I.
4'
HIS POWER IS GONE
Czar Has Been forced to Yield
to Grand Dukes,
VLADIMIR AND SERGIUS RULE
Rioting and Bloodshed Sprcnd to All
Part of Emplro Revolution
Under Full Headway.
I.lbau, Russlo, Jan. 24. The Imper
ial yacht Standard is expected hero to
convey the cxar and his family to Co
penhagen. Reports from St. Petersburg say that
tho actual government is no longer in
the hands of the czar. This statement
is made with deliberation and with a
full knowledge of tho day's doings.
Tho grand ducal coterie, always power
fill, but until very recently held in
check by tho people's pathetic faith
In tho power of tho "Little White
Father," is in absolute command.
Grand Duke Vladimir commands tho
troops, and every order, whether it be
one of leniency or stern repression, it
issued by him. Grand Duko Jjcrglus is
stated to be in control of the internal
situation.
The utmost secrecy is maintained as
to tho czar's present whereabouts.
Some have hiin at Tsarskoe-Selo, others
at PcterhofT, still others insist that he
lias been at tho winter palace right
along. All questions put to men in
authority on tliat score are met with
tho very courteous reply that they
know as little as the interrogator.
MOSCOW IN TURMOIL.
Workmen Force Closing of All the
Large Factories.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. Tho most
startling feature in tho situation to
night is the news that several factories
in Moscow havo closed and that the
workmen in the old capital of Itussia
arc repeating the tactics of their fellow
workmen of the new capital, marching
from shop to shop and mill to mill, de
manding that tho establishment shut
down. Tho wholo city is reported to
be in a state of great excitement over
tho news of the bloodshed which has
precipitated immediately the strike
that had been scheduled for Wednes
day. The tension, which was somewhat
relaxed during tho morning, continued
to increase during the day. Conditions
appeared to be omnious, when, shortly
after dark, the workmen in two electric
light plants walked out, refusing triple
pay to remain, and plunging half the
city into utter darkness, including the
Nevsky Prospect. The water supply
was also cut off, and a veritable panic
ensued.
IT IS REVOLUTION.
Sailors at Sevastopol Mutiny in Mass
and Destroy Buildings.
Kioff, Jan. 24. Details of tho burn
ing of the admiralty yards at Sevasto
pol have arrived here, showing that it
was the result of a mutiny of 8,000
sailors, such as never before occurred
in Russia.
All Saturday there had been consid
erable talk all over the city that the
sailors in the Sevastojiol iwrrucks had
grown rontive and that numerous in
stances of insubordination had oc
curred. Shortly after tho noon hour
Monday tho doors of tho barracks were
thrown open and several thousand saii
drs forced their way out into tho street.
One squad of mutineers rushed to
tho rooms of a captain, who is said to
have been particularly disliked. The
oflicor was seized and thrown to the
floor. They beat in his skull, and his
face was mangled lteyond recognition,
and then they wrecked his rooms and
took every weapon they could find.
Meanwhile, those on the outeido had
set to to the building, which, being
old and mainly constructed of wood,
was burned to the ground.
Prom thoro tho mutineers rushed
wildly through the streets, setting up
tho ory of: "The revolution has bo
gun ,M
Estimates of the Dead.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. Tho esti
mates of the number of dead and
wounded yesterday continue to vary
greatly, as at least a majority of tho
killed and wounded wero carried off by
thoir comrades. Few of thoMi taken
to the hospitals huvo'been reported.
Tho oflioial account of tho rioting by no
moans indicate! tho total of killed and
wounded. From careful investigation
by the staff of tho Associated Press it
appears that tho estimate of 500 cabled
last night seems liberal. Tho lull
grows in number every hour.
Ready to Take Charge.
London, Jan. 24. Tho Daily Tele
graph's St. Petersburg correspondent
reports that, as tho outcome of tho
meeting of the Kef pun party of Gorky,
Annensky, Arsenleff and others and
their adherents Saturday night and
Sunday, u body of men has been consti
tuted who regard themselves as tho fu
ture provisional government of Russia.
As yet, the correspondent says, they aro
political ciphers; but they hope to
overturn tho existing regime.
To Loot for Provisions.
St. Petersburg. Jan. 24. A report
has gained currency that the strikers
"intend to etorra the market in Vaesili tho bill will bo presented a speciul mea
Otrtof! and eoize the provisiona there, 'sage from Govenor Deneen.
DOINGS IN CONGRESS.
Friday, dan. 20.
The statehood bill and tho fur seal
indemnity bill again divided tho atten
tion of the senate today, and both went
over without action. Fulton spoko In
support of tho indemnity bill, and Me
Creary and Hate in opposition to tho
statehood measure.
Immediately after tho somite, was
called to older President Pro Teni Frye
laid beforu it a telegram trom the gov
ernor of New Mexico, transmitting a
memorial adopted by tho legislature of
that territory protesting against the
union of New Mexico and Arizona in
one state, and urging tho admission of
New Mexico as a state according to
present boundaries.
Tho house passed tho army appro
priation bill. The Indian appropria
tion bill was considered for the re
mainder of tho day, but was not con
cluded when the house adjourned until
tomorrow.
Monday, January 23.
The session of tho house today was
devoted entirely to tho consideration of
bills relating to tho District of Colum
bia. Severvnl efforts were made to take
olllclal notice of tho rioting in St.
Petersburg, but they were all turned
down.
lleverldgo niado another ineffectual
effort in the senate to have a time tixed
for voting on the statehood bill. The
fortltlcationa appropriations bill was
luisscd. A joint resolution appropiat
ing $7,000 to pay the necessary ox
lenscs of the tnaugual ceremonies was
passed.
Tuesday, January 24.
The senate today organized as a high
court to try tho impeachment charges
against Judge Swayne. Piatt, of Con
necticut, was elected to preside at the
trial sessions. Further proceedings
wero Kstpoucd until Friday, when
Judge Swayne is exjiocted to appear 1 to
fore the bar of the senate. Tho Phil
ippine railroad bill was parsed. Much
time wan consumed in discussion of
various measure pending. One senator
wanted to admit each of the four terri
tories included in tho joint statehood
bill as a state.
The District of Columbia appropria
tion bill again occupied the attention
of tiie house today. An nmendmeut to
increase the salaries of all school otll
dais and teachers precipitated a long
debate. It was finally ruled out of
order and other amendments taken up.
At 4:15, when the house adjourned,
nothing had been accomplished.
Wednesday, January 26.
The house today pas-ed tho District
of Columbia and military academy ap
propriation bills. Tho proceedings were
ulmost entirely devoid of Interest. The
house jHisscd tho bill extending the
presidential succession act so as to In
clude the secretaries of agriculture and
commerce and labor in tho order named.
Tiie army appropriation bill was the
cause of a lengthy discussion in the
senate. Tho assignment of General
Miles to servico in charge of the Mas
sachusetts state militia being tiie main
point of controversy. A nuinltor of cre
dentials of newly elected senators were
presented. The hour of meeting to
morrow was jtosttMind until 1 o'clock,
to allow many invited senators to at
tend a wedding.
Thursday, January 26.
Tiie agricultural appropriation bill
was considered in the Ihhisu today, hut
the debate turned prineipHlly upon the
topic of restricting railroads in th
mutter of freight rate. The lionee
adopted a joint resolution appropriat
ing $40,000 to defray the cxjieiises of
the senate in conducting the trial of
Judge Swayne.
The senate pawed tho army appro
priation bill after modifying tho provis
ion concerning tho assignment of retired
army olllcers to active service with mil
itiu orpinizations. This will relieve
General Miles from its application.
The bill transferring tho control of
forest reservations from tho interior to
the agricultural dopurtmont was passed.
May Shelve Statehood Bill.
Washington, Jan. 27. Numerous
conferences were held on tiie floor of
tho senate today regarding a vote on
the statehood bill. An effort was made
to get Senator Hevoridgo to agree to
some order for voting on amendments.
He said lie was not opposed to such an
argeement and further, that lie did not
care much whether a vote was hail on
the statehood bill at the present session.-
Witii 12 new senators coming
In with the opening of tho next con
grow, he said, he felt that tho bill
would be passed in its set form.
Will Now Build.
Sacramento, Jun. 27. Thu
and Clark appropriation bill,
passed the senate on Monday
1-ewis
which
by a
unanimous vote, today passed tho
assembly. It will bo signed by tho gov
ernor as soon as it can bo engrossed.
Tho money appropriated by tills bill,
witii the appropriation of two years ago,
$00,000 in all, will bo immediately
uvailahlo, under the direction of Gov
ernor Pardee, who is authorized to act
in his own discretion.
Illinois Will Exhibit.
Springfield, III., Jan. 27. With tho
sanction and ofilciul approval of gov
ernor Deneen, a bill will be introduced
in both brunches of tho general assem
bly next Monday providing for an ap
propriation of $35,000 for un Illinois
building at thu Lewis and Clark cen
tennial uxiKtsition which will open next
Juno at Portland, Oregon. Along with
FOR THE NORTHWEST
Liberal Treatment Received in
Rivers and Harbors Dill. '
HARD FIGHT FOR CELILO CANAL
Oregon and Washington Improve
ments Havo a Grand Total
of $1,340,000.
Washington, Jan. 20. In view of the"
unprecedented paring down of river
and harbor appropriations this year,
and in face of tho efforts of Republican
leaders in congress to enforce the most
rigid economy, the Columbia river has
been exceptionally well cured for in
the river and harbor hill Just com
pleted by the house committee. While
the appropriations are not as large as
asked for, they average up well along
side these made for other sections of the
country; in fact, Chairman llurton ad
mitted today that he thought the Pa
cific iiortuwost mm received more lilt
end treatment than any other part of
the country.
Thu appropriation which is most
gratifying to friends of the Columbia
river is that which Insures the build
ing of The Dullcs-Colilo canal. Mr.
llurton, hacked by almost the entire
committee, stood out against this pro
ject more persistently than against any
other proposition brought before him,
and it was only under intense pressure
that lie yielded.
It was thu hope and intent of tho
friends of this project to have it miule
H continuing contract. Could this have
been done, the canal would have passed
Iteynnd the jurisdiction of the river
and hurltor committee and would have
received nu nnniial appropriation in
the siiudrv civil bill, In amounts sutll-
cient to jHiy for work as it progressed
until completed. Hut on this toiut
Mr. llurton was unyielding. Never
theless the final action of the commit
tee is in the nature of a compromise,
for while nu immediate appropriation
of $50,000 is made, the army engineers
ure authorized to make contracts for
$250,000, which is equivalent to an ap
propriation of $300,000. The $250,000
pot carried by tills bill will Ito incor
iterated in tho sundry civil bill next
session, in plenty of time, according to
the engiuers, to meet payments.
There is strong 1iuh that by the time
this money is extoudcd congress will be
willing to make the Celllo en mil a con
tinuing contract, so that it need not
a gain lie considered in the river and
hurltor bill.
Throe other Columbia river appro
priations are spilt up like fertile Celllo
canal. Three hundred thousand dol
lars is made immediately available for
tiie mouth of the Columbia, and the
engineers ure authorized to make con
tracts for $.'100,000 additional, this last
sum to lie carried in thu next, sundry
civil hill. Likewise, for improving tho
channel from Portland to tho sou,
$100,000 is appropriated in the river
and hurltor bill, and $125,000 addi
tional will Ito carried in tho next sun
dry civil bill. For dredging u 20-foot
channel between Vancouver ami tint
mouth of the Willamette $:0,(HH) twli
s appropriate!, ami atioiner .iu,tHMi
will Ik provided next year in the sun
dry civil hill.
The following amounts are all med
or Washington:
Tacoma harbor, dredging Puynllup
waterway, $40,000 cash; $20,000 in
sundry civil bill.
takes Union and Washington ennui,
$125,000 for dredging at llullur-l uiid
authorization of new survey to deter
mine whether a one-lock canal can bo
siidhstitutfd for the two-lock project,
Grays Hurltor, $:i0,000.
Inner Grays Hurltor, $.100,00.
Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, $10,000.
Pugut sound mid tributaries, $!IO,000.
Snohomish slough, $5,000.
Okanogan and Pond d'Oreille, $15,-
000.
Stretches riillo, $115,000.
Uullinghum bay, $:)5,000.
Kverett hurltor, new survey.
Shooting Down the Finns.
Ilelslngfors, Jan. 20. -Although
crowds on thu streets were smaller
tho
to-
night, there was severe lighting, Cos
sacks and itollco firing their revolvers.
Some 30 jtersoria were woiiuucd, of
whom nine were taken to the hospital
Three uru sovurely wounded. Tvo
youths had their scalps cut and a third
was struck in the stomach by a bullet.
Tiie demonstration Is slackening. A
big demonstration was hold iion the
arrival of Finns who had neon expelled
from the country and who recently
were given permission to return.
Strikers Gain Concessions.
Revul, Jan. 20, A crowd of strikers
toduy marched in procussiou to tho gov
ernor's residence. Tho governor ad
dressed them in a few words and allayed
their excitement. Tho strikers then
chose u dejiutatltu to present their de
mands to their employers, who were
gathereed in tho governor's rooms.
Tho demands include eight hours us a
day's work and an increase of wages.
It is reported that tho results of tho in
terview were satisfactory,
Seize Austrian Steamer.
Tokio, Jan. 20. Tho Japanese seized
tho Austrian steamor Ilurma off Hok
kaido island at Ii) o'clock last night.
Sho hod a curgo of 4,000 tons of Cardiff
coal on board and wuh bound for Vladivostok.
WILL Did CANAL,
Dnttlo for Opon Rlvor Uotwoon Celllo
and Tho Dallos Is, Won.
Washington, Jan. 25. Tho govern
ment will build thoDulloH-Colllocuiml.
This decision whm reached by tho
rivers and luubors committee tonight
after suveial houis spent In lliml con
sideration of the project. Tho rivers
and luvrbois bill, which will probably
bo reported to tho house tomorrow, will
appropriate $50,000 cash for Immediate,
use on the canal and will authorize thu
expenditure of $200,000 additional,
this money to be carried In tho sundry
civil hill, probably at thu next session.
Today's action of the committee com
mits thu government to the canal pro
ject and Insures the ultimate construc
tion of this waterway by the govern
ment at nu aggregate cost of $11, 800,000.
Thu light to secure adoption of this
project Is one of thu hardest that tho
(rlendi of thu of thu Columbia river
have ever been called upon to make.
In some ways it was harder than that
In behalf of the Low Is and Cla'rk hill lust
session, for on that measure the dele
gation had thu active suptort of Presi
dent ItooMovolt. Tills light was made
without such aid.
Senator Fulton, Representative Wil
liamson and Kcpicsoututlvo Jones have
been working unitedly and unremitting
ly on behalf of the Celllo canal project
ever slneu tho rivers ami harbors com
mittco commenced framing its bill.
Representative Jones, by reason of his
membership of the eominittte, has been
able to render and has rendered most
valuable service.
IN CZAR'S PLACE.
Reformers Will Create a Provisional
Government In Russia.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. Russian
olllciats ttxlay stand nghnst before the
possibility of a provisional government
being established Ity a number of Lib
erals ami moderate Socialists who, it is
stated, are men of wealth and position.
The authorities lost no time when this
reitort liccamu known In arresting M.
Aimeskv, one of thu few leaders of this
latest movement whose names are
known to thu public, and It Is stated
that Maxim Gorky, the novelist, also
identified with thu Hlitlcul revolt, has
received warning to withdraw from act
ive participation if lie values his lib
erty. Others are also stated to have
Iteen taken into custody, but their
names will not be divulged at present
by the olllcials.
At this hour it would seem as though
thu government had succeeded in im
pressing the strikers with thu useless
uess of mob resistance to the guns of
the troops. The general opinion is,
therefore, that clashes will become less
f refluent, ami that those who consider
violence the only fitting reply to the
government's course will resort to
Itomlts.
One Incident of this character, at
least, has already occurred, but thu at
tempt was frustrated. Tho crowds, it
is thought, may now scatter. Their
places will then, according to tho So
cialist leaders, Imi taken by small
groups of two or three, who will make
their way to thu government building
mid palaces, and, by placing Istinhs, In
flict more damage and loss of,lifo than
would Imi in thu power of the full force
of strikurs.
STATE OF SIEGE.
Will
Be Proclaimed in Russian Capital
With Trepoff as Governor.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. St. Peters
burg will lie declared in a stale of slew
tomorrow. General Trcwiff, until re
cently chief of miIIco of Mfwcow, has
lieen toplnted governor general of St.
Petersburg, and lias taken up quarters
in thu winter Htlaee. Strangely
enough, the only precedent is the now
of Genera 1 Trctoff's father during the
reign of Nihilistic terrorism under
Alexander II, and it is also a strange
coincidence that unsuccessful attempts
were made on the lives of both. Gen
eral Troixtff is a man of great energy,
but tho measures lie adopted at Moscow
for the suppression of thu student dem
onstrations in Decemltur last provoked
much resentment, and the revolution
ists recently condemned him to death.
Anarchists Busy In London.
Iondon, Jun. 25. A niimlsirof anar
chists aro known to Ito hero who at
tended an international anarchist meet
ing in Iindon on January 20. Thu
police say several minor gatherings
have boon held in those quarters since
tiie reception of the liens from St.
Petersburg and that a big meeting is
called for January 211 in a notorious
hall in the Hast Kiel for tho an
nou need purpose of expressing in
dignation at what tho circulars
term us the "St. Puterltsurg massa
cre." Hails tho Rising with Joy.
Tokio, Jan. 25. Tho Jupatiusu are
keenly watching tho developments at
St. Petersburg. The newspapers pub
llsh extras with tho accounts of thu
riots, Achich aro eagerly read. The
people were slntckcd at thu death roll,
A member of a foreign legation said i
"Tho wur is over unless the Russian
people are crushed with an Iron heel,
It has brought about n crisis. Tho
Japanese army is now lighting tho bat
tle of the Russian people,"
Bad for Kuropatkln,
St. Petersburg, Jun. 25. A new
grave danger has arisen in tiie inter
ruption of dispatch of supplies to tho
front as n result of tho strike. Unless
some, means can bo found to secure the
provisions and other munitions of wur
which were to be started from St, Pe
tersburg on January SO, General Kuro-
patkin's army may find itself in u most
serious predicament.
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OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
THE LEGISLATURE
Salem, Jan. 20. Two bills designed
to bo In thu luleiesls of laltorurs were
defeated In tho senate loday by Indell
nltu postponement. One of these pin
posed extending lo all oeciipattlons thu
provisions of the employers' liability
act, applying; only to railroads. The
other was to raise from $5,000 lo $10,
000 the maximum limit of damages
that may borecoveied for injuries caus
ing thu death of any persons. Klght
bills were passed by thu seimto and
soven new ones introduced. One of thu
new measures appropriates $25,000 fur
the otemtlnu of the portage road and
another Is for the employment of con
vict labor on nubile toads.
Tho llercest lights In the legislature
will bo waxed over thu iuoikmciI ere
atlou of three new counties in Kastern
Oregon. The new counties protocd
are Cascade, w itli Hood River us Its
county seat; Nesinlth, with Anlehqif
as Its county scot, and Hot hike, with
I'nion us its county seat. AH thtee
proposed counties had lobbies working
all week and were opMHel by counter
lobbies from Wasco, Crook and I'nion.
Five bills were Hissed by the house.
One provided for nu appropriation of
$15,000 for million hatcheries and an
other fixed the time lor the Urn I and
Clark fair from June I to Octolmr 15,
11)05.
Fifteen new measures made their ap
pearance, one of which was to abolish
thu normal schools at Ashland and
Monmouth.
Nino bills have Iteen hmioI by Istlh
houses, Mil by the senate only and six
by thu house only, hi the senate I 111
hills have been Introduced nod In the
house 227.
llolh houses ndjiiurucd until Monday.
Salem, Jan. 2.1. Three charter
nmundment hills were iKOwd by tin
senate today and a hill protecting wild
fowl.
Thirteen new measures were Intro
duced. One of them whs to provide for
the publication of teclal laws and an
other lo provide a state limnl of con
trol. There was no business transacted in
the morning, a quorum not Itolng pres
ent. It seems unlikely that any of the
normal sclusils will Iki discontinued.
Thu appropriations axked for these in
stitutions will atgtegate $2X1,000.
This would 1st an enormous increase
over the appropriations of IIIQ.1, when
thu total appropriations wuru hut $NK,
000. Five bills non-ed the house today
one to regulate the sale of fertilizers,
one to provide a inalty for caMing
sawdust and other waste lumlter Into
streams, one to require sheriffs to
keep n record of addresses of laxiniyers
on the stub of tax receipts, one to cure
defects In deeds and Judicial sales of
executors ami one to provide that title
shall not descend to thu heirs of a de
ceased trustee or executor. Alt (ho
hills were paused without npjMsdlloii.
Among the IH new bills was one lo
amend code on child laltor, one lo
create Itourd of internal commerce com
misfdoncrs and making appropriation
of $25,000 for Improvement of Willam
ette river, and one to provide better
method of oollectiug poll tax.
SmIsiii, Jan. ill. Of the SI hills
ww ii I by the lsniie tisky only oo en
OMtintered opjMndtlim that for the cre
ation of a stale library coMimimdon.
The secretary id this coonuiiwIoM Is lo
receive I,2IH) h )ear and traveling
Ileuses. The hill creating III Klght Ii
(lleker county) ami Tenth ( I'nloo hihI
WnIIowh) judicial district were among
tho-'e pMitpod.
The senate held only a very short
session today, adjourning at 1 1 :I5 until
tomorrow at 10. Itesides diHiug of
all thu senate biisiuem on hand, thu
senate received it few hoiico hills and
referred from that branch to the vari
ous committee. Thu senators spent
the afternoon on committee work.
Half a dozen bills have Iteen Intro
duced at this session for the creation of
a mining bureau, hut it is doubtful
whether any of them will become laws,
Thu creation ol u Imiw Is and Clark
county Is a new proHol before the
legislutitie. The new county is to lie
the northern half of Grant, except a
narrow strip along the eastern side,
and maku btng Creek thu county seat.
Thu intention is to eventually take In
a strip of llukur nlso.
Salem, Jan.
dealing with
25. A score of bills
the salaries of state and
Combine. Sawmill Outputs.
I'nion A jiniitosltlnii Is under con
sideration contemplating ronsolldatlou
of the outputs of several I urge sawmills
near tills place. It is understood that
a man with iilniile of i-iinllfil iiiim.lu
ready to put in a large planer at Union
unit liny anil handle the entire sawmill
output of tills section. It is estimated
that such u plan would mean the dis
tribution of about $50,000 a month at
Union in thu employment of many men
and teams, and thu general improve
ment of business conditions, A situ
is now being looked up,
Improving Eugeno Yards.
I'ugeiie Kxtenslvo Improvements
have been commenced niton tho South
ern Pacific company's depot ynrds In
...h..jiu, voijiuiikuin uru now construct
ing now stockyards, twice iih largo us
tiie old ones, and as soon uh thev uru
completed u turn table will be out In
and one of thu main sidetracks will bo
lengthened 100 feet, Tho work Is the
beginning of thu uonerul rearrangement
of tho yards which lias been In rmu
J templatlon for three or four years,
IN
t unity ulllcers havo been Introduced In
(ho house, mid more am to follow.
The most Important of nil Is the bill
(or Hat salaries for statu ulllcers.
Speaker Mills was iibseul today and
llalley, of Multiioiiiiili, was elected
speaker for the day.
Thirteen bills were passed by (In,
house, of which eight related to charter M
amendments or liicorttoralhin nei. v
Twenty-eight new mcusiiios wcic pt!
Mised,
In the senate eighteen hill ,,,
passed, a large majority relating ,,
municipalities. One nppiopriates
$15,000 for Indian war veteran.
Klght new hills where Introduced.
The house hissin a eoiieinreui ieMl.
Iutiiu asking an Investigation of tm
methods by which the Northern Pacific
hilltfavLeecliied 100,000 acres of ntB.
gnu (luiiicr lands.
The house will wss a bill to grH,i
each county a piosoctillng uttoruc) His
do away with district attorneys.
Representative Hlolnor, of Ukc, Im
a bill Intended to end range Wats. It,
foiees the county In which the diuim
Is committed to my one-half o il0
value of the stock liiJuiod or dostioyed.
The senatu went on teenrd today
against making trniiinihhory punUli.
able by death. A bill llxlng luiprtii.
incut at not lem than It) nor mom limit
10 years was favorably rutottod.
Salem, Jan. 20. That the loyl.U.
ture will not adjourn short of a 10 ds)s
ressioti was indicated today when tlitt
lioiiso voted down the leiHilutloti fur
lliml adjournment February ill.
A large uillnlmr of hilts writ favor
ably reMirtel to the Iiihio by the vari
ous committer to which they loot nvn
aligned. Twelve new bills were miiu.
dllced. 'I'll lee house bills Were ptowl,
as fid lows Co extend time for CoUki
Grove tn give notice of tax levy, to
uuthorl Clatsop county In elect u
eiMirt liirtlw. fur ileftVlency Mlel It-gln-latlve
appropriations. The nt- cm.
cured in the adopt loo of the Imiihh- iimi
cut tent rewdtlliiHi t" Investigate North,
ern I'scillc land traosmctUMis. Iifiin
senate hills wete setl by the n-iiHte,
among them I wing: Ittcfeasliig tlm
(cualty for train rulibery to Imprison
ment for It) to ID years; to eiente juve
nile court ami provide fur cotittol nf
neglected children; tt apppnprial
$M,IH)0 for I lie uerHtlou uf tlo M
age rued at Celllo; to appropriate j 5,.
IHH) fur the Indian war veterans.
Kiev on new bills were liitrodtnvd in
the senate.
At thu cIihki of iay's semdon l?t
IiIIIm hud Imimi Introduced In the M'lul
and Xril In the Imhim. Kay's flat twisty
bill pewd the I toll mi tmlay with only
two opHMting votes. The yeerly m
arles priqnmil by this measure an
Governor 15.000: recrclurvof state II.-
50(1; state treasurer $4,500: supreme
Judge f 1,51)0; attorney yeneral f:i,iHM)
Many Filing at Roieburg.
Iliwelmrg In spite of the wqeiiliHi
of the Kimdiurg land olllce, the daily
mail relating to public business con
tinues to be heavy. No content am
Itolng hoard or Dual proofs taken at the
olllce iUelf, although all proof .t
prior to the order of susxnsioii liefore
outside Olttcer III the ltooburx district
are lielng rwelveil and AM with nota
tions of the (teeter of thu legal v
iophU. In the hurt few ilays there have
leH 1.1 hoOteted eMlrlnt, mveli tim
Iter and stmie applications, two pImU
M-leetioliM Mild iwvtoi 110 w-lii li"H
Aletl. The date Kiel boor uf thtw III
iliKti Is Hotml ito the iMier Slid tln-y
wilt b taken up In exact order uf their
receipt, when th olllce Is rtiiil for
the ordnlMry traiMMctiioi of lnulneim.
Henry I. Illnhy lias been apiMitd
clerk In the ltohurx olllce since the
siiHpenslon.
To Resume Clatsop Courthouse.
Astoria Now that the legislature h
pusmsl u hill authorizing the county
court to make a levy for erecting the
new county court house, work mi the
building will Ite resumed as iwhiii as the
contractor can gut his force of men to
gether again. The foundation, base
ment and part of the first story were
completed when the work was stopped,
and considerable material Is on th
ground, so construction will progici
rapidly when started. It Is fully ex
pected the building will be ready for
oeciininey by fall.
Material for System.
Unlini Clarence Crawford, retire-
(imitative of the Grand Itonde Klectri
cat coinHiuy, who was here u few days
ago, mid all the material, excepting
polos and wires, hud been ordered for
the electric system that Is to extend
from Cove to Union, Hot bike, U
Grande and other valley points, and
that arrangements for construction were
wull under way. Contracts uru to lie
f'"1"" w,''' 'or l"m,s and wires.
TJIO
main lino poles are to Imi of cedar.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Wnlla. 8!loj blue-
stem, HHo: vnlluv. H7c.
Oats No. I white, $1.32(32.35
gray, $l.:i5($l.40 per cental.
II.... ml .1 A. . . r ..
tou;!'
imy iiinouiy, fi'msio per .
clover, $ll(!j125 grain, $11012; cheat,
$l2(gi:i.
PotutooH Oregon fancy, 8501)00
common, (10075c.
Apples lluldwins, $1.25; Hpltxen
bergs, $1,7502 per box,
Kggs Oregon ranch. 27028c.
llutter Funcy creamery, 250flOfl.
Hops Choice, 27028o;
prime.
2()C!
por pound.
Wool Vnlloy, 10020c; Kaslcra
Oregon, 10017c; inohulr, 2502o per
pound,
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