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The Portland Union Stock Yards
Company reports as follews:
.. Receipts for the past week have
been as follews: Cattle 1770; Calves
10; Hogs 1829; Sheep 3017; Goats 361;
Horses 18.
The general tone of the market on
all classes of livestock has been
strong with a sharp advance in all
lines. Steers brought 10 to ,15c bet
ter than last week's best sales, one
load of tops brought $G.90. Cows and
heifers were in good demand at $5.85
for the best. Bulls advanced about
50c per hundred, highest sale being
at $5.50. Very few calves offering
and those of inferior quality, though
the best brought $8.50.
Hogs closed last Saturday at $7.50
and opened on Monday at $8.00 to
$8.05 at which figures they have re
mained during the week. Market is
steady to strong at these quotations.
Heavy hogs sold as high as $7.50 with
majority of sales around $7.00 to $7.25.
Scarcity of mutton sheep continues;
quite a bunch of spring lambe on the
market which brought from 8c to 10c
a pound. The demand for this class
of sheep is not very large and butch
ers are well supplied at this writing.
Mutton sheep have advanced all
around, ewes being' quoted as high
as 5c, yearling 6c, lambs with wool
$6.75, wethers $5.75 to $5.85.
The following sales are representa
tive: 25 steers 1252 $6.90
54 steers 1100 6.85
448 steers 1095 6.75
.78 steers 1160 6.50
6 cows 1212 5.85
15 Cows 1082 5.80
8 cows , 1084 5.65
15 cows 960 5.00
,3 calves 243 8.50
1 bull 1700 5.50
4 bulls 1210 . 4.50
25 bulls 1325 3.25
192 hogs 172 8'03
1227 hogs . 195 8.00
13 hogs 326 7.25
12 hogs 360 7.00
250 lambs 52 10.00
64 Wpll lambs 73 6.45
352 Sheared lambs 76 5.50
171 Ewes 92 4.85
ley, $40.
FLOUR $4.50 to $5.25.
Butter, Poultry, Eags.
POULTRY (Selling) Hens 12c
to 13c spring, 12c to 13c, and roosters
8c.
Butter (Buri Ordinary coun
try butter, 20c to 30c; fancy dairy,
35c.
EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 18c.
SACK VEGETABLES Carrots,
$1.25 to $1.50 per sack; parsnips,
$1.25 to $1.50; turnips, $1.25 to $1.50;
beets, $1.50.
POTATOES Best buying $1.25 to
$1.50 according to quality per hund
red. ONIONS Oregon, $1.25 to $1.50 per
hundred; Australian, $2 per hundred.
Livestock, Meats
BEEF (Live Weight) Steers, 5
and 6c; cows, 4c; bulls 3c,
VEAL Calves 10c to 12c dressed,
according to grade.
MOHAIR 30c to 31c.
MUTTTON Sheep 3c to 3c.
lambs, 4c aiul 5c.
FINAL TRIBUTE PAID
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Prevailing Oregon City prices are as
follows:
DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes
on basis of 6 to 8 cents.
Fruits, Vegetables.
HIDES ( Buying) Green hides, 6
to 7c; salters 7 to 8c; dry hides 12c
to 14c; sheep pelts, 25c to 75c each.
Hay, Grain, Feed.
HAY (Buying) Timothy, $12 to
$15; clover, $9 to $10; oat hay, best,
$9 to $10; mixed, $9 to $12; alfalfa,
$1S to $16.50.
OATS ( Buying) Gray $31 to $32;
wheat $20; oil meal, selling $35;
Shady Brook dairy feed, selling $1.25
100 pounds.
FEED (Sellng) Shorts, $25; bran,
$24; rolling barley, $39; process bar-
The funeral of Gilbert'Samuel Rand
all of Central Point, eldest son of Mr
and Mrs. George Randall, of this city,
were held at the Central Point Metho
dist Episcopal church Sunday after
noon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Wilson, past
or of that church officiating. The in
terment was in Mountain View ceme
tery. Many friends of the deceased
living in this city attended the ser
vices at the grave while many of his
friends and neighbors attended at the
church. The pallbearers who were
China, August Staehley, Jacob Ret
tinger, Harry Eastman, Mr. Gregory
and J. R. Cawthorn.
Mr. Randall was born at Rockville,
Conn., November 7, 1867, and came
with his parents to Oregon by way of
the Isthmus of Panama when he was
six months of age. The family set
tled at Central Point on a large farm,
where Mr. Randall grew tajnanhood,
and where he has since lived.
BRUTUS at the Graad TOMORRST.
MISS HOLMES HONORED .
BY KING'S DAUGHTERS
The Daughters of the King If the
St. Paul's .Episcopal church met in
the church Monday afternoon aad
elected officers to serve for the en
suing year, as follows: Miss M. L.
Holmes, president; Mrs. H. S. Mount,
vice-president; Miss Elizabeth Roos,
secretary; Mrs. J. J. Tobin, treasurer.
Mrs. Carl Joehnke, Mrs. T. P. Randall
and Mrs. L A Morris were appointed
as a committee to visit the sick. Oth
er business of importance was brought
up for discussion, and an adjourned
meeting will be held at the home of
Miss Gertrude Fairclogh April 19.
BRUTUS at the Grand TOMORROW.
Leart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN A. NfE.
CHAfUXS DICKENS.
Throughout the English speaking
world the oue hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens was
celebrated on Feb. 7.
Dickens!
What a picture gallery of-characters
appears ut the mention of his name
Pickwick and his friends and the im
mortal Samuel: Tiny Tim. the embodi
ment of cheerfulness aud love; David
Copperfleld, Oliver Twist and Fagin;
the Cherryble brothers; Marley. who
was dead as a doornail, and Scrooge;
Dick Swiveller and Little Nell.
He was a preacher of righteousness
and kir. tin ess and justness.
And purity
There is not a word in all those thir
ty volumes of his thirty years of writ
ing that, dying, he would wish to blot
not a word that a pure child cannot
read. .
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How he hated cruelty and hypocrisy
and meanness! And how he exalted
goodness and truth and beauty! His
high purpose and earnestness are a liv
ing rebuke to the flimsy novel writers
of our day who are all for art and noth
ing for the heart.
He put an . end to the prison for
debtors. . ;
He closed the doors of the Yorkshire
type of schools.
He made hypocrisy hideous In the
'umble Uriah Heep and crime repul
sive in Bill Sikes.
He made Pecksniff an adjective and
wrote it in front of very pious humbug.
Every pompous ne'er-do-well is a Mi
cawber. ,
Why does the world continue to read
and love Dickens? Because he photo
graphed life. He of all artists held the
mirror up to nature. His wonderful
power of observation made the por
traits clear.
Note this; -
One reads Dickens and gains the f ac
uity of seeing humans and things. The
same sort of people he pictured live
about us today, and we know them not
until we have learned to look at them
with his eyes.
To know Dickens is to have an ob
servant, kindly friend at one's elbow.
He Is also an inspiration.
' He saw the good and emphasized It
He saw the bad and characterized it.
If there is any book of his you have
not -read, read it. It will not hurt yon.
! It will help yon. ' .
Honor to his memory!
The Morning Enterprise is the best
breakfast food you can have.
TheSpottedJ
Death
A Story of
Vengeance '
I By F. A. MITCHEL
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Years ago In the little town of Fre
Jus, France the same Frejus at
wt" tapoleoD 1. landed when he es
caped from Elba located on the shore
nf the Mediterranean sea, there lived
in adjoining places a veritable P
and Virginia. The young man. Edou-
Le Fevre, at eighteen was rather of
Ihe northern than the southern type,
having a profusion of light curly hair
and blue eyes. H&tene Boucicault
was at seventeen a tall, slender girl
with hair and eyes contrasting with
those of her lover. Both were strik
ingly handsome, and when together
the difference in type rendered them
especially noticeable.
Then, too, they delighted to'climbto
the heights behind their homes, where
they could look down upon the long
tortuous line of foam extending north
ward and southward, fringing the sea
a deep blue, a pale green or liquid sil
ver. Their companionship grew Into
love without their "being conscious of
the transition. Loving was like breath
ing, and, not having been" sensible of
its beginning, they took no thought
of its ending.
When the break came it was a great
shock to both. Edouard was sent to
Paris to complete his education and
study a profession. For some time be
fore his departure there was scarcely
an hour that the two lovers were not
together. It is usually the man who
encourages the woman, but in this"
case it was the woman who encourag
ed the man, though of the two It is
probable, she suffered the more. She
held up before him pictures of his re
turn at vacation time and finally, after
he had acquired his profession, their
"I AM THE SPOTTED DEATH!' SHE SAID.
home together in Marseilles -or some of
the larger places on the French Medi
terranean coast. "But Kdounrd seemed
to have a foreboding that tbes pic
tures would never be realized.
- The lovers wanted the days between
vacations, and as one vacation after
another brought a realization of He
lene's prediction Edounrd's forebod
ings seemed likely to have been merely
the result of some physical depression.
He completed his academic studies,
then began n course to fit him for the
law. A brilliant scholar and promi
nent in other respects, he was marked
by his fellojp'srudents one day to take
an active part in the political doings
of France.
One evening when young Le Fevre
was dining with some of his associate?
in a cafe a man entered and sat at a
table near them. As soon as Hie ap
peared the conversation among the stu
dents was hushed, while they cast
covert glances at the newcomer.
"Who is he?" asked Edouard.
"The spotted death!" whispered ono
of the party.
"Why is he called that?"
"The name is given him from thf
Asiatic plague, which occasionally finds
Its way into Europe and kills every
person it attacks. He . has foughlt
many duels and has never failed to
kill his man." "
"Does he seek quarrels?"
"Yes: he delights in them. Don'fc
talk so loud. If be should hear yor
speak ill of him -he would call you out
Ind kill-you."
"Why has no one undertaken to pul
him out of the way? He should be
Ihot down like a dog."
The spotted death's eye flashed. Htr
nad overheard Le Fevre's words. He
had ordered a bottle of wine and had
poured out a glass. Rising with it In
his hand, he advanced a few steps to
ward Edouard and threw its contents
in his face.
Every member of the party of stu
dents was horror efrlcken. Le Fevre
saw the position in which he was
placed and, though he regretted his
rashness, did what was expected of
him. He asked one of his friends to
go to the man who had insulted him
and secure his address, then, withont
waiting for a reply, arose with ths
others and left the cafev
In Le Fevre's rooms a consultation
of his friends was held to determine
what was to be done. Considering the
sentiment prevalent at that time, it
was determined that -if Edouard did
not meet the spotted death he might
as well give up his career so far as. his
native cutry was concerned, and
there was then no civilized land where
a man was excused from resenting an
insult Edouard resigned himself to
his fate. He sent a challenge, and the
meeting was arranged for the follow
ing morning at sunrise." ,
That night Edouard wrote a letter
toHelene couched in the terms of one
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whq,'expected to diewit.hin a few
hours. He had no skill at any weapon
and knew he was to be murdered. The
main trouble that occupied his mind
was the suffering tfis murder would
occasion her. He begged her to do all
fa her power to forget him.
As was to have been expected, the
spotted death the next morning made
short work of his antagonist, running
him through the heart with ease. The
student expired immediately. His
comrades regretted the want of cau
tion that led to his death, and in a
short time he was forgotten.
One night at a masked ball a figure
entered the hall on whose mask was
painted the spotted death. Evidently
an artist had designed the mask, for
nothing could be more horrible, repre
senting, as it did, a man dying with
the dreaded Asiatic disease. The spots
had been so artistically painted, as to
appear those of the veritable infliction
Every one shrank from , the loath
some looking masker, who gazed about
the room till his eye fell on a man
dressed as a Spanish grandee, then
walked -across the, floor, every one
withdrawing before him with a shud
der, till, reaching the Spanish gentle
man, be stood very close to him and
spat in' his face.
"Ladies and gentlemen." said the ag
gressor, "we two I and this man are
twin brothers. We are both the spot
ted death. I wear my colors on my
person, his are in his name." v
At receiving the insult the Spaniard
recoiled for a moment then, recover
ing himself, tore off. his mask and re
vealed the features of the duelist who
had killed Edouard Le Fevre. .
"Unmask as I have done and let me
know who you are." he said to the
man who had spat upon him.
"That is unnecessary. " I am the spot
ted death, the person of your twelve
victims. The thirteenth is about to
die."
"And he is?" "
"Yourself." -'
Whether it was the confident tone in
which the word was spoken or the liv
id agony expressed in. the mask the
duelist could not repress a slight start.
"Enough of this!" he said. "Your
coming here to disturb these festivi
ties shall be punished. I will send a
friend to any address you name." ,
"Pardon me: but. lest the insult I
have given you should not be sufficient,
I will duplicate it."
Bending forward quick as lightning;
the speaker struck the duelist on the
cheek with the palm of his hand. A
dropof blood followed the blow. The
duelist did not notice it at once, but
in a moment, putting up his hand, he
wiped it away. r
"Your address!" he cried, irritated at
this second insult
"You shall have it In time. Messieurs
and mesdames, pardon for .interrupt
ing your festivities. On with . the
dance! It is now 10 o'clock. By mid
night or within an hour later my twin
brother shall have my address. I de
sire to accord him a few hours of mer
riment before I embrace him!"
The duelist with difficulty maintained
his com-Osure.
At midnight the revelers unmasked.
The duelist, who after the altercation
had resumed his face covering, on
taking it off a second time was seen
to be suffering. He attempted to leave
the hall, but staggered, and before
reaching the floor fell. It was no
ticed bythose who went to his as
sistance that his face was covered
with spots, such as were painted, on
the musk of the ni.-in viii Ead insult
ed him.
"The spotted death!" some one ex
claimed.
Then his enemy, still masked, ap
peared on the scene and. bending over
him, said: '
"I embrace you. my brother."
Then, rearing off his own mask, in
stead of a man's a woman's face was
revealed a woman whose rare beau
ty had been marred by suffering.
"You will not need my address." she
said. "When I slapped your cheek,
in my palm was a needle on whose
point was the virus of the spotted
death. V'our victims, including Edou
ard Le Fevre. are avenged."
While .she spoke the spots on the
man's face grew stronger and its ex
pression like the mask she had worn.
There was something startling In his
own expression at seeing the change
when she unmasked from the hideoti
apparition to the features of a deli
cate woman who hung over him like
an avenging angel. The disease witli
which she had inoculated him works
quickly, and the mnn was already dy
ing. She continued to gaze upon him
while his breath grew shorter till at
last he fell back dead in the arms of
Ine supporting him.
Helene Bouelenult returned simul
taneously to her native town with the
news of her avenging act. Paris was
glad to get rid of the man whom all
dreaded, and she was never called to
account for her act. How she tracked
her lover's murderer.prepared for her
work. she never told, for she never
spoke of the tragedy in any part. She
lived many years, some asserting that
she had become demented by being
robbed of her lover, others claiming
that she was mentally sound.
BRUTUS at the Grand TOMORROW.
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
MEETS THIS EVENING
The Philharmonic Society will meet
this evening at the Congregational
church , instead of Wednesday night
as formerly. Every member of the so
ciety is urged to be present. The
Philharmonic orchestra is to meet as
usual Friday night, at the Congrega
tional church, the rehearsal to be de
voted entirely to Concert music. The
Oregon City Band will meet in the
Armory Wednesday night, for march
ing drill, and the concert program
be given next Saturday night at Sev
enth and Main. This will be for the
benefit of the business men of the
community.
A Wildcat and a Fo.
Two Colorado men were out driving
near Pine creek when they saw a red
fox coming down the road at full speed
and about twenty feet in the rear a
wildcat. The meu had a. view of the
race for nearly a mile The pace was
terrific, and neither runr.er seemed to
gain an inch on the other for the whole
distance. But the cat evidently had
more endurance and would have over
taken the fox h.-id it not been for the
men in the buggy. Keynnrd chose the
lesser of two, evils and niu up boldly,
passing the men like jin arrow, hut
the wildcat stopped at s;!)t of tbem
and, after n second's hesitation, slunk
Intcf the lmslr-s iiiv! gve up the chase
St. Louis Clobe-PeincKTat.
- Bird Reservations.
The federal government owns fifty
five bird reservations hi different pr.rts
of the United States. -
F. M. Gill
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Republican candidate for nomination
for representative,, only condidate
from east end of tne County.
GENTLEMEN: It will not be pos
sible for me to meet each voter in
the county. I am a farmer and have
my spring work to do. Hence I have
taken a page in the State Voter's
Pamphlet to place before you my re
cord of service in the last House of
Representatives. PLEASE READ IT.
It will probably be the last page of the
pamphlet. Let me remind you that
I voted against more than ($1,000,000)
one million dollars of appropriations,
that I voted against useless commis
sions; and against every effort to
weaken the initiative and referendum.
I voted for Dimick's 8-hour bill and
fought for the rights of Clackamas
County's fishermen. I was the recog
nized leader of the farmers' fight
against crcs3 state roads and Port
land road bills. The farmers won. I
believe their victory was at least part
ly due to my efforts in organizing the
House against those bills. I am one
of . the authors of the grange road
bills. If people living along the Pa
cific Highway or Capital City High
way de3ire to use their tax money on
these roads, well and good. It is their
own business. But people ia the east
end of this county should not be taxed
for such purposes.-
A large majority oi tne people ue
siring the repeal of the school super
visor law, I will work for the repeal.
I will vote against needless appropria
tions, useless commissions, and offices
and all attempts to weaken the initi
ative and referndum and recall.
F. M. GILL.
PIONEER OF 1845
VISITS FRIENDS HERE
John B. Fifers, one of the promi
nent Oregon pioneers, was in this city
Monday, and while here visited Mrs.
M. M. Carver, of Thirteenth and Wash
ington streets. Mr. Fifers came from
McConnville, O., to Oregon by team
in 1845. There were thirty persons
in the party and many hardships were
endured. Mr. Fifers also visited sev
eral other Oregon pioneers and en
joyed the day relating experiences. He
is in his 82nd year, and is enjoying
the best of health. He " has been
spending the winter as-is his cutom
in Southern Oregon,- and is on his way
home to Tekoa, Wash., where he will
spend the summer.