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VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OIIEGON; FRIDAY; DECEMBER 22, 1893.
NO. 52.
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THE OREGON MIST.
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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
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.,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,
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Two tralna Aally, lea.
Ink Fifth aiu'.lsirefla,
II rand CentraJ Depot.
No. 2, "The l.lincd
Flint Mull." leaving 14
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i lulls I'lilhuHii I'alaee
l-tleeplnu. nd Dlnlnf
f Car. and free Itecllnlng
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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
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enrr lea I'lillmaii I'alaee and Ton rlat Sleeper.
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WrrNlt'WV5hmiA ROUTE Morn
In hunt leave, I'ortland dally, exuept Hmiday,
a 1 7am rutunilim, leavea Aatorla dully, ex
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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.
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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
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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.