nn VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11), 1892. NO. Hi. E OREGON M THE OREGON MIST. IS-UKU EVER V I'KIDAY MOHIUBO -lit- THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, J. R. BKEQLE, Manager. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER , Subscription Hates, On 0pr one yrar In tilr.uc... ,.... U tin. miuy six mouths i t)lnyl copy., '. . Advarllsiite; Hales. Professional cards on year One column on year.., Hall column out year , uuartar column on, yaar 'li,ln.lt mi ,nm,th.... ...I 13 ... 126 ... 40 (in. Inch Hires months...... J On. liiah tlx muuthi ....i fj.n.1 twiHn... IA funis tMr Illl. fur firlt liner tlon; It) cents pat Hue lor each iUloiiieiil Hi crllnii. Leiial advertisements, il.BO per Inch for first Itiiaril mm 71 eviits ir men tor eacu iuui. quant insertion. COLOMBIA COUNTY DIKKCTOUY. County Olflcere, Jm1, Uian lllelichenl, Kallilor Clrrk - K. K. Unlrk, 8 . IMens H.i.rirr ". A. Masai.-, ST. Iluiei Tr.issur r K. M, Wharton, t.'olumbla t:lty Hunt, of dohoola T. 1. tileftoo, Variioma AKWKMir W. II. Kyeur, Italul.r Burvoyor. A. M. Utile, Ha tiler Commissi iiiert.. in. u, ni'iio tnor-r, veiuoiua (I. W. Ilarues, Mayaer. ocieif Notices. IhUsnmr;, Bt. Melon, txlga, No. M-Heituler cmniiiiiiiluation nr ami mini naturae? m tacli iiniirth al 7 :0 r. at. al Maaoulo hall, vli.lt lull in.iu bars In good .lauding luvlled to at- tunl. Mto MIC-Rainier Lodge, No. Sl-Btated iiiuulliiK Saturday onor bolurstiauh loll on al 1:IM e. M. at Maaimli; liall, over Hlamdiard's tore. Visiting members lu food standing In vttiMl to atUlul. The MaUla. Down river (lt! closes at 8:110 A.M. lii river u.iai)rloea at tr.H. 1 lie nail Cor Veruonla ami I'lltsbur '.avw St. Helen. Honda)', Wednesday and Friday at S A at The' malt (or Marahland, Claukatilo ami Mist leaves Qulun Monday, Wednesday and Friday at IS M- .... , Malls (railway) north close a' 10 a. U-i or Purtlaud at B r. al. TraT.lais' Uulde Itlver Houlee. HTEtmaO. W. SHAVta-Leaves 8t. Helens for I'ortlHiid at It A. at. Tiie.day, Tlinradavaiid Hittinlay. Uavea HI. Helena (or clatasanle M.inday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:00 A, H-Hustita Iai.iia l.eave Ht Helens lor Port land 7n6 a. N, returning at;H0r. at. Htbamrr Jossrw Kbi.kmio l-eavesst. Helens lor Portland dally except Holiday, at 7 A. M., ar rlvlugal Cortland at 10.au; returning, leave Porilauy al t r. .. arriving at HI. Helens alt. PROFESSIONAL. J)U. II. U. CUFF, rilYSICIAN and SURGEON. 8t. Helens, Oregon. jtt. J. E. HALL, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clatsluiiie, Columbia county, Or. J JR. W. C. BELT, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Rainier, Oregon. y J. RICK, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, St. IIklens, Oricqon. Deputy District Attorney for Columbia Co. T. A. McHaioa. . A. 8. Pusna. jyjcUHIDE 4 DRESSER, ATIORNEYS-at-LAW. Oregon City , Oregon . Prompt attention given luntl-ofHce business. B. LI'lTLK, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, 8t. Helens, Oregon. Uunnty surveyor. Lund surveying, town plattinii, and engineering work promptly dunii. W. T. BuiiNir. J. W. DiAriH. 2fRNKY DBAPKB, ATTORNEYS-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. Twelva years' ex pi rlcnr as Resistor of the Uiilteil Htntea L'liid Ofllce here, rccotn nictKls us in oils Miicciatt y of nil kinds of bui-iiiess before the Land Ollioe or the Courts and Involving the General Land (llllce. : JROCKENBROUOn at COW1NU, ATTORNEY-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. ( I.ste special agent of General Innd office. ) HoiiienteHd, l're-emption, and Timber Laud applications, and other Lund Office business a specialty. OHlce, second floor, Land Otll. e BiiildiiiK. A. H. BLAKESLY, Proprietor of Oriental ; Hotel. ST. HELENS, OREGON. The house has been fully refurnished throughout and the best of accom modations will bo given. CHARGES REASONABLE. RTAGE run in connection with the hotel connecting with the North ern racitia ilailroad at Milton. Stage tor T.icoma trains 10 p. m. For Portland train at S p. m. ST. HELENS Prescriptions A Specialty. EDWIN HOSS, DRUGGIST. ( DKaLKB IN ) PURE DRUGS, OPTICAL GOODS, MEDICINES, TOILET FANCY GOODS, ARTICLES, CHEMICALS, STATIONERY, "CONFECTIONERY, NEW NOVELS, ETC. And every tiling uauolly found In a Firnt-Clnss Drug Store. riiyslolnns' Prescriptions carefully compounded at any hour, day or night, by a competent and Experienced Drngglal. MUCKLE Manufacturer! of LUMBER AMD DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE. ST. HELENS, OR. Joseph Kellogg & jliMii ' mm m. 711, sH Joseph Kellogg and Northwest FOR COWLITZ RIVER. INUKl hWJioi Leaves and Fridity at 5 am. Leaves day, and Saturday at 6 a. m. JOSEPH KELLOGG daily, Sunday excepted, arriving Returning leaves Portland at 1 Don't Buy ANYWHERE BUT AT A REGULAR DRUG :; STORE, YOY WILL FIND THE Freshest, Purest, and Best of Everything AT Clatsk anie Drug Store.ee DR J. E. HALL, Proprietor. CLATSKANIE LINE.- Pi STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. . .. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leaves Portland at Alder St. dock for Clatskanie touching at Sauvies Island, St. Helens,Colurabia City, Kalama, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt Coffin, llradbury, Sbtella, Uak Point, and all intermediate points, re turning Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. ff. . j -.ijsa- . nnd a pnceioss noon ' . . Trade Mark. ' whto Shaving, by renderlns; ita tutor, growth an utnrimpoiDiiiiy. Prloeof 4uin's Antl-Hatrlnell. perboitie, sent In safety mnlllni boson, poetsre tld by usraecury sealad trom observation). Bend mnner or stamps by Idler with full artrin-aa written plainly. Cmrres poiidinr.grictlyeonndentlal. This advartnemeiit la honest and strslnht toiward In every woid II contains. We Invite you tndi-al with nnnd yon will find ev.rvihlng as renrnieniMl. Out this out ana S ndto-dy. Address QUKBN OHRMIOAL CO., 174 Reioe Str.et, CINCINNATI, O. You call i1!? T"" letter at any Prat Offloe to Insure lis "ale delivery. v will imy .' OO for any cam w. i.iisr. or sng-ntest injury ro any ptircniiser. r.yei-y uoitie s;utiriiivra. PFRlM ""o ladlw who Inimdn. and aril itUinL w. win BTMaat with . err.n: nui Wt will preitsnt wltk BILK DHBaa, m tuts w mimh Trom mbi wiiK orav, DRUG STORE. Orders from the Country filled by Bet urn Mail. BROS., Co.'s River Steamers, KELSO Monday, Wednesday, PORTLAND Tuesday, Thurs Leaves RAINIliR at 6 a. m. at Portland at 10:30 a. m p. m., arriving at 6 p. m Your Drugs THE - Monday, Wednesday. Friday NEW DISCOVERY byACCIDlFJT In compmindlrtf a solution a pun was aoctiently siilll.l on the hand and on waHhliiK uftfrward It was discovered ttmt the tmir v,w com plelely removtid. We at onoe put this wonki-rul preimratlon. nn tne market ami so areal lias been the demand that we are now Introducing It throughout the world under the name ot tiueen'e Alitl-alalriiie. IT IS PERFECTLY HARMLESS AND SO SIMPLE ANY CHILD CAN USE IT. Ty the hair over and apply the mixture tor a few minutre. and tho hair riifinprH'srs a. If by mafic without the stiahtwt pain or Injury when applied or ever afterward. It is unlike an v otlier preparation ever nwd lora Ilk. purpose. Thousands ot LA 111 I' S who have boil annoytd with hair on their PACK. NFt.K mill A It MS attrsl lis merlm. (1KNTI.KMKN who do not apprvrlnloa hpurd or hair on their nerlr, in vueen's aiii l-llalrliiti w nicn cue tvy nrnonir their fritlU B Bolt)tj of QDfi AH 18a, IB yards tMstallk Sutra, Lanre Bottle aai dt. Ooott SaJexj or Oommiaeioa tt .iefMt. . Aatt-lTalrtne, d aJaM PACIFIC COAST. Contraband Chinese Landed , on Our Domain. OREGON'S BIG WHEAT YIELD. Arrangements Perfected to Ship Wool Via the Columbia Direct to Boston. The electric tramway jSower-hoaae at Victoria, B. 0., vat burned. Loss, $200, 000. TheBob-ton will join the Charleston at Santa Cruz, and will afterward sail lor Honolulu. The bop vines in a twenty-acre tract near Sacramento were laid flat by a heavy south wind. Charles Crew, of Port Orford, killed a fine sea otter last week. He was offered and received $1C0 for the skin. Good rains in Maricopa county, A. T., have improved the stock industry. A rain famine has been threatened. The Progresso, the first of the Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company's line from New York, has arrived at Kedondo, CaU The Siuslaw Railroad Company sent out engineers last week to cross-section and set grade stakes on the first fifteen miles of the survey. The seal hunters killed in the neigh borhood of 200 sealions at Blanco reef during the season, and made a very good season's work of it. The remains of a man, about fifty years old, were found between Old Sau salito and Lime Point, The large toe on the right foot had been cut off. A considerable quantity of Salmon Mountain quartz was shipped by the last steamer to San Francisco for assay. An extensive ledge has been discovered. Considerable alarm exists , at San Diego over the smallpox cases at Cbula Vista, as proper measures to prevent the spread of the disease have not been taken. Benton connty (Or.) householders and others are in despair over the growth and rapid spread of the thistle. Ita purple blossjms are to be seen every where. Extensive grass fires near Fresno have caused much loss to hay, grass, fencing and exposed houses. The fire will make feed scarce in that immediate section. The bounty npon coyote and squirrel scalps in Polk county, Or., expired Sat urday. During the term of its validity, from February 1, there was paid out in scrip upon the county the sum of $1, 778.85. A dog owned by W. H. Haight, near Trover, Cal., was bitten by a rattlesnake and the wound was bathed with coal oil, Mr. Haight not having any known remedy on hand. In about two hours the dog was out of danger. Recently a Victoria sloop landed a dozen Chinese near Point WilsonWash., and hastily sailed away. The customs officers captured four of the Chinese in tne wooas near Jfort xownsena ana are on the trail of the others. The farmers of Crook county, Or., are fast getting in their hay harvest, and all report a good yield. Hay on the wild meadows is not as tall as usual, but it is much thicker on the srround. which more than makes up lor ita lack of neignc. Game is seen quite plentifully, accord ing to reports, up Ashland creek canyon. Two cinnamon bears came close to the camp the other day while only the ladies and children were there, and a panther was seen at a distance bv some of the campers. The Sisson Mascot editor has been at the top of Mount Shasta lately. He says the sovernment monument ia out of plumb, leaning to the southeast on an angle of 80 degrees. The force of the severe winter storms is probably the cause of its getting out of perpendicular line. Fred W. Youne and O. F. Hinklev. of Union, were out five days last week on a fishing, hunting and prospecting trip to tne urana itonae lakes. Tnev lound two promising quarts ledges, an anti- tnnnn lu"tna am - st aa wareAaa iTa a( aluvV uivuy tuugD. teVLiiA an uiiMUWff VI eHUUUt sixty acres that prospects well in gold. The result of the Anti-Debris Conven tion at Sacramento was the organiza tion of an association to take the place of the old Anti-Debris Association, to be composed of one Supervisor each from xuba, butter, Sacramento, uoiusa.uienn and Yolo counties, with an advisory body of one citizen each from the same counties. ., Fifteen thousand sacks of wheat have been threshed at the Reservation ranch. near Caynse, Or., and the grain in the surrounding district is yielding about twenty-live bushels to the acre, and ia of fine quality. Eleven acres of the "uauiornia uoiaen" variety averaged forty-six bushele, a heavy yield for this season. When John Crouse. engineer at the electrio lighthouse - in Pendleton, Or., became thirsty tne other evening and turned on the water, he was surprised to see issuing from the faucet a horse hair snake, and it was followed by two others, each nearly afoot long. Whether or not this kind of animal life in city water is detrimental to its purity, it is not pleasant to meet in the dark. A trust deed of the Salem Water Com pany to the American Trust and Sav ings Bank, of Chicago, as trustee, was filed in Salem the other day. The pur pose of the deed is explained In a reso lution adopted at a meeting of the water company held on June 22, by whieh the company decided to issue first mort- ?age bonds in the aggregate sum of 160,000. The Dalles (Or.) Mountaineer says: "Mr. Shearar perfected arrangements for the shipment of his wool by water to the Boston market, and will make other purchases in this city and send them to Astoria to complete the ship's cargo. With an open river our wool- raisers and sheep-growers could send their products direct 'to Boston and Liverpool by water, and by this means compel advantageous rates from the railroad company." PERSONAL MENTION. A United States Consul Becomes a Con vert to Islam Seven Americans Elected to Parliament. Justice Lamar's long locks are whiten ing. Francis Parkman, the historian, has been partially blind for several years. Four living ex-Governors of Massachu setts were born in 1818 Boutweil, Claf Un, Rice and Butler. . Alexander Russell Webb, United States Consul at Manila, Philippine Islands, is reported to have become a convert to Islam. Moses 8. Beach, the former owner of the Sun, who died at Peekskill recently, was one of the earliest advocates of the Brooklyn bridge. Samuel Sloane, the millionaire rail road President, has a dielike for type writers, human and mechanical, and writes all his letters in autograph. Mrs. Humphrey Ward is a wonderful linguist ; she is versed in French, Ger man, Spanish and Italian literature, te say nothing of Latin, Greek and He brew. ; Rndyard Kipling has told the truth about Montreal, as he did about Hew York, and the swell clubs of that city have also ostracized him. He doesn't seem to care much about it, however. T. 8. Southard, now in his 85th year, is the oldest shipbuilder in Maine. He lives in Richmond, and has built over 100 vessels. His name is a familiar one in shipping circles all over the world. One of the seven or eight Americans who have been elected to the new British Parliament is F. A. Channing, a son of Rev. W. H. Channing and a nephew of the famous Unitarian preacher, William Ellery Channing. " Nicknamed " Congressmen are by no means nonentities, as used to be thought. Remembering "Ran" Tucker and "Sun net" Cox, however, we must expect more than we've had yet from "Tom" Watson of Georgia. The Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey each possess a mat worked with pearls and diamonds, valued at over 12, 000,000. Prayer mats of such a value should give a powerful flavor to religions fietitions in which humility is the lead ng feature. Apropos of Herr Most's assurances that he would not run away from arrest, it may be remembered that he assured every one that his capitalist-hating soul had no room for fear about three days before be was dragged from under Lena Fischer's bed. Prince Bismarck ia partly of Slav ori gin. His ancestor emigrated to Russia in the eighteenth century, and eventu ally became Governor of Lavonia. He was afterward sent to Siberia, but was recalled some years after. Hie tomb has just been discovered in Poltava. Charles Sumner carried all his aristo cratic tastes and associations with him into the free-soil party in 1847. He- be came the scholarly, statesmanlike advo cate of emancipation, and yet it is de clared that he grasped no black band in friendshin and remained always the friend, but not the brother of the negro, the aristocrat to the end oi his days. Mr. Cleveland writes all his letters be tween 10 o'clock at night and 2 o'clock in the morning. This habit the ex-Pres ident contracted at tb5 'vVaite liiuie. and a correspondent, writing from Gray Gables, stigmatizes it as a bad one. But it is at that time when the midnight oil is burning that according to popular belief the best literary work is done, and perhaps Mr. Cleveland appreciates that tact. EDUCATIONAL. Immense Fund In Possession of the State of Texas for Educational Pur poses Economy Taught Oxford University has 2,240 students. Fifty-four women graduated from Vas sar this year. Hopkins University has a $10,000 ther mometer. Kentucky has a colored State Teachers' Association. ; Dancing is taught in some of the pub lic schools In Scotland. The oldest English public school la Winchester, founded in 1387. Two hundred and four of the 365. col leges in the United States are coeduca tional. Cornell University will offer a course In Russian language and literature next school year. During the past year there were grad uated from the medio) colleges of the United States about 5,000 young doctors. Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., is said to be the only Swedish college in America having as its President a man born and educated in the United States and having all his degrees from institu tions in this country. A philologist says : It is called "com mencement" not because the graduate then begins to learn his first real knowl edge of life, but because in the old days the graduating exercises were held at the beginning of the college year. In the old country the school children are early given lessons in economy. Penny savings banks are connected with the public schools of Belgium, and 170.- 000 of the 600,000 primary pupils have deposited over 500,000 francs. Great Britain has also established the penny banks. Japan has now school system some what similar to our own. Controlled by local authorities are more than 28.000 schools, of which 26,000 are elementary. The teachers number nearly 72,000, and the scholars 8,410,000, or nearly half the total population of school age. The total annual expense of the Bystem is about $7,000,000. The immense fund in possession of the State of Texas for educational purposes is mostly loaned to counties, which use the money for public works. The State Comptroller has invested over $3,000,000 of the permanent school funds in the hands of the various counties, and as vet no default in the payment of interest has been made. Cornell University has (1.086.112 In productive funds, $1,171,924 invested in buildings, 1,538 students and 123 in structors, or an instructor to every twelve students. This funded capital is as little as a first-class university can be run on In tnese days, and while uornell receives $94,000 from tuition fee this meeta only Between a intra ana a nail ot its ex-1 penditure. , EASTERN ITEMS. The Immigration for the Year Ended June jo. DEATH RATE OF BOSTON. Tennessee Farmers Excited Over an Exodus of Negroes to Oklahoma Etc. A railroad rate war is threatened at the West and South. Kansas' wheat crop this year ia esti mated at 80,000,000 bushels. "Snapper" Garrison, the noted jockey, is seriously ill at Long Branch. The threatened atrlkeof the Union Pa cific telegraphers has been averted. Chancellor Allen of Tennessee decides that dealing in futurea is gambling. In Chicago the price of beer and pure water are now very nearly the same. Trego connty, Kan., paid $190 for 3, 800 pairs of rabbit ears the other day. The bounty paid by Minnesota last year for wolf scalps amounted to $52, 000. The State tax of the estate of John Jacob Astor will amount to about $200, 000. ' The Texas rains have insured the cot ton crop of the southwestern part of the, State. . " , The Boston newsboys will not be al lowed to sell papers on street cars in future. Jay Gould says he will never go cruis ing again, and offers his yacht Atlanta for sale. Boston's death rate is very high; al most two hundred children died week before last. The Nashville American has begun a crusade against lynching and lynchers in Tennessee. Archbishop Ireland aays that the rumors that he is to be made a Cardinal are without foundation. Both parties appear to be satisfied over the reapportionment of Michigan by the called Legislature. , Connecticut last year .took out more patents according to population -than any other State in the Union. The discrimination in Canadian tolls in favor of Montreal has been removed by the Dominion government. There are 700 babies at a New York baby show. This is an infant industry which has not entirely died out. There have been heavy rains in Penn sylvania and the fear of water famine no longer hangs over Philadelphia. The St. Louis Superintendent of Po lice has ordered that each of that city's 1,000 Chinamen must be photographed. Three young Frenchmen are soliciting funds in New York in behalf of a Social istic colony to be founded in Paraguay. Over n,0(X bills were introduced in Oongrew during the recent seaaion, less than 500 of which reached the Presi ident, Germany in the last twelve months contributed 133,622 to the population ot the United States; Russia and Poland 117,419. . The Tennessee farmers are excited over the negro exodus to Oklahoma, and in some counties they fear that they will not have help enough to harvest their crops. The murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Borden at Fall River. Mass., has not been dis covered. The suspicion which rests upon the daughter has not received any confirmatory proofs. Frederick Kayaer. a miser of Dayton, Ohio, who was worth $500,000, but drove a garbage wagon, hanged himself a few days ago because nia daughter re proached him for his way of life. The steamships Citv of New York and City of Paris will have to be officered by American citizens when they are documented as American vessels. This ruling has been made at Washington. A riot between negroes and Italians at Orange, N. J., resulted in the stabbing of one man and the serious wounding of twenty others from clubs and atones. About six hundred persons were in the riot. - ' All the members of the Town Board of West Superior, Wis., have been ar rested on an embezzlement charge. The people want to know what has be come of the money paid in the way of taxes. . .: One hundred and thirty-four trains passed through the Union depot at Kansas City Sunday en route to the con clave of the Knights Templar at Denver. It is estimated that 40,000 people were on the trains. The total immigration to the United States in the year ended June 30, 1892, amounted to 619,320 souls. This large foreign influx has been twice exceeded. In 1881 the number of immigrants was 669,431 and in 1882 the figure rose to 788,993. A man was recently struck by light ning at Johnstown, Pa., who recovered consciousness in about an hour to find the sight of one eye gone, his hair and mustache badly burned and a mark ex tending down the side of the body aa far aa the knee. All the mines under the control of the Wisconsin Central Railroad Com pany on the Gogebic range, save the Ashland mine, closed down Saturday night and some 2.000 men are thrown out of employment. The shut-down is caused by the Homestead strike. Near Buena Vista, in Mercer county, Ky five persons who ate cabbasa far dinner were taken ill suddenly and afterward died. An investigation dis closed the presence of a poisonous anaba which had been cooked in the pot with 1 tnecaoDage, Dut now tne reptile got there is a mystery. ' A citizen of Bridgeport, Conn., has been arrested on the charge, preferred by a fellow-citizen, that on a certain Sab bath he "did indulge in the vain sport and recreation of riding a certain vehicle known aa a bicycle, greatly to the dis turbance of the peace and eontrarv tn the statute in such cases made and pro- illl " Rnt Tn.llna M .1 J cided that no crime had been committed. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Sousa's Band Will Be a Prominent Par ticipant Next October in the Dedication Exercises. The Board of Trade of Dubuque, Ia., has appointed a eommittee to prepare an . exhibit for that city to be sent to the World's Fair. - The architects of the world are to be invited to a congress at Chicago during the World's Fair to discuss architect ural subjects and the interests of the profession. Canada will erect a World's Fair build ing at Chicago 100 feet long by 44 feet wide, with a ten-foot veranda surround ing it on all sides. Plans have been sub mitted for approval. Michigan is one of the most enthusi astic of the States in the preparation of the World's Fair exhibit. The State's appropriation is $100,000, but it is au thoritatively announced that the total sum contributed toward making an ex hibit by. the State, counties, cities and -private individuals will reach fully $500,- The World's Fair Commission of New South Wales has decided to send to Chi cago for exhibition in the horticultural -department of the exposition the follow ing typical representatives of Australian vegetation and flora: Tree ferns, stag- , horn ferns, bird's-neat ferns, todea ferna, , macrozamias of two distinct kinds, gi gantic lilies snd grass trees. The flora of Montana will be shown at -the World's Fair by a collection aa com- glete aa it is possible to make it. The tate has about 1,000 different varieties ' of wild flowers, and of these 800 have already been collected. The exhibit will include also a display of grasses and for- ' age plants. Many of the States are pre paring similar exhibits of their flora. Quite a number of foreign yachts are likely to be in Chicago at the time of the World's Fair. Robert 8. McCor mick, representative of the exposition in England, makes announcement to that effect. All depends on how favor- ' able are the facilities forgetting through -the Canadian canals and for safe anchor age in Chicago, At his request full par ticulars on these points will be furnished. Wisconsin through ita World's Fair : Board has asked that May 29, 18S3, be designated as " Wisconsin day " at the exposition. That date ia the forty-fifth anniversary of the admission of the State into the Union, and it desires to celebrate it in an appropriate manner at the fair. It is expected that each State will have a day set apart upon which to monopolize public attention as far aa possible. , . William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education of the United States, wilt have charge of the educational congress to be held in Chicago at the time of the World's Fair. Arrangements to this ef fect have been brought about by Presi dent Bonney of the World's Congress Auxiliary. President Bonney has in duced the National Educational Associa tion to forego its regular annual meeting next year and Instead take part in the congresses. Sousa's band, the one he is no w organ izing for Chicago, will be a prominent participant in the World's Fair dedica tion exercises next October. It is Sousa's intention to draw liberally on the best musical talent in this country and abroad in order that the new band may eclipse very other organization of the kind on this side of the Atlantic, not excepting the celebrated National Marine Band at Washington, of which he has been the head. Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Wise, lady mana- . gers for Virginia, together with their auxiliary board, have undertaken to raise $16,000 for the Virginia buildino-. at the World's Fair, which is to be a full-sized reproduction of Washington's nome at Mount Vernon. To raise the money the women of Virginia are aellintr certificates of membership in the Mount Vernon Association at $1 each. They are also asking the County and City Su pervisorm. Councils, etc.. for levies of 1 cent per capita, and are giving enter tainments oi various Kinds. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Minister Tsui, Chinese Representative to This Country, Reported About to be Recalled Etc. Acting Treasurer Whelpley has Issued a check for $1,040,000 in favor of the ' owners of the Mission-street property, San Francisco, recentlv iuilAitAt aa . site for a poetoffice. The President has selected the follow -ing delegates to the International Mon- -etary Conference: Senators Allison of Iowa, and Jones of Nevada: Represent ative McCreary of Kentucky ; General Francis A Walker of Massachusetts, and Henry W. Cannon of New York. , The crop returns to the Department of Agriculture show an improvement in th.A nr.nilit.inn rtf mm Mj . U " ww v- wwu, III. monthly average from 81.2 in July to fi ft In An.-i.at. Tn I ( f the initiation of crop reports has there Knftn m. lftWAF Allffn.. mniljfinn Tk. following averages of the principal Dmwji wo giYtju ; new zone, yu; ien- nMHAA. Q9. ' fAWft 7Q Pannavltrdiiiai QR . 7 I f v.iu.fMIl, W. Ohio, 81; Missouri, 83; Virginia, 91); Indiana, 84; Kansas. 81 J Georgia, 98; Illinois, 73; Nebraska, 80; Texas, 94. Most correspondents indicate a tendency tn fnrthAr lmniwmm.nt Palmn. lating to spring wheat show a lower average, ueviimng aunng me month from a general average of 90.9 to 87.3. Tn tha n-tnnntfiin Kr.atn. .he nn.l ; .1 i ......... ...... mv i.va wuv WUUIMUI1 It, generally high. In Washington a de- i:M la n . .1 a iu . - nn a , uituo ib t opvriAju uvu W wt i ot and in Oregon from 91 to 76. Diplomatic circles are considerably ag itated over the announcement that Min ister Tsui, Chinese representative to this mnntrv im a hnnf Kaa atEwaa11J i to the Chinese Emperor'i diapleaaore at iuo uruuiiutjam wuion me Minister took in the negotiation by which Count Mit ktAWtra anti nfhAv ahalw naU.nliiM.. posed to establish an international bank In China, which would absorb all the railroads, telegraph lines, etc., of the Orient. ThA nrnnnflAfI famII f ister comes so soon after China's reieo- . I ... d . , 1 , n .. . ' tiuu ui tu.-oanH-r iMnir as u nitea elates Minister to that country that the two events are being linked together. Min ister Tsui was mainly Instrumental in having Blair rejected, and as a result the friends of the ex-Senator have for some time been longing to retaliate by having tha Minister recalled. State de- visrvuieu. vuiuiais nave snared this feel ing to a considerable extent, and as manlt Mr T.iil .. LA - u .i .. ... - ... u-u a uaru uipuH matie lot since he hag, BUtr deposed, ;