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OREGON
COURIER,
VOL. XII.
OREGON CITY. CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 1. 1891.
NO. 4.
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Are Now Ready
SEE THESE PRICES
And Compare Them with Portland Prices:
Chamber Suits 8 99
Parlor Suits
Center Tr.bles, turjfo
Lounges, rnw silk
lied Lourges, rnw hi I k ,
Carpel I'uluut Rocker .
Ji vaiiH, ouk, ii tioli-1 i-i in tap-
estry
Kxlcnniiiii Tallies, (J fool
Dining c 1 1 n i i h
Kitchen Tallies
Kitchen Chairs
llllllgitlg I.UIIipS
Floor Matting, per yard
26 CO
1 75
:t HO
7 AO
!l 50
8 00
4 50
05
I 00
45
2 50
GIGANTIC FRAUD.
Clever Scheme to Land Foreign-Born
Coolies.
THE LAKE CANAL QUESTION.
Much Comment Hogardlng the Attitude
of Tiii-onia Superintendent nf Srlioola
In Holectlltg Tearhern.
Tacoma, Wash. There has been much
comment o( late regarding the attitude
of School Superintendent James in se
lecting teachers. Some o( those- inter
ested believe Mr. James is too (ond o(
young and inexperienced women teach'
ers. The principals also have a griev-
nin e. They seem to think Mr. James
does not consult them sufficiently in
making selections of teachers and in
carrying out the school work. They held
a meeting recently and notified the Su
perintendent of their views, and he Is
understood to have replied that be had
not intended to act without their advice.
There is no doubt about the existence of
dissatisfaction among interested persons
us regards the present school manage
ment. The opposition to the removal of
Superintendent (limit still asserts itself,
and Ciau It's friends feel that the high
standard of Tacoma public schools ex
isting at the time of his resignation is
not now being kept up. The principals'
objections are being considered by the
School Hoard. They oppose further re
ductions in the salary of grade teachers
on the statement that the Seattle prin
cipals will do it, which statement they
suy is erroneous. They oppose the al
leged interference of Superintendent
James in school work. When this mat
ter takes form before the public, it will
create a lively discussion. Jn order to
secure a change of policy an increase of
School Directors to one for each ward is
proposed.
FOlt A 5-CENT FAKK.
Nhii FiuncIh.'o Will (iulii a I'nrk If the
Movement!! Suceeed.
Sax Francisco, Cm,. A big mass
meeting was held here, at which citizens
demanded that the Southern Pacific
Company, which controls most of the
street railways in the city, grant a
5-cent fnre from the ferries to the ocean.
Adolph Sutro, the millionaire philan
thropist who is said to own one-tenth of
the entire area of San Francisco, has
oll'ered to give his famous Sutro Heights
property overlooking the ocean for a
public park, provided the fare to the
beach is reduced from 10 to 5 cents.
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The meeting adopted long resolutions
relative to the bill now pending in Con-
gress to refund the Southern I'acillc rail
road debts, making these obligations
pavable in 100 years, with interest at 2
per cent. The preamble declares that
such legislation would rob the people of
the United States and practically
amount to a gift of $70,000,000 to the
Central 1'acific Railway Company; that
under the law s of California the individ
ual stockholders are personally liable.
I.AKK CANAL QUESTION.
Offer of Funds to Dig It by the Brewing
unci Malting Company.
Seattle, Wash. The Lake Washing
ton canal matter again came np for dis
cussion before the Chamber of Commerce
at its meeting recently, and the oiler
made by the Seattle Brewing and Malt
ing Company to give $30,000 in thirty
monthly installments toward the work
was discussed at some length. Some of
the members were in favor of widening
the present canal for the purpose of low
ering the lake, thinking that this was
hardly the time to build a ehip canal.
The offer was made for a ship canal only,
however, and others thought the work
could be accomplished by home capital.
The matter was referred to the permanent
Lake Washington canal committee, con
sisting of D. II. Oilman, S. L. Crawford,
A. I'. Mitten, George H. Heilbron and
C. I). Stimeon, with a request that they
investigate and report promptly.
evttilA a Permitted Competitor.
San Francisco, Cal. The Nevada
building was the scene of much congrat
ulation the other day over the compro
mise effected with the fair management
by which the entire exhibit contained in
the Nevada State building will be al
lowed to enter into the competition
for the award. The exposition manage
ment w ith a view of Insuring displays
adopted a rule that exhibits intended for
competition must be displayed in certain
buildings erected by the fair manage
ment. The effect of the rule was to ex
clude exhibits contained in State build
ings. The amendment adopted permits
Nevada, the only State building on the
grounds, to come into full comjietition for
the award.
A Bather t'neiperted Order.
San Fbani is o, Cal. Orders have just
lf n issned from army headquarters for
the movement of the following batteries
of heavy artillery : Batteries B and M,
Fifth Artillery, now at the Presidio and
Fort Mason, to proceed June 9 to Fort
Canby; Battery L, now at Alcatraz, to
go to Fort Mawn. Of the two batteries
now at Fort Canby one goes to the
Presidio and one to Alcatraz. These
changes are generally made every two
year, and these latest orders were
wholly unexpected and have caused con
siderable comment.
& BUSCH.
THE .HOUSE FURNISHERS
for the Spring Trade
Baby Folding Crib $ 3 50
Bedsteads 1 50
Springs, woven wire 2 00
Mattresses, excelsior 2 !5
Mattresses, excelsior, wool top. . . 2 75
Mattresses, wool 3 00
Pillows, turkey down, pair 2 (10
Pillows, goose, purfl while 4 50
Kitchen Safes 3 50
Kitchen Cupboards, glass (rout. . 8 00
Kitchen Rockers 1 00
Cook Stoves. No. 7 7 00
Cook Stoves, No. 8 8 50
10 Set of Utensils (or above 8 00
Everything in Stock to Furnish a House
FULL LINE OF CROCKERY.
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Washington.
Yakima county will ship 500,000
pounds of wool from Prosser this year,
The Everett paper mill has made an
other large shipment of paper to Aus
tralia.
Whitman county's slice of the State
school fund Is quite liberal, for its
8,412 children it receives $40,002.
The Oakesdale Council is Doing ur
gently petitioned not to reissue any liq-
UUr lli;t3IIDCO W 1,110 wntt U wiwudi
A survey is being made hy a detail
from Fort Walla Walla for an accurate
contour map of the military reservation
The Bale of a big tract of timber land
in Chehalis county has recently been
consummated, involving a large sum of
money in the transfer, l lie tract con
sists of about 4,200 acres in the Hump
tnlips country. It was sold by D. A.
lllodgett to Frederick Nehf and John W.
Prestel of Michigan. The price paid ac
cording to the deed on file in the Aud
itor s office was f.tu.uuu ana ouier vaiu
able considerations. The same prop
erty was sold about two years ago for
$20,U00.
The Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union is preparing to build a flouring
mill at some point in the Palouse coun
try, having a daily capacity of 150 bar
rels. The location is not yet decided
upon, but it will be either uariieid, mu
man or Oakesdale. They have a propo
sition from a Minneapolis firm to put in
the machinery, the Alliance to furnisli
the building for $12,000 in three equal
annual payments. It is hoped to pro
cure a bonus from one of three towns
mentioned to assist in making the first
payment.
The Secretary of the State Land Com
mission has been instructed to notify
the local tide-land appraisers of Mason
county that in compliance with the de
cision of the Supreme Court in Smith vs.
Forrest the board must proceed immedi
ately to survey and plat natural oyster
beds. J li is is a step towara me reser
vation of such beds. The Land Com
missioners by law must receive applica
tions from purchasers of tide lands, un
less the same are shown to be natural
ovster beds, and plats tiled by local tide
land appraisers are only evidence to
prove the status of all such lands. Local
tide-land appraisers have thus far neg
lected their duty, which, if persisted in,
may result in the loss of tide lands which
should come within the reservation.
D. S. Lambert, a member of the Old
Tacoma Total Sanctified Association,
who went crazy recently, has been ad
indoml insane, the examining nhvsicians
certifying that he was Buffering from an
acute mama causea Dy ins auenuance
upon a religious society of Old Tacoma
known as the " Sanctified." The physi
cians predict more insanity cases from
the same cause, mere naB Deen una ui
riding Lambert on a rail since he has
heen locked nil. Some of the old Ta
coma residents are vigorous in their de
nunciation of ttie sanctitlcation ioi low
ing. It is understood that Rev. Mr.
Gallagher, pastor of the Atkinson
morial Church, whose wife was the
nie-
or-
ganizer of the sanctification movement,
will be separated from her. lie claims
there is no such thing as sanctification
of the body.
Oregon.
The party that recently went to the
Bohemia mines country to search for
the bodies of the two men who perished
in that vicinity a few months since has
been unable to find them, and intend
returning, It is now the opinion that
the bodies will not be recovered before
the last of June, as the snow still lies on
the ground from ten to twenty-five feet
in depth.
The Linn County National Bank,
through the receiver, H. M. Beall, has
brought an injunction suit against the
citv of Albany to restrain the city gov
ernment from paying the city warrants.
It is alleged that the city has been pay
ing the policemen cash for city warrants
of recent issue, and that the old war
rants, some of which are held by the
bank, have not been paid. It will prob
ably be made a test case.
During the past few days there has
been a marked improvement in the run
of salmon, and the average catch per
boat is much above the average at this
season of the year. This fact may be
due to the comparatively long spell of
warm weather which has prevailed for a
month past, or possibly the long-expected
four-year run has materialized.
The fishermen and others interested in
the canning business are not, however,
particular as to the cause of the plenti
ful supply, and are happy in the knowl
edge that all the boats are doing well.
Four of Hapgood's men the other day
caught exactly 2,000 pounds of fish, or
an average of about twenty each, and
many other hauls equally large are re
ported. Considerable excitement has been
caused in the vicinity of Medford during
the past few days by the result of a partial
clean-np of the Miller placer mine, situ
ated about five miles west of that city.
This mine was recently purchased by
Portland parties, and between $12,000
and $13,000 has been taken out as the
result of the past winter's run. A par
tial clean-up of the Stnrgis mine, about
twelve miles from this city, which was
finished last week, produced $:SO,000 in
yellow metal for itsowners. These mines
are considered two of the best placer
mines in Southern Oregon, and the re
sult of the clean-up of both has been
watched with interest by mining men
all over the State. The Miller minecom
prises 240 acres, all of which is consid
ered as good as that worked in the past,
only two acres of which has been touched
during the last eight years. The mine
has been run with only one giant, and
the present company is making arrange
ments to put in two more giants, as there
is plenty of water to run that number
daring the winter season.
THE INDUSTRIALS
An Estimate of the Different
Bands of Coxeyites.
BIMETALLIC LEAGUE WANTS
It Pannes ItenoliitloiiK Agalnat the I' re.
nt Curreney Ny.tem Favor Free
Coinage of Silver and (lold.
Washington, D. C Tlie Bimetallic
League lias considered the report of the
Committee on Resolutions. As finally
adopted they declare the league is una!
terably opposed to the further issue of
Interest-bearing bonds; that before cast
ing their votes for Congressmen the
memliers of the league will require as
surance of adherence to the free coinage
of silver and gold at 1ft to 1 and a pledge
that, II a bill providing lor such coinage
is passed by Congress and vetoed by the
President, they will work and vote to
pass it over the President's veto: that,
if the election of President is thrown
into the House, they will vote only for
the person In lavorot tree coinage; de
nounce the present system of national
banks as the monumental monopoly of
the nineteenth century ; recommend the
enactment of a system of currency that
will insure a per capita circulation of $50
to be made up by the tree coinage ot sil
ver and gold at 10 to 1 and the issue of
treasury notes; assert that the discon
tinuance of the issuance of silver money
and the repletion of the treasury by
bond issues is burdensomeon the masses ;
declare that it is the duty of the Secre
tary of the Treasury to coin the bullion
now in the treasury and to pay interest
on the public debt with silver, and de
mand the issue oi 1 4ou,uuu,ouu of non
interest notes of small denominations.
Speech-making was the order of thedav.
Colonel Flake of Denver advocated the
building by the government of a rail
road from Pittsburg to San Francisco,
and later one to the South, as a means of
assisting the people. The convention
adjourned Bine die.
THK INDI'MTRIALH.
Carefvil Kxtlmate of the Different Bands
of Coxeyites on the Way.
Washington, I). C Representative
Davis and II. E. Taubeneck have been
making a careful estimate of the differ
ent bands of Coxeyites on the way to
Washington Citv. and claim that there
are 5,000 men tramping or riding on
boats and borrowed trains toward the
capital. Mr. Davis does not believe in
the wisdom or emciency ot the move
ment, and lias written a magazine arti
cle in which he points out that the move
ment is a result of currency contraction
and summarized Has "organized want."
If the government should yield to Cox
ey's demands, other armies would march
on the capital with qther demands, and
the result would be government by the
multitude. The remedy for the present
Btate ot business he nmie in the banot,
which he defines as recorded opinion
"NoCoxcyites have come from Kansas,"
he said in a conversation on the subject,
because Kansas has expressed herselt
properly by her elections, and Nebraska,
which is largely a Populist State, has
contributed no more than seventy-five
men." By imprisoning the leaders, he
says, the authorities have made a swan
out ola goose. 1 he chiet danger Irom
the movement, he thinks, will develop
next fall, when the weather becomes too
cold for men to camp outdoors, ihen
he looks lor trouble.
BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS.
Two Member, of the Dalton Clang Taken
hy Surprise.
Ei, Reno, 0. T. Two men supposed
to be members of the Dalton gang of
train robbers passed through El Reno
the other day, traveling eastward. The
rjlierin telegraphed to the nixie town oi
Yukon to intercept and arrest them. A
posse quickly organized, and when the
train robbers made their appearance
thev were atacked. The defense was
quite as hot as the attack, and a running
tight ensued. One man, Air. famsh.
was shot in the groin. The bullet passed
entirely through him. He is not ex
pected to live. An old man named Nel
son was shot in the forehead, but not
dangerously. A number of other per
sons were wounded more or less severely
during the skirmish, among them a man
named Snyder, who was shot in the face
and will die. One of the robbers was
shot and captured, but resisted to the
last, and several of his captors bear cuts
and bruises on the head, which he made
with his six-shooter. The other robber
escaped, but is supposed to have beeVi
hit two or three times, one bullet taking
away a portion of his lip and one strik
ing him in the head. The one captured
is not known here.
The Lom at WIUiamMport.
Williamkfort, Pa. The total losses
here as estimated by conservative men
are $3,000,000. This includes $1,500,000
on logs, $250,000 on sawed lumber and
the balance on property throughout the
city. Mayor Elliott has called a public
meeting to take action looking to the
care of the homeless. Probably fifty
bouses along the water front were ren
dered uninhabitable, and the families
are being cared for by the more fortu
nate. It is estimated that the homes of
10,000 people were invaded by the water
and are in such a damp and unhealthful
condition as to make them undesirable.
Those who lived above the flood line are
not allowing the unfortunates to suffer.
There is an ample supply of provisions,
and the city is not in want.
Intercut Will be Paid.
Milwaukee, Wis. A member of the
Northern Pacific bondholders' commit
tee is authority for the statement tltat
interest will be paid on the first mort
gage bonds. He says that the interest
has been earned, and that while the re
ceivers have been obliged to pay prefer
ential claims and have not the cash on
hand to meet the interest they will be
justified in borrowing the money, and
the committee will undoubtedly sanction
this action and even assist in securing
the money. It is said that the Northern
Pacific consolidated mortgage bondhold
ers' committee will meet this week to
inaugurate changes in the personnel of
certain departments of the company's
business.
Trial of Lieutenant Maxwell.
Omaha, Neb. The trial of Lieutenant
Marcus Maxwell by court-martial for
absence without leave and for duplicat
ing his pay accounts was resumed at
Fort Omaha. Little of interest was de
veloped. Maxwell was - an important
witness for Lieutenant Maney, but he
will not be allowed to go to St. Paul un
til his own trial is ended. It was when
returning from the Maney trial that
Maxwell disappeared and bis paychecks
were duplicated.
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.
The Senate Committee on Indian Af
fairs has authorized favorable report
on Wolcott's bill for the opening to set
tlement of the Uintah and uncompah
gro Indian reservations.
The Secretary of the Interior has for
warded to the War Department a re
uuest that troops in New Mexico be di
reeled to arrest Navak) Indians, as a re
port to the department says they are off
me reservation ana commuting uepruua-
lions.
The House Committee on Indian Af
fairs has decided to grant the request of
the Osage Indian delegation, which ap
peared before it recently, to detach the
usage reservation irom umanoma anu
attach it to the Indian Territory. An
amendment to accomplish this will be
proposed In the Indian appropriation
bill.
The National League for the Protec
tion of Amorican Industries is opposing
items oi the Indian appropriation mil
for the support of parochial schools.
amounting to nearly $400,000. Among
them are the St. Honilace, Banning, Lai.,
$12,500; Holy Family, Blackfoot, Mont,
$12,500; St. Ignatius, Jocko, Mont., $45,
000; Kate Drexel, Umatilla, Or., $ti,000,
Representative Pool it tie of Washing
ton has Introduced a bill to appropriate
$100,000 for ascertaining the subterra
nean water supplies In the States of
Idaho. Montana. Washington and Ore
gon lying east of the Cascade Mountains
and ascertaining the localities at which
artesian water can profitably be dug. It
is proposed to have the work done by
the geological survey.
Representative Hermann has secured
an opinion Irom the Attorney-lieneral
which declares that the President can
release anv portion of a forest reserve,
The question was raised in connection
with the Bohemia mining district in the
Cascade reserve. The land office has
prepared a proclamation, to be submitted
10 me i resiucm, restoring several town
ships in the mineral district. The Pres
ident win sign the proclamation soon
Mr. Outhwaite's report on armor-plate
investigation directs the Naval Commit
tee to proceed immediately with the In
vestigation. It is to cover all the work
done by the Carnegie Company since its
government contracts began. One thou
sand dollars is available for the use of
the committee in prosecuting its work.
Power is given to summon witnesses.
administer oaths and secure the produc
tion of books and papers. The House
adopted the report.
Enloe has introduced a bill to repeal
the civil service act. In the act creating
the commission it is stipulated there
shall be three Commissioners at certain
fixed salaries, and this act still remains
n force. It was the intention ot the
House to make it ineffective, but the
mere failure to appropriate money does
not do so. The Commissioners conclud
ed to perform their duties and appeil to
the (jourt ot uianiis lor the remunera
tion fixed for their service by law.
C. H. J. Taylor, the colored Kansas
man over whose confirmation to be Re
corder of Deeds for the District of Co
lumbia there has been a spirited debate
in the'Sc'riale! has lWn conlirmed, the
vote standing 34 to 15. There were no
speeches made beyond a few remarks bv
Mr. Hill to the effect that the Demo
cratic party platform on he subject of
home rule should be observed, ine di
vision of the vote was not over party
lines, but I aylor received a larger per
centage of Republican votes than at first
seenieu probable.
Delegate Joseph of New Mexico has
introduced a bill to authorize the explo
ration and purchase oi the mines within
the boundaries of private land claims in
all Western States. The bill, if enacted
into law, would give any citizen of the
United States qualified to make entries
of public land a privilege of entering
upon any territory embraced within any
land claim confirmed by the Court of
1'rivate Land (Junius and in taking up a
mineral claim. Before making such
claim the locator must tender the owner
of the land $2.50 per acre for it.
Chairman Reilly of the House Com
mittee on Pacific Railroads has intro
duced a bill to amend the act creating
an auditor oi railroad accounts. Jt pro
poses an Improved system of bookkeep
ing between the government and the
railroads which have received govern
ment aid and are under contract to per
form services for the government in part
payment therefor. He proposes that the
railroads shall transmit to the Commis
sioner of Railroads duplicates of all bills
for services rendered the United States,
and accounting officers of the govern
ment shall notify the Commissioners of
their action on all the bills.
In the Senate Senator Walsh, referring
to a dispatch from St. Paul saying the
locomotive engineers had adopted a res
olution condemning him for introducing
a bill to punish with twenty years' im
prisonment the obstruction of trains
carrying mails, said he had introduced
no Buch bill, lie had introduced a bill
for the protection of the mail, but he
had no intention of having it apply to
engineers. He then introduced an
amended bill, which provides that per
sons robbing, attempting to rob or ma
liciously obstructing trains shall be lia
ble to a penalty of twenty years' im
prisonment.
Kyle has introduced a resolution in
the Senate calling for non-intervention
in Hawaiian affairs. It reads: "That
it is the sense of the Senate that the
United States shall not use force for the
purpose of restoring to the throne the
deposed Queen of the Sandwich Islands,
or for the purpose of destroying the ex
isting government; that, the provisional
government having been duly recognized,
the highest international interests re
quire that it shall pursue its own line of
policy; that intervention in the political
affairs of these islands by other govern
ments will he regarded as an act un
friendly to the government of the United
States."
The question of whether the Makha
Indians of Washington State can legally
use schooners in the Buhring Sea while
sealing has been brought to the atten
tion of the Treasury Department. In a
communication to the Secretary of the
Treasury ifoke Smith, acting on the
recommendation oi Agricultural com
missioner Armstrong, asked to be ad
vised whether Indians under a treaty be
tween this country and Great Britain
and a section of an act approved April
6. 1894, governing seal-fishing in Behring
Sea may be permitted to use their schoon
ers as a place of refuge in storms and
security and protection at night while
engaged in fishing for fur seals in their
canoes, as hitherto practiced by them.
The correspondence which accompanied
the letter included the following opinion
under a Washington date of the Indian
Commission telegraphed to Indian Agent
Powell at the eali agency: " Ihe In
dians mav take fur seals in canoes or
undecked boats propelled wholly by pad
dles or oars or sails and not used in con
nection with other vessels or manned by
more than five persons. This permission
is not to apply to Indians in the employ
ment of other persons, or who shall kill
or pursue fur seals outside of the terri
torial limits on contract to deliver the
skins to other persons, nor to tha waters
of Behring Ses or paws between the
Aleutian islands." I
ROSEBERY TALKS.
Favors Limiting the Powers
of House of Lords.
THE FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS
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f
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Kealgnallan ot tha Ministry Hegarded ai
a Mora lu tha Interest of I'reniler
Calmlr-Perrler.
Paris. In the Chamber of Deputies
during the debate of the question
whether the Minister of Public Works
had authority to allow employes of State
railroads to attend the congress of rail
road men the Premier demanded the
adoption of the order of the day. The
motion was rejected by a vote of 275 to
220. Premier Casimir-Perrlor thereupon
left for the Palais Bourbon. The Minis
ters left the private room In which they
had been conferring, and proceeded In a
body to the Palais d'Klysee and formally
tendered their resignations to President
Caniot. The attitude of Premier Casi-mir-Perrier
tends to confirm the most
general belief that he rode (or a fall in
this contest, as he seemed to do In the
recent Toussaint debate, under the in
fluence of the approaching election for
President of the Republic. He is ap
parently being abetted by President
Camot. who thus has broken the pact
entered into when M. Casimir-Perrier
accepted the Premiership. On that oc
casion M. Camot promised that he would
not stand again lor the Presidency, and
that he would support in every way in
his power the candidacy of M. Casimir
Perrier, who thus would almost inevita
bly become the President of the Re
public, ROHKIIKKT'8 SI-KKCU.
lie Faored a lreat Limitation of tha
Power of tha Lot-da.
London. Lord Rosebery spoke the
other evening In Birmingham to the
meeting which had just inaugurated the
Midland Liberal Federation. He hoped
that the Liberal conference in Leeds, he
said, would speak emphatically in favor
of a great limitation of the powers and
irogauves oi me Lords, mis would
jn the interest not only of constitu
tional legislation, but also in the interest
of the Lords themselves. Joseph Cham
berlain had been a great turncoat. Once
he was an advocate of disestablishment,
and was hostile to the Lords. Neverthe
less he recently had made an animated
defense of the Church of Scotland.
The I.ords admired his dexterity, but
Mr. Chamberlain was not talking seri
ously. His hostility was not serious,
but the mere legerdemain ot a wander
ing rhetorician. Referring to the deser
tions' of the Welsh members of Parlia
ment. Lord Rosebery said that the Welsh
disestablishment bill would be passed
i government's, appeal to. tliei
country.
II the discontented Welshmen
did not believe in the government's hon
esty and honor, the sooner they carried
their threats into execution the better.
He never would consent to be a Minister
on sufferance.
AFFAIR IN SAMOA.
A ConHl.t II a a 1'robably Oecurred With
the Itebeli.
Aucki.and.Nkw Zealand. The steam
ship Monowai from Samoa May 17 brings
important news. When she sailed a
large portion of the government's annv
had been sent to the front, and the reb
els were massed at Atua, the battlefield
of 1888. A conflict between the rebels
and the government troops was then
probable at any hour. The King when
the steamship arrived had given the
Aana party until Mav 10 in which to
submit. In event of their failure to do
so the Savaii natives and a portion of the
luamasaga natives were to attack them.
The BritiBli warship Curaco and the Ger
man warships .buzzard and ralke wert,
at Apia. It was understood, however,
the commanders of these vessels were
without orders from their governments
as to how to act in case of emergency.
The attitude of the rebels was defiant,
and it is expected an engagement has
been fought before now.
SHOT BV TBOOF8.
Seven Anarehlata Kiecuted at Barce
lona, Hpaln.
Barcelona. Codima, Cerezuela, So-
gas, Bernat, Viliaruba, V. X. Villarubia
and Mir, the anarchists, were executed
recently outside the citadel of Mons-
juich. Sogas and Cerezuela joined in
the prayers of the priest, but their com
panions shouted revolutionary cries. The
anarchists were placed in line with their
laces to the wall of the citadel. At the
first volley from the troops only four of
the convicts fell dead, and a second vol
ley was necessary to kill Sogas and Co
dima.
An African Treaty.
New Yobk. The Herald's Brussels
dispatch says that a treaty concerning
the Congo Free State has been concluded
between King Leopold and the British
Minister to Belgium. The King aban
dons to Kngland a small strip of terri
tory in the region of the Upper Congo,
thus giving England access northward
to the Nile. In exchange Kngland grants
the King until the end of his reign the
left bank of the Nile up to the 17th de
gree. This is considered the best African
treaty concluded for many years, and is
a master-stroke of diplomacy on the part
of the King, as it shuts out the French
from the new basin and places the Congo
free btate under the obligation of light
ing the Soudan Dervishes.
Stoned the Pol Ire.
Berlin. The Deonln of the Cassel
ave been excited for several days by 1
reports concerning tl ill treatment of"'" ' '
',. . I For the curions structures known a
,pne.rJ- T,h:e ?er.,i't5"'?i1 hits and bonnets two kind of trim-
square, mobLi the small force of police
and sang the Marseillaise. A strong
fori of police, which was sent to din-,
perse them, was stoned and beaten back,
Ti. I.. .. .. l, I
. iiunwn, WCI O I VUb W l K.OI bi.u .
streets. They rode down the crowds, 1
scanerea the rioters and restored oroer
throughout the city. Many persons were
. . . j . . t . , . . v iii, iki mii. ., ' - I
rested.
Treaty KlgbU Infringed.
Paris, M. de l'Oniel ha announced
hi intention of introducing into the
Chamber of Deputies the question of the
British treaties with China, Italy and
Belgium, altering thev are a violation of
the French rights and existing treaties.
Le Temp says it is not o much the
Anglo-Congo treaty as the fact that Eng
land wishes to establish a buffer State
between the eventual poeseasions of
France and Great Britain in Central Af
rica, fo'lowing the example of the Siam-
e-e buffer State. According to LeTempa
mere is danger also mat r.ngiana win
ultimately absorb th Upper Nile region. '
A WOMAN'8 CLUB AT BAY RIDGE.
They nave Reading Boom Which Coa
tains Orar Two Thonaand Hooka.
Brooklyn has been called the City of
Churches, and today it deserves to be
called the city of suburbs, for no other
city is surrounded by such a variety, and
all equally desirable. One of the least
known perhaps, and undeservedly so, is
Bay Ridge. The spacious parklike
ground of the older places, belonging
to such fumilie as the Van Brunts,
Perry, Thomases, Constanta, Towns-
ends, Richard (Irant White and others,
i equally well known. Five years ago
number of earnest women organized a
mall club which should devote itself to
culture, by well directed and diversified
reading, thoroughly discussed, and also
(o take a procticul working Interest in
some local need for the good of the com
munity. For fifteen years there had been at the
Atheneuut a small library of unattrac
tive books not adapted to popular need,
Through the yearly efforts of this club
an adjoining room was secured, fitted
with bookshelves, and 2,000 volumes
added of attractive variety. The library
is a free circulating one, and has in its
reading room forty-five periodicals the
annual gift of a literary man interested
in the work of the women. Next week
the books are to be catalogued by two
young girls from Pratt s institute and
arranged according to the liest library
methods. About 1,200 people use the
reading room, and over a thousand books
circulate during a month.
The women have telegraphic and tele
phonic, communication, which did not
exist until they made it possible. They
have also established a penny provident
for the small money deposits of poor
children. There were ninety-eight do
posits in seven weeks and over I00 re
ceived in small sums to secure funds for
the week. One method the club has Is
the sending out of circulars once a year
asking for one dollar contributions.
Perhaps 200 will respond at the club's
weekly meetings, which take place at
the houses of members. They sew for
the semiannual fair they hold in the
Athcneum rooms, while one or two mem
bers read from chosen subjects which
are afterward freely discussed.
Last year Mr. E. W. Bliss, who owns
the old Henry C. Murphy place, gave
the use of his magnificent new carriage
house for an autumn dance. This netted
$400, which was used for their library
work. The programme for the last meet
ing, held at the residence of Mrs. Fred
eric Bard, one of the club's members,
was readings and discussion on art and
music. Mrs. Walter Despard rend sev
eral interesting articles on music, the
human voice, its culture and abuse, and
personal notices about prominent mu
sicians of the day. Miss Constant was
to have read on art, but the club enter
taining a member from the Thursday
Afternoon of Roslyn the subject was de
ferred to the next meeting. Mrs. Frede
ric. Bard sang an exquisite little song.
Mrs. Ftard has a well trained, syrapa-
thetio voice, and song and singer were
equally appreciated, as was also a piano
duet by Mrs. Despard ami Mrs. Plymp
ton. Brooklyn Eagle.
An Indian ftlrl'a Letter.
Mrs. Mary McHenry Cox, founder of
the Lincoln institute, a few days ago re
ceived a letter from Pawnee Agency.
O. T., written by an Indian girl bearing
the romantic name of June Eyre. Jane,
who has been for some years a pupil of
the institute and is devotedly attached
to Mrs, Cox, shows in her letter the evi
dence of the practical education she has
so far received in this city, her penman
ship being better than the average and
her language fairly correct. One ex
tract from Jane's somewhat lengthy let
ter will perhaps convey some idea of the
great change wrought in her life by the
religious instruction imparted by the
teachers of the Lincoln institute.
It is as follows: "Sister and brother
and all my folks have been very kind to
me. They did not force me to do any
thing that they knew I would not like to
do, although some of them get so mad
when I say that the ghost dance busi
ness was all nonsense; and when 1 tell
them about the Bible they would make
fun of me, but that didn't stop me from
telling about my Saviour, because I re
member how the early Christians were
persecuted. 1 learn now what it is to
bear with the ones who will not believe
the Bible." Philadelphia Ledger.
A Pond Lily Feait.
A pond lily luncheon was a lovely
feast at a sylvan home recently. The
house is near a wood, and in the wood,
us the children say, there is a hike, and
on the lake float many pods of marvel
ous white lilies. These were brought
in in profusion to deck the table, to fill
the bowls on the piazza and through the
rooms, to lay in bunches at the side of
every plate, to hang from chandeliers
and fall over every picture to riot every
where. The centerpiece of the table
was a clear white swan of delicate por
celain, which bore on its beak a lovely
freight of lilies which fell over its grace
ful wings on the mirror on which it
rested. The lake, as lakes are, was
bordered with ferns and grasses, and
lily pods rested at intervals on its sur
face. The ices were frozen lilies on
brown green lily leaves, and the favor
were gauze fans painted with a sketch
of the lake whose treasure of lilies had
been rifled to adorn the feast. Chicago
Journal.
Heliotrope the Old Ladiea1 Color.
Mme. Camot on a recent occasion
demonstrated in her own person the
eternal trnth of the science of fashion,
which declares that soft heliotrope
if t th most charming way
m "d only two, are deemed pe,.
ew.
bows of dark green, heliotrope or mby
velvet. Best dressed w&men wear skirt
i.i .1,. Ln,jl.lA M:u;nM
w 11111. HI. UWIM, IUU l.t' IllID vun, mini tig
garments have themselves retnrned to I
dnst, and never ha great justice dealt
more anjiropriately with any fashion.-
The famous trout ponds or tne uara
kill mountains are to have an addition
in lake near Emmonsville. Two oth
er new front pond will also be pre
pared in the mountains before long.
To keep tortoise shell combs bright
rub them after each wearing with soft
leather. When tbey become dim, clean
with rotten stone and oil applied with
chamois.
Japanese cooks are the most cruel ia
the world. Tbey cut every atom of
flesh off a living nab piecemeal without
urn cauamg ueaui.
THE PORTLAND MARKET.
Wheat The local market Is dull and
nominal. Export values are 77)H0c
per cental lor Valley and 7oc per cental
lor Walla Walla,
flour, nun, rro,
Floor Portland, $2.55; Salem, $2.65;
Cascadla. $2.65; Dayton, $2.56; Walla
Walla, $2.U0; Hnowllake, $Z.oo; Corval
lis, $2.06; Pendleton, $2.06; Graham,
$2.40; superfine, per barrel.
Oats-Whlte,37uX38c per bushel ; gray.
36aofk:; rolled, in bags, $o.7oto.l)U; in
barrels. $U.00M6.26; in cases, $3.76.
MiLLsrurrs Bran. $1()U8; shorts.
$1U(ii1H; ground barley, $20.00: chop
feed, $16 16 per ton ; whole feed barley,
f 17 ner ton : middlings, vawns per ton ;
chicken wheat, U6ctl.UU per cental.
llAr (lood, $1U1Z per ton.
dairy niopitk.
Buttkr Oregon fancy creamery, 17
(3 20c; fancy dairy, 15(3 lic; fair to good,
lUtgl'tcper pouna; uaniornu,
per roll.
Chishi Young America, 1215cj
California flat. HWMll'c; Swiss, im
ported, 8032c; domestic, 10 18c per
pound.
Eaoe Oregon. 12($12!o per dozen
Poultry Chickens, old. $3 per dozen ;
broilers, small, $2.00(32.50; large, $3.50
ra4.(0: ducks. 8.60dt4.00 per dozen:
geese, not over $6.00 ; turkeys, live, 10c
per pound ; aresseu, izc.
VIUKTABLBS AND FBUIT.
Vegetables Cabbage. IMo par
pound; new California, I've; potatoes,
Oregon (buying price), 400460 per sack ;
new potatoes, lwzc per pounu: onions
(buying price). 4c per pounu; new
onions, $1.60 per sack; sweet po
tatoes, $1.752 per box ; California cel
ery, 86U0c; artichokes, 36c per dozen ;
California lettuce, 26c por dozeni Ore
gon hothouse lettuce, 3U(g40c; cauliflow
er. $2.75 per crate, $1.00 per dozen ; para-
lev. 25c per dozen ; string beans, Ite
rmr nonnd: asparagus, tl.60 per box:
rhubarb, l42c per pound; peas. $1.60
per box; cucumbers, I1.ZD per dozen
Oreiron hothouse. 11.25 per dozen: new
California tomatoes, $4.00 per 25-pound
crate.
Fbditb California fancy lemons, iJ.zo
4.00; common. $2.003.00; Sicily, $5.00
C46.50 per box; bananas, ii.ntgz.ou per
bunch ; Honolulu, $3.0003.60; California
navel oranges (Washington), $3.75 per
box; (Rose), $4.00; seedlings, $2.DU0
3.76! strawberries, fl.50 per 16-pound
crate ; Oregon, 20(g 25 per pound ; cher
ries, $l.2r(gibu per iu-pounu crate;
gooselierries, 8c per pound.
CANNBD GOODS.
Canned Good Table fruits, assorted,
11.7502.00; peaches, $1.7602.00; Bart
lett pears, $1.7602.00; plums, $1.3760
1.60; strawberries, $2.2602.46; cherries,
$2.2602.40; blackberries, $1.8502.00;
tasnberries. $2.40: pineapples, $2,260
2.80; apricots, $1.66. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.26; plums,
$1.0001.20; blackberries, $1.2501.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted,
$3.1503.60; peaches, $3.5004.00; apri
cots, $3.5004.00; plums, $2.7503.00;
blackberries, $4.Zc-g.DU.
Veoktahlks Tomatoes, 11. 10 per
dozen; gallons, $3.0003.25; asparagus,
$2 2602.75 per dozen; string beans,
$1.0001.10; sugar peas, $1.0001.10; I
cony, Western, $1.0001.287 KaatenrH
fl.260l.7C
Meats tJorned oeei, is, ii.ou;
eooe. i.in.l o.tn. l,.n..l. l.
$3.50; 2s, $6.7607.00; deviled bam, $1.50
02.76 per dozen: roast beef. Is, $1.50;
2s,$2.26.
Fish Sardines, t, 76c$2.25; fa
12.lBf34.60: lobsters. $2.3003.60: sal
mon, tin Mb tails, $1.2601.60; flats,
$1.76;2-lbs, $2.2602.50; -barrel, $6.60.
STAPLE okocehiks.
CorrxE Costa Rica, 23c ; Rio, 22023c ;
CI.... In. 99... M..l.. QllL'nUll.. kr.
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound J
cases, $23. bu
Dried Fruits 1803 pack, Petite
prunes, 008c; silver, 10012c; Italian,
8010c; German. 608c; plums, 6010c:
evaporated apylea, 8010c; evaporated
apricots, l&'16c; peaches, 12014c;
pears, 7011c per pound.
Suoah D.4Vo; Golden 0,4o; extra
C. 5'jjcj confectioners' A, 6.0; drv gran
ulated, 8oC; cube, crushed and pow
dered, 6,0 per pound; M PT pound
discount on all grades for prompt cash ;
maple sugar, 150 16o per pound.
Beans Small white, No. 1, $c; No.
2, 3c; large white, 3'jc; pea beans, 3'c;
pink, 3c; bayou, 3c; batter, 3io;
Lima, 4,'ic per pound.
Rice Island, $4.75(35.00 per sack.
Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s,
$16.00; 60s, $16.50; stock, $8.6009.50.
Syrup Eastern, In barrels, 40055c;
In half barrels, 42057c; in cases, 350
00c per gallon ; $2.26 per keg; California,
in barrels, 20040c per gallon ; $1.76 per
keg,
Pickles Barrels, No. 1, 2830o per
fallon; No, 2, 20028c; kegs. 5b, 86c per
eg ; half gallons, $2.75 per dozen ; quar
ter gallons, $1.75 per dozen.
Spices Whole Allspice, 18020c pef
pound; cassia, 16018c; cinnamon, 220
40c; cloves, 18030c; black pepper, 150
22)c; white pepper, 20025c; nutmeg,
75080c.
Raisins London layers, boxes, $1.76
02.00; halves, $2.0002.25; quarters,
$2.2502.76; eighths, $2.5003.00. Loose
Muscatels, boxes, $1.60; fancy faced,
$1.75; bags, 3 crown, 406c per pound ;
4 crown, 505)c. Seedless Sultanas,
boxes. $1.7502.00; bags, 68o per
pound.
provisions.
Eastern Smoked Meats and Labd
Hams, medium, 120120 per pound;
hams, large, ll012ic; hamB, picnic,
11012c: breakfast bacon. 13015c; short
clear sides. 9' 011c; dry salt sides,
9010c; dried beef hams, 12!it013c;
lard, compound, in tins, 8 10c per
wi,n.l . niiM In iinm 1DLZi 1 1 tZe ninfll
feet, 80s. $5.60; pigs'
feet,
4U8, sj.zd;
Kits, ll.Zo.
HOPS, WOOL AND IIIDKH.
Hops '03s, choice, 120130 per
pound; medium, 10012c; poor, neg-
nJCttiCat
Wool Valley, 100100 per pound;
Umpqua, lO01O)$c; Kastern Oregon, 4
07c, according to quality and shrinkage.
Hides Dry selected prime, 6c; green,
salted, 60 pound and over, 8'6c; nnder
60 pounds, 20 3c ; sheep pelts, shearling,
10(l5c; medium, 20036c; long wool,
30060c; tallow, good to choice, 30 3c
per pound.
North Yakima work its Indian pris
oners on the streets.
Subscriptions are being made at Star
buck to build a public ball.
Awarded Highest
Ttia -ilo Pnre Pream nf Tartar
Used in Millions of Homes 40 Year tl5
"As old ti
thehillArJ
never excell
el. "Tried
and proven"
i the verdict
of millions.
8 i m m 6 n
Liver Regu
r : lator is the
UCMCf and Kidney
medicine to
which you
can pin your
faith for a
cure. A
mild laxa
tive, and
purely veg
etable, 'act
ing directly
on the Liver
and Kid
Tha,
n
Pills
neys. Try it
Sold by all
Druggists in Liquid, or in Towder
to be taken dry ormado intoa tea,
Tha King of Urer Medleuwa.
u have ued TonrHlmmoni Mrer Rero
lator and ran ei.iim-lentl.iu.ly u) II Is lot
kluir of ull hver medlrlnea, I rounder It a
medicine cIichI In llwlf.-Ozo. W. Jack.
Son, Tnooina, M'usUlugUjo.
O-EVEBT PACKAGE-
Baa tha Z Stamp la red oa wrappta
THK FABM WORK.
Plan. Should ba Laid With Kefereaee ta
a Long Period at Tine.
The main work of the farm should be
planned far ahead, says the American
Farmer. When a field is plowed the
owner should not only consider what Is
tn Ka ,1K 1 .Im.! it.-
...... HJU KMVfl
which is near at hand, hut also what
crops shall be grown upon it during the
succeeding years until it is laid down in
grass. In all other lines ot firm work
the plans should be laid with reference
to a long period of time. Otherwise the
best work cannot be done. Bat, whils
it is essential that the main work of
making the farm plans should be per- -formed
a good while in advance, there
will be many details to be filled in at a
later period. Unexpected changes which
have taken place during the intervening
time and numerous circnmitanoai over
which the farmer has no control will
certainly make it desirable, and may
make it absolutely necessary, to revise
the plans which were formed fir ahead
of the time for their execution. In what
ever condition the plans for the coming
season may ne tne time nas come in
which they should be reviewed and com
pleted. There is now sufficient leisure
to allow of this being done without in
terfering with important matters,
the work of th season can be er
menwdmuch mmaJ?
j, heeng careTuTdeie;
what Bhall be attempted than it can if '
points of greater or less moment are lilt
undecided. But this period of compar
ative leisure will be of brief duration.
In a short time active farm work matt
be commenced. The farmer will be bun
during the day, and will be tired in tb
evening. He will not then be In th
best condition for deciding Important
matters and points which have been
neglected, and they will not be likely to
receive the degree of attention which
they deserve. Consequently immediate
action in this matter is extremely desir
able. Beet Culture.
Moderately light sandy loam is the soil
generallyconsidered best for beets. Heavy
clay does not permit the tap root to pen
etrate tlie subsoil. Muck lands give
badly formed beets, with impure Juices,'
owing to excess of nitrogen compounds
and poor drainage. Good results ar
most likely to be obtained on lands that
have been under cultivation for ten yean
or more, and which give good crop of
corn and wheat. The black prairie luili,
which have not yet been reduced togood
condition for wheat, are not desirable
for beets, since they contain too much
soluble mineral matter and nitrogenous
material and produce a rank growth of
beets with impure juice.
About tha Chlneta.
San Francisco, Cal. A gigantic fraud
has been unearthed In the hall of rec
ords in this city, which may lead to tb
frustration of a clever scheme to land
foreign-born Chinese. The records of
the health department have been inter
lined in several hundred instances, each
attesting the birth of a Chinese. By
tiiis mean foreign-born Chinese have
obtained birth certificate, which they
think will entitle them to residence wi
der the Geary act. The false entries are
dated as far back as 1867.
The illytba Kitate.
San Francisco, Cau The Biythe far
tate seem to be near settlement and a
victory for Florence Blythe-Hinckley to
be assured. The Supreme Court has
rendered a decision adverse to the appeal
of the contestants. There remain an
other appeal to be decided, but tb at
torneys for Florence are so confldent It
will be in her favor that they regard th
matter as prac tically settled.
Mill Befnaa to Sign.
San Francisco, Cal. Th director of
the People's Home Bank itill refus to
resign. At a conference held t"
them and a committee of
Harri and Keeney became involved ia
a quarrel, and each mad a
draw a pitol. Only by prompt inter
ference wa bloodshed avoidea.
Receiver M. A. Sawtell- of M
Townsend National Bank ha paid out
the 30 per cent dividend autbotea re
cently by Comptroller of the Currency
James H. Eckels.
D. A. Mitchell has ued thjj T
Railroad and Motor Company ki
as the result of iniunes "
little daughter, Edna, in "
years ago.
Honors World's Fdr.
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