ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1896. NO. 17. VOL. 13. TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events ot the Day in a Con densed Form. OV INTEREST TO ALL READERS Item of Importance from Domestlt ul Foreign Soaroes Cream of the Ul.pr.toh... New ba been received that 1,800 Immigrants are about to leave Maple for the United State. Governor MoGraw of Waihlugtoo, ba laioed a proclamation designating April 94 a Irbor day for the year 1896. Two masked wen entered the aaloon of Charle Wirklia, in Aatoria, aud robbed the crop gunie of the bauk roll, amounting to $500. An explosion occurred in the engine room of the Murphy Varnlih work, in Chicago. Several men were seriously hurt and two fatally. Count Mattel, the disooverer of the system ot niedtotue which bear hi name, died in Bologne. The lyitem wa a development of homeopathy. Philip Hoppner, a woll-kuown ware houseman of Arlington, Or., committed uioide by hootlng himself through the brain with a 88-oallber revolver. The house oommlttee on military affair ba dooldod to report favorably the resolution to beatow the rank of lleuteuaut-goueral on General Nelson .A. Mile. The expedition ot the Russian Goo graphical Society, equipped for the ex ploration of the Irkuuk region of 81 boria, ha started, and will be abtout three year. W. II. M. Christie, astonomer royal, will leave Loudon In July next, and pa through British Columbia en route to Japan in order to witness the eollpie there In the autumn. The fir lit teport of the battle at Mount Moorau, April 2, itated that the italtau lout 100 killed and wounded. Mow it la admitted that ten officer and 800 men were killed. Canada ba taken official aotlon In regard to the Cree Indian matter, and the preaent outlook i that all Cree in the United btute will be deported within the next four week. Charle Parkin and Patrick Cardi gan, two member of a wrecking crew, were ttruok by a fait freight train on the Peunaylvania road near Downing ton. Pa., and inatantly killed. The Mew York Assembly ba pacaed the bill limiting the hour of labor of women and children to aixty hour per week, and put all e.tabliahment un der oontrol of the board of health. The leoretary of the treaiury ha aiked for an appropriation ot 13,000 to be expended under the direction of the United Bute manhal of Alaska tor the repair of publio building in Al aska. The navy department ba reoeived report from Paaaod Aialatant Engineer W. P. Arnold, that the black plague ha made lu appearanoo in Uong Kong, but that the faot i being oouoealed for buainea reason. The board of health of San Franolsoo ha been notified that a Chinese pa senger on the Gaelio died at Yoko hama Maroh 81 of the plague. The steamer sailed for Ban Franoisoo the same day. She will be quarantined on ber arrival. The Northern Paoiflo office in Bpo kane ba advice that a general ad vauoe in freight rate to the ooait over the transcontinental line of about SB per oent will be made in a few week. The itatoment ooine from unquestion ed authoirty. James L Dozler, on hi preliminary examination on a oharge of killing Frank Kelly at Butteville, Or., on Maroh 81, wa acquitted in Justioe Johnson's court In Saleni. The evi dence proved that the shooting wa In self defense. At the olty eleotion in Cimmaron, Kan., Mr. C. A. Curtis wa eleoted mayor by a small majority over Dr. Lawrence. The eleotion board ia com posed of women, who were out in full force. Mrs. Curtis i over 60 yoar of age and 1 quite wealthy. A French reaidont of Cuba writing to a London paper says that a band of volunteer, inturlatod by the resolu tions of the Amerioan senate, shot six on of an Amerioan farmer at Call gue. The United Btatoi consul gea earl i inquiring into the matter. A terrific explosion, entailing the loss of seven Uvea and the wounding of several others, occurred in the canyon, four mile from Ogden, Utah. The men were employed by the Pioneer Dam Copmany, aud were about to pre pare a blast, when a premature explo sion ooourrod. , , The steamer Empress of Japan, from Yokohama, brings word that Mount Klrlshlma wa In eruption Maroh 15. M. Lievre, of the Frenoh warship Far fait, was ascending the mountain when the orater broke forth, and waa seri ously wounded, hi guide being in tantly killed. The instructions to United States revenue vessels for the patrol of the seal water during the coming season have been oompleted by the treasury department, and will shortly be issued to the oaptalns of the vessels They are substantially the same as those ot lait year. Dlipatohe from Constantinople say that an imperial trade has decreed the wholesale expulsion of all Christian missionaries from Armenia, who are mainly Frenoh, and all Protestants. It is still possible, says the report, by immediate pressure to prevent the exe cution of the deoree, but no time is to be lost . William Blggentaff, the murderer, was hangerd in Helena, Mont. , for the murder of Richard Johnson, tb cham pion fighter of Montana. Be exhibit ed an unlooked-for coolness. The exe cution wa most suooetsful. Hi neck wa broken, and he waa pronounoed dead in minute after jerking up the body. Replying to the United State obarge d'affaires, John W. Riddle, the grand vizier and the minister of foreign affair of Constantinople have both de clared that they have received no in formation regarding the alleged expul sion of Rev. George W. Kuapp, the Amerioan missionary, from Bltli. It i itated that Knapp ha already ar rived at Diarbeklr. The local authori ties wished to expel bim secretly. Riddle 1 now awaiting Instructions from Washington. ; The state of Ohio, on and after July 1, will inflict capital punishment by electricity, the bill having passed both houses. Gustav Koerner, ex-lleutenant-gov-eruor of Illinois, and ex-minister to Spain, died in St. Louis aged 87. Be bad a good war record. The house oommlttee on territories has voted to report favorably the Mew Moxioo statehood bill to the house, and also decided to defer action ou the Ari xona bill. The Rome correspondent ot the Lon don Chronicle says tho pope sanctioned the publication of the appeal for arbi tration by Cardinals Vaughn, Logue and Gibbons. Senator Uallinger ha introduced in the senate a bill for the oreatlon of a United States commission to treat with commissions from other Christian na tions for the oorrectlon of intolerable evils in the Ottoman empire. Baron von Sohrader, master of oere monies at the Prussian court, is dead from injuries inflloted by Count von Kots, formerly one of the oourt obam berlains, in a duel fought in the vicin ity ot the Meu Palai, at Potsdam, Prussia. Amerioan intending to travel in Germany and Russia thi summer are advised to obtain passports at Wash ington, as the new rulea make identifi cation indispensable before the pass ports are issued from the Amerioan embassies in Europe. Deputy Game Warden Brewster, of Grand Rapid, Mich., ha begun wholesale arreat of fishermen and leis ure of their nets upon the charge that the meshes are smaller than the law. ful sixe. Nearly every fishlog firm in Grand Baven is complained against The first bio y Ice militia company In tho Northwest has been organised in Taooma by twenty-five members of Company C, nnder command of Cap tain HowelL Tbe member are prac ticing the cyoling movements adopted by the United State army. By the explosion ot S00 pound 'of powder in a magasine on the 1,100-foot level of the tit. Lawrence mine In Butte, Mont, six men lost their lives. Their names are Con G. Lowney. John Quinlan, Ed Shields, James Dwyer, John MoVelgh and Patrick O'Rourke. The Taylor brothers, the condemned murderers of the Meeks family, broke from the oounty jail in Carrolton, Mo. George Taylor made his escape, but Bill was retaken, and la again behind the bars In jail, in which the two brothers were to have been hanged to gether on April 80. In Philadelphia a regularly organ ised' and equipped military bioyole corps is now engaged in drilling and other work preparatory to embarking for Cuba. About 160 members are en rolled. Officer have been eleoted, and the baggage and munitions ot war are now being secured. They are all Philadelpbiaus. ' Robert W. Edgren, of the university ot California, has again beaten the world's hammer-throwing . record. From the regulation seven-foot ring he hurled a 16-pound hammer the aston ishing distance ot 148 feet 5 inches. This was over three feet farther than the world's record and a foot farther than Edgren' previous best trial throw. According to a telegram form Vladi vostok to the Novoe Vremya, the last new from Seoul lay that the Corean are determined to exterminate the Jap anese, holding them responsible for tbe murdor of the queen. Bands of men have been organized to threaten the Japanese faotories. Japan has sent warships to Fusan, and other points on the coast. Premier Bowell has Introduced a bill in the Canadian senate respecting the Behring sea claims, the object ot which is to confer on the oommiwloners who may be appointed to investigate and prepare the olalmi that will beoome due nnder the Paris award the full power of judges, with reipect to the summoning of witnesaes, while adjudi cating upon the claims. The situation In Gloucester, Eng. land, where the virulent smallpox la raging, is so serious that tbe govern, ment is likely to take charge. Up to Maroh 28 there were 700 oases, and since then there has been an inorease of fifty weekly. The percentage of deaths is twenty-five, and the town Is In a sate of panic The dean of Glou cester ba issued an appeal for assist ance. Beavy drifts of Arotio ioe drove along the shore in the neighborhood of St. John), M. F. and orowda ot fishermen started on tbe floes in search of seal. A wild snowstorm overtook the fisher men. It i feared that many of them have been caught and will be unable to return. Muoh anxiety prevail for their safety. When such storms swept the ice field year ago, SO live were lost in a similar way. WILL BE A CL ASH SOON Crisis in Cuban Affairs Said to Be Approaching. Rl'MOHS OF A RECENT BATTLE Filibustering Supplies Tahen by Span lards aud Beeaptured by Insur gents Absorbing Topic.. Mew Orleans, April 18. The Pica yune print the following letter from its special correspondent at Bavana: lbe condition of affairs is continuing to draw to a crisis, and oon there will be a clash which will either redound to the boneflt of the Spaniard or tbe Cuban. For the past four day no official new ba been given ont at the oaptain-general' office, and rumor are reoeived of a battle in which the in surgents were victorious. No details oan be learned, but there ha been con siderable hurrying and scurrying around the palace. The landing of tbe expeditions have oaused a bad effect bere, especially as the ooaat wa supposed to be so well guarded. I am informed of tbe real details of the Collazo expedition. It seem that while the expedition wa landing it arm and ammunition, cruiser hove in sight and the vessel car rying tbe expedition put to sea, being pursued by. the cruises, whose search light wa used to discover the vessel. In the meantime, tbe force of the coast patrol came up and captured a score of rifle boxos, and carried them to the nearest town, whioh waa Cardenas, and placed them in a warehouse on tbe out skirts of the town. During the night the Cuban forces, which were to pro tect the landing of the expedition, and who had been informed of the presenoe of the arms, overpowered tho guards at the warehouse, and before reinforce ments came, recaptured the arms and carried them away, while a guard of insurgonta protected the retreat and held the Spanish troops in check. There are two absorbing topics at present. One ia tbe attitude of the United States, and the other is the ac tion that President Cleveland will take. IT DESTROYS GERMS. A Maw Va Said to Have Br. a round for tba Cathoda Bay. Chicago, April 18. Porfessor W. B. Pratt and Hugh Wightman, the electro-ther a pent io and the bacteriologist, of Bennett oollege, of this olty, claim to have praotioally proved within the last week that epidemics will be im possible in tbe future. They claim that Asiatic cholera is to be no more feared than other aches, and that dip theria, glanders and typhoid must all yield to the new remedy, the Roentgen rays. The various germs were grown in tubes in proper media. Magnetic means ot force from the Crookes tubes were passed through them. The ap plication lasted two hours. Cholera waa the easiest destroyed and appears to have been wiped out entirely. Dip theria has been treated very tenderly and favorably, but after eight days has failed to show the (lightest signs of life. There has been no aotivity in the baotetria of the other diseases, and, with oertain modifications, the doctors are now ready to annouuoe that the ray, properly applied, will destroy any form of infectious or contagious germ. This is indorsed by the oollege faculty, and the entire electrical equipments, the beat in tbe West,' will be turned over this week for future proof ot the disoovery, whioh is now maintained to be a fact. .. THOUSANDS OF PAUPERS. I'enntlass Italian Immigrant. Pouring Into lbe Country. New York, April 16. The Herald thia morning says: The steamer Bolivia, of the Anohor line, arrived from Genoa and Naples yesterday. She brought 1,876 Italian immigrants. Six hundred ot them were detained at Elli island on the ground that they are likely to beoome obarge. Of thi number none had more than a dollar or so, while many of them were praotioally penniless. Dr. Senner said that only about 10 per oent of those detained would be al lowed to land. The steamer Alesia, of the Fabre line, also from Naples, reaohed the bar at 10 o'olock last night with 1,064 more on board. The immigrant authorities are appalled at the great influx of Italian paupers. More than 10,000 have al ready arrived, and advioei have been reoeived that 15,000 more are about to sail from Naples. Into Bohulze's Pocket. Chioago, April 15. A special to the Tribune from St. Paul says : Not long ago it was announced that Paul Sohulae, general agent of the Northern Pacific land department, who com mitted auicide at Taooma, had em bezzled $1,600,000. This revealed the faot that he had taken $000,000 from a St Paul syndicate. L. O. Dillman, of Spokane, Wash. , the prlnoipal mem ber of the syndioate, said last night: "I have tor year been aooused of having secured large sums wrongfully from the St. Paul land ayndioato whioh bought the Northern Paoiflo landa at Spokane, and of whioh I was general manager. Until now I oould say noth ing, but the Northern Paoiflo has sent me a statement that my affair are straight. Sohulae oharged the syndi cate over $600,000 more than the di rectors of the road asked for the Spokane land, whioh inoluded Cliff Park, Shantytown and other lands, German scientists report that milk may be sterilised by eleotriolty. RESEMBLES THE DEVIL. . Tbe Bevoltlng OonfeMlon of Arch-Mar-dar.r Holmas. Philadelphia, April 18. The North Amerioan, of thi olty, print what purport to be sentence from the oon fesslon alleged to have been made by murderer B. H. Holmes. Among other things, tbe story says: In prefaoing the confession, which covers in full three newspaper pages, written in Holmes' own handwriting and detailing the crimes with a min uteness that is simply at times revolt ing, tbe arob-mutilntor and anthor of twenty-seven murders, as he admits himself to be, states with something like pathos, that be does so simply that he may obtain enough money to educate his boy. Holme write of his blood-curdling atrocities with an abandon that (im ply appalls one. Not one grain of re morse seems to enter into the construc tion of this document. He says: "I was born with the devil in me. I oould not help the fact that I was a murderer any more than the faot that the poet oan help tbe inspiration to sing, nor tbe ambition of an intellec tual man to be great "This inclination came to me early in life. I remember when a mere lad my ambition was to study medicine that I might know the relative effects of poisonous gasae that I might fully beoome aoquainted with their uses and learn to be an expert in handling them. "I am convinced that since my im prisonment, I have changed woefully and gruesomely from what I formerly wa in feature and in figure. From what I oan see, I believe fully that I am growing to resemble the devil; that the osseous parts of my bead and faoe are gradually assuming that elon gated shape called the degenerated head. In fact, so impressed am I with thia belief, that I am oonvinoed that I have no longer anything human in me." ' Holmes' confession from this on speaks of the early experienoea of his boyhood days on the farm up in Ver mont and the life he led until he en tered the oollege to study medicine in Miohigan. It was not until after he waa graduated, fully equipped with the knowledge ot poisons and tbe easiest way to sever the simple thread of life, that Holmes began his oareer as a murderer and mutilator. When he began, he admits himself, he wa ruth less and never once halted until he took twenty-seven lives. "And I wonld have oommttted alx other murders," be added, "had not certain ooourrences intervened." Possibly one of the worst, most re volting and diagusting orimes this arch mutilator ever oommitted was one be speaka of in chapter devoted to his boy tbe son of his first wife. Tbe only explanation he offers is that he did it simply to gratify his love tor mntilation. "It waa shortly after I was mar ried," he declares, "and our boy was then but a youngster. I called him from the road where he waa frolicking about like an innocent, with a lot of other lads, and took him out to a rear barn. I don't know what it waa that possessed me, but I took a surgical knife along with me. It waa simply the craving of the murderer in me that inspired me to make a subject ot my little one." Holmes then tells how be went through the operation of mutilating his own son. Finished with that, Holmes felt satisfied and did not murder his boy outright . POWDER MAGAZINE EXPLODED Two Chinese Regiments Blown Off the Face of the Karih. Vanoouver, B. C, April 18. The steamer Empres of Japan, which ha just arrived from the Orient, brings news of a terrifio explosion, in whioh a large number of Chinese soldiers were killed, at Kiang Yin. Two regiments reovlted and at a sig nal from their leader they seised the guns of the forts and proceeded to kill off all the officers and a new regiment of soldiers recently arrived. In the midat of the massacre a magasine ex ploded and all hands were blown to pieoea. Two battalions most have been wiped out of existence, as not a soldier lived to tell if the magaalne went off by aooident or designedly. All within 100 yards of the magasine were killed by flying shells. The story ot tbe mutiny is told by those who watohed it from a distanoe. Besides an immense quanitty of shells, 15,000 pounds ot powder was stored in the powder-room. One com pany fighting near the building liter ally disappeared from tbe face of the earth, not a traoe of any ot them be lug found. Captain Kao, who was sent to oom mand the batallions, found them shook gly demoralised, and all sorts ot crimes were being prsotioed in the gar rison town. Hia attempt at honest reform oost him hia life. Several cele brated officers of the late war were killed. Truek and Driver Blown to Atone. Victoria, B. O., April 18. Five hundred pounds of nitor-glyoerine ex ploded today while being oonveyed from a warehouse to the Hamilton Powder Company'a mill on the Depar ture bay road. Austin Stevenson, the oompany's teamster, and his rig, were blown to atoms and windows were shattered every wehera within radius of five miles. Beeommended by Bondholders, New York, April 18. Isador Wormier, Robert MaoClay, George R. Sheldon and Charles T. Barnes, the committee representing the holders of bonds, and Knickerbocker Trust Com pany reoeipta for bonds. Northern Pa oiflo Montana Railroad, recommend the deposit ot these bonds and reoeipta subjeot to the terms offered by the Northcn Paoiflo reorganisation committee. PACIFIC NORTHWEST Items ot General Interest From All Sections. DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS All the Cities and Towns of the Paelfle States and Territories Washington. A new schooner for tbe lumber trade ia being oonstruoted at Acme, on the Siuslaw river. The farmers of the Kittitas valley are increasing their wheat acreage greatly over last year. The Spokane Atbletio Club expects to have a membership of 600 aa soon as the names before the directors are acted upon. La Conner is agitating for a bioyole tournament thia spring. It is estimat ed that there are 200 wheels in Skagit oounty. Spokane's monthly meteorologioal summary for Maroh shows it waa one of tbe dryest Marches in tbe history of the city. A number of Hollanders passed through EUensburg last week, bound for Whidby island, where a oolony ia to be established. During Maroh there were shipped from McCoy 75 hoga and 1,663 sheep, all tbe hogs and 034 of the sheep being sent away by Kelty & Reese. The city of Olympia has secured a verdict against the Port Blakely Mill Company for $786, due aa special as sessment for street grading. A round-up of horses was made re cently at Montgomery Ridge, Asotin oounty, and owner state that the loss during the winter la praotioally noth ing. J. B. Tabor, lessee of the Snake River Fruitgrower' farm at Wawai wai, say that the prospect for an enor mous fruit orop thi year oontinues ex cellent The docket for the April term of oourt st North Yakima ia larger than it has been for a year and a half. About fifty oivil and a dozen or more criminal cases are booked. Fred W. Butler has been awarded the contract to deliver on board the cars at Sultan 4,000 cords of cotton wood and 600 oords of spruoe for the pulp and paper mill at LowelL The Le Roi Mining & Smelting Com pany decided to declare a dividend of $35,000 at the meeting in Spokane Thia will make $125,000 thus far paid in dividends within the past few months. The subscriptions for the payment of the olaims against the late town of Hillyard have all been paid, exoept for the aaloon lioense. Some subscribers refused to pay because the oourt de clared the incorporation illegal. The commissioners of the Walla Walla penitentiary have awarded the oontraot for furnishing beef for tbe next year to the Washington Dressed Meat Company, whose bid waa : Steers, $3.87. and cows, $1.65 per owt ' Preparations are being made at the Rochester quarry, near Elk City, in Linooln oounty, to begin operation at an early date. A plant has been or dered, and the quarry has orders enough to work on during the next six months. The fishermen on Willapa harbor have been busy taking out pound net lioenses, and the sum paid to the fish commissioner will run up into the thousands of dollars, whioh ia supposed to be used for the artificial propaga tion of salmon. The Port Angelea chamber ot com meroe is plaintiff in an aotion brought in the superior oourt to enjoin Auditor J. W. Troy and the oounty commis sioners from issuing any more general fund oounty warrants. This aotion ' is taken on the grounds that the oounty has already passed Its legal limit of in debtedness, " The spring raoe meetings, whioh will be held at LocmiBton on tbe 17th of next month, promise to eclipse any thing of the kind ever held in the oounty heretofore, say the Okanogan Outlook. It ia understood that the oitizena of Oro are arranging to have a aeries of races during the latter part of April, and from there the meetings will be adjourned to Conoonully, where a first-olaaa program will be prepared, a a wind-up of the sen son's raoea. A writer in the Amerioan Agricul turist says: Whitman oounty farmers burned nearly all their straw last fall and as bay had been poor sale at hardly the oost of production during the past few years, very little over the farmers' need has been put up, resulting now in straw and hay shortage, compelling tbe man in town for onoe to pay a de cent price for anoh articles of feed. It seems to me that farmers should take a lesson and use more of their own poul try and butter product tor themselves; I am satisfied that the other halt would then not glut the market and bring just ai muoh aa the whole of it Oregon. The reoeipta of the oounty olerk of Lane for the year ending Maroh 81, ex ceeded the expenditures by $318.93. The cyclists ot Baker City have ef fected a permanent organisation, to be known aa the Queen City Wheelmen. What is left ot the fund arising from the sale of tbe Oregon Pacific road will be distributed among the claimants. The annual meeting of the Mid-Columbia Association ot Congregational ohurohes waa held at Weston last week. The gross Inoome of the MoMinnville poatoffioe for the year ended Maroh 81, 1896, 1 $68.16 larger than for the pre vious year. Treasurer Field, of Lake oounty, ba cent to State Treasurer Metsoham the state taxes of Lake oounty, amounting to $6,603.91. Jones 8c Miller, cattle buyers, have purchased 800 bead ot beef oattle in Rogue River valley, besides 100 bead in Lake oounty. There is a great deal of snow on the summit of the Blue mountains, A few persona have tried to cross the range with teams, and have met with failure. Tbe Santiam Lumbering Company, of Mill City, has purchased 1 15,000,000 feet at Berry, on the North Santiam, and U. S. Berry has the oontraot of logging. The little town of Waterville, on the MoKenzie river, has been having a building boom lately. Tbe sawmill that has been put in there will be run ning in about a week. Salem's population, as estimated from the new directory, is 18,600. The avearge number of inmates in tbe state institutions added would make a total population of 16,000. Tbe Lawler mines, on the Santiam, are running day and night, making a olean-up every night A number of shipments of gold have been made to tbe mint at San Francisoov The acreage of oats on the Silets res ervation will be largely increased thi year over last There will be many acres sown by new settlers, and the In dians are also greatly increasing their fields. Taxes oollected in Benton oounty this year, up to April 1, exceeded in amount those for any previous year. The number of receipts issued was 761, aa compared with 616 for the same per iod last year. A number of children of Lakeview are afflioted with St Vitus' dance. The disease seems to have been very sudden in its attacks, as those who have been attaoked were apparently well a few weeks ago. . The citizens of Prospect and vicinity have contributed seventy-five days' work on the Crater Lake road, where it leaves the old military road to Fort Klamath. Thia will make the road muoh more easy of aooeaa. The Flanagan brothers, Frank and Jaok, have started on their annual tour of sheepahearing through Oregon and Montana. They have 20,000 aheep en gaged in Oregon to be sheared by May 1. Seven cents per head will, it ia aaid, be the ruling figure this season for shearing. The taxroll of Clatsop county for 1894 baa been oloeed, and Sheriff Hare has filed with the oounty oourt the de linquent list Tbe total amount of tax levied waa $110,039.77, ot whioh $83, 835.69 has been collected. The county tax oolleoted amount to $31,063.56, of whioh $10,283 60 is in warranta and $20,779.96 in cash. The attorneys for Kelsay Porter, convicted of murder in the first degree, for the killing of Ben Maohe, in Pine valley, last January, and sentenoed to be hanged on April 10, have perfected their appeal to the supreme oourt, and Judge Eakin, in oonsequenoe thereof, granted a stay of execution. One of Porter's attorneys has gone to Salem with a numerously signed petition, asking that the death sentenoe be com muted to life imprisonment Postmaster Crossen, ot The Dalles, baa finished estimating his receipts for the fiscal year ending Maroh 81, and finds that the amount is $8,209.91, or nearly $310 in exoess of the amount which would entitle The Dallea to be rated as a second-class postoffioe. The receipts for the year previous were $6,643.46, making an increase of $1,567.46. But threo other towns in the state are entitled to be rated second-class. These are Salem, Astoria and Pendleton, the last named coming in only a year ago. Idaho. The Boise Baain, sinoe 1863, haa shipped $150,000,000 worth of gold. Over seventy-flve new postoffloes have been established in Idaho during the past three years, - The Black property at Custer has become a rioh shipper of gold bullion. The last bar shipped waa valued at $5,000. Judge Standrod may oall special term of oourt for Bingham oounty later on in the season, to wind up the busi ness of the docket of the last term. The Potlatoh country will raise the largest fruit orop this year sinoe fruit trees were planted In the section. It will be almost double that of last year. The Golden Winnie mill is oomplet ed, and will be started up in a few days. A tramway from the mouth of Ekoskum tunnel is being built, whioh will result in a saving ot sixteen dol lars a day in transportation charges. The Idaho immigration congress haa adjourned after three daya' session. The Idaho Immigration Association wa formed, each oounty being entitled to two members. Tbe officers are: Eugene Buchanan, ot Mosoow, presi dent; J. M. Haines, of Boise, secre tary; J. O. Baker, ot Boise, treasurer. ' Montana. Ore shipment from the Neihart dis trict amounted to sixteen oars for the week past Work has been resumed on the Idnna mine in the Ground Squirrel distriot aud considerable development work will be done. The suooessful operation of the Trail smelter in the Roasland distriot is the beginning ot a prosperous era for that seotion, the importance of whioh ia but little realised by the denizens at this time. A. 8. Bigelow, president of the Butte A Boston, Thomas Nelson, 3. Morris Meredith and G. M. Hyams, stock holder have arrived in Butte and are making an investigation of the Butte Ss Boston Company's affair. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Daily Proceedings in Senate and House. IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED Snbstanee of the Measures Being Con sldered by the Fifty-Fourth Session Senate. Washington, April 10. Senator Turpie's speech on Cuba waa the event of tbe day in the senate, and in many respects it was the most picturesque and vehement utterance on tbe subject The senator has an Inexhaustible vocabulary and a satirloal style. While arguing tor a radical action on Cuba, even to the extent of sending a fleet to ' Cuban waters, muoh of Turpie's speech wa given to sarcasm and ridicule of ' the oourse of Sherman and Lodge in managing tbe Cuban resolutions. The senator created much amusement by hia portrayal of Senator Lodge as a war rior about to fight a duel with Minis-' ter de Lome, of Spain. Most of the day was given to the Indian appropria tion bill, whioh was completed. Unani mous consent was secured for taking op the resolution for a senate inquiry into the recent bond issues next Tues day. Washington, April 11. The senate committee on appropriation today re ported the naval appropriation MIL The principal amendments are a fol low: For testing the methods of throwing high explosives from guns on board ahip with ordinary velocities, $50,000; for the purohaae of additional land adjoining the naval station at Port Royal, S. C, $5,'000; for paving the streets at Annapolis academy, $13,000, and also a provision directing -the board of visitors to the academy to examine and report upon the adviaabil ity of purchasing additional land for -the academy. The senate today took up the pension oases on the calendar and passed a large number of them. Washington, April 13. In the sen ate today Call stated that inquirie had been made of him by Eugene V. Debs, and other labor leaders, aa to whether the senate judiciary oommlt tee was taking any action in restric tion of the power of federal judges. ' Hoar, chairman of the judiciary com mittee, aaid all the member believed some comprehensive legislation in this line waa needed, and several plana were under oonsideraton. Mitchell, of Oregon, reported a resolution provid ing for the payment of the salaries of Senator Mantle, of Montana, and Clark, of Wyoming, from Maroh 4, 1893, the date when the senatorial . seats ot those states became vacant Call presented a resolution concerning tbe imprisonment of Mrs. May brick, requesting the president to intervene with the British authorities towards securing her release. After consider able debate the resolution went to the judiciary oommittee. V: Boom, -Washington, April 10. The Bart lett racing bill to permit hoYaeraoing ; in the Distriot ot Columbia waa today : favorably acted upon by the District of Columbia oommittee of the house. The bill Is to authorize the incorpora tion ot racing organizations. Under it meetings oan be held only between April 80 and November 1, and between , sunrise and sunset, and there oan not be more than forty days ot xaoing on any track in a season. A racing com-' mission Is to be established to super vise meetings. Amendments have been made to the bill to prevent poolaelling and betting. Not only are heavy pen alties provided, but beta are to be re covered by oivil aotion. The move to adopt the metrio system ot weights and measures waa sent back to the oommit tee on ooinage, weigh ta and measures for further consideration. - - Washington, April 11. Tbe house today, after debating the bill to abolish compulsory pilotage on aaling vessels engaged in the coastwise trade, defeat ed the measure by a large majority 68 to 117. The Distriot of Colombia , appropriation bill, whioh waa recom mitted early in Maroh, after a pro tracted fight against appropriations for private and sectarian charitable insti-. tutions, waa brought into the house to day with the specific appropriations stnoken out, and containing in lien thereof an appropriation of a lump sum for charities, to be expended nnder the direotion of the -District commis sioner, with the proviso that no part of the appropriation should go to insti tutions in ecclesiastical or sectarian oontrol. Tbe feature of the debate was a vigorous attack on the A. P. A. by Fitzgerald. , Washington, April 18. Hainer re ported the fortification appropriation bilL The bill provides for fortifica tions and other work of defense, for their armament and for heavy ordnanoe for trial service for the fiscal year whioh begins next July. It recom mend speoiflo appropriation amount ing to $5,843,000, and in addition authority ia given the secretary of war to make oontraot for the further ex penditure of $5,642,000 by the en gineer and ordnanoe departments, mak ing the total authorised expenditure $11,884,000. The war department estimates, on whioh the bill i baaed, amounted to $8,047,000. ' The federal government may enter the aooident and life insurance busi ness on a limited scale, and with pre ferred risks. A careful eanvaaa ha just been oompleted of the house oom mittee on postoffloes and post roads, and a majority has been found to fa vor tbe proposition, so far a it ap plies to letter-oarrier. a proposed in' the Aldrioh bill The committee will probably report the bill favorably with in ten day or two week.