Lincoln County Leader.
J. r. KTKWAKT. I'ubll.her.
TOLEDO OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Big
Scandal in the Affairs of
the Stearns llancho.
THE TACOMA SMELTER OUTPUT.
Silver Salmon Go Up Paget Sound
lu Great Numbers Wlllapa
Oysters for the Fair.
The sealing vessels liave discharged
for the season at Victoria, II. C, Wi,047
HKIIIH.
Utah'H population is estimated bv
(iovernor Went at 2:13,805, i"n increase
ot zo.uuo Hie pant year.
A "gas-bill saving annotation " Iibh
iilen articles ol incorporation at iacoina,
wiin a capital sioca 01 zu,iwu.
The union miners at (Canyon City,
Idaho, have decided to continue their
strike against a reduction of waxen.
One hundred und twentv-tliree thou
Hand sacks of Willupa (Wash.) oysters
win i mi snipped to han francisco lor the
-Midwinter l air.
I Judge Kohh ordered Charley All Him,
a highbinder at I aid Angeled, to lie de
ported, l'lie decision wan received with
cheers by a I'rowded courtroom.
The Treasury Department liaH Rent the
United K lutes Marshal at Ioh Angeles
two draftH, aggregating a largti mini, to
defray the expellee of the deportation of
l lnneso under the ruling recently ren
dered liy JlVdgo Hohh.
Il in uiuooned by ail Irrigation com
puny to reclaim a large area of the Mo
javc DeHert in the vicinity of Daititett bv
lueaiiH of a dam iutohn the Mojave river
aim a siiDmergeu iiuinu lor the puriKso
01 nipping inu unticruow.
Judge Hhaw has denied tlie motion for
a change of venue in the rune of Richard
H. llealli, cliarged with tlie murder of
IOiiiH IS. Whirter at Fresno, and Met the
Unit Monday in January as tlie time
when tliu date for the Hecoud trial of
Heath will he reHiiined.
Tho overseer of a Fresno winery, while
playing the spy on top of a ft.OOO-gallon
tank of winy to detect employes who
might sample the ruby goodH, mimed his
looting ami look a lieailer Into the tank
The men w ho pulled iiiin out laughed at
Iiih minium, anil were promptly dis
cliarged.
uovernor rennoycr was consulted bh
to the character of a teHtimonial to he
presented to the battle ship Oregon. Tlie
tiovurnor remarked that, if Oregon real
ly desired to present the tdiip with a tes'
tunonial, nothing would he more appro-
priato llian a silver service, ehpecially
now mat silver was so cneap.
A remarkable thing in connection with
llio Uiitlidrowu homiiiilti trial at n
toria, II. (.'., is the fact that when it was
nought to introduce the dying statement
o( the dead man, Jones, an ojection was
made and siiHtaiued by the court on the
ground thai It had heeil taken on nun
day, ami it was therefore thrown out.
The Tacoma smeller turnnd out 3,8Hf
burn of bullion, weighing !IIH,:i:i7 pounds
and valued at t,ti,4i;.Mi, during Ntptcm
her. To employes ttl.ril7.IHI were dis
bursed. The minc-tof Washington, Hilt
ish Cohimhia, Alaska, Mexico and Noutl
America furnished ores more than sulll
cietit for operating the plant at its pres
cut capacity, and the second ore star
lias been put in operation in rouse-
qucuce.
At Spokane Judge Moore lias appoint
ed II. h. Houghton and J. Y . Iliukley
executors ol the estate ol the lale Mrs,
Jennie i". Cannon. No IhiiiiI was re
(iiired, and the executors under the will
also act as trustees. Judge Houghton
tiled a statement ol the value ol the es
late. Community real estate is put at
1700,000, and community personal prop
ertv is given at (tKHMiou. .Mrs. I'aunoiri
separate estate is given at tl0,000, of
which i 10,000 is real estate and 1!0,000
personal property.
Mlver salmon are reported as going up
Pngot Sound in great liumlierH. It is
claimed that a sleamer was brought to
a full stop in the straits recently hy run
mug into a schism oi inein. i Herein
tradition among the older llsheriuen to
the cll'eet that a hailstorm always pre-
cedes a big run of the llnli. A storm of
this nature was reported on the lower
Sound, and the resrt of the arrival of
immense schools of the Halt in the
Straits immediately followed.
At Taeoina the other day Miss Cam
erun was conducting an exHriiuent i
the chemistry class of one ol the public
schools to produce musical sounds liy
burning hydrogen in a tlask. The by
drogcii was generated bv putting add on
nine. Miss Cameron neglected the can
tion of the instructor, and set tire to the
LMis iuiincdiatclv after oixuiing the llak
The air entered, and its soon as the lire
was set an explosion resulted and twoof
the pupils were severely cut by the Hying
glass.
The li rent Northern Kx press Company
lias completed arrangements for doing
. linens I Kit ti in Alaska and Asia, and
lias issued a tariff of rates to thorn-countries
Ironi Seattle. To Yokohama, Hong
kong, lliogo, Nagasaki and Shanghai
the tales for pack line valued at W or
less range from (t.riO (or llftccn muih1
or under to R for forty-live to tidy
pounds, with additional rates for pack
ages of higher value. There is an addi
tional charge of (1 to (J to Amoy, Foo
chow, Swatow, lVomhay, Uatavia, Cal
cutta, Manila or Singajioiv. Tho rate
. to Alaska are 4" cents per 100 Hiunds to
Wrangel and Mi cents to Silka, the busi
lies being carried by the I'aci lie Coast
Sleaiimhip Company.
A big rcaudal has Is-en dcvclocd at
Hau l-raneisco in the attaint of the
Steams rancho, a iMrsirat ion w hich at
one tune owned 1:10, (KM seres in Califor
nia and is still one of the heaviest
lauded corMirations on the i'acillc Slope,
The story is that a couimiltee ot tlirev
disinterested business men have turn
for three or four months investigating
the conduct ol tlu manager o( the busi
ness o( the corporation, Colonel It, J.
Norlham, w Uo is a uiciiiIst of the lioy
vrnor's stall and one of the best-known
public men In the State. The committee
hits about completed Its work, and will
in a few days ieort to the stockholder.
The committee consists of Uatvlav lien
ley, lieoiyc H. Polhcinii and K. V. Me
(iraw. It is H'nicd there will U-ama-iontr
and a minority report. Th ma
jority by llenlev and rolhrmus will
tale that UH,tss'l of the income of tlie
ranch has lccii Illegally diverhM. It Ip
not cliarged that there has lni n any cm
heirleiiienl. however. In his minority
rennrt Mcliraw will defend Colonel
Northam In his actions a rustislian of
the property ol the couiany.
EDUCATI0XAL ITEMS.
Cornell has 512 free scholarships, which
aggregate $150,000.
Italy in l.ViT had 70.507 schools. RJ 400
teachers and 3,071,000 attendance.
Joseph Pulitzer ha o-iven iiivi nnn tn
Columbia College, New York citv.
This country has fiftv-two law schools.
with 345 teachers and 3,ltJ6 students.
New York opens rlvn evening
schools for the use of advanced pupils
employel during the day.
The first normal school ever Mts.-
lishel for women was that opened in
July, 18311, at Lexington, Mass.
There is probability that there will 1
no schools held in the Chickasaw nation
tins year on account of lack of funds.
Iicligious teaching In public schools
wag declared absolutely necessarv bvthn
Church of Knglaud Synod in Canada.
Of fifty-three vounz ladies who srad-
uated this year from a famous female
educational institution not one has a pet
name.
The Brooklyn Board of Kdtir&tion has
decided to increase the school hours in
that city over an hour a day for tlie sake
of physical culture.
The French Minister of Public Instruc
tion has iBsued a circular w hich will have
the elfect of greatly stimulating the
study of the Knglmh language.
Miss Lillian Stephenson la the Repub
lican nominee for School Commissioner
in the First Oneida (N. Y.) district. Her
Democratic competitor is -Miss Laura F.
31 ay new.
At the end of. the second week the
Missouri State University hail enrolled
475 students. This is forty more than
the number enrolled at the same time
last year.
The Mechanic Arts Ifiih School in
Boston promises to bo so much of a suc
cess from the rush of pupils that more
land and a larger building are Impera
tively needed.
Oxford is to have another' college for
women. St. Hilda will soon be opened
under the auspices of Miss Dorothea
Bcale, a worker in the cause of higher
education in England.
lliere are now J00 students at the
University of North Carolina, and at
least 100 more are ex iweted. The nnTi-
ixr ol students at the openinir is the
largest in thirty-three years.
The new Searles scientific building at
Bowdoin College will cost tloO.OOO in
stead of (1)0,000, as was first planned
when I'.dwunl h. Searles, husband of the
late Mrs. Mark Ilopkins-Searles, an
nounced the gift.
J. (irant Cramer of Oranue. N. J., son
of a former United Slates Minister to
Switzerland and a nephew of (ienerol
( Irant, has Is-en appointed instructor of
rreucli and dcrmaii in IObigh Univer
sity, and has entered upon hit duties
there.
There are a dozen colleges of more or
less importance in Kansas, and so far
everyone that has opcuI reports an in
creased attendance this year over last.
This is one of the iH'st possible indica
tions that Kansas Is all right.
Women belonging toa Baltimore conk
ing school have olfered to train in the
culinary ecicuce 100 girls attending the
grammar schools of the city without
charge, hoping thereby to demonstrate
the utility of establishing a rookery de
partment in connection with the public
schools.
Dr. li. ('. (irandiion, a colored man
and late President of Bennett College,
lireeiislsirough, N. C, w ho spoko at the
recent memorial exercises at Hampton
Institute, is described as one of the fore
most orators, not only of his race, but of
the day. His address was eloipient in
the extreme, and he has command of all
the resources of the public speaker. Uc
has a dash of Indian blood lu him.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Kosn Coghlan. the actress, has Paid
L'7,000 for a home In New York city near
v euirai j arx.
nusainic, .Mine, de la Kamee, mother
of "Ouida," died a short time ago near
florence, Italy, from the ellects of a fall.
She was by birth an Knglish woman
named Sutton.
Mrs. Patti I. vie Collins, who nresides
over the "live-letter" department of the
ueau-icucr posioiilce in v asliingtou,
is the most expert reader of illegible
handwriting in the country.
William B. Bate, Senator from Ten
nessee, never lights a cigar. He has al
ways one in his lingers or ladween his
lips, but no match is put to it. He ad
vocates what he calls the "dry smoke."
K.dwin H. Filler, ex-Mayor of Phila
delphia, mentioned eighteen months ago
as Hissible candidate lor the Presidency,
U'gins the fall campaign with eighty
pairs of trousers and lllty suitsof clothes'.
lieronimo, the cruel and once isiwerful
Indian chieftain of the West, is now a
iniiet and peaceful prisoner at Mount
Ncruoii Barracks, an army post Usiu the
Alabama river, a short distance alsive
Mobile.
Jerome K. Jerome Is-gan life as a clerk.
Then he went on the stage, which iauli
lied him for play-writing, to which in
con Junction with novel-writing and co
editing a magazine he has since turned
his attention.
Forty years ago a mulatto hoy of Chat
ham county, N.C., was sold into slavery,
and was taken tolieorgia. A lew days
ago he returned, a vctic rahlc-looking man
and worth more than t-00,000. His
name is Nathan.
Mrs. Ada M. Hittenl-ender. the Prohi
bition candidate for Supreme Judge of
Neliraska, is in the law practice at Lin
coln with her husband as senior partner
ol the tlrm. She is a native of Bradford
county, l'., aUmt 4r vears of age and a
very, bright, well-educated woman.
One of the most atTccting reunions dur
ing the recent encampment of thelirand
.rmv at Indianapolis was mat ot lien-
eral U'W Wallace ami his men of the
Eleventh Indiana Uegiinent. A Unit ;!'''
of the member were present, lisneral
Wallace was their tlrst Colonel and the
one who made the regiment.
Dr. Edward Warren, who died the
otjier day lu Paris, had a career of more
than common interest, lie was artim:
Siirgeon-lienernl in Ut-'s army during
the Pellicula campaign, and alter the
war he went abni.td and became Sur-
gcon-licncral in the Khedive's army In
Egypt, and was honored with tho title
of Bey.
Kev. Leonard Blomelleld, w ho died re
cently at Bath, was one of tho most em
inent naturalists in England, and had
Uen a memlvr of the l.iniui'itn Society
for seventy-one year-. He was long
well-known and popular llgurs at Cam
bridge, and was an intimate friend of
Whrwell Darwin, Julius llsre, Sedgwick.
Biidiop Thlrw all and other literary -and
scientific celebrities of the period. '
Edward II. Watson of California, a
naval cadet at Annapolis, carries a time
piece which is a historic relic. It is the
alch which was presented to Admlra'
I'srragnt by the ritiieus of Yallcjo in
lVi. At the time of the presentation
Ksrrigut was a Captain in the navy, and
had )ut ten relieved a commandant
ol the Mare Island navy yard. Tht
watch it a plain fold timepiece, and was
1reantd to young Watson by Lovall
arrwfut, sow of lh Admiral.
EASTERN MELANGE.
The Eighty-fonrth Parallel of
the Pole Reached.
MARY WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Large Number of Deaths Caused by
the Recent Storm Below New
Orleans, Louisiana.
The new public building at Omaha
will be built ot granite.
The cotton crop is 40 per cent short of
For 10 cent each children under 14
are now admitted to the World's Fair.
Dengue or break-bone fever has made
its appearance at lorpus t.hristi, lex.
Kx-Treasurer Green McCurtin of Ok'
lahoma is short $104,727. He has din
appeared.
A public llbrarv and literary resort ex
clusively for the blind has been opened
in Chicago.
The Ferris w heel at the World's Fair
has taken in the 100,000 it cost and
$100,000 beside.
New Y'ork city will upend 20,000 to
make her day at the World's Fair a
memorable success.
Many railway bridges have been swept
away by floods in the Indian Territory
and Northern Texas.
Denver has contracted to ship to Eu
roe by the way of Oalveeton, Tex., 5,000
tons of Colorado hay.
The Welsh in the United States claim
that they are in number as many as their
countrymen in Wales.
The manufacture of cigarettea shows a
remarkable and steady increase over
other forms of tobacco.
The cruiser New Y'ork will be the first
United States vessel to receive a battery
of Whitehead torpoJovn.
Eight thousand men are employed on
the canal that will carry the sewage of
ft.: Til:--.:..
Vvllll UgU 111 UIU A1J111UJD Ut3r.
In New Y'ork the grand jury hag made
a presentment recommending that the
ollice of Coroner be abolished.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
worker, has induced overoOO persons to
sign the pledge at Tuscola, la.
A Portland (Me.) furniture man, who
has lulled for nearly (800,000, shows up
with less than $5,000 worth of assets.
The employes of the Denver and Itio
Orande railroad have agreed to accept a
10 per cent reduction in wages until Jan
uary.
The chilly autumn weather has
brought sickness and death to the
Orientals on the Midway Plaisance,
I hlcago,
The diminished price of silver has
caused the shutdown of many Mexican
mines and also greatly decreased the
revenue.
Contracts have recently been made for
lictween 500 and 1,000 cars in Nebraska
lor transportation of last year's corn and
nay crop.
Mrs. Samuel Bennett of Tanner, W.
Va., gave birth to her twenty-ninth
child a few days ago. All the children
are alive.
It is safe now to number the deaths In
the recent storm below New Orleans at
2,000 and over, and tho loss in property
win Do many millions.
The house of the late Justice Bradley,
lormerly the ashington homo ol Nto
iihen A, Douglas, has been purchased hy
l apul Delegate atolll.
The Texas Associated Press has con
traded with the Associated r rcss lor a
period of ten years and severed its con
nection with the United Press.
A corrcupondeiit of the Now Y'ork Tri-
liuno suggests Hie holding of a great
World s hair at New York in l'.KK) to eel
hrato the closing of the nineteeth ceil
tnry.
There is a movement in Canada for
having a national park created in the
Nepigon country, in order that the
trout Hulling there may Ih eternally per
petuated.
The New Y'ork Herald announces that
President McU-od of the New England
railroad has secured an entrance to the
center of New Y'ork city with good terini
ual facilities.
Fourteen ineiuts'rs of the Board o(
Freeholders of Patterson, N. J., have
been convicted of making t'JO.OOO fraud
tilcntly in the purchase of a courthouse
for that town.
Captain Porter of the whaler Newport
claims to have sailed to the eighty
fourth parallel of tho pole. Navigators
are getting there by degress. This is
within six of it.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
multi-millionaire, Is to purchase at Tar-
rvtown, N. ., atsiut tHV acres for 750,
0P0. He w ill build a mansion which wiil
oust over 1,000,000.
Every member of Congress has re
ceived an anonymous printed circular
threatening United States Senators as
enemies ot the eople for not acting on
the silver purchase repeal lull.
Two hundred prominent citizens of
Austiu, Tex., have asked liovernor
Hogg to accept the sugar bounty ac
cumulated at Washington to Iexas
credit, which he refused last spring.
Mrs. Mathilda Cross MocConncll ha
presented to the citv of Pittsburg live
long squares of ground as it is described
for a public park. She is the third ladv
in the city who has given land (or park
purrs mi,
It is announced that more than 21,0(10
patents were granted on inventions in
solving the industrial application of
electricity between January 1, lS7d, and
leeemlcr 31, lSt'2, and the number of
new ours is increasing at the rate of
2,1X0 per annum.
At present there are seventv-one pub-
lie buildings in course of construction in
(he United States, and the plans for
forty-nine new ones, for which appropri
ation have Ivcn made, are Wing pre
pared in the Treasury lVpartmeut.
Representative Caminetti has discov
ered a way to avoid the heavy expense of
deport ing Chinese w ho refuse' to register.
He projioses that the government send
mil' of the old w ar vessels going out of
commission tor tnat purrs".
The Standard Oil Com pap v has bought
V"' acres oi land near tne lake trout at
Ashtabula, O., with the intention of
erecting a big steel plant capable of turn
ing out 2.1V0 tons per day. The location
is favorable tor securing tnpplica of
oneap coai ana ere.
The Old Man- Washington monument
at Fnslericksburg, Va., was palled down
and the box m the corner-stone turned
over to the ottlcera ol the Monument As
ociation. The box waa tilled with water
and a contused mas ol pulp. None ol
the obkn-ta could be distinguished. Th
tone ot the old monument will I placed
in the loundalion ol the new one a'nit
to Iw erected. The same mrner-itone
Wllj bt used.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Senator DolDh believes that silver may
15 maintained, but not by the Sherman
law or free coinage.
Postmaster-General Bissell is expected
to devote considerable attention in his
annual report to the projected 1-cent
p.rcuM service, lie oeueves liie inaugu
ration of the service is impossible at the
present time, owing to a deficit of $8,-
000,000 in postal funds in the Treasury.
Governor Caleb W. West of Utah, in
his annual report, states that the total
population of the Territorv is estimated
at 233,06, an increase of 25,900. Be
cause of receat financial stringency and
the decline of silver values, the popula
tion of the mining districts has ma
terially decreased durinz the past six
months, while there has been a steady
growth in the other parts of the Terri
tory.
Anderson of West Virginia has intro
duced a bill to amend Section 5,528 of
the Kevised Statutes by striking out the
words " unless such force le necessary
to repel armed enemies of the United
States or to keep the peace at the polls,
This is one of the federal statutes not
repealed in the Tucker bill, and the
amendment is intended to prevent any
army or navy officers bring troops to tlie
polls.
Kepre.ientative Doolittle of Washing
ton lias introduced a joint resolution in
the House providing for a commission.
consisting of three Senators and six Rep
resentatives to uo over the entire route
of the Nicaragua canal and make a thor
ough examination with a view ol sub-
iilting to Congress a comprehensive re
port of the existing conditions and fur
nishing information upon which future
legislation may be had. The resolution
was referred to the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce.
The Banking and Currency Com
mittee heard Brvan of Nebraska on his
bill to secure depositors of National
Banks, compelling tlie banks to set
aside one-fourth of 1 per cent of the av
erage deposits for the two months pre
ceding January 1 until a fund of $10,
000,000 is created to be paid depositors
of failed banks. Bryan argued that the
lepositors ought to be paid at once, for
if every depositor was sure of hismonev
he would not draw it out, and this
would have the effect of preventing
panics.
Secretary Smith has sent to the Senate
the reply of Commissioner Loehren to
imitiiries. The number of pensions
granted during the period ending Sep
tember l, iii;i, was oa,Z44. ui these
!),1H7 were under the general law and
40,057 under the law of 1H!K). The num
ber rejected was 5il,702. Under the act
of March 1, 181I3, pensions of 3.H5U
persons residing outside the jurisdiction
of tlie United States have been suspend
ed since July 1, 18U3; also that of 10,-
iKS cases suspended under the act of
1H!0 payment has been resumed in 0.072
cases up to October 5, 18113.
The circular issued by United States
Superintendent of Immigration Stump
to carry out the agreement with Ca
nadian transportation lines as to the in
spection of immigrants bound for tlie
United States w ho land in Canada. Pro
vides for an immigrant certificate w hich
entitles the holder to admission into tlie
United States, when properly certilled
by the United States Commissioner at
tho port of entry. The certificate de
scribes the immigrants. The circular
also provides for a head tax by the
steamer landing the immigrants. The
ports of Halifax, (juebec, Point I-vis,
Vancouver and Victoria are tho only
ports at which such immigrants shall be
landed.
Ciiiiiinings from the Committee on
Xaval Allaire presented to the House
and hud passed a resolution calling on
the Secretary of the Navy for informa
tion as to the amount of premiums paid
contractors for the construction of war
ships developing speed in excess of re
quirements, etc. Alter this the hill to
remit the penalties on the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius came up, and Savers of
iexas vigorously opposed it, claiming
the esuvius was worthless for tho pur
tsises for which she was built. Talbot
of Maryland read a letter from Secre
tary Herbert declaring the claim an
eipiituble one and saying if the dyna
mite guns did not show improvement
the Vesuvius would bo fitted with other
armament. The amount involved is $:(tl,-
uoti. i he bill went over without action.
In the Supreme Court of the United
States ex-Attornev-lieneral Garland
asked the court to advance for hearing
the appeal ol the Northern Uacitic Kail
road Company vs. J. L. Patterson, Treas
urer of Gallatin county, Mont., from the
.Montana Supreme I ourt. 1 ho proposi
tions contained in this case involve ulti
mately the ipiestiou of the taxability of
all the unpatented surveyed landswithin
the limits of the Northern Pocillc. South
ern Pacific, Union Pacific, Central Pa
nic, I alifornia and Oregon. Orciron and
California, Atlantic and Pacific, Texas
l acilic and all other various land grants
made by Congress to aid in the construc
tion of railroads. These lands now
amount in thece.se of the Northern Pa
cific grant alone to over 17,000,000 acres.
an area rapidly increasing as the surreys
are farther extended. The area of lands
in the same condition included in simi
lar grants will more than double this.
These lands are to be found in almost
every State west of the Mississippi, and
their taxatnlitv lias hecn one ol the irreat
source of revenue in those States. The
Southern I'acillc Company, controlling
the land grants of that road, of the Cen
tral Pacific, Oregon and California and
California and Oregon, refuses to pay
taxes uiMin unpatented portions of those
grants. The States along the line of the
Northern Pacific have sustained the
claims of the County Treasurers, and tax
the lauds within their jurisdiction; and
the railroad company comes to the Su
preme Court (or relief.
The report of Brigadier-General Will
iam P. Carliii.'conimandinir. the militarv
department of the Columbia, which in
cludes the Slates of Oregon, Washington
and a part of Idaho and the lemtorv
of Alaska, has Iven received at the War
lVpartmeut. The General devotes a
large part ol his report to urging the
necessity for the abandonment of some
small posts in the department because
of their inaccviisihility ami tlie estab
lishment of larger posts in place ot them
at points near the railroad and the large
cities and towns. General Carlin re
commends the discontinuance of Fort
Spokane. Wash., and the construction
of a post near Sokaiie. Fort Town
send, he says, is useless to protect the
cities and harbors of Puget Sound, and
he thinks the garrison should he re
moved to some iuiMrlant vint. One,
if not two, points i it addition to these
named could, in General Carlin's opin
ion, be alndoncd with advantage to the
government. Fort Canby, at the
mouth of the Columbia river, would lc
ol great importance in time ol war with
a naval power, but it i inaccessible in
w inter, and only a small garrison is re
quired there in time of peace. Fort
Stevens, on the opposite or southern
side of the river, is also a point ol great
importance, ami General Carlin urges
that it be strongly fortified. General
Carliu tvport that desertion in the de
partment ot the Columbia howed an in
crease during the year. He says thai
the attempt to enlist a company ol In
dian resulted in a failure.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Novel Method to Secure
the
Payment of Taxes.
ROUEN CATHEDRAL IN DANGER.
Canal du Midi to be Extended-Flow
of Bar Sliver to India Postal
Service by Camels.
Drought is interfering with farm work
in Italy.
Germany has a clock which, it is
claimed, will run 9,000 days without
stopping.
Tlie Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication of marriage offers in
the newspapers.
The population of the English town of
Nottingham haB increased 127,390 in the
last sixteen years.
Iiondon has been holding an exhibi
tion of fire engines. The oldest one
shown bore the date of 1570.
Spain has excepted from quarantine
all Russian war ships touching at Cadiz,
unless there is disease aboard.
In Paris at tlie sale of autographs the
letters of Zola realized 4i each; Mau
passant, 5s ; Victor Hugo, lis 8d.
The American colony in Paris now
numbers 3,5'Jtl. There' ia a falling on"
from the census of two years ago of
1,200.
No less than forty Italian Bishops are
now without their exequaturs, owing to
a conflict between the Vatican and tlie
0-iiirinal.
A water-drinking contest waa recently
held in Paris. The winner swallowed
twelve quarts, the second nine and the
third seven.
Among the novel societies incorporated
in Knrope recently is " The Society for
tne I'rotection of Non-omokers" in
Lower Austria.
Abbas Pasha, the Khedive of F.gvpt,
intends to visit England in the spring of
181)4, provided that the English court
shall be willing.
The British government has decided
to act as a mediator between the striking
miners and owners provided it is accept
able to both sides.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is in
great financial straits, and his father-in-
law and liaron I uracil have each loaned
him 1,000,000 francs.
Returns from the various vitieultnral
societies of France show that the wine
crop of the country for the year amount
ed to 3ti,000,000 hectolitres."
Prince Bismarck has sold his memoirs
to a IiOiidon publisher for 500,000 marks
on tlie condition that they shall he pub
lished immediately after his demise.
Unsuccessful efforts have lieen made
to get German hankers at Berlin to form
a syndicate to take a great Italian loan,
the reported amount being $120,000,000.
The world's fair to be held in Madrid
in 1NU4 w ill seek to surnass the Colum
bian Exposition in all tlie attributes of
greatness. It is a very large undertak
ing for Spain.
Emigration from Spain to South Amer
ican Republics is assuming considerable
proportions, owing to the extreme dis
tress prevailing in thecountry, especially
in the agricultural districts."
It is currently rumored in I-ondon that
William Waldorf Astor is aliout to build
in that city the largest and most costly
hotel in the world, which, it is estimated,
will cost more than $7 ,000,000.
The Queen Regent of Spain has de
cided to fulfill a heartfelt wish other
husband and establish a college in the
Escurial, bearing her name, fur the
teaching and study of Christian sciences.
Apollinaris water comes from a spring
in the valley on the Ahr in the Rhine
district. A whole villuge ia engaged in
bottling it und shipping it. F'rom 100,
000 to 150,000 bottles are prepared in a
day.
" Piggie's Island " in London, which
took its name from the dirty hovels
which clustered on it, has been converted
by the London County Council into a
clean and leautiful park. It cost $25,000
to make the change.
The report that eleven reliellioua Se
poys were blown from the guns at Cabul
is denied bv later news from Simla. An
officer was shot by an orderly, and the
latter was executed. That was all tlie
rioting and the only execution.
It is reported that the French govern
ment has determined to sujipress. ball
fighting in that country. The Society
for the Protection of Animals will bring
suit against a Mayor who authorized a
tight in order to test the law in the case.
Fully 1,500 people are to leave Iceland
this year for the Canadian Northwest,
and as the Canadian government will
pav their passage and in other ways en
able them to settle in more desirable
homes, the exodus is likely to continue.
Rouen Cathedral is in danger, the west
front being seriously dilapidated. The
local authorit ic s will not pay for the nec
essary restoration ; so, unless the State
comes to the rescue speedily, this fine
old building promises to Iks irreparably
damaged.
The French government has just cre
ated in the nature of an experiment a
postal service by camel express in the
French territories of Oliosh and the So
mali coast. In connection with this
service a special provisional stamp w ill
be issued, the value being 5 francs.
It is under renewed contemplation to
extend or supplement the old Langncdoc
canal Canal du Midi built some 2tW
years ago, from liordcaux at the Garonne
river to the Mediterranean bv means of
a new canal, to be 27 feet deep, 140 to
200 feet broad and some 300 miles long.
Calcutta advice say the flow of bar
silver to India is due 'partly to the de
mands made by the native mints and by
private enterprises for the illegal coinage
of rupees. A soon as the decree sus
pending the free coinage ol silver was
issued, the illegal coinage of rupees in
creased alarmingly.
Princes Maud of Wale i particularly
fond ol assuming an alia and dropping
ome of the red tape and rovaltv. F.verv
year she goe to visit her former gover
ness, who live in lVvonshire. Always
the enible Princess insist on being
called Mis Mill and upon N'ing treate.1
as a niein!vr of the family.
It Is said Hiat fully 300.OX) men, wom
en and children in Ijiii.-ashire, England,
alone are dependent from meal to nu-ai
on public charity, ow ing to the prolonga-
lire is that, while Wi.000 miners in I.
uuu oi wir lucKom. a rvmarkao le feat.
caahire have been idle to,
not ten Police Court cases have arisen. '
The government of Saxony has adopted
a novel method to secure tlie payment of
taxes. The names of Persons who di.l
noi
pay their taxes last rear are printed
id hung nr. in all the restaurant and
an
saloon. The proprietor dare not serve
those mentioned on the lints nK f..i
or drink under penalty of losing their
license.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Whiat Valley, 9597i'c; Walla
Walla, 85'S87ic per cenlal.
FBOVIBIOSS.
E.18TEBM Smoixd Meats asn Labd
Hams, medium, Hfaio'.c per pound;
breakfast bacon, 18(sW,c: short clear
sides, 15(sltic; drv salt Bides, L314c,
lard, compound, in una, i."4 '
pure, in tins, 13 W. 15c.
BAGS AJID BAGQINO.
Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash.
6c; burlaps, lOJi-ounce, 40-incn, nei
cash, 6S,c; burlaps, US,-ounce, 45-inch,
burlaps, 19-onnce, 76-inch, 14c; hf'
bags, Calcutta, zzxm, spot, oc; """
i niftrf'tAcl MH'ond'
hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24-
c; -o
ounce, lUc
BOPS, WOOL AND HIDES.
Hops were quiet yesterday and a shade
lower. Tallow has advanced in the Eat.
Hops '92s, 10 16c per pound, accord
ing to quality; new crop, '93s, llc16c;
choice, loctsiic.
Wool Prices nominal.
Times Drv selected prime. 6c: green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3sc; under
60 pounds, 2a 3c ; sheep pelts, shearlings,
lOfiloc; medium, zutgu&c; long wooi,
3060c; tallow, good to choice, 33sC
per pound.
FLOCK, FEED, ETC.
Flocb Standard, 3.00; Walla Walla,
$3.00; graham, $2.50; superfine, $2.25
per barrel.
Oats New white. 350:36c per bushel ;
new grav, 3233c; rolled, in bags, $6.25
6.50; barrels, $6.757.00; cases, $3.75.
Millstdffs Bran, $16.00; shorts,
$18.00; ground barley, $22(223; chop
feed, $18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 80
g85c per cental; middlings, $2328
per ton; chicken wheat, $1.101.25 per
cental.
Hay Good, $1012 per ton.
P.VIBY PRODUCE.
Botteb Oregon fancy creamery, 30
ig32.c; fancy dairy, 2527!c; fair to
good, 172a20c; common, 15(S16c per
pound.
Cheese Oregon, lOffl.'sc; Califor
nia, 13(il4c; Young America, 15 16c per
pound.
Eons Oregon, 27 per do7en ; Fst-
ern, JJigzoc.
Poultry Chickens, old, $3.003.50;
broilers, $1.503.00; ducks, $3.004.00;
geese, $8.00(89.00 per dozen; turkej-8,
live, 14c per pound.
LIVC AND DRESSED MEAT.
Beef Prime steers, $2.56(32.75; fair
to good steers, $2.00(32.50; good to choice
cows, $1.50(3.2.00; dressed beef, $3.50
6.00 per 100 pounds.
Mutton Choice mutton, $2.002.50;
dressed, $4.00(35.50; lambs, $2.00(42.50;
dressed, $6.00; live weight, $2.00(3.2.50.
lloos Choice heavy, $5.00(35.50; me
dium, $4.50(35.00; light and feeders,
$4.60(36.00; dressed, $7.00.
Vbal $4.00(3.6.00.
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, $7.50(3.8.00 per box; terne
plate, i. u., prime quality, $o.&0(g7.00.
Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25;
steel, $2.35 ; wire, $2.50 per keg.
Steel Per pound, 10;c.
Lead Per pound. 4c: bar. 6L.c
Naval. Stokes Oakum, $4.60(35.00 per
oaie; resin, H.80W5.00 per 480 pounds;
tar. Stockholm. $13 : Carolina. $9 per bar
rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 65c
per gallon in car lots.
Iron Bar, 25c per pound; pig-iron,
ijiao per ton.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Vegetables Cabbage, le per pound;
potatoes, uregon, oc per sack; new on
ions, H4'c per pound; tomatoes, 35
per ik)x ; green corn, 16c per dozen
nw eei potatoes, i '-4 (. i s,c per pound ; egg
plant, $1.00 per box; Oregon celery, 35
? 50c.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $6.00(36.60 per
uox; vauioruia new crop, i).liU(r&.50
per box ; bananas, $1.50(33.00 per bunch ;
oranges, $3.60 per box; Oregon peaches,
85c (t$ 1.00 per box : Ca ifornia. ner Ihit
fall butter pears, 80(390c per box, lglc
per pound; cassavae. $2ta,$2.60: grapes,
60!IOc per box ; Italian prunes, 75(3$1
per box; apples, Baldwin, King, H5c
wti.uu per pox; 1 axen, 75390c; cran
berries, $8(38.60 per barrel.
STAPLE groceries.
Dried Fruits Petite prunes, 10llc;
silver, ll(312c; Italian, 13yte; lierman,
10(illc; plums, 8(39c; evaporated ap
ples, 10(311c; evaporated BDricots. U,a
15c; peaches, 10(gl2-4'c; pears, 7Uc
per pouuu.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound
new Oregon, 16(320c; extract, 9(3. 10c.
Salt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00; 60s,
$16.50; stock, $8.5039.60.
Coffee Costa Kica. 23c. Rin oo.
Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 2,4ia28c; Ar
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
t-eo, m.omc per pounu.
Beans Small whites. 3r93L.'.. ti.,L.
3V; bayoa, 33'4c; butter, 4c; lima!
3L4C per pound.
Rice Island,$5.75(a6.00 ; Japan,
New Orleans, $5.60(36.25 per cental. '
Syrup F:astern, in barrels, 4055c;
in half-barrels, 42(357c; in cases, 35(3;
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California,
in barrels, 20(3. 40c per gallon ; $1.75 per
ke. ... ..
ouoAR-jj, o,c ; uolden C, ; extra
v, o;,c;coniectioners'A,6l8c; dry gran
ulated, 6,c; cube, crushed and pow
dered,?1 per pound; Jc per pound
KimuuH! uii nil graues lor prompt cash:
Ml... A ....... IE 11:1 . '
ougar, juigioc per pounu,
CANNED GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted.
Jl. (5(32.00; peaches, $1.85(32.00; Bart
lett pears, $t.76i2.00; plums, $1.37ls(!$
-so; apricots, $i.5. pje fruit.
assorted, $1.20; peaches, il ok. n,,7T
1.00(3. 1.20; blackberries, $1.25(3 1.40 per
r?1!.. J,'19 'rU.ita' ?all"8' wax-ted,
r".wu.v, pvBcuea, tJ.oo(!t4.UU; apri
rots $3.60(4.00; plums. $2.76(33.00;
blackberries, $4.25(34.50; toiuatoes.$1.10.
o ?,f ATTVornf 1 bwf' ls. l-50; 2a,
$-40; chipped, $2.553.00: lunch
iWVi -76; deviieJ h.
$1. 15(32.15 per dozen.
$2.15(34.50; lobsters, $2.30.33.50; sll.
ini"'i!, tn M-251-MI.M! nata,
ll..5:2-lha. W.aSirf Ko. l:i i e
The German Government has or.
ranged with half a dozen
a series of lectures on sanitation, to be
delivered to people engaged in tlie pnb--LTVk-
1rlll":'njC. drainage, laundry
work, the disposal of sewage, slaughter
ing rattle, ventilation and other subjects
which involve the public health are to
1 the topics for instruction.
liuag-luMtluii.
Pome folk." say a hotel clerk, "are so
rawly boruswoKgled.1 Oh, that's Greek
I tfueia, and menu that you ar fooled.
i ih. i, " .1 ',, rwu,"rn.t
.Z, Z "" V."' nuM.-a.rei,
and beat It with urvst ivll.h ln,..n. a
daring that broiling Is the only war to
cook mackerel Hut waa hia mackerel
Lroiledf No much. It to too much troo
tie to broil a nh. o th cook put it in a
c 11 '"' ,b'n miui' burned
ilT " hot poker kept ia
'or such CDiergriKim, So th
nuu u homswoKKled.' but a h didn't
know It, b wa as happy u though b
- i mi uroiiru mclral. I tU
tvw ImatrlnsitoB i lhr-AMinba ot lit"
.? , fle8' --:S2.45; cherries,
$J.25i32.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00
rasphemes. 2.40:
FAK3I AST) GARDES.
Spirits of Turpentine Will De
stroy Eoup Germs.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FARMER.
A Plan of Keeping- Onions Through
Winter Advice About Milk
ingFarm Notes.
Never waste time In wintering weak
colonies.
The grub is often the cause of the
flower plants turning yellow.
Keeping the orchard well trimmed
will add to tlie appearance of the farm.
Tobacco is a valuable insecticide
against greenhouse pest, used dry, as
smoke or in the form of decoction.
Where the hives are troubled with
ants a little pine tar on a board, placed
next the hive, will keep tnem away.
Cuttings of grapes and currants taken
close to tlie old wood will be more cer
tain to root than if from long pieces cut
up.
This season seems to be a favorable
one for some of the less common kinds
of insects, and they have occurred in
increased numbers.
Burn the straw or other material from
the nests once a week, and replace it
with fresh. This practice will aid greatly
in keeping down lice.
Many swarms and large yields of
honey "will not be obtained during the
same season. The one will be developed
at the expense of the other.
To secure the greatest quantity of pure
white combs remove the sections as soon
as tilled, and replace empty ones with
starters of comb foundation.
Do as much plowing this autumn aa
pr.ooii.io. it win cave timo in gelling
crops in next spring, and will prevent
many w eeus maturing in stuooie neius.
Late growth produces tender wood.
which cannot withstand a low tempera
ture ; therefore, cease cultivating orchard
trees in time for them to thoroughly
ripen.
If discarded apples are removed from
the orchard and fed to pigs or other stock
or tlie animals allowed to pick them up
in the orchard, many injurious insects
will be destroyed.
Do not allow weeds to mature seed on
the land where potatoes were grown.
They will seed the ground thoroughly for
anotner year witn loxtau, pursian, pig
weeds, etc., if allowed to grow.
Kxamine flocks of sheep, and if ticks
are still found on them, destroy by dip- '
ping in tobacco decoction or in some of
the prepared dips before they are con
lined in barns and sheds again.
In pruning young seedlings after tlie
introduced bud" has started growth do
not cut away too much of it at a time, or
too heavy a flow of sap sent to the young
shoot may kill the introduced bud.
One" of the best ways of renewing an
old currant bush is to cut out all the old
growth and the greater portion of tlie
new and dig thoroughly around tlie roots
and apply a good dressing of manure.
wintering onions.
I will repeat my plan of keeping
onions through winter in as few words
as possible, as some of your readers may
have forgotten it, or perhaps not have
noticed it, savs a writer in Ohio Farmer.
We select, a piece of dry ground and dig
a trench from four to six feet wide, and
long enough to hold all that we have to
put in it. We put them about six
inches deep in the pit. They are put
upon tlie ground, but about two inches
of straw over them, and then a few
inches of earth on tlie straw. We wMi
them to get frozen as soon as possible
after they are put into the pit. After
we are certain that they are all frozen,
we haul some manure and cover them,
perhapg a foot deeper than at llrst.
There are two reasons for this. Ono ia
that if they are allowed to thaw during
the winter, they will almost certainly
rot and the entire lot be lost. Upon the
other hand, if they get frozen too hard,
they will either ro't when they thaw out
or else be dead and worthless for sets. In
the spring, after the frost ia all out of
them, we take them out of the pit and
put them back upon the shelves again,
as they were during the fall before.
There they remain until thev are needed
to set out. I have tried various plana
of preserving onion sets through winter,
but none of them have proved as satis
factory as the above. In fact, we con
aider it just about perfect.
TURPENTINE FOR BOLT.
Western Kural savs: Kxperiments
made show that gern'is of roup are de
stroyed when brought in contact with
spirits of turpentine. Turpentine, how
ever, is a severe dose to give, even if ef
fectual, and if too much is given, it may
do damage of itself. To properly pre
pare it mix one part spirits of turpen
tine, one part kerosene and three parts
glycerine in a sewing machino oil can,
and always shake well before using.
With the point of the oil can force three
drops of the mixture down the throat of
the fowl three times a day. Roup ia a
disease that is almost incurable, being
contagious, and gradually exhausts the
bird instead of causing "instant death.
I f it appears i n the flock, tlie labor of him
tiling the sick birds is often more than
the value of the flock, and as roup can
not well be treated on the wholesale plan .
(that is without handling the fowls), it
is cheaper to clean them out, burn the
carcasses, thoroughly disinfect and begin
anew. The building should be very
warm and dry.
APVICK ARtlfT MILKING.
It cannot help but be injurious to a
cow to milk her up to a new calving. It
is exhausting to the cow and the calf
both, as the calf is supported bv the cow
and needs the nutriment that 'is taken
from the cow in the milk. A cow should
l dried off four weeks before the calf is
due, and this is more desirable because
the milk itself is undergoing a change
during this time by which it is made un
fit for use in the dairy and unpleasant
for food. To dry a cow leave half the
milk in the udder, and continue this for
a week ; then milk once a dav onlv, and
"till leave some of the milk": feed only
dry food, and if necessary, straw ; but
give meal in moderate quantity. If the
cow is one of those occasional profuse
milkers that cannot 1 dried, the milk
may be ted to pigs and the cow milked
partly.
Shooting Lloos la tl Atlas Mountain.
Among the Arabs of tho Atlas
mountains, where the lion ia bunted
with Success, the huntor studies Lis
beast before engaging in battle. If
he is very fat. there is little danger in
pot idiots. If he ia lean and spry, the
Arab will maneuver for a coign of
vantage from which he can pour in
three or four shots before coming to
close quarters. If be is so emaciated
that you can count his ribs, tho rule
is to bhoot boldly; the brute caunot
retaliate. San Francisco Argonaut.