THK DALLI8,
- OBEUON
FEU) AY, - - - - OCTOBER l. 1891.
I. OCA I. AND 1'EIISOXAL
A. M. Branner of Nmisene was
town Mondav.
Messrs.-C. O. Roberts and
George T.
Hratlier, of Hood River, came up on tlie
noon train Mor.day. '
Tb office of The Dalles, Portland and
Astoria Navigation company in now on
First street at the northeast corner of
Court. j it came at last suddenly. Only a few
Senator Fulton of Astoria is said to be i days ago a physician from this city was
receiving strong indorsements from the j called in who found his system com
Portland and Astoria bar for the vacant j pletely broked down and from the first
circuit judgeship. ' ' the doctor had but faint hope of his re-
Rr. Henry Brown accommmied bv I covery. Mr. Bolton was an honest
his famiiv left last nleht for Snokane to
assume the pastoral charge of a Method-
1st Episcopal church at that plnie.
The amount of money received in tins
city from insurance companies; on ac- -
count of losses by the great lire, will not j " w County.
vary a thousand : dollars, either way, f A telegram came to this office yerter
from f275,(KK). - i day, too Into for pablication.'anii'drincing
Tl whol amount of the contributions ! that Wasco county ha! , taken the first
received for the sufferers by the late fire
amonuted to something over foOOO, a
considerable portion of which has been
already distribnted.
The Dalles, Portland & Astoria 'avi-
gallon company are meeting with very 4 telegram arrived in the city Thurs
flattering patronage.; .The people" are j announcing the death of f. T. Tur
Unding solidly In with them and they " jate operator for the Western Un-
- have all the freight and .passenger bnsi
they cau conveniently handle.
The Oregon experiment station at
"y Corvallte, " through Prof. H. T. French,
will send to any farmer in the state who
applies for it, and agrees to give it care
ful cultivation, two varieties of new
wheat to test its qualities for cultiva
tion in the state.
- lenry Williams of Eight Mile has
just been over the "free" bridge between
this and Sherman county and he thinks
' very great credit is due Mr. Harris, the
keeper, for" the excellent condition in
which he found the grades on both sides
of the Deschutes river. .
.,' We regret very much to hear that
Hon. E. X,. Smith is still under the
physician's care. He was barely able to
pay a short visit to bis home at Hood
River, to attend his daughter's weddingrj
when he returned to Portland where be
is 'now under the care of one of Port
land's mofct eminent physicians.
The locomotive for the portage rail
road was at Wallula yesterday, parts of
H however had been shipped by another
' train and had not arrived. It is not ex
pected that any unnecessary delay will
occnr on the Northern and Mr. Farley
. has a man at Wallula who will see that
there is no delay after the engine has
got on the track of the Union Pacific.
Sergeant Gnrney of Troop C 4th cav
alry U. S. A., while in the neighborhood
of Baker City, en-route with his com
pany from Fort Walla Walla to Fort
Bidwell, Cat., died suddenly on the 28th
ult., from the effects of an over dose of
tnorpnine. . nis uuaui is ueneveuigjp jtto v
nave resulted iroui ins own carelessness
in not following the instructions of the
company'sswfgebii.
Wilev is putting up for Ward
Kerns at the old stand, n stable
80x100 feet. It will be roofed with cor
rugated iron, will contain 70,000 feet of
- lumber and will accommodate, when
finished thirty-three head of horses,
The old barn used to accommodate, at
times over 100 head, but the new one
, will be enlarged in the spring sufficiently
to accommodote the, trade. The bam
and yard9 wilt occupy three lots.
Eph Olinger, deputy sheriff at Hood
River, brought up today a man named
Thomas Ryan, who has been bound
over bv the justice court of Hood River,
to appear before the grand jury, charged
with house-breaking. Ryan was de
tected leaving the saloon of T. Deeke,
which he bad broken into with the in
tent, It is supposed, of procuring
whiskey. He has been, for some time
working as a section ' hand at Hood
River.
The town of Condon had a fire on the
night of the 27th ult., that, starting in
the livery stable of Ward & Glasco,
burned the photograph gallery, W.
Rhinehaft's dwelling, Dunlap's black
smith shop, .Ward ,s hotel and C. C.
. Shaw's barber shop: In a trunk in the
photograph gallery was $1200 in coin and
41000 in currency. The gold was found
. after the fire- The loss was about $7000.
- Opinion is divided as to the origin of the
fire and it is quite probable that it was
merely accidental. .
Yesterday Emile Schanno and M. T.
Xoian made a trip on the Regulator to
the Cascade Locks and return. In a
conversation with Mr. Schanno this
morning that gentleman expressed him
self as most agreeably surprised at the
amount of work that has been done for
the amount of the appropriation made,
the apparent substantial character and
excellence of the work and the reason
ably short time in which it was accom
plished'. Mr. Shanno Las no hesitation
in saying that Superintendent Farley
deserves great credit for his excellent
management. Mrv Schanno' baa been
watching with interest the construction
work at the locks, since the first pick
was struck and he believes that more
good work has been done there during
the past six months than was done dur
ing the six previous years.
"Mr. Alexander MacEachernof Town
rhip 48 was in town Friday. Although
over 92 years of age he is still hale and
hearty. In txmversation with Mr. Mac
Eachern we could not observe that his
mental power was the least abated. He
was for many years an elder of the late
Rev. Donald McDonald's church and by
whom he was much valued, and that es
teemed clerifvman said of him uianv
years ago, that iie was an Israelite in
deed in whom thrre is no guile. We are
glad to see onr old friend looking so well."
The above Is copied from the Prince
Edward Island Patriot and refers to the
father of our esteemed fellow townsman,
Joe McEacliern, who has htt-ome a good
.lealof an Israelite fwrnself, since S. P.
Adin has taken htm In training. The
BU., y poBsioiy;
come when Jue is as old us bla
father, I
bot at yet the horoscope gives no iadlca-1 u
tloq of it.
yeSShvSrAYMixTUdit)t oj the thronicie: '
a dispatch a few days ago from Duluth, In an editorial in your issue of Sep
Minn., informing him that he was one j tember 18th, in replying to the East Ore
of seven heirs to property valued at j gonian, you assume that a single tax a6
$9,000,000 which was left by I'at'fi nude, j sessor must necessarily violate his oath.
; one Henry Fitzsiinuiona, a former rich
" resident of Calcutta, India, and which
, has been in the English court of chan-
, eery for years. When Tat received the
in , news of his good fortune he simply said,
, 'noil, if it comes Oi 11 have a
ood
! tune wnt it anyhow." .
The Chronica regrets to hear of the
death of John Bolton, of Kingslev,
which took place at his residence at one
viw.l- ,tn,r hoir.0t
While his demise was not unexpected j
; '"". K01 neighbor.
a Kina wtner,
! and an affectionate husband
He leaves,
a wife and three children to mourn ,li8
loss. The fnheriil took place Monday at
' jo o'clock. .
j premium on fruits, at the Portland Ex-
Dosition and that James A. Varney of
The Dalles had taken the first premium
on grapes.
Death of T. T. Turner.
ion Telegraph company at this place.
Only a conple of days before a letter was
received from his sister expressing the
hope that he was improving. The hope
was delusive and yesterday evening he
passed over to the silent majority. Mr.
Turner was a young man of excellent
habits and most obliging manners.
During his residence here he made many
friends who will regret his departure.
He leaves a mother and sister to mourn
his loss.
HU Pete Nodded.
About midnight's holy hour last night
St. Peter again nodded while " the celes
tial gate, as is its wont, stood gently
open for the weary pilgrim from the
nether world. A little ten pound angel
of the male persuasion, full of the cur
iosity of its budding life, crept quietly
through the portals and, seeing an au
tumn zephyr pass, bestrode its crest
and gently floated through the blue ex
panse till it came in the neighborhood
of the Galloway farm on Three Mile,
when Dr. Hugh Logan, happening to be
in that neighborhood visiting a sick
patient, caught it and made a present of
it to Ed Sharp. Ed and Mrs. Sharp are
doing everything in the world to induce
it to stav with them.
Advertised Letter.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoflice uncalled
for Saturday, Oct. 3, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which they were advertised :
Adams Harry J
Jack Joh:
Armstrong F E
wlTMiss Flora
Monos Dick
Murphy Jas
Xight TJlvsus
Nichols Mrs T
Bowver K A
Burlingamc Mary
Ularkson U
Shaw C E
Clayton Miss Jessie Stevenson Bros
Campbell J E Smith Mary
Gumming G II 3 - Temple Henry
Gordian Thos Wright George
Haynes Emily Wright Mrs M E
Howard Mrs H L 2
M. T. Nolan, P. M.
At Their Old Trick.
This morning H. C. Sielsen received a
box of goods which was plainly ad
dressed as follows: "H. C. Nielsen,
The Dalles, Or. Care of D. P. & A. X.
Co." The U. P. company at Portland
had crossed out the shipping directions
and simply left the name and thus
shipped the lox by rail to The Dalles.
Mr. Nielsen promptly returned it to the
freight agent here, and told him to ship
it back to Portland. Ad. Keller, the ba
ker has a parcel plainly addressed to the
navigation company's boat at Portland,
which came up on the Bukcr. This is a
very small business for a great, rich
company to lie engaged in stealing
small packages of freight. No particular
complaint was made when the same
company stole thirty-one curs of wool
from J. H. Sherur, but we must draw a
line somewhere. It is pofitively mean
to steal anything less than a car load.
- - A Qnlet Wedding.
A delightful wedding party met on the
evening of October 1st, at the residence
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
B. Potter, of the Hood River valley, to
celebrate the marriage of Homer Mc
Farland of Heppner and Miss Happie
Day Potter. There were present the
celebrant, Rev. W. L. McEwau, and
Mrs. McEwan, Mr. and Mrs. C. McFar
land, Mr. and Mrs. F. McFarland, Mr.
E. B. McFarland, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop,
M.'Middletou, Mr. E. M. Williams,
Mr.lndMrs. W. Potter and Mr. and
Mrs. M. B.- Potter. The parlor of the
handsome building was profusely deco
rated with flowers and as the charming
bride, resplendent in a rich dress of pale
green silk, descended the stairway at
the hour of 9 o'clock, her pathway was
literally strewn with flowers. After the
ceremony the party sat down to a mag
nificent wedding supper and about the
hour of midnight the company separated
for their homes with many earnest good
wishes for the bride and bridegroom,
who at an early hour nex( morning
started on their wedding trip to Portland.
Among the numerous and valuable pres
ents our correspondent noticed a silver
water set and an eight piece-silver tea
service, from Mr. and Mrs. F. McFar
land, a gold breast pin, fromrMr. and
Mrs. W. R. Abrams, a silver platter, j
from Mr. and Mrs. Will Potter, a pair of J
vases, from Mr. and Mrs. Mcbwan, a
rose jar from Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Mc
Farland, a set of fruit knives from Mr.
and Mrs. Rufus Bone, a card receiver.
from Mr. W. B. Lass well, a stand and
cover, from Mr. W. C. Bishop, one set of
j solid silver tea spoons, from Mr. and
j Mrs. C. McFarland and inany other val
1 uable gifts the nnmcx of whoxe donors
; we did not learn.
xbe railroads of the country employ
7QO.OOO men. Each year .titer lofi
2,000 Of their number in killed, and
20.000 of them are ininred annnallr.
1. M,5mB,,i c(i ZTrZ a' I
pend on these employe, for a living. I
; Let mc say that all that single tax folks
expect or claim at present is that the
' present laws shou'd Ik? strictly adhered
to in order tnat people can see their in-
justice. Single tax assessors, if thev do
increase the nsscssmant on land, increase
it onlv on unimprove . land which to
it K- nnim,' i,..i ,. i,!oi.
' that extcnt Sieves personal property j
i aml proved land. The impulse that;
! tl,e sin,c tax agitation has given in I
i or v-HT ana iirooKiyn nas in-
! creased the assessment several million
dollars and every dollar of it borne by
the owners of improved or part.ally im-
proved land, r.nd land owners who put
their land to its best use, applaud the
course. If the assessor of Wasco county
would pursue the same course he would
thousand dollars of the!IorGrenmann"ni!r-
.
p . , - .
; to that extent relieve personal property
t ami improvements on lanu, wiucn, to
and
j that extent,
! farmers mid
would relieve industrious
require "the dogs in the
manger'' to pay a part of their ill-gotten
products of labor for public purposes.
If the Chronicle, wishes to meet a
foeman worthy of its blade, please turn
your artillery upon the Oregonian,
which, in an editorial of September 25th,
advocates all that the most sanguine
single tax man wishes or hopes for at
present. Hoping that the Chronicle
will yet see the truth and justice in the
single tax, I remain, -Respectfully,
F. MMakh is.
M ajiagement of the Portage Itond.
Two lettere recently appeared in the
Oregonian on .the management'of the
work on the portage railway at Cascade
Locks. In these letters Superintendent
Farley was sharply criticised. - It was a
public matter, a matter relatingto pub
lic business, and as a responsible nam
that of Turner F. Leavens was given as
the author, the letters were printed.
But The Dalles Chronicle now says:
When the letters appeared Mr.
Leavens was at a distance in the state of
Washington with a surveying party.
Not till he returned last Thursday even
ing did he have an opportunity of disa
vowing all knowledge or connection with
either of the letters. Mr. Leavens de
nies having written the letters; denies
all authorship, and denies having given
anyone permission to use his name in
writing them.
The. Dalles paper makes this addi
tional statement :
The animus of the attacks is fully un
derstood, and the time may come when
their authorship will be fully exposed;
meanwhile they have failed in their ob
ject, and the solitary fact that there yet
remains, after the road is open fcr traffic,
fully fSOOO to furnish necessary conven
iences, is itself a sufficient answer to a
thousand such, made by a sneak who is
cowardly enough to steal another man's
name to fight under.
. The Oregonian has not yet heard di
rectly from Mr. Leavens, but it assumes
that The Dalles Chronicle has received
from him a denial of the authorship of
the letters. If they are really forgeries,
the 'Oregonian would gladly do
all in its power to drag their
author into the light and expose him to
Lthe eerrtempt he deserves. It seems
certain that the state board do not
think Mr. Farley's management censur
able, since they declined to receive his
resignation. The letters bear evidence
of inside knowledge on the part of their
author, which may lead to discovery of
him. The Oregonian has preserved the
original of the second and longer letter.
It would be easy for a malevolent per
son to distort information that his op
portunities had enabled him to obtain,
and use it for unjust criticism upon a
person in the public service. This seems
to be a case of that kind, a case more
over, which furnishes an illustration of
that species of meanness which ' uses
another's name to cover one's own cow
ardice. A Kind Kdltor.
Editor Bowmer of the Weston Leader
has always been noted for his kindness
and liberality, and the following touch
ing incident is only a further proot of
his humanity to mankind in general and
to those whom he has long loved in par
ticular. Recently a subscriber to the Leader
died and left fonrteen years' subscription
unpaid. Editor Bowmer appeared at
the grave in solemn black attire with
his stovepipe well over his eyes in a
manner suggestive of tears, and, just
before the undertaker screwed tne lid on
for the last time the grief-stricken pencil-pusher
gently placed in the coffin a
linen duster, a thermometer, a palmleaf
fan, a recipe for making ice and a copy
of the Leader printed on asbestos.
Go It.
Hucd BiverCi lacier:"
The Hood River Olar.ier bus the larg- j
est circulation of auv paper in the
county. It is more widely disseminated
than all the others combined, being read
from Celilo t Scappose, and from
Cooper's Spur to Skookum Chuck. This
makes it the best possible advertising
medium. This is not literally true, but
we intend to be in the swim if it ex
hausts the material we wash our forms
with. Dalles papers will please take
notice that we intend to get there if .the
concentrated lye will do it.
The Red Men's lodge at Jacksonville
gave up its charter last week, after an
existence of twenty years. During stag
ing times it was the strongest lodge in
the county, and was in the habit of ex
changing visits with Yreka lodge at an
nual reunions, when hundreds of people
would travel between those distances to
see the festivities, and the day (May 12)
would be important as the 4tfi of July.
A little Detroit girl was bidding her
boy playmate good-bye, and on this oc
casion her mother told her to kiss him.
She offered him a rognish cheek," and
wnen tne salute was gravely eiven. be
gan to rub it vigorously with her hand
kerchief. - " hy, Ijiura," said her
mother, "you're not rubbing it off?"
"No, mamma," said the little maiden,
"I'nimbbing it in." Detroit Free Preys.
Condon, Gilliam county, has been
visited by a fire that has done $10,000
damage. The losses are: Ward &
Glassco, $1800; photograph gallery,
$5000; G. W. Rhinahart,"$1200; Wil
liam Dunlup, $000; Mont. Ward, $2000;
C. C. ifhaw, $200. Mr. Ward was the
onlv one who was insured.
Sandy Olds, the Portland gambler
who murdered, Em.il Weber and after
being tried three" "times cot off with a
vear in the neniPntiUrv cn M VmI
!n the kitchen of that nstitution for the !
most part peeling potatoes. Andy's i
time will bp up next March. I
The kaiser has ordered a crown to ex-
. . y . . " built tue 12 he
hit ears. . I
MAKE THE BEST FERTIL
WHEN PLOWED UNDER,
Itrxnlt of Experiment , Demonstrate
the Value of Clover and Other le
guminous Plants Southern Pea Tinea
Good for Wheat Land.
Green manuring consists of plowing
! naaer vegetation of any kind either dry
i or green. Some plants are of much
or green. Some plants
greater value for this purpose than
others. Yet it is probably true that
every known plant that will make a
good strong growth on dry, poor or
worn ont soil will add more or less rich-
vxoa l.n4- All 4-;j? I .1 A;l Av
cept sticky ftre wilted
by treatment. Brown adobes on
. our lulls are greatly benefited by green
manuring in coniunction with lime or
I plaster and afhes.
j leguminous plants are considered best
or tnese tne corn-
mon cjover jg the standard and lias
lone been used for the nnrnose. The
; crimson clover has fa-4 last few
vearg been highly valued in warm cli-
mates like larce portions of this Const.
; These clovers are not adapted to locali
ties with dry summer climates and are
therefore only available in portions of
Western Oregon and Washington. Many
other plants are used for this purpose
such as cow or field peas, buckweat,
vetches, lupins, rye, etc. In most coun
tries these are nearly all available but on
this Coast we must depend on a few of
them, such as will grow rankly during
1 winter and early spring, such as rye, al
j filaria, and many of our beautiful, rank
growing lupins. These lupins belong to
the legnminosa?, same as the peas and
clovers, and m their many different
species have kinds adapted to every
known variety or quality of soil, and in
time some of these native lupins will be
selected out and used with great profit
as green manure crops. We have some
seven to nine native species of wild
clovers, some of which grow finely nearly
everywhere. Some of these wonld un
doubtedly be good for this purpose. Any
or these plants that grow rankly m win
ter, when trees and vines are dormant,
are of the greatest value for keeping up
tne fertility of orchards and vineyards.
They should be plowed under rather late
in the spring, and the soil at once har
rowed down 'fine, the harrow following
the plow within an hour or two. Bye
is good if plowed under a few days after
it flowers. But, unfortunately, we dare
not leave it growing so late among the
trees; yet, if sown early, a good weight
per acre can be plowed under in early
spring. It would not do to leave rye as
late as some other manurial crops for it
would rob the trees of moisture.
Alfilaria would be one of the very
best plants for plowing under if we
could handle it in sowing. But, unfor
tunately, its seed is of such a character
that it cannot be well cultivated. In
many localities it is self seeding and
grows very rankly. In such places on
poor, stiff and worn soils it should be
encouraged and plowed under. This
should be done as late in the spring as is
6afe on account of moisture. Then by
plowing again late in autumn the seed
for another crop will be brought to the
surface. , A very heavy crop of such
plants can be neatly plowed under by
first running a light harrow in the same
direction the plow is to run. Some
plows will turn them under better if the
ground is harrowed at right angles to
the plowing. I took a patch thickly
covered with blackberry bushes six to
seven feet high and filled with . weeda
and grass. All were harrowed down
with a heavy harrow and plowed under;
then harrowed out again and piled and
burned. The next day the ground
was planted to potatoes. This was done
about the middle of May and not a
sprout of the blackberries has appeared.
Another way of plowing under such
crops is to hang a heavy chain from the
double-trees"so as to drag just before
the plow. There are other crops for
plowing under which only grow during
the heat of summer. Buckwheat is an
example. It is of great value East for
this purpose. It might be sown on this
Coast late in summer and then plowed
under after the first rains.
An experienced farmer in Illinois,
when his land showed signs of weaken
ing for com, plowed under the corn
stalks and left the field to grow up in
weeds and then plowed them under the
following or second autumn. This was
called "giving the land a rest. " The
good of the "rest" came from the decay
ing vegetation rlowed under. Plants
that decay on the soil on which they
grew return to the soil, all they take
from it, with the addition of carbon, ox
ygen and nitrogen that they gather from
the air. When they decay these are
given in a soluble and available form for
other plants to feed. upon. The most
valuable of these is nitrogen, the one
necessary element of plant food in which
our upland soils are deficient. Not only
are these valuable elements taken from
the air and given to the soil by the de
cay of plants but each and every plant
growing decomposes more or lees of the
mineral elements of the soil and on de-
cay returns them in a soluble form.
The great value of red clover as a fer
tilizing crop comes from its peculiar
manner of growth. It sends its roots
down into and through the sub-soil
where they feed on mineral elements
that few other plants can reach and
could not utilize (decompose) them if
they did. And it does not absorb the.
available plant food near the surface it
is left for the crop that follows. Its
dense shades causes the formation of the
nitrates in the soils, leaving nitrogen.
A certain form of low microscopic ani
mal life, called bacilli or bacteria, forms
nests on clover roots, which at their
death and decay give the soil -a still
greater percentage of nitrogen. A poor
soil may be sown with this plant and it
may be cut for hay in June and Septem
ber and then plowed under, leaving the
ground greatly improved. But to get
tne most benefit from clover it should be
plowed under when it is fit to cat for
nay.
This method of fertilizing wonld not
work well on rich soils. It would give
too great a growth of wood and foliage
at the expense of buds and fruit. On a
thin, dry, gravelly clay such culture is
most profitable. Unfortunately enough'
narurai growth to plow under cannot be
nau on this Coast. Therefore we should
sow rye, lupins, vetches and some of the
rank winter grasses.
It is possible that some of the many
different field or cow peas so largely
grown in the South Atlantic states will''
prove the best material for green ma-?
nuiing on this Coast. Professor Cham
berlain of the North Carolina Agricul--,
lurai college nas issued a bulletin de?
tailing two seasons of green manuring
ror wneat with Southern field peas. The;
plats of soil selected were aa near alike.
as was possible to select. Then several)
different commercial fertilizers were
"rei commercia
HfJJ nPotl were treated alike.,
Ual' Plot had a crop of pea vines.
Plowed under. From the results the-'
piuiessor gives tne following:
1. Pea vine manuring for wheat is the,
cheapest and most' effective of all fertilJ
.a. The yiald due to th, wowth -f p.
PLANTS
I2ERS
""Tiiujc uoUucUuiis "are bated upon :
1. Average increased yield of wheat
dne to pea vines in 1S89, 10 bnshels, 1
pound, or more than one-third.
2. Average increased yield of wheat
due to pea vines in 1890, 16 bnshels, 11
pounds, or 50 per cent.
Pea vines enrich the land even if the
crop is all removed and thev make a vast
j amount of good food for both man and
beast. D. B. WlER.
The Wood Pnlp Indntry.
In the report of the chief of the divis
ion of forestry for 1890, recently pub
lished, Dr. Fernow savs of the wood
pulp industry: uIt can lie said without
fear of contradiction, that in no field of
industrial activity has a more, rapid de
velopment taken place within the last
few years than in that of the use of
wood for pulp manufacture. The im
portance of this comparatively new in
dustry for the present, and still more
for the future, can hardly lie overesti
mated. Its expansion during the next
few decades may bring revolutionary
changes in onr wood consumption, due
to the new material, cellulose, fiber or
wood pulp.
" Though rupid in its growth the new
industry has by no means reached its
full development. Not only is there room
for improvement in the processes em
ployed but there are all the time new ap
plications found for the material. While
it was in the first place designed to be
used in the manufacture of paper only,
by various -methods of indurating it, its
adaptation has become widespread; pails,
water pipes, barrels, kitchen utensils,
washtubs, bathtubs, washboards, doors,
caskets, carriage bodies, floor coverings,
furniture and bniiding ornaments, and
various other materials are made of it,
and while the use of timber has been
suspended in shipbuilding the latest tor
pedo rarn of the Austrian navy received
a protective armor of cellulose, and our
own new vesKeis are to be similarly pro
vided. While this armor is to render
the effects of the shots less disastrous by
stopping up leaks. 011 the other hand
bullets for rifle use are made from paper
pulp. Of food products sugar, (glucose)
and alcohol can be "derived from it, and
materials resembling leather, cloth and
silk have been successfully manufac
tured from it. An entire hotel has been
lately built in Hamburg, Germany, of
material of which pulp forms the basis,
and it also forms the basis of a superior
lime mortar, fire and water proof, for
covering and finishing walls.
"The business in this country has in
creased nearly 5C0 per cent, the last
eight years, and nearly 200 per cent, in
the last four years.
"In 1888 the stunipage consumed for
pulp was valued at $2,235,000. The pro
duct, 225,000 tons ground and 112,500
tons of chemical pulp, was valued at
$12,375,000, the capital employed being
estimated at $20,000,000. The figures
given below would indicate a present
consumption in round numbers of 1,000,
000 cords of wood per annum. When it
is considered that about 1,000,000,000
pounds of book and news paper are con
sumed annually in this country, two
thirds of which might be made of wood
fiber, there is still a considerable mar
gin for this use alone to be supplied by j
wood pulp. .
From figures given it is learned that
there are in this country 237 wood pulp
mills, New York having the grearest
number 75 Wisconsin coming next
with 2(1. Vermont and New Hampshire
each has 18, Indiana 12, and Michigan
13. The 237 mills have a daily capacity
The Choice of FruilH and Vegetables.
It is hard to reform people in buying
their daily food. They constantly cheat
themselves. The market gardener and
fruit grower are obliged to assist them
in cheating themselves.. We will buy
that which pleases the eye whether it
be good or not. The big, red, thin
juiced apple sells, wlule the dull yellow
or rusfv coats of medium size, a far su
perior apple, goes to waste or is sold for
one-half or one-third what is readily
paid for the red apple. .
We choose the over bleached (white)
celery, bleached until it is pithy, soft
and with little flavor and its peculiar
qualities that should give it value are
extracted by the bleaching. The rich
golden, somewhat green, crisp, firm,
quickly bleached celery is left unsold or
taken by the bnyer with the slender
purse. In this case, as in many others
the highest priced is the poorest quality.
On the introduction of wax podded
beans they were found to be good. The
buyer takes the larger, thinner, whiter
po'ds by far the poorest of all and the
darkest when cooked and neglects the
shorter, thicker, much more nutritious
yellow podded varieties and much
whiter when cooked.
The a-Tparagus that sells for the best
price is tne great overgrown, nearly
tasteless, watery, insipid, often hollow
shoots, but when they are just starting
from the ground with nothing but the
sharp point of any value as food at all.
While the medium sized, solid, rich,
high flavored shoots that were allowed
to grow two to five inches above the
ground are neglected by all except tba
few who know the difference. It is the
same through the whole category of
foods and fruits.
It does seem hard to see the finest of
the world's plums the Green Gage go
ing begging with no takers at two bits
a box and the Ponds Seedling, about the
poorest plum for any and all pnrposes.
selling rapidly at Si a box. buch are
the facta and the market gardener and
fruit grower are obliged to n;eet them.
They are obliged to ri-ow ?xrri as thev
can sell. So long is bst :Tf!y and
richness has no market varus, iia size
and beauty combined with wtitl'ftss-
ness bring the money, just so icbj Roll
our markets be Durdened with tte poor
est articles. .
Disturbing Element.
In the summer season East thev have
their thunder storms, tornadoes, floods,
threshing winds, hailstorms, cinchbuga,
grasshoppers (locusts), and what not.
On this Coast our summers are dry, and
we escape all the above evils; yet we
have one terror at this dry season which
is as bad, at times, aa all the above com
bined, namely, pasture, grainfteld, brush
and forest fires. These are the rural
dwellers' terror; especially on the ilia
and mountains. Scores of fine, pleas
ant, costly hoinea the result of years
of toil together with their surround
mgs and not rarely the lives of the
dwellers, are being swept out of exist
ence by merciless fires. The most strin
gent laws snouid be passed, and exe
cuted without mercy, against the care
less or purposely firing anything ont of
doors at this season. The man who
carelessly starts a fire which burns out
his neighbors should be held responsible.
Whitewash the Frnit Tree.
It is an excellent plan to whitewash
the stems and larger branches of all
fruit trees in early summer. It prevents
sun killing on the southwest side and
makes ' smooth, soft and elastic bark.
The white reflects heat while dark col
ored bark absorbs it. The salt, sulphur
and lime mixture makes the best whitewash,-
It will kill the foliage but lJ
good for the stem. j
. ,auu.i.uwu, Ui A-Uj,CiiC, Will LrXin
j the publication "of the Weekly Times at 1
; Junction next week. :
I The Ashland Tidings says that the!
! peach crop in that vicinitv sold for $75,
; 000. One Portland firm paid out $20,000. j
The twentieth Oregon .supreme court !
I a. e ii r !
1 icjjuii la jubi uui irum me press 01 me
j state printing office. It contains 045
pages.
The new bridge which is to span the
j Willamette at Albany is being built at
I Cleveland, O., and work upon it is pro-
gressing rapidly.
The town of Susanville, Grant connty,
was named after Susan Moffatt, daugh
ter of the keeper fof the hotel at that
place in early days.
The heirs of Colonel I. R.JMoore, who
left so much land near Eugene, are now
quarreling in-thecourts"'over the divis
ion of the property.
John Gray, of Eugene, whose skull
was fractured by the blow of a bar of
iron in the hands of his brother-in-law,
T. E. Russell, will probably recover.
Joseph and Sarah Ann Hoskins, of
Newberg, celebratedtheir, 'golden wed-
ding SepteniberX27. Immediate reliT
tives to the number Vjf twenty-five were
present.
The Catholics will erect a large brick
schoolhouse for the education of the In
dians on the Umatilla reservation.
Work will le begun as soon'as possible.
Andy Kavanaugh,livingnear.GervuiB,
set"fire to a''strawstack lately, and it
soon spread to his granary and burned
the sacks off of a big quantity of grain.
Two h"rses afflicted with the glanders
havebeendiscoveredat'Salem, and the
Domestic Animal commission of the
state has ordered the county stock in
spector to kill them.
Henry Thompson a farm laborer for
Mr. Davis, four miles from Newberg,
Yamhill county, committed suicide
Wednesday night with a shotgun. He
had made an unsuccessful attempt a few
days before with'poison.
In Umatilla county :he experiment
has been successfully made of raising
fruit on the hills without irrigation.
The orchards are flourishing and the.
fruit producedjsofjexcellent quality.
J. W. SiuipsonjofUmatilla county,
Uiad a narrow escape at the railroad
crossing at Barnhart'a station. One
horse of his team",waskilled by the' en
gine, the wagon overturned" and Mr.
Simpson considerable bruised.
It is aid the river bottom somo two
or three miles below Pendreton is alive
with rattlesnakes, of which there are
more than have been seen for years,
Mrs. Hill lost the best horse on her
place recently from a rattlesnake bite.
Silver salmon are verv plentiful at
present in Yaquina bay. From morn
ing till night her watevs'are dotted with
boats trollingfor them, and it is but an
ordinary two hours to catch six or seven
weighing from ten to twenty-hve pounds,
The men who made the arrest of Al-
bertson, near Gardiner ,Jhave been quar
reling over the $500 reward. Detective
Ives has already announced that it be
longs to W. W. (Jochran, of Eugene, as
all the other officers were employed by
the day.
AUnited Presbyterian church was
dedicated at Shedd last Sunday. The
re d on that occasion by
Rev. S. G. Irvine, D. D., of Albany, was
his four thousandth discourse. Dr. Ir
vine is an Oregon pioneer, and his
strength is unabated.
James Mackev, a'reaideut of Albany,
aged 86, is entitled to the'distinct on of
having assisted in building'thoTirst rail
road in the United States, that between
Germantown and Philadelphia, just
about sixty years ago. . In fact he helped
lay the first rail.
A democrat!cJmass meeting will be
held at the opera house in Albany to
night. ChaunceyFBlack, president of
the National Association of Democratic
Clubs, and James M. Beck, attorney
general of the statei'of Pennsylvania,
are expected to address the meeting. ;
John Blanchet, a rancher in the Nye
neighborhood, Umatilla county, says
that cropsof all kinds have been lietter
than for six years in that section.
Wheat is making twenty-five and barley
thirty-five bushels to the acre, and hay
about one and a half tons to the acre.
The laige band of sheep brought up in
Douglas county last spring by the Han
ley Bros., of Jackson county, have been
driven as far south as Marysville, Cal.,
where they are being disposed of at good
prices. They started lo.ouo neaa, were
four" months on the road, and reached!
theirde8tination.with.0400 sheep.
Athena .is somewhat excited over a j
personal eucounterjbetween two women 1
of that place. One, Mrs. H. Mortimer,
visited the house of the other, Mrs. !
Fisher, amfthe two engaged in a lively
combat. Thev were separated by 1
fruit peddler .who passed r that way
Mrs. Mortimer has been arrested 01
Mrs. Fisher's complaint.
An occasional case of land-jumping is
now heard of, incident to the forfeiture
of railroad land. Mr. McCormick, i
well-known farmer living"north of Pen
dleton, woke up the other morning to
find a jumper's cabin'on'one of his rail
road quarters. It had evidently been
all put together and- hauled ont there
during me nigui.
A new.variety br.wheat Jtnowu.as the
new golden is attracting considerable at
tention among wheat growers. It is a
product coming originally from the de
partmentjof agriculture,, andjproduced
in Oregon for the first time in any quan
tity the present season. The yield sur
passes that of little club under like con
ditions, while it is apparently less af
fected bv dry weather than any other
variety heretofore sown this season.
Last week Howard & Baldwin, of
Crook county, delivered a large band of
beef cattle at Deschutes bridge, for ship
ment to the PortlandfFmarket. The av
erage weight of their three, four, and
five-year-old steers was 1342 pounds,
which is the best average any band of
cattle from this part of the country has
t At.:- . r a t fi a
hiiuwu miH seasuu. udc oit-ei i tritneu
1870 pounds and another 1920 (pounds.
When such cattle as these can be raised
in Crook county, says the Ochoco Bcvieiv,
it is folly to say the range is exhausted.
The government locks at the Cascades
are going up at the rate of a foot and a
half per day. The lower gate will be
completed by the middle of next month.
Heretofore the work has been slow, as it
was all under water, but now they can
hurrv it. The south gate is completed
ahd the north one is up probably a third
of the way twenty feet; The building
of these great locks is a magnificent
piece of work, which, when completed,
will stand as a monument to the engin
eering skill of t his ago. The gates, when
hung, will be the largest lock gates in
the world, being 93x40 feet and weighing
130 tons. -i. They are oi steel ana are u
swing upon giant hinges.
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