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ST. HELEN8, OHKfJOX, FJtlDAY, JANUARY" 22, 1897.
NO. 5.
WJLVJ
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
Newi of the World.
TKESK TICKS FEOM THE WIBES
A a Intonating Colleetiun of Items From)
tho Tw Hemisphere Freientad
In a Condensed Form.
Alice M. Hurtieyy who shot and
killed Senator Foley, in liono, Nov.,
two years go, Inn been pardoned,
Charles A, Warriinim, cashier at the
Great Northern depot In Butte, Mont.,
committed nulciUo In his room. Au
di tor Frey had Just begun the examina
tion of his aeeounts.
Princes ile C'himay, who eloied lout
summer witli Junes Rlgo, Hungarian
'gypsy musician, has bocii engaged to
apjieur In tableaux vivant lit a winter
garden In Berlin immediately after her
divorce from her husband, (she will
be paid 700 night.
The nomination of Duvld Ii. Francis
as secretary ot the interior has been fa
vorably acted upon by the committee
on finance and reported to the senate in
executive session. The nomination baa
Iwen held up ever since the session be
gan at the request of Senator Vest
After a long and animated session In
Olympiu the presidential eloctor of
Washington agreed upon James E, Fen
ton, Deiiio:rat, of Spokane, aa inowien
gor to convey the vote of the ftate to
Washington. The choice was a com
promise, m the elector! were at first
tiiuiblu to agree upon any one ot the
four clouted, each one Htrlving for the
honor. The turn of 1800 ia allowed
for expenses.
The triul of Mrs. Walter Carew
charged with poiaonlng her husband
by administering araenic, and which
bus caused a greut sensation among tlio
American inhabitant ot Yokohama,
ha been brought to a dramatic clone
by the appearance and confession, in
court of Mia Mary Jacob, the gov
erness of the family, who, It seems,
was the real murderess and the liorson
who wove the chain of evidence around
I the widow.
' Attorney-General Harmon was naked
atKiut the probable courae the govern
I inent will pursue with reepect to the
I ' I'ai'lllir railroads, now tho funding bill
i hus fuilcd. Beyond the statement that
i Koine action would probably be tuken
I within thirty daya, he duolined to dis
: cuss the matter. It it believed, how
, ever, the flint ttep will bo agaiiiHt the
! Un'um Pacific, inaKmucl) aa foreclosure
t: proceeding instituted by the flint lion
i holder of that road are now pending in
the court. .'.'.
The inauguration of Governor Tan-
ner In Springfield, III ,' developed a
sensation at the close of the atutehouse
I ceremony, when the retiring governor,
I John P. Altgcld, waa not permitted to
f deliver the farewell address which ha
I leeii one of ther feature ot the pre
I loii inauguration in Illinois. Gov-
I ernor Altgeld had prepared hi speech
and had brought a copy ot it to the
I ball, but lie was not called upon by the
presiding olllccr to apeak. Much in'
I dignation waa aroused by the occur
rence? . .
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
. itate for the Indian department, has
I sent to the lord mayor of London the
I statement upon which the appeal for
suimcription for the relief ot tho fam-
1 itie sufferers in India i( based. He
i Hays that district with a population of
U7,00U,O0Q will be sufferers from the
famine until the end of March, and it
may continue in some part to the end
of June. In other districts, having
4 1,000,000 imputation, the distress may
deepen with famine for a shorter or
longer period, while 9,000,000 peoplo
In the native states may be victims ot
famine.
Tho house committee on public lands
has authorised a favorable report on the
lull providing that settlers on Northern
Pacific railroad lands, whose right
would have boon forfeited January 1,
1807, for noncompliance with law.
nhall have an additional torm ot two
years in which to .comply with the
regulations. The committee also or
dored a favorable report on a bill allow
ing settlers on Indian land opened to
settlement in the Dakota to acquire
patent by paying the minimum price
provided by law any time after the ex
pirution of fourteen month from the
date of entry. .
' The four presidential elector of Ore-
gon met in Salem and cast their ballot
for William McKinley and Garret Ho
hart. Hon. T. T. Goer wa elected
messenger to carry the vote to Wash
ington.
A dispatch from Nice say that
eighty-two persons, including the
mayor and the mayor' assistant, to
gether with many prominent citizens,
have been arraigned for corruption in
the municipal elections.
Advices received from Manila show
that the Philippine insurgents who
were deported to the Laudrane islands,
tho Spanish penal settlement in the Pa
cific, recently made a dosporate attempt
to escape, but were overpowered by the
garrison and Spanish marine. Eighty
of tho convicts wore killod and forty
wounded.
The Southern Oregon Fair Assocla-
I uon uas nieu articles of incorporation
: in the office of tlm u,luin ..i ..t
ine capital naniod it 5,000, divider",
into shares of 10 each. Modford will
be the principal office. .
-Frank Hoyt, who so brutally.assauU
iwi and robbed Agent Hoopongarner, at
Myrtle Creek lust week, has been tried
in Koseburg, Or., and bound over to
the grand jury, in the sum of 1,000.
default of bondsmen he i now in
the county jnl .
OREGON LEGISLATURE.
The first week of the Oregon legisla
ture closed with but little accom
plished. The organisation ot the sen
ate waa effected promptly on the first
day, and Joseph Hi men, of Multnomah,
who held the same position two years
ago, was seated as president. The sen
ate was In session four days, during
which time eighty-five bills were In
troduced, and then tho senate ad
journed over until Monday, in order
to give the state printer time to catch
up. y
Tho Unorganised Bonis.
The house was unable to perfect or
ganUatlon, a quorum not being found
present at any time a roll call was had.
The members are divided into three
factions on the senatorial nominee,
each being a minority. All efforts to
unite and agree on any member for
!eakor have been futile. Much bitter
talk and discussion hut been the rule
since the first day. ,
, Senatorial Cntico.
Near the end of the week forty-throe
Republicans and one Populist held a
caucus at the state capltol and unani
mously nominated John II. Mitchell for
United States senator.
Mw Hills Pour In.
Patterson of Marion has introduced
bill making general provision (or the
transportation of all insane persons to
the asylum. Hi bill provides that
the county clerk shall notify the suiter
lntendent of the asylum that he has an
insane person to be conveyed to the any
luin. The ' superintendent then au
thnrlzes some employe of the asylum
to repair to the county seat, where the
Insane person will be delivered to him
and he will conduct such insane iierson
to the asylum. All the expense ia to
be borne by the asylum fund.
Senator Mackay has introduced a bill
for the upmiiiiting of a fiscal agent at
New York city, who is to look after
the state's financial interests.
Two other bills of a general nature
were introduced, one by Senator Mc
Clung, which authorizes the mayor of
any city to bid in proprty sold at pub
lic sale for taxes. The other was by
Senator Smith, authorising countioe,
cities and school district to dispose of
real estate acquired at tax sales.
Senator Michell has called attention
to the subject of navigation on the Co
lumbia river, by introducing a bill au
thorising the governor to appiont a
commission to construct and equip a
portage railway from The Dulles to
Celimv ;
The bill of Senator Price of Uma
tilla, for the .collection' of delinquent
taxes, provides that all proerty levied
upon shall be advertised and sold in
the sumo manner as real estate, thus
saving exense. Senator Price has
also introduced a bill which enable
farm laborer to file a lien upon a
growing crop, even though there bo a
mortgage on tho crop.
, Senator McClung's bill, No. 5, "to
define the terms land and real property,
for the purposes ot taxation," is vir
tually a re-establishment of the old
mortgage-tax law. It provides, how
ever, for the exemption only of record
ed indebtedness, and in that particular
differs from the old law, and from
other proposed statutes.
The registration bill introduced in
the senate by Senator Harmon is iden
tical with the measure to bo intro
duced in tho house by Thomas of Mult'
nomuh. ' -
Senator Taylor's bill amending the
incorporation act of Pendleton changes
the city charter in three particulura.
It provides that (1) the city may be di
vided up into wards; (3) that the pros
ent water-works system may be en
largod into a gravity system; and (8)
that city treasurers shall hereafter be
appointed by the city council, and not
elected by the people. There lias been
trouble in Pendleton over making the
city funds immediately available when
they are desired for the payment of
warrants. - It is thought that, if the
temptation for candidates to place
themselves under personal obligation
to financial institutions has been re
moved, the difficulty about the funds
may be obviated.
Senator Mulkey, of. Polk, lias intro
duced into the senate a bill covering
the subject of taxation. The bill, in
effect, is practically a re-enactment of
the mortgage-tax law. It has three
general objects in view (1) the assess
ment'of all property, (8) equal and In
partial collection of taxes, (8) economy
I , 1 '. ... ... 1 1. !,
Ill tiuurukioif. peimtur iuuikhv biivb ll,
will save the state at least $55,000 per
year. The bill provides for the aedue
tion of indebtedness where the corre
sponding credit cun be found and as
sessed. It abolishes the state board of
equalization as it is now' constituted,
vesting that duty in the governor, sec
retary of state and state treasurer. . It
also provide for the collection ot taxes
on the original assessor's roll and for
the sending of the Bummury only of the
roll to the state board of. equalization.
It makes the county treasurer the col
lector of taxes up to the point of delin
quency, When they shall be collected by
the sheriff.
Senator Holt's bill, for the tem
porary roller ol countio in cortuin
oases, prolvdes that, whenever any
railroad company shall negleat or re
fuse to pay its taxes, or any portion of
them, in uny county within tho state,
such, county shall not be required to
pay into the state . treasury its portion
of taxes on the assessed value of the
railroad's property. The county is
also to be relieved from all interest or
other penalty until one mouth after the
delinquent tux is collected.
MeClung's senate bill relating to the
qualifications of school election voter
requires that the voter shall have paid
an annual tax on f 2B0 worth of prop
erty. The present law is somewhat
lux, and more or less confusing. There
is some doubt ot the constitutionality
of McClung's bill, but the judiciary
committee will pass upon that ques
tion. Senator McC'lnng tays the trou
bles at the late school election in Port
hind and Eugene led him to prepare a
more desirable law.
! The inevitable doduction-for-Indobt-eduess
bill has been presented to the
senate. It comes from Senator Daw
Son, of Linn.
The question of supplying each mem
ber of senate and house with a copy of
Hill's Code ot Oregon, evoked some de
bate in the senate. McClung presented
a joint resolution that the secretary of
state be ordered to purchase ninety
copies of the code. He afterward ex
plained that similar resolution had
been adopted by the senate, but, inas
much a it was only a senate resolu
tion, the secretary of state was unwill
ing to comply except on joint request
of both houses. Selling of Multnomah
thought that from an economical stand
point, twenty-five , copies would be
sufficient, ten for tho senate and fifteen
for the house. Price of Umatilla sug
gested that fifteen copies would be
sufficient for the senate,, giving one to
each new member. McClung's resolu
tion waa finally adodtcd.
Another subject of debate wo the
resolution requiring the appropriation
bill to be prepared a sufficient time be
fore the close of the session to permit a
careful , examination. One member
wanted the bill prepared within the
first twenty-five days. This was gen
erally regarded as too .soon to be prac
ticable, and it was finally settled that'
thct bill should be before the senate
five days before the close of the session.
.. Sanata OoiumlttAM.
. President Simon has announced the
standing committees of the senate as
follows:
Agriculture and Forestry Johnson,
Hughes, Holt.
Assessment and Taxation Hughes,
Patterson of Marion, Price, Mulkey,
juockuy.
Claims Selling, Carter, Daly.
Commerce and Navigation Harmon,
Johnson, JJufur,
Counties Mackay, Gosner, Talyor,
Itowan, Driver.
Education McClung, Harmon, Mul
key. Elections and Privileges Mulkey,
Gesner, Smith.
Engrossed Bills Gesner, Reed,
Mitchell.
Enrolled Bills Calbreath, Patterson
of Washington, and Gowun,
' Federal Relations Bates, Taylor,
Dufur. t
Fishing Industries Reed, Michell,
Patterson of Marion.
Horticulture Carter, Calbreath,
Holt.
Insurance and Bunking Bates, John
eon, Driver.
Irrigation Price? McClung, King.
Judiciary Gowan, Brownell, Mich
ell, Smith, Dufur.
Revision of Laws Patterson of
Washington, McClung, Reed, Hobson,
King.
Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry
Calbreath, Driver, Daly.
Military Affairs Price, Huscltine,
Gesner.
Penal Institutions Driver, Hobson.
Selling.
Mining Johnson, King, Holt. - '
Municipal Corporations Uaseltine,
Harmon, Calbreath.
v Printing Michell, Mackay, Smith.
Public Buildings and Institutions
Hobson, Patterson of Washington,
Wade. .
Public Lands Patterson of Marion,
Mulkey, Dawson, Huscltine, Wade.
: Railroads Brownell, Gowan, Patter
son of Washington, Mackay, Dawson.
Roods and Highways Dawson, Car
ter, Hobson, Brownell, Daly.
Ways and Means Taylor, McClung,
Selling, Hughes, Dawson.
Tartar Mnkcrs Hun on a Snag.
Washington, Jan. 18. The Republi
can tariff-makers held no meeting to
day, having encountred several per
plexing points in the chemical schedule
which they began work on last night.
Certain members were assigned to pro
cure information on various points,
and tomorrow tho committee will re
sume work on the schedule.
From the experience of the first ses
sion of real work on the bill, it is con
sidered by the members doubtful
whether it will be practical for them
to follow the original plan ot work,
which was to have the full committee
work togother or every schedule of Jhe
bill, instead of dividing the schedules
among the subconimittoeaj.
A Foul nnd HI Mousy.
San Francisco, Jan. 18. Oscar Low,
a Victoria man, . was buncoed out of
180 today by the old dice game trick.
Low lives at the Yosemite house, on
Market street, and started for the Bar
bury Coast for a drink. He got into a
saloon on Sacramento street, and there
began shaking dice with a stranger.
He lost f 30, and a newly made friend
told him he could beat the winner out
of all his money if Low could . only get
some more cash. The victim went to
his room, and got 9100 more. He re
turned to tho saloon, and soon lost
that. Then he complained to the po
lice. ' . ' " .
rowder-Honao Bxploalon.
Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 18. As the re
sult of an explosion in the tankhouse of
the Columbia Powder Company, locat
ed in a hollow a half mile from the
Ohio river, midway between borough :
Shoustown and Shaopin, Mr. Stickney, t
proprietor of the works, and his two
daughters were killed, P. MoClusky,
. . .1 j it,i. i
onely hurt By almost superhuman '
efforts the flumes wore controlled be- '
iaiauy injureu, ana n uuer vrune sen-
fore the glycerine machine ignited.
PLAGUE AND FAMINE!
The Appalling Calamity
Hanging Over India.
TERRIBLE SCENES IS BOMBAY
United .4tlon by tin Karvpaan Pow
ers to Frviit th Introduction -of
tho Dlscaso. n
Bombay, Jan. 10. Plague and
famine are stalking arm-in-arm through
densely populated portions of the Brit
ish empire; thousands are dead or dy
ing, and the outlook grows blacker and
more terrible every day. ; ;
Millions of hapless men, women and
children uro starving, and the famine
stricken districts, having a population
of nearly 40,000,000 popole, will hav s
to depend -upon the aid of charity fo
food enough to keep body and soul to-;
gether until April or later. Other dis
tncts, with a population numberinj J
about 60,000,000, are already feehn.r
the pangs of bitter privation from food,
and this must be endured well on into
spring, before permanent relief will be
afforded by nature. Funds for the re
lief of sufferers are being rained on all
sides, but a very large amount of money
will be needed to provide food even for
those unfortunate people who live on;
almost nothing (in comparison with
Europeans and others.)
The calamity, awful in its its inten
sity, is iossibly not much greater than-
the ravages of the dreadful plague here,;
threatening to spread through tho
crowded cities to other parts of India,"
and, if it reaches the greatly weakened
famine sufferers, the mortality may b
terrible. The natives have been re-;
duced by, luck of food to little less that-
living skeletons,' in the most heavilv
stricken districts, and as such ' they
cannot but full victims by the thou
sands to the plague.
The mortality here has quadrupled,
without counting the deaths which have
occurred among thousands of people
who have fled in terror from Bombay,
in many oases abandoning their all in
their hurried flight from the great peril
Up to recently, Bombay, with its
population of about (150,000, enjoyed
the reputation of being one of the
healthiest cities in India, its sanitary
works being equal to those of- the En- i
ropean capitals. But all this is'
,.l,.nwl Mnr 1,.. If ,.t ,m '
lution has disappeared, and those who
remain are either helpless and cannot
get away, or are crowding out of the
city by rail, water and road, or else,
contemplate so doing unless there is a
change for the better shortly. The gov
ernment officials are seriously alarmed,
the native physicians have nearly al"
left the city, business is paralyzed, thi
mills are closed or closing, the stree'a
are partly deserted, and on all sides an
empty houses, boarded up or wide open
a i ii. wiena ii tuiiciiui hub tjiiuugu ,jwvkm u& .uuctj wiuQ ucio ia Wie
the streets goes on day and night, burn-j ne8s the inauguration ceremonies,
ing grounds, or ghats, light the ekiej Speaking to an Asociated Press reporter
with their reflections, and line after 1 today, Chairman Bell said: ,
line of bodies there or at the parsee , "If the people insist on making their
burial spots are awaiting consignment own arrangements, the inaugural corn
to the flames or to mother earth. mittee cannot be held responsible, but
The number of deaths from the I can assure any one who will address
plague in this city is now estimated,
unofficially, to be 3,000, and there are
aliout 170 additional victims daily,
with this number increasing as time;
wear on. The Europeans, however,
have been singularly free from con
tagion up to , the present time, only
tiiree deaths among them being record
ed to date. :- i t:.
At. Karachi, Poona and Bandra.
where laree numbers of refiurees have
sought safety, the plague has broken
out in 'most threatening form. At
Bandra, for instance, 139 deaths are re-
corded out of 180 cases of plague; caus-
ing consternation, even among the phy-,
sicians. in this city there are thou-
sands of houses without native serv-.
ants, nearly all the latter having joined
the fleeing multitudes. ' Employers are
helpless because Of the departure Of
clerks and porters, and stores areclosed . Oakland, Cal., Jan. 19. An earth
on account of the utter stagnation in niiavi thii oftomnnn i. rwvWt;,..
business. The mortality during the
past week here has been unprecedented,
while the return ot deaths from re
mittent fevers are extraordinarily high
above the plague rate, which is natur
ally interpreted as meaning that num
bers of people who have fallen victim
ol the plague have been officially re
corded as having diedof remittent fever.
A VENGEFUL HUNGARIAN.
Ho Bahaadad tha Man Who Had Out-
: ; wraatlod Hitu.
Wilkeebarre, Pa., Jan. 18. After be
ing bested by Josepn ivaiata in a
wrestling bout, John Coumott, a Hun
garian, beheaded his successful rival.
The men were rivals for the hand of
Anna Jopkapotah, with whose father
they boarded.
There was a gathering at the house
and Coumott challenged Kalata to a
wrestling match. . Coumott was. de
feated, and in his anger left the room,
returning in a few minutes with a
butcher knife. Rushing at Kalata, he
swung the knife around his head, and
with all the force he could miiBter
brought it down on Kalata ' , neck.
The keen blade cut its way through the
muscles, arteries and jugular vein, sev
ering them and stopping only at the
opposite side of the neck. Kalata fell
to the floor without so much as a groan.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Jan. 19. It is
a well-known fact among certain parties
here that while Dan Stuart was in
Coprus Christi last May, he held sev
eral consultations with a leading
Brownsville attorney, the result of
which was the lease of an island in the
Kio wranae river trom uie Mexican gov-
eminent. Several knowing ones here ,
assert that the probabilities are tliflt
t,ie Corbett-Fitssimmons fight will be
P""ed off on the island, which is about
tti mil from Brownsville.
8TORY OF ETHEL GILLIAM.
William Gray, of Palonso City, Vonohas
for Its Tru h.
Walla Walla, Jan. 19. William
Gray, of Palouso City, who is in Walla
Walla undergoing medicined treatment,
recently told the Statesman the story of
Ethel Gilliam, a girl who lives with
her parents ten miles east of Palouso.
The family is poor but honest and reli
able, the parents being devout mem
bers of the Methodist Episcopal church,
LaBt August this little girl was taken
ill, and after three weeks, apparently
died, so the story goes. For three
hours she had every appearance of
death. She then slowly revived, but
was totally blind. She told her pa
rents that she had been in heaven and
seen Jesus and the angels and many
friends who had gone before. There
she saw a tree of life and a river of
life. There were little children in the
tree eating the fruit. Each inhabitant
wore a crown bearing his or her name.
The little girl saw a crown with her
name on it, hanging up, and reached
for it, but Jesus told her she would
have to go back to earth and fulfill her
mission. He wanted her to teach his
people. '
Although blind this girl can read by
passing ber fingers over the printed or
written page, and can describe persons
whose pictures were handed to her.
The latter power was first discovered
by J. B. Cawthorn, a photographer,
whose mother lives in Walla Walla.
He told the marvelous story to a Sun
day school in Palouse City, and Mr.
Gray and wife, bearing it, drove out to
the borne of the girl to see for them
selves. Mr. Gray first handed the sick
girl his watch, and she told him that it
was a gold watch, and the time of day,
by passing her fingers over the glass.
To make sure that her power was gen
uine, a paper was held between her
face and a photograph that Mr. Gray
handed to her, and she described the
picture perfectly aa that of an old gen-i
tleman with gray whiskers, wearing a
dark suit and cravat. . She read from
books and papers handed to her by the
use of her fingers. '
Mr. and Mrs. Gray tell many other
wonderful things in relation to this
child. She has now been ill 100 days,
and has not been able to digest any
fOOd.
As references for the truth of the
story, Mr. Gray gave the names of
Rev. A. T. Skee, pastor of the S. M.
E. church, of Palouse; Rev. J. G.
Kerrick, of La Grande, Or.; H. A.
Gray, Thomas Cox and J. B. Caw-
" thorn, of Palouse. '. ' :
AT THE INAUGURATION.
What It Will Cost Spectator
to 8
'. tho Gonmonle.
Washington, Jan. 19. Washington
ians who are making an effort to ar
range the inaugural ceremonies of Mr.
McKinley so that none can complain,
are disturbed by statements circulated
in certain parts of the country to the
effect that extortionate rates are to be
Colonel L. P. Wright, chairman of the
committee on public comfort, that he
will secure for them the best of accom
modations at reasonable rates. He has
listed already accommodations for from
20,000 to 30,000 persons, mostly in
private houses, which are well located,
and which are supplied with all mod
ern conveniences. The list is daily
increasing. The rates will average
about as follows: . For lodeimr oulv. tl
per day for beds and 75 oents for cots;
$1.25 to 1. 50 for lodging and break-:
fast, and $2.50 per day for lodging and
meals. Good horses for the parade
may be hired for from $5 to $10, If
persons nave equipments it will be
well to bring them, although such as
they may not possess will be. supplied
by the committee at moderate cost."
. Xurthauako In Oakland.
a remarkable scene at the Tenth-avenue
Baptist ohuroh. Rev. C. M. Hill, the
pastor, was just closing an eloquent
sermon. Just as he asked the congre
gation in an impressive manner what
account ' they would render of their
stewardship, the building began to
quake until it seemed that the root
would fall in. In a moment all was
confusion. ' Some of the congregation
ran for the doors; others fell on their
knees to pray,.; while others, with faces
pale, stood waiting for what Beemed to
many to be certain death. Deaoon Jo
seph Plaw attempted to calm the asem
blage. He asked why there should be
fear, if they had heeded the words of
their shepherd, and were ready for the
end. ' He said that they should rejoice
if the end came and found them pre
pared. The speaker , quickly restored
quiet, and when he had finished, all
joined in prayers of thsnskgiving.
Darvlshaa on tka Mova.
Rome, Jan. 19. Massowali advices
are to the effect that a body of Der
vishes, believed to be the advance
guard of the entire Dervish forces, has
entered the Kedaref district, and is
moving on Agordat. The Italian gov
ernment is concentrating all the troops
available near Agordat, which is well
defended
- Cli aned Out a Town.
Perry, O.M., Jan. 19 Late last
night robbers took in the town of New
kirk, north of here. Saloons were rob
bed of all the money and quantities of
whisky and beer. Residences were en- j
ine o racers tnuiK tne robbers came
into town yesterday under the guise of
tramps. Five tramps were arrested
here yesterday for highway robbery, j
They are supposed to be members of an .
I organized gang.
WOOLGROWERS MEET.
Saaolntlbna Oonnornlog tho
forest
Boaervo Paaaad.
Salem, Or., Jan. 19. At a meeting
of the North Paciflo Sheepbreeders'
and Woolgroweis Association, held at
the state capitol, pursuant to a call
from the president, Hon. John Minto,
the following resolutions were unani
mously adopted: :
"Whereas, The congress of . the
United States has autiiorized the presi
dent to proclaim as forest reserve
4,600,000 acres of the Cascade range of
mountains, extending in an unbroken
body across the state of Oregon, there
by creating a physical division of the
state; and
"Whereas, This immense body of
land has been placed under the care of
the department of the interior, to be
protected from the injury of its forest
growth by the aid of the United States
district court and by its officers, and
citizens of the United States, residents
of Oregon, have been arrested and put
to cost on the assumption that grazing
stock (sheep especially) within such
reserve is an injury to the forest
growth thereon; and
Whereas, By an experience extend
ing over fifty years, in some cases,
members of this association know that
despite grazing of sheep or cattle upon
the grasss lands of Oregon, whether on
the mountains or in the- valleys, the
reforestation of open land has extended
is extending, over all pasture land,
near enough seedbearing trees for the
seeds to be carried by the wind; and
the truth of this statement is well set
forth in papers now published by the
state board ot horticulture, by persons
who have seen these processes going
forward for from forty-four to fifty -two
years' Observation; therefore, be it
"Resolved, These prosecutions of
stockowners, whose stock has in past
years ranged on the mountains of Ore
gon, is totally unjustifiable, on the
ground of injury done by such grazing;
that we, as citizens of the United
States, residing in Cieogn,- claim all
the right of the citizens of other states
to the full benefit of the use of the
public domain, and of the general land
laws of the national government, and
believe it an oppression, unjust as well
as unnecessary, to harrass stockmen by
trials in the United States court for
acts of technical trespass, where benefit
rather than damage has been done:
that we heartily indorse the concurrent
resolution introduced by Senator Mul
key, in the present legislative assembly
of Oregon; that we are unanimously in
favor of the restoration of a reasonable
tariff duty on wool, adequate for the
encouragement of woolgrowing, and
also favor an import duty being placed
on shoddy, sufficiently high to dis
courage the importation of said ar
ticle." .Senator Mulkey's reslontion, pro
vides for three reserves, instead of one,
THE DAY IN THE HOUSE.
Oratorical Trlbotoa to
tho Lata
Bpeakar Crisp.
Washington, Jan. 19. Most of this
day in the house was devoted to ora
torical triubtes to the late Speaker
Crisp, of Georgia, who died during the
recent recess of congress. The speeches
were listened to by nearly all of the
Democrats, and a large contingent of
Republicans, while many Southern
people filled the galleries. AU of the
members from Georgia, and several
leaders on both sides ot the house de
livered eulogies, which were unusually
impressive, and were listened to with
much more than the usual attention.
. The bill authorising the Columbia &
Red Moutain ' Railway Company to
build a bridge across the Columbia
river, in Stevens county, Wash., called
up by Doolittle, passed. Delegate Cat
ron attempted to secure the passage of
a bill to give the deserted Fort Maroy
military reservation, at Santa Fe, N.
M., to the American Invalid Aid So
ciety, of Boston, for the establishment
of a sanitarium for pulmonary diseases,
but it failed on objection.
Flogging ob Shipboard-
Cleveland, Jan. 19. Senators Frye
and Hale, who were responsible for the
senate substitute for house bill No.
2663, which restored flogging in the
merchant marine, are being severely
condemned by the 800,000 members of
the w eetern Seamen's Society and va
rious branches. At a meeting of tiie
local trustees of the society, who are
J prominent business men, , resolutions
were adopted ' protesting against the
law. ' -
Baa Dlseovarad No Lymph.
Paris, Jan. 19. In an interview, Dr.
Roux, who is connected with the de
partment of hygiene, denied a report
that he had made experiments with an
anti-plague lymph. He would know
how to prepare the lymph, he said, if
it was needed, but he felt that bubonic
plague would never get a hold in Eu
rope. The Temps complains of the in
activity of the present Indian govern
inent in dealing with the scourge. .
Tlotlm of Oommodoro Wrack.
Salem, Mass., Jan. 19. The remains
ot the late William Alexander Higgins,
who met his death with many others
at the foundering of the Cuban- filibus
tering steamer Commodore, off the
Florida coast, Sunday morning, Janu
ary 8, arrived today. The funeral was
held at the undertaking rooms, and
was attonded by a large crowd.
. " The Death of Macao. :
Jacksonville, Flal, Jan. 19. A let
ter has been received by one of the
representatives in this oity of the Cu
ban junta, confirming the Associated
Press dispatch of Friday giving an ac
count of the death of General Muceo.
The letter is from Lieutenant-Colonel
llernanues, wno was encampeo; with a
company of cavalry and other forces
near where Maceo was ambushed. The
issurgents are reported to be encamped
nine miles east of Havana.
OLNETS SUCCESSOR
Senator John Sherman Has
Accepted State Portfolio. -
RESULT OF HI8 TRIP TO CANTON
General Algar Being Conaldaiod for
tho War Department Homoo -' .'
Davis Baa JSo Chance.
Canton; O., Jan. 18. "I have ac
cepted the state portfolio," said Sena- .
tor John Sherman to the Associated
Press representative at the Fort Wayne
deot a few minutes before the senator
left for Washington- this afternoon.
The senator had but a few moments bo
fore left the presence of the president
elect. Concerning other matters eon-,
nested with the incoming administra
tion, the senator was very reticent.
Asked as to whether Mr. Hunna would
he appointed senator, he replied that
he did not know. Senator Sherman
was in the city a little more than
three hours, and all the while was at
the McKinley home, where he took
lunch with other prominent callers. ...
. Policy Toward Cabs.
Pitteburg, Jan. 18. The - Dispatch
says: The Cuban policy of the McKin
ley administration will differ very lit
tle from that which has been laid down
by President Cleveland and his secre
tary of state. This statement is based
on remarks mode to a reporter by the
man who will be premier of the next
administration, Senator Sherman, at
the union depot this evening.
The veteran statesman was on his
way to Washington from Canton. Af
ter stating that his position in the next
cabinet had been determined, Senator
Sherman said in answer to a question:
"I think the United States govern
ment should not interfere with the
Cuban war, either to aid in its sett let
ment or to do anything which would
make a peaceful government of the
island a charge upon this country. I
think Canovas has outlined a program
of governmental reforms, which will
be applied both in" Spain and Cuba.
These reforms will give the Cubans
practical autonomy, and will, I hope,
settle the question. " . ;
- Adrift on an lea Floo. "Tl
- Menominee, Mich., Jan. 18. To
night nine men are clinging to a block
of ice a few rods square that is being
driven out of Green bay into Lake
Michigan by a fierce southerly gale.
The wind is blowing thirty miles an
hour, and carries a zero temperature,
and an occasional snow squall. The
men are fishermen, clad only in the
none too heavy clothing worn while
tending their nets, and unless the ice
floe has been blown against Chambers
island or Green island, there is little
probability they will live through the
night The doomed men are residents
of the little fishing village of Menekau
nee, and their wives and children and
neighbors are spending the night on
the mountains of ice that fringe tho
beach weeping.
MUCHLY MARRIED.
An Indian
Territory
Man Who Ha
Bixteen Wires.
Dennison, Tex., Jan. 18. Deputy
Unitetd States Marshal B. C. Birch
field, of Durant, L T., has arrived here,
having in charge Tom Lowe, 26 years
of age, who is wanted ia this county
under indictment in two cases of dis
posing of mortgaged property.
Lowe, in the presence of Officer
Birchfield end Policeman James, con
fessed to being the husband of sixteen
wives, all of whom ho has married
within the last eight years. The con
fession was made in writing.
He married wife No. 1 at Purcell, f.
T., in 1886; No. a in Bromwood, Tex.,
the same year; No. 8 in Benton; No.
4 in Hilleboro; No. 5 in Ennis; No. 6
in Marion county; No. 7 in Galveston;
No. 8 in Houston; No. 9 in McLennan
county; No. 10 in Dennison; No. 11
in Paris; No. 12 in Delta countv; No.
18. in Mills county; No. 14 in Milah
county; No. 15 at Weber Falls, and No.
16 in Young county.
All the wives are alive, and bo far as
he knows, Lowe says they are not re
married. . So far as he knows nineteen
children have been born to them with
in the lost eight years.
Killed in tho Ciar'a Pr
Berlin, Jan. 18. The Lokol An
aeiger. publishes a dispatch from St
Petersburg reporting a lamentable in
cident, which has occurred in .the
czar's presence. The czar, it seems,
beckoned to a gardener, who was work
ing in the park at Tserskoselo. The
guard, seeing the man running toward
the czar, shot him dead, supposing he
was a would-be assassin. The czar
was deeply affected by this occurrence.
Oara Piled In a Heap.
Bushnell, 111., Jan. 18. A wreck oc
curred on the Toledo, Peoria & AVest
ern at Sciota, ten miles west, lust
night The engine, mail, baggage and
two pussengor cars were piled in a
heap. The .engineer was killed, and
the baggageman and five or six passen
gers badly hurt. The wreck was caused
by a broken rail, while the train was
running thirty-five milee an hour. '
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Sofl'oeatod bj Coal Claa.
Chicago, Jan. 18. The bodies of
Mrs. Esther Poole, 60 years old, and
her son, ' Churles, aged -84, who Were
suffocated by coal gus, were found in
their house hut night
. . - . Fire In an Orphane1 Heme. . -
Dallas, Tex.,', Jan. 18.A si late
hour tonight the boys' department of
Buckner's Orphan Home, five miles
from the city, was destroyed by fire.
Five boys perished in the flames, and
several others wore burucd. j . Y
3.