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Columbia : County,
VOL. 11.
ST. HELENS. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1893.
NO. 1.
THE MIST"
THE OREGON MIST
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riiinutiiiiicuilniiN Hr.t and third NiitiirUuy In
each month 1117:1101'. M. at .Miiaiiiilc hnll. Visit
ing members III good standing Invited tu at
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meeting. HHliinlny on or before each full moon
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vited to intend,
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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.
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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.
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fur I'lirilmid ilnllv c i'i't Kiiuday, at 7 A. " , ar
rlvinu nt I'lirtluml at 10.811: relnrnliiK, leave
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niYSlCIAN andSUIKIEON.
Ht. Ueleim, Oregon.
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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.
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OAVCATt.
TRAD! MARKS.
DiaiON PATBNTS.
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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.
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v The Overland Route.
Two trnlm dally, leav
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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
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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. .
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I.KAVK HOKTI.AND.
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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,
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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-
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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
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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. .