EUGENE CITY GUARD.
LbCAXriKUL, rrorteMr.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
The Idaho Mormons Regain the
Rights of Citizenship.
EXCESSIVE DROUTH IN NEW MEXICO.
Hot Water to be Piped Into Every BusL
ness Block and Residence of
Boise City, Idaho.
The Chinese In Idaho propoee to. defy
the Six Companlei d, will register.
Over 26,000 tow of sugar beets have
been harvested at liiiico to iar wjib
eon.
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new foundry building and a powerhouse
lor Btanioro univeriuy.
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portion of New Mexico is reported,
caused by the excessive drouth.
Heavy swells have washed away the
cabin ol the wrecxeu weimnre, aim m
vessel now looks from Marshfleld as if
he had broken In two.
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out iU store at Yale, 11. 0., tlie trade
having decreased to such an extent that
the store is no longer necessary.
-it,..nt tnr nltwrtrie-iiower Iran
M. mt Han JnM) have been refusal.
nwlna in the objection of the applicants
ti nut their wires nnder ground.
The old adobe at HanU Barbara, In
iWil fc'ramnnt had Ills head-
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his camo there, was burned the other
morn In if.
itnnia.n aimmnm. hn lives ton miles
from Salem, Or., has grown three acres
of cranberries th is year. 1 hey are cnoice,
and are said to be fully equal to the Cape
Cod variety.
Spokane Indians have held a meeting
near Spokane. They are willing to go
on the Our d'Alene lands, but want
money to spend for themselves. There
are about one hundred of them, home
less and landless vagabonds, but they
believe the government will give them
all they ask.
There Is a dislike at Victoria, B. 0.,
for the American Consul there. The
latest story from Victoria is: "The
masters of vessels flying the American
flag touching at that port are beginning
to complain bitterly over having to sail
without proper clearance papers and a
bill of health from the American Con
sulate." Mongolian pheasants are being killed
by the hundreds in Lane county, Or.,
and few people can be lounu in wai sec
tion who have not enjoyed a mess of
these fine birds. They are very plenti
ful, though they have bwrn introduced
but a few years and have been killed
right along regardless of the law enacted
to protect them.
About a mile from Boise City, Idaho,
great volumes of boiling water gush out
of several artesian wells. The water
possesses no medicinal value, and here
tofore has been used only for bathing.
Now a six-inch pipe will be laid from the
springs to the town, and hot water will
be conducted iuto nearly every business
block and residence.
Some brute In human form has been
hooting valuable stock oa Willow creek,
Crook oonnty, Or. A few weeks ago Joe
lllnkle found a line Hereford bull, which
had cost him 360, dead In his pasture,
with a ritle bullet in his head, and a few
days ago Perry Head discovered a thor
oughbred Shorthorn belonging to his
herd that had been shot and will prob
ably die.
Colonel L. W. Burr told the Kern
County Echo while discussing the scale
parasite that there was a time last year
when the parasites were not noticeable,
but with the return of spring they came
out In largely increased numlwra and
began their work of destroying the scale.
Colonel Burr's theory la that they are
hidden away, possibly In the earth near
the tree, and that they will be on deck
again next spring.
Daniel II. Ward, who shot and killed
John Looney last July in Ullllam county,
Or., has been acquitted. After being
out two hours the jury returned a ver
dict of "not guilty." The jury really
agreed upon this verdict five minute
alter retiring to the Jury room, but
deemed it better form to deliberate an
hour or two before redering the verdict
It was proven at the trial that Ward
acted in eelf-defense.
Frank Leach, a young tailor who mis
appropriated a suit of clothes at Weston,
completed his sentence In the county
jail at Pendleton recently. He wa
searched on leaving, when It waa discov
ered, almost by chance, that he had
taken the mainspring from his watch
and left It with the prisoners, to be used
as a saw. They were compelled to dis
gorge, and Leach was rearrested and
wlllsUy in Jail fifty days longer.
Prof. Edward 8. Holden has sent an
open address to the San Jose Chamber
of Commerce In answer to the action of
that body in pasting a resolution con
demnatory of the Professor's administra
tion of the Lick Olaervatory. He says
the Chamber should have consulted per
sons familiar with the situation of allairs
at the observatory and not have relied
so much on newspaper reports before
charging him with mismanagement. He
desires, he says, a full investigation by
any competent persons.
A rello preserved in Curry count v, Or.,
Is the skull of the Indian who is sup
posed to have murdered the (leisal fam
ily at Rogue river. Mrs. Winsor, who
was an eye-wltnees of the hanging of
this wretch, which occurred In the spring
of 18M, says the whites found a tree
rear the present graveyard at Hold
Beach and placed a rope around the Dig
ger's neck. A barrel waa put beneath
his feet, which Mrs. Ueisal, now Mr.
Kdson of Oold Beach, promptly kicked
from beneath him, thus ridding the
world of a brute who bad made desolate
a peaceful and happy borne.
Jndge Btockslager of Alturaa count?
hat decided that the Idaho test oath law
passed in 1800, which forbids the vote of
any man who was a member of the Mor
mon Church then or before 1888, was in
valid and arbitrary, and that only the
oath prescribed by the State constitution
thou 1.1 be adminis ered to persons who
offered to register. This decision will
not be appealed by the State, and the
Mormons of Idaho will now be privi
leged to register and vote in the same
manner as members of any other church.
There are 2,000 of them, and their vote
will be an Important factor in the ap-
J .reaching election. The Mormons are
abilsnt over their restoration to the
rights of citizenship.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Bureau of Naval Intelligence Preparing a
Book Valuable to the Merchant
Marine and Navies.
The President has recognized Horace
O. Piatt as Vice-Consul of Kussia at San
Francisco.
Tim President has appointed Ambrote
II. Hill of Krieondido. Cal.. special
agent to make allotments of lands in
severalty to the Indians nnder the act of
February, 1887.
Two uhlni. for which proposals were
issued by the Navy Department last
week, will contain a new feature in mod
ern naval construction. Each vessel
will contain three smoke funnels luu
fet hlirh. or h Urher bv thirty or lorty
feet than any smokestacks on naval or
merchant ships, with the exception of
the merchant steamer Scot. These
stacks, it is thought, will do away with
forced draft
Tha iHcretarv of the interior has re
ceived a letter from Agent Bennet, of
Union aeencv. in Indian territory, rela
tive to the condition of affairs in the
Choctaw nation, which indicates that
thAre is likelv to be bloodshed there un
less prompt action is taxen to proviue
United States troops in sufficient force
to suppress any riot that may arise,
Hacretarv Noble has asked the secretary
of war to immediately send a sufficient
force to preserve the peace.
Chow Tel and Nip Lung, two Chinese
mnrohanti from Chicatro. are in Wash
ington City. Their mission relates to
tha resistance of the Chinese rcgistra
tlnn law. Thev have had an interview
with Ho, Secretary of their legation, and
one of them said that he told them tlm'.
the law was no good and the Chinese
government would sustain them in re
sisting it. They will consult with Chi
nniia there and in Eastern cities with
the view of an organized resistance of
the law.
Surveyor-General Petitt of Idaho has
received word from the national capital,
ordering him to have the surveys of the
ceded portions of the Our d'Alene In
dian reservation examined and reported
nnnn. Oonaral Petitt will have the ex
aminatlon made at once, and settlers
upon the land of the reservation will be
able to secure titles to their claims much
sooner than they expected to. It is cus
tomary for special examiners to report
upon the surveys, dui in uus caw me
department thought that the delay
would be very inconvenient w seiners;
so General Petitt will be allowed to re
port on his own surveys.
Secretary Husk has received advices
from the consul general at Niievo Laredo,
Mexico, continuing the dispatch an
nonnitinir the time for the free import
tionof corn into Mexico has been ex
tended until November 30, and stating
further that between December and July
31 next only a fourth of the regular duty,
which Is 1 cent per kilo. gro weight,
will be collected on Imports. The consul-general
adds : "This free Importa
tion nntil the end of November and the
reduced import duties nntil January 31
have caused a greatly increased demand
(or our American corn, particularly in
all regions west of the Mississippi."
The bureau of naval intelligence has
been some months preparing a book soon
to be issued to the service, which will be
invaluable both to the merchant marine
and navies of the world. The book will
state in detail the location of the coaling
stations of the different governments.
shipyards, repair stations, docks, coal
capacity of stations, the quality of coal
and other matter! relating to the coal
supply of vessels bound on long voyages.
The book will show conclusively in this
respect that the United States is far
worce off than any other country pre
tending to be a naval power, postepsing as
it does, only three coaling stations, viz :
in Honolulu. Lapas, Mexico, and Samoa.
Great Britain has important stations in
all her possessions in many places where
coal can be landed from Kngland for the
use of her vessels of war as well as her
merchant marine. All are strongly for
titled and garrisoned. The book will
further show that should the United
States go to war there would practically
be no foreign ports outside of her three
stations, all of which are on the Pacific
ocean, where she could hope to get coal.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Proposed Building for a Collective Ex
hibit by Merchant Tailors at the
World's Fair Etc.
The International chess tournament
to be held at Chicago in connection with
the World'! Fair will distribute $7,000
in prizes.
Seats for 125,000 people are to be pro
vided in the great manufactures build
ing at the World's Fair for the dedica
tion exercises on October 21.
The British building at the World's
Fair will have among its decorations
Hags bearing the arms of the principal
cities of the United Kingdom.
A cheese mold seven feet high has
lieen shipped to Perth, Ontario, for Prof.
Robinson of the Canadian Dairy Com
mlss'on. It will lie used in making a
monoUir cheese for the World's Fair.
The main railway station within the
World's Fair grounds, where all excur
sion trains will discharge their passen
gers, will be a handsome structure, cost
ing $225,000, and will accommodate 25,
000 persons at one time.
President Blalork expects that the
Washington World's Fair building will
tie ready for the Washington exhibit by
January 1, ISM. The mineral ool.ection,
consisting of about forty tons, is being
packed by Superintendent Plunder of
the mineral department. He considers
the collection worth $8,000 or $0,000.
The proposed building for a collective
exhibit by merchant tailors at the
World's Fair will probably be near the
fisheries building. As planned, It will
be fifty-flve feet square, with a portico
extending to the lagoon. The tailors of
Chicago have raised $10,000, and $15,000
is expected from members of the trade
outside.
Persons In Borabav, India, are per
suaded that there will be considerable
profit in making a varied display at the
World's Fair. They propose to send
over twelve elephants, so that visitors
can take rides " in howdah with ma
hout;" to live exhibitions of suttee,
cremation, jugglery, nautch, wrestling,
etc., and to sell tea at 10 cents a cup.
They expect to sell 1,000,000 cup.
At a recent meeting of the San Fran
ce aco World's Fair Commlaioners Chaa.
(J. Yale waa appointed editor-in-chief of
a souvenir book of San Fraacisco at a
salary not to exceed $75 a month ; he
will alio edit a prospectus of the work.
E. J. Ellis was appointed superintend
ent of the topographical map at a salary
of $75 a month. The aalary of Secretary
Robinson was fixed at $ W a month.
Lucius L. Solomons waa appointed to
act with the Ways and Means Commit
tee in soliciting a subscription of $2ft,000
from the Board of Supervisors and the
Board of Education. Mr. Solomons was
appointed to a vacancy on the board
caueod by the resignation of Mr. W. H.
Kodda,
BEYOND HIE ROCKIES
Number of Business Failures in
the United States.
THE AUER INCANDESCENT LIGHT CO.
An Attempt Being Made to Reorganize
the Iron Hall Order Telephone
Girls In Uniform.
"Boiled water" ii the popular New
York drink.
The cholera scare ii abating, ii the re
port from every quarter.
Phllade ph a get! a premium on a a
per cent loan of 11,000,000.
Boston Is to have a statue of John
Boyle O'Reilly In Copley Square.
The estate of the late George William
Onrtie amount! to about $70,000.
The admiren of Whittier contemplate
the erection of a statue In Central Park.
Hartford Medical Association has just
celebrated its one Dunareum auuior
At V.
Mississippi engineers recommend oniy
one year'! won unuerexisuug
atlnnn.
Ex-Private Iami of Homestead court
martial fame is now a clerk in a Pitts
burg store.
Oil has been struck near Parkersburg,
Ind., at the depth of 100 leet, wnue urn
linir for water.
An epidemic of diphtheria hae broken
out among the Indians at the Wind
River Agency.
The net cash balance In the Treasury
is nearly $3l,000,000or $5,000,000 greater
than New York.
Philadelphia capitalists are going to
construct an underground-trolly street
car system in Boston.
i Lww in Km York aennitted a man
who spat tobaco juice on a $0,000 picture
in the Metropolitan museum ui m
d. Ti,nm Dlwnn of New York in
his Sunday sermon declared the lottery
a small evil compared wun mine ratm.
Reports from the Southern States are
(.at tha li n iron la from 15 to 25 Per
cent short and from one to two weeks
late.
Howard Gould has been elected direc
ts, nf tha (1,.IH and Ktock Telegraph
Company In place of his father, Jay
Uouid.
The long distance telephone from Chi
in l(natin la nnarlv comnleted,
South Bend, Ind., has already talked to
Boston.
Pruhlnnt Yon nu of the National Base
ball League says either salaries must he
reduced or protessionai oaseoau wusi go
to the wall.
Harmony reigns over the disturbed
water corporations 01 wenvor, vam., uu
Omaha, Neb., and the $20,000,000 law
suit is settled.
Valuable, discoveries of onyx have
been made at Bridgewater, Rockingham
county, Va. It ia abundant and of a
superior quality.
It rained peas at Baltimore the other
day. It ia believed that they were
scooped up by the wind from truck farma
in an adjoining county.
The Kiowas and Comanches are ready
i. ran. i ill
to take lanua in severally, mis wm -
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suit in the opening 01 more man e,vju,
000 acres to settlement.
W nltiie Bin a n if Riipllnulnn. N. J..
who was supposed to have been lost in
the Johnstown noou, nas juei turneu up
at Mount Holly to receive his share of a
legacy left him by his aunt.
In the twenty-eight yean that the
.. . . t t? :
lirotliernoou oi locomotive .augiueers
has had exieteuce Chief Arthur states it
lias uiannrseu over j,um',uuu m mo wiu
ows and families of deceased engineers.
At Puebla, Mexico, an undertaker
uilleU the town wun nuge posters, say
ing he would reduce his funeral charges
it the cholera Decame epuiemio mere
This incited a scare and he waa arrested
At Clarksburg, Miss., the negroes were
reported to be in insurrection, and had
sworn to kill the whites. A sheriff's
posse found that two negroes had been
killed and several wounded when they
reached the scene.
Dr.Douglas. the famous throat special
1st who abandoned his practice and de
voted his whole time to General Graut
for six months during his last illness,
died recently at Washington City from
the same disease which carried off the
old commander.
The statistics of the Keeley Institutes
are of the most significant kind. There
are now eighty-four branches established
In this country for the administering of
the Keeley remedy tor dipsomania. The
certificates of cure each month average
between 4,000 and 5,000.
The Southern Pacific, It Is reported,
proposes to build a railroad Iroin Alon
terey. Mexico, to Portland, Tex., where
it will connect with the San Antonio and
Aransaa Pass line. Such road will be a
direct seaport route to Monterey and will
shorten the line from New York to the
city of Mexico by fully 300 miles.
8omerby, who is trying to reorganise
the Iron Hall order, In a speech at Cleve
land, declared, with tears in his eyes,
that after he had been served with the
Injunction in the receivership proceed
ings he spent the entire night on his
knees in prayer, and that during his
prayers the plan of a new order was re
vealed to him by a light from heaven.
Hii speech did not take well.
The theft of $440,000 from the Auer In
candescent Light Company by Tyndale
Palmer, a former newspaper man, In
which he waa joined by a hotel keeper
named Freitas of Rio Janeiro, has been
brought to light at Philadelphia. Palmer
sold the patent rights in Braxll 'or $510,
000 and reported the sale at $80,000.
The chief astronomical event of Octo
ber will be the eclipse of the sun, which
will take place on the 20th, and be visi
ble throughout the greater part of North
America. All the United States may
see It, except the western part of Oregon
and California. As it will only be a par
tial eclipse, the Western Coat will not
be jealous of the Eastern Blope.
The Chicago Telephone Company at
Chicsgo is going to Issue an order that
all the girls in the operating department
must wear black nni orms, to give the
room an artistic appearance. Two hun
dred and fifty girls in the central office
have donned the uniform, and, as the
idea meet! with success, a general order
affecting all offices will soon be issued.
Broditrrd't says: During the past
nine months the business failure! in the
United States Sonth Dakota excluded,
owing to the State law practically pro
hibiting the collection of statistical in
formationwhich have been strictly
mercantile or industrial in character,
not omitting those of banking institu
tions, but eliminating care ally those of
all other description!, have aggregated
7,371
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Education of Russian Children-Entering
Class at Union Uolie. .argest
In Its History.
Old gold Is to be the color of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
The enrollment of girl student! in tne
Harvard Annex tbii year ii over 300.
Tt,.. i. wnman in the entering
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clasi of forty-six at the Massachusetts
Agricultural uiiege tun yer.
Yale College for the first time in its
til at ir mi It throw onen lta post-graduate
course to women in the coming term.
The entering clati at Union College,
RliAnMtailv- N. Y.. is the largest in the
history ol that institution since the war.
Baltimore, Md.. has 1,300 teachers,
50,000 pupils, and the school! cost $1,
(KX).(XX) a year. The population ii about
500,000.
Mrs. Maria R. Towne, who died re
cently at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass.,
left $175,000 to the University of Penn
sylvania. Prof. Harold M. Fowler of the vener
i.ia PhMiina Kxntnr Academy has ac
cepted the chair of Greek in the Univer
sity ol lexas.
"Flower Sunday" Is one of the an
nual observances at Welleelev College.
It wai instituted by the founder of the
college, and forms a delightful opening
to the college.
Tufts College has begun Its career as
a coeducational institution. Women
have at last been admitted on an equal
footing with men not only in the college
of letters, but also in the divinity school.
Vasear College had the largest fresh
man clans in her history on the opening
day, September 23, the whole number
of students being about 600. It is hoped
that the ball will be ready for use in
November.
The education of Russian children Is
conducted in four languages the native,
German, English and French and they
grow up masters of theee languages.
The Car himself ipeaki English re
markably well.
Among the women students at Iowa
fitate University is Julia Stark Evans of
iiomntnn la. Mrs. Evans is the wifeof
an active lawyer and the mother of five
children, hue is a sinning example m
the modern precept, "It is never too
late to begin."
Now that the manual training Idea is
fairly on its leet, a champion is wanted
I that nf mrhnnX imrdena in America.
Europe is far ahead of the United States
in HUB UlHUer. DWBUDU IWUB
having 2,000 gardens, one for nearly
every recently built rural schoolhouse.
Three of the profeswrs of Bowdoin
College gave mucn time me paav sum
mer to visiting and examining the lab
oratories of other colleges, with the view
of perfecting their plans for the interior
arrangement of the new scientific build
ing to be erected as a memorial of Mrs.
Mary F. 8. Searles. The architect pro
poses, if possible, to lay the foundation
this autumn.
at which mi oils are allowed
to enter and to continue in the public
. 1 Ml IL.
schools Hitlers greaiiy. ui wie .orvj
nine States and Territories six admit
iiitmiti vpara of aire, nineteen at 5.
twenty at 0, three at 7 and one at 8. The
Htates admitting tnem ai are mame,
Connecticut, Florida and Montana. The
rlinnla of Alahama and North and South
Dakota do not receive them till they are
7, and those ol reias exciuue lueui mi
they are 8.
PURELY PERSONAL
Vice-President Morton Said to be a Prac
tical and Common-Sense Farmer
-The Duke of Norfolk.
Vice-President Morton is said to be a
practical and common-sense farmer, who
goes into the business in a large way in
order to make money out of it rather
than to drop it into it.
In China a wife is never spoken of by
her husband in a plain and straightfor
ward way. Such piaynu terms as my
thorn In the nhs " and " my uuu con
panion " are more usual.
The Duke of Norfolk, Premier of Great
Britain, is about to make another pii
irrimage to Lourdes in the hope of niiti
gating the condition of his son and heir,
the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, who is
blind, deaf and dumb.
The late Prince Victor of Hohenlohe
saved Wobeiey's life during the Crimean
war. He was declared dead and about
to be carried off, when the Prince no
ticed a twitching of the young man's
face, and, applying restoratives, revived
him.
Mrs. Henrv White, wife of the Secre
tary of the United States Legation, who
has been stopping at Braemar, England,
for the benefit of her health, had the
honor of dining with the Queen recent
ly, Mrs. White has much improved in
health lately.
Dr. Daniel Denison Slade is one of the
few surviving eye-witnesses of the first
capital operation under the innuence oi
ether at the MasHachusetts general hos
pital November 7. 1840, when the dis
covery of Dr. Morton stood the test
which revolutionised surgery.
George William Curtis suffered great
ly from stage fright on the occasion of
his nrst lecture, and oegan uy saying :
" Ladies and gentlemen, the pitomless
bolt," with a solemnity which was
changed to confusion when he perceived
his error. Of course, he had meant to
make an .illusion to the bottomless pit.
Mrs. Mary Green, aged 84 years, of
Scarboro, Me., has during the past six
months " spun thirty-two skeins of yarn,
knitted five pairs of stockings, picked
three bushels of blueberries and tended
large flocks of chickens and ducks, be
sides doing much general housework."
Dr. Sufan Janeway Coltman of Ger
mantown, Pa., owns a unique collection
of cats, which she values at $5,000.
There are twenty-two of her pets, and
among them are included Skye, Zami
bar and feather-tailed Turkish cats, tail
less Manx pusie, white Ma'tese, yellow
Persian and English tiger cats.
M. Thlhant, the French actor, who
died in Paris recently, was born in
Nantes May 7, 1837. He was the son of
a merchant, and went to Paris at the age
of 40. He made his debut at the Moll
ere. He was subsequently at the Mont
niartre and other theaters, and later ap
peered in London and Brussels. Finally
he was eng'ged by Offenbach at the
loutte-Pari"ens and R 'naiseance. He
it was who originated the catch phrae,
"V'ttt immtntt!" which waa a "go"
from the start and for a long time pop
ular. Hon. Julius Sterling Morton, once
Governor and now the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Nebraska, ia
sometimes called the father of Arbir
day. It is very largely owing to his ex
ertions that Nebraska advanced so rap
idly in the establishment ot artificial
iroves, now having a boat 50,000 acres
of growing fowls and some 800,000
planted trees, beside a vatt area of fruit
treee, grape vines, bushes and minor
plants. 11 was born in New York State
in 1832. and waa graduated from Union
College in 1S54.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Emperor William Appoints a Jew
on His Own Staff.
SHAH ADVISED PRINCE OF WALES.
Emperor Francis Joseph Says the Conduct
of Anti-Semitic Members Can
not be Tolerated.
The olive crop of Spain is a failurs this
year, but the vintage is in a promising
condition.
Anti-Semitic disturbances are in pro
gress on the Island of Marmora.
The municipal elections of Berlin have
resulted in complete triumph of the So
cial Democrats.
On Bali, an Inland in the Indian Archi
pelago, eiit of Java, the burning of wid
ows still goes on.
A new triple alliance of France, Rus
sia and Turkey is said to be greatly fav
ored by the Pope.
The Ciar has excused all his French
cooks and scullions from becoming na
turalized Russians.
Several great drapery firms In London
are totter. ng nnder the severe general
business depression in Great Britain.
The announcement is made of the
death of Hugo Franz Brachelle, the Ana-
tnail Slucsucian, in uib uiiymuiu jour,
More than $10,000 his been subscribe 1
for the memorial of Adam Smith, to be
set up in his native town of Kirkcaldy.
Bremen pluck has made the Weeer
river navigable by big steamships from
Bremorhaven, at a coat of 30,000,000
marks.
The Salvat:on Army poke bonnet has
heen replaced in England bv a broad-
brimmed straw bat, trimmed with stalks
oi corn.
The recent addition to the family of
Kaiser Wilhelm is said to be the first
daughter born to a King of Prussia for
eighty-four years.
Emperor Alexander has freed the Kal
mucks of Astrakhan from serfdom.
These roving people are Buddhists, and
they number lo0,0UO souls.
One hundred and fifty persons have
been arrested at Palermo. Sicily, and its
environs, suspected of being members of
a band to waylay travelers.
Recent French staiistics Bhow that
there Is a continued decrease in the nuuv
ber of marriages and births in that coun
try In proportion to population.
The news from Rome that Jean d' Arc's
canonization is on the eve of comple
tion has revived more than ever the pop
ular cult of that national heroine.
Social Democrats of London have
gained a victory over the government
and compelled recognition olthair right
to hold public meetings in Trafalgar
fequare.
Cotton yarn is imported into China in
ImmenRe quantities from Bombay, and it
is said that yarn-spinning will soon de
velop into a very large industry in
Shanghai.
The London Society for the Prevent
tion of Crueity to Children states in its
annual report that cases have been
investigated, involving many instances
ol diabolical cruelty.
Princess Marie Bilesco, a young lady
of about twenty-four years of age, has
just accomplished the remarkable feat of
Bwimming across the Hellespont, from
the European to the Asiatic shore.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has
ordered 5,t 00 mora trees to be planted
around the statue of her favorite poet,
Heine, that is Bhortly to be erected in
the grounds of her palace at Corfu.
An old woman named Fort has just
been murdered near Bordeaux by
peasant who thought she had cast an
evil eye upon him. She had long had
the local reputation of being a witch.
A society has been organized in Eng.
land to buy land, build cottages and set
necessitous epileptic at work in market
gardening, carpentering, shoemaking,
tailoring and other indoor occupations,
Russia has concluded a treaty with
China, according to which she will es
tablish Consulates in Central China,
Manchuria and Mongolia for the purpose
ot opening markets lor Kussian manu
factures.
Wallis Brooke, a writer in the London
Times, is of the opinion "we shall icon see
milk imported from Anstralia in frozen
blocks and retailed in London streets,
It can b done as easily .as importing
butter and apples."
The annual report of the London Po
lice Department says that "there were
something over two thousand burgling
and housebreaking cases there last year,
and the average amount secured by the
uurgiar was less man o."
The Russians have become so alive to
the value of women physicians that the
Imperial government has granted $20.).-
000 for a medical school for women, to
be established at St. Petersburg. The
site has been given by the city.
Mr. Chamberlain and Sir John Lub
bock are advocating an early closing
movement for England. A committee
repotted to the House of Commons in
1800 that the average hours of shop as-
A syndicate has been formed in Lon
don to explore the Transvaal and Ma
shonaland. l-ord Randolph Churchill,
who takes 11,000 shares, and Colonel
North and C. 8. Goldman, who take
1,000 shares each, are the first directors,
Emperor William of Germany has ap
pointed Colonel Rosser, who is one of
the few Jews in the Germany Army, an
, i .
aiu uo-camp on ms own sun, as an in
timation of his disapproval of the perse
cutions to which that race is subjected
in the Kaiser's own realm as well as
elsewhere in Europe.
Emperor Francis Joseph, in an address
to Austrian and Hungarian delegations.
said the recent conduct of the anti-Semitic
members of the Lower Houte of the
Austrican Diet was a scandal and a
shame in the eyes of the world. He de
clared that such proceedings as they in
dulged in could no longer be tolerated.
It is said that when the Shah ot Persia
visited England some years ago he was
enteriaine i at Manord House, the town
residence of the Duke of Sutherland
So impressed was the Oriental visitor
with the magnificence of his host's snr
ronndings that he afterward privatelv
a.lvised the Prince of Wales to have the
Duke quietly strangled and confiscate
his estates.
TV T 1 1 - T" 1 , .
i j. lyriBDuer, r inlander, w no was
in Finland at the time Mrs. Aino Sainio
poisoned her husband, aavi that the
Irightlnl sentence paused upon the
women is merely a matter of form and
tnul it ion, and that she will not be be
headed, but imprisoned for life. He as
serts that no crime baa ben pnniahed
by execution in Finland since that coun
try separated from Sweden in IS03.
PORTLAND MARKET.
FrodaMe Frolle
V.llev. I1.22U
(31.25; Walla Walia, $1.1691.17,', per
cental. . . u-.il
Fwcb Standard, ij.o j ; ' --
13.66: Graham. $3.15; fcuperdne, $-.60
S-New, -.0(3430 per byj-f
tfl.50(utf.75 per barrel; $o.5J2
6.75 per bag; $3.75 per case.
HAT-$ll'ti3perton.
MiLUTurrs-Bran, $6; ihorts, $19,
ground barley, $ich!-l. -
(tzz per ton : wnoio icon ---.
midIings. tm& P' tt j bTw!!i
barley, $1.10(11.15 per cental; chicken
wheat, $1.20 per cental,
n 1.: i w.in fani creftinerv. 30(3
32Hc; fancy dairy, 27X3Jc; fair to
gOOd, Z',(S-OCi lJ'U'"u",
California, 38. Wc per roll.
Ciikkhe uregon, nwii
America, 12c per pound.
Eoos-Oregon. 27kc; Eastern, 25c per
dozen. ... . . . M.
Poultry Old tjwexens,
i nOf.vi rn- durka. 15.50(36.50:
uruiioio, i-pwisw . i f ' :
geese, nominal, &.uuis.w v" uu"
turkeys, 13(3 15c per pound.
VEoaTABLxs t;aouage, m yvi i
n.inn. 7Ri.l Ik) iwr cental: pota-
toes, 809jc per cental; Oregon cu
cumbers, 10(315c per dozen ; tomatoes,
35c per box; uregon luruipn, 4u
dozen; young carrots, 15c per dozen;
beets, 15c per dozen; sweet potatoes,
$1.50 per sacx; uregou bunuii"v
(d $1.00 per dozen ; celery, 90c per dozen.
Fbditb Oregon peaciies, fi.ivisii.u
lmnons. 19.60: Call-
I.mnm 17 IKirtM.()() per box:
cantaloups, $1.50 1.76 per dozen ; water
melons, S1.j(!?i.ou peruo7.ou j vniuiui
grapes, $1.00(1.25 per box; Oregon
grpaes, 6085c per box; pineapples,
3.00 per dozen ; plums, 76(3'J0c per box ;
Oregon Italian prunes, coisoju f"
ii.vJiiil.50 per box: ba
nanas, $3.00(34.00 per bunch; quinces,
$1.60 per box; orangeB, ta.w per uu,
cranberries, $10.00 per box.
gtaple Orooerias.
HoNir Choice comb, 1517c per
pound.
SALT-Liverpool, $14.50(317.00; stock,
$10.5011.60 per ton.
RicK-Island, $5.00(35.50 ; Japan, $4.85
per cental.
Dkibd Fbcitd Petite prunes, 9c; sil
ver, 10(5 He; Italian, 10(3 He; German,
8c; plums, 6(36c; apples, 4,(tfttc;
evaporated apricots, 15(3 10c; peaches,
12 16c; pears, 78c per pound.
CorFK Costa Rica, 21 c ; Rio, 20'gC ;
Salvador, 20c; Mocha, 27 30c; Java,
27(330c; Arbuckle'! 100-pound cases,
22 17-20c per pound.
Bxanh Small white, 3c; pink, 3c;
bayos.3ic; butter, 8sc; limas, Sc per
pound.
Bvrup Eastern, in barrels, 40355c;
half-barrels, 42i57c; in cases, 36(3
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California
in barrels, 20(34Oc per gallon; $1.75 per
keg.
Sugar- Net prices : D, 5c ; Golden C,
5c; extra C, 6c; Magnolia A, bc;
granulated, 6c; cube crushed and pow
dered. B-'gC; confectioners' A, 6c per
pound ; maple sugar, 15d l'ic per pound.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted
quoted $1.75(31.90; peaches, $1.5(32.10;
Bart lett pears, $1.75(3 1.80 ; plums, $1.37)4
(1.50; strawberries, $2.25; cherries,
$2.00(32.25; blackberries, $1.85(31.90;
raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3
2.80; apricots, $1.05(31.75. Pie fruit:
Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25;
plums, $1.00(31.10; blackberries, $1.25(3
1.40 per dozen. Vegetables : corn, $1.40
(31.85; tomatoes, 96c (3 $1.00; sugar peas,
95c(3$1.00; String beans, 90 (3 95c per
dozen. Meats : Corned beef, Is, $1.25 ;
2s, $1.85; chipped beef, $2.10; lunch
tongue, Is, $3.10 ; 2s, $5.6 " ; deviled ham,
$1.50ftr2.75 per dnrpp. Fish: Sardines,
76c(31.65; lobsters, $2.30(33.60; salmon,
tin, 1-1 b. talis, $1.25(31.60; flats, $1.75;
2 lbs., $2.25(32.50; bbl., $5.50.
Mlsoellmnoa.
Nah Base quotations : Iron, $3.00 ;
steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per keg
Iron Bar, 2J0 per pound; pig Iron,
$24(327 per ton.
Stkio lOo per pound.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.25(38.75 per box ; for crosses, $2
extra per box; roofing, 14x20, prime
quality, $6.62,(36.75 per box; I. C. coke
plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.508.00
per box.
Lead 4c per pound ; bar, 6Vc
Shot $1.80 per sack.
HORHBBHOEB $5.
Naval Storks Oakum, $4.505 per
bale; rosin, $4.805 per 480 pounds; tar,
Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, $9.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $0.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 65c per gallon in carload lota.
Hlriei, Wool and Bopi.
Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 1
8c; lsc less for culls; green, selected,
over 55 pounds. 4c; nnder 55 pounds, 3c;
sheep pelts, short wool, 30(350c; me
dium, 6080c; long, 90c (3 $1.26; shear
ings, 10(320c; tallow, good to choice, 3
34c per pound.
Wool Dmpqua Valley, lfi19c; fall
clip, 13(315H,c; Willamette Valley, 16(3
18c, according to quality ; Eastern Ore
gon, 10(3 10c per pound, according to
condition.
Hops 15(3 17c.
Th Meat Market.
Beef Live, l2c; dressed, 4
5c.
Mutton Live, 33c; dressed, 7c;
lambs, live, 8(330; dressed, 8c
Hoos Live, 6$c; dressed, 8c.
Veal 4atic per pound.
Smoked Meats Large ham, 13.(3
HV. medium ham,14144C; breakfast
bacon, 13(3 16c; dry salt Bides, 10c;
smoked sides, 1213c per pound.
Lad Compound, in tins, 9c; pure,
in tins. 12k, (3 13c: Orm?on. llWOli.c
per pound.
Vfhalinc la Dangeroni.
It is the whalers who encounter
most serious perils in the Arctic
ocean. Hardly a year passes when
some whaling vessels are not lost
In 1S71 only three ships were saved
out of a fleet of twenty-two. No
lives were lost, but the natives on
shore have been using chronometer
cases for brass kettles ever since,
Chicago Herald.
Safe from Entry.
First Burglar Th' paper says th'locla
on th' government vaults at Washington
is so weak thet any burgler cud pick 'em!
Second burglar Huh! Who wants
them big theatre hat silver dollars!
Xew York Weekly.
The oldest pensioners on the rolls of
the Xew York pension office and two of
the oldest in the United States, although
pensioners are proverbially long lived,
are General Tupner and (ienoral rwtw
They are veterans of 1812.
The city of Paris haa 87.053 trees in
ita streets, and each tree represents a
mat tA thm o.tw -.$ 1 - ryv :
w i4 trout's. ion.
makee in round numbers $3,000,000
T wM V UCW ill UltJ tUVVlalk)
THE FARM AND Cite
Plymouth Rock Leads Other lk
in waking weight
A POT-POURRI OF POULTRY
HOTEL
Fowls That Have the Run of i
Do Not Need Much Grain .The
Crossing of Breeds.
Choose clean meat for the h..
chirks when buvinv. "
Do not keep ducks in the nm i
with chickens, nor in the cabhL.
One trouble with both
tnii away from home and often i.x.
come back.
Fowls that have therunoftt.f I
At Tint. flAAtl mni'h rrrnin Ti . , "WII
. . - ms nn... I
,rv. ,,u up ieui .il.
t h a rt I a MM ril IT
(UC piwvv wa vi
The Canadian experiment fira i
found that the Plymouth l;xk !! I
ntrinr nreAfia in tnuirin.. .
w.uw. ifCIUUL I,-
given amount of food.
A flock of 100 hens, pronerU v,.j.
fin nnl ATiwt mnra Ihan ti.;.. ' I
.r:r..-c " ".:::u, ""t
If vnn cxn (ret Dm liana t
from November to Marcli, yon will Z
plenty of satisfaction in the tin L
ness. A warm house, vood ventilsui
plenty of sunshine and good food
uuc poiaunucia iur bum.
It Is perhaps someth'nz enriom IL
an uuu-suvwug iicua jay P(EJ( that k
Tinro m-hitA In lYilnr TL. L
tuuio uuu. luo .arpn A8IBUC brM
thouxh thee(?t;8 from Wyandottes Iw
.Kan. and Plomnt.tK U L . '
annua .uu ii;iuvuiu J..ui;fcB STQ Q.
what dark.
If late chicks do not grow, rr
cheap lean meat or liver, boil y
after chopping it fine thicken the itr
and chopped meat with middlinm m
ing the whole as bread. It will bt'WK
eagerly, and will show a marked tJv
on the chicks.
Don't worry, if breeding pnre bfo.
if the newly hatched cliicki m ,
prite winners when taken from tht
1 ne cuor oi oeaic ana leg will AttA
very materially ; while not nntil tUM
molt, arjout tne lourtti or fifth mot'
can the quality De determined.
In Holland farms devoted mMr.l
tne raiBing ol geese are not a rarity, j
is a recognized and profitable brut i
small farming. The fact that then
sist so largely on grass and can be k
died in large flocks should lead to J
extension of the industry here ii A
own country.
Dark Brahma hens make an eirei
cross with Langshan cockerel. E.i
well as beautiful table poultry, are
tain to do tne result. 1 be brown Lit
horn cock is often used with Lic.J
pullet! with equally good results. I:
run a medium-sued (owl, and byiu:4
are preferred to large fowli.
Whn you begin to sell off yonr y:f
males do not be tempted to retail ;J
large, heavy ones, but select the it I
and vigorous birds. Those that kj
the smallest combs, which form ?
the widest area, and which are quid i
all their movements, will prove .tea
serviceable the next season.
But few will boldly cull oat the ill
nor members of the nick. TitK
dencv is to keep all the pullets, vteH
gooa or oaa, nu in inaiwayiuatain.
The best pullets will grow (mhj
sooner and give a larger profit il it
are allowed the room and food tint
given those that are inferior andior.
I . t a 1 .L.. I I
less.
Regularity Kntltl.
W. H. Gilbert before Xew York lalrjSH
lion J
Feed regularly, and milk until
larlv. The davs of milking at one t
to-day and another to-morrow, wittra
thrice to-day and once to-morroi.u
gone by except with tne oiu-ntw
dairyman, who must either le'ont:
methods or fail in the dairy bom
We should aim to keep our cow
dividend-paying basis ana i worm
ly the year through, and tbey eu
kept so by proper care and feed.
the cow quiet ; a very nine e
will reduce her flow of milk ind tlit
...I nf ( n 1. I Hiinlr IL them'
WHIN VI 1 1, 1 U AV, .".-
adviiiahln to have the same milker
tha Rama nnnr rsmfltnntlv. I S6t the
twice a dir.
better results than from feedingtta
four times; but my cows are gij
they will eat and digest; a cow tw
will lie down when her wants in
fled, chew the cud of contentnw-
axrarn millr Thn milker! IDOlU "
ihotild h thoroughly and da'
brushed before beginning to "J"
Tha annm nnw should be miliw
same hour, dividing the tM
hours equally. Do not mux ";;
to-night and 7 o'clock to-morroi rw
and remember that a change of w
:n .1 mornmnUtYl1
i a! tha milk, fiarrv the mill
stable as soon as you have ilk:
and then there will be nodM
U.mL 'alntoH frnm anTW"
iZ uA After it W
aerated aet the milk as nearij
temperature as yon can get n, "
about 98 degrees, and in so do
thermometer; don't daese ; 'lt4
oi B lew aegrees win
profit, because the cream win
up.
... ...... i . ,. niardrnlif1
Some recently pnb,li8hed;(sf
it . il a nL.rttrir IT a'
seem to indicate mai
profitably employed lor
purposes. We are informed
fcngnsn marset garueiic. r
electric light in a gigantic i gla.
devoted to the forcing of P :
By a 2,000-candle power t'
..1. , . j hsinnerf"''
leuuee was ubbicucu j - .
the actual gain hae r'(1 hJ
With an actual gain i of ' flv. t
crop, me msiuii. ctl,ri
days during the winter. The s J
the vegetables is saia w -
The quesUon, however,
.1.- . nude
practical for common purp" i
increased earlinees ol new .J
vegetables will mane loe r-
A rr..prr Ar!-"1 .
Mrs. Bimro-See, dear: J :
lovelv white Tests I bone" .
town'toJay. OriyMr?"
Mr. Bingo-W ny
. (-.I ww
some paper coiiars o
Qothier and Furnisher.
Iiplanatl-
Agnee-Oh.dear! Why"
so many do? days? . v.
Laura-Well, every J .
youkno.and there are
dogs. Munsey's Wettlj-