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VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1893.
NO. 42.
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quviilluaerllun.
COLUMHIA COUNTY IMUrXTOttY.
(lay If Officer.
Judo ..Ili ail lllancliard, Italuler
Clerk K. K. Vnli'k, Hi. Ilelaui
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Viaoxic-HI, Helena Lodg. No. Il-Regular
fointutiuieettotia drat ami ttilrtl Halurdajr In
Wll mfiiiiii r .fmt r. . bi Mimiu iini-
lu( iii.iii beta III good ataudl.tg Invllail lu al
tetiil.
Uaome.-KaliiUir Indg, No. ll-Hlaled
luaatliiita rietuntay on or biorach full moon
al 7 mi r. al Maauulo halt, over illauclmrdi
alma. Vlalllug iiivmlwra III good atauillui In
vllrd la attaint.
Own Fellow Bt. llIn l-odg No. 117
Mmi. vry aatuiday night al 7 ! il 'lrniial.nl
brllirn In good .lauding cordially luflMd lu
au.iid.
Ika flalle.
IkiWD rlv.r (Imal) rloaaja at 9 80 At M.
Uii river (Imal) eloa al 4 T, M.
1 ha wall fur VtriKmla ami I'lllaluirf leav.i
HI. Helena kkuday, rVdnady ami Friday al
Ha.
1 ha mall for Marahlend. ClaLkanl ami Mlat
l.avr. tpituu Monday, tVduady ami Friday
al 11 M.
Mail. (railway) north do a' 10 A. .; lur
Porllaud al r. M.
Trlt.lara' 4JnleU-.HI ver Haul.
MTlian 'I, W. HHavaa-Ua.ca HI. Ilnlaua
lor Portland al II a. m Tiiaaday, 'I huradav and
Saturday. Iave Hi Helena lor rlaiaka.il
Monday, Wednesday ami Friday at 00 A. ta.
grata Isalua lee Hi, Helena for Purt
land 7 16 a. Mi reluming at M r. H.
HratHaa Juanrll Kklumw Uat.aHt llnlana
lor I'oilland dully iri Humlay, al 7 A. , r
rlvlnal I'urllmid al 10 30; rlunilii(, leaf
fiirllauv at 1 r. M., arrUlim at HI, Helena at 4.
1'UOFErtSJONAL.
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PHYSICIAN and SUKQEON.
8t. Unloiia, Oregon.
R, i. K. HAM.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
ClaUkniile, Columbia county, Or.
a. i.rrri.K,
SURVEYOR anl
CIVIL ENGINEER,
St. Helen Oregon.
Comity aiirYeyor, I.Miid iirvyliiT. town
i.latilng, ami cuKiucaring work pmiiiilly
aim.
OAVfATti
ADI MAHKt.
DiaiOM ATtNT.l
eoiaiDHTl. . atoJ
for Information, and fra llandhaok writ to
jJlINN a CO- Ml BmiAiiwAT, Naw Yor.
OMt puwao for aacurliig twtrau ta AaMrlea.
Ktary Plt.nl laM out bf ual. brnuH twf or
tL iiubiui by a oouo. ian t ra ot oliam la lb
Tht Overland Routt.
Two Iralni dally, !
. IngKllthandlatraeta,
Uraud Central U.pot.
No. 2, "The Mmlted
Ft Mail," leaving al
7:H0 r. carrlea Vaatl
I luile rullinan I'alac
'sleeping and D n ug
cra and (re Keolliilng
'Chair Car. through
from Portland to , Chi-
j,:.".p eHKo,ii""',v" '
without Chang. Thla train make. dlrj con
neolliuia lor Uenver, Kanaaa City, HI. ixii,
leiena "llu tie anil Ht.'PHUl ; .!
Pullman Hlecper "dChalr Car lor Walla ,
Collax. Farinlnglon, Itocklord l,u "
making direct oonneotloiia lor paylon, Pom
roy. Moauow and Cimird'Alen.
No. 8, "Overland Klyer," loav nf at
carrl... P1.ll.na11 I'alaoa and 1o i ftot lPri
from Portland to Mlaaour! rlvjr ""'""''J"!''
'll.rougn.ru .....iv-n. y
I.HAVlt rilHTI.Nn.
ColumUla...Mayl,lll,
Hlalo May n, 17, W
..... Uam Vmiscmtn.
Orwicon May 4, 16,2;
0W,n;i;i;ire.BU;.--rit-toA.g.
Btal May 12,34
itfimern or iniini;
eainera or anillng dayi . . t)nITT1(Mrn.
POHTI.ANU ".'" H.i.V.
iTl-mL nl leav""." A;.or.7dily:.i:
Monday., Wednoa.lay. th
torla Hie morning bnatmake. 'ndn'gi on in
Oregon .ldo Moti.Uya, i Wodndayi and daya,
and on the Waahlngton aid lueadaya, tnur.
'VjUKja' uouft-I-aav. A.h atreat at 8 A. .
''to'daVTOHD ' wY l,ANWN0S-Moi-
''a'l OTUKR Btamrl lar Irom Aihtret
J eotentlflo American
J Ajency for
V1fSAwinh
Mr.X Tjr TNADI MAHK,
.V'fV DlalON ATtNT
tarmn eliwilaHon of any artrntlfln sanar In tha
wSrTdT Hulandidl? Illuafrawd, No liiijUJajoJ
earl 11.10a 1 nionlha. Addraay MPNN JU
ttiujuiaM J til llroadway. Maw York Clt
THE ' PACIFIC COAST.
Hydrophobia Raging Among
Coyotes In Arizona.
THE NICKEL MINES IN OREGON.
An Arlzinn Probate Judge Deponed
for rorpcry and Embezzle-incut-
Clnls Evaiii,
. Fpiikimn nrnl rortlaud are now con-
niTimi ny U'Ii'iimiii,
Tacoiiia will Htili) about aovnutv car
K'' or T.OOD.OOO bunlieU of wlieu't tbig
your.
Two nion, A. W. Iliwi ami Mr. Will
litliia. are rcimrteJ loat
dimort.
CliriH KVBIIB IB COUlnlltllllnir of rmln In
III aibtli'M eye. The bull iiiut entered
tliuro in etill hi bin bowl.
HeiTutitry Ilnrlwrt bun oriloriHl Imn!
niiilHtonu or Kraniin to bo imed in the
ootiHtrui-tion ol the I'ort Orchard dock
in s tend of Teiiino canilHlone.
E. W. French. Probate JuiIko of Yav.
gpni comity, A. T., chargtxl with forory
ami enilH'zli'iiiciit, hna bcun dopofed
and J, F. Wilauii aiointud to succeed
him.
A Miibinarluo cable of 500 vnlla wu
laid between 8nn llicoand t'oronailotho
other day. It in to gupply the force to
run a uew electric road at the luttur
place.
A 200-foot tunnel hag hint lioen com.
ploted at the Hiiltitna mine in (irant
county, and a contract ia noon to be let
for one (MX) feet long. Kxpouurcg are
utlfiictory.
The coyotes in the Verdn river section
In Arirona are afletiteil with hydrophobia
to Mich an extent that it is ditnirurous to
tritvel tbrouxh that country and eiipeci
ally to camp at nilit.
Steps are alx)tit to lie taken toward the
construction of a huh ladder at the falls
of the Willamette at Oregon 'City, for
which tbo last Oregon U'lnflaluro lnndo
an appropriation of 10,OUO.
A Ixuidon com imn y Is said to have
bought the nickel mines in Oregon. It
is believed the company will erect a
plant to manufacture armor for battle
ships and for other purpooeg..
The Farmers' Insurance Oonirmnv at
PiKikanc has been so manauod that the
stockholder have been deceived, and a
receiver has txen apiMiinteil. The com
pany has out 1 2IH.0U0 worth of policies.
with afctso( (0,000.
A report comes from Txs Aneelesconn-
tv, Cul., that a trrove nf bananas in the
C'ahuenira fiKithills will produce this sea
son 'JSjti bunches of )iood, merchantable
fruit, and will yield, it ia said, a hand
some profit to the owner.
A bank In Arizona, which closed a
short time ai?o, isnued tbo following no
tice: "This bank has not busted; it
owes the people KKJ.OOO; the people owe
It too.OOO; It is the people who are bunt
ed when they pay we'll pay."
The Board of Public Works at Taeoma.
has discovered a shortage of 6,GO0,OUO
gallons of water daily in t he water com
pany's guaranteed supply, which was
purchaned recently by tho citv, together
with the elot trie-light plant, lor 11,750,
000. From authentic reports received at
Poi tland bv persons in a position to know
it is believed that there has been a re
cent and sudden nprising among the na
tives of Aliinka. Many persons were
killed, among them being several mis
sionaries sent out by the American
Hoard.
According to the report of Receiver
Iludley the Oregon Pacille fe running
behind. He reports: June, earnings,
21.H3S.10; expenses, 125.(117 41; loss,
8,784.21. July, earnings, f 10.040.31 ; ex
penses, 12:1,581.67; loss. tfl.B41.8U. Au
gust, earnings, 110:10701; expenses,
(10.238.61; lo.is, t:i,70.l0.
The Linn Countv Hoard of F.ipialixa
tion has assessed the Southern Pacific at
(4.000 per mile on the road and t5"7 on
rolling stock on tho main line. The Or
egonian and tabanon branch was placed
at (3,000 on the roadbed, and the
Oregon Pacific will lie aliout (4,800 on
roadbed and rolling stock.
It la soid at Rosoburg that the Coos
Hay Railroad Company has receded from
its'demands for a subsidy of 75,OO0 from
the Rosobiirg people to (50,000. The
sum subscribed up to the present time
Is onlv (28,000, but it is expected that
the (22,000 deficit will soon be made up,
and that the line will then run direct to
Roseburg. '
The Southern Pacific Company ran a
free excursion train out of Sacramento
tho other afternoon, bound for Ueno,
Nev. Between 300 and 400 Indians, who
went there to nick hops, were provided
with accommodations and sent to their
homes In the Sagebrush State. They
went in freight cars, and pulled out for
the mountains cheering.
A letter received at Kaslo, B. 0., dis
closes the fnct that a young fellow who
ran a restaurant in that town, and who
died lately from fever and dysentery,
was the son of an Irish Karl. The young
man, who was always very reticent about
his people, was a general favorite. Ilia
name was Charles Reginald Weatherly,
and his mother is Lady Louisa of the
same name.
Frank Shay, a Southern Pacific Com
pany attorney and for many years Sena
tor Stanford's private secretary, is con
sidered to know better than anyone else
the valno of the great estate left by
Stanford. 1 le says (55,000,000 would bo
a conservative estimate of the value of
the property. The assessed value of real
estate owned by the late Senator is .'!,
2:10.000, and the market value probably
(12,000,000.
Mavor Mason of Portland has selected
Miss Eugenia Shelby to touch the but
ton which will launch the battle ship
Oregon. Miss Shelby 1b the sixteen-year-old
daughter of Eugene Shelby, a
Common Councilman of Portland and
agent at that point for Wells-Fargo Ex
press. The Oregon will be christened
bv Misa Daisy Ainsworlh, a native of
Oregon and tne daughter of one of the
pioneers of that State. Miss Ainsworth
is now a resident of Oakland, Cal. Miss
Shelby la granddaughter ol General
Lane, who was appointed Governor of
the Territory of Oregon by Preaident
Tyler in 1849.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
It has been figured that Philadelphia
took aliout 480,000 baskets of peaches
this season,
The Aztecs filled quills with gold dust,
sealed them and passed them from hand
to hand ag coin.
New York clojma the distinction of
being the only Stnte that produces both
rock and brine salt.
A paper has been invented in Germany
from which Ink writing may be erased
with a moist sponge.
The aniline dyes were Invented in 1820,
and now over (7,000,000 worth are annu
ally used in the United States.
Female tramps are disposed to claim
their share of a business which bag here
tofore been monopolized by men.
The largest gold coin in circulation Is
tho "loof" of Anam, which weighs as
much as 825 United States dollars.
Pennsylvania ranks first In the cigar
output of the country. New York, Ohio
and Florida follow In the order named.
The largest gold nugget ever known
was the " Sarah Sands,'7 found In Aus
tralia. It weighed 233 pounds 4 ounces
troy.
Reports of Increase of street railroad
earn ings where electricity has superseded
mule power In large cities average 90 per
cent.
More than 10,000 tons of salmon were
packed by the canneries on the Frazer
river, B. C, this season. It took nearly
30,000,000 cans.
Among the curious products of the
Slate of Maine are wooden bottles. These
are made not for liquids, but for pills,
powders and tablets.
Cuba has 102 coffee plantations, 700
sugar plantations, 4,500 tobacco estates,
8,200 cattle farms and 1,700 small farms
devoted to various products.
The silver product of the United States
Is about 8m per cent of our total min
eral production, which according to tho
census was in 1880 (587,230,602.
Commander Ludlow of the Mohican,
which has been patrolling Behring Sea
all summer, estimates the product of pe
lagic sealing inis year at ou.uuu skins.
The stoppage of silver mining will re
duce our annual supply of gold by ono
third. Just about 33 per cent of the
yearly yield of gold ia taken out of silver
mines.
A telegraphic printing instrument, re
cently perfected, threatens not only to
supersede the telephone as at present
employed, but to revolutionize telcgro-
iliy in general.
Counting: the hearing and non-bearing
orange trees in Florida, there are esti
mated to lie 10,000,000 trees. Cal ifornia
is credited with having 6.000,000 trees
and Arizona about 1,000,000.
One tow boat on the Mississippi In a
f ood stage of water can take from St.
.on is to New Orleans a tow carrying
10.000 tons of grain, a quantity that
would require fifty trains of ten cars
each.
The whaling industry has fallen off so
much as to play but a small part in the
world's commerce. The latest figures
obtainable show the production to aver
age between 15,000 and 20,000 tuns of
252 gallons each per year.
F. P. Loomis, formerly United States
Consul at St. Ktienne, says that from an
investigation he made he finds that about
05,000 Americans of the better class visit
Europe every year, and that they spend
about (100,000,000.
Erastus Wtman ia reported aa saying
in a late address that there are $455,000,-
000 in the fortv-one savings banks ot
JNew York and Brooklyn, held by more
than 1,000,000 depositors, and the capi
tal of all the national banks in the coun
try is only (700,000,000.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. Blount, the ex-Minister's wife.
says that some of the native women she
met in Honolulu were as cultivated and
refined aa any women she ever saw.
Five Irish Peers take their titles from
places that are not to be found on the
map of Ireland. These are the Duke of
Aberdeen, the Earl of Sheffield, the Earl
of Darnley, Viscount Bangor and Vis
count Hawarden. '
A brother of the King of Siam, with
a numerous suite, is expected to arrive
in Italy shortly. After visiting Naples
and Rome the Siamese Prince will pro
ceed to Monz, where he will be received
by King Humbert.
William F. Weeks, the New York law
yer who embezzled millions of his cli
ents' money, and who is now a fugitive
from justice located in Costa Rica, was
one of the original owners of the town-
site of Kverett, Wash. He Is still Inter
ested in a great deal of property in that
vicinity.
Mrs. R. R. Phillips, a respected resi
dent of Salem, Mass., has just recovered
train an eighteen montns' sickness, dur
ing which time she was given up for
dead twice. She makes the startling
claim that she died and came to life
again. Mrs. Phillips also alleges to have
got a glimpse of heaven.
Belva Lockwood confesses to 63 years
of experience in this wicked world. She
was born in new xork, taugnt school at
14 and was married at 18. Her youthful
characteristics according to her own ac
knowledgment included a fondness for
walking on top of rail fences, a fearless
ness of snakes and an Inability to keep
ner lace clean.
Alexander Herbert Bailev. the lost
Englishman for whom search has been
in progress for several years past by the
solicitor of an estate in England, of
which Bailey is the heir, has been dis
covered at fast. He has recently been
peddling books for a Chicago publishing
house and posing as a spiritualistic me
dium for recreation through Washington
county, ra.
Mr. Balfour, who will, it is thought.
be Premier of England some day if
his health lasts. Is also thought to be the
most interesting bachelor in England.
He is handiioine, his face being uncom
monly rellnsd and clever in expression;
anil for a statesman he is young, his
years counting 45. He is a nephew of
the Marquis of Salisbury, and an unmar
ried sister prerides over his household.
Victor Herbert, the composer and vlo-
loncelliKt, is the new leader of Gilmorc's
band. People are wondering what so
tine a musician as Herbert will do in
such a position, to which the members
of the band have elected him, with Mrs.
Gilmore's hearty approval. Mr. Reeves,
who has been leader since shortly after
P. S. Gilmore's death, will return to
Providence and resume the control of
the band which so long bore his name.
EASTERN NEWS.
Negro Scab Miner Shoots a
Boy in Kansas.
THE VIRGINIA PEANUT CROP-
Precocloua Pupil Packing Platola
Bartholdl'a Magnificent Stat
uary Group Firebug.
The harvest of the Florida orange crop
has commenced.
A dispatch from Fall River says that
all the mills are running.
Homes and cattle are dying of drouth
in various parts of Texas.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment about (7,000,000 per year.
Mob law was strongly condemned by
the Knoxville (Tenn.) Presbytery.
James A. Garfield is to have a monu
ment in Fainnount Park, Philadephia.
Congressman de Armond proposes a
tax on all incomes in excess of (10,000.
The report of the Utah Commission
says that polygamous marriages are
thing of the past.
Over one-fifth of the whole number of
people in the United States have visited
the World's Fair.
Georgia negroes will form an associa
tion to prevent lynchings and other out
rages upon the race.
Secretary Lamont has appointed a
board to appraise Fort Bliss in Texas,
with a view to its sale. .
Ex-President Harrison is said to have
received (1,600 for a recent magazine ar
ticle on the World's Fair.
More than 4,000.000 words have been
used in Congressional debate since the
silver repeal question came up.
Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang
ing from 9 to 12 years old, have been ar
rested for carrying revolvers to school.
More than one-half of the Cherokee
Strip boomers have already left their
claims and gone back to their old homes.
Virginia comes up smiling with the
largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk
reports 500,000 bushels more than last
year.
The Missouri State Board of Railroad
Commissioners and the express compa
nies are preparing a new schedule of
rates.
Railroad trains will shortly be lit by
electricity. The New York Central rail
road is probably the first to use that
system.
Representative Cooper of Texas has
introduced resolutions in the House re
ferring the question of silver to a vote
of the people.
Immigration into Canada has proven
a failure the past year, a decrease of 25
per cent compared with the .previous
year being shown.
Kansas farmers have been taken in by
swindlers, who sell a compound alleged
to double the amount of butter from a
given amount of cream.
A Kentucky Congressman wants the
government to pay rent for the school
houses and churches used as hospital
by the armies during the war.
The canal between Georgia Bay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to the seaboard by over
1,000 miles, ia nearing completion.
In Maryland the 6 nest varieties of
peaches are selling in the orchards at 25
cents a bushel. Prices are so low that it
does not pay to ship them to market.
The Chicago grand jury has found in
dictments against twelve men, who are
charged with arson. They were com
bined to insure houses and then burn
them.
A whistle that will make itself heard
for twentv-flve miles has just been fin
ished by John Bowman, and it will adorn
the car shops at Third'and Berks street,
Philadelphia.
The indebtedness per head in Colorado
is (206. Even Kansas, which has always
been an insatiate borrower, has only
succeeded in running up a mot gage debt
of (170 per head.
A Rochester man has devise l a plan
by which a trolley start cur can be
stopped almost instantaneously, or with
in a space of three feet, while the car is
going at full speed.
Bartholdi's magnificent statuary group
which is at present on exhibition at the
World's Fair will be kept at Chicago.
The work is of bronze, and is composed
of heroic figures of Washington and La
fayette. The silver-mine owers at Aspen, Col.,
have proposed a sliding scale of wages
to the men, but the latter are not dis
posed to accept it, and work will not be
resumed until the price of silver justifies
the old wages.
The New York World boasts of having
iven away in charity on a recent Sun
ay morning a pile of bread "20 feet
long, 6 feet high and 6 feet wide," and
" did not have enough to give each hun
gry man a loaf."
A bill appropriating (3,447,045 for the
payment of damages sustained by citi
zens of Pennsylvania from Union and
Confederate troops during the late war
was reported favorably in the House by
the Committee on War Claims.
Sensational newspaper writers are at
tributing to New York bankers and to
the United Stated Treasury officials
threats to " turn the screws " and bring
on another financial convulsion if tho
Senate does not soon pass the repeal
bill.
During the month of October the State
of North Dakota will offer for sale nearly
100,000 acre o! the choicest lands, all
located in the famous Red River Valley,
State owns 3,500,000 acres, being a part
of the grant of land donated by Con
gress. '
Oklahoma had a population in 1800
larger than Wyoming when admitted as
a State, and with the increase since and
the sudden addition of fully 60,000 more
on the opening of the Cherokee Strip it
must have now a population of over
130,000.
A party of negro miners passing
through Chicope, Kan., from a visit to
Wier were called " scabs " by a lot of
boys, and stones were thrown at them,
when one of the negroes fired his pistol
at the -boys, wounding one. Much ex
citement resulted, and the negroes were
taken to Pittsburg, Kan., to avoid
trouble.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Senator Dolph has Introduced a bill to
ratify the agreement with the Indians
on the Siletz reservation, Oregon, for the
cession of their lands not needed for al
lotment. Arrangements are being made at the
Navj Department for the trial of the
new cruiser Olympia, built by the Union
Iron Works of San Francisco. The trial
will take place about November 1 over a
forty-mile course in Santa Barbara Chan
nel between Point Conception and Santa
Barbara.
According to a Treasury statement is
sued by Secretary Carlisle the amount of
money in circulation in the United
States October 1 was (1,701,030,918. The
average circulation per capita, estimat
ing the population at 67,300,000, is there
fore (25.29, a net increase in circulation
during September of (21,377,247. The
greatest item of increase was gold coin,
viz., (14,829,741.
President Cleveland has signed the
proclamation setting apart a large tract
of land as a forest reserve under the act
of March 3, 1891. The reservation will
be known as the ' Cascade forest reser
vation." It extends from the Columbia
river 200 miles southward, abont twenty
miles wide, taking in the Caecade Range.
Hereafter no settlement will be allowed
within its boundaries.
Secretary Hoke Smith has sent to the
Secretary of the Treasury estimates for
appropriations for the Interior Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1895. The appropriations asked aggre
gate (176,779,134, as against $180,087,030
for the current fiscal year. The principal
item is the army and navy tensions,
which foot up (160,000,000. This is a
decrease of (5,000,000 from the present
fiscal year.
Representative Henderson has had
prepared for introduction into the House
a resolution for the appointment of a
special committee of five to investigate
and report on the transactions of the
sugar trust, with power to sit during the
session of Congress, to send for persons
and papers, to secure the aid of the De
partment of Justice and, if the facts
warrant, to report a bill to annul its cor
porate existence.
Judge Charles D. Long of Detroit, and
a member of the Supreme Court of
Michigan, has filed a petition for a man
damus in the District Court to compel
the Commissioner of Pensions to pay his
(plaintiffs) pension, which, he holds, is
illegally suspended. This will bring out
the whole question of the action of Pen
sion Commissioner Loch re n in suspend
ing pensions. The Commissioner is cited
to show cause October 19 why the writ
should not issue.
Representative Hermann has favor
ably reported to Congress his bill from
the Committee on War Claims, requir
ing the adjudication of claims for com
pensation for property lost in the mili
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cause of the statute of limitations. It
is ot interest to claimant in me inaian
wars of the Pacific Coast.
The Democratic members of the Ways
and Means Committee are making prog
ress with the tariff bill. The ground
work is understood to be free raw mate
rials, with compensatory reductions on
other materials. There is a growing im
pression that the consequent deficit in
the receipts will be met by increased in
ternal revenue taxes on whisky and to
bacco. Carlisle is understood to favor
an increased tax on whisky to (1.20, cal
culating this will increase the revenue
(30.OJO.000.
The charges made by the citizens of
Oklahoma City of alleged misconduct on
the part of Captain D. F. Steele of the
United States army (retired) in connec
tion with the opening of Oklahoma to
settlement had their effect in the issuing
of an order by the Secretary of War for
the court-martial of Captain Steele. He
is charged with fraud in his official ca
pacity, while in command of the troops
in 1892, to secure control of some of the
best land sites in the Territory and with
making a bargain with an auctioneer by
which he purchased at the very lowest
price government buildings and other
property sold when the military camp
was broken up. The court-martial will
meet at Fort Reno, Oklahoma.
In his report to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs Prof. Putnam in charge
of the ethnological exhibit of the
World's Fair denounces as falsehoods
the charges by Mrs. Sickles, Chairman
of the Universal Peace Union, that bru
tal and cruel exhibitions of the Indian
sun dance were given at the fair. The
accusation are characterized as misrep
resentations ; he says there ha been no
representation of the Indian sun dance,
and there has not been a single Indian
belonging to the United States who has
taken part in any exhibition except the
Navajos, who have been quietly sitting
in a hut weavingand making silver work.
Indians from Vancouver Island, who are
entirely outside the jurisdiction of the
United States, have given exhibitions,
performing ceremonial song and dance.
Secretary Carlisle ha sent to the
House his reply to the resolution of that
body asking him why 4,500.000 ounces
of silver bullion were not purchased dur
ing July and August aa required by law.
The reply says, a the United States is
the largest purchaser of silver in the
world, the Secretary of the Treasury
after an examination of the offers and
quotations each day should determine
what in his judgment is a fair price. He
either has to purchase 4,500,000 ounces
at the dealers' prices, no matter how un
reasonable or exorbitant, or he must em
ploy such means as are at hi command
to ascertain the actual market price.
The effort ot the department since June
12 has been to simply ascertain the fair
market price of bullion each day it was
offered for sale, and when ascertained to
make purchases at that price.
The Foreign Affair Committee has
decided to report favorably the McCreary
substitute for the Everett bill. As agreed
on, it extends the Chineso registration
period six months from the passage of
the act. It strikes out the word "white"
from the Geary act so as to permit the
testimony of anybody except Chinamen
to be adduced to prove "Chinamen are
entitled to register." It defines a Chi
nese laborer. Geary offered his amend
ment requiring photographing in con
nection with the identification clause,
but onlv secured three votes in its sup
port. The majority deemed the regula
tions of the Treasury Department suffi
cient. Geary cast the onlv adverse vote.
He declare the bill's teeth are drawn,
that it Is a makeshift in keeping with
the course of the administration, and
that he will fight it tooth and nail.
FOREIGN CABLES.
British Battle Ships Modified
as Regards Armor.
THE VAST RUINS OF POMPEIL
Germany's Foreign Trade The Bi
cycle Becoming Very Popular
Throughout France.
Parliament will meet again on Novem
ber 2.
Queen Victoria has added a typewriter
to her secretarial staff.
A new great seal for Ireland has just
been ordered at cost of 440.
In England there 1 a feeble move
ment in progress against tipping.
The Bri tish Labor Congress has agreed
that the day of strike ha passed.
The King of Sweden used the tele
phone for the first time a few days ago.
Egypt's cotton crop this year will be
50.000,000 pounds larger than in 1892.
Widespread suffering ha resulted from
the strikes in the English coal mine.
It is estimated that there are less than
10,000 paupers in the Japanese Empire.
The French government charge wom
en a tax of (10 each for wearing trousers.
The Pope ha postponed indefinitely
hi encyclical concerning social ques
tion. There are association in Great Britain
which insure against elopement, matri
mony and twins.
The Argentine government announce
that the revolution in the Republic ap
proaches its end.
Experiments made in tobacco cultiva
tion throughout Europe have not given
much promise of success.
Under extreme pressure Siam ha
agreed to sign both the treaty with
France and the convention annexed.
Local telegrams are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes in most
of the principal cities of Great Britain.
Worn sovereigns and half-sovereigns
to the amount of 16,000,000 were with
drawn from circulation last year in Eng
land. The women of Iceland, who have bad
municipal suffrage ever since 1882, have
now been made eligible to municipal of
fice. Prof. Koch, the great bacteriologist,
has got himself into trouble by divorcing
bis wife and marrying a Berlin variety
actress.
There ia littie doubt that the whole
Austrian Cabinet will resign if royal
sanction to the civil marriage bill is
withheld.
A million acres of oat were grown
this year in Scotland, and only 280,000
acres were devoted to all the other grain
together.
Last month the officer of the Fish
mongers' Company, London, Feized and
destroyed 10U tons of fish as antit for
human food.
The coercive measure against the
young Czechs, the Nationalist of Bohe
mia, continue to be enforced with in
creasing rigor.
A number of smaller coal pit inaStaf
fordshire, Nottinghamshire and Derby
shire, England, have reopened at the old
rates of wage.
The vintage in France and Italy this
year are unusually good. In France the
output and quality of champagne will
be exceptional.
Germany' foreign trade for the first
seven months of the year show a heavy
falling off in imports and a considerable
increase in exports.
So vast are the ruin of Pompeii that
they cannot all be excavated at the ordi
nary rate ot progress before the middle
of the next century.
The Moslem plant a cypress tree on
every grave immediately after the inter
ment, which makes the Moslem ceme
teries resemble forests.
The three British battle ships now un
der construction have been modified as
regards armor in view of the informa
tion gained by the loss of the Victoria.
A new street railway is being laid in
Cairo, Egypt. Passenger will hang to
the same kind of hand straps with which
cars are luxuriantly furnished in the
cities of America.
The fastest cruiser afloat ia the Yoshi
no, which has just been constructed by
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell A Co. for
the Japanese government. This vessel
attained a speed of 23.031 knots.
A projected canal from Marseille to
the Valley of the Rhone is attracting the
attention of French engineers, and they
are at present engaged in seeking an
outlet on the Mediterranean coast.
The bicycle has become so popular in
France that the railroads are making
special accommodation for carrying the
machine and storing them at stations
for the use of traveler seeing the coun
try roads.
Mme. Lambert de Rothschild is among
the latest enthusiasts for bicycle-riding
in Brussels. She goes regularly to the
Bois de la Cambro to practice. Bicycle
riding has created quite a furore in the
city among the gentler sex.
An international exhibition will be
held at Vienna from April 20 to June 10,
1894. The exhibition will embrace eco
nomical food supply, army sustenance,
life protection and "means of transport
and a special sports exhibition.
Hardly ten years ago the first step was
taken in Germany to bring the whole
body of wage-earner under compulsory
State insurance. To-day nearly 13,000,
COO laborers are actually insured against
sickness, accident, invalidity and old
age.
Some one seems to have told the Sul
tan that chlorate of potash is a danger
ous explosive. Consequently no druggist
or pharmacist in Constantinople is al
lowed to possess or sell it. The Grand
Master of Artillery alone is allowed to
have it in keeping.
The authorities al Port Darwin, Aus
tralia, have notified the steamship com
panies that in future the strictest inter
pretation of the Chinese restriction act
will be enforced. This being so, no
steamer having on board more than two
Chinese passenger can enter Port Dar
win. ' -
PORTLAND MARKET.
Wmat Valley, 96974'c) Walla
Walla, 8687c per cental.
provision.
Eabtbrk Smoked Miats and Laro
Hams, medium, uncovered, 1416o
per pound; covered, H'iaiSc; break
fast baeon, uncovered, 16r17J6c; cov
ered, 16 Si 17c; short clear sides, 164
16c; dry salt sides, 1414ac; lard,
compound, in tins, 10Kc per pound:
pure, in tins, 1314c ; Oregon lard, 11
12gC.
BAO AND BAQOINO.
Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash,
6c; burlaps, 10i-ounce, 40-inch, net
cash, 6Mc; burlaps, llj-ounce, 46-inch,
7$c; burlaps,' 16-ounce, 60-inch, lie;
burlaps, 19-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat
bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel
oat bag, 7c; No. 1 selected second
hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24
ounce, 10c.
HOPS, WOOL AND HIDXS.
Hop '92s, 1016c per pound, accord
ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 11c for
inferior to 174c for choice.
Wool Price nominal.
Hidis Dry selected prime, 5c ; green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3c; under
60 pounds, 2 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings,
1015c; medium, 2035c; long wool,
30(3 60c; tallow, good to choice, 33e
per pound.
ixoina, hid, rrc.
Flobb Standard, $3.00; Walla Walla,
(3.00; graham, (2.50; superfine, (2.25
per barrel.
Oat New white, 3536c per bushel ;
new gray, 3233c; rolled, in bags, (6.25
6.50; barrels, (6.757.00; cases, (3.75.
MiLurrcrra Bran, (16.00; shorts,
(18.00; ground barley, $22(23; chop -feed,
(18 per ton; whole feed, barley,, 80
85c per cental; middlings, (23(328
per ton; chicken wheat, (1.10(31.25 per
cental.
Hay Good, (1012 per ton.
daisy pboducb.
Bottbb Oregon fancy creamery, -7)4 "
ig30c; fancy dairy, 2225c; fair to ,
good, 17g'20c; common, 1516c per
pound.
Cheesx Oregon, 1012c; Califor
nia, 1314c ; Young America, 1516c per
pound.
Egos 25c per dozen.
Poultry Chickens, old, (3.003.50;
broilers, (1.50(33.00; ducks, $3.004.00;
geeee, (8.009.00 per dozen; turkeys,
five, 14c per pound.
UVB AND DBBS8XD at BAT.
Bur Prime steers, $2.502.75 ; fair
to good steers, $2.00(32.50; good to choice
cows, (1.60(32.00; dressed beef, $3.50
6.00 per 100 pounds.
Mutton Choice mutton, (2.00(32.50;
dressed, (4.00(35.50; lambs, (2.00(32.60; '
dressed, (6.00; live weight, $2.00(32.50.
Hoos Choice heavy, $5.00(055.60; me
dium, $4-50(35.00; light and feeders,
Vbai-(4-006.00.
atlSCELLANEOU.
Tin I. C charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.509.00 per box; for crosses, (2
extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20,
prime quality, (7.60(38.00 per box ; terne
plate, I. C, prime quality, (6.50(37.00.
Nails Base quotations: iron, (2.25; '
steel, $2.35; wire, (2.50 per keg.
Stekl Per pound, 10 'c.
Lbad Per pound, 4gc; bar, 6!c.
NavalStobks Oakum, (4.50(c5.00 per s
bale; resin. $4.80(35.00 per 480 pounds;
tar, Stockholm, (13 ; Carolina, (9 per bar
rel ; -pitch, $6 per barrel; turpentine, 65c
per gallon in car lots.
Ibon Bar, 2c per pound; pig-iron,
M(S2o per ton.
CANNBD GOODS.
Cannbd Goods Table fruits, assorted,
$1.75(3:2.00; peaches, (1.85(32.00; Bart
lett pears, (1.75(32.00; plums, (1.37(3
1.50; strawberries, $2.25(32.45; cherries,
$2.25(32.40; blackberries. $1.852.00:
raspberries, (2.40.; pineapples, $2.25(3
z.au; apricots, $l.(jo(gz.ou. fie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,
$1.00(3.1.20 ; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per
dozen. Pie fruit, gallons, assorted,
fa.iuu.ii.uv, muin, o.ovvut.uv , urw.K'
cots. $3.50(34.00: nlnnm. 2. 75S3 00-- .'
blackberries, $4.25(34.50; tomatoes, $1.10.
Mkath Corned beef, Is, (1.50; 2s,
(2.40; chipped, (2.553.00: lunch
tongue, Is, $4; 2s, (6.75; deviled ham, .
1 7fi(S!! is
Fish Sardines, 8, 75c(2.25; ),
(2.15(34.60; lobsters, (2.30(33.50; sal
mon, tin 1-lb tails, (1.25(31.50; flats,
$1.75; 2-lba, $2.26(32.60; -barrel, (5.50.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Vegetables Cabbage, lc per pound;
potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack ; new on
ions, lc per pound; tomatoes, 35(3
40c per box; green corn, 15c per dozen; .
sweet potatoes, l)o per pound; egg
plant, $1.00 per box ; new California cel
ery, 90c per dozen ; Oregon. 35(35Uc.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $6.00(36 50 per
box; California new crop, $5.00(35.60
per box ; bananas, $1.50(33.00 per bunch ;
oranges, market bare; Oregon, peaches,
85c per box ; California, per box ;
fall butter pears, 6580c per box, liaise
per pound ; watermelons, 75c(3$1.50 per
dozen; nutmeg melons, (1.50 per box;
Casawvas, (2.00(32.50; grapes, 50(390c
per box; Italian prunes, 60(380c per box;
apples, Baldwin, King and Gravenstein,
85c(3(1.00 per box ; Waxen, 75j90c.,
STAPLE GROCERIES.
Dried Fruits Petite prunes, 10(3110)
silver, 110312c; Italian, lSJtfcj German,
10(311c; plums, 89c; evaporated ap
ple, 10 11c; evaporated apricots, 14 3
16c; peaches, 10(312Jc; pears, 7311c
per pound.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound;
new Oregon, 16(3 20c; extract, 9(310c.
Salt Liverpool, 100s, (16.00; 6O9,
(16.50; stock, (8.50(39.60.
Corraa Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 26)28c; Ar
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
cases, 25.30c per pound.
Bean Small white, 3(33)ic; pink,
Sc; bayoa, 33c; butter, 4c; lima,
3Kc per pound.
Rice Island, (5.75(36.00; Japan,
new urieana, d.du(so.zo per cental.
Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 40(355c;
in half-barrels, 42(357c; in cases,' 35(3 .
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California,
in barrels, 20(40c per gallon; (1.75 per
keg.
extra,
dered, 7o per pound ; 0 per pound '
discount on ail grades for prompt cash;
maple sugar, 16nl8e per pottnd.

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