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EUGENE CITY GUARD. TARIfF BILL CHANGES. . &. tiMPtfil, aJaUr. j A Gvnaral ltemotlllng hy ointnltlra. lb tonal --tt .rfmT"- :mmm. TITP r AAh PITI'ITIAIV A FARMERS THU&r. MIL Vl r l I M . ... ...a l hKmnlun.d I ML LI I II I I I Villi! I II I 1 I I I I I II l-lll. H. V 4V - r r m i i mil, ' Allrgl IMot loOntrol lb Prndura I Markata. IUOENB CITY OREGO MVS OF THE WEEK Interrallng Cnllrrtlon of Current Rvanta In C'linilrniad Form From llolh C.intlnrntt. A bill making immediately availabln (250,000 for Having lifo aii'l property along tlio Mississippi ban been agri-el to in congress in an amended form an I cut to tlio president for lilt) signature. UniteI State Minister Dcnby, at Pckin, lias notified tli department of tate that, an a result of tlio efforts of the Urilish government, China has ton tented to ojm'II to commerce Went river, which in situated in Canton, aid at t)i mouth of which lies Hong Kong. P.cpresentativo Spaulding, of Michi gan, haw introduced in thchutisi! a joint resolution providing for the annexation of Hawaii to tho l" i j i t i State. It given, eminent of eongrewi that tlio Sand wich islands lt made into th' statu of Hawaii, with a rfj.ublican form of gor ernment. Captain E. W. Peed, of tho ship T. F. Oaken, wan arrested in Now Yoik on a warrant issued by the United Statin court. Tim Oaken in tlm ship on which, during its l int voyage, there wan much aufTcriiig ami Keverul death, rn tilting, an alleged, from innuflleicrit lots). Tho Issue, rained between Peru and i tho United States with regard to thn imprisonment of Itamscy, tho American 1 a.nlor, in becoming a serious matter. The Peruvian government refuses to aiwile to tho demand of tho I'nited ! State miniHter, M. Kcnatie, to Bet Paul- j ey at liberty immediately. I An attempt wan made to destroy Al- : toona, I 'a., four incendiary fires being kitulled in different parts of the city bo tweon the hours d 1 1 and I:.'t0 oVIock. , Prompt work by tho flro department alone saved tlm town from mil.le dn- 1 struction. Tlm entire Iohh will nggrg Kutu between 50,000 and 110,000. ! Word in rereive.l in Hrooklyn of thn di'atli from jungle fever hint January, in Centrul Africa, of Samuel II. Ar mour, a young physician in the nervice ' of tho ll.-lgian government. Dr. Ar mour wan welt known socially and 1 among tlio medical fraternity of llrook lyn. Ho obtained bin education at tho Iong Inland college biiHpital. lie in a nephew of Justice Walker, of Ohio. Oovernor linger, of Washington, I ban liopen of doing nblo to retain all ! companion of the ntato militia now in service. While tho meaner api.ropria- 1 lion would not allow more than nix, or at mont eight, i-ompanien, if they re ceive. I the full allowance, arrangements may bo made to allow one-half of the 'former appropriation to eompanicn in smaller towns win re armory rent in cheaper ami oxpennon are lehH. It in reKirted in Washington that Prenident Mckinley will shoilly nend a commission to Cuba to partieipato in the investigation of tho Kin. iiiiu.b r. Tho United Press, having Itn prin cipal ofllcii in New York, ban made an assignment for the benefit of itn credit urn. The collapse wan due to the with drawal of four New York dailien. Fight liven were lont by the w recking off Peiinacola bar, Phi., of an oynter loop Iniund beni'o fiom St. Amliewn. Tho craft wan caunht in a iuall, wan vaniH'd and n.tnk within a few inin lite. Tho nultan of Momceo ban prohibit ed the unual piL-i imaKe of bin hiibject to MiMva, on uceount of the prevalence of plague hi the dinti ictn thioin;h which they miint travel on their Journey to the annuo. Captain Meyern, of tho nteainer Dan ube which ban arrived in Victoria, rn nirtn that tho nteainer Will.ipa in now a complete wreck, w.iven having pound ed her to pieeen. The captain and pan leiiKera are null at llcll.i llcll.i. Tho nei-retary of ntato ban nent (he following identical note to all mai it into powern, nUuit thirty or thitty-nix in number: "Tho (Irani municipal in aiiKural Committee ban reipiented the pienident to ollloially invito the mail time nationn to neml watnhipn to par citipate in tho cerenionicn on Apnl 31 next, when theOiaut Monument Asso ciation will foitnally deliver to the city of New Yoik the tomb of tlcneral (Irani, elected by voluntary nubM-rip-t ion, at Kivcrrddo patk. U will bo l i f y i iirf to thin government thin invitation could be accepted." The necretaiy of the treanury in in re ceipt of inhumation from tho minister id Tokio, Japan, that during the pren- cm ncnnion oi ine japanene diet, a gov Wanhington, April 5 The Repob- lioiim of tho M-nato committee on j llnunire are coiitinnin their workday : and ni'lit on tho tariff bill w ith the in , tention of reporting it to the annate at the earlient ponnilde day. They aro not prepared to give out any renulta of their inventigationn and mate that they have not reached any concluniont an to the proponed cliaiigen. Thero in, how ever, a well-detined illlprennion almllt the nenute that the bill w ill bo gener ally reminlelcl and the raten connidera bly reduced in iiany n bedulen. There inaifelieral Indief among Went em nenatorn that there will be material changen in raten on wooIh, enH-'ially thoe of the third riant. Among other nurgentionn urged in a return to the Wilon law of H r'iitn a jm mil' 1 duty on liopn, irmtead of 15 entn, an pronM-. by the Diliglrjr bill. It in claimed that the pronwe. increase will be an injury rather than a hem-tit to the producer, and a hardship to the consumer. There in much content ion aliout the lumln-r n. heilule. Tint American lum-iH-rmen interested in Canadian forentn appear to lie especially concerned over tint Dingley raten. Tint committee in not receiving any verbal ntateinentn except from nenatorn, but in giving clone, attention to type written prencntationn of fact and argument Prospects Appear Better on the Mississippi. Recognition as Belligerents Toledo, April 5. Farmer! are trying to form a trust. It i to apread all oer 'lb lamb bii.I if urewiit idana carry, I not a dollar' worth of farm proudec of . iny kind will be old for general con- .umption. In a nut-hell, the idea in liriv- Wul'I.I) SAVK Kl r. THE .SITL-ATIOX AT GEEEXVILLE flir ', .iriI1,.r, tol.mitcro,. to the ALU it'tual liivi. lecls of the n,eml rn of and Enterprise, ITEMS OF CEXERAl fj j H-rrelrjr limf W III ( omul jr. Washington, April 15. Secretary iiige tislaV announced that he bad de , ri.leil to comply w ith the retpiiremeiitn of nection 7, of the (nuiding tariff bill, 1 pro idiug for the retention of nainph n of merchandise, iinsirted under ordern given nubseiiieiit to April I, ami which were not purchawd and directed by the owner to be hipped for illlMlt into the I'nited Stati n prior to April I. Thin action, however, will be taken un der nection a 111 of the revised ntatuten, which authori'n the secretary to exer cise a niiperintendency of the collection of customs ilutien. lUetiai-l hy Americana In Kraiiri. Iuidoii. April 5. The Timen will publish a dispatch from itn Parin corre nnimleiit, naying: The Dinglev tariff bill ban caused couniderable exciti-ment aiming Ameri can businenn liousen here. The (pien tionn gmw ing out of it have been din cussed al a large meeting of the Ameri can chamlH-r of commerce, at which the American embassy wan represented by Henry Wignaud, neeretary of Am bassador Kuntin. The vire-prenidelit of the chamber said: "America ncmln Prance 10,000,0110 i franen' worth of ginidn duty free, as i iik'ainst Kii.ntio.ooi) worth cent by j Prance, duty free, to America. The I chamber nuggentn that the United Sataen should reduce the tariff in some imiMirt ant Pri'lich eimrtn, tho natural result of w hich would be that Prance would admit many American manufactures at it reduced tariff. Tho advantage to America under exinting conditions by Prance admitting nomo articlcH at the minimum tariff In over IS, 000,0110 Iram n. The chamln'r liopen that Presi dent M. Kiiiley'n reipient for additional discretionary power may be granted, no that rccipiocal commercial relation may be established in order to open new maikctn for luanufactuied American pnsluctn. " SPAIN'S EASTERN WAR. Tha lllr tailing at Cairo-lll.r In Niirlh anil Noulh liahola I auslng ,rral llainaga. Mi'mjihin, April 5. Tho fl'Kd nitmi tiun ill the Mississippi delta alnve Oreenvillo in decidedly ln-tter tonight, an regardn tho threatened lonn of life and futher destruction of levi-cn. Tho half dozen erevannen on tho Arkannan and Mississippi shores tn'tween Iblena and Greenville have drawn an immense volume of water out of tho main chan nel, which in npreading over the low lands, but not with that degree of ra pidity tliat cuts off es. ape hy tho in habitantn of the low countrien. The river shown a decline from a jniint be low Helena to the Wayside creva-Ke. The decline alnive (ireenville in many place in an great an ten inchen. How ever, Helena, Ark., in not out of dan- i ger, for the waters from the St. Pran cm haitin in Arkannan are null swelling the channel of the main river from the south of 1 1 -1- mi, an no break 'occurs i until Wenlover in reached, ten miles In-low that city. The damage to the farming country in the delta cannot be t-Xaggeruted. Pive counties will Int for the most part under v .iter for thirty days and tho main line and branchen of the Yazni & Mississippi Valley road will have more than !00 mile of truck inun dated. Opponite Perthshire, at the upper crevasse, a mile of track ban liven com pletely wahcd away. Probably twenty railroad ntationn and small towns ant flmsleil tonight, among them Is-mg Gunnison, posedale, Pert hsh ire, Terry, ' Kiverton, Dahomey, Storm, Ucnoit, Iletilah, Wayside, Ijiigwixsl, liefuge, Swift Water ami Australia. The greatest danger now in to tho nouth of Greenville, an the leveen from Wayside to the mouth of the river must begin to feel the pressure of the move ment of water back into the channel from the delta through the White river country and St. Pritucin basin, piom Memphis to Crawley's ridge, the river in forty miles wide. A line rant ami went oil the water aeronn Itosedale would probably be fifty milen long. All of thin water must pusn out In'tween the two walls of the levee, in many places but a few milen distant one from the other. Another rise of 110 of a foot in the river at Memphis in shown by the otllcial bulletin. The gauge to night registers Hil. i feet. At Cairo, an encouraging fall in the river in shown, while Pudticha remrtn a fall of 7-10 of a foot. At Viekshnrg tho river in sta tionary. Shrevesirt ami other points below Vicksburg rcsrt a continued rise. The Iiuisville A' Nashville ban com munication with Nashville, after a ces sation of two weeks. The local relief committee thin after noon nent a boat to the Pranein river country, Isith to bring out people and carry nupplien and food to man and beast. It in naid that the destitution in the territory to be covered in fearful, but the news of it did Hot reach .Mem phis until today. organization is secret, itn principles known , the trust. The jathlsniiel. and ! i.isl i.u o. a .elect feW outside of : t how dire, tly concerned in its dcvel- 1 ipment. A rlu.g to the piomoter-, however, tie' cur.try is practically in ondition to I- I. ic-d in the grip of thin p-maik.it.l" combine. Lancaster, Pa., w.i- the birthplace of the trust. I; - iw ll-'ht there several months a.'o, and iin'orsirate. tin ier the i.iw of New .Jersey a- the Agri-ulturah-'s' National Protective A.v.i i.ition. The - i.r. iiic body is made up of one repr- -cM i' iVe from each state, win lutie. ai- similar to those of the board of direc'oi. of an ordiuaiv cor- or.lt ion. K -t.itc has a sulsirdlli lte board of . 1 1 r .-. t . .r-. con-i-tin.' of one re presentative from each congres-iolial listrict. Pi h .!:-tri.-t in turn i-gov-erned by a l"i:. of two im-mbern from each count v. p. c I. county i- under con- riant pi . n (IrTt-r. an Imp" KmoIuIIoM-Tariff KIM ISef-rreU o III I'lnalire liHO-e- April 3. The t unan III the senate !" rram All tba th. Wa-hington, on.-tioii was reviv .lav ait. r a Im... ,-ri-l of comparative cairn. Pour. I. si. net Cuban resolutions broti.d.t forwar.l in rajmi ru Th- lat ami most iiiisut.int f:i Moigan. It ncciarc. . of war exi-!s ill Cuba, and ,- js.licy of the United maintain a strict neutrality were si. .11. one Came that a n:at unnoui.cen states to as hctwe. with full an bdlig. that he w the next t.tiict. ntn ii I oth narties to the r... o .nition of the insur; rents. Moigan gave not ice mil. I call the resolution up ' meeting of the scnat tnd of it I... iiiimln'r, wl the town-h. It in the year in ti e ketn, In- all' coin li te. crops will ,rd of fo.lll live to l-lcVcll III ,.i dir.- t the movements of . otganiz it ions. I urpo-e to do nothing this way of i-ontiolling the tll.tr- the organization in not Next Vear, however, the In- limited to a. tu.il In ing w ith the exj I.ition ol s. curing final action. Of the other resolutions two were I ... I li.e rails on the president . . f,.r tellers of General G -7. to I. Illl If Is of members. i If the plan in carried out, not a dollar-' worth of farm product of any kind will Is- noi l for general consumption, it being the .liri-c to compel the people to illiH,lt all fissl prisllicts. It is be lieved that by this method the power of tie- as-ss'iation can bet in. ike itself felt. To laml.le Ilie liraf to Menr. New York, April it. It in an nounce.) from Denver that Prof. r Diis-.in l, of the univei-ity there, has invented an apparatus to enable the deaf to he ir. A micropholiogr.iph tu bas j.i-t issued magnifies the human voice in the -ainc way that a lens mag iiili. s matter. It in simply a telephone coiiiie. te.l electrically with a phono graph, but a far more sensitive phono graph than I'Misoii'n ordinary model. A battery of from one cell to sixty, ac cording to the degree of deafness, in used. t if curse the apparatus is usel.-s in the ca-r of ah-olute deafness, hut such infirmity is far rarer than is supposed. Ninety-live per cent of ntoiie-deat per sons can be made to hear and under stand ly Dus-aud'n invention. You -)H-ak into the phoiioguiph ami make it repeal the wolds which arc transmuted by a sort of miciophone and speaking tuln- into the deaf ear. Piofes-or DiH sand is preparing for the Inuu exhibi tion an apparatus which will enable 10,000 pie who may all be deaf to follow the lecture. and p. Cleveland, and lor other mmr nation. Tin-other, by Mills, instructs . the committ n foreign relations to ' rejsirt what obligation the United States has a limed by compelling Cu'm , to remain subject to Spain. H"th res olutions were p.i I without op-'si- turn. Mill another rime from Allen, and proposed a protest ugain-t the re Is, rt.-l pui of the Spanish uuthori- ties to try General Puiz Pivera. the Cuban oilier, by military drumhead court-martial. Thin led to an animated eoiiti..veiy between Allen and Hoar. The discussion went over to erne up with the r Union bu the recognition of Cuban belligerency at the next meet ing. The tariff bill, passed by the house, was leceivcl by the senate as noon as the se-sioii opened today. Without motion or comment, the presiding ofli ccr. Mr. Ilobart, referred the bill to the committee en finance. An interesting incident of the nest-ion wan Senator Chandler'n refusal to agree to a final vote on the treaty to day, lie called attention to the press dl-patches in regard to the situation ill Crete, and said he did not feel disposed to enter into negotiation!) with any power whose gunn were trained upon a Community of Christian struggling to throw off the yoke of Mosleminin. He also spoke of Knglaud'n conduct toward the lioein of the Transvaal an deserving of condemnation, and a cause for hesi tation in the negotiations. He said he would probably in the end Vote for the treaty, but lie wan not in the mood for it today. Muilrlil Aiillu.rltlea ll.-.lar t lie I'lilllp. iln Itctiilt Kioleil. Washington, April 8. The Spanish legation bun received olllcial dispatches (mm Madrid, under date of April H, an nouncing the most decisive engage incuts in the Philippine islands since the insurrection there began. The losses were heavy and 1,(1110 piisonern nurren tlered as a result of the shelling of Cavi Icvego. The ofllcials of tho Spanish legation tire highly gratified at the mi noiiiiceiuents, and state that the results practically close the conflict in the islands, these being the hint of a nerivn of seven1 engagements. N..H.I In Their Tow iter. I-ondon, April ft. The Daily Newn will publish a dispatch tomorrow from itn Salonica correspondent who nays be ban been inhumed en reliable au thority that a large ipiantity of gun powder sent tti the frontier from Con stantluople has been found to consist chiefly of sand. The vali of Manistir has discoveied grosn abuses lu the sup ply of piovisions and accoiitienientn to the iirmv. fulling i.f Sjlltrr Dollar!. Sim Piancisco, April 6. An order has just been received by Superintend ent Daggct, of the mint, from Director Preston for the coinage of S00, 000 silver dollars. Thin, in addition to the rt itu- tar coinage of gold, will the lu rriiineiital coinage bill will I hi presented '" force- employed for nome time, and for consideration bv that hodv, which thus render iiniuvessarv a reduction of will, if passed, change the standard (if value In Japan from silver to gold. It In ptoHiscd to tlx the government ratio liclwccii tho two metals at !1'J to 1. Tho unit of value will he a gold yen, which will he one-half the weight and aluo of the old gold yen, which in the same weight and fineness as the gold dollar of tho United Staten. The pmponcd unit of value will, therefore, lie the ex act eiiuivalciit of 60 vent in UniteJ Staten money. Two men went killcj and four neri ounly injured by an explosion in the South Water-street canal, Chicago. The explosion took place 2.D00 feet under the lake, wheie an excavation wan be ing made for a water supply inlet. A careful canvass of Western an.) Northwestern roads develops the fact there- ia no deuioralt4.it ion of rate. Tho most Imperative onlcrs have been Issued liy tlio executive: officers of each Western line, foi bidding the cutting or manipulation of raten. The New York Herald' rortcs.Ond flit in Montevideo, Uruguay, tehgi.tpln that the United Stnten eiuiscr Yantio ran aground at Port Nuexa Palmyia, at ie mouth of the Uruguay river. ' Tugt are at work attempting to pull off the cruiser. She is in a dangerous position. The gunlniat Helena, in her (51-cet trial iuccetsled in making 15.8 knotg an hour over the entire course. Thig given theO-'ewport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company alsmusof itl.ooo, I Which, In prntmrtion to the contract Coat of the ah ip, is the largest tsmug ever paid. The trial was uti. factory , in every rnjH.'t. the number of employes w hich has been expected to l ike place. Turkrr Mania to right. Tun. Constantinople, April ft, The tight ing between the Christians and the Mussulmans, which is daily rciHirted from Crete, is dealing a very bad im piession heie, and it is Wlicved that the Turkish government w ill noon pro pose to the Hiwers that Turkey herself be permitted to take action against the insurgents. lieasiill for III Mm knits. St. Petersburg, April ft. A hl.vka.le of U reive, which tho l.ussian pi ens thinks the bent way of forcing the situ ation, by exciting the Gieekn to hostile acts on theTuikish fiontier, h. vi , dently been divided upon. InsurgrnU Attack a lll.irkh.ni.. Athens, April ft. The insurgents to day Hied nevctal rounds at the Itiilsun liaiia bio. khouse, mvupicd by th,. in. tenuttional tnHim. The Italian guns returned the fins Thr llorrrm liang llangr.l. Santa Pe. N. M., April ft. Pran. ic Goiualcs y Horrcgo, Antonio Gontihn y lUirrego, Laurunio Alarid and I'ntr i. io Vuleiicia, condciunil to death for the minder of ex-sheriff Piank Chaves, who was kilhsl from ambush on the night of May 8t. IMC, wer hangl at 11:10 A. M. t.v (J) l ira al a Mralth Hetort. Meadville. Pa., April ft. Cambridge Springs, a health resort fifteen mile from here, was almost entirely burned Hll.iHll.in at (irrriivllle. Greenville, Miss., April ft. Over 10,000 people arc homeless in thefl.Hsl ed districts. Many towns ami cities lire submerged, and desolation reigns over this lovely valley. A dismal waste of water covets the sm num. ling eoiin try on every side of Greenville, ami the city is a desolate island, connected with the outside woild by u merit thread, it telegraph line running east, liailroad communication in cut off north ami south. Northern Itlvrr. Omaha, April ft. A lice special from Sioux Palls says: The llig Sioux river is higher than ever known, and is ! still lining. Pake Kempestka. wheie the river has its source, has risen five feet, and is still rising. At Castlcwood, the lowlands are Hooded. At llrook -ings, the same condition exists. At l-.gan, the water is rising rapidly, do : ing much damage. At Sioux Palls, business along the liver has heen sus pended. The water is still giadually rising, mi. I will soon put out the tires in the Hell ile-tric lighting plant and j the pumping station. The bottom ( iiIkivo the city nie a sea, nnd much fear is expressed, us the Mood from th,. north is still to come. Damage to bridges in Minnehaha county alone so far is aO.OOO. At the Tw In t lll.-i. St. Paul, April ft The Mississippi river is at the high water mark of lss ', and danger links along its path. It reached a stage of 1 it. T in Ism, and late this afternoon the gauge showed lft. 7, ami still rising. Yesterday morn, ing at 7 o'cl.vk the river showed a height of 13. ft, mid this morning, it wn lft.lt, a rise of almost two feet in twenty-four hours. Miniiea".din, April ft. A huge ice jam, which formed in the Mississippi at Forty -second avenue north, broke late yesterday afternoon. An immense volume of water, big cakes of ice and thousand of feci of logs went tearing down the river over St. Anthony falls. The water rose two feet inside of an hour, rt.mding many houses. It is esti mated that 2 A. 000 fivt of logs were swept away. The damage will reach 100,000. llull. r Trie. I till, l.le. San Francisco, April 5. Murderer llutl.r has made his anticipated at tempt lit suicide. Despite t he presence ill bis cell day nr.. I night of l'U.ii I- sup posed to be watchful, the licnd of the Itliie mountain- alm..-t sue led in cheating the gallows today. K.ttly this morning Hiitlcr was observed to he un usually ipuet. Investigation showed i that bin blanket was tight-draw u over : his head, and when that was removed his face w as found to be covered w it h . blood. Itutlcr has allowed his thumb nail to glow very long, and with the nail had opened an aiteiy in his fore head from which he hoped to bl I to 1 death. The Wound was closed and gieatcr precautions than ever will now If taken to pre-.-ive his life at least until after he sail- en the Mariposa for Australia tomorrow afternoon. ( "I I tirniit I ,.. 1 1 n,-.1 . New York, April ft. Colonel Fred D. Grant has dcicled to decline Piesi dent McKinlcy's ..tl.-i of the js.sition of lirst assistant s.vrot.irv of war. Mr. Garnt sent the following tele gram to President M. Kmlcy: "Allohngh you are pleased to urge me to think over the matter, it is im possible for me to consider the isition of assistant serict.ny of war, which y.ut were good enough to oiler me. 1 there fore decline w ith thanks the iips.int meiit, nt the same time regretting that I am not to scive the administrati for which 1 Woiked earnest Iv. " Mr. Grant declined tube interviewed beyond giving out the foregoing telegram. A iiroirlatioli Hills. Washington, April 3. The senate committee on appropriations today ngr 1 to reiiort the sundry civil and Indian appropriation hills practically as agiced to In-fore the adjournment of the last session of congress. A few verbal changes were found advisable and an important change was made in the piovisioti in regard to the opening of the Uncoiup.iglnc Indian reservation, in Utah. This provision was presented us a senate amendment at the last session, and agreed to by the house. The house struck it out w hen it passed the bill at the beginning of the present session. The senate committee again recom mends the inclusion of the provision but reduces the number of claims of gilsonite one person may take from four, as oiigin.illy provided, to two. A change was made aUo jM the pro vision for tiie right of inheritance of children lmrn of white fathers and In dian mothers, so as to provide that the mother shall belong to her trilie "by blood." The original provision made it "by blood or descent." The bill probably will not Is' reported until next Week. The deliciency bill was not Considered. A I'm. .1,. Sh.iuiokin, Pa., buildings of the Company were w re. plosion w hich occur this morning. P. were lost, all the Mill Wrr.'ke.t April ft. All the Sli.nuokin Powder ke.l by a terrific cx cl in the null earlv rtunately no hv.'s men having gone home. Three hou-cs half a mile away were damaged hadlv. Mrs. David li.iun was Pa lly cut about the face ami l.sly. Mr. and Mrs. Harm and Mrs. Kliuger were buried in their he. In be neath del. lis and boulders weighing '.MO l-oumls. The lo-s is nearly faO.OOO. ( till. I li.sliintly Kill.'. I. Sin Francisco. April J. A ahild named J.tmes Holmes was iustantlv killed t.sl.iy by being run over bv a lo.i truck. 1 he driver, II. Mc was thnged with manslaughter. eyer. ( iiirr Anicnilnirnt forgotten. Washington, April 3. Through nn oversight, during the consideration of the Dinglev tariff bill, the house neg lected to adopt th,. anieii. Iim-nts to put copper on the fn-e li-t prepared by the ways and means committee. Conse quently there is no provision for copper in the bill. Not having anv special mention. c.. per falls into the basket clause at 2 A per cent ad valorem. Ill lie o'iginal draft of the bill, the McKinley rate of I cent ht nmnd on ci.pp.-r was retained. The subject was bioi:g!.t t, the attention of the commit tee a see. nd time, and us it appeared no epper is imported into the United States a, some in exported, the ci.m in.ttee -aw no reason why it should not be included in the free list. A clause providing f,.r it in the metal schedule was stricken out by the house, bin the amendment putting, it on the free list Was let offered. Th Drill Statement. Washington, April ft. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business March 31 the debt, less cash in the treasury, amount- ci in fi,ou.i.Mc.',;oo, a decrease f, month hi s.i;:is,'.-,4, Xhis accounted f,.- .y a ,..r i ease in me amount of cash on ban. tlrn.ur. Intrn.l.irrd and t bamplonad by tlur lat Kelt-gat Ion. - ... . 9 Senator Mr- lulls, seveiai ut - - ,he last emigres. H" Ik'P Ket .i i.. action on some of them, and t , xpert that those which were favorably r.'.rortcl in the la-f congress will receive ,., Iv consideration in thin congress:. .. I,ilh,ppropriates.i50,000fortl.e ublie building at roriiuuu, u.e. I ...I ... a 1.,. 1 iltPatti iflini .)... at uitri wniii ii t l,.'. . appropriated, as the limit of the f the building. Tltis will bring the total '.-t of the building to 1,000,- , The hill provide that when tho j,iiig is nplcted it shall be used ,. ,cii."om-liou-e, for appraisers' stores, eourtr.K.tns. signal service oflieen and for the United States surveyor-general. Anot.-r bill lixon the Istundary of the Wirm Springs Indian reservation on the northern side. It provides that the ls.iin.larv shall be the same as de ,jll(.. in tilt-treaty of 1 us foilinl hy Cniiimissioiiers Putlerton, Dufur and I'avne ill 111)1, Other bills introduced by the Oregon senator are as follows: Admitting veterans of Indian wars to the soldiers' hoines; rcrnotin.' the charge of d rti.ui from the lia of .1.,, icn K. Parker; to reimburse the states of Oiegon. California and Ne vada for money ex-nde. in the relM-l-lion. of which amount Oregon would r.foivo :iuA.li.'i; providing f"f l'iar iiutiiie station at Astoria, ami appropri ating $:io,uno for the same; to establish an assay oftiee at Baker City; directing the accounting officers of the treasury to allow ( Irville T. Porter for all sums stolen or appropriated by his deputy while Porter was marshal for Alaska; to pay William A. Starkweather 2. IT", the amount paid by him for clerk hire while he was register of the land office at Oregon ( ity; lo pay ren-r main Stewart, of (iervais, 7.."00 for land taken by the government at the mouth of the Columbia river in IhA2; to pay II. V. Shipley 2,47 for wink done by him in excess of his contract in con structing buildings at the Nez Perce ageti. y, in biaho; lo pay Avery D. Hah cock and wife f 2.000 for the use and occupation of their land by the govern ment; to pay D. .1. Holmes, of Port land, s'.'A for money expended by him on a claim from which lie was ousted when it was found the hind he occupied was in the Warm Springs reservation-, to pay John W. Lewis .121 balance due him as salary as register of the hind office at The Dalles; to pension George Hughes of Portland, at .10 per month; to pay John Campbell 1,10.1 for prop erty taken during the war. Senator M. Bride has introdu 1 a bill making Colonel George II. Men dell, lato of the corps of engineers, a brigadier-general on the retired list. He recites in tho bill the good work that Colonel Mcndcll has performed, ami points out that when General Casey retired Colonel Mcndcll was next in lino for promotion, hut that another was made brigadier-general instead. 1 Another bill by .Senator McPuidc al lows persons making claims iimn pub lic lands to make prtsifs before any offi cer qualified to administer oaths in homestead cases, whether the lands arc iu tho county or not. At present the making of Hitch proofs must be before an officer iu the county where the land is situated. Another hill applicable to all public land states the law to settle accounts between the United States and Missis sippi, which allowed for school pur jmiscs all hinds embraced in reservation which would have have heen numbered 10 and 30. The states are to be al lowed I 33 per acre for the loss ol river is tt.o high for s'nslv dm: such bimln. 1 Ket.rosonativo Kills. l,. i t vcrnor Iiogers has nnnon- a hill to nrot.ii.i, .1... ..i.. ... ... . appointment of E. A. McDont!-. ing liquors in the capitol building. This hill was passed by the house at the last session of congress, anil was re lMirted iu the senate. No one, with very few exceptions, wanted it passed, hut men did not want to go on record as uprising it. The bill might have passed th- senate if it ever came to u vote, but Senator Hill, of New York, would never allow it to reach thai stage. He was always ready to talk it to death whenever it appeared. Mr. Kllis may push it along, ami it will nt, u1" I' it ever comes to cultivating the griuin. "7!r . .. 'Planting. .... .... uioe.s oi nn. wregon delega tion indorsed Bing,.r Hermann for com missioner of the general land office. His successor. Mr. Tongue, and othet members of the delegation called per. sonally upon the president ami urged his appointment. Mr. Kllis went among the members of the house and especially those from the West, and got their signature to a paper in which Hermann was indorsed for the place on the ground that it would be to the in terest of tho West. Cllt., ... "goa. Sixteen bun. I red i IllllltillL'toil lat . .. " - " .-eg at price of f per head. U Clerk C. A. Jeiming,, ,,. , iv. issue,, a marriage l(llJ7 to Thomas O. Ir....ti U uml Elizabeth UntTi,,;,',, f. .'' More beef cattle lave U, from Gazello thin season o ,....lin ., ,,,,, iiiiinier. Ainitit 700 Cirloa,, i i i , , A I with Uo.ryni Itlttilntr luil.tii.. .... a r) "' " "Koik to (ill(.r sunk near tho ti-l ' i.i.i., vi... i.... . " c-' ........... I"' OlllllST W.l , on th. Iieueli .i.l . ' narl Seufert llron. have milt, , i.i.i.i i.-. vi... iv. it .. r 1 " ' -'alien t alinint on iii. il tannery lllHiVe Tli, 11 a'.tl a.u... I.....1.. ...... " ' '" l""l"U, it j, ...... . ,., , IM(. ,-Mitlrn condition before il... , ' "HllCj "I" The Cocpiille river in tt... s ....l iu.i.;...i ,i " . .i. (-( in iiiiiii iiif muiiii . .. ilon, ami w ill in tim0. if tv1 a ciiiiiinei ciear tlirmigh tu u, ....OHIO,- oreaK water in ji, ays a corresjioniieiit of a (, paper. Two nhifts are tit work atth, mine, in Josephine conntr . work in progressing at therit,. jour leet per i lay. Alnmt j;ikn ore are on the .lum,, "..i mill will he erected as .!, get oeiier. Dr. J. II. Hawkins ami J, of Douglas cuuntv, have ;, twenty prairie chickens fr,, t Oregon ami turned them wm vicinity of Drain and Simi,.i effort to introduce this bird into Southern Oregon til preciatetl by sportsmen. A trapper who has been hut:. trapping on the Malheur rir-r. the agency valley this winter. , to tin vale AdviH-ate one i jtiu.iigien oi nature known n i man. The AdvtK-ale says the I of giant stature, being at feet high, having long MJ t arms that reach to its knees, tl whole Istily is covered iti glossy hair. In the chase after the etvi;r vietri from Idaho, oi f tl .f Hugh Fulton, had a inruliirr and a narrow c8c;tH fnnn fori Vale, when he was iiioiiiitinjbs the animal hacked into a well t: feet tleep. Pulton went dir. and the horse after him. En able chance, the animal liJ do: him. Pulton received i -. broken ribs. The horse rntf feet am) began to strike ut Fi:: came near crushing his skull ropo could be lowered to theeti. man. M'HslilniEttin. Beef cuttle are scarce in Tits The office of registrar ol t!t Bity of Washington has bet-DiV The log drives in the ft' making some progress, iltli'tf- ver Kepuhlican, of Tacomi, conitnissioner. Several of the stockmen iW,' ville are premring fur a sprint ' up to see how many of their S' have lost during the winter. A force of men is now at "1 ing tho Northern Pacific ri'-" liitzville. The company inten ing the track from Cheney to k A farmer living near Zillslii' ed to huve raised thirty-five t Potatoes on five acres of Inu'l ' after l use tor the eere.tse is ponding in- I I' rum tlie Iliiiiiiura. Baker City, Or., Ap.il 2.-Alhert (..user, superinteiident t,f the Ponanz i mine, orought in about 10,0U0 iu g.dd bullion this afternoon. In addition to this, he has shipped sixty tons of con centrales, valued at tiO a ton. On ac count of the many improvements which "e inane mis mouth, the only kept running fr iifu,t.n (lav. A Km mill s. was The Puyiilliip Com merce fr boos nr.. nlrea.lv mi a few incbt the big Meeker yards have W first plowing, and the nu'n scalping. News has been received in ' Walla that it is (inventor R'V tention to retain company C National Guard, in the servuv.i. Bible. The principal of the Client'." school has announce.! that t'"' will continue until coining' June 10. despite the fact tint ernor has vetoed the appropriat' The Olympic reserve is in-' tween the 47th anil -isth ilegref; Undo, and the 13:id and VM 'i of longitude. The reserve t about two-thirds of tin' insula. The warehouse at the end t1' wharf in Ocosta collap-" nronir cost of wind last 0rwi,; .Ic- ii lit liar Mitt Soon Vl.lt I ran.-r. Paris, April S. The Kvenemelit nn nounces that President Fa uro has Uvn oftleially infurnitsl of the approaching visit id the ctir and ciarina to Fiai An Inramuna ltlii(. Situ Francis.v, April 5. I,val om cialn ol the Cnited States treasnrT al lege that they hiyv secured informa tion proving the eitctice of a ring or g.inif.vl for the express purpswe of ille gaily landing Chines,. Ki rl for im. moral puriHi.es. The tre.isurv agents H t to arrest a nunilvr of profes- tonal perjtiiers, who have tigur.sl fathers of mot of the women landovi frvuu Chiiu during the past year. ' W age Ineii-ax-.l In Ml.-hluan. Irouwmiil, Mich., April ,,. The Meiros.itan Iron Ar Laiul Company has announced an increase of 10 per cent iu the wage scale here. The in ere i... atlc. ts 1,000 men employed in the Notris ami l'abst mims. Iri..ainl an l.lil-lloiir Hay. Milwaukee. April .V The 10.000 union hrewery employes in Milw.mk.v made a formal demand for an eight hour working day at the Mine wages as is now Iring paid for 10 hours. Philadelphia, giades of ictiiied today, and the 1-ltl to l-s, cent. Vance this Week, to the at'.nouced law. Powdcied, are mm minted at ' .ai .a an. i diamond A up t '. cents. T. ... iiigneni prices tlut have 1 lor the h.gh ul.lte.l, mark.- a year. April ll.AU hard sugar advanced 1 cent principal soft grades This is the third ad and is said to . ,u,. change in tl. tarlff cubes and ITIUII i cents, while gian- are the teen rea 17...1 grade sugars for more than sian land own..,. ... i.. ... .1,...;. . .i i .. -'.n.'uiii o', v - .,. ... Iltllillg the Ulii.i airll... .1 . . i:.. . I ..... 1 (,,ih:ir Ii- "onr iiere 11-..1 .... I u I L' n:is ii.'.-ii i. ..." income ,,f about :to,oou a .lav f,,,n, since tho birth of Ocsia. ' ,; m Wnni stP a, ,,.,.,.. The Commercial Club of 'f . Salt I.mL-o ,..:i .- . . .' ' inm I. -is u,.i,t for il lot of SlU.':ir his irtnune from Caldwell. I.l-.l... ..... "no of the largest w.s.l I mi lete I here Mou.l ... ,.. ! A patent has been .... '""'i V Ul r. 1 t ! . . v linton, jr. r,.- .. ltiKane liimt onice year was c. onet .lames ones v union ir n.i.r, . .- -l"'Kaiie lit It' 1 Hi"" "'" !". Liehma,, & , Jo; , ,L ' ' ''S U Northern Pacific lia ' "f :..ber, no,,,;: Too oo ' I',; : ''I'!' t.f IMMJ. tiarnirnl Vakrr Htrtki. St. Loin., April .V Five hunonsl employes ,,f the clothing manufacturers of St. Louis struck t.sl.iy. Ui.t fall the price paid for making a coat was re duced f i viii ti. to eO cents. It w , 1.I..IIIIW.I ill.. .,11 ,...,...,..1 I I.. . . . . . " ' """"! if restored t,U(f in ine spring, tuit this has not Urn done. I rtlittn f.,r llerlp'rnrlty. rsans.is t ity, J0 N.ir.l ot trade April 3 Tt,, ot trade, the Kansas I'iti- I ;.. t.H-K Ass.s-iation and the C,.,,,,",,,.',. I .lib. reptvsc, ting ,),. leading ,. ,., . iiieti oi me citv have morul to the Cnitrd St it... id adoption of Constantinople, April 5. It in re Is'rt.sl that Darathcodori Pash,. -l. The ancient knew how to ...,.i i nieiniotusl souie we. ks iiv-o a. I.I-... toilay, involving a loa of one life and ' ,A'1,'t' h"v 't 'und iu tha I '-T lv l'iontvl governor of Crete, it piopertT K4 uf .'00,000, ruinn uf llervulaiieum. I't'i) a ii,,.. s senate and representatives. .ir;T ,i... a stroi i- i , in it... . . . 'I a' i lau-o ....... ,.lnn Ul b. wluwl W)1 vvi.,uim' im- tm-reas t,f Qh ad Ulin-Amcrua,, fnpeoially Meiioo." Hie rt-olutioin our tr.,.1 cour.trien. ' well. . " ' T , , ;i,., una has sent for a lot oi s"s - t0 11,8 t,. be tlistribute.1 atnont-' i" V.iL-i,,... Vl.th.V - .-..-.4. ........ . I .uViM -'ol- C...1 I I rivevini '' .liiwiiy1''- i , -eui."' Jiiii ooo . . o.ouo acres oi tan . too, 000 pounds ... . .. I.-.I-me iv- vi, , , . Mcvens ana noiincrii -r 1"e terms are -r.. i.; -o t! , me land lies in town-c'i- -- in which the town of M it-" " ' ' f'rrht minutes and Hid in township 3b tAnif l Pa-s from the sun township 31, range 4ti. J1--'1 't its mean distance. Newoort. '! r...taii.w. The convicts at the itf- Francis,,,. Ari, 0 , , , tiary in Walla Walla '! ' . uoilll J. I,,.. VI... .1., lr ...Itmil lorilli-r V tiroorl...... . i tuu now. inn,.....- sl.e.l i.. :. . '"""r." a l-ajH't .-,M,1 Kte. is als-ut tl.WO. tive title',,! -u"'. tU lre.1 ami tiftv convict I iit.o-1 on red ..,IK.r li-tker.tiel.l, ,, iri.ll nn a ,.l...r,,.. ,. .'iMliii't iiii .'--" is - - , ,. . " I'-trge ,, ,no . . . , ... i ,,,rn ..i.r matter thr..i, ,i. .i.. 5 uricK yarn, mis ........ tf. .-.i in.- in... j ...... .... :ii ,. ii i. tf n a of tl private Light reijnires eighteen seconds to the earth when San Porter publi.l sti, h; -nil1'" ,sbn the" are the outcume of, gvung to Atheii. on s,vial luismou to ''"' ttarte.) Iv the Iaterimt. . i King Uovrg ef Urw- i Trd A.soci.twu. " laU!r""al o Tort tunc '' a iraini Tweutv 3Jt Uilie, Alrica r h.m "i I when iirrest,., "earn g the ... , ..!... .in1 jreii anil unv con. , -Stufr,' and . ... j... .;u vi... Ci w mir line ihiii. n arrested . t ..it.. I willi it - mtit-. i uillllllkC I'iOiH" 1 'H be brought -raekn nnd inclosing the jute rn mails : .. .-.. .. .11 .. Ill r. ttl.l'l .. w- iiiirn oricK wan n ' 'ugmve for som .. t.s wcniner in-iiu.i- - , as dlStfins,.,! ..., .:..... r..-,i- i'n- - .uiiicieui oru a o' A earl,.-.,! of long. Ik'i'V Tears a..,. t .. i f-.cn -S-- .n.-re were onlv ' poies were siiipi"-' . - f ol railruj.) ni,n i c ; K,,,,. f l .st week, b' 1 nuw xlrTt re 2.500 milei! . H in Whatcom. ,ii."f-'' WW "V