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NEWS OF THE WORLD.
An Interesting Collection of Item! BTom
the Two Hemisphere. Presented in
Condensed Form A Large Amount
of Information in a Small Bpaoe. ' i
Irving Flemming committed suioide,
by cutting his throat with a razor, at
Woodburn, Or. .
The entire family of Jaoob Jaoodi
was asphyxiated in his farmhouse,
near Niles Center, 111., by gas from a
coal stove. .
Bill Nye, the famous humorist, died
at his home in Asheville, N. C, from
a paralytio stroke.
Daniel Galenoia, residing near Spo
kane, killed himself by shooting him
self through the heart -
A large amount of spurious coin in
the shape of 60-oent and $1 pieces has
been found to be in circulation at
Wenatohee, Wash.
The president has signed the bill ex
tending the operation of the mineral
land laws to the north half of the Col
ville Indian reservation.
At a meeting of Irish-Americans
held in New York, resolutions were
adopted demanding the release of all
political prisoners oonfined in English
jails. , '
E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of the
United States district court, was shot
and killed by his son, Robert Camp
bell, in Nashville, Tenn. Young
Campbell has been regarded as men
tally unsound.
Seven people were asphyxiated, one
fatally hurt by jumping from a win
dow, and five ; others more or less in
jured by fire in the residence of James
R. Arminger, a prominent jeweler of
Baltimore, Md.
The monitor Monadnock has been
formally placed in commission at
Mare-island navy yard, San Franoisoo.
The Monadnock - was oummenced
twelve yeais ago, and has dragged
along at intervals. Navy offloers say
she is now a most powerful battleship
and able to hold her own against any
thing that floats. . .
State Senator Guy, of New York,
lias prepared a bill whioh will be pre
sented to the legislature very soon
-whioh authorizes the oity to purchase
and remove the Edgar Allen Foe cot
tage. The bill provides for an appro
priation of 50,000, whioh sum, it is
estimated, will oover all expenses.
The , Chioago Post's Washington
special says that on authority of a
gentleman who enjoys the personal
confidence of the president as fully as
any one, the statement is made that if
congress adjourns without currency
legislation along the lines suggested
by Mr. Cleveland, he will call a special
session and f oroe the issue upon the
oountry as being the one question of
paramount importance.
James Fitzgerald was banged at St
Louis for the murder of his sweet
heart, Annie Nessens, on the night of
November 24, 1898. The rope broke
and the viotim lay struggling on the
ground beneath the gallows. The
doctors found Fitzgerald still oon
scions. Stimulants were given and he
revived. A new rope was sent for and
an hour later the sick and trembling,
but very nervy victim, was again taken
to the scaffold. This time there was
no hitch.
Despite the bad roads travel has al
ready oommenoed to the Nez Feroe
reservation and it is estimated that
1,500 white settlers will be on their
claims before June. The new city of
Nez Perce is already the soene of ao
tive business operations. A new stage
and mail line will be in operaion by
April 1 from this plaoe, which will
give direct communication with the
terminus of the Spokane & Palonse
branoh of the Northern Paoifio railroad.
Under the new postal appropriation
ill the secret inspection of letter car
ters by special agents will be stopped.
The bill provides instead, that there
shall be thirty additional postomoe in'
speotors, who shall be assigned to the
free delivery ; servioe exclusively.
While these men will be nominally un
der the authority of the fourth assist
ant postmaster-general, they will be
subject to the orders of the first assist
ant and the superintendent of the free
delivery servioe. They will devote
their time exclusively to the inspection
of the free-delivery servioe, and will
pursue the same methods pursued by
the special agents. '
At Ellis island, in New York har
bor, the immigration committee of the
house will take evidence bearing on
the administration of existing immi
gration laws. The committee will
witness the landing of two shiploads
of immigrants. A general consulta
tion on the subjeot of immigration and
the class of immigrants will be held
with the government inspectors at El
lis island with a view to learning
more about the workings of the exist
ing laws. It is generally oonoeded
that if any immigration law is passed
by the present oongress it will be the
Lodge bill now pending before the sen
ate, which provides for a strict educa
tional test, in addition to the restric
tion of present laws.
A man and a boy 20 years old, were
lynohed by a mob in Wiohita, Kan.,
for bank robbery and murder reoently
oommitted in that town.
The Amerioan ship William G.
Davis, from Philadelphia for San Fran
oisoo, to inaugurate the new line of
clippers around the Horn from the lat
ter port to the Atlantio seaboard, has
been lost at sea.
Senator Dubois says the silver Re
publicans of the Northwest will per
mit no tariff legislation in this con
gress or any other that does not recog
nize free silver, and the same issue
will be raised in the St. Loius conven
tion. Five hundred lithographers struck
in New York to enforoe the recogni
tion of their organization and the abo
lition of the piecework system. The
action of the New York branoh is ex
pected to precipitate strikes forthwith
in all large cities.
Rolla O. Heikes, of Dayton, O.,
champion target shot of the world, has
made another sensational record. In
an exhibition at Indianapolis he broke
100 targets, continuous shooting, in 4
minutes and 20 seoonds, whioh makes
a new world's reoord.
The withdrawal of Commander and
Mrs. Booth from the Salvation Army
has oreated a commotion in the Phila
delphia branoh of the army. The sol
diers are aroused and talk of enlisting
in a big seoession from European head
quarters is heard in every Salvation
hall in that oity.
In a fit of rage Jaoob Dietzel, of Chi
cago, aged 68, shot his daughter, Mrs. -Henry
Obner, and then himself, infliot-
ing fatal wounds. He was onoe in
prosperous oircumstances, but of late
has been dependent upon his children
for support, and their frequent oom
plaints, it is said, were ' the oause of
the crime.
It is reported in Constantinople that,
February 14, the first day of the Ram
adan festival, the ' Turks surrounded
the Armenian quarters in Marsovan and
ordered the Armenians to aocept Islam.
Five hundred of them agreed to do so,
but 150 reoalcitrants were killed. A
fresh series of massaores is reported in
the Sivas and Kharpoot districts.
The Paris Politique Coloniale pub
lishes an alleged telegram from the
Frenoh consular agent in Brazil, Re
porting that oonfliots have taken plaoe
in the disputed territory of Amapa, be
tween Frenoh Guiana and Brazil. It
is added that the Frenoh troops half
destroyed Amapa after losing 100
killed and wounded, including four
offloers.
; George Grant, a pioneer resident of
Grass Valley, CaL, 70 years of age,
was blown up by giant powder. He
was using the powder to blow up some
willows and leaned over to see why it
did not go off, when he got the full
oharge in the face. One eye was blown
out and the other badly injured, his
lip terribly laoerated and his left arm
badly injured. He will probably sur
vive. ' '
Henry Cottrell, of Edinburgh, Ind.,
died after several weeks illness, of
softening of the brain, due to excessive
oigarette smoking. A post-mortem ex
amination was held, ' and ' a peculiar
oondition was discovered. The peri
cardial sack was enlarged until it held
about a gallon of water, and the heart
was abnormally contracted. A fatty
growth had also formed, and both the
lungs and spleen were enlarged and
weakened by the disease.
. Havana advices aver that the ' Cu
bans will retaliate on the Spaniards for
their slaughter of suspects by using
dynamite. A manifesto signed by the
Cuban revolutionary party has been
found scattered through Havana set
ting forth that from five to ten of the
suspects oonfined in the Caballas were
being shot nightly, and that the Cu
bans would retaliate by destroying
Spanish residences and places of busi
ness by dynamite.
THE PACIFIC STATES
GLEANINGS FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE NORTHWEST.
News of Towns and Counties in the
Growing; Stated of Oregon, 'Washing
ton, Idaho and Montana Condensed
for Bust Readers Oregon.
The carshops at La Grande are being
thoroughly overhauled and repaired.
A quantity of finishing lumber was
washed up on the beaoh between Cape
Lookout and the Nestucca river last
week. ,
The power-house for Forest Grove's
electric light plant is about completed
and the builidng is ready to receive
the machinery.
Marshfield's fine new public sahool
building was opened for use last week,
and the people are delighted with the
plans and the work. .
It is proposed by the Catholios of The
Dalles to build, during the early part
of 1897, a magniiioent churoh build
ing, the cost ol which is to be $13,000
to 15, 000.
Farmers in Sherman county are said
to be hauling seed wheat from the rail
road to their farms, they having sold
too mnoh wheat last fall, not leaving
themselves enough for seed.
.It is expected that work on the Rat
tlesnake road in Wasco county will be
gin next week. A petition will be
presented to the county court April 10
to open the Gordon ridge approach.
A pocket of rioh ore was struck in
the Old Tom Payne mine, in the Poca
hontas district in Eastern Oregon.
About ten years ago a ' pocket was
found in the mine from which $12,000
was taken in one week. t
A drive of 100,000 feet of logs has
been received at the Dilley sawmill.
The mill will start up soon and 400,-
000 feet of logs will be brought down
before the water is too low. The logs
are from Pat ton's valley.
A Tillamook dairyman has made an
experimental shipment of butter to
China. Under perfect conditions, the
butter was landed in fair snape, " and
was sold so as to realize a better figure;
than if marketed at home. .-- if '
The board of directors of Milton
have deoided to continue the school
two months longer than was Originally
intended. This will make affuU ight
months' term, the longest held by any
town in Umatilla county this year.
The Paoifio Express Company and
the O. R. N. Co. have offered a re
ward of $50 for the arrest and convic
tion of the men who robbed the agent
at Heppner. This, with the sheriff's
offer, makes the reward offered $100.
All the logging camps of the- Grand
Ronde Lumber Company up the river
from La Grande have been olosed
down. The river is gradually rising,
and it is probable that the spring log
driye will be oommenoed in a short
time.
Word has been reoeived from Bel
gium, says the Pendleton East Ore-
ognian, that Polydor Moens, wno
shipped cavalry horses from Umatilla
county to that country, has closed his
accounts and finds that he has lost
money on the deal.
The board of regents of the state
normal school at Weston held a meet
ing last week and aooepted the bid of
Gibson '& Cole to do the oarpenter work
for the sum of $632. The work in
question is the building of a lady's hall
addition to the sohool . building at
Weston. .
The Williams brothers are prepar
ing to build two boats on the Snake
river, near Ontario. A large pump,
twelve inohes in diameter, and an
engine of 100 horse power to run the
pump will be put in one of the boats.
The other will be a tug, used for haul
ing supplies.
Washington.
There will be a jury term of court
in Kittitas county, beginning March 10.
Silas Fisher has sued Spokane for
$15,000 for injuries received from driv
ing into a ditch.
The new ferry at the Blockhouse
crossing over the Chehalis river has
been oompleted.
Mr. Bovee is'expeoted soon in Oakes
dale to start the oreamery, which that
town has so long labored to get ' under
way. ....
Charles Gray, of Entiat, is making
arrangements to put in oomplete box
making machinery at the Entiat mills
this spring.
Many of the farmers of Kittitas
county pay four and five cents a pound
for beans, instead of raising enough
for home consumption.
The annual report of the state board
of dental examiners shows that certifi
cates have been issued to 109 practi
tioners during the year.
Albert Lund says that he has run out
about 1,000,000 feet of logs from
upper Gray's river, in Cowlitz county
this winter, of which about 800,000
feet were of spruoe. ;
The Kirby Hightower lumber mill,
two miles from Sedro, was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss is estimat
ed at $2,500, with no insurance. The
mill, it is said, will be rebuilt at onoe.
The " Snake River Fruitgrowers'
Association has leased the fruit farms
on Snake river to J. B. Tabor for a
number of years. The consideration is
$2,500 for the first year and $500 addi
tional or each successive year.
The bee industry in the oounties near
Whatoom is a flourishing one, and is
rapidly growing. Last year nearly a
thousand hives were sold in Whatoom,
and an order of 500 hives is just being
finished up for a local dealer.
Twenty thousand pounds of hops
were sent from Tacoma to Vancouver,
B. C. , to be shipped to Australia by a
Canadian-Australian steamship.. This
is the second shipment to Australia
from Tacoma of last year's crop. .
The present season promises to be a
very lively one for Castle Rook and
vicinity. Already extensive prepara
tions are being made to put in opera
tion all the shingle and saw mills at
an early date that have been shut down
the past year or so, and other indus
tries are talked of.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Snohomish was recently held and reso
lutions adopted condemning the aotion
of the oity council in refusing to revoke
the license of the Gold Leaf saloon, al
though a petition for such abolition,
signed by 670 citizens, had been pre
sented to the council asking for such
aotion.
Captain L. M. Lambert, aid-de-oamp
to the commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and" instruct
or of military soienoe in the publio
schools for Washington and Alaska,
has issued a circular to all county
sohool superintendents and principals
of publio schools in towns of 5,000
inhabitants or over, setting forth the
benefits to pupils of sohool drill.
J. Williams, the Indian who was
convicted of murder in the seoond de
gree for killing another Indian near
the British line in Skagit county, has
been reoeived at the Walla Walla peni
tentiary for fifteen years. This is
the oase in which an appeal was taken
to the supreme court, beoause it was
claimed the state courts had no juris
diction over the Indian. ,
At the reoent examination of teach
ers at Colfax, forty-six applicants pre
sented themselves. Onlv forty-one
completed the examinations, and of
these but twenty-one succeeded in pass
ing well enough to teach. The greatest
stumbling blook, as usual, was the test
branches, arithmetic and grammar, al
though the auuestions on theory ana
practioe were extremely difficult. .
Idaho.
George T. Murray, of Cottonwood,
Idaho county, has been granted an
original pension. . . ;
The star mail service between Gran-
geville and Raymond will be increased
to three times a week from March 2.
At a largely attended meeting held
in Wardner, $1,000 was subscribed,
and work will soon be oommenoed
building a new ohuroh for the Metho
dists. - Farmers have commenced plowing
in Juliaetta. A larger percentage of
grain will be ' sown than last year,
due to the advance in the prioe of
wheat : Flax will be the prinoipal
crop on the reservation. , ; "'
A large number of sheep are being
fed in the vioinity of Lewiston. C.
Thiesen, James Madden and Riggs
Bros, all have large bunohes aggregat
ing 2,500 head, that they are fattening
for the spring market Riggs Bros,
sold last week a carload at 8a oents.
This is considered a good sale. :
Parties are building a steamboat in
Lewiston for use on the rivers in a big
mining scheme, representing an invest
ment of $30,000. The craft will be
fitted with a sixty horsepower engine
for motive 1 power, and a forty horse
power engine for operating mining ma
chinery, with a hydraulic apparatus,
appliances for crushing quartz, assay
ing ore and separating flour gold from
black sand.
Montana..''
A party of leasers have started work
on the Stevens mine again. They are
sinking a new shaft near the gulch.
There is little question but that the
new light aoetylene will beoome the
popular illuminant The shares in the
new oompany recently incorporated in
Butte have about all been taken up by
citizens of that oity, and it is expected
that consumers of the new light will
soon be supplied.
The completion of the new concen
trating plant of the Montana Ore Pur
chasing Company is being rapidly
pushed ahead. Already several of the
vanners and jigs are running. This
plant when completed will be capable
of handling 600 tons of ore daily. New
boilers are also being added in order
to furnish the increase of power re
quired for the new plant -
If all reports are true Helena is to be
turned into a mining camp as the re
cent discoveries of copper there would
indicate that the find is of more than
ordinary merit. Years ago the claim
was abandoned, but was again looated
on January 1, as " '96." United States
Marshal MoDermott has secured an
option on the find and will no doubt
work It, as the assays show great
values in silver and copper.
OLDER COLTS WANTED
NO CALL FOR LESS THAN FIVE
V YEAR-OLDS.
High-Priced Horses Produced by Care
ful Handling and -Good Driving
Management of Manure Butter Ra
tionsMiscellaneous. The horse market calls for greater
age than formerly. A few years since
our draft colts were largely sold at
three years old; now, in common with
roadsters, there is little call for them
younger than five years old, and the
best markets require six years. From
three years old until sold they should
"work for their board" upon and
around the farm. This can easily be
aooomplished with the draft colt, but
the production of a salable carriage
horse calls for finer work than is fur
nished upon many farms. ' If a high
priced horse is produoed it will be the
result of careful handling and good
driving, for this horse must be good
mannered and kindly disposed as well
as attractive. The very nature of the
conditions and surroundings requisite
to the production of first-olass car
riage horses will long stand in the way
of an over-supply. This is a charmed
circle within which not all should seek
to enter. This position is taken by a
noted breeder and it is correot.
Corn and Cob Meal vs. Cornmeal.
The question is often asked as to
whioh is the more valuable food, corn
and cob ground together or cornmeal
alone. . Considerable experimental
feeding has been conducted to throw
light on this question, and very gen
erally, says Indiana Corn Culture, the
information seoured favors the grind
ing of the oorn and cob together. It is
assumed that the pure meal packs in
the digestive organs and is not so read
ily permeated by the digestive fluids as
in the oorn and cob meal, the cob mak
ing the mass more porous.
At the Maine Eexperiment station
Jordan fed two lots of pigs eighty-one
days, one receiving corn and cob meal,
the other pure meal. There was but
little difference in the gain made by
eaoh lot Shelton at the Kansas sta
tion found that it required 650 pounds
of oorn and oob meal to make 100
pounds of gain when fed to pigs, while
it required 670 pounds of pure meal to
make an equal gain. . In a steer-feeding
experiment Professor Shelton also
seoured results favorable to the use of
the cob with the corn.
: Management of Manure.
Unless very careful provision is made
for conserving the fertility in farm
manures', it is far better under ordin
ary circumstances to draw them direot
ly from the stables during winter on
pastures, meadows or fields whioh will
be devoted to corn the coming year.
Spread thinly from the wagon. Cir
cumstances and kinds of crops raised,
must to a limited extent, indicate
when, where and how to apply man
ures, but a good rule to keep in mind
is to spread thinly and evenly on the
surfaoe in the fall and early winter
where plants . are growing. , This is
nature's method of utilizing her waste
vegetable products. It is seldom a
good plan to plow manure under imme
diately after it is spread. That whioh
is put upon the fields in the fall will
have largely lost its fertilizing Constit
uents by spring. They will then be
found in the soil or stored up in plant
roots ready for the coming season. It
will do them no harm to plow under
the corpse, since the spirit has largely
departed. Sinoe all the manure cannot
be applied in the best possible manner
on aooount of season and . conditions,
it is well to preserve as far as possible
that made in the latter part of the win
ter and spring until - September, when
it will be fairly fine. It can then be
spread on the fresh plowed land and
harrowed in preparatory to seeding to
wheat or rye, or it may be spread evenly
over grass lands.
Butter Rations.
Professor Sanborn, speaking of prao
tioal butter rations says: Early out
hay, out from ground drained by na
ture or by art, nice, sweet fodder,
bright clover hay with the leaves all
saved, sound oorn-meal and a few car
rots will make the best butter in
amount, aroma and texture. Bran
will out down the quantity and quality
of the butter, especially if given in
large quantities. I speak of it as a
substitute for oornmeal. There is no
substitute for fine ground oorn-meal,
not crushed, but flour of corn. The
energy of cows must be turned to milk
production and not to oorn-grinding,
nor to carrying two pounds of oorn to
digest one with, its interference with
digestion. We cannot afford to grind
80 cent oorn for steers, but for cows
we can. Oats will not give the oolor
to the butter that corn will, while the
oil meals give a less desirable oolor and
poorer texture. A small amount of
ootton-seed meal is favorable to quan
tity if a lagre amount of corn fodder is
given, and in small amounts not cen
surable. Two to three pounds a day is
all that I would desire, while ten
pounds of meal in total is enough
grain. .
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth Ses
sionSenate. Washington, Feb. 27. After th
senate had disposed of much routine
business, Morrill, ' chairman of the
finance committee, immediately fol
lowed with a distinot surprise in ' the
form of a resolution to take up the
tariff bill. Morrill began with a brief
statement as to the complications in
the tariff bill. He said it had been ap
parent for many months that there was
a deficiency in the revenues. During
every month since the present tariff
bill went into effect, there had been a
defloienoy. "How was it before?"
asked CockrelL Morrill went on to
state that the deficiency up to this
time reaohed $20,000, 00. If we went
on at the same rate, the deficiency
would be $30,000,000 for the year. It
was certainly manifest that oongress
should do something to relieve the '
treasury and assist in the renewal of
business. Therefore he moved that the
senate proceed to consideration on the
tariff bill. The roll-call was taken
and the motion was defeated, 22 to 83.
It was not unexpected, in view of the
vote some days ago.
Washington, Feb. 29. A stirring
speech by Vest on behalf of Cuba was
the event of today in the senate. It
oame unexpectedly, as Vest seldom an
nounces his speeches or makes prepara
tions. The senate had agreed that the
final vote on the Cuba resolutions
would Jbe taken at 4 P. M. Monday,
and the debate was proceeding, White
and Gray contending as a legal propo
sition that the United States could not.
at this time, reoognize Cuba's inde
pendence. This aroused Vest, first to
questions of remonstrance, and then
to one of the bursts of eloquence with
which he, at times, electrifies the sen-v
ate. He spoke of Spain as the tooth
less old wolf who had lost, one by one,
her litter, and was still clinging to
the single remaining cub. He pictured
Spain as the impotent giant Despair of
the "Pilgrim's Progress," gazing on
defeat. In impassioned words he
made an apotheosis of liberty of rare
beauty and fervor, adding with ringing
emphasis, that the Cuban patriots
would never, never, never, again be
come the unwilling subjects of Spain.
House.
Washington, Feb. 28. The house !
today in committee of the whole, after
a very interesting debate, by a vote of
93 to 64, deoided that none of the ap
propriations in the Indian appropria
tion bill for Indian schools should go
to the sectarian sohools. The only
sectarian schools to whioh money now
goes are Roman Catholio in denomina
tion, and the fight today was lead by
Linton, a Michigan Republican, who .
is the most pronounced and openly
avowed A. P. A. member on . the floor.
In last year's appropiration bill the
amount was cut down 28 per cent,
with the understanding that it should
be reduoed 20 per cent each year until
it ceased, at the end of five years. The
committee on Indian affairs this year
resolved that this appropriation be re
duoed 20 per cent, but Linton moved
an amendment that no portion of this
appropriation should go to sectarian '
schools.
Washington, Feb. 27. The house to
day passed the Indian appropriation
bill, the sixth of the thirteen general
appropriation bills, and sent it to the
senate. . The house' also passed without
debate the Dingley bill, authorizing
the secretary of the treasury to take .
and kill the Alaskan seal herds, if a
modus vivendi oannot be oonoluded be
fore the opening of the present season
for the protection of the seals, pending
negotiations for permanent protection
to the herds with the countries inter
estde. The Van Horne-Tarsney con
tested election oase, from the fifth Mis
souri district, oooupied the remainder
of the afternoon session.
Washington, Feb. 29. At 5 o'clock
this afternoon an ex-member of the
house became a member, and a member
became an ex-member. Suoh . was the
result of a three days' debate in the
house on the Van Horne-Tarsney con
tested election case. The vote by whioh
the Democrat lost his seat and by
which it was given to the Republioan
contestee was 112 to 164, eighteen Re
publicans joining with the Democrats
to the majority. The report of the '
committee on foreign affairs, . submit
ting resolutions on the Cuban question,
was then presented, but, upon objec
tion of Boutelle, went over without ao
tion. At 5:16 the house adjourned.
The house committee on judiciary,
after a long conference with Attorney
General Harmon and Major Strong, of
the department of justice, . today au
thorized a favorable report of Repre
sentatives Updegraff's bill to abolish
the fee system as to United States dis
trict attorneys and marshals, and to
substitute salaries.
Clyde Fogle, a member of the junior
class in the university of Oregon, has
received the seoond prize offered by the
Amerioan Institute of Sacred Litera
ture for excellence in New Testamont
Greek. All the colleges of the world
were represented in this competition.
Mr. Fogle has reoeived all his instruc
tion in Greek in the university of Ore
gon.' The value of the prize is $50.
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