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TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events ot the Day in
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OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
lUiint of Importance) From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
The president has nominated Leo
lleruholz. of New York, as oouhuI at
Erzeroum, Armenia.
Rich pluoor groundB have been found
in WuHhoe valley, near Uarson, nev,
and there in considerable excitement
in oousequeuoe.
CharleB II. Voorhees, formerly a lay
judgo of Bergen county, N. J., and
an ex-member of congress, committed
suiuldo in New York.
Five men were fatally injured by
an explosion of fire damp during a fire
in the Red Ash vein of the Woodward
nilno in Wilkeskbarre, Pa.
John Jouob. oolored. aged 19, who
ootuuiitted an assault upon a 13-year
old white girl near Mormon Springs,
Mis., was bunaed by a mob. Jones
confessed hiB crime.
A cable mogHage from Cape Town,
South Africa, reports the killing of
thrue onuiueura near Bulnwayo. The
uuuies of two of the viotimB are given
an Hammond and Palmer
An explosion occurred in the oolliery
at Wellinutou. S. C. Eight miners
are known to have been killed, and
it in believed 18 perBous will lose
their lives through the disaster.
On April 8 another powder explosion
ooonrred at Juueau, Alaska, this time
in the new tunnel of the Treadwell
Comnanv. between the Treadwell and
Mexican mi mm. Some of the men in
lured are expeoted to die.
A dispatoh from Buluwayo, South
Africa, says: The whole oouutry
in the hands of rebellious natives, and
they are moving in great foroe north
ward. It will require a large foroe of
troops to dislodge them.
Joseph Solamol was put to death in
tho state prison at Clinton, N. Y., by,
eleotrioity. Ho murdered his sweety'
heart, Theresa Kammora, by outtinf
her throat with a razor, August SO,
1805. The oause was jealousy.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard says: The new
chamber just eleoted will oertatnly
support the government in resisting
American interference in Cuba, and it
will also be a very protectionist body.
The Puris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says he learns that at
Frauoe'a invitation, Russia now di
rects the negotiations with England on
the subjeot of the Nile expedition,
Vgrowing out of the objootions of Russia
- ' and Franoe.
A broken rail on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio road wrecked
the third seotlon of freight train No.
H9. ripnr Meadville. Pa. Two men
were killed and three others seriously
injured. The dead are: Patrick
Kerr, engineer; Bert Rowley, brake
man. Emperor Francis Joseph has bestowed
the order of the Golden Fleece upon
the German imperial ohancellor, Prinoe
Von Hohonlohe. Emperor William
has deoorated Count Goluohowski,
the Austrian minister of foreign
affairs, with the order of the Black
E.igle.
It has been discovered that some of
" the Mataboles who are employed as
servants in Buluwayo have been aot-
inn as spies and oonveying information
of the movements of the expeditions
to their friends in outlying distriots.
One of these traitorous natives has
been shot.
While brooding over the idea that
his family would suffer from want,
John Lehman of Chicago shot and
killed his three children. After com
mitting this terrible deed, Lehman
attempted to end his own life by hang
ing, but, failing in this, he turned the
revolver upon himself, and sent a bul
let through hiB heart, killing himself
instantly.
One of the main buildings of the
Chicago Fireworks Company, at Gross
Point, fourteen miles norm or. unioago,
blew up, resulting in the death of
Nioholas Boree and Annie Boree. The
explosion is supposed to have been
oaused by powder being ignited by
concussion in the maohinery used in
making fireworks.
The house oommittee on ways and
means has deoided to report favorably
the bill introduced by 0. W. Stone, to
repeal that seotion of the Wilson aot
which gives free aioonoi ror ubb in we
arts and manufactures. The internal
revenue offloials acknowledge their
inability to carry out the provisions of
the law. Great frauds are said to be
possible under the law, and many
large olaims have been piled up against
the government.
Meager reports from the lower Brule
agency in South Dakota, state that
Handsome Elk, an Indian belonging to
that agency, shot two Indian police
who were trying to arrest him. In
dian Commissioner Browning and
TTnitna States Marshal Peemiller have
iwn notified, and deputy marshals
have gone to the scene of the difficulty.
More trouble is feared.
nhnirman Aldaoe Walker, of the
AtnViiann. in an interview boated v. wt
Hive's decree in
Judire ColliJe's decree in the foreolos
nm ansa of the United States Trust
Comnanv against the Atlantio & Pa
cific railroad, was a preliminary step
toward the foreclosure sale of the line.
The deoree covers the property in New
Mexico, but no deoree in Arizona has
yet been given. Similar proceedings
will be taken in other sections oi tne
company's territory.
The senate oomimttee on public
buildings and grounds has authorized
favorable report on the amendments
to the sundry-civil bill, increasing
the limit for cost for publio buildings
at Cheyenne, Wyo., from 150,000 to
250,000, and at Boise City, Idaho,
from $150,000 to $200,000, and at
Helena, Mont, from $160,000 to $300,
000. An appropriation of $100,000
was made available in eaoh oase.
In the suit of the London Times
against the Central News, whlob fur
nished dispatches to a news agtnoy in
the United States, domaudiug the re
turn of sums of money whioh had been
paid by the Times to the Central News
for telegrams alleged to nave Deen
fabricated or unduly expanded, the
News airenoy submitted to a verdict
imposing upon it nominal damages and
costs, the Times withdrawing its
charges of fraud.
Joseph D. HigginB, one of the oldest
pioneers of Oregon, died in Astoria,
He was 78 vears of age. having been
born in Fulton oounty, 111., in 1833.
A New York Herald special from
Cairo, Egypt, sayB: A telegram to the
war department states that Colonel
Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Sau
kin.
A postoffloe has been established at
Chase, in Yamhill oounty, Or. wn
liam O. Chase is the postmaster and
the office is a sp.cial one from MoMinn-
ville.
The young ladies' olub of the uni
vorsity of Washington defeated the
young ladies of the Ellensburg normal
school at basket-ball by a score of six
points to three.
A Madrid dispaoth says: It is an
nounoed that the royal speeoh to be de
livered at the opening ot the new cortes
will promise political and administra
tive reforms for Cuba and rorto kioo.
Judge B. F. Dennison, ex-chief jus
tioe of the supreme court of Washing
ton territory, and one of the ablest jur
ists of the state, died in Olympia, aged
76. He was a native of Vermont and
one of the Argonauts of California
From Washington, D. C, comes the
news that the postofflce at Exoelsior
Pieroe county, Wash., will be disoon
tinned Aplrl 80, next. It is to be con
solidated on May 1 with the postofflce
4 Taooma, to which all mail should be
"tit.
governent that thers'lii.fc
Buluwayo is endangered, and that pfs-
cautions are being taken to keep the
road to Buluwayo open in order to sup
ply it with food.
The first sleeping oar porter is dead.
He was John D. Mitchell, and he was
with the Pullman company over thirty
years. He began his service as porter
on the "Pioneer," the first Bleeping car
ever built, the rolling foundation of its
inventor's vast wealth.
A dispatch to the Volka Zeitung,
Cologne, dated from Shanghai, declares
that it is true, as has been before re
Dorted. that Li Hung Chang, who is on
his way to Mosoow to be present at the
coronation of the ozar, bears with him
a secret Rosso-Chinese treaty.
The arrest ot the Baptist missionary,
Bisohp Diaz, in Havana, was due to
the declarations by some prisoners who
were oaptured at Vivora, near that
plaoe, and to the documents whioh
were found in their possession. His
case will be summarily pushed.
A dispatch from Rome to the Pall
Mall Gazette, London, Bays the papal
nuncio at Madrid has been instructed
to propose the mediation ot the pope to
bring about a settlement of the trouble
in Cuba or to urge upon Spain tne ao
oeptanoe of President Cleveland's re
ported offer of mediation.
James E. Allsop, alias A. A. Austin,
who was arrested in Seattle by Deteo
tive John Courtney, of Minneapolis,
on the oharge of murdering Lena Olsen
on the shore of Lake Superior, near
Duluth, in order to get possession of
$450, committed suicide in the oity
jail at Seattle, by hanging himself with
a piece of blanket.
Undertakers of Chioago are interested
in the propositions of an Indiana com
pany to manufacture glass coffins on a
large soale. In an interview George F.
Kimball, the plate-glass manufacturer,
stated that the idea is entirely praotio
able, and that coffins oan be oonstruoted
in the oheaper grades for not more than
60 cents a running foot
A dispatoh from Havana says: Three
prisoners of war, Gregorie Birges, Es-
taban Hernandez ana Jose raoauao,
were executed at Cabana fortress. They
belonged to the insurgent band com
manded by Dr. Bruno Zayas, and were
oaptured by the soldiers ot Aarapiles'
battalion during tne attaoic on maua-
gna.
A number of the newspapers of Mad
rid and elsewhere demand that tne
elections in Cuba be annulled and ex-
nrnmier Sanasti intends to ask the
chamber of deputies to annul the Cuban
elections on the ground tnat tne eleo
tors, owing to the state of rebellion
prevailing, were not free to vote as
they pleased.
The steamer Gaelio brings news that
Admiral MoNear. in oommand of the
Aslatio squadron, is contemplating
naval demonstration in Chinese waters.
The fleet, consisting of the Detroit,
Olympia, Charleston and Boston, will
rendezvous at Shanghai during tne
summer, and will sail north along the
coasts of China andJapan.
Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Vinson and Secret Officer Harris made
a raid on a den of oonterfeiters near the
TREACHERY IS FEARED
Buluwayo Is Threatened by
Hordes ot Matabeles.
WHOLESALE MASSACRE IMMINENT
BULUWAYO RELIEVED
Imperial
Forward
The Hostile Natives Are Gathering by
Thousands About the Town
Feeling of Apprehension.
Buluwayo, April 30. A feeling of
apprehension as to what the next step
of the revolting Matabeles will be per
meates all oiroles here. Information
ooming from the country around makes
it certain that the natives are prepar
ing an offensive movement againBt the
plaoe. The number of Matabeles re
ported gathering at points near by is
sufficient to appal the hearts oi even
experienced fighters. There is a dread
in the minds of many tnat tne plaoe is
in danger of being overwhelmed by a
rush of hordos of Matabeles, and the
inhabitants put to a wholesale mas-
saore.
The fear of treachery is added to thr
apprehension of overwhelming num
bers. Many indications point to a con'
nivanoe with the war parties of sup
posed friendly natives. There are
many of the latter in the town itself,
and no white man feels sure how far
he oan trust his dusky associates or ser
vants.
On Wednesday evening, three Dutch
scouts were sent out from here to se
cure some definite and accurate infor
mation of the position and movements
of the natives. What they have found
has not served to- relieve the anxiety
and suspense. They report that the
Matabeles are gathered like ants in a
hill on the Umgusa river, only six
miles north of here. That some treach
erous plot is being oonoooted is indi
cated by the faot that native women
are seoreting European clothes. The
native men on the Veldt wear the na
tive costume, while most ot those in
Buluwayo wear clothes approaching
the European fashion. By attiring the
native warriors in European garments,
the Matabeles hope they will be enabled
to enter the town nnquestioned.
A Matabele "boy" has also been
caught stealing the badges belonging
a Un U VinI.iai a Yin-rat anA I 1 B hA
4iUt-ad that it was intended to use these
Buluwaya at ft iUL-. J .
ing the inhabitants. ' It
tioeable that the natives in
are becoming as thick as bees. In or
dinary times, the natives come and go
in town without attracting attention.
The native population is at all times a
shifting one, and a; large number of
the men that make it up are not known
individually to the white people of the
town or to the authorities. The faot
that the natives in the town live apart
from the whites adds to the difficulty
ot identifying those who belong in the
town. But there is little more confi
dence felt in the natives who belong in
the town than in the hostile men who
it is believed, are surreptitiously being
introduced to aid from within when an
attaok shall be made from without It
looks now as though that might ooour
at any time.
The roads by whioh oommunioation
is had with the south, both the one to
Tuli and the one to Mafeking, are felt
to be in peril. There are undoubtedly,
large numbers of hostile natives be
tween Buluwayo and the settlements
to the south, some of them in open re
volt. The situation is felt to be serious
and threatening.
Troop. Puh In K
From Mafeking.
London, Anril 23. The South Afri
can situation still absorbs a large share
of publio attention, and apprehensions
for the safety of the English in Mata
beleland, and particularly in Bulu
wayo, are not yet abated. There is an
appreciable sense of relief over the
news that a supply train from Mafe
king has got through to Buluwayo, and
that the reinforcements of imperial
troops from Mafeking are being rapid
ly pushed forward for the reiiei oi tne
place, whioh is, to all puproses, be
leaguered, so closely invested by the
natives that numerous skirmishes are
occurring almost in the outskirts of
the town. Friends of the people in
Buluwayo (and this includes, so far as
sentiment is oonoerned, all England)
are relieved to hear that no extensive
offensive movement is planned at pres
ent againBt the natives. There have
been grave fears that the whites would
be rash and invite disaster.
The reply of President Kruger to the
invitation ot Colonial Secretary (Jbam
berlain to visit England and discuss
with him what remedies can be ap
plied to the grievances of the Uitland
era in the Transvaal is the newest
factor in the South African problem.
The reply is not accorded a very kindly
reception by the English publio. In
its editoiral commenting upon Presi
dent Krugers' reply to Colonial Secre
tary Chamberlain, the Times says:
"It President Kruger and his sup
porters willfully close their eyes to
obvious facts and obdurately refuse to
redress the grievances of the Uitlanders
circumstances may ocour that will
force them to rely upon the primary
right of all communities to save them
selves from imminent peril."
The Times tomorrow will publish a
dispatch from Pretoria, whioh says:
"President Kruger's reply to Mr.
Chamberlain is friendly and oonoilia
tory, but it fails to advance the nego
tiation. It repeats that the president
oanot ask the volksraad to consent to
his visit to England until a basis for
the disoossion is settled."
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS
TORNADO IN OHIO.
Jail-Breaker Left His Card.
Price, Utah, April 30. S. H. Brown
lee, who has been oonflned in the ooun
ty jail since March 33 lats, on a six
months' sentenoe for criminal libel,
broke jail last night and is supposed to
have taken midnight train east. When
the deputy jailer, George Stmpleman,
went to the jail this morning to feed
Brownlee, he was confronted with a
note pinned to the empty oage inform
ing him that Brownlee had taken the
eastbound train, and that if it was de
sired that be shonld return to please
wire him at Leadville, and he would
take the first train baok. The note
was signed by Brownlee, who had by
that time over eight hours start, ana
was in all likelihood in Colorado.
The Lamborn Harder Case,
Leavenworth. Kan., April 30. The
hearing of the oase of Charles and
Annie Lamborn and Charles Davenport,
aoouBed of the brutal murder ot John
T. Lamborn, at Fall Leaf, February
17, was begun here at 3 o'olook this
afternoon. Deteotive Charles Schaeffer,
of Kansas City, who worked up the
evidenoe against the three accused and
caused their arrest, failed to appear.
The oounty attorney had relied on
Sohaeffer to produce the evidenoe to
oonviot Two days will be required
to oonolude the trial. The prisoners
and their attorneys are confident of
aoquital.
Handsome Elk Realate Arrest.
Chamberlain, S. D., April 30.
Handsome Elk, a Lower Brule Indian,
who Bhot two Indian polloe, one of
them fatally, has taken refuge in a
house whioh has been transformd into
a temporary fortress. He is heavily
armed and will resist arrest. He is a
very bad Indian, and the Indian police
foroe may be orderei to assist the
deputy marshal to make the arrest
The Omaha Exposition.
Washington, April 33. The house
nnmmitr.ee on ways and means today
Union Paoiflo depot, Spokane, Wash. , 1 decided to report favorably the senate
and captured two. A oomplete plant ! bill to give $300,000 for a government
for the making of half-dollars was building and exhibit at the trans-Mis-found,
with about thirty of bogus sissippi and international exposition in
coins. They are splendid imitations,- Omaha in 1898. An amendment was
and have been in circulation freely in 1 added providing that the exposition
saloons and sporting resorts. ' authorities must raise an equal sum.
Two Persons Killed and Many Others
Injured.
Fremont, O., April 33. A tornado
accompanied by a heavy rainfall swept
over the northwestern part of San
dusky county, killing two persons, in
juring a number of others and doing
-st to buildings and other
M-'.iUsau.iiHwueM-
the town r--rrr- ,T
west witn grewi rmf m.
and hnllrlino' In its natllto -
o - -- t w
away. After smashing a road bridge1
and blowing a big tree across a Wheel
ing & Lake Erie freight train, which
crushed the caboose and came near kill
ing a number of trainmen, the wind
began to play havoo with farm build
ings.
The barns of Jacob Engler, J. E.
Hofliuger, Upton Burger and Anthony
Swift first went down by it. Then
the house of James Greene was de
stroyed. Greene's aged father, Wil
liam L. Greene, was killed outright
His wife was fatally hurt, and the
baby carried across the road in itB
oradle. The ohild escaped uninjured.
Next the barn of Amos Harrick, in
which Harrick and John Low were
shearing sheep, was crushed. Low
was blown arcoss a field againBt a tree,
being instantly killed. Other build
ings destroyed were the barns of Al
Fairohild, William Henson, Ferry
Parish, George Waggoner and Charles
Tucker. Tucker's child was badly hurt.
At Booktown, a hamlet near here,
nearly all the buildings were destroy
ed, but there was no loss of life.
From All the Cities and Towns of the
Paoiflo States and Territories
Washington.
The receipts of the Goldendale post
offloe for the year ending March SI,
were $1,955.64.
Seattle's health officer reports the
publio schools of the town in a bad
sanitary condition.
J. H. Horan, of Wenatohee, has or
dered a creamery plant, whioh will be
in operation this spring.
Two guns and three revolvers were
stolen by burglars from the hardware
store of Frank McKay in Port Town
send. Spokane jobbers are talking of rais
ing $10,000 to oarry up a railway
tariff fight to the interstate oommeroe
commission.
The regular annual meeting of the
Washington State Press Association
will beheld in North Yakima this year
on July 9 and 10.
Two Paulist fathers from San Fran
cisco have been holding mission serv
ices at the Church of the Assumption
at New Whatcom.
Hoquiam postofflce receipts for the
fiscal year ending March SO, 189G,were
$2,496.68. This is sufficient to in
crease the salary to $1,300.
Racbael Duncan, a 6-year-old child,
drowned in the tide flats in Seattle,
while playing at hide and seek with a
number of companions. Her body was
recovered.
The correct thing in Colfax churoh
oiroles is to present the pastor with a
new bicycle. This is certainly a step
in advance of the old-fashioned dona
tion party.
A Palouse correspondent of the
Spokesman-Review estimates that 80
per oent of the wheat in that vicinity
was destroyed by the cold weather dur
ing Maroh.
The county commissioners of Skagit
oounty have deoided to appropriate
$6,000 for the Blanchard road, connect
ing the Bellingham bay oities with the
Samish country.
William Hume, the veteran oannery-
man nnd hunter, of Easle Cliff, in
.X-t t3 in .the, woods
Some nneatnMaln r
A Blot In Kansas.
Topeka, Kan., April 33. Governor
Morrill has received a dispatch asking
that troops be sent to St John, Staf
ford oounty, to quell a riot. The dis
patch was signed by the sheriff and
connty attorney. The cause of the
disturbance was not stated. The gov
ernor ordered Adjutant-General Fox to
proceed to St. John at onoe, taking
with him the company of militia at
Newton.
Kansas City, April 33. A dispatch
to the Times from Hutohinson, Kan
sas, says the reported riot at St. John
was provoked by followers of Bond
Brothers' circus, who after swindling
several people, resisted the efforts that
were made to reoover the money that
they had taken. In the scrimmage
that ensued, the entire circus crowd
was pitted against the citizens and
officers. The trouble soon took on an
aspect so serious that the sheriff tele
graphed Governor Morrill for assist
ance to put down the riot. Five men
are reported to have been badly hurt.
The details of the trouble cannot be
learned.
The Arid Land Act.
Washington, April 33. Tne oom
mittee on irrigation of arid lands today
authorised a favorable report on a bill
amendatory of the Carey aot. The
amendments provide that where the
greater part of a legal subdivision is
desert in charaoter, the whole shall be
bo considered. In order to be entilted
to desert lands, the states and terri
tories must cause to be irrigated and
oocupied not less than 30 acres in eaoh
160 Suoh traota must be cultivated
by aotual settlers within 10 years from
the date of segregation.
Agricultural Rating Bill.
London, April 33. Henry Chaplin,
president of the looal government
board, today introduced in the house
of commons the agricultural rating
bill, by whioh, after Maroh 31, 1897,
agricultural land will be assessed for
one-half of its present ratable value.
This means an annual loss In revenue
of 1,650,000.
Mr. Cradlebaugh and the pary
went with him on a prospecting tour
into the Cascades north of Mount
Adams a month ago.
George I Cook, a man apparently
65 or 70 years of age, was found dead
in a tent in the woods near Tacoma.
Heart disease is believed to have been
the oause of his death.
At 13 o'clock at night a prisoner
named Webb, who was night engineer
in the eleotrio light plant at the peni
tentiary at Walla Walla, scaled the
wall and made his escape.
The 18th annual association of Con
gregational churches and ministers of
Eastern Washington and Northern
Idaho has ended at Walla Walla. The
next meeting will be held at Medical
Lake.
The Waitsburg fire department has
ordered a racing cart for the tourna
ment of the Eastern Oregon and
Washington Firemen's Association, to
be held in Pendleton. It is ball-bear
ing and cushion-tired.
Engineer E. G. Fanning, of the
Walla Walla paid fire department,
has perfected a most useful invention
for a system of fire alarm, and has
made a proposition to the oity oonnoil
for the adoption of the system. It has
peculiar merit of its own, and is high
ly spoken of.
It is estimated that there are be
tween 75,000 and 100,0000 bushels of
wheat in the warehouses at Waitsburg
yet unsold, the owners of which feel
themselves able to hold for better
prioes. The prioe now is 43 cento,
which is about 10 cents higher than it
was a year ago.
The financial exhibit of the auditor
of Pieroe oounty shows that the county
has a bonded Indebtedness of $693,000;
general fund warrant indebtedness of
$196,823.10; road distriot and other
indebtedness, $333 46; total, $890,
046.56. There is now oash in the
general fund subject to check, $4,
315.88. Robert Soott has made a olose ex
amination ot fruit trees with a view
to ascertaining if the buds have been
injured by the late freeze, says the
Yakima Times. He says that they are
practically uninjured. Here and there
a few aprioot blossoms are killed, but
the trees will have all the fruit they
should bear, and be better for the thin
ning out
The certificate of the treasurer of
Walla Walla oounty shows a total on
hand of $3,878.65. Under the opera
tions of the "barefoot sohoolboy" law,
$2,100 of the money oolleoted for
aohool purposes must be first turned in
to the state treasury and reapportioned.
It is not available until the next state
apportionment, while in the meantime
many aistriots in tne county are pay
ing interest on their warrants at the
rate of 8 per oent and teachers are
compelled in many instances to dis
count their salary warrants. There
are 4,298 children of sohool age in the
oounty.
scalps of coyotes is causing many ot
these pests to be killed.
A lodge of Elks was formed in Salem
last week.
A newspaper is promised for Lan-
gois, Uurry oounty.
Albany's gilded youth still do their
base ball playing indoors.
Columbia oounty owes $49,710 un
paid taxes, running as far back as 1887.
A steam terry is to be established
across Young's river from Daggett's
Point to Case's Astoria.
There is an exodus of Coos bay ooal
miners. A good many are going to
the Nevada oounty, CaL, quartz mines.
Joseph J. Miller, of Montana, is in
Sherman oounty buying 3-year-old
steers. He is paying $10 for good
yearlings and $15 for good 2-year-olds.
The semi-annual statement of the
flnanoial oondition of Linn county on
April 1 shows resources amounting to
$133,893.50, and liabilities of $44,
090.74. Mr. Charles N. Crittenden, the mil
lionaire evangelist and founder of the
Florence Crittenden houses for fallen
women, arrived in Baker City and has
begun a series of meetings.
J. Durkheimer, ot Burns, has started
30,000 head of sheep from Harney
county to the shearing grounds near
Huntington. The wool and sheep will
be shipped to market from Huntington.
County Clerk Jacobs, of Jackson
oounty, olaims to have found a short
age in the accounts ot ex-Treasurer
Moore of $106. 48. The olerk has been
instructed to notify Moore to reim
burse the county.
The Indians on the Umatilla reserv
ation held a wake over Patawa and
Big Dick for three days, and had a big
feast The horses and personal effects
of the deceased have been divided up
aooording to tribal customs.
J. Creswell, a young son of Press
Creswell, of Heppner, recently swal
lowed, in a joking way, a lot of cam
phor, and not long after went Into vio
lent convulsions. It required the serv
loes of a physioian to pull him through
alive.
It is reported that 15 inohes of snow
fell the last week over in the Lone
Rock country, says the Heppner Ga
zette. Many sheepmen were in the
midst of lambing and the cold snap has
proven very disastrous to this industry
in that ssotion,
The Goldendale Telephone Company
has submitted, through The Dalles
Commercial Club, a proposition to the
people of The Dalles to build a tele
phone line from Goldendale to The
Dalles, to be connected with the Con-don-Seufert
system.
Last week Sheriff Patterson, of
Uaokson, levied an attachment on the
bj E G. Salatrorfltof j
V.a
rison, which w
Washington oourts.
There is a milch cow in The Dalles
that has a wooden leg. One of A.
Thompson's cows was laid up with a
strained leg and Mr. Thompson bad a
wooden one made and strapped on her,
and now the oow uses the artificial leg
as though always aocustomed to it.
Sheriff Houser, of Umatilla, has
paid into the oounty treasury $31,400,
the amount collected of the 1895 taxes.
Treasurer Kern sent $15,000 of this
amount to the state treasurer and the
balance wil be apportioned to sohool
distriots and oities in Umatilla oounty.
The apparatus for operating the
gates at the locks is now all plaoed and
a successful trial was made last week.
By attaching oables to the bydranlio
maohine, the big gates were opened and
olosed with apparently little effort
No water has as yet been turned into
the oanal.
C. D. Moore, of White Salmon, hss
just oompleted setting strawberry
plants for A. P. Bateham on the Coe
place at Hood river. He used a ma
chine for doing the work that he
learned to use in setting sweet potatoe
plants in New Jersey. He set 15,000
plants a day for Mr. Bateham, and
says he has set as high as 30,000 a day.
Mr. Bateham says the work was well
done.
TIE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily
Proceedings in Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
Oregon.
The aotion of the oounty oourt of
Wasoo in offering bounties for the
Idaho.
The Daddy mine, at Murray, is said
to have netted its owners $50,000 dur
ing the year 1895.
A conservative estimate places the
output ot concentrates from the Coeur
d'Alene mills at 10,000 tons per month.
The building of boats in Lewiston
is assuming considerable importance.
Several boats are being oonstruoted at
that point
F. A. Bauer, of Elk City, writes ad
vising men and prospectors who con
template going into that oonntry, to
wait a few weeks longer, as there is
considerable snow, whioh will interfere
with prospeoting and inspection of
properties.
Montana.
The Montana Ore Purchasing Com
pany has declared its usual dividend
of $1 per share.) This dividend is at
the rate of 48 per oent.
An assay office has been started up
at Melrose under the supervision ot
M. D. Fleming, a well known chemist
of Butte. Mr. Fleming was in Butte
this week and reports the mineral out
look in that seotion as being exoellent
Another dividend has been declared
by the Boston & Montana Company at
the main "Jffloe in Boston of $3.00 per
share. This dividend is payable on
May 30. This makes a total of
$4,025,000 up to date.
The Butte owners in the War Eagle
Company at Rossland received word
that at a meeting of directors at Spo
kane a dividend ot five cents per share
was declared on
stock of that company, making $25,000.
Substance of the Measures Being Con
sidered by the Fifty-Fourth
Session Benate.
Washington, April 18. The resolu
tion for an investigation of the recent
bond issues was taken up in the senate
today and Hill made a sensational and
dramatio speech in opposition. The
New York senator defended Secretary
Carlisle and his administration of the
treasury against loose insinuations of
irregularity, and showed the preva
lence of charges of this character by
presenting and reading in full the
oharges made by Senator Chandler
against the friends of MoKinley that
levy of money was being made on
protected industries in beahlfot Mo-
Kinley's candidacy for the presidency.
As a further evidenoe of the preva
lence of the charges, Hill spoke of the
sugar investigation, where, he said,
one senator, referring to Quay, had
frankly admitted that he had bought
sugar stock and had a right to buy it,
and today that senator was the favorite
son of the leading republican state as a
oandidate for the presideoy.
Washington, April 30. To avoid a
struggle for precedence, the senate, on
motion of Cannon, took up the resolu
tion direoting the secretary of the in
terior to open the Uncompahgre reser
vation without further delay, the un
derstanding being that the bond inves
tigation resolution should come up at 3
o'clock as unfinished business. After
Brown had spoken for the resolution,
he sought to secure a vote. Gorman
asked that aotion be deferred owing to
the absence of Vilas, who desired to be
heard. Aldricb said it must be dear
that there was "something behind"
these efforts at delay, and this persist
ence in putting off a vote. Gorman
responded that it was the first intima
tion coming from the distinguished
senator on the other side of the cham
ber that delays in publio business were
occurring.
Washington, April 23. With the
thermometer standing at 80 degrees,
less than 30 senators were on the floor
when the president pro tern, Frye
called the upper honse to order. Dur
ing the morning hour the joint resolu
tion for the appointment of Genearl
Franklin, Representative Steele, Gen
eral Bale and General Henderson as
members of the board ot managers ot
the National Soldiers' Home, was
adopted without debate. Cannon in
troduced a bill for the construction,
-"""ahiagton, of a ground map of
i1wJhe soale of one
"MiflroD-nn-
gave notiov-ta
would ask to take up tuu
ins veterans of the Indian wars. m-
lison followed with a report of the
sundry civil appropriation bill and
said he would seek to take it up at the
earliest day.
House.
Washington, April 18. In the honse,
Blue asked if Hull would allow the
vote on the resolution to be dropped for
ten days. This Hull deolined to do.
The speaker deoided also that a motion
to reoommit would not be in order,
the vote having been ordered at three
o'olook. Mahon's amendment to inves
tigate Governor Smith's oonduot was
ruled out, and the vote was taken on .
the Bine amendment to substitute the
name of General Howard tor that of
General Franklin. On demand of Blue,
the vote was taken by ayes and nays,
and was rejected by 61 to 149. The
resolution was then adopted, without
division.
Washington, April 20. The net re
sult of five hours' work on the private
oalendar in the house today was the
passing of four pension bills, one to
pension the widow of Rear Admiral
Foote, at $50 per month; the rejection
of a bill to retire a hospital steward as
a seoond lieutenant of oavalry, and the
passing of a war olaim of less than
$600. The. latter was the first war
olaim brought before the house for con
sideration, and naturally provoked a
general debate on the policy of paying
war olaims. It drew from Mahon,
ohairman of the war olaims oommittee;
Walker, MoCall and Evans, eloquent
pleas for the payment of the findings of
the oourt of olaims. Mahon argued
that these claims should be paid or
abolished. Dookery eulogized Speaker
Crisp, and Sayers, the ohairman ot the
appropriations oommittee in the last
congress, paid a high tribute to Speak
er Reed.
Washington, April 23. For the first
time this session Speaker Reed was late
in arriving at the oapitol. Clerk Mc
Dowell called the house to order and
announced that a speaker pro tern
would be elected. Hull was unani
mously eleoted. He had been seated
bnt a few minutes when Reed appeared,
and, amid muoh laughter, said: "The
house will be in order " Although
this was the suspension day under the
rules, Cannon, chairman of the oom
mittee on appropriations, insisted on
proceeding with the general deficiency
bill. The house went into committee
of the whole for its consideration.
This is the last of the regular appro
priation bills.
Mrs. Deacon In Farts.
New York, April 23. A World dis
patch from Paris says: The divorced
wife of Edward Parker Deacon has re
turned from America, bringing with
her two obildren. It is said that Mr.
Deaoon has been In corresponded with
her for six months. It has even been
asserted by those professing to have
seen his letters, that he has made
to her for oomplete
reconciliation.
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