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nn OREG MI "THE MIST" OIVIS ALL Tbe Official and OlbcrKews or- "' Columbia : County. icinn -H tub Official Paper -or- Columbla : County. VOL. 10. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1893. NO. 42. THE MIST" HE ON k3 TUB OREGON MIST, iieu I'VKiu riiioAV moHNinu THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY DAVI3 BROS., Managors. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Biibaerlptlen Main, On oopjr on, year In advance II to Out copy l Inoullia , 76 Hindi iuiy ft Adrllina; Matt. Profoaalotml earda nil, rr. On column on year ,M. ... Illl column on year I VI L)oartr column uii year 40 un men uu mourn M...HH.U.. On. Ini'h Hire inmilhi , Oil lib all inuullia I,ofll milloM, in ciila per 1 1 n. lur dial lner. turn ; lu c.iica pr nil. lur aa.li ai.naeiuiiii III aartlou. Legal ailv.rllnaiii.iiU. l M Mtr Inch for Ural lllanrlloll, aim 7 mum per limn lur CII lllllll quviilluaerllun. COLUMHIA COUNTY IMUrXTOttY. (lay If Officer. Judo ..Ili ail lllancliard, Italuler Clerk K. K. Vnli'k, Hi. Ilelaui ruariii ... m ........ . mmmmiv. ni. .i-tmi. Trnaaiir r ... K, M. Wliarlnn, Columbia city. gupi. ni ewiioui .... I . i, i ii'i'inu, varimuia A ir, ........ ..,., ,.W. II, Kvavr, Italntrr lurvayor . . i.ihi., uaiuier -...."- Ill W IIb.iimji aiMVimr r Nolle. Viaoxic-HI, Helena Lodg. No. Il-Regular fointutiuieettotia drat ami ttilrtl Halurdajr In Wll mfiiiiii r .fmt r. . bi Mimiu iini- lu( iii.iii beta III good ataudl.tg Invllail lu al tetiil. Uaome.-KaliiUir Indg, No. ll-Hlaled luaatliiita rietuntay on or biorach full moon al 7 mi r. al Maauulo halt, over illauclmrdi alma. Vlalllug iiivmlwra III good atauillui In vllrd la attaint. Own Fellow Bt. llIn l-odg No. 117 Mmi. vry aatuiday night al 7 ! il 'lrniial.nl brllirn In good .lauding cordially luflMd lu au.iid. Ika flalle. IkiWD rlv.r (Imal) rloaaja at 9 80 At M. Uii river (Imal) eloa al 4 T, M. 1 ha wall fur VtriKmla ami I'lllaluirf leav.i HI. Helena kkuday, rVdnady ami Friday al Ha. 1 ha mall for Marahlend. ClaLkanl ami Mlat l.avr. tpituu Monday, tVduady ami Friday al 11 M. Mail. (railway) north do a' 10 A. .; lur Porllaud al r. M. Trlt.lara' 4JnleU-.HI ver Haul. MTlian 'I, W. HHavaa-Ua.ca HI. Ilnlaua lor Portland al II a. m Tiiaaday, 'I huradav and Saturday. Iave Hi Helena lor rlaiaka.il Monday, Wednesday ami Friday at 00 A. ta. grata Isalua lee Hi, Helena for Purt land 7 16 a. Mi reluming at M r. H. HratHaa Juanrll Kklumw Uat.aHt llnlana lor I'oilland dully iri Humlay, al 7 A. , r rlvlnal I'urllmid al 10 30; rlunilii(, leaf fiirllauv at 1 r. M., arrUlim at HI, Helena at 4. 1'UOFErtSJONAL. jjR. 11. ft. cucr. PHYSICIAN and SUKQEON. 8t. Unloiia, Oregon. R, i. K. HAM., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. ClaUkniile, Columbia county, Or. a. i.rrri.K, SURVEYOR anl CIVIL ENGINEER, St. Helen Oregon. Comity aiirYeyor, I.Miid iirvyliiT. town i.latilng, ami cuKiucaring work pmiiiilly aim. OAVfATti ADI MAHKt. DiaiOM ATtNT.l eoiaiDHTl. . atoJ for Information, and fra llandhaok writ to jJlINN a CO- Ml BmiAiiwAT, Naw Yor. OMt puwao for aacurliig twtrau ta AaMrlea. Ktary Plt.nl laM out bf ual. brnuH twf or tL iiubiui by a oouo. ian t ra ot oliam la lb Tht Overland Routt. Two Iralni dally, ! . IngKllthandlatraeta, Uraud Central U.pot. No. 2, "The Mmlted Ft Mail," leaving al 7:H0 r. carrlea Vaatl I luile rullinan I'alac 'sleeping and D n ug cra and (re Keolliilng 'Chair Car. through from Portland to , Chi- j,:.".p eHKo,ii""',v" ' without Chang. Thla train make. dlrj con neolliuia lor Uenver, Kanaaa City, HI. ixii, leiena "llu tie anil Ht.'PHUl ; .! Pullman Hlecper "dChalr Car lor Walla , Collax. Farinlnglon, Itocklord l,u " making direct oonneotloiia lor paylon, Pom roy. Moauow and Cimird'Alen. No. 8, "Overland Klyer," loav nf at carrl... P1.ll.na11 I'alaoa and 1o i ftot lPri from Portland to Mlaaour! rlvjr ""'""''J"!'' 'll.rougn.ru .....iv-n. y I.HAVlt rilHTI.Nn. ColumUla...Mayl,lll, Hlalo May n, 17, W ..... Uam Vmiscmtn. Orwicon May 4, 16,2; 0W,n;i;i;ire.BU;.--rit-toA.g. Btal May 12,34 itfimern or iniini; eainera or anillng dayi . . t)nITT1(Mrn. POHTI.ANU ".'" H.i.V. iTl-mL nl leav""." A;.or.7dily:.i: Monday., Wednoa.lay. th torla Hie morning bnatmake. 'ndn'gi on in Oregon .ldo Moti.Uya, i Wodndayi and daya, and on the Waahlngton aid lueadaya, tnur. 'VjUKja' uouft-I-aav. A.h atreat at 8 A. . ''to'daVTOHD ' wY l,ANWN0S-Moi- ''a'l OTUKR Btamrl lar Irom Aihtret J eotentlflo American J Ajency for V1fSAwinh Mr.X Tjr TNADI MAHK, .V'fV DlalON ATtNT tarmn eliwilaHon of any artrntlfln sanar In tha wSrTdT Hulandidl? Illuafrawd, No liiijUJajoJ earl 11.10a 1 nionlha. Addraay MPNN JU ttiujuiaM J til llroadway. Maw York Clt THE ' PACIFIC COAST. Hydrophobia Raging Among Coyotes In Arizona. THE NICKEL MINES IN OREGON. An Arlzinn Probate Judge Deponed for rorpcry and Embezzle-incut- Clnls Evaiii, . Fpiikimn nrnl rortlaud are now con- niTimi ny U'Ii'iimiii, Tacoiiia will Htili) about aovnutv car K'' or T.OOD.OOO bunlieU of wlieu't tbig your. Two nion, A. W. Iliwi ami Mr. Will litliia. are rcimrteJ loat dimort. CliriH KVBIIB IB COUlnlltllllnir of rmln In III aibtli'M eye. The bull iiiut entered tliuro in etill hi bin bowl. HeiTutitry Ilnrlwrt bun oriloriHl Imn! niiilHtonu or Kraniin to bo imed in the ootiHtrui-tion ol the I'ort Orchard dock in s tend of Teiiino canilHlone. E. W. French. Probate JuiIko of Yav. gpni comity, A. T., chargtxl with forory ami enilH'zli'iiiciit, hna bcun dopofed and J, F. Wilauii aiointud to succeed him. A Miibinarluo cable of 500 vnlla wu laid between 8nn llicoand t'oronailotho other day. It in to gupply the force to run a uew electric road at the luttur place. A 200-foot tunnel hag hint lioen com. ploted at the Hiiltitna mine in (irant county, and a contract ia noon to be let for one (MX) feet long. Kxpouurcg are utlfiictory. The coyotes in the Verdn river section In Arirona are afletiteil with hydrophobia to Mich an extent that it is ditnirurous to tritvel tbrouxh that country and eiipeci ally to camp at nilit. Steps are alx)tit to lie taken toward the construction of a huh ladder at the falls of the Willamette at Oregon 'City, for which tbo last Oregon U'lnflaluro lnndo an appropriation of 10,OUO. A Ixuidon com imn y Is said to have bought the nickel mines in Oregon. It is believed the company will erect a plant to manufacture armor for battle ships and for other purpooeg.. The Farmers' Insurance Oonirmnv at PiKikanc has been so manauod that the stockholder have been deceived, and a receiver has txen apiMiinteil. The com pany has out 1 2IH.0U0 worth of policies. with afctso( (0,000. A report comes from Txs Aneelesconn- tv, Cul., that a trrove nf bananas in the C'ahuenira fiKithills will produce this sea son 'JSjti bunches of )iood, merchantable fruit, and will yield, it ia said, a hand some profit to the owner. A bank In Arizona, which closed a short time ai?o, isnued tbo following no tice: "This bank has not busted; it owes the people KKJ.OOO; the people owe It too.OOO; It is the people who are bunt ed when they pay we'll pay." The Board of Public Works at Taeoma. has discovered a shortage of 6,GO0,OUO gallons of water daily in t he water com pany's guaranteed supply, which was purchaned recently by tho citv, together with the elot trie-light plant, lor 11,750, 000. From authentic reports received at Poi tland bv persons in a position to know it is believed that there has been a re cent and sudden nprising among the na tives of Aliinka. Many persons were killed, among them being several mis sionaries sent out by the American Hoard. According to the report of Receiver Iludley the Oregon Pacille fe running behind. He reports: June, earnings, 21.H3S.10; expenses, 125.(117 41; loss, 8,784.21. July, earnings, f 10.040.31 ; ex penses, 12:1,581.67; loss. tfl.B41.8U. Au gust, earnings, 110:10701; expenses, (10.238.61; lo.is, t:i,70.l0. The Linn Countv Hoard of F.ipialixa tion has assessed the Southern Pacific at (4.000 per mile on the road and t5"7 on rolling stock on tho main line. The Or egonian and tabanon branch was placed at (3,000 on the roadbed, and the Oregon Pacific will lie aliout (4,800 on roadbed and rolling stock. It la soid at Rosoburg that the Coos Hay Railroad Company has receded from its'demands for a subsidy of 75,OO0 from the Rosobiirg people to (50,000. The sum subscribed up to the present time Is onlv (28,000, but it is expected that the (22,000 deficit will soon be made up, and that the line will then run direct to Roseburg. ' The Southern Pacific Company ran a free excursion train out of Sacramento tho other afternoon, bound for Ueno, Nev. Between 300 and 400 Indians, who went there to nick hops, were provided with accommodations and sent to their homes In the Sagebrush State. They went in freight cars, and pulled out for the mountains cheering. A letter received at Kaslo, B. 0., dis closes the fnct that a young fellow who ran a restaurant in that town, and who died lately from fever and dysentery, was the son of an Irish Karl. The young man, who was always very reticent about his people, was a general favorite. Ilia name was Charles Reginald Weatherly, and his mother is Lady Louisa of the same name. Frank Shay, a Southern Pacific Com pany attorney and for many years Sena tor Stanford's private secretary, is con sidered to know better than anyone else the valno of the great estate left by Stanford. 1 le says (55,000,000 would bo a conservative estimate of the value of the property. The assessed value of real estate owned by the late Senator is .'!, 2:10.000, and the market value probably (12,000,000. Mavor Mason of Portland has selected Miss Eugenia Shelby to touch the but ton which will launch the battle ship Oregon. Miss Shelby 1b the sixteen-year-old daughter of Eugene Shelby, a Common Councilman of Portland and agent at that point for Wells-Fargo Ex press. The Oregon will be christened bv Misa Daisy Ainsworlh, a native of Oregon and tne daughter of one of the pioneers of that State. Miss Ainsworth is now a resident of Oakland, Cal. Miss Shelby la granddaughter ol General Lane, who was appointed Governor of the Territory of Oregon by Preaident Tyler in 1849. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. It has been figured that Philadelphia took aliout 480,000 baskets of peaches this season, The Aztecs filled quills with gold dust, sealed them and passed them from hand to hand ag coin. New York clojma the distinction of being the only Stnte that produces both rock and brine salt. A paper has been invented in Germany from which Ink writing may be erased with a moist sponge. The aniline dyes were Invented in 1820, and now over (7,000,000 worth are annu ally used in the United States. Female tramps are disposed to claim their share of a business which bag here tofore been monopolized by men. The largest gold coin in circulation Is tho "loof" of Anam, which weighs as much as 825 United States dollars. Pennsylvania ranks first In the cigar output of the country. New York, Ohio and Florida follow In the order named. The largest gold nugget ever known was the " Sarah Sands,'7 found In Aus tralia. It weighed 233 pounds 4 ounces troy. Reports of Increase of street railroad earn ings where electricity has superseded mule power In large cities average 90 per cent. More than 10,000 tons of salmon were packed by the canneries on the Frazer river, B. C, this season. It took nearly 30,000,000 cans. Among the curious products of the Slate of Maine are wooden bottles. These are made not for liquids, but for pills, powders and tablets. Cuba has 102 coffee plantations, 700 sugar plantations, 4,500 tobacco estates, 8,200 cattle farms and 1,700 small farms devoted to various products. The silver product of the United States Is about 8m per cent of our total min eral production, which according to tho census was in 1880 (587,230,602. Commander Ludlow of the Mohican, which has been patrolling Behring Sea all summer, estimates the product of pe lagic sealing inis year at ou.uuu skins. The stoppage of silver mining will re duce our annual supply of gold by ono third. Just about 33 per cent of the yearly yield of gold ia taken out of silver mines. A telegraphic printing instrument, re cently perfected, threatens not only to supersede the telephone as at present employed, but to revolutionize telcgro- iliy in general. Counting: the hearing and non-bearing orange trees in Florida, there are esti mated to lie 10,000,000 trees. Cal ifornia is credited with having 6.000,000 trees and Arizona about 1,000,000. One tow boat on the Mississippi In a f ood stage of water can take from St. .on is to New Orleans a tow carrying 10.000 tons of grain, a quantity that would require fifty trains of ten cars each. The whaling industry has fallen off so much as to play but a small part in the world's commerce. The latest figures obtainable show the production to aver age between 15,000 and 20,000 tuns of 252 gallons each per year. F. P. Loomis, formerly United States Consul at St. Ktienne, says that from an investigation he made he finds that about 05,000 Americans of the better class visit Europe every year, and that they spend about (100,000,000. Erastus Wtman ia reported aa saying in a late address that there are $455,000,- 000 in the fortv-one savings banks ot JNew York and Brooklyn, held by more than 1,000,000 depositors, and the capi tal of all the national banks in the coun try is only (700,000,000. PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. Blount, the ex-Minister's wife. says that some of the native women she met in Honolulu were as cultivated and refined aa any women she ever saw. Five Irish Peers take their titles from places that are not to be found on the map of Ireland. These are the Duke of Aberdeen, the Earl of Sheffield, the Earl of Darnley, Viscount Bangor and Vis count Hawarden. ' A brother of the King of Siam, with a numerous suite, is expected to arrive in Italy shortly. After visiting Naples and Rome the Siamese Prince will pro ceed to Monz, where he will be received by King Humbert. William F. Weeks, the New York law yer who embezzled millions of his cli ents' money, and who is now a fugitive from justice located in Costa Rica, was one of the original owners of the town- site of Kverett, Wash. He Is still Inter ested in a great deal of property in that vicinity. Mrs. R. R. Phillips, a respected resi dent of Salem, Mass., has just recovered train an eighteen montns' sickness, dur ing which time she was given up for dead twice. She makes the startling claim that she died and came to life again. Mrs. Phillips also alleges to have got a glimpse of heaven. Belva Lockwood confesses to 63 years of experience in this wicked world. She was born in new xork, taugnt school at 14 and was married at 18. Her youthful characteristics according to her own ac knowledgment included a fondness for walking on top of rail fences, a fearless ness of snakes and an Inability to keep ner lace clean. Alexander Herbert Bailev. the lost Englishman for whom search has been in progress for several years past by the solicitor of an estate in England, of which Bailey is the heir, has been dis covered at fast. He has recently been peddling books for a Chicago publishing house and posing as a spiritualistic me dium for recreation through Washington county, ra. Mr. Balfour, who will, it is thought. be Premier of England some day if his health lasts. Is also thought to be the most interesting bachelor in England. He is handiioine, his face being uncom monly rellnsd and clever in expression; anil for a statesman he is young, his years counting 45. He is a nephew of the Marquis of Salisbury, and an unmar ried sister prerides over his household. Victor Herbert, the composer and vlo- loncelliKt, is the new leader of Gilmorc's band. People are wondering what so tine a musician as Herbert will do in such a position, to which the members of the band have elected him, with Mrs. Gilmore's hearty approval. Mr. Reeves, who has been leader since shortly after P. S. Gilmore's death, will return to Providence and resume the control of the band which so long bore his name. EASTERN NEWS. Negro Scab Miner Shoots a Boy in Kansas. THE VIRGINIA PEANUT CROP- Precocloua Pupil Packing Platola Bartholdl'a Magnificent Stat uary Group Firebug. The harvest of the Florida orange crop has commenced. A dispatch from Fall River says that all the mills are running. Homes and cattle are dying of drouth in various parts of Texas. The Indians are costing the govern ment about (7,000,000 per year. Mob law was strongly condemned by the Knoxville (Tenn.) Presbytery. James A. Garfield is to have a monu ment in Fainnount Park, Philadephia. Congressman de Armond proposes a tax on all incomes in excess of (10,000. The report of the Utah Commission says that polygamous marriages are thing of the past. Over one-fifth of the whole number of people in the United States have visited the World's Fair. Georgia negroes will form an associa tion to prevent lynchings and other out rages upon the race. Secretary Lamont has appointed a board to appraise Fort Bliss in Texas, with a view to its sale. . Ex-President Harrison is said to have received (1,600 for a recent magazine ar ticle on the World's Fair. More than 4,000.000 words have been used in Congressional debate since the silver repeal question came up. Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang ing from 9 to 12 years old, have been ar rested for carrying revolvers to school. More than one-half of the Cherokee Strip boomers have already left their claims and gone back to their old homes. Virginia comes up smiling with the largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk reports 500,000 bushels more than last year. The Missouri State Board of Railroad Commissioners and the express compa nies are preparing a new schedule of rates. Railroad trains will shortly be lit by electricity. The New York Central rail road is probably the first to use that system. Representative Cooper of Texas has introduced resolutions in the House re ferring the question of silver to a vote of the people. Immigration into Canada has proven a failure the past year, a decrease of 25 per cent compared with the .previous year being shown. Kansas farmers have been taken in by swindlers, who sell a compound alleged to double the amount of butter from a given amount of cream. A Kentucky Congressman wants the government to pay rent for the school houses and churches used as hospital by the armies during the war. The canal between Georgia Bay and Lake Ontario, which will shorten the Chicago route to the seaboard by over 1,000 miles, ia nearing completion. In Maryland the 6 nest varieties of peaches are selling in the orchards at 25 cents a bushel. Prices are so low that it does not pay to ship them to market. The Chicago grand jury has found in dictments against twelve men, who are charged with arson. They were com bined to insure houses and then burn them. A whistle that will make itself heard for twentv-flve miles has just been fin ished by John Bowman, and it will adorn the car shops at Third'and Berks street, Philadelphia. The indebtedness per head in Colorado is (206. Even Kansas, which has always been an insatiate borrower, has only succeeded in running up a mot gage debt of (170 per head. A Rochester man has devise l a plan by which a trolley start cur can be stopped almost instantaneously, or with in a space of three feet, while the car is going at full speed. Bartholdi's magnificent statuary group which is at present on exhibition at the World's Fair will be kept at Chicago. The work is of bronze, and is composed of heroic figures of Washington and La fayette. The silver-mine owers at Aspen, Col., have proposed a sliding scale of wages to the men, but the latter are not dis posed to accept it, and work will not be resumed until the price of silver justifies the old wages. The New York World boasts of having iven away in charity on a recent Sun ay morning a pile of bread "20 feet long, 6 feet high and 6 feet wide," and " did not have enough to give each hun gry man a loaf." A bill appropriating (3,447,045 for the payment of damages sustained by citi zens of Pennsylvania from Union and Confederate troops during the late war was reported favorably in the House by the Committee on War Claims. Sensational newspaper writers are at tributing to New York bankers and to the United Stated Treasury officials threats to " turn the screws " and bring on another financial convulsion if tho Senate does not soon pass the repeal bill. During the month of October the State of North Dakota will offer for sale nearly 100,000 acre o! the choicest lands, all located in the famous Red River Valley, State owns 3,500,000 acres, being a part of the grant of land donated by Con gress. ' Oklahoma had a population in 1800 larger than Wyoming when admitted as a State, and with the increase since and the sudden addition of fully 60,000 more on the opening of the Cherokee Strip it must have now a population of over 130,000. A party of negro miners passing through Chicope, Kan., from a visit to Wier were called " scabs " by a lot of boys, and stones were thrown at them, when one of the negroes fired his pistol at the -boys, wounding one. Much ex citement resulted, and the negroes were taken to Pittsburg, Kan., to avoid trouble. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Senator Dolph has Introduced a bill to ratify the agreement with the Indians on the Siletz reservation, Oregon, for the cession of their lands not needed for al lotment. Arrangements are being made at the Navj Department for the trial of the new cruiser Olympia, built by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. The trial will take place about November 1 over a forty-mile course in Santa Barbara Chan nel between Point Conception and Santa Barbara. According to a Treasury statement is sued by Secretary Carlisle the amount of money in circulation in the United States October 1 was (1,701,030,918. The average circulation per capita, estimat ing the population at 67,300,000, is there fore (25.29, a net increase in circulation during September of (21,377,247. The greatest item of increase was gold coin, viz., (14,829,741. President Cleveland has signed the proclamation setting apart a large tract of land as a forest reserve under the act of March 3, 1891. The reservation will be known as the ' Cascade forest reser vation." It extends from the Columbia river 200 miles southward, abont twenty miles wide, taking in the Caecade Range. Hereafter no settlement will be allowed within its boundaries. Secretary Hoke Smith has sent to the Secretary of the Treasury estimates for appropriations for the Interior Depart ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. The appropriations asked aggre gate (176,779,134, as against $180,087,030 for the current fiscal year. The principal item is the army and navy tensions, which foot up (160,000,000. This is a decrease of (5,000,000 from the present fiscal year. Representative Henderson has had prepared for introduction into the House a resolution for the appointment of a special committee of five to investigate and report on the transactions of the sugar trust, with power to sit during the session of Congress, to send for persons and papers, to secure the aid of the De partment of Justice and, if the facts warrant, to report a bill to annul its cor porate existence. Judge Charles D. Long of Detroit, and a member of the Supreme Court of Michigan, has filed a petition for a man damus in the District Court to compel the Commissioner of Pensions to pay his (plaintiffs) pension, which, he holds, is illegally suspended. This will bring out the whole question of the action of Pen sion Commissioner Loch re n in suspend ing pensions. The Commissioner is cited to show cause October 19 why the writ should not issue. Representative Hermann has favor ably reported to Congress his bill from the Committee on War Claims, requir ing the adjudication of claims for com pensation for property lost in the mili f . :,w r iu n.iioJ atotao This lrM.tr BCI (1UI VI bl.W w.'.w fcrf.wvw... ...... especially refers to horses and other " . , . 1 " L iL. ,1 . . property iosi, ami wuicu mo uepaiuueu. ItttB IICICWIUI. Vl.V.l 1 .1 VI cause of the statute of limitations. It is ot interest to claimant in me inaian wars of the Pacific Coast. The Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee are making prog ress with the tariff bill. The ground work is understood to be free raw mate rials, with compensatory reductions on other materials. There is a growing im pression that the consequent deficit in the receipts will be met by increased in ternal revenue taxes on whisky and to bacco. Carlisle is understood to favor an increased tax on whisky to (1.20, cal culating this will increase the revenue (30.OJO.000. The charges made by the citizens of Oklahoma City of alleged misconduct on the part of Captain D. F. Steele of the United States army (retired) in connec tion with the opening of Oklahoma to settlement had their effect in the issuing of an order by the Secretary of War for the court-martial of Captain Steele. He is charged with fraud in his official ca pacity, while in command of the troops in 1892, to secure control of some of the best land sites in the Territory and with making a bargain with an auctioneer by which he purchased at the very lowest price government buildings and other property sold when the military camp was broken up. The court-martial will meet at Fort Reno, Oklahoma. In his report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Prof. Putnam in charge of the ethnological exhibit of the World's Fair denounces as falsehoods the charges by Mrs. Sickles, Chairman of the Universal Peace Union, that bru tal and cruel exhibitions of the Indian sun dance were given at the fair. The accusation are characterized as misrep resentations ; he says there ha been no representation of the Indian sun dance, and there has not been a single Indian belonging to the United States who has taken part in any exhibition except the Navajos, who have been quietly sitting in a hut weavingand making silver work. Indians from Vancouver Island, who are entirely outside the jurisdiction of the United States, have given exhibitions, performing ceremonial song and dance. Secretary Carlisle ha sent to the House his reply to the resolution of that body asking him why 4,500.000 ounces of silver bullion were not purchased dur ing July and August aa required by law. The reply says, a the United States is the largest purchaser of silver in the world, the Secretary of the Treasury after an examination of the offers and quotations each day should determine what in his judgment is a fair price. He either has to purchase 4,500,000 ounces at the dealers' prices, no matter how un reasonable or exorbitant, or he must em ploy such means as are at hi command to ascertain the actual market price. The effort ot the department since June 12 has been to simply ascertain the fair market price of bullion each day it was offered for sale, and when ascertained to make purchases at that price. The Foreign Affair Committee has decided to report favorably the McCreary substitute for the Everett bill. As agreed on, it extends the Chineso registration period six months from the passage of the act. It strikes out the word "white" from the Geary act so as to permit the testimony of anybody except Chinamen to be adduced to prove "Chinamen are entitled to register." It defines a Chi nese laborer. Geary offered his amend ment requiring photographing in con nection with the identification clause, but onlv secured three votes in its sup port. The majority deemed the regula tions of the Treasury Department suffi cient. Geary cast the onlv adverse vote. He declare the bill's teeth are drawn, that it Is a makeshift in keeping with the course of the administration, and that he will fight it tooth and nail. FOREIGN CABLES. British Battle Ships Modified as Regards Armor. THE VAST RUINS OF POMPEIL Germany's Foreign Trade The Bi cycle Becoming Very Popular Throughout France. Parliament will meet again on Novem ber 2. Queen Victoria has added a typewriter to her secretarial staff. A new great seal for Ireland has just been ordered at cost of 440. In England there 1 a feeble move ment in progress against tipping. The Bri tish Labor Congress has agreed that the day of strike ha passed. The King of Sweden used the tele phone for the first time a few days ago. Egypt's cotton crop this year will be 50.000,000 pounds larger than in 1892. Widespread suffering ha resulted from the strikes in the English coal mine. It is estimated that there are less than 10,000 paupers in the Japanese Empire. The French government charge wom en a tax of (10 each for wearing trousers. The Pope ha postponed indefinitely hi encyclical concerning social ques tion. There are association in Great Britain which insure against elopement, matri mony and twins. The Argentine government announce that the revolution in the Republic ap proaches its end. Experiments made in tobacco cultiva tion throughout Europe have not given much promise of success. Under extreme pressure Siam ha agreed to sign both the treaty with France and the convention annexed. Local telegrams are now being trans mitted through pneumatic tubes in most of the principal cities of Great Britain. Worn sovereigns and half-sovereigns to the amount of 16,000,000 were with drawn from circulation last year in Eng land. The women of Iceland, who have bad municipal suffrage ever since 1882, have now been made eligible to municipal of fice. Prof. Koch, the great bacteriologist, has got himself into trouble by divorcing bis wife and marrying a Berlin variety actress. There ia littie doubt that the whole Austrian Cabinet will resign if royal sanction to the civil marriage bill is withheld. A million acres of oat were grown this year in Scotland, and only 280,000 acres were devoted to all the other grain together. Last month the officer of the Fish mongers' Company, London, Feized and destroyed 10U tons of fish as antit for human food. The coercive measure against the young Czechs, the Nationalist of Bohe mia, continue to be enforced with in creasing rigor. A number of smaller coal pit inaStaf fordshire, Nottinghamshire and Derby shire, England, have reopened at the old rates of wage. The vintage in France and Italy this year are unusually good. In France the output and quality of champagne will be exceptional. Germany' foreign trade for the first seven months of the year show a heavy falling off in imports and a considerable increase in exports. So vast are the ruin of Pompeii that they cannot all be excavated at the ordi nary rate ot progress before the middle of the next century. The Moslem plant a cypress tree on every grave immediately after the inter ment, which makes the Moslem ceme teries resemble forests. The three British battle ships now un der construction have been modified as regards armor in view of the informa tion gained by the loss of the Victoria. A new street railway is being laid in Cairo, Egypt. Passenger will hang to the same kind of hand straps with which cars are luxuriantly furnished in the cities of America. The fastest cruiser afloat ia the Yoshi no, which has just been constructed by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell A Co. for the Japanese government. This vessel attained a speed of 23.031 knots. A projected canal from Marseille to the Valley of the Rhone is attracting the attention of French engineers, and they are at present engaged in seeking an outlet on the Mediterranean coast. The bicycle has become so popular in France that the railroads are making special accommodation for carrying the machine and storing them at stations for the use of traveler seeing the coun try roads. Mme. Lambert de Rothschild is among the latest enthusiasts for bicycle-riding in Brussels. She goes regularly to the Bois de la Cambro to practice. Bicycle riding has created quite a furore in the city among the gentler sex. An international exhibition will be held at Vienna from April 20 to June 10, 1894. The exhibition will embrace eco nomical food supply, army sustenance, life protection and "means of transport and a special sports exhibition. Hardly ten years ago the first step was taken in Germany to bring the whole body of wage-earner under compulsory State insurance. To-day nearly 13,000, COO laborers are actually insured against sickness, accident, invalidity and old age. Some one seems to have told the Sul tan that chlorate of potash is a danger ous explosive. Consequently no druggist or pharmacist in Constantinople is al lowed to possess or sell it. The Grand Master of Artillery alone is allowed to have it in keeping. The authorities al Port Darwin, Aus tralia, have notified the steamship com panies that in future the strictest inter pretation of the Chinese restriction act will be enforced. This being so, no steamer having on board more than two Chinese passenger can enter Port Dar win. ' - PORTLAND MARKET. Wmat Valley, 96974'c) Walla Walla, 8687c per cental. provision. Eabtbrk Smoked Miats and Laro Hams, medium, uncovered, 1416o per pound; covered, H'iaiSc; break fast baeon, uncovered, 16r17J6c; cov ered, 16 Si 17c; short clear sides, 164 16c; dry salt sides, 1414ac; lard, compound, in tins, 10Kc per pound: pure, in tins, 1314c ; Oregon lard, 11 12gC. BAO AND BAQOINO. Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10i-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 6Mc; burlaps, llj-ounce, 46-inch, 7$c; burlaps,' 16-ounce, 60-inch, lie; burlaps, 19-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel oat bag, 7c; No. 1 selected second hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24 ounce, 10c. HOPS, WOOL AND HIDXS. Hop '92s, 1016c per pound, accord ing to quality; new crop, '93s, 11c for inferior to 174c for choice. Wool Price nominal. Hidis Dry selected prime, 5c ; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3c; under 60 pounds, 2 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 1015c; medium, 2035c; long wool, 30(3 60c; tallow, good to choice, 33e per pound. ixoina, hid, rrc. Flobb Standard, $3.00; Walla Walla, (3.00; graham, (2.50; superfine, (2.25 per barrel. Oat New white, 3536c per bushel ; new gray, 3233c; rolled, in bags, (6.25 6.50; barrels, (6.757.00; cases, (3.75. MiLurrcrra Bran, (16.00; shorts, (18.00; ground barley, $22(23; chop -feed, (18 per ton; whole feed, barley,, 80 85c per cental; middlings, (23(328 per ton; chicken wheat, (1.10(31.25 per cental. Hay Good, (1012 per ton. daisy pboducb. Bottbb Oregon fancy creamery, -7)4 " ig30c; fancy dairy, 2225c; fair to , good, 17g'20c; common, 1516c per pound. Cheesx Oregon, 1012c; Califor nia, 1314c ; Young America, 1516c per pound. Egos 25c per dozen. Poultry Chickens, old, (3.003.50; broilers, (1.50(33.00; ducks, $3.004.00; geeee, (8.009.00 per dozen; turkeys, five, 14c per pound. UVB AND DBBS8XD at BAT. Bur Prime steers, $2.502.75 ; fair to good steers, $2.00(32.50; good to choice cows, (1.60(32.00; dressed beef, $3.50 6.00 per 100 pounds. Mutton Choice mutton, (2.00(32.50; dressed, (4.00(35.50; lambs, (2.00(32.60; ' dressed, (6.00; live weight, $2.00(32.50. Hoos Choice heavy, $5.00(055.60; me dium, $4-50(35.00; light and feeders, Vbai-(4-006.00. atlSCELLANEOU. Tin I. C charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.509.00 per box; for crosses, (2 extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, (7.60(38.00 per box ; terne plate, I. C, prime quality, (6.50(37.00. Nails Base quotations: iron, (2.25; ' steel, $2.35; wire, (2.50 per keg. Stekl Per pound, 10 'c. Lbad Per pound, 4gc; bar, 6!c. NavalStobks Oakum, (4.50(c5.00 per s bale; resin. $4.80(35.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, (13 ; Carolina, (9 per bar rel ; -pitch, $6 per barrel; turpentine, 65c per gallon in car lots. Ibon Bar, 2c per pound; pig-iron, M(S2o per ton. CANNBD GOODS. Cannbd Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(3:2.00; peaches, (1.85(32.00; Bart lett pears, (1.75(32.00; plums, (1.37(3 1.50; strawberries, $2.25(32.45; cherries, $2.25(32.40; blackberries. $1.852.00: raspberries, (2.40.; pineapples, $2.25(3 z.au; apricots, $l.(jo(gz.ou. fie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(3.1.20 ; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per dozen. Pie fruit, gallons, assorted, fa.iuu.ii.uv, muin, o.ovvut.uv , urw.K' cots. $3.50(34.00: nlnnm. 2. 75S3 00-- .' blackberries, $4.25(34.50; tomatoes, $1.10. Mkath Corned beef, Is, (1.50; 2s, (2.40; chipped, (2.553.00: lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, (6.75; deviled ham, . 1 7fi(S!! is Fish Sardines, 8, 75c(2.25; ), (2.15(34.60; lobsters, (2.30(33.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, (1.25(31.50; flats, $1.75; 2-lba, $2.26(32.60; -barrel, (5.50. VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. Vegetables Cabbage, lc per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack ; new on ions, lc per pound; tomatoes, 35(3 40c per box; green corn, 15c per dozen; . sweet potatoes, l)o per pound; egg plant, $1.00 per box ; new California cel ery, 90c per dozen ; Oregon. 35(35Uc. Fruits Sicily lemons, $6.00(36 50 per box; California new crop, $5.00(35.60 per box ; bananas, $1.50(33.00 per bunch ; oranges, market bare; Oregon, peaches, 85c per box ; California, per box ; fall butter pears, 6580c per box, liaise per pound ; watermelons, 75c(3$1.50 per dozen; nutmeg melons, (1.50 per box; Casawvas, (2.00(32.50; grapes, 50(390c per box; Italian prunes, 60(380c per box; apples, Baldwin, King and Gravenstein, 85c(3(1.00 per box ; Waxen, 75j90c., STAPLE GROCERIES. Dried Fruits Petite prunes, 10(3110) silver, 110312c; Italian, lSJtfcj German, 10(311c; plums, 89c; evaporated ap ple, 10 11c; evaporated apricots, 14 3 16c; peaches, 10(312Jc; pears, 7311c per pound. Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound; new Oregon, 16(3 20c; extract, 9(310c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, (16.00; 6O9, (16.50; stock, (8.50(39.60. Corraa Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c; Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 26)28c; Ar buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound. Bean Small white, 3(33)ic; pink, Sc; bayoa, 33c; butter, 4c; lima, 3Kc per pound. Rice Island, (5.75(36.00; Japan, new urieana, d.du(so.zo per cental. Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 40(355c; in half-barrels, 42(357c; in cases,' 35(3 . 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California, in barrels, 20(40c per gallon; (1.75 per keg. extra, dered, 7o per pound ; 0 per pound ' discount on ail grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 16nl8e per pottnd.