3 NEWS S0F, THE. STATE , f T ' James Whitcomb Riley is lecturing in Oregon,- and is dated for Eugene today. The pioneers of eastern Oregon and Washington held their annual reunion at Weston last week. The Yamhill county prisoners asso ciation will hold its annual meeting on the 26th and 27th of June. Some. $2300 in gold, according to re port, has been taken from the Salmon mountain mines in the last six weeks. . The first shipment of wool for the season from The Dalles was made last week when the Regulator took a cargo of 34,000 pounds. , Salem banks are considering a plan to adopt a month of silver payments, and to ship in a car load of silver with which to make the experiment. Coal mining and shipping will begin on the Illinois this week. R. D. Hume, of Wedderburn, will get 100 tons as a starter. The steamer used carries only four tons to the load . S. Price who came from Indiana to Oregon in 1852, brought with him at the time a $1 bill, which he exhibited the other day to a Dalles Chronicle reporter. ' It was issued by the state from the Miami county bank at Troy and at the time was good in Indiana, Ohio and a portion of Kentucky. Nonunion fishermen at points above Wallace island, near Astoria, have armed themselves for defense if at tacked in fishing. Summary measures are threatened should the union men interfere in any way, and it is thought any overt action on the part of the non union men will be a signal for blood shed. . - : The water in Cathine creek is higher than at any time this year, says a re port from Union, and is fully as high as during the flood of 1S94. The sud den rise was caused by a warm rain that prevailed in the mountains last night. There is more snow in the mountains than ever before Known at this time of the year, and still higher water is anticipated. The waterspout in Gilliam county last week did a great deal of damage on Pine creek, destroying gardens and filling up irrigating ditches. John Stewart s garden, on the Hilton ranch, was completely destroyed, as also was that of Mr. Shepley's, on whose garden almost a foot of sediment was left by the flood- All the garden truck on Trail Fork was washed away. BOMBSHELL, AN ARTILLERY DOG He Saved Two Little Children from Se rious Danger. While a gun was being loaded. Bomb shell would sit on the parapet and -watch the operation. That finished, he -would jump up and look out to sea over the range, and then scamper down from the parapet and follow us into the bomb-proof. As usual. Bombshell was on hand to see the test of the new big gun. - r"' r ' He superintended the loading, and, -while I was aiming the gun, he looked over the range as carefully as did the lookout; and from his air of responsi bility one might have supposed that to him had been intrusted the duty of seeing that the range was clear. But when we started for the bomb proof, instead of following us, as was his custom. Bombshell remained on the parapet, looking out to sea and sniffing the air. In a moment he dashed off through the bushes which covered the narrow beach between the parapet and the sea. i Though thinking his actions peculiar, I was sure that he would not remain in . front of the gun, because he had done so oijcs, when quite young and inex- . perienced, and the burning grains of powder which are always thrown out by : the blast of a gun had buried themselves in his skin, burning him badly. He had never forgotten thi. Certain -that he would take care of himself, I paid no further attention to him, but went with the others into the bomb-proof, and took my place by the electric key, ready to fire at the com mand of the captain. . . Just as the command "Fire wa about to be given. Bombshell reap- ' peared on the parapet and 'began to bark furiously into the very muzzle of the gun. ' I called to him,1 but he would not come. Annoyed at the delay of the test, I tried to catch him,' but could not do so. As I approached he retreated, still barking and apparently urging me to follow hiia. . Finally, convinced from the dog's ac tions that something was wrong, the electric wire was disconnected from i - the gun, and I . followed Bombshell. Wagging his tail with joy at having - accomplished his object, he led me through the underbrush to the beach. There, concealed behind a clump of bushes, were two little children quietly digging in the sand and entirely uncon scious of the danger in which they had been. Lieut. John C W. Brooks, in St. Nicholas. Northern Pacific Reduces Time. Commencing Sunday, April 12th, the Northern Pacific runs two tbrougn trains daily, and reduces the running time ten hours between fortiana ana St. Paul, making-the- trip in two days and sixteen hours. Train No. 2 leaves Portland at 5 d. in- and train No. 4 leaves Portland at 11:30 p. m., daily. Each train carries the celebrated up holstered tourist cars, as well as first- class Pullman palace cars; fi rat-class dav ceaches. free colonist sleepers, dining cars, and the usual ' number of other cars. ... The Northern Pacific is the onl line running two through trains out of Portland daily; the onl dining car line from Portland, the only direct lino to the-Yellowstone National f&rK The superior accommodations in pass enger eauiDments and Quick time, run ning full trains right through without change of cars, giyes passengers going east advantages thev cannot enjoy dv any other line. For safety, comfort end excellent treatment the JSortnern Pacific is uneauuled. It costs no more to go east by that good, sale, reliable line tnan Dy any other. For tickets or information write to or call on S. V. Cass, general agent, at the first National bank, Grants Pass, Oregon, or write A. D. Carlton, A. Cr, P. & T. Agt., Portland, Oregon. . NEWS I OF f THE WORLD. Ill" The sixty -sixth annual general assem bly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of the United States is in session at Birmingham, Ala. New presbyteries were reported at Portland, Or,, and Seattle, Wash. The Rev. W. A. Haw kins, of Decatur, 111., . was elected moderator. It is reported at Little Rock that Mrs. Hetty Green will buy in the Little Rock and Memphis road at the fore closure sale of that read. It will become a part of the Texas Midland line. The Chinese Government is about to establish an imperial bank controlled by the Revenue Board, which will pro vide capital to the amount of 10,000,000 taels. The Mayor of Milwaukee has issued a proclamation requesting all law-abiding residents to assist in stopping the commercial war incident to the street car strike.. A fire ad Dallas, Tex., destroyed six stores and caused a loss of $160,000; in surance, $100,000. . The seventieth anniversary of the Congregational Home Missionary Soci ety will, be observed at New Haven June 4th. . ;' Unless the proverbial "unexpected" happen, the Metropolitan Traction Company of New York will be running cars witn compressed air motors in New York by the middle of June. - A most distressing accident befell a crowded car of pleasure seekers at Vic toria, B. C. The car fell through a bridge into the stream and some sixty people were killed. The largest shaft ever quarried in Rhode Island has been removed from a quarry at Westerly. It measures 46 feet in length, and is 4x5 feet at the base. Its weight is estimated at seventy tons. . Havana dispatches give an account of a battle between the Spanish and Cubans in which the former were victorious. The court at San Francisco has run up against the Southern Pacific Rail road Company in the Market street rail road assessment investigation before Judge Wallace, Alvinsa Hay ward and four officers of the company have been adjudged in contempt of court for refusing to submit the books for inspec tion. . Police Judge John Carr died of par alysis at his home in Eureka, CaL He was 68 years of age and a pioneer of 1850. During the gold excitement iu Arizona he left here and became the first Mayor of Tombstone. Judge Carr was the author of 'Pioneer Days in California, " which has had a large sale. He was a prominent Mason and a mem ber of the Humboldt County Pioneers. At Fort Worth, Tex., fire destroyed Ginnochio's Hotel, the union depot and the- freight rooms of the Pacific, Am erican and Unite States express com panies. Loss, $150,000; insurance, $S3, 000. . ' The Anltman & Taylor warehouses at Mansfield, O., in which were stored many threshers and separators, was struck by lightning and burned, caus ing a loss of over $100,1)00, covered by insurance. . The steamboat Ironsides struck a rock and sank in the Ohio river near Parkers burg, W. Va. Henry M. Stanley, who has been so serionsly ill at Madrid as to have made it necessary to send for his wife, has recovered and is able to start for Lon don. - . James S. Clarkson of Iowa is seriously ill at a hotel in New Yerk City. At a banquet in London given by United States Consuls to Patrick Col lins, Consul-General, on Decoration Day Henry Wattersen of Louisville de livered an address in which he said: "That among those who fought so well and valiently during the late unpleas antness, as well as among their descend ants, there was but one feeling a feel ing of thankfulness that God had laid the weight of his hand upon the Con federacy and -preserved the life of the American Union. " . ' The festivities at the coronation of the Czar were ended in a most appalling disaster. No less than 2,500 people were trampled to death in a wild panic at the open air feast at which a half mil lion people were to partake.' The crowd became unmanageable and many were trampled and mangled before the people realized what was being done. During a rifle practice by the Nation al Guards at Parsons, Pa., Obediah Rhodes, one of sergeants, raised his head above the danger line behind the targets and 's killed. The Colorado State Board of Pardon has decided to recommend the pardon of Robert J. Lyons, serving a teu years' sentence for blowing up the shaft-house of the Strong mine during the Cripple Creek insurrection of 1893, , Marcus Mills Pomeroy, better known as "Brick" Pomeroy, a noted newspaper writer of many years ago,' is dead. At the .Newport News shipyard a launch went wreng and the vessel sank and one man was drowned. . The week of May 24th to 80th shows a series of fatal calamities in the fol lowing order: Sunday, May 24th Mas sacre in Island of Crete about 50; cloud burst at Polaria, Iowa, 0. Monday, May 25th Cyclones and cloudbursts in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Michigan, 106. Tuesday, May 26th Steamer Katharia sunk by cyclone at mouth of the Ohio river, 13; Bridge disaster at Victoria, B.C., 55; cloud burst at Crookston, Minn., 7; Wednes day, May 27th Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, about 500. Thurs day, May 28th Cyclone at Carlislo, 111., 11; cloudburst in York county, Pa,, 6. Saturday, May 30th Panic at Moscow, 2,500; .cloudbursts in Missouri, 22. Estimated total, 8,279. It is rumored at Suakim that the In dian troops will advance upon Berber in the autumn. The Khalifa has sum moned the ' Emirs to Omdurman for a war comacii. "POLITICAL POINTERS.; M? - : - ; R. B. Tappan, an attorney at Ala meda and a local politician, has an nounced his withdrawal from the Re publican party on account of an alleged domination by the A. P. A. The Republican convention will be presented with a gavel made frem a log in a cabin built by Abraham Lincoln at New Salem, 111., in 1833. State Senator O. F. Berry, a nephew of Jonathan Berry, Lincoln's partner in a general store, will present the gavel. Of 119 counties in Kentucky 115 have instructed the Democratio delegates to the the state convention to vote for free silver as a party dootrine, Secretary Carlisle's home being among the ma jority. A. canvass of New York state made by the Herald establishes the . fact that a large majority of the Republicans of New York are in favor of McKinley'a nomination for president.' If it could be made to appear that Governor Mor ton had any . chance of becoming the standard-bearer of the party he would receive the support of many who are now for McKinley.. The sentiment for McKinley is strongest in the farming district. Those who were originally in favor of McKinley as a representa tive, of a popular principle have been joined by others who have become con vinced that McKinley is going to win, and who wish to be on the winning side.- These include many "machine" men,- who, while nominally for Morton, do not scruple to admit that they be lieve that McKinley will be the candi date. The uncertainty of MoKinley's position on the money question has no weight in comparison with protective ideas. Chicagoans will redeem their pledge to the Democratic National Convention. Chairman Harrity and his colleagues of the sub-committee will meet in joint conference with the local committee which has charge of the arrangements in connection with the convention hall and the balance of $11,000 of the $40. 000 pledged will be turned over to Mr. Harrity. Final inspection of the Coli seum will be made by both committees, every essential feature agreed on origi nally being now practically completed. Committeeman Sheerin, who has been charged with that duty, will distribute the press privileges and finally pass on the telegraphic facilities to be provided. Rev. Mr. Crabtree, Prohibition candi date for Secretary of State of Ohio, and nearly all co-Prohibitionist officers, will resign, thus necessitating, it is said, a new state and county convention. This action is taken to join the new party organized at Pittsburg. The estimated loss at St. Louis from the recent storm foots np $3,700,000. An English company has been formed in the City of Mexico to fatten Mexican beef for the English market. This movement promises to give good returns j for the money invested. Seven Santa Barbara men who went to Paradise valley in Nevada to become millionaires a month ago. have returned with a mixed crop of experience and j disgust. Iustead of being. the paradise i represented they found it bleak and barren, and part of their tract a worth less river bed. . i The Bay District Race Track at San Francisco has been permanently closed. The fruit growers of the Newcastle fruit district have formed the Placer county, CaL, Fruit Growers' Associ ation. The purpose of the organization is to secure unity of action among the growers, and to prevent the needless cutting of prices. A permanent organ ization will be effected in June. Jose M. Ochoa, for many years a prominent citizen and Recorder of Pinal connty, A. T., has mysteriously disap peared. WAR AS A CIVILIZER. Tlmea When Battle Vai the Only Ef. fectlTe Means. Merchants, undoubtedly, in early times penetrated foreign tribes and na tions, and brought home, in addition to their wares, stories of what they had seen and learned abroad. ' - But ' the merchants were too few, too ignorant and prejudiced, and too little given to observation, to spread much useful in formation in this way; and their peo ples were too self-satisfied to give up any customs and beliefs of their own for those thus brought them. Ilow, then, could any effective result from national contact be produced? In primitive times the only effective agency must have been that of war. Destruc tive as this is in its results, it has the one useful effect of thoroughly com mingling diverse peoples, bringing them into the closest contact with each other, and forcing upon the attention of each the advantages possessed by the other. The caldron of human so ciety must be set boiling before its con tents can fully mingle and combine. War is the furnace in which this ebulli tion takes place, and through whose aetivity human ideas are forced to cir culate through and through the minds of men. Charles Morris, in Popular Science Monthly. MEN OF SIZE. Th Tucker family of Todd county, Ky., weighs 004 pounds, divided among father, mother and two daughters. CONORKSSMAN-ELECT SIT.I.OWAY, of New Hampshire, is six feet six inches high and has a Pciicrian beurd, a big voice and a Salvation Army wife. A Maine college student, six feet ten inches high, has got himself into the papers through trying to hire some one else to write a prize oration for him. Jvlk Rogers, of Marshall county, la., was such a puny little babe that his parents despaired of raising him, but ho weighs S53 pounds now, and is six feet five inches tall. Henry Sterley, U. S. A., is six feet six inches high, a model of manly grace, weighs 230 pounds, has been a member of Emperor William's bodyguard, and has medals won in a military drill in Constantinople. ON TflE ' PACIFIC COAST. ;S !;,.! ' ,; There is talk of establishing a cream ery near Ukiah, Cal. A branch fish hatchery is likely to be established on Eel river. The Los Angeles postoffice turns $1 10, 000 a year, net, into the United States treasury. Colusa has $1,050 cash and $00 in work subscribed for the Fourth of July celebration. Some seventy men are out of employ ment at Colton through the shutting down of the cement works. , The Southern Pacific Railway Com paay has secured the right-of-way from Pomona to South Riverside. T. C Boyce, State Superintendent ol Hatcheries, has placed 20,000 more rain bow trout in the Humbeldt river. ' The Cloesley reflecting telescope, which was presented to the Lick Obser vatory several months ago, has been thoroughly tested. Charles Brown, a brakeman, was knocked down by an engine at Benson, A. T., and had one arm and a leg cut off. The Los Angeles Board of Fire Com mieaioners has asked the City Cooacil for about $125,000 to give the Fire De partment increased faoUitiea. . The apple crop in Lassen county, CaL, will be fair, some injury . having been done by frosts. It is expected that the quality will be superior to that of last year. The water, light and power company of Grant's Pass, Or., has purchased an 8,000-pound turbine wheel, which gives the company 150 horse-power instead of sixty. The City Trustees of Ukiah have passed an ordinance imposing a license tax of $10 per quarter on commercial travelers who sell goods to persons not regularly engaged in business. D. Sanguinetti, a' roadside saloon keeper in Corral Hollow near Stockton, was attacked by, and killed f masked robber who proved to be a man by the Bami of William Anderson, who has lived for ten years on the proceeds of hunting and fishing for the market. The manhunters after murderer Dun ham have found the horse on which he fled, but the villain elude pursuit. Dreadful Malaria. There are numerous diseases having their origin in the blood, but which on the surface do not appear to be a blood disease. Such is Malaria, which is a poison breathed into the lungs, and thus taken into the blood and circulated, im buing the entire system with its morbid effects. Those who have suffered from this dreaded disease know what a life less condition ensues and bow the vitality is wasted away so that death is often caused by some simple malady, because of the low ebb to which life is reduced by this poverty of blood. This condi tion of the blood often gives rise to boils, carbuncles, abscesses and ulcers, and not infrequently causes catarrh, bronchitis, and even consumption. Captain Henry Bond, late of the U. S. Navy, has been a sea-faring man all his life, and has been in all parts of the world, having sailed twice around the Cape of Good Hope, once around Cape Horn and three times through the Suez Canal. 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