UD FOR KLOMKERS
McBride Brings Up the Relief
Question in the Senate.
THE RESOLUTION GOES OVEE
Pension Matters Were Considered In
Both Houses Beginning of a
Lengthy Debate.
Washington, Deo. 11. The senate
did a consideralbe amount of business
today, although no very important
matter was considered or passed.
There was very little debate. Senator
Gallinger, chairman of the committee
on pensions, called attention to the
increasing demand for private pension
legislation and requested senators in
the future to be careful to see that their
bills for private pensions were meritori
ous before they were introduced. An
attempt was made by McBride to secure
an appropriation for the relief of the
Klondike miners, but the net result
was a resolution calling on the secre
tary of war for all information he had
on that subject. .
An hour was devoted to the consider-
ation of private pension bills and 45
were passed.
The resolution of the Paoifio rail
road committee asking information re
garding the sale of the Kansas Pacific
was passed which gave Gear and Thurs
ton opportunity to make short speeches
congratulating the country upon the
settlement of the Paoific railroad ques
tion. ''
Some work was laid out for next
week. Carter securing the right of way
Monday and Tuesday for his census
bill, and Lodge had the immigration
bill made the unfinished business dur
ing the week.
In the House.
The house today entered upon the
consideration of the pension appropria
tion bill and stirred up a debate that
promises to continue for several days.
Several Southern Democrats offered
criticisms of various classes of pension
ers, and Private John Allen, of Missis
sippi, who led the assault in a speech
replete with his characteristic humor,
presented a series of amendments de
signed, as he said, to correct some of
the glaring evils. They prohibit the
granting of pensions to widows whose
applications were not filed during their
widowhood, and the granting of pen
sions to widows whose applications were
based on marriages contracted after the
passage of this act, and to permanently
insane or idotic minors who had reached
their majority. The Northern Demo
crats, however, vied with the Republi
cans in their professions of friendship
for the soldiers, and one of them Nor
ton of Ohio declared that the Republi
cans could not make the-bill too large
for him. It was admitted on both sides
of the house during the discussion that
the 1140,000,000 oarried by the bill
for pensions would not cover the ex
penditures, but as congress would be in
session, Cannon said it would be easy
to make good any deficiency that might
occur.
THE HOUSE PROGRAMNE
Financial Legislation Will Not Be I n
dertaken Immediately.
Washington, Deo. 11. Although no
formal action has been taken, a prettv
general understanding has been reached
by leaders in the house as to the course
of action in the near future. It in
cludes the disposal of appropriation
bills as fast as they are ready.
The bankruptcy bill will be reported
before the holiday recess, but will not
be taken up bv the house until after
recess.
It is understood that for the present
there will be no effort to take up finan
cial legislation on the floor of the
house. This is due mainly to the im
pression that the committee on bank
ine and currency will not be able to
reconcile many conflicting interests in
aide the committee. When it becomes
evident the committee on banking and
currency is at standstill, then the ways
and means committee will frame a bill
on broad lines, calculated to meet the
present financial requirements. The
disposition of house leaders will be to
keep radical legislation to the rear.
The Aided Railroads.
Washington, Dec. 11. In the house
today, Mr. Fleming, of Georgia, intro
duced a bill authorizing an investiga
tion of the books, accounts and methods
of railroads which have received aid
from the United States. It provides
that, in the president's judgment the
secretary of the treasury shall redeem
or otherwise clear oft the paramount
lien, mortsraae or other encumbrance
of government-aided railroads by pay
inir the Bum lawfully due out of the
treasury, or may bid and purchase for
the United States the property, subject
to suoh enoumbrance, at any sale or
sales made under any order of the court
or any judgment or decree of foreulO'
sure of such enoumbrance, or of any
lien or mortgage or interest of the
United States.
Indian Affairs.
Washington, Dec. 11. The house
committee on India? affairs today be'
gan its investigation of the problems
in Indian territory. It was a long seB
sion, and the result wag a call for the
Danes commission and all others inter
ested to appear before it next Tuesday.
St. Louis, Dec. 9. The dead body
of Loo Fook Guey, known as the king
of the highbinders, who several days
ago tried to rob another Chinese, was
found tonight in a room in Chinatown.
At the time of the attempted robbery
both men fired at each other, and a
trail of blood left by Loo Fook, while
making his escape, showed that he had
fceen wounded.
RIVERA A FREE MAN.
The Cuban Patriot Ilaleased
From Ca-
banas Fortress.
Havana, Den. 13. General Rivera,
the insurgent leader, who was captured
in March last in Pinar del Rio by the
Spanish troops under General Hernando
de Velasco, and who was recently par
doned by roval decree, has been released
from Cabanas fortress, where he has '
been imprisoned for several months,
and sailed today by the steamer Colon
for Cadiz, his home.
The Colon also carries back to Spain
800 sick, wounded and otherwise in
capacitated Boldier .
In the skirmishes of the last ten days
the insurgents have lost 113 killed and
1,000 prisoners. Eight chiefs and offi
cers and 63 armed privates have surren
dered to the Spanish. The Spanish
column, in the same period, has lost
five officers and 22 soldiers killed, with
11 officers and 110 soldiers wounded.
Juan Cossio, who Was in charge of
the insurgent dynamite corps in the
province of Puerto Principe, is dead at
the insurgent camp. He was a cousin
of Evangelina Cossio.
The insurgents fired a cannon shot
into the maohinery of the plantation of
Mr. Rigby, an American, in the Man
zanillo district, destroying the ma
chinery. The insurgents have forbid
den grinding in : that neighborhood,
under threat of burning the fields.
The Fight in I'inar del Bio.
Havana, Dec. 13. Latest reports of
the late fight in Pinar del Rio province
show the Spanish loss was more than
claimed. The dead or wounded include
one colonel, one major, seven captains,
11 subordinate officers aid 74 privates.
Most of the wounded will die. The
rebel loss was 14. The rebels used ex
plosive bullets.
Want De Lome Recalled.
New York, Deo. 13. The Spanish
colony in this city has been divided by
a petition Bent to Madrid at the time
of theassasBination of Premier Canovas,
asking for the appointment of a strong
successor to Senor de Lome. According
to the World the petition was drawn so
as to attack Senor de .Lome without
mentioning his name, and among the
40 prominent Spaniards who signed it
were several friends of the minister
who did not see any attack npon him
in the apparently harmless recom
mendation. The result is a bitterness
among the factionB almost as strong as
their hatred of the Cubans. The peti
tion says:
"For Spain to suoceed in her rela
tions with the United States phe must
have in Washington a representative of
ability and firmness, whose heart will
beat with the pulsations of our mother
country, and with a head balanced to
base all his diplomatic lelations on an
indisputable right, and not allow the
right to be curtailed in the least by un
founded demands or unjust pretensions
from the opposing party. "
Insurgents Near Havana.
New York, Dec. lfl. A' dispatch to
the World from Havana says: An im
portant battle is expected hourly. The
insurgents have planned the most for
midable demonstration against Havana
of the year. General Parrados has
started from this oity with a strong
column of troops to meet the insur
gents. Senor Caneljas, the confidential
agent of the Spanish government, went
with him to ascertain the' real condi
tions in Havana province.
General Rodriguez, with the com
bined Cuban forces under Juan Dol-
gado Ladarez and Rafael Zeckardinas,
is encamped about 20 miles south of
here. He has fully 1,000 men, who
are well armed and is said to have a
Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannon.
Emio CouBalo has hanged Antonio
Rivera and a negro named Ostium.
Thev went to Consalo from Blanco with
money and a proposition that he lay
down his arms and accept autonomy.
A note was pinned on the breasts of
the hangod men announcing that any
one coining on a similar mission would
meet a like fate.
Starving Cubans in New York.
New York, Dec. 13. The Journal
and Advertiser says: Weyler's policy
of extermination, which he called re
concentration, has resulted in an enor
mous influx of Cubans into New Yoik.
Hundreds if not thousands of them are
dying of hunger here. The number of
these refugees is variously estimated
from 12,000 to 20,000. Perhaps the
great majority are absolutely without
means. There are men and women
among them who were worth thou
sands of dollars before the war began,
but are now penniless. Some of these
are working as waiters, porters or
seamstresses.
Emilio Agremonte, president of the
Marti Charity Association, says that
many of them have actually died from
starvation, and that the majority have
preferred to live quietly in misery
rather than let their desperate wants
be known to those who could help
them, but who have in the past known
them to be people of wealth, influence
and refinement.
' Spain Accuses Cubans of Cruelty.
New York, Deo. 13. A Herald dis
patch from Madrid says: A storm of
indignation has been provoked here by
news of tortures inflicted by the Cuban
rebels upon inhabitants of Guisa,
where women and children are alleged
to have been bound and burnt alive,
The details are given by the Imparcial,
a paper by no means favorable to the
present government's policy, and the
news is now officially confirmed. One
of the ministers Bays that as far as
known at present the only crime the
inifortunatecrpiitu.es appear to have
been guilty of is that they favored the
acceptance of autonomy.
Reno, Nev., Dec 13. A wreck OO'
curred on the N. C. & O. railway about
five miles north of this city this morn
ing. Two or three passengers are re
ported to have been injured.
DEATH AT THE STAKE.
Terrible Fate
Awaiting
Fiends.
Three Negro
Wesson, .Miss., Deo. 13. Full par
ticulars of one of the most atrocious
crimes ever recorded have just come to
hand. Almost the entire family of
Brown Smith, a respectable white
farmer, 35 years of age, were brutally
killed with
a club in the hands of
Charles Lewis, a black fiend. Smith
was working at a gin a few miles from
his home, which is situated about
miles from Pearl river, on the east
bank in Lawrence county, a wild coun
try. The house is off the main road,
and no white family lives within two
miles of it, though several negro fam
ilies live near.
It was one of these negroes who, on
Wednesday, some time between noon
and dark, crept up to Smith's house
and most brutally assaulted Mrs.
Smith, then brained her, and to hide
his crime, he tried to kill the children,
only sparing a babe, which he left un
touched. The fiend's work was not
done as well as he thought, for one of
the children, a girl five years old, re
gained consciousness, and when her
father returned, told him the name of
the brute. The mother and four child
ren were found dead in the yard, their
condition showing how they had strug
gled to escape the brute. .
A posse was organized, and late yes
terday the negio was captured and
taken to Montioello, the county seat
of Lawrence county, and at 7 o'clock
was carried back to the scene of his
orime, where he was fully identified by
the little girl.
The accused negro is being tried be
fore' Justice Holmes. He has given
testimony implicating two other ne
groes, Will Powell and Andy Smith,
who are in custody. It is said the ne
groes will not be lynched tonight, but
that the recent lynching at Monroe
will be imitated, making it public, and
that every negro will be made to carry
pine knots to burn the others. The
trial is being conducted in a lawful
manner, and the company have charge
of the prisoners, and will not permit
them to be ii sent to jail. During the
trial, Lewis broke down and confessed:
.: "It's mighty hard for me to suffer
for whit some one else has done."
Upon being allowed to talk further,
he said:
"Get Will Powell and Andrew
Smith."
Lewis is a mulatto about 23 years of
age and married. It is believed that a
general clean-up will be made in this
section, and a number of negroes will
be lynched.
PENSION BILL PASSED.
The First MeHsnre Disposed of by ths
Lower House.
Washington, Dec. 13. The housa
today passed the pension appropriation
bill without amendment. The amend
ments offered by Demoorats to correct
alleged existing abuses were all ruled
out , on the' point of order that they
were new legislation. As passed, the
bill carries $141,263,880.
The debate today covered a wide
range. It touched not only the ques
tion of our pension policy, but that of
civil service reform and the leceipta
and expenditures of the treasury under
the Dingley law. On the latter ques
tion Dingley made an important state
ment, in which he expressed the opin
ion that the receipts would equal the
expenditures before the close of the
present fiscal year, and predicted a sur
plus of $10,000,000 next year.
The oivil service law was savagely
attacked by several members, notably
by Brown of Ohio and Liuney of North
Carolina, and was warmly defended by
Johnson of Indiana.
Just before the close of the session
Hitt attempted to secure unanimous
consent for the passage of the bill to
prohibit pelagic sealing by American
citizens, but objection was made. It
will, under agreement, however, ba
considered Tuesday.
REGISTERED MAIL ROBBERY.
Amount Involved Is In the Neighbor,
hood of 9100,000.
New York, Deo. 13. It was learned
today that one of the biggest robberies
in the history of the Iiew York post
office occurred on November 9. The
amount involved is said to be in the
neighborhood of $100,000, and was
taken from registered letters in the
railway mail service on that section of
the Central railroad, of New Jersey,
known as the New York, Somerville &
Eastern branch. On Novembe' 9, it is
state 1, two packages containing $30,
000 were taken. How long the defal
cations had gone on before has not
been ascertained. Major Charles F.
Lewis, of the Philadelphia branch of
the government secret service, was in
this city today investigating the rob
bery, which has been kept secret until
now divulged by the postal authorities.
Indians for Logging Camps.
Ashland, Wis., Deo. 13. The gov
ernment la about to make the experi
ment of making loggers out of its In
dian wards on reservations in Northern
Minnesota. The plan, which is ap
proved by Land 1 Commissoner Her
mann, is that contracts for cutting
dead and fallen timber on the White
Earth and Winnebago reservations will
be let to the Indians themselves and to
no others.
A Drowning at Victoria.
Victoria, Deo. 13. W. J. Hendrin
was drowned off Beacon Hill this
morning. He and a friend were out in
a flat-bottomed boat, which capsized in
squall.
The Alaska Kellef Bills.
Washington, Dec. 13. Represents
tive Ellis has introduced in the hoiiRe
the bills for transportation of relief
uppliet to Alaska, which have been
presented in the senate by Senator Mo-Bride.
ON HER BEAM ENDS.
The t'nlucky Fotrimnos Topples Over
in the Breakers.
Astoria, Or., Dec. 10. The unex
pected has happened. For six months
the Foard & Stokes Company, of this
city, purchasers of the German bark
Potrimpos, which went ashore on North
beach at 7:30 o'clock on the morning
of December 19, 1896, have been lay
ing their plans and making strenuous
efforts to float the unfortunate vessel.
Expert wreckers were engaged, four or
five pumping engines, winches and
other valuable machinery were placed
npon her, and a few days ago Lawrence
Foard, of San Francisco, brother of the
head of the firm liere, arrived on the
scene and' took charge of the salvage
operations. A short time ago every
preparation vyas made to float the ship
at the present high tides, but disaster
unexpectedly overtook their efforts.
A special dispatch from the scene of
the wreck to the Astorian from Captain
C. D. Stuart, from the Fort Canby life
saving crew, who Was early on the
scene, says:
"The bark Potrimpos went on her
beam ends at 9:45 this morning. She
had been afloat for the past two days.
Yesterday she moved about 250 feet
further north on the beach. About 9:80
this morning she carried away the port
chock, tearing up the bulwarks and
throwing the strain well abeam of the
ship? This prevented the men in
charge from keeping her head to the
sea, and, there being no ballast aboard,
at 9:45 she turned on her beam ends
toward the sea, so that her spars struck
the sand.
"At the time of the accident there
were 14 men aboard, inoluding Mr.
Foard, Captain Drisko and the Chinese
cook. All reached shore safely by
means of shore lines attached to the
Bhip. Engineer James Carroll had a
narrow escape. He returned to the
cabin for his coat and was wedged in.
By breaking the cabin window he man
aged to get out, and reached shore
Bafely. Lifesaving crews from Fort
Canby and Long Beaoh arrived on the
scene shortly after the men got ashore.
The yessel lies about 250 feet from the
drift logs, and is pretty well sanded,
but Mr. Foard still has hopes of saving
her. When the heavy surf subsides,
he will make an examination, and, if
she is. not too deep in the sand, will
try to right and float her." ,
A CUBAN RESOLUTION.
Senator Allen Opens for the Cause of
the Buffering Isle.
Washington, Deo. 10. Today's ses
sion of the senate occupied less than
an hour, the time mainly being con
sumed by the members in the presenta
tion of memorials, resolutions and
bills.'
Davis of Minnesota, reported from
the committee on foreign relations a
bill tor prohibiting the killing of fur
seals in the North Pacific ocean. He
asked immediate' consideration of the
bill, but Hale of Maine, pbjeoted on
the ground of the importance of the
measure, and asked that the bill be
printed.
Allen of Nebraska, presented a reso.
lution declaring it the ' sense of the
senate that congress should with all
due and convenient speed acdord by an
appropriate act the political independ
ence of Cuba. If necessary this recog
nition should be baoked by the presence
of an American fleet in Cuban wators.
Alton expressed the belief that Pres
ident MoKinley'a statements in his
message, that recognition of the bellig
erency of the Cuban insurgents is
now unwise, and therefore inadmissa
ble,' would be a great disappointment
to the members of the Republican party
throughout the country. The national
platform of that party had declared in
favor of the independence of Cuba,
going farther than the simple recogni
tion of belligerency. He thought tjie
president was under obligations to
carry out the pledge which the part
had made a pledge whioh had been
made to 73,000,000 of people. The
president, Allen thought, had been
lulled to sleep by the declaration of
Spain that she could give Cuba a semi
political existence. He expressed the
belief that the president's neglect to
take such action as would insure the
political independence of Cuba was an
exhibition of "rank hyproorisy" and a
"flagrant disregard of public duty,"
which would be corrected by the all
ruling power in its own good time.
At the conclusion of his remarks,
Hoar presented a resolution expressing
the regret of the senate at the newt of
the death of Representative Ashley B.
Wright, of Massachusetts, and provid
ing for an adjournmen't as a further
mark of respect.
At 12:55 the resolution was adopted
and the senate adjourned.
In the House.
Washington, Doo. 10. The session
of the house today lasted only 15 min
utes. Stone, Republican, reported the
pension appropriation bill, the first of
the appropriation bills, and gave no
tice that he would call it up immedi
ately after the reading of the journal
tomorrow.
The committee on elections and the
committee on banking and currency
was given leave to sit during tho ses
sion of the house. At 12:15 the house
adjourned.
Christmas Money Orders.
New York, Dec. 10. In the mail
bags whioh went out on the St. Paul
today were 9,000 foreign money orders,
amounting to 24,544. These orders
are for Christmas presents, and most
of them go to Norway and Sweden.
The money-order business in the New
York postoffioe this year is about dou
ble that of the last holiday seuHOii.
There were 20,000 money orders han
dled yesterday, as against 10,000 on
the corresponding day last year.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Office of Downing, Hopkins A Co., Chicago
Board of Trade Brokers, 711-7MCli amber of (Joiu
tuerce JJuilding, hortiaiui, Oregon. J ,
Light speculation was the dominating
factor in the wheat market last week.
Its force was felt more keenly than at
any time since prices left 64 cents five
months ago. The bear element is
working on the idea that all the bullish
influences have been discounted by the
advance in prices of 86 cents from the
low point in the. spring. Wheat that
cleared last week was all bought a
month or more ago, and prices were ad
vanced at the time. Now that the
stuff is moving out, the bulls think
that prices should continue to go up,
because the stuff is being delivered to
the buyers. The latter are not taking
hold as freely, but export sales during
the week were heavy. For three
months the market " has backed and
filled around 90 cents forMay, getting
5 cents above it reoently, and has been
2 oents below it. The bears have beeri I
unable to.maintain a break for more
than a day or two below 90 cents. De
cember sold 4 cents to 17 cents
premium over May. , The position of
the bulls and their intention are as
much of a puzzle as-ever. They stand
ready to pay for 6000,000 bushels of
wheat, and are very liable to get it be
fore the first of tho year. Elevator
people, however, are not disposed to
make any deliveries until navigation is
closed, as they want to keep the wheat
in their houses. TheLeiter party Lave
from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bushels
bought. There are also scattered lines
that will reach above' 2,000,000 bushels
held by parties outside of the pool.
The claim is made that there is no
shortage, except on the part of the ele
vator people. The latter have been
bringing wheat down from Dnluth. It
is a deal that no one exoept rich men
can afford to be in. The bulls claim
that the wheat brought down from the
Northwest by the elevator people has
not shown any profit. If suoh is the
case, it seeais rather strange that "two
such shrewd business men as Armour
and Weare should be so aotively engaged
in it. Government report gives crop of
winter and spring wheat at 850,000,000
buBhelB. Visible supply of wheat de
creased 101,000 bushels, and now totals
84,744 bushels.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7273c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 75 76c per bushel.
Four Best grades, $4.25; graham,
$3.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 84 85c; ohoioe
gray, 8283u per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew
ing, $20 per ton.
Millstiffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $17.
Hay Timothy, $12.50 13; clover,
$10 11; California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $910 per
ton.
Eggs 18 25o per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 6055o;
fair to good, 4045c; dairy, 80 40c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, 11 o; 'Young
America, 12j'c; California, 910o
per pound. ' ,
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $1.76
2,50 per doezn; broilers, $2.002.50;
geese, $5.500; ducks, $3.004.50
per dozen; turkeys, livd, 10llo per
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Bnrbanks, 8545o
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yel
low, 80o per cental.
Hops 814o per pound for new
crop; 1898 crop, 4 6o.-
Wool Valley, 1416o por pound;
Eastern Oregon, 712o; mohair, 20
22o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, $3.00; dressed mutton,
6c; spring lambs, 6o per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.00;
light ami feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$4.505.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2.75(363.00;
cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45Ja per
pound.
Veal Large, 45o; small, l
6o per pound.
Seattle Market.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 28o; ranch, 16 18c.
Cheese Native Washington, 12Jc;
California, 9lo.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 80 82c
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, lOo; spring chickens, $2.50(9
0 00; ducks, $3. 50 3. 75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $1920.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, por ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, BJo; mutton sheep,
7c; pork, 7c veal, small, 7.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 4 5c: salmon,
84c; salmon trout, 7 lOo; flounders
and sole, 84; ling cod, 4 5; rock cod,
5c; smelt, K 4c.
Fresh FruitApplos, 60o$1.28 per
box; peaches, 7580c; prunes, 8540o;
pears, 7Qc$l per box.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon,
13
14c; Northern 7 80 per pound.
Hops 10 14c por jiound. .
Millstuffs Middlings, $2022; Cal
ifornia bran, $17.50 18.00 per ton.
Onions New red. 7080c; do new
lilvcrskin, $1.40 1.60 percental.
Eggs Store, 2328c; ranch, 27
80c; Eastern, 1420;duck, 2025o per
dozen.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, fair
to good, 1 8c per pound..
OREGON STATE NEWS.
Brief Review of the Week Throughout
the State.
Thirty-four marriage licenses were
issued by the Marion county clerk in
November.
Fishermen on the Umpqua are ship
ping sturgeon overland via Drain to
Portland. .
Four panthers were killed near Marsh
field last week. One measured 1
feet from tip to tip.
Manager Dorwin increased the force
at the Jewett mine and will hereafter
run night and day shifts.
Samuel Henry, a veteran of the civil
war, celebrated his 94th birthday an
niversary at Jacksonville last week.
It is estimated that over 20,000 boxes
of apples have been shipped from the
Coquille valley this season, and there
are several carloads yet to be forwarded.
The owners of the Oregon Bonanza
mine contemplate running a blind tun
nel, to begin on the Powell creek side)
of the mountain and extend westward
a distanoe of 800 feet.
Another shipment of Wallowa coun
ty beef cattle was made from Elgin the ,
latter part of last week by a Chicago
dealer. He paid 8 oents for the
steers weighed at Joseph.
A lot of cattle were recently bought
on Smith river, in Lane county, and
driven to Harrisburg. The average
weight of 16 of the band was estimated
to be 1,750 pounds each.
A three-foot ledge of bituminous coal
has been found in the south end of
Jackson oounty, as good as that pro
duced in eastern states. Indications
are that the vein is very extensive.
The judgment in favor of the state of
Oregon and against Baker county has
been recorded in Baker City, and a tax
levy will have to be made to raise the
amount of the judgment, $10,928.60.
It was blowing a gale when the Chil-
kat orossed the Coos bay bar Monday,
and two tremendous Beas boarded the
little steamer. Her stern was stove in.
and she is at North Bend, undergoing;
repairs.
An old store building, a landmark.
at Utter City, Coos oounty, collapsed
during the reoent storm. As many sur
veys started from the old building as a
corner, some trouble will be caused in
running lines.
It is a foregone conclusion that we
will be treated to the operations of a
first-class English mining company, in
the Ashland district very soon, as one
of the best and largest quartz mines is
now being Hsted on the London mar
ket. At the Clackamas hatchery about 1,
000,000 young fish have been turned
out so far this season. There are now
about 5,000,000 eggs in the troughs in
all stages of hatohing. The eggs were
obtained from the Little White Salmon
river station, in Washington.
There was a heavy run of salmon in
the Siuslaw this year, and at the
Florence cannery 8,500 cases of canned
salmon and 600 barrels of salmon were
recently shipped to San Franoisco.
Mr. Hurd says that 10,000 cases could
have been put up had the market price
justified.
During the Inst two months one man
has shipped from Brownsville, to out
side markets, 1,150 turkeys, 650
chickens, 71 geese and 95 ducks, mak-
ing a total of about 15,000 pounds of
poultry shipped by him alone. There
are Beveral other poultry buyors in
Brownsville, who have shipped a large
amount also.
There have been shipped from Med-
ford station this season thus far about
40 carloads of apples, and there re
mains to be shipped yet 20 carloads
more of merchantable apples. This -
includes fruit hauled from the Apple-
gate and surrounding country. Two
oarloads of dried fruits of different
varieties have been shipped eastward
from that station, too, and about eight
carloads more remain to be shipped.
The Alabny Fruit Company has
shipped to Davonport, la., 600 boxes of
Oregon winter apples, lue, company
is also arranging to ship a carload of
winter apples to Missouri. There is a
good demand for Oregon apples in the
East, but they, must be salable. This
company has dried 8,000 pounds of
apples, whioh were not good keopers.
It is also now arranging to oarry out
the experiment of drying vegetables
for the Alaska trade.
While workmen were exoavatlng a
ditch in Elgin, at the intersection of
Front and C. streets, last week, at ft
depth of two feet or a little more they
began to uncover human bones, and in
a short time almost the entire skeleton
was unearthed. A few feet further oa
they unearthed portions of another
skeleton. From the shape of the skull
found, the remains are undoubtedly
those of Indians, buried long before
the whites settled there, says the Elgin
Reoorder.
There has been reooived at Astoria a
fish from the life-saving crew at Fort
Canby that no one sooms to recognise.
Borne pronounced it a dovil fish, and
others are certain it is an octopus. It
is about three feet long and of dark
brown color. Its girth is probably 10
or 12 inches and from the tail to the
gills varies but littlo in sizo. The
head is attached to the body with a
sort of swivel, and the mouth is hid
beneath a clump ol tentacles about a
foot long. ,
A Lake county man who loft last
Juno to assist in driving 8,000 head of
sheep to Amadee, Cal., lias returned.
Ho says that the sheep were bought be
fore shearing or lambing for $1.78 to
$2 a head, and that Flanagan & Dunn,
the purchasers, have made a little for
tune on the speculation, as the culls of
the band are worth $3 a head at Aiim
dne. He thinks their profit will be
nearer 200 per cent than 100. They
had a suceeanful drive and spent the
summer in the Sycan country, in Lake
county.