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FROM ALICEL. Shipment of Cattle to the Portland Market. A DAILY MAIL SERVICE WANTED. Unjust Discrimination of ths Railroad Company A Tenderfoot. Plenty of snow on the Sauclriilgc. John West, of Mount Eagle, was in the city this week. There is a petition boing circulated for a daily mail service for Alicel. This end of the valley gets an over dose of jurymen at this term of circuit court. Wm. Kucktnan is still going around on crutches, caused by a horse falling on him. G. W. Ruckman went to Portland this week to purchase a boll for the Sandridge church. The M. E. church, North, is talking of putting up a large church building at Alicel in the spring. Cooper Bros, started their fine bunch of cattle to market this week. They looked as big as elephants and surely such stock will bring fancy prices in the Portland market. The question as to the division of school district number 10 has been be fore the people for a week or ten days. We hope that the question will be de cided to the satisfaction of all con concerned. Suminerville has started to move to "Kettlebelly." One small building is on the way at present and more are to follow. Soon the site where once stood a flourishing town will be a field of waving grain. Workmen are at work on the Elgin branch, putting in extra cattle guards for open crossings for most of the far mers on the Sandridge; but still they persist in accommodating a few. How ever there will bo litigation in the court on the subject. "Carrie C," of the Press, must be a tenderfoot from the back woods of Ar kausaw, by the way her modesty was shocked by hearing the names of oni large cities (on paper) mentioned. We would suggest that sho soak her head for ft week or two and then see if she could study up another name for the little infant. Meanwhile we will stick to the original name 'Kettlebelly." Mixkhva Ann. WASHINGTON. News of the Week as Noted by Our Reg ular Correspondent. Washington, 1). C. Jan. 30, 181)1. Emxon Oukuon Scout: The shelving of the election bill for the second time, in the senate, created a veritable sensation among the repub licans in both house and senate, be cause it was entirely unexpected by them, and for a time the wildest kind of talk about rotaliat.on, the killing of the free coinage bill and other meas ures in which the republican senators who voted against lhn election bill are interested, but as usual, upon second thoughts common sense prevailed, the skies became clear and both housoand senate settled down to the work which has been more or less neglected of late, the senate taking up the apportionment bill, which is to have tho riuht of way until disposed of, and the house tho regular appropriation bills. Tho republicans of the somite have arranged an order of business to come after tho apportionment bill, which in cludes in tho order named the follow ing measures: Tho eight hour bill, tho international copyright bill, the Paddock pure food bill and tho bill guaranteeing: 200,000,000 of bonds of tho Nicaragua canal company. Thoro is considerable mystery about this last named measure, and I believe that that id tho method which has been adopted by its promoters to secure its passage. Whispers about coming in ternational complications and tho mil itary necessity of tho canal may do to pass it through tho senato, but it will bo strango if the people and tho news papers do not demand a much fuller bill of particulars before consenting to tho investment of .$200,000,000 in it, which is a good deal of money for evon as wealthy a country as this. A notion has become prevalent nmong silver mon in tho house, that a j majority f tho committee ou coinage, ! which i" now considering tho fruo coin-: ago bill, h is dotonnhiud to delay re porting that moasuro to tho hoiuu on tho plea of giving hearing to dologu tions uutd it will bo too Into .'or the house to act uHn it. Tho members et tiio committee dony thin, but thy fact that a majority of tho cominitUo have voted against a motion for tho committee to vote upon the bill next Wednesday, it is evident that they pro pose delaying it as long as possible. Senator Washburne has nnnouneel hinuolf as tho instigator of a move ment to havo tho free coinage bill amended in the house to meet tho ob jections of Mr. Harrison to unlimited free coinage. Tin idea has fow sup porters so far as 1 can learn, being op posed by both the silver and tho anti silver men. Things are getting warm around the committee engaged in investigating the silver pool. Gen. IT. V. Urynton, tho well known correspondent, was in formed by a gentleman who claimed to havo heard it, that in a conversation with Representative Dingley, chairman of the committee, and JleprsenUitivo Payne, a member of the committee, it was broadly intimated that Senator Vest would never havo been allowed to testify if it had been known that his testimony would show up Senator Cameron's silver speculations. Gen. Prynton's informant was Mr. Steph ens, of St. Louis. Messrs. Dingley and Payne say that no such conversation over took place between them. In the meantime the committee is finding out very little about who has boon speculating in silver. Tho Pehring sea case was argued be fore tho supremo court this week. There was little in the arguments that had not already been covered by tho newspapers. A delegation of Sioux Indians got here yesterday. They came from the Pine Ridge agency, and havo a string of grievances a yard long, which, by the aid of interpreters, they poured into tho cars of Secretary Noble today. Senators Davis and Washburne aro making a hard fight for tho amend ment to the apportionment bill, giving Arkansas, .Minnesota and New York one additional member eaoh, but the chances seem to bo against them, par ticularly because of a desire to pass the house bill without amendment, it being feared that if amended it might fail to be acted on by the house at this session, the end of which is growing dangerously near. The democrats are still suspicious of republican intentions regarding the election bill, and that suspicion is hav ing an eflect upon the speed of legis lation, particularly in the house. It is believed that Mr. Harrison wants the republicans in the senato to make one more final and desperate effort to pass the election bill, but it is not ap parent that the senators take kindly to tho idea.. They have had about as much of this bill as they want, and they see no way in which it can be T. II. C. Wallowa .County Hote3. TmtKi: PrcK, Fob. f, 1S91. During the past week it has boon quite cold, the thermometer loitering about zero from 0 p. m. to 0 a. m. Snow lies all over tho valloys and hills and mountains from G to 110 inches, its depth being governed by locality and altitude. A board of trade has been organized at Joseph by Joseph citizons. If its organization was tho result of a wish to benefit tho wholo peoplo of Wallowa county, without injury to any, good; but if the object sought for is to on haneo tho financial interest of tho fow at tho exponso of the many, I shall modestly protest. E. T. Roupo and P. D. McCully aro stallfeeding about one hundred .'1 and 4 year old steero on the farm of E. T. Roupo. W. II. Winters is feeding f)0 or GO more. There is a largo overplus of hay and grain in this county, and there is no better way of disposing of this surplus than by converting it into beef. Beef will bear transportation ; hay and grain will not. Thoro is considerable sickness along tho river, of a typhus cant. Away from tho rivor there is little if any sickness. There is no malarial exhalations aris ing from the rivor. There cannot bo as thoro is uo stagnant water there. Wherein, then, lien tho otiuo of tho ox cosk of sick of the people residing along, and Ufcing tho water, for domed tic purposes, of the Wallowa river? May not tho oause, tho germ of this sickness, bo located in the waters of Silver lake? Every July red fish, in grantor or less numbers, oomo up from tho oconn to spawn. After spawning, those that aro not caught, die and rot in tho lake. As decomposition advan ces, tho wator, acting like a spongo, takes up tho dissolving putrescence and holds it, a virulent poison. If the inlets to Silver lake wero divurUx), the outflowing river wutild not empty tin immense reservoir in twelve months, perhaps not in two year; hence this full defilement is never entirely tlimi nutoil from the waU-rs of the Uko. Then, if this hywthfHS Ik iruot lie who drinks thin uiu Ul-n wau r, courts disetu and consequent duntli. J. J. JJLHVANS. 1 EAGLE VALLEY. rteins IJeported by Two of j Our Correspondents. i i SHIPMENT OP STALLFED CATTLE. In JfoA of a nallroad-ia Qj.p.-o r:u Blrta r.soora Fsrsoaa: tfo:s. Nkw Ukiikik, February (, 1891. There lire few items this time. The la grippe paid our valley a visit again this winter. Mr. Hindnmn, who has the intlama tory rheumatism, is on tho mend. Porn, to tho wifoof Mr. Charles Wat orbury, a girl. Doth are getting along well. Bom, to the wife of Mr. Harry Par rows, a bnby boy. Mother and child doing nicely. Miss Libbie Hennehoff is thought to be improving, but it will take time for her to regain her strength. As wo havo had such a delightful winter, stock is looking fine. We have some snow but net enough to enjoy sleigh riding. Mr. William ICnoblaugh, who got thrown from a horso some time since and badly hurt by falling on his bond, is slowly recovering. St. Valentino's day will soon bo upon us, and how tiie young lady's heart will gladden when she receives the nice valentines that ore now to be seen in our stores. I havo understood that tho Metho dists, at their nextappointmont, which is (he 14th inst., will begin a protrae tod meeting. How long it will contin ue is not known. School in our Middle district, taught by Mr. Ivendnll, closed last Tuesday, and as your correspondent was not there, cannot givo full particulars, but presume an enjoyable time was ha i, by tho nuinbor of visitors seen on their way homo. Prother T. F. Campbell, of Pakor City, delivored several discourses to the Eagle folks last week, and was lis tened to with intense interest by all. Ho is now in Pine preaching and it is hoped he will 'not go back without speaking to us again. ION A. Nkw BitnxiK, Fob. 4, 1 SO 1 . Everything is quiet in the valley. Our stockmen aro all doing well this winter and cattle aro looking line, es pecially those that havo boon stallfod. No sicknoss to speak of. Mr. A. 1 tinilman is suffering with rheumatism. Miss Libbo Pennohofl' is still in bed, but improving. E. it W. Chandler aro rounding up their horses with a view of hroaking 40 head to ship. Don't know whether they will go east or to Seattle. They havo some very lino largo horses. Frank P. Lee has 6old his farm to Martha P. Ilolman, a sister of W. W. Kirby, late of Iowa. The price paid was $22.50 por aoro. Wo hope that Mr. Lee will remain in the valley as he 1ms many friends horc. Swishor Bros, have just shipped 100 head of fine steers to Portland, and re alized 4 cents a pound. Ben Longloy will ship anothor 100 head soon. Mc Gowon is now on his way to Portland with 100 hoad. Poazloy & Reed aro feeding 100 bond. I don't know whet h er they will ship them or sell in tho valley. Deputy Sborifi Usher has been in tho valley with a remonstrance against an nexing this portion of tho county to Baker, as a petition had already been circulated to that, eflect. The citizens of this part are a long ways from tho county sout and tooinod to think that there would bo a tax levied to build a new court house in Union, and that is tho reason they signed the potitinu. Wo don't want to build a new court house for wo havo enough debt to pay now. Laud is high in Kaglo valley and it will bo still higher if Nuwlun Bradford don't scare oil" all the ruilroml men by writing such pieces to Tub Scour. In his last letter ho says: "The eoplu of Baker City are trying to swindle tho people of Eaglo valloy by wanting to run a railroad through this valley." Wo, tho farmors of Eaglo valley, want to be swindled that way very bad. Tho iieople of Eaglo and Pine valley want a railroad, and would be glad to h ivc it from B.ikcr or any thT poin'. I ItflWi we will get a road from Bukwr to the Seven l) vils mining camp and think it will be built this summer, and will not ask parties who pay no laxe, or have nothing to ship, any odds. Wo xivtT the right of way to show to the railroad oompuny that wo aro ready for a railroad and want it. If tho road will not ray. none oi them will pay. Thousands upon thousands of tons of ore can be shipped ovur this road, be sides worlds of timber, slock and nil manner of produce. Mr. Bradford says: "Let Baker City build a wagon road to the plaeo." We neod that, but we Want a railroad to ship our sur plus. Well, that is enough on the road question for this time. K. 7 AS 7421837 KAN 017 EARTH. TWity-STon Tears in Btu and Stilt Its ia Ftrfaetly Well and Uealtby. Mitchell, Indiana, claims the laziest mid most stubborn man on the earth. About twenty-seven years ago there lived near Paoli, Indiana, a family of negroes named Bond, consisting of a mother, two daughters and a son by the name of John. They were in very comfortable circumstance, owning their own farm. The mother decided to sell the farm, but upon making her decision' known to the children she was met with opposition from her son, who declared that if the farm was sold ho would go to bed and never get up again. No attention was paid to the threat. Tho farm wassold ami tho family then moved to Mitchell. Tho first night in their new homo John went to bed as usual, but in the morning refused to Set up, am! has stubbornly kept his couch during about twenty-seven your leaving it only once, on the day of the death of his mother. At first his case caused much com ment. Physicians examined him and pronounced him in perfect health, but all efforts to get him out of bed proved futile. Whou told that tho house was on fire or that burglars had broken in he made no effort to arise. As time passed people lost interest in him, and ho only attracts attention now when carried to tho polls on some important election day. Por tho last few years his health has been gradual ly failing and ho lies with his head and body covered, speaking to no ono un less spoken to, then answers all ques tions intelligently. I'HE COVE. Brief Personal Mention California Prod ucts A Cold Bath. Covk, February 11, 185)1. Mr. Kay Duuoan has been quite cick for several days past. Mr. E. A. Robinson has gone to tliG Sound in search of a now location. Soveral of our prominent citizens are away courting this week. (Copyright ed I SI 2.) It is whispered in Cove that a mar riage in high life, to take place in Un ion soon, is on the carpet. Mr. W. II. Wright has returned from Iowa where ho took a carload of hors es last fall. lie found fair sale for his stock. Mrs. J. W. Magann, of Cornucopia, caino down Tuosday and will remain some time visiting her mother and children. Mr. Alex. Cochran, a retired disciple of Vulcan, is now wielding tho yard stick in tho O. P. Jaycox merchandise establishment. Letters remaining unclaimed in tho Covp postollico: Bov. J. M. Haskell, Bill Grimos, W. It. Grimes, Miss Cad die McFarland. Mr. Ililry Mitchell has been suffer ing from an attack of fovor and erysip elas. Dr. McDonah'l, of LaGrando, has been awaiting on him. For tho first timo of tho winter thoro is enough snow for good sleighing. Cutters and bobs aro about tno only conveyances used now days. Tho wiso men of tho community, at thoir regular debate last Fiiday night, brought forth such strong argument that it was decided church property should bo taxed. Mr. J. E. Stonrns arrived from Rooky Bar last week. Ho reports the Bar very quiet and unless a strike is multi ' in tho next sixty days in tliu uilj.tfeiir gold ininuo tint town will ooii bo an al most deserted one. A number of California products in to bo stion at the drug stor an I .ire noveltios to a good many Gov.! proplo The most noticeable are wtmn mam moth oranges and lemons, silk cocoons and mulberry leaves, fig blooms, cactus, leaf of a century plant, and jmliu leaves. Mrs. Dougherty made tho col lection and is justly proud of it. Tho ico harvest is in full blast. Mr. Bloom is putting up a supply, also J. M. Phy and other ar Jtaiheri'u of the conrf'-alrU wt. The iiv i- h.iii,- Mk n from a deep slouch in Mr. 1'hy's field. Tuesday the snow had covered thu thick and thin lue alike. One of thu workmen whoa sir name is William, ' stttppod on a delusive piece and inline I dtaUdy disappeared frou viow in tho I iev Hood beneath. Ho was so cold th it tle more tolling of it will make tho roudor's tcoth olmttcr. 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