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M TCinn VOL. 10. " ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1803. NO. 14. THE OREGON i i ,1 r 4 THE OREGON MIST. I(KU EVKHV t'lllUAY MOltfUNU THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, J. R. BEEGLE, Manager. oiTiciAL courFry paper. ftubetrlplloii Hairs. On 'iy one your In advsiies imiv i'niy alx iiiiuiUm.. ttliiKlc oiipy II ,7ft ...... b ' Adviirllsiutf IIMes. ' I'rofmkloiial (tarda one year....... $ Jjf Hue column miu year 'J Half vhIiiiiiii iimo year ? iluarlor uoltiinii oim year Olla lllfll MII9 MOIlUl. ........ lino liinh tlirea inotlllia,,.... " J Ou Imili tlx imiiillia..... " l.oeitl nollcoa, IHiM'Hlir line for nral lifer tloii; lUi gul. per line for uaili ubii'iieiil In- MrKHl ulvtrllMiiiwit, fl.M Pr fur Ural Inaertl and 7ft noiiU (icr lui'li lur eaeli ub-- quunt hipiuiti.ill. ' CO 1.0 Mill A COUNTY IH UKCTOHY. CoumI? Olfmera. J ii.Ik,. ., , Ilia" lllani'liard, Italnltir C,r.... K. Wntiih, M. Helena Mnarlrf " M... l. Helen Treaeur r K. M. Wliarton, niliunble cliy Hiii't. i.f sVhuola T. J. iMei'toii. Vernoiiia Aaai-aanr W. II. Kyaer. Haiti er Surveyor -A. H. Utile, Hwiilor t'ommlMl ntr.. .. 0. W. Ilarnc., Meyiter. . Muriel K Nollce". MaoNI:.Ht. Helen. lMgtf, No. Hi-Reiiiilar r.iMimiiuicnitiiii. Ilrl and tlilnl Saturday In taeh , in Mill 17:H0H. M. at Maaolili! hall. Wall lux memlier. 111 goo'l .lauding. Invited to t. 1"Va n.Ni. Halulor IakU. No. 2lHliitd mclliiiliir.tny on or Iwlmticwli full moon el 7 KU r, . al Miiaiilite hall, ui"" Hlanclianl's .litre. Vlmilim nioiiiiiera In good Mnllii( In-, Vltfil to attend, )iin Kki.i.iw-HI. Helen. I.o,Ik No. llf ' Meets every Katuiduy iiIkIiI al 7 JO. Trmialvnt liroihron lu o,l huiiiiIiiik dirUUIIy InvllmJ tu llvilil. Tan itlulla. Down river (Imi) plow, at 'N . H. I'll river (((..nin-ln"' Ml r . M. , , Tim mull for Vni"iila and flttlnir l.avm t. Ueluim Jl.,li,iii), U'eiliitiHlajr anil Friday at ' ri"'inll for Mrliln,l. Clal.Uanlo and Ml.t tvavm (iilim Monday, tte.lnly ami KrliUy al I'J m. . , Mll.(rllirr) north elow a' l . ! fr I'ortlnml al It f. . Trat.l.ri' wulda Hlvrr Maulw. Kimxiin. W. Hiivie-Ian'. Kl. Ilolein for I'orthm.t at II . H. Tiie-lny, 'I hiirwlav ami K.tiinlay. U-imw Ml. llelniH for I laukaula M.imlay, WvdnMlay and t-'rldny al a UU . . KtatMKR InALtn-Leave. SI. Ilotmm for I'ort Unl 716 4. M. ruiirulii at:ltur. H. 8tkmiik JuKKfH KKi.i.ooulj.aveSt. iluleiw for I'ortlmid dully Hit Umiduy. l 7 a. M , r rlvlnv M rnrilniid at 10 : "lurnlnn. leuv 1'iirilaiiv at 1 r. J.. arrlvlimal t. lllonaH. Uiblivat OlM-ii.arln.nl lir.ut lutarv.t. A li'tiliv uf 'tllf KTi'tttBHt llltelfat, not only to oricniiihHii. littt likitwine to nil int.-nlcl in liiblicitl rriu'urcli, hit just bfen ilnlivi-n'il itl the Veri'ln Nitilrwnli nl Vii'iimi ly thut tnont tliiitiiigutHhttd oriciitiuliHt hijiI lii)i;uiMtio scholar, ths (v. William llwhlnr, cnplnin to the Un libit fitibawy. ICvit mi iii f lunKt itilont dityn hi) bun been aMkin fiar tho key to harmonize the dates of the kiiiK of Jmlitb and Inrnt.l given In tin' Uihl. mill the diittm of the kiiurnof Biibylim, Axsyriu, Kgypt and JVrmrt. A he iilmrvmt in the oourtie of fain li.ctnre; "Whoever bits carefully tuilic-il the lilntnrii'M of the ancient em ilrt iniint ha Mtruck with tho wonder fully trnthlike itiinarnce of tho chrort olO;fial and ayucronlstlu data. No lUa toriuu ha ever venttirod to ifive eueh ft lurtje nnnilxT of datiw an the Uible, which are nmde to syiichroiiixo with tho diiteniif liiiinnof other imtiolm, thereby enabling aci-ttrnte control. Thai the kliiKiiot Jndah are inmle to aynchronlze with the kinH of isniel, and many of Babylon, Awyria, K?yit and Pernio." At the hint orientiilistM' coii(rresa in Vienna the learned gentleman presented the firHt part of hia rcwareho. extending over twenty ymiin. No doubt hia chart, whim published, will atitrtle many a pro franur of theology all over the. world at. leant aucu a have taught their pupils that It mil impossible to mt in order and harmonize these confused dates. Mr. llechler pvoveii that they do har monize, and thut in a uiiwt wonderful matiner, but th key had to be sought and found. He does not protons to have untied the (iordhm knot and to have flivioil of every diflioulty, but the re markably clear and Ingenious way in which he put an, end to Biblical dis crepancies Is convincing and conclusive. The charts are bo simple and comprehen sible that a child utny rend them. Vi enna Cor. Loudon Telegraph. . . . JVhmiv the Water of tlie (Irvat toikeaT Where do the waters of Lake Michigan come from Ms nn old quest inn, and it is a ' question n old as the Hrteslan Wells. Where do their waters come fromf Colonel Foster, nil eminent civil engineer, for ninny years in charge of government Interest on the lake, was fond of talking on the first subject. ' ' "Kvery drop of those waters," he 'was often heard to declare, "innie from the Itocky niountaliis." His theory was that they were brought here subl erroneously, hut he never to our knowledge marked out the course of the subterraneous stream, . He announced this as his conviction long before indeed, he died before tho sinking of artesian wells In Chicago nnd the conse- , quent discovery of the now undoubted faot. 1 . William B. Ogdeu held the same view and used at times to make himself very in teresting in expatiating upon It. With him, as well as with Colonel Foster, it was , no more than a theory, but he adhered to ' it firmly. I Mr. Cregler, who is scientific before he is i a politician, is wont to talk approvingly of the theory in a manner to convince any j man. . I The phenomenon Is the running out of this lake through the othersof the easterly chain nntl over Niagara falls of an Incali culablo quantity of water, and this con tinually every minute m me uour, every hour In the day, every day in the year, and .' every year In progressive timel- " A reporter, in describing the celebra lion of Her. hundredth' birthday by an old lady, naively says, "She tulked all day without showing tl least sign of, fattjtue.", , . PACIFIC COAST. Ochre Discovered Near Pen- dleton, Oregon. ' . ' 1 " , ' i ' ' A RECEIVER GONE WRONG. An Instructress at an Indian School Receives Probably Fatal . Injuries Etc. , Arlion'a Legislators closes Its session on April 14. Blocks sixty feet in length without a break are found in the onyx quarries in Lower California. The Arlsona Council has passed bill exempting from taxation for twenty years all railroads that begin work in the Territory within one year. The last of the Cieur d'Alene rioters held In jail have been released In obedi ence to a recent United Btates Supreme Court decision. Railroad shop employes at Sacramento threaten to boycott members of the Board bf Trade if the latter persists in taking business from the Bee. Ochre found on Elijah Welch's place below Pendleton, Or., makes paint of about the same body and color as burnt ! sienna, wuicn it resemoies greatly. ' In the Arizona Legislature the Field bill, which provided lor the division. of the Territory into irrigation districts, has been killed in the Mouse by an over whelming vote. , , The misappropriation of fnnds in tended lor improving the capital grounds at Pbomix, A. T., has led to the Introduction of a resolution in the Leg islature to remove the capital. The contest over the Ellzalde will at Rants Barbara has bevun. About $50, OX) are involved, and the widow charges her husband was unduly influenced in bis bestowal of the properties on other people. Frank Lesnet, receiver of the Roe well, N. M.. United States Land Cilice, disap- Eeared a few weeks since, and advices at anla Fe state that he was short to the government somewhere between fU.OOO anda0,000. A few days ago Miss Llzile Dogan, In structor at the Indian teno'd, known as the Stewart Institute, at Carson, in at tempting to separate two Indian girls who were quarreling, was struck over the head and it is believed seriously in jured. By the provision of a bill which has pasfed the Arizona House no bouse of ill fame can exist within 400 yards of a public-school budding, It will break up and clear out the dives on Monroe street in Phuaoix, as all that portion of the town is within two blocks of the High School building. Articles of incorporation of the Stock ton Power Transmission Company have been tiled by San Francisco men asso ciated with local capitalists, with a cap ital of $l,00t),000. The company will generate electricity with -water power on the Mokelumne river, forty-two miles from Stockton, and transmit it for sale to manufactories. Two bare of bullion marked "Vulture mine" have been (ound in a stable ditch at San Bernardino. They are supposed to have been part of the bullion secured by three Mexlcanswho killed four years ago Captain Good. Superintendent of the Vulture mine in Arizona, while he , was on his way to Phoenix with ths mine's output for the month, Allen Rhodes of Balem has prepared a display of Oregon game birds that will go to the World's Fair. It consists ol seventeen Mongolian pheasants, includ ing cock, ben and filteen chicks, fonr pair for a group; two pair of Eastern Oregon prairie chickens, two pair ol dusky grouse, two pair milled grouse, four pair valley quail, three pair moun tain quail, a group ot jack snipe and some other single specimens The Oregon and California Land Corn, psny used to be assessed on 53,000 acres of land in Lane county. A new owner ship book revealed 260,000 acres. Th company fought an assessment on that basis. The Supreme Court decided mostly in favor of the county of Lane. A compromise has just been made on 136,000 acres. The principle has been fully established that the railroad, ot land company, must pay taxes on ths land they are entitled to under the grant, whether patented or not. As a result, Lane county will receive this year ovei $10,000 from that soottrce, where several years formerly a few hundred dollari were paid annually, '' , , The rage for hidden-treasure hunting still exists in the neighborhood of the San Luis Key Mission, and the Restora tion Society Is taking steps to put a stop to the burrowing in and around the walls. As an Illustration of the elusions, there lives in Los Angeles an old Indian woman with the name of Trinidad. She was a young girl, about twelve years old, at the mission of San Juan Capistrauo, when that building was distroyed by an earthquake In 1812. and thirty eiuht In dians were killed on that memorable Sunday at high mass. Trinidad, who claims to be a witch, says she knows where a large amount of gold and silver is buried In that building, and the spir its tell that it la still there. The Norlhivtitern Lumberman of Chi cago, treating of the growing scarcity ol white pine for shop work, suggests sev eral woods to fill its place, and says ol this Coast's woods : The two Western woods that now seem likelv to become important factors in the factory trade are spruce and red cedar. The former is light, soft wood, easily worked bnt not strong, with a cloee, straight grain. . It has been UBed to some extent by one of the local sash, door and blind factories with satisfactory results. The red cedar Is more brittle than spruce, ' rather coarse-grained, but easily worked and very durable. It meets with some favor in this market as a finishing wood, but is hardly as desirable lor factory work as spruce. Yellow or Douglas fir is claimed by some Paoiflo Coast mill men to be an an excellent finishing wood, but it is too heavy to admit ol shipment East In competition with spruce and cedar. Its commercial value is greatest for con struction purposes. ; INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. Bottles are blown by machinery at Vineland. N. J. Uncle Sam's boys have 30,000,000 of capital invested In Hawaii. The Angora goat supplies the haw wh.cn adorns ordinary dolls. Telephone chat costs $2 for three mln ntes between Paris and London. There are now nearly 200 women prac ticing dentistry in the United States. Eighty-six of the 865 towns in Massa chusetts contain no resident physician. There are in the United States more than l,700distlnct and separate railways. The Litchfield Car Works in Indiana are about to be moved to Birmingham, Ala. Over 100 electric cars are to be built at once at Pittsburg (or a Chicago com pany New England capitalists have pur chased 76J,0U0 worth of Texas timber lands. . . ' Several fleets of river boats are to be established this year on the Western rivers. , The Armour Packing Company has in corporated in New Jersey; capital, 7, 600.000. Wooden-soled shoes are being slowly Introduced in the cheap shops. Phila delphia Record. The novelty of the Columbian stamps is wearing off, and the old-timers are re-. I turning to favor. Makers ot maple sugar In Vermont say thst the supply this year will exceed 7,0v0,000 pounds. Tbe Lingham gold mine In Belmont, Hastings county, Ontario, Is proving highly profitable. In. some of the Eastern shoe-blacking cellars yon can have your high hat pol ished by electricity. ' Canning factories, it la reported, are being erected in large numbers in vari ous parts of Georgia. It is reported that Melbourne, Aus tralia, la overflowed with men who want work, bnt are unable to secure it, Chautauqua county, N. T., has 14,000 acres of bearing vines and 600 acres of young vines not in bearing. For fifty-two consecutive miles on the Boston and Albany railroad, it is said, there is not a grade crossing. An ounce of pure gold is worth $20.64; therefore, a ton of pure gold, which con tains 24,000 ounces, is worth $41)5,3(10. Last year there was borrowed out of banks and trust companies in New York and Brooklyn on real estate $68,000,000. It is said that 3,000 miles of electric road will he added this year. One road In Pennsylvania is to be eighty miles long. A Clearfield (Pa.) Inmberman, Simon Flynn, will run 3V.OJ.0OJ wt of loss down the Susquehanna river to the saw mills. The turpentine gatherers of Oeorgla, It la estimated, have during the past five years destroyed $2O0,O0J,0JO worth of pine timber. . Millions upon millions of herring are taken every year. It is said that there are more herring eaten than any other kind of flsh. It is estimated, the Pittsburg Ditpaich says, that 41,300,000 rottaites could be erected ont of the standing timber in the SUte of Washington. There came Into New Orleans in two days of last week nine steamers and one schooner, bearing 102,001) bunches of bananas and 00,000 cocoanuts. The largest pumping plant In the United States was that placed in a mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. It pumps 4,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. Now that the Pennsylvania miners have an eight-hour law, some people are Inclined to think they will have to keep well organized to get any good out of it. A strong effort is being made in New Jersey to defeat the law which makes fifty-five hours the limit of week's work. It is claimed that the law is un constitutional. PERSONAL MENTION. The fine laces owned by the Vander bllt families are said to be worth $600,- ooo. David H. Smith, the son of the Mor mon prophet, Joseph Smith, has been an inmate of the asylum for the insane at Elgin for seventeen years. Lady Henry Somerset is about to start a paper, to be called the Woman's Her ald, which will be the organ of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of Eng land will probably visit 'his country during the World's Fair. He was here in 18S', and was then a tall, spare man ol 63 years. Miss Emily Faithful of London is en deavoring to organize in one of the sub; nrbs a home for women who are working for their own living, the idea being to provide each occupant with a private room at a low rent and the nse of com mon dining and reception rooms. The Lord Mayor of London, who' Is a Roman Catholic, went out of his way the other day to pay a visit in state to the Church of England Young Men's Soci ety in Ludgate Circus, and he not only made an excellent speech, but left a sub stantial gift in his own and the Lady Mayoress' name. ... It is said Lord Rosebery's great desire is to see a new and magnificent London built up on the lines of the old city. In his boyhood, it appears, his three ambi tions were to marry one of the richest women in Europe, to win the Derby and become Prime Minister of England. Of these three ambitions he has attained none so far. - Secretary Gresham loves to sit hours and hours before the statue of General MoPherson in Washington. The two were lnt'mate nmnera In Sherman's army. One day before Atlanta Gresham was terribly wounded at MePhnrson'a side, and five minutes later McPherson was killed. There's room for feeling in case like that. Sir AUrad Stephen, the ex-Chief Ju tloe ot New South Wales, can give poin-a even to Mr. Gladstone in the matter of Iuvenillty. He la in his 92d year, and :eepa two of his daughters busy for six hours dally taking down his reminis cences from dictation. Sir Alfred is the Nestor of Lincoln's Inn,. He entered there as a student in 1818, and was called to the bar In November, 1823. Two years afterward he emigrated to the antipodes as Solloitor-Genaral for the then penal, colony of Van Dieman'a Land, now the self-governing colony of Tasmania. EASTERN NEWS. Prof. Totten Predicts the End of the World. BISHOP WIGGER'S CIRCULAR. The Case Involving the Mormon Church Property Advanced on the Calendar. The Colorado Senate has passed bill abolishing capital punishment. Prof. Totten predicts the end of the world some time tn Heptemoer next, Fifty thousand hotel rooms will be available near the World's air grounds. The Okeflnokee sramp in Georgia is reported to be overrun wltn wtia nogs. A big Boston syndicate is trying to se cure control of the Canadian steel indus tries. Washington newsboys are forbidden by law to sell papers except on the data et issue. The city of Boston is making hard fight against the trolley system of elec tric cars. The Aransas Pass railroad has virtu ally passed into the possession of the Southern Pacific. '. In the Lower House of the Pennsyl vania Legislature the anti-Pinkerton bill has finally passed. A stranze disease among cattle in Central Illinois is believed to be due to the feeding of millet. - Estimates as to the cost of the hotels in the World's Fair district range from 13,500,000 to $4,000,000. The heaviest immigration that ever flowed into Northwest Iowa and South Dakota is in progress now. A crinoline-manufacturing concern has been established in Rhode Island, the first of tbe kind in America. It Is thought that the coinage of World's Fair souvenir half-dollars will be completed in three months. About 150 Chinamen living in Boston have intimated that they intend regis tering within the prescribed period. f- South Carolina has issued bonds cov ering its new loan, amounting to $5,260, 000, bearing i)4 per cent interest and to run for forty years. Some one has gone off with all the coin and records of the noted Tenderloin Club at New York, and it is now in the throes of dissolution. By vote of 31 to 19 the Minnesota Senate has passed the Senate bill ex tending the full suffrage at all elections in Minnesota to women. The case involving the Mormon Church property has been advanced in the United States Supreme Court to the sec ond Monday of the next term. The receivers of the Beading road have definitely decide! on the issue of receivers' certificates. The bondholders' committee will probably fight it. a corpo-atlon with a. capital of $15, 0 0,000 has been formed to cover New Jersey in tbe neighborhood of Jersey City and Newark with eiectrio railways. It is proposed by the organized tin and sheet-iron job workers and cornice workers of St. Louis to establish a train ing school where apprentices will be taught the trade. The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk roads have agreed upon a rate of 1 fare for the round trip lrom Canadian points to Chicago during the World's Fair. Tickets will be good for one month. The Kansas Legislature has passed a bill making it illegal to require a gold contract in notes, mortgages or other ob ligations and making silver, as well as gold. a legal tender for all debts in Kan sas. A committee appointed by the House of the Tennessee Legislature to investi gate tbe charges against Judge Duboise of the Shelby County Criminal Court has reported that there are no grounds for impeachment. Reports to the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Department showm dee ded increase in the number of immigrants entering the port of San Francisco, while in the other jrorta of the country there has been a falltng-off. : It is thought probable that at the con clusion of the naval review Secretary Herbert will divide the ships into three fleets, put new officers in command and send the vessels away at once to the Pa cific, the South Atlantic and Europe. Plans for the America cup defenders show that some radical changes have been introduced over the former type of vaohts. The new boats are neirly all 124 feet in length. 23 to 26 feet beam, and have a mean draught of 12 to 14 feet. .. . The customs officers at New York are holding the trunks of a number of Ital ian opera singers under the belief that the clothing in the trunks is not the property ol individual members, but of Henry Abbey, who has charge of the troupe.' Judge Dallas in the United States Cir cuit Court at Philadelphia has denied motion to require John F, Searles, Jr., Treasurer of the American Sugar Refin ing Company, to show cause why he should not be compelled to answer im portant questions in the suit of the gov ernment against the sugar trust. ' Bishop W gger of the diocese of New ark, N. J., has issued a circular letter, addressed to each priest in the diocese, rescinding his former order in which priests were ordered to refuse absolution to those members of a parish who sent their children to the public schools in preference to the parochial schools. On charges of having swindled wealthy Jews all over the country to the tune of $i00,000, while pretending to collect funds for the relief of needy Russian co religionists, Phineaa Hanncah, who claims to be the son of a wealthy manu facturer of Persian carpets and rugs of Salmas, Persia, and also of New York, aM been arrested at Chicago. The government patronage heretofore considered the sacred property of Sena tors, for instance, as Marshals and Dis trict Attorneys, is now declared free for all, and according to the ruling of the President humble members of the Honse and even a group of private citizens may present the names of candidates with some hope of success in the application. NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Delegates to the Recent International Monetary Conference Resign Ashland Reservation. Secretary Carlisle has signed vouchers to the amount ot $250,120 in favor of the World's Fair Commission, which are payable in souvenir half-dollars. The commission up to this time has received $1,920,125 of the $2,600,000 appropria tion by Congress, payable in souvenir half-dollars. The delegates to the recent Interna tional Monetary Conference have re signed. Among members of Congress it is believed the President will send a commission to Brussels to represent this country when the conference reassem bles. The Secretary of State is now en deavoring to ascertain how manv coun tries will be represented at the reassem bling ol the conference. Xnere are some officials who hold to the opinion that tbe President will not send another delega tion to Brussels, but will designate our Minister to Belgium to attend the con ference as tbe representative of the United States. - Secretary Carlisle, it is stated on good authority, intends to give much of bis time this summer to the consideration of tbe tariff, with a view te so thorough ly familiarizing himself with the subject as to be able to indicate in a general way outlines for the formation of a tariff bill by the next Democratic House. Nearly every mail that reaches the Treasury Department contains sugges tions from statisticians and others as to compilation of a tariff bill. Some thirty or forty of these communications have already been received, prominent among them being that from tbe New York Reform Club. The general out line of the New York Reform Club's tariff proposition corresponds closely to the proposition submitted in 1885 by Edward Atkinson of Boston to President Cleveland and Secretary Manning. Senator Do'ph called upon the Secre tary of the Interior the other dav re garding the proposed timber reservation at Ashland, Or. It was understood that this reservation would be made during the last administration, bnt President Harrison did not find time to reach it. Secretary Smith told Senator Do'ph that at present he was nnable to do any thing regarding this reservation and was too busy reorganizing the department to give any time or attention to the work of the department except that of most pressing nature. Tbe necessity for hav ing tbe Aehland reservation is said to be that the water supply of that town is dependent upon having the timber reser vation, as the denudation of the lands where the water now comes from would probably result in greatly impairing the water supply. The State Department has received of ficial information that Queen Victoria has raised tbe rank of Sir Julian Pauncefote, ber representative in Wash ington, from that of Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to that ol Am bassador, and hia credentials as such are on their way here. Under the provis ions of tbe diplomatic and consular ap propriation bill of March 1. 1893. Presi dent Cleveland is authorized to confer the same rink upon onr representative at London. Sir Julian Pauncefote wil be inn first Minister to Washington to bold the title of Ambassodor, but it is highly probable that France, Germany, Russia n1 ln.t.i. wilt ha Twimiit. tl fntlnw thai Example thus set by England and change j the title ot tneir Ministers to AmoaBaar dors, thus necessitating by international courtesy a corresponding change on our part. L When the Senate ratified the treaty for the cepeion to the United States of the Cherokee Strip, there was inserted 1 therein a clause which provides for the compensation for the land to be made in time payments in place ot tne re quirement of the government to pay cash, as contemplated in the agreement originally drawn up with the Indians. This momticatton oi tne treaty was not accepted bv the Indians, but will be considered by their legislative body, the Cherokee Council, at a meeting to be held soon. The early opening of the StriDwill be entirely dependent upon tbe action of the Council, for, should it reject the modification of tbe treaty made by the Senate, then it will be nec essary for the matter to be again brought before Congress, wnicn wouia, oi course, indefinitely delay the opening of the lands to settlement. Litigation, between the United States and the late corporation of tbe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, is not as yet ended, rne supreme uoun has before it an appeal respecting tbe nse to which shall be put the church1 property escheated by the court's deci sion at a previous term. When the prop erty was declnred forfeited the court di rected the Utah Supreme Court to fix the charitable uses to which it should be put. The court rejected the proposition of the government as to the use which should be made of the fund from the property, amounting to about $400,000, and directed it should be applied to the support and aid of the poor members Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and to building and repair ing houses of worship for members ol the church. The United States has ap pealed from this decree, asserting it would practically permit the property to be devoted to the same purposes for which it was formerly held. The Secretary of the Treasury has de cidsd that the former action of the de partment la invalid winch deducts from the direct tax due the several States the sums heretofore charged for arms and equipments drawn for the State militia. The sum charged to Oregon amounted to S2.472. and this was deducted from the $35,000 direct tcx due the State. Representative Hermann, who was the author of the law which gave the Oregon militia a large quantity of arms and equipments a few years ago, has made various appeals to the Secretary to re lease the charge made against tbe direct tax due the State. Some other States are interested as to similar charges made against their quotas under the law of April, 1808, which provides for an an nual appropriation of $2X10,000 for pro viding arms and equipments for the whole body of the mi.itia. The depart ment now decides that in view of the long-continued practice of allowing the States to anticipate their quotas and to honor the requisitions of the Governors on their representation of the existence of emergencies demanding their, imme diate us no charges should be made. FOREIGN LANDS. Cholera Appears in a Moscow Convict Prison. CAPRIVI AND THE ARMY BILL. Work on the Ship Canal Between the North and Baltic Seas Being Pushed. London music halls clear from 16 to 70 per cent. Another is to be erected. In small hotels in Russia each guest is expected to find his own bedclothing. The extradition treaty between Swe den and the United States has been rat ified. The operative cotton-spinners of Man chester, England, have offered to com promise. The Kiel Observatory has fonnd .an other planet. This is the fifteenth found this year. A mass meeting at Bnda-Pesth adopted resolutions favoring Hungarian inde pendence. The Nicaraguan Congress Is discussing the proposition to declare war against Honduras. The foot and mouth disease has broken out in the Berlin cattle market, and all removals of cattle have been prohibited. The Brazilian Minister at Paris has denied the truth of the report that there has been fighting in Rio Grande do 6ul. Peleall, a charming Staffordshire vil lage, is in dangerof disappearing through a subsidence caused by mining opera tions. Tbe talk of lot wsges for coal min ers in England has occasioned threats that not a pound of coal will be mined for a month. The oil industry has changed Baku from a village to a large, flourishing town. Tbe Baku oil refinery is the larg est in existence. A plot to overthrow 'President Socaga of Nicaragua has been frustrated by means of information given by the wile of one of the conspirators. The Congo Free State authorities have organized an expedition having for its) object the repression of the traffic car ried on by Arab slave dealers. A number of the famous Oldenburg carriage horses will be sent to the Chi cago Exhibition. This is the most noted breed of hones in all Germany. The Pope has informed the French Bishona of his decision to crown hia Episcopal jubilee by the beatification of tbe French heroine, Joan of Arc The boundary question between Chili and Argentina has been delayed in its settlement, Argentina wishing to con sult Congress before sign-'ng a treaty. The Italian government has just sent the German Emperor a magn ficnt al bum containing photographs and pict ures of every ship in the Italian navy. It is tbe law in Denmark that every drunken man shall be taken to his home in a carriage provided at the expense of the saloonkeeper who sold him the last drink. A Fnnoh anarchist named Barnard has been arrested ft Rome. He is sus pected of having caused the explosions at the Palace Antici Mattei and the Pal ace Altieri. " , , The Social Democrats in Germany have decided not to observe May day, giv ng as a reason the impoverished condition of theworkingmen throughout the Empire. Several cases of cholera have appeared in a convict prison in Moscow. Ruesia. The Provincial Council has voted 300,000 francs to be spent in instituting prevents ive measures. The police authorities of Birmingham have served notices upon the small shop keepers, informing them that if they continue to trade on Sundays they will be prosecuted. The Mikado has abolished the law in Japan which provided that the author ities could pick out a man for an unmar ried woman of a certain age and compel him to marry her. Chancellor Capri vi refuses to compro mise on the German army bill, and an appeal to the country is very likely to follow the defeat of the measure, which seems now to be certain. Numerous Austrian, German and Prussian Catholics have petitioned the Pope to call an international convention to use their influence in trying to stop gambling at Monte Carlo. The Chinese government has dis patched 15,000 repeating rifles to the troops on the western frontier in the vi cinity of the Pamir, and numerous drill inspectors accompany tbe transports. The works of the ship canal between the North Sea and the Baltic are being pushed forward with such energy and regn'arity as to give hrpe of its being finished in 1895, as originally intended. BiBmarck says that all he cares for now is to remain at home with hia fam ily. He rareiy visits Berlin, because he has no house there, and he dislikes un familiar beds and hotel accommodations. Religions riots have broken out in Ainoy. Many native Christiana have been tortured, and a few have been killed. An English missionary was at tacked by a mob of fanatics, and barely saved his life by flight The Corinth canal, which is now ap proaching completion and is to be opened on April 23 next, was formally com menced on March 27, 1882. The canal is over 9 miles in length, 68 feet wide on the bottom, 80 feet at the water line . and 26 feet deep. The battle of Santa Lucia in Honduras Is stated to have been the bloodiest one which bas taken place during the revo lution. One hundred and fifty men were killed on the field, of whom 100 be longed to Villela's army. General Bo nilla has occupied Jntlcalpa, meeting no resistance. He also captured 600 rifles. Tbe commission at St. Petersburg, ap pointed to define the term "territorial waters" as used in tbeBehring Sea case, has decided that the term applies to all waters within thirty lesgues of the coast line. Even at St. Petersburg there is little expectation that this decision will be accepted by any foreign power except perhaps the United States. PORTLAND MARKET. Prod no, mil, fCto, W mat-Valley, $L12 ; Walla Walla, $1.06 per cental. Floob Standard, $3.30; Walla Walla, $3.60; Graham, $2.80; Superfine, $2.50 per barrel. Oats Choice, 43(3 45c per bushel ; fair, 40c; rolled, in bags, $6.25(36.60; barrels, -$6.606.75; cases, $3.75. Hat Best, $11(313.60 per ton; com mon, $9.00310.00. MHiLSTurrs Bran, $1617; shorts, 19 20; ground barley, $23(324 ; chop feed, $18 per ton; whole feed barley, 80 85c per cental; middlings, $23(824 per ton; brew ing barley, 90U5c per cental ; chicken wheat, $L10 per cental. Borrsa Oregon fancy creamery, 27X 3oc; fancy dairy, 22),2oc: fair to good, 1720c; common, 12X15o 0 pound; pickle roll butter, S035e per roll ; California, 4045c per roll. Chkxbx Oregon, U(dl3c; Eastern Twins, 16c; Young America, loo per pound. Eoos Oregon, 16c per dozen.. Poowbt Chickens, mixed coops, $4.00 4.60; old bens, 6.005.50; old roosters, $4.00(34.50; dressed chickens, 1618c per pound; ducks. $6.60(87.60; geese, $10.000 11.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1617c; dressed, 1819c per pound. Vsostabui Cabbage, $1.50(91.65 per cental; onions, $L752 0; cut onions, 75 90c; potatoes, $1.00 for Garnet Chuis; $1.25 for Bur banks; Oregon I turnips, 76Oc per sack ; young carrots, 73Cafl per sacs:; sweet potatoes, .ou 4.00 per cental; cauliflower, UOc per per dozen, $2 76 per crate; celery, 90c per dozen; artichokes, 86c per dozen; ' lettuce, 40c per dozen; asparagus, 2oe Tier pound ; parsnips, 85c per sack ; beets, $1.26 per sack ; radishes, 26o per dozen ; green onions, 18c per pound ; rhuoarb, 10c per pound; green peas, 10llc per pound ; spinach, 34c per pound. Faorre Sicily lemons, $o.0J(35.60 per box; California new crop, $4.605; ba nanas, $2.604.0J per bunch; oranges, seedlings, $2.0032.75 per box; navels, $3.00 3 50; cranberries, $12.60 per bar rel; apples, $1.6) 42 26 per box. Stxrila Oroocrte,. 4 HoraY Choice comb, 1517o nound : new Oregon. 16C320C Salt Liverpool, 200s, $.50; 100s, $16.60; 60s, $17.50; stock, $10.50(311.60. Dbud Facrra Petite prunes, 10(3 12c ; . silver,ll14c; Italin,1214c; German, 10llc; plums, old, 66c; pew, 79c; apples, 6(3 He; evaporated apricots, 1516c; peaches, 12016c; pears, 7lle per pound. Kica Island, $4.75(35.00; Japan, $4.75 per cental. Corns Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 22c; Salvador,21)ic; Mocha, 2)30c; Java, 24!30c; ArbuckVs, Midland, Mo kasks and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25 35-lOOc per pound j Columbia, same, 24 85-lOOc. Bbaks Small white, 3)c; pink, 8c; bayos, 3ic; batter, 8c; limas, 3(340 per pound. Svaur Eastern, in barrels, 40065c; half-barrels, 4257c; in cases, 36(3 80c per gallon; $2.26 per keg. California in barrels, 20040c per gallon; $1.75 pet keg. . Sooab Net prices : D, 4c ; Golden O, 4.c; extra O, 4)c; Magnolia A, 4c; granulated, 6c; cube crushed and pow dered. 5c; confectioners' A, 60 per pound ; maple sugar, 160 ltie per pound. Canned Goods Table fruita, assorted quoted $1.7502.00; peaches, $1.8602.10; Bart lett pears, $1.7502.00 ; plums, $1.37X OL60; strawberries, $2.26(32.46; cher ries, $2.2502.40; blackberries, $L86(i x; raapoemes, $2.40; ptneepp.ee, $2J0 L80; apricots, $1.6502.00. Pie fruits: Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.26; plums, $1.101.20; blackberries, $1.25 1.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons Assorted, $3.1603.50; peaches, $3.6004.00; apri cots. $3.6004.00; plums, $2.75 3.00; blackberries. 14. 25 (84.50. Vegetables : corn, $1.50(31.75; tomatoes, $1.10(31.16; sugar peas, $1.00 ; string Deans, 95c per dozen. Meats : Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped beef, $2,650 4.00: lunch tongue. Is, $4.00; 2s, $6.76; deviled ham, $1.751.8i per dozen. Fish: Sardines, , 75c$2.25; Ks, $2.1504.60; lobsters, $2.3003.60; salm on, tin 1-lb.talls, $1.2601-60; flats, $1.75; Slbs., $2.25(32.50; bbL, $5.50. t . The Mm Market. Bcbv Primesteers,$3.8504.25 ; choice steers, $3.75(34 00; fair to good steers, $3.0003.60; good to choice cows, $3.15(3 3.60; common to medium cows, $2.50(3 2.75; dressed, $4.6037,O0. Mutton Choice. $4.o44.75; fair to good, $4.0004.60; dressed. $8.00; lambs, $4.0004.60; dressed, $8 00. Hoas Choice heavy. $7.0007.25 ; me dium, $6.50(98.75; light and feeders, $6.2506.60; dressed, $7.00. , .r Vbait-$4 00O7.00. Smoxbd Mbats Large ham, 170 17 c: medium ham, 1701836 ; break fast bacon, 1718o; short clear sides, 140t5Wc;. dry salt sides, .13) 14o per pound. . Lajkd Compound, In tins, 14c; pure, in tins, 16017&C; Oregon, lliO l2)e per pound. . ' Mleoell&naooa. Nails Base quotations i Iron, $8 76; steel, $2.75; wire, $2.60 . per keg. Ibon Bar, 2Jc per pound; pig Iron, $23025 per ton. 8tbb& lOKo per pound. Tin I. 0. charcoal. 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.5009.00 per box; for crosses, $3 extra per box ; I. O. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.6008.00 per box j tern plate I.O., prime quality, $6.8807.00; 14x20, $14.00. Lbad 4o per pound; bar, 6Ko. Shot $1.80 per sack. . Hobsbshobs $6. Naval Stobbs Oakum, $4.6006 per bale; resin, $4.8005 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, $9.00 per barrel ; pitch, $6.00 per barrel ; turpen tine, 66c per gallon in carload lota. '.'" Bcs ana Uavarln. - Burlaps, 7-oa., 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10-oa., 40-inch, net cash, ,7c; burlaps, 12-os., 44-inch, 7c burlaps, 16-os., 60-inch, llc ; burlaps, 20-oa., 76 inch, 14c. Wheat bags, Calcutta, 23x36, spot, ofeC, two-Dusnei oat uaga, la. , KconotDf In Horaeahoea. :-" . A horseshoe has been patented in Can ada which is provided with removable calks. These calks are easily removable, and when they require sharpening .calks may be put in in about five minutes. Two sets are kept on hand, one sharp and the other dull; this effects a great saving. The shoe bas tapered dovetail recesses, in which the tnpured shank of the calk fits. New York Telegram. The fifty hirtrost libraries in Germany possess 12. 1 00,000 volumes, against those of England with about 0,450,009. and of North America with about 6,100,004 volumes, .