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TELEGRAPHIC
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Item, of Importance From Duuiettla
Miitl foreign Noumea Cream
of tli. Dlapatche.
The notorious outlaw, Bill Doolny,
is again creating trouble (or the of
oers, this time iu Texas.
Both Cincinnati and St. Louis are
working hui d to secure the national
Duojocrutio convention.
A special from Rome says 10,000
Abysaiuiuus were killed or wouudud in
an attack upon Makilo.
The heirs of the late Jay Gould are
being made to pay their inheritance
tax by the New York courts.
The availulile ciihh bu lance of the
treasury is souiethiug over $180,000,
000 and the gold reserve below 00,
000,000. Charles H. Hill, a former ball-player
of note, shot and killed his wife on the
stmets of Uakluud, Cal. Domestic;
troubles were the cause.
The government is taking active
steps to put a stop to poaching in Yel
lowstone Park, iu order to protect the
fow remaining buffaloes.
Mrs. Alva E. Vaudorbilt, the di
vorced wife of William K. Vauderbilt,
has been married to Oliver H. P. Bel
mont, Mayor Strong, of New York
oity, performing the oeromony.
The term of P. B. Rookofullor, the
ex -banker of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who
closed the doors of his priavte bank in
Pebruary, 181)3, derfauudiug 000 de
positors out of nearly 500,000, has ex
pired. Edwin PMds, who at one time
owned a large part of the city of Tomb
stone, Ariz., and amine worth more
than half a million, has been taken to
the poorhouse at Dunning, 111., to
spend his few remaining years.
Attorney-General Malouoy, of II
linois, has begun quo warranto proceed
ings against the Natioual Linsoed Oil
Company on the ground that it is a
trust The case is similar to the pro
ceedings pushod to a conclusion against
he late whisky trust.
iUt.uMaokeuzie Bowell, of Ottawa,
Out., authorizes a statement relativo to
Canada's position in regard to arbitra
tion of the Uohring sea seizure claims,
that Canada has agreed to the terms of
the treaty and promptly forwarded her
assent to the Brtiish authorities.
Throe bothers wore fatally injured by
an explosion of dynamite in Philadel
phia. The boys experimented with a
toy safe, which they were trying to
open with dyinimito, an explosion oo
ouring, breaking open the door. The
three were so badly burned that their
death is momentarily expeotod. The
mother sustained serious injuries try
ing to put out the flames.
Alexander J. Boroday, an electrician
of the Westiughouso Company, of Pitts
burg, Pa., is believed to be held a
prisoner by the Russian government,
probably in Siberia. He was a natur
alized American citizen, but had been
active in political agitation in Russia
before oomiug here. Albert Schmidt,
goneral superintendent of the Westing
house works, has oommunioatod the
facts to Secretary Oluoy.
A dispatch from Johannesburg says
it is reported from Pretoria that Dr.
Jamiesou and other oflioers interested
with him in the recent disturbance
with the Boers, in South Africa, have
been started for Natal, where they will
be handed ovor to the British authori
ties to be tried under the laws making
it a punishable offense to prepare a
warlike demonstration against a friend
ly state.
A representative gathering of men
and women of Detroit, took aotion ex
pressive of keenost sympathy with the
Armenians, and also by a gift of over
500 made a substantial beginning in
rendering financial aid to that op
pressed people. The meeting bIbo
adopted memorials to the United States
government, and to the queen of Great
Britain, urging aotion which shall for
ever end the atrocities perpetrated by
the Turks against Christians.
The London correspondent of the
Associated Press says that Great Britain
is seriously and steadily preparing for
war on a very large scule at sea and on
land, against Germany, or against
Germany, Prance and Russia, should
they combine against hei. Emperor
William threw down the gauntlet; it
was promptly pioked up and energetio
steps were immediately taken by the
British government to back up this
aotion bv a most imposing display of
sea power.
Those in a position to have early in
formation on the subject, olaim to have
good reason for believing that large
German banks intend to subscribe for
$40,000,000 of the new government
loan. The Deutsohe bank, it is said,
intends to subscribe for $35,000,000 of
the bonds, and the Bleichroeders for
$15,000,000. It is also said that the
imperial council has been largely in
fluenced in consenting to these sub
scriptions by th'tf trained relations
now existing between Germany and
England.
Ten days of suffering from oold and
privation on a rooky bluff, during
which time seven of the crew, includ
ing the captain and mate, met their
death, and the other mate and a sea
man terrible aocidents, tells the tale
of the wrecking of the big four-masted
English ship Jeannette Cowan, on Van
couver island, Puget sound, otherwise
known as the "Bonoyard of the Pacific
Ocoan." Seven people are dead and
two injured. The oflioers of the tug
tell a harrowing story of the wreck and
of the crew and its surroundiugs as
found by thorn.
The interest of American millers is
oentered in the next meeting of the
exeoutive committee of the National
Millers' Trade Association, to be held
January 37, in Chicago. Millers have
recently practically decided upon a per
sistent agitation for reciprocity with
South American countries, and will
make a determined effort fur the repeal
of that portion of the tariff law which
they think conflicts with the flour in
terests of the United States. B. A.
Hart, a member of the association, says
the prospect of the Cubans gaining
their independence will have a ten
dency to promote commercial relations
between the new republic and this
country.
THE EMERGENCY BILL.
Comment, of Leading- Editors on the
New Tariff.
Philadelphia Times: The many and
various arguments against an increase
of the tariff are reinforced by the latest
treasury statement, which shows the
revenues for the past six months to
have been $8,000,000 greater than in
the corresponding period of 1804 and
the expenditures $4,000,000 less.
While refined mineral oils and their
products represent nearly a fourth of
this value, the inorease in the exports
of iron and steel, maohinery, leather
and, manufacturers, china and glass
chemicals, silk fabrics, and several
other items, is even more remarkable,
showing conclusively the influenoe of
lower duties, especially on raw ma
terial, in ouabling American manu
facturers to enter the markets of the
world. This most valuable progress
the tariff proposed by the house of
representatives would abruptly destroy.
Guilty of MUrepreaentatlon.
New York Times: This is a "gen
eral tariff bill." Those who said in
the majority report of the ways and
means committee and on the floor of
the house that it is not such a bill knew
that they were guilty of deliberate
misrepresentation. The bill ohauges
every duty in the present tariff, except
those relating to sugar, and it also
takes wool and lumber from the free
list. Why should any one deny that
such a measure is "a general tariff
bill?" And so the programme is
laid out to take wool from the free
lint now, imposing the McKinley
duties on the carpet maker's raw ma
terial and 60 per oont of the McKin
ley duties on clothing wool, with a
corresponding inorease for woolens,
and to enlarge all the other rates by 15
per cent ; "in 1807-98" to enact the
entire McKinley tariff, or something
worse; a subject all business interests
to tariff agitation during the political
oainpaign of next year, and (if the
Republicans shall win at the polls in
1800) during the two years thereafter.
How do business men like this pros
pect? t'anmit Shape the Republican Polioy.
Philadelphia North American: The
president cannot shape the polioy of
the Republican party. He asks for
help, and he must expect help as Re
publicans may see fit to prescribe it.
He will probably accept such help as
is foreshadowed by the house. Hav
ing led the oouutry into embarrass
ments, the Demoorats cannot expect to
be permitted to devise the means of
getting back to firm ground. They had
that privilege last year, and utterly
failed to rise to the level of the occa
sion. None of the measures offered are
the embodiment of the polioy of the
Republican party. They are provided
for the emergency, are merely tem
porary expedients to tide over a diffi
culty that only a powerful remedy oan
A Great Fraud.
Utioa Observer: The ways and
means committee of the house of repre
sentatives have undertaken a very large
jobjn trying to palm off a measure for
protection as a measure that com
plies with President Cleveland's re
quest. There has been no greater fraud
attempted on the American poople. It
is peculiarly reprehesnible beoause it is
taking advantage of a publio crisis to
impose an unjust, iniquitous and re
pudiated polioy of taxation upon the
American people.
Why Democrat Oppose.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The Demo
orats attack this bill because it is a step
away from the Wilson-Cleveland
abomination. These Demoorats de
clare that we do not need money.
That is funny. Great publio enter
prises are still held up. The Phila
delphia mint, for instance, languishes.
Democrat. Should Not Object.
New York Mail and Express: No
patriotic Demoorat oan consistently ob
ject to the emergency measure just
passed by the house of representatives.
While it does not essentially saorifice
or surrendei the prinoiple of protection
it is nevertheless praotioally a tariff
for revenue.
The Syndicate Condemned.
Cincinnati Enquirer: If the man
agers of the majority in the house were
in real earnest abont this business of
finance, why did they not proceed to
investigate the much condemned trans
action under which a syndicate made
an enormous and unnatural profit out
of the taxpayers of the United States?
Assumption Unfair.
New York World: It is ourrently
said that the senate will not pass the
bill of relief. The assumption is un
fair. There is no warrant for saying
that the senate will refuse to pass an
act so obiviously necessary for the re
lief of the treasury under conditions
suoh as those that now exist
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All Parte of Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana and British Co
lumbia Waahlngton.
Adams county claims not to have
had a sheriffs' sale advertised for two
months.
The large log jam in the Coweeman,
in Cowlitz county, was recently broken
with dynamite.
Waitsburg is discussing the matter
of putting in a pumping station during
the dry season.
E. P. Brinnon, a pioneer of Jefferson
county, is dead. The town of Brin
non was named after him.
Snohomish expects to add an import
ant industry this year to her resources,
namely: a beet sugar factory.
The teachers of Walla Walla county
have decided to have a permanent or
ganization to hold a monthly meeting
at Walla Walla, Waitsburg, Presoott
and Dixie.
The Whatcom board of trade has
appointed a oommittee to look up a site
for the Lynden creamery on Belling
bam bay where good shipping facili
ties can be had.
The merchants and ship owners of
San Prancisoo kaud Puget sound con
template a telegraph line from Tatoosh
island to Gray's Harbor. This stretch
of country is totally uncovered.
Tacoma exported last year 337,210
tons of coal, valued at $1,630,177;
wheat valued at $2,013,939, and 273,
934 barrels of flour, valued at $672, 126,
making a total of nearly $4,500,000.
The executive oommittee of the
Northwest Mining Association have
decided to call a convention on Febru
ary 22, at Spokane. Invitations will
be extended to the state officials of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana. The Everett school board has de
termined to bond the outstanding in
debtedness of the district, and then to
put expenses on a cash basis. The
board is not inclined to issue any more
warrants. The problem it has to solve
is to run the school without going in
debt
The Great Northern contemplates
increasing largely the working forces
at the big shops at Hillyard. It is
proposed to do all the repairing of the
Western division at this town. At
present there are about ninety men in
the shopB, this number will be in
creased to about 800.
The Northern Paoifio railroad Com
pany have notifiod the county auditor
that they will work out their property
road tax in this oounty, instead of pay
ing the oash, as provided by law. This
is an innovation and the probabilities
are that the company will oontraot
with a gang of men to work out their
road taxes in eaoh oounty. .
The salmon pack statistics for the
Columbia river for 1895 show: Spring
pack Chinook salmon, 437,810 cases;
total value, $2,711,853.75; amount paid
for fish, $1,776,547. Allowing one
half of the catch to Washington fisher
men makes the amount received by the
fishermen of Washington for spring
salmon delivered to oanneries, $888,
278.50. Fall paok 92,086 oases of
silverside; 81,600 cases of Chinook;
8,500 steel head. Total 137,086 oases,
valued at $456,509.60.
The report of Fish Commissioner
Crawford for the year 1895 shows
many points of interest in the develop
ment of one of Washington's leading
industries. In this document he says:
The sum of $20,000 was appropriated
by the recent legislature from the fish
commission fund, for the purpose of
erecting and operating artfioial salmon
hatcheries. A hatchery with a capa
city of turning out 6,000,000 young
salmon annually has been ereoted on the
Kalama river, a tributary of the Colum
bia, and is now beng operated. There
are now in this hatchery over 4,000,000
young Chinook salmon in various
stages of development. A station for
taking and eyeing salmon spawn has
been built on the Chinok river, in Pa
oifio oounty. The total amount ex
pended from the appropriation is
$7,077.
Oregon
There are five stamp mills now in
Jaokson oounty.
The Columbia river is now lower
than it has been for many years.
Of forty-three vessels examined by
the health offiers at Astotria, during
the last quarter, no oontagious diseases
were found.
A cargo of lumber is strewn along
Elk Beach for miles, whioh is supposed
to have been floated off the decks of
lumber sohooners during the late
storm.
The Southern Miners' Association has
formed a permanent organization at
Grant's Pass. About 200 miners were
present and genuine enthusiasm pre
vailed. ' Sturgeon fishing has become quite an
industry around The Dalles. Several
large oa tones are reported in that dis
trict, a recent one weighing 425
pounds.
Fourteen additional maohines for
making small nails have juBt been
added to the Everett nail works. The
works have been run overtime for some
weens io Keep even wiin oraers.
The Polk county census returns Bhow
O AAi laival vnfM Tlio AvtttwA nratnla.
'tion is 9,198. Over 2,000,000 pounds
of hops were raised; 795,951 bushels of
wheat, and 630,507 bushels of oats.
The Coos Bay Creamery Association
paid in actual cash to its milk reducers
during 1895, $13,500. Notwithstand
ing the low price of butter this season,
the year was fully as good as in 1894.
Work on the construction of the
freezing and packing bouse, at Goble,
is progressing as rapidly as possible.
The machinery will arrive this month
and the establishment will be ready
for operation by May.
Mrs. Warren, the first white child
born in Oregon and one of the sur
vivors of of the Whitman massacre,
was recently married to William Coch
ran. The couple have moved to San
Jose, Cal. The bride was 60 years old
at the time of the marriage.
The promoters of the Oregon summer
school have formed a corporation with
a capital of $20,000, at $1 per share.
The objects of the association are to ad
vance the standard and efficiency of
the teachers of the various educational
institutions of the state of Oregon.
It is intended to maintain and con
duct one or more schools and to provide
lectures and instruction on pedagogics
and the associated sciences.
The total population of Oregon is
about 878,000, a gain of more than 100
per cent over 1885, and of 18 per cent
over 1890. Between 1880 and 1890
the state increased at the rate of 79.53
per cent. Increase has been more
rapid, therefore, between 1885 and
1895, than between 1880 and 1890.
On the other hand, the rate of increase
was greater between 1885 and 1890
than between 1890 an 1895. It will
never be as large again, because a
greater immigration will bear a small
er proportion to the whole. Oregon
gained 294.65 per cent between 1850
and 1860 because the original popu
lation was so small that the immigra
tion of that era exceeded it. The gain
of 18 per oent between 1890 and 1895
is just about such as is shown by states
which are growing, but , not receiving
considerable immigration. New York
gained 18 per oent between 1880 and
1890.
Idaho,
A new lumbering enterprise has juBt
been started at South Boise. The mill
cost $40,000, and will cut about 4,000,
000 feet this year. The maximum ca
pacity is 40,000 feet per day.
A coal mine has been located about
twenty-five miles from Idaho Falls.
It is a superior quality of coal and can
be delivered at that place for $3 50 per
ton, one-half of the price of soft coal at
the present time. It is a very light
coal, free from iron and with great
heat A road is to be constructed to
the mine.
A company has been organized,
whioh has secured deedsjto gravel bars,
and water rights about the Horseshoe
Bend to Salmon river. It is the object
of the oompany to construct a large
cut through the neck of the bend which
will be 13,000 feet long, and by this
means drain 9,000 feet of the present
river channel.
A Chicago capitalist is about to
launch on the Snake river a veritaU
floating mining camp. On the boat
there is a good-sized boarding and lodg
ing house to accommodate 150 miners,
an immense stationary engine and
boilers, together with dredgers and
pumps of all sizes. This mechanioal
boat battery will move up and down
Snake river, working the banks for
gold.
The report of Wells-Fargo & Com
pany gives the total mineral produc
tion of Idaho, in 1895, at $7,853,320,
an increase of $511,900 over last year.
Of this production the gold was $2,
621,000; silver, 2,807,460; lead, $2,
026,680. The difference between
Wells-Fargo's total and the assay office
estimate is largely aocounted for by
the different value per ounce of silver,
the mint using the coinage value and
Wells-Fargo the commercial prioe.
The difference, 62 oents, amounts to
$2,600,000.
Montana.
A new hotel is to be built early in
the spring at the old Hunter's Hot
Spring's resort.
A stucco oompany has been incor
porated with a oapital stock of 15,000.
It is to work the gypsum fields at Kib
bey. The Odd Fellows at Belt have let a
oontraot for a new building. The
lower floor is to be used as a publio
hall.
The Great Falls soap factory offered
a good price for a band of horses at
Stevensville. Small oayuses are worth
more for soap than any thing else at
present.
Governor Riokards is on a trip to the
national capital for the purpose of se
ouring aid from the federal authorities
to remove the marauding Cree Indians
aoross the border.
The long bridge over the Yellow
stone, five miles south of Livingston,
was blown into the river by a high
wind. It is a total wreck and cost
Park oounty $8,000.
The productin of gold was 4, 100,000;
of silver, 4,500,000 ounoes; of copper,
212,000 pounds, and of lead, 24,600,
000 pounds. The output of oopper is
estimated as being 65 per cent of the
production of the United States. The
receipts of bullion at the Helena assay
office during 1895 were 10 per oent
greater than last year, and 47,1! per
oent greater than during 1893.
Montana produced in metals about
40,115,000 during the year 1895, just
ended, taking the value of the silver at
the ooinage rate and estimating the last
two months of the year on a pro rata
basis The offloial report of the assayer
for this offloe will not be ready until
some time in Maroh, but it is believed
that the figures given will not vary
more than a few thousand from the real
amount
THE BUSINESS WORLD
Uncertainty in Money Market
Affects Trade.
R. G. DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW
The Speculation In Product Hal Been
Quiet at Better Price Iron Quo-
tatlone Are Lower.
New York, Jan. 13. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade, says:
The new year begins with such un
certainty that business is somewhat re
tarded. The proposed sale of bonds
offers ground for confidence in the
future, but no one is able to determine
what its earliest effects may be in the
meney market, and for the time, it is
a cause of hesitation, rather than hope
fulness. Speculation in products has not been
active. Wheat is about 1 cent higher,
and oorn the same, without distinct
reason in each case, for the govern
ment report, tardily conforming to
commercial estimates of some months
ago, did not command great confidence.
Wheat receipts at Western points were
almost double last year, 2,805,702
bushels, against 1,305,700 last year,
but Atlantic exports were a little
larger than last year. Corn receipts
are about a quarter lower than last
year, while Atlantic exports are about
four times as large.
The industrial situation has not
materially changed. There is much
hesitation in the iron business, and
some advance in Bessemer pig. Fin
ished products of iron and steel are on
the whole quoted a little lower. The
business in nails is extremely lower.
Nothing is doing in rails, and, while
there is rather a better demand for
sheets and plates and several good or
ders are reported for structural work,
angles are quoted a shade lower. Every
thing turns on the contracts for ore
which are still unsettled, but the great
excess in production of pis-iron over
the present demand is no longer denied,
and it is expected that quite a num
ber of furnaces will presently dis
continue production. Lower prices for
Alabama iron renew competition with
ha stern furnacea
Sales of wool are large, 6,699,800
pounds for the week, against 5,236,715
last year, although a large part of the
purchases are of a speculative charac
ter, based upon a belief that prices
may be advanced, if the new tariff bill
goes into effect.
Failures for the week were 431 in the
United States, against 421 last year,
and 63 in Canada, against 54 last year.
THE MIOWERA SAFE.
After Leaving the Strathnevla
She
Proceeded to Honolulu.
Vanoouver, B. C, Jan. 18. The
steamer Warimoo arrived this after
noon from Australia. She brings wel
come news of the safety of the Mio
wera, having spoken her January 2, at
10 A. M., about 100 miles off Hono
lulu. The Warimoo brings lengthy
report from Captain Stott, regarding
his attempted rescue of the Strathnevis,
which contains -particulars already re
lated by the officers of the disabled
steamer. After relating how the
Strathnevis had been lost during the
storm December 23, Captain Stott
proceeds:
It was blowing such a fierce gale
that it was impossible for us to do any
thing, the sea being so heavy that the
Strathnevis at times would be engulfed
nearly out of sight and at other times
towering above us. It was noticed
that the Strathnevis rolled so heavily
that the green light at times was
nearly perpendicular with her port red.
We kept well in sight of her lights
until 4 A. M., bearing east one-half
south, when suddenly, they were lost
to view, and, from the tremendous sea
running, we feared that she had foun
dered. "Owing to the very heavy cross sea
that was running, we had for our own
safety at 5:30 A. M. to head the Mio
wera to sea southwest and go dead
slow, as we found the force of the
waves was endangering our rudder and
rudderpost, and we were shipping
heavy water on board, flooding the
stoke hold and also down the engine
room skylights, whioh were stove in,
and causing considerable other dam
age. The rise and fall of the steamer
in the sea was so great that she buried
her stern six feet under water, but not
withstanding all the above, and, at the
risk of our ship, we held on to the
Strathnevis to the very last, until the
hawsers parted and we oould do no
more.
"We remained near the place of
parting for fifteen hours and then pro
ceeded to Honolulu."
TRADITION DEFIED.
Leo to Addree an Encyclical to Non
Cathollce as Well as Catholic.
New York, Jan. 13. Speoial ad
vices to the World from Rome say:
The oentral objeot of Pope Leo's
polioy has always been to bring about
nr , rxADare a erand reunion of the
Giiristiau churches. The holy father
has already published two enoychoals
devoted to that end. One was addressed
to the prinoes and the people. The
other took the form of an appeal to
Anglioans. A third enoyolical will
shortly be made known. It is to be
addressed "Ad Omnes Christianos,"
(To All Christians.) Thus one more
innovation will be added to the others
of the present pope. In former times
it was the custom to address the papal
documents "To the Bishops and the
Faithful in Communion With the Holy
Apostolio Church." Leo XIII has de
I fled tradition by dedicating his enoyoli-
jcais to non-uathonos as well as
Catholic.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condenaed Record of the Doing of the
Nation' Lawmaker.
Washington, Jan. 11. The debate
on the senate free-coinage substitute
for the house bond bill was opened to
day by Jones of Arkansas in two
hours' speech, which was followed with
close attention. Jones took strong
grounds for the free and independent
ooinage of silver, contending that was
the only method by whioh the distress
in the country could be aleviated and
the treasury department relieved from
its dependence on the speculative
holders of gold. There was no reply to
his argument today, but the debate will
be resumed when the senate meets
again. During the morning hour
Pritchard made a speech in favor of the
re-enactment of the McKinley law, and
White made some remarks in favor of
amending the rules of the senate, so
as to give the majority the power, to
bring a measure to a vote whenever H
saw fit. . Morgan, the former chainnV '
of the oommittee on foreign relation
introduced a resolution conveying the
congratulations of congress to Presi
dent Kroger. ..
Washington, Jan. 15. Morgan's
speech on the silver bond bill waa the
event in the senate today, although a
sharp personal colloquy between Hill,
Pritchard and Butler enlivened, the
early hours. Morgan finally addressed
himself personally to Sherman, who
sat across the aisle, and for two hours
arraigned the Ohio senator for. the
series of financial acts with whioh . he
is identified. At times Morgan waa
bitterly personal. In the main, how
ever, the speech was a scholarly pres
entation of the silver question. Mitchell
introduced and had passed by the senate
a resolution calling on the secretary of
state for information as to the report
of the special agent of the United,
States sent to the Fiji islands to investi
gate claims of B. W. Henry, of Oregon,
and other American citizens to certain
lands owned by them in the islands,
and appropriated by the British gov
ernment Henry and the other citizens
are now pressing for their money.
Kyle introduced a resolution asking
the president to recognize representa
tives of the Cuban insurgents whenever
they appear to have a seat of govern
ment in the island, and a following of
a majority of natives of that place. He
is directed in that case to grant them
belligerent rights. Gear of Iowa in
troduced a bill in the senate for the
admission of New Mexico into the
Union.
Houae.
Washington, Jan. 11. The house
gave its time today to a discussion of
the proposed amendments to the rules
of the fifty-first congress, whioh were
provisionally adopted early in the ses
sion to govern the house. Two inter
esting discussions relieved the monot
ony of the technical debate. One was
precipitated by Walker, chairman of
the banking and currency oommittee,
who made a fight against the proposi
tion to drop the committee on banking
and currency from the list of commit
tees privileged to report bills to the
house at any time. A partisan debate
resulted, in which Walker was sup
ported by the Democrats and a Repub
lican contingent, which included many
of the free silver men. Walker failed
to carry his point Hepburn inspired
the second disoussion by an amendment
to direot the speaker to recognize any
member who addressed him when so
other member was on the floor, and
spoke against the growing power given
by the rules to the speaker. He with
drew his position, however, after n
speech by Bell, who claimed that it
would secure for the Populist members
the recognition of which he claimed
they were deprived. The disoussion of
the rules was not finished.
Washington, Jan. 15. The house,
after devoting an hour to the consider
ation of business, reported from the
Distriot of Columbia committee today,
took up the pension appropriation bill.
General debate on the bill consumed
the day. W. A. Stone, in oharge of
the bill, explained its provisions.
Graff offered the amendment aband
oned by the oommittee, inhibiting the
suspension of pensions for fraud until
the fraud had been proved in a United
States court, and Bartlett opposed the
proposed extension of the dependent
act of 1890, by the revival of the inhi
bition of widow's pensions until they
had proved their dependoy on their
daily labor for support. He estimated
that the proposed extension would add
50,000 names to the pension rolls. In
the house today, Dalzell of Pennsylva
nia introduced a bill constituting
Andrew Carnegie, George Kelly,
Charles Bachelor, Charles MoGee and
twenty-six other persons, a corporation
under the name of the Lake Erie &
Ohio River Ship Canal Company, with
power to construct and maintain a
oanal connecting Lake Erie and the
Ohio river. The house oommittee on
banking and ourrenoy considered the
project for an international Americn
bank, whioh was one of the recom
mendations of the pan-American con
gress, and was largely the idea of the
late James G. Blaine. The bill puts the
capital stook at $5,000,000, and author
izes the bank to aot as the financial
agent of any government, state or
municipality or corporation; to handle
bonds, eta, but bars it from issuing
notes to circulate as money in the
United States.
A man living near Norway, Ga.,
stored a lot of cartridges in a stove.
A woman started a fire in the stove one
day last week, and the cartridge ex
ploded, destroying the sight of one eye
and otherwise injuring her.
The Marquis of Plaumartin, who
reoently died in Paris, bequeathed
50,000 franos to the Paris Deaf and
Dumb Institution, and 4,000,000 franos
to the Brussels municipality for the
ereotion of an asylum for the aged. , .
INTENSIVE DAIRYING
Make a Few Acres Support a
Large Number of Cowa.
WASHINGTON STATE DAIRY LAW
The Law Prohibit the Belling of
- Skimmed Milk Under Pretense
That It I Lnlklmmed.
"Intensive dairying ia the science
of making a few acres support a larger
number of cows than is generally th
custom, says the Paoifio Coast DairjfVf
man. it is called tne practice ol soiy
iug. oy mis sysiem cows are not ai"wi-jii
lowed to run in the pasture, as is
usually the case; but they are kept up,
and all green food cut and fed to them.
The ideas brought out above exactly
" pur people owning ten and twenty-
. " tracts. Nearly every one is
"Ni familiar with the wonder
, , ' ;"$4wer, the Jersey oow,
but it n tTfipe who is familiar
with the XiaSjrcpw is eared
for on the beail J 0d (vf-. Jersey.
The people on JimfMi-
situated like many of out ota. wtif.
small holdings ton and twUy"-Jrv .
acre tracts. The land being very vara s -able,
is not fenced. Then one might --,
well ask, how are the thousands of
cows cared for and kept? They are
cared for in two ways tethered with ""'
thirty or forty feet of rope and changed
as needed, and kept in stables and feed
cut and fed to them daily. This is the
intensive idea to make a small tract
produce more and support many more
cows than would be possible under the
system of allowing them to roam at
will in large pastures.
To those who are now in the dairy
line, and others who may engage in
it, here is anoter important point:
Arrange so as many of your oowa as
possible may be fresh about the 1st of
September. You will find your cowa
will bring in more income by this
plan than to have them fresh in the
spring. What calves you raise are
ready to turn out in the spring; your
oows are in full flow of milk when
milk commands the highest price, and
they are dry in July and August, when
it is worth the least money. Then
through the oow during fall and winter
you can turn your hay and roots into
cash monthly
The Dairy Law.
State Dairy Commissioner Smith, of
Washington, says that their state law
has been the cause of increasing the
product of the dairymen 20 percent
This is due largely to the effeot the law
has had in decreasing the sale of oleo
margarine. It provides that oleomar
garine shall not be colored, but must
be sold at its original form. It is as
white as lard, and is of course not so
tempting as when riohly colored so as
to resemble a fine quality of butter.
This spoils its sale, and the Cudahy
Packing Company is fighting the law
on the west side. We have a cow
butter man in Seattle who has been ar
rested several times for selling colored
"oleo," and one of these oases is now
pending in the superior court, to whioh
he appealed after being oonvicted in
the justice court. When oleomargarine
first began to come in under the law
it was white. It would not sell, and
the manufacturers said they believed
they oould give it a shade darker color
in the process of manufacture without
adding any ooloring matter. This
was advisable under the law and they
tried it They imparted a slight color
to it, and then they said that by the
same process they could make it a lit
tle darker yet I had no doubt of it,
and was not mistaken. They continued
to make it darker till it looked like
butter onoe more. The law also pro
hibits the selling of skimmed milk un
der the pretense that it is unskimmed.
A man may sell skimmed milk if he
wants to, but he must not lead the pur
chaser to believe that it is pure. That
is one thing I want your city council
to insert in the new milk ordinance a
provision requiring that cans from
which skimmed milk is being sold shall
be properly labeled. The law also
prohibits the watering of milk under
any circumstances. Persons knowing
of any violation of the law, either"
Dy selling skmmed milk under false,,
pretenses or watering milk, should re
port it, and violations of the law
would soon stop. " " '
Dairy Note. '
The seoret of suooess in the dairy is
to reduoe the oost of making goods.
Have your cows gentle by kind treat
ment if yon want big returns in milk
and butter.
Study the nature of your oowa and
fall in with their moods. It pays to be
agreeable, even to a cow. -
No business requires more emphatic
ally under one's thumb than does suc
cessful dairying.
It is always advisable to make a
change of feed occasionally for the oow
in winter. It gives her increased
appetite.
Buyers on the Utioa board of trade
have decided to refuse to buy or even
handle on commission any oheese made
after the 1st ot November.
After butter oustomers are secured.
the way to hold them is to always fur
nish as high a grade of butter as that
whioh at first won them as oustomers.
J. H. Monard, of Chioago, has re
oently published a most valuable
pamphlet on "Pasturization and Milk
Preservation, with Chapter on Selling
Milk."
H. B. Gurler thinks the first move
for a dairy farmer who has not tested
his oows, should be to have them test
ed, and become acquainted with them
individually. Weed out all the un
profitable ones. Then select a bull
from tome dairy breed, -. i,-
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