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' ' " -;' i H - The oILLSB VOL. 2. IIILLSBORO, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY :3. NO. 44. I a. ft IN NORTUWESTSTATES Interesting News Notes From Various Places. EVERETT SHOWS ENTERPRISE Immigration Boards la Oregon and Washington Organised to Invite De sirable Immigration Washington, A new road has jeen opoued from the Silluquauiish at Grand FulU to Canyon creek. Walla Wulla county la advertising (or bids (or the erection of a house ou tho county (arm. A regularly organized band of horse and saddle thieves have been oporatjf iug in Yakimu and Kititas valleys. S The counties that have not bonded debts in Washington are, Cowlits, Gar? fluid, Klikltat, San Juan and What com. '. A log boom in the Snohomish river, continuing about 10,000,000 feet of ""hiK, bus broken and the logs are fust going to sea. The saloon men of Blnlne have in augurated a oruwide against minors, who have been in the habit of visit ing their saloons. A large number of men are engaged in rebuilding the Northern Paoiflo tele graph lines between Pasoo and Prosser. The work will be completed this mouth. The shipments of Washington lum ber to foreign countries increased from 80,000,000 feet in 1894 to 180,000,000 feet in 18UB, with prospects for still heavier shipments in 181)0. Partios have leased a boom at the mouth of the Nookaaok river, and will begin work at once to remove the jam that has made steam navigation and log driving impractical for tho last four years. A vigorous fight is predicted between the stockmen of tho Big Bend and the small (armors for the possession of the north half of the Big Bend. Borne of the new settlors are trying to take up land under the desert law, and the cattle raisers will fight the mutter in , the courts. Everett has several mills in view. T-. The construction of the Bell lumber mill). on the subsidy site will begin at once. TheTnew oompany who are re building the burned Smith mill at Lowell, are actively pushing the euter- - - prise forward and preparation for the foundation of a plant are uow being made. The local land office at North Yaki ma, has an application from the com missioner of arid lands for the segrega tiou of 77,180 acres of land in Yiakima ... county to be withdrawn under the Vjarey act The work of selecting lands and making preliminary lines for the canal has been quietly going on sinoe the existence of the commission, though advantage has boen taken to a very large extent of previous surveys made. The oontraot for furnishing and placing the machinery in the flour mill at Spokane has been oonoluded, and the mill will be in operation about the first of April. It will rank as one of the best equipped millB in the United States, being one of the very few hav ing only the latest improved machinery throughout. This establishment will not contain a single piece of maohinery or material of any kind that was ever in place before in any mill, and every 'piece is of the moBt reoent design. Great interest has been manifested throughout Washington in the immi gration convention, which has Just con cluded its session in Seattle. The re sult of the convention was the organ ization of a permanent state immigra . tion association. The plan of organ ization provides that the organization shall oonsist of one member from each county; that there shall be an exeontive committee of seven chosen, who shall eleot a president, secretary and treas urer from their number. O. L. Webb, of Seattle, has been elected president. The oommittee earnestly recommended that an appropriation of not less than f26,00O per annum should be made by the next legislature, and there seemed to be no doubt that this recommenda tion would be granted for the question. Oregon, Umatilla county has a movement Ou" foot to stamp out the Russian thistle. The Bandon woolen mills have started up again and are running at full capaoity. - Eighteen million oans were made during the past season by an Astoria can oompany. Tho work on the lighthouse at Cape Arago has been abandoned for the - present, owing to rough weather. A new steamer oalled Ruth has been put on the Columbia river by the Ore gon Railway & Navigation Oompany. The amount of revenue to be raised for the state this year is 698,888, and the resulting rate is 4 8-10 mills. The maohinery has been plaoed in the iron works at Ashland and every' thing is now running very nioely with a full foroe. ''uterial has arrived at Br"4pn for W tight and fog-horns at' the light house there. The tower fixtures are now being plaoed. The reports from Tillamook come to the effect that there is one of the largest runs of steel-head salmon ever seen in the Wilson, Trask or other rivers. Oregon shows a great inorease in the manufacture of butter and cheese in the oast ten years. In 1885 the num ber of pounds manufactured was 8,386, 923; in 1805 this was iuoreused tu 6, B2 1,007. Although little work has been done on the aotual construction of the As toria railroad, the surveying is being pushed right along, and the prospects of building the road are now considered good. Pendleton's first installment of flour shipments, is the first ever made from Eastern Oregon to Australia. It con sists of 5,000 barrels, which in Aus tralia will have a valuation of about 115,000. The Beaver Hill ooal mine district is reported to show indications of a very porsperous future, and an extra vein of ooal has been recently discovered, and the small camp has grown to be a prominent district. The contractors who are constructing the locks at the Cascades still main tain that they will have an open river between The Dulles and Portland by March 1st, unless an unusually heavy fall of snow should interfere. The state military board have de rided against an encampment of the Oregon national guard. The ex penses would have been about $30,000, and the members of the board were averse to so large an expenditure at this time. Lakeview has been indulging lately in rabbit drives, and thousands of the animals have been killed. The farm en of Wallowa have plaoed on the markot this fall about 4,000 head of hogs, whioh at the prevailing low prices have realized the owners about $15,000. Before the oomlng summer is over upward of 500 more stamps will be dropping in Baker oounty than dur ing 1805. Hundreds of men will be added to the payrolls, and plaoer mines will be operated on a scale un precedented in the oounty. Shipments of ioe have oommenoed by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company for their ponds at Perry. Their ioe houses at Pendleton hold 600 tons, which are used entirely by them selves. The city of Pendleton consumes about 1,000 tons. Dealers have not yet oommenoed shipping. One of the sheep kings of Umatilla oounty, says there is a heavy increase in the demand for sheep for spring delivery, and he believes that sheep will be worth more this year than for some time past, and that there would be an inorease of 75 per oent over last year in the number of sheep. The Paoiflo Northwest immigration board, an organization that promises to be a most important factor in the near future, in advertising Oregon throughout the East and turning the tide of a desirable kind of immigra tion in this direction, has been organ ized by some of Portland's most promi nent business men. As soon as its proposed subscription fund of $30, 000, of whioh $10,000 has already been secured, has been raised, the work of the board will begin in earnest. The new board will have a much larger amout of money under its control, and, with the application of business ideas and principles to its expenditure, its work is likely to be much more effect ive than that of the Oregon Immigra tion board, and should secure for this state its share of immigration. Idaho. Boise City has 900 publio school children. There are 135 oonvicts in the Idaho penitentiary, four of whom are mere boys. A Grangeville citizen intends to put in a hotel and livery stable at Dixie the coming spring. Boise City is ready to receive bids for city sidewalk bonds. The improve ments were recently voted by the peo ple oi tne city. A movement is on foot for the incor poration of the town of Wardner. An attempt was made to incorporate it tnree years ago but the legal require ments were not all fulfilled. Water will be running to Dry oreek by July 1. The Farmers' Union Ditch Company have expended thus far $10, 000 in the proseoution of this work. It will water 8,000 aores of land in Ada oountv. The oontraot for the construction of the reservation canal In Rlnnhnm county, has been added by Seoretary none smnn. me oontraot prioe is $90,000 and the work is to be com pleted by June 1. There was patented In the nfnfn nf Idaho during the year, 9,898 acres of land in aid of the State Agricultural oollege. 8.708 for insane asylum. in.OKi aores for penitentiary, 1,830 publio buildings, 33,888 for scientific school, 69,493 for oharitable institutions, 5,607 for the normal sohool. Of pub lic lands in Idaho there were surveyed during the year 430,895 aores. The Northern Paoikflo company received patents for 91,411 aores of Idaho land aurmg ine year. Montana. The war department has issued a call for bids for the erection of five briok buildings at Fort Assinnibone. The bids will be opened February 1. A oolony is being organized in Cen tral Illinois to settle in Montana on government lands. About 400 families are preparng to move to the state in the spring. The Boss Tweed group in the Ponev mining distriot is now under option of English capitalists. When the sale is consummated the sum of $1,000,000 will be spent for the purchase of the property and the ereotion of an im mense milling plant. One of the largest contracts for min ing machinery concerns to submit esti mates on will be the new plant of the Katie mine at Basin. It is under stood the concentrator will have i oapaoity of 600 tons. In addition to this will be a smelting plant to treat the concentrates. TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events oi the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Items of Importance From Domestic and Foreign Source. Cream of the Dispatches. Canada is to have a naval reserve. The Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma territory have all left their farms, and have gone to ghost danoing. Peter Hougaard, believed to have been insane, killed himself and his wife and five ohildren in Chicago. Vigorous search is being conducted for the hidden wealth of an old Span iard, who died some years ago in Los Angeles. The matter of the Behring sea arbi tration treaty is at last in a fair way to be settled, Canada having agreed to its terms. The Occidental oollege at Los An geles, Cal., a Presbyterian institution, has been consumed by fire. The loss is $70,000, partly insured. The overtaxation of the publio archi tect's office is given as the reason for the delay in the construction of the Portland, Or., publio bnilding. Colonel Ingersoll, the great infidel. has been extended an invitation to preach in a Chioago ohurch, and to give his views of ideal Christianity. Through the oheapness of corn, Amerioan distillers, for the first time in ten years, oan successfully compete in the French market with the Ger mans. It has been authoritatively an nounced that the Yale management has decided to abandon the project of a raoe with Oxford-Cambridge crews, of London. The candidacy of Senator Alliison is announced for nomination on the Re publican ticket for the presidency. Iowa's congressional delegation is solid for him. The seoond coming of the Redeemer has been prophesied again by the ' an evangelist of Baltimore, who thinks the present war talk is the beginning of the millenium. The sultan of Turkey has issued a decree prohibiting the distribution of funds oollected in this oountry by the Red Cross Society for the relief of suf fering Armenians. A dispatch from London says the statements made in the Italian news papers that Great Britain had Ceded Ziluh, on the Straits of Babel-Mandeb, to Italy, is officially denied. A dispatch from Vienna says Count Thun, governor of Bohemia, has re signed, and that his resignation is ex pected to lead to a healing of the breaoh between the young Czehs and the Germans. The Gloucester fishing schooner For tune sunk in a oolision with the Boston Fruit Company's steamer Barnstable, off Highland light, Boston harbor. Nine of the Fortune's orew were drowned and fourteen saved. The Prussian diet has been opened. The speech from the throne was de voted to domestio affairs. It is esti mated the budget of 1896 will show a smaller deficit than that of 1895, owing to increased reoeipts due to improving trade. Mail advices from Hawaii state that friends of the ex-queen are anxious for war between England and the United States, believing that in the event of suoh hostilities England would seize the Hawaiian islands and restore Lili- uokalani. A cablegram from Prague announoes the death of .Charles Jonas, United States consul at Crefeld, Germany. Mr. Jonas was formerly consul at St. Petersburg, but exchanged positions with John Karel. He was at one time lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin. The certainty of the settlement of the Venezuela boundary dispute is still in doubt, since Venezuela repeatedly affirms that it is impossible for her to compromise the boundary claims by any treaty or convention, because of the terms of her national constitution. The City bank, of Minneapolis, a state banking institution, suspended payment this week, pending ex amination. The oapital stock is $300,000. The deposits at the last statement, Deoember 81, 1895, were $638,604. It is olaimed the depositors will be paid in full. "There is a general opinion," says a letter to a Boston tobacco dealer, both among insurgents and Span iards, that General Campos has become demented. His aotions, not only in the direction of the campaign, but his private and ordinary doings are suoh as to give good grounds for this be lief." The Chilean treaty with Brazil has been shorn of its importance by the an nouncement that Argentina has an an terior treaty with Brazil, giving all the rights of a favored nation. It is the intention of the United States minister to demand of the Brazilian government that similar privileges be aooorded this oountry. This will minimize the damages that may possibly aoorue in favor of Chilean flour and cereals. The liabilities of Keene, Satterlee & Co., leather dealers of Philadelphia, Pa., whose fialure is announced will reaoh $4,000,000. Nothing oan be leanred of the assets. Frederiok W Satterlee, head of the firm, left the oity before the assignment was recorded, in oompany with John M. Fenlin, tobaeco merchant, who failed at the same time, and neither have been heard from. The members of the government bond syndicate received a letter from J. P. Morgan & Co., releasing them from the commitment to furnish their pro rata of $100,000,000 in gold, taking payment in 4 per oent government bends. There is no longer any doubt of the suocess of the loan by popular subscription. Sir Hercules Robinson, the governor of Cape Colony, South Africa, and British high commissioner, has sent a message to Pretroria that matters have been satisfactorily arranged in the Transvaal and that bloodshed is ended. Final agreemet between President Kruger and Sir Hercules Robinson, governor of Cape Colony, regarding the disposition of the prisoners cap tured as the result of Dr. Jamieson's raid into the Transvaal, has been com pleted. Jamieson and the officers will be tried in England. The rank and file of the freebootres are now on their way to Natalia, where they will be turned over to the British authorities, who will decide the treatment they are to receive. A special decree has been issued announcing the coronation of the czar will take place in Moscow in May next Ex-President Harrison has announced that he and Mrs. Dimmick are engaged to be married. The marriage will not take place until after Lent. The Panama Canal Company is mak ing gigantic preparations for railroad construction. It is purchasing im mense quantities of cross ties and coaL The Deutsche bank has obtained a oontract to issue the Chinese loan of 100,000,00 teals, with interest at 5 per cent, to oost 89 jj, and to be issued at 95. A dispatch from Yokohama says the queen of Corea is certainly dead. There is no truth in the story that she escaped at Seoul Two Coreans have been executed for patrioipation in the murder. A Berlin dispatch to the Standard says all the German sovereigns will grant a limited pardon to criminals upon the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the proclamation of the empire. A dispatch from Peking says the British minister has presented an ulti matum to the Chinese government, de manding the opening of West river. The truth of the report has been denied in London, however A series of postoffice robberies has just been discovered in San Francisco by the government and three Chinese firms will lose $4,000. The robberies were committed by Chinese who had keys made to open the mail boxes. The Ashantee war in South Africa is ended. Sir Francis Scott, in com mand of the British expeditionary forces, has occupied Coomassie, the capital, without opposition. King Prempeh accepts all the British de mands. It is offloially stated that Dr. Jamie son and others who are in prison with him will be released unconditionally by the Transvaal government, and that the Uitlanders, in due oourse of time, will be enabled to make their demands clearly understood. A frightful aooident ocourred on the Midland Terminal railroad. The train was en route to Denver and Colorado Springs, and was just above the city limits of Viotor, Colo. Fifteen passen gers were injured, six seriously, two of whom will probably die. There is a rumor ourrent in Wash ington to the effect that the United States is preparing to enforce its de mands against the Turkish govern ment for the protection of Americans residing in Turkey, and the payment of indemnity for proprety losses. Throughout the German empire the twenty-fifth crowning at Versailles of King William of Prussia, the grand father of the present emperor, as em peror of Germany, and the consequent re-establishment of the German em pire was oelebrated in some form or other. Captain-General Martinez de Campos formally resigned his command of the Spanish forces in Cuba to General Marin. The oeremony took place in the great salon of the captain-general's palace. There were present all author ities of the oity of Havana and the chief offioers of the army. The London Chroniole believes both England and Venezuela will institute inquiries into the settlement and cessions of land in the disputed terri tory. It says this will present a basis for the renewal of negotiations. It is now most probable that arbitration will be resorted to. After a two-days' meeting held in St Louis, by the Populist national oommittee, it was derided to leave the matter of selecting the time and plaoe for the national convention to the ex ecutive oommittee. At a subsequent meeting of the oommittee St Louis was ohosen, and the date set at July 33. The president of the Manufacturers' Trust Company of Brooklyn, has offer ed to plaoe gold in the treasury, and take a receipt therefor. Being a bidder for the new issue of bonds, he suggests that if his bid is aooepted the amount be deduoted, and the balance returned. It is said that in this way the treasury would be afforded imme diate relief. The return of Commandant Herbert Booth, of the Salvation Army, from London to this oountry is likely to oreate trouble among the offioers and the rank and file of the Salvationists in the United States. If he suooeeds in supplanting his elder brother, Balling ton Booth, in the oharge of the army here, publio meetings will be held in New York and protest against the change. FOR ITS ENFORCEMENT Monroe Doctrine Formally Be fore the Senate. DAVIS' RESOLUTION REPORTED A Strong Endorsement and an Urgent Plea for the Klgld Enforcement of IU Principles. Washington, Jan. 33. Two oppos ing phases of the Monroe doctrine were presented in the senate today one from the oommittee on foreign rela tions favoring a strong reafflrmaHnn nf the doctrine, and another from Sewell urging that the doctrine had been car ried so far beyond its scope as to threaten dangerous consequences. Davis presented the committee re port, as he is the author of the resolu tion embodying the essential features of all previous resolutions. It was read tnat tne majority was evidently ob from the desk, receiving close atten- structing its consideration, and that " auu iVWlUHUU in ho IU11UWB. I 'Concurrent resolution relative to the assertion and enfnrnamont r Monroe doctrine: "Resolved, By the senate, the house of representatives concurring, that President Monroe, in his message to congress of December 3, A. D. 1833, deemed it proper to assert, as a prin ciple in which the rights and interests oi tne united States are involved, that the American continents, by the- free and independent condition whinh thnv have assumed and maintained, were henceforth not to be considered as sub jects lor future aggression by any Eu ropean power." "Whereas, The doctrine and policy so proclaimed by President Monroe have since been repeatedly asserted by the United States, by executive denlnra. tion and action, under provisions and exigencies similar to the particular oc casion and exigency which caused them to be first announced, and have been, ever since their promulgation and now are, the rightful policy of the United States; therefore be it "Resolved. That the United RtafaM of America reaffirms and confirms the doctrine and nrinoinles by President Monroe in his message of wecemoer a, lsaa, and declares it will assert and maintain that dnntxina anA those principles, and will regard any miringement tnereol, and particularly any attempt by any Europaen power to take or acquire any new territory on the Ameriooan continent, or any of the islands adjacent thereto, or any right sovereignty or dominion in the same as an iliterrmaitinn vhinh it would be impossible in any form for the United States to record with in. difference." English Comment on the Resolution. London, Jan. 33. The Glnha thie afternoon in an article condemns the attitude of the United States senate on foreign affairs. It says: The English people will not stand muoh more fooling from anybody, and mese gentlemen, whom we credit with no more exalted sentiment than th wish to stand well with their constitu ents, may very easily find themselves face to face with a situation whir-h could be called appalling. " ine unromole. in an editorial. r. joioes over the news of the signing of the Behring sea treaty as an event of me8iMe T oorrespoudenoe were re happy omen, proving that reason still feTed to the ommitte on foreign re- happy omen, proving that reason still sways the Anglo-American raoe. It asks why the Venezuela question can not be treated similarly, and says: "We can see nothing in the Davis resolution which did not exist in the earlier form of the doctrine, or whioh prevents arbitration on Venezuela." The Chronicle thinks Europe will lose substantially nothing by America's assumption of a doctrine involving such heavy responsibilities. THE ALASKA BOUNDARY. Gold Fields on Fortv.Mlla r:r..k In United States Territory. Washington, Jan. 22. That the rich Kola discovery on Forfcv-Mile ovmk. Alaska, belongs to the United States . ,.v., rolulluw u all employe of the British Government, and properly marked in oertain places. General Duffleld, chief of the ooast sur vey, says the survey shows that but sixteen miles of the oreek. as the bird flies, and twenty-three miles as tne water nnata ia in D-iaU water floats, is in British territory, and in this portion no gold has been - a3 discovered. All the remaining portion of the oreek is in Alaska, and belongs to the United States. A bill has been introduced in oongress. providing for the appointment of commissioners to fix the boundary, but it has not yet been aoted upon. Debs as an Editor. Toledo. Jan. 22. Eugene V. Deha tonight said he would retire from the Amerioan Railway Union, and will enter the field of journalism, as he had received offers from both New York and Chicago papers and also had offers irora capitalists to estamian a paper of his own. He has praotioally decided to aooept the offer of a Chicago paper. Want More of the Mew Bonds. Boston, Jan. 22. One million dol lars' worth of the United States bonds, for whioh the International Trust Company requested subscriptions, were quiokly covered today by firms in this oity and vicinity, and the Trust oom pany has announced that it will take an additional $1,000,000 worth on its own aooonnt. In Meinery of Mr Gould. Pou&hkeensie. N.. Y.. Jan. 99. Miss Helen Gould has sent a oheok for $8,000 to Vassar oollege to found i scholarship in memory of her mother CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record or the Doings of the Nation's Lawmakers Senate. Washington, Jan. 17. Mills' speech on finance, with frequent direct criti cisms of the president and the secre tary of the treasury, was the main fea ture of today's session of the senate. Wilson has introduced a bill in the senate allowing mineral prospectors and claims on Colville reservation the same as on other public lands. Chief Engineer Craighill, in a letter to Squire, estimates the cost for Puget sound defenses at $2,833,000, not in cluding torpedo sites. Washington, Jan. 18. There was no session of the senate today. Washington, Jan. 22. The silver bond bill was laid aside temporarily by the senate today, as no senator was ready to speak. Piatt asked Jones of Arkansas when a vote would be had. Jones said he was unable to state, for there were several speeches yet to be heard. Piatt said there was no opnosi- tion from those favoring the measure; there should be a time set for a vote. vw nuuuiu VW a NUID DCV 1U1 a VUM3. Jones replied that the original bond bill was now a silver measure, and its friends would take due time to present its merits and would fix a time for a vote. House. Washington. Jan. 17. In the house today the speaker announced the an- pointment of Allen of Utah to the oommittee on publio lands, in plaoe of Curtis of Kansas, resigned. "A free- borne bill," making actual residence on railroad land grants unnecessary where the lands have been fenced and improved, was passed. Grow opposed the idea of communications being sent to the house by the president and cabi net officers for the purpose of creating legislation, and referred to the letter sent by the president to Mr. Catchings adding: "This house should resent any attempt by the president or his clerks to dictate legislation to the house." The rest of the day was con sumed in discussion of the pension ap propriation bill Washington, Jan. 18. The house to day passed the pension appropriation bill, to the consideration of which it has devoted the entire week, and ad journed. The clause in the bill chang- t ... : i ing tne existing laws so as to allow . , . , - widows to obtain pensions under the act of 1890. whose net income did not exceed $500 per annum, was stricken out The provisions under the act of 1890, rejecting, suspending or dismiss ing applications were allowed to date from their first application. It was announced that bills covering the amendments ruled out would be re ported from the invalid pension oom mittee. The pension bill as passed AllO JA7UD1UU Ulll US pnBBUU $141,825,820, about $50,000 .L. ..- i im. - ? 1 ! carries avbb vuau nut? uafajUMW. X Ulll WBB passed fifty days ahead of any previous less than the estimate. 1UO Dill WUB 1 pension appropriation bill. Washington, Jan. 22. The session of the house today was devoid of pub lio interest. Quite a number of bills of local importance were passed, as well as the military academy appropri ation bill. The president's message. in reply to the resolution of the house caning on mm lor mtormation as to what steps, if any, had been taken in relation to the Bayard speeches at Bos ton, England, and Edinburgh, Scot land, was laid before the house. Tha message and correspondence were re lations. Grosvenor presented a ioint resolution, whioh was adopted, direct ing the secretary of the treasury to de stroy all inoome-tax returns and papers relative thereto in the possession of the treasury. SITUATION IN CUBA. A Summary of the Dispatches From Various Points. St. Louis, Jan. 22. The Republic this morning, in snmmarizinir dia. patches from Florida, New York and wasningcon, says: A crisis has been reaohed in the Cuban war. Recognition of the bel ligerency of the patriot army by the n,,; Cf00 u.i President mi 0 niA u Cleveland is said to have prepared a proclamation whioh may be issued in tne immeQiate mture. ine president, it is declared, intended to recognize the insurgents last week when he learned of the recall of Marshal Campos, but, nnder the circumstances, the executive viiuuyuu duuu iwugllimuil ffUUlu ue re- garded as inopportune and unfriendly . n . . . thought suoh recognition would be re to Spain, and he therefore withheld the important document, pending the i vug uuuiwuv uwuuiTJUl, UCilUillK llitj appointment of a successor to Campos. Within the past fortv-eiorht. however, President Cleveland is said to have learned that Spain, despairing of a successful termination of the war, had offered to sell Cuba to Great Britain. Rumors to this effect spread like wildfire over the oountry. They seem to be oonfirmed by dispatches from Florida. The governors of the South ern states, according to these advices have been required by the war depart ment to prepare the state militiamen for immediate service. Troops are already beginning to move in Florida ine oenei is neid in some Places pmucB Great tnat tne Dying squadron of Greai Britain is destined for service in Ameri oan waters. If this is so, war will re sult The oession of Cuba to Grant. Britain would be resisted by the United states to tne last ditoh. Offloial in formation from the White House is lacking, but it is evident that serious oomplicatins are at hand. Senor Palma. the head of tha HnVuin party in the United States, wires from wasnington: "Our case is oomplete. The presi dent and congress will reoognlse the insurgent cause Despite the order of tha colored ohildren were denied admission to tne public sohoola in Perry, O. T. PROFITABLE POULTRY Should Be in Good Condition When Marketed. HOW TO CARE FOR CHICKENS Paine Must Be Taken la Shlpp'f' to Get Early Brollers-AgA tural Suggestions. With the advent of cold weather enormous masses of poultry in all stages of unfitness have been rushed to market This is no new thing. It occurs regularly every year, and the farmers complain that there it no money in poultry. No doubt they are right There is none, any more than there is in poor, wormy fruit or bad butter, says a writer in the New York World. While this State of the market affant. ed the prices obtained for all grades of poultry, oi oourse it was the inferior stock that suffered ehieflv. Tha lr might have been avoided by proper care in fattening and the culling out and marketing of the stock only as it became fit This would have the shipments over a much greater period and prevented the glnt and con sequent drop whioh actually occurred. Many farmers say it does not pay to keep fowls after cold weather seta in and that they have not anffiniant an. oommodation for them. Both of these are very poor reasons. If it pays to raise poultry at all, it pays to keep it until in a fit condition to brinir mrnim and credit when marketed. The amount necessary to fatten is but a trifle Com Dared to that onnonmnrl Anr. ing the whole of the fowl's previous existence, and it is upon that trifle that the question of profit or loss depends. All previous care will nnnnt fn nothing if the birds ara itanian' tha requisite finishing. II yonr DOUltry anoommndntinna ara too limited, enlarge them; but keep the iuwu untu tney are nt. Don't market them a day before. Hannv-im.lnckT methods may have answered in dava when prices were high and competition light, but they won't do now. The struggle is too keen. City people know a good article when they see it They a.tujiu nuvu tnev see it. i nm are quite as quick as any farmer at dis hw as anyiarmer ai ais- nriminaHn a , 8iLT " TZL ""J"1 J' this are the ones who make money. Shipping Poultry. Considerable stock is lost by ship DWg in WOrn-OUt conns, whinh nnma aPart in transit if roughly handled, as BuweuuHw nappens. Kverv coon should be carefully examined, and all hni.tlma and nlaata uiu.hU " w.wnwa nVlUViJ UaiiVU. The 000P8 should be strong but light; hAQVV wnruf ia nnnAnAaAM. -1 1 J I 'J -t n uiuiuvOToacjr 11 lUUK 11NUB - i mi i . . . . . " .imwwwij u iuug uaiie are nsed- Tney should not be so large as to render handling difficult. xne coops snould be high enough to allow the poultry to stand easily up right, and should not be ovprornnrdnrt The olose packing and too low ooops are cruel ana cause loss by suffocation. Hens and roosters should be shipped separately whenever possible. How to Get Early Broilers. If yon want your hens to lav in tha fall and early winter when eras ara worth 25 cents, never keep a hen after she is three years old, and turn out your pullets early in the spring, says the North Yakima Farmer. The war to get early pullets is to hatch the eggs in an incubator and have several Httla brooder houses, the kind that H. A. March has on Fidalgo island. Erect them of boards an inoh thiok, one foot wide and seven feet hiarh. anil tnnt black asphaltum paper all over the in side. The size should be ten feet square. Lay a floor of ronarh boards. In the center of it have the "mother." Under this mother the chickens will huddle. Have a thermometer hano-. ing under the raised platform and keep tne temperature at ninety by turning the screw of the lamp up or down. At the back of the brooder house make a little slot drop gate, and when tha spring days are bright and warm enough, raise this and let the ohioks run out on a little grass plat fenced with laths. This yard should be wide as the house, ten feet, and about twen ty feet long. With such an arrange ment brother March has thousands of chioks growing before any one elan sets a hen. He gets his broilers rnnnk. erels) on the Seattle market in April when they are worth 75 cents apieoe. And in November and Deoember he hna thousands of dozens of eggs in barrels Kept iresn py a preparation of lime. Our Agricultural Suggestions. Good land will not prodrioa a tmnA orop without good cultivation. Paper oans are now being introduced in plaoe of tin oans, for preserving fruit If there is a stagnant pool of water near the house or on the farm where the stock oan get at it, drain it some how. We are asked if ground oob is valu able? Com ground on the oob. with Bay half its bulk nf nata miiaA nfh - " ont naJ mak good ration for oows I A linvtusi VI UV DVOl Take extra care of imnrnvad atnnlr. is advice often given. Take extra care of any kind of stock. In fact tha poorer the atook the better the care it needs to insure any return whatever. Some people gather the potato vines with a revolving rake before digging. It looks like a good plan for It ramnvaa the vines out of the way and they are bunoned ready to oart to the barnyard, Constructing little ventilator with holes in them, in the potato bins, has been tried with great satisfaction, It is olaimed. 'Xne moisture from tne pots toes passes off through these vanti. lators. u.