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SCIO
OREGON
RAILROAD SCHEME.
I It is Said Mormons Will Build From Salt
Lake to Tliis Coast.
N ew Y ork , July 13.—A Washington
dispatch to a morning paper says that
the day the President’s signature is af­
fixed to the Utah admission bill will be
launched one of the greatest railroad en­
terprises that has been started for years.
A transcontinental scheme has been ma­
tured, and is only held back until Utah
can he dealt with as a State. Behind
the plan of development is the wealth
and influence of the Mormon Church.
With the quickness characteristic of
Mormons the surveys have been made,
the estimates compiled and the resources
of the country fully investigated. The
work is in such an advanced state that
two corps of engineers are here and
ready to be used for construction pur­
poses. The road surveyed and to be built
extends from Salt Lake southerly and
then westerly to a Pacific connection in
the Los Angeles country. If connection
cannot be made with the Atchison and
Topeka in Southern California, then this
Utah road will be built through to the
Coast, but the probabilities are that a
traffic arrangement can be made with
the Atchison and Topeka from The Nee­
dles through to the coast. The project­
ors of the new road have already sounded
President Reinhart of the Atchison and
Topeka, and are to have a formal meet­
ing with him immediately after the state­
hood bill is signed.
By reference to the map a branch of
the Union Pacific will be seen running
southwesterly from Salt Lake toward the
Coast country, but stopping short in the
midst of the Sierras. The Mormons hav<
laid out a route which is a marvel to the
engineers who have seen profiles. They
parallel the ridges instead of crossing
them. They have tangents sixty and
seventy miles long, demonstrating that
what appears to be the longest route is
really the shortest way to the Coast. In
Southern Utah are anthracite coal beds,
which exceed Pennsylvania’s by one-
half, but which have until now escaped
the Gentile railroad bulider. These coal
fields will be pierced, by the new road.
Bishop Clawson of the Mormon Church
is the active representative of Zion in
this project. He is here and in charge
of the lobby which has put the statehood
bill into the President’s han ds so smooth­
ly. Associated with the Bishop is Mr.
Trurnbo, one of the executors of the
Stanford estate. Co-operating with the
Mormons in the road and statehood
scheme is Colonel J. S. Clarkson, who
represents the capital to be invested in
the road, and who will probably give his
attention to the financiering of the road,
retiring from active politics.-
MUST RESTORE PEACE.
DOLPH MADE A FIGHT.
Increases Secured by Him for Oregon’s
Waterways.
PRENDERGAST HANGED
W ashington , July 13.—Senator Dolph
Then an Arbitration Commis­ made a hard fight for Oregon improve­ He Pays the Penalty of His
ments from the moment the river and
Dastardly Crime.
sion to be Appointed.
harbor bill was taken up in the Senate
Committee on Commerce. The en­
gineers made estimates for the full
GROVER AND LABOR LEADERS. amounts to complete the improvements SPIRITUAL ADVISER ATTENDED.
now in progress on the lower Willamette
and Columbia, and for the mouth of the The Assassin Made Not an Audible Sound
This Was the Outcome of a Conference
Columbia. The policy of the Demo­
From the Time He Eeft His Cell, Ap­
Held Between Them at the White
Will be Asked by Leaders of
crats who are in control, and the admin­
parently Being Lost in Contempla­
House—A Statement From Mr. Hayes
istration,
on
account
of
the
condition
of
Labor Organizations.
tion of His Awful Fate.
of the Knights of ¿Labor.
the treasury, is to scale down all ap­
Senator Dolph’s main
C
hicago , July 13.—Within the gloomy
W ashington , July 13.—It is officially propriations.
fight was for the full amount of the es­
walls
of Cook county jail to-day all was
stated
at
the
White
House
that
the
Presi
­
timates
at
these
points
in
order
that
the
THE MEMORIAL OF THE KNIGHTS
dent has promised to appoint an arbitra­ government might be saved a great deal bustle and surpressed excitement as the-
tion commission as soon as the disturb­ of expense. The amount estimated for time drew near when Patrick Eugene
mouth of the Columbia was $338,138.
ances in Chicago have subsided, so far the
It Charges That the Head of the De­
Senator Dolph exhibited photographs of Prendergast, the condemned murderer
as the strikers are responsible for them, the trestle upon which is the tramway of Mayor Carter Harrison, would expiate
partment of Justice of the United
and peace restored. This promise was and where materials are transported to 'the crime with his life. Jailer Morris
States Has Been Guilty as Sueh of
and assistants made the final test of the
made to a committee representing the complete the jetty.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
asserted that, having been in use rope, trap and trigger at 10:35. Jailer
various labor organizations which Presi­ six He
years, it would be very likely not to
C hicago , July 12.—Sovereign was in
dent Cleveland received to-day. After last until after the money appropriated Morris at 10:45 said: “As near as I can
consultation to-day by long-distance
discussing the various features- of the in another river and harbor bill was judge the march to the scaffold will begin
telephone with General Secretary John
situation for more than an hour, the available. If it should break down, it about 11:30.” Prendergast rested well
W. Hayes, T. B. McGuire and Charles
necessitate the building of another
President promised that if the leaders would
at a great expense, and the cost of com­ last night and seemed calm and collected.
A. French, members of the Executive
would return to Chicago and use their pletion would be at least doubled or He refused until late last evening to re­
Committee of the Knights of Labor, who
influence towards restoring peace and trebled. He asked the committee in the ceive spiritual consolation, but when
are in Washington. Sovereign said;
order, he would appoint the commission name of economy to make the appropri­ nightfall came he asked for Father Mul­
“ Proceedings will be commenced to-day
ation recommended by. the engineers.
as soon as the disturbances had ceased
After discussinjailie. matter with the doon. Between 6 and 7 o’clock Prender­
under the direction of members of the
to such an extent as to render a careful, committee-became con-«, gast partook of ham and eggs, and about
'■Executive Committee to impeach Attor­
thorough, thoughtful investigation pos­ vinced that, so far ¿is'the committee was 9 o’clock sent word to Jailer Morris he
ney-General Olney. We have the best
sible. The President laid great empha­ concerned, there was no possibility for was again hungry. The jailer had the
sis on the fact that no steps could be any other improvements at the dalles prisoner served with another hearty
legal advice in Washington, and the
taken in this direction until lawlessness than a boat railway. There was no meal, which he seemed to relish greatly.
petition against Attorney-General Olney
had ceased, and made his promise con­ sentiment in favor of a portige road; in The assassin talked freely with his spirit­
is ready for filing.”
tingent on the pledge of the labor lead­ fact, there was decided opposition to ual adviser, and several times remarked:
THE MEMORIAL.
ers to see to it that, so far as organized such a scheme. It then became the “ You must stay with me to the end.”
labor is concerned, the trouble at Chicago purpose of Senator Dolph to get some As the hour for the execution drew
P hiladelphia , July 12.—The mem­
and elsewhere will immediately disap­ kind of an appropriation for the dalles nearer Prendergast showed signs of
orial to be presented by the Knights of
pear. There is no disposition on the in the committee and in the Senate, and slightly increasing nervousness, but on
Labor to Congress asking for the im­
part of the administration to weaken in then, if the House conferrees on the bill the whole he was remarkably calm and
peachment of Attorney-General Olney
the stand it has taken, but the President offer any project that can be agreed collected.
is as follows:
fully realizes the gravity of the situa- upon, it will be time enough to consider Father Barry was in constant attend­
“Your memorialists most respectfully
tioh, and while he will- not temporize the matter. Senator Dolph’s proposi­ ance upon Prendergast all morning.
represent that they are residents of the
The little assassin was most deferential.
with the lawless element, he is deter­ tion for a boat railway is as follows:
State of —— and of the United States,
announced with a trifle of bravado:
mined to do all in his power to reach a
“ Improving the Columbia river, Ore- He
and that Richard Olney, head of the
permanent solution of the labor ques­ egon and Washington, at Three-Mile “ I’ll die game and set a great and shin­
Department of Justice of the United
ing
example to my country.” At 11 a .
tions.
Rapids and the construction and equip­ m . Prendergast
States, has been guilty as such of high
was removed to the ante­
STATEMENT FROM HAYES.
ment
of
a
boat
railway
from
the.
foot
of
crimes and misdemeanors, subjecting
room of the jail office, where the last
The
Dalles
Rapids
to
the
head
of
Celilo
John W. Hayes, the General Secretary-
him to impeachment and removal from
kind offices were performed. Prender­
Treasurer of the Knights of Labor, to­ Falls, said boat railway to be provided gast especially requested Sheriff Gilbert
office in pursuance with the constitution
at
each
terminus
with
hydraulic
lifts
night
gave
out
the
following
statement
and the laws of the United States. The
to allow him twenty minutes to make a
covering the committee’s interview with and other necessary appliances for the dying statement, but it was thought he
said Richard Olney, as such Attorney-
purpose
of
raising
andlowering
the
boats
President
Cleveland
;
General, has counseled and advised and
would at the last moment forego the de­
“We had an hour’s talk with Presi­ on suitable cars to and from its tracks, termination.
has rendered the military power of the
the
whole
to
be
located,
constructed
dent
Cleveland
this
afternoon
for
the
general government within the State
The jury and. physicians at 11: 10 filed
purpose of calling his attention to the and equipped for the passage of eight in and inspected the scaffold and appur­
of Illinois and other States of the United
boats
of
600
tons
each
-in
each
direction
arbitration
act
of
1888,
introduced
in
States superior to the civil power, of all
tenances. Fifty Deputy Sheriffs were
the House of Representatives by John in twelve hours, on the south side of the ranged around the corridor. At 11:42
and each of said States; has counseled
O’Neill of Missouri. I had full author­ Columbia river, substantially in accord­ Sheriff Gilbert and Jailer Morris appeared
and advised and caused the Secretary of
ity from President Debs of the Ameri­ ance with the location and plans sub­ at the right of the scaffold. The pris­
War of the United States to introduce
JUDGE TAFT’S DECISION.
can Railway Union and J. W. Heath­ mitted by the hoard of engineers ap­ oner, pale and unsteady, walked behind.
into said State of Illinois and other
States aforesaid large bodies of armed To Strike is Legal, But There is No War­ cote of the Pullman employes to repre­ pointed by the President in pursuance He stood without apparent nervousness,
sent their interest and act on their be­ of the provision of the act of Congress though a trifle weak and unsteady, as
men, composing a part of the regular
rant of Law for a Boycott.
half. The President seemed pleased to approved July 13,1892, and entitled ‘An his arms were being pinioned. He looked
army of the United States, in violation
C incinnati ,- July 14.—Judge Taft of receive us and opened the subject by re­ act making appropriations for the con­ calmly out on the assembled crowd be­
of the constitution of the United States,
no application therefor having been the United States Circuit Court delivered ferring to the law which the parties in struction, repair and preservation of cer­ low him. While the shroud was placed
made by the Legislature of said States, his decision to-day in the case of F. W. the action desired to see enforced. An tain public works on rivers and harbors about him, barring a little restless move­
nor by the government thereof, and in Phelan, charged with contempt of this hour was passed discussing the various and for. other purposes,’ with their re­ ment of the eyes, he made no motion.
provisions of the act, which authorizes port, which is contained in Senate exec­ Jailer Morris placed the rope about his
fact against the earnest protest of cer­
tain of the Governors of such States, court by impeding and obstructing the the President on his own motion to ap­ utive document No. 7, Fifty-third Con­ neck, the white cap over his head, and
and as the result of such counsel and receiver of- the Cincinnati Southern, ap­ point two arbitrators, together with the gress, first session, $250,000: provided at 11:48 his body shot downward. His
advice the soldiers aforesaid have fired pointed by this court, in the manage­ United States Labor Commissioner, to that contracts may be entered into by head twisted to one side, his neck having
upon and killed, divers citizens of said ment and operation of his road and di­ act as a commission of arbitration and the Secretary of War for such materials been apparently broken. A short, spas­
investigate and decide what should be and work as may be necessary to com­ modic movement of the legs was the
State of Illinois without lawful or suffi­
cient cause therefor; has counseled and recting and inciting the employes to done by either party to settle the con­ plete such improvements, to be paid for only sign of life apparent. Surrounded
advised and caused divers suits to be leave his employ and by interfering with troversy. The commission has all the as appropriations may from time to time by the jury and physicians, the corpse
brought in said State of Illinois, and the business of other roads with which power necessary to administer oaths, be made by law, not to exceed in the ag­ swung to and fro, and at 11:57, nine
gregate $2,064,467, exclusive of the minutes after the trigger was sprung, he
divers other States of the United States, the Southern road does business. The subpoena witnesses, etc.
“The President finally decided to ap­ amount herein appropriated: and pro­ was pronounced dead. The assassin made
and to enforce the same has, in violation
of the laws of the United, caused a pro­ courtroom was crowded, and large num­ point the commission, and said he would vided, further, that the Secretary of War not an audible sound from the time he
cess to be issued unknown to the courts bers were, in the. corridors. Many Dep­ name the arbitrators either to-morrow may, and he is hereby authorized, to ex­ left his cell, apparently being lost in
of the United States, and by the use of uty Marshals were in and about the or the next day. We expect to secure pend so much of the amount hereby ap- contemplation pihis awful fate. He was
¿¡¿^¿n'iated -as may be necessary in
armed Deputy Marshals- has causerl "tlw1 ■umi.rtitimiiii hnl,
TWlUUlllMlli Of t he present-
arrest and imprisonment of citizens of needed, as the utmost decorum was oo- TOBTffBt
right«18 -fo'datranii&^fincr
culty
in
Chicago.
While
this
is
a
victory
served.
The
Judge
reviewed
at
length
11:58 Jailer Morris unloosened the an-
the United States, without due course of
the right to the use oflands required for chored
for
labor
organizations
and
everything
the
testimony,
which
he
declared
showed
end of the rope, and the shrouded
law and in violation of the constitution
terminal
facilities
T
ot said boat railway
the
American
Railway
Union
has
fought
and laws of the United States; has unmistakably that Phelan came here as for, it gives official recognition to the in the manner and according to the con­ corpse was slowly lowered and laid in
the coffin standing underneath the plat­
wrested laws' from their true intent and the agent and coworker of Debs to insti­ justice of their demands for arbitration, ditions now prescribed by law.”
form. The face was not hadly distorted,
purpose, and in violation of the spirit tute and direct a boycott in order to com­ and will be much more, for in the move­
There
was
some
talk
about
a
canal,
thereof has used them through the courts pel the Pullman Car Company to. treat ments of the future, when defects of the but it was found that it would take at though the mouth was open and the
of the United States to injure and op­ with its employes, who it appears are present arbitration law have been made least a year to get proper surveys and tongue protruding. The color of the
press the citizens of said State of Illinois, not eligible to membership in the Amer­ apparent by actual experience, prompt estimates for a canal, while it would take features was a bluish tint, which, with
his unkept reddish hair straggling down
and of the other States aforesaid, notably ican Railway Union.
more years to complete the work. over
Phelan’s denial of personal agency had steps will be taken to amend the same.” several
the forehead, made a sight long to
the act of Congress approved in July,
Senator
Dolph
thinks
the
boat
railway
be remembered.
PROVISIONS OF THE LAW.
1890, wholly intended to protect truth no weight with the court, owing to the
could
be
completed
in
two
or
three
years
The O’Neill law, approved October 1, if it was properly pushed.
and conscience against trusts and organ­ evasive and flippant nature of his testi­
ized wealth in other forms, and the act mony, and in the face of the telegrams 1888, provides that when controversies
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
passing
between
him
and
Debs,
as
well
arise between the companies engaged in
of Congress approved February 4,1887,
TALK WITH DEBS.
intended wholly and exclusively to pro­ as his public utterances. He knew the interstate commerce and their employes,
Land Grants Forfeited and Right of
tect the citizens of the several States Cincinnati Southern was in the hands of obstructing the taansportation of prop­ The Union’s President More Confident of
Way Granted.
against the wrongs, injustices and. op­ a receiver, and yet his first efforts were erty and passengers, an arbitrator shall
Success Than Ever.
directed
against
it.
The
court
found
W
ashington
, July 12.—By virtue of
be selected by each of the parties to the
pressions of interstate common carriers;
C hicago , July 13.—Mr. Debs was to­ the adoption of a special order the House
has disregarded the sentiment of the that he was the active agent here of an dispute—these two arbitrators to select
people of the United States expressed unlawful conspiracy with Debs and a third. This hoard shall, after a full day more confident of the success of his was enabled to reach a vote on the Mc­
through the Congress of the United others to paralyze the business of the investigation, publicly announce its cause than at any time since the strike . Rae land grant forfeiture bill this after­
States, in the act approved October 1, United States, or, in other words, to decision, which with all testimony shall
noon, and it was passed. The bill
1888, entitled ‘an act’ to create hoards starve the nation in order to force em­ be filed with the United States Commis­ began. He said in an interview:
of arbitration or commissions for settling ployers into terms. Applying the law sioner of Labor. The statute further
“ I feel that this day is fraught with amends the act of September 29, 1890,
controversies and differences between to the facts the court held that to under­ provides that the President of the United the utmost importance. As I view the which in substance declares the forfeit­
railway corporations and other carriers take to force a breach of contracts was States may select two commissioners, situation now, it presents a more favor­ ure to the United States of land hereto­
engaged in interstate and territorial an unlawful conspiracy. Moreover, the one of whom shall be a resident of the able outlook for us than ever before.
trans portation of property or passengers, whole plan was a boycott, which has State or Territory in which the contro­ The excitement and turbulence inevi­ fore granted to State and corporations to
aid in the construction of railroads to
and their employes,’ and actively and been declared by all States, except Min­ versy arises, who, together with the
incident to the lapse of a .great the extent only of lands opposite to and
persistently encouraged and assisted the nesota, to be unlawful. The court plainly Commissioner of Labor, shall constitute tably
upheaval
is
past.
The
strife
and'
tur
­
so-called ‘Pullman Palace Car Com­ recognized the right of laborers to unite a temporary commission for the purpose moil are elements that have passed in contiguous with the portions of such
railways as were not completed and op­
pany’ in refusing to adjust its differ­ and even to coerce their employers for of examining the causes of the contro­ the
One is now enabled to ob­ erated at that time. The bill passed ex­
ences with its employes and tens of the purpose of obtaining a better price versy, the conditions accompanying, and tain night.
a
clear
perspective
of
the
immense
thousands of their brother workmen to for their labor. They were warranted the best means of adjusting it, the result conflict now waging, The cool-headed tends the forfeiture to the portions of
the several railways to aid in the con­
adjust such difference, by amicable con­ in striking; that is, leaving their em­ of which examination shall be immedi­
steady purpose has succeeded struction of which the grants were made,
ference or by the selection of disinter­ ployers in a body to better their own ately reported to the President and and
passion
and
diverse
contention.
interests,
but
there
was
no
warrant
of
which were uncompleted when the time
Congress.
ested arbitrators.
Now public sentiment can calmly and expired within which the roads were re­
DEBS MUCH ELATED.
“ Because the said Richard Olney, as law for a boycott.
truly judge of the right and wrong quired to be completed by law. It in­
the legal adviser of the Chief Executive The Judge, having found Phelan guilty
C hicago , July 13.—On being shown in this struggle. All these things, I say, volves portions of the grants of twenty-
of the United States, has advised, coun­ as charged, said in reference to the sen­ the
telegram announcing President tend to strengthen our position. When five roads, the principal one of which is
seled and induced such Executive to tence that it was the duty of the court Cleveland
’s purpose to appoint an arbi­ the mass of the people are"aided in ren­ the Northern Pacific, and will restore to
place a great city of the State of Illinois to enforce obedience to its orders. To do tration
board Debs said:
dering an impartial verdict on the merits the public domain about 54,000,000 acres.
under martial law against the solemn otherwise would court an anarchy. The
We are very much gratified to learn of the case, I feel certain we will not be A proviso was added to the bill so as to
protest of the Governor of said State, penalty for contempt after warning of “ President
Cleveland’s decision. It is degraded in public opinion. Indeed, we prevent it from being construed to for­
and without consultation with the Con­ should be sufficient to enforce compli­
be hoped that the board will be are now deemed in the right by the ma­ feit the right of way and station grounds
gress of the United States, then in session, ance with the orders of the court. The to
promptly appointed and organized; that jority of the 64,000,000 inhabitants of of any company, and also confirms to
which body, by the express enactment sentence was confinement for six months its
will be prosecuted vigorously to this country, and the adage has it, purchasers from such railways the titles
of the constitution, alone has the power in the Warren county jail at Lebanon, the work
end, that a speedy settlement of the 1 When you are sure you are right, then to land not in excess of 320 acres to any
to declare war; that no adequate or 0., and the Marshal was directed to im­ existing
conflict will result. We are, of go ahead,’ so we shall fight it out until holder. An effort was made by Hartman
sufficient excuse exists for the commis­ mediately execute the order of the court. ’course, for
arbitration, and have been our aims are accomplished.”
of Montana to remove the 320-acre limit,
sion of the high crimes and misdemean­
from the beginning, and had this princi­
“ Then any reports that you are pre­ but this was defeated—96 to 110.
ABOUT THE NAVY.
ors aforesaid, which, if left unpunished
ple
been
recognized,
this
strike
would
paring
to
give
struggle
are
not
and unrebuked, will prove a deadly blow
true, Mr. Debs jj»
to the rights of the States and liberties Commodore Kirkland to Command the have been averted.”
“ Most emphatically they are not.
GEORGE’S AMENDMENT.
European Station.
of the cities thereof. The pretense of
Army Scandal in England.
Telegraphic rumors may say that I have
these unlawful usurpations of Federal
W ashington , July 13.—Secretary Her-;
D ublin , July 14.—The Freeman’s Jour­ sent word to our men in this city or that Commission of Eabor to be Composed of
authority and flagrant invasions of the
Eleven Members.
reserved rights of the States, that the bert to-day made, two important details. nal to-day published a startling account we are about to throw up the sponge,
due transmission and conveyance of the Commodore Carpenter, who has been on of a scandal at Birr, Kings county, head­ but they will be falsehoods without the
W
ashington
, July 14.—George of
mails of the United States were impeded waiting orders in Boston for some time, quarters of the Prince of Wales’ Leins­ necessity of a denial. Our stand is this:
We have at all times shown our willing­ Mississippi to-day offered in the Senate
and interrupted, is wholly unfounded, was assigned to the command of the Asi­
because no contract exists between the atic station to succeed Admiral Skerritt, ter regiment, the Royal Canadians. A ness to make a reasonable settlement of an amendment to his . bill creating a
United States and any railroad corpora­ just retired. By virtue of his command few nights ago some officers of the Lein­ the difficulties that confront the coun­ board of arbitration. It provides for
tion touching the transmission and con­ he will have the rank of Rear Admiral. ster regiment, masked and disguised, try. We have even gone beyond what the establishment of a commission of
veyance of the mails, that is not re- He is instructed to take passsage from forcibly entered the rooms of the female should be demanded of us to arrange for
vocabl e at the will of either party thereto; San Francisco on the Gaelic August 7. servants. They assaulted two of them arbitration, each time to., be rebuked, labor to be composed of the Commis­
because nd formal contract for carrying The Secretary also made known his-, in­ and fled. A sentry challenged them, but we are going to stay in’the strike till sioner of Labor and ten additional mem­
bers to be appointed by the President.
the United States mail is made with tention to give the command of the Eu­ and upon their refusal to halt the sentry the last. We shall never yield.”
The oath of office prescribes that each
any railway corporation, and because ropean station to Commodore William thrust a bayonet into one and shouted
for
the
guard.
The
guard
turned
out
member
will fairly and impartially dis­
the laws-of the land-expressly provide A. Kirkland at his own request as soon
Cost to the Government.
charge the duties of arbitration imposed
(revised statutes, .section 4,000) that as Admiral Erben retires, probably be­ promptly, and the officers were arrested.
W
ashington
,
'"
July
13.
—
The
cost
to
girls have sworn to complaints
upon him by law, without respect to
every railway carrying the mail shall fore September. At the time Admiral The
the United States of putting down the persons, and do equal right to the poor
carry on any train which may run over Walker was sent to Hawaii to command against the prisoners.
strike in the West is estimated by the as well as the rich. This commission is
its road, and without extra charge there­ the Pacific station, suddenly relieving
French Ironclad Set on Fire.
for, all mailable matter directed to be Commodore Kirkland before the latter
government officials at fully $1,000,000. to be charged with the settlement of all
T oulon , July 14.—Just previous to the It may foot up more. The items include labor disputes between railway and other
carried thereon, with person in charge could reach his flagship,, it was rumored
of the same, wherefore, we respectfully that he was in disfavor at the depart­ launching of the new French ironclad telegraph bills, Deputy Marshals’ pay transportation companies which may be
submit that the solution of the grave ment, but to-day’s action of the Secre­ Carnot a dockyard official discovered and the transportation and maintenance brought before them in accordance with
question, which the Attorney-General tary in giving the Commodore the com­
of troops. The estimate for Marshals’ the law. They are also required to arbi­
seems determined to settle by the arbit­ mand of the favorite station, and one smoke issuing from the hold. The fire pay in Chicago alone is from $150,000 trate such disputes as may be submitted
rament of arms, was in the beginning which will soon be reinforced by some of was easily extinguished. A large bottle to $200,000, and Congress in a few days to them between the employers of labor
and is now susceptible of prompt and the finest ships in the navy, is strong of turpentine was emptied over the will be asked to appropriate this, as it and their employes in other business
connected with the interstate commerce,
satisfactory adjustment by the exercise evidence of the high estimate the Secre­ woodwork in a manner well calculated is urgent.
cause a rapid spread of the flames. It
when the Legislature of the government
by the President of the United States tary entertains of his abilities. Commo­ to
is
reported
a
dockyard
workman,
sus
­
of the State in which such disputes shall
of his lawful authority, under the fore­ dore Kirkland will hold the rank- of Ad­ pected of being an anarchist, was ar­
No Income Tax for France.
originate shall consent thereto.
going section of the statute.”
miral, and his assignment will leave the rested and confessed he and his accom­
P aris , July 13.—The Chamber of Dep­
South Atlantic station without an Ad­ plices
planned
to
burn
the
Carnot.
uties to-day rejected Cavaignac’s pro­
miral.
.
Two Industrial Armies.
Shipments of Money Resumed.
posals for an income tax by a vote of 267
Sir
Charles
Tupper
Will
Preside.
W ashington , July 13.—Kelly, leader
japan
Chartering
Steamers»
W ashington , July 13.—That the
to 236. As the proposals had been stren­
L ondon , July 13.—-The Japanese gov­ L ondon , July 13.—Sir Charles Tupper uously opposed by the government, of the so-called Industrial Army, is mak­
Treasury Department regards the strike
will
preside
on
speech
day
at
the
Colonia
ernment
has
chartered
twelve
English
as practically over was shown by the is­
Premier Dupuy and the/ Finance.Minis­ ing arrangements with Frye to consoli­
suance of an order by Treasurer Morgan steamers at present in Japanese waters college in Suffolk July 28. The students ter, Pointcarre, announced that in view date their bands at Roslyn, W. Va., just
in this college are training themselves of the narrowness of the majority they across the river. Kelly asserts he has
__ r ___________
__ , for of
the
for the. resumption
of . shipments
| transportation of troops.. Own­
money between the several subtreas- . ers are asking premiums on their vessels for farm life in Canada. He will also must have a vote of confidence or re­ 600 men between here and at Ports­
uries,' which was Suspended when the on account of the war risks in Eastern address the Scottish Geographical So- sign-. Confidence was then voted by 369 mouth, O., and the first detachment will
reach Washington this week.
1 ciety on the progress of the Dominion.
against 80 Deputies.
labor troubles became acute,___________waters,
OLNEY’S IMPEACHMENT
I
NORTHWEST 'NEWS.
Washington.
There are 100 cases of mumps at the
Puyallup reservation Indian school.
Wat Chaw Kee, the last of the great
war chiefs of the Klickitat Indians, is
dead.
Prospectors are pouring into the min­
ing districts of Clarke and Skamania
counties.
Walla Walla is figuring on saving about
$3,000 a year by salary reductions re­
cently voted.
Something like $50,000 is being dis­
bursed through the Spokane banks to
the payees of checks of Montana cattle
buyers.
The Regents of the State University
have provided for a school of pharmacy,
and are planning to establish a college
of laws.
Non-resident owners of unimproved
lands in the eastern end of Chehalis
county are squirming under the levy of
special taxes for roads, bridges and
schools that the resident property own­
ers vote upon them.
The tramway of the Pride of the
Mountain mine at Monte Cristo is com-1
pleted. Its largest tower is a single tim­
ber four feet in diameter and 102 feet
high, weighing about twenty tons. This
tramway will furnish means of trans­
portation for the large output of the
mine.
Spokane has $50,000 water bonds due
in about a year, and is now considering
a proposition to refund them. C. H.
White of Chicago offers to purchase the
entire issue, drawing 6 per cent, at par
and pay a bonus of $2,000; The-offer-
was upon condition that the term be
made twenty years.
The railroad iron nearly two years
ago taken out of the wrecked Abercorn
and stored a,t or near Cosmopolis was
sold for taxes last week, bringing $629.60.
The lot consisted of about 5,000 rails,
which would make about fourteen miles
of track. They were owned by the New
York Security and Trust Company, and
were valued at $25,000.
Walla Walla orchardists are greatly
discouraged, and have given up all hope
of making expenses- on their immense
crops thifT season. Cherries have already
commenced to wilt and rot upon the
trees, and small fruits are in the same
condition. Shipments of vegetables are
insignificant, being made only to the
smaller points between Walla Walla and
Spokane.
The Puyallup Indian Commission is
pushing the survey of the school farm
on the Puyallup reservation in hopes of
getting it completed this month. The
appraisement of the lots will take place
as soon as the survey is made, and the
documents containing the survey and
appraisements will De forwarded to
Washington to be approved by the Com­
missioner of Indian Affairs. The sale
of the property will then begin.
There were manufactured at the Wash­
ington State jute mill during the month
of June 206,653 grain bags and 2,409 oat
bags. There are now on hand, subject
to sale, 1,265,901 grain bags at 6 ba cents
each, 460 wool bags at 32 cents each,
3,556 oat bags at 7 cents each, 500 ore
bags at 9 cents each, 974 yards of kiln
cloth at 5% cents per yard, 19,715 yards
of hop cloth at 9% cents per yard, 354
yards of 36-inch floor matting at 65 cents
per yard and 5,300 pounds of fleece twine
at 8c per pound.
Oregon.
AGRICULTURAL WORLD
Useful Information for Tillers
of the Soil.
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT DEHORNING.
If the Horns on Our Cattle Were Not
Frequently Used for Doing Injury to
Both Man and Beast, Very Few Would
Advocate Their Removal.
This is the way F. L. Gaston, Nor­
mal, Ill., dishes up “horns” in a recent
Jersey Bulletin:
“ In regard to the discussions about
dehorning, there seems to be no more
chance for all to agree than in the matter
of prohibiting the sale of “ horns ” that
make brutes of men. The greater the
nuisance the more some will argue that
we have no right to deprive the others
of their natural privileges. Were it not
a fact that the""“ horns ’’men take make
them even lower than brutes, there
would be no occasion for us to try to
prohibit their exercising their natural
privileges. And if the horns on our
cattle were not frequently used for doing
injury to both man and beast, very few
.WQulcLadYOpatg. theirrp.mnya},__'
For several years
nation have been licensing the sale of
“ horns ” that make brutes of men; now
why not allow owners of bulls, by pay­
ing a license fee, to retain their horns,
so if the bull feels like killing his
master or his master’s horse, or his
master’s neighbor, he shall have the.
blessed privilege if his owner is only
willing to pay the license fee, no matter
whether it is-high or low. For myself
I am satisfied men should be prohibited
from buying or taking “ horns ” which
make them go home and kill their wife,
or child, or neighbor, and so far as my
cattle are concerned, I ■wish they had
not a horn on them, I have handled
them both with and without horns and
know they are much easier handled and
do less harm to each other without horns.
Have obtained the consent of my better­
half to dehorn all the male calves
dropped on our place by usiDg caustic
potash on the little horn when the calf
is only eight or ten days old, and I find
it gives excellent satisfaction to pur­
chasers. I hope soon to obtain the con­
sent of my better-half to also dehorn all
the heifer calves dropped on our place;
then we shall have Jerseys without
horns.
If my neighbor prefers to have stock
with horns on and is willing to pay an
enormous license sufficient to cover all
damage done by these same horns, per­
haps he should have the privilege; and
if human beings will sell that which
makes a man kill his family or his neigh­
bor .and our State and nation have a con­
trolling interest in the cursed business,
why not make the whole business re­
sponsible for the damage caused thereby ?
Let us dehorn our cattle and see how
much nicer they behave, and let us feed
the young America on pure, unadulter­
ated Jersey milk instead of soaking them
in beer and see how much better they
behave.
The prospect of a wheat sack shortage
is becoming alarming in Umatilla county.
Soil for Olives.
Clatsop county will have a road con­
vention, called by the Commissioners,
As to the kind of soil in which the
July 28.
olive succeeds,' Ellwood Cooper of Santa
k w * i
( twit *3 ty
v bent of the Circuit Bench, wears no tie without irrigation in black adobe,”dh
with his standing collar.
stony hillsides, on table land with clay
Jackson county’s new Sheriff, Mr. Pat­ subsoil, in shady lands made from the
terson, in giving a $20,000 bond secured wash of the mountains, with no differ­
seventeen signers for small amounts
each instead of ¿he usual two or three ence in the bearing of the trees or the
names.
oil made. They are known to succeed
Two Indians are being tried before where peach, apricot and nectarine trees
Commissioner Irvine on the Siletz reser­ have been destroyed by the black alkali,
vation. They were playing shinny, but and also in land so rocky and steep that
fell out in some some way and beat each it cannot be plowed. Our virgin soils of
other up badly with their sticks.
California are rich in lime and potash,
The salmon industry is getting an­ two of the chief constituents required
other black eye, because the canners are by the olive tree. Prof. Hilgard has
unable to get tin. In places up the Co­ stated that the substance of olive o.il is
lumbia there is an abundance of cans taken entirely from the air, and that if
manufactured, but no tops for them and the crop is made into oil, and pomice
at present no prospect of getting them. and all other offal returned to the land
It is stated that Miss Alice Carson of from the outset, it needs no other manure
Josephine county ran against her lover, if the soil is a fairly good one; it does
Jeff Hayes, in that county for Superin­ not wear out the soil, but if the fruit is.
tendent of Education. And she defeated pickled returns should be made to the
him. She was a Republican, and he was soil, and then potash and nitrogen are
a Populist. It is said Jeff loves her bet­ especially called for. The olive tree
flourishes under varied climatic condi­
ter than ever.
The salmon run at the Cascades is tions ; it will withstand a temperature
something unprecedented in the history of 14 degrees above zero; it succeeds in
of the State. Wheels catch tons every the dry, interior valleys of the State,
day, and the facilities for transportation where the mercury during the summer
over the portage are sorely taxed to af­ often ranges from 100 to 120 degrees in
ford means of shipment. If the rail­ the shade along the coast and on the
road were in operation, there would be high foothills of our mountain ranges.
a large export, trade East, but the slow In Algeria, latitude 35, it thrives at an
carriage by wafer will not admit of very elevation of 4,800 feet above the level of
the sea; in Italy at a height of 3,200 feet
large shipments.
and there is a bearing orchard in about
At the last session of the Linn County the latitude of Pomona situated upward
Grange a resolution was offered asking of 3,000 feet above the sea.—[ California
that the next Legislature make the legal Cultivator.
rate of interest 6 per cent per annum,
and that any person asking a higher rate
of interest than 6 per cent or taking a
New Way of Curing Lemons.
bonus of any kind forfeit the principal
Theodore Pickens of La Canyada sug­
and interest. The question was argued
at considerable length by several mem­ gests a plan for curing lemons which he
bers and finally laid on. the table.
says he has tried successfully and which
An item is going the rounds of the he calls “ the poor man's method.” He
State press that Mr. Wells set out the cuts his lemons from the trees, using all
first hop yard in the State in Polk coun­
ty in 1867. In the following year George the ordinary precautions in handling,
Leasure secured roots from Mr. Wells, puts them in regular fruit boxes, having
and planted a five-acre yard in the bot­ openings at each -end for the purpose of
tom on the east side of Eugene, now handling same. He then places his
within that city’s limits. This yard has boxes on the north side of the house or
been constantly in bearing since that in some shady place where the sun will
year, and in the season of 1893 produced not reach them, and packs five or six
nearly 2,000 pounds to the acre. The boxes high, putting a sack over the top
land overflows nearly every winter, and of each and letting the ends come down
there is practically no wearing out of over the openings at the end so as to
exclude the air and light. About once
the soil. ___ ____ ._______
a week he gives the lemons a shower
Tax on Non-Resident Property.
bath of cold water by inserting the end
L ondon , July 13,—Sir Charles Tupper, of a hose in the openings at the end of
Canadian High Commissioner, sent re­ boxes. He repeats this operation about
a week, or, if the weather is cloudy,
cently to the Marquis of Ripon, Colonial once
so often. He produced some really
Secretary, a letter on the subject of Sir not
fine specimens cured in this way, and
William Harcourt’s proposed State duty, he
says he has kept them six or eight
and the modifications which the Chan­ months.
His Pearmain apples are kept
cellor of the Exchequer had allowed in by this method
until the first of May.
deference to colonial opinion. The pro­
This is, to say the least, a new, and
posed duty would be imposed on the unique
plan, and it might not be amiss
colonial property of persons living in
England. The Ottawa Council thinks for others to try it in a small way. We
would
advise,
however, not using this
the strongest opposition should be made method extensively
until better ac­
to the proposed policy of levying duties
on property in Canada, even after the quainted with the results.—[ Los Angeles
modified plan of the Chancellor of the Journal,
Exchequer.
POULTRY NOTES.
Canadian Cattle.
L ondon , July 13.—It was announced
in the House that the government had
concluded it would be impossible for the
present to dispense with the requirement
that all Canadian cattle be slaughtered-
at the port of landing on arrival. It was
also announced that only two of the cat­
tle examined by experts employed by
the commission of the Board of Agri­
culture had been found to be infected
with contagious pleuro-pneumonia. The
Colonia] Secretary’s reply to the recent
inquiry of Mr. Vincent stated that the
combined expense of Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, Cape Colony and Natal
was £11,250,000 annually.
It requires twenty-three to twenty-six
days to hatch pheasant eggs.
A hen in her prime, when properly
fed and cared for, should yearly furnish
three times her weight in eggs.
A chick of one the larger breeds
hatched in the incubator until the twen­
ty-second day indicates that the temper­
ature of the egg drawer was a trifle too
low.
Eggs from hens not in company with
cocks have been found to keep very much
longer than those from hens mated with
cocks. In summer, after hatching is
over, remove the males, as the hens will
lay as well without them,