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m. i OREGON COURIER, OREGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OKEGON, Fill DAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1893. NO. 18. VOL. XI. CONSTIPATION la called tho "Father of Diseases," It is cuuscd by a Torpid Liver, end is generally aooompanied with LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, BAD BREATH, Etc. To treat constipation successfully It is a mild kxutive and a tonio to the digestive organs. By taking Simmons Liver Begulator you promote digestion, bring on a reg ular hulit of body and prevent Biliousness and Indigestion. "My wife ii lorely dl.lrtiicd with Conulpa-li'i-i unil cougliiiiK, followed with HlaediiiK F'Im. A:Vr Imjr j:iniih' use of Simmon (,lvr Ueeulalur it iUiikmi entirely rxlitvcd, gaining menfflll tml llcsli." W. 1). LiinruK, fJclawan, Oliio. I have used Simmon. Liver Regulator (or 'oi;iiu:(ion of my bowel., earned by temporary tlet.iii'iiirtit of the l.ivar, anil alwaya with d. C.d-j.l iHiirfil " HlftAM WakkU, L.I. OM t .... ai i ;nnla. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Tins Succor mine in Gold Hill (Nev.) district has discovered that the Justice mine has been taking ore from its ground, mid a heavy suit fur damages is likely to follow. Rev. David S. Tavlor, cx-miniHter of the first Congregational Church at Ban Ha I i to, (Jul., has brought aait against his former congregation lor damages amount' hi to :j,2ti2.50. . The Olive Orchard Company at Sacra' niento is going in the business on a large scale. A contract to place 11,000 trees on the ground the coming season has been entered into. More complications are developed in the allairs of the failed City Bank at Los Angeles, ami a complaint charging fraud has been entered against parties con' nected with the bank. At Victoria, B. C, the Printers' Union lias reduced the scale of newspaper work 10 per cent. Machine nanus will get i22 per week; hand compositors, night, 45 per 1,000 j day, 40 cents. William Young, who threw a lighted oil lamp at Irene Manstield at Ixs An geles, causing doatli from the frightful burning she received, has been found guilty of manslaughter on the third trial. The Washington National Bank at Ta coma has been placed in a receiver's hands. An attempt was being made to get it out of the Comptroller's hands when the latter checkmated the bank officials. """licTTTresent progress of the Southern Pacific extension justifies the expecta tion that the road will reach San Luis Obispo in six months and make a through route to the East in six months after that time. l'axadena by popular vote has con ferred upon the City Council the right to enforce the planting of shade trees, the proper trimming of hedges and the eradication of weeds from the streets. The negligent property owner is to be brought up with a round turn. Sacramento has voted to use well wa ter instead of water from the Sacramen to. Nearly 3,000 votes were polled. The water comes from a subterranean stream, the source of which apparently is some mountain lake, and is known to have carried live trout in it as far as the wells east of the city. The bills of the Stanford University are being paid, and back salaries are only remembrances. Mis. Stanford finds it necessary to practice the most rigid economy in order to keep the institution open during the present financial strin gency, and many of the employes have necessarily been dismissed. An English land company, composed of some of tlie richest men in mat gov ernment, is to operate in the northern half of the lxwor California Peninsula, and extensive public works in the way of irrigation and seaport facilities are to be instituted at an early date. The con cession comprises 18,000,000 acres, and the Bpeedycolonistation of that rich coun try will follow. Seven San Francisco Chinamen, know ing Tucoma was anti-Chinese, became frightened while being driven from the Portland train to a boat at the wharf at Tacoma at the Bight of crowd assembled at a fire. Without waiting to consult the driver of the gurnev they cut the straps on the doors and, breaking them open, ran back to the depot and bid. They left their baggage behind. At Hot Creek, Nye county, Nev., . Richard (iluyas, superintendent of the Hot Creek and Rattlesnake Mining and Milling Company, an Eastern corpora tion, committed suicide. He went to the mill and set Are to thirty cords of wood, climbed onto it and shot himself. He was entirely cremated, only two small pieces of bone and the fragments of a pistol being found. He left a will disposing of his property. In 1872 the exports of prunes from California amounted to nothing. So rapidly has the industry grown since that date that last year the exports of this fruit from California reached 30, 000,000 pounds. Numerous orchards are coining into bearing year by year, and still more are being planted. This as regards California. In conversation with fruitmen from Oregon we find that or- chardists in certain sections of that State have caught the fever and are planting prune trees by tens of thousands. So with Idaho horticulturists. Right and left these same fruit trees are being set ont, and as in all these localities named this fruit thrives and yields abundantly, one can imagine the condition of this industry in coming years. Here is some thing for planters of new orchards to consider. Another attempt may yet be made to rescue the steam collier San Pedro, which went ashore near Victoria nearly two years ago. This time the Moran Bros, if Seattle have taken the matter in charge, and if they find that it will be worth while to try and save the San Pe dro, they will make one final effort to do so. The Southern Pacific Railroad Com pany, whirh is the owner of the San Pedro, has, it is said, been in correspond ence with the Moran Bros, for some time. The company is anxious that the San Pedro- Kail be saved. She cost nearly If you nnVi """vt1om to .ad wi.h to foe en. . ' ' !r1(,gmt fur Ih-amtnond's itemed, and if lie has not g,.t .. to the Ornrumon I Medicine Co.. Maiden Lane, Xrnr York. Atfo. wanted. ki, xns Tabules : for nr stomach. BUSINESS BREVITIES. Over 100 kinds of wine are made in Australia. An aluminium bridge over Gibraltar Is proposed. There are 37,000 lady telcgraphors in the United states. New South Wales has over 5,000,000 acres of tin-ore fields. Belgium has 160,000 "schnapps" houses and o,oou schools. Europe lias 6,345,000 acres in beets, producing 40,400,000 tons. wine clan ners in r ranee use more than 80,000,000 eggs a year. More than 3,000,000,000 cigarettes were sold In this country last year. The soldering of gloss and porcelain with metals 1b a novel French process. The averugo wages paid in the Clyde ship yards are reported at 7 cents per nour. The State of North Carolina has mined nearly 110,000,000 worth of gold since 1874. American cotton goods are gradually taking the place of the English product in Hayti. 81 It cobU but 25 cents to transport a ton of coal by water from Buffalo to Duluth, 1,000 mires. The weight of the rail used on the American roads has been increasing steadily during the last twenty years. Sixty million dollars' worth of leather is required every year to provide boots and shoes for the inhabitants of Great Britain. The steam engines of the world repre sent the work of 1,000,000,000 men, or more than double the working popula tion of the earth. The three Northern States of New England will receive government boun ties amounting to $ 70,000 on this year's maple sugar crop. The cigarette smokers are doing their best to keep the government in funds. They dropped $2,000,000 into Uncle Sam's strong box last year. Chili is the most prosperous agricult ural country of South America. There are 7,010,000 acres under cultivation, of which 1,100,000 are irrigated. In the opinion of the Portland Oregon ian this is a rood time to nav small debts. as " $100 will pay (1,000 of debts in one uuy u huih moving acuveiy. The total product of the Mexican sil ver mines from their opening by the Spaniards to the independence of the country in ltrai was w,m,)vz,vw. By the tenth census 23,010,000 inhabi tants of the United States were sup ported by agriculture, 11,520,000 by manufactures and 15,020,000 by com merce. Homestead farmers in this country earn 8 per cent of the total earnings of the nation, and their farms and stock represent 7 per cent of the national wealth. Chamberlain, S. D., has the largest artesian well in the world. The flow is 8,000 gallons a minute. The well is eight inches in diameter, and the water is thrown fourteen feet above the top of the pipe. Daily consumption of something like 3,000,000 needles all over the world makes a nrottv big total. Everv vear the wom en of the United States break, lose and use about 300,000,000 of these little in struments. A new dredge, said to be the largest in the world, has been put into operation on the Mersey at Liverpool. It is 320 leet in length, and it is calculated that it will raise 24,000 tons of matter daily from the bar at the mouth of the river. The countries relatively richest in horses and horned stock are Argentina and Uruguay; Austria has the most sheep; Servia the greatest relative num ber of pigs to population. The poorest in horses is Italy; in cattlo, Portugal; in sheep, Belgium; in hogs, Greece. Germany's average annual production of wine during the last thirteen years has been 50,000,000 gallons. The area of land under vine cultivation has varied but little in that time, being about 300, 000 acres. A third of the total produc tion is made in Alsace and Lorraine. The most important engineering ope rations now being carried on in the world are the building of the MancbeS' ter ship canal, upon which already al most $50,000,000 nave been expended, and the opening of the Iron Gates of the Danube, which will cost when done from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The French government, controlling the pearl islands of the Pacific, has re cently prohibited the use of diving ap paratus by pearl hunters. This is be cause there has been such a demand for the beautiful pearls of the Pacific that the supply is being depleted, and in a little while apparently there would be none left. PURELY PERSONAL. The Belgian King hates music, and whenever a piano is opened he vanishes from the room. Dingley of Maine, Dolliver of Iowa and Burrows of Michigan are Beated side by side in the front row of the Re publican side of the House this session. Little Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is credited with the possession of a par ticularly intractable temper, which she inherits from her disreputable old papa. Peter Rossegger, the bard of Styria, as Austria's most popular poet is called, and who had a public or rather popular celebration of his 50th birthday recent ly, is the son of the poorest of peasants. Miss Emily Faithful, the well-known English apostle of woman's work, lives in the dreariest part of Manchester. She is an inveterate smoker of cigars, which alone relieve the asthma from which she Buffers. Mrs. Lucie C. Carnegie of Pittsburg, sister-in-law of Andrew Carnegie, has given an order to the Maryland Steel Company of Baltimore for a steel steam vacht, which she will use in cruising in Southern waters. William A. Pledger, the negro politi cian of Georgia, is to apply for admission to the bar at the next session of the Su perior Court in Clarke county. Four teen negro lawyers have already been admitted to practice at the Georgia bar. Prince Victor Napoleon, who lives qui etly in Brussels, is a great student of works on the army, military tactics, con stitutional government and French his tory during the consulate and the two Emperors. The Prince is now 31 rears old, and hii demeanor is grave beyond nil years. The Princess Maud, who has always been the favorite of her father, the Prince of Wales, has blossomed out into quite a beauty this season, the foreign correspondents state. The Princess Vic toria is the useful member of the fam ily, and plays the part of the peace maker always. assertion recently made in an , , Tiodioal that Miss Braddon $500,000 from her novels " -arded aa preposterous, ere savs in London lined to think that good deal more EASTERN MELANGE. Huge Hailstones Fall in State of New York. the RADICAL METHOD FOB BELIEF. Amount and Mileage of Railroads In the Hands of Receivers at the Present Time. Grasshopne to crops in ioi erg are doing great damage crops in lowa. A conference of Anarchists Is to be held in Chicago September 15. A Kansas editor boasts of being a graduate of the Keeloy Institute. The rate of taxation just fixed in New York is the lowest in thirty years. Active measures are being taken to enforce the health laws of Kansas. Another gas well with powerful flow has been struck at Stronghurst, III. Governor Turncy of Tennessee is out in a proclamation denouncing lynching. About 12,000 men who were idle in Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work again. During this vear 714.036 silver Treas ury notes have been redeemed in silver dollars. Senator John Sherman has decided to say very little at preBent upon the money question. A sea turtle, weighing 1,000 pounds, was captured near Portland, Me., the other day. Frick. the Carneaie manager at Pitts burg, has had his salary of $50,000 a year reduced to $35,000. Senator Pefler has asked that the sal aries of all government officers above $1,000 a year be reduced. Atlanta is about to celebrate hor fif tieth anniversary. Her population is in close neighborhood of 120,000. Much dissatisfaction is found with the registration requirement by intending settlers in the Cherokee Strip. The counties of Western New York report a plague of grasshoppers that is uoing mucn Harm hi me crops. Last year the total valuation of the railroads of Kansas was $50,000,000, This year it is increased $10,000,000, R. D. Kathrens, Secretary of a large oil company, says that the supply of pe- . i , i . ; : i . .. i : 1. 1 iroieum in Wyoming in uieKimuoiiuiv, Railroad Commissioners of Kansas have not yet been able to secure seed wheat for the western part of the State, Francis Murphy, the well-known tern' perance advocate, claims that the exces sive use of intoxicants is on the decrease But 1,000 men are now employed in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, Kan Last year at thia time 2,000 men were at work. There is an organized kick all over Kansas about the celerity with which the State Board of Pardons is letting out criminals. Secretary Hoke Smith has declined to execute aspnaitum mining leases on me Indian reservation in Utah. He says it is illegal. Railroads with a mileage of over 16.- 000 miles and capital of $1,000,000,000 have gone into receivers' hands in this country this year. The Javanese village in Midway Plai sanee ut the Chicago Fair is unable to meet the exactions of the management of the fair, and will close. The citv of Cleveland has filed a claim to land on the lake front occupied by the Pennsylvania, Lake Shore and Big Four railroads and worth f2,ooo,oou. Rome. N. Y.. reports a fall of hail stones weighing one quarter of a pound. Every exposed window was broken and roots damaged. Kain leu in torrents, The New York Sun has been making a study cf the debts of the various States, and iliuls that in the last ten years there has been a total decrease oi $ iu,ooo,ooo. W. W. Ogilvie, the milling king of Uanada, estimates the yieia in wneai in Manitoba and Northwest Canada this year at about twenty bushels per acre, or a total yield of about 19,000,000 bush els. The recent "hunger riots" in New York had their comical side. One of the loudest clamorers for bread, who was taken into custody by the police, was searched, and was found to have $36 in his pockets. New York's Dock Commissioners have built on several different piers people's pavilions. In these structures iron pil tars support the roof, the building being open on each side to let the breeze enter. The pavilions cost $3,500 each, and are to serve as public promenades. Dr. Warner's corset factory at Bridge port, Conn., employs 1,600 women. It now is running only part of the time, but for all of the workwomen who do not make enough to pay their living ex penses Dr. Warner furnishes the meals nntil the factory shall be running full time again. A movement is on foot in South Caro lina W have John C. Calhoun's body, with the sarcophagus erected over it by the State Legislature some years ago. removed from St. Philip's neglected graveyard in Charleston to Fort Hill, where was his home and where the col lege he wished for has lately been estab lished. Typographical Union No. 16 of Chi cago, including all the large English pa pers oi mat city, auouieu a radical method for the relief of the unemployed in the shape of a rule, to hold good for five weeks, that none of the regularly employed shall work more than four days each week, putting on " subs " the other three. The Cherokee Strip will be opened for settlers at 12 h. on Saturday, September 16. There are altogether 0,UOO,000 acres of land to be opened. One-third, or 2,000,000 acres, is arid land, unfit for set tlement, leaving 4,ow,uw available lor homestead purposes. There will be land enough for about 22,000 persons to make selections, and with the town lot squat ters, altogether not exceeding 25,000. The man R. W. Parker, or Wilbur Prescott Koockogev. who committed su icide at the Grand Hotel, San Francisco, accordinz to a Philadelphia dispatch fi- nred in many scandals in the East. He was convicted of bigamy and sent to the penitentiary for the offense. His mother n wealthy, but was forced to go to France to live, owing to her son's misconduct. He was well known in Philadelphia as "The Count." Horace Johnson, the Middletown (Conn.) weather prophet, who predicted the recent biff storm, aavi them in an. other of still greater severity to come between beptem Per o and 10. lie pre dicts that a great tidal wave will roll into tbe streets of Boston and New York along the docks and for a time com pletely submerge them. He warns mer- ,.nt. nvnin. r,mr , I w tn that m. mi cities to remove their toads along the water front. I CHICAGO EXPOSITION. In the Oregon display ia an exhibit that attracts much attention. It in cludes a working model of a gold placer mining outfit. A largo amount of gold bearing dirt is at hand for demonstrat ing the whole process of panning out the gold, and at stated intervals the plant is put into operation. This exhibit is not surrounded with glass, and it is an amus ing sight to see people hunting over the sand and dirt for particles or appear ances of gold. Near the north end of the forestry building are shown cross sections of trees from Oregon. There is a yellow fir log six feet in dlainotcr. The yellow fir 5 rows all over the Northwest Coast lange Mountains. It is of superior ex cellence for ship-building and spars. It ranges from two to ten feet in diameter. A cross section of a trunk of tide-land spruce is shown. It is nine feet nine inches in diameter. The butt was six teen feet In diameter, the tree being 306 feet liiirh and 300 vears old. Great slabs of noble fir, spruce, lovely fir and yellow nr are shown. Baron de Maraja, Commissioner from Brazil, and 8. Suwa. Secretary of the Jap anese Commission, have through O. 8. Whitmore, editor of Uardwood, onereu forestry exhibit at the World's Fair to to the city of Chicago for a permanent museum. Said Mr. Whitmore the other night: " Both the collections are com plete and large, the former being one of the largest in the forestry building. Mr. Suwa's is large and exceptionally well arranged and perfectly classified. Dr. Niederlein, Commissioner from the Ar gentine Republic, and Dr. Hassler, Com missioner from Paraguay, both have splendid collections, which they have given me to understand they would pre sent to the city if they could be assured they would be appreciated anil cared for as they deserve. No such collection of forest products has ever liefore lieen shown as is now in this exhibit, either from domestic or foreign sources. I have discussed the matter with others among foreign exhibitors, and am satisfied the bulk of the foreign exhibits can be se cured by the city. American exhibitors also are prepared to make handsome do nations. I think theJessop collection can be secured and some other private collections. Dr. Charles M i I Ispaugh, the botanist who has charge of the w est Vir ginia collection, intimates that a large part of that exhibit can be secured. It is one of the finest shown, is complete and thoroughly classified. Kentucky, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Michi- f;an, Washington, Missouri and others lave complete, well-arranged and well classified exhibits which they would gladly donate in whole or in part." FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Senator Dolnh has Introduced a reso lution calling for a report from the War Department of the Board of Engineers which examined the proposed improve ments at The Dalles. Senator Dolph thinks this ought to be before Congress so that early action may be had by the Oregon delegation. - A brief prepared by Judge Advocate General Lemly of the navy on the re port of the court of inquiry that exam ined into the disgraceful condition of the) cruiser Atlanta has been presented to) .secretary Herbert for his consideration It is said the brief contains evidence ad ditional to that given in the report, and a court-martial of the officers connected with the vessel will be ordered by Mr. Herbert. The trouble on the Mexican border over the attempt of Mexican officers to drive a nock of sheep from a tract oi land on the Rio Grande, claimed by both Mexicans and citizens of the United States, owing to a change in the course of the river, has taken a serious aspect, The War Department has received a tel egram irora General Wheaton, com manding the Department of Texas, say ing that two troops oi the l- nth cavalry would leave Fort Ringgold for the scene of trouble to supjiort twenty men under Captain 1-or hurt, who have the Mexican othcers and sheep in charge. All the members of the administration took the greatest interest in the vote on tne Wilson mil; secretary uarnsio espe cially so. He received in his office in the Treasury Department official an nouncement of the several votes as soon as they were flashed across the wires. When the first vote was received, which showed that free coinage at a ratio of 10 to 1 was beaten by 102 majority, he saw the majority was greater than he had anticipated, and that, he would have been satislied with sixty majority. At the conclusion of all the votes Secretary Carlisle stated that he was very much gratified at the result and felt that it would do much to restore public conn dence. He expressed the hope that the Senate would take speedy action on the silver question. The Secretary addctl that the present stringency was not due to want of nionev. hut to hoarding it and withdrawing it from business on ac count of this lack of confidence. It has been decided impracticable to let the tariff question go over to the reg ular session by adjourning Congress as soon as the silver question is settled ; so work on i: taritl bill will soon oegin. Chairman Wilson of the Ways and Means Commitfe hopes to have the bill ready for considei ttion by the House by November. Another urgent question may have to be considered before this. The monetary stringency has caused such a falling off in receipts from internal revenue, customs and other sources that the daily receipts of the government are now lalling 1300,000 short ol the com oulsorv exnenditures for pensions and the ordinary expenditures of the govern ment. Already there is a deficiency of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 in sight. The situation cannot be met by economy, as these expenses are obligatory under the law. The alternatives before Congress to meet the situation are limited to three new issue of government bonds, an income tax or some such new impost, or an increase of the rate in some of the existing forms of taxation. SecretarvCarliflle has ordered that the United States mints at Philadelphia and San Francisco be fully manned and the full capacity of both mints utilized in coining gold bullion. The Treasury De partment possesses from $80,000,000 to $00,000,000 in gold bullion, which is part of the gold reserve of $100,000,000. Gold bars cannot be used as currency; m n has been decided in the present need to coin the bullion on hand. The bullion ill be coined into $10, $5 and 2 gold pieces, preference being given to tne first two denominations. The coining capacity of the Philadelphia mint, it is stated, win oe oetween nw" 16.000.000 ner month. The San Fran cisco mint will also be tilized, but fortu nately nearly all bullion possessed by the government is in the East. Tnere is $20,000,000 of gold bullion in the Phila delphia mint, $16,000,000 of it being in one vault, where it has remained un touched for fifteen years. Acting Di rector Preston visited Philadelphia the other day, and completed arrangements with Superintendent BosDysnen to oegin work at once. The Treasury is now pay ing out gold coin all over the country, and aa a consequence standi more in of gold soia than heretofore. FOREIGN FLASHES. Trade Greatly Demoralized in British India. WOMAN MURDERS AN ATTORNEY France's Vineyards In a Healthy State-Ctar Turns His At tention to Railways. Tho very first gymnasium for girls tn Germany will lie oened atCalsruhe this fall. A writing table which once belonged to lord Byron was sold the other day in London for $66. Permission has been granted for tele, phone wires in Manchester, England, to be placed underground. The reduction In price of the rupee below 1 shilling and 4 pence has greatly demoralized trade in India. Birmingham, England, has been suc cessfully operating a storage battery street railway system for over a year. The Emperor of Russia is giving earn est attention to the making of the rail way between Moscow, St. Petersburg and Siberia. A gun exploded on the French cruiser Dugiiay Truin during target practice at Sydney, N. 8. W., killing four men and Injuring many. The first effect of closing Indian mints to free silver coinage was to cost English holders of Indian securities $150,000,000 by their immediate fall. The German Anti-Slavery Committee, which started on its career with a capi tal of 2,0(10,000 marks, has ended In total and irremediable collapse. On many of the railways in Germany the practice of starting locomotive fires witli gas instead of wood has been adopted, and proves economical. Baron Alliert Rothschild has been given the Iron Crown by the Emperor of Austria for his part in carrying out the Austro-Hungarian currency reform. A new loud-speaking telephone has been invented in England. The receiv ing instrument is said to speak loud enough to be heard all over the room. The Turkestan Gazette says that the Ameer of Bokhara has broken witli Mo hammedan traditions, and will throw open his country to Eurojiean civiliza tion. An Englishman, whose will has just been probated, left $50,000 to various charities and the remainder of his es tate $375,000 to Sir Henry Thompson, the scientist. The newest fashion among the ladies at St. Petersburg is to arm themselves with long canes when they go abroad. Some of these canes measure six or seven feet in length. The diadem of the Russian Empress contains 2.536 large diamonds and a sin gle ruby valued at $400,000. The private tewels of the Empress of Austria are worth $1,500,000. The London Times never prints pict- ii res nr uses scare heads, but on the day of the recent royal wedding it had a llowery border a quarter of an inch wide around each page. France's. yinsvarJc -teys-jncarontly completely recovered from the phyllox era, and this year's grape crop is report ed to oe tne nnest that has been gatn erea in tnirty-dve years. The Queen of Italy is taking her usual annual holiday among the Alps. She is attended only by two of her ladies in waiting, and with them she proposes to make an ascent of Monte Rosa. Tho Italian government is likely to order the suspension of the Uatholic pil grimage to Rome in the event of the cholera in f ranee, Hungary and other countries continuing next month. Miss Thornton, Queen Victoria's old est servant, who has been state house keeper at Buckingham Palace, has just resigned at the age oi HO years. She has been forty years in her Majesty's service, The occurence of two cases of cholera at Northafen, on the canal fed by the Spree, leaves little doubt that the river iB infected. The German government has ordered the closing oi all river baths At Montpelier, France, during mass an elderly lady entered tho pew of Jean Jouissant, a prominent lawyer, and shot him four times, killing him. She claimed he had refused to return a sum of money intrusted to his care. An agricultural writer reckons the loss this year to the English farmer at It an acre,'wliich means that the farmers have upward of 70,000,000 less to Bpend than they would have had if the crops hod been up to the average. Lady Dormer, the widow of the popu lar General lately in command of the British forces at Madras, announces that Hhe is bringing home with her baggage the head and tail of the ferocious Indian tigress that killed her husband. Naval people in England are begin ning to ask whether the ram may not be almost as dangerous to the ship which bears it as to the ship rammed. It is most certainly a less trustworthy weapon than most persons have been led to sup pose. In London some thousands of women and girls belong to what are called drink clubs, a small sum being paid by each member weekly in order that several times yearly all may meet at Borne pub lic house and drink what has been con tributed. When Miss Sybil Sanderson was sing ing at Paris the other day she noticed a child imitating her. As her song died away she listened to the echo of the child's voice, and was so fascinated by its sweetness that she decided to educate the little singer. The Infanta Eulalia's spun-elass dress. of which an American manufacturing company made her a present while she was the nation's guest, has aroused great curiosity among the ladies of the Span ish tourt, who very properly regard it something very remarkable in the way of feminine attire. London is to have a tobacco show from September 17 to October 7. a dahlia and gladiola exhibition for three days in the beginning of September, three chrysan themum shows, one in October and the others in the two succeeding months; a raze bird show the last of October and bull-dog show in November. Riirht Honorable Henry Chaplin holds the English government mainly respon sible for the failureof the Brussels Mon etary Conference, and charges that it willfully threw away an opportunity for promoting a settlement of the silver question affecting all parts of the world. The Russian Czarowitz has one good reason why he can never marry the Princess Victoria of Wales, with whose name the gossips have connected his. It is that they are first cousins, and the marriage of first cousins is strictly pro hibited by the canons of the Greek Cbarvh. PORTLAND MARKET. Whiai-Valley, 02,'icj Walla Walla, 82'vc per cental. HOPS, WOOL AND HIDSB. Hops 'U2s, 10(3 10c per pound, accord ing to quality; new crop, '03s, 16 17c. Wool Umpqiia valley, 14(15c; fall clip, 13(3 14c; Willamette valley, 10 12c, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 6314o per pound, according to condition. Hmaa Dry hides, selected prime, 5(0c; green, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c: sheep pelts, short wool, 80 (; 50c; medium, 60(g80c; long, 90ca$1.25j shearlings, 1020c; tal low, good to choice, 35u per pound. FLOUR, FEKO, ETC. Fiona Standard, $3.25; Walla Walla, $3.25; graham, $2.75; super Hue, $2.50 per barrel. Oats Old white, 40c per bushel ; old gray, 30c: new white, 3c; new gray, 33 35c; rolled, in bags, $6.256.60; bar rels, $0.60(40.75; cases, $3.76. MiLLSTurvs Bran, $17.00; shorts, $20.00; ground barley, 22(g23; chop feed, $18 per ton : whole feed, barley, 80 86c per cental; middlings, $23(u;28 per ton ; chicken wheat, $1.05 per cental. Hav Good, $1012 per ton. ' DAIBV PBODUCI. BurriB Oregon fancy creamery, 253 2tl)icj fancy dairy, 206220; fair to good, 10(t 17 'vc j common, 14(f(16c per pound ; California, 3544c per roll. Chkibc Oregon, 12c; California, 13(u)14c; Young America, 1510o per pound. Eoqb 15c per dozen. Poulthy Chickens, old, $4.50(35.00; broilers, $2.00(3)3.50; ducks, $4.00(3; 0.00; geese, $8.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 14c per pound ; dressed, none in the market. VKQKTABLES AND FKUITS. Vkohtablks Cabbage, le per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 75c per sack ; new on ions, 1'ijC per pound; cucumbers, Ore gon, 8q4 10c per dozen; string beans, 6 7c per pound ; tomatoes, 6075c per box ; green corn, lUCoflzSjC per dozen; sweet potatoes, zg(gjc per pound; egg plant, $1.50 per box. Fbuits Sicily lemons, $6.00(36.50 per box: California new crop, $5.50(3)0.00 per box ; banan8, $1.503.00 per bunch ; oranges, $3.00 per box ; pineapples, $6.00 per dozen ; California apples, $1.25(3)1.60 Ser bushel; Oregon, 50 (3; 75c; peaches, regon, 50 (3 85c per box ; freestone, 85(3 90c per box; clingstone, 75(3800 per box; Oregon peach plums, 4060c per box; Bradshaw plums, 00(3 75c per box j Bartlett pears, $1.25(31.60 per box ; blackberries, 4(tf6c per pound; water melons, $2.00(3)3.00 per dozen; canta loupes, $1.26(31.50 per dozen; nutmeg melons, $1.50 per box; huckleberries, 16c per pound ; grapes (Muscat and Rose of Peru), $1.00 per box ; Tokay, $1.60 per box ; nectarines, $1.25 per box ; crab apples, $1.25(3)1.50 per box. STAPLE OBOCKBIE8. Dbieo Fbuits Petite prunes, 10llc; silver, ll12c; Italian, 13,'uc; German, 10011c; plums, 89c; evaporated ap ples, 10(3 He; evaporated apricots, 12(3) 16c; peaches, 10(al2Jjc; pears, 7llc per pound. CorrsE Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 21c; Salvador, 21 He ; Mocha, 25 30c ; Java, 24H30c; Arhuckle's and Lyon, 100- pound cases, Zd.duc per pound; VJolum bia. same, 23.30c Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound; new Oregon, l!R)c; extract, too. 8alt Liverpool, 100s, $16.00; 60s, MH.50: Btock. 8.50(o:9.60. Rice Island,$4.755.00; Japan, j New Orleans, $4-60 per cental. Hvtvu Hmntl wliifftfl. fllc r-lr-1 SKe: bayos, SVhna, 3$ SYBUPsidgm n barrels. 40(3550; pran-barrels, 4257c; in cases, 35(3) 80c per gallon : $2.26 per keg: California, in barrels, 20c10c pur gallon; $1.76 per keg. Sugar D.5?c; 0, 6Jjc; con oct lone Golden O. 8Ve: extra octioners A. 6 Wc : drv orran- mated, 6c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 7jc per pound ; jo per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash ; maple sugar, 15(3) 10c per pound. CANNED OOOPB. Canned Gooph Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(82.00; peaches, $1.86(82.10; Bart lett pears, $1.75(3:2.00; plums, $1.37)(3 1.60; Btraw berries, $2.26(3)2.45; cherries, $2.25(3)2.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(31 2.80; apricots, $1.66(82.00. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(81.20; blackberries, $1.25(81.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.50; peaches, $3.50(34.00; apri cots, $3.504.00; plums, $2.75(83.00; blackberries, $4.25(84.50. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.55(34.00: lunch tongue, Is, $4; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.76(82.15 per dozen. Fish Sardines, Ha, 75e.$2.25; s, 2.15(34.50: blisters. $2.30(33.50: sal mon, tin Mb tails, $1.25(3)$1.60; flats, $1.75;2-lbs, $2.26(82.50; -barrel, $6.60, BAGS AMD BAOOINO. Burlaps, 8-onnce, 40-inch, net cash, 6c; burlaps. 10'1-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, (I've; burlaps, lla-ounce, 45-inch, 7ic: burlaps, 16-ounce, 60-inch, 11c; burlaps, ni-ounce, 7o-mcn, 14c; wheat bags. Calcutta. 23x36. spot, 8c; 2-bushel oat bags, 7jc ; No. 1 second hand bags, 7c ; Calcutta hop cloth, 24- ounce, 10c MISCELLANEOUS. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.50(89.00 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.50(?8.00per box; terne plate, 1. v., primi prime quality, $0.607.00, Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25: steel, $2.36; wire, $2.60 per keg. bteel rer pound, luxjc. Lead Per pound, 4,l,c; bar, Naval Stokkh Oakum, $4.50(85.00 Per bale: resin, $4.80(86.00 per 480 pounds; tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $!) per bar rel ; pitch, $6 per barrel ; turpentine, 66c per gallon in car lots. Ibon Bar. 2ic per pound: pig-iron. $23(825 per ton. LIVE AND DB ESS ED HEAT. Beep Prime steers. $2.50(32.75; fair to good steers, $2.002.50: good to choice cows, l.&0(3Z.w; dressed oeei, j.ou(g 6.00. Mutton Choice mutton, $2.00(32.50; dressed, $4.00r34.50; lambs, $2.00(32.50; dressed, $6.00; shearlings, 2c, live weight. Hoos Choice heavy, o.uu?5.ou; me dium, $4.50(36.00; light and feeders, $4.600.00; dressed, S.uu. Veal $4-00o.tw. pbovibions. Eastebn Smoked Meat and Labd Hams, medium, uncovered, 15(816c per pound; covered, 14(815c; breakfast bacon, uncovered, lowic; covered, lo.f 0, 16c: short clear sides, 13(814c; dry salt sides, 11,(3 12'c; lard, compound, in tins, 10c per pound; pure, in tins, 13 14c; Oregon lard, u(aiz;ic Lowering th Thermometer. An usher at Centenary church at Greene boro, N. C, got a little frus trated one Sunday night recently, but he did the best tiling that he could under the circumstances. Tbe room was excewdvely warm, and be tried his level best to lower a window from the top, but be failed. Then be took down the thermometer and car ried it out of doors. Everybody cooled off at once. Atlanta Conau-tutloo. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report 11 ABSOLUTELY PWB FAM AND GARDEN. The Silo a Necessary Adjunct to the Dairy. SOME AGRICULTURAL POINTERS. Something ConcerningSpecialty and General Farming Lice and Ticks on Sheep. For years past there has been a great leal said and written about snecialtv and general farming, and more especial ly during the last few years of discon tent among the fanners, says a writer in the Ohio Farmer. The difference be tween specialty and general farming is not great if the advocates of both sys tems win put the same construction on the word specialty. Whatever the word may mean, I do not think its advocates use it to convey the idea that a man to be a specialist must confine his efforts to only one crop or only one particular branch of agriculture, and yet the advo cates of general farming seem deter mined that a specialist must confine himself. If to be a specialty farmer means that a man must confine all his efforts to one branch of agriculture, such as raising nothing but wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, hogs, horses, sheep, cattle or any partic ular thing, then the less specialty farm ing we have the better. Our brethren in the South tried specialty farming, the specialty being cotton, and it proved a curse to them not only as individual farmers, but as a people. But special farming doesn't mean anything of the kind; if it does, I have never seen a modern specialty farmer, nor have I ever read a line advocating such methods from the moat enthusiastic specialist. I believe I voice the sentiments of all spe cialists when I construe it to mean a system, a special system, or in other words a special rotation or combination. Thus a man may have one or more crops. All bis etlorts and energies are centered on that crop ; it is the primary object. TIub crop may be potatoes. He may and does raise clover, wheat and corn, yet ne raiBes them only that they may be tne means of holding or increasing the fer tility in hie soil and stimulating it to its best efforts to produce potatoes. While he may raise other crops, they are Only the means through which he expects to gain certain enas in view, uiir speciu"? is nuier. ,r iJa Ut. because I "-.jutlo get our ground &M Tiie imm W-tr4ncraaeack to clover for hay and uPter i-vlie fer tility in our land. We raise Corn because it is the foundation of dairy feed. We raise potatoes because they bring the money witn wnicn to Duy bran and Un seed meal. We keep a few hogs and a good many chickens to eat our skim milk : yet all our efforts are to make all the butter we can. Everything rrown hv this svstem or rotation. ATirentin hma and chickens, goes into the mouths of our cows. They are our machines for converting our arm products into cash. Butter !b our money cron and our ne- cialty. So a man might, and I think every farmer should, make some branch of agriculture a specialty. I believe the man that will take up some special sys tem of farming or stock-raising and study his ousiness and lollow it intelligently is tne man wno win succeed, il is an ad mitted fact that there is no monev in general farming to-day. yet we see men and read statements daily of men who - ... i-: ... i. .. Tu.. . i nic limning money uy unecmiiy lariiiuig, nut uy growing one tiling, put uy some special system, THE NECESSARY SILO. Practical dairymen are coming more and more to the conclusion that the silo is a necessary adjunct of the dairy. There have been strong objections urged against it. partly through prejudice. partly because the methods of caring for louder in this way were not thoroughly understood. One bears and reads a good deal less in opposition to the silo now than two or three or even one year ago. It has been discovered that asiloneed not be a costly affair, and the proper mode of filling it is much better understood than formerly, so that the ensilage is of very much better-quality. One of the most careful dairymen in New England is reported to have said recently that a milk producer with all his capital and labor dependent upon a large flow of milk could not be subject to the whims of the season and lose a large proportion of his income because the usual quantity of rain happened to be withheld. He added that he must have a supply of en silage the year round as an insurance against drought and flood. This is the case in a nutshell. It is a a ilea t ion of dollars and cents. When the pastures dry up in August, as nowadays they are almost sure to do, the cows begin to shrink in milk, and at the same time up goes the price of butter, but the dairy man who depends on pasture feeding is powerless to take advantage of the rise. It is then that the silo comes into play. and the dairyman who has one smiles to think he Is not dependent upon burnt up pastures and a shrinking milk supply. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder Is swiftly taking the place of the cheap adulterated Baking Powders. The reasons for this are plain. It is the only Pure Cream of Tartar Baking Powder having any considerable sale. Price's Cream Baking: Powder Works more quickly and does Makes Hot Bread wholesome, Biscuit white and flaky, M Pastry of finest flavor, M Cake that remains moist an - dridd V cakes that delight v LICE AND TICKS ON SHEEP. An expensive experiment was made by Prof. C. P. Gillette of the Colorado experiment station on the prevention of lice and ticks on sheep, which we give as follows : After shearing the sheep an emulsion, consisting of 8 per cent kero sene, is made. Perhaps this may be slightly weakened. - During the treat ment a man should stand in the vat and give each sheep a thorough drenching. The emulsion should be kept well stirred at all times. The cost of materials for dipping fifty-eight sheep was $1.11. The scab parasite, ticks, lice and maggots all succumb to the destroying power of the kerosene. The dip does not remain per manently in the wool after drenching it: it should, be renewed after each annual shearing. Too much kerosene Is likely to take off the wool ; hence it must, be thoroughly emulsified. An emulsion made at tne rate of two gallons of kero sene, half a pound of soap and one gal lon of water churned together, and added to thirty or forty gallons of water after churning, will be strong enough to ac complish all that is desired. HOW TOMH, - , It Is not cheap feeding to feed any cheap crop that you may have handy. Tbe only cheap feeding ia to feed in such a manner as will secure the best rowtb in the least time. In order to o this you must have some knowledge of the relative feeding value of the va rious rations. A Cruel Joka on a Married CoapU. Lieutenant P. R. Brown, U. S. A., and bride, who were married on Monday at Pbillipsburg, were the victims of a ludi crous practical joke at the hands of their friends. They boarded the Pittsburg day express, which reaches here about 6:80, and like most honeymooners tried to look and act like old married people. Meanwhile their baggage was holding an impromptu reception in the baggage car. There were three brand new trunks, and upon one of them a huge card, care fully painted, was tacked with large brass tacks, with the inscription: j aoNEVMootr bagoagb. j ; "Bride'i Trouwau." : This was further ornamented with a large bow of white satin. On the sec ond trunk was a placard like thia: j BANDLB WITH CABB. j i "Just Married." ' 1 And another huge white satin bow. The groom's trunk was spared a label, but . the satin bow was a trifle larger and more conspicuous than the others. . "gKB a' vnougm, uwTimig- . too good to keep to himself, so Win- Of course everybody went through the car to find the-young married couple, and equally of course the young married couple were easily found, and they won dered, as the people smiled broadly when they passed them, whether they were more conspicuously married than all the other young brides and grooms that had lived and moved and had their beings, or whether they were only suf fering what thousands had done before them. They never found out, and It i pre sumed that the trunks thus belabeled rolled np to all prominent. hotels and gave the baggage smashers Philadelphia Press. To Eitlrifalih Pralrl ) Iran. An inventive genius of North Dakota has just patented a device for making a fire break to fight prairie fires with. It is a sheet iron contrivance five feet wide and seven feet long and about two feet high. On top of it are three circular reser voirs for holding gasoline. Underneath is arranged a series of burners designed to set fire to the grass as the machine passes over it. The main part of the ap paratus is followed by a sheet iron trailer in three sections, each five by seven feet. While the first two of these are pass ing over the grass it is supposed to bs well consumed, and the final trailer it designed to extinguish every particle of fire. The invention is awakening much interest among the ranchmen, many of whom believe the machine will prove impracticable because it will not securely confine the fire and it will thereby cause serious conflagrations. The inventor claims it will safely burn a strip five feet wide and twenty-five miles long in one day. Four horses will be required to draw the apparatus. New York Tele gram. Dinah's Prarar. Dinah Is fond of good living, but, strange to say, has an intense dislike for clams, and did not hesitate to make this fact known when called upon to ask a blessing. Dinah said: "O Lord, Dress all dese good Tittles all 'cept dem clams yon don't get any of dem inter met Amen. "Harper's. 8nrveyors at work on the Gila ri va in New Mexico claim that they have dis covered a mountain of pure alum a mile square at the base and 8,000 feet high. finer work than other brands.