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VOL. 1. NO. 19.
J. D. KIRK WOOD,
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ml I limn Washington Ter.
Office Hulks : 9 a. m. to 12 M . and 1 to I p. m.
STEWART BLOCK. MAIN ST.
E. H. LETTERMAN &. CO.,
Dealers in Grain.
Highest market price paid for Wheat,
Oats, barley and Flax.
PULLMAN', - WASHINGTON TER.
WILLIAM NEWTON, 1
Attorney anil Counselor at Law, J
PULLMAN, W. T.
Money to loan on real estate at the lowest
rates of 'ntei't st. .Ml legal business promptly I
attended to. Taxes p>iid for non-residents. Col- j
lections promptly made and remitted.
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II J. WKIiH. J. F. watt ,
WEBB& WATT,
Physicians and Surgeons
Are Prepared to Treat All Special I
Diseases.
Office in Stewart Block.
PULLMAV, WASHINGTON TEH.
11. ( . WILLIAM SOX,
FASHIONABLE I
Barber and Hair Cutter.
Special Attention is Given to
Cutting : ami : Trimming
Lilies'and Children's Hair.
Hot and Cold Baths.
PULLMAN, WASH. TER. I
PACIFIC
INSURANCE CO!
CAPITAL STOCK:
$bOO 000 § 5 O <),O (> O $500,000 \
PORTLAND - - OREGON.
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W. V. WINDUS, Agent.
Pullman, WaNliiiigtoti T«T. j
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MASON BROTHERS,
Proprietors
Pullman Meat Market. j
Dealers in all kinds of
Fresh and Cured Meat.
Specialties in «»-a«on.
£^-Highest market price* paid for i'attl» !
and Hides, Hog*, etc.
*odine Block. - - Main Street. I
VICTOR HUNZIKER,
Jeweler: and-.Engraver
— AND —
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Pullman. Washington Tit.
Cy-Repalring-of Watches, Clocks,>nd Jew-
Iry « specialty. Postofllce Building.
BABNEY HATTRUP,
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Pullman Sample Room,
«'or. Main anil Grand street*.
Fine Wines Liquors and Cigars.
Perfect order maintained and frertlemanly
, treatment to every one.
Pullman, - - Wa«liins<«» Ter.
Union Pacific Railway.
OREGON SHORT LINE.
Throueh Pullman Sleepers and Modern Pay
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pity ? OGPESj COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA,
ir\\S\s I'ITY.ST. I.OIIS. CHICAGO, and all
joint's In the East "'"' South.
Baggage rhrrkrd throneh from Full
-0 man to all points* named.
Family Sleepers Free on
All Throu h Trains
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'"-Km of fare, descriptive liamphletx,
™"S$y M! neare't alceut of tW UnVon Pacific
Tt«iiwSy or O. R. & X. Co., or address
Railway. h. H. BROWS, Agent, Pullman.
T ■ TEBBETS, G. P. A T. A , Omaha, Neb.
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Portland, Oregon.
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FROM THE CAPITOL
THE ALASKA OUTRAGES DENIED BY
GOVERNOR SWINEFORD.
An Agreement on the General Land Bill
—A Measure for the Suppression
of the "Green Goofs "Fraud 4
— Retiring Officials.
Harold Sewall. ex-Consul to Samoa,
will practice lan.
The dired tax bill was passed over the
President's veto late Saturday night.
The bill for the admission of Idaho and
Wyoming has been favorably reported.
Lieutenant L. P. Jouetl has been dis
missed from the navy with one year's pay.
The bill establishing a life-saving sta
tion at Coquille river, has passed the Sen
ate.
An appropriation of $175,000 for repairs
on the old flag-ship Hartford has been
made.
The proposition to admit Utah as a
Slate lias been favorably reported to the
House.
The pension of the widow ol General
Kilpatrick has been reduced to $7-> per
month.
The inaugural ceremonies were the
most imposing ever witnessed at the
Capitol.
The appropriation for the Agricultural
department has been agreed to by the
Senate.
Postmaster-General Dickinson will re
sume the practice of law in Michigan, and
Secretary Vilas will do the same in Wis
consin.
Stephen Urover Cleveland is the ex-
I'nsidcnt's full name. In late years the
tirst name has been dropped.
The bill appropriating $80,000 for a
lighthouse at Heald's head, Oregon, has
paused both bouses of Congress.
The new silver vault in the treasury is
now filled to its utmost capacity, $86,000,
--000, weighing over 26,000 tons.
A resolution has passed the Senate in
regard to the examination of the Oregon,
California and Nevada war claims.
The bill to prohibit the use of the
mails for the " green goods " or sawdust
game has been favorably reported in the
Senate.
The only negro in the next House of
Representatives will be H. P. Cheafham, ]
from the Second North Carolina district. I
He is thirty-two years old.
The State department has notified the
German government that its demand for
the prosecution of Klein for participation
in the Samoan affair, cannot be complied
with.
\n amendment to the postoffice appro
priation bill provides that the rent of all
postomces of the third-class shall not ex
ceed $600, and fuel and lights $60 pel an
num.
Senator Dolph has presented to the
Senate a petition frr -iti/.ens of Oregon,
praying agaiimi the passage by Congress
of any bill for the suspension cf work on
Sunday.
The Arizona legislature has memoral
i/,,1 Congress again to take action on the
desert land law, and also asking an enab
ling act, s.i that a constitutional conven
tion can be called this fall.
Four years ago Cleveland. Democrat,
was sworn in by a Republican Chief Jus
tice. President Harrison, Republican,
had the oath of office administered to
him Monday by a Democrat.
Senator Stanford has introduced his
amendment to the army appropriation
bill authorizing the Secretary of War to
pun-base four pneumatic dynamite guns
for the harbor of San Francisco. The
e,,M Will be $250,000.
The Senate amendment appropriating
$1 I'.fJ,Oihi to pay the Seminole Indians
I for lands in the Indian Territory rcdv<\ to
tie United states was agreed to. The
| lands acquired, 2,037,000 acres, are made
open to settlement under the homestead
law.
The conferrees on the general land bill
reached an agreement, which provides
for the repeal of the pre-emption and
limber culture laws, ft modification of the
desert land law, and the substitution of a
general and effective law to protect actual
settlers upon the public domain.
N. 11. Patrick, of Cottage Point, Long
Island, has contracted with the Navy de
partment to furnish three controllable
automatic torpedoes of the Patrick patent,
at a COSt of $55,000. Each torpedo is to
carry 400 pound* of dynamite, and is to
run'a statute mile at the rate of twenty
knots an hour.
Col. Lamont, President Cleveland's
private secretary, ha- refused to accept
the increase of'salary recently provided
by Congress, upon the ground that he
"preferred not to be a benificiary in
retroactive legislation," and that he was
I well aware of the salary attached to the
office before he accepted it.
The Secretary of the Interior has finally
approved the lands remaining in what is
'known as list No. ."», and found, after
1 careful examination, to be swamplands.
and amounting to about 11,000 acres.
The lands are located chiefly in Klamath,
Lake and Grant counties, Oregon. This
list originally embraced over 90,000 acres.
Harvey Spaulding.a Washington claim
agent, lias brought suits for $100,000
damages in each case against Win. M.
\ Lias and Don M. Dickerson, postmaster
li nerals during Cleveland's administra
tion, for forwarding to postmasters of the
third, fourth and fifth classes the extra
salary due them under an act of Congress
and ignoring Span Wing, who claims to be
the att irney for the country postmasters.
Governor Swineford, in his report to
the Secretary of the Interior upon the al
iened outrageous treatment of women and
children in Alaska, as charged by Mrs.
Voorhees and several ex-special agents
[of the Treasury department, says that
immorality does exist, but denies em
phatically the story as told by Mrs. Yoor
hees. lie claims that there is not a vil
lage or town in the United States where
there is not more immorality than in any
town in Alaska. The Btatofl of married
women in Alaska is different from what
it is in the United States. There the mat
ter of marriage is one of bargain and sale.
This, the governor says, may account for
1 the shocking tales told in the East.
PULLMAN, WASH. TER., MARC"II 1), 1869.
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
A VALUABLE OPIUM SEIZURE AT
SAN FKANCISCO.
The Effort to Reduce Trancontinental
Fruit Rates Unsuccessful—The Or
ganization of a New Steam
ship Company.
Whatcom has organized a vigilantes
committee.
The Front street cable road of Seattle
has Keen finished.
Tacoma is soon to erect a mattress fac
tory to cost $10,000.
Californians are now utilizing peach
and apricot pits as a fuel.
'I he towboat combination has been
broken in San Francisco.
"Washington Territory raised 6,5-14,393
pounds of hops last year.
Governor Swineford has tendered his
resignation to the President.
Safe-crackers are plying their vocation
along the line of the (>. and C. road.
Another roorback of fabulous gold dis- '
coveries in Lower California is reported.
It is thought that the new navy yard
will be established at Lake Washington.
Victoria, B. ('.. has extended its city
limits and absorbed, several small towns.
Judge David S. Terry was released
from the Alameila county jail last Sun
day.
Kirk, the embezzling clerk of the Na
dean house, Los Angeles, got away with
$3000.
The Union Pacific, it is reported, will :
run trains into Taconia within a few
weeks. ,
Four witnesses have been arrested for
periury in the celebrated Wickersham se
duction case.
Clans Sprerkles has been sued for
$10,000 damages for diverting the waters
of Aptos creek.
A question has been raised as to the
constitutionality of the new city charter
of Los Angeles.
George Brown,an inmate of the insane
asylum at Salem, committed suicide last
week by hanging. i
Immense quantities of iron for various
motor lines in the vicinity of Portland
are arriving daily.
Charles E. Rose, formerly of Ogdens
burg, N. V., committed suicide at Los '
Angeles Thursday.
The selection of the site for the new
postotlice at San Francisco has not yet
been decided upon.
Charles W. skeels, the Spokane Falls
Hiiloon-ki'cjn-r who nan r>ln>l tiy Bronco j
Liz, died Sunday night.
Henry Lewis, a convict at San Quen- '
tin, was stabbed to death by some un- :
known party last week.
Under the new city charter the saloon
license at Salem has been increased from
$330 to $450 per annum.
A council was held at For! Spokane
Tuesday with the view of consolidating :
the tribes on the Colville reservation.
Two natural gas explosions occurred
at Pittsburg, Wednesday, wrecking live ■
buildings and injuring several persons.
The California legislature", Friday, re
fused to reconsider the vote making it a
misdemeanor to publish lottery drawings. '
Two thousand dollars' worth of gam
blers' paraphernalia was destroyed by the j
sheriff in front of the court-house at
Seattle, Saturday.
Charles W. Skeels. a soloon-keeper at
Spokane Falls, was shot and fatally I
i wounded Friday morning by his wife,
known as " Bronco Liz."
Daniel Callahan, who, with James C.
Flood and others, established the First
National Gold bank, of San Francisco,
died at that place last week.
Captain Paul Boynton passed through
Seattle Friday on his way to the Straits
lof Juan del Fuca, in quest of twelve sea I
! lions for Lincoln park, Chicago.
The collapsed enterprise, known as the
Tenth street hotel, Los Angeles, has
been sold for $750,000. The hotel will be
completed at a cost of ,500,000.
The West Coast Steamship company
filed articles of incorporation at San
! Francisco Saturday. The line is in oppo
sition to Goodall, Perkins & Co's line.
The official canvass of Nevada's recent \
election shows the lottery scheme to be
defeated by a majority of 852, and to
abolish the' office of lieutenant-governor
' by 4953.
A boy was struck by lightning from a
cloudless sky in Los Angeles county, last
i week, and killed. [The reporter who con
ceived the alM.ve should change his brand
1 of liquor.]
Dr. Edwin W. Fowler, of San Francis
co, a member of the Bancroft History
company, was knocked down and robbed
by two "well-dressed men at Los Angeles,
Sunday night.
The Southern Pacific company has
closed a contract with the Pullman com
pany, by which the latter will take
charge of all second-class tourist cars run-
J ning on that road.
In tearing down an old adol>e wall at
Lomi>oc, Cal., recently, an adobe was
taken out which had the perfect imprint
of a child's foot. The wall was con
structed about one hundred years ago.
One of the largest seizures of opium
on the Pacific Coast was that made in
San Francisco last week. The drug was
j concealed in barrels labeled " sourcrout,"
. and was detected because of its lightness.
The value of the seizure was $4800.
The effort to reduce transeontinel rates
on canned goods from $1.10 to IK) cents
per hundred pounds having fallen
through at the last moment, local ship
pers of San Francisco have chartered a
vessel and will send an amount equal to
300 car-loads of canned goods around the
. Horn to New York.
Judge Wickersham, after a lengthy
! trial at Seattle, was found guilty of se
, duction. Immediately afterward he was
1 arrested on an indictment by the United
; States grand jury charging him with sub
" ornation of perjury, in persuading Miss
' Brantner, the prqsecutrix in the seduc
tion case, to make false entries on public
lands.
NEWS MISCELLANY.
THE RESULT OF CLAYTON'S MUR
DER IN ARKANSAS.
A White Woman Weds a Brawny Buck -
Excitement Over the Discovery of
Old Placers—Terrible Death
In a Squib Factory.
Scarlet Fever is raging at Bismarck.
Robert Garrett'i health is improving.
The small-pox at Carson, Nev., has
died out.
Colorado held its first niardi gras last
wick.
Strawberry plants are blooming in
< reorgia.
A burglar in jail in Kentucky has fallen
heir to $iiiU>(M).
Delaware has repealed her tax against
commercial travelers.
Both Ohio and Indiana are being bled
by school-book trusts.
Whiskey in lowa is shipped as " axle
grease" and "hardware."
George Q. Cannon has been released
from the I'tah penitentiary.
It is the belief that natural gas in the
I'ittsburg district will not last.
D. Edgar ('rouse, of Syracuse, N. V.,
has just built a $500,000 stable.
Numerous farms in Berks county,
Perm., are being sold by the sheriff.
The White Caps have ordered the Sal
vation army to leave Champaign, 111.
The trial of Governor Larabee, of lowa,
for libel, has resulted in his acquittal.
A Washington correspondent states
that but one senator smokes cigarettes.
A railroad will be built from Chatta
nooga to the battlefield of Chicamauga.
Confederate veterans have organized a
relief association in Kayette county, Ky.
Mrs. Cleveland will receive $120,000 as
her share of the l'olsoin estate at Omaha.
A white woman was married to a full
blooded Indian at Yankton, Dakota, last
week.
There is much excitement over the dis
covery of a number of old placer mines
near L'urcell, 1.T., which were worked in
past ;li'-.
A cow-boys' band, dressed in the regu
lation costume, was afeaturejof the in
augural pageant.
It cost at the rate of $1 apiece to lay
brick in the ceiling of the New York as
sembly chamber.
Edison will build a 10,000,000 candle
power electric lamp to exhibit at the
Paris exposition.
A bill has been introduced in the Wis
consin legislature abolishing the use of
stoves in passenger cars.
Eleven girls and one man were killed
by tin- explosion of a squib factory at
Plymouth, Pa., Monday.
A great transcontinental trunk line, to
run diagonally, with Charleston, S. C.
as the Eastern terminus, is projected.
"White cap" outrages in Indiana will
hereafter be punished by a fine of $1000
or less, and ten years in the penitentiary.
Masked men seized several Mormon
missionaries in Indiana last we k and
gave them fifty lashes on the bare back.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has sold the Eng
lish and German editions of " Prank Les
lie's Illustrated Newspaper" for $400,000.
The dirty and oflensive habit of spit
ting tobacco juice has received recogni
tion as an illegal offense by a Philadel
phia grand jury.
Bishop WhittaKcr. of Philadelphia,
who has just returned from a visit to Cu
ba, says that the Cubans would be glad
to enter the Union.
The Oregon Improvement Company,
it is said, will hereafter purchase or build
its own steamers, instead of chartering
vessels as heretofore.
A bill has been introduced into the
Michigan legislature to prohibit the
transportation of dead Chinamen or their
bones through the State.
The New Jersey legislature is consider
ing a bill making it unlawful for employ
ers to demand of employes a pledge not
to join labor organizations.
Two thousand employes at the fur
naces of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company struck Friday morning in con
sequence of a reduction in wages.
?»Irs. Lizzie McCaulley. who shot and
killed her husband last December at
Chicago, murdered her two children and
then committed suicide, Saturday.
The murder of John M. Clayton for
political reasons has had the effect of par
alyzing business and demoralizing the
whole of Conway county. Arkansas.
Tarty feeling run so high in the In
diana legislature last week that one irate
solon struck another in the face ; black
ing his eye and otherwise disfiguring his
erudite physiogonomy.
Mrs. Kmma Althouse, the Attica, N.
Y. famous sleeper, is on the brink of
death, she has slept 470 days and nights
in one year and a half, with nourishment
to last a healthy person but a few days.
Robert Sitrel, son and confidential
clerk of General Franz Sigel. agent of the
pension office at New ork City, was ar
nsted Friday on three charges of for
gery in connection with pension claims.
The sale of trotters at Lexington. Ky..
Saturday, was phenomenal, sixty-one
head were sold, bringing a total of $14:!,
--630. The price paid for Bell Boy is the
highest ever paid for a horse in America.
f51,000.
The growing scarcity of United States
bonds and other first-class securities has
forced the savings banks of New York to
appeal to the legislature tor an enlarge
ment of the list in which they may in
vest their trust funds.
Henry Fish, of St. Cloud, Minn., sold
out everything and started with bis wife
and daughter lor Oregon, last week, giv
ing his daughter possession of his money.
The girl became crazy through anxiety
over the trust and jumped from the train.
She was picked up injured and insane,
and no one knows where the money is.
The mother died of grief over her mis
fortunes.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
THE UNITED STATES AND COLOM
BIA AT LOGGERHEADS.
The German Squadron Ordered to Sa
moa—Grand Duke Vladimir's Dis
graceful Conduct-A Cana
dian's Briliiant Idea.
Yellow fever prevails ;it Rio Janeiro.
i Prime Minister Crispi has resigned.
1 \V. 11. Gladstone, eon of the statesman,
is dying.
Scotland's woolen mills arc running
over time.
The cust of tlif Paris exposition will he
$10,000,000.
The Empress Frederick lias retained
to < iemiany.
Of the 200,000 foreigners in Paris only
L':!oi> are Americans.
Chile lias passed a law excluding Chi
nese from the country.
(icrmaiiy has given a large order to an
Austrian factory for rifles.
Canadian pork-packers liave petitioned
to exclude American ]«irk.
Belfast, Ireland, will have an Interna
tional exhibition next year.
The Sultan of Morocco has ceded a
strip of territory to Germany.
Oscar Wilde has pulriished an essay
entitled ■•The Decaj of Lying."
Cardinal Charles Sacconi is dead. He
was senior in rank of cardinals.
German papers claim that Klein, of Sa
moan fame, is a < icrinan subject.
The Hothscliinds are forming a com
pany to work the BurniaTi ruby mines.
It is intended to run a new line of
steamers between Leith and Baltimore.
The report of the death of Hippolyte
and the rooting M his army proves to lie
untrue.
The hank of England building, Lon
don, covers eighta acres and employs 10(10
persons.
There are more than 2,700,000 women
in Belgium who are engaged in industrial
. pursuits.
Boulanger acknowledges that it is his
intention to invade Germany within the
1 next six months.
It is reported that General Dea Bordes,
the French commander, has been mur
dered in Tonqnin.
The French chamber of deputies has
passed the bill to insure the freedom and
Becrecy of the ballot.
The London Mansion House fund for
the relief of suilerers from famine in Chi
i na, amounts to £8000.
Canada proposes to pass a law that will
destroy that country as the paradise of
hoodlers and bank cashews.
Marshal yon Moltke will, on March Bth,
complete his seventieth year of active
service in the German army.
Admiral Symonds and other English
authorities think England and France
well matched in naval power.
The Chinese Emperor was married
last week with a splendor that contrasted
; painfully with the famished condition of
millions of his subjects.
The Eiffel tower. Paris, will he finished
April Ist. The tower is now 825 feet
high and weighs 7800 tons. There are
to he added 300 tons more.
AVin. K. Yanderhilt is seeking to ob
tain a lease of the house now leased by
the Duke of Sutherland. The property
belongs to the royal family.
Countess Larish has been condemned
to perpetual exile because o! the part she
played in the events which led to the
| death of Crown Prince Rudolph.
The statistics of suicides in Vienna
show that with its population of about a
million and a quarter it has had in recent
years about 3t50 suicides annually.
The Afghan forces are advancing from
Herat, and the Ameer of Bokhara is pre
i paring to attack them. The Russian pa
pers have adopted a war-like tone.
A statue of Edward the Confessor is to
adorn the great screen, now in course of
renovation, in Winchester cathedral,
England. The Queen will donate it.
Count Bom belli, chief of the late Crown
Prince Rudolph's household, has re
: signed. The Emperor has bestowed upon
him the grand cross of the order of Leo
pold.
It is reported that theCzaris scandal
ized by the irregular life of his brother,
and has ordered the Grand Duke Vladi
mir to resign the conunandership of the
guards.
The cathedra] of Seville is reported to
he in an alarming condition. Unless the
building is shored up and strengthened
the greater portion is liable to fall at any
moment.
Piggott, the forger of the letters in the
I'arnell case, and on which the London
•Times" based its chafes against the
Irish statesman, committed suicide in
Vienna Friday.
The German squadron in the Pacific is
to 1h- strengthened, in order that punish
ment may be inflicted on the natives of
Samoa for murdering German marines
and injuring German interests.
A curious crap is ■ harvest of 4006
apongee. It was obtained by an Aus
trian savant as the result of an experi
ment of literally sowing small parts of
living s|>onges in a soil favorable to their
production.
A member of the Donimioa parliament
will introduce a resolution in that body
authorizing the purchase of the Eastern
states of the Americas Union. It is
probable that an amendment will lie of
fered including the liulunve of the earth.
' The United States of America and the
United Suites of Colombia are in dipute
concerning the right of the latter govern
ment to seize several hundred tons of the
Boston Ice company, because the exctn
[ sive right to sell ice had heen granted to
a Colomhian firm.
Collet-ting taxes in South Africa is
• at times an unpleasant duty. A native
chief, in arrears, recently gave notice
, that as soon as the collector came around
. in his district the objectionable official
• should be seized, because "his head was
wanted at the ehiei's kraal for medicine."
FARMER? COLUMN.
THE PRODUCTION OF NEW VARIE
TIES OF POTATO SEED.
The Exercise of Horses—Cucumbers
Grown in Bottles for Pickling Pur
poses—The Milking of Cows
at Regular Intervals.
Burn over the fields that are covered
with stubble and dried -thins.
It is claimed that about f> worth of
dogs have killed $10,000 worth of sheep
in Michigan the past year.
.Owing to the failure of the rice crop in
Cores the government has prohibited the
exportation of other cereals.
Use no stable manure on voting peach
trees. A mixture of some kind of min
eral fertilizers is better. - Experiments
have shown marl to !>e excellent for
peach trees.
As a rule, all summer pruning checks
growth, and by producing maturity of
wood and fruit buds, induces fruitness.
All winter and early spring pruning fa
vors growth, that is, causes a more ex
uberant growth in the parts remaining.
The horses should Ik exercised daily.
If kept standing in the stable they lie
come changed in disposition. The gent
lest of horses become shy if confined too
long. Exercise hardens the muscles and
keeps the horse in good condition for
spring work.
Young pigs will usually commence to
eat when about three weeks old, and the
more attractive the portion put within
their reach the quicker they will learn to
make a full feed. If they can have a lit
tle fresh milk at the start so much the
better, but by common consent skim
milk is counted sufficient to meet piggy's
notion. With milk as a starter they will
soon take to slop made of mill feed.
A lady who claims to have twenty
years' experience otl'ers this receipe tor
keeping eggs. Take good fresh eggs and
rub them over with lard, thus closing the
pores of the shell. Then put a layer of
oats or bran in a box and a layer of eggs,
setting them on the small end and not
allowing them to touch each other, sep- 1
arating them by oats or bran. In this I
way till the box and the eggs will keep
fresh.
The Wheatland (Cal.) "Four Corners"
Bays : Great progress is shown by the
farmers of the foothills between here and
Grass Valley. It seems as though they
had just awakened to the fact that their
land is no longer tit for chicken and
sheep ranches only, on which they are
to gain their livelihood by doing as little:
as possible., but that they are tit for some
thing more; they are the, home of the
olive. fit: and other fruits, which, if
worked properly, will bring in targe reve
nues.
TheOviedo (Fla.) "Chronicle" says
that a linn there are about to engage in a
novel enterprise in connection with their
vegetable garden. They are taking glass
bottles and training cucumber vines.
when they are ready to bloom, to grow
cucumbers inside the bottles, so that -
when the vegetable is full grown it will I
be much larger than the neck of the bot
tle. They will then take and pickle
them, and will have the surprising thing
of having pickled cucumbers in bottles j
with m-cks much smaller than the pick- i
les.|
A poultry-raiser tells that when he cuts j
a chicken's wing he gets some one to |
hold the bird, then he takes the wing j
and stretches it out, and with a sharp
knife he commences near the body, leav
ing three or four of the quill feathers next
the DOtly without cutting, and cuts all the
rest except three or four at the tip end.
That will take the wind out of their sails
and prevent flying. The feathers left at ■
the tip of the wing enables the hen to
keep her eggs in place if you let her sit,
and when the wing is shut up it does not
disfigure her.
The following is the way to grow new
varieties from potato seed : The seed
balls of potatos contain a large quantity
of small seeds which are separated from
the balls when these are dry by rubbing.
The seeds may then be kept easily as
other seeds, in a dry place until the
spring, when they are sown in a. l>ed af
ter all danger of frost has passed. The
first crop will be small, some no larger
than peas and up to walnuts are larger in
size. These are kept over in the usual
manner and planted out in the next
spring, producing potatos of the ordinary j
size, but all differing considerably, in ap
pearance.
It is held that "in order to secure the
best returns, cows should be milked at
regular hours, and the day should be di
vided evenly, in order not to make the
time between milkings too long. When
the flow is quite heavy it is better to
milk three times a day. In the case of a
cow giving a full flow of milk, with but
little variation in the amount from day to
day, the natural impression would be
that the secretion of milk through the
twenty-four hours would l>e as regular
and uniform as the products of successive
days; but there is reason for believing
that the variation in the rate of secretion
between milkings is large, and that it is
by far most rapid while milking is. being
•one.
After mixing soil with the manure,
about half and half, it should be drawn
arouad the plants so as to cover the
stems to the same height as formerly, but
no higher. (It is a mistake to draw soil
around the stems of plants with a view
of forcing roots from parts where nature
never intended there should be any.
Even when transplanted the stems of no
kind of plants should be set deeper in the
soil than they originally grew.) Thus ar
ranged, the "manure will act far better
than it would if left in a body, which is
mainly attributable to the fact that the
soil is rendered porous by mixing the
manure therewith, thus permitting the
carbonic acid gas of the atmosphere more
readily to penetrate to the roots of the
plants. Said gal being an important ele
ment in the production of plants, the soil
should be well stirred soon after each
rain, thus preventing the formation of a
crust. The -mixing of Roil with the ma
nure will prevent plants from firing in
time of dry weather, thus obviating the
usual bad" effects of fresh manure when
used in a body. In fact, unrooted manure
mixed with soil possesses all the advant
ages of well-rooted, and, being far prefer
able in procuring an early stand, its use
is recommended for the purpose - afore:
said.
52.00 PER YEAR.
PORTLAND MARKET.
THE LOCAL MARKET ALL THAT
COULD BE DESIRED.
Sugars Exhibit Great Firmness—A Brisk
Demand for Fresh Meats—Dried
Frui'a Drug in the Market
Drop In Cured Meats.
The local merchandise market is all
that could be desired] spring onions com
ing in earlier than usual. The wheat
market, however, continues in a dull
and very unsatisfactory ,-tate. Su
gars exhibit great firmness ami have ad-
I vanced } K c. Since our last report cured
• meats have dropped '._><•. The demand
■ lor fresh fruit continues steady, with a
slight advance in oranges. Dried fruit*
are a drug in the market through an over
nupply. In the matter of butter prices
have gone to pieces, except that olchoice
quality. The receipts of wool for the
week haee been 08,570 !t.s. Flour con
tinues steady, with no change since last
report. There is a good demand for all
kinds of feed. Fresh meats remain un
changed.
GROCERIES.
Sugars, Golden C slgc, extra C si.V,
cube, crushed and powdered 7c. Coffee:
Java '.'•")<■, Rio 21..c, Arbuckle's roasted
L'4'._,.■.
PROVISIONS.
Oregon ham 12^@13c, breakfast ha
con 13c, sides lie, shoulders lti• <«v lie.
Eastern ham Il."._.u<l;»c, Sinclaire's 13@
lS'-ae, breakfast bacon 12^@13c, sides
lie, shoulders 10@lli\ Lard ~U)K,
@lle.
FRUITS.
Navel oranges $4.85@5.00, Riverside
*:;._'."><.'::.. apples $1.10, lemons $•">."><> iht
box.
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes 30@35c, onions 70®75c.
DRIED FRUITS.
Apples s@Gc, sliced (>'._,(■, apricots !;!•.>
14c. peaches B@loc, pears sc, Oregon
prunes, Italian, Be, silver Be, German •")'._,
(«:(!«•, plums s@7c. Raisins |2 per box,
California figs Be, Syma 15«-.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Batter, Oregon fancy '_'•"><•, medium 20c,
Eastern 15c, California 22c.
EGGS.
Eggs 13@14c.
POULTRY.
Chickens $5.50@6, ducks $8.25 per
doz., geese $10@12, turkeys 17c per tt..
WOOL.
Valley 18c, Eastern Oregon B@lsc,
BOPS.
Hops si» 15c.
GMAIN.
Wheat, Valley |1.55, Eastern $1..'{0.
Oats 33c.
FLOUR.
Standard $4.50, other brands $494.10.
FEED.
Hay $13@15 i>er ton, bran $17, shorts
I $18, barley chop $23@24, mill chop $18.
__ FRESH Ml; ITS.
Beef, live, 4c, dressed He, mutton, live,
i.4c, dressed Sc. lambs $2.50 each, hogs Be,
i dressed T@7J£c, veal G@Bc.
—That dreamt do oocaakmaUj come
too true is now believed by the Port
land man who dreamed the othei night
that robbers were removing property
of his, and who on awakening went to
investigate, found the robber, and got
knocked on the head with a piece of
lead pipe as a reward for his curiosity.
—Barnum's elephant "Juno" caught
cold at the winter quarters in Bridge
port and was given two gallons of
whisky and wrapped in blankets soaked
in brandy in the hope of curing her.
The dose made the animal "jolly" and
she tore away her blankets, staggered
about among the herd of animals and
conducted herself generally in an un
dignified manner.
—The only blacksmith of Mohawk,
Arizona, had a son born to him recent
ly. Although work was rushing ha
refused to till orders, and put in the
whole time making a baby carriage.
Meanwhile the town was filled with
teamsten anxious to have their wagons
put in order, but the happy father was
master of the situation and no induce
ments could prevent his labor for the
baby. The baby is the boss of all
creation.
—At a citrus fair in Oroville. Cal.,
there were several mammoth exhibits
of oranges. They included an im
mense golden heart, covered with
thousands of oranges, a grand monu
ment on which were displayed 10,000
samples of the fruit, and a huge
basket in which were piled up 12,150
oranges. Another splendid exhibit
was a Japanese pagoda, in which
nearly 5,000 oranges and lemons were
displayed.
—A new and beneficial use to which
the ordinary toy torpedo can be put is
told of by the Boston Post. A lady in
that city has a Skye terrier who has a
trick of wandering away from her
when out on a walk and snapping
good-naturediv at the heels of other
people. She brings the dog to her side
by throwing a torpedo near him. The
terrier is frightened at the explosion,
and, not knowing whence it originates,
runs back to its mistress for protec
tion, and is awed into submission for
the rest of the walk.
—There is an old man in Chicester-
Tille, in the Catskills. who always
speaks out in meeting. Recently a
city divine preached -in the little
Methodist church of the village, and
the old man became so excited at one
or two home thrusts in the sermon
which seemed to apply to a certain
neighbor that he got up and shouted:
"That's right, youngster, hit 'im
again." And later on, when the ser
mon appeared to come home to him,
he cried out in stentorian tones:
"That's so, b'gosh. We're all sinners,
ev'rv durnod one of us.