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OF ANY PAPB IM THE COUMTt. CONDON rtl,INg BVgSV flltlUT T ....I. A. PATTISON. Editor and Proprietor. ADTBRTIIHfS BAItl. Fmrewit al cards., ..1 per month One fiiiarc , 1 DW aer MRU . S 80 Mr Broach One-qneiier folnmB., uueoair coiainn.... Oue oolnmn. ........... . I 00 Mr month 10 W par month lotloess locale vrtU be charged at ltocala per Una far int Insertion aad I oaatt per Uo there tut. . ..... Legal gdvejflaanrata win la all gawet be ah tried to the party ordering them, at legal rates, and paid lot before ettldnTlt to raralahad RVBIOsUrTION RATK9I tint year (In advance) ......... ( mil pain In alvauus II months .,11 H ... IN ... IM ... l ... U lhrea nioiilht,... VOL. VIII. CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBUUAItY 2, 1809. NO. 47. tingle aaplet GLOBE Jrnffrrd (il th$ Poninffu ol Omdnn, Orrpea, a anviwI-oiaM swill vtiUf O. It. at . Co. 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Friday J. E. CHAN B, A gent, Arlington. W. H. HURLQUItT, Otnaral Paatooger Agsnt, Portland, Or, EVENTS' OR' THE -DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TKRSK TICKS FROM THE VVI11KS An Inlaraatlng Collection of Iteitia From tha Two IlamUpharaa rraaantaif. In Condenaed Vnrm. The luconil animal convdntlon of tha National LiTt'.k Aaaoclslldn la in onion at Donver. Nearly 1,000 lle- BKtog are prosent. '' Qovemor O. A. Culberion hat been elected by acclamation in tha Texaa loglglatuia to bo United rllatog aonator, to incoeeJ Itoger CJ. Willi. Amalgarnafion o( tha copper mine intereata of tb Houghton, Mich., dia trlct and of Montana lina been dulayed by tha la vera Pnaaa of iiavy Mayer. Jnde E. W. Wooilhtiry, who framed tha firat prohibitory liquor law enacted by the Maine Icglalatuia. la dead at hla homo in Bethel, in that ttate, aged 61 yeare. Tlie fourth annonl convention of the National Aaaociatlon of Manufacturer la in aoatlon In Cincinnati. It la thought full attendance of 1,300 moiubera will be preaent. - The fJpanlah mlnlator of war haa de elded to aboliah militarr maraliala, to retire half of tho unattached gonoralt and to greatly reduce the number ol offlcora on the active liat in the iutercet of retrenchment. A dlapatch front Waahlngton anya; Theie la reaaon to btlieve that the va cancy In the Anglo-American Joint high commiaann oaaaed by the death of Mr. Dingley will toon be filled by the appointment of liepreaentatWe Tawney, of Minnesota. The eommlMlonoraaent by the Cuban aaaembty to Washington to learn what the United Statea government will do about paying the Cuban army, have tailed for Havana. General Uomea' aoaretary, Captain Kohly, aaid that the oommiaaion bad obtained a pait of what tbey aakoJ. No more namea will be coniiitcred for appointment to any branch of the poatal aervioe in Cuba. The poatufnee department hat been overwhelmed with applioationa lor these appointment, and enough eligible namea are now on file to till all poatible emergenciea fur five yeara to come. Heavy rains, nnntnal in thit lati tude ai thla time ot the year, have In jure"! the tpring erop of augur oane In Nicaiagaa. The coffee crop in Nica ragua, now fat"! gathered, will not ox- cool half of the annual crop. . Laborers are asking high pricea to gather the harvest,, and are indisposed to work, Itoaton capitallstt are eaid to have made an offet of $3,600,000, Bpaniah gold, for the Ban Joae waielioiisea and wliarvea at Havana. ' Hnndreda ot oattlomen are in Den ver to take pntt in the convention of the National Livestock Aaaoolutiou. The attendance will to largo. General Russell Hastings, of Massa chusetts, hat been choaen for appoint ment aa director of the bureau of American republics, lb tuccood the late Joseph Smith. Dank notoa to the value of 00,000 have mysteriously disappeared, from Parr a bank, in Uartholotnow Lane, London, England. It la lupposad that they have been ttolen, A dispatoh from Omaha lays: The Twenty-second Infantiy lint tecelved ordera to move at once for Sun Fran claco. , The regiment hat orders to sail fiom Ban Francisco on the 88th. A bill haa been introduced in con greaa which ptovmna that no person living In or practicing polygamy shall be ellgiblo to be a member ot eilbei house of congress, nor shall tnoh per ton be permitted to hold teat therein." The tecretary ot war hot completed the organisation of a colonial oommis lion to undertake the adjustment ot all maltoit of detail respecting the govern ment of terrltotlet aoqnired during the war occupied by the United States foroca, " Iter. Edward II. Dndd, who wat thought to have been lost on the Paul Jones, it alive. The vessel wat de tained In Fast a La Outre so lung by foggy weather that Mr. Budd grew itn patient and left the party, returning to New Orleans. At a result ot the assignment of the battla-shipa Iowa and Oregon to the Pactflo and Aslatio stations respective ly, and the decision to dispatch, the cruiser Newark to toe Pacific coast, the commissioned naval forced the United Btatea la about equally divided be tween the two ocean s. The treasnty department hat si von instructions to the outtonit officials at Bit lea and Skngway to stop the trans portation ot liquor under convoy Itom Canadian ports through tho White Pans to the Northwest territory. Informa tion hns reached the department that instead of being shipped autoes the bur dor into the territory this liquor hat been lettirned toorotly to the loculity Af filmmvatt ami ittanAQmt it tli-.tn irnn. ' traiy to law. Minor Nawa Heine. The Connecticut supremo court has tondered a decision that the property of Yale university is exempt from tax ation. A dispatch from Rio Janniro states that the Braailian congress has ap I proved a treaty of extradition with the' United States. Misg Virginia Evans, daughter of ''Fighting Bob" Evans, will make her bow to society during tha ptesont Washington official season. LATER NEWS. Theodore Klrchonor, aged 00, acci dentally shot and killed hit wife at Newtonville, N. V. , One billion font of Oregon timber, on Ablqua creek, was told to Wiscon sin partial a few days ago. The thermometer ranged fiom 88 to 40 degree! below soro at different pointt in Wisconsin the Drat of the week. . - ,., Ore allaying from $10,000 to f 100,- 000 gold- per ton It repotted to have been atruck In the Isabella mine at Cripple Creek, Colo. On the 17th ballot taken in the Joint eetalon of the Montana legislature Sat urday, Hon. Wm. A. Clark wat elected United Htatot tenator. In the lower house of congress a Joint resolution hat been adopted grant ing to Venoauela the privilege of send ing a oadet to West Point. Charges affecting the integrity of District Judge Scott, of Omaha, and seeking hit impeachment by the legis lator, have been presented te that body. Ex-Senator Slater, a prominent figure in Oregon politics for a number of years, died at hit home In La tirande on th. 28th. He came to Oregon in 1850. The Montauk Club, of Brooklyn, ten dered a banquet on theSStn to Admiral H'illiam T. Hampton, and principal among the other guests waa Secretary of the Navy Jonh D. Long. A big celebration wat held In Havana In honor of the memory of the first Cu ban president, Joae Marti. Four thou sand people were preaent, and there wat no disorder of any kind. The body of Captain (Uurtevant, pilot of the Paul Jones, baa been found. From the olothing of the body it it be lieved he wat off duty and asleep when the disaster waa cansed by the boiler exploding. General Eagan, tried by oonrt-mar- tial on oharget of conduct unbecoming an oflloer and gentleman, waa found guilty and sentenced to dismissal from the army. The president hat the power to mitigate or entirely act aside the findings. The district attorney at Philadelphia hat notified counsel for Senator Quay, ma son, Kicnara, ana ex-state ireas- nrer Haywood, that he had fixed Mon- day, February 80, aa the date for trial '""' u"""" -"'" . Ol conspiracy in tlie miauae OI tne money oi tne state on deposit in tn. Poople't bank. . I Private advloes received at Seattle ttate that the government will send three detachments of toldiett into the Coppei river district of Alaska next spring to lay out a mail route to the Yukon rivei and establish ports. The purpose is to establish an all-Amerloan route to the Yukon. It will extend from tlie mouth of Copper liver to Eagle City, 60 milct below Dawson. The Ne Yoik Evening World ptintt an Interview with John Sherman, in which the latter forcibly expresses him self against expansion. According to figures published at Madrid, 80,000 Spanish aoldiort per ished, chiefly through sickness, during the last campaign in Cuba. It it reported in Havana that Gen eral Itabl, with 1,600 Cuban Insur gents, haa taken to the bills in Santa Clara, in defiance ot American author ities, j A battle hat taken place at San An canna, Ecuador, between government troops and insurgent. Four hundred , men were killed and 800 wounded, and 400 insurgents were taken prisoneta. Th. premier, Senor Sagasta, has an nounced that the government had de cided to convoke the cot tee during the second halt of February, whether the United State, senate rations the peace treaty or not. . A bicycle taddle combine It to be or ganised and capitalised at $1,600,000 preferred and $760,000 common stock. Those already in line are taid to pro duce 90 per cent of all the saddles used tn Noith Amerioa and a fair percentage of those used abroad. Considerable alarm it folt In admin istration circles over the possibility that Spain and Germany may recognise th. Philippine republic Germany from interested motives and Snain to f L. Q AAA 1A AAA C.....I,.!. .BAA... I held as prisoner, by Aguinaldo. The strike which haa been in prog ress at Colon, Colombia, for nearly a fortnight, among the dock laborers, haa extended to Panama, partly owing to the fact that the Chilian line of steam ers hat increased the wages ot its em- fdoyes, thereby accentuating tlie dead ock. John F. Kennedy, who attained no toriety In connection with the numer ous train-robberies and other crimes in the vicinity ot Kansas City, hat been held without bail at Mansfield, Mo., for a hearing before tha grand jury of .Wright county on a charge of train robbery. The Planters' bank, at Kansas City, with a capital of $35,000, hat boon closed by the ttate. Tlie proprietors are under arrest by order of Secrutaiy of State Lesenr aiidAgainlant Attorney- ' General Jeffries. The bank has no via- ible assets, it is alleged, whatever. The two richest prima donnas are Adeline Patti and Sibyl Sanderson. Pensions have Leon granted to the widows of Capt. Allyn Capron and Capt. Allyn K. Capron, father and son, both of whom fell in the war with Spain, Christ Monberger, who died In Buf falo, N..Y., of a fractured skull at the Fitch hospital, whistled merry tones all through the 100 hours of his mortal illness and was unconscious all the time. A CUBAN CELEBRATION! Crowds Honor the Memory " of the First President. CUBAN POLITICS A UK UNSETTLED Maaa Meeting; to Bo Held to rroclalm Principle f liileiad .' aneo. Havana, Jan. 81. Four thousand persons, men in their best clothing and women gaily dressed, stood amid a pouring rain in Paula square today listening to tlx Intensely patriotic eulogiea of Jose Marti, the Cuban pa triot and first president of the Cuban revolutionary government. A tablet to hit memory waa unveiled at the house where he waa born in a street near by, and 83 tooieties, consisting ol 3.S00 persona, with barmen, flags and Jive bands, marched through the prin cipal thoroughfares to the square. The procession, whose distinguishing feature wat 600 girlt wearing white dresset and red liberty caps, started at 1 o'clock, reaching the square two hours later. The streets were gaily decorated with Cuban and American flags, and though the intetest ran high, there wat no disorder of any kind. Marti'a widow, mother and ton, led the parade, with the first Cuban flag used by the patriot, which wat loudly obeered. Thit promisee to be a lively week in Cuban politics. The special commis sion from the Cuban military assonibly will return to Havana, after its inter view! with tlie Washington govern ment, and popular interest is increas ing in the preparations for the mass meeting February 8 at the Tacon thea ter, where a separatist party, proclaim ing the principle of independence, will be founded, nnder the direction of such men aa Senor Giberga, a noted autono mist; General Leyte Vidal, General Lacret, Senor Fontsterling and other opponents oi annexation. Mora Drey foe Agitation. Paiia, Jan. 81. The government's decision to submit to lha ohnmlmr if deputies tomorrow a bill providing tiat tbe CMef of trial revision shall be brought before the united sections of tlle W1lrl of eggmjon ,M reopend the noougatee ot tlie Ureyius agitation The aitnatinn anneara mow conftnlno nil mcnBOing than ever. For dart the anti-Drevlusitea have been clamor- ing to have the case referred to the nnllo.1 mnnilnttm luwanAA tliav haVA nrtn tidered it certain tbat among more than 80 jodgea they could rely upon an anti Dreyfus majority. A Disappearing I.I and. - San Francisco,' Jan. 81. T. he newt hag been brought here Irom Australia that the British man-of-war Penguin baa Just returned to Sydney, N. S. W after taking soundings between the Island Tonci and Auckland, N Z The officers found that Falcon island, which suddenly came up out of the ocean it 1885, it gradually receding When relocated by the Penguins'a offloen, they discovered that the island ia now three fathoms under water. ftala of Oregon Lumbar. Bhlnelander, Wis., Jan. 81. S. A, D. Pewtor, of Portland, Or., the well known Pacific coast lumberman, bus closed a aale of over 1,000,000,000 feet of Oregon timber, mostly fir, situated in Mai ion county, 45 miles south of Portland, Or., on Abiqna creek, a trib utary ot the Willamette rivet, fo lum bermen of this city, who have organized a stock company, called the Abiqua Lumber Company, of Wisconsin. Oppo.ed to Foreign Capital. Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 81. The Cuban Libre publishes a long article setting forth itt objections to tho pro jects of foreign capitalists for woiking "Cuban viigin soil," constructing rail roads, establishing electric light plants and carrying on similar enterprises. "We do not want any one to luveet oapital in Cuba except the natives. says the paper. "America is proof of what monopolists can do in ruining country." Paul Jonea' rilot Fonnd. New Orleans, La., Jan. 81. The body found near Fort St. Philip was to day identified as that of Captain Stur tevant. the pilot of the launch Paul Jones. From the position and oloth ing of the body, It is almost certain that he wat off duty asleop at the time death came, and that the boat was wrecked by an explosion duiing the night. ' Cold In Wlaooaaln. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 81. Specials fiom points in the interior of Wiscon sin teport very low temperature. At Appleton the thermometer recorded 85 degrees below aero, the coldest in re. cent yeara. Black River Falls reports a temperature of 40 degrees, Med ford 40. and Whitehall 83 degrees below soro. Fourteen I'araona Hilled. Maroia. Spain. Jan. 81. Fourteen persons y,ero killed today by an explo' sion of gna in the Pnlia mine neiti Mnsarron, 80 miles west of Curtagena, The other minoit succeeded iu making thoii escape. An Old Hotel Unrned. San Francisco, Jan. 81. The San Bruno hotel, an old landmark on tho San Bruno road, southwest of the city. was burned today, - mi l Mnthins Kiuhorn, portor of the hotel, polished In the flaroea San Francisco, Jan. 81. Thomas Wiltord Ballet, aged four years, was burned to death today in the rear ot the Pacific Gas improvement Com pany'a works at Fillmore and Chestnut streets. ARMY REORGANIZATION BILL. Dleesaalon of tha I'rlnnlpal Work of the National Jlou. v Washington, Jan. 81. The house to day continued tho consideration of tlie army reorganization bill until 3 o'clock, when tho members paid, their tributes to the memory of tho lute Rep resentative Simpkins, of Massachu setts. Little piogross was made with the army bill, the only amendment adopted being that to give veterinar ians in cavalry regiments the rank, pay and allowance of second lieuten ants. The time before tlie eulogies be gan was chiefly devoted to a continua tion of the debate on the advisability ot retaining the Philippines. The diplomatic and consular appro priation bill, carrying $1,600,000, was passed by the senate. The salaries of secretaries of legation to tlie Argentine republic, Venezuela and Fein were increased to $1,800, and of the consuls at La Guoavra, Ven ezuela, from $1,800 to $3,000, and at Pernambuco, Brazil, Irom $2,000 to $3,300. The allowance for clerks ol consulates was increased from $1,600 to $3,300. The salaries of three third secretaries of embassy at London, Paris and Berlin were fixed at $1,000 each. The consulate at Naples waa placed in the $3,600 class; the consulate at Col- lingwood, Canada, in the $3,000 class, and the consulate at Niagara Falls in the $1,600 clasa. Mason offered a resolution requesting the surgeon-general of the army to furnish information at to the percent age oi our soldiers in the Philippines who are tick and have been tick, and the number of deaths in snr army by reason of the sickness caused by the climate. Mason prefaced the resolu tion with the statement tbat ro porta Had been received that - 'of late yeara at high at 60 per cent of the soldiers unaccustomed to the climate (of the Philippines) havo died by reason of the taid climate. EAGAN GUILTY AS CHARGED. Tho Neeeaearr Penalty la Dlamlaanl From the Army. Washington, Jan. 81. General Ea gan, commissary-general of subsist ence, hat been found guilty of tlie charges of conduct unbecoming an offi cer and a gentleman, and ot conduct to the prejudice of good order and disci pline, and of the specifications thereto, and baa been sentenced to dismissal front the United States army; but with a recommendation from the court for the exercise of executive clemency Under tbe regulations, the court, hav ing reached the conclusion tbat the ao- cased was guilty, had no choice in selecting a penalty, the regulations prescribing absolutely that one punsish- ment disroicsal for the offense. Therefore, the only hope for General bagan is iu the direction of communta tion, mitigation or disapproval by the president. ' Payment of tha Cuban Army. Havana, Jan. 81. Senor Fiedrico Mora, tbe civil governor of Havana, in an interview declared that the question of the payment oi tlie Cuban aimy was of much greater importance than the Washington government eeems to real ize. He said of tlie Cubans were to collect the customa of the islands. which are their property, their first ac tion would be to meet Cuba's sacred obligation to the army by payment in full to tbe soldiers. The customs ad ministration being in tho hands of tbe Americans, the Cubans make a simple business proposition to the United States government that it shall ad vauoe money to pay the troops, hold ing the customs as security. The Cherokee Treaty. Washington, Jan. 81. The agree ment concluded at Muskogee, I. T. January 14, between the Dawes com mission and the Cbeiokee nation, pro viding for tiie allotment of lands and general betterment of the condition of the red men, has been tent to the sen ate. Four of the five tribes have al ready agreed to new arrangemeuts and negotiations are now pending with tlie Creeks. A Fatal Holler Exptoalon. Uhioago, Jan. ol. ronr men were badly burned, one perhaps fatally, by the explosion of a boiler today in tlie basement of the Chicago Tiibuue, The men who had just completed putting in new grates in the furnace of 'the boiler, were standing directly in front ot the furnace when the explosion oc curred, and were covered first with live coals, then with scalding water. A Restraining Order. Washington, Jan. 81. To prevent army officers ot superior rank from seising upon the quarters of officers of the transports upon which they may be traveling, the secretary of war has boon obliged to make an order prohib iting them from taking tlie rooms ot the masters and quartermasters of trauspoits. Two Coneula Nouitunted. Washington, Jan. 81. The presi dent presented these nominations to tlie senate: State, James H. Worruan of New York, now commercial agent at Cognao, to be consul at Munich, Ba vana; William T. Fee, or Ulno, now consul at Cienfuegos, to be consul at Bombay, India. February 0 has been agreed upon by the senate as the date to vote upon the peaco treaty. Divorced nnd Bankrupt. San FranciBco, Jan. 81. George F, unite, a cattleman oi Mendocino county, has filed a petition in insolv ency. His liabilities are placed at $181,000, including a judgment of $100,000 granted his divorced wife. Ilia assets aie pluood at $110,000. Snow In tho South. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 81. Snow full generally throughout Central and Southern Georgia atid Alabama Satur lluv' . ..... . . MANY BILLS PASSED. Oregon's l-awmakera Ara Now Getting; Down to Oood Hard Work. In the Oregon state senate Wednes day the following bills wore passed: To authorize the construction and maintenance of floodgates on Douglas and other sloughs, Douglas county; to require justices of tbe peace to submit complaints to the district attorney, ex cept for murder, arson, robbery, grand arceny, before ieea may be collected; to piovide a trust fund in Multnomah connty; to authorize the Eugene di vinity school to confer theological and biblical degrees; to amend the act passed last fall so as to make all quartz and p'acer claims real estate; to remove from principal defendants in prosecu tions for abortion the shield afforded by section 3011 ot the statutes, which absolves them from testifying on tiie grounds .that it might inoriminate the witness; to provide for county clerks to transmit to the secretary of state a summary instead ot a complete trans cript of assessment rolls; amendments to Grant. Pass charter; to permit aoit for possession of real estate to be main tained by plaintiff not in actual posses ion; to provide for election of a dis trict road supervisor. Bates bill for clerks of the justice courts in Multnomah county, after be ing emasculated by striking ont the salary feature, was recommitted be cause found not to bo limited to Mult nomah county. Adams' bill to tax dogs also was re- commiited, aer considerable discus sion, for amendment so as to exempt cities where dogs are already licensed. In tbe house the bill providing for a special election in Malbeur county for relocation of county seat was made a special order for vVednesday.February 1. Upon motion of Curtis, each Wednes day night hereafter will be devoted to consideration ot local measures. Dr. Jose phi's insane asylum bill, vhioh passed the senate yesterday, waa rushed through tbe first and second readings and referred to the committee on penal, reformatory and charitable institutions. Shetwin's bill, to amend the charter of Gold Hill, so at to enable tbe town to issue $3,500 water bonds, was passe' Tbe Joint committee on fisheries, to meet a like committee from the Wash. ington legislature, was excuse till Tues day next. The bill of Curtia amend ing the fishing laws' was ordered print ed and referred to this committee with instiuctions to bring it to tbe atten tion of the Washington committee. The reapportionment bill waa passed in the house Thursday by the narrow margin of ont vote. The hill to create a new county ont of portions of Grant, Crook and Gil liam counties was defeated. A bill for protection of trout, and one for protection ol carwQsn were killed. A resolution was introduced to re' strict the introduction of new bills to February 8, but it wat indefinitely postponed. A resolution changing tbe date of visiting Corvallis by the joint commit tee from February 1 . to February 4 passed. v In the senate the bill to authorize school clerks and county judges to die pose of land bid in at sales for del in qoent taexa came op as a special order Thursday. An amendment excepting from redemption by original owners land contracted to be sold was offered and the bill was recommitted for the amendment. Bills passed were: To amend the la relating to certain male animals running at large, applicable to Eastern Oregon ranges; to cure defects in deeds heretofore made tbat aie faulty in ex ecution, witnessing or acknowledgment; to amend the law relating to the mak ing ot deeds by the sheriff. - Th. reapportionment bill which passed the house Thursday passed the senate Friday after a debate consuming nearly tbe whole morning session. Tbe final vote was 33 area, 4 noes, 4 absent. The report of the committee appoint ed at the special session to investigate the Loewenberg contract at the peni tentiary was taken from the table, and amendments proposed to the effect that the $33,600 settlement be made by February 10, that not less than $10,000 be paid in cash and the balanoe in notes satisfactory to the boatd, and then the whole matter waa made a special order for Tuesday at 3:30 P. M. In the senate the following bills were introduced during the past week: To put in the hands ot the secretary of state the matter of ordering tbe print ing of reports, session laws, circulars, blanks, eta, the printer to act only upon the written order ot the secretary, except that the governor may order tlie printing of executive documents; to protect life and property from danger of lailroad trains by providing numer ous regulation! for warnings on trains and railroads and exempting from claims for damages railroad companies that comply with the law; to prevent combinations between fire insurance companies to maintain rates same as the Iowa statute; to amend the charter of Woodburn passed; to appropriate $35,000 for a flax manufacturing plant at tbe penitentiary same as was in' tioduoed in the house yesterday; to provide for a uniform public system, and complete codifioation ot Bohool laws; to permit recording in all but one county of certified copies of deeds for property situated in two counties or more; to authorize county officers to selcl property bid in for sales tor del in quent taxes. Friday in the house tbe bill to in crease liquor licenses in the state was practically killed by the measure being reported from committee with the rec ommendation that it do not past. JOSEPHI'S BILL PASSED. la to Reform Management of tha .lata Insane Aeylnm Salem, Or., Jan. 35. Joseph! 's bill to reform the system of management of the state insane asylum, putting the institution in the hands of lour trustees appointed by am! to act with the gov ernor, was passed by tlie senate this afternoon by a vote of 31 to 6, alter a debate of an hour and a half. By a till larger vote, Driver's bill authoriz ing county courts to employ county prisoners on public roadg was passed. The defeut ot Malkey'i resolntion to limit the Introduction of bills to the 35th day ot the session and an in timation that the matter of tbe Loewen berg contract at the state penitentiary would be reopened were interesting incidents of tbe senate proceedings. In the house, six bills were passed. including one carrying an appropria tion of $25,000 for building and operat ing salmon hatcheries, and a bill to appropriate $35,0000 for buying and operating the flax mill at the peniten tiary was introduced. Other bills passed were Stillman'a bills legalizing marriages contracted within the six months' limit, and amending the code relative to actions for recovery of personal property so tbat the defendant, where property it claimed by a third party, may surren der the same into the custody ol tbe court; the Ross bill to abolish private teals, and Morton's bill to eure defects in deedt heretofore made. Many billt were pot through formal readings in both bouses. This bas been by far the busiest day of the session, and a 'great amount of work hat been accomplished. Considerably out of the osual order was the proposition ot John H. Albert to exchange an eligible full block of land adjoining the present blind school tor the state t former site of tbe blind school, now occupied by tbe Salem hos pital, so be might present the property to the hospital, and tbe state would at the same time get more room for tbe acommodation of the blind. The peti tion went to the printer ondet the rules. Tbe property is estimated to be worth $1,750. SENATE SPECIAL SESSION. All of OoTerner Rogere Appointments Confirmed. Olympia, Jan. 35. Allot Governor Rogers' appointments during the past two years were confirmed at a special session of tlie senate this afternoon. Tbe voting for United States senator today waa exciting only when Gunder son changed from Humes to Wilson. Two ballots were taken, although an effort was made by fusion members to adjourn after the 14th ballot. Ballot! today resulted aa follows: Foster, 35; Wilson, 28; Humes,. 20; Ankeny, 8; Lewis, 35; Heuston, 1. Bills introduced in tbe senate were: Appropriating $580 for the relief of Captain James Ross, company A. inde pendent battalion, Washington volun teer infantry; appropriating $500 for fish ladder at Myers' Falls, Stevens county; appropriating funds to pay employes' judgment against the state; providing that escheats go to the state school fund ins tend of the county school fund; to rebate interest and penalties on delinquent taxea assessed prior to 1899, if paid before November 3, 1899; requiring fire escapes on all publio buildings; authorizing county commis sioners to spend a poi tion of th. road fund within city limits. In the House. - In the house the bill prohibiting betting and selling pools on elections was reported for indefinite postpone ment by the committee on elections. The bill fixing railroad passenger rates at S,1 cents per mile was received from the railroad committee carrying a 4-cont amendment, and the whole matter waa referred to the judiciary committee. Bills introduced were: Amending the school law so as to enable school boards to expend 25 per cent of the district income for publio improve ments; all of the Preston senate bills; making six years the life of a judgment, and providing tor action for ita re newal after five years; prohibiting blacklisting; creating a board of five examiners for locomotive engineers at a salaiy of $1,300 per annum; making it unlawful fur any employer to use any duress to prevent an employe from joining a labor organization, nnder pain of $100 maximum fine and one month's imprisonment. Nomlnatione Confirmed. Washington, Jan. 2fi. The senate today confirmed tbe following nomin ations: T. A. VV inter, to be postmas ter at Colvillo, Wash.; II. A. Ulseten, register of the land office at Hum boldt, Cal.; F. A. Jones, ot Otturna, la., to be commissioner to examine and classify lands within the land-grunt limits of the Northern Pacific Company iu the Helena, Mont, land district. An Exposition Bill Shelved. Washington, Jan. 26. The waya and means committee today indefinite ly postponed the bill relating to the greater America exposition at Omaha), which was designated to show the re sources ot Cuba, the Philipdines. Forto Rico and the Lad roues. Favorable ac tion was taken on the bill permitting spirits to be shipped in tins, which ia designed to secure a larger trade In Japan. v I'oyment of Bounties. Washington, Jan. 20. The whole question of the payment of bounties to officers and sailors who participated in engagements which resulted in the de struction of tho Spanish fleets daring the war has been referred by the navy department to the court of claims, where the claims will be adjusted un der the Bowman-Tucker act. It ia not yet determined when the cases will be taken up by the court, but is more tha likelv it will be within two weeks.