U ' i “While Claire Bvua I ma ; ant, a w y o u r ' (• “I t la true, tten!" she panted;“ my euaptetoae are correct. Yoor paternal solicitude la all a farce; you have clever WM ly diaemharraased yourself of me to order IM Partes. O n t « - i d OD, A Áp 1 te marry a woman who, to all probabil London, pril TO.— Reporta aie agaU} ity, la ao more aa Invalid than I « « " ' ORIGON. in circulation hare of Russia’s need to DAYTON I In the very desperation of deepelr, raise money. -When the war broke out (MOO W EATNRE FOff BHBffF. INM ANS ON TUB MOVff. Courtlandt glanced from right to left, im- 1 potentlÿ hoping to find some proof of a the gold bald abroad by the B a n k . of convincing nature that would satisfy thia intern Oregea W ert WtH B e ef Bettor, Russia amounted to « 8 7 ,6 0 0 ,0 0 0 . Of By MRS. ALICE P. CAKJSTON moot obdurate of doubters; as luck would d s a u r QuoBty. this amount «SO.OOO.OOO h aa bean ex have it. F ate stepped In at the eleventh J* ' •A - of tha I a Grande— The sheepmen of Eastern Pendleton— Tbe roving portion of the hour, had discovered to his wandering panded and therefore, according to A uthor of **A W qH fro m the ffu a,” " H e r B rig h test Hope,*' Oregon say that the lata spring, which ayo a -web-Ilke hit of lace which Claire these reports, it would soon be neces f nA tans on the reservation er those to 90 days behind time, w ill have A “ W ayw ard W ln n a fru d ,’ ’ ate. had reportedly pressed to her Ups, while sary to have recourse to the gold held who wintered on the Columbia, is al- splendid effect npon all of the flocks of she occupied the efisir beaidi which It had fallen unnoticed. D arting upon it. in tbe treasury. According to a tola- ready stirring abroad, and making in Eastern Oregon, a i * tha groat supply Courtlandt held H aloft by the two cor ' for the foothills. The eum- of water how pouring down the hills on p m from Bruaeels printed this morn The Japan«« ere teat ners before Sylphide's eyes. every side Will insure good puturage (one the Y ala. ing the ootcome of tbe ways and means mering season of the small bands of no ‘T a k e bach those words!” he cried ; way into tha summer, and yearlings total absence « conference at St. Petersburg w ill be the mads begins early in A p ril. There are thia summer w ill be stronger and latter C H A PT E R X II.—(CeatlBoed.) “ah, do not turn your eyea away! Look Russia would make i Ia the d lm u se of tke shadowy hall plied: at that stain. Her blood, her life bloqd! w ith Great Britain to gain an issue of «200,000,000 In « per cent many Indians scattered over tbe ^ountry and bring better prices than ever before. "Thank yon, madam, I am resting lA t the sight of It dissipate your fearo; after the outer glare she scarcely no who do not cultivate tbe advantages of the eea. Lambing ia now at ito height, and ticed the form Chat loomed before her hero.” treasury bonds in Paris, Brussels and she will not last long. Rut I conjure you the increase in the flocks promisee to until tw o arms encircled her and oho felt Neldannler, the Chicago carbarn Amsterdam. "Are yon suffering T” tbe reservation. —have pity upon .h e r ; lei her die to -, , bandit, made two desperate attempts to “No; I am only weary, I may* any so peace." The more industrious and lees proud be very large. Wool this year w ill he A erne I* drawn into her father’s embrace. Vice Adm iral Togo’s report Is ac iw, I suppose,” w ith n faint smile, end hia life, the first M a rly prosing of much finer quality and cleaner than “Claire, my darling child!’’ exclaimed B h v .erettia step or two towards him , — * ' ' * cepted here aa fully explaining the mys of these red men make money off wool last year because the sheep w ill not tha old man fervently; “how happy, how, "since tbe comedy le over.” and laid her hand upon his wrisL successful. I , tery of tbe destruction of the battleship Courtlandt Bending over her. Mrs. at thia aeaaen. W ith a packhorse or have te run in duet so long before unutterably happy I am to-day 1 Dr. “So, Lucian," she faltered humbly, The house has passe d a b ill change Petropavlovsk and the newspapers pay «seed her lips lightly upo I the pallid "your heuae is dosed to me? And you Ormhaui has just left your mother. He the Washington custom headquarters warm tribute to tbe daring and skill two, they winder around the the sheep shearing time, which in this part of has made a thorough examination, and Is brow. will not come to me? And I may not see from Port Townsend to Beattie, despit^ displayed by the Japanese, contrasting distrtoto, and while the buck gets tbe E u te rn Oregon w ill be about M ay 26, entirely sadafied with her condition. A “I admire yoor bravery, she said. my child?" and tbe sheepmen throughout tbe coun living by hunting and fishing, the “I have need of considerable yet,” the protests of congressmen. theae w ith the apparent lack of fore great change has taken place in her, "No, Sylphide. You ought to know by ». try seem very jubilanL squaw pulls or picks up wool wherever The foreign countries represented at sight and vigilance on the part of tbe she can find it. Bits of fleeces pulled , Wool from l u t year’« crop In E u te rn which he amures me will he permanent.” murmured Claire, “to order to face the thio time that the word of a Courtlandt Claire struggled out of that foud em enemy.” Is inviolable; I had rather die than break the St. Louis fair w ill be invited by the Ruaaians. W ar correspondents arriv off wool wagons, when the latter start Oregon haa been sold in Philadelphia "The enemy! Whom do yoa mean7” brace, and stared „at her father in amaze IL So long as Claire shall lire, I will government to transfer th eir exhibits ing at Ping Yang report that the roads “Those who wish me dead.” fulfill the sacred duty that the title of are in terrible condition, bnt th at the running, or even wool from sheep w ith in the past seek for 17 cento, and ment. to the Lewis and Clark exposition. “My dear child, my fondest hope and i s Js a good indication that prices which have died on the range .4 U gfete W hat do you mean?” she faltered; husbsnd Imposes— while Claire lives, you Japanese troops in marching display dmreot wish are to win yea back to life r w ill go higlf. “ean "it. be that mother's life w u in The conference committee has e lim i make up the Backfalls, which a shall remain an utter stranger to me. splendid endurance. and health. I would give the loot drop Hut when God to hie mercy has called dangerT” • nated from the m ilitary appropriation The D aily M a il’s Ping Yang corres ward packed to town for safe, y of hleod to my veins to see jron well and We have purposely kept you In lgnor- tha poor sufferer home to him, then we b ill the appropriation of 190,000 for a pondent says that the food soppliss ars w ill carry loads tike this 100 or af&CK LOSSES REDUCED. « of the fsete,” wee the mnlUng re h a p p y r will return to you, Leon and L »»<1 we «or. eight’fcmto » pound bridge across the Spokane rivet at Spo being pushed iorth on a gigantic seal».. “You have a kind heart, madam!” ply; “but now that all danger le past, 1 will never more leave you. 1 awear IL" A ll the preparations prove th a tT h e | The migration of the reservation In There entered nt that moment a little kane. a r m « W eather Averted tbe Daage e ta speak frankly. Yea; we entertained ”11 to well," she rejoined, proraing her an does not take place u n til May, child, with S marvelously beautiful face, the gravest fearo for your po«r mother1! Threatening the Herds. Upo for ono Instant npon hla hand, and Senator Fulton has secured an Japanese are in readiness to sustain a ben hundreds of them go to the moan U/e. Gresham warned me that our mis great, wondering eyee nod ringiote of Jet than relinquishing It as one replaces a < The corres amendment to tbe sundry civil b ill in prolonged campaign. tains for the summer to spend the seas Pendleton— Stock reports from south erable poverty w u killing her by Inches.” black hair that touched his waist. W ith dead hand upon the pulseless breast. “It creasing the appropriation for r0* d» “ ' pondent describee the irresistible cour on hunting and fishing. As summer ern U m atilla and Grant counties show “K illing her!” gasped the girl; “kill a glnd eey he opened hla tiny, dimpled Is well. I know what your plighted word Crater lake national park from «3,000 age shown by the Japantoe in the fight arms and ran to the elder Min. Court- means. I w ill'w ait.” progresses, be pushes farther and farth condition»much improved since the ing my motherl” ing a t Chingjn, charging recklessly up to «4,000. “Yes, my child; and h « salvation la 1 ad 4L Bha slowly gathered her dark wrapt er into tbe h ills, not to come "back to heavy snowstorm of two weeks ago, and h iik in the lace of superior numbree. Grandma!” hn cried, affectionately, about her and prepared to depart; but. stock losses, which threatened for a fiat to the thought e f your marriage, of The senate has adopted an amend The Doily Chronicle’s correspondent the reservation u ntil tbe early anowa of nestling to that tody’s arms. as though tha place exerted " » lrreslrti- j short time to materially th in out tbe your happiness— to thia respite e f peace ment of Senator Mitchell to the emer at Shan H a i Kwan gives a report that a autumn-drive him back “W ho Is thia c h ild r demanded Claire. ble spell, she turned to one of the win herds, have been to a great degree and comfort.” gency appropriation b ill by which the “Can you not guess? H e sails me Japanese fleet of 2« vessels has been Claire turned away with a ghartly pal dow s and adjusting tne slats of the blind, averted. . In valleys, where it w u pos senator expects to have «100,000 al seen escorting 100 transports north of LOCK1BR LEASES NBCANICUM. grandmother.” ... looked out npon the ana-lit garden with ( sible, range stock w u gotten out to lor overspreading her countenance, which lotted for continuing tbe Improvement Attracted by her Voice, Uttle Leon the towM-hoyond. Port Arthur. where grass could be found, while the dim light of the hall served to con walked shyly te Claire, exclalmlag: at the mouth of the Columbia river __________ ceal; and staggering towards the stair Qrants Carefully T . am ___ somewhat more at peace with Clatsop Cennty enough feed w u on hand for domestic case she supported herself for a moment “Oh, what a pretty, white tody! Wen t murmured, ‘ "She is really Chinese and Russian troops nearly cattle. ’ yon take me to your lap?” - -i. feels more pity than W IL L CAUSE DBBATB. Vggy IH. and LbctXn upon th e newel-post clashed in Manchuria. Astoria— The county court h u grant Clalro stooped and cast her arms about love feg hej, In valleys where stock could not be “Merciful heavyn!^. abe/ thought her him. her sufferings. Still It - * The Grand Rondo valley is a vast Feualoa BIB WM Cease Up Baton t is of pargjnônnt Importance that I should ed the petition of C. C. Clarke, the gotten out to better locations, cattle brain In a dizzy, sickening whirl; “my “I cannot lift you, my darling,” she lake and thousands of scree of wheat Senate Thia Week. Seaside logger, to lease the portion of and sheep went ou short rations for refusal to marry signifles pur return to faltered, a f t « a valiant effort; “I am know everything that takes pace to the the misery of poverty, and that will hill house! I stand alone, forlorn; with every tome tipae, bat escaped after nominal are flooded. Washington, A pril TO.— There w ill the Necanicum river that runs through men’s hand bgatnst me. 1 must have e M warmer weather came. Nights my mother. Father, If I have been of not strong enough.” th e Russian press regards tbe Anio- be an effort to keep appropriation bills W ith glad alacrity Mrs. Courtlandt friend at court, herd on this gory spoSl, ige ro ] Vers not torero after the storm, a con advantage to you, do me a favor In re section 28, township 6 north, range Froncb treaty as a hard blew to Ger to tbe front a ll the time daring the WNt. The 1 m m to for a period of five dition which also greatly helped. Sev turn!” She paused an inetant for breath, raised the boy and placed him ou Claire’s I w ill know from hour to hour qort fargf man prestige. and then went on sw iftly: “When Mr. top, while the totter murmured, kissing this highway robber who has drtirived mo present week in the senate, and to thia years and gives the leasee the .right to eral thousand head of sheep and eattle Courtlandt aska for me, beg him to ex the sw eet lipa: of name and love, and tramûteil'tay moth Italians who had plotted against the perished, but tbe loss w u probably not his features, his eyea— “Yen, these are hla ey cuse me; say that I am overcome with end the sundry civil b ill w ill be taken improve the -river channel, to erect and erhood beneath bar foot. Should the he life of President Loubet, ef Fteaoe, over one or two per cent above nominal diffldenco—anything you Choose, eo loag * of af- m s of Improve- op first. When i t to • disposed of the construct such dams, booms, and make have been arrested. aa I do not sea him until tomorrow. pension appropriation bill w ill be pre such other improvements as may be » d my s o a r Father, will you do thia for m e T 4, i i Steck Bscaped Severo Scaso*. pect IL ao that I may take her fate Into In a riot between police and blue sented, and it to hoped th at the b ill "My mamma,” faltered the child, with my own hands. But whom shall I so- “Certainly, my child,” was the sur neceeMry fcr the purpomof making the Athena— Foothill stockmen e u t and jackets at Pensacola, Fla. one man was Will in turn be immediately followed a p u x z le d e x p r e e a lo n . prised rejoinder; “you shell not be dis curo?” * shot and our others wounded. by the general deficiency b ill. The stroam a public highway for floating southeaat.of bere bave not sustained turbed to-day, I promise you. "Yes, Loon,” said Claire; “are yon not But, The words expired to a startled whis nearly as severe stock losses u w u Claire,” he added hastily as she naia 1 ~*~ . ««V rt Mt A1 1 F 1 u FM hl iUlfiiVB m til© logs, timber and lumber. B8l£ «TOut-iB • J X FJ Ryat«**«*w« •• willing? W ill yon not ho my boy7 ’ per. A quick step smote the piasxa, and A four story hotel at Indianapolis, effect of the consideration of various He to also given the right to collect feared three w>eks ago, when a sudden the stair rail aqd sprang up a few steps, “Yon, yon,” cried tha boy; “I tovg you, a pair e f eyee, set d o « to the blind, In d ., burned and for a tim e the lives heavy snowfall with severe wmther "Claire, thvra Is something It ie our duty white ladr!" bill« on the calendar, and aaa exercis tolls for the rafting, floating and boom gleamed through the open slats into her ef more than 900 guests were in peril. W ith the child nestling In her bonom. own. H ad fate « n t her an accomplice? ing their ingenuity to keep them in the ing of logs, timber or lumber at the when feed was about run o'Ut, caused to Inform you of to-day 1” “Yea, yes; I know!” she panted, glanc Claire suddenly raised her eyes to find rate of 90 cento per thonmnd feet. apprehension .that hundreds of good (T e be eoattaaed.» Adm iral Togo says he placed the background. ' ■ 1 Luelan Courtlandt standing npon the mine’ w h ich blew up the Russian 'war There are some featurfef of the sun Under the terms of the lease t ie lessee cattle would be lost. Snow to now out ing back at his anxious face; “you mi A PATRIOT OF WAKEFIELD. threshold of the room, silently regarding ship and tells how it was done. Rus dry civil b ill Which w ill cause dtocua- to to secure the necessary right-of-way of the lower bills sufficiently to' allow the poor little child whom w s have, to the lovely picture. Qaickly p otting tha recogwlzo. I agree to It; 1 will receive grazing, and no more w ill probablr die. l e w J a « b M nndrx Sot A bout O e ttln * from owners* of property along the sians emphatically deny it . - - m , and it is believed it w in occupy ------ child from her, she ezctolmed: a n a * and H n K ep t 1» W » elw * _ - As it was, it ia said 200 or 300 head, him whenever Mr.'Courtlandt sees B f to two days. The pension b ill usually course of the stroam, and he gives “Mr. Ceartlandt, I suppose yon have bring him to mo.” President Moyer, of the Federation Jacob Mandry, an old citizen of oond in the sum of «2,000 to bold the jftincipally old cattle or thoM in poorer And as If patience and fortitude bad come te receive soma tidings of mo; make of Miners, declares Governor Peabody, goes through without debate, but it to probable there w ill be quite a little dis county of Clatsop harmless of any and condition, w ill cover the loos in the alike departed, she fled up the staircase yoar mind easy on that ecore; I am euf- Wakefield, who went to school with of Colorado, baa violated bis promise, P atti when 'she lived In those parts, a ll damages occasioned to any person mountain section. and vanished in her chamber, locking tke fering horribly.” - having agreed not tojnoleet tbe miners. cussion on the pending b ill. “Claire, retract those cruel words,” had an excess of ardent patriotism I f opportunity is offered, .Senator or to proprety by the urn of the stream door behind her. when w ar was declared w ith Spate five ,---- -— Senator M itchell has introduced Hanebrouah w ill endeavor to obtain for floating logs. The county reserves No leae mystified than relieved. Philip W srtsl' Break Earth With As she did net speak, end to the awk amendments to the emergency appro consideration of tbe Indian agreement the right to annul tha lease without Pendleton— A unique scheme for Burgees gazed a f t « the white robe with ward pense that ensued, Mrs. Courtlandt yean ago and he set about putting up a flagpole. He collected nearly «40 priation b ill to continue the improve bills. Senator Fairbanks also stands notice, should any of Os provisions be making barren land fertile is to be tried Ita fluttering violet ribbons until It was took little I c o n ’s hand and led him to to view. ment of the Columbia and lower W ill ready to mist"the first chance th at offers violated. among his neighbors, bought a chest . in < short time at the cohnty poor farm, lost “She knows all I” ho muttered; “who wards tha door. amette rivers. * to press bto b ill for a new « e c u « -- near here, where dynamite w ill be need “Qood-by, little white mamma,” lisped nut pole seventy feet hifih, raised It aid have told her?” Oraud RseSs Drive Starts. to break op a bard pan strata which A heavy show has fallen la Northern building In Washington. In aplte of tha Innumerable questions the child, and then went tripping away. on a conspicuous spot half a block lies just beneath the surface. Super “Goed-by, gcod-hy,” jfighed Claire; from the W hite Plains road, and un La Grande— The logs on the Grand with which he was plied concerning and Central New York. Ronde river at Perry have began to intendent M cDill h u found that be Claire’s mysterious disappearance, the then, ta m in g to Lucian, she added; furled hla flag to the music of a b ra p BUO BATS UP WHARF FILINO. Altogether 10 Rnaeiaa vee »la have move. The monster drive h u started neath the hard pan is excellent soil, old man was as good as. his word, and “Pardon the Irritability of en invalid. I band hired for tbe occasion. been damaged or lost since tbe out- The strata Insisted upon his daughter being left un beg you not te ho offended if sometimes The flag stayed np night and day Resembles W ater Flee and W erks at from the headwaters of the stream to w ith abundance of water. I am lacking to a due sense of my obliga from M ay 10, 1896, to about the same break of tha war. ‘ keeps this moisture from coming to disturbed. ward the mills at Perry. The Grand ' Bdge ef W ater. tions.” 'j All that dag and until the following Russia ha« notified a ll nations that time the next year. Then the patriotic Ronde Lumber company w ill drive the surface, and keeps tree or alfalfa morning—Claire's wedding morn— peace Hoquiam, Wash., A pril TO.— Com “O b ligation sr cried Ludan contritely; Mandry collected «13 more and bought she w ill regard as «pies correspondents about 16,000,000 feet of logs this r.Mits from penetrating to tha moisture. and quiet reigned throughout the Bur •Xha ohllgzriou Is entirely npon my side. miasioner E . Davis recently went to spring. I t w ill become necessary to ^Consequently the surface is a dry a l using wireless telegraphy. gess mansion. It w as not until Martha D o you fancy that I fell to appreciate a new flag and a new halliard. Realiz Westport and made an examination of build railroads to the vast belts of pine kali. Dunn entered her young mlstreas* cham the immense sacrifice yon bare made for ing that no flag w ill tost long If kept The Port Arthur squadron w ill not np night and day the year through, ba ber at 8 d’block that the very shadows ma to-day?” again ba risked in battle u n til rein tbe Westport wharf. He finds the en lying on the head of the Grand Ronde that lurked In tke radiant sunlight Yeueg Trout a t Ctackaasu Hatchery. tire j>i ling of the wharf practically des river and Meadow creek, as it w ill be Claire shook her head aadly, as she has since made It hla business to hoist forced by the Baltic fleet. the flag upon appropriate occasions, troyed by a small bog resembling a too costly and tedious to haul the logs Oregon C ity -in tbe last throe months startled by the tidings that she brought answered: Japan denies that she has any sub water flea. The piling w s i put In to the river and depend on the annual the government hatchery a t Oregon down to Philip Burgees. “No, ne; mr part e f the, contract w ill and to lo w « It at the end of tbe day. “Bend for the doctor!” cried the faith not he fulfilled until I am gene. Would marine boats and eays tha Russian bnt five years ago and noW la Njjned drive to supply the mills. Tha flag of 1999 to thus still in good C ity b u received 600,000 tront eggs ful creature; “Miss Clairs is 111, very 111 you h a rt chosen mn, had yon bean told ships were sunk by torpedo«. -J *• preservation, bnt Mandry, discovering and w ill be replaced for safety. from other government stations located — and looks as If she were dying!" that I c o u ld be cored 7' she demanded. a few--'weeks ago that hla flagpole was M r. Davis found the bug hard at Hospital tor Chemawa School. at Northville, M ich.; Manchester, Ia4 Carnegie has created a ‘‘fund for It w as no azaggeration. Poor Claire “ Is not the mother of your son allvo?” suffering from need of paint, once more heroes,*’ and m t aside «6,000,000. work. He cute off the piles at low Salem— Congreasan Binger Hermann and Leadville, Colo. The eggs, which had paased a night the horrors of which “ Ian,” camo the reluctant reply, “aha wsmt around among bis neighbors ask Next of kin of those who l a « their water mark, ao that 18-inch piling to h u been honored by having his name include the Lake, Rainbow and Eastern' must ever remain a secret with her, ao la alive.” found to ba w ith in a law in c h « of be Uvea w ill also benefit. "Do you love h « , or not? Answer me, ing patriotic contrlbutiona. This time bestowed upon the new hospital build brook varieties, have all batched out Utet when the dawn broke It found her In ing entirely cut off. Cedar, which ing which to to be erected at Chemawa and w ill be planted in the mountain gt-eat ex ha nation. upon your word ef honor, as a gentle he got more than «9, a good deal of It A party of 60 prominent FKfjplnoe usually to proof against injects, h u no Indian school this year. An inspector streams of this state by July 1. TheJe Gresham, upon hla arrival, added fuel man.” from the Italian Inhabitants of Wake has atartod for the St. Louis fair. terror for th e bug, and he cuts this Ho turned away from her end wiped field. W ith, this anm he bought plenty of the department of Indian affaire has are the same varieties that have been to the fire of excitement by stating that They w ill also vjelt tha principal cities Claire might be able to bo dressed and tha beads e f perspiration from hie brow. e f white paint and hired a ateeplejaek faster than fir. been hero and a site for the new build placed in the Oregon streams: ef the United Matoe. stand fioog enough to be married In the “H ow much you will have to eey to to paint the flagpole. I f w ell driven piling to to last but ing w u selected. The structure, which house, but he should -forbid her making each otiier the day after my death!” Heavy rains stopped a il regular five years, it means some method must w ill be of brick, and w ill cost «15,006 As tbe stMplejack ¿limbed the pole, PORTLAND MARKETS.’ the exertion of going to church, as she It le probable Met hla patience would through traffic on tha Bon them Pacific be found to eave them or an endless ex w ill be loctaed on the east side of the might expire on the . way. To Lucian no« have stood this last herd tert had not all day long the patriotic Mandry pense to certain. Tha insect ie known and 0 . R. 4 N ., into Portland, toeving stood on the ground clutching the Southern Pacific track, and north of Wheat— W alla Walla, 76c; blnestom, Courtlandt, who drove hastily over upon ■ servant suddenly entered the room. the Northern Pacific tha only route for to scientists as the liminolae, and ia the new school buildlflg. the receipt of the startling tidings, the I t w ill be 82c; valley, 801881c, export values. “Mr. Courtlandt,” he said, “there to halliard by which the paint pot was « i d to ba very destructive to wood of known as Hermann hospital. Eastern m ail. wily doctor said: a lady at the d o « ashing for yon.” suspended within reach of the painter. Barley— Feed, «13.60 per ton; rolled, “A tody!” he gasped; “w het to her Tho Job to done now, tbe paint Is dry. “I t w ill he Just as well, perhaps, for The house has passed the Philippine thia kind. An effort w ill be made to «24.60(325. ,, yon to make no public parade of thio cere name?” bond b ill to encourage the building of find a remedy for the pest. the pole to daaxllngly white, and Man- Lam M ag W e ll aa la U m atilla . Flour— y s l> y , «3.90134.06 per bar mony, since I am informed that yoar "Mrs. Herttoga." dry la ready to hoist hla flag on the railroads. Pendleton— Lambing ia well advanc rel; hard wheat straights, «4(34 26; first w ife Intends te be present” “Bylphlde here? How dared the first appropriate occasion. He vowe ed, w ith but little loes having been ex clears, «3.85(34.10; hard wheat pat eemo?” "Bylphlde—here I" gasped Courtlandt, Bt. Petersburg haa tha report that Waahintgon, A p ril 20.— The navy perienced, sad shearing w ill be general ents, «4.40(34.70; graham, « 3 .6 0 * 4 ; that there shall ha. a flagpole and a Era ho could command him self aufll- to dismay. Togo sunk several steamers and closed department today received a dispatch in a week or ten days. Tba past week's whole wheat, «4(34.25; rye floor, «4.60. “She la staying at the village tan under elently to articulate a word, Claire roes flag at Wakefield so long as he lives tbe entrance to Port Arthur. from R ter Admiral Barker, command wMther h u been very favorable to both and the patriotism of hla neighbors Oats— No. 1 white, « 1 .1 7 M 9 1 .2 0 ; the name ef Mrs. Heatings. So the soon from her chair. "You soo,” sho aald, with cutting dis holds ouL H a thinks tbe sight of the or and more quietly tha affair Is gotten Ex-Mayor A m « , of Minneapolis, has ing the North Atlantic fleet giving the stockman and farmer, and the outlook gray, « 1 .1 2 H 8 1 .1 6 per cental. , d a in , " th e p o o r woman haa been n e g le c t flag waving proudly o v « the heeds of been arrested, charged with having ac personnel of thd court of inquiry that has not been more favorable for either Millstnffe— Bran, « 1 9 *2 0 per ton; o r « the better!” to sogog«««! in making an investigation industry for years. Among the sheep ed for two week», and she has come to tha people has been well worth the cepted a bribe while in office. middlings, «26.60(327; shorts, « 2 0 * find yon.” Then, aa aha staggered to of the cause of the recent accident on campa of Morrow county, except in the 21; chop, «18; linseed.dairy falod,«19. C H A P T E R X III. «00 or so that it has coat In the last Landgrabber Benson hu been the Missouri. They are: Rear Ad Dr. Gresham's advice was followed wards an In n « d o « , oho cried: higher altitudes, lambing is about done Hay — Timothy, « 1 6 *1 6 per ton; “She will not oven wait ontU I am five yean , andvke-bop« that when ha claimed by two wives a t Baa Francisco. m iral Chadwick, area ¡dent; Captain * every particular, and while the little to no lonfer here" to keep Old* Glory and shearing h u begun. Sheep are re clover, « 1 0 *1 1 ; grain, « 1 1 *1 2 ; cheat, dead!” , ehnrch to the village was filling with Joseph N . H em p hill, commanding the ported in not quite as good condition u « 1 1 *1 2 . According to latest accounts Russia Aa she passed out of sight ho camo to waving, some other patriot w ill as crowd, of townsfolk, carious to soo the Kearserge and Command« Southerland in U m atilla, but in better shape than Vefestblee—Turnips, 80c per sack; stranger» from the city, tbe clergyman hla s e n s « with a start. Ha turned te sume that public duty.— New York lest about 660 men and officers In the commanding the Cleveland, w ith Lien- carrots, 80c f beets, «1; cabbage, l J i * wan speeding away to hie carriage to tol find hhnoelf face to face with Rylphlda. laat y M r. ainking of tha battleship and torpedo ffna. tenant M ark Bristol aa advocate. Tha “W hat »re you thinking of?” he said. boat. 2q; -lettnee, bead. 26*4 0 c per dosen; emntoo the wedding ceremony at Elm in vestigation w ill require a week. T h a t B n d ed th e A r g u m e n h "W hy are you hero— hero to my w ife’s parsley, 26c; cauliflower, «1.76; celery, wood. From Penitentiary. Tbe m a t s committee on appropria “Dey's no use ter lose time prayin' very apartment?” b 6 0 * 90c per dozen; eqnssh, 2c per Whoa they had attired her to Superintendent James, of tbe peni tions provides for no Northwest harbor The rtgidRy of her featozgs relaxed, Wen a mad bull's takln’ after you,” tentizry, b u fllédjhis report with thrf cucumbers, « 1 .7 5 *2 perdoxen; snowy robes of eostly satin, with the veil the spell w ee broken, » d to a tow, tense work, save The Dallee-CeliIo canal, in said Brother Dickey. "De thing ter Washington, A pril TO.— The delega and orange blowome to her hair, her ap secretary of state covering the quarter asparagus, 8c; peas, 6M c per pound; the sundry civil b ill. lion of influential Alaskans which h u pearance was eo absolutely ghsatly that, tone that thrilled with Indignant reproach 4e to ter climb a tree.” ending March 31. The principal fea rhubarb, 7 *9 c per pound; beans, 10c; but for the nervous flashing of hto rest she re d I led i "Bnt." « I d . Brother Williams, Wreckage washed ashore at Van been in Washington a ll winter working ture of the report ie tbe financial state onions, Yellow Danvers, « 2 *2 .4 0 per “Your wife, do yea say! Ah, you use less eyes, she might well have been mis “ 'apoM a cyclone come along en blow- eouver island indicates tha tow of the in behalf of legislation it» s till MJpefa I ment of tbe institution, which shows sack. that word aa though you had boon mar taken for a lifeless bride wrapped to the sealing schooner Trium ph. Thera that something w ill be done, but its that the total expenses amount to «20,- ried aa many yeare aa you have known ad da tree down 7 ’ Honey— « 9 *3 .5 0 per case. cerements of the grave. hopes are growing less strong each day "5yeli,” aald Brother Dickey, ”dey were 98 persons o * board. Potatoes—Fancy, - « 1 .2 0 *1 .9 6 par 906.87. Of this amuont, «1,926.19 ia The moment hla experienced eye rested her days. Bnt, my good sir, you have The delegation « i d today th at the leg cental; common, 7 6 c * « l; new imta npon her livid face. Dr. Gresham whla but ono w ife, as your child has bat one ain't no n w ter go Inquirin’ too far deducted from the betterment fund. A gunner’s mats on the Missouri to ielation sought w u of the utmost im mother—and I am she!” toes, 3 M * 4 c per ponnd; sweets, 6c perl ngxed to the clergyman in attendance inter da mysteries er Provldencel”— ' "Bylphlde,” be faltered, advancing e found to have « r e d the skip and the portance and necessity to Alaska, and if There were 314 convicts in the prison pound. Be as expeditious " ““ ----- possible; I hav*, Atlanta Constitution. step, but pausing abruptly aa though her lives of 600 men by Jumping into tbe nothing to dona at this session i t w ill at tha close of tke quarter, against 911 my doubts whether lasts until the Fruits — 8tiawberries, ««.76 at tbe c I o m of the last quartei. accaetog e y « distilled eoana baleful Influ H er E stim a te . magasine and closing tha door. The probably be two years before tbe terri crate; apples, fancy Baldwins and Spit* benediction!” ence; “Bylphlde, why are yoa here? T suppose she thinks, from what lujartoe of twe of tbe seamen have tory w ill be able to get anything into But in that he wee mistaken. With aenbergs, « 1 .6 0 *2 .6 0 per box; choice W hat bare yon come to do?” Factory May Resume Week. she heart, that I'm a sad dog,” said remarkable nerve Claire kept her feet at ~ proven fatal. law owing to the fact that tha next ses « 1 *1 .6 0 ; cooking, 7 6 c « « l. “W hy am I here?” came the sharp re Conrtlsndt's aide. When, however, the, the gay young a rtis t Pendleton— Steps are being taken to sion of congress w ill be short. tort: "are you aware that It to tw o mortal Eggs— Oregon ranch, 17*18c. all land Russians have wen two laat “amen” wee pronounced, the sway get tbe Rigby-Clove combined harvester “Oh. no, she doesn't think yon a rt < Butter— Sweet cream batter, 90c per ed blindly, and had not ready hands piec weeks since I have seen either yoa or my w bad.” manufactory and foundry on a solid Rnsetea Victory to Pauls 6. pound; fancy creamery, 26c; choice ed her gently to a chair, she would here son? I am hero te satisfy m yself that I b u ia again. W . T Rigby, the princi creamery, 2 2 H *2 4 c ; dairy and store, "Not aa bad aa I ’m painted, eh 7 ’ h a v e. net been forgotten. Since I here Cardinal Satolll, w ith tha permission Bt. Petersburg, A pril TO.— Tbe m ill fallen. pal owner, w u hard h it by tbe C. B. been separated from you,” she continued “Even better than th a t She says ef tbe pope, to coming to the United tary general staff discredits the story nominal. And yet not a w u d had been exchang ptteonsly, “I hong'h e w « an one mad; States. Ha b u no mission and to to that the Russians attacked 12,000 Jap Wade failure« T . J. Giteler, a Port Batter Fat— Sweet cream, 28)<c; ed between the bride and groom, ’ and the strangest fancies b a se taken psseee you’re not aa bad aa yoar painting.” land man, to here with tbe intention of -L make tha tour as a private eitiseu. soar cream, 26 H e. though Lucian Courtlandt wonld have •too e f meu-' S -lm o g to e Ahnh yeu hav< —Philadelphia Ledg«. a n s « troops at tbe moment of landing organising a Stork company to operate Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 1 3 * l S ^ e been glnd to have spoken tome reassuring abandoned me. forever, that I shall never Called th e B IuC A y ou n r . anarch totoattompted to ae- a t Yogampho and drove them back th e concern. The harvester mann- per pound; springe, smell, 20c; hens, words to tha sufferer. Gresham harried Mrs. Newed— M o th « haa J not w rit eee yea again; a fiend keeps whispering aaaainato Premier Maura, of Spain, at their shipe^ N » a fla ir of that sort fartnred Is the invention of M r. Rigby. 1 3 )4 *1 4 c ; turkeys, live, 16*17e: him oat ef- the room with the murmured In my ear that they ha^e stolen your ten that she w ill not visit us this b e « reported by General Kouropatkin Barcelona. b ean and my child’s heart from ate. eu m m « wnto« ydtt-wUl’, permit her to dressed, 18*20c; dncRg, « 8 * 9 per doa- words:. I t to reported that Viceroy Alexieff h u Warrants t e B e « Six Per Cent. “LeaVU her alone for the present; the Heaven help ma, I deobt.the very sun pay-fa« bovd A work train on tha Canadian Pacific received formal orders that the fleet en ; geesd, live, 8c per ponnd. shine which le all the warmth I have toft was struck by a land elide near Wlnne- moat not leave Port Arthur before the Ch e ese Full cream, twins, 12*13c; needs rest. I a Grande— The county conrt of Newed—I ahell.wire her at once « y - Later In the afternoon, when the ann In li f e r pag and a n u m b « of man killed. arrival of the new commander, Admiral Union county haa cancelled «27,000 - of Young America, 14*16«. teg that I sbah not permit bar fo lio sent Ito blood-red lances through the clos She pressed her heads npon her eyes Hope— 1909 crop. 2 3 « 28c per pound. county warranto, and the list iuqlnded A b ill b u b e « introduced in tbe Skrydloff. ed blinds of that stately flower-scented for an Inotant, ae though striving to blot anything of the kind. Wool— Valley, 1 6 * 17c; Eastern Ore drawing room, the widow Conrtlagdt mot some ktdaans prospset; than, rise: i- a ll warranto that w?re bearing 8 per eenate authorising the secretary of war A Frtoe t e B e F eld . cent iateroet. Hereafter the interest gon, 1 2 *14«; m ohair^ SO*Slc per found heftelf alone with tbe bride. Ap Ing them, she eeocloded to tow-toned dee- to purchase tbe original manuscript T thought,” aald the abopper, “that pound for choice. proaching the ehair where Claire lay ap Bt. Petersburg, A pril TO.— A dis charge on county warante w ilt be hat 6 eopy of the order book of General A rth thia was a borgate; that I could get It Beef— Dressed, 6 * 7 K« per pound. parently lest W a day dreem, the lady "Tbere mart he an end te thia! When u r Bt. C liar, who was govern« of the patch from Port A rthur « y u several eye per cent. Mnch of the time of the f « a aong.” Mutton— Dreesed, 6 * 7 %c per pound; aald with ten d « solicitude: ever these horrible vagaries court was devoted to rood and school witnesses assert that a Japanese cruiser Northwest territory and commander of “WaU, you can have IL ” replied the “W ill you not retire to your room a me, I moot he eo pieced that I spring lambs, 8c. district matters, and at this session the Ito m ilitary fore« during the adminis w u loot outside Port Arthur during the dealer. ”l f you ceu roach a few high yoa, epeak te you.” rest yon, my dearT” Veal— Dressed, 6 K * 7 K « p « poqad. tost bombardment by striking one of its list of judges and clerks of election was trations of Presidents Washington ai Claire raised her heavy eyes with a “Impaoetbtol” he toterpaood, firmly notes."— Philadelphia Pnaa. Pork— Dreesed, 7 J4*8c per pound. competed. own floating mines. DAYTON HERALD. RUSSIA IN OP MONEY. The Planter’s; HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON 25 EVENTS OP THE DAY FATE’S REVENGE f jf c F * J Ì