E OREGON
VOL. 0.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1892.
NO. 43.
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C'aunlf Officer.
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t'lvrk K. K. Uuli'k. Ilftlmii
Hherln , it. A. Maul. Ml. Helm..
Treaaur r II. M, Wharton, i.'olumMa i.'lty
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Aw.sor W, II. Kyxtr, Kaltiter
surveyor .,..,. A. B. Mill.. Hauler
C'oinnillu.ri.
t. u, Hi'iio lunm, v.i uon
Ml. W. Ilaniea, Mayaer.
ac.air Nalleaa.
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, enmiiiuuloatlon. drat and Hi In! ttaliirday i
eeeh month ll:Nr. . alMaxmle hall. Vl.lt'
In m.mkera tu food eLmllng invli.il to at
tend. M.eiotiR.-Raliiler todae. No. 2i-Mtate1
' .meetings Saturday on or before eeeh full moon
at7:au r. M. at Mnlii hall, nvar Waui-hard l
.tore. Vl.lllng member. In good .lauding In
Tk. nail.
Down river (Iwi.t) cln. at a 0 . .
l u river llHatllou. at 4 p. a.
1 he nail for Varnonla and I'lltnlmr Lava.
St. Helena Monday, Wedneaday and Friday at
fa. a.
The trail for Marshland. I'lat.kanla and Mlat
leave, tjiiinu Mouday, euueiHlay ana Friday
at I2H.'
Mall. (railway) north eloaa a' 10 a. Li (or
rorii.uu at IF.).
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Traveler' (iulae Hirer Haalea.
HTfaa(). W. (duraa-Laavee St. Helen.
(or Cortland at II a. M. Tueoriny, 1 Imrsdav and
Haturday. Leave. HI. Helen, (or ( l.lnt.nle
Monday, Wednesday and rrlilay at S:u0 a, M
Htramkh l.iLtn l,aave. HI. Helen, for Tort
land 7:46 a. M. returning et:M)r. a.
HTKAMaa Joaei-M Kslukmi Leave. Ht. Helens
(or Portland dally except Monday, at 7 a. a., ar
riving-el Portland at 10. SO; r.tiirnliit, leave
Portlanv at 1 r. a., arrlvlnn at fit. Helen, at 4.
PROFESSIONAL.
JH. 11. K. CUKF,
TIIYSICIAN and SURGEON
8t. Helena, Oregon.
JyU. J. E. 1IALU
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
ClaUkuiile, Columbia county, Or.
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K, W. C. HKLT,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Rainier, Oregon.
J. HICK,
ATTORNE Y-AT-L AW,
St. 1! BI.RNS, "OatRdOM
Deputy District Attorney for Columbia Co,
T. A. McUkipe. A. B. DasaSEB,
JJcHRIDK A DRKaMCR,
ATTORNEYS-at-LAW.
- Oregon City, Oregon.
Pronijit attention given. ami-office business.
B. I.1TTI.K,
SURVEYOR and
. CIVIL ENGINEER,
Bt. Helena, Oregon.
County surveyor, Lund surveying, town
pianiug, aim engineering worn promptly
oone.
W. T. Burkkv. J. W. Draper.
JJI'KNKY & DRAPER,
ATTORNEYS-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
Twelve years' experience as Keglster of
the united mate J:tni umce neio, reconi
inemia ua In oua specially of nil kind" of
bu.lneas before the Lanil Olllce or the
Cntlrta and iiiTOlving the Ueuerul I.aml
Offloe.
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ROCKENBROUOH J COW1NU,
ATTORNE Y-at-L AW,
: Oregon City, Oregon.
(I.ale special agent of Oeneral lnnd office.)
Hiimesteiid, Pre-emption, and Timber
Land applications, mid olhor Land OfBce
UitalnesH a specially, uuioe, aeconu nuor,
LaiHlOltice Building.,
A. H. BLAKESLY,
Proprietor of
Oriental : Hotel.
ST. HELENS, OREGON.
The house hns been fully refurnlihed
throughout and tlie bHt of accom
modations will be given.
CHARGES REASONABLE.
RTAOK run In connection with
the hotel connecting with the North
em Pacilto Railroad at Millon. Stage
for Tacoata trains 10 p. m. For Portland
train at i p. m.
PACIFIC COAST.'
Excitement Among
, Men in Idaho.
Mining
CAUGHT STEALING WALNUTS
Chinamen Furnished With
Illegal
of
Merchant Certificates
EntryFined.
Drvenfurth'i airenta ar in Near M-r.
loo endeavoring to produce rain.
The Brit ah Columbia mallnir flt hu
brought down only 1,271 akin.
Sacramento ii to mnnd tlOO.OOfl In n.
larging and atrengtbening ber levee y-
WUJ.
The owner of the Halcvon have bnen
fined $800 at Victoria, U. 6., for evading
ana uuDiuiui omcera.
Hang Nelson and Juan Atvarna hava
been captured at Pluonix, A. T., while
passing counterfeit money.
The Net Perce reservation in Idaho,
very rich land aection, will be open for
eettlement in a few months.
The cattlemen in Southern New Mex
ico are moving off the range, the
drought having made them barren.
Silver ealtnon are now very plentiful
at Yaqulna Bay, and are bein caught
with trolling line in great number.
The vintage i fully on in Napa Valley.
The wine-grape crop I two-third hort,
and many large wineriei are not crush
ing. .
There are thirty-seven punils in at
tendance at the Oregon D)f Mute
School this year, the highest number
ever present.
The High Court of California Forester
concluded it work at Uakerafleld the
other day. Monterey was selected as
the next annual meeting pla?e.
Another murder is reported by "Kid,"
the Apache, in the Swisehelm Mount
ain. A woodchopper was shot and hi
i j i . . i .
ueau ovate u uu wiiu stones.
The opal field on the Snake river near
Ualdwell, about thirty miles from Boise,
iaano, are ine cause oi considerable ex
oltement among mining men.
Oeneral McCook says the condition
surrounding the Navajo reservation are
a constant source of anzietv. There are
u.ow Indians living beyond the limits of
ine reservation.
By ruline from Washington th
Nogales (A, T.) custom authorities are
authorised to permit the free entry into
the United State of calves that were
born to cattle that had strayed into Mex
ican soil.
The contract for a new oonntv 1 til ha
been let at San Dieiro bv the "Solid
Three" of the Ave Supervisor who re
fused to submit the proposition to a vote
of the people, on the around that the
am not anow wnai waigooa lor mem.
The British Pacific Construction Com
pany, with a capital of 5,UJ0,0U0. has
been incorporated at Victoria. B. C.
lor the purpose of lav nt out. bu dinar
and equipping the Canada Western rail
way from Victoria to Yellowhead Paea.
Mctt Hindenter. who own over 30.-
000 worth of real estate in Los Angeles,
baa been detected etealing walnuts on
the Briawalter place. His coat and
trousers had their pockets extended for
the work. He pleaded truiltv. and waa
fined m.
Los Anieles thinks the renorted mis
hap to the Charleston at Ballast Point
should have been thoroughly investi
gated, and that grave responsibility will
rest on some one if the vessel meetswlth
bad weather and i Injured. It is stated
the propeller blade were beat.
A card in the clothing of James W
Conrad Oox of New York, whose body
was rounu in tne .wooas near victoria,
U 11 I . I J!.f . i J
that Cox was a translator of twenty-five
languages and interpreter of nine. He j
was also an expert accountant.
A California botanist, who hits been
making a prolonged visit to Mount Hood
and Hood Kiver Valley in quest of speci
mens of fruit and foliage ot cone-bearing
trees, succeeded in obtaining specimens
of sixteen different spee'es of cone-bearers
out of a possible taenty-flve, and la
very enthusiastic over the results of the
search.
Evans and Sontas when last heard
from were in Sqiaw Valley, and were
seen the day after the alleged interview
with them which was printed in a San
Francisco sensational newspaper. The
distance between the place where seen
and where the "interviewer" talked with
them would require four days' travel to
overcome.
Samuel McFadden. a truck farmer liv
ing near Los Angeles, while driving
home was robbed by a man who-slipped
Into the rear of the wagon, placed a pis
tol to bis head and told him to drive slow
and not open hi mouth or he would
blow bis brains out. With bis other
hand the stranger went through the
farmer's pockets and secured (305. .
There is a comnanv with headanarter
in Portland, Or., which furnishes China
men with merchant certificates of entry
into the United States, properly signed
and sealed, bearing a photograph of the
party aesiring to enter at a cose oi Ttu a
head. These certificates are Rent from
,l ........ at D n
who have no difficulty in disposing of
them at the prioe stated.
The San Francisco lumbermen inter
ested in controlling the cargo output of
tne raclno uoast nave prepared a acned
ule of the amount of lumber each mill
mav out under the pool arrangements.
The schedule is baaed upon the output of
18111, and is unsatisfactory to most of the
small mill owners on runet Bound, who
may be subsidized, although it is srtia it
not the plan now to subsidise mills.
Jack Henderson from the Limestone
caves on the hed of Sucker creek re-
pjrt that Mr. Nickerson and himself in
a reoent exploration discovered a cham
ber which exoela anything yet found in
these immense caves. This chamber is
fully 1,000 yards from the entrance, and
is verv difticnlt to approach, owing to
the small and crooked passige that leads
to it. It is (any iuo leet in length by
flftv in width, and haa a roof or celling
from sixty to eighty feet in height. It
full of the most grotesque forms, which
are beautiful in the extreme.
EDUCATIONAL.
New York City Shows a Good Record In
the Matter of Suspensions In the
Public Schools.
Evenr Northern State west of the Al
leghanlea ha a State university.
Sweden ha 2,000 school gardens. How
many are there in the United States?
Three thousand student, it is esti
mated, will attend Harvard College this
year.
Of the public-school teachers In the
United States more than 05 per cent, are
women,
Edinburgh UnivAraitv la
chief medical centers in the world. It
was founded in 1682.
The freshmen la.aAa nt TTnmNl mnA
Yale both show noticeable increase.
i aie leaus witn over 6UJ,
The Oldest llvimr teachnr la Ml.. PI or.
Whiting of New York. She aerved con
tinuously fifty-seven years.
The elementary-school statistics of
Hungary are thus renorted: In 1HO?
2,016,012 children attended school, while
1U aoob vuiy l,10Z,IiO.
There will be no color line at the Uni
versity of Chlcaeo. Quite a number n(
colored person of both sexes have ap-
The oldest and larireat medical schnnl
in America 1 that of the Univeieity of
Pennsylvania. It was founded in 17U5.
and his graduated 10,468 men.
Wonderful progress ha been mo1 In
this country of late vears in teaching
the dumb to apeak. List year articula
tion was taught to 4,236 pupils.
Twenty-five graduate and former aln-
denta of John Hopkin University of
Baltimore. Md.. have accented positions
on the- staff of the new University of
viucago.
In 1870 the London School Board be
gan Its work with not a single school
under its control. In 1801 it possessed
410 school, affording accommodations
tor 4ZB,uuu cmiaren.
New York city show a vood ntmni In
the matter of suspensions in the nnhlin
schools. Last year there were but thirty
five of these 260 schools that experienced
such an extreme measure of discipline.
The number suspended waa onlv flftv.
one in an attendance of nearly 200,000.
Sweden waa the first country in which
cooking and housekeeping schools were
established, and hare these schools show
a great variety. One of its cooking
schools supports a restaurant of about
100 persons. In Beleium hviriena and
the theory of household processes form
a part of the course of atudy in element
ary scaoois.
The University of Berlin, with its
o.uuu students and scores of famous pro
fessors, has a capital of about $750,000.
Its largest endowment, that of the
Countess Bose. is onlv 150.1X10. Never.
tbeless it is the seat of the highest Ger
man learning, and claims to have the
ableat corps of instructors of all the
wprld's schools.
Yale College entered upon its one hun-
area ana ninety-tnira year September
29. Over $1,000,000 have been expended
on new buildings and other improve
ment during the past year, and the total
membership will exceed 2,000. During
uie year x aie naa oeen tne recipient ot
more than $3,000,000, and its President
sayj lywiWJ mora lias been pledged,
PERSONAL MENTION.
Louis Kossuth Finishes His Memoirs
Dr. Nansen Proposes to Jab His
Way to the North Pole.
Sir Julian Paunceforte Is an ccom.
plished musician, and can play anything
irom an -brara narp to an end man's
banjo.
Mme. Bourinlne. whom the Grand
Duke Nicholas married at Toula, wa
born a serf, it is stated, a was her first
nuauanu
Charles Ashton. a London policeman.
Has received a prise lor szo'J lor an un
published bibliography of Welsh litera
ture irom tsut to law,
Louis Kossuth haa finished his mem
oirs. The manuscript of the closing
chapters of the fourth and last volume is
with the printer at 1'esth.
Mies Ada A. Brewster, the California
artist, belongs to the line of Brewatera
who proudly claim kinship with Elder
.Brewster oi Jnaynower tame.
Lord Tennyson handed a check for
$1,000 to Sister Emma Durham, who
nursed him through a recent illness, and
she haa presented tne gut to the na
tional pension fund for nuraea.
Kev. a. K. Haweis has been per
suaded to undertake the preparation of
Sir Morell McKenzie'a biography. He
invites contribution of letters and anec
dotes that will assist in his work,
General Booth has 380 men, mostly
broken-down drunkards at one time,
working on his farm, a few miles out oi
London, and they are described a a de
cent, induetrioua, useful and enthusiastic
lot of people now,
Prof. Huxley and Lord Chief-Justice
Coleridge are among tne prominent Eng
lishmen who attended the recent Glouces
ter muiical festival. The latter gentle
man la said to be exceedingly apprecia
tive of suoh performances.
Henry B. Cleaves, the new Governor
ot Maine, came ont oi tne war a Idea
tenant, and at once secured work as an
ordinary hand in a sash factory, but after
a two years' trial of tne job he thought
it wasn't a promising one; so he stiuck
out in other line.
The eminent Von Pettenkoffer of Mu
nich diatinctly disputes Koch's proposi
tion that the coma bacillus 1 the cause
of Asiatic cholera. He thinks it is only
manifestation ot the diese. This
should put a period to the coma bacillus'
ascendancy for the present.
Mr. Skene, the Queen's historiogra
pher for Scotland, who has just died at
the age of 84, enjoved a wide reputation
as a scholar, historian and archaeologist,
and was the author of many valnable
works, the ohief of whioh Is "Celtlo
Scotland; a History of Ancient Alban."
Mr. Gladstone during hia visit to
Wales quite caught the people by hia
comprehensive knowledge of their coun
try and ita affairs, and especially by his
good knowledge of their language, a
by no means common accomplishment
in foreigners. He described himself as
a Scotchman by blood, a Lancastrian by
omn, a uoexney py residence, but in
fected by Mrs. Gladstone with love of
Wale.'
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Treasury Net Gold Fund
Still Growing.
NEGROES BECOME BANDITS.
The Street Railway Conductors of
Cincinnati Discharged for
Stealing.
The orantre cron of Leon conntv. Fla..
i larger man tor many years past,
Toledo has a boodle scandal. ' Its Al
dermen have been accepting bribe,
Owing to the scarcity of hay, Kansas
farmer are harvesting their corn fodder.
A Chicago man has sned his doctor for
zo,ow lor breaking the drum of nls ear.
Now that the cholera scare is over, the
streets of New York are resuming their
dirty state.
The Canadian government is to follow
our example in making postal card of
various sues.
Negroea are turning bandits in Missis
sippi. Several murders and one double
lynching have occurred.
At New York marriages between Chin
ese laborers and Europeans of the poorer
classes are increasingly irequent.
The Baltimore and Ohio party seem to
have carried their point, and will gain
control of the Ohio and Mississippi road.
Spurious silver dollars are plentiful in
some of the Eastern State. They are
said to be clever imitations, but light of
weight.
The net gold fund in the Treasury is
still growing. Two months ago it
amounted to $110,000,000, and now it is
I1ZJ,UCU,UUU.
Pitteburz thinks of damming Indian
creek forty-three miles away to get a
supply ox water, ii needed, oi 100,000,000
gallons a day.
While driving a well at Linwood,
Mich.,"a vein of soft coal, two feet thick,
and one of hard coal, six and one-half
feet thick, were struck."
The contractor for the construction of
the Canadian Soo canal binds himself to
have the canal completed by the open
ing of navigation in 1894.
The story that the grasshopper are
eating up the early wheat in Kansas has
been traced to tbe State Central Com
mittee of the People's party.
An Omaha sport in red clothes is
walking from Omaha to Chicago and re
turn, begging his food, and to do it in
thirty-seven days for $4,000.
It Is estimated that the voting lists of
Boston will contain at least 80,000 names.
In 1888 the number of registered votes at
the national election was 72,116.
The Daltons were second cousins to the
James boys and distantly related to the
Youngera, who are now in the Minnesota
penitentiary for the North field bank rob
bery. Mr. Whitney, President of the West
End road of Boston, and a syndicate of
capitalists are reported to have pur
chased all the open coal mines of Nova
Scotia.
The County Commissioners of Carbon
county, Pa., wek before last sold 10,000
acres of unredeemed mountain land.
Some of it was sold for less than 3 cents
an acre.
A Canadian officials ha cone to Hud
son's Bay to invetigate the truth of the
reports that American whalers are amug-
ung large quantities oi goods into tnat
iitrict,
The street railway conductor of Cin
cinnati who need the old punched tick
ets over and over attain and cheated the
company oat of $100,000 Or thereabout
are out of a Job.
Three bio- law firm in New York are
having a vast amount of real estate busi
ness, and are inserting a clause of their
mortgage now requiring all future pay
ments to oe maae in gold.
It has been estimated bv financiers of
experience that not less than $300,000,
000 of American securities held in
Europe have been unloaded in this coun
try within the last two years.
The Interstate Bridge and Street Bail-
way Company, having a capital of 17.-
600,00, ha given out tbe contracts for a
new bridge over tbe Missouri to connect
Omaha, Neb., with Council Bluffs, la,
It is stated that the remains of Christo
pher Columbus have been offered to the
United State as security for a $100,000
loan at 6 per cent, intercut. The offer
was made by President Henreanx of San
uomingo.
The Dubuque (la.) water company
wants the city to buy the plant at 1366.-
000, alleged price offered by outside cap
italists. The city holds an option to
bay it at its appraised value, which will
not exceed $2JU,ouo.
The Indians at Pine Ridge Agency are
sullen, and communication between the
various tribes of a secret and apparently
important nature is said to have taken
place daring the summer. Thev expect
tne messian in laws.
President Seth Low of Columbia Col
lege used city police to prevent sopho
mores interfering with freshmen when
assembled for entranos examination.'
His purpose is to break no rushins and
ail less maniy lorms oi naaing.
A diamond mine i reputed to have
been discovered on the farm of J. W.
Marchbanks,tbree miles from Gainsville,
Ga, "A pan full of garnets and dia
monds weighing nine-tenths of carat
have already been taken ont."
Complete statistics of the great fire at
St. Johns, Newfoundland, have just
been iosaed. The number of houses de
stroyed m as 1,650; the number of fami
lies burned out 1,874, and the total num
ber of persons burned oat 10,234.
The use ot molasses as fuel is bains
seriously considered in the South. Mo
lasses is now selling at 2 cents per gallon,
and 166 gallons weigh a ton, making
the price $3.33 per ton. which is less than
current prices for coal on tbe plantations.
Oagoodby. the young farmer who wrote
what was known as the Murchlson letter
four years ago, is still living near Los
Angeles, Gal., bnt is oat of literature.
Ex-Minister Sackville-West muv ha In.
terested to learn that hi celebrated cor
respondent never got anything from the
administration, and it does not appeal
that he ever solicited any consideration.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Monthly Statement of Exports of
' harm Products Shows a Decided
1 Decline for September.
Mr. Hnnaacker of the Carnagie Steel
Company had a conference with Secre
tary Tracy the other day relative to the
alow delivery of steel for the construc
tion and armor of war veajuila. Aftar
the conference Secretary Tracy said that
it had retalted satisfactorily to himself.
According to the statements made (o
mm tbe Carnegie Company is in a better
condition than he thought. He received
tbe assurance that work would
pushed, and that hereafter all contract
requirements would be met.
Secretary Tracv haa deefdm! to rennm.
mend to Congress an appropriation for
an immense government dry dock at
San Francisco. This important work
will cost about $5 0,000. The chief of
the bureau of yards and docks has made
strong representations to Secretary
Tracv of tbe necessity for a government
dry dock at San Francisco in response to
vigorous appeal irom Mare Island offi
cials. The proposed structure would be
of timber and stone and of a size suffi
cient to accommodate the largest war
mp.
General Miles haa submitted hia an
nual report on the department of the
luiBsieeiupi. xie says tne inspection re
ports show that tbe troops are in a good
state of discipline and efficiency. (Gen
eral Miles says regarding the dissatisfac
tion among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians on account of the deduction of
S67.500 for so-called attorneys' fees from
money aue to inaians in payment tor
reservations opened to settlement that
he directed an investigation to be made
by Captain Lee. - Captain Lee in his re
port said that the payment of money
was tainted with misrepresentation,
fraud and deceit, and waa an outrage
upon the Indians. General Miles earn
estly renews the recommendation made
in his laat annual report of $850,000 for
ine moo.'lization ot 1U.000 regulars and
90.000 State troops at tbe World's Fair.
He further nrges an appropriation of $1,-
oju.uvu lor transportation, camp ex
penses, equipment and other expenses
connected with the proposed encamp-
men.
The monthly statement of exports of
arm product mow tnere wa a decided
tallins- oil dnrinir September and rlnrino
the first quarter of the present fiscal
year, compared with tbe same periods ot
last year, rue decrease in exports ex
ceeds $14,000,000 for September and s26 -
000,000 for the quarter ending Septem
k. at t,i i .i i ?. f
wi ui., uui, ur inmu ui uo .urge exports
made last winter and spring the total for
oreaastuns last nine months was more
than $38,000,000 in excess of the first
nine months of 1891. The exports of
wneat nonr increased daring September
f OA-F ufll - : a e o-r ,'in . . ... .
yi,AU4,oo, ngauusi, yj,o i,0'JO 1U 181
and daring the first quarter of the fiscai
year $19,154,436 against $14,449,262 in
1891. The exports of corn show a falling
on lorneptemoer ot i,uuu,U79, against
$1,846,676 in 1891. The rye export for
tne montn were only ll(J,377 in valne,
whereas a year ago thev were $2,968,539.
The value of the exports of cattle and
hogs from the United States daring Sep
tember were $2,491,081. and for the first
quarter of the present fiscal year $8,532,
212, an increase for the month over 1891
of $141,689, and for the quarter, $41,600.
The exports of dairy products for Sep-
temoer were iuu.zsi, a decrease, com
pared with the same month of 1891, of
l-i,o9i;. .
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
The President Expresses Satisfaction at
the Warm Interest the Pope Is
Taking in Our Fair.
It is ascertained that Germany will be
represented by not less than 280 wine
growers at tne umcago Exposition.
Mrs. Dora Wheeler Smith is doing dec
orative work on the ceiling sad freixe of
the woman's building at the Chicago
tvona-s air without charge, which
wooid nave cost $3,000 if done by anyone
eise.
A number of the old pioneers of Ben
ton county, Or., propose to go to the
World's Fair next year overland in
prairie schooners with ox teams in the
style in which they traveled to the West
in tneeariy days, w hue there they will
muge iu uieir acaooners.
Pacific county, Wash., will have a fine
display at Chicago, mounted by Profea-
t T 1 I 1 . . . .
mil aiuuouu, inciuaing sea lions, seal,
sturgeon, salmon, elk, a group of deer,
bear and sea birds ot all kinds. In thn
department of natural history Washing-
tuu win us represented witn nearly
everything from a humming bird to the
skeleton of whale. Photographs will
show the salmon industry from driving
trap aiwa to canning tne Salmon.
The ten logs donated by the Puget
oouna loggers to the Washington
World's Fair Commission are fair
les of the immense logs cut in that
tate. The loga are 121 feet long and 41
inches squared. One of the logs before
being squared was 125 feet long, and con
tained 12,276 feet Thev are the largest
logs ever shipped out of the State by rail
road. Fonr flat cars were required for
one log. The end cars are built up so
that the middle cars can wing free
while rounding curves.
Cardinal EampolII, Papal Secretary of
State, has received a letter from Secretary
of State Foster, expressing the satisfac
tion of the President on learning of the
warm interest the Pope waa taking in
the approaching Columbian Exposition.
The President was also gratified that the
holy father had manifested a wish to
forward to the exhibition some memen
tos of the discovery of America and
other objects of interest now preserved
in the Vatican. Secretary Foster as
sures the Papal Secretary that the great
est care will be exercised in guarding
the exhibits, and that the representa
tives in charge will receive every cour
tesy upon their arrival and daring their
sojourn. Secretary Foster states the ex
hibits belonging to Columbus will be
shown in building which will be an
exact reproduction of the Monastery La
Rabida. He farther states the President
has made similar requests to varioua
governments, private persons and cor
porations in Europe for the loan nf annh
articles having a relation to tbe discov
ery of America, and that it is the pur
pose of this government to bring relics,
if necessary, to the United States in a
man-of-war to be detailed by the Secre
tary of the Navy for the pur pose.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Exp
eriments With Different
Kinds of Lights.
ENGLISH DRUNKEN WOMEN.
A Remarkable Shower of Volcano
Ashes in Several Parts of ,
Finland, Russia.
The barley crop of France is 20,00O,OC0
bushels less than last year.
The French Free Mason have resolved
to take a more energetic part in politics.
New docks for the transatlantic trade
will bj shortly started at Stettin, Ger
many. The London police returns show a
great increase during tbe last two years
in the number of drunken women.
It la estimated that $40,000,000 gold of
British capital haa been invested in the
railways of the Argentine Republic.
The cross on the top of the Pantheon
in Paris, which haa been so great an
eyesore to the Radicals of that city, is to
comeaown.
A leading Japanese newasaper com
plains that the good manners of the
Japanese women have been ruined by
the importation of Western civilization.
A company with 100.000.000 francs
capital is trying to get a license for a
gambling establishment at Mondorf, sit
uated in the Grand Duchy of Loxem
biurg. .
In Kin-Kiang. China, there is a man
who has token a vow to watch three
years by his mother's grave, during
which period he will be cared for ty
ueignuora.
Considerable interest hs been awak
ened among the litnraiy circles of Berlin
by the sale of an edition de luxe of the
complete works of Frederick the Great
for 2,000 marks.
A remarkable shower of volcano ashes
recently occurred in several parts of Fin
land. The ground in some placet is
stated to have been covered to tne depth
of nearly an inch.
A Glasgow paper publishes the statis
tics of emigration from that port for 1892.
and these show that forty-three started
for Australia, 1.056 for Canada and 20.637
for the United States.
A corner on vaccine was brouzht abont
recently in Moscow, and in view of a
threatened epidemic of email-pox the
price of the virus was increased some
thousand per cent.
It is stated that Dr. Pellegrini will suc
ceed Senor Plaza as Argentina Repre
sentative in London, and will be charged
to propose terms for a final arrangement
in regard to the debt.
The Liverpool Journal of Commerce an
nounces that a reduction of seamen's
wages is probable, 10 per cent redaction
having been decided upon at Hull. A
great deal of trouble is feared.
The ci train made in France laat year
realized a total of about $10,480,000.
Cigarettes made in France were sold to a
total of about $4,029,000, while tobacco
for smoking in pipes fetched $34,430,000.
An Encash company is beintr formed
for the acclimatization of elephants in
Sooth America. The Valley of the
Amazon and ita tributaries are thought
to be very suitable for elephant farming.
A statistician of the German govern
ment a short time aeo investigated the
records of the Department ot Compulsory
Insurance and according to his investi
gation tne most untortunate day is not
Friday, but Monday. -;.
The Shanghai correspondent ot the
London Timet cables that English mis
sionaries have been mobbed by natives
in Kieng Yon. The hoose of Mr. Phil-
li n tt thai iniaainn na m A .Basal-wnwstxtal
UfC- UVtM U U1W UUDDIUU. TV UCDV4UJ OU :
-sd fee-ndjii! wife fled for their lives.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia
are soon to pay another visit to tfaeir in
valid son, Frince George, at his moan
tain retreat, Abbas-Tuman in the Cau
casus. The Prince will continue the
heroic treatment for his lungs another
year.
The Britieh Adm'ralty, wishing to
make the display of British warships at
Hampton Roads next spring as imposing
as possible, has invited Admiral Hoe-
kins at -'he conclusion of his furlough to
elect tbe vessels which will be available
for the occasion.
Experiments with different kinds of
lights for libraries show that 550 hours
of an electric light of 144-candle power
produced no yellowing enect upon the
leaves of books, while 240 hours of a
fifty-candle gas light produced a notice
able cnange ot tone.
In the recent competition of horses at
Rouen, France, for the world's champ
ionship leaping sweepstakes an English
horse, Las Mania, cleared the bar at a
height of seventy-four inches. The
highest leap of a French horse. New
Moon, was seventy-two inches.
The merchants of Trieste are hooinc
to inherit a large share of the shipping
trade that has been interrupted by the
outbreak of cholera at Hamburg. Thev
argue that their port is peculiarly well
situated for trade with Asia and Africa
and offers many advantages to Hamburg
firms.
One hundred and twenty thousand
copies of Zola's "Debacle," have been
sold in lees than three months. He has
received $60,000 for the publication in
feuilletons of nineteen volumes, and by
their publication in book form he has
made about $160,000 more. In twenty
years altogether he haa made about
$260,000.
The new army bill to be submitted to
the German Reichstag at its coming ses
sion will call for an outlay of $10,000,000
and a permanent addition to the budget
.f too rwvt nu. - WAA. .v.. - '' .
v. -&0,wv,vw m J c. , u-j weruilieilb
contending that the increased military
establishment will be absolutely neces
sary to make sure of the retention of
Alsace and Lorraine.
A recent report that the White Star
line had contracted for a 760-foot steam
er, a ship eighty feet longer than the
new Cunarders, arose from the request
of the Liverpool anthoritiea tn RrlwarH
Harland for his opinion as to what size
of ship they should provide for in the
new docks. The answer was that ac
commodations for a steamer 700 feet long
would be afficient for the fnture.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Prodnoe. Fralt, Bte.
Whrat Nominal. Valley,
Walla Walla. 11.17! per cental.
$1.26 j
Floub Standard, $3.65) Walla Walla,
$3.65; Graham, $3.15; Superfine, $2.50
per barrel.
Oats New, 4043o per bnshel
rolled. 6.60fi6.75 per barrel: 16.500
6.75 per bag; $3.75 per case.
mat siifgiil per ton.
Un.fnnnM Rwn A. -V....- m.
VMM a f u, UiUiw, fiv,
ground barley, $22.5025 ; chop feed, $21
22 per ton ; whole feed barley, $18019;
middlings, $2628 per ton; brewing
barley, $1.101.15 per cental; chicken
wneat, 11.ZU per cental.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 30
32$c; fancy dairy, 2730 30c; fair to
good. 22)i25c; common, 1517)c;
California, 3840c per roll.
Cheese Oregon, ll12c; Young
America, 12Jc per poand.
Eoos Oregon, 2730o; Eastern, 25o
per dozen.
PootvrBT Old Chickens, $3.604.00;
broilers, $2.003.00; ducks, $3.00(6.60;
geese, nominal, 8.009.OO per dozen;
turkeys, 1012e per pound.
Vegetables -Cabbage, $2 per cental;
Onions, 75c$l.O0 per cental; pota
toes, 809Jc per cental; Oregon cu
cumbers, 1015c per dozen;, tomatoes,
35c per box; Oregon turnips, 15c per
dozen; young carrots, 15c per dozen;
beets, 15c per dozen; sweet potatoes,
$1.75 per sack ; Oregon cauliflower, 76o
$1.00 per dozen ; celery, 90c per dozen.
Fruits Oregon peaches, $1.101.26
per box; Sicily lemons, $9.60; Cali
fornia lemons. $7.008.00 per box ;
cantaloups, $1.601.75 per dozen ; water
melons, 1.2o1.50 per dozen; California
grapes, $1.001.25 per box; Oregon
grpaes, 4)7bc per box ; pineapples,
$3.00 per dozen ; plums, 7590c per box ;
Oregon Italian prunes, 8590c per box;
Oregon pears, $1.251.50 per box ; ba
nanas, $3.004.00 per bunch ; quinces,
$1.50 per box ; oranges, $3.00 per box ;
cranberries, $10.00 per box.
Staple Ctroeme.
Honet Choice comb, 15(317e
nound.
per
Salt Liverpool, $14.50(117.00; stock,
$10.6011.60 per ton.
Rica Island, $5.005.60; Japan, $4.85
per cental.
Dbikd Fruits Petite prunes, 9c; sil
ver, 10llc; Italian, 10llc; German,
8c; plums, 66c; apples, 4)6)c;
evaporated apricots, 1516c; peacues,
1216c; pears, 78c per pound.
CorrE Costa Rica, 21c ; Rio, 20'c ;
Salvador, 20c; Mocha, 27&30o; Java,
27)4 30c; Arbuckle'a 100-pound cases,
23 17-20c per pound.
BEANBSmall white, 8c; pink, 8c;
bayoe. 3s'c; butter, 3c; limaa, 3c per -pound.
Sirup Eastern, in barrels, 40355c;
half-barrels, 4257Kc; in cases. 36(3
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California,
in barrels, 2040c per gallon; $1.75 per
keg.
Sdoar Net prices: D. 6c: Golden O.
5)sc; extra C, 6jc; Magnolia A, 6c;
granulated. 0c: cube crushed and pow
dered, UKc: confectioners' A. 5c per
pound ; maple sugar, 16 16c per pound.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted
quoted $1.7682.00 ; peaches, $1.852.10;
Bart lett pears, $1.752.0J ; plums. $1.37M
ai-oo: strawberries. S2.25(u!2.U : cher
ries, $2.252.40; blackberries, $1.85(3
2; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2,253
2.80; apricots, $1.652.00. Pie fruits:
Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.26; plums,
$1.101.20; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per
dozen. Pie traits, gallons Assorted,
I3.253.50; peaches, $3.604.00; apri
cots, $3.504.00; plums, $2.753.00;
blackberries, $4. 004.60. Vegetables :
corn, $1.40(31.86; tomatoes, 96c$1.00;
ugar peas, 95c$1.00; string beans, 90(3
95c per dozen. Meats : Corned beef, Is,
$1.25; 2s, $1.85(32.00; chipped beef,
$2.10: lunch toname. la. t.3.10- 2a. xn AO:
deviled ham, $1.60(82.76 per down.
Fish: Sardines, 76c(31.65; lobsters, $2.30
3.60; salmon, tin 1-1 b. tails, $1.25(3
1.60; flats, $L75; 2 lbs., $2.25 2.50;
bR, $6.t0.
.MlaeellanMua.
Natls Base quotations: Iron, $3.00;
steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per keg
Irok Bar. 2Je per bound: nig iron.
$24(327 per torn. , i
Bteel 10c per pound. . :. ;
ity, $8.2og3-76 per box; for crosses 3 "
extra per box?- TOoftSSr liiSoT jprime
quality, $6.626.75 per box; I. C. coke
plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.60g8.00
per box. -
Lead ic per pound; bar, 6)V ' '
Shot $1.80 per sack.
Horseshoes $6.
Naval Stobrs Oakum, $4.50(36 per
bale; roein, $4.80(35 per 480 pounds; tar, .
Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, (9.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $6.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 65c per gallon in carload lots.
Hide., Wool and Hop..
Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 7)4
8c; lc less for culls; green, selected,
over 66 pounds. 4c ; under 65 pounds, 3c ;
sheep pelts, short wool, S050c; me--dium,
60 80c; long, 90c$1.25; shear
ings, 10320c; tallow, good to choice, S
3ic per pound.
Wool Umpqua Valley, 1619o; rail
clip, 1316Xc; Willamette Valley, 15
18c, according to quality; Eastern Ore- '
gon, 10(g 16c per pound, according to
condition. ,
Hops 1520o, according to condition.
Tk Keat Harket.
-live, lK2c; dressed,
(asc
Mottor Live, 3J33Jtfo; dressed, 6o;
lambs, live, ZM (33c; dressed, 8c
Hoos Live, 6c ; dressed, 7c.
Veal 46o per pound. . .
Smoked Meats Large ham, 13
13c; medium ham,13(314o; breakfast
bacon. 13316o: dry salt aides. 10U;
smoked sides, 12(313c per pound.
Lard Compound, in tins, 9c; pure,
in tins, 12l3cj Oregon, U(313o
per pound. -
Not a Kick, Bnt .
Wise Mother (from head of stairs V-Mv
dear, I wish you wouldn't sit up half the
night reading novels. ,
Pretty Daughter (from the parlor)
Why, ma, Tm not reading. Mr. Lilli-
white is here- - '
Wise Mother-Oh. I beg his pardon.
I thought you had gne, Mr. Lilliwhite.
and I was afraid my daughter was in
juring her eyes readiog. It seems I was
mistaken. Probably the noise I took to
be the, front door closing was only tho
hall clock striking? 10. New York
Weekly.