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Chowchilla Rangers from taking
him out and executing him.
Another Iasaue Suicide.

Chowchilla Rangers from taking
him out and executing him.
Another Iasaue Suicide.
VIsALIA, Feb. 5.-Daniel Parker
committed suicide yesterday near
Tulare by taking strychnine. He
was seized with insanity a few days
ago.
RuniOrs of ~ Texas-PaeiGc and
southern-PacificC Compromise.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Rumors
are current that the Texas. Pacific
and California Southern Pacific
Railroad Companies have agreed
upon compromise and will jointly
urge the passage of new bill prov
ing satisfactory for the interests of
both.
NRtiOnHl HUttev, Cheese nnd Eye
Association.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-The National
Butter, Cheese and Egg Association
have, through the National Com
mittee and Board of Vice Presidents,
selected Chicago as the place and
the 9th to 9TH of March as the time
for the next annual convention.
Complete arrangements will be
made. Delegates are expected from
the Pacific Coast. About fifteen
delegates from that section attend
ed last meeting.
Denies thne Sitting Eui, Has Gross.
cd she H.tDe.
OTToWA, Ont, 4.-The Free
Press says that the stories in the
American papers about Sitting
Bull having crossed over from the
Canadian side of tho boundary are
purely apocryphal. From private
Information in its possession 1t
knows that Sitting Bull is camped
at Frenchman's Creek, at the head
of Wood Mountain, twenty-five
miles north of the boundary line.
A Whisky Raid.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga report
to the Internal Revenue office from
Collector Clark at Atlanta, Georgia,
gives an account of a whisky raid
in Cherokee county of that State,
in which the United States officers
were fired upon by u party in am
bush and several, including the
guides, were wounded.
Bill tu Reimburse Oregon.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The Sem
ate Military Affairs Committee to-
day reported favorably on Mitch
clips bill for the payment to the
State of Oregon of the amount ex-
pended by the authorities and citi-
zens in aid Of the suppression OF
the Modoc war, with an amend
ment reducing the total amount
from 1928, 600 to about SIs0.O0O.
The same committee also took
favorable action to-day on
MitchelPs bill to appropriate
$50. for the improvement Of the
military wagon road between
Scottsburg and Camp Stewart, Or
egon, and referred it to the Com
mittee on Appropriations, with
recommendation for Incorporation
in one of the general appropriation
bills. The Committee also agreed
to recommend the adoption of
MitchelPs bill, giving the Court of
Claims Jurisdiction of the claim of
Robert Dunbar for losses OCCASION
ed by breach of contract on the
part of the Government regarding
the possession and care of buildings
on Fort Oxford Military Reserva-
tiop.
The hzissias:ppi 1--we. Bii,.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. - The
House refused to strike out from
the Mississippi Levee Bill the pro-
visions relating to alluvial lands.
The amendment appropriating
1851, 900 for strengthening the
Mississippi levees was withdrawn
and the bill passed; yeas, los; nays,
70.
NSsuiuatlo.,s by tIse President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. - The
President has nominated Digby V.
Bell for Collector of Customs at
Detroit (reappolntmenU; Algernon
s. Badger, Collector of Customs at
New Orleans vice Geo. l.. Smith,
to be removed, and VIM. l.. Nc
Millin Postmaster ut New Orleans,
oeCC loauSSI.
Matters Ia the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.--SENATE.
A portion of Saturday next is set
apart for bills reported by the Com.
mittee on Military Affairs, and the
Japanese Indemnity Fund will be
called up Monday. Matthews's res.
olution, providing for committee
to inouire into the claims of citi-
zens against Nicaragua was agreed
to without discussion.
Ola Prob.
WAsHINGTON, Feb. .4.-Midnight.
Indications for the Pacific Coast
Regions: Partly cloudy weather,
and possibly light rain In Southern
California.