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Lf It 9 J j CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1894. . ; VOL. XXXI.j jNO. 35, TStAMSaTOATATlOlf. EAST AND SOUTH -VIA- The Shasta Route 5 THI Southern Pacific Co. KXFBKSB T&alHS KTTN DAILY. :Ur 96 P If 10:16 A Leave Portland Arrive I 8:30 am Leave Salem Leave I 6 -.89 am Arrive S.Francisco Leave 7:00m Above trains stop at all stations from Port land to Albany, also at Tangent. Shedds, Hal ey, Harrisburg, Junction City, Irving, Eugene and all stations from Boseburg to Ashland, in dmire. M0BBUBS MAIL, DAILY :80 a m 11:17 AM IMF M Leave Portland Arrive Leave Balem Leave Arrive Roaebnrg Leave 4:30 p M 1:40 P M 7:00 A M Pullman Bnffet Sleeper and second-claw weeping can auacnea to au tnrongn trains. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS. MAIL TRAIN DAILY (SXCBPT SUNDAY). 7:80 a M I Leave 12:15 pm Arrive Portland Arrive I 6:85 p m CorvallU Leave 10 I'M At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains i tne uregon racinc raiiroaa. I TRAIN DAILY (IXCBTT SUNDAY). !:? Leave Portland Arrive i 7 :26 PM I Arrive McMinnville Leave 6:50 A M Through tickets to all points in the Eastern state, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rate from W. w. Hkinner. agent, Balem, X. KGXHLER, B, P. ROGERS, BUBBi Ae VJ- t A. ..A. Portland Ot 0. R. & N. Co. E. MoNEILL. Receiver. TO THE EHST GIVING THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL. ROUTES VIA VIA SPOKANE, DENVER, MINNEAPOLIS OMAHA AND - AND STyP.tr;? " KANSAS CITY . ,V RATES TO ALL X astern cities. OCEAN STFAMFRS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS ---FOR--- SAN FRANCISCO. Sfcr fall details call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or. CO Chaa Clark Receiver. Connecting with Str. "HOMER" bo Ween Yaqulna and San Francisco. Str. leaves San Francisco July 18th and about every 10 days later. . Leaves Taquina July 23rd. About every 10 days later. Rights reserved to change sailing dates without notice. For freight and passenger rates ap ply to any agent. CHAa J. HENDRTS, SON A CO., Nos. Z to 8 Market St. San Francisco, Calif. CHAS. CLARK, Receiver, CorvaUls. Oregon. Farra & Wilson. Physicians, Surgeons and Accoucheurs. naOfBce npstairs in Earra and Allen's krick. Office hours from 8 to 9 A. M. and from 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 P. H. Calls promptly attended to at all hours, either day or night. DR. L. G. ALTMAN, HOMOEOPATHIST. Diseases of women and children and jreneral practice. Office over Allen & Wooward's drug store. . Office hours 8 to 12 a. m., 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m. . jt ' At residence Fifth street, near the court house, after hours and on Sun Says. BOWEIM LESTER DENTIST. Office npstairs over First National bank. Strictly First-class Work Guaranteed. Corvallis. Oregon. - F. M. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ' Does a general practice in all the courts. Also- agent for all the. first class Insurance companies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office " in Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice. M. O. WILKINS, Stenographer and Notary PubliCj Court reporting and referee sittings made specialties, as well as type writing and other reporting. PJBce, opposite postofflce, Corvallis, Or, JAPANESE VICTORIES Capturing Chinese Am munition. Minister Denby Reviews the Situation. A Noted German 'Officers Summoned to Giro Counsel to the Emperor on the Situation, HIROSHIMA, Oct 30. The Japan ese forces which have been pursuing the Chinese north of the Yalu river captured at Atung twenty guns, many rifles and quantities of ammunition and provisions. London, Oct 30. The Times tomor row will publish the following dis patch from Tien Tsin: The greater pari of the Chinese forces were destroyed before Chu Leans Chang was evacuated. Gen. Hung's official report praises the valor of the.troops, but confesses they were outmatched by the enemy's weapons and training. Col. Von Hannekin, a German offi cer who wa9 formerly aide de camp of LI Hung Chang, and who rendered great service to the Chinese admiral at the great naval battles fought be tween the fleets of China and Japan, has been summoned to Pekin by an imperial edict to consult in regard to the military situation. JAPANESE DETERMINED. Washington, Oct 30! Minister Den by, in a cable to the state department from Peking today, says the Chinese forces have been defeated at Cbien-Lien-Cbeng and have retreated to the mountains. Also, he reports the Jap anese have taken one of the Chinese forts at Port Arthur. The scene of the first engagement Is just across the Yalu river, in " Manchuria, and it marks the first real aggressive move-, ment by the Japanese on Chinese soil. The Japanese are supposed to have formally entered upon the campaign with Moukden, the Mattchurian capi tal, as the; objective point Unless they are fully prepared to make a winter campaign, sometning nerexo fore " unknown in .Eastern wart are. they will be obligedto force the fight ing, as only 15 lays' remain before the cold weather comes. In the neigh borhood of Port Arthur where the second , Japajse access Is reported, the winter lluu.to is not so severe, and ''s6bnMitim. iLay --be. malntaaied until much later. Experts In Wash ington believe Port Arthur cannot be reduced by the Japanese without the use of heavy siege artillery, and so far as reported the Japanese are not supplied with this. Inasmuch as the capture of " Port Arthur would give the Japanese control of the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, and cut off the Chinese capital from commnnication with the sea, it is thought the Japanese will make a most determined effort to cap ture the fortress. The belief that they are prepared to do this, even if it involves a long siege and a winter campaign, is borne out by the fact that agents of the Japanese govern ment in this country nave quietly bought iiq a vast store of goat skins and practically cornered the market The skins are commonly used in China and Japan as a necessary part of the soldiers' winter raiment London, Oct 30. A Tlea-Tsln dis patch says that Major von Hannekin has left for Peking to have an au dience with the emperor. The government has allowed all steamers to carry a cargo of rice. but this permission is too late to pre vent a winter rice famine. General NIch has been appointed to command the troops at Hankow. BENTON COUNTY Abstract : Company COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACTS OF BENTON COUNTY. Conveyancing and Perfecting Titles a Specially. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. J,B. MARKLEY & CO.. Proprietors. Main Street, Corvallis. JOS. H. WILSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office over First National Bank, Cor vallis, Or. Will practice in all the state and federal courts. Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Convey ancing. ' ELEOTBSO BELT '.'.TEST PATENTS WITH ELECTR BEST IMPROVEMENTS. MAGNETIC SUSPENSORY WtB rare Wlthoat aTedfelae all Weakaei. laaalihia tnm ..rtaxatioo of brela, Hrfi ftraMMON 0r ladlaeretlea, a mail .xheattiea, Iraiae, loun.. nerrooe debility, lUep leataM, leaguer, nnBUiia, kidney, u.er and bladder wiltu,lu( tack, lumbago. Kitl Mini lU-eeaUk. ate. Thta electric belt oocttnj WwfciM li f u arm U other., tod girm a coma, that If tuttatly f.lt by a. MntttnnvMt aft.eoO, and will tin .11 of thaabara ainiiB. or . Taoaaand. oar cured by thli mt aalao ioreotion after all atbr tnedlee failed, aaa t Str apDared. of teitlmontal. " hf. ana arerr .iaar ftaia. Oarawrnfal laPBOVK" JLKTBIC SlSPSNSOKf, the fneteneooaeTer offer-" ..k men.r KKK WITH ALLRK1.T3 Bnllb and rirorour" -ftb tiLAUANTKKDineOLoM) I.rf. Sead far lllaacnte) apb tela, nailed, aaakd, free, Addreu BVcavXrXSZ XrXiXKTFRZO OO-, No. 178 Plrrrt St.. PORTLAND, ORru Bttnovad to Corner ThM and TThing ton StraertaV Portland, Or. Thirteen battalions of Chinese troops have left Hankow for Chin Kiang, whence they will proceed over land to Peking. NO POLITICAL MOTIVE. Germany Excludes Our Beef for San itary Reasons Only. Washington, Oct 30. The announce ment by the Associated Press that the embargo placed upon American cattle by the senate of Hamburg had been extended to the length of an exclusion of American cattle and dressed meat from every Dart of German)? was received with surprise W the depart ment officials today. That Texas fever was merely the ground which Germany could adept for enforcing ietaliatory measures agaiust the Unit ed States because of supposed dis crimination against. German . interests in - the sugar schedrlle of the tariff bill was the prevalent impression. The German embassador, however, as sured the secretary of state today that the measure of exclusion was inspired solely by sanitary reasons and had no political motive behind it SAN FRANCISCO RACING. San Francisco, Oct 30. Following are the racing events today: About six furlongs, selling Hueneme won, Ohyesa second, Tuntsman third; time, lil3Vi. About six furlongs, for 2-year-old Playful won, Gallant second, Bartine third; time, 1:12V4. .. About six furlongs, selling Melanie won, Quarters taff second. Border Lassie- third; time, 1:12V4- Seven furlongs, selling Broadhead won, Mattie second, Captain Rees third; time, 127. One mile, 3-year-olds and upwards Lovedale won, Blizzard second, Duke Stevens third; time, i:4i. STRANGE, IF TRUE. The Catholic Bishop of Dakota Dab bling In Politics. Sioux Falls, S. D.7"oct 30. A sen sation was sprung in South Dakota political circles when it was learned that Bishop Marty, the Catholic bish op of South Dakota, had sent out letters to the priests of the state urg ing them to use their influence for the re-election of Senator Petti grew. A CHICAGO E0BBEKY. A JEWELEY STORE PLUNDERED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY. Watches and Jewelry Amounting: to S6000 Stolen Threw the Clerk Into the Yaalt. CHICAGO,'; Oct 30. A daring rofr bery was committed in the heart of the- rnisinesi. center ,aUivfoArr,r xue amount or plunder secured is not exactly known, but is given as $6,000, in watches and other jewelry. Soon after 3 o'clock G. W. Brethauer, sen ior member of the firm of Brethauer & Co., wholesale Jewelers at 71 Wash ington street left his office, leaving his son in ' charge. Young Brethauer says he was bending over a showcase full of watches In the rear of the room when two men entered the door. One of them carried a revolver in his hand and the other -was armed . with a piece of lead pipe about two feet long. The jeweler was commanded to throw up his hands, which he was not slow In doing. The two men then ordered him into the vault the door of which was open. Brethauer de murred, and one of the men, he says, caught him by the throat threw him into the vault and pushed the door shut The thieves then proceeded to ransack the showcases and scoop the watches into a sack. The door of the safe stood open and the bandits emptied the cash box in it containing a considerable sum of money. All this required only a few minutes and the men soon made their escape. CHIEF ROGERS EXONERATED. Seattle's Political Scandals A Noted Soldier Dies. Seattle, Oct 30. The investigation before the police commissioners of Chief of Police Rogers on charges pre ferred by John Collins, proprietor of the Seattle Telegraph, ended today and Chief Rogers was exonerated of taking bribes or receiving money from gamblers, but ex-Mayor Harry White was exposed by Governor John H. McGraw as having resigned to avoid the publication of charges that he owned an Interest In gambling games while he was mayor and of accepting bribes from gamblers In lieu of police protection. White himself confessed on the stand that he allowed ordi nances to be violated and declared that he should be impeached then and there. Chas. T. Cowden, one of the party of cavalry which captured Jefferson Davis, disguised In female attire, in 1S65, died of heart disease here today aged 52 years. , , THE CZAR'S CONDITION. St Petersburg, Oct 30. A bulletin from Livadia having time at 10 o'clock tonight says: During the day the spitting of blood by the czar con tinued. He was sometimes seized with fits of shivering. His tempera ture is 110 degrees and his pulse 90. Pulsations are weak. Respiration Is difficult He can take little nour ishment and Is becoming very weak. MARKET-REPORT. San Francisco, Oct 30. Wheat 81V4c82VaC with 83c for choice article; milling grades, 85c 90c; Walla Walla wheat 75c76V4c for fair average, 67c72c for No. 2, and 552 65c for off grades. Li verpooL Wheat steady; demand fair; No. 2 red witter, 4s 4d; - do. spring, 4s 8L , New York. Hops dull.- N '-"A HEAVY SUIT. "; Duluth, Oct 30Alfred Merritt to day brought suit against J. B. Rock feller and F. D. Gates, his private secretary, for $1,226,500, " In which amount he claims he is damaged by what he alleges to be fraudulent rep resentations in the forming of the Lake Superior - Consolidated Iron mines. To Corrupt the Police of New York. The Tribute Gathered in Indiscriminately. "The PeoDle -Will Stamn Out the Iniquity," Says Senator O'Connor, an I All Say Amen, NEW YORK, Oct 30. Commission er Sheehan had another answer to make today regarding his testimony before the Lexow committee. "The policeman . McManus," said 'he, "to whom you referred yesterday, was indicted by the grand jury and tried in the court of general sessions." "That does not explain why the po lice board did not dispose of him when asked why he did not prose cute the officers - for taking money from poolsellers." Ha said: "I could not . fasten any particular crime' on nay particular officer." "Let us see, corruption was pretty general. Did you know sail makers had to pay?" : r: "NO." ' .; .. "Did you know Long Inland clam diggers had to pay ?" Where did they come In?" asked the - commissioner. Never mind. Did you hear the houses of ill fame had to pay?" "I heard rumors." "Rumors; rumors," sneered Mr. Gon. "What did you do to earn your, sal ary?'' '-, "Perform duties devolving on me as commissioner.": ... i He said he saw that money appro priated was properly, expended.. Yes, I suppose you do see to $5,000," said Mf. Goff. Mr. Goff then road a statement of Foreman Henry M, Tabor of the grand jury in March. ilS92. that seven mil lions were paid in tribute to the po lice annually. ? The commissioner excitedly shout ed: "He lied." What!" exclaimed Mr. Goff. "One of the best known citizens in this city, who has frequently been foreman of our grand jurys?" He lied . when, he said the depart ment collected Jy blackmail," asserted the cominissioiS'rV "Did he.; lie when he said the de partment collated blackmail?" ' "How .do you ..know?" asked the chairman. : . ' Because it 'is impossible to collect millions without the city rising up and stamping-out the practce." --. "That's what they are going to do." said Senator O'Connor; . Mr. Goff said that an evening paper claimed the police department . col lected fifteen millions in blackmail. Does it lie or do you not care about the hostility of the newspaper?" "It is mistaken. I do not care for the newspaper." How about the liquor dealers pay ing tribute to the police?" "They did rot have to lie. They knew there were two Tammany com missioners on the board who would not allow it" said the commissioner. Ah, Tammany and the booze deal- el's," said Mr. Goff. "Did you know that President Martin and Richard Croker met a delegation of liquor dealers In the parlor of the Hoffman house and agreed to have the money heretofore given -to the police paid Into the treasury of Tammany hall?" The witness professed to have not heard of it CALIFORNIA'S SECRETARY DEAD San Francisco, Oct 30. E. G. Walte, secretary of state, died early this morning at his home in Alameda, after a short illness. His friends at tribute his death to a general physical collapse, brought on by worry over political matters. Being an independ ent candidate for re-election as secre tary of state, it became necessary for him to secure a large number of sig natures to his oetition to have his came placed on the official ballots', and his failure in this undertaking is said to have been the immediate cause of his breakdown. (Edwin G. Waite was born in Springwater, N. Y., June 12, i827, and was educated in the surrounding schools. He was in his last college year when the gold fever broke out and he came to California, arriving here in 1S49, at the age of 22. He went to the mining regions and later to Nevada City, where be edited the Journal, a weekly paper, several years, and then the Transcript a daily, for nine years. In 18o6 he met and mar ried Miss Julia E. Stone, of Nevada City. The result of this union is five daughters, all but one being single and living. He served two years as treasurer of Nevada county, conducted a mercantile business several years and then accepted a position in the internal revenue department where he remained until the close of the civil war. He served as naval officer during Grant's two terms, and In the San Francisco mint under Hayes. O i his election as secretary of state he moved his family from Alameda to Sacramento, and his term of office would have expired "January 1, 1895.) PRIESTS' CONFERENCE. Washington, Odt 30. Monsignor Satolli was asked today concerning the report from New York that Bishop Corrigan had recently called on him, He said the arch-bishop called on him about two weeks ago, soon, after the meeting of archbishops, and a confer ence lasting several hours - was held. The ablegate would not discuss the na ture of the conference or the reported unity In the-church recognizing the delegate's authority. AL RECORDS BROKEN. Buffalo. Oct 30. Johnston ' mwto nn unpaeed mile today la 1:574-5, break ing nu records. T-1 TENEMENT HOUSE "FIRE. Seven Persons Smothered to Death In the Catastrophe. New York, Oct 30. Seven people were smothered to death by smoke In a tenement house fire at 216 West Thirty-second street this morning. They were George Friedman, 4 years; Levi Freidman, 3; Annie Appleblat 22; Lena Mitchell, 24; Mrs. Margaret Killlan, 70; Jacob Kllllan, her son, 40; George Levi, Mrs. Killian's grandson, 20. Lena Freidman, mother of the dead children, jumped from a third story window. She was fatally In jured. The house Is a five-story brick tenement There were sevten stair ways and the only means of escape was by a narrow stairway. The fire was discovered at 3 o'clock bv a oa. er-by. There was no sign of life. To enter the hous3 meant death. The only hope for those within was in arousing them by shouting. In a few minutes there was not ar'wlndow in front of the house that did not contain the wild and frightened face of a man, woman, or child, framed in smoke, which poured forth in vol umes. By the fire escape twenty tenants reached the ground, descending in the midst of flame and smoke, before the ladder trucks arrived. On the third story the flames spread over the en tire rear portion. There lived Na than Freidman, bis wife Lena, three young children, and two boarders. Annie Appleblat and Ina Mitchell. Nathan Freidman was aroused by the smoke and noise. Clutching the baby in ms arms, he sprang to the win dow and descended by the fire escape. Airs. Freidman, too, had rushed to the window, but not where the fire-escape was. She leaped from the window and fell Into Ijie rear basement area; .The Freidman children and the two boarders slept In an inrer apartment The fire had not reached them, but smoke filled the room. George and Levy Freidman, and Lena Mitchell were still in bed when found, and the peaceful expression on' their faces showed that they had no knowledge of the death that came to them so sud denly.. Annie Appleblat was lying dead on the floor. Evidently she had been aroused and had stopped to don her clothing and died before she had finished; On the fourth floor Mrs. Killtan and son were dead in bed; the grandson was oh the fioor half way to the rear window. The' dam age to the house will not exceed $20,000. THE POPE'S SPEECH. Rome, Oct 30. The text of the pope's 6peech to the conference held to .consider the union of Eastern and Western churches has just been made public, although the speech was de livered on the 24th. After praising al 4 wno had helpedto bringabout tne cohferehcivTie said: "We wisHthat all governments alike, had embraced this grand ideal, inasmuch as the work, if achieved, will be for the In terest and benefit of the entire world; but political views and still more, we regret to say, the unreasonable jealousies of sonie of the governments, which show in what condition the papacy is placed, have prevented these reunions from having the large and solid results rightly expected from them. Above all, we must lament the absence of the patriach Armen ians. We shall not on this account however, recede from our purpose and, even if we count only within certain limits on political union, noth ing will prevent us from solving the grand problem from the religious side, while awaiting more propitious times for the rest of the work." STAGE DRIVER SHOT. NEVADA CITY. C&L Oct 30. Ar thur Myer, driver and one of the owners of the stage running between this place and North Bloomfleld, was shot and instantly killed by a high way robber this afternoon. At Rock creek, three miles north of here, the incoming stage was stopped by a lone highwayman who commanded Meyer to get down out of the box. Meyer refused and the bandit fired twice at him with a revolver. The second shot passed through the driv er's body and be fell forward into the boot in the front of the coach. C. H. Bovee of Sierra county, who was the only passenger, was riding on the box with Meyer. When the robber began firing Bovee jumped from the coach and ran into the forest The robber sent three bullets whizzing pasfhim, but be escaped unhurt So far as known the robber secured no booty, ' OF NO IMPORTANCE. Germany Eats No American Cattle, Anyhow. Washington, Odt 30. Secretary Morton was at the cabinet meeting today for the first time since his re turn from Europe. The principal sub ject discussed was the recent action of the German government in discrim inating against American cattle and American beef. Secretary Morton called the attention of the president and the other cabinet members to the fact that Germany was an unimport ant factor In our foreign market for cattle and beef. Great Britain last year Imported 393,941 head of American cattle, while Germany only took 4,000. One American farmer could supply the en tire German market o'f which it is said we have just been deprived. CONTRABAND OF WAR. Tacoma, Oct 80. Ten car loads of pig lead sent here for shipment to Japan on the steamer Tacoma will be left ashore when the steamer sails at midnight No reply has been received from Collector Saunders dispatch to Washington, asking for orders. If the lead can go it will be shipped by a succeeding steamer. The metal was accepted as freight two months ago before China and Japan declared lead a contraband of war. GEHRING DOWNED. Baltimore, Oct 30. Stanton Abbot of England and Charles Gehrmg, ex- amateur champion of the United States, fought at the Academy of Music tonight Gehrmg was knocked out in the third round.. FROM THE BIG CITY I Portland's City Coun cil Sensation. Charges of Bribery Have Been Preferred. That Railroad Commission ' Again The Importation and t'rotection of Son? Birds. r tortland, Oct 30th. If the books of the Oregon Fertilizing Co. are to be trusted, the disappearance of $260 lies between C S. Bratton and sev eral members of the city council, and the grand jury is now at work trying to fix the responsibility. Last year the city built a crematory several miles down the Columbia and made a contract with the company to operate it and take all the garbage of the city down to the river to the crem atory for $500 per month. There has been a great deal of complaint about the furnace not doing its work well and many noses have detected foul odors, if their owners are to be be lieved. ' Committees from the council and Committee of One Hundren have visited it with the general verdict that the city's money was not well Invested. Finally, the company ceased to operate It and the council disallowed their bill for the month of August on that account Later the bill was allowed and paid. Later still Mr. Bratton ceased to be the manager of the company .and the officers of the concern made the pub lie charge that $260 of the $500 al lowed had been paid to members of the council, basing the charge upon the company's books, which show that but $240 were received and Mr. Brat ton's explanation that 'he had to give the remainder to members of the council to secure their votes for the allowance. What truth there Is in the charge the grand jury is endeavoring to discover. This is the first definite charge Of corruption made against the new council, and though the amount is small the people would like veiy much to know if it Is true. If members of that body will sell themselves so cheaply the city would stand no show at all were some big Job to come along. The members seem anxious to have the matter thoroughly investigated, so that the guilty . ,qnes vmay be distinguished from tneir associates,, or tne nonesty of all be established. It has been suggested by a humor ous individual who has been a mem ber of the "third house" for several sessions and has probably had house bill 104 referred to him oftener than any other person, that the legislature at its next session Increase the rail road commission to fifteen members. This would by no means accommo date all the caididates, but it would give a dozen more of them a chance to get in. Then, after the election of members is over, he suggests that the bill be amended so as to have the commissioners serve without pay. In this way fifteen very worthy per sons could hold an extremely honor able office, and the ninety members of the legislature could show their good will a total of 1350 times, without costing the state a cent. This sugges tion illustrated the evil and absurd ity of election of commissioners by the legislature more forcibly than the gravest argument and at tne same time suggested the difficulty of repealing; the act creating the com missiom The society that Imported the Ger man song birds- about five years ago, the moving spirits of which were the late Frank Dekum, president and C. F. Pflueger, secretary, has now in transit forty pairs of nightingales, some of them the regular variety and somet the black-headed kind. They will arrive in a few days and will be kept at the city park until May, when they will be released for nest ing. Only one pair of the lot formerly Imported arrived aud these were not in good condition and probably died. It Is believed that the new ones will arrive In good health, as special eare is being taken with them, and that in a few years the song of the night ingale will delight the ears of Oregon Jnlieti Money Is also being raisea to secure fifty pairs of bouthern mocking birds, and these beautiful singers will probably be added to na ture's choir in Oregon. An enorx win be made at the next session or tne legislature to have the law protecting foreign song birds amended so as to protect our native birds as welL There Is no reason why the killing of birds and the robbing of nests should not be made an oft"ense, re gardless of the species. There are no harmful birds in the state of the smaller varieties, and all of them are a helD to the farmer and orchardist Besides this, the protection of birds bv law Is an object lesson in kindness to the lower orders of animal crea tion and love for the beauties of na ture that must have a good effect utjon the rising generation. Not enough attention is paid to this sub ject in our public schools. tr.tr. a, PORTLAND MONEY TROUBLES. Portland. Oct 30. The stockhold ers of the suspended Northwest Loan & Trust company had a heated meet ing tonight Resolutions were passed asking for the appointment of a new receiver. An investigation of the bank's accounts shows that the de nositors will receive fifty or sixty per cent If .-the property is properly man aged, i . THE FARCE RESUMED. Vancouver. Wash.. Oct 30. The court martial of Ma3or Wham, pay master IT. a. A. was resumed today after an Interval of nearly a month. The prosecution closed it case and the defense was bpgun. BRILLIANT CAMPAIGN.. NEW YORK, Oct 30. The declara tion of Wm. R. Grace today that the state democratic organisation is snn-twfir.-T Div:-' !- Hiil :!(! :s :'.t nv siKuosl:a for. any Wlif-iei' i..-;;i. ;s received with incredulity by many who still insist that the faction is In favor of Hill's defeat and rolling up as large a vote as possi ble for Wheeler. His adherents today expressed much gratification at the number and character of the Cooper Union meeting last night and are con fident that the democratic reform tick et will make a good showing on elec tion day. Many anti-Hill democrats, . it is believed, will vote straight for Morton, taking the ground, as one of them remarked today, that a vote for Wheeler will be only half . a vote against Hill and that Wheeler votes are intended to aid Morton anyway. The Hill men are as confident as ever. . referring with special satisfaction to the -personal fight their candidate Is making and the enthusiasm with which he Is being received by bis sup porters. Most of them, however, do not keek to conceal their disappoint ment or anger that his candidacy has not received open and active encour agement from the national admin istration. Republicans abate none of their claims and insist .that what with the general republican tendency this year, and the democratic defection from Hill, the latter will be snowed under. There has been little betting so far in the campaign, but reports of wagers at the stock exchange and elsewhere show odds on Morton, not unfrequent ly at two to one. Smaller odds are given on Strong against Grant the perfection of Tammany organization throughout th county making the supporters of the committee of sev enty cautious aboutj staking . their money, however much they anticipate the great anti-Tammany uprising. Hdl democrats were pleased today by the announcement that Speaker Crisp had cancelled engagements In order to speak In this city or Brook lyn. They are also much pleased by a letter for Hill from ChCauncey F. Black, chairman of the national league of democratic clubs. The fact that Strong made speeches at a number of meetings this evening in the down-town east side district is regarded with favor by practical pol iticians who are allied with the com mittee of seventy, as 1 they think it' will have a good effect on the class of voters who wish to. see their candi date and know something of his per sonality. Senator Murphy passed much of the day at democratic headquarters in day at democratic . headquarters in , conference with Chairman Hlnckly and others. Richard Croker was an other visitor. JLLLjpWING TO A WILL. San Francisco, Oct 30. Another big will contest the amount involved being $500,000, Is now being tried here. It Is that of Joshua Hendy, the celebrated machinist and found er of the works bearing nis name. The contestants are Samuel H. Hendy, brother of deceased,' Geo. W. Hendy. and A. J. Raugh, nephews, and Mrs. Rodgers, Mrs. Jarret and Mrs. Gawn, nieces. They claim' undue Influence and fraud. A jury will be secored today. MOSCOW'S. M. Washington, Oct 30. Henry C. Shaver was today appointed post master at Moscow, Idaho, vice R. H. Barlow. REMINDER OF HOME. The man from Kansas was making a trip across the Atlantic and during the passage the weather was extreme ly boisterous. One morning wnen u was blowing great guns tne iansan appeared on deck. Nobody was in sight except the captain. "Go below there," he snouted. -The passenger looked around to see who he was talking to. You mean me?" he yelled back when he saw there was no one else In sight Of course I do; go below," and the captain drew alongside. "Well, I guess not protestea ine Kansan. "I'm vp here to see now e of your 'mountain high' waves and 'terrific gales' compares witn What we have In Kansas in the way of cyclonea This ain't a patenmg to what I've seen out our way. Before the - captain could oner further objection a big green wave came curling over me ymx the passenger stood, and tne next, thing he knew he was swept off his feet and carried aft over ropes and boats and all the paraphernalia of a ship's deck and lanaea in one cor ner, where he was saved from being washed overboard. When they got him out he had a broken leg, a twist ed shoulder, a sprained wrist his face looked as If it had been araggea backward through a briar patch and he was unconscious. They carried him to the captain's room and after much effort restored mm to conscious- -a . -J mWelaA In ness. tie gazea arouuu a bewilderment and bis eyes xeu ou the captain. - ; "By gravy, cap," ne saiu lccu' "that reminded me of home, only It i i TloTrVklr was a aern signt weiici. Free Press. FEEDING WHEAT TO HOGS. - "The practice of feeding hogs on ia cnvwinc nooular out West said C G. Davis, of Nebraska, at the Metropolitan last evening. "I am ex tensively engaged in raiiuS market and pay a good deal of atten tion to everything bearing on the sub ject Pound for pound wheat is su perior to corn for fattening hogs by 7 to 35 per cent I estimate that a. fair return per bushel i of wheat : fed to hogs Is eleven pounds of live pork. In Kansas, under the conditions as to product and prices of wheat and corn existing in the last three years, wheat has become an unusual and very Important factor in the feeding of ail classes of farm animals. It is healthful to swine of all ages, and for cattle It has, at least as a part of the grain ration, a very high value. While corn and wheat approximate the same price per bushel, it is not unprofitable or wicked to feed the wheat," Washington Post 1