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VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896.
NO. 18.
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OREGON
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME!
Event of the Day In a Con
denied Form.
Or INTEREST TO ALL HEADERS
Items of Important), From Domestic
Mi Foreign agrees Oreaaa
of th, Ul.patobee,
The president has nominated Leo
Herghola, of New York, at consul at
Eraeroum, Armenia.
Rich placer grounds have been found
In Washoe slley, noar Carion, Nev.,
and there ii considerable exoltement
In oonaaquenoe.
Charles H, Voorheei, formerly a lay
judge or Bergen oounty, N. J., and
an ex-member of oougress, oommitted
aulolde in New York.
Vive meu were fatally injured by
an explosion of fire damp during a Are
in the Ked Aid vein of the Woodward
mine in Wilkeskbarre, Pa.
John Jones, colored, aged IS, who
oommitted an aaaault upon a 11-year
old white girl near Mormon Spring.,
Miss., waa banged by a mob. Jones
oonfoMod bla crime.
A oable montage from Cape Town,
South Afrioa, report the killing of
three engineera near Buluwayo. The
namee of two of the vlotlms are given
ai Hammond and Palmer.
An explosion ooonrred in the oolliery
at Wellington, & C Eight miner.
are known to bare been killed, and
It Ii believed 18 peraoni will lote
their Uvea through the dlaaater.
On April 8 another powder explosion
ooonrred at Juneau, Alanka, thia time
in tho new tunnel of the Treadwell
Company, between the Treadwell and
. Mexican miuea. - Some of the men in'
Jored are expected to die.
A dispatch from Buluwayn, Booth
Afrloa, says, Tbe whole country it
in the handa of rebellloua native, and
they are moving in great foroe north
ward. It will require a large foroe of
troops to dislodge them.
Joseph Selamel waa put to death In
the state prison at Clinton, N. Y., by
eleotriotty. lie murdered his sweet
heart, Therein Kammora, by outting
her throat with a rasor, August 80,
1808. Tbe oause was jealousy.
Tbe Madrid correspondent of tbe
London Standard aayat The new
chamber just elected will oertainly
support the government in resisting
American Interference in Caba, and it
will also be a very protectionist body.
Tbe Paria correspondent of the Lon
don Times says be learns that at
Franoe'a invitation, Russia now di
rects the negotiations with England on
tbe subjeot of the Nile expedition,
growing out of the objections of Russia
and Franoe.
A broken rail on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio road wreaked
the third section of freight train No.
88, near Meadville, Pa. Two men
were killed and three others seriously
Injured. The dead are: Patrick
Kerr, engineer; Bert Rowley, brake
man. r Emperor Francis Joseph has bestowed
the order of tbe Golden Fleeoe upon
the Gorman imperial ohanoellor, Prinoe
Von Hohenlobe. Emperor William
has decorated Count Goluobowski,
the Austrian minister of foreign
affairs, with tbe order of the Black
Eagle.
It haa been discovered that some of
the Matabelos who are employed at
servants in Buluwayo have been aot-
ing as spies and oonveylng information
of the movements of the expeditions
to their friends in outlying dlstrlots.
One of these traitoroua natives has
beon shot
While brooding over the idea that
his family would suffer from want,
John Lehman of Chicago shot and
killed his three children. After com
mitting thia terrible deed, Lehman
attempted to end bis own life by hang
ing, but, failing in thia, he turned the
revolver upon himself, and sent bul
let through bla heart, killing himself
instantly.
One of the main buildings of the
Chicago Fireworks Company, at Gross
Point, fourteen miles north of Chicago,
blew up, resulting in the death of
Nioholaa Boree and Annie Boree. The
explosion is supposed to have been
caused by powder being ignited by
concussion in the machinery uaed In
making fireworks.
Tbe house committee on ways and
means has deolded to report favorably
the bill introduced by a W. Stone, to
repeal that section of the Wilson aot
which gives free alcohol for use in tbe
arts and manufactures. The Internal
revenue offloiali acknowledge their
inability to oarry ont the provisions of
the law. Great frauds are said to be
possible undor the law, and many
large olainia have been piled up against
the government
Meager reports from the lower Brule
agonoy in South Dakota, state that
Handsome Elk, an Indian belonging to
that agonoy, shot two Indian polioe
who were trying to arrest him. In
dian Commissioner Browning and
Unitod States Marshal Peemlller have
been notified, and deputy marshals
have gone to the soeneof the difficulty.
More trouble is feared.
Chairman Aldaoe Walker, of the
Atoblson, in an interview stated that
Judge Collier's decree in the foreclos
ure oase of the United States Trust
Company against the Atlaotio' & Pa
olflo railroad, waa a preliminary step
toward the foreclosure sale of the line.
The deoree covers the property in New
Mexico, but no deoree In Ariaona has
yt been given. Similar proceedings
will be taken in other sections of the
company's territory,
The senate ooraimttee on publlo
buildings and grounds has authorized
favorable reporta on the amendments
to the snndry-olvll bill, increasing
the limit for cost for publlo buildings
at Cheyenne, Wyo., from $160,000 to
1260,000, and at Boise City, Idaho,
from 1160,000 to $300,000, and at
Helena, Mont, from $160,000 to $800,
000. An appropriation of $100,000
was made available in eaoh oase.
In the suit of the London Times
against the Central News, whlob fur
nished dispatohoa to a news agency in
the United States, demanding the re
turn of sums of money which bad been
paid by the Times to tbe Central News
for telegrams alleged to have been
fabricated or unduly expanded, the
News agency submitted to a verdict
imposing upon it nominal damages and
costs, the Times withdrawing its
obarges of fraud.
Joseph D. Eigglns, one of the oldest
pioneers of Oregon, died in Astoria.
He was 78 years of age, having been
born in Fulton oounty, 111., in 1888.
A New York Herald special from
Cairo, Egypt, says: A telegram to the
war department states that Colonel
Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Ban
kin. A poatoffloe has been established at
Chase, in Yamhill county, Or. Wil
liam O. Chase is tbe postmaster and
the office is a sp.oisl one from MoMinn
vllle. The young ladies' olub of the uni
versity of Washington defeated tbe
young ladies of the Ellensburg normal
school at basket-ball by a soore of aix
points to three.
a Madrid dlspsotn saya: it is an
nounoed that tbe royal speech to be de
livered at the opening of the new oortes
will promise political and adminlstr
tlve reforms for Cuba and Porto Rioo.
Jndge B. F. Dennison, ex ohtef jo.
tloe of tbe supreme court of Washing'
ton territory, and one of the ableat Jar
ists of tbe state, died In Olympla, aged
79. He waa a native of Vermont and
one of the Argonauts of California.
From Washington, D. C, oomea the
news that the postoflloe at Exoelaior,
Pierce oounty, Wash., will be dlsoon
tinned Aplrl 80, next It is to be con
solids ted on May 1 with the poatoffloe
at Taooma, to whlob all mail should be
sent
Sir Hercules Robinson, governor of
Cape Colony, telegraphs to tbe English
governent that there is no sign that
Buluwayo ia endangered, and that pre
cautions are being taken to keep the
road to Buluwayo open in order to sup
piy it wito lood.
The first sleeping oar porter ia dead.
He waa John D. Mitchell, and be was
with tbe Pullman company over thirty
years, tie began his servioe as porter
on tbe "Pioneer," the first sleeping oar
ever built, tbe rolling foundation of its
Inventor's vast wealth.
A dispatch to tbe Volks Zeitung,
Cologne, dated from Shanghai, declares
that it is true, as baa been before re
ported, that Li Hung Chang, who la on
bla way to Mosoow to be present at the
ooronation of the csar, bears with him
a secret Russo-Cbinese treaty.
The arrest of the Baptist missionary,
Blsohp Diaa, in Havana, waa due to
the declarations by some prisoners who
were captured at Vlvora, near that
plaoe, and to the documents which
were found in their possession. His
oase will be summarily pushed.
A dlspatoh from Rome to tbe Pall
Mall Gasette, London, aaya the papal
nuncio at Madrid has been instructed
to propose the mediation of the pope to
bring about a settlement of the trouble
in Cuba or to urge upon Spain the ao
oeptanoe of President Cleveland's re
ported offer of mediation.
Jamea E. Allsop, alias A. A. Austin,
who was arrested in Seattle by Detec
tive John Courtney, of Minneapolis,
on the oharge of murdering Lena Olsen
on tbe shore of Lake Buperlor, near
Dulnth, in order to get possession of
$460, oommitted suioide in the oity
jail at Seattle, by hanging himself with
a pleoe of blanket
Undertakers of Chioago are interested
in the propositions of an Indiana com
pany to manufacture glasa coffins on a
large soale. In an interview George F.
Kimball, the plate-glass manufacturer,
stated that the idea ia entirely practic
able, and thatoofflna can be constructed
in the cheaper grades for not more than
60 oenta running foot
A dlspatoh from Havana aays: Three
prisoners of war, Gregorie Birgea, Es
taban Hernandei and Joae Paoallao,
were executed at Cabana fortress. They
belonged to the Insurgent band com
manded by Dr. Bruno Zayaa, and were
captured by the soldiers of Aarapilea'
battalion during the attaok on Mana
gua. A number of the newspapers of Mad
rid and elsewhere demand that tbe
elections in Cuba be annulled and ex
premier Sagasti intends to ask the
chamber of deputies to annul the Cuban
elections on the ground that tbe elec
tors, owing to the state of rebellion
prevailing, were not tree to vote as
they pleased.
The steamer Gaelio brings news that
Admiral McNear, in oommand of the
Asiatld squadron, is contemplating a
naval demonstration in Chinese waters.
The fleet, consisting of the Detroit,
Olympla, Charleston and Boston, will
rendesvous at Shanghai during the
summer, and will aail north along the
ooasts of China and4Jnpan.
Deputy United States Marshal Sam The Omaha Kxpoaitioa.
Vinson and Secret Officer Harris made Washington, April 88. Tbe house
a raid on a den of oonterfeiters near the oommittee on ways and means today
Union Paolfio depot, Spokane, Wash. , 1 decided to report favorably the senate
and captured two. A oomplete plant bill to give $200,000 for a government
for the making of half-dollar was t building and exhibit at the trans Mis
found, with about thirty ot . bogus ilssippi and international exposition in
oolns. Tbey are splendid imitations, j Omaha in 1898. An amendment was
and have been in oiroulatlon freely In added providing that the exposition
saloons and sporting resort. 'authorities must raise an equal sum.
TREACHERY IS FEARED
Buluwayo Is Threatened
Horde ot Matabeles.
by
WHOLESALE MASSACRE IMMINENT
The Uo.tll. Matlvas Are Catharine by
Thouaanda About th. Town
, Feeling of ApprehenaJon.
Buluwayo, April 80. A feeling of
apprehension as to what the next step
of tbe revolting Matabeles will be per
meates all oiroles here. Information
ooming from the. country around makes
it certain that the na tires are prepar
ing an offensive movement against the
place. The number of Matabeles re
ported gathering at points near by is
sufficient to appal the hearts of even
experlenoed fighters. There ia a Jread
in the minds of many that the plaoe is
in danger of being overwhelmed by a
rusn of bordes of Matabeles, and tbe
inhabitants put to a wholesale mas
sacre.
The fear of treaobery ia added to thr
apprehension of overwhelming num
bers. Many indioationa point to a con
nivanoe witn tbe war parties of sop-
posed friendly natives. There are
many of the latter in the town itself,
and no white man feela sure how far
be oan trust his dusky associates or ser
vante.
On Wednesday evening, three Dutch
soouts were sent out from here to se
oure some definite and aoourate info
mation of the position and movements
of tbe natives. What they have found
baa not served to relieve the anxiety
and suspense. Tbey report that tbe
Matabeles are gathered like ante in a
bill on tbe Umgusa river, only six
miles north of here. That some treach
erous plot 1 being oonoooted ia indi
cated by thefaot that native women
are secreting European clothes. The
native men on the Veldt wear the na
tive costume, while most of those in
Buluwayo wear clothes appro ohing
tbe European fashion. By attiring the
native warriors in European garments,
the Matabeles hope they will be enabled
to enter the town unquestioned.
A Matabele "boy" has. also been
caught stealing the badges belonging
to tbe Rhodesia horse, and it la be
lieved that it waa intended to use thea
for the purpose ot disguise to further
some treacherous project for taking
Buluwayo at a disadvantage and kill
ing tbe inhabitants. It is plainly no
tloeable that tbe natives in the town
are becoming aa thick a bees. In or
dinary times, the nativea oome and go
in town without attracting attention.
Tbe native population ia at all times a
shifting one, and a, large number of
the men that make it up are not known
individually to the white people of tbe
town or to tbe authorities. The faot
that the natives in the town live apart
from the whites add to the difflonlty
of identifying those who belong in tbe
town. But there is little more confi
dence felt in the native who belong in
the town than in the hostile men who
it is believed, are surreptitiously being
introduced to aid from within when an
attack shall be made from without It
looks now as though that might occur
at any time.
Tbe roads by whioh oommunioation
is had with the south, both the one to
Tuli and the one to Mafeking, are felt
to be in peril There are undoubtedly,
large numbers ot hostile natives be
tween Buluwayo and the settlements
to the south, some of tbem in open re
volt The situation is felt to be serious
and threatening.
letl-Ureaker Left HI. Card.
Prioe, Utah. April SO. S. H. Brown-
lee, who has been oonfined in tbe ooun
ty jail since March 88 lata, on a six
months' sentence for oriminal libel,
broke jail last night and is supposed to
nave taken midnight train eaat. When
tbe deputy jailer, George Slmpleman,
went to the jail this morning to feed
Brownlee, he was confronted with a
note pinned to the empty cage inform
ing him that Brownlee had taken tbe
eastbound train, and that if it was de
sired that be should return to please
wire Him at Leadvllle, and be would
take the first train baok. The note
was signed by Brownlee, who had by
that time over eight hours Start, and
was in all likelihood in Colorado.
. The Laeaborn Warder Case.
Leavenworth, Kan., April 80. The
hearing ot the oase of Charlea and
Annie Lamborn and Charles Davenport,
accused of the brutal murder of John
Lamborn, at Fall Leaf, February
17, was begun here at 8 o'olook this
afternoon. Detective Charles Schaeffer,
of Kansaa City, who worked up the
evidenoe against the three aocused and
oansed their arrest, failed to appear.
The oounty attorney had relied on
Sobaeffer to produoe the evidenoe to
oonvlot Two day will be required
to oonolnde the trial. The prisoners
and their attorneys are confident of
aoqultal. '
Band.ome Bla Haslets Arrest.
Chamberlain, S. D., April SO.
Handsome Elk, a Lower Brule Indian,
who shot two Indian polioe, one of
them fatally, ha taken refuge in a
bouse whioh haa been transfonnd infv
temporary fortress. He is berliy
armed and will resist arrest He is a
very bad Indian, and the Indian polioe
force may be orderei to assist the
deputy marshal to make the arrest
BULUWAYO RELIEVED.
Imperial Troops Fu.blna
Forward
From Mafeking.
Loudon, April 28. The South Afri
can situation still absorbs a large share
of public attention, and apprehensions
for the safety of the English in Mata
beleland, and particularly in Bulu
wayo, are not yet abated. There is an
appreciable sense of relief oyer the
news that a supply train from Mafe
king ba got through to Buluwayo, and
that the reinforcements of imperial
troops from Mafeking are being rapid
ly pushed forward for the relief of the
plaoe, which is, to all puproses, be
leaguered, so closely invested by the
natives that numerous skirmishes are
ooourring almost in the outskirts of
the town. Friends of the people in
Buluwayo (and thia includes, so far as
sentiment ia oonoerned, all England)
are relieved to hear that no extensive
offensive movement is planned at pres
ent against the nativea. There have
been grave fears that the white would
be rash and invite disaster.
Tbe reply of President Kruger to tbe
Invitation of Colonial Secretary Cham
berlain to visit England and discuss
with bim what remediea oan be ap
plied to the grievances of the Uitland
era in the Transvaal is the newest
faotor in tbe South African problem,
Tbe reply is not aooorded a very kindly
reception by the English public
its editoiral commenting upon Presi
dent Krugera' reply to Colonial 8ecre
tary Chamberlain, tbe Times says:
"If President Kruger and his sup
porters willfully close their eyes to
obvious faoia and obdurately refuse to
redress tbe grievances of tbe Uitlanders
oircumstanoea may occur that will
foroe tbem to rely upon tbe primary
wgbt of all communities to save them
selves from imminent pei-iL"
Tbe Time tomorrow will publish a
dispatch from Pretoria, whioh says:
"President Kroger s reply to Mr.
Chamberlain ia friendly and concilia
tory, but it fails to advance the nego
tiation. It repeats that tbe president
canot ask the volksraad to oonsent to
hi visit to England until a basi for
the disouss'.on is settled."
TORNADO IN OHIO.
Two Parsons RIHad and Many Others
Injured.
Fremont, O., April 83 A tornado
accompanied by a heavy rainfall swept
over tne northwestern part of Ban
dusky oounty, killing two persons, in
juring a number of others and doing
great damage to buildings and other
property.
Tbe tornado oame from the south
west with great fury, and every tree
and building in its path was swept
away. After smashing a road bridge
ana mowing a Dig tree aoross a Wheel
ing & Lake Erie freight train, whioh
crashed the oaboose and oame near kill
ing a number of trainmen, the wind
began to play havoc with farm build
ings.
Tbe barns of Jaoob Engler, J. E.
Hoflinger, Upton Burger and Anthony
Swift first went down by it Then
the house of James Greene waa de
stroyed. Greene's aged father, f Wil
liam L. Greene, waa killed outright
Hi wife waa fatally hurt, and the
baby carried aoross tbe road in its
cradle. The child escaped uninjured.
Next tne barn of Amos Harriok, in
which Harriok and John Low were
shearing sheep, waa oraabed. Low
waa blown arooss a field against a tree,
being instantly killed. Other build
ings destroyed were tbe barns of Al
Fairohild, William Hanson. Perry
Parish, George Waggoner and Charles
Tuoker. Tucker's child waa badly hurt
At Booktown, a hamlet near here.
nearly all tbe buildings were destroy
ed, out were was no loss of life. ,
A Riot In Kanaaa.
Topeka, Kan., April 83. Governor
Morrill ha received a dispatch asking
mat troops De sent to sst Jobn, staf-
ford oounty, to quell a riot. Tbe dis
patch was signed by the sheriff and
oounty attorney. Tbe cause of the
disturbance waa not stated. Tbe gov
ernor ordered Adjutant-General Fox to
proceed to St John at once, taking
witn mm tne oompany of militia at
Newton.
Kansas City, April 83. A dlspatoh
to tne Time from Hutchinson, Kan
sas, says the reported riot at St. John
was provoked by follower of Bond
Brother' oirous, who after swindling
several people, resisted the efforts that
were made to recover tbe money that
tbey bad taken. In the scrimmage
that ensued, the entire oirous orowd
wa pitted against tbe oitiaen and
offtoer. The trouble soon took on an
aspect so serious that the sheriff tele
graphed Governor Morrill for assist
ance to put down the riot Five men
are reported to have been badly hurt.
The details of the trouble cannot be
learned.
Tha Arid Land Aot,
Washington, April 33 The oom
mittee on irrigation of arid landa today
authorised a favorable report on a bill
amendatory of the Carey aot The
amendment provirta that where the
greater part of a legal subdivision is
desert in oh:aoter, the whole shall be
oonsulcrc i. In order to be entilted
to desert lands, the states and terri
tories must oause to be irrigated and
occupied not less than 80 acres in eaoh
160 Snob, tracts must be cultivated
by aotual settlers within 10 year from
the date of segregation.
Agricultural Ratine Bill.
London, April 33. Henry Chaplin,
president of tbe local government
board, today introduced in the house
of commons the agricultural rating
bill, by whioh, after Maroh 81, 1897,
agricultural land will be assessed for
one-half of it present ratable value.
This mean an annual loaa in revenue
of 1,660,000.
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS
Fron
All tha CI tie. and Towns of tho
Feel He State, and Territorial
Washington.
The receipts of the Goldendale post
offloe for the year ending March 81,
were $1,966.64.
Seattle's health offloer reports the
publlo schools of tbe town in a bad
sanitary oondition.
J. H. Horan, of Wenatohee, has or
dered a creamery plant, whioh will be
in operation thi spring.
Two guns and three revolvers were
stolen by burglars from the hardware
store of Frank MoKay in Port Town
send.
8poksne jobber are talking of rais
ing $10,000 to carry up a railway
tariff fight to the interstate commerce
commission.
The regular annual meeting ot the
Washington State Press Association
will beheld in North Yakima this year
on July 9 and 10.
Two Paulist fathers from San Fran
oisoo have been holding mission serv
ioes at the Chnroh of tbe Assumption
at New Whatcom.
Hoquiam postoflloe reoeipta for the
fiscal year ending Maroh 80, 1896, were
$3,496.68. This ia sufficient to in
crease the salary to $1,800.
Raohael Duncan, a 6-year-old child.
drowned in the tide flats in Seattle,
while playing at hide and aeek with a
number of oompaniona. Her body was
reoovered.
The correct thing in Colfax church
oiroles is to present the pastor with a
new bioyole. This is oertainly a step
in advanoe of the old-fashioned dona
tion party. ,
A Palonse correspondent of the
Spokesman-Review estimates that 80
per oent of the wheat in that vioinity
was destroyed by tbe cold weather dur
ing March.
Tbe oounty commissioners of Skagit
oounty have decided to appropriate
$6,000 for tbe Blanchard road, connect
ing tbe Bellingham bay oities with the
8amish oonntry.
William Hume, the veteran cannery-
man and bunter, of Eagle Cliff, in
Wahkiakum oonnty.killed a 400-pound
blaok bear last week, in the woods
baok of the cannery.
Some uneasiness is felt oonoerning
Mr. Cradlebaugh and the party who
went with him on a prospecting tour
into the Cascades north of Mount
Adama a month ago.
George L Cook, a man apparently
66 or 70 year of age, wa found dead
iu a tent in the woods near Taooma.
Heart disease is believed to have been
tne oause ot bis deatn.
At 18 o'olook at night a prisoner
named Webb, who waa night engineer
in the electric light plant at the pent
tentiary at Walla Walla, scaled the
wall and made his escape.
The 18th annual association of Con
gregational ohurohea and ministers of
Eastern Washington and Northern
Idaho has ended at Walla Walla. The
next meeting will be held at Medical
Lake.
The Waitsbnrg fire department haa
ordered a raoing cart for the tourna
ment of the Eastern Oregon and
Washington Firemen's Association, to
be held in Pendleton. It ia ball-bear
ing and cushion-tired. -
Engineer E. G. Fanning, of the
Walla Walla paid fire department.
has perfected a most useful invention
for a system ot fire alarm, and has
made a proposition to tbe oity council
for the adoption of the system. It has
peculiar merit of its own, and ia high'
ly spoken of.
It is estimated that there are be
tween 76,000 and 100,0000 bushels of
wheat in the warehouses at Waitsbnrg
yet unsold, the owner of which feel
themselves able to hold for better
prioes. The prioe now is 43 cents,
which is about 10 oenta higher than it
waa a year ago.
The financial exhibit of the auditor
of Pierce oounty shows that the oounty
haa a bonded indebtedness of $698,000;
general fund warrant indebtedness of
$196,838.10; road diatriot and other
indebtedness, $338 46; total, $890,
046.66. There is now cash in the
general fund subject to obeok, $4,-
815.88.
Robert Soott haa made a olose ex
amination of fruit trees with a view
ascertaining if the buda have been
injured by the late freeee, aays the
Yakima Times. He aays that they are
praotioally uninjured. . Here and there.
few apricot blossoms are killed, but
the trees vail have all the fruit they
should bear, and be better tor the thin
ning out
The certificate of tbe treasurer of
Walla Walla oounty shows a total on
hand of $3,878.66. Under the opera
tions of the "barefoot schoolboy" law,
$3,100 of the money oolleoted for
school purposes must be first turned in
to the state treasury and reapportioned.
it la not available until the next state
apportionment, while in the meantime
many diatriot in tbe oounty are pay
ing interest on their warrants at the
rate ot 8 per oent and teaoher are
oompelled in many instance to dis
count their salary warrants. There
are 4,398 children ot school age in the
oounty. -
Oregon. " "
The aotion of the oounty court of
Waaoe ia offering bounties tor the
scalps of coyote is causing many of
these pests to be killed.
A lodge of Elk wa formed In Salem
last week.
A newspaper is promised for Lan-
gnis, Curry oounty.
Albany' gilded youth still do their
base ball playing indoors.
Columbia oounty : owe $49,710 un
paid taxes, running as far back as 1887.
A steam ferry 1 to be established
across Young' river from Daggett'
Point to Case' Astoria.
There is an exodn ot Coos bay coal
miners. A good many are going to
tbe Nevada county, Cal., quarts mines.
Joseph J. Miller, of Montana, is in
Sherman oounty buying .8-year-old
steers. He is paying $10 for good
yearlings and $15 for good 8-year-olds.
The semi-annual statement of the
finanoial oondition of Linn oounty on
April 1 shows resources amounting to
$138,898.60, and liabilities of $44,
090.74. Mr. Charles N. Crittenden, the mil
lionaire evangelist and founder of the
Florence Crittenden houses for fallen
women, arrived in Baker City and has
begun a series of meetings.
J. Durkheimer, of Burns, haa started
80,000 head of sheep from Harney
county to the shearing grounds near
Huntington. The wool and sheep will
be shipped to market from Huntington.
County Clerk Jacobs, of Jackson
oounty, claims to have found a short
age in the account of ex-Treasurer
Moore of $106 43. Tbe olerk has been
instructed to notify Moore to reim
burse tbe oounty. '
Tbe Indians on the Umatilla reserv
ation held a wake over Patawa and
Big Dick for three days, and had a big
feast The horses and personal effects
of the deoeased have wen divided up
according to tribal customs.
J. Creswell, a young son of Press
Creswell, of Heppner, recently swal
lowed, in a joking way, a lot of cam
phor, and not long after went into vio
lent oonvulsions. It required the serv
ices of a physician to pull him through
alive.
It ia reported that 15 inches of snow
fell the last week over in the Lone
Rook country, saya the Heppner Ga
zette. Many sheepmen were in the
midst of lambing and the oold snap has
proven very disastrous to thi industry
in that section.
Tbe Goldendale Telephone Company
baa submitted, through The Dalles
Commercial Club, a proposition to the
people of The Dalles to build a tele
phone line from Goldendale to The
Dalles, to ba connected with the Con-don-Senfert
system.
Last week- Sheriff Patterson, of
Jaokson, levied an attachment on the
property owned by E G. Salstrom, of
Medford, to satisfy a judgment for
$5,000, held by the estate of S..D. Gar
rison, which waa rendered by the
Washington courts.
There is a milch cow in Tbe Dalles
that has a wooden leg. One of A
Thompson's cows was laid up with a
strained leg and Mr. Thompson had a
wooden one made and strapped on her,
and now the cow uses the artificial leg
as though always aocustomed to it
Sheriff Houser, of Umatilla, has
paid into the count treasury $31,400,
the amount collected of the 1895 taxes.
Treasurer Kern aent $16,000 of this
amount to the state treasurer and the
balanoe wil be apportioned to school
districts and oities U. Hmatilla oounty.
The apparatua for operating the
gate at the locks ia now all placed and
a successful trial was made last week.
By attaching cables to the bydraulio
machine, the big gates were opened and
olosed with apparently little effort
No water ha aa yet been turned into
the canaL
C. D. Moore, of White Salmon, hn
jast completed setting strawberry
plants for A. P. Bateham on the Coe
plaoe at Hood river. He used a ma
chine for doing the work that he
learned to use ia setting sweet potatoe
plants in New Jersey. He aet 15,000
plants a day for Mr. Bateham, and
say be has set a high as 30,000 a day.
Mr. Bateham aaya the work wa well
done.
Idaho.
The Daddy mine, at Murray, is said
to have netted its owners $50,000 dur
ing the year 1895.
A conservative estimate places the
output of concentrates from the Coeur
d'Alene mills at 10,000 tons per month.
The building of boats in Lewiston
i assuming considerable importance.
Several boats are being oonatruoted at
that point
F. A. Bauer, of Elk City, write ad
vising men and prospectors who con
template going into that country, to
wait a few weeks longer, aa there is
considerable snow, whioh will interfere
with prospecting and inspection of
properties.
Montana.
The Montana Ore Purchasing Com
pany haa declared its usual dividend
of $1 per share, Thi dividend is at
the rate of 48 per cent
An assay offloe has been started up
at Melrose under the supervision of
M. D. Fleming, a well known ohemist
hf Butte. Mr. Fleming wa in Butte
this week and reports the mineral out
look in that aeotion as being excellent.
Another dividend haa been declared
by the Boston & Montana Company at
the main ffloe in Boston of $3.00 per
share. Thia dividend is payable on
May 80. Thi make a total of
$4,025,000 np to date.
The Butte owners in the War Eagle
Company at Rossland received word
that at a meeting ot director at Spo
kane a dividend ot five cent per share
wa deolared on the 60,0000 shares ot
took of that oompany, making $35,000.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings ia Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
ub.tanes of tha Maaanres Being- Con
sidered by tho Flftj-Fonrth -
Senloa Senate.
Washington, April 18. The resolu
tion for an investigation of the recent
bond issue wa taken up in the senate
today and Hill made a sensational and
dramatic speech in opposition. Tbe
New York senator defended Secretary
Carlisle and his administration ot the
treasury against loose insinuations ot
irregularity, and showed the preva
lence of charges of this character by
presenting and reading in full the
charges made by Senator Chandler
against the friends of MoKinley that
a levy of money was being made on
protected industries in beablf ot Mo
Kinley's candidacy for the presidency.
Aa a lurtber evidence of the preva
lence of tbe charges, Hill spoke of the
sugar investigation, where, he said,
one senator, referring to Quay, had
frankly admitted that he had bought
sugar stock and had a right to buy it.
and today that senator was the favorite
son of the leading republican state aa a
candidate for the presidecy.
Washington, April 80. To avoid a
struggle for precedence, the senate, on
motion of Cannon, took up the resolu
tion directing the secretary of the in
terior to open the Uncompahgre reser
vation without further delay, the un
derstanding being that the bond inves
tigation resolution should oome np at 8
o'olook as unfinished business. After
Brown had spoken for the resolution,
be sought to secure a vote. Gorman
asked that aotion be deferred owing to
the absence of Vilas, who desired to be
beard. Aldrioh said it must be clear
that there was "something behind"
these efforts at delay, and this persist
ence in putting off a vote. Gorman
responded that it was tbe first intima
tion ooming from the distinguished
senator on the other side of the cham
ber that delays in public business were
occurring. ...... ...
Wanhiugton. April 23. With the
thermometer standing at 80 degrees,
less than 20 senator were on the floor
wlifn the president pro tern, Frye
c:llf-il the upper house to order. Dur
ing the morning hour the joint resolu
tion for the appointment of Genearl
Franklin, Representative Steele,- Gen
eral Bale and General Henderson as
nu mbers of the board of managers of
the National Soldiers' Home, was
adopted without debate. Cannon in
troduced a bill for the construction.
near Washington, of a ground map of
the United States on the scale of one
inch to a mile. Mitchell, of Oregon,
gave notice that on Friday next he
would ask to take up the bill pension
ing veterans of the Indian wars. Al
lison followed with a report of the
sundry civil . appropriation bill and
said be would seek to take it up at the
earliest day,
Houee. -
Washington, April 18. In the house,
Blue asked if Hull would allow the
vote on the resolution to be dropped for
ten days. This Hull declined to da
The speaker decided also that a motion
to recommit would not be in order,
the vote having been ordered at three
o'olook. Mahon's amendment to inves
tigate Governor Smith's oonduot was
ruled out, and the vote waa taken on
the Blue amendment to substitute tbe
name of General Howard' for that ot
General Franklin. On demand of Blue,
tbe vote was taken by ayes and nays,
and was rejoeted- by 61 to 149. The
resolution was then adopted without
division.
Washington, April 80. The net re
sult of five hours' work on the private
calendar in the house today was the
passing of four pension bills, one to
pension the widow of Rear Admiral
Foote, at $5Q per month; the rejection
of a bill to retire a hospital steward as
a second lieutenant of oavalry, and the
passing of a war claim ot less than
$600. The latter waa the first war
olaim brought before the house for con
sideration, and naturally provoked a
general debate on the policy of paying
war claims. It drew from Mahon,
chairman of the war claims oommittee;
Walker. MoCall and Evans, eloquent
pleas for the payment of the findings of
the court ot claims. Mahon argued
that these claims should be paid or
abolished. Dookery eulogised Speaker
Crisp, and Sayers, the chairman of the
appropriations oommittee in the last
congress, paid a high tribute to Speak
er Reed.
Washington, April 33. For the first
time this session Speaker Reed was late
in arriving at the capitol. Clerk Mc
Dowell called the house to order and
aunounced that a speaker pro tern
would be elected. Hull was unani
mously elected. He bad been seated
but a few minutes when Reed appeared,
and, amid much laughter, said: "Tbe
house will be in order " Although
this was the suspension day under the
rules. Cannon, ohairman of the oom
mittee ou appropriations, insisted on
proceeding with the general deficiency
bill. The house went into oommittee
of the whole for its consideration.
This is the last of the regular appro
priation bills.
Mr. Deacon In Far!..
New York, April 23. A World dis
patch from Paris says: The divoroed
wife of Edward Parker Deaoon has re-,
turned from America, bringing with
her two children. It is said that Mr.
Deaoon has been in oorrespondene with
her for six months. It has even been
asserted by those professing to have
seen his letter, that he haa made
many overture to her for oomplete
reconciliation.
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