The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, February 06, 1896, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAloazo Gwlild 1 14 96 " top i VOL. XXXII. COR VALLIS, BENTON COUNTY; OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1896. NO. 47. TRANSPORTATION. East and South -VIA- The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co, EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY. 18 50 p H Leave Portland Arrive I 8.10 A H 2:10 P M j lave Albany Arrive) 4:6!) A H 10:45 a m I Arrive 8. Francisco Leave I 6:00 pm Above trains stop at East Portland, Oregon Citv. Woodbarn. salem. Turner, Marion, Jeffer son, Albany, Albany Junction, Taufr-nt, Sbeddg, Halsey, Harrisburg. Junction City, Irving, Eu gene, Creswell, Drains, and all stations from itoseDtirg to Asniana, inclusive. KOSKBORG MAIL DAILY. 8:30 a M Leave 12:45 P M I Leave 5:20 p M I Arrive Jfortlund Albany Rosuburg Air.vei 4.40 rH Arrive! 1:1opm Leave I 6:00 a M Pullman B.irTet sleepers and second-class sleeping cars attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 p M Lsave Portland Arrive 1 10:15 a m 6:15 pm Arrive Salem Leave 8:00 am WEST SIDK division. Between Portland and Corvsllis daily (except Sunday). Mail train 7-30 A M Leave Porilaud Arrive 16:20 p 12:15 p M Arrive Corvallia' Leave 1:35 pm At Albany and Corvallia connect with trains of (be Oregon Central & Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sui:day). 4 :45 p M Leave .7:25 P M Arrive Portland McMinnville Arrive 8:25 a M Leave 5:C0 a m Through tickets to all points in the Eastern states, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallia. R. KOEHI.ER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNEIL, Receiver. TO THE EAST GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL JE& OUT B S VIA VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND AND" ST. PAUL .:kansas.city v LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS -..FOR... SAN FRANCISCO For full details, call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'L Pass. Agent, Portland - - Orcgoi OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R. CO. Yaquina Bay Route Connecting at Yaquina Bay with the San praneiseo & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship "Farallon " A 1 and first-class In every respect. Sails from Yaquina for San Francisco about every eight days. Passenger acc mmodatlnns unsurpassed. Shortest route between the Willamette valley and California. Fare From Albany or Points West to Saa Francisco : Cabin $12 Steerage : 8 Cabin Round trip, good for GO days 18 For sailing days aiiply to W. A. CCMHING9, Agent. Corvallia. Oregon. EDWIN STONE, Manager, Corvallis, Oregon. CHAS. CLARK, Sup't, Corvallia, Oregon. THE NEW MARTHAS ud 0. R. i I 11 BAl' To points in WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, DAKOTAS, MINNE SOTA, and the East. Through tickets on eale to and from CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, WASHING TON, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, and ALL POINTS in the United States, Canada and Europe. The Great Northern Railway is a new transcontinental line. Runs buffet library observation cars, palace sleeping and dining cars, family tourist sleepers and first and second class coaches. Having a rock-ballast track the Great Northern Railway is free from dust, one of the chief annoyances ot transcontinental travel. Round trip tickets with stop-over privileges and choice of return routes. For farther information call upon or write. C. S. SMITH, Occidental Hotel, Corvallis, Oregon, or C. C. DONAVAN, Gen'l Ag't, 122 Third Street, Portland, Oregon. DR. WILSON Office over First National bank. Residence, two blocks west of courthouse. Office hours, 8 to 10 A. H., 1 to 3 p. u . Sundays and evenings by appointment. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen & Woodward's drug store. Office hoars 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P. M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after noars ana on Sundays. G.R. FARRA, M. D. Office In Farra & Alien's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court house. Office hoars 8 to 9 A. M ., and 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. m. aii ca is attenaea promptly. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Corvallis, Oregon Does a general practice in all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice. Joseph H. Wilson. Thomas e. Wilson WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT- LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Con veyancing. JL ROMS ATE.. H.-L. HOW3ATJ5. HUHurjr ruuuc. atwuu m. me rwm. H0LCATE& SON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - Oregon J. R. Bbtson W. E. Yates J. Fbid Yates Bryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts -of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. V. E. WAITERS, Prop. Office at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or. We learn from the Monterey (Cal.) Express that that town had a narrow escape from wholesale destruction the other day. It says: "John King's pea nut roaster caught fire yesterday morn ing, but the damage was slight." The lire laddies must have fought like Tro jans. Berlin proposes to have an immense "Cairo Street" at her exhibition next year. Six times as much space will be given to it as was given at the Chicago exhibition, and besides reproductions of Egyptian scenery and monuments, there will be a harem bidden among the shops. WAY EAST COS LINES Ths Short Route TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events of the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Items of Importance From Domestic and Foreign Sources Cream of the Dispatches. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is being considered by the administration as the possible successor to Theodore Run yon, as ambassador to Germany. It is reported that Germany has or dered twelve torpedo-destroyers from a London shipbuilder. The new vessels are to have a speed of thirty knots an hour. A railroad bridge near Sausalito, CaL, collapsed from the weight of a locomotive, resulting in the death of the engineer and serious injury, to the fireman. Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers, formerly first lord of the admiralty, chancellor of the Duohy of Lancaster, and financial secretary of the treasury, died in London. . General Joseph H. Porter died at the Grand Union hotel, N,ew York.' The immediate cause oi ms a earn was com plications from a gunshot wound in the lungs, received during the war. The rolling mills of the Illinois Steel Company, located at South Chicago, which were shut down December SI, have resumed, giving work to 6,000 men, who have been idle since the shut down. A physician of Rio de Janeiro de clares that he has found a cure which is almost certain in its effects for yel low fever. The physician's new rem edy consists of the internal use of doses of the extract of eucalyptus. A dispatch to the London Pall Mall Gazette from Cairo, Egypt, says a seri ous revolution has occurred at Khar toum, growing out of differences be tween the mahdi and the tribes belong ing to the interior of Soudan. The mahdi is practioally overthrown. The Berlin Tageblatt says: "It will be the duty of continental diplomacy to oonvinoe America that England's mo tives in the Armenian question are po litical, and not humane, and thus dis suade the United States from co-operating with England." . A dispatch to the New York World from Caracas, says: Anti-English meetings are again being held. -The women of Venezuela form branches of society for the defense of national (err. ritory, and will boycott all English household goods. Belva Lockwood, once a presidential candidate on the woman's rights ticket, and now a practicing attorney in Washington, has been debarred as a practicing attorney or agent before the pension bureau. She is aocused of having improperly accepted a pension fee of $25. "' ' - . Pinkerton detectives -have arrested Express Agent George Krout,' of Colo rado Springs, Cola, on a charge of be ing implicated in the theft of f 35,000 from Wells-Fargo Company several months ago. Krout claims to be in nocent, saying he had been robbed by highwaymen. William Gambold, a railroad brake- man, has begun suit against the Penn sylvania Railroad Company for $25,000 damages for malicious proseoution. The suit is the outgrowth of the Ameri can Railway Union strike of 1894, and is brought as a test case. . A special dispatch from St Peters burg says: Arrangements point to a conclusion between Russia, Great Britain, France and Italy for a final settlement of the Armenian question. These include Russia's occupation and administration of Anatolia, and the purchase of Cyprus by Russia. The first signs of the Dominion gov ernment's intention to carry out its promises towards the protection of the country, in the event of trouble with any other nation, are seen in the esti mates of the coming year, whioh have been presented to parliament by the Hon. G. E. Foster, minister of finance. The total estimate for the ensuing year is $41,230,681, about the same as last. In the expenses for the maintenance of the militia, however, there is an in crease of $372,716 over last The unexpected order for Commander Ballington Booth's recall to England from America, has occasioned so much disquietude and murmuring among the rank and file of the Salvation Army in this country that General William Booth, father of Ballington Booth and commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army forces throughout the world, who is now in Australia, has decided to visit the United States next spring. The treasury department is exceed' ingly anxious that a large proportion of the gold offered in payment of the new bonds shall be obtained in Europe, and for the purpose of encouraging im ports, it is intimated that the bidder who offers foreign gold, or who demon strates that he has gold on the way at the time the bids are opened, will be given preference in the awards, other things being equal, over others who offer domestio gold. The second opinion in the Eastern Oregon branch asylum case has been banded down by the supreme court. This time the injunction is dissolved and the complaint dismissed, leaving the constitutional question still unset tied. The opinion was written by Judge Wolverton and concurred in by the other two members. In its ruling, the oourt admits that the question is one of grave . importance, but does not soonider the case within its jurisdiction to determine upon constitutional grounds. C. W. Smith, of San Francisco, has been named as a new receiver for the Atlantic & Pacific railroad. The Colisseum in . Chicago has been seleoted as the place for holding the national Democratic 'convention. The American board has received word from Erzerorjm, Turkey, that through the relief money which is sent, bread is given daily to about 1,500 persons in that city alone. But appli cants for relief are nearly twice that number. March 25 the German reichstag will celebrate in an elaborate manner the signing of the preliminary peaoe of 1871. Three members ofj the last Ohio legislature have been indicted for bribery. The names are not made pub lic yet. The Liberty bell, which has been on exhibition at the Atlanta exposition, has been returned .to Philadrlphia. Its arrival there was. announced by a salute oi lorty-nve guus. Charles Asimus, ' who murdered James Greenwood September 21 last, died on the gallows at Kalama, Wash. His last words were: "I must die; I am all right; the sheriff he good man; one bad man, I, must die. I'm all right." Whittaker Wright, an Australian yachtsman, has offered a $500 cup, to be sailed for during the Riviera season, and with the object of bringing about a meeting between such big yachts as Britannia, Satanita.Ailsa and possibly an American yacht The Japanese legation in Washing ton has received an important cable gram from the foreign office of Japan with a direction to make it public, by the terms of whioh the rich island of Formosa, which Japan acquired from China, will be openad up to trade and commerce. . - V The Blue Jay, Silver Bow and Gray Rock mines, of the Butte & Boston group, in Butte, Mont, have olosed down, and over 800 men are thrown out of employment he pumps have not been withdrawn, from the mines, which shows that thfl shutdown is only temporary. ; . In view of the report circulating in the United States that William K. Vanderbilt is shortly to announce his engagement to Miss Amy Bend, Vanity Fair, published in London, this week asserts that William K. ' Vanderbilt will shortly announce his engagement to an English duchess. : - Lord and Lady Sholto Douglas have abandoned their theatrical tour through California and returned to San Fran cisco. ,Tne lord -attributes the failure of. the trip to the- heayirains and the fact that his advance agent left him in an inopportune time. He says he will try it again shortly. The London Observer says: "We have good authority leading us to ex press the belief that Germany recently invited Russia and other powers to co operate in a plan hostile to England's continued occupation of Egypt Ac cording to our information and belief this, proposition was declined "by Russia." . . 3 Emperor William is firmly deter mined to carry out the projeot of doubl ing the size of the German navy. A high German official says he has had re peated conversations with the emperor on this subject during the past three weeks, and he asserted that during the coming summer the plan for the reor ganization of the navy will be drawn up. The forthcoming monthly state ment of the government receipts and expenditures for January will show that aggregate receipts will be approx imately $29,237,670; expenditures, $32,696,430, leaving a deficit for the month of about $3,459,160, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year of about $18,813,875. Receipts from the customs during the present month will amount to about $16,380,- 796; from internal revenue, $11,041, 401; from miscellaneous sources, about $1,815,472. This is a decrease of about $1,000,000 in receipts from the customs as compared with January, 1895, and an increase of about $2,000,- 000 in receipts from the internal reve nue. A dispatch to the London Standard from Madrid says: The papers here protest energetically against the United States senate committee's attitude on the Cuban question. They declare that the insurgents have fulfilled none of the requisites by international law or usage for the recognition of belliger ency. The government organs,' with a view of pacifving the public irritation, point out that President Cleveland, his ministers and the federal authorities so far have preserved a perfectly correct and friendly attitude toward Spain, contrasting strongly with the popular sympathy and assistance the insurgents have obtained from the American peo ple. Bequests in Prize Packages. Cleveland, O., Feb. 8. Luther Moses' will, which has just been pro bated, is peculiar in that seventeen be quests to relatives are represented in as many prize packages, contained in the safe at the Savings & Trust Com pany. As soon as the executors fur nish bonds the heirs will repair to the bank and receive the packages, which are numbered and assigned. It- is sup posed they contain deeds to real estate and perhaps checks lor sums of money. The testator died three weeks ago. He was possessed of a large fortune, the exaot value of which is not known. Alleged Overtures to the Powers. ' London, Feb. 3. A Madrid dispatch says: It is stated that overtures whioh the United States has made to the powers to recognize the Cuban insur gents as belligerents have failed. SPEECH BY SALISBURY Supports the Monroe Doctrine as a Rule of Policy. ENGLAND AND THE ARMENIANS Reason Why Great Britain Has Not Interfered Reforms in Turkey England Not Bound. London, Feb. 8. The banquet of the Nonconformist Unionist Associa tion at the Hotel Metropole tonight was the occasion of an address by the Marquis of Salisbury, prime minister and secretary of state for foreign affairs. In the course of his remarks he said, with reference to Venezuela: 1 have been held up as the de nouncer of the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of faot, although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law, my dispatch to Mr. Olney, the secre tary of state of the United States, sup ported it as a rule of policy in the strongest and most distinct terms. "But when I stated in that dispatch and I reiterate it now that, as a rule of policy we are the advocates of the Monroe doctrine, we mean the Monroe doctrine as President Monroe understood it In that sense, you will not find any more convinoed Supporters than we are " Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian question, and he re proached the religious communities with laboring under a mistake when they supposed that England had bound herself in honor to succor the Armeni ans', which means to go to war with the sultan in order to force him to govern the Armenians welL The Ber lin treaty, Lord Salisbury said, merely bound the signatory powers that, if the sultan promulgated, certain reforms, they would watch over the execution of those reforms. . Nothing more. He did not think any one could interpret that as an understanding to go to war. I am not bound to answer the ques tion why Europe does not interfere. I say confidently that none of the powers wished to interfere, and I believe their view is that, with patience, the sul tan's prestige, which is the only power left in the country, will ultimately re establish order and allow commerce and industry to take their usual1 secure course. That is their view, and it is our duty to give the sultan time. It is not for me to pass judgment on that view, but no other remedy has been suggested. It is some encouragement to &ad that already some degree of or der is being restored. g If you do not act with the : great poworsy you-anetocfc-agaiB8 the? and produce calamities far more awful and terrible than the Armenian atrocities. " In conclusion, Lord Salisbury refer red to the recent patriotic demonstra tions in the colonies in the face of threatened foreign complications, and said: -' "I care notr how much we are iso lated if we are united. An example 'has been set which will shed beneficent light on the last generations of Eng land." TRADE REVIEW. Indications of Definite Improvement in Business. New York. R. G. Dun Company's weekly review of trade says: Though business is still waiting, there are some signs of definited im provement. It is now believed that the first payment for bonds will cause no further pressure, and the money markets are easier in respect to loans on collateral, though the difficulty of making commercial loans still checks operations. But large maturities at the end of January have been met more satisfactorily than was expected, and merchants and bankers report that the signs promise a good spring trade No increase appears as yet in the de mand for the principal products, un less for some forms of iron and steel, in whioh good contracts have been made this week,' and uncertainty as to congressional action still affects the in dustries and commerce, but the in crease in inquiry and the reports of dealers are deemed assurances of large trade coming whenever the uncertainty is over. Siena of improvement in the iron and steel business are gratifying, even though they spring from combinations which have raised the price of coke and allotted the output of lake iron ore. There is also a better demand for wire nails, after long stagnation, and also for sheets. Pig iron is weaker. South ern works are competing sharply, while speculative buyers of some months ago are selling below present furnace prices, but the average from all products is practically unchanged, and 11.4 per cent below the higest figure last year. Coke production has again been out down 10,975 tons in a single week. Minor metals are strengthened a shade by speculation. Sales of wool at the three chief mar kets have diminished of late, manufac turers buying only for present needs. Wheat has again advanced about 3 cents for cash, but only 1 cents for May, although Atlantic exports are lit tle larger than a year ago, and for four weeks, flour ' included, have been 8,403,765 bushels, against 7,357,884 bushels last year. Neither this faot nor the continued excess of Western receipts for the week, 2,381,912 bush els, against 1,226,012 bushels last year, explain an advance for which the basis or the excuse must be sought in foreign advances. Failures this week were 404 in the United States, against 354 last year, and 70 in Canada, against 54 last year. If an orchard is to be planted -in the spring, prepare the ground in the fall. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doings of the Nation's Lawmakers Senate. Washington, Feb. 1. Senators were late in arriving at the senate chamber today. Hale reported back the urgent deficiency appropriation bill and gave notice that he would ask to take it up Monday. Morrill called up the bill for the payment to the widow of the late Samuel F. Miller, justice of the supreme oourt, of a sum equal to the balance of his salary for the year in which he died. Morrill explained that the justice had left only a house, en cumbered Iy a $10,000 mortgage, and that the widow's circumstances were such as to make the appropria tion desirable. The bill was passed. The resolution directing the secretary of agriculture to execute the law rela tive to seed distribution was then taken up, and George spoke in defense of the oourse of the secretary. Gallinger and Allen supported the resolution. The resolution gave way at 2 o'clock to the silver bond bill, and Call con tinued his speech begun ' yesterday. Mitchell of Oregon followed in support of the silver substitute, consuming the rest of the day. Washington, Feb-. 3. When the senate convened today the silver bond bill had the immediate right of way. Vilas addressed the senate in opposi tion to the bill, whioh, he said, de served its fate of being strangled by silver, and, in denuciation of the mine owners of the Rockies, who, he de clared, were responsible for the agita tion in favor of free coinage. The senate committee on privileges and elections decided to report in favor of seating Dupont, Rep. , as senator from Delaware. The committee divided on strict party lines, being five to four against " Republican senators in cau cus today decided to make an attempt to complete the reorganization of the senate, and to meet next Friday for the purpose. Washington, Feb. 4. -The long con test over the silver bond bill is at an end in the senate, that body having passed the free silver Toinage substi tute for the house bond bill by the de cisive vote of 42 to 35 a majority of seven for free silver. This result was reached at 3 o'clock today, after three hours of caustio debate and sharp par liamentary fencing. The bill pro vides: "That from and after the pas sage of this act, the mints of the United States shall be open to the coinage of silver, and there shall be coined dollars at the weight of 412 grains, Troy, of standard silver, nine-tenths fine, as provided by the act of January 8, 1837, and upon the same terms and subject to the limitations and provisions of the law regulating the coinage and legal-tender .quality of gold, and when ever the said coins herein provided for shall "be received ' into '.'Jhe treasury, certificates may be issued thereon in the manner now provided by law." Rouse. ' Washington, Feb. 1. The attend ance in the house was sum today. Wadsworth, from the committee on agriculture, reported the agricultural appropriation bill. On motion of Doo- little, a resolution was adopted request ing the president at his earliest conve nience, to transmit to congress the re port of the board of engineers on the Nicaragua canal. The bill to amend the dependent pensions act of 1890, so that in considering widows' claims seven years of unexpected absence should be deemed sufficient proof of the death of the soldier, was passed. A bill was passed for the reorganization of the customs collection district of Alaska. Washington, Feb. 3. The house to day confined itself to routine business. Most of the session was devoted to the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The committee on ways and means adopted a resolution providing for an investigation of the tariff dis crimination against American products and the effect of the repeal of reciproc ity laws. The resolution was intro duced by Tawney. Experts to make the investigation are provided for. Representative Maguire, of California, addressed the house committee on Pa cific railroads in opposition to the funding bill. There was much discus sion as to whether the government holds prior title to the other interests. Chairman Powers appointed Messrs. Arnold of Pennsylvania, Watson of Ohio, and Bell of Texas, a committee to investigate the question of the pri ority of the lien. Washington, Feb. 4. Attendance in the house today was small. Powers asked unanimous consent for considera tion of a senate bill to pay the widow of the late Justice Samuel F. Miller $7,149, the balance of his salary for the year in which he died. Loud objected and the bill was referred. Bills were passed to grant to the St. Louis & Oklahoma City rialroad right; of way through the Indian and Oklahoma ter ritories; to amend the act granting to the Kansas City, Pittsburg &Gulf rail road right to - build a branch road to Fort Smith. A resolution reported by Taft from the committee on foreign affairs was adopted, calling on the president, if not incompatible with the publio interest, to transmit to the house all correspondence between this gov ernment and Germany relative to the exclusion of insurance companies of the United States from transacting busi ness in Germany. The house then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the Colum bia appropriation bill. Expenditures for Canada's Militia. Ottawa, Feb. 3. The annual re port of the mininster of militia gives the total expenditures for the militia last year as $1,547,013. Only 20,877 put in their annual drill" of twelve days last year. The adjutant-general calls attention to the obsolete rifles with whioh the force is equipped. THE RISE IN WHEAT Decidedly Encouraging the Growers. to INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS More Than Anything- Else, the Cause of the Substantial Improvement in the Wheat Market. The great nations of the earth are now standing glaring at one another with their sleeves rolled up, and it is doubtful whether a great war can be averted much longer. It is this con dition of international relations more than anything else, we think, that is causing the substantial improvement in tne wheat market We hope that the price will continue to rise and be at such a figure when the next crop comes in that every farmer will be able tc recoup on the losses of the last -. three years and come out with a snug little sum for a rainy day. The dis proportionate rise in the local market is due no doubt largely to the unusual demand for loading the many vessel now at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and San Francisco. A Portland paper states that besides the large number of vessels already in the Willamette, thirty-six to forty are expected within a month. The Ledger, of Tacoma. states-that more vessels are -soon to arrive in that port for the purpose of taking on wheat These charters are not taken and must be made use of with as little delay as possible, hence the urgent demand for Walla Walla wheat to fill out the cargoes. London Standard's Views. The - following from the London Standard will explain in a measure reasons why there should be at least a small raise in the price of wheat: The area of wheat grown in the United Kingdom in 1895 was the smallest ever recorded since any at tempt at a statistical statement was made. For the whole United King dom it was 1,456,200 acres, or more than 500,000 aoresless than 1894. The total product of the wheat crop in Great Britain is officially estimated at not more than 37,194,256 bushels, while the total requirements were 240,000,000 bushels. More than 2, 000,000 acres have gone out of wheat cultivation in England in the last twenty years. The average per acre last year was the smallest ever known, only 261'2' bushels. It is also stated that Russia's wheat crop was 50,000, 000 bushels short in 1895, and the rye corp 80,000,000 short This came from a decline in the yield per acre. Great Britain cannot afford to cutivate - wheat at the prices of the last two or three years." Decline in Shipments. A resume of the grain shipments as made by the Tacoma Ledger, shows that the amount of wheat coming in to that city this year is not nearly as large as it was last year. Up to De cember 1, only 3,500 cars of wheat, approximately, had arrived from East ern Washington grain fields. One thousand of these cars arrived during November, 800 during October and 600 cars between September 10 and Octo ber 1. These figures were obtained from the state grain commission which began to inspect grain the second week of October. About 500 cars had rolled into the city before inspection began, making between 3,400 and 3,500 cars altogether. Besides this there are 500 cars which have arrived here for ship ment to San Francisco that are not enumerated in the above figures. Last year during the months of Au gust, September, October and Novem ber, 5,143 cars had been received here besides about 1,000 cars that had passed through the city consigned to San Francisco. As previously reported in the Led ger, the reason for the light movement is that farmers are holding to their crop, expecting higher prices, and also that the illegal rebates alleged to be granted by the O. R. & N., are send ing a great deal of the wheat which had heretofore come to Tacoma to Portland and San Francisco this sea- q. The average receipts now amount to. twenty cars daily. The wheat mar ket has shown a rising tendency for ten days past, and if price? continue to go up, the movement will increase as pro ducers will be more anxious to dispose of their crop. Notwithstanding the depressing outlook a number of ships have already loaded cargoes here and many others are on their way to take on wheat and flour cargoes at the Ta coma docks. . A gri cultural Suggestions. We boast that our nation feeds the world, but it does not by any means. We import products to the amount of $5,0000,000. There are brought in more or less of all grains; many horses and mules, eggs, cheese, butter and condensed milk; potatoes by the thou sands of bushels. Let us hope there will be a change some day. So often the side branches of farm work fail to pay because carried on negligently. A dozen hives of bees should bring the farmer as much reve nue as a 10-acre wheat field. The re turn the care of his chickens would bring is underrated, and even the children are not trained to a proper in terest in them. The relative value of timothy and wild hay has not yet been thoroughly investigated; but so far as experiments have come under observarion they seem to be favorable to wild hay against timothy. The other question, as to which is the most profitable crop for the farmer to grow, must be large ly settled by the farmer himself. The question of soil and location must be considered.