BOHEMIA NUGGET
l'utilUlicri Every rrlilnr-
COTTAGE GROVE.
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Comprclirniilvo JSotIow of the Import
nut Ilnppeninc of tho rit ffrtk
Cullr.l F-om the TelrsrHph Coluinm.
rlno buildings covering hnlf a blook
in the In-art of the business portion of
Columbus, 0., were destroyed by fin-.
The ttunsports, Ohio nnd Senator,
bearing tho Twenty-eecond infantry to
tho Philippines have suiled from Swi
Francisco.
The second battalion of the Seven
teenth infantry are en route to Manila
via Now York. They sailod from that
port on tho transport Sherman.
The largest combination of whisky
and distilling interests yet attempted
has been concluded in New York, un
der the title of the Kentucky Distillers
& Warehouse Company.
Negotiations for tho consolidation of
the leading pottery intoiosts have been
concluded in New York by the forma
tion of the Atner.can pottery compa
nies, with a capitalization of $40,000,
000. A snow-slide occurred on tho Cana
dian Pacific at Rogeia Pass, in tho Sel
kirk range. Tho railroad roundhouse
and other buildings were demolished.
Nine persons are known to have been
killed and two injured.
Contiacta have been let for the erec
tion of a large beet-sugar factory at
Amers, a email town west of Omaha,
on the Union Pacific. Tho men who
are furnishing the money to build the
factory are Boston capitalists.
The United States transport Grant,
which left New York January 10, hav
ing on board Major-General Lawton,
the Fourth infantry and a battalion of
the Seventeenth infantry, bound for
Manila, has arrived nt Gibraltar.
Steamer Ilhynland, 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 I
were 43 passengers and a crew of 79 on
board, all of whom were rescued. J
There has been no furtiier general '
fighting between the partisans of the j
rival chieftains in the Samoan islands, !
since the last advices except that a
party of Mataafa's followers was routed
in the bush bv Malietoans. It is ex- i
pected, however, that fighting will be
resumed, as Mataafa is arresting per
sons who have been already fined and
released. The work of pillage con
tinues, among the hooses looted being
Viliraa, the home of the late, Robert
Louis Stevenson, the novelist.
Iowa mineworkers are making an
effort to havo eight hoars declared a
day's work.
Native troops are to be utilized in
Cuba and American soldiers 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withdrawn.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 Cuba now
building and in operation, and all to
bo constructed hereafter.
The bishop of Havana has declared
that Preotestant services cannot be held
over the graves of the Maine victims in
Columbus cemetery, as it is consecrated
ground. Americans were preparing to
decorate the graves on the anniversary
of tho explosion.
Tho Central Cable Company an
nounces that tho United States govern
ment in the Philippines has modified
the recent prohibition of telegrams in
cipher or code. Messages in secret lan
guage may now be accepted, subject to
government onesorship.
The senate committee on naval
affair J has dccidod upon favorable re
port on tho bill providing for addi
tional pay to laborers in navy-yarda
who worked overtime during the emer
gency of war with Spain. The amount
required is about $300,000, and about
6,000 men are involved.
General Otis cables the war depart
ment, giving tho number of deaths in
his command since January 7. The
total is 10, many of 1 om diod of
smallpox. Tho great numbor of
deaths were of Kansas, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Pennsylvania privates. In
the list appear tho names of Allen E.
Carlyle, private, First Washington,
January 10, typhoid; Earld A. Jeans,
First Washington, January 20, ty
phoid; Wistar Hawthorne, private,
Second Oregon, diphtheria.
Cuban General Gomez refuses to
disband his army unless paid nearly
$00,000,000. lioolaims to have 40,000
men under arms, for which ho asks
pay for three years' service, at tho same
rate as given American soldiers. For
his own services in tho past he wants
$11,000 n yoar, 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 past, besides numerous
other officers, whoso pay aggregates
13,788,000.
LATER NEWS.
A fish cannory comblno lias been
formed on tho Columbia rivei, with a
capital of 13,000,000.
General Count von Unprlvl, former
chancellor ot the German empiro, died
at Siren, near Ctoasen, Germany.
Tho peaco treaty was ratified by the
senate by a majority of three votes over
tho required three-fourths. The treaty
was rati lied without amendment.
Isaao Ofnor, a gincoiyman, doing
business in Portland, Or., was hold up
and robbed in his stoto about 8:90 in
tho evening by a lone highwayman.
John M. Comstook, for 40 years
chief of tho customs division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton after an illness of eevoral weeks.
A monster petition to President Mc
Kinley and tho members of th joint
high commission is being signod, ask
ing their assistance in seeming the re
peal of tho alien exclusion act recently
passed by the government of British
Columbia, in which tho Atlin mining
district is located.
Farmers of Connecticut, Now York,
Now Jersey. Ohio, Indiana, South Da
kota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebrasku, Kan
sas, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas.Arknn
eas and California aro forming state
branches of the proposed new national
farmer's party, and preparing to send
representatives to the natiunal execu
tive committee's meeting, which is to
bo called shortly by tho piojectors of
tho new party.
According to a recent dispatch, 10
iron and steel sheet manufactories in
Pennsylvania. Ohio, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Indiana, controlling nil
aggregate annual output of 318,000
tons of steel and iron sheets, are pre
paring to consolidate. This action, it
is added, is made necessary by the com
binational tin-plate plants, and it is
believed that tho' 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 control. A com
pany with $3,000,000 capital has been
organized to operato 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. It. & N., with local
men, are interested in the deal.
Tho two highwaymen who for the
past two months have been holding up
citizens and stores and terrorizing all
Portland are safely lodged in jail. One
of them, Harry Tracy, was arrested by
Detective Weiner, after a shooting
nllray that stopped a passenger train
and roused a whole neighborhood. The
other, Dave Merrill, fell into the
hands of Detectives Coidano and Ford
Sunday, and gave tiie information
which led to the capture of his accom
plice. Both are ex-convicta and des
perate men.
It is believed that the battle at Ma
nila will hasten the ratification of the
treaty 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 havo a woild's
fair in 1901. It is to be known as the
Pacific Ocean and International Expo
sition.
Turkoy is making military prepara
tions in view of a possible Macedonian
uprising. Bulgaria la also hastily or
ganizing and arming troops.
President McKinley has presented to
Uharles A. Schott. cluof of the oomput
ing division of the United States coast
and geodetic survey, the prize recently
conferred upon him by the Academy of
.trance.
Mrs. Cordolia Botkin, found guilty
by a San Franoisco court of the murder
of Mrs. John P. Dunning, lias been
sentenced to prison for life, the judgo
refusing a now trial. The caso will bo
appealed.
The commission to investigate the
conduct of the war is devoting all of its
enorgies to closing np Us report. Tho
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 aro
urging tho president to endeavor to en
list tho services of Aguinaldo in the
settlement of the Philippine question,
as ho has the services of General Go
mez in tho pacification of Cuba.
Lord Charles Beresford, tho distin
guished British naval officer and states
man, will arrive in San Franoisco on
tho Japaneso steamer American Mam,
duo on Fobruary 11, and tho chamber
of commerce is arranging for a public
reception to the Englishman.
Tho situation at the mining camp of
Independence, 18 miles from Aspen,
Colo., is critical in tho extreme. Star
vation stares the inhabitants of tho
town in the faco. Provisions and fuel
supplies aro nearly exhausted! Wood
that had been cut and piled for winter
uso lies buried tinder many feet of
snow, and cannot bo readied. Roads
leading to Aspon, tho only source of
aupply for Indopondonco, aro impassa
ble. Snowalidea aro so frequent be
tween Aspen and Indopondonco that it
is almost suioidal to vonturo on tho
i route. I
OREGON'S S0L0NS.
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SriiHto-;Mrlc ' Wiirfcml
on .Mil Hon (Nullity ItiiMiU.
Eight bills were pawed in theOregot
senate last Wednesday and two were
loeommitttod for amendment.
Four of the bills parwd wero to
amend tho chatter of Lakevlew, Can
yon City, Seaside and Hilsboro.
Looney's bill to provide for working
itnto convicts on about 125 inllei of
Marion county roads, between stnto In
ititutions, and appropriating $.500
for superintendent and buying tools,
jinneed by a vote of 1S7 to 7.
Tho bi'll to make a jwimiii who vol
untarily charges a ciime against an
other before a justice of pesoe or grand
jury pay the eosta in ohs the prosocu
Hon provo malicious or frivolous finally
passed, as did a bill to prevent swine
running at largo in Sherman county,
and n bill to reduce the snlarion of
Washington county officers.
' III tint 1lou.
Tho reconsideration of te Woodbutn
charter bill was the occasion for an
other spiiited forensic battle at the ses
sion of the house ediietsdny. lho
bill, howover, pawed by a vote of 35
to 15; ubsont, 10. A motion to recon
sider the vote by which the bill wan de
feated January 27 pasted unanimously.
Other bills passed were: To amend
theclmrter of Arlington; to Incorporate
Medford; to fix the compensation of
the assessor of Jackson county at $1,000
pet nununi in lieu of per diem; to
creato a separate board of county com
missioners for Clatsop county.
Tho following bills were introduced:
To amend tiio charter of Medford; to
incoiporato Enterprise; to repeal tho
act providing for the payment o( street
and sewer assessments in installments.
Inltlntivp ninl nvftirrniliiin.
The resolution for an initiative and
icferndum amendment to the constitu
tion passed the senate last Thursday,
having previously pafwod the house,
and is ready for submission to the next
legislature.
The American Bar Association's codi
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. 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 largo part of tho bill and leaving
it without direct bearing on bar pilot
age and placing the appointment of
pilot commissioners in the hands of the
governor. Tho amendments were
adopted, and the hill paseod, 21 to 5,
Tho only change in tire present law is
to make river pilotage not compulsory,
In the senate Thursday a resolution
to authorize the exchange of the oli
blind instituto site for a block adjoin
ing the present site of the blind insti
tute. owned by J. H. Albert, wan the
special order, and, after a vote carry
ing the resolution was noarly complet
ed, it was recommended on a state
ment from Selling that he had jost
heard something about it that needed
investigation.
The following bills wero passed
To constitute tho county court a board
of equalization for county assessment
to extirpate Russian and Chinese
thistles; to appropriate $4,000 for the
Oregon Historical Society.
. In the Houta.
The creator portion of tho forenoon
session of the house Thursday was
given up to hearing reports of standing
committees. In addition to this, two
bills were passed and eight new bills
introduced.
The bills passed wero thoso by Cur
tis, amending the salmon-fishing laws
passed at tho special session so as to
conform with tho regulations agreed
upon by the joint fisheries committee,
and by Myers, to apply to tho military
iunu oi me stato an moneys that may
bo leceived from the government for
transportation and equipment of the
Second Oregon volunteers.
Other bills passed wero: To require
that all claimB against tho stale other
than salaries and liabilities established
by law, bo incorporated into separate
appropriation acts; to atollsh tho ox
pensivo practico of copying assessment
rolls for tho stato and to provide for
transmission to tlio secretary of state
summaries only; to provide for the re
organization of tho stato militia; to re
store to tho military fund of tho statu
$8,807.08 expended in tho suppression
or riots by tho stato militia nt Astoria
and Rosoburg during 1890; authorizing
mo supremo court to employ clerical
aia ami appropriating $7,200 thorofor;
A. 1! f - It I a . '
10 couuy mo laws relating to negotia
ble instruments; to prohibit falso label
ing of Oregon products, applying es
pecially to salmon and Oregon fruits.
ltmipportloiiment Hill Approved.
In tho Oregon senate Friday, Sena
tors Smith, of Baker, and Dufur nrn.
sentod explanations of their position
with rofereneco to tho reannort
act, which was approved by the gover
nor whilo they wero speaking. Both
opposed tho double districting foaturo
of tho law.
Tho followinc bills worn nfiRnml- Tn
authorizo county courts to pormit oon
StlUCtion of loceilie rondn
highways; to provont tho unauthorized
ubo ox trademarks.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY DILL,
It I'Hiinl III" Orrisi'" AlMU
riifiiiliniiii'ly.
In the Oregon liotieo Monday tho dis
trict attorney snhuy bill was jmiiwhI,
after amendment by tli jildlolnrr com
mittee, by almost a uimnlinoii vote.
Tho bill as imimwI fixes wilurlwi fol
lows: First district, $8,000: smxind
district, $1,000; third district, $6,600;
fouitli district, $7,800; llftli dlstrlet,
$1,000; sixth dlslilot, $8,000; seventh
district, $8,000; eighth district, $8,800;
ninth distrust, $0,000.
Flngg'a bill to require all executions
to be bald at the stato prison mid on
dueled byltho superintendent of thu
penitentiary was th flmt di-fentod, re
ceiving onlv JB votes, but upon teoon
sldoratlon of tho voto and ft spceeli by
tho author later In tho day it was
jmwod by n voto of 80.
Ulackaby's bill to ompowsr county
courts and clerks of school districts to
soil property and bid In fur taxes was
pnsced bv 48 votes. .
Other bills passed wore: To limit
appeals to the supremo court In money
nctlons to amounts involving $200 or
mom. and to give street railway com
panies the right of eminent domain; to
Insurgents Deltoid
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: lunged. They reiH-n'ed thn txr,J
without draviiug tho wn trips' fin
nt tho third Hum (ortmrnl 0;.
chnllttnged the Filipinos and thrnli
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J7t witntn-uniiiM't )(
Into llin TIiiiiumiiiU mi
llttlllo llllllllrillfll ljr irlinr
Manila, Fob 7. Tho l,if,K.
rupiuro uaiweeu uiu kitM-ricniu f
Filipinos ha coinu nt lam. Tii
are now uiiguged In solvinK' tlio j
plno problem with thu utmuit
lion poMilhlo.
ilia entail cmnn nt n i'j y,
nvimlnir u-litm thru,, ilapiMt. V
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minimi ins wd i mined iwsi me iujrnKit rt-ir itnt
to as 10 mumy mo iudu .... ... KAittn iMwit, Dili retired wl,eg
amy ami to require airuwi inunnj vum
mules to movido oars with vestibule'
from Ootobei 1 to April 1; to prohibit
tho adultoratign of candy; to lequlro
inn i iriK-fifi Kfiiirrmn inTiirniiuii i.nii.... ..i ,i.u... ... i i
.... v..w.. - - - r aiiiiiik uhd ui lupin inn u:wsl
uompany to once us usuks ooiweoii ollor Almrwt Immediately alt.
Portland and iiuniitigion. to nroiiiun tJlB Filipinos' linn fiorri Ca!
persons irom luiinini: pumi earn or
hand cars on railroad tracks without
the coyoont of the railway officials; to
appropriate $15,000 for bridging thu
south fork of the Xehalom river. This
bill mine up on a reconsideration of
tho vote by whloh it was defeated Fob
ruary 3, when it received only 80 rotes.
The motion to reconsider carried by 83
votes and then thu bill was passed by a
vote of 83.
Grace's bill to extend the time in
which a laliorer's lien may be filed
from 80 to 00 days and contractors
from 60 to 90 days was defeated, ns
was also Stillrnaii'k bill to repeal sta
tion 1890 of the code, providing for tho
observance of Sunday.
At the night few ion the following
bills were passed: To regulate trivet
over county bridges; to repeal the act
of 1891 prohibiting driving or herding
livestock along public highways; to Ax
the salaries of county treasurers so as
to increase the salary of the Tillamook
county treasurer from $260 to $650; to
fix the salary of the sheriff of Liiwoln
county at $1,800 and salaiy of olerk of
county court at $1,360; to rwiuiro the
signatures of householders to petitions
for saloon licenses instead of the sig
natures oi legal votes ns under tho
present law; to ptohibit the solo of li
quor in private boxes or booths of res
taurants; to amend thu liquor lawn so
as to require a license foi the sale of
any quantity, whether more than a
gallon or less.
Moody's bill to regulato tho practico
of horseshoeing in counties of 60,000
population and over nnd creating n
board of examiners to bo appointed by
the governor was snowed tinder by 110
negative votes as against only 33
affirmative.
Tho Oiegon sennto Monday pasfod
unanimously Josephi's bi'l to make tho
cost of the maintenance of iinnno per
sons chnrgeablo against their estates In
certain ensns, and to provide for tho
transportation of insane patients to tho
asylum in charge of trained nurses
from tho asylum.
Other bills parsed wero ns follows:
Charter of Dalles City (Tho Dalles); to
amend tho charter of tho town of Du
fur, to amend tho law relating to ten
ancy in common, and abolishing joint
tenancy; by request, to glvo proforenno
to honorably discharged soldiers and
fmilniR (n nil nnlilin iimiilnviiiAnl. n
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amend tho law so as to mako records of i Bt 1,00 "n,11 Sn.n,u Mw,n'
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official court reporters piimn facio ovi
dunce, and to authorizo tho settling
and signing of billa of exceptions by
SMocessors of the trial judgo; to require
Multnomah county to tnke tho city of
Portland's lease of the steel bridge; to
nmond tho chartor of Lebanon.
INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS.
The tVuihlneton LrgUInturo I'livorliig
tlio Nurnnil Mclmult.
Tho "Washington hou6o appropria
tion committeo has Increased tho
Cheney normal school appropriation
from $36,000 to $31,000. and Ellens
burg from $35,000 to $45,000.
In tho house Monday bills Introducod
wore: ior tho publication of notices
by posting in counties of from tho 10th
to the 30th class; for tho relief of Mrs.
J. H. Stuhl; relating to tho sufllclonoy
und justification of bail on bonds;
amending lho constitution by permit
ting women to voto on a constitntlnnnl
amendment, granting suffrage to wo
mon; relatlnc to dvko distrlnip.
During tho afternoon session of n,n
houso Mr. Englobort ooenpiod tho
chair. Speaker Guie roooivod n tnin.
phono messngo announclino tlmt t),n
Paris treaty had been ratified by tho
United Stntea senate. The nnnounco.
ment was greoted with bearty npplnuso
uy uiu nouso.
Duliiyml by Trnlni.
Only 31 out of 81 senators wnrn nr.
ont whon tho sennto convoned Monday,
rionntor Wooding 1b sick with grip at
Seattle, nnd nil of tho Gnnl .iif.l Im.
mountain sonators woro detained by
trains bolng Into. ,
Etintn Mesa .oiiimenoed
which was InefTrotunl.
' Tho Nebraska, Montana and
Dakota outfKMta replied vigoiou
held their ground until ruinfor
( nrrivod.
I Tho Filipinos in tho meantime
; cen trnUl nt three points, Caloctn,
, gainngin nnd bantu zima.
At about 1 o'clock the Fill
opeuod n hot flro ftotn nil threo
simultaneously. This was mi; pi
ol hy the lire of the two selge
llalik-linlik nnd by ndvanrinit
ikirmtshers from I'aeo nnd 1'anl
The Americans rcspondtxl with
riflo flro. but owing to tho
thev wero unable todetormlne its
! Tho Utah light artillery (inn
coeded in silencing (he native l'
The Third artillery also did unod
on the oxtreme left. The ciilmc
' lasted over an hour.
The United Btatrs crnlsor ChaH
ml tho gunhont Concord, tntior
Malabon, opened flro from their c
ry batteries on thu Filipinos'
1 it Calocan nnd kept It up vigor
At 3:46 there was another fuii
I along the ontlro line and tho Ui
i States eoa-golng doiihla-turroted
, lor Monadnock opened flro on
my from off Mnlnto.
With daylight tho Americans
vnnced. Tho California nnd Wasbi
: ton regiment made n splendid c
and drove tho Filipinos from thovn
Tho Netr
regiment nlco distingulHhel itself,
luring Hovernl prisoners nnd ono lis
itzor, nnd a very strong position atfl
rosorvoir, which is connected witb
wntorworks.
lho Knnsns nnd Dakota regie
compelled tlio enemy's right flank
rotiro to Calocan.
Thoro was Intermittent firing nt
rious points nil day long.
llie Amorican losses nro cstiidv
at 30 men killod nnd 135 wounded.
I he Igorotes, armed with hows
1 nrrows, mndu n determined stand
tho faco of n hot artillery flro, nnd I
mnny dead on thu Hold.
I Sovornl attempts woro mndo in V,
city yesterday evening to nssassiwj
American officers.
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Tho following dispatch from 01
una conJiims tho nows of tho fightl
"Muililn. Fob. 7. To AiHntnnt-GiS
oroi, Washington, D. O.t Saturfii
lho Jnaurgonts oponed attank on cl
outer linos nt 8:15, ropenfod attack d
orni tunes during tho night. Al
o'oiook this morning ontlro forco
ongagod, and nil attacks icmilsedi
daybreak ndvancod ngninst insurgent
nud Jmvo drivon thorn bovond 1 1
thoy formorly occtipiod, enpturing e
oral villages nud thoir dofonso worll
Insurgonts' loss In dead nnd woundl
lurgo; our own cnstinltios thus far w
mutod nt 175, vory fow futnl."
A dispatch to the London Post W
Mnny of tlio IiiBtireonts woro driT1
Into tho Pnslg river nnd drowned. Sel
era i linndrod woro taken prisoners.
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