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OKEoON
CCIDENTAL NEWS.
New Proress of Gathering Gold
From Columbia Sand.
THE OLD FLAG SHIP PEXSACOLA.
y Recommends to Pass Into the Temple
Dedicatory Ceremonies Sell
at High Figure.
Los -Angeles
hotel.
U to have a 11,000,000
A band of wild dog intents Hit! mesa
near Tucson.
Vancouver ImIbikI is agitating separa
tion trom the main land.
Ida Bailev. Los A ntrclcM' fetnulii ft.!.
pad, has been sent to FoIhoiii for two
years.
Smelts
bia river that quantities are taken out
wun scoop-nets.
A large number of Umatilla Indians
. Lave left the reservation for the summer
ami gone to the Columbia river to catch
saimon.
A new claimant to the Elizuldo estate
at Santa Durham hu appeared. Mury
KlWuiln in.. .1... . iir
saldo, is the claimant.
In a shonti l0 RITUtMl lit. PufUV Tdiil...
Uave Evan's life was saved by a package
ki which was in ms pocket, the
ouiiot lodging in the packago.
A bjg silver strike is rejiortcd in tlio
wjKo 'Jine in xavapal county, A. X, It
.J he Jre.it is stated, runs over 1,000
jwrfteoB to the ton,
It looks as if the old flagship Ponsaeola
lllsoon tw hauled into the wharf ut
'r Hare Island and work commenced on
'so hot to make her ready for use as a train
inghhip for the naval reserve,
Mr.'lladloy, tlio new reeelver of the
Oregon Pacific railroad, is liable to give
the stocholilers a shock of heart disease,
lie is absolutely making the. row I pay
expenses, something unknown for yenrH.
Interested parties have examined the
cement roon ioumt in iiianlities near
Santa Crus, and the rcHtilt of the test
has been announced. It is that the rock
is capable of producing the best of Port
land cement.
It has been discovered at Umatilla
that under a new process Columbia river
sand will pan out 14 per day in gold.
Tim sand is obtained twelve miles eimt
of Umatilla. Capitalists, aro investigat
ing the matter.
The case of the State of Oreiron atraiiiHt
Bam Harris for keeping his saloon open
punuay was inou uoiore justice Ulovo
Wnd at Astoria, the jury returning a ver
diet of not guilty.
The Jury in the suit of Miss Felicity
Allomand of Gilrov mmlimt. .losenh m.
thorson of San Francisco, for 110,000
damagoa for breach of promise of marri
age, has rendered a verdict in favor of
the plalntill for 1,200. .,
Mrs. Plucbe Richardson Is the twelfth
woman ever committed to the Oregon
penitentiary, She and her husband will
YSJMifiT'1 j.or malicious tlostrur
Hon ol piprTyt4iev hav n .eirirMn
pieces a neighbor's buggy and harness.
'Detectives were within sight of Soutug
and Evans, the train robbers, on the
North Fork of King's river. Thn outlaws
hod suowshoes mid used tliein to advaut
aire, making their way into the alums
lmicccssiblu mountains ahead of their
pursuers.
Captain Edward Bailey, Company C,
Fourth Infantry, stationed lit lloise,
Idaho, has been placed under arrcHt by
Mu lor Kennedy, commandant of the
jiost. on the charge of drunkenness and
gambling with the men of his command
in tho resorts of the city.
The new placer Held at ltorax I.ako,
150 miles from San llcrtmrdimi, is ut-
trautiiiit prospectors and miners. lry
washers are used, priMtucing toeach man
from (10 to -'8 per dav. Iho placer
field is large and practically unexplored,
ami rich turns are anticipated
John Siiugborg entered one of tlie big
revolving drums lined in connection with
roasting concentrates at the Huston unit
Montana Smelter at Ureal Falls, Mont.,
n ! miiiiii work, lie never came out,
and It Is supposed he fell down a Hue to
the furnace. 11 so, ium issiy nwnnii
pletely consumed in a short time. A
lantern let down In the Hue was melted
immediately.
Judge Watson of Coos county makes
the announcement that it will le impos
Bible for the County Court to do anything
i on bridges or roads huh year, since me
county cannot contract legally more than
n,IHHI Indebtedness, and it now owes
' 17,500. He also stales that supervisors
' ', will be obliged to work the roads this
t " Tear under the old law, as the court has
. evn unable to get a copy of Ihe new
j -nXTho Legislature of Arioiia has. passed
' a"oncnmint resolution requesting the
,Y - Prusldont of the tliitod Stales to oi.cn
' friendly negotiations with Ihe Kepubhc
i ofMexlwIiwWlnBtosiichan'adjusiineiil
" of the International boundary as will
irivo Arisona a sale ami ooiiiiiiouiuus. imr
bor near tho head of the tlulf of t ahfur-
Nnia and secure to ino oumur. -Vnitod
Stales participation in the vast
., and valuable fishing privileges of the
SfUl'
At Aiusa tho water pipe put In place
bv a contractor was found to have Ihtii
t t-loiweU with sand carried In and packed
bv Uie heavv rains. The question ol
.'J.'' to dear the the pipe, was .lv by
lng to gophers in one end. In juM
T;.Ti-thrve miniums ino gpm i
t SLs'vJivt'iii the race for then
J. " i fvwhe distance so rapidly thai
HVI' t: ''Vv lime lo hack-till Ih,
iiiBv (..f ,is then tumeil lliti
hole. fl "-A.. i ,i, !, fcK,
. I... muiher noi
cleaned out troni 1
nd to Wd.
At Astoria the Hdl. !'
twn Ihe Fisherinen'. If I mum.
IT, d the cannervmen, and there Ms no:
!m lHj anv prt.lbiUiy of breakim.
CI .TrlV V. , Ihe cannery.,,.-.
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il a ismiJn4i
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FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Secretary Morton Explains Why He
Keinoved a brother of James
l. Blaine Etc.
.awny .'.J.lfcll ll.n 1IC JIVIH.C
in thn Irw rlerlca anrl f.tlx.r liiirli-..ra A
employes of .the Interior Department
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ma, nu cAjirensioii oi opinion u ouisi'i
ers as to the prohahle solution of any
question pending before th department
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w uixmwi a niiiiicieiii eauHU lor uis-
nnssal.
The Department of State is still in
correspondence regarding tho refugees
who sought an asvlum in the United
States legation at Santiago. They claimed
to Ik- political offenders only, and as such
Minister Kuan aave them a refuse. The
Chilian government demanded their sur
render as common criminals, and asked
that Egan be instructed to deliver them
to the local authorities. This demand
has not been complied with by the
it..:. i J
j in Lei (-mien.
Commissioner Mason has iHSUwl a sup
plemental circular regarding Chinese
registration, conforming to tho changes
made by Secretary Carlisle. The Treas
ury Department, o far as advised, has
not lieen informed that the Chinese in
tend to register. The removal of the
photographing feature to accompany
registration is intended to relieve the
prejudice of the Chinese, hut an ollicial
oi ma department, who is intimately
associated with the execution of the law.
says that the Chinese are against the
law and do not intend to register.
The action of Secretary Carlisle in re-
iusiiig to purchase the Howling (ircen si
in New tirk citv for the; custom-hon
and in declining to accept the Chcstmit
street site in Philadelphia for the United
States mint is taken as an indication of
his policy in regard to the erection of
public buildings, which is understood to
lie to defer entering niton any costly pub
lic works in the present condition of the
Treasury. It is generally Is-lieved that
( olonel Lament, who us Secretary of
War will have charge of the river and
harlsir expenditures, will follow on this
same lino of action. Itetween the two
biiiciitn Luc pa v iiieiu ol sums aggre
gating from 10,UI(I,(KI0 to To.UWI.OOO per
year can no easily deterred, without
hampering public serviou, until the
Iruasury surilus begins to grow again
The paragraph in the navy regulations
recently issued, promoting naval olli
cers from acting as correspomlents of the
newspapers, is said to have had its ori
gin in the lute Chilian war. During the
struggle, the story goes, two naval olli
cers stationed at Valparaiso were in the
pay of certain New ork newspapers, to
which iney wired frequent inside, news
In cipher of the movements of the forces
engaged. It frequently happened that
lialmaccdii on the one side or the nrovi-
sional troops on the other were thus
made aware ol tho movements of tin
oilier, j lie news wits wired Irom .New
York by their friends. These movements
they could not otherwise havo known
l he provisional forces sulMcqiieutlv coin
plained of this to our government, am
alleged they had been seriously em bar
rassed thereby. Thereupon the Unitcc
States expressed regret at what lia
passed, ami rendered n repetition of tin
complaint impossible bv causing the in
sertion of the much-talked-of paragraph
in mu new regulation.
Secretary Morton's attention has been
culled to certain criticisms upon his re
liioval of Robert U. Uluine from the po
sition of chief of the quarantine division
ol t lie hiireuu of annual industry, ihe
Secretary said that when he took charge
of thn Department of Agricudure bv
found Sir. jUiiino occupying a position
with practically no Uu'tirs to perform
aun drawing a salary ol a,ooo per an
num. It was one of tlio most evident
sliiocuros in the depnrtment, and he
could not consistently allow it to remain
even though the incuiiiliciit happened ti
l the brother of the late James ti
Itlaine. If he had been the brother of
President Cleveland, the result would
have Is'en the same. The Secretary sail
ine only uihiiioii which could ne taken
ill the interest of economy ami good
government was lo aluilish Ihe divi
sion, which consisted of one man.
ami assign the clerical work con
net ted Willi Ihe stations to the divisions
of Held investigations ami miscellaneous
work of the bureau of animal industry,
where il had really been done during
.Mr. lllame s uicumoeiicy.
Extraordinary efforts will be made tn
secure adjudication upon the Chinese
exclusion act bv Ihe Supreme Court at
this term. The mailer has I urn the
subject of corrcsHiiilence between the
governments of tho United Slates and
( lima, ami at the request of the State
Department the IVpartinciit of Justice
has completed the nectMsarv prelimi
naries in conjunction with I lie counsel
of the Chinese government ami its sub
jects in this country. I'ndcr the terms
of the tleary law a case to determine
the validity of the act cannot be licgun
until Ihe 5th of next mouth. In ordi
nary circumstances it is inqxissihlc lo
hruig a lesl case ladore the Supreme
Coiirl of the I'uited Slates before ad
journment for the summer recess, but
by Ihe concurrent action of all parties
interested, which has hecn secured in
view of the important international
character of the questions involved, the
standing (d the law will be decided
within a few weeks, thus obviating a
long, tedious mid expensive litigation,
I'he arrangement entered into contem
plates Ihe arrest ol a Chinese lalsirer in
Sew York for a violation of the terms oi
Ihe law, a prompt decision in the lower
courts and an appeal to the Snorcinc
Court of the I'uited Slates, which mav
be blind May H. If the programme
shall Ih carried out, the decision will he
render! by the middle of May, at which
time ihe court expects to adjourn for the
term.
During the last session of Congress a
measure was lobbied through granting
Ihe privilige lo W. K. White ami a Chi
nese named Chang 1'ak Otiai ol bringing
1,000 Chinese lo the World's Fair for the
purHw of pulling uj a Chiin - village,
I he steamer China has on Niard ncai lv
500 Chinese, ho are said to lc on their
nay lo tho Worlds lair. The delicate
oucslioh is lircscntcd to the Collector of
the port of San Francisco a to who arc
entitled lo go lo Chicago and who lo re
main. So far as know I, these Chinese
have no laiers to show tin v are a i.rt
of the Chiuee village, tjuai x ill not r-
ive on the China wit It the tirsl install
neat of Chinese, lie is expected to fol
low on Ihe bclgic with the second he
Mailmcut of about iVK1. ( touiste. every
t hmamaii hi arrive timing ihe next
-ix in. uiths will uw rl that be, or
v lie way lo Ihe ctosi! ion. and
Viv,ll follow. In litis wav it j
V' - lH v Chi u'ese j
Francisco, nntl lhei
.( stopping them. In
inx tor I helps : '"1 ,
'V-i
1 don't know what to '
K 1 don't hv that
j'Xacl bond from
Viw on me way,
of Congress I
V.nu. It thev
EASTERN MELANGE.
French-Canadians Coming; Over
in Great Multitudes. .
CHEEOKEES RATIFY TREATY,
The Amount Paid in Dividends by the
Carnegie Steel Company for
Last Year Reduced.
There is a tendency in Virginia to grow
less louaceo,
Three expeditions will cut out for the
isortli t'ole this seasxn.
Standard time has gone into effect in
unio iy a.'t ot legislature
Chicago and Huffalo will be but eleven
hours apart by the new fast train.
The Hanger and the Albatross will pa
trol isehrmg sea the coming season
Extensive prairie fires are reported in
Kentucky, owing to the long dry spell.
Three thousand acres an; wanted in
Southeast Missouri for a Welsh colony.
A coal com pan v with a capital of
00O.0IHJ has iust been formed at Kansas
City.
Allegheny City and Pittsburg mav join
hands to build a big water-supply res
ervoir.
It is said that there are 10,000 appli
cants for postinastershipg in the State of
Oeorgia.
The Ohio river railroad lines have
agreed upon a 2-ccnt-a-milo rate for the
vc..ri.i'u v,,;-
Steps havo been taken in Eastern
Massachusetts for the extermination of
the gypsy moth
The necessary amount to free Tal
mage's Urooklyn Tabernacle from debt
has been subscribed.
The Cherokee have ratified the treaty
.tn.. Lnticouiii, and mu strip will Lai
opened alxml July 1
The Chicago ice dealers have combined
ami increased prices from 35 cents to 60
cents per hundred jiounds.
In two years' time it is probable that
every Southern State will conduct its
election on the Australian plan
The Kentucky Slate crop re(K)rt makes
the condition ot wheat 00 per cent. A
year ago the condition was 8;i percent.
The Ixiily of Jefferson Davis will be ro.
moved from New Orleans, I.a., May 28
and be reinterred at Kichmond, Va.
May 81.
The complete statistics show that the
production of beet Biigar in tho United
States has more than doubled during the
past year.
Reports from fifty towns in South
Dakota give details of thu greatly in
creased immigration just now pouring
into me state.
It is estimated that since Mr. Morton
started thu Arlsir day movement 400
000,000 trees havo been planted in the
.xortuwesi alone.
The New York Scnato has killed the
bill for the submission to a vote of the
people of the question of tho consolida.
tion of Brooklyn anil New York.
The World's Fair management has do
citletl to maintain a Police Court in the
grounds, where visitors accused of misdo.
lucanois can be tried without delay.
It Ids come to light that tho late Colo
te.'l Slicpartl of New York was unable to
secure a life insurance several years ago
owing to a suspicion ol liright s disease
The New York Assembly passed, 78 to
M, the bill abolishing capital punish
ment, to take effect, should it becomo a
law , on September 1, too late to save
I any lo Harris.
It is estimated that ttO.000,000 will lie
expended in new buildings in llullalo
during the year lHtCI, The prospect of
soon utilizing the great poworof Niagara
is isMimiug liutlalo.
r.vervlsjtlv who has a pass to get into
the show at Chicago must have his olio-
tograph on his pass. Perhaps Secretary
Carlisle can be persuaded to decide the
photograph unnecessary
The Ohio State crop reKrt says wheat
mis come out ol the winter m excellent
condition except along the southern bor
tier of the Slate. The April condition
last year was 71 per cent.
New York city has licgun in earnest
the work ol piirdying Us water supply
at Ihe source ly burning tllthy dwellings,
barns, pigsties, etc., along the head
waters oi the Crtiton river.
There is a strong presumption that
thousands of the most undesirable class
of emigrants are evading the American
regulations every month by entering the
I'nileil Slates by way of Canada.
Since work has commenced on the
World's Fair grounds in Chicago, ten
men have been killtsl outright, eight
have dietl from wounds received while in
ill service and 010 have lecn injured.
The French Canadians continue com
ing over the border in great multitudes.
Tnere are nearly as many of them ami
their descendants in thiscoiintrv as there
are in the French Province of tjuelsv.
It is saitl the amounts aid i i dividends
by the Carnegie Steel Coiiq any for ISSI'J
was reduced from (3,lKM.HHi," paid the
previous year, to J 1,IKH),000, ow ing to the
Homestead strike and other troubles.
During the last eight mouths Ihe total
i umber European immigrants landed in
this country was iltl.D'.'S, against :tS,i,4,v
in the corresimnding iieriod of the previ
ous year a decline of nearly 100,001).
tieiicral ticorge W. tiordon of Mem
phis bus introduced in the Tennessee
la'gislalure a memorial from the Con
federate Historical Societv asking that
an annuity for life of NKl 1h granted to
the willow of Jcllerson Davis.
tine idea of the vast triuv of uncut-
plojctl persons in New York may lie
gleaned Iron, Uie lact that ail advertise
ment for live waiters in a Hrooklvn
le.-taurant was resiKindod to bv over 500
applicants.
Fxperieiuv in the application of elec
tricity to condemned prisoners in New
York has removed all features disagree
able to olvservers and reduced the re
quired contact to a single one of exactly
one minute.
A scheme is on foot to unite in a syn
dicate the cracker bakeries of Philadel
phia, U.iliiiuore and Washington, with
the ultimate ohject.it is believed, to form
ittt-i in com mi me cracker iiHititirv ol
the entire country
X al otlUvr of high and low rank are
on the anxious bench to details after
tlie naval review. It foiiocdcd that
there will bo a general rhango of com
maud of many of the ship and reliefs
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Miitpanv ha a twUt to .ink.. Iv,i.
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PURELY PERSONAL.
The Duke of Oporto, brother of the
King of Portugal, is one of the finest
flute players in the world.
Owinz to illness. Dr. Edward Everett
Hale did not start the series of lectures
on journalism in Boston last week.
Captain Henrv Howell Lewis, who died
in Baltimore recently, was the last of
General Washington's grandnephews.
Secretary Herbert is said to be a hard
worker. He often remains at the Navv
Department until 7 r. x. answering let
ters.
Mrs. Phosbe Hearst, widow of Senator
Hearst, proposes to establish a home for
destitute boys on a farm of 4-W acres
near San Francisco.
There are two women bank Presidents
in the country. Mrs. Annie Moore of
Mount Pleasant, Tex., and Mrs. C. E
Chadbourn of Columbus, Wis.
In the home of Rider Haggard, it is
said, the day invariably opens with fam
ily prayer read or recited by himself in
the large, square entrance hall.
Max Judd, who has been made Consul
to Vienna, is one of the best chess play
ers in the country. He thinks the last
move of his a capital one, no doubt.
Ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico in her
insanity requires a fresh pair of pearl.
gray, two-button kid gloves on rising
every morning throughout the year.
Mrs. Jeff Davis being in straightened
circumstances, the Charleston News and
Courier urges that she be made Presi
dent of tlio South Carolina Industrial
and Normal College for Women, which
is arxmt to he organized.
President Carnot's son Francois, who
was drawn among this year's recruits for
military service, has been relieved of the
obligation to serve on the ground that
his physical health is below the stand
aril. The young man will return to col
lege. Crisni, ex-Premier of Italy, has been
compelled to place his son, who is in the
21st year of his age, in a correctional in
stitution at Pisa on account of the mas
tery the young man had gained over his
conscience in tho matter of getting
money with which to lead a fast life.
One oi liie uulortunates who suffered
heavy losses by the failure of the West
ern 1 rust Company, of which ex-Senator
Ingalls was Presfdent, is E. W. Howe,
tho Atchison author and editor. His
loss will bo the public's gain, if poverty
spurs him on to write another romance
like the " Story of a Country Town."
Judge R. R. Nelson of the LTnited
States District Court of Minnesota is
tho onlv man on the district bench ap
pointed before the civil war. Judge M.
P. Dcady of Oregon, who dietl a few tlavs
ago, was the only other one. Judge Deady
was a Territorial Judge in Oregon, anil
on the admission of the Stato was made
District Judge.
The Into Dr. Andrew Peabodv accord
ing to Dr. Etlward Everett Hale was
looking over some accumulated papers
one day when he discovered that he was
$40,000 richer than he was the year be
fore. -Thereupon he wrote to the Assess
ors of Cambridge, asking those officials
to impose a tax on his property accord
ingly. Yet nolxsly ever suspected the
gotsl doctor of insanity.
When Calvin Brice was a student in
Miami College ho was a poor boy, but a
follow of much sturdy indepenence. At
that time Oxford was twelve miles from
the nearest railway station, and the jour
ney was usually made by the students in
a stage. But the fare was high, and Mr.
Brice could not all'ord to pay it. He gen
erally walked the distance, therefore,
although rich friends offered to provide
him with a seat in the stage. The result
was sometimes that these friends would
accompany him on his tramps.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Savannah leads in naval stores trade.
An imitation silk is made from wood
pulp.
Nails were mado by hunt! previous to
inio.
Petroleum was first used by the In
dians.
Electric roads have displaced 30,000
Horses,
Jarrah is tho most nearly indestructi
bio wood.
Women chemists are becoming more
numerous.
Ihe United States produces 40,000,000
tons ol hay.
Chicago packs and ships over 6,000,000
hogs a year.
The lathers of Boston have decided to
demand ;l a day.
mo nrst coal mining was done in
Pennsylvania, 1701.
Tho cheapest dress Worth will make
for a customer costs $150.
The people of this country sent 00,
000,000 telegrams in 1S02.
lho United States contain 194,000
square miles ol coal Ileitis.
lhoro are now over 400 electric roads
in oeration in this country.
The leather-dealing firms in the
L tilled States number 48,(S,H1.
The annual tobacco product of the
country is M.,(HH,000 pounds.
Sixty thousand acros of Florida lands
are to lie cultivated by Sw edes.
The United States produces annually
tilO.tmo tons of butter ami cheese.
ivniguis oi l-aoor in .ew .caland are
going into the co-operative business.
There are more than 0,000 lighthouses
to direct the navigators of the world.
Forest fuvs in this country destroy
every year tll'.OOO.IHHl worth of tiniltcf.
A Chicago building fifty stories high is
suggested, tint the contract is not yet let
Machinery is now produciug 00 per
cent of manufactured products in this
eotiniry.
There are l'.Vi.OOO.OtH) hens in this
country, w hich lay every year (1,000,000,
000 eggs.
There are 1.IS00 grade crossings in Chi
cago, liver oOtl lives were lost at them
last year.
The manufacture of paper from wood
pulp is destroying acres ami acres of
eatttiful trevt.
The management of the street railwav
t Washington, Pa., intend employing
boy conductors.
World's Fair demands cause sashes,
doors and blind to go up 5 per cent in
price at i mcago.
The acreage in strawberries in I-ouisi
; ana Ibis year is rexrtcd to ho almost
, uouoie nisi oi i'a.
There are 4,000.0u farms in the United
States, having f .OtV,0OO acres and val
ued at U-MW..OOO.
The total destruction by tin- in the
Unitisl States for eighteen' ear b. (..r
IV'-' was l,iOO,lH4.el7.
It is estimated that Ihe total funds of
' Britain amouni ,
rrr w'"-
' . A remarkable increase in mamifActtir.
"V plants for tho firsl ou.nrler of J.mU i.
shown bv the Southern S;t. .
In th..t ij - v .v.,
- .. - "v.- ti.iuv.i'ii cotton
spin-ties operatrxl in t:.,, ... .: i
iriUin, and
R.VVt.OOd
ktstes.
erw iu uh
the I'uited
F0EEIGN FLASHES.
Austrian War Office Adopts the
Bullet-Proof Cloth.
PROUDFOOT'S X0BLE BEQUEST.
Two Enormous Breaches Occur
the Banks of the Yellow
River in China.
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Employment is scarce and laborers are
overplentiful in South Australia.
Belgian Socialists threaten a general
strike if not granted universal eunrage
Surveys are being made for three new
railroad's in the Transvaal, South Africa.
The Chinese government contemplates
a considerable extension of railroads this
spring.
Not for fenerations has England seen
such a sunny and altogether idyllic
spring as this.
The ship canal across the Isthmus of
Corinth will probably be ready about
next September.
Queen Victoria's spring vacation on
the Continent will cost the British tax
payers 50,000.
Capital crimes, mainly in consequence
of excessive drinking, seem to be on the
increase in Kussia.
A law has been passed bv tho Reichs
tag establishing a standard time over the
whole of ucrmany.
France has submitted to the United
States and Great Britain suggestions to
improve snipping signals.
Influenza has appeared in a virulent
form throughout Southern Kussia, and
the mortality is very great.
Twenty-five ships of war of varioup
kinds are now in course of construction
for the French government.
County HerlxTt Bismarck has con
sented to run for the Reichstag in the
interest of the agrarian party.
In the Isle of Man there are no death
duties, no income tax and with the ex
ception of a small duty on beer no excise.
During the last twenty years the area
of lantl in England under" tho plow has
diminished by nearly 2,000,000 acres, or
over 14 per cent.
Two enormous breaches in the banks
of the Yellow river, China, are reported
to have occurred, a most unusual phe
nomenon in winter.
Mohammedanism is largely on tho in
crease in the British West African colony
of Sierra Leone, one-tenth of the popu
lation now being of that faith.
Four thousand working people have
been thrown out of employment in New
South Wales by the stoppage of several
collieries in tho Rhondda Valley.
The price of private telephones in
London is very soon to be reduced from
20 a yeartoi'lOa year, subject to the
condition of a five years' contract.
The Austrian war office has decided to
adopt the bullet-proof cloth, one-third
of an inch thick, invented by Herr Ly
nander, an engineer living in'Paris.
The Bohemian Central Agricultural
Society is orgauizing an international
exhibition of agriculture and food stuffs
to be held in Prague from the 14th to the
19th of May next.
The overthrown King of Dahomey has
addressed an appeal to " all civilized na
tions" for sympathy with his cause,
wmcu, ne says, is that ot right and jus.
tice, in his struggle with F'rance.
During 1801 there were 4,0fil deser
tions from the British armv. There
were 10,803 court-martials and 208,100
minor punishments imposed. The gen
eral conduct ot the soldiers is improving,
there is serious talk in Franco of
building a canal from the sea to the
Mediterranean, so that the Mediterra
nean trade lor other countries need not
Ik) carried within rango of the English
guns at, moraiiar.
Efforts are making to reconstruct ami
reorganize the suspended Commercial
Dans oi Australia, a new company
will be formed with a capital stock of
0,000,000 to carry on the business of the
collapsed institution.
enezucla is lo have a new 1-cent
stamp similar in lorm anil size to our
Columbian issue. It will bear a repre
sentation of tho landing made by the
sulHirtlinates of Columbus on tho coast
of euezuela in tho year 1 108.
The French government has apologized
to Count Muenster, German Ambassa
dor, for the detention of the letters
written by Herr Kurtz to the German
Embassy ami Consulate, while lie was
imprisoned yn suspicion lu Rouen.
Cliff railways in England grow more
ami more popular. Clifton has opened
a remarkably steep line, cut in a tunnel
troiii the gorge of tho Avon to tho sum
mu oi v. muni hocks, ino gradient is
one toot in two feet, and the tunnel L'7x
l( loot.
Telegraph lines in the Zamlicsi Terri
lory have but a brief existence accord
ing lo present experience. Elephants
knock them down, the carriers steal the
thick lines for mending purposes ami
the Makalala ladies appropriate the tine
w ire for necklaces and bangles.
in uie luunuiacture ol over last year
in the I nitod kingdom 5o.S52.570 bush
els of malt and corn ami 2,000,720 cwt.
of sugar were used. The duties paid
amounted to 10,070,078. London is
the largest brewing center, having l;t',l
breweries. Burton comes next.
A Scotchman named Proud foot, who
died retvntly in Natal, bequeathed 20,
000 to the laborers in Mollatt, Scotland,
Thirty lalsirers in the village have re
solved to use the money in establishing a
public institution for the sick ami aged
joor and in maintaining a pension fund.
According to the Frankfurter Zeitung
the Executive Committee of the Anti
Slaverv Company has decided to discon
tinue Maior von Wissm.iti'., .,....
and to otter the Nvassa station to the
imperial government. Funds are insuf
ficient for the contiuuance of the new
enterprise.
An immense crowd gathered at the
docks at Christiania. Norway. n.l
cheered as the Viking passed down the
harbor tiring salutes. She will cruise
along the coast, in order that the people
mil unir U toautv to see nor, and early
n .Mav will sail
Irom Bergen for the
1' nitod' States.
Lord Sackville-West is not exjHVtitl
r i it vuiiiusiaMicaiiv active in the re
ception that will he accorded Ambassador
I Rayard upon his arrival at the Court of
1 rd
St. James. It w.v Mr. It iv:ird' nn.
pleasant duty to pack Lord' Sackville- !
est or! home for his pernicious activitv
)" 'mt 'ame historic as the " Murch-
!
The famine in the F.uropoan Part of .
,nB Ifovoriiuient of Perm 111 Russia is
orsc than ever bo for. The poor an. '
dving by hundred, and in th ..,n...
.,.,..11 ...
Ullages the people havo ceased trying to
IHlrv Mil llm ltt.1 .w T .....I...:.. i. i
dead are often t.vt a-nal- (, I.. l....:i
is " " . iirivuiitin u,e
for them and loav th .v.-
lojfkcwset.
PORTLAND MARKET.
FBODCCI, FBC1T, 1TC.
Wboat Xomlnal. Valley, ft .15 3
1.17; Walla Walla, $1.076 61.10 per
cental. ,, .
Flocr Standard, fS.iW; vtaua vaua,
$3.30; graham, $2.90; superfine, 12.50
per barrel. .
Oats Choice, 44 45c per bushel ; fair,
40c; rolled, in bags, $6.25(36.50; barrels,
$6.5056.75;- cases, $3.75.
H.W Best, $ll(ai3.ou per ion; com
mon, $9:410.
Millstcffs Bran, jis.uu; Enorts,
$22.00; ground barley, $23(u24; chop
feed, $18 per ton ; whole leea, Daney, eu
(&5c per cental; middlings, $2324;
per ton; brewing barley, 9095c per
cental ; chicken wheat, $1.10 per cental.
Bdtteb Oregon fancy creamery, 27,
(a 30c; fancy dairy, 22. (5 25c; fair to
eood. 17f-i(6 20c; common, 12'5ai5cper
pound; pickle roll butter, 30(a.35c per
roll ; California, 40(a45c per roll.
Cheese Oregon. Il(al3c; Eastern
Twins, 16c; Young America, 16e per
pound.
Egqh Oregon, 17c per dozen.
Pocltby Chickens, mixed coops,$4.50
5.00; fancy coops, $5.50(56.00; broil
ers, $5.00 per dozen; dressed chickens, 10
(u.llc per pound; ducks, $6.60(a7.50;
geese, $10.00 per dozen; turkeys, live,
15(3 10c; dressed, 1617c per pound.
Vegetables Cabbage, $1.50(51.65 per
cental ; onions, $1.75fo2.00 percental ; cut
onions,75(& 90c , potatoe8,$l(g 1.15 for Gar
net Chilis; $1.25(51.40 for Burbanks;
new, 6c per pound ; Oregon turnips, 75
(iiiMJe per sack; sweet potatoes, $3.00(8
4.00 per cental; cauliflower, 90c per
dozen, $2.75 per crate ; celery, 90c per
dozen; artichokes, 60c per dozen; lettuce,
California, 25e per dozen ; Oregon hot
house, 35i4,40e; asparagus, 6(a.8e per
pound; parsnips, 85c per sack; beets,
$1.60 per sack; radishes, 25c per dozen;
green Oregon onions, 12 (5 15c per
dozen; rhubarb, 6(&,7e per pound; Or
egon, 50c per dozen; green peas, 7(59c;
spinach, 6s per pound; cucumbers,
$1.752.00 per dozen; string beans, 20c
per pound ; California garlic, 5(5.6c.
Fkuits Sicily lemons, $5(5 5.50 per
box; California new crop, $4.50(55.00
per box ; bananas, $2.50(5 3.00 per bunch ;
oranges, seedlings, $2.52.75 per box; na
vel., rt.mirfm.fin, emnberrics. J12.50 ccr
barrel ; apples, $1.502.25 per box ; pine
apples, $4.50(55.00 per dozen.
STAPLE OROCEBIES.
Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s,
$16.50; 60s, $17.50; stock, $10.50(5,11.50.
Dkied Fbuits Petite prunes, 10(5 12c;
silver, ll(S14c; Italian, 12;514c; Ger
man, lOialle; plums, old, otabc; new,
7(9c; apples, 0(5llc; evaporated apri
cots, 15vSl7.hjC; peaches, 12(5 14c; pears,
7(glle per pound.
Kice island, $4.70(5.5.00 ; Japan, $4.75
per cental.
Coffee Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador, 212c; Mocha, 26 K (a 30c ; Java,
24l230c; Arbuckle's, Midland, Mo
kaska and Lion, 100-pound cases, 24
35-lOOc per pound; Columbia, same,
24 85-lOOc.
Beans Small whites, 3.h..'c; pinks,
3'ac; bayos, 3,'a'e; butter, 4c j lima, 4c
per pound.
Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 40(255c;
in half-barrels, 42(5 67c; in cases, 35,5
80c nor gallon: $2.25 nerkes: f California..
in barrels, 20(5j40c per gallon; $1.75 per
SuoARN'et prices: D,4Jc; Golden C,
Sc. ovtru P Kn. t.,,..,..i; i Kt.
granulated, bc; cube, crushed and
powdered, 7ac; confectioners' A. 65c
per pound; maple sugar, 1516c per
pounu.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted,
1.75S 2.00: Deaches. 1. 85. 52.10: Rart-
lett pears, $1.75(52.00; plums, $1.376
1.60; strawberries, $2.25(52.45; cherries,
$2.25 52.40; blackberries, $1.85:52.00;
raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 a
2.80; apricots, $1.65(2.00. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches. $1.25: nlums.
$1.10(1.20; blackberries, $1.25(5,1.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted,
j.ioo.ou; peaches, a.50i5 4.00; apri
cots, $3.60(4.OO; plums, $2.75(33.00;
blackberries, $4.25:34.50.
Vkoetabi.ks Corn. $1.60(51.75: toma
toes, $1.101.15; sugar peas, $1; string
uentin, euc per uoxcil.
Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s,
$2.40; chipped, $2.55,54.00; lunch
tongue, Is, j4; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham,
fi.u iii.eo per dozen.
risn i-artunes, '4s, voocgis.zo; '..8,
$2.1554.50; lobsters, $2.303.50; sal
mon, tin 1-lb talis, $1.25$1.50; flats,
fi.io; s-ios, tz.zu(uz.iu; -barrel, $5.50,
live and dressed sieat.
bEEF Prime steers, $3.85(54.25;
choice steers, $3.75(u4.O0; fair to good
sieers, , t.i.nu(Sd.ou; good to choice cows,
$3.15;ti3.75; common to medium cows,
$2.50(52.75; dressed beef, $6.00ti 7.00.
iml'ttox Choice mutton, $4.60(54.75;
tuir to good, $4.00(54.60; dressed, $8.00;
lambs, $4.1X14.60; dressed, $7.00,5 8.00.
nous l hoice heavv, $7.00(5 7.25: me.
dium, $6.50(56.75; light and feeders,
4i.outio.oo; uresseti, fu.uu.
Veal $4.00(57.00.
Smoked Meat and Lard Hams,
uirge, io(.iio'.,c per pound; hams, me.
dium, loVnlti'e; breakfast bacon. 15'.,
(ti Uc; short clear sides. 14i514..c: drv
salt sides, lU'Vw 133,c; lard, compound.
hi tins, 11 i 12o per pound; pure, in
tins.lSvalS'uc; Oregon lard, ll'y 12'jc.
BAtIS AND BAOOINO.
Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash,
6c; burlaps, 10'j-ounce, 40-inch, net
cash, 7c; burlaps, 12-ounoe, 45-inch,
c...c; nuriaps, in-ounce, 00-inch, 11 '..c;
burlaps, 20-otince, 76-inch, 14c; wheat
nags, vaicutta, z;M, siot, O'c
2-bushel oat bags, "c.
HOI'S. WOOL AND HIDES.
Hops Ouote 12(5 ltic.
V ool I mptpia valley, 16tff 17c ; fall
cup, l.MIo'gc; Willamette valley, 15(5
loc, according to quality; Eastern Ore
gon, lOwlOc per pound, according to
lumiii mil.
Hides Drv hides, selected nrime.
6 5 8c; green, selected, over 55 pounds.
4c; under 65 pounds, 3c; sheep pelts,
short wool, 30 a 50c; medium, OOwSOc;
loiiit. OOcititl.25: shearlinirs. 10ui?0." t,.l.
low, good to choice, 3(5 6c per pound.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Nails Rase quotations: Iron, $2.25;
steel, $2.35; wire, $2.75 per keg.
iiis-mir,i'4c per pound; pig-iron,
23itf2.- per ton.
Steel Per pound. lO'.jc.
Tin I. C. charcoal. 14x20. prime nnnl-
ity, $8.50 t 9.00 per box; for crosses. 2
extra per Nix; 1. C. coke plates. 14t3h
prime quality, $7.50,5 8.00 per box ; tome
U' VlV ' xe l,ftlit'' tu-8Sta7.O0;
Lead Per pound, 4Vc; bar, 6''c.
Naval Stohks Oakum, $4.5o",5.00
per bale; rosin, $4.80,a5.00 per 480
pounds; tar, Stockholm. $13.00; Caro
lina, $9.00 per barrel: pitch, $6.00 per
i-oiivi, iiiijiciiune, 00c per gallon, in
car lota.
Experiment wfth strawberries indicate
that pollen bearina ! an ihm.ii..
"M, and that lareer yields of fruit .
T bexpd from those varieties which
produce pollen to sDariuslr that 1.11
Proportion of. other varieties producing
abundaoU, mu b. plated with
mm ,n 10 lMU ru roP-
" 'ton. wiu rre.
AcCOrdltlff la tlUldratnna .ill.
""f0 Mhf purposes, to prevent strife
ana coortukin. borne of an, perhaps, would
o bay inspected this to be a character
istic of wills, and a con nsel practicing; In
IM probsteoort probably considers that
f7 " -naniT ,ntnu.i t u
FARM ASD GARDEN.
Great Decrease Predicted in
Horse-Breeding-.
TIME TO CLEAR TIMBER LAXD.
Chop the Piece in Summer W hen the
Leaves Are on and Fnll Grown
The Advantages.
The first thing to be done after all the
valuable timber has been taken off is the
" umlerbrushiug," which may be done
as well in winter when the ground is
frozen, as the bushes will then cut easily.
The usual way is to cut all saplings tip
to five or six inches in diameter, but I
only cut the brush and smallest sapling
because the ax is liable to become duli
from coming in contact with the ground,
and it does not pay to chop large timber
with a dull ax. Chop the piece in sum
mer when the leaves are on and full
grown. July is about the best time.
The advantage of chopping at that time
is that the brush will burn much more
readily with the leaves on, and the
sprouts will not sprout so badly as if
chopped in winter. In order to insure a
good burn it is best to pile the brush
well. One that is inexperienced is sure
to pile the brush too carelessly, because
the leaves make it look as though it was
much thicker than it is. Leave it until
it is drv enough to burn well, which will
probably be some hot dav in the latter
part of August. Log and burn it off as
soon as possible, taking a little pains to
make the log heaps on the grassiest
places when it can be done without much
trouble. Plow thoroughly with " jump
shovel " or a new-ground" plow and sow
in winter wheat. In the spring seed
down ami leave in grass three or four
years, when the stumps will be suffi
ciently rotten so that the most of them
may be puoud and uie ground plowed in
good shape for corn or other crops. I
think this will be found the best way
when it is necessary to have the use of the
ground right away. Grubbing all bushes
and small trees and clearing ground at
once of all stumps and roots is impracti
cable for all except those of almost un
limited capital. It a man is in no par
ticular hurrv to have the use of the land.
a still cheaper way is to chop in winter
wnen not ousy with other work, jfilo
brush fairly well, but cover as much
ground with it as is consistent will hav
ing it mirn wen. xeave iour or nve
years, during which time pasture a flock
of sheep on the piece to keep down
sprouts, weeds, etc. Burn some very
dry time, and you will be surprised to
see how much win Durn, not only all
brush, but many of the logs and stumps.
Log and burn and pull all the stumps
left. A piece of land treated in this way
will plow up like an old meadow and bo
in excellent condition for corn or any
other cultivated crop.
HAVE YOU AN ICEHOUSE?
We hope none of our agricultural
readers are so unwise as to have neg
lected to provide for laying in a store of
ice for the coming; summer, provided
they live where ice is procurable. But,
if any have been so improvident, let
them be so no longer. There is time
enough yet to build a house and fill it
with ice. It does not require much of a
building to keep ice in. A rough struct
ure of common boards, say sixteen feet
square, with good drainage at the bot
tom to prevent an accumulation of wa
ter, will give an ample supply for family
and dairy use where the family is not
unusually large and tho herd doos not
exceed .twenty or twenty-five cows.
Board up on the inside of tlie studs with
single boards, leaving a window four feet
square iu each gable end for ventilation.
Yhen packing the ice cover the floor
with a foot of sawdust or hay. Leave a
space between the ice and the sides of
the building sixteen to eighteen inches
wide anil pack with sawdust, tanbark or
hay as the ice is put in. On top of tlie
ice put a layer of sawdust or bark not
more than six or seven indies thick. Ice
packed in this way will not melt much.
A weather boarding on the outside of the
studs will, of course, give the building a
more finished look, but it isn't essential,
and so much may be saved in the cost of
the house. The three essentials are
drainage, ventilation and exclusion of
heat. If the house is built on a hillside,
the first condition maybe easily secured,
even if tlie house is partly underground.
Ventilation is a mere matter of having
two openings, through which the air can
circulate freely, and the packing of saw
dust lietween the ice and the boarding
secures a protecting, though invisible,
wall of coltl air to repel heat. Onlv a
shiftless, laxy bones will be without 'ice
in the summer when it can be so easily
anil cheaply provided.
11KEEDINU AND UEAItlNQ noRSES.
There is a tendency among stockraisers
to breed the class of' animals most in de
mand on the market at the particular
time. Ordinary horses have not sold
well during the past vear. Farmers are
often at the mercy of local buyers, who
fail to make reasonable distinctions in
tlie prices paitl for different grades of an
imals. Breeders who have given tho
care and expense necessary to build up
a good stock of horses feel discouraged
when obliged to sell their animals at tho
prices paid for inferior ones. High merit
is occasionally found in animals of com
paratively unknown breeding. When
three or more generations ot ancestry
possess nearly all the desirable qualities
do not hesitate to claim excellence.
1 lorses can be kept on grass and hav main
ly after two years of age, if thev are not
worked. Do not sell a good one for a
poor price ; it will pay to carry it over a
year. Worked steadily and moderately,
they increase in value until hht. i-m'n
old. It is economy to hold desirable
eolts this year, workimr them two or
three times a week. They will bo in a
good condition to sell a vear hence.
there will be a great decrease in breed
ing in 1803-4 and in 1805, and the follow
ing years the effects will probablv lie
seen. There never was a better outlook
for careful horse breeders than at pres
ent. High stallion fees are as a rule not
desirable; but, if they restrict breeding
to only sound mares of good disposition,
this apparent bar to progress may prove
a blessing to the business.
SfCCKSSFl'L DAIRYING
Consists in changing the feed into such
a quantity of milk that we get paid for
n.ir.1 uiei luiiur ami nave a iairpront.
How FUh Eat.
The carious way in which fish eat i
quite a study. Some fish have teeth, and
some have none al all. Iu some the teeth
are found upou tlie tongue, in some In the
throat, and in some in t be stomach. Some
draw fa the food by suction; the it 110.1-00
isoneoi this class. The jellyfish atoorhs
all Its food by wrapping its body round ths
prey it covets.
Health ?iew Zealand.
New Zealand is the healthiest, and west
ern Australia the most unhealthy of the
Australasian colonies, according to the
latest statistics. Tbe New Zealand death
rat only amounts to tea per 1,000.
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