Lincoln County Leader.
J. F. STKWtKT, FnblUber.
T'LKDO OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Sudden Uprising Among the
Natives of Alaska.
AN ARIZONA JUDGE DEPOSED.
Miss Shelby of Portland to Touch
tbe Button iu the Launching
of the Battle Ship.
Spokane and Portland are now con.
nected by telephone.
Tacoiiia will Hbip al)Oiit Reventy car
goes or 7,000,000 bushels of wheat this
year.
Two nu n, A. W. Rons and Mr. Will-
lams, aro reported lout on tho Colorado
uesert.
Chris Kvana Ih coninliiiiiiin of rutin in
biH sightless eye. The ball that entered
inure ih still in Iiih head.
Secretary Herbert has ordered hard
sandstone or granite to be UHed in the
coiiHtriiction of the i'ort Orchard dock
inntead of Tcnino sandstone.
K. W. French, l'robate Judge of Yav
apai county, A. T., charged with forgery
and embezzlement, bun been dcosed
and J. F. Wilson appointed to succeed
hi m.
A Hiibniariiie cablo of 500 volts was
laid between Han Diego and Coronadothu
other day. Jt iu to supply the force to
run a new electric road at the latter
place.
A 200-foot tunnel haa just kn com
pleted at the Kullana mine in Grant
county, and acontnut in soon to lie let
f.r oau CM uei long. JoxiMisurcs are
satisfactory,
Tbe coyotes in the Verde river section
in Arizona aro affected with hydrophobia
to such an extent that it Ih dangerous to
travel through that country and especi
ally to camp at night.
Steps are about to bo taken toward the
count ruction of a fish lalder at the fallH
of the Willamettu at Oregon City, for
which the hint Oregon legislature made
an appropriation ol 10,000.
A London company is Raid to have
bought the nickel inini'H in Oregon. It
Ik believed the company will erect a
plant to iniinufacturu armor for battle
ships and for other purposes.
Tbu I'iuiiicim' Insurnncu Company at
Spokane has been no manaiicd that the
stockholders have been deceived, and a
receiver ban been appointed. The com
pany baa out t'JIH.ooo worth of jiolicics,
with assets of 40,000.
A report comes from Is Angeles coun
ty, Cal., that a grove of bananas in the
lahuciiim loot 1 1 1 Uh w ill produce tblM sea.
roii 250 htinchcH of good, meichantablu
iron,, ami will yield, it ih riuiI, a hand
Rome prollt lo the owner.
A bank in Arizona, which cloned i
abort time ago, inniicd tho following no
tice; "TIuh bunk Iiuh not hunted; it
nwcH the people t:Ml,0U0; the people owe
it joo.oou ; ii. ih the people w ho are oust
eu; when lliey pay we'll pay."
J no iioarn oi mime works at lamina
Iiuh diHcovereil a shoitagii of 6,(100,000
gillloiiH ol water daily in the water com
puny H giiaraniccn nupply, wlilcli was
purchased recently by the city, together
with the electric-light plant, for 11,760,-
OOO.
According to the report of Receiver
lladlcv the Oregon Pacific Ih running
nciiiiiu. no reports: .Mine, caruingH,
LM.MUll; expenses, 25,017. 41; Iohh,
.'1,71.21. .Inly, earnings, 1(I,1II0.:I1 ; ex-
peiihCH, iL'.l.hM.Ui; Iohh, 40,0 11. .10, Au
gust, earnings, Hl'kl7.U J expenses
illl.iKW.M ; loss, t:l,870.M.
The I. inn County Hoard of Kqualir.n
lion Iiuh assessed the Southern I'acitle at
l,000 per nolo on the mad and 4557 on
rolling Mix k on the main line, the Or
euonian and Lebanon branch was iiIucihI
at (II.OOO on the roadlicd, and the
Oregon I'aeille will lie aliout fl,;IOO on
roiuiiKd ami rolling Mock.
From authentic repot U received at
1 milium I'V permuiH in a iHiHitiou to know
it in believed that there Iiuh been a re
cent and Riiddeu ujiriHing among tbe na
tives ol Alanka. .Many (torsous wore
Killed, among lliem liciug nevcral niiN'
RioninicH Rent out by the American
lloard.
The Southern I'acitle Company ran
free excursion train out of Sacramento
the oilier aflerniHiii, hound for Reno.
Nev. Iletweeu ItlMI and 400 In.liuiiH, who
weni mere lo nick hops, wore provided
with affnmiuodations and sent to their
liDiucH in the Sagebrush State. Tbev
went iu freight cars, and pulled out for
me mountains cheering.
A letter received at Kanlo, II. C dis
closes the (act that a young fellow who
ran a rcHlaiiraut in that town, and who
died lately from fever and dvRentery,
wuh the Ron of an Irish Karl. The young
man, who wuh always very reticent iiIkiiii
biM people, wuh a general favorite. II In
liaiiie wan CharleH Iteginald Wealherly,
mid Inn mother Ih I41.lv Umisa of tlie
Mime iiuiiie.
Frank Shay, a Southern I'acitle Com
pany attorney and tor many yearn Sena
tor Muufonl'a private secretary, in con
sidered to know Itctter than anyone else
the value of the great entitle left bv
Stiiufonl. lie Ray j.Vi.OtHUHM would lie
a conservative estimate of the value 01
the pmpei ty. The assessed valueof real
eniuic o nctl by the lute Senator ih
IMO.noi). and the market value probably
412,tW,iioo.
Mayor Mumiii of I'ortlaud Iiuh selected
Minn lugcnia Shelby to tnuch tbe but
ton wbieh will launch the battle chip
(begun. Mim Slielhv in the sixteen-year-old
daughter of F.ngene Shelby, a
Coiiiiiiuii Couiicilniuii ol rortlund anil
I'iji m at that Hiint lor WelU-hatgo Fx
Iniss. 'I be Oregon will lie christened
bv Miss I'aihV Aiiiswmlh, a native e
Oregon ami tlie daughter of one ol tin
pioneer of that Si ate. Miss Aiuswortl
ih now a resident of Oakland, Cal. Mi
Shell. v ix h grandilaiinbicr of (ienera
I.iine, who wuh apmiiiitcd Governor ot
tbi Temtorv of Oregon by I'rvaidcnt
Tiler iu IS V.I.
Gieat interest in tbe San Praiieisco
Midwinter Fair continues to lie mani
fested by l'lislcm business men, w he
want concession and are willing to pat
for them. The German restaurant priv
ilege iuh lieen applied for. A nuiuleroi
restaurant will Im filled up in gormoio
Htyle, and will Riiiroiind the elivtriea
tower. Hie building cpmv for Santa
Iturliura Iiuh Uvii laid out by Fngiucci
O Sbuiigl iy, next north id the IU-
waiian exlulut, and will occupy 4,iMH
feet, coiituiiiiiig aquatic iM-cimeim and
feuture of Santa Hurbaia. Tbe ehe
(ileal t Iu Hit r and biiulera' ball baa Utn
pbiceil aoutlt of tint admiuiatratlon
building.
BCSI5ES3 BEEHTIES.
It haa been figured that Philadelphia
took abont 480,000 baskets of peachef
this season.
The Azteca filled anilli with mAA
sealed them and paneed them from hand
to band aa coin.
New York riaima i ifiilinntmn r.1
ieing the only State that produces both
rock and brine salt.
A Daner baa been invented in (lrmanv
from which ink writing may be eraaed
with a moiHt Rfxinge.
The aniline dvea were invcniwl in l?ft
and now over 7,000.000 worth are annu
ally uhchI in the United States.
Female tramps are dinprwed to claim
their share of a biiaineRs w hich baa here
tofore been monopolized by men.
1 oe largest gold coin in circulation Is
the "loof" of Anam, which weighs as
much as 325 United States dollars.
Pennnylvania ranks flrnt in the cigar
outnut of the country. New York, Ohio
ana norma follow in the order named
The largest gold nugget ever known
was the " Sarah SandH," found in Aus
tralia. It weiuhed 2.'53 nounds 4 ounces
troy.
Reports of increase of street railroad
earnings where electricity has superseded
mule power in largo cities average 00 per
nt.
More than 10,000 tons of salmon were
packed by tbe canneries on the Frazer
river, B. C, this season. It took nearly
30,000,000 cans.
Among the curious products of the
State of Maine are wooden bottles. Thcno
are made not for liquidH, but for pills,
powders and tabletH.
Cuba has 102 collee plantations, "n:j
sugar plantations, 4,500 tobacco cHtat. h,
8,200 cattle farms and 1,700 small hi mm
devoted to various products.
The silver productof the United States
Is about H'4 per cent of our total min
eral production, which according to the
census was in 1880 587,2:0,W2.
Commander Ludlow of tho Mohican.
which has been patrolling Iiehring Sea
all summer, estimates the product of pe
lagic Healing this year at (10,000 skins.
The stoppage of silver milling will re
duce our annual supply of gold by one
third. Just aliout 33 per cent of tho
yearly yield of gold is taken out of silver
mine:!.
A telegraphic printing instrument, re
cently perfected, threatens not only to
RUpcrHcdo the telephone, as at present
employed, but to revolutionize telegra
phy in general.
Counting tho bearing and non-liearing
orange trees in Florida, there aro esti
mated to lie 10,000,000 trees. California
is credited with having fl.000,000 trees
and Arizona aliout 1,000,000.
One tow boat on the MisHinsipiii in a
pood stage of water can take from St.
Louis to Now Orleans a tow carrying
10,000 tons of grain, a quantity that
would require lifty trains of ten cars
each.
The whaling industry Iiuh fallen ofl" so
much an to play hut a small part in the
World's commerce. The latest figures
obtainable show the priHliiction to nver
buo between 15,000 ami 20,000 tuns of
252 gallons each per year.
F. 1'. IHimiH, formerly Unit;d States
Consul at St. Ktieiiue. says that from an
investigation he made be iinds that aluiut
115,000 Americans of the better cIbhh vinit
FuroiHi every vear, and that they spend
alsiut 1100,000,000.
KriiHtus Wiinan in renorted ns fiivim;
in a lute address that there are M55,000,
000 in the forty-one Ravings bunks of
New York and lirooklyn, held bv more
than l.lW.OUO dcHhitors, and the capi
tal of all the national banks in the coun
try is only OO.OOO.OOO.
Pl'RKLV PERSONAL.
Mrs. Illoiint, the ex-Minister's wife,
says that some of the native women she
met in Honolulu were as cultivated and
rellned iih any women she ever saw.
Five Irish Peers take their titles from
places that are not to he found on the
map of Ireland. These are the Puke of
AIhtiIccii, the Karl of Sliellield, the Karl
of Piirnlcv, Viscount Itungor and Vis
count lluwardcn.
A brother of tbe King of Siaui, with
a numerous suite, is expected to arrive
in Italy shortly. After visiting Naples
and Rome the Siamese Prince will pro
ceed to Monz, where bo w ill bo received
by King Humbert.
William F. Weeks, the New York law
yer who cmlH-zzlod millions of his cli
ents' money, and who is now a fugitive
from iiiMtico liH-uted in Costa Rica, was
one of the original owners of the town
site of Everett, Wash. He is still inter
ested in a great deal of pmpertv in that
vicinity.
Mrs. It. R. Phillip, a resnecte.1 nl.
dent of Salem, Mass., Iiuh junt recovered
from an eighteen months' Hickiicwi. dnr.
ing w hich time she wuh uiven m fur
ocaii iwiee, fne makes inu Rtartlmg
claim that she died and came to life
again. Mm. Phillips also alleges to have
gd a gliiupno of heaven.
lielvil I.IH'kwOO.1 COtlfcHHCH til (VI Villi ra
of experience iu thin wicked world." She
was iHirn 111 .ew ork, taught school nt
H and was married at IS. Her vouthhil
characteristicH according to her own ac
kliowlcdguiciit included a f.Mi.lnexn f,,r
walking on top of rail fences, a fearless
ness of snukes and an inability to keep
her face clean.
Alexander IliirlM.rt R,ill..v tl... 1..,
Knebsblllllll for W'llillll Hivireli Iium lu.....
ill tiriLM'iHi fur Mv.rtil ..,.. I... ,1...
...... i,-
solicitor of an estate 111 England, of
which lluilev is the heir. Im .1;-.
covered at last. He has recently Urn
iHildling Usiks tor a Chicago publishing
nouse and posing as a spiritualistic un
burn for recreation through W,isl.in..i...,
iHiunty, Pa.
Mr. ltulfour. who will.it is H,,i,.l,t
la Premier of England roiiio day it
his health lasts, is also thought to be the
most interesting bachelor in England.
He is handsome, bis face Uiug uncom
monly re lined and clever in expression ;
Old for a statesman be is imii... I...
years couhtiiur 45. He is a licnbew of
'be Marquis ol Salisbury, and an tiniuar
lied sister presides over bis household.
Victor Hcrlicrt. tbe ieinss..t i,.l
loncellist, is the new leader of (iilnune s
mud. Piiqile are wondering what so
line a musician as HeiUn will .1.1 o.
'Ilcll a IHta-l f lam til whi.'h tli.. ti iu.
it tbe Imiii.I have elected him, wild Mrs.
kiilluore's heartv annntvHl Mr l:.u,. ...
bo has Ih'cii leader sin.-e li..nli n'.,,.
P. S, Giliiiore's death, wid return t.i
I'ntvitlence and r,.siiiii.t tl ..1111-..I ..
the land w hich so long Ure ids name.
An American who WAN rc'lllltlf .. ..i....
if I'lof. John Smart IU. Li tl.,.. .1...
-criW's bun : "An ! Ilgiin. not tall,
lint almvc the iinvliiim )ihi..I,i IV'i..,
Iiair falling attnit bis nivk. the bluest
Mite eves I ever saw. w ith V.w.n .........
expression in their searching dentbs
L'. ... .1.... I.- .. .. . 1 . '
T.yrm inni nnrr never useo glasses de-
pup ineir o ner s ti vt'urs. . in,v ,i.
trnatiinr tMlwe'ti rnd.lv n.1 t.1..
hk a mixture of heather nil ami white!
Itleasant tiiMsdi. mult .n,..i..i ui.,
if .la-gow in th accent, (jiiaint, mi
convent :oi al, holir-l iiianuers, all the
more rhsiant bv hum ..I
Iinpliuly."
EASTERN MELANGE.
Colorado Miners Unfavorable to
a Sliding Wage Scale.
THE POPULATION OF OKLAHOMA.
Immigration Into Canada Choice
Lands in the Red Biver Val
ley of North Dakota.
The harvest of the Florida orange crop
nas commenced.
A dispatch from Fall River says that
an the nulls are running.
Horses and cattle are dying of drouth
in various parts ot lexas.
The Indians are costing the govern
merit about $7,000,000 per year.
Mob law was strongly condemned by
me ivnoxviue (lenn.; rresnytery.
James A. Oar held is to have a monu
ment in Fairmount Park. Philadephia,
Congressman tie Armond proposes a
tax on all incomes in excess ol f 10,000.
The report of the Utah Commission
says that polygamous marriages are a
thing of the past.
Over one-fifth of the whole number of
people in the United States have visited
the World's Fair.
Georgia negroes will form an associa
tion to prevent Iynchings and other out
rages uon the race.
Secretary Lamont has appointed a
board to appraise Fort Bliss in Texas,
with a view to its sale.
Ex-President Harrison Is said to have
received $1,0(10 'r recent magazine ar
ticle on tho World's Fair.
More than 4,000,000 words have been
used in Congressional dehato since the
silver repeal question came np.
Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang
ing from 9 to 12 years old, have been ar
rt'Hted for carrying revolvers to school.
Vr.ro ibnn ono half of tho Cl.ciukee
Strip boomers have already left their
claims and gone back to their old homes.
Virginia comes up smiling w ith the
largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk
reports 500,000 bushels more than last
year.
The Missouri State Board of Railroad
Commissioners and the express compa
nies are preparing a new schedule of
rates.
Railroad trains will shortly lie lit by
electricity. The New York Central rail
road is probably tho first to use that
system.
Representative Cooper of Texas lias
introduced resolutions in the House re
ferring tho question of silver to a vote
of tho people.
Immigration into Canada has proven
a failure the past vear, a decrease of 25
per cent compared with tho previous
year heing shown.
Kansas farmers have been taken in by
swindlers, who sell a compound aliened
1 to double the amount ol butter from a
given amount of cream.
A Kentucky Congressman wants tbe
government to pay rent for the school
bouses and churches used as hospitals
by the armies during the war.
Tho canal between Georgia Hay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to tho seulHiurd by over
1,000 miles, is hearing completion.
In Maryland tbe tinest varieties of
peaches are selling iu the orchards at 25
cents a bushel. Prices are so low that it
docs not pay to ship them to market.
The Chicago grand jury has found in
dictments against twelve men who are
charged with arson. They were com
bined to insure houses and then burn
them.
A whistle that will make itself heard
for twentv-tlve miles bus just been tiu
ishetl by.lohn How man, and it will adorn
the car shops at Third and Ilerka street,
Philadelphia.
The indootediicHs per bead in Colorado
is 4200. Even Kansas, w hich has always
Ihimi an insatiate Isirrower, has only
HUccccded iu running up a mortgage debt
of $170. r bead.
A RiK'hester man has devised a nlan
by which a trolley Htreet cr can lie
stopped almost iiistantaneoiiHlv. or with
in a apace of three feet, w hile the car is
goiint at lull speed.
llurtholdi's magnitlceut statuary group
winch is at present on exhibition' at the
vM rairwill be kept at Chicago.
Hie work is of bronze, and is coinnoscd
id heroic figures of Washington and La-
layette.
The silver-mine owers nt Aspen. Col..
have proHscd a sliding scale of wages
to the men, hut tlie latter are not dis-
Msed to accept it, and work will not be
resumed until the price of silver justifies
1 nc 0111 w ages.
The New York World Iwasts of having
given away in charity on a recent Sun
day morning a pile of bread " 20 feet
long, 0 feet high and (I feet wide," and
" did not have enough to give each hun
gry mail a loaf."
A bill appropriating $:l,447,m5 for the
payment ol damages sustained by citi
zens of Pennsylvania from Union and
Confederate troopn during the late war
was rcjtorted lavorably in the II nil so by
the Committee on War Claims.
Sensational newspaper w riters are at
tributing lo New York bankers ami to
the United States Treasury otliciuls
threats to " turn the screws " and bring
011 another tinancial convulsion if the
Senate docs not soon pass the rejH'al
bill.
Puring the mouth of OctoU-r the State
of North Pakota will oiler for sale nearly
IlX'.lHHt acres of tbe choicest lands, ail
located in the famous Red River Vallev.
State owns 3,.Vri,ih.X) acres. Iwiinr a nan
of the grant ol laud donated by Con
gress. Oklahoma bail a population In lSlXl
larger than Wyoming when admitted as
a state, and with the increase since and
ihe su.l.lcn addition of fullv I'tO.OlH' more
on the oH'iiing of the Cherokee Strip It
iiiusi nave now a population 01 over
LUVOOO.
Elder RoIhtIs of the Mormon Church
complains that he was barred from par
ticipating in Ihe proceeding of th, 'r.
liaineiit of Religions at the World's Fair,
notwithstanding tht N-het was enter
lained that all religions could have the
right ami privilege to lie beard.
It is reported that the crops ot peaches
and gra' in Michigan this year are te
tri al to lie moved. I he various trans
portation companies that are engaged in
carrying the pro. I net to Chicairo and
oilier markets are over helmed with of
lerings w material to be carried away.
A party of negro miners passing
through ( hieope, Kan., from a visit to
Wier were called "scat" by a lot ol
boys, and stone were thrown at them,
when one of the negroes tired his pistol
at tbe hoys, wounding one. Much ex
citement resulted, and the ncgroca were
taken to Pittsburg, kan., to avuij
trbl.
FE0M WASHINGTON CITY.
Senator Dolrdi has introduced a bill to
ratify the mrrwintnt with the Indian!
on tfie Siletz reservation, Oregon, for the
cession 01 their lands not needea lor al
lotment.
Arrangements are being made at the
Navy department for the trial of the
new crniser Olympia, built by the Union
Iron Works of San Francisco. The trial
will take place about November 1 over a
forty-mile course-in Santa Barbara Chan
nel between Point Conception and Santa
carnara.
According to a Treasury statement is
sued by Secretary Carlisle the amount of
money in circulation in the United
States October 1 was $1,701,939,918. The
average circulation per capita, estimat
ing the population at 67,300,000, is there
fore $25.2,A a net increae in circulation
during September of $21,377,247. The
greatest item of increase was gold coin,
viz., $14,820,741.
President Cleveland has signed the
proclamation setting apart a large tract
of land as a forest reserve under the act
of March 3, 1891. The reservation will
be known as the 'Cascade forest reser
vation." It extends from the Columbia
river 200 miles southward, abont twenty
miles wide, taking in the Cascade Range.
Hereafter no settlement will bo allowed
within its boundaries.
Secretary Hoke Smith has sent to the
Secretary of the Treasury estimates for
appropriations for the Interior Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1895. The appropriations asked aggre
gate $170,779,134, as against $180,087,030
for the current fiscal year. The principal
item is tlie annv and navy pensions,
which foot up $l'fi0,0il0,000. This is a
decrease of $5,000,000 from the present
fiscal year.
Representative Henderson has had
prepared for introduction into the House
a resolution for the appointment of a
special committee of five to investigate
and report on the transactions of the
sugar trust, with power to sit during the
session of Congress, to send for persona
and papers, to secure the aid of the De
partment of Justice and, if the facts
warrant, to report a bill to annul its cor
porate existence.
Judge Charles D. Long of Detroit, ami
a niemlier of the Supreme Court of
Michiimn. bss filed a p"t!tion for a man
damus in the District Court to compel
the Commissioner of Pensions to pay his
(plaintiffs) pension, which, he holds, is
illegally suspended. This will bring out
the w hole question of the action of Pen
sion Commissioner lochrcn in suspend
ing pensions. The Commissioner is cited
to show cause October 19 why tho writ
should not issue.
Representative Hermann has favor
ably reported to Congress his bill from
the Committee on War Claims, requir
ing the adjudication of claims for com
pensation for property lost in the mili
tary service of the United States. This
especially refers to horses and other
property lost, and which tbe department
lias heretofore declined to consider be
cause of the statute of limitations. It
is of interest to claimants in the Indian
wars of the Pacific Coast.
The Democratic members of the Ways
and Means Committee are making prog
ress with the tarilT bill. The ground
work is understood to be free raw mate
rials, with compensatory reductions on
other materials. There is a growing im
pression that the consequent deficit in
the receipts will lie met bv increased in
ternal revenue taxes on whisky anil to
bacco. Carlislois understood to favor
an increased tax on wluskv te 11.20. cal
diluting this will increase tho revenue
$30,000,000.
The charges mado by tho citizens of
Oklahoma City of alleged misconduct on
tho part of Captain P. F. Steele of the
United States armv (retired) in connec
tion with the opening of Oklahoma to
settlement had their ell'ect in the issuing
in 1111 oruer oy me fecretarv ot War for
the court-martial of Captain Steele. He
is charged with fraud in his otlicinl ca
pacity, while in command of the troons
111 1892, to secure control of some of the
liest laud sites 111 the Territory ami with
making n bargain with an auctioneer bv
which he purchased at the verv lowest
price government buildings and other
property sold when the military camp
was broken np. The court-martial will
meet at rort Keno, Oklahoma.
Strenuous eirorts have been made by
those favoring and opposing the Mc
creary substitute for the Gearv bill to
agree upon a time when the bill shall be
considered. It is (eared that there will
be no quorum in the House as soon as
the vote is taken on the federal election
law repeal bill. Etfbrts will lie made to
take the bill up as soon after this vote as
possible. Some of its opponents want it
put oir till NovemlH'r 1 to wait for a
qnorum. There is little doubt expressed
that the bill will go through as soon as a
vote can 1h reached. Several Western
niftuttcrs are preparing speeches which
will severely arraign the administration
for tho non-enforcement of the Geary
law.
In his rtqtort to the Commissioner of
Indian A Hairs Prof. Putnam in charge
of tlie ethnological exhibit of the
World's Fair denounces as falsehoods
the charges by Mrs. Sickles, Chairman
of the Universal Peace Union, that bru
tal and cruel exhibitions of the Indian
sun dance were given at the fair. The
aiviisations are characterized as inisrcn-
resentations: he says there has been no
representation of the Indian sun dance
and there has not been a single Indian
belonging to the United States who lias
taken part in any exhibition except the
Xavajos, w ho have Wen quietly sitting
in a hut weaving and making silver work.
Indians from Vancouver Island, who are
entirely outside the jurisdiction of the
United States, have given exhibitions,
performing ceremonial songs and dances
Secretary Carlisle has sent to the
House his reply to the resolution of that
IhhIv asking him why 4,500,000 ounces
of silver bullion were not purchased dur
ing July and August as required bv law.
The reply says, as the United States is
the largest purchaser of silver in the
world, the Secretary of the Treasury
after an examination of the otters anil
quotations each day should determine
what in his judgment is a fair price. He
either has to pun-base 4.foX.000 ounce
at the dealers' prices, no matter how un
reasonable or exorbitant, or he must em
ploy rii 'h means as are at his command
to awvrtain the actual market price.
The effort ot the department since June
12 has Iteen to imply ascertain the fair
market price of bullion each day it wa
offered for sale, an.i w hen ascertained to
make purchases at that price.
The Foreign Affairs Committee has
decided to report favorably the McCreary
substitute for the Everett bill. As agreed
on, it extends the Chinese registration
pen. si six months from the passage of
the act. It strikes out the word "white"
from the deary act so as to permit the
testimony of anybody except Chinamen
to he adduced to prove "Chinamen are
entitled to register." It defines a Chi
nese lattorer. Geary offered his amend
ment requiring photographing in con
nection with the identification clause,
but onlv secured three vole in its sup
port, tbe majority deemed the regu!a
turns of ihe Treasury Department sntfi-
cient. Gearv cast the onlv adverse vote.
He declares the bill's teeth are drawn,
that it is a makeshift in keeping with
the course of tbe administration, and
that b will fight it tooth and Bail.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
General Paralysis of Manufact
uring; in England.
LADY COMMERCIAL TEATELEES,
The Fastest Cruiser Afloat Women
Eligible to Office Bevolu
tion In Argentina.
Parliament will meet again on Novem.
ber 2.
Queen Victoria has added a typewriter
to her secretarial Stan.
A new great seal for Ireland has just
been ordered at a cost ol 440.
In England there is a feeble move
ment in progress against tipping,
The British Labor Congress has agreed
that the day of strikes has passed.
The King of Sweden used the tele
phone for the first time a few days ago,
FevDt's cotton crop this year will be
50,000,000 pounds larger than in 1892
Widespread suffering has resulted from
the strikes in the r.ngiieti coal mines
It is estimated that there are less than
10,000 paupers in the Japanese Empire.
The French government charges wom
1 en a tax of $10 each lor wearing trousers.
I The Pope has postponed indefinitely
his encyclical concerning social ques
tions. I There are associations in Great Britain
which insure against elopement, matri-
mony and twins.
i The Argentine government announces
that the revolution in the Republic ap
. proaches its end.
I Experiments made in tobacco cultiva
tion throughout Europe have not given
much promise of success. ' "
Under extreme pressure Siam has
agreed to sign both the treaty with
Franee and the eortvortfiorj annexed.
Local telegrams are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes in most
of the principal cities of Great Britain.
Worn sovereigns and half-sovereigns
to the amount of 16,000,000 were with
drawn Irom circulation last year m Eng.
land.
The women of Iceland, who have had
municipal sullrage ever since 1882, have
now been made eligible to municipal of-
. nces.
Prof. Koch, the great bacterioloaist.
has got himself into trouble by divorcing
his wife and marrying a Berlin variety
. actress.
There is iittie doubt that the whole
Austrian Cabinet will resign if royal
sanction to the civil marriage bill is
withheld.
a minion acres ot oats were erown
this year in Scotland, and only 280,000
acres were devoted to all the other grains
togeiner.
Last month the officers of the Fish
mongers' Company, London, seized and
destroyed 199 tons of fish as unfit for
human food.
The coercive measures against the
young Czechs, the Nationalists of Bohe
mia, continue to be enforced with in
creasing rigor.
A number of Bmaller coal pits in Staf
fordshire, Nottinghamshire and Derby
shire, England, have reopened at the old
rates ot wages.
The vintages in France and Italy this
year are unusually good. In France the
output and quality of champagne will
oe exceptional.
Germany's foreign trade for the first
seven months of the vear shows a heavy
falling off in imports and a considerabli
increase in exports.
So vast are the ruins of Pompeii that
they cannot all be excavated at the ordi
nary rate of progress liefore the middle
ot the next century.
The Moslems plant a cypress tree on
every grave immediately after the inter
ment, which makes the Moslem ceme
teries resemble forests.
The three British battle ships now un-
oer construction nave been modified as
regards armor in view of the informa
tion gained by the loss of the Victoria,
A new street railway is being laid in
Cairo, Egypt. Passengers will hang to
the same kind of hand Btraps with which
cars are luxuriantly furnished in the
vines 01 America.
The fastest cruiser afloat is the Yoshi-
no, winch lias just been constructed by
sir . G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. for
ine Japanese government. This vessel
attained a speed of 23.031 knots,
A projected canal from Marseilles to
the alley of the Rhone is attracting the
niMMiiioii oi r rencn engineers, and they
are at present engaged in seeking aii
uuiiw mi uiB .ueuuerranean coast.
The bicycle has become so popular in
rranco that the railroads are making
special accommodations for carrying the
machines and storing them at 'stations
or me use ot travelers seeing the coun
try roads.
Mme. Lambert de Rothschild is among
the latest enthusiasts for bicvcle-ridinir
In II.... 1.- t- . .
... i.iur.-vir. iMie goes regtiianv to the
Rots de la Cambro to practice. "Bicycle
riding has created quite a furore in" the
city among the gentler sex.
An international exhibition will be
held at Vienna from April 20 to June 10,
1894. The exhibition will embrace eco
nomical food supply, army sustenance,
life protection and means of transport
and a special sports exhibition.
Hardly ten years ago the first step was
taken in Germany to bring the w hole
body of wage-earners under compulsory
M', insurance. To-dav nearly 13,000,'
00 laborers are actually insured against
sickness, accident, invalidity and oid
age.
Some one seems to have told the Sul
tan that chlorate of potash is a danger
ous explosive. Consequently no druggist
or pharmacist in Constantinople is al
lowed to possess or sell it. The (;r,l
.tiosier 01 Artiiiery alone is
have it in keeping".
allowed to
The authorities at Port Parwin, Aus
tralia, have notitied the steamship com
panies that in future the strictest inter
pretation of the Chinese restriction act
will 1 enforced. This being so. no
steamer having on board more than two
( hmese passenger can enter Port Par
win. Tlie general paralysis of manufactur
ing in England is costing the country
millions weekly. Nothinu lika
disaster has ever been known
oelore in r.ngland. There is no parallel
for it anvwhere. savo nerh-.ni i
,. . ' --...,-. , rujt?
peculiarly savage and w idepread phase
of devastation bv war.
Throughout the east of Europe and In
Ronmania there has lately been organized
a system of lady commercial travelers
whose mission it is to supply weddimr
trousseaux, lavettes.
and other goods. These ladies hail from
1 arm. and carry with them specimens
and samnUi from th n,, l- .
toon). " """
PORTLAND MARKET.
trn. Valley. S5(397tt'c; Walla
Walla, 85(g87)sC per cental.
PROVISIONS.
Eastebs Smokkd MtUTS asd Labd
Hams, medium, uncovered, 14 (3 top
per pound; covered, 14(S15c; break
fast bacon, uncovered, 16ai7Hc; ?y
.i lRirtfiT. short clear sides. I0.S1
ci cm, aw-i ----- ---- , , .
loc; dry sail siaes, i-ns-ii2-,
compound, in 11ns, iu-ic per rr , !
pure, in Una, 1314.c ; Uregon laru,
12c.
BA08 AMD BAGGING.
Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash,
6c; burlaps, 10-ounce, 40-inch, net
cash, 6L2c; burlaps, ll-ounce, 45-inch,
7c; burlaps, 16-ounce, 60-inch, 11c;
burlaps, 19-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat
bags. Calcutta, 22x36, epot, 8c; 2-bushel
oat bags, 7?4c; No. 1 selected second
hand bags, 7c ; Calcutta hop cloth, 24
ounce, 10c
HOPS, WOOL ASD HIDES.
Hops '92s, 10 16c per pound, accord
ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 11c for
inferior to 17)jC for choice.
Wool Prices nominal.
Hides Dry selected prime. 5c; green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3,'c; under
60 pounds, 2(3 3c ; sheep pelts, shearlings,
10il5c; medium, 20235c; long wool,
30a60c; tallow, good to choice, 33.lsC
per pound.
FLOUR, FEED, ETC.
Floob Standard, 3.00; Walla Walla,
$3.00; graham, $2.50; superfine, $2.25
per barrel.
Oats New white. 35(336e per bushel ;
new gray, 3233c; rolled, in bags, $6.25
(36.60; barrels, $6.757.00; cases, $3.75.
Mill8tcff8 Bran, $16.00 ; shorts,
$18.00; ground barley, $22(323; chop
feed. $18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 80
85c per cental; middlings, $2328
per ton; chicken wheat, $1.10(31.25 per
cental.
Hay Good, $1012 per ton.
DAIRY PBODUCE.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 27
ig30c; fancy dairy, 22. (3 25c; fair to
good, 17sa20c; common, 1516c per
pouud.
Cheese Oregon, 1012c; Califor
nia, 1314c ; Young America, 1516c per
pound.
Eoos 25c per dozen.
Poultry Chickens, old, $3.00(33.50;
broilers, $1.50(83.00; ducks, $3.00(34.00;
f;eese, $8.00(39.00 per dozen; turkeys,
ive, 14c per pound.
live and dressed meat.
Beef Prime steers. J2.50(32.75: fair
to good steers, $2.002.50 ; good to choice
cows, $1.50(32.00; dressed beef, $3.50
6.00 per 100 pounds.
Mutton Choice mutton, $2.00(32.50;
dressed, $4.00(3.5.50; lambs, $2.00(32.50;
dressed, $6.00; live weight, $2.002.50.
Hoos Choice heavy, $5.00(35.50; me
dium, $4.50(35.00; light and feeders,
$4.50(3,5.00; dressed, $7.00.
Veal $4.006.00.
vegetables and fruits.
Vegetables Cabbage, lc per pound;
potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack ; new on
ions, mjc per pound; tomatoes, 35(8
40c per box ; green corn, 15c per dozen ;
sweet potatoes, l'c per pound; egg
plant, $1.00 per box ; new California cel
erv, 90c per dozen ; Oregon, 35(u,60c.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $6.00(36.50 per
box; California new crop, $5.00(3,6.50
per box ; bananas, $1.50(33.00 per bunch ;
oranges, market bare ; Oregon, peaches,
85c per box California, per box;
fall butter pears, 65(380c per box, 1(31 c
per pound; watermelons, 75c(3$1.50 per
dozen; nutmeg melons, $1.60 per box;
Casawvas, $2.00(3,2.60; grapes, 60(390c
per box; Italian prunes, 60 80c per box;
apples, Baldwin, King and Gravenstein,
85c$1.00 per box; Waxen, 76S90c.
STAPLE groceries.
Dbibd Fruits Petite prunes, 10llc;
Hover, u(u,i4c; iianan, isc; Uerman,
10(311c; plums, 8i$9e; evaporated ap
ples, lOinillc; evaporated apricots, 14 3
10c; peaches, lOc; pears, 7llc
per pound.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound;
new oiqiuii, loitfjuc; extract, W(tioc.
Salt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00; 50s,
$16.50; stock, $8.50(39.50.
Coffee Costa Rica, 2:!c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador. 23c: Mocha. 2(ik(328" Ar-
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
vtti-co, a.dinj per pounu.
Beans Small whites, 3(a3'4'c; pinks,
3'4c; bayos, 33i-4c; butter, 4c ; lima,
3'jC per pound.
Rice l8land,$5.75(a6.00; Japan, ;
New Orleans, $5.50(3,6.25 per cental.
bYRUP Eastern, in barrels, 403,55c;
in half-barrels, 42(3.57c; in cases, 35
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California,
in barrels, 20 40c per gallon; $1.75 per
keg.
Sugar D, 63,'c ; Golden C, 5c ; extra
j, o; ,c ; coniectioners' A, b.lac ; dry gran
ulated, 6tc; cube, crushed and pow
dered, 7I4C per pound ; 4'c per pound
discount on all grades for prompt cash;
maple sugar, 15 16c per pound.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.50(39.00 per box ; for crosses, $2
extra per box j I. C. coke plates, 14x20,
prune quality, $7.60(38.00 per box ; terne
plate, I. C, prime quality, $G.507.00.
Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25:
steel, $5.35; wire, $2.60 per keg.
Steel Per pound, 10 4c.
Lead Per pound. 40; bar, 6S'c
N avalStorks Oakum, $4.50 5.00 per
bale; resin, $4.80m 6.00 per 480 pounds;
tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $9 per bar
rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 65c
Ki itwiivu iu i-ar lots.
IBON Bar. 2 V riAr nnnn,l .
$3 25 per ton.
CANNED GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted.
$1., 5 2.00; peaches, $1.85 2.00; Bart
ett pears, $1.752.00; plums, $1,374
Jfti r?o .T1' --52-: cherries,
5(32.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00:
rasnljerries. $2.40; pineapples, $2.25
2.80; apricots, $1.652.0O. Pie fruits.
1.00(31.20: lilui-tl.,,;... ti ot.it .,..'
$J.15350; peaches, $3.5O(i4.00; apri'
cots $3.504.00; plums, $2.753 00-
tr.-uu;i.oo; iomatoes.$1.10,
$-40; chipped, $2.553.00; 1 ,,
2s.
1 1.
ii -- :. .r!H : . i-5;
"tvvt IU1ICI1
deviled ham,
T...v.iu cr uozen
I.. 154.50: lobster M..i to.' IV
mon tin Uh u V.1$T St).' fTt.'
1.75:2.1b,, $2.252.50;barr;i: $w
felllnc run u Boston.
.ald a hat salesman tome: "People com.
xi and mc a bat on my h-.l
want It. 1 don't L.,; T."-rcm
T think I ad, the bt. In "hi.
ald 14 hat one wson.''-.vj0.lon Glob
Not Important.
AH --.1 . .
Umatiriair ucrrm. u,
JWU Bllll J..E7T1M hi,. ., . tW
"No; only the trimmlnc. " n...
une.
ittvn ino
the Thing.
""X?0 10 kibl. la white.
bDe-.oo make ne turn pedt-Cloh.
FAEM AND GARDEN.
A Simple Device to Keep Cokj
From Becoming Soiled.
poultby-raisixg pays well
Good Water Essential for Cowi-.
Valuable Information Con
denser! for Farmers.
There is more profit in five good than
in fifteen inferior cows.
Pon't get a general-purpoee cow for 1
special-purpose use, or vice versa.
Po not be in too big a hurry to store
the corn. Let it be well cured hefot
cribbing.
When trimming shrubs and bushi,
cut out the old wood ; leave the new for
nest season's bloom and fruitage.
First-class butter sells for a good pric
almost universally. It is only the iafe.
rior grades which Wing low pi-ices.
Pharaoh's lean kine ate up the gooj
ones. The same thing, so far as profit,
go, is repeated often on many a farm.
Feed liberally, for it is only from what
is received above the amount require
for maintenance that animals give re
turns. Now that the strawstack has settled,
a day may be well used in fixing it up
for tlie fall rains. Poes yours need at
tention 1
A light mulch of new-mown grass will
help the bed of animals by keeping the
ground moist and cool during tlie hot
ury spell.
If you have cultivated your crop tie
past season simply to keep the weeilj
down, you have not done the beet bj
your farm.
If the cocks have not already been re
moved from the flocks, do so at once.
The number of eggs produced is not ii
fected by them.
.keep a dust bath within reach of tlie
fowls constantly. They enjoy wallowing,
and it helps to keep them healthful and
free from vermin.
In selling dairy products the minimnm
quantity of fertilizing elements leave
the farm. Pairymen usually build np
the fertility of their land.
The concensus of opinion favors hiv
ing cows dry for a few weeks before calv
ing, although some dairymen insist that
continuous iniiKing is nest.
Two things never learned by the blunder-head
buttermaker are when the
cream is just ripe enough and when the
butter is worked just enough.
good water K08 the cows.
It is almost a stereotyped phrase to
recomrnerttrgood water for cows, says
the New Yok 'tribune, and if "line
upon line aiu Prpt upon precept"
enforces great tr1tmyhere ought to bo
very little need or sermons upon this
subject, but the other day in a forty
mile drive across the country, the heart
of the great dairy section of Ohio, it wai
surprising how many dairies this drouth
stricken section was compelling to drink
out of stagnant pools and dugouts, the
water of which was, with its pollutions
of mud and the offal of the cattle them
selves, thick and horribly filthy. This
need not be so, and the fault is "all with
the man who owns the farm, and not
either in the withholdings of Providence
or natural defects in the living water of
the farm itself. In these days of cheap
aerometers and cheaper pumps every
man has a spring on his farm and an
abundance of water at command, and
no excuse exists for cows drinking filthy
water. In the dairy districts bad water
means more than its injury to the cattle,
for it lias its deleterious effect upon the
butter and cheese, for milk being 87
parts water, and this serum must havei
water origin, it is seen that it is verv
probable that bad water will give as bad
influence to the milk; for while with
good food and water it is quite a difficult
thing to influence the natural flavors of
dairy produce, yet with improper food
and drink it is one of the easiest tiling
to feed a " stink " or objectionable flavor
into what would otherwise be a table
luxury butter and cheese. Good, pure
water is as certainly demanded as much
as good food, and" the present drouth
ought to be full of heeded lessons in
these very particulars.
PAYS TnB PABM R.
The Homestead thinks farmers will
not allow the poultry to be slighted, m
they realize more fully what can be made
out of it, and recalls the instance of 1
small farmer who became converted to
poultry farming by an experiment.
lslung to adopt only those branches of
farming that pay him the best, he kept
a ledger account of all his crops vege
tables, grain, hogs, cows, poultry. He
kept tins up three ears, and then set
tled down to poultry aa the best crop.
His farm pays better to-dav on ten acres
than any 100 in the neighborhood. He
states the situation in this wav: " If I
put much time and expense in'the grow
ing of vegetables and a Atv or unfavorable
year should present itself, so that the
crop becomes a failure, I am at a big
joss ; but with poultry I am safe that
is, I always have some income, both
summer and winter. No matter ho
hard the times are, people do need eirgs,
and chicken uient is cheaper in many
localities than pork and beef. I can al
ways find a market for my produce, and,
unlike most crops, it is always in a con
dition to be marketed. While the work
at times becomes tedious, it is not neces
sarily laborious."
a simple DiJncr.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman gives a device he uses to keep hi
cows from getting soiled while in the
stable. The plan is simple, and placet'
no restrictions on the animal. He says:
'A device I am using answers the pur
pose. It is simply a board, which mar
be padded to I-nun (mm n.i.i.in,, iii hair
off, placed across the stall, just hifh
enough not to touch the animal when
standing at ease. When she withes to
void excrement al.o .n. on. I. l,oi l.irk.
The position of the board prevents her;
so she steps back to get into the position
nature requires, and the excrement fall
m me gutter or offset, far enough away
to permit ber Ivim. ilmrn in ih clean
stall. The board mnst h nlaml at dif
ferent heights and lpntth tn suit the
size of the animal. A little notice of the
actions of each will give one the exact
place to put it."
Mm Tuuk tlewler.
An accident to a lady bicyclist from
Philadelphia, due to a peculiar cause,
has just occurred here. She was riding
a 'safety," such as even reckless mas
culine wheelmen do not expect to tax
"headers" from. Plunging suddenly
and deeply into the thick mud near
Christ's church, her wheel stopped as f
it had struck a stone fence. Headlong
nrp tK v. ; 1 , i. . .1 ..nmint
i ' v jiritJ lull uiltj p iuou".-
m umj was thrown, before sue coui
right herself she was completely covered
ith tbe ooiy mud. And such a sorry
gbtt How. she got back to her Pml
delphia home ia a mystery.- '