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Newspaper Page Text-rJ VS. y . S Ubrtflf City OREGON COURIER, VOL. XI. OREGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OIIKGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 18. 18M. NO. 15. i . OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Oregon's Excellent Display at tie World's Fair. FLATTEttlXO EASTERN COMMENT Model Hydraulic Placer Mine Attracts the Atteutlou of tbe ImuieuHe Throng, The total Columbia river salmon pack will be nbuiu 276,000 cases, 173,000 short of lust year. An International Irrigation convention ia culled to moot at lA-ming, N. M., on November 7. A colony of thlrtv families la rciorted traveling with ita teams overland from Nebraska to tho vicinity of Olyuipiu. Tlio Indians in some parta of Oregon, notably at Urunt, have noon offering po nies for sale at from 2.6U to 7 apiece. A. 1). Children, manager of the clear ing house at l.os Angeles, has resigned at the solicitation of the clearing-house b.wks. The depositors in the Los Angeles City Bank, it is said, will not got 25 cent! on the dollar, owing to the loose methods of business employed. The Spokane Bar Association is untiiix the claims of Montana, Idaho and bast- FROM WASHINGTON C1TV. (.'reparations for owning the Cherokee Strip are about completed. It ia the present expectation of Nonrotary Smith to have the opening day set between September 1 and September IS. Upon Inquiry at tho pension office it ia learned that up to date there have been 6,472 pensions suspended, which were granted under the act of June 27, 1800. averaging 170 daily. A large pro portion of these cases, it ia said, were suspended pending a niodical examina tion, ' II. II. Glifrv of Orenon has not been displaced In the Senate, aa erroneously stated. lie is one of the men designed to remain, lie is a Democrat. It ia scarcely to be expected that Charles Newell will remain. Uilfry baa served during the Republican ascendency in the Senate with satisfaction. Secretary Hoke Smith has received the annual report of Captain George 8. Anderson of the Sixth Cavalry, acting superintendent of the Yellowstone Na tional Park. The report states that the most disastrous forest fire of many years occurred during July, when a atrip about seven miles long and two or more nines wide was destroyed. Tourist travel for the year was u"dcr the average. The game In the park is abundant and in creasing. It is estimated there are now In the park 25,000 elk. 400 buffalo, 600 antelope and large numbers of moose, deer, beaver, bear and other wild game. Poaching has apparently Increased. Senators Dolph and Mitchell have In troduced all their old bills of last session whic h failed to pass. Senator Dolph'a bills relate to the increase of appropria tions for the Portland building and pub lic buildings at Salem and Baker City, an assay otlire at Portland, a number of proposed changes in the land laws and several pensions and claims bills. Sen ator Mitchell's bills include The Dalles boat railway, aeveral proposed changes in Judiciary laws and a number of pen sion and claims bills. Senator Squire EASTERN MELANGE. Trouble Brewing In Railroad Circles in Nebraska. AUSTRALIAN BALLOT IN FLORIDA Suspended PetiHloners Given More Time In Which to Make Proof of Tuelr Rights. ei n Washington to a sitting of the United State-1 n. n.i t'ourt of Appeuls and the locution ol Spokane as desirable several pensions and claims bills. lor an conceruea. Charles JohiiBon, a member of an ex tensive gang of freight-car thieves work ing between San Francisco and Sacra mento, has been arrested at the latter city. The other thieves will probably be been pending in former Congresses rela taken in a few days. live to Washington, Including public The scarcity of salmon in tho Colum-1 building bills for tbe four principal fit bin this season is more marked than ever . les, right of way and land bills, before, and has led to the belief in many 8. II. Bovd, the United States Minis' quarters that the river is filled out, and ter f0 Sinm, has not tendered his resig. unit u?ii mieci?, bitiijs nii'i Dviiica luum The wheat crop of Illinois is the small est ever known. Chicago's unemployed numtier more than ever before. The troops will soon be removed from the Kast Tennessee coal mines. The bleitest traa well In America was struck near Pittsburg lost wed'. It ia said all the members of the Cab inet will keep house this winter. The Mormon Tabernacle choir will go East to sing at tiio World's Fair. Work will be begun on a new Federal building at Burlington, Ia., at once. Hot weather has given East Tennessee the best cotton crop In twenty years. ' The Board of Trade of New Orleana Is working to secure a better mall service. There was an increase of over $17,000, 000 in the amount of currency during July. A plague of grasshoppers la sweeping down on the farmer in the Tennessee Valley. Aluminium car tickets are In use on Michigan-street railway, and are quite popular BUSINESS BREVITIES. The tin-plate factory at Klwood, Ind., lias resumed work, giving employment to 600 men. Canada supplies nearly all the plum Dago used by Amrican manuiacturers lead pencils. Four hundred and forty persona this country live on the labor of every 100 workers. There are seventy-seven tine mines FOREIGN FLASHES. be abolished in iuture if tho industry ia to be revived. William Evans, who was arrested for the murder of Messenger Tovey, was ar ruiirued at Jackson, Amador county Oil., the oilier day. He eays now that lie knows nothing about the murder that he could not tell where it occurred for he was not there, and that he was led to iiinke the statement implicating lmiisell by persistent persuasion. Ling Sing, a Christianized Chinese, who has been employed on the revenue cutler Oliver Wolcot't for ten years as the Captain's private steward, has been arrested on board that vessel at Port The United States Watch Company has introduced all the bills that havo of Waltham has resumed work, but cut I I ! : t - 1 . uown pay. Labor day in St. Louis, it Is predicted. will lurnish the greatest procession ever seen tliore. More hard coal bas been mined so far rer io oi.Hn, lias noi wnuercu ills resitf-1 tl,is ye8r tmm ev Mon Jna ii ion 10 me rresiueui as a rraii.toi ine BponAing period 'i'ownsend for smuggling opium Into the United Stilted from British Columbia. When the man's apartments were . searched, eighteen flve-tael cans of pre pared opium were found concealed be neath ills bunk. The people of Yuma and vicinity held a mass meeting recently, and unani . moui-ly agreed to request United States Attorney-General Olney not to appeal to the United States Supreme Uourt the Alaodones land-Kraut rase, recently de- cided in favor of the claimants by the United States Land Court of Private Claims. Tho reasons given are that the settlors on the giant are pertictly satis- lied with the decision. A fisherman on the Lower Columbia had his net in the river, and was mak ing a drift, when the steamer T. J. Pot ter passed on her way to Astoria. The remain did not see the net, and in pass ing one of the vessel's big wheels picked it up unit wound 11 arouna me hiihii, taking the tisherman and part of bis boat with it. Fortunately lie was so completely tangled in the net that he was ncm nrmiy in one piace anu tarrieu around, and escaped being dashed to pieces. His outcries for help were beard f.nd tho steamer was stopped, and he was released. In speaking of Oregon being unrepre sented in the National Board the Chica go Tribune of a late date remarks: "Or egon is without representation in the deliberations of the National Commis sion, and in this incident there is an other feature of the old Cleveland-Pen-noyer feud. One of Oregon's National Commissioners is ill, and his alternate resigned. To this resignation the Gov ernor paid no heed. Oregon's other Commissioner is not in the city, and the Governor's refusal to notify the Presi dent of the vacancy in the commission leaves Oregon without a spokesman. Oregonians are fearful that they will fare ill in the apportionment of jurors of awards, and have asked the National Commission to take such action as will result in Oregon having' a voice in the body's deliberations." One of tho most important features presented to visitors is the magniliccnt educational exhibit, now fully open and complete, in the department of liberal arts. early all of the States and Ter ritories are creditably represented. Par ticularly are the most distant (slates wen represented, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and of these no exhibit is more attractive than that presented by the State ot Oregon. Its specific character istics are numerous and many of them unique, and at once hold the attention of the passer-by. J n the department of ornithology there is a magnificent dis play of oil the game birds of Oregon el egantly mounted. There are free-hand and mechanical drawings and photo graph work illustrating all features of public-school work through the several grades. Of the higher institutions of learning the State University, the State Agricultural College and the Willamette University lead in their exhibits. The entire exhibit is a tribute to the enter prise, skill and ability of the teacners and schools of the Web-foot State. Chicago Inter-Ocean. One of the most attractive exhibits to the public in the mines and mining building is tlie model or miniature hy draulic placer mine in the Oregon sec tion, which as a drawing card to the general public is only surpassed by the silver statue of "Justice." The placer mine consists of a bed of gravel about fifteen feet long and six feet wide, with sluiceway through the middle. A small livdrauli'c ram throwa s vigorous stream of water against the gravel bank, carry ing the dirt down in the sluice where the gold is caught by the rifHes placed cross wise in the box. A number of Oregon placer-mining properties gave the gravel, 100 sacks of 150 pounds each coming from the following properties: Ingram A Baker, Centennial and Willow Springs in Willow Springs district, Davenport in the Davenport district; on the opening day eome gravel from the Basin mine, the property of Captain Clongh of Port land, was worked over; a clean-up was made after each bag was worked, but the gold was allowed to remain in the boxes in order to give visitors an insight into the system of placer-mining. A final clean-up was made late in the afternoon, which netted about one ounce of gold dust and two nuggets weighing about one-eighth of an ounce each. This spe cial attraction ism charge ot r. U.Kowe, Publication of a personal letter which lie wrote to Mr. Holderman, expressing views on the Siamese situation in very undiplomatic language and reflecting upon Secretary Gresham. While Colonel Boyd will not be asked to resign, it Is understood his tenure of office will be ended by the appointment of a successor. Mr. Holderman called on Secretary Gres ham to explain why he made tho Boyd letter public, but the Secretary declined to hear him, stating that he was wholly indifferent on the subject. Mr. Boyd was appointed Minister to Siam October 1, 18'JO. The salary of the position is 5,000. Secretary Gresham of the State De partment needs $100,000 to pay the ex penses of his office. A good part of this deficit is due to the expense incurred in the entertainment of foreign visitors, notably the Duke of Veragua. While the Duke was in Chicago being luxuri antly provided for, he wrote to the Pres ident expressing his regret that he would be delayed in reaching Washington to pay his respects to the chief executive. He was informed In reply that the Pres ident would release him from any obli gation he might feel in that direction. He was further advised that arrange ments had been made for his return to Spain. Of course the Duke was left to fix the date himself, but there was no mistaking the anxiety ot the department to have his visit come to an earlv end. The expense of the entertainment of the Duke will not fall short of 10,000, not to mention the entertainment by private persons. Senator Vest bas Introduced a bill to fix the number of grains of sold and silver in gold and silver coins of the United States, tbe silver dollars to con tain 454.4 grains of silver or 610 grains of standard silver. Vest also offered a joint resolution setting forth that the American people from tradition and in terest favor bnnetalism : that it is the established policy of the United States to maintain the parity between gold and silver, and that it is the duty of Con gress to speedily enact such laws as will effectually maintain these objects, the most sign Meant bill Introduced in the Senate perhaps was one by Senator Hill of New York. The measure he pre sented leaves no doubt of his position on tue nnanciai issue, w nue repealing the purchasing clause of the Kliennnn act, it unqualifiedly pledges the country to pi- metalism. It is "A bill to repeal certain sections of the act of July 14, 1800, en titled an act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the Issue ot Treasury notes thereon and for other purposes." This repealing act, however, " is not to be construed as abandoning bimetalism, but it is hereby declared that the policy of using both gold and silver as standard money of the country shall be estab lished, and to the accomplishment of that end the etlorts of the government shall ne steadily and safely directed." The Western people are felicitating themselves on the position assumed by Senator Hill. They are pleased that he should have so unqualifiedly pledged himself to bimetalism as to indicate his willingness to favor subsequent legisla tion looking to the restoration of silver as money metal. CHICAGO EXPOSITION. World's Fair Managers are devoting much attention to schemes to increase the attendance. The Duchess of Marlborough expects to revisit her native land in September, and will attend the World's Fair. What is claimed will be tbe largest flagstaff ever erected is to be dedicated to the World's Fair by the State of Wash ington in September. Governor Lewelling of Kansas will soon appoint a commission to lay his gulf transportation scheme before for eign representatives at the World's Fair. The British government has sent Ma jor Cragie to Chicago to report on the agricultural statistics accumulated by the various governments at the World's Fair. It is now conceded that the stockhold ers of the World's Fair will not get any of their money back. It is also conceded that in addition to their 15.500,000 the city of Chicago will not get any of ita 5,000,000 back. At a meeting of the National Commis sion Commissioner Goodell of Colorado precipitated a lengthy and heated de bate by a resolution reducing the sala ries of 'Commissioners St. Clair and Mae sev, members of the Council of Admin istration, to 2.500 a year. Now they are getting (500 per month. The matter was finally referred to a special commit tee. Some of the officials anl directors of the exposition have a scheme to charge 25 rents' admission to the fair after 6 o'clock in the evening. The matter has been under discussion for several days, it is said, with good prospects of being carried through. It is believed that bv Girls mav legally emoke cigarettes on the streets, bo reads tlie decision ot Louisville (Ky.) court. West Virginia has suffered from long-continued drought, but a recent vi olent storm has ended it. In the Brooklyn elevated railroad sv8' tern steam as a motive power ia to be superseded by electricity. Secretary Smith says the Cherokee Strip will probably be thrown open to settlement on September 1. New York ia having no end of trouble with its cable railroad on Broadway. It breaks down every day or two. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio an nounces that under no circumstances will he be a candidate this fall. Returns from recent school elections in Kansas show that women are fond of exercising the right of suurage. . Advices from Labrador report the cod' fishing excellent and salmon-fishing fair. there are no reports ot distress. The property In the county of New T 1. ... l. : .1. ., - n.a;nn last year amounted to fU04,uoo,ouu. A Baltimore asphalt company has (lis charged 1,000 hands because the banks would not discount its city warrants, The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich. among his other qualifications lias mustache 32 Inches from tip to tip. There is trouble brewing in railroad circles of Nebraska over the injunction proceedings in tne maximum ireigui law, A company has applied for incorpora tion winch proposes to construct a snip canal from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie. The Australian ballot was used for the first time in Florida recently at Jackson' ville, and gave unqualified satisfaction. New England farmers are reported to be unable to harvest crops that are re markably fine because of insufficient help. The railroads centering In Boston suf' fered a depreciation of more than 110,- 600,000 in stock valuation during the month of July. There will be no more deaths from "heart failure" In Philadelphia, for the Board of Health bas declared that there is no such disease. A colored people's insurance company, which had no existence, has been vic timizing the colored people in New Jer sey out of large sums. Taunton. Mass.. some years ago deeded a site to the United States for a Federal building and, having lost patience wait ing for the latter, wants the land back again. It is rumored in New York that Will iam B. Hornblower will be selected to fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Bench caused by the death of Judge Jilatchford. A plot of orronnd. 76x100 feet, on the corner of Filth avenue and Eighty-first street in New York has been sold to Au gust Belmont for 1286,000, or at tbe rate ol fda a square loot. In Milwaukee an old couple took fright and drew their savings a few thousand dollars from the bank. Since then one of them has eat up all of every night guarding the money. Judge Lochren, Pension Commissioner, has extended until October 10 the period within which pensioners whoso pensions have been suspended may make proof of their right to receive them. A great scheme of changing many of tbe important surlace railroads in the section of New York city above Twenty third street into roads operated by ca bles instead of by horses is agitated. Wolves and covotcs are increasing in numbers on the stock ranges in South ern Alberta as in the Dakotas and other Northwestern States, and are causing serious trouble and loss to the ranchers. superintendent of the Oregon mining ; doing tbia the increased attendance will exhibit. New York Engineering ana i be large enough to more tban doable tho Mining Journal. receipts takes ia after 0 odock. The lease of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley has been canceled on account of the law in Kentucky prohib iting foreign corporations from operating railroads. Secretary Mobler of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture in his monthly crop report states tnai ine winter and spring crop of the State will not be more than 21,000,000 bushels, as against 70, 000,000 last year. Corn has been badly damaged. The great reservoir of the Portland (Me.) Water Company on the eastern romenade burst the other day, letting ooee ita 20,000,000 gallons of water in a apace of about fifteen minutes. Two neighboring houses were crashed like eggshells, and four persons in them were killed. President Fisk of the Pan-American Bimetallic Association has written a let ter to the Board of Trade and Transpor tation of New York, in which be aaya: Unless the East stops its aenselera clamor to reduce the country to gold standard, which would mean reducing tbe people to feudal slavery, a combina tion would at once be formed with the West and Sooth to withdraw all business relations from ths East." In Prussia, which produce oue-hulf the world's zinc. It is stated that women hold 160,081 shares in Philadelphia building and loan associations, The distance from New York to Mel bourne via San Francisco Is 12,265 miles to Hongkong, lu.oou miles, Glass bricks are mode so cheaply that it seems only a matter of time when glass houses may come in fashion During the last three years English capitalists have invested t2l3.OO0,0O0 in Mexico and American capitalists Hib, British uiauu'acturera of agricultural machinery and hardware acknowledge that the United 8tatea ia in keen com petition. Pifty-slx years ago the block 011 which the Chicago postofflce now stands was sold at auction for (605. It la now worth 15,000,000. The Amoskeag mills, which has closed for the month of August according to vote 01 its directors at Manchester, a, 11., employs 8,000 hands. The most expensive fur ia the skin the black fox of Kamtchatka. These an' luials are scarce and hard to kill, and single akin sella for about $1,000. Toboggan expresses have been a feat ure in the bowlder district of Montana the past season, and have been very use ful In conveying freight to points off the main road. The smallest horse in the world named General Tom Thumb. He be longs to a museum out West. He is three feet high, and weigha only eighty' five pounds. The salaries paid to persona In the civil service of the United States amount to i90,000,000 annually. This amount pava the wagea of 180,000 persons. The average is f500 a year. The fast train over the New York Cen' tral and the Lake Shore between New York and Chicago must, It Is stated, carry seventy-five through passengers to pay the cost of running it, In round numbers the total amount of life insurance written by tho different insurance companies of the world is 12,000,000,000. Of this sum (5,500,000, ouu are placed in tue united states. Soil in Egypt Is tilled by exactly the same kind of plow as that used there 6,000 years ago. The furrows mado are extremely shallow, and the clods are further broken up with a big wooden cudgel. Notwithstanding the world a ereat me' chanical progress there arewinedistricts in r ranee, tnain and Italy where the grapes are still trodden with bare feet i .. ..... . .... under the idea that tue wine is better when made so. The British insurance companies dur ing the year 1802 received in premiums 17,518,067, and paid out in losses 11.- 662,967. The expenses and commissions paid by forty companies are placed at over cd,yuu,uuo. Electric street railways in the United States have in operation a mileage which exceeds tne sum of street railways run by other powers, vis. . - 6,939 miles mn by electricity. 4.460 bv horses. 646 bv caoie ana om oy steam. A writer has figured out that the United States produces 2,200 pounds of gram to each inhabitant; Denmark 2,005; Canada, 1,600; Russia, 1,200 Koumama, 1,150; Spain, 1,100: France. 000; Sweden, 980; Argentine Republic, tcxi: Australia, 7UU; Germany, 700; iiel tmm, ouo ; Portugal, oau ; Ireland, 600; scouanu, 4W, England, sou. PURELY PERSONAL. Attorney-General Hendricks of Ken tucky prides himself on tho fact that he rose from a laborer to his present place . I J! ... J , 01 uignny anu nonor. Charles Foster, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, is meeting the usual fate of the unfortunate. Now he is charged with gross mismanagement, if nothing worse, 01 tlie nnanciai allairs of those who had intrusted their interests to bis care. A horseback ride to last three years and to extend from Texas to Patagonia has been planned by Colonel E. F. John ston of Philadelphia, Philo Beveridge of Chicago, jh. v. ricking ot uttumwa, la., and R. Edgecomb, nepuewof LordEdue- comb. Mme. Laboudy, widow of the great rencn sugar renner, who leit Her a for tune of 30,000,0. 0, lives in asnmll house at St. Cloud, and spends about 1,000 a year, lier son, however, is compensat ing for this maternal economy bv n ten dering the fortune with a prodigal hand. In the marriage of Miss Catherine Weed Barnes to Henry Snowden Ward. editor of the English photographie mag azine, New York loses one of its bright est women, and the " right little tight little island" will gain one of the best women amateur photographers in this country. Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of the founder of the New York Tribune, ia married to Rev. F. M. Clendinln. pastor of a fashionable church at Westchester, .. . She is active In all the charitable work in the parish, and haa done a great deal toward building the hospital, which is now nearly finished. Baron William von Faber. the only son of Baron Lothar yon Faber and part owner of the world-renowned lead pen- il factory in Nuremberg, died in Her man v a few dtvs azo. Tlie fainilv Is one of tlie wealthiest in Germany, and its members stand high among the patri cians of old Nuremberg. Lord Beaumont, who is descended from the last King ef Jerusalem, suc ceeded to the title last vear at the death of his elder brother. He has traveled extensively in the United States with the avowed purpose of wedding an heir ess. Hie name figures honorably on the service records of the British army. Robert Buchanan in a communication to the London Chronicle remarks: " It is not for my pen to proclaim what the hand which holds it has done, but I could stake my oath that I have fed more months and helped more struggling com rades than all the societies of authors pot together. I rare little for fame and ess for money." Gertrude Petan, 18 years old. lives in South Dakota, where she is known as the " Lady Cowboy." Her father owns 300 head of cattle, of which she has en tire charge. She does not simply take the cattle to the range and leave them there, but remains with them and takes care of them as well as could any cow boy. Her duties frequently take her from thirty to forty miles from borne, as the rattle must be kept moving in order to feed them well. She wears a wide brimmed white felt hat, king-gaantlet gloves, carries a lariat coiled about tbe horn of ber saddle, is provided with branding irons, and rides th wildest bronco on tht rang. 1 Financial Iteturns of Victoria, Australia, Unsatisfactory. THRIFTY PEASANTS OF RUSSIA. PORTLAND MARKET. Capturing Fur Seals oil Russian Und Without Special Permission ; Forbidden by Ukase. Bangkok, 8iam, has a trolley stroet car line, which pays handsomely. The Duke and Duchess of York re ceived over 9,000 wedding presents. A siastnr chimney sweep ia among the new members of tho German Reichstag. New custodians of Shakesnearn's hotwn in oiruuoru are ootn patient and ohlig' Ing. The Rhine wine production thin vmr wilt be unusually large If crops do not fail. The Franco-German frontlar Una la to be remarked to avoid awkward " Inri. dents." In Italy, France and Austria onlv from 4 to 6 per cent of the criminals are well educated. The slave trade la boomlntr In Z&nzlhur accuruing 10 tue uisnop ot that benight ed region, In France It la proposed to arm tha postmen who have chanre of the delivery of postal orders. Quite a colony of Americans haa net tled In Cowlea. Isle of Wicht. (or tha yachting season. Dr. Koch and his once-vaunted enn- aumption cure have fallen into sad dis repute in Germany. It is cited as complimentary that near. ly all the monarchs of Europe are at tended by American dentists. Russia proposes to have an Interna tional fruit exposition and congress at St. Petersburg in the fall of 18il4. Tbe finances of the Leeds corporation water works fur the past vear show a clear net balance of profit of 6,351. It has been found necessary to onen a home in Sydney for servant girls out of employment, owing to existing depression. Aa a result of the recent experience with France in Siam the English govern ment manifests a strong disposition to join the triple alliance. Russian crop prospects have greatly Improved. A fairly large vield is now expected, especially of rye, the chief breadstuff of the nation. Princess Marie Bibesco swam the Hel lespont recently from the European shore to the Asiatic, recalling the ex ploits of Leander and Byron. In Germany quantities of watermel ons are grown, but the people do not consider them fit for food. They use the luscious fruit to feed the pigs. The Alps this year are in splendid condition for climbing, and ascents are being made already, which are not usu ally undertaken until a month later. NVrs comes from Paris that Mine. Rhea, the actress, has married W. F. fl irt, her leading man, who is 25 years Id and fully twenty years her junior, Tt. J 923 vmn tfinpA & lilnw war Htrnclc in the' House of Commons until the row of week before lam. That historic blow cost its author an' imprisonment In tbe Tower. A good deal of high play has been go ing on just lately in some of the London clubs. The practice of paying with paper" haa been very much on the Increase. The State railways of Caoe Colony. South Africa, yielded last year 4 14s &1 per cent on a capital of 18,600.000, against 4a 13s 4d per cent on 16,500,- 000 in 1891. It is reported that Baron do Roths child and Jacques Laboudy, a million aire sugar refiner, will start shortly a 1- cent sporting daily paper named the Jockey Club. According to the opinions expressed by various Berlin journals the intended Boer "trek" into German Southwest Africa will not be sanctioned by the im perial government. Tho tiraillours of the Russian army are to be equipped with snowshoes next winter. 1 lie t'ruslan troops on the Russian frontier have used snowshoes with satisfaction for several winters. WiisAT-Valloy, iLOOiif 1.02S,'; Walla hiiu, muniu'i; per ceuiui, riOPB, FEED, KTC Fu0B-eiandard,M.40; Walla Walla, 3.40; graham, $3.00; superfine, 12.50 per Parrel. Oats White, 4L,(4.1c per bushel ; gray, nc ; roiled, in bags, to.zoCU.AO; bar rels, 6.50W0.76 ; cases, M.76. MiLLHTtirrs Bran, 118.00; shorts, 21.00; ground barley, 12223; chop feed, IH per ton : whole feed, barley, 80 86c per cental; middlings, 23t28 per ton; chicken wheat, 1.22,V41.25 per cental. paikv raonuca. Bottkb Oregon fancy creamery. 22! 825cj fancy dairy, 17.Ni(20c; fair to eooa, lotsioc ; common, lZ'c per pound ; California, 35r$44c per roll. Cusksk Oregon, 12c; California, ll(jtl3cj Young America, I4)c per pound. Eoos Oregon and Eastern, 15310c per dozen. Poultby Chickens, old, M.OO; broilers, large, 2.003.00; small, 1.60 (92.00; ducks, old, 3.604.l)0; young, 2.60(33.60; geese, tf.SO per doien ; tur keys, live, 12S (3 14c per pound; dressed, none in the market. VEGETABLES AND FBUITS. Vegetables Cabbago.lcpor pound; California potatoes, l.OO per sack: Ore gon, 76c; new onions, lc per pound; cucumbers, Oregon, 26c per Uoten; Call- lorma, 11.20 per box; string beans, Z4c per pound; tomatoes, 80crl.00 per box: green corn, 10($12Hc per dozen; sweet potatoes, z.tgac per pound. Fbuits Sicily lemoua, 0.00(?6.60 per box: California new crop, 16.60(36,00 per box ; bananas, 1.5033.00 per bunch : Granges, S.OO per box; pineapples, J0.0I) per dozen; cnernes, WW 70c per box; new California apples, 1.26 per bushel ; peaches, 80cU.OU per box ; Oregon. 60(3 75c per box; Oregon peach plums, 75c0 1.00 per box ; apricots, l.iS per box ; currants, 45c per pound ; Bartlett pears, 1.26(31.60 per box; raspberries, 037u per pound; black raspberries, 6c; Cali fornia figs, 76c1.00 per box; water melons, .OOiS.OO per dozen; canta loupes, 1.601.76 per dozen; buckle- Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE FARM AND GARDEN. The Kind of Man Who Succeeds In Poultry Farming. OHIO EDITOR'S OPINION GIVEN. Poultry Keeping Pays the Man Who Pats Brains, Energy, Skill and Capital Into It. The Ohio Farmer letter belore ua Baron von Bauer. Austrian Minister of War, said at the sitting of the Budget Committee of the Austrian delegation the other day that the present condition of society did not permit of the abolition of dueling. The financial returns of the Australian colonv of Victoria for the year ending July 30 are expected to show a deficit of about 1,008,000 in addition to a debit. balance of 900,000 brought forward from last year. The new tax on Stock Exchange trans actions, which went Into force in France tbe 1st of last month, bas well nigh par alyzed business on the French market arid almost caused the total abandon ment of tbe Bourse. Tbe Indian railways show a net loss of 98 lacs of rupees. This unfavorable re- ult la attributed to tbe heavy tail in ex hange. Had silver remained at par, the guaranteed railways would have shown a good surplus. British agricultural statistics show very unsatisfactory conditions, the number of failures among farmers in the British Isles during the first six months of this year was 40 per cent larger than those of tbe corresponding tune in 1802. In South Africa the Kaffir servants have formed a union to which the mem bers have to give a " character " for their mistresses, ho member is allowed to ter upon a situation unless the regis tered character of the mistress of the house is satisfactory. Tlie thrifty peasants of Poltava. Rus sia, have shown themselves smart enough to take advantage even of a pest, re cently their fields were invaded by swarms of Spanish Hies, which tliev cap tured and found a ready market for at the druggists' for ! a pound. A modern postal system is soon to be established in China. The imperial gov ernment has approved a plan, drawn op by Hir Robert Hart, under which the native postal organization will entirely disappear and will be replaced by an im perial postofMce, with branches through out the country, nnder tbe management of qualified foreigners. An Imperial nkase issued recentl for. bids tbe killing or capturing ol fur seals 1 Russian land without special permis sion from the government. Persons vio lating this decree or engaged in unlawful pelagic sealing will render themselves able to imprisonment from two to six teen months and forfeiture of ships, equipments and the sealskins already taken. All cases of nnlawful poaching on seal life in Russian territory will be referred to a district tribunal sitting at Vladivostoek. berries, 15c per pound; grapes (Muscat and Rose of Peru), 1.00 1.25. STAPLK OKOCERIES. Dbied Fbuits Petite prunes. 10(311c: silver, U12c; Italian, 13.Sc; German, iuisiic; piums, Bitfwc; evaporated ap ples, 10(jllc; evaporated apricots, 12c 15c; peaches, 10(120; pears, 7llc per pound. Honey Choice comb. 18c per pound: new Oregon, 10 (a 20c; extract, Dm 10c. Cl . I! I 1u mr oalt LiiveriKjui, iwi, fio.uu: OUS, 16.60; ctock, 8.609.50. Coffee Costa Kica. 22c: Kio. 21c: Salvador, 21c ; Mocha, 20, 30c ; Java, 24,4(8i30c; Arbuckle'a and Lyon, 100 pound cases, 24.85c per pound; Colum bia, same, 24.85c. Kice lBland,4.75(i5.00 : Japan.i4.76 : New Orleans, H.60 per cental. BEANS Small whites, 3ci Pinks. 34c; bayos, 3,c; butter, 4c; lima, 4c per pound. BYROP eastern, in barrels. 4Udoc: in half-barrels, 4267c; in rases. 350 80c per gallon; 2.26 per keg; California, in barrels, 20(j$40c per gallon; 1.75 per keg. Sooar D,6?c; Golden 0, 6bc; extra C, 5Jic; confectioners' A, 6,4c ; dry gran ulated, 6c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 7,"4c per pound ; o per pound discount on an grades lor prompt cash maple sugar, 10(3100 per pound. OAMNEP 00008. Canned Goouh Table fruits, assorted, 1.7502.00: beaches, tl.85ftt2.10: Bart' lett pears, n.75(2.00; plums, 1.37' l.ou : strawberries, K.'a(sC2An: cherries, fZ.l'6a.4U; blackberries. tl.85(2.O0 raspberries. 12.40: nineann es. fl'lhril z.ou; apricots, fi.ooi$z.uo. 1'ie irmts, assorted, $1.20: peaches, $1.25: plums, 1.00(31.20: blackberries. $1.26(31.40 per dozen, lie iruiis, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.60; peaches, $3.504.00; apri cots, $3.50(34.00; plums, $2.753.00; oiacaoerries, H.zoM4.ou. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.5634.00: lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $6.76; deviled ham, fi.OMZ.io per dozen. Fihii Sardines. Ws. 75c(9$2.25: Ks. z.io(g4.oo: lobsters. K.iUMi.W: sal mon, tin Mb talis, $l.25$1.60; flats, fi.7&;z-ibs, 2.zoz.&0;4-barrel, $6.60. provisions. Eastern Smoked Meat and Lard Hams, medium, uncovered, 15lUv per pound; covered, H'ijWIOc; breakfast bacon, uncovered, 10(17c; covered, 164 16cj' short clear sides, 1314c; dry salt sides, ll12'ic; lard, compound, in tins, 10c per pound; pure, In tins, 13 14c; Oregon lard, ll12iC. BOPS, WOOL AND U1DES. Hops '92s, J016c per pound, accord ing to quality; new crop, '93j, 1517c. Wool Umpqua valley, 1416c; tall clip, 13(3 14c; Willamette valley, 10 12c, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 614c per pound, according to condition. Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 6g8c; green, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c; under 56 pounds, 3c; sheep pelts, short wool, 30(50c; medium, 00(4 80c; long, 90c$1.25; shearlings, 1020c: tal low, good to choice, 35c per pound. LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT. Beef Prime steers. 2.502.75; fait to good steers, 2.00g2.50; good to choice cows, $1.502.00j dressed beef. $3.50(3 6.00. Motton Choice mutton, $2.75; dressod, ' 6.00; lambs, 2.00(32.50; dressed, $0.00; shearlings, 2c, live weight. Hoos Choice heavy, f 6.00(5.50; me dium, $4.60(45.00; light and feeders, $4.505.00; dressed, $7.00. VEAb $4.000.0O. AOS AND BAOOINO. Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps, 10)- -ounce, 40-inch, net cash, 7c; burlaps, 12-ounce, 45-inch, 7c; burlaps, 15-ounce, 00-inch, 12,1c; burlaps, zo-ounce, 70-irch, 14c; wheat bairs. Calcutta. 23x30. spot. 6c: 2-bwhel oat bags, 7c MISCELLANEOUS. Tm I. C. charcoal. 14x20. prime Qual ity. $8.60(89.00 per box : for crosses. i2 extra per box; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, S7.oU(a8.00per box ; terne plate, I. C, prime quality, 0.6087.00. Nails Base quotations: Iron, 2.25; steel, $2.36; wire, $2.75 per keg. Ibon Bar, 2c per pound ; pig-iron, 23(425 per ton. Kteel fer pound, IU'c. Lead Per pound, 4c; bar, 6c. NavalPtobes Oakum, 4.60(a 6.00 per bale: resin, 4.89(S5.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, IS; Carolina, $9 per bar rel ; pitch, O per barrel ; turpentine, (Joe per gallon in car lots. rilns Machines. Flying machines of th future will ef DeoBulty be of a complicated and dellcats nature, and wllj require tha very big but onlrr of sclcntlric and mechanical skill to construct and operate the in. Franca U to day the only country la tbt world which ha the plant and lo which it would be poarlble to manufacture ail tLe materiul sod to construct a machine such as I am now experimenting- with. Flying ma chines will therefore be employed only by the rich and highly clrlllml nation. Small natioos and balf-clvUlied tribes will still bars to oontaut tbenuelres with ttielr Ceseotmodauf warfare. Hlnun S. Jlaxlia CSOtBTT. aaya : We have from a roumr man who wants to go Into poultry farming, and he asks the usual questions, winding tip with the all-embracing one: n 111 11 pay r - mar question Is asked t thousand times a vear. and tlie in quirers all know that poultry farming, like any other kind of farming, will pay if it is managed right. Tlie evidence that it will pay, that it has paid and that It is paying now is overwhelming. It pays the man who knows how and who has the requisite energy and busi ness ability, a prominent grocery firm 111 'ins city nas within a few years worked up a family trade in fresh eggs of nearly 600,001 dozens annually. It was done by looking up the men who Knew now 10 gel eggs in tlie winter sea son, when fresh eggs are a luxury. A representative of the firm said to us: " We care nothing for the man who ran furnish eggs only when any foot can fur nish them when uncared-for hens have a mind to lay them. We are looking for the man who can send us eggs when all his neighbors' hens are frozen up. ".They have found quite a number of these wide-awake men. and are navimr them good prices for their eggs. We under stand that they take the year's supply- winter and summer simply to hold the winter product. We referred last winter to one of these men, who Uvea near Or ville, O. He haa a few acres of land, and keeps 300 hens. This grocery firm sent him 1 09.80 for his February eggs last winter, and from March 4 to 11, one week, his fowls shelled out 130 to 158 eggs per day, just when they were bring ing the tailest prices. Oh, yes; poultry keeping pays the man who puts brains, energy, Bk ill and the necessary capital into it. But it must be made an all-the-vear-round business. If vim oiva tlm iene a vacation, let it be In the summer, when eggs are low and poultry not wanted. The dairyman who feeds the heads off a lot of dry cows during tlie summer and tlie poultrvman who letB his hens manage the business as they please will soon require an assignee. The man who quietly submits to circumstances in any branch of tlie buine"s is the-man who gets left. The man who makes cir cumstances is tlie man who succeeds. WHAT OF THE FUTURE? John Gould said recently in Practical Farmer: That dairying has disaster be fore it is one of tlie impossibilities, as eacu year tne intelligence of the indus try is on the increase, and the irreater tue amount 01 brains be und an Indus try the less the liability of misfortune At a late institute one of the Bneakers not a dairyman sa d that to-duv hn re. garded the advanced dairymen of this country the best informed and not only wide-awake but alert class, readv to take advantage of every opportunity that could be found. They were continually on the hunt for a better cow and better stable for her and cheaper and in com bining foods for her to stimulate produc tion. No class of feeders could ennal them. They talked better crops and better saving all fertility possible, but were imcr huh cuuioiuationsasweu, anu. not satisfied with what was once culled good machinery, were taxing the skill of tne world to produce better creamers, etc., so that all the product of the cow might be utilized and nothing lost. In deed, it is to-day a search for " frag ments." Such testimony ia valuable, and shows the material that ia actuating tne dairymen 01 this country. The farmer's dairy Is a creation of his own conception of "cow keeping," and the good of the poor dairy is only a practical example of the brain power of two men as applied to dairy practice. Where the dairy has come to a State or locality and been Intelligently handled it has brought prosperity with it, for with it routes the true basis of animal husbandry, a con stant revenue and source of fertility that, if saved and used aa it may he, means a steady augmentation of fertility that has the power of making the grain fields, depleted with grain raising, again fruit ful and a reward for intelligent labor. . ROME PRACTICAL POINTERS. Dry times are good for stopning leaks n roofs. How the Caribou Lode Was Located. The strike of a three inch vein of natlro silver In the mines at Caribou recalls an old story of the discovery of the mines, as told by Sam Cushman, an old time resi dent of Gilpin comity, and at one time superintendent of the Caribou property. Some twenty-five yean ago there lived at Block Hawk a prospector who never . seemed capable of getting ahead In the world. He prospected on "if rub stakes" lo the summer, sawed wood and did chores la the winter, but was at all times a happy- go-lucky sort of a fellow, well liked by all woo knew blru. When the Union Paolflo was completed to Cheyenne he was seized with a desire to go east and seo ths old folks. By one means or another bs managed to scrap money enough together and started for Cheyenne. Arriving there, bs wandered down to ths depot, and not baring seen an engine or a railroad for many years bs was greatly Inurated In ths movements ot tnilni lu tbe yard. At last something particular attracted bis attention. Ha climbed or tbt car and erltlcally examined Its contents, putting a specimen or two la his pocket. "Stop that," yelled a brakemaa. " Why, It's not good for much, Is Itf" re plied the astonished prospector. "That's Nevada ore, and it's worth $1,000 a ton." "Well, I know where there are tons of tt," replied the Coloratloun, as bs Jumped from ths train and started for ths leading corral to engage panaage with tbt next OS train for ths mouutalns. Outfitting him self be started for the Boulder mountain and located the Cnribon lode. Tb truth was he had often walked over tbe Boat that Indicated the mine, but never sup posed tbat it was good for anything until lie learned Its value In the manner related. The prospector disposed of bis claim for song, but the late ex-Senator Chaffee sold It to a Holland syndicate for a round mil lion dollars. Denver News. Induced tbe Sultan to Talk Bntlneae, The late sultan of Turkey, Abdul Axis, was, If not absolutely mad, sufficiently eccentrio to cause constant trouble not only among his own ministers, but also where the foreign embassadors were con cerned. One of tbe embassadors, however, General tifiiiitloff, of Htuwia, was sufficient ly clever to outwit him and Introduce tha business of uatlons under the guise of per sonal pleasure. Atone time the saltan absolutely refused 10 grant an audience to any member of ths diplomatic body, and spent tbe greater part ot bis time In cock fighting, an amusement which lie greatly relished. Ignatieff learned that his Imperial majes ty was in need of fresh birds to supply ths place of those killed in fight. Thereupon Ignatlefl procured a fine look ing white fowl of tbe barnyard species, bad It trimmed and spurred to resemble a gam cock, and sent it in a richly decorated caga to the sultan. The ruse wns succeuful, but the sultan, at first delighted with tha gift, soon sent for the emluwsador to present himself at the -palace and esplaln. tt he could, why b bird had no Inclination to fight. Ignatieff went, examined the bird In the presence ot the sultan and, with great astonishment and regret, acknowledged tbat it wasquita unable to cops with tbe royal game cocks, which were ot an undoubtedly superior race. A conference followed on tbe subject ot game cocks in general and this one in par ticular, and when the diplomatist bad suc ceeded n drawing tbe sultan Intoaconver satlonnl mood, be adroitly Introduced tb political matter he hod so long awaited an opportunity to discuss. After a long con versation he returned to bis embassy triumphant over his other oolleasues. Afjirray's Magazine. I Tbe highest price calls for a first-class product When a sheep dies It leaves enouirh to pay us debts Chickens which feather alowivare said to oe always naroy. All farms which will grow clover would prom oy paving a held or two of it, A field of potatoes usually oavs a fair . im , : t ' t . .. pruut 11 sept iree irom weeds and well cultivated. Ctrl Phrenologists. I had my bead examined by a girl phre nologist," said Harvey Conselyea at tha Llndell, "and I tell you it was an exceed ingly pleasant operation. She told me a great deal about myself tbat was true and much that agreed with what other phrenol ogists had told ma Do you know that I think there Is something to this science ot Gull and Spurzbeimr And do you know, too, tbat women are going In for ths study ot it much tha same as they are for m edi ct u and the lawr A few years ago phre nology was looked upon aa a dime museum take. Now it Is regarded as an exact sci ence. There is a college of phrenology In New York city crowded with femals stu dents. At tbe last graduating day 4B wom an received diplomas and are now scattered all over the Union making fellows feel good by caressing their bumps and giving them charts tbat show how their brains bulge with certain Important and well de veloped faculties." St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. Will to Men and Negroes at Work. That tbe negro has a soul for rhythm Is apparent even in his working hours. White men do their work independently, each on his own Individual basis and with supreme disregard of the rent. In laying ths asphalt pavement in Forty -eighth street gangs of negroes and white men are employed in stumping the top dressing down with heavy iron disks, betted, and handled by means of long wooden poles. Ths whit laborers do their work with a marked and distinct individuality. The negroes, on tbe other band, seem to naturally divide themselves into two companies, and tha disks full responsively on tbe aspbait aa tbe two lines of laborers advance and re treat. It is apparently an unconscious fall into rhythmic work, but is none the lets trikinu. New York Sun. 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