EUGENE CITY GUARD.
Pmprlnlar.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
PACIFIC COAST.
Grand Potlatch in Honor
of the Queen.
STOLEN JEWELRY RESTORED,
Profound Sensation Created at Butt
on Aooount of Atlaohment of
Mining Property.
Carson ha organised fishing and
hunting club.
A boat-building yard ii to 1 enUb
lithed at Victoria, II. C.
Nogales, A. T., will have an electric
light tystem in oration soon.
Bacramento freeholders bave at I ant
completed tbe formation of a new char
ter. The Bupervlenra ol Modoc county oIHt
a bounty ol 10 eacli lor uuiiorma lion
cslp.
The sale of the Sapphire mint in Mon
tana to English partiee ban len de
clared off".
Keporta regarding the loss of cattle in
Southern Ariwna, owing to theabsence of
food, are declared untrue.
A Montana man hni invented a ranch
now plow for (craping tbe snow oil' the
ranges, ao that the cattle can get at the
grans.
Tht Union iViflc Company has adopt
ed tbe Oregon 8tate Board of Hailroal
Commissioners' schedule with a few
niodilicationa.
Dr. Arley Itarthlow Show, professor nl
history in Poane College, Neb., baa been
appointed assistant professor of hiatory
in Leland Hianford (Jr.) University.
Tliere ia a legal light over tbe possc
lon of the Minting Nun property at San
IHego, with the prospect ol the peoplo
being furnished witli copies of two Sum,
The wealth of the Northwest ia rapidly
augmenting. The tolal valuation of
property in Montana in 1HM waa f 142,
2tt5,42H, an increase of 2ll,lKi8,04!i over
1800.
William Chriatie, the treasurer of the
Kawcah colonial, liaa been arretted and
taken to los Angeles oil a rlinrge of
ending fraudulent matter through the
inaili.
Quan Chung, the wealthier China
man in Idaho, ia under inrest at Itoiae
City and charged with defrauding the
government. It ia believed he la the
Head of a large Binu.'gling gang.
The Columbia Kivvr Fishermen's I'ro
toctive Union haa set the price of aalmon
for the season on the river at $1 all
around for gill net llsli. Trap and aelne
flab will be paid for by tbe pound.
Public government business at K rearm
li almost at a ttandetill, owing to the
refusal of the Treasurer to pay the sal
ariei of deputies in the Merorder and
Tax Collector'! ollicea. The deputies
have all quit work.
The arrest of a divekeeper at Sacra
mento ha led t the startling discovery
that there is no ordinance in that city
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating ho
nors without going through the formal
ity of securing a license.
A company hat recently been formed
by Han irauciaco capitalist to work ex
tensive coal fields at Coal Harbor, Unga
Island, Alaska. Underlying the coal
measurea on Unga Island there it also
laid to be a vaat deposit of petroleum.
Judge Me K I nicy at Los Angeles hat
decided that the big shipment of trues
from the 8011th Sea Islands, numbering
82.VHH), and which was seized by the
County Horticultural Commissioners,
the trees leing infested, must lie burned.
Nearly all the Indians in British Co
lumbia will assemble at the north arm of
Eraser river on the Oucen's birthday
and hold a grand pot latch. Ten thou
sand dollars in pritet will lie given awav
and 3,000 blanket distributed by Chief
Ueorge.
The stakes and purses for the next
meeting of the Trotting Horse Breeders'
Association at San Francisco have cloned
with the largest number of entries ever
received by anv association on the Coast.
Kvery prominent tire 011 the Coast is
represented.
E. L. Huntley of Chicago, a clothiiw
drummer who waa robbed in Idaho of
$12,000 in jewels while on a stage run
ning between Kootenai and Homier'
Ferry, bat hail them restored to him on
tht payment of $'.',000 and a promise not
to prosecute.
A profound sensation has lieen created
at mute, Mont., on account ol the at
tachment of the property of the Blue
bird Mining Company (limited) bv the
nanking nouse 01 iioge, iirownice .V t o.
This mining company is one ol the prin
cipal silver producers of the State. The
amount due the hank 11 170,000 on over
draft during 18.il and IMC.
William rointer, County Treasurer ol
Washington county, dr., has forwarded
15,000 to the State '1 it-usurer as a part of
Washington county's State taxes lor cur
rent exensei. The Treasurer informs
State Treasurer I'liil Metwlian that the
County Court hat ignored the action of
the State Hoard of Equalisation and will
make the levy as equalized hv the Coun
ty Hoard. If that is done, V asliinton
county will pay taxes on $10,7tt.'.T in
stead of r:l,f 7.1!H, the sum as levied by
the State Hoard of ApKjrtionnieut.
Edgar A. Martin has been arrested by
the Sheriff ol Mendocino county, Cal..
and charged wit'i the murder ol Fred
llehlt, commonly known as Hutch Fred,
at Fort Bragg on February 17. Ileldt
waa a lamoua character and worth about
$100,001). He died in a saloon at Fort
Bragg while drunk. An examination of
the stomach tince proved that he had
been poisoned. Martin, according to a
will he exhibit , was made sole executor.
It haa evidence of fraud. Martin is now
thought to be. one of the Napa county
Ureenwooa murderers, ami lias been In
terested in the settlement of twoor three
other estates.
In the United States Court at itoiae
City the Laat Chance Mining Company
hat been maintained in ita water rights.
The Bunker Hill Company located t wa
ter right on Miio creek, and the Last
Chance made a location farther down.
Tba former company made a location
till farther down the ttream. and tried
to divert the water around the Last
Chance workt. In hit decision Judge
Beattyaayt: "In the appropriation of
water to be dhm at a specified place for
the purpose of operating machinery and
other work, and after to uaing returning
to ita original channel, the person to ap
propriating cannot change the place of
dm to the damage of a subsequent ap
propriation lower dowo on tba ttream."
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Tht Houtt Bill to Belttr Control and to
Promott the Safety of National
Bankt In the Sanatt.
After a ttruggle with the department
representative Hermann hat succeeded
in obtaining a daily mail service from
Canyon City, Orant county, to Burns,
Harney county. The increased cost
amount to nearly fl.onu, and the de
partment hesitated nearly two years be
fore seceding to the demand.
The House Committee on Agriculture
has authorised a favorable report on the
bill submitting oleomargarine trans
ported into any State or Territory or re
maining therein for consumption, sale or
storage to the police powers ol such State
or Territory, or to the same extent and
in the tame manner as though it was
produced therein.
Senator Allen has secured a favorable
report iiron his hill appropriating fH,
Out) for a lighthouse at (iray't Harbor.
He also appeared before the Committee
on Commerce and made a long argument
urging that an appropriation be made
for the Lake Washington cinal. All
members of the committee were pres
ent, and listened with a great deal at
attention to what the Senator hail to aay
of the advantages that would accruo to
Ida State and to the government if this
canal should be built.
A modified form of a hill which the
President vetoed last year was reported
to the Senate from the Committee on
Military Affairs. It provides for the es
tablishment of the record and pension
division of the War Hepartment. The
President baaed bia veto on the ground
that the hill was a delegation of the an
pointing p'iwer to Congress, beciuse it
provided for the appointment of a cer
tain army ollicer, Major Ainsworth, at
chief ol the division. X tie modihod hill
does not provide this.
Hepresentative Hermann haa Intro
duced a hill to amend the law making
an annual appropriation to the militia;
also to authorize proofs on Umatilla
lands More toy ollWr; also to provide
bounty land to persons who served 111
the Indian wars since MV: also lor ex
tending tbe time for the construction of
a bridge across the Columbia river near
LaCiunaa; also extending to settlera In
the Northern I'acitlo railroad's forfeited
limits further time to make payments as
provided ill the act ol forfeiture.
The Senate Finance Committee lias
directed that a favorable report lie made
on the House bill to better control and
to promote the safety ol national hanks.
An amendment was added authorizing
the banks to enlarge their circulation to
full par value of United States (studs de
posited ; to the bill must go back to the
House if it pass the Senate, the coin
mittee ordered adverse resirts on four
hills introduced by llemocratic Senators
lo remove taxation 011 State bank circu
lation ami to subject national bunk note
and I'n 1 ted States Treasury notes to
State taxation.
A bill to correct the dilllcully that pre
vented the government from assuming
jurisdiction in the prosecution of the
persons concerned in the killing of the
Italians accused of complicity in the
murder of Chief Hennessey of the New
Orleans police force a year ago has been
introduced in the Senate by Mr. Dolph
of Oregon. It will he reiiieinls'red that
the United States government found it
self Hiwerless to Interfere in the matter,
because the killing came under the State
law of Iiooiaiana. The bill provides that
any act committed in any State orTerri
tory in violation of the rights o any cit-
men or subject ot a loroign country, se
cured to such citixen or subject by treaty,
when the act constitutes a like crime or
misdemeanor against the peace and dig
nltyol the tinned States, is puiilHhalile
in a like manner, and may be prosecuted
In the courts of the United States, and
upon conviction thereof to be executed
in a like maimer at those under a United
Statea law.
After a week'a consideration of the
river and harlior bill by paragraphs in
the committee reports come out to the
effect that in spite of every ell'ort at
economy exercised by the Democrats the
bill will reach the proortion of the last
Congress and will carry everything over
:' iw.ixhi. The attempt to cut the bill,
ami especially to cut the Northern ami
l'acillc. Coatt interests, hat met with
such a storm of opposition as to frighten
even the Southern inemliers charged
with economy in the preparation of this
feature. It will he rememlicrcd that the
last bill which passed wat two veart ago.
and the appropriations made were (or
two years' work on the river and harbor
improvements. It is expected the pres
ent hill will cover about the same period,
and it has been demonstrated to the
committee, that it would be Impossible to
carry on the work now under construc
tion and to make the necessary new im
provements without making thii bill as
large at the one passed iiy the hist Con
gress, Jfcgotiatlons between the United States
and Ureat Britain, looking to the sub
mission to arbitration of the long-pending
controversy between the countries
in regard to the Behring Sea seal fisher
ies has reached a favorable conclusion,
Sir Julian I'liuneefote, the Biitish Min
ister, met Sioretary Blaine by appoint
ment, ami signed the treat v of arbitra
tion on liehalf of 1 1 rent Britain, lie said
he had been fully authorised by Lord
Salisbury to take this action. Blaine
signed the document on liehalf of this
government, and the matter was con
summated so far as the diplomatic part
of the business is concerned. The treaty
is still subject, however, to the action of
the British Parliament and the United
States Senate. The exact terms of the
treaty cannot now He stated, hut it is
known that the Board of Arbitration will
consist of seven persons, two represent
lug the United Nates, two representing
ureal itriiain, one ot whom If to ls a
Canadian, and one each represent inn the
neutral governments of trance, Sweden
and Italy.
Hepresentative Hermann has present
ei 10 rnvretarv .vuue numerous letters
from settlers iiimii tht lands claimed hv
the ('ik)S Bav and Hose burg Wagon Koad
company, out which were erroneously
patented to that compauv. and when
called mum bv the government to re
cover, it answers that it has disposed of
tueso lamis to oilier turtle. Mr. Her
mann hat insisted that some dellnite ac
tion lie taken by the Secretary, and he
now calls upon the Commissioner of the
general land olhce to submit a list of the
lands which have been wrongly patent-
ei, so mai me .utorney-weiieral mav
institute suit (or collection of patents.
Ihe whole grant is W.KItl acres. There
hs leen patented within three-mile
limits M,Sri t acres, and rt.HW acres with
in those limits remain vacant and sub
ject to selection and patent, making ftl,.
t)M acre apparently subject t the grant
within the primary limit. There have
been certified and patented within the
indemnity limit 44,l;M acre, making in
all 1 in, I'd acre, or an apparent excess
o( lO.ltoO acre over the amount the com
pany it entitled to. The Secretary di
rects that the excess U identitled by in
eluding those tractt farthest (mm the
liu of the Mad. This will include I.OVU
acres outside of all limits, and will be
separated from the remainder, so that a
judgment may be obtained on either
theory. Early action it urged.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Ingersoll Sues a Minister
for Libel.
METEOR FALLS IN ALABAMA.
Bill Reducing the Duty on Barley
Introduced in the House by
Fitoh of New York.
Chicago collect! over $3,000,000 In sa
loon licenses.
Never before were price! for iron 10
low as they are now.
Philadelphia has 7,000 fewer licensed
saloons than New York.
Senator Sherman it to build a $100,000
mansion in Washington.
New York State Senate ia investigat
ing the Heading coal deal.
Three new linea of railroad will soon
lo built through Ottumwa, la.
Oil haa been discovered on Mr. Blaine's
(arm in Washington county, l'a.
An effort will be made In New York to
raise $25,000 to tend the 200 stranded
colonist! to Liberia.
Tlit value of Kansas farm landa it said
to have actually increased 24 per cent.
in the past twelve months.
Helativcs of William Turnout!, one of
the sailort alain at Valparaiso, will de
mand a large indemnity of Chili.
Governor Gilpin of Colorado seriously
advocites the construction of a railroad
from Denver to I'aris via Behring Strait.
Fred Douglass has been appointed to
represent llaytl at tbe World'! Fair. An
appropriation of f2!,000 haa la-en made.
Two casea of typhus fever have lieen
discovered in St. Louis among Jews who
recently arrived there from ldena, Hub
tia.
Chicago has just adopted the plant for
a new public-library building, which ac
cording to the estimates will coBtl,2."0,
000. The present Federal House of Retire
sentatives will he asked for more than
$25,000,000 for river and harbor improve
ments. The street cars in I-eavonworlli, Kan.,
are to Ire run by compressed air. The
citizens have raised the money to raise
the wind.
The lirst consignment of camel skins
for commercial purKsea ever brought to
this country reached New lork some
days ago.
New York Central road employes have
received orders to flag any train that is
seen to be following another train within
ten minutes.
(evolutionary societies, having for
their object the freedom of Cuba and
Porto Kico from Spanish control, are or
ganizing in New urk.
President Harrison has dismissed In
ternal Hevenue Collector A. T. Wimher
ley of Mississippi liecaiiHe of alllliation
with the lottery people.
Inquiries made throughout the cotton
belt by tbe St. louis (Holit-VfimicrtU
show that planters will raise lesa cotton
during lH'.i.' than In imn.
The Health Ollicer ol Philadelphia has
lKen directed to prosecute Bid clergy
men for a flue of $10 for each of 412 mar
riage! that they neglected to report.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has decided that, it it a violation ol the
law for a road to issue passes to Council
men on account of their ollicial posi
tion. The Schmidt local-option bill was de
feated in the Iowa Senate by a strict
parly vote. A new measure similar in
Its provisions was at once introduced by
Senator Gobble.
The will of Daniel Hand, the Guilford
(Conn.) philanthropist who gave so much
money for the education of freedmen, is
to he contested. It disposes of $1100,1)00,
and the heirs number twenty-nine.
At a conference of colored people at
Tuskegee, Ala., the other day it wae de
termined that they can become prosper
oum, intelligent and rich where they are,
and wholesale emigration is discouraged.
The License Commissioners of Wash
ington, 1. C, have prepared a new li
cense bill, which lias lieen sent to Con
gress. Under this new bill the retail
license will lie $tt00 per aniiii in and the
wholesale $:UK).
A meteor which fell in Alabama last
week plowed up a furrow about as large
as a Hour barrel and three or lour leet
deep, then bounded and struck a large
pine tree six leet Irom the ground, slav
ering the tree. It then exploded.
The New York Central and Hudson
Kiver Hailroad Company has signed a
contract for IM.ftOO steel ties, which are
to he laid on four tracks running out of
New .York. Steel rails of 100-pounds
section will lie used lor this purpose
Miss Hhoila Broughtoii has organized
a Biiccesstui movement 111 rnuadcipii'a
for a home of rest (or horses. The scheme
is In practical operation, and insures
greater kindness in treatment of the
class of animals for which it is designed.
Investigation of Chicago's water sup
ply, prompted bv the prevalence ol tv
plioid fever in that city, has shown that
the water is unlit to drink unless boiled
and that it will be necessary to go four
miles out into the lake for an uiicoiitniii
United supply.
A bill reducing the duty on Dirley
from :lt) cent to 10 cents per bushel has
been introduced bv Congressman hitch
who represents the brewing interests of
New ork citv. The brewers want
cheaper Iwrlev from California and the
Northwestern Slates.
Colonel Roliert O.Ingersoll lias brought
suit for hlel against Kev. Dr. A.C. Dixon
of the llandson Place Baptist Church,
imvkivn, iH-cause mxon in a sermon
charged that lugcrgotl had been hired bv
publishers of impure literature to "pol
lute the minds ol the young 01 this gen
eration."
The annual returns of the or.-aniied
militia of the States, which have recent
ly been presented to Congress, show a
gratilylng Increase in numoers over last
vear and a still greater advance over a
few years ago. Kxclusive of three lately
admitted States, whose statistics are
lacking, the aggregate it 110,718.
The charges made in Chili against
Consul McCreery and Lieutenant liar
low, which have been mentioned in the
cable dispatches, have leen forwarded
trt the United Statea by Hill. Dr. Trum
bull has also mailed a statement that
McCreery gave out the newt for which
Admiral' Brown ia blamed about the
landing at Quinteroa Hay.
A large number of lumber manufact
urers and owner o! timber lands in l-on-isiana,
Mississippi and other parts of the
South tr to be In Washington shortly
to take part in the National Convention
of Lumliermen to pn.teet agaftist the
passage of the bill putting lumber on the
free htt, !
PERSONAL MENTION.
Congressman Amot Cummingi De
clared the Choice of Fremont,
Neb., for President.
Mrt. Julia A. Carney of Galesburg,
III., ia not widely known In the world of
letters, and yet she is the author of that
interesting little poetical morceau be
ginning "Little dropt of water, little
grains of sand,"
Congressman Amos Cumminga hat
been declared the choice of the citizen!
of Fremont, Seb., for President. There
is certainly one thing in hit favor he
could write lilt own message! and make
them breezy and bright.
Loyalty to the Stuart still exitti in
Kngland. The Hmjnlirt announce that
those desirous of taking part in the com
memoration ol the death of Mary tueen
of Scott may go to Westminster Abbey
at a certain time and lay upon her tomb
a "cross ot flowers" and a "mariyr
crown of roses."
Miss Soonderbui Powar. a native high
caste Hindoo, has been tent by India to
tbit c mntrv at a missionary. She comes
to point out the evils of the opium traf
fic. She weart an Oriental costume, but
speaks English fluent y. Her oratory Is
simple and direct, and tbe excites the
sympathy of her hearers.
Aaron Kimball Loring is one of th
"character!" ol Boston. He keeps
book store, into which Kmerson used to
drop for an idea, John Ixithrop Motley
for a relerence, rrescou, me Historian
for an o id chronicle. Lowell lor a new
book of poema and Holmes for hi! cur
rent literature.
Dwight W. Moody is one of the men
thev talk of aa Spurgeon'a Duressor as
pastor of the Metropolitan Talwrnacle
'n London. Acrosa ine water 11 ib oe
lieved that the great American evangelist
I! enougil 01 a iiapuai 10 couio wiinin
the requirements of tbe trust deeds of
the church property; but little hope is
entertained of persuading Mr. Moody to
come.
Governor Kdwin B. Winans of Michi
gan ie not very widely known outside of
his State, for, unlike many Western uov
ernors, be does not often go Fast to visit
cities and mingle with men in hotel cor
ridors. He is a man of commanding ap
pearance, with a tall, straight, military
flirure. iron-cray hair and a mustache o
like color. He is usually at his desk by
8 0 clock, and is a hard worker.
The royal family of Portugal has de
cided to retrench personal expenses. Hi
majesty, the King, announced recently
that tbe salaries of public functionaries
were to lie reduced, and that the law re
ducing salaries should lie applied first to
his own family. Household expenses
have lieen cut down. Among the lux
lines which are to be lopped oil lor
time in State subsidized opera.
The sword and bloody dagger taken
from the liodv of James IV. of Scotland
on Flodden Field are with Oueen Vic
toria'a permission to he deposited in the
restored Parliament hall in hdinlmrgh
It waa from the fortress in that city that
the unfortunate monarch volunteered
forth to the battle In which he was slain
There are three famous "Cleopatra"
poems. V.. Story begins, "Here,
Charmion, take my bracelets," and Gen
eral Lytle'a with "I am dying, Kgvpt,
dying." Mary Bavard Clarke's is the
third, and Itohert IouiB Stevenson it de
clared to be at work on the fourth.
Muley Hassan, the Sultan of Morocco,
has a strain of Irish blood in his veins
for his great grandmother was a blue-
eyed daughter of the Kmerald ltle, the
widow of a British Sergeant of F.ngi
neers. Muley is said to lie aa bright as
he it stubborn, and the reason seems
obvious.
trancis Park man Is busy with a new
historical work. This will complete his
series ot historical writings, and will
cover the period of thestruggleof Franc-
against hngland In her Canadian prov
inces immediately preceding the nurra
tive of Montcalm and Wolfe, The wouk
will be called "A Half Century of Con
Hid."
That is a good legal story just narrated
about (ieorge J. Gould, Being in the
lieves in the generally exploded idea that
croas-examiiiation means personal abuse,
asked him an impertinent iiuestion about
his fat her. ( ieorge and the lawyer looked
at each other, when the former mildly
replied: I honor my father, and I
hope your father is equally worthy o
honor." The old advice of Charles
O'Conorto hit pupil Btiind good all the
time, viz. : " Never hazard on cross-ex
amination any question that if a 11 b we red
In a certain possible way may hurt your
case.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
Pennsylvania Coal Operators Want
Construct a Building Entirely of
Anthracite Coal.
to
Fully 125 Bavarian firms have applied
lor space at me Chicago reposition.
New York granite cutters will have
$5,000 monument at the World's Fair.
TKj Pennsylvania coal operators want
to construct a building entirely of an
tbracite coal at the exposition and to
have 5i,000 tons of the best anthracite
on exhibition.
The Rhode Island World's Fair Board
contemplates having its exposition build
ing at Chicago combine the best archi
tectural feature! of its State capitol at
Providence, together with those of the
old capitol building formerly occupied at
Newport.
The horticultural department of the
exposition I planning to have a magnif
icent rose garden, in which will be fully
oojkm plants, Pesides large groups 111
special area. The garden will be of
classicdesign, with temples, arborc, arch
wave and trellises.
Plana for the exercises dedicatory of
the exposition tmtldingsduringtheweek
of IK-iotier 12, lSs'2, are fast being ma
tured. One of the chief features prac
tically decided tiiton is a nocturnal pro
cession 01 tloats on the illuminated la
g.xint at Jackson Park.
Chief Walker Fearn of the foreign af
fairs department of the exposition in 1
recent report to the Director General
says that interest in the exposition it al
ready great and is rapidly increasing in
nearly every loreign country, foreign
participation, as shown by exhibits, will
lie exceedingly complete and gratifying.
New Hampshire as a delightful place
ol summer resort will he demonstrated
by a vrtion of the exhibit made by that
State at the exposition. At least such is
the present intention, and summer re
sort proprietors, editor, railroad offi
cials and others have beeu invited to a
conference to decide upon the best plan
tor accompiismng that end.
Balsa Bros., the lamest ciirar manu
facturers in Mexico, will make an exten
sive exhibit at Chicago in 113, and Lor
ing Ol instead, who hat charge of one of
the largest plantations in Mex'c-t, which
it the property of the Itank of London
and situated in the State of Puebla, will
make a very interesting exhibit, illus
trating "hacienda" life in Mexico Mr.
Olmslead wa formerly an ollicer in the
I nited State navy, and it a irradaate
from the Aonapolit Naval Academy.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Pneumatic Tubes Used
in Sending Mail.
INFLUENZA AMONG ANIMALS,
Coal Mines Discovered in Argentine
Republio Bismarck Will
Attend the Diet.
The disorders in Berlin are believed to
be at an end.
South Africa ii taking steps to prohibit
Chinese immigration.
It it stated that Denmark ia now will
ing to sell St. Thomas.
British Guiana produced nearly $2,
000,000 worth of gold last year.
Mall is being sent between Paris and
I'.-rlin through pneumatic tubes.
Senor Saenz Pana, Independent, will
contest the Presidency ol Argentine.
Bisniark will attend the coining session
of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet.
Three companies have been formed in
London to work the petroleum bed! of
Peru.
It is proposed to construct a new tele
graph line from alp-iraieo to liuenos
Avres.
Emperor William will cruise oft the
coast of .Norway during the approacning
summer.
No case of foot and mouth disease hat
occurred in Denmark for tbe past seven
teen years.
A terrilic gale is reported nearOixirto
Portugal, and 200 fishermen are supposed
to have lost their lives.
The great emporium of Berlin, known
as the Kaiser Ba.ar, which is in liquida
tion, was sold lor ft.ooo.ooo.
Count Ernest dTrsel, 20 years old, a
Belgian who commanded the military
force 111 Luluabourg district, Congo, is
dead.
The grip epidemic has disappeared in
Paris, the rate of mortality being again
normal. In German towns the disease is
also abating.
Lord Salisbury has the credit of being
tbe moHt industrious and hardest-work
ing Premier that F.nglaud has had for
many a year.
' English capitalists leave ruptured ne
gotiations for properties in Southwest
Africa, and forleited $50,000 10 a Ham
burg syndicate.
The President anil other officers of
bunk at I'orrintes, Argentine, have been
put in jail for robbing that institution
of 1100,000 pesos.
The foot and mouth disease has spread
to nineteen districts in aclileswig-llol-
stein. It is presumed that the disease
was propagated by manure.
Mendoza Cortex, a peer of the realm
in Portugal, was recently sent to prison,
because he could not make good ad licit
in the bank of which he is President.
M. Carnot's term as President of
France will expire in December. 1894,
and the rumor is already going about
that he does not wish to be re elected.
The magazine rille recently issued to
the Hritish regulars has been withdrawn,
and a weapon sighted for use. with cor
dite ammunition, will be issued in its
place.
the newly discovered coal mines in
tbe Argentine Republic have caused a
cancellation of the contracts with hng
land for coal for the railroads in that
country.
Count de Lesgeps, who lost a fortune
by the laiiure ol the Panama canal en
terprise, is in more than comfortable cir
cumstances through his interest in the
Smt canal.
Word from Athens announces that Dr.
Waldstein has discovered at Argos the
foundations of the Temple of llera.de
s'royed by fire 42!) 11. C., together with
many curios.
Arrangements have been made by an
educational institution in London bv
which workingmen will be able to visit
the Columbian Exposition next year at
a reasonaoie cost.
The first volume of Count von Moltke's
war correspondence is of interest chiefl
to students of military tactics. The vol
nine contains 1W letters relating to the
I'anisii war of ism.
An English journal states that the
consulting rooms of the oculists are
crowded with patients sutferimr Irom ir
ritation of the eyes, caused by exposure
10 ine unprotected electric light.
Three hundred thousand Germans,
whose ancestors settled in the Volga
provinces during the reign of the Em
press l atherine the Second by her invi
tation, are preparing to emigrate to the
United states.
The cause of the shortage of crops in
Russia, as reported bv the American
Consul, was owing to excessive heat, fol
lowed oy nan storms: not to the unsuc
cessful methods of Russian farmers, as
previously reported.
A communistic experiment is to be
tried In Africa bv a number of German
enthusiasts. Tbe selected territory lies
within hngland b sphere of influence in
Africa, in the region of Mount Keuia. in
uie equatorial nignianiis.
The statistics of the London fire de
partment just published ehows that
there were nearly 3,000 tires in London
last year, and during that time 61 lives
were lost at fires and 207 Ii vos were saved
bv the lireinen. There were X more
fires last year than in lSs.l and tsl more
than the yearly average for the last ten
years.
Tbe coffee crop of Costa Rica is but
two-thirds the amount of the previous
year s Harvest, ami me price is station
ary at ;!o per quintal. There is much
anxiety in commercial circles, and it is
feared that several houses will fail.
The last vear 1ns been one of the
worst business years ever known in Sax
ony. Over 40,000 distress warrants were
issued in Dresden alone, an increase of
nearly 20 per cent. ; and the number of
bailiffs ha had to lie considerably aug
mented. The influenza is attacking the animals
abroad. In Italy the poultry is affected :
n Berlin the horses, and in Amsterdam
the wild anima's in the zoological war
den, and with the latter it ie generally
fatal, nine of them having fallen victims
up to date.
A letter from I airo fives a curion ac
count of the ceremonial performed every
day at the burial place of Khedive Tew
fik. , His mother attends daily for the
purpose of prayer, and over 1,000' per
sons, who also attend, are fed with nor-
ti m of meat, rice and bread. They sit
down in groups ot about a doxen each,
and a dish it placed in the middle of the
group. Casual visitor who look on
without participation in these strange
rite are served with coffee and ciirar
ettet, which it is the height ol bad form
to decline.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Prortur. rroll. Kte.
Whiat Nominal. Valley, 1.56 -H-M I
Walla Walla, l.5ow.l.65 per cental.
FLoia-Staudard, M 00; Walla N alia,
I4.H0; Graham, 4.00; Superfine, oU
per barrel.
Oat New, 4243c per bushel.
HAY-lljl3perton.
MiuirnKKs Bran, $2 5 short, yi,
ground barley, 22.50(25j chop feed
$1H per ton; feed barley, 20; mid
dlings, ,28 per ton; brewing barley,
I1.1U((1.16 per cental.
BirrxB Oregon fancy creamery, 3 't
40cj fancy dairy, 32VS3oci lair w
good, 25i27c; common, 16f22SC;
Cahlornia, 30!u35c; Eastern, 25y31c
per pound.
Uiuxhk Oregon, 14'al5c; taatera,
15''SlUc per pound.
Euos Oregon, 18c; Eastern, nom
inal, Itic per doxen.
i,-, TuV'l,l-irens. tSai.'i f0: ducks.
fihatf; geeoe, $11 per dozen; turkeys,
12'?c per pound.
V koktablks Cabbage, nominal, 11.60
(i 1.75 per cental ; cauli!lower,l per doz ;
Onions, H5c(rl per cental; potatoes,
:i5t50c per sack; tweet potatoes,
3i4c per pound; carrots, 75c per lack ;
parsnips, 1.00 per eack; asparagus, 18c
per pound ; lettuce, 30c; Oregon, 40c per
dozen; celery, 05(i0e per dozen; Hub
bard squash, 2Jc per pound ; greea peas,
Itic per pound.
FauiTS Sicily lemons, $J.OO('17.00;
California, f.l.00t4.u0 per box; oranges,
Riverside!, 11.25m2.60j navels, 3.00
(i4.25; apples, 75cM1.50 per box;
bananas, 3.50(i4.U0 a buuchj pine
apples, 4(?0 per dozen; cranberries,
$10.50(411.50 per barrel; Smyrna ligs,
Hie j citrons, 27c per pound.
8II Groceries.
IIonky ISig 18,'nC per pound.
8ALT-Liverpool,$16.00ijf$17.00;Btock,
$H(ijl2 per ton.
CoKKaa Costa Rica, 21c; Rio, 21c;
Salvador. 21c: Mocha. 30c: Java. 25c:
Arbuckle's, lUO-pound cases, 21 7-20c per
pound.
Rita Japan, $5.00; Island, $-'j.50
5.75 per cental.
Kk asm Small white. 3c: pink. 2'oC:
bayos, 2'sc; butter, 3uC ; limas, 3,'aC
per pound.
SioAK D, 4'a'cj Golden C, 43K'c;
extra C, 4'..,c; granulated, 6'ac;
cube crushed and powdered, 65jc; con
fectiouer' A, 6'8c; maple eugar, 15
1 c per pound.
Kvm-e Kastern. in barrels. 42(S45c:
half-barrels, 44r47c; in cases, 3o(tfS0c
per gallon ; $2.2o per keg. California, in
barrels, 3o per gallon ; $1.75 per keg.
Dkikd Fmira Petite prunes, 7c; sil
ver, 8'ucj Italian, He; German. 0'8c;
plums, 0'ac; apples, 6.iu,'4; peaches,
B'jCj pears, 8c per pound.
Cannkd Gooos fable fruits, $1.00(3
1.80, 2!v!j peaches, $1.80(42.00; Bart
lett pears, $1.80 1.00; plume, $1.37'g(4
1.50; strawberries, $2.25; cherries, $2.2o
(rf2.40; blackberries, $1.85 l.lHJ; rasp
berries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(42.80;
apricots,$l.ti0(il.70. Pie fruit: Assorted,
$1.10(41.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1(4
I It): hlnck lurries. Sl.2.ir4l.40 per dozen.
Vegetables : Corn, $1.10(41.75 ; tomatoes,
Hc(4i.oo; sugar peas, woccrsi.oo;
string beans, 90c(4$1.00 per dozen.
.Meats: Corned beel, $1.00; chipped beef,
f2.10; lunch tongue, $3.0) Is, 5 5'2s;
Wileil hum t 50(43 H5 nr do-""
Fish: Sardines, 75c(41.U5; lobsters, $2.30
(43.50; salmon, tin, 1-lb., $1.25(41.30;
2 lbs., $.40; ' bbl., $5.50. Condensed
.:lu. l ) .u hi. .
Hum; r.ugici urttuu, fmiv, viunii, f'.uu.
Highland, $0.50; Champion, 5.20; Mon
roe, $o.7o per case.
M Incellaneou
Naii.s Base quotations: Iron, 3.oo
steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per keir
Ikon Bar, 3,'8c per pound; pig iron,
$-0 u z per ton.
Stkki. IO'-jC per pound.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qua!
ity, $S.00( 8.50 per box ; for crosses, $2
extra per box; roofing, I4i:u, prime
quality, $t.7o per box ; 1. C. coke plates
14x20, prime quality, $7.75 per box.
Lkad t8c per pound ; bar, 6'j.c.
Soliikr li(dtjic per pound, ac
cording to grade.
Shot $1.85 per sack.
HOKSKSHOKS $5.
Naval Stokks Oakum, $4.50(45 per
bale; rosin, $4.805 per 280 pounds; tar,
Stockholm, $12.50; Carolina, $7.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $0.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, Ooc per gallon in carload lots.
Hides, Waul and Hups.
IlniKS Dry hides, selected prime, 7
bc; ,laC less for culls; green, selected,
sheep pelts, snort wool, 30(4 50c; me
dium, tK)(480c; long, 00e(4$1.25; shear
lings, 10(tr,20c; tallow, good to choice, 3
3SjC per pound.
Wool Willamette Valley, 17(ai9c,
Eastern Oregon. 10(3 17c per pound,
according to condition and age.
Hops Nominal ; 12(jl4c per pound.
The Meat Market.
Bkkit Live, 2'a(44c ; dressed, 57c.
Mutton Live, sheared, 4lu(44:,4c;
dressed, 0c.
Hoon Live, 51,'ci dressed, 7is.
Vkal 5(48e per pound.
Smoked Mkats Eastern ham, 11(3
12c; other varieties, 13e; breakfast
bacon, lll,,(412c; sides, O'jifflO'.jc;
smoked bacon, llailc per pound".
La hd Compound, 3(4 10 '...c ; pure, 10 '8
(gIZ'j'c; Oregon. 10i8(rl24c per pound.
Hags and Bag-gln;.
Burlaps. 8-ot.. 40-ineh. net cash. fi'n'r:
burlaps, 10's-oz., 40-inch, net cash,7'nc;
burlaps, 12-ot., 45-inch, net cash, 8c ;
burlaps, lti-oz.. 00-inch. 12c: burlaps. 20.
ot., 70-inch, I4'4c. Wheat bags, Calcutta,
,ix jq, Bpot, 8c ; three-bushel oat bags,
Why h Historic Churm Was Luit,
One of the most precious mul beauti
ful amulets of history is tlnit of which
Moncure I). Conwav tells us. It was a.
treasure from the pnt, owned by the
hinmror l.oins Annolcoii III. It was
set with a blaze of precious stones, the
gifts of ninny princes. It descended to
the ptince imperial, who wore it as a
watch charm. He wore it when he
was killed among the Zulus, mid it is
gone, no one knows where.
Ah 1 if he had but known the rules
of amulet wearing among those people
and had worn it about his neck 1 No
matter how precious it was, it would
then have been left untouched. The
dead of battle may be stripped of every
garment or ornament but that about
the neck. Professor Frederick Starr in
Popular Science Monthly.
Flrrflln Peculiar to Amrrlra.
The ancients were probably unac
quainted with the species of fireflies
which are so familiar in this country.
because the most remarkable of the!e
are peculiar to America. The great
lantern flies of southern Europe and
Asia, which are sometimes called ' fly
ing glowworms," are allied to the boat
flic and water scvniiotis. On the other
hand, the fireflies of the tropica are
beetles, Tbe latter are of somber hue
in the daytime, and it is ouly at night
that they uow their life-hU. Waohing :
tou Star. I
AGRICULTURAL.
Poultry Keeping for
Women.
MONEY-MAKING OCCUPATION'
It Can be Pursued at Home Without
Interfering With the Home
Duties Etc
Ohio Funner.)
The attention of American women
who are looking for some money-making
bc upation which t iey can pursue at
home without interfering with home
dutie can safely be directed to poultry
yard and garden. How often we hear
the question asked, " How can we keep
the boys on the farm?" But the ques
tion in my mind, wiien I see to many
farmers' daughters leaving home to pur
sue tome other occupation some as
dressmakers, tome as clerkt'in stores
and still others at school teachers in
why do they not stay on the farm and
engage in the poultry business? Their
remuneration, if the business it properly
conducted, would far exceed the wages
paid in stores or at school teaching.
There it no more desirable occupation
for women, and there is nothing the farm
produces that will make quicker returns
of profit than eggs and poultry. But it
should never be treated as a side line,
leaving the feed and care to the hired
man, the chore boy or any one else, but
should he under the supervision Of some
member of the family. I'oultry raising
has always been considered woman's
work, and when it is combined with gar
dening, is the only labor on the farm
that she can engage in and run it suc
cessfully without being considered out
of her sphere. When her poultry and
eggs lind their way into the market her
lab r will bring just as much as though
a man had raised them.
It can be started with a little capital
and from the very start the business can
le made to yield an income over and
above all expenses. But (owls cannot
be kept with profit on the farm unless
they are yarded during .May, June and
July. This is why so many farmers
claim that it "doesn't pay to keep hens,"
because they are allowed to run over the
grain fields, in the strawberry patch,
through the door yards and the carden.
A yard two and one-half rods wide and
five rods long will easily accommodate
100 hens, and they should be kept in this
iiiclocure from May 1 until after harvest.
And right here is where we derive bene
lit from the market garden for the poul
try ; all the tops cut from the vegetables,
the rakings, weeds, etc., can lie carted
into the yards and thrown under shade
trees, and the fowls will be kept biiBjr
all day, besides furnishing the necessary
material for eggs. There is a vast dif
ference between raising poultry for mar
ket and for sale of pure breeds. In rais
ing poultry for market no dilliculty will
be met, for the object is only the weight
of carcass and yellow, good-flavored
llesh. While we could not get along
without the fancier, the farmer wants to
raise poultry and eggs for market, and
to do this we must keep our flock of
thoroughbreds, for we cannot produce
proper crosses without pure breeds, and
the mott successful market poultry ia
obtained by judicious crossing.
ltricularltjr In Feeding.
American Cultivator.
To be a good feeder of stock requires
care, thought and system. Enough and
no more must be given at regular hours.
Animals thus fed neither fret with dis
appointment nor are disturbed when the
digestive process is only half finished.
Nothing breaks down the digestive or
gans so much as rousing them up at in
opportune times and forcing food upon
them. They will usually eat just enough
to overload the stomach. On the other
hand, if the feeding is delayed too long,
part of the reserved fat on the inteBtines
is absorbed. If the aniu al thus stinted
is a cow giving milk, the supply is les
sened and its quality is impaired. No
subsequent good feeding will quite return
the accustomed flow before this inter
ruption. The cow prepares in advance
for another period of semi-starvation,
turning a certain part qf what she se
cretes to fat to be used in time of need.
This explains why all who have devel
oped especial excellences in breeds have
been known as careful, regular feeders.
It is largely by judicious feeding that
the excellences of the best breeds are
brought out. Unless this is kept up,
however, no carefulness in breeding can
prevent the descendants of full-bred
stock from quickly degenerating. It is
part of the excellence of the improved
breeds that have come to be dependent
upon man's care in providing food and
shelter. Nature, relieved of these bur
dens, turns the energies thus saved to
the development ol excellence! which
would else have been impossible. But
at the same time the animal thus devel
oped loses part of its capacity to care for
itself. It is thus not only true that
farmers make their own breeds, but they
have as good animals as they are fit to
care for. Tliere is nothing quite so hope
less as pure-bred stock turned into scrubs
by lack of due care either in food or
shelter. There must be a reform in feed
ing for the beet-bred stock, else it will
not be found any more profitable to ita
owners than that it supersedes.
The science of good feeding is becom
ing better understood by the majority of
successful bruederg. Not eo much corn
or other fattening foods are given to
breeding animals. More reliance is
placed on wheat bran, ensilage and other
foods that keep animals from becoming
constipated, at the same time that they
provide materials for bone and frame of
the younit they are carrvinir. Breeding
animals have good, if not ravenous, ap
petites and need to be liberally fed. All
tbe more care therefore should be given
to feeding at regular time and with food
that will not increase the tendency to
fatten.
Holding Crop.
If flip fnrmpr dairea in crtoonlafu Ytv
hnlilinu hia nrnna frtr biabor nrinut than
he can tiet when they are first ready for
market, lie should be out of debt. Then
he can speculate or gamble with hit own
money and not with that of tome other
man.
The I'm of Three Common Word.
"If it bo" implies doubt or uncertainty:
"if it is" indicates an actual fact The
rule is: "When a conjunction indicates
some uncertainty nse the subjunctive
after it; when anything is spoken of aa
an actual fact, or as in absolute existence,
the indicative, is used." Writer.
He Named It.
"D'you know what U to be the new cap
ita of Alaakar
"Yes, That' it"
"WhatT
"J uneau.--West Shore.