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"THE MIST"
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Tie Official ani Other News
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Columbia ; County.
VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1893.
NO. 45.
"THE MIST"
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official Paper
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THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANT
DAVIS BR03., Managers.
OFFICIAL COUNTY TAPER
Hub,i!rlllH lime.
Oil copy on year In advance
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Bliia-le vuiy
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AdvcrlUmir llalee.
I'rofpHnloiiitl purlin one year
One uolutii it una year,
Hull column mill year ,, .,
Quarter column "lie your
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On. Inch Hire, months ......
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I.mml uotteun, llcenl. per Hue tor Hint In-er
linn ; in cunts par una lor ewn stiiieiieiii in
.erlloll.
Legul advertisements, II. Ml per liii'li lur lint
tiiseriiiiti, Him 7(i eenta ur inch lur each suits
qiiuiiiiumrii'in.
COUJMIIIA COUNTY 1)1 ItliUTOKV.
County Ulcere.
Jmlite Id un lllaiiclmrd, Italtiler
(Me- K. K. Quli'k. H1. Helena
Himrlll It, A. Hassle, HI. Ill'l
Tr.-amir r K. M. Wlmrlim. roluinlla lits
Mii.l. nl School. T. J. Cleeinu, Veruoiii
wm W. II, Kyscr, ttaluler
Surveyor A. II. I. lulu, Hauler
Commissi mors,
n. u. niin mover, vmiioill
U. W. llarnus, Maygcr,
Max-iny Retire.
MasonicHI. Helen. Lodge, Nn. 81-Hegtilnr
couiinuiilcaitou nrsi mm mini Saturday Hi
man mount aij-.iwr. m. mi sinsnme unit, !
lug ui.uibar. til good .tainliug luvllatl to at
tend. M.iw.NH-.-Kuliiler Lodae. Nn. 31 Hl.tail
meetings Halonlay on or betoreeacli (nil nionn
at 7;8u r. M. nl Masonic hall, over HlHiichnrd'.
.tore, visiting memiier. in goon manning in
vueu lo aiieim,
(inn Fi.i.owsHt. Helen. Lolls No. 117
Meet aviiry Hatunhiy night et 7:SU. Irnitsleiil
brethren In good siawllng cordially luvlleil lo
attend.
'I Mull.
Dnwii river (boat) closes l 1 3(1 , H.
I'n river iin.t) closes el 4 r. u.
The mull (or Veruouia and t'lttshurff leavea
8t. Helen. UmiiIh)', Wednesday and Friday nl
e a. .
The iiikII for Marshland, t'latskaule and Mist
leaves ilnlnii Monday, Wednesday una Friday
1 VI M.
MallB(rallway) north close a' 10 A. M.j lur
Portland m M i', M.
Trisveler' 4Jnlde HI ver llouire.
rlTmmt (1. W. Siuvkr-l.eva Hi. Helens
for Portland nl II A. M. Tuesday, ihursduvand
Hiiturday. I.uuven ft. Helen, lur (ialsltaule
Uuniluy, Wediioxlay ami rrlday t :liu a, m.
Htkank In ai.ua leaves hi. Ilelana (or Tort
lul 7; ill A. M, Hlurnlng at .m r. M.
Htr a N kh Johki'ii Kri.i.iiihi lnveuMt. Helena
(or I'oitlniiil iliilly ex'ttpt Hiiiiilny. I7 A. H .ar
rlvlnunl I'.irlliunl at 10 HO; relnrnliiK, leave
furilaiiv at 1 r. m.. arriviinc at Hi. Helen, all
I'UUFESSlUNAL.
0H, II. U. VUIVF,
niYSICIAN and SUROEOX.
8t. Helena, Oregon.
IJIl. J. K. HALL,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
ClaHkuiile, Columbia county , Or.
A . I.ITTLB, . '
Ala. i
SURVEYOR and
CIVIL ENGINEER,
St. Helena, Oregon.
Comity nuiYeynr. I.nml anrveyhiir, to n
iIhHiii,', mnl engineering work promptly
ilunu.
OAVIAT.
TRAD! MAKKH.
DKION PATINTS.
OOPVRIQHTS. ata.
ror inTonnaiion ana rrea liananooa write u
MUNN CO., mil Uhoauwat, Nttr Voh.
Olileat bureau for eoeurlnf patent. In Anierlo.
Every patent taken out by u. la brnuittil Imfor,
tba publig by a uouet ilTon tro of eluurg In ih
I juveai trtrfflilatlnn of any aelmtlllft paper In thf
frorlit. 8iloullillf lllu.tratatl. Nn lutellliD.i
m.B annum u. wiumiui, , ttwrit
..Kri ai.AII.lx ninntha. Ailtlra..
tuauauxua, UU1 Iboadway, fl.w
The Overland Route.
Two train, dally, tear
ing Kittli ami I street.,
(Imud Central Depot.
No. 2, " The Limited
Knt Mall," leavliiK at
7;.KI P. earrlea Vettl.
Utile I'lillinan Pnlaca
sleeping and Dining
Car. and (ree Keelltihii
Chair Can throuufi
Irion Portland to Chi
eimo.vlaCoiinell lllutta.
wlltinutrliaiige. Till, train make, direct con
nei'ilon. lor Denver, Kaimaa City, Hi. LohIi,
Helena, Untie andHt. I'mil; alanrnrrlentliroiiKri
rnllmaii Hleeiwr andClialrCar (or Walla Walla,
Cul In x, I'Hriiilnglon, Unrklonl and rlpokniie,
milking ilireel eonneetloii. (or Dayton, I'nin
eroy, Moeeow and Cienr d'Alene.
No. 8, "Overland Klyor," leaving at 8: a. m ,
carrle. l'lillinmi Palace and Toiirlnt Hleeper.
from Portland loMlMoiiri river without change.
Tlirougil train, arrive at r.m a. . anu v r. u,
OCKAN HTK A M E KH MAY.
i.ravr Portland.
LkavkHan FKANCinro.
Co)uinblB...MHyl,ia,iD
Hiate May A, 17,29
Oreuon Mav 4. 111. '2H
Columbia May 8, '20
HlHle May 12,24
Oregon M,y,i
Tim eomnanv faiervea the right to chain
learner, or Mailing daya.
POKTI.ANI) AND AK'I'OllIA ROUTK Morn
ing boat leave. Portland dally, except Sunday,
at 7 A M.j reluming, leave Astoria daily, ex
cept Sunday, at 0 r. si. Night lioat leave Port
laud dally, except Saturday, at p. M.; return
lug, leave. A.lorla dully, except Sunday, at 6 A.
M. The morning boat (rnm Portland make,
landing, on the Oregon aide Tueadiiya, Thur.1
day. and Haturdav.i on the Wnahlugton .id
Mondays, Wednesday, and FrlV;'. From A.
torla the morning boat makes landing, on the
Oregon lde Monnava, Wednosdaya and Friday.,
and on the Washington aide Tuesdays, Thurs
day, and Saturday..
OAHCADB KOUTK Leave Ash ttreet at 8 A.M.
dallv, except Sunday; returning, leave llonne
Tllle at 12:H0 p. M.,arrivlng at Portland at 8 P. u.
TO DAYTON AND WAY LANDINOS-Mon-dav,
Wednesday, Friday, 7 A. M.
Ocean ateaiuer leave (rom Steamship wharl
at 8 p. m. , . . t . .
ALL UiUHH cieamara leave irom A.ii-.trvt
Ticket ofuca-284 Washington atreet,
OofuerTblid. W. H. HUKI.BURT,
AwUtant Oaneral PaaMtOTAfMit
a American
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Sensational Evidence at the
Trial of a Libel Suit
THE EVANS MURDER CASE,
A Journey of Over Four Thousand
Mile Made in a Small Pe
terborough Canoe.
An effort in being made to organize
union oi .euior at victoria, it. V.
Captain Cochrane at Vallcjo, recently
couri-iimriiuitwi, iihb oeen reHtorexi
duty by Hwretary llurlxTt.
A survey of the Ikinton'i bottom at
Mure iMiana llnii it reniHrkamy well
. worvi'd, notwiiimtamiing tlio veiwol
exposure at Hawaii.
..my of the dclcgfttcg to the Trrlita-
I "in lxiiirrM, rwoutly in gension at Ix
Allele., are atuiiyiiiK tlie Irrigation y-
iciii ui nisi Hcciion oi me niaie.
Wurtmrlnn liku Ih. Ilniilliih nmUn.
boa returned to Nanainio, 11. C.. from'
the interior of Aliuka by the steamer
licrtlia, bavinir made a journey of over
4,uw union in a uuall i'oterborougli
canoe.
Tlio Prcaeott and Arlxona Central
riiilrond b withdrawn iu train. The
road i M-veuty-two milee lonir, but since
.1... t...:i.l:.. - I a 1.
hiiu 1'iiiiuiiig ui 1.11a naiiia, re, ireseuK
and I'liu'iilx road the latter ban all the
tinHincH.
Mru. T- o In the Evan mardurcaxe
at Jackson, Amador county, Cal. , teatifled
that Hheriir Thorn ottered her 1500 if she
would ewear that i.vana woe not at
home on the 15th of June, the day Mes.
nenRur lovey was eiiot.
Chris Evans, the train robber and
murderer, hail been removed from his
cell into one more secure, owing to
rumor which reached the Sheriff that
an ettort to release the prisoner was be
ing made. Kvam says there was no
n lot to release him: that the story woe
originated oy cowarmy aotoctivos."
The chancing current of the Pnntiam
is threatening to render uselesi the San-
dervon bridge. It has already cost about
t'ju.uoo, au't mo 1'inn county (Ur.) olli
ciuls are debating whether it will be
cheaper to keep following up the chang.
ins channel or tear the bridge down and
rebuild it at some point where it is more
permanent.
Home sensational evidence was pro
duced at the trial of the libel suit against
the Hoe at Sacramento instituted by
(ieorge I'. Uoyster. The deposition of
ex-Uouniy i.ierK Key-Holds oi Ban Kran
cisco woo read, showing some of the
methods he had employed to tlefeat the
nds of justice on his second and last
trial for being short in his accounts with
tnemate.
Old settlers in Idaho State predict a
noon in tlio I'ouatcn country next
spring. Fourteen years ago the ground
was soaked with rain before the snows
came and when the snow melted it filled
the rivers to overflowing. t Kendrick
mo Ice was piled fifteen feet high after
tlie waters auheidetl. Eight years ago it
whs impossible to travel from Juliaetta
a., i f. . . .
ui i-trwD-iou ou account oi uie uoou.
At a meeting held at Stockton. Cal..
by the local real estato men and prop
erty owners a committee was appointed
to diait a petition asking the eupor-
vieoni ami uuy v.ouneii u call a bona
election to vote $:t50,0U0 bonds to build
a ship canal through the title land from
the Slock Urn channel to a point on the
Ktin Joaquin river, twelve miles below
Stockton. Tho canal would drain a large
area oi vaiunoit num.
Nothing new has occurred in con
neclion with the robliery of Treasurer
Mulligan at lloaldsburu, Cul. A senti
ment prevails that Mulligan knows more
linn lie lias told, and lie has told many
lungs that win not bear comparison.
Strong hints are made that lie was in
terested in the theft. His friends, who
are numerous, scout the idea of his dis
honesty, and his pant life fully justifies
them iii so doing. His bond, which had
men reported, as miBsing, has heen
found.
Five momhors of the Portland Amal
gamator and Mining Company started
recently via the Union I'acilic for the
K'at of present operations on Snake
liver, near 1'arma, Idaho. The bars of
this river hare been worked in a small
way during many years. The gold is
verv abundant, but is so fine that it is
dillicult to save it. A new machine has
een put in by this company which is
'Oiilldently believed will save this gold.
Ton patentee, N. L. Kaber, has gone to
Smiko river to start the work.
iThe attorneys for Sidney Boll, the
highwayman, now serving a sixty-year
term at the State prison at Folyom, have
filed a brief in the Supreme Court,
which is the first step toward securing
Hell's release. The grounds taken are
that the indictments on which Bell was
guilty were not good, having been al
lowed to lapse and the cases to drop
from the calendar. Tills was due to a
murder charge which was hanging over
the prisoner, on which it was expected
ta evcure conviction. The prosecution
was disappointed in this, and then
charges of rohlery wore taken up and
pressed. It is behoved among lawyers
that the conviction of Bell en a charge
of murder would be extremely difficult,
so that if the technical point is sustained
the footpad will be at liberty in the near
future.
There will be a great many days at
the Midwinter Fair, but not the least of
tlirm will be San Francisco day. This
will tie March 10. AH San Francisco
will that day turn out to do honor to the
day of the eity, and while the three-nuartnrs-of-a-million
mark of Chicago
day will not be striven for, the managers
hope the attendance at the park will
break all records for Pacific Coast gath
erings. Sari Francisco day there will be
much to attract, but the most attractive
will be the Mardi Gras festival, which
will 1 e held there. A company has been
formed in San Francisco to provide
. a festival of the Mardi Graa class. It
I was at first thought that something of a
local character could be secured, but
owing to the shortnesa of the time al
lowed it wag decided to take advantage
of the work already done on the New
i Orleans festival and bring it hither
bodily. It will be brought. All ita pa
geantry and its mirth-provoking features
are to he shown, just as they hay for
year in the Oreeeent Olty.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Robinson of Pennsylvania has intro
duced a bill to alolish the office of naval
officer at all ports of entry,
Wilson of Washington has Introduced
a bill for appropriating (370,01)0 for two
revenue cutters lor the 1'acinc Uoast.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed I.
Lnttrell of California special agent of
the Treasury Department in charge of
the salmon fisheries of Alaska. M. U.
Feily was appointed Chinese inspector.
The IIouro Committee on Banking and
Currency has postponed until tlie regular
session In December the further consid
eration of tho bills to suspend the tax
on clearing-house certificates issued dur
ing the stringency.
Senator Hiiulre hag been informed by
the Indian CoinmisNioner that hereafter
other cities on the Coast than Han Fran
cisco will have an opportunity to furnish
Indian supplies by being designated na
depots where goods may lie delivered.
FIthlan's bill for the free admission to
American registry of ships built in for
eign countries has been ordered favor
ably reported to the House. Its provisions
take effect in January next. Any hull
purchased in accordance shall not lio
used or allowed to engage in tlie coaet
wlse trade of the United States.
The House has passed Itenresentive
Hermann's bill con firming title to W.
V. Keadv and other lot owners of tho
town site of Jxioploop in Washington.
The entry was canceled by the General
Land Ofllce because of the entry being
covered by Valentine scrip, which could
not Po located on land such as this was.
Secretary Hoke Smith the other day
heard argument of counsel for Oregon
and Idaho in a case involving tho right
of these States to select double minimum
lands as indemnity under the school
grants. The existi ng rule of the depart
ment excluding State selections from
belts of double minimum lands has. it
was claimed by counsel, impaired the
value of the schools grants.
Mr. Stockdale of Mississippi offered in
tne House a oiu amending the civil ser
vice laws so as to provide for an equal
division of offices among the States, ac
cording to. their Congress onal districts.
Tlie heads of departments are to report
the number of their employes in their
respective departments from each State
to the President, and when a State has
not its quota all appointments made to
it are to be from that State until the
quota is filled. Heads of departments
are also to apportion the salaries among
the states as nearly equal as possible.
United States District Attorney Speed
is striking it rich in his investigation of
the Strip land office. Judge Kale's de
cision that Chief Clerk Handland ranst
testify be'ore the grand jury brought
tilings toa focus.and testimony is piling
un ranidlv tending to criminate nmnv
of the land officials. It has been shown
Ihnt at the Perry office a number of
bribes were taken, and tho papers were
received and filed ahead of tune without
tlie filer apiieariug. Places were openly
sold in the line. The investigation will
continue for some time, and a good list
of indictments will follow.
The State Department has received
from Anthony Ifowells, United States
Consul at Cardiff, Wales, a statement
prepared by the Cardiff Board of Trade.
showing the exports of tin plates and
si.eetH from the United Kingdom during
the nine months ended September SO.
18U3. The statement shows that during
tlie period named 212.241 tons of mater
ial, valued at 2,778,685, was shipped to
tlie United states, against Z14,03 tons,
valued at 2,81)7,787, in 18f2, and 284,
810 tons, valued at 4,072.213, in 18111.
The total amount exported to all coun
tries in the nine months ended Septem
ber 30, 1803, was 301,681 tons, valued at
3,080,218, making the amount exported
to tlie United states alone nearly three
fourths of the total export product.
Governor Hughes of Arizona has hod
an important conference with Minister
Komero oi Mexico touching lmprov
ments of the Colorado river, which
would add to its importance as a chan
nel of commerce. The Governor pre
sented to Romero that the Colorado was
the second largest stream of the Pacific
Coast. He suid with secure jetties at its
mouth and with some dredging along
the course of the stream it could be
made navigable 000 miles, far up into
Arizona and Nevada, tapping rich min
eral deposits in the mountains and a
tine agricultural and horticultural re
gion in the lower country. He pointed
out that Mexico along the Gulf of Cali
fornia possesses large forests of one tim
ber and immense deposits of coal, in
both of which the Southwestern portion
of the United States is deficient. Gov
ernor Hughes thinks the government of
the United Stales would make I tie im
provements necessary within its bound
aries if the Mexican government would
undertake to do as much within the Mex
ican territory. The lower 150 miles of
the river is in Mexico. Minister Komero
was very much Impressed with the
representation made by the Governor.
He said he would recommend that hia
fovernment give the matter attention,
le thought the best way to proceed
would be for the two governments to
join in the apointment of a cotnmiesiou
to investigate the entire question.
In reply to a complaint of the Chinese
Minister in Washington the State De
partment has made) representations
which indicate that the United States
government will not accept consular
certificates as conclusive evidence that
the Chinese subjects presenting them
are merchants or artists,-and therefore
entitled to admission in this country.
Recently in New York, at the instance
of the Chinese inspectors, two Chinese,
who presented certificates trom the con
sul at Havana that they were actors and
not amenable to the restriction law,
were refused a landing. Inspector
Scharf insisted that the men were labor
ers ana that their certiticates were
fraudulent. The detained Chinese took
tlio matter Into court, where it is still
pending under writs of habeas corpus.
and further made complaints to the
Minister, who brought the matter to the
attention of tho State Department.
Secretary Gresham cn lied on Secretary
'aiiiHle for information, and received a
copy of Inspector Scharf 's report, with
an intimation that the inspector, in the
opinion of the Treasury authorities, was
acting in the llneol his duty ana seemed
not to have exceeded his authority in
the premises. Secretary Gresham ac
cordingly has transmitted this informa
tion to the Chinese Minister. ihe
Treasury Department's atand on the
question is still further emphasiied by
Attorney-General Olney, who has di
rected the United States District Attor
ney at New York to prosecute tho rases
on which the Chinese Minister's protest
was based. Mr. Olnev gave this direc
tion at the request of Secretary OarlUle.
EASTERN 'NEWS.
Nebraska Women Engage in
the Whitecap Business.
THE MANITOBA WHEAT CROP.
A Woman Drops Dead After Finding
Out She Had Been Swindled
by Jacob Schoefer.
Tobacco has been found growing wild
in isee county, rex
The endowment orders are likely to
be driven out oi lexas.
The State Treasurer of Missouri holds
(30,000 in cash awaiting distribution
among unknown heirs..
The establishment of an ostrich farm
on St. Joseph's Island, near Rockport,
Tex., is being agitated.:
A Kansas Judge has decided that
whisky contracts made in Missouri can
not be enforced against residents of Kan
sas. (
Knur York- fttnta pnfnva a. nroll.v iwnt.
nue from its collateral Inheritance tax.
Tlie sum reported at Albany is $3,071,-
078.
It takes 1,000 men all' night and late
into the morning to clean up the debris
left behind each day by tlie World's Fair
crowds.
Prof. E. B. Clann of the Greek depart
ment of Yale has accepted a call to the
Greek department of the University of
California.
A Burlington (Kan.) woman is going
to start a crazy quilt with the ribbons of
her husband's sheep secured at the
World's Fair.
Since August 1 there have been twelve
railroad disasters of more than ordinary
severity, involving the loss of 127 lives
and tlie injuring of 388 more.
Exhibitors at the World's Fair are
complaining that the electric light given
them is not such as was promised, and
threaten to close their exhibits.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation Com
pany is sowing wheat in 20,000 acres
along its ditches, and will use tlie result,
if favorable, to boom irrigation.
Mrs. Grant, it is reported, intends to
make her home in W aehington in the
future. Mrs. Blaine has offered all her
Washington real estate for sale.
The New York State building at the
exposition may be sold to the Chicago
Yacht Club at the conclusion of the fair
and utilized as a naval academy.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is to build a piazza of glass around its
new Broad-street station in Philadelphia.
This unique porch will extend two blocks.
The "Union Pacific has declined to take
off its rate of lo5.60 from the Missouri
river to the Pacific Coast in compliance
with the proposal mode by the "Soo"
liue.
The insurance companies doing busi
ness in Omaha have made an advance
in rates of 2) per cent. The action is
based on the inadequacy of the tire pro
tection. The Idaho mining exhibit at the
World's Fair at Chicago was robbed Sun
day night of gold nuggets and a bar of
silver bullion from the La Mar mine.
The loss is (5,000.
Santa Fe employes have appointed a
grievance committee to wait oti the offi
cers of the road and ascertain when they
will be paid their September salaries. A
strike is threatened.
In a ballot taken in Boston to decide
n on the most popular names for babies
Helen lea the list for a girl with 1,373
votes out of the 15,000 cast, and Harold
was nrat favorite for a boy.
The Union Pacific receivership makes
a total of 20,877 miles of railroad track
placed nnder charge of tlie courts thus
tar in 1803, or 16 per cent of the whole
railway mileage of the country.
Governor Stone of Mississippi has ad
dressed a letter to the editor oi the New
York Sun, denying in emphatic terras
the reports of the burning of cotton
gins by whitecapssin Mississippi.
Four emigrant wagons passed through
Dcnison, Tex., the other day en route to
Arkansas irom wise county. Ihe emi
grants stated they were forced to leave
Texas on account of the drought.
Threshing returns show the crop of
Manitoba to he much less than was gen
erally estimated. The estimate now is
but fourteen bushels per acre, where it
shortly since was sixteen to seventeen
bushels.
The old nronosition of takintr that nart
of Michigan lying west of Lake Michi
gan and tlie parts of Wisconsin and Min
nesota bordering on the lake and making
a State of them, to be called "Superior,"
has been revived.
Christine Kroys of Brooklyn week be
fore lust swallowed the contents of two
aeidlitz powder papers separately, and
presently died of apoplexy, caused by
the violent action the gas produced by
their union in her stomach.
United States District Attorney Ing
ham is about to commence proceedings
in the United States Circuit Court for
the condemnation of tho properties at
Broad and Cherry street required for
the site of the new Philadelphia mint.
F. G. Ramsay. Grand Chief of the Or
der of Railway Telegrapher, has been
indicted at Marion, la., by the grand
jury of Linn county. He is charged
with tampering with the wires of tho
Kurlingtou during the strike one year
ago.
The grand jury at Roanoke, Va., sum
moned to investigate the riot on Septem
ber 20 and 21, mado a report commend
ing tlie action of the Mayor and censur
ing the police for their laxity in protect
ing the negro, Thomas Smith, from the
mob. .
Suit has begun at Tiffin. O.. against
the estate of ex-Governor and ex-Secre-tarv
of the Treasury Foster. In thecom
plauit it is charged that the Foster firm
was insolvent two years ago, and that
deeds to property to his wife had been
made hy Foster at that time and only
recorded on the day of assignment.
Among the whiteeapa arraigned at Os
ceola, Neb., for whipping women was
Mrs. Heald, the wife of the President of
the Bank of Polk county, a leader in the
Osceola church and several societies.
The other women are wives of prominent
businessmen. All are members of the
local Women's Christian Temperance
Union. .
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
The making of chinaware Is the oldest
industry.
Clinton, la., claims to have the largest
saw mm.
Horseshoes are made of cowhide in
Australia.
There are nearly 0,000 women farmers
In Wisconsin.
There are about 8,000 banks in tho
United States.
Over 1,100 cows are quartered in the
city of Dublin.
Lobsters are the sole product of ono
farm in Maine.
Chill is having twelve locsmotlvej
built in New York.
A shorthand typewriter is the result
of a late invention.
An English corset firm mode 838 cor
sets for men last year. -
The average wages of the coolies of
India is 6 cents a day.
Last year 1,250,000,000 bananas found
market in this country.
The first electric underground railroad
is in operation in London.
A net to catch whale has been patented
at Auckland, New Zealand.
More than 500 electric railroads are in
operation in the United States.
Women are crowding the men out of
clerical employments in Canada.
A new pie plate has holea in the bot
tom to save the pie from sogginess.
Now there are farmers who are satis
fied with electric power for plowing.
People in the United States consume
nearly 000 tons of nux vomica yearly.
A Holland woman is engaged in the
making of wooden shoes in Fairhaven,
Wash.
Flour is made from bananas, and may
become an important food supply of the
world.
A London laundry, owned by women
and employir i only women, earned (30,
000 last year.
Pittsburg and Jersey factories manu
facture glassware for a prominent dealer
in Hongkong.
Nearly 6.000 chimney sweens are con
stantly engaged in sweeping the 1.000.000
chimneys in London.
The country around Norfolk, Va pro
duces something like 5,000,000 bushels
of peanuts every year.
The assessed valuation of property in
Chicago is only (219,354 368, while that
of Baltimore is $285,000,000.
South Florida is a great country for
bees. There is something in bloom for
them to feed on during the entire year.
In August, 1892, 270,838.030 cigarettes
were manufactured in tins country. The
figures for August, 1893 are 357,849,360.
The electric-lamp industry of New
York gi ves employment to between 2.000
and 3,000 girls. It is piece work, and
pays about (9 a week.
The Krupp gun works claims to have
manufactured a machine which will roll
iron so thin that It would take 1300
sheets to make an inch.
According to Mayor Gilroy the corpo
ration of New York owns (559,000,000
worth of real estate. He estimates Cen
tral Park as worth (200,000,000.
As has been anticipated, orange cult
ure in the United States lias outgrown
the ability of the country to consuiuo
the production. It is estimated that the
coming crop will exceed the demand by
at last 1,000,000 boxes. Of the whole
production Florida is expected to furnish
4,500,000 boxes and California 2,500,000
boxes.
PERSONAL MENTION.
John Wanamaker hag contributed (I,
000 to the citizens' permanent relief
committee to help the unemployed peo
ple in tlie mill districts of Philadelphia.
Queen Victoria's fifty-five pet dogs
have a dining-room that is handsomely
carpeted aud ornamented with the por
traits of their ancestors in oils and watei
colors.
The Duke of York pays great attention
to what the newspapers say about him.
He keeps a book in which is pasted every
reference made to him in the public
press which falls into his hands.
Attorney-General Olney is an enthusi
astic tennis player, and has constructed
a court near his residence in Washington.
On fair afternoons he indulges in the
sport, in which he shows great proficien
cy and expertness.
A new chapter of the Daughters of the
Revolution, organized at Bound Brook,
N. J., has among its members Mrs. Sa
rah Van Nostrand, whose father was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, and
who is now 105 years old.
Camille d'Arville was born and edu
cated in Holland, and is proud of the
fact that she came from the old Amster
dam instead of the new. Still she is
glad she made the change, and claims to
be quite as much American as Dutch.
Those who have seen her only upon the
stage will be surprised to learn that she
has a eon at the military school at Sing
Sing.
Emperor William has struck out in a
new venture. Ever intent on turning
an honest penny, he has now taken steps
to have the milk produced on his farm
at Potsdam sold at Berlin. Carta bear
ing hia name may be seen in the streets
of the capital, the drivers of which re
tail the fluid to any one who chooses to
buy it, and as the milk is uncommonly
good, the sales are quite large.
Mrs. Ann Walsh, a decrepit old wom
an, hobbled up to the bar in the Circuit
Court in St. Louis to apply for naturali
zation papers. Her case is thought to
be without precedent. She is the widow
of James Walsh, who had declared his
intention to become a citizen, but died
before securing his final papers. He had
made an entry of land, and Mrs. Walnh
becomes naturalized to secure the claim.
During his recent visit to Schonbrunn
the German Emperor went to church in
a costume which attracted great atten
tion, as well it might. He wore a gray
tunic with green lacings and broad epau
lettes, a green leather belt from which
hung a hunting knife, the handle adorned
with an imperial gold crown, high var
nished boots and spurs and a Styrion
hat with an enormous plume that snook
at every step.
Miss' Mary Garrett, the daughter of
the great railroad king and sister of the
present head of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad system, makes her home in Bal
timore, but spends much of her time in
New York. She is worth (20 000.000.
She is rather stout, about 5 feet 5 inches,
with pale complexion, blue eyes and
gold-nmmed glasses. She is 32 years of
age. and every summer goes to'Enrope
with her maid, traveling from one' place
to another quit independently.
FOREIGN CABLES.
American Flour in Demand
in Finland, Russia.
PRINCE HENRY OF ORLEANS.
The Granddaughter of Robert Burn
Receive a Grant From tho
Royal Bounty Fund.
A new street railway is being laid in
Cairo, Egypt.
Over (1,000,000 in St. Louis bonds has
been sold in London at par.
A serious outbreak of pleuro-pneu-monia
has occurred on a farm near Lon
don. An alarming subsidence of land has
occurred at Saltwood, near Hytlie, Eng
land. The number thirteen cannot be fonnd
as a street number in Frankfort-on-the-Main.
The stock of gold in France is esti
mated at (800,000,000 and silver (700,
000,000. Cholera has again reared its head in
Antwerp, but is nearly wiped out at
Hamburg.
Ten thousand Coreans are said to have
left their country for Russia, where they
propose to live.
There are eighty-five women in Great
Britain engaged in the occupation of
chimney sweeps.
Train-robbing in Spain is guarded
against by stationing two soldiers in
every railway car.
The Admiralty at London has con
tracted for three torpedo destroyers to
exceed any now afloat.
The dividends paid to the British own
ers of the South African mines last year
amonnted to over (O.OM.OJO. ,
Ten thousands c.tptives have been sold
into slavery by the Ameer of Afghanis
tan to pay the expenses of war.
Tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and the
usual mixture are forbidden from enter
ing New Zealand by parcel post.
English and French diplomats are
scheming at Paris to make a ''buffer"
State between Siam and Burmah.
The regulation forbidding ladies wear
ing bonnets to occupy orchestra stalls
at the Paris opera has gone into effect.
The French government proposes to
impose fines upon radway companies for
trains that are run behind schedule tim.
Swedish shipbuilders have recently
received orders from British owners for
the construction of a number of cargo
steamships.
- The Shetlanders boast that lost year
there was not a single conviction for
drunkenness in the islands, which have
a population of about 26,000.
Bernhardt announces an intention to
reform some Parisian theater customs,
among them the extra fee for reserved
seats. Travel has expanded her mind,
sue says,
The vol, -non nn Onlhnm Thin L.
again become active. The streets of Or-
sorio are tilled with ashes, and traffic is
almost stopped by them. Great alarm
exists among the residents.
There is a dispute between the impe
rial and colonial authorities in Matabe
land. Sir Henry Loch in command of
the imperial forces declines to receive
orders froK! Premier Rhodes.
Carlyle's home in Cheyne Row, Chel
sea, is in a fearfully dirty and neglected
condition, and it is proposed to bny it
by public subscription and set it apart
as a place of commemoration.
A bundle of dynamite was found on
the train near Burgos, Spain, on which
Genera) Campos and son were traveling.
It is believed that another attempt to
kill the General had been made.
The Peixoto government, it is report
ed, has issued a decree for the imprison
ment of all foreigners suspected of sym-
pntiuzing wun me reoeinon, ana me,
foreigners at Rio have formally protest
ed against it, I
Prince Henry of Orleans, nephew of
the Count of Paris, is soon to be mode a 1
Knight of the Legion of Honor by the
French government in acknowledgment I
of hia geographical and scientific re-!
searches in the East.
. Since the time of Clement there have
been 324 Marshals of France, sixty-seven '
of whom .nnin,4 .k-i
present century. 'Napoleon Ilf ap-l
present century. napoleon III ap-
pouiMxi niteen during tue oriuiant aaya
of the Second Empire.
Henry White, who has been First Sec
retary of the American Legation in Ion
don over eight years, is about to be suc
ceeded by Mr. Roosevelt of New York,
a gentleman of large fortune in his own
right and who married an Astor.
In no other co-mtry in the world is the
teiepnone in so great general nse a in
flour has been sold recently in Finland.
The inquiry is tantamount to prepara
tions to exclude American flour from
Russia. ,
candla power, casting a beam which can
be seen in clear weather sixty-three
miles away and in foggy weather twenty
one miles.
An agent of the Suez Canal Company
has invented an apparatus to split the
electric lights that illuminate the canal
into two divergent streams, one sending
out rays one way, the other in the oppo
site direction. This enables ships to
approach each other and meet with per
fect safety. Formerly the lights blinded
pilots so that they could not see vessels
coming in the opposite direction.
Foreign Ambassadors to Turkey hod
recently complained that the prisons
were overcrowded with Armenian pris
oneif.jind the government decided to
remove the cause of complaint. Ac
cordingly about 300 prisoners were taken
on hoard of a Turkish man-of-war osten
sibly for transportation to Africa. In
the night, however, the poor fellows
were murdered, their bodies placed in
sacks, which were tied one to the other,
and tlirowa into the harbor "
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Sweden, and in no other is the service so 80c per gallon; (2.25 per keg; California,
cheap and at the same time so perfect. in barrels, 2040c per gallon ; $1.75 per
It is under government control, and the keg.
rates are fixed by the government. I Sooae D, 5c ; Golden C, 6fc ; extra
Dr. Witte, Russian Finance Minister,! f c; confectioned A, 6,1; dry gran
has ordered an inquiry into the reason 5latr,,6Mc5 cube crU8.hed na pow
whv much more American than Russian 5ered V Pf,r P00"";. Jc per pound
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Penmarch Point, BnUnny, will contain! ten pears, $iooi plums, $1.37
PORTLAND MARKET.
Whiat Valley, 05c j Walla Walla,
85c per cental.
provisions.
Eastern Smoked Mbats and Labd
Hams, medium, 14H(ctl6c per pound;
breakfast bacon, 18(al9tc: short clear
sides, 15loc; dry salt sides, 13 14c;
lard, compound, in tins, 10c per pound ;
pore, in tins, 13)4 15c.
AOS AMD BAOOINO.
Burlaps, 8-onnce, 40-inch, net cash,
6c; burlaps, 10-ounce, 40-inch, net
cash, 6?c; burlaps, lli-ounce, 46-inch,
Tc; burlaps, 16-ounce, 60-inch, 11c;
burlaps, Ill-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat
bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel
oat bags, 7c; No. 1 selected second
hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24
ounce, 10c
BOPS, WOOL AND BIDES.
Hops '02s. nominally at lOtaiSc per
pound, there being none in the market;
new crop, '93s, 16c for choice ; inferior,
8c and upward.
Woot. Prices nominal.
Hides Dry selected prime, 5c; green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3,'c; nnder
60 pounds, 203c ; sheep pelts, shearlings,
10(tl5c; medium, 2035c; long wool,
30 w 60c; tallow, good to choice, 83jo
per pound.
FLOUR, FEED, ETC
Floor Standard, 2.90 ; Dayton, (2 00;
Walla Walla, (3.15; graham, (2.50; au
pertine, 12.25 per barrel.
Oats New white, 3335c per bushel ,
new gray, 32(3 33c; rolled, in bags, (6.25
6.50; barrels, (6.75(a7.00; cases, (3.75.
MiLLSTorrs Bran, (16.00; shorts,
(18.00; ground barley, $2223; chop
feed, (18 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70c
percental; middlings, (23(28 per ton;
chicken wheat, $1.10(41.15 per cental.
Hay Good, $10(312 per ton.
DAIRY PRODOCB.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 80
(o 32Jc; fancy dairy, 2527,4c; fair to
good, 20(t22,'sc; common, 18(s20c per
pound.
Ciibksb Oregon, 10(12!c; Califor
nia, 13(i 14c: Young America, 15(il6c;
Swiss, imp rted, 3J32c; domestic, 18
(g 2Uc per pound.
tons Oregon, 30c per dozen ; East
ern. 25 d 27 Ui-.
Poultry Chickens, old, (3.003.50;
broilers, 2.003.50; ducks, $3.00(a4.60;
geeee, 7JjO(u.00 per dozen; turkeys,
live, 13c per pound; dressed, 15c
LIVE AND DRBSSBD MEAT.
Beef Prime steers, $2.60(32.75; fair
to good steers, $2.00(a2.50; good to choice
rows, (LfiOia 2.00: dressed beef, (3.60(3
6.00 per 100 pounds.
M otton Choice mutton, (2.00(22.50;
dressed, i4.00ia5.50; lambs, 2.00i2.60;
dressed, 46.00; live weight. (2.00,0)2.50.
Hooh Choice heavy, t6.o0in6.60; me
dium, (4.50(u6.00; light and feeders,
(4.60(25.00; dressed, (7.00.
Vbal (4.001C56.00.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.60(9.00 per box; tor crosses, (2
extra per box; 1. C. coke plates, 14x20,
prime quality, (7 -608.00 per box; terae
plate, I. C, prime quality, (6.507.00.
Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25;
teel, $2.35; wire, (2.50 per keg.
Steel Per pound, lO.c
Lead Per pound. 4jc; bar, 6
1 AVAL STOEita Uakum , $4.&U 5.00 pet.
bale; resin. $4.80(fi;5.00 per 480 douimb
tar, Stockholm, $13; Carolina. (9 per bar
rel ; pitch, $8 per barrel ; turpentine, 65o
per gauon in car lots.
Ihon Bar, 2o per pound; pig-iron,
$23(0)25 per ton.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. .
Vegetables Cabbage, Is per pound;
potatoes, Oregon, 76c per sack ; new on
ions, lc per pound; tomatoes, 35(3
40c per box; green X)rn, 15c per dozen;
sweet potatoes, lOlc per pound ; Or
egon celery, 35(o60c.
Faurrs Sicily lemons, (6.0006.50 per
box: California new crop, (5.00(36.50
per box ; bananas, (1.503.00 per bunch ;
oranges, $3.50 per box ; Oregon peaches,
6670c per box; fall butter peers, 80(3
00c per box; grapes, 50 (g 90c per box;
New York Concords, 40c per basket;
Italian prunes, 75c(1.00 per box; ap
ples, Baldwin, King, 85c(l-00 per box;
Waxen, 75,390c; cranberries, (8.00g8.60
per barrel.
etaplb groceries.
Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador. 23c: Mocha. 26Wt:28c: Ar-
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
e888. per pound.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound;
new Oregon, 1620c; extract, 9 10c.
Dried Fruits 1803 pack. Petite
VS.SSMi
1. 'Za oSfmT ' .1
evaporated apples, 810c; evaporated
FT'
10(312ic:
pears. 7(3 11c per pound.
Salt Liverpool, 200s, 15.50; 100s,
$16.00; 50s, (16.50: stock, (8.50uJ9.50.
Beans Small whites, 33lc; pinks,
Sc; bayoe, 33c; batter, 4c; lima,
30 per pound.
Rice Ialand,$5.756.00; Japan, none
in market; New Orleans, $5.50(36.25 per
cental.
Strop Eastern, in barrels, 4055c;
in half-barrels, 4257c; in cases, 35(i
discount on all grades for prompt cash;
maple sugar, 15(8 16c per pound.
CANNED GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted,
berries.
(2.25(32.40; blackberries, $1.85i2.00;
raspberries, (2.40; pineapples, 2.25a
a.ou; apricots, fi.oo. no I r tuts,
assorted, (1.20; peaches, (1.25; plums,
$1.00(31.20; blackberries, $1.25 1.40 per
dozen. Pie fru.ts, gallons, assorted,
$3.163.50; peaches, (3.504.00; apri
cots, $3.6O4.00; plums. (2.7503.00;
blackberries, $4.254.60; tomatoes.U.IO.
Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.40; 2s,
(2.10; chipped, $2.36; lunch tongue. Is,
$3.50; 2s. $6.75; deviled ham, (1.50(3
2.75 per dozen.
Fish Sardines, Vs, 7oc$2.25; Xs,
$2.15(34.50; lobsters, $2.3003.50; M.
mon, tin 1-lb tails, (1.25(31.50; flats.
$1.76;2-lbs, $2.25(32.60; -barrel, (5.6o!
Mr. Astor'i Pall Mall Gazette, which
has been paying a good deal of attention
to fox-hunting of late, has diworered
that there are in Great Britain S72 packs,
hunting from two to five days a week,
Corn fodder make a pleaeaat change,
for the horse. ,
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