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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1893)
Lincoln County Leader, J. F. STEWART, Publish-. TOLEDO OBEGOS OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Chinese Pay 80 Apiece to be Smuggled in at Olympia. HOW A TRAMP PEOCCEES GRUB. Nevada Judge Cuts Down the Dam ages Awarded a Widow for Her Hunband's Death. Oregon's potato crop is vdry largo. The Pacific division of tlie Northern racilic In preparing to make faster time. A. 1. Stewart, chief deputy In the office of the Street Superintendent at Is An geleH, has stolen 1,700 from the safe and absconded. German and Knulish stockholders are looking over the Southern Pacific linen in California. Tim placing of the new loan cauea ttiem mere. Persons seeking employment at Mare Inland miiHt reenter. An applicant in not eligible for work one year alter the date of dig registration. One of the 811 nreme Court Judged in Nevada in ill, anu the other two are in a deadlock over a ipiestion an to whom a note for $2,000 should lixik for payment. The recently Binuggled Chinese cap tured near Olympia paid $80 apiece to be safely landed in thin country. The vessels engaged in the traflic.are known, and will he seized. Chris Kvans has made a formal reorient of the In'Htrict Attorney and Kherill' of Fresno to be allowed to attend the thea ter when the play of 44 Kvuna wnd Kun tag" arrives in Fresno. Work on the Kan Diego and Plncnlx rood has lcen discontinued, owing to the want of the necessary funds to carry -it on. J.ocal capitalists have not taken the interest expected and promised. The people of Fresno are demanding that trumps be put to work. The jail now holds mors than 100 of them. It is even proponed to put. them in a chain gang and make them break rock for mac adamizing roods. The grand jury at Halt Lake has re turned an Indictment for murder in the ilrst degree against Harry Hammond, aged 12 vears, anil (ieorge tiny lor, aged 14. On Juno 21 Hammond killed Clyde Itohcrtson, aged 7 years. Judge Ifawley at Carson, Nev., cut down the verdict obtained by Mrs. II. W..IoIiiihoii agaiiiHt the Southern Pucillc for the death of her husband from $U5, 000 to $15,000. The plaintill' accepted the cut, but the road will appeal. Thomas I.. Itohiuson, writer in the construction and repair department at Mare Island, has been removed by order of Secretary Herbert, and William A, Henry of the United Stales marine corps lias been appointed to till the place. There- is a tramp In Woodland, Cal., who has an original method of securing food. When food is refused him he opens a tin box, and throws a snake Into the house. The housewife is always glad to give I1I111 food if hu will catch the snake. A. J. Itoss, the ox-voliccniiin who en deavored to palm oil' a widow on the es tate of Joseph Mi Kinney, a wealthy negro farmer at Stockton, lias been sen tenced to live years In the State prison. Pending an appeal, he has been released on (11,000 Isinds. City Marshal Itlankenship at Pine nix, A. T., confessed to receiving money anil not making proper returns of it. He added that Honor made him do tl wrong, and that he had taken an oath never to touch It again, Iho court dis missed the charges. Judge Ilawley in the United States Circuit Court at Carson, Nov., decided the cuse of llook A lllowcy ngainst the Justice Mining Company in favor of the defendants, sustaining everv point claimed by the defendants. The. cuse involved a great many important ques lions of mining law. After the Oregon Stale Fair is over the cream of the fruit and vegetable and grain exhibits will be sent to the World's Fair, whore they will lie exhibited in the Oregon departments to winch tliev prop erly Mong. The Slate Agricultural College has donated its magiiillcent ex liibil of potatoes, grains, grasses and vegetables, and the State Hoard will send its special exhibits of grasses, grains, fruits and vegetables. These will go far toward attracting yet greater notice to Urcgiiu. The Arizona Garotte, published at l'hienix, has issued a World's Kair edi tion, giving a description of the lorn tory, us agricultural Hwsihilities, mining achievements and natural scenic attrac tions, with historical sketches of the races that once inhabited that "laud of the future." The inducements in cli mate and the prolillc soil of the Suit Kiver Vallcv are features that honicsook era are not likely to overlook when once thev read of them ill this carefully ed ited paper. 'the announcement is made at San Francisco that at the request of the Pu cillc Mail Steamship Company Postinas-ter-ticncral llisrcll hus annulled thocoti traet between the government and that company for carrying the mails between that Hirt and Panama and intermediate points in Mexico and Central America. The aniiullment is to takeclloct Scptcin 1st 30. The company otliciuls claim that the contract necessitates extra service, including additional steamers and more frequent stops, and that the company is consequently losing money on its regular business, esnecinlly in view of the com- H'tition ollcrccl lv the .North American aviiinlion Company. It is said, though tho company officials do not cotilirni it, that after the expiration of the mail contract but two steamers per month will be run between San Francisco and Pansuia, and that the present call at San Diego will lie abandoned. At the World's Fair the Committee on Nomenclature alter some of the names of Oregon fruit shipped (or exhibition, but they unanimously agree that the color, tlavor, texture and general excel lence of the fruit are remarkable an. I unsurpassed, Tho fruits have all been labeled w I th the names of the grower who produced them, and they derive all the benclit arising front the publicity f iven. The managers of the Oregon ex libit are using their very best endeav or to place exhibits in inch a witioii a to catch the eye of the capitalists and those who are sin-king home. It is surprising to note the great number of people who are so much interested, and who want all tho literature they can pro cure ou the subject. The exhibit ill be the means of inducing many of the best class of homescekcrs to locate in Oreeon during the next five years, and wUi briny uullmitwi cajdral, BUSINESS BREVITIES. In Paraguay all the field work :a done by women. As a rule Fnropean railroads have no grade crossings. Eight thousand banks still do business in this country. Americans smoke more than 2,000,000, 000 cigars annually. Over 2.000 cars are used on the street railroads of New York. Nearly 1.800 men are employed by the New York custom-house. Funerals in the United States cost up ward of $ 25,000,000 a year. Sheep and deer will be raised on a 1,000-acre farm at Halifax, Vt. One hundred thousand seals represent the catch for the season of 18113. About $.'!50,000,000 of American capi tal finds employment in Mexico. The estimated cotton crop for 1803 is 0,717,142 bales, the smallest since 1880-7. Silver agitation in the United States has not all'ected the Mexican silver mar ket. Land is tilled with the same kind of a plow in Egypt that was used 6,000 years ago. It takes 5,000 of the kind of chickens that are raised in Kansas to make a car load. The property valuation of New York city has increased $500,000,000 in twelve years. Over 80,000,000 eggs are estimated U no used every year by wine danders in France. Figuring corn at 40 cents a bushel, the American crop was worth in 1802 $050.- 000,000. The wine crop of this country, it is es timated, will exceed 20,000,000 gallons this year. The world's supply of diamonds is twenty times greater than it was thirty years ago. Lloyd's reports 1,008 vessels lost in 18112, of which 210 were Ilritish and 120 American. The Merrimac river is said to propel more machinery than any other Ameri can stream. An Knglishiunn has patented a sub marine vas stove for bentim tlio w.iti.r in bath tubs. Over 1:10,000 motherless chickens aro daily turned out by incubators in the New England States. The inventor of the rubber tip for lead pencils is said to have realized 100, 0(H) tor this apparently trifling device. Tho latest labor-saving machine cleans fish. Now, if there were only one to catch one, the angler's outfit would in triilli lie complete. Averaging the whole country, there are in round figures live cows per square mile; in New Kngland there are twelve cows per square mile. Steel has been in iiho for ship-building only fourteen years, yet it is estimated that 00 per cent of the vessels built at the present day aro of steel. It is just 250 years since the first hand kerchiefs were made. They were manu factured at Paisley in Scotland, and were originally sold for'$l apiece. The life insurance companies of the United States, tuking no account of as sessment corsrations and societies, hold assets to the value of alsmt $850,000,000. A Iomlon inventor has projected a vast water scheme to enable the gold de posits in the interior of Western Aus tralia to be worked with advantage tins ny means 01 artesian well water. Hunters of alligators in Florida are paid less than $1 for each itkhI skin In itio tanners. In 1KHII the Stuto shipped away (10,000 alligator skins, but in 18IH) the number hail dwindled to 20,000. Yeast for bread-making was Ilrst man ufactured in lillll. It is computed that over z,uou,(Aio Miunilseiiter into the daily bread of the people of this country, 1. 11.. .1 . . , 1 .1 . . . . wiine iiounie mis amount is used In I'. 11 roHj. Pens run be made out of eight metals steel, brass, copper, gold, silver, plati num, amalgam ami aluminium. A In ininium pens aro still a novelty, and are said to last much longer than 'any other iiiouiuic pens. 1'UUKI.Y PERSONAL. Georgia I ay van lias a fad for collecting uiicy puis; sue mis some Unit were made in the time of Queen Itcss. A bauble which hangs in Miss Helen Could's drawing-room is a Japanese crystal, which cost somewhere in the uciglilsirliood of $7,000. Senator Allen of Nebraska is tl feet .'I inches in height and of robust frame. A chair Iius.Ih'cii specially constructed for his accommodation in the Senate. I-ord Leicester has had two wives, and his eighteenth child was horn a few days ago. His eldest child, Ijtdy l'oworseourt, is 50 years old. Nevertheless Leicester voted against home rule. Dr. William Elliott of New Haven, Ky., is IHi years old, hut on the occasion of u dance at his house u few evenincs ugo he took up his violin and placed the music for the Ilrst quadrille. One-fourth of the Hoard of Trustees of the Pciihody Educational Hoard (six teen members.) has died this voir Sen ator tiiliMin, Isiuisiuna; ex-President Hayes, A, J. Drexel and Hamilton Fish. liev. Henry Vroouian, who assumed charge of a Swcdenhorginii Church in Haltiuiore, is one of live brothers, nil of whom are 1'lergviucn. Three of them are 1 oiigrcgutiouuiists ami 1110 oilier a Huptist. Captain Marshall KiimsoII. one of the oldest pioneers of the Pacific Coast, who crossed the plains with one of the llrM exploring expeditions and was a Mexi can war veteran, died at the Hay View Hotel in Gold I leach. Sir Arthur Sullivan during his summer residence at Wev bridge bus progressed so satisfactorily with the new comic 00. era, which he is couiosiiig for the Savoy, that 1 Oyly I arte has already put the work into choral rehearsal. Dr. Ella Z. Chandler of St. Paul was tinuniinouslv elected a nieniN'r of the Minnesota State IVutal Association at its lute meeting in that city. She is the Ilrst lady iiioiuWr of the association mid the Ilrst w oman practitioner in the State. Chief Justice Ixive of lVlaware ex- presses the opinion that it was on the I Via ware ana Maryland Peninsula tlmi the tiardcu of Kdeu wu located, and that it whs with a m-ach that Eve tomtit- ed Adam. The crop with which the grower tempted the country this season will actually exceed ti,tW,W Imkets. Dr. Henry C. Ucno has (ii-i died at Smkane. He was a native of St. Loui and At vears old. He served during the war as an army surgeon, receiving wounds w hich seriously disabled him all the rest of his life. He was a tiicmtier of the Grand Armv as well a the Ma- sonio fraternity. He had lived in Spo kane) county several year. Dr. J. Irving Msnatt. who was elected imifeiuHir of tireek literature at Hiuwn University last year, returns this autumn (lout hi four years' residence in Allien to begin his duties. Uecent magaiinr article ot his have attracted eoti.uler able attention. HI advent at Brown is stpected to give a notable itimulu tr t-ltuHceJ, study rjt lnrrtvn. EASTERN MELANGE. Work on the Great Bridge at New Orleang, La. THE MELON CROP OF GEORGIA. Huge Cucumber Female Anarchist in Limbo South Carolina's New Liquor Law. Cow cholera is raging near Corunna, Mich. Kansas' corn crop this year will be l.'!0,000,0i;0 bushels. New York is now sending out more foreigners than she receives. A wholesale removal of pension agents is expected in the near future. The Isjcs around Waterford, Mich., are dying of an unknown disease. Texas reports that the riecan crop this rcwuu win i toe uuest in many years. The German Catholic Central Society ot ortn America is 111 session at St. Ijiiis. Governor Waito will call an extra ses sion of the Legislature of Colorado in a short tunc. Attorney-General Olnev has decided that bicycles are entitled to free entry as personal eiiects. French Canadians are returning to Canada in large numbers from the New hngland States. The World's Fair has nearly paid off its Doming (lent and largely reduced its oilier iiauiiii'es. Tho New York Central is going to withdraw the "exposition flier" at the close of the fair. A cucimilwr weighing fifty-two pounds. raised by a Houston-county farmer, has ueen sent 10 ftl. 1x111 ih. Treasurer Barrett Scott, who stole $104,000 from Holt count v, Vs.. Imalwen arrested at Juarez, Mexico. Wisconsin's World's Fair Commission ers have spent tl4 1,000, and the people aro asking, " Where is it at?" Siiloonkcepers'are not allowed to do business in tho Cherokee Strip until they have formally taken out licenses. It is estimated that the Georgia melon crop this year amounts to t:Uk),000. About 8,000 carloads have been shipped. It is proposed to have a national dedi cation of the Chickumauga and Cliatta uiMiga National Park October 17 and 18, 1HII4. Reports of murders in tho new Chero kee Strip aro frequent. The causes are attendant on the llnal settlement of claims to laud. Boston has issued $1,000,000 0 percent Ismds for improvement purposes. She liuds a ready market ut pur and in some cases a premium. There has been a remarkable rovival of interest in the "abandoned farms" of New England since so many mills closed their doors. The lluiincial situation at Vickshurg, Miss., bus so improved that tho banks have ceased to issuo certilied chocks to be used us currency. Congress will nossiblv ask Secretary Gresbam for the correspondence with the tlunese government on tho ex trad 1 tiou and registration laws. The Columbian souvenir coins, which it was iinliciputod would he hoarded by people of a patriotic turn, aro rapidly uniting hack to the treasury. Emma (ioldman, tho anarchist in jail in New York city for inciting riot, is pre pared to plead her own case. She says lie needs no help Iroin anybody. South Carolina's liquor law seems to be linauciallv a failure. Instead of turn ing jrxHl.lRH) into the State Treasury it is not likely to yield more than 25,000. Work on the great bridgoover the Mis sissippi river ut New Orleans will coin inenee at an early day, the engineers Having tl null y decided on the exact loca lion for it. The city of St. Louis has sent a retire sentative to Europe to float l,20,000 of her municipal IhiiiiIs. She did a similar thing in lH'.H), and got out with 4 per cent interest. A representative from Liberia com plains at Washington that France has ulisorlHHl some of its territory, and goes hack witn assurances ttiut too United Stutes will render uid. The lion crop of Central New York, now lurgelv harvested, is unusually ex excellent in quantity and quality, the yiehl tMung cstimutcd at I IO.IXHJ bales, against l.i,ow tialcs lust year. 1 lie employes 01 l no textile mills in Philadelphia and vicinity have prepared a petition to Congress to refrain from muking miv alterations in the taritf so far us it allt'cts the textile industry. Warden Chase of the Kansas pcuitcn tiurv savs that the number of prisoners is rapidly decreasing. The number is UK) less than it was lust spring, unit is fall iug oil' ut the rate of forty a month, Mis Minnie C. Kankin is suing James It. Keeiieal .ew ork for 2U,lW0. half of w hich she savs he received to invest for her and made no accounting, and the tiier tiull is lor her services lixim 1883 o ItWII. A pensioner of Clearfield, Pu., who signed a patent medicine testimonial certifying that he hail recovered his health through a use of the preparation, finds his pension stopped on the strength of the certillcute. Cornelius Ryan of Waltham, Mass., found in a rail mad station four years ago a wallet, w hich he returned to the ow ner, whose name and address were among the papers it contained, and recently found himself named for 12,000 in the man's will. The World's Fair directors met in spe cial session at Chicago recently, and voted dow n a motion to lower the en trance fee lor children, and tabled by a heavy majority a proHwition to let peo ple in on Sunday at half rate. The mat ter of extending the fair until January went over. Filmutid S. Hiucks, the late clerk of the Whatcom Hoard of County Commis sioners, lis started from Fairhaven for Mashonulaud, Africa. He will take in the World's Knir en route, and does not expect to rea.'h Cape town, South Africa, iH'lore January 1, 1S;'I. Charles T. O'Ferrall, whom the IVmo erats have nominated for Governor of Virginia, i native of Frederick eojinty, and is toi years of age. Ho enlisted be fore he w as 21 in the Confederate cav alry, and at the surrender of lienor I U e wit in command of his cavalry de tachments, being at that time a Colonel. The House Committee on Territories has considered the bill providing (or the admission of Utah as a State, and it will lo reported to the House in the near fu ture with the recommendation that it pass. A provision was inserted in the bill requiring that the roustitutiog adortl by fti Ptatr pwhiWt rflrawr. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. In order to more effectually break up the smuggling of opium and Celestials .1.-. 1-'..:... 1 t-i-. il . ..:..:; r.1 iiiw lue 1 1111.1 ciaies in uie wmuv v. Puget Sound Secretary Carlisle will issue an order directing Captain Tosier of the revenue cutter Urant ana captain reu gar of the revenue cutter Perry to pro ceed to the vicinity referred to and fend their efforts to the work of eradicating smuggling. Senator Doloh has introduced a bill to extend the time for purchasers of land within the limits of the forfeited North ern Pacific land grants until January 1, 1897, and a bill to authorize the State of Oregon to import machinery for a jute mill tree ot uuty. 1 he time having ueen once extended for the payment of lands and such exemptions from duty being unusual, the chances for either bill are poor. A very prominent Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee says that the new tariff bill will be completed within a month. If Congress is Btill in session, it will be immediately presented. The Democrats on the committee feel in view of the unrest among business men on account of the proposed revision the new schedules should be made known as soon as possible, so that business can sooner adjust itself to the new condi tions. The bill introduced in the House by Representative Kverett of Massachusetts to give the Chinese a year from the pres ent time to register is undoubtedly to be the administration measure. Senator Dolph Bays that, if the Chinese govern ment would ask for an extension of time for Chinese laborers to register and give some assurance that if an opportunity were given they would register, Congress might take such a request in considera tion. But, as no such request has been made or assurance given by China on behalf of the Chinese, the proposition to give further time is merely a back down by the government in accordance with the views and desires of the admin istration. In the Senate Squire of Washington submitted an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the repeal bill. It provided that silver bullion may be de posited at any mint, to bo formed into standard dollars of the present weight and fineness, to he lesa! tender, fr tho benefit of the owner, but there shall only bo paid to the person so depositing it such a number of standard silver dollars as shall eiiual the commercial value of tho silver bullion deposited. The differ ence, if any. between the coin value and the commercial value shall lie retained by the government as seignorage. Tho coinage shall not exceed $4,000,000 per month, ami when the gross amount reaches 1200.000,000 it is to cease. The dollars thus coined are to be legal tender. In the Senate Stewart of Nevada in troduced an amendment to the repeal hill authorizing the President to invite the governments, of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti and San Domingo to join the United States in a conference in Washington four months after the pussuge of the act, to secure the adop tion of a common silver .dollar of not less than 350.01 grains nor more than ;w:t.i:j grains pure silver, to be issued by each government, to be a legal tender for all cummereial transactions between all citizens of all tho American States; that the findings of the delegates shall ho binding on the governments which send them, and on an agreement lieing reached the government represented shall open mints to the unlimited coin age ot silver for the lienefit of depositors. Many hills have been introduced in Congress to increase the punishment for embezzlement by directors, officers or agents of national bunks. Representa tive Bryan has added one more. It pro vides that every president, director, cashier, teller, clerk or agent of any as sociation who embezzles, abstracts or willfully misappropriates any money, funds or credits of the association shiill be guilty of a misdemeanor and be impris oned for not less than five years nor more than ten yeare; if the amount embezzled is less than $10,000, not less thun ten years; if the amount embezzled is $10, 000 or more and less than $25,000, not less than twenty-live years, and not more than forty years if the amount embez zled is more than $25,000. It also pro vides that persons arrested under the act shall be tried as common criminals. Caldwell has introduced a bill in tho House regarding tho wrecking of trains. It provides that A person who displaces or removes a railway switch, places a tie across the rails, injures a railroad track or bridge, or docs or causes to be done any act whereby tho locomotive of a train of curs is stopped, obstructed or injured, with intent to rob or injure the person or property passing oyer any rail road of interstate commerce, and wherein in consequence of such acts uny person is killed, will be guilty of murder. If the attempt does not result in murder, the guilty person, if convicted, shall lie imprisoned ut hard lulior for from ten to twenty years. Tho same penalty is to lo imposed upon each conviction of the charge of throwing anything against a train or causing anything to full upon it w ith intent to rob or injure anv Person or property 01 sucn train. The United States Senate hus been threatened with destruction by bomb- throwers. This at anv rate is one of the seiixatioual rumors utloat in ashington. u is assorted mat several silver Senators have received threatening letters, stat ing mat, 11 tnev nut not soon permit a vote on unconditional repeal, a bomb would 00 dropped troin the gallery into the midst of the silver leaders. Stewart. .lones. teller. oloott and other well known silver Senators have received these letters. Stewart is disposed todis miss the matter without consideration out toner un.i some 01 me ottiers are frightened, lho situation has been laid iH'fore Scrgeant-at-arms Bright and thirtv special detective sent to the Sen ate chaniU'r. and every person not know n is subjected to a rigid scrutiny. No one is permit tin! to enter oonvevitiira valise or package of anv kind. All these detective are in citizens' clothes. The public hearings liofore the Wavs and Moans Committee have boon con cluded. It is the intention ot the com mittee to commence work at once upon the new tariff bill. I K. Holdcn of Cleveland spoke in favor of the existing lutv on lead ore. He declared that, if the duties be reduced, miners' wage will necessarily ho reduced. Hugo F. Camp of New York also insisted 011 the retention of the present duty in the in terest of the producers and miners. He protested against the treatment of load ore as a raw material. Among tho other industries represented were thread. paints and colors, corsets, raw ivorv and piano-forte ivories. F. J. Kemer ol Now York complained to it the duty on silk was too high, so high in fact that the foreign manufacturers of silk goods could not be brought in competition with American silks, lie admitted, however that foreign manufacturers of silk paid AO per cent less wage than were paid in this country. At the afternoon resiion the carpet industry was discussed, a well a matches, brushes, tobacco, bur lap and tiernian looking-glass. Ropre- illative Mot all ot Massachusetts snoke ot the necessity of dividing now upon me oate on winch the new tariff law will go into effect. He said that would .to much to restore confidence, and sug- tett January l, isVA, as a reasonable time. I FOREIGN FLASHES. House of Lords Denounced by Walter Owen Church. NERVOUS DISEASES IN FRANCE. Photographing the Depth of the Sea ia Accomplished Old Manu scripts Discovered. The new German taxes are to net $24,- 000,000. The bastinado is no longer a legal pun ishment in Egypt. A weekly paper for the blind is pub lished in .bngland. France proposes to have a grand inter national exposition in 1000. Of 0,000 pilgrims who went to Mecca in May over half died from cholera. Egypt's cotton crop this year will be S0,uou,uou pounds larger man tn lsyz. Japan has fourteen railways projected, ami win Diinu mem as rapiuiy as posai ble. Zola's latest ambition is to become 1 member of the French Chamber of Dep uties. An electric light has just been put up in a flour mill close to the Damascus gate at Jerusalem. The white muscat raisin is in great de mand in Switzerland and Austria for the making of vermouth. Two new tl.OOO-ton steamers will be built by the North German Lloyds Com pany for the American service. The distress in the mining districts in England is great and increasing. In Derbyshire 50,000 men are idle. A fad for making collections of kisses of celebrated men is rapidly becoming popular among the ladies of Uermany. The German Emperor has stringently forbidden the officers of his army to have one eye, as denoted by wearing one eye glass. I The Czar has ordered a yacht of 4,000 tons, with engines of 800-horse power. It is expected to eclipse everything of the kind yet built. i Tho Queen of Denmark is stone deaf, a throat malady being responsible for the affliction. The Princess of Wales inher its the same trouble. i Hamburg has had a complete recovery from the cholera visitation of a year ago, and the city is in a more prosperous state than ever before. Japan has more miles of railway in proportion to its territory than any other country in Asia. Fourteen new lines aro now being constructed. 1 Since the beginning of the century France has fallen from the second to the fourth place in point of population among European countries. I Aluminium plates are used in Ger many to engrave and etch upon, and it is spoken of as a probable substitute for zinc and lithographic stones. I Two postage stamps of Mauritius of 1847, of which only fourteen specimens are Known to exist, nave just been pur chased by dealers in London for 680. I Tho floods in Northern China have laid waste tho country for thirtv-tive miles. Crops were destroyed and homes swept away. 1 lie section is thickly pop , uluted. I Peace prevails in Nicaragua. General ' Santos Selaya hus been formally elected President of the Republic and General I Anastairo Ortiz Vice-President. All po- iiiicai prisoners nave Deen released. The imperial German government has addressed a circular to the maritime States of the Empire requesting their opinions as 10 me auvisanuity ol insti tuting a Mate control of ship-building. H. O. Arnold-Forster, English mem ber of Parliament, raises a note of alarm about the condition of affairs at Gibral tar, which he declares to be absolutely useless in its present condition as a naval base. According to an election return just made to the British Parliament there are 0,2211.120 voters in the United Kimrdnm There were 4.502 4S2 in England, 270,270 in Wales, 747,271 in Ireland and 610,001 111 .-eoi num. Electricity has made rapid progress in Switzerland on account of the abundance ot cheap power from waterfalls. The telegraph and telephone lines of that country are owned and operated by the government. Walter Owen Church, a member of 1 imminent, declared at a meeting of the Liberal Federation at Ixmdon that the House of 1-onls was a grievous hindrance 10 goon government and should be im mediately abolished. Captain K. Mackenzie, R. E., has com pleted a detailed reconnaissance for a railroad from Kurrachee to Kharan, Bel ooohistan, which eventually will be ex- leniieu to seistan or some other point on iur 1 ciutu irouiier. Dr. Charles Fere, a well-known au thority on nervous and mental diseases, . "i.v ui iiiKinicn aro increasing ... .. t- miu in rrunoe, anu attrib utes the fact to the increase of becr drinking, absinthe-drinking and bars. Breech-loading rifles wero invented in 1811, but did not come into general use for many years. It is estimated that over 12.000,000 are now in actual service in the EuroHan armies, while 3,000,000 are reserved m the arsenals for emergencies. The British Medical Association has at last admitted women as members. The principle was approved last year, and this year at its sixty-first annual con gress, hold at Newcastle, the by-law ex cluding women was formally expunged. The famous Greek brigand Margon is, who has just given himself up to the au thorities at Athens, had for thirteen years been almost supreme in the dis trict around Parnassus. He was a farmer and owner of houses as well as a robber. A locomotive is being constructed in Kngland to run 100 miles nn hour. It is j.tW-lior power, the driving wheels 12 feet in diameter. The three cvlinders are 40, 2S and 18 inches in diameter with a AVineh stroke. The boiler pressure is 200 pounds. An interesting mid is a library of 600 "Humes, including seventy manuscripts of the tenth and eleventh, and some 1111 wonnenui miniatures of the four teenth centuries, which were recently disAVvored 111 a Franciscan cloister near Rioti, Italy. A gold medal of the value of 1.000 Italian lire is offered bv tho R emy of Science of the' Institute of Bo logtia to the author of tl,u l., I ., . wjriuuir describing a new and efficacious system f.. np PP;r. for prevrntlng or extinguishing fires. 8 Photographing the depth of the sea has leen accomplished by a Frn,-h enlist. M. Ronton. n..!n . ... diver, M. Boutoo managed to ue pho tographs of his surroundings when stand. In on the wry bed of the Meduerranean aUuiyttls-ror-Mer "ear the Snh PORTLAND MARKET. wn at Valley. 97 $1.00; Walla Walla, 87,'90c per cental. provisions. Eastern Smokid Mats asd Labd Hams, medium, uncovered, Hlfto.'ac per pound: covered, 14V(ai5c; break lon nnenrered. 16f(217c: cov ered, 1617c; short clear sides, 15" 16c; dry salt sides, 1414c; lard, : 101' rur nnnnd: COmpuuuu, ux mio, "4- I r--"T! pure, in tins, W(Si4.'ic j usuuuum, BAGS A3D 0&uui.iit. Tlnrlans. ft-onnce. 40-inch, net cash, fie- hnrlans. 10-ounce. 40-incn, net cash, 6l2c; burlaps, Ili-ounce, 45-inch, 7Ur! hnrlans. 16-ounce. 60-inch, 11c; burlaps, la-ounce, yo-incn, itc; bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel hand bags, 7c; Calcutta nop ciotn, -fr ounce, 10c TLOUB, FEED, ETC. Fiinn Standard. 3.25: Walla Walla, $3.25; graham, $2.75; superfine, $2.50 per barrel. Oats New white. 33(cb35c per bushel ; new gray, 3233c ; rolled, in bags, $6.25 6.50; barrels, $6.757.0O; cases, $J.70. Mii.LSTnrrs Bran. $17.00; Bhorts, $20.00; ground barley, $2223; chop feed. tl8 Der ton : whole feed, barley, 80 85c per cental; middlings, $23(3.28 per ton ; chicken wheat, $1.101.25 per cental. Hay Good, $1012 per ton. DAISY PRODUCE. Butteb Oregon fancy creamery, 272 i330c; fancy dairy, 2225c; fair to good, 176a20c; common, 1516c per pound. Cheese Oregon, 12c; California, 1314c; Young America, 1516c per pound. Egos 20c per dozen. Poultry Chickens, old, $3.504.00; broilers, $1.503.60; large young, $3.60; ducks, $3.005.00; geese, $8.00(g9.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 14c per pound. LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT. Beef Prime steers, $2.50(32.75; fair to good steers, $2.00(12.50 ; good to choice cows, $1.502.00; dressed beef, $3.50(3 6.00. Mutton Choice mutton, $2.002.50; dressed, $4.00a5.60; lambs, $2.002.60; ufcdotd, $C.C0 ; l.vo Weight. 2.GCiu,2.ui). Hoos Choice heavy, $5.00(5.50; me dium, $4.50(i5.00; light and feeders, $4.505.00; dressed, $7.00. Veai $4.006.00. MISCELLANEOUS. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.50(39.00 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.508.00perbox; terne plate, i. v., prime quality, $o.ou7.00. Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25 steel, fz.rfd; wire, fz.ou per keg. Steei, Per pound, 10c. Lead Per pound, 4c: bar. 6Vc. Naval Stores Oakum, $4.50(25.00 per oaie; resin, f4.80di5.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $9 per bar rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 65c per gallon 111 car 1013. Iron Bar, 2c per pound ; pig-iron t aoigzo per ion. CANNED OOODS. $1.752.00; peaches, $1.85(32.00; Bart ieu pears, fi.voigz.uu; plums, $1.374 i.uw; Hirawoerries, f z.zo(g;:.40 ; clierries. $-'.25(32.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00 raspherries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 t.ov; apricots, i.oo(gz.uu. fie Iruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, tl.25: nlnma. $1.00(31.20; blackberries, $1.251.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, o.ioiffi.i.ou; peacnes, $3.&0ffl4.00; apri ....... t'l Rll..l IUI. -I A.n ixm, fu.uuiu-i.vu i pilims, fZ.0(C3.UU blackberries, $4.25(34.60. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.65(34.00; lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham $1.76(32.15 per dozen. Fish Sardines, s, 76c$2.25; s, $2.15(34.60; lobsters, $2.30(33.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb talis, $1.25(31.50; flats, $1.75;2-lbs, $2.25(32.50 i -barrel, $6.60. VEGETABLES AND FRUITS, Vegetables Cabbage, lc ptr rxmnd: potatoes, Oregon, 80ig85c per sack; new onions, 1(31 4jc per pound; cucumbers, Oregon,8(310c perdozen ; string beans,5(3 7c per pound ; tomatoes, 40(350c per box ; green corn, 10(3 12 c per dozen; sweet potatoes, ls(a 2c per pound; egg plant, $1.50 per box; new California celery, 90c yci uvicu , vrcgon, oo((5ouc. rnunis oicuy lemons, $7.00 per box: California new crop, $6.00(36.50 per box ; bananas, $1.50(33.00 per bunch ; oranges, market bare; pineapples, $6.00 perdozen; new California apples, $1.25 iiimiiei lormncy; uregon,60c(3$1.25; peaches, California, 75(385c per box; freestone, 6065e; clingstone, 75(S80c; Oregon peach plums and Bradshaw plums out of market; Bartlett pears, 65c (flSOc per box, I1SjC per pound ; water melons, $1.25(32.00 per dozen; canta loupes, $1.25(31.50 per dozen; nutmeg melons, $1.50 per box; huckleberries, 15c per pound; grapes, 75o(tf$l 25 per linn iiunln.i ...... 1 tie , 1 ' - l"io P" 001 crah ap ples. $1.25(31.60 per box ; Oros (or Hun garian) prunes, 60(3 75c per box; Colum bia plums, 60c per box. HOPS, WOOL AND HIDES. . Hops t2s, 10(3 16c per pound, accord ing 10 quality: new rmn 'ii-io is..m.. Ohoil-B H.rflT..' r ""SAW, VtooL Prices nominal Hides Dry selected nri ma rut salted. 60 Doiinds and 5"i (111 n,.,n.l. ... 1. -l" . - " "uucr io.Vii ' ' ouerPP.iiearliiigs, 10(3 15c; medium. 2IW3S... 1.. V 30(360c; tallow, good to choice, 33c ner tviii n.l 1 0 - r-- 1 STAPLt OHOCERIES. Dried Fruits Petite prunes, lOailc ?! W- l W; Uefman ivosilA-; I mi 111 fl. Httflhi- nfulvnM....l pies, lOntllcj evaporated apricots, 12,3 15c; peaches, 10(itl2'.,'c: Dears. t,i er pound. ' v HoNEY-Cholcecomb, 18c per pound new Oregon, 16.320c; extract, Awl t'ALT Liverpool, lUOs. (IMihi. fin. (16.50; stock, $.00a 10.00. yorrsE-Costa Kiea, 23c; Ri0. 2c Sa vador, 23c; Mocha, 26 Si 3 2'; Java WW?; Arbuckle's, Columb a i.ion. 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound Rice Is and 5 Tfi.rfrt nn. 1 ' m New Orleans. $5.50(S6.25 per cental. ' BEANs-.Sn.all whites, Sc; pink. 1 S!IRwPr Ea'tf'rn. 'n barrels, 40(355c- per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California! m barrel., 2lM40c pe'r galL; t,ro AE-n 5V ; Golden C, 6c ; extra C. 8',c; confectioners' A. 6S,c; dry Bran "lated 6V: cube, crushed Cf ered.7i4c per pound; i4c per rWd discount on all grades for prompt 5h maple sugar, 15,$ 16c per pound. ' A Russian Journal reports .n ing case of a philanthropic physician! uithur the natinm. f A "" CIa.n found that in their sickness was caused by hunger Lnn UnT1 nWM' He ,rbed "Tix pounds of pore rye floor in dose, of two r.H "V , B00 Ken? tO get the niedielnn at .1 A " . the niM. i . store or t from surras th. whoU FARM AND GARDEN. Several Methods by Which Land May be Improved. A FEW AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Some General Information Abont for Preparing the Ground Planting: Wheat. It is very important to prepare the seed bed for wheat in a good condition. What is needed is three or four inches of finely pulverized soil and a reasonably solid seed bed underneath. After the plowing is done the instruments neces sary to properly prepare in a suitable condition can best be determined by the condition and character of the ' soil. When the soil ia in a condition to plow well and then can be harrowed as fast as plowed, the work of preparing in a good tilth can be greatly lessened. But it is often the case before the plowing can be done the ground gets hard and dry, and it will require considerable work "to se cure the proper tilth. Hard lumps can be worked down with a drag or roller, and with a drag it may be necessary to go over twice, i tie disc narrow can alter be used to a good advantage in tinmg the soil. If hard rains have run the soil together, the disc or Acme harrow can be used to a good advantage. There is an advantage m using the rollers and drag, especially in leveling and fining the soil, while the disc or Acme harrows are needed if the soil becomes packed. Generally it is best to go over sufficiently often to keep down the green growth that may start up and to keep the sur face mellow, using the implement best suited to keep the soil in this condition with the least work. Generally before drilling it will be a good plan to use the spike-tooth harrow and then the roller; this will leave the soil in good shape for drilling. If the roller i n't the harrowing should nearly always be done crosswise the way the drilling is to he done, as otherwise it is sometimes difii cult to follow the drill rows. By getting the soil in a good tilth before sowing the seed a much better germinutor of the seed and a more vigorous start to grow can be secured. In order to do this to the best advantage the work should be commenced as soon after plowing as pos sible. But sometimes, when the ground is hard and dry, it may be necessary to wait until after a rain softenB the lumps, when the work can be pushed along very rapidly. But in all cases it will pay to work until the soil is in a good tilth be fore sowing the seed. By having the soil in a good tilth when the proper time for sowing arrives tho work can be pushed along very rapidly. THE IMPROVEMENT OF LAND. There are various ways in which land may be greatly improved, and tho care ful farmer who wishes to make a success in his business will always be on the alert for new methods of culture, and will also follow those which be has found from actual trial to be good. Good drain age is essential for land on which cereal crops are to be raised. A fanner may easily obtain information regarding the drainage of a piece of land bv diguing holes four or five feet deep and noting where the water stands, in these. On corn land this water level should be forty two inches below the surface. Another method of improving the soil is by thor ough cultivation. This is necessary in order to obtain the best results. Opin ions diner very widely in regard to deep and shallow plowing. At the Perdue (Ind.) experiment station experiments have been made on corn plats, plowing four to twelve inches deep. The first year there was no perceptible difference, but the second year there was a great gain from deep plowing and subsoiling. The effects of deep plowing and subsoil ing are not always apparent the first year, but where it has been practiced the crop of wheat the second vear has been double that of a field shallow plowed, with the same amount of manure applied to each. Subsoiling loosens up more of the earth, and furnishes more plant food and moisture than shallow nlfiu-inov In clay lands it is desirable to change the conditions in order to keep it from bak- iig aunng very ary weather. Air-slaked lime is one of the best substances which can be used for this purpose. The amount to apply varies, ranging from inree to twelve tons per acre, according to the stiffness in the clav. A can be made at intervals'of seven to ten vears. H. A. Huston, Indiana State Chemist, advises farmers wlih Iiojw clay lands to experiment with a small ueiu in this way, Doing careful that the lime is left in small piles long enough to become well air-slaked, ami tl.n im.-oU distributed and well mixed with the soil. Using lime in this way makes the land easy to pulverize, and changes it from a hard compact mass to one easily broken into particles which the plant roots can penetrate. Salt is also used sometimes in the same wav. and has the on the soil, but is not always beneficial ; hence lime is more highly recommended. PLANT TREES. No matter u-bethpr tn plant spruce for timlier, a few on the windward side of the houses and barns to shelter them from the fierce storms will prove a profitable investment. The -Norway spruce is a rapid grower, and a windbreak once planted will everv year prove more valnahle. It windbreak to plant two rows almut ten feet apart, with some deciduous trees between. What wind nnp rrnu rlium nnr. obstruct the other row will catch. NOTES. Po not let Stock lose fleah Inri.i twit weather. Better feed hav or green com than allow animals to become poor. Keep one cock for of fourteen hens. This will do for all breeds but Asiatics, which require more males. Bantams mar Ik h,it,.),...i nt ,. ;, If the young are carefully kept from lice, thev will do as well in summer as if hatched earlier. Success in raising hogs depends upon good breeding, feeding and eeneral care. Bad luck" is another exoression for poor management. Geese can be nicl,1 n.r f.,r times during spring and summer and in this way made profitable. But the leathers should be pulled only when thev are ripe. ntictltod llnna. Teddy Vnuderchumn. a man, ha been paying his address to M Roe Bondclipner of Madison ave nue, uia visits h.trpwwn Or late, and Inst T, Wm . - -c. - ... w , ou.u. OU OUgUt to COIIIO and n. erory 1M an 1.1. evening, jtr Vanderchump." " "j lummy r '"Because it tuake. Sister Rns n hnrv py to hav. you go away you ought not to mis. an evening. " they mis! Teddy for th. rait of that reninf .Tas Sifting-,