The Evening Gazette du lieu suivant : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

THE EVENING GAZETTE I tOL 3 OKLAHOMA oOK TY MONDAY MARCH 1891 NO 49 KANILlti LIMISLAITVOIX LAND LAW REPEAL SUBSIDY SHELVED CGOOCCOCCCeee GCCCeee Many Business Man complains of STAGNATION IN BUSINESS 'ithout stopping to consider that as its name implies stagnation is the stopping (standing still) of business energy and enterprise The healthy conditional water is motion The healthy condition of business is activity Mr Bland of Missouri raised the point of order that the csmunittee could not be directed to report "forthwith" The speaker stated that Mr Cannon's waa in order and put the previous question on the motion which wait 125 nays 105 The queation then followed on Mr Cannon's motion to recommit with instructions and it was 148 nays 142 The fimt call showed that there wm no party feeling involved in the quell-Bon Twice had the vote to be recapitulated before its accuracy could be re-Bed upon The vote was finally announced anti immediately Farquhar of New York arose and reported back the bill in acconlance with the instrueBona The bill having been read a fulisatle of points of order was directed from the democratic side Then Mr Crisp raised the point that the bill must be considered in committee of the whole pending which the point was raised that the bill had lost its privileged character and minst take its place at the foot of the calendar The speaker overruled the point of order and the senate VD am untended was 140 nays 120 Mr Farquhar moved that a conference be ordered but pending action on the motion the house at midnight adjourned The shipping bill as passed by the house is radically different from the measure sent to that body by the senate It merely authorizes the postmaster-general to enter into buch a contract for not less than five nor more than ten years with American citizens for carrying the mails on American steamships between United States ports and foreign ports (the Dominion of Canada eaoePteg) am will subserve and promote the postal and commercial intermits of the United mail service to be equitably distributed among the Atlantic Mexican Gulf anti Pacific ports The vessels conteacted with must be of American build and offered by American citizens If a business man falls into the habit of "letting up at this time of the year he makes his own business stagnant IMPROVEMEN TIN BUSINESS Collies from individual resumption of business activity It is wise to start soon: it is is wiser never to stop for "keeping everlastingly at it brings success" Stir yourself Stir your Help Stir tour Customers To stir things generally and keep them stirred is business For this purpose there is nothing better than NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING ien youv'e reached this conviction justify your your faith through the columns of THE GAZETTE 1Vith apologies to "Printers' Ink" occosseccQcse Axel Swanson Merchant Tailor FULL LINE OF SAMPLES To CHOOSE FROM THE DIST OUT TER AND FINEST WORKMAN IN THE CITY Grand Ave with a A Mitscher Co Ok City Botkin to He Colley vine Teethtiony Wood in More hill Agreed Usury Hill killedin the Nernst Toe Ess Kam March Botkin matter is at last before the house There are ten articlea of impeachment They are in substanee the charges made against Botkin by the complaining witnesses These chat-free Including drunkenness ll morality committee believes to have been substantiated by the evideuce There was a bit of sensational testimony in the Coffeyville investigation Olney Baird of Vitale Id testified to having heard Ed Greer of the Winfield Courier and Treapoirer Burkhalter talking about the expected explosion They were sitting in at wheelbarrow before the to it in Winfield in which Baird was clerking He heard (fret outline parts of the dynamite plot Burkhalter thonght it too 41311gPn iii to be followed In this (freer dissented Stun Wood is in a peck of trouble He is clerk of the house judiciary committee In some way he has lost Mr Bentley's waiver of appralsetnent hill which had passed the senate and come to the house Thursday night Eider wanted the bill brionght up and passed It couldn't lw found WO HI didn't know so he said what had become of it Elder took him to task mwerely The report Of the conference committee on time salaries bill of state officermi was concurred in Elder's usury bill was knocked out in the Senate yesterday A bill passed on second reading lathe senate providing for an appellant court of three members between the district nsi supreme courts and defining its jurisdiction In the bill Topeka Salina and IVichita are named as the places of holding the court Kansas City Kan came within one of beating Topeka 14A11411 ItKAPPORTIONMKN The Senate Tries Ile tined at Fixing the COHKIWO111111161 Met Helm TOPFA A Ran March a vote of 25 to II the lienaite passed acongressional reapportionment bill 'I he following is the composition ot the districts pro vided for in this bill: First district -Population 476167: Doniphan Atchison Brown Nemaha Pottawatotnie Riley Marshall Republic Seeomi ITSG3: Leaven wort Ii Jefferson aekson Shawnee OsHge Lyon Wahaunsee Third district PitX11: Wyandotte Johnson Miami Linn Anderson Franklin Donglaa Coffey Fourth distriet Population 11421N4: Bourbon irawfrd Labette Neosho Alien Woodson Wilson Montgomery Fifth distriet -1'01)111010n 112S53: Greenwood Elk haulanqua Cowley Butler Seditwiek lllll tier Sixth 177990: Geary Morris Chase Mar urn MaintiOn Clay Chmd Ottawa Saline McPherson Harvey Seventh district 16s569: Rice Reno Kingman Harper Barber Pratt Stafford Garton Rush Pawnee Edwards Klowa Comenelie Clark Ford Hodgeman Ness Lane Garfield Gray Meade Seward Haskell Finney Scott Wichita Kearney Grant Stevens Morton Stantim Hamilton time ley Eighth 178753: Jewell Mitchell Lincoln Ellsworth Rumen Osborne Smith Phillips Rooks Ellis Trego Graham Morton Decatur Sheridan Grove Logan Thomas Rawlins Cheyenne Sherman IVallace I HE PEN 3M111'4 I i RA iigo A As Adjustment or the 'threatened Welke Increase opt Psi Pi Trsuraim Pa March I--The ited concessions of the Pennsylvania company to their men which were sent out Thursday MOB were accepted by the men and all threatened trouble has disamwared for the tittle tit least These concessions were talked over by the several heads of the railroaders' organizatlims slid at a meet ing of the general grieve net tee hey Were formally secepted A mittee of four veiled On General Manager Wood of the Pennsylvania company and Informed lihn verbstly of the fact In reply it VHS St ted thst still further concessions would Is by the eompony in the way of increasing the rolling stick taking out sluirt curves on mime ii ivisions inereasing the repair fiirce and in every way doing away with the extra time which has been the cause of so much eionplaint In feet the men have received conessions iu almost everything they wished exeept the iine import silt item and that is an increase of salary This Wag firmly denied them and the min-In ittee are willing to accept the conditions rather than force an issue which the company is so fully prepared to fight Last night the members of the grievKnee committee left for their homes Some say there is dissatisfaction but no one talks further Retrenehnorost A NMAS CiTY Mo March dispatch from Chicago states that the Burlington company is discharging employes all along its lines It is said that this is in conformity to a recent order for retrenchment At Kansas City the Burlington ill all of its departments is being operated by the smallest possible force In the operating department a number of men have been discharged since latuutry I hut no wholesale changes have been mode Two Children Burned Till'EKA Kan March and Lena Going children of ilenry Going were burned to death yesterday In a fire Which destroyed the family residence at Silver Lake The mother had gone to a neighbors and bile absent the house caught fire The blizzard was the worst of the Flea-son at Arkansas City Kan and the people in the Cherokee strip who had been out in the severe cold for two days previous suffered terribly A man coming in from the settlement on the nitskaXa river reports that several children perished by cold Action That Practically Kills the Shipping Bill POSTAL SUBSIDY SUBSTITUTED A Brest Beni of Contusion In Taking the Bill Defeated Reconsidering and Bill in It Now Stands Wsemourros March the house met yeeterday on motion of Mr Peel of Arkansas a bill was pashed authorizing the Fort Gibson Tahlequah Northeastern railway company to construet a road through the Indian territory The house then in committee of the whole resumed the eoneideration of the shipping bill when the house substitute for the senate bill was read by paragraphs for amendment Mr Herbert of Alabama offered an amendment withdrawing the eubsidy from Nailing vessels and confining itentirely to ships propelled by steam The amendment was debated at some length Metiers Herbert Struble Conger of Matisachntwttim Rogers and Brewer speaking in its favor and Messrs Ding-ley Milliken Morrow Outhwalte and Baker in opposition Mr Ilerbert's amendment wan defeated-51 to 85 Mr Bland of Missouri offered an amendment to the amendment providing that when American agricultural products should be shipped upon vessels under this act and changed for foreign products such foreign products should be admitted free of duty It was ruled out of order Mr 'Clunie of California offered an amendment providing that payments should not be made for more than 14- 000 miles sailed on either an outward or inward voyage (The bill limits it to 7000 miles4 Ile argued that the bill as it at present good would discriminate against the Pacific coast The amendment was lost Mr Struble of Iowa offered an amendment providing that the measurement of distances sailed by vessels benefited by this act should be made in accordance with the shortest practicable route It was lost on a tie vote Mr Holman of Indiana speaking to a formal amendment warned congress against the policy of subsidies and called attentim to the disgrace which had heretofore been associated with congresses which had entered upon that policy Mr Rogers of Arkansas offered an amendment providing that one-half of the crew of vessels enjoying the benefits of this act should be citizens of the United States or persons signifying their intention to become so without re-' geed to race color or previous condition of servitude It was agreed to-112 toe Mr Struble of Iowa offered an amendment providing that the owners and officers of any ship receiving a bounty should have no interest in any cargo carried Mr Bergen of New Jersey favored the bill declaring that its pre-eminent object was to open to this country the markets of South America The amendment was lost Mr Grosvenor of Ohio offered an amendment providing that no sailing vessel of less than 1000 tons gross ton nage should be entitled to receive the benefits of this act The amendment was agreed to 89 the opponents of the bill voting against its adoption Mr Rogers of Arkansas referring to a remark made by Mr Grosvenor that the charge of there being a lobby in support of the bill intended to scare old women said that he was about to read an extract from a Washington paper making the same charge and he warned any old spinsters on the door to retire Having read the extract he proceeded to argue against the hill The hour of 5 o'clock having arrived the committee arose and reported the bill to the house without amendment no vote having been taken in committee upon the substitute Mr Farquhar then formally offered the house tombstitute for the senate bill whereupon Mr Springer made the point of order that this being Friday the homse was in recess until 8 o'clock but the point was overruled by time speaker on the ground that the special order superseded the general rule Then the house became a Keene of confusion growing out of the parliamentary tangle in which it found itself The hour of 5 having arrived before the committee of the whole had taken action on the substitute the senate bill was reported "without amendment" Time membstitnte having been offered Mr Fithian Of Illinois obtained permission to offer a free ship substitute It was 117 nays 172 The homew substitute was then agreed to-144 to 47 The vote then recurring on ordering the Nenate bill as amended by the substitute to a third reading the roll was called amid intense excitement Every response was anxiously awaited and as the call came to a close and it was known that the tion had been defeated there were many manifestations of pleasure on the democratic side At the last moment Mr Dingley changed his vote to the negative and the speaker announced the vote to be yeas 14t1 nays 148 'f he announcement was greeted with wild applause by the democrats and then Mr Dingley moved to motion that Mr McMillin promptly moved to lay on the table This motion -was 140: nays the republicans were jubilant Then came the vote on the motion to reconsider This was agreed yeas 148 nays the question again recurred on ordering the bill to a third reading This was 14e: nays 142 Mr Cannon of Illinois moved that the bill be reeommitted to the committee on merchant marine and fisheries with instructions to that committee to report back forthwith a bill similar to the senate bill on the same subject to provide for ocean mall service between the Culted States and foreign ports Agreement of the Conference Committee TIN LAND LAWS AMENDED Timber Culture Art Repealed-Desert Lend Ara Amended-Pre-emption Late 11 peeled- Exceptions and Permissions -Land For Irrigation Wstedisoms March I--The conferees On the committee for the repeal of the timber culture law and amendatory of the land laws generally have practically reached an agreement on an entirely new bill which will be brought forward st the first opportunity The subject matter of the bill has for the past two congreeses been io dispute between tho home and senate and for a long dine the conferees during this congress failed to come to an lerstanding The bill agreed upon will change the general land syetem of the rwerntuent- The bill first repeals the timber cult- nee set but with a reservation in favor of bona fide claims heretofore initiated In competing the period of cultivation on claims already accruing it provided that the time shall run from the date of the entry if the neceasary acts of cultivation are performed within the proper time The preparution of land and planting of trees are to be construed as twts of cultivation Persons who have complied with the provisions of the timber culture act for four years may prove up their claims by the pay ment of $115 an acre The desert land set is amended by requiring the filing of a snap showing the proposed meflual of reclamation and no person shall receive patents for land wider the act unless he has expended it least VI per acre to be expended within each year After four years title may be secured by the payment of It per acre Section '4228 of the revised statutes is amended NO that any bona Ode settler may have the right to transfer any portion of his claim for right of way for irrigation purposes for church or cemetery or for school purposes The pre-emption law is also repealed except as to claims heretofore initiated and except as to pre-emptIons by counties under special law Section 2tIsa is amended so that persons already holding 160 acres of land or who abandon their residence on their own land shall sot have the right to make homestead entry It is provided that in Colorado North and South thikota Wyoming and gold and sliver regions of Nevuda Utah anti Idaho it shall he sufficient to defray any prosecution for trespass to show that the timber cut was for agricultural mining manufacturing or stic purposes and not transported out of the states Provision is matte for town nite entry in Alaska and for the acquisition there of lands necessary for trade or mann faeturing purposes Towns and cities Ills declared may make town site entries on mineral lands but this right shall not interfere with the working of underground mineral claims Provision is made for grants of right of way for irrigation purposes but reservoir rights are not to contain any more had than is necessary for their construction and maintenance The maximum amount of land which any person may squire is limited to 820 acres The president is given the right to set apart and reserve in any territory forest lands as public reservations not subject to be entered upon This will meet the principal aim of what it known as the Yet lowstone park bill May Cautrart For Works Co111HIS Mo March 1---A proposition to contract a corporate debt not to exceed 845900 for a water works and electric plant was submitted to the voters of this town last November by the board of trustees and vas carried by more than the required two-thirds majority An injunction was sued out by the state to restrain the board from issuing or negotiating the bonds chiefly on the ground ot a want of charter power The cese came up on a demurrer to the application for the injunction and Judge Hockaday sustained the demurrer and denied the suit holding that the board had the power under the charter to do what was proposed To Hold a New Content LIHKRTY Mo March the annual contest in oratory twtween the literary soeieties of 1Villiam Jewell college at Harrisonville two of the contestants refused to take part in the exercises because the judges were to be elseen from Harrison vine whereas this nos forbidden by a vote of the bO meth providing that no judge should ibt chosen from a county which was the home of any tuottestant Four however delivered their orations and the first prize was awarded to Bright end the seeond to Shaw The sodeties however met afterward in joint session and decided to hold a new C011- WA in Liberty next Tuesday night Secretory roster WzmniNovos Ma-ch 1 Secretary Foster has decided to remain until after the adjournment of the preseut session of congress hen he will make a short visit to his home in Ohio for the purpose of arranging his private affairs for a Permanent residence in Washington He said that he did not propose making ell sweeping changes in the treasury dePartment and that the few that might be made void be for the good of the service Eloodrd By a Storm CITY or Mrsico March Port of San Felipe has been flooded by a Itnrm One achooner one lighter and thirteen tonacka have been week1d Eighteen bootleg have heen de4r9Yer" Ind many families made homeless A 'lumber of lives have been lost and many cattle drowned The coldest weather of the vtintar bleeping down over the northwest At Prince Albert thmithermometer rer hitered 40 degrees below zero Qt laPPelle had a temperatore of 40 degrees below and lVinnipeg SS degrees Geo Reyno ION Pres Itiaardson viee-Pm Boyle Cast First National Bank SUCCEEDS OKLAHOMA BAND' OKLAHOMA CITY Transacts a General Banking Business Accounts of and Farmers Solicited WoCuarantee Courteous and Liberal Treatment -'the of this Bank are substantial and pnwlical business men Ma' Beyeoids president of First National Rank Albany Texas Capital and eurplus $100500 President and General Manager of MOlinle cattle Co Capital $705som Vier President Reynolds Land and Cat ileCapital $10000u0 Mr Richardson is Vier-Pres Jones Lumber tee 14W0 lekaudbas a yen' at this point and largely Interested in S5 other yards We Cite Ike Above in order to sheer that wears not a wild eat Bank but kayo come to Nay Davidson YUMA DX8TROVXD The Flood Almost Annihilates the Arlsona Town SAN FRANCISCO March received by the railroad officials from Yuma say that every building in the town except the Southern Pacific hotel and the penitentiary were destroyed by the flood The Gila and Colorado rivers rose thirty-three feet above low water mark The passenger and freight depots were both flooded and water rose to a level with the bridge across the Colorado river Yesterday morning the river dropped seventeen inches in an hour and the Yuma remithnts are feeling less anxious In orders to prevent the bridge from being carried away by the freight depot being net afloat the building was blown up with dynamite All the country eastward for twenty miles is under water and the Southern Pacific traeks are washed out for fully Oast distance Trains are running between El Paso and Tucson but west bound passengers are held at Tucson The Crisis in Honolulu SAN FRANCISCO March I The Chronicle's 110nOltilil letter dated February la says: "Affairs are in a critival condition Serious troubles are certain to come sooner or later A threatening anonymous letter was printed this tnorning addressed to Justice Judd warning him that the queen's life as in danger it is an open secret that the letter was written by Robert Vilicox the revolutionist for the purpose of inangurating a public demonstration against the queen Just before the Charleston sailed it was reported that the queen had selected a new cabinet as follows: Mr Wilwm premier and minister of interior Samuel Parker minister of foreign affairs Mr Curtins minister of finance: Mr lilting attorney general The queen has not yet appointed the heir apparent to the throne" Attacked By Triohinoels IDA (IDIOM IL March I-In the neighborhood six miles south of here several cases of trichinosis have appeared three of whieh have proved fatal and some ten more persons afflicted are not expected to reeover The disease first appeared in the family of Charles Weal-burg an industrious German farmer The family lately butchered and made a large amount of bologna sausage and friends and neighbors were called in tA) partake of it Those who did so were afterward strieken Three gradually grew worse became stiff tinti sore and died They are Funderman Vent burg a nephew and Mrs t'einburg learned Animosity i'A km March instructions sent by Chancellor Von Caprivi yesterday to the governorof Alsace-Lorraine Prince Von llohenlohe Schillingfurst to refrain from mitigating the passport regulations in Alsace-Lorraine as previously proposed and not to extend additional facilities to the inhabitants of the French frontier COMMIDWA to attend markets and fairs in German territory have caused considerable excite meta in Paris The Parisian nett spa pers to-day published violent articles Private Land Court VA ND I NOTON March eon ferees on the house and mmate bills to establish a private land court have reached an agreement the house conferees agreeing to accept the bill passed by the senate with several modifications The most important of these mod ficittions is to provide that the court shall consist of one chief justice and four associate justices instead of one chief justice and two associate justices as both house and Renate bills proposed Mrs Woodworth Diva-red Rocummrea Ind March 1-1rx Maria 1Voodworth the noted evangellmt with granted a divorce Thursday on account of the adultery of her hiikhand with a colored girl in thih city The death of Sir Joseph VI iliam liaralgette the eminent engineer lb ann nuanced in London Three hundred and fifty Durham England strihert4 have been tined 1250 each for quitting without notice Item for Fine Ceiling Flooring Base taming Siding and All kinds Corner California Ave oluAllomA Our Stock is the largclit in the Oklahoma country and prices as low as largest We guarantee satisfaction to any who favor us with trade JONES ANEI WHOLESALE a CAPITAL 50000 8 Case of Lumber het Harvey Mid Pon OKLA TY RICHARDSON RETAIL DEALERS DEALERS IN FIRST CLASS AND LAIICES WEST OF KANSAS CITY Oklailoma LumbrA sisfi bo011S SWINGLE'S ETC Ve cart ra heavy stock and our motto is to be prompt filling bills COR HARVEY GRAND OK CM 11013C1-1 LIVERY BOARDING STABLE Call to and from all trains day tor night Corner Main and Itudnou to Telephone your orditra loom International Hotel corner Broadway and Grand Avenue Oncon et Vulorrinan! WHOLESALE WINES LIQUORS CIGARS (uFS A '41) GLASSWARE-THY WHOLESALE STUCK Ccrntr of Gtnd Ave and Robinson.