Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long.
Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius N. Bliss.
Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson.
The Senate confirmed the President's nominations, and the matter of the Cabinet was settled.
A very exciting account of a trip down a lumber flume comes from Pomona, California.
It seems that in the lumber regions on the Pacific Coast, flumes are built for the purpose of carrying the lumber from the camps in the mountains to the sawmills in the valleys below.
These flumes are a kind of V-shaped trough, about three feet deep, and are built on trestles after the manner of the elevated roads. The height of the flume from the ground ranges from twenty to one hundred and twenty feet, and they are fifty to sixty-five miles long.
The logs are floated down on water that is turned into the flume from the mountain streams. The time taken to make the trip is from two to three hours.
A party of three men was invited to go up to a lumber camp and take a trip down into the valley by one of these flumes.