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presence of mind serious damage would 1 To O. J. Farley,
certainlv have been done. Glacier. 1 Meeting and to
Walter Johns, aged about fifteen year, ! City:
of Thomas Johns of this oitr. met V e -vour coinmuioe appointed to
sou
FRIDAY, - - - SEPTKMBER25.1891 1 w;th a painful accident Saturday after
noon that may leave mm a crippie lor
life. He was riding on the running gear
of a wagon when one of his lejrs came in i
contact with a stump and the leg was
Chairman of Citizen
the Citizen of Dalles
m-
WIER
THINKS THE
OFFERED FOR
LOW PRICES
FRUIT
LOCAL AND VKHSONAL.
J. H. Adams of Glendive, Wash., was
in the city Saturday.
Mr. Jason '. Pratt of Wauiic is in the
city, to remain till after the fair.
James P. Abbott of Wapinitia gave
the CaBONici.it office a pleasant call
Friday.
Mr. J. Hhoemake of Centerville gave
the CiiKo.vici.K office a pleasant call
Thursday.
Judges Bradshaw and A. S. Bennett
left Saturday night for Condon to attend
circuit court!
Mr, J. McPherson of Hay Creek gave
this office a pleasant call Friday. Mr.
McPbersou will henceforth be a reader
of the Chhoxiclk.
H. M. Pitman and wife of Dufur are
tu the- city. Mr. Pitman informs us
that the crops on Tygh Ridge are, in
many cases, turning out better than were
expected.
The county Farmers' Alliance will
meet In Excelsior ball at Hood River on
Tuesday, October 13th. Ample provis
ion will be made for the accommodation
of kit delegates who may attend.
A number of mn belonging to the
Portland Aephaltium company which
has the contract for coating the new res
ervoir, arrived in town Thursday and
are expected to commence work to
- morrow.
Two representatives ' of the Oregon
Lumber company. Messrs. Ed. C. Miller
and Manager Deven port, came up from
Hood River to make arrangements
for cutting: in a branch lumber yard at
this place.
A horse belonging to James Pattison
f Wamie took ill Thursday of colic, at
the feed yard of W. H. Lochhead, and in
spite of all that a veterinary surgeon and
Mr. Locbhead'a man could do, the ant
mal died before morning.;
After the Seattle fire the Odd Fellows
ef this city sent to their brethren of the
burnt dry the sum of f 25. Sunday
the Seattle Odd Fellows returned the
money with a kindly reference to the
former gift from The Dalles.
George Anderson, the guDBinith, who
has been in business in this city for
tome twelve years, has sold out his
stock in trade to Mays & Crowe who
will continue the business under the
management of a competent gunsmith
Bartholemew Parodi shipped on Sat
urday to the Portland exposition, a box
at apples, of nearly uniform size, seven
teen of which filled the box and one at
; least weighed a pound and three quar
ters. They were raised on Mr. Parodi's
ranch on Chenoweth Creek.
The engine which the fire department
of Portland kindly lent to this city,
while our engine is being repaired, came
up from Portland Sunday Judging
tram the test that was made of it Sun
day afternoon we imagine it stands as
. much in need of repairs as our own.
Dr. Meek of Pendleton is under arrest
charged with producing an abortion on
the person of a widow named Mrs. Alice
Weaver. It is alleged the operation was
performed at the solicitation of II. AV.
Spease, who has also . been arrested for
complicity in the crime.
Signal Service Observer Paguo, writ
ing to J. O. Mack of this city and thank
ing bim for the courtesy of a compli
mentary ticket to the district fair says :
"Ton have the material in your dis
trict for a most successful fair and I
hope that the people may make ttuir
fair success."
Complaints have been made at this
office that the road between this city
and Eight Mile is in a bad condition,
being so full of chuck boles that it is
dangerous to haul hay over it. If this
ttate of affairs is allowed to continue
what will it be when grain hauling is in
fall blast? The road ought to be at
tended to immediately.'
Last night General Traffic Manager
Monroe of the Union Pacific and Gen
eral Freight Agent Campbell called on
Mayor Mays to enquire into the needs of
the city and kindly offered what assist
ance might be necessary in the way of
carrying freights without charge, for the
victims of the late fire, at any time that
they might be called on.' '
An emigrant from Nebraska who just
- arrived at Eugene has been on the jour
' sey to the latter .'place since May 24th.
Three of his horses died on the way and
owing to the high price of feed ' the trip
cost him 200 in cash." fo crop has been
raised in that part of Nebraska became
from for five years and potatoes were
worth, when he left, three cents and ap
ples' six cents a pound. Nebraska is a
fine country to get away from.
A alight eathqnake shock was dis
tinctly felt at Portland and " Salem at
8 M Wednesday evening. In Portland
the shock lasted about fifteen seconds
daring ' which the floors of buildings
rwayed to and fro, bottles rattled on
druggists' shelves and people felt queer
in the region of the stomach. In Salem
it was one abrupt shock of short dura
' tton followed by gentle undulations
which exhausted themselves in about
four seconds. Wonder if the Portland
exposition and state fair had anything
to do with it.
v. u. Jogue an eminent engineer,
"formerly chief engineer of the whole
Union Pacific system, accompanied by
two other engineers Messrs. Oliver and
Norton, started across the river this
morning to examine the route for the
portage railroad as located by the Paul
Mohr company. Theee gentlemen went
over The Dalles and Deschutes Portage
Railway's route yesterday. Mr. Bogue
has been appointed to this work by the
Portland Chamber of Commerce to
which body he will report us to the res
pective merits and estimated cost of
each route.
Last Saturday, while driving near Mr.
Wheeler's place, Mrs. C. G. Roberts'
horse got frightened at some jrtion of
the harness getting loose, and ran away,
mashing the boggy. Mrs. Roberts re
tained ber seat and held on to the reins
until he broke loose from the buggy and
look to the woods, when she very prop
erly let him go. Assistance was soon at
band, and another team procured, with
wkfch she caaaeon to town. Itisawon-
vesticate the origin of the several dis- i Not th Hult of Foil Crop Bat
tressing fires which have recently OC- j Brought About by Co-operation of the
curred ill our citv and to inquire into the ; Cannow and Drlrn-Ho Pre Counter
many reports of attempted fires, which ; Co-oporatlom.
urcu c.i tut uirectiv arrpr rn rannnrv rrnut was
formed I gave in these papers exactly
i . . . . .
broken square off, a little above the an- ""l"
kle Dr. W. E. Rinehnrt was called in I XVe have ma,le inl'"es as to five re
nd reduced the fracture. I l!rlc3 fires and Uo attempts to
! set firfs and find that the report
Tiled.
The Chbomclk regrets to hear that
Kav Johnston, the youneest child of
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Johnston of Dufur,
died about 10 o'clock Monday forenoon of
croup. The child wan apparently in its
usual good health till eight o'clock last
evening, when the first symloms of the
dread disease was noticed by its parents.
It soon became alarmingly ill, and in
spite of the test medical attendance it
passed away at the hour mentioned
above.. Little Ray was an unusually
bright, healthy and winsome child, and
the bereaved parents have the heartfelt
sympathy of the whole community. The
child was aged thirteen months and 23
days. The funeral will take place to
morrow at one o'clock.
Mohr Make Waaeo a VUlt.
Last Friday Paul F. Mohr, a railroad
builder, visited Wasco and looked over
the Spanish Hollow route, from Biggs to
this place. He also brought engineers
with him, who remained for a few days
and made a survev over the route. We
understand that they stated to parties at
Biggs that the route was better . than
they expected it would be. But what
their report will be at headquarters we
are nnable to sav. Mr. Mohr is a rail
road builder1, and what his object is in
having this work done is known only to
himself. nateoAietc.
Advertised Letter.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, Sept. 1 8, 1 891 . Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which they were advertised :
Brown W C & Son Campbell James
GraynorJC Klein Mrs Julia
Llkins Miss Emma Pratt J. M.
Roy Miss Emma Possens Messrs
White J. C. Wilson R. Brycc
Wilson Miss Una Wiltse Llewellyn
M. T. Nolajj.
P. M
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A Chicago paper publishes two letters
in connection with the recent murder of
Miss Bertha Ison, of Baker City, by Dr.
C. E. Ballard, at Bloomington 111. One
was written by Miss Ison to Ballard, a
short time before the murder, in which
she severely upbraided Ballard for hav
ing obtained a license without her
knowledoe and consent, and falsely pro
claiming that they were to be married at
once. She says in the letter that she
thanks God for savins; her from the mar
riage, and tells Ballard that he cannot
now expect her promise. "The way you
have treated me." she closes, "has al-J
most killed me and hns killed my love.
Our paths are forever divided." The
other letter is from Ballard to his moth
er, in which he intimates that he and
Miss Ison had mutually agreea to aie,
and that Miss Ison was the cause of it
all. He was cvidentfy a weak-minded
fellow, and it was an evil day for the
Ison family that threw them in his des
perate, deadly way.
The wise course, and the one that will
in all likelihood be adopted, is to admit
the public to the fair on seven days in
the week with ceitain restrictions on
Sunday, ns the closing of the machinery
department, prohibition of traffic, etc.
In this way the "American Sunday"
idea will suffer no outrage, and as no
one need attend who holds conscientious
scruples against doing so, the interests
of all will be protected. Indianapolis
Journal.
The kernel of the matter lies in the
fact that if the fair should be kept open
on the first day of the week the nation
would make a long step away from its
customs of the past. It would be an
official discrimination among the com
mandments which could not fail to dis
credit all of them. It is to he hoped
that the commissioners ' will overlook
the trifling discomforts that may be
caused thereby and order the fair to be
closed on Sunday. Albany Jonrnal.
A Swede by the name of tnckson was
brought to this city yesterday and taken
to the Good Samaritan hospital for
treatment. Erickson has a claim back
hof Washougal and has been engaged in
clearing and blasting stumps. He is
also a smoker. He picked up a can and
took the top off to see how much powder
there was in it, at the same time a spark
from his pipe dropped into the can and
exploded the powder which burned his
bands and face pretty badly and set fire
to the dwelling, which burned and ex
ploded two more cans of powder, com
pletely destroying the house. Erickson
managed to get to La Camas and his in-
tunes were dressed and ne then came to
this city for proper treatment. The pipe
nas not Deen secured. npateh.
The widow of Editor Sontherland of
the Sunday Welcbtne has sued J. J. Bur
nett, the present editor, to regain pos
session of the paper. Mrs. Sutherland
alleges that at the time of her husband's
death the paper was paying a profit per
mouth of 400 and she charges that Bur
nett ' tRk forcible possession of the
paper and plant, without ber permission
or consent. She accordingly claims
damages in the sum of (5000 and $500
for expenses and in addition wants a
judgment for $10,000, the value of the
paper and all the type and fixtures be
longing to it. "
The special election called on the 14th
inst. in Milton, for the purpose of vot
ing on the question of bonding the city
for 10,000, for an extension of the water
system and the purchase of an electric
light plant, resulted in the necessary
two-thirds majority for both measures.
The enterprising citizens, through whose
efforts this result was obtained, are
jubilant. ' 1
A responsible contractor offers to keep
the streets of New York clean for f585,
000 a year, 1,000,000 less than it no
costs the taxpayers through the manipu
lation of Tammany and kindred institutions.
The Oregon Chilled Plow company, by
George C. Smith, Walter R. Porter, and
Fannie F. Smith, of Portland, have
filed articles to run a plow factory, foun
dry and agricultural implement house.
Missouri has 23,000 miles of coal fields,
and Missouri has" 23,000 men, at least,
who prefer a drink of whiskey and a sun
bath to a coal field.
The McMinnville Telephone-Reguier is
prodding their citv council on the sew
erage question.
find that the report that
three separate fires have been set at the
Catholic church is wholly without foun
dation ; no attempts have been made, so
far as we can learn, to burn the Catholic
church or any building connected there
with. The report that the house occu
pied by J. M. Smith had been set on
fire is wholly untrue. We were informed
that a fire had been set and extinguished
under the China wash house just west of
the Baldwin restaurant. Upon invest!
gation we found that this report arose
out of the attempt of some person who
desired to rob the China house to induce
the occupants of the building and that
the person who warned them of the fire
was, as they believe, endeavoring to get
them out in order to pilfer. The report
that combustible materials saturated
with oil had been placed in a shed ad
joining the premises of M. T. Nolan
proved to be untrue. A small quantity
of bark-chips and splinters with a small
piece of cotton cloth was found piled on
a graineack in such a shed, appearing to
be the work of children. The was no oil
about it and we do not believe they were
the materials of an incendiary. The re
port that the barn on the premises
formerly occupied by Mr. Ben Snipes
had been saturated with oil was without
anv foundation : upon examination or
the premises we found no evidences of
oil there.
We have carefully inquired into the
origin of all the four recent fires. We
find that the fire of September 2d started
either in the basement of F. W. L,
Skibbe's house or under the house of J,
H. Larsen. There had been no tires in
either of these houses for some weeks,
and none in the bkibbe house since
spring. The foundation of the Larsen
house was so enclosed as to prevent as
cess under the house. The basement to
the Skibbe house was open and clear of
all easily combustible materials; the
persons who discovered the fire and
were first in the Skibbe house believe
that the fire originated in the basement
of that house but detected no evidence
of incendiary work other than that there
was a fire. No odor of burning oil was
detected in the smoke. The fire occurred
just at a time whem many persons were
most likely tole about the building and
there is nothing that indicates that this
fire was the work of an incendiary. We
are unable to ascertain what caused it,
unless it was from matches dropped
through carelessness or carried by rats
or mice. So far as we can learn there
were no attempts made on the 2d to set
fire, and believe that all the fires which
occurred on that day came from the one
fire in the Skibbe or Larsen house.
The fire which occurred on the 5th
inst. at the fair grounds, commenced in
the first or second stable from the east
side. These two stables were unoccupied
and were not locked. They contained
more or less of straw and -dry manure
and when the fire started it burned
6lowly, there being about five minutes
from the time it was first seen before it
was of sufficient extent to attract par
ticular attention, and even then it was
not supposed that the stables were on
fire. No strangers or suspicious persons
were seen about the building during the
day or evening and men who were con
nected with the- stables were abont
there till a very short time before the
fire. In our judgment the fire originated
from a cigar or cigarette stub dropped
by some one about the stables during
the day or evening.'
We find that the fire in Mr. J. T. Pe-.
tern' stable commenced iu the basement
of the stable; the main part of the barn
was used as a store-house for boxing ma
terials and a small amount of hay, and
was kept securely locked ; no one had
been in this portion of the bnilding after
three o'clock of the day of the fire, and
the persons who were last known to have
been there had no fire with them. The
basement, which extended under only
the north part of the barn, . had been
used as a stable and contained more or
less straw and dry manure and a consid
erable amount of sawdust. For the past
few months it had not been locked and
was accessible to anyone desiring to en
ter. The portion of the town where it
is situated, we find, is a rendezvous for
tramps and Indians, and the testimony
shows that such persons were frequently
seen about this stable. During the day
of the fire there were many strangers in
the city, particularly in that portion of it,
The fire was not disdovered until well
under headway; and those first there
discovered no evidence that the fire had
been intentionally set. There is no evi
dence that any person would have any
motive for burning the building.
The testimony as to the fire in the
rear of the Michelbach block is very con
flicting. Some of the witnesses who
claim to have seen the fire before the
alarm was sounded locale the fire wholly
in the npper portion of the closet, while
others declare that it was wholly con
ry i , . i a .
nnea to tne lower part. A lamp was
kept burning every night in the upper
closet and the fire may have been caused
possibly by the explosion of this lamp.
The fact that the timbers in the lower
lower portion, of the closet were more
nearly burned off than they were above
indicates that the fire originated below
and near the ground. There are many
circumstances connected with this fire
tending to show that it was of incendiary
origin, w e suggest that these circum
stances be further and carefully investi
gated by someone skilled in detective
work.
Had any of the first three fires oc
curred at another time we believe there
would have been no serious suspicion
that they were of incendiary origin ; we
can find no motive for the setting of
them. The city has been well guarded,
and the great anxiety and alarm' of the
citizens, while natural under the circum-
what would be the outcome of the com
bine. Namely, a great lowering in the
prices offered for fruit. The prices at
points where there is no competition are
just half what were freely paid for
standard canning peaches last season,
This season li cents is the price offered
throughout the peach growing regions of
this Coast. Last season from 2 to
and in some instances 5 cents for best
Orange Clingstones was paid.
The only way to meet such trusts
for the other side to combine and co-operate.
Fruit growers should own their
neighborhood canneries. They should
own at least a controlling interest and
they should make strict by-laws. The
controlling interest should never leave
the hands of those who grow the fruits.
and too much of the stock should not be
owned by any one person. Nothing
should be more carefully guarded from
monopoly than the canning interest
for there is nothing so easily cornered
as a fruit crop. Just as soon as fruit
ripens it must go at some price and if
there is no market at hand it quickly
rots and is a total loss.
Some months ago I received a letter
from a correspondent in Island county,
Wash., a large island at the head of the
Straits of Fucca, telling; what a fine veg
etable and fruit country that was and
what a fine start they had made. He
asked me to try and find some one to
start a cannery there, saying that a fine
bonus would be given toward building
one. I suppose there are many points
on this Coast, young in the fruit grow
ing industry, whose farmers think a can
nery is the only thing needed to be pros
perous. My friends, when you place
yourselves in the hands of a corporation
a monopoly in the strict sense of the
word, as a cannery would be in an isola
ted fruit region instead of being pros
perous you would be tied hand and foot
and compelled to accept what is offer
ed for your fruit or let it rot.
In the centre of one of the oldest, best
and largest fruit regions on the whole
Coast, with seven enormous canneries
within twenty miles and numerous dri
ers and pickle and jam factories, one
would think that the cannery trust
would have little effect. But it has had
the effect of robbing the producer of a
good many dollars. Here is a fact to
show what a gigantic steal has been per
petrated. I know that the prices offered
at the opening of the canning season
last year were based on contracts and
sales of canned fruits made one year
ago last January and February before
there was any knowledge -whatever of
the general failure of the Eastern fruit
crop. Any person can see from this that
the opening prices last year were legiti
mate, or in other words, the cannery
corporations knew that they could nun
a satisfactory profit and pay those prices.
Everyone knows that the canneries are
not run for pleasure but for profit.
The difference in the prices of fresh
fruit today and one year ago, amounting
to millions of dollars, comes directly out
of the fruit growers' pockets and is a
barefaced steal by the cannery trust.
The future market for canned fruit is,
according to present indications, 50 per
cent, better than a year ago last Janu
ary. This cannery combine will give a
great backset to the fruit growing busi
ness. People will not plant and care for
orchards for the fun of the thing. Un
less they can see a regular and reason
able amount of profit orchard planting
will stop. If there is to be a canning, a
drying, a freight and a labor monopoly,
what will become of the grower? It
would have been better for him never
to have planted a sprout.
The song has been sung and re-sung
for years that this Coast should supply
the world with choice fruits and when
we have made a fairly good start and a
few have made a little money and thou
sands have put their last dollar into land
and fruits, to have the monopoly mill
stone come down and grind the life out
of them and all hope from their hearts
is a little bit rough, to draw it mildly.
The lesson taught is that new locali
ties do not want any capitalists building
canneries for them, and subsequently
own them, their fruit and their land.
Rather, they should dry, pickle, jam
and can at home until they get the
money to build and operate their own
cannery. D. B. WlKB.
Dry Land Plant.
mere are many plants that grow
rankly in midsummer in the great heat,
When the soil is certainly air dry so far
as the roots extend. In fact some of
them have very few and short roots.
Such do not seem to need moisture and
they are as thrifty and grow as vigor
ously as other plants. Tar weeds, water
melons and many others are examrjida.
Such take their moisture and nearly all
their nutrition from the air. .
some cases seldom, if ever, noticeable
even in the milk supplied by the best
dairies.
Its general appearance is not suoject
to great variations but its quality, when
subjected to the uncontradictable tests
of the chemist, varies with the age of
of the animal, changes in health, food or
general conditions which govern the life
of the cow that yields it. It is owing to
these conditions that this fluid is respon
sible for considerable sickness. Although
the animals are sound the demand on
the milkman is sometimes greater than
the product of his. cows and he adds
water mixed with sugar or salt and this
water may contain some poisonous sub
stance which may produce scarlet fever,
typhus fever or diphtheria. It is evi
dent, then, that only pure milk should
be used. We should therefore know the
properties and composition of milk and
see that we use only the pure article.
The following analysis will give a gen
eral idea of what good milk is like and
the remarks which follow will assist in
explaining matters:
Specific gravity (water 1,000) 1,029
minium, 1,034 maximum; solids, fatty,
2.5 to 6.0 per cent.; non-fatty, 8.5 to 10.8
per cent.; ash 0.69 to 0.8 per cent.; chlor
ine, 0.14 per cent.; cream by volume,
5.0 to 12.0 per cent.
Everyone knows when water is added
to milk it makes it thinner and bluish
in color and to counteract this those who
adulterate the article add sugar, salt.
gum, starch, etc., knowing well that the
general publio cannot usually tell the
difference and imagining also that such
addition cannot be detected by the chem
ist. The former today is true but ere
many years people in this country will
value chemists as in Europe and have
suspected articles analyzed and the laws
rigidly enforced against selling food un
der false pretenses. The adulteration of
milk is easily detected with the appa
ratus now used in the laboratory.
if sugar is added to water it gets
thicker and in other words the specific
gravity rises. If the water is boiled it
evaporates and leaves a white residue of
sugar, and if the heat has been too high
this residue is burned. Now, if you
look over the analysis you can see that
although the milk has had sugar and
water added and the specific gravity is
between 1,029 and 1,034 when we esti
mate the ash we find this sugar or salt
residue greatly increased above 0.69 or
C.8 as in pure milk. Then by dissolving
the ash in water and adding certain
chemicals the amount of chlorine pres
ent will be shown to be far higher than
0.14, which proves salt to be the sub
stance added to give the desired body to
the milk in question. The fat or cream
is lower in adulterated milk.
It is a matter of considerable interest
to those having cows to have a little ap
paratus and to make a few tests on the
milk of a cow under different circum
stances. For instance, to estimate the
percentage of cream by volume and to
take the specific gravity daily of the milk
and feeding the animal for about a month
on different foods and thus noting tha
change in the milk and when the best
food for producing the most milk or
greatest quantity of cream for butter or
cheese is found to feed the animals in
that way and thus increase the the re
turns of the ranch or farm.
If anyone cares to know how to carry
out these experiments the information
may be readily obtained by referring to
books on chemistry or by inquiring of
some practical chemist or writing to the
editor of this paper.
Pkof. A. A. Cunningham.
What la the Result to Be.
Soon all our crops will be harvested.
What is the harvest to be? It looks fairly
good at the present time. Wheat keeps
slowly crawling up;- sugar and coffee
down. Potatoes and- onions, at some
points on the Coast, are scarce and high,
but generally there are too many of
them, with the market fearfully glutted.
Fruits are all mixed up in an overwhelm
ing jumble and glut. No one as yet,
who tills the soil, knows how he is to
come out, with the exception of the
wheat and stock grower. It is hoped
that all will come out as well as they ex
pected to; but it looks as if not a few
will be pinched from sources least ex
pected. The" wine-grape growers are
going to come out a good deal better
than was anticipated a month ago.
Everybody is bearing trying to pull
down the price of farm products.
The new bank at Junction City will be
ready for business next month.
The Seattle Telegraph complains of
Blaine's silence on pilver. But is silence
not polden?
R. C. Templeton, a well-known resi
dent of Umatilla countv has been ad
judged insane and sent to the insane
asylum.
The Rogue River Baptist association
will meet with the First Baptist church
ofMedford, Sept. 17, and continue in
session four days.
A farmers' alliance picnic was held at
the central point fair grounds last
Wednesday in which about five hundred
people participated.
The Ashland Tidings declares that the !
Southern Oregon peach orchard of Hen- j
dershott, "the drummer boy of the
Rappahannock," is a myth.
R. C. Templeton, a prominent citizen
of Pendleton h a been adjudged insane.
Templeton is only 23 years of ape and
has a wife and six children.
The Wasco News urges the stock- i
holders of the grange store which was :
destroyed in the fire of Sept. 2, to start :
up again in the town of Wasco.
Jay Beach, the well-known horseman
and owner ot Altimont, has been pe
lecteo py tne management to act as
chief judge at the district fair races at
Central Point.
A German entered a Portland store
yesterday morning, and after making a j
few purchases remarked that "it vas fine !
weather we arc having now." Yes, said j
tne proprietor, but we had ouite an I
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earthquake last night.
isn goot lor tne larmers,'
'Yes, yes, dot !
and departed, j
Harvest throughout Polk county has I
ended. The yield in eome localities has i
exceeded the average, in others it has !
fallen short. Some of the threshing!
crews nave made phenomenal runs.
That of James Elliet, of Dalles, threshed
4,546 bushels of wheat and oats in one
day.
An unknown man was found dead up
on the South Fork of the Nehalem above '
the falls. The body was found in the
water in a badly decomposed condition,
and there was nothing about him to
identify him. He had pack straps on
his back, and it is supposed that he was
a prospector.
John Claypool has sold his land at the
crossing of the O. P., survey on Des
chutes to a capitalist of Philadelphia,
who, it is said, is connected with the O.
P. Co. When capitalists begin buvine !
i.ina along tne proposed iineot this road,
it creates a nope tnat the- road may yet
be built. Oehoeo Review.
The first annual session of the Til
lamook county fair, which was held at
Tillamook lost week, was a success.
The farmers throughout the country
lacked enterprise in not getting in a
larger supplv of farm products, and it
was left to R. R. Hayes to carry off all
the premiums for the best exhibit of
vegetables.
An old bachelor was rescued from a
fire recently. He had been helped out
of the smokingruins of his lodging house
with difficulty. The smell of smoke was
yet on him when he heard a bystander
remark that six cats and a canary bird
had perished in the flumes. ""Then
that fire was not wholly in vain," said
the bachelor.
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A. Gooseberry Country.
All western Oregon and Washington
are finely adapted to the big, luscious
English gooseberry varieties, especially
near the coast on north and northwestern
slopes on rich, deep soils. The climate
more closely resembles that of England
than any other on this continent. En
glish fruits and crops should be adopted
there largely.
ApUdM.
This will be remembered by entomol
ogists and fruit growers as the leaf
louse yaar. , All over the country they
swarm in myriad millions and seemingly
with fewer insect enemies than ever be
fore. Kerosene emulsion and its equiv
alents seem to be the only available
remedies. These are effective when
sprayed on the under surface of the
leaves. -
Winter Vegetables.
. jn early au over una uoast, except high
up in the mountains where it is cola.
one can have a constant supply of fresh
.vegetables ail winter. . Cabbages, tur
nips, beets, radishes, greens, parsnips
and potatoes planted in August and Sep
tember will furnish fresh vegetables all
through the winter.
MILK ANALYSIS.
Some
Common
Vmete About thm . Most
Article of Food.
Milk is the fluid secreted by all female
mammals for the nourishment of their
young. Hence it has come to be consid
ered the model food. Science corrobor
ates this opinion by proving it to con-
tarn all the aliments for the support of
life and that they are present is the best
forms for assimilation, viz, nitrogenous
matters, fat, sugar, water and salts.
Uw's milk is the kind usuallT used in
this country. In Sweden and Denmark
sheep's milk is commonly used, while in
Switzerland and Italy goats' supply this
looa. in Lapland reindeer g milk is used
and in Tartary mare's milk takes the
place of cow's milk. In special cases
goats' and asses' milk are employed as a
suDstitute
DM.
On the l.Sth inst., at Albiaa, the infant
child of F. A.Bailav.
in rhl. Anntifn ci
niuiars, we iuiiik was unnecessary ana ' Ureat Britain.
was occasioned largely by the many j The color of milk is due to the pres
false reports of fires and attempted fires, i fnce of suspended fatty globules. If it
More care in ascertaining the correctness allowed to stand in a tall glass cylin
or incorrectness of such reports would der. with the top covered to prevent dust
have allayed the public uneasiness and entering; after the cream has risen to
apprehension. Respectfully submitted, the surface, the appearance of the lower
B. S. Hcvtixotos, liquid is lees opaque than the fresh milk.
Tomato Plants From Cuttings.
New fine varieties of tomatoes are
specialized from seed. This is a garden
ex's art and we need not dwell on it.
But there is a point that might be of
great value at the warmer points of this
Coast. The seed of some new fine varie
ties is often sent out before the variety
is "fixed;" which means that they have
not been selected long enough to fix, or
set, the type or variety. In such cases
the planter may have a plant which is
very much better than others, and
which would be of value if he could get
any number of plants exactly like it.
This could be verv easilv dona in thin
ttii Irl flimntA "Kir liftiTicr tha Tilnnt ViofatA I
there is much cold or wet, transplanting
it in a box with drainage holes in the
bottom and setting it in a warm, sunny
window until spring, and then planting
it out not near another tomato plant.
The same result can also be accomplished
by taking cuttings early in the autumn
and planting them in a box in light,
sandy loam. Keep until spring and
plant out as above. Save the seeds of
these isolated plants and they will re
produce almost exactly the same thing.
An extra fine new tomato is a valuable
thing in the world of gardening. It
would not do nearly so well to save the
seed from the fine plant Where growing
among the others, for the reason that
its flowers would very likely have been
pollinated more or less by neighboring
plants; therefore the foregoing would
not come true. It would be well to
start cuttings of it the second antumn;
and I do not know but that for specially
early tomatoes it would be best to start
cuttings in autumn and save them over.
Many years ago I grew a tomato from
seed. I planted it among others, and it
would have been most valuable could I
have saved it in this way; but I could
not do so.
Specialty Farming.
This system seems to be constantly
gaining ground among the more thought
ful. The great specialty rotation in the
iaat just now is clover, potatoes and
wheat. In this rotation potatoes are the
paying crop. The nitrous and potash
fertilizers are given to the potatoes and
clover; the phosphates to the wheat.
Little but Fast.
A competitive trial of the relative
swiftness of bees and pigeons was re
cently held in Europe over a threeVmile
course. It resulted in the bees srrlvisg
at the goal fifteen seconds ahcid.
An altercation occurred last Tuesday,
at Harrisburg, between Mr. John Mills
and Virgil Davis, resulting in the former
attacking the latter with .a dangerous
weapon, just what with is not learned.
Mills was arrested and was to have been
given a preliminary examination this
afternoon. Deputy District Attorney
Wyatt went up on the noon train to
prosecute the case.
Four hundred and twentv-three sa
loons in Portland,one to every 190 people
or thereabouts. What an immense sum
must be squandered every year iu that
city for drink ! Prohibition is not a
practical think, but it might be well to
raise the license a notch or two. The
city would not suffer, either in reputa
tion or fact, if the proportion of saloons
to the population was decreased by half.
Andrew McCalley, a well-known cit
izen of Walla Walla, died Tuesday
morning after a short illness. He was
born in Scotland in 1835 and in 1853
came to America, settling in Illinois. In
1859 he came to the Pacific Coast, set
tling in the Willamette valley, after
wards moving to the Walla Walla val
ley where lie bag lived for the past
thirty years.
Mr. Jesse Howell died at his home in
Mora, Sherman county, last Wednesday
evening about 6 o'clock. He was sick
but a few days, the cause of his death
being infiamation of the stomach. Mr.
Howell was 24 years of age, and leaves a
wife and one child and a sister, Mrs. W.
Barzee to mourn his departure. The
mortal remains of the departed were
laid to rest in the Wasco cemetery Thurs
day afternoon.
The first stage ever arriving in Green
horn City, the summit of Greenhorn
mountain, 9000 feet above the level of
the sea, was that which conveyed Messrs.
Clarno, Stewart and Abrahams, of Port
land, to Oregon's (treat silver camn the
fore part of last week. Its arrival was
an event of some importance to the
miners of that section and was received
by loud cheering and enthusiasm.
Uncle Tom Whjtworth, a familiar per
son in the Echo neighborhood, had been
to Pendleton "taking in the circus, and
started to walk to his home on Sunday,
a distance of twenty miles. Later in
the day he was picked up by two men,
lying by the roadside, near the Isaac
-place, about two miles from the railroad,
his body a mass of wounds and bruises
Upon being taken to the hospital it was
thought he might have been struck by
an engine, hut Uncle lorn stoutlv mam
tained that he had been struck by two
men. His condition is serious.
The car which is going East as Oregon
on Wheels is over at Alblna at the car
shops. of the Terminal company, -being
painted and remodeled. As soon as
readv to receive the exhibit, the latter
will be placed on board and properly ar
ranged. A neat little dodder with state
ment of population, business, manufac
turers, etc., on one side, and a picture of
some public building on the other has
been prepared. Of these, 90,000 have
been printed and are now at the rooms
of the board of immigration, to be
placed in the car for distribution on the
way. There will be some 15,000 vials
which will be filled with Oregon wheat,
and given away as samples. - Nearly all
the exhibit is now ready for the car.
It has been ascertained that the first
wheat sold in the northwest was raised
in Polk county, Oregon, in 1846, and
brought twenty-five cents per bushel.
Perhaps no other industry has been so
developed in the intervening forty-five
years in this state as has wheat raising
the small fields of those days having
broadened into hundreds of thousands of
acres, and the few bushels offered for
sale at that time having been increased
by millions. Not the least satisfactory
item among others is the fact that the
price has also increased in the interven
ing vears. until the farmers are among
the most prosperous citizens of this vast
realm.
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