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NEIGHBORING TOWNS
JVrogress AND DOlNGS OF THE
kcotlT I PAOFIC NORTHWEST.
iSl " Butet of Interesting and Spicy
hws Froin AlltheCitlee slid Towns
3d eb' m the Coul-Thrift and Industry
T4i:jo Every yuarter Oregon.
itaili. Eastern Oregon hills will rejoice in
sr a? fine oorp 01 bunchgrass this year,
iwing to abundant moisture.
ad fc' Bids are beirg received by the sisters
'fterTrf Joseph's aoideiny, Pendleton, for an
cjciddltion to tie school, which will cost
i ofcwme $7,000.
'.T Klamath county owes in warrants
tind interes $73,787.41. The resources,
' Pacounting mpaid taxes since 1892, as
n assets, a $18,540.30.
fro- The ainual convention of Benton
"'leooonty'? Sunday school association
n ooameets Corvallis, May S and 0. Mrs.
ta4ij. i, Jloss is president
f?1 A biman skeleton was unearthed in
"sn aUali liok on the middle fork of the
, 'ooaid to be that of an Indian.
11 hmT
er
t - jue smcu university in lojoiuod ovui
pie om' aot tQat four 0 toe Multnomah
itioai 10111 ty nomlDeea Ior representatives are
h joc!p'Ja'te3 from that institution.
total $e Dulles oitizens are considering
were Je feasibility of putting in an electric
badiiiro alarm system and of purchasing by
labsoription a obemioal engine.
1 hoi Sheep-shearing in the southern part
etortif Wasoa county has begun in real
g Ulaaniost, and in a short time the wool
us wjrop of 1896 will begin arriving in The
Xj.-Dallee.
pinm1 Placet mining has been commenced
is 411 over Eastern Oregon. This promises
icbbL-to be a very prosperous season for this
ism industry, owing to the abundance of
peoffree water.
?cla Tbe Fossil Journal says divorces are
1 tiemWe numerous than marriages in Gil
vtrliabi county. Five divoroes were
o ti-grapted at the session of oirouit oourt
aoliin one week.
; The 9-year-old son of Mr. Roberts,
;, of Grant's Pass, fell thirty feet from a
tree top and struok his head on a rotten
T ,,log. The boy was unconscious twelve
hours, but will reoover.
A large amount of wheat is being
tt received daily at the warehouses in The
Dalles. It is part of last year's crop
jjthat was held by the farmers who were
itcit no BatiBfied with prioes last fall.
:o ifc Trains running through Pendleton
fchave been swarming lately with hobos
m-and large numbers have been stopping
enofOff there. The railroad yards contain
sio-good-sized populations eaoh night,
iii A. S. Basaett died at the home of his
dton, near Halsey, in Linn oonnty, at
tan the age of 72. Mr. Bassett was a pion
ore. eer of 1851, coming to Oregon from
not New York state. Ue left a widow and
several children.
n Robert Harris, a promising young
' fi Indian, is at the Cbemawa Indian
iw school from Alaska. He says many
ou! Indian children in the territory are
9 i anxious to come to the school, and he
1 will probably be able to make arrange
in! ments for their doing so.
, VA family named Smith, who had
1 been living in a tent below John Day,
" lost their little boy last week under
" distressing circumstances. The little
fellow had eaten a wild parsnip which
m b.e found in that vicinity, and only
lived a few hours thereafter.
ill, !
if : (.The late rains have swollen Coos
river to a higher mark than for years
;. past The low places in the bottom
rol lands have been oovered to a depth of
several feet, but very little damage is
. , reported. If the rain keeps on though
II is feared it will cause a destructive
flood.
X W. R. Cunnlngton and A. S. Rine,
of Fremont, Neb., have been for the
past week engaged in buying u band of
something over 6,000 2 and 8-year-old
m i wethers in Grant county, to be driven
' to Nebraska and fed next wiuter on
' oorn grown on Mr. Rine's 1280-acre
I farm, to prepare them for the Chicago
' 5 market next spring. The prioes paid
f were from $1.60 to $1.60 per bead.
1( K i Since January 17 last, the treasurer
QJ r of Beuton county has reoeived from the
ffl sheriff in taxes, including the sum
i received from the distribution of the
m J Oregon Paoifio sale fund, the sum of
f $56,846.00. Of this sum a lumpnf city
g. !, and county warrants turned in by
m ' Sheriff Osburn, and which had been
4 'f turned in on taxes on the 1895 roll,
Segregated $18,000.80. Of this amount
t 770 64 was in city warrauts.
V "YThe Corvallis Times says that the jig
5 tip with the old steamer Three Sis-
0 Aers. During the late high water she
. ; was towed out on the river bank below
. Corvallis. and she is to be dismantled.
Her hull had become so decayed and
' leaky that the company decided that
' her dny of usefulness was over. The
' , work of taking out her machinery and
t other useful pHrta will be com.
1 inenoed in a few days. The Sisters was
' ! trails by the O. D. Co. in the year 1887.
, f i Little Banna Knox, so badly burned
f recently io Gilliam oounty ttiat skiit-
(rafting had t be resorted to, in doing
well and the skin has begun to grow
and spread. The skin uspi) is being
pooled off of the editor of the FomiI
Journal, for the reason, that paper
says, "the doctor decided that it must
come off of some one having a healthy
skin, and a clean heart and a right
spirit within him, and he being the
only pesron in town possessed of all
these requisites. If the little girl don't
make a mighty smart woman when she
grows up, we'll miss our guess."
WaHhlnictoii.
The first number of the Cheney Free
Press has been issued.
The town of Ritzville is advertising
for bids for funding bonds, in the sum
of $5,700 on May 19, 1890.
William Swafford pleaded guilty of
burglary before Judge Denney, in Sno
homish, and was given one year in the
penitentiary.
A burlgar sucoeeded in making off
with $280. taken from the house of
Charles Gustavers, a flour and feed
dealer of Auburn.
The board of state land commission
ers is now prepared to take up the mat
ter of appraising the oyster lands in
Mason and Thurston counties.
Alexander Smith, an old settler of
the Homestead neighborhood, near
Waterville, was kickod in the breast
by a horse and killed, April 10.
It U claimed tliut over 1,000 head cf
cattle have been bought by Montana
stockmen from Big Bend farmers, for
shipment from Davenport this spring.
It is proposed to build a small steam
er to ply up and down the Cowlitz
river daily to bring the milk to a
creamery, to be established at Castle
Rook.
The names of Bender and Barnes,
two stations on the line of the North
ern Pacific below Prosser, have been
changed respectively to Gibbon and
Chandler.
A salmon trout weighing eight
pounds and six ounces was caught in
the Walla Walla river by William
Oswald, with a No. 15 fly hook, says
the Union.
The Shelton sawmill, in Mason
oounty, is getting out ties for the rail
way extension, to be made this season
by the Shelton Southwestern & Penin
sular road.
The seotion known as the Grouse
Creek oounty is becoming settled up
pretty rapidly by people anxious to
engage in the stook industry, says the
Asotin Sunitnel.
The Waitsburg fire department has
ordered a raoing cart for the tourna
ment of the Eastern Oregon and Wash
ington Firemen's Association, to be
held in Pendleton. It is ball-bearing
and ons'aion-tired.
A serious acident ooourred at J. D.
Hays' logging oamp at Belfast, What
oom county, on the Great Northern
railroad, in which a man whose name
was Whitney was killed.
Judge Pritchard, of the superior
court of Pieroe county, holds that a
chattel mortgage in Washington is a
mere lien npon the ohattels, and does
not affect the ownership of the goods
mortgaged.
Adjutant-General Soutelle has re
voked the appointment of Captain C.
W. Billings, of Company G, N. G. W.,
of Taooma, owing to his failure to file
an acceptable bond. Lieutenant Stew
art was made captain.
On March 1 the oity of Tacoma had
outstanding general fund warrants
amounting to $896, 11 8. 2 7. Funding
bonds to the amount of $850,000, added
to this, left the oity in debt $32,878.82
over the legal limit.
A new sawmill to cost $50,000 is
soon to be ereoted on the water front
in Taooma by a company, at the head
of whioh is H. M. Lillis. Work on
the mill is to be commenced in thirty
days. The capacity of the mill will be
80,000 feet of lumber per day.
Secretary Robinson, of the horticul
tural sooiety, requests that the school
clerks of the discriots aiijaoeut to Lake
Chelan, while taking the oensus of
their respective distriots, also take
down the total number of trees that
have been planted, by whom, number
bearing, etc
Idaho
The Golden Winnie, near Murray,
has one of the most oomplete milling
plants in the state. It has given splen
did satisfaction from the first day.
The Daddy mine has laid off one
shift in order that development work
may proceed. This will only last a
few days, when a full force will
aRain be employed. The oompany is
making arrangements to add a battery
of five stamps to the mill.
The miners of Florenoe distriot in
mass meeting assembled decided unan
imously upon the location of a new
town to be situated a quarter of a mile
south of the old town of Florence on
Summit Flat, says the Graugeville
Free Press. The new town is to be
called "New Florence."
John Kent, who left Clark county
about two years ago for Johannesburg,
South Africa, writes to his brother,
Amandus Kent, that he was quite seri
ously hurt by an rxplosiun which oc
curred at that place February 17, when
sixty ton of dynamite on a tourist oar
exploded, killing about 400 people. Mr.
Kent ws standing about 800 feet from
the scene of the explosion.
Shoshone oounty fas added $100,
000,000 to the mineral wealth of the
world in the thirty-five years of its
history, and great as that sum is it
will be more than equalled in the next
ten years, while the succeeding decade
will produce wealth beyond the powers
of men's mind to comprehend.
The cattle men between Cheney and
Cow creek, two weeks ago, formed a
protective association and waited on
the owners of sheep who were herding
on the strip, and requested them to
move their flocks below a certain line.
The sheepmen have declared that they
will not be driven off the range, and
they are also organizing and will resist
with arms any attempt to put them off.
Alontuua.
The Etta Mining Company oomposod
of Portland men, and under the man
agement of Arthur Wilson is operating
some valuable claims near Radersburg.
Part of the work laid out for immedi
ate construction is a 700-foot tunnel
running from Keating gulch which
will tap the main shaft the 200-foot
level.
Considerable excitement was caused
in Great Falls over the arrival of a
Soadinavian known as Illing Elwing,
with nearly $2,500 worth of gold dust
and nuggets. The man zealously
guarded the exact location where it
came from, but said that he and his
partner had washed the gold out in two
weeks' time.
But one of the bodies of the six un
fortunate men who met their doom in
the Hope mine at Basin has been recov
ered, that of John Buokley. The other
bodies will not be reoovered for some
time as a new shaft will be sunk and
the mine drained of water. A thor
ough examination has been made of
every part of the mine above the 200,
and it is now definitely certain that the
men are on the 800-foot level.
Report says that the rich streak of
shipping ore in the breast of the adit
tunnel of the Trade Dollar mine is now
about twenty inches in width, besides
nearly three feet of milling ore. These
recent developments in the mine will
be of incalculable benefit to this whole
district, aB it shows great value and
permanency of the Florida mountain
ledges. The mine is making its regular
shipments of concentrates and bullion.
STATUE OF GRANT.
Unveiled at Brooklyn, With Impreulva
Ceremonies,
Brooklyn, April 28. The Union
League equestrian statue of Ulysses S.
Grant was nnveiled this afternoon.
The bronze statue, whioh is the work
of W. Ordway Partridge, is colossal,
measuring from the hoof of the horse,
where it rests on the granite pedestal
to the top of the hat, fifteen feet and
eight inches. The pedstal is sixteen
feet high, and the entire height of the
statue is thirty-one feet eight inohes.
The dedication today was made the
occasion of a splendid military pageant,
10,000 soldiers of the United States
army, the National Guard of New
York and sailors and marines from the
navy-yard being in line. The Grand
Army of the Republio was largely
represented. When the procession
reached the olnbhouse, Governor Mor
ton and staff, who were in waiting,
were loudly oheered. After the
bands had played the "Coronation
March" and other American national
airs, General Stewart Woodford, presi
dent of the Union League Club, pre
sented the statue to Mayor Frederick
W. Wurster as the representative of
Brooklyn. As General Woodford
stepped to the platform Ulysses S.
Grant, a grandson of the general,
pulled a string and the statue was ex
posed amidst cheering from 20,000
throats. General Horace Porter de
livered the oration.
reaerful Settlement.
London, April 29. First Lord of the
Treasury A. J. Balfour, replying to
Sir William Vernon Harooort, the lib
eral leader, said in the house of com
mons today that the arrangements for
consideration of the arbitration respect
ing Venezuela and other questions are
the matters that Great Britain and the
United States had in view during the
recent negotiations. Balfour added
that the last communication from the
United State arrived on Friday and
was now under consideration. Balfour
said the government would deal with
both the general question of arbitration
and also with a special question con
nected vith Venezuela, and it was con
fidently hoped that by patience and tact
on both sides a peaoeful solution of the
matter will be attained.
The War In Cuba.
Havana, April 29. In the engage
ment fought between Colonel Nario at
Mount Juaro, in the Cardenas district
of the province of Matanzas, and the
insurgents under Dimas, Martinez
Kegino and A Hon no, among the insur
gents killed were Lientenants Jose tnd
Pablo Regino, a brother of Martinez
Regino.
Macen has ordered all the small
hands of insurgents in Pinar del Rio to
be disarmed in order that their equip
ment may be used to strengthen the
main body.
Persistent rumors sre in circulation
that Antonio Maoeo iutanris to liave
the province of Pinar del Rio and it is
said be is being nlosely watched by
the Spanish officials.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
ROUTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY
FOURTH SESSION.
Sub.u.11,-. f the Killa and Keaolatloni
Introduced in the Senate and Houxe
-Comlenaed Kecocd of the Doing of
the N minimi Lawmakers Senate.
Washington. April 24. Th
today disposed of the sectarian suhnnl
question by adopting a compromise
framed by Senator Cockrell, of Mis
souri. The Indian bill, as it came
from the house, nrovided that "nn
money berien appropriated shall bo
paia ior education in sectarian schools. "
This provision is struck out by the
Cockrell amendment, as adopted, and
it is declared to be the settled policy
of the government to make no appro
priations for sectarian schools after
July 1, 1898, thus giving two years for
the abandonment of sectarian schools,
instead of an immediate ubHndnmnnnt.
The amendment was adopted by the de
cisive vote of 88 to 24. The Indian
bill was not completed when the senate
adjourned. During the day a bill was
paojud providing for govuiiiuiuiit lug il
lation of excursion fleets attending re
gattas; also a resolution calling for in
formation as to the arrest of Bishop
Diaz in Cuba.
Washington. Aoril 25. Several mi.
nor bills were passed at the opening of
me senate today. Prior to taking up
the Indian appropriation bill Call asked
for an agreement by whioh the senate
would tane up nis resolution directing
the president to dispatch a naval force
to Cuba for the Protection ,of Amnrinnn
interests, but on appeals not to inter
rupt tne Indian bill be withdrew, stat
ing that he would call up his resolu
tion later. The Indian bill wilh then
taken up, the question being on Piatt's
amendment extending the services of
the Dawes committee, with a view to
the making of a roll of the Cherokee
and kindred nations. The oommittee
is given directions toward terminating
the tribal relations of the Indiana mid
dividing their lands in severalty. The
ueDate was protracted. The Indian ap
propriation bill, as thus amended, was
then passed. At 6 o'clock the senate
went into exeoutive session, and soon
after adjourned.
Washington. Aoril 27. The
ment for international arbitration was
referred to in the prayer of Rev. Hugh
Johnson, in the senate today: "Let
the armies be disbanded; let the world
be at peace," he invoked. The sundry
civil bill was taken up. At 2 o'olock
the bond tesolution was laid before
the senate, and Peffer. its author, nro-
posed modifications to meet the criti
cisms in the recent speech of Hill. A
Venezuela debate came np when the
item of the sundrv oivil bill was
reaohed, authorizing the Venezuela
commission to pay rent for it i quar
ters out of the $10,0000 apppropriated
for its expenses. Gorman suggested
that legislation was in order. In great
baste and a great emergenoy, congress
had appropriated $100,000, at the sug
gestion of the president, for the pur
pose, as was supposed, of preventing a
war. But now it appeared that the
legislation was not effective in oetini?
quarters for the commission.
BOQH,
Washington, April 24. The Fifth
Alabama distriot was not represented
t the house last nieht. Cobb had hnen
unseated, but the seating of his contest
ant went over until today, when the re
port Wa adODted. 144 to RK. and finnA.
win was sworn in. On motion of
Cockrell, a bill was passed to organize
the territory heretofore known aa
oounty, Texas (deoided by the supreme
oourt to do a part ol Oklahoma), as
Greer county, Oklahoma. By an
amendment adopted, the present oonnty
officers were confirmed in their tenure
until the election in November next.
Pickler. chairman of the Gnmmit.tAA nn
invalid pensions, then called up his
general pension bill. Piokler took the
floor and made an extended Rnennh in
support of the meanure. At the con
clusion oi nis remarks the house, at
4:40 p. m., adjourned.
Washington, April 26. The house
todav. On motion ot Tulhnrr. nnonim.
ously adopted a resolution calling on
the secretary of state for all informa
tion relative to the arrest and imprison
ment in Cuba of Rev. Di MSB. (!miaiHar.
atiou of the Pickler general pension
tun was resumed, and McClellan spoke
in opposition to the measnra Ma inninri.
ed to be a republican sop M the sena
tors, aun a reflection on the administra
tion Mild IieilHIOU laws hv thn tiriu.nt
exeoutive officers. The best the ma
jority could du for the old soldier, he
said, was to bring in this bill, whi.th
is reported to put upon the peuMon
rolls the names of bounty jumpers and
men who had diverted from the ranks
of the Confederacy.
Washington. April 27 Thin wm
private-bill dy. bv nnanii iriliia nnn.
sent bills were passed empowering the
oity of Tuseon. A T., to issue bunds to
the amount of $IOll,(j0ll for the con
struction of a wau-r and sewer system,
and to anthnricit the jetuni, frne of
duty, of uitioiM exported for exhibition
purpimea. .nines presented a ri port on
the ooi tested tleotiou oase ot Ckirnntt
vs. Swanson, of the fifth Virginia dis
trict, in favor of the Democratio sit
ting member. The pension bills
favorably acted upon Friday night
were passed. Amoim them wua
pension the widow of the late Brigadier-General
Ferdinand Vandervere, at
the rate of $50 per month. The house
then proceeded with thn riaiiata nn u
pension bill, and adjourned at 5:30.
MINISTER WILLIS RETURNS
rtenle That He In fenoua Hon Urate
with the Hawaiian (iovernment.
San Franoisco. Am-il 27. AlWr. s
Willis, minister from this country to
the Hawaiian islands.
Honolulu today. He says that he is
in ill health, and with his family will
go to his old home in Louisville to
ipemi nis three months' leave of ab-
senoe. He denies absolutely the
stories that he is persona nou grata
with the Hawaiian people or govern
ment, and says that he was not sum
moned to Washington upon complaint
of the Hawaiian eov.mimmih un.i ti.-t
no reproof has been given by Seoretary
vmoy ior any aot oi nis in Honolulu.
Willis declares that he has reoeived
nothing but kindness from the Ha
waiians, and declares positively that
he will return to his post at Honolulu
at the expiration of his furlough.
ine report that I shshted thn TTa.
waiians on Washington's birthday,"
said Mr. Willis, "is absolutely untrue.
I entertained no one at dinner nn thut
day, but President Dole, of his own
volition, sent tlie government band to
my home to Dlav during r.h
So far as my failure to observe the Ha
waiian repuwio anniversary on January
17, is oonoerued, that is a matter
Whioh I Will disOUSS OUlv with thn atata,
department. Aly position in decliniug
to participate in the celehru rinn wua
the result of my careful consideration
of the orders under whioh I am in
structed to represent the United States
at Hawaii. I was beyond the reach of
telegraph wire, and I must often ant
without any speoial consultation with
me seoretary oi state."
FARALLONE DAMAGED.
Well-Known Coaster Htrikel an Oa-
marked Koek.
San Franoisoo. Am-il 27. Thesro.im
sohooner Farallone from San Farumsoo
lor Yaquina bay and other points
along the northern coast, run nn a m.ii.
merged rock when one day out. At
uureKa tne snip was examined and it
Was discovered that her forennot had
been torn off and the keel of the vessel
badly damaged for a distance of forty
feet It is exneoted the vensal will k
taken off the drydook, and will arrive
in Ban rrrancisoo on or about May 8.
The rock nnon which tha Wui-minna
so nearly met destruction, is described
Dy captain rtouerts as being about 7)
miles south of Point Nnrdu ami i ty
miles out to Eea. When the tide is
nearly at its height the rook is oovered
by about nine feet of water.
One of the most dangerous features
of the matter is that the oaptain de
clares the rock ia not down nn Aha
charts, and is indeed a grave danger to
navigation, roint uorda Is one of the
most dangerous points on the ooast, and
is the spot where the steamer Hum-
ooio i wag reoeutly wrecked. The Ill
fated Bawnmore alan run nn tn n rnnV
at that point about two years ago, but
iortunateiy escaped.
Another Veto.
Washington. Aoril 2ft Thn nmal.
dent today sent to the bouse a message
vetoing tne mil granting a pension of
$50 to Franois E. Hoover. The presi
dent says he does not understand that
it is claimed in anv nnurtnr thur. thn
present helplessness of this soldier is at
all attributable to his army aervifiAa.
The president says:
lo grant him a pension of $50 a
month without the leust
that bis pitiable disability is related to
his army service, and in view of the
fact that he is now receiving the high
est pension allowed by a general law
enacted to expressly meet suuli cases, it
seems to me, would result in an unfair
discrimination us nirai nut munv Ihnn.
sand worthy soldiers similarly situ-
UM3U.
Mm Bryau Teatllled.
Cinoinatti. Anril 97.
the trial at Newport, Ky., for the mur
der of Pearl Bryan grows more intense
daily. Eleven witnesses warn nr.
amiued today. The nolicv nf tlm
prosecution is to present tne cusn in tha
order of time as nearly as possible.
The defense has, by cross-examination,
indicated that its line will be to oreate
doubt as to whether the girl wa mur
dered in Ohio or Keutm ky. Of the.
nine witnesses examined in the after
noon, the testimony of Mrs. Bryan, the
mother of Pearl, was full of pathos.
When asked how she was able to idon
tify the headless girl sent to Greenoas
tie, as her own Pearl, she answered
with thrilling effeot:
"It is difficult for a mother to be de
ceived about recognizing her own
child.'
i , ,
Tho owners of the Peacock and other
I properties in the Seven Devils country
! are letting contracts for the hauling
' of 1,600 fms of oopper ore to the near
est railioad point.
A well ben, if not too fat, is foil
of life. Sick bens mope.
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