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) OREGON COURIER, VOL. XI. OKRGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1891. NO. 43. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Wonderfully Rich (iohl Find in I lie Colorado Desert. riiKscorr a siiootinu center. 'J'Iik Soul horn 1'aciflc Will Not Honor .San Diego Ticket Over tlie Nnutberii California. (iovernor Hinilics of Arizona offers, a ccw aiil ol J.0,0011 or the renegade Kid, dead or alive. The lumber output in tliu Pacific Northwest during the past year has de creased 700,000,000 feet. I'reseott, A. T., has hail a shooting acrupe on the average ol once a week the past uioiith, and the citizens are manifesting considerable indignation Smi Jose Coinuion Council refuses to reorganize tho Hoard of Health no that it shall consist of regular physicians. Tho hoard uuw consists of three C'oun l iliiu-ii, the City Kngineer anil one physician. The Canadian Pacific has let a con tract for building 2f0 miles of railroad between Nelson, 1). ('., and a point near Calvary, Tliu proposed rouU' is the inui'li-talked-of ('rows' Nest Pass and Tobacco I'lains. The lack of schnoWnn for children at l.os Angeles ! ci n.,iined of hy the citizens. Iu one Hiuall district over forty children tu not go to school at all. The people whoso children are crow, led out are ripe for revolt. A hit; strike lias been made in the Mammoth mining district in Arizona. The surface cropping are over 100 feet wide, and tl io gold is so plentiful that Hakes of it can be seen numerously throughout the samples. A wonderfully rich void lind has been made in the Colorado Desert, sixty miles from San Iternardiuo and twenty miles from Indio. Old miners think this dis covery is where the Indians used to dud the gold they showed, to the people in Cnliente. The Southern Pacilic has issued a cir cular at Chicago Baying that hereafter it will not honor Snn Diego tickets over the Southern California because of the $5 arbitrary rate demanded. This vir tually amounts to a refusal to handle San Diego business on any terms. Mrs. Mary Cleveland of Portland, Or., whom spirits told that her husband, Dr. J inn II. Thatcher of Santa Monica, Cal., was dead, when in fact he was alive, lias been awarded half his estate, amount ing to 00,000. Thatcher is now a help less invalid at Pasadena. He had de serted his wife, and she married again, believing him dead. Kxccedingly rich gold quartz has been ' taken from the bottom of the must con denser well at Healdsbnrg, Cal., which had been broken in a blast. The well is 200 feet deep, and no water has yet been obtained. The quart, will assay 200 to the pound. The strike has caused much excitement. 1 he bore of the well pene trates the gravel deposit nlong the lins- sian river. Dr. Kugene F. West, who was con victed at San Francisco of the murder of Addie Oilinore, a Colusa milliner, upon whom he had performed a criminal operation, appeared in court the other morning io nave sentence passeu upon him. He was sentenced by Judge Wal lace to twentv-ftve years in the State prison. A motion for a new trial was denied. His attorney called attention to numerous technical points, and asked for a Btav of proceedings, which was granted. The Ontario (San Bernardino county, Cal.) J i uit Exchange has brought suit and asks for a restraining order against J. S. Garcia to prevent him from dispos ing of his orange crop for this season to any other parties than the plaintill'. The complaint alleges that the orange crop amounts to ;ioo boxes, ana tne ue fendent is a member of the exchange and entered into an agreement witli the other members not to sell his fruit out side the exchange, hut that he has dis posed of a portion of the crop to outside parties. A decision has been given in the United States District Court at San Francisco awarding damages, aggregat ing about $10,000, to heirs of the Cap lain, cook and owner of the schooner Fidelity, which was lost by the master of the steam tug Printer while towing the schooner over Iluinlioldt bar in No vember, 188ii. The Captain and all hands of the latter were lost. The court held that the bar before and after the disaster was in an exceedingly dangerous condi tion, and a careful pilot would not have attempted to tow the schooner over. Therefore it gave judgment for the hiin tilt's. The case is the first of the ind ever rendered in the United States courts. The Supreme Court of Oregon has af firmed the judgment of the lower court in tho case of the State vs. Hansen, ap pellant, from Clatsop county. The ap peal was on the ground of error being made in admitting certain evidence and giving anil refusal of certain instructions by the court. On Wednesday, July 20 last, he murdered his wife, Caroline Hansen, while she was engaged in pick ing raspberries at their home in Clatsop county. The deed was committed with a stick about a yard in length, with a knot on the end. The blow was npon the head. It occurred about 4 p. in. Hansen made a confession on the follow ing Saturday to Sherilt H. A. Smith and F. I. Dunbar. His wife died almost instantly, and after remaining by her side for aliout an hour Hansen went to a neigblior's pluce and told him what he had done. During the evening he burned the stick in a stove in his home. He was indicted and convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was overruled by Judge T. A. McBride, and Hane?3-a9 sentenced tot hanged. The defendant's counsel contended that in the confession made in the presenceof the Sheriff every 'ows That'Ha.'jen was insane, jthe subsequent confession was 't recovering from the effects of indge Moore, in the opinion, statute requires the accused, anitv is pleaded as a defense, . h the fact beyond reason t. It is not in the province of piestion the policy of law or the rule established in cases is i, or if the accused can offer suf idence to raise in the minds of -asonable doubt of his sanity, -tatemust establish this fact, iers, beTond reasonable doubt. and circumstances of tne case yereatmMTtv.ftnd itwMtheiri 'v their veruicl wneiner me 'kill was formed and matured ood and not hastily npon oc Aud hn.inc eo found under AliU lia.Xl IUUUU uuut , , ,l. ,t tho -t if affirmed. The opinion cot- J pages ef type-writteB aopy. FROM WASHINGTON' CITY. The subcommittee of the House Com mittee on Hanking ami Currency will report to the full coinn itteo favorably the hill of Cooper of Indiana to permit Mates ana Territories to tax United States notes and currency Itawlin's hill granting land from Fort Douglas military reservation as a site for the University of Utah and deary's bill for public road through Lime Point reservation, California, have been ap proveu uy tlio House Committee on Military Affairs. The House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce has voted to make a favorable report on the New York and New Jersey bridge bill, which Kepresentative Diinphy has redrafted witli a view of obviating the objections in the President's recent veto. Tliu President has Informed members of Congress who have annroached him on the subject that lie proposes so far as nosnible tonoiioint sonsof armvanil naval ollicers as cadets at large to the Military and . 1 Naval Academics. This is in accord - ance with his iwlicy of eight years ago, There are two such vacancies at the Na- val Academy, which, it is believed, will be lined beiore .May i. Grosvenor'g bill for a national celebra- (ion at Chickamauga and Chattanooga .unitary 1'ark bcptemlier I!) and ZD has been approved by the House Committer on Military Affairs. Arrangements will he under the direction of tho Secretary of War. who is to reouest the narticiiiation ol lite rresident ami Congress, the Su preme Court, heads of Departments of tne Army and avy, Governors, etc. rast Assistant Surgeon Kichard Ash- bridge has been dismissed from the navy. He was the recorder of a court-martial at Mare Island, Cal., but refused to draw up a report of the proceedings as directed by the President of the court, and was also charged with falsehood in the same connection. He was convicted bv a court-martial of conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline and of false- bond and sentenced to dismissal from tho naval service, which sentence has been approved. Special Treasury Agent M. II. Pereley has in custody three Chinamen, who were turned over to the United States officials by the Wabash railroad. It is alleged that they came from China by way of Vancouver, sneaked across from Windsor, Canada, and came to Chicago on a sleeping car, beating their way. They have no money and no baggage. They are dressed as Americans, but small pieces of holly wood were found concealed in their queues, which bore engraved credentials to their friends. They could not talk, so t hey were booked One Lung, Two Lungs, Three Lungs, ac cording to size. Secretary Smith has approved the draft of a circular which will soon be issued governing applications for the right of way over public lands for canals, ditches ami reservoirs. The right is held to extend only to construction, and no public timber or material will be allowed to be taken or used for repair or improve ment. The department ruling of March 18, 1802, holding that natural lakes al ready sources of water supply shall not be used for reservoir purposes, nor rivers dammed so as to overflow into the adja cent country, is overruled. All persons settling on public, lands, to which the right of way lias attached for a canal. ditch or reservoir, are required to make them subject to this right, Secretary Herbert has advised that the hull of the Kearsarge on Koncador reel is breaking up, and tbcre is little hope of saving her. One consolation u that none of the nuns which did such ef fective work in the battle with the Ala bama off Cherbourg were aboard the shin when she was cast on the reef. An official statement by the ordnance bu reau lor information of the Secretary shows that her two eleven-inch guns are now on linnd at Mare Island navy yard ; four thirty-two-pounders were sold at Boston navy yard February, 1888, to M. Lissberger of New i ork ; a thirty pound Dahlgren ritle sold nt the same yard in 1875 to the Boston Machine Com pany, and a twelve-pound light howitzer melted up in uctober, mttii. An extradition treaty between this country and Costa Hica will be sent to tlie henate soon, a dralt ol tne pro posed treaty has been prepared and practically agreed upon. One or two provisions still await settlement, hut it is supposed that tlie next mail from Costa Hica will bring news of the ap proval by the Costa Rica authorities of tlie clianges suggested by tlie secretary of State. The new treaty will make ex traditable from either country the follow ing crimes : Murder, including assassi nation, parricide and infanticide ; poison ing, arson, piracy, mutiny, burglary, robbery, forgery, counterfeiting and em bezzlement. When the Costa Kica auth orities surrendered embezzler Francis II. Weeks of New York Secretary Oresliam agreed to exchange a treaty which would include tlie crime ol wliicli weeks was guilty, and the negotiations now in prog ress are in accordance with tlie promise. Mr. Chickering of New York has in troduced in the House a bill to amend the act of J ill v. 1802. to enforce recip rocal relations between the United States and Canada. The bill provides in addi tion to the present powers that when ever the President shall be satisfied that there is any discrimination in the use of the Wellaiid canal, the St. Lawrence river canal, the Chambly canal or the new Canadian Sault canal detrimental to tlie United States it shall be his duty to suspend the transportation across tlie United States in bond of goods imported or exported from any foreign countries from or to the British Dominions in North America. In case of the suspen sion tolls arc to be levied and collected on freight of whatever kind or descrip tion at 2 per ton and on passengers at not more than $5 a head. No tolls are to he charaed or collected noon freight or passengers carried to anil landed at Ogdensburg, N. Y., or any port west of Ogdensburg and south of a line drawn irom tlie northern boundary ol tlie State of New York through the St. Lawrence river, tlieOreat Lakes and their connect ing channels to the northern boundary of the State of Minnesota. Tlie bill was referred to the Committee on Foreign Anairs. More trouble is brewing in Samoa. According to official advices the son of lamasese, one ol tne lormer Kings of Snmoa, is leading a movement against Malietoa. He is said to have a large following of natives, who are rebellious, not eo much against the immediate rulers as against the tripartite govern ment that controls affairs on the islands. When Mataafa's adherents surrendered last fall and were transferred to one of the islands of the Marshall group, it was hoped there would be no further trouble in Samoa, although the present admin istration never felt very confident that affairs on the island would run along smoothly and peaceably until some other form of government prevailed. It is said negotiations are now in progress between the Un.ted States and Great Britain and Germany for a mollification of the Berlin treaty, 'but it is not known what the DrODoeed change are. Presi dent Cleveland took occasion in his an- nnal message to note his disapproval of ( the existing tripartite. Great Britain and Germany are alike dissatisfied, and would probably like change as much ihim .nr.OTi.nori nA i h n nfivri nn.t " ft . native n rti mnn anTinna for an- other form of government than any ther of the partiet toBceraed. i EASTERN MELANGE. Withdrawals From New York Saving Banks in 181)3. GOLD IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA. Tlie Kaunas Populists to Introduce a Novelty In (lie Coming' -Political Campaign. Mayor Hopkins of Chicago lias re duced his own salary 10 per cent. Comnanies in Denver owning smelters have decided to shut down halt the fur naces. Wolves have been killing sheep at a great rate in parts of .Minnesota not very remote,. The membership of the Massachusetts Grand Army is 547 less than it was a year ago. Tlie Kentucky Senate has defeated the anti-pool-room bill, which had passed the House. Petitions for tlie establishment of a National Board of Health are pouring in iixn Congress. It is claimed that deep snows in the Wyoming Mountains have driven at leant 10,000 elks to the plains. Tlie old Onion line, which lias been at tlm rwiint nt .liaeiiliilinn fur fliu luat tirn ' years, lias been revived again. Extensive frauds have been discovered. by means of which purchasers of public hinds in Texas have been swindled. It is expected that Moody and Sankev will make a great many conversions dur- ng their engagement in Washington. The New York Central railroad has issued orders for extensive retrench ments along the entire line of tlie road. The will of Charles Bathgate Beck of New York leaves $1 ,000,000 to Dr. Park- hurst's Society for tlie Prevention of Vice. It is thought Governor Northon's ac tion in endeavoring to prevent prize fighting in Georgia will beenmo an issue in politics. , Gold-seekers are pouring into the Rainy Lake section, Northern Minne sota, where the precious metal has been discovered. A project to furnish Omaha witli water power by means of a canal fifty miles long is being considered by promi nent capitalists. A New York journal reports that heap building materials are causing 'an epidemic of ollice buildings and apartment houses." The fund started by Mayor Gilrov of New York for tlie relief of the poor now amounts to ftiO.OOO, and much more is expected to be contributed. In the attempt to break tlie will of ex- Senator II. M. Rice of Minnesota, who left $n,0UU,U0ii, claimants allege Ins coin' mon-law marriage with a squaw. A number of New York manufactur ers, whose establishments have a capacity of nearly 300,000,000 bricks a year, are going to try and build a brick trust. A suit has been instituted at St. I -on is that involves tit lo to all the property on one side of Olive street from Third to Twenty-first, aggregating $1)0,000,000. T. V. Powderly, late General MaBter Workman of the Knights of Labor, has entered suit against the order for salary, expenses, etc., amounting to over 14,000, Postmaster Davton has reduced the expense of lighting the New York post ollice building from 170,000 to $.'12,000 by having a new skylight cut through tlie roof. Lonisvilledistillersare not well pleased with tlie alleged project to have the gov ernment establish warehouses in New York where tax-overdue whisky may be stored Mrs. Olden, widow of tlie ex-Governor of New Jersey, has given $17,000 to the sheltering Arms Hospital near Charles ton, W, Va., for the benefit of disabled miners. Tlie Iowa House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring insurance companies to adjust losses within thirty days and pay them within forty days tnerealter. Last vear the withdrawals from the savings banks of the State of New York exceeded the deposits by $84,618,001. In loz tne deposits exceeded the uraits by 17,831,113. Sam Jones closed his series of meet ings at the tabernacle in Nashville by annealing for subscriptions to Day off the debt on the building. In a few minutes $10,000 was dropped in the hat. A steamsbirj line will nrobab v be established between Galveston and Den mark for the purpose of transporting im migrants from Norway, Sweden and Northern Europe direct to Texas. Mrs. Cliaska (formerly Cora Bell Fel lows) has been deserted by her Santee Indian husband, who has taken up with a young squaw on the reservation. Mrs. Cliaska proposes to obtain a divorce. The tunnel nnder the Palisades, which is to give the .New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad an indeiiendent terminal on the North river, is neanng completion. It was begun August 1, mr, and is 6,072 leet long. Jim Mitchell, a drunkard and desper ate character, was remonstrated with for boisterous conduct while at the Grand Central Depot at Houston, Tex., when he pulled out his pistol and opened fire on the crowd, killing three men, one lit tle cnuu ana wounuing one woman. Tlie Kansas Populists propose in the coming political campaign to organize a theatrical company ol young ptopie oi the remiisite talent as an adjunct to the State campaign and semi them over the State, giving plays depicting the woes and ills which afliict the working classes. Tlie election of officers by the Wom an's Sulfrage Convention at Washington resulted as follows : Susan o. Anthony, President; Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Vice President at large; Rachel Foster Avery of Philadelphia, Corresponding Secre tary; Mrs. Harriet Taylor of Upton, O., Treasurer; Mrs. Ellen B. Dietrick of Boston and Josephine K. Henry of Ken tacky, Auditors. The Secretary of the Inferior in a Montana case holds that each twenty acre tract of any placer claim must show the discovery of minerals in order to ob tain a mineral patent. Whether the claim it surveyed: or nnsnrveyed makes no difference in the right of locators. Accordingly the location made on a larger amount of land is void except for twenty acres immediately surrounding it. Edward F. Searles, who by the death of his wife inherited Mark Hopkins' millions, has given to toe town of Great Barnngton, MaJ., beautiful tract of seventeen acre oi loreei ana gwa land on tlie side of a mountain near by. to be held forever as a public park. He has also tivtn Mansfield Lake aoneilnct. , . , " .. . a I." II rr. which snppUea water to Kellogg terrace. The cW proviso u that the Terrace shall be aoppued are. FOREIGN FLASHES. Germany has made a inent with France. frontier agree- The Indian budget estimates a deficit of 350,000 lacs of rupees. All England and France is stirred up over Anarchist plottings. Many of the Sicilian rioters have been given long terms of imprisonment. I-ondon bank officials say there is an embarrassing prevalence of farthings. Savings bank deposit accounts in France are one-sixth less than they were two years ago. There has lieen a steady growth in continental armies of tlie "kind of hys teria known as neurasthenia. During tiie last year the French gov ernment has paid out aliout 30,000 francs lor the destruction of 404 wolves. The poor of Saxony eat the flesh of horses, dogs and cats according to a re jiort made to the State Department. Word has lieon sent to tho courts of Lurope that the Shah of Persia intends io visit uerun, m. reiersuurg, raris aim lumin urxi year. (Jueen Victoria has ordered court ofli cials to adopt strict precautions to pre vent the sale of introductions at court hy women of title. The proposal of Laures in the French Chambers to establish a State monopoly for the sale of wheat dors not meet with pronounced popular favor. The suffering among the London poor tins winter is not so great as was ex peeled, it has been about an average winter lor the unemployed. Tlie Czar has ordered a new thirty- foot cutter yacht to be built by J. S. nite of cowes during this season. It is to be magnificently fitted. Thero were 1,060 persons killed in ac cidents in and aliout coal mines in Great Britain during last year, an increase of forty over the record of 1802. Tlie wedding of the Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melila of Saxe-Cohurg-Gotha has been finally ar ranged for April 22 at Cohurg. Puerto Rico complains that by the treaty witli America it is losing $100,000 monthly, and wants the mother govern ment to abrogate the agreement. The Increased cultivation of poppy in various parts of Europe has, it is said, led to a marked growth in tlie percent age of opium contained in honey. The rumor that the tug Millard, with sixtv-two men on board, was wrecked off the Nicaraguan coast has been continued. Not a person on the ill-fated vessel was saved. The French reinforcements for the column at Timbuctoo have had to storm the village of Nioforge, which opposed their passage, and 100 inhabitants were killed. Germany's inquiry into the silver question in its broad phases, which is about to be entered into, may possibly change the attitude of that country oh this issue. Rubenstein's new sacred opera, "Chris tils'," is to have its first presentation within two or three weeks in the opera house at Breslau under the composer's own uireciion.- In Berlin a new company has built lot of cabs on an improved pattern and fitted them with automatic fare-receiv ers, so that the driver does not handle any money at all. ine thrown rrince ol Siam is among the boy authors of the world. He has written several stories for English elm dren's magazines, and can write fluently in mree European languages. Men do not give up their seats to women in tlie public conveyances in London and Pans. They might be so ponte ii called upon, but the laws of both cities forbid passengers to stand. Italian business men in all parts of me Kingdom and the unamhers ol Com merce of all the principal cities are vig orously opposing the proposal for an in crease of tlie duties on imiiorted wheat, It is said by M. Albert Clim and cor roborated by other experts that there are scarcely six novelists in Franco who can count on receiving equal to or above iu.uuo irancs a year for their literary work. Bourdin, who was blown to pieces in Greenwich Park, London, was a friend of Henry, the Paris Anarchist, and it is believed had designed to emulate in some way the acts of his friend in the Termi nus cafe outrage. At a meeting of the Autonomic Club in ixmdon a speaker spoke of Vaillaut, Pallas and other Anarchists as "mar tyrs." He advised the study of chem icals, so that bombs could be made and used when necessary. Mr. Gladstone is devoting the spare time which he has from his duty of man aging the allairs of the British Empire to an enthusiastic study ot the Masque languages, the dialect of the strange people who inhabit the slopes of the 'yrenecs. London's Thirteen Club at a recent dinner had thirteen dishes on the menu, salt cellars were emptied about on the tablecloth with studied carelessness, tlie chairman broke a large mirror and each guest a small one, and to cap the climax only cross-eyed waiters were employed. Mercantile rivalry betwenn Liverpool and Manchester, occasioned by the open- t -I.:-. i i 1 jig ui tne viup canui, is occupying in both cities a large share of public atten tion. An iinKrtant movement is being made by public bodies in Liverpool to counteract the influence of the ship ca nal on tne trade ot that port. A new kind of fuel made from solidi fied petroleum ami other materials is now being extensively manufactured in France. It is stated that its heat-nro- ducing properties are very great, and that experiments to use it in engine fur naces have been of a most satisfactory nature. Vice-Admiral Ifevre. French Minis ter of Marine, estimates that by aliout 1006 the type of ironclad now being con structed bv the nations of the world will iave reached its apogee, naval arma ments along present lines will be com pleted, and the nations will have armed for the sea up to the limit. Mr. Asouith. British Home Secretary. n reply to the request of Prof. Tyndall, who recently returned from America, that he be accorded an interview with Mrs. Msybrick in order to induce her to consent to be hypnotized and questioned while in that state for tlie purpose of es tablishing, if possible, her innocence, informs Prof. Tvndall that he cannot permit such an interview. A District Judge in Kansas bas decid ed that the State Reform .School, which has been running a good many rears, costing the State meanwhile a good deal of money, has no constitutional exist ence. The total postal receipts in Chicago during 1803 were W,M3,tM. The Ciar talks of leaving St. Peters burg permanently. The Biftfant threaten to rebel against the I a tan 'f rule. ACUTE IMAGINATION. INSTANCES OF TRICKS THE BRAIN HAS PLAYED ON MORTALS. KiperluiniU Mada by bi.ctori Which Went Cruel In Their Treatment anil lie nulled r'Hlally Inutility Fruiluceil hy rrlglil. It is said thut some 20 years ago a long wooden box, resembling a plain pauper's coffin, might lie seen inside tlie north aisle of Westminster abbey. For two days it was passed without notice by the many peoplo who visited tlie minster. Then complaints were made to the police officer at the door that the smell arising; from tho body contained in the box was not only disagreeable to pass near it, but that it was a disgrace to allow- it to re main there. 'A strong sense of duty, said one of tlio'coniplainauts, imielled him to draw attention to the scandal. Tlie policeman at once called a verger, who found on inquiry that the box was empty and had uever been used to con ceal a corpse. However, he had the box removed, and in this way prevented the recurrence of the horrid smells of which visitors to tlie abbey had complained. A still more curious case of the way in which the imagination may usurp the senses of smell and sight is recorded of a hospital patient. Two Paris medical men interested in this subject of freaks and delusions of the imagination told the patient that in order to cure him both his legs would need be amputated. The man was thunderstruck. Until that moment he had imagined himself to be improving in health. "Oh! good doctors," he exclaimed iu accents of terror, "you have made some mistake. There is nothing wrong with me. If my legs are cut off, what will niy poor wife and children do to get their daily bread'" "1 am very sorry, my good fellow," responded one of the medical men, "but your life depends upon tlie operation." The patient was wheeled into theoier aling theater, and there, without chlo roforming the man, the doctors pretend ed to proceed with the amputation. "Ah, said tlie operator, with an as sumed sigh of relief, "there's one leg off." "Oh, holy lrgin Mary, the pain is frightful! I am dying," shrieked the pa tient. Then the operator hurriedly "ampu tated" the second leg. The patient faint ed. When he came to, the doctors were horrified to find that he had become in sane. He actually believed himself to bo legless. Two months after the pre tended operation he died. Up to his last moments he believed that his lower limbs had gone. In this case there was no sus picion of hypnotism. It was simply a phase exaggerated, no doubt of mad ness produced by an imagination too cruelly played with by the medical men. Few, more striking instances of the force o imagination have been given than that in wtilcn a German physician tried an experiment on three criminals condemned to death. To complete the illusion he entered the large cell in which for the purpose the prisouers were placed, accompanied by the governor ami other officials of the jail. "Now, gentlemen, said tlie governor, addressing the condemned men, "the emperor has decreed that each of you are to be executed in different ways. You, ," he pursued, addressing tlie first criminal, "are condemned to swal low a dose of poison, while you, , turning to tlie next, "will be bled to death, and you," shaking to the lust man, who was trembling violently, "will die from an injection of poison iu the arm. Each criminal was placed in a chair, pinioned ami blindfolded. Then said the governor, looking at hia watch: "Now, doctor, you may begin." The physician solemnly poured into a cup an evil tasting but harmless liquid and held it to the first prisoner's mouth. The man clinched his teetii and refused to drink the poison. Kill me! he cried. "Murder me in any way but thisl Before he could speak again tlie jailers seized him and forced the liquid down his throat. lie will be dead in two minutes,'' whispered the doctor to the governor. The criminal heard the remark and gave a blood curdling shriek. When the doctor turned round, he saw that the man apparently fainted. He turned to the next criminal, who tremblingly awaited his fate. He clinched his teeth, recovered himself and met the doctor's Inquiry, "Are you ready?" with tlie Yes of a stoic. His arm was then pierced with a lancet, though no vein was opened. "You see how pale he has become. said the doctor in the man's hearing. "He is losing blood rapidly." The phy sician went on describing tlie symptoms and at length pronounced the words, 'Now lie's dying!" For a moment tlie prisoner shuddered violently. Then lie became still. The doctor looked at the criminal, bent Ids ear to the man's heart, and then to his dismay found that he had actually expired. This nulooked for result, although it merely anticipated by a day the actual hanging of the criminal, at once caused the experiments to be suspended. By this tune the first prisoner had recov ered, as though from a bad dream, but the third man was heard slowly mur muring tho Lord's Prayer ere he received tlie "poisonous" injection. He gave a mad cry of joy when he learned that his death would not occur until the morrow. Another remarkable but less deadly trick played by the imagination is often noted. Many people conceive an aver sion for gome particular flower, perfume or color. One man, noted for this idio syncrasy, hated green colors. He had a notion how it origuuted no one can tell that green was dangerous to him. Ac cordingly he was rarely able to go out into the conntry except at night. Mil lion. Cul if an Kpiilemlc Dr. Thresh, the medical officer for the county of Essex, having obtained full returns of the late epidemic of influenza, estimates that no less than 540 persons died nnder the immediate attack, and that no fewer than 1,400 deaths occurred in the county from its direct or indirect influence. The monetary loss for the two months dnring which the epidemic prevailed he state at no less than IV), 000, on the basis of the loss of wages of adults calculated at twelve shillings a week. He adds: "I am, however, afraid that had the county (offered from an epidemic among cattle, causing in the time the same nnmber of death and in dicating the same pecuniary lose, the alarm produced would have been greater j and more permanent' " THE COLORS OF THE EAI1TH. llun The) .Wlrrt Hie Mailt That Unt I'lllllet .lw Hi lliu Allllill. The woiidcrftil difference between tlie 3; i me landscape lu winter and in summer is a phenomenon familiar Io all dwellers in the temperate zones. The two great elements of change are the presence of snow in winter mid of leaves and grass iu summer. If we could look at our glolie from tliu moon, the variation in its aspect due to seasonal changes would perhaps bo even more striking than it apiiears to those niton its surface. lu fact, we sometimes lose sight of the very inqiortant part which vegetation plays iu giving color to what might be called the countenance of the planet. It is not tho highest forms of plants that always produce tho greatest effect iu this way. Some of tlie most striking scenes upon tho earth owe their charac teristic features to mosses and lichens. The famous "crimson cliffs" of Green- laud, which extend for miles northward from Capo York, derive their splendid color from the growth of red lichen which covers their faces. The cliffs rise between 1,700 and 2,000 feet straight from the water s edge, and being composed of gray granite their aspect would be entirely different from what it is but for the presence of the lichen. Coining to less magnificent, but not less beautiful scenes, the rocky pass called the Golden Gate in the Yellow stone National park owes its rich color and its name to the yellow lichen cover ing its lofty walls, and the indescribable hues of the great hot spring terraces arise mainly from tlie presenceof minute plants flourishing in the water that over flows them. Considered as a whole, the vegetation of a planet may give it a characteristic aspect as viewed from space. Many have thought that the red color of Mars may be due to the existence of red instead of green vegetation there. That its broad expanses of forest and prairie land cause the earth to reflect a considerable quantity of green light to its neighbors is indicated by the fact that at the time of the new moon a greenish tint has been detected over spreading that part of the lunar surface which is then illuminated only by light from the earth. Youth's Companion. BaMua In a Lonely Tongue Still. The question, Who are the Basques? that mysterious people who give their inline to tlie bay of Biscay, is always cropping up, and Professor von der Ga belcntz has recently endeavored to show that the Basque language belongs to the African Berber family of speech for ex ample, the Kabyle and Taureg. His ev idence, however, only amounts to a few culture words being identical in the Basque and Berber languages and cer tain analogies in the laws of phonetic change. Moreover, he assumes that the Basques and Iberians were the same peo ple. flnT789Cnhon Isaac TaytoFfioints "oil the Iberian tongue, according to our highest authorities, was different from the Basque, and the French Basques are a different race from the Spanish Basques, who are a feebler iieoplo of the Iberian type. -If we assume that the Basques conquered the Iberians, we can account for tlie resemblances noticed by Professor vou der uabelentz, because the Iberians of Berber origin in acquir ing tlie language of their conquerors would retain their own phonetic ten dency and also some culture words in both languages. As Canon Taylor re- murks, wo limy still believe that the Basque language is allied to the Ural Altaic type. London Globe. The Danger nf Matches. We wonder how our ancestors liuiii- aged to get along nt all before the in vention of matches; they are so indis pensably handy that we keep them in every room iu the house;, the "men folks" carry them in their pockets, leave them hanging in their "other clothes" in a dozen closets in nil portions of the house; we have a handful resting within reueh while we sleep, they are dropiied here and there as we attempt to handle them; if it is light and wo readily see them, theyare picked up, otherwise they are left till a more convenient season which generally does not come, simply because they are forgotten, being "only a match 'we can get plenty more for a halfpenny, and time is too valunbletobe wasted ever so insignificant a trifle. Yet this "insignificant trifle" possesses the latent power to destroy the finest mansion, and with it lives of sweetness and beauty which the word can poorly afford to spare. The cause of the con flagration may not always be revealed, for the fire demon frequently covers or destroys his tracks most effectually. But how often is it apparent that only a simple match that insignificant trifle could have wrought the ruin! Family Doctor. Found Her Daughter In Tlghl. An indignant mother who saw her 10- year-old daughter clad in gorgeous tights practicing a somersault has noti fied the police of a iieculiar state of things. She says not only her dnnghter but a nnmlier of other girls of that age have been engaged to form a theatrical combination. These damsels, it ai pears, meet for rehearsals in barns and are under the instruction of a couple of men. They intend to make a tour of the small towns of the state. All wear tights, it seems, and this one girl's mam ma was shocked at her daughter's ap pearance. Tlie police are looking for tlie men who are training the tender maidens to feel at home in the skirt less costume. Reading (Pa.) Dispatch. And Meplilnto Smiled. Some years ago, when Irving was play ing "Fanst"at the Lyceum, in the part of Mephistophelea, he descended through trapdoor in a cloud of flame. While doing so tiie trap jammed for some rea son, and a voice from the "gods" im mediately called out: "Hurrah, boys! Hell' full! There' no room for nap Mephisto was forced to smile. Ban Francisco Argonaut Ke fntereal Kipeeted. Tbisconrera!iHi occurred between two little Biddefurd boy this week: bat did you get lorC'brUtmasf " atked one. I got a dollar," said the other, "but father borrowed It of me before noontime." Biddeford Journal What Saved II Ik. Arthur No; ber father didn't kick me oat. Jack I alwayn said he wa too much of a man to do a tbiug like that. "That wan'l it; be waea't man enough." Brooklyn Life. FARM AND GARDEN. The So-Called Lanipas Said to be an Imaginary Trouble. WHY THE WHEAT YIELD 18 POOR Moat American Wheat Growers Plant Too Much Seed Prepare the Ground Properly. Long experience in some place has impressed upon certain of the most in telligent wheat farmer the fact that a lesser quantity of seed sown nnon properly prepared seed bed will give ueuer returns man a much larger quan tity of seed own npon land not scientif ically fitted for its receution. In a word. most American wheat growers plant too uiuuii seen, anu ao not properly prepare the ground. A very common practice iiirougnoui a large part ot the cereal areas of the United States is to sow a bushel and a half of seed ner acre. In at least IK) per cent of cases this is en tirely too much. In some large sections five pecks is the standard amount for sowing an acre of land. This also Is too great a quantity if the conditions lead ing to the best success in wheat-growing are nearly fulfilled. Careful and pro longed experiment has shown that under easily secured condition wheat plant will stool into ten or twelve culms, each of which will carry twenty to sixty grains. This would Indicate a yield sev eral time as great as that ordinarily ob tained ana even greater than that ever reached on a large scale. From this we must infer that a great part of the seed usually planted doe not germinate at all, or fails to mature a grain-bearing plant. With a possible yield of several hundred fold, it is scarcely creditable to American farmer that thev so alonir year after year contentedly reaping a tenfold or twelvefold crop of 75-cent wheat. In Borne sections of the North west certain advanced wheat growers have reduced the amount of seed sown. and have been surprised at the result. In fact, it ha been shown that on prop erly prepared ground a half bushel of the best seed wheat brings a better aver age yield than two or three times as much seed sown in the ordinary manner. The writer once knew a progressive farmer in Michigan who made experi ments and profited by them. From the usual six pecks of seed wheat per acre he gradually cut down the amount each year, noting carefully the effects of his slight reduction. He found that by put ting Ins ground in condition to receive and bring forth a large nronortion of the seed planted three pecks would uniiormly uring a larger harvest man double the quantity sown. AN IMAGINARY DISEASE. A correspondent of the Texas Farm ana Kancn writes : " The so called lam pas is an imaginary trouble, and only nisi in the tortile beain-oUhe owner, and is a relic of barbarism handed down from the dark ages, to which man's most laitiiiut servant is forced to submit, be cause he is in man's power and cannot help himself. If you compare the month oi coits or horses of similar age, yon will find that their general appearance agrees aimost exncti y. anil mat in a voting an imals the gums are down on the teeth. and as age advances the gums recede by a natural snriiiKaire ana armorntion. This change takes place in the mouths oi an animals that are supplied with teeth man as well as the rest, yet the horse alone is singled out from all the rest of the animal kingdom that nature in ner wisuom nas supplied with teeth, to reduce ioou to a nt state lor ass in a. tlon to nourish tlie system, and imnlant ed them in the gums, a suitable soil to grow ana nourish them, that man in his ignorance win cruelly lance, or take his nest irieml to the nearest blacksmith shop and ruthlessly with a red-hot iron destroy for all time to come tlie bars and gums which nature hag placed there for a special purpose. If your horse is off ins appetite, it is uue to some other cause than what is commonly called lanipas. When the colt is changing its temrjorarv teeth for the permanent ones there is in some cases a slight inflammation aur- rounus tne roots oi tiie teeth undergoing replacement. This naturally passe off in a few days without anv attention, the same as in tlie child. Our advice is to let lampa alone in all cases." It is sometimes advisable to lance the gum as with children in teething. Feed soft feed. Washing the mouth with alum four drams, water one Dint, three or four t : i i a ", ' wuiro a uay in ueiienciai. TIKTII OV DOMESTIC ANIMAI-. The American Farmer aavs : Not every one remember that domestic animals often stiller from bad teeth. It is prob able that the unthrifty condition of many animals that are pretty well fed is due to some trouble with their teeth, which makes it impossible for them to nron- erly masticate their food. Sometimes the real cause of the trouble is not sus pected. Changes are made in the diet, and perhaps medicines are given ; but, of course, no improvement results. Na ture may effect a cure of a diseased or injured tooth, but it is likely to take a long time and keep the animal for months in a poor condition. Then there are cases, as those of very old horses, in which the difficulty is principally me chanical. Here nature instead of giving relief constantly tends to make matters worse. As the age of the horse advances the crowns of the front teeth Increase in length and prevent the back teeth or "grinders" from closinu nnon each other. Where this trouble appear shortening of tlie front teeth is the only animate remedy. The more promptly this work is done the less will be the in jury to tlie horse, and the greater will be the saving effected bv the owner. When animals do not eat well, or do not thrive upon the food which they use, it w ill be wen io see whether they have any teeth that need attention. If any de'fect is found, a veterinarian should be employed to apply the proper remedy. A little ex pense in this direction may be the means of preventing a good deal of suffering to the animal and a considerable loss to their owner. The Chinese in Idaho annear to be in different aliout registering. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair. 0 WEES The only Pore Cream of Tartar Powder. 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Eastibh Shokid Mkatb ahd T.ian Hams, medium. 12ai2n ner nonnd: hams, large, ll12Wc; hams, picnic, U12c; breakfast bacon, 13 16c; short clear aide. 10012c: drv salt aides. 8)310)c; dried beef ham, 1213c; laru, compound, in tin, 1UC per pound; pare, in tint, ll12)c; pigs' feet, 80s, 16.60; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.25; kit, $1.26. ' HOP, WOOL AMD BIDH, Hop '93s. choice. 12t314c ner oonnd : medium, 9Uc; poor, no demand. Wool Valley, 10llc per pound; Umpqua, ll12c; Eastern Oregon, 6 toe, according to quality and shrinkage. Hide Dry selected prime. 6c: green. salted, 60 pound and over, 3c; nnder 0 pounds, 23c; aheep pelts, shearling, ioc ; medium, ai(g35c; long wool, 3060c; tallow, good to choice, 33o per pound. LTVl AMD DBISSID MAT. Bur Ton steers. 12.60(93.00: fair to good steers. 2.002.26; cows, $2.26; dressed beef, 45Ho per pound. Mutton Best sheep. 12.60; ewe. 2.26. Hoos Choice heavy, $4.00(34.28; me dium, $4.00; light and feeder, $3,909 4.00; dressed, 6)7c per pound. " ViAir Small choice, 6c; large, 4o per pound. ' COaDAQK. Manilla rope, i in. cir. and ap, 10c; manilla rope. 12-thread. K diam.. lOkTci manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread. V and 6-16 diam., lie; manilla bail rope, in coils or on reels, 10c; manilla lath yarn. tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rone well boring, etc., 13c; manilla transmission- of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine. uc; nianuia spring twine, 14c; sisal rope, VA in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal roe, 12-thread, X diam.. 7fec; sisal rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-16 diam.. S.'c ; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7ic; hop- vine twine, tarred, 7c; sisal naDer twine. noun, risD, no. Ftoca Portland. $2.66: Salem. 2.nfi: Cascadia. $2.66; Dayton, $2.56: Walla Walla. $2.90; Snowflake. $2.66: Corval- lis, $2.66; I'endleton, $2.66; Graham, $2.40; superfine, $2.26 per barrel. u atb White, sssS3Hs per bushel; gray, siwia:: rolled, in bags. S5.76a 6.00; barrels, $0.006.25; in cases, $3.75. MiLLStcrrs Bran, 113ft 10: shorts. $1516; ground barley, $1618; chop feed, 116 per ton : whole feed barley. 00(3 70c per cental; middlings, $2328 per ton; chicken wheat, 65c$1.15 per cental. Hay Good, $1012 per ton. DAISY FBODDCB. Bottkb Oregon fancy creamery, 27k 30c; fancy dairy. 22k26o: fair to good, 1517c; common, 11 12c per pound ; (Jalilornu, -ioc per roll. Imiss uregon, 10 13c; Califor nia, c; Young America, 1215c; Swiss, imported, 3032c; domestic, 16 tgittc per ponna. Ciin. OMiwtn 17a .ln . f . ern, nominally the same. fooLTBT Uhickens. mixed. Quoted at $3.003.50 per dozen; ducks, $4,009 5.00; geese, $7.50(28.00; turkeys, live, 11 (gizc per pounu; dressed, l4ftjloc TIQKTABLXS AHD FRUITS. Vsqitabi.8 California cabbage. Uio per pound ; potatoes, Oregon. 60a76c per sack; onions (baying price), $1.00(81.10 per sack ; sweet potatoes,2c per pound ; California celery, 8690c; artichokes, $1.00 per dozen; California lettuce, 2035c per dozen ; Oregon hothouse let tuce, 4050c ; cauliflower, $2.76 per crate, 90c per dozen; parsley, 26c per dozen; sprouts, $1.00(31.25 per box; string beans, 1518c per pound; asparagus, li'c per pouna. Fbdits Sicily lemons, $4.004.60 per box; California fancy, $3.50(34.00; com mon. $2.oU3.00; bananas, $1.603.00 in, f .wuid.w , unuauas, ti.w(i$o.w r bunch: Honolnln.Sl.60ia2.fiO: Cali pel fornia navels, $2.252.76 per box; seed lings, $1.25(32.00: Japanese. $1.7632.00: sunflower, $2.76; apples (baying price), green, 50(fj6c per box; red, 60976c; late winter pears, 6H80c per box. CAXMD OOOD. Canm so Gooos Table fruits, assorted. 1.762.00; peaches, $1.8692.00; Bart- lett Dears. 11.76(32.00: Dlums. ll.S7Ua 1.60; strawberries, $2.2692.46; cherries, $2.2692.40; blackberries, $1.8692.00; laapberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2,259 2.80; apricots, $1.66. Fie froits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.26; plums, $1.0091.20; blackberries. $1.2591.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, $3.1693.50; peaches, $3.6094.00; apri cots, $3.5094.00; plums, $2.7693.00; blackberries, $4.2594.50; tomatoe,$1.10.