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Newspaper Page TextTHE MIST" nn MI 'THE MIST" 1IVM ALL The Official and Other News . or Columbia : County. la ins-- Official Paper ; or-' : Columbia : County. A VOL. 10. ST. HELENS, OIIEGON; FRIDAY; DECEMBER 22, 1893. NO. 52. it OREGON THE OREGON MIST. IftNUKD KVKIIV HllAV M0BNIIHU -lit- THE MIST PUBLISHING .COMPANY, DAVIS BROS., Managers OMCIAL COUNTY PAVER. ubsurlptloii llalttn. On copy ono year In ailvama II HI One enpy kIx month,.... 76 Bliigl uopy ' AdvertUmtf Ham,. Pmfeaidnnal earda oik year lino column one your,,.., II nlf coin inn mil) year , (Jnarter column one year . Ill . 40 One Inch mi, immlli m. 2 On Inch three mmitha.. 1 On, luuli nix nwiilha, ,.. , t Local imtlcioN, in t'unta per Uni for Hint Inner tton 1 IU cwiita Htr llnu lor ,auh iiuneiieiit In .Hrtlon. Legal advertlemetila, 1.M per Inch fur Ural liiMtirnoii. mm tij cenia pur men ior eauii muu.v qiieutliiNOUloii, COLUMBIA COUNTY DIUliUTOUY. t'ouiily Olllcrr,. Judge Dean Hlaiichard, Rainier Clerk K. K. Quick, H. Helena Hh.rirr , n. A. mh.mic. i". ueien, TruHiir r K. M, Mmnoii, Columbia City Hunt. 11I School. T. J. !lelou. Vermin!, tiMW W. II. Kyr. Kaluler Surveyor A. H. Little, Kn'iilor -1. 1 ... . IS. 0. HH10 mover, Vertioula .,iui......uti (J w uriie,, Hayger. Muciolr Noiteea. MAMiNin, Ht. Helen, Lodge, No. M-Regular eoilltltllUlcai.llUN nrm aim mini na1ur.l1.3r in each mini ih al 7 :u r. H. ,1 Uaminle hull- lull lug iii.mhera lu good .landing invited to at taint. MMNtc.laluler I.mliie, No. 21 Stated meeting Nntiinliiy on or before each full moon al 7:HU p. m. at Munoule hall, over Hlani'liard'. 1(0 re. Vlaltlug iiiemhera lu good .lauding In riled to attend, Onn FKi.l.uwa-Ht. Helen. IxhIm No. 117 Monla every Hatuiilay night at J i Tran.leiil brethren In good Manillng cordially luvlie.l Ui ailcml. ill. Mull. Down river (linal) eliwea at N 90 A. M. lip river (Imai) chine, at 4 i. u. Tin. mall fur Vermin!, ami IMllahiirg leavea HI. Ilulen. Ui.mlay, Vi ednemlay and Friday al Til, mall fur Mamhland. ('Inthkanle anil Mlat leave, Utiliiu Monday, Wednesday aud Fildny at VI m. Malta (railway) north slow M 10 A. M.; fur Forllaud al II r. u. Truvolrr.i IJulde lltrr Haute. HTKAWaml. V. Him vks-leavea St. Helen, nr Portland hi It a. M. I iio-itny, 'I Imrmlav ami Saturday. Uuva Hi. lliliu. Inr cl.I.li.iile Mumlay, WeilneMlny nml Friday at 8:00 A, M. Hniaaa In vi.iia Lcaice St. Helena for I'orl I. ml 7 16 a. M. 11 turning at:0r. M. Htkibkk Jinximi Kki.i.oiiu laveHt. Helena fur I'.inlaiid il.ilty eteepl Hiuiday. ,t7 A. H., ar rlvliiir Ht I'urlUml al I0.HU: rvturnliiK, leave Purtlaiiv at I r, M., arriving al HI. Helena Ml PROFESSIONAL. JR. H. K. CUFF. rilVSrCIAN and SURGEON. Ht. Helen,, Oregon. j Jtt. 1. K. HAI.lt, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Clfttxkniilr, Columliln county. Or. II. I.11TI.F., SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, 8t. Helens, Oregon. Unmitjr mirveyor. I.iiml eurveyliifr, town ilattiiit!i and engliH'eriiig work promptly dune. SolentMo American Agency ror OAVtATt. TRADB MARKS, ORSION PATKNTS, Inf nrmatloo una rre, llandhoni write w Hl(( CO, !1 llHOAUWAT, NSW VoU. f)lil..CuroBU fnr aeeurlntf patent. In Amerleav Kvenr PKv.pt taken out by ua la hrnuiint hofor. UK puiiiio h, uuUe, glTW I re, of eluu n. In lb, I.armt elrenletljn '.V.elmUfle paper In thai mirTd. Hplwiilidlr '"""'tjiwl. Nn liiiellieenl man hnuM lit wlthiiut iCTSfeeklr. 3.00 ieari momlia. Aildr(T1VfN'i ft)" (uvLuuuu, 301 Airoadwar. NVori Cu Thi Ovirlanduta. Two tralna Aally, lea. Ink Fifth aiu'.lsirefla, II rand CentraJ Depot. No. 2, "The l.lincd Flint Mull." leaving 14 17:11" p. M., earrie. vein" i lulls I'lilhuHii I'alaee l-tleeplnu. nd Dlnlnf f Car. and free Itecllnlng Olialr Oar. tliroiii(B from Porllnnd to Olil- - !..(-. ...II lllntt. rHUTII.V.iw ......... . . . n.1.1. ...In niMlri.. illmilt eon. m!,. ,.. ,r lienveV Kn... City. Bt. Lonl. Ileleiitt.lliitto andHt.Panliiilaoeirr elhrongh I'll mail Hleeper andChelrOar fur Walla Walla, C nx, F11rn l.iKt1.11, Itiiukfiird and Spokane, nmkliii illreet "onneotli.iia for Dnyton, i'om ernv, Hloerjiw end Oienr d'Aleno. - No. . " liverland Flyer," lenv ng ,t :4 A. ., enrr lea I'lillmaii I'alaee and Ton rlat Sleeper. Ir""n rortlend toMlniK.i.rl tvr"""'c,''l1e- 'I'hroiiK 1 train, arrive hi ' l,1IU UTITAMMII! MAY. IjSAVI I'OHTl.ANI). Columbia... My I, IfiSJ Oregon My 4, 1, nolniulil. .....May H, '20 Slate may n, 11, Ori'Kiin May V.'ii '"""-Yrvi. C a "right to change Stato Mey 12, H WrrNlt'WV5hmiA ROUTE Morn In hunt leave, I'ortland dally, exuept Hmiday, a 1 7am rutunilim, leavea Aatorla dully, ex ,? ,tHiinday;l r.M. Night boat leavea j'ort fai d diily.cxiiept Saturday, at 8 P. M,; rotiira. Z leave? 'Aalorla dally, exuept S11.1d.1y, at O A. w The iniirnlnic hoai from I'ortland niakea la'iidl ma on the Oregon aldo Tiieauaya.Thiira' uJa and SalnrdHvai on the Washington aide Miindaya, Weduendaya and Fr ilaya. rora Aa lor a the moriilnit bout make, landing, on the SreJon aide Momlaya, Wednesday, and Fr ilaya, anil on the Washington aide Tue.daya. Thura- "tJaWADK; KOUTK-Leav. A.h atreet at 6 A. H. v cxeept Snndayi retiirnlim, leave Bonne .Hla if W-SO r. M., arflvhig at Portland at M. TO DAVTON AND WAY l.ANDlNUS-Mon- J,V, Weuneaaay, r . .. - . . (.H'Oail KIUIIU11 WT r at H 1 all OTHER Bteameri leve f rom Ath-itrMt "'"".MUtant 0,n.ral I El" I - 1 ill- w ' THE PACIFIC COAST. Northern Pacific Employes to Accept a Reduction. RIVERSIDE FRUIT EXCHANGE. A Stampeded Funeral Procession in : Utah Results in the Death of Two Men Other News. The Fruit Exchange of Rlverstdo. Cal.. lias titken the place of private eliipfiing Ilrms, ana none 01 tue lttlter are in uusi- lii'H, thill 81'anon. Charires aro fnarte analnnt the nwwent (JotnnilHHionurii ol Aila county, idutio, and Home of ttteir prcdoceasora for re ceiving fees illegally. A cranberry margh near Kamilehe, Wanli., has yielded 2,1)140 , gal iona of horric, till eeawin. Tlie vield in of exoellent qtmllty, the berriua Using large and of fine flavor. The Northern Pacific haa announced that it will raise the one-way transconti nental passenger rate between 1'ugot Hound and Ht. Paul from 25 to f00 for first class and $40 for second class on January 1. The Northern Pacific terminal elion employes and car builders at Tacoma have decided to accede to the 6 and 10 nor cent reduction in their wages, their organization not being thorough enough to resist at present. The break inir of the main shaft of the hoisting ensine at the Consolidated Vir ginia mine at Virginia City, Nev., caused a temporary suspension of work in the " Utile " aud West Consolidated Virginia and California drifts. The Port Townscnd Chamber of Com merce at its last meeting adopted a me morial to Congress, urging tiiat body to build a life-savimt station on the coast at some point between Flattery Iiocka and Destruction Island. Articles of incorporation of the San Pieiro. Fort Yuma and Atlantic Kailroad Company have been filed in the County Clerk's otllce at San Diego. The com pany will build and operate a standard gauge road from San Diego to point near Fort Yntna, thence to connect with the railroad to be constructed to Phoenix, A. T. At Park Citv. Utah, a funeral proces sion was i-tniiiimdeil, resulting in two fatalities. A team in the procession ran away, and caunod every other team to stampede, including that drawing the hearse with the body of Mrs. Van Schlack. Stanton Hob and John Kprague 1. . . 1 1 .. 1 .. : I ... I. n I.... I, WWro lWliy IIIJIII CU, w 11 w id itcib f . unv... carriages upset and men, women and children mrown into neaps wini me struggling horses and splintering ve hicles. The hearse itself was disfigured and a half-doJien people seriously in jured. Nine nnsfMsnjrcr conductors on the Se attle, Lake shire an 1 Eastern railway, who wRriMliHclinrjred ny itoceiver ttrown on the charge ol "KnocKing aown. have brought suit in the United States Court at Seattle to coin el the receiver to prefer charges against them oeiore the Grievance Committee of the Brother hood of ltailway Trainmen, of which they aro memliers. The claim is made that the Northern Pacilic, of which the Lake Shoro is a branch, had agreed that no one should lo discharged without formitl charges and an investigation. A daring attempt to escape from the YYeatniiniHtcr Denitentiarv at Van couver, B. C, was made the other night by three convicts, who with fifty others had been working all the afternoon in the grounds, When the men were ordered to form up to return to prison a number made a break for liberty. The attempt to escape was evidently prear ranged, as they threw stones at the triiards and ran in the direction where only one guard was stationed. He lircd over their heads to stop them, and all but three were scared and turnea DacK. These three, however, kept on, but were fired at by other guards. Kennedy, the ringleAilor, who was serving a life sen tence for murder committed in the in terior, was hit In the leg, fell, and the two others then gave themselves up. It is believed a plan bad been arranged for a general revolt. The new cruiser Olvmnia on her trial test did not equal the expectations of her builders, but still far exceeded the requirements, and established a record for ami Wl-knot course of about 21.67. Much to the surprise of everyone, the day was nearly perfect. The ocean was like a bi millpiind, and was only milled bv the big cruiser herself as she sped through the water, sending a spray over her bow until the decks were drenched. From Cioletft Point to Point Conception quite a sea was running, but not enough to retard headway to any extent. The reason why the cruiser did not equal nv previous record is an unexplained mystury. ller machinery woraea per fectly, nj there was not the slighest break. Tie time of 21.07 is liable to Tjrrnction oh account of the currents, wrtch may roult in the Olympiad fitvtnj There was a draft four Inches Kr.ntc than the requirements which will also v conntP,l, in he calculations, which will Sot be made for several davs. The maxtimiUBCj j estimated at 22.05. Papers have b,n flP,i the Circuit Court o Union mrrnty, Or., which in volve th title of tho extensive mining propertj of the Oregn (j,i Mining' Cotvipaiu nt Cornucopm There have been tin ie issues of bonds n the prop erty foil $40,000, $200,000 a., $30,000 reopi'uu ly, arm mortgages itaaA to poeuro fern. The suit is bromM hv A. I Sjitnidt as trustee for the bind- holders. it, Metng alleged that tliecoi. f the mortgajrs have been nd that the property should be en ants broken tur 11 ei hvr to tho bondholders. Thev aik ll a receiver be appointed pend- Imr suit, ana pray lor judgment and d etee: that the terms of the inort- gage bfleelared broken; that the trus- tee is dttitled to the property; that the amo'lt of principal and mlorest due be lixed the court, and lor foreclosing tho n gage and directing the sale of I he p ment, iertv : for flxinir nriorlt.v of nav- Ind for declaring the same a lien upon T. C. e property. J , H . Crawford and ,'de are tne attorneys tor piaint e mines have attRpunded opera- ifl's. 'Inns the season. The mills have lust tin pleted the most prosperous run ever . catif e. Heavy snow is given as the the suspension. - NATIONAL CAPITAL, Southern Democratic Senators threat en to defeat the tariff bill unless it il radically modified. The President has nominated C. II, Dabney, Jr., of Tennessee Assistant Sec retary ol Agriculture. The Senate Committee on Military Af fairs has authorised a favorable report upon the bill for the relief of the citi zens of Oregon, Idaho and Washington who served in the Bannock, Mez Perces and Shoshone wars. It gives each $1 a day for the time in service, and entitles those wounded or disabled or the heirs of those killed to pensions. It la tacitly understood that the Fed. eral electiona bill shall not be called up for action until after the holidays, al though anv Senator mav call it nn at anytime for the purpose of making a speech. The vote tiv which the bill was reported was a strict party one. The unusual feature 01 tne vote waa that the absent members of the committee were voted by proxy. Senator Squire has Introduced a bill to create the Washington National Park near Mount Rainier from what is now known as the Pacific forest reserve. A petition from the Seattle Chamber of Commerce accompanies the bill. He also introduced a bill suggested by Judge 11 an torn regarding u niton Mates uourts in Washington ; also a bill for the pro motion of Lieutenant A. B. Wyckou to lite rang 01 Lieutenant commander. The bill for the admission of Utah was passed without division by the House at the conclusion of the debate, Newlands of Nevada made his maiden speech in support of admission. He thought Utah was fully nrenarcd for Statehood, but otijecten to leaving tne allotment 01 lanns In Utah to hit reau officers in Washing' ton, who did not understand the condi- tions there. The United States, he said. should co-operate in the reclamation of the arid lands In that region. Jn de. fending Nevada he said he was unable to understand why there should be so much aversion to a State which, when the country was in revolution, had poured ouu.uw.tnju inw tne ireasury. .new lands claimed the cause of the present depression in Utah was tne result ot leg' islation leveled at her interests. The annual report of Prof. Menden- hall, chief ol the coast geodetic survey, is interesting. The report says that pre liminary surveys needed for the location of a northeastern boundary line between the United States and Canada are near inir completion. The surveys have been begun for the location of the boundary line between t aliiornia and Nevada from Lake Tahoe to the Colorado river, and oflieers of the survey have been sent to Southeastern Alaska nnder instructions to co-operato with officers detailed by the Dominion of Canada to locate the boundary line between Alaska and Brit ish Columbia. In accordance with re quests the survey detailed an officer to act as a mem nor ot tne noara ot engi neers to devise a svstem ot sewerage and grading of streets in San Francisco and to co-operate witn ine iiarnor L.tne vom mission of the State of Washington in the harbor surveys of Puget Sound. The Committee on Public Lands re ported favorably Representative Her mann's bill prescribing limitations for the completion of titles of lands in Ore- son and Washington claimed under the law commonly known aa the " donation act." The 1st day of January, 1805, is fixed as the period within which final proofs can be made, and thereafter all such lands under incomplete proof will lie held abandoned and the landa will tiecome part part of the public domain and subject to settlement. Such land as may have been claimed by purchase from the original claimant, or occupied and in undisturbed possession for twenty years by such purchasers and occupants, or heirs at law or devisees, shall have pref erence of right of title by purchase or Sayment of $1.25 per acre within ninety ays after January 1, 1805. The bill is recommended by several Commissioners of the general land office and. the pres ent Secretary of the Interior. The majority report on civil service for the present year is a document of about 15,000 words. The most interesting por tion is that bearing on the extension of the classified service to free-delivery post offices, the subject on which Commis sioner Johnston dissented and was ac cordingly removed by the President abort time ago. The report condemns the removal of the salary list to a classi fied service in custom-houses, and recom mends classification by grade. In sup port of this view the satisfactory results of classification in the railway mail serv ice are cited. The report says that in the unclassified service, taken as a whole, the government methods of the United States are so utterly indefensible from the standpoint of decency and morality that it is difficult for man of ordinary intelligence who wishes well to his coun try to discuss the arguments advanced in their favor with anything like toler ance. The report likens our system to those employed in Morocco and Turkey. The number of persona connected with eivil service in the United States is about 200,000. The minority report of Com missioner Johnston opposes the exten sion of the classified service to free-delivery postofficea as ill-advised and harm ful to the cause of civil service reform. It is probable the State Department will soon enter upon negotiations looking to the adjustment of our relations with China. The enactment of the Geary law will be regarded as an Infraction of the existing treaty, necessitating a new treaty. It ia understood Gresham de sires to make an extension of our trade relations and privileges with China the central feature of his administration. The Secretary is known to have little faith in the future of our trade relations with the Spanish-American Republics, and has made no recommendation for an appropriation for the maintenance of the bureau of American Republics. It is known that Vung Yu, the recently ar rived Chinese envoy, cornea expressly charged with negotiations for a new i-esty. The Chinese government is sat Isfnd with the amendment to the Geary act, wid is not anxious to -,xtcnd the privilege of immigration for its jieople, but is aolVutotis for their protection, and privileges. Chinese statesmen are ftajd to regard with favor the extension ot trade relations with the United States in preference to the governments having a more aggressive polity. The coming ne gotiations will embrace a settlement of the question of immigration, the treat ment of the Chinese already here or who may hereafter come legaVly, and the pro tection of American citizen residing in China. At the Cninese legation it is in timated the Minister is hopeful exchanges in the treaty, but is not disposed to pre maturely anticipate them. EASTERN NEWS. Estimated Bounty on This Season's Sugar Crop. 1 MARRYING MINISTER" DEAD. BUI to Prohibit National Bank Offi cer Holding Any Office in Any Savings Bank. It Is feared that the Missouri river will break its banks above Omaha. Navigation on the Mississippi above Cairo, Ilr., is practically suspended. A whole fleet of lake craft is stuck in the ice floe at the head of Lake Erie. Minnesota has passed a law that all substitutes for butter shall be colored pink. An anti-ciearette crusade has been or ganized in the public schools of .New xorlc. Congressman Hoi man of Indiana has succeeded to the title of " Father of the House." Oklahoma has now more population than any other Territory, except per naps Utah. At the present rat the Treasury deficit by the end of fiscal year will amount to 180,000,000. Reading. Pa., is to have a sewage pumping station, with a daily capacity of 5,000,000 gallons. - For the first time in years book-mat ing on horse races is carried on at present in Philadelphia. An appropriation of $1,000,000 will be anked of uongress to improve tne harbor of Duluth,' Minn. Attorney-General A. G. Smith of In diana receives lees, it is sain, to tne amount of $40,000 a year. Under the new rules for the prevention of forest fires Neworkdid not have any sarioua onea the past year. A bill is to be introduced in the Ohio ..legislature looking to the regulation, if not the suppression of football. Five hundred and twenty Mississippi convicts were hired out to cotton-plant ers at $7.50 per month per head. The Cleveland (O.) street-railway authorities give $100 to all conductors who serve a year witnout accident. The Savannah News expresses the fear that the large shipments of oranges now being made from that city may glut the Eastern markets. Next soring a newly organized com pany proposes to build and operate an electric trolley railway between Buffalo and Niagara rails. Revenues have come short of expendi tures . about 130,000,000 .thus tar this fiscal year, and only five months of the year have expired. President Cleveland has summarily removed from office the Postmaster of l'opcka, Kan., for kicking out seventeen Republican letter carriers. RrarMi'a Muianft nf the nnemnloved fixes their number at 40.000, and her leading citizens are moving toward some concerted action for their relief. Ex-President Harrison has nearly completed the lecture he is to deliver at the Stanford University, lie will leave for California early in February. Two new members of the Aster family have been discovered by New York's State Botanist. This swells the Four Hundred to Four Hundred and Twp. It is estimated that $4,000,000 worth of the Wisconson tobacco crop is " tied up " in warehouses In that State, uncertainty as to the tariff making buyers conserv ative. A movement is on foot at Chicago to erect a monument to the memory of Mayor Harrison on the Administration plaza, where the Uolumbian Dell now stands. Rev. Mr. White of Brooklyn, known to fame as the "marrying minister," who never turned away a loving couple. is dead. In his life he married 14,000 people. The " danse du ventre." which created such a sensation at the Chicago Fair, has been suppressed in New York on the ground that it is brutal and dis gusting. The gross receipts of the Yale-Princo- ton football game at New York on Thanksgiving day were $41,000; ex penses, $14,000: leaving $27,000 to be equally divided between the colleges. Commissioner Miller estimates that $11,000,000 will be necessary to pay the bounty on this season's Btigar crop. A California firm has filed a claim for bounty on 15,000,000 pounds of beet sugar. The Georgia Legislature has declared for free coinage of silver and denied the right of the national government to interfere with, restrict or regulate the issue of paper currency by authority of the State Legislature. Immigration returns for October show the number of aliens entered during that month to have been less than half Attn o.Aa.nuv (a t-ltA saaOAH T O of nOOV 86,798 were landed in October, but this year the number sank to 15,466. A bill passed the House recently mak ing it compulsory for all steam vessels of 1,000 tons burthen to have, when under way, one engineer ana one neiper in the engine-room, and all Buch vessels , to earrv two licensed engineers. This is , not applicable to ferry-boats running less than ten hours a day. The New York Presbvterv has adopted , a resolution declaring that in loyal com nli alien with the form of government and with the action of the General As sembly the Presbytery recommends that students for the ministry shall not pursue studies in any seminary disap proved by the General Assembly.- The supervising architect of the Treas ury has written a letter to Bankhead, Chairman of the House Committee on Pnblio Buildings and Grounds, stating that it will cost $162,000 to pile the IVventh and Mission streets site in San Francisco in order to make it a solid foundation for a postofflce building. Representative Bowers of California has introduced a bill in the House to prohibit officers and employes of na tional banks holding any office in any pavings hank, and to prohibit the loca tion of any national bank or its con tinuance in business in'vjsy building In v. Inch the business of any savings bank it conducted. - . THE MIDWINTER FAIR. California Midwihtrs; Iimtaju-) Tionai, Exposition. Diparthtnt I Of PUBI.K MT AND PROMOTION. ) Weekly Circular Letter-No. . f. 11, Tkusdell, Chief ot Department. The best news of the week in connec tion with the coming Exposition has been the extension of the time limit of excursion -tickets from the East to (lays. This means that those who come to California to see the Midwinter Ex position will have a month in which to Visit other parts of the state besides those contiguous to San Francisco, and that the benefits to be derived by the entire Pacific Coast will be correspond ingly multiplied. And just here there ought to be a word said about the num ber of visitors that may reasonably bo expected to come out of the frozen East to hibernate in the country "Where the leaf never fade, in the still bloom ing bowera, And the bee banquet on through a whole year of flower,." Those who have, already arrived O San Francisco as the advance guard c f the grand army of midwinter continent crossers say that the influx of visitors will exceed the most sanguine expecta tions of the friends of the Exposition. Eastern Railway managers are constant ly sending to the Department of Pub licity and Promotion for advertising matter in connection with the Fair. Their patrons are hungry for informa tion on the subject. Some of them are so hungry that more than one of the great trunk lines have deemed it neces sary to prepare vast quantities of mat ter based on the material furnished by Pthis department with which to satisfy the popular demands. All this means that thousands of people in the East are going to take advantage of cheap rates, and the special attractions of the Expo sition as an excuse for making a long promised trip to the "land of sunshine, fruit and flowers. " : Meanwhile the list of attractions con tinues to grow, and there will be lively times during the next three weeks get ting all the concessions in readiness for the opening day. There is one feature of the contemplated attractions, how ever, for which no elaborate building has to be erected, and yet it is one in which a very widespread interest cen ters, and that is the grand athletic tour nament. This tournament is to cover the entire term of the Exposition. The contests will not be on each succeeding day's programme, but there will be sev eral events each week and every Satur day will be largely devoted to this feat ure. There will be games of lacrosse between British Columbian and Ameri can teams; there will be polo matches between swell society riders; there will be football "games between college and university teams; there will be races and all sorts of contests on the cinder path, and last, though by no means least, a series of baseball games in which the entire Pacific Coast is invited to take part. With a view to facilitating arrange ments for the last mentioned feature in this connection, Colonel T. P. Robinson of San Francisco has been selected to ar range the games on the diamond field, and in order to have the largest possible number of clubs participate that gentle man desires the addresses of every uni formed baseball club not only in the state of California but in all of the states of the Pacific Coast.' These ad dresses should be sent to him at room 83, second floor, Mills building, San Francisco, and based upon the number of addresses of intending participants which may be received there will be ar ranged such a baseball tournament aa has never before been seen anywhere in the world. The latest and most startling of the suggestions that have been forthcoming in the form of concessional features of the Fair is that which is to represent "Dante's Inferno," and which has al ready begun to be spoken of about town as "hell on earth.' This concession is to be located in a very prominent part of the Exposition grounds, and the character of the entrance to the building containing the exhibit is one that will attract inevitable attention. A great dragon's head, 15 feet high, with bat like wings protruding from either aide, seems to crouch against the ground ai.d grin a welcome to the passing crowds. The bat like wings, and entire front in fact, are gilded to look like burn ished gold, and, when the sun is reflected from it, it presents as brilliant an exter ior as one can easily imagine. Out of the center of the lower part of this figure-head, so to speak, projects a long, red tongue of the dragon, and on this, those who care to venture in must step and walk between the teeth of the drag on's lower jaw into the very body of the beast. The interior arrangements of these "Infernal Regions" is rendered remark ably effective by the highly colored sta lactites which hang from the walla and which seem to extend for miles, almost, away in the distance. In one large grotto a stage is erected, and half a dozen skel etons dancing grotesquely in the fore ground are so reflected by mirrors that their number seems to be "legion. " At another point, after traversing several tortuous avenues, the visitor comes upon a clever construction with mirrors above and below and with lights so arranged that there really seems to be no top or bottom to the place, and hence the name "Bottomless Pit." There is much that ia grotesque about the dancing skeletons in the cave referred to, and there ia considerable that is uncanny in every part of this arrangement, but there is nothing that is disgusting or ter rifying though there is much to amuse. When people turn to go out, after hav ing seen all the show.they find themselves confronted by numberless passages that seem to lead everywhere, but which really lead nowhere, for when you start to follow one yon run plump against a mirror, and the result is that before you find the way out you are fully convinced that this particular type of " Hell" is decidedly jolly place to be in. . FOREIGN CABLES. Extension of the Telephone System of Germany. THE INFLUENZA AT HAMBURG. France and England Have Agreed aa to Siam Preparing an Anti dote to Diphtheria. Paris ia to have a world'a fair congress. The Socialist associations of Sicily count 300,000 members. The Argentine navy now comprises fifty-fonr first-class vessels. Austria will tax all foreign insurance companies within her borders. Finland is to have a State telephone line at a cost of 100,000 marks. The total mileage of railways now open to traffic in Japan is 1,717. Mr. Astor's London newspaper has got him into a 400,uuo libel suit. Princess Beatrice has presented three tigers to the London zoological gardens. The Pitcairn Islanders have been pre sented with a lifeboat by yueen victoria. The famine in Russia has made the condition of the peasants more deplor able. German troops are to be sent on long, forced winter marches to make them tough. A French Deputy, M. Levgues, pro poses an increased duty od corn from $1 to $1.60. Austrian Socialists will inaugurate a universal strike as a protest against the army bill. Wartjetween Ecuador and Peru over the boundary dispute seems to be abso lutely certain. Free trade ruins many farmers in Eng land. They wish the; could move their farms to France. The influenza epidemic in Kiel spreads rapidly. Three hundred marines are under treatment. The Bavarian War Minister asserts that dueling cannot be abolished in civilized countries. The English government proposes to place a tax of 1 penny in the shilling on theater admissions. - There are 3,000 cases of influenza at Hamburg, and the epidemic is spread ing all over Germany. . Paris is Irving the experiment of pav ing a street with mahogany. It is cost ing only f a square yara. There is a report that Greece will give Russia a Mediterranean port, or that France may give her A jaccio. A royal decree has been lssned at Brussels appointing a commission to investigate speculative stocks. After all the fuss the Bank of Eng land's loss throuah the cashier's loans on bad security is but UtO.OOO. Dr. Siemei 's report on Northern Pa cific securities has sent Berlin's Deut sche Bank securities up three points. The Bank of England destroys about 850,000 of its notes every week to re place them with Ireshly printed ones. St. Petersburg newspapers are growl ing over the defeat of the recent French Cabinet as a treason to Russo-French alliance. v An attempt is being made nnder the auspicies of the Royal Geographical Society to renew interest in Antarctic ex ploration. Canon Farrar is about to erect in St. Margaret's Church, London, a small but beautiful memorial to tne late vr. ruu lips Brooks. Dra. Libbertx and Laubenheimen, col leagues of Prof. Koch, are preparing an antidote to diphtheria and are confident 01 its auccesa. The Manchester canal, now finished. has cost the lives of 158 men, the perma nent injury of 186 and the temporary injury of 1,404. The house of Rotschildhas made its annual gift of 100,000 francs to assist the tenants in Paris who are in difficulties over their rent. It is announced that France and Eng land hare agreed as to Siam. Thia means that there will soon be one less nation in the world. , Brigands in the Caucasus are becom ing bolder than ever before. Extra ordinary stories of their recent outrages are coming to hand. An outbreak of a most infectious type of influenza is the prevailing topic of personal concern not only in .ngiana, but throughout Europe. Irish constables have been instructed not to interfere, directly or indirectly, with the collection of funds for the benefit of evicted tenants. The Mayor of Milan and other promi nent persons have issued a call for sub scriptions for erecting a monument in that city in memory ot MacMahon. The Swiss government denies that it is about to expel hundreds of Anarchists from the Republic. They won't be molested as long as they keep quiet. The sales of sealskins have hist closed in London. Nearly 120,000 skins were disposed of for $1,810,000. The prices nave t alien on troia 10 to 20 per cent. A dispatch from Cairo says that the Khedive on December 3 opened the railway connecting hmalia with Port Said. The British gunboat Dolphin saluted the Khedive. Mme. Rodriguez, a noted Parisian dressmaker, died recently in a lunatic asvlum. Her fame was great, and she always refused to make dresses for women witn poor figures. An important extension of the tele phone system of Germany is at present being carried out by the establishment of a double line between Berlin and Cologne, a distance of about 305 miles. Depression in the shipping trade is reflected in the return of Suez canal re ceipts for the first nine months of this year. - They were . $754,000 less than those for the corresponding period of last year. t The missionaries of the Russian Church are reported to have failed in their effort among the Khingese tribe. Almost all the Steppe people classed nnder the name of heathens are flocking in a body to Mohammedans. PORTLAND MARKET. Wbiat Valley, IMJi'OSc; Walla Walla, 8182c per cental. HOPS, WOOL AND HIDBS. Hops '93s, choice, 15 16c per pound medium, 10gl2c; poor, 6(g7c. Wooii Valley, 10llc per pound j Umpqua, ll(cc,12c; Eastern Oregon, 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. Hides Dry selected prime, 6c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 84c; nnder 60 pounds, 2(8 3c; aheep pelts, shearlings, 10(a:l 5c; medium, 2035c; long wool, 3060c; tallow, good to choice, 33o per ponnd. UVI AND DBBSBED MBAT. Baar Top steers, 2,'c per pound ; fair to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c; fair cows, lgc; dressed beef, $3.505.00 per 100 pounds. Mot-ton Best sheep, $2.00; choice mutton, $1.76(32.00; lambs, 2. 002.25. Hoos Choice heavy, $4.60(5.tK); me dium, M-00W4.50; light and feeders, $4.004.60; dressed, $0.50. VAi--3.00(ffl5.00. , -.-.w - . provisions. , ' v Eabtbbn Smoekd Mbats and Lard, Hams, medium, 1213c per pound; hams, large, 12313c; hams, picnic, ll12c; breakfast ' bacon, 1314c; short clear aides, ll13c; dry salt sides, 10jllc; dried beef hams, 12!13cj lard, compound, in tins, 9(10c per ponnd; pure, in tins, ll,13c; pigs' ieet, 80s, $5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.00. cobdaok. Manilla rope, lii in. cir. and up, 10c; manilla rope, 12-thread, diam., 11c; manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread, and 5-16 diam., 11jc; manilla bail rope, in coils or on reels, 10c; manilla lath yarn, tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rope well boring, etc., 13c; manilla transmission-of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine, 11c; manilla spring- twine, 14c; sisal rope, 1 '4 in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal rope, 12-thread, diam., 7c; sisal rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-16 diam., 8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine twine, tarred, 7c ; sisal paper twine, 8Jc vloub, rssD, TC Flour Portland, $2.80: Salem. $2.80: Cascadia, $2.80; Dayton, $2.80; Walla walla, ?3.lo ; Albany, iz.w; wanam, $2.50; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats 3536c per bushel; rolled, in bags. o.256.50 . barrels. $6.757.00; cases, $3.76. MiixsTinrrs una, ilo.w ; snorts, $16.00; ground barley, $18.00; chop feed. $15 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70e percental; middlings, $2328 per ton chicken wheat, 80c$1.15 per eentaL Hay Good, I1012 per ton. DAISY PBOOnCB. 1 Bottbb Oregon fancy creamery. 30A 32c; fancy dairy, 2527c; fair to good, 20224C; common, 1517c per pound. Chbbsb Oregon, ' 1012Wc ; Califor nia, 1314c; Young America, 15(3! 16c; r. - . 1 m , n.t j . 1 13 wise, uupurbeu, outgone; uouienuc, AO 20c per pound. Egos Oregon. 30c per dozen; East ern, 2327c Poultry Nominal; chickens, mixed, $8.003.00; ducks, $3.505.60; geese, $9.00 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 12c per pound; dressed, 1314c. VBOBTABLIS AND rRDTrS. Vbobtablbs -Cabbage, Is per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack; onions, $1.25 per sack ; sweet potatoes, le per poena; Oregon celery, 36(a60c; toma toes, $1.251.50 per box. FauiTs Sicily lemons, $5.00(5.50 per box; California new crop, $4.00(314.50 per box ; bananas, $1 .603.00 per bunch ; Honolulu, $1.502.50; California navels, $3.75(sN.00 per box; seedlings, $3.00(oj 3.5U; Mexican, 3.?o(3.7t); Japanese, $2.00; grapes, $1.00(31.25 per box ; apples (buying price), green. 606175c per box: red, 6590c; cranberries, $9.00 per bar rel; persimmons, fl.ou per box. btaplb QBocaaias. Coma Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c; Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 26.'($28c; Ar buckle's. Columbia and Lion. 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound. JJbibd naorrs ltf3 pack, rente prunes, 8 10c ; silver, 10i$12c; Italian, 9(gl0c; German, 810c; plums, 6(dl0c: evaporated apples, 8(10c; evaporated apritxCB, -laigiaKi ptttu;ues, auvuu4;u, . pears, 7llc per pound. . Salt Liverpool. 200s. $16.50; 100s. $16.00; 60s, $16.50; stock, $8.50uj9.50. Sooab D, 4c; Golden C, 4)c; extra C, 4(c ; confectioners' A, 6 tc ; dry gran ulated, 6c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 6j)C per pound ; V4C per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 16(a) 16c per pound. , CAJtNBD QOOD8. Cannbd Goods Table fruits, assorted. $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.852.00; Bart lett pears, $1.752.00; plums, $1.37,9 1.50; strawberries. $2.25(2.45; cherries. $252.40; blackberries, $1.852.00; laspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3 2.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.0031.20; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.50; peaches, $3.50(o)4.00; apri cots, $3.504.00; plums, $2.763.00; blackberries, H-Zo(s4.tX ; tomatoes, fl.lU. Mbats Corned beef. Is, $1.40; 2s, $2.10; chipped, $2.36; lunch tongue, Is, $3.50; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.60(3 2.75 per dozen. Fish Sardines, Js, 75c$2.25; a, $2.15(34.60; lobsters, $2.30(33.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25(1.50; flats, $1.75;2-lbs, $2.252.60; -barrel, $5.50. Mme. Melba, the operatic singer has red hair not red of the quality which fatti exnibitea snortiy alter sne came back to sing Lucia here a few years ago. but a lustrous and deep red, which is carried out in the general scheme of the eyebrows and the tint of Melba's dark eyes. Caroline Scott Harrison, the late wife of ex-President Harrison, is to be re membered by the Daughters ot the American Revolution, who are having a full-length portrait of Mrs. Harrison paii.t d, which is to be hung in the ex ecutive mansion at Washington. William G. Fargo of Buffalo a few years ago built a magnificent residence which cost $500,000. Recently land in that vicinity has become so valuable that the mansion is to be torn down and the property cut up into building lots. The nightly rioting between the soldiers of the Highland Light Infantry and the Welsh Fusileers at Alder-shot has become so serious that the Duke of Connaught has ordered pickets from each brigade to be posted all night. Prof. Fritch of Germany states that his apparatus for photographing pro jectiles in flight is the invention of a little Scotch boy named Veruon. 12 years old.