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Yamhill County Reporter D. I. ASBCRY, Publisher. OF RECENT OCCURRENCE. Chaplain John R. Thompson, of the First Washington infantry at Manila, died Monday. The war department has issued an order mustering out of service all the volunteers now in the United States. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of Missouri, lias taken the prescribed oath and en tered upon his duties as secretary of the interior. The house committee on appropria tions has ordered a favorable report on the bill to pay Spain *29,000,000 for the Philippines. Agoncillo, the Filipino delegate, ar rived in New York Monday from Mon treal. Agoncillo expects to sail for England in a few days. The senate committee haB reported favorably an amendment to the sundry civil bill pioviding for the laying of a cable from the United Blates to Hawaii and the Philippines. Many French newspapers are bit terly assailing M. Lou bet, the new president, but the better class support him. and confidence in the stability of the new government is increasing. Samuel H. Stevenson. D. D., one of the oldest Presbyterian ministers in the United States, is dead in Bloom ington, III., at the age of 86. He was a near relative of former Vice-Presi dent Stevenson. A fire in the little city of Port Washington, (Vis., destroyed *300,000 worth of property, and rendered 80 families homeless. A chair factory covering two blocks was destroyed, throwing 600 men out of work. The revolution in Nicaragua is spreading. General Mena, at the head ot 700 insurgents, is near the town of Kama. The insutgents are well armed with email guns and aie expecting Gatling, Krupp and Hotchkiss cannon. Michael Milano, the prosperous pro prietor of a bootblacking etsablishment in Tacoma, committed Buicide by firing two shots from a revolver into his brain. Fifty-two dollars was found on the body. Family trouble was the cause of the act. LEGISLATURE EXIIS. THE Biili Much Work Crowded in the Closing Hours of th«« Session—The Laat Working bay. Chat NEW LAWS. Have Paaaed Session. During the ¡TREATY BEFORE THE SPANISH CANAL PROVIDED FOR. Senate Committee Allill It to tile Itiver »ml Harbor Kill. Washington, E’eb. 20.—The sonata Bills passed by both houses previous committee on commerce decided today to the last day are as follows: M c M innville .................. O regon Patriots Are Still to put the Morgan Nicaragua canal bill To authorize the town of Antelope to Spain’s on the river and harbor bill. The ac borrow *5,000 to build water works. Thirsting for Gore. The last working day of the Oregon tion of the committee was preceded by • • To incorporate the city of Pendleton. legislature was full of business, mostly X- a brief argument by Senator Morgan, To amend charter of town of Adams. devoted to the routine of passing bills. To regulate pilotage on Columbia EXCITING SCENES IN CORTEZ in which he went ovet the general The general appropriation bill was and Willamette rivers. grounds favorable to the construction passed by both houses. of tbe canal. To create office of state biologist, In the senate the bill to provide for Aside from the Nicaragua canal, tho without salary. Five Months Since the War and Not a *uinprelien.lve Ka.law of the Import- executions of murderers at the peni committee increased cash appropria To reduce salaries of Douglas county Single General Shot — Count D ’ Al- tentiary was indefinitely ¡ostponed, aut Happening. of the Past Week tions to the extent oi about *2,000,000 officers. ineuaa Make« an Attack. because it carried objectionable matter 4* Culled From the Telegraph Columns- over the house cash appropriations, To iuoorporate Nehalem. relating to appeals. while the amount of continuing con To provide that summaries only of Three bills touching military affairs tracts is increased to the extent of county assessment rolls be transmitted The graves of the Maine victims at Madrid, Feb. 22. — The cortes reas were passed, as follows: To cover into to secretary of state. Havana were decorated with flowers sembled today. The galleries in both about *10,000,000. the military fund all moneys received In tbe senate the only business of To amend charter of Hillsboro. on the 16th, the anniversary of the ex chambers were thronged with an ex from the United States on account of importance was the consideration of To amend the charter of Albany. pectant crowd. The senate was very plosion. transportation, etc.; to restore to the To incorporate town of Tillamook. full, hardly a single general being ab bills on the pension calendar, which A British syndicate has obtained a military fund some *8,000 expended in To incorporate the town of Canyon sent. Senor Montero Rios, president was begun under a special order. concession from China to build a rail suppressing fishermen’s riots in 1896; City. of the senate, in opening the proceed Among the bills passed was one provid road from llankau to Canton, along to reorganize the official staff of the To constitute beach of Clatsop ooun ings, pronounced a eulogy upon M. ing procedure in certain pension cases. the coast. Oregon National Guard. ty a publio highway. Faure, and a resolution of condolence It provides that no pension shall be The following bills were passed: To Col. Miller, who captured Ilo Ilo withheld, modified or cancelled except To amend the charter of Grants Pass. with France was adopted. regulate license tire insurance com without the lose of a man in his com To authoiize Jefferson institute to Senor Sagasta, the premier, then pro for fraud, or mistakes in facts, and panies; to protect the fruit and hop mand, has been promoted to be briga sell out to the school district. posed to refer the bill proivding for the prov'des a scheme of procedure. The industry by requiring the destruction dier-general by the president. To amend charter of Oregon City. cession ol the Philippines to the Unit piivate pension calendar was complet >f pests; to cure certain defects in j To incorporate Port of Tillamook and ed States to a special committee, but ed, 74 bills being passed. The Cunard liner Etruria and the dicial sales and deeds; to prevent i crniser Marblehead narrowly averted a provide for the improvement of Ho the conservatives protested against this, In the House. maintenance of armed bodies of u>< quiam slough. collision during a blinding sleet and declaring that the bill ought to be con Washington, Feb. 20.—In the house other than the duly constituted author To incorporate the town of Lakeview. scientiously discussed, and Senor Sa today several railroad right-of-way bills enow storm about 70 miles off Sandy ities; to amend the charter of Newberg; To incoporrate Cottage Grove. Hook Monday morning. gasta withdrew his proposal. were passed. Among tbe bills was one to provdie for criminal prosecutions on To amend charter of town of Tangent. Count D’Almenas then brought up to authorize the construction of the Representative Stallings, of Ala information; to protect trout and cer To provide clerical aid for judges of the question of the conduct of the gen Clearwater Valley road through the bama, has introduced in the house a tain other food fishes; to relieve the the supreme court. erals engaged iD the wai in Cuba, de Nez Peices reservation. bill to authorize the president to ap etate of the necessity of advancing the To incorporate Drain. claring that General Primo Rivera, The census bill was sent to confer point General Wheeler a major-general costs of giving a bond in a proceeding To incorporate New Astoria, adjoin General Weyler, General Blanco, Ad ence. A bill was passed authorizing to which the Btate is a party; to in the regular aimy. ing Fort Stevens. miral Cervera and General Linares had the president to appoint five addition amend the law relating to irrigation Terrific weather is prevailing on To amend charter of Monmouth. proven failures. al cadets-at-large to the naval academy. rights and ditches; to amend the law the coast of Jamaica. The winds are To incoporrate the city of Ontario. This declaration elicited much ap The sundry civil bill was then passed. relative to liens against mines for la high and the sea is encroaching on the To incorporate the town of Bay City. plause from the «public galleries, in The naval appropriation bill was for bor or supplies; to amend the chai ter land. Coasting vessels have been To incorporate the city of Heppner. consequence of which several of the mally reported. The house went into of Arlington; to fix the annual salary wrecked, and several hundred acres of To incorporate the city Warrenton. spectators were expelled from the cham committe of the whole and took up the of the supreme court clerk at *3,000, bananas Bwept away. To incorporate the erty of Wallowa. ber. bill. No general debate was demanded with one deputy in Salem at *75 per To amend charter of Gold Hill. Observing that he would deal with on the bill, and its reading for amend Naval ordnanoe officers in Washing month and one at Pendleton at *50. To regulate and fix the salary of the the “ shameful capitulation of San ton are elated over the remarkable re ment under the five minute rule was and providing that the fees be paid assessor of Jackson county. tiago,” Count D’Almenas asked the immediately commenced. sults secured with the new smokeless into the state treasury; to fix the sal To incorporate tho town of Marsh L oess whether he should proceed, and navy powder for large caliber guns in a aries of Columbia county officers; to field. was answered with cries of “yes” and TAKES NEWS CALMLY. test at tho Indian Head proving regulate the manner of sturgeon fishing To amend charter of Woodburn. “no” and a general uproar ensued. A grounds on the Potomac. and making a close season on the Co To redistrict the state for senators repetition of the query raising still No Disorders in Pari* Followed the State Entomologist Scott, of Georgia, lumbia river from March 1 to Novem Death of Faure. and representatives. greater tumult, Senor Sagasta rose and eays the peach crop haB been utterly ber 1; to provide for inspecting sheep Pgris, Feb. 20. — Everything is quiet To create the office of tax collector in defended the government and its pea°e destroyed, and in all probability the brought in bands into Oregon from an Multnomah county. commission. The premier criticised in Paris tonight. There is no danger gorwers will be so discouraged that other state (eame as the Washington To amend the charter of Corvallis. America’s unjustified conduct, and said of a coup d’etat. The favorite candi they will abandon the business. Last law); to amend the law relative to the A new town has been laid out in To prevent production and sale of un that everything might be discussed, ex- date for the presidency is M. Emile year's crop wsb valued at 11,000,000. Alaska, 26 miles from Juneau, which duties of public road viewers: to fix wholesome foods and medicines. cept’tbe war, because the cases of the Loubet, now president of the senate. Ex-Consul Duckert, of Beligum, has it is expected will be the gateway to the annuual salary of the Linn county (Looney pure food bill.) Still the ministers think Faure’s death generals were still subjudiciary. been commissioned to make a tour of the Atlin goldfields. It has been assessor at *2,400, including the pay To incorporate the town of Seaside. County D’Almenas resumed his at is a misfortune at the present juncture, of deputies; to regulate the practice of China in the interests of Belgian manu named Taku, and is situated on Taku To raise the salary of sheriff of Ma tack ti)ion tiie generals and complained and this is the conventional talk. facturers at a salary of *29,000 a year. bay, four miles from the mouth of the the vocation of barbers; to provide for rion county. that “five months had elapsed, and not They had all looked forward to his re the appropriation of water to be used The idea of the tour emanated from inlet of that name. signing, and they spoke today of the To regulate and to fix salaries of Til a single general had been shot.” for mining purposes. King Leopold, who will contribute £8,- possible effect of his death on the lamook county officers. The Italian bark Barbara Luigi went FIGHTING WITH FIRE. 000 to the salary. courts of Europe. To fix salaiies of county officers in In the Houae* ashore February 4 on Little Bahama If M. Loubet be elected, European It is expected that General Otis will bank and is a total loss. Three of the In the house a long discussion occur Clackamas, Morrow, Wasco and Yam Filipinos Attempt to Burn Quarters of sovereigns would soon transfer to him shortly begin an aggressive campaign crew were drowned and two perished red on the bill to adopt the Torrens hill counties. the Washington Volunteers. their friendly regards. He is a good, To amend the charter of Eugene. in the Philippines,ns the recent battles from exposure. The captain and eight Bystem of land title. The bill, when Manila, Feb. 22.—The natives of unaffected, level-headed man of hon To amend the charter of Astoria. have not subdued the insurgents, ns of the crew have arrived at Nassau, N. put upon its passage, was defeated. the village of Paco made a bold at est, open life, and of far more intel To incorporate the town of Canby. was expected. The rniny season will P., and report the loss. tempt last night to burn thequarters of lectual culture than poor Faure. He Bills passed were: To authorize To create a separate commission for soon set in, when military operations the First Washington volunteers by is an advocate and practiced at the construction of skids acrose county Mrs. Howe, of Gresham, Oi.. was transaction of county business in can not be well carried on, and a deci Betting fire to the huts adjoining their Montilemar bar, in the department of roads for logging purposes; to provide sive blow must be given before that drowned in the Willamette at Port for submission to the vote of the peo Clackamas county. quarters in the rear. Fortunately the the Drone. Montilemar is his native land Monday. She was passing from To amend the charter of Arlington. time. wind changed, at the moment the fire town. one steamer to another, as the boats ple the proposed constitutional amend Incorporating Weston. ■ The torpedo-boat Fox, built by the were lying at the dock, when she fell ments; to authorize the sale of agri was discovered, and, fanned by a stiff Incorporating Dufur. Wolff <S Zwicker iron works, at Port between them. An attempt to rescue cultural school lands on the market for OVER ENTIRE GROUP. breeze, the flames spread in the oppo Incorporating Enterprise. land, Or., is tho first torpedo-boat in her tailed. She was on her way to 25 years at less than the price fixed by site direction, destroying fully 20 Withdrawing school lands from sale the world to come up to the require visit a sdn at Salem. statute; to provide for payment of shacks and houses opposite the ruins of The American Flag to Cover the Phil« and placing interest on school fund ippine Islands. ments specified in the contract upon the church. The incendiaries escaped. taxes in coin, instead of county war loans at 6 per cent. The first session of the eighth conti rants; to provide for the manner of se Washington, Feb. 20.—The adminis tier first official trial. For two consec Mysterious signals were frequently Incorporating Dal'es City. utive hour* in her first trial she main nental oongresB of the National Society curing the release as surety upon made along the enemy’s lines during tration has determined to extend rap Incorporating Moro. tained an average speed of 28 knots, of the Daughters of the American Rev bonds; to reduce fees to be charged by the night, and this led to the belief idly the jurisdiction of the United Incorporating Brownsvillo. her engines turning nt a rate of 881.4 olution began in Washington Monday. county clerkB in probate cases; to that an attack had been arranged, but States over the Philippine group in its Incorporating Lebanon. entirety, acting on the theory that de revolutions per minute, whioli exceeds Mrs. Daniel Manning, president-gen make the law prohibiting the fraudu nothing happened. Incorporating Burns. eral of the society, made her annual lent use of labels or trademarks more the requirements by 11.4 turns. The rebels are leaving the vicinity of lay in this crisis is dangerous, and Incorporating Carlton. address. She dwelt especially on tho San Pedro Macati in small parties, and that anaichy and general paralysis of President Zelaya Ims issued a decree aid given by the society during the re effective; to fix the salaries of county To protect salmon in Alsea bay and clerk, sheriff and recorder in Wash tributaries. are reported to be moving toward Sing- such interests as the islands support declaring tho republic ot Nicaragua to cent war, asserting that the organiza ington county; to amend the code so as would be brought about through failure a 10«. _______ be in a state of Beige. A battle is To create a trust fund in Multnomah tion had furnished *800,000 in money to give parties the right to give notice to replace promptly Spanish sover expected to tnke place at any time and supplies. Money for Cuban*. county. eignty over the islands with that of of appeal without assignment of error; west of Chile mountain, the dividing Washington, Feb. 22. — Efforts are the Unnited States. To provide for the election of load The Columbia river fish cannery to authorize the printing of 800 copies line of the Coidllleras. The president making with every prospect of success supervisors. is sending troops to the front as rapid combine will c I obc half of the canneries of supreme court reports at *2 50 per Low Bates for Homeneekero. To create the office of clerk of the to reconcile the radical element among copy; to prohibit the running of push ly as collected. The United States the coming season. St. Paul, Feb. 20.—The Northern justice couit in cities of 50,000 popu th j Cubans to the proposition of the gunboat Marietta, wilich arrived at The Cunard steamer Pavonia, which cars upon railroad tracks; to create a lation or over. government to pay the soldiers of the Pacific and Great Nothern have decided Greytown February 6, has sailed for sailed from (Queenstown for Boston, state board of equalization, consisting to sell half-fare homeseekers’ tickets To authoiize Multnomah county to Cuban cause *3,000,000. Hluetileds, the headquarteis of the January 26, and which was sighted on of the governor, secretary of state and lease the upper deck of the steel bridge. General Gomez arrived today in Ma- February 21, March 1 and 7, on simi- revolution headed by General Reyes. February 6, in a disabled condition, state treasurer; to authorize the work To provide for the sale of tide lands. tanzas, making bis way very slowly to iai rates as made by the more southerly ing of oountv prisoners on county toads: Ono man was killed and five serious has arrived in tow at the Azores. Protecting salmon in tho Rog’je ward the capital. What is proposed is lines to the Pacific coast. Heretofore to fix the salaries of county treasurers, that the United States shall sanction the rates have applied only to near-by ly injured in a powder explosion at M. Loubet was elected president of after amendment increasing the salary river and Curry county. Nosegrove, Pa. To reorganize the state board of hor the floating of bonds by the Cuban mu states, and it is now intended that France on the 21st. The assembly I of the treasurer of Lane county from nicipalities or provinces to the amount they shall apply to the entire length Four Chinese have died from in cast 812 votes, of which Loubet re- I *500 to *800. and the salary of the ticulture. Creating park commission in cities of *7,000,000, which sum is to be paid of the roads named. juries sustained in the San Francisco ceived 488 to 279 cast for M. Meline, treasurer of Wallowa county from *250 over to the Cuban troops, in addition of 8,000 population or over. and 50 scattering. Chinatown tire Sunday. Gomez Goes to Cardenas. to *360; to amend code relative to at To amend section 5 of the mining to the *3,000,000 to be paid by the A battle has occurred at Talien-Wan Havana, Feb. 20.—A dispatch from tachments making the filing of a writ laws. Silas Jones and six children were United States. burned to death on the Richardson between Russian soldiers and Chinese, with the county clerk answei the pur Data, it is said here, will be pro Cienfuegos says that Major-General Amending the code relative to sher and May plantation, at Corneistoue, in which 800 of the latter were slain. pose of posting a notice on property; iff's deeds. duced by the Cuban assembly to show John C. Bates, military governor of The trouble is said to have originated to amend the code relative to action for the department of Santa Clara, and In Ark. Requiring county clerks to adminis that every cent of this sum was ex spector-General Breckinridge, yester over the question of taxes. adverse possession; to fix the compen pended in legitimate war expenses. II. M. fl. Leander has been ordered ter oaths without charge, in pension day paid a visit to General Gomez, Grading has begun on the Snake sation of oountv commissioners after matters. to proceed with all speed to Bolivia to , A Large Deficit. amending the bill by increasing the who was expecting to leave today for protect the property and lives of Brit River Valley railroad, between Union Appropriating *15,000 a year for fish Victoria, B. C., Feb. 22.—F. C. Cardenas. flat and the head of the south fork of per diem in Union county from *4 to hatcheries. ish residents during the revolution. Cotton, minister of finance for British the Penewawa creek. A large force of *5; to reduce the mileage <f jurors and Estimate. Output at «19.000.000 To amend the chatter oi Salem. Fire in Cincinnati destroyed the men and teams is working on the big witnesses in cities of 50,000 population Columbia, submitted his budget to the Vancouver. B. C., Feb. 20.—M. To regulate horse shoeing in Portland. clothing houses of Kahn A Felthmeyer, or over, from 10 to 6 cents; to give legislature this afternoon. Tlie budget cut between those two points. Providing for normal schools at Ash shows a deficit of *647,723, and esti Marks, an Australian expert direct H. A. Ileinsheimer ami Sanford, Stern preference in the employment in pub from Dawson, places the output of the A dispatch from Cape Charles, V«., lic service to honorably discharged sol land and Drain. Ar Sarner. The loss is nearly *600,000. mates that t .e new government has to Klondike at *19,000,000 this year. His says 60 oyster sloops and schooners To provide for the registration of diers and sailors; to appropriate There is a rumor in Paris that ne start with a balance on the wrong side estimate is as follows: Eldorado and gotiations are taking place between the have been carried out to sea by drift *3 ,000, in a'd of the Oiegon Historical | voters. of *64,000. Estimates show a con Bonanza creeks, *5,000,000; Big and To provide for a tax collectoi of Mult ing ice from Magothys bay. It is be Society, and to authorize printing at Panama canal compary and the Wash siderable cutting in the salary list. A Little Bonanza, Gold and French new loan will be negotiated for *1,750,- ureeks, *5,000,000; Hunkei and (Quartz ington government, looking tothe com lieved many are manned, and the crews the state’s expense to tho same amount; nomah county. To change the manner of governing 000. may suffer from exposure ami hunger. to provide for the payment of certain pletion of tho canal. creeks, *5,000,000. Tugs will be sent to overhaul the ves fees to recorders of conveyances; to the Soldiers’ Home. No more large tracts of land will be Thirty five persns have died of small-1 sels. To codify the laws relative to state Steamer* to .Manila». constitute six days’ publication of a sold for speculative purposes, but pox in the Creek nation within a few school lands. Tacoma, Feb. 20.—James Ward, of leases granted instead. Loss of reve weeks. The victims were negroes and Oregon Leglalaturn Adjourn* Sine Die notice a weeks notice; amending the Paitial codification of the school nue by the abolition of the mortgage the shipping firm of Saunders & Ward, Indiana All of Western Oklahoma Although the hour set for the final law relative to the ap;>ointnient of offi laws. cial stenographers; to abolish the office tax will be met by an Increase on the I has returned from a visit to England, has quarantined against the infected adjournment of the Oregon legislature To encourage tho use of wide-tire income tax. and announces the establishment by district. was 12 o'clock noon Saturday, the ses of recorder of Clatsop oounty, and re wagons. himself and others of a steamer line quire that the duties of that office be The buildings of the (Leer Ma sion was prolonged till 7 o’clock. Millions for Spain. To amend tho act incorporating th« between this port and the Hawaiian performed by the county clerk; to leg- Aside from the formalities of finish chinery Company and the Whittle Washington, Feb. 22—This was islands. The British steamer Manan- ulate the purchase, sale and transfer of Port of Portland. Trunk Company, at Knoxville, Tenn., ing up necessary matters in Land, the stocks of goods, by requiring the pur To change the time of holding court suspension day in the house Tbe sen ense will be the first vessel out, and with their contents, were destroyed by passage of the special appropriation chaser to exact from the vendor a list in the second judicial district. ate amendments t > a number of pii- ' will sail next week. tire. The loss is estimated at between bill was the feature of the day. vate pension bills were adopted. To cure certain defects in deeds. of creditor« and the extent of liabil The house refused to concur in some Nearly Frozen to Death. *75,000 and *100,000. Cannon, chairman of the appropna- | To permit surety companies to qalify ities; to prohibit the running at large Seattle, Wash., Feb. 20. — A special tions committee, by the direction of I as sureties on lionds. In the United States senate Tues.lay of the senate's reductions of items in of stallions. To change the time of holding court his oommittee, moved the passage nn-h to the Post-Intelligencer from Forty- the MoEnery resolution, declaring that the bill, anil it was necessaty to ap- State Fair Appropriation. der suspension of the rules of the bill Mile river, Alaska, says that William in the ninth judicial district. the ratification of the peace treaty is |a>int conference committees before This Matheson, formerly of Los Angeles, In the Oregon senate Wednesday the To prevent the adulteration of candy. for payment of *20,000,000 to Spain. not a declaration on the part of the agreement could be reached. After discussing the measure under | Cal., narrowly escaped being Dozen to To provide for boarding the prisoners United States to permanently hold the prolonged the session till 7 o’clock in bill to repeal the annua! appropria Philippine islands, was passed by a the evening, when the session was de tion of money to the state fair was de of Clatsop, Washington and Clackamas the 20-minute rule,tbe bill was passed, death recently. It was necessary to clared ended. amputate both bis hands and feet. feat«! by a vote of 12 to 16. 219 to 84 counties by oontract. vote of 26 to N Th. Daly School Kill. To provide for the reconveyance of Waterworks for Dawson. A deposit of earth stiontian has Minor N«wi llama. Many Frl.nn.r. R*lea«e<l. After the most exciting and dramatic land to J. E. Baling. Los Angeles, Feb. 20.—J. A. Acklen A barge loaded with a large qnantitv t<een found on Pot-in-Bay island in half-day of the session, the Oregon Havana, Feb. 22.—One hundred and of this city, has been granted the privi To fix the salaries of the sheriff and of cordwood, consigned to a Portland latke Erie. It is many acres in extent. house shortly before 1 o’clock Wednes clerk in Lincoln oounty. sixty prisoners in the Havana jail, lege of maintaining a water works at dealer was lost during the recent The nitrate of strontia is of pure white day noon passed the Daly text-book bill To create the county of Wheeler. whose release was recommended by Dawson City by the Canadian govern freshet in the east fork of the Lewi« color. by a vote of 33 to 26, only one member To regulate the practice of dentistry. the board of pardons, were liberated ment He will tap the Klondike river river. The Hamburg American line steamer being absent. The bill, which had To regula'e mutual insurance com today, The United States government four miles above Dawson. A cat load of green onyx marble, the Adria arrived at New York Sunday been made a special order of business panies. Is under obligations to return them j Four Manila Tran «porta. first shipment of dimension etone from from Hamburg after a most tempestous for 10 A. M , did not come tea vote To provide for a scalp bounty fund. home. Many of the prisoners are J San Francisco. Feb. 20.—A fleet of the quarries of the United States Mar passage. During the night of January withont sensational incidents. To amend the law relating to the Spaniards, and the majority of these, ' The debate was participated in by duties of tie state land agent. ble Company, near Valley, in Stevens 80, Captain Levetsow, while trying to after consideration, decided that they four vessels will leave San Fiancisco county, Wash., was on the track in go from the bridge to the cabin, was all the orators of the house, and the To constitute Willamette and Port would prefer to be sent to Santiago to for Manila within two weeks. No les« Spokane recently for a few hours, en thrown down into the cabin passageway lobby and gallery were filled with In land boulevards Multnomah county work in tbe mine* rather than go to than 6.500 tons of freight of all de scriptions will ts taken. route to Chicago. , and killed. terested spectators. Spam. roads. IH[ NEWS OF EHE WEEK