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UH.LSUOUO. OREGON. TIIUKSDAY, KEHItUAKY 20. W.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
News From Our Sister Htatee Kiltom-Ued-The
Leading Topics 1I
cussed Washington,
Aberdeen will have ouly nix mouths
of school, tho turni ending thu latter
part of this mouth.
A permanent oouuty immigration
convention was organized lu Taooma
for Pieroe oounty last week.
There will, it is eiamted, be from
8,000 to 13,000 bushels of apples
shipped from Oroas island this year. M
The wiuter school for farmers at
Pulluiar Id proving popular. Farmers :
from all parts of the state are iu at
teuduuoe. Mrs. Caroline E. Hartman. who is i
flpyears old, has taken up a oluim six
niiles above Granite Falls, in Snoho
mish oounty.
Ex-Sheriff DeRaokin, of Linoaln
oounty, has purohased the Populist pa
per at Davenport, the People's Banner,
from C. H. Scott
There will be no ioe famine in Soo-
kane, notwithstanding the mild win- i box
fill "hnt-n In nlo... I. i UJ1 '
for taxes, from Sheriff Houser, and has
remitted $2,500 of that sum to State
Treasurer Metsohan.
The Lawler syndicate, owning and
developing the tyuartzville mine in the
Bautiam district, paid out to those in
its employ and for supplies over $10,
000 during January.
A petition for the pardon of Frank
Kolley, oonvloted of having deer meat
in nis possession during the olosed sea
son, Has been forwarded to Governor
Lord from Pendleton.
The Bandon Coal Conpamy is ao
lively operating its mines at Riverton
and expoots in the near future to keep
two steamers plying between the Co
quille and San Franosoo.
The president of the Douglas Countv
Pioneer Society will call a meeting
some time in March or April for the
purpose of electing officers, and decid
ing upon the time and place for the
next reunion.
The telophone line between Canyon
ville and John Day is finished, and the
next work will be its extension to
rrairle City and Long Creek. A move
ment is on foot to extend the line on
to Baker City.
Two of the four prisoners in the Eu
gene jail out through the board wall
recently and made their escape. The
jail has several iron oells, but it was
not thought necessary to oonflne the
prisoners therein.
In Astoria, Officer A. Seafeldt stuck
a key in the kevhole of a
to turn in
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
NO. 48.
Events ot the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
an alarm. And was
plenty of ioe in Silver , knocked lmt amituslaaa 'Pita U.
lake, Medical lake and other lakes near j was heavily charged with electrioity
aj ine wires naving become crossed.
the city,
As a reward for hard work on the
part of the women, Snohomish now has
The farmers of 8herman countv feel
elated over oroo Drosaects. Mom
. ...K rou.uug-ruom, weu ugntea ana j moisture is in the ground than there
amply spplied with papers and other has been for years, which is an assur-
reading matter.
A buyer ot horses has been in North
Yakima on the lookout for small ani
mals to ship to Alaska. He has been
paying from $5 to $10, and has bought
np fourteen horses.
Turner & Williams, of Spokane, re
cently sent a large shipment of ore
from the Le Hoi mine to the Everett
smelter, from whioh they got $13,000.
The ore averagod over $100 a ton.
Jeff Letton, a former resident of
Farmington, is in trouble at Wallace,
Idaho. He is aooused of poisoning his
18-months' old child in order to obtain
a legaoy to whioh the child was sup-
jposed to be heir. which is of such a high grade that the
The analysis of a deposit from a lake ounipany has deoided to make ship
u Adams oounty has been made bv the ' meats to a smelter rather than treat it
obief of the mineral division of the at the mill,
anoe that an abundant harvest will re
sult, ihere is a large demand for
wheat land to rent in the oounty.
The White Swan Mining Company,
composed of Iowa capitalists, has sent
out two repesontatives, who are busy
adjusting the affairs of the oompany.
They say all indebtedness will be paid
and the mine will soon take its place
among Baker county's bullion pro
duoers. Reliable information has been re
ceived from Cracker Creek, Baker
oounty, of a rich strike in the upper
tunnel of the North Pole mine. The
ledge is seven feet wide, ore from
Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources - Cream
or the Dispatches.
Three were killed and two iniured
i uiuu-wreoK near Koohester, N. Y,
Mrs. Nanoy Welch, an Oregon Dio.
neer and the first white woman to set'
tie in Astoria, died suddenly of heart
lauure in Astoria.
By the use of Roentgent's new dis
oovery, the "X" rays, a buokshot was
located in a man's hand, where it had
been for two years.
Grant Atterbury, a murderer, was
taken from the jail at Sullivan, III.,
dragged to the courthouse in his night
shirt by a mob, and hanged to a tree.
The schooner Aida, twenty-six days
from Shanghai to Port Townsend, has
made the best passage across the Pa
oiflo ocean on record for a sailing ves
sel. Bartholomew Shea was electrocuted
in Dannemora prison, New York, for
tne murder of Robert Ross, at TW in
March, 1894. He died protesting bis
innocence.
of the United States army, was found
dead in his room in the Palmer house,
Chioago. Death was caused by as
phyxiation. Carter had the distinc
tion of having eerved twenty-three
years with the Seventh cavalry, Gen
eral Custer's old regiment. He par
ticipated in a dozen engagements with
hostile Indians and earned a record as
a brave soldier on the frontier.
Dr. Cyrus Edson. of New York.
claims to have discovered a remedy for
tuDerouiosis. He terms it aseptolin.
it is principally water and carbolic
acid, and is used hynodermioallv,
About fifty physicians in the country
have piocured aseptolin from Dr, Ed-
son s laboratory and are using it in
their practice. It has cured every case
oi malaria and la grippe in whioh it
has been tried, seventy-seven in all of
malaria and fifty-one of la grippe.
The Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
of Philadelphia has been awarded the
contract for building revenue cutter
No. 8, for the Pacific coast. The new
outter is to be 160 feet long.-
While the American steamer Paris.
from New York, was docikng in South
ampton, she came into collision with
the steamer Majesty, belonging to the
Isle of Wight. The Majesty was sunk.
but all her crew were saved.
Meager details have been received in
San Francisco of a disastrous hurricane
on tne louga islands, in the South
seas. The barks Woosung and West
Australia and the Samoan schooner
Aele were wrecked, but no lives were
lost.
FRENZIED WITH FRIGHT
Match Carelessy Thown Into
a Pile ot Oily Waste.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
There is believed to be a Jack the
Ripper abroad in San Francisco. The
police say the murders recently nnm.
mitted there are similar to those of the
Lionaon terror.
The city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was
visited by a terrible fire. The Peru
vian oonsulate and several blocks were
destroyed. The loss will aggregate
over $4,000,000.
rjoologioal survey. He found that the
deposit oousistod of a mixture of ohlo
ride sulphate and carbonate of sodium.
The public sohoool of Weston is to
be conducted for the remainder of the
year by the normal school as a train
ing department, an agreeemnt to that
effect having been recently arrived at
byj tho dirootors with the school man
agers. The star mail servioe between Chelan
and Stehekin, has been ordered in
creased to three timos a week from
June 1 to September 80 of each year.
The poBtoilloe department has for
warded a commission as postmaster to
William D. Stark, at Seguin.
The state mining bureau has ap
pointed Harry Laudes as state geolo
gist. The new appointee is professor
to geology in the state university, and
has accepted the new position with
fhe understanding that he will receive
no compensation except that paid by
the university.
C. N. Byles, assignee of the Wake
field State bank, has filed his second re
port. Claims aggregating $10,900
have beeu filed with him by 72 credit
ors. He has oollected $389.88, and
paid out $103.80. The assets are in
such a condition that it will be a long
time before the affuirscan be olosed up.
Colonel George Hunter, who is over
70 years of age, was married in Wash
ington, D. C, to a woman of 34, about
a week ago, his first wife having been
dead only six months. Colonel Hunter
is one of the pioneer Indian fighters of
this region, and is known all over
Eastern Washington.
During services in an Ilwaoo ohuroh
the other day two or three dogs kept
np a oontinual yelping not far from
the building. On going out to ascer
tain the cause, it was found that they
had a flue eight-ppint (ilk at' bay, in
the "timber a few yards back of the
ohuroh. The animal esoaped oapture,
hojwever. '
totvia. Spoor, ex-street commissioner
and city oounoilman of Port Town
send, died in that city, aged 68 years.
He was a native of New York, and left
that state when the rush to the Cali
fornia gold fields took place in 1849.
Then he drifted to the Sound country,
and for the past thitry years made his
home in Port Townsend. He was a
prominent mason.
Oregon.
Wheat at Salem jumped fom 53 to
65 oents one day last week.
The city oounoil of Hillsboro has
levied a tax of 7 mills to raise revenue
for the ooming year.
Dr. Inman, of Umatilla oounty, has
been .bound oyer In the sum of $1,500
to answer to the grand jury the oharge
of manslaughter.
'..Eugene .horsemen are making ar
rangements to secure JBwene a nlaoe
the racing ohcup;? O&Vhave' a
Idaho.
ThePotlntoh Horticultural Associa
tion held its meeting last week. There
was brought out some interesting data
concerning the condition and prospects
of the orohards of the Potlatch empire.
The state board of land commission
ers at Boise, on the 14th inst. took
favorable action on the application of
the American Falls canal and power
oompany, for the reclamation, under
the Carey act, of 75,000 aores of arid
lands in Idaoh.
It is said that the prospects for
operating the mines of the Coeur
d'Alenes, in Idaho, are fairly good for
the ooming season. The price of lead
is not, however, very encouraging, but
it can not keep olosed such mines as
the Standard, the Gem, 'Frisoo, Poor
man and others. These and other
properties are well equipped with the
latest reduotion plants and the product
can be handled economically. It is
expected from this time on nearly
every mine in this rioh country will be
operated to its fullest oapaoity.
The new mining exchange of Boise
will soon be opened for business. This
will not be a stock exchange, but will
be an association devoid of brokerage
or otner ooncerns, where the miner and
prospeotor will oongregate, securing
correct assay returns of their mines.
etc. A description of the merits of all
suoh properties will be conspicuously
posted and filed with the, officers, and
which will at all times be open to the
inspection of investors. The work of
the association is not oonflned to any
one seotion 01 Idaho, but will take in
the entire state.
in
uvb meet mere in may,
Cods oounty farmers have agreed to
furnishitb Myrtle Point oieamery the
tnilfe 'df ao&' cows, and the oreamery
will begin operations in the spirng.
Railroad officials at LaGrande re
pork that the new flange machine for
clearing the track of snow and ioe is a
success. The maohine in use was con
strutted it Albina.
Treasurer Kern, of Uamtilla county,
has received $3,800, money colleoted
Montana.
The classification of the min
eral land commissioners made last Sep
tember has been made final. By this
decision the Northern Paoiflo will ao
quire title to about 50,000 aores of
land in Missoula, Flathead and Ra
valli counties.
A oarload of ore was shipped from
the Big Seven mine at Neihart last
week that netted $22,000. This mine
is located near the Benton group and
is being managed by E. J. Barker,
who, together with D. L. S. Barker,
is fortunate enough to own the prop
erty. The extension of the Anaoonda re
finery was started up for the first time
last week. It is an event of more than
ordinary importance in the history of
the Anaoonda Copper Mining Com
pany, Bays the Recorder. After an ex
penditure of $250,000, nearly all of
whioh was paid out for Montana labor
and prodnots in its construction, Ana
oonda now enjoys the proud distinc
tion of possessing the largest and most
oomplete eleotrolytio refinery in the
world.
y -Chief Engineer Lombard of the Mon
tana railroad has just returned from a
trip of inspection along Sixteen Mile
ornek. Work, he reports, is progressing
as fast as oan be expected. The work
is extremely difficult at portions and
the men at this seotion are now at
work, making a roadbed through the
solid rook. A month's work after the
frost is out of the ground next spring
will oomplete -the road to within four
teen miles of its terminus Castle.
The remaining distance will be com
paratively easy.
As a result of a prizefight in Phila
delphia, Frederick Sohleonter, one of
the priniopals, died and ex-Policeman
Pluokfelder, the other prinoipal, is in
jail oharged with murder.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department, under the direotion of As
sistant Secretary Curtis, shows that
the government will realize from the
new loan $111,878,836.97.
Governor Lord received from the
united htates land office a oertifled
transcript of a dear list of school in
demnity Beleotions in The Dalles dis
trlot, embracing 5,522 acres.
Minister Buchanan of Argentine
caoies m reply to an inquiry about the
wheat condition that it is unfavorable
owing to excessive rains, and estimates
the exportable surplus at 80,000,000
bushels.
Justioe Morris, of Washington, D.
C. , in announcing a decision nf th
court of appeals for the District of Co
lumbia, ruled that while intoxication
may be a disease, yet if it is voluntary
and leads to oouiinission of crime, it is
a crime in itsolf.
Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator,
will make her debut into the minis
terial profession, and henceforth her
literary prefix will be reverened in
stead of colonel. Her recent sickness
was the immediate cause of her mind
taking a divine turn.
It is announoed on authority that fol
lowing the advice of the United States,
Venezuela has praotioally deoided to
send a representative to London with
power to open negotiations with the
government of Great Britain for the
settlement of the boundary dispute.
An aerolite exploded above Madrid.
The loud report was followed by a
general panic. All buildinss were
shaken, and many windows were shat
tered. According to the offloials of the
Madrid observatory, the explosion 00
oured twenty miles above the earth.
While proceeding from Yokohama to
Kobe, the United States flagship Olym
pia struck a gale, to escape whioh all
steam was orowded on and a speed of
twenty-one knots developed. The
storm broke her forward deok stanch
ions and carried away her bridge rails.
The London Chronicle olaims the
oredit for the conversion of England to
arbitration, and says: "The speeches
in parliament show that wa hnvA
reached the point where a solution 1b
a oertainty. The 8ohomburgk line is
as defunot as the boundaries of Wes
set." Barney Beok, a printer, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. E. B. Catlin in
Anaoonda, Mont. He was pursued by
an angry mob, but killed himself be
fore they could oapture him. Infatua
tion for the woman, and her refusal to
aooept his attentions is given as the
cause.
Rev. J. H. Hunyoutt, a Baptist min
ister, has been arrested at Morrilltown,
Ark., oharged with infantioide. His
housekeeper's 1 -year-old baby oried
while he was preparing a sermon, and
the preacher beoame enraged at the
annoyance and choked the ohild to
death.
Martin Cleary, a oustom-house in
spector, was arrested in San Francisco,
oharged with accepting bribes from a
Chinese opium manufacturer and from
Chinese emigrants, who desired to
land but did not possess the neoessary
oertifioates authorizing them to enter
the United States.
Delegate Catron, of New Mexioo. the
author of the anti-prizefight bill, is
greatly displeased at the impression
whioh has been formed that he was
acting under the advice of Governor
Thornton, of New Mexioo, in his ef
forts to prevent prizefighting in the
territory. Catron made a satement to
the press aoousing the governor of
standing in" with Stuart, in his de
sire to pull off the fights.
'Jasiius R. Carter, retired sergeant
Li Hung Chang and Shas Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates to rep
resent the emperor of China at the
coronation of Emperor Nicholas II, of
Kussia, at Moscow. Negotiations are
still in progress looking to the conclu
sion 01 a commercial treaty between
China and Japan.
Through Senor Andrade, its min
ister in Washington, the government
of Venezuela has notified Secretary
Olney that it will respond affirmatively
to the invitation of the Venezuela com
mission to submit all the evidence in
its possession touching the location of
the true boundary line.
Magnus C. Crosby died in Astoria.
The deceased was one of Astoria's lead
ing business men, and was twice elect
ed mayor of the city. He left a widow
and five children. The cause of his
death was a complication of Bright's
disease, from whioh he had been suf
fering for several years.
Count Zeppelin, of Germany, has de
livered a lecture at Stuttgart in the
presence of the king of Wurtemburi?
and the military authorities on a steer
ing airship, whioh, it is said, will cost
about $75,000 and travels eleven miles
an hour. It is claimed such an airship
can remain in the air 1 days.
The Brisbane river iu Queensland
has been greatly swollen by floods. A
small steamer crossing the river with
about ninety passengers capsized, and
only forty were saved. The capsized
steamer was the ferryboat Peral. The
current was very swift and the river
banks and Victoria bridge were endan
gered. Advices just received from Seoul,
the capital of Corea, say an uprising
took plaoe there February 11, during
which the premier and seven officials
were murdered. These disnatches add
that the king and crown prince sought
shelter in the Russian legation. The
aiug ornerea tne ministers put to
death. Two hundred Russian sailiors
and mariners are now guarding the
legation in that oountry.
For the first time in half a century
the American falls of Niagara praoti
oally ran dry, by the formation of an
ice bridge or dam, extending from
Schlosser's dock, on the American
bank, about half way aoross the river.
The water was almost entirely diverted
to the Canadian falls. It was possible
for a time for a man with a plank to
have walked from the mainland to
Goat island without wetting his feet.
During the debate on the address in
reply to the queen's speech in the house
of oommons, Sir William Vernon Har
court, supporting the amendment for
not proposing self-government for Ire
land, pointed out that the colonies,
from whioh there was evidently a
splendid testimony of loyalty to the
orown, enjoyed home rule, and he
maintained that the polioy of home
rule oould be as successful in Ireland
as in the colonies.
A great fire raged in Guayaquil
JWJuaaor, resulting in the death of
thirty persons. When the firemen and
soldiers, who were hurriedly ordered
out 10 neip tnem finally brought it
under control, thousands of panic
strioken persons were wandering home
less in the streets, many lay dead in
the morgue, and property worth nearly
$2,000,000 had been destroyed, includ
ing the noble cathedral and the oon
vent whioh adjoined it.
D. Willis James, of New York, has
offered $25,000 toward paying the
debt of the American board Of foreign
missions. The gift is to be made on
oondition that $90,000 additional be
subscribed before March 1. The board
members are making a determined
effort to oarry out the conditions of the
offer. The $90,000 has been appor
tioned as follows: Boston, $36,000;
New York, $80,000; Chioago, $25,000.
Milton Evans, ohairmau of the
farmers' committee, of Walla Walla,
has received a letter from Washington,
through Senator Squire, from W. R.
Morrison, of the interstate commerce
commission, iu whioh Morrison says
the oommission had considered the
complaint made by Evans against the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany, alleging that excessive freight
rates were oharged on wheat, and that
the oommission had deoided to make a
slight reduotion from Walla Walla to
Portland, and that an order to that
effeot will be issued as soon as it oan
be prepares and printed.
Three Hundred Girls Fought for Life as
the Hot Flames Chased Thein
With Hungry Tongues.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 18.-A small boy,
carelessly throwing a match into a pile
of oily waste, a mass of flames and 300
gins ana women frenzied with fright
"guung ror lire as the hot flames
vuasea tnem with hungry tongues, was
the beginning of, a fire tonight which
consumed thousands of dollars worth
of property and caused the destruction
of many lives. From the outside of
the high building the sight of a body of
girls as they rushed out on the fire
escapes from the windows, thorn whn
were more fortunate nrnwdin.. .
the entrance. Following them was a
mass of smoke, with flfldriaa e9 list
flame in luird streaks. Thn th.
of frenzied humanity, findine the
egresses too small for instant
began climbing over the sidAa nf tho
escapes and bundles of clothing filled
with writhing humanity dropped at
the feet of the horrified passers by.
Within twenty minutes after the fire
started there were three dead women
laid upon the floor of an adjoining
store, and at least a dozen burned and
maimed girls and women taken to hos
pitals or to their homes.
Of the 350 girls and women in the
building, it is presumed that at least
half a dozen are in the ruins, for it is
impossiDie to locate all, and there may
possibly be a score of dead.
It was just thirty IT) intl tad tuifavA rlin
musing nour in Stettheimer & Co 's
shirt-waist factory on River street, and
the 350 girls and women were working
rapidly to finish up. In the onttinJ.
room, on the fifth floor, the 150 girls
were closing up their day's work and
preparing to leave when the whistle
blew. Lillie Kreiger, who was work
ing near a machine. callArl tn A email
boy to light the gas over her work.
The boy struck a match anrl th.n. ti.o
burning stub to the floor. It struck a
pile of oily waste and in an instant
the girl was enveloped in flames.
With her clothes and hair hnmino eh
rushed to the window, and at on, th.
100m beoame a struggling, shrieking
Wl uuuiauuy, ninng the windows,
the fire-escapes and the only stairway.
uaiuuimg ano pushing, tearing and
pulling eaoh other's clothes from thi.
backs, turning in narrow corridors to
una a sister or mother, or friend, the
number in the exits augmented every
minute by those from the lower floors,
these girls and women fought for their
lives to get away from the flames which
seeemd to be growing to a monstrous
size.
With rare presence of mind, Police
man Farrell, who was on the street,
seeing that in the panic a number were
liable to jump, let down the awning
over the entrance. Barely was it
down when two or three forms came
flying down from the fifth and., sixlh
stories, and, bouncing from the awn
ing, fell to the sidewalk.
Lillie Kreiger, over- whose machine
me ure started, wus one of these. She
struck the awning, fell on he back
and bounced to her hands and knees
on the walk. She got up and stag
gered about until people helped her to
her feet again. By this time nearly
every window had a female form
dangling from it, and when the fire
men arrived there was a hustle to get
ladders up.
The firemen and police worked like
heroes, and to their enegy was due a
geat saving of life. At least a dozen
01 me women and girls were oarried
uuwu me ladders or dragged out of
the oorridors, the officers and firemen
going into the midst of the smoke.
Captein Williard, of thepolioe foroe,
says he saw a number of girls at win-
uuws wno never came out, but fell
uacK into tne flames.
Lrttie and Nellie Hull, sisters,
graspea eaon other tightly by the
uanas and started down the stairs
from the sixth story. At the landing
of the fifth floor they encountered a
wall of flame and smoke. Nellie had
on only her oorset and skirts, having:
luian ... .. 1.; 1 .... B
" uinmug uer toilet. Lottie was
only partially dressed. She threw her
dress over Nellie's face, and together
they went through the flames. Lot
tie's hair was burned completely off,
and when she reached the sidewalk
Nellie was burned only about her bare
arms. They were taken home.
The loss by fire is from $350,000 to
$400,000, with about $100,000 insurance.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Record of the Doings of the
nation's Lawmakers-Senate.
nmsuingion, ei. 19. The senate
today adopted a resolution by A 11 An
calling on the secretary of the treasury
for information as to the amount of
money in the treasury March 4. issa
and March 4, 1893, and whether there
had been a decrease of revenue, and
from what cause. Davis made a atrnnv
speech in support of his resolution
enunciating the Monroe doctrine.
Mitchell of Oregon, chairman on privi
leges and elections, presented thn viw
of the majority of the committee favor
ing the seating of Dnriont an Mitm-
from Delaware. Mitchell has also pre
sented a resolution directing the ju-
uiciary committee to inquire if con
gress has jurisdiction over the Colum
bia river to such an extent that salmon
may be protected, and asserting that if
steps are not taken to protect salmon
they will be destroyed. He saya he
intends to have the committee make a
decision on the matter.
Washington, Feb. 15. The friends
of the tariff bill met an unexrjeoterl
repulse this afternoon, when, by the
vote of 2 1 ayes nd 29 noes, the senate
oeieated the motion of Morrill to take
up the tariff bilL The negative vote,
whioh defeated the motion, was given
by Democrats, Populists and four Re
publican senators Teller, Mantle, Du
bois and Carter. The affirmative yote
was entirely Republican, but its total
of 21 is less than half of the aggregate
Republican strength. The senate has
passed the bill authorizing the leasing
of lands in Arizona for educatonal pur
poses; also, the bill authorizing the
First National bank of 8prague,Wash.,
to change its name and location; also,
the bill authorizing repairs for the
public wharf at Sitka, Alaska.
Washington, Feb. 18. The senate
oommittee on foreign relations held a
meeting today and praotioally deoided
to faovrably report Pettigrew's biU for
the amendment of the law regulating
the seal fisheries. The main feature
of the bill is a provision permitting the
president to have a 1 the seals, male
and female, on the Pribyloff islands,
killed, in case other governments in
terested will not agree upon a modus
Vivendi for the better protection of the
seals, while the matter of permanent
protection is under consideration by an
international oommission. for which
the bill makes provision. The com
mittee had also under consideration the
proposition for a cable to Hawaii. The
subcommittee which had this under
consideration made a favorable report
without reoommendine either nf Via
propositions before the oommittee.
THE FIELD AND FARM
Practical Pointers on Proper
Care of Farm.
WE MUST SUIT THE MARKET
So Sajs One of Consuls Abroad Pn.
ventlve of Disease-Feeding
Potatoes to Cows.
One of our consuls writes that it i
absurd that American tutter should
go to England in very small quantities
and at very moderate prices, while
Denmark is sending England enormous
quauntites that bring high prices, and
its only serious competitor is Australia,
whose butter has to traverse thB trrmi
and make the passage on the Red Ha
But the people of Denmark have taken
pains to find out what oan ha anM in
England and other foreion marlrAts
and they have applied themselves with
great energy and high intelligence to
the task of producing those things.
This hag not been the work of the eov-
eminent or of the commercial olasses
more than it has been the work of the
peasantry themselves who have shown
an enterprise and a business capacity
that put the American farmer to
shame.
Preventlre of Disease.
Exeroise on high ground may miti
gate the hog-cholera trouble, by in
creasing the extent of exhalation, so
relieving the blood in some degree of
the accumulated poisons. Regular
daily exercise in good sized pastures,
or in open grounds, together with a
greater variety and more albnminnns
quality of feed, preventive treatment
that can exempt swine from the inva
sion of bacteria. Keen the hlnnd nf
the hogs sound by a healthy supply of
oxygen from regular exeroise and full
breathing, and bacteria or cholera,
will not affect the hogs nor vex their
owners. And the only sure preventive
of lung fevers in oows, or other oattle,
is regular, moderate- exercise in whole
some air, thus cooling the circulation,
while supplying a healthy proportion
of oxygenated blood, that will not irri
tate the lungs, while such a quality of
blood certainly forms sound tissue, in
renewing general growth, or in en
larging size in growing oattle or swine.
Newfoundland-French Shore.
Montreal, Feb. 18 -The report
comes from St. John's, N. F., and is
said to be based on semi-official infor
mation that negotiations are progress
ing between England and France,
whioh will for all time settle the Newfoundland-French
shore question. The
basis of the settlement is said to be the
ceding toFraneo of Englanda' interests
in the state of Tunis, Africa, in ex
ohange for the French claim in New'
foundland. , .,.
Galveston's Exports or Corn.
St. Louis, Feb. 17. A special from
Galveston says: Edwin Webster, chief
grain inspector, reports that from Oc
tober 12 to January 29 there were ex
ported from this port to foreign points
2,618,69 bushels of oorn. So far dur
ing the present month there has been
exported about 300,000 bushels, mak-
ing the total grain exports thus far this
season nearly 8,000,000 bushels, with
xuuy 1,000,000 bushels on hand await
ing teaaage.
House.
Washington, Feb. 15. After a ten
days' debate the house today, by a vote
of 80 to 190, in committee of the
whole, rejected the senate free ooinage
substitute to the bond bill, and re
ported back to the house, with a recom
mendation to nonconcur and insist
upon the house bill. The most signifi
cant statement came in form of an
ultimatum from Dingley that a bill
might be reported from the ways and
means oommittee looking to the initia
tion by this country of a project of an
other international monetary confer
ence to meet within a year. While
Dingley said he was expressing his per
sonal position in the matter, it . was
generally understood from the manner
in which he said it that the suggestion
had already matured into a well-defined
intention on the part of the Re
publican leaders of the house. .
Washington, Feb. 18. The attack
on Secretary Morton for his refusal to
cApcuu we appropriation lor seeds in
the present agricultural aDuroDriation
bill was transferred from the senate to
the house today, and furnished the
feature of the proceedings in the lower
uuum). it was iea Dy Baker and was
supported by Moses and Livingston.
Boatner and Meredith. Some verv
harsh things were said and applauded,
especially by Boatner, who referred to
Mr. Morton contemptuously as "that
individual," and not a voice was
raised in his defense. The general de
bate on the agricultural bill during its
consideration, when the attack was
made, was olosed before adjournment.
Several bills of minor importance were
passed and a resolution was adopted
directing the judiciary oommittee to
inquire into the right of an exeoutive
offioer to refuse to exeoute a law on the
ground of its unconstitutionality, and
to report by bill or otherwise. This
investigation grows out of Controller
Bowler's decision in the sugar-bounty
oases.
Washington, Feb. 19. The agricul
tural appropriation bill occupied the
attention of the house today. A great
deal of criticism of Secretary Morton
was indulged in on both sides of the
politioal aisle, but, as on Monday, not
one arose to his defense. At last,
Pearson asked if there was not some
member, Democratic, Populist or Re
publican, who wonld raise a voice in
his defense. His question was greeted
with a chorus of "noes'! from all sides
of the house. An amendment was
pending when the house adjourned,
making mandatory the execution of the
provision in the bill for the distribu
tion of seeds. It is understood Cousins
will offer an amendment, directing the
secretary of the treasury to withhold
the payment of Secretary Morton's
salary until this provision was exe
cuted.
A, dispatch from Tokio, Japan, say a
there is great activity among all the
naval forces. The Japanese govern
ment is confident that Russia is en
couraging the revolt in Corea, with a
view to the early establishment of a
Russian protectorate over the kingdom.
The Beat of the Corean government is
now in the Russian legation at Seoul,
where the king remains guarded. It
is said the king of Corea authorised
thA onthrAfllr in rmn fnv tv. i
r - ' -"i" vuv UlUIUVt
'f the queea.
Feeding Potatoes.
During a recent tour through the
dairy sections of York state, in attend
ance at the dairy meetings, the matter
of feeding potatoes to miloh cows came
up at about all the meetings, in the in
diect way of "Why does not my milk
cream better," "Why does not the but
ter come, and what makes it salvy,
and often grainless," and in one in
stance the oreamery had been served
notice by their New York house that
unless there was less feeding of a cer
tain food, not to send any more butter.
In every case the trouble was traced to
feeding potatoes to the cow in exces
sive amounts, often as high as a bushel
a day per cow. The low price of po
tatoes, and their slow" sale, made it a
tempting matter to feed them to the
oows as a large part of the ration, and
the,large per cent of the raw and im
perfeotly digested staroh had a damag
ing effect upon the milk, the. milk be
ing very vioious, hence difficult for thn
cream to rise, and the butter tlnhniAa
being unable to free themselves from
the milk, either in creaming or churn
ing, oarries into the butter the milt
element in too great proportion, and
gives the mass a salvy texture. This
is also increased from the faot that th
milk fats are of a softer texture when
potatoes are fed, and this only adds to
the difficulty. Where only small
amount of potatoes are fed, four to six
quarts mixed with the food, there was
little or no injury done, as the succu
lence of the potato, then in small
amount, was a sort of digestant to the
dry food. Where potatoes were
oooked, a much larger amount of them
oould be fed, as the cooked staroh was
not in its effects the same as the raw
material. From all that oould be
gathered, it seemed that with meal at
$20 per ton, potatoes might have a
feeding value not to exceed $8.25 a
ton. ... .
years
Miscellaneous Notes.
The breakfast food made at the Ta
ooma mill out of wheat is growing in
popularity and is taking the plaoe of
oat meal. " :
According to official statistics the
importations of lemons into the United
owies during the past ten
amount to $38,500,680. . .
One hardly knows what he" will
plant next year, prices are so univer
sally depressed. But fruit and vege
table growing, under favorable bondi
tions, will likely be favored.
In England and Scotland the farmers
raise large sheep, whole flocks averag
ing over 800 pounds "each, alive, and
when a wether is killed for family use
that whioh is not desired , immediately
is oomed the same as beef. Small
breeds are not raised in Great Britain,
and the farmers pay no attention to
wool compared with mutton.
In the February bulletin of the well
known Thayer Fruit Farms, it is
stated that after the land is put into
high cultivation the actual cost of
bringing an acre of blaokberries or
raspberries, well set and with no miss
ing hills, to a good bearing age. it
from $126 to $150.
It is predicted that within a fn
years all the work of the farm will be
done by electricity. Not in a few
years. The time may come when ln.
trioity will play a considerable part in
farming, but it will take longer than a
few years. It is true that It ma h.
utilized for some portion of the power
umu ou we iarm in tne not very dis.
taat fatare, '