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THE OFFICIAL AND LEADING PAPER HAS THREE TIMES THE CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE COUNTY. ADVERTISING RATES. OF GILLIAM COUNT. PCBLISHKD VKY FRIDAY BY SLOAN P. 8HUTT, ICdltor and Proprietor. Profecalonal card. i oo per month One tqnare ...,.. i M per month One-quaitercolmnn..... ... 8 80 per mouth One half colamn 0O per month One column io oo per month Brulnes local will be charged at 10 cent per line lor drat inaertion and 5 cent per line there after. Legal advertisement will In all cases be charged to the party ordering them, at legal rate, and paid for before affidavit 1 furnished Snusiirlptlou Hate. One year (In advance) ,., II 60 If nut paid in actvanue !t IK) Bis inutli ., , , 1 00 .lhree month 78 Single coulea , 10 VOL. i. CONDON, GILLIAM CO.. OREGON, FRIDAY. ,mmS 1894. NO. CONDON GLOBE. : - ' -' ... ; . '" 1 . ; -r I . ' . . 1 llw I ., J fl BnterrA at th Pinlofflet at Condon! Oregon, at (conm-cwk nwui mailer. OFFICIAL DIKKOTOKY. United Htates. President , Ukovxk Ci.kvki.ani Vloe.t'reslilenl A lit. I E. HtkvknikiM 8eorlr of Htatu Wai.tkh 0. Hiikhhak Secretary of I reamiry, John (J, Caki.imi.k Heurotary of Interior .....Hokk smith Seuretary of War IUniki. ri. I.smokt eeuretary of Navy mii.ahv a. iikhkkkt Poaituaaler-Ueneral Wilson rS, Binkku. Attorttey-Uenerat km Hahii ui.nky Secretary of ATlalturs J. htkhmnu Morton State of Oregon. Govern or .'. .-. . 8. Pit s no y a Bonrutary of Stale. ., W. McHkiix l reaaurer , , run. mkthciiah Attorni-y-tleneral Oko. K 4Jmmiikki.ain aupt. of rulillo lustrnciioD K. II. McKlhuv a,...., , U. H. MitchkU " j, jj, Doih. .' . ill. ilKKMANN wouirressroen w K Kt Printer , Khawk :, Kakkm iK. A. MiX'KK Supreme J ii ! . P 1mn. , nt. ri. liKAH. ' Seventh Judicial District. Circuit Jsdgo W. I.. IIIAIIIIAW PriMMiiilltiK Alloruuy , W. II. Wil.mm klmul.er Hum Hoard t. U l.i'i kkv Ullllatn Coumr. Joint Senator... VI, Htkiwkn KeurtMH-ulafivu It. I. (loiiiinim Jiidn.v W. J, MaKiniih Commissioner , R Kawitom Clerk .,.. Jt V. U'ias Sheriff. .W. I Wimox Treasurer , Hkhmkkt IIalbthau Asueasor..., AU Wiikki.kk Surveyor W. W. KuKwaiHf School nuperlnteaueut l.fimH Parkkk Mlw.'k Inspector I.ltvn A. MlLl.ua .C Union Pacific Kail way Time Card. Traluaarrlre and tear Arllugtou a follow: iat aoimi). , Train Nt. 1, faat nail, arrive nt Arliuglou al wKaraovMu. Train No. 1, faat mall, arrive al Arlington al !. ). ftp Only one train a day. Il-piilir train Stm, 9 and 10 have dlkcontili licil tliv rim to Arlington, hut ninkt clow con ncciioiia with Sim. I and i at Willow Junction, TlirjiiKh tickuU aolil and IrngKaice i liw-kuil thruiiuli in all point In the Uuiu-d mate and Canada. 8. COLLINS Ticket Agent. Arlington, Or. 1 y. & A. M.-MT. MOKIAII LOUiiK. No. Wf A, Utatitd commHulcationa on MatHrday even ing on or before full moon of each mouth. Ho ioHrnhiK brethren In good tandlngarn cordially Invited to attend, W U tt IIXUX, W. M. . H. llimaon.Bocrolary. jRUNUTON-FOSXII. DAILY SI AUK USK. K. A. Nnlanu. l'rnrlntor. r AKK rKoM AaMhOTOM TO Poaall t6 W Keturii, I0 00 Mayv.lle...... 6 Ou Keluru, 00 Condon 4 00.. Kettiru, 70 Clem 8 (M KetHNi, S 00 Ole. t 00 - Return. 00 lav Ariinaiou every morning (Huuday ei fwpiod' ato'i l x k. I.dueatfoudou at r. .. nd arrU-na at Kllnall at 7 f. M. Comfortable coache and careful, experienced driver. JAY P, I.UCAH, County Clerk, DOKA ALL I.IMI Or LAND AND NOTARY BUSINESS In a neat and careful manner. QONUON-I.OSK ttOCK DAILY 8TAUK LINK. I). M. Kliixhart, Proprietor. Leave Condon every morning (Hiuiday ex cepted) at 6:M o'clock, and arrive at Uine Kock at U at., via Matuey aud Lout Valley. rare, e.00. Hound Trip, 3 AO. R. 1. 1. HO(l AN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Condon, Or. ' Ofllcc Oregon ave., between (.'atliollc Church and reaidence of H. P. Hhutt. JJR. Z. T. DODHON. Physician and Surgeon Condon, Or. At prcKOiit can be tound on my ranch at Hay Creek liutttt, ten mile mirth of Condon. I) R. J- H. lU'DHON,. Physician and Surgeon, Condon, Or. Ofllce and reaidouce In the Wiley Millet real dence in Mouth Condon. . Call promptly attended to day or night. I W. PAKMNQ, Attorney at Law. Notary Public and Conveyancer, Condon, Or. Collection and Inmiranoe. Term reaioiiable. Olllee In rear of KMtottlu building, Main treet. W. K. KUI. J- W. Ilawaou. T. It. Lyon. JtLLlM, PAWHON & LYONS, E ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office at Hoppnor and Condon, Oregon. rJ COPYRIGHTS. CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT f For a Wmpt anwer and an boneat opinion, write to iiperiunoe In the patent bualneaa, Coimnunloa. tiims (trlotly confidential. A Handbook of In formation oonoenilug l'atenta and bow to oh. tiln tbem aent free. Also a catalogue of median- leal and aclentlrlo book teat f ree. . , i'ai.'ntii taken tbroimh Munn k Co. receive oeolal nottce In the tArlentltle Amerlcaa, and tCu are broimlit wldoly before the puHlo wlth. out eoat to too Inventor. This iptondld lIr Pued weekly, eleiwntly ilkitrated baa by far t he iarauiit olroulatlou of any tuientltlo work In the Siirid I rear. Sample eople aeut free. w & mi Bdltloo. monibly, StW a year. Hingis rninie 113 cent. Bvery Dumber oonUIn beau fffti DutteiVln oolora, and nhotograph or new fTnuaeaVwitn plan, enabling builder io ahow the i.taat doilan and aeoure contract . Addrea "MOSS ' CO" MKW YOHK, Ut BHOABWAT. X Hllver 0,ueeMon In Meriuany. Bkki.in. In a epeech closing the meet- tngf) of the imperial Silver Conni)innion Count von I'osaJowsky, the Imperial Secretary of the Treasurv. aaid he be. lieved the meuihure were agreed that the liuctuationg and depreciated value of miver Had entallea great lOHMei ti'wn the German foruitfn and home trade ; that Germany alone was tKwerleeH to raise the price of oilvcr, and it wan impracti cable to do go either by the creation of a monopoly by international agreement or by the regulation of the production. He aitueu mat; me meuiDerH oi me commiu sion would render a public service bv helpiti(f to Mpread the conviction that eriotiM uimcuuy aiienueu tne solution oi the silver quention. NltiiHtloii at llluefleld. Wakhinotok, D. C The Navy De partment has received a teleirram from Captain Wateon announcing the arrival of the Ban FranciHco at Colon. 8he will take on coal, and will return to Blue lleldH, relieving the New York, which will ntart for home. Captain Watxon says that Clarence, the Mowjuito chief, who was deponed by the Nicaragoang, liuil Iwun tint Imj.lr anil iliat it ia niuaa. ary to protect American intereotB. The conditions are fluch. that in Captain V a twin's itidKment a warship must re main at liluefielils. The Jtritinh. he savs, take lite same view of the case, and will keep the Majjit ienne.- - To Accept the Loan, Kltw Yoiilf. TliB rpiIvra nt flm Northern 1'aflfic have unanimously re solved to accent the loan of II .000.000 offered by the reorganir.ation committee oi i ne ijoniinoKiers lor tne prompt payment of the lirst-niorlgaKe coupons due July 1. The loan is to be made at n,lll'IU IHIV-ITCI' 11UIIUU, VWillllliRBIUfl miu directlv to thereceiverHwho will act wun ice authority oi tne court ana re pay the same trout the net earnings of the months following. THE SEWING MACHINE 18 THE OE3T. Tl e Onlv Machine that will ew BACK WARP well a FOR WARP without atopplng. quiet, Llghl-Rumiliig, ailjualab'.e In all Its part. WE SELL TO DEALERS ONLY. forreapnntlence Solicited. UNION MANUFACTURING CO, WM. PKTEIt, Owner, TOI.EOO, OHIO. II L TICKETS TO SALT LAKE, DENVER, Omaha, Kansas City, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND ALL EASTERN CITIES. DAYS to 2 CHICAGO Uniirc t,ie Quickest to Chicago nUlSIO ana the East. H .. : ,1. rt A..... 1... nl Ulllo Kansas City. Through Pullman and Tourist Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cart, Dining Cars. H. II, II. CI,AKK, 1 K. ' KI.LKIiV A NDK'ltHON, Ri'eeivera. KltKPEKIC H. COC'PERT.J For rale or Keuura liifiirniutiou call on or addreaa V. H. HUKI.HVKT, Aaat, lieu. ran. Agnt, HS4 Washington St., cor. 3d. PORTLAND, OR ! f v. I I , STANFORD ESTATE The Claim of the Government Will Be Resisted. BOSS BUCKLEY AND HIS LAMBS Four-Fifth of the Bualneaa Section of ' the Metropolis of the North weat I flooded -Kualuea Paralyzed. Portland, Ok. The flooded district in this city ia constantly extending, and now covers four-fifths of the business portion and a large part of North Port land, in which a large number of resi dences are more or less flooded. Front street, the wholesale district, has seven feet of water on it. The entire whole sale district is under water, all the banks are flooded, and nearly all the retail stores and seven or eight hotels. Busi ness is almost paralyzed. Elevated side walks have been built, and small boats. nearly 1,000 in number, are in constant use in the flooded streets. Express wag ons are also being used for transporta tion or goods, being driven into the wa ter up to the boxes. Many business bouses and offices have been moved to higher locations, some having been com pelled to move twice. Stocks of goods have been elevated three or four times on first floors. The Union Pacific has entirely suspended its Portland connec tions. The Northern Pacific sends pas sengers by boat to Kelso, fifty-one miles down the Columbia, where rail connec tion is secured, bout hern Pacific trains start from East Portland, the Union De pot having been abandoned. There is a busy scene of moving roods and sight seers in the flooded region. It is impos sible at this time to estimate the damage. The-loss, of business will be immense. The loss to fishermen on the Columbia is heavy, owing to the fish wheels being swept away. Kalmon-fishmg has almost been destroyed, and the season's catch will be mostly lost. BTANFUKU JKSTATK. C laim of the Clovernment Will be Ile al, ted to the t'ulleat Extent. San Johk, Cal. Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, widow of the late Senator Ice land Stanford and executrix of his es tate, was seen the other evening and asked for Iter views of the $15,000,000 claim presented by the Attorney-General of the UniUxl States against the property now under her charge. She said : " I think this is only a test case. Of course, others will be drawn into it. The burden of the litigation even can not all be placed on one estate or one person." Mrs. Mantom was then asked if she intended to resist the claim as presented by the Attorney-General. She said : " Of course, I shall resist it to the fullest extent of my ability; but really there is nothing to say in regard to the future course I shall pursue. Le gal technicalities will be referred entire ly to my attorneys." It is believed among lawyers that the suit of the government against the estate will have a serious ef fect upon the university, fcven before this latest litigation cropped up Mrs. Stanford had had some difficulty in rais ing all the ready money necessary lor the institution. It is believed also that several counties that years ago bought Central Pacific bonds will be held by the government responsible for a share of the debt now sought to be collected. SMUGGLED OPIUM. Iirustlot Clerk Sollnakjr Ulamlaaed at San Quentln. San Francisco, Cal. Druggist Clerk Solinsky has been discharged from his position at SanQuentin by Warden Hale. The charge against him was smuggling opium to the prisoners who could pay for the forbidden luxury. Solinsky on account of his position had facilities for carrying on his underground dispensary and making lots oi money out ot it. Just how long he has been carrying on the illicit trade no one knows. Suspicion was first aroused against him by the large number of packages he received at the prison through Wells, Fargo & Co. It did not take long to ascertain that Solinsky was extremely anxious to keep the contents of these packages a secret from everybody. A watch was set in wens, fargo & uos ornce in tnis city, and the discovery was made that the packages were sent from Chinatown. The next step was the certain proof that the packages contained opium. Solinsky through his position had the run of the eel 1b to find out if the convicts were sick. He was caught prescribing opium at a f;ood round sum, and his dismissal fol owed. No Bidder for the Oregon Pacific. Cokvauis, Ob. The Oregon Pacific was again offered for sale by the Sheriff, but no bid was made. There will be an adjourned term of court July 20, when a new order ot sale will be made, nx:ng the date for sale probably about Novem ber 1. Awarded Highest 0 " P ft jj HS (raearjjLlaking HfS Powder. The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used ill Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard. NORTHWEST NOTES. Washington. Spokane is contributing liberally to the Conconully sufferers. Walla Walla's financial statement for May shows a net debt of (74,417. Whatcom countv expects to have thir ty-four miles of planked road by the enu oi tne year. Everett's offer for the county-seat of enonomisn county will be twenty twen-ty-flve-foot lots and 30,000 cash. The survey for the Blaine and Eastern is completed, and belief is professed that trains will be running by October. A movement has been started in Port Townsend having for its object the reor ganization of the city government under tne general law. l lie wnatcom Hoard oi trade bas a committee at work trying to secure the removal of one of the Oregon City flour ing mills to that place. Petitions are being signed at Hoquiam protesting against the sale of water bonds now being advertised and pledging money to fight the sale in the courts. Twenty-one out of Whatcom county's seventy-one school districts have an ag gregate bonded indebtedness of (169,300. Of this (88,000 is Whatcom's and (40,000 Blaine's. Walla Walla county has paid out 112.- 000 annually for some years for the erad ication of squirrel and gopher pests, and now it is rather discouraging, but appar ently true, that these animals are more numerous than ever. In different localities in Eastern Wash ington threshing is again in operation. It is found that by exercising a little care in trimming off all the damaged grain from the tops and sides oi the stacks a pretty fair grade of wheat is ob tained where the stacks have been well built. The grain is still a little soft but, by scattering the sacks about on boards or rails for a few days the sun will har den it. Oakesdale millmen, who have been buying some of this grain, recom mend this treatment, and say a few days' hot sun will make it worth at least 5 cents more per bushel. Joe Scott, President of the Montana Cattlemen's Association; Frank Robin son, Henry Tustler of Miles City and J. T. Boardman of Deer. Lodge have just completed a cattle-purchasing tour of Eastern Washington. .They bought 15, 000 head, the prices averaging (10 for yearlings, (15 for two-year-olds and (20 for three-year-olds. It is estimated by cattlemen that 40,000 head will be taken out of Washington and Oregon into Montana this year. The Montana cat tlemen are prosperous again, and these purchases will, materially relieve the financial stringency in Eastern Wash ington. Oregon. The hop louse has made its appearance at Fairview, Polk county. Medford has abandoned the idea of cannons and oratory for July 4. A summer conference in the interests of Indian education is called for July 23 to 28 at Salem. Union county's debt is decreasing every year. The present levy 19.7 mills is the lowest in ten years. The Pendleton scouring mills have started up, and already have 350,000 pounds of wool to operate on. The Pendleton scouring mill uses 1,500 pounds of soap a day. It makes its own soap, consuming for that purpose some 250 pounds of tallow. This makes a good home market for tallow. As it is, the tallow has to be imported from Portland by the carload. Major Post has taken charge ot the fight to save the Cascade locks, the gov ernment standing the expense. Six trains are running, hauling brush, grav el, rock and anything that can be utilized to raise the bulkhead. Some of the cut stones are being dumped into the works, and seventy barrels of cement were used in one day in solidifying the sand and gravel. A sixteen-month-old child of Mrs. Shepp of Ashland tumbled out of a car window while coming down the Siskiyous the other day. The train was moving about fifteen miles an hour. It was stopped, and the distracted mother and train crew rushed back to the rescue and found the child sitting on the sand pile where it had fallen, screaming mad, out not injured in the least. The storm of last week did consider able damage to the crops on a narrow strip of country between the desert and the gap in the foothills on the Browns boro road, Jackson county. The precip itation descended in the form of hail stones, and several hundred acres of wheat were completely ruined. The 8 trip looks like a sunburnt stubble field, presenting a strange sight, flanked as it is by fields of beautiful green wheat. It seem 8 that Harry Dunn, bulletined somewhat noidly as the first inmate of the Soldiers' Home, was refused admit tance by the examining board. The Sa lem Journal is taking up the matter and making quite a diverting ettort to force an issue on it. Dunn's " right " name, it seems, is Sergeant Henry Campbell of the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Infan try and a war record of half a column of minion. The objection to him is he is able to earn his living. Honors World's Fair. FAILURE OF CROP. Western Kansas is Suffering From Another Drouth. SITUATION AT BLUEFIELDS. The Trial of the Cowardly Aaaaaaln of Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago Once Mora Poatponed. Chicago, III, Prendergast, the as sassin of Carter Harrison, will not be tried as to his sanity during June. By agreement of counsel the case goes over until next fall. The term of court opens on September 3. "It has been agreed that the case shall go over," said State's Attorney Kern. " The continuance was agreed to at the request of the defense after a consultation. There has been no agreement as to what Judge the case will come before at the fall term, and I have no idea now who will preside. Under the common assignment Judge Chetlain will again be presiding in the Criminal Court at that time. There will also, of course, be other Judges presiding. But, as l said beiore, i don't know now who will try the case." Judge Chetlain said: " I know absolutely nothing about the continuance spoken of. None of the at torneys bave spoken to me about the Prendergast case since the last time it was in court. As to my taking the mat ter up and entering the order of contin uance, J. will say the matter will not come up before me, for the reason that l shall not then be sitting in the Crim inal Court. CROP FAILURE. The People Sorry They Did Not Leave , . the Buffaloes In Possession. Topeka, Kan. Reports from the west ern part of Kansas are very discouraging, and show that wheat in that section will be a total failure. There was very little wheat raised west of the center of the State, and unless conditions improve im mediately there will be no corn raised. In many counties there has not been any rain for more than a year, with the ex ception of light showers. The people of that section are not well prepared to withstand another crop failure. Hun dreds of farmers are without means to buy provisions to tide them oyer another year, and the prospect of another failure will force many to leave the country. State Senator Wilcockson of Logan coun ty said that the people of that region would have to leave and abandon the prairies for stock ranches if the crops failed again this year. The people have held on in the hope that climatic condi tions would change, but they will be forced to leave before another cold win ter comes. ' ' ' LARGE AMOUNTS INVOLVED." Ex-Governor Evans' Petition Against Vnlon Pacific Director. Denver, Col. Ex-Governor John Evans through his attorneys has filed a new petition in the Federal Court in the suit against Oliver Ames and other di rectors of the Union Pacific. The new bill alleges that September 4, 1893, the Union Pacific pledged with Drexel, Mor gan & Co. (100,000,000 in bonds to secure their note to the amount of (24,000,000, issued to take up floating indebtedness. Among other securities pledged were (8, 000,000 in bonds and (13,000,000 in stock of the Gulf road. In the new petition John Evans asked leave to bring a suit against Drexel, Morgan & Co. and the receiver of the Gulf Company in the courts of New York or any other place, restraining Drexel, Morgan & Co. from disposing of the Gulf bonds and shares of stock until the other bonds and stock pledged in that trust shall be sold. Army Officer Retired. Washington, D. C Eight army offi cers have just been retired on account of disability incurred in the sen-ice. They are Lieutenant-Colonel S. M. Horton, Deputy Surgeon-General; Captains M. E. Taylor and W. G. Spencer, surgeons ; Past Chaplain S. C. Merrill; Captain William Conway, Twenty-second Infan try ; John Anderson, Eighteenth Infan try; First Lieutenant H. C. "White, Eighth Cavalrv, and Second Lieutenant Moriarity, Eighth Infantry. As a result of these' retirements only seven of this year's graduates from the Military Acad emy are unprovided for this year with full' appointments to regiments, and there will probably be other vacancies before the end of the year. Fortune In a Trunk. Podqhkbepsie, N. Y. Securities to the value of (1,000,000 were found in a small trunk near the room in which William W. Cornell died in this city re cently. The securities were placed in a bank, and the deposition of the estate came up before Surrogate Dorland. Mr. Cornell lived in a modest home in Gar field place. He was 83 years old w hen he died. Nobody suspected he had money. He was the son of Latham Cor nell of Troy, from whom he inherited an iron business. He retired thirty years ago with about (40,000. In the last years of his life he allowed himself no pleasure but inspecting the contents of his trunk, lie left no will, and his estate will be di vided among his heirs-at-law. The Lapwal Reservation. Washington, D. C The House Com mittee on Indian Affairs has authorized a favorable report on the bill introduced by Representative Sweet of Idaho to ratify the agreement for opening for set tlement the Lapwai reservation occupied by Indians in Idaho, WASHINGTON CITY NEWS. The President has signed the New York and New Jersey bridge bill. It has been decided by the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to report to the House a bill for equipment of the Nicaragua canal by the government for carrying on the work to completion. Senator Morgan's measure will be adopted with some vuiaiigwD aerva y tovu IU wiUIlt t blrCCe The House has concurred in the Sen ate bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela river, passed the bill extending the time of payment for purchases of the lands of the Omaha Indians and adopted a reso lution authorizing the payment of (10, 000 from the contingent fund to defray the cost of the armor-plate investigation. George Oetyer, Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee of the State Debris Association of California, has complained to the Interior Department of the ex tensive damage to lands and streams caused by hydraulic mining. He asserts that the debris of that process has re duced the navigability of the Sacra mento and Feather rivers at least one-? half during the low-water season. The communication has been referred to the War Department. A young crank called at the White House the other day, and announced, that his purpose was to convert the Presi dent to the ways of righteousness. This was the third time he had been at the White House. The watchman called for the police patrol, and had him trans ferred to the third precinct station, where he is held for examination. His name is Heffenstein. He is a converted Jew, and has been delivering extempo raneous sermons on street corners. The lightship at the mouth of the Co lumbia river has proven of such advan tage to the shipping interests of Oregon that Senator Mitchell has been induced . to ask Congress to appropriate (60,000 for the construction of still another light- - eKin iri Vi fv.oinnal nnrii -vv--ii- f tn Ka stationed in midchannel inside the bar of the Columbia river opposite Cape Disappointment. I he Senator is quite confident he will secure pou.b sort of an appropriation for the commencement of sucn construction at least. There seems to be no end to the meas ures introduced in the present Congress for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, but none of them gets farther than the committee to which it is re ferred. The latest bill was proposed by Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin. It differs from the others principally in that it makes provisions for the re-enactment of the old law of 1889, with amendments setting aside certain streams as spawn ing grounds, giving tne secretary of the Treasury discretion to limit the duration of the fishing season and directing the appointment of an inspector at (250 a month aud an assistant inspector at (150 a month. Evidently some men up in Wisconsin have their eyes on two fat jobs. X 11 siiu-isuu IJUQIIUVU. .uuu, nuivu . the Western members had much to say when the agricultural bill was before the Senate, has been considered by the House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands. A committee consisting of Sweet, Hard man, Doolittle, Pence and Newland was instructed to draw up a general bill on the lines of the one for the survey of Idaho lands introduced by Sweet. It will provide for a survey under the direc tion of the Secretary of War of arid lands in the Western States, with the TT,. l.n nnnoiinn .Unl .V. I.. I. preparation of maps showing the ditches or canals and reservoirs needed for the reclamation of land, and reports upon the water available for irrigation, with esti mates of the quantity of land possible of reclamation and of cost. The States of Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, the Dakotas and perhaps others will be in the bill, with a recommendation for an appropriation of (25,000 for each State. It is given out that the German Min ister has notified our government that if the one-tenth of a cent per pound dis criminating duty, which has been placed by the Senate on sugar, is permitted to become a law Germany will place a re taliatory duty on pork, lard and other products now imported from the United States under reciprocity arrangement. In view of this notification Secretary Carlisle has addressed a communication to the Senate Finance Committee urging the elimination of this provision of the Senate bill which operates against any government allowing a bounty on re fined sugar. Inasmuch as Germany is the only competitor of the American Sugar Trust, this discriminating duty is levied practically against that country. Should the Senate comply with Secre tary Carlisle's recommendation and strike out the one-tenth of a cent provi sion, the Sugar Trust will receive a very black eye. v McGuire of California appeared before the House Committee on Pacific Kail roads the other day, making a strong protest against any funding bill or other arrangement which would release the estates of Huntington, Stanford and others from personal liability to the gov ernment for the debts of the Central Pa cific. At his request it was arranged that himself, ex-Representative Sumner of California and the members of the State delegation in Congress should ad dress the committee. McGuire took the position that the failure of the Central Pacific to pay the debt to the government was due to the diversion of its earnings to the pockets of the syndicate, which under the law should have a fund cre ated for the payment of its debts. He recommended that the government should proceed by foreclosure or by tak ing charge under the condition of the franchise and apply to the court to se cure the remainder of the debt from the Huutingtons, Stanfords and others. Weadock inquired if he did not favor government ownership, and McGuire explained his plan for government own ership of the roadbed and right of way with trains operated by private parties under government control.