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Newspaper Page Textr E-OREGON-MIST "THE MIST" -wives all The Official aufl Otner News or- Columbia : County. -it iik- t Official Paper or- .. Columbia : County, VOL. 11. ST. HELENS. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1893. NO. 1. THE MIST" THE OREGON MIST iNii:it i:vi:ii v piiioav moitmiNU -BY- THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY DAVI3 BROS., Managers. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Siib.rrlulioii llmeej. One copy one jfur In advance..,., II M (Inn copy .lit nioiilh. . 76 Single "iui. ,,,.,,, , ( Advvrllaiiitf II nice HrtifeK.tonal rnrtU one year One column one year Half column one yeur. Quarter coluuiu one yeur One Inch uiiu mouth ,. One Inch three mouth..,,,,.,,., ...,.,., fiiii. Innl, l. ini.iilln 12 ... J It ... 7ft ... 411 ... 2 .. Uieal notice., Ill cent, per line for Hint luer Hon MO cent, per Hue for each gubse'iueiii In sertion. Legal advertisements, 11, Ml per Inch for llrxl Insertion, huI 7fl cent, iter Inch for each .nute- ........l I......II 1 COM! MM A COUNTY IMKKCTOltY. (anility oriircre. J'Hlite,.,, Clerk .... H"CMl .. '(.... I! hi .1 ( i brim lllniiclia-d, Ilalnfer FT. t'. IJIIII'II, llClt'lH T. '. nails, Hi, Hi Ir . K. M. wtmttun. i .innUa t;ity ImmiI. ........... I . i, i''eei n. luthltun v ..W. II. Kytr. Kvcr AM "i 'II',...,,, Bui teyor Commissi inert. , A, it, Lllilc. Iliiuiiiiii IS. u. H homnvcr. Veiuutil H. Hemes, (luliicjr. Model y notice Masonic, Hi Helena Lodge, No, IK! Regular riiinutiiiiicuilniiN Hr.t and third NiitiirUuy In each month 1117:1101'. M. at .Miiaiiiilc hnll. Visit ing members III good standing Invited tu at tend. MASONic.Italnler Lodge, So. hi Hlated meeting. HHliinlny on or before each full moon el 7: r. M. nl Mnaoulc (mil, over Wain-hard', mure. vtslilug invuiliers In good standing In vited to intend, Onn Kki-IkwhHi. Helen. Lodge No. 117 Meets every Hatuiday night at 7:!0. Transient brethren In gnud .(aiming cordially Un ited to attend. The Mull,. Down river (boat) closes at mi, H. To rlvor (Isial) closes at Ir. K. The mull for Vemoiila and 1'lllsbiirg leaves Hi. llulen. Ui.niluy, Wednesday mill Friday at a.m. The mull for Marshland, Cletskaule mul Ml.t leave, Uulim Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 M. Mails (ritllway) north close at 10 A. H. fur Horilaud lit 1 r. u. Traveler.' Unltte III ver Hotltra. Ht.ahkh (1. W. HiitVKK- Leave. Ht. Helen" for I'orllnud at II A. N. Tue-diiy, Thursday and Saturday. Unii' St. Helen, for clalskaiile Muuday, Weiliiewlny and r rldny at 11:00 A, M. HT In i.o a -l,evo ft. Helen, for Hurt land 7 : tft . M. i( tiirnliiit nl M r. u. Fr.AMBii Jmhki'ii Km.Mina Leave. Ht. Helena fur I'lirilmid ilnllv c i'i't Kiiuday, at 7 A. " , ar rlvinu nt I'lirtluml at 10.811: relnrnliiK, leave IVrilauv nl IF..., arrlvluit at Ht, Helena at 4. I'ROFEHSIONAL. yyt. it. r. cuKr. niYSlCIAN andSUIKIEON. Ht. Ueleim, Oregon. Jk. 1. K. HA 1. 1., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. CluUkniile, Coliunlilii county, Or. SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, lv Ht. 1IImw, Oregon. (iniinty aiirve'ynr. l-niitl aurveylntr, town nlullliiK, mul eiiKlneeriiiK work pruiuptly iiiino. Solentmo Amerloan Agenoy ror OAVCATt. TRAD! MARKS. DiaiON PATBNTS. OOPVRIOHTH. toJ For tnfnrraatlna and free Haniltiook write to MUNN A CU. 801 IIhoaiiwat, NIW YoKlt. Olilent bureau for aoeurliiK patent. In Amerleav Krury patent taken Out bf o. I. brought, bernr tlx publle by a uoiloe nHrea free of ouarae Ut the f .M4if fitnvnl.tlnn of anr aelentlfle naner In th wurld. Muleudldlr llluatrated. No liiieillaeni inert $I.M) "II ronntha. Addre.. MCNN k OCX. man .hould be u llMliltn nan .hernia be wttnout it. weeiT. .i.uu It. K.'t.OO a, Uiiluii wta, 3U1 Uroadwar, Haw v The Overland Route. Two trnlm dally, leav liiK Klfthand l.treet., Urand Central Depot. No. 2, "The Limited Fa.t Mull," leaving at 7:H0 p. m., carries Vestl mile I'tillmuii Palace Sleeplnx and Dining Oar. and free Iteclliilne (Mmlr Care lliniiiuli from rortlHiid to Clil eairo.vliiOnllncll UlllfTii. wllhoiitnhiinKe. Thia tram make, direct tion iiectlnii. fur Denver, Kaii.au City, Ht. lamia, Helena, lliille audHt. Hauls alaoiwrr ea through I'n 1 1 iiiH.il Weeper and Chair Car for W alia Walla, Colfnx, Karniliiglon, Kockfurd and Bpokano, making direct cuniiectloin for Dayton, Hom oroy, Mimcow and COMir d'Alone. No. 8, " overland Klyer," leaving at S: a. M., earrle. I'nllmaii Halace and Tourlet Hleepora from Hortland toMlaanurl river without change. Through train, arrive nl 7:2S A. M. and r. . ut: n An in c a ..1 in in I.KAVK HOKTI.AND. i.kavk Han Krawwo. Ciluiiilila...Mayl,l,2ft Htiite May 6, 17, 29 Oregon May 4, HI, an Columbia May 8, fl Unite May 12,24 Oregon .-...may , ai The company ieiervee tiie right to change " I'll "tT L A N 1) AND A HTO R 1 A BOUTB-Morn-Ink boat leave. Portland dally, except Sunday, at 7 A M l returning, leavea Astoria dally, cx ccnt Hunday, aid I'. . Night bout leaves Hort land dullv, except Saturday, at 8 P. i.; return lug leave. Aatorla dally, except Sunday, at 6 A. M The morning boat from Portland make, landing, on the Oregon aide Tuesday., Tliura' riava and Haturdava; on the Washington .hie Monday., Wednesday, and Friday.. From As toria tlie morning boat makes landings on the Oregon aide Monday., Wednesdays and Fridays, and on the Washington aide Tuesdays, Thura ilav. and Saturday.. CAKOADK HOUTK Leave Ash street at 6 a M. dallv, except Sunday; retnrulng, leave Bonne ville at 12:!W f. arriving at Portland at r. M. TO IMY.TON AND WAY LANDlNtlH Mon day, Wedncday, Friday, 7 A. m. tkWn .teamera leave from Bteam.hlp wharf 'ai!l OTHKB Steamer, leave from Ah-treet "l-Ticket offlM 2M Washington street, OofnwThlVd; W.H.HURliuKT, AMltntOnral Hanenger Agent, . , ' Hortland, Or. i rr.ien Aw THE PACIFIC COAST. Sent to the Penitentiary for Killing a Tramp. A TREASURER GOES WRONG. Flattering Report From the Summit Mining District in California After Murderer. Santa Barbara, Cul., has decided to hold Its flower fitttival during the third week in April. A harof gold valued at 1113,000 from the lluimiiza mine in the Ilarqua TIalaa wan Hliipiitxl to Han FranciHco from I'Ikb iiix, A. T recently, Two einployciof theWuihlnjiton State pi t it ti i) vr olllce have purchased liftv ax;re of IhihI five inileH eatit of Olympfa, and will stin t a pritno rancli. Tlio cloud hanging over the title to hind at Niiiruli'H, A. T.,ha been removed iy the i'rtvate Land Cliittna Court, ana mere w groat rejoicing at Poguie. A ntmilier of prominent merchant, at Boiao, Idaho, are Indicte I for having made fulnti returns on the amount of btiHinuHH done upon wliicli a State tax is levied. Harney Valley ranchem are in hones ol being well rid of the cricket pent. I'urirut tne warm weallier oi eany tan the wk hatched bv millions, and later on Hard Irosts killed the young Hoppers. It. I'. Jiurgess, Treasurer of the War. tier Grocery Company at rimmix, A. T., is iiiisNiiiit. and with him funds of the t'oinpany estiinnu'd rougmy at fz.uuu. Iturgi'NS went to 1'humix from Portland, Or., a year ago with a young woman who H.'it wiin nun. Geonre I'arsotis. who shot a trauiD in Virginia, Nev., in June last, has Deen (ciitDiicoil to twenty-one years at hard lalxir in the penitentiary. The tramp had picked up an article of clothing be loiiuinir to Parsons, and th latter nur- winil him and killed him. The Judge characterized the act as cruel and un provoked. Henrv Morse has returned to San Ber nardino from the Summit milling dis trict, about fifteen miles east of Caion, t'al., taking with him several large nug gets and a quautity of gold dust, ife says minera are making as high as $20 per day, and the B tnson boys of Han Bernardino hive taken out 17,000 in the last live months. On sevcr.il occasions during the past two years deadly assaults, and in two or three cases murders, have been commit ted In the mountainous regions of Yuba county. Cal., some fifty or sixty mile from Murygville. It is pretty well de termined now that Indians and squaw men were the principal actors in this outlawry, and the Hherilf has made two arrests, and oilers a reward for a notori ous Indian desiterado. The Northwestern Steamihip Com panv has been Incorporated by several Seattle capitalmts representing several millions of dollars. It is the Intention to purchase the City of Seattle and the City of Kingston, now owned by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and with other boats controlled by the com- f any one on the Hound and one in Ban 'raneisco to control busmen on all the principal Sound routes. Mrs. Jane Stanford, widow of the late Senator Leland Stanford and executrix of his vast estate, has confirmed the telegraphic report that Leland Stanford (Jr.) university is to receive an endow ment of at least 300,000 from one of the brothers of the late Senator. In the latter'swilt $300,000 is bequeathed bis brother, Thomas Weldon Stanford of MollxMirne. Australia. Thi bequest has been turned over to the university. John McNultv. a 'lonsrshoreman who live vears auo murdered Patrick Collins, another 'longshoreman, at San Francisco, was to Have been Uangea uecemoer zu. It now annears that after the date of execution has been set five different times Mc.Nnlty'a nock will yot be saved through the eflbrts of the Daughters of the Uoixl Shepherd of that city. Gov ernor Mttrkliain was notified that the Sherilf had granted McNultv a reprieve until January 2li, and the probability is that his death sentence will be com muted to life imprisonment. The Gov ernor announces that he has received a petition signed by 8,000 people asking that this be done. Among the signers are United States Senators White and Perkins, Archbishop Itiordan, Irwin C. Stump and eight of the jurors who con victed the prisoner. A peculiar lawBuit has Just been brought by the New Zealand Fire Insur ance Company against the Standard Oil Company. Two years ago the oil com pany sold a certain quantity of coal oil to retail dealers in Selma, Fresno county, Cal., representing it to be non-explosive Hiul peilectly safe with a fire test of 150 dgrecs Fahrenheit. The retail dealers in turn sold the oil to their customers. Mra. May Belle Brown, a housewife of Selma, was among the purchasers. When Mrs. Brown used some of the oil in till ing a lamp the kerosene exploded and burned the house. She was insured for 1,000 In the Now Zealand Company. Mrs. Brown has joined the insurance coin puny in the suit against the Stand ard Oil Company for the amount of her loss. The complaint alleges the oil was found to explode at 85 degrees Fahren heit. It is reported other suits similar in nature will soon be filed. James A. Talbott, administrator of the A. J, Davis estate at Butte, Mont., over which a great will contest is pend ing, has commenced suit against A. J, Davis, Jr., and the First National Bank, of which Davis is cashier, who has not turned over to the administrator 050 shares of bank Btoek, worth $1,000 a share. Young Davis has all along claimed that his uncle gave him this stock a short time before his death, and refused to report it in the assets of the estate. The court authorized Talbott to bring suit and employ special counsel. Several leading attorney, have been en gaged by him, men who have been conn sid for . contestants in the will ease. There is no legal record of the dead millionaire ever having given his nephew the stock. It is said that Talbott and Davis have had a falling out over matters connected with the estate, hence the suit.- It has caused much surprise. The report that the heirs have compromised the suit la denied, , , NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Navy Department has ordered the cruiser New York and the monitor Mi antomoh to get ready for sea. Senator PetTer introduced a bill pro viding funds for Immediate use in reliev ing want and distress in the country. Kepresentative Hermann has intro duced a bill to pension Ralph Summers, who served in tne uregon Indian, wars in low. Representative Wilson has Introduced a bill to validate all ou'standing soldiers' additional homestead entries. This bill will ali'ect numerous settlers in Oregon and Washington. Representative Hermann has present ed many more protests from Oregon lum bermen against the Wilson bill. There is no possibility of defeating the bill in the House. Hie senate may kill It. Representatives Wilson and Doolittle have prepared an amendment to a Mon tana bill for selecting lands granted un- .1 .-.I 1.1! . ( U . . I .!..! iter mib eimoi ihk lor otaw iiisi.ii'UuuiiB. This bill will allow Washington to make selection on unsurveyed lands; to secure title wnen surveys are made. Wilson of Washington tried to have an amendment made to the bill allow ing Montana to select lands in the Bitter Root Valley, so as to allow his State four months in which to select surveyed lands previous to being thrown open for settlement. The Chairman of the Com mittee on Public Lands has promised to to report a separate bill for the purpose. Secretary Carlisle has requested Sec retary Gresham to instruct Minister White at St. Petersburg to inquire into the statements, cabled from there, that a large number of indigent immigrants were being "assisted" outof Russia and sent to the United States. In case the I ct should ne found substantially as stated, Mr. White is requested to enter a formal protest to ttie llussian govern ment in the name of the United States. The Supreme Court has rendered its opinion declining to pass upon the con stitutionality of the dispensatory law of South Carolina, by which the State con trols the sale of liquors. The case came up on a writ of halieas corpus to release ' . -. - ,ii .: I ... i. i...,i . .: - 1 i. i m rWM3 UIIIUINI, WHO llM'-l B!71t?lA UarilU of liquor under the law. Chief Justice Ful ler said the court did not think it neces sary to pass on theconstitutionality of the liquor law. Ttie officer was in contempt in seizing the liquor held by a receiver. For this reason lie should be punished without reference to the constitutional question involved. Secretary Carlisle says there is much difficulty experienced bv the officers charged with the duty of assisting the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws by reason of certain practices re sorted to by the Chinese coolie, and adds: "I am of the opinion that, as our laws prohibit the landing of Chinese laborers, the privilege of passing through our territory ;annot be safely granted, and should at once be revoked. If this privilege is continued, it will be impos sible to secure an efficient execution of the laws pa-wed by Comrress for the ex clusion of Chinese laborers." Gross irregularities, amounting to millions of dollars, are stated to have been discovered in the New York custom house by a special agent of the Treat- nry Department recently detailed to nuke an investigation. His report, which is elaborate as to detail, was laid before Secretary Carlisle, and was the subject o( several hours' discussion be tween him and Assistant Secretary Ham lin, in charge of customs matters in the Treasury Department. The report re fers principally to tobacco refunds, in which the irregularities are alleged to have occurred. The amount involved is slated as high as $5,000,000, and gross negligence or worse is charged against the New York custom-house officials. li'anshrough explained his Russian thistle bill. The bill provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall employ the necessary help and so direct it as to destroy and exterminate the Russian thistle in every part of the United states wherever found, and carries an appro priation of $1,000,000 to pay the ex penses. The Senator said he bad hesi tated to introduced this bill because it smaeked of paternalism, but after a careful consideration of the question and after making a personal investiga tion while in North Dakota recently be had reached the conclusion that national assistance was necessary to the eradica tion of the thistle, and his object in in troducing the bill and calling for this appropriation this early in the session was to secure action during the winter, so that the Agricultural Department might proceed in conjunction with the several States early in the spring to at tack the monster all along the line. The following nominations have been confirmed by the Senate: C. H. Simon ton, South Carolina, United States Cir cuit Judge of the Fourth Judicial Cir cuit; D. M. Kilpatrick, Assistant Treas urer United States mint at New Orleans ; James B. Stevens, California, Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise for the district of San Francisco. Collectors of Customs A. M. Dahlgren at Pearl River, Miss. ; Frank B. Barnst, district of Corpus Christi, Tex. Surveyors of Customs George W. Hayne, Port F.vansville, Ind. ; George G. Tanner, Indianapolis; Will iam I). English, port of San Francisco. Collectors of Internal Revenue O. M. VVellburn, First District of California; Joshua Jump, Seventh District of Indi ana; James Phelan, First District of Michigan; 8. M. McMillen, Eleventh Distriit of Ohio; I.. P. Ohlinger, Eight eentu District of Ohio; J. Edward Kauf man, Third District of Texas. Receiver of Public Money Edward R. Monk, Tucson, A. T. Resisters of Land Offices Frank Walls, Tucson, A. T.j Henry D. Ross, Prescott, A. T. The annual report of Hon, John O. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, has been transmitted to Congress. The Secretary estimates the revenues of the government for the fiscal vear, which will end June SO, at $430,121,000, and that expenditures for the same period will amount to M58.121 ,000, leaving a deficit of $28 000,000. During the first five months of the present fiscal year the expenditures of the government ex ceeded the receipts $2I),018,0!)5. This was brought about bv decreased receipts and increased expenditures. Compared with the corresponding months last vea". the customs revenues fell off $23, 580,820; internal taxes, $7,860,067. The expenditures in the War Deparment in the execution of contracts made in the last fiscal year increased $0162,132; the navy, for the same reason, $1,1)12.289, with other minor increase. There have been reductions In other branches of the public service of $6,852,20(1. December 1 the net balance in the Treasury was onlv $11,088,448. Of the total amount held, $12,347,517 was in subsidiary silver and minor coins, , i EASTERN NEWS. Oklahoma's Wheat Crop In Excellent Condition. CLEVELAND THANKS MILLS. Pittsburg Churches Unite in Raising Fund for the Destitute and Unemployed Poor. There are 281,000 registered voters in Chicago. ; Baptizing through the ice has began up in Maine. Chinamen are being brought to Flor ida from Cuba. A phosphate combine is being organ ized in Florida. . The Kansas State exhibit at the Woild's Fair cost $02,800. The Cherokees have sustained the House impeachment of Chief Harris. Samuel Gompers has been re-elected President of the Federation of Labor. Twenty-two women have founded a communal home on the Cherokee Strip. A move is on foot looking to the de velopment of the coal fields of Ardmore. I. T. The shootings and hangings of negroes amount to about twenty per day in the South. . ; Beaver county, Oklahoma, known as No Man's Land, wants to be annexed to Kansas. Thousands of homeless and penniless men sleep on the tiling floor of Chicago's city hall. The national government is running behind at 'the rate ol about $6,000,000 per month. Boston proposes to have closer connec tion with Her suburbs by means of elec tric railroads. Work on the erection of the Grant monument at New York has been dis continued for the winter. . Seventeen Pittsbure churches united Sunday week in raising funds for the poor, and collected $5,000. Hon. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," is seeking the Republican nomination for Governor of Nebraska. ., The wheat crop for next year, as far as observation goes, appears to be in a fairly healthy and promising condition In North Park, Routt county. Col.. about two dozen buffaloes are protected by the farmers, who feed them regularly, It is estimated that up to December 1 the government made $488,159 out of the World's fair through custom-House du ties. Georeia will try to recover $200,000 from the federal government lor terri tory which is now Alabama, and Missis sippi. A 240.000.000-candle-power electric light, the greatest in the world, will be placed in iire Island lighthouse on JNew York. The number of suicides in East Side tenements, New York city, has been greatly increased by lack of employ ment. A carload ot beef was recently sent by Jesse Spalding, a Chicago bank presi dent, to the destitute of Iron Mountain, Alien. . Foreicn canitalistswill build a $1,000,- 000 beet-sugar factory at Omaha, if farmers will raise 6,000 acres of beets annually. The richest court in Missouri has de cided that debts contracted in option deals are gambling debts and not collect able at law. . Five tons of the curtains bung under the skylights of the manufacturers' building at the exposition have been sold for old rags. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has decided that the purchase of a lottery franchise by authority of the State Leg islature will not stand. Topeka has ordered its police to give the unemployed entire freedom in com ing and going. The rock pile and bull- pens have been abolished. The President has sent to Senator Mills a letter thanking the latter for his recent speech in defense ol the adminis tration's Hawaiian policy. " The wheat crop in Oklahoma is re ported to be in excellent condition. A much larger acreage has been planted this year than was sown last year. A bill has been introduced in the Vir ginia Legislature providing for submis sion of a constitutional amendment which will insure white supremacy in pOlltlC8. ' The discovery that one of the jurors in the Meyer poisoning case on trial at New York had been been confined in an insane asylum has brought the case to a standstill. The comet medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has been awarded to Prof. Brooks of Geneva, N. Y., for his discovery of an unexpected comet on October 16, 1893. , Another bill to provide for the sub mission of the question of consolidation of New York and Brooklyn to a popular vote has been prepared for introduction in the Legislature which will shortly as semble at Albany. Mrs. Grant has sold General Grant's cottage at Klberton for $33,000 to Mrs. E. J. Price of New York. The place was the gift of G.W. Childs, General Horace Porter and Thomas Murphy, and cost them $35,000 in 1809. Reuorts to the Department of Agri culture show that there is a decrease of 10 per cent from 1802 in the area sown in winter wheat in Illinois. If alt the States follow the example, wheat will be high-priced next year. The Court of Appeals at Albany, N. Y.. in the case of Edward S. Stokes against John W. Mackav and others, ap i , i ii, t .i peuants, revenreu uie juugiucui, ui mo lower court and ordered a new trial. This is an appeal by the several defend ants from the decision of the general term, affirming a judgment for $90,186 in favor of the plaintiff. This action was brought to recover $75,000, which the plaintitl alleges the defendants agreed to pay upon the transfer of cer tain telegraph stocks, and which prop erty the plaintiff has already delivered or tendered to defendants under and in accordance with the terms of the contract. THE MIDWINTER FAIR. Caufomia Midwinter Iktrka-) tiomal Exposmon. Difatmnt V or Pdbucitt ahd Phomotios. J Weekly Circular Letter No. .J The Exposition management has re newed cause for congratulation on each succeeding day in riew of the fact that the fame of the Midwinter Fair is spreading so rapidly and so satisfactorily in the East that the number of Eastern visitors who are to be expected during the winter seems sure to succeed their most sanguine expectations. The news papers of the large Eastern cities, and those of the small towns in that part of the country at well, seem to have tackled as kindly to onr Exposition proposition as those who are near by, and who might therefore be expected to reap a more di rect benefit from it. But among all the nice things that have been said in the Ens tern papers in this connection none has proven more valuable as an adver tisement than an editorial utterance in the latest issue of the Review of Re views, one of the most conservative periodicals in the country. This utter ance was as follows: "The Exposition will help to gin definite form to many a man's vague plana for Tinting the Pacing Coast, and that perhaps will be it greateat aerrioe to its country. Everybody In the Eaat intends sometime to make a trip to California, but the distance fa formidable, and old men are dying every day who had meant ince lt toaee the Golden (late aome time or other, bat had never got started. The fact of the Midwinter Fair should transform general intentions into specific plan.. Patriotism, if nothing else, should impel every American who ran possibly afford it to see for himself the wondera that lie upon the western margin of this glorioua country.1 The above paragraph most assuredly echoes Eastern sentiment and goes a great way towards dispelling the idea which some Californians still cling to that the influx of Eastern visitors will not be large. The railroad people have long ago recognized this fact and are now making elaborate preparations for transportation. Strangers are certainly coming to the Pacific Coast this win ter by thousands, and when they get here, thanks to the eleventh-hour rail way arrangements, they are going to have an opportunity to visit the entire Coast, so that San Francisco can not justly be said to reap even the lion's share of the advan tages at hand. This fact is becoming more widely recognized as the date for the opening of the Fair draws near, and there is a general feeling of pride in the coming Exposition, and of determina tion that it should be everything that has been promised for it. An experiment was made on Sunday last in the way of charging admission to the Exposition grounds. The only special attraction offered was a balloon ascension and a parachute jump from the airship when it was at the height of 2,000 feet Otherwise there were only the buildings to see and the workmen pushing them along toward completion, yet nearly 4,000 people paid 25 cents each to gain admission to the grounds, and several hundreds have paid the same admissit n on each succeeding day during the. week. This is accepted by the management as unmistakable evi dence of the fact that the drawing pow ers of the Exposition have not been over estimates. When once the Fair is started there will be no doubt about liberal patronage. It is the intention of the management, however, that special features shall be widely advertised during the entire du ration of the Exposition, and it is to that end that days have been set apart for special observance under favorable auspices for the entire term. In this way more than half the days of the Ex position have thus been programmed. For the first month the programme is not an elaborate one, inasmuch as the opening days of the Exposition are nat urally supposed to take care of them selves. The California Pioneers, how ever, have their day in January, havinjf selected the 24th. Stanford university will celebrate on the 26th, and Butte county will turn out her entire popula tion on the 29th. In February there will be a grand musical festival on the 8th; the Pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs willcelebrate on the 9th, North Dakota day the 14th and Idaho the 15th. The Benevolent Order of Elks will con duct a very interesting observance of the 17th of February as their special day. Southern California will turn it self loose on the 19th. The Young Men's Institute will have the 20th, Santa Crux county the 21st and Washington's birth day will probably suffice as the special feature for the rest of the month. In March there will be another grand musical festival on the 8th, the Teach ers' congress on the 13th, a geographical congress on the 16th and a characteris tic celebration of St. Patrick's day on the. 17th. The state of Michigan and the state of Nevada have the 12th and 22d of March, respectively, and Sierra county will celebrate on the 14th. In the month of April the university of California has its day; so also does the Order of Chosen Friends and the Knights and Ladies of Honor.. The Native Sons of the Golden West also hold forth in April, having selected the 20th for their day. The Odd Fellows have selected April 25 and the Grand Army of the Re public the 27th. - The programme for May is the most complete of all so far, beginning on the 1st of the month with California day, and including between that and the Slst a half dozen county days, to say nothing of a grand San Rafael rose festival on the 7th and German May festival on the th, Knights of Pythias day on the 19th, a day for the Order of Druids on the 16th, Good Templars day on the 29th And a characteristic Decoration day ob servance on the 80th. : The closing month of the Fair in cludes a Foresters' day on the 9th, United Workmen's day on the 19th and a day to be observed under the auspices of the San Francisco Federation of Women on the 21st. In addition to these the Italians will celebrate the 2d, Santa Clara college the 6th, Santa Clara county the 14th, Sonoma county the 15th and the Bunker Hill association the 18th, the entire enthusiasm of the Exposition to reach its climax in a grand closing cele bration on Sunset day, Jon 80, 1894. FOREIGN CABLES. First Aluminium Vessel Ever Built Just Launched. FRENCH VINTAGE DESTROYED. Great Britain' Imports and Exports Show an Immense Decrease During November. St. Petersburg has another outbreak of cholera. France contemplates a new raid in Madagascar. One-third of all the landed property of Russia is mortgaged. Sir Edwin Arnold says that there are about 30,000 " poetesses " in Great Brit ain. Thirty relatives of the Paris bomb thrower will likely be expelled from France. Grafting American on French vines promises to save the French plants from destruction. A mine of pumice stone has been de veloped onTeneriffe Mountain, 2,000 feet above the sea. Russia's sending of an agent to Abys sinia is construed as an act of direct hostility to Italy. The Hungarian Prime Minister has succeeded in re-establishing a Royal Court in Buda Pesth. A single hour's frost in the district around Cognac, France, destroyed $15, 000,000 worth of vintage. Five-sixths of all the girls who went into domestic service in London last year had never heard of a toothbrush. Statistics show that Russia pro'ner-s and consumes a smaller quantity of l er than any other of the great nations. An electrical launch from the Chicntro Fair parades the cann'e in Venice, where it has created a favorable impression. The Woman's Suffrage League has is sued a manifesto protesting against anv woman working to support her husband. The first general election in New Zea land in which women had the franchise resulted in the defeat of the government. Forty thousand francs have already been subscribed in Paris for the Gounod memorial, the Municipal Council giving 1,000. The female typewriters in British gov ernment offices are about to be made permanent officials, with a right to a pension. Father Hyacinth is preaching in a French Protestant chapel still with the spirit and aim, he says, of a Catholic reformer. The King of Corea has purchased an American incandescent-light plant, which will be used to light his palace and grounds. London and Berlin, tabulated as hav ing the lowest percentage of deaths from typhoid in the total mortality, use only filtered water. . Spanish merchants and producers are not pleased with the commercial treaties being negotiated with England, Ger many and Italy. The Paris illustrated papers are to be restrained from publishing pictures of anarchists by an order issued by the Prefect of Police. : The first aluminium vessel ever con structed, the yacht Vendenesse, bniltfor Comte Chabannes, has been launched at St. Denis, France. . The Peruvian Congress has authorized a loan, which will probably be taken at home, of l.OOO.iOO soles (about $720,000 in American gold;. The hereditary throat trouble is fast reducing the Princess of Wales to the stone-deaf condition of her mother, the Queen of Denmark. Peasants of Bitonto, near Rome, sat urated a customs officer with coal oil and set fire to him for breaking up a fete they were observing. Experiments are being made by the French Department of Agriculture to transform tree twigs and leaves into food for horses and cattle. Germany has decided that cinnamon yellow, is the beet color for war ships. The French stick to the gray tint, some thing like wet sail cloth. Last year, according to the statis tics recently compiled, 24,000 men and 18,000 women left Japan to find homes for themselves abroad. The barracks built for European sol diers are generally far better than the houses of the peasantry. Chelsea bar racks in England cost 245 per man. A large elephant had to be killed in Stuttgart on account of his temper. A single bullet from a small-bore rifle, de livered in his forehead, dropped him dead. During the last year the property in London insured by fire insurance com panies and by the underwriters at Llovds amounted to more than $400, 000.000. , ; In order to promote the interest of yachting the Cercle des Beaux Arts has put the use of its clubhouse at the use of the Yacht Club of France for the present. f The Minister of Paris Police, M. Le pine, thinks that vanity is a very power ful motive among anarchists, and with the hope of quieting their activity he begs the papers not to publish their por traits. . The returns issued by the London Board of Trade show that during No vember the imports decreased 3,10,000 and the exports decreased 000,000, as compared with the corresponding month last year. The report is that the Emperor of Russia, being convinced that England is secretly bound to the so-called triple al liance, has formed another quadruple al liance between Russia, France, Denmark and Greece. A royal decree has been issued in Bel gium appointing a commission to inquire into the abuses connected with the emis sion of speculative stocks and as to how far financial prospectuses can be divested of an illegal speculative character. The Madagascar mail, which recently arrived at Marseilles, announced in creased activity among the brigands, who were pillaging native in addition to European property. Over 200 people are said to be prisoners of the brigands. PORTLAND MARKET. Whiat Valley, 92-05ci Walla Walla, 81182Jic per cental. , . HOPS, WOOL AHD BID1S. Hops '93s, choice, 15(ai6c per pound j medium, 1012c; poor, 57c Wooir-Valley, 10llc per pound; TTmpqua, ll12c; Eastern Oregon, 6(d) 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. Hides Dry selected prime, 6c ; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3'c; under 60 pounds, 23c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10wl5c; medium, 20(35c; long wool, 30a0c; tallow, good to choice, 33Mo per pound. .LIVg AMD DRESSKD MB AT. Bbef Top steers, 2c per pound; fair to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c; fair cows, lc; dressed beef, $3.505.00 per 100 pounds. Mutton Best sheep, $2.00; choice mutton, $1.752.00; lambs, $2.00(32.25. Hooo -Choice heavy, $4.665.(K)j me dium, $4.00(84.50; light and feeders, $4.00(34.50; dressed, $6.50. VAir-$3.005.00. .,.. pbo visions. ' Eastern Smoked Meats and Lahd Hams, medium, 1213c per pound; hams, large, 12 13c; hams, picnic, llai2c; breakfast bacon, 13(315c; short clear sides, llgl3c; dry salt sides, 10llc; dried beef hams, 12 13c; lard, compound, in tins, OJ'ftlOc per pound; pure, in tins, ll13!iic; pigs' feet, 80s, $5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.00. COKDAGE. Manilla rope, V4 in. cir. and up, lO'c; manilla rope, 12-thread, diam., 11c; maniila rope, 6 and 9-thread,'J and 5-16 diam., manilla bail rope, in coils or on reeis, 102c; manilla lath yarn, tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rope well boring, etc., 13c; manilla traiiBinission-of-power rope, 14c ; manilla paper twine, 11c; manilla spring twine, 14c; sisal rope, V in. cir. and upward,. 7c; sisal rope, 12-thread, diam., 7)c; 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, 8V4C FLOPS, FEED, ETC. FijOOb Portland, 2 75: Salem, $2 75; Cascadia, 275; Davton, $275; Walla Walla, $3.16; Albany, $2.0; Graham, $2.4ii : superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats 35?36V per -bushel; rolled, in bags, $6.25(36.50; barrels, $6.76(37.00; cases, $3.75. Mhjjbtuffs Bran, $16.00; shorts, $16.00; ground barley, $18.00; chop feed, $15 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70o percental; middlings, $23(928 per ton; chicken wheat, 75c(3$1.15 per cental. Hay Good, $10(312 per ton. DAISY produce. Butte b Oregon fancy creamery, 30 32c; fancy dairy, 25274c; lair to good,2022c; common, 1517c per pound. Cheese Oregon, 1213c; Califor nia, c; Young America, 14(S815c; Swiss, imported, 30 32c; domestic, 16 18c per pound. Egos Oregon, 30c per dozen; East ern, 2327Kc Poultry Chickens, mixed, quoted at $3.00(93.50; ducks, $4.50(35.60; geese, $9.00(39.60 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12 13c per pound ; dressed, 13gl5e. vegetables and fruits. Vegetables Cabbage, 18 per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 6075c per sack ; on ions, $1.25 per Back; sweet potatoes, 2'e per pound; Oregon celery, 3650c; arti chokes, 85c per dozen. Fbuits Sicily lemons, $5.00(3l5.50 per box; California new crop, $4.00(34.50 per box ; bananas, $1.50(g3.00 per bunch ; Honolulu, $1.502.50; California navels, $3.75ji4.00 per box; seedlings, $3.00 3.50; Mexican, $3.50(33.75; Japanese, $1.752.O0; grapes, $1.00(31.25 per box; apples(buving price), green, 60(5e per box; red, 60355c; cranberries, $9.00 per barrel; persimmons, $1.50 per box. canned goods. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.85(32.00; Barb lett pears, $1.75(32.00; plums, $1.37tf3 1.60; Btraw berries, $2.252.45; cherries, $2.26(32.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00; taspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3 2.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(31.20; blackberries, $1.251.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.50; peaches, 33.50(34.00; apri cots, $3.50(34.00; plums, $2.75(33.00; blackberries, $4.264.60; tomatoes, $1. 10. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.40; 2s, $2.10; chipped, $2.35; lunch tongue, Is, $3.50; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.60 2.75 per dozen. , Fish Sardines, Js, 75c$2.25; a, $2.154.50; lobsters, $2.30(33.60; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25(31.50; flats, $1.76;2-lbs, $2.252.50; -barrel, $5.60. . STAPLE GROCERIES. Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22 23e; Salvador, 23,c; Mocha, 26 '-4(3 28c; Arbuckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound. Dai ed Fbuits 1893 pack, Petite prunes, 6(38c; silver, 1012c; Italian, 8c10c; German, 6(38c; plums, 6(310c; evaporated apples, 8(3 10c; evaporated -apricots, 15 16c; peaches, 1012.!c; pears, 7llc per pound. Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s, $16.00; 60s, $16.50; stock, $8.50(39.50. Sugar D,4c; Golden C,42c; extra C, 4Vc ; confectioners' A, 5'c ; dry gran ulated, 5c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 5 lgc per pound; )c per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 15(316c per pound. SYBur Eastern, in barrels, 40(a5fic; in half barrels, 42 S57e; in cases, 35 80c per gallon; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 2040c per gallon; $1.76 per keg. Beans Small white, No. 1, 2'c; No. 2, 2)4c; large white, 2HJc; pea beans, 2?4c; pink, 2!c; bayou, 2c; butter, 3c ; Lima, 3''c per pound. Rick No. 1 Sandwich Island, $4.50 4.75; no Japan in market. Pickles Barrels, No. 1, 2830o per gallon; No. 2, 20(3 28c; kegs, 6s, 85c per keg ; half gallons. $2.75 per dozen ; quar ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen. Raisins London layers, boxes, $1.75 2.00; halves, $2.00(a)2.25; quarters, $2.252.75; eighths, $2.50(553.00. Loose Muscateis, boxes, $1.60; fancy faced, $1.75; bags, 3 crown, 8,! (36c per pound; 4 crown, 5(5Mc Seedless Sultanas, boxes, $1.75(32.00; bags, 68c per pound. Spices Whole Allspice, 18fl!20o per pound; cassia, 16(318c; cinnamon, 22 40c; cloves, 18f330c; black pepper, 20 25c; nutmeg, 75380c. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has contracted with the Union Pacific for the delivery of 30,000 tone of steel rails. This will result in the employ ment of l,50(i men at the Pueblo works. Australia's wheat crop is 32,000,000, bushels. .