, 1888-03-01

distributed at Kansas City, Mo. ex-
,eeis that Of any other office IN the
United States.
The San Francisco ErdmiHer has
five or six libel suits on its hands.
in which the damages claimed
amount in the aggregate to some-
thing like half million dollars.
The negroes in Georgia pay taxes
en- property assessed at over SS,000,-
900: those in South Carolina pay
taxes on S10000.OGO worth Of prop
ertv. and those in Louisiana are as.
scssed on S3O,O0U,03O worth.
II it Is true, as reported from Lon~
don, that Russia has submitted to
Aurtria proposals for the settlement
of the Bulgarian question which 1T"
10 the latter power, It Il
evident that the czar had decided not
to precip!tate Il war after all.
Miss Rose Cleveland lifts a load
from the minds of the people when
she causes it to be announced that
she Is not writing Il book, is has
been recently stated She gives all
her time to her school. and for the
present will entirely refrain from
literary pursuits.
\ big storm around Tillamook
Rock last week came near demUIish-
ing the lighthouse. The waves dash
ed clear over the dome of the light
house. smashed the glass and put out
the lights. 1t i5predicted that the
wind and waves viii yet sweep the
rock clean.
The fishermen and cannerymen OF
the Columbia Ought to cooperate
with the fish commissioners in the
effort to enforce the fish law during
the coming season. 1t Is not to be
denied that the salmon industry IS
III danger of absolute destruction and
that il is high time restrictive meas
ures were enforced.
If Henry George and DR.. McGlynu
have really fallen out, as now appears,
the old conflict for the possession of
the earth recurs again, with the
Standard Oil company on one side
and the insignificant reminder OF
mankind on the other.-Chicago
Journal
Senator Dolph thinks it unlikely
that his bill to reserve Crater lake
and The surrounding country for Il
national park will be passed at this
time. The executive order withdraw
ing the district from sale OF settle-
ment, will, however, protect it till
such time as bill can be got thro'
permanently setting it aside as a
park.
james G. Blaine said just after
the campaign of 1884 that be would
not again run for president. He re-
peats that declaration now. Grover
Cleveland put himself on record at
at the very beginning of the cam
paign Of 1854 as holding the doctrine
that no man elected president once
should ever run again Will he re-
affirm that principle now!
Mr.. Dolph's bill to confirm to wild
ows and single women and their heirs
or assigns the lands on which such
widows or single women settled as
claimants under the Oregon dona-
ton law, and on which they resided
in good faith. is bill that should
pass. 1t is necessary for enforce
ment of justice and prevention of
hardship in many cases, and really
ought to have been attended to many
years ago.
The Boston Herald says that Gen.
Hawley is 1.-The natural candidate of
New England for the presidency.
He has not only ample qualifications
for the presidency, but many ele-
ments of popularity as a candidate.
4 chivalrous soldier, an earnest and
eloquent orator. a statesman of large
experience, and a thoroughly honest
and patriotic man, his should be a
name to awaken enthusiasm, as it is
certainly one against which no word
of reproach can be brought"
The New York Worlds estimates
of population, based, it says, upon
careful investigation, are interesting.
Leaving out Indian territory, its es-
Inmates by states and territories foot
up 62,S74,272-an increase of nearly
13,000,0J0 since the census of 1880
The states which are credited with
largest gains are Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina, Georgia and tho territory
of Dakota. The estimated present
population of the large cities is as
follows: New York l, 100000, Phila-
delphia 1,043.69S, Brooklyn 757,755,
Chicago with $4,000, and st. Louis
100000.
Colonel John A. Cockeril of the New
York World has been elected president
of the New York Press club, and din,
ner was given to him at Dclmo niCo's
which was one of the most imposing and
important events of its kind ever given
in America. Among the special guests
were: Governor Hill, Gener raj Sherman.
Chauncy NJ. Depew, Daniel Doueherty,
ex-Mayor Grace, Roswell p. Flower,
Frank Hatteu, Colonel Alexander *.
Mcclure of Philadelphia, and Charles II
Cnckerili is famous writer and mana
ger, an elegant gentleman and prince of
good fellows.
Mr.. Blaine told the World that he
did not retire in favor of any particu-
lar candidate, and declined to express
any opinion on the subject of candi-
dales. But he said he was confident
of republican victory, and thought
it would come about chiefly through
the trriff question
Col l.. B. Nash, we'll known at
torney of Spokane Falls, has been
associate justice of the
supreme court of the territory, in
place of Associate Justice Turner,
resigned Colonel Nash was form.
erly law partner of AttorneyoGen-
eral Garland in Arkansas.
The house committee on commerce
has reported favorably the bill cred
iting the revenue cutter service for
the transportation and subsistence Of
seamen in the Arctic
regions. The report dwells on the