VOL. XXXII
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1896
NO. 49.
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TRANSPORTATION.
East and South
' ' ' . -VIA-
- The Shasta Route
-OF THE
Southern Pacific R'y Co.
. EXPRESS TRAINS BUN DAILY.
18-50 P M Leave Portland Arrive 8:10 A H
2:10 p H I lave Albany Arrive) 4:60 am
10:46 a M I Arrive 8. Francisco Leave 6:00 r m
Above trains atop at Eat Portland, Oregon
City, Woodburn, Balem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer
tou, Albany, Alnany Jnnction, Taugut,Snedds,
Halsey, Harrisburg. Junction City, Irving, Ku
gene, Creswefl, Drains, and all station from
Koeeburx to AsuJand, inclusive.
RO8EB0RG MAIL DAILY.
8 :3i a H 1 1-cave Fortianu Air vo, 4.4url
12:45 e u I Leave Albiuy Arrival 1:1 r M
6:20 p M Arrive Rosjbnrg Leave I 6:00 A M
Pallraan Biffet sleepers and second-class
sleepiug cars attached to all through trains.
- 6ALEM PASSENGER .DAILY.
4:00 pm Laave Portland Arrive 1 1J:15 A M
6:16 PM Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A M
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DIVISION.
Between Portland and Corvallis
daily (except Sunday).
Hail train
7-S0 a m Leave
12:1 p M Arrive
Punlaud
Corvallis
Arrive 6:0 p u
Leave 1:36 PM
At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains
oi ine Oregon central s nastern Ky.
EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday).
' 4?45 p M I Leave Portland Arrive 8 25 A M
7:25 P M Arrive McMlnnville Leave 6:50 a m
Through tickets to all DOinta in tbe Eastern
state, Canada and Enrope can be obtained at
lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis.
R. KOEIILER, Manager.
. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or.
E. McNEIL, Receiver.
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Connecting at Yaquina Bay with the
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Yiquina for San Franclsso about every eight
tthor'rqst route between the Willamette valley
ana uauiornia. ..---,-'
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For ailing days apply to
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' Corvallis. Ornon.
" EDWIN STONE, Manager, Corvallis, Oregon.
CHA8. CLARK, Kup't, Corvallis, Oregon
BENTON COUNTY
ABSTRACT : COMPANY
Complete Set of Abstracts
of Benton County.
Conveyancingand Perfecting
Titles a Specialty.
Money to Loan on Improved City and
Ciouniry i-roperty.
V. E. WAITERS, Prop.
Office at Courthonse, Corvallis, Or,
7f) 4
JJolllo iilo
DR. WILSON
Office over First National bank.
Residence, two bloaks west of courthouse.
Office hours. 8 to 10 A. m.. 1 to 8 p. M.
Sundays and evenings by appointment.
DR. L. G. ALTMAN
HOMOEOPATHIST
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 t
P.M.
At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after
hours ana on Sundays.
G. R. FARRA, M. D.
Office in Farra & Allen' brick, on the corner
oi secona ana A asms.
Residence on Third street in front of court
house. Office hours 8 to 9 a. m., and 1 to 2 and 7 to I
p. m. AU ca Is attended promptly.
BOWEN LESTER
DENTIST
Office upstairs over First National Bank.
Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed
Corvallis, Oregon
F. M. JOHNSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Corvallis, Oregon
Does a general practice In all the courta.
Also asrent for all the first-lass insurance com.
pauies.
NOTARY PCBIJC.
JUSTICE PKACK.
E. E. WILSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postofflce.
Joseph H. Wilson.
THOMAS B. WlLSOH
WILSON & WILSON
ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW
Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or
Will practice in all the state and federal courta
Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Con
veyancing. .
E. HOIX3ATE.
H. L. HOLGATE.
Jastlce of tbe Peace.
Notary Public.
HOLCATE & SON
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Corvallis - - - - . - Oregon
J. R. Brtson W. E. Yates J. Fbsd Yatss
Bryson, Yates & Yates
LAWYERS
CORVALLIS OREGON
Indiana' Sight to Vote.
Washington, Feb. 18 Representa
tive Hermann wrote to tbe commis
sioner , of Indian affairs, asking
whether the construction of the allot
ment law, in case of allotment in sev
eralty to male Indians, over 21 years
of age, allowed such Indians to vote.
The commissioner says that the law
declares every Indian born within the
territories of the United States, to
whom an allotment shall be made, or
any Indian who has voluntarily taken
up his residenoe separate and apart
from any tribe of Indians, and has
adopted the habits of civilized life, to
be a citizen of the United States and
entitled to all the rights, privileges
and immunities of such citizens. He
adds that the right of suffrage within
the state of Oregon is regulated by the
laws of that state, bnt it is presumed
that every male citizen of the - United
States, 21 years of age and over, pos
sessing the necessary qualifications as
to residence, etc. , is entitled to vote
under the laws of the state.
The inquiry was made with special
reference to the Siletz Indians, as tbe
question of their right to vote had
arisen in Oregon, and Mi. Hermann is
deeply interested s to their status.
Destruction of Elk In Wyoming. -,
Lander, Wye, Feb. 17. Men said
to be agents of ex-Secretary Whitney
and several other rich men of New
York are in the southwestern part of
this county, near New Fork, capturing
elk. The method employed is to run
down the calves less than a year old.
So far they have not suooeeded in get
ting 10 per cent of these calves to the
ranch alive. They often drop dead
while being pursued. Cow elk make
the run with the calves, and very often
die while being pursued. The deatruc
tion of elk now going on is said to be
very large. Prosecuting Attorney
Videl will at once take the matter in
band.
A Colorado Cattle Quarantine,
Denver, Feb. 17. Governor Mcln-
tvre today issued a proclamation for
bidding tbe importation of cattle and
horses into Colorado from California,
Texas, Oklahoma and all states and
territories south of the 86th parallel of
north latitude, except upon certification
of inspection issued by .the native
veterinary board certifying that the
animals are free from Texas or splen
etio fever. : .. - . -
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events ot the Day in a
densed Form.
Con-
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of tbe Dispatches.
Three were killed and two injured
in a train-wreck near Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. Nancy Welch, an Oregon pio
neer and the first white woman to set
tle in Astoria, died suddenly of heart
failure in Astoria.
. By the use of Roentgent's new dis
covery, the "X" rays, a buckshot was
located in a man's hand, where it had
been for two years.
Grant Atterbury, a murderer, was
taken from the jail at Sullivan, III.,
dragged to the courthouse in his night
shirt by a mob, and hanged to a tree.
' The schooner Aida, twenty-six days
from Shanghai to Port Townsend, has
made the best passage across the Pa
cific ocean on record for a sailing ves
sel. Bartholomew Shea was electrocuted
in Dannemora prison, New York, for
the murder of Robert Ross, at Troy, in
March, 1894. He died protesting his
innocence.
- There is believed to be a Jack the
Ripper abroad in San Francisco. "' The
police say the murders recently com
mitted there are similar to those of the
London terror.
The city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was
visited by a terrible fire. The Peru
vian oonsulate and several blocks were
destroyed. ' The loss will aggregate
over 14,000,000.
As a result of a prizefight in Phila
delphia, Frederick Schleonter, one of
the prinicpals, died and ex-Policeman
Pluckfelder, the other principal, is in
jail charged with murder.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department, under the direction of As
sistant Secretary - Curtis, shows that
the government will realize from the
new loan $111,378,836.97.
Governor : Lord received from the
United States land office a certified
transcript of a clear list of school in
demnity selections in The Dalles dis
trict, embracing 5,522 acres.
Minister Buchanan of -'Argentine
cables in reply to an inquiry about the
wheat condition that it is unfavorable
owing to excessive rains, and estimates
the exportable surplus at 30,000,000
bushels. '
Justice Morris, of .Washington, D.
C, in announcing a decision of tbe
court of appeals for the District of Co
lumbia, ruled that, while intoxication
may be a disease, yet if it is voluntary
and leads to commission of crime, it is
a crime in itself.
Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator.
will make her debut into the minis
terial profession, and henceforth her
literary prefix will be reverened in
stead of ooloneL Her recent sickness
was the immediate cause of her mind
taking a divine turn.
It is announced on authority that fol
lowing the advice of the United States,
Venezuela has practically deeded to
send a representative to London with
power to open negotiations with the
government of Great Britain for the
settlement of the boundary dispute.
An aerolite exploded above Madrid.
The loud report was followed by a
general panic All buildings were
shaken, and many windows were shat
tered. According to the officials of the
Madrid observatory, the explosion oo
cured twenty miles above the earth. '
While proceeding from Yokohama to
Kobe, the United States flagship Olym-
pia struck a gale, to escape which all
steam was crowded on and a speed of
twenty-one knots developed. The
storm broke her forward deck stanch
ions and carried away her bridge rails.
The London Chronicle claims- the
credit for the conversion of England to
arbitration, and says: ' The speeches
in parliament ' show that we have
reached the point where a . solution is
a certainty. . The Schomburgk line is
as defunct as the boundaries of W ea
se t."
Barney Beck, a printer, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. E. B. Catlin in
Anaconda, Mont. He was pursued by
an angry mob, but killed himself be
fore they could capture bun. infatua
tion for the woman, and her refusal to
aosept his attentions is given as the
cause.
Rev. J. H. Hunycutt, a Baptist min
ister, has been arrested atMomlltown,
Ark., charged with infanticide. His
housekeeper's 1 -year-old baby cried
while he was preparing a sermon, and
the preacher became enraged at the
annoyance and choked the child to
death.
Martin Cleary, a custom-house in'
spec tor, was arrested in San Francisco,
charged with accepting bribes from a
Chinese opium manufacturer and from
Chinese emigrants, who desired to
land but did not possess the necessary
certificates authorizing them to - enter
the United States.
. Delegate Catron, of New Mexico, the
author of the anti-prizefight bill, is
greatly displeased at the impression
which has been formed that be was
acting under the advice of Governor
Thornton, of New Mexico, in his ef
forts to prevent prizefighting in tbe
territory. Catron made a satement to
the press accusing the governor of
"standing in" with Stuart, in his de
sire to pull off the fights.
Cfessius R. Carter, a retired sergeant
of the United States army, was found
dead in his room in the Palmer house,
Chicago.' Death was caused by as
phyxiation. Carter .had the distino
tion of having served twenty -three
years with the Seventh cavalry, Gen
eral Custer's old regiment : He par
ticipated in a dozen engagements with
hostile Indians and earned a record as
a brave soldier on the frontier. . ..
Dr. Cyrus Edson, of . New York,
claims to have discovered a remedy for
tuberculosis. ; He terms it .aseptolin.
It is principally water and carbolic
acid, and is used hypodermically.
About fifty physicians in the country
have piooured aseptolin from Dr. Ed
son's laboratory and are using it in
their practice. It has cured every case
of malaria and la grippe in . which it
has been tried, seventy-seven in all of
malaria and fifty-one of la grippe.
Tbe Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
of Philadelphia has been awarded the
contract for building revenue cutter
No. 3, for the Pacific coast Tbe new
cutter is to be 160 feet long.
While the American steamer Paris,
from New York, was dooikng in South
ampton, she came into collision with
the steamer Majesty, belonging to the
Isle of Wight. The Majesty was sunk,
but all her crew were saved. .
Meager details have been received in
San Francisco of a disastrous hurricane
on the Tonga islands, in the South
seas. The barks Woosung and West
Australia and the Samoan schooner
Aele were wrecked, but no lives were
lost
Li Hung Chang and Shas Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates to rep
resent the emperor of China . at the
coronation of Emperor Nicholas II, of
Russia, at Moscow. Negotiations are
still in progress looking to the conclu
sion of a commercial treaty between
China and Japan. -
Through Senor Andrade, its min
ister in Washington, the government
of Venezuela has notified Secretary
Olney that it will respond affirmatively
to the invitation of the Venezuela com
mission to submit all the evidence in
its possession touching the location of
the true boundary line.
Magnus C. Crosby died in Astoria.
The deceased was one of Astoria's lead
ing business men, and was twice elect
ed mayor of tbe city. He left a widow
and five children. - The cause of his
death was a complication of Bright's
disease, from which he bad been suf
fering for several years.
Count Zeppelin, of Germany, has de
livered a lectnre at Stuttgart in the
presence of the king of Wnrtemburg
and the military authorities, on a steer
ing airship, which, it is said, will cost
about $75,000 and travels eleven miles
an hour. It is claimed such an airship
can remain in the air 1 days.
The Brisbane river in Queensland
has been greatly swollen by floods." A
small steamer crossing the river with
about ninety passengers capsized, and
only forty were saved. The capsized
steamer was the ferryboat Peral. The
current was very swift and the river
banks and Victoria bridge were endan
gered. Advices just received from Seoul,
the capital of Corea, say an uprising
took place there February 11, during
which the premier and seven officials
were murdered. These dispatches add
that the king and crown prince sought
shelter in the Russian legation. The
king ordered the ministers put ' to
death. Two hundred Russian sailiors
and mariners are now guarding the
legation in that country.
For the first time in half a century
the American falls of Niagara practi
cally ran dry, by Tihe formation of an
ice bridge or dam, extending from
Schlosser's dock, on the American
bank, about half way across the river.
The water was almost entirely diverted
to the Canadian falls. It was possible
for a time for a man with- a plank to
have walked from the mainland to
Goat island without wetting his feet
During the debate on the address in
reply to the queen's speech in the house
of commons, Sir William Vernon Har
court, supporting the amendment for
not proposing self-government for Ire
land, pointed out that the colonies,
from which there was evidently a
splendid testimony of loyalty to - the
crown, enjoyed home rule, and he
maintained that the policy of home
rule could be as successful in Ireland
as in the colonies. "
A great fire raged in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, resulting in the death oi
thirty persons. When the firemen and
soldiers, who were hurriedly ordered
out to heln them finally brought it
under control, thousands of panic
stricken persons were wandering home
less in the streets, many lay dead in
the morgue, and property worth nearly
$2,000,000 had been destroyed, includ
ing the noble cathedral and the con
vent which ad joined it
D. Willis James, of New York, has
offered ,.$25,000 toward paying the
debt of the American board of foreign
Tnianinnn. The sn.it is to be made on
condition that $90,000 additional be
subscribed before March 1. The board
members are making a determined
effort to oarry out the conditions oi the
offer. The $90,000 has been appor
tioned as follows: Boston, $35,000;
New York, $30,000; Chicago, $25,000.
Milton Evans, chairman of the
farmers' committee, of Walla Walla,
has received a letter from Washington,
through Senator Squire, from W. R.
Morrison, of the interstate commerce
commission, iu whioh Morrison says
the commission had considered the
complaint made by Evans against the
Oresron Railway & Navigation Com
pany, alleging that excessive freight
rates were charged on- wheat, and that
the commission had decided to make a
slight reduotion from Walla Walla to
Portland: and that an order to that
Afifant will be issued as soon as it can
be prepared and printed. . ; .
FRENZIED WITH FRIGHT
Match Carelessy Thown Into
a Pile of Oily Waste.
LOSS OP LIFE 'AND PROPERTY
Three Hundred Girls Fought for Life as
the Hot Flames Chased Them
With Hungry Tongues.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 18 A small boy.
carelessly throwing a match' into a pile
oi ouy waste, a mass of flames and 300
girls and women frenzied with fright
fighting for life as the hot flames
chased them with hungry tongues, was
the beginning of j a fire tonight which
consumed thousands of dollars' worth
of property and caused the destruction
of many lives. From the outside of
tbe high building the sight of a body of
girls as they rushed' out on the fire
escapes from the windows, those who
were more fortunate crowding out at
the entrance. Following them'was a
mass of smoke, with flashes of hot
flame in luird streaks. Then the mass
of frenzied humanity, finding the
egresses too small for instant escape,
began climbing over the sides of the
escapes and bundles of olothing filled
with writhing humanity dropped at
the feet of the horrified passers by.
Within twenty minutes after tbe fire
started there were three dead women
laid upon the floor of an : adjoining
store, and at least a dozen burned and
maimed girls and women taken to hos
pitals or to their home?. , '
Of the 350 girls and women in the
building, it is presumed that at least
half a dozen are in the ruins, for it is
impossible to locate all, and there may
possibly be a score of dead.
It was just thirty minutes before the
closing hour in Stettheimer & Co.'s
shirt-waist factory on River street, and
the 350 girls and women were working
rapidly to finish - up. . In the cutting
room, on tbe fifth floor, the 150 girls
were closing up their day's work and
preparing to leave when the whistle
blew. Lillie Kreiger, who was work
ing near a machine, called to a small
boy to light the gas over her work.
The boy struck a match and threw the
burning stub to the floor. It struck a
pile of oily waste and in an instant
the girl was enveloped in flames.
With her clothes and hair burning, she
rushed to the window, and at once the
loom became a struggling, shrieking
mass of humanity, filling the windows,
the fire-escapes and the only stairway.
Jamming and pushing tearing and
pulling each other's clothes from their
backs, turning in narrow corridors to
find a sister or mother, or friend, the
number in the exits augmented every
minute by those from the lower floors,
these girls and women fought for their
lives to get away from the flames which
seeemd to be growing to a monstrous
size.
With rare presence of mind, Police
man arrell, who was on the street,
seeing that in the panic a number were
liable to jump, let down the awning
over the entrance. Barely was it
down when two or three forms came
flying down from the fifth and sixth
stories, and, bouncing from the awn
ing, fell to the sidewalk.
Lillie Kreiger, over whose machine
the fire started, was one of these. She
struck the awning, fell on her back
and bounced to her hands and knees
on the walk. She got up and stag
gered about until people helped her to
her feet again. By this time nearly
every window had a female form
dangling from it, and when the fire
men arrived there was a hustle to get
ladders up. -
The firemen and police worked like
heroes, and to their enegy was due a
geat saving of life. At least a dozen
of the women and girls were carried -down
the ladders or dragged out of
the corridors, the officers and firemen
going into the midst of the smoke.
Captain WiUiard, of the police force,
gays he saw a number of girls at win
dows who never came out, but fell
back into the flames.
Lottie and Nellie HulL sisters,
grasped each other tightly by the
hands and started down the stairs
from the sixth story. At the landing
of the fifth floor they encountered a
wall of flame and smoke. Nellie had
on only her corset and skirts, having
been making her toilet Lottie
only partially dressed. ' She threw her
dress over Nellie's face, and together
they went through the flames. Lot
tie's hair was burned completely off,
and when she reached the sidewalk
Nellie was burned only about her bare
arms. They were taken home.
The loss by fire is from $350,000 to
$400,000, with about $100,000 insur
ance. . -
' Newfoundland-French Shore.
Montreal, Feb. 18. The report
comes from St John's, N. F., and is
said to be based on semi-official infor
mation that negotiations are. progress
ing between England and France,
which will for all time settle the New
foundland-French shore question. The
basis of tbe settlement is said to be the
ceding to Franeo of Englands' interests
in the state of Tunis, Africa, in ex
change for the Frenoh claim in New
foundland.
Galveston's Kxports of Corn.
St Louis, Feb. 17. A special from
Galveston says: Edwin Webster, chief
grain inspector, reports that from Oc
tober 12 to January 29 there were ex
ported from this port to foreign points
2,618,69 bushels of corn. So far dur
ing the present month there has been
exported about 800,000 bushels, mak
ing the total grain exports thus far this
season nearly 8,000,000 bushels, with
fully 1,000,000 bushels on hand await
ing tonnage.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Record of the Doings of the
Nation's Lawmakers Senate.-
Washington, Feb. . 14. There was
an unusually full attendance on the
Republican side of the senate chamber
today, as Morrill, chairman of the
finance committee, had given notice of
a motion to take up the tariff bill.
The deficiency appropriation bill held
its place as unfinished business, and
there was no disposition to displace it
Vest secured the adoption of a resolu
tion calling on the secretary of agricul
ture to report what recent changes have
been made - in the quarantine line
against cattle coming north from Tex
as. Peffer came forward with a
lengthy , resolution proposing a senate
investigation of ' the circumstances of
all the recent bond issues. The resolu
tion proposes a special committee of
five senators and gives comprehensive
directions as to the scope of the in
quiry, the dealings with the syndicates,
the effect of such dealings and explicit
information as to the purchasers of the
bonds, the rate, and all attendant cir
cumstances. The resolution went over.
Washington, Feb. 15. Tbe friends
of the tariff bill met an unexpected
repulse this afternoon, when, by the
vote of 2 1 ayes nd 29 noes, the senate
defeated the motion of Morrill to take
up the tariff bilL The negative vote,
which defeated the motion, was given
by Democrats, Populists and four Re
publican, senators Teller, Mantle, Du
bois and Carter. The affirmative vote
was entirely Republican, but its total
of 21 is less than half of the aggregate
Republican strength. The senate' has
passed tbe bill 'authorizing tbe leasing
of lands in Arizona for educatonal pur
poses; also, the bill authorizing the
First National bank of Sprague, Wash.,
to change its name and location; also,
tbe bill authorizing repairs for the
public wharf at Sitka, Alaska.
Washington, Feb. 18. The senate
committee on foreign relations held a
meeting today and practically decided
to faovrably report Pettigrew's bill for
tbe amendment of the law regulating
the seal fisheries. The main feature
of the bill is a provision permitting the
president to have . a 1 the seals, male
and female, on the Pribyloff islands,
killed, in case other governments in
terested will not agree upon a modus
Vivendi for the better protection of the
seals, while the matter of permanent
protection is under consideration by an
international commission, . for which
the bill makes provision. The com
mittee had also under consideration the
proposition for a cable to Hawaii. The
subcommittee which had this under
consideration made a favorable report
without recommending either of the
propositions before the committee.
House.
Washington, Feb. 14. At 12 o'clock
the regular order of the house began.
Cannon presented a senate joint resolu
tion appropriating $75,000 for tbe pur
pose of making a joint survey together
with Great Britain of the boundary
line between Alaska and British ter
ritory. The resolution was adopted.
The house then resumed consideration
of the bond silver bilk Dolliver taking
the floor in opposition to the free-coinage
proposition. He reviewed the
story of the subject from the fourteenth
centruy, and said tbe demonetization
of silver in 1873 had "not struck it
down," for during a previous period of
seventy years there had been no silver
circulation. MoMillin followed. He
said there was an insufficient currency,
and that we should not wait for the co
operation of any foreign country be
fore taking steps to improve our
financial affairs. He was not for
monometalism or anything of the sort;
he desired the use of both metals. Bro
sius opposed free coinage, and Bailey
sought to prove that gold had appre
ciated within the last twenty years,
saying that if this were ture the oppo
nents of silver would have nothing to
stand on. ..
Washington, Feb. 15. After a ten
days' debate the house today, by a vote ,
of 80 to 190, in committee of the (
substitute to the bond bill, and re
ported back to the house, with a. recom
mendation to nonconcur and insist
upon the house bill. The most signifi
cant statement came in form of an
ultimatum -from Dingley that a bill
mfght be reported from the ways and
means committee looking to the initia-
titfa by this country of a project of an-
ir international monetary confer
ence to meet within a year. While
Dingley said be was expressing his per
sonal position in the matter, it was
generally understood from the manner
in which he said it that the suggestion
had already matured into a well-de
fined intention on the part of the Re
publican leaders of the house.
Washington, Feb. 18. The attack
on Secretary Morton for his refusal to
expend the. appropriation for seeds in
the present agricultural appropriation
bill was transferred from the senate to
the house today, and furnished the
feature of the proceedings in the lower
house. It was led by Baker and was
supported by Moses and Livingston,
Boatner and Meredith. Some very
harsh things were said aud applauded,
especially by Boatner. who . referred to
Mr. Morton contemptuously as "that
individual." and not a voioe was
raised in his defense. The general de
bate on tbe agricultural bill during its
consideration, when the attack was
made, was closed before adjournment.
Several bills of minor importance were
passed and a resolution was adopted
directing the judiciary- committee to
inquire into the right of an executive
officer to refuse to execute a law on tbe
ground of its unconstitutionality, and
to report by bill or otherwise. This
investigation grows out of Controller
Bowler's decision in the sugar-bounty
cases. '
Firmly closed lips, indicate deter-
minatoa.
THE FIELD AND FARM
Practical Pointers on Proper
Care of Farm.
WE MUST - SUIT THE MARKET
So Says-One of Consuls A broad Pre
. ventlve of Disease Feeding;
Potatoes to Cows.
One of our consuls writes that it is
absurd that American butter should '
go to England in very small quantities
and at very moderate prices, while
Denmark is sending England enormous
quauntites that bring high prices, and
its only serious competitor is Australia,
whose butter has to traverse the tropics
and make the passage on the Red Sea.
But the people of Denmark have taken
pains to find out what can be sold in
England and other foreign markets,
and they have applied themselves with
great energy and high intelligence to
the task of producing those things.
This has not been the work of the gov
ernment or of -the commercial classes
more than it has been the work of the
peasantry themselves who have shown
an enterprise and a business capacity .
that put the American "farmer to
shame.
. ' Preventive of Disease..
Exercise on high ground may miti
gate the hog-cholera trouble, by in
creasinsr the extent nf exhalfltinn. an
relieving the blood in some degree of
the accumulated poisons. Regular
daily exercise in good sized pastures,
or in open grounds, togetner witn a
greater variety and more albuminous
quality, of feed, preventive treatment
that can exempt swine from the inva
sion of bacteria. Keep the blood of
the hogs sound by a healthy supply of
oxygen from regular exercise and full
breathing, and bacteria or cholera,
will not affect the hogs nor vex their
owners. And the only sure preventive
oi lung levers in cows, or other cattle,
is regular, moderate exercise in whole
some air, thus cooling the circulation,
while supplying a healthy proportion
of oxygenated blood, that will not irri-
1 i.il. - 1 : i.. e
blood certainly forms sound tissue, in
renewing general growth, or in en
larging size in growing cattle or swine.
Feeding; Potatoes.
During a recent tour through the
dairy sections of York state, in attend
ance at the dairy meetings, the matter
of feeding potatoes to milch cows came
up at about all the meetings, in the in
diect wav of "Whv does not mv milk
cream better," "Why does not the but
ter come, and what makes it salvy,
and often grainless," and in one in
stance the creamery had been served
notice by their New York house . that
unless there was less feeding of a cer
tain food, not to send any more butter.
In every case the trouble was traced to
feeding potatc jb to the cow in exces
sive amounts, often as high as a bushel
A Anr Av nAn. TV " Irnn nn if L
tatoes, and their slow sale, made it a
tempting matter to feed them to the
cows as a large part of the ration, and
the large per cent of tbe raw and im
perfectly digested starch had a damag
ing effect upon tbe milk, the milk be-
ing very vicious, hence difficult for the
cream to rise, and the butter globules
being unable to free themselves from
the milk, either in creaming or churn
ing, carries into the butter the milk
element in too great proportion, and
gives the mass a salvy texture. This
is also increased from the faot that the
milk fats are of a softer texture when
potatoes are fed, and this only adds to
the difficulty. Where only a small
amount of potatoes are fed, four to six
quarts mixed with the food, there was
little or no injury done, as the succu
lence of the potato, then in . small .
amount, was a sort of digest ant to the
dry food.- Where potatoes were
cooked, a much larger amount of them
could be fed, as the cooked starch was
not in its effects the same as tbe raw
material. From all that could be
gathered, it seemed that with meal at
$20 per ton, potatoes might have a
feeding value not to exceed $3.25 a
ton.
Miscellaneous Notes.
The breakfast food made at theTa
ooma mill out of wheat is growing in
popularity and is taking the place of
oat meal.
According to official statistics tbe
importations of lemons into the United
States during the past ten years
amount to $38,500,680.
One hardly knows what he will
plant next year, prices are so univer
sally depressed. But fruit and vege
table growing, under favorable condi
tions, will likely be favored.
In England and Scotland the farmers
raise large sheep, whole flocks averag
ing over 300 pounds each, alive, and
when a wether is killed for family use,
that which is not desired immediately
is corned the same ' as beef. Small
. . . g-t i Y1 i. I
Dreeus are not raisea in urtiat onmm,
and the farmers pay no attention to
wool compared with mutton.
In the February bulletin of the well
known Thayer Fruit Farms, it is
stated that after the land is put into
high cultivation - the actual cost oi
bringing an acre of blackberries or
raspberries, well set and with no miss
ing hills, to a good bearing age, if
r ,ioe 4.a v fl ca
- It is predicted that within a few
years all the work of the farm will be
done by electricity. Not in a few
years. Tbe time may come when elec
tricity will play a considerable part in
farming, but it will take longer than a
few years.; It is true that it may be
utilized for some portion of the power
used on the farm in the not very
tnt future.