Heppner Weekly Gazette
Published Ever? Thursday.
HEPPNER OREGON.
EVENTS OF THE DAI
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.
Fine buildings covering halt a block
n the heart of the businesss portion ol
Columbus, O., were destroyed by fire.
The transports, Ohio and Senator,
bearing the Twenty-second infantry to
the Philippines have sailed from San
Francisco.
The second battalion of the Seven
teenth infantry are en route to Manila
via New York. They sailed from that
port on the transport Sherman.
The largest combination of whisky
and distilling interest") yet attempted
has been concluded in New York, un
der the title of the Kentucky Distillers
& Warehouse Company.
Negotiations for the consolidation of
the leading pottery interests have been
concloded in New York by the forma
tion of the American pottery compa
nies, with a capitalization of $40,000,
000. A snow-slide occurred on the Cana
dian Pacific at Rogeis Pass, in the Sel
kirk range. The railroad roundhouse
and other buildings were demolished.
Nine persons are known to have been
killed and two injured.
Contiaots have been let for the erec
tion of a large beet-sugar factory at
Amers, a small town west of Omaha,
on the Union Pacific The men who
are furnishing the money to build the
factory are Boston capitalists.
The United States transport Grant,
which left New York January 19, bav
ins on board Major-General Lawton,
the Fourth infantry and a battalion of
the Seventeenth infantry, bound for
Manila, has arrived at Gibraltar.
Steamer Rhynland, from Liverpool,
for Philadelphia, went ashore four
miles north of Penwick's island life-
saving station. A heavy snow-storm
was prevailing at the time. There
were 42 passongers and a crew of 79 on
board, all of whom were resoued.
There has been no further general
fiuhtine between the partisans of the
rival chieftains in the Samoan islands,
since the last advices except that
party of Mataafa's followers was routed
in the bush by Mahetoans. It is ex
peoted, however, that fighting will be
resumed, as Mataafa is arresting per
sons who have been alreudv fined and
released. The work of pillage con
tin una, among the houses looted being
Vilima. the home of the late Robert
Louis Stevenson, the novelist.
Iowa mineworkers are making an
effort to have eiisht hours deolarod a
day's work.
Native troops aie to bo utilized in
Cuba and American Boldiets gradually
withdrawn.
A syndicate composed of American,
Canadian, English and French capital
ists, is making an effort to secure con
trol of all the railroads in Culm now
buildiiii! and in operation, and all to
bo constructed hereafter.
The bishop of Havana has declared
that Preotestant services cannot bo held
over the graves of the Maine viotima in
Columbus cemetery, as it is consecrated
around. Americans were pteparing to
decorate the graves on the anniversary
of the explosion.
The Central Cable Company an
r.ounce8 that the United States govern
incut in the Philippines has modified
tho recent prohibition of telegrams in
cipher or code. Messages in secret Ian
guage may now be accepted, subject to
government ciiesorship.
The senate committee on naval
affair) has deoided upon favorable re
port on the bill providing for addi
tional pay to laborers in navy-yards
who worked overtime during the emer
gency of war with Spain. Tho amount
tequired is about (300,000, and about
0,000 men are involved.
General Otis cables the war depart
ment, giving the number of deaths in
his oommand since January 7. The
total is 19, many of whom died of
smallpox. The greater number of
deaths were of Kansas, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania privates. In
the list appear the names of Allen E.
Carlyle, private, First Washington,
January 16, typhoid; En rid A. Jeans,
First Washington, January 20, ty
phoid; Wistar Hawthorne, pri"ate,
Beoond Oregon, diphtheria.
Cuban General Gomes refuses to
disband his army unions paid nearly
1(10,000,000. He ulaims to have 40,000
men under arms, for which he asks
pay for three years' service, at the same
rate as given American soldiers. For
his own services in the past he wants
111,000 a year, the same as paid an
American lieutenant-general. He has
about 200 brigadier generals, who de
mand pay at the rate of (5,500 annually
for three years pant, besides numerous
other officers, whose pay aggregates
13,783,000.
M Inor Nhit Item.
The third regiment, infantry, has
left St. Paul for New York en route to
the Philippines.
A blizzard has been raging over
Wyoming. A lecent dispatch says tho
deep snow has a hard viust, and there
w ill be much suffering among stock.
An Iowa syndicate, with $80,000,000
capital, lias asked congress to grant a
subsidy of f I (1,000 a mile for a railroad
and lelegruph line to tho Yukon, via
Copper river.
Mis. M. Mauger, aged ICS yeais and
8 months, died at Walton, Kan., of
grip and old age, She had come from
Andrews, lnd, to visit her son. The
remains will be shipped there for
buiial.
The government reHirt on the wheat
in the United States for 1898 is as fol
lows: Number of acres ot wheat, 44,
055.278; bushels, B75, 148,705; value,
$392, 770,820; acreage winter wheat
estimated 2,C3.8-'0, which is 2.811,
908 acres greater than the area sown in
1807, and 4.208,800 acres in excess ol
yiuter wheat harvested ia 1898,
LATER NEWS.
A fish cannery combine has been
formed on the Columbia rivei, with a
capital of 12,000,000.
General Count von Caprivi, former
chancellor ot the German empire, died
it Siren, near Crossen, Germany.
The peace treaty was ratified by the
lenate by a majority of three votes over
the required three-fourths. The treaty
was ratified without amendment.
Isaao Ofner, a grnoeryman, doing
business in Portland, Or., was held up
and robbed in his store about 8:30 in
the evening by a lone highwayman.
John M. Comstock, for 40 years
chief of the customs division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton after an illness of several weeks.
A monster petition to President Mc-
Kinley and the members of the joint
high commission is being signed, ask
ing their assistance in secuung the re
peal of the alien exclusion act recently
passed by the government of British
Columbia, in which the Atlin mining
district is located.
Farmers of Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey. Ohio, Indiana, South Da
kota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Arkan
sas and California are forming state
blanches of the proposed new national
farmer's party, and preparing to send
representatives to the national execu
tive committee's meeting, which is to
be called shortly by the projectors of
the new party.
According to a recent dispatch, 19
ron and steel sheet manufactories in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Indiana, controlling an
aggregate annual output of 318,000
tons of steel and irou sheets, are pre
paring to consolidate. This action, it
is added, is made necessary by the oom
bination'of tin-plate plants, and it is
believed that the proposed consolida
tion will eventually be absorbed by the
tin-plate trust.
Local representatives at Tacoma ad
mit that the street railway systems of
that city are to be consolidated, with
Eastern capitalists in oontrol. A com
pany with 12,000,000 capital has beon
organized to operate all street-cars and
furnish power to manufactories. A
water-power plant will be constructed.
Representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
the Northern Pacific railway, Union
Pacific and the O. R. & N., with local
. . it 1 1 . i ... i
men, are interested in me ueai.
The two highwaymen who for tho
past two months have been holding up
citizens and stoies and terrorizing all
Portland are safely lodged in jail. One
of them, Harry Traoy, was arrested by
Deteotive Weiner, after a shooting
affray that stopped a passenger train
and roused a whole neighborhood. The
other, Dave Merrill, fell into the
hands of Detectives Cordano and Ford
Sunday, and gave the information
which led to the capture of his accom
plice. Both are ex-convicts and des
perate men.
It is believed that the battle at Ma
nila will hasten the ratification of the
ireaty with Spain by congress.
Two soap trusts are being formed
one at Chicago, with $100,000,000 cap
ital, and one at Boston with $20,000,-
000.
San Francisco is to have a wot Id's
fair in 1901. It is to be known as the
Pacific Ocean and International Expo
sition.
Turkey is making military prepare
tions in view of a possible Macedonian
uprising. Bulgaria is also hastily or
ganizing and arming troops.
President McKinley has presented to
Charles A. Schott, chiof of theooinput
ing division of the United States coaBt
and geodetic survey, the prize reoontly
conferred upon him by the Academy of
France.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, found guilty
by a San Francisco court of the murder
of Mrs. John P. Dunning, lias been
sentenced to prison for life, the judge
refuBimt a new trial. The case will be
appealed.
The commission to investigate the
conduct of the war is devoting all of its
enemies to closing up its report. The
rough draft is practically completed,
and copies are being mado of the docu
ment, so far as it is ready.
It is said administration officials are
urging the president to endeavor to en
list the services of Aguinaldo in the
lettlemont of the Philippine question,
as he has the services of General Go
men in the pacification of Cuba.
Lord Charles Boresford. the distin
guished British naval officer and states
man. will arrive in San ifranoisco on
the Japanese steamer American Maru,
due on February 11, and the chamber
of commerce is arranging for a public
reception to the Englishman.
The situation at the mining camp of
Independence, 18 miles from Aspen,
Colo., is oritical iu the extreme. Star
ration stares the Inhabitants of the
town In the face. Piovisions and fuel
mpplies are nearly exhausted. Wooi
that had been cut and piled for winter
use lies buried under many feet of
mow, and cannot be reached. Roads
leading to Aspen, the only source of
supply for Independence, ar impassa
ble. Snowslides are so frequent be
tween Aspen and Independence that it
it almost suioiual to venture on th
route.
General Sheridan has compleeted ar
rangements to send the third expedi
tion of troops to the Philippines. It
will consist ot 10 companies, taken
from the 12th and 17th infantry regi
ments.
A dispatch from Cokeville, Wyo.,
says a snowtlide a mile long occurred,
burying several men and teams. All
the men were taken out alive with the
exception or. Hurt Handy, wno was
dead when found.
The senate committee on judioiary
has made an adverse report ou the
nomination ot IlamiltouO. Ewart.to be
United States district judge for the
Western district ot North Carolina.
Ewart was appointed during a recess.
and now holds the position.
The French chamber of deputies, by
vote of 846 to 180, adopted the gov
ernment a proposal to submit to s
special committee intrusted, with such
matters the bill providing that cases
fur revision shall be brought before the
united section of the court of casea
tion.
CLASH OF ARMS
Serious Fighting Be
tween Americans
and Insurgents.
THE FILIPINO LOSS IS LARGE
Twenty American Soldiers Killed, and
175 Wounded Enemy's Loss Runi
Into the Thousands News of the
Itattle Confirmed by General Otis.
Manila, Feb 7. The long-expected
rupture between the Americans and the
Filipinos has come at last. The former
are now engaged iu solving the Philip
pine problem with the utmost expedi
tion possible.
The clash came at 8:40 yesterday
evening, when three daring Filipino"
darted past the Nebraska regiments at
Santa Mesa, but retired when chal
lenged. They repeated the experiment
without drawing the sentries' fire, but
at the third time Corporal Uieeley
challenged the Filipinos and then fired,
killing one of them and wounding an
other. Almost immediately afterward
the Filipinos' line from Calocan to
OBN. EJIILIO AOTJTNAT.no.
Santa Mesa commenced a tusilade
which was ineffectual.
The Nebraska, Montana and North
Dakota outposts replied vigorously, and
held their ground until reinforcements
arrived.
The Filipinos in the meantime con
centrated at three points, Calocan, Ga
galangin and Santa Mesa.
At about 1 o'clock the Filipinos
opened a hot fire from all three places
simultaneously. This was supplement
ed hy the fire of the two Beige guns at
Btilik-Balik and by advancing their
skirmishers from Paoo and Pandacan
The Americans responded with a ter
rifio fire, but owing to the darkness
they were unable to determine its effect
The Utah light artillery finally sue
ceedod in silencing the native battery,
The Third artillery also did cood work
on the extreme left. The engagement
lasted over an hour.
The United States cruiser Charleston
and the gunboat Concord, stationed off
Malabon, opened fire from their seoond
ary batteries on the Filipinos' position
at Calocan and kept it up vigorously
At 2:45 there was another fusilade
along the entire line and the United
States sea-going douhle-turreted mom
tor Monad nock opened fire on the ene
my from off Malate.
With daylight the Americans ad
vanced. The California and Washing
ton regiments made a splendid charge
and drove the Filipinos from the works
at Paoo and Santa Mesa. The Nebraska
regiment also distinguished itself, cap
turing several prisoners and one HOw
itzer, and a very Btrong position at the
reservoir, wlncii is connected witn me
waterworks.
The Kansas and Dakota regiments
compelled the enemy's right flank to
retire to Calocan.
There was intermittent firing at va
rious points all day long.
The American losses are estimated
at 20 men killed and 125 wounded.
The Igorotes, armed with bows and
arrows, made a determined stanu in
the face of a hot artillery fire, and let
many dead on the field.
Several attempts were made In this
city yesterday evening to assassinate
American oflicers.
Confirmed by Otis.
The following dispatch from Gen.
Otis confirms the news of the fighting:
"Manila, Feb. 7. To Adjutant-Gen
eral, Washington, D. C: Saturday
the ' insurgents opened attack on our
outer lines at 8:45, repeated attack sev
eral times during the night. At 4
o'clock this morning entire force was
engaged, and all attacks repulsed; at
daybreak advanced against insurgents,
and have driven them beyond lines
they formerly occupied, capturing sev
eral villages and their defense works;
insurgents' loss in dead and wounded
large; our own casualties thus far esti
mated at 175, very few fatal."
A dispatch to the London Post says:
Many of the insurgents were driven
into the Pasig river and drowned. Sev
eral hundred were taken prisoners.
In subsequent telegram the follow
ing statements are made: Last night's
and today's engagements have proved
veritable slaughter for the Filipinos,
their killed being repotted as amount
ing to thousands.
To Crush the Revolt.
Washington, Feb. 7. Instructions
will be sent to Major-General Otis to
morrow, directing him to follow up his
victory over the insurgents and to crush
the power of Aguinaldo in the Philip
pines. This was the deouion reached
at an important cabinet meeting hold
in the White House tonight, attended
bv the president, Secretaries Hay and
Alger and Attorney-General Griggs,
and Adjutant-General Corbin. It was
furthei decided, now that Aguinaldo
had thrown down the gauntlet, that
Ho Ilo shall be taken and the islands of
the archipelago occupied as rapidly
General Otis' forces will permit.
Circular or elliptical halos aiound
the sun indicate violent storms, es
pecially if the halos are dark in tint or
ot a larae diameter. Lightning and
magnetic disturbanoea may also be ex
pected from these signs.
MONUMENT TO MAINE HEROES.
Resolution Adopted by the
Lower
House of Congress.
Washington, Feb. 6. In the senate
the president pro tempore presented a
memorial from the Chamber of Com
merce of New York, urging ratification
of the peace treatv. Hale, chairman
of the naval affairs committee, favora
bly reported the following joint resolu
tion, and it was adopted:
The secretary of the navy is hereby
authorized to have erected in Colon
cemetery at Havana, Cuba, a suitable
granite monument to the memory of
the sailors and marines who lost their
lives by the destruction of the Maine,
and whose remains are buried in that
cemetery, and to suitably inscribe and
enolose such monument, and the sum
of $10,000 is appropriated for that pur
pose.'
Harris offered the following resolu
tion, which he asked might lie on the
table:
"That the United States hereby dis
claims any intention or purpose to ex
ercise permanent sovereignty, jurisdic
tion or oontrol over the Philippines
and assert their determination when a
stable and independent government
shall have been erected therein, en
titled to recognition as such, to trans
fer to such government upon terras
which shall be reasonable and just all
rights seoured under the cession by
Spain, and to therupon leave the gov
ernment and control of the islands to
their people."
In accordance with previous notice,
Money began the discussion of expan
sion, speaking in opposition to taxing
the Philippines. Money conoluded at
2 o'clock, and Daniel then addressed
the senate on the same subject.
Opposition to Test Vote.
Washington, Feb. 6. The contro
versy in the senate ovei the vote upon
the various resolutions interpretative
of the peace treaty took an aoute turn
late today. The opposition to a vote
first came from the friends of the
treaty, who held to the theory that it
could be ratified without compromise.
Those who apparently were then will
ing that a vote should be taken today
held an opposite view, and absolutely
refuse to agree to a time for taking a
vote.
The contest occurred in the execu
tive session, which did not occur until
a quarter after 5 o clock. The next
hour and a quater was spent in a vain
endeavor on one side to get an agree
ment to a date for a vote upon the
resolutions, and on the other in a more
successful effort to bring the day's see.
sion to a close without allowing any
thing to be accomplished in that di
rection.
After a general debate on the subject
the senate adjourned.
DYEA AND SKAGWAY.
They May Be Ceded to the Dominion ol
Canada by Treaty.
Washington, Feb. 6. If the report
of their subcommittee is adopted, as
seems possible if not probable, a slioe
of Alaska territory, embracing the en
trance to the Klondike, may be ceded
to Great Britain in treaty to he adopt
ed by the Anglo-American commission.
The subcommittees report, it is
said, comes dangerously near to putting
Skagway and Dyea under British con
trol, leaving to the Americans, how
ever, tne oontrol ot tne Headwaters oi
the Lynn canal, by which both of
these supply towns are reached.
To Kill All Foreigners.
San Francisco, Feb. 6. In the sto
ries of the murders of missionaries and
foreign residents recently in China, de
tails of a particularly barbarous affair
at Chongan Chiang, involving the life
f an Englishman named Fleming, and
Evangelist Pan, have been wanting.
J. R. Adams, of the Chinese inland
mission, visited the scene of tho mur
ders, and tells of a shocking condition
of affairs, in the North China Daily
News. He asoertained that tho people
of Chongan had determined to take the
life of every foreigner in tho placo, and
when Mr. Fleming set foot in tho town
be was a doomed man. At least 200
people witnessed the muidor from the
opposite side of the river. Evangelist
Pan was suddenly and quickly cut
down. Mr. Fleming dismounted from
his mule to go to his assistance, but
he, too, was attackod and Elaiu after a
desperate oonflict. ., .
A Court of Inquiry Probable.
Washington, Fob. 6. Indications
are that a court of inquiry will be or
dered to investigate and report upon
the truth or falsity of statements al
leged to have been made by General
Miles, in which the quality of beet
furnished the troops during the late
war was brought in question.
Deadly Work of a Train.
Pittsburg, Feb. 6. A two-horse
wagon on whioh five men and a young
woman were riding, was struck today
bv a Baltimore & Ohio freight train
at Riverton station. Four men were
killed and the other man and the young
woman so badly injured that they will
probably die.
Hepburn's Canal Bill.
Washington. Feb. 6. The house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce today directed a favorable
report on the Hepburn Nicaragua canal
bill, with amendments, as a substitute
(or the Morgan bill, passed by the sen
ate.
Record-Breaking Voyage.
Washington, Feb. 6. The Buffalo
arrived at Manila today, having made
a record-breaking run from rew xors.
to Manila in 64 days. She has on
board about 700 sailors to relieve the
men in Dewey's fleet She will be
used as a regular transport for men and
naval stores, making regular trips be
tween Manila and San Francisco.
It is calculated that the men of Great
Britain spend at least $25,000,000
every year on silk hats.
Spaniards Want Cuba Annexed.
Havana, Feb. 6. A number of Span
iards in Havana have issued a strong
appeal to their compatriot throughout
the island to unite for the purpose of
bringing about the annexation of Cuba
to the United States. The appeal re
pudiates any desire on the part of Span
tarda to loin the proposed new inde
pendent party now in projresa of or
ganisation by Joaquin Castillo.
A memorial window to the late Got
Luton B. Morris, of Connecticut, has
been placed in Center ohuroh, New
Haven, by bis daughter, Mrs. Pratt, ot
Brooklyn.
OREGON'S S0L0NS.
Initiative and Referendum Passes th
Senate Convicts to Be Worked
on Marlon County Roads.
Eight bills were passed in the Oregon
senate last Wednesday and two were
recommittted for amendment.
Four of the bills ' passed were to
amend the charter of Lakeview, Can
yon City, Seaside and Hilsboro.
Looney's bill to provide for working
state convicts on about 125 miles ol
Marion county roads, between state in
stitutions, and appropriating fa. BOO
for superintendence and buying tools,
passed bv a vote of 127 to 7.
The bill to make a person who vol
untarily charges a crime against an
other before a justice of peace or grand
jury pay the costs in case the prosecu
tion prove malicious or frivolous finally
ssed. as did a bill to prevent swine
running at large in Sherman county,
and a bill to reduce the salaries of
Washington county officers.
In the House.
The reconsideration of the Woodburn
charter bill was the occasion for an
other spirited forensic battle at the ses
sion of the house Wednesday. The
bill, however, passed by a vote of 85
to 15; absent, 10. A motion to recon
sider the vote by whioh the bill was de
feated January 27 passed unanimously.
Other bills passed were: To amend
tho charter of Arlington; to Incorporate
Medford: to fix the compensation of
the assessor of Jackson county at $1,900
ner annum in lieu of per diem; to
create a separate board of county com
missioners for Clatsop county.
The following bills were introduced:
To ameod the charter of Medford; to
incomorate Enterprise; to repeal the
act providing for the payment of street
and sewer assessments in installments.
Initiative and Referendum.
The resolution for an initiative and
referndum amendment to the oonstitn
tion passed the" senate last Thursday,
having previously passed the house,
and is ready for submission to the next
legislature.
The American Bar Association's oodi
fication of laws relating to negotiable
paper passed both houses. The Curtis
bill limiting the number and salaries
of professors in the state university
passed the house after a sharp discus
sion. j '
Hill's pilotage bill, which passed the
house a week ago, was reported by the
senate committee on commerce and
navigation with amendments striking
out a large part of the bill and leaving
it without direct bearing on bar pilot
age and plaoing the appointment of
pilot commissioners in the hands of the
eovernor. The amendments were
adopted, and the bill passed, 21 to 5
The only change in the present law is
to make river pilotage not compulsory.
In the senate Thursday a resolution
to authorize the exchange of the old
blind institute site for a block adjoin
ng the present site of the blind insti
tute, owned by J. H. Albert, was the
pecial order, and, after a vote carry
ing the resolution was nearly complet
it was recommended on a state
CM,
meat
from Selling that he had just
heard something about it that needed
nvestigation.
The following bills were passed:
To constitute the county court a board
of equalization - for county assessment
extirpate Russian and Chinese
thistles; to appropriate $4,000 for the
Oregon Historical Society.
In the House.
The greater portion of the forenoon
session ol tne bouse inursaay was
iven up to hearing reports of standing
committees. In addition to this, two
bills were passed and eight new bills
ntroduoed.
The bills passed were those by Cur
tin, amending the salmon-fishing laws
pnssed at the special session so ai to
conform with the regulations agreed
upon by the joint fisheries committee,
and by Myers, to apply to the military
fund of the state all moneys that may
be received from the government for
transportation and equipment of the
Second Oregon volunteers.
Other bills passed were: To require
that all olaims against the state other
than salaries and liabilities established
by law, be incorporated into separate
appropriation acts; to abolish the ex
pensive practice of copying assessment
rolls for the state and to provide lor
transmission to the secretary of state
summaries only; to provide for the re
organization of the state militia; to re
store to the military fund of the state
18,897.68 expended in the suppression
of riots by the state militia at Astoria
and Roseburg during 1896; authorizing
the supreme court to employ clerical
aid' and appropriating 7, 200 therefor;
to codify the laws relating to negotia
ble instruments; to prohibit false label
ing of Oregon products, applying es
pecially to salmon and Oregon fruits.
Reapportionment Bill Approved
In the Oregon senate Friday, Sena
tors Smith, of Baker, and Dufur pre
sented explanations of their position
with referenece to the reapportionment
act. which was approved by the gover
nor while thev were speaking. Both
opposed the double districting featnre
of the law.
The following bills were passed: To
authorize conn ty courts to permit oon
atiuction ot logging roads along public
highways; to prevent the unauthorized
use of trademarks.
District Attorney Bill Remitted.
In the Oregon house Friday the ju
diciary committee asked to amend the
bill by substituting 1900 for 1902,
claiming, the figures were placed in
the bill as the result of a olerical error,
The following bills were passed: To
define the duties of administration in
payment of claims, and declare the or
der of propriety ol claims; to give larra
laborers a lien upon farm products for
labor perormed; to protect salmon in
Alesea bay and, streams emptying into
it, and fixing the olose season; to pro
hibit the killing of more than 20 wild
ducks in one day, and to prohibit ship
ping them out of the state; to provide
for a special tax on sheep, to create a
scalp-bounty fund; to provide for phy
sical examination of plaintiffs in ac
tions for damages for personal injuries;
to authorise an election ia -une. 1900,
for relocation of the county seat of Co
lumbia county; to incorporate Canyon
City; to change the time foi holding
court in the ninth judicial district; to
amend the charter of Heppner; to
amend the charter ot Medford.
The house devoted its afternoon
ioa to the third reading ot bills.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BILL.
ft Passed the Oregon House Almost
Unanimously.
In the Oregon house Monday the dis
trict attorney salary bill was passed,
after amendment by the judioiary com
mittee, by almost a unanimous vote.
The bill as passed fixes salaries as fol
lows: First district, $3,000; seoond
distriot, $4,000; third district, $5,500;
fourth district. $7,600; fifth district,
$4,000; sixth district, $3,000; seventh
district, $3,000; eighth district, $3,500;
ninth district, $3,000.
Flagg's bill to require all executions
to be held at the state prison and con
ducted by Jthe superintendent of the
penitentiary was the first defeated, re
ceiving only 29 votes, but upon recon
sideration of the vote and"a speeoh by
the author later in the day it was
passed by a vote of 86.
Blackaby's bill to empower county
courts and clerks of school districts to
sell property and bid in for taxes wa
passed by 48 votes.
Other bills passed were: 10 limit
appeals to the supreme court in money
actions to amounts involving $200 or
more, and to give Btreet railway com
panies the right of eminent domain; fo
amend the code relative to new trials
so as to nullify the plea of former jeop
ardy and to require street railway com
panies to provide cars with vestibules
from Ootobei 1 to April 1; to prohibit
the adulteration of candy; to require
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company to fence its tracks between
Portland and Huntington; to prohibit
persons from running push cars or
hand cars on railroad tracks without
the consent of the railway officials; to
appropriate $15,000 for bridging the
south fork of the Nehalem river. Ibis
bill came up on a reconsideration of
the vote by which it was defeated Feb
ruary 2, when it received only 80 rotes.
The motion to reconsider carried by 82
votes and then the bill was passed by a
vote of 83.
Grace's bill to extend the time in
whioh a laborer's lien may be filed
from 80 to 60 days and contractors'
from 60 to 90 days was defeated, as
was also Stillman's bill to repeal sec
tion 1890 of the code, providing fo' the
observance of Sunday.
At the night session the following
bills were passed: To regulate travel
over county bridges; to repeal the act
of 1891 prohibiting driving er herding
livestock along public highways; to fix
the salaries of county treasurers so as
to increase the salary of the Tillamook
county treasurer from $250 to' $550; to
fix the salary of the sheriff of Lincoln
county at $1,800 and salary of clerk of
county court at $1,250; to require the
signatures of householders to petitions
for saloon licenses instead of the sig
natures of legal votes as under the
present law; to piohibit the sale of li
quor in private boxes or booths of res
taurants; to amend the liquor laws so
as to require a license foi the 'sale of
any quantity, whether more than a
gallon or less.
Moody's bill to regulate the practioe
of horseshoeing in counties of 50,000
population and over and creating
board of examiners to be appointed by
the governor was snowed under by 80
negative votes as against only 22
affirmative.
The Oregon senate Monday passed
unanimously Josephi's bill to make the
cost of the maintenance of insane per
sons chargeable against their estates in
certain cases, and to provide for the
transportation of insane patients to the
asylum in charge of trained nurses
from the asylum.
Other bills passed were as follows
Charter of Dalles City (The Dalles); to
amend the charter of the town of Du
fur, to amend the law relating to ten
ancy in common, and abolishing joint
tenancy; by request, to give preferenoe
to honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors in all public employment;- to
amend the law so as to make records of
official oourt reporters piima facie evi
denoe, and to authorize the settling
and signing of bills of exceptions by
successors of the trial judge; to require
Multnomah county to take the city of
Portland's lease of the steel bridge; to
amend the oharter of Lebanon.
INCREASED
APPROPRIATIONS
The Washington Legislature
Favoring
the Normal Schools,
The Washington house appropria
tion committee lias increased the
Cheney normal school appropriation
from $25,000 to $31,000, and Ellens.
burg from $25,000 to $45,000
In the bouse Monday bills introduced
were: Dor the puonoation oi notices
by posting in counties of from the 10th
to the 29th class; for the relief of Mrs,
J. H. Stalil; relating to the sumcienoy
and justification of bail on bonds
amending the constitution by permit
ting women to vote on a constitutional
amendment, granting suffrage to wo
men; relating to dyke districts.
During the afternoon session of th
house Mr. Englebert occupied th
ohair. Speaker Guie received a tele
phone message announcfing that th
Paris treaty had been ratified by the
United States senate. The announce.
ment was greeted with hearty applause
by the house.
Delayed by Trains-
Only 21 out of 84 senators were pres
ent when the senate convened Monday,
Senator Wooding is sick with grip at
Seattle, and all of the east of-the
mountain senators were detained by
trains being late.
Bills introduced were: Prohibiting
the organization of corporations until
all bills and claims are paid; amend
ing the revenue law by making person
al property taxes delinquent on 80
days' notice being given; permitting
acceptance of taxes on any part of a
parcel of land with reference to taxes
due on other pails of same property;
house bill, providing for the building of
ferries to be operataed on lakes as well
as streams was re-referred, because of
objection to the nnndemnation rights
contained in the old law, on the same
subject; house bill providing that tte
state land commissioner and the state
treasurer shall report to the regents of
the agricultural college on all lands
and funds that belong to that institu
tion, was passed. President Bryan, of
the college, who is now in Olympia,
says this data is necessary in order foi
the regents to form an idea of what the
funds amount to. "At pretent," says
President Bryan, "the regents are prao-
tically blindfolded."
A New Oregon Guard Company.
Company G, Oregon National Guard
was recently mustered into service at
Porltand, Or.
PARIS PEACE TREATY
Ratified by the Senate by a
Majority of Three.
ADOPTED WITHOUT AMENDMENT
Effect of the Outbreak in the Philip
pines Made Apparent Before
Vote Was Taken.
Washington, Feb. 8. Before the
lenate convened today the leaders on
both sides manifested great anxiety.
nd all seemed to be very much in
doubt as to the final result, ratification
or rejection seeming to depend upon
several doubtful votes. It was known
Saturday that the treaty could muster
but 68 votes. Leaders of the opposi
tion to the treaty were standing as firm
aa ever.
After the senate went into executive
session it was reported that MoLaurin
and McEneiy had come over for the
treaty, giving the necessary two-thirds.
At the conclusion of the discussion
on the subject, Davis moved an execu
tive session, and at 2:15 P. M. the sen
ate went into executive session for final
consideration of the peace treaty.
McEnery offered a resolution declar
ing that by ratification of the treaty it
ia not intended to make citizens of the
inhabitants of the Philippines nor to
annex the islands permanently, but to
hold them until the islands are pre
pared for self-government.
At 8:05 the bells rung lor a vote on
the amendment to the treaty. , The
amendment was to make the Philippine
article of the treaty like that retating
to Cuba. The amendment was defeat
ed, and the vote was then taken on the
treaty. The vote in detail follows:
Yeas Aldrieh, Allen. Allison, Baker,-
Burrows, Butler, Carter, Chandler,
Clark, Clay, . Cullom, Davis, Deboe,
Elkins, Fairbanks, Faulkner, Frve,
Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hanna, Hans-
borough, Harris, Hawley. Jones (Nev
ada), Kenny, Kyle, Lindsay, Lodge,
MoBride, MoEnery, McLaurin, McMil-
lin, Mantle, Mason, Morgan, Kelson,
Penrose, Perkins. Pettus, Piatt (Con
necticut), Piatt (New York), Pritchard,
Quay, Ross, Stwell, Sboup, Simon,
Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan, Teller,
Thurston, Warren, Wellington, Wol-
cott 57.
Nays Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery,
Chilton, Cookrell, Daniel, Gorman,
Hale, Heitfelt, Hoar, Jones (Arkansas),
Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell,
Money, Murphy, Pasco, Pettigrew,
Rawlins, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Tur
ley, Turner, Vest 27.
Absent, paired, Cannon and Wilson
for, with White againBt, and Proctor
and Wetmore for, with Turpie against.
THE NATION'S DEAD.
List of the Killed in the Manila En-
gagement.
Manila, Feb. 8. The casualties ol
Saturday night and Sunday were as
follows: Fourteenth infantry, Cor
porals B. Soden and Henry F. Thomp
son, Privates Jesse A. Hale, Maurice
L. Seeman, Louis V. - Dietz. ' James
Harveymight, Charles W. Douglas,
Frank H. Issinghausen, Charles A.
Seitz, Alphonso Bonner and Peter N.
Storment, killed.
Sixth artilleryPrivate W. A. Good
man.
First Idaho Major Ed McConville,
Corporal Frank B. Calwerel, Private
James Eraser.
First California Privates J. J. De-
war, Tom Bryan and Joseph Maher.
First Washington Corporal George
W. McGowan, Privates Ralph Sim
monds, . George B. Reichart, Frank
Smith, Mattias Cherry, Sherman
Harding, Edward IL Perry, Walter N.
Hanson and Arnold II. Moyckel.
First South Dakota Privates Hor
ace J. McCraken, killed; Fred E.
Green, killed; William Z. Lewis,
killed.
First Montana Corpora! Hayes,
missing, probably killed; Private John
Soronson, head wounded, probably
fatal.
First Colorado Ed. White, missing,
supposed to be drowned; Elmer F.
Doran, killed.
Died ol wounds: Lieutenant James
W. Mitchell, Fourteenth infantry;
Private George W. Ball, First Idaho;
Colonel William C. Smith, First Ten
nessee, died of appoplexy at the head
of bis command on the firing line.
OTIS.
ENEMY'S ENORMOUS LOSS.
Two Thousand Dead and 3, BOO Wound
ed at Manila.
Manila, Feb. 8. Careful estimates
places the Filipino losses up to date at
2,000 dead; 8,500 wounded and 6,000
taken prisoners.
The Yakima Volunteers.
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 8. A North
Yakima special to the Ledger says:
Three of the Yakima boys are among
the slain at Manila: Matt Cherry is
the son of a well-known farmer of Se
lah valley. George Reichart is of a
German family located on Nob Hill,
and the third is not known locallv. He
probably was enlisted in Tacoma.
Frank Smith was of company I, ol
Walla Walla.
Oregon Troops Engaged.
Manila, Feb. 8 The Oregon regi
ment participated in a sharp engage
ment with the insurgents late yesierday
afternoon, but drove the enemy back
without losing a man.
Dreyfus Coming Back.
Paris, Feb. 8. A dispatch to the
Patrie, from Cayenne, capital of French
Guiana, says that orders have been re
ceived there for the return of Dreyfu9
to France, with the statement that a
vessel has been sent to bring him.
The Engagement Sunday.
Manila, Feb. 8. Late yesterday
General Hale's biigade advanced and
took the water w-ks at Singaton.
Four companies of the Nebraska regi
ment and a part of the Utah battery,
with two field guns and two Hotchkisa
guns, met the enemy on the hill half
mile out, and a sharp engagement took
place, in which the Nebraskana loat
one dead and three wounded.
Shipping Smelt Eastward.
The other day Kelso. Wash., shipped
68ft boxes of smelt tn .mints. sVttat g9
r w. . vw e.w. wa
ttle Mieaieiippi rim.