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JnlILLSB6R VOL. 2. 1HLLSBORO, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 18. TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events ot the Day In a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL KKADKKS Item of Importance From Domestic ail foreign Source Cream or the Dispatches. Thomas IIuwoi Hiuokloy, an artist of wide fame, died iu Boston. Chicago olothing-outtorg and trim morn have ordedod a strike, and 20,000 are inrowu out ol work. Members of the Irish parliamentary party have eleoted Dillon as the new chairman to succeed Justin McCarthy. The seoretary of the interior has ap proved a list of eighty acres of laud se looted iu Oregon City land distiot, Or egou, by the Oregon & California rail road, Under its grant. Johu L. Waller, confined in a French I wi, nas ueen grunted a pardon by Psldout Fuure, due to the representa tions made by the United States gov eminent iu the prisoner's behalf. Tho Elioott Square building strike in Buffalo, N. V., is eudod. uud a thousand or more workmen have re turned to work. The differences be twden the superintendent and the men have been amicably settled. A fuotory for the making of reme dies similar in nature to the proprie tary medicines now on the market is to be started by Chicago retail drill- gists. A majority of the city pharuia- cists are interested, and they hope to drive the patent medicine makers from the field. Alaska travel from the Sound is growing to such au exteut that the Pa oiofl Coast Steamship Company has de cided to put another steamer, the Mex ioo, on the route, in addition to the - Topeka and Al-Ki, whioh are now crowded every tirp with freight and passengers for the North. Ho which oun possibly be diverted to the former's Sunset route will be do liverd by tho latter at Now Orleans. This deal is considered to be a riirnnt mow at the Southern Paoiflo's direct connections at Ogden. Its object is saia to be to divert as much traffic as possible from the Central Pacific road, the Southern Paoifio having entered upon a deliberate and systematic nolinv of impoverishing that part of its sys tem, with the view of frightening the United States to settle its claims against that road on the easiest terms. Irving Flemiug committed suicide uuuiug ms tnroat with a razor, at woouDurn, Or. Bill Nye, the famous humorist. AA at bis home in Asheviille, N. C, from a paraiytio stroke. NO. 4i. PACIFIC NORTHWEST Items ot General Interest From All Sections. DEVELOPMENT AND PKOGEESS Daniel Galonoia, residing near Sdo- 1.111J l.i l. . . .. . nmou uimseu ny snooting, him- bcu inrougn tne neart. ; ine entire family of Jaoob Jaoodi was aspbyxiated In his farmhouse, near Nilos Center, 111., by gas from a ooai stove. The president has signed the bill ex tending the operation of mineral land laws to the north half of the Colville inaiau reservation. At a held in A leading Spanish newspaper is quoted as saying: "It is not for the United States government to give Spain lessons in humanity. Those who live in glass bouses should not throw stones. Let the United States 'vemment put down lynohings be fore it reads us our duty to the Cuban insurgents." .Hope is" about abandoned for the barkontiue Discovery, owned bv Pone & Talbot, of Ban Fraucisoo. The ves sel is now out twenty-eight days from Port Gamble, loaded with lumber. She was oommaauded by Captain Christensen. There were twelve men in hor, and there is scaroely any ohance of them turning up alive. At a masked ball in Lisbon fire bwAe-out and a panic followed. Men, women and ohildren jumped from the windows, seriously injuring them selves. Friends of the revelers mailed into the burning building to aid in the work of resoue, and muny of them were caught by the flames. Thus far forty -four bodies have been taken out. Baron Blanc, of Rome, Italy, min ister of foreign affairs, authorizes the announcement that President Cleve land, having decided to aooept the po sition of arbitrator to settle the ques tion in dispute between Italy and Bra zil, a protocol has been signed, refer ring to his arbitration all claims that are not amioably settled by the two countries within two mouths. All th. Cities anil Towns of the Pacific Stale and Territories Washington. Prosser is taking steps to secure a creamery. A traiuload of bosrs wag shinned nni of the Palouse country last week. About $20,000 was left bv the nnr. chasers. The oity council of Everett is hank. ing the marshal in an effort to brine to justice a lot of hoodlums whn nnn. duct themselves disgracefully at the Salvation Army meetings. Attorney-General W. C. Jones is tire- paring to bring before the courts the question of whether stone or marble fit! irnutn-nmnii 1,n,a . i ,1 . i A large amount of spurious coin in mineral in the legal acceptation of the the shape of 60-oent and 1 pieces has term. ' 18 I man fnn nrJ J j l . a.- ... . Weuatohee. Wash " J. M. Lively, promoter and founder , .. nr tha LJ .... rp j . .aan - t . . , - iuwneua sieei win and meeting of Insh-Amerioans nail works, is authority fn- tw resolutions wl inunt ttt n,.; . :,,.., ... adopted demanding the release of all pohtioal prisoners confined in English future. Jails- W T, Po.tU.J A i iuuiuiucii, uue ui me oom- n. Campbell, ex-olerk nf thn missionrea of Pi United States district court, was ahnd ohartzed with nnrnhnairifv nn-nn .. and killed by his sou, Robert Camp- 'ants below par, was found not guilty bell, in Nashville, Tenu. Youna- by the Campbell has been regarded as men- meut of faots. tally unsound. Rflnnrt. .m, wi, i,- u . i vuu uj uiun wuu went seven people were asphyxiated, nnn down from Davennnrt oM.i p . 1 1 , - - . 1 j- - m fuuvin mimiv nun oy luniDlUU Irom a win. America last full nra .,fli.;.... dow. and flvn ntltara mra JJ A It io oiJ n... . i .. ' ' mi iunB lujureu naiu mait several oi tne party are y uro iu ne residence of James R. aisappointed with the oountry, and Arminger, a prominent jeweler of Bal- anxious to get back, tiuiore, Md. . .... iuore is more activity in the mines men wnni In v.uu v.n. .i:.:.. t-ui-j j . , , . "" a'uub umirict man at any killed and seven seriously injured bv tim in , . u ... L f a steam log- auler at a lumber camp, has neen process ng fo four wTks The engine became uncontrollable and on the Silver Oueenf a night and day ran down the road at full speed, catch- shift of men bein ' o The Puget Sound reduction wnri at Everett has added another furnace to its smelting plant and will hereafter treat copper ores. It has on hand 1,500 tons of the Le Roi ore from Trail Creek. This new addition will treat fully 300 tons of ore per day. R. J. Brewster and wife are in iail m . " luuuuia, cnarired with thimHno Fifty-two ohickens had been stolen ing the men before escape was possible. Anotner Dig gun has reached the Presidio in San Franoisoo. It was hauled to the top of the ridge back of ronroiut. mis is the second 80-ton ride to be added to the Fort Point bat. tory and oompletes the trio ordered for tniB coast several years ago. A London special says the Natal i lines claims to have the best author were round hidden in the Rreito, Brewster testified that ityforthe statement that the South fVn 'Vw. J?en "0Jen African rminhHn ,ill ... ...;u : . " nuy oi tnem i ...... Vm wua mioouiu were auuiYorHMiy oi me uoer victory over house Mrs mi i. u.i. ov 1 sue stoie tne chickens Sunday niirht MaJuba hill. Proclaim ita llrlananonno .UJ1. , . . uy iiignt , r rv...,. wuuo ner nusoann was absent with The great tailors' strike, which has the Salvation Army, to which they ueeu in lorce several weeks in many uulu "congeo .u wermany, nas neen ended by WorK Das been begun at Anaoortes tho employers granting a 12 per oent on two salmon canneries, one by the '"""''" wBgtw. tun seamstresses' iuaigo island uanmng Company, and muyeuieui; amen to tne ors1 strike, is also on the eve of e tlement. tail-set- as a joint A J). . Auouroing to advices reoeived at rort iownsond from Alaska by the steamer City of Topeka, the Bank of Juneau has failed, owing depositors uuu io,wu. xnere are no assets. o. a. narriBon, the bank's oashier and manager, just before the steamer sail ed, was arrested for laroeny by embez zlement or f 400. The oashier and his Drotner operated the bank copartnership. Robert Lauhglin, of Augusta, Ky.. who reported his house burned by murderers, who attacked him with knives, and whose wife and niece were burned in the building, has confessed that he Was the murderer. The gen eral theory is that he first assaulted his niece, and then killed her and bis wife to hide his crime. He denies this, however, and says he oould not tell what put it in his mind to brain them with a poker while they wer aslemp. An explosion of; dynamite ooourrred at Viendendorp, . South Afrioa, and the poor quarter of the town has been blown to pieces. Hundreds of houses are in ruin, and the havoo wrought is fearful. The windows of every house in Johannesburg were broken by the explosion. . The dynamite that oansed the catastrophe filled eight truoks and made a hole thirty feet deep. Forty dead, nealry all of them horribly mu tilated, were taken from the ruins, and the search is not yet completed. Two hundred of the most severely injured were admitted to the hospital, where several died. one uy tne Anacortes PiiniHno n. pany. An Astoria firm has. it is said. secured a site and will soon begin the construction of another oannery. The aggregate oost of these three plants, in eluding buidliugs, equipment, fish traps and steamers, is estimated at 1250,000. The cargo shipments from the eleven principal mills of the state of Washing ton, as reported to the West Coast Lumberman, shows that a total of 4, 370,951 feet of lumber was shipped to foreign ports and 22,022,670 feet to domestuio ports, makinir a total of ao,BD3,621 feet of lumber. This total inrnrvnu TUo Z I u"mi""ou whji me record tor December TtJJLl filing off of 21,299,899 feet Arthur C. Newsan, the former Brit ish magistrate at Cedros, Trinidad, who was arrested in Brooklyn, July 7, last, oharged with having embezzled about 100,000 belonging to the Brit ish government, has been acquitted after two trials, and has been set at liberty. The monitor Monadnock has been formally placed in commission at Mare-island navy yard, San Franoisoo. The Monadnook was oommenoed twelve years ago, aim nas dragged along at ton for the place of holding the next firemen's tournament Pendleton has secured a pledge of 300 of the neces sary 5U0 to entitle it to a chance for tne Honor. mi . . i ine ruamatn river is full of fine salmon, and great quantities are hmno 1. I J 1 o vaugui buu maraeted every day. Medford's schoolhouse is to float un oer a new 50 American flag when upeuea, a suDsonption being circulated to rise tne money. cattle ouyers are on the ground in Lake connty early this year. Already two from Colorado are going over the northern part of the county looking for "fiiug uuyg. Already reports of cron Drosneota beginning to come from Wasco oouity. They are very flattering, and it is said fall grain never looked so well at this season of the year before. The city eouncil of Grant's Pass has passed an ordinance prohibiting boys from smoking on the streets: forbidding the posting of obscene post- ma vr pictures in tne oity. A boat is being built to run on the Lower Klamath river this summer. It will be a single-deck stern-wheeler, 60 feet long and 12 feet wide, propelled by a 10x14 cylinder engine. Sherman county farmers are prepar ing to put in larger crops of grain this spring than for many veara nan Tho iavorabie weather for plowing is en couraging to farmers all through East ern Oregon. Work on the woolen mill buildings in Pendleton is advanoing rapidly and will be completed before the remainder of the machinery arrives, which will be about the middle of next month. The validity of the lease made by WaBco county to the Hood River Lum bering Company, whereby the com pany is granted the right to charge for material floated down the river, will probably be tested in the courts. Postmaster Crossen, of The Dalles, has a letter from the war department asking a recommednation for the pro posed site of the $100,000 publio build ing to be erected in The Dalles, in the event Senator Mitohell's bill becomes a law. j. ii. nindman, an orchardist of Weston, says that the prospects of fruit mis year are very good. In several localities the buds are already swollen, something unusual at this time of year. The fruitmen fear a frost, which, if severe, would De damaging. The youngest captain on the coast, is Louis Olsen, of the Gem. who is in years old, and has been in oharce of H. 1 r. - . ,J mo Bunooner ueni lor eight months. The Gem was formerly commanded by his father, who met death on board the vessel, while the son was employed as ijutue. Star mail service has been discon tinued between Portland and Bethany, and between Hillsboro and Glenooe, to take effect Maroh 7. Speoial mail service will be discontinued March 7 to Lenox, Washington oounty, from Glenooe, and to Phillips, same county, from Bethany. HIGHEST IN MONTHS Silver Bullion Sold For Sev enty Cents. RISE IN SYMPATHY WITH LONDON Ohalres Christy, of Waverly, Kan., a young lawyer, has just arrived from Cuba, where he was a prisoner. He, with about 400 others, were oaptured in one battle hear Havana. All hut he and fifteen otheruAinerioans were linear. up and shot. The Amerioan oousul saved them. Christy is a member of one of the pioneer families of Coffey oounty. He is an enthusiastic Cuban patliot, and olaims they have every thing on the island exopet Havana, and that that will soon fall. He also says that since the new Spanish gen eral has taken comamnd no prisoners , are taken. . A deal is said to have been made be tween the Southern Paoifio and the Seaboard Air line, whereby all the traf- able to hold her own against anything nuaii in f State Senator Guy, of New York, has prepared a bill which will be pre sented to the legislature very soon whioh authorizes the oity to purchase and remove the Edgar Allen Poe cot tage. The bill provides for an appro priation of $50,000, Which sum, it is estimated, will cover all expenses. James Fitzgerald waB hanged at St. Louis for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Nessens, on the night of Novem ber 24, 1893. The rope broke and the viotim lay struggling on the ground beneath the gallows. The doctors found Fitzgerald still conscious. Stim ulants were given and he revived. A new rope was sent for and an hour later the sick and tremblinar. but verv uervy victim, was again taken to the soaffold. This time there was no niton. Under the new postal appropriation bill the secret inspection of letter car riers by speoial agents will be stopped. The bill provides instead, that there shall be thirty additional postoffloe in spectors, who shall be assigned to the free delivery service exclusively. While these 'men will be nominally under the authority of the fourth as sistant postmaster-general, they will be sabjeot to the orders of the first as sistant and the superintendent of the free delivery servioe. They will de vote their time exclusively to the in spection of the free-delivery servioe, and will pursue the same methods pur sued by the speoial agents. The secretaries of the Amerioan Bap tist Missionary Union, the Amerioan Baptist Publication Sooietv and tho American Baptist Eduoational Snnintv aoting under the advioe and authority of their respective boards, at a meeting held in Philadelphia, unanimously voted that it ia impracticable to hold the anniversaries in May in Portland, Or. , according to the previous arrange ment and announcement. The recent destruction by fire of the Baptist Pub lication Sooiety building in Philadel phia is given as one reason. An invi tation to hold the anniversary at As bury Park, oommenoing May 20, has been aocepted, for Jauuuary, A silver-tip bear, the largest of the kind seen hore in many years, was shot and killed last week, a short distance above the mouth of Grand Ronde river. It is learned from hunters who have depended for years upon their rifles and traps for a livelihood, that the weather has been so mild all winter in the lower mountains along the Snake river, that bear never onoe went into winter quarters. The Chinook fish hatchery has this season turned out over 1,000,000 parr (young ohinook salmon) and now has on hand overy 200,000, whioh soon will be ready to turn out. The parent fish are taken from fish traps in Baker's bay, towed in orates to Chinook river and plaoed in the river above the dike! there left until they oome to maturity and ascend the stream to spawn, when tney are again caught in a slat trap. the eggs taken from them and put into tne natcnery. ine most aotive line of business on Puget sound during the coming seson, says the Post-Intelligenoer, will un doubtedly be that of oannins salmon. The number of oanneries will be more than quadrupled. Severalnew can neries are to be located down Sound, three at Anaoortes, one at Richardson, San Juan oounty, and more are talked of, but not definitely deoided upon. In Seattle harbor, aocording to persons in a position to know, there is likely to be an addition of three oanneries, and one of them seems to be a certainty. It will be located at West Seattle. Oregon. Clamming parties are now fashion. able at coast points in Curry oounty. The taxroll of Clatsop county has been turned over to the sheriff for col- leotion. There is a movement among the farmers of Douglas oounty to establish a oo-operative store. Silverton will try to secure a oollege, assisted by the Liberal sooieties of Ore gon and of the United States. The managers of the Athena broom faotory have deoided not to move the institution to Walla Walla. There is quite a rivalry anions the towns of Eastern Oregon and Washing, (more than $11,000,000 during 1895. Idaho. Boise has sold her $35,000 sidewalk bonds at par. They bear 6 per cent in terest and run seven years. The Northern Paoifio railway has just issued a valuable folder that is devoted exclusively to the Nez Peroe reservation. A number of Moscow citizens inter ested in mining have organized a branch of the Northwest Mining As sociation. The branch has a member ship of thirty. In the mail servioe from Vanwyok to Meadows, the postoffloe departemnt has directed that permission be given postmasters at termini to deliver mail to carrier one hour in advance of sched ule iime, provided no connections are broken and no complaint be made. The state of Idaho has been sued by Butte contractors for $6,744.25, for work on the state wagon road. These contractors built a portion of the road in Lemhi oounty, afterwards it was washed away by spring freshets, and the board ordered them to rebuild it Their bill is for the rebuilding, and the state board of examiners refused to pay it, hence the suit. Despite the bad roads, travel has al ready oommenoed to the Nez Perce reservation and it is estimated that 1,500 white settlers will be on their olaims before June. The new oity of Nez Peroe is already the soene of ao tive business operations. A new stage and mail line will be in operation by April 1 from this plaoe, whioh will give direot oommunioation with the terminus of the Spokane & Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific rail road. Moutana. " Coal has been discovered near Hins- dale, about eighteen miles from Glas gow, whioh is said to be of a good cok ing grade and in great abundance. An improved miners' cage has been patented by Montana parties, the nrin- oipal features being a method of doing away with the accidents to life and limb and the destruction of - property in mines using the old-style ohairs. A fine quality of asbestos has been found near Red Lodge, which gives every indication of being a valuable discovery. At a depth of only a few feet the fibres show a length of fully six inohes and has the appearanoe of being of fine quality. The past year's shipments of oattle from the state exoeeded that of anv year in the history of Montana. The shipments out of the state during the year amounted to 246,460 head; slaugh tered for home consumpiton 60,000 head, making a total of 306,348 head. The average price per year was a little over $36 per head. Thus the oattle industry brought the state a little u(iraea a. Significant of a Re.lv.i of Interest In Silver Mines and Brighter ProapecU. new York, Feb. 26. Silver hnllinn sold at the highest price todav that it i i . - - j nan reacneo in manv mnnth. tv,o ... .j. .uud was an apparently siood consnl rlmnfl wmuu aavancea tne rate tn 70 nt. Tl . . xue rise was snarp, and in sympathy u upward movement in London. Bullion dealers declared that thev rtin not know of any definite cause for the improvement. They did not agree iiot me auvance was due to specula tion, or that it would be sustained. The facts are that silver sold aa low as 59o, and the price ranged about 60c for six months. There was by reason ui aaverse legislation, material curtail ment of production. Shrewd people, who knew the com mercial value of silver, began cautious ly buying and accumulating bullion. a large amount nas been absorbed for export, a legitimate Continental de mand having prevailed for a long time. The supply has also been reduced by the demand for manufacturing pur poses. . For ten months the price was fluctu ating about 60c, and during the past three weeks and until yesterday 69o was the quotation. The advance has taken so long as to escape eeneral at. tention. Simultaneously with the ad vance came decided improvement in mining stocks, which is reo-ardBn significant of a revival of interest in silver mines and brighter prospectes. Seventy-five-cent silver means much to the great industry and would undoubt edly produce another silver boom. Exchange in India has been keeping pace with the strong tone of the silver market, and in London yesterday was at the top notch. At the same time production has not kept pace with the uemana, tne miners having turned their attention to gold-digging. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doing of the Hatlon'i Lawmakers -Senate. Washington, Feb. 21. The JCuban question came before the senate today for definite and final action, and it is expected that votes will be taken at an early day on the several pending propo sitions requesting Spain to recognize the belligerency of Cuba, and reauest- ing a recognition of Cuabn independ ence, ine nrst tning of importance in the senate today was the reading of a roBuiuuon irom tne secretary of the treasury as to coin and other monev in circulation, which was ordered printed for the use of the senate. The senate then spent some time in discussing the question of official procedure. Sauire reported favorably a bill requiring that marine engineers be Amerioan citizens. Minor bills blocked the way for some time, but Call finally had the Cuban resolutions called np. and the rAmain. der of the day was spent in discussing them. - ORCHARD AND FARM Budget ot General News for Progressive Farmers. KAFFIB COBN HAS QUALITIES THE BERMUDA SEIZED. Kxp edition Bud. Another Filibustering Kipped in the New Yoik, Feb. 26. The iron steamer Bermuda, flying the British flag, was boarded and seized hv nn. nue officers off Liberty island, late last o'clock. nignt. ine Bermuda has been under watch of Spanish spies for some time. They had reason to believe she had been bought by the Cuban revolution ists, and was fitting out as a filibuster. She has been anchored off Liberty isl and sinoe last Saturday, and yesterday there was evidence that she was pre paring for sea. At 11 P. M., just after a larsre nartv of Cubans had gone aboard, the reve nue outter Hudson steamed aloneside. Washington, Feb. 25. The senate committee on publio lands deoided to favorably report the house bill extend ing the time within whioh suits m be brought by the government to annul unauthorized grants of publio lands. The decision of the committee was re ceded by a hearing of representatives of the various localities interested in the proposed legislation. There was a proposition before the committee tn in. elude Mexican land grants in the ex tension, but White appeared in opposi tion to this, contending that the Mex ican grant question should be settled as soon as possible, in the interest nf all conoerned, and the amendment was not made. Washington, Feb. 26 The nnhlin interest in the Cuban Question was shown today by the crowds that came to the senate ealleries in antimnntinn ui a continuance oi tne Cuban debate. The diplomatic gallery showed the largest represenation since the session opened, the ministers of Brazil, Chili, Hawaii and several other oountries be ing present Morgan of Alabama oc cupied almost the entire day in a nar rative and historical speech. He Spoke three hours, and had not conlcuded when the senate adjourned. A signifi cant vote on tne resolution for an in vestigation of the recent bond issue was taken during the day. Lodge's resolution for an investigation came I up ano jfener offered an amendment for a special committee and a more comprehensive inquiry. Lodge sought to have the amendment laid on the table, but his motion was defeated, 16 to 84. Final action was not secured as Hill carried the dehatn hevnnit a The bill pensioning the widow of the late Secretary Gresham at fiuo monthly was passed. Bouse. Washington, Feb. 21. The house today devoted itself strictly to business. The army appropriation bill, carrying $28,275,902, was passed; the confer ence report on the urgent deficiency bill was adopted, and the bill to ex tend for five years the time in whioh the government can bring suits to an- and the boarding party arrested all on Patents to publio lands under rail the Bermuda. At midnight the reve- road and Sn-road grants was nue outter Chandler started down the ' Passed' An amendment was adopted bay to catch a lighter loaded with am-1 fmitln8 the application of the act to munition nnrl tn InnV fnr onntkc n.L railroad and waeon-road irranta." of Cubans who had started to board the I The followin8 Proviso was also added Bermuda. i to the bill: "That no suit shall be The Bermuda, an English-built )r0n8ht' nor shall recovery be had for steamer, was recently purchased bv a ands 'wnicn were patented in lieu of firm suspected of being in league with otner .lands vered by grants which the revolutionary party. Last Saturday were lstor relinquished by the grantee she was taken to the ooal dosks at Port consequence of the failure of the Liberty and there coaled up. Then fovernment to withdraw the same she went to the Liberty island anchor- lI0m ,Bale or entl7-" The substitute age. When the tug ran alongside the 1 . offerea by McRae, to repeal marshals and Pinkerton men ewarmed ontr,8ht the limitations of the act of aboard. No resistance was offered by i 1891 ' was defeted. tne ingntenea crew and Cubans who wasnington, i'eb. 25. The senate had just come aboard. Every man was amendments to the military academy seized. Among the captives was Gen- appropriation bill were concurred in by eral Garcia's son, and several other tne nouse today. The senate bill to prominent Cubans. ! amend section 5,294 of the revised Four bags of gold were seized by the States, relative to the power of the 1 1 J ... . . A .1. . uiaiumiia, auu a quantity ox ammuni- DTO1C11UJ u .me treasury to remit or Which Make It a Desirable Plant for Manj Localities-Milking Cow Diseases ia Winter. Among the newer forage plants which have been introduced into the United States, Kaffir corn appears to be one of the most promising. It has been grown here several years, prin cipally in the central portion of the country, and has rapidly -been gaining in popularity. The extremelv nnfo. oarble climatio conditions of last sea son put all forage plants to one of the severest tests tney have ever reoeived. They showed beyond question, that Kaffir corn has qualities which make it a most desirable plant for many lo calities, as it was successfully grown under circumstanoes in whioh most other forage crops failed. Kaffir oorn is one of the nonsaccha rine varieties of sorohnm. Tt .n grown in great variety of soils and un der widely differing conditions of cli mate, but it is especially valuable where the growth of vegetation is liable to be checked by a deficiency of moisture. Naturally, its yield of stalks and seeds is not as large on thin soils as it is on those that are well supplied with plant food, but, if other conditions are favorable, it makes a considerable crop on poor land. When rains are infrequent it continues to grow after many other plants have come to a standstill, and after a pro- luiigeti penoa of drouth it promptly responds to the first fall of rain. The stalks grow from four to seven feet in height, and are well supplied with leaves. When grown only for forage the seed is sometimes sown broadcast, and the crop is fed green ot is cut and cured like hay. It is much better, however, to plant in drills and cultivate like broom corn or Indian corn. From four to five pounds of seed will plant an acre of Und. It does not germinate as auioklv as soma amria and at first its growth is rather slow, but it soon makes un for all Inst ii. The time of planting will vary rith the loaclity, but the seed can safely be put in as soon as the ground is warm in the spring, though very late plant ingeven in July, has given good crops at the South. tion, NOT POPULAR IN HIS TOWN Burned by A Newspaperman's Outfit the Citizens. Mitchell, S. D., Feb. 26. The entire outnt of the Mitchell Mail, paper, presses, type, etc., was taken into the street this morning and publicly burned by an orderly body of business men. The editor of the paper, Robert MoBride, has for a long time attacked various publio institutions and promi nent men, notably the late John D. Lawler, president of the First national bank. Several years ago MoBride mar ried Mr. Lawler's sister-in-law, the wedlthy daughter of General Stnrgis, U. S. A. After a few years, Mrs. Mo Bride secured a divorce and MoBride then began his attacks upon the busi ness and personal oharaotor of Mr. Lawler. Muoh indignation was aroused, and Saturday night citizens met MoBride and offered to buy out his plant if he would go elsewhere. He agreed, but later deoided to withdraw from the bargain. The citizens there upon appointed one of their number to act as agent for MoBride, and then paid the money agreed upon, and took the property out and destroyed it. The oommittee is looking for MoBride and will suggest that he move elsewhere. The PaciHo Cable Company. New York, Feb. 26. A certificate increasing the capital stock of the Pa oil "ile Company from $1,000,000 110,000 was filed today in the lerk's offloe. The stook is to lri into 100,000 shares of the I of $100 each, and the direot James A. Seymour, J. Ken I Edmund L. Baylis, J. Pier Jan and G. S. Bowdoin. 't 0 there were 100 practicing 1 the United States. to., coi bet pa ors ne pqi pen mitigate fines, penalties or forfeitures, was passed; also the senate bill relat ing to final proof on timber culture en tries. Representative .Colson intro duced a resolution to investigate the aotion of Seoretary Carlisle in refusing to accept the bid of William Graves for $4,500,000 at 115.3391. Washington, Feb. 26. The house to day in committee of the whole, after a very interesting debate, by a vote of 93 to 64, decided that none of the ap propriations in the Indian appropria tion bill for Indian schools should go to the seotarian schools. The only sectarian sohools to whioh money now goeB are woman Catholio in denomina tion, and the fight today was led lw Linton, a Michigan Republican, who is the most pronounoed and openly avowed A. P. A. member on the floor. In last year's bill the appropriation was out down 28 per cent, with the un derstanding that it should be reduced 20 per oent eaoh year until it oeased, at the end of five years. The oommit tee on Indian affairs this year resolved that this appropriation be reduoed 20 per oent, but Linton moved an amend ment that no portion of this appro priation should go to seotarain sohools. Daughter of the Revolution. Washington, Feb. 28. The daugh ters of the American Revolution, in session here, have adopted strong reso lutions urging congress to pass this ses sion a bill for the purchase and im provement of oertain forests, battle fields and burying grounds of the Mami valley, including the Fort Meigs battle-field, Fort Miami, and a piece of ground at Pnt-in-Bay. Over 200, 000 Amerioan soldiers, killed in the war of 1812 and in campaigns against the confederated Indian tribes and their English allies, are buried at these piaces on private ground, entirely un protected and unmarked. Milking Quality. The cow has a certain degree of adaptability and may be compelled to change the habits of her system and adapt herself to her feed. There is no doubt but that by feeding a ration that is rich in heat and fat forming ele ments and low in flesh forming ele ments you will develop a beef ten dency, and vioe versa. We should be careful to feed a proper milk ration to dairy oows to keep up a profitable flow of milk all the time, but what is equally important that the milk ten dency or habit be constantly encouraged and stimulated with a view to its greater permanent development If this line of feeding is judiciously bant up from generation to generation, says a dairyman, beginning with our or dinary cow, the milk type and ten dency will become permanently estab lished and beoome hereditary, and those cows that are our best milkers will be developed into still better yielders by this oourse. '. r Diseases In Winter. More disease is brought into flooks by purchasing fowls than from other causes, as but few are able to properly inform themselves of the -flondition of the purchased stock. Roup-may be present in a neighbor's flock and not make its presence manifest, and where it has once appeared, , even with but few sick ones among the number there is sure to arrive a time when it will spread. The ground becomes nnnt.ni. ated, the germ of the disease are oom munioated to all, a gradual develop. menii is resulting and when the birds are brought and givenTa change of quarters the roup may Appear,:, it will then spread to the new flock, and the farmer will have the work of battling to save a lot of siok fowls instead of enjoying the profits from a healthy flock. To avoid disease, raise jour own fowls and never buy one from elsewhere if it can be avoided. It is the only sure way to add vigor and stamina to the flock. It is of oourse, neoessary to add new blood, but it must be done by the use of care and in endeavoirng to secure only healthy birds. .;. . Agricultural Tick.' ' If you have ooal ashes, sift them, and spread the sittings over the floor of the sheep stables. It is next best to plaster. ; ., Do not get too many fowls on the farm and overdoe the matter, for if you do you will be sure to be money out of pocket. $ ' ' An important thing in the line of prevention of disease is the removal of all fowls from the flock as soon as they show any signs of disease. " Iti, s a very singular faot, but never theless true, that a very large propor tion of our farmers never let their oorn go on a rising market, but are always free sellers on a falling market. A wise choice of methods of prepar ing and feeding the food has muoh to do in determining profit or loss. The oheapest production of flesh by horse, oow or sheep, or of milk, ia where all or the larger part of the food is secured by the animal graaing in a good pas ture. Simple methods of preparation are best as a rale