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TRANSPORTATION.
East and South
-VIA-
The
Shasta Route
OF THE
Southern Pacific R'y Co.
EXPRESS TP.A1N3 B0N DAILY.
18:50 P H Ijeave
f.w r M i.eave
Portland
Albany
10:45 a M Arrive 8. Francisco
Arrive
Arrive j
Leave (
8:10 A M
4:M A U
6:00 P H
Awve trains stop at Eat Portland, Oregon
City, Woodburn. ftalem, Tamer. Marion, Jeffer
son, Albany. Albany Junction, Tainrn-.Suedrts,
Hulsev, Httrrisburg. Junction City, Irvine, Eu
gene, Creswell, Drains, and all stations Irom
Uusebur to Asbiand, inclusive.
R03EBUBG MAIL DAILY. .
8 3J A M I 1-eave
12.45 p u I lave
6:20 P M ( Arrive
i-ortlaim
Albiuy
Rosjbnrit
Air ve I
Arrive
Leave I
A AM F M
1:1 P
6 00 A M
Pullman B iffet sleepers and second-i lass
sletpiug -ars attached to all through trains.
SALEM PASSENGER DAILY.
4:00 P M
6:16 P M
L?ave
Arr.ve
Portland
Salem
Arrive 1 1):15 a m
Leave I 8:00 A M
WEST SIDK DIVISION.
Between Portland and Corval'is Mail train
daily (except Sunday).
730 a M Leave
12:15 P M Arrive
Pari laud
Corvallis
Arrive 6 20PM
Leave 1:86 pm
At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains
o-f the Oregon uentrai ai eastern aj.
EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Pm day).
8 25 A M
4:45 p M Leave
7:2.i P M Arrive
Poitland
McMinnville
Ariive
Leave 5x0 a m
,ri.Mnnk ti.kAtB in .n nniiita in the Eastern
state, t an-id and Rnrope can Le oota ned at
lowest rate irom a. iw. jaiiicr,"', v..-.
ti. KOKHI.ER. Mauaeer.
E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. 4 P. A., Portland, Or.
fi u
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1 E. McNElL, Deceiver.
TO THE
EAST
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GIVES THE CHOICE OF
TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL
VIA
GREAT
NORTHERN RY.
SPOKANE
MINNEAPOLIS
AND
ST. PAUL
VIA
UNION
PACIFIC RY.
DENVER
OMAHA
AND
KANSAS CITY
LOW RATES TO ALL
EASTERN CITIES
OCEAN STEAMERS
LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS
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DR. WILSON
Office over First National bank.
Residence, two blooks west of courthouse.
Office hours, 8 to 10 A. M.. 1 to 8 p. M.
Sundays and evenings by appoinlment.
SAYS HE SAW PITEZEL
Sensational Story Published
in a Chicago Paper.
SURE THERE WAS KO MISTAKE
WILL NOT INTERFERE.
DR. L. g; altman
H0M0E0PATHIST
Diseases of women and children and general
practice.
Offlca over Allen & Woodward's drug store.
Office boars 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 6 and 7 to 8
P.M.
At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after
hours and on sunaays.
BOWEN LESTER
DENTIST
Office upstairs over First National Bank.
Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed
Corvallis, Oregon
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 & Vaqaina Bay
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
F. H.
Junes HeNsry, at Street Railway Con
ductor, Claims That He Talked
With Him But Recently.
Chicago, Nov. 20. The Daily News
this evening publishes the following
story: -
James McNary, a conductor on car
No. 635, of the Sixty-third street line,
has sprung a new sensation in the
Holmes case, by stating that Benjamin
F. Pitezel is alive, and that he recent
ly talked with him on his car. Mc
Nary claims therejsould be no mistake,
for he worked nine months for fitezei
and knows the peculiarities of his
voice. According to McNary, Pitezel
hoarded his car a few davs previous to
Holmes' triaL Pitezel's beard had
grown around the greater part of his
fane, so that he was completeiy dis
guised. When addressed, however,
hn Admitted his identity and asked as
a friend that McNary keep silent, for
he was on his way to Phiadelphia; but
McNary called in Motorman Letterman
and he, too, claims that he had a con
versation with Pitezel, who took a
transfer to the Cottage Grove cable
line.
Robert Corbett, who has been fol
lowing the case for months in behalf
of the Farmers' & Merchants' National
bank, Fort Worth, claims he has also
seen PitezeL He said to a Daily News
reporter:
"I never believed Pitezel was dead,
for the following reasons: First, when
I was searching the 'castle,' some
months ago, this man, who resembles
the one seen by the conductor and mo
torman, and who, I then thought was
Pitezel, found me in the building look
ing over some papers. He asked me if
I had seen a toolchest I told him
there was one in the front room. He
said that one was not his; that he had
left it in the room where I was engaged.
I asked him who he was. He said
Mrs. Pitezel sent him there for a tool
nhest and when I asked him his name
he said, after thinking a moment,
'Andrews,' and left"
Without the Usual Rash.
Lewiston, Idaho, Nov. 20. At noon
today over 1,500 settlers and miners,
who have long waited an opportunity
to take the broad prairies and the
promising mineral land on the Nez
Perce reservation, put np tneir stakes,
posted their notices, and many began
an exodus to the nearest iana omce to
register their claims. There was no
rush to the interior. Tne journey to
the desired locations had been made
days before, without a sign of legal as
sistance, and the man who rode for
miles to see a mad rush from the
boundaries of the reserve, with the fir
ing of cannon and firearms, the shouts
and execrations of those who were
ahead and behind in the race for the
coveted goals, was disappointed. Never
in recent years has the opening of a
rich reservation to settlement been at
tended with less excitement than that
of the Nez Perces.
The United States made absolutely
The United States Will Take No Part In
Disrupting the Turkish' Government.
Washington, Nov. 20. The Turkish
situation is absorbing the attention of
the state department at present, and
due notice is taken of the various reso
lutions adopted by the many religious
organizations in the United States.
Considering the terribly - disturbed
conditions in Armenia, it is believed at
the state department that Minister Ter
rell has been remarkably successful in
his efforts to protect the American mis
sionaries and teachers. So far as the
misfortunes of the native Christians
are concerned, while they may properly
excite the sympathy of the entire Chris
tian world, the state department claims
there is no warrant for interference on
the part of the United States, the Ar
menians being Turkish subjects, for
whose religious freedom the European
powers are responsible. Any interpo
sition by the United States would not
only be in violation pf our traditions,
but might be used, it is said, as a pow
erful argument to justify European in
terference in the affairs of the Ameri
can republics.
In reference to the rumors that Mr.
Terrell has tendered his resignation, it
may be stated that the department of
state is thoroughly satisfied with his
enndnct in everv particular: that it
has lent all possible support to him,
and that no reason is known which
would instifv the assumption that he
intends to desert his post in the recent
crisis.
Admiral Selfridge cabled to the navy
department today that he had put in
with his flagship San Francisco to
Naples to get mail. He will proceed
directly to Alexandretta, where he
should arrive about Friday next, and
will then be in position to extend aid
to the Americans and Europeans in
that section in the event of further up
rising. THE LATEST COMET.
THE YEARLY REPORTS!
An Extended Interview With Senator
" Thurston, of Nebraska.
Omaha, Nov. 19. Local railway
Work of the Agricultural De- circles were given a new insight into
tne various plans oi a proposea reor-
partment Reviewed.
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
What the Lifesavlng Service and the
Naval Militia Have Done During
the raat Tear.
i Washington, Nov. 19. The report
of the secretary of agrioulture begins
with the report of work of the bureau
of animal industry.
The total number of animals inspect
ed at the slaughterhouses was consider
ably over 18,000,000, an increase of
more than 5,000,000 over. the previous
year. During the year ante-mortem
inspection was also made: of 5,000,000
animals. The cost of inspection waB
also redaoed to 1. 1 cents per animal.
In 1898, inspection coat 4.75 oents per
animal, and in 1894 it cost 1.75. oents.
Over 1,860,000 animals, cattle and
sheep, were inspected for . foreign mar
kets, of which 675,000 were shipped
abroad. Over 45.000,000 sounds of
pork was inspected microscopically, lines, operated together as one property,
and exported, as against 35,000,000 in At present this whole country is large
1894. and 38.000.000 pounds in 1893. w at the merov of the Pacific lines
Of the amount exported last year near-1 West of Ogden, operated by the South
lv 23.000.000 pounds went to Germany ern Pacific, which has the choice
and over 9,000,000 pounds to- France, whether its trafflo shall go via the
This inspection involved the plaoing of Union Pacific or the Southern line. I
over 1,900,000 specimens under the think it was one of the purposes of the
ganination of the Union Pacific today.
The matter came in the form of an au
thorized statement from Senator Thurs
ton through Colonel James B. Haynes.
Senator Thurston left this evening for
Washington. In an interview he said:
"My resignation as general solicitor
of the Union Paoifio has been forward
ed to Judge Dillon in New York, and
will no doubt be presented to the re
ceivers in about a week. I have re
signed, not because of any real or ap
parent impropriety in aoting as attor
ney for the receivers, but simply be
cause the duties of that position re
quire the whole time and attention of
the man who holds it.
"I have little idea what the prospect
is for successful reorganization of the
Pacific roads under the plan proposed
by the present committee. I have an
idea for the readjustment of the gov
ernment matter and reorganization of
the Paoifio properties, but not accord
ing to their method of reaching the re
sult I believe it would be a great
thing for the country at large to have
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Condensed Telegraphic Re
ports ot Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
JOHNSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Corvallis, Oregon
Does a general practice in all the court, provision to keep white men ofL be'
la -an, n -11 tK. AraLiiUu IninratlflA COm- I .
Also agent for all the first-class insurance com
panies.
Further Particulars of the Discovery
Made at Lick Observatory.
San Jose, Cat, Nov. 20. The fol
lowing was received this afternoon
from Mount Hamilton:
"The comet observed at Lick obser
vatory by C. D. Perrine, yesterday
morning, was again observed by him
this morning. It has grown mucn
brighter. The head is about five min
utes of an aro in diameter, and the tail
half a degree long. At 5 o'clock this
morning the comet was in the right as
cension, 13 hours 47 minutes, ana
north declension 1 degree 10 minutes.
Tr. was mo vine eastward at the rate of
40 minutes per day, and southward 34
minutes.
The spectrum of Perrine 's comet has
been observed here both physically and
photographically by Professer Camp
belL He finds a spectrum of usual
type. There is a continuous spec tram,
indicating reflected sunlight, and there
are numerous bright bands and lines
occupying such positions that they
prove the presence of inoandescent car
bon and nitrogen in the coma and tail.
The comet was also photographed this
morning by Professor Hussey and Mr.
Colton. As soon as two more observa
tions have been secured the elements of
the comet's orbit will be computed at
Lick observatory.
Released From Jail.
Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 20.
Eremino Genino, an Italian, was under
a life sentence in the penitentiary here
for murder committed in Skamina
ennntv fourteen years ago. The im-
NOTABY PUBLIC.
JUSTICE PEACH.
E. E. WILSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Office In Zeiroff building, opposite postofflce.
fore the time indicated by the prochv
mafin and thara was -unlimited OP'
i ,v. annTiaintprl with the I TtrpRsion . Ions prevailed that Genino
land to camp on the choice tracts until was innocent, the victim of perjured
- . . . I i i A 4. ft Ilia l-ial
r.hn noon Hour ana tnen rusn oacit w
enter their chosen quarter section.
M. 0. WILKINS
Stenograplier and Notary Public
Court reporting and referee
reu
sittings made
as type-writing and other
specialties, as wel
reporting.
Office opposite postofflce, Corvallis, Or.
Steamship " Farallon "
A. 1 and flret-cla:s in every respect. Sails from
Yaquina for Ran Francisco about every eight
days. Passenger acc mmodations unsurpassed.
Shortest route between tne Willamette valley
and California.
Fare From Albany or Points West to
San Francisco:
Cabin..... 12 steerage
Cabiu Round trip, Rood for 60 days..
For sailing daj sai. ply to
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W. A. CUHHINOS, Agent
Corvallis, Onion.
KDWIN STONF, Manager, Corvsllis, Oregon
CHAS. CLARK, Sup't, Corvallis, Oregon.
E. HOI-GATE.
Notary Public.
H. L. HOLGATE;
Justice of the Peace.
Rate Case Again Postponed.
Ran Franicsco. Nov. 20. The suit
of the Southern Paciflo Railroad Com'
pany against the board of railroad com
missioners for an injunction to restrain
the latter body from interfering witn
existing railroad rates, was continued
another week, in the United states cir
cuit court today. Attorney Fitzger
ald, representing the state, said he was
not ready to go on, as he had not fully
nmnared his case. As there was no
opposition to his motion, it was grant
ed. The attorney-general expects to
be prepared next Monday to argue the
case, so no doubt the hearing will go
on at that time.
testimony. At tne time oi nis iriai
he had been in America but a short
time, and was unable to speak or un
derstand the English language, and
was at a disadvantage in defending
himself. Several years ago friends be
gan endeavoring to secure his pardon,
and at the last session of the Knights
of Pythias grand lodge, held in Walla
Walla, May, 1895, petitions were pre
pared, circulated and signed, asting
the governor to paraon nim. io par
don was received by the warden Satur
day and Genino was released on Sun
day. He had served thirteen years and
three months. -
microscope, ine cost oi eacn exami
nation was less than 5 cents, or for
each pound of meat 2 mills, consider
ably over any previous year. Losses
of cattle in transit to Europe were
greater than in 1894, being respectively,
for 1895 and 1894, 0.62 and 0.87 per
cent
Over 80,000 cars, carrying over 820,
000 animals, were inspected for Texas
fever at quarantine pens during the
quarantine seasons, nearly 9,000 oar
loads of cattle being inspected also in
transit, and over 28,000 oars were
oleaned and disinfected. Besides, over
156,000 cattle from non-infected dis
tricts of Mexioo were inspeoted for
shipment to Northern states.
The secretary says their importation
free of duty is advantageous to feeders
having a surplus of feed and to the
consumers, who outnumber the pro
ducers. -
Much space is devoted to discussing
the opportunities for American meat
products in foreign markets. Of 841,
000 tons of meat received at the Lon
don central market in 1894 71,000 tons
-t 1 ert rri
were American, wniie neariy uu.wv
tons came from Australia. The Amer
ican proportion has not been maintain
ed during 1895.
He closes with a discussion oi roe
future of farms and farming. ine
average value of farms by the census
of 1890 was $2,900. The value of im
plements, domestio animals and sun
dries will make a total farm plant of
14,000 for a family averaging six per
sons. These farms have lea tne iarm
ers and their families and 40.000 ur
ban residents, besides supplying $500.
000,000 worth of produots for foreign
consumers. In the presence of these
facts the secretary says:
"How can any one dare to assert
that farming is generally unremunera
tive and unsatisfactory to those wh
intelligently follow it?"
The mortgages on farm values do
not exceed 16 per cent, a less incum
brance on the capital invested than in
any other line of industry. He fore
tells confidently a steady increase in
the value of farm lands as the popula
tion of the country increases.
government, in chartering the roads,
that they should continue as one line,
operated together, and I think reason
able legislation can be enaoted to se
cure that result.
"I have prepared a bill, whibh I
shall introduce in the senate."
DEATH OF COREA'S QUEEN.
It Is Now Said the Unfortunate Woman
Was Cremated Alive.
Milwaukee, Nov. 19. Rudolph
Nunnemaoher, now visiting in Corea,
writes to the Milwaukee Sentinel, giv
ine an aooount of the murder of the
aneen in October. He says the Japan
ese were the instigators of the outrage,
and that a body of Japanese soshi com
mitted the murder and that they were
backed by Japanese troops. When
they had gained entrance to the queen's
apartments, they found iour women,
and being unable to recognize the
queen, who had disguised herself, they
killed all four. The bodies, after hav
ing been slashed and stabbed, were
Hd in blankets, carried to the court
vard. saturated with oil, and burned,
It is reported the queen was cremated
alive, not having been dispatched dur
ing the slaughter.
The Japanese government nas starred
an inonirv. and many arrests have
been made.
An American general, who has been
nr.Hnc as vice minister of war for
Corea, is said to have been an eye-wit
ness of the outrage. He was in com
mand of the guard, and made heroic
resistance to the assassins. He came
near being killed, several bullets pass
ing close to him. Had he lost his life
the writer says, the Japanese govern,
ment might have found itself in seri
ons complications with the United
States.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
HOlGi!il?ON G. R. FfiRRA, M. S
Corvallis
Oregon
J. B. Brysok W. E. Yates J. Fbbd Yaibs
Bryson, Yates & Yates
LAWYERS
Office in Fairs & Allen's brick, on the corner
of Second and Adams. , - ,
Residence on xmra street in irom wiur
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cim e nonrs s to . ., anu x w
r. M. All ca is attenaea prompuy.
Jossph H. Wilson.
Thohtas E. Wilsok
CORVALLIS
OREGON
WILSON & WILSON
ATTHRNFY - AT- I AW silent as to barber shops, cities of the
Ml I UI1ML.HJ n I l-rl 1 f tirat-class have all necessary power to
A Sunday Closing; Question,
Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 120. Judge
Parker today handed down a decision
in the case of the city against uenry
Krech, charged with violating the Sun
day law by working at his trade as a
barbel on Sunday. The question raised
by demurrer was whether or not the
citv possessed the power to pass such
an ordinance, especially in view oi ine
fact that it is provided in the penal
nruta nf the state that certain places of
business shall not be opened Sundays,
which the supreme court has construed
in the case of the State vs. Krech. iu
Washington, page 167, as not applying
to the business of a bar per. juage
Parker holds that, the legislature being
THE LIFESAVINQ SERVICE.
Report of the Work Done b Superin
tendent KimDaib
Washington, Nov. 19. Mr. Kim
ball, superintendent of the lifesaving
service, in his annual report, states
that at the close of tne lass nscai year
the establishment embraced 251 sta
tions, 184 being on the Atlantic, oo on
the lakes, thirteen on the Paoifio coast,
and one at tne iaua ted in the Pacific Northwest
Louisville. The number of disasters r -m,nmaa a
Pniuiuil Transfer of Indian Schools to
State Supervision.
Washington. Nov. 19. The superin
tendent of Indian schools, in speaking
of the proposition to transfer the to
dian schools to state supervision, says
"In Washington even now, it would
Via impossible to abandon some of the
Indian sohools now under the govern
ment control and to turn the children
over to the ordinary school facilities,
provided by the state. In Oregon and
nalifnrniaa great number of Indians
now attending Indian schools could
without hardship either to themselves
or to the school districts in whioh they
live, be educated in the state district
schools."
The following pensions have been
THE NEW WAY EAST
asm i.r First National Bank. Corvallis, Or
Will practice in au ine state anu ituc "
a hatractine. collections. Notary public. Con
veyancing. . ' .
BENTON COUNTY
first-class have all necessary power
make regulations necessary, for the
preservation of publio morality. .
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ri 0. L 8 N. GO.'S LIKES Th&Short Routs ABSTRACT : COMPANY -gg
Complete Set of Abstracts
of Benton County.
DAKOTAS, MINNE-
Bracll Will Not Arbitrate. I
New York, Nov. 20. The Brazilian
government, the Herald's correspond
ent at Rio Janeiro telegraphs, has
conoluded that no arbitration
respecting the ownership
of Trinidade, as proposed
hv the British government. The gov
ernment also refuses to consider such
anronstions as may arise through tne
. - miTTn lfAWT 4 W A
S: sale to and f.m CHICAGO, ST, LOUIS, WASHING- COH VGyandng and Perfecting I the British parliament of
;,Tr inciDQTl NTTW Yf IRK. KOf-i 1 UiN. ana AJ-ilj xvli AO ill
TUiN, rniijttUE.L;i jj-,
United Btatea. uanaaa ..u "p- t iino hnffet-
FT1. rUiVthom K fll I W H. V IN m 1ICW tlW10WUMMViisn
Titles a Specialty.
library to'i8t
one of the chief annoyances ot transcontinental travel. .
Round trip tickets with stop-over privileges and choice of return routes.
loriurtnerinxor g Occidental Hotel, Corvallis, Oregon, or
C. C. DONAVAN, Gen'l Ag't, 122 Third Street, Portland, Oregon.
The President's Annual Message.
Chioago, Nov. 20. A special from
Money to Loan on Improved City and Washington says: President Cleve-
AMUUVrj AIV'Vll'i I lanu Ul UO lUUluaA AuvuuHsjv v-
mmA the retirement oi green oacKs.
This recommendation will be the chief
V. E. WATTERS, Prop.
i Office at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or.
foatni-A nf the message, so far as do
mestio affairs are concerned.
to vessels within the field of operations
of the service during the year was oo.
There were on board these vessela 5,402
persons, of whom 5,882 were saved,
and 20 lost. Bight hundred and three
shipwrecked persons reoeived succor at
the stations, to whom 2,233 days' re
lief in the aggregate was anoraeo.
The estimated value of vesselB involved
was $8,001,275, and that of their oar
goes $2,645,960, making a total value
of property imperiled $10,647,235. Of
this amount $9,165,095 was saved, and
$1,602,150 was lost The number of
vessels totally lost was 78.
In addition to the foregoing there
during the vear 192 causaltiea to
aii nrafc. on board of whioh there
were 421 persons, 415 of whom were
saved, and six lost Besides the num
ber of persons saved from vessels of all
kinds, there were 110 others rescued
who had fallen from wharves, piers,
etc., the most of whom would have
perished without the aid of the lifesav
ing crews. The crews saved and as
sisted to save during the year 879 ves-
sels, valued with their cargoes a
$4,561,665, and rendered assistance of
minor importance to 181 vessels in
distress, besides warning nom uangoi
by the signals of the patrolmen 249
vessels.
: The investigations made into the de
tails of every shipwreok involving loss
of life, and into the conduct of thelife
crews at these wreoks, show
that the unfortunate people who per
ished were beyond any possible aid
from the service, and no life was lost
through lack of prompt and faithful
efforts on tha part of the lifesaTUig
OrAiron Original. Thomas A. Ben
nett, of Pittsburg, Columbia county.
Washington Original, Samuel V.
Genberg, of Exoeloior, Pierce county,
and William A. Harriman, of Golden
dale, Klickitat oounty.
Idaho Original, Samuel J. Eeed,
of Montpelier, Bear Lake oounty.
The following patents have been
granted to inventors in Oregon:
Frank L. Fisher, of Granger, separ
otnv anri amalgamator: Isaao B. Ham
mond, of Portland, frame for stamps;
Henry W., and W. W. Smitn, oi ron
lmi. anriannesB mining machine.
A new postofflce has been established
at Clearwater, Jefferson oounty, wasn
ington. Charles J. Andrews is post
master.
Over Twenty Passengers Drowned.
Gibraltar, Nov. 19. Over twenty
naasengers from the Italian steamer
Solferino were drowned by the swamp
ing of one of her boats. Twelve nun
dred emigrants from Genoa, Italy,'
bound for South America, were on
board the vessel at the time. All were
landed safely, save the score or more
in the single small boat. The Solfer-
tr,n vmt ashore near Cueta. She was
oommanded by Cptain Caffiero.
Happenings of Interest In the Towns and
Cities of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho.
Puyallup. Wash., has 821 school
children registered. ;
The city of Seattle was forty-four
years old the 13 th inst.
There are sixty-six K. of P. lodges
in Oregon. The first was organized
June 26, 1873, in Portland.
The county commissioners of Colfax
oounty, Wash., are discussing the ques
tion of bonding the county debt and
running on a cash basis.
The Northern Paoifio Railroad Com--
pany has commenced work on . a six
stall roundhouse for the accommoda
tion of engines at Sprague, Wash.
The rails of Port Townsend's Btreet
oar line have been taken up and will
be shipped to some Eastern city.
There are about 200 tons of them
It cost Douglas county, Wash.,
$1,781.60 for four criminal cases, all
of which were misdemeanors, and in
one of which the culprit pleaded gulty.
Governor McGraw has pardoned
from the Walla Walla penitentiary
Peter G. Burzman, who was sentenced
from Seattle to ten years' imprison
ment.
It is unofficially announced that
Oscar Huber, a civil engineer of Spo
kane, has been awarded the contracts
for the surveys of the army posts ana
grounds at Spokane.
An agreement has been reached by
whioh I. Altman will take the entire
stock of the firm of M. Cohn & Co., of -Taooma,
that recently failed, and will
pay off the chattel mortgages in full
and pay 25 oents on the dollar to the
general creditors.
The semi-annual summary statement
of the financial condition of Baker
county, Or., shows that September 30,
1895, there were outstanding ana un
paid warrants amounting to $174,
079.56, and that the estimated interest
thereon was $17,407.95.
The Northern Pacifio Railroad Com
pany has settled with Mr. Fleet, the
Douglas county stockman, ior came
killed in the wreck on the Central
Washington several weeks ago. The
amount of damages allowed hira .was
something over $10,500.
The United States grand jury at
Walla Walla completed its work in
four days notwithstanding there were
a large number of cases to investigate,
and was complimented by Judge Han- ,
ford from the bench for the oapable and
expeditious manner in whioh it per- '
formed its duties.
George F. Hensmer, who is superin
tending the construction of the tele
phone line from Goble to Astoria, Or.,
says that the line will reacn Astoria ui
about two weeks. A wagon road is be
ing cut alongside of the line, so that
when repairs are necessary they can be
made with little dimouity.
Receiver Philip Anderson, of the Ta
coma National bank, of Tacoma, has
been ordered by the controller of the
currency to pay depositors a dividend
of 10 per cent Receiver Stuart Rioe,
of the Washington National, of the
same city, has been ordered to pay 5
percent The oity will be paid $2,200
as its share.
Cashier W. G. Peters, of the Colum
bia National bank, of Taooma, waived
a preliminary hearing in United States
Commissioner Worden's court in Ta- .
coma, and was held for trial at the
Webruary term of tne ieaerei court.
He was required to furnisn a new oona
in the sum of $10,000. The charge
against him is making a false entry in
the books oi tne Dans.
Cattlemen in Grant oounty. Or., are
riding and oolleoting their herds for the
winter. Hay is scarce in mas county
this winter, and the Long Creek fcagie
predicts that many a hoof will be turn-
ed heavenward before spring. Several
stockmen will lake their herds to out
side sections, where feed is cheaper and
more plentiful Some will drive to
Morrow and some to Umatilla county.
S. R. Flvnn has partially made his
examination of the affairs of the Ben
nett National bank, of New Whatcom,
Wash. From suoh examination, ana
with a view to a probable reopening,
he has had himself appointed tempor
ary receiver. This step accomplishes
two things, it prevents xne appuiut
ment of a permanent receiver, and en
ables him to make collections. -
The work of dredging the marsh
lands around Snohomish, Wash., will
soon be completed. These lands were
settled on early this year by a colony
of Hollanders. They put in tneir crops
and were exceedingly successful. An
other colony is expected over from the
old country in the near future, whioh
will settle near the Snohomish colony. "
The colony forms a little common
wealth by itself. They elect different
offioers of their own, but abide by the
laws and make model citizens.
Nova Scotia Breweries Sold.
Halifax. Nov. 16. An English syn
dictate has purchased the four principal
hw.cAri in Halifax, those cf Oland
Anna & Co.. Havward Co., r. tx. J
r -Mill an Jfe T.inrlbersrs. and also that
nf Movers & Hvdman, Charlottetown
ti,. ml imnrrrtant brewerv in rraoe
W X . .
v,a.wi island. The pxioe paid is
$500,000.
Fill to Go on the Lecture Platform. "
Chicago, Nov. 18. Senator Hill, of
New York, is going on tne leorore
platform, and Chioago will be tne city
of his debut This somewhat surpris
ing bit of news was made publio toaay
bv the call of a young man at the office
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of the Auditorium to secure a aate wi
the New York statesman. Senator
Hill will make his first appearanoe in
Chioago the night of Friday, December
6, at the Auditorium. The subject of
his lecture will be "Liberty."