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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1892)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. LLMirBKLL, freprtetor. EUOBNE CITY. OREGON. OCCIDENTAL MELANGE A Deputy United States Collector Arrested in Mexico. WILLAMETTE VALLEY FRUIT CROP. The Government Contract Indian School at Old Mission Reopens Ex citement at Phenlx. Tha Portland cable road bi been fold under a mortgage. Idaho Prohibitionists will place a complete ticket In the Held. The Common Council of San Joe haa fixed the Us levy at $1.25 on the ilOJ. Marshal Parsons lia withdrawn his libel lOiti againtt the r-alt Lake Tribune. The Bait River Valley of Arizona baa dreamt of becoming a great hop-produc-ing teciion. Ban Jose refuted to vote (150,000 to be expended for a new central school and for aewer facllitiea. The booki at the United Statei Con aul'l olUce at Victoria, 1!. 0., "how an Increase in exports to Kan Francisco daring the past bvu month. It li stated that the Cliino sugar-beet factory Is not retininfr sugar this season, bat is shipping raw sugar to the Sprock ets refinery In Ban Francisco. In sham night attack at the camp of the Nevada militia near Carson three men in hastily netting op stepped on bayonets, and severely lacerated their feet. The baseball bat and an ax were wielded in a light at Virginia City over . the title to a house by Patrick Ward and Tom O'Konrke. Both were seriously wounded. The Republicans are holding two Plate Conventions in Nevada. There Is a dis agreement over the proposition to accept ' the silver electors or to select a straight Republican ticket. The trait crop In the Willamette Val ley will fall abort of the average, it is sitld, owing to the cold rains snd heavy winds which prevailed last spring. The shortage la especially noticeable in the prune crop. A body of salt water baa boen struck near Foster station, twenty six miles from Ban Diego. The water is reported to hold sold In solution, rrom two gal' Ions of the water over two pounds of pure salt was obtained. In Oregon last year 1,000 bales ol hot were produced. The Salem Slate man says that owing to increased acre age tne output tnis year win ue nincn greater, while the crop is of a much bet ter quality than last season. Dr. A. M. Newican proposes to locate a colony ol Norwegians ot (KX) families In Lane countv, Or., and will purchase from II. C en the liUtor'a 2,200-acre farm, located eight miles southwest ol hugone. 1 he price to be paid is 144, UOO. While an Indian woman waa sewing In the shade ol a tree at Falomar, Han Diego ciunty, a wild cat sprang upon her, biting and tearing her lleali. A dog came to her rescue, and diverted the at ten i ion of the ca', which chased the dog to the stable, ana Hie noise there aroused the husband, who shot the animal. The woman died from her wounds. There are about 176 Indian boys and girls at the Chemewa Indian school now, but it is expected the number will reach 300 before long. Uncle Bain has not sent theauarierly installment of between 13,000 and $10,00 ), which is required to rnn the school, but It is looked lor in a short time. The pay-roll of the pupils lone Is In the vicinity ol $315. In the Court of Private Claims at Santa Fe opinions were handed down recently confirming the title to two large tracts ol land in iaoe county, a. m., known as Las Kanchor del wo Uramie. The grant was confirmed for 100,000 acres. The other was the Cubero grant in alencia county, calling for some 10,' 000 acres. State Printer Baker is busy Issuing the 69,000 edition of the "Resources of Orexou," ne' little pamphlet of 20ii pages, lull of general Information about this Mate. About half of the edition has been struck otT. and it is calculated that It will take six weeks to complete the work. Alter that be will start on the "Resources of Eastern Oregon." The Monumental mining and milling property at Uranlte, the property of C, 8. Miller, has been consolidated with the Morris mines nt Ureenhorn, and a stock company formed with a capitalisation of ll.X60.000. divided Into 25U.IHX) shares. The company is incorporated nnder the name of the Uranlte and Ureenhorn Consolida'ed Mining and Milling Com pany. Tliegovernmentoontract Indian school at Old Mission, near Ban Diego, bat leen reopened with nearly 100 children from ranches all over the country. The Bis ters of St. Joseph have been teaching them Ave years with marked result, and Indian girls are In demand lor do mestic service when through there, Pupils are now completing a Mexican drawn-work display for the World's Fair. The committee in charge of the pre liminary arrangementa for the celebra tion ol .With anniversary ol the discov ery of Ban Diego Bay on September 2(1 haa received a dispatch from Uoveruor Torres of Liwer California, stating that President Diss of Mexico will send hi finest military band to take part In the celebration. Governor Torres and staff, together with a company ol Mexican troops, will be present on that occasion, A Ore started In the woods and dry gram near r.iuiira, Lane county, or., re cently, and spred quite rapidly. A farm owned by James Kirk of Junction was burned over, all bis fences destroyed ana t nern niiea with straw burned. His house was burned In Me same way last year. The fire then spread to the school house, and came near getting that, but the children playing around the building bad worn the grata off some, and the neighbors were auie to save It Daputy United States Collector C. D. Reppy of La Noria. A. T., went across the line, and waa immediately arrested by Mexicans and taken to the town of Santa Crux. Reppy a short time ago captured a Mex ran horse smuggler and brought him to La Noria, where he was bound over and taken to Tucon to await trial. Reppy waa held as a hoetige fi the return of the Mexican smuggler Upon being notified, Mr. Lineiroe of the Mexican cuttomt service at Nogalee sent courier to Santa Cru with orders to the Mexican! to release Eppy, - FROM WASHINGTON CITY. The Attorney-General Recommends to the PresiJent the Resignation of the Marshal of Utah. The Treasury Department so far this year has shipped but tH.OWl.OOO for mov ing crops, as against f 14,800,000 for the tame period last year. This large de crease is explained not by a diminution of the crops, hot by the fact that the banks were better supplied with small notes. Secretary Foster says there has been as yet no plsce or time fixed upon for the meeting of the international mone tary conference. Should the cholera continue its menacing course, theopin ion is exn es;d at the Treasury Depart ment that it la altogether probable the meeting of the conierenre will be de ferred nntil some later dale, when the danger from the scourge will not be so great as now. The Secretary of the Interior has ap portioned the surveying appropriations Oregon receives iiS.OuO, Washington I'it.i OO, and Idaho (40.U0 1. Oregon ba an Increase of 1 : 5, 00 J over last year, and Idaho an Increase ol toKI. while Wash ingtoti is the same ai last year. Of the amounts apportioned the following are to be used on public lands within the railroad land grants: Orvgon $16,000, Washington f 10,000. and Idaho $10,000, Attorney-General M i I ler recom mended to the I res dnt tbat the resignation ol United States Marshal Parlous of Utah be asked for immediately. The I'resi dent approved the recommendation, ani the Marshal has been asked to resign, It Is stated at the Department of Juatice tnat this action was taken because the Marshal and bis deputies on some occa sions had allowed r'risnner Groesiieck to leave the pr son and visit his third wife for living with wli m he had been con vicled on the charge of adultery. It has been learned on good authority at the Navy Deprtment that the Secre tary will not detach the Monterey from the Sin Francisco station when she goes Into commission. It is his intention to have the vessel remain as the principal defense ol the city. She will take coast wise trips northward as far as Portland and southward to Ban Diego, and will remain constantly in those waters. The Monterey will be put in commission be fore her armorplate lor the vertical tur ret is finished, and Its absence will be supplied by thick oak planking. It is understood that Lieutenant Pendleton of the Washington navy yard will be or dered to take charge as her executive o Ulcer. Captain Shepard, In charge of the revenue marine bureau of the treasury department, lias net yet received con Urination from any of the revenue cut ters in Behringseaof the reported arrests of British and American sealers by a Russian man-of-war for illegal sealing in the neighborhood of the Heal Islands. still owned by Russia in the Retiring sea, and leased to the Alaska Commercial Company, That the arrests were made more than three mile!) from shore Is not doubted. The occurrence will have pointed bearing upon two of the ques tions to be arbitrated upon, vis: What exclusive jurisdiction in the sea now known as the Behring sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein did Russia assert and exercise, prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United Stntes, and second, how far were the terms of Juris diction as to the teal fisheries recogiiixed and conceded by ureal iiritainT The Canadians, with a view of evail ing the 20-cent tolls to be imposed in accordance with the terms of the I'resi' dent's proc'amation on and after Sep tember 1 on all Manitoba wheat shipped through the St. Mary's canal, are pro posing to ship in Canadian bot'oms Irom Duluth to Port Huron, to be trans shipped from that point by the Grand Trunk line through Canada. This mat ter being brought to the attention of the Treasury Department, Assistant Hccre- tary Bpaulding has sent the following special telegram to the solicitor of the Urand Trunk at Detroit. Mich. : "Nei their Manitoba nor domestic wheat can lie carried in Canadian bottoms from Duluth to Port Huron, as It would be in violation of our coasting laws: but. if carried In American bottoms, It Is not subject to tolls. If carried thiongh the canal from Duluth to Sarnl fur con sumption in or export from Canada via Montreal or any other p rt, It would be." THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. The Programme of the Dedicatory Cer emonles of i he Columbian Fair Completed Etc. A factory at Lynn has asked for space at the World's Hair to show pneumatic dynamite guns ami projectiles. Colonel Eliott F. Shepherd o' New York has purchased 10,000 of the World's Fair souvenir coins, paying $10,000 for them. New York will exhibit at the World's Fair sections of all the trees which are indigenous to the State, Of there there are forty three species snd eighty-live varieties, a numiier which Is not ex celled, it is claimed, by any State In the Union. t has been decided to make a Taroma exhibition at the World's Fair to con sist principally of drawing and the coti' ventionalislng of forms ami clay model' Ing. The High school will contribute most of the drawings and lower grades models in clay. Complete plans for the exhibition will be arranged. The programme of the dedicatory cer emonies of the World's Fair has been completed as follows: October 19, re ception to the President of the United Slates, Cabinet and other guests at the Auditorium; 20th, grand "Procession of Centnrles " at the gronnds Following this will be speeches, military maneu vers, etc. A Madrid dlspatoh eavs: Theraravali Nina and Pinta, which have been build ing some time at Barcelona for the Co lumbus celebration, have been launched. and will be completed shortly, as only the masts and a few of the fittings are now lacking. The Nina is 67 feet Ions over deck ; the lima is "2 feet long over deck and 26 feet wide. An organisation hat been formed at Geneva, 111., whose obiwt is to compile and publish a hisUrv of the work of wnmeti In the elective otfices ot Ksne countv, which is to be ethib ted at the eipmtion. Kane county has the credit of being the first county in the State, and perhaps In the Union, to nonor woman f making ber a deputy n Its omciai omcee. One of the best suggestions vet mad for designs for the W rld's Fair souvenir coins Is that of Ferd Perk ot Milwank, is, mat one sue oi me ron should represent North and Kuth America, with a ship between them heading to ward the shore. This would mesa some thing, snd it is of very little matter hether It Is beautiful or not. althonh certain designers seem t consider the BEYOND HIE ROCKIES. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. Police and Other Courts of St. Louis Notoriously Corrupt. HUGE SUGAR FRAUDS UNEARTHED. Homestead Strikers Continue to be Ar rested at the Instance of tbe Plnkerton Thugs. has saved Virginia's tobacco grain blockade at Kansas mills of New England are a $103,000 home Rain crop. There Is a City. The paper forming a trust. Pittsburg will build for its paupers. The continued drought has injured corn in Illinois. Chicago's school census shows the city has 1,438,010 people, Philadelphia is soon to have a system of elevated railways. Atlanta is said to have a park for col' ored people exclusively. It is proposed ti build a railroad from Washington to Mount Vernon. It will soon be ready. It is planned to construct a great yacht harbor on tbe north shore, off Lincoln Psrk, Chicago. Russian Jew immigrants at Boston are washed with solution of carbolic acid to kill cholera germs, Bank Commissioner Johnson of Kan' aas has issued a report, which shows great prosperity in that business. It is reported that Republicans will Institute suit to teat Unconstitutionality of the Indiana apportionment act of 18U1. Mr. Wanamaker receives more appeals from cranks and other beggars for money and official favor than any other man In public life, An agent of the Red Cross Society is at Brownsville, Tex., investigating the condition of destitute people in the Rio Uramie valley. Grasshoppers are doing an immense amount ol damage in Ohio to oats and other growing crops. Whole fields of oats have been destroyed. Osage Indians In Oklahoma scared a white man nearly to death by institut ing a mock torture of burning at the stake and cutting off his hair. It is said in Texas that the Railroad Commission is only restrained by the recent decision from makingrateson the Uould lines and the Santa Fe. The Legislature of Louisiana has placed itself on record as favoring the election of Senators of the United btates by a direct vote of the people, Arrests are being made at Homestead. Pa of the men who were engaged in the battle with the Pinkertons. the lat ter having sworn out warrants. Tbe government has unearthed exten sive sugar frauds by systematic under weighing ol Importations, tight Ira porters at New otk are laid to be iiv volved. Anderson A Co. of Port Huron. Mich., manufacturers of carriages and agricult ural Implements, have riled chattel mort gages aggregating $2J0,UOO to secure creditors. The Transcontinental Railway Asso elation has instructed tbe Chairman to give the required three months' notice to the racitlc Mall Steamship Company canceling me existing agreements. The Highbinder Society of New York sent a messager to Emporia, Kan., to notify Wuong Lee that he must leave there or die. Wuong Is naturalized, and the ollluers have promised protection to mm. An attachment has been filed at New York for floO.tXXi against Bullick A Wil ier, railroad contractors, who built the Monterey and Mexican Uulf railroad The claim is for mouey advanced to carry on mat worx. There are counterfeit tlO sold nieeps ot uaie itwz in circulation at Chicago. They are ligher in color and a great deal ghter in weight than the B ind coin. On all of them appears the letter "O," indicative ol the New Orleans mintage, It it reported In New York that the Elklns-Widener-Yerkes syndicate has giibbled np the Jay Uould holdings in the Manhattan E evaied Rillwav Com pany, and that the triumvirate of street- railway men wll demand three teats in the company's directory, Bt. Louis. Mo., will have an attractive feature during the fall festivities in the hape of a large Illuminated a obe with ne ainereni continents, oceans, etc. painted on its snrfc". It will be 100 teet In circumference, and will contain 5,000 incandescent lamps. Canadian Pacific railway ofllcia'a are charged with being engaged In agisting smugglers to pass Chinese into this coun try, and the Treasury Department hat olllcially notified the Deputy Collector of Customs at Montreal of the fact with a view to putting an end to such work. The wheel manufacturers west of the Alleghany Mountains have organised the Western Wheel Association at Indian apolis. Dwight Smith of Jackson, Mich., as elected President and Jay 11. Smith Secretary. The organiiation controls 5 per cent, ot the factories west ot the Alleghanies. An aerolite weighing forty-four nonnds fell on ti e farm of Lawrence Freeman near Rath s mntv, 8. D . late Monday afternoon. The advent of the stone was heralded by several sharp explosions, which were heard a distance of fifteen miles or more, and In some instances created considerable alarm. Dr. Exum, the Third party candidate tor Governor in North Carolina, waa ar rested at Uoldsboro, charged with nsmg pruinne language in me poeioitlce In the presence of ladies. The postmaster made the charge. Although Dr. Exum made a positive denial under oath, the Mayor fined him, and a warrant for perjury has oeeu issued against Dim, It is said that the police and other courts ot St. Louis are notorious v cor rupt and acquit about three-fourths of the cases brought before them and con vici anout naii as many at Dve years ago. lbs amount ol money paid to the cur lor one Das decreased 70 per cent, ana ameers receive a great deal of Plan- uer. i ne ruin is said to oe a con spiracy which baa b'en expose.! by the grand jury, doi tne ciusens take small interest in the matter. President Hill of the Ureat Northern Is o. noted as saying that his only object in cutting loose from the ranscontinental organisation Is based on a determination to adopt such rate tariffs as will promote business interests and build no towns along the lire f bis road from Bt Psnl to Seattle. This he could not do under Translation of the New Testament From Original Greek Into the Creek Language Completed. Insufficient clothing keeps 8,000 chil dren from school in Chicago. Harvard University wants 7,000 square feet of room at tbe World's fair, Miss Irene Wood of Cocheeett, Mass., has tatigh t seventy-two consecutive terms ol school in tbe same schoolroom Marie Rote has decided to winter In Paris and to teach tinging to aoch Amer ican and Parisian students as can pay her price. Paris University is the largest in the world. It has 9.216 students. Vienna University with 6,23) students is seond and Berlin third. Washington Academy, which Is the pride of tbe qniet, eta d little town ol East Machlas, Me., has jutt celebrated its 100th anniversary. The University ot Padua will celebrate on December 7 the tercentenary anni versary of Galileo't installment aj pro fessor of mathematics. The teachers and Superintendents of the United Hutet receive $8d,0u ',0o0 an nually. This amount increases $2,500,- 000 each yer, or 3l per cent. Mies Vio'a Griswold, tbe only women In a class of forty eiht men at the Col lege of Pharmacy, N jrthwestero Uni versity, carried off the flret prite. The average yearly salary paid to men school teachers in Pennsylvania, Includ ing all the distr cts both city an i coun try, is 315, and $24 1 is the average for women teachers. Cheap teachers make cheap schools, and cheap schools make cheap men. Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson of Muscogee, I. T hat completed tbe translation of the New Testament from tbe original Ureek into the Creek langnhge. The University of Ohio has conferred npon her the degree of doctor of philosophy in recognition of her scholarly attainments. More thnn 200 women are studying at the five great universities of Switzer landBerne, Ueneva, Zurich, Lausanne and basle. The greater number of these students are from Russia, and only eleven are (rem America. One hundred and fifty-seven are atndying medicine, sixty-two philosophy and five law. The most instructive college yell yet discovered is that of the girls belonging to tbe annex of the Western Reserve FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS The Irritable Kaiser Dismisses One of His Personal Aides. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS FOR FISHERMEN L'kase Iisued by the Czir Forbidding the Hissing of Foreign. Artiits or Actors Eta Vintage prospects are good in Spain. Crop prospects in county Cork, Ire land, are gloomy. The fioa ing population of the Thames numbers 3OO,0iH) souls. The Venezuelan rebels are reported to have captured La Uuayra. Chili and Peru are thought to be pre' paring for another struggle. The Sultan of Morocco's forces have ronted the rebellious Angheres. Uruguay is endeavoring to get a $5,' 000.0JU loan from French capitalists. It is said that fashionable watering placet of Uermany are slim.y patron tied. A company of Japanese actresses are preparing to start on a proiessionai tour in PORTLAND MARKET. University in Cleveland: " Warm mil fresh air : keep your feet off the regis- taire." This yell is a constant reminder of the sanitary rules ol the school, strict obedience to which has apparently proved of great advantage to the etu dents. The President of the Association Collegiate Alumnte, Miss Elizabeth Howe, has been Investigating tbe cost a collegiate education for women. She finds that the cheapest of all the worn' en's colleges is Vassar, where $100 cov ers all the expenses of a year's training, save those tbe student makes for herself, Welleeley and Smith differ but little irom the Vassar scale. At Cornell, Bryn Mawr and the Harvard Annex the charges are slightly higher, $100 to $500 being a fair estimate, it ts a lact worthy of attention that In the coeducational college the price of a year's living higher than It is in any of the colleges exclusively lor women. PURELY PERSONAL Wealthy Danish Banker's Resemblance to the Russian Czar Causes Him to Become Insane. la'ter qualification a sir qua nun. A coin Is never a th'ngol beaii'y. although it may bee ) y Urevr.and In theeof , the restrictive provisions of the Iran ine sanir coins the digna shnnM at continent! urMnwni vhloh I leart hint at tbe man and the deed thev treat disrrimmtiinna min.t lnt-i. u. are in tended to oomineuo. ate. I ealities ia favor ot Pacific Coasi noinu. Candidates Harrison. Reid. Weaver and Bid well were all born in Ohio. Bismarck used to spelt his name with out the "c," German usage in words having a tdmilar ending sanctioning either lorm oi spelling. jymi uerscheli. Ureat Uritain'a new Lord Chancellor, is nut a direct descend ant of the great astronomical llersch ells, but is of the same family. M. Larsen, a wealthy Danish banker, bo strikingly resembles the Czar of Rus sia mat he has got finally into an insane hospital, lie came to Imagine that he was re lly the Czar, and fear of assassi' nation nntettled his mind. Henry de Rothschild, one of the young swells of the famous family ol Kotnscniiii, is at Saratoga. lie is oneol the Pant Rothschilds, and is said to be heir to more t han f r0.000.000. He is an aihletto youth of 19 years. Bir rrederic Le gliton. President of the Royal Academy, is mentioned as likely to be recommended to a Peerage, As I terature and science have both a - ready received this compliment. It is on ly ngni mat art should be recognized in a similar manner. The Prussian army ia sa'd to contain but one olll r raised from the ranks Uilon-I Landemann, who was promoted for acts of exceptional bravery in tbe Schleswig-Holatein campaign in 1801. He has just been gazetted commander ol the Sixtieth Infantry. M. Zola It one of those who flourish on abuse. A fierce battle is raging in France just now against the man who wrote "La Ddbarle" and therein re- veled, it is alleged, a lack of patriotism. Every newspaper in Paris echoes in va rious modulations theshoutof 'traitor." and meanwhile an edition of 100,000 copies oi "La Debacle" has been sold out. Ren Butler is said to be badlv bent with age. H is face baa the look of health, but his massive frame haa be come an unmistakable burden. His hands move unsteadily, while his eyes appear swollen ami almost bidden by the thick (olds of flesh on his cheeks. Hut his head U clear as a bell, and at 74 there is no shrewder lawyer or politician in New England. Prof. Unwin ot the Guilds Cjllege, London, has, it is said, been offered over ",000 a year to undertake the duties of run nrrr-iii-i'iiiei uj me extension worts now being carried out at the falls of Ni agara to utilize a part of the enormous hydraulic power which hitherto haa been running to waste. What Prof. Unwin s u-cis on in the matter ia has not yet inuepircu. Toe artist Whistler lived In Washing ton about thirty fire years ago in such poverty and seclusion that few people were aware of his existence. He was then a poorly-pud draughtsman in tbe service ol the coast survey, and was lorod to practice the stnetest economy to keep the lamp ot life burning. His quarters were a barren attic, the walls snd ceilings of which he covered with sketches of all kinds in charcoal and pencil. The wi'e of Mr. Frick ot HomestMd is ot Massachusetts stock. Her father waa Aa 1. Childs, who between 182 and ISM was engaged in the wholesale shoe business in Pittsburg, making his purchases in Boston, where he and his brother, Harvey Childs, were well known. They were partners of John Alrm-eol tlo-ton. who attended Europe, The freedom enj yed by the press in Uermany la to-day greater than it was a tew years ago. It is said that the Queen is about to convert Sir Arthur bullivan's knight hood Into a baronetcy, A large number of Hebrew immigrants are returning to Europe from the Hirecb colony In the Argentine, Portugal will have to tell a portion of ber colouies to meet the interest on the exterior debt of the country. The coming silver wedding of the King and U teen ot Italy is to be made the occasion of great festivity. In Germany, France, Austria and Italy there are constantly In barracks or un der arms not less than 3,000,000 men The government of Portugal has sanc tioned the importation oi 12,000,000 kilos of wheat monthly for ten months, Liverpool hotel and trades people do not take kmdly to the proposed change to Southampton by the Inman Company, The irritable Kaiser baa dismissed one of his personal aides who presumed to criticise bow he arranged his breast dec orations, The Czar has issued a ukase forbidding the bismng ol loreign artists or actors on the operatic or theatrical stage in St. Petersburg. A jury at Paris has acquitted De Mores, principal, and his seconds, who were indicted I ji the killing of Captain Aiayer in a duel, A pension ot 2,000 yearly has been conferred on Lord George Hamilton, who was first Lord ol the Admiralty In Lord Salisbury's Cabinet. A Geneva watchmaker has invented a talking clock that can be so adjusted that it will invite the courting young man to stay to breakiast. Tbe number of dead in the Parkslip pit in vtaies is placed at 1U7. But lortV' one ot tne 149 entombed have been res cued, and two of those have since died. Madame Moes, a bear tamer at Paris, while in the cage holding two animals in check, Blipped snd fell, when she was immediately torn to pieces by tbe bears. At lenna 4 SO doctors have offered to attend cholera patients on the condition that, if they die while in the discharge 01 their duty, their families be provided or. Technicat schools have been estab lished at Ringsend, Ireland, for fisher men by Lord Pembroke, who is one ol the large property owners in the Emer ald isle. On a recent Sunday there was a 26 mne loot race in Brittany under a scorching sun. The winner on crossing me line drank a glass ol lemonade, and leu dead. Henry Labonchere says that Mr. Chamberlain will end his career in a lunatic asylum. Mr. Chamberlain re torts that Mr. Labouchere started out from one, In the Boulevard St. Germain in Paris you can drop a small sou Into a slot in a circular co unit) publ ciy situated, press butt m and catcu eight quarts 01 hot water in a pan. I he latPet idea in Paris is an official ntction of all the shade trees in the ity, with tbe view of removing those that are not healthy and aubetitutiuir oiners mat are. In view of the imnendins cholera pianue, says tne ew fork Sun, Dr. Da rem berg says to the Parisians: "Boil your Ice!" Freezing does not kill the germs 01 contagion. The Empres Frederick will return to Berlin early in October to superintend the preparations for the marriage of the iTincesa Margaret, whose trousseau is ready well in hand. The Governor of New Son'h Wales states that since the passage of the pro tection tariff in March last the area of land nnder cultivation in the colony had ncreasea 23 per cent. Several Welsh tin-date manufacturers Closed their works on Saturday. Sixtv works are now closed, and 10,000 bauds are Idle. Many sailed on Saturday to unci employment in America, The latest news from Bolivia Is to the eneci tnat the Liberal Deputies abso lutely refuse to attend the meetinss of Congress until the government explains its high-handed action in deposing some 01 uieir memoers. The British House of Commons has members several years vounaerthan are allowed in the American Conirress. One ol the newly-returned members. Will 1am Allen, is 21. and Freder ck Smith and Mr. Daixiel are not yet 24. Photography has determined the cause tbe recent glacial avalanche in the ails. It was hydraulic pressure beneath and behind the glacier. Drodnred h masses of ice falling into connecting wa ter above and at a considerable distance. Admiral Hopkins, commander of the rniei British rsorth American station, has been instructed to take hia entire rqnsdron, with the Blake as his flagship, to Hampton Rads next April ami par ticipste in the subsequent naval review ai .nw lorx. The rebels who had possession ot lruxiilo. Honduras, on the Caribbean Sea, saluted the Amerion flag, firing twenty-one guns from a fort on Jnlr 4. The Americans have been permitted tn come and go as they pleased, and hme been shown every courtesy by all parties. In some ot the big restaurants of Rus sia there is a pool of water, in which various kinds of fish swim about, A patron ot the restaurant who desires fish goes to the pool, points out the partiru- rrotoM. Fruit, rte. Whiat -.Nominal. Valley. 1.22.(3 1.25; Walla Walla, V.Ul.20 per cental. Fuca-SUndard, $3.90; Walla Wal'a, 3. W); Graham, (3.60; Superfine, $2.76 per barrel. Oats New, 45347.l,'c per bushel Hat $lK13per ton. MnLSTtirrs Bran, $ 6; shorts, 18; ground barley, $22.&U(J25; chop feed, $18 (?22 per ton; leed barley, $24(26; mid d ings, $2u(g28 per ton; brewing barley, $l.lUfd)1.15 per cental; chicken wheat, $1.30 per 100 pounds. Borria Oregon fancy creamery, 25(3 27,c; fancy dairy, 22H25c; -fair to good, 17Vi2 c; common, 12(Sl5c; Calilornia, 3StH)c per roil. CiixKHK Oregon, 12(3 13c; Yonng America, 13 14c per pound. Eoos Oregon, 20c; Eastern, 20c per dozen. Poultbv Old Chickens, (4 60(35.00; broilers,$.'.6u3.6J ; young ducks,$2.60(i 3.50; old geese, nominal, &.UU(g7.0u; young, nominal, $7.00(30.00 per dozen; turkeys, 16($loc per pound. VxaxTABLgs Cabbage, 2 per cental; Onions, red, 75(kWc per cental; silver tkins, $1 1.15 per cental; new potatoes, b5c3$lper sack; squash, 2(j3c,0egon cucumbers, lU(15c per dozen; tomatoes, 75o per box; Oregon turnips, 15o per dozen; young carrots, 15c per dozen; beets, 15c per dozen ; Oregon corn, 10(i$ 12c per dozen; sweet potatoes, 2.'c per pound; Oregon cauliflower, 7oc (g$l per dozen; celery, 00c per dozen. Faults Oregon peaches,7oc$l.tXI per bux;Cali(oruiaCrawiord pe4uhes,l.0Otg 1.25 per box ;Siciiy lemons, 10 .Caulornia lemons, $7.UO(8.oO per box; California Bartlett pears, $1.2o($1.5ii a box; Call (ornia cautaleups, $l.oO(g2.0U per dozen; Calilornia watermelons, $1.6J(g2 0O per dozen ; California grapes, $l.UUi$1.25 per box; Oregon grapes, $1.0Jc 1. 16 per box; pineapples, 3.0t) per dozen ; crabapples, 6JMtkc per 20-pound box; plums, 7o(g UOc per box; Oregon Italian prunes, $l.tu per box ; Uregon pears, $l.uu per box ; bananas, $3.00(4 1.00 per bunch ; quinces, $1.60 per box. Staple Orooerles. Hosxv 10(3 18c per pound. Balt Liverpool, $15.00(317.00; stock, $1112 per ton. BxAjot Small white, S'4'c; pink, S'c; bayos, 3?4(4c; butter, c; Jimas, ts t$40 per pound. Cokkxb Costa Rica, 21 'c; Rio, 20 V I Salvador, 20c ; Mocha, 27 i (330c; Java, 27630c; Arbuckle's 100-pound cases, 21 7-20C per pound. Sybup Eastern, in barrels, 40355c; half-barrels, 42(357gc; in cases, 35(3 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California in barrels, 20(3 40c P" gallon; $1.75 per keg. Dkixo Fbdits Petite prunes, 8(Sl0c; sliver, 8 S, (J 10c; Italian, 9(3 10c; Ger man, S( 10c ; plums,6(37c ; apples, 4, (3 7 ; evaporated apricots, 13(3l4c; peaches, lu(3llc; pears, 8c per pound. Buqab D, Sc; Golden 0, 6?8'c; extra C, 6iic; Magnolia A, 6c; granulated, 6'4'c; cube crushed and powdered, (j39c; confectioners' A, 6lfc'c; maple sugar, 15(3 l eper pound. Cannid Goods Table fruits, assorted quoted $1.75(31.00; peaches, $2.U0; Bart lett pears, $1.80(3 1.90 ; plums, $1.37i (31.60; strawberries, $2.25; cherries, $2.252.40; blackberries, $1.85 1.90; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3 2.80; apricots,$1.751.80. Pie fruit: As sorted, $1.00(31.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.00(31.10; blackberries, $1.25(3 1.40 per dozen. Vegetables: corn, $1.50 (32.00 ; tomatoes, H5ctl.00: sugar peas. uoc(3ii.ou; ttnng beans. VocOll.uu per dozen. Meats : uorned beet, $2.(X)(32.1U ; chipped beef, $2.25; lunch tongue, Is. $3.15 ; ?s, $5.5 ; deviled ham. $1.50(32 76 per drown Fish: Sardines, 75c 1.55; lobsters, L'.J0((ta.60; salmon, tin, 1-1 b. tails, $1.26(31.60; flats, $1.75; 2 lbs., x.'.a)(SZ.W; ft oni o.j. TIIEFARM AND GARDEN Small Potatoes Way be Cojked and Fed to Early Chicks. . COMMON SALT FOR PACKING ECCS. Cattle That are Kept In the Stall During Hot Weather Should Have Well Aired Qaarttrs. There la nothing better. It is laid thin common salt for packing egs, ihers only a few dozen are to be put d wn. On 740 acres of land a Dikota sheen breeder has raised 1,000 sheep and J! the hay ant grazed through tbe season. It is o ten the casethatoneortwodniri will wipe out in on night all of u, profits of a flock of sheep for the season. In the aggregate better prices can be realiz-d or ttieaool if it is carefull sorted and graded before sending tn market. Properly handled, a fl ick of sheep czn spare -s many as it will coht to keeo them and yet leave as many as went at first started with. Cattle that are kept in the stall durng' hot weather should have well-aired quar ters, from which the light shoul t lw ,)ar, tUliy excluded to check the attacks of men. Small potatoes may be cooked and fed to tbe early chicks with good results. Turn ps are al-o excellent. It is perhapi we I to say here that rotten potatoes have been found to be injurious to boih fowls and chicks, and should not be led. The best way to grow a variety of corn that will mature. It it is struck br frost after it has arrived at the g!az4 stage, it will keep as well in the silo and make as good fo.ider as if it had not h.n frozen; that is our experience. Prof. RoberUun. A poultry writer says he kept a strict account one yearwiih a fl ck of Leg horns to find out what It cost to produce eggs. He learned that it cost him a trills over 4 cents a dozen. Every one who keeps bens for profit should keep such an account. A Nebraska man has caught on to lis idea of making poultry raising mors profitable by canonizing his cocks and tending them to the Kew York and Phil adelphia maikets. He is familiar with the business, and will no doubt make a success of it. Miscellaneous. Naii Base quotations: Iron. 3.iX steel, $3.00; wire. $3.50 per keif ibos bar, z-.c per pound ; pig Iron. f.ttgzs per ton. otkkl lOc per pound. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20. prime aaal- Ity, $S.258.76 per box; for crosses, $2 extra per box; roofing. 14x20. prime quality, $ti.(J2, per box ; I. C. coke plates, ii lino ijumiky , ft.toliiO.W per uox. 1.KAP 40 per pound; bar, tjjc. Shot $1.80 per sack. Hobnkbhoks $5. n aval btorxs uaxum, M.5U(33 per hale; rosin. $4.80(35 per 480 pounds: tar. Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, $17.00 per narrei ; pitcn, lo.uu per barrel ; turpen tine, ooc per ganon in carload lota. Good Bone In Horses. John Morgan, says a writer in an Eastern weekly paper, rare typeola most useful horse and perhaps the most valuable sire of any we have ever had, was a small animal, but he was known as the strongest and most robust horse in a locality famed for its useful work animals. No other horse hitched with him could pull the weights he drew with ease, and none made the good time upon the road as he. He is said to have keen a bundle of sinews and muscles upon a very light frame ot tbe most solid bone. and strangers were amazed to see the little horse walk off with loads which larger but not heavier horses could not move. This is the real teet of value in a horse strength, lively action and en durance ah combined in the lightest weight possible. It is precisely the same qualities as those that go to make up the best type of steam engine, winch it, in fact, an artificial horse with bones and nerves, sinews and muscles of the tough est iron and strongest and most elastic steel. Food makes the animal. Breed gives the capability of chang ng M into the most valuable force no doubt, but the best bred horse will degenerate unleisheis supplied with the best of food. We may quest on as we like the deductions of science in this directing but the hard fact remains that bone it made np of phosphate of lime, and with out this element of bone tissue in ttie food we cannot build np a strong snd useful horse. And so on with the mus cle and the vital organs. Grass of the beet kind is the basis of the feeding of a horse, bnt we can have grass of the feet knd only during three months ol tt vear, and when we come t winter feed ing we must provide tome other fuod equal or superior if possible to it. Rides, Wool and TTnns. Hiubs Dry hides, selected orime. Hi mnc: ic less lor cuus: green, selected. over 65 pounds. 4c ; under 65 pounds, 3c ; siiwp peas, enori wool, auttrouc: me dium, 60(31 HOc; long, 90c (S $1.25; shear ings, iu3zuc; tallow, good to choice, 3 3c per pound. Wool Umpqna Valley. IfiffllOo: (all clip, 1315Hc; Willamette Valley, 15(3 ibc, Becoming to quality ; eastern Ore gon, lUloc per pound, according to condition. Hops Nominal. 6c. The Moat Market, Bxxr-Uve, l32c; dressed, 40 Mutton Live. 3(33 Vc: dressed. 7- t k- I ; .. ,)!. i i 1 mmuB, uvo, 074; urcsueu, nc. - Hoas Live, 6&l,'c: dressed. 7 Via 00 Vxal 4(cfj6c per pound. Smokko Mkatb Medium ham Hat lfv. large ham, HH'e; breakfast bacon, 13c; dry salt sides, loc; smoked sides, 1 , 1 . 1... 11 x . . . . 11 c; suiuKeu uacon, itjO per pound. Laid Compound, in tins. fiWe? nnn in tins.llc; Oregon, lOfgl'c per Baca and Barsrlnv. Burlaps. 8-OZ.. 40-inch, net ra.h L'. burlaps. 10-ox.. 4,)-inch. nt mh' 7L;! ki w-iui-u, i-c; ounaps.zu- os., 78-inch. 14 Wheat ham fiakntt. pJh oc; iwo-Dusnei oat bags, A NotM Plan lor HooMkMpInf-. The most novel plan of housekeenlni . . .. - " tor a large lamuy ever knoftr in Wash ington ia that adopted by Mr. and Mrs. W. Fitzhugh Whitehouse, the former a son of the bishop. Mr. Whitehouse, from choice rather than necessitr. ha leased for the season two good sized nouses, tne nrst on tiillyer place, owned oy tne lami y or tbe late Francis Whar ton, and the second in the neighborhood. mougn around tbe corner, fronting on Connecticut avenue. There is, therefore, no connection in anv way between the two. ilr. and Mrs. bitehouse reaiJs on HUlyer place, and their household. wnen collected, consists of six children. juior, governess and twelve servanta. Uiicago Tribune. Buying- Para breeds for Improvement. Show birds bred especially lor tienrc- tion of comb, ear lobes, wattles and plumage are considered by fane era at very valuable, but the value ol such birds ia more for points ol excellence for the show room than lor quality. So lar as utility is concerned, there are hundreds of birds far better than tbe show birds. being equally as well bred and possess ing greater hardiness and vigor than birds that are more tenderly raised lor exhibition. The requirements of the show room are such that it it sometimes neces'ary to inbreed in order to secure certain points, and with some breed, such as Partrdge Cochins, two yardt must be mated in order to secure tnow birds, one yard of birds being to mated as to produce cockerels of a shade 01 plumage and another for producing pul- ets of the proper lacing. Two yards tre required also for Dark Urabmas, bro Leirhorna and Wvandnttes. Ha far s tbe farmer Is concerned, while he should be very careful in selecting birds Uj" are pure and well bred, yet it is not nec essary for him to breed Irom two yardt that he may have the males and females of a certain color. The breed uted should be pure and as near tbe standard requirements as possible, for the poind of excellence are after all the only indi cations of purity of blood, and but tor them there would be no mode of desig nating the breeds; "but the farmer should select the vigor in preference to perfec tion of comb. legs, wattles, etc, and be should buy in the fall instead of tpm g, aiming to improve bis flock ani make it better eacb season. to tha purchasing of the firm's Stock n that I Ur raa ha viahaa mHi...! .k- city and was a widely known and highly, waiur has captored it with a dip net dacw. can smell toe half a niils r" "" -. 'wuitaiiinuiKM'. joo. Detroit rTee Press, la tha Oil Belt, When 1 landed in this section." said a man who has spent a year or more in the Ohio oil fields, "I hadn't a scent to my name. And nowr queried the reporter who was iniTTOrarmff him Well, now," concluded the oil nm. Anent tha Horse. A horse, it has been well said, will not make a saddle horse to-day and a harness horse to-morrow. His life it too short to learn any two things per fectly, and the means nsed to train inm for the saddle neutralise his proficiency for the carriage. But, in fact, the fit ness of a hnrM fnr tha aarlitla antedate any training to whuh be may be sub jected. Like the poet he is lorn, not made. He must come of a saddle-corse breed. A Large Gcrmaa Castla. The Castle of Heidelberg is the larg est in Germany. It stands 330 feet shore the Neckar river, and was occupied at a castle as early as 1294 A. D. In a cellar in one corner of tbe rains is the famous tun" or monster cask capable of hold ing 49.000 trallona. This was for th storage of wine used by tbe nobility who dwelt In this castle. It is believed that the Grand Duke of Baden will abandon the idea which he recently entertained of attempting to "restore" the ruin and convert them into a BMdarn palace."