OREGON CITY COURIER
OREGON CITY HERALD
CONSOLIDATED.
A. V. CHENEY. Publisher
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Fast Week
ifi Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
Theodore Kirchener, aged 60, acci
dentally shot and killed taia wife at
Kewtonville, N. Y.
One billion feet of Oregon timber,
on Abiqua oreek, was sold to Wiscon
sin parties a few days ago.
The thermometer ranged fiom' 85 to
40 degrees below zero at different
points in Wisconsin the first of the
week.
On the 17th ballot taken in the joint
session of the Montana legislature Sat
urday, Hon. Wm. A. Clark was elected
United States senator.
In the lower house of congress a
Joint resolution has buen adopted grant
ing to Venezuela the privilege of send
ing a eadet to West Point.
Charges affecting the integrity of
District Judge Scott, of Omaha, and
seeking bis impeachment by the legis
lature have been presented to that
body.
Ex-Senator Slater, a prominent figure
in Oregon politics for a number of
years, died at his home in La Grande
on the 28th. He came to Oregon in
1850.
The Montauk Club, of Brooklyn, ten
dered a banquet on the 28th to Admiral
William T. Sampson, and principal
among the other guests was Secretary
of the Navy Jonh D. Long.
A big celebration was held in Havana
In honor of the memory of the first Cu
ban president, Jose Marti. Four thou
sand people were present, and there
was no disorder of any kind.
The body of Captain Sturtevant,
pilot of the Paul Jones, has been found.
From the clothing of the body it is be
lieved De was off duty and asleep when
the disaster was caused by the boiler
exploding.
General Eagan, tried by court-mar
tial on charges of conduct unbecoming
an offioer and gentleman, was found
guilty and sentenced to dismissal from
the army. The president has the
power to mitigate or entirely set aside
the findings.
The district attorney at Philadelphia
lias notified counsel for Senator Quay,
liia son, Kiohurd, and ex-State Treas
urer Haywood, that he hud fixed Mon
day, February 20, as the date for trial
of the three defendants on the charge
of conspiracy in the misuse of the
money of the state on deposit in the
People s bank.
The New York Evening World prints
an interview with John Sherman, in
which the latter forcibly expresses him
self against exparibion.
According to figures published at
Madrid, 80,000 Spanish soldiers per
ished, chiefly through Biokness, during
the lust campaign in jyiiba.
It is reported in Havana tynt Gen
eral Rabi, with 1,500 Cuban insur
gents, has taken to the hills in Santa
Clara, in defiance of American author
ities.
A battle has taken place at San An
canna, Ecuador, between government1'
troops and insurgents. Four hundred
men were killed and U00 wounded, and
400 insurgents were tuken piisoneis.
The premier, Senor Sagasta, has an
nounced that the government had do
ided to convoke the cor tee during the
econd half of February, whether the
United States senate ratifies the pouoe
treaty or not.
A bicycle saddle combine is to be or
ganized and capitalized at f 1,600,000
preferred and 1750.000 oominon stock.
Those already in line are said to pro
duce 00 pet cent of all the saddles used
in North America and a fair percentage
of those usod abroad.
Considerable alarm is felt in admin
istration circles over the possibility
that Spain and Germany may recognizo
the Philippine republic Germany
from interested motives and Spain to
free the 8,000 or 10,000 Spanish troops
Leld as prisoners by Aguinaldo.
The strike which has been in prog
ress at Colon, Colombia, for nearly a
fortnight, among the dock laborers, lias
extended to Panama, partly owing to
the fact that the Chilian line of steam
ers has increased the wages ol its em
ployes, thereby accentuating the dead
lock. John F. Kennedy, who attained no-
toriuty in '.onnoction with the numer
ous train-robberies and other crimes in
the vicinity of Kansas City, has been
lield without bail at Mansfield, Mo.,
for a hearing before the grand jury of
Wright county on a charge of train
jobbery. The Planters' bank, at Kansas City,
with a capital of 135,000, has been
closed by the state. The proprietors
'are under arrest by order of Secretary
of State Leseur andAssistunt Attorney
General Jeffries. The bank has no vis
ible assets, it is alleged, whatever.
Minor News Items.
The third regiment, infantry, has
loft St. Punl for New York en route to
the Philippines.
A blizzard has been laging over
Wyoming. A recent dispatch says the
deep snow has a hard or net, and there
will be much suffering among stock.
An Iowa syndicate, with (30,000,000
capital, has asked congress to grant a
subsidy of 16,000 a mile for a railroad
and telegraph line to the Yukon, via
,oppei river.
LATER NEWS.
Iowa mineworkers are making an
iffort to have eight hours declared a
y's work.
Native troops aie to be utilized in
Cuba and American soldiers gradually
withdrawn.
The controller of the currency re
ceived a telegram announcing the fail
ure of the First National bank of Rus
sell, Kan. The bank's capital was
$80,000.
A syndicate composed of American,
Canadian, English and French capital
ists, is making an effort to secure con
trol of all the railroads in Cuba now
building and in operation, and all to
be constructed hereafter.
The bishop of Havana has declared
that Preotestant services cannot be held
over the graves of the Maine victims in
Columbus cemetery, as it is conseorated
ground. Americans were preparing to
decorate the graves on the anniversary
of the explosion.
The Central Cable Company an
nounces that the United States govern
ment in the Philippines has modified
the recent prohibition of telegrams in
cipher or code. Messages in secret lan
guage may now be accepted, subject tc
government cnesorsliip.
The senate committee on naval
affairs has decided upon favorable re
port on the bill providing for addi
tional pay to laborers in navy-yardf
who worked overtime during the emer
gency pf war with Spain. The amounl
required is about $300,000, and aboul
6,000 men are involved.
The Filipino junta has received t
cable message from Hong Kong ex
plaining the second proclamation ol
the Philippine republic. : The message
says: "The first proclamation, in Au
gust, was the work of Aguinaldo and
the generals. The second is the unani
mous work of the Filipino asbembly."
General Otis cables the war depart
ment, giving the number of deaths in
his command since January 7. The
total is 19, many of whom died ol
smallpox. The greater number oi
deaths were of Kansas, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania privates. In
the list appear the names of Allen E.
Carlyle, private, First Washington,
January 16, typhoid; Earld A. Jeans,
First Washington, January 26, ty
phoid; Wistar Hawthorne, private,
Seoond Oregon, diphtheria.
Cuban General Gomez refuses tc
disband his army unless paid nearli
$60,000,000. He olaims to have 40.00C
men under arms, for which he asks
pay for three years' service, at the same
rate as given American soldiers. Foi
his own services in the past he wants
$11,000 a year, the same as paid an
American lieutenant-general. He has
about 200 brigadier-generals, who de
mand pay at the rate of $5,500 annually
for three years past, besides numeroue
other officers, whose pay aggregates
$3,783,000.
The North German Gazette again
denies the rumor that Prince Hohenlohe
oonteinplatt i resigning the imperial
chancellorship.
Twenty ohildren are reported to have
been drowned by an ice disaster at the
Village of Warpuhnen, Boirheim, re
cently. The president has nominated Colonel
Asa B. Carey, assistant paymaster-general,
to be paymaster-general, with the
rank of brigadier-general.
A terrible blizzard was general
throughout the Mississippi valley on
the 20th and 30th of January, reaching
as far south as St. Louis.
Three representatives of 40 German
families in the East are looking over
the Paoifio Noithwest with a view to
buying several thousand aoresoflanj
foi a colony.
Mrs. Jane L, Stanford, who has
settled the estate of her late husband,
Lei and Stanford, and who would be en
titled to $357,768 as fees, refuses to ao
cept anything for her services.
Companies H, D, K and L, of the
Seventeenth United States infantry,
412 enlisted men and nine officers,
have left Columbus for the Philippines.
They go via New York.
The Amerioan shipping interests of
the Hawaiian islands have largely in
crease! since their annexation to the
United States, There are now load
ing for or on the way to the islands 50
vessels, of which 85 fly the American
flag.
F, V. Pack, United States commissioner-general
to the Paris exposition,
asks congress to increase the amount
set aside for the government exhibit to
$1,000,000. The first appropriation
was $05,000, which Mr. Peok says is
entirely too small.
The reported rich strike of gold at
Cripple Creek has been confirmed. It
is the richest ever discovered in the
world, estimated to run as high as
$500,000 to the ton. There is blocked
out in one level, at a depth of 850 feet,
15,000,000 woith of ore.
A. Thompson, agent of the Coast
Seamen's Union at Seattle, snvs: "Un
less tno Shipowners Association gives
up trying to put soul) seamen on coast
ing vessel, "a general strike will be or
dered, and every sailing vessel on the
coast tied up as soou as she gets into
port. The union mou will not accept
less than $10 per month."
General Sheridan has oompleeted ar
rangements to send the third expedi
tion of troops to the Philippines. It
will consist ot 10 companies, taken
from the 12th and 17th infantry regi
ments. A dispatch from Cokeville, Wyo.,
lays a snowslide a mile long occurred,
burying several men and teams. All
the men were taken out alive with the
exception of Burt Handy, who war
dead when found.
MANY BILLS PASSED.
Oregon's Lawmakers Are Now Getting
Down to Good Hard
Work.
. In the Oregon state senate Wednes
day the following bills were passed:
To authorize the construction and
maintenance of floodgates on Douglas
and other sloughs, Douglas county; to
require justices of the peaoe to submit
complaints to the district attorney, ex
cept for murder, arson, robbery, grand
larceny, before fees may be oolleoterl;
to piovide a trust fund in Multnomah
county; to authorize the Eugene di-!
vinity school to confer theologioal and
biblical degrees; to amend the act
passed last fall so as to make all quartz '
and p'acer claims real estate; to remove j
from principal defendants in prosecu-1
tions for abortion the shield
afforded
by section 2011 of the statutes, which
absolves them from testifying on the
grounds that it might incriminate the
witneej; to provide for county clerks
to transmit to the secretary of state a
summary instead of a complete trans
cript of assessment rolls; amendments
to Grants Pass charter; to permit suit
for possession of real estate to be main
tained by plaintiff not in actual posses
sion; to provide fpr eleotiou of a dis
trict road supervisor.
Bates' bill for clerks of the justice
.wii,wu tjtiM v uiui uw "
courts in Multnomah county, after be-
ing emasculated Dy striKing out ine
salary feature, was recommitted be-'
cause found not to be limited to Mult
nomah county.
Adams' bill to tax dogs also was ie
committed, after considerable discus
sion, for amendment so as to exempt
cities where dogs are already licensed.
In the house the bill providing for a
special election in Malheur oounty for
relocation of county seat was made a
special order for Wednesday, February 1.
Upon motion of Curtis, each Wednes
day night hereafter will be devoted to
consideration of local measures.
Dr. Josephi's insane asylum bill,
which passed the senate yesterday, was
rushed through the firBt
and Seoond '
readings and referred to the committee fnitteea, and half a dozen bills were in
on penal, reformatory and charitable , troduced. Before adjournment, also.
institutions.
Shetwin's bill, to amend the charter 1
of Gold HilJ, so as to enable the town j
to issue $2,500 water bonds.was passed.
The joint committee on fisheries, to
meet a like committee from the Wash
ington legislature, was excused till Tues
day next. The bill of Curtis amend
ing the fishing laws was ordered print
ed and referred to this oommittee with
instiuctions to bring it to the atten
tion of the Washington committee.
The reapportionment bill was passed
in the house Thursday by the narrow
margin of one vote.
The bill to create a new county out
of portions of Grant, Crook and Gil
liam counties was defeated.
A bill for protection of trout, and
one for protection of oarwfish were
killed.
A resolution was introduced to re
strict the . introduction of new bills to
February' 8, but it was indefinitely
postponed.
A resolution ohanging the date ol
visiting Corvallis by the joint commit
tee from February 1 to February 4
passed.
In the senate the bill to authorize
school clerks and county judges to dis
pose of land bid in at sales for delin
quent taexs came up as a special order
Thursday. An amendment excepting
from redemption by original owners
land contracted to be sold was offered
and the bill was recommitted for the
amendment.
Bills passed were: To amend the
law relating to certain male animals
rnnnina nt lurffa. nnnlicnMe to Knstftrn
Oregon ranges; to cure defects in deeds
heretofore made that are laultv in ex.
edition, witnessing or acknowledgment;
to amend the law relating to the mak
ing of deeds by the sheriff.
The reapportionment bill which
passed the house Thursday passed thc
senate Friday after a debate consuming
nearly the whole morning session. The
final vote was 22 ayes, 4 noes, 4 absent.
The report ot the committee appoint
ed at the special session to investigate
the Loewenberg oontiact at the peni
tentiary was taken from the table, and
amendments proposed to the effect that
the $32,500 settlement be made by
February 10, that not less than $10,000
be paid in cash and the balance In
notes satisfactory to the boaid, and
then the whole matter was made a
special order for Tuesday at 2:30 P. M.
In the senate the following bills
were introduced during the past week:
To put in the hands of the secretary of
state the matter of ordoring the print-1
ing of reports, session Jaws, circulars,
blanks, etc, the printer to act only
upon the written order of the secretary,
except that the governor may order the '
printing ot executive documents; to
protect life and property from danger
of railroad trains by providing numer
ous regulations for warnings on trains
and railroads and exempting from
claims for damages railroad companies
that comply with the law; to prevent
combinations between fire insurance
com panics to maintain rates same as.
the Iowa statute; to amend the charter
of Woodburn passed; to appropriate
$35,u00 for a flax manufacturing plant
ut the penitentiary same as was in
troduced in the house yesterday; to
provide for a uniform public system,
aiul complete codification of sohool
laws; to permit recording in all but
one county of oertilied copies of deeds I
for property situated in two oounties j
or more; to authorize oounty officers to
selcl property bid in for sales for delin
quent taxes.
Friday in the house the bill to in
crease liquor licenses in the state was
praotically killed by the measure being
repotted from committee with the reo
I ommendation U.Jrt it do not tas
BERBERIS -AQUIFOLIUM.
The Oregon Grape Chosen as the Slate
Flower.
In the Oregon senate Monday after
noon three bills were introduced, 25
bouse bills were read the first time, two
house bills read the Becond time and
referred, and two house bills were
passed. . ..
Haseltine, of the committee on horti
culture, reported favorably a bill for
park boards in cities of 8,000 or more
population. '
Petitions were filed from 26 mom
bers of the Nesmyih Grand Army post,
The Dalles, favoring admittimt wives
and widows of soldiers and sai'ors to
the Soldiers' Home; from 18 residents
on the Barlow road, favoring the state's
acquiring that thoroughfare; from 47
residents of Clackamas county, for the
county court to plank bridges foi trac-
tion engines: from Portland Woman s
Club, for the adoption of the Oregon
grape as the state flower. The last
named petition was accompanied by a
resolution, which was passed, declar
ing the berberis aquifoliuim the official
state flower.
The house bill to create the office of
state biologist was passed, 17 'to 10.
The amended charter of the town of
Adams was the only other bill passed.
Haseltine offered a resolution of
thanks to Henry E. Dosoh for his serv
JUCO llV IXJD DIUIU Ct V w lAl 1 1 1 jAfjvrua
tion, and it was unanimously adopted
ices to the state at the Uinaha exposi-
The following new bills were pre
sented: To authorize the governor to
let convict labor for not less than 85
cents per day per man for a period not
exceeding 10 years; to amend the As
toria charter so as to permit the water
commission, instead of the oounoil, to
fill vacanoies on its beard; to amend
the statutes so as to permit only 5
cents per mile for private persons serv
ing papers or for jurors and witnesses
in Multnomah couuty.
In the House.
In the house Monday afternoon,
Donnelly's bill fixing the salaries of
officeiH of Tillamook oounty, were
passed. A number of bills were read
ty.a eannnd time and referred to com-
the ball was set in motion for the res
urrection of the apportionment bill.
Contrary to expectations, Donnelly's
bill to create Wheeler county out of
portions of Crook, Grant and Gilliam,
whioh was defeated in the house Janu
ary 26, had comparatively smooth sail
ing today, passing by a vote of 34 to
13; absent, 11; paired, 2.
Myers submitted a report of the
joint legislative committee on fisher
ies, showing that uniform legislation
had been agreed upon at the conference
held in Tacoma Sunday, which was
adopted.
Bills were introduced as follows: To
incoprorate Medford; to amend the
oharter of Arlington; to prohibit exhi
bitions of meBmeiism, hypnotism and
artificial somnambulism providing
penalties ranging from a fine of $50 to
$200 therefor; to prohibit laying out
county roads on a greater grade than 7
per cent, and to require road and
bridge work to be done by written con
tract with the lowest bidder, whenever
the cost exceeds $otl; to abolish the
offioe of county recorder of Clatsop
county; to prohibit the organization of
banks with a smaller capital than $10,
000; to protect trout, to change the
time of terms of court in the second
judicial district.
INTEREST AND USURY BILL.
Washington Senators Debate It, But
Take No Action.
The interest and usury bill was up
for lengthy debate in the senate again
Monday morning, but after debate no
action was taken and the bill was left
' suspended in the air, when the senate
' adjourned to participate in the joint
, ballot for United States senator.
ine iuaniz-uray curliest was laaen
lip by special order, at the afternoon
session. H. J. Snively, of Yakima, on
behalf of Mantz, and W. II. Smiley, of
Colville, on behalf of Gray, were each
given 40 minutes in whioh to address
the senate. The majority and minor
ity reports of the senate judiciary com
mittee practically held that there had
been no election in the Stevens-Spokane
district. The hearing and dis
cussion was continued until Tuesday
afternoon.
One bill was introduced. It provides
that in cities of over 5,000 inhabitants
justices of the peaoe shall receive
$2,000 and constables $1,200 per year.
In the House. ,
In the hoc la the bill fixing maxi
mum rates of railroad and steamboat
transportation companies at 8' cents
per mile passed by a vote of 57 to 18.
As amended, it has become a criminal
statute, its provisions including a pen
alty for any violation by railway em
ployes. ,
The following bills were introduced:
For the relief of L. D. Grovdir, of
Spokane, and appropriating $294 for
enumerating Indians on the Colville
reservation in 1891; creating a railroad
commission and establishing a oode of
railway legislation; defining mineral
lode claims as extending 800 feet on
either side ot the middle of the vein;
providing for the binding, preservation
and distribution of public reports bien
nially of succeeding sessions of the leg
islature; compelling the use of wide
tires on wagons beat ing 'heavy loads,
graduating wider under heavier loads;
providing for compulsory assignment of
mortgager), and regulating such assign
ment. j
The Senatorial Contest. -
One ballot for senator was taken
Monday, at Olyuipia, with the follow
ing result: Foster, 28; Wilson, 37;
Humes, 18; Ankeny, 10; Lewis, 1;
Richardson, 19; Bridges, I. The fu
lionista broke away from Lewis, and
10 votes were oast for W.:E. Richard
son, lne only chance in! the Renab-
lican vote was that ot Earr.ea. charged
fmm iTnmos in wiionn i .
EXPRESS RATES ON FRUIT.
Bill Introduced In Senate at Olympla
Calling for a lladuotlon.
When the McLean 8-cent per mile
railroad and transportation bill came
up in the Washington scnute Tuesday,
it was at once referred to the oommit
tee on railways and transportation.
The usury and interest-rate bill was
referred to the judiciary committee. A
disposition not to approve of the house
bill, fixing the rate on state warrants
at 6 per oent manifested itself during
the discussion.
Bills introduced were: Reducing
express rates on fruit to 70 per cent of
the rate now iu force, and on all other
express matter to 80 per cent Of the
present rates; for an additional su
perior oourt judge in Spokane county;
corapalling mineowners to keep on
hand a supply of mine timber for the
use of employes; - re-establishing munic
ipal courts in Tacoma, Seattle and
Spokane. '
In the House.
A letter was received in the house
Tuesday from Speaker Thomas B. Reed,
of the national house acknowledging
the compliment paid him bv the Wash
ington house of representatives in the
adoption of his rules. - ' 1
Hill,, bfll 189, for a constitutional
amendment to exempt $300 of person
al property from taxation, was indefi
nitely postponed but house bill No. 17
for the same purpose, was amended
and advanced to its third reading. I
Bills introduced were: Appropriat
ing $593 for the relief of Frank G.
Kiesow, to reimburse him for interest
on claims arising out of the construc
tion of the Cheney normal school build
ing; allowing three months from date
of publication of administrator's notice
to present claims against the eBlate of
a deceased person; prescribing a code
of mining laws; exempting mutual fire
associations from the license require
ments of the state law; making wages
and salaries of all agents and employes
of counties, municipalities and school
districts subject to garnishment and
attachment for all debts contracted in
the state, subject to exemption for
heads of families.
The house bill making the district
that remains when division ocours to
establish a new school district respon
sible for debts for permanent improve
ments, was advanced to third reading.
Bills killed were: Relating to pub
lic instruction; for a constitutional
amendment to govern alien ownership
of real estate; fixing rates of interest
on county, school and municipal war
rants; making county warrants receiv
able for county taxes.
REAPPORTIONMENT BILL.
Reoonslderatton Failed in the House
at Salem.
The effort to obtain reconsideration
of the reapportionment bill in the
house Tuesday, which gave promise of
a bitter fight at the close of the session
Monday, has failed. After a debate
of over an hour, the decision of the
speaker in holding that the bill had
passed beyond the jurisdiction of the
house was sustained by a vote of 82 to
20; absent 7.
Stillman's amendments to the house
rules providing for reference of bills
before being read and ordered printed
in the interest of economy of time and
expense was adopted, and the senate
concurrent resolution adopting the
Oregon grape as the state flower was
ooncurred in.
Sherwin's beet-sugar bill, whioh was
defeated by five votes in the bouse lust
week, was this afternoon passed by the
narrow margin of one vote, the affirma
tive vote being 81, negative 27, and
two members being absent.
In addition to the sugar-beet bill,
the following other bills were passed:
To prohibit the driving of fish-trap
piles so as to interfere with navigation;
to require the submission of new char
ters or oharter amendments to the vote
of electors before being introduced in
the legislatuie; allowing executors or
administrators to complete written
contracts of decedents.
Fifty-nine bills -were read the second
time and referred, and 10 bills weie
read the first time.
In the Senate
Ten bills were introduced in Oregon
state senate Tuesday and three passed,
one to incorporate Warrenton, and one
to fix salaries in ' Morrow, Clackamas
and Yamhill counties, and the other
was Daly's text-book commission bill,
which finally went through by a vote
of 22 to 6, after a discussion of fully an
hour.
Special order was the resolution
passed by the legislature of 1895, for a
constitutional amendment for woman
suffrage. Mrs. Duniway, on invitation
of the senate, made a neat address of
five minutes, after which the resolu
tion was passed, with only President
Taylor voting no.
Kelly, of the committee on revision
of laws, reported adversely on Dufur's
bill to admit widows end wives of hon
orably discharged Union sailors and
soldiers to the Soldier's Home, on the
ground that to provide accommodations
for such would require a large appro
priation of money.
Bills introduced weie as follows: To
reduce the appropriation for the
Sol-
die's Home from $12,000 to $10,000
and authorize the governor instead of a
board of trustees to appoint all officers
of that institution; to authorize an ad -
ditional judge for the second judicial
distriot; to create the office of recorder
of Polk county, at a salary of $1,000,
anl reducing the county clerk's salary '
from $1,600 to $1,200; making taxes!
a lirst lien on real estate; to reduce the
salaries of the Multnomah county!
clo k, clerk of the circuit oourt and re
cor ler, after the expiration of the pres
ent term, from $3,500 to $2,500; to'
abolish the office of recorder of Clatsop j
county; to protect fish against destrno-
tion by explosives; to prohibit the lay
mi out of county roads of greater
CMdes than 7 per oent; for the better
i lorcenieut of judgments and decreea.
orcemeut of judgments and decreea,
I
Addison G. Foster the Choice
for Senator.
REPUBLICAN
CAUCUS NOMINEE
Wilson Withdrew In, His Favor, anal
the Ankeny-Humes Forces Bolted
the Caucus Foster's Career.
Addison G. Foster, of -Taooma, who
received 58 votes in the Republican ;
oauous held Tuesday evening, was at
12 o'clock Wednesday elected to repre
sent the state of Washington at the na
tional capital.
The nomination of Foster in thecau
oiis Tuesday night was brought about
by the Wilson following coming over
to Foster late in the attemoon, They
signed an agreement to support him in
the oauous. To bis intimate friends,
Wilson stated that he had expected
support from various seotions of the
state that did not come to him, and
that although he had promised from
day to day that he would make a bet
ter showing,' he had to admit that he
could not bring to him support that he
had counted upon. It was then agre-nl
that his men should be released. There
upon the Foster managers opened ne
gotiations to take Wilson's men into
camp, whioh they did very gracefully.
HON. ADDISON O. FOSTER.
When Speaker Gaie, of the house of
representatives, called the caucus to
order, Senator Wilshire, of Seattle,
representing the united King oounty
and Ankeny forces, stated that the ob
ject of the caucuB call, under which
they were operating was signed with
the understanding that the cauous, as a
wkole, was to select a man for senator,
and that it was unfair for any part of
the members to organize within the
caucus and decide upon the man to be
selected. This statement was received
with indulgent smiles by the Foster
men. At the conclusion of the Wil
shire statement, the Ankeny men, with
the exoeption of Gose, of Walla Walla,
Ankeny's home bolted.
Wednesday was the anniversary of
the elcetion of John L Wilson.
The New Seuator.
Addison G. Foster was born in
Balchertown. Mass., 61 years ago.
Early in life his parents removed to
Illinois, and when a voting man, Mr.
Foster's father located in Central Wis
consin. There young Foster had his
first experience in lumbering. He as
sisted his father in clearing a farm in
the Wisconsin forests, and later moved
to Wabasha, Minn. At that p'ace he
was elected, while a young man, coun
ty surveyor, and later county auditor.
These were the onlv public offloes he
ever aoceptetl. While at Wabash, he
engagod in the grain, fuel and real es
tate business. In 1873 he moved to
St. Paul to engage In the lumber and
fuel business with Colonel C. W.
Griggs, now at Tacoma. At St. Paul
he formed the acquaintance and friend
ship of Senator C. K. Davis, Senator
Knute Nelson and other prominent Re
publicans of the Middle West. He has
always been successful in business and
equally successful whenever he engaged
in politics.
Mr, Foster moved to Tacoma in 1887,
to engage with Colonel Griggs and
others in the manufacture of lumber.
His principal company is known as
the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com
pany, and operates one of the largest
sawmills on Puget sound. He is an
extensive owner of coal and ooke
mines, and of timber lands in the state
of Washington. His company is also
engaged in the shipping business, send
ing cargoes, principally of lumber, to
all parts of the world.
Foster on National Issues.
Regarding his position on national
issues, Mr. Foster says:
"I favor what is commonly termed
the expansion policy. . Under a business-like
arrangement I Javor the build
ing of the Nicaragua canal. I am for
sound money and a thorough business
man's administration of our publio
affairs. I favor an open river polioy
for the Columbia ana as a general
i pioposition favor river and harbor im-
provements of all kinds. In a word, I
, desire to see the possibilities of the
Paoifio coast, particularly of my own
, state, realized, and I shall do all in my
power to advance the material welfare
of Washington."
The men who voted for Foster from
start to finish are:
Baker, Barlow, Bedford, Bellows,
Bishop, Brown, Corey, Dickson, Frye,
Hamilton, Hammer, Heilig, Kings
bury, Le Crone, Maxwell, McCoy, E.
C. Miller, Brown of Whatcom, Parker,
Sharp, Sheller, Stewart, Warburton,
Wiokereham.
j Of this number, 13 are members of
i the Pierce countv delegation. tli rvlr
, around which the ereat fkht was made.
Bellows and Frye
WfrA a man 7 tlm
outside support west of the mountains
mitsid annnnrta