THE
OREGON
MIST
VOL. 0.
THE OREGON MIST.
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THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY,
J. It. DEEOLE, Manager.
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lMtOPESSIUNAL. ;
II. R. CI IKK,
rilYSICIAN and SURQKOX.
81. Helen", Oregon.
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K. J. K. HAI.U
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Cl.tukiinl.. Coluniliin counly. Or.
JR. W. C. HKI.T,
PH YSICIAN and SURGEON.
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DENTIST.
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All Work OuaninltHiil.
I. A. MvllaiDS.
A. S. Dksmbn.
rcURlDR A PKKS8ER,
AT T0RNE YS-at-LAW.
Oregon City , Oregon .
Prompt attention given Uml-oftW business.
n. 1.1'iti.k.
SURVEYOR and
CIVIL ENGINEER,
ttt. Helen., Oregon.
(Joniity .urveyor. I.nml surveying, town
plutlliiK, and engineering work promptly
(lone.
W. T. Huhhsv.
J. W. ilRAPKH.
Iil
lURNKV A DRAPER,
ATTORN HYS-at-LA VV,
'Oregon City, Oregon.'
Twelve V'
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Keitlxter of
the United atv
leu Lmrl Offlce here.
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C.mrls and Involving the
Office.
tioncrul Land
IR0CKKNHK0U(lH it COWING,
ATTORNEY-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
( Late speelul Knt of Oeneral ll,J,r','J,,'1J
Honieatend, preemption and Hi iger
Land ainilicat on., and olher Land orure
uilne-Va specialty. Olllce. .etond floor,
Lend Offii e Building.
JAPANESE
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CURE
A new .nil complete treiilmtmt, 'onin.i
Hot ami I ill". .....i.,- iti-hliitf, Cli
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AIM) in
niHl. In-
ronlo,
oilier
way.
Kraut bunolH t the ffw J
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1th. The firm
runilerlng.n oper-
j in.
Heniony hm
,' mi. never - .-, ( th:
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terrible I1huo when
o wnen . "'"T.- . . i mot
Klven with 6 Ikix.s,
n Willi o " ' . Huinnlo. miarantee
,i1. Henri Uiii lr free "'l'.'" wholo.ale
to renin" my '",'-'
euroi
PACIFIC COAST..
Immense Crops Raised
Over Idaho.
All
A feminine horse thief.
w Irrigation Question Will Occupy
Mu:h of the Time of the
Idaho Legislature.
Yuma oimplalus of tramps.
Lot Angeles Is to have a glas factory.
The ptnenutcrop in Navada is Urge.
Much land it b ting taken up in Arl
sona by homesteaders.
The Omur d'Alene Indians predict an
extraordinarily hard win'er.
The irrigation question will occupy
tr. tl,i. ti.- r,.,.Ki,.. i. .n ail.
inucn oi ins umt) oi me tuaiio Ljegisia-
linrmnant ana In th Mti .7. ,t i largest increase in number of new poU
thJKtata southern part of offices Is in the Southern SUtes. Rath-
l. ' . . bone suggesto an amendment to the law,
An attack was made on three horse- making the mailing of green-goods cir
th levee near Santa Ke. N. M. Ooa was oulars a continuing offense from the time
killed and one wounded, and the other of mailing to the place of destination,
provddto beawoman dressed in male so that the prosecution can take place at
attire and armed. either point. similar enactment In
The Tuscarora, Nev., Timtt-Kevieio regard to lotteries has about swept them
says that, in consequence of the closing out of existence in two years, and he be
down of the mine, many peep e ure Hevea the same effect weuld follow in
taking advantage ol the pleasant the cases of green-goods swindles,
weather to sesk "greener fields and pas- The Navy Department will soon send
tares new." a special oommnnication to Congress in
The total production of raisins in Oal- connection with the transportation of
ifornia this year is 1,8J0 carloads. The enlisted men from New York to San
crop will be found, when all is shipped,
says the Secretary of the State Ktisin
Association, to be three-fourths of last
year's shipment.
The Bradstreet commercial agency re-
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with eleven for the
previous week and thirteen for the cor
responding week of 1891. . '
The Governor of California has au
thorized an election at Cerro Uordo,
Inyo oounty, to vote for all offloers who
were voted for on November 8. This is
owing to the destruction of the ballots
at that precinct on election day.
Considerable excitement has been ero
a'ed in Vancouver, B. C, over the fa-t
that the two local firms, who control the
entire coal snpp y, have issued circulars
stating that all coat must be paid for in
advance or no delivery will be made.
Tbe Coos Bsy, Or., ATewi tpeaks of the
loiiowlng s "a peculiar coincidence"
Captain M.rshall'a little daughter Jen-
nie died last Tuesdav. She was horn
the day Cleveland was elected in 1884.
and died the day he was again elected
in 1892.
The City Council of Oudea and the
county of We bar, Utah, have appropri
ated $30,000 as a bonus to induce the
Southern Pacific to remove its shop
from Carlin, Nev., an I Terrace, Utah, to
0den. A contract his teen .igned by
all tbe parties, and
the reuovat takes
place at once.
Adells Freeman has entered suit to
suitain her heirship to G istave Exerate,
w5' ,..?!?Be,rt3.,t.. m m"
tint muntloiiMl in the will. The nroner-
ty includes much valuable business
property in the central part of Los An
geles, The plsintiff is married, and re
sides in San Diego.
A move is now on foot to bring into
Boise City the hot water from the arte
sian wells about two miles above town
and utilise tt for heating purpose. Pipes
are already laid, and the experiment
will be tried, in tne new city nan ana in
the nnblio-school building. If it is a
success there, it will be generally used
throughout the city.
Bv far the largest water-storage proj
ect ever undertaken in the United States
is that on tbe Anions canal, nine miles
from Fhwnlx, Work will begin at once 1
to pot an embankment on tbe west side
oi tne canal at tne alliance oi
three
miles, which will form a lake of that patron, and the other to Cortes, the con
length and twenty feet deep. Water will queror of Mexico,
be let in from the Arizona canal during , Emperor William has at last consented
tbe rainy season. ' to let a German military band visit Chi-
Donald McRae. Commissioner of Uma-
tills county, Or., is the inventor of a
cultivator, which promises to revolu-
tionise the farming Industry. It Is ee-!
peclally designed tor killing weeds, and mission the Willapa Harbor Tannin Ex
will also thoroughly nulverise the soil, trai-t Works will nrenara an exhibit of
The shovels are flat, heart-shaped pieces
of steel, and by an Ingenious mechan-
leal contrivance tney nave a reveraiuie
. ! 11,. Inlantlnn nf arhl.h lalnffloa
U1UV1UU, .IlV 1.1 UHWU v. TT I . . U u BD u t.v.
them of rubbish, so that they will cut
clear and smooth at all times.
Never since the settlement of Idaho
have there been such immense crops all tract. ,
over the State as during the pnst season. The Emperor of Germany has con
Scientific research attributes a beneticia1 eented to send to the World's Fair what
chauge in the climate to the multiplies- will be one of the moat remarkable and
tion of irrigation canals, which moist n attractive features to be seen at Chicago
a great extent oi country ana create a
humid atmosnhere. It has been, oh
ssrved that frequent rains now fall dur
ing the months ot Juiy ana August.
Nature is dosing up the gap between
wet and dry seasons and equalising the
rainfall.
For some weeks the affairs of the pro
posed San Francisco and Great Salt
Lake railroad have been very quiet, and
there is now no douht that the pr, j ct
w 11 fall through. The sole cause of its
non-success has been tbe lack of interest
tukon in it. Manv people who were
nl.mnraiis for a competing road became
shy when it came to raising subsorip-
tlons, and it has been impossible to raise
enough money to push the road to com
pletion. As a consequence the whole
scheme it on the verge of dissolution
Much preliminary work in the way of
...ai arn.L had been done, and about
$3 1,000 had been spent in this manner
The work of obtaining subscription, was '
thsn taken up.and though urgent efforts aiBle and directly opposite the Mexu;an wankeewith a capital stock of $40,
nnlvnna.third of the amount liianlmr. The California World's Fair mnn,i..j i i. . oaa'
of money agreed noon before tne ojnns
TT TT 1 T .'""l j . . . , ,
0OU1O De noawiu um ukou ui",
was agreed at the neginning ma. an
t,. .hnnlrl he allowed In which to
collect the subscriptions, and if at the
. -i .u-. .Ka nau.tt.aarv amount
tnh7uirr,iiifr' ill would
OI money w. r ---- -. -- -
be released irom tneir piouxo. i
tni.k. There sre still over i wo monme
i ii.au .It Mr. W the general lack -of
r . i u .v... lra nrnmnt... nf
XSZTtonm ilwnanviA
and see no use in attempting to carry
vuv
matters any further. This road was to
Si .v.. nnmnatitor of the Southern Pa-
clflo and the new transcontinental line.
ST. HELENS,
I NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Annual Report of the Fourth Assistant
' Postmaster-General for the Year
Ending June jo.
Ex-Governor Geary of Iowa has form
lly assumed the duties of Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury. The Presi
dent delegates to him the power to sign
treasury warranto and act as Secretary
of the Treasury in certain contingencies.
Superintendent of Censns Porter In
hie annual report strongly urges that
the census office be made a permanent
bureau of the Interior Department.
Regarding the cost of taking the elev
enth census, he says that the dUburse
menu up to June 80, 1892, amounted to
$8,203,693, and of the thirteen volumes
in which results have been embodied
there are now In the bands of the print,
er eight quarto volumes, but the Infinite
detail of the office work makes it Imnoa.
biuiu w .oreieii tne aate oi tne compie-
tlon of the whole work.
xne annual report oi Fourth Assistant
Postmaster-General." Itathbona ahowa
4,105 new postoffices were established
during the year, a greater number than
ny prevlons year except 189J, when it
was 4.427. The year closed with 67,119
posHnic4i in ,ne uniteo states, xne
Francisco. The naval officers are said
to be mad all over at the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, owing to their in
ability to get tbe company to transport
tneir sailors, as tne treasury uepart-
ment has ruled against sending men
cross the continent by rail, the Navy
Department is greatly embarrassed in
its enorts to supply men lor tne vessels
on the Pacifio Coast. Recently the de
partment desired to send 100 men to
San Francisco for the new coast defense
vessel Monterey. The company in
formed the department that they could
not take the men for several weeks yet.
The department has determined to ask
Congress for authority to transport its
men across the continent by ralL
The monthly weather-crop bulletin
shows that November was slightly
colder than usual in the greater portion
of the conn try east of the Rocky Moun
tains, with a deficiency in temperature
generally throughout the Northern
States and as far south as North Caro-
alt. There was more than the usual
amount of rain in the Middle Atlantio
States, Southern New England, the
northern portion of the Gulf States,
Tennessee, Eastern Texas, Illinois, In
diana, Michigan and California. The
unusually heavy rains in the North Pa
cifio States resulted in great loss to the
railroad and agricultural interests. The
weather has been favorable throughout
winter wheat region and the recent
rains doubtless benefited great!
It the
late-sown wheat, but the ground con
tinues very hard throughout the spring
wim. states. Cotton picking is about
I -. I C .11. U. .1 n -
heavy rains. The weather in Southern
f. ..."
California was favorable, and the re-
nrvrt. ihnw that th nranirn nron iariDen.
fug as well at could be desired, the fruit
coloring fast.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
Great Demand for Space In the Mining
Building Sp iln to Ask the Cortes
for an Appropriation.
The Spanish Cabinet will ask the Cor
tes for $150,000 for the World's Fair and
to send all archives pertaining to Co
lumbus. Among the exhibits at the World's
Fair will be two swords from Spain, one
of which bslonged to Isabella, Columbus'
cago during the World's Fair. The best
men will be selected for the perpose
from the bands of different regiments,
, By request of the World's Fair Com-
Washington hemlock or, as it is now
called, Alaska pine. The exhibit will
consist of a c ird of bark, tbe hemlock
. . I I 1 1 - ... 1 .tU it
9XvrllCL .DH IDH1U.I IUIII1CTU lbU IV, IIOIU-
lock lumber, flooring and cross sections;
i90 photographs of the works, showing
the process of manufacture of the ex-
next year. It will consist ot a collection
of presents received by his grandfather,
the Emperor William ; hU father, the
Emperor Frederick, and himeelf from
their fellow-sovereigns in Europe, as
well as from the people of Germany.
The collection will be intrusted to the
care of the Latin-American department,
but the conditions under which it will be
exhibited have not been announced. The
presents consist of -jewels ana otner per
sonal ornaments, silver plate, decora-'
tlnna and an infinite varie'" of other ar
ticles. The collection is wurth millions
of dollars.
There is great demand for space In lht
mining building at the World's Fair, and
moat of the States awarded space are
fut completing their arrangements for
, exhibit. California, however, is the
one state which is showing a decidedly
Wulnir anirit. thong it wae assigned
oneof the most di'e i rab'e parts of the
mines and mining building, in the main
....... . . .....
Br,ari has not yet acceptea tnis space.
moreover, iu ' . .
world's rair management, me oocreiary
nf th California Association said they
were not yet in a position to i state
...iIia. thaw ttA.ii-Ai tiiA .nana allotted
7u. X. it Inoh of the
-""-Mt-"-.---; -.,,
mine mining .uimiui ...,
.averal estates, wno ao not anow wiiotuer
thevwant to place an exhibit in the
l iLltn m tint .-a nlamnrlnir for ln
creased allotment. The World's Fair
management is consiaeramy wrongui .up
,, i .
0ver the lassitude shown nv tne uai.io--
,,i, commission, and is anxlonely awa t-
ing a reply one way or the other.
OREGON, FRIDAY,
EASTERN ITEMS.
Bank Cashier Leaves Nothing
But the Empty Safe.
POMPADOUR JIM'S SCHEME.
Excitement in Tennessee Over
Whites Being Whipped
by Negroes.
There are three Keeley institutes in
Missouri.
The Chicago Pork Trust will kill
12,-
ooo nogs daily.
American capitalists have secured con
trol of the bituminous-coal product of
Nova Scotia.
A movement is on foot to raise a fund
for the relief of the late Samuel J. Ran
dall's widow.
A hill fia. tiAan tnt.rnrlllAawt lntl tfiA
Georgia Legislature to allow State banks
to issue notes.
There is excitement in McNary coun-
ty, Tenn., on account of negroes whip-
ping white men.
The pension estimates for 1894 are
n05,000,000. The deficiency for 1893 is
estimated at $10,683,621.
During October the elopements from
hicago to Milwaukee are said to have
Obicago't
averaged eleven per week.
The New York Ihrald't Washington
correspondent wants "the President's
salary increased to $100,000."
One of the largest natural-gas wells
ever discovered in the Indiana belt baa
been drilled near Muncie, Ind.
The trained nurses of New York are
planning a home where they can have a
place to go when not employed,
Tbe Louisiana law providing separate
compartments for blacks and whites on
railroad cars is held to be constitutional.
Hungarian laborers on an Ohio rail
road locked their boss in a tool chest,
and were burning him when he wae res
cued. Sixty thousand more pupils are en
rolled in the public schools of Kansas
than there were voters at the last elec
tion in that State.
Tbe Prohibitionists carried South Oar-
olina on the popular vote at tbe recent
election, and expect to make It a dry
State in the near future.
Awordinir to a Homestead di'Datch
the Carnegie Company has contracted
for improvements snd extensions to the
mills to the amount of $175,000. municate with the shore, have been sug-
The sixteen Belgian glassblowers, who gested.
ere held since November ltt at New The electric street cars of Albany, M.
York on suspicion that they were con- y., are provided with an automatic de
tract laborers, have been released. vice that shows the name of each street
The Chicago Yacht Club, it is an- Just before it is reached,
nouneed, is arranging for the establish- The Board of Agriculture shows thst
ment of a Western naval academy on the total yield of corn throughout Ksn-
the city lake front near Fifty-first street,
The most conservative estimate Mis
sissippi's cotton crop at half that of last
ytas. or two-urds of an average crop,
which would place it under 700,000 bales.
B. J. Martin, cashier of the Webster
Bank at Eudora, Miss., is missing with
all the cash in the bank. The sum taken
is variously estimated at from $25,000 to
$50,000.
The New York merchants want one of
their townsmen chosen for the Senator- (
I ebip. They make tbe claim on the
' grounds of political right and business
' propriety.
Matthew Laflin hat subscribed $75,000
toward a permanent home for the Chi
cago Academy of Sciences. The only .
j condition is that an equal amount be ob-
tained from other sources. I
The report of the German Commission '
investigating the cause and spread of
cholera has been received at Washing
ton. It contends that cholera cannot be
transmitted in merchandise. I
Jim Oorbett's scheme for the construc
tion of a massive building, in which he
is to nolo sparring exnioitionB ana ap-
near dailv in nlava durimr the World's
Fair at Chicago, bids fair to be accom-
plished.
A man who sued the city of St. Louis
for $25,000 damage caused by kick
from a mule has lost his suit. The Court
decided that the mule at the time of the
transaction was not acting as agent for
thecity. .
While much remains to be done and
further improvement is still needed in
many lines, the tone of the report on
the Indian school service in general and
In detail shows improvements that are
gratifying. .
Thomas G. Hodgklns of Setauket, L.
I., has jiist given $50,000 to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
of New York and Brooklyn, and the
eame amount to the Society for the Pre-
ventionof Cruelty to Children.
The Island County Savings Bank of
Galveston, Tex., received a package from
New York supposed to contain $10,000.
When opened it wss found to contain
brown paper cut in slips about the size
of a bank note. Nothing is known as
to where the robbery took place or by
whom effected.
Mr. Frevvogle will bring suit against
Frick at Homestead, Pa., for conspiracy
under a State law that protects jurors
from the spite of those who do not like
the verdict they bring in. Tne penalty
is a heavy fine and long imprisonment,
Freyvogle was juror in the Critchlow
case, and Frick demanded his discharge
lrom tne Electric ugnt uompany, in
which Frick is a large stockholder.
The consolidation of the four mam
moth export breweries of the United
States the Anheuser Busch and Will
iam J. Lemp of St. Louis and the Schlita
1 D.U.. mitt. ... t in .in. nl 1 i 1
UW.ITI" IIAI WUUBIUWO.HWUU.UI WW.-
m m to gnppiy the world with beer ia
the gigantic enterprise which ia being
fathered by the Rothschilds of England.
ml. M... .umlnanl (nAr.Al.1
men in the ship-building and ehipping
Interests of the United SUtes have com
ttu1 thm llml.,, nr.ranl.at.lr.il nf a
r- - r "r-:- r
r".
be called tbe " Society of Naval Archi
tects and Marine Engineers," whose ob-
lect shall be to promote the art of ship-
all - Ixtaotnnhaka rts-. h aam.
"7 .
au''"K
will take place at the naval review In
jthespring.
DECEMBER 9, 1812.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
The Highest Viaduct In the World-Value
of the Honey and Wax Produced
In the United States.
I The pepper plant of Borneo is used to
make beer. I
I There are over 100 mines In the Lake
Superior district. 1
Thiriy-four cotton-spinning mills are
in operation in Japan.
I Thirteen hundred railway trains are
handled daily in Chicago.
The railroads are still short of suffi
cient cars to move tbe Western crops.
1 It takes 100 gallons of oil a year to
keep a large-sized locomotive in running
order. I
I The 885 electrical railroads in the
United States cover more than 4,000
miles.
' England spends ninety-nine times
more money in intoxicants than in edu
cation. In 1S00 our prodnct of hardware was
valued at $190,000,000; in 1838, 07U,
000,000. The saloons of London, if set side by
side, would make a distance of seventy
five miles.
The Black Hills promise to supply the
pnre tin needed in this country at no
distant day.
There are now in the United States
twenty-one law firms composed of hus-
bands and wives.
t Whisky may be made from molasses,
t, potatoes, tomatoes and many
othr substances.
ne wotio. consumes B.UTO.wxuiUO
pounds of paper a year, and is supplied
by 4,600 paper mills.
The National Lead ju?4 Linseed Oil
Company will continue la a trust with a
capital of $18,000,000.
Talk is no longer cheap. It cost $9 for
five minutes' nse of the telephone from
New York to Chicago.
The various English bicycle manufact-
nrers make $5,000,000 annnally by -the
eale of their machines,
Wholesale saddlers have been advised
by their national organization to make
fine display at the World's Fair.
Pittsburg capitalists have leased a
large nail mill at Georgetown, giving
employment to 600 men and boys.
Electroplating has been applied in an
ingenious" and effective manner for thu
preservation of lace forme in metal.
It is estimated that $200,000,000 have
been spent In road improvements in
Pennsylvania during the past filiy year?.
The value of the honev and wax pro
duced in the United States daring the
gst year has been estimated at $30,000,-
Sheet-iron kites, to enable a vessel
when in distress during a storm to com'
tun last season was 138,658,621 buaaela,
or 24.74 bushels to the acre.
The highest viaduct in the world has
lust been erected in Bolivia over the
river la, 9,833 leet above the tea level
and 4,008 feet above the river.
In New York the fastest elevators are
in the Union Trust Company's building
on Broadway near Wall street. They
shoot up or down, carrying 3,000 ponnda,
at a speed of 600 feet a minute.
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Richest Man in the World Numbe
of Wives Requisite for the Hap
piness of a Sultan.
Ex-President Barrillas has been or
dered by the courts of Guatemala to pay
his barber's bill.
Julian Hawthorne, who is the father
of seven children, calls bis home at Sag '
Harbor "The House of Seven Gabblers."
General Dodds. the victorious French
commander in Dahomey, has African
blood in his veins, derived through his
mother. !
The esoteric London society known as
"Tbe Souls" is to publish a paper, be I
ginning in January, with Miss Margaret
Tennant as editor. .
Prof. Virchow, the German patholo-
gist, has been appointed an honorary
member the Imperial Russian Natural
Philosophy Society. i
At a recent hunt on the domain of '
General von Wedell Emperor William
killed with his own hands 235 hares, 70
pheasants and 25 rabbits.
Young Jam's Garfield is said to much
resemble his father, the dead President,
and in manners, voice and methods re-
minds his friends of the paternal like-
ness. - '
r. Oliver Wendell Holmes admitted
the other day to a lady who went to him
for information on the point that he did
not know the name or subject of his first
poem.
It was developed by testimonv in a
recent trial in London that the Prince
0f Wales was Indebted to the extent of
$2,345 for box tickets to the London
Lyceum.
Mme. Adele Ceepay, whose essay on
"The Dangers of the Emancipation ol
Women" Mr. Gladstone wishes might
be put witnin tne reacn or men ana
women in England, is said to be a Vien-
neese. - . "
Ex-President Chamberlain of the Iowa
Agricultural College is now forming in
Ohio. His property baa an extent of 115
acres, and he is not such a theorist as to
be unable to make a practical success of
the business.
' Jnrge Shepherd, the newly appointed
Chief Just ce of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina and said to be the young-,
eat man that ever held the position, be
gan business life as a tele.raph operator.
in
Washington, D. 0.
The salary of the Prince of Wales
is
.000 000 MAa,a. Fl,.!. T,.l.i
$125,000; Duke of Edinburgh, $125,000,
ana tne uase oi t am oriole, tni- queen's
cousin, $60,000. The roval family costs
British taxpayers $40,000 a week.
Miss Alice Barth, a promising young
artist of Baltimore, has just completed
a fine oil painting of the venerable Enoch
Pratt, which he will prese nt to the Pratt
free school at North Middleboro, Mass.,
jj h ki .nt tw,t. . '
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FOREIGN LANDS.
The Mijares Incident Settled
Satisfactorily.
SALVATIONISTS MISTREATED.
Extensive Street Alteration? Pro
jected In Paris Spanish
Securities.
A fierce anti-British Republican sen
timent is reported in Portugal.
There are 950,000 persons, 90 per cent,
men, in 875 Russian jails, built to hold
570,000. -
An effort Is being made to establish a
Masonic Grand Lodge for tbe whole of
South Africa.
The managers of Monte Carlo have
excluded local physicians from the gam
bling rooms.
It is estimated that France will spend
nearly $'2,000,000 for arms and ammuni
tion for the cavalry alone next year.
About 49,000 people in England pay a
guinea a year for the privilege of dis
playing their crests on their stationery
and plate.
At least 41,000 of the young women of
London are supporting themselves by
means which are disreputable and even
revolting.
The wheat harvest of South Australia
promises to be excellent both in yield
and quality. A large surplus will be
available for export.
Argentine cannot resume cash pay
ments. A proposition for the conversion
of piper monev has been suggested by
the Minister of Finance.
New Zealand has set apart two islands
for the preservation o' iis remarkable
wild birds and o her animals, forbid
ding there all hunting and trapp'ng.
An office has been opened in London,
and a well-organized attempt ia being
made to bring American lager beer into
competition with the German product.
Woman' t Century ia the name of a new
weekly paper to be published in Weimar,
Germany. It will be devoted to the ad
vancement of women in the Fatherland.
' Extensive street alteration are pro
jected in Paris. They will be cm fined
to the Boulevard des ltaliens and ad
j lining streets and be finished in time
wr the World's Fair in 1900.
LotA R. Chnrchill intends to "pay an
other visit to Sooth Africa. His journey
to Masbonaland was not a commercial
success, but he still believes that gold
can be found in South Africa.
It is estimated that 4,000,000 francs in
Spanish securities are held in France.
Spanish bankruptcy coming on the top
of the collapse of the Panama Canal
Company would be a heavy blow to
France. .
" The Pope has recently received from
the converted savages of New Guinea a
curious present, consisting of three
crowns nv Va of feathers of the Upl
birds. 1'ueie crowns, united together,
form a tiara.
Negotiations between the French Mis
sion at Fez and tbe Sultan "have been
suspended in consequence of the refusal
of the Sultan to sign the concession for
the construction of a Morocco-Algerian
frontier railway.
M. Averof, a Greek reeident of Alex
andria, has presented the Queen of
Greece on the occasion of her silver
wedding with the enm of 200,000 drach
mae ior the erection of a reformatory for
young criminals. .
Au influential committee, representa
tive of those who in Liverpool sympa
thize with the "Darkest England"
scheme of General Booth, ia making ar
rangements for a campaign which the
General will shortly enter upon in the
city and district.
The Mijares incident In Venezuelan
waters has been satisfactorily settled.
This is the case where the Captain of
the Philadelphia refused to deliver a po
litical prisoner to the Venezuelan author
ities, who had trumped up charge that
he waa a horsethief.
The new cruiser Rurik, built at the
Baltic works, St. Petersburg, waa
launched a few days ago. The registered
tonnage of the Rurik is, the Standards
correspondent says, 11,933 tons, and she
can carry 13,250 tons. Her armor plater
are ten inches thick.
A dispatch from Paris state the scan
dalous proceedings at the rooms of the
Salvation Army in that city continue.
Sa urday evening a band of fast youth
and faster women invaded the platform
and began a cancan. The police do not
seem to desire to protect the Salvation
people from attacks of this kind.
English farmers are demanding that
the benefits of recent land legislation a
applied to Ireland shall be extended to
Great Britain. They are agitating for
the establishment of land count which
will have power to fix fair ratea and
make arrangements to enable the ten
ante to purchase their holdings from the
landlords.
The income tax report for the King
dom of Prussia, published four weeks
ago, shows an increasing number of
millionaires. There are 8,445 persons
who con 'ess to more than 900,000 marks.
The actual millionaires of Prussia are
divided into three classes the mark
millionairee, the thaler millionaires and
the so-called Income millionaires.
Prince Leopold of Prussia, the second .
cousin of the Emperor of Germany, who
took part in the recent long-distance ride
between Berlin and Vienna, has recov
ered at last from the effect of the race.
Owing to the courtesy of Lieutenant
Heydt, a contestant, his Royal Highness
was allowed to reach the goal first. The
Lieutenant has been rewarded with an
imperial decoration for his refusal to
pass the Prince when near Vienna. , j
"As the Empress Frederick and Prin
ces Margaret were walking to St. Mark'
in Venice the other day, followed by a
jap dog without muzzle or chain, the lit
tle animal waa caught by a man whose
business it is to take up stray dogs. The
two ladies begged the police to order the
man to give the dog up ; but, having no
idea of the rank of the petitioners, tbe
policeman said that to retain the dog
they must follow him to the police office.
This they did, and with many exni.e
the Captain of the guard ordered the
restitution of the animal.
NO.'" 50.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Prewloo, Frnlt, KM. "
Whiat Valley, 1.20; Walla Walla,
$1.12(31.15 per cental.
Fi oua Standard, $3.66 ; Walla Walla,
13.66; Graham, $3; Superfine, $2.50
per barrel.
Oats 4446c per bushel; rolled, in
bags, $6.25(6.60; barrels $6.60(675;
:-aeet, 43.75. .. m . ..
Hat 1113 50 per ton.
Millsttjffs Bran, $.7; ahorts, $19:
ground barley, $22.50(325 ; chop feed , $21
(822 per ton; whole feed barley, $181;
middings, $2628 per ton; brewing
barley, tl.C01.15 per cental; chicken
wheat, $1.20 per cental.
Bdttbb Oregon fancy creamery, Z2
36c; fancy dairy, 30c; fair to good,
2o27c; common, 1517c per
pound.
Chiiii - Oregon, H13c; Young
America, 14 14 jc per pound.
Egos Oregon. 32,a36c; Eastern,
27c per dozen.
1'ouLTBY Old Chickens, qnotea at
t4.004 50; young, $3.003.bO; ducks,
$4.0l6 00; geese, nominal, $10.00(4
U.Ot : turkeys. 12W13c per pound.
Vaua-rABLBS Cabbage, $1.0 (Sl.60 per
cental ; onions, 75U0c per cental ; pota
toes, 769Jc per cental; tomatoes, 404
oJcper box; Oregon turnips, 75c$l UO
per cental; young carrots, 75c $l per
cental; sweet potatoes, $1.76 per cental ;
Oregon cauliflower, 76c$1.00 per dozen ;
celery, 60c per dozen.
Fbuits Sicily lemons, $7.50; Cal
ifornia grapes, 75c$l per box; Ore
gon pears, $1.26l-60 per box ; banana,
$2.50(3.50 per bunch; oranges. $4.60
per box; cran hemes, $8.76 per barrel;
apples, 60c$1.60. ,
Staple OraMitM.
Hombt JfJhoice comb, 1517e per
pound ; new Oregon, 1820c.
Salt Liverpool, $14.50(9117.00; stock,
I1U.OU(311.0U per ton.
Rick Island, $5.00(86.50; Japan, $4.85
per cental.
Dbud Facrrs Petite prunes, 10(3 lie;
silver,ll14c; Italian, 12(3 14c; German,
10llc; plums, old, 66c; new, 789c;
apples, 4i9ic; evaporated apricots,
1516c; peacnes, 12ltic; pears, 78o
per pound.
CoFBB-CostaRica,21Ke;B., 20e;
Salvador, 20c; Mocha, 27)i30c; Java,
27!(g,30c; Lion and Arbuckie's branda,
100-pound cases, 5 35-100e per pound.
Bcams Small white, tt.c; pink, 8c;
bayos.3$c; butter, 3c; iiinaa, 34'c per
pound .
Svbup Eastern, in barrels, 4055c;
half-barrels, 4257Ke; in cases, 35(4
BOe per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California
in barrels, 2040c per gallon; $1.76 per
keg.
Boa a Net prices: D,4)c; Golden O,
4Hc; extra C, 4c; Magnolia A, 4c ;
granulated, 6iic; cube crushed and pow
dered, 5Jec; confectioners' A, 6!(c per
pound; maple sugar, 15ltic per pound.
Canned Goods Table frulte. assorted
quoted $1.75(82.00; peaches, $1.85(42.10;
Bartlett pears, $1.752.00 ; plums, $1.37,
1.60; strawberries, $2.252.40; cher
ries, $2J2.40; blackberries, $1.85(3
2; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2,259
2.80; apricots, $1.652.00.- Pie fruits:
Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,
$1.10(31.20; blackberries, $1.25 1.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons Assorted,
$3.253.60; peaches, $3.504.00; apri
cot. $3.50(84.00; plums, $2.76(23.00;
blackberries, $4.004.60. Vegetables:
com, $1.4001.85; tomatoes, 95c$1.00;
sugar peas, 95c$1.00; string beans, 90
9bc per aosen. Meats: Corned beet, Is,
$1.25; 2s, $1.852.00; chipped beef,
$2.10; lunch tongue, Is, $3.10 ; 2s, $5.50 ;
deviled ham, jl.60S!2.75 vr dozen.
Fish: Sardines, 9, 75c$2.26; s,,
$2.154 60; lobsters, $2.303.60; salm
on, tin Mb. tails, $1.261.50; flats, $1.75;
lbs., $2.252.60; bbl., $5.60.
BCtMallaiMou er
Nails Base quotations : Iron, 1 75 ;
steel, $2.75 ; wire, $3.00 per keg.
Iron Bar, 2J-4C per pound; pig Iron,
$23328 per ton.
Stxil 10c per pound.
Tin I. O. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.25(38.75 per box; for crosses, $2
extra per box ; roofing, 14x20, prime
quality, $6.62)6.75 per box ; L 0. coke
plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.508.00
per box.
Naval Storbs Oakum, $4.605 per
bale ; resin, $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.
; Lsad 4c per pound ; bar, 630.
Shot $1.80 par sack.
HoHBBSHOas $5. .
Hide., Wool and Hop.
Hidbs Dry bides, selected prime,6)
7Kc; lJic less for culls; green, selected,
over 66 pounds. 4c ; under 65 pounds, 3c ;
sheep pelts, snort wool, 30 50c; me
dium, 60(3 80c; long, 90c$l.25; shear
ings, 1020c; tallow, good to choice, S
3o per pound.
Wool Umpqua Valley, lfi19o; fall
Clip, 1315Xc; Willamette Valley, 169
18c, according to quality; Eastern Ore
gon, 10 16c per pound, according to
condition.
Hops 1520c, according to condition.
' ' Th. llwt Market.
Bbkf live, lX2o; dressed, i
Vrrmw T.1va is Kna n m ino
pounds; dreesed, $6; lambs, live, 3V
SMo per pound; dressed, 8c.
Hogs Live, $4.604.80 per 100
ponnda; dressed, $8. .
VAir 46o per pound.
Smoebd Mxats Large ham, 13
14c; medium ham, 14($15c; breaktast
bacon, 15(8 16c; short clear aides, 11
13c; dry salt sides, lligllc per pound.
Laud Compound, in tins, 10llo;
pure, in tins, 1417o; Oregon, ir
130 per pound. ,
' Ba. and BaHta. '
Burlaps, 8-oa., 40-inch, net cash, 6c;
burlaps, 10-oa., 40-inch, net cash, 7c;
burlaps, 12-oz., 45-inch, 7c ; burlaps,
16-oa., 60-inch, e ; burlaps, 20-os., 76
inch, 14c. Wheat bags, Calcutta, 23x36,
pot, 6c; two-bushel oat bags, 60,
." Can't Se. II.
. A butcher in Waterville, Wash., can
not understand what people see about
his slop to make them laurh. Its m'u
is "The Livo and Let Livo Butcher
Shop," nd tho butcher aslut what ia
there about thai to laugh at? Boatcu
Transcript.
Incontrovertible.'
Cuhiomer Loolt here, I asked you ton
something in gold, and you sold mo
these mist-raMo plated btuds,
- Clerk Well, they wero in prold vrhen
yon got tiicin. Clothier i;urt Fnrnn.kei,
."ieiiT., ror..d. or.