treasurer
Purdy denied the commissioner'
authority to enter into such a oontraot;
olaimed tbe right to have the delin
quent tax list upblished in any oounty
paper he choose, and made a oontraot
with the Reveille, in February, 1896,
to publish the list Also, the respond
ent's answer shows that a oontraot was
entered Into by the board of oounty
commissioners in June, 1894, to have
the printing done by the Reveille, in
cluding delinquent tax lists. ' The su
preme oourt Is of the opinion that the
law, a It now stands, fully empowers
the treasurer of the oounty to select
any oounty paper to publish the delin
quent tax list
wept by Flsmee.
Brunswick, Ga., April 6. Several
years ago this town was visited by a
conflagration wbioh destroyed it, and
today the disaster wa almost repeated.
A fire started about 10:80 A. M., wbioh
wept away many of the most pros
perous enterprise of the oity, and for
a time it wa feared tbe whole town
would burn. The loss 1 about $500,
000, and the insuranoe is plaoed at
$400,000.. The flames started on the
Brunswiok & Western railroad
wharves, and within an hour, the
wharves, two large warehouse and a
number of oar, inoluding tbe freight
contained therein, were oonsumed.
A speolal report to La Prenaa states
that the situation among the Santa Fe
colonists in Buenos Ayres is desperate.
They are without means and almost
without food. The oommerolal firms
are In terrible straits. The national
oongress will attempt tosuooorthe peo
ple until the next harvest
The linen furniture covers once
deemed indispensable summer adjunot
are now replaoed by more artistlo ones
of oretonne.
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS
from All the Cities and Towns of the
Pad He States and Territories
Washington.
Mrs. S. Lemman, who died recently
in Ritzville, was over 90 years old.
Forty aores of the Meeker hopyard,
at Puyallup, are being plowed up, and
will be planted to barley.
Governor MoGraw'l seoretary says
that O. H. Harrington, now in the
penitentiary, will be pardoned.
Wbatoom lands are said to
four tons of flax straw to tbe
This quantity of straw 'makes
yield
aore.
1 1-8
ton of soutobed fiber.
Some Spokane hoodlum have been
breaking into a powder house just out
side the oity limits, and have oarried
off several can of gunpowder.
The difficulty in tbe normal school
in Cbeney has resulted in the circula
tion of a petition asking the governor
for tbe removal of Principal Sutton.
A logging road is being pnt in about
two mile above Kalama. Tbe road
will be about one and a half miles in
length and taps an excellent body of
timber.
The Whatcom County Shingle As
sociation has passed a resolution to tbe
effect that the prioe of shingles should
be advanoed five cent a thousand, to
take effect April 16. ,. .
In the suit at Spokane of tbe Edison
General Electrical Company vs. L.
Walter, involving the Cheney electric
light plant, deoision has been rendered
In favor of the company.
The big gronnd squirrels of Whit
man oounty are said to be leaving for
tbe south while their places are being
taken by tbe little spotted stub-tailed
squirrels from the lower country.
William Powell pleaded guilty at
New Whatcom to smuggling into the
oountry a urge bundle of bear skins
and other dutiable goods and has been
sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and to
serve six weeks in jaiL
The farmers along Asotin creek, be
low where water for the Lewlston Flat
Irrigation ditch la taken out, beld a
business meeting List week and re
tained counsel to look after their
rights as riparian owners.
County Clerk Shaw, of Walla Walla,
haa compiled a statement of tbe re
ceipts and expenses of bis office during
the year of 189S, whiob shows that tbe
amount of fees earned and cash receipts
exoeeded the expense by $8,600.
Tbe people of Roslyn have offered
$400 for the arrest of tbe murderer of
Dr. Lyons, the city of Roslyn offers
$300, the governor adds to this $600
and Kittitas oounty $300, making a re
ward of $1,600 for the arrest of tbe
party or parties to tbe crime.
Tbirtteen petit larcenists were re
leased from tbe King oounty jail last
vaaIt. IminaA nf An nrrnr in thn lawe
of 1885-86, which sought to repeal the j
act of 1881 and make tbe maximum
fine - for that class of offenders six
months in jail and a fine of $100.
The Sunset Telephone Company has
contracted with Taooma contractors
to rebuild tbe line from the Sound to
Gray' harbor, setting cedar pole at
equal distances and doing away with ,
the present plan of hanging the wire
to trees or otner convenient points
along tbe line.
The warrants ordered drawn by the
Whitman oounty commissioners in pay
ment of -all back claims which have
been audited, are ready for delivery.
These warrants are of a new issue, and
will draw 7 per oent interest It is ex
peoted they will be quoted at 90 cents
on the dollar.
Range cattle seem to be In demand.
Buyers are in the oountry about Walla
Walla and in the counties along the
Columbia valley below Wallula. The ( over that of 1894. Shoshone is the ban
prioes paid are an advance on those ner county, produoing $3,676,812. It
that ruled last year. The oattle are
desinged for shipment east The buy
ers are mostly from Montana and Min
nesota. Tbe Alaska Packers' Association has
about fifty men employed at Blaine
and at the fishing grounds getting
ready for the season's work. The
oompany is fitting up the steamer Puri
tan to send to Alaska for use at one ot
the canneries there, while a smaller
boat, now up there, will be brought
down, making three steamers in use
this season.
Work baa been started on tbe Asotin
Irrigation canal, whioh is being built
by a oompany, of whioh E. H. Libby
is president A oontraot has been let
for 100 oarloada of Oregon fir timber
to tbe Western Lumber oompany of
Portland. The oontraot haa been let
and the work is to be completed by
May 16. The amount involved in tbe
timber and grading contracts is $60,-
000. .
Oregon.
The oitixens ot Dayton are rustling
to seoure the location of a bank there.
The melting mountain snows are
causing the Umatilla river to orowd
its banks.
The school census of Pendleton gives
840 children of school age, as compared
with 848 last year.
The Promised land in Wallowa
oounty ia fast filling up with settlers
from outside points.
Major Worden claims to have dis
covered a mistake in tbe government
survey wbioh looated about 4,500 aores
of good farming land In Klamath
Lake. ' : ' . -
One ot the claim ot Crook oounty to
fame Is that there la within its borders
' a AinnlA that waltuV nftnHfinnnalv fnr
two boors and ten minute at a recent
oountry danoe.
A Heppner man 1 In Gilliam oounty
for the purpose of buying about 10,000
head of yearling ewes, whioh be ex
pects to take to Wyoming this summer.
He is paying $1.10 a head.
Placer mining is starting up in the
various camps surrounding Hunting
ton, an-the indications are favorable
for a good mining season. The late
rains will be productive of much good
to the miner.
Shearers are removing the fieeoea
from the sheep of a thousand bills,
and as soon as the roads are passable,
Grant oounty will send about 2,000,000
pounds of wool out to clothe tbe world,
says the News.
County Treasurer J. G.' Gray, of
, Lane, has sent to State Treasurer
Metscban $16,000, a portion of tbe
state taxes dne from Lane county for
tbe year 1895. Lane oounty i alwaya
among the first counties that settle
with the state.
The Grande Ronde Lumber Com
pany's mill at Perry started up on the
season' run last week. - Tbe saw mill
will be run to its full capacity, and
will turn out between 80,000 to 100,
000 feet of lumber daily.
There was a rush to the sheriff'
office in Tbe Dalles tbe first of last
week to pay taxes, to prevent them
from going delinquent The receipts
were about $13,000. The taxes of tbe
O. R. & N. Co., amounting to $9,.
184.97, were Teoeived.
Tbe time for taking oounty warrants
for taxes ba been extended in Douglas
oounty to April SO- One per cent will
be added to all taxes not paid before
May 1 ; 8 per oent added for all taxes
not paid before June 1, and 8 per oent
for all taxes net paid before July 1.
A meeting of tbe - Marion County
Horticultural Society will be beld at
Salem April 85. The subject of mar
keting fro ts will be bandied by a gen
tleman fr- m the East, who ha studied
tbe marketing problem, and fruit
growers are promised muoh benefit
from attending the meeting.
M. J. Kinnev will put up a new
cannery at New Astoria that will have
a capaolty of 1,000 oases of salmon a
day, says the Astoria News. Arrange
ments have been made to begin con
struction work about tbe 16th of next
month, or before that date, and have
tbe cannery ready to receive fish
June 1.
The oase of J. L. Carter vs. Misa
Nellie Stevens, involving the right of
a woman to hold the office of school
superintendent, has been appealed to
the supreme court, this time from Judge
Lowell's action in overruling the de
murrer to the complaint for no cause
of action. The case will now oome up
on its merits.
A 10-year-old daughter of Richard
Brookhouae, who. lives on Ten-Mile,
' fttA hait nff nniannMl whftjit that was
used for exterminating squirrels. Mr.
Brookbousd, as soon a he discovered
what had happened, started for The
Dalles with the child, and the hasty
ride, together with tbe poison, served
as an emetio, the stomach being thus
relieved of the greater part of tbe
pOUOn'
Three Pendletonians are busy making
preparations to leave for tbe Columbia
river on a mining expedition. They
gold-saving maonine. ana tests
aireaay maae aemonBiraw mat me ma-
onine is practical ana wiu save nour
gold from the sands along the river,
T,hey will adapt the machine to tbe
P1081 mining necessary to operations
Starting in below
' . . "
the Umatilla landing, the party will
try different localitites and operate
where the best results are attained.
Idaho.
The promoter of the Boise City Min
ing Exohansre are planning an exour-
of Eastern people to that eotion
some time in May.
The state of Idaho during 1895 pro
duced a total of $10,110,496 in miner-
als. This waa an Increase of $316,405
is estimated that tbe production
lor
1896 will fully amount to $16,000,000:
Artiolea of incorporation of the Idaho
Chemical Gold Mining Company, or
ganised under the law of New York,
have been filed with the seoretary of
,tate, together with a notice of ap
pointment ot H. H. Armstead as agent
for the oompany in this state. The
oompany owns property in Lemhi
county.
Squatter on the Nei Peroea reserva
tion, who have been frightened by re
ports that Indiana would olaim their
holdings as unalloted lands, have been
reassured by Speolal Agent Lane, who
says there is small probability of land
now occupied being given to the In
dians. There are fully 100 squatters
on this land, and the effort to dispos
sess them would end in serious com
plications. Montana. '
The Keystone mining property In
the Yabk distriot, it ia expected, will
be equipped with a (mail experimental
five-stamp mill.
The Castner Coal and Coke Company
has just completed plans whereby its
extensive system for making ooke will
be inoreased in the very near future.
The payroll at tbe San Coulee ooal
mines for last month amounted to $45,
000. This was for fifteen dava and the
' output of ooal for the same period was
80,000 tons.
The output of ooal and ooke at Horr
is increasing eaoh month and when all
the improvements contemplated by the
oompany are completed, Horr will be
one of the most prosperous oainps in
the state.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings in Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
Substance of the Measures Being; Con.
Idered by the Fifty-fourth
eulon -Senate.
Washington, April 8. Ocean mail
subsidies brought on an animated dis
cussion in tbe senate today during the
consideration of the postofflce appropri
ation bilL Vila opposed subsidies and
pointed out many instances of what he
declared were excessive payment for
mail service. Perkins energetically
defended tbe subsidies for their en
couragement to American shipping.
The subsidy item was reserved for a
separate vote. The balance of the
poetoffloe appropriation bill wa oom
pleted. Call introduced a resolution
of radical character concerning Cuba,
proposing the immediate use of a
United States naval force to protect
Americans in Cuba from atrocities and
for humane reasons in general.
George's speech on the Dupont oase oc
cupied most of tbe day, and is not yet
completed.
Washington, April 4. In the senate
today the bouse bill was passed grant
ing the Atchison & Nebraska and Chi
cago. Burlington & Quinoy railway
the right-of-way through the Sao and
Fox Indian reservations, in Kansas and
Nebraska. Pettigrew reported the In
dian appropriation bill, and gave no
tice that he would ask to take it up
next week. The postofflce appropria
tion bill was then taken up. Waloott
offered an amendment to regulate the
salaries of postmasters of substations
in cities. The senator spoke in favor
of the policy of the poetoffloe depart
ment in establishing metropolitan cen
ters, with many minor offices sur
rounding them, as in Chicago and Boa
ton. Gorman opposed the amendment
It was a step tjward doing away with
the small fourth-class postofflce, and
making them branobea ot the oity post
offloes. Debate continued until 6:80
when the senate went into executive
session and soon after adjourned.
Washington, April 6. The senate
committee on judioiary today decided
favorably a report upon the vol.
untary bankruptcy bill. The bill
wll be reported to the senate on
Monday, the 13th. A agreed upon
by the committee, it provide that any
debtor owing $200 or more may make
a voluntary assignment, before any
competent authoirty, of all of hi prop
erty, exoept that exempt under the
law, for the benefit of his oreditors
equally. He is required to file a full
list of all bis property, exempt or un-
exempt, and of bis creditors. . It al
lows preferences only on debts due to
the United States, to any state or ter
ritory, to servants or laborers for serv
ice performed within one year, and to
hens or incumbrances on homesteads
to the extent of $1,000.
Bouse.
Washington, April 8. The house
today practically completed the consid
eration of the sundry civil bilL In
tbe course of a debate on an amend
ment to appropriate $76,000 for com
mencing the ereotion ot a new military
post at Spokane, Wash., Cannon, the
chairman of the appropriation commit
tee, made an appeal for eoonomy on
the ground that the condition of the
treasury was such that no new project
should be entered upon by this " oon
gress. He was supported in his appeal
by Grosvenor, who, in some plain
spoken words, insisted that the neces
sities of the situation must govern. He
called attention to tbe fact that during
the first nineteen months of tbe opera
tion of the preaent tariff law, the re
ceipts had been exoeeded by expendi
tures by $76,000,000. This, of oourse,
brought on a political discussion. Tbe
amendment was adopted..
Washington, April 4. Several mi
nor bills were passed by unanimoua
oonsent before consideration of the sun
dry oivil appropriation bill was re
sumed in the house today. The reso
lution of inquiry presented by Hitt,
obairman of the foreign affairs com
mittee, was adopted without debate, .
calling on the president, if not incom
patible with pulbio interest, to trans
mit to the house copies of all dia
pa tones, notes and telegrams in the
state department from December 1,
1894, until the present time, relative
to mediation or intervention by the
United States in the affairs of Vene
auela, together with all oorrespondenoe
with foreign governments relating to
the same topic Hitt stated that his
committee had unanimously reported
the resolution. The sundry oivil bill
was then taken up and developed an
other windy war, whloh oonsumed the
remainder of the session.
Washington, April 6. The hous
today revived the agitation of the Cu
ban belligerenoy question in connec
tion with the oonferenoe report on the
Cuban resolutions. It was not expeot
ed that there would be muoh debate,
but Boutelle, by bia vigorous opposi
tion, prevented aotion today, Hitt,
chairman ot tbe foreign affairs com
mittee, in presenting the oonferenoe re
port, made a very temperate speech, in
the oourse of which he expressed the
greatest confidence that the president,
although the resolutions being concur
rent, bad no binding effeou on the ex
eoutive, would not "be so recreant, to
his duty as to disregard tbe expressed
wish of oongress. " He, in faot, re
fused to entertain the suggestion that
Mr. Cleveland might not recognise the
belligerenoy of the Cubans as result
ot tbe adoption of tbe resolutions.
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