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ColuinMa : County,
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The Official ani Otter News
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Columbia : County.
VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1893.
NO. 41.
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THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPAHT
DAVIS BROS., Managers,
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
ubaerlplloii Hates.
One copy oh year In advanca .(l iw
on copy al muiilliii 16
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Advartlenie; Unlet.
I'riifc axlotin) r"rl una year U
One column one year I'lti
llalf minimi nun year , 7b
Uimrlnr column on your 411
one I ik It tine iiiunth .......... 1
On lui'li three inutilh. t
Ou limit Hi mouth.... , , II
Lnoal notice.. lAeenlapar line luf II nl lin.nr-
lion ; iu rail, par mie wr vavii .uuhqiihvih hi
aeriniii.
Legal eilvarllaamauta, (I.M per Inch fur llrat
inmirili'ii, i.iii iu vcuw i.i iiiuii nil cavil luiwa
qtlUUl IIIMrlluU.
COLUMBIA COUNTY DIHKCTOHY.
Cnuulr Olllcer.
Judge Beau Hlauclierrl, Kalnter
Cli rk K. K. yulck, Mi. iliileu.
HiiorilT ... '. A. M .!.. HI. I a
Trcaaur r K. M. Wherum, rulumbla Clly
Haul, ill HlilOOI. T. J. I.leetmi, Yertlouli
Auv.uir... W. II. Kyxir, Kaltiier
Surveyor A. II. Little. Ileiuler
..,.i..l...... I . N. liO'Hiiinir, Veriiuul
It!
oriel Biailcre.
MnKlf.-HI. Helen ImAit. No, M-Uetwlar
CiMiiiuiiiili'HllniK Ural mill third Saturday lu
eacliiuimih IT IKIH. tt. alMaauulo hall. Vlall-
I nil ui.inlHira In good eiamllng Invited to at-
(Mllll.
M 'rili' -Italhler l.odit. No. Jl-stated
nittHiliiaa Kaltintay on or More each full inimn
al 7 1W r. M. al Maaotilii Imll, war Hlaurliard'.
tor. Vl.lilug member In good landing In
vlted la Ktl.ml,
(inn Km.Lijw-Hi. Helen. I .mind Nu. 117-
Miwi. every Halm, lay hlulil at 7 II) 1ri.ii.lenl
brethren in guuti tanning curineiiy iiiviteu tu
ll. nil.
lb lla.
Doaru river (liet)eUM al I HO a, M.
r rli-ur llmall i-lntea al 4 P. M.
1herei.ll (or Veriioule and I'lltabtira- laeve.
t, Helen. Mniiilny, ttediteailey end Friday al
I A M.
The mall for Maralileml, Clatakanl ami Mtat
leave. Union .Monday, neilueauey ami rrmay
m VI a
Mailt (railway) north clut 10 a. fur
I'liritaini at a r.
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Travelere' OMiala-.HlTer lloulra.
Hr It. W, Hmvaa-lavea Kt. Il.loni
fi.r I'urilaml al II a. M. Tnilay. ilinrailav ami
Haliinlay. Lvavoa t-l. Ili-lrua fur I laukanl.
Muiulay, W'adiimlay ami r'rllay at Ml a. M.
Htkamkh I n l,l l.avaa HI, lli'lana forl'ort
I ami 7:ft a. at, rriirnlti at 8. HO r. M.
HrKa Joan-it KftLimiii iMvaaHl, IIHana
fur I'milnn l ilully ei'it Hnmlay. at 7a.m. ar
rlvhmal l'rtlaml al 10 80, rvlnniliia. le
l"urilii al 1 f . .. arrlvln al HI. Ilolana at.
1'HOKKS.SIONAL.
jjR. If. R. ClIFr,
niysicrAN and surgeon.
M. Helena, Orison.
JB J. E. If ALU
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
C'lalkntii. Columlila county, Or.
8. MTTLK,
SURVEYOR and
CIVIL ENGINEER,
Bt. Ilelfit", Orrgoli.
Oiinnty urryor. I.nnJ anrvylnK,town
lilotiliiK, nU iigiiu'rliig work proniy
iliiiie.
OAVIAT.
una aaaBKfl.
biiioh oaTaaiTS.
;..um aJ
for Inf ormatlra ana.fraa Ilannbiwaimiaw
MllNN Ci Wl BKoiuwAT, Naw Vim.
Olilaat buratu fur aeourlna palanU In Aniarlna.
Btary nalanl lakan out li ua I. brnwrtit bafiir
Ui iHiiltu by a uuitoa gtran f re of bama la Um
Scientific gmtAm
Laraaat etrmilatlnri of anr artantlfle papar In thm
i.rTa.tBiln.llrtly llliufratad. No .''l'Sl"u'
man ahouia ba wlthnui ll;1VblIvW00 a
tnart (1.10 a II mnutha. AiKlraaa MONN A OU,
LuuaUta,attlUroadwajr.w VorkQUb
The Overland Route.
Two tralna dally, tear
Iiik F ifth and I atreeta,
Urand Central Depot.
1. "The Limited
Fh1 Mull," loavln at
7:!t0 r. oarrtea v.ii
littlo I'ul I man Calac
xiottpliiaT and Plnlnf
T...7I Iran UilHtlllt
Clinlr Car tltriitiiih
fnm Portland ,C1J1"
-iflW- 0iiKO,Viai;olinril niuna.
Without fhanije. Tit la train make direct coll-
T,li.n, Ilnt.e and W.'l'aul ;
Pullman Hleeiwr "t'halrCar for Wall Wal a,
iniiklni direct fontitwtlima for Dayton, loiu
etoy, Moaiiow and Cnntr d'Alr-iiB.
No. 8, " Overland Klyer," lv ti at M A. I
rarrlea Pullman Pa ae ami lourlat Bler
Imtn Portland lo M lurl river wlthotit ohai.i.
Tlirougniratna arrive
vlt.ll1.Ar. ni.A,"' -
l.fAVK 1'OltTl.ANn.
Ci.liinililii.Miiy 1 , 1', 2f
BiKte May ft, 17, a
Oregonr May 4, W,
oolninbl May ,ao
Hlate May 12,24
I nu roiniany wn .
teaiiwra or Mail day. linTRv1.
PORTLAND AND AHTOItfA HOU1 K .Morn
ing boat leave Portland iy.f,i'"rtHiVi,1:J'
at 7 A M I returning, leave Aittorlti dally, ei-
land dully except Hatintliiy, at ! rol"n'
n7l. avu. Aator a dally, except Hurtday, at 0 a.
It T he Hiornlng lMa from Portlaml jnakea
lanrtl ! on the Oregon Tueiday., Thuri'
day. and Haturdava; on "'"W.Vi.'Cm A.
Monday, Wednesday and r r tlay. K rom Al
torla the morning boat niako landing on the
rt got .Ide Moiiilay., Wedueaday. id rrldy;.
and on tho Waahlngton .Ida Tueiday, Thur
day and Haturday. .,. .i a . u
OAHCADB nollTIC-Iav( Ah itreet at (A.M.
TO DAm AND "waY LANDINOS-Mon-d.l'd;tSr.r!er;f7roVBte.rn.h.pwh.rf
A8XOTUKR Steamer leave from Ab-.tret
injn9- Ticket offlo-2M Wa.h;ntort tre.t,
awrulr Third. W. H. BUBI.UUBT,
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THE PACIFIC COAST.
Deepest Sea Soundings Ever
Made by the Albatross.
MINING RESUMED IN IDAHO,
Hopt of Excellent Quality Being
Picked by White Hands in
the Golden State.
KlndiirirartoiK are bolng openwl In
many town in Omrori,
Tito 0 rand Komle ha mnrketod 100
rni lotulM of hog the pott year.
Mare Inland will gut all but 150,000 of
uiu (Duu.wvi w oe ient on tne Hartford.
It, G. Hnrrl and Jim Hakr. two ilar.
lug roblwra, have Invn killtwl in Arizona
by a KnHe untlor the Hhctriir of Coconino
county.
Mininif onerationa are huinrr rnaumml
in Ctiiur d'Alene diatrict in Idaho tindnr
owiiors' tornia, $U.fi0 for iniutira and $3
or oarnnm aim Biioveicr.
Tlie oltl I'li.acato nlacors in Ran Dictro
i-uuiivy, 'Bi.t ami near tno nan inrnar
tlino bordur are beinir reworked with ex
rl 1 - t, r,
cellent rcrmlta. Dry wa.lioro are naed.
lite Oregon Agricultural Colleee ex
liihit at the State Fair wag turned over
fo the World' Fair Coiniiiiaidon of the
Htiitc, and in now diaplayed at Cliicago'i
great hiiow.
JuiIko Kong at Lo AnieUui holdg that
a l.liiiiainan to lie a merrhant niuHt be
artive.lv enirrurtHl in biivintr and Bellini;
and other ilutieg that merchants are oc
cupied will).
Fonmt Area in the Sound country in
Waahinuton have driven the cougar and
beam out of thuir dona and into the val
ley aettlemvnts, where they are Been in
great number.
The population of New Mexico lial
not materially changed during the past
rear. 1 he total territorial InuebteUneiig
a (1111,712, and the caah balance in the
treamiry in 1121,000.
Immense coal fields in Sonora, Mexico,
are to le worked by Ban Iiego parties,
who have obtained a lease from the gov
ernment. Kailroad, harbor and other
concessions have been granted.
There is a rnmor at Victoria, B. 0..
founded upon private advices, that the
government; of the United State and
Great Hnulii are negotiating to close
Helming 8ea and the Pacific for two
years.
It lit reported at Chino that Clans
Ppreckcl ha bought 6,000 aerrg of the
Itixhv ranclt near estnunster, urunge
ounlv. Cal.. and will plant it to lieets.
If this be true, it means another sugar
fin tory for that region.
Tlie AllmtitwB haa matle tho deepest
iiea Hounding ever made, l'horsphorug
fish without eyes were secured at Z.tHiu
fathom. Fisli and weeds sufficient to
load four cars were gecttred in tins neigh-
xirltotxl of Hehring bca.
The Ronril of Directors of the Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce has passed
a resolution favoring the extension of
(he time of registering Chinamen under
the (iearv act for three months and in
dorsing deary's bill suspending all im
migration (or five years.
Tito holders of acriD issued by Ut
mm uric at Han Jose are alarmed over
a notice from tlie government that this
scrip is subject to a tax of 10 per cent.
The scrip waa issued becauso the can
neries could not borrow from the banks,
mid merchants accepted it from the eui-
loyes.
In Snnnmi enuntv. Cal.. there will b
10,000 or 11.000 bales of hops produced
this year, against 8.400 last year. The
Imps are of an excellent quality. Only
white laborers wore employed, and they
were so satisfactory that Chinese will
not be given work when white help can
bo secured.
1 ... i n. fMM n.inn.n In Sin tTnanciaeti
J mild II Will V.t.ll.'v ... . - ......
addressed to Young Pol of Victoria was
found on rors person onring iub orh"-
at f.M,i,a veantlvnn A ellAIVe Of
Iwiiig in tho Unltd States illegally. Tne
letter says Poi was to pay the smugglers
$100 if he came by water and 1180 if he
entered the United States by land.
The Idaho Wool Growers' Association
has offered a reward of 600 for the ar
rest antl conviction of the person or per
sons who have been poisoning a large
number of sheep In Owyhee county.
Hundreds of sheep have been killed by
eating stiltpeter or a mixture of salt and
strychnine sprinkled over the range.
Sheepmen charge the cattlomen with the
wholesale poisoning.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce lias been induced by the large in
flux from the Fast to pass a resolution
stating that "here, as in every other
section of the country, several men stand
ready to fill every vacancy for work that
occurs. The new-coming day laborers
stand very little chance of securinn work
at the present time, and are therefore
urgently warned not to come to this
country."
It is reported at San Diego that an In
dian outbreak is imminent at Yuma,
owing to the trouble between Chief I ag
onal and ex-Chief Miguel. Telegraphic
orders have been received by Colonel
Kellogg in command of the local garri
son of regular troops for aid. He has
assigned Major Charles L. Dayis to the
command of adetachmentof thirty men,
who will leave at once for service at that
point.
Suspicion is now aroused at San Diego
that tlie body of the man found recently
near I Mesa was that of A. 0. Warner,
who disappeared from San Diego some
weeks ago after stealing 30 from his
roommate. He is said to have engaged
passage bv tho Pacific Mail steamer Sep
tember 5 for Chili, and is understood to
have had 4,000 in Chilian scrip, having
stolon the American money to meet his
Immediate requirements.
The sugar industry of California for
the past year has been very suceessfnl.
Both the grower of sugar beets and the
manufacturer of sugar therefrom have
realised large proflfs. The, refinery at
WatstmvffleTH rWetl & ft W '
Its full capacity. The yield o sttgar
beets this year is 70,000 tons, which at
present rates is worth $77 per ton, ex
clusive of the bounty, which is worth
40 per ton . LaBt year the crop ff sugar
beets was 6,000 tons. It is expected the
growing of sugar beets wiy become
leading agricultural industnsy.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
There are 60,000 telephones in London.
Germany's first railroad waa built In
1835.
Russia has more horse) than any other
nation.
Liberia yearly exports 1,000,000 pound
of cofl'ue.
The bog land of Ireland amounts to
2,8;t(,000 acres.
California wines are said to be gaining
favor in Kurope.
Over 12,000 persons are employed in
London theaters.
Nearly 1,000,000 pianos are made an
nually iu England.
The total cost of the Suez canal ex
ceeded 20,000,000.
The capital Invested in English rail
roads exceeds fJiOO,000,000.
The little Kingdom of Greece finds
employment for 27,000 sailors.
The nnicycle is expected by an in
ventor to go a mile in twenty seconds.
Tlie hats worn ont in this country an
nually cost a much as $300,000,000.
It is estimated that 6,000,000 women
are earning wages in the British Isles.
One of the largest barber shops in New
York now employs girl barbers exclu
sively, The price paid for cider apples at the
big mill at Dnylostown, Pa,, Is 16 cents
per 100 pounds.
Forty-seven years ago the patent for
tho first practical sewing machine was
issued to Klias Howe.
The State of Illinois will use this year
more than 4,000.000 barrels of beer, or
enough to float a navy.
The national debt of Great Britain is
f. 10,081.581 (3,403,407,005)i the na
tional debt of tlie United States is f377,
777,804.37. Grpclev. Col., will shin about 6.000
carloads of potatoes to other States the
present year. Many carloads of these
potatoes go to Texas.
The Watcrbury Watch Company has
resumed operations. The courts ought
to have known that it was impossible to
wind that concern up.
A carpet loom has been devised which
runs two sets of needles, and the in
ventor claims that it will produce a
square yard of carpet material in one
minute.
The consumption of beer in the United
States in now half a barrel per capita,
and is doubling alxmt every eight years.
At tlie beginning of the next century it
promises to be a barrel a head.
The Tribune states that the 1.103 mill
ionaires of New York city alone could,
if thev choose, buy up the whole real
estate of the entire Southern States and
evict tho population by due process of
law.
According to tlie official report for the
post twelve months the American peo
ple drank only 8,383,720 barrels of leer
In lHTtV while last vear we drank 31.374.-
5111. and this year 33,876,400, an increase
of 2,450,540 barrels.
The nail machine was invented in 1776.
At the nresent dav it is estimated that
4,000,000,000 nails' are annually made by
machinery in ureat Britain alone, ana
from a fourth to a half of this number
in the United States.
Eastern Switzerland manufactures an
nually nearly 120,000,000 worth of machine-made
embroideries. The Un tsd
States alone have imported as high a
17,700,000 worth of these articles in a
single year, and the business seems to
be increasing.
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Black holds his pension by
grace of a special act of Congress.
Inspector Williams of the New York
police was arrested the other day by one
of his men, who was convinced that tlie
Inspector was a confidence man.
Mrs. Crook, the widow of the Indian-
fighting General, is a very fine-looking
woman, with snowy-white hair that is
in striking contrast to her youthful and
vivacious spirits.
Tennessee has seven living ex-Govern
ors. . in the fist of official succession
they come as follows : Isham G. Harris,
1). W. (J. Senter, James U. Porter, Alvtn
G. Hawkins, William B. Bate, Robert
L. Taylor and John P. Buchanan.
Captain Mahan, now of the United
States steamer Chicago and the author
of the remarkable books on the influence
of sea power, is one of the most popular
Americans in England, lie was a guest
at the dinner given bv the Queen to the
German Emperor at Osborne the other
evening.
Ex-PreBidont Beniamin Harrison
writes to a friend that he will arrive in
San Francisco about the 1st of next Feb
ruary. He will remain in California six
weeks. His lectures at Stanford Uni
versity will be largely historical, and will
treat of colonial characters down through
tho confederation to the adoption of the
United States constitution.
Dr. Thomas Hoazlo Park, the physi
cian jvho accompanied Stanley through
the Central African forest in las search
for Emin Pasha, is dead. The explorer
showed much affection for Park in bis
book, for tlie physician pulled Stanley
through when he was attacked bv sick
ness at Fort Bodo and also performed
excellent Borvice for the other members
of the expedition.
Txml Roberta was pasod over recently
n favor of the Duke of Connaught. and
the latter was given the important com
mand at Aldershot. The incident has
cause ' a great deal of bad feeling in the
Knglish army. lKrd Roberts Is the lure
most English General, while the Puke is
simply tho son of his mother and has no
more military ability than the average
Columbian Guard has.
Contrary to the general belief, it is
tid that Li Hung Chang, the Viceroy
snd real ruler of China, is most kindly
disposed toward tho Christians. Two of
his daughters wore educated in Massa
chusetts, and Ixi! h wore converted to
Christianity. Sulitsrtincntly one married
a Frenchman and the other an English
man, ilteir influence has made their
father very tolerant of their corellgiou-
ista.
Dr. Stocker. the German clergyman
who has become prominent through his
hnstlllty to tne Hebrews, preached his
first sermon in this country in Chienmi
lust week to a small congregation, lie
made no reference to the Hebrews, and
saitl nothing sensational. At Mr. Moo
dy's meeting the following day Dr.
Stocker spoke in English, saving that he
was an anti-Semitic politically only, not
personally or socially. He is said' to be
an entertaining speaker with the power
of apt friuiaranon la Ua sermon.
EASTERN NEWS.
Railroad and Express Era
i ployes to be Armed.
THE A. O. U. W. OF KANSAS.
A White Man In Illlnoi Ducked for
Wanting to Marry a 400
Pound Negro Widow.
Of fifty-six Indian agencies twenty are
now in charge of army officers.
Massachusetts is credited with having
100,000 cyclists, including both sexes.
The water supply is limited in New
York, and tlie price of milk has gone up.
Gold-mining in Colorado has been
much stimulated by the decline in silver.
The town of Perry In the Cherokee
Strip is ropidly assuming city propor
tions. There are said to be about five contest
ants for every claim in the Cherokee
Strip.
There are about 760 hotels in Chicago,
which have accommodations for 150,000
guests.
Three billion cigarettes were smoked
in this country during the fiscal year
just ended.
It is said good moonshine whisky can
be bought in Eastern Tennessee for 60
cents a gallon.
The clergymen of Kings county, N. Y.,
are denouncing the proposed Corbett
Mitchcll fight.
A syndicate of Popnlists, headed by
State officials, is buying np newspapers
in close counties in Kansas.
Floods have done immense damage to
crops in Virginia and washed away four
large mills on the Rapidan.
The Federal grand jury at Birming
ham, Ala., has indicted six Federal offi
cers for corruption in office.
Deer are more plentiful in the Adiron
dack this fall than during any previous
open season for a score of years.
An organization of Spiritualist re
cently met at Liberal, Mo., and raised
$100,000 for a Spiritualistic college.
Captain H. D. Spore of Hudson is or
ganizing a bicycle corps for the First
Regiment of the Texas Volunteer Guard.
A movement has been started among
the A. O. U. W. of Kansas to secure seed
wheat for the destitute western farmers.
The big dynamite guns for the defense
of New York harbor are to be trained,
elevated and depressed by electric mo
tors. The consolidation of electric railroads
with the establishment of a truck sys
tem in New England is one of the latest
schemes.
The Columbian Celebration Compa
ny's building at the World's Fair cost
$400,000, and it was sold by the receiver
for $2,260.
A Chinaman at Ottawa will test the
annatitntinnaiitv of Canada's law, which
impose a duty of (50 each on all Chi
nese immigrants.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers in Pennsylvania ha
agreed to concede a 10 per cent reduction
in the finishers' department.
In Cincinnati there has recently been
organized a rent guarantee company,
the business of which is to insure land
lords against loss by bad tenant.
There have been recent development
tending to show that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad will soon absorb the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern.
A Chattanooga electrician proposes to
perfect an arrangement by means of
which train robbers will be electrocuted
as toon an they touch the express com
pany's safe.
Two interesting reports on the manner
of living and of saving by the working
people will be transmitted to Congress
by Commissioner of Labor Wiight within
a few months.
Tlie Texas Penitentiary Board is con
sidering the purchase of the Rogers su
gar plantation in Brazoria county. Con
victs have been working it on the shares
for several years.
Governor Lewelling of Kansas has te
ceived hundreds of Tetters with appeal
for aid from destitute farmers of Western
Kansas. They say they must have help
or starvation will follow.
The Citizens' League of New Jersey
aims at the defeat of those members of
the Legislature who voted for the infa
mous racetrack bills last winter, in case
they are made candidates again.
Louis Simmons, a white resident of
Mascoutah, 111., 41 years old, was ducked
in a pond the other day for presuming
to want to marry Mrs. Emma Jackson
(colored), who weighs 400 pounds.
The announcement that the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company will arm all itb
trainmen and that the express compa
nies will supply their messengers with
Winchesters and shotguns is timely.
A Zulu fraud, who has been operating
in the West, was ai rested in the Zion M.
E. Church at New Haven, Conn., while
delivering a sermon and placed in jail
on a charge of swindling Chicago people.
Already $5,000,000 have been spent
upon the scheme to carry electric power
for illuminating and manufacturing pur
poses from Niagara Falls over the Slate
of New York. The first wires will prob
ably be strung along the Erie canal.
The statistics of the shipping of the
world, just published by Lloyds, show
that tli ere is no nation which has made
so rapid an increase in tlie tonnage of
steamers registered during the past
twelve months as the United States.
Two hundred and one women availed
themselves of the privilege of voting for
school officials at an election held in New
Haven, Conn., on September 18. Tlie
ticket they supported was elected by a
majority of 1,700 out of a vote of 7,507.
The report of railroad earnings con
tinue to show a decrease as compared
with the earnings last year. There has
been a decrease every week for some
time, but the weekly decrease has been
growing smaller since the middle of Au
gust. A firebug conspiracy has been discov
ered in Chicago, the scoundrels having
their headquarters in that city. At least
eight fires have been traced to these fire
bugs in Illinois and two or three other
States, and during the last three years
rgaMbas
'O60 treat.
vkte iaenranM aem antes.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Ex-Representative George H. Durand
of Michigan has been selected by the
Attorney-General to assist in the prose
cution of Federal officials and others
implicated in the charge of opium and
Chinese smuggling on Puget Sound and
vicinity.
It is intimated that the Treasury De
partment is actuated in ordering the
revenue steamers Grant and Perry to
the Pacific Coast more by the condition
of the Chinese and seal-fishery questions
than to aid in the prevention of tho
smuggling of opium in Puget Sound.
Tlie Secretary of War has awarded a
medal of honor to Captain Ernest A.
Cardington of the Seventh Cavalry " for
distinguished gallantry at Wounded
Knee creek, S. v., during the Sioux war
of the winter of 1890-1.'7 Captain Car
dington wa badly wounded in the bat
tle. The Committee on Ways and Mean
bas begun consideration of the new tar
iff bill. There is an intimation that the
Secretary of the Treasury favor an in
crease in the internal-revenue tax on
whisky, beer and tobacco a the best
means" of raising the additional revenue
necessary to meet the increasing deficit
of the government.
In consequence of the new restrictions
for conducting the official trial trips of
naval vessels contractors will find it
more difficult in the future to earn pre
miums for an excess of speed. Begin
ning with the Montgomery, soon to be
tried, the contractors will not be permit
tod to maintain a pressure above 6 per
cent in excess of the standard pressure.
Heretofore the contractors earned steam
to a dangerously high pressure.
It is highly probable that the Com
mittee on Territories will report a bill
for the admission of Utah to Statehood
soon. Joseph, a member of that com
mittee, said that such a bill will be re
ported, and added that before the close
of the present session bills for the ad
mission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma will be reported favorably
from his committee. He expressed great
confidence that all four will become law.
In response to a resolution of inquiry
the Secretary of the Interior sent to the
Senate a statement concerning the discon
tinuance and consolidation of land offices,
showing the following among the con
solidations: California, Independence
with Visalia; Nevada, Eureka with Car
son City; Wyoming, Lander with Buf
falo. This statement said the reason
for the consolidations was the inadequacy
of the appropriation and to prevent a
deficiency.
The Poetoffice Department bas ac
cepted the offer of the North American
Navigation Company to carry mails for
Mexico and Central America. The new
arrangement is not a contract, but a des
ignation of the company as the official
mail carrier under the general laws. Ac
cording to the offer the steamers will
carry mails once in twenty days to those
ports at which they are compelled to
stop by provisions of the company's con
tracts with the Central American'States,
leaving the postmaster to fix the com
pensation. The annual report of Governor W. T.
Thornton of New Mexico states that the
population of the Territory ha not ma
terially changed during the past year.
The total Territorial indebtedness is
$911,712, and cash balance in the treas
ury $121,000. Stock-raising ha decreased
as a result of the four years' drought.
Many mines are closed on account of the
decrease in silver value and the money
market stringency. The annual product
of precious stones is rapidly increasing.
Governor Thornton recommends the
approval by Congress of a legislative act
of the Territory providing for a County
Court in every county where the county
seat haa a population of 2,000 or more.
Secretary Herbert ha given to the
press the correspondence relating to the
removal of Captain Higginson from the
command of the Atlanta. The state
ment that Secretary Herbert apologized
to Captain Higginson for removing him
from dnty and offered to restore htm to
his command on his own application are
not borne out bv the facts, and are espe
cially denied. Captain Higginson is en
titled to the credit of having disclosed to
the department the condition of the At
lanta when the vessel was ordered to
sea. The letters embrace the full his
tory of this well-known case, and the
conclusion of the matter is that Secre
tary Herbert accepts the apology and
explanation of Captain Higginson, and
says his connection with the matter will
not be permitted to prevent his being
assigned to such duty as his rank enti
tles him to perform, when the opportu
nity oilers.
The compromise silver measure pre
pared by Senator Jones of Arkansas has
been introduced in the Senate by its au
thor. It provides that there shall be a
commission, comprised of three Senators
to be selected by the Senate, three Rep
resentatives to tie selected by the Speaker
of tlie House and three persons to be se
lected by the President, subject to con
firmation by the Senate. The commis
sion shall organize by the election of one
of their number as President, and the
President is to appoint a clerk. The
commission is to hold it session in tho
capitol and in such other places as a ma
jority shall direct, and employ necessary
stenographer and employes, and may
ad m in ieter oaths and send for persons and
papers. The commission is charged with
an examination into the fiscal and mon
etary condition of the government and
the people of the United States, with a
view to devising means for the better
ment thereof, and is given full jurisdic
tion. It is charged to specially examine
and report upon by one or more bills the
following subjects : The full or partial
remonetization of silver and a proper
ratio between it and gold ; revision of
legal-tender law to prevent discrimina
tion between various descriptions of
money; State-bank tax repeal with nec
essary revisions ; the cause of the pres
ent paralysis of trade and the necessity
of legislation to prevent national banks
from abusing their power. The second
section of the resolution instructs the
Secretary of the Treasury to set apart
and retain in the Treasury so much of
the silver bullion now in the Treasury as
will be necessary to redeem the outstand
ing Treasury notes in compliance with
the terms of the act of July 14, 1800,
and provides that the remainder of the
bullion shall be set apart to be coined,
And the Secretary is required to coin it
at the rate of not less than 4,000,000
standard silver dollars per month, which
when coined shall be an asset in the
Treasury, and while this coinage is in
progress the purchases of silver bullion
under the terms of the Sherman act
(hall be suspended.
FOREIGN CABLES.
The Latest Estimate of the
Russian Wheat Crop.
EMPEROR WILLIAM'S MOTTO.
Mr. Gladstone Offend Against Tra
dition in Appointing India'
Governor-General.
Another native war in Southern Africa
now seems inevitable.
Succi, the faster, is insane, and is now
in an asylum near Pari.
Harvesting operations in Roumania
show a satisfactory result.
The revision of the Belgian constitu
tion has been accomplished at last.
A caravan of 10,000 camels and 4,000
slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco re
cently. The doctors to Chinese royalty were
recently fined a year's salary each for
incompetence.
Train-robbing in Spain is guarded
against by stationing two soldiers in
every railway car.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria's latest
project is the establishment of a med
ical faculty in Sofia.
Paris has a new storage-battery street
car line that haa been in successful op
eration several months.
Dr. Cornelius Here of Panama canal
notoriety is recovering hie health at
Bournemouth, England.
The average number of assassinations
and attempts at assassination in Italy is
said to be fully 6,000 a year.
France is the only European country
which has to-day fewer able-bodied men
than it had thirty years ago.
The TJbina volcano in the Peruvian
Cordillera haa become active after being
in a quiescent state fur year.
Kaiser William, Dr. Miqnel says, has
taken for his motto, " The Emperor is
the first servant of the people."
The London section of the National
Liberal Federation has declared for the
abolition of the House of Lords.
The wasp plague is still very bad in
Sussex, England, and the destruction in
the orchards has been very great.
During the reign of Victoria the In
dian government has coined 2,000,000
of gold and 206,000,000 of silver.
The latest estimate of the Russian
wheat crop is 272,000,000 bushels. Last
year's crop was 256,000,000 bushels.
A peasant living on one of the Greek
isles recently dug up a statue, for which
the Britiah government has paid $32,000.
The tariff war between Germany and
Russia will force the former country to
buy enormous quantities of grain in this
country.
Russia is said to be about to acquire a
naval station in East Africa at which to
repair and coal the vessels of her Pa"ific
sqnadron.
The phylloxera has at last touched
every wine-growing district in France,
the Champagne vines being the last to
be harmed.
Christine Nilsson ha her dining room
papered with hotel bills which she has
paid during her professional tours. The
sum total is enormous.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Central New says that an
imperial ukase will shortly be issued
abolishing the practice of knouting by
the police.
The recent army maneuvers of the
Anstro-Hungarian troop were not satis
factory. Emperor William was not very
favorably impressed with the work of
the Generals.
In Switzerland all the telegraph line
are controlled by the government. There
are 1,411 office and 12,385 telegraph op
erators. The annual profit derived above
all expenses is $250,000.
The quantity of fruit in South Lincoln
shire, England, this Beason exceeds all
Srevions years. Owing to the markets
eing glutted, growers have a difficulty
in disposing of the crop.
There has been so great an increase
recently in the growth and exportation
of Jaffa oranges that that town now
stands next to Beyrout in importance
among the porta on the Syrian coast.
Mr. Gladstone has offended against
tradition in appointing Sir Henry Nor
man Governor-General of India to suc
ceed Lord Lnnsdowne. The rule haa
been to appoint nobody but a peer to
that post.
The Duke of Edinburgh, although he
has expatriated himself and has become
a German princeling, doe not propose
to relinquish his right to the annuity of
25.000 which he draws from the Impe
rial Treasury of Great Britain. .
In order to stay the cholera it is stated
that two Jewish women, merchants'
wives, are going from house to house in
Gallicia with a pair of scissors cutting
the women's hair, which many have al
lowed to grow in unorthodox fashion.
A letter from Prof. Garner, dated from
his steel cage, which he has named Fort
Gorilla, has been received in England
from Fernandez Vaz, Africa. The pro
fessor claims to have made great progress
in his study of the monkey language.
Mr. Burne-Jones, the English artist,
is engaged upon the interesting task of
painting a portrait of Mr. Gladstone's
youngest granddaughter, Dorothy Drew.
This little blue-eyed maiden of 3 years
is said to resemble the grandfather start
lingly. Dr. Buchwald of Leipsic discovered
among some forgotten manuscripts in
the University of Jena Martin Luther's
political essay against the theological '
faculty of the University of Louvain,
Belgium, which manuscript was sup-,
posed to have been lost.
The ttilors have met in London " to
prepare for the abolition of the sweating
system and Ions hour and for the com
ing battle of the tailors of the world."
The 25,000 member of the organisation
are threatened by the master tailors
with a destruction of their union.
The present year of 1893 promise to
be a great year for the French vintage.
Chateau Lafite, which produced 320 hogs
heads last year, haa thia year yielded
1,000, and the increase is general. There
is such a demand for casks that certain
ordinary sizes, usually bringing 4 francs,
now coat 11 franc.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Whiat Valley, 90c$1.00; Walla
Walla, 87Ji0c per cental.
PA0VIB10N.
EaSTBBR fi.HOIXD Ml AT AND LABD
Hams, medium, uncovered, 14(316,W?o
per pound ; covered, 14 16c ; break
fast bacon, uncovered, 1617Jc; cov
ered, 1617c; short clear sides, 15
16c; dry salt sides, 14I4!c; lard,
compound, in tins, 10Xe per pound:
pure, in tins, 13(814c ; Oregon lard, 11
12J4c
BAOS AXO BACHHH3.
Burlap, 8-onnce, 40-inch, net cash,
6c; burlaps, 10-ounce, 40-inch, net
cash, 6Jc: burlaps, llJi-ounce, 46-inch,
7;c; burlaps, 16-ounce, 60-inch, 11c;
burlaps, 19-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat
bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-busheI
oat bag, 73c; No. 1 selected second
hand bags. 7c: Calcutta hop cloth, 24-
ounce, 10c
or, wool una hiobs.
How '92, 1016c per pound, accord
ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 11c for
inferior to 17c for choice.
Wool, Price nominal.
Hides Dry selected prime, 6c; green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, Zc ; nnder
60 pounds, 2(S 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings,
10(16c; medium, 2035c; long wool,
3060c; tallow, good to choice, 33c
per pound.
FLOUR, BD, ETC.
Flour Standard, 3.25 ; Walla Walla,
$3.25; graham, $2.75; superfine, $2.50
per barrel.
Oats New white, 3335c per bushel;
new gray, 3032u; roiled, in bags, $6.25
6.60; barrels, $6.757.00; cases, $3.75.
MiLLHTorrs Bran, $17.00; shorts,
$20.00; ground barley, $2223; chop
feed, $18 per ton; whole feed, barley, 80
85c per cental; middlings, $2328
per ton; chicken wheat, $1.101.25 per
cental.
Hay Good, $1012 per ton.
DAIBT PBODtroa.
B otter Oregon fancy creamery, 21
tg30c; fancy dairy, 2225c; fair to
good, 17i20c; common, 1616c per
pound.
Ohkebb Oregon, 12)c; California,
1314c; Young America, 1516c per
pound.
Eoo 22c per dozen.
Poultry Chickens, old, $3.00rl3.50;
broilers, $1.50(33.00; ducks, $3.00(34.00;
Esese, $8.00(89.00 per dozen; turkeys,
ve, 14c per pound.
LTV A1TD DBESSBD MEAT.
Bee Prime steers, $2.60(32.75; fair
to good steers, $2.002.6O; good to choice
cow, $1.602.00; dressed beef, $3.50(3
6.00.
Mutton Choice mutton, $2.002.60;
dressed, $4.00650; lambs, $2.002.50; .
dressed, $6.00; live weight. $2.00(2.50.
Hoos Choice heavy, $5.005.60; me
dium, $4.60(86.00; light and feeders,
$4.505.00; dressed, $7.00.
Vau-$4.006.00.
miscellaneous.
Tm 1. 0. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.60(39.00 per box; for crosses, $3
extra per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20,
prime quality, $7.608.00 per box ; terne
plate, I. C, prime quality, $6.507.00.
Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.26;
steel, $2.36; wire, $2.50 per keg.
Steel Per pound, 10c.
Leaj Per pound, 4gc; bar, 6V2C.
Naval 8tores Oakum, $4.50(85.00 per
bale; resin, $4.80(35.00 per 480 pounds;
tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $9 per bar
rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 66c
per gallon in ear lots.
Iron Bar, 20 per pound; pig-iron,
$2325perton.
CAKNBD GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted,
$1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.852.00; Bart
lett pears, $1.75(32.00; plums, $1.37K
1.60; strawberries, $2.25(32.45; cherries,
$2.252.40; blackberries, $1.852.00;
raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3
2.80; apricots, $1.652.00. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,
$1.001.20; blackberries, $1.25(81.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted,
$3.15(83.50; peaches, $3.50(84.00; apri
cots, $3.60(84.00; plums, $2.75(83.00;
blackberries, $4.26(84.60.
Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.60; 2s,
$2.40; chipped, $2.55(84.00: lunch
tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $6.76; deviled ham,
$1.752.15 per dozen, i
Fish Sardines, Js, 75c$2.25; s,
$2.15(84.50; lobsters, $2.30(83.50; sal
mon, tin Mb tolls, $1.261.60; flats,
$1.75; 2-lb. $2.25(82.50; -barrel, $6.60.
. VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Veoetableb Cabbage, lo per pound ;
potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack ; new on
ions, 10 per pound; tomatoes. 35(3,
40c per box ; green corn, 15c per dozen ;
sweet potatoes, per pound;
egg plant, $1.00 per box; new California
celery, 90c per dozen ; Oregon, 85(50c.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $6.00(i6.60 per
box; California new crop, $5.00(85.50
per box ; bananas, $1.50(83.00 per bunch ;
oranges, market bare; Oregon, peaches,
75c per box ; California, 76g85c per box ;
fall butter pears, 6580c per box, ll)4e
per pound ; watermelons, 75c$1.00 per
dozen; nutmeg melons, $1.60 per box;
Casawvaa. 2.u02.60; grapes, 60(a00c
per box; Italian prunes, 6080e per box;
apples, Baldwin, King and Gravenstein,
86c$1.00 per box; Waxen, 75 JOOc
(TAPLB GROCERIES.
Dried Fruits Petite prunes, 10llc;
silver, ll12c; Italian, 13)c; German,
10lle; plums, 8(g9c; evaporated ap
ples, 10c lie; evaporated .apricots, 12(4
16c; peaches, 10(812)c; pears, 7llc
per pound.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound;
new Oregon, 16(320c; extract, 910c.
Salt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00; 60,
$16.60; stock, $8.50(89.60.
Coffee Costa Rica, 23c: Rio, 22c;
Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 2628c; Ar
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
case, 26.30c per pound.
Beans Small whites, 35c; pinks,
8M0; bayos, 3J6j butter, 4c; lima, 80
per pound.
Ricav Island,$5.756.00; Japan, ;
New Orleans, $6.60(86.26 per cental.
Strut Eastern, in barrels, 40B6c:
in half-barrel, 4267e: in cases, 85(3
80c per gallon ; $2.26 per keg ; California,
in barrels, 2040o per gallon; $1.J per
lire ab D, 6K0 ; Golden 0, 5jty ; sxtr.
C, 8K0 ; confectioners' A, 6$c ; dry gran
ulated, 6c; cube, crushed and pow
dered, 7io per pound; Ha per pound,
discount on all grades tor prompt eaah )
mapls aar, 10(J16e par pooad, ,