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OREGON THE MIST. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1892. NO. 3fi. VOL. 0. THE OREGON MIST. IS-UEU EVEBIT riAT mOHNlNti THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, ' J. K. BEBGLE, Manager. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPEK. ubavrlpllon Hatea. On, envy out ye itr In dvuc, H f On, copy lx moiilhil ,........ Mingle copy Advrll.iff Prof, ..Innal card, on, yer... tn Oiiii1iiiiiii una yew..... ll.ill eolniiiii " '' QiMrier eoluinii one year., On Inch on, month...., S On, luvli Hire, month. .......... - J On, limit l month. Local nolle. 15 rents per line lor flr.t lii-er-tlon ; Id ub.iU iir llnu (or each sulqiiem tn- 'TS'ilverl..ment, fl.M per Inch lor flrit In",",,!,,,,, in.l 76 cent. pet luob lor enull uu. quontluaurlluii. CO LUmTiT COUNTY OIUKCTOKY. County Officer.. ju,1n , Dean Blaunhard, K.luler M iVrlff " M.-l". ,le, Tr'a.u'r r K. M. Wharton, i-ofuuiU. City Commliilinrti u, w. Harne., M.ygwr. ' cieir Welle... MA.onm.-Ht. Helen. Uxlge, No. M-Rgnlar r...h tmrnth At 7 'HO P. . t MftonlO hull. VUH SlalMtllUJ l,M.H..-IUl..ler Lodge. No. meeting. Haiurday on or before each lull no on 17 HU? at. ,t MiiHonlc ball, over Hleintherd .tor, VUltltiK .u.i..Uer III good .lauding In, VlttfdlO Ull.lld, Tbo Mall.. Down rlv,r (lit) clo t :M . . . Hi. river (ln,lelne t ".;,,,,, Leva. The mall for Vernon a nil Pltt.burg eavM 8t 11,1m". Monday, Wedu..day ud Friday t ' Th.'mall lor Mar.hl.nd, . CUUtanU .ml I Ml leave. Quiim Monday, v.dneday ' ra M."erallway north clow ' 10 A. H.S lor Portland t r. H. - Traveler.' Klw K-til... u.iug w. mavka-Leave. St. Helen. M.iudiiv. Wednesday and Friday at " . 8t..h. It..A-l..ve.Ht Helen, lor Port- Und ;.. . illuming l8.H0r. Knt.Mit Joph K.i-MmB-l.ev,.Sl. Helen" I-ortUn r .1 1" . .rrlvliu t Ht. Hel.n. .1 1'IIOFESSIONAL. jyi, II. H. CUrf, rUYStCIAN and SURGEON. SI. Helen., Oregon. I) R. J. E. HALL, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Cl.tukniiie. ColiiiiiMa county. Or. IR. W. C. BKI.T, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Hulnler, Oregon. 1, KICK, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, St. Hklkns, . - Okkoon. Deputy Dlctrii t Atlornev for Cnlunil.i. Ca. T. A. McIIhid.. A. S. Dkiiii. JCHIUUB DRESSER, AT rORNEYS-AT-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. Promt attention given loml-olflce bualneu. B. L1TTLK, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, St. Helena, Oregon. Ounnty .urveyor. Lund iiirveylnf.town pl.tling, nd engineering work promptly done. W. T. HuuNM. J. W. Dbapib. Bl URNKY A DRAPER, ATTORN EYS-at-LAW, Oregon City, Oregon. Twelve ye.ra' ex ptrienr. a Reglater of the Uniteil rllntoa Land Office here, reeoiu incmla us in ona anerl.tty of nil kinda of bii!.liie before the Land Otfl'W or the Cnurta nd involving the General IJina OfhYe. . , TIROCKENBROUOH d! COW1NO, ATTORN EY-at-L AW, Oregon City, Oregon. (I,t.peclnl agent of General lnnd office.) Hmeteil. l're-fmption, nd rinibcr L.iid application, and nther Land Offln. bulne a .pfcialty. Office, aecond floor, Land OflU Bnildiim. . A. BLAKESLY, -Proprietor of Oriental r Hotel. ST. HELENS, OREGON. 1 The hniw hua been fully refurnlahed tbroiiu'lmut and the bent of eccom- , modallona will be given. , CHARGES REASONABLE STAClE run In connretion with the hotel I'Oiiiieciliig with tin North ern Pacltlo Sinllroad at Milion. Btaw tor Tacoaia tratnn 10 p. tn. For Portland truln at S p. m. ST. HELENS v- gjrWiton' '' Prescriptions A Specialty. EDWIN HOSS, DETJGGIST. DKAI.SK i ) . PURE DRU03, OPTICAL GOODS, MEDICINES, TOILET FANCY GOODS, ARTICLES, CHEMICALS, STATIONERY, CONFECTIONERY, NEW NOVELS, ETC. FINE PEEFUMBB And averythlng uaually found In a Flrat-Clnas DrugStoro. Phyxlcinna' Pre.orlptlona carefully compounded at any hour, day or night, by a competent and Experienced Druggbt. -L MUCKLE Manufacturer of LUMBER -AHO DKALCR, IK- GENERAL MERCHANDISE. ST. HELENS, OR. Joseph Kellogg & Co.'s River Steamers, Joseph Kellogg and Northwest. . FOR COWLITZ RIVER. NORTHWEST Leave- KELSO Monday, Wednesday, and Fi iduy ut 5 am. Leaves day, and Saturday at 6 a. in. JOSEPH KELLOGG Leaves RAINIER at 5 a. m. daily, Sunday excepted, arriving at .Portland at 10:30 a. m Returning leaves Portland at 1 p. m., arriving at 6 p. m Don't Buy Your Drugs ANYWHERE BUT AT A REGULAR OFiUTG : STORE, YOW WILL FIND THE Freshest, Purest, and Best of Everything . . , AT THE . . Clatskanie Drug Stored DR J. E. HALL, Proprietor. CLATSKANIE LINE.- STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leaves Portland at Alder St. dock Monday, Wfdnes3ay, Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Sauvies Island, St. Helens.Columbia City, Kalama, Neer City, Ilamier, Uedar Landing, Mt oomn, Stella Oak Point, and all intermediate points, re turning Tuesday, Thursday, and In coinpuunitlng n 1 rude Mark. Prlo, of Uueen. A ntl-IIalrlna waled from uhservatlon). Rend liiileiir,irlctlyoonflilentlal. Tbl advertlement I. honest arid alraiani loi warn ;y aonlAlu.. Wg Invite vnn tn rtp.l with n- nn1 yim will find everything B repreaeriled. WttBI, uol ana ndtoJay. Addrei puri N CHeKHOAt CO.. 174 nee treet, CINCINNATI. 0-.Jn J re,i.ter your latter at any Fo Oftlc-n to Inaui. lie aafe daily, ry, vv o win i-ny v oo for any r", ofrallnreoralla-litoaMnJury toany pnveliaanr. Kvery bottle aimiuntixd. eDCfflll-ToUdlMwHolairadue. .nd.-ll among '''t.lle'SiMWlm rtUIAL w. will prwrnt will a bVlk DK11BB, if yard. b..t .11 Bja Larg. 1 "'III"" etaUateMl.ol fr Mnl wltk ortUa. (toed aalaiy or OoaualMloa t, Agw DRUG STORE. Orders from the Country filled by Return Mail. BROS., PORTLAND Tuesday, Thurs- Saturday. DISCOVERY byfiGCIBtJJT nolutlon k irt w ncliirtiily i,iiMl un tta, hand ptcvflv rt'ni'.ve!. We .1 our. puv till, woiulin-ful prpiwrHtlon, onth, m.rketnnil w grout hn. been tli demand Urn! e are now introduclnf It Uirmmliout ilie norld under tli. name of juren'a Antl-Ualrlne, IT IS PERFECTLT HARMLUil ANU . SO SIMPLE ANY CHILD CAN USE IT. T.av the nMr over and apply the mliltirr tor few minute, and th, httiT'dlniirpi-ani u It by magto without the Riigli(.t pain or Injury when nollwl or ever Bllerward. It l.unllUe anv other preparation ev.riwd fnra like purpose. Tliouwndu t,f LA1H S Uo hav, been ai'n0yd wlib hair on their FA CK. KVA K. ami AliMM attest It. ineriM. HKNT1.KMKN who do not appreciate, heard or bnir on their neck, j . .,.,i.. , m ii, A.iii.llnlrliK.whlch doe, away wl.U Sliavlng, hy rendering It. future rwlh an Wle 'IjnP-fiJ hf . perboltle, mni In aatety ma liirboje rt..e P"ld by u. (aemnrtr id money or stamp, by letter wlto. full eiMreaawrlllen plaluly. twrta. PACIFIC COAST. The Discovery of a Solder for Aluminium. WARDNER SALOONS CLOSED Mexican Propector Finds a Bar of Silver That Weighed 104 Pounds. ' Yuma la to have an experimental arm. Heavy raina are falling in Southern Arizona. inferior mnntim of Nevada are very enthusiastic for the new railroad to bait Lake. ThA finlnradn river la falline Blowly. but is atill far above the average height at thia season of the year. A very larg;e deposit of kaolin has been found in the vicinity of The Dallea on the Oregon side of the Columbia, The M. E. Church (South) proposes to inaugurate at Phoenix an Arizona dis trict high school. The buildings will cost 100,000. All the saloons at Wardner, Idaho, have been closed. Miners have been holding secret meetings of the union in some of them. Th. Xatinnal Guard of Nevada has (tone into camp for the first time in its history at Treadway's Meadow with nearly 400 in the field. Miraculous cures are reported by Santa Teresa at Novates, A. T. Teresa was or dered from Mexico several months ago, owing to her sympathy with the Yaqui Indians and ber supposed disloyalty to Mexico. A curious fish has been found on the beach at Port Orford, Or. It has legs and toes, a tail and a spiked nose, and no signs of scales of any kind. It is the first marine wonder of the season in that locality. A colony of some fifty families of Scandinavians from the vicinity of Spo kane and thePalouse country, Wash., are looking for a location in Lane county. Or.) where they can get several thousand acres of land in a body. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency reports twelve failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with thirteen for the previous week and twelve for the cor responding period of 1891. Up to 6 a. M. on Saturday morning the Chino (San Bernardino county, Cal.) beet-auear factory had turned out this year 2,870,169 pounds of sugar. Of this quantity 616.000 pounds were from the svrnps of 1891, and the balance was from this year's beet crop 2,362,059 pounds. The waters of the San Lorenzo river, from point on Cowell's line, near the Big Trees, six miles north of Santa Cms, to the line of the California Powder Company, about three miles above the city, are to be used by a com pny to generate electricity to run the street cars and light the town. W. A. Merralls, a mining engineer of Los Angeles, claims to have discovered a solder for aluminium, a process which baa in vain been sought for during the past thirty years. The invention will be of great value in dentistry, alumin ium being admittedly far superior to rubber or gold in such work. The solder, it is claimed, is also applicable to Ger man silver. The Southern Pacific Company at San Pedro is endeavoring to shut off the ferry landing from the boat that la reg ularly rowed to Terminal Island, a place popular on Sundays and holidays, and the citizens propose to condemn a right of way for a street across the Southern Pacific's track to the water's edge, so that they can reach the ferry., There is some bitterness over the matter. A man fonnd ill in a shanty on the outskirts of Sacramento was taken to the hospital, and when stripped for a bath each leg was found encircled with a garter made of canvas, doubled and the edges sewed together. The garters had apparently not been off his legs for many months, If for years. Each con tained n I teen $20 gold pieces, making $0J0 in all. He also had $8 in his pockets. He had every appearance of being tramp. The sloop Idler, which sailed from Seattle last June with a party of pros pectors for Alaska, has returned after an unsuccessful cruise. The party consists of George Fisher, August Anderson, M. L. Johnson and Sam Banner. They prospected on Sumter and Sheep Islands and found many good quartz ledges. All the valuable claims have been lo cated. . Hop picking has commenced in Cali fornia oh some of the down-river ranches, and the crop is said to be very satis factory. There Is quite an army ol buy ers in the market from San Francisco. A majority of the pickers are Chinese, although a number of Nevada Indians have, already come to engage in the work. While the redskins are there for the purpose- of working, they are not rushing pell mell into the nop fields. A well-known grower says there is a prevailing opinion that the Indians and Chinese nave this year pooled their issues and are going to put up the price of picking to a point that almost means ruination to the growers. They are now paying 90 cents to $1 per hundred pounds to pickers, and this will prob ably be Increased at the rate of 6 cents per hundred. The total assessed 'valuation of all railroads in Montana, as fixed by the State Board of Equalization, is $9,287, 632, representing twenty-nine railroads with an aggregate mileage of 2,662. The Northern Pacific maw line has a mile age of 782.6 and its rolling stock is val ued at $1,635 per mile- for assessment purposes ; its rails at $700 per mile ; the roadbed 5J0 per mile and the roadway $100 per mile. Its main line and branches have a combined mi lease of 1,274.76, valued at $4,178,831. The Great Northern and its branches count. 1,057 miles, valued at $3,712,701. Rolling stock on the latter road is assessed at $5 0 per mile; rails, $1,700; roadbed, $1,700 and roadway $100 per mile. There Is an increae of the assessable value of the railroads over 1891 of $1, 606 142, due to the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern. PERSONAL MENTION. Webb "Subs" for Depew While the Great After-Dinner Orator Takes His Summer Vacation. H. W. Webb. Vice-President of the New York Central, occupies Mr. Depew's chair while the latter is away. Webb is tireless, quick and accurate. Hon. McKenzie Bowell. Minister of the Militia, is at Toronto, en route to the Pacific Coast, on a tour of inspec tion of Canada's defenses. Sncci, the faster, is insane and now in an asylum near fans, his aeiusion has taken the form of a belief that he is Ciesair and Napoleon in one. Ths c-nlv surviving child of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, la said to be living in rougoxeepsie, mother of Rev. Robert Fulton Cray of that city. Miss Mary E. Wilklns Is another of . New England's "little women" who, like Louisa M. Alcott, have struggled for fame and attained it. She is only 6 feet tall and very slender. . ' Prof. Asaph Hall discovered the two moons of Mars. He named them Deimoa and Phobos after the two Homeric at- i tendnnta of the god of war, from whom the planet takes its name. Mrs. Hannah Harmon, Brockton, Mass., was born the day preceding 1 Wnahinfftin'a retirement from office. and has thus lived nnder the adminis tration of every Preel lent of the United States. The adjournment of Congress com- fletes a thirty years' service In the louse of Mr. O'Neill of Pennsylvania. Mr. Holman comes next in length of representation, as be has been for twen- ty-eignt years a L-ongressman. Henry Pettitt, the noted English play-wrio-ht. nnnt watered a man that he would in seven davs write, rehearse and Eroduce a play which wouia tane an our to act. He not only did this, but j the play was a distinct success. J. E. Minor, Assistant Treasurer for the Confederacy as long as it had a treasury, still retains xouu.imu in uomea-1 erate notes, and has no other funds to speak of. He is earn to nave ownea S (mono acres of Western lands at one time. I Careers are very prettily mixed in J. C. Macdona, the new Conservative mem ber of Parliament from Kotherhithe, who is officially described thus : " Was a clergyman of the Church of England ; is a barrister; President of the Kennel Club." Captain Frederick Watkins, the com mander of the stesmship City of Paris, is a man of prominent features, of kind ly facial expression, with keen eyes and full beard, and is the son of a British army officer. He was born in Sussex, i England. ,. ; j Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has ar-1 rived at the age of 80 years. She is still , Btrong and aetive, and does much lit erary work. She was born in West Sutton, Mass. Her maiden name was Eurice White Bullard. Four of her ten children are livmg. Ex-Senator Van Wyck, whom the People's party of Nebraska has nomi-nat-d for Governor, is one of the pioneer settlors of the State. Before the out- h'oak of the war n l1 a caravan ol coi- onlsts from New York, and pre-empted a large tract of land where the thriving town of Nebraska City now stands. Gen- eral Van Wyck himself owns a fine farm of 800 acres. ; Hall Caine. the novelist, lives in a pretty cottage called "The Hawthorne", in the heart of the beautiful Westmore land lake country, made famous by Wodsworth. Coleridge and Southey. He has a typical Celtic face, not unlike that of Shakespeare in ite cwntonr, and, dresses untidily, and is lazy in most things. At present he is at woik upon an idealistic life Jesus i, wnicn, ne oe- iibvbb, wni prove uib iuhioi piot-o, Mark Twain's name so frequently ap pears on the list ot arrivals at ueneva that it might almost be supposed the Hartford author had expatriated himself and taken up his residence among the Swiss. His liking for Europe has grown with meat strides during- recent years. and he seizes every possible occasion to .u. .1 rt Ik. lino that cross the water, its tne Alps mat draw me there," he said to a friend not Inns- ao-o. " Thev fol ow me evervwnere. and I cr nnot get away from them." EDUCATIONAL. Yale to Have a Handsome New Psycho- logical Laboratory Colorado Divinity School. Manitoba Catholics are determined to maintain their separate schools. Two of the graduates this year at the Chicago College of Law were women. I Seven of the eight graduates of the State Library School at Albany this year I are women. A two years' course In pedagogy is to be opened at the University of Minne- 'sototoisautumn. I In France there are 28,000 peasant I schools in which are taught garden and I iroit culture through State aid. ! iLj Ti. i-ni. .i ibj.uv 1 Mrs. Frederick Billings of Woodstock Vt, has donated the sum of $2,000 for a high-school building at that place. , Missouri has 4'm?u."d"b?( officers and teachers than m 1891. NO more schools and 80,000 more scholars. There are thirty-five denominational schools In Kansas. Almost every sect on the road to heaven has a training acnooi in ma. dw.uo. Sir Daniel Wilson, President of the Toronto University and probably the most distinguished educator in Canada, is dead at the age oi w. Yale will have a handsome, new psy chological laboratory. This will be the second laboratory of Its kind in this country, the other being at Park Uni- ersity, Worcester, At Boulder, Col., they have started a State Divinity School, which is to be non-sectarian and without denomina tional bias. A sort of religions mug wump college, so to speak. It is proba- bly the boldest attempt educationally that Boulder ever made. Four years ago the senior class at Yale contained fifty-five free traders and forty three protectionists. This year's senior class contained forty-two free traders and eighty-three protectionists. At Har vard President Eliot says that " moat of onr students are Republicans." If "tar iff reform " is making any headway, it oertainly is not among our educated youth. Barton Journal. EASTERN ITEMS. Sluice That Saves Fine Gold Used in Colorado. A MICHIGAN TOWN SINKING. Street-Car Conductors Discharged Because They Organize Into a Union. The mints coined 466,232 silver dollars week before last. Broom-corn harvest is on in Kansas now. The crop is large and fine. Minnesota paid bounties to the amount of $52,000 last year for wolf scalps. The Chicago and Erie road is sinking Into a marah near Valparaiso, Ind. ; Grasshopper are doing an immense amount of damage to the crops in Hu ron, O. ' The Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail road wants to increase its stock by $13, 000,000. Kansas City street-car conductors un dertook to form a onion, and were dis charged. Boston's tax rate for 1892willbe$l2.80 en $1,000, an increase of 30 cents over last year. North Carolinians will erect a monu ment to the memory of the dead Con federates from that State. More building is going on in Chicago than in New York and Brooklyn to gether, says the New York Poi. The Jacinto silver mine at Aspen, Col., has resumed work after three yeara' idle ness. The new find is said to be very rich. he river coal miners ft Pittsburg are expected to strike a.' uu.t a proposed re- duction of 3 cents per ousnel in tneir w Aires. Nebraska farmers are preparing for another State-product train to advertise their airicnitural resources throughout the East. C. II. Emerson of Whitehall, N. Y., has invented a new motor power for air- ships, "based on the principle of the ruling ot tne Jfirs. uomptroiier, wnicn boomerang" I will possibly prevent the use of nearly Woodville, Mich., builtoverthe Stand- gTliS. ard mine, which was flooded and desert- P " g v'd X'S t-fS. greatly alarmed. . , mptroHer ho.de that none of the bal- The New York Herald claims to nave ittnce expended within these lim secured proofs that a green goods place iB large portions of public lands has b?en running for years within a abort distance of a police station. Glanders has broken out among the horses in Nashville, Tenn. Stringent measures are being taken by the health department to stamp it put. The pension agency in Topeka is the largest in the country. It pays out an nually $15,000,000 to the veterans of Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. ; In drilling a gas well for Dr. Preston ia Anderson, Ind., recently the drill went through a vein of iron at 375 feet, tin at 450 let and lead at 600 feet, gyndicate has secured a controlling interest in the Lynn and Boston railroad, j The deal represented anontlayof $2,- 000.0J0, including the Naumkeag line. Samples of tea grown and cured at Sumruerville. S. 0.. have been received in Baltimore, which expert tea dealers hava nrnnoiinaflii annArior tn Kant Tndia Th -t j, , Portland Me Mtab'Hsh nndr tn'9 proTi8ionB 0 . hihito ,B , 1 8a. over worth' whiak for mediciaai $57, purposes. Judge Anthony of Chicago holds that the title of a strip of land along tbe lake shore of Chicago, dedicated to that city by Elisha Hundley of Virginia, rests with the city. Out of a total of 73.034 paupers in almshouses in the United States in the "j '""" 91.16 per cent, were white, and 8.86 per uwnu wore uuiunsu. I According to inside information the . Pullman Palace Car Company is now earning about 20 per cent, per annum 1 and carrvinii mora to surplus account 1 than it pays out in dividends. Mrs. Frank Leslie-Wilde returned from Europe on the steamer La Bretavne, Willie Wilde remained in London. Mrs. Leslie says this climate does not agree with him, being "too stimulating." The windows of the armory of the Eighteenth Regiment at Pittsburg have been broken with stone thrown by men who made their escape. An attempt to steal the arms had been previously made. I Tbe Chinese in Chicago refuse to take out certificates, and a test of the law will be made before the courts. i Until the decision on the constitutionality of ( the law is obtained the Chinese wiU not . res'Bter. .... I . Jonas Wolfe, who has been elected , 7!' J the Chtckaaaw nation, is a full-b coded Indian, and cannot speak He is opposed to any legisla- . hich m advanchu peo. 1(J ,n oivliUsfltioil. i Mr. Blaine's services as a public ker in t demBnd thi.'W Tbe ,e ot8 s,ownegMlf M9 nad tne nerve to ask him to deliver an oration upon the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the opening of the shoe lactory. The Treasury officials state that the deoartment has a balance of $50,000,000. and the revenues, notwithstanding the loss of $60,000,000 on suear, are increas ing at the rate ot $1,000,000 a month from the customs alone. This rate of increase has been going on since March 1. President Harrison's proclamation im posing upon vessels passing through St. Marie's canal with cargoes for Canadian ports a toil of 20 cents per ton in retalia tion for a similar toll on cargoes and passenirers in transit for the United States passina through the Wetland ca- j nal was issued recently. The proclama- tion is to take effect September 1 The Wabash road has adopted a new method of settling for damages. In an Ohio wreck the other day five persons were killed. The Wabash made out checks of $2,000 each to the families of the victims, and handed them over without receipt or the waiver of fntnre claims. It also furnished special trains for the funerals ol three ol the men killed. NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Officers of -the Interior Department Worried Over a Ruling of ths : First Comptroller. : The bureau of American Republics Is informed that Senor Don Antonio M. Flores, recently President of Ecuador, has been appointed and confirmed by Congress as Minister Plenipotentiary of that country to the United States, and will also be appointed honorary Com-missioner-in-cbief to the World's Co lumbian Exposition. The discrimination by Costa Rica against vessels and trade with the United States arising from the rebate allowed heretofore by Costa Rica of a 6 per cent, custom duty in favor of certain foreign vessels having been discontinued by a repeal and the ground for complaint of the government removed, vessels of that country will hereafter be admitted to United States porta without the exaction of discriminating duties. Representative Hermann has secured the extension of the mail service on the Holley-Crawfordsville route, to begin at Sweet Home in Linn county. He hes also secured an order from the Postoffice Department inviting proposals for a mail service twice a week from Bridgeport by way of Hereford to Unity and back, in Baker county, Or. The department also npon the showing of Mr. Hermann has issued proposals for bids fur a mail serv ice from Alsea by Lobster to Fisher in Benton county and back, once a week, from October 15, 1892, to June 30, 1894, until regular letting. A second report on the Indians of the Southwest has been received at the In dian bureau from Dr. Dorchester, Super intendent of Indian Schools. The report deals with Indians in Arizona, and gives prominence to the Apaches and Nav1ns. The whole Indian population of the Ter ritory is given as 35,707, and the number of children available for schools as 4,280. This is an increase in the popu lation since 1880 of 8,276. Of the chil dren about 1,200 attended school either in Arizona or elsewhere. In 1880 only seventy-three children of Arizona In dians made any pretense of attending srhooL The school accommodations, thnnsh vet small, are said to be increas ing each year, and for 1883 accommoda- 'tions will be furnished for 1,070 children in the Territory. Ibe Superintendent is not favorable to removing Indian chil dren to Northern schools. The officers of the Interior Depart ment are considerably worried over the are within railroad grants, especially lands which it Is desirable to survey, it is possible that a great many States will be abort on funds for surveys. It is thought Oregon would be the sufferer nnder this ruling, while portions of Washington State would be benefited. Acting Secretary Chandler says that notwithstanding the ruling he intends to expend the money where he thinks it will do the most good, reerardless of the fact that it may be expended within the railroad limits. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Life-Size Figure of an Elephant Chiseled Out of a Solid Block of Stone Will be Exhibited. France intends to show its skill in landscape gardening at the World's Fair. Tho baby clothes made try Mrs. John Adams for her son, John Quinoy Adams, will be exhibited at the World's Fair. The fine arts building at the World's Fair will have a mosaic floor, the con tract for which has been let at $16,989. It is estimated that the total cost of World's Columbian Exposition will be about $26,000,000, nearly $7,000,000 of which will be paid by holders of conces sions. ' . . The German exhibit at the World's Fair will contain an architectural dis play including drawings illustrating two hundred or more notable buildings of the Empire. ; A New York editor has started a dollar fare wave in connection with the Chicago Exhibition next year, the rate to be al lowed to all workingmen living within 1,600 miles of the Breezy City. It is estimated by a committee of en gineers that fifty new engines and 600 coaches, costing $2,000,000, will be re quired by one of the leadirg Chicago ' railroads during the World's Fair. An Indiana stone-quarry company la having a life-size fieure of an elephant chiseled out of a solid block of atone. It will be 11 feet high and weigh thirty tons. It will be exhibited at the World's Fair. Rhode Island will present Its World's Fair building to Chicago after the expo sition closes. The structure will be very picturesque in appearance, being a re- g reduction in part of the famous " Old tone Mill " at Newport. More than 200 panels of native woods will enter into the interior decoration of the Washington World's Fair building. Some of them will be carved and others decorated with paintings of Washinuton scenery and groupings of flowers, fruits, grains, fish, game, birds, etc A whaling party is being fitted out at a Massachusetts port with a view of ob taining a live whale for exhibition in tbe fisheries department at the World's Fair. If captured, the wbale will be confined in a tank and towed to Chicago by way of the St. Lawrence river. The New York State Board of Char ities is prepairinn an industrial exhibit for the World's Fair of tbe products of the charitable, corrective, reformatory and eleemosynary institutions under its supervision. : The exhibit will contain photographs, models, Illustrations, sta tistics, and a comparison showing the progress of work for the past twenty five years. . ,v- . Ths Snohomish reservation is to fur nish two relics of past ages of Indian life to the World's Fair. Old man To m tum, aged 65, is making a thirteen-foot canoe in the manner and with the means of boyhood, without nails and fastening with cedar thongs. Most ot the work of hollowing out the cedar log was done by fire, and the rest with rnde stone tools. Dick Lewis, another Indian, is eonitrm-i-ing an old-fashioned bark house, 0x8 ft;ot and 0 feet higb, with thatch roof.