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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1893)
"THE MIST" OIVEe Alt The Official and Other News ,. Of- Columbia : County. II Tilt , Official Paper or- Columbia : County. VOL. 10. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1893. NO. 39. THE MIST" OREGON "WIST THE OREGON MIST. imiiEu Bvr.nt riuuAY moHiMrio -T- THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPAKT, DAVI3 BEOS., Managers. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Bubecrlptlen Him. On copy on y.ar In adranc II H On copy til uioutha... , 76 aUul opy I AaverlUiaaf Hal. Prnl.eelonal eard. on year i 11 Ou. oolnuin on. y,r I'M 1111 column on year 7. Quarter column on y.w.... M Ou.lncb on nioulh ......... 1 Uu luuh Dir. month................. I Ou liiolt tlx month Loaal nolLea, 111 cent. pr Hit lor drat Inaer lion; I0cota per lilt lor ach subag,iitil In i.rllnn. l.gl ailverlla.mnt, II .50 par Inch lor Aral ltirttoii, au. 1 74 ouU par luob lur aaab aubar queulluMrtlun. COLOMUIA COUNTY DIUKCTOllY. Comity Officer. Jadg (Jlort , Rll.rlir Tri'Miir r Hiit. "I Bohoole. Aaa.eaor turreyor Commlealonera... .Ui .n Watiehard, Ralril.r ,.E. B. Ualck, '. li.ioua It. A, Maule. HI. Ilel.i a K. M . Wharlon.loUmU.l.lty ...T. J C:i..lno, V.ruoni ....... w. u, ayeer, nuir ..A, B. I.I III., Kinl.r (I. Brho.MIOTur, vwuuol W. liaruee, Merger, etclf Notices. Il.aomc.-Hl. ll.I.na Lodg. No. M-Regular tommuulcatloiie Ural ami third Saturday In acb mouth l7:Mr. . al Meeonlo ball. Vlall lu( m.uiPra In good ataudlug InvlMd to at- MaaoNio.-lLlnUr Lodg. No. 24-Rtated mealing. Saturday on or bafor auh lull moon at 7:U r .at. al MmuiiIo hall, or Ulauchard'a tor. Vlalilni ni.mber. In food .landing In va.dtoaU.ua, Onn rf.Luwa-m. H.l.nt Lodge No. 117 Khm ry Batuiday night ai7 U) Tr.iial.ut nr.ihran Is goud .taiiUlug oordlelly lutli.d to .mud. Tb. na.ii. Down rlvr (boat) eloa. al I N i. II. Up river (uo.il vlowa al r. ai. 1 h. mall lor Vrnoiil aud rittaburg l.a.aa L ll.l.u. Monday, Wdnalay aud t rlday at I a. , Th mall lor Marahland; Clatabanl ami Mtat Lave, yuluu Monday, Wadutaday aud Friday Malla (railway) north aloe a' 10 A. U. lur Portlaud at I r. al. Traveler UaalaU-Hlver Heal. UTiiaitO. W. Bhav-I.avm Bt. n.l.ne lor I'ortland al II A. . Tueaday, Thurada and Saturday. Uav.e St. ll.I.na for t'lalalanl MiMiday. Wdulay and Friday al 1:00 A, . MTi.M.a la.uia-Lear Ht. ll.I.na lor Port land 7 Ah a. it, raiurulug al 1 ho r. . HTttatta JoairH K i.Looa Laav. Ht. Helena (or 1'iirllaud dally except Hund.y, at 7 A. ., ar rlvlngal Portl.ud at 10.80; returning, la' Porilauv at 1 r. .. arriving at Bt. Helen, ala. PROFESSIONAL. jyi. ii. b. curr, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Ht. Helen, Oregon. TJB. ). B. II ALU PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clatskaitle. Columbia county. Or. B. LITTLE, SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, Si. Helena, Oregon. Comity surveyor. Land itirveylni-.town SlalilnK, and engineering work promptly one. IT nnaaamuTa. WUNN A co 5i BnoAOWAT. Naw Io. OfilMt bur.au for aaounn palent. In Annrloa, Iiat patwit lrt.o out by 5. la bromcht ltof tba puUia by a noue (Iran fraa ol obarta la tb Sfmttm arnenan Th! Oral-land Route. Two train dally. l.aT Ing Filth and etreeti, U rand Central Depot. No. 2, "Th Limited Vmmt MmII iM.vlllff Kt 7;0 p. al., carrlea Vaatl tittle I'uuinan ratar Slei-plng aud Dlnlni fMm and CUftlr Can through from Portland to Chi- l. r..aiiia-t1l II luff a wlthmitrhange. Thla train make, dlreot con n.cllnua lor Denver, Kanaaa City, St. I-oula, lIHena, Untie and St. Paul ; l"",'hiy.u1f.h Pullman Hlee per andChalrCar lor Walla Walla, CoIIhx, Fannlngton, Kocktord and Bpokane, tnaklntT direct I'onnectlon. lor Dayton, Pom my, Moacow and Creurd'Alene. No. 8, " Overland Flyer," leaving at : A. ., carrlea Pullman Palace and Tottrl.t Bleepera irum Portland toMlaeourl river wlthoutchatige. Through 1 tr.lt.; arrlv; at . 7:M, a. -.and P. . I IU IV A II Ol njimnnn ' I.IAVI rOHTLAHP. Coluiubia...Myl1l,2R Blate May 6,17,20 tlMuon ..M.vl. lft. 2g Columbia May S, 20 Stat May 12, M 4 Solantlflo AmtrKta A Aflenoy fof Jfl j! tmadi manks, 7 DiaiOM PATBHTi. Larttat elrmil.tlon of any atumtlBji papw ln tbf wofli aplandidlr llloatratwl. No Inialllnni E.n .bould b. w'tboul It Wa.Ty 3,lf5 tuti tl.ai all oioniba. Addnu AtyNN A CO, 9 MrYmtRrA V.." 4Nj'UJ.I-:K.fll.Vlff bW SUB Th company iwrrtti th right to Chang 'pRTl'rND'WVJTORIA ROUTE Morn Ing boat leavoa Portland dally, eicept Btinday, at 7 A M l returning, leavea Aatorla dally, ex. oepl Sunday, at 6 r. u. Night boat leave. Port laud dally.except Saturday, at p. at. i return. Ingrieavea Aatorla daily, except Sunday, at OA. M. The morning boat Irora Portland makea l.ndittga on th. Oregon ldeTueadya, Thura daya and Kattirdaya; on the Waahlnglon aid Monday., Wedneadaya and Fridaya. Troni Aa. torla the morninc boat makea landing, op tb Uregon aide Monday., W.dneadaya and Ffldaya, and on the Waahlnglon ld Tueadaya, Thura daya and Saturday.. . . ... OABCADB KOUTK Leave Aah atreet at 0 a. . dally.except Sunday: returning, leav Bonne villa at Vi:m r. H arriv n( at Purtland at I T. u. TO DAYTON AND WAV LANDINOB-Mon-day, Wedneaday, Friday, 7 A. . ... , Ocean .teamen leave from Bteamehlp wharf lAL OTHKR Steamer. lv rom Ah-trt dock. offlce 2M Waahlnglon atrt, ofJlV Third. w.H.HUllOlURT, AAUtaatOiiMd Paaanirr Agent. ftftlMd, Or. THE PACIFIC COAST. Los Angeles Ladies Contem plate Organizing. SPOKANE BOODLE OFFICIALS. Surprising- Development Antlclpa. ted From Investigation Into a Bank' Affairs. Salom'l inilebtodnoM, (59,600, It Is proponed to bond. Portland's trade outlook ii reported to Do very encouraging. The cattle on tlio Northern Arizona randies are rolling (at. Pan Diego county's tax rate la fixed at 11 .W, lilglier man ever uolore. The oiening of the Cuiur d'Alene mines is expected in snort time. Bheep owners at Duncan's, B.C., have orgamzea lor protection againl pan thers. The tailors at Vancouver, Victoria and Nnnaimo, B. 0., are on a strike againnt reduction. News has reached Victoria, B. C, of the seizure 01 six suaiing scuounora by liunnian veHHt'lu. Hop grower in Wailiington are din charging Intlians in favor of whites whenever it is posiiible to do so. The Firnt National Bank of Los An geles has tiled a suit at Kan Bernardino ngaiiiHt the Bear Valley Irrigation Com pany for 118,000. Tlie Reno Gaxctte becomes somewhat excited over a rumor that a scheme is in progress to annex Utah and make Salt l.aku the capital. The grand jury of Tillamook county failed tb find an indictment againnt Uave Howard for netting lire to the town, and he was set at liberty. Contracts have been let to restore the Pan Luis Key Mismon. Much of the carpentering will tie done by the Fran ciscan brothers themselves. Riirprining developments are antici pated from the investigation into the City Bank affairs at Los Angeles by the grand jury now In progress. Judge RiMlng at Carson, Nov., in a suit to enforce payment for street work has decided that a County Commixxioner had no right to let contracts to hiniHelf. The citizens of Spokane propose to prosecute the boodlingollieialii, and have secured evidence of a startling character. It is believed (200,000 has been stolen by city officials. Salem now has an ordinance deaigned to shut out all peddlers. Those who have been in the habit of soliciting orders for shirts and clothing will now be compelled to pay a license of (5 a day. The number of name in Portland's directory this year in :I,S14, against 36, 2H0 last year. On these figures the pub lishers estimate the present population of Portland at 00,786, a gain of 2,685 over last year. A niimlter of Los Angeles ladies pro poses an organization to awaken a mote general interest among women in ways anil means to support themselves, to fos ter self-reliance, to educate the sex in civil and political government and to obtain concert of action on the part of women in all movements for the ameli oration of her condition. The proposed consolidation of the lending street railways of Ban Francisco will be accomplished soon under the name of the San Francisco Cable Rail way Company. They are consolidated under a capital stock of 1,000.000, di vided into 1(10,000 shares. The deal was engineered by H. K. Huntington, the principal argument in its favor being it would doaway with the hauling of empty cars and save cutting one another'e throat. There will lie one salary list, fewer cars and consequently fewer em ployes. The Market Street Cable Com pany will hold a controlling interest or a proportion of the stock of eight out of ten shares. Judge Morrow has denied bail to the five Ios Angeles Chinese now at San Francisco awaiting the decision of the United States Supreme Court on their appeal from the District Court's decision denying them writs of habeas corpus. This makes a curious complication. The Chinese are at present confined in the Alameda county jail, though according to Judge Ross decision they cannot be Imprisoned, as they have committed no crime. They cannot be deported because of their appeal to the Supreme Court, and they cannot go free because of that appeal. The Chinese will bring suit against Marshal Gard for false imprison ment. If he releases them, he will be guiltv of contempt of court of the north ern district of California, which has re fused them bail. If he does not release them, he is liable for damages on the ruling of the District Court of Southern California that they are not criminate and cannot be imprisoned. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. 'a fall salmon circular, just issued, says: "At Shoab water Bay and Gray's Harbor fish are scarce. At Puget Sound they were run ning very slack until recently, when they took a spurt and came in in fairly large quantities. If dry weather continues, the Puget Sound canners will have a fair fiack, but even then it will be nothing ike last year's output. If the rains come on early, the pack will dwindle down to very small proportions indeed. All the rivers south of the Columhia are having light runs, which improved some what during the late rainy weather. Ac cording to the latest reports Grav's Har bor has 2.000 cases, Shoalwatnr Bay 1,200 cases and Tillamook 1,600 cases. The quality of fall fish is about the same as that of previous years. At Siualaw and the Umpqna there has been a percepti ble increase In size. No definite reports are yet at hand from Coqttillo or Rogue rivers. The fall fishing in the Columbia is fairly successful. Only two canneries are running. The fish in Baker's Bay for the last few days have done well, and the quantity of fish coming in, if they ran in a small estuary, would give pros pects of a large pack. - They are very much scattered, however, In the Colum bia. The humpback variety are coming in very large, many of them weighing thirty pounds. The price ruling for fail salmon this year is extremely poor, ow ing to the great quantities of Alaska fish now offered at 11.07 W delivered in New York. Fall fish will bring about (1.17,1 delivered in Eastern States." NATIONAL CAPITAL. The acting Secretary of War has ren dered a duels ion holding that a dishon orable discharge from the service Is an entire expulsion from the army and cov ers all unexpired enlistments. Negotiations looking to the acquisi tion Of the Mole Ht. Nicholas, Hayti, for use by the United States as a coaling station will be reopened by Henry M, Hmytlio, the new Minister to Hayti. Government officials express some doubt that the Costa Rican government will surrender Francis II. Weeks, the New York abswndur, as there is no ex tradition treaty between the countries. The United States will, however, acqui esce in the request for the absconder's extradition made by the Slate of New York. The new White House baby will be known hereafter as " Esther." The old fashioned name has been selected for the child by the President. Mrs. Cleveland says that the selection of this name has no significance other than a partiality of the parents for Scriptural denominatives. Esther means " a star " and " good for tune." Land Commissioner Lamoreaux has been notified that the force employed at the Cherokee Strip is insufficient. . He has delegated Chief Clerk Jacobs, In spector Swineford and Special Agent Womack unrestricted orders to employ all the help necessary and carte-blanche Instructions to establish booths wherever It is necessary. Each booth will here after, it is stated at the land office, be kept open twenty-four hours. July 21 last David A. Sanders of Ply mouth, Utah, filed an application with the Department of Justice for amnesty for violating the laws relating to unlaw ful cohabitation. The applicant says he did not receive the benefit of President Harrison's amnesty proclamation, and for that reason his unlawful relations did not cease until a few days after the time mentioned by the proclamation as the limit, November, 1800. He says he hag not violated any law of the country ex cept that relating to cohabitation; that he has not violated this law for more than two and one-half years. President Cleveland is in doubt whether he can properly grant the pardon, and before acting on it has referred it back to the Attorney-General for an opinion. In regard to the account of the inter view between Secretary Gresham and the Chinese Minister, In which Secre tary Gresham is said to have told the Chinese Minister that the administra tion did not intend to enforce the exclu sion law, it is stated at the State Depart ment that, whatever the views 01 t he President and Secretary Gresham miglit be in the matter, they would not give assurance to the Chinese government that a law would not be enforced while it remained on the statute books, and that therefore the statement attributed to Secretary Gresham was inaccurate. It is understood that Mr. Gresham merely assured the Minister of the good will of the United States toward the Chinese government and hoped the question of exclusion would lie arranged in a satis factory manner, so that the amicable-re lations between the two governments would not be disturbed. - Representative Oates of Alabama has Introduced a bill to annex Utah to Ne vada. Mr. Oates said : " I have been thinking over this question a long time, and 1 believe I have found the true eola tion of a vexing question. The plan is wholly within the power of Congress to carry out. There is nothing in the con stitution to prevent it. There is no way to destroy the State. That cannot be done, and yet the future of Nevada ie a serious question. Its population de crfaed from 70.000 in 1880 to 42,000 in 1 H'J I in round numbers, and there is no prospect of its recovering any part ol what it has lost. On the other hand, it the silver-mining industry be further di mitiihed, there will not fee 20,000 people in the State in five years, but it has two Senators and a Representative in Con gress. Utah, just adjoining, has 240,000 population, and is not represented at all except by a Delegate with no vote. It in not right that Nevada should have such power in Congress, nor is it fair that we should keep Utah out of the Union. The passage of this bill will solve the question what to do with Utah and at the same time put life and strength into the veins of a decaying 8t;tte." Thj bill was referred to the Committee on Territories. . In reply to a Senate resolution of Sep tetn'ior 7, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform that body to what extent the appropriations heretofore made for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act have been expended and what portions are now available, and whether in his opinion it is necessary that a further appropriation be made by Congress in order to carry out the law, and if so, how much, the Secretary has sent his reply, Inclosing a statement showing the appropriations and expend itures since 188U. It was shown that the balance available the 7th instant for the current year amounted to ((13,502, which includes the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the last fiscal vear, (20,002. It is estimated that (38,000 will be required to pay the salaries and necessary expenses of the officers regu larly employed to enforce the exclusion act 'for the remainder of the current year, leaving an estimated balance avail able for thedeportat ionof Chinese found to be unlawfully in the United States of (25 502. It appears by the census report of 18H J that the Chinese population ol the United States in that vear was 108, 088 Of this number 95,477 were In the Pacific States and Territories. The num ber who registered under the act of May 6, 18.12, was 13,243, leaving 93,444 who failed to avail themselves of the privi leges of the act. Assuming that aliout 10 per cent of these would be entitled to exemption, the Secretary finds there would still remain about 85,000 liable to deportation under the law. The lowest cost for transporting Chinamen from San Francisco to (long Kong is 35 per cap ita, and other expenses incident to ar rest, trial ami inland transportation would nlso avera-o, he says, not less than (35 p-,tr capita. If, therefore, all of those who did not register should be transported to China, the cost involved would aggregate in round numbers about (0,000,000. This, the Secretary says, in his opinion would be a moderate amount to carry out the act. He was unable to furnish an accurate estimate of the num ber who might be deported during the remainder of the current fiscal year, the matter being largely dependentupon the action of the courts. Assuming, how ever, that the courts would be able to dispose of 10,000 coses during such pe riod, the amount required would not be less than $700,000. The Secretary ex presses no opinions, and makes no recommendations. EASTERN NEWS. No Bids Made for Convict Labor in Minnesota. WHEEL TRUST IS DISSOLVED. A Movement on Foot to Organize Young; Women in Sweetstuff and Retail Stores. Alabama convicts will be pnt to work in factories instead of mines.- Secretary Gresham is preparing a re port on the Hawaiian question. ' The promise of Immigration to Texas is considered to be wry flattering. The army worm has made its appear ance in portions of Red River county, Tex. Factories are to be built near the Ala bama penitentiary to be operated by convicts. Nashville will probably issue (X00.000 of city scrip to supply the demand for a local circulation. The Keeleyites are to have a day at the World's Fair, when 20,000 of the re formed are expected. An Indiana bank which- recently sus pended began business on a capital of (6 ind failed for 173,000. The wheel trust, organized leas than a year ago, has dissolved as a result of the action of outside companies. Five hundred Presbyterians have left Colorado for the Cherokee Strip, where they propose to found a colony. An alarming epidemic of typhoid and intermittent fever is now prevailing at the military prison, Leavenworth. The Comptroller of Indianapolis has gone East to make one more attempt to sell (000,000 of city refunding bonds. Rival electric-light and power compa nies at Findlay, O., have consolidated, and consumers "expect increased rates. No bids having been made for convict lalior in Minnesota, the State has 4O0 prisoners for whom they have no work. Rev. Robert Mclntyre of Denver has requested that his salary be reduced from (6,000 to (1,000 on account of hard times. Witter has been selling at 10 cents a cupful and 25 cents for a canteen along the Cherokee Strip near Arkansas City. Employes of the Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louie railroad have agreed to a 10 per cent reduction for ninety days. - The Pennsylvania Commissioners have derided to prewmt their State building to the city of Chicago after the exposi tion. The Memphis banks have been notified from New York that they can have all the money necessary to move the cotton crop. Bank circulation increased (15,000,000 In August and 5.000,000 in July, or (20, 000,000 since the financial trouble reached the critical stage. y The recent burning of a Chicago dwelling-house by a prairie nre is a sig nificant commentary upon the magni tude of that expansive tity. The City Judge of Savannah, Ga., fined himself (10 the other day for being late, and then remitted the fine on the ground that " it was his first offense." Railroad earnings still show disap pointing results. The falling-off is felt in all sections of the country, 90 per cent of the roads reporting smaller receipts than a year ago. Mrs. Frank Rheinhardt, a widow of St. Paul, Minn., has been notified that by the death of her brother-in-law an estate in India, valued at (26,000,000, has been left to her. New York city's saloonkeepers have started a strong movement -to abolish the free lunch. They assert that the free lunch is a needless expense, which brings in no adequate return. A movement is on foot in New York to form a trades union including the young women in sweetstuff shops and retail stores generally, where the hours are very long and the girls ill-paid. The Mexican officials who were ar rested for having captured a lot of sheep on the Rio Grande owned by Americans have been released, and the boundary limits will be settled by a mixed com mission. W.J.Davidson has just returned to Cleveland, O., after building and start ing in Siam the first electric railroad in Asia. The motormen and conductors are natives, who were trained by Mr. Davidson. ,. As on inducement to put wide tires on their wagons New York taxpayers are offered a yearly rebate of one-half their assessed road taxes, provided the rebate shall not exceed the amount of four days' statute labor. The weekly weather crop bulletin of the Kentucky State weather service states that the present condition of crops is discouraging, owing to the drought. No rain of a general character has fal len in Kentucky for nearly three months. Pawnbrokers in Minneapolis report that the average number of watches pawned every day in that city has been eighty. This is a higher average than usual, and it is suspected discloses a financial stringency in the " Flour City." Philip Wentworth, mineralogist of Hi ram, Me., reports that while prospecting for gems recently he discovered a large diamond. It is estimated to be worth several thousand dollars, but its true value cannot be determined until it is cut. George Vanderbilt's purchase of the Paul Cameron estate near Ashville, N. C, for (75,000, it is thonght, will make him the largest land owner in the State. This property is in the immediate vicin ity of his great chateau and hunting pre serves. . Circulars have been issued by the De partment of Agriculture making inqui ries regarding the existence in various parts of the United States of broods of "seventeen-year locusts." There ore said to be twenty-two different broods of these insects. A party of Eastern capitalists 1b visit ing the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river to investigate the feasibility of lay ing an electric cable 600 miles along the river, with which to drive small boats through the Black Canyon and other scenic points. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. About 1,850,000 square miles of look ing glasses are manufactured annually in Europe. About 00 per cent of the copper pro duced In this country comes from the Lake Superior region. On lower Broadway, New York, in corner plots land is worth from (15,000 to (20,000 per front foot. A lump of nickel weighing 4,500 pounds, exhibited at the World's Fair, is worth half as many dollars. Boston was the first American city to 5roduco an American-made umbrella. Iiat was over eighty years ago. An Antarctic whaling and sealing com pany, designed to operate on a large scale, is being formed in Dundee. During the period beginning July 1, 18'Jfl, and ending June 30. 1877, the net exports of gold amounted to (357,270, 000. A government check for 1 cent, given during the war to correct an error, is still in the possession of a New York man. - M. Marie of Paris is known as the "dog barber." He daily clips from ten to thirty dogs. The price of a clip is 2. francs. During the present century the food supply of all the principal nations lias increased in a much greater ratio than the population. The Paris Exposition represented an outlay of something like (5,000,000. The Chicago Fair represents an outlay of over (:i0,000,000. Of the 916 papers and magazines pub lished in New York city exactly one-half -473 are issued monthly. The dailies number forty-six. The greater part of the world's supply of needles comes from Redtiitch in Eng land, where there are 20,000 people en gaged in the industry. There are annually killed in Africa a minimum of 05,000 elephants, yielding the production of raw ivory, the selling price of which is 850,000. The silver product of the United States is atiout 8,' per cent of our total mineral production, which according to the cen sus was in 1889 (587,230,662. The biggest diamond in the world, re cently found at Kimberly, South Africa, weighs over 900 carats, and is so valua ble that it was insured for (1,250,000 for transmission to Europe. The valuable whales have abont all disappeared from the North Pacific. Behring and Okhotsk Seas no longer con tain them, and the Arctic Ocean is the only recognized whaling ground left. Steel pens were first made in 1803. The annual sales at present in the United States are estimated at 30,000,000 pens, while the world annually consumes 200,000,000. The value of farming lands in this country is greotest in New Jersey. In 1S88 it overaged: New Jersey, (65; Massachusetts, (50; Ohio, tMl; New York, (44; Vermont, (36; Maryland, (32; Wisconsin, 23, and in some West ern States less than (5 per acre. The growth of the orange industry in Florida has increased from a production of 600.000 boxes in 1885 to 3,500,000 for the season just closed, and according to conservative estimates the combined crop will be fullv 5,000.000 boxes, of which over 4,000,000 will be marketed. The average price received by growers the past season was (1.S1 per box. PERSONAL MENTION. Mark Twain'a daughter. Miss Clara Clemens, has written a play. It is alle gorical in character. John Addington Symonds, the English essayist and writer on art. died rich. He left an estate valued at 75,286, most of which, however, came to him by bequest. Bret Harte cannot work except in se clusion, and when he is busy on a story he will hide himself away in some sub urban retreat known only to his closest friends. Prof. Heinrich Kiehert, the eminent geographer and author of the best exist ing ancient atlas, has just celebrated hia 75th birthday at Berlin. He is in excel lent health. Sir Arthur Sullivan, the song writer, is a short-necked, thick-set, beetle browed man, with curly black hair, mus tache and side whiskers, and is some what stilted as to manner. Bishop John P. Newman of the Meth odist Church, who has been visiting the missions in South America, has been ab sent about four months, and his tour has covered about 14,000 miles. Prof. Charles Carroll Everett of the Harvard divinity school will represent the university at the ceremonies attend ing the opening of Manchester's new col lege, Oxford. It takes place in October. The full-sized model for the equestrian statue of the late Fmperor William of Germany is juBt completed. He is shown mounted on a charger led by an angel of peace. The casting in bronze will take over a year. Associate Justice Charles E. Fenner of the Supreme Court of Louisiana has ten dered his resignation, being desirons of resuming the practice of law, which is at once more remunerative and in some ways more congenial to hia tastes. Jenny Lind's private ear was one of the first to be used in this country, and in the days when she was singing here it attracted a great deal of attention. It was only an ordinary car, which she hired, and from which she had the seats removed, fitting it up with her own lux urious household furniture. Dr. Diefenbach is a Bavarian painter who refuses to wear modern clothes, and prowls about the streets of Munich in a sort of toga. He is coming to this coun try with the hopes of converting a num ber of Americans to his ideas, and ex pects to establish a sort of colony, of which he shall be the head. Lady Tryon, widow of the late Ad miral, has refused the government pen sion of (3,00i), which Admirals' widows always receive. She is aware of the re sponsibility of her husband for the Vic toria disaster, and is unwilling to be a beneficiary of the government's bounty under such circiunstance8. The Admiral was a Lieutenant when she married him. The dean of the London Lyceum Com pany and the oldest actor on the stage is Henry H. Howe, a white-haired, hale man of 82 years. All close readers of theatrical melange know something of him. Though an old man, he has in re cent years taken the part of a gay gal lant in many Shakespearean and other plays. He naa been on the stage for sixty years, and was a protege of the great Macready and Charles Kean, and has been with Henry Irving for ten years. FOREIGN CABLES. Christians Embrace the Mo hammedan Faith. THE DROUGHT IN FRANCE. French Socialists to Take an Active Part In Shaping Legislation Jane Cakebread. Vienna la to have a circular city rail way. An electrical horse whip is the latest in France.. Italy has 50 ships of war, 171 heavy gum and 19,224 men. London emigration to Argentina ia much greater this year than it was last. An eleven-year-old daughter of Emin Pasha is being carefully educated in Eu rope. The French wheat crop is estimated at a decrease of 12,500,000 hectoliters from that of 1892. The Crown Princess of Sweden ia try ing to establish women photographers in Stockholm. . Much anxiety is shown in Cairo, Egypt, because the Nile has yet shown no signs of rising. The Socialists of France propose tak ing an active part in the shaping of leg islation in the new Chamber of Deputies. It ia said that the Russian fancy for English and French ways have been su perseded by a liking for things American. At Carlsbad you are up by 6 a. m. and in bed again by 9 p. m., no matter how fashionably late your hours were at home. The Pope will publish shortly a third edition of his Latin poems, entitled " Leonis PP XJII, Carmina et Inscrip tiones." The miners in the Borinage district of Hainault, Belgium, have voted to go on a strike immediately, unless the wages ore raised. Germany has changed the dress of ho tel waiters to a short jacket like that of a shin's steward, and Switzerland is soon to follow suit. Jane Cakebread has made her 261st appearance before a London magistrate for her single offense, intoxication and bad language. The new programme of public instruc tion adopted in France devotes more time to the study of English and less to the study of German. A conference of Finance Ministers of the German Empire to draft a taxation bill to cover imperial military expenses is being held in Berlin. Women who want to marry shonld turn their eyes toward Johannesburg in South Africa. There are at least ten men to one woman there. Fifty thousand Christians of the tobacco-growing district of Latakiah have sntldenlv gone over to the Mohammedan faith. The Sultan is delighted. The London Times announces the death at Altnacraig of Surgeon Major Paike, who accompanied Stanley's ex pedition in search of Emin Pasha. As an indication of how the slave trade survives in Africa, it is stated that last summer a caravan of 10,000 camels and 4,000 slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco. France was very much disturbed by strikes last year. An official return shows that in twelve months there were clof-e upon 300 trade disputes, affecting 108,000 workmen. The old Swan Inn, close to the quaint copper-spired St. Mary's Church, Bat terpea, has just disappeared, and a pala tial tavern, "The New Swan," has been erected in ita place. No fewer than 70,000 Welsh miners have just gone b&ck to work on a 20 per cent reduction of wages, and 30,000 more who are still out are expected soon to accept the same cut. The prolonged drought will have the effect of rendering the wine harvest of France a record breaker. Wine this year will not only be extremely abundant, but exceptionally superior in quality. The Russian government has post poned until June next the final transfer of Jews to their assigned places in the Jewish settlement. The Minister of the Interior is empowered to grant delays in certain cases. The Emperor-King of Austria-Hungary is having a new palace built for liini. It occupies a commanding plateau overlooking the Danube, and thegardena are going to be remarkable alike for their extent and beauty. An agricultural writer reckons the loss this year to English farmers at 2 an acre, which means that the farmers have upward of 70,000,000 less to spend than they would have hod if the crops had been up to the average. Queen Victoria's eyesight ia failing, and the royal oculist has frequently to be called into requisition. Her Majesty now has to uso very powerful spectacles when it is necessary for her to sign any State documents. Blindness ia heredi tary in the family. Verdi ia writing another opera, and has invited the Italian ainger, Emma Bellincioni, to create the leading role. " Your youth and beauty," aaid Verdi at his first meeting with her, "will com pensate for all the faults and failings in the composition of my old age." Empress Elizabeth of Austria lately built at enormous cost a magnificent marble villa at Corfu, and christened it "L'Achilleion." Her Majesty has made the codicil to her will : " I wish to be interred at Corfu near the river, so that the waves can continually break on my tomb." A sensation has been caused by the arrest of two women living in separate villages in the district of Kuttenburg, Bohemia. It seems they engaged sys tematically in the businessof murdering children whose parents desired to have them out of the way for any reason. They contracted to dispose of the bodies effectually, guaranteed secrecy, and did a thriving business at 6 florins per child. The discovery was made by accident. One of the women actually kept account books, in which she entered the suma received, from whom, the age and de scription of the child and the data dis posed of. By the help of the horrible record the authorities expect not only to convict the women, bnt also a large num ber of guilty parents. PORTLAND MARKET. Whxat Valley, 97(3(1.00; Walla Walla, 85(87c per cental. AOS AND BAOOIMO. Burlaps, 8-onnce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10!-oonce, 40-inch, net cash, 6'c; burlaps, llj-ounce, 45-inch, 7c; burlaps, 16-ounce, 60-inch, 11c; burlaps, 19-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot. 8c; 2-bnshel oat bags, 7c; No. 1 selected second hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24 ounce, 10c. provisions. , Eastibn Smoked Mbat and Lard Hams, medium, uncovered, UIW per pound ; covered, 14 15c ; break fast bacon, uncovered, 1617c; cov ered, 18J17c; short clear aides, 15 15'c; dry salt Bides, 1414c; lard, compound, in tina, 10c per pound; pure, in tina, 1314c; Oregon lard, ll12c. HOPS, WOOL AMD HI DBS. Hops '92s, 1016c per pound, accord ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 16(Sl(tc; choice, 16?17c. - Wool Pricea nominal. Hides Dry selected prime, 5c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3c; under 60 pounds, 23c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10(15c; medium, 2035c; long wool, 3060c; tallow, good to choice, 83o per pound. LIVE AND DBES8ED MEAT. Bee Prime steers, t2.602.75; fair to good steers, (2.00(2.60 ; good to choice ' cows, (1.602.00; dressed beef, (3.60 6.00. Mutton Choice mutton, (2.00(82.6(1; dressed, (4.00(36.50; lambs, (2.002.50; dressed, (6.00; live weight, t2.00rt2.50. HoosChoice heavy, (6.005.50 ; me dium, (4.50(35.00; light and feeders, (4.60(35.00; dressed, (7.00. Veal (4.00(86.00. iiocb, feed, etc. Fxodb Standard, 13.25; Walla Walla, (3.25; graham, (2.76; superfine, (2.60 per barrel. Oaki New white, S636c per bushel ; new gray, 32 33c; rolled, in bags, (6.25 (86.60; barrels, (8.606.76; cases, (3.75. MiLLSTurrs Bran, (17.00; shorts, (20.00; ground barley, $2223; chop feed, (18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 80 85c per cental; middlings, (23(328 per ton; chicken wheat, (1.101.25 per cental. Hav Good, (1012 per ton. DAISY PRODUCE. Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 27 ig30c; fancy dairy, 2225c; fair to good, 17)t'20c; common, 1516c per pound. Cheese Oregon, 12'c; California, 1314c; Young America, 1516c per pound. Egos 20c per dozen. Pooltrt Chickens, old, (4.004.50; broilers, (1.50(33.60; large young, (4.00; ducks, (3.00a6.00; geese, (8.00(39.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 14c per pound; dressed, none in the market. MISCELLANEOUS. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, (8.50(39.00 per box; for crosses, (2 extra per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, (7.60(28.00 per box ; terne plate, I. C prime quality, (6.50(37.00. Nails Base quotations: Iron, (2.25; ateel, (2.35; wire, (2.60 per keg. ' Steel Per pound, 10e. Lead Per pound, 4c; bar, 6c N aval Stores Oakum , (4.50(8 5.00 per bole; resin, (4.805.00 per 480 pounds; tar, .Stockholm, (13; Carolina, (9 per bar rel ; pitch, (6 per barrel; turpentine, 65o per gallon in car lota. Iron Bar, 23c per pound ; pig-iron, (23(326 per ton. CANNED GOODS. . Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, (1.75(32.00; peaches, (1.85(32.00; Bart lett pears, (1.76(32.00; plums, (1.87 1.60; strawberries, (2.25(32.45; cherries, (2.25(32.40; blackberries, (1.85(32.00; raspberries, (2.40; pineapples, (2.25 2.80; apricots, (1.65(32.00. Pie fruits, assorted, (1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, 1.00(31.20; blackberries, (1.25(31.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, (3.16(33.60; peaches, (3.60(34.00; apri cots, (3.50(34.00; plums, (2.75(33.00; blackberries, (4.26(34.60. Meats Corned beef, Is, (1.60; 2s, (2.40; chipped, (2.564.00: lunch tongue, la, (4; 2s, (6.75; deviled ham, (1.75(32.15 per doxen. Fish Sardines, 4s, 75c(2.26; Js, (2.15(34.50; lobsters, (2.30(33.60; sal mon, tin' Mb tails,, (1.26(3(1.50; flats, (1.76;2-lbs, (2.25(32.50; -barrel, (5-60. VEGETABLES AND FRUIT. Vegetables Cabbage, lc par pound; potatoes, Oregon, 80 (3 "6c per sack ; new onions, l(31Vc per pound; cucumbers, Oregon,8(310c per dozen ; string beans,6(j 7c per pound ; tomatoes, 40 (3 50c per box ; green corn, 10(3 lSc pier dozen ; sweet potatoes, ls(82e per pound ; egg plant, (1.50 per box ; new California celery, 90c per dozen; Oregon, 35(350c. Fruits Sicily lemons, (7.00 per box: California new crop, (6.00(36.60 per box; bananas, (1.60(33.00 per banch : oranges, market bare ; pineapples, (6.00 per dozen ; new California apples, (1.2G per bushel for fancy ; Oregon, 60c(1.25 ; peaches, California, 75(386c per box; freestone, 6066c; clingstone, 7580c; Oregon peach plums and Bradshaw plums out of market ; Bart lett pears, 76c 90c per box, llc pe pound ; water melons, (1.25 a 1.60 per dozen; canta loupes, (L251.60 per dozen; nutmeg melons, (1.60 per box; huckleberries, 16c per pound; grapes, 76c(1.26 pei box ; nectarines, (1.26 per box; crab ap ples, (1.26(31.60 per box ; Gros (or Hun garion) prunes, 6075c per box; Colum bia plums, 50c per box. STAPLE OBOCERIES. Dried Fruits Petite prunes, 10311c; silver, ll(312c; Italian, 13$ c; German, 10lle; plums, 8(39c; evaporated ap ples, 10(311c; evaporated apricots, 12 15c; peaches, 10312,'c; pears, 7llc per pound. Honey 3holce comb, 18c per pound ; new Oregon, 16(320c; extract, 9(3 10c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, (16.00; 60s, (16.60; atock, (8.60(39.60. Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c; Salvador, 22 c ; Mocha, 26) 28c ; Java, 24)30c; Arbuckle's and Lyon, 100 pound cases, 24.80c per pound; Colum bia, same, 24.80c. Rice Island, (4.75(35.25; Japan, ; New Orleans, (4.60(35.00 per cental. Beans Small whites, 3c; pinka, 3c; bayoa, 8,'c; butter, 4c; lima, 3 o per pound. Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4065c; In half-barrels, 42(357c; In cases, 36 80c per gallon ; (2.26 per keg ; California, in barrels, 20(340o per gallon; (1.76 per loaAR D. 8J c ; Golden 0, 6 Vc ; extra C, 8JiC; confectioners' A, 6)0; dry gran ulated, 6c; cube, crushed ana pow dered, 7e per pound ; o per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash j saaple sugar, 1616o par pound. 4