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.