VOL. XXXII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1895. NO. 22. TRANS PORTATION. East and South VIA The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXPRESS TP.AIN3 RUN DAILY. . S;p Uiie Portland Arrive 8:10 am 12 10 P m U'uvo Albany Arrive j 4:60 AM 10:45 a M Arrive 8. FranciKCO Leave 6:00 r M A love frains Htop at East Portland, Oreeon Cily, Wo-idburn. .nili-m, Turner, Marion, Jeffe' sou, Albiny, Al'jHiiy Juuction, Taug nr.Shedds, Haisey, HnrriKbur. Junction City, Irving, Eu gene, C re swell, brains, and all station! from Kjsebur to Asnlaud, inclusive. UOSEBtlRQ MAIL DAILY. 8:3' A M Leave 12: -5 P 1 Hve 6:2j p m I Arrive rorlUnii Albany Rob -burg Arrive i 4:r Arrive) 1:1pm Leave I 6:00 A M Pullman B ffet rieeners and second-class slot plug -a attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:nn p m j L ave 6:15 p v j Arr:ve Portland Salem Arrive 1 10:15 a M Leave I 8:00 a m TVKT SIfK H1VI9ION. Between Portland and Corvallls. daily (except Sunday). Mall train 7 -M0 a M Leave 12:1) v H i Arrive For. laud Corvalli I 6:41 Leave) 1:00 P M At Albany and Coi-vallls connect with trains of ihe Oregon Central & Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Kxcep Sunday), 4:45 p M I Leave Portland Arrive I 8 25 A M 7.26 P M Arrive MnMltiuvllle Leave S:S0 a m Through tickets to all points in the Eastern state, Can-ili n:id Knrone can be obtained at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallls R. KOEflLER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNElL, Beceiver. TO THE .EASf GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL VIA UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND KANSAS CITT LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 0AYS ,.FOR.. SAN FRANCISCO For full details call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Portland, Ob. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R.CO. Yaquina Bay Route Connecting at Yaquina Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship " Farallon " A 1 and first-class in every respect. Sails from Yaquina fir San Francis-io about every eight a4s. fdssenger sec ramoo.anons uuiurpnspeu. Shortest route between the Willamette valley and California. Fare From Albany or Points West to San Francisco : CaWn 12 Pteerage -..I 8 Cabin Round trip, good for 60 days 18 For Bailing days apply to W. A. CDHMINOs, A Kent. Corvallls, Oreg-on. EDWIN STONE, Manager, Corvallls, Oregon. CIIAS. CLARK, Sup't, Corvallls, Oregon. THE NEW aid 0. lil RAP" o) ft v To points in WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, DAKOTA8, MINNE S0TTh,itnVM.8nn -ale to and from CHICAGO. ST. LOUI8, WASHING TON PHir.AHF.r.PHIA. NEW YORK. United States, Canada and Europe. ti,o 4root Tfnrt.hpm Railwav is a library observation cars, palace sleeping anJ (i .at anil ( nlfLRH IWlPhftft. Having a rock-ballast track the Great Northern Railway ia free from dust, one of the chief annoyances of transcontinental travel. Round trip tickets with stop-over privileges and choice of return routes. For further information call upon or write, O. S. SMITH, Occidental Hotel, Corvallis, Oregon, or C. C. DONAVAN, Gen'l Ag't, 122 Third Street, Portland, Oregon. AT HIS WITS' END Father Tells How His Baby Suffered from Eczema. IN ITS WORST FORM Grew Worse Under Treatment of Best Physicians. Tried CUTICURA REMEDIES Great Chance in Five Days. To-day Entirely Cared, With Mice Bead of Hair. Lively and Hearty. I had a baby that had Eczema in its worst form. I bad one of the best physicians in the city attending her, but she continued to fet worse all the time under his treatment, le finally admitted that he was at his wits" end. I then got Cutioitba Remedies, and in a few day noticed great change in her con dition. She continued to improve after that, and to-day i entirely cured, has nice head of hair, and is lively and hearty. I can fully recommend them as being the best medicines for the cure of this disease. I spent, con siderable money for drugs and doctor's Dills, which was nseless in this case, for I think if your remedies don't cure, nothing will. I am telling every one that I see suffering, about CuTicrjBA Remedies, and can cheer fully recommend them to those in need ox them. J. B. JACOBS, 2031 Wilklns Ave., Bait., Md. CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS Warm baths with Ccttcuka Soap, gentle applications of Cuticuba (ointment) the great 8km Cure externally, and mild doses of Cuticuba Resolvent (blood purifier) inter nally, cleanse the blood and skin of every eruption, impurity, and disease, when the best physicians and hospitals fail. The cures daily effected by them are simply wonderful. They are beyond all doubt the greatest skin cures, blood purifiers, and humor remedies of modern times. Sold throuebout the world. Potteb Dbuo and Cue it. Cobf., Bole Props., Boston, U. B. A. How to Care every Skin Disease," mailed free. PLASTER THE I MINUTE .PAIN CURE DR, WILSON Office over First National bank. Residence, two bloeks west of courthouse. Office hours, 8 to 10 A. M., 1 to S r. u . Sundays and evenings by appointment. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen & Woodward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P.M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hours and on Sundays. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallls. Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Cobtallis, Oregon Does a general practice in all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class Insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice. M. 0. WILKINS Stenographer and Notary Public Court reporting and referee sittings made specialties, as well as type-writing and other reporting. Office opposite postoffice, Corvallls, Or. E. HOLGATE. Notary Public. H. L. HOLGATE. Jasiice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW Corvallis - Oregon J. R. Brtsom W. E. Yates J. Faan Yates Bryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON WAY EAST GO.'S LIHES-The Short Rouh BOSTON, and ALL POINTS in the new transcontinental line. Bans buffet' and dining cars, family tourist sleepers pirnr UU11UU1U CANADA COMPETITION A Bulletin From the Agricul tural Department. THE WORLD'S MARKET SERIES Total Trade of the Dominion Has In creased Twenty-One Per Cent In Ten Years. Washington, August 13. The ex tent of the competition of Canada with the United States in foreign markets is pointed out in a bulletin, to be issued by the secretary of agriculture in a few days. The bulletin is the fourth of the world's market series in course of publication by the department, and embodies the reports of thirty of our consuls in the Dominion. It shows that the total export of Canada in creased from $89,000,000 in 1885 to. 1118,000,000 in 1894, or 33 per cent; the imports from $119,000,000 to $123,000,000, or 13 per cent; and the total trade from $198,000,000 to $241,- 000,000, or 21 per cent during the same period. The largest proportional in crease was in 1892, when the value of the t&U." trade exceeded that of the preceding year about 11 per cent. From 1888 to 1891, inclusive, the trade of Canada with the United States ex ceeded that of any other country, but since then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has taken the first rank, with the United States second. An important fact is that a large share of the agricultural products go ing abroad from Canadian seaports are cereals and flour in transit from the United States. Of $27,000,000 of such products shipped last year, $9, 000,000 was American merchandise. Of late years increased attention has been given by the government of Can ada to dairy interests, enconrging the dairy associations throughout the coun try, and passing strict sanitary laws regulating the manufacture of cheese and butter. No adulterations can be used, and the importation, manufac ture and sale of oleomargarine and other similar substances is prohibited. Through the quantity of butter export ed decreased from 10,500,000 pounds in 1888 to 5,500,000 in 1894, nearly 50 per cent, the value declined only from $1,700,000 to $1,100,000. This indi cates improvement in the quality of butter exported. The statistics of the fishing industry and the forest products show that the value of the former in 1894 was $30,- 000,000, and the latter over $80,000,- 000. In wood pulp, m 1894, the United States alone imported from the Dominion $369,010. WERE ALL TOO DRUNK. No One Able to Unlock the Doors of the Cells. , Lebanon, Ind., August 13. A mob of forty men went to the Springfield jail about 1 o'clock this morning and demanded the keys of the cells of Mat thew Lewis and James Ray, who as saulted Mrs. Shields recently. The jailer, seeing resistance was useless, handed over the keys, and the mob proceeded to business. Everybody in the mob was drunk, and none of them seemed to be able to unlock the jail door. After working about the locks and bolts without result, they secured sledghammers and tried to break down the doors. They proved too strong for them, however, and after two hours' hard work they abandoned the job. They then emptied their revolvers into the cells of the jail, but no one was hit. Returning the keys to the jailer, they said they would be back tonight and left. The mob was made up of men from Washington and Marion counties. The two negroes will be confined at Louisville until the excite ment is over. Looking for a Site. Vancouver, B. C, August 10. Colo nel Stitt, "governor of the Salvation Army farm colony in England, arrived today. He is on a tour of inspection of Canada to select a site for the army's proposed over-sea colony. G. R. FARRA, M. D. Office in Farra & Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front oi court house. Offi e hours 8 to 9 A. M., and 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. M. Ail ca.is attended promptly. Joseph H. Wilson. Thomas E. Wilsok WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallls, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Con veyancing. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and country iroperty. J. B. MARKLEY & CO., Proprietors Main Street, Corvallia. BOTH SIDES OF THE LINE. Mexico Does Not Like an Alleged In terview With Minister Ransom. City of Mexico, August 13. Much interest is felt here regarding the truth of the alleged interview with United States Minister Ransom telegraphed from Washington to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in which Ransom is quoted as saying that the new extradi tion treaty will be required in order to prevent embezzlers from the United States escaping extradition by using money among Mexican authorities. If Ransom is correctly reported, he will probably be regarded here as "persona non grata," the alleged utterance be ing a direct attack on the highest func tionaries, for whom, while here, Ran som expressed highest esteem. It is believed here that the minister was misrepresented. Mr. Gray, just be fore his death, was reported by all American journals as declaring that Guatemala was right in her contention with Mexico, an utterance that natur ally gave offense here, but Gray died before there was opportunity for an ex planation. Great apprehension is felt in all the west coast ports regarding the contin ued ravages of yellow fever in Central American seaports. All vessels recently arriving from Central America have been treated as suspicious, principally those from Acajutla and Ocos. The American Security Company, of New York, has opened a branch here, according to the terms of a liberal charter recently granted. The com pany will insure government employes and government bonds for contractors, besides doing private business. Due cause has been found for hold ing Landsbort, the alleged lover of Emma Thorn, the manner of whose death is in dispute. Two persons of the twenty-two in jured in the Tehauntepec railway acci dent have died. The road is new, and the track not altogether in good condi tion. OMAHA'S POLITICAL ROW. Talk of Settlement in the Local Courts, and Also of Force. Omaha, August 13. There now ap pears to be a fair prospect that the fire and police board muddle will be ami cably settled in this city, as suggested by Governor Holcombe at the very in ception of the trouble. The injunction case decided yester day settled none of the issues involved, and in passing upon the petition for an injunction the judge intimated that the proper procedure would be for the claimants under the Churchill-Russell appointment to bring quo warranto proceedings against the old board. The present incumbents have always claim ed that they were ready and anxious to join issues on the right to the office in a legal proceeding. While no agree ment to this effect has yet been arrived at, one possibly may be reached within twenty -four hours. Another story which is given ere- dence in many quarters is that the A. P. A. board will meet tomorrow, ap point a police force and demand pos session of the office and books, and, if refused, to attempt to take possession by force. The present police force is prepared to resist any attempt of this kind. In case the newly appointed police force cannot obtain possession of the city jail, it counts upon securing recognition from the police judge and setting up a little jail of its own. It is more likely, however, that the pro posal for a settlement will be adopted. Battle With Tramps. Ashtabula, O., August 13. Six men had a desperate battle in a box car be tween Erie, Pa., and this place, last night. Three stonecutters, H. G. Eastly, James Smith and John Mem hart, boarded the train at Erie to come to Ashtabula. At a water tank three tramps entered the car. When the train had got under way again, two of the tramps drew revolvers and asked them to hand over what money they had. Smith had a revolver and showed fight. In an instant a battle between him- and the two tramps was in prog ress. Eastly was shot through the groin, Smith receieved a wound in the neck and one of the tramps had a bul let through his neck. On arrival of the train here the wounded men were cared for. ' The tramp, who gave his name as John Cuddy, of Waterbury, Conn., ia in a critical condition. A Lost Art Discovered. , Pittsburg, August 13. George Crowley, Cornelius Shay and John Ryan, iron wokers have found the lost art of welding copper to iron or steel. They show several samples of the metals perfectly welded. The last record history gives of these metals having been welded was in 500 B. C. The value of the discovery comes in the fact that copper offers greater resist ance to the action of salt water - than any other metaL The Carnegie Company has offered the men a fixed price for the secret. A shop has been fitted up for the men at the Homestead plant, where tomorrow the men propose to weld a plate of copper to an ingot of nickel steel armor plate. The Carnegie company hopes to be able to cover all armor plates lor the big battleships. The Prohibition Removed. Colon, August 13. The govern merits of Nicaragua and Costa Rica have notified steamship agents that the prohibition against the landing of priests and nuns has been removed, and free entry has been accorded to ail ex cept Chinamen. Will of Mrs. TalmaKe. Th-noklvn. N. Y.. Aueust 12. The will of Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage was filed for probate today. She leaves some $166,000, of which $30,000 is real and $186,000 personal property. Her husband ia the sole legatee. NORTH PACIFIC NEWS Happenings of Interest in the Progressive Northwest. BRIEF REPORTS OF LATE EVENTS A Budget of Items Gathered From All Parts of Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho. Tacoma has a ladies' cycling club, with a membership of twenty-five. Seattle has raised in cash and pro visions more than $1,000 for the relief of Sprague, Wash. The total taxable property of Spo kane county, Wash., less exemptions, is valued at $21,732,053. The Spokane Chronicle says that the small white butterfly is damaging the pine forests in that vicinity. There is talk of annexing Fidalgo island to San Juan county, Wash. , and making Anacortes the county seat Douglas, county, Wash. , is agitating for a permanent exhibit of its re sources and products at Waterville. Rumor has it that the raft builders will build another raft at Stella, Wash. , and also one in Coos Bay, Or. Prairie chicken shooting is said to be excellent in Eastern Oregon now, and hunters come back laden with the birds. Ex-Governor L. K. Church, of Washington, has been appointed re ceiver of the Puget Sound National bank at Everett. Frank Patton, of Astoria, has made a proposition to the people of Nehalem to rebuild the saw mill there, if a sufficient subsidy is raised. Sheepherders report that the grass on the Camp Watson mountains, in Ore gon, is very poor, and that some sheep men have been compelled to drive their sheep out. C. B. Johnson was sentenced by Judge Buck at Spokane to six years in the penitentiary. Johnson was arrest ed four days before his sentence and pleaded guilty. There are 150 children of school age on the Warm Springs, Or., reserva tion, but the school building will ac commodate but sixty. A new build ing is being erected. The grasshoppers are reported to have done damage to crops in some in stances in the upper portion of the val ley above Ashland, Or., particularly where the harvasting was delayed. The Monte Cristo, Wash., school district has voted to issue $7,000 worth of twenty-year school bonds. This district is the largest in Snohomish county. Most of the women out camping at the Tollgate and Saling's camp, in Walla Walla county, Wash., have adopted bloomers as a costume for fish ing, hunting and camp duties. R. D. Shutt, teacher at the Cheha- li8 Indian school, near Yate City, Wash., was saved from drowning in the Chehalis river last Saturday by some of the Indians in the vicinity. In a few days the cable from the mainland to Tillamook rock light house will be laid. A force of men and one of the lighthouse tenders are busy with the work of making con nections. Unsubstantiated charges, that will probably be investigated, have been made of improper conduct on the part of those charged with the manage ment of the House of the Good Shep herd in Seattle. The farmers around Oaksdale, Wash. , are preparing to make an or ganized fight against the Chinese thistle. They claim the weed is brought by threshers from Walla Walla, and Northern Oregon counties. This season seems to be particularly favorable to figs in Southern Oregon. A tree in General J. M. MoCall's lot in Ashland has a fair crop of ripe and green fruit, the ripe ones being as per fected matured as if grown in bu- matra, says the Tidings. Mrs. Ethel Pitts, in her suit for di vorce from Henry Pitts, brought in Tacoma, alleges that while living at Kalama, July 31, 1891, Pitts compelled her to accompany him before a justice of the peace and marry him against her will, he telling her the replies to the questions asked in the ceremony. Pitts is a negro. The OUala postoffice was robbed some time ago, and a reward of $100 was offered for the capture of the rob bers. The postmaster, W. R. Wells, arrested two men, Dean and Miller, who turned out to be the guilty parties. The government, however, refuses to pay the reward, claiming that the law does not apply to a postmaster who captures the robbers of his own office. The Gold Beach, Or., Gazette re lates that Charley Bailey and Dave Frame, while fishing two weeks ago, saw a very brilliant meteor, which reached the earth just west of Doyle's house, on the north side of the river. The aerolite showed a very white light as it descended, and when near the ground it exploded with a loud re port, emitting a blue flame. The par ticles fell just west of Doyle's house, and close to the county road. In the year 1862 a man by the name of John Chapman located a quarter section of land where the city of Union, Or. , now stands, says the Re publican, and in the following year he employed Dave Thompson, now the Portland banker, but then a surveyor, to lay it out in town lots. It being at that period in the history of our coun try in which those questions which led up to the civil war were being warmly disoussed, Mr. Chapman, in deference to his patriotism and loyalty to his country, named his new town ' union. NO SIGN OF REACTION. Business Continues to Be Very Active for Midsummer. New York, August 12. R. G. Dun & Co. say in the Weekly Review of Trade: Business continues unusually active for midsummer, and though there is a perceptible relaxation, there are no signs of reaction. The one change of great importance which' the past week has brought is the amicable settlement between coal miners and employers in Pennsylvania; Ohio and Indiana. It is said about 100,000 men will have their wages increased after October 1 by this adjustment, and while the en largement of purchasing power is of consequence it seems even more im portant that a chronic case of contro versy has been removed by the new agreement as to company stores. There is no important change in crop pros pects and at this time no news is emi nently good news. Wheat has declined a fraction with very scanty transactions, the extremely small Western receipts influencing the market for the present more than the restricted exports. The concerted withholding of wheat by Western farmers, if continued, would doubtless affect the price in the end, but it has already stopped Atlantio exports al most entirely. The Western farmers may find reason to regret that they did not ship their wheat at the proper time. It tends to lower prices with more encouraging prospects, and the expectation of a heavy corn crop affects prices of provisions as might be ex pected. The industries continue to make progress and higher prices for iron and steel products prove that the supply has not yet outrun the demand. Bes semer iron is a shade weaker, but grey forge has advanced about 60 cents, and finished products are remarkably firm. Lake copper has advanced to 12o. Tin has declined about a quarter of a cent and is quoted at $14.20. Lead is a trifle stronger at $3. 55. The anthra cite coal market is completely demor alized, and prices have again yielded a little to about the lowest ever known. Sales of wool are not as much in flated by speculation as they were dur ing the first half of Jnly, bnt they still exceed the usual consumption in the manufacture, amounting at the three chief markets to 6,259,300 pounds. Prices are very firm. Some staple cot ton goods have again advanced in price and the market is unusually strong for the season. Failures for the week were 225 in the United States against 264 last year, and 43 in Canada against 54 last year. THE OREGON PENITENTIARY. Improvements That Superintendent Gil bert Thinks Should Be Made. Salem, Or., August 12. Superin tendent A. N. Gilbert, of the state peni tentiary, has been credited with saying that the prison was in a very bad con dition. Today he was seen and showed your correspondent over the peniten tiary. In making the rounds of the institution he called attention to the repairs and changes he considered nec essary; to wooden window panes; to worn and rickety steps and stairways; to old and unsightly walks; to the newly-built flume that was contrasted with the old, which, Mr. Gilbert said, had rotted from allowing dirt to bank up against the timbers; to an old tumble-down shed that covered the pump engine; to the unkempt condi tion of the engine; to the neglected appearance of everything in the me chanical departement. In the kitchen, Mr. Gilbert said: "This is. sirrply terrible. It is the most rotten, dirty arrangement I ever saw for a state in stitution. This kitchen is in the base ment, under the chapel, the center of the building, and steam and odors find their way to every cell." " What changes would you suggest in the arrangement of the kitchen?" was asked the superintendent. "There should be another ell to the building for a kitchen and dining room for the convicts. This would do away with feeding convicts in the cell, and the nausea of a kitchen under the ohapeL" .In the hospital the superintendent pointed out leaks in the walls and roof. And this window frame corresponds with the general dilapidation," he said, as he pulled off a piece of timber from the frame, exposing a deserted bumble-bee's nest. The superintend en thinks a new heating system is needed, and that the grounds should be properly drained. In answer to what course he would pursue in the management of the in stitutiion, Superintendent Gilbert said he would either have to make a deficit, or curtail other expenses. The latter, he explained, was being done by sup plying about half the discharged con victs with the suits they bring, instead of purchasing new ones at $15 each, and by saving tbe $5 heretofore given released convicts. Survivors of the White. Port Townsend, Wash., August 7. Six survivors of the lost sealing schooner White, which was lost last soring in Alaska, arrived today. All the survivors are horribly mutilated, having lost either fingers, toes, arms or feet They are bound to their homes in San Francisco. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Mi An&OWJVESX PURE (JUSTICE JACKSON DEAD Died Yesterday at His Home Near Nashville. HIS DEATH NOT UNEXPECTED The First Man Appointed to the Su preme Bench by a President Elect ed by the Opposite Party. Nashville, August 10. The Hon. Howell Edmunds Jackson, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died at his residence at West Meade, six miles west of this city, this afternoon in the 64th year of his age, of consumption. Justice Jackson has been in failing health for the past four years, but it has been only in the past eight or nine months that the progress of the disease began to cause his family and friends uneasiness. Last year he went on a lengthy trip to the Far West, in search of health. Later he went to Thomas ville, Tenn., where it was hoped that the mild and bracing climate would restore his once vigorous constitution. The trip did him little good, and after a time he was brought home. At his home Judge Jackson seemed to improve slightly, until he went to Washington to sit in the second hear ing of the income tax case. He stood the trip fairly well, but after his re turn home appeared to lose strength rapidly. Nevertheless, Judge Jackson never took to his bed until last Wednesday week. Since that time his family and friends feared that the end. was near, and his death today was not unexpected. Judge Jackson was twice married, the first time to Miss Sophia Mallory, daughter of David B. Mallory, a banker of Memphis, who died in 1873. To this union were born three child ren, Henry, William R. and Howell E. Jackson. Henry Jackson is at pres ent soliciting freight agent of tbe Southern railway, with headquarters at Atlanta. William R. Jackson is dis trict attorney of the Chesapeake & Ohio, at Cincinnati. Howell E. Jack son is manager of . the Jackson cotton mills, at Jackson, Tenn. In 1876 Judge Jackson married Miss Mary E. Harding, daughter of General William G. Harding. Of this union three children survive, Misses Eliza beth and Louise Jackson, and Harding A. Jackson. With the exception of Miss Elizabeth Jackson and Williim R. Jackson, jr., who are in Europe, the children were at his bedside when he died. Howell Edmunds Jackson enjoyed the distinction of being the first man appointed to the supreme bench of the United States by a president elected by the opposition party and apparently without regard to political considera tions as such. It is true that prece dents for such action are cited, but they are apparent rather than real. President Washington's administration was meant to be nonpartisan, and his experience with Chief Justice John Jay and other judges was in keeping with the general design. President Jack son's administration was confessedly a time when parties were reforming on -new lines, and similarly all other al leged exceptions are found to be more apparent than real. The selection of Judge Jackson stands out boldly as- a real exception. It clearly indicates that President Har rison fully appreciated that new issues were hereafter to divide the parties, and the appointment, therefore, mark ed a great epoch in American political history. Judge Jackson had been a lawyer ever since he was old enough for ad mission to the bar, and a judge during most of his adult life. Even in the heat and fury of the civil war, he was a judge rather than a partisan. He served with rare ability in the civil service of the Confederate government, and when the Democratic party of Tennessee divided on the question of the state debt, he took high ground in favor of paying dollar for dollar ac cording to the original contract. Killed His Partner. San Miguel, CaL, August 13. Dep uty. Sheriff Nesbitt has taken Tom Coughlin to San Luis Obispo. Cough lin acknowledged that he killed his partner, Charles Milan, whose body was found partially cremated near Cholame. ' Coughlin refuses to make any further statement or give any par ticulars of the killing. The coroner found that Milan had been shot through the head and the skull had been smashed. Tbe face was charred beyond recognition, both legs entirely burned, and the heart and entrails ex posed. Coughlin is quiet and gentle manly in his demeanor, and does not look like a man who would commit such a crime. The murdered man was known as "English Charley," and he and Coughlin were partners in a chicken ranch near Cholame. The War Eagle Mining Company has declared another dividend of $50, 000. This is the company's third div idend. The first was for $32,000, and paid for the mine and all development work; the second was for $50,000, and was paid June 14. .