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Show NEWS SWIM Alt Y. NORTHWEST' NOTES. All immediate danger of the deatli of Count Tolstoi ia passed,. The damage by storm in Lee county, Ala., ia reported to lie (50,000. A atriUu ia iuiiuiueut qmong the minera employed in the Alle'gheqy, Ia.i ' ' valley. The government of Peru has appointed General Cauerere head of the army stuff. There is no foundation for the rumor which emanated from Budapest that the king of Servia baa been assassin- The smallpox scare at Reno, Nevada, is a thing of the past, aud the quarantine has been raised. 'WEEK IN CONGRESS. I 4 7. Hors. Xo business was Iiuiisiu'tc.I fn tho house, sitjcuruiui-li- t being l.ikcti after ilia eulogy of tho lute President M. liiiilr y by See re Gigantic Engineering i : Scheme February X lory llav. In Cripple Creek; Hazel Davis, a Scxvrx.-rnd- er special nnlrr tte Mimic dance hall girl, ended her-lifconvened at 11:45s. in.. In ilut it luiwu of tbo a dose of laudanum aud also about attend ax u body the service iu lute President William y held in mu half an ounce of morphine. hall of ihehuuueof represenuiiw-- at iJo'elix-kThe protest of Senator Tillman wax ordered An epidemic of smallpox prevails at spread upon the minutes. Kreinniling, a village of seventy-fiv- e inhabitants, in western Grand county, February SH. Colorado. Thirteen caaea have develHouse The house broke all records In the oped. matter of private pension legislation, eliau-it- i the calendar and passing 154 bills in s little from Red the desert Sheepmen deny over three hour. ated. the eensational story published in a The conference report on the returns bill was The Venezuelan congress baa ratified Denver daily to the effect that the adopted and the house adjourned until Monthe election of General Castro as presisheep are Buffering on the range for day. A resolution for printing S.fxK) copies of the dent for six years, beginning Febru-1- want of pasture. proceedings of the Schley court of Inquiry was last. Another colony of 100 Indiana farm- adopted, after having been amended to include At Lainbertsville and liclvidere, Pa., i he finding of the court. Admiral Dewey a l the silk mill are flooded and many ers will arrive at Cody next month and opinion. Admiral Schley's to the Presion will settle lands under the Big Horn dent aud the President'! derision thereon.'' families were taken from their homes The reports on the contested elec lion cases There are now about 150 famicanal. in boats. of J. McKenzie Moss vs. John S. lfhea, from lies settled there. the Third Kentucky district, which wax in During a fire at Dinkelabuhle, BavaOil prospectors are working six miles favor of the Republican contestant and of N. the and house a of wall ria, collapsed D. Spears vs. John S. llurnett. from the buried fifteeu members of the volun- south of Cheyf une, and have discovered Seveuth Alabama district, which wus in favor fair is indications. the The that belief teer fire brigade. of the sitting member, a Democrat, were reBoulder and Fort Collins oil belt ported and placed on the calendar. It is stated that, aa a result of iminto Wyoming. Sknatk Senators Mclmurin and Tillman advanin proved conditions Germany, were severely centurcd by the senate for the The Nalioue county commissioners sensational personal encounter on the floor of ces in the prices of steel and iron goods have sent a check for (1,000 to the the senate. The adoption of th resolution of have been made. centure closes the rase, so far aa Mr. President Roosevelt has decided to sheriff at Billings, Mont., as a reward McLaurlnprobably la concerned. for the capture of Charles- Woodard, The senate adopted the conference report on spend a week in April trout fishing in the permanent census bill mid then began the the Allegheny mountain streams in the murderer of Sheriff Bicker. of the Irrigation measure. Mr. Garrett county, Maryland. An immense snowslide completely consideration Haricot Wyoming delivered a loin; and speech lulls supimrl The storm which did some damage destroyed the big mill of the Black For a time later the senate ciiiisiderud the In San Francisco was general through- Tail Mining company, at Libby', Mont. omnibus bill, but did nut dispose of it. out the state. Heavy rains are report- No loss of life is reported, though March I. several persons had narrow eacapeB. ed from all parts of California. S : ats (ouslilcratilc Important business A cyclone passed over portion a of J. C. Morton, an attorney of Chey- was iis)Hised of by thu sri.aic Wliat Is Oglethorpe county, (ia., Friday n'ght, enne, ia uuder arrest, charged with known ns tbs omnibus claims Mil ami tic measure providing for tinof doing considerable damage to. prop: fraudulently usipg the mails, having lands were passed, the conference report on No loss of life Is reported,. carried on a matrimonial bureau for . tb Philippine tariff .bill was timed to. and thu , erty. Several leading Chilean newspapers over a year,' He Was cashing money shipping bill was mode thu unfinished business. re beginning to advocate a limitation orders wheu arrested. The Mil for the protection of the president of reduction of armaments as the best , The assay Olliers .which of the blown their laliY'bofnre thu ,w$ra ' way of insuring peace between Chile up at Victor aud at Goldfield are going senate. Mr. Hoar, chairman of the Judiciary 4t seemed to the committee ; and Argentina. into business again. Their owners are committee, saidobvious thut.'for many reasons, any attempt In Cheyenne Mrs. Walter Wallace, a securing new material and repairing .to kill tbs president ought to tie taken cognibride of nine days, tried unsuccessfully the,, 'buildings that were either- de- sance of by the Federal courts ruther than by the State courts. Relative to' suction 7 of thu to commit suicide by swallowing the stroyed or damaged. bill, directing that the secretary of war should contents of a- bottle of hiudanum. Jeal'At Telluride, Colo., Mike Lund and provide a military guard for the protection of ousy was the cause. Charles Anderson, miners employed in the president, he thoughtwll careful observers must agree that the. 'decretive police, upon While her companion, Jack Kirk, the Cincinnati mine, part of the Tom was asleep Lulu Watts; a variety ac- Boy group, were overcome by poison- which dependence .bow wits had, had not acIts puepos upou at least three imtress of Nome, attacked himla s' fit of ous gases from powder smoke, and complished portant occasions.' The'jiurposc of the provision was to officers of the govjealousy, and , severed his head from when found wero dead. ernment responsible for thu protection of the hie body with a razor. O. A. Hamilton, of Bock Springs, ' t president, The statement emanating from Sofia Wya, has announced that he is a canthat thirty Turkish soldiers had been didate for United ' States marshal. a qd. began con slderatlon killed and .many wounded in h conflict is circulating a petition to the presi- the bill classify the rural free delivery se with insurgenta at Igmunica, Macedo- dent requesting that he be appointed Vice and 'plsce-ffarrier uuder the contra to succeed F. A. Iladell.T nia, is entirely without foundation. . system; Only two speeches were dollvere The New Jersey assembly, after a , A lively war is being waged in Lara- Mr.Xoud ofCuliror. chairman of ihecoi mljiceoo pefctofttcfcs and post roads, mekli long and humorous debate, has paSMd mie now against cocaine and tie ega-rett- the opening speecB.-i- favor of the measure. the mosquito extermination .bill by a. &kji AO's pThe Senate began cohsldcratlon The city :council has 'been imIs what known as the shipping bill, vote of 49 to 9. The bill appropriates portuned- to Suppress the traffic in faraxurepopularly to provide for ocean mall service b (10,000 to ths state experiment station! these two articles, and Is disposed to tween th.Uiilted States and foreign ports, at Southern California lias been visited do so aa far aa it cun legally. thi connrysn defense; to promote cummer and to erfeouroge deep-sfisheries. Mr. Fr; by the heaviest rainstorm of .the seaFrank, Boman and Mrs. Mary, Good- of Maine; chairman of tho committee on cot son, insuring a plentiful supply of rich of Lander are in the custody of mepce, made the opening statement In suppn water for all purposes and bountiful the sheriff at Basin City, awaiting of the bill. He occupied tho floor for near i crops. At Los Augeles about one inch word from Lander as to what disposL two hours. Bills for the erection of public buildings, of rain fell. tion shall- be' made of them. The were passed: Hcno. Nev., ro,Ot) The impending departure of General couple, it is alleged, eloped from Lan- follows, Grand Forks, X. D., H80.0u0;uUoto amend tl Bundle from South Africa will leave der six weeks ago, act of May 13, 1UX). authorizing the comml aioner of Internal revenue to redeem or mal Lord Methuen as the only survivor, in It Is reported that Cosgriff Bros., of allowance for Internal revenue stamps: to a the field of the original muster of genCupt. X. M. Brooks, superintendent erals sent out from England as corps Fort Steel, the big flock masters, will thorlze malls, postufiice department to scce probably establish a bank in Cheyenne foreign comanders. decorations from thu Einpcror of Germany at in near the future. firm The has a from the governments of Liberia and Yvnez Superintendent J. C. Crandall of the United States Indian school, Santa Fe, large number of banking iustitutions ela; to restore James O. Field, assistant su to the active list of the navy; appropt N. M., has receved word from two pre- throughout southern Wyoming and geon, liOU.UUO for Ote erection of a public bull atlng Colorado. northern cincts in northern Tsos county that lngat Ogden, Utah; amending section S2M It ia believed that in Cheyenne an the Revised Statutes n7 the United .States, forty children hud died there the past that oaths as to the entry or public lands mi few days of diphtheria. incendiary is setting fire to railway be made before the nearest authorized notai cars there. of last week a Tuesday Dudley Johnson, white, and lien 31 arch 4. Foster, colored, were hanged as Ashe- car was burned on a siding near the ville, N. C.t for burglary. They were Burlington depot, and Saturday mornHors The house spent another day In disgiven a church burial during the after- ing another one was burned within cussion of the bill to classify the rurul free delivery service, and place the carriers under the noon. Burglary at night in North fifty feet of the point of .the former contract system. Xo vote was reached. The car. Carolina is a capital olfence. fate of the bill is In doubt, although the imThe Colorado State Agricultural col- pression prevailing is that it will he defeated. Notices were posted in the four cotthu debute begun Use conference reton mills of the Fall lllver, Mass., iron lege is about to begiu experiments Before on thu Philippine tariff hill wua adopted. port in both swine lambs and feeding works last week, announcing that on upon Thu vote was on that party lines, pulp, as well as upon the Messrs. Mcfall of Massachusetts, except and after March IT wages would be ad- sugar-bee- t Littlefield of in its original state. The Maine, and ilculwolc of Minnesota, voted with vanced 1 per cent. The iron works sugar-bee- t Western Great Sugar company has tho Democrats agaiust the adoption of the remen. more than 3,0HJ employ presented the college with a carload of port. Sekate-TI- jc The Exteutiun mine of the Wellingcredentials of Mr. Allison and Mr. Dolllver. both of Iowa, were ton Colliery company at Nanaimo, pulp. presented, The destruction by fire of the stables both bat lug been for another term. B. C., which was flooded to put out the Among thu bills passed were tho following; Three of the at L. Iv. Smiths sawmill on Trout fire, has hicii drained. Appropriating 15,oo0 to pay Lincoln W. seventeen vielims, who perished last creek, in the mountains twenty-fiv- e s for having saved the cargo of powder of miles west of fastle Rook, Colo., is re- the brig Tornado la 151 : making Great fie '.ember, have been recovered. Falls, ported. Seventeen head of horses and Mont., a port of entry of the customs district By a decision of the court of civil hundreds of dollars' worth of harness of Montaut and Idaho: appropriating It. 150, (M0 to carry out an agreement with thu Crew Inappeals, t lie city of Galreston is were burned. The loss will exceed dians. and W.too a year for the supism and of refcpouiibility for private maintenance of tin; permanent International (9,000. commission of the congress of navigation, and property seized for public purposes for other purposes. The I'.a'U. of of the Colorado The decision A bill to divide the state of Texas Into four storm prohibition party during is of great importance to the city. Springs is preparing to prosecute Judicial districts was passed. Ilartml L'ndur Tons of Dalirls. Arrangineuts are being perfected iu druggist there whosell liquor in small Tlia fourth floor of tlie Cleveland New York for the consolidation of a quantities. One drug store will he number of prominent concerns which selected for a test case under the city Baking company's plant on Central law, which prohibits tho sale of liquor avenue, Cleveland, O., fell beneath make a specialty of woven-wir- e proas tha weight of a large number of barbaskets, kitchen uten- in small quantities. ducts, such a with sils, etc., At the advanced age of 83 years, rels of flour Saturday, crashing-througcapital of S3, not), out). the three underfloors into the Twe hours before his drstli George llenry K. Ilystt, one of Colorado's oldR. Csrler of Vienna, III., received no- est pioneers, died in Denver of heart basement. Five persons are missing, failure. A strange request was made four girls and a man. They are burled tice from the pension office at Washbeen he hud a that before his death, and that was beneath the mass of debris in the ington granted darter was an orplisn and colla- just no word concerning li is demise be basement, and are undoubtedly dead. that Thirty-fourtTwelve women ami three men were volunteer regted in carried through with the falling iloors. iment, serving under Brigadier Gener- sent to his daughter. al Funsldu. t . 0, upix-a- ex-ten- da carefully- -prepared . - The proposed graining of the Zuyder Zee, which, hue been under discussion for the past century, is popularly looked upon as an engineering problem In l:thd Yeclamatlnn without a parallel in contemporary history. The land that would be reclaimed bv this Work would be about 750 square miles. In comparison the Engineerings News refers to a work In this direction now being carried out along the Mississippi which will reclaim a tract of land 3, 5C0 square 'miles In extent. The work of reclaiming the St. Francia basin, which lies on the west bank of the Mississippi between New Madrid, in Missouri, and Helena, in Arkansas, Is already well under way, nnly a few additional miles of levees being necessary to complete the artificial hanks which are to hold in check the flood waters, of the Mississippi. The soil Is an alluvial deposit, aud therefore remarkably fertile and capable of the highest cultivation. A comparison of the extent of the St. Francis basin with the combined areas of Rhode Island and Delaware gives a good Idea of Its magnitude. All of this area was Recently overflowed by the waters of the Mississippi. With the exception of a few gaps there has been constructed in this work a continuous line of levees some 212 miles tot tot 4eJ4b to puh-M- u to .. tot to tot to (to 4 f to (g tot se ( (to tot tot (to tot ? toto (to t t (to s (to Iftiake-soni- . "1 H - H4TMK--TOtfiops- h . -- e. - ea - Tib-b- re-lei- ved pen-aio- te h u. et X x The work has been done under the supervision of the St. Francis levee hoards of Missouri and Arkansas, actlug iu coujiHiction with the United States government. The expenditures of the two boards together to date amount to about $1,500,000, while the- government has expended about (75U,0u0 addition. Already the reclaimed land has appreciated In value many times Its original valuation, and Is now held at (00 an acre. Railroads now Intersect the reclaimed area In several directions, numerous Industrial establishments have been built, the population has been doubled, and a general prosperity baa appeared where originally there were only waste swamps. It is, however, not only In the extent of the undertaking that the SL Francis basin reclamation is notable, but In the very low cost at which It has been accomplished. The work of reclaiming about 2,500 square miles of the Nile valley In Egypt is now being carried out by the building of dams at Assouan and Asslont at an estimated cost of (25.000,000, while the entire reclamation of the 3,500 square miles of the St. Francis basin will- not coat more than (5,000.000 all told, or only (1.430 per square mile, compared with $10,000 In the Egyptian reclamation. In length. - - t ( staAves (toX (to Jto ? -- to to wto (to (to to4 to to t t .sseeti ( tot (to (to (to ( t fto to e, - . ed in battle Array, and r INDUSTRY CARRIED works at Linn-to- n The will probably resume operations by the middle of next month. This statement, In face of the fact that Oregon cayuse ponies are meeting a better demand now than for many years, seems odd, but It is true and there is good reason for it While 10,000 or more cow ponies have gone from the ranges of eastern Oregon this year to supply the needs of the British armies in South Africa and thousands are yet to go, and the price paid has been very satisfactory to the producer, the fact remains that great numbers of scrub ponies are left on the ranges ornery, unbroken, intractable, useless little brutes, consuming feed that ought to go to the fattening of meat cattle. The British army will take smaller animals than will find a ready market elsewhere, but they must be sound and well broken to ride. Thousands of the cayuses will not meet these specifications. Not only will they not bring (35 each from the British, but they are not wanted at any price by the British or anybody else. They are either not sound of wind and limb, or are untamable, or both. They are a drug on the market. They belong to anybody who cares to put a brand on them. They are wild horses, and nobody wants them; but each of these animals takes as much range as would be required for the sustenance of a steer that will dress 1,000 pounds. The stockmen want the rango for their cattle, and the railroad companies are glad to assist in taking the nselees cayuse ponies out of the country, so there will be more room for stock that will yield horse-plckll- ng tot y.f ' t streaming banners and flashing flrj4ia,ud paring cannons, I have Men" thtn '4 beat and storm, and rage against ffer but impregnable battlements. I have seen them driven back and with a scream of rage seek their haunts amid ths deeper defiles of her mountain gorges. I have seen her again when all was calm as a Sabbath day when the morning sunlight was tipping her mountain tops - with Its golden glory, and gilding the dewdrops from every forest, and leaf and flower. I have looked down In the beautiful valleya, and have seen her winding rivers flowing with clear,, translucent waters on their peaceful Journey to the sea. I have seen .her fertile fields rich in the exuberance of her golden harvest, I have seen her green meadows dotted with ipwlng herds, and I have listened to the music of the tinkling bells on the browsing sheep under her hillsides. When I have thus seen her la all her priitlne beauty and loveliness, and have known her people so brave and generous and progressive, and patriotic I have thanked my God that I was born by the laughing waters of one of her beautiful rivers, and that my ancestors sleep beneath the .shadows Of Tennessee's majestic mounrock-ribbe- d, .. tains. Canned Horse Mca.i REGULAR VC to . V ( to The Hon. J. B. Frazier spoke In re' sponse to the toast James K. Polk before the " Tennessee r society at St. Louis on Jackson day. His peroration was as follows: To you, Bons and Tennessee, who have homes and cast your this splendid and prosperous city, and linked your lives with the destinies of another state, It may be that, as revolving years bring gray hairs, dimmed eyes And tottering footsteps, you wlR turn' again with longing looks toward the blue mountains of Tennessee. TenneBBee! that sleeping beauty whose head la of undeveloped-empirpillowed where the morning sunlight kissds the ' summits of the Unaka mountains! whose body is clasped In the sinuous arms of the Tennessee and, Cumberland, and whose feet are bathed in the turbid waters of the mighty. Mississippi! Grand and majestic she lies her bosom heaving with the consciousness of undeveloped .riches and power, her head crowned with the glory of the Appalachian forTennessee! est! Fair and I have seen her when her towering mountains' seemed to stand on tiptoe to kiss the passing clouds. I have .seen these same clouds gathered together well-belov- tot Flowery Oration of Southerner on (to raked-StatM-w- - X a Good Sized State to be Drained. GLORT OF TENNESSEE : NY .totAvi. toiji s- to Ma Und that w,u,d : to e " ON AT e e LINNT0N, OREGON. money to producers and carriers. Therefore the railroads are willing to make a very low rate for carrying the cayuses to the Llnnton abattoir, and the movement thithfer will soon be resumed. The average cayuse pony taken to the Llnnton abattoir yields only about sixty pounds of merchantable meat, the rest of the carcass going into fertilizer, glue, leather, etc. This meat is carefully pickled in tierces, and Is shipped to market In France and Holland, where the prejudice against hrse meat is not so strong as it is in this country. These horses bring from (2.75 to (3 each, delivered at the railroad. They are mostly owned by the Indians, the animals owned by white men seldom being so useless as to find their best market at the shambles. lortland Oregonian. Dutch Honor Kruger. The Dutch press persists in alluding to Mr. Kruger as the president of the Boers, and great interest continues to he taken in him. llis new abode la called Oranjclust. It Is separated from the high road by an iron trellis and It stands in a small garden planted with bushes and with a piece of rockworfc In the center. All around tulips have been planted in such a way that their blooms will reproduce the Vlerkleur just under OoitT Pauls window. But for money and the need of It there would not be half the friendship that there is in the world. It Is powerful for good, If divinely used. MacDonald. George |