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VOL. 4- NO. 20. ASTORIA'S RAILROAD. Jt i S Again to be Brought Into Great Prominence. PUBLIC ATTENTION IS OCCUPIED. v , milimtt— That Another Effort Will t,,. Made l>y the Stanton-Campbell Party to C"— to Terms With the A-torians-- Coast News. i \, Ok.—The railroad question, ' has been quiescent for some weeks past, is again to be brought into promi- j ■ ml will occupy public attention me. "When Judge Brown left here ; last a month or so ago, it was stood that he had a verbal under- | ing vvith a majority of the subsidy tee that no contract should be let neb. a time as he could confer with v Yorkers represented and learn (inurements could be made with j to enter into a contract for the completion of the railroad by way of the :;i route. Before his departure j ter the refusal of the committee to n a mortgage on the subsidy in leration of a deposit of $300,000 Mr. Brown stated that he believed he I rould make such arrangements as would I all respects satisfactory to the As- j eople, but could make no definite int until he bad an interview iia principals. A week ago Mr. Drown telegrapbed the subsidy commit t.. tbat he had completed his arrange in a satisfactory manner and he in Astoria in a few days. I i dispatch waa received from Mr. I 's son, saying liis father was ill in r and would not be in a condition to r.ivel for some days. This latter micatkm is interpreted by some , es as an indication that Mr. iwn's plans had possibly miscarried. her this view of the case is correct the Stanton-Campbell party will a 'iirj be in the field, and will make an ,ended offer. D. R. Campbell, the Chicago contractor, has returned from Portland, and intimates that another: effort would be made by his people to come to terms with Astorians. ALICE FI»TTH'S CLAIMS. She Deeds All of Her Ulythe Hopes to ' .John !>. Spreckels. San Francisco, Cal. —Alice Edith Pickason has i;,.;deadeclarationof trust between herself and John D. Spreckels, and has disposed to him of all her vid u ;i claims to a portion of the Blythe es tate. A deed to that effect was filed in the Recorder*! office the other day. For the nominal sim of $10 it disposed to him of all her title and interest to lots in the block bounded by Market, Geary, Pnpont and o'Farrell streets, her inter est in the per=onal property left her by j Thomas H. Blythe aad of all the other real estatu of which he was possessed at the time of his death. The deed was given "subject to certain outstanding acts heretofore made and entered i into and between the said party of the first part ard various parties, and also to a certain declaration of trust made between the feaid parties of the first and . second part of even date herewith." This important paper placed on record, i Alice Edith sought retirement from pub lic gaze. Me was not at her "studio" | the other evening, and her attorney, ' lhnrv E. I ighton, refused to disclose her hiding jlace. He declared distinctly that no initiations were in progress for j a com; run se of his client's claims to &y willow- siare in the estate of Thomas 11. Blythe. It was a business arrange ment i"tw?en her and Mr. Spreckels, which theydesired to keep away from ! the public. Tne only explanation of th«« matter vou-.hsafed by Mr. Spreckehv** B that he hsfl advanced BOrne mwfl«y to pay the t_>st of transcript .*° n Alice Edith's :upeal, and Attorney Highton told him s,e would give him* * deed to some proprtv in return. is evident fmm the trtrs of the de*"* l that the at- f other indebtedness will be met % >*•. but most im port' ,t V ;J[ is declaration of trust i • i >n>l £•) having been made between h in thY- missing widow of the cc ci c i.!' I. COMPANY ELECTION. The Mbrkhaldprt Elect the Board of directors |lt Portland. tt .xn, Or. j- The stockholders' ►aeeting of the Oregon Improvement S pany was hgid here one day last ■ •■•■'■• The Boafd of Directors were ■Wed for the ensuing year: W. H. f N*W York, C. B. Tedcastle r v f New York, Edwin S. Hoolev of Xew F. 11. Prince of Boston, C. A. of Portland. William M. I.add of nd, Hmrv Failing of Portland, 7"; ii Simed of Portland, C. H. Lewis an !. Jonathan Bourne of Port :ar: •<;. J. <mithof Seattle. 11 of Directors met and elect iowing officers: President, : ruck; Vice-President, C. A. Nrretary, N. Posten. Objbct to British Granite. T, c *x Wash.—The Trades Council • ; it R. L. Fox, a British subject, "bidding for granite work on the Port o.i d'y dock did not notify the gov err -Qient that some of the samples of j* : submitted were from Nelson Isl -2 B. C. Fox, having secured the gfract, is getting out British Coinm- D ' aii -'mite; and the Trades Council, , ;n £ that American workmen and •■erican granite are discriminated gainst on British Columbian govern er >t buildings, is demanding tbat the - avy Department compel Fox to use Perior American granite in prefer* nee w inferior British Columbian rock, and 'cresting; labor organizations of the °ast to join actively in this protest. Another Coos Bay tog Raft. Marsh-field, Or.—W. E. Baines has ■J' ei Jeed for bids for 6,000 piles. He andt to - Coßstruct a raft of them here PoVa t Jt to San Francisco. Captain ci»«/u ' who contrived the Learv rar-fchaped raft on the Atlantic Coast, " treated in the enterprise, ._ \ icIwMP aSaWHIIJMJiI^ NORTHWEST NOTES. Washington. New Whatcom pays its teachers $1,960 a month. The Whatcom shingle mills have had to close down for lack of cars. Gray's Harbor has exported within a year 85,000,000 feet of lumber. The Mayor of Snohomish has called a meeting to organize a Chamber of Com merce. About fifty Indians of Chief Moses' tribe are doing some artistic war dancing near Walla Walla. The First National Bank of Hoquiam has just declared its semi-annual divi dend of 4 per cent. John Herman sprained his ankle in a Spokane sidewalk, inflicting injuries he estimates in his damage suit at $12,000. A Tacoma firm has shipped 500 tons of feed, consisting of oats, barley, bran and shorts, to Honolulu, as a starter for trade it is hoped to establish perma nently. The mining property reported to be bought by Jim Wardner is the Imperial mine, mill site and water right in Ken nedy district, Humboldt county. Ward ner must have a mill of at least ten stamps in operation by September 22. From all parts of Whitman county conies the report that threshing is in full blast again. Much of the grain which remained well stacked during the winter is said to be fair quality and well worth threshing. At Oakesdale there is said to be some first-class grain. Two more complaints have been sworn out at Walla Walla against Edmiston. These last are made by the Catholic Knights of America and the Women's Relief Corps. This makes six charges against him. He furnished the $1,500 bonds required .at his first arrest, but has not yet qualified on the third and fourth charges. 'The Spokane Board of Public Works has received more than a score of letters from bridge builders all over the United States who have read in the telegraphic dispatches the news of the floods there and are anxious to obtain contracts for new bridges to replace those swept away. The board replies to them that the city is not going extensively into the bridge business for a year or so. The Commercial Club at North Yak ima is in correspondence with a Minne sota firm of starch manufacturers with a view of securing the location of a plant there. It is estimated that an in vestment of from $2,500 to $4,000 will put in a good starch factory, and that a market will thus be afforded for smaller potatoes, not only improving the grade of the famous Yakima "spuds," but se curing a promising industry. The Yakima Hop Growers' Association elected D. E. Leah President; R. Dunn, Vice-President; A. D. Eslin, Treasurer; A. B.Ross, Secretary. The meeting was very enthusiastic and well attended, the growers showing an evident intention to strenethen in the organization. Secre tary Ross states that there are at least 3,000, perhaps 3,500, acres set to hops j in the county, only 500 of which are new. He figures that 15,000 pickers will be required. Oregon. The County Court of Baker county has appropriated $430 to be expended in im proving the Cracker creek road. 'the B-unswick shaft near Grass Val ley is to ue sunk another 100 feet, which will make the mine 800 feet in depth. The Baker City Democrat states that the ore on the dump at the Emma mine, as experted by reliable mining men, will ge from $100 to $300 to the ton. The lovely flower called the French pink is becoming a nuisance in fields around Parker, and some have spent hundreds of dollars trying to check jits growth. > A considerable amount of thanf year's clip of wool is being brought to Salem and stored in the ormnmission houses and taken to the woolen mills. The price is 10 centp- Isgfl«c Banta of Albany is the latest in vprutor of a machine for mining black , sand. One of the machines is in opera l tion between Yaquina and Alsea, and it j is asserted that 90 per cent of the gold is saved. - The residents of Ross Slough, Coos Bay, are putting in tide boxes at the j mouth of the slough to keep the water i out. The boxes are forty feet long, twelve feet wide, and will reach to the bottom of the slough. It is thought at Corvallis that when the Circuit Court holds its adjourned sittings there, July 20, a new sale of the Oregon Pacific will be ordered at what ever price it will bring without regard to creditors or court costs. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Baker, who have been soliciting small contributions for ; the purpose of starting a hypothetical home for widows and orphans at Nanai ! mo, B. C., were arrested in Boise, Idaho, ias confidence people. They were in a good many Oregon towns. The G. A. R. men of Washington county have decided to hold an encamp ment* in Forest Grove some time in August, to continue two or three days, and to which all old soldiers and sailors in the State are invited. Steps were taken toward having this encampment last fall, but early rains prohibited. The grand jury of Umatilla county, in its final report, recommended that steps be taken to collect $613.22, the amount of Zo Houser's shortage, and also pro ceed against the County Treasurer and his bondsmen to collect the sum of $48, --943 52 which the Treasurer is short. Mr. Houser was elected Sheriff at the recent election. Governor Pennoyer has for some time held that the separate institutions in ex istence at Portland, and known as the Law and Medical Schools of the Uni versity ol Oregon, were not entitled to maintenance from the money appropri ated for the Eugene institution, and that they must be located and administered at Eugene if any part of the funds men tioned were to be legally devoted to their use. He conferred with Attorney-Gen erai Chamberlain recently, and solicited that officer's written opinion. Recently the Attorney-General handed the Gov ernor his opinion on the subject, and it concurred fully with the executive con clusions. The following characteristic letter was sent by the Governor to the Board of Regents of the university: "Inclosed find the opinion of the At torney-General of Oregon to the effect that your body cannot divert the money of the University of Oregon for the maintenance of schools elsewhere. Per mit me to suggest that at this time your body should not give countenance to the growing spirit of anarchy by assuming and exercising powers not sanctioned by law." FRIDAY HARBOR. SAN JUAN CO.. WASH., THURSDAY, JULY f>, 1894. ATCHISON AND TOPEKA Reorganization of the Com pany Proposed. THE PLAN OF SAME SUBMITTED. New Company Will Create an Issne of Fifty-Tear Income Bonds Secured by Mortgage Covering Same Property as New Second Mortgage. New York.—The plan of reorganiza tion of the Atchison and Topeka has been submitted by the reorganization committee. The plan contemplates a foreclosure either under the general mortgage dated October 15, 1889, or un der the second mortgage dated May 1, 1892, securing the so-called Atlantic and Pacific, and the formation by the pur chasers at such sale of a new company, which will be freed from all obligations of the present company except such as are prior to the mortgage foreclosed or are assumed by the new company. If foreclosure is had on the general mort gage, the company will nrovide for the payment of the past-due interest on the general mortgage bonds, and will issue new bonds to the holders of the general mortgage bonds, such new bonds to have the same lien and to be the 6ame in terms as the old bonds. The new com pany will create an issue of fifty-year income bonds secured by a mortgage covering the same property as the new second mortgage. The total authorized amount of such income bonds shall be limited to $11,500,000. Such income bonds shall be entitled to 5 per cent in terest per annum, payable annually out of the net earnings. The stock of the new company, less such amount as may be required to qualify the directors, is to be held by a trust company until inter est at the rate of 4 per cent shall have been earned and paid on the new income bonds for three consecutive years, and negotiable trust certificates will be issued by such trust company against the stock held in trust. The assenting holders of the stock shall receive negotiable trust certificates representing one share of new stock for each share so deposited upon which the assessment has been paid in full, together with income bonds for the assessment. COOPERS STRIKE. Chicago Packing Houses STay be Com pelled to Shut Down. Chicago, 111. —Nearly all the coopers in the stock yards are on a strike. It is [ said that if the trouble is not speedily ! settled the result will be that some*f6f ! the big houses will be forced to Way off . their employes because of the ' of barrels. When the strike t*6ok place the houses were at full capacity. Th« paVv£"*s say it was necessary for tM f<y*Ce'' : ° a reduction in wages. This tlir-c •* or the. ago, and jitXhe yards. The coopers i,u'e ,v*'ly who suf fered ,\'all Jttif- otue> branches of the racking it^ij^VJi^i r v' aiWvtd alike. '»xlie^i!bope^.^yt>eir? wages were cut ; from $& v o*£«*U $3.50. a day to $2 50 and ! $3.30. ' TWrreasom not object at j the that jf&f thought the cut was otfly / temporary I and that wages would toe restored as soon as warm I ,- It is to enforce a restora | tion that they struck, and they say that they will remain out until every man in the stock yards is out. SUNDAY IN THE ARMY. It is a Day of Best so Far as the Service Will Permit. Washington, D. C—A story coming from Omaha, Neb., that Charles Ceder j guis, a private in the Second Cavalry, is I under arrest waiting court-martial for refusal to participate in the target prac | tice Sunday, met a very prompt denial 'at the War Department. The officers | say the man has undoubtedly assigned j a false reason for his arrest, as Sunday I target practice is unheard of in the army, 1 and it would decidedly be in violation of j army regulations. The United States | soldier has always been exempt from : any unnecessary toil on Sunday, and in i that respect has much the advantage of I European soldiers. Even in time of war I this rule has been observed whenever ■ practicable, and during the late civil war I President Lincoln, quoting the words of I Washington, made a general order en ' joining observance of Sunday on the of , fleers and men of the army, and the j spirit of this order still pervades the service. Census of Tenements. New Yoke.—The tenement-house cen sus, taken under direction of the Board . of Health during the past two months, I has been completed. The census shows j there are 39,138 tenement houses in the I twenty-four wards of this city, of which | number 2,346 are rear houses. The pop ' ulation of the tenement-house district is i 1,332,773, of which 180,369 are children I less than five years of age. Rear houses 1 contain no less than 56,130 persons, in j eluding 8,784 children under five years, ! who must exist with little or nb chance i for sunlight or fresh air. The Twelfth j Ward is the most densely ; populated, j there being 252,331 1 persons ; packed in I 7,702 houses, of which seventeen are rear j tenements. The greatest number of rear ! tenement houses was found in the Twen tieth Ward, there being 341 out of a to tal of 2,830 in the ward. The ward has a tenement-house population of 80,499, including 8.121 children under five years of age, while the population of the rear j houses is 5,977, including 651 children ; under five years of age. A certainty of having the milk of fifty 1 cows and the promise of 300 later on if ! the venture is a success is not enough to ! start a creamery or cheese factory on. It ! would be difficult to make ;. it . a success with f that number of i cows and *to pay I fair wages to a skillful butter or cheese 1 maker. Nor can a success be made by hiring cheap or unskilled labor. ; Three ' hundred cows should be had at first, un -5 less some one desires to run it a season ' as an experiment or to i learn - the busi- Imm and would work at low waflftt. . i ..• ■■..,■ WASHINGTON CITY NEWS. In the deficiency bill the appropri ations for completing public buildings underway are: "El Paso, Tex., $7,000; Port Townsend, Wash., $11,000; Sacra mento, Cal., $10,000; Sioux Falls, 8. D., $15,000. At the request of Senator Teller his amendment to increase the duty on dia monds from 15 to 30 per cent ad valorem, which would restore the rate fixed by the House in the Wilson bill, was passed | over. It will be considered again before i the bill is reported. The House Committee on Pensions has ratified the report of the subcommittee in favor of Representative Bryan's bill to pension widows whose names were taken from the roll because they had re married and whe: c the second husbands have died or have been divorced. The report of the Board of Visitors at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., will suggest that the course of instruction be six years in stead of four, with a two years' cruise, as at present Occasional practice cruises of four months each are recommended. The Secretary of the Interior has granted permission to the management of the New York Museum of Natural History to allow its representative en trance to the TJncompahgre and Uintah Indian reservation, Utah, to obtain fos sils for exhibition. The request was de nied last winter, owing to the excited condition of the tribe. A delegation of the International Ty pographical Union appeared before the House Committee recently to advocate a government telegraph. William Mc- Cabe of Washington was spokesman. He urged that the government control of the telegraph* lines would lead to the establishment of more newspapers, thereby giving more employment to printers now out of work. | Professor Mendenhall, in charge of the coast and geodetic survey, has ten dered his resignation to the President. It is said that the professor, in his letter to the President, puts his action on the ground that the Secretary of the Treas ury has interfered with the working of the bureau by the retirement of experts and the substitution of inexperienced men to such an extent that it is impos sible to do good work. The Senate Committee on Commerce has heard testimony concerning the re spective merits of Santa Monica and San Pedro as a place to build a breakwater , on the Coast near Los Angeles. E. L. ' Corthell, civil engineer, stated a break water at Santa Monica would cost $3,- I 729,199, while he quoted the report of , the Board of Engineers showing the cost at San Pedro would be $4,845,440. En- I gineer Ramond spoke on the San Pedro site. I The Attorney-General of the United l States has instructed Acting United Statea District Attorney Plato sontherndisetrfct o^T^rro^ifto at ( ;bjifee institute suit in that district before Dis trict Judge Wallace against the Northern Commercial Company to recover $132,000 for the last three years' rent and premi um on seal skins due to the government from the company. This action is taken by mutual consent of the contending i ''' ii. There are indications that Ezeta's ! case will eanse our government to as | Eume a definite position in the matter !of the right of asylum. Although the Salvadorian refugees, with one excep tion, are safe on board the Bennington, the Salvadorian provisional government determined to press its demands for the surrender of General Antonio Ezeta, Vice-President of the late government. It is likely that the other refugees will not be included in the demand. The prediction that the reforms insti tuted by the Democratic administration of the pension bureau would result in covering into the treasury at the end of the fiscal year several millions of dollars is about to be realized. Commissioner Lochren has had prepared a careful esti mate showing that the surplus will be $25,000,000. Commissioner Lochren's es timate for pension disbursements in the fiscal year 1895 has been reduced from $165,000,000 to $140,000,000, so that the coming year's disbursement will effect a saving equal to another $25,000,000. The details of the Nicaragua canal bill, which will be reported to the House, were practically closed up at a meeting of the subcommittee the other day. There will be recommended a directorate of eleven members, eight being government direct ors, one representative of the company, one from Nicaragua and one from Costa Rica. Three government engineers will have charge of the work. It will be pro vided that dividends shall not exceed 5 per cent, so that a sinking fund may he established. The government share of dividends will be credited to a sinking fund. Some members of the committee think the debt can be raised in twenty five years on the lines laid down. Bonds were practically decided upon for the whole amount, as the proposition to coin silver involved troublesome complica-! tions and opposition. However, that section of the bill is subject to change; so that, if any plan involving the use of silver seems practicable, it can be adopted. Charles S. Craig of Edgewood Park* Pa., has been before the Congressional Committee investigating the armor plate frauds. He was associated with C. E. Sill in giving the main informa tion of irregularities at the Carnegie works. Craig's evidence was much like that recently given by Sill and corrob orative of it. He testified that he made reports of the work on armor plates from the workmen's slates giving the actcal work done. The reports were submitted to Superintendent Kline, who changed them to bring the work within the government contract. The altered reports were then furnished to the government officers. Craig gave from bis note book a list of plates which had been doctored after they had been turned over to the government as test plates. He gave details of the retreat ment of each plate. Many of them were retreated after the government had rejected them. He testified that he had been instructed by Superintendent Kline to burn the original records showing the real work done. Craig said that while assistant heater he observed much surreptitious work on the plates. He gave the technical details of these ir regularities. This was done without the knowledge of the government officers, and was to deceive them. The capacity of the Carnegie works was not sufficient to do the work properly. He had heard Kline complain to Assistant Manager Hunsicker that more furnaces were nec essary. Mr. Craig identified a number of alterations in reports made oy Super intendent Kline. A LONDON SENSATION. Diamond Stocks Among the Rothschilds Securities. PREMIER RHODES' DECLARATION He Claims That Secretary Carlisle Prom ised That the Senate Would Modify the High Duty Put on Diamonds in the Wilson Tariff Bill. London. —Senator Teller's proposed high tariff on diamonds is causing a sen sation here, where the Rothschilds have recently bonded four and a half millions sterling (nearly $20,000,000) of bonds for the South American Diamond Trust. Besides these bonds the Rothschilds are known to be very largely interested in the stocks of the Diamond Trust. The proposed high tariff would produce a great fall in the value of the immense stock of unsold diamonds on hand and greatly reduce the dividends to holders of the trust's stocks, which for years past has been 25 per cent. A cable re ceived by the officials of the trust from Premier Rhodes of Cape Colony, it is stated, declares that Secretary Carlisle promised last March that the Senate would modify the duty put on diamonds when the Wilson bill passed the House. Teller's amendment increasing the duty to 30 per cent is regarded as a blow aimed by the leader of the American free-silver men at the Rothschilds, the leading bankers in Europe, who have done so much to maintain the single gold monetary standard. The Colorado Senator and ex-Speaker Reed have con sidered various forms of discriminating duties against those countries which op pose an international agreement for free use of silver. TROUBLE IN SAMOA. Slight Skirmiuhes Between the Rebels and the Government. Auckland, N. Z.—Advices from Samoa dated June 14 reached here recently. The British warship Curacoa and the German warship Buzzard visited the locality of the rebel camps recently, and notified them that, if ten chiefs and fifty guns were surrendered, no attack would be made upon them by-the forces, and the rebels were also infornfaed that, if they resolve<i^o_fi&4«efcttbh prop osition and were at liberty to women and children on board Cnracoa and Buzzard. After some deliberation the rebels sent ten chiefs and fifty worthless guns aboard the war ships. After the departure of the war ships the rebels reoccupied the forts, and openly defied the government forces. The Sunday following the rebels fired upon the village where Chief Malietoa was supposed to be attending divine services, and advanced upon the village itself. The rebels, however, were re pulsed by the government force with slight loss on both sides. It was evi dently the intention of the rebels to at tempt to kill Chief Malietoa, but he was absent at the time. When these dis patches left Samoa skirmishes were tak ing place between the rebels and the government forces, but there had been no severe fighting. CHARGES CONFIRMED. Storthing Adopts the Report Against Norwegian Officers. Christiania.—The Storthing has con cluded the debate upon the report of the committee appointed to examine into the conduct of several high military and civil officers, who, it was charged, had at the height of the conflict between the Crown and Liberal party, which resulted in the impeachment of the Conservative Cabinet, acted in a manner prejudicial to the safety of Sweden and Norway. The House adopted the report by a vote of 62 to 69. In substance the report says at the time of the difference between th«. Crown and Liberals the officers in ques tion deliberately ruined 30,000 rifles and got the guns at Christiania ready for service. In addition they had the war shins at Norton, the chief naval station of the kingdom, cleared for action. Japanese Railways. Yokohama.—As several bills for the construction of railways have been passed through the Diet during the pres j ent session, the government has submit ! ted estimates for the construction of the ' lines from Hachioji to Nagoya and from | Shinonoi toShiwojiri,tobe incorporated lin the supplementary for the ' present financial year. It is proposed to I commence the construction of these lines this year. The total cost is estimated at I 30,718,241 yen, but this will be spread over eleven years. The appropriation for the present financial year is 2,800,000 yen, which it is proposed to raise by is ' suing railway bonds in accordance with article 4 of the railway construction law. An Irruption Feared. Yokohama.—Native papers report that Mount Azuma in Fukushima Prefecture showed signs of activity on the 26th ult., a loud rumbling being heard from the mountain during the night, while on the following morning a coating of ashes was found on the fields in the neighbor hood and on the sides of the other mount ains of the range, Issaikyo and Kofuji. For Gladstone's Seat. Edinburgh.—The Liberals of Midlo thian have selected Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, Baronet, candidate for the seat in Parliament which has been held by Gladstone since April, 1880, and who has only consented to retain it until the next election. To Seek Separation. Rome.—Princess Colonna, daughter of Mrs. J. W. Mackay, has entered an ac tion for a separation from her husband. The case will be tried at Naples, where the Princess will appear in person. Civil Marriage Bill Passed. Buda-Pesth.—The House of Magnates after a long discussion passed the civil marriage bill by a majority of four. The j announcement was received with loud 1 cheers. THE PORTLAND MARKET. Wheat—The local wheat market is dull, and export quotations are nominal at per cental for Valley and 75c per cental for Walla Walla. FLOUR, FEED, ETC. Flour—Portland, $2.55; Salem, $2.55; Cascadia, $2.55; Dayton, $2.55; Walla Walla, $2.90; Snowfiake, $2.65; Corval lis, $2.50; Pendleton, $2.50; Graham, $2.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats—W T hite, 38c per bushel; gray, 36c; rolled, in bags, $5.75@6.00; in barrels, $6.00@6.25; in cases, $3.76. Millstuffs — Bran, $15@17; shorts, $16@18; ground barley, $20. JO; chop feed, $15@16 per ton; whole feed barley, $17 per ton; middlings, $23@28 per ton; chicken wheat, 65c@51.00 per cental. Hay—Good, $10@12 per ton. dairy produce. Butter—Oregon fancy creamery, 16® 17>&c; fancy dairy, 14@15c; fair to good, ll@12)£c; common, 7>£@loc per pound. Cheese—Young America,l3>2@l4)'2C; Oregon, Swiss, imported, 30 @32c; domestic, 16@18c per pound. Egos—Oregon, lie per dozen. Poultry—Chickens, old, $3.00@3.50 per dozen; young, $1.50@3.00; young ducks, $3.00@4.50 per dozen; geese,s6.oo @8.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, B@loc per pound; dressed, 10@12c. VEGETABLES AND FRUIT. Vkg stables —Cabbage, per lb; potatoes, 70c per sack; new potatoes, l> 2 c per pound; new onions, $1.25 per sack; Oregon lettuce, 12>2@ 15c; cauli flower, $2.15 per crate, $1.00 per dozen; parsley, 40c per dozen; string beans, 7c per pound; asparagus, 60@65c per dozen; rhubarb, l>£@2c per pound; peas, 3%@ 6e per pound; cucumbers, $1.50 per box; California tomatoes, $2.00 per 25-pound crate. Fruits —California fancy lemons, $3.25 @3.50; common, $2.00@3.00; Sicily,s6.oo 25 per box; Mediterranean Sweets, $3.00@3.25; St. Michael, $3.25@3.50 per box; bananas, $1.75@2.50 per bunch; Honolulu, $1.75(32.50; California navel oranges (Washington), $3.75@4.00 per box; seedlings, $2.25@2.75; Oregon strawberries, 6>&c per pound; cherries, 65@90c per 10-pourd crate for black, 90c @$1.10 for Royal Aim ; gooseberries, 3® 4c per pound; apricots, $1.00@1.25 per 10-pound box; new cooking apples, 75c per 25-pound box; peach plums, $1.25® 1.40 per box; peaches, $1.50@1.75 per CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods—Table fruits, assorted, , $1.75@2.00; peaches, $1.75@2.00; Bart- I lett pears, $1.75®2.00-^K&i ß) ' si.s7k%J[ 1.50; strawberrifia 3^2s( g2.4s; cherries, |2.26@2.4o^i<Ji acK berrieß, $1.86@2.00; 'a* $2.40; pineapples, $2.25® 2.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $I.oo® 1.20; blackberries, $1.25® 1.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, |3.15@3.50; peaches, $3.50@4.00; apri cots, $3.50@4.00; pluma, $2.75@3.00; blackberries, $4.25@4.50. Vegetables — Tomatoes, $1.10 per dozen; gallons, $3.00@3.25; asparagus, $2.25@2.75 per dozen; string beans, $1.00@1.10; sugar peas, $1.00@1.10; corn, Western, $1.00@1.25; Eastern, $1.25@1.70. Meats —Corned beef. Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.25; chipped, $2.40; lunch tongue, Is, $3.50; 2s, $6.75@7.00; deviled ham, $1.50 @2.75 per dozen; roast beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.25. Fish—Sardines, #s, 75c®52.25; #s, E1.50; lobsters, $2.30@3.50; sal in 1-lb tails, $1.25@1.50; flats, -lbs, $2.25@2.50; $5.50. STAPLE groceries. > Fruits —1893 pack, Petite 6®Bc; silver, 10@12c; Italian, 8® 10c; German, 6@Bc; plums, 6@loc: evaporated apples, 8@10c; evaporated apricots, 15@16c; peaches, 12@14c; pears, 7® lie per pound. Coffee—Costa Rica, 23c; Ri0,22@23c; Salvador, 22c; Mocha, 26)£@28c; Ar ouckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, $23.50. Sugab—D, 4%c; Golden 0,4/ B 'c; extra C, 5 v ie ; confectioners' A, sJ£fl; dry gran ulated, cube, crushed and pow dered, 6 per pound; hie per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 15® 16c per pound. Beans —Small white, No. 1, 3}£c; No. 2, 3 ''ie ; large white, 3)£c; pea beans, 3. l 2c; butter, 3> 2 c; bayou, 3&c; Lima, 4j/ 2 c per pound. Rice—lsland, $4.7505.00 per sack. Salt — Liverpool, 200s, $15.60; 100s, $16.00; 60s, $16.50; stock, $8.50@9.50. Syrup—Eastern, in barrels, 40@55c; m half barrels, 42@57c; in cases, 35® 60c per gallon; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 20@40c per gallon; $1.75 per kez. Pickles—Barrels, No. 1, 28@30c per gallon; No. 2, 26@28c; kegs, ss, 85c per keg; half gallons, $2.75 per dozen; quar ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen. Spices—Whole—Allspice, 18@20c per pound; cassia, 16® 18c; cinnamon, 22® 40c; cloves, 18@30c; black pepper, 15® 22)£c; white pepper, 20@25c; nutmeg, 75®80c. Raisins—London layers, boxes, $1.75 @2.00; halves, $2.00@2.25; quarters, $2.25@2.75; eighths, $2.50@3.00. Loose Muscatels, boxes, $1.50; fancy faced, $1.75; bags, 3 crown, 4> 2 '@sc per pound; 4 crown, s@sKc« Seedless Sultanas, boxes, $1.75@2.00; bags, 6®Bc pei pound. HOPS, WOOL AND HIDES. Hops — Choice, 10@llc per pound; medium, 7®Bc. Wool—Valley, 10@10>£c per pound; Umpqua, 10@10>6c; Eastern Oregon, 4 @7c, according to quality and shrinkage. Hides—Dry selected prime, 6c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3>£c; under 60 pounds, 2@3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10@15c; medium, 20@35c; long wool, 30@60c; tallow, good to choice, 3@3>aC per pound. LIVE AND DRESSED HEATS. Beef—Top steers. $2.50@2.75; fair to good steers, $2.00@2.25; cows, $1,75® 2.00; dressed beef, 4@sc per pound. Mutton — Best sheep, $1.75@2.00; ewes. $1.60(3)1.75. Hogs—Choice heavy, $4.00; light and feeders, $3.75; dressed, 5c per pound. Veal—Small choice, sc; large, 3®4c per pound. provisions. Eastern Bmokbd Meats and Labd— Hams, medium, 14c per pound; hams, large, 13c; hams, picnic, ll@12c; break fast bacon, 13@15c; short clear sides, 9%(ebllc; dry salt sides, 9@loc; dried beef bams, 12M@13c; lard, compouad, in tins, 10c per pound; pure, m tins, 10V£@ll>£c; pigs' feet, 80s, $5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.25; kits, $1.25. CORDAGE. Manilla rope, is quoted at and Sisal, per pound. COAL. Sales are slow and prices are steady; domestic, $5.00®7.50 per ton; foreign, | $8.50®11.00. PRICE, 5 CENTS. VARIETY IN FARMING; Dairy Industry an Important Factor of Income. THE PABMERS LOOKING TO IT. Cows No Longer Kept Upon the Farm Simply Because the Farmer Must Have a Little Milk and Butter for the Family. Farmers are looking to the dairy in dustry more carefully than ever before, says Henry Talcott in Farm and Fire side. It has become an important factor of the income of the arm. Cows are no longer kept upon the farm simply be cause the farmer must have a little milk and butter for the family. Best results cannot be obtained without cows or cat tle upon the farm in great abundance to manufacture the much-needed fertility to sustain the soil and do our whole duty to Mother Earth. With the careful rais ing of ensilage corn or corn of the largest variety one can grow in his locality to near full maturity, and with a good silo to put it in at the proper time and in fair condition the farmer is well prepared to do his whole duty as a farmer. I here wish to say that any farmer who tills 100 acres of land or more without silos and ensilage and the cattle or farm stock nec essary to eat it up and leave the manure on the farm is very far from being a first class farmer. He does not know what his farm is capable of producing. More bushels of grain can be raised every year upon a silo farm than upon a grain farm. It increases the brain power of man to have more than one idea in his head at a time. A few of them to rattle around in an almost empty casket will soon excite good ambitions and produce wonderful results. The great luster and beauty of diamonds we saw at 4he World's Fair could have been produced only by grind ing and polishing or friction. Try the necessary variety farming to make your farms develop their whole powers of producttoh, and do not dwarf them or yourself by ose-idea farming alone. My ensilage usually molds from four to eight inches deep on top. I cover it one to two feet deep with grain chaff, which 1 always save for that purpose, and then nit two or three feet of damp swale grass oitop of the chaff to keep it down and be l £r pack the pit. It looks a little tonKi to feed moldy ©naff and ensilage to catiU •o * throw it oat into the barn yard evbT ti me * open a fresh pit. I keep throwlK j* o * ll *»}" * *«* d&wn *> the "' clear quilf -& at tne old cows * now better than I do always go to the pile of moldy stuff 1 throw away and eat the whole thing up clean. I let them do it on their own re sponsibility, because I found out long ago they still continued to give good milk. It is soon out of sight of some weak-kneed farmer who might chance to come at the wrong time to see the silos and ensilage. I often have visitors wbo come many miles to see if I practice what I preach, and it stands in hand to keep my lamp well trimmed and ready for burning. We use the gravity process for creaming our milk at the home dairy. I can now buy the Fairland can, twenty two-quart size, at 75 cents apiece. In our large creameries we use separators with the latest improvements. WHITEWASH. The Lime in It is a Purifying and Dis infecting Agent. Nothing adds more to tbe appearance of farm buildings or gives a better im pression than to have them nicely paint ed. Large numbers of old buildings can not be painted except at great expense, and these may be given a coat of white wash at a comparatively small expense, and the result will be very satisfactory. The lime in the whitewash is a purifying and disinfecting agent, and if the pig sties, poultry-houses and stables are thoroughly whitewashed, they will be much more fit for the animals and much less offensive to the eyes and nose. We append directions for making a brilliant whitewash that will wear well and can be made and applied by any one, says the American Farmer. We know of buildings that have been whitewashed with this nrixture for several years and are still in very fair condition: " Take one-half bushel of nice unslaked lime, slake it with hotline water, cover it dur ing the process to keep in the) steam; strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peek of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice bailed to a thin paste, one-half pound of powdered Spanish whiting and one pound of clean glue which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hang it over a slow fire in a small kettle within a larger one filled with water; add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir it well and let it stand for a few days covered from the dust. It should be put on hot, and for this purpose it can be kept on portable furnace. It is said that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a house if properly applied. Fine or coarse brushes may be used according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick or stone, and is cheaper. It retains its brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of the kind that will compare with it either for inside or outside walls. Buildings or fences covered with it will take a much longer time to burn than if they were painted with oil paint. Col oring matter may be put in and made of any shade desired. Spanish brown will make a reddish pink when stirred in, more or less deep, according to the quan tity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone color; yellow ochre, stirred in, makes yellow wash; but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed pret tier. It is difficult to make roles, be cause tastes are different. It would be best to try experiments on a shingle and - let it dry. Green must not be mixed with lime; it destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel." Fought Hard for Life* Wichita, Kan.—John Ward, a mem ber of the Dalton gang, was shot and killed at Bear Creek, near Duncan, Ok lahoma, by Deputy United States Mar shal Tom Covington. Ward made a hard fight, and when he died ten empty sheila wtaM found at bis lea**