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"aW-Mltti- TBS OFFICIAL AMD LEADING PAPER OF GILLIAM COUNTY. AS THIIl TIMES THE CIBCULATIO m OFANT PAPEH IN THE C00HTT. ADTBBTIBINO BATBB. NOON ruiuamo bvt thvmdat st ...... A. PATTISON.... Idltor and. Proprietor. Prefaaelonal oard.. ,J1 09 per meat - 1 60 Mr month .IH MT BHIk oneeqnare One-qnaiiar colomn..... fDnekalf wilimn . 00 par month On column ....... 10 00 Bar noaik OBHOKIPTION RATKBl wlnea. local will be (barged allOoeaM per On year (In advance)., I! nut paid In advance., Btx month! na let Ira laaerttoa hi eeaa mi I n , 1 oo Loot Mrertlaement will ta all aeee. ba eh 4 tha party ordering them, M lafaJ aa aad paid tor baton afldTltl fajaJehea 2 brae month.,. Ingle COplM..., 60 06 VOL. IX. CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1899. NO. 32. CO GLOBE. AVyed oi Ma Pmji at Candea, Orajm, a. Mamd-cla.. wwl avwur O. It. M. Oo. Tim Card. abmnotom, cmtoon. New tlmo card, Uklni effect Buaday, rbr eryuthi " CART SOUND, !X!" HontlnHton. laTaa....M.l M a. 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Bi.ltittilay llttatar. Bx. OuaAaf Katorday I0;01 p. at. To Aitorla and Way Landing. :00a.m. Wllliaatt BtMr. .. Bx.kuuday Ba.iaaW Or.gon Clip, Kaw barg.aalaai Way lauding. l;00a.m. WUIrl and Vv IiNbjb. Tun.. Thur. bat llaar. Na.. Waa. and U Bad PtL Oragan City, Bar ton, Aj Way Laaa log, i : m. WHIaaitN Rhrar. t-Mp. at. 4 tutu.. Tbur. Tu.. Than J aadaat. Portland ta Corral, aadtak II. WopLaa. 1 lit. Rlparla laak Blf. Lr. lawtatoa 1:4. at. :.. Pally Blparla to LawUUa Daily Ii.Baturday Ex. prlday J. E. CRANE, Aftnt, Arlington. W. H. HURLBUHT, Boaatat Paawag ABoat, Hrt1aa EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FE0M THE WIRES Ba lataraiUag Oollaetloa ot Itama rraaj tka Two Hamlaphara PraMntad to a Coadanaad Fom. The executive oommittoe ol the pea. pit)' party hag ludonied the platform adopted t the recent demoonttlo itate conventloo in MttanAchnaettt. When the oraianr New Orleana reached the New York navy-yard, it waa found that nhe waa o dilapidated that it will require aeveral month' work to pot Iter in a aeaworthp condi tion. It is learned that United Btates Min ister Lootnl hag been officially in formed that the negotiationg for peace in Venecnela. are progreoHing, and that the government troop have been or dered backward. At the Lennox Athletic Clnb, New York, Eddie Bantry, of Chicago, knocked ont lien Jonlun, featherweight champion of England, after a little lea than two minute in the 10th toond of very brink fight. Aaitant Secretary ot the Treasury Yanderllp ha hmed an order antici pating the November intercut, without the discount ot two-tenths of 1 pnr cent per month. If this offer is taken it will release about 1 30,000,000. Ex-City Treasurer C. L. Funk, cf Pueblo, Col., was shot and killed by a highwayman while going to the depot to take train for Cripple Creek. Hi pouketbook was taken, but contained only small amount of money. The Canadian government ho sur veyors in the field re-surveying tha old Hun tan-American telegraph line from near Asboroft, li. C, to the Yukon country, with a view of entahliahing telograpblo communication with Daw win. It is reported that at the coming ses sion of parliament the formal announce ment will be made ot tha cession of Dolago bay and surrounding territory in Portuguese East Africa to Groat Britain. The price is said to be $40,. 000,000. The Standard Shoe Machinery Com pany, has filed articlea of incorporation at Trenton N. J. It is being organ ised tor the purpose of consolidating practically all of the important makers of shoe manufacturing machinery in the country. Its object is to control the shoe trade of tho world. Captain Hugh McOrath, Fourth cav alry, who is reported to have been seri ously wounded iu tho battlo of Nove leta, P. I., was stationed at Vancouver poet for" some months, in command of troop E, Fourth cavalry, and accom panied it to Kan Francisco when tho regiment was ordered to Manila. There is big stampede of miners from Dawson to Cape Nome. The First Washington volunteers have arrived ot Kan FrancUoo. The medical department of the army considers Vancouver a desirable place tor a sanitary hospital. The United Btates transport Newport has arrived at Ban Fianclsco, 83 days from Manila. , Bhe lias 40ft memliers ot the volunteer signal corps aboaid and 18 civilians. A cablegram to the war department from General Otis states that the trans port Indiana sailod from Manila with 43 officers and 619 men of the Tennes see regiment. The regiment left no sick. The steamer Cottage City, from the North, has among its puMnimgors Sena tor Bhoup, who ha spent several wei.ks in Alaska, visiting various points for the purpose of obtaining information relative to future legislation for Alaska. President Calloway, of tho New York Central railway was before the indus trial commission to give testimony re lative to the question of railroad trans portation. He favored a pooling law, and advocated the prohibition ot the present brokerage system. A riot prevailed in the barracks ot company L, ot the Eighth infantry, at Fort Snelling. With only a dozen ex ceptions, the company was locked in the guardhouse. The trouble arose from a charge of robliery proferrcd by Corporal Fonner against Private Stout, Kelly and ltrasille. ' They hod been in Bt. Paul on a spree. Captain Cope, of the steamer Ameri ca Mam, which left Yokohama, Hop tember 27, reports the transport Tatar, with the Kansas boys aboard, sailod two days ahead ot him, and should reach here tomorrow, lie thinks he passed the Tartar Saturday night in the fog, but he is not sure. The Maxlm-Nordenfoldt Gun & Am munition Company, Ltd., of London, has shipped two six-gun batteries ot mountain guns to Manila. They were inspected here prior to shipment by Captain Georgo W. Vnndnseu, First United States artillery, who will follow the gun Thursday. The ordnance it ot the latest pattern. Ten thousand carpenters have struck In New York. While a typhoon was raging a train was blown from a bridge into the river near Utsnmotnya, Japan. Blx persons were killed and many injured. Great damage was done to property and crops. Chief of Polloe Conrade, of Alameda, Cal., shot and killed one of three burg, lara who were attempting to rob tha jewelry store of A. O. Gott. Chief Conrade was shot through the neck, but not seriously, LATER NEWS. Boston gave Dewey a watch during the naval hero's entertainment there. Ten people perished by the burning of the steamer Nutmeg State At Long Island sound. Montana and Kansas troops were entertained at a rousing reception at Oakland, Cal. Chicago is making arrangements for the entertainment of Admiral Dewey during next month. Tho navy department hat substituted the Ranger for the Badger as one of the reinforcing fleet of the Philippines. Visitors to the Yellowstone Park for the season just closed numbered 9,150, Many foreigners were among the tour ists. The steamer W. P, Ketohan ran down the little schooner Typee in Lake Huron. The Typee was instantly sunk, and four of her crew were drowned. A street oar fillod with 49 passenger collided with a passenger train on the Santa Fe road At Dallas, Texas. Halt of the passengers were hurt, three fatally. I'ne strike of the machinists em ployed by the Canadian Pacific has ended, the official of the rood having consented to meet a committee of the machinists and arbitrate. The Unverslty ot Pennsylvania foot ball eleven wo defeated by the Carlisle Indians. by a score of 10 to 6, on Frank lin field in 25-mlnute halves. The In dians won because they played the bet ter football. The sultan of Turkey was drowned in the Bosphorus, and the drowning is believed not to have been accidental. Beveral ladies of the harem are suspect ed of complicity with members of the young Turk party. The Boers captured an armored train from Kimberley to Vryburg, killing three British soldiers and wounding a captain. All the others on the train, except the engineer, were taken prison ers. The engineer escaped. The transport officials at Ban Fran olsoo, expect that five vessels will sail tor Manila within a week or 10 days. The Tartar and the Manueuse will bo the tint transports ready. The Olrm pia and Pennsylvania may go to Port land to take on troops there. A decision of great importance in bankruptcy cases has been handed down by Judge Jenkins in the United Btates cirouit.court of appeals, at Milwaukee, Wis. The court ruled that a judgmeut secured Against an insolvent person within four months preceding the filing of bankruptcy is void. Diplomatic relatione between Great Britain and the Transvaal government have been broken. The first steamship of the Portland Manila line will leave the Utter port about December 1st. Peace negotiations in Veneiuela have tailed. A decisive battle between the government troops and insurgents is expected this week. The Twentieth Kansas regiment has arrived at Ban Francisco. The occa sion was celebrated in Topeka, Kan., by A big demonstration. Preparations for receiving the First Washington volunteers at Seattle have been completed. An entertainment fund of 12,000 has been provided. With A detonation that was felt in towns many miles distant, two ot the powder mills ot the Aetna company's works near Millers, Ind., blew up. Two employes are missing. One of the most serious car famines ever recorded exists among the big railroad terminals in Chicago. Beveral of the roads report that the congestion of business hat assumed the proportions of a blockade. The forest fire which has raged tor two days on Mount Tamalpas, Cal., threatening the towns of Millvalley and Larkspur, And many costly conn try residences, has been extinguished by a timely rain. The Transvaal Official Gotette con tains a proclamation calling upon all burghers domiciled outside the repub lic to present themselves forthwith for service, falling which they will bo fined, imprisoned, and their property confiscated. In the event of war between Great Britain and the Transvaal, at a result ot the Boer ultimatum, orders have been cabled to the cruiser Montgomery, which waa last reported At Pern in buco, directing her to proceed to Dela goa bay and co-operate with the consul at Pretoria In the protection of Ameri can interests. Dispatches from Manila announce that Captain Woodridge Geary, of the Thirteenth Infantry, was killed in ac tion. Captain Geary was an Oregon boy, and went to West Point from Cor vallis. He served throughout the Puer to IMoan campaign, and last spring was transferred to the Thirteenth and sent to Manila. Major George O. Webster, U. 8. A., retired, is dead at Fort Sheridan, from the effects of a fever contracted in the Philippines a tew months ago, while commanding one battalion of the Fourth infantry. Major Webster was an old Indian fighter, and saw active service with the Fourth infantry in Cuba and Luson. The greatest dividend payer among the Cripple Creek mince, is the Port lend. Its latest dividend is $00,000 for September, and it has paid stock holders to date the sum of $2,877,080. Captain Rookwell, at present com mandant of the Norfolk navy-yard, has been ordered to command the Chicago, which will be Admiral Schley's flag ship on the South Atlantio squadron. The detail was made at Captain Rock well's request. CAPTURED A TRAIN Boers Fired Jnto It With Artillery. PIFTERP BRITISH WERE KILLED Boar Repirtod ta n.n SrfOrad Barer' Kal.a at Mafklng-Fr.y. Stat 8ela Train. London, Oct. 18. An Edinburg pa per, tho Scotsman, aswrta that a bat tle has taken pWe between General Bir George Stewart White, commanding the forces in Natal, and the Boers, who entered Natal by way of Van Ueenan'a Pass. General White, the 3oolsman says, is very sanguine of tht success of the British movement. A dispatch to the Daily Telegrapt from its correepodeuce at Lodysimth, dated at noon Friday, says: "A strong mobile column under Sir George Stewart White, accompanied by General Sir Archibald Hunter, proceed ed before daybreak this morning toward Acton Homes for the purpose of recon noitering. General White's object was to observe what was going on and also to test the mobility and efficiency of his forces. All the men are well and the weather is fine." According to dispatches from Lody simth to the Standard and the Daily Telegraph, dated Thursday, heavy storms have begun and forage is scacn on the veldt. General White has 12 guns and the Boers 11. The Daily Mail's Cape Town corre spondent says: "I learn on good authority that the Boers are attacking Mafeking. They are reported to have already suffered several repulses. It is generally ad mitted that Vryburg cannot stand a strong Boer attack." The war office has received the fol lowing dispatch from the general com manding the Cape forces: Cape Town, Oct. 10. An armored train from Mafeking escorting two seven-pounder guns sent from here to Mafeking was attacked bust night at Kraaipon. Apparently a rail had been removed. The train left the track, and the Boers fired into it with artillery for an hour and captured it." The Ladysmith correspondent of the Times says: "A subsequent reoonnoisance shows that the invading force from the Free State numbers approximately 12,000 men." Glencoe, Oct. 16. It is reported that the Boers have crossed the border at Ingogo, and that the Free State gov enment has taken possession of the rail way to Van Reenan, and seized a NAtal government train. Plan to Trap Agulnaldo. New York, Oct. 16. A special to the Herald from Washington says: While General Schwan is engaged in scatter ing the enemy in Cavite proivnee, Gen erals Law ton and MacArthur are mak ing preparations for on Important movement to the north of Manila. General MacArthur and Lawton will proceed to the north in the hope of trapping Aguinaldo and his forces be tween the three columns. General Schwan's movement to the southward of Manila is merely in the nature of a demonstration, ami for the purpose of scattering insurgents who have intrenched themselves in Cavite province, the home of Aguinaldo and the nest ot the rebellion. Situation la Bachnanulnnd. London, Oct. 10. A notable change in the position of affairs is the pretence of the Boers at Martiboga, 45 miles south ot Mafeking, which seems to in dicate that they are endeavoring to get Colonel Baden Powell between two fires. The gravity of the Boer advanor can be better estimated when it is real ised that they will thereby cut tht railway and telegraphic communication to the north, isolating several British positions which must be speedily re lieved. fear Thousand Ferl.lied. Amsterdam, Oct. 10. A dispatch to the Mandetsblad from Batavia, capital of Java, says a violent earthquake ha visited the south side of the island ot Ceram, next to the largest of the Mo luccas, between Booroo and Papua, completely destroying the town of Am- hei and killing instantly some 4,000 people, as well as injuring some 500 others. The dispatch says details of the disaster have not yet been obtained Vriralea Telegraph In Hawaii. Son Francisco, Oct. 12. The steamer Australia arrived from Honolulu today Among her passengers was Frederick J Cross, who visits this country to confer with Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, regarding a system of wire less telegraphy which is to be placed in operation among the islands of the Hawaiian group. Canada' Contribution. Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 16. At a moot ing of the cabinet today, a decision wa reached to send 1,000 Canadian sol diers to South Africa as Canada's con tribution to the British force now fight ing the Boers. This is double the number of troops asked for by the im perial government. An American Ill-Treated. Cape Town, Oct. 16. No news ot fighting has yet been received. It it suggested that with a view of retain ing the good will of the Basuetos, tht authorities shall not press for payment of the hut tax. An American citizen has sworn to an affidavit before the Amorican consul here, in which he states that he hat been subjected by burghers of the Free State to great ill-treatment. His limbs bear marks showing the effects ot the treatment he has received. DOWN IN CAVITE. General Behwan'e Expedition Aeeom pllahea It. Object. i Manila, Oct. 16. General Schwan's expedition, having accomplished its ob ject, the troops are all returning to their former positions, abandoning the towns taken. General Schawn la en mute from Peres Desmarimas to hnos with the infantry, while the artillery and cav alry and all mule teams are retracing their route from Malabon to Bacoor, with the signal corps removing the wire. Genreal Trias, with the organ ized bodies of insurgents, retreated to Minna and Indan, at the base of the mountain. In Cavite province, the scene of the hottest fight and their great successes over tho Spaniards, the Filipinos might have been expected to make a resolute stand, if anywhere, but after their whippings at Cavite Viejo and Nove let, their tactics consisted chiwHy in a continuous exhibition of their Agility And their transformation from warriors to amigos. The marines, while reconnoitering about the scene of Sunday's encounter, find that the trenches have been already reoccupied, although the enemy mani fested more than their usual willing ness to retreat before the Americans. At Malabon, the Americans corralled 200 or 800 natives, supposed to be fighting men. A few of them were caught with arms in their hands, but large numbers were fonnd in hiding, dressed in khaki, like the American uniform. A majority of them were in the garb of amigos, but they are sus pected of shooting at the troops from houses, a growing habit, which flour ished throughout the advance whenever small parties of Americans strayed from the main body. The prisoners are a white elephant on the hands of the Americans. SHOT HIS RECREANT WIFE. Ballet Intended for the Man Who Wa In the Boom With Her. Oregon City, Or., Oct. 16. A. Brooks, of Canemoh, who is employed in the paper mills, returned home un expectedly between 11 and 12 o'clock last night and found Frank Freeman and Mrs. Brooks together in the house. He shot at Freeman with his revolver, but missed the mark and one of the bullets entered Mrs. Brooks' abdomen, perforating the intestines and lodging against the hip bone. Dr. Carl ex tracted the bullet, but says the woman cannot live. Freeman was arrested this Afternoon, charged with assault upon the woman, and was bound over to the circuit court. Brooks says he found Mrs. Brooks' younger sister in the front room with Pat Freeman, and in the rear room found his wife and Frank. Freeman. He fired four shots, two hitting the body of Mrs. Brooks. He further says he has been carrying a pistol for a month, expecting to return home at midnight and find Freeman with his wife, but he did not muster enough courage to return until but night. Freeman's father and two brothers were drowned nearly two years ago by accidentally going over the falls in a row boat. The Brookset have only resided here a short time. LED INTO AMBUSH. German Expedition Kaaaaered by Na tl Tea In Southweat Africa. Liverpool, Oct. 16. The steomei Niger, which arrived today from South west Africa, bring news ot the massa cre of Lieutenant Guise, German com missioner, at Rio del Rey, near Old Cal abar river, on the bight of Biafra, and also of Herr Leemeyer, a German trader, together with 100 native sol diers and carriers, constituting on ex pedition formed by Lieutenant Guise to quell disturbances near the Crost river, which forms the boundary be tween British and German territory. A native chief wai taken as a guide, bnt he led the expedition Into ambush. He was promptly shot when the Ger mans received a volley. They fought courageously, but were outnumbered and slain. The natives then looted the neighboring factories and murdered the native employes, after which they crossed into British territory. Two British traders, who were warned, had a narrow escape, managing to get down the river in a canoe and to reach Rio del Rey, where they found only a soli tary German official and A half dozen black soldiers. Great excitement prevailed at Rio del Rey when the Niger left, September 27, at it was thought the natives might come there. Newt has been eent to the Camerons, from which point a Ger man relief expedition could be dis patched. Conemnagh Arrive. San Francisco, Oct. 14. The trans port Conemaugh arrived here today, 88 days from Manila. Fifty-seven sol diers who deserted from the Newport came home on the Conemaugh. Among them were 15 men of the Fourteenth infantry, 7 of the Third artillery, 13 ol the Fourth cavalry, 2 of the Twenty second infantry, and 1 each of the Thirteenth, Twentieth and Sixteenth Infantry. Civil Bale for French Calonle. Chicago,' Oct. 16. A special to the Chicago Tribune from Paris says: The cabinet today voted to place all French colonies under civil authoritv and to Abolish all military administration. Activity at Halifax. Halifax, N. 8., Oct. 10. The mili tary officers here are active on account ot the Transvaal situation. Lord Sey mour has issued an order for all the re serve men in and about Halifax to be prepared to shoulder guns and go to tht Cape if necessary. New York, Oct. 10. The commute for the perpetuation of the Dewey vic tory arch in marble has received pledget of $100,000 toward carrying out thr purpose WRECK OF LAURADA Beached on St. George Island in Behring Sea. HAD AN EVENTFUL PASSAGE tncklly No Live Wera Lost and Com s paratlvely Little Dl. comfort Cama to Penger. Seattle, Oct. 17. By the United States revenue cutter Corwin, which arrived here tonight, survivors are brought of the steamship Lauroda, which lies a wreck in Zapadine bay, St. George island. The Lanrada, Captain Frank White, left Seattle September 12, for Cape Nome, with a crew ot 48 officers and men and 20 passengers. She carried a full cargo of general merchandise, hay, lumber, 86 head oi cattle and 130 sheep. She encountered rough weather from the start, and just before o'clock on the morning of September 30 was driven by wind and current into shoal water in Active pass, but after a brief detention she resumed her voyage. Be ing loaded deep, the heavy seas broke over bow again and again and by the time the open sea was reached it had become so serious that she was forced to turn back and take the inside pas sage to New Metlakahtla, where 80 tons of lumber and 50 tons of coal were put ashore. Thus lightened, she pro ceeded to Dutch Harbor, which was reached September 25. At Dutch Harbor 80 sheep were landed. The Laurada left Dutch Har bor September 26, encountering con tinued stormy weather. On Septem ber 27 it was discovered that a leak had been started forward by the pound ing of the seas. This increased rapid- y, and toon it became evident that the tumps would not much longer keep the vessel afloat. She began gradually to settle. The only hope of safety lay in reaching the Pribyloff or Seal is lands, the northernmost of which, St. George, is barely 225 miles from Dutch Harbor. At 2:30 P. M., September 23, Cap tain White, after having skirted the eastern shore of St. George island, and finding it impossible to make a safe landing, ran the now sinking Lauroda ashore in the shallow waters of Zapa dine bay. The fire in the lower grate had been by this time extinguished by the rising sea waters, and the stokers were wading in the fire room up to their kneee. On this side of the island are two small frame salt houses used for the storage and curing of sealskins by the North American Commercial Company, which has a lease of the island from the government. The smaller of these was vacant, and the crew and passen gers of the Laurada moved in. Pro visions and other necessaries were token from the ship. All the livestock was successfully landed. It was on October 3 that the cutter Corwin, Captain Herring, which had left St. Michael for Seattle and San Francisco on September 30, sighted the signal of distress flying from the mast of tho Lauroda. Captain Herring consented to receive the passengers and crew and convey them back to Dutch Harbor. Tho third mate of the Lua nda was left on the island to protect; the ship and cargo from being taken possession of as a derelict, And six pas sengers remained to care for outfits they were unwilling to abandon. The Corwin 's store of provisions was re plenished from the abandoned vessel, and the ratter made sail for Dutch Harbor, with a total of 135 persons on board, arriving in the afternoon of October 4. Here the Lsurada's passen gers were provided with blankets and made as comfortable as possible. The mail carried by the Laurada was also brought back by the Corwin, and will be forwarded by the next available steamer north bound. It is probable a relief expedition will be sent from rbere as soon as possible. Among those left at Dutch Harbor ore the wife of Captain Brown, of the Yukon river steamboat Oil City, now at St. Michael, and the wife and child of Minor Bruce. An entire printing oatfit for a newspaper at Nome is in the cargo of the wreck. The Laurada was built in Great Brit ain and became famous shortly before the outbreak of the late Spanish-American war as a filibuster and successful blockade runner. Fnlr-Craven Suit. Son Francisco, Oct. 18. Charles L. Falr has filed an amended answer to the petition of Mrs. Nettie R. Craven, who asked for an allowance of $5,000 a month out of the late Senator James G. Fair's estate. The answer declare! that the alleged marriage contract on which Mrs. Craven bases her claim is A forgery, and in the main reiterates statements formerly made by the de tense. Woman Hang Heraelf. Roseburg, Oct., 10. Mrs. Rondeau, aged 20 years, wife of G. W. Rondeau, committed suicide about 2 o'clock this morning at a wood camp near Rose burg. The coroner's jury found that she come to her death by hanging her self by the neck to a tree, and no blame Is attached to any one. General Shatter to be Retired. New York, Oct. 13. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: Tha retirement of General Shatter from the regular army October 10, promises to lead to the promotion and retirement of at least five Colonels aa brigadier generals and to open the way for the president to recognize the conspicuous achievements of two staff coloneb, Lawton and MaoArthur, by making them general officers of the line. COLORED LAND HOLDERS. Coming Can. a. Will Show a Large In ereaae Kapeclally In the Sooth. The report sent forth by the state officials of Virginia that their records of assessment and taxation show a large increase in ownership of land amongst the colored people, presents gratifying conditions which the census officials know to be common to all tha Southern states. The Virginia report mentions that the records do not show the full, and perhaps not half of the increase in land ownership amongst the colored people for the reason that great num bers of them, having meager capital, are compelled to buy farms on land contracts. These contracts call for deeds when the payment of purchase money, which is made in installments, shall have been completed. While the installments are pending, the title is held in the vendor as a part of his security for the deferred payments. Thus the rea' possession is not repre sented in the records, though the case is practically like that of property which is mortgaged. Chief Statistician Powers, of the di vision of agriculture in the census, who has made a thorough study ot the question of tenure, has prepared a schedule for the twelfth census which is intended to cover the coses men tioned. The enumerator will be in structed to report as owners all home steaders who have not "proved up" or whose final proofs have not been re cordedin fact all actual occupants of public lands and persons who have bought land on contracts for deeds; and those who have been foreclosed but are holding over for redemption. If the enumerators shall carry out these instructions, the twelfth census will present a fuller exhibit of small ownership and of land ownership amongst the colored people than has hitherto been Available. Tenure is to be taken in the cenus in a manner to show not simply the number of persons who own farms, work farms on shares, or lease forms for a cash or other fixed rental, but to show all the conditions of ownership and tenure according to race and color. In the cose of land bought on con tract, the element of duplication will have to be guarded against, as some vendors, still retaining title to land which they have sold but whioh is not wholly paid for, may report it as still their own. The intention of the census office is, however, to give such instructions to enumerators previous to beginning field work, that the elements of omission or duplication shall be brought to a mini mum. Statistics of ownership and tenure, derived as they frequently have been heretofore, from the county land rec ords, do not convey accurate impres sions. Thousands of deeds of sale and transfer, land contracts, partition deeds, sequestrian papers, final home stead proofs, etc., are held in the homes of the people unrecorded. The census officials expect, in the schedules now adopted, to avoid practically all of the deficiencies which theee conditions pre sent in the land records, and to be able, at the opening of the twentieth century, to make a comparatively perfect ex hibit of bind tenure by counties and color in all the Btates. A STRINGENT FOOD LAW. Prohibit the Cee of Araenie or Alnnt la All Article of Diet. The law enacted by the Missouri leg islature, a copy of which was recently published in our columns, and which prohibits the manufacture or sale ot any article intended for food or to be used in the preparation of food, which contains alum, arsenio, ammonia, etc., place that state in the lead in the mat ter of sanitary legislation. Laws restricting the use of alum in bread hove been in force in England, Germany and France for many years. Is this country, in Minnesota, Wiscon sin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and several other states, direct legislation in reference to the sale of alum baking powders has also been effected. In several of these states their sale is pro hibited unless they are branded to show that they contain alum, and in the Dis trict of Columbia, under the laws ol Congress, the sale of bread containing alum has been made illegal. Following are the names of some oi the brands of baking powder sold in this vicinity which ore shown by re cent analysis to contain alum. House keepers and grocers should cut the list out and keep it for reference: Baking; Fowder Containing Alum: K. C Contains Alum M.nf. by Jaque Mfg. Co. Chicago. CALUMET Contains Aulm M.nf. by Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago, HOME Contains Alum Maul, by Home Baking Powder Co., B. P. WASHINGTON Contains Alum Man!, by Paciflo Chemical Work., T acorn a. CRESCENT Contains Alum Man', bv Crewent Mfg. Co., Seattle. WHITE LILY Contains Alum M.nf. by D. Ferrer A Co., Tacoma. BEE-HIVE Contains Alum Manf. by Washington Mfg. Co., Han Franctico. BON BON Contains Alum Mtnf. by Grant Chemical Co., Chicago. DEFIANCE Contains Alum M.nf. by Portland Coffee A Bplce Co., Portland. PORTLAND Contains Alum M.nf. by Beno A Belli., Portland. The housekeeper should bear in mind that alum makes a cheap baking pow der. It costs but two cents a pound while cream of tartar costs thirty. The quality of the powder is therefore usually indicated by the price. When your cane-seat chairs begin to wear out mend the break the best' you eon by weaivng in cords, or, if very bad, replace with a piece of can vass securely tacked on; put on a gen erous layer of cotton batting or curled hair, and cover with a piece of any kind ot upholstery goods, an embroid ered pattern, crazy patchwork or a large "log-cabin" block. Finish the edge with furniture gimp, and fringe If desired. The back my be finished with a similar panel,