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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
STANFORD ESTATE.
Claim Of the Government Will be Re-
sisted to the Fullest Extent.

Claim Of the Government will be Re-
sisted to the Fullest Extent.
SAN JOSE, CAL.--Mrs. Jane Lathrop
Stanford, widow OF the late Senator Le-
land Stanford and executrix Of his es-
tate, was seen the other evening and
asked for her views of the $4,000, 600
claim presented by the Attorney Cen
eral of the United States against the
property now under her charge. She
said: II think this is only test case.
OF course, others will be drawn into it.
The burden Of the litigation even can
not all be placed on one estate or one
pereon." Mrs. Stanford was then asked
If she intended to resist the claim as
presented by the Acknowledgement. She
said: "0f course, / shall resist it to
the fullest extent Of my ability; but
really there is nothing to say in regard
to the future course l shall pursue. Le-
gal technicalities will be referred entire
ly to my attorneys" tits believed among
lawyers that the suit of the government
against the estate will have serious eff
feet upon the university. Even before
this latest litigation cropped up Mrs.
Stanford had had some difficulty in rais-
ing all the ready money necessary for
the institution. 1t is believed also that
several counties that years ago bought
Central Pacific bonds will be held by the
government responsible for a share of
the debt now sought to be collected.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
REMEDIES FOR BORERs.
Description of the Two Kinds That In
fest Fruit Trees.

Description of the Two Kinds That In
fest Fruit Trees.
There are two borers that work in fruit
trees, says Farm and Fireside. One has
a fiat head and the other round head.
They both come from eggs laid by bee
ties. The beetle of the round-headed
borer is about three-fourths of an inch
long, and has two broad, creamy-white
stripes running the whole length of its
body. The beetle of the flat-headed
borer is Of shining greenish- black color,
with its under side of shining coppery
color. This borer attacks the whole
trunk and often the larger branches,
while the former confines its attacks to
the base of the trunk almost entirely.
The beetles lay their eggs in the South
in May and at the North in June and
July. The beetle of the round headed
borer generally lays its eggs at dusk, and
is hidden during the day. The beetle Of
the f1at-headed borer is lively fellow.
He likes the hot sunshine, and runs
very rapidly up and down the bark in
bright days, but instantly takes wing if
an attempt is made to capture him.
Nothing can be done to kill the eggs, but
a good preventive is to coat the trees
with soft soap, plaster of paris and paris
green during the time the beetles are
abundant. The soap is distasteful to
the beetles; the plaster Of paris makes
it stick, and the paris green will poison
any young that may hatch from the eggs.
The only way to kill the insects after
they are in the tree is by cutting them
out or running a wire into their burrows.
All trees should be looked over in the
fall and spring and have the borers re-
moved.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22

There is something about drain that
the most obtuse farmer couldn't fail to
remark for years past, says Colman's
Rural World, and it is strange that the
lesson taught has not been utilized ear
lier. Every one has observed that the
result OF a common tile drain or "blind I"
ditch was to produce for a limited dis
lance on either side of the ditch most
prolific crop of plump and well-developed
grain. 1t never occurred to them, how
ever, that, if a system of drainage per-
meated their fields sufficiently close as
to allow the influence OF the drains to
cover the whole field or farm, that field
or farm would be rich beyond COMPARE
son and practically free from flood and
drouth alike. OF late a few progressive
men have seized the idea. and are now
rejoicing in plentiful crops, orchards an
nually bending with fruit and every adj
vantage of a luxurious and opulent soil,
while neighbors with better farms,
equally well titled, but without draining,
are grumbling over their losses and
threatening to sell out and move TO the
Pacific Coast.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
Memory Of Sleep walker.

The memory of sleep walkers is ex-
traordinary, not to say phenomenal. es-
pecially when under the peculiar impulse
OF the disease which prompts their move
ments. Moritz gives an instance of q
poor basket maker who was unable to
either read or write; yet, strange as it
may appear, when in one of his somnam-
oulistic vigils he would preach fluent
sermons, some of which were recognized
as having formed parts Of discourses
which he was accustomed to hear when
DO was child attending his parish
church, 40 years before.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
LARGE AMOUNTS INVOLVED.
Ex-Governor Evans Petition Against
Union Pacific Directors.

Ex-Governor Evans Petition Against
Union Pacific Directors.
DENVER, Col. - Ex-Governor John
Evans through his attorneys has filed q
new petition in the Federal Court in the
suit against Oliver Ames and other di-
rectors of the Union Pacific. The new
bill alleges that September 4, 1898, the
Union Pacific pledged with Drexel, Nor
gan & Co. 500, 600, 900 in bonds to secure
their note to the amount of $24, 900, 600,
issued to take up floating Indebtedness.
Among other securities pledged were So
600, 900 in bonds and $13, 900, 600 in stock
OF the Gulf road. In the new petition
John Evans asked leave to bring a suit
against Drexel, Morgan & Co. and the
receiver of the Gulf Company in the
courts Of New York or any other place,
restraining Drexel, Morgan & Co. from
disposing of the Gulf bonds and shares
of stock until the other bonds and stock
pledged in that trust shall be sold.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y.-Securities to
the value of 81, 900, 900 were found in q
small trunk near the room in which
William W. Cornell died in this city re-
Gently. The securities were placed in a
bank, and the deposition OF the estate
came up before Surrogate Dorland. Mr..
cornell lived in modest home in Gar
Held place. He was SO years old when
he died. Nobody suspected he had
money. He was the son of Latham Cor
nell OF Troy, from whom he inherited an
iron business. He retired thirty years
ago with about SAC, 900. In the last years
OF his life he allowed himself no pleasure
but inspecting the contents of his trunk.
lie left no will and his estate will be d.
vided among his heirs-at-law.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22

= fer In a Solid Phalanx to
Rthe Republican Party.
RISING WATERS AT PORTLAND.


Four-Fifths OF the Business Section IL
Flooded and Business Paralyzed-
The Union Pacific Entirely suspends
Its Portland Connections.
PORTLAND, OR.-The flooded district
in this city is constantly extending, and
now covers four-fifths of the business
portion and large part of North Port
land, in which large number of resi-
dences are more or less flooded. Front
street, the wholesale district, has seven
feet OF water on it. The entire whole
sale district is under water, all the banks
are flooded, and nearly all the retail
stores and seven or eight hotels. BUSH
ness is almost paralyzed. Elevated side
walks have been built, and small boats,
nearly l 600 in number, are in constant
use in the flooded streets. Express wag-
ons are also being used for Transports
ton OF goods, being driven into the wa
ter up to the boxes. Many business
houses and offices have been moved to
higher locations, some having been COM
PEELED to move twice. Stocks Of goods
have been elevated three or four times
on first floors. The Union Pacific has
entirely suspended its Portland connec-
tions. The Northern Pacific sends pas
sengers by boat to Kelso, fifty-one miles
down the Columbia, where rail connec-
ton is secured. Southern Pacific trains
start from East Portland, the Union De-
pot having been abandoned. There is q
busy scene of moving goods and sight
seers in the flooded region. 1t is impos-
sible at this time to estimate the damage.
The loss of business will be immense.
The loss to fishermen on the Columbia
is heavy, owing to the fish wheels being
swept away. Salmon-fishing has almost
been destroyed, and the seasons catch
will be mostly lost.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
Army Omcers RatireA.

WASHINGTON, D. eight army off.
GERS have just been retired on account Of
disability incurred in the service. They
are Lieutenant Colonel s. M. Horton,
Deputy Surgeon General; Captains MI
E. Taylor and w. G. Spencer, surgeons
Past Chaplain s. c. Merrill; CAPTAIN
William Conway, Twenty-second Imam
try; John Anderson, Eighteenth Infan.
try; First Lieutenant II. G. White
Eighth Cavalry, and Second Lieutenant
Moriarity, Eighth Infantry. As resuli
years graduates from the Military Acad.
envy are unprovided for this year with
ipll appointments to regiments, and
before the end of the year.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
sMUGGLED OPIUM.
Druggist Clerk solinsky Dismissed at
San Quentin.

Druggist Clerk solinsky Dismissed ut
San Quentin.
SAN Francisco, CAL.-Druggist Clerk
Solinsky has been discharged from his
position at San Quentin by Warden Hale.
The charge against him was smuggling
opium to the prisoners who could pay
for the forbidden luxury. Solinsky on
account of his position had facilities for
carrying on his underground dispensary
and making lots of money out of 1t. Just
how long he has been carrying GA the
Illicit trade no one knows. Suspicion
was first aroused against him by the
large number of packages he received at
the prison through Wells, Fargo & Co.
1t did not take long to ascertain that
Solinsky was extremely anxious to keep
the contents of these packages secret
from everybody. A watch was set in
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Office in this city,
and the discovery was made that the
packages were sent from Chinatown.
The next step was the certain proof that
the packages contained opium. Solinsky
through his position had the run OF the
cells to find out il the convicts were sick.
He was caught prescribing opium at a
good round sum, and his dismissal fol-
lowed.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22

OFeEOns
The hop louise has made its appearance
at Fairview, Polk county.
Medford has abandoned the idea of
cannons and oratory for July 4.
A summer conference in the interests
of Indian education is called for July 90
to 20 at Salem.
Union county's debt is decreasing
every year. The present levy-19.7 mills
lis the lowest in ten years.
The Pendleton securing mills have
started up, and already have $50 900
pounds of wool to operate on.
The Pendleton securing mill uses 500
soap, consuming for that purpose some
$50 pounds of tallow. This makes a good
home market for tallow. As it is, the
tallow has to be imported from Portland
by the carload.
Major Post has taken charge OF the
fight to save the Cascade locks, the gov
eminent standing the expense. Six
trains are running, hauling brush, grav-
ell, rock and anything that can be utilized
to raise the bulkhead. Some of the cut
stones are being dumped into the works,
and seventy barrels OF cement were used
in one day in solidifying the sand and
gravel.
A sixteen-month-ol child of Mrs.
Shepp of Ashland tumbled out of a car
window while coming down the Siskiyous
the other day. The train was moving
about fifteen miles an hour. 1t was
stopped, and the distracted mother and
train crew rushed back to the rescue and
found the child sitting on the sand pile
where it had fallen, screaming mad, but
not injured in the least.
The storm of last week did consider
able damage to the crops on a narrow
strip Of country between the desert and
the gap in the foothills on the Browns
boro road, jackson county. The precip-
itation descended in the form of hail
stones, and several hundred acres of
wheat were completely ruined. The
strip looks like sunburnt stubble field,
presenting strange sight, flanked as it
is by fields of beautiful green wheat.
1t seems that Harry Dunn, bulletined
noisily as the first inmate of
the Soldiers Home, was refused admit
lance by the examining board. The Sa-
lem Journal is taking up the matter and
making quite diverting effort to force
an issue on it. Dunn's fright" name,
it seems, is Sergeant Henry Campbell OF
the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts,. Imam
try and war record of half column of
minion. The objection to him is he is
able to earn his living.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
IN fB6TTONS no Girls.

The Dash Church Is Ten Years Behind
the Times. and Ought to be Thrown
Out OF Every Farm-The Box or Bar
rel Churn More Convenient.
Chow many boys and girls on the
farm have had an old apron tied around
their waists and been told to churn until
the butter will hold up the dasher? Such
instructions are fatal to good butter"
says the Iowa Homestead. "In the first
place the dash churn is ten years behind
the times, and ought to be thrown out
Of every farm, even If no more butter is
made than to supply the family table.
The box or barrel churn is cheap, and it
is so much more convenient and so much
better butter can be made with it that
there should be no hesitation in discard
ing the old dash churn in its favor. But,
never churn until the butter is gathered
in chunks large enough to hold up the
dasher. There are several reasons why
this should not be done. One of them
is that the grain is destroyed. Good
butter has fine, distinct grain, and
when broken shows distinct fracture
like cast iron. If this grain is destroyed
by overchurning or overworking, the
butter becomes greasy mixture like
lard, and has greasy taste. Again it is
necessary that the buttermilk be well
washed out, or the butter will become
strong and rancid in a short time. This
cannot be done when the butter is
churned into Jumps, so in the latter case
the grain, flavor and keeping quality are
all injured. The churn should always
be stopped when the butter is in the
form of small granules, ranging in size
from a red-clover seed to a grain of
wheat; then the buttermilk can well be
washed out, and the grain will be unin-
iured if the working is properly done.
There is no reason why the farmer should
not make just as fine butter as any one,
provided he will take the trouble to do
it right"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
Over a Million in Securities
Left by a Miser.
CARTER HARRIsON's ASSASSIN.

By an Agreement of Counsel the Trial
as to the Sanity of Prendergast, the
Slayer of ChicagO's Mayor, Will Not
Come up Until Next Fall.
CHICAGO, ILL.-Prendergast, the as
sassin of Carter Harrison, will not be
tried as to his sanity during June. By
agreement of counsel the case goes over
until next fall. The term of court opens
on September 3. sit has been agreed
that the case shall go over" said States
Attorney Kern. "The continuance was
agreed to at the request of the defense
after consultation. There has been no
agreement as to what Judge the case will
come before at the fall term, and have
no idea now who will preside. Under
the common assignment Judge Chetlain
will again be presiding in the Criminal
Court at that time. There will also, of
course, be other Judges presiding. But,
as / said before, don't know now who
will try the case" Judge Chetlain said:
81 know absolutely nothing about the
continuance spoken of. None of the at
torneys have spoken to me about the
Prendergast case since the last time it
was in court. As to my taking the mat
ter up and entering the order of contin-
uance, will say the matter will not
come up before me, for the reason that
/ shall not then be sitting in the Grim
inal Court.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
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by train to Leuchars
for Dundee, and at Dun
Perth. Next day, about
ing, this cat was observed
the avenue of its new home v,
poseful air. On the third day.
peared at its old home.
Now, how did that cat achieve Ii
journey? Did it take a bee line across
country, and, if so, how did it know its
direction? Or did it run to Dundee, cross
Tay bridge (the railway bridge) and so
along the line to Leuchars, negotiating
the Eden at Guard bridge? We can
hardly suppose that it swan the Tay.
Or did it go round by the head of Loeb
Tay-a long rough journey by the Kill
lin, where cat might meet many dan
gers and temptations? The perils Of 4
cat on the road are innumerable. Every
collie dog chases it, every gamekeeper
has gun for it, every boy is ready with
stone. Indeed we never see cat on
its travels. No doubt it runs by night,
There is the hypothesis that the cat came
by train, changing at Dundee, and achiev.
ing the difficult maneuver at Leuchars.
wherein many men have failed, going
back to Dundee or getting to Cupar,
though not one of them was like him
"that will to Cupar." This method of
transit, which needs agile acuteness Of
reason in any man, may not be beyond
the powers and intelligence of a cat.
But all conceivable ways, from the
bee line across country and over rivers
to the course round Loeb Tay, are full
of perplexities. That the cat simply
rode on broomstick behind a witch is
an hypothesis which brings us into un-
friendly contact with modern ideas Of
progress. Somehow the thing was done,
and done in as hours. A dog spoken Of
by Mr.. Romanes ran from Vienna to
Mentonne, but died of fatigue. The cat
was as well and sound as usual. We
may speak of instinct and inherited apti-
tude, but to find its old home is of no
use to cat i'll the struggle for existence.
Cats, much more than dogs, are indie
pendent of home. They can take to
the heather, the forest or the back green.
Thus the cats which fortuitously deyel-
oped the power of ''homing' would be
no better off than other cats and not
more fitted to survive and bequeath their
accomplishment to their progeny.
In face of these facts our boosted
science is dumb. We know little about
cats, but cats know great deal about
us. Faculties of this kind made the cat
a mysterious power in the middle ages.
He was roasted alive that his unknown
protector might come and rescue him by
uttering words of prophecy. This very
fact proves the existence of feline Sc
cret society which nobody studies, for
we are all apt to neglect the facts which
underlie and inspire the truths which
are called superstitious. Cats have very
probably ian underground railway
London Saturday Review.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22

NEW YoRK.-The receivers Of the
Northern Pacific have unanimously re.
solved to accept the loan of 81, OOO. O0C
offered by the reorganization committee
oil the bondholders for the prompt
payment OF the first-mortgage coupons
due July l. The loan is to be made al
simple interest without commission and
directly to the receivers, who will act
with the authority Of the court and re-
pay the same from the net earnings OF
the months following, u
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22

TACOMA, WAsH.-Railroad men and
others are beginning to estimate the
damage done by the foods throughout
the Northwest. A number of conserva-
tive men have placed the amount in the
neighborhood Of 100000. Superin-
tendent Baxter of the Union Pacific's
Pacific division is quoted as saying that
it would take ninety days to rebuild the
fifty miles of track washed out between
Troutdale and The Dalles. Railroad
men here think it will take the Great
Northern and Canadian Pacific a month
or so to fully repair their tracks and the
Northern Pacific nearly as long.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
The LApwai ReseryatIon.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The House Com.
mittee on Indian Affairs has authorized
a favorable report on the bill introduced
by Representative Sweet of Idaho tn
ratify the agreement for opening for set.
Element the Lapwai reservation occupied
by Indians in Idaho. ''eu
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-06-22
Chris Buckley Turns Republican.

SAN Francisco, CAL.-The Examiner
prints an interview with Colonel D. M.
Burns, the latest manager of Republican
societies in San Francisco, in which
Burns states that Chris A. Buckley, the
ex-boss OF the Democracy, has become
an out-and-out Republican. Burns states
that Buckley has not only promised to
vote the Republican ticket in November,
but has promised to bring the large po-
litical following which he is supposed to
control, yulgarly known as the Buckley
lambs " into the Republican fold.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-12-06
CHICAGO CHAP.

With a greater New York in prospect Chicago Is wildly looking around for some thing to annex--Rochester Democrat.
 Let no one hastily suppose that Chicago is paying the price of sudden growth. Chicago hasn't the price about her clothes -Detroit Tribune
 What if the new steamship St Louis should make the rccord for ocean specdi The world wouldn't Do largo enough to hold Chicago's grieE-Omaha Bee.
 When n city like Chicago is unable to pay goo or 800 discharged labnrers the money due them, the smaller 1t shouts about 2, 2,Ooo, oOo population the better Indianapolis Journal
 The Chicago aldermen have voted to themselves larger and morc costly gold badges The advantage of this is that the honest citizen Is no longer in peril of being mistaken for an alderman-New York Commercial
 Now that the election excitement is over in Chicago tho city has turned its atten- ton once morc to the cheerful subject O. reforming its police force. IL will snon be time Co abolish gambling again-- Grand Rapids Dcmocrat.
 A Chicago clergyman has resigned his pulpit in order to devote himself to the cause of municipal reform. Arc we 10 in. fer that therc is something conflicting be tween tho duties of a Chicago clergyman and those of q rcfurmcrs-Ss Paul Call.