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.
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Mingle copy
Advrll.iff
Prof, ..Innal card, on, yer... tn
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QiMrier eoluinii one year.,
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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.