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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1893)
Lincoln County Leader, J. F. STSWIKT, FaMl.h.r. TOLEDO . OREGON OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Oregon's Excellent Display at the World's Fair. FLATTERING EASTERN COMMENT Model Hydraulic Placer ..Mine Attracts the Attention of tbe Immense Throng:. The total Columbia river salmon pack will b about 275,000 cases, 173,000 Hlioit oi last year, An international irrigation convention is called to meet at Di uiing, N. M., on r.o vein per I. A colony of thirty families is rciortod traveling with ilH teams overland from Iscoranka to tliu vicinity of Olyuipia, Tiie Indians in Home parte of Orcein, notably at Grant, have lieen ottering k niea fur sale at from $2.60 to $7 apiece, A. I). Childress. inaiiiiKcr of the clear ing house at Ixih Angeles, I nut resigned at the solicitation of tho clearing-house ball ICS. The depositors in the Ixs AngelcsCity Bank, it is said, will nut get 26 cents on the dollar, owing to the Iuoho inetliodHol business employed. The Spokane Bur Association in urging llie claims ol Montana, Idaho ami Kast em Washington to a sitting of tin United States Circuit Court of Appeals aim mo locution ol Spokane oh desirable lor all concerned. Charles JohiiHon, a member of an ex tensive kuK of freight-cur thieves work ing between Han Francisco and Sacra mtiiilo, Iihh been arrested at Hit) latter city. The other thieves w ill probably lie taken in a lew days. The Hcureitv of salmon in the Colinn bia HiIh season is mure marked than ever before, and ban led to the lielief in maiiv quarters that the river Ih fished out, and tliul IihIi wheulH, trapH ami HeineH iiiiihI be abolished in future if the industry in to he revived. Ling Sing, a Christianized ChincHe who Iiiim been employed un the revenue cutter Oliver Wolcolt for ten yenrH ah tlie Captain's private steward, ban liecii arreHted on Imartl that vessel at l'urt Townscm! for smuggling opium Into the it.'i I l .... I i it..:.: .1. (". I 1 :.. uuiieti nuieti uoiii jjriiisn 1.011111111111 ben tlie man h apartineiilH were Hftirchcd, eighteen llvu-lncl cans of pre pared opium were louiiil concealed lie neath Iiih bunk. The people of Yuma and vicinitv hcli a iiiiui meetinit recently, ami unaiii iliolisly agreed to n'iiu hI Cnitcd States Attorney-l iclioriil niney not to appeal It the United States Supreme Court the Aluodoncs laud-grant ciinc, recently dc ciilccl in favor of the claimnntH bv tbe United States l.iind ('ourt of IVivale CiainiH. The reasons given are that the Hid I Iih h on the grant are penally satis lied with the decision. A fisherman on the Ixiw er Columbia bail Iiih net in the river, and wax muk lug a unit, w licit die Hteiimer 1. J. I ol lor luiHhcd on her way to Astoria, 'i'l cuptitin did not nee the net, and in jiuss ing one uf the vchhc I'm big wheels pickei it up and wound it mound the Hhuft taking tlie lislioimuu uiul part ol li boat with it. Fortunately bn wuh hi completely tangled in llie -lift that lie wan lield lli nn-v hi one plnco and currict: around, nml escaped lieing dashed 1 ih outer' "" lor belli were lieanl and the Hteamer was stopped, and he wiih re cased lu speaking of Oregon being unrepru- stilted in lot) national uoiim me mica go Tribune of a lale date remarks: "Or egon in without representation in tlie deliberations of tlie .National tonunis nion. ami lu thin incident there in an other feature of the old Cleveland-Ten nover fend, line of Oregon's Nationu Commissioners in ill, uud Iiih alternate resigned, lo thin reHignatiou the Gov ernor Paid no heed. Oregon's otbe Commissioner in not in tbecitv, ami the Governor a refusal to notify the I'rosi- dent of tbe vacancy in the commission leaven Oregon without a siiokcgmun. Oregon hum are fciiiful that they will faro ill in the apHirtioiimenl ol jurors of awartln, ami nave asked tun National Commission to tuke hucIi action an will result iu Oregon having a voice in the ImnIv'h dclitwratioiia." One of the uiont iuiortant features presented tu visitors In tlie maguitlccnt etliicational exhibit, now fully open and complete, in the department of liberal arts. Nearly all ol uie Mines ami icr ritorien are creditably represented. Par ticularly are the most distant Mates well represented, fmm the Atlantic to the Pacific, and of these no exhibit in more attractive than that presented by the State ol Hregon. Its Hpcvlltc character intici are nuinemun and iniiny of them nnitpie, and ut once hold the attention uf the passer-by. In the department of ornithology there in a inagiiitlcent dis play of all the game bints of Oregon el egantly mounted. There are (rco-hand ami mechanical drawings and photo graph work illustrating nil features of public-school work through the several grades. Of tho higher institutions ol learning the Slate University, the Stale Agricultural College ami the Willamette I'hivenuty lead ill their exhibits. The entire exhibit Is a tribute lo the enter prise, skill and ahililv of the leacners and schools of the VVcb-ftNit State. Chicago liilcr-Occun. line of Uie most attractive exhibits to tbe public in the mines and mining building is the model or miniature hy draulic placer mine in the Oregon sec tion, which us a drawing card to the general public is only surpassed bv the silver statue of "Justice." The plucvr mine consists of a Istl of gravel a Unit fifteen feet long and six ds-t wide, with sluiceway through the middle. A small hydraulic ram throws a vigorous stream uf water against the gravel bank, carry lug tlie tlir goltl in can goia la CHUgm ny toe runes placed cross wise in tbe box. A nnmticr of Oregon Iuacer-miiiing roM-rties gave (licgruvc I, 00 sacks of 150 pounds each coming Irom the following iMerties: Ingram A Baker, Centennial and Willow Springs in Willow Springs district, laveiiKirt in tho ravenKirt district ; on the opening day tome gravel from the Basin mine, the pro-rty of Captain Clough of Port land, wan worked over; a clean-up whs made after each tug was worked, but the gold w an allowed to remain in the Ihixcs in order to give visitors an insight into the svhIciii of placer-mining. A linal clean-up wan made late in the afternoon, which netted about one ounce of gold dust and two nuggets weighing aU.ut one-eighth of an ounce each. Tliis sh -cial attract ion in in charge of F. II. Howe, iuperinleiident of the Oregon mining exhibit. New Yolk Engineering and JJiuing Journal. BUSINESS BREVITIES. The tin-plate factory at Elwoo.1. Ind ian resumed work, irivinir mnnlovment to 600 men. Canada RtlnnliftA npnrtv nil iin nlnm. bago iihchI by Auirican manufacturers of ieaa pencils. I'our hnndnxl ami f.Hv iu.m.m In thin country live on the labor of every iw vioraers. There arc seventy-neven zinc wiinen in Irussia, which produce one-half the world's zinc. It in stated that wotnpn hold 15ft. OKI fliareg in I'hiladelphia building and loan association!). The distanro from 'i York fn Mel bourne via Han Francisco in 12,206 milen ; to Hongkong, 10,6!W milen. (llaHs brickn are made no cheaply that It Deems only a mutter of time when glass houses may come in fashion. During the lust three years Knvlish capitalism have invented $213,000,000 in Mexico and American capitalism (345,- uuu.oou. British mana'acturern of agricultural machinery and hardware acknowledge mat tlie United ritaten in in keen coin petition. Fifty-nix yearn ago the block on which tli Chicago postolllco now stands was sold at auction for 1605. It in now worth 16,000,000. fbe Ainoskeag mills, which has closed for the month of August according to vote oi un inreclorn ut Alunctiester, I ll., employs H,IXXI liuntlH. The most expensive fur in tho skin of the black fox of Kamtchatka. Theso mi nimis are ncart-e and hard to kill, and a single skin scIIh for about 1,000. Toboggan expressen have been a f;nt lire In tbo Isiwlder tlistnct of Montana the past season, anil have been very use ful in conveying freight to points olT tho main road. The smallest homo in the world in named General Tom Thumb, lie be longs to a museum out West, lfo in three feet high, and weighs only eighty live pounds. The salaries paid to persons in tin civil service of tlie United States amount to 1MI,000,(MK) annually. This amount payn tho wages of lHO.OtH) persons. Tlie avrtrugo in 6tH) a year. The fast train over the Now York Cen tral and the Lake Hhoro between New York and Chicago must, it is stated, carry neventy-tlve through passengers to pay the cost of running it. In round n umbers the total amount of life Insurance written by tlie dill'crent insurance companies of the world is 1 2,000,000,000. Of thin sum 15,600,000, 000 are placed in tint United States. Soil In ICgyiit is tilled by exactly the same kind ol plow as thill used there 5,000 years ago. The furrows made are extremely shallow, and the clods are further broken up with a big wcxkIou cudgel. Notwithstanding the world's great me chanical progress there are wintidistricts in France, Spain and Italy where the graiiusnre still trisldcn w ith bare feet under the idea that tho wine is butter when made so. The British insurance companies dur ing tin) year 1HU2 received in premiums C17,MH,'ol7, uud paid out in losses i'll. i'sl2.IHI7. Tliu expenses ami commissions paid bv forty companies are placed ut over iri,700,000. Electric street railways in the United States have in operation a mileage which exceeds tho sum of street railways run by uther powers, viz. : r,(i:!ll miles run by electricity, 4,-ltkJ by horses, tUil by cable and 020 by steam! A writer has figured nut that the United States produces 2,200 suiids of grain to each inhabitant; Penmark, 2,005; Canada, 1,500; Knssia, 1,200; Koiiiniuiia, 1,150; Spain, 1,100; France, '.mil; Swed 1IH0; Argentine Uepuhlic, H50; Attifsliit, "!i0;iicrniiii!V; JW0-; le. ilium, (100; Portugal, 650; Ireland, 600; Scotland, -UK); England, 3(10. PURELY PERSONAL. Attorney! icneral Hendricks of Ken tucky prides himself on the fact that he rose from a lulsircr to his present place of dignity and honor. Charles Foster, ex-Seercturv of tho Treusnrv, Ih meeting the usual fate of the unfortunate. Sow b in charged with gross uiisinuuHgcmciit, if nothing worse, of the llnuiiciul allairn of those who had Intrusted their interests to his cure. A horseback ride to lust threo years ami to extend from Texan to Patagonia has been planned by Colonel K. F. John ston of Philadelphia, I'hilo lleveritlge of Chicago, M. C. ricking of Ottumwa, la., unit li. Edgccomb, ncpliewof Ixinl Edge comb, Mine. LaUmtly, widow of the great French sugar refiner, who left her a for tune of :I0. 000,0 0, liven in a small house at St. Cloud, ami sHutls aUmt $1,000 a year. Her son, however, ia compensat ing for this maternal economy by squan dering the fortune with a prodigal band. Iu the marriage of Misn Catherine Weed Barnes to Henry Snowden Ward, editor of tlie English photographic mag azine, New York loses one of its bright est women, and the " ri;ht little tight little island" will gain one of the best women amateur photographers iu this country. tiabrielle (Ireclcy, daughter of the founder of the New York Tribune, is married to Hev. F. M. Clcudiiiin. pastor of a fashionable church at Westell. ster, c . i . siie is active in all the charitable work In the Parish, and has done a great deal toward building the hospital, which is now nearly finished. Baron William von FaW, the only son ol Huron Uithar von Fuhcr and part owner of the world-renowned lead pen cil factory III Nurenitierg, died iu tier- many a few davn ago. The family is one of tlie wealthiest iu (ieriuuuv, and its members stand high among the i n t r i - cians of old Nun'iuN'rg. Uird Beaumont, who is descended from the last King of Jerusalem, suc ceeded to the title last vear at the death of his elder brother. He has travelisj extensively in the United States with the avowed purpose of wedding un heir ess. His mime lliMircs honorable on dm service records of the British ariuv. Hubert Buchanan in a communication to the Ixmdoti Chrouiclo remarks: " It is not for inv . . . , . ... ,n.i w'x'.i in., i uv w liner it iivi T ' l , i u. 17vl,l,1"' ' ""' spring cropol the State will not 1 more Inch holds it has dot,,., but I j than 2 1 ,iXK,000 bushels, as against 70, ako my oath that 1 have fed more : Otv.000 last vear. Corn has been ld! v hand wl could sla moutiis aim ueiiHsi mor struggling imiii. ! 1...IVC ,..n., w . ..- i i.e. nillllUISI ;iut together. I care little (or fame and esi for money." ( Cert rude Petan, IH years old, lives in South Dakota, where she is known as he " l-adv Cowtmv." Her father owns 3tH) head of cattle, of which she bus en- i tire charge. She docs not simply take the cattle to tbM ranrt aiul I. .at- (I there, but remains with them and takes' cam of them as well as could anv cow-' Is.y. Her duties frrouently take her ter to the Board of Trade and Transpor from thirty to forty mile from home, as talion of New York, in which h tbo cattle must l kept moving in order t feed them well. She wears a wide- brimmed white felt hat, long gjuntlet gloves, carrica a lariat coiled almut the hom of her saddle, is provided with branding irons, and ride the wildest trvuco on the rang. , EASTERN MELANGE. Trouble Brewing in Railroad Circle.1 in Nebraska. AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IN FLORIDA Suspended PenHloners Given More Time In Which to Make Proof of Their Rights. The wheat crop of Illinois is the small est ever known. Chicago's unemployed number more than ever before. Tlie troops will soon lie removed from tlie East Tennessee coal mines. The biggest gaa well in America was struck near Pittsburg last week. It is paid all the members of the Cab inet will keep house this winter. The Mormon Tabernacle choir will go hast to sing at the World's rair. Work will be begun on a new Federal building at liurlington, la., at once. Hot weather has given East Tennessee the best cotton crop in twenty years. The Board of Trade of New Orleans is working to secure a better mail service. There wag an increase of over $17,000, 000 in the amount of currency during July. A plague of grasshoppers is sweeping down on the fanners in the Tennessee Valley. Aluminium car tickets are in use on Mic higun-Htrect railway, and are quite popular. The United Ktntes Watch Company of Waltluun has resumed work, hut cut down pay. Labor day in St. Louis, it is predicted ill furnish tho greatest procession ever seen there. More hard coal has been mined so far this year than ever before in a corre sponding period. (iirls may legally smoke cigarettes on the streets. Su reads the decision of a Louisville (Ky.) court. West Virginia has millered from a long-continued drought, but a recent vi olent Htorm has ended it. In the Brooklyn elevated railroad sys tem steam as a motive power is to be superseded by electricity. Secretary Smith says tho Cherokee Strip will probably be thrown open to settlement on September 1. New Y'ork is having no end of trouble with its cable railroad on Broadway. It breaks down every day or two. Ex-( iovernor Campbell of Ohio an nounces that under no circumstances w ill he he a candidate this full. Returns from recent school elections in Kansas show that women are fond of exercising the right of Hiiffriigo. Advices from Labrador report the cod fishing excellent and salmon-fishing fair. There arti no reports of distress. Tho property in tho county of New York which was exempt from taxation last year amounted to $004,000,000. A lhiltiinoro asphalt company bus dis charged 1,000 hands liecuuso the banks would not discount its city warrants. The new pustmnstcr at Dundee, Mich., among his other qualifications has u mustache, ;!2J4 inches from tip to tip. There is trouble brewing in railroad circles of Nebraska oyer the injunction proceedings in the maximum freight law. A company has applied for incorpora tion w hich proposes to construct a ship (final irom Lke St. Clair t Lake Erie. The Australian ballot was used for the lirst time in Florida recently at Jackson ville, ami gave umpintillcd satisfaction. Now England farmers are reported to Ih unable to harvest crops that are re markably tine because of insulUcient help. 'llie railroads centering in Boston suf fered a depreciation of more than $10, 500,000 in stock valuation during the mouth ol July. Tbero will be no more deaths from " heart failure" iu I'hiladelphia, for the Board of Health has declared that there is no such disease. A colored people's insurance company, which had no existence, has been vic timizing the colored people iu New Jer sey out of large sums. Taunton, Mass., some rears ago deeded a site to the United States for a Federal building and, having lost patience wait ing (or the latter, wants tlie laud buck again. It is rumored in New York that Will iam B. Hornhlower will be selected to till the vacancy ou the United States Supreme Bench' caused by the death of Judge Match ford. A plot of ground. 75x100 feet, on the corner of Filth avenue and Eighty-Hrst street iu New York has Iwn sold to Au gust Belmont (or $2S5,000, or at the rate of flH a square foot. Iu Milwaukee an old couple took fright and drew their savings a few thousand dollars from the bank. Since then one of them has sat up all of every night guarding the money. Judge lAH-liren, Pension Commissioner, has extended until Octolier 10 the period within which pensioners whose (s-nsions have I xvii snscndod may make proof of their right to receive them. A great scheme of changing many of the iuiH)rtunt surface railroads in the section of New York city bIwc Twenty third street into roads operated by ca bles instead of by horses is agitated. Wolves and coyotes are increasing in numbers on the stock ranges in South ern AlU'iia as in the Uukotus and other Northwestern States, and are causing serious trouble and loss to the ranchers. The lease of the Chesapeake, Ohio ami Southwestern to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley has been canceled ou account of the law iu Kentucky prohib iting foreign corporations from operating railroads. Secretary Molder of the Kansas Slate Board of Agriculture in his monthly rop report states that the winter and .i,,,, The great reservoir of the Portland tMe.) Water CoiLpMiiy on the eastern promenade burst the other day, letting loose its 2il.iKV.lHH gallons ol w ater in a space of about fifteen iniuules. Two neighboring house were crushed like eirg-hells.aud (our persons in them were killed. Pnwident Ki.k of lb Pn.tiri,-.n Bimetallic Association has written l. i. " Unless the Eat slope iu senselWsi clamor to reduce the country to a gold standard, which would mean reducing the people to feudal slavery, a comhina- tiou would at once he toruicd w ith the West and South to withdraw all buaimws relations Irom th East." FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Preparations for opening the Cherokee Strip are about completed. It is the r,rpent .xrwti4tuin of Swretarv Smith to have the opening day set between September 1 and September 15. Upon inquiry at the pension office it is learned that up to date there have been 6,472 pensions suspended, which were grant-d under the act of June 27, 1800, averaging 170 daily. A large pro portion of these coses, it is said, were suspended pending a medical examina tion. II. II. Gilfrvof Oreiton has not been displaced in the Senate, as erroneously stated. He is one of the men designed to remain. He is a Democrat. It is scarcely to be expected that Charles Newell will remain. Oilfrv has served during the Republican ascendency in the Senate with satisfaction. Secretary Hoke Smith has received the annual report of Captain George S Anderson of the Sixth Cavalry, acting superintendent of the Yellowstone Na tional I'ark. llie report states that tne most disastrous forest fire of many vears occurred during July, when a strip about seven miles tong and two or more miles wide was destroyed. lourist travel tor the vear wan under the average. The game in the park is abundant and in creasing. It is estimated there are now in tho park 5,000 elk, 400 buffalo, 500 antelope and large numbers ol moose, deer, beaver, bear and other wild game. Poaching lias apparently increased. Senators Dolph and Mitchell have in troduced all their old bills of last session which failed to pass. Senator Dolph's bills relate to tbe increase of appropria tions for the Portland building and puh lic buildings at Salem and Baker City, an assay office at Portland, a number of proposed changes in the land laws and several pensions and claims bills. Sen ator Mitchell's hills include The Dalies boat railway, several proposed changes in judiciary laws and a number of pen sion and claims bills. Senator Squire bus introduced all the bills that have been pending in former Congresses rela tive to Washington, including public- ouiitiing lulls lor the tour principal cit ies, right of way and land bills. S. II. Boyd, tho United States Minis tor to Siam, has not tendered his resig nation to the President as a result of the publication of a personal letter which lie wrote to Mr. Holdcrman, expressing views on the Siamese situation in very undiplomatic language and reflecting upon Secretary (ireshum. While Colonel Boyd will not lie asked to resign, it is understood his tenure of office will he ended by theoppointinentof a successor. Mr. Ilolderman called on Secretary (ires liain to explain whv ho made the Boyd letter public, but the Secretary declined to hear him, stating that he was wholly indifferent on tho subject. Jlr. Boyd was apKintod Minister to Siam October 1, 1SII0. The salary of the position is $5,000. Secretary Gresham of tho State De partment needs $100,000 to pay the ex penses of his office. A good part of this deficit is due to the expense incurred in tlie entertainment of foreign' visitors, notably the Duke of Yeragua. While tlie Duke was in Chicago lieing luxuri antly provided for, he wrote to the Pres ident expressing his regret that he would 1st aleluycd in reaching Washington to pay his respects to tlie chief executive, lie was informed in reply that the Pres ident would release him from any obli gation he might feel in that direction. He was further advised that arrange ments had been made for his return to Spain. Of course the Duke was left to tlx the date himself, but there was no mistaking the anxiety of the department to have his visit come to an early end. The expense of the entertainment of the Duke will not fall short of $10,000, not to mention the entertainment bv private persons. Senator est has introduced a bill to fix the inmioer of grains of gold and silver in goltl and silver coins of the United States, the silver dollars to con tain 404.4 grains of silver or 510 grains of standard silver. Vest also offered a joint resolution setting forth that the American people from tradition anil in terest favor biinetalisiu ; that it is the established policy of the United States to maintain the parity between gold and silver, aud that it is the duty of Con gress to speedily enact such laws as will effectually maintain these objects. llie most sign Meant bill introduced in the Senate perhaps was one by Senator Hill ol aow ork. llie measure lie pre sented leaves no doubt of his position on the financial issue. While repealing the purchasing clause of tho Sherman act, it unquuliliedlv pledges the country to bi metalism. H is "A hill to repeal certain sections of the act of July 14, lS'.H), en titled an act directing the purchase of silver win ion ami the issue ot treasury notes thereon ami for other purposes.'' This repealing act, however, is not to lie construed as abandoning bimetalism. but it is hereby declared that the policy of using both goltl and silver as standard money ol tlie countrv shall Ik) estab lished, ami to the accomplishment of that eiul the ellorts ol tlie government shall le steadily and safely directed." The Western people are 'felicitating themselves on the position assumed bv Senator Hill. They are pleased that he should have so unqualifiedly pledged himself to biinetalisiu as to indicate his willingness to favor subsequent legisla tiou looking to the reMoration of silver as money metal. CHICAGO EXPOSITION. World's Fair Managers are devoting much attention to schemes to increase the attendance. The Duchess of Marltiorough expects lo revisit nor native lainl in September, ami win attend uie world s fair. What is claimed w ill lie the largest flagstaff ever ertvted is to be dedicatts.1 to the orltl s t air by the State of Wash ington in September. Governor Unveiling of Kansas will soon appoint a commission to lav bis gulf truntortatioii scheme In'fore for eign representatives at the World's Fair The British government has sent Ma jor (. ragie to Chicago to report on the agricultural statistics accumulated bv the various governments at tho World's tair. It is now conceded that the stockhold ers of the World's hair will not iret any ol their mutter back. It is also conceded that in addition to their $.S,.VH(HH) the citv of Chicago will not get anv of its $'0W.00O hack. At a meeting of the National Commis sion Commissioner Goodell of Colorado 'tveipitated a lengthy and heated de late ly a resolution reducing the sala ries of Commissioner St. Clair ami Mas ey, members of the Council of Admin istration, to $2,S00 a year. Now thev are getting .VH) per month. The matter was rinallv referred to a special committee. Some of the oflicials and director, of sion from the govcmicnt. Persons vio he epcmon hve , K.i,,.lm. to fhllrv. HuBg thu (Wfw ,j . , ascents admission to the fair after 6 pelagic sealing will render themselves o clock in the evening. The matter has j liable to imprisonment from two to iix- 77' 'r wvrBi oays, id miii iow i"vrnui (X n carried through. It i believed that , . . -, . . . - ov ,4..;.,.. .1,,. .1... ;. .--1 ... :,i v. . , i . . , i . . . ,, iminvni fiii-ii'im-v win iiBTf- rnougriM.mor-iiianaouPietM meijin tutu ut uw (kiwi. FOREIGN FLASHES. Financial Returns of Victoria, Australia, Unsatisfactory. THRIFTY PEASANTS OF RUSSIA, Capturing; Fur Seals on Rngsian Land Without Special Permission Forbidden by Ckase. Banckok. Siam. has a trolley street car line, which pays handsomely. The Dake anil Duchess of lork re ceived over 9,000 wedding presents. A master chimney Bweep is among the new members ot the ueruian rteicusiag, New custodians of Shakespeare's house in Stratford are both patient and oblig ing. The Rhine wine production this year will be unusually large ii crops do not fail. The Franco-German frontier line is to be remarket! to avoid awkward met dents." In Italy, France and Austria only from 4 to 0 per cent ot the criminals are wen educated. The slave trade is booming in Zanzibar according to the Bishop of that benight ed region. In France it is projiosed to arm the postmen who have charge ot the delivery ot postal orders. (juite a colony of Americans has set tled in Cowles, Isle of Wight, for tlie yachting season. Dr. Koch and his once-vaunted con sumption cure have fallen into sad dis repute in Uermany. It is cited as complimentary that near ly all the inonarchs of Kurono are at tended by American dentists. Russia proposes to have an interna tional fruit exposition anil congress at St. Petersburg in tho fall of 18114. The finances of the Leeds corporation water works for tho nast year show a clear net balance of profit oi 0,351. It has been found necessary to open a home in Sydney for servant girls out of employment, owing to existing depres sion. As a result of tho recent experience with France in Siam the English govern ment manifests a strong disposition to join the triple alliance. Russian crop prospects have greatly improved. A tairlv large yield is now expected, especially of rve, the chief breadstuff of the nation. PrincesB Mario Bibesco swam the Ilel lesont recently from the F'uropean shore to tlie Asiatic, recalling the ex ploits of Leandcr and Byron. In Germany quantities of watermel ons are grown, but the people do not consider them (it for food. 1 hey use the luscious fruit to leed the pigs. The Alps this year are in fplendid condition for climbing, and ascents are being made already, which are not usu ally undertaken until a month later, News comes from Paris that Mine. Rhea, tho actress, has married W. F. Hart, her leading man, who is 25 years ..i i i f..ii-. a . i r oni aim itiiiy iwemy years ner junior. It Is 22,1 years since a blow was struck in the House of Commons until the row of week before lust. That historic blow cost its author an imprisonment in tl Tower. A good deli of high n!av has been go ing on just lately in some of the London clu'us. The practice of paying witli " paper " has been very uiuch on the increase. Tho State railways of Cape Colony, South Africa, yielded last year 4 14s 8d per cent on 'a capital o'f 18,500,000, against 4s 13s 4d per cent on 16,500, 000 in 18111. It is roorted that Baron do Roths child and Jacques Laboudy, a million aire sugar refiner, will start shortly a 1 cent sporting daily paper named the Jockey Club. According to the opinions expressed by various Berlin journals the intended Boer " trek " into German Southwest Africa will not be sanctioned by the im perial government. The tirailleurs of the Russian army are to lie equipped with snowshoes next winter. The Prussian troops on the Russian frontier have used snowshoes with satisfaction for several winters. Baron yon Bauer, Austrian Minister of Wur, said at the sitting of the Budget Committee of tho Austrian delegation the other tlav that the present condition of society did not permit of the abolition of dueling. The financial returns of the Australian colony of Victoria for the year ending July 30 are expected to show a deficit of about 1,08,000 in addition to a debit balance of 900,000 brought forward from last year. Tbo now tax on Stock Exchange trans actions, which went into force in France tho 1st of last month, has well nigh par alysed business on the French market and almost caused tbo total abandon ment of the Bourse. The Indian railways show a net loss of M lacs of rupees. This unfavorable re sult is attributed to the heavy full in ex change. Hud silver remained at par, the guaranteed railways would have shown a good surplus. British agricultural statistics show very unsatisfactory conditions. The number of failures among farmers in the British Isles during the lirst six months of this vear was 40 per cent larger than those of the corresponding time in LSH2. Iu South Africa tlie Kaffir servants have formed a union to which the mem bers have to give a " character " for their mistresses. No member is allowed to enter upon a situation unless the regis tered character of the mistress of the house is satisfactory. Tho thrifty peasants of Toltava, Rus sia, have shown themselves smart enough to take advantage even of a pest. Re cently their fields were invaded bv swarms of Spanish flies, which thev cap ture.! am! found a ready market for at the druggists' for $1 a pound. A modern postal system is soon to be established in China. The imperial nw. eminent has approved a plan, drawn up by Sir Bols-rt Hart, under which the native postal organization will entirely disappear ami will lie replaced by an im perial postottice.with branches through out the country, under the management of qualified foreigners. An imperial ukace issned recently for bids the killing or capturing of fur seats uvn month and forfeiture of shine i fininiii.iit n.l th- .i.l: -i".' , - v i rrntpKtui Btrrmiiv lakeu. A nmo tin i.M ...v.i- y a-hin nn jmi hi in ... : . . on ml lif. in Pn....n ;. T-Vo . . - " miii in I I LUI T will lift referred to a dietrvrt tribunal aluina at iu or I iJkilYoetocX. PORTLAND MARKET. Wheat Valley. $1.00(21.02': Walla Walla, 'j0ia92'iC per cental. FLOl'B, FEED, ETC. Finn-Standard. $3.40: Walla Walla, $3.40; graham, $3.00; superfine, $2.50 per barrel. . , , Oats White,42 43c per bushel ; gray, 40c; rolled, in bags, $6.2566.50; bar rels. $6.50(a6.70; cases, ta.io. MausTi-rrs Bran, $18.00; shorts, $21.00; ground barley, $2223; chop feed, $18 per ton; wnoie ieea, oariey, ou fSKSc per cental: middlings,-$23(? 28 per ton; chicken wheat, $1.22,1s1.25 per cental. daisy raouutis. Butte k Oregon fancy creamery, 224 ia25c: fancy dairy. l(SW20c: fair to good, lortj 16c; common, z "c per pouna ; California, 3544c per roll. Cueese Oregon, 12c; caiuornia, ll13ic; Young America, 14,40 per pound. Eoos Oregon and Eastern, 15(3 16c ner dozen. rOrLTRY VjIllCKenB. OIU. M.UU 1 , .11 - I Art . broilers, large, $2.OO3.0O; small, $1.50 02.00; ducks, old, f.i.ou(tj4.ou; young, 2.50(S3.50: geese. $7.50 per dozen; tur keys, live, 12,ls(a;14c per pound ; dressed, none in the market. VEGETABLES A.ND FHCIT8. Vegetables Cabbage.l Jc per pound ; California potatoes, $1.00 per sack ; Ore gon, 75c; new onions, l'c per pound; cucumbers, Oregon, 25c per dozen ; Cali fornia, $1.25 per box; string beans, 24c per pound ; tomatoes, 80c$1.00 per box ; green corn, 10(5120 per dozen; sweet potatoes, 2(a3e per pound. Fruits Sicily lemons, $6.00(36.50 per box; California new crop, $5.506.00 per box ; bananas, $1.50(g3.00 per bunch ; oranges, $3.00 per box; pineapples, $6.00 per dozen; cherries, 65(a70c per box; new California apples, $1.25 per bushel ; peaches. 80c$1.00 per box; Oregon, 50 76c per box ; Oregon peach plums, 75c $1.00 per box; apricots, $1.25 per box; currants, 45c per pound ; Bartlett pears, $1.25(51.50 per box; raspberries, li'Alu per pound; black raspberries, 5c; Cali fornia (leu 7e1.00 per bos; water melons. 2.00fa3.00 per dozen; canta loupes, $1.50(5,1.75 per dozen; buckle- berries, 15c per pound; grapes (Muscat and Rose of Peru), $l.001.25. staple groceries. Dkiko Fruits Petite prunes, 10 11c: Bilver, ll(ftl2c; Italian, 13sc; German, lOfgllc; plums, (sac; evaporated ap ples, 10(2, lie; evaporated apricots, 12 10c; peaches, luigiznc; pears, 7(ftllc per pound. honey unoice corao, lac per pound; new Oregon, 16(i20c; extract, 9(al0c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00: 50s. $16.60; stock, $8.50(a9.50. Uofkee costa Kica, zzc; kio, 2ic: Salvador, 21)c ; Mocha, 26 (30c ; Java, 24(.30c; Arbuckle's and Lyon, 100- Cound cases, 24.85c per pound ; Coluui ia, same, 24.85c. Kice Island,$4.75(3,5.00 ; Japan, $4. 75 ; New Orleans, $4.50 per cental. Beans Small whites, 3!-c; pinks, 334c; bayoB, 3c; butter, 4c; lima, 4c per pound. Svrop Eastern, in barrels, 4055c; in half-barrels, 42i?57c; in cases, 35$ 80c per gallon; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 20(tJ40c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. Scoar B.S'sc; Golden C, S'j'c; extra C, 5J8c ; confectioners A, 6ie ; dry gran ulated, 65c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 7 l4C per pound; hc per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 1516c per pound. CANNED UOODS. Canned Goons Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(92.00; peaches, $1.85(2.10; Bart lett pears, $1.752.00; plums, $1.37'a 1.60; strawberries, $2.25(42.45; cherries, $2.25(22.40; blackberries, $1.85(o2.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(8 2.80; apricots, $1.65(2.00. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.001.20; blackberries, $1.25iSiGp dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15?3.50; peaches, $3.50(34.00; apri cots, $3.60(d.4.00; plums, $2.76(33.00; blackberries, $4.254.60. Meats Cornet! beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.55(34.00: lunch tongue, Is, $4 ; 2s, $6.75 ; deviled ham, $1.75(32.15 per dozen. Fisu Sanline8, L4s, 75c(3$2.25; Jg, $2.1534.60; lobsters, $2.30(33.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25(3 $1.60; flats, $1.75; 2-lbs, $2.25(32.60; -barrel, $6.60. provisions. Eastern Smoked Meat and Lard Hams, medium, uncovered, 15(3l6c per Cound; covered, 14li15ltc; breakfast aeon, uncovered, 16io?17c; covered, 15 S, (8 16c ; short clear sides, 13(3, 14c; dry salt sides, ll12SiC; lard, compound, in tins, 10c per pound ; pure, in tins, 13 14c; Oregon lard, ll.Stglc HOPS, WOOL AND BIDES. Hops '92s, 0&16c per pound, accord ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 1517c. Wool Umpqua valley, 14(3 16c; fall clip, 1314o; Willamette valley, 10(3 12c, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 6(5 14c per pound, according to condition. Hides Dry hides, eelected prime, 6(3.8c; green, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c: sheep pelts, short wool, 30i360c; medium, 603.80e; long, 90c(3$1.25; shearlings, 10(3,20c: tal low, good to choice, 3(3;5c per pound. LIVE AMD DRESSED MEAT. Beep Prime steers. $2.50(32.75; fait to good steers, $2.00(32.60; good to choice cows, $1.50(32.00; dressed beef, $3.60(3 6.00. Mctton Choice mutton, $2.75; dressed, $0.00; lambs, $2.00(32.50; dressed, $6.00; shearlings, 23.c, live weight. Hoos Choice heaw, $5.00i35.50; me dium, $4.50.35.00; light and feeders. $4.60(35.00; dressed, $7.00. Veal $4.006.00. ba08 and baooino. Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlape, 10',-onnce, 40-inch, net cash, 7c; burlaps, 12-onnce, 46-inch, 74c; burlaps, 15-ounce, 60-inch, 12'.c; burlaps, SlMmnce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat Calcutta, 23x36, spot, 6c; 2-bushel oat bags, 7c MISCELLANEOUS. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.50(3,9.00 per box ; for croeses $ extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20 prime quality, $7.60. 8.00 per box ; terne plate, I. C. prune quality, $6.50.0.7.00. Nails Base quotations: Iron. ,"5- t.Mil t-l tt. A.l - , 1 V, . t.', - " e, t. , j per Keg pig-iron, t-J"" per ion. Steel Per nonml. int'. Lead Per pound, 4 V; bar, 6'sc. aval Stores Oakum. U StVAR'ou.. bale .mii,WMj.w per 4S0 pounds; Stockholm, $13; Carolina, $9 per bar- tar rel : pitch, $41 per barrel ; turpentine, Sc per gallon in car lots. 'l)lng MxIiIih, Flying machlnra 0f tbe future will of Oreeamj- be of a complicated and dllcat nature, and will require the Try hlghwt order of .cwntiac and mechanical skill to eonMnict and op,r.t thm. Kranw I. to rthe only country In t be world which ba th p.Aot aud la which It would be poiwlbl. to manufacture all tbe mtril and to construct a machine such ae 1 ara i 7 ",7,r"n'nun wttta. fiyt , "'"nm"i with. Flying ma- "" win lotreror h mnW..l i. .l . . . wuil WW i ,. . ' "anij ciTtiiivtl " " niuniy etri led ntlm.. taaU Batloo end hall-civtlld trlk- .ot ...Hi . . . - - ...II " otDt thenueltrea with their f"1 warfare. HUmta 8. Maxim la Cenu&rv. FARM AND GARDEN. The Kind of Man Who Succeeds in Poultry Farming. O'HIO EDITOR'S 0PISI0X GIVES. Poultry Keeping Pays the Man Who Puts Brains, Energy, Skill and Capital Into It. The Ohio Farmer says: We have a letter before us from a young man who wants to go into poultry farming, and he asks the usual questions winding up with the all-embracing one: " Will it pay?" That question is asked a thousand times a year, and the in quirers all know that poultry farming, like any other kind of farming, will nay it : . : . i mi. . , r J ii ii ia iiiunugeu rigui. me eviuence that it will pay, that it has paid and that it is paying now ia overwhelming. ii pays ine man who Knows now and who has the requisite energy and busi ness ability. A prominent grocery firm in this city has within a few'yeara worked up a family trade in fresh eggs of nearly 600,000 'dozens annually. It was done by looking up the men who knew how to get eggs in the winter sea son, when fresh eggs are a luxury. A representative of the firm said to us: " We care nothing for the man who can furnish eggs only when any fool can fur nish them when uncared-for hens have a mind to lay them. We are looking lor the man who can send us eggs when all his neighbors' hens are frozen up." They have found quite a number of these wide-awake men, and are paying them good prices for their eggs. Wo under stand that they take the year's supply winter and snmmer simply to hold the winter product. We referred last winter lu uud oi ineati men, woo Uvea near Ur ville, O. He has a few acres oi land, and keeps 300 hens. This grocery firm sent him $09.80 for his February eggs last winter, and from March 4 to 11, one week, his fowls Bhelled out 130 to 158 eggs per day, just when they were bring ing the tailest prices. Oh, yes ; poultry keeping pays the man who puts brains, energy, skill and the necessary capital into it. But it must be made an all-the- vear-round business. If you give the hens a vacation, let it be in the summer, when eggs are low and poultry not wanted. The dairyman who feeds the heads off a lot of dry cows durine the summer and the poultryman who lets his nens manage tne business as they please will soon require an assignee. The man who quietly submits to circumstances in any branch of the business is tlie man who gets left. The man who makes cir cumstances is the man who succeeds. what of the pctcre? John Gould said recently in Practical Farmery That dairying has disaster be fore it is one of tlie impossibilities, as each year the intelligence of the indus try is on the increase, and the greater the amount of brains behind an indus try the less the liability of misfortune. At a late institute one of the sneakers not a dairyman said that to-day he re garded the advanced dairymen of this country the best informed and not only wide-awake but alert class, ready to take advantage of every opportunity that could be fountl. They were continually on the hunt for a better cow ami better stable for her and cheaper and in com bining foods for her tt stimulate produc tion. No class of feeders could equal them. They talked better crops and better saving all fertility possible, but were after Boil combinations as well, and. not satisfied with what was once called ,fCOtl machinery, were taxing the skill ot the worid 10 ptcU'", better creamers, etc., so that all the product of the cow might be utilized and nothing lost. In deed, it is to-day a search for " frag ments." Such testimony is valuable, and shows the material that is actuating the dairymen of this country. The farmer's dairy is a creation of his own conception of " cow keeping," and the good of the poor dairy is only a practical example of the brain power of two men as applied to dairy practice. Where the dairy has come to a State or locality aud been intelligently handled it has brought prosperity with it, for with it comes the true basis of animal husbandry, a con stant revenue and source of fertility that, if saved and used as it may be, means a steady augmentation of fertility that has the power of making the gra'in fields, depleted with grain raising, again fruit ful and a reward for intelligent labor. some practical pointers. Dry times are good for stopping leak in roofs. The highest price calls for a first-class product. When a sheep dies it leaves enough to pay its debts. Chickens which feather alowlyare said to be always hardy. All farms which will grow clover w ould profit by having a field or two of it. A field of potatoes usually pavs a fair profit if kept free from weeds and well cultivated.. Keep lambs growing well during the first year by giving them the choicest pasturo with some grain. Work out a systematic plan for the farm buildings, and leave a place for those which will come later. The most prosperous communities are those where the farms are of moderate oize and thoroughly cultivated. A neat and attractive appearance of products offered for sale often has much to do with tho price received. When partially cured hav is wet by rain, much of the most readily digested matter is leached out and lost. There are many wastes on farms. Look ing after the little things as well as the greater ones is what couuts for prolit. Give the work horses plenty of pram foot! with enough protein or muscle forming food to keep them in condition. Give sheep a handy shelter into which they can go in i-ase of storms. A wet fleece is one of the sheep's worst ene mies. Keep the old geese for brooding pur pose. They will breed until quite Af-U and will not eell nearly as well as the young ones. Do not make the roosts too high, for heavy birds come to the floor with more force than is beneficial, and thus leg troubles aiv often caused. Mr. Italy an,l tho lule' Hook. There U a good utory told concernln tbe book lovius asplrntione of the Americas manitmr, Mr. Augtwtin Dale, ami tbe late Duke of Maucuwrter. The etory It that three year ao Mr. Daly wa broil ing In the duke'e libniry, and lovluelf handling the almost prlceleee book. To duke watched him, and khw tbe (renuiu appreciation he dl.played. and when Mr. paly beared a deep igh a be relni-untly laid back the Toluturs on the shelves bis trace generously begged him to accept annfuL to vain tbe actor prototad: tb duke perited. and Mr. Auguitia Dal ! today moat remarkable core or more of the booka Londoa Ooa fete tie Pari. I