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I ' r ilHE JnlILLSBR6 V()L- 3- IIILLSliOKO, OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY M. TTT, " ? EVENTS OF HIE D1V Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TKRSK TICKS FKOM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condensed Form. Word hai been received of tbe mur der in Cuba of Walton E. SUlIe, an American, lor his money. Archduke Charles Louis of Auitria, eldest brother of Emperor Franoii Joseph, died in Vienna, aged 64. Tom Linton, a Welshman, beat the bicycle record from the fifth mile no ward, in Paris, covering thirty miles wumn one boar. John D. Jones, who stamped to death in a nt of anger Mrs. Mendenhall, at , me Anna, 111., fair last fall, was hanged at Murphysboro. He professed repeutanoo. " k The Western Federation of Miners has dooided to amalgamate with the American Federation of Labor, and wil elnot delegates to tbe oonventiuu of the latter body. Dr. Thomas Renn was shot by his wife in Chicago. The Woman fired five times. Two ballets enured tbe doo tor's head and he will probably die. Jealousy was the cause. James Dazzle (colored), was taken from the jail in 8t. Bernard's parish, Louisiana, and lynched. He was ar rested for attempting to outrage a white woman near the Patterson plan tation.' ? Harry .Tocos and Frank Jeffereaa, two oouvicts at Ban (juentin, got into a quarrel during which Jefferess stabbed Jones with a knife, indicting , a wound from which Jones died shortly afterward. General Vicuna, the Spanish com mander, is dead of yellow fever, at Corral Falso, in Matansas, where he has beeu siok for several days past. His body will be buried in the oity of Matanzas. Lillian Russell, while riding her golden wheel near Central Park, Mew York, collided with an nnknown oyol 1st, and was thrown to tbe pavement Her oostly wheel was smashed and her ankle was hurt Mrs. Louise A. Speetzen, an attrac tive and entertaining woman, laughed herself to death in Oakland, Cal. Tbe case was a peculiar one, and attracted the attention of a number of Oakland pbysioians, who attended the lady. The striking firemen of the Armour paoking plant, of Ranaas City, who went out May, 6 for increased wages ' tfii fewer hours, have compromised their affairs and lifted their boycott against the oompany'i meats and re turned to work. A dispatch has been received in Lon don from Governor Bir Heroules Rob inson relative to tbe sentences imposed npon the reformers at Pretoria, which says a number of the prisoners will be , released immediately, and others in three months. A third lot of the pris- COLUMBIAN PRIZE WINNERS. OONOVER PIANOS CHICAGO COTTAGE ORGANS WIRB GIVEN Highest Awards At the World's Exposition for excellent manufacture, quality, uniformity and volume of tone, elasticity of touch, artistic cases, materials and workman ship of highest grade. ATALOQUI ON APPLICATION "BIB. CHICUGO COTTAGE ORGAN CO. OHICAQO. ILL. UB6EST MANUFACTURERS OF EMS AND ORGANS III THE WORLD. (Caveat, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pal.1 lent business conducted (or MODERATE FEE. I Our OrrtCE la opposite U, . Pa-riNTOrnct ina we can secure patent u km umo loan, tuose vmote from Washington. Send model, drawing- or uhoto.. with descrlo-i (ion. We advise, If patentable or not. free of Jharge. Our fee not due till patent la aecured. , i A Pamphlet, ' How to Obtain Patents," wltlv bit of same in the U. S. and foreign countries' int free. Address, , I.A.SNOW&CO. Br. PATtHT OrriCf, WASHINGTON. D. C. ! nam oners will have their oases considered and passed upon after five months, and a fourth portion after one year. The house committee on publlo land Has ordered a favorable report on the bill for the maintenance of schools of mines in pulbio laud states and terri tories, by granting each state from the proceeds from the sale of mineral lands $16,000 for tbe current year and au annual increase oi l,uuu per year lor ten years. White Buffalo, captain of Indian police on the Cheyenne reservation, has applied for a pension, on account of in juries sustained while a member of -the Third United States oavalry. and Ex amlning Physician Hurley says tbe in juries are suoh as would give white man a pension. White Buffalo ia a son oi Bitting Bull, and has alwava oeen loyal to the whites as a policeman ana soiaier. Upon representation of Indian Agent Stouob, at Tongue River asenov. Mont., transmitted through and in dorsed by the interior department, the war department sent orders to General Brooke, commanding the department of Dakota, to send troops from Fort Custer to the agenoy to preserve order and stop the killing of cattle by tbe In dians. Probably two troops of the Tenth cavalry will be sent, but Gen eral Brooke is allowed to use disore tion. new xoranastne nrst dally Darjer devoted to wheeling published in the English language. It ia called the Daily American Wheelman. The General TransAtlantique Com pany has advanced freight rates on specie one-eighth per cent on lots of 500,000 or over, either gold or silver. The North German Gazette aavs: The government is desirous of the total abolition of tbe sugar import bounties, provided tbe other states enter an agreement to take similar action. A olondburst occurred near Perry. O. T., eight to twelve inches of rain falling. Kesidenoes and business build ings on high, level ground were flood ed, while houses along Cow creek were warned away. Lieutenant Luther B. Baker, who, as an officer in the government detec tive service, had charge of the party which oaptured J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, died in Lanaing, Mich., aged 66 years. John Taggart, of Big Stone Gap. Ky., was killed, and twelve others dangerously wounded in a gas explo sion in tbe mines near Big Stone Gap. fart oi tbe mine oaved in. It is be lieved six of the injured will die. The boiler in Davidson Bros.' saw mill, near Marietta, Ind., exploded with terriflo foroe, fatally injuring Eunioe Davidson, Thomas Davidson and Frank Battran. Six others were mow or less injured. Near Atlantio, Ia., the combination train on the Griswold branch of the Rock Island was ditched by striking a mule. All the oars and engine went into the ditoh, but the ooaoh, crowded with passengers, remained on tbe track. Several were injured, but nine seriously. The property at Elizabeth, N. J. , of the defunct United States Cordage Company, has been sold by the sheriff of Union oounty, N. J., to satisfy a mortgage held by the United States Trust Company, of New York. The plant, which was -valued at nearly 11,000,000 was sold for $S0,000. The London Chronicle's Rome oor respondent says: News has been re- oeivd from Valparaiso that on the in itiative of Chile, it has been decided to establish between Brazil, Chile and Argentina another oommeroial agree ment applying the principles of the Monroe doctrine to South Amerioa. Henry Walker, residing near Broken Bow, Neb., murdered his wife, his ex cuse being that she had attempted to poison him, and he killed her as a mat ter of self protection. He purchased a revolver and deliberately ananged all the details. The murderer is a wealthy farmer, prominent and well known. The ooal product of ' the United States, for the calendar year 1895, shows the output of the Northwest states to be: Oregon, 73,685 snort tons product, valued at 1247,901; Washing ton, 1,191,410 short tons, with a valua tion of 12,677,958; Montana, 1,489,193 short tons, valued at 12,816,906. A dispatoh from Basse Terre, Island of Guadloupe,West Indies, says: Jap anese immigrants are again in rebel lion. The uprising has beoome so for midable as to oause planters grave anx iety. The colonial government is Adopting drastic measures to suppress the insurrection, notwithstanding the stipulations of the treaty. General Lucius Fairohild, command- er-in-ohief of the Loyal Legion and ex-commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., died at his residence in Madison, Wis. General Fairohild had suffered from the effects of the grippe for several weeks, and a month ago the ailment waa oomplioated by kidney tronble. Until five days ago, it was thought he would reoover. The senate committee on interstate oommeroe has authorized the reporting oi a Diu lor tne. uniform classification of railroad freight rates framed on the lines reoommended by the national board of trade. It will require an in terstate oommeroe commission to pre pare and publish a classification which shall apply to all sections of the oountry. A Madrid dispatoh says: In oonse quenoe of the representations made by the Amerioan government, the Spanish oabinet will try to induoe Captain General Weyler to reconsider his pro hibition of the export of leaf tobacco to foreign countries. The ediot has been welcomed in Spain and Havana, as a olever blow doalt at the people who are considered to be chJef abettors of the insurrection. 1 - . . . TORE THROUGH IOWA Halt a Hundred Lives Lost in a Cyclone. 8T0UIES TOLD BY EYEWITNESSES Whole Families Wiped Out of Existence -Tornado Want Kat Through Illinois and Michigan. Des Moines, Ia., May 27. Forty three killed, a score of fatally injured ana about nlty people seriously hurt is, as near as can be estimated tonight, the result oi tne deBtruotive tornado which swept portions of Iowa, Illinois and Kansas last night. The property loss is heavy, but accurate estimates thus far are impossible. The list of killed stands as follows: Jasper oounty, Iowa, 10; Polk coun ty, Iowa, 9; Kockford oounty, Iowa. 4; Elgin oounty, Iowa, 1; North Mc Gregor, Iowa, 12; Durango, Iowa, 6; Fort Soott, Kan., 2. The storm wrought its neatest havoc in Iowa, where the oountiea of Polk and Jasper were devastated by two tornadoes. The loss of life was heaviest there. Tbe storm originated near the town of Ankenv. ninetv-five miles north nf Des Moines. As near as can be ascer tained from those who saw the sight, two clouds, one from the, northwest and one from tbe southwest, met and dropped down on the earth and wrought their havoc on all that! waa' loose and fast Tbe storm moved northeastward. Near the town of Bondurant it killed its first victims, the members of the Bailey family. The storm was seen coming from Bondurant. Many farm erg who bad attended the obnroh serv ices had been unable to get home before the storm, and their lives were thus saved. Tbe track of the tornado at this point was about a Quarter of a mile wide. It passed onward, going north of the town of- Santiago. All along tbe course the fences and build ings, crops and trees were completely destroyed. In plaoes bark was peeled from tbe trees, bouses were lifted up and hurled down and broken into splin ters; oellars were heaped full of mud, and debris, often partially covering those who had taken refuge in them. Those who had fled to caves were in variably saved, but so sudden was the approaoh of the storm that many were unable to find that shelter, though the oaves were only a few rods from them. Passing onward the storm struck Va leria. The railroad bridge on the Chi oago Great Western was the first object it wrestled with. Tbe bridge was com pletely demolished, and the rails were twisted and bent out of shape. The town was almost completely ruined. The buildings were demolished when they stood in the full foroe of the storm, and those whioh Btood alone tbe edges of the storm were moved and twisted, and in other ways injured. A aoboolhouse wai taken away bodily, and fragments of it have so far escaped j discovery. There were some strantre cranks played near this town. An old man holding a babe was lifted up and dropped into an adjoining field without tne least injury being done to either him or the ohild. . Leaving the wreaked town, the storm moved forward, laying the oountry bare, wrecking houses and killing the inmates, une observer near Valeria. who saw the storm and observed it oarefully, says that the cloud appeared wi w a uigu Dauoon, aarK green in oolor, witn a light Btreak in the cen ter. It traveled at a tremendous rt tering the houses olose to it with mud and sand, stripping hedges and licking : , r . me greas irom tne neida. From Vale' rlathe storm moved on, passing near' at. X -''.u ' 7 7 --Mrs-w-. , B amswortn is tbe only woman in Ore the town of Mingo. Later in the evening, a tornado seems to have struck near Manchester T Delaware oounty, although reports are very meager from there. It isossible that this was the same storm, and that. 1 .fti..iin.i(nn.iiJ. ;l ..... Im mll lu air, ll once more dipped down to the earth and laid bare a strip half a mile wide and six or eight miles long. Colorado Miner Strike. Denver, May 27. A speoial to the Rooky Mountain News from Louis- villa. Coin . atntaa that th w,o Federation of Miners has oalled a strike on the ooal mines operated by the Unit-', " ' I VUMH WUW IIWIDIS ed Coal Company and the Citizens' Coal Company. The strike wasoauaed ; n ? ", by the disohargeof eight men at the 1 Hayn8' Maf .28,-Colonel Motons. Simpson mine, and was over an old neaJ " ? 5ra Provin0e m in trouble with the oompany in refusing , ,he iDur8en' of. Zayas, to reinstate twenty-two men who were The ln?urKe,1,t8 abandoned one pris discharged, tbe oompany deolining to iT' hodeolared that the insurgent aaopt tne soneduie under whioh the men were working. About 600 miners are affected. Secession in Perd, New York, May 27. A Herald dis- patoh from Buenos Ayres says: The Herald's correspondent in Manaos. Brazil, sends word that a boat arrivinst there from Iquitos, Peru brings news tnat uoionei semtnarioa, leader of the , movement to make the department of Loreto, Peru, an independent state, has called into the field all persons able to carry arms. Colonel Seminarios has raised about 8,000 men to resist the troops of President Pierola. They have only old-style arms. A small steamer has been armed for service on the Amazon river. Seminarios has issued a proclamation deolaring the independ- enoe of the new state. Dr. Peters, the African explorer, is about to undertake a new explora- tion of Somaliland under the auspices of a numbr of wealthy Americans. THE BERMUDA NEARLY CAUGHT Has Narrow Escape From Spanish Gunboats. New York. May 26. News reached this oity today from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, that tbe steamship Ber muda, with a large party of filibusters and a cargo of ammunition and orovis ions, had a narrow escape from being captured by tne Spanish warships on her lust cruise to Cuba. This was the Bermuda's second successful trip. bbe crossed the St John's river bar April 17, in oommand of Captain E. G. Reilly. The Bermuda hove to at place on the northern coast of Cuba, some ten miles east of Cardenas, and at once began to lower her boats. It was said today by one in authoirty that the first boat oapsized, being over loaded, and that five men were drowned, among them a brother of Colonel Nicholas de Cardenas, one of tne insurgent leaders. Tbe cargo was all landed, when one of the boats got adrift. Some of the party began shouting. Sudden ly the flash of an electric light was aeen directly over tbe ship's masthead. ine snouts of the men in the boat had been heard by a Spanish warship. There was a flash and a roar, and a solid shot passed about 300 feet astern of the ship. Captain Reilly headed his ship west ward, and was pulling away from the Spaniards very quiokly. A few min utes after a second shot was fired and went wide. Then it was discovered that two Spanish gunboats were in pursuit The Bermuda had no trouble in showing tbe Spaniards her heels. Chinese) Counter. niters. San Francisco, May 26. At last the United States secret service authorities have struck a lead to tbe source whenoe have come the almost perfect imitation of half dollars circulated throughout the coast. It is believed the counterfeits. whioh absolutely defy deteotion, except unaer a poweriul magnifying class in the hands of a olever expert, were made by Chinese, in their native land, and brought to this country last summer by members of the troupe of Chinese actors who oame to America to perform at the Atlanta exposition. It is esti mated that 20,000 of the unauthorized coins have been disposed of by the Chinese, and that "Little Pete," the Chinese of recent racetrack job no toriety, was back of the scheme. . A Disastrous Cloudburst. Marshalltown, Ia., May 26. A oloudburst today, between Lamoille and State Center, caused Linn creek, which flows through this city, to rise in one hour from a mere rivulet to a river a half mile wide. The Chicago & Northwestern tracks and roadbed and two bridges near Lamoille were seriously damaged, the flood destroying crops and drowning considerable live stock. A heavy hail accompanied the rain. The railroad yards in this city are submersed, and dwellings in the lowlands flooded to a depth of three feet Some of the residents were res cued in boats, having narrow escapes. Railroad traffic cannot be resumed for a day or two. Iowa river is also on tbe biggest rampage for fifteen years. Deadly Gasoline Stove. Chicago, May 26. By the explosion of a gasoline stove on Townsend street today a family of six persons was al most exterminated. Four are dead and a fifth is so badly burned that death is almost certain. Mrs. Malm, the wife and mother. had arisen to prepare breakast, and her husband and children were still asleep j bed one ngbted a gasoline stove. when the reservoir whioh holds the supply of oil, exploded, throwing the dU V A. iL - - nurn burned almost to a crisp. A Woman Miner. IT iJ 1 T' 8 f, m "i" 'S Bh ' a?d er gon who can handle a miner's piok in ZZIZ , n't s r , k ft? j ' " r BU w"u , household duties, she amuses herself Anina a Httla doing a little . placer mining. xnree aajs ago sne ground-sluiced a patoh of ground six feet square, right at the back of her residence, and as a result she added $31 in gold to her pin money. The clean-up iuoluded a gold nugget valued at $7.25. Mr. Ains- worth ia the possessor of some valuable L . . j . . . ,, . gluu. m l?elny oi aparta, and a man of ""ble means. . . ' Brigadier-General Tayo was dead, Colonel Marito met the insurgent lead er, Eduardo Garoia, who, in conjunc tion with other leaders, had a force of 2,000 men at the farm of Vinola, in, Matanzas, near the great Southern swamp. The battalion of Alfonso Dooe i a ... upenea ore ana tne insurgents re- treated, leaving sixteen killed, two prisoners, their arms and ammunition. Accidental Death of a t hiid. ' Dayton, Or., May 27. A frightful aooident occurred near Wheatland, ten mile9 80ntn ' here, in whioh a 6-year- old 81 of D. Magill, a farmer, was kil1- It seems the grandfather of the little girl was noming out of the house, wltn tne hammers of a gun oooked, to 8noot 8 Chinese pheasant, whioh was uear tne bouse. He stumbled and both , barrels of the gun were discharged, the oontents entering one of the lower limbs of the little girl near the hip, and entirely severed the limb from the body. The ohild died soon after from loss of blood. PACIFIC NORTHWEST Items ot General Interest From All Sections. DEVELOPMENT AND PEOGEESS All the Cities and Towne of the Pacific States and Territories -Washington. Spokane is about to take a school census. Columbia county was organized twenty-one years ano. and has never had a poor farm. The Washington pioneers will meet at Seattle June 2. This is the thir teenth annual reunion. Treasurer Mudgett, of Spokane, will gain about $600 by the recent supreme court decision in his favor. William Hume, of the Eagle Cliff cannery, who ia canning 4-cent fish, re ports tbe catch the lightest since 1864. There are within the corporate limits of Cosmopolia, according to a census just completed, 333 males and 198 females. Receiver Balkwill, of the German Amerioan Savings bank, of Taooma, has been discharged of his trust and his accounts approved. "Cattle, hogs lumber fenoe posts and cord wood to trade for horses" is an ad vetisement out of the ordinary in a Columbia oounty paper. A traveling tight-rope walker met with an aooident at Port Townsend. While performing on the wire, it broke and he fell thirty feet, breaking his leg. Potatoes are opening; their eves and looking up in North Yakima. G. M. MoKinney reoeived an order for four carloads last week at $9 per ton in the oar. . Parties recently coming from the Conoonully oountry report that a party of surveyors are engaged in laying off a townsite along the eaBtside of Soyoos lake on the reservation. The jail part of the Whitman oounty courthouse has settled eight inohes, so twisting the cells and their bearings that it has been necessary to remove tbe prisoners for safe keeping. nFor the first time in several seasons, many of the farmers around Davenport are breaking up a lot of prairie land, wnicn tney are preparing for next sea son's orop. This year has been un usually propitious for spring breaking. The fees earned in the auditor's office, in Chehalis county, during the months of January, February, March and April, amounted to 2, 291. 16, of which 1 1,440.30 was for work done for county and state, and $860.85 was cash fees. Reports from the lower end of Yak ima oounty indioate that the crops of this season will be larger than for many years past. The unusual amount of rain has proved a blessing to the farmers, especially in the Horse Heaven Beotion. Walla Walla has a Daniel Webster. who weighs over 300 pounds and is a bigger man than the original Daniel. He makes no pretense of statesmanship, but is a butcher by trade. He has trav eled extensively in the Orient, and lived for many yearB in Japan. Piling is being driven at Fort Canby for the new life-saving quarters. Great difficulty is experienced in driving them, on account of the rocky nature of the bottom. Some can only be driven down eighteen inches. A gov ernment inspector superintends the work. The treasury of Snohomish count v has received notioe that $11,300 of the money tied up in the Puget Sound Na tional bank, of Everett, is now ready to be turned over. For the remainder of the indebtedness to the oounty, the bank proposes to give a first lien on its entire assets. Miss Agnes E. Adams, who won the Washington intercollegiate oratorical oontest at Taooma, representing Whit man oollege, is 1 8 years of age and has been at Walla Walla three years. She isirpm Maw Hampshire. Both her parents are dead, and she has been mUkiirg'heT home with her aunt, Mrs. Elvira Cobleigh. - i-A:good story has just got out on the Wshngton militia. It is that, while they were enoamped at Sand island, the horses they Were using to patrol the beach were taken sick and a veter inary surgeon was sent for. On in quiry he found that the soldier boys had been watering the poor brntes on the brackish water of the Columbia river. Had they known it they could have found plenty of fresh water on the island by digging five or six feet through the sand. ' , Oregon. It oosts Coos county $146 to send an insane patient to the asylum. The Vogt opera house at The Dalles is being fitted with new scenery. The Washburne mill at Springfield has put in dynamos for its own eleo trio lighting. Thp steamer Moor will take out a oargo of Coquille ooal on her next trip from Coos bay. Elisia Bed well, aged 76 years and a pioneer of 1849, was buried at Mon mouth last week. ' Brownsville has organized an ath letio olub, and ordered the apparatus neoessary to fit up a room. The supreme court will file the de oisions in the oases just submitted at Pendleton some time in July. The eighth annual reunion of the Polk County Pioneer Association will meet at Dallas June 24, 1896. The Lane oounty oourt has appropri- ated $700 for the opening of the Glen- aaie road between Eugene and Flor enoe. The contract for building a bridge across the Big Elk, at Elk City, in Lincoln oounty, has been let for 1397.50. Several farmers near Prineville. In Crook county, have put their hogs to- gewer, and driven them to Crain prai rie ior tne summer. Dr. Du Gas has presented to the Sol diers' Home, at Roseburg, a fine gray eagle, that he secured during one of bis professional visits. Five steamboats leave Independence regularly every afternoon, not later man 10 o'clock, and five arrive in the evening not later than 10. The Gardiner mill has olosed down for an indefinite period for want of or ders. - In the meantime the mill will receive a general overhauling. it has been decided to postpone the bioycle race from Pendleton to the In dian agency and back until one of the days of the firemen's tournament " The Fisher opera house at Astoria has passed into tbe hands of its lessee's bondsmen, through his default It will be managed by an executive oom mittee. George Small, of Silver Lake, will start for the Eastern market ahont June 10 with a band of 360 mules. He will drive all the 'way, and may be gone a year. . The Lakeview Examiner aavs that sheep are getting so numerous in Lake county that if at least 60,000 are not sold this season tbe ranges will be overcrowded. Up to date about 500.000 pounds of wool has been received at the Arling ton warehouses and probably nearly as muoh more will be handled there be fore the close of the season. W. F. Matlock, of Pendleton, has offered a prize of $25 for the winner of a race to be run by Pendleton wheel men to the Indian reservation and back, a distance of ten miles. horn Walker has been engaged for some time in gathering up cattle of all kinds, ages and sizes, purchased in Curry county form time to time, and will drive them to a summer range. G. W. Smith has demonstrated the capabilities of Klamath oounty for al falfa on his ranoh at Altamont He now has 250 aores in that grass, from which he realizes 700 tons of hay eaoh season. At the late Klamath aaenov cattle sale H. P. Galarneau bought a cow for $13 and the next morning found him- sen the proprietor of four head of stock, the cow having given birth to three oalves. The Sumpter Valley Railroad Com pany has commenced grading and lay ing track toward Sumpter from Mo Ewan. About twenty-five men are now employed, and a number will be added to the force. Pendleton has a bonded indebtedness of $70,000, not inoluding school dis trict indebtedness of at least $20,000, and an estimated floating debt of $6, 000. The interest on this debt amounts to $100 a month. , The Southern Paoifio Company has made another payment of $7,157.43 tax money into Lane county's treasury. This payment was on lands, and the total amount paid in by the oompany now foots up nearly $12,000. Another payment is yet to be made. The mayor of Lafayette is, or was until a short time since, Dr. J, W. Watts. The council of that plaoe granted license to a liquor dealer, and when Mr. Watts was oalled upon to place his signature to the license pa pers, he refused to do so, and promptly resigned as mayor. Idaho Mining Notes. The Campbell tunnel at the Standard mine is now in 1,780 feet. The flume for the Standard mine is now 6,600 feet long. Some heavy work is now being encountered in blast ing rook. A new mining distriot has been or agnized in this state. It is on Indian creek and will be known by the same name. The old Granite mill near Gem is being put in condition for use. A tramway is also being erected connect ing the railroad siding with the ore bins. , The oapaoity of the mill of the Blaok Jack mine is being considerably in creased and many other needed im provements are being made in and about the plant The Consolidated Tiger-Poorman Company at Burke is now employing about sixty men. Good headway is be ing made in clearing the debris and getting ready to ereot the new milling plant The Frisoo shaft is down 400 feet, and as soon as the station is out the new level will be started. A fine body of ore was struck in the hanging wall at the 400-foot point; the ore is of a better grade than has ever before been found in the mine. Montana Mining Notes. The Anaoonda Company has com menced work on the old Buffalo mine in the Centerville distriot. The found ation for a new hoisting plant is now being built The Butte & Boston Com pan v have leased the Blue Jay mine down to the ' 500-ioot level to Messrs. White &' Farry. Several other properites of the oompany have been leased in simi--lar manner. Work has been oommenoed on the Copperopolis mine near White Sulphur Springs. It was recently bonded to Chioago parties, Lumber and neoes sary maohinery is being shipped to sink tne present snait, whioh feet deep. t as ma 1 stal THE NATIONAL CAPJTA1 Daily Proceedings in Senate and House. IMPOETANT BILLS INTRODUCED Substance of the Measures Being Con sidered by the Fifty-Fourth Session Senate. Washington. Mav 23. Thefortidna. tions bill, which naoaswl tha unli na. terday, appropriated the liberal sum of $10,763,888. After tbe committee on coast defenses conoluded its invetiga tions, the house committee on appro priations availed iteelf of information obtained bv the senate nnaat.ifofanaa committee; it also followed up the in vestigation and conoluded to appropri ate $6,845,837. This waa bevond all precedent a departure in the line of coast defenses, but the senate, not content With this, and after rln arm. sideration in the committee on appro priations, moreased the amount by $4,- 918.061. Senator Snnirn waa invited to sit yith the senate committee dur ing its review of the subject, and mat ters in question were thoronshlv con. sidered. The main Question of the im portance Of having this innrnnrliHnn made was conceded without objeotion in tbe senate so the bill passed unani mously. Washington. Mav 25 In the senate. today Butler renewed the motion to take up the bill prohibiting the issue of interest-bearing bonds. After some sparring Hill interposed the objeotion that this was too important a question to oe oonsoered "without a quorum." This was the first evidence of a renew al of the obstruction. A quorum being found quickly, the motion was adopt ed, the vote being ayes, 34, noes, 20. With the understanding that the But ler bill should not be prejudiced, a bill was passed to quiet titled to lands to persons who had purchased in good faith, without notice, and for a valu able consideration, to enable the gov ernment to issue patents on such lands and providing that commutations of homestead entries shall take effect from the date of settlement, and not from the date of entry. Washington May 27. The general deficiency appropriation bill, the last of the supply bills, was before the sen ate throughout the day and passed just before adjournment. It temporarily displaced the bill ta prohibit the issue of bonds. As passed, the bill carries about $10,000,000, an inorease of $6, 000,000 over the house bill. The most important amendment agreed to up to 2 o'clock was that of $1,642,979, to the Southern Paoifio oompany fur the transportation of mails. At 2 o'clock the bond bill was formally laid before the senate, and Pritohard was recog nized, but after some discussion the bond bill was informally laid aside and the consideration of the deficiency bill continued. All the oommittee amendments Were agreed to. Boose. Washington, May 23. So muoh of the time of the house was occupied to day in considering the president's veto of the bill to pension Franois E. Hoover, a private in the Sixty-fourth Ohio vol unteer infantry, and in listening to a personal explanation from Grosvenor relative to a newspaper misrepresenta tion of his position on the subject of reciprocity, that the time for the debate on the Phillips commission bill was extended. The bill provides for the appointment by the president of a non partisan commission of twenty-one, seven representatives eaoh from labor, agriculture and business circles, to col lect information and consider and reoommend legislation to meet prob lems presented by labor. The author of the bill made the principal argument today. , . ,-... . ..' s - Washington, May 35. The Phillips labor commission bill, which ,, waa in have come to a vote in the house today unoer tne special order, was completely OrOWded OUt bv the oonferanaai nnnrt on the river and harbor, and sundry oivu Dins. . ins conierenoe report on the river and harbor bill, whinh r. ported an agreement on all the items save mat relating to tne Santa Monica and San Pedro harbors, was madn th basis of a very bitter attaok on the bill Dy riepourn and Mockery. :The latter said ho ODDoaed this mMnnwhaminu , -. ' srsr " awsa t uJ contained riotous appropriations not warranted py we oonaition of the treas ury. He said he realized that his re marks would not be punptuated by ap plause. At the night session, Cum mings made a stirring speech, appeal ing to his Democratic friends not tn stand in the way of meritorious pen sion puis. Twelve bills were favor ably acted on. Washington, May 27. Shortly after the opening of the session today, the house went into a committee of the whole to consider the bill to repeal the free-alcohol olause of the existing tariff law. Evans, in oharge of the bill, opened the debate in support of the measure, explaining the necessity of the legislation. He said the bill would not affeot the claims now pending, amounting to $15,000,000. Evans offered the amendment to the bill whioh had been agreed upon as a com- promise by some of the friends and op ponents of the measure. " It provided for a joint oommittee of three members from eaoh house of congress to consider all questions relating to the free use of aloohol in the arts, to report their conclusions to congress in December. At 6, o'clock the ootu mittee rose. ' Strode presented the majority report in the contested election oase of Martin vs. Lookhsrt, from the sixth North . Carolina district, and at 6:16 the house adjourned.