EUGENE CITY GUARD.
I, U I'AMPBKLL. Prrlelr,
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
PACIFIC COAST.
Portuguese Laborers are
Basely Deluded.
SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO STOCK
Petaluma Will Probably Have a Silk
Factory Real Indians in a
Border Drama.
The Appeal Court at Victoria, It. C,
haa sustained the Htinday closing law.
fSteattirioatH on tlie I'pper Willamette
are toquit towing barges, ltdocanot pay.
Telephone connection between Is
Angeles ami Santa Barbara has been
made.
Montana mining companies an shut
ting down the mills, owing to the low
price of silver.
Revenue ollicers at Koine City are suc
cessfully raiding Chinese shops lor coil'
traband opium.
The company for bnildiiiK and operat
ing silk factory at I'etaltima, Cat., haa
been reincorirorated.
8an lterimrdino and Loa Angeles are
made doner neighbor ly a llier the
Kouthern Pacific has put on to run lie-
tween the cities.
The Southern Pacific is to rebuild about
eight miles of track on a lusher level at
. . . . . t it a v ;..
iN'lioa, easi 01 oeiison, n. i. j""
done to avoid washouts.
The United Htates District Attorney at
Boise City, Idaho, haa requested the dis
migHHl of the indictments against twenty
Moruiotn accused of polygamy ami adul-
tery on the ground that the evidence la
insulhcieni to convict.
A Boise City dispatch eayi: The re
norta floating through the press of largf
losses of stock in hutheastrn Mnho
are absolutely without foundntion. Tlie
cattlemen have an abundance of hay on
baud to feed tlie stock till grass appear)
Tlio Loa Angeles lufiiiwj fopm will
be twenty-one years old on March 27
next, and the event Is to be celebrated
witli a eoiiiDlcte " new dress." The '.'.i-
vrm is the oldest paper in Hoiithcrn Cal
ifornla, with the exception of the San
Diego (.mm.
A scheme has developed t control the
water supply o( Los Angeles. A secret
meeting of the Conned was held, in
which attorneys add reused it in the al
leged interest of the public, but evi
dently to obtain advantage for a newly
organized company,
C. P. ;lluntington lias Instructed V.
II. Mills, laud audit of the Central Pa
cific, to make some large land purchases
In California. Mr. Huntington writes:
" We must break np large land holdings
in California If we ever exect to make
any great auccess with our railroads. Ten
thousand acres in Northern California
will soon be purchased and sold in small
lot to farmers. Other large purchase
will follow."
" Nick of tlie Woods," a Wirder drama,
was put on the stage at Carson, Nev.,
the other night with local talent, tien
uine WaHhoe ni.d Piute Indians were in
the stake dance, which is graphically
descrllied as s lealistic that the " audi
ence was spell-hound and timid ladies
trembled as the apparently infuriated
savages swooped their knives and hatch
ets in the face of Nick."
One of the biggest gold nuggets ever
seen at Tucson, A- brought to
that city recently. A Mexican, while
walking along the placer diggings at
(Juijotoa, which had been washed out by
the late rains, saw the gold, a dingy yel
low lump, sticking out of the sand, and
kick wl it ooae. The value of it is about
1200. It weighs eleven ounces. Smaller
nugget were also found.
About twenty Portuguese lalxirers
have been lauded at Port Harford
through the agency of an intelligence
olHce in Han Francisco, which represent
ed to the men that In I Hirers were wanted
t Han Luis Obispo on street work. The
men soon made the discovery that they
had been duped into paying a fee to
some rascally labor agent, and that no
work was to be had.
It Is stated at Victoria, It. C, that the
government has decided to aid the proj
ect of bringing crofters to that province
by loaulng the province 150,000 for
thirty years at H per rent, interest. It
is further stated that an English com
pany Is in course of organisation, with a
capital of t,tKH),0(H), (or the purpose of
purchasing the llsh from theUiataof the
crullers as soon as caught and transport
ing them through the cold-storage sys
tem on steamers and cars to every im
portant market on the continent.
The Fresno Canal and Irrigation Com
pany, formerly the Pine Kidgo Hume,
tiled a declaration of Intention to bond
the Hume for 3 10,000, the bonds to run
lor twenty years. The purpose is to
raise money for the construction of a
flame from Fresno fifty-seven miles to
the timber Iwlt of the Sierras. The pur
pose is to bring lumber down; also to
carry water for irrigation purposes. Ity
ft 80,000 acres ol raisin land will receive
water, which now haa none. A billion
ieetof lumber is tributary to the Hume.
Water in the Fraxer river above Yale
Canyon is lower at present than in the
memory of the oldest Indian. The re
reding water left the sand bar exposed
last week, which Is aixnit two acrea in
size. The bar had no sooner appeared
than a numlier ol Pi washes went over
and prospected it, with the remit that
good pay was found. This created some
excitement among other Indians, and
some fifty Siwaahes are now hard at work
on the bar, all making big wages. As
high as 140 a day ha been washed by
some of them, and the gravel, it is said,
would yield rich returns if means were
at hand to work it scientitlcnllv.
From present indications IVserl Lake
will be much larger than last vear. At
present the lake is about half a mile
wide, and after running along tlie South
ern Pacific track for alwut two miles ex
tends olf out of sight to the south. At
this time last year there was not a drop
of water visible, although there was a
quantity few Inches below the surface
of the sink. It was not until several
month) later that the floods occurred in
the (iiia and Colorado rivers, cnused by
the melting of snows, and it was in Au
gust that the water in Salton Sink began
to attract attention. Snows in the
mountains at present are heavier than
for years, and coming, as the w.itor w ill
when they melt, on land already iu a
large part saturated, a lake of unexam
pled extent will prolahly be created.
Old residents believe that about 100
mile of track of the Southern Pacific,
which lie in the desert below the sea
level, will be overflowed.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Senator Allen of Washington Introduce
Bill Relative to Puyallup In
dian Reservation Land.
Ti.o l'mul.li.nt Ins nmiointed the fol
lowing cadets at large to the I'nited
States Naval Academy : Paul K. Toisnlg.
John T. M. Terry, Frank K. Kiclgcly and
Kichard J. Oglesby, jr.
The Senate Committee on Finance has
agreed to inuke an adverse reort on
Senator (Joke's Dill providing ior me
retirement of national bank circulation,
to replace it with treasury notes and to
permit national banks to loan money on
real-estate security with interest at 8 per
cent.
Delegate Calne of Utah presented a
memorial from the legislative Assembly
of Utah asking for an appropriation of
5iM),0o0 for a public building at Salt
Lake City, 26O,O0O for a public building
at Ogden, )IOii,NH for the same purpose
at Provo and f75,0OO for a building at
Logan.
Mr. (lowers of California introduced a
bill to provide for the establishment of
a District anH,ircuin.oiiruu me unu
States at San Diego. The bill provides
that court shall lie held in the souuiern
district of California at San Diego the
first Monday of June and Decemour ol
each year.
A hill has ls-cn introduced in the
House authorizing the Secretary of the
Interior to reserve from public mle or
entry unsurveyed lands within the States
Ol Orill IMKOltt, r'lillll
tana and Washington. The bill aims to
carry into ell'ect those provisions of the
ad admitting these States to the Union,
granting to them lands for educational
anil other purposes.
Senator Allen of Washington has in
troduced a bill to secure removal of all
restrictions upon the title of the Puyal
lup Indian reservation lands ami permit
ting the alienation of these lands, with
the exception of the irtion of the res
ervation within the heavy black lines on
the map and accompanying the report of
the PuvalliiK Indian Commission, com
iirisimr" In all alsiut 2,500 acres. Il also
provides for the public sale of these
lands as provided for by the State legis
lature. A statement has la-en laid Is-fore the
House from the Commissioner of tus
toms showing a ll.711.0iil drawback al
lowed by the government on tin cans,
etc., manufactured from liupoited tin
plate and exported from OcIoIht 1, 1HW
to December 111. I8M. Another state
ment shows the amount of drawback al
lowed on imported salt used in curing
meats exported from Uctols-r 1, imai, to
December III. 18111, aggregated I'.i.'.ziu
Included iu the third statement was a
table giving the quantity and value of
salt imHirtud and withdrawn from the
warehouses (or the purpose of curing
llsh, the duty on which, remitted under
the act ot ((doner l, inhi, aggregaieu
lU'.Wr.OOO pounds, valued at $102,85 I.
After several weeks spent In hearing
arguments (or and against the Hutch
bill, dellning options and providing leg
islation thereon, the limine Committee
on Agriculture will take up the bill (or
consideration. I he facts presented by
those in opposition to the measure have
undoubtedly had some ell'ecl upon the
coi itlee, and it is ipilte likely tnal in
considering the hill by sections certain
changes will be made, but the idea of the
hill will be carried out. The selling of
futures will he stopped, and no sales for
future delivery will le permitted, unless
the article is on nana or inn panics who
make such an agreement are In Hsitiou
to carry it out.
Secretary Husk in answer to a Senate
resolution lias communicated to the Sen
ate the report id the special agent of the
Department of Agriculture upon the
rain-making experiments, tieneral Dy
renfurlh, who is in charge of the exper
iments, in summing up their results
Kays: "The few experiments made do
not furnish sullicieut data from which to
form a dellnite conclusion or evidence
usin which to uphold or condemn the
theories of the arlillcial production or
the increase of rainfall by concussion.
What has liccn done so far is altogether
preliminary, hut with the heuelit of the
experience gained 1 hope the subject
will lw pursued.
Mr. (iillesple of Pennsylvania has In
troduced a bill in the I louse authorising
the Secretary of Vt ar to correct the rec
ord of the released prisoners of war who
were at Camp Parole, that the muster-
out shall date from the discharge lrom
said camp or other place where they
were still suhiect to military control in
stead of the date of tlie musterout of
the regiment to which they were at
tached, which muster-out occurred he
fore their discharge aforesaid, and that
there be allowed ami paid to these sol
diers pay ami allowances to the time of
their actual discharge. Such claims shall
lie examined and reported to the Secre
tary of the Treasury, who shall prepare
an estimate for the amount required to
pay these soldiers.
Mr. Stiimpof Maryland haa Introduced
a concurrent resolution directing the
Senate and House Committees on Imuii
gration and Naturalisation to Impure
into the recent admission into tlie port
of New lorkol a iarire uumticrof Ku
ropcau emigrants alllicted with typhus
fever and to investigate Jointly the work
ings ol the various laws of the United
Stutes relative to immigration from for
eign countiies and the impirtation of
contract lalmrers to the United States
and the exiaoiditurea made in cornice
tion therewith, the investigation to lie
conducted at such times ami places as
the committees may deem proer, and
they be authorlted lointlv as lull com
mittees or through suU-omiuittees to
send for and examine persons, ksiksand
papers and to administer oaths to wit
nesse.
Representative Uoliert Hilt of Illinois
is authority on diplomatic service in the
Mouse by reason ot Ins connection with
the diplomatic service at home am
abroad and also his long service in the
Committee on Foieign Attain. In con
net-lion with the controversy now going
on between certain meiulvrs of the
House as to w ho shall have the credit of
forcing the passage of the Chinese ex
elusion act Mr. llitl says the various
acta proposed are in direct violation ol
the treaty with the Chinese government
He is not posing as the Chinaman's
friend, but he is lisosed to Wlicve that
there is more political sentiment than
anything else mixed up in the Chinese
tpiestion. There are men in Congrew
to-day from the Pacific Coast w ho have
small armie of Chinese servants at
home, and in private conversation they
declare that they could not get along
without Chinese domestics. " If the
Chinese finally concluded to go," he con
tinued, "and theie was no further pre
text to aifitate the que-lion, some of our
political friend would le out of a job."
The same condition of strain would re
suit, he Mill, if the taritl' and the silver
questions were finally disposed of jus
now. Mr. Stump of Maryland and Mr.
i tear y of California are involvrd iu at
amusing, but none the less hitter, per
sonal controversy over the authorship o
al'hiriese bill in the House. Whi e tlie'
were disputing a to who would receivi
the credit for the bill introduced, Senator
liolpti of Oregon intritucrd and passed
a Chinese exclution bill in the Senate,
thus stealing the thunder of both of thein.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Race Trouble in an Ohio
Public School.
COFFIN TRUST REORGANIZED.
Nicaragua Grants the Louisiana Lot
tery Company a Perpetual
Charter Etc.
Philadelphia has retrained her normal
condition of health.
v..ur Vnrlr eunilulisls will build Chi
cago's Ijtke-street elevated road.
Tim Indian appropriation bill reported
to the House carries 7,'J.'W,787.
The wheat crop in Tennessee has been
badly injured by the late freeze.
Baltimore is soon to have an elevated
railroad costing about l.UoO.UHO.
U',,r tur Mdss.. is to alKillsh wade
croseings at a Mai expense of 2,O04,-
000.
South Dakota will probably loe $,
000,000 of its school fund in surts now
ponding.
A proposition is pending in the Iowa
Legislature to substitute high license for
prohibition.
Five of the county officials at San An
tonio, Tex., are under indictment (or
emlie.ileiiicnt.
The Chicago gas trust admits that its
customers have lieen paying lor more
gas than they consumed.
The Illinois State I!oard of Agriculture
savs the wheat area in Illinois is 4 per
cent, larger than last year.
No more smoking is to be tolerated
even in the hall or janitor a room at
high University, Hethlehem, Pa.
The collin trust has la-en reorganized,
and the prices of burial caskets will be
advanced 20 percent, within thirty days.
The merits of the bichloride of gold
treatment for drunkards will prolmbly
le investigated by the New ork Iegis
lulure.
The question of rebuilding the State
University is aletorliing more attention
in the Missouri legislature than any
other subject.
An active discussion is going on in
army and navy circles relative to the
proper guardians of the coasts vessels
ol war or Hie ariiuery.
Kvery precaution is being taken
against the spread of typhus fever in
New York, and the prwqiect is that it
will Iw ellectively checked.
Knee trouble in the public schools at
Ulianon. ().. is creating excitement.
The opHisition to Isith races attending
the same school la becoming intense.
It has la-en ascertained that Lane, the
delimiting TreiiHiirer of Appanoose coun
ty, la., is in Central America. His
liomlsmen have made good his ociila
tions.
The new steam motor which has been
given a partial trial on the street rail
ways in Chicago is too costly and heavy
for ordinary use. 1 he motor weighs lo,
000 pounds.
A Coroner's jury in Peoria, Ill.j brought
in tlie following verdict one day last
week : " We llnd that the deceased
came to her death by being found dead
in her ls-d.
Many HuHsian Jews are applying to
the Consul-deneral in New lork for as
sistance to go back to Russia. They say
they can do lietter there tliau they can
in this country.
Congressman llingham of Philudel
phia will deliver the oration at(ietty
liurgJune 2 on the occasion of the un
veiling of hiuh-watcr-iiiark monument
on Cemetery Uidge.
The retirement of Oenernls John M.
Scholleld and O. O. Howard will take
out of the active service, it is said, every
regular-army olllcer w ho commanded
corps during the civil war.
The Kansas, Arkansas and New- Or
leans railroad has tiled at Little Kock
mortgage (or fll,0iH),000, which money is
to lie used in the construction of the line
through the Suite of Arkansas.
lteports from all the counties of Oeor
uia show a general reduction in the cot
ton acreage of the present year of about
2J per cent. Food cros and tobacco
will till the gap caused by the reduction
The report comes from Philadelphia
that an Kuglish trust has lsen formed,
with ,000,000 capital, to consolidate all
the tanneries of the United States, with
hcadtiuartcra in the Fast ami a local
branch in each State.
A Panama dispatch says: Nicaragua
has granted the lxmisiana lottery a per
petual charter. The principal o I lice ol
the company wilt tie at Oreytown. It
will have branches in all the other Cen
tral American Republics.
Junction City, Mo., has a " Bellamy "
club that does the cooking for forty (our
families. It is a solution of the hired
girl question," and the members art
very enthusiastic. Uist year fn,!l20 were
paid out for table supplies.
It is a coincidence that the tint arrest
made in Ohio under the Brewer law it-
that of a citnen of Jeli'erson namet
Brewer, who, being unable to pay the
.. . i I f . f.-!l i : . .1. :i
line imposed ior lauure to seim ins t ill
drcti to school, has !eeii sent to jail.
A cave has been found under the sub
urbof Highland Park, Chattanooga, and
twenty-live men are at work blasting out
the passage, which is at first verv nar
row, widening into luriie underground
rooms, which seem to have been used in
the past.
" Immigrants are herded worse than
cattle," savs one of the New York In
spectors in report, and " 1 doubt ver
much whether any person w ho ow ns s
dog would give it such quarters as are at
present assigned human being by trans
atlantic steamship companies."
W. A. Brady, manager for Jim Cor
belt, sent Peter lVmohue, sporting e
itor of the New York Ktx'unUr, a check
for 1M0, with the evident intention ot
bribing him. IKinohue returned the
cluck with a vigorous verlwl messnge,
and threatens to make it warm for Mr.
Brady.
It i again asserted that specimens ol
bituminous coal have been discovered
on the Mcsaha iron range in Minnesota
The deposit is said to be extensive. A
valuablediscoveryof petroleum has been
made by persons who are keeping it lo
cation secret until thev secure Ksses
lon of the surrounding land.
Near Kay's Mill, Oa., a negro woman
left her bouse to go to work, leaving a
tail l mouths old in charge of two chil-
Iren, aged 11 and t yean, named Mark
and Lin. Mark, it seem), soon after
the mother left, killed and mangled the
lube with an ax: then he took a fork
and gouged out the eyes of the little
one, which he roasted, and taking a slice
of flesh out of either jaw, he and his
sister sat themselves down and devoured
ibe ricsh.
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Late Duke of Clarence a Great
Admirer of Mr. Gladstone A
Grand Duke Hissed.
Thomas A, Edison was 45 yean old a
few days ago. He was horn in Alva, O.,
from which town he takes his middle
name.
(ieorge Moore, the novelist and essay
ist, is a red-headed man, who looks very
much, it is said, like Kmile Zjla. An
other notable red-headed man Is Swin
burne, the poet.
The handsomest man in Congress and
a particular favorito among the women
lobbyists is Mr. Durlxrow ot Uilcago,
iilm is rich a baebelor. but 34 years Ol
age and has never made a speech.
The remarkable likeness between the
latest accent! portrait of Columbus and
the ordinary portraits of (ieorge Wash
ington is appreciated at a glance. It is
at least an interesting coincidence.
The Prince of Wales wenrs an 1' J col
lar, haa a 45 chest, 34 arm, 42', waist
lor trousers 41) and Au leg (ior trousers
II). Contrary to general credit, especi
ally in America, his tastes are exceed
ingly quiet.
The Czar of Itussia hit) become inter
ested in cricket, and ha) organized tw;o
elevens among the young men of his
court. Cricket in wintry Russia is al
most as much of an exotic as football in
South Carolina.
Senator Morrill is the patriarch of
Washington whist players. He lias a
thoroughly scientific knowledge of the
imme. and onee a week at least he gath
ers alsiut him a set of Belect players from
among his friends in olhcial ltle.
Ithnabeon said that Queen Victoria
is the only person now living who knew
Sir Walter Scott personally. But there
is an old bookseller in Kdinburg who
often talked with him; and it is thought
nrobab e that there must be still others
who can claim that honor.
Prof. Kenouf, the eminent scholar in
charge of the Assyrian and Egyptian
collections in the British Museum for the
la-t six years, is about to be retired from
ollic.e under some civil-service regula
tions. It is thought to be impossible to
till the place satisfactorily.
Monsignor Gilbert of Moorfirld, Car
dinal Moran of Sydney, N. 8. W., and
Bishop Clifton of Bristol are regarded as
the men having the beat chance of bh
pointment as Cardinal Manning's suc
cessor in England. They are all home
rulers and considered "safe" on labor
questions.
The seal of a lmttle of wine won thirty
years ago by General M. M. Bane of
VYiishingtoii from General (. M. Dodge
and since kept by him waH broken tlie
other day at a dinner by them in Wash
ington. There were a dozen guests at
the dinner, but all the wine was hardly
thirty years old.
One hears several different pronunci
ations of " khedive " whenever circum
stances, as they lately have done, bring
the Egyptian ruler into prominence.
Worcester gives kay-dee-vay or keh-dive
(as in hive), while Webster gives keh
deeve or kee-div, and his international
agrees with the Century dictionary in
making it ke-deeve.
The Duke of Clarence was an ardent
admirer of Gladstone. On one occasion
at the House of Commons, when the
venerable I render introduced his home
rule bill, Albert Victor was so carried
away by the eloquence of the great ora
tor that lie clapped his hands heartily,
which was particularly noticed, as the
etiquette of the House forbids such an
outburst of enthusiasm.
Margaret Fuller used to be accounted
u very wise woman, and doubtless she
was, for Mrs. Sherwood credits her with
having once said: "Never talk about
yourself, your diseases, your domestics
or your dresses. Talk aliout your friends'
interests, not vour own. " Perhaps it
was by putting that precept into prac
tice that Miss Fuller gained her great
ct'lebrity as a convener.
Grand Duke Sergius, Governor-General
of Moscow, w as publicly binned according
to Russian papers a few weeks ago. 1 lie
Grand Duke, w ho is a brother of the
Czar, is not at all popular among his sul)
jecls. Recently ho gave orders that the
races should not Is-gin until he arrived
at the course. At the first race after the
order, however, he was more than an
hour late, and the people expressed their
displeasure, it is said, by hissing.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
A Pot-pourri of What is Being Done
fo Make the Chicago Exposi
tion a Grand Success.
Michigan will expend 12,000 to !.",
tHH) on its forestry exhibit and $4,000 to
fii.OOO on its display of fruits.
The Board of Trade of Columbia, S.
C, has undertaken to see that anexhibit
worthy of that State is made at the ex
Hvsition. The total amount paid out to February
I bv Treasurer Seels-rger for construction
and other expenses of the exposition was
:,fi7:',mil.
The preparation ol the educational ex
hibits lioin South Dakota and New Mex
ico has leen intrusted to the women
members of the respective State Boards.
Invitations to foreign nations to send
representatives to the exercises dedica
tory of the exposition buildings next Oe
tolier have been issued by the committee
on ceremonies, and have been forwarded
to their destination by Secretary o( State
Blaine.
Chief Samuels of the horticultural de
partment has returned from a trip to
rlorida and Cuba, where he stimulated
interest in the exposition and secured
the promise o' many tine palms and
ther tropical plants to be exhibited in
his department.
The Manufacturers' Club of Philadel
phia desires to vrect a building in the
exposition grounds, constructed entirely
of material made by memhen of the
club, with intent that it be headquarters
for manufacturers not only of Philadel
phia, but of the. entire country.
Delegate Smith of Arizona has report
ed a bill from the I louse Territories Com
mittee to ratify the act of the Arizona
Leg-slat ure authorising the issue of bonds
ro the extent of $o0,lk to enable the
Territory to 1h properly represented at
the World's Fair. 'I he report accompa
nying the bill saysCongressional author
ity is necessary ,'ta cause there is a law
forbidding Territories to incur an indebt
edness exceeding 4 per cent, of the as
sessed valuation ol property. The re
port savs Anintia's assessed valuation is
onlv t.!0,itV,tVO, but its taxable value i
really S V'tV.OOO.
The women of Denver are engaged iu
raising $td,iHl, w ith which to contribute
something notable to the Colorado ex-1
hib't at the exposition. Thev purpose
to get Preton Powen to reprolui in
bronze, one-e ghth larger than life :-.
his cvlehra'e I group."The Cloning Era,"
w Inch represent a dead butfalo and a
aolitaiv Indian in melancholy contem
plation of it the two forming, as Bier-
stsdt say (i in commending the project, a
perpetuation in brome of a dual de
parting face." After exhibition at Chi
cago it is the intention to place the group p
in the capitol grounds at Denver. I h
FOREIGN LANDS.
Brussels to .be Made a
Real Seaport
LABOR QUESTION IN VIENNA.
Negotiations for a Commeroial Treaty
Between Italy and Switzer
land Broken Off.
Berlin Socialists will make a May-day
demonstration.
The elections in Japan have been at
tended with serious riots.
The Irish local government will not lie
pressed in Parliament until after haster.
Disastrous storms, with heavy rains
and overflowing rivers, are reported in
Spain. , ,
Petroleum has been struck (700 barrels
a day) in India by tire Assam Railway
Company.
The negotiations at Zurich for a com
mercial treaty between Italy and Switz
erland have been broken oIL
The Cardinals are said to have voted
in favor of electing an Italian in the
event of the death of Pope Leo.
They are growing uneasy in England
over tne neglect of good citizens to take
an active part iu municipal life.
England is building two war vessels of
i,000 tons. Spain has ordered three ar
mured cruisers of 0,200 tons displace
ment. A cable dispatch to the Guatemalan
legation at Paris says that the revolt led
by Enriquez is suppressed and Enriquez
is dead.
The telephone line between London
and Paris lias worked so well that an
other will be laid between London and
Brussels.
Rumors are current in London and
Liverpool of impending difficulties in
tlie corn and cotton trades, owing to a
serious decline of prices.
Daily orders in Russia prohibiting the
transportation of grain from one district
to another alarm merchants, who fear
confiscation of their stocks.
Joachim Lleell. son of tlie famout pa
triot and historian, has been arrested at
St. Petersburg on a secret charge and
sentenced to banishment to Siberia.
At the end of the year the Telephone
Company ot Austria will cea9e to exist,
the government assuming control of all
the telephone lines of the kingdom.
In Vienna the labor question ib assum
ing a grave aspect. The winter lias been
exceptionally severe, and thousands of
workmen are on tlie verge ol starvation.
The Russian imperial prohibition
ns)ii the exportation of grain is about
to I suspended in lavor ot tne owners
of 10,000,000 poods of oats now lying at
the Baltic ports awaiting shipment.
Berlin is to have shortly a creamery,
erected at the city's cost, in the Fritd
richsfeld cemetery, where bodies of the
poor and unknown and of the subjects
of anatomical investigation at clinics
and hospitals will be reduced to ashes.
The committee of the Prussian Diet
has adopted the clause of the sectarian
primary educational bill providing that
children belonging to religious denomi
nations recognized by tlie State shall be
instructed by teachers of their own de
nomination. An Odessa correspondent says that as
a protest against the imposition ot mili
tary service the German colony at Tash
keud, Asiatic Russia, has decided to em
igrate en mas9e to the United States.
The action of the King of Portugal in
voluntarily relinquishing 20 per cent, of
bis income from his civil list has nlreadv
led to a demand in the Senate at Madrid
that the Spanish King shall follow suit.
Prof. Kippay, a well-known painter
and collector ol lierlin, has been sen
teuced to a month's imprisonment at
Constance for illegally appropriating cu
rios belonging to the church of Altiznr
nun. Holland has 4,5)0,0 0 inhabitants, of
whom the males and females are nearly
equal in number. There are 2,500,000
Protestants, l,700,0tX) Catholics and 07,
000 Jews. The rest have no settled re
ligion.
The Mayor of llarlleur, France, has
strictlv forbidden the wearing of decol
lete dresses by the women of the com
inline on the ground that such costumes
are prejudicial to peace and social mo
rality.
The British Chamber of Shipping has
adopted a resolution in favor o( Great
Britain negotiating a convention with
the United States to prevent the "crimtt-
., i i ,:: .1. .it
ing aim tieseruoii 01 ihiusii o.uiors
American ports.
An English financial writer, who has
been Bludying probate statistics, asserts
that among the 111) or 140 persons who
in each ol the past tour years have left
fortunes exceeding 100,000 each in per
sonalty " there is hardly to lie found one
In each year whose wealth appears to
have been the result ot speculative tinan
cial operations."
At the time of his death the late Sir
Morell Mackenzie had just completed a
series of articles allowing people how to
live long. Mr Morell was in the early
fifties. He was also the most noted spe
cialist in the world in throat diseases,
yet he dial of bronchitis.
With the view of assisting the dis
tressed peasantry in Russia the Imperial
Works Commission has started relief
works in various provinces. A large
numlier of horses and men are to I em
ployed in clearing HO.OOO acres of forest
land. Highroads and parish roads are
also to be constructed in the distressed
districts.
Mn. Robert Montague, daughter in
law of Lord Robert Montague, has been
committed for trial at Coleraine, County
Londonderry, Ireland, on a charge of
causing the death of her little daughter,
Mary Helen Montague, 3 years of age,
through the severity of punishment.
The child was left in a dark room and
tied up in such a manner that she was
choked to death.
The project of making Brussels a real
seaport is making progress. According
to tlie otlicial statements made in the
Provincial Council of Brabant the cost
of widening the canal connecting Brus
sels with the sea will 120,000,000 rancs.
that of the harbor works to I executed
at Brussels 12,00.,0X) francs, that of a
Iu dix-k 1,000,000 francs and finally the
vaulting over of the river Sennette 2,000,
000 fruncs.
Eugene WoltT, a new spapercorrvspond
ent. whose rep rtt to the Berlin Tthjf'.hui
on the disaster to the Zelewski expedi
tion and other matters caused Chancel
lor Capri vi to order bis .expulsion from
lierman Fast Africa in November la-t,
has published an amplified attack npon
Baron Soden's administration of the
tnivernonhip o the Fast African colony.
His stones of the robberies and cruelties
racticed on the natives by the Germans
iave attracted intense attention.
PORTLAND MARKET.
rroitur. fruit. F.te.
WniAT-Nominal. Valley.1.55 l.oO;
Waiia Walla, tl.5iMl.W per ; wntal.
' FLOCB-Standard.M.W; W"'
14.80; Graham, 4-Wi Superllne, U-0
Oatb New, 42(34:ic per bushel.
HAV-tU'?13perton.
Miiastukks Bran, 2. ; shorts, .
ground barley, 122.50125; chop feed
m per ton; feed barley, 20; mid
dlings, 28 per ton; brewing barley,
$l.loU.15 per cental.
Bcrrun Oregon fancy creamery, it
(40c; fancy dairy, 32 ' $l' fair to
good, 25(t27!vc; common, lo'? f I
California, a0'?35c; Eastern, ftXjfolc
per pound. ,
Ciikkbk Oregon, 14 215c; Eastern,
1 Kl ft lt iur rumml.
Eons Oregon, lU'ilSc; Eastern, nom
inal, ll er dozen.
1'm-iTi.v Chickens. 5.00; ducks,
iii0; geeue, ll per dozen; turkeys.
I. -tji; pet iuuuu. , . . . .
VnoKiABLiis Cabbage, nominal, l.w
i 1.75 per cental ; caunnower, i per .
Onions. ocMi per- i-euuu,
50c per sack; sweet potatoes,
i . or ru.iuul eurrota. i.)C per sac ,
IV. v... , , .
.......im i on I...,- auelc Hsnaragiis. lot'
per pound ; lettuce, 30c; Oregon, 40c per
dozen; celery, Uoiayoc per uozen, nu"
bard squash, 2'iie per pound.
tiicilv Imiiiohs. ti.00lu i .00 1
California, $:i.00i34.u0 per box ; oranges.
Riversides, ii.zutuz.uo; neir,
(i4.25; apples, "Sets $1.60 per box;
i 1 1 -ji.i no a linneh: nine-
unimunn, t.iv .v" . t
apples, 4(irti per dozen; cranberries,
$lD.uU(!$ll.ou per oarrei; nujiiu hr,
ltic; citrons, ztc per pounu.
Btnpln OrocurlBS.
Honkv lSiitlS'jC per pound.
SAi.T-Liverjool,15.00n7.00;8tock,
11 w 12 per ton.
Cokkkk Costa Rica, 21c; Rio, 21c;
Salvador. 21c: Mocha. 30c; Java, 25c;
Arbuckle'e, 100-pound caees, 21 7-20c per
pound.
Rica Japan, $5.00; Island, fo.50'3
5.75 per cental.
Bkans Small white, 3c; pink, 2'c;
bayos, 2'-2c; butter, Sc; limas, 3,lc
tier pound.
Suoak D, 4,',,'c; Golden C, 43c;
extra C, 4'8c; granulated. 6V;
cube crushed and powdered, 6 v8c; l'011,
fectioners' A, S'gC; maple sugar, 15j
1- c per pound.
SvKi'r Eastern, in barrels, 42(3 45c;
half-barrels, 44it47c; in cases, 3j(d80c
per gallon ; 2.2o per Keg. iaiiiornia, in
barrels, 3; per gallon; $1.75 per keg.
Dkikd Fruits Petite prunes, 7c ; sil-
ul A. l..lian Hi i.urmun tfle-
plums, 6'vc; appies, b4Vi; peaches,
B'.,c; pears, c per pounu.
Canned Goods fable fruits, fl.OOcl
1.80. 2'i,s: peaches. 1.80(d2.00; Bart
lett pears, $1.80(4 1.90; plums, $1.37 '(
1.50; strawberries, $2.25; cherries, $2.20
(r2.40; blackberries, $1.85(21.00; rasp
berries. $2.40: pineapples, $2.2o2.80
apricotB,$l.ij0(H.70. Pie fruit: Assorted,
$1.10(itl.20j peaches, $1.25; plums, $10?
1.10; blackberries, $1.25 1.40 per dozen.
Vegetables : Corn, $1.10(31.75; tomatoes,
5c((i$1.00; sugar peas, 05c(i$l.t0;
string beans, U0c$1.00 per dozen.
Meats : Corned beel, $1.90 ; chipped beef,
2.10; lunch tongue, $3.0.) Is, $5 5 i 2b;
leviled ham. $1.60(33.05 ner dnee
Fish: Sardines, 75c(?l.t5; lolten. $2.30
(33.50; salmon, tin, Mb., $1.25(31.30;
2 lbs., $ .40; bhl., $5.50. Condensed
milk: Eagle brand, $8.10; Crown, $7.00;
Highland, $0.50; Champion, $.20; .Mon
roe, $6.75 per case.
Miscellaneous.
Nails Base quotations: Iron, .'.no
uteel. i:t.0il! wire. t:t.,r0 ner kev
Ikon Bar, 3,SjC per pound ; pig iron,
$2a ii zs per ton.
Stkki. 10,'f c per pound.
Tin I. C. charcoal. 14x20. prime onai
ity, $8.00(38.50 per Ixix; for crosses, $2
extra per Wis; rooling, 14x20, prime
quality, $o.i0 per nox ; i. u. cone pinies,
i ,.i .. ....):,.. - ...... k.a-
1-tA.u, Jl line i(iMiuiy, f ,J ei
Lkad l56c per pound ; bur, (I've.
Soi.pkh 13 'u (3 loW Per pound, ac
cording to grade.
Shot $1.85 per sack,
I loUNKKIIOKS &.V
Naval Storks Oakum, $4.50(35 per
naie; rosin, $-.o((tj perznupouiios; lar,
Stockholm, $12.o0; Carolina, $.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $0.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 05c per gallon in carload lots.
HiriM, Wont and Units.
Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 7
(3c; lac less for culls; green, selected,
over 65 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c;
sheep pelts, eliort wool, 30(3 50c; me
dium, bOOf 80c; long, 00c(3$1.2o; shear
lings, 10(320c; tallow, good to choice, 3
(33SiC per pound.
Wool Willamette Valley, 17(10c
Eastern Oregon, 10(3 17c per pound,
according to condition and age.
Mors Nominal; lti((?18c per pound.
The Meat Market.
Buns1 Live. 2' (3 4c ; dressed, 5 37c.
Mutton Live, sheared, 4,ltrf434cj
dressed, 8'4c.
Hoos Live, 534c; dressed, 7 '40.
Vkal- 5(3Sc per pound.
S.MOKKD Meats Eastern ham, 11(3
12lC; other varieties, 13c. ; breakfast
bacon, llSi(312ej sides, 0l4(3101..,c;
smoked bacon, 11 '-jCrt lls4c per pound.
Laud Compound,!) Woe; pure,10'a
312'4c; Oregon, 10(312,'Jc per pound".
Bhk and Bagg-hif.
Burlnps, 8-oz., 40-inch, net cash, 6c;
burlaps, 10ls-oz., 40-inch, net cash, 7c;
burlaps, 12-ox., 45-inch, net cash, ('ac;
burlaps, lt-oz., 60-inch, 11c; burlaps, 20
01., 76-inch, 13c. Wheat bags, Calcutta,
22x20, spot, !c ; three-bushel oat bags,
8c. Centals (second hand wheat
bags), 8c.
A Lobater Fire Feet Long.
"One rarely hears of a good sized
lobster nowadays," said nn ichthyolo
gist. "Yet it was not so many yenra
ago that twenty-five pounders were
quite frequently caught. There is one
preserved in the. collection of Crustacea
at the Smithsonian institution which
weighed eighteen pounds at tlie time of
ita capture. Reliable record exists of
specimens weighing forty pounds. One
of that magnitude would be five feet
in length, including the daws." Wash
ington Star.
Athma may l greatly relieved by
soaking blotting or tissue paper in strong
saltpeter water; dry it, and then burn it
in the sleeping room.
'-J8g3s'WWKSBJTTswgysi gggTCTLy swOm.' , " pviari
yclMiMrM!
Purines tie BLOOD, Cures CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION.
IILIOI'SNESS, LITER COMPLAINTS. SICK HEADACHE, COLDS,
PIHl'LES, all SKIN AFFECTIONS, and DISEASES ARISING fron
DISORDERED STOMACH.
Tht Gewuiw HAMBURG TEA it put up in YELLOW WRAPPERS
riiA FaciimiU Siynatun EMIL FRESE.
REOtNOTON OO. AocifTS. 6AM rPUMCOCO.
OLD BY ALL DBC6UT ASD kaOCtU.
AGRICULTURAL.
Now is the Time to Look
After the Hens.
THEY SHOULD BE ABETTED.
Hens Regain Their Acoustomed Power
of Laying Eggs After Cold
Weather is Over.
Egg layers will from now on W-gin to
increase their daily contribution to the
wealth of the owner, and it is important
that the hens should be aided and als't
ted in this work as much as possible. As
soon as cold weather leaves us the hens
seem to regain their accustomed jKiwer
of laving regularly ; but as a rule it is
only the weather and not the treatment
. f . . .. .1 .1- 'l-l : .
Whlcll lliuaes ineni uo hub. int-reis,
however, a way of helping the hens in
this good work, and no poultrynian
should neglect it. Man and beast alike
need a change of food and treatment in
the spring of the ye.ir, for the conditions
of life change with the seasons. From
lose, cont ning work we go to labor 111
tlie opeu air, and from heavy, greasy
food we go to light vegetab'es or fruits.
There is needful a complete change in
tlie whole system, and many take blood
purifiers at this season 01 me year.
In the same way tlie hens require new
methods. They are guppose-l lo produce
more eggs, and they do this, but the
work cannot be kept up unless their
systems are amply supplied with egg-
producing material, iiiv m 111, ni-nuu
weather is stimulating to them, and in
duces them to lay, but they must have
the material to do the work, otherwise t
they will wear their systems out in do
ing nothing. Eggs cannot be produced
unless the hens have sufficient lime in
their bodies to form the shells. Ground
bone and oyster shells are given to the
chickens now by nearly all poultrymen;
but at this season of the year the quan
tities should be doubled. The grains
will not sutlice now, but the lime con
tained in the ground bone, shells and
such material is essential. They will
not only stimulate the hens in laying,
but they will give the right materials to
them to make eggs. The hens should
also be accustomed to their new food.
They should be turned out to range grad
ual v and not allowed to run about as
much as they please the first day. This
extra exercise, which lias been denied
them all winter, will consume a great
amount of force, and much of the min
eral element contained in their food will
have to go toward forming new tissue.
This makes it all the more essential that
they should have more shells and ground
bone. This is a work which should not
be neglected.
The Hairy.
The best results for the value of grain
fed to the average cow in recent tests
were from four pounds of bran or shorts,
two pounds of cotton-seed meal, in two
feedings daily. These feedings were in
the morning and at night. Grain should
always be fed with judgment. Only feed
tV.e animals as much as they will prop
erly digest and assimilate." When first
beginning to feed grain the rations should
lie small and gradually increased until
the desired amount is given. The rations
must be regular and constant. The size
of the cow and her powers of digestion
must he considered. The healthy ow
of vigorous constitution one pound of
well-balanced grain will profitably use as
ration daily for every 100 pounds of her
live weight.
We are anxious to do a big business,
to spread ourselves, and we are apt to
think that ourenpacity is equal to our de
sire. Many of us make the big mistake
of undertaking more than we can carry
through successfully, and in dairying
this holds good with more fores than in
gome other branches of farming.
A dairy of ten caws may be very prof
itable, and the owner of it thinks that
twenty or thirty cows would be propor
tionately profitable; and so they would
if they received the same amount of care
per cow as the ten, but this will rarely lie
the case. If we have the leed, the labor,
the customers for the larger dairy and
have the ability to operate it, then we
can go ahead with a fair prospect of suc
cess. But for a beginner to start with a
large herd failure will be the outcome
for the first few years.
HINTS TO HOrSEK EEl'KltS.
A nice way to serve stirred eggs is to
heap them in the middle of a platter and
garnish them all around with slim slices
of smoked salmon, which have been
flipped into melted butter and then al
lowed to frizzle slightly on a Blow tire.
A rough test for the detection of water
in lard consists in melting it in a test
tube. If free from water, it becomes
perfectly clear, while the presence of wa
ter c nises an opaque appearance. If
present in large quantities, it separates
out on the liquid stands, but where the
two have been well incorporated separa
tion only occurs most slowly.
What to do with cool beefsteak : Chop
the best and most tender portions ; add
hot water enough to moisten slightly;
iieat quickly and serve at once as soon as
hot. Add butter, salt and pepper. The
tough parts of steaks or of roast lef are
much more palatable if boiled first in
water to cover until tender. Then use
them in any of the ways given for cold
meat, as croquettes, hash, mince on
toast, stew, ragout, meat and potato pie,
braised meat, etc.
Despondency on the part of the patient
is in many cases more deadly than dis
ease, and whatever is said or d ne in or
about the sick room should be with a
view to dispel that emotion and replace
it with something more healthful. I'J
not go tiptoeing and creeping about the
apartment; do not stand behind a screen,
curtain or door and peer wistfully at the
invalid ; do not stare fixedly at him from
any point, and do not indulge in persist
ent questionings which art evidently an
noying. If the patient invites conversa
tion and is able to endure it. talk freely
of those matten in which he is inter
ested, the current news of the day, social
events or reminiscences.