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' Kaallw Gotten Orer A orlpDle from a sprain is one who Itngloota to use St. Jacobs Oil to cure it. Prompt use of it brings prompt cure, and tho trouble is gotten over easily. Woman's Weapon Mlifl Tool llox. Keeper Then she picked the catch on her handcuffs, dug through a two foot wall of stone, took out a pniio of plate glass by removing tho putty, and then opened the big lock on the gate. Whut tools hud she? Matron None whatever. Stay. Good gracious, I forgot to tuke away her hairpins I Keeper Then pursuit is useless. She still lias them. Stray Stories. Pains and Aches Of Rheumatism Make Countless Thousands Suffer. But this disease Is cured by Hood's Sar Hiiarilla. which neutralizes tlie acid in the blood. If you have any symptoms of rheumatism tuke Hood BurMipurlllu. nt once and do nut waste time and money on unknown preparations. Tho merit of Hood's HurMiparilla is unquestioned and 1U record of cures uncquulk'd. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America'! Greatest Medicine for rheumatism Hood's PlllB euros!! liver Ills, a cents. Ho Mjatery to lllin "Have you paid any attontion to the race problem?" asked the thoughtful man, as he laid down his paper. "Have 1?" answored the very small man with the massive diamond. "I'm the fellow who taught Tod Sloan how to ride." Washington Star.. DEAPNK88 CANNOT UK CURED By local applications, as thejr cannot roach the diseased portion ol the ear. There Is only on way tucuredi'Slness, and that Is by coiwtltu tlonal remedies. Deafness Is caused by an In flamed condition ol the mucous ItnliiK of the Eustachian Tuho. When this tube gets In flunii'd yon have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it la entirely closed dcafncKS Is tho result, and unless the Inflamma tion can be taken out and Ihls tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever: nine eases out ot ten are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing hut an inflamed condition ol the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any caseol DcaincBsJcauaed by catarrh) that can not lie cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, rrie j cilENKY & CO., Tolodo, 0. Bold by DrtiKglsts, 7S0 Hall's family fills are the beat Bamboo pons still retain thoir hold In India, whuie they have boon in usu for more than 1,000 yoars. If you want the best wind mill, pumps, tanks, plows, wagons, bells ot all sizes boilers, engines, or general machinery, see or write JOHN l'OOMC, foot of Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon. A New Invention Hying Top. The latest invention ot considerable morit is the "Flying Top," invented by a Wostorn boy. It is so easy to oporalo, that a boy six years of ago can manago it without any difficulty. The top is constructed on tho principlo of a flying maoliine and by simply pulling A cord, ascends from 50 to 800 foot, or, until its momentum ceases, when it gradually descends like a paruohuto, still spinning wlion it Btrikus the ground. TITS Fernuuw-ntly Cured. N o fits or ncrvousnes 9 of Dr. Kline's llri.ftt sllv after lirst itay's use of Dr. iMcrveitestunr. Henu lor thick ata.oo trial bottloand treatise. DR. It, li, JUdWii, Ltd., mo Arch itraet, e hllaarii.ula. , Venice Will lie Drained. Vonioe without its waters would bo a far loss picturesque pluoe than it ac tually Is, says the London Chronicle. And stioh a state of affairs, we aro lad to boliove, may eventually como about. The regular itiorenfio in the delta of tho Fo has been studied by Prof. Murinul li. Comparison of tho Austrian map of about 1823 with the records ot sur veys made in 1803 shows that the mean annual increase during those yoorB has been about tnroo-tontiis oi a squuio mile; and. from all known data it ap pears that the total increase during six centuries has been about 108 square miles. The inooimu is continuing anil the 3 1: 1 f of Venice is doomed in timo to disappear. No immediate alarm need, howovor, ho excited, for Prof. Murinolli calculates that between 100 and 130 centuries will elapse before tho entire Northern Adriatic will havo be come dry land. ! KITcot of Coffee Drinking on Kvea. gmtitkin, according to the Medical Review, says that the Moors itro invet erate cofleo drinkois, especially tho morchants, who sit at their bazars and drink continually during the day. It has boon noticed that almost invar iably when tln'80 coffee drinkers reach tho ago of 40 or 45 their eyesight be gins to fail them, and by tho time they gut to be GO yenis old they become blind. Ono is forcibly improBuod by the number of blind men seen about the streets of Fez, tho capital of Mo rocco. It is invariably attributed to the excessive usu of coffee. N. Y. Medical Times. A Colon ia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexi co, correspondent of the Now York World thus describes the model town in which ho lives: "Ours, is a town of about 1.000 inhabitants. Eleven years have passed ninco the 11 rut tent was pitched by the first settler. Now we havo hundreds of dwellings owned by the dwellers -no millionaires, no beg gars. We aro in a chamber of the mountains 6,000 foot high. Fifteen miles of bills and hollows part us from the nu.iiost railroad station. Wo have no saloons, no gauilbing, no smoking, j no profanity, no round dancing at our socials. We have ono police officer, j Nearly ovoiy man owns a gun. Our academy building has 0,000 square feet of Moors and 250 students. If you can bout this, please put in waste basket." DON'T DELAY.... In securing tho COMiMlilA AOKNCV forlSIKi; one day's delay may remit In your competitor netting It. We are the only bievela house having delivery iml'it In the North weHt. Prompt delivery of nil orders atsur.'d. Dealers wlio handle the COI.IIMIUV and II A It I I'd It I) line will have a double advant age over others who do not. We have Im proved mo iilily of our product, while our Incri'axed output enables us to reduce our prices, as follows: Columbia Chalnlesa m I"f 00 Columbia Models 67-SS SO (10 Columbia Models 't pattern, '09 im provement! - 4U UU POPE MANUFACTURING CO., Controlling Oregon Waihlnoton, atontani and Idaho 182-31 SlXth St., PO Ttlaild, Of A SWORN STATEMENT. I, C. K. Rollins, M. P., of (Irasa Valley, Or., voluntarily make the following; statement; After having" my teeth extracted 1 have had live sets made at intervals of about nine months, three in Portland, one in San Kraueiseo and one In Spokane. With neither of thexe have I been able to eat a meal's victuals or even an apple or rlpo peaeh. On Heeember U. lS'.W, 1 bad my slKth set made by Dr. Htrvlter, I. O. (). F. Temple, First and Alder, 1'ortland, Or., and within t wen Iv minutes after the time they were put into my month 1 w as able to eat a common hard winter apple and a piece of dried venison, and at this time, Peeemlier loth, have eaten every meal since with the greatest comfort and Willi uo troub.o at all. They aro a perfect lit aud satisfactory In aver. r respect C. It. UOj.I.INS, M. 1). KefffdiCii: French Bros, flank, The Palles, Or j ,;.'erman Co. Hank, Vtasuo, Or. Win. Holder, Sheriff of Sherman Co.; Drs. A. S. Nichols and K.- Jer, I'ortlana, Or. (iubicrlhed ana sworn to before Ol this Uth day ol Herein her, 1MW. lani.) .JOU.NOUa.HJiK, Notary Publlo for Or0. Ownership of Wedding Presents. A recent decision in Springfield. Mass., as to the ownership of wedding presents is that where such presents are sent to the bride before marriage as is the custom, tho presents are her property, and remain so even if a sop aration takes place after marriage. View of a Layman. 13:11 What do you reckon that doc tor tumps mo all over do chest for? Juke Tryin' to gee how much dough you bad in your inside pocket, of course. Cincinnati inquirer. II Knew Not All. lie You think you know it all, don't you? Him No I have never been able to figure out any reason for yoa being alive. Indianapolis Journal. Samples of merchandise carried by a traveling salesman are hold, in Kansas City, P. & O. K. company vs. stute (Ark.), 41 h. It. A. 833, not to be bag gugo within a statute regulating charges on exocss baggago. Woasuls and skunks flro enemies of the careless poultry keeper. All poul try should bo kept in quarters made secure at night from these depredators. Openings for ventilation should be oovered with wire soreens. REGAINED HEALTH. Gratifying Lottera to Mrs. Pink ham From Happy Women. "I Owe Too My Life. Mrs. E. Wooi.iiiskr, Mills, Neb., writes: " Deab Mrs. Tinkham : I owe my life to your Vegetable Compound. The doctors said I had consumption and nothing could bo dono for me. My menstruation had stopped and they said my blood was turning1 to water. I had several doctors. They all said I could not live. I began tho use of Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it helped mo right away; menses returned and I have gained in weight, I have better health than I have had for years. It is wonderful what your Coin pound has done for mo." "I Feel Like a Now Person. Mrs. Geo. Leach, 1009 Belle St., Alton, 111., writes: " Before I began to take your Vege table Compound I was a great sufferer from womb trouble. Menses would ap pear two and threo times in a month, causing me to bo so weak I could not stand. I could neither sleep nor eat, and looked so badly my friends hardly knew me. " I took doctor's medicine but did not derive much benefit from it. My drug gist gave me ono of your little books, and after reading it I decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetublo Com pound. I feel like a new person. I would not give your Compound for all the doctors' medicine in the world. I can not praise it enough." The Tibetans have a wook of five days, namod after iron, wood, wator, foatheis and eaith. I ircver used so quick a euro as Flso's Cure fur Consumption. .1. H. rainier, liox 1171, Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25, 18U5. No fewer than 2,401 patents havo boeu taken out on procossos for making sugar and salt. Hogs aro fattened on oranges in Paraguay, and orange-fed pork is said to bo very good. Wiii'inth und Htrength. Tho cold of winter certainly aggra vates rhuumntism, nnd at all seasons St. Jacobs Oil is its master cure. It imparts warmth and strongth to tho muscles, and etrtes. Among tho industrial novelties aro aluminum carpets and Bteol billiard balls. When coming to Run Francisco go to Brooklyn Unlet, 2(18-212 Hush street. American or Kuropeun plan, lioom and board $1.(10 to tl.M per day j rooms 60 cents to $1.00 per iuy; slnRlo meals 25 cents. Freo coach. (Jims. Montgomery, Mrs. Klclrurd King, of Texas, owns 8,000 sipiaio miles of land in that state. To Cure n Cold In One Hay Take Laxative Ilroino Quinine Tablets. All driiKgists refund money if it fails to cure. 2ftc. In 1850 tho highest houno in Now York city had only five stories. No household is coinpleto without a bot tle of the famous Jesso Moore Whiskey. It is a pure and wbolesomo stimulant rec ommended by all physicians. Don't lie Kleet this necessity. Taxes on boards are luivud in Japan ese cities. TItY AM.KN'S FOOT-KAHK, A powtlor to be shaken into the Bhoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner vous and uncomfortable. If you have smarting feet or tight Bhoes, try Allen's lAiot-ldise. It rests and comlorts; makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous npols. ltelieves corns and bunions id' all piun und is a cer tain euro for Chilblains, Sweating, damp or frosted feet. Wo have over thirty thou sand testimonials. Try it (eday. Sold by nil druggists ami shoo utoras for 25c. Trial package KHK10. Address, Allen 8. Olm sted, La Key, N. Y, Tho rivers in Northern ltnssia were fiozen thiB year before tho oud of Oc tober. Columbia Model 40, Hartford Vedettes, Strictly I'p-to.pato We Job blcyele sundries. Write fur terms and discounts. Hu. ....$: 00 .... Itt 00 NEWS OF NORTHWEST Items of General Interest Cleaned From tli. Thriving 1'aolUo States. A Wheat I'vodlieer. Uniontown, Wash , olaitni for the southeastern corner of tho Pulonse country the distinction of being the greatest wheat-pioducitiK section ot the world. Within a radius of six miles of that thriving town there were raised this year ppwurds of 1,600,000 bushels of wheat, with good crops of barley, oats, hay, vegetables, etc. Fall wheat averaged from 43 to 53 bushols to the acre and spring wheat 23 to 90 bushels. If any other ambitious cor ner of the world desires to contest honors for supremacy in grain-iaising the opportunity is offered. Telephone. Extension. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company will soon oonneot Ilailey, Idaho, with all prominent pluoes by long distance telephone. A line will be constructed from Boise to Camas Prairie, thence to Ilailey by the Gold Belt, and then to Bluckfoot. Ilailey will be the headquarters of the 800 nrile line between the Utah & North ern and Boise. Telephone lines aro Do ing extended over tho principal parts of Burns, Or., and the Prineville Tele phone Company is making extensivo improvements. Hops. A contraot to sell 12,000 pounds of the 1803 hops at 10 cents per pound bus been made by Daniel Cavunaugh to Faber & Nets, of Albany. Pros poets for fair prices for this year's crop are very fluttering. Hop men in Oro. gon who hold their crops and thus ob tained better prices are now out of debt for the first timo in several years. Ilorst Bros, bought sovorul lots lit North Yakima within 10 days at 12 J. and 18 cents. Advance In Kg-gs. Eggs are worth 60 conts a dozen at Colfax, Whitman county. It would soom policy for the Whitman farmers to raiso a million or two bushols less wheal and put in a few acres of hens, It is much cheaper to raise a dozen eggs than a bushel of wheat, yet Whit man and other Eastern Washington oountios, whluh produced noarly 16, 000,000 bushels of wheat last year, mport thousands of dollars' worth of daiiy and hog products and eggs every year. Cnnyonvllla Industries. Tho growing and shipping of fruit in the vioinity ot Canyonville is now so fur advanced as to bring in consider able of a revenue. Prunes to the amount of 1,500,000 pounds have been sold at tho average lute of ovor three cents per pound, bringing in ovor 48, 000. Bhippors are now getting ready large consignments of winter apples, and the prevailing prioe for turkeys if from 0 to 10B cents gross. Lime, sul pbur and salt for spraying purposes aie now in demand. Bromine-Chlorine Plunt. An innovation in mining that will be of the greatest value to the people of Eastern Oregon is the establishment at Baker City of a bromine-chlorine plant, for tho working of refnetory ores, winch have hitherto Ceon con sidered as worthless. The Uoloondu plant, being erooted by J. G. English und others, and which is expected to bo in operation very soon, will incroaflo to a groat extent tho busi nuBS of the Baker City merchants. I.lme Bhipmenta. Tho Tacoma & Ilocho Harbor Lime Company, whioh is tho chief lime works In tho Northwest, shipped 100, 000 barrels last year, against 90,000 in 18U7. The increase was both (oroign nnd local, and tno proBiiiont, J. s. aio Millin, says he expects an incroasj thil year of at least 60 pur oant, baaing hie estimates on trade conditions and or ders now on hand. This business it a fair indicator of the demand foi building material. lllg Cargo to the Orlont. The N. Y. K. stonmship Kiojun Mum sailed from Seattlo last week foi the Orient, with one of tho heaviest cargoes ever taken from that port. Tlx fruiuht Included 4,000 hulos of cotton, 18 carloads of pig lead, 14 cars of wood palp, besides a great quantity of floin and miscellaneous goods. Anothui cargo soon to be shipped to tho same port will contain 700 tons of salted salmon, brought over from tho Fraser liver. Illda for ounly Honda. The county commissioners of Gal latin county, Mont., received bids last Monday for tho purchase of funding bouds to the amount of 1187,000. Theso bonds are made payable in 20 yoats, and aio to bear interest at the rata of 5 pel cent per annum, puyuhlt Romi-uunuully in the city of Bozeman. The oounty reserves the right to redeem any of tho bonds utter 10 years, by giving 00 days' notice. Klnx Industry Growing. A result of recent agitation through out Oregon for tho cultivation of llax, ns a commercial commodity, is the lowing of a considerable aoreage this fall to tlaxseod. The Portland Linseed Oil works is furnishing seed to farmers on application, agreeing to take their pay from proceeds of crops raised, foi which crop they will contraot at prices that mean handsome returns. Mew llanlc Proposed. A new hank, the second in tho town, is a new project now being planned for Lowiston, Mont. The capital is ex pected to hoflOO.OOO, of which amount Fergus county people have already subscribed for fOO.OOO worth. George Bach, formoilv of Utictt, will be cash ier, and the principal promoteis are II. Hodgson, David linger, Herman Otten and Louis Landt. The bunk will open its doois in perhaps a week or two. During tho season the Northoin Pa cific has shipped from the ranges to Eastern terminals for Northwestern aud Chicago markets 10,000 head of oattle, an increase of 5,000 over the previous season; 515,000 hoad ot sheep, an increase of 15.000, and 8,000 horses, an Increase ot over 60 per nent. The present season lias not yet oloscd. According to the correspondent in the Spokane Keview, the mining town of Kepublio in Enateru Washington, offers exceptionally fine opportunities to capital to eiect waterwoiks. It ap pears wator is now telling at 60 oentt s barrsl. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Portland Market. Wheat WJla Walla, 60c; Valley, (32c; Bluestem, 63o per bushel. Flour Best grades, 8.20; graham, $2.05; superfine, 93.1S per barrel. Oats Choice white, 4041c; choice gray, 80 40o per bushel. Barley Feed barley, 2224; brew ing, f 28.50 per ton. Millatuffs Bran, tn per ton; mid dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $18.00 per ton. Hay Timothy, $910; clover, $7 8; Oregon wild hay, $0 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 6065oj seconds, 4550o; duiry, 4045o store, 2630o. Cheese Oregon full cream, 12Joi Young America, 15o; new cheese, 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.258 per dozen; liens, $3. 50 4. 00; springs, $1.258; gocBe, $0.00(37.00 fur old, $4.605 for young; ducks, $5.00 6.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 160 10c per pound. Potatoes 7085c por sack; sweets, 2c per pound. Vegetables Beots, pOc; turnips, 76o per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage $11.26 per 100 pounds; cauli flower, 75o per dozon; parsnips, 75o per sack; beans, 8o per pound; celery 706375c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per box; peas, 33 Wc per pound. Onions Oregon, 75o$t per sack. Hops 1617o; 1807 crop, 40o. Wool Valloy, 1012o per pound; Eastern Orogon, 812e; mohair, 20c per pound. Mutton Gross, bost sheep, wethers and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton. 7sc; spring lambs, 7i'c per lb. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.25; light and feeders, $3. 004. 00; dressed, $5. 00 6. 50 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 8.60$3.75; cowb, $3. 50 3. 00; dressed beef, 60c per ponnd. Veal Largo, 00c; small, 78c por pound. Seattle Murknta. Onions, 8500o per 100 pounds. Potatoes, 20$325. Boots, per suok, 75c. Turnips, por sack, 6075c. ' Carrots, per sack, 45 00c. Pursnips, per sack, $1. Cauliflower, 6000o por doz. Celory, 8C40o. Cabbage, native and California $1.00 1.50 por 100 pounds. Apples, 85 50c per box. Pears, 50c$1.50 por box. Prunes, 60o per box. Butter Creamery, 27a por pound; duiry and ranch, 1822c per pound. Eggs, 27c. Cheose Native, 1212c. Poultry Old lions, 14o per pound; spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 10c. Fresh meats Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 67c; oows, prime, Bc; mutton, 7go; pork, 07o; veal, 3(3 8o. Wheat Feed wheat, $32. Outs Choice, per ton, $24. Hay Pugot Sound mixed, $9.00 11; choice Eastern Washington tim othy, $16. Corn Wholo, $23.60; cracked, $24; foed meal, $33.60. Barley Boiled or ground, per ton, $2620; wholo, $32. Flour Patent, por barrel, $3.50; straights, $3.25; California brrnds, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham, per barrel, $3.00; wholo wheat flour, 13. 75; rye flour, $4. Millstuffs Bran, por ton, $14; shorts, por ton, $10. Feed Chopped foed, $2023 pet 'ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Ban Frnticlsco Market. v Wool Spring Nevada, 1012o per pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012o; Vul ley, 1517c; Noithorn, 9llc. Millstuffs Middlings, $1831.00; bran, $15.50(3 10.60 per ton. Onions SilvorBkin,5075cpor sack. Buttor Fancy creamery, 28o; do seconds, 25 20c; fancy dairy, 20o; do bocoiuIs, 20(u)33c per pound. Eggs Store, 2580o; funcy ranolr, 3i37o. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valoncia, $3 (42.60; Mexican limes, $00.50; Cali fornia lomons, $3. 00. 800; do ohotoe, $3. 60 4. 50; por box. The Seven Devils. It is currently believed that tho Northern Paoillo 1b making slronuous efforts to establish a lino to connect with the Sovon Dovils railroad, nnd thus tap a rich copper region. The Northwostern Railwuy Company has also throe crows ot surveyors in the field, and is preparing the way for graders from Huntington to the Ox- 'jond of Snake river, and from there to tho Peacock mine. There are now V8 O. It. & N. survoyors woiking from Keating, on Lowor Powder river, to Wagle valley, arranging for tho con struction work fioiu Baker City to Seven Dovils. A Good Showing. The Whatcom creamery has turned out 83,840 pounds of butter, or over id tons sinco May 1, 1898. Patrons ue- Mvcr their oroam and tecoive 24 ceati :cr pound for the butter yielded. Tho ii in ol $0,803 lias thus been paid out io Whatcom oounty residents since May. The oreamoiy will continue in oponl j'iuu all winter. Tt is Biii.l that the eleotiio cabs in Now Yrk city did a rocoid business during tho blizzard and proved ineir entire efficiency. The Golden Spike. February 1 the oitizons of Globe, Ariz., will celebrate the completion to that point of the Gila valley, Globe & Northern. The regulation golden spike will be driven, and the citizens of Olobo will make the event an auspi- lous one. The probabilities are that tho Southern Pacitlc will make special raiets to Globe ftoni all points between 1.08 Angeles and El Paso, and that the inhabitants of that section of country tv ill turn out in gala attire. According to tho Electrical Review. Prof Henry A. Rowland, the distin guished physioist of John Hopkins university, believes ho has perfected a ! message telographio system a de cided advance on the quadruple: so iniversally used. According to a recent compilation, Germany has 711 miles of electric rail ways, equal to those of all the lest of Europe together. England is credited with only 98 miles. Most ot the hrger towns ot Germany have electtio ines, and tho whole system of Meilin by the year 1901 be cenveiUd to slectrioit I VETO MESSAGES RETURNED. Governor Rogers Sends the Wanted Documents to the Senate. Olympia, Wash., Jan. 13. Imme diately after the reading of tho miittues in the senate, Lieutenant-Governor Daniels announced the standing com mittees. Plummer called for a committee of five to group the committees and recom mend the number of clorks. Carried. High presented a memorial from Clark county settlers. Ha asked that the memorial be refotrod to the com mittee on memorials, but that, inas much as a similar document had been introduced in the house, he did not de sire tire state put to the expense of printing the memorial. On motion of Yoend, W. C. Gray, of Stevens oounty, who is contesting the seat of Senator C. A. Mantz, was al lowed the privilege of the floor of the senate. The committee on the compensation of senate employes reported as follows: Secretary, $5; assistant secretary, $4.50;6ergeant-at-arms, $5; assistant sergeant-at-arms, $4; minute, journal and enrolling, engrossing and assistant engrossing, bill and dockot oloiks and stenographer, $4 each; judiciary clerk, $4.60; pages, $2; all other employes, including committee clorks, $3.60. The vetoes of Governor Rogers on bills acted upon since the adjournment of the lust legislature were presented, togother with the namos of the ap pointees of the governor. Tlio confir mation of appointoos was made a spe cial ordor for January 20, at 11 A. M. On motion of Mogler, the vetoes were made a special order for January 17. The votes cover, among others, tho gen eral appropriation bill. The excep tions are: "Tho appropriation of $35, 600 for the Choney normal school, $17,600 for tine maintenance of the Whatcom normal school, and $20,000 for the equipment and improving the grounds of the said Whatcom normal sohool are hereby objected to and dis approved, the reason for such disap proval being such appropriations are opposed to a just public policy at the present time. With these exceptions tlio bill is hereby approved." Senate bill 250 appropriated $1,745 for the relief of George W. Bubcock. The governor's objections aro: "From information and belief, I consider this claim unjust. The olaimant has his romedy in the oourts." Senate bill 194, relating to tidolands, the chief exocutive considers unconsti tutional. The oommittoe on grouping commit tees was named as follows: Plummer, Wilshiro, Paul, Mogler and Carper. Clerk's Salaries Fixed. . The first business of the day in the house aftor invocation by Rev. Homy L. Badger, reotor of St. John's, was upon the special ordor involving the adoption of the committee report scheduling salaries of employes. Mr. Bellows submitted an amend ment horizontally reduoing the schedule 50 cents on euoh employe, but allowing the propoBod $3 extra compensation to the speaker to stand. Roll-call on the proposed amendment on salary of chief olerk showed the relative strength to stand about 47 to 23 in favor of sus taining tho commit too. After ono more test ot strength, the amendment was withdrawn by Mr. Bellows, and the committee report was adopted. The speaker was authorized, on mo tion of Smith of King, to employ a sec rotary at a salary of $4 per day. Boats presented a potition from en gineers and steam users of Skagit and Snohomish counties for a law compell ing inspection of boilers. A resolution prevailed, offorod by Gundorson, calling upon the state land commissioner's offloe for informa tion concerning value of tho state's granted capitol lands. TheBpeakor ap pointed Gundorson, Miniud and Bod ford as such committee. A memorial was offered by Daniels, praying for tho pensioning of Indian war veterans. APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED. Governor Geer'a University Regents Satisfactory. Salem, Jan. 13. Governor Goer sont to tiro senate this morning the ap pointment of Dolph, Bean and Senator William Smith, of Bukor, as mem bers of tho board of regonts of tlio state university, and Holt as trustee of the Soldiers' Home, the same as Governor Lord had namod, and whioh wore with drawn yestorday except Smith in pluoe of Kincaid. The nomination of Smith "took the wind out of the sails" of the opposition to tho governor, as Soiling expressed it, and instead of a fight ull wero confirmed immediately. Two Additional Justices. Upon the assembling of the house the committoo on resolutions reported back a resolution providing for an ex amination of the hooks of the state board of school land cominisBionors, with an amendment that the commit tee be allowed only one clerk, at a sal ary of $3 per day. The resolution was adoptod as amoni'ed. Aftor the first leading of the hill by Beaoh of Multnomah to regulute building and loan associations, Moody asked the consent of the house to take up and place on its third reading the bill providing for relief of the supreme court, and an increase of the number of justices of the supreme court to five. The bill passed by a vote of 87 to 17. rinn to Modernise Rome. Rome, Jan. 18. The Marquis di Modici has prepared for the govern ment his plans of a project to make Rome a seaport. Ho estimates the cost at $12,000,000. Medici is one of the wealthiest men in Italy, and is prominent as an engineer. He has al ready executed gigantic works regulat ing the flow of the river Tiber, at a cost of over $60,000,000, and con structed a number of railroads and other feats of engineering. Half a Town Destroyed. ' Halifax, N. S., Jan. 14. Fire to day destroyed half of Bridgewater, a prosperous shipping and mill town on La Have river, entailing a loss of $250,000. Of 63 stores on Main street only two remain. Seventy buildings were burned. Bill for Paclfle Coaat Cutter. Washington, Jan. 14. Senator Fer kins, of California, today introduced a bill for the construction of a revenue cutter of the first class, to be used on thu Pacific ccast, cost not to exceed $360,000. DR. DARRIN'S CURES. Baker City Rcpublicaa. Those who are disposed to doubt Dr. Damn's cures will have their doubts shaken on reading the following card from Mr. John Martin, of Cove, Or. Mr. Martin is a man well and favora bly known to all of our readors. and a man ot 20 years' residence in Union county. His oase will go far to estab lish the skill of Dr. Durrin: For the benefit of the afflicted as well as Dr. Durrin, I will stute I had been afflicted 10 years with hydrocele and other troubles before being treated and cured by Dr. Durrin, five years ago, in Portland. I am happy to say the cure was perfect and permanent, and I am now a woll man. I reside at Cove, Or., and will gladly answer any inquiries. JOHN MARTIN. Dr. Dnrrln'a l'lnce of Ituslueas. Di. Durrin gives freo examination to all, and when necessary gives modi cinos in connection witli electricity. Tho poor treatod tree from 10 toll daily, except medicines. Thoso will ing to pay, 10 to 6; evening, 7 to 8; Sundays, 10 to 12. Deafness, oatarrh, eye, nnse and throat, heart, liver, stomach, lung troubles, errors of youth, blood taintB. gleet, impotoncy, varicocele, hydrocole, strioturo, gonorrhea ami syphillis a specialty. Cross eyes and hydrocele operuted on until January 12. All ohronio male and female and private diseases treatod at reasonable latcs. No oases published except by permis sion of the patient. All business rela tions with Dr. Darrin strictly confi dential. Lottors of inquiry answored. Circulars and question blanks senl freo. Battories and belts furnished whon necossary. Ofllco, 263 Morrison street, Portland. HI etuis. ' Four hundred years ago only seven metals were known. Now there aro 61, 80 of which have been discoveted within the prosout century Chicago Inter Ocean. k Haocs of the j YYotf YYixn ap&in thousand of them, 4,Te Suf fering from lingering dis eases induced by life in poisonous southern c&mpa. j tne resuii or cnonges ot y climate, or of imperfect 7 nutrition Caused by im- V proper and badly cooked (O food. Sleeping on the ground l has doubtless developed rheumatism in hundreds C who weTe predisposed to j7 the disease. In suchcses . the Boys of 98 may take a lesson fvom the experi ence of the S Heroes of the I Civil WdT. 5 Hundreds of the Boys ,7)1 of '63 have testified to the C? efficacy of Dr. Williams" Pink Pills for Pale People in driving out malaria, vho.imAfiam And fit hpY dise&sei contracted during their d.ys of hardship and pTivation (n the aTmy, These pills are the best tonic in the world. A Bnhlnson of Mt. Bt6r11nr. 111.. Is a veteran of the Civil war.hnvlnff served In the Sjrd Pennsylvania Volunteers. He went to the war a vitor ous farmer s hoy and came back broken in health, a victim of sciatic rheu matism. .Most of the time he was unfitted for manual labor of any kiud. Li aMOVf-mira v.n nt nil tt.ncA illtCtlRC. He SHVS ! "Nothing Seemed mill IIW Pllilv. llla u. ,........ to dive me permanent relief until for Pale People. I had not taken more Improvement in my condition, .and 1 I owe my restoration to health. I'hcywre a grand remedy." MU ttriing At all droprcr'mv or strtt.poitpada.on rtcttpt of price, 50 tt. per k K- V,.r.. w;il',xm. Mrl,L.nt Co.. BV. Schffnettkdv H.Y. A. n - - 4- n n 4- Drim Ci.tiiloRuc I I Cut Rate Drug CiitiiloRuc FREE... Voodard,CliirlieaCo., pSUjl ..Vi. YOUR LIVER Is it Wrong? Get it Right Keep it Right Moore's Kerealed Itemed y will do It. Three doBca will uiake you feol better. Get It from your drucclst or any wholesalo drug homo, or bom Stewart & Holmes Drug Co.. Seattle. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES It. lots Crowned, ltrldnea Mndo. , l'uinloss IIUIiiK nnd extrnetlon. Dr. T. H. White, SSr- Relief at Last P rained br thousands of tatUflert lfuflps ait iMife, a) wuj'i reliable ami without an equal. Auk druggist for Dr. uartol'i French Female rJARTEtS French MA1 IP MILS1 ! run in mcvai uo won White and Rod. Insist on having the genuine. "rieliei lOr women, maiiwirivr.n.in paur.v.. letter with testimonials and nartloulara. Add, ess, .n.in nn not M 401 Baa.1 Gt M T aVHtMi:M uNUbiiU.. aid i inu 00) r ! and always art your moneys worth, rue ci" v" v v bcsl. 8.''dAnnul Tree. Terywner. 1.M- r KKKY Jt I.U.. ..JUST OUT.. THE FLYINC TOP. The rreatest Invention of theatre. We willscrd sample, prepaid, on rocylpt of 2c. We Rlveup - Ciai prlWB lJ BK-"19. .lUMiooiniff va sin aa aiiiti Ad. aA IV in l I .1UW SrtlUlUT our novelties. PAt'IKlO COAST NOVELTY CO.. lol Flret street, Portland, Or. Hi I air 1ft Hrt. ill Ml Couab syrup, rasies oouo. usr in tmv (i pv aniRKiMs. In bnylna s.eds I k M V "eeonomr la ealraiT-V drag-n.iiir," becsnne the oostL r foi tultHstlon wanted on InferiorX f seods always lsrsflr SI0.8.U tlia M E J orlalnal oo.t ot the beet seeds to M I be h.l. Thebert Is alw.js the II I obespee. Pay a trille more Jur f FERRY S h SEEDS U ft and always art your money's f J I worth. Fle ceVte per 1P' II s a . 'j .w 0r ESS Water Tower Abandoned. The famous incline railway at Pros pect Park, Niagara Falls, ia to be oper ated electrically according to a recent decision of the No Yor k State Park Commissioners. Heretofore this rail way has alwuys been operated by water power, but in view of the fact that during the great ice bridges, when tourists flock to sea this marvolona sight, from all over the stitto, tho rail way is uually inoperative. This has been duo to the ohocking of the intake with ice and very often too low water. As there is no other moans of access without a tedious descent and ascent, the tourists havo been greatly incon venienced, and the management have lost considerable money. With abun dant electric powor available from the Niagara FuIIb Powor Company the elec tric operation of the road appears to bs most apropos. Germany nod Aalii Minor. It Is Incvltnhlo that Asia Minor shall even tually psss from the poss.waloo of Moham. medanlsin, and whether (lurinuiiy accoinidlshes the tank or not, the Sultan must yluld to a Christian nation. 11 l hint as Inovltahle that dlBc ai.'H of the dlirustlve organs mist yield to Hosteller's stomach Bitters. Tho disorders ol this kind are usually culled dyspepsia, consti pation and biliousness. The Hitters are equally Rood for all such complaints, reuardless of lua name. . Uue or Many. Mrs. Weeks What business is your husband engaged in? Mrs. Meeks He operates in stocks. -"Is he a 'bull' or a 'bear' ?" "Both. He's a bull at the stock cxohtttigo and a bcur at home." Chi cago Evening News. The Thing to On. When tho Sciatic nerve gives its woist torment in tho shape of Sciatica, the one thing to do is to use St. Jacobs Oil promptly and fuel sure of a cure. Perfectly Harmless. Dix I once knew a young man who smoked 50 cigarettes daily without any particular harm resulting there from. Hix Is it possible? Dix Yes; and the only noticeable effect was tho doath of the smokor. Chicago Kvening News. I . n three years afro, whin my attention was limn hnlf a hox when I noticed an 'Iiei ll.r hv 1 keep on improvine steadily. Tothem $40 CASH, $45 INSTALLMENTS 1899 ccW BICYCLES "Heat Whoel on Earth." 1600 Ideals 122.50, 25, $30. Bend for catalogui. Live agents wanted everywhere. rain t. mkkuill cycle CO., POUTLAN0, BI'OKANE. TACOMA, SUBUIK1.11 NEW MULTIFLOF.A ROSES. With seed of tnt'se now Roses, punts in v be hsd la bloom tn 60 days from time of sowing. Plant at any time. They (trow quickly and flowers appear In lsrR quantity. Perfectly htmly In tho Rsrdon, where they J..... ill iimmnP In rmttt tlmv t)l(M-iin hnlh HIimniRI .aid winter. From a pricket of seed one will get Rose of various colors white, pink, crinmon, etc no two alike, and very sweet. Bend as 10 cents and the iiamas of 6 or more jnople whom you know buy seodj or plants, and we will mail you a pnoket of Oils Rosa Seed with our great Colored Plnte CntnlAfcTne m orda, Hulbs, Vlnntu and Itnre New Fruits. . MM LEWIS CH1LDS; Florid Park, U RUPTURE CURED. We cnaiantce to fit every case we.un.lcrtaka. Doirt put it off; write for particulars at once. O. II. WOOII Villi It CO., Export Truss Utters, 1W Second Street, Portland, Or. CURE YOURSELF! I'M iiiaT SJ for untiatnral discharges, Intiatiiuintiona, Irrltattona or ukor.tinnat not to .trtttnr. oi mucoui niemuramia. rrtnu eoaugtaa. rainless, and not astria IthevsN3 CHEMinmCo. "nt or -'sonous. Sold by Iror.ste, or sent in plain wrapper, hv express, prepaid, for fl.no. or 3 bottles. fc 7.i Circular sent on request. MACHINERY For MPls, Mines, Phopi and Farms; fteel !. glitf and Hoisting Engines; floe rhieal Tooth Sawa, Albany Grease, etc TATUM&BOWEN Ti to SS First Street Portland, Or. M-3o Fremont Street, San Francisco. N. P. N. V. VO. S-'. w HKX writla. to BdTartlMr. ylaMf g jf In 1 to 3 d..j a. I fe'cmcisTi.o -C3