Heppner Weekly Gazette
Published Every Thursday.
HEPPNER OREGON,
EVENTS OF THE DAY
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Condensed Form.
There seems to be an idea in Paris
that Japan will make trouble for tlio
United States by surreptitiously aiding
the Filipinos.
Many of the recently disbanded Cali
fornia volunteers are enlisting in the
regular army, being desirous of going
to tiie Philippines.
The controller of the currency has is
sued a call for reports of the condition
of all national banks at the close of
business February 4.
It is reported that the executive com
mittee of the Cuban assombly Willi call
Gomez to account for accepting the
proposition from this government rela
tive to disbanding the Cuban army.
A freight train on the O. B. & N.
was wrecked near Corbett, Or., by
running into a landslide. The fire
man and a tramp were injured.
Fifteen cars were piled up in a heap.
Duke d'Arcos, formerly Spanish
minister to Mexico is likely to be legis
lated by the Madrid government as its
minister to Washington to exchange
the ratifications of the treaty of peace.
Wolff & Zwicker, the Portland ship
builders, propose to build a floating
dry-dock capable of raising a 5,000-ton
vessel, providing the state of Oregon
or the city of Portland will guarantee
bonds to the amount of $250,000.
It is reported lcm Washington that
the war im nutting committee will
severely ciii.it! s General Miles on his
conduct (luring the lute war with Spain.
The committee :11 report that Miles'
statement about chemically prepared
beef is not sustained by any evidence
before the committee.
Four happy Dawsonitoa passed
through Skagway recently with a can
vas sack of Yukon gold that weighed
100 pounds dead weight, and which
came from French gulch diggings on
Eldorado creek. They are all Canadian
citizens and first came to Alaska dur
ing the popular Klondike rush of De
cember, 1897.
The steamer Moana Loa, which has
arrived at San Franoisco, brings infor
mation from Honolulu that it has boen
definitely determined that the wreck
on the Kalinin coast was the four-niaBt-cd
steamer Nomad, Captain McAllop,
which sailed from Shanghai for Puget
sound iu ballast 10 months ago. The
vessel was a new one, and belonged to
Hall Bros., of San Francisco. Captain
McAllep was accompanied on the trip
by his wife, daughter and three sons.
All aro undoubtedly lost.
The battleship Iowa has arrived at
San Franoisco. It is ex pouted she will
be sent to Manila with supplies for
Dewey.
The American losses in killed and
wounded in tlio recent battle at Ma
nila, is ofllcially given at 250, and the
losses of the insurgents at 4,000.
Gon. Gomez will arrive in Havana
in a few days, whore he will meet Sen
ator Proctor, and aid in carrying out
his promise to . disband the Cuban
army.
In the Now York assombly a resolu
tion urging the unseating of Congressman-elect
Roberts, becauBe of his iden
tification with polygamy, was adopted
by a viva voce voto.
The government forces defeated and
captured the Colorados, who recently
revolted against Honor Coestes, the
provisional president of Uruguay.
Tranquility is now restored.
Agono'.llo, the representative of tha
so-called Filipino government, and who
loft this country for Canada, upon hear
ing of the outbreak at Manila is being
closely watched by secret service de
tocti voa. Agonoillo was in Montreal
nt last reports.
Mrs. Uotkin'a attorneys have given
notioe of an appeal from the conviotion
and sentence of lite imprisonment re
cently panned upon her. Judge Carroll
Cook allowed 10 days' stay of execu
tion, and 20 days in which to prepare
a bill of exceptions.
President McKinley has pronounced
sentunce on Gon. Eagan, recently tried
by court-martial. The sentence was
dismissal from the army, but the presi
dent commuted this to suspension for
six years, which covers tlio time prior
to Eagan's retirement in 1005.
The steamers JuBtin and Celtic, now
at Mare island, are being overhauled,
and in a few days will be ready to sail
for the Philippines, following the sup
ply vessel Centennial, which loft on
the 0th. The Justin will ca-iy coal
for the fleet and the Celtic frozen meat.
Rear Admiral Dewey has captured
another pohooner from Hong Kong load
ed with anus and ammunition intondod
for the insurgents in the Philippines.
It is reported that the German consul
at Hong Kong was concerned iu the
piocuring and dispatch of the arms to
the islands.
minor News limns.
The town of Stileshoro, Ga., was
nearly wiped out of existence recently
by a tornado. No lives weie lost, but
several people were injured.
There is trouble is sight for all the
Chinese in the United States, resulting
from the total disappearance of Chinese
who were admitted to the country in
ordei to tako patt in the trans-Mississippi
exposition. Inspector James
Stone, of the government Beivice, ii in
vestigating the situation.
The Chinese detective force is a
secret body, and the best organized in
the world. They have an eye upon
every man, woman or child, foreign or
native, in China, and in addition,
watch over each other.
A very satifactory showing was made
in the affaire of the Paoiflo Coast Im
provement Company last year. This
was formerly known as the Oregon Im
provement Company. Its net earnings
were $1,200,000 in 1893, and a div
idend waa paid on the varioua classes
of stock. Steamships, railroads and
Other enterprises are operated.
LATER NEWS.
Gen. Brooke cables from Havana an
nouncing the death of Captain Oliver
Perry Smith, oommissary, from acute
nephritis.
Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and
Will Johnson, Collins to mty farmers,
were frozen to death Saturday night
near Dallas Tex.
The senate has passed a bill Creating
the office of admiral of the . navy.
Rear-Admiral Dewey, it is understood,
will be named for the position.
On Monday an ocean liner in dis
tress was sighted off Dread ledge, in
Swampscott bay, Mass. The life-saving
crew could not reach her on ac
count of the ice.
The outbreak at Manila has enliven
ed business at the United States re
cruiting office in Portland. Nineteen
more men mustered out of tho Eighth
California were enlisted last week.
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of C. J. Bell-, assistant secre
tary of the treasury, and that of Lieutenant-Colonel
F. M. Coxe, to be as
sistant paymaster-general of the army.
The army and navy captured Ilo Ilo,
the second city of importance in the
Philippines Saturday, without the
loss of an American soldier. The Pet
rel and Baltimore shelled the city,
which forced the insurgents to evaou-
ate.
Otis wires the war department a list
of deaths in his command since Febru
ary 4, not including those of men killed
in action. They number nine. Among
the names appear those of Piivate Dan
iel Kyger and W. Chopwood, First
Washington, and Michael P. Crowley,
Second Oregon.
Speaker Reed was not at the capitol
Monday, and Bant word he thought it
advisable to adjourn on acoount of the
storm. Less than a hundred membeis
were present, and those who braved
the storm refused to adjourn, and went
on with consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
There is reported a serious hitch in
the work of the Anglo-Amerioan com
mission. The obstacle is said to be a
demand made by the Canadian com
mission for the cession of the town of
Skagway, Alaska. The American com
missioners have definitely refused to
ceded that gateway to the Yukon.
Terrible blizzards swept over the
South, East and Middle West Sunday
and Monday. The winds went so high
on the Atlantic seaboard that ocean
steamships were storm-bound in the
harbors. Nine big Atlantio liners due
at New York Saturday had not put in
their appearance Monday. Intense
cold accompanied the storm and much
suffering is reported. The cold wave
extends from the Atlantio to Western
Texas
The Spanish government has dooided
not to sell the Caroline islands.
The secretary of war has given orders
for the mustering out of the Third regi
ment of immunes, now stationed at
Santiago and vicinity.
The fortifications appropriation bill,
as it will be recommended by the com
mittee, carries $4, 744,198, as against
estimates of $12,161,198.
It is said the administration will
uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at
Apia, in his selection of Malietoa Tan
us as king of the Samoan islands.
The secretary of war reports that
sickness in some of the American regi
ments in the Philippines is high as 17
per oent, but tlio average is about 10
per cent.
Theiepnrtof the war investigating
commission is in the hands of the pros
ident, and the oommiSHion is dissolved.
During the investigation 500 witnesses
were examined.
Many accounts of deaths from freez
ing are reported from the East. At
Bloornington, lnd,, J. W. Hinklo, who
bus served several terms as sheriff, was
frozen to death while going to his
home. Near Dayton, O., Martin Dnffln-
ger suffered a like fate while feoding
bis hogs.
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
has issued a statement in which it U
claimed that the American soldiers
precipitated the recent battlo at Ma
nila, and that the bombardment of the
towns of Malate, Paco, Santa Ana' and
Malabon caused the slaughter of 4,000
women and children.
A contract has been let for two 13,-
000-ton steamships for the Puoilic Mail
steamship Co. They will be the larg
est so far built at an American ship
yard, their dimensions being greater
than those of the American liners St.
Louis and St. Paul. They are to ply
between San Fianeisco and China.
The supreme military court, of
Spain, which has had under considera
tion the loss of the Spanish squadron
at Santiago de Cuba on July 8 last, has
decided to prosecute, in connection
with the disaster, Admiral Cervera and
Commandant Emilio Diaz de Moren,
ex-captain of the destroyed cruiser
Cristobal Colon.
Chinese rebels are raiding Christian
churches and driving out missionaries.
At Chang Yang and Liechuan the Ro
man Catholic chapels have been burned
and the houses of the native church
members have been destroyed. Several
hundred children under the care o( the
Roman Catholics, aie said to have
been drowned by tho raiders near
Kueifu.
A fatal head-end collision occurred
at lmlay City, Mich., on the Chicago
& Grand Trunk railioad, in which four
persona were killed and seven were in
jured.
R. C. Judson, industrial agent of
the O. It. N., returned from Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, continue the news of a
wonderfully rick strike on the Cracker
Jack claim, owned by Rufui llawley,
Hint SCo. The assays are the high
est ever seen in that country, miming
f2.S09.65 la jold and 10.35 In silver.
The foifeits of both Corbott and
Sharkey have been posted to guarantee
their appearance in the ring at Tattei
sails, March 7.
An Indian named Black Horn hae
been arrested at Pendleton, Or., for
the murder of Wipe Swab, a Yamhill
Indian, on the Umatilla reanrvation,
January 28. Black Horn dragged his
dead victim to a railroad track, upon
whioh he placed it, so as to make It ap
pear a train had run over the body.
But there was a trail ot blood from the
scene of the murder to the track which
spoiled the scheme, '
SALEM LEGISLATURE.
The Bill to Fix Interest on Loans From
School Fund Recommitted The
Stmt Fair Appropriation.
In the Oregon senate Wednesday the
vote was reconsidered by which the bill
to teduoe interest on loans from the
state school fund was passed Tuesday
in order that the rate might be fixed
absolutely at 6 per oent, the bill aa
passed authorizing 8 per cent if it could
be obtained. It was deemed an objec
tion to leave the matter open to pos
sible brokerage arrangements. The
bill was recommitted for amendment.
Dufui's bill to extend the privileges
of the Soldeirs Home to the wives and
widows of old soldiers was lost, receiv
ing only six votes.
The following hills were passed: To
reduce the salary of the Wasco county
judge to 800 and that of the treasurer
to $600; to do away with the neoessity
of personal service or posting notice in
case of attachment of real property: to
create the office of recorder of convey
ances for Polk county at a salary of
$1,000 per year; to provide the man
ner of releasing sureties who may bo
come dissatisfied with their risk; to
provide that surety companies may sign
bonds; to cure defects in certain deeds
and judicial sales; to amend the law
so as to retsriot credits to the sheriff
on the tax list charged against him.
State Fair Appropriation Knocked Out.
The Wednesday forenoon session of
the house was devoted largely to reports
of committees and first reading of bills.
Twenty-seven oommittees made reports
and 58 bills were reported on.
The principal business to occupy the
time of the house in the afternoon was
the consideration of the general appro
priation bill. The house went into
committee of the whole and the various
items were taken up one at a time.
The most important item knockod out
waa the state fair appropriation, by a
vote of 29 to 20.
Other bills passed were: To pro
hibit the manufacture and sale of adul
terated commercial fertilizers; to
authorize county conrta to levy a spe
cial tax of 10 mills and a road poll tax
of $3 for the road fund; to prohibit the
sale of deer and deer hides from August
1 to Deoember 1; to give laborers in
mines and supply agents furnishing
supplies a lien on mining property for
claims; to change the time" of court
terms in the second district; to fix sal
aries of county judges and to place the
clork of the supreme court upon a sal
ary of $8,000 and give him two depu
ties at $70 and $50 per month respec
tively.
In the Oregon senate Thursday,
Harmon's registration bill was passed
by unanimous vote. The merits of
the bill were discussed at length on
Mitchell's motion to recommit whioh
finally received only his own vote. In
debate the expressions were generally
unfavorable to tho Hill bill, which
passed -the house a few days ago by a
decisive vote.
The pure food bill passed the senate
by a unanimous vote. There was no
objection to the main feature of the
bill, but a slight amendment was
made so as to exempt from making an
nual reports persons selling less than
20 pounds of butter weekly; specifying
the number and the pay of employes
of the legislature, including committee
clerks, was passed without discussion,
only six voting against it.
Other bills passed were to incor
porate Eugene, Carleton, Burns, Prine
vi lie and Canby, tho two last named
being house bills.
Daly School Law.
Two important measures came before
the Oregon senate Friday, and neither
reached a vote. Amendments to the
Daly school law were discussed for half
an hour, and the matter being diffioult
to understand, in its present form, the
entire bill was ordered printed again
with amendments.
The bill to encourage the use of wide-
tire wagons on public roads was passed.
The bill to repeal the section appropri
ating $5,000 for the state fair was dis
missed half an hour and thon made a
special order for Wednesday morning.
The pure linseed-oil bill was lost, 18 to
11; the bill providing for the Torrent
system of registering land titles passed
with only three negative votes; the bill
for an irreducible school fund in Doug
las county passed without question;
the bill to roduce the salaries of the
county clerk, clerk of the circuit court
and recorder iu Multnomah county from
$3,500 to $2,600 each was passed.
New bills were introduced as fol
lows: To authorize the state school
land board to contract loans now out at
6 per oent interest for the future; to
provide for the appointment of three
supreme court commissioners.
The voto by which Stanley's bill to
regulate the practice of dentistry in
Oregon was defeated Thursday, was re
considered in the house Fiiday, and
the bill passed by a vote of 84.
Two other important bills were
passed. One is an amendment to the
mining laws to facilitate the building
ot ditches and canals, ot special inter
est to mining sections, and the other is
a bill to withdraw oertain school lands
from public tale and reduce the inter
est on loans of school funds in con
formity with recommendations of the
governor in a recent message to both
houses of the legislature.
In the house Thursday the following
bills were passed: Senate bill provid
ing for a separate board of county com
missioners for Clackamas county; to
authorize county courts and school dis
tricts to display flags on courthouses
and school houses, to arutn l the codo
relative to the loan of school funds by
reducing the interest rate to 0 per cent,
and providing for foreclosure proceed
ings whenever interest becomes in ar
rears six months; to regulate the blink
ing of sheep from one county to another
and directing inspection; to protect
Mongolian pheasants, grouse and quail;
to authorize the employment of coun
ty prisoners on county roads; to amend
the law relative to the tale of property
by executors and administrators, and
fixing the time of confirmation of such
sales by the court; to piovide the man
ner for securities securing release from
bonds; to incorporate Prineville.
Stanley's dental bill was defeated, re
ceiving only 87 votes, as wai also the
bill ot Davis to amend the Sunday
closing law, so as to extond its provi
sions to barber shops, shooting gal
leries, br-Hno alleys and amusement
resorts.
THE DALY TEXT-BOOK BILL.
It Was Temporarily Defeated In the
House.
In the Oregon house Monday the
Daly bill for a text-book commission
failed by three votes to pass, but a mo
tion for reconsideration was carried
by a decisive majority.
The greater part of the day was
taken up in disoussion of the bill.
The anti-crimping bill, which was
referred to the Multnomah delegation
last week, was reported back to the
house and referred to the committee on
commerce.
The afternoon session wis given up
to the consideration of charter bills,
the following being passed: Michell,
Dalles City and Moro; Kelly, Browns
ville and Lebanon; Smith, Burns;
Howe, Carlton; Proebstel, Weston;
Dufur, Dufur; Fordney, Enterprise.
Gray secured the passage of a resolu
tion authorizing the secretary of state
to give each member and officer of the
house a copy of tlio session laws of
1893, and a histoiy of the eur'y Indian
wars.
The following bills were passed: To
protect salmon in Alsea bay and its
tributaries; to oreate the office of clerk
of the justice court in cities of 50.000
population or over; to authorize Mult
nomah oounty to lease the upper deck
of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company's bridge; to provide for the
sale of tidelands; revision of the laws
relating to negotiable instruments; to
proteot salmon in Rogue river; to reor
ganize the state board of horticulture;
to proteot salmon in Curry county; to
piovide for the creation of park com
missions in cities of 8,000 population
or ovei; to require county clerks to ad
minister oaths without charge in pen
sion matters.
Kuykendall's bills to provide for
county eleotions and upon the running
at large of stock, and Cameron's bill to
prohibit the running at large of certain
animals, were defeated.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to the Curtis fish hatch
ery hill, reducing the amount of the
ppropiiation from $25,000 to $15,000.
In the Senate.
In the Orgon senate Monday the bill
to provide for the reclamation of arid
lands under the Carey act of congress
was passed by a vote of 21 to 8, after
being amended so as to prohibit any
duo party from taking more than 150,
000 acres.
'The senate committee reported a
substitute for Hawson's house btll for
artesian wells, the substitute appropri
ating $2,000 for an experiment in the
county whioh will offer the greatest
money inducement, instead of $42,
)00, as provided in the original bill.
Stillraan's bill to withdraw sohool
lands from sale and place interest on
pchool-fund loans at 6 per cent, passed
with only two opposing votes.
The sugar-beet bounty bill was re
committed to the judiciary committee
for amendments, and the bill to regu
late buihluig and loan associations was
indefinitely postponed, because another
bill covered the same ground.
The bill to appropriate $25,000 for
salmon hatcheries passed by a vote of
17 to 11.
THE CAPITAL BILL DOOMED.
Not Enough Votes to Pass It Over the
- Qver4r's Veto. ,
In the Washington legislature Mon
day it developed that it would be im
possible to muster enough votes to
pass the capitol building bill over the
governor's veto.
The senate was in session but 16
minutes In the morning and adjourned.
A resolution was adopted, expressing
sympathy for the parents of Sergeant
Miles E. Kyger and Daniel T. Kyger,
jr., of Walla Walla, members of com
pany I, Washington volunteers, who
died recently at Manila.
Bills introduced were: Creating a
state board of tax commissioners, con
sisting of the auditor, secretary of state
and land commissioner, to assess rail
road property for taxation; providing
that $3 wortli of poison be furnished
by the oounty to each farmer to kill
ground squirrels.
In the House.
The Washington house held sessions
both morning and afternoon. At the
morning session bills intioduced were:
Releasing personal property from ens
tody, pending appeal; prohibiting the
taxing of attorney fees as costs; pro
viding for the county licensing of ped
dlers; providing for the appointment
of a hop inspector; relating to state
school taxes; exempting from taxation
property of religious, charitable and
educational institutions; prescribing
the powers and duties of wreokmas
tors; relating to the disqualification of
judges; providing for the foreclosure
of chattel mortgages without suit; pro
viding for the appointment of an ex
officio surveyor-general and deputies;
relating to assessments for local im
provements. The bill empowering colleges to issue
normal diplomas was indefinitely post
poned after a long debate.
At the afternoon session nine laid
over, nine read a second time, and four
tent back to oommittees.
Bills introduced were: Regulating
fishing industry; making Btate fish
commissioner ex-oflicio game warden.
Bills passed weie: Giving iities
power to define and punish vagrancy;
relating to the method of decreasing
the capital stock of corporations; com
pelling railroads to fence rights of way,
and to pay for stock killed; designat
ing the last Friday in October , as the
date for holding supervisors' elections;
regulating the sale of hotter and
cheese; providing for the organization
of diking and ditching districts; giv
ing eleotrio railways the right of emi
nent domain; granting rebates on road
taxes to farmers using wide-tired ve
hicles. A light earthquake waa felt at Chilli
cothe, O., and in East Tennessee Mon
day. Jallbreak at Kllensburg.
Three men in jail at Ellensburg for
highway robbery escaped by sawing
the bars out ot the steel cage. Having
done this they then called on the jani
tor to build a fire. When he stepped
inside the corridor, they threw and
gagged him, and then, thi listing a piece
ot paper into his pocket, they walked
out. The paper proved to be a note
to their attorney, Ci V. Warner. They
thanked Warner tor his services in the
trial, in whioh the jury disagreed, and
said they would pay him as foi an ac
quittal in due time.
BANQUET STOPS BUSINESS.
The Olvmpla anions Adjonrn to Din
With Senator-Elect Foster.
Both houses of the Washington legis
lature adjourned from Tuesday evening
until 2 P. M. Wednesday, in order to
give ample time to legislators and
members of the press to participate in
an informal banquet tendered at Ta
coma by Senator-elect Foster.
In the senate Tuesday resolutions
commending the bravery of Washing
ton troops at Manila were adopted.
The Gray-Mantz election case was
taken out of the hands of the committee
which had been appointed to submit
the matter to the supreme court, and
the matter will now be practically set
tled by the senate as a whole.
The permanent school fund invest
ment bill waa amended to permit in
vestment in government and state
bonds at par, 8 per cent interest, or in
county, city and school district bonds
at 4 por cent. The bill was then or
dered engrossed.
Bills introduced were: Allowing
O. M. Hidden $103.50 for drawing
plans for the waterworks for the Van
couver school for defective youth; com
pelling the serving of notice of action
within 90 days after the filing of com
plaints. At present a complaint may
be filed and while not being served,
any accounts involved do not outlaw;
appropriating $10,000 for the comple
tion of the state road established in
1885 from Wenatcliee via the Methow
river to the mouth of the Twisp liver;
allowing cities to advanoe from one
class to another at a special election
called for that purpose.
House Routine.
At the opening ot the morning ses
sion of the Washington house Tuesday
the speaker presented anothei lemon
s trance from the citizens of Stevens
county against the creation of the ooun
ty of Ferry.
Bills introduced were: To prohibit
the removal of improvements from
mortgaged property, without the con
sent of the mortgagee; prohibiting the
sale of personal property, title to wfiich
has passed by a conditional sale; pre
scribing rates to be charged on sleeping
cars; for the protection of farmers et
al., in the purchase of fertilizers; to
provide for the extension of tax rolls
by county auditors; (two bills) to
amend the law relating to the organiza
tion and incorporation of municipal
corporations; approrpriating $715.63
for the relief of Captain Harry St.
George; prescribing the manner of
using the label of the typographical
union; approrpriating $400 for a fish
way on the Skykomish river; to enforoe
the payment of delinquent taxes on
timber lands before the removal of the
timber; relating to placing poison for
the destruction of wild animals: relat
ing to the bonds of prosecuting attor
neys. The house went into committee of
the whole on house bill'157, submit
ting a constitutional amendment, per
mitting alien ownership of lands, with
Judge Mount in the chair.
When the committee arose it recom
mended that the bill be referred to the
judiciary committee.
The committee on public buildings
recommended the indefinite postpone
ment of the senate capitol bill and the
passage of a substitute bill that does not
recognize the award of a contract made
by the old commission to F. H. Goes.
The house indefinitely postponed the
senate bill, and ordered that the substi
tute bill be printed.
REAPPORTIONMENT BILL.
It Is Now a Law Without the Signature
of Oregon's Governor.
Governor Qeer Tuesday filed the re
apportionment hill with the secretary
of state, letting it beoome law without
his signature.
Proebstel's bill to suppress nickel-in-the-slot
machines passed the senate
Tuesday, alter a short debate. There
was some objection to the bill on the
ground that it would not be enforced,
but even these objectors admitted it
would have the effect of discrediting
the machines and driving them into se
clusion. Other bills passed were the follow
ing: To make the per diem of county
commissioners $3, except in Douglas,
Lake, Klamath, Jackson, Yamhill,
Gilliam and Union, which should be
$4, Umatilla and Harney $5, Marion
$2.50, and Multnomah $100 per month;
to protect salmon fisheries of the Lower
Rogue river; to amend the charter of
Brownsville; to oodify the laws relat
ing to practice in the justice courts; to
require the payment to the sheriff of
fees in civil oases and $12 per day for
the services of the jury; to constitute
the governor, seoretary of state and
treasurer a state board of equalization;
to authorize boards' of park commis
sioners in cities of 3,000 or more popu
lation; to make state road tax a lien
against speoifio property and collectable
as other taxes.
The memorial to oongress favoring
the passage of the pure-food bill waa
favorably reported, and adopted.
Josephi'a bill to tax bicycles was re
committed. Mortgage Bill Passed. -
The debate upon the mortgage tax
bill of Whitney, passed in the Oregon
house Tuesday, was at times eloquent
as well as stormy, and although the bill
passed by a decisive majority, the vote
of some of the members waa a surprise.
The vote was 89 to 16, absent 6.
Other bills passed were: To make
violation of the peddlers' law a misde
meanor insstead of cause for civil ac
tion, as at present; to amend the law
relative to the sale of property for de
linquent taxes, so as to save labor
and expense of posting notices; to es
tablish a fiscal agency for Oregon in
the state of New York; to regulate the
business of local insurance companies,
by requiring a certain oapital and a cer
tain number of policies before engaging
in business; to appropriate $3,000 for
the relet of J. W. Magnes, injured by a
fall at the penitentiary gate in 1895;
requiring registration of voters in cer
tain cases; to fix the time of meeting
of electors of president and vice-president
in conformity with the federal
statute, and to authorize the secretary
of state to audit accounts and issue
warrants in payment of services; to
protect fruit and hop industries by re
quiring the burning of infected cuttings
and vines; to reorganize the state board
of agriculture by creating a board of
five, and giving the appointing power
to tha governor; to proteot salmon and
trout in the Upper Rogue liver by re
stricting fishing taokls to book and line.
CAPTURE OF ILO ILO
American Flag Floats Over
the Panay Capital.
THE AMERICANS LOST NO ME?
The Insnrcents Fired the Town Before
Evacuating It, But the Flames
Were Extinguished.
Manila, Feb. 15. Tho Dnited States
gunboat Petrel art ived late last even
ing with dispatches from Brigadier
General M. P. Miller to Major-General
Otis, announcing that Ilo Ilo had been
taken by the combined rniltary and
naval forces Saturday morning.
General Miller, on receipt of his in
structions from Manila, sent native
commissioners ashore from the United
States transport St. Paul, with a com
munication for tbe rebel governor of
Ho Ilo, calling upon him to surrender
within a timo stated, and warned him
not to make a demonstration in the in
ter val.
The rebels immediately moved their
guns and prepared to defend their po
sition. Thereupon the Petrel fired two
warning guns, and the rebels immedi
ately opened fire upon her.
The Petrel and tho Baltimore thei
bombarded the town, which the rebels.,
having set on fire, immediately evaou
ated. The American troops were
promptly landed and -extinguished the
fires in all cases of foreign property,
but not before considerable da in ago was
dona
It is believed the enemy's loss dur
ing the bombardment was heavy, but
do American casualties are reported.
The Offlciul Iteport.
Washington, Feb. 15. Shortly be
fore midnight, Adjutant-General Cor-
bin made publio the following dispatch
from Major-General Otis, reporting tho
capture of the town of Ho Ho by the
American forces under Geneial Miller,
on the 11th inst.:
"Manila, Feb. 15. General Millet
reports from Ho Ilo that the town was
taken on the 11th inst. and held by
troops. Insurgents were given until
the evening of the 13th to surrender,
but their hostile actions brought on the
engagement during tho morning. In
surgents fired the native portion of the
town. But little losses to the property
of the foreign iuabitants. No casual
ties among the troops."
A dispatch also came from Admiral
Dewey telling of the capture of the
city. It was a brief recital of the facts
of the case, but it is said contained sub
stantially tbe same information as that
Bent by General Otis. It was sent to
the navy department, and is expected
to be made public in the morning.
GREAT STORM IN THE EAST.
It Extends From the Atlantio to West
ern Texas.
New York, Feb. 15. Tho fearful
Storm which prevailed all day yester
day and last night has increased in vio
lence, and, together with the snow,
which has drifted in many places, hai
almost paralyzed traffic. Trains on all
the steam railroads have been delayed
for five hours by the storm. Nine At
lantic liners due at this port Saturday
have not put in an appearance.
Freight steamers, the voyages of
which are growing uncomfortably long,
are the Eastern Prince, 24 days out
from Shio'ds; Deike Keikmera, 25 dayi
out from Havre; Salerno, 26 days out
from Newcastle, England, and the
Catania, 18 days out from St. Michaels.
The Almida, 55 days out from
Shields, has been about given up at
lost with all on board.
There is no doubt that a large fleet
of steamers has arrived in the vioinit
ttf Sandy Hook, and is waiting outsidi
for the blizzard to pass.
Fonr Lives Lest.
Marlboro, Mass., Feb. 15. A po
liceman who went to a small house in
the rear of a shoe factory tonight to
investigate a fire found the house full
of smoke, and in a room off the kitchen
four persons lying on a mattress, which
had been placed on the floor, all dead,
and in the kitchen three other per
sons in a state of insensibility.
In the South.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 15. The South
is today enveloped in a storm of un
usual severity. From the Gulf north
ward, and from the Atlantio coast to
the western boundary of Texas, a cold
wave has settled heavily on the coun
try, and produced the lowest tempera
ture over known.
Fifty Below In Manitoba.
Washington, Feb. 15. The weather
bureau today issued a special bulletin.
It shows that 50 degrees below zero
was recorded at Minnedosa, Manitoba.
The outlook is there will be a marked
though gradual rise in the temperature
east of the Rocky mountains after to
day. .
Discredit the An dree Story.
London, Feb.15. According to a dis
patch to the Standard from Stockholm,
Nansen and NorJensjold, the explorers,
refuse to credit the story from Krasno
yarsk of the finding, in the provinue oi
Yeniseisk, of the bodies of three men,
supposed to be of Andree and his com
panions. Rome, Feb. 16. Prince Napoleoj
Charles Greco ire Jacques Philippie
Bonaparto, third son of Prince Lucien
Bonaparte, prince of Canino and chief
of the older branch of the Bonaparte
fara'ly, is dead. He was born in Rome
in UJ5. '
A roport comes from Washington
that the subcommittee of the American
mombers of the joint high commission
will concede a portion on Lynn canal,
Alaska, to Canada in return for fish
ing concessions on the Eastern coast.
Chicago, Feb. 15. A consolidation
ol all the outlying street eir companies
connected with the Yeikes system in
Chicago has been quietly formed, and
articles of incorporation of the Chicago
Consolidated Ti action Company, v ith
a capital stock of $15,000,000, have
been filed oat Springfield.
Pueldo, Colo.. Feb. 15. A fire at
8:30 A. M. today destroyed the De
renter theater building, causing losses
aggregating $54,000. Frozen water
plugs interfered with the work of thi
fire department. It was 28 below sera
when the firs was burning.
ATTACK ON CALOCAN. ;
Town Reduced by Combined Assault of
American Forces.
Manila, Feb. 13. The American
forces at 3:40 this afternoon made a
combined attack upon Colocan and re
duced it in short order. At a signal
from the tower of the do la Lome
church (United States signal station),
tbe double-turreted monitor Monadnock
opened fire from the bay with the big
guns of her fore turret on the earth
works, with great effect. Soon after
ward the battery bombarded the place
from another position.
The rebels reserved their fire until
the bombardment ceased, when they
fired volleys of musketry aa the Mon
tana regiment advanced on the jungle.
The Kansas regiment, on the ex
treme left, with the artillery deploying
to the right, charged aoross the open
and carried the earthworks, cheering
under a heavy fire. Supported by the
artillery nt the churoh, the troops fur
ther advanced, driving the enemy,
fighting every foot, right into the town
line, and penetrated to the presidency
and lowered the Filipino flag at 5:30
P. M.
The enemy's sharpshooters in the
jungle on the right fired at long range
on the Pennsylvania regiment, but the
rebels were soon silenced iy sharpnel
shells and the Pennsylvania remained
in the trenches. As the Americans
advanced they burned the native
houses. The rebels were mowed down
like grass, but the American losses
were slight. "
Frightened Filipino Envoy.
San Francisco, Feb. 13. On the
steamer from Yokohama today came
"General" E. Riego de Dios and Senor
M. Rivera, who are Aguinaldo's special
commissoners to Washington. They
were very much disturbed when told of
the latest developments in the Philip
pines. England Wants Warships.
Lima, Peru, via Galveston, Tex.,
Feb. 18. Great Britain, it is reported
here today, has offered to purchase the
Chilian and Argentine warships. Senor
Carlos Walker Martinez, minister of
the interior, has demanded of the Bo
livian minister, Dr. Emeterie Cano, a
guarantee of the immunity of the lives
and property of the Chilians in Bolivia
durhfg the hostilities between Presi
dent Alonzo of Bolivia and the federal
ists, or insuigents.
MUST HAVE A CABLE.
President McKinley's Message to Con
gress Urges Action at This Session.
Washington, Feb. 13. Tho presi
dent's message on the Pacific cable,
transmitted to congress today, is as fol
lows: '.
"As a cori3equonce of the ratification
of the treaty of Paris by the senate of
the United States, ' and its expected
ratifiction by the Spanish government,
the United States will come into pos
session of the Philippine islands, on
the farther shores of the Pacific, the
Hawaiian islands and Guam being
United States territory, and forming
convenient stopping places on the way
across the sea, and the necessity for
speedy cable communication between
the United States and all the Philip
pine islands has become imperative.
Such communication Bhould be estab
lished in such a way as to bo wholly .
under the control of the United States,
whether in time of peace or war. At
present the Philippines can be reached
only by cables which pass through
many foreign countries, and the Ha
waiian island and Guam can only be
communicated with by steamers, in
volving delays in each instance of at
least a week. The present conditions
should not be allowed to continue for a
moment longer than is absolutely nec
essary. The time has arrived when a
cable in the Pacific must extend as far
as Manila, touching at the Hawaiian
islands and Guam on the way.
"Under those ciroumstances, it be
comes a paramount neoessity that meas
ures should be taken before the close of
the present congress to provide such
means as may seem suitable for the es
tablishment of a cable system. I rec
ommend the whole subject to the oaro
ful consideration of congress, and to
such prompt action as may seem ad
visable. IN BLEAK SIBERIA.
Bodies of Andree and Party Probably
round Discovered by Natives.
Krasnovarsk, Sibciia, Feb. 13. A
gold mine owner named jenactyrschin
has reoeived a letter saying that a tribe
of Turgusos, inhabiting the Timir pen
insula, North Siberia, recently in
formed the Russian police chief of the
district that on January 7 last, hot ween
Komo and Pit, in the province of Yen
iseisk, they fouud a cabin constructed
of cloth and cordage, apparently be
longing to a balloon. Close by were
the bodies of three men, the head of
one badly crushed. Around them were
a number of instruments, the uses of
which were not understood by the
Turgusos.
The police chief has started for the
spot to invootigate, and it is believed
that the bodies are those of the aero
naut Herr Andree and his companions.
Missouri Fruit Crops Killed.
Nevada, Ma, Feb. 13. The peaoe
and apricot crops of Vornon and Cedar
counties are reported killed today. The
loss is estimated at more than $100,
000. The weather is the coldest known
here in 80 ycais.
Trial itevlslon Bill Adopted.
Paris, Feb. 13. Tho trial revision
bill was adopted by a voto of 832 to
233 in the chambei of deputies. Late
this evening there was considerable
ferment in the streets, caused by the
shouting of the rival parties.
Olathe, Kan., Feb. 13. Aunt Dicy
Dibbs, aged 80 years, was found frozen
to death in her home at Shawneo, here
she had lived alone for years. Sht had
apparently hurt herself "by a fall and
waa unable to call for help.
Statement of Stock Losses.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 13. General
Livestock Aeent Pennington, of tbe
Santa Fe system, to-lay gave out a
statement of tho probable loss to the
stock interests in tho various states
owing to the prevailing blizz;ird. Con
servative estimates place the losses at
80 per cent in tho Panhandle, Wyora
iog, Montana and the Dakota. The
losses in Northwest Texas may reach 50
per cent.
The Spanish cortes will be con
voked on the 20th to ratify the peace
treaty.