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VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1893.
NO. 6.
OREGON
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PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
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PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
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ATTOIINEYS-at-LAW.
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romt attention given Unil-oHlce bualnea.
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SURVEYOR and
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81. Ueieni, Oregon.
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done. '
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ll'HNKY A PRAPKR,
ATTOIINEYS-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
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ATTORNKY-at-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
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ST. HELENS HOTEL.
J, George, Proprietor.
T.I.IM 1".V lr wl.h the bertcdib!.-.
and dclli-acie. the market atlor.ls.
TKRM8 BEA80NABLK
FOR REGULAR - BOARDERS.
' Iliivlng been newly refurnHhed.
.rei-reUo give aatlsfacllon to .11
ona ritron., and .ollclt a .h.r. of your
patronage.
OREGON.
PACIFIC COAST.
Denver Capitalists Purchase
a Copper Mine.
THE GOVERNOR OP ARIZONA
Proposition to Drain the Flooded
Levels of the Comstock
Mines in Nevada. ,
Ooho Tirol. At Bait Laka hav failed,
with HabllHlBiof 1 10,000.
The Ogdaa Coanoll hai voted 116,000
boom lor aameltr and redaction work.
Tlit old-ttablUbd hoot of Parker St
Ilaneon of Aatorla, Or., baa ben cloted
by Ban Franelaoo creditor!.
Th eteatner Ban. l'edro U to be lifted
from the rocki In front of Victoria, B.
0., by meana of coffer datna.
Governor Morphy of Arliooa hai gone
to Washington to net hie 'erTorte to ee
core Btatabood for the Territory.
"Banjo-eyed Kid "hae been arretted
at Baorainento and charged with obtain
iag money under falae preteneea.
Andrew Peterman, who hai a ranch
along the Klamath river, haa act oat 300
cranbsrpjr planta a an experiment.
The Oadahy Packing Ootnpany'e
ballillnga at ho Angelee, Vhen com
pleted, will oover an acre of ground.
A bill haa been Introduced In the Ne
vada liegielatare providing for a conven
tion to reviea the eonatitatioa of the
Bute.
There la trouble In Bhochone county,
Idaho, aa to nbo owna the jail at Burke.
The defeated official! at Burke claim It
for debt.
Ban Diego haa beffnu the preparation
and ihlpment of lobe ten. neb, etc, to
Eaatern market In carload lota. A can
nery U to be established at Baa Diego.
The Brltiah Columbia government of
fers $600 for Information leading to the
conviction of the parties who kidnaped
the aailora off the ship Bownmore at
Manalmo.
A Victoria. B. 0., dispatch says It haa
been determined by the Uiant Powder
Company's branch of the Berkeley works
California to perfect new and Improved
works at Cadboro Bay.
The Washington Senate haa nassed
over the Governor's veto the famous
anti-Plnkerton bill of last seaaion to pre
vent any peraon or corporation from em
ploying, organising or keeping up armed
bodies of men.
Denver caplUlleta have purchased the
great Ban Fernando copper mine in
Lower California for $260,000. The mine
is situated about one hundred miles
eonth of Ban Quintin and seventeen
miles from the ocean.
The Bradttreet Mercantile Ageny re-
Krta thirteen failures in the Pacific
eat Btatee and Territories for the past
week, aaoom pared with fifteen for the
prevlons week and twelve for the cor
responding period of 1892.
Seven months ago the Booth Ogdan
Mercantile Company incorporated at
Ogden, Utah, with a capital of $1,600,000.
To-day it la on the verge of ruin as the
result of dlasenalon among the stock
holders, who are all capitalist ol high
rating.
Judge Dougherty at Banta Boea, CaL,
on a writ of habeas corpus rales that
magistrate may receive complaints, ia
uewarranta, conduct preliminary ex
aminations and admit pet-eons to bail,
but cannot hold triala and pronounce
judgment on legal holidays.
Ell Walker, who gained some notori
ety two year ago because of amuggling
Chinamen from Lower California Into
thla country, ha been arrested below
the line for smuggling boots, shoe,
clothing, etc, concealed under boxes ol
butter and tgg purchased at Ban Diego
forsaleatnstnada.
The Tucson Star saytt A miner In
this city from the Harqu Hala mine
says that two men stopped at the mine
last week answering the description of
Bontag and Evans, the Vtsalia train-rob-
V. Tkataw tawakfaam An ItAMdhKaUihr Inr)
$JVre mviwumwpw-, -
war hetTlly ftrmwl. They appeared
. -J JtJ ba! .Aah A.
jmrj uerTUUVt mu uiu hvi mwy w
ery long to any one. ,
k aa .lUmnt a a1a null tnW An
AU ikTiuipi ww frww jr -
one of the Indiana encamped near Uma-
Ulia. ur,, came near ceoiing ma uuv
Ika tUtxm Amir TK VMtihla mvtiMM
over a pair of gloves belonging to th In
dian, which were hidden by a young
man. The brave called to hi assistance
a dosen of hia fellows, who succeeded in
terrifying the joker, and th glove were
revurneu.
'1 .rA will mmAm UMn A tmm
day to eeenre a meeting ot the Native
OOns OI urpgou wuu v iuuub u ,dk
islators. There are fully fifteen In the
House and a number in the Senate who
were born In this State, and it ia thought
considerable Interest In the organisation
can be aronsed. The Native Sons and
Daughter of Oregon haa a membership
of 100 in Southern Oregon, with Colonel
Robert A. Miller a President. .
Representative Coon's bill relative to
future creation of new counties in Ore
eon require a petition of 100 taxpayers
days before a general election. The
Unarm must a.n uern.y tua. tuvrs w
$700,000 worth of property In the prr
Mnntf nrl ihat naltrkar a! tha
counties losing territory will be left with
less than ai.uuu.uuu worm oi property.
county must be submitted to the inter
ested electors ai a general emotion anu
receive two-thirds of their suffrages.
' Dr. W. Brengle, who is known in all
of the principal towns of the Northwest
H 111. uuowwm. w.
variety actress, and who created a sensa
tion in Bpoaane a lew oav ago on ui
arrival from Denver by falling in a fit
when hi wife Informed him that she
would have no more to do with him,
haa filed a auit in the Superior Court
i .inn rWl .tamao. .Hlnit "Rift Rats.
IW flVV,
tha," the confidence queen, and Rudolph
Oorkow, a wealthy brewer of Spokane,
, , . I Ll. !JI H.-l! II 1) :
for alienating ui vu. iuhuuiu. oig
o.-tk-'Ma Tjllla'anAFttiAvIn tha varlaf
show there.and Gorkow is alleged to have
eonsptrea wiw senna vo inauoe juuua
to discard her husband. Oorkow char
acterise th nit a a bold attempt at
blaskwafl.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Much Interest Hangs About th Bill Intro
duced to Increase th Tax on
Whisky Group Picture.
The President and all the member ot
the Cabinet had group photographs
taken the other day, preparatory to their
official separation,
Senator Squire baa Introduced bill
appropriating $100,000 for one ten-Inch
and one twelve-Inch rifle high-power
steel Qatllng gun for coast defense.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation billa for the fiscal year
1894 reported to tha House make an ag
gregate appropriations of $21,677,996,
or $222,134 less than that of the current
fiscal year. . ...
The Secretary of the Interior In re
sponse to the reqnest of Benator Mitch
ell has transmitted to the Senate all the
raper relating to the claim of Oregon
ndians for money in payment of ceded
lands in 1866. The papers go to the In
dian Committee of the Senate, who will
try and find out whether there 1 any
thing in th claim made by the Indians.
Mount Taooma and several thousand
acres of land In its vicinity are to be
withdrawn from settlement and made a
timber reservation, with the ultimate
hope that it will be created aa a national
park. Senator Bquire has been working
on this for some time, and Representa
tive Wilson saw Secretary Noble about
it recently. An agreement was reached
to hav tti withdrawal made.
Th War Department baa received a
dispatch from General Whnaton, com
manding the Department of Texas, stat
ing that the Mexican government haa
Instituted proceedings for the extradi
tion of the three bandit leader arrested
bv United States troops on the charge of
violating the neutralitv lawa. The dis
patch was sent to the Secretary of State,
who will co-operate with the Mexican
government In securing speedy action in
tb case.
The fee paid the messengers who
bring the electoral votes to the national
capital amount to a considerable sum in
the aggregate. Already there is some
talk of repealing in one of Mr. tlolman's
appropriation bills the provisions for
faying theae meeeengers and providing
hat the electoral returns shall be sent
In bv mail or by exprer. The follow
ers trie fees paid the meaasnger from
the Paciflo Northwest: Oroiron, $797:
Washington, $820; Idaho, $000.
Secretary Noble has addressed a com
munication to the Commissioner of In
dian Affair, setting forth his conclusions
of the strained relations between J. Le-
roy Brown, acting United Htate Indian
a rent at Pine Ridge and Dr. Cbarle A.
Kastman of the Sioux Indian acencv.
The Secretary's conclusion is that good
service requires that Dr. Eastman shall
be enepended from acting a phyaician
at Pin Ridge agency, and unless Dr.
Eaatman can be assigned or appointed
to another place he ia willing to accept
within the next fifteen days he most re
sign, or he will be removed. The Secre
tary finds there is no reasonable ground
to find fault with the conduct of acting
Agent Brown In thla connection.
Commander Henry L. Johnson has
been dismissed from the navv. He waa
. . , , , . .t 1
Mare Island navv yard in December last
on three charges, the principal one of ,
which is in official language "inrongu
negligence, suffering a vessel of the navy
to be run upon a rock and haaarded." i
The vessel was the Mohican, which John
son commanded, and the grounding took
place off the Alaska coast. Such is the
vessel to which he was assigned after a
suspension for several years for the same
offense for which he was dismissed. The
court found him guilty of the three
charges preferred, and sentenced him to
dismissal. Secretary Tracy baa approved
the findings, and this action has been
confirmed by President Harrison.
' Secretary Noble haa transmlttedln re-
aitvnB tn a raanlntlnn nf tha Honae hi
report concerning the executive order of nal Revenue, ha just Issued the first cer
November 19, by which that part ot tiflcate in the Hartford (Oonn.) district
Utah lying west of the 110th meridian toa Chinaman under the Chinese excln
waa restored to the public domain, with aion act of May 6, 1892.
all the correspondence on the subject. The Duke of Alba of Spain has notified
Th document show thla land waa th Secretary of State that he will send
thrown open to settlement for the pur- to the World' Fair an autograph letter
poseof allowing the people of the United of Christopher Columbus, a well aa
Btate an opportunity of exploring the other valuable document.
placer fields in search of gold and 'other, House Committee on Foreign Af
valuable mineral. All the facta con- fein ha. reported adversely the bill to
nected with the reatoraUon were pub- giv. EeM Admiral Brown permission to
Ushed generally throughout the west at 0.1,, medala and other tokens from
tne time we rreament s mewege w wr
UQAla A IVIraui (JM UVtai IWOMVM
UM Oyvlnaaaal Unnt vf th aWmtf Vsafinrfta. '
ing that no prospector had nor were in
truding on the Navajo reservation.
The Appropriation Committee ha
agreed on a pension appropriation bill.
11 VJLAJ WIVUOI aVAUaaw w eaw w w- .
It carries an appropriation oi ioo,wu,
000, an Increase of $20,662,650 over the
appropriation for the current year. Th
reoommendation of the subcommittee
that no pension jhaJl be paid any per-i
ons under the dependent pension law
nnlee they can ahqw that they are
wholly disabled for manual labor and
have an Income less than $603 a year wa
frfai
a r!..?
a pension unless she waa married to a
an dier orev ions to 1870. The propoal-
tion to authorise the Commissioner of
Pension to detail medical examiner
frt.m tha nan. Inn office to act as exam
ining surgeons and abolish th Board of
Examining Surgeon waa also rejected, sembly, by a vote of seven9en to fifteen,
refused to pass the bill granting a pen
A great deal ot interest hangs about slon of 1500 per year to the widow of Jef
the bill recently introduced by Owen ferson Davis. An attempt to reconsider
Scott of Illinois, providing for the in- i to be made.
crease of the tax on whisky from 90 , a movement is on foot in Bridgeport,
cents to $1.26 per gallon. The bill ia to mov, the birthplace of the
now before the Way and Mean Com- worid-famous midget. Carles 8. Stratton,
mlttee ot the House, and every effort to ..Qaneral Tom Thumb," from its present
get an expression of opinion upon the ,ite to Mlda Park and convert it into
bill from members of the committee I a publio museum,
unavailing. The reason given by Chair- V,. . . .
riaHlnS in ata itatamTntf 7h2 on November 23 last, the world-famous
!o?j& h- mile that crowned him king of trotting
"V" ,,. C k.n .nnlaua
revenue Has been already speculated
upon. uommiBstoner 01 internal reve
nue Mason estimate that the bill, if en
acted into law, would make about $36,
000,000 difference in the revenues and
Increase them to that extent. . The effect
that such a bill would have upon the
whisky trust cannot be given, and It ia
not known whether or not the whiaky
trust is behind the bill, and trying to get
it through, but the general impression
seems to be that it is really a whisky
trust bill, and the design 1 to drive out
tha small manufacturers by the increased
cost, which the tax will necessarily com-
pel thcattOBaf. '
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Natural Gas Supply of
Findlay Inadequate.
KREMLIN IS THE TURF KINO.
An Autograph Letter of Chriato-,
pher Columbus for tha
World's Fair.
Th wheat crop of Texas It axpected
to be a large one.
There Is not a Populist in thMl
souri Legislature.
The ice on the Mississippi river at St.
Louis 1 a foot thick. "
Ice in the Chesapeake haa stopped th
Baltimore Bay line steamers.
Diphtheria haa begun to diminish
again by a trifle in Philadelphia.
' Wolves are reported to be destroying
lamb and pig b some part of Louisi
ana. Eighty-six person were killed on rail
roads in Kansas last year, and 616 per
sons were injured.
Doctors have discovered two new
branda of cholera bacilli to spring on the
public next summer.
Secretary Elkin haa approved plans
for two bridges across the East river,
from New York to Brooklyn.
David Dudley Field think Brooklyn
hould be annexed to New York and the
consolidated city called Manhattan.
The Edison Electric Company haa been
ordered by the court to sell its lamp to
the Sunbeam Incandescent Company.
An old gold miner living at Atlanta,
G.., mvs that the beat gold field in
Am .rice to-day are in North Carolina.
Fablished figures show that the nnm
U ' of persons killed at grade crossings
in the city of Chicago last year waa 820.
A bill before the Illinois Legislature
provide that in Chicago all vehicle
need to transport prisoners shall be cov
ered. New York and Boston capitalists hav
Arranged to start a big spirits distillery
at Louisville, Ky., in opposition to th
trust.
A total of nearly $9,000,000 haa been
appropriated by the nations of the world
and the various States for the World's
Fair exhibit.
There are about forty petitions before
the Connecticut Legislature to build
electric street railway and electrie in
terurban lines.
The Mexican government has abolished
the payment of subsides to the press,
and three of the principal daily news
papers of Mexico are about to suspend.
Baronets Blanc, who haa created a
eeneation in New York by her matri
monial escapades and stage ambitions,
haa pleaded bankruptcy to her creditor.
A Minnesota legislator propose to
raise a fund for the Bute University and
trnnnral school fund bv I
general school fund by an annual tax ol
!".' " " on all property in th
Bt8e- , , t.t.
mr. rarieroi noswn, vuiruiii ui tuo
Judioiary Committee, will introduce a
bill into the Maseachueetts Legialatnr
prohib'Mng the issuing of free passe by
railroad.
Batolli is g.-adually bringing within
the fold of tha Catholic Church those
who have heretofore taken an independ
ent stand and defied the local church
authorities. .
Boston photographers are forbidden
to work on 8nnday any more. The city
ha so ordered, and the Chief of Polio
ha notified the photographer that h
Will enforce the order.
John Hutchinson,. Collector of Inter-
to, Hawaiian government.
aM
AQI
a natural ga anpply 01 the great
gas belt around J? lndiay, unto, 1 no
longer equal to tne uemanu. iue prer
sure I so low that it is useless for heat
ing purposes, in home even.
' Of those who formed the original band
of 806 Grant supporters in the nominat-
ing convention of 1880 some 260 are still
living. They are to organise an associa-
tion to be called "The Old Guard."
The sundry civil bill a recently
nfinti npon by the House Approprla-
tions Committee carries $250,000 for the
new Philadelphia mint and $500,000 for
theimprovementof Philadelphia harbor,
Lieutenant Totten, United States
b" forwarded his resignation to
iw.-rmant n nntii 1.
"".,"".r,r:. . , ..n ." T . ,1
centlv Professor of Military Science In
Yale. He will devote his time to liter
ary pursuit. .
The Upper House of the Alabama As-
Amirioan Trotting Kegister Association,
,.,. (VWB,r. mi . m-.k.
vllle, Tenn., In 2:079 on November 12,
is, according to the "Register," the ac
knowledged trotting king.
The will of the late ex-President Hayes
provides for the equal distribution of the
estate among the five children, alter the
settlement of all Just debts, and making
provision for a bequest to the Birchard
Library of Fremont. The home place,
known aa Spiegel Grove, and all the
property connected therewith are given
to the children to be held in common
nntil all th par ties agree to it sal,
PERSONAL MENTIOX
Th Pop Creates Something of a Stir In
Church and Govemrrrmt Circles
In Rome Etc
Th diver wedding of the King and
Queen of Italy will be celebrated April
22.
More people recognise Colonel Robert
G. Ingersoll at eight than any other citi
sen who walk or ride about New York
ity.
Lord Wolseley, who Is now Commander-in-chief
in Ireland, would not be
averse to taking the Governor-Generalship
of Canada. .
Mrs. Leland Stanford has a passion
for shoe, and she probably haa more
pair at a time than Queen Elisabeth
ver dreamed of possessing.
Mrs. Whltelaw Reld will soon be th
possessor of one of the largest diamonds
in the world. It ia now being cut for
her by a famous Dutch lapidary.
Mme. Medjeska' recipe for retaining
s youthful appearance : Take a warm
bath every night before going to bed, get
plenty of sleep and don't eat too much.
The Khan of Khiva, now visiting some
of his fellow ruler in Europe, travels
with his mollak (or priest) and hia own
cook. He feel tolerably safe, not mat
ter what turn up.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of th late Rich
ard A- Proctor, the famous astronomer,
and hi principal assistant In hi profes
sional work, has been appointed curator
of the Proctor Observatory at San Diego,
Cal.
J. Montgomery Sear, th richest man
In Boston, reputed to be worth about
$40,000,000, ha been doing service in
the Superior Civil Court jury of Suffolk
county, nd will receive $81.90 mileage
lor hi twenty-seven aeyr won.
Will Cerleton lurnrlaed the people of
Kansas Oitv bv coin about the streets
during recent cold snap there without
an overooat ana asserting mat ne leu
comfortable. The venerable Richard
Vaux astonished hi Philadelphia friends
the other day by performing a similar
teak
Ml Florence Baacom of Williams
town, who will take the title of "Ph. D."
next June from Johna Hopkins Univer
sity, will be the first woman to receive
such an honor from that institution.
She ha been studying In the geological
department in Baltimore for two years,
and haa been similarly engaged for three
more in the University of Wisconsin.
Th Mexican Consulate at St. Louis,
which John F. Cahill haa occupied for
several years without salary and with
very small fees, ia about to be closed.
U. n.kil. 1 . Mfnaail aanH ttia
archive 0 the office to the Consul-Gen-eral
In New York, as requested, unless
the Mexican government honors his
claims for service rendered heretofore.
One ot the many achievement of the
late Prof. Horsford of Harvard was the
invention of an army ration, which
should be light but nutritious, to dimin
ish the burden of transportation when
troops were on the march, and General
Grant had 600,000 prepared for use.
Prof. Horsford took out no fewer than
thirty patents, mostly for chemical prep
aration, during his life.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
The South Makes Great Headway In the
Shape of Solid Improvements and
New Industries.
The Sues canal cost $100,000,000.
American ice cream la now aent to
London.
America mine 20.000,000 barrel ol
salt a year.
Alnmlntnm horaeahoe Ar now made
for record-breakers.
Franca only use 4,658,000 bottle 01
champagne per annum.
Kansas haa progressed up to the point
of producing reeled ilk.
About 760,000 person ar employee
by the American railroad.
Fin older is an Alloy ol two part
block tin and on part lead.
. . . v 3 1. . L. j-1a a
Alexandria, ina., is w "" a
works that will employ 1,000.
Tha estimated fire loese ol th coun
try during 1892 are $133,154,164.
Over 12.00),000,000 postage stamps
were used in this country last year.
The latest whaleback steamer Pill
bury 1 lighted throughout by electricity.
Over 61,000 yards of carpet were woven
in low oy Jierx county vraw
w. ar -.l.nta-a In Mmimi make
UIIIJ wuw p. uw,. ,
A profit of 860 per cent, on money in-
vestea.
There are 89.000 policemen In Great
Britain about the number of the Amer
ican army.
' The West Side Street-Bar Company of
nhlnam ahowa net earnings for the past
year of $1,932,914.
The largest cannon manulacturea oy
the great German gunmaker, Krupp,
weighs 270,000 pounds.
Th mineral production of Idaho for
1892 waa $13,076,000, a falling off of near
ly 60 per cent, from 1891.
Cotton receipta for 1892 In Arkan
and Indian Territory enow 60 per cent
decrease from 1891 's figure.
nil. KujM,tMM J .ha. tmn mlnea oi
ill. UfUUINHUU ""
the Lake Superior district for the year
. . . . n mr .
1893 1 placed at v,uo,uuv mhu.
on.. 1- .1 Af tha flnnth Sea
ill. imiyi. w. - . .
Islands manufacture their entire auit
from the product ol tne paim tree.
It I estimated that the yield of gold
I .ll Ih Montana laat vAarwaa 28.-
1IU Oil TW. in www ' " -
000,000, and the total metal production
$45,000,000, against z,uw.uw gw"
ilverand $38,000,000 total production
in 1891.
The output of pig iron in the States, a
obtained direct from the producers,
amnnntitrl tn 1.054 235 sTOs tons In 1892.
as compared with i,08,9ttt ton in 1891,
being an increase oi o,aw wu, wr
nearly 16 per cent.
Henry G. Mvers of Sydney, Australia,
I examining the conditiona existing in
the Southwestern State, with a view to
..,.Ui.v.u m mhaKm fo .ha nnuuMtlnn
of kangaroos. It thing ar favorable,
ne Will maxe in new uuruuea juuiu.
Among th new Southern industries
for 1802 were 630 wood-working eatab
tabllshmenta, 281 mining and quarrying
enterprises, 81 brick works, 124 electric
lignt ana power plants, iui water worn.
76 textile) mill, 117 flooring mills and 83
macmne nop ana lounanes. open es
tablishment are lndloe ei solid sad
eaaslavntUl gaowih.
FOREIGN LANDS.
English Cabinet to Create a
Department of Labor.
KRUPP AND CA1L CANNON.
China Reported on the Brink of
a Revolution Death of
Captain Hall.
M. Develle i Minister of Foreign Af
fairs in the new French Cabinet.
The Marquis of Queens berry haa made
hi appearance on the lecture platform
in England.
New Zealand ha set apart two islands
for the preservation -of wild bird and
other animals.
China la declared by the North China
Hail to be on the brink of revolution
through all its southern provinces.
The North German Lloyd Will pay $00,
000 salvage to the steamer Lake Huron,
which rescued the disabled Spree at sea.
Coal dust mixed with air is to furnish
smokeless fuel to the North German
Lloyd and Hamburg-American steamers.
London haa A "United Committee for
the Prevention of the Da moral nation of
the Native Race by th Liquor Traffic"
The quarantine authorities of Victoria,
Australia, recently cremated the body of
a Chinese leper as a measure oi aaiety.
The London Daily Chronicle announce
that th Cabinet ha decided to create a
Department of Labor in connection with
tne ttoara oi xraae. ,
The rapture of commercial relation
between France and Switzerland ha led
to a considerable increase of the cus
toms force at Geneva.
By the condition of the France-Rusaian
convention, each country ia to hold itself
in readiness to place 1,200,000 soldiers
in the field in case of war.
Eiffel seems to have got more than hia
share of the Panama boodle. He own
up to having received $6,600,030. It
wa charged up to "machinery."
A large proportion of th French
statesmen who extorted money from the
Panama Company spent their ill-gotten
gains ia the purchase of decorations of
honor.
The Sultan has ordered a competitive
trial of Krupp and Cail connon. The
latter are need by the French army, and
the Ottoman army haa been using th
former.
Several German paper demand that
the government at once prepare an emi
gration bill to meet the emergency cre
ated by the United State quarantine
regulations.
The Canadian government haa been
notified that Germany and Sweden have
prohibited Canadian Emigration Com
missioners from carrying on active work
In those countries.
Captain John Vine Hall, who com
manded the Great Eastern steamship on
her first voyage to New York, died
Christmas day at Hampatead, England,
in hia eightieth year.
The French Royalist at Madrid are
intriguing, but their effort seem to be
without vigor or directness Their party
haa no head, no strong figure for th
Bourbon adherents to rally around.
Ruwiawill send three war ships to
New York to take part in the naval dem
onstration in connection with the Colum
bus fetes. These vessels will be under
the command of Admiral Kasnakoff.
Leopold de Rothschild haa remitted
to his Buckinghamshire tenants 20 per
cent, off the rent due at Michaelmas last,
in addition to a reduction of 30 per cent,
made every half year since March, 1880,
About 11 per cent of the pauperism in
Scotland is attributable to the charge
abilitv of native of England and Ire
land, the total of that class in the past
year being 9,711, of whom 8,632 were
Uriah.
A new lumlnou fungus haa been for
warded from Tahiti to Europe. It is
said to emit at night a light resembling
that of the glow-worm, which it retain
lor a period oi tweniy-iour noun aiter
having been gathered.
A ship baa just left Melbourne with A
cargo of 13,000 cases of butter, valued at
435,000, and on every pound sold the
Victorian government grants a oonos oi
3 pence or so, more or less, according to
the price tne putter letcnes.
A forecast of the Indian budget haa
haan nnhlinhed bv a Calcutta lournal.
In place of the estimated surplus of four
teen lacs of rupees it ia stated that there
will be a deficit of 160 lacs, brought
about entirely by the mil in exchange.
Tha Oneen'a cousin, 'th Prince of
Leiningen, who hold the rank of Ad
miral In the British navy, is about to
succeed the Duke ol EdinDurgn as naval
commander at Plymouth, which is one
of the fattest billet in th British naval
service,
An interesting niece of information
brought out through the Brussels Con
ference is tne fact tnat mere are at
nnaint no leea than $100,000.(0) of
counterfeit silver money in circulation
in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy,
Spain ana rortugai.
Mrs. Edward Llovd. who died in Lon
don the other day at the age ot ninety,
when a girl helped to entertain Blucher
on hi arrival in England after Waterloo,
and waa nresent in Westminister Abbey
at the coronations of George IV, William
IV and Queen VictoriA.
It la thomrht the British government
will withdraw funds enough from th
Land Purchase Commission to compul
aorllv nnrchase portions of estates from
nhatlnata landlords, with enough to
make loana to evicted tenant to enable
them to start farm anew.
There have been about two hundred
and seventy-five tramp steamer running
between the Black ne ana tne uanuoe
dnrina the oast season, and with the
close of navigation there they are mostly
turned looae on tne oortn Atlantic to
pick up freight wherever they can,
nalmraUi have baen invited from th
sanitary committee ot all the port of
th United Kingdom to a conference In
tiiIiiii tn Hlanm th cholera Question
and to promote unity of action in wgard
to measures for preventing the Introduc
tion or apreaal oi tae piague in in spring,
PORTLAND MARKET.
rvadaea. Frail, ma.
Wkut Nominal : Valley, $1.20
1.22); Walla Walla, $1.110O1.12X per
cental.
Flops Standard, $3.60; Walla Walla.
$3.60; Graham, $3; Superfine, $2.60
per barrel.
Oats 42'948o per bushel ; rolled, In
bags, $6.266.60, barrel, $6.508.75;
cases, $3.76.
Hat Best, $11013.50 per ton j com
mon, $9.00010.00.
Mills i mis Bran, $18; abort, 1 20;
ground barley, $23024: chop feed, $20
per ton; whole feed barley, $18 19;
middling. $23024 per ton; brewing
barley, $1.0001.16 per cental; chicken
wheat, $L101.20 per cental.
BoTraa Oregon fancy creamery, 35
S7o; fancy dairy, 8032c; fair to
good, 2627ttc; common, 15(S17c per
pound; pickle roll butter, 4055o per
roll.
Cm Oregon, 11013c; Eaatern
Twins, Ua; Young America, 16c per
pound.
Eo Oregon, 80c; Eastern, 30c per
dosen. ,
Povltbt Chickens, mixed coops.
$3.6004.00; old hens, $4.0uO4.50; old
roosters, $4.00; duck, t5.0J5.5J; geese,
$9.00010.00 per dozen; turkeys, live,
UKc; dressed, 13016c per pound.
VGTALes-Cabbage, $1.0, O1.60 per
cental; onion, 90cO$l per cental ; pota
toes, 80090c per cental; tomatoes, 40O
60c per box; Oregon turnips, 76cO$1.00
per cental; young carrots, 75cl per
cental; sweet potatoes, $1.6001.75 per
cental; Oregon cauliflower, 76cO$1.00
perdosen; celery, 60c per dosen.
Faum Sicily lemons, $6.00 per box;
Calilornia, new crop, $4.6005.00; Ore
gon pears, $1.2501.60 per box ; banana,
$2.50(33.50 per bunch; oranges, seed
lings, 3.UU(94.ZD per oox; naveia, s.uu
04.60; cranberriea, $12.60 per barrel;
apples, $1.00(32.00 per box.
Staple nana.
Run. nhnifla eomb. 15dtl7s nar
pound; new Oregon, 18020c
Salt Liverpool, 200s, $16.50; 100s,
$16.60; 60s, $17.60; stock, $10.60011.60.
Daibo Fboits Petite prunes, 10O12c;
ailver,11014c; Italin,1214c; German,
10011c; plums, old, 66c; new, 709c;
apple, 6011c; evaporated apricots,
16ltic; peecnea, lzt&uoc; pears, gii
per pound.
nucxuland, $4.7606.00 ; Japan, $4-86
per cental.
r rf mi..nt. ant..
trax jgaiJMea,.u.?o; avc,
Salvador. 20c: Mocha. 27KO30c; Java.
27KO30C; Arbuckle'a, Midland, Mo-
kaskA and Ldon, luu-pouna cases,
25 36-1000 per pound; Columbia, same,
24 86-lOOc
BaAM Small white, smc; pint, bc;
bayoa, 8c; butter, 8c; limaa, 304c
per pound. . .
DTBur -IMBieTii, in wiivib, wi&uuu,
h.lf.harral. 2Uffl57We: in eases. 850
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California
in barrels, 20040 per gallon; $1.75 per
BtjAB Net price: D, 4c; Golden 0,
it.. mH. n auA. Majmnlia A. 44ci
granulated, 6c ; cube crushed and pow
dered, 6c; confectioner' A, 6c per
pound ; mapie augar, iota io uo
Cakhio Goods Table fruit, assorted
ouoted 11.7602.00: peaches, $1.8502-10;
Bart lett pews, $1.7502.00 ; plums, $1.37X
O1.60; strawberries, $2.262.45; Cher
ri, $2J6O3.40; blackberries, $1,860
2; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, saow
180; apricota, fl.66O2.00. Pie fruits:
Aaaorted, $1J; peachea, $1.25; plums,
$1.1001.20; blackberries, $1601.40 per
AAn . Pia fmitfl nllnn Assorted.
$3.1603.60; peaches, $3.6004.00; apri-
COtS, 3.DU(g.Uv, ptuiu, ,..iuo.uv,
M..vkb. A nnoia fid. Vairatableai
corn, $L40O1.86; tomatoes, $1.0001.10;
aim neaa. 95c (A 11.00: atring beans, 90O
96c per dosen. Meats: Corned beef. Is,
$1.5tr; 2a, $2.40; ciuppea Deei, sa.oois
4.00: lunch tongue, Is, $4.00; 2. $6.76;
deviled ham, $1.762.75 per dosen.
Fish: Bardinea, 76cO$2.25; ,
$2.1504.60; lobsters, $2.3003.60; salm
on, tin 1-lb.talls, $1.26 1-50; flaw, $1.75;
HOC, XOa.OU; H DM., fO.OV.
.' KlaaaUaaaaaa. "
Nails Base quotation t Iron, 2 75 ;
steel, $2.76; wire, $2.60 per keg.
Ibok Bar, 20 per pound; pig Iron,
$23026 per ton.
Btbxl 10kc per pound. :
Tin L 0. charcoal. 14x20, prim qual
ity, $8.6009-00 per box; for crosses, $2
extra per box; roofing, 14x20, prim
quality, $6.7507.00 per box; L 0. coke
plates, 14x20, prim quality, $7.6008.00
per box. '
Lbad 4Mcper pound; bar, 6Xc
Bhot $1.80 per sack,
i HoasasHoas $5.
Naval Stom Oakum, $4.6005 per
bale: resin, $4.8006 per 480 pounds; tar,
Stockholm, $13.00: Carolina, $9.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $6.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 66 per gallon in carload lot.
Hldaa. Wool aad Hop.
I Hn Dry hides, selected prime, 6Q
8c; Kc I culls; green, selected,
over 66 pound. 4c ; under 66 pounds, 8c ;
sheep pelts, short wool, 80060c; me
dium, 60080c; long, 90c $1.25; shear
ings, 1020c; tallow, good to choice, 3
88)c0 per pound.-
Wool Umpqua Valley, lfl17o; fall
clip, 13 loc; WUlamette Valley, 15
18c, according to quality; Eastern Ore
gon, 10O16 per pound, according to
condition.
Hor 11019c, according to quality.
Tho Mo afark.
Baa Lira, 2i 3c per pound ; '
dressed, 4M07c .
MtrrTOM Live, 44c per pound;
draad, 8c; lambs, liv. 44e;
dressed, 8c
Hoos Live, 608 per pound; dressed,
VsAb 4S7o per pound.
Baoxan Msatb Large ham, 170
17 Kc; medium ham, 18c; breakfast ba
con, 17 18c; short dear aides, U9
16c; dry salt tide, 13,c per pound.
Laxd Compound, in tin, lSJc;
pure, in tin, 15W17c; Oregon, 110
")iC par pound. - .
In 1880 12.52 per cent, of the whole
number of foreign born persons were
engaged in agriculture, while 18.88 per
cent, of the foreign born wer engaged
in manufactures.
The stability of electric locomotive at
high speed is much greater than that of
steam locomotives, and therefore there
ia less chance of derailment. " , .
The Hindoos and Ceylonese all believ
that Adam wag buried in a cave in th
side of the mountain known as "Adam's
peak," Island of C'aylea. ,
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