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The Heppner Gazette THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901.'. AN IDEA, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. The Oregon Historical society pro a commemorative celebration at ortland, in 1905, of the centennial anniversary of the Lewis and Clarke expedition to the Pacific coast. Invi tation will be extended to the governors ; of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon tana and Wyoming to share in the interesting historical festival. The reflection is fascinating that every notable and great achievement in the world's history sprang from an idea born in the mind of one person. The fact is interesting that the thought which led up to the Lewis and Clarice expedition, and to which are trace able the history and growth and romance of tbePaciflc northwest, came into the fertile mind of Jefferson when, that eminent statesman was serving as United States minister to France.. "Thomas Jefferson," says one his torian, "was the father of United States explorations. While lesser minds were absorbed in proximate events, his profound ' sagacity penetrated forests, and sought to reveal the extent and resources of the new nation. And chief among the incidents which aroused in him a more than ordinary interest in the subject was the ap pearance, in 1786, at the United States legation in Paris, while Jefferson was minister to France, of that most re markable man, John Ledyard of Connecticut." ' , . Ledyard was with Captain Cook in his vovage to the Pacific, and had been the first in Europe or America to propose a trading veyage to the north west coast, "and was now in Paris, panting for fresh adventure." ; A constant guest of Jefferson, he in spired in that great American the noble dream of exploration that was to add an empire to the young republic; Returning in 1789 to the United StatfiH. th thought crew uuon Jeffer- Ann and (n 1792. while secretary of state, he proposed to the American Philonnnhical societv that some com- Setent person be engaged to ascend the lissouri river, cross the Stony moun tains, and follow a western river to the sea. The plan was attempted, but was not carried to consummation. Jefferson, however, never lost sight of his favorite project, and when he en tered the White House in 1801, the Idea developed into the stupendous di plomacy which gave us Louisiana, and put our western border in contact with the distant Pacific northwest, the mys terious No Man's Land of the Oregon. But Jefferson was resolved that it should not long continue as No Man's Land, and in a confidential message of January 18, 1803, he urged congress to authorize a military expedition across the continent. The measure was sanctioned bv congress, and the Lewis and Clarke expedition followed. Besides 14 United States soldiers, the party included nine young Ken tuckians, two French voyageurs, a hunter, an interpreter, and a negro servant of Captain Clarke. It passed the winter of 1803-4 at the mouth of ' the Missouri. In the spring of 1804, it was reinforced by a detail of six sol diers under a corporal, with nine boat men, and proceeded by leisurely stages up the Missouri river. It went into winter Quarters in October, in the country of the Mandans. In the spring of 1805, the party pushed its toilsome way up the Missouri, crossed the Rocky moun tains, and after enduring severe hard ships and encountering innumerable perils, followed a tributary of the Clearwater, and after that the larger stream to its confluence with tho Snake; passed down the Snake river to the Columbia, and thence down the great river of the west, until, on November 7, 1805, "They beheld to their great joy the horizon line of the Paciflo ocean." Space will not permit a detailed ac count of the party's explorations. It passed the winter of 1805-6 near the Columbia's mouth, the spot selected for the fort being about 200 yards from the bank of Lewis river, near its entrance into tho bay, on the Clatsop or Oregon shore. The winter was passed in hunting for food, in making treaties with the surrounding tribes, and distributing medals and certificates of kindness to the leading chiefs. Before starting on the long return journey, Lewis and Clarke posted this notice in the fort "The object of this is, that through the medium of somo civilized person, who may see the same, it may lie made known to the world, that the , party consisting of the persons who names are hereunto annoxed, and who were sent out by the government of the United States to explore the interior of the continent of North America, did penetrate the same by the way of the Missouri and , Columbia rivers, to the discharge of the latter into tho Pacifio ocean, where they arrived oil the 14th day of November, 1K05, and departed the l'3d day of March, 1806, by the same route by which they had come out." The assertion is occasionally heard that Lewis and Clarke claimed the Pacifio northwest as territory' of the United States, but is not well founded me time was not yet opportune lor so bold and sweeping a claim, and its ad vancement then would have alarmed tho powers of Kurope, and might have lost us the great empire which is now our noble heritage. , There Is strange fascination in re- fleeting on what might have been. We won the Oregon country by a narrow margin, with nothing to spare in statecraft and diplomacy. If Jefferson had not conceived the great idea, nurtured it in his fertile mind, and advanced it to the point of daring ac tion, history might record a very different story. If Ledyard hail not met our ambassador at Paris, nor poured into his ready ear the ambiti ous plan of northwestern civilization and conquest, a different purpose might have controlled the lofty spirit of Jefferson. The red ensign of Britain might wave where now floats to the free breezes the beauteous banner of our glorious Union. Spokesman-Review. TBI QUESTION OF BXBRCISE. Dr. Albert H. Hoy, who lias pub lished a book on "Eating and Drink ing" discussed the much mooted sub- Joct of exorcise and its effects on the lealth, to newspaper man. "I am speaking," he said, "about exercise for the business man, not about exercise for the young or for laborers. Every action, whether of the brain or of the muscles, destroy! oella, uses up tissue and creates so miuh waste matter to be taken up by the blood and to be eliminated from the system. . .. "Now, unless such waste is elim inated it beeonws bo much poison in the system. The great eliminating machine of the human body is the kid neys. Unless the kidneys do their work the system is saturated with poisons. ' "For instance, there is the sad case of Senator Davis. His toe was poisoned by his stocking and refused to heal. Kidney complaint developed, or rather the kidneys for a long time bad not done their full -work, and the system was so poisoned that the toe became gangrened. ' The kidneys work easily during youth up, say, to 35 years of age. But alter u they Decome sngnny atropniea ; they shrink a little. This is not disease, but a simple effect of age. Conseauentlv. as a man advances in years he should ask his kidneys to per form a little less work, instead oi a little more. . , . 'But suppose a man of business not only uses his brain during business hours, but : also puts a strain on his muscles afterward. There is waste then to be carried off.mental waste and physical waste, the broken down brain cells and those of the muscles like wise. Thus the kidneys are forced to do double duty to eliminate poisons resulting from ;two sets of action. "A business man should get au the exercise he needs from the require ments his business. A long walk only further calls upon his reserve. , Vio lent golf or tennis only puts a greater strain upon his system.. If he says he needs fresh air, oxygen, he can get it in his office, if the latter be . properly ventilated. Or he doesn't need to ex ercise to breathe fresh air. John D Rockefeller drives a fast horse. .That gives him air, but it doesn't .give him exercise except , what he gets from stepping from -h is office to bis carriage. tt r ; i- .1 ..... iiTJil tie IS' never sick, nenaior . vriiiiam M. Evsrts is a very old man. He never exercised. That is his boast. "But business men say . 'I need exercise. I do not led well unless 1 have it. ' That means generally that they eat too much. You can poison your system by ; eating , too much, putting into yourself more than the kidneys can eliminate. Now Chamber lain, who takes no exerciso, I have no doubt is a light eater. , " : : ( "The thing to be attained is a proper balance, a norm, so to speak. One should eat sufficiently, but no more. He should not put into himself what cannot be easily eliminated, nor should he indulge in both mental and physical exercise, thereby causing a excess of waste, which the kidneys are unable to deal with. . , "When a business man takes a vaca tion he can afford much more physical exercise. I went over to Michigan laBt summer and cut the connecting links behind me. I didn't think at all and played golf five hours a day. Even then I was careful to rest afterward. Where there was little brain waste I could afford more physical.' "The athlete is not the best pre pared man to resist disease. 1 have known a blacksmith to oppose no, re sistance to pneumonia and the strongest athlete to die quickly of typhoid. . . "I have not been speaking of exer cise for the young, but the grown man. Youth neods exercise to build up muscles and ' growing tissues. But while you see puppies and colts scam Dering around, the old dog knows better andfso does the horse. Thev rest when thev can. Athletes who come out of college and go to desk work often have greiyt difficulty. Excessive exercise enlarges ' the heart, so thaj it may do its work. The heart is a muscle, mid you can't lessen a muscle. When the football player becomes a desk worker he has no need for his great heart. It is too big and it be comes flabby." , , At the tenth annual meeting of the New York Vegetarian Society Prof. D. Perky talked on- "Eating," from which the following paragraph is taken : "When I quit eating beet about eight years ago I began to receive that nor mal condition which a man should en joy before he can become a successful nsinoss man. 1 nave not eaten beet since then. About nine years ago I read a newspaper paragraph about the rapid increase of cancer in England. It was thou discovered that cancer was most prevalent among well-to-do men and women, the beef eaters, whereas it was scarcely known among the com mon people, .who . get little beef to eat." .. . , He comparod the human being to the bucksaw, which worked badly when not properly sharpened and set or was rusty. "The country is full of drunkards, ' he said, "the jails full of criminals, and the asylums full of insane, all be cause they have not been prooerly edu cated in the way they should live or care for their stomachs. Their head are filled with book ' knowledge, but they havo very little intelligence.' A SEMICOLON DID IT., Punctuation Hark Has Power to Close Boston Saloons. - A punctuation mark has caused the citizens of Boston trouble. Many have actually wopt. Others, no doubt, have rejoiced for here is a case where a little mark has done much to aid the cause of temperance, at least it aided by the eailv closing of all places where liquors are sold. A semicolon did the whole thing. , In changing the law on this subject, a short time ago, semicolon was placed whore formerly a comma was doing business, and, as a consequence, even howls and restau rants are not permitted to sell liquor of any kind after 11 o'oclock at 'night. Bob ton, the center of culture has uianv people who actually indulge in siitfb things, and after theater parties have been common. Of course they can sill have the after theater parties, but with the hot bird there is no cold hot. As a consequence a great howl has gone up, hut the court says the semicolon is there, and there it will remain until the law is changed; and until that time the little punctuation mark, which is supposed to hold the half way station between the comma ami the' period, will keep all places where liquors are sold closed after It at night. Walla Walla Statesman. ' ,, 'it imi ii " An Epoch, of Poaee and Industry. With the vast resources of the United States relieved from the menace of involvementjin business up heaval and freed for the service of peaceful industrial development throughout tho world j with the forces of Europe and America no longer en grossed in the jealousy of international struggle for extended political bound aries, but, by iIm great precedent of the Chinese settlement, united in keeping peace ' and order and main taining, instead of remaking, the map of the East; with the marvellous increase in productive capacity of the last fifty years to build upon the twentieth century opens with match less promise for the productive forces of the earth and for those who "d inert theiu for the use and benefit of man." live Engineering Magasine, Decem ber, Um, ' , Blockland Bros., tJL Union county, have received tine Wooded turkey that cost them $13.00. . SOMB TIMELY. TOPICS. Educational theory and practice are just now in a chaotic state of transi tion, l One question upon wind the subject hinges is that of "Freedom and Free Will." Much of tho Uncer tainty of direction distinguishing present teaching is due to indecision in this matter. Shall the chile have freedom to follow his impulsis, or shall the child be regarded m i free agent to control those impulses lation ally and to regulate his conduct toward Others? - s Professor Fullerton discusses 'Free dom and Free Will" in an interesting manner in the current Popular Science Monthly. As an introduction o his argument he imagines two men before a jury on me accusation oi hudiciuu. Each admits that he has occasioned the death of a man, but each has life own account of how it came about. In the first instance the accused had been forced by a stronger person to hdd the gun. He was unwilling, but ai iron hand compelled him to preis the trigger, and the victim fell. lie- was the instrument of a bloody deei, and does not account himself the responsi ble cause; he slew because he "couldn't help it." The evidence of the seconl man differs in many respects. He was alone when the shooting occurred. Ie was shooting at a mark, taking pleaiure in hitting a target near the btll-eye, when the rubicund lace of a rustic appears above the hedge across the field. The open mouth of the ountry man fs an irresistible target, aid one altogether too delightful to be passed by. "I had not the faintest inention, a moment before, of shootiig any man." he explains; ' out, rany, it was too good a shot to miss and I simply couldn't help it." ' What would be the action ot petit lurv who heard these cases in succes sion is uncertain, but there can be little doubt, says the writer, tlat even a iurv would detect an important dis tinction between the two , "wouldn't helps." ''The world seems to be ful'l of 'couldn't helps' of the two sffts; the man' who stumbled on tm stairs couldn't help falling to the bottom; the man who was thrown Irom a window couldn't help descending to the street; the man who was sdzed by the police couldn't help faling to meet his engagement; the gresdy boy couldn't help taking the largei muffin; the devoted mother couldi't help spoiling her only child; the enotional ihilanthropist couldn't help Iieiing in lis pocket on hearing the ilausible tale of the wilv tramp." i While many lurvmen wouk regard the excuse of the second 'couldn't help" as worthless, there miglt bo one among them who was somethng of a philosopher and reflected hat the guilty man really couldn't hep - doing what he did. nature nao miae mm what he was. "The target wsh attrac tive; the result followed. He was free from external compulsion ; hi was not and could not free himself irom his own impulses." The man thui reason ing is called "determinist, one who accepts in its widest sense the assump tion of scienco that all the phenomena of nature are subject to law, aid that nothing can happen withost some adequate cause why it should happen thus and not otherwise, frofeshor Fullerton 's argument weighs lie two theories that of detorminismlind its opposite, indeterminism, oj "free will," Quotation is made film Pro feasor James' "Talks to Teaclirs" to illustrate the confusion of tlielo ques tions that exists in many min s. i , i : J ..i.i. An unequivocal and conci ment of the writer's positio) closes the paper ; J. believe most heartily in reodom. I am neither fatalist nor maerlalist. hold man to be a irae agi t, and believe that there is such a ung as man. justice in man's treatment f I view with horror the doc- trine that the teacher's desk md ' the puloit. tho force of public opl liion and the sanction of law, are of nohvnil. I am unwilling to assume witrut evi dence that each man's bread is the seat of uncaused and inexpli ible ex- plosions, which no man can predict, lich no which auaiiiBt the consequences of man can make provision an set at defiance 1 all the fords which make for civilization. Flavor rather than nutritiy quality constitutes the chief value f cheese as a food. At the same timewhemista say that cheese is ono of he most nutritious and cheapest of tods.. Its nutritive value is greater thh meat, while it costs less. jnow, ticese is eaten ' not because of its nutritive value, but always for its liav. Flavor s as necessary as nutrimeii writes Professor H. W. Conn of pesleyan university for tho Populas Scienco Monthly. -i flavor gives tout to lood, detains the palate sndfcnd stimulates the lands to secrete, so that the foods majbe prop erly digested and aHlmilated Different peoples have dilferlt tastes in thisreBpect; the Italians le garlic, Mexicans, red popper, the itives of India curry. Well llavorej cheeses add relish to the humblest leals and gave pleasure to the lives of housands of poor people whose food I of the coarsest character. . Yet thl chemist does not include the llavol in hi analysis of cheese, nor lous the physiologist find that flavor las a do finite fowl value, though h loes say that the human body could : t survive on food stuff 8 without flavor If flavors are so impo int. tho sources of flavor become a gnificant questiun. All cheeses are ado from milk, but dinerent methods ( ripen ing bring out the flavors, w eh have been traced directly to tho g wth upon and within the cheese ot a iriety of plants. Here is whore tho encflcent microbe plays an interemg part. In milking Roquefort che special ly prepared bread is lowed to mold, After thoroughly i regnnted with mold it is grated to a f powder and mixed with the cur as it is placed in a form for slui) -' Hard cheeses are flavored bv Inn ria, and molds are active in the ri ling and flavor process. Particular i thods are adopted to flavor and hastei ie growth of molds. Sometimes tin1 heese js placed on special straw oats, or wrapped in straw in a I, damp cellar with the best coi tions Jor growing mold, which sooi ivers the ntire surface of the e lies so. flie awii mon blue mold is most usi, hut eon rally several kinds unite i ripeniuit. In soft cheeses plant f is called molds play little or no pari i th pro cess. Their growth is pr nted by salting, oiling and riihhlug e surface, Unless a dairy is supplic. with the proper bacteria and micro! . the re sults in cheese making wi! lie want ing. Dairies can be stock with the right kind of microbes ami acteria. Science is accumulatii against the mosquito. Kat.s carriers of the bubonic pi have been emissaries of evidence re guilty e. ri les during cholera visitations. The ii lliito has been heard from freqnentl; past season, and the Decen" Science Monthly states th now good evidence that yel well as malaria is caused j tion by mosquitoes, which nnng the Popular there is fever as iuocula- ve as the intermediate hosts of the parasites. During the experiments which led to this conclusion mosquitoes which had bitten fever patients were allowed to bite eleven persons. Two, one of whom was Dr. Carroll, had regular attacks of yellow fever. Among 1400 non-immune Americans in Uuba there were threo cases of yellow fever; 'two of these bad been bitten within live days of the attack. The sad case of Dr. Lazear in creases the positive evidence. While working with a yellow fever patient he permitted a mosquito to bite him. He became ill after the fourth day and died of yellow fever. . ELECTRIC LIGHT A REMEDY. Used by Physicians in Certain Diseases With Great Success. Recently Dr. W. Freulenthal, of New York, read an interesting paper before .the American Electro-Therapeu tic Association on tho subject of the value of electric light in the treatment of tuberculosis of the throat and lungs. Sunlight and electric light, he said, have the same effect upon the system, and it has been proved by thousands of cases already treated that the beneficial result of treatment by electric' light is due to the action of those rays which approximate most closely to sunlight the blue and the ultra violet rays of the arc light. The lamp which Dr. Freudenthal used in this treatment consists of an Edison incandescent high-power lamp, in front of which is a disk of colored gelatine or glass, through which the light penetrates, giving only a blue light. This concentrates the rays by acting as a bi-eonvex lens, and also protects the exterior of the neck from too intense heat., The lamp is applied to the throat, and as the Adam's apple in some throats is so large that many of the rays of light are lost in trying to penetrate it' the front of the apparatus is hollowed out so that it adapts itself to the external contour of the neck. The lamp is applied to one or both sides of tho larnytf or in front, and ap plication is kept' up from 30 to 00 minutes. In treating tuberculosis of the lungs .by this method, the arc light is sub stituted for the incandescent light. ',. One of the cases which Dr. Freuden thal, treated with the incandescent lamp was that of a woman 30 years old, who had incipient phthisis of both lungs, which affected her throat, Causing pain on swallowing that felt as if oil were boiling in her throat. He treated the case with this method for four months, and relieved the throat trouble, but the patient died from a violent pulmonary hemorrhage. In a similar case relief was ex perienced, but the patient died even tually of tuberculoids of the lungs. In other cases the cure was permanent. - MRS. M'KINLEY'S MOTHER. A Record of Interest to the Mistress of the White House. Mrs. McKinley received an interest ing letter lato last Saturday night. It came from the principal of the Mora vian Seminary for Young Ladies in Pennsylvania, and was sent by special delivery. ' The letter stated that in going over the old records of the school it was dis covered that in 1840 a Mr. Isaac Harter placed a young lady by the name of Catherine D. Wault at that school. He specified that she was to bo taught all the useiul arts during the same time that she was receiving her literary education. Air. Harter also informed the school authorities that he left the sum of 50 cents to be given to the young lady for pocket money during the year. The school principal then relates that some years later he finds it re corded in the annals of the school that this same young lady married George Saxton, of Stark county, O. This school, therefore, educated the mother of Mrs. McKinley. The letter detailed little incidents of the girlish life of Mrs. Saxton and placod Mrs. McKinley in possession of a great deal of information concern ing her mother. The president does not permit Mrs. McKinley to be bothered by letters during the evening, but this was made an exception and tho president placed it in her hands within a very few moments af tor its receipt. An Indian's Logic. ; . The Dial quotes the following story from BiHhop Whipple's "Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate." The bishop once undertook to '. reprove Wabasha for having a scalp dance in front of the mission house. "The chief was smoking, but when I had finished - he took his pipe from his mouth, and slowly blowing a cloud of smoke into tho air, said: 'White man go to war with his own brother; kills more men than Wabasha can count all his life. Great Spirit look down and say: 'Good white man; he has My Book ; I have good home for hiin by and by.' Dakota has no Great Spirit's book; iie goes to war, kills one man, has a foolish scalp-dancp. Great Spirit very angry. Wabasha doesn't believe it!' " Working the City. The issue of street improvement bonds undor the Bancroft act in Port land, now amounts to t-l",H33, on which the city is paying 0 per cent interest, or f 13,000 per year. There will be about 135,000 more of these bonds sold by the first of tho year, as there has of late been a rush of street improvement work by people who realize that it is a good thing to obtain 10 years' timo to pay for tho improve ment and huvo tho city liquidate the interest, says the Oregonian. These $35,000 new " bonds will bring the in terest account up to a total of about $15,000 a year. Tho present rush of street work is duo to the fact that the legislature is soon to meet, when an effort will be mado to repeal the law: Wise property-owners , are therefor making sure of a sott snap while the opportunity lasts. Don't Wear Elk Teeth, The lodge of the Benevolent Protec tive Order of Elks, ot Denver, has ap pointed a committee to draft resolutions against tho wearing of elk teeth as emblems of the order. Reported wholesale slaughter of elk in the west for the teeth influenced ' this action, and copies of the resolution will be sent to the different lodges throughout the country with tho idea of effecting tho abolishment of the traffic of elk teeth. Hotod Soout Shot. Baptisto Gamier, known all over the went, and especially among armv men as "Little Bat," the fearless Indian scout, who first came into prominence for services rendered General McCook and later service in the big Indian wars, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a saloon at Crawford, Neb., by J. I). Haguewood, the saloon manager. The trouble between the two is not known. Haguewood sur rendered. Jacob Werten, at Great Falls, Mon ana, shot and fatally wounded his son John. Werten had treated his wife badly, and the son interferred to pro tect nis mother. GENERAL NBWS. A bill introducing the liiry syBtem in Porto Rico has pamsed both houses at San Juan. The population of Berlin, including the suburbs, is 2,460,676, as compared with 2,076.940 in 1895. Harry Elkes defeated Jimmy Michael in a 15 mile bicycle race, motor paced, in New York Saturday night. Frank Carr died at Philadelphia, fol lowing a boxing contest. He was knocked down and his skull fractured. An Austrian engineer. William Kress, has invented an airship which is pronounced to be better than Zeppelin's. Oscar Aarson. a bicvele rider, died Saturday in New York, from injuries resulting from a fall during the six day bicycle race. About 200 negroes have left for San Francisco, whence they sail for Hono lulu. The negroes are going to work on sugar plantations. Discussing the Nicaragua canal, the Novoe Vremya says Russia is not in terested in the matter, but naturally sides with America. , . Captain Montgomery D. Parker, of the Eighth infantry, died in the mili tary hospital at Mauifa the night of the 17th inst., of dysentery and liver trouble. Grave fears are felt regarding the health of Li Hung Chung, owing to a severe cold that he caught on the day he visited General Chaffee. There is a persistent rumor that ex Governor Merriam of Minnesota, now director of the census, will be given a place in the cabinet, some time after March 4. August Belmont, who has been ill at Hempstead, New York, with typhoid fever, has successfully passed the crisis of the disease, and is now rapidly improving. Clyde shipbuilders recently placed orders for 150,000 tons of plates in the United States at a saving of 50,000. The depression in Scotch steel and malleable iron trades is acute. Roanoke, Virginia, Elks Christmas day fed 500 of tho poor of that place. Several long tables were in the middle of tho building and 500 visitors looked on. The dinner cost over $500. Colonel Henry B. Harsha-, ex-slate treasurer of Wisconsin, died Tuesday at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of cancer of the tongue. He served in the "Iron Brigade" during the civil war. The libel suit 'of Baron Von Schroeder against John D. Spreckels, of the San Franisco Call, for $250,000 was ended Saturday, the jury bringing in a verdict in favor of Spreckels. Almost $17,000 has been contributed for tho Admiral Philip memorial fund, named in memory of the famous com mander of the Texas and later com mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard. To shield his mother from abuse and save himself a beating witti a poker, Albert Albertson shot and killed his father at their home in Chicago. Albert who is 17 years old, was ar rested. Secretary Hitchcock has granted the inaugural committee a commission to hold the bail and entertainments in cident to the coming inauguration of President McKinley in the pension building. John Tiger, tin Indian, while drunk at Eufala, Indian Territory shot Jesse Beck ' and killed him, killed Dave Porter am) a man named Johnson be.T fore he came to hjs senses, when he gave himself up. . Receiver Clark, of the Chosen Friends, says creditors have little prospect of realizing much of anything from their claims. The utmost that they cai( hope .for js the realization of 10 cents qu the dollar. Otto Cribb, an Australian welter weight, knocked out Frank McConnell of San Francisco in the fourth round Wednesday night before the Columbia Athletic club, of 'Frisco, The fight was a fast one, , , Tod Sloan and Tommy Burns, the jockeys, have arrived in San iancisco. Sloan says he has come purely for pleasure and wilt not accept any mounts. Burns will ride here after the first of the year. General Fitzhugh Lee, commander of the department of Missouri, was the guest of honor at the banquet at the Commercial club at Kansas City, given in commemoration of the sign ing of the John Jay treaty. . John J. English and 12 others have filed a suit in the United States dis trict court in San Francisco against the Pacifio Mail Steamship company to secure $00,500 damages for alleged breach of passenger contract. Webb Jay, ot Indianapolis, broke the world's bowling record bv bowling :-99 out of the possible 300 points. Strike after strike was made in his game with three comrades, until the last ball, which missed the eighth pin. Rev. Charles Reuben Hall, bishop coadutbr of the Springfield diocese of the Episcopal church, died at Cairo, Ohio, Christmas dav of valvular dU sease of the heart, aged 63 years, lie had held' his present position since 1892. Bills were introduced in the second chamber at The Hague approving of the marriage of Queen Wilhelmlna to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, regulating the procedure of the cele bration and the contingencies arising therefrom, Mayor Harrison, of Chicago", has re voked all permits for prizefights issued prior to the passage of the anti-fight ordinance by the city council. The mayor's action puts an end to the stories that ho would pot approve the new law, Secretary of th Navy Long has pur chased a site for a residence which he will immediately erect in Colorado Springs. Mr. Long's daughters, who have been there for the past year for their health, will make it their perm anent home. Thirty cars forming a part of the United States government exhibit at the recent Paris exposition were laid under em brago at Havre, the railroad company declining to surrender them pending the payment of a claim for 1710 francs. IL F. Stevens, traveling salesman for Robeling & Co. of Chicago, made twp'desperate attempts at suicide in Wichita, Kansas. Finding no other weapon he broke a pewter' spoon and with the rongh end tried to dig a hole into his jugular vein. Seventy thousand dollars in gold is to be distributed by the American Ex press company among its employes as Christmas remembrances. Eyery man who has been in the employ of the company for one year will receive a $5 gold piece on Christmas eve. The inauguration of William McKinr ley on the 4th day of March, 1901, for a second terra will eclipse not only "any" but "all" other efforts com bined in the way of inauguration cere monies. Much government money will be wasted on the ceremony. Chairman J. K. Jones, according to reports in democratic circles, will call a meeting of the democrats national committee in Washington for the pur pose of resigning as chairman. Jt is said that J. U. Johnson, who was chairman of the executive committee, will probably succeed him. Dr. Hawkins is dead at Ralston, Oklahoma, the result of Cowboy Hamui knocking him down and dancing on his stomach. The doctor was over 60 vears of age, and recently saved the life of Hatnm, over the settlement for which services the fatal dispute arose. Mexican troops in Sonora, Mexico, were recenlty attacked by a band of Yaqui Inidans. Four officers and I about 30 men were killed outright, and Colonel Francisco Peinado, one of the leading officers of the army; was shot through the stomach and seriously wounded. Edward V. Higgins, who' resides near Los Angeles, has confessed that on December 4th he murdered his mother and William Sbeehan, a sheep herder, with an axe. A ' body has been found in a grave on the hillside where Higgins says he buried his victims. Tho last obstacle having been re moved, the joint note was signed at Pekin Saturday by all the foreign ministers. The note will be delivered to Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching as soon as the former shall have sufficiently recovered from his indispo sition. Orders have been sent out through out the territory of the western central and trunk line traffic associations to the effect that hereafter no passes, either annual or trip, Bhall be issued on account of independent car lines. Small railroads are. also to be cut off from such privileges. , Judgo Stockbridge at Baltimore ap pointed Daniel L. Branton receiver for the Economy Savings bank which closed its doors Saturday. Two banks have closed their doors in ' Baltimore within the last ten days. There., has not been a bank failure in Baltimore before these for twenty years. Jessie Morrison was released at Eldorado, Kansas, Monday on $5000 bonds, Sheriff Turner having approved the bond. Judge Morrison, father of the imprisoned girl, accompanied him to the jail where they released her from custody. The party then quietly went to the Morrison home. The comptroller of the currency has appointed J. Frank Alrich temporary receiver of the American National bank of Baltimore. This bank has suffered ajarge shrinkage in deposits snd has sustained ome heavy losses, which have involved its capital and surplus, and reduced greatly its re sources. Two hundred mi lion dollars is the maximum sum the administration wants the powers to demand of China as indemnity, yet the figures are likely to be many times that amount. The United States army has a deficiency of $14,000,000 for transportation of army supplies, and most of that is charged against China. PUSHING THE WORK OF IRRIGATION. The telegram sent by the National Irrigation Congress at Chicago urging upon President McKinley the impor tance of the irrigation and foresty problem and requesting him to in turn urge upon congress the admisability of some definite action has done more to direct public attention to these im portant national questions than any other one thing. The telegram was as follows; To the president: The ninth annual session of the National Irrigation Con gress now in session in the city of Chicago respectfully urge that In your message to congress you call attention to the national importance of the preservation of our forests and of the extension and conservative use of the forest preserve and further that you ernphaize the need of national action to store the flood water that now' go to waste. "Save the Forests and Store the Floods" proved a popular motto at the Chicago Irrigation Congress. Its ses sions bore a marked atmosphere of thoughtful consideration ot how these great objects could be accomplished and a general spirit of harmony and co-operation pervaded the atmosphere. Much satisfaction was expressed at the growth of the national irrigation senti ment in the east and the interest and active co-operation afforded by eastern business men, . . ' Great as is Chicago with her people equaling in numbers a third of the entire population of the western half of the United States yet the National Irri gation Congress was recognized as the exponent ot a national movement and caused no little local and general com ment. Chicago- newspapers devoted their columns to its meetings and Chicago's largest business men at tended them. Tho great problem of the reclamation of the millions of arid acres was recognized at its true value and the incalculable benefits to result, appreciated. The national stand ing of the national irrigation question is an assured fact. The following resolutions were adopted by the National Irrigation Congress, November 24, 1900; "We hail with satisfaction the fact that both of the great political parties of the nation in the last campaign de clared in favor of the reclamation of arid America in order that settlers might build homes on the public domain, and to that end we urge upon congress that national appropriations commensurate with the magnitude of the problem should be made for the preservation of the forests and the re forest ization of denuded areas as natural storage reservoirs and for the construction by the national govern ment as part of its policy of internal improvement of storage reservoirs and other works for flood protection and to save for use in aid of navigation and irrigation the waters which now run to waste and for the development of artesian and subterranean sources of water supply. "The waters of all streams should forever remain subject to public con trol and the right of the use of water for irrigation should inhere in the land irrigated, and beneficial use be the basis of measure and the limit of the right. , "The work of building the reservoirs necessary to store the floods should be done directly by the government under existing statues relating to the employ ment of labor and hours of work and under laws that will give to all Ameri can citizens a free and equal oppor tunity to gej first employment, and then a home on the land. "We commend the efficient work of the various bureaus of the national government in the investigation qf the physical and legal problems and of her conditions relating to irrigation and in promoting the adoption of more effec tive laws, customs and methods of irri gated agriculture, and urge upon con gress the necessity of providing liberal appropriations for this important work. James Sheehan shot and seriously wounded his daughter at a mining claim in Porcupine district, Idaho. His sluice boxes had been robbed of gold dust several times. He kept a watcb and shot the thief. It proved to be his daughter, dressed in man's lothes. The girl was trying to get money to elope with a young man to whom her father objected. Her wound is not fatal. PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS. The E. E. Seeley residence in Salem was burned Monday. The family were away from home. The Oregon farmers' congress will ( convene at Salem, January 7, instead' of January 8, as first announced. Mrs. R. K. Lien, aged 42 years, died at her home on Howell Prairie., Marion county, Monday. ' : Mrs. Costina Madison died at her home near Salem on Monday, aged 47 years, of inflammation of the blood. Samuel B. Newkirk, aged 62 years, died at the state asylum for the in sane, at Salem, Sunday of appolexy. Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer is suing the 1 . 1 - 1 . Am AAA opuKaiiu b i reel, rmiwwaj lur fuu,uw damages, alleged to have been incurred by being thrown from a street-car a year ago. - f - 1 The gross earnings of the Oregon Short Line for the second week in December showed a decrease over the same week last year. Thia is acounted ' for by a general falling off of traffic in Idaho. Granite has refused to allow a liquor license to a dealer who persists in keeping his saloon on the street. He claims the right to remain because he was there before the town was incor porated. Mrs. O. C. Thornburgh died at her home at Forest Grove, aged 88 years. She had been in failing health for some time, and , death was not unex pected. A husband and three children survive her. Judge Eakin, as judge of the Eighth judicial district, has appointed a com mittee from the Union county bar to arrange for a proper observance of John Marshall day on February 4, at the court house in Union. Peter Roth, an old and well-known resident of Columbia slough, near Port land,' died December 27. He was 74 years old, and had made his home in that neighborhood for a long term of years, engaging in dairying. The new wing at the Oregon state penitentiary, has been completed, and will be occupied as soon as the steam cooking apparatus can be placed in position. The bathroom and eteanr heating plant aro already in use. A man named Reeve, and Al Doug las, were hunting ducks near Tangent, Linn county, when Douglas' dog ran against his master's ; gun, discharging it. ' The shot took .effect in Reeve's face. The wound is not dangerous. Harry Moffatt, of Oregon City, was frozen to death something over two weeks ago near Dawson City. He had gone alone to Eureka Creek for a hunt, and was caught in a snow storm and wandered aimlessly about for two days. - J. M. Patterson, who was appointed postmaster of The Dalles.December 17, took charge of the office Thursday, as suming the position as acting poet master for the sureties of H. H. Rid del 1, which position Forrest S. Fisher has filled since Riddell's removal last summer. Pearl Gordon and Charles Beck be came involved in a quarrel at Wallace, Idaho, and both the woman and the man used pistols on the other, with the result that both are in a hospital. The woman may die and the man will probably recover. J. B. Smith, of Jamestown, North Dakota, is in Heppner with the view of buying several thousand sheen. It is estimated that 100,000 sheep will be sold In Morrow county between now and shearing time. Pete Schimmels and Charles Benne were killed in the Tiger-Poorman mine, at Wallace, Idaho, Christmas day. They drilled into a missed hole when the blast exploded, horribly mutilat iug both bodies. Both were unmarried and were new comers. Patrolman Jole Hindman, of Spo kane, distinguished himself Friday night by dashing into a burning build ing and carrying out three babies sately. The fire was in a frame build ing occupied by "Aunty" Rogers, an old colored woman, as a Baby Home. Owners of orchards along the Deschutes and creeks near The Dalles say that since the coyotes have been killed off, rabbits have become so numerous that they make raids - on young trees and eat off the bark, in many places doing serious injury. Use of acetylene gas tor illumination of the Christian church at Corvallis will be abandoned. A gas plant was put in the church a veor or more agtf Though the light was satisfactory, too machine in order. Electric light will be used. r, . '' i .iiTii i,t, n i n n i, ni,.n.i. ,1: . i. n vvu..uvuu.uk ou.uij au, luo Ore gon & Oriental company will place the Bieuuiura luunmoumsnire ana (Jarmar thanshire on the direct run between Portland and Manila. This is the re sult of the efforts of the Portland, jobbing trade to baye eucb a steamahip line established,. Grenville Reed, who was a few days ago appointed postmaster at Astoria, is One of the httet.Vnnwn mlnti nn tko . " ' UIB J .1,U Columbia and Willamette Rivers. He was born in Maine m 1839, and came to Oregon in 1859. Since that time he has been engaged in steamboating and piloting between Astoria and Portland. There have hnn 909 miniiYu ,l,.. ing the vear lv00, up to the present timejin Walla Walla county. Divorces w iuo uuiuuer oi iz nave been granted. Thirteen divorces have been applied for which have not yet been ordered or ore still pending. The per centsge of divorces to the number marriul in in per cent. Railroad men at Pocatello. Idaho, went on a'strikn nna iaa Uot nook j .mov The cause was the running in of a road engine to do switching. The switchmen would not stand this, and nuit forthwith. rlAmnnHino tUa l ' , tuoicUJUIftl of the locomotive, which demand was speedily granted. The strike lasted two hours. Four members of the Sisemo're family on one side and Henrv Rimtt and W. H. Young on the other, en gaged in a desperate fieht at a distill near London, Kentucky, Monday. Young and one of the Sisemore's were killed and two of the 8isemores fatally wounded. An old fued was the cause cf the trouble. ' Nicholas Darnell, a pioneer of East ern Oregon, died at Vale, aired 63 years. He came to Canyon City from Palifornia in 1861. From there be went to the Southern States arid did not return to Orpurm until .Lnt ia7(V He then came to what is now Malheur copnty, and had spent the time since as miper and cowboy, .','" - The !nin appropriation Bin. The Indian appropriation bill as completed by the bouse committee on i!?7n "'fr' carries something like $ ,000,000, the exact aggregate not yet being determined. The number of In dian agencies is reduced from 62 to 44. those omitted beina the Lemhi, Idaho; Neah Bar, Washington ; Nevada, Nevada; Quapaw, Indian Territory; Sac and Fox, Iowa; Siletx, Oregon: Sisseton, South Dakota j-Tulalip, Washington. The estimate for the vari ous tribes are closely followed, but $5000 additional is given to the Klobeber and Shebeta of Utah . i