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OREGON COURIER VOL. XI. OREGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1893. NO. 34. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. (food Report From a California Gold-Mining District. HARD FROSTS KILL CRICKETS. TrciiHurer of an Arizona Grocery Company 8klw Out With a Portion of the Funds. Santa Barbara, Oil., lins decided to lioli I itd flower festival during the third week in April. A bar of void valued at (03.000 from the Bonanza mine in the Harqua Halas wag shipped to Kan rrancisco from 1 Ik nix, A. T., recently. Two employes of the Washington State priiitiiiK olhYe liave purchased lil'tv acres I I ii ...:i. .. .... l .11 ' 1 oi mim live nines vast ui uiyinpiu, anu will start a prune ranch. The cloud hanging over the title to land at Nogales, A.'l.,has been removed tiy thu 1'rivate Land (jlauns Lourt, and there is great rejoicing at Nogales, A number of prominent merchants at Boise, Idaho, are indicted for having made false returns on the amount of business done upon which a State tax is levied. - Harney Valley ranchers are In hopes ol being well rid of the cricket pest, During the warm weather of early fall the eggs hatch"! by millions, and later on hard frosts ii.ci i.io young hoppers B. 1 Burgess, Treasurer of the War ner drocery Company at riicunix, A. 1, is missing, and with him funds of the company estimated roughly at $2,000, Burgess went to Pha-nix from Portland. Or., a year ngo with a young woman who leu wiin mm. A woman at Spokane, Wash., was fined $20 a few davs ago for practical joking. She perpetrated the exceed ingly humorous, thouirh not exactly new, joke of mixing the sugar and salt on the table ot a plimic dining-room. 1 1 io eon it called it disorderly conduct, (ieorge Parsons, who shot a tramp in Virginia, .New, in June last, has been sentenced to twenty-one years at hard labor in the penitentiary. The tramp had picked up an article ot clothing be longing to Parsons, and the latter pur sued him and killed him. The Judge characterized the act as cruel and un provoked. On several occasions during the past two years deadly assaults, and in two or three canes murdors, have been commit ted in the mountainous regions of Yuba county, Ual., some tilty or sixty miles from Marysville. It is pretty well de termined now that Indians and squaw- men were the principal actors in this outlawry, and the Sheriff has made two arrests, and offers a reward for a notori ous Indian desperado. The Northwestern Steamship Com pany has been incorporated by several rceaiiie capitalists repruBeuuu several millions of dollars. It is the intention to purchase the City of Seattle and the City ot Kingston, now owned oy the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and with other boats controlled by the com pany one on the Sound and one in San Francisco to control business on all the principal Sound routes. Mrs. Jane Stanford, widow of the late Senator 1 .eland Stanford and executrix of his vast estate, lias confirmed the telegraphic report that Leland Stanford (Jr.) University is to receive an endow ment of at least $300,000 from one of the brothers of the late Senator. In the hitter's will $300,000 is bequeathed his brother, Thomas Weldon Stanford of Melbourne, Australia. This bequest lias been turned over to the university. C. F. Crocker, Vice-President of the Southern Paeilic, denies the published statement that the directors of the com pany have determined to put armed men on their freight trains. He says the company has not determined what course to pursue in combatting the tramp nui sance. It is believed, however, that the Pinkerto" igency has perfected arrange ments to t gun-fighters on the South ern PaciH ims not only in California, but in Ariz inc, New Mexico, Texas and clear through to New Orleans. Armed men were recently put on trains pulling out of Portland, Or., but after a few days were taken off. About that time William Pinkerton was in San Francisco. John McNulty, a 'longshoreman who five years ago murdered Patrick Collins, another 'longshoreman, at San Francisco, was to have been hanged December 21). It now appears that after the date of execution has been set five different times McNulty's neck will yet be saved through the efforts of the Daughters of the Ciood Shepherd of that city. Gov ernor Mark ham was notified that the Sherilf had granted McNulty a reprieve until January zu, and tne probability h that his death sentence will be com muted to life imprisonment. The Gov ernor announces that he has received a petition signed by 8,000 people asking that this be done. Among the signers are United States Senators White and Perkins, Archbishop Kiordan, Irwin C. Stump and eight of the jurors who con victed the prisoner. A peculiar lawsuit has just been brought by the New Zealand Fire Insur ance Company against the Standard Oil Company. Two years ago the oil com pany sold a certain quantity of coal oil to retail dealers in senna, r resno county, Cal., representing it to be non-explosive mid pei fectly safe with a fire test of 150 degrees Fahrenheit. The retail dealers in turn sold the oil to their customers. Mrs. May Belle Brown, a housewife of Selma, was among the purchasers. Vt hen Mrs. Brown used some of the oil in till ing a lamp the kerosene exploded and burned the house. She was insured for $1,000 in the New Zealand Company. Mrs. Brown has joined the insurance company in the suit against the Stand ard Oil Company for the amount of her loss. The complaint alleges the oil was found to explode at 85 degrees Fahren heit. It iB reported other suits similar in nature will soon be filed. James A. Talbott, administrator of the A. J. Davis estate at Butte, Mont., over which a great will contest is pend ing, has commenced suit against A. J. Davis, Jr., and the First National Bank, of which Davis is cashier, who has not turned over to the administrator 950 shares of bank stock, worth $1,000 a share. Young Davis has all along claimed that his uncle gave him this stork a short time before his death, and refused to report it in the assets of the estate. The court authorized Talbott to bring suit and employ special counsel. Several leading attorney, have been en gaged by him, men who have been coun sel for contestants in the will case. There is no legal record of the dead mi lionaire ever having given his nephew the stock. It is said that Talbott and 1 avis hare had a fall ing oat over matters connected with the estate, hence the (ait. It has caused much surprise. The report that the heirs have compromised the suit is denied. FOREIGN FLASHES. EASTERN MELANGE. Pittsburg Churches Unite Practicing Charity. in St. Petersburg has another outbreak oi cholera. France contemplates a new raid in Madagascar. One-third of all the landed property oi uussia is mortgaged. Sir Kdwin Arnold says that there are a lo ut 3U,0UU " jioetesses in Great Brit ain. Thirty relatives of the Paris bomb- thrower will likely be expelled from France. Grading American on French vines The President Thanks Senator Hills THE WHEAT CROP IN OKLAHOMA for Defending- His Hawaiian Policy In tbe Senate. There are 281,000 registered voters in Chicago. Baptizing through the ice has begun up in jnaine. , Chinamen are being brought to Flor- ma irom cuoa. A phosphate combine is being organ- izea in norma. The Kansas State exhibit at the promises to save the French plants from destruction. A mine of pumice stone has been de veloped on Tenerill'e Mountain, 2,000 feet above the sea. Russia's sending of an agont to Abys sinia is construed as an act of direct hostility to Italy. The Hungarian Prime Minister has succeeded in re-establishing a Royal court in uiiua reeth. A single hour's frost in the district around Cognac. I ranee, destroyed 115.- uw.uuu worm ot vintage. Fivo.ai WliB nl all ilia olrla urlm want into domestic service in London last year World's Fair cost $02,800, liad never heard of a toothbrush. The Cherokees have sustained the Statistics show that Russia produces House impeachment of Chief Harris. and consumes a smaller quantity of beer Samuel Gompers has been re-elected than any other oi tne great nations. rresident ot the f ederation oi Labor, An electrical launcli from the Chicago Twentv-two women have founded Fair parades the canals in Venice, where communal home on the Cherokee Strip. it has created a favorable Impression. a move is on foot looking to the de- The Woman's Suffrage League has is- velopment of the coal fields of Ardinore. sued a manuesto protesting against any i. T, woman wormng to support her husband. The shootings and hangings of negroes The first general election in New Zea- amount to about twenty per dav in the lanu in wiucn women naa me irancnise soutn. resulted in the defeat oi the government. Beaver county. Oklahoma, known as Forty thousand francs have already No Man's Land, wants to be annexed to been subscribed in raris ior tne uounod Kansas, memorial, the Municipal Council giving i,uuu. Tiie femile typewriters in British gov- eminent offices are about to be mado permanent officials, with a right to a pension. rather Hyacinth is preaching In a French Protestant ctiapel still with the spirit and aim, he says, oi reformer. Thousands of homeless and penniless men sleep on the tilinir floor of Chicago's cay nan. The national government is running behind at the rate of about $6,000,000 per montn. Boston proposes to have closer connec' nun tne . ... -V anhnrhi Ku tnaar.a f ol. a catholic :r" ' " Work on the erection of the Grant monument at New York has been dis continued for the winter. The King of Corea has purchased an American incandescent-light plant. which will be used to light his palace and grounds. T .1 i tj . l : .. l... i .. . J i ing the lowest percentage of deaths from P00'- and collected $5,000. Seventeen Pittsburg churches united Sunday week in raising funds for the typhoid in the total mortality, use only altered water, Spanish merchants and producers are not pleased with the commercial treaties being negotiated with England, Ger many and Italy. The Paris illusl-ated papers are to be restrained from publishing pictures of anarchists by an order issued by the i'refect of I'olice. . The first aluminium vessel ever con structed, the yacht VendeneBse, built fot Comte Chabannes, has been launched at St. Denis, F ranee. The Peruvian Congress has authorized a loan, witich will probably be taken at Hon. William F. Cody. "Buffalo Bill." is seeking the Republican nomination for Governor of Nebraska. The wheat crop for next year, as far as observation goes, appears to be in a fairly healthy and promising condition, about two dozen buffaloes are protected by the farmers, who feed them regularly. It is estimated that up to December 1 the government made $488,159 out of the World's Fair through custom-house da ties, . Georgia will try to recover $200,000 irom the federal government tor tern tory which is now Alabama and Missis- home, of 1,000,000 soles (ah in American gold), . .. .... nit 1720.000 lpPu ' I a ntn Ann nui Jl 1 . . , n u,uuu,uuu-canaie-power electric t ti... .ii ; n. .,,.', i ...;n i. mi . I l!i ai a a 1.1. !- .-a "B',t."" SItodi, AU IIIO IIU, 11,1 uv ine nereaitary turoai iruuuie is last nii p - r0i-j lil,tlM,o ff icuuiijik bile a uiiixoo ui ,f nico iu ura Yrtrlr stone-oeat condition oi ner mother, tne Queen of Denmark, Peasants of Bitonto, near Rome, sat urated a customs officer with coal oil and set fire to him for breaking up a fete they were observing. The number of suicides in East Side tenements, New York city, has been greatly increased by lack of employ ment. . A carload of beef was recently sent bv Jesse bpaldmg, a Chicago bank presi- Experiments are beimr made by the dent, to the destitute of iron Mountain, t ranch llRnamnent ot Ao-riciutura lo FBOM WASHINGTON CITY. The Navy Department has ordered the cruiser JNew York and tbe monitor aii antomoh to get ready for sea. Senator Pefler introduced a bill pro viding funds for immediate use in reliev ing want and distress in the country. Representative Hermann has intro duced a bill to pension Ralph Summers, who served in the Oregon Indian wars In 1857. Representative Wilson has introduced a bill to validate all outstanding soldiers' additional homestead entries. This bill will affect numerous settlers in Oregon and Washington. Representative Hermann has present ed many more protests from Oregon lum bermen against the Wilson bill. There is no possibility of defeating the bill in the House. Tne Senate may kill it. Representatives Wilson and Doolittle have prepared an amendment to a Mon tana bill for selection lands granted un der the enabl inc act for State institutions. This bill will allow Washington to make selection on unsurveyed lands; to secure title when surveys are made. Wilson of Washington tried to have an amendment made to the bill allow ing Montana to select lands in the Hitter Root Valley, so as to allow his State four months in which to select surveyed lands previous to being thrown open for settlement. The Chairman of the Com mittee on Public Lands has bromised to to report a separate bill for the purpose. Secretary Carlisle has requested Sec retary Gresham to instruct Minister White at St. Petersburg to inquire into the statements, cabled from there, that a large number of indigent immigrants were being " assisted " out of Russia and sent to the United States. In case the fict should be found substantially as stated. Mr. White is reouested to enter . ..... -v. a lormal protest to the Kussian govern ment in the name oi the united states. The Supreme Court has rendered its opinion declining to pass upon the con stitutionality of the dispensatory law of South Carolina, by which the State con trols the sale of liquors. The case came up on a writ of habeas corpus to release a State official, who had seized a barrel of liquor under the law. Chief Justice Ful ler said the court did not think it neces sary to pass on Unconstitutionality of the liquor law. The officer was in contempt in Beizing the liquor held by a receiver. For this reason he should be punished without reference to the constitutional question involved. Secretary Carlisle says there is mucli difficulty experienced by the officers charged with the duty of assisting the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws by reason of certain practices re sorted to by the Chinese coolie, and adds : " I am of the opinion that, as our laws prohibit tbe landing of Chinese laborers, the privilege of passing through our territory ;annot be safely granted, and Bhould at once be revoked. If this privilege is continued, it will be impos sible to secure an efficient execution of the laws passed by Congress for the ex clusion of Chinese laborers." Its Fame Spreading Rapidly in the Frozen East. MIDWINTER FAIR irHE WAGE3 0F MARRED women. WIth May Demand Payment for Work from Any Kniplnyara but Hoibanda, Adecision of much importance to mar ried women has recently been rendered f ll Q .nnrf r9 .niuala t9 t li ! .In.n In "J W..U vu... V UA VJ, . 1 1 lO UW AM the case of Horwig Blnechlnska against the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers. rrv. ..1 19 . : .. .1 .i A arm rA I KONAGE PBKDIC TED. the defendant, a charitable corporation, to recover damages for Injuries which the sustained by falling over a coal hole I.. AT. l 1 . . a Tim Pm.i,... w... a,. a in me siuewaiK wmcn me servants or TUe Programme for May tbe Most tne d6(endant had fttiled 1 0 d p sriy. upon tne trial sue recovered a Verdict of 500, which was affirmed by Complete of All So Far A Successful Experiment. Weel:ly Ciroular Letter-No. 11 The Exposition management has ra the general term of the supreme court in this city. The case was taken to the court of appeals and was there argued before the second division of that tri bunal. The only error upon which the nowed cause for congratulation on each appellant asked for a reversal of the aucceedin;? day in view of the fact that ! judgment was the instruction of the trial the fame of . the Midwinter Fair is 1 judge to the jury that in estimating the spreadingso rapidly and so satisfactorily j damages sustained by Mrs. Bloechiuska iu the East that the number of Eastern they might take into consideration tire visitors who are to be expected during loss of wages which she had sustained ine winter seems sure to succeed their i ny reason or ner inability to woric tn most sunguine expectations. The news . consequence of the accident papers of the large Eastern cities, and I -At the time she was injured she was those of the small towns in that part of . living with her husband, who was a the country as well, seem to have tackled , custom tailor, and was working for him as kindly to our Exposition proposition ' M 8 seamstress at a salary of five and as those who are near by, and who might six dollars a week. The general term therefore be expected to reap a more di-1 held that this money which the plaintiff rect benefit from it. But among all tha received from her husband for services vuboiuu ui iirt iiuuaeuuiu uuuob woo uvr PORTLAND MARKET. Walla transform tree twies and leaves into food for horses and cattle. Foreign capitalists will build a 11,000, 000 beet-sugar factory at Omaha, if farmers will raise 6.000 acres of beets annually. rni i. L-t a a ... n i I 1 i... f. ....i. . .i, ...;.,. ine nivueBi, couri. in iuissouri uas ue- ' "Dr"."7'" '""'"",,r cidfld tlml HHht. onntnu-teH in nntinn Germany has decided that cinnamon yellow is the best color lor war ships. XI tiling like wet sail cloth. Last year, according to the statis tics recent v compiled. 24.000 men and 18,000 women left Japan to find homes for themselves abroad. deals are gambling debts and not collect able at law. Five tons of the curtains hung under the skylights of the manufacturers' building at the exposition have been The barracks built for European sol- ld 'or old rags, diers are generally far better than the houses ot the peasantry. Uhelsea bar racks in England cost 246 per man A large elephant had to be killed in Stuttgart on account of his temper. A single bullet from a small-bore rifle, de livered in his forehead, dropped him dead. During the last year the property in London insured by nre insurance com panies and by the underwriters at Lloyds amounted to more than $400,- UUu,uw. In order to promote the interest of yachting the Cercle des Beaux Arts has put the use of its clubhouse at the use of the Yacht Club of France for the present, The Watkins tower, now being built at AVembly Park, England, to overtop the Killel tower, has reached a height of seventy feet. Its total height will be 1,150 feet. A grave scandal has come to light at insane asylum has brought the case to a indore, India. Treasure, which has long uohii. Iwen supposed to be guarded in the The comet medal of the Astronomical Khasgi treasury, amounting to 900,000 Society of the Pacific has been awarded rupees, is missing. to Prof. Brooks of Geneva, N. Y for his Two hundred Moorish Hebrews, ex- l18co.ver?.! ? unexpected comet on nolloH frnm Mplilta rftwnt.lv hv nrilpr nf UCtODer 10, ISVi, the Spanish General, have arrived at I Another bill to provide for the sub Nemours in the Province of Oran in a mission of the question of consolidation The Kentucky Court of Anneals has decided .that the purchase of a lottery franchise by authority of the State Leg islature win not stand. Topeka has ordered its police to give tne unemployed entire freedom in com ing and going. The rock pile and bull- pens nave been abolished, The President has sent to Senator Mills a letter thanking the latter for his recent speech in defense of the adminis tration's Hawaiian policy. The wheat crop in Oklahoma is re ported to be in excellent condition. A much larger acreage has been planted this year than was sown last year, A bill has been introduced in the Vir ginia Legislature providing for submis sion of a constitutional amendment which will insure white supremacy in pontics, The discovery that one of the iurors in the Meyer poisoning case on trial at New York had been been confined in an destitute condition, The Minister of Paris Police, M. Le pine, thinks that vanity is a very power ful motive among anarchists, and with the hope of quieting their activity he begs the papers not to publish tneir portraits. The returns issued by the London Board of Trade show that during No vember the imports decreased 3,100,000 and the exports decreased HUU,UUU, as compared with the corresponding month last year. The report is that the Emperor of Russia, being convinced that England is secreuy uounu hi me su-caueu inpie al liance, has formed another quaarnpie ai of New York and Brooklyn to a popular vote nas Deen prepared ior introduction in tne legislature which win shortly as semble at Albany. Mrs. Grant has sold General Grant's cottage at Elberton for 133,000 to Mrs. E. J. Price of New York. The place was the gift of G. W. Childs, General Horace Porter and Thomas Murphy, and cost tnem sm.uuu in iw. Reports to" the Department of Agri culture show that there is a decrease of 10 per cent from 1892 in the area sown in winter wheat in Illinois. If all tbe States follow the example, wheat win be high-priced next year, Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman has subscribed 25,000 to the building of an lian hetwpon Russia. Kronen. Denmark opera house to take the place of the Hen . I . . n , a a -. i 1 t i , neiia iour i iuiuuiuus, vs., wnicn was burned recently. The students of Exeter (N. H.) Acad emy posted flaming pictures of ballet girls on the walls in the recitation halls a lew days ago, and severe steps win be and Greece. A royal decree has been issued in Bel gium appointing a commission to inquire inio wie aouses coniiecieu wun uie emis sion of speculative stocks and as to how far financial prospectuses can be divested .t , -usnM h .,inrit. The Madagascar mail, which recently notified the New York Central railroad arrived at Marseilles, announced in- that it will no longer be permitted to creased activity among the brigands, use sou coal tn nnng up its engines In who were pillaging native in addition to its yards in that city on account of the European property, uver zuu people o anu luiwe, are said to be prisoners of the brigands. It is proposed to reproduce the great Kremlin of Moscow at the coming Paris Exposition, the building to be used by the Russian Fine Arts Committee, and after the exposition to be turned into a Muscovite museum. The Court of Appeals at Albany. N. Y.. in the case of Edward 8. Stokes against John W. Maokay and others, ap pellants, reversed ine jaugment oi me lower court and ordered a new trial. This is an appeal by the several defend ants from the decision of the general term, affirming a judgment for t!X).186 The Duke of Galliera, who was to Italy I in favor of the plaintiff. This actios in one respect what Count Tolstoi is to was brought to recover (75,000, which Russia, died lately. His grace refused the plaintiff alleges the defendants to use his title, insisted upon being ad- agreed to pay upon the transfer of eer dresfed as Mr. Ferrari and earned his tain telegraph stocks, and which prop- own living as a teacher of mathematics, erty the plaintiff has already delivered The immense fortune be inherited he or tendered to defendants under and in baa bequeathed to his native Genoa for I accordance with the terms of the eon- charitable purposes. tract. The dismissal of the appeal in the Chinese cases before the Supreme Court on motion of appellant's counsel wines off the. docket all relics of last spring's right over the Geary taw. It will be im possible now to review the Question of constitutionality until next May, when the six months allowed for registration shall have expired. If any of the Chi nese refuse, to register, which now seems improbable, and the law is set in mo tion to deport them, a test case can be carried to the Supreme Court and new- argument be made before that tribunal as it may be organized at that time. Gross irregularities, amounting to millions of dollars, are stated to have been discovered in the New York custom house by a special agent of the Treas ury Department recently detailed to make an investigation. His report, which is elaborate as to detail, was laid before Secretary Carlisle, and was the subject of several hours' discussion be tween him and Assistant Secretary Ham lin, in charge of customs matters in the Treasury Department. The report re fers principally to tobacco refunds, in which the irregularities are alleged to have. occurred. The amount Involved is stated as high as 5,000,000, and gross negligence or worse is charged against the New York custom-house officials, Hansbrough explained his Russian thistle bill. The bill provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall employ the necessary help and so direct it as to destroy and exterminate the Russian thistle in every partot tne united states wherever found, and carries an appro priation of $1,000,000 to pay the ex penses. The Senator said he had hesi tated to introduced this bill because it smacked of paternalism, but after careful consideration of the question and after making a personal investiga tion while m North Dakota recently he had reached the conclusion that national assistance was necessary to the eradica tion of the thistle, and 'his object in in troducing the bill and calling for this appropriation this early in the session was to secure action during the winter, so that the Agricultural Department might proceed in conjunction with the several states early in the spring to at tack the monster all along the line. The annual report of Hon. John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, has been transmitted to Congress. The Secretary estimates the revenues of the government for ttie fiscal year, which will end June 30, at $430,121,000, and that expenditures for the same period will amount to 1458,121,000, leaving a deficit of $28,000,000. During the first five months of the present fiscal year the expenditures of the government ex ceeded the receipts $29,918,005. This was brought about bv decreased receipts and increased expenditures. Compared with the corresponding months last year, the customs revenues fell olf $23,- 589,829 ; internal taxes, $7,800,007. The expenditures in the War Deparment in tne execution oi contracts mane in tne ast fiscal year increased $0,102,132; the navy, lor the same reason, $i,tfiz,z, with other minor increase. There have been reductions in other branches of the public service of $6,352,200. December 1 the net balance in the Treasury was only $11,038,448. Of the total amount held, $12,347,517 was in subsidiary silver and minor coins. Tbe following nominations have been confirmed by the Senate: C. ii. Simon ton, South Carolina, United States Cir cuit Judge of the Fourth Judicial Cir cuit; D. M. Kilpatrick, Assistant Treas urer United States mint at New Orleans ; James 15. Stevens, California, Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise for the district ot nan r rannsco. Collectors ot lonoms A. M. Dahlgren at Pearl River, Miss.; frank d. fiarnst. district of Corpus Christi, Tex. Surveyors of Customs George W. Hayne, Port Kvansville, Ind. : George G. Tanner, Indianapolis; Will iam D. English, port of San Francisco. Collectors of Internal Revenue O. M. Welltrarn. First District of California: Joshua Jump, Seventh District of Indi ana; James Phelan, First District of Michigan; . M. McMillen, Eleventh District of Ohio: L. P. Ohlinger. Eight eenth District of Ohio; J. Edward Kauf man. Third District of Texas. Receiver of Public Money Edward R. Monk, Tucson. A. T. Registers of Land Offices prank Walls, Tucson, A. T.; Henry D. Rose, Fresco t, A. T. nice things that have been said in the Eastern papers in this connection none has proven more valuable as an adver tisement than an editorial utterance in the latest issue of the Review of Re views, one of the most conservative periodicals in the country. This utter ance was as follows: "The Eiposltion will help to give definite form to many a man's vagua plans for visiting the Pacifl j Coaat, and that perhaps will be iU greatest eervioe to its country. Everybody la the East Intends t metlme to make a trip to Calif urnia, but the distance Is formidable, and eld men are dying every day who had meant since IBID to see the Golden Gate some time or other, but had never got started. The faut of the Midwinter Fair should transform general intentions into specific plans. Patriotism, If nothing else, should Impel every American who can possibly afford It to see for himself the wondors that lie unon the western marutn of this glorious country." ine above paragraph most assuredly echoes Eastern sentiment and goes a great way towards dispelling the idea which some Californians still cling to that the influx of Eastern visitors will not be large. The railroad people have long ago recognized this fact and are now making elaborate preparations for transportation. Strangers are certainly coming to the Pacific Coast this win ter by thousands, and when they get here, thanks to the eleventh-hour rail way arrangements, they are going to have an opportunity to visit the entire Coast, so that San Francisco can not justly be said to reap even the lion's share of the advan tages at hand. This fact is becoming more widely recognized as the date for thpApaaing ot the. Fair draw near, and there is a general feeling of pride in the coming Exposition, and of determina tion that it should be everything that has been promised for it, An. experiment was made on Sunday last in the way of charging admission to t..e Exposition grounds. The only special attraction offered was a balloon ascension and a parachute jump from the airship when it was at the height of 8,000 feet. Otherwise there were enly the buildings to see and the workmen pushing them along toward completion, yet nearly 4,000 people paid 25 cents each to gain admission to the grounds, and several hundreds have paid the same admissh n on each succeeding day during the week. This is accepted by the management as unmistakable evi dence of the fuct that the drawing pow ers of the Exposition have not been over estimated. When once the Fair is started there will be no doubt about liberal patronage. It is the intention of the management, however, that speciul features shall be widely advertised during the entire du ration of the Exposition, and it is to that end that days have been set apart for special observance under favorable auspices for the entire term. In this way more than half the days of the Ex position have thus been programmed. For the first month the programme is not an elaborate one, inasmuch as the opening days of the Exposition are nat urally supposed to take care of them selves. The California Pioneers, how ever, have their day in January, having selected the 24th. Stanford university will celebrate on the 20th; and Butte county will turn out her entire popula tion on the 29th. In February there will be a grand musical festival on the 8th; the Pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs will celebrate on the 9th, North Dakota day the 14th and Idaho the 15th. The Benevolent Order of Elks will con tuct a very interesting observance of the 17th of February as their special day. Southern California will turn it self loose on the 19th. The Young Men's institute will have the 20th, Santa Cruz county the 21st and Washington's birth day will probably suffice as the special feature for the rest of the month. In March there will be another grand musical festival on the 8th, the Teach ers' congress on the 13th, a geographical congress on the 10th and a characteris tic celebration of St. Patrick's day on the. 17th. The state of Michigan and the state of Nevada have the 12th and 22d of March, respectively, and Sierra county will celebrate on the 14th. In the month of April the university of California has its day; so also does the Order of Chosen Friends and the Knights and Ladies of Honor. The Native Sons of the Golden West also hold forth in April, having selected the 20th for their day. The Odd Fe'lows have selected April 25 and the Grand Army of tbe Re public the 27th. 1 he programme for May is the most eomph-te of all so far, beginning on the 1st of tbe month with California day, and including between that and the 21st a half dozen connty days, to say nothing of a grand San Rafael rose festival on the Hii and German May festival on the 9th, Knights of Pythias day on the 19th, a dav for the Order of Druids QntLp 16th, Good Templars' day on the iittiu and a characteristic Decoration day ob servance on the 80th. Tbe cloning month of the Fair in- glades a Foresters' day on the tth, Cnited Workmen's day on tho lfth and day to be observed under the auspices of the San Francisco Federation of Women on the 21st In addition to these tbe Italians will celebrate the 2d, Santa Clara college tbe 6th, Santa Clara connty the 14th, Sonoma county the 15th and the Bunker Hill association the 18th, the entire enthusiasm of tbe Exposition to reacn lie cnuuu in a grauu donna; iw . bration on Sonaet day, June 80, 19M. I own property, and that "the loss of the salary could be given in evidence as an element of damage, the same as if Bbe had been working for a stranger." The appellant insisted that this view of the law as it now exists in the state of New York was erroneous. The opinion of the court of appeals is written by Judge Irving G. Vann, of Syracuse, and is concurred in by all the members of the second division. He re views the legislation- in this state re moving the disabilities of married wom en, which began with the enabling act of 1860, giving a wife a separate estate in whatever she may acquire by her trade, business, labor, or services car ried on or performed on her sole and separate account, and extending down to the act of 1887, which authorizes a married woman to convey lands directly to her husband and accept conveyances of land directly from him. He shows that it has uniformly keen held, notwithstanding the various changes effected by the successive stat utes relating to married women, that a husband still has the right to the serv ices of his wife so far as household work is concerned, even if that household work be of a somewhat exceptional char acter, and that even when she does out door work upon her husband's farm, she cannot recover any wages for such labor, although she holds ber husband's writ ten promise to pay her for it. If she works for a third person, the rule is dif ent, and under an act passed in 1884 her earnings in tbat event would be her own. Finding the law to be well settled by adjudication to the effect we have stat ed, Judge Vann inquires, inasmuch as "a man cannot make a valid contract to pay his wife for extraordinary services rendered iu his household or for work ing on his farm, how can he make valid contract to pay her for helping bun make clothes in his business as custom tailor?" The learned judge comes to the conclusion that there is no basis for any distinction. The effect of this decision may be plainly stated. The husband cannot now compel his wife to do work for him which does not fall within the defi nition and scope of household services any more than he could at common law, but if the wife consents to do any other work she cannot compel her hus band to pay her for it. In other words, "such services as she renders him. whether within or without the strict line of her duty, belong to him, and if be pays Lar for them it is a gift." On the other hand, whatever she earns by means of labor performed nnder her own independent contracts for persons other than her husband is made by statute her individual property. The case is one of exceptional interest as presenting a clear statement of the rights of married women as they now exist in this Btute with respect to com pensation for their services. New York Sun. Wbiat Valley, 9205c ; nana, ksc per cental. BOPS, WOOL AMD BIOBS. Hops '93s, choice, 15(ai6c per pound ; medium, 10 12c; poor, 67c. Woob Valley, 10llc per pound; Umpqua, U12c; Eastern Oregon, 6 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. Hides Dry selected prime, 6c j green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3,'c; under 60 pounds, 23c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 1015c; medium, 2035c; long wool, 3060c; tallow, good to choice, 83'c per pound. LTVS AND PRESBID MI AT. Beif Top steers, 2io per pound; fair to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c; fair cows, l,c; dressed beef, $3.505.00 per 100 pounds. Mutton Best sheep, $2.00; choice mutton, $1.75(32.00; lambs, $2.002.25. Hoos Choice heavy, $4.65(95.00; me dium, $4.004.50; light and feeders, $4.004.60; dressed, $3.50. VAU-$3.006.00. provisions.' Eastern Smoked Miats and Lard Hams, medium, 1213c per pound; hams, large, 1213c; hams, picnic, ll12c; breakfast bacon, 13 15c; short clear sides. ll13c; dry salt sides, 10kllc; dried beef hams, 12 13c; lard, compound, In tins, O'OlOc per pound; pure, in tins, lls13.L2c; pigs' feet, 80s, $5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.00. COBDAQE. Manilla rope, IK in. clr. and up, 10c ; manilla rope. 12-thread. K diam.. lie; manilla rope, 6 and 9-threau, i and 6-16 diam., lltic; manilla bail rope, in coilr or on reels, iu6c; manuia lain yarn tarred, 9c : manilla hawser-laid rope well- boring, etc., 13c; manilla transmission- of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine. 11c; manilla spring twine, 14c; sisal rope, V4 in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal rope, 12-thread, i diam.. 7c; sisal rope, 6 and 9-threau, 1 ana 6-16 diam., 8c; sisat lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine twine, tarred, 7c ; sisal paper twine, 8c. FbODR, PEED, ETC. Floob Portland, $2.75; Salem, $2.75; Cascadia, $2.75; Dayton, $2.76; Walla Walla, $3.16; Albany, $2.90; Graham, $2.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats S530c per bushel; rolled, In bags. $6.256.50; barrels, $6.757.00; cases, $3.75. MiLUTurrs Bran, $16.00; shorts, $16.00; ground barley, $18.00; chop feed, $15 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70c percental; middlings, $23(3:28 per ton; chicken wheat, 75c$1.15 per cental. hay Uood, $iu(gi2 per ton. dairy produce. Bctteb Oregon fancy creamery, 30 32c; fancy dairy, 26274c; lair to good, 20(u22)sCj common, 1517o per pound. Ciikxsb Oregon, 1213c; Califor nia, cj Young America, 14 15c; FAKM AND GAKDEN. How the Best Arranged Cow Stable is Constructed. SELECTING FOWLS ELUCIDATED. A Fin de Bleele Bride. Wedding presents are becoming more and more of a tax and are looked upon in these nn de Steele days as lust so many commer cial assets by bride and bridegroom alike, who are not so mucb in love but tbat they can reckon up the probable cost of eacn gift pretty accurately. I want something pretty, but not too costly, as a wedding gift," said a well known woman of society to one of the bead men at s. "Is It for Miss VI., may I askr" said the Jeweler, "for in that case I think I can suit you exactly." And he produced a list writ ten at length and in the bride's own fair writing with everything she wanted In tbe way of silver distinctly descrilied, from the soup tureen to saltspoons. It left her friends a wide margin of choice from the most expensive present to a simple token oi remembrance. Would you like to see the presents al ready selected?" continued the shopman. and leading the way into the adjoining apartment he pointed to several shelves completely covered with the glittering ar ray. "Those are all Mim B.'s presents." he explained. "She seems quite satisfied with tbem so far and comes every few days to look them over to see what Is added." New York Tribune. The Horror of Sport. "Sport'' is horrible. I say it advised ly. 1 speak with the matured experi ence of one who has seen and taken part in sport of many and varied kinds in many and vaned parts of tbe world. can handle gun and rifle as well and efficiently as most "sporting folk," and few women, and not many men, have indulged in a tithe of the shooting and hunting in which 1 have been engaged both at home and during travels and ex peditions in far away lands. It is not, therefore, as a novice that I take up my pen to record why 1, whom some have called a "female Nimrod," have come to regard with absolute loathing and detes tation any sort or kind or form of sport which in any way is produced by the suffering of animals. Lady Florence Dixie. The laaamermbl ChryaMthomaasa, The Japanese cite 269 color varieties of tbe chrysanthemum, of which (3 are yellow. 87 white, 83 purple, 30 red, 81 pale pink, 12 rnseet and 14 of mixed col ors. A fancy prevails in tbe country that In this flower the same tint is never exactly reproduced, and that in this It reseiublea the endless variety of the human countenance. Garden and For um, i. , uiiUK auioiiui, ysw, Swiss, imported, 3032c; domestic, 16 l8c per pound. Kaos Uregon, 30e per dozen; East ern, 2327ic. rouLTRY (Jlilckens, mixed, quoted at $3.00(33.50; ducks, $4.505.50; geese, $9.00(49.50 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 12 (gi3)4c per pound ; aressed, 13910c. TBQETABLBS AND FRUITS. , VaoatAiL Cabbsm, la par pound potatoes, Uregon, 6U7oc per sack; on ions, $1,25 per sack ; sweet potatoes, 2Jc per pound; uregon celery, jjoouc; arti chokes, 85c per dozen. Fruits Sicily lemons, $5.005.50 per box; California new crop, $4.004.60 per box ; bananas, $l.5O3.00 per bunch Honolulu, $1.60(32.60 ; California navels, $3.754.00 per box; seedlings, $3.00 3.50; Mexican, $3.50(33.7&; Japanese $1.75(32.00; grapes, $1.00(31.25 per box apples(buying price), green, 5005c per box; red, 6055c; cranberries, $9.00 per barrel; persimmons, fi.ou per box. CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted. $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.86(32.00; Bart- lett pears, $1.75(3.2.00; plums, $1.379 1.60; strawberries, $2.26(32.45; cherries, $2.25(3,2.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00; laspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 2.80; apricots, $1.66. Pie fruits, assorted. 11.20: neaches. $1.25: plums. $1.0031.20; blackberries, $1.25(3.1.40 per dozen, fie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.15 3.50; peaches, $3.50 4.00; apri cots, $3.60(3:4.00; plums, $2.753.00; blackberries, $4.Z54.&0; tomatoes, $1.1U. Meats Corned beef. Is. $1.40: 2s. $2.10; chipped, $2.36; lunch tongue, Is, $3.du; zs. $0.70 ; deviled nam, $1 2.75 per dozen. Fish Sardines, is. 75c $2.26; s, $2.15 4.50; lobsters, $2.30 3.50; sal mon, tin Mb tails, $1.25 1.60; flats, $1.76;2-lbs, $2.26 2.60; -barrel, $5.60. STAPLE groceries. Cos-fee Costa Kica. 23 Uc: Rio, 22ki 23c; Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 26 28c; Arbuckie's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25.30c per pound. Dai ed Fruits 1893 pack. Petite prunes, 68c; silver, 10(3, 12c; Italian, 8iuc; uerman. obc; piums, oiuc; evaporated apples, 810c; evaporated apricots, 1516c; peaches, 1012c; pears, 7lic per pound. Salt Liverpool. 200s. $15.60; 100s. $16.00; 60s. $16.50; stock. $8.50(39.50. Sugar D. 4"c; Golden 0. 4c; extra C, 4 Jc ; confectioners' A, 6,c ; dry gran ulated, 6(40; cube, crushed and pow dered, 5o per pound ; a per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, IB 16c per pound. Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4UDtc; : half barrels, 4267c ; in caBes, 35 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrela, 2040c per gallon ; $1.75 per aeg. Beans Small white. No. 1, 2c; No. 2, 2jtc; large white, 2)tc; pea beans, 2c; pink, 2c; bayou, 2J4c; butter, 3c ; Lima, 3'c per pound. Kile No. 1 (Sandwich Island, $4.50 4.75; no Japan in market. Pickles Barrels, No. 1, 2830c per gallon; JNo. z, ztxgztfc; Kegs, bs, soc per keg ; half gallons, $2.75 per dozen ; quar ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen. Raisins London lavers, boxes, $1.75 (32.00: halves. $2.00(32.25: Quarters. $2.25(3.2.75; eighths, $2.50(33.00. Loose Muscatels, boxes, $1.60; fancy faced, $1.75; bags, 3 crown, 35c per pound; 4 crown, 6(35lc. Seedless Sultanas, boxes. fl.752.00; bags, 6Hc per pound. Spices Whole Allspice, 1820c per pound: cassia, 16(3 18c; cinnamon, 22 40c; cloves, 18(330c; black pepper, 20 26c; nutmeg, 7580c. Large Hogs Not as Knmeroni ' They Were a Decade Ago Agricultural Notes. If von have never churned granulated butter, it is time to begin. It never increases the milk supply to pitch milk stools at the cows. Give the brood sow a good range, and she will take exercise enough. Just now what feed is better for grow ing pigs than milk and milk feed? At the price of feed and milk this season it will not pay to feed Door cowa it never does. :t pays to treat cows gently. Some ks call it "babving them." Never mind what it is called if it brings tha cash. It is not necessarily the sleek, fat cow that is tbe best cow in the dairy ; many a lank, raw-boned cow is the one that turns out the butter. Each degree of cold adds to the amount of corn needed to make a pound of pork. Crowd the porker now, A mixed diet is better than clear corn. More cows are injured from underfeed ing than overfeeding while growing, bat fewer are ruined. Overfeeding ruin scores; underfeeding injures thousands. The Russian thistle is taking complete possession of fields of both Dakotas. Unless vigorous measures are taken, it will soon be almost impossible to eradi cate it. When von are husking corn this fall and design the stalks for the cows, don't be airaiu to leave all the nubbin ears un husked. The cows will eat them with the fodder, and will be greatly helped on milk yield thereby. Now is the time when the careless farmer spoils the coming cow by im proper care of the heifer. She needs generous feed not cramming with corn like a fattening steer, but plenty of clover nay, oats ana a taste 01 otber good things. Agriculture can be made more nearly an exact science by the application of irrigation to the soil than by any other means whatever. It prevents drought and makes crops cert-4 in, and thna fixes the earning power and value of the land. We shall see it much more extensively applied in the future than it has been in tne past, Great, large hogs are not as numerous as they were a decade ago. The demand at present is for hogs of a medium size, and farmers have become disposed to ?;ive greater attention to early maturing ireeda rather than to those that attain . great size. By varying the food instead of using corn altogether cheapness of the pore is also secured. Australia's wheat bushels. crop is 32,000,000 SELECTING FOWLS. -TheGermaiitown ( Pa. TeYesrrarrti t There are thousands of farmers to-day wno are breeding aungnui lowis. Tbey have never raised any other kind, and probably never will Show me a farmer that does not believe in improving his live stock and I will show yon one of those that are continually crying that farming does not pay. Assuming that you are going to turn over a new leaf in 1 he poultry department, the first thing to decide will be of what branch you propose to make a specialty. If it be eggs, White or Brown Leghorns or Mi norcas, either pure or crossed, will give you regular egg machines. If vou want extra large birds for capons or roasting stock, try either Buff or Partridge Cochin or Light or Dark Brahma cockerels on common or cross-bred hens. There are more than 20,000 capons shipped to New York and Philadelphia every year from this section, and the above four breeds enter very largely in the make np. Per haps you want an all-purpose fowl---something that will mature early, make nice orouers at eignt or twelve weeks, lay well all the year through and make fine market stock at any age. If so, yon will make no mistake in trying either . Black Javas. Plymouth Rocks or Wvan- dottes, as they will be sure to fill the bill. A. word as to when to purchase your breeders. From September 1 to Decem ber 1 is probably the best time of the year, as at that time breeders are gener ally overstocked and will sell you birds at reasonable prices. January to June are the worst months to buy. as tbe Btock is tnen scarce and breeders demand long figures for their birds and get them, as they have only a tew of their highest- scoring breeds left, and they will always bring uign prices ior fancy breeding. THE COW iTABLE AND STANCHIONS. George Jackson of Marion county. Ind., says : In the matter of stanchions there are many wavs of tving cows to the stall, but first of all comfort must be kept steadily in view, for, if any of the cow's surroundings are constraining and operate to deprive her of ease and fair liberty of movement, the effect is disquieting and her yield will show un favorable results. The simplest tie, the cheapest and that affording the greatest amount of liberty and comfort is perhaps a light chain around the neck secured to the side of the Btall or manger. Various plans are in use as to the form of the chain and methods of attaching, and sometimes a neck strap is used, and again the head halter is used, but this involves greater er Dense. For the aver age dairyman the simple chain fills all requirements, and is most popular. Tbe best arranged stables are constructed with the rows of cattle facing each other, with a feeding entry between and water ing places placed in the passage wav. Some of the advantages gained from this position are better facilities and economy In feeding, the ventilation can be ar ranged with less danger from drafts, the light from the windows from behind is better for the eves and the whole interior is generally more convenient and more economically arranged. Every well-ordered cow barn should have several open boxes for cows due to calf and for the young calves, and the cows should oc cupy these some weeks before parturi tion is expected. There is no subject connected with the winter management of a herd ot dairy cows of more vital in terest to the milk farmer than the con sideration of plans for dairy stables that are cheap and convenient. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. PralGES ifkQJlttiP taking The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. Ho itnmonia; If 0 Ahum. Un4 ia MilUooa of Hamu 40 Yean & CtandanL