The Corvallis gazette., January 23, 1896, Image 1

VOL. XXXII.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN UARY 23, 1896.
NO. 45.
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her husband true to the protestations of
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one, the love letters exchanged, legion.
With these letters she has papered her
boudoir. No man could in the face of
such evidence of eternal devotion object
to the price of a new bonnet or be stingy
in the matter of pin money. How could
he scold about the butcher's bill; or be
sulky even if she did give his pet loung
ing coat to the old clothes man or put
her pug to sleep in his Sunday hat or
cry because he staid at the club and
forgot to come in until midnight as in
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TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a
densed Form.
Con-
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
. Canada is to have a naval reserve.
The Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma
territory have all left their farms, and
have gone to ghost dancing.
Peter Hougaard, believed to have
been insane, killed himself and his
wife and five children in-Chicago.
Vigorous search is being conducted
for the hidden wealth of an old Span
iard, who died some years ago in Los
Angeles.
The matter of the Behring sea arbi
tration treaty is at last in a fair way
to be settled, Canada having agreed to
its terms.
The Occidental college at Los An
geles, Cal., a Presbyterian institution,
has been consumed by fire. The loss
is $70,000, partly insured.
The overtaxation of the public archi
tect's office is given as the reason for
the delay in the construction of the
Portland, Or., public building.
Colonel Ingersoll, the great infidel,
has been extended an invitation to
preach in a Chicago church, and to
give his views of ideal Christianity.
Through the cheapness of corn,
American distillers, for the first time
in ten years, can successfully compete
in the French market with the .Ger
mans. It has been authoritatively an
nounced that the Vale management has
decided to abandon the project of a
race with Oxford-Cambridge crews, of
London.
The candidacy of Senator Alliison is
announced for nomination on the Re
publican ticket for the presidency.
Iowa s congressional delegation is solid
for him.
The second coming of the Redeemer
has been prophesied again by the an
evangelist of Baltimore, who thinks
the present war talk is the beginning
of the millenium.
The sultan of Turkey has issued a
decree prohibiting the distribution of
funds collected in this country by the
Red Cross Society for the relief of suf
fering Armenians.
A dispatch from London says the
statements made in the Italian news
papers that Great Britain had ceded
Zilah, on the Straits of Babel-Mandeb,
to Italy, is officially denied.
r
A dispatch from Vienna says Count
Thun, governor of Bohemia, has re
signed, and that his resignation is ex
pected to lead to a healing of the
breach between the young Czehs and
the Germans.
The Gloucester fishing schooner For-
tuna sunk in a colision with the Boston
Fruit Company's steamer Barnstable,
oft Highland light, Boston harbor.
Nine of the Fortuna's crew were
drowned and fourteen saved.
The Prussian diet has been opened.
The speech from the throne was de
voted to domestio affairs. It is esti
mated the budget of 1896 will show a
smaller deficit than that of 1895, owing
to increased receipts due to improving
trade.
Mail advices from Hawaii state that
friends of the ex-queen are anxious for
war between England and the United
States, believing that in the event of
such hostilities England would seize
the Hawaiian islands and restore Lili
nokalani. A cablegram from Prague announces
the death of .Charles Jonas, United
States consul at Crefeld, Germany.
Mr. Jonas was formerly consul at St.
Petersburg, but exchanged positions
with John KareL He was at one time
lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin.
The certainty of the settlement of the
Venezuela boundary dispute is still in
doubt, since Venezuela repeatedly
affirms that it is impossible for her to
compromise the boundary claims oy
any treaty or convention, because of
the terms of her national constitution.
The City bank, of Minneapolis, a
state banking .institution, suspended
payment this week, pending ex
amination. The capital stock is
1300,000. The deposits at the last
statement, December SI, 1895, were
1523,604. It is claimed the depositors
will be paid in fulL
"There is a general opinion," says
a letter to a Boston tobacco dealer,
"both among insurgents and Span
iards, that General Campos has become
demented. His actions, not only in
the direction of the campaign, but his
private and ordinary doings are such
as to give good grounds for this be
lief." The Chilean treaty with Brazil has
been shorn of its importance by the an
nouncement that Argentina has an an
terior treaty with Brazil, giving all the
rights of a favored nation. It is the
intention of the United States minister
to demand of the Brazilian government
that similar privileges be accorded
this country. This will minimize the
damages that may possibly accrue in
favor of Chilean flour and cereals.
The liabilities of Eeene, Satterlee &
Co., leather dealers of Philadelphia,
Pa., whose fialure is announced will
reach $4,000,000. Nothing can be
learned of the assets. - Frederick W.
Satterlee, head of the firm, left the city
before the assignment was recorded,
in oompany with John M. Fenlin, a
tobacco merchant, who failed at the
same time, and neither have been
heard from.
The members of the government
bond syndicate received a letter from
J. P. Morgan & Co., releasing them
from the commitment to furnish their
pro rata of 1100,000,000 in gold, taking
payment in 4 per cent government
bends. There is no longer any doubt
of the success of the loan by popular
subscription.
Sir Hercules Robinson, the governor
of Cape Colony, South Africa, and
British high commissioner, has sent a
message to Pretroria that matters have
been satisfactorily arranged in the
Transvaal and that bloodshed is ended.
Final agreemet ' between President
Kroger and Sir Hercules Robinson,
governor of Cape Colony, regarding
the disposition of the prisoners cap
tured as the result of Dr. Jamieson's
raid into the Transvaal," has been com
pleted. Jamieson and the officers will
be tried in England. The rank and
file of the freebootres are now on their
way to Natalia, where they will be
turned over to the British authorities,
who will decide the treatment they are
to receive. '
A special decree has been issued
announcing the coronation of the czar
will take place in Moscow in May
next
Ex-President Harrison has announced
that he and Mrs. Dimmick are engaged
to be married. The marriage will not
take place until after Lent.
The Panama Canal Company is mak
ing gigantic preparations for railroad
construction. It is purchasing im
mense quantities of cross ties and coal.
The Deutsche bank has obtained, a
contract to issue the Chinese loan of
100,000,00 teals, with interest at 5 per
cent, to cost 89, and to be issued
at 95.
. A dispatch from Yokohama says the
queen of Corea is certainly dead.
There is no truth in the story that she
escaped at SeouL Two Coreans have
been executed for patricipation in the
murder. . " -
A Berlin dispatch to the Standard
says all the German sovereigns will
grant a limited pardon to criminals
upon the occasion of the celebration of
the anniversary of the proclamation of
the -empire.
A' dispatch from Peking says the
British minister has presented an ulti
matum to the Chinese government, de
manding the opening of West river.
The truth of the report has been denied
in London, however
A series of postoffice robberies has
just been discovered in San Francisco
by the government and three Chinese
firms will lose $4,000. The robberies
were committed by Chinese who had
keys made to open the mail boxes.
The Ashantee war in South Africa
is ended. Sir Francis Scott, in com
mand of the British expeditionary
forces, has occupied Coomassie, the
capital, without opposition. King
Prempeh accepts all the British de
mands. - p.
It is officially stated that Dr. Jamie
son and others who are in prison with
him will be released unconditionally
by the Transvaal government, and that
the Uitlanders, in due oonrse of time,
will be enabled to make their demands
clearly understood.
. A frightful accident ocourred on the
Midland Terminal railroad. The train
was en route to Denver and Colorado
Springs, and was just above the city
limits of Victor, Cola Fifteen passen
gers were injured, six seriously, two of
whom will probably die.
There is a rumor current in Wash
ington to the effect that the United
States is preparing to enforce its de
mands against the Turkish govern
ment for the protection of Americans
residing in Turkey, and the payment
of indemnity for proprety losses.
Throughout the German empire the
twenty-fifth crowning at Versailles of
King William of Prussia, the grand
father of the present emperor, as em
peror of Germany, and the consequent
re-establishment of the German em
pire was celebrated in some form or
other.
Captain-General Martinez de Campos
formally resigned his command of the
Spanish forces in Cuba to General
Marin. The ceremony took place in
the great salon of the captain-general's
palace. There were present all author
ities of the city of Havana and the
chief officers of the army.
The London Chronicle believes both
England and Venezuela will institute
inquiries into the settlement and
cessions of land in the disputed terri
tory. It says this will present a basis
for the renewal of negotiations. It is
now most probable that arbitration
will be resorted to.
After a two-days' meeting held in
St. Louis, by the Populist national
committee, it was decided to leave the
matter of selecting the time and place
for the national convention to the ex
ecutive committee. At a subsequent
meeting of the committee St Louis
was chosen, and the date set at July 22.
The president of the Manufacturers'
Trust Company of Brooklyn, has offer
ed to place gold in the treasury, and
take a receipt therefor. Being a
bidder for the new issue of bonds, he
suggests that if his bid is aocepted the
amount be deducted, and the balance
returned. It is said that in .this way
the treasury would be afforded imme
diate relief.
The return of Commandant Herbert
Booth, of the Salvation Army, from
London to this country is likely to
create trouble among the officers and
the rank and file of the Salvationists in
the United States. If be succeeds in
supplanting his elder brother, Balling'
ton Booth, in the charge of the army
here, publio meetings will be held in
New York and protest against the
change. -;;
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Senator Davis' Resolution a
Strong Enunciation.
ITS TERMS ARE TO BE EXPLICIT
Said to Be a JUore Forcible Declaration
Than Any Which Has Yet Been .
Introduced in Congress.
Washington, Jan. 20. The resolu
tion drawn by Davis and adopted- by
the senate committee on foreign rela
tions today will prove to be a clear
and strong enunciation of the Monroe
doctrine, when its text is made publio.
It is a more forcible declaration than
any which has been introduced in con
gress on this subject, and its terms
are so explicit that they cannot be mis
understood. The advancement of the
Monroe doctrine, as set forth in the re
port, is said to be vital to the welfare
of the country and the countries of the
American continents. The doctrine, it
is asserted, is now in force, and has
been in force ever since it was estab
lished by President Monroe. The
resolution declares it to mean that
acquisition of territory by purchase,
concession or otherwise, on the Ameri
can continents by a foreign power is
an unfriendly act, and such acquisi
tion will not be permitted by the
United States.
The most important feature is that
which touches upon a new phase of the
Venezuela question the report that
England and Venezuela may reach an
agreement, and that English money will
settle the boundary . dispute. The
resolution asserts that when disputes
on the American continent between
foreign governments and American
governments are decided by arbitra
tion, agreement purchase, or in any
manner whatever, the United States
shall be tie sole judge as to whether
the Monroe doctrine has been violated
in such arbitration or agreement . In
fact, it means , that a resolution or
agreement between foreign govern
ments and governments of the Ameri
can continents as to boundary disputes
cannot become binding or effective un
less sanctioned by the United States,
and that this government must be satis
fied that no part of the American con
tinent has been ceded to a foreign pow
er by such arbitration or agreement.
This portion of the resolution caused
much apprehension among some mem
bers of the committee, as it is claimed
it may lead to many entanglements.
On the other hand the supporters of
the resolution say it leaves everything
in the hands of the United States,
where the final decision should be, and
that the United States will interfere
only when the Monroe doctrine is
violated. -
The resolution i3 drawn with a view
of covering every contingency which
may arise in boundary disputes, or . the
acquisition, or the sale of territory by
one foreign government to another on
th Amrican continents or islands which
are considered a part of the Western
hemisphere.
TO SUCCEED CAMPOS.
Another Captain-General of the Spanish
Forces In Cuba.
Madrid, Jan. 20. The cabinet has
unanimously decided to supersede Captain-General
Martinez de Campos and
his lieutenant, General Ardereus, ow
ing to differences which exist between
them and the political parties in Cuba.
General Marin and General Pando,
who are in command of the Spanish
troops in the province of Santiago de
Cuba, will replace General Campos
and General Ardereus, temporarily.
The names of General Polaviaja and
General Weyler are both mentioned for
the post of commander-in-chief of
Cuba. When the Spanish government
was organizing its forces to oppose the
Cuban insurrection last year, General
Polaviaja was slated by publio rumor
for the position of captain-general of
the Spanish forces in Cuba, to succeed
General Callea, it being doubtful at
that time whether Campos would be
willing to undertake the task. But
his success as a pacificator in the
former insurrection led to the selection
of Campos and a reliance upon a more
conciliatory policy which he avowed
himself to pursue toward the Cubans
with . the hope of winning them to
peace.
Bradstreet's Report.
New York, Jan. 20. Bradstreet's
weekly report says: While genera'
trade has not shown a widdespread ten
dency to revive from the holiday de
pression, there are favorable features
in a revival in iron and steel prices
and continued heavy cereal exports.
Reports from jobbers in staple lines are
slow. Travelers are on the road, but
returns are irregular in only a few in
stances, indicating the usual volume
of orders for spring delivery. Rela
tively the greatest improvment is shown
in the request for dry goods, clothing,
hats and shoes. Prints and ginghams
are only fairly active with the mills
at work inspite of the reduced de
mand." The New Bond Issue.
New York, Jan. 20. President St
John, of the Mercantile National bank
of New York, has issued a circular let
ter to customers announcing that the
Mercantile National intends to bid for
$1,000,000 of the bonds, and offers to
receive and tender the bids of cus
tomers for $4,000,000 additional, on
which the bank will furnish gold "in
exchange for lawful money, for the
first 20 per cent, and will procure the
remainder at actual cost by im porta
tion or otherwise, but not from the
United States treasury, the bank to
charge its enstomrs one-fourth of 1 per
cent for the service. .''.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Record of the Doings of the
Nation's lawmakers Senate.
Washington, Jan. 16; The matter
of pensions oonsumed most of the sen
ate's time today. The bond silver bill
was further considered, but without
appreciable approach to a conclusion
of the debate. Butler spoke for two
hours in opposition to bond issues and
in favor of silver - legislation. Mills
offered a resolution declaratory of the
policy of the government against issu
ing bonds, favoring the speedy extinc
tion of the national debt and for the
coinage of the silver bullion in the
tresury.
Senator Lodge today introduced an
amendment to the fortifications appro
priation bill authorizing a popular 3
per cent loan of $100,000,000, the pro
ceeds to be used in providing for the
defense of the coast, for the manufac
ture of guns and the erection of forts
and batteries. Senator Nelson introduced
a bill today placing interstate rail
roads, which have been chartered by
act of congress, under the jurisdiction
of the states they enter, so far as con
cerns the control of the tolls and fares
charged, regardless of charter provi
sions to the contrary.
Washington, Jan. 17. Mills' speech
on finance, with frequent direct criti
cisms of the president and the secre
tary of the treasury, was the main fea
ture of today's session of the senate.
Wilson has introduced a bill in the
senate allowing mineral prospectors
and claims on Colville reservation the
same as on other public lands. Chief
Engineer Craighill, in a letter to
Squire, estimates the cost for Puget
sound defenses at $2,822,000, not in
cluding torpedo sites.' '
Washington, Jan. 18. There was
no session of the senate today.
- House.
Washington, Jan. 16. The house
spent today in further discussion of the
pension appropriation bill. . All fav
ored a liberal administration of the
pension laws and the adoption of the
changes of the existing laws proposed
by the bill. Shafroth of Colorado in
troduced a Pacifio railroad bill. It
contemplates a foreclosure sale of the
Union and Central Pacifio properties,
and, in the event that the titles were
vested in the government, there shall
be organized a government railroad
company. The company is to be man
aged by a board of directors appointed
by the president. As soon as organ
ized the proptery vested in the United
States by foreclosure sale is to be con
veyed to it The commpany is then
to deliver to the United States fifty
year 3-per cent bonds to the amount of
the total indebtedness to the govern
ment, secured, by a mortgage on all
property subject only to the bonds se
cured by first mortgage u,pon the
property in the event the United States
has not purchased or paid the same.
The stock of the new company is to be
sold at publio auction, and the amount
realized applied to the indebtendess of
the government and when the latter
is fully paid, the stockholders are to
organize a new corporatoin. The gov
ernment railroad company is to convey
the railroad and properties to it upon
the surrender and cancellation of the
stock of the old company.
Washington, Jan. 17. In the house
today the speaker announced tha ap
pointment of Allen of Utah to the
committee on publio lands, in place of
Curtis of Kansas, resigned. "A free
home bill," making actual residence
on railroad land grants unnecessary
where the lands have been fenced and
improved, was passed. Grow opposed
the idea of communications being sent
to the house by the president and cabi
net officers for the purpose of creating
legislation, and referred to the letter
sent by the president to Mr. Catohings
adding: "This house should resent
any attempt by the president or his
clerks to dictate legislation to the
house." The rest of the day was con
sumed in discussion of the pension ap
propriation bill.
Washington, Jan. 18. The house to
day passed the pension appropriation
bill, to the consideration of which it
has devoted the entire week, and ad
journed. The clause in the bill chang
ing the existing laws so as to allow
widows to obtain pensions under the
aot of 1890, whose net income did not
exceed $500 per annum, was stricken
out The provisions under the act of
1890, rejeoting, suspending or dismiss
ing applications were allowed to date
from their first application. It was
announced - thai bills covering the
jjjendments ruled out would be re-s-t"d
from the invalid pension com-
fee. The pension bill as passed
JJKa - f 141, 325,820, about $50,000
less than the estimate, xne Din was
passed fifty days ahead of any previous
pension appropriation bill.
Weyler Has Accepted.
Madrid Jan. 20. General Valeriano
Weyler has accepted the appointment
to governorship of Cuba, lie win sail
for the- island Friday next General
Suarez.Valdez has been appointed sec
ond in command.
JL dispatch from Havana reports an
interview with General Marin, gov
ernor pro tern of Cuba, in which he
said that the situation there was not
dangerous, since the insurgents were
always defeated in every engagement
in which the; took part He intended,
he said, to organize a fresh plan of
campaign in Cuba.
To Protect the Government.
Washington, Jan. 20.-r-The preident
today sent to congress a communication
inviting attention to the necessity for
prompt legislation in order to remove
the limitation oi tne time wimm
which suits may be brought by the
government to annul unlawful or n
authorized grants of public lands.
Despite the order of the court,
colored children were denied admission
to the public schools in Perry, O. T.
PROFITABLE POULTRY
Should Be in Good Condition
When Marketed.
HOW TO CARE FOR CHICKENS
Pains Must Be Taken in Shipping How
to Get Early Broilers Agricul
tural Suggestions.
With the advent of cold weather
enormous masses of poultry in all
stages of unfitness have been rushed to
market This is no new thine. It
occurs regularly every year, and the
farmers complain that there is no
money in poultry. No doubt they are
right There is none, any more than
there is in poor, wormv fruit or bad
butter, says a writer in the New York
World.
While this state of the market affect
ed the prices obtained for all grades of
poultry, of course it was the inferior
stock that suffered chiefly. The loss
might have been avoided hv nrnner
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care in fattening and the culling out
and marketing of the stock onlv an it
became fit This would have extended '
the shipments over a mnch greater
period and prevented the glut and con
sequent drop which actually occurred.
Many farmers say it does not pay
to keep fowls after cold weather sets in
and that they have not sufficient ac
commodation for them. Both of -these
are very poor reasons. If it pays to
raise poultry at all, it pays to keep it
until in a fit condition to bring money
and credit when marketed. The
amount necessary to fatten is but a
trifle compared to that oonsumed dur
ing the whole of the fowl' a -nravinua
existence, and it is upon that trifle that
tne question of profit or loss depends.
All previous oare will count for
nothing if the birds are denied the
requisite finishing.
If your poultry accommodations are
too limited, enlarge them; but keep the
fowls until they are fit Don't market
them a day before. Happy-go-lucky
methods may have answered in days
when prices were high and competition .
light, but they won't do now. The
struggle is too keen. City people know
good article when they see it They
are quite as quick as any farmer at dis
criminating, and they pay accordingly.
Those poultry raisers who recognize
this are the ones who make money.
Shipping Poultry.
Considerable stock is lost by ship
ping in worn-out coops, which come
apart in transit if roughly handled, as
sometimes happens. Every coop
should be carefully examined, and all
bottoms and cleats securely nailed.
The coops should be strong but light;
heavy wood is unnecessary if long nails
are used. They should not be so large
as to render handling difficult.
The coops should be high enough to
allow the poultry to stand easily up
right, and should not be overcro-wfiad..
The close packing and toolow coops
are cruel and cause loss by suffocation.
Hens and roosters should be shipped
separately whenever possible.
How to Get Early Broilers.
If you want your hens to lay in the
fall and early winter when eggs are
worth 25 cents, never keep a hen after
she is three years old, and turn out
your pullets early in the spring, says
the North Yakima Farmer. The way
to get early pullets is to hatch the eggs
in an incubator and have several little
brooder houses, the kind that H. A-'
March has on Fidalgo island. - Erect
them of boards an inch thick, one foot
wide and seven feet high, and taok
black asphaltum paper all over the in
side. The size should be ten feet
square. Lay a floor of rough boards.
In the center of it have the "mother."
Under this mother the chickens will
huddle. Have a thermometer hang
ing under the raised platform and keep
the temperature at ninety by turning
the screw of the lamp up or down. At
the back of the brooder house make a
little slot drop gate, and when the '
spring days are bright and warm
enough, raise this and let the ohioks
run out on a little grass plat fenoed
with laths. . This yard should be wide
as the house, ten feet, and about twen
ty feet long. With such an arrange
ment brother March has thousands of
chicks growing before any one else
sets a hen. He gets his broilers (cock
erels) on the Seattle market in April
when they are worth 75 cents apiece.
And in November and December he has
thousands of dozens of eggs in barrels
kept fresh by a preparation of lime.
Our Agricultural Suggestions.
Good land will not produce a good
crop without good cultivation.
Paper cans are now being introduced
in place ot tin cans, lor preserving
fruit If there is a stagnant pool of water
near the house or on the farm where
the stock can get at it, drain it some
how.
" We are asked if ground cob is valn-
able? Corn ground on the cob, with
say half its bulk of oats, mixed with
out hay makes a good ration for cows
or horses. ..
Take extra care of improved stock,
is advice often given. Take extra care
of any kind of stock. In fact the
poorer the stock the better the care it
needs to insure any return whatever.
Some people gather the potato vines
with a revolving rake before digging.
It looks like a good plan for it removes
the vines out of 'the way and they are
bunched ready to cart to the barnyard.'
Constructing little ventilators with
holes in them, in the potato bins, has
been tried with great satisfaction, it is
claimed. The moisture from the pota
toes passes off through these venti
latora. v