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VOL. V.
IIILLHISOIIO, OKEUON, THURSDAY, FEHUUAttY , 1899.
NO. 47.
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EVENTS OF HIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TK.KSK TH'KS FROM Til K WIRKH
An Interacting totlarllaa ml llama fraM
tha Two llanit.uharaa I'raaaotad
In Coadaaaad .tia.
Two onp truil are being lormed
nun at Chit-ago, with 100,000.000 cap
llal, and on at lkaton with $20,000,
000. i
Han Pranolaoo it to have World'"
fair In 1901. II li to U known a ihe
Paelllo Ocean ml International Kxpo
i lion.
Turkey i milking military prepara
tion In vlw ul possible Macedonian
nprlslng, Bulgaria it lino halily or
ganising ml ruling troop.
President McKliilcy linn presented to
v'tmrliMi A. Schott, chlel of theoompul
"lng illvUlim ol tbo Uiiltml HutM count
ml geodetic survey, tlm prise raoetitly
conferred uion lilin by the Academy of
France.
Mil. CtmlolU Botkln, found guilty
by a Kan Franciaco court of th uiurder
ol Mr. John I. Dunning, Iim been
sentenced to prill (or lift), Ilia judge
reluslng now trial. The ca will be
appealed.
Th Filipino junta at Hong Kong
ha Uauad statement letting forth
that tha flihting at Manila u only
an outpost skirmish designed to Infill
enee tlm vote In the United Htatea tun
aid on the uc treaty.
Tim commission to lnvtlgate the
conduct of tho war 1 devoting all of lit
enargie to cloning up it report. The
rough draft la practically completed,
ami rople are. I lug marie of the docu
ment, ao far u It it ready.
It la said administration officials art
urging tho preaiilnnt to endeavor to en
liat lha aoivtoea of Aguinaldo In Ilia
settlement of lha Philippine question,
ai b liaa the services of (lanaral Gu
inea In lite paclllcatlon ol Cuba.
Lord Charles Heteaiord, the distin
guished ltiltiah naval officer ami states
man, wilt arrive in Nan Francisco on
the Japanese temer American Marn,
lua on February II, ami the cliaiuhar
ol eommeico la airanglng for a publlo
inception to lha Englishman. -
Tho aituatlon at Ilia mining camp of
Independence, 18 mile Irom Apen,
Colo., la orithal in theexlicme. Star
vation atnrea Ilia luhalillanta ol the
tuwn In lha face. 1'iovlaloua ami fuel
aiipliia ara nearly exhausted. Wood
that hail baan cut ami piled for winter
uav I lua btiriail under many fuel of
snow, and cannot ba reached. Iloada
leading to Aspen, lha only aim roe of
tipply (or Independeuue, aro iiupasaa
bin. Snowsltde am w frequent lw
tween Aajmn and Independence that It
la aliuoat luioiiial to venture on the
routs.
Tho transport, Ohio and Senator,
hearing the Twenty -second Infantry to
the i'hillpplmia hare sailed from 8an
Francisco.
The aacond battalion ol the Seven
tnuiith Infantry ara en route to Manila
via New Yoik. They sailed from that
port on the transport Sherman.
The largcat combination of whisky
and diatilling interest yet attempted
hiw been concluded In New York, tin
dur the title of the Kentucky Distillers
A Wniehouae Company.
Negotlntiona (or the consolidation ol
thn blading pottery Intel oat a have been
concluded in New York by the forma
tion of the Anier.can pottery coin pa
niua, with capitnliiation of $40,000,
000. A anow-alido occurred on the Cana
dian 1'iialllo at Kngeia Paaa, in the Bel-
kirk iHiiga The railroad roundhoua
and other buildinga were demolished.
Nine pnrnoni are known to have been
killed Hiul two injured.
Cuntmota have bean lot for the erec
tion of large beet-iugar lactorv at
Amnm, a hiiiuII town went of Uinnlia,
on the Union Paoillo. Tho men who
are furniahing the money to build the
factory are Uoaton capitaliita.
The United ri tales transport Grant,
which left New York January 10, hav
ing on board Major-General Lawton,
the Fourth infantry and a battalion of
the Hevonteeuth infantry, bound for
Munila, lma arrived at Uihrallar.
Hteamor Uhynlond, from Liverpool,
for Philadelphia, went ashore (our
nilluH north ol Penwick'a inland life'
Having itution. A heavy auow-atoiin
wim prevailing at the time. There
were 49 pMaaengeni and a crew o( 70 on
board, all of whom, wore rescued.
There has been no further general
fighting between the partieana ol tho
rival ohiuftaini in the Siunoan ialandi,
since the laat advicea except that
party of Mntaafa'a followera wai routed
In the buah by Malietoana. It la ex
lieoted, however, that fighting will bo
ruRiimud, bs Matnafa la arreating per
Bona who have been already fined and
rnleiiHod. The work of pillage coU'
tinuea, nmongthe homes looted being
Viliinii, the home of the late Kobort
Louis' Stevenson, the novelist, '
Minor Nana llama.
The town of Btilosboro, Qa., was
nearly wiped out of existence recently
by a tornado. No lives were lost, but
several people were injured.
There la trouble ia sight for (til the
Chinese in the United States, resulting
from the total disappeainnce of Chinese
who were admitted to thn country in
ordoi to take patt in the trans-Missis'
aippi exposition. Inspector Jamee
Stone, of the government seivloe, it in
Testlaating the altuntio
LATER NEWS.
Tho batileahlp Iowa has arrived at
Ran Kranciaoo. It la expected aha will
bo aunt to Manila with auppllaa for
Dewey.
The American loaara In killed and
wounded In the raount battle at Ma
nila, la officially given at 360, ami the
loam ol the liiaorganle at 4,000.
tien. domes will arrive in Havana
In few days, where he will meet Sen
ator Proctor, and aid In carrying out
hie promise to disband the Cuban
army.
In the New York assembly a resolu
tion urging the ensealing of Congress-roan-elect
Huberts, because of his Iden
tification with polygamy, was adopted
by viva voce vote.
Representative Htalllnga, of Ala
bama, has Introduced in the house a
bill to autborlM the president to ap
point General Wheeler major-general
lu the regular aimy.
The government (orcea defeated and
captured the Colorado!, who recently
revolted against Senor Cuestus, the
provisional president of Uruguay.
Tiamiutlity ia now restored.
Agnnolllo, the re p rose nta live of the
o-called Kllipinogovernmeut, and who
left this country lor Canada, ukmi hear
ing ol the outbreak at Manila ia being
o'oaely watched by secret service do.
toctlvea. Agonolllu was in Montreal
at last reports.
Mrs. Hot kin's attorneys have given
notice ol an appeal from the conviction
and sentence ol lite Imprisonment re
cently pasaed upon her. Judge Carroll
Cook a I low el 10 days' stay of execu
tion, and HO days in which to prepare
bill of exception.
President McKinley baa pronounced
en lance on (Jen, Kagan, recently tried
by court-martial. The aeutence was
dismissal from the army, but the presi
dent commuted this to auaiienslon for
six years, which covers tho time prior
to tagan's retirement in 1108.
The steamers Justin and Celtic, now
at Mare island, are he'ng overhauled,
and In a few days will be ready lo sail
for the Philippines, following the sup
ply vessel Centennial, which left on
the 6th. The Justin will eany ooal
for the fleet and the Celtic froxen meat.
Hear Admiral Dewey lias captured
another schooner fiom Hong Kong load
ed with arms and ammunition Intended
for the insurgent In the Philippines.
It Is reported that the German consul
at Hong Kong was concerned in the
procuring and dispatch of the arms to
the islands.
General Count von Caprivl, former
chancellor ot the German empire, died
at Siren, near Ciossen, Germany.
The peace treaty was ratified by the
senate by a majority of three votes over
the required three-fourths. The treaty
was rati Hud without amendment.
Isaao U(ner, a gwceiyman, doing
business in Portland, Or., wua held up
and robbed in hi sloie about 8:80 in
the evening by a lone highwayman.
John M. Comatock, (or 40 yean
chief of the customs division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton alter an illness of several weeks.
A monster petition to President Mc
Kinley and the members ot the joint
high ooMimiion ia being signed, ask
ing their ass i stance in seeming the re
peitl ol the alien exclusion act recently
pasaed by the government ol Hritii.li
Columbia, In which the Atlin mining
district ia located.
Faruiera of Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Da
kota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
aaa, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas,Arkan
aa and California are forming alata
blanche of the proposed new national
larmer a party, and pieparing to send
representatives to the national execu
tive committee's meeting, which ia to
be called shortly by the piojectora of
tbo new party.
According to recent dispatch, 19
Iron and iteel sheet manufactories in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Indiana, controlling an
aggregate annual output of 81$, 000
ton of steel and Iron sheds, are pre
paring to consolidate. This action, it
ia added, ia made necessary by the com
bination of tin-plate plants, and It it
believed that the proposed consolida
tion will eventually bo absorbed by tin
tin-plate trust.
Local representatives at Tacoina ad
mit that the street railway systems ot
that oily are to be consolidated, with
Eastern capitallsta in control. A com
pany with 11,000,000 capital has been
organised to operate all street-cara and
furnish power to manufactories. A
water-power plant will be constructed.
Representatives of J. P. Morgan Co.,
the Northern Paciflo railway, Union
Pacitlu and the O. H. & N., with local
men, are interested in tho deal.
The two highwaymen who for tha
past two months have been holding up
citiaeni and atorea and terrorising all
Portland are lately lodged in jail. One
of them, Harry Traoy, was arrested by
Deteotive Welner, otter a shooting
affray that stopped a passenger train
and roused a whole neighborhood. The
other, Dave Merrill, tell Into the
hands of Detectivea Cordano and Ford
Sunday, and gave the information
which led to the capture of hia accom
plice. Both are ex-convlots and des
perate men.
A fatal head-end oollislon occurred
at Imlay City, Mich., on the Chicago
& Grand Trunk railroad, in which four
persona wore killed and acven were in
jured. R. 0. Judson, industrial agent ol
the O. R. A N., returned from Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, confirms the news of a
wonderfully rick strike on the Cracker
Juok claim, owned by liufus Haw ley,
Flint & Co. The assays are the high
eat ever seen in that country, running
13,800.65 in gold and $40.85 In aiiver,
CLASH OF ARMS
Serious Fighting Be
tween Americans
and Insurgents.
THE FILIPINO LOSS IS LARGE
Twontf Amerlaan OolJIar RIIU4, 4
I7S Woaad.d-Kaarojr's Las Unas
lata lb Thou.i4 Haw of lha
Until t'eatrtnaal mf Oaaaral Oil.
Manila, Feb 7. The long-expected
rupture between the American and the
Filipinos baa come at laat. The former
re now engaged lo solving the Philip
pine problem with tbo uluoat expedi
tion poibla.
'. he olash came at 8:40 yesterday
evening, when three daring Filipinos
darted past the Ne'jraaka regiment at
Santa Mesa, but retired when chal
lenged. They repea'.ed the experiment
withoot drawing the sentries' fire, but
at tho third time Corporal Gieeley
challenged tha Filipinos and then fired,
killing one of them and wounding an
other. Aimoa't immediately afterward
the Filipinos' line from Caloean to
Santa Mesa commenoed a fusilade
which was ineffectual.
The Nebraska, Montana and North
Dakota outpost replied vigotously, and
held their ground until rainloroement
arrived.
The Filipino In the meantime con
centrated at three points, Caloean, Ga
galangin and Santa Mesa.
At about 1 o'clock the Filipinos
opened a hot fire from all three place
simultaneously. This was supplement
ed by the fire of the two seige guna at
Ilalik-Ilalik and by advancing their
kirmisheis fiom Puoo and Pandacan.
The Americana responded with a ter
rific tire, but owing to the darkness
they were unable to determine its effect.
The Utah light artillery finally suc
ceeded in silencing the native battery.
The Third artillery also did irood work
on the extreme left. The engagement
lasted over an hour.
The United Slate cruiser Charleston
ami the gunboat Concord, stationed off
Malabon, opened Are from their second
ary batteries on the Filipinos' position
t Caloean and kept it up vigorously
At 8:45 there waa another fusilade
along the entire line and the United
States sea-going douhle-turreted moni
tor Monadnock opened fire on the ene
my from off Malste.
With" daylight the Americans ad'
vanced. The California and Washing
ton regiments made a splendid charge
and drove the Filipinos (rem the works
at Paoo and Santa Mosa. The Nebraska
regiment also distinguished itself, cap
turing several prisoners and one Ilow
itxer, and a very strong position at the
reservoir, which ii connected with the
waterworks.
The Kansas and Dakota regiments
compelled the enemy's right flank to
retire to Caloean.
There waa Intermittent firing at va
rlons points all day long.
Tiie American losses are estimated
t SO men killed and 135 wounded.
The Igorotcs, armed with bows and
arrows, made a determined stand in
the face of a hot artillery fire, and let
many dead on the field.
Several attempts were made In this
city yesterday eveniug to assassinate
American officers.
Confirmed by Otis.
The following dispatch from Gen
Otis confliru the news ot the fighting
"Manila, Fob. 7. To Adjutant-Gen
oral, Washington, D. C: Saturday
the insurgents opened attack on our
outer lines at 8:45, repented attack sev
eral times during the night. At
o'olock this morning entire (oroe was
engaged, and all attacks repulsed; at
daybreak advanced against insurgents,
and have driven them beyond lines
they formerly occupied, capturing sev
eral Tillages and their defense works;
Insurgents' loss in dead and wounded
large; our own casualties thus tar esti
mated at 175, very tew fatal."
A dispatch to the London Post says:
Many ot the insurgents were driven
into the Pasig river and drowned. Sev
eral hundred were taken prisoners. .
In a subsequent telegram the follow
ing statements are made: Laat night's
and today's engagements have proved a
veritable slaughter for the Filipinos,
their killed being repotted as amount
ing to thousands.
To Oruth the Karats.
Washington, Feb. 7. Instructions
will be sent to Major-General Otis to
morrow, directing him to follow up his
victory over the insurgents and to crush
the power of Aguinaldo in the Philippine.
a., xwn.li AirnvAirA,
DID NOT INTEND TO AT'ACK.
I bat la lha Mlurr f tha ttabal Prla-
anara nl Manila.
Manila, Feb. 0. There are many in
dications that Manila is full of dei
paradom, who had intended to co
operate with Agolnaldo. The police
re continually capturing men and
women with weapon concealed in their
clothing. The vigilanceof theaothori-
tie in till leapecti highly reanririg.
Last Saturday, about midnight, two
Englishmen accidentally encountered a
gang of armed native in a dark aile
meet. The native, fearing diacoverv.
imprioned them until morning, and
threatened to kill them unleaa they
maintained ailence.
Many native clerks, employed by
mercantile house are miaaing. A it
if impossible that they ahould have
pawed the line, the inference ia that
they are in hiding in the city.
Several attempt were made to assas
sinate Americana on the street, but that
danger ia now at a minimum. The ns-
tivce are terribly cowed, and the pre
cautions taken, wpet ially against in
cendiarism, are admirable.
The rebels, who have been swept in
every direction, die by the hundreds in
the trenches for the most part pas
sively, except the Igoroles, who charge
desperately and uselessly.
The rebel prisoner declare that their
attack was unpremeditated; that the
outprmt fired, and then everybody fol
lowed in accordance with a sort of gen-
em! understanding.
Filipinos I'Marlr Koutad.
Manila, Feb. 9. Genera'. Otis, as
this dispatch is sent, is in complete
control ol the situation within a radius
of nine miles of Manila. The Ameri
can Hue extend to Malabon on the
north and to Paranqneon the south,
fully 25 miles. While a tew detached
bodies of Filipinos offer desultory op
position, the main body ia in full re
treat and utterly rooted. Ot the horde
ot troops originally drawn up in battle
array against the Americans, fullv
one-third are already incapacitated, and
the rest are scattered in every direc
tion. The Americana now have a steam-
car line to Malabon, and 500 marines
with four Maxima have been landed
from the fleet on the beach north of the
city. The Third artillery, on the main
road, and the Utah battery, in the
cemetery, covered the advance of the
Kansas troop.
Among the important point cap
tured was a strong embrasured earth
ork within sight of Caloean.
Millions for rubllo llulldlocs.
Washington, Feb. 9. Today asd to
morrow were set aside by the house for
the consideration of public buildings
bills. The committee had reported
78 bills for buildings, in 85 states, au
thoriaing in the aggregate an expendi
ture of f 14,000.900. Little or no op
position developed today, and bill
were favorably acted upon almost as
rapidly as they could be read. There
wa however, more or less good'
natured chuffing throughout the see
sion. As a result, 40 hills, carrying
or authorising appropriations aggregst'
ing 111,804,000 had been laid aside
with favorable recommendation before
adjournment waa reached.
Kngll.h Praiae for the Vol tint WT.
London, Feb. 9. The Daily Tele
graph, commenting upon the lighting
at Manila, says:
"It is ouite clear that the Americans
have given the Filipino rebels a very
sound thrashing at a comparatively
small cost to themselves. They have
for the time being, at all events, placed
Manila in safety until the reinforce
ments now en route reach General
Otis. Although the majority of the
Ametioan soldiers at Manila were vol
unteers, they appear to have fought
with as much discipline and gallantry
as their regular comrades could have
exhibited. "
Tha Iowa at San Frauelaco.
San Francisco, Feb. 9. The battle
ship Iowa arrived here today from
New York, from which port she sailed
in company with the Oregon and two
consorts Ootaoer IS last. The voyage
from the Atlantio to the Pacific was a
pleasant one, both the Iowa and Oregon
making the journey without a hitch of
any moment. The Oregon left the
Iowa when off the Peruvian coast, set
ting her bow toward the Hawaiian
islands. '
Regular Transports.
San Francisco, Feb. 9. Word has
been received from Washington that
the United States transports Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan and the hospital
ship Relief have been transferred to
this department, and will be used tc
carry soldiers and supplies to the pos
sessions of the United States lying in
the Pacifio ocean. These vessels, with
the Arizona and Scandia, will comprise
the PaoirJo transport fleet.
Heatt-Knd Collision.
(Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 9. A disas
trous head-end collision between pas
senger train and an extra freight oc
curred early this morning on the St.
Louis s iron Mountain railroad, near
Pollock, La. Aa a result two men were
killed, and one was fatally injured.
Additions to tha Navjr.
Washington, Feb. 9. The naval
committee of the house, after an ex
tended session today, reached a cone In
sion aa to the important items, lu all,
13 new warships are agreed to and
three more are under consideration,
Disqualification of Confederates.
Washington, Feb. 9. By unanimous
vote, the judiciary committee of the
house today decided to recommend the
repeal of what ia said to.be the last
remnant of diflQualiflcation against
those serving in the Confederacy.
Strana-th of tha Mllltla.
Washington, Feb. 9. The secretary
of war has teut to congress a statement
on the militia showing a total organised
force of 101 536; total unorganised and
vallaable, 8,5999,835
OREGON'S S0L0NS.
ialtiatlT nl Ra,raadana Paaaa Ik
aaata-CaavleU la Ba Wark.d
Marlaa Caaaty Beads.
Eight bill were pasaed in the Oregon
senate last Wednesday and two were
ecommittted for amendment.
Foot of the bill pa saw, were to
amend the chatter of Lakevlew, Can
yon City, Seaside and Hilaboro.
Looney'a bill to provide for working
state convict on about 135 mile of
Marion county road, between state in
stitutions, and appropriating 12.500
for superintendence and buying tools.
pasaed by vote of 127 to 7.
The bill to make a person who vol
untarily charge a crime against an
other before Justice of peace or grand
jury pay the coeta in ease the protec
tion prove malicious or frivolous finally
passed, as did a bill to prevent swine
running at large in Sherman- county,
and bill to reduce the aalariee ol
Washington county officer. .
Ia lha I.bm.
The reconsideration of te Woodburn
charter hill waa the occasion for an
other spirited forensic battle at the ae
ion of the house Wednesday. The
bill, however, passed by a vote of 85
to 15; absent, 10. A motion to recon
sider the vote by whioh the bill waa de
feated January 27 passed unanimously.
Other bills passed were: To amend
the charter ot Arlington; to Incorporate
Medford; to fix the compensation of
the assessor of Jackson county at $1,900
per annum in lien of per diem; to
create a separate board ot county com
missioner tor Clatsop county.
The following bills were introduced:
To amend the charter of Medford; to
incorporate Enterprise; to repeal the
let providing for the payment of street
ind sewer assessments in installment.
IaltiatlT aad Raferendaaa.
The resolution for an initiative and
referndum amendment to the conatita
tion passed the senate last Thursday,
having previously pasaed the house,
tnd is ready for submission to the nest
legislature.
The American Bar Association codi
fication of laws relating to negotiable
paper passed both houses. The Curtii
bill limiting the number and salatiea
of professors in the state university
passed the house after a sharp discus
sion.
Hill's pilotage bill, which passed the
bouse a week ago, was reported by the
senate committee on commerce and
navigation with amendments striking
out a large part of the bill and leaving
it without duect bearing on bar pilot
age and placing tne appointment or
pilot commissioners in the bands ot the
governor. The amendment weie
adopted, and the bill passed, 21 to 5.
The only change in the present law is
to make river pilotage not compulsory.
In the senate Thursday a resolution
to authorise the exchange ot the old
blind institute site for a block adjoin
ing the present site ot the blind insti
tute, owned by J. H. Albert, waa. the
special order, and, after vote carry
ing the resolution waa nearly complet
ed, it was recommended on a state
ment from Selling that be had just
beard something about it that needed
investigation.
The following bills were passed:
To constitute the county court a board
of equalization for county assessment;
to extirpate Russian and Chinese
thistles; to appropriate $4,000 for the
Oregon Historical Society.
Ia tha Houaa.
The greater portion of the forenoon
session ot the bouse Xnursday was
given op to hearing reports of standing
committees. In addition to this, two
bills were passed and eight new bills
introduced.
The bills passed were those by Cur
tis, amending the salmon-fishing laws
passed at the special session so a to
conform with the regulations agreed
upon by the joint fisheries committee,
and by Myers, to applv to the military
fund ol the state all moneys that may
be leceived from the government for
transportation and equipment ol the
Second Oregon volunteers.
Other bills psased were: To require
that all olaims against the state other
than salaries and liabilities established
by law, be incorporated into separate
appropriation aots; to abolish the ex
pensive practice ot copying assessment
rolls for the state and to provide for
transmission to the secretary of state
summaries only; to provide for the re
organisation ot the state militia; to re
store to the military fund ot the. state
$8,897.68 expended in the suppression
ot liots by the state militia at Astoria
and Roseburg during 1896; authorising
the supreme court to'employ clerical
aid and appropriating $7,200 therefor;
to codify the laws relating to negotia
ble instruments; to prohibit false label'
ing of Oregon products, applying es
pecially to salmon and Oregon fruits.
Reapportionment Bill Approved.
In the Oiegon senate Friday, Sena
tors Smith, of Baker, and Dufur pre
sented explanations ot their position
with referenece to the reapportionment
act, which was approved by the gover
nor while they were speaking. Both
opposed the double distiicting feature
of the law.
The following bills were passed: Tq
authorize county courts to permit con
stiuction ot logging roads along public
highways; to prevent the unauthorised
use of trademarks.
District Attorney BUI Remitted.
In the Oregon house Friday the ju
diciary committee asked to amend the
bill by substituting 1900 for 1903,
claiming the figures were placed in
the bill as the result of a olerloal error,
The following billa were passed: To
define the duties ot administration in
payment of olaims, and declare the or
der of propriety of olaims; to give farm
laborers a lien upon farm products for
labor perormed; to protect salmon In
Alesea bay and streams emptying into
it, and fixing the olose season;
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BILL.
II Paaaad tha Or (on Hoaaa Almnal
(Taanlmaaaly.
In the Oregon house Mondav the dis
trict attorney salary bill wa pasaed,
after amendment by the judiciary com
mittee, by almost unanimous vote.
The bill aa paaaed fixes salaries as fol
lows: First district, $3,000; aacond
district, $4,000; third district, $5,500;
fonrth diatrict, $7,600; fifth district,
$4,000; sixth district, $3,000; seventh
diatrict, $3,000; eighth district, $3,500;
ninth district, $3,000.
Flagg'e bill to require all executions
to be held at the state prison and con
ducted by J the superintendent of the'
penitentiary was the first defeated, re
ceiving only 29 votea, but upon recon
sideration of the vote and a speech by
the author later in the day It waa
pasaed by a vote of 88.
Blackaby's bill to empower county
courts and clerk of school district to
ell property and bid in for taxes was
passed by 43 votea.
Other billa passed were: To limit
appeala to the supreme court in money
sctiona to amounts involving $200 or
mote, and to give street railway com-,
panies the right of eminent domain; to
amend the code relative to new trials
so aa to nullify the plea of former jeop
ardy and to require street railway com
panies to provide cars with vestibules
from Ootobei 1 to April 1; to prohibit
the adulteration ot candy; to require
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company to fence its tracks between
Portland and Huntington; to nrobibit
persons from running posh cars or
band cars on railroad tracka without
the consent of the railway officials; to
appropriate $15,000 for bridging the
south fork of the Nehslem river. This
bill came up on reconsideration of
the vote by which it waa defeated Feb
ruary 3, when it received only 80 rotes.
The motion to reconsider carried by 82
votes and then the bill waa passed by a
vote of 83.
Grace's bill to extend the time in
which laborer's lien may be tKtd
from 80 to 60 days and contractors'
from 60 to 90 days waa defeated, as
was also Stiilman'a bill to repeal sec
tion 1890 of the code, providing for the
observance of Sunday.
At the night session the following
bills were passed: To regulate trivel
over county bridges; to repeal the act
of 1891 prohibiting driving or herding
livestock along public highways; to fix
the salaries of county treasurers so as
to increase the salary of the Tillamook
county treasurer from $250 to $550; to
fix the salary of the sheriff of Lincoln
county at $1,800 and aalaty of clerk of
county court at $1,250; to require the
signaturee of householders to petitiona
for saloon licenses instead ot the sig
natures of legal votes as under the
present law; to piohibit the sale ot li
quor in private boxes or booths ol res
taurants; to amend the liquor laws so
as to require a license tot the sale of
any quantity, whether more than a
gallon or less.
Moody's bill to regulate the practice
of horseshoeing in counties of 60,000
population and over and creating
board of examiners to be appointed by
the governor waa snowed under by 30
negative votes as against only 22
affirmative.
The Oregon senate Monday paswd
unanimously Josephi's bill to make the
coat of the maintenance of insane per
sons chargeable against their estates in
certain cases, and to provide for the
transportation ol insane patients to the
asylum in charge ot trained nurses
from the asylum.
Other bills pamed were as follows
Charter of Dalles City (The Dalles); tc
amend the charter of the town of Du
fur, to amend the law relating to ten
ancy in common, and abolishing joint
tenancy; by request, to give preference
to honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors in all public employment; to
amend the law so aa to make records of
official court reporters piima facie evi
dence, and to authorise the settling
snd signing of bills ot exceptions by
successors of the trial judge; to require
Multnomah county to take the city ol
Portland's lease of the ateel bridge; to
amend the charter of Lebanon.
INCREASED
APPROPRIATIONS
Tha Washington Legislator
Iba Norma! Schools
Favoring
AThe Washington bouse appiopria
(Ton committee has increased the
Cheney normal school appropriation
from $25,000 to $31,000, and Ellens-
burg from $25,000 to $45,000
In the house Monday billa introduced
were: For the publication of notices
by posting in counties of from the 10th
to the 39th class; for the relief of Mrs.
J. H. Stahl; relating to the sufficiency
and justification ot bail on bonds
amending the constitution by permit
ting women to vote on a constitutional
amendment, granting suffrage to wo
men; relating to dyke districts.
During the afternoon session of the
house Mr. Englebert occupied the
ohair. Speaker Guie received a tele
phone message announcing that the
Paris treaty had been ratified by the
United States senate. The announce
ment was greeted with hearty applause
by the house.
Delayed by Trains.
Only 31 out ot 84 senators were pres
ent when the senate convened Monday.
Senator Wooding is sick with grip at
Seattle, and all of the east of-the-mountain
senators were detained by
tiains being late.
Bills introduced were: Prohibiting
the organization of corporations until
all bills and claims are paid; amend
ing the revenue law by making person
al property taxes delinquent on 80
days' notioe being given; permitting
acceptance ot taxes on any part of
parcel of land with reference to taxes
due on other parts ot same property;
bouse bill, providing for the building of
ferries to be operataed on lakes as well
as streams was re-referred, because of
objection to the condemnation rights
1 contained ia the old law,
BANQUET STOPS BUSINESS. .
Tha Olrrapla Solon Adjourn la Din
With Saaalor-Elaal raalar.
Both houses of the Washington legis
lature adjourned from Tuesday evening
until 3 P. M. Wednesday, in order to
give ample time to - legislators and
members of the press to participate in
an informal banquet tendered at Ta-
coma by Senator-elect Foster.
In the senate Tuesday resolutions
commending the bravery of Washing
ton troop at Manila were adopted.
The Gray-Mantx election case was
taken out of the hands of the committee
which had been appointed to submit
the matter to the supreme court, and
the matter will now be practically set
tled by the senate a a whole.
The permanent school fund invest
ment bill wa smended to permit In
vestment in goveinment and state
bonds at par, 8 per cent interest, or lo
county, city and school district bonds
t 4 per cent. The bill was then or
dered engrossed.
Bills introduced were: Allowing
O. M. Hidden $103.50 for drawing
plan tor the waterworks for the Van
couver school for defective youth; com
pelling the serving of notice of sction
within 90 days sfter the filing ol com
plaints. At present complaint miy
be filed and while not being served,
any accounts involved do not outlaw;
sppropriating $10,000 for the comple
tion of the state road established in
1887 from Wenatehee via the Methow
river to the mouth of the Twigp river;
allowing cities to advance from one
class to another at a special election
called for that purpose.
Hasa Routlna.
At the opening ot the morning ses
sion of the Washington house Tuesday
the speaker presented anothei lemon
strance from the citizens of Stevens
county against the creation of the coun
ty of Ferry.
Bill introduced were: To prohibit
the removal of improvements from
mortgaged property, without the con
sent of the mortgagee; prohibiting the
sale of personal property, title to wmch
has passed by a conditional sale; pre
scribing rates to be charged on sleeping
cars; for the protection of farmers et
al., in the purchase of fertilisers; to
provide for the extens ion of tax rolls
by county auditors; (two bills) to
amend the law relating to the organiza
tion and incorporation of municipal
corporations; appropriating $715.63
for the relief of Captain Harry St.
George; prescribing the manner of
using the label of the typographical
union; approrpriating $400 for a fish-
way on the Skykomisb river; to enforce
tbe payment of delinquent taxea oh
timber lands before the removal ot the- -timber;
relating to placing poison for
the destruction of wild animals; relat
ing to the bonds of prosecuting attor
neys. The house went into committee of
the whole on house bill 157, submit
ting a constitutional amendment, per
mitting alien ownership of lands, with
Judge Mount in the chair.
When the committee arose it recom
mended that the bill be referred to the
judiciary committee.
The committee on public buildings
recommended the indefinite postpone
ment of the senate oapitol bill and the
passage of a substitute bill that does not
recognize the award ot a contract made
by the old commission to F. H. Goes.
The house indefinitely postponed the
senate bill, and ordered that the substi
tute bill be printed.
REAPPORTIONMENT BILL.
II Is Now Law Without lha Signature
r Oregon's Governor.
Governor Geer Tuesday filed the re
apportionment bill with the secretary
ol state, letting it become law without
hia signature.
Proebstel's bill to suppress nickel-in-the-slot
machinea passed the senate
Tuesday, alter a short debate. Thero
was some objection to the bill on the
ground that it would not be enforoed,
but even these objectors admitted it
would have tbe effect of discrediting
the machines snd driving them into se
clusion. Other bills passed were the follow
ing: To make the per diem of county
commissioners $3, except in Douglas,
Lake, Klamath, Jackson, Yamhill,
Gilliam and Union, which should be
$4, Umatilla and Harney $5, Marion
$2.50, and Multnomah $100 per month;
to protect salmon fisheries of the Lower
Rogue river; to amend the charter of
Brownsville; to codify the laws relat
ing to practice in the justice courts; to
require the payment to the sheriff ot
fees in civil oases and $13 per day for
tbe seivices of tbe jury; to constitute)
the governor, secretary of state and
treasurer a state board of equalization;
to authorize boards of park commis
sioners in cities of 8,000 or more popu
lation; to make state road tax a lien
against speoitic property and collectable
as other taxes.
The memorial to oongress favoring
the passage of the puie-food bill was
favorably reported, and adopted. " -Josephi's
bill to tax bicycles was re
committed. . - ,
Mortgaga Kill Passed.
The debate upon the mortgage tax
bill of Whitney, passed in the Oiegon
house Tuesday, was at times eloquent
as well as stormy, and although the bill
passed by a decisive majority, the vote
of some of the members was a surprise.
The vote was 39 to 16. absent 5.
Other bills passed were: To make
violation ot the peddlers' law a misde
meanor insstead of cause for civil no
tion, as at present; to amend the law
relative to tbe sale of proporty for de
linquent taxes, so as to save labor
and expense of posting notices; to es
tablish a fiscal agency for Orogon in
the state of New York; to regulate the
business of local insurance companies.
by requiring a certaiu capital aud a car-
tain wumber of policies before engaging
in business; to appropriate $2,000 f
the relet of J. W. Magnes,
t