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PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Items ot General Interest
From All Sections.
DEVELOPMENT AND FItOGBEHS
All the Cities and Towns or the FitclHo
Stutes and Territories
Washington. County immigration conventions are
all the rago iu the Evergreen stato this
mouth.
A resumption of the operations of
the paper mills at Everett is a mitttor
of considerable iuinortmi ta that
town.
A consignment of Kaffir ooru will
soon arrive from Kansas and an effort
will be made to induce Adams county
furniers to give it a thorough trial.
Spooimon photographs of Whatcom
county timber have been forwarded to
an Eastern polytechnic institution, to
bo ui.od in the regular oourse of study.
The people of Puyallup are rejoicing
in the mildness of its climate, which
iact is evidenced by the presence of
blooming roses and chrysanthemums.
Another large batoh of land has been
patented by the Northern Paoiflo rail
way. It consists of 695,818 acres lying
iu Yakima, Walla Walla and Frank
lin counties.
To this state has been secured a sep
arate district for river aud harbor im
provements by the authorities at Wash
ington. An engineering office will be
established at Seattle.
The Eitzville farmers and business
men are very joyful on account of the
bright prospects for a good year. Sum
mer Jallowed ground is permeated
three or four feet with moisture and a
good crop is almost assured.
A good suggestion has been made to
build fiatboats with a oapaoity of ten
or fifteen tons, to be loaded with ore
at or near Fairview mining camp, B.
C, in tho Osooyoos division upou the
Okauogau river, and float them down
to Weuutohee.
The Pacflo County Bar Association
has taken stops to prevent Oregon law
yers from practicing in the superior
uuuji iu me aistnot wmon comprises
Paoiflo, Wahkiakum and Lewis coun
ties. Tho last legslature passed a law
allowing only those lawyers from
other states to practice iu Washugton
courts whoso states grantod the same
privileges to Washington lawyers. It
appears that Oregon laws do not per
mit lawyers residing in this state to
praotico there.
Two carloads of machinery have ar
rived from the East for the Seattle
nrm that successfully bid for two of
the now warships. The buildings are
now all in readiness, including the
building ways, which are covered by
a roofed shed 200x75 foot, giving am
ple room to build both the torpedo boat
and the revenue tug. Not the least
significant of the recent extensions is
the shop for stool Bhip building whioh
is now completed and ready to reoeive
ts machinery and tools.
Real estate asronts of SDokane are
jubilant over theinorease of their stook
in trade of alluring inducements.
The bank clearances for the week end
ing January 35, exceeded those of Seat
tle, Taooina aud Helena. It may also
be noted that the railroad trafflo shows
a remarkable inoreaso, and the hotels
and restaurants are filled with more
strangers than at any time for three
years previous. This insorease, to
gether with ten big mines working in
the Ooeur d'Alenes aud a lengthening
list of shippors in the Slooan and Trail
Creek distriots; with wheat advanoing
until it is worth about 20 oents per
bushel more than last year; with new
enterprises guaranteed for this oity,
aud with the other signs of new pros
perity, Spokane has no complaint to
register at this date.
wares, and those who had not packed
fall fish were railing mruiiiHt thnu
who had. Of late there has been a
brisk demand for salmon, and all the
tall pack has been sold and shipped,
and there are only a few small lots of
Chinook left on the river. It is stated
on good authority that more salmon
has been shipped from this section dur
ing the present month than during
uuury oi me live previous years.
ine demand is principally from the
mst, where many new markets have
been opened np. It will be reniem
bored that the paok of fall salmon was
very laigo, and it has found favnr miH
nas been sold for a good price,
At a recent meetina of the statu hoard
oi labor commissioners of California
in San Franoisoo reports from Professor
Hilgard of the state university, who
was appointed to test the relative
merits of building stone from different
sections, were reoeived and discussed.
This report was seoured for the pur
pose of selecting the best material for
the now depot building, at the foot of
Market street. Samples from the state
of Nevada, California, and from Pio
neer quarry at Yaquina were sub
mitted, and the Oregon stone was
found far superior to either of Its oom
petitors. If the stone for Han Fran
Cisco's big depot, whioh will require
10,000 tons, is selected udou its merit
i win tie taken irom the Pioneer
quarry in this state. This stone is the
same that was used in the building of
mo iamous farrot blook on Market
street in San Franoisoo, whioh is pro
nounoed the finest of its kind in the
United States.
IIILLSBORO, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1896.
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Events ot the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEBEST TO ALL BEADEBS
importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
or the Dispatches.
rotter Palmer, of Chicago, is being
uuuBiuerea Dy tne administration as
the possible suooessor to Theodore Bun-
yon, as ambassador to Germany.
It is reported that Qermanv has nr
dered twelve torpedo-destroyers from a
London shipbuilder. The new vessels
are to nave a speed of thirty knots an
nuur.
a railroad bridee near SanaaHtn
v,ai., ooiiapsed Irom the weight of a
locomotive, resulting in the death of
the engineer and serious ininrv to th
a " "
ureman.
Idaho.
The late Goddard murder case cost
the county of Noz Perce $7,524.
A shipment of 70,000 fruit trees was
recently made from Moscow to Camas
Prairie.
A snowslide oarried away the mill
at the Vanderbilt mine, two miles
south of Hailey.
Another payment is due tho N
mgnt lion. Huirh C. R. HhiiHo,.
formerly first lord of tha admiral'
uuauoeuor oi tne Duohy of Lancaster,
and financial seoretary of the treasury,
died in Loudon.
General Joseph H. Porter died at the
Grand Union hotel, New York. The
immediate cause of his death was com
plications from a gunshot wound in the
lungs, received during the war.
The rolling mills of the Illinois Steel
Company, located at South Chicago,
whioh were shut down December 81,
have resumed, giving work to 6.000
men, who have been idlesinoe the shutdown.
A physician of Rio de Janeiro
olares that he has found a oure whioh
is almost certain in its effects for yel
low fever. The physician's new rem-
pn v nnnHiBfa nf lm 1 .
Perces in February of 1150.000. It 1 doses of tha Br0nt r.t i
sconider the case within its jurisdiction
to determine npon constitutional
grounds.
C. W. Smith, of San Franoisoo, has
oeen named as a new receiver for the
Atlantic & Pacifio railroad.
lhe Colisseum in Chicago has been
selected as the place for holding the
national Democratic convention.
ine American board has received
word irom ISrzeroum. Turkev. that
through tne relief money which is sent,
Dread is given daily to about 1.500
persons in Wat city alone. But annli.
cants for relief are nearly twice that
number.
March 25 the German reichstao- will
celebrate in an elaborate manner the
signing of the preliminary peace of
1871.
might be very handy these dull days to
be an Indian.
Development work on the Black Hor
net has suspended for the present.
The owners will put ud a ten.at.nmr,
mill for reducing and saving the gold.
The machinery for the new packing
company at Idaho Falls has arrived
and is being plaoed in position. Con
tracts have been made for a lame num
ber of hogs, so that slaughtering may
uuuiiuence at once.
The Boise mining exchange is start
ing off in a business-like manner. The
members seem to be in earnest in the
matter, and filled with a determination
to score a success. The exohange
promises to ne a great benefit to the
mining industry of the state.
Some Indiana citizens desiring to
oome West have written for offers and
inducements as a bonus for their start-
nig a wood-pulp mill. It would re
quire considerable soft wood, such as
oottonwood, linn, buokeye, etc All
things being favorable another desir
able industry will be Btarled in Idaho.
Orcgou.
A new steamer for the coal trade is
soon to be put on between San Fran
cisco and Coquille City.
A mining and ooal-shipping corpora
tion has been started at Bandon, with
a capital stook of (150,000.
The building of the Astoria rail
road has already consumed $400,000,
whioh is at the rate of $50,000 per
month.
I A rabbit drive fad is now being in
. .-dulgod in by the oitizens of Lakeview,
and thousands of the animals have
been killed.
It is estimated that the wool orop
alone sold to such good advantage that
$600,000 was disbnrsed in the vicinity
of The Dalles last year.
Benton oouuty, whioh now has six
flouring mills, is soon to have another.
The new mill is to be of a oomplete
roller process and is to contain modern
machinery.
The farmers around Roseburar have
been oashing up their wheat, taking
advantage of the prevailing advauoe of
the market value of that oommodity;
the result is muoh coin is being placed
in circulation whioh oannot be accen
tuated with the opening season.
The Willamette river seems to be
steadily deepening, every year and also
increasing in, rvolume of water. : In
plaoes the ohannel has an entirely dif
ferent oourse than that remembered by
the oldest settlers. It really seems to
be going baok to its old bed of preliis
' torio times. Such radioal ohangos
have taken place in the ohannels of
other rivers, but the cause of whioh
has been just as deeply involved in
mystery. .
A Short time since mnnnrrmnn urara
Montana.
The diptheria epidemio has died out
at Belt and the publio schools have re
opened. Billings' latest enterprise is to con
struct a 10,000 opera house with a
capacity for 600 persons.
A reoeut fire at Helena destroyed a
$30,000 milling plant of the Montana
numbering & Manufacturing Com
pany.
A brewing oonoern has just finished
a fine oold-storage house and are pre
paring to put in bottling works in con
neouon witn their establishment at
ueit.
lhe assessed valuation of Montana
is $124,076,585.50, while its indebted-
ness is only $2,798,080.82. For s
state that is only six years old, Mou
tana is doing remarkably well.
The business of the Anaconda post'
office is too large for its present ac
oommodations and as there is no suit
able building, it probably means the
oonstruotion of a new blook. The
postoffloe inspectors are in the oitv
luuKing me matter up.
The municipal authorities of Helena,
unaer authority oi a popular vote to
that effeot, tried to dispose of about
$600,000 worth of bonds recently, bear
ing interest at 5 per cent. There was
only one bidder, and the matter was
postponed for thirty days.
British Columbia.
It is likely that the War Eagle will
put up a milling plant of its own at
Rossland.
A new brewery will soon be erected
at Sappington. It will have a cold
storage plant in the same building.
The present air compressor at the Le
Roi mine having proven too small, a
new twenty-drill one will be put in.
This oompany is a steady dividend
payer.
A private bill will be introduced at
the approaohing session of the legisla
ture for the purpose of incorporating
a oompany to build a railway from
Pentioton to Cascade City. The pro
posed line will run from Okanogan
lake to Midway, thence to the North
iorK of Kettle river and to Grand
Forks, thence east to Cascade City.
The people of Rossland are now con
sidering the proposition of municipal
corporation. Two meetings have been
held. At the first meeting a commit
tee was appointed to learn the oonoen
sus of the property-holders on the sub
ject. This being favorable, at the seo
ond meeting a committee was direoted
to draft resolutions to the legislature,
now in session, praying for incorporation.
A dispatch to the London Pall Mall
Gazette from Cairo, Egypt, says a sen
ous revolution has occurred at Khar
toum, growing out of differences be
tween the mahdi and the tribes belong
ing to the interior of Soudan. The
mahdi is practically overthrown.
The Berlin Tageblatt says: "It will
be the duty of continental diplomacy to
convince America that England's mo
tives in the Armenian question are po
litical, and not humane, and thus dis.
suade the United States from oo-operat-
nig wiui r-ngiand."
A dispatch to the New York World
from Caracas, savs: AnH.Rnriih
meetings are again being held. The
women of Venezuela form branches of
society for the defense of national ter
ritory, and will boyoott all English
household goods.
Belva Lockwood, once a presidential
oandidate on the woman's rights
ticket, and now a practicing attorney
in Washington, has been debarred as a
practicing attorney or agent before the
pension bureau. She is aooused of
having improperly accepted a pension
fee of $25.
Pinkerton detectives have arrested
Express Agent George Krout. of Colo-
rado Springs, Colo., on a charge of be
ing implicated in the theft of $36,000
from Wells-FarBO Comnanv snvnra
months ago. Krout claims to be in
nocent, saying he had been robbed by
highwaymen.
Three members of Tthe W Ohin
legislature have been indicted for
bribery. The names are not made pub
lio yet.
The Liberty bell, which has bean nn
exhibition at the Atlanta exposition,
has been returned to Philadelphia.
Its arrival there was announced by a
salute of forty-five guns.
Charles Asimus, who mnrdewwl
James Greenwood September 21 last,
died on the gallows at Kalama. Wash.
His last words were: "I must die; I
am all right; the sheriff he good man;
one bad man, I, must die. I'm all
right."
Whittaker Wrisrht. an Australian
yachtsman, has offered a $500 cup. to
no Buuea ior aunng the Kiviera season,
and with the object of bringing about
a meeting between snob big yaohts as
Britannia, Satanita, Ailsa and Dossihlv
an American yacht.
The Japanese legation in Washing
ton has reoeived an important oable-
gram from the foreign office of .Tanan
with a direction to make it public, by
the terms of which the rich island of
Formosa, whioh Janan aoauired from
China, will be opened up to trade and
commerce.
The Blue Jay, Silver Bow and Gray
Rock mines, of the Butte & Boston
group, in Butte, Mont., have closed
down, and over 800 men are thrown
out of employment lhe pumps have
not been withdrawn from the mines,
whioh shows that the shutdown is only
temporary.
In view of the report circulating in
the United States that William K.
Vanderbilt is shortly to announce bis
engagement to Miss Amy Bend, Vanity
Fair, published in London, this week
asserts that William K. VaniWhilt
will shortly announce his engagement
to an English duchess.
Lord and Lady Sholto Douglas have
abandoned their theatrical tour through
California and returned to San Fran
oisoo. The lord attributes the failure
of the trip to the heavy rains and the
faot that his advance agent left him in
an inopportune time. He says he will
try it again shortly.
Another Engagement With
Insurgents Reported.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
THE CUBANS WEBE FUT TO FLIGHT
So Say the Havana Dispatches, Which
Add That the Enemj Was the
Main Force Under Oomei.
mvana, Feb. 5. GnAi xr .-
, 'seiuatlU UM
uuu an engagement with a baAv nf in.
surgents that he reports to be the main
- uumoai, and that was put
--G.w n iLii 8 HiHg or fnranv
-v auBeuc, 0I any details as to
the number of insureents in
attacked leaves some ground for doubt
0.UOT wagi - trnth Gomez,
immediate following. Pretty muoh
the whole of the comhinBH i .
under General Marin, innlnrtirxv 1 nr.n
cavalry, seem to have been engaged.
w.w, waB equipped with a special
view to running down and cornering
the insurgents, once it should come face
to face with them, and great expecta
tions were founded on its supposed
ability to do this. But the report of
todays engagement, although it indi-
w.a me cpanish attack was
W1ii. great dash and vigor
indicate that the infmnt
were as successful in evading the
4.1,"u luroeB a "ey have been at any
time heretofore.
General Marin had information that
Gomez had encamped at the plantation
of Luz, and prepared for a oombined
attack by all the columns under his im
mediate command. Two columns
were orderd to take the advance, to
getter with seven squadrons under
Colonel Ruiz. Upon coming up with
the insurgents' vanguard, tho H..ni.i,
cavalry made an impetuous charge,
passing over the enemy's second line
waning npon the main force, that
was stationed near the plantation of
"u. iae insurgent were put to im
mediate flight, leaving behind them
twenty killed, eleven with machettes
in their hands. There was apparently
no successful pursuit. forth
ceeded in carrying off their wounded,
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Condensed Becord of the Doings of the
Nation's Lawmakers-Senate.
Washington, Feb. 1. Senators were
late in arriving at the senate chamber
woay. Hale reported back the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill and gave
uuuaj. murnn caned up the bill
for the payment to the widow of the
late Samuel F. Miller, justice of the
supreme court, of a sum equal to the
muanceoi nis salary for the year in
which he died. Morrill explained that
tne justice had left only a house, en
uuwtwrea py a fio.OOO mortgage.
and that the widow's circumstances
were suoh as to make the appropria
tion desirable. The bill was na&oAri
The resolution direotine the snmntarc
i ngriuuiture to execute the law rela
tive to seed distribution was then tflknn
up, and George spoke in defense of the
oourse of the secretary. Gallinger
uu nuen supported the resolution.
ine resolution gave way at 2 o'clock
to the silver bond bill, and Call nrm
tinned his speech beirnn
Mitchell of Oreeon followed in Rnimnrt
ud auv vi Buusiituie, consuming the
rout ui ine oay.
Washington, Feb. 3. When the
senate convened today the silver bond
mil nad the immediate right of way.
Vilas addressed the senate in ODnoai.
uon to tne bill, whioh. ha ...
served its fate of being strangled by
-.vor, ana, in uenuoiation of the mine
owners of the Rockies, who, he de
clared, were responsible for the agita
tion m iavor oi free coinage. The
senate committee on privileges and
eleotians decided to report in favor of
seating Dupont, Rep., as senator from
Delaware. The committee divided on
strict party lines, being five to fonr
against Republican senators in cau
cus teday decided to make an attempt
to oomplete the reorganization of the
senate, and to meet next Friday for
the purpose.
THE RISE IN WHEAT
Decidedly Encouraging
the Growers.
to
The
William Gambold, a railroad brake
man, has begun suit against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company for $25,000
damages for malioious proseoution.
The suit is the outgrowth of the Ameri
can Railway Union strike of 1894, and
is brought as a teBt case.
A speoial dispatoh from St. Peters
burg says: Arrangements point to a
conclusion between Russia, Great
Britain, France and Italy for a final
settlement of the Armenian ouestion.
These inolude Russia's occupation and
administration of Anatolia, and the
purohase of Cyprus by Russia.
There is a movement in North Ad
ams, Mass., to make the town a oity.
With a population of 21,000. it olaims
... m i . ..v.-,.. uo iu, tuigtwii iowu in Amnoa, with
complaining of a slow market for their' the exception of Watervliet, N. Y.
The first signs of the Dominion cov-
ernment's intention to carry out its
promises towards the protection of the
oountry, in the event of trouble with
any other nation, are seen in the esti
mates of the coming year, whioh have
been presented to parliament by the
Hon. G. E. Foster, minister of finance.
The total estimate for the ensuing year
is fii.zau.bsi, about the same as last.
In the expenses for the maintenance of
the militia, however, there is an in
crease of $372,716 over last.
The unexpected order for Commander
Ballington Booth's recall to Emrland
from America, has occasioned so muoh
uionuiemue ano murmuring among
me ran and hie of the Salvation
Army in this oountry that General
William Booth, father of Ballington
Booth and commander-in-ohief of the
Salvation Army foroes throughout the
world, who is now in Australia, has
deoided to visit the United States next
spring.
The treasury department is exceed-
ingly anxious that a larsre proportion
of the gold offered in payment of the
new bonds shall be obtained in Europe,
and for the purpose of enoouraging im
ports, it is intimated that the bidder
who offers foreign gold, or who demon
strates that he has gold on the way at
the time the bids are opened, will be
given preference in the awards, other
things being equal, over otters who
offer domestic gold.
The second opinion in the Eastern
Oregon branch asylum oase has been
handed down by the supreme court.
This time the injunction is dissolved
and the complaint dismissed, leaving
the constitutional question still unset
tled. The opinion was written by
Judge Wolverton and conourred in by
the other two members. In its ruling,
the court admit that the question is
one of grave importance, but does not
The London Observer savs: "Wa
have good authority leading us to ex
press the belief that Germany recently
invited Russia and other powers to co-
uioiavc u a piau nosuie to ungiand s
continued occupation of Egypt. Ac
cording to our information and belief
this proposition was declined by
Russia."
U Emperor William is firmly deter
mined to oarry out theprojeot of doubl
ing the size of the German navy. A
high German offioial says he has had re
peated conversations with the emperor
on this subject during the oast three
weeks, and he asserted that during the
coming summer the plan for the reor
ganization of the navy will be drawn
up.
The forthcoming monthly state
ment of the government reoeipts and
expenditures for January will show
that aggregate reoeipts will be approx
imately $21,237,670: exDenditures.
$32,696,480, leaving a deficit for the
month of about $8,459,160. and for
the seven months of the present fiscal
year of about $18,813,875. Reoeipts
from the oustoms during the present
month will amount to about $16,880,
796; from internal revenue, $11,041,
401; from miscellaneous sources, about
i, &15.472. This is a decrease of
about $1,000,000 in reoeipts from the
customs as compared with January,
1895, and an increase of about $2,000,
000 in reoeipts from the internal reve
nue. A dispatoh to the London Standard
from Madrid says: The papers here
protest energetically against the United
States senate committee's attitude on
the Cuban question. They deolare that
the insurgents have fulfilled none of
the requisites by international law or
usage for the recognition of belliger
enoy. The government organs, with a
view of paoifving the publio irritation,
point out that President Cleveland, his
ministers and the federal authorities so
far have preserved a perfeotly oorreot
and friendly attitude toward Spain,
contrasting strongly with the popular
sympathy and assistance the insurgents
have obtained from the American neo-
ple.
Lloyd Montgomery, the self-con
murderer of his father, mother
and Daniel B. MoKeroher. has naid the
penalty of hio&fme by death on the
gallows. The prisoner exhibited con
siderable pluck, considering his youth,
anu did not ninch upon the scaffold.
The execution took plaoe, as required
by law, in an inolosure in the jailyard
at Albany, Or. An hour before he
went upon the soaffold he wrote out
and signed the followintr statement?
"I did it I am guilty. O God, have
mercy on me. Take me as I am, a
poor sinner. I am sorry for what I
have done. God, do have meroy on
my poor soul; for my sake, do, and
forgive all my sins, each and everyone
of them, and forgive those who sin
against me. Oh, God, help the preoi
ous souls to see the way of life for my
sake. Do help them and guide them
through this life."
oeverai prisoners w tot
loss of the troops is insignificant
n is also reported that the columns
under General Cornell, operating in
combination with those under Genreals
Linares and Aldeooa, are in pursuit
of a numerous band of insurgents near
Artemisa, which is supposed to be
Maoeo s main force. This band is
said to be striving to effect a junction
with Gomez, and it seems in a fair
way to do so, as there is no apparent
oheck in its advanoe along the south-
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Further news is awaited with lively
interest, as it is believed it will be
proved in a very short time whether
mo Buuns or Maceo and
iorm a junction will
Gomez to
prove successful.
TRANSVAAL AFFAIRS.
A ppears
Situation More Serious Than
on the Surface.
the World from London says: The
Times intimates that the situation in
the Transvaal is much more serious
than appears on the surface. It calls
attention to the fact that the appeals
against the Boers and the dispatches
stating that there is imminent danger,
r it uy uitianoers, are sent
from points under British rule, thus
showing an absolute oensorship of tel
egrams by the Transvaal authorities,
for the Eastern Cable Company reports
v muoh me an rignt.
Mr. Bayard, speaking as an ex-seore
ui siate, says the sending of
mwu ocates man-of-war to Delagoa
bay, or Cape Town, with instructions
iu uie captain, or other officer in oom
maud, to proceed to Pretoria and watch
the court proceedings in behalf of
Hammond and the other acoused Amer
icans, would be entirely within the
province of the president and very ad
visable, for a special representative of
w uuiwa otates government oannot
""imiuneu in time for the trials.
T J T7I
,7"'. eo- A correspondent
of the African Critic, at Johannesburg,
cables that he has collected "damaninc
v. iuo icuiiea tortures of a
captain and trooper of Jameson's force
by the Boers, whose command after-
waius oroered the two prisoners shot,
The Colorado Lynchlng-a,
wasnington, Feb. 5. President
Cleveland today sent to congress the
lunuwing message:
iu my last annual message allu
sion was made to the lawless killing of
oertain Italian laborers in the state of
Colorado, and it was added that the
uepeuaem lamines of some of these
uniortunate victims invite by their de
pioraoie oondition gracious provisions
for their needs. It now appears that
m auuiuon to three of those laborers,
who were treaoherouslv tiling
others, who escaped death by flight,
inourreu pitiable disabilities through
exposure and privation. Without dis
cussing the question of the liability of
the United States for these results,
either by reasons of treaty obligations
or under the general rules of nterna
tional law, I venture to urge upon con
gress the propriety of making from the
publio treasury a prompt and reason
able pecuniary provision for those in
jured and for the families of those who
were killed."
A Race Expected In Kngliih Waters.
New York, Feb. 5. The World's
Glasgow correspondent wires that Val
kyrie has been ordered from New York
to the Clyde, preparatory for early
English regattas, and it is expected
Defender will orass and raoe Valkyrie
in British waters.
Washington, Feb. 4. The Ion con
test over the silver bond bill is at an
end in the senate, that hnriv haVin
jioocu me iree silver oomage substi
tute for the house bond bill by the de
cisive vote of 42 to 85 a majority of
seven for free silver. This result was
reaohed at 3 o'clock today, after three
hours of caustic debate and sharp par
liamentary fencing. The bill pro
vides: "That from and after the pas
sage of thisaot, the mints of the United
States shall be open to the ooinage of
silver, and there shall be coined dollars
at the weight of 412 grains, Troy, of
standard silver, nine-tsnths fine. a
provided by the act of January 8, 1837,
and upon the same terms and subject
to the limitations and Drovisinna nf
il. i ...
me law regulating the ooinage and
legal-tender quality of gold, and when
ever the said coins herein provided for
shall be received into the treasury,
certificates may be issued thereon in
the manner now provided by law."
INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS
More Than Anything Else, the Cans of
the Substantial Improvement
In the Wheat Market.
The great nations of the earth are
uow standing glaring at one another
with their sleeves rolled up, and it is
doubtful whether a great war can be
averted much longer. It is this eon
dition of international relations more
than anything else, we think, that u
causing the substantial improvement
in the wheat market. W hnna that
the price will continue to riu ant
at suoh a figure when the next orop
oomes in that every farmr win
able to recoup on the losses of the last
three years and oome out with a snug
little sum for a rainy day. The dis
proportionate rise in the lonal mw
is due no doubt lars-elv tn tha nnn.n.1
demand for loading the many vessels
now at Portland, Taooma, Seattle and
San Franoisoo. A Portland re
states that besides the large number of
vessels already in the Willamatt.
thirty-six to forty are exneoted within
a month. The Ledger, of Taooma,
states that more vessels are soon to
arrive in that port for the purpose of
taking on wheat. These charter. .
not taken and must be made use of
with as little delay as possible, henoe
the urgent demand for Walla Walla
wheat to fill out the cargoes.
House.
Washington, Feb. 1. The attend
ance in the house was slim today.
Wadsworth, from the committee on
agriculture, reported the agricultural
appropriation bill. On motion of Doo
little, a resolution was adopted request
ing the president at his earliest conve
nience, to transmit to congress the re
port of the board of engineers on the
Nicaragua canal. The bill to amend
the dependent pensions aot of 1890, so
that in considering widows' niaims
seven years of unexpected absence
snouid be deemed sufficient proof of the
aeatn oi the soldier, was passed. A
uju was passed ror the reorganization
oi the customs collection district of
Alaska.
Washington, Feb. 3. The house to-
nay oonflned itself to routine business.
most of the session was devoted to the
District of Columbia appropriation
bill. The committee on ways and
means adopted a resolution providing
iur an investigation of the tariff dis
crimination against American produots
uua cue enect oi the repeal of reoiproc
ity laws. The resolution was intro
uuced Dy i'awney. Experts to make
tne investigation are provided for.
Representative Maguire, of California,
auuresseu tne house committee on Pa
oino railroads in opposition to the
lunding bill. There was muoh disous
oion as to wnetner the government
noius prior title to the other interests.
Chairman Powers appointed Messrs.
Arnold oi Pennsylvania, Watson of
Ohio, and Bell of Texas, a oommittee
to investigate the question of the pri
ority of the lien.
Washington, Feb. 4. Attendance in
the house today was small. Powers
asked unanimous consent for considera
tion of a senate bill to oav the widow
of the late Justice Samuel F. Miller
$7,149, the balance of his salary for the
year in whioh he died. Loud objected
and the bill was referred. Bills were
id to grant to the St Louis &,
Oklahoma City rialroad rightj of way
through the Indian and Oklahoma ter
ritories; to amend the aot granting to
the Kansas City, Pittsbunt & Gulf rail-
road right to build a branch road to
Fort Smith. A resolution renorted hv
Taft from the oommittee on foreign
affairs was adopted, calling on the
president, if not incompatible with the
publio interest, to transmit to the house
all correspondence between this uov-
ernment and Germany relative to the
exclusion of insuranoe companies of the
United States from transacting busi
ness in Germany. The house then
went into oommittee of the whole and
resumed consideration of the Cninm.
bia appropriation bill.
London Standard's Views.
The followinar from tha T Jti Inn
Standard will explain in a meararn
reasons why there should be at least a
small raise in the nrioe of what-
'The area of wheat mrrarn in ti..
United Kingdom in 1895 th
uuaucet ever recorded since any at
tempt at a statistical statement was
made. For the whole United King
dom it was 1,456,200 acres, or more
than 500,000 acres less than 1894. The
total product of the wheat orop in
Great Britain is officially estimated at
not more than 37,194,256 bushels,
while the total requirements-' were
240,000,000 bushels. More than 2,
000,000 acres have gone out of wheat
cultivation in England in the last
twenty years. The average per acre
last year was the smallest ever known,
ulyt26 boshels- I is also stated
that Russia's wheat orop was 50,000,
000 bushels short in 1895, and the rve
eorp 80,000,000 short This came
from a decline in the yield per acre.
Great Britain oannot afford to outivate
wheat at the prioes of the last two or
three years."
Expenditures for Canada's Militia.
Ottawa, Feb. 8. The annnal .
port of the mininster of militia gives
the total expenditures for the militia
last year as $1,547,018. Onlv so 77
put in their annual drill of twelva
days last year. The adiutant-mmarai
oalls attention to the nhaniat .too.
with whioh the fore is equipped.
Decline In Shipment.
A resume of the grain shipments as
made by the Taooma Ledger, shows
that the amount of wheat coming in
to that city this year is not nearly as
large as it was last year. Up to De
cember 1, only 8,500 cars of wheat,
approximately, had arrived from East
ern Washington grain fields. One
thousand of these oars arrived during
November, 800 during Ootober and 600
cars between September 10 and Octo
ber 1. These figures were obtained
from the state strain commiaainn ikni.
began to inspeot grain the second week
of October. About 500 oars had rolled
into the oity before inspection began,
making between 3,400 and 8,500 oars
altogether. Besides this there are 500
cars which have arrived here for ship
ment to San Franoisoo that are not
enumerated in the above figures.
Last year during the months of Au
gust, September, Ootober and Novem
ber, 5,143 oars had been reoeived here
besides about 1,000 cars that had
passed through the city consigned to
San Francisco.
As previously reported in the Led
ger, the reason for the light movement
is that farmers are holding to their
2?'Xl?ti,lg hiher Prioes. 1
that the illegal rebates alleged to be
granted by the O. R. & N., are send
ing a great deal of tha uu
had heretofore come to Taooma to
Portland and San Franoisoo this sea
son. The average receipts now amount
to twenty oars daily. The wheat mar
ket has shown a rising tendenoy for ten
days past, and if prioes oontinna tn
up, the movement will increase as pro
ducers will be more anxious to dispose
of their crop. Notwithstanding the
depressing outlook a nnmW .k:..
have already loaded cargoes here and
many otters are on their t w-
on wheat and flour cargoes at the Ta.
coma docks.
Agricultural Suggestions.
We boast that our nation .
f vavu 1WUB VUfJ
world, but it does not by any means,
we import produots to tha
$5,0000,000. There are bmnaht i
more or less of all srraina: man. h
and mules, eggs, cheese, butter and
oondensed milk; potatoes by the thou
sands of bushels. Let 11 S hwia .U
will be a ohange some day.
bo often the side brannha. nf
work fail to pav beoanan naru ...
negligently. A dozen hives of bees
should bring the farmer as much reve
nue as a 10-aore wheat field. The re
turn the care of his chickens would
bring is underrated.
children are not trained to a proper in-
The relative value of timnth
wild hay has not yet been thoroughly
investigated; but so far as amnrimant.
have oome under nhanrvavlnn th-
seem to be favorable to wild h.
against timothy. The other Question.
as to whioh is the most profitable orop
for the farmer to grow, most be large
ly settled by the fanner himself. Tht
question of soil and location must U
considered,
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