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E OREGON M 8T 1 ST. HELENS; OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ltf, 1891. NO. 8. VOL. 11. ! 5 THE OREGON MIST. ISajUKU KVUIIlf FIIIUAV BIOIIN1NO -Y- THE MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY, DAVIS BROS., Managers. , OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Siiu.crlptlsii II alee. One copy cm, yur In advanc.. II W On, copy .lit mouth... . m 76 blugl. copy ASrertlenif Profeaaliiual card, ou, year I II One column one year Mo Hall mil ii in ii tin, your , 7 ljuarlcr column on yenr 0 UHV llH'll till, IIHIIllll ...MM...... - 2 On, Inch Hire, iniiiitli. 0 Ou. Inch tlx mouth. , laical nollcea, in coula er line lor II ml I n-rr-tloii; Idem, per line for ech .ubeiueut In sertion. l.rKitl xlvarllumeMtk, I.M per Inch fur liral lunertiou.mid 70 odiiU pur Inch lur audi uba CUUIl(IU.Ulllull. COLUMBIA COUNTY Dl Kl'XTOUY. Comity Olflcera. Judge..,.,, IJi'Kli Blencha'd, Rainier Cluia K. K. tjulck, H . Helen. Hnei-lff. T. . etla, Ht. Helens TriiftKiir r K. M, Wh.rtoii, culnmM city Buiit. ol School. T. t. tMecton, i; I a Uk n e Atecaaor W. II. Ky.er. Kyuor Surveyor A. H. Utile, IIimiUiiu ,,,. H. a. bVhoonover, Veruoule tomialaalmcrs Ju vy Mru0, o,uiiioy. Nacieir notices. MtunNKi, Ht Helen. Lodge, No. --Regular coioiiiiiuMmlinu. llr.t ami third Haliirdey in anli month al7:W)f. at. al Mnainilo hall. Vlalt Iiik member. In good ataiiUliiif Invited to at- ,0M'iiiia-Klnlr tMn,' No. St-Stated mvulliiR' Hnlurilny on or before ai'h dill union at7:IHIi. M. at M.aoiilc hall, over ttleiichurd'. more. Vl.ltlug member, ill (mid .lauding In-vlu-d to attain!, fluri Fellow HI. Helena l.odge No. 117 MeoM every Halniday nlxhl at 7 :0 Traualeut brethren iu good .landing cordially luvlled to attend. Ik. nulla. rnwu river (boat) clone, at S:M . tin river (boal) clone, at 4 r. M. Tim mull lor Verimnla and i'ittaliunr Was HL Helen. AMidey, Wedueaday and Friday a I A H." Th mall lor Maraliland, Clatakaute and Mill leave, (jiiltm Monday, Weduenday aud Friday M.lle(railway) north do., ai 10 A. H. tor Portland at 8 r. M. Traveler,' Unlet III ver K"ea. Ht.am.rH. IV. Hiiavus-Leave. HL. Helen, lor 1'iirllaiid at II A. T.to-iliiy, Thurnday and Saturday. 1-emc. W. Helen, lor I'laukanl, Monday, Wediieadn) mid Friday at 00 A, u. Htka Mas lni.o l.vuve. HI. Helen, for Port land Lit a. N, u turning all aoi-. M. srann Joaai-u Kkllooo Leave. HL Helen, for I'orlUud dully ecept Hunday. at7 A. ., ar rlviiiKat l'oithiud-at 10. W; reluming, leave I'urilauv at 1 r. M.. arriving at Hk Helena all. PROFESSIONAL. JR. 11. R. CUKF, rilYSICIAN and SURGEON. 81, Helena, Oregon. J)U J. K. II ALU PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. ClaUkniile, Culumlila county, Or, a . i.rrri.B, A. SURVEYOR and CIVIL ENGINEER, St, llel-na, Oregon. County ttirvevor. Lunil anrvcyitiir.town iiIiiIiIiik, And eiiglni-eriiiH work proiiilly tinno. OA VI ATS. OltlON PATBNT.! Tn.ui naaui OOPVRIOHT. toJ For . hftMidlM anA frAa TTandhonllWIite to MIINN A CO- HU1 BnoAOWAT, NW TOBIT. Oldeat bureau for aeaurlpg patent. In Ami l Anierlea, Kvery patent taken out by u. I. erouani iiora be publio by a nolle giraa In, of eban, la Ui gtUVltlM Uronlt enmtlatlnn of any amentlfte Paper In ttia . ? ,7 lifiii. it tin i. IIIIIU wiiuuiu (hal A nareM uunix iaa vM.wiorkatj. ttauauan. 301 Broadway, The Overland Routs. Two train, dally, leav ing Fifth and l.treeta, til and Central Depot. No. , "The Mmlled Faat Mnll," leaving at 7:110 p. M.. carrie. Veatl Imle Pullman I'alac. sleepliiK and Dining Can and free Itecllning Chair Car. thniiiKh from Portland to Chi- .i. r.... ..,.ll ninfr. wit hont Chang. 'Jiny'" "V," vi ..," nci-tinna for Denver, Kanaa. City, Ht. liOUla, Veleni lltilt. and Ht.Vaul I 'V'lc"i fa' Pullman Hlelr and Chair Oat for W alia Walla, ft"lfi-. JIV.?. "frlJaVn'." -' : liinkllilt eroy, Nli No. 8. nacow and Cmiir d'Alene. ,.,.. " overland Flyer," leav ng at A. M., f, 'arrui. n roun . -;; -,7. i-ii A Y. r .H poii'i.ano. Cnlunliia...Miiyl,lll,M OrvKon My 4, 16, Hiale... ..May fi, 17,a? Columbia May ., SO Oregon. ....May , " Stale way ra, .. ..... I. 'WrTrHDW'BIA nOUTB-Morn. Ina iHiat llavoa Portland dally, except Hunday, at 7 A i returning, leave. A.lorla dally, ex feut Sunday, ate P. M. Night boat leave. lort L,V,i ,tv except SKtnnlay, at P. m.i rolurn. i loaveay'Aator a daily, except Bumliiy, at A. J 'The inor" Ing lat from Portland make. i.'..iiin the Oregon aide Tueaday., Thura' 'f" I Saturdava Ton the VVaah ngton .Ida 2iy.rd!i Wed meadava and Frhlaya. From A.. fir, Jon atda MonJaya, Wedneadaya and Fr day., ami" tile W"l.liVta Tnead.y., Thura- v B.coV.t Hunday; returning, leave limine. d lii.?l iSSli p it arrlVlng at Port and at 6 r. M. T'io DA YTim ANDtWA V LAN D1NUH Moil- iiiTl OTHER Steamer, leave from Aalwtreel dock Ticket offlc-2M Waahlngton .treat, at Third ' W.H. HURl.UUKT, 4 8olentmo American Ajenoy fora mVTT?! fOAVIATt, Hr TJr TRAD! MAftKJ. 7l2i OUION PATBUT. THE PACIFIC COAST. Indians on the War Path in Arizona Territory. FIVE SAPPHIRES IN A GIZZARD Marrlage-by-Froxy Racket Being Successfully Worked by the. Cunning Chinese. Mining la booming all over Now Mex ico. Lightning-rod wlnillors are gutting oa pretty well among Oregon larmern. The combined American and BritUh ealorg on thin Coaat will hardly number a dozen this season. The street-car system of Sacramento has changed hands. The new owners propose to run the eletttric cars with the water power generated at Folsom. The snrvnv o( a route (or the main line of the Union Pacific through Boise, Idaho, will shortly be made. In fact, orders to that ell'ect have been issued. After a hard struggle the Spokane temperance people have carried the day in their fight not to have any saloon at the site of the new water works, where so many men are employed. The Indians are on the war path In the Hunker Hill mining district in Ari sona. Four Indians attacked a pros pector named Clark, who escaped to Mammoth and gave the alarm. Thompson Campbell of Butte, Mont., has Ave sapphires taken from the giz zard of a Montana turkey. The sap phires are all of good size, and one of them weighs about two karats. ' There Is a general belief that the many stories told about Kvans and Morel are inventions. The public outside of the neighborhood where the two outlaws re ceive sympathy are becoming incredu lous. Turn Lin Ying has been landed at Portland by a ruling of the United States District Court. The woman claimed to le a wife of Chung Chu, a merchant of Portland, and that she was married to him by proxy six months ago in China. The court held that the marriage was legal according to Chinese custom, and consequently was legal in this country. A suit has been commenced by the United States at Ixs Angeles againat the Southern Pacific Company for 1,600,000 acre of land lying along the latter'" track betwi en Banning and Ynma, and It if part of tho Texas-Pacific grant. It is what is raid to have been recently sold by 0. P. Huntington to the Colorado Ir rigation Company. It forms the Colo rado Desert, and without water is worth less. J. G. Vatta, an ex-member of the Idaho Legislature, borrowed several gold nnggets and then obtained money from the banks on thera. He told the State World's Fair Commissioner that if he would pay the banks he could have the nuggets for exhibition, with the privi lege of selling them afterward, realizing the money on them. This was done, and the Commissioner has just discovered that the nuggets were originally bor rowed, and he is called upon to pay for them. At a recent meeting of the Directors of the Midwinter Fair Association at Portland it was decided to abandon the attempt to make an exhibit at the fair in progress in Han Francisco. The rea son for this is that sufficient Interest has not been manifested in the matter by Orgonians generally. Portland baa sub scribed very handsomely with a laud able desire of. assisting the State in making a creditable display, but the country towns have subscribed such small amounts that Portland has con tributed more than 90 per cent of the sum raised. In view of this state of af fairs and discouraging reports received as to the probable success of the fair the Directors appointed a committee to wind up the affairs of the corporation and dis tribute the funds. The San Francisco Chronicle prints a long article exposing the methods by which the Chinese may evade the exclu sion law through a system of false cer tificates of registration. It states the Chinese are systematically stalling the registration books opened under the Mc Oreary act. The law provides no pen alty for the punishment of those who register twice, and on account of the great similarity of Chinese in features and names many are able by going to different places of registration to secure from two to a dozen certificates of regis tration. These, it is claimed, will soon have a marketable value of from 60 to $100, and will find a ready sale among the Mongolians smuggled into the coun try. The Chronicle declares the Chinese have no trouble at all In securing many bogus certificates. Oregon's mammoth cave will soon be explored and rendered accessible to the public A company has been incorpor ated at San Francisco for the purpose of developing what bitls fair to be one of the greatest natural attractions on the Pocidc Coast. For years rumors have reached civilization that way back in the mountains of Josephine county, Or., in the wildest part of the Cascade Range was a cave in which one might wander for months without finding an end. These reports came from hunters and trappers, who occasionally visited that wild region in search of came, and but little credence was given them. Nothing of any certainty was known concerning the cave until four years ago, when W. K. Hearst of the San Francisco Exam iner sent a reporter, Charles Michelson, and a photographer to explore its depths. The cave is about seventy-five miles from Grant's Pass, and in order to reach it they were compelled to go by stage ahout fifty miles and the remainder of the distance with a pack train. From reports given the publio by the Examiner party the cave is larger and excels in beauty the great Mam moth cave of Kentucky, The other day John 0. Qtilnn, Thomas T. Williams, James L. Gittings and Samuel W. Backus of San Francisco, Thomas H. Morton and A. J. Henderson of Kerby vllle, Or., and Alphonzo B, Smith of Grant's Pass filed articles of incorpora tion of the Oregon Cave Improvement Company. The capital Btock is (500,000, of which $7,000 has been subscribed. The avowed purpose is to buy and Im prove the great Oregon cave, build ho t jls, roads, parks and do a lumbering and mining business. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Senate ha confirmed the nomi nation of Thomas Moonlight of Kansas to tie Minister to Bolivia. The plan of inspecting Immigrants at foreign ports before embarkation for this country provided In the bill of Stone of Pennsylvania has been approved by the House Committee on Judiciary. The report upon the Holman resolu tion (or the investigation of the system of premiums to builders of naval vessels for extra speed, which approves of the system, has been adopted by the House Naval Committee. The House Naval Affairs Committee has ordered a favorable report on the resolution expressing pleasure and satis faction at the prompt action of Admiral Benham in protesting American com merce at Rio de Janeiro. A deficiency appropriation of $400,000 for the expenses of the United States Courts, which has been asked by the Attorney-General, is being considered by the House Appropriations Commit niittoe, and will probably be granted. In the House Ellis of Oregon asked unanimous consent for the consideration of the Senate bill to extend the time al lowed the Umatilla Irrigation Company for the completion of its canal across the Umatilla Indian reservation in Ore gon. The bill passed. The War Department this year has re ports of the militia from the Adjutant Generals of every State in the Union. The reports show 0,270 commissioned of ficers, 102,012 enlisted men in the Na tional Guard and about 9,000,000 men in the unorganized militia. The Senate Committee on Foreign Re lations has decided to report in favor of the ratification of the treaty witli Great Britain for the extension of the treaty for com pleting the survey between Alaska and Northwest Territory, which was sent to the Senate Monday by the President. In the session of the Public Lands Committee adverse reports were ren dered on the bills for a survey of lands granted to the Willamette Valley and Cascade Wagon Road Company in Ore gon ; to prevent the consolidation of land offices in Colorado, and to dispose of several abandoned military reservations. Senator Allen has introduced a bill re pealing all laws enacted relating to the coinage or use of silver since January 1, 1873, and re-enacting all laws relating to silver and in force previous to that by authorizing and directing the issue of United States legal-tender notes and to ftrohibit the further use of United States nterest-bearing bonds. Senator Pettigrew has introduced an amendment, intended to be offered by him to the Wilson tariff bill, providing for the appointment of a commission of five persons to be known as the Customs Commission. The duty of the proposed commission is to gather data concerning tariff rates and their effect on industries in this and other countries and to report its findings to Congress. Special Agent Maher of the Treasury Department was before the Appropria tions Committee, and explained the re- ? I nest of the Secretary of the Treasury or $450,000 to enforce the Chinese ex clusion act. This item has nothing to do with the Geary act, but is to furnish means to carry out the law of May 5, 1802, by policing the border and ship ping home Chinamen caught attempting to enter the United States unlawfully. The Court of Appeals of the Dutrict of Columbia has reversed the decision of Judge Bradley in the Palmetto trade mark liquor case, and Commissioner of Patents Seymour has scored a point against Governor Tillman of South Car olina. The Commissioner refused to reg ister the trade mark sought by Governor Tillman for the brand sold by the State. Judge Bradley granted a mandamus to compel the registrv.- The Commissioner appealed, and the Court of Appeals re versed Judge Bradley's decision. There are not enough men enlisted in the navy to properly man the United States ships which go into commission before May lj and, moreover, the limit allowed by law will not permit the en listment of a sufficient number. The big cruisers Columbia and Olympia, Marblehead and Montgomery, Atlanta and Boston, Raleigh, Cincinnati, Alert and Marion are all to be manned, re quiring about 1,600 men. About half that number is available. Additional authority will be required from Congress to enlist sufficient men, and Secretary Herbert will probably lay the matter before that body, . ., Responding to a resolution which passed the Senate, the Secretary of the Treasury has sent to the Senate a state ment showing the names of bond sub scribers offering 117.223. whose subscrip tions were accepted, together with the amount subscribed for and the amount allotted at that price. The statement also gives the list of those offering to purchase at a higher price and the list of those not considered for various rea sons. Among the allotments on tbe 117.223 bids are the following: Hanover National Bank, New York, $1,420,050; Kuhn Loeb & Co., New York, $1,420, 060; United States Trust Company, New York, $2,338,700; Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, New York, $1,893,400; Union Trust Company, New York, $2, 308,700; New York Life Insurance Com pany, New York, 12,840,060. The above allotments were the result of scaling the original bids to the extent of 6.331 per cent of the amount. In the aggregate this class is $40,704,700. All bids at fig ures over the 117.223 amount in the ag gregate to $60,205,300. The President has sent to the Senate a treaty negotiated with the representa tives of the government of Great Brit ain for extension of the time for making the survey of the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions. The original treaty providing for a joint com mission for this work was negotiated and ratified during the summer of 1892, and Commissioners were appointed on behalf of the two governments. In ac cordance with the terms of the treaty the commission was to make a survey of the territory adjacent to that part of the boundary line of the United States and Canada and dividing Alaska from the Northwest Territory from latitude 64.6 degrees north to a point where the bound ary line enters the 141st degree longi tude west. The purpose, of the survey is to set at reBt some questions of dis pute going back of the time of the own ership of Alaska by Russia and involv ing a conflict in claims made by the two countries to land along the seacoast op posite the Channel Islands. Under the terms of the treaty this commission was to complete the work within the period of two years, which would expire this fall. It has been found impracticable to accomplish this, and the present treaty extends the time for another year. EASTERN NEWS. Woman Suffrage Gets a Black Eye in Massachusetts. DON'T WANT UTAH ADMITTED A Denver Lawyer Believed to Have Been Murdered by Hia Wife Other Brevities. Iowa legislators cannot agree on a liq uor bill. A bill designed to put a stop to "treat ing" has been introduced in the Massa chusetts Legislature. - The insane law of Minnesota has been declared unconstitutional, and 470 in mates have a right to new trials. The Montreal Hebrews are organizing a society for the purpose of assisting des titute Jews and bringing others to Can ada. Sackett, the silhouette artist, who eloped with an Elkhart (Ind.) heiress, has been arrested at Topeka. The girl has been returned to her heme. The Woman's Home Missionary Soci ety of the Philadelphia Conference has memorialized Congress against the ad mission of Utah as a State. The State of Mississippi is proposing to discontinue the penitentiary lease system and to establish a farm on which its convicts will be employed. Tree-plnnting on the streets at Or lando, Via., is encouraged by a bounty of 60 cents for each tree in good condi tion after one year of growth. The hard times have induced the pre sentation of a bill in the Massachusetts Senate to prevent attachment of grave yard lots and tombstones for debt, A bill has been introduced in the Mas sachusetts Legislature to empower cities and towns to make and distribute elec tricity forlight, heat and motive power. The Connecticut Board of Health will vigorously prosecute irregular medical practitioners, disregarding any injunc tions which may be obtained by the lat ter. Senator Gray has announced a bill to enable purchasers at judicial sales of railroads organized under the laws of the United States to organize new corpora tions. The Committee on Harbors and Rivers will give an appropriation to improve San Pedro and Port Harford, but not as much as the Secretary of War recom mended. The joint committee of the Massachu setts Legislature has given woman suf frage a black eye by reporting adversely on the proposition to grant municipal suffrage to the ladies. The Legislature of Kentucky has had before it for some time a bill providing for the compulsory education of the youth of the State, hut the bill is not likely to become a law. A Chicago dispatch to the Philadel phia Times says : Prophecies of ruin In the World's Fair district of the city to follow the departure of the great show have not been fulfilled. A dispatch from Ottawa, Ont., states that there is a large amount of distress in that city, and the City Engineer's of fice is besieged every morning by men who hope to get a job at stone-breaking. A company of Canadian capitalists are going to stretch a cable from below the Niagara Falls to Table Rock on the Canadian side on the plan of the Ferris wheel. It is proposed to run cars across every twenty minutes. Secretary Carlisle has called for tbe resignation of H. H. Lawrence, assayer of the mint at San Francisco; P. B. El lis, assayer of the mint at Carson City, and E. B. Zabriskie, melter and refiner of the mint at Carson City, Nev. With the money from the sale of bonds the Treasury Department is paying some of its deferred obligations. Sugar boun ties to the amount of $11,500,000 have been awaiting payment for some time. They are now being paid at the rate of $100,000 a day. It is now believed that Henry Carr, a young lawyer at Denver, was shot by his wife and killed, and not by burglars, as first reported. The woman lived in a notorious house before he married her, and frequently became intoxicated and quarreled with her husband. The bill by Terry, making railroad corporations citizens of States in which their lines may be for legal purposes, re ceived a favorable vote in committee. Under the existing laws according to re cent decisions of the Supreme Court the habitation of a railroad is in the State where its principal office is located. The House Judiciary Committee has referred back to the subcommittee Mc Cann's resolution calling for an investi gation of Judge Jenkins' action in en joining the Northern Pacific) employes from striking. The subcommittee is in structed to inquire whether there are any charges that Jenkins was influenced by corrupt motives. Collis P. Huntington was before the Senate Committeeon Railroads the other day, giving the committee information about the Pacific railroads. C. P. Hun tington made a suggestion to Jthe com mittee in the shape of a bill looking to the reorganization of the Central Pacific system. His proposition is the company shall give a mortgage to the government covering all its property, in considera tion of which it may issue $134,000,000 2b per cent bonds, to run 125 years, to be applied first to the replacement of the mortgage bonds of the Central Pa cific and California and Western Pacific railroad, amounting to $27,853,000; also to the redemption of bonds issue 1 on account of the California and Oregon railroad, amounting to $38,000,000. The bill contains numerous provision look ing to the protection of the government interest in the road. 0. P. Huntington after his argument before the Railroads Committee of the Senate in favor of the extension of the Central Pacific indebt edness by issuing bonds payable in 126 years, bearing interest at $ per cent, was asked by a newspaper correspond ent if he would state in writing over his own signature just what his proposition was. He replied sententiously and per haps a little bit facetiously : " It is a proposition to use the credit of the United States, none of its money, and pay off the indebtedneas. That ii all I can say now," THE MIDWINTER EXPOSITION, i Nearly 200,000 people hare passed the turnstiles of the California Midwinter Exposition during the first two weeks of its existence. This fact establishes the sure success of the Exposition from the standpoint qf attendance, and the verdict of the thousands who make up this grand total has been unanim .ayi in favor of the success of the Exposition from every point of view. Since the opening day, Jan. 27, no special effort has been made to draw the crowds. It has been the aim of tbe Ex position management to let tbe many features of the Exposition speak for themselves, and exclamations of sur prise and satisfaction have been heard on every hand. The exhibits are now practically all in position. There are no hole in the floor, so to speak, and it is noticeable by those who visited the great Columbian Exposition that even the exhibits which were seen there ap pear to have taken on new form here ia Ban Francisco, and the exhibitors have undoubtedly profited by the experience gained on the shore of Lake Michigan. The largest spaces in the center of the great floor of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building are occupied by France, Germany, Russia and Italy. Each of these countries is represented by a display of artistic and useful man ufactures which has never before been seen outside of the great Columbian Ex position, and in most instances the dis plays brought from there have been augmented by new supplies brought across the Atlantic and across the conti nent especially for this display. But in the midst of all this that is not new to everybody, there is so much in the Midwinter Exposition that is uni versally unique and novel that there is nothing of the "old story" about it. The American section is particularly prolific- in novelty, and it occupies the largest space assigned to any one coun try, so that the international character of the Exposition by no means shuts out the glorification of home industries in this beautiful industrial fair. The Palace of Fine Arts has already proved to be a revelation. Such a dis play of pictures has never before been seen in this part of the world. This de partment did not depend on Chicago for its pictures, though it got a great many f the best that were shown there. On the walls of this building are hung later pictures by well-known American, French and German artists, and promi nent among them are something like a hundred of the works of the best artists ef the Pacific- Coast. Connoisseurs say that the Midwinter Art Palace is tho best arranged picture gallery that the world haa ever seen, and it certainly is well adapted for the purpose to which it is put. In the eyes of Eastern visitors the cit rus display naturally attracts the most attention. It seems to be good for East ern eyes to encounter a pear as big as a baby's head and peaches almost as large, to say nothing of so many oranges in heaps and piles and buildings that there is a great gleam of yellow before thera all the while. The rivalry between the .Northern and the Southern Citrus Fairs, both of which are held in the Exposi tion grounds, haa been happily produc tive of the best displays in this line that have ever been made, even in Califor nia. The Northern Citrus Fair awarded its premiums during the past week. The Southern Citrus Fair does not open until Feb. SO. The buildings devoted to this class of displays are proving quite as popular as some of the main Exposi tion buildings, and California citrus fruits are getting the best advertise ment they have ever had. One feature of the Exposition which has emphasized itself since the opening day is the excellence Of the electric illu minations. The system of arc lighting is as complete as anyone could wish, and the incandescent system is well calcu lated to arouse the enthusiasm of the most latent soul. In these beautiful midwinter evenings, whether the moon shines or not, the entire Exposition grounds areas light as day. Long lines of incandescent lights stretch the entire length of each of the main bui!d'ngs and outline all their architectural points. The dome of the Administration build ing is' outlined against the deep blue sky, the straight lines of the Mechanic Arts building are clear cut against the background of the night, the classio outlines of the Fine Arts palace enhanee the effect that structure always has, and the peculiarly effective architecture of the great palace of Manufacturers and Liberal Arts seems never to be seen at better advant age than when its thousands of incan descent electric lights are lighted. The Horticulture and Agriculture building, however, is the one that seems to attract most attention in this partic ular. This is perhaps due to the fact that its lines contain more curves and mere architectural eccentricities than any other, but it is undoubtedly due in a larger degree to the great flood of light which pours through the big glass dome that surmounts the building. Vis itors seem at a loss to decide whether the prettier picture is presented by day, when the deep green of California's mid winter foliage lends its aid, or at night when artificial light plays so prominent a part. All are agreed, however, that the California Midwinter International Exposition is the prettiest World's Fair that has ever been held upon God's foot stool, and the concessionaires, many of whom have staked their all to cross the continent and share the success of this Industrial venture, and who may be con ceded to be good judges of the promise of such an exposition, are united in the opinion that this f .tir will be an immense success, and that that success will be readily recognized without cavil and without te local jealousies that have too often surrounded similar enterprises. The survey of a route for the main line of the Union Pacific through Boise, Idaho, will shortly be made. In fact, orders to that effect have been issued. After a hard struggle the Spokane temperance people have carried the day in their fight not to have any saloon at the site of the new water works, where FOREIGN CABLES. Large Decrease in the Italian Customs Receipts. FAVOR BIRCHING BAD BOYS. Church of England Clergymen Going Over to the Church of Rome The French Navy. More than 2,700 Jews have started from Odessa on their way to England. The Italian bank circulation will be increased by the issue of 125,000,000 lire. The French navy is to be strengthened by the addition of 101 swift torpedo boats. France voluntarily pays $80,000 in demnity to Italy for the Aignes Mortes massacre. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain denies any knowledge of a Unionist scheme for home rule. The number of books published in England last year was 6,382, says the London Telegraph. France is uneasy over the political significance of Bismarck's reconciliation with the German Emperor. The Pope is said to be preparing to issue an encyclical on Catholiz Poles in a tone conciliatory to Russia. . The Austrian Cabinet has decided to introduce in the Reichsrath a bill in creasing the tax on corn flour to 7 francs. Fewer German emigrants left the port of Hamburg, the great point of embar kation, last year than in any year since 1879. - ' . The tax of 10 francs a year on cycles, which was imposed in France last April, yielded in the first half year over 780, 000 francs. The French authorities of Corsica have forbidden n -li h and German doctors to practice lueir profession in that island. The Appeal Court in Dublin has granted to Michael Davitt a certificate in bankruptcy, thus rendering him again eligible to sit in Parliament. Only five out of the thirty-three mem bers of the new Standing Committee on Customs Duties in tbe French Chamber of Deputies are not protectionists. For the first time in her known his tory the city of London has fallen be hind the rest of England and Wales in the rate of population for a decade. Henceforth all Russian emigrants en tering Germany en route for the United States must be healthy, and if over 10 years of age, be possessed of 400 marks in cash. The fortune of Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony in Africa, is set at some where from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000 all made in the diamond mines of that Country. The French Senate by a vote of 132 to 84 agreed to give votes to women en gaged in business at elections. for tribu nals of commerce. This is the begin ning of woman's suffrage in France. Orders for 250 locomotives and several thousand railway carriages have been given by the Russian government to Austrian and Belgian firms, presumably required for the Transiberian railway. . There was a decrease of 7,000,000 lire in the Italian customs receipts during last month, while the revenue from in direct taxation shows a total falling off of 1,000,000 lire in the last six months. Even Bulgaria, with her 100 or less miles of coast line on a small inland sea, has caught the naval fever, and the gov ernment has just voted a sum equal to about $5,000,000 for the establishment of a navy. - The political leaders in the Basque provi nces of Spain will send to Mr. Glad stone a gold-mounted casket containing an address and a sprig from the historic oak of Guernica, the symbol of Basque liberty. : -. . . - A government decree has been issued at Madrid abolishing the obligation of a special passport for entry to the Phillip pine Islands, which for centuries has ir ritated foreign visitors and closed the archipelago. Attention was called in the House of Commons the other day to the injustice of maintaining the Church of England establishment in India by taxation raised almost entirely from persons of the Mos lem and Hindoo faith. A "commer:ial museum " is about to be established at Tangier, Morocco, in which manufacturers and merchants from all countries may exhibit samples of those of their wares which they think best adapted to the Moorish market. Women typewriters, who have hith erto been employed in the government offices in London as supernumeraries, are according to a decision of the Treas ury Department henceforth to be incor porated into the regular civil service. .. Three clergymen of the Church of England went over to the Church of Rome in the course of one week of last month. Fourteen English clergymen have thus changed their church since the judgment in the noted Lincoln case. A resolution in favor of birching bad boys instead of sending them to prison has been sent to the British Home Sec retary, signed by a number of Magis trates. The proposition is to birch boys under 16 for all offenses at the discretion of the Magistrate. The Argentine Republic is rapidly be coming a prominent competitor in the business of supplying grain to the Eu ropean markets. Ship owners of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are taking advantage of the trade and finding em ployment for their vessels. Though Jules Verne's works of scien tific fiction have sold by the hundreds of thousands and returned millions of francs to the publishers, they have earned for their author only $4,000 a year not even enough for him to buy the house he rents at Amiens. The Governor of Sierra Leone tele graphs confirmation of the report of an other engagement between French and British forces on the frontier of Sierra Leone, and says several were killed on both sides, and that the French attacked the British, whose force consisted en tirely of natives. Touching on the af fair, the Pall Mall Gazette says: " We cannot have these things happen weekly. No time should be lost in settling the affair with France." . THE PORTLAND MARKETS. Whsat Valley, 66c; Walla Walla, 75 776c per cental raovisioiia. EaSTSBM SatOKSO MBATS AMD LA Hams, medium, 12(13c per pound; hams, large, hams, picnic, ll12c; breakfast bacon, 1315c; short clear sides. 11(8 13c; dry salt sides, 10!llc; dried beef hams, 1213c; lard, compound, in tins, 9X10c per pound; pure, in tans, ll13e; pigs' feet, 80s, $5.60 ; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.00. HOI'S, WOOl, AMD HIDES. Hops '93s, choice, 1516c per pound; medium, 1012c; poor, 67c. Wool Valley, 10llc per pound; Umpqua, ll12c; Eastern Oregon, 6(3 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. Hioss Dry selected prime. 6c: (Teen. salted, 60 pounds and over, Zc; under 60 pounds, 2 3c ; sheep pelts, shearlings, 1015c; medium, 2035c; long wool, 30 60c; tallow, good to choice, 303)0 per pound. UVS AMD DBBSSSD MA. Bssr Top steers, $2.6O3.00; fair to good steers, $2.002.25; cows, $2,000 2.25; dressed beef, 4hc per pound. Mcttom Best sheep, $2.50; ewes, $2.26; lambs, $ . Hoes Choice heavy. $4.0004.25: me dium, $4.00; light and feeders, $3.90(8 4.00; dressed, 07c per pound. VsAb Small choice, 6c; large, 4o pei pound. COBDAOS. , Manilla rope, IK in. cir. and up, lOc ; manilla rope, 12-thread, diam., lie; manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread, and 6-16 diam., llic; manilla bail rope, in coils or on reels, 10jc; 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 in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal rope, 12-thread, diam., 7c; sisal rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-10 diam., 8c ; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vibe twine, tarred, 7c; sisal paper twine, Sc. stocb, fssd, srrc . Floub Portland, $2.66; Salem, $2.65; Cascadia, $2.66; Dayton, $2.55; Walla Walla, $3.00; Snowflake, $2.75; Corval lis, $2.65; Pendleton, $2.65; Graham, $2.40 ; superfine, $2.25 per barreL Oats White, 3334c per bushel; gray, 3132c; rolled, in bags, $5.76(1 6.00; barrels, $6.006.25; in cases, $3.76. MiLLSTurrs Bran, $1316; shorts, $1516; ground barley. $16(gl8; chop feed, $15 per ton ; whole feed barley, 60(j . 70c per cental; middlings, $2328 per ton; chicken wheat, 66c$1.15 per cental. Hat Good, $1012 per ton. DAIBT FBODCCB. BtJTTXR Oregon fancy creamery, 27 30c; fancy dairy, 22)4 26c; fair to good, 16(8174c; common, ll(312o per pound; Californit, 46c per roU. Chkksb Oregon, 1013c; Califor nia. : Young America, 1215e: Swiss, imported, 3032c; domestic, 16 ioc per pound. ' Eeos Oregon, generally 12(al4cper dozen; Eastern, nominally the same. - Poultbt (Jhickens. mixed. Quoted at $3.00(23.50 per dozen; ducks, $4,600 5.00; geese, $8.00; turkeys, live, lUc per pound ; dressed, 12c 1 VKQXTABLKS AUD FBOITS. Vsorablbs California cabbage, l)c per pound ; potatoes, Oregon, 60(8 75c per sack ; onions (buying price), $1.00(31.10 per sack ; sweet potatoes, 3c per pound ; California celery, 8690o; artichokes, $1.001.10 per dozen ; California lettuce, 2035c per dozen ; Oregon hothouse let tuce, 4050c ; cauliflower, $2.76 per crate, 90c per dozen; parsley, 25c per dozen; sprouts, $1.00(31.25 per box; string beans, 15 18c per pound; asparagus, 12c per pound ; Los Angeles tomatoes, $2.00 per box. Fecit -Sicily lemons, $4.0004.60 per box; California fancy, $3.6004.00; com mon, $2.50(33.00; bananas, $1.50 3.00 per bunch; Honolulu, $1.602.50; Cali fornia navels, $2.25t32.75 per box; seed lings, $1.25 2.00; Japanese, $1.752.00; sunflower, $2.75; apples (buying price), green, 5065c per box; red, 50 75c; late winter pears, 6580c per box. CAMMBD OOOD8. Caskxd Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.752.00; peaches, $1.852.00; Bart lett pears, $1.762.0O; plums, $1.37tfJ 1.50; strawberries, $2.25 2.45; cherries, $2.252.40; blackberries, $15 2.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2,259 8.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00 1.20; blackberries, $1.251.40per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.163.60; peaches, $3.604.00; apri cots, $3.504.00; plums, $2.75 3.00; blackberries, $4.254.60; tomatoes,$1.10. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.60; 2a, $2.25; chipped, $2.40; lunch tongue, Is, $3.60; 2b, $(5.75 7.00; deviled bam, $1.60 2.75 per dozen; roast beet Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.26. Fish Sardines, Js, 75c $2.25; n, $2.154.50; lobsters, $2.30 3.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.261.60; flats, $1.75;2-lbs, $2.26 2.50; -barrel, $5.60. BTAPLa OBOCBBIBS. Coma Costa Rica, 23c ; Rio,2223e ; Salvador, 22c; Mocha. 26X28c; Ar buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, $25.80 Dbied Fboits 1893 pack, Petit prunes, 6 8c; silver, 10 12c; Italian, 8 10c; German. 6 8c; plums, 610c; evaporated apples, 8 10c; evaporated apricots, 15 16c; peaches, 1012c; pears, 7 lie per pound. Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s, $16.00; 80s, $16.60; stock, $8.509.60. Stbdp Eastern, in barrels, 40 56c; in half barrels, 42 57c; in cases, 359 80c per gallon ; $2,26 per keg ; California, in barrels, 20 40c per gallon ; $1.76 per keg. Soqab D, 4,'sc; Golden 0, 4,c; extra C, 4?4C ; confectioners' A, 6)(j c ; dry gran ulated, 6)c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 6o per pound; 14 Pr pound discount on all grades for prompt cash ; maple sugar, 16 16c per pound. Rick No. 1 Sandwich Island, $4,759 6.00; no Japan in market. Beans Small white, No. 1, 2c; No. 2, 2c large white, 2i'c; pea beans, 2c; pink, 2'c; bayou, 23c; butter, 3c; Lima, 3Kc per pound. Picklks Barrels, No. 1, 2830o per fallon; No. 2, 26 28c; kegs, 6s, 85c per eg ; half gallons, $2.75 per dozen ; quar ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen. Raisins London layers, boxes, $1.75 (32.00; halves, $2.0002.25; quarters, $2.25 2.75; eighths, $2.50 3.00. Loose Muscatels, boxes, $1.60; fancy faced, $1.75; bags, 8 crown, 45c per pound; 4 crown, 55c. Seedless Sultanas, boxes, $1.762.00; bags, 68e per pound. Smcbb Whole Allspice, 1830o per pound; cassia, 16 18c; cinnamon,? 40c; cloves, 18"? 30c; black pepper, liuj 25c j nutmeg, 75$S0c ,