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EUGENE CITY GUARD. LLCAMntLU rreprleter, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Cree Indians Exterminate Came in Montana. ROBBED BY A HAN HE BEFRIENDED, Beautiful Black Fire Opals Discovered In Eastern OregonSan Pedro as a Harbor Etc Chinese bve been arrested In Tucson (or telling cigarette to boy on(lnr Loss Angeles voted to Issue 528,000 bondi (or water worki In the bill dli trlcta. The section about Coqoille City, Or, it greatly excited ovr the tmtllpoz caaei tt Ooqullle. The assessed valuation o( Portland (or 1892 It (45,l6,7a2, more than $M),0U0 lew than (or 18U1. It tt reDorted the United 8Utet enal (avor Han Pedro at a harbor against Banta Monica. The Indian Commission haa effected the purchase ol 180,000 acret ol land from the Hllets Indiana in Oregon, At Santa Barbara, Cal., burglars are doing a very good bnaineit. There have been many daring and successful rob beries the paat three montns. Attachment- aggregating $H6,702 were filed at Helena, Mont., agalnat Russell B. llarrlaon'i newspaper, the Helena Journal, by three Montana banks. Turnkey Howard French of the penl tentlarv at Boise. Idaho, waa merely bitten by a madman, and there are tome apprebenaiona aa tomeeuecioi me uiie. Steamboats ascending the Yamhill river li expected to be a welcome light atraln during the winter. Obstruction in the river In Oregon are being rapidly removed. It ia claimed that the Cree Indiana have during the paat auinmer completely exterminated the game in Big Hole Kiver Valley in Montana, a region which formerly abounded with game ol all klndi. R. C. Brown and George W. Brown, newspaper men at Tucson, have been fined and Imprisoned fur making an at tack on the court and Jury, which bad fonnd indictment agalnat them for criminal libel. The Bradatreet mercantile agency re norta fourteen failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the paat week, aa compared with nineteen for the previous week and thirteen tor ine cor- reeponuing wees. 01 ibiu. The Northern Pacific's ateamer Zam beai will probably have to take back to China thirty Chinese who were refused pan-ports at Port Town send because their certificate! did not have photographs attached aa required by law. Most of them were bound for Portland. One of the caaes that will come up be fore the present session or the United States Supreme Court from Oregon will be that of the Eastern Oregon Gold Min ing Company, plaintiffs, represented by John Mullen and K. V. Drake, attorneys, vs. 0. 8. Miller. This suit involves some of the best mining property in Eastern Oregon, located In the famous Ureen horn Mountains. Mr. Miller baa thus far been victorious. Recently the Oregon Board of Rail road Commissioners heard the ease of W. E. Loughiulller & Co. of Sllverton vs. th Southern Paclflo Company for overcharge and shortage, and found them entitled to a rebate ol 1)20.30. The rail road company waa given notice of this, but baa as yet failed to par complainant the amount found to be due them. Loughmiller & Co. now ask the commis sion to bring tuit against the railroad company to recover the over charge. The BUte Board of Railroad Commis sioners is now engaged in the compila tion of tablet showing the average as aessed valuation of all railroads in Ore gon and other Btates, which will include all personal and real property belonging to said roads. The average assessed val uation of all railroads in Oregon for 1801 it 116,060.84 per mile, including twamp lands, city and town lots and all per sonal and real property belonging to the roads. There are 1.328.84 mile of rail roads in Oregon, and the aggregate val uation is 1210,320,100. C. It. Brinkley. a well-known capital 1st of Los Angeles, who caused the ar rest of his quondam bosom friend Claude Hill, ha filed a second complaint agalnat Mill charging nlin with e in Def ilement of (300 which Brinkley bad sent him to par lor tome lurnlture. Hill was picked np tome mouths ago by Brinkley, who took pity on him, aa he waa poveriy-ainccen, anu nas since careu for him. The result was Hill tpent all of Brinkley't money that he could get bold of, and it accused ol being the means of breaking np hit home, J. 0. Hill, a well-known mining man of Weiser, accompanied by a party of several gentlemen, Colorado capitalist, it now engaged in prospecting the bart on Snake river, below Huntington, for One gold placers. Mr. Hill baa alread located bis party on S20 acre of gold bearing lands, and it is the intention of the company to employ in the working ol their mine a new macnine, particu larly constructed for the saving of fine gold. Mr. Hill aays the new device will handle and aave the gold from ninety eight cubic yards of dirt and gravel per Hour. It la possible that the seven-mile ditch up at Fort Klamath will not only irrigate vast grain news, out aiso grind toe corn. It is now about six miles long, and will carry 0,000 Inches of water when com pleted. As all the grading and scraping will be completed this fall and early in the spring, notning win be leit by next May but to clean it out The fall of water ia about ten feet to the mile, and at about a mile from the head of the ditch it a very convenient milltlte, with plenty of fine timber close at band. There it but little doubt Uiat a flouring mill will rise op at that point in the near luture. In the rase of the Plate of Oregon vs. Charles Mills, who waa Indicted by the grand Jury ol lane eoanty, Or., (or as sault with intent to kill, for piling rail road iron and tie on the track near Eugene a few weeks since, the lary re tared a verdict of not guilty. The en tire Jury waa satisfied that the man Mills placed the obstruction on the track, but Judge Fullerton instructed them that, as the man. after doing the crime, bad repented and informed the railroad officials of his act, the law would not permit of hla conviction. A special statute to cover attempts at train-wrecking seemt to be needed in Oregon. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. A Number of Vacancies In the Higher Offices of the Executive Depart ments of Government. The President lias appointed Albert If. Nash postmaster at Bait Lake City, Utah, vice Irving A. Benton, who re signed to accept the appointment of United Stab Marahal. Neither General Bchofleld, who ia act ing aa Secretary of War, nor any other army officer at the department it aware of any contemplated exchange of com mands between General Howard and General Miles, as reported from Chicago. Little credence is given to the story. Fifth Auditor Timme in bis annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury shows the adjustment during the year of account aggregating 1027 ,1430,507 and representing expenses incurred in the diplomatic and consular service, internal revenue service, census office, rimlthson Ian Institution, etc. There are a number of vacancies in the higher olllces of the executive depart ments of the government, and the prob lem of filling: them has been consider ably complicated by the results of the recent election. In view of the fact that a general change will be made by the new administration in March, the vacan cies are not altogether desirable prizes. Among them are the First Assistant Postmaster-Generalship, Commissioner of the General Land Olilce, and a num ber ol diplomatic places, including the Russian, Portugese, Italian and Swiss Missions. The resignation of Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury Nettleton and Mr. Crounse, who was the Republi can candidate for Governor of Nwiraska, will take effect next month. The Presi dent will also have four vacancies on the bench to fill between now and March 4. These are life positions and the most al luring prizes remaining within the gift of the administration. The probability of an extra session of Congress immediately following the in auguration of tiie President-elect it a subject of general conversation in Wash ington. A special session ol the Senate is alwayt called at the beginning of a new administration, to confirm mem bers of the Cabinet and diplomatic rep resentatives of the United States abroad, but the present election, having turned on questions of a domestic policy, it is said to be obvious to experienced politi cal leaders of all partiet that an extra aesslon of both Houses of Congress ia an almost inevitable result. Secretary of the Treasury Foster among others ad mits this. The country, he says, chal lenged the judgment ol the Republicans on the AlcKluley bill, and the result must be accepted as the will of the peo- file that a different policy must be put nto eflect. Kx-Hecretary Bayard writes to a friend hern in like effect, adding the people will expect this to be done with' out unnecessary delay. Advices from Samoa are to the effect that the (inferences between the factions on the islands, headed by Ma,taafs, the recognised King, and Malietoa, the claimant to the throne, have reached an acute phase. To fully protect the inter ests of the United States it has been de cided that a vessel be sent there at the earliest practicable moment. Besides this reason, bated on expendiency, it appears that under the terms el the trip artite treaty the United States is under obligation to keep a naval vessel Samoa. There haa been no United Btates naval vessel there for many months, the Iroquolt being the last to call. Ihe Alliance is now at Honolulu with the Boston, under orders to Samoa, but these orders were countermanded probably because of a critical turn in Hawaiian politics. It is the present in' tention to send in her place the Ranger, recently of the Behring sea fleet and now at Mare Island, Ban francisco. will require about a month's time to pre pare the vessel for the trip, and another month or six weeks for the passage, so she will not be able to reach Samoa be fore next year. The canes of the alleged extensive frauds in land entries, which were in vestlgated during the administration of Land Commissioner Sparks, and the dis covery of which caused a suspension of survey works over the public lamia In California, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Ariiona, are at least to be brought to trial In the courts. Proceedings have been ordered n the courts of San t1 ranclsco against J 1). Hall (or perjury in regard to the but vey of publio lands. This rase is to be followed up by the. trial ol J. R. Glover, J. A. Benson and G. II. Perrus, expert surveyors, who, it is charged, in 1880 formed a syndicate in San Francisco for the survey ol lands and irauduiently nn dertook to control all special deposit tracts on the Pacitlo slope. Certain banks, It is alleged, supplied the money required for the deposits, the agents of the syndicate pocketing the award of contracts at the several olllces of the surveyors-General and the contracting dep uty executing a power of attorney to the banks for all moneys payable under such contracts. Ihe principal location for operation was In Central and South ern California, but extended into other States and Territories. Several million dollars were secured by these schemes, BEYOND TIIE ROCKIES. Huntington Buys an Iron Mine and Steel Works in Meiico. THE MILLER RAINY-DAY DRESS. Total Insurance on Milwaukee Property Lately Destroyed by Fire Sbort-Rlbs Corner. THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. The BoarJ of Directors Decides to Close Ihe Fair at 7 O'Cl.xk Each Evening Insurance. The Scotch Home Industries Assocla' tlon proposes to reproduce the cottage of Kooert inirnt at the world a fair. Kmilio Castelar. the renowned states man, orator and author ol Spain, is the choice of the eutire World's Fair man agement for orator on the opening day of the World's Fair. The insurance written upon the World's Fair buildings now aggregates i-i.600.000. When the fair opens next spring it is thought the contents of the buildings will reach the value of tlOO, 000,000 at least. The electricians who propose to have exhibits at the Chicago World's Fair are Indignant because of the decision of the Board of Directors to close the fair at 7 o'clock each evening, as it will not per mit 01 a good display of their products. Chicago has more than fulfilled the promise it made to the country with re gard to the Fair. That city has spent 110,000,000 in providing a borne for it, and it has spent them not onlv with characteristic liberality, but with such good taste, with such respect, reverence. even, for art, as to command universal ! admiration and coinuiendatiuu. The' promise Chicago made wu to erect the , bnlldinirs by May 1. 1CL The am .1. i ready erected, and they snrpaa in their , cbse grandeur and beauty all possible ex pectatlon. ihe city having done so much, the country should not do lee proportionately. First of all, it should cordially and gratefully recognise the magnitude and the value of the great work Chicago has done, and it should then resolve, the preparation for the air being to adequate, the completion of it should be equally so; that it should be in deed and laol a complete exposi tion of all the product and production of the world's arts and science, and es pecially of those of this hemisphere. The Boston Furnltnre Company bat failed. Recent storms damaged lake shipping 4&0,000. Philadelphia will organize a naval re serve battalion. Quarantine precautions at Boston are to continue during the winter. Heavy shipments of Iroa ore continue to be the feature in that trade. Navigation above Cincinnati is practl cally suspended, owing to low water. General Miles sayt the Cheyennetand Arapaboes are threatened with starva' tion. There are only forty-five free patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. A Chicago syndicate has cornered short ribs, of which it controls 70,000,' 000 pounds. The American tin-plate factories turned out nearly 11,000,000 pounds of plate last quarter. Negotiations are in progress in St Louis for the consolidation of the four street car factories. Hereafter auy railroad In Massac hu setts which uses the car stove is liable to a penalty of 500. Alarmed at the prevalence of crime, citizens at Sedalia, Mo., have organized a vigilance committee. The drouth in Maryland compels farm ers in many sections to haul water from a distance for their stock. Dun's Review notes more active busi ness conditions than for any previous ante-presidential election. The Supreme Court of Missouri haa decided that official notices published in Sunday papers are not legal. There is a severe drouth in some sec tions of New York State. Water It very scarce in a half dozen counties. The postmaster of a Georgia town has resigned because there waa so much blackmail connected with the business A bridge that spans Cattaraugus creek near Bpringville, Western New York, touches four different towns and two counties. A negro digging on his farm in Liberty county, Ga., recently fonnd an iron pot containing (4,000 in old French and Spanish silver coins. Sang Kee, a Chinese government of ficial, has arrived in Ottawa to make an investigation into the character and scope of the Dominion laws regarding the Chinese. Complete statistics of the great fire at St. Johns. N. have just been issued, ihe number of bouses destroyed was 1,874 and the total numbers of persons burned out 10,z34, A company has been incorporated in Chicago with 15,000,000 capital to manu facture a new long-distance telephone which, it is claimed, will be effective on 3,uuu-mtie circuits. Although the total insurance on Mil waukee property lately destroyed by tire waa over I3,uw,uoo, only two companies, so far aa reported, will have to bear lots of over 100,000. During the past rainy tpell at Ann Arbar, Mich., the girls appeared on the street in jenness Miller s "rainv-dav" dress. The skirt reaches half-way from me Knee to the ankle The executors of John Roach, the ship builder, will receive from his as signees, George W. Quintard and George . Weed, about 12.000.000. the surplus 01 nis assigned estate. The Plant Improvement Comoanv at Pnv T.,i,. L'l . ..... 1 4 1. gigantic undertaking of dredging a large basin where twenty large ships cau be loaded at once from elevated tracks. New York will have to raise by tax tlon for the expenses of the coming year $3.1,771.008. The various departments asked for a total of $30,002,517, but this was cut down by the Hoard of fcstimate, Whittier's homestead is now owned bv a retired merchant of Haverhill, who is wining to sen the estate on condition that it shall be properly and Derma nently cared for aa a memorial of the poet. Ihe I'ennsylvanla road will ex perl ment with lighting its tracks by elec tricity from Philadelphia to Bryn Mawr. If a success, the tracks will be lighted to New York and locomotive headlights dispensed wiui. The suits for $20,000 each against Gov ernor Francis and others, filed by three 01 me men arrested at foraythe, No., for participation in the murder of Deputy Sheriff Williams in Taney county, have Deen dismissed, The United States Supreme Court haa advanced to the second Monday in Jan nary the date for hearing the case of rrosser vs. the northern l'acitlo Railroad Company, Involving the title to a large tract of water front In the State of Wash ington. The "trust" distilleries of Peoria. 111.. have been buying corn in enormous quantities lately, and many of them have largely increased their out nut. The trust has also started up some of Its Cincinnati distilleries which have long been idle. The latest thing In Boston is the Twen tieth Century Club, which has lust been chartered and has secured Quarters in Boy Is ton Place, the haven of associated high thinkers. The object of the club. as expressed by its founders, is "the promotion of the liberal arts and all earnest, unselfish purposes." According to Dun's Weekly Rrirw the car famine extends from Pittsburg to the Kocxy Mountains, ah me rolling stock with which the numerous East and West trunk lines of the country are equipped is inadequate to the transportation of the vast output of wheat and corn which is seeking a market. It is reported at San Antonio, Tex., that 0. P. Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific, has completed the pur- 01 an iron mine and extensive EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The Large Permanent State School Fund of Kansas Political Complexion of Harvard Graduates. The first kindergarten In America was established in St. Louis in 1873. It Is stated that 204 of the 305 colleges In the United States are coeducational. Colored students of both sexes are to be admitted into the Chicago University. In the University of Michigan there are five Chinese students two girls and three young men. The Ohio school teachers have peti tioned the Board of Education for the prompt payment of their salaries. The slow progress of the thirty female studeuts at Yale is very discouraging. They have not learned the yell yet. The applications for admission to the Baltimore Woman's College are une qualed in the history of that institution. Lincoln University, the colored college at Lincoln, Chester county, Pa., baa re opened with 200 students enrolled. The number of schoolbouses In the United States is 210 330. The estimated value of all public-school property is $323,505,632. Electricity, theoretical and applied, Is being taught in the evening classes at several scholastic and similar institu tions in Boston. Returns show that about 40 per cent, of the alumnts of Vassar College, New York, marry, most of the remainder be coming teachers. There sre now seventy schools for the deaf and dumb in the United States, and there ia also a college for them lo cated at Washington, D. C. Of the 1,171 graduates of Harvard In the classes from 1885 to 1891 inclusive who expressed their political preferences 712 were Republicans and 305 Demo crats. The University o! Pennsylvania has this year 1,764 students, which makes it fourth in the list of great educational institutions. The three greater are Yale, Harvard and Michigan Universities. Queen Margaret's College is ihe only college for women in Scotland that fits them for university degrees. It wa founded about fifteen years ago, and has 200 students in art, science and medi cine. Kansas has a permanent State school fund of $5,000,000, which draws interest at an average rate of 6 per cent. The semi-annual dividend from this school fund for the past two years is $1,000,- 514.04. The total revenues of the public schools of the United States are : From perma nent endowments, $0,826,127: from taxes, State, $25,177,007; local, $88,328,- 385 $113,500,412; from other sources, $8,794,431. Total revenue, $135,125,010. The Board of Education of Detroit. Mich., has decided that hereafter teach ers in its public schools must have re ceived their entire education within the public and high Bchools of Detroit. Not only this, but their right to teach there is forfeited if they attend a university afterward. Three hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-one teachers are employed in the public schools of the United States. This would give an av erage of nearly thirty-five pupils to each teacher. Deducting for county and city superintendents, say 50,000, would give an average of forty pupils for each tencher. Of these teachers 227,200 are females, and 125,000 are males. The average wages are (or males $42.43; for females, $34.27 per month. FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS The Number of Enrolled Voters in the Kingdom of Italy. CHOLERA IN A CHINESE PROVINCE New Tax Upon Bicycles In France Snow In the Mack Forest Region In Germany Etc. PURELY PERSONAL The List of Musical Prodigies Includes a Young Cherokee Indian Girl Emanuel Lasker. Rudyard Kipling has reconsiderd, and will not settle down in this country. Emanuel Lasker. the chess expert, the other day played five simultaneous games of chess, blindfolded, and won them in an hour and a half. John L. Davenport was appointed su perintendent of elections in New York twenty years ago, Horace Oreeley hav ing recommended his appointment. The Scotch Earl of Crawford and Bal- carres is visiting New York incog. He Is a tall, stout, fine-looking man, with brogue nearly as broad as himself. He is coming West to hunt. Most men whose name Is McLeod pro nounce it " Mac-cloud :" but the ener getic President of the Reading road, ac cording to the uoston Advertiser, prefers " Mac-Teed " for himself. Drs. Rubners and Yernicke of Ham. ourg. who nave been experimenting to see if cholera germs can be transmitted to tobacco, claim to have demonstrated that tobacco smoke is sure death to the bacilli. There Is serious revival of cholera at Baku. England boasts of an aluminium launch. Archduke Francis of Austria is soon to visit America. Vienna has been declared free from the cholera scourge. Cattle disease baa broken out In vari ous districts of Jutland. Hamburg officially reports no case of cholera there since October 20, Cholera in a Chinese province has car ried off 30,000 to 40,000 people. There is said to be an excess 0' $0, 000,000 of silver in the United Kingdom. To every 1,000 men in the British army only eighteen are over six feet in he'ght. It is now announced that Parliament will be formally prorogued on December 13. The trench Cabinet has approved a decree pardoning ten convicted Carmaux rloterr. A syndicate has been formed to estab lish a permanent industrial exhibition in Stockholm. The German army has a swimming school for troops, where every one must learn to swim France is to have a new subsidiary coinage, which ia to be of some metal beside copper. , An English company is being organ' ized for the acclimatization of elephants in souin America. Two daughters of General Booth of the Salvation Army have been expelled from Switzerland. According to the London Time. Brit ish harvest was not nearly completed on the first day of October. Russia is said to have 70.000.000 in gold, ol which $9,000,000 is on deposit in i)nuon, rarie and uernn. A metal tower resembling the Eiffel tower is to be erected at Lyons on the heights of Gay de Fourviere. It is reported that 200 white men Belgians and Germans are leading the Dahomeyans against the French. ine urmsn government lias given $720,000 for the relief of the sufferers b the r land. the recent fire at St. Johns, Newfoum steel works at Durango, Mexico. This will be the largest iron works on the American continent, controlling not only the output of New Mexico, but of the entire Southwest. There will be a change in the Rear Admiral's station at San Francisco Jan nary 1 next. Rear Admiral Brown ill be detached from command of the Pa cific station. He will probably take command at the Mare Island yard. Rear Admiral Irwin, who is commandant at Mare Island, will be ordered to the com mand of ths Pacific station. Prof. A. D. Hopkins of the West Vir ginia experiment station has arrived from Europe with a bug. wh ch. he thinks, will destroy the pine-tree beetle mat nas so greatly damaged the West Virginia forests. Adjutant-General Douglas of Marv. land haa rppftlvwd from IV IT Sumi. of Philadelphia the map used bv Gen eral Stonewall Jackson in the civil war from the time of the battles with Pope to the battle of Fredericksburg. Senator Gorman, who haa usually en- tertained a good deal at his home on Khode Island avenue in Washington in the winter time, will not reopen the house this coming season, but occupy im miruio iu uuioi me i oruand. The list of musical prodigies in Boston at present includes a young Cherokee inman gin. who la said toberemarkah accomplished. She expects to return to the Indian Territory when her education is completed as a teacher of her tribe. It is said that the weening willow nf America all sprang from a alio sent by Alexander Pope from England. The statement has the same proof as has the claim that all the cherry wood ia nrvw duced by grafts from the original Wash ington cnerry tree. By the death of the late Dr. Thomas William Parson, the poet, there is only one member left of the characters that Longfellow introduced in his "Tales of a v ayside Inn " Luigi Monti of New York (" the young Sicilian "), who is a oromer-in raw 01 nr. t'arsons. The Sultan of Jahore, whose capital and palace are but fourteen miles from a: , . ,, ,. . . oinirapure, imenus to light tits palace wiw electricity at an esriy date. Jahore would probably require a plant of fifty arc lights. The Sultan will do nothing until he returns from the Chicago Expo sition and has seen the best results of electric lighting in the United State. Verdi, the composer, haa set his heart on having the great French baritone, Manrel, for the leading role in his new opera, " Falstaff." But it is reported in Rome that Signor Ricordi, the publisher. wu waa uoipv-awu hi conuuci me nec essary negotiations, finds that th Frenchman will charge a fabulous price for his services, and it docs not seem practicable to agree to the terms de manded. In consequence Verdi is said to be much depressed in spirits. Four feet of snow and a consentient blockade of railway traffic are reported from the Black Forest region in Ger many. American competition in the grain trade has caused many failures in Rus sia, eight firms recently going into bank ruptcy. Three thousand tradesmen of Cologne nave recently petitioned the Emperor of Germany to abolish the new Sunday real law. A woman without arms has been mar ried at Christ Church. New Zealand The ring was placed upon (he fourth toe of ner leu toot. The Pope is already receiving presents for his Jubilee, which is to take place next year, me nrst gilts having arrived irom America. Dr. Luther, a Berlin physician, de scended from Martin Luther, represented ine L,umer lamiiv at the consecration services in Wittenberg. Emmi Nevada is to be one of the stars ot bir. Augustus Hams' opera season in London. She has not sung in the Eng- lieu capital lor lour years. The loss of traffic on accmnt nf th cholera epidemic at Hamburg has caused a uencu 01 l.uuu.ouu marks in the reve nues 01 the Altona railway. It is proposed to connect the 0,1 Danube rivers by means of a canal, thus making a complete waterway hettrun A I I .V T.I 1 me caiuu sou me ruacx sea. fenny savings banks are connected with public schools of Belgium, and 17iV. 000 of the 000,000 primary pupils have uupuaueu over oiw,uw irancs. The new tax upon bicycles in France will be li. As there are about two hun dred and twenty-five thousand cvclists ine revenue will be about $450,000. Miss Margaret Cozens, the British fe male suffragist, who recently advocated dynamite aa a means of securing the irancniBe, is wealthy, educated and 30 The Empress of ' Russia's court dress. LI.. I. 1 I - 1 . r 1. 1 . ' uwu ib vmueu m x.d,uuu, nas only been worn on one occasion, vis., at the corona tion of the present Emperor. It is coV' ered with magnificent embroidery in real silver. The unfortunate claimant, alias "Sir , . - , , , n J appearing av country music na is and bv exhibiting himself nightly for a fixed sum at well-known public houses in the suburbs 01 London. The shipments of silver from Lnminn this year have been nearly $12,600,000 greater man me same time in 1891, The aggregate shipments to Indis, China PORTLAND MARKET. FrodaM. Fruit, KM. Whiat Nominal. Valley. t.20 1.22M; Walla Walla, $1.12(31.15 per MntAl. Fmna Standard. $3.65: Walla Walla, $3.66: Graham. $3.15; Superfine, $2.60 rtiiF ha r ml. Oats New. 44(3 400 per bushfl rolled. $6.60(a.75 per barrel; $0.25(3 6.60 per bag; $3.75 per case. Hav lUiif 13 oer ton. Mn.Lfrrurrs Bran. 1.6: shorts, $19 nd barley. lL2.50(a26 : chop feed. $21 M22 ner ton: whole feed barley. $18(4 ID middings. $2bM2U per ton: brewing barley, $1.10(31.15 per cental; chicken wheat. 11.20 per cental. Buttsb Oregon fancy creamery, 324 (335c; fancy dairy 1 30c i " M 8001 2527kc; common, 153170 per nnnnd. Cukkhs Oregon, 11113c; Young America. 14(i 14,c per pound. Eooa Oregon. 3032'4c; Eastern 2.1 U,n ner dozen. Poultbv Old Chickens, quoted at $4 young, $2.60(33.50; ducks, I4.00i30.0o geese, nominal, $10.0011.00 per dozen tnrkevs. 12Z13Uc per pound. V eg ktajilss Cabbage, $1.0; 1.50 per cental ; onions, 7600c per cental ; pota toes. 75M00C per cental: tomatoes, w 60c per cental; Oregon turnips, 75c$l per cental; young carrots, 7oc$l per cental; beets, 70c (St per ceniai, sweet potatoes. 11.76 per cental : uregon cauu fiower, 76c$l per dozen ; celery, l0c per dozen. Faurrs - Sicily lemons. $7.608.00 California grapes, 75cQ$l per box; Ore gon grapes, 60c($l per box; Oregon oears. $1.25(31.60 per box; bananas. $2.603.60 per bunch ; quinces, $1.60 per box; oranges, $4.60 per box; cranber ries, $8.75 per barrel; apples, o0c$1.60, and the straits were 8,325,093 this year against 3,809,021 in 1891. ' Spurgeon's Tabernacle in London is fitted with electric bells to ring in all parts of the house. Strangers are kept standing until five minutes before the service, when all the bells are rung si multaneously and a grand rush is made for seats. Seven years ago a Scotch woman es tablished in London a "A Home for the Dying," ten beds being prepared for dy ing people. The applications for ad mission became so numerous and press ing that steps have been taken to en large the institution very greatly. The subjects of Great Britain are the most tremendous patent medir m i. lowers on the globe. During the nant I- - J . ; 1 . . . tue revenue uerivea jrom ine three half-penny stamp upon patent medicines amounted to $1,200,000. Licenses lor the sale of patent medicines hive In cieated 1,310 in England and 111 in Scotland. Telephone girls in Belgium are going to have a hard time of it. The lines have now been taken over by the gov ernment, and operators are to pas an examination. The qualification is a thorough knowledgeol French, Flemish, German, English and of geography. The Italian right of franchise em braces an citisens who are twentv-on years of age, who can read and write, and ho pay taxes to the amount of $3.75 a year. In 18.0 the number of en rolled voters waa 2,820.065 in an esti mated population of 30,153,403, and the vote actually cast was 1,477,473. Staple Orooerie. Honit Choice comb, 1517c per nound : new Oregon, lHdtMc Salt Liverpool, $14.6017.00; stock, 110.60(311.50 per ton. Rick Island, $5.00(35.60; Japan, $4.86 per cental. Dkixd Fbuits Petite prunes, 10(3 11c silver,U14c; Italian, 12 14c; German, 10(i? 11c; plums, old, 5tSc; new, 79c apples. 4kyj4c: evaporated apricots. 1510c; peaches, 12(3 10c; pears, 78c per pound. Corns Costa Rica, 21 Kc ; Rio, 20'c Salvador, 20c; Mocha, 27 330c; Java, 276t30c: Arbuckie's 100-pound cases, 23 17-200 per pound. Bsanh Small white, 3'ic; pint, sc bayos,3c; butter, 8gC ; umas, 3?4c per pound. Sybup Eastern, in barrels, 40 55c; half-barrels, 42(357 'uc; in cases, 35(4 80c per gallon ; $2.2o per keg. California In barrels, Z0(g40o per gauon; 11.70 per keg. Suoab Net prices : D,4c; Golden C, 4fBc; extra C, 4?c; Magnolia A, 4jg'c; granulated, o.'-ic; cube crushed and poW' dered,6J,c; con fectioners' A, 6.'c per pound ; maple sugar, 16(3 l'c per pound. Canned uoooh Table fruits, assorted quoted $1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.852.10; Bartlett pears, $1.75(3 2.00 : plums, $1.37 31.60; strawberries, $2.252.40; cher ries, $2.25(32.40; blackberries, $l.Hd 2; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3 2.80; apricots, si.to(cf2.00. rie iruits Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1.10(31.20; blackberries. $1.25(31.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons Assorted, 3.253.50; peaches, $3.60(34.00; apri cots, $3.50(34.00; plums, $2.7503.00; blackberries, f4.0UW4.60. Vegetables corn, $1.401.85; tomatoes, 86c$1.00; sugar peas, 9oc(3$1.00: string beans. 90(3 95c per dozen. Meats : Corned beef, Is, xi.20; 28, 11.85(32.00; chipped beel, 2.10; lunch tongue, Is. $3.10; 2s, $5.5 1; nevued nam, fi.b0(32.7o per dorp isn: sardines, s, 7&c(a 12.2s; 12.iB-l.UU; lobsters, 12.80(3.60; salm on.tin 1-lb.Ulls, $1.25(3 1.60; flats, $1.75; IDS., SU.Z0(g2.DU; bbl., 16.60. Mlicellueoii4. Nails Base quotations : Iron, 2 75 steel, $2.85; wire. $3.00 per keg Iron Bar, 2Jc per pound; pig Iron, rnc-i per ton. Stsel 10c per pound. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qua! ity, $8.25(38.75 per box ; for crosses, $2 extra per box ; roofing,, 14x20, prime quality, $6.62)4 (36.75 per box ; I. C. coke plates, 14x20, prime quality, $7.508.00 per dox. Naval Storks Oakum, $4.50(35 per bale ; rosin, $4.80(35 per 480 pounds ; tar, Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, $9.00 per barrel ; pitch, $6.00 per barrel ; turpen tine, 65c per gallon in carload lots. Lead 4jc per pound ; bar, e.c. Shot $1.80 per sack. U0R8KSHOBS $5. llldei, Wool and Hops. Hiuxs Dry hides, selected prime, 7) (3 c; 1 Wo less for culls: green, selected. over 65 pounds. 4c; under 65 pounds, 3c; sheep pelts, short wool, 3050c; me dium, 6080c; long, 90c$l.26; shear ings, 1020c; tallow, good to choice, 3 3'ic per pound. Wool Umrxma Valley. Iflffll9c: fall clip, 1315)c; Willamette Valley, 15(3 10c, Becoming w quality ; tastern Ure gon, 10(3 16c per pound, according to condition. Hops 1921c, according to condition. The Meat Market. Bkkit Live, 1(3 2.Vc: dressed. 5c. . Mutton Live. SaS'c: drest!. fl I 1 11 rt , , . , r. , , ... ' lamue, uve, o.-4 iffo.c; ureesed, 8c. noos uve, 4,c; dressed, 6bc. Vial 4(36c per pound. Smokbd Mkats Large ham. l.l'.'ffl HI4C; medinmham,14314,Hic; breakiast bacon. 14(3 10c: short c ear tides. UV.M in.. J ..11 . 1 , 10c; ury nait siues, ncguc per pound. Lasd Compound, in tins. DU,'v nnm in tins. 13(3137.'c: Oregon. 11(3 13 1 - - - per puuuu. Bars and Bagg-lno Burlaps. 8-0.. 40-inch. burlaDS. 10-ot.. 40-innh. nat ma h j burlaps. 12-oz.. 45-inch. 7Ue; hm-lano' 15-oz., 60-inch, llc; burlaps, 20-oz., 76 inch, 14c. Wheat bags, Calcutta, 23x36, spot, 6c; two-buBhel oat bags, 6Vc THEFARMAND GARDEN The Only Proper Time to Select Corn for Seed Corn. FEW OPPORTUNE SUGGESTIONS. Many Writers Advocate the Gathering of Seed Corn From the Earliest Ripening Stalks. Now that the season has arrived h the crop of corn is being harvests J.? a writer In the Ohio Practical Pan.? it might be well to offer . Hons in regard to the selection of iZ corn. Many good farmers select T seed for next year's corn crop in ths fin All farmers should do so, but too min. are thoughtless or perhaps careless T cerning this matter, and when planting time comes they go to the crib lor th, seed corn. This season, owing to the wet westhor much corn was planted very late mJi the probabilities are that. Bhould ther. be severe cold weather early in the win. ter, it would be found, when too Uti that a large per cent, of the com in th. crib will fail to germinate. Ttiia bein. true, all corn growers should see that they secure an abundant supply 0f KJ corn be'ore freezing weather and eton the same in a dry room, where the tern peraturewill not fall much below th freezing point during the severelt weather. , Many writers advocate the of need corn from the earliest rioenin. be earlie-. Be this as it may, ths best seed corn cannot be secured in this wi The proper time and the only proper time to select corn for seed corn is when the corn is huBked. Let the husker keep ail the best ears separate from ths balance of the corn when huskino 11,. shock. Then when hauling in fastn . box that will hold a bushel ortwnanm where about the wagon, in which mar be placed the select corn. When taken to the crib the box should be emptied and after a more critical examination the very best ears are secured for This method causes but very little tro oie, anu you are sure mat your seed corn will grow when planting time comw 1 think many times that corn thus m. lected makes a more vigorous start i.j is lees liable to rot after planting than corn taken from the crib. Furthermore by a careful selection of seed it requires but a few years to establish ideal corn, and you may never fe that your corn will "run out," but on the contrary will be more inclined to "ron in," and your less careful neighbors will buy their seed from you. A Word tor the Dull. There is no more treacherous animal in the world than a bull. However peaceably inclined he may seem to he, it is never safe to trust bis good intentions, for he is apt to break out in the mott unexpected manner. Even a hornlesi bull has been known to knock down and trample his unsuspecting owner. The only safe way is to make it impossible for him to attack any one. For this rea son he should never be set at large in an open field. But a bull needs fresh sir and exercise. Keeping bim shut up in a stall all the time renders him mora savage as he grows older, and besides it ia not good for his health. Staking him out in the open field exposes him to the irritating attacks of Hies, which does not tend to improve his temper in the least. A writer lor form, block and Homi suggests from hisown experiences imple plan, which allows the bull the benefit of the open air and a little tramping about wi hout the risk or discomfort of the methods referred to above. He sus pends a rope from high up on the west Bide of the barn, and attaches his lead chain to this rope. This is done in the morning, and when the sun gets sronnd in the afternoon he is put into the stable. But after all there is no reason wbv his bovine lordship should be suffered to live in idleness when other animals have to earn their living. It would take good deal of the ugliness out of his temper to hitch him to a cart to haul manure to a field or hay and grain to ths barn. The exercise obtained In this way would increase his bodilv vigor while subduing his savagery, and such service would lessen tbecostof his maintenance. Observations made to determinA the. longtitude of Montreal show that the transmission of the electric current across the ocean and back occupied a trifle over one second, the distant ha. ing 8,000 miles. The mere fact that chan d the finding of a penny in the street shows that the coin has luck inherent in it. Therefore, if carried Aliont in h pocket it will presumably bring good fortune. In the year 1886 the Kentucky legisla ture was petitioned to change the nam of man who thought that "Mr. Schla fenhasenrichstichstafer" waa an undig nified cognomen. A human hair varies in thickness from the 230th to the Booth n.r .,t Inch. In other words, it ia more than ten times as coarse as the web of a silkworm. Poultry Mltea. Kerosene emulsion, which has been used so successfully to destroy the dis eases of the plants, has of late been ap plied to animals on the farm to rid them of lice, scab, etc. It has also been used In the poultry yard. It Is very useful to renovate the roosting places and ths buildings frequented by fowls, as well as being sure death to all vermin on the chickens themselves when applied to their bodies. A successful nonltrv raiser in Michi gan gives his experience with the emul sion: "Last spring, as soon as warm weather came, the mites began to come by the millions. I felt discouraged, and finally thought I would try emnlsion. as I had some experience with it on other insects. I found it to be good. I got the kettle and put it on the stove ; pat in two gallons of water and one pound of hard soap. When the soap was dis solved I added cne gallon of kerosene, then took my force pump, with the sprinkler on, and churned until it ws like cream. I went to the coops and sprayed them all over with this hot emul sion, perches and platforms and all parts of the coops. I used three gallons of kerosene to go through my three coops, but it made a final finish of them. When I find any I get the emulsion, take a brush and paint it on the parts where they are." The fixed stanchion for fastening in stall ought to be relegated to the limbo of discarded things, along with other in struments of torture. They hold a cow surely enough, but the restraint on her freedom is altogether unnecessary snd especially in fly time a source of grest distress to the poor animal. The pivoted stanchion is undoubtedly a decided im provement, as we might suppose an in quisitorial thumb screw would be that only turned half way. But it is still too great a restraint upon the natural move- menta rif thA nnm X jvilla and rore or chain of proper length is the best methed of fattening, and shocH be adopted. Lime In the SaIIta. A series of observations has been made by a Russian physician to de termine the quantity of lime in the salira. In perfectly normal cases from 2 to 3 per cent of lime was found, there being more a few hours after a meal than either just before or just after it A rise of body tem perature, too, appeared to cause an increase in the amount of ume. There la a man in Jtnntsnim, n. wno has had his arm dislocated at the j When any of the teeth were affected dZur.Z '"y-bt time and hi. by caries the lime increased to from allocated at th. hip eight time ,'to 5 cent-New York Journal.