Lincoln County Leader!
OREGON LEGISLATURE.
J. P. MTKWAKT. fublUlmr.
TOLEDO ORKGOX
IHE Ml OF IDE WEEK
ComprebenaiTe Review of the Import
ant Happening of the 1'aat Week
Culled Front the Telegraph Column
Alice M. Hartley, who phot, and
killed Senator Foley, in Keno, Nev.,
two years ago, has been pardoned.
Charles A. Warrinian, cashier at the
Great Northern depot in Butte, Mont, J each being a minority. All efforts to
committed suicide in his room. An- i unite and agree on any member for
ditor Frev had just bosun the examina-! sneaker have been futile. Much bitter
The first week of the Oregon legisla
ture closed with but little accom
plished. The organization of the sen
ate was effected promptly on the first
day, and Joseph Simon, of Multnomah,
who hold the same position two years
ago, was seated as president. The sen
ate was in session four days, during
which time eighty-five bills were in
troduced, and then the senate ad
journed over until Monday, in order
to give the state printer time to catch
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The Unorganized Home.
The house was unable to perfect or
ganization, a quorum not being found
present at any time a roll call was had.
The members are divided into three
factions on the senatorial nominee,
tion of his accounts.
Prfncess de Chimay, who eloped last
Bummer with Janos Kigo, a Hungarian
gypsy musician, has been engaged to
appear in tableaux vivant at a winter
garden in Berlin immediately after her
divorce from her husband. She will
be paid $750 a night.
The nomination of David R. Francis
flu SPerMnry of the intorinr ha" hnnn f:t
Torably acted upon by the committee
on finance and reported to the senate in
executive session. The nomination has
been held up ever since tho session be
gan at the request of Senator Vest.
talk ami discussion
since the first day.
has been the rule
Senatorial Caucua.
Near the end of the week forty-three
Republican" and one Populist held a
caucus at the state capitol and unani
mously nominated John 11. Mitchell for
United States senator.
New Billa Four In.
Patterson of Marion has introduced
j a bill making general provision for the
J transportation of all insane persons to
the asylum. His bill provides that
the county clerk shall notify the super
intendent of the asylum that he has an
insane person to be conveyed to the asy
lum. The superintendent then au
thorizes some employe of the asylum
to repair to the county seat, where the
insane person will be delivered to him,
and he will conduct such insane person
to the asylum. All the expense is to
After a long and animated session in
Olympia the presidential electors of
Washington agreed upon James E. Fen
ton, Democrat, of Spokane, as messen
ger to convey the vote of the state to
Washington. The choice was a com
promise, as the electors were at first
unable to agree upon any one of the
four elected, each one striving for the i he home hv the ..svlnin fund!
honor. The sum of $800 is allowed 1 '
for expenses. ' Senator Mackay bis introduced a bill
The trial of Mrs. Walter Carew j for the appointing of a fiscal agent at
charged with poisoning her husband New York city, who is to look alter
by administering arsenic, and which I the state's financial interests,
has caused a great sensation among the !
American inhabitants of Yokohama
has been brought to a dramatic close
Two other bills of a general nature
were introduced, one by Senator Mc
Clung, which authorizes the mayor o!
any city to bid in property sold at pub
lic sale for taxes. The other was by
Senator Smith, authorizing counties,
cities and school districts to dispose of
real estate acquired at tax sales.
by the appearance and confession in
court of Miss Mary Jacobs, tho gov
erness of the family, who, it seems,
was the real murdoress and the person
who wove tho chain of evidence around
' tho widow.
Attorney-General Harmon was asked
about the probable course the govern- Senator Mieholl has called attention
meat will pursue with respect to tho ; to the subject of navigation on the Co
Paoifle railroads, now the funding bill ; i,mii,iji ,ivor, bv introducing a bill au
has failed. Beyond the statement that thorizing the "governor to appiont a
some action would probably be taken ! commission to construct and equina
within thirty days, ho declined to dis-; portage railway from The Dalles to
cuss tho matter. It is believed, how- Olilo.
ever, the first step will be against the ;
Union Pacific, inasmuch as foreclosure The bill of Senator Price of Uina
proceedings instituted by the first lien j tilla, for the collection of delinquent
holders of that road are now pending in taxes, provides that all property levied
the courts. ; upon shall be advertised ami sold in
Tho inauguration of Governor Tan- i the. "'um' "'aimer as real estate, thus
ner in Springfield, 111., developed a ! BI,V'"K expense. Senator Price has
sensation at tho close of the statehouse a'H0 '"trndueed a bill which enables
ceremony, when the retiring governor, I a 'ilrln 'iiurer to file a lien upon a
John P. AUgeld, was not permitted to ' growing crop, even though there be a
deliver tho farewell address which has 1 '"""teutfe on the crop.
boon one of tho features of the pre-
vious inaugurations in Illinois. Gov- Senator MeClung's bill, No. 5, "to
emor Altgeld had prepared his speech i define the terms land and real property,
and had brought a copy of it to the ! fr the purposes of taxation," is vir
hall, but he was not called upon by the j tually a re-establishment of the old
presiding officer to speak. Much in- mortgage-tax law. It provides, how
dignation was aroused by the occur- evi'ri for the exemption only of record
renoe. : ed indebtedness, and in that particular
Lord Georgo Hamilton, secretary of i uiffl'rs fr,)m the old law, and from
stato for the Indian department, has j otl"'r lm,llo'd statutes.
sent to the lord mayor of London the '
statement upon which the appeal for i The registration bill introduced in
subscriptions for tho relief of the fam- I the senate by Senator Harmon is iden
ino sufferers in India is based. He!''1'11' w'tu the measure to be intro
says that districts with a population of ' dueed in the house by Thomas of Mult-
nt.uuu.uuu will be sufferers from tin. nonmi
famine until the end of March
and it
may continue in some parts to tho end
of June. In other districts, having
iHiimiiuou, me nistress may
Senator Taylor's bill amending the
incorporation act of Pendleton changes
tho city charter in three particulars.
deepen with famine 'for a fliulrt(r Provides that (1) tho city inay be di-
longer period, while (1.000.00(1 """ " l'res-
hut. wi HM'.w irk's
HVsttMn iuhv be on-
jfrtivity HnttMu; and (3)
in inn imnvo Mtntoa m..tf k., t
famine. ' ' " l ' largod into a
Ti,., l, ..,., ... , ,. , . that city treasurers shall hereafter be
has . , ZITT i? ,ml,1U' ,,,n:U PPi"ted by the city council, and not
n ! 1 . '' ? f:'V"nl 'U' r',ort ,m th i elected by the people. There has been
; ' . '". Vs " 111 'V,,rsol, ,,r'l'''"-" i trouble in Pendleton over
'c rai i roan lands, whose right
wouiu nave heeu lorfiuted Jan
luurv 1.
iosii, lor noncompliance with law, i
shall have an additional term of two I
years in which to comply with the j
regulations. The committee also or
dered a favorable report on a bill allow
ing settlers on Indian lands opened to
settlement in the Dakotas to acquire
patent by paying the minimum price
provided by law any time after the ex
piration of fourteen months from the
date of entry.
The four presidential electors of Ore
gon met in Salem and cast their ballots
for William McKinley and Garret Ho
hart. lion. T. T. Goer was elected
messenger to carry the vote to Wash
ington. A dispatch from Nice says that
eighty-two persons, including the
mayor and the mayor's assistant, to
gether with many prominent citizens,
have boon arraigned for corruption in
the municipal elections.
Advices received from Manila show
that the Philippine insurgents who
were deported to tho Landrane islands,
the Spanish penal settlement in tho Pa
cific, recently made a desperate attempt
to escape, but were overpowered by the
gur risen and Spanish marines. Eighty
t tho convicts wero killed and forty
wounded.
r making the
city funds immediately available when
they are desired for the payment
warrants. It is thought that, if t.
temptation for candidates to phu.
themselves under personal obligation
to financial institutions has been re
moved, the difficulty about tho funds
may be obviated.
Senator Mulkey, of Polk, has intro
duced into the senate a bill covering
the subject of taxation. The bill, in
effect, is practically a re-enactment of
the mortgage-tax law. It has three
general objects in view (1) the assess
ment of all property, (J) equal and im
partial collection of taxes, (:i).eeonoin
in operation. Senator Mulkey says it
will save the stato at least $55,000 per
year. The bill pro ides for the deduc
tion of indebtedness whore the corre
sponding credit can bo found and as
sesse.1. It abolishes the state board of
equalization as it is now constituted,
vesting that duty in the governor, sec
rotary of state and stato treasurer. It
also provides for the collection of taxes
on the original assessor's roll and for
the sending of the summary only of the
roll to the stato board of equal'ization.
It makes the county treasurer tho col
lector of taxes up to the Hint of delin
quency, when they shall be collected by
the sheriff.
MeClung's senate bill relating to the
qualifications of school election voters
requires that the voter shall have paid
j an annual tax on $250 worth of prop
erty. The present law is somewhat
i lax", and more or loss confusing. There
j is some doubt of the constitutionality
lot MeClung's bill, but the judiciary
i committee will pass upon that ques
! tion. Senator McClung says the trou
; bles at tjie late school election in Port
land anil Eugene led him to prepare a
more desirable law.
; The inevitable deduction-for-indebt-edness
bill lias been presented to the
j senate. It comes from Senator Daw
son, 01 J-.1 11 11 .
The question of supplying each mem
ber of senate ami house with a copy of
Hill's Code of Oregon, evoked some de
bate in the senate. McClung presented
a joint resolution that the secretary of
state be ordered to purchase ninety
copies of the code. He afterward ex
plained that a similar resolution had
been adopted by the senate, but, inas
much as it was only a senate resolu
tion, the secretary of state was unwill
ing to comply except on joint request
of both houses. Soiling of Multnomah
thought that from an economical stand
point, twenty-five copies would be
sufficient, ten for the senate and fifteen
for the house. Price of Umatilla sug
gested that fifteen copies would be
sufficient for the senate, giving one to
each new member. MeClung's resolu
tion was finally adodted.
Another subject of debate was the
resolution requiring the appropriation
bill to be prepared a sufficient time be
fore the close of the session to permit a
careful examination. One member
wanted the bill prepared within the
first twenty-five days. This was gen
erally regarded as too soon to be prac
ticable, and it was finally settled that
the bill should be before the senate
five days before the close of the session.
Senate Committees
President Simon has announced the
standing committees of the senate as
follows:
Agriculture anil Forestry Johnson,
Hughes, Holt.
Assessment and Taxation Hughes,
Patterson of Marion, Price, Mulkey,
Mackay.
Claims Selling, Carter, Daly.
Commerce and Navigation Harmon,
Johnson, Dufur.
Counties Mackav. Gesner. Talvor.
Gowan, Driver.
Education McClung, Harmon. Mul
key.
Elections and Privileges Mulkov.
Gesner, Smith.
Engrossed Bills Gesner. Reed.
Mitchell.
Enrolled Bills Calbreath. P:itti rsnn
of Washington, and Gowan.
v eueral delations Bates, Tavlor,
Dufur.
Fishing Industries Reed, Mieholl,
Patterson of Marion.
Horticulture Carter, Calbreath,
Holt.
Insurance and Banking Bates, John
son, Driver.
Irrigation Price, McClung, King.
Judiciary Gowan, Brownell, Mich
ell, Smith, Dufur.
Revision of Laws Patterson of
Washington, McClung, Reed, Hobson,
King.
Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry
Calbreath, Driver, Daly.
Military Affairs Price, Haseltine,
Gesner.
Penal Institutions Driver, Hobson
Selling.
Mining Johnson, King, Holt.
Municipal Corporations Haseltine,
Harmon, Calbreath.
Printing Mieholl, Mackay, Smith.
Public Buildings and Institutions
Hobson, Patterson of Washington,
Wade. '
Public Lands Patterson of Mm-i,
Mulkey, Dawson, Haseltine, Wade.
Railroads Brownell, Gowan, Patter
son of Washington, Mackay, Dawson.
Roads and Highways Dawson, Car
ter, Hobson, Brownell, Daly.
Ways and Means Taylor, McClung,
Selling, Hughes, Dawson.
Tariff Makerii Kun on a Snag.
Washington, Jan. 18. Tho Republi
can tariff-makers held no meeting to
day, having encountred several per
plexing points in the chemical schedule
which they began work on last night.
Certain members were assigned to pro
cure information on varioug points,
and tomorrow the committee will re
sume work on the schedule.
From the experience of the first ses
sion of real work on the bill, it is con
sidered by tho members doubtful
whether it will be practical for them
to lollow tho original plan of work
which was to have the full committee
work together on every schedule of tho
bill, instead of dividing the schedules
among the subcommittees.
A roul and 11 li Montr,
San Francisco, Jan. 18. Oscar Low,
a Victoria man, was buncoed out of
$130 today by the old dice game trick.
Low lives at tho Yosemito house, on
Market street, and started for the Bar
bary Coast for a drink. He got into a
saloon on Sacramento street, and there
began shaking dice with a stranger.
He lost $110, and a newly made friend
told him ho could boat the winner out
of all his money if Low could only get
some more cash. The victim went to
his room, and got $100, more. He re
turned to tho saloon, and soon lost
that. Then he complained to the nr..
lice.
HOUSE MAY KILL IT.
Little Chance of Favorable Action on
llomeateari 11111.
Washington, Jan. 18. The support
ers of the free homestead bill fear that,
the measure has ben killed, so far as
this congress is concerned, by the ac
tion of Speaker Reed in referring it to
the house committee on public lands
for the consideration of the senate
amendments. The house committee is
not strongly in favor of the plan. That
committee voted to report the bill to
the house by a majority of only one,
when it provided only for freo homes
for the Oklahoma settlors.
The senate amendments greatly
widen the scope of the bill, extending
its provisions to all public land states,
and it is doubtful whether the housu,
committee will sanction tho changes.
The bill's supporters fear that if the
committee does not make an adverse
report, it will keep tho bill and take
no action on it before adjournment,
which course would effectually dispose
of it.
In the House.
Washington, Jan. 18. The proceed
ings in the house today were very
tame. It was private bill day, but the
whole time wiib consumed in passing
through the bnnor rill? favorably acted
upon in committee of the whole before
the holdiay recess. The widow of the
late Major-General Gibbon was the
beneficiary of one of the bills passed
carrying $100 per month, and the
widow of Brevet Major-General W. A.
Nichols, of another, carrying $75 per
month. The free homestead bill, which
came back to the house with senate
amendments, was referred under a rul
ing of the chair to the committee on
public lands.
A ge for Retirement.
Washington, Jan. 18. A bill fixing
the age for retirement from the classi
fied civil service wiib introduced by
Representative Gillette, of Massachu
setts. It proivdes that any office in
tiie classified service held by a person
who at the time of the passage of the
act is over 62 years of age, shall be
come vacant in three years. Any office
in the service shall hereafter become
vacant when the person holding it be
comes 65 years old. Veterans of the
civil war and their widows are excepted
from the provision.
For the Purchase or Cuba.
Washington, Jan. 18. Representa
tive Spencer of Mississippi, has intro
duced in the house a bill as follows:
"The secretary of stato is hereby au
thorized to offer to the government of
Spain a sum of money not to exceed
$200,000,000 for the purchase of the
island of Cuba. And the sum of $10,
000, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to defray the expenses of
pending negotiations, is hereby appro
priated." WAS BLOWN TO BITS.
Dynamite Exploded In Miner Damlau.'l
Cabin.
Seattle, Jan. 18. In attempting to
thaw out a few sticks of dynamite by
placing them on a hot stove, F. Den
dauf was instantly killed and horribly
mutilated at Black Diamond Thurs
day. Thursday morning about 10
o'clock, Dendauf, who is in the employ
of Lawson Bros., took ten sticks of the
explosive to his cabin to warm them
up. From that time until noon he
was alone, and the exact manner in
which tho accident occurred can never
be known, but during the noon hour,
when all hands were at dinner, a ter
rific explosion was heard. Everybody
rushed eut and found tho entire side
and part of the roof of Dendauf's cabin
had been torn away and hurled against
the side of another cabin sixty feet dis
tant. The interior of what remained
of the cabin was a total wreck, every
thing in shreds and fragments, witli
the body of Dendauf in the midst.
Some flying missile, presumably a bit
of the stove, entered his head near the
right eye, going directly through the
skull und leaving a holo two inches
square; the right leg was broken in
two places between the hip and knee,
and the flesh of the whole right side
hung in tatters. Death must have
been instantaneous.
BLUE CUT ROBBERY.
Alleged Leader Claims There la Con.
piracy to Convict Him.
Kansas City, Jan. 18. John Ken
nedy who was indicted as the leader
of the gang which twice held up and
robbbed Chicago & Alton trains at
Blue Cut, wrote out and signed a
statement today charging that there
was a conspiracy to convict him. There
seems to be some grounds to substan
tiate his statement as regards John
Land, an important witness against
him. It is given out, moreover, from
authoritative sources that the robbers
secured almost $30,000, and not $3,
300, as first claimed by the express
company. For tho conviction of the
men concerned; it is also said big re
wards have been offered. In 1882,
Land, who lives in the Blue Cut local
ity, was convicted of perjury in falsely
swearing that three of his neighbors
had been connected in the Jesse James
train robbery of that year near Inde
pendence. Land is a state witness in
the present case.
Important Cuban City
tured by GorJ
NOW MOVING
ON
Spaniard
KllUd,
Cuban
Loat
81M11 tW
Wounded ,d ,r
Lo li .,.. ."
Now York, Ja,,. 18,T
morning claims t haTC
"irougl, private channels, t CI
Maximo Gome storm! ' Tl
the important city of SanU f
ia now i
uuvlarv IcmiI,.- n..:i- " 4
mortal v womi.i .u.
The news received lWlfe.
the losses urn? 0...:.i '
i .it i '-I'uran, ffl,
killed and wounded, 900; pr
700; cannon captured, 18;tal
arils, 4; rifles in the Smni.i J
"im wounded.
which is 00 more than th,i.
loss. The Press quotes CarW
as saying the report is credillt
junta has no news.
New York, Jan. 18.-Acw!j
nie i-ress- advices, the garr?
Santa Clara had been reduced ti
men, while Gomez had 8.000
being armed. On Januarjilt
vesieu ine city, winch was Weil
fled. Gomez sent the infanb
General Kabi to the west o! ti.
The cavalry, 400 strong, under
tin Bandera, was placed on the
three Bides, its main strenirthV:
tho east. On the 6th, !th ir
there were skirmishes, Generslil
being wounded on the latter d.
On the 9th, at daybreak, He t
closed in on the town and the
charged over the earthworb
tho enemy to flight. Bander,
while leading his men, and die.
after. Gomez gave his men
night's rest. Then, leavingip-
of 1,500 men, ho pushed it
west. Those of his menwhob
weapons wero armeil from the
arsenal, so that in fighting meii.
nearly as strong as before the be
No sooner hail the news ol !!
of Santa Clara reached the i
around about than they began v
to Gomez's standard. Everji
went he got new recruits.
The news received lust nights.
had an army of 18,000 vs.
equipped.
The March on Biral
New York, Jan. 18.-A Han;
patch to the World Bays: Ci-
who have slipped through the S:.
lines in Matanzas province brira
that General Gomez is u
marching on Havana slowly but i
and that his advance guard if If-'
waste the country as it proceed.
people of Havana are at last bee-:
alarmed at the situation, anu i
possibly can have already K
place.
HE DIED AT HIS POST
U. B. Mlnlater Wlllla SuecumW
Lingering llin
San Francisco, Jan. 18.-1
just received from Honolulu pw
ship Monowai are as follows
ti i.,i T.in fl United
J1UIIII1U1U, -
Minister Albert S. Willi.
A. M., JanaryS, alter an mm
ii.rr uovnrnl mmit.Ilfl.
In April last the minister
family left Hawaii iorn
-i.i u. T.ii,n.-illp. W hile
OIU JIOIUC fc . ,
Francisco on the return trip,
ister contracted a severe
..i.i r,..n limes. -
rtritiuu uu ..." o , a
; rf his M-
,t n,,toi.r 31. while
wv i
church, his horse ran away
i nr:n: tn tha cround.
lur. niiiiB w o-
taken to a physician's office
. ..nllr tfl ft--
soon recovcrea sumw-"'v
... u-..:i.;i.l Heue"
ins nomo at . ,.
again. The fever in"
cold taken in San f,
into pneumonia, in"
, .1.. !. that it W'
ly on viio i
checked. All human effort
pended without avail, ij
oians labored incessantly, w
u nn the caw
queni. ki""'-" ,u. &
days before Christmas, the m
pronounced uopeus -P
Soon after the dtholg.
this morning, all the J'
raent and shipping tap
to half-mast. Pf&
were general, and hu '
have the sympathy of the
munity.
Washington, Jan. ,
dent today sent to beboa
the bill to establish "
the eastern juuumi
and to provide for courts M M
Washington Jan. 18, ,
has approved tiie a
purchase oi pum', " im
and the act jrnnWJU
widow of General li.