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The Official and Other News
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Columbia : County.
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Official Paper
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Columbia : County.
VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1893.
NO. 39.
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
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Ou liiolt tlx month
Loaal nolLea, 111 cent. pr Hit lor drat Inaer
lion; I0cota per lilt lor ach subag,iitil In
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ltirttoii, au. 1 74 ouU par luob lur aaab aubar
queulluMrtlun.
COLOMUIA COUNTY DIUKCTOllY.
Comity Officer.
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Hiit. "I Bohoole.
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turreyor
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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
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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,
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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