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Yamhill County Reporter D. I. ASBIKY, M c M innville ....... e^1- 1 — ” Publisher. ............ OREGON THE NEWS Of THE WEEK Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening* of the Fast WeeJk Culled From the Telegraph Columns. There seems to be an idea in Paris that Japan will make trouble for the United States by surreptitiously aiding the Filipinos. Many of the recently disbanded Cali fornia volunteers are enlisting in the regular army, being desirous of going to the Philippines. The controller of the currency has is sued a call for reports of the condition of all national banks at the close of business February 4. It is reported that theexceutive com mittee of the Cuban assembly wiill call Gomez to account for accepting the proposition from this government rela tive to disbanding the Cuban army. A freight train on the O. K. & N. was wrecked near Corbett, Or., by running into a landslide. The fire man and a tramp were injured. Fifteen cars were piled up in a heap. Duke d’Arcos, formerly Spanish minister to Mexico is likely to be legis lated by the Madrid government as its minister to Washington to exohange the ratifications of the treaty of peace. Wolff & Zwicker, the Portland ship builders, propose to build a floating dry-dock capable of raising a 5,000-ton vessel, providing the state of Oregon or the city of Portland will guarantee bonds to the amount of (260,000. It is reported from Washington that the war investigating committee will severely criticise Genera) Miles on his conduct during the late war with Spain. The committee will report that Miles* statement about chemically prepared beef is not sustained by any evidence before the committee. Four happy Dawsonites passed through Skagway recently with a can vas sack of Yukon gold that weighed 100 pounds dead neiglit, and which came from French gulch diggings on Eldorado creek. They are all Canadian citizens and first came to Alaska dur ing the popular Klondike rush of De cember, 1807. The steamer Moana Loa, which has arrived at San Francisco, brings infor mation from Honolulu that it has been definitely determined that the wreck on the Kahala coast was the four-mast ed steamer Nomad, Captain McAllep, which sailed from Shanghai for Puget sound in ballast 10 months ago. The vessel was a new one, and belonged to Hall Bros., of San Francisco. Captain McAllep was accompanied on the trip bv his wife, daughter and three sone. Al) are undoubtedly lost. The battleship Iowi. lias arrived nt San Francisco. It is expected she will be sent to Manila with supplies for Dewey. The American losses in killed and wounded in the recent battle nt Ma nila, is officially given at 260, and the losses of the insurgents at 4,000. Gen. Gomez will arrive in Havana in a few days, where he will meet Sen ator Proctor, and aid in carrying out his promise to disband the Cuban army. In the New York assembly a resolu tion urging the unseating of Congress man-elect Roberts, because of his iden tification with polygamy, was adopted by a viva voce vote. The government forces defeated and captured the Colorados, who recently revolted against Senor Cuestes, the provisional president of Uruguay. Tranquility is now restoied. Agonolllo, the representative of the •o-called Filipino government, and who left thia country for Canada, upon hear ing of the outbreak at Manila is being closely watched by secret service de tectives. Agoncillo was in Montreal nt last reports. Mrs. Botkin’s attorneys have given notice of an appeal from the conviotion and sentence of lite imprisonment re cently passed upon her. Judge Carroll Cook allowed 10 days* stay of execu tion, and 20 days in which to prepare • bill of exceptions. President McKinley has pronounced sentence on Gen. Eagan, recently tried by court-martial. The sentence was dismissal from the army, but the presi dent commoted this to suspension for • ix years, which covers the time prior to Eagan’s retirement in 1005. The steamers Justin and Celtic, now at Mare island, are be*ng overhauled, and in a few days will be ready to sail for the Philippines, following the sup ply vessel Centennial, which left on the 6th. The Justin will carry coal for the fleet and the Celtic frozen moat. Rear Admiral Dewey has captured aqother schooner from Hong Kong load ed with arms and ammunition intended for the insurgents in the Philippines. It is reported that the German consul at Hong Kong was concerned in the piocuring and dispatch of the arms to the islands. Minor Ntwi Items. The town of Stileeboro, Ga., was nearly wiped out of existence recently by a tornado. No lives were lost, but several people were injured. There is trouble is sight for all the Chinese in the United States, resulting from the total disappearance of Chinese who were admitted to ths country in ordei to take patt in the trana-Missis- eippi exposition. Inspector James Hone, of the government set vice, is in vestigating tbs situation. LATER NEW3. Gen. Brooke cables from Havana an nouncing the death of Captain Oliver Petty Smith, commissary, from acute nephritis. Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and Will Johnson, CollinB <ointy farmers, were frozen to death l-aturday night near Dallas Tex. The senate has passed a bill creating the office of admiral of the navv. Rear-Admiral Dewey, it is understood, will be named for the position. On Monday an ocean liner in dis tress was sighted off Dread ledge, in Swampscott bay, Mass. The lite-sav ing crew could not reach her on ac count of the ice. The outbreak at Manila lias enliven ed business at the United States re cruiting office in Portland. Nineteen more men mustered out of the Eighth California were enlisted last week. The senate has confirmed the nomi nation of C. J. Bell, assistant secre tary of the treasury, and that of Lieu tenant-Colonel F. M. Coxe, to be as sistant paymaster-general of the army. The army and navy captured llo Ilo, the second city of importance in the Philippines Saturday, without the loss of an Ametican soldier. The Pet rel and Baltimore shelled the city, which forced the insurgents to evacu ate. Otis wires the war department a list of deaths in his command since Febru ary 4, not including those of men killed in action. They number nine. Among the names appear those of Private Dan iel Kyger and W. Chopwood. First Washington, and Michael P. Crowley, Second Oregon. Speaker Reed was not at the capitol Monday, and sent word he thought it advisable to adjourn on account of the storm. Less than a hundred membeis were present, and those who braved the storm refused to adjourn, and went on with consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. There is reported a serious hitch in the work of the Anglo-American com mission. The obstacle is said to be a demand made by the Canadian com mission for the cession of the town of Skagway, Alaska. The American com missioners have definitely refused to ceded that gateway to the Yukon. Terrible blizzards swept over the South, East and Middle West Sunday and Monday. The winds went so high on the Atlantio seaboard that ocean steamships were storm-bound in the harbors. Nine big Atlantio liners due at New York Saturday had not put in their appearance Monday, Intense cold accompanied the storm and much suffering is reported. The cold wave extends from the Atlantic to Western Texas The Spanish government has decided not to sell the Caroline islands. The secretary of war has given orders for the mustering out of the Third regi ment of immunes, now stationed at Santiago and vicinity. The fortifications appropriation bill, as it will be recommended by tiie com mittee, carries (4,744,798, as against estimates of (12,151,198. It is said the administration will uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at Apia, in his selection of Malietoa Tan- ue as king of the Samoan islands. The secretary of war reports that sickness in some of the American regi ments in the Philippines is high as 17 per cent, but the average is about 10 per cent. The îeport of the war investigating commission is in the hands of the pres ident, and the commission is dissolved. During the investigation 500 witnesses were examined. Many accounts of deaths from freez ing are reported from the East. At Bloomington, Ind., J. W. Hinkle, who has served several terms as sheriff, was frozen to death while going to his home. Near Dayton, O., Martin Duftin- ger suffered a like fate while feeding bis hogs. The Filipino junta at Hong Kong has issued a statement in which it is claimed that the American soldiers precipitated the recent battle at Ma nila, and that the liouibardment of the towns of Malate, Paco, Santa Ana and Malalain caused the slaughter of 4,000 women ami children. A contract has been let for two 12.- 000-ton steamships for the Pacific Mail steamship Co. They will be the larg est so far built at an American ship yard, their dimensions being greater than those of the American liners St. Louis and St. Paul. They are to ply between San Francisco and China. The supreme military court, of Spain, winch has had under considera tion the loss of the Spanish squadron at Santiago de Cuba on July 8 last, has decided to prosecute, in connection with the disaster, Admiral Cervera and Commandant Emilio Dias de Moten, ex-captain of the destroyed cruiser Cristobal Colon. Chinese re la'Is are raiding Christian churches and driving out missionaries. At Chang Yang and Liechuan the Ro man Catholic chapels have been burned and the houses of the native church members have been destroyed. Several hundred children under the care of the Roman Catholics, ate raid to have been drowned by the laiders near Kueifu. A fatal head-end collision occurred at Imlay City, Mich., on the Chicago S Grand Trunk railtoad, in which four persona were killed and seven were in jured. II. C. Judson, industrial agent of the O. K. <t N., returned from Buffalo Hump, Idaho, confirms the news of a wonderfully rick strike on the Cracker Jack claim, owned by Rufus Hawley, Flint A Co. The assays ate the high est ever seen in that country, running • 2,309.55 in gold and (40.35 in silver SALEM LEGISLATURE. The Bill to Fix Interest on Loans From School Fund Recommitted—The State Fair Appropriation. In the Oregon senate Wednesday the vote was reconsidered by which the bill to reduce interest on loans from the state school fund was passed Tuesday in order that the rate might be fixed absolutely at 6 per cent, the bill as passed authorizing 8 per cent if it could be obtained. It was deemed an objec tion to leave tile matter open to pos sible brokerage arrangements. The bill was recommitted for amendment. Dufui’s bill to extend the privileges of the Soldeirs’ Home to the wives and widows of old soldiers was lost, receiv ing only six votes. The following bills were passed: To reduce the salary of the Wasco county judge to (800 ami that of the treasurer to (600; to do away with the necessity of personal service or posting notice in case of attachment of real property; to create the office of recorder of convey ances for Polk county at a salary of (1,000 per year; to provide the man ner of releasing sureties who may bo- come dissatisfied with their risk; to provide that surety companies may sign bonds; to cure defects in certain deeds and judicial sales; to amend the law so as to retsrict credits to the sheriff on the tax list charged against him. State Fair Appropriation Knocked Out. The Wednesday forenoon session ol the house was devoted largely to reports of committees and first reading of bills. Twenty-seven committees made reports ami 58 bills were reported on. The principal business to occupy the time of the house in the afternoon was the consideration of the general appro priation bill. The house went into committee of the whole and the various items were taken up one at a time. The most important item knocked out was the state fair appropriation, by a vote of 29 to 20. Other bills passed were: To pro hibit the manufacture ami sale of adul terated commercial fertilizers; to authorize county courts to levy a spe cial tax of 10 mills and a road poll tax of (2 for the road fund; to prohibit the sale of deer and deer hides from August 1 to December 1; to give laborers in mines and supply agents furnishing supplies a lien on mining property for claims; to change the time of court terms in the second district; to fix sal aries of county judges and to place the clerk of the supreme court upon a sal ary o f (8 ,000 and give him two depu ties at (76 aud (50 per month respec tively. In the Oregon senate Thursday, Harmon’s registration bill was passed bv unanimous vote. The merits of the bill were discussed at length on Mitchell’s motion to recommit which finally received only his own vote. In debate the expressions were generally unfavorable to the Hill bill, which passed the house a few days ago by a decisive vote. The pure food bill passed the senate bv a unanimous vote. There was no Objection to the main feature of the bill, but a slight amendment was made so as to exempt from making an nual reports persons selling less than 25 pounds of butter weekly; specifying the number and the pay of employee of the legislature, including committee clerks, was passed without discussion, only six voting against it. Other bills passed were to incor porate Eugene, Carleton, Burns, Prine ville ar.d Canby, the two last named being house bills. Daly School Law. Two important measures came before the Oregon senate Friday, and neither reached a vote. Amendments to the Daly school law were discussed for half an hour, and the matter being difficult to understand, ill its present form, the entire bill was ordered printed again with amendments. The bill to encourage the use of wide- tire wagons on public roads was passed. The bill to repeal the section appropri ating (5.000 for the state fair was dis cussed half an hour and then made a special order for Wednesday morning. The pure linseed-oil bill was lost, 18 to 11; the bill providing for the Torrens system of registering land titles passed with only three negative votes; the bill for an irreducible school fund in Doug las oounty passed without question; the bill to reduce the salaries of the oounty clerk, clerk of the circuit court and recorder in Multnomah county from (3. 500 to (2,500 each was passed. New bills were introduced as fol lows: To authorize the state school land board to contract loans now out at 6 per cent interest for the future; to provide for the appointment of three supreme court commissioners. BANQUET STOPS BUSINESS. TEXT-BOOK BILL. It Wai Temporarily Defeated Houte. in the The Olympia Solon. Adjourn to Dine tilth Senator-Elect Foster. In the Oregon house Monday the Daly bill for a text-book commission failed by three votes to pass, but a mo tion for reconsideration was cariied by a dectsive majority. The greater part of the day was taken up in discussion of the bill. The anti-crimping bill, which was referred to the Multnomah delegatior. last week, was reported back to the house and referred to the committee ou commerce. The afternoon session was gtven up to the consideration of charter bills, the following being passed: Michell, Dalles Citv and Moro; Kelly, Browns ville and Lebanon; Smith, Burns; Howe, Carlton; Proebstel, Weston; Dufur, Dufur; Fordnev, Enterprise. Gray secured the passage of a resolu tion authorizing the secretary of state to give each member ami officer of the house a copy of the session laws of 1893, aud a history of the e_r’y Indian wars. Th» following bills were passed: To protect salmon in Alsea bay and its tributaries; to create the office of clerk of the justice court in cities of 50,000 population or over; to authorize Mult nomah county to lease the upper deck of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company's bridge; to provide for the Hale of tidelands; revision of the laws relating to negotiable instruments; to protect salmon in Rogue river; to reor ganize the state board of horticulture; to protect salmon in Curry county; to provide for the creation of park com missions in cities of 3,000 population or over; to require county clerks to ad minister oaths without charge in pen sion matters. Kuykendall’s bills to provide for county elections and upon the running at large of stock, and Cameron's bill to prohibit the running at large of certain animals, were defeated. The house concurred in the senate amendments to the Curtis fish hatch ery bill, reducing the amount of the appropriation from (25,000 to (15,000. Both houses of the Washington legis lature adjourned from Tuesday evening until 2 P. M. Wednesday, in order to give ample time to legislators and members of the press to participate iu sn informal banquet tendered at Ta coma by Senator-elect Foster. THE DALY In the Senate. In the Orgon senate Monday the bill to provide for the reclamation of arid lands under the Carey act of congress was passed by a vote of 21 to 8. after being amended so as to prohibit any one party from taking more than 150,- 000 acres. The senate committee reported a substitute for Hawson’s house bill for artesian wells, the substitute approprr- ating (2,000 for an experiment in the county which will offer the greatest money inducement, instead of (42,- 000, as provided in the original bill. Stillman’s bill to withdraw school lands from sale and place interest on school-fund loans at 6 per cent, passed with only two opposing votes. The sugar-beet bounty bill was re committed to tire judiciary committee for amendments, and the bill to regu late build’ng and loan associations was indefinitely postponed, because another bill covered the same ground. The bill to appropriate (25,000 for ralmon hatcheries passed by a vote of 17 to 11. ________________ THE CAPITAL BILL DOOMED. Nut Enough Votes to P um It Over the Governor’s Veto. In the Washington legislature Mon day it developed that it would be im possible to muster enough votes to pass the capitol building bill over the governor's veto. The senate was in session but 15 minutes in the morning and adjourned. A resolution was adopted, expressing sympathy for the parents of Sergeant Miles E. Kyger and Daniel T. Kyger, jr., of Walla Walla, members of com pany I, Washington volunteers, who died recentlv at Manila. Bills introduced were: Creating a state board of tax commissioners, con sisting of the auditor, secretary of state and land commissioner, to assess rail road property for taxation; providing that (3 worth of poison he furnished by the oounty to each farmer to kill ground squirrels. In the Houne. The Washington house held sessions both morning and afternoon. At the morning session bills inti educed were: Releasing personal property from cus tody, (rending appeal; prohibiting tbe taxing of attorney fees as costs; pro viding for the county licensing of ped dlers; providing for the appointment of a hop inspector; relating to state school taxes; exempting from taxation property of religious, charitable and educational institutions; prescribing the powers and duties of wrecktnas- ters; relating to the disqualification of judges; providing for the foreclosure of chattel mortgages without suit; pro viding for the appointment of an ex- officio surveyor-general and deputies; relating to assessments for local im provements. The bill empowering colleges to issue normal diplomas was indefinitely post poned after a long debate. At the afternoon session nine laid over, nine read a second time, and four sent back to committees. Bills introduced were: Regulating fishing industry; making state fish commissioner ex-officio game warden. Bills passed were’ Giving cities power to define and punish vagrancy; relating to the method of decreasing the capital stock of corporations; com pelling tailroads to fence rights of wav, and to pay for stock killed; designat ing the last Friday in October as the date for bolding supervisors' elections; regulating the sale of butter and cheese; providing for the organisation of diking and ditching districts; giv ing electric railways the right of emi nent domain; granting rebates on road taxes to farmers using wide-tired ve hicles. The vote by which Stanley’s bill to regulate the practice of dentistry in Oregon was defeated Thursday, was re considered in the house Friday, and the bill passed by a vote of 84. Two other important bills were passed. One is an amendment to the mining laws to facilitate the building of ditches and canals, of special inter est to mining sections, and the other is a bill to withdraw certain school lands from public sale and reduce the inter est on loans of school funds in con formity with recommendations of the governor in a recent message to both houses of the legislature. In the house Thursday the following bills were pa seed: Senate bill provid ing for a separate board of county com missioners for Clackamas county; to autbotiae county courts and school dis tricts to display flags on courthouses and schoolhouses, to arocn I the code relative to the loan of school funds by reducing the interest rate to 6 per cent, and providing for foreclosure proceed ings whenever interest becomes in ar rears six months; to regulate the bring A light earthquake was felt at Chilli ing of sheep from one county to another cothe, O,, and iu East Tennessee Mon aud directing inspection; day. In the senate Tuesday resolutions commending the bravery of Washing ton troops at Manila were adopted. The Gray-Mantz election case was taken out of the hands of the committee which had been appointed to submit the matter to the supreme court, and the matter will now be practically set tled by the senate as a whole. The permanent school fund invest ment bill was amended to permit in vestment in government and state bonds at par, 3 per cent interest, or in county, city and school district bonds at 4 per cent. The bill was then or dered engrossed. Bills introduced were: Allowing O. M. Hidden (103.50 for drawing plane for the waterworks for the Van couver school for defective youth; com pelling the serving of notice of action within 90 days after the filing of com plaints. At present a complaint may be filed and while not being served, any accounts involved do not outlaw; appropriating (10,000 for the comple tion of the state road established in 1887 from Wenatchee via the Methow river to the mouth of the Twisp river; allowing cities to advance from one class to another at a special election called for that purpose. Hou*« Routine. At the opening of the morning ses sion of the Washington house Tuesday the speaker presented anothei lemon- strance from the citizens of Stevens county against the creation of the coun ty of Ferry. Bills introduced were: To prohibit the removal of improvements from mortgaged property, without the con sent of the mortgagee; prohibiting the sale of personal property, title to wnich has passed by a conditional sale; pre scribing rates to be charged on sleeping cars; for the protection of farmers et al., in the purchase of fertilizers; to provide for the extens ion of tax rolls by county auditors; (two bills) to amend the law lelating to the organiza tion and incorporation of municipal corporations; appropriating (715.63 for the relief of Gautam Harry St. George; prescribing the manner of using the label of the typographical union; appropriating (400 for a fish way on the Skykomish river; to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes on timber lands before the removal of the timber; relating to placing poison for the destruction of wild animals; relat ing to the bonds of prosecuting attor neys. The house went into committee of the whole on house bill 157, submit ting a constitutional amendment, per mitting alien ownership of lauds, with Judge Mount in the chair. When the committee arose it recom mended that the bill be referred to the judiciary committee. The committee on public building« recommended the indefinite postpone ment of the senate capitol bill and the passage of a substitute bill that does not recognize the award of a contract made by the old commission to F. H. Goss. The house indefinitely postponed the senate bill, and ordered that the substi tute bill be printed. REAPPORTIONMENT BILL. It III Now a Law Without the Signature of Oregon’s Governor. Governor Geer Tuesday filed the re- apportionment bill with the secretary of state, letting it become law without his signature. Proebstel’s bill to suppress nickel-in- the-slot machines passed the senate Tuesday, alter a short debate. There was some objection to the bill on the ground that it would not be enforoed, but even these objectors admitted it would have the effect of discrediting the machines and driving them into se clusion. Other bills passed were the follow ing: To make tbe per diem of county commissioners (3, except in Douglas, Lake, Klamath, Jackson, Yamhill, Gilliam and Union, which should be (4, Umatilla and Harney (5, Marion (2.50, and Multnomah (lOOper month; to protect salmon fisheries of the Lower Rogue river; to amend the charter of Brownsville; to codify the laws relat ing to practice in the justice courts; to require the payment to the sheriff of fees in civil cases and (12 per day for the services of the jury; to constitute the governor, secretary of state and treasurer a state board of equalization; to authorize boards of park commis sioners in cities of 3,000 or more popu lation; to make state road tax a lien against speciflo property and collectable as other taxes. The memorial to congress favoring the passage of the pure-food bill was favorably reported, and adopted. Josephi’s bill to tax bicycles was re committed. NIUEH CIFIIE 110 B The American Forces Struck, the Blow Saturday. NOT AN AMERICAN WAS LOST The Petrel and the Baltimore Bom herded the Town, Which Cau.ed the In.urtent. to Evacuate. Manila, Feb. 15.—The United States gunboat Petrel ariived late last even ing with dispatches from Brigadier- General M. P. Miller to Major-General Otis, announefing that Iloilo had been taken by the combined miltary and naval forces Saturday morning. General Miller, on receipt of his in- structions from Manila, sent native commissioners ashore from the United States transport St. Paul, with a com munication for tbe rebel governor of Ho Ilo, calling upon him to surrender within a time stated, and warned him not to make a demonstration in the in terval. The rebels immediately moved their guns and prepaied to defend their po sition. Thereupon the Petrel fired two warning guns, and the rebels immedi ately opened fire upon her. The Petrel and the Baltimore then bombarded the town, which the rebels, having set on fire, immediately evacu ated. The American troops were promptly landed and extinguished the fires in all cases of foreign property, but not before considerable damage waa done. It is believed the enemy’s lose dur ing the bombardment was heavy, but no American casualties are reported. Ths Official Report. Washington, Feb. 15.—Shortly be fore midnight, Adjutant-General Cor bin made public the following d’spatob from Major-General Otis, reporting the capture of the town of Bo llo by the American forces under General Miller, on the 11th inst.: “Manila, Feb. 15.—General Miller reports from Ilo Ilo that the town was taken on the 11th inst. and held by troops. Insurgents were given until the evening of the 13th to surrender, but their hostile actions brought on the engagement during the morning. In surgents fired tbe native portion of the town. But little losses to the property of the foreign ¡Habitants. No casual ties among the troops.” A dispatch also came from Admiral Dewey telling of the capture of the city. It was a brief recital of the facta of the case, but it is said contained sub stantially tbe same information as that sent by General Otis. It was sent to the navy department, and is expected to be made public in the morning. GREAT STORM IN THE EAST. It Extends From the Atlantic to West ern Texas. New York, Feb. 15.—The fearful storm which prevailed all day yester day and last night has increased in vio lence, and, together with the snow, which has drifted in many places, has almost paralyze ’ traffic. Trains on all the steam railroads have been delayed for five hours by the storm. Nine At lantic liners due at this port Saturday have not put in an appearance. Freight steamers, the voyages of which are growing uncomfortably long, are the Eastern Prince, 24 days out from Sfaie’ds; Deike Reikmers, 25 day» out fiom Havre; Salerno, 26 days out from Newcastle, England, and th» Catania, 18 days out from St. Michaels. The Almida, 55 days out from Shields, has been abont given up as lost wilh all on board. There is no doubt that a large fleet of steamers has arrived in the vicinity of Sandy Hook, and is waiting outside for the blizzard to pass. Four Live« Lost. Marlboro, Mass., Feb. 15.—A po liceman who went to a small house in the rear of a shoe factory tonight to investigate a fire found the house full of smoke, and in a room off the kitchen four persons lying on a mattress, which had been placed on the floor, all dead, and in the kitchen three other per sons in a state of insensibility. In the South. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 15.—The South is today enveloped in a storm of un usual severity. From the Gulf north ward, and from the Atlantic coast to the western boundary of Texas, a cold wave has settled heavily on the coun try, and produced the lowest tempera ture ever known. Fifty Below in Manitoba. Washington, Feb. 15.—The weather bureau todav issued a special bulletin. It shows that 50 degrees below zero was recorded at Minnedosa, Manitoba. The outlook is there will be a marked though gradual rise in tbe temperature east of the Rocky mountains after to- J«y. Mortgage Bill Passed. Discredit the Andree Story. The debate upon the mortgage tax bill of Whitney, passed in the Oregon house Tuesday, was at times eloquent as well as stormy, and althongb the bill passed by a decisive majority, the vote of some of the members was a surprise. The vote was 39 to 16, absent 5. Other bills passed were: To make violation of the peddlers’ law a misde meanor insstead of cause for civil ac tion, as at present; to amend the law relative to the sale of property for de linquent taxes, so as to eave labor and expense of posting notices; to es tablish a fiscal agency for Oregon in the state of New York; to regulate the business of local insurance companies, by requiring a certain capital and a cer tain number of policies before engaging in business: to appropriate (2.000 for London, Feb. 15.—According to a dis patch to the Standard from Stockholm, Nansen and Nordensjold, the explorers, refuse to credit the story from Krasno yarsk of the finding, in the province of Yeniseisk, of the bodies of three men, supposed to be of Andree ami hie com panions. the relet of J. W. Magnet. Rome, Feb. 15.—Prince Napoleon Charles Gregoire Jacques Philippi» Bonaparte, third eon of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino and chief of the older branch of 11,6 Dunapart» family, is dead. He was born in Rom« iu ¡¿io. A report comes from Washington that the subcommittee of the American members of the joint high commission will concede a portion on Lynn canal, Alaska, to Canada in return for fish ing concessions on the Eastern coast.