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OREGON COURIER OREGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 26. 1894. VOL. XI. NO. 38. ' . ' nr.-rJ OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Law Against l'lu'chasing Wivps Violated in Alaska. A NEW RAILROAD PRO.IK0TEI, Selling al'lace to Establish a Col ony of French Grape (irowoiH anil WiiioiiiaUerH. Work in booming at Marc Island The Chinese at llolee, Idaho, refuse to register. The Mint Naliomil Hunk of Helena, Mont., has been authorised to resume business. Urn Angeled Ih to canvass tho city to acerluin the wants ol the nnempioyeu in distress. The hill to eatahliHh a port o( delivery at lioiiner'a Kerry, Maho, has passed the Senate. The purHiiit of Chris Evans seems to have been abandoned ny uie oiucers 01 Fresno county. Tho San Diego Superior Court lias practically nullilied the ordinance creat iii); chuingiingH. Morel IB said to he anxious to break his partnership with I'.vnns, the bandit, ami leave the country. Cougars are reported plentiful on the mountains hii. l; n' The Dalles, having heen driven from u.e interior wilderness hy the late storms. The Stale Controller will include the new counties in the distribution of the hack taxes of the Southern l'ucillc Com pany when they are paid. The faculty of the Oregon State Uni versity liaa passed a rule prohibiting students from entering or frequenting billiard halls and skating rinks. It is understood at Mare Island that Secretary Herbert has ordered all vessels at the yard repaired without delay, in cluding the monitor Monadnock. An estimate that the town sends $:I00, (100 away annually for pork products alone is furnished to help on the Spo kane homo industry movement. A special election is called at Seattle for February to decide whether or not the school district shall bond itself in the stun of 1(250,000 to make up out standing warrants. Thirteen pages have been torn from Hook 11 of the probate records at San .lose. The presumption is that it was the work of eonie one who desired to de stroy the record in the matter of a par ticular estate. Johnny Crow, aged fourteen, rescued six children who had broken through tho ice on the Carson river nearKmpire. The young fellow was nearly dead when , taken from. thtrwte.rJy,ihosejyhoriin to his assistance. ' The liradstreet Mercantile Agency re ports thirty-three failures in the l'acilic Coast States and Territories for the past week, as compared with tliiitv-oiie lor tiie previous week and twenty-four for the corresponding week of 18113, The Union l'acilic has decided for the relief of the farmers in Eastern Oregon and Washington to reduce the rate on wheat damaged by rain or snow irom points in Walla Walla and l'aloiise sec tions to Portland to WOi per ton, and to San Maucisco to t&.ou. There is now beinir organized at Vic toria, B. C, a company of men to enter the service of Queen I.iliuokalanl, and there are already 100 on the roll. The movement is headed bv It. Smart, son of ex-Attornev Smart of Manitoba, and S. Sansoni, a retired volunteer otlicer of Victoria. Judge Clark at Los Angeles has ruled that Mrs. I.ucv O. lioodepeed in Hereon test with tieneral Mansfield is in every way entitled to be the guardian of her mother's person and estate. The charges against Mrs. tioodspeed's mora! charac ter, he says, are untrue, and have al ways been so. A report from Yuma says thatfleneral G. Anilraile of Sun l''rancisco and parties representing French and Scotch capital ists have gone to the month of the Col orado river for the purpose of selecting a place where they can locate a colony of French grape growers and winemakers of a thousand families. locomotives were used to take the trees oil' the large track la-tween Alia and. Towles, which had lieen thrown there hy a landslide, locomotives were placed on either side of the obstructions and log chains leading from them fas tened to the trunks of the pines. They were then drawn out of the landslide as a dentist draws teeth. ( lovernor Markham has authorized the law lirm of K.stee & Miller of San Francisco to institute legal proceedings for the purpose of having the property of the late" Thomas II. Blythe escheat to the Slate government. Markham is of the opinion that the title to the prop erty of Wythe has failed for want of birrs or next of kin, and for that reason lias reverted to the State. A new road is projected in Arizona. It is to run from Bowie on the Southern l'acilic. to (Hobe, 1:0 miles, passing through the (iila Valley in Graham countv, one of the richest in Arizona, w here now over !!0,000 acres of land are cultivated. This road will open np a fine agricultural valley. It runs seventy miles down Gila riVer, ending at Glolie, one of the richest mining districts in the Territory. A large portion of the male population of Sitka have wives they have purchased. This is contrary to law. Marshal Porter of the Alaska district has just instructed his several deputies throughout the Ter ritory to at once arrest every white man violating the law. As a result of which official order nearly every man on Board the United States steamer I'inta is in jail at Sitka. Hundreds of otherarrests are expected. The largest foreclosure of a mortgage ever executed in Butte county, t'al., took place the other day in the suit of James D. I'helan et al., executors, against l. M. Reavis and wife. Jndg inent w as rendered for the Phelan estate for $: 155,000 and for C. W. Clarke, Jr., on a mortgage 'or $l'-'5.000 against the game parties. The land ordered to be gold embrai-es 8,l00 acres of the finest land in Uutte county. Ex-Receiver George L. Fitzhugh of the Walla Walla Savings Bank has made his final report. It appears from the statement that t-l-U.ew.Wl in notes are owned by the bank, 1J4.107.S1 is now in the bank and securities worth 20V 541. H7 have been pledged as collateral to secure lqrrowed money aggregating 6U.70. An eiaminatioi of the county records show that Edmiston on the day the bank i-losed deeded to that institu tion 4J22.15 acres of land in Walla Walla connty, and it is said lie made similar transfers in Umatilla and Co lumbia counties. None of this is in cluded in the statement of the assets of the bank made by the receiver. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Secretary Carlisle, it la said, lias an nou need there is no prospect that the United States revenue-culler Uorwin will again Ihj sent to Honolulu with dis patches for Minister Willis. Senator White of California has Intro dilced a hill appropriating 1250,000 to he expended under the direction of the Sec retary of Agriculture to Investigate and determine upon the nest plan to reclaim the arid region. The statement that extreme sullering exists among the Indians of I'ine Kidge agency is discredited at the bureau of Indian ull'airs. Olllciuls ridicule the assertions that the Indians are " dying ott like sheep. The bill appropriating (50,000 for the monument ol General John Mark passed the Senate after some discussion, touch ing mostly on finances, during which Morgan said the country could not allbrd to borrow money at 0 per cent to build monuments. There is no truth in the report that the Hawaiian government has demanded the recall of Minister Willis. It can be stated upon authority that nothing of the sort has been even hinted at in ollicial communications lietween the two governments. Secretary Carlisle has disallowed the claim of Miss I'hiehe Couzchs of til.OOO for pay as Secretary of the Hoard of Lady Managers at the World's Fair. Miss Couzeus claimed she was wrong fully deposed from the ollice, and sub mitted a claim for the amount. J V legate Itawlins of Utah asked unan imous consent in the House for consid eration of a hill permitting Salt Lake Lake City to become indebted, including the present indebtedness, to the amount of 0 per cent of its taxable valuation. Without objection the bill passed. A member of the Committee on Rules said he believed the lirst thing the House would take up after the tarill would be the Hawaiian question, and the hill to coin the seiiiorage silver in the treasury vaults would lie comellcd to wait until the discussion over the Hawaiian all'air had been exhausted. It is understood a syndicate of New York bankers are preparing an oiler for the entire proiiosed issue of (50,000,000 of lionds at Carlisle's figures. Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia bankers want a show at them, however, and to pre vent them from overbidding it is likely they will be admitted to the syndicate. The nutionul-bank note circulation, which reached (200,500,000 during the money stringency last summer, has de clined to (204,500,000 and is daily grow ing smaller, During Decemlier it de creased (2,422,000, and so far this month (I,:i05,000 in lawful money to redeem the banks' notes when presented have been deposited in the Treasury. By luw the reduction of bank-note circula tion is limited to (.'1,000,000 a mouth. Senator Vilas stated he would prote-l against the designs on the award medal of the World's Columbian Fxposiliou. He secured the proofs from the Phila delphia mint and on one side of the medal it was discovered the design was that of a stalwart specimen of manhood, holding in his right mmd a lighted lorcn In" the Teffa 8tl1Hd. Huili H-W. i"hl Senators condemn the design, and some other figure will probably be substi tuted. Chairman Cuinniinirs of the Naval Committee is preparing a report onllol man's resolution calling for uu investiga tion of the system of awarding premi ums to contractors for building govern ment ships. The report will be adverse to proceeding with the investigation on the ground that there is no testimony temling to substantiate the general charges. The resolution charged ly im plication a general collusion between the contractors and onicers oi uie wavy ie ointment. The House Committee on Labor has ordered a favorable report upon Me ('ami's resolution authorizing the Colli' missioner of Labor to investigate and report upon the ettect of the use of ma chinery upon labor and the cost of pro duction ; the relative productive power of hand ami machinery lulsir; the cost of maniilacturing with machine power and the effect upon wages, and the use of machinery operated by women and children. Ten thousand dollars is ap propriated to enable the Commissioner to carry out the provisions ol uie resolu tion. Unofficial information has been re ceived in Washington of another inci dent in connection with the imprison ment of Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman serving a life sentence in Kng land for the poisoning of her husband in Liverpool. The report comes from government, sources in London, hut ap pears to have been carefully concealed from publicity there. The "story as re ceived hero has it that Mrs. Maybrick was discovered bleeding proluscly and ciaiiued to have had a hemorrhage. Prison officials, however, reported to the government that she hud deliberately cut herself internally with glass. The House Committee on Public Lands has decided to report adversely three bills, viz. : Representative Flvnn's bill for the relief of settlers on public lands in Oklahoma; Representative llartman's bill to suspend the provisions of the mining laws requiring assessment work on quartz-lode mining claims for the year lH'.Cl, and Delegate Joseph's bill to establish an additional land office in New Mexico, to lie known as the Socorro land district. The committee ordered a favorable refiort on Representative Mc Rae's bill, amending a section of the Revised Statutes so that it shall be law ful for the Commissioner of the general land office to sell for not less than (2.50 per acre any isolated tract of the public domain which it would be proper to sell after thirty days' notice. The report of the commission ap pointed to make a treaty with the Yank tan tribe of Sioux Indians of South Dakota was laid before the Senate re cently, accompanied bv the draft of a bill intended to carry the agreement into effect. Under this agreement the Indians cede to the United States all the unallotted lands in the State of South Dakota, the United States to pay the tribe (000,000, (100,000 to be dis tributed at once per capita ami the re mainder to be held in trust for twenty five years, provided that if the needs of the Indians require it certain amounts shall be paid annually, but in no rase more than (20,000 in any one year. The sum paid for this land is about (3.02' r acre, anu me price ai wiiien me and shall lie opened to settlers is re commended to be (.1.75 per acre. The rumor that ex-Queen Lilinokalani is about to bring suit against the United States for a large sum of money, basing her claim for damages upon the Presi dent's recent Hawaiian message and Secretary Gresham's letter, has created a great deal of interest in official circles. A suit cannot be brought by an individ ual against the government, and there in no method of proeolure throngh the eonrts by which the ex-gueen could pre sent her claim, me oniv course wiuo kalani can pursue is to submit her claim against the United States. This Con I have to approve before the claim could I adjusted bv the Conrt of Claims. In fact, the only recourse oi the ex -Queen is to Congress, where in view of her present unpopularity she conld scarcely expert to meet with satis faction or success. EASTERN MELANGE. A Methodist Minister Confesses That He is a Murderer. FEEDING WHEAT TO THE HOGS, All Approximation of the Gross Earnings of the Chicago Pity Railways for 11)9:1. Congress is costing the country (8,000 a day. Gambling-houses have lieen closed by the Chicago authorities. Kl Paso, Tex., is excited over a rich strike of gold in the neighborhood. There is a movement in the Ohio Leg islature to tax certain classes of street cars. A new oil well near Fostoria, O., flows l,:i:!0 barrels a day, and the section is wild. The Boston subscription fund for the relief of the unemployed amounts to (40,525. The municipal expenses of Chicago Inst year were (422,170 more than the receipts. The opxisitioii to tacking the internal revenue hill onto the tariff bill is getting stronger. The Chicago palters call the San Fran cisco Midwinter F.xiiosiiion a "dainty little fair." Five Kansas counties have compro mised with the Atchison Company on the tax question. Many farmers aro feeding wheat to their hogs in Western Texas rather than sell it at 50 cents a bushel. .The gross receipts of the Illinois Cen tral for December were 1. 702,000, a de crease of (101,000 from 1802. The erstwhile World's Fair hotels of Chicago have been changed into flats, and 1,000 of them are now occupied. The total yield of wool in this country last year amounted to 304, 150,000 pounds, the largest American clip ever raised. Philadelphia School of Industrial Art is holding an exhibition of laces. There are 2,000 pieces in the exhibition. Recent census figures show that the ixipulution of the city of Washington lias increased 50,000 during the past year. Attorney-General OlnPy has decided that Chinese laborers may legally go through this country to any country of leelination. Among the unemployed are 15,000 men and hoys who are waiting for the Hudson river to freeze over, so that ice cutting may begin. The memliership of the Boston Fruit and Produce Kxchauge has jumped to 500; new fields of enterprise were broached tho past season. -JLiwtWmt. by' I he. .Carnegie Steel Company to roll a six-incli beam ol alu minium at Homestead has failed, but another trial will.be made. Nova Scotia is sullering from a decline of the wooden shipping industry. The registry of the province shows a shrink age in the last year of nearly 50,000 tons. The difference in ages between the ohlest and the vonngeat United States Senator is forty-four years. The oldest Senator is a Republican ; the youngest is a Democrat. The Kansas Supreme Court has made a decision that where the holder of a mortgage assigns it to a non-resident to avoid taxation he cannot collect the debt by legal process. Theodore P. Hanghey, President of the Indianapolis National Bank, who was indicted on 10 counts on embezzle ment, forgery and bank-wrecking, is af Dieted with insanity. A preliminary fund of (200,000 has lieen pledged py pusmess nouses in Atlanta, Ga., for the " Cotton States and International Exposition," which it is proposed to hold in that city in 1805. One dollar from Washington to Balti more is the promise of the projectors of the proposed electric road. The Presi dent of the company states that the road will lie in operation next Septem ber. The Atlanta Kxosilion will possibly be graced by a pipe tower that from plans made by D. S. Paul, a plumber, will measure 1,150 feet in height. It is intended to be higher than the Kitfel tower. It seems incredible, but it is a fact, that men cannot be hired in Chicago to work on the drainage canal at wages of 15 cents an hour. The number of the unemployed is estimated to reach into the tens of thousands. A New York charity this winter is a coal and food depot, where bread, tea and coal are sold at cost. 11 is said J. Picrpont Morgan furnished (50,000 to run it. About 4,000 unemployed have used its advantages thus far. The fire and life insurance companies of Hartford have declared January, 1804, dividends to the amount of (081,000, as compared with (700,000 for ISO.'!. The fire insurance company dividends were (505,000, the same in both years. County Clerk O'Conner of Garfield county, Neb., was defeated at the Novem ber election by one vote, and when Ins successful opioneiit attempted to take possession of theotlice O'Conner changed Jhe combination of the tafe lock and re fuses to open it until his contest for the office is ended. Employes of the Santa Fe from La Junta. Col., have informed Governor Waite they have received no salary since last October, and many of the men and families are on verge of starvation. The wages for November and Decemlier, they say, nave been promised at ui Herein times, but in every instance the pay failed to come. William Henshaw was brutally innr lerod three vears aim near the northern boundary of Wayne county, Jnd., and now Rev. Benjamin Baldwin, a Method ist minister who formerly occupied a pulpit there and is now at Troy, O., has made a confession of the murder. He was lealous of the attention of Henshaw to the girl he loved. At Poinerov, O., a lied of fire on the site of the old Clifton nail works is an acre in extent. It is sixteen feet thick ith a thin crust, through which the flames burst out and light up the town at night. The gas from it makes life a burden to the inhabitants. It has lieen burning since last April, having been started by a great conflagration then. The gross earnings of the Chicago city railwavs during 1S!3 approximated (5, 250,0(0. The net earnings approximated (2,000,000, or in the neighborhood of 22 to Zi per cent on the capital of IH.OHO,- 000. The gross earnings during the lat four months of the World's Fairaveraged (20,000 a day, or (tXIO.MiO a month, mak ing the huge aggregate showing of (2, 400,000 for 120 days". FOREIGN FLASHES. Cairo It to have a trolley line. Scotland is to develop Its gold. France had 300 strikes last year. There is now an anti-tobacco crusade in France. Drought has ruined the maize crop in Argentine. Serious riots are in progress at Car rara, Italy. A large force of Italian troops have been sent to Palermo. Cashier May of the Bank of England defaulted for 130,000. Austrian iron producers will limit pro duction for three years. The Belgium Diet has rejected the mo tion for universal and equal suffrage. The annual civil list or salary paid to King Humbert of Italy is about 13,000, 000v . .. ..: . .. France will begin this year the con struction of thirty-two war ships of all classes. Diphtheria has killed nearly every chihl in the government of Saratoll, Russia. A long-distance telephone will soon be put into operation between Berlin and Stockholm. It is estimated that in the whole of F.urope over 000,000 women hold public appointments. The amount of gold and silver bullion in the Hank of trance at the present time is jtl 10,578,551. The cartoon "Bismarck in Berlin" has trot its publisher into iail as alibeler of cTianeellor Caprivl. The iron masters of Austria and Hun gary have agreed to renew the iron ring for another three years. flight cars loaded with human hair ar rived in Paris recently, consigned to dealers in that merchandise. So far as murder and robbery are con cerned, Sicily and Corsica are the two worst countries on the glolie. A commission has been appointed by the government of Cape Colony to in quire into the leprosy question. The new simplon tunnel from Brieg in Switzerland to Isella In Italy will be twelve and one-half miles long. The l-ondon Times apologizes for the methods of the Bank of Kneland, and says that they are being improved. For the coming Paris Exposition the 1 1 Is tor v of vardemmr from the most an cient days Ts to be illustrated in gardens at Versailles. v Irish members of Parliament will be asked to prevent the transfer of Anglo- American mails Irom uueenstown to Southampton. The Russian census returns for 1803 show 124,000,000 population. It is be lieved that these figures are mialter than the actual population. The Sultan has conferred the Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Med jidie upon Mr. Maxim, the inventor of the quick-firing guns bearing his name. A special American building, contain ing 20,500 square feet of space available to exhibitors, will be a feature in the .coming- Induatrtaf Hx position ... at werp. The inhabitants of Rio are heartily tired of war, and the epidemic raging there makes a desire for peace alt the stronger on the part of the citizens gen erally. Excavations in Palestine no to show that the hot-air blast, which has been credited to be the invention of Nelson in 1828, was used 1,400 years before Christ. In Rome they think (our inches of snow a terrible fall, and telegraph the incident oi the storm all over the world with the added Information that "street traffic is impeded." The Kroner Bros., until recently of the Cotta publishing house, Stuttgart, have finished printing Bismarck's mem oirs in six volumes. The memoirs will be withheld until after the Prince's death. Emperor William has taken steps to have milk produced on his farms at Pots dam Bold in Berlin. Carts bearing his name may he seen in the streets ol the capital, the drivers of which retail the fluid to any one. The coffee crop in Nicaragua is suller ing, and much of it has been lost through the scarcity of pickers, who have gone with the troops. For luck of men to do the work the authorities are pressing women into service. The Cuuard Steamship Company has ordered the laying down of two new cargo steamers. Each vessel will be of 0,000 tons burden. They will he built bv the I on Ion and dlasgow hiniiheerihif and Iron Ship Building Company. The most important point agreed upon is that France has not only reached the highest possible point of military devel opment, but that she cannot much longer maintain it without sacrificing the financial superiority which she now enjoys. An outbreak of month and foot disease in the central slaughtering houses of Hamburg led the police to order that all pigs and cattle destined for market must be killed, and further exports of cattle and pigs were prohibited until the dis ease is pronounced extinct. Mr. Maskeline of the Egyptian Hall, London, is going to issue a volume on " Modern Methods of Cheating at Games of Chance ami Skill." It will constitute an exiiosure of the methods and devices employed in cheating at the present day and a revelation ol the secrets of the modern gaming sharp. Mile. Hiinilxilt, a famous court lieauly in the reign of King 1niis Phillippe. has just died in Paris at the age of 87. For many years she lived in abject wretched ness in a garret and passed off as a beg gar, but after her death a valuable col lection of pictures was discovered in the garret and some thousands of pounds in bonds and bank sewed up in her mat tress. Theodore Runyon, United States Am bassador to Germany, wishes to contra dict the newsiiaper statement that at the Emperor's New Year's reception he wore a uniform not authorized by his government. He wore the uniform of a United States Major-General, he said, in accordance with an act passed by Con gress in 1800, permitting a United Slates representative to wear at ceremonies the uniform of the highest grade that he held in the army. TVin't rave and storm Wanse the boy wants some time to tinker; he may as tonish you with some of his work. Don't expert the liov to maintain an angelic disposition if after working hard all day he is obliged to eat at the sec ond table. Don't continue to treat the bov as if lie nai no sense, but consult with loin occasionally; he may possibly know rn re than you do. Itan't give the Uijri lamboriaif to raise which would have died if he had not attended to it and let it grow op to be dad'i sheep or cow. , MIDWINTER FAIR. The Time for the Ceremonial Opening Decided Upon. EVERYTHING WILL BE READY. Short AddressfH to be Made hy Gov ' ernor Markham, Mayor Elici t and M. H. tie Young;. California Mipwintkr Interna- ) tional Exposition. Department or, Publicity and. Promotion. J i (Weekly Circular Letter-No. 10. It has been definitely decided that the official ceremonial opening of the Cali fornia Midwinter International Exposi tion shall take place on Saturday, Jan. 27. This decision has lieen reached after a careful consideration of all the cir cumstances and there is full assurance on the part of those who are in charge of the preparations that everything will be in readiness at that time. The great fire at the Columbian Exposition on the night of Jan. 8 did not damage the ex hibits intended for transfer to San Fran Cisco, except that a few of the cases in which they were packed were pretty well drenched with water. Luckily, however, the contents of the cases were not injured, and, as a matter of fact, such a very small proportion of the Mid winter display remained unshipped at the time of the lire that the delay will not be aggravated on its account. Be fore this letter is read the last carload of exhibits will have left Chicago for San Francisco, and before that time also, the cores of other carloads which are now on the way to San Francisco will have been unloaded in the Sunset City and placed in position in the different build ings in which they have been assigned a location. These buildings are beginning to at tract from visitors the praise they justly merit. Their rapid growth was but one subject of wonder in the progress of this great enterprise. The arrangement of the vast number of exhibits with which their interiors are to be embellished is, of Course, another wonderful operation, but meanwhile the development of the Ideas of the architects and the develop ment at the same time of the general scheme of color which is being worked out in all the buildings comprises still another field for wonder and admiration. Charles Graham, the well known artist, is director of color at this Midwinter Exposition, and he is working out iu this connection one of the prettiest pic tures that the world has ever seen, with group of architectural palaces set in a frame of evergreen foliage and against the bookground of dark hills and sunny CrbrnigrslryrPrettrM Tnctttr1s tlie first comment that comes from the lips of visitors. " Wonderful to behold " will be the inevitable sequel to the orig inal utterance. The concessional features, having made haste to get ready for Midwinter hay-making, will all be ready by the 27th, unless there may be a single excep tion in the case of the great electrio tower, work on which can scarcely be completed inside of three or four weeks. The machinery plant which, of course, Includes the electrio lighting arrange ments, will be all in readiness by the day set and will be utilized on a general scale for the first time on that occasion. The only previous occasion when the street decorations of Sun Francisco ap proached the grandeur which will lie at tained on Jan. 27 was when President Harrison paid a visit to the Pacific Coast, but the arrangements already made are emphatically in evidence of an intention on the part of the citizens of San Francinco to outdo every effort they nave made in this line. It is part of the plan of the Exposition management that there shall be a grand street parade through the principal thoroughfares of the city, and there is already no little controversy over the line of march. If the wishes of the citizens were to be ac ceded to, the procession would have to move through every street and the Ex position grounds would never be reached. A happy compromise will undoubtedly be effected, however, and public aud pri vate buildings on the route of the pro cession will be a blaze of bunting and a ea of color. Governor Murk ham will declare the day a legal holiday. Mayor Elicit will Issue a proclamation closing all munici pal offices, as far as possible, and calling upon the business men of the city to close their store. The National Guard will turn out in full force, and every civic and fraternal society in the city" will participate in the parade. There will be wore bands of music than have ever been seen in a San Francisco Btreet parade, and if there is not a bigger turn out of citizens, in the city and at the Exposition grounds us well, than has ever been called forth by any demonstra tion on the Pacific Coast, the expecta tions of thousands of those who have judged the temper of the community will be grievously disappointed. The official opening ceremonies will take place on the grand stand which is now being erected for that purpose, and for ntilization afterward in connection with athletic sports on the Recreatio.i Grounds. This stand will accommodate 7,000 people and the populace can lie ac commodated on the greensward in front of it to the number of 100,000. There will be short addresses by Gov ernor Markham, Mayor Ellert and Di rector General de Young. Mrs. de Young will press the button that shall set the machinery in motion. The ora tion of the day will be delivered by Gen eral W. H. L. Barnes, the orator par excellence of the Pacific Coost, and the exercises will conclude with a rendition f "America," played by the united bands of the Exposition, in which the voices of the entire assemblage will join, and to which there will be a great gun accompaniment from the throats of a battery of artillery stationed upon the Exposition grounds. These art tbs gen-, sral plans for the official openinsr core1 monies. It is expected that the crowd in attendance on that occasion will more than equal that which witnessed the ceremony of breaking frounda, when fully Tj.OuO people gathered on the bit of wilderness where, in four short months, a veritable city of palace kww been created. A popuUr siiWrij.tion is being raise. at Carson for the fifteen-year-old hero ho saved the lives ol six children at Empire, swimming forty feet nnder the ice with one of them. THE BOY AND THE CATBOAT. A Small Rallboat ! Hald to B. a Crest 11 - veloper ur Character. Every father who lives in the vicinity of navigable water and who can afford it ought to give bis boy a catboat or at leasts sailing canoe. That Is of course assuming that the boy has a healthy body and a mind that works with ordinary accuracy and coolness. If he cannot afford to buy a boat for tbe boy, be ought to seek out opportuni ties for him lo learn to sail in other boys' boats. 1 To neglect this is to neglect one of tbe best of the means of youthful education. Tbe mastery of a catboat improves every faculty of the boy. It makes him strong of body, alert of mind, cool in danger, thoughtful of the rights of others, self re spectful and firm in maintaining his own rights, for no boy can sail a catboat with out racing with another boy's catboat, and when he races he must obey the law of way, and he must insist ou every advantage that Is rightly bis. His reasoning faculty, too, is more large ly developed than in any other (fame except that of football, which a catboat finely sup plements tbe football field enabling tbs boy to measure himself against contending human intelligence, wbile the catboat en ables him to contend against the invisible elements of inanimate nature. "Hut accidents occur with cat boats." So they do, and so they do with horses, bi cycles, rowboats, balls, hats, dogs and tbe sportive game of tag. Will you have your boy a "muff" or n "sissy!"' Accidents do happen in cat boats, and sometimes they are fatal, but bow many fatal accidents nave bappencu to boys who Lave been properly taught to handle their ca t boats F Not many. The usual catlioat accidents happen to the full grown ignoramus, who, not knowing a sheet from a sail, fills his boat with other ignoramuses and reaps tbe consequences. Such accidents as these are pot to be taken into account. Notwithstanding them it is true tbat if you would make a real man of your boy be should be taught to sail a boat. Harper's Weekly. A Horse Tlir.t Didn't Like the Whip. Mrs. William II. Crane, the wife of tbe comedian, tells a funny story about a little horse she recently purchased. As soon as she reached Cuhasset, after the season's campaign, Bhe noticed in a livery Btuhlea very nice and fat little horse. She took a fancy to the animal and pur chased him. "ilo is very gentle," said the liveryman, "and a good worker. Any one can drive him, and he has no had habits. I must warn, you, however, never to strike him with a whip." "What, will he run away f" asked Mrs, Crane in alarm. "No," answered the man hesitatingly, "but it would be dangerous," The next day Mm. Crane had the horse hitched up to a cart and with another lady proceeded to take a drive, Tbe horse was very gentle. He had a certain choppy gait very slow, and he never varied it. At first Mrs. Crane was as delighted as a child with a toy, but after awhile the slowness of the little animal became monotonous. Mrs. Crane tried lo coax him to "gee up," but he wouldn't "gee." Finally she not tired, "Here goes," said she as she took tight hold ou the reins and braced herself well in tbe cart. "Hold yourself, because I am so- ing to strike him with the whip whatever De tn oonwqwnes." ... ,... With a great deal of fear she raised the whip, feeling that as soon as it descended tbe pesky animal would pick up his legs aud run as fast as he could. But he did no such thing. The Instant the whip struck him lie stood stock still and wouldu't move. "That horse wouldn't budge," said Mrs. Crane the other day, "and we had to walk home and pay a boy to drive him whenever he took it into his head to.move." Cincin nati Commercial Gazette. A Quiet Lenten Wedding, "Speaking of quiet weddings," said the rector cf an Episcopal church in a New Jersey suburban town the other day, "re minds me of a colored couple who had se lected Washington's birthday as their wedding day, and who wished to be mar ried in my church. I was in a quandary, as tbe day came in Lent, and I did not care to have a wedding especially in church until after Easier, lint all preparations were made, and I did not wish to spoil the plans of the young couple. After explain ing these matters to tbe bridegroom I said: " 'Now, Samuel, this must lie a very quiet wedding.' " 'Oh, yes, Mr. C ,' said Samuel, 'It will be a very quiet weddln. There won't be no sheutinl'" Tbe rector stopped his story here, but the writer need not. Tbe wedding took place aud was an Important incident of the sea son, many of the colored people present, in cluding the bride aud bridegroom, being iu lull dress. A large reception followed and I jollity reigned supreme, but there was no snouting. New York Irlbune. Csu.es For Present l)sy AllineMts. Probably the most potent factor of pres ent day ailments Is theabeyance into which the muscular system Is permitted to fall by dwellers In cities, who are daily becom ing more dependent on artificial means of locomotion and on labor saving apparatus until disorders of digestion aud nervous maladies are now as common anions the comparatively Kior member of the com munity as tbey are aiuonx those who are wealthy. Indeed, whl e the rich man en deavors to overcome tbe mischief wrought by bis sedentary life byrldinu in tbe park or playliiK golf, the poorer man, who Is un able to afford these pleasurable exercises, neglects bis mtuctilar development and in variably mounts his omnibus or tumbles into bis train rather than waste the time necessary for a brisk walk or a half hour iu tbe itvmnaslum. National Review. Kal.ina Talking Parrots. The talking powers of a parrot depend to a great extent on its being taken in baud at a very early age. This would be one advantage of rearing these birds in confinement. Under such conditions also it would be practicable to vastly improve the speaking faculty by mating the best talkers together for generations. Thus would be produced such feathered conversationists as are unknown np to date. It would certainty be profitable to breed and raise the parrots known as Carolina parrakeets. These are rare now and bring high prices, though they used to be very common as far north as Penn sylvania and Illinois. At present the few survivors are almost wholly con fined to scattered localities in Florida and the Indian Territory. They have been successfully bred in captivity. The green Australian parrakeets of the sort nsed by strolling fortune tellers on the streets are among the easiest of birds to rear. Washington Star. Hh Draw lbs Lias. No, she wouldn't do it, Tbe very ideal Wooid she sacrifice her womanly digni ty? Conld she lock the door of her pleas ant home and go forth on such a mission with the prattle of her innocent babes sounding in her ears? No, thousand time no. Bhe could die easier. 8h never could bring herself down on tbe level of vile man and go to the polls and vote. Her bonnet and gloves are tossed in corner, and as she retires to the back yard to split the wood for the mor row's fire she's beard cheerfully hum ming, "What Is Home Without a Moth er?" Buffalo Express. THE PORTLAND MARKETS. Whiat-Valley, 92,','c; Walla Walla, 8081c per cental. provisions. Eastern Smokso Meats and Lard Hams, medium, 12(lJo per pound; hams, large, ll12uc; hams, picnic, 11 (.412c; breakfast bacon, 13(4 15c; short clear sides. 11(31; dry salt sides, 10ji(gllcj dried beef hams, 12'(i13c; lard, compound, in tins, O'jtelOc per pound; pure, in tins, U,Viac; pigs' feet, 80s,K-50; pigs' feet, 40s, f3.00. BOPS, WOOL AND UIDIS. Hops '03s, choice, 15(1 10c per pound ; medium, 10(a) 12c; poor, 6(s7o. Wool Valley, 10 11c per pound; Umpqua, 11 12c; Kastern Oregon, 0(cj 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. Iliogs Dry selected prime, 6c; green, salted, 00 pounds and over, 3c; under 60 pounds, 2 (a; 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10(a) 16c; medium, 20335c ; long wool, 30(g(J0c; tallow, good to choice, 33J,c per pound. ' LIVI AND DRISSID MEAT. Biir Top steers, $2.50(3.00; fair to good steers, 2. 0012.25; cows, 2.00 2.20; dressed beef, 45o per pound. Mutton Best sheep, (J2.50; ewes, 2.26; lambs, $ . 1 loos Choice heavy, $4.00(34.25; me dium, $4.00; light and feeders, $3.00 00' Hi dressed, 0,'u7c per pound. Vial Small choice, 0c; large, 4c per pound. CORDAGE. ' Manilla rope, li in.cir.andup, lOjc; manilla rope, 12-tliread, Kdiam., lie; manilla rope, 0 and 0-thread, and 5-10 diam., ll.'uc; manilla bail rope, in coils or on reels, 10'jc; manilla lath yarn, tarred, wc ; manilla nawser-iaiu rope well boring, etc.. 13c: manilla transmission- of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine, lie; manilla spring twine, 14c; sisal rope, 1' a in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal roie, 12-thread, K diam.. 7'uC; sisal rope. 0 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-10 diam.. 8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine twine, tarred, 7c; sisal paper twine, o.c FLOOR, FEED, ETC Floor Portland, $2.76: Salem, $2.75: Cascadia, $2.75; Payton, $2.76; Walla Walla, $3.00; SnowHake, $2.80; Corval lis, $2.05; Pendleton, $2.(35; Graham, $2.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. U ats White, 3334c per bushel; gray, HlcgBZc; rolled, in bags, su.z& 6.50; barrels, $0.76(37.00; in cases, $3.76. MiLLBTurra Bran, $13(tl0; shorts, $15(a 10; ground barley. $10(fl8; chop feed, $15 per ton ; whole feed barley, 00 70c per cental; middlings, $23(828 per ton; chicken wheat, 06c$1.16 per cental. Hay Good, $1012 per ton. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 30(3 32'uc; fancy dairy, 2527c; fair to good, 20(rt22ls'c; common, 1017bO per pound ; uiiiiorm i, outgoac per roil. tiiiEEsi uregon, iu(gl3c; uanior- nia, c; loung America, lZloc; Swiss, imported, 3032c; domestic, 16 (giHc per pound. Ecus Oregon, 17c per dozen; East ern, nominally the same. rouLTRY (Jlilckens, mixed, quoted at $3.50 top price per dozen ; ducks, $4.50(3 6.00; geese, $8.60(30.00: turkeys, live, 12)o per pound ; dressed, 14c v . ... :""-:'-".WWt-" vaurrs, t Vegetables California cabbage, le par pound ; potatoes, Oregon, O0(i(75c per sack ; onions, $1.20 per sack ; sweet pota toes, 2'ucper pound; California celery, 85U0c; artichokes, $1.00tl.l0 per dozen; California lettuce, 2025c per dozen ; cauliflower, $2.75 per crate, UOc per dozen; parsley, z&c per dozen sprouts, $1.00(al.25 per box; string beans, lo(318c per pound; asparagus, 12'nc per pound: Los Anueles tomatoes. $2.00 per box. Fruits Sicily lemons, $5.00(45.50 per box; California fancy, $3.604.00; com mon. $2.50(3.00; bananas, $1.5003.00 per bunch; Honolulu, $1.502.60; Cali fornia navels, $2.75(23.50 per box ; seed lings, 12.00(42.70; Mexican, 3.603.75: Japanese, $1.75(ii2.00; apples (buying price, green, uuiuiuoc per oox ; reu, outtj oc; late winter pears, oohuc per box CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted. $1.76(32.00; peaches, $1.852.00; Bart- let t pears, $1.76Z.OO; plums, $1.37)4 1.60: strawberries. 2.26(rt 2.45 : cherries. $2.25(0)2.40; blackberries, $1.85(32.00; laspberries. 12.40: nineaDnles. 12.26(a) Z.ou; apricots, si. 00. fie fruits, assorted. Si. 20: rjeaches. tl.25: nlums. $1.00(31.20: blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per dozen, lie Irults, gallons, assorted, $3.15(33.60; peaches, $3.60(34.00; apri cots, $3.50(34.00; plums, $2.75(33.00; blackberries, $4.25(34.50; tomatoes, $1.10. Meats Corned beef. Is. 11.40: 2s. sz.iu; ciupped, ,30; luncli tongue, Is, $3.50; 2b. $0.76; deviled bain, $1.50(3 2.76 per dozen. Fish Hardines, Js, 75e3$2.25; Jtfs, $2.15(34.60; lobsters, $2.30(33.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25(31.60; flats, $1.76;2-lbs, $2.25(32.60; -barrel, $5.60. STAPLE GROCERIES. CorrEE Costa Rica, 23!c; Bio, 22)4 (32:lc; Salvador, Zi'ic; Mocha, 20)(3 28c; Arbuckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound cases, 25(a)30c per pound. Dried Fruits 1803 pack, Petite prunes, ))8c; silver, 10(312c; Italian, 8(3 10c; German. 0(3 Be; plums, 6 10c: evaporated apples, 8(3 10c.; evaporated apricots, 15(31 10c; peaches, 10(3l2,'io; pears, 7llc per pound. Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.60; 100s, $16.00; 60s, $10.60; stock, $8.60(39.60. RYHiie Kastern, in barrels, 4055c; in half barrels, 42rt?57c ; in cases, 35(3 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg; California, in barrels, 20(3 40c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. Sugar D.4'if'cj Golden 0, 4,'vc; extra C, 434c ; confectioners' A, 6'f,c ; dry gran ulated, 6''4c; cube, crushed and pow dered, 6J,c per pound ; fe per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 15(3 10c per pound. Hu e No. 1 Sandwich Island, $4.75(3 5.00; no Japan in market. Beans Small white, No. 1, 2Vcj No. 2, 2,'yc; large white, 2,'c; pea beans, 234; pink, 2'c; bayou, 2ic; butter, 3c ; Lima, 3'c per pound. I'icklkh Barrels, No. 1, 28(&30c per gallon ; No. 2, 20ftf 28c; kegs, 6s, 85c per keg ; half gallons, $2.75 per dozen ; quar ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen. Kaimins ixmdon lavers, boxes, $1.75 (32.00; halves, $2.00(32.25; quarters, $2.25(32.75; eighths, $2.60(33.00. Ixiose Muscatels, boxes, $1.60; fancy faced, $1.75; bags, 3 crown, 4'llw.rc per pound; 4 crown, SraS'jC. Seedless Sultanas, boxes. $1.75(32.00; bags, OiaSc per pound. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. mm The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Anneals; Ne Ahusj. Used in Millions of Homu 40 Yea tit Cuniard. FARM AND GARDEN. New Kinds of Grains, Vegetable-, Plants, Flowers AND TREES ALL THE RAGE. Many of These New Creations Are Produced by HybridteluMT In discriminate Mixing. The following is clipped from Farm. Field and Fireside : We have noticed in recent years increased efforts to Intro duce not only new varieties of our old standard grains, vegetables, plants, flowers and trees, but to set new kinds. or at least those new to tills country or special locality. Many of these are new creations produced by crossing or by bridizing, and are in effect new ; others are introduced from foreign countries. Some of these are not successful at first, but eventually become acclimated; still others are old to one section, bnt new to another. All our Western forage and and seed plants are new to this country. Their name is legion, and there are great possibilities in them; much we think to gain by crossing. Each has peculiar characteristics, and plant containing the best o! all is likely to be the result. A word ot caution will not be ont of filace. Do not allow indiscriminate mix n g, or a fairly good plant may be dete riorated ; especially do not allow a cross ing of the saccharine sorghum with tht non-saccharine, as its use for syrups will be spoiled. Every section has Its pecu liar needs in a plant; so let the crossing be with this ideal plant in view. These forage plants are unknown to many sec tions. Some do not need them, but many will find them profitable introduc tions. The forage is much bettor than corn, and the analysis of the seed shows ' it to be as valuable, though in yield, ease of handling and feeding it will not compare with corn ; but it might be prof itably used as a change ot feed, especi ally when a farmer wishes to use chopped feeil. We especially urge every poultry raiser to raise them extensively, especi ally the Kaffir corns. Barley is not a well-known crop. We never saw but one crop growing nntil we bought seed the present year; did not even know what the grain was. With no experience in raising it we are well pleased with it, and shall grow it largely next year. We think it will be more profitable for horse feed than oats in this section. Time may change onr opinion as we find oat its disadvantages, bnt at present we . should recommend it for trial here. Broom corn is in its favored home here, and it will be raised largely; bnt with out experience we judge the harvesting ot it will interfere with wheat seeding here, and that the wheat raiser will give it over to the specialist. In our dry cli mate there is not so much care needed in harvesting, nor to much storage room, as it can be bulked without danger; bat., as the profits in such crops depend . largely on the finer color and shape that n goes upon ma market, tne Dest sucrem is attained by a specialist, by which we " mean one who has a special liking for certain lines of work. For some years past it has been a very profitable crop, but there is likely to be a reaction and low prices for a few years, as the acreage has in consequence of present prices been largely increased. Cow peas are an old crop to your Southern readers, but new to all others except as a fertil izer, plowing under as a green crop. We think they will be raised largely by those who can give special time to the harvest ing and by those who have land especi ally adapted to their raising. We nave written of land here that we thought specially adapted to them, and now we know of one trial acre or a little less tbat produced twenty-one bushels. The new lathvrus avlvestris has not rjmved suc cessful here, but on the sandy lands of Wisconsin it is reported a very product ive forage plant. KEEP YOUR FOWLS TAME. Tim Pn.llt... U'n.1.1 ....o. V.. LAA . 'iv . uum muiui oag. , ca, kvc p your fowls tame, for you will find yon are a gainer thereby. There are far too many who do not make it a point to keep their fowls so tame that they will readily take food from the hand, and consider such a thing a useless expendi ture of time; but it is not, for tame birds will be more contented, will lay on 41 ...,V. 1 I.. 4 I .,..4..- 1 .M1 1 utxm iiu mv laaici, aim mu mv lljuia eggs than those which are kept constant ly in a semi-wild state. Kindness Is never lost on anything, no matter how small the object may be. Look at the stock breeder who is noted for the big quality of his stock, and you will never see him harsh with his animals, but at all times kind and considerate of their comfort and well-being. He never beats them or speaks harshly to them, for he well knows that such a coarse is very detrimental to their well-being. As it is with larger animals so is it relatively true of fowls: if vou at all times exer cise kindness toward them, they will doubly repay for all your care ana kind attention. IIOW TO KEEP PUMPKINS. A writer in an exchange thinks to keep pumpkins in a fresh state for ten months or a year is a very simple mat ter. A person has only to select those that are sound and well ripened. Han dle them carefully so as not to bruise the ftesli : wash and wipe dry, and then store them in a dry warm room. Let each pumpkin have a separate rest; that is, do not pile one on top of another. Keep the temperature of the room as even as possible at all times, and sound, plump pumpkins can be had in June fust as well as in fall or early part of winter. Kor the past two years he has kept his in tbe npper hallway leading from the din ins room. A portiere hangs at the open ing of the stairway, so that the beat rises and keeps the upper hall at the same temperature as the dining room. If a Derson has a roomv nantrv. well an. cured from frost or dampness, the npper shelf would answer nicely for a storing place. Or a clothes closet, secured from cold or dampness, would answer the pur pose as well. Winter squashes can also be preserved in like manner. Dampness and frosted air soon put this line of veg etables on the road to decay if left long under its influence. Don't lean down too hard when the boy is turning the grindstone ; this is on ot the causes of boys leaving the farm.