EUGENE CITY GUARD.
rrwprtotor,
EUOENE CITY. OREGON.
ROUGH ON CLAMS.
Monument to be Erected
American Sailors.
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PORTLAND SMUGGLING RING.
radical Formed .! California's
Win drawers Over Thol Crisis
I'aalfla Coast News.
6a Kiaiuim-o, Cal. Titer is good
newt for the wine growers of California
A syndicate if organizing which will he
willing to pay living prices to vineyard
lit. Capitalists who have money in
vratetl in viticulture, Unki which hold
mortgages on vine land ami dealer w ho
do not believe in killing the goose that
layi the golden egg. ami who represent
an aggregate of $10,000,000, are alxmt to
combine to place one of California'
principal Industrie once more on a pay
lug basis. Thev have an interest in pro
tecting the $1.0.000,000 invested in wine
uiaking.'and they Ham! really to purine
a liberal policy toward the producer.
They propose to put ; 1,000.000 in the
scheme ami to incorporate for live yean.
They ai-k that from 30 to l per rent of
the growers (hall bind themselves to
give optioni on their crop. '1 he propo-
anion to organic the syndicate does not
rome from lit member, but from the
committee ol winegrowera recently ap
pointed to devise loine inealia by which
the crisis in the industry might le
overcome. These coniinitteemen vieitenl
hanker, capitalist ami lealera, laiil be
fore them a plan of action ami obtained
a provisional consent. Now they are at
woik on the producers, and hoe within
ten day or a fortnight to obtain utll
cient option to launch the project to
ucceaa.
TO MAIIK TllfclH tmArr.n.
H08THYVEST BREVITIES.
Mooamont Spoken of for Ika Vaadslla
aad Nlusla Sailors.
Pah Fa im o, Cau There iia move
ment on foot at Vallejo to raiae by sub
scription a fund ullicient to erect a
plendid monument over the grave of
the Mllor of the wrecked Unltel Hate
war vessels Vandalia and Niiwir, who
lost their live in the terrible hurricane
which wrpt the Hay of Apia in 1MMU. it
wnl lie remembered that ihortly after
that awful disaster in hamoa, which re
tulted in the lot of so many brave fail
on, nineteen of the Vamlaiia and Nip
lie's deal were brought to thi lrt and
Interred in the cemetery at Vallejo. I'n
til recently, however, only a plant board
ha niaikrd the location of their grave,
although It ha been hoed that some
steps would be taken by the governiiieut
to place a monument over the ot.
i Hilda of the tleail sailor, however,
have hoHt in vain. I'nlorlunately there
were liu Hind at Mare Inland which
Could be used lor inch a purpow. Those
who have the plan in chnige proxe to
aolii il sulie. npiioiis Irom resioeiit of
Vnllcjt and the navy yard and aim from
liien alaiard dlllereiit warships, who will
no doiihl gladly contribute their mile to
ward audi titling trihtile.
Ilunl'a l.easa Valid
rori.A!u. On. Judge tiilliert in the
United fcUU Circuit Court ha ren
dervd a decision ill the mil of W. I
'1 vlr. receiver of the Washington am
Columbia Kiver railroad, v. Hamilton
and Itoiuke. 1 lie complaint in this suit
et lot Hi that at a meeting of three out
of live director of the Washington anil
Columbia Kiver road under Hie Hunt
regime a reaolution wa adopted grant'
lug U. W. Hunt a lease of certaiu ware
liouaea for a term ol twenty year for $1
er year, ami that a fair rental price for
thee warehouses wa (S.ouo. ine coin
i.laint alleye that the leaae wa (rendu
lently acquired. The caae Wa
In lavor ol the delendanta.
I'loree Connly rinaaee
Tacoma. Wash. Inasmuch aa the
neit county tax levy, to lie made in IK
tolier, cannot be made available for de
fraying the county election eienca thi
fall, the I ounty Loiiimlssiuiicr are na
cuaaing their power ao far aa entering
Into the usual contract tor election ex
tene. The County l'roeeutiiig A I tor
liev ha aeveral lime held that the rutin-
tv. having reached ila legal limit ol
indrbtediieM, cannot legally contract
mure emetine bill. Klecliou hereto
fore in Hit county have coat from M.0UJ
to 7,00l'. I he present Incumlienla ex
peel to remain i it otlice ahould do elec
tion lie held, whicn I not prouaiue.
Hard-1 lutes I'rlrea.
Pxattik. Wah. The control for
macadamising the hottth ht-atlle Mad,
let recently by the County Commission
era at Nl cent a running foot, show
bow haid time have redm-ed the cool
and value ol everything. In lXfwt.when
tin road waa first planked, it coal 11.10
per running loot lor the material alone,
the resident of the district furnishing
the labor (rati. The new road when
finished should laat thirty year. The
count r in tin instance furnished the
uuarrv. Irom which the contractors ran
help themselves.
Hongh aa the Clans.
Astorm, la.- liesidenta on Clataop
Heat h say that the supply of rlam is
likely to I almost exhaustel in the
course of a few week on account ( the
vast volume of fresh water which is
rushing down the Columbia. Already
they are becoming maree, and w hat have
been dug during the past few day s are
veiv tKior. After the great fhaal of 1 f7i
similar conditioiia aere noticeable, and
the supply wa light lr over a year aft-eraard.
decided
Portland aiSlla King.
I'okTLAM), On. In the Cnited Stale
Iitri. t Court Judge Itellitiger et the
date for the trial of a number of persons
rhamtd wi(h smuggling opium and Chi-In--.
Tli siind trial of rx Cullertot
ol Custom Jame lxtan, in whose rase
the jury dissgreed on the first trial. Is
ael l.r June .'A. The case of C. J. Mill
key, ei rial agent ol the Treasury,
In-lit led on nine munla for iiinggling
niiiuin. is ser lor July 2. The iri ol
Nat ilium. K-id l!a k. William iMinhar
and other will Iw tried early in July.
A Hair-Mrswd'a IMaasaad.
VirtoaiA, B. C. Member of the Ca-Badian-AW
ka boundary survey, who
have Inst returned from the North, re
port that, while diamond fields era n4
uppeed to exist on the Ct, a bal(
lirerd in Alaska had in hi possession
what be tltonght waa a piece of rrystal,
atwhih andoubteJly I diamond,
though not of great imnty. It i an im
mense one. fully an Inch long, and rauie,
the hall-lfeed aatd, from the gttren
thai loll laland.
Waaalag taw.
They expert 1,000 vichUtrien at What
com for the regatta July 4.
A urcmer school for teacljert will l
In eession at tprague, beginning July 0,
Aberdeen' aesametit roll foot rip
only 1400,000. Laat year it waa t'JOO.OUO,
Whether to ask for new charter or
not i the burning question at Town
end.
The vote by which Fpokane't City
Council ordered a reduction In the aala
rie of the city' employee wa 11 to 4.
They look for Colonel Ingeraoll at Ppo-
kane thi snmmer when the smrllsr
tart up. He 1 Preiident of the com
pany.
Negotiation are pending for the re
opening of the I'uget Sound Ioan, Trust
and banking Company at New What
com In the Immediate future.
Whatcom county ha Juat finished
four good bridge over the Nooksack at a
cost of 100.000. All rest on cylindrical
pier of Iron filled with concrete.
The litigation In the war against bar
maid at Spokane ha taken the form of
a campaign lielore the Council on the
refusal of a license to the Ixuvre.
Albert John Itath, the Itoy who lost a
leg last year in the Cnion liepot Com
pany' freight yard at Spokane, ha se
cured a verdict for l&,000 damage.
A convention I talked of for the Com
mercial Association of thetiray' Har
bor town to move on Congress for an
appropriation to resurvey the harbor.
Jlrorkmier, Hopkins, Klynn and hut-
ton of the defunct Washington f armers'
Insurance Company have been indicted
by the Skaiie grand Jury for conspiracy.
Lincoln ronnty expect a bigger h
vest thi year than in iwi.'i. Only a
farmer are fallowing their farm, and
the acreage i nearly a large a a year
ago, while the crop are two or three
week more advanced.
Kalama' 15,000 of school linil were
bid in by the State School I-and Com
mission at tl per rent straight. The bid
made bv the State i the beat made for
any (clusil liond of that amount ill this
Stale. The School Hoard ha lsxight a
lite for the building.
Property holder on Khy Island, Sno
homish county, are relisting the pay
ment of the balance due on an asses
meiit of f.ll.OOO for a dike, which waa
built around the island a year ago. They
have already paid HI,000, and now claim
the dike I useless.
At PortTownsend last week a man
applied to Judge llalleliger for llnal nat
nraliration paer. The Judge asked
him whether he had ever la-en convicted
of a crime, and he admitted that he hail
recently been arrested and convicted ol
an offense against the law of the State,
Thereiipn he refused to admit him to
citizenship. There i some talk alxiut it
up there, but the decision is in the main
commended.
It having come to the knowledge of
liovernor MHiraw that the farmer of
Kaatern Washington were romelled lo
nay from ,'H) lo '.Wt rent per txiuml for
twin with which to sew their sack last
season. Warden Cohlrutl reixirls he has
ordered B lllflicient (iliantity of sewing
twine lo be manufactured at the Wash
ington State lute mill and aold to actual
consumer w ho are resident and citizens
of the State of Washington at the price
of 10 rent per pound.
A proiMwiition front IV. II. K. Pearsons
of Chicago, donating Whitman College
the sum of f.HI.IKK) provided the trustees
raise the sum of l.ri0,000 within twenty
months, ha been accepted by the trus
tees, and the following rommilteewas
apHiiutcd to take supervision of the
matter: l-vl Ankeny, Mile C. Moore.
W. P. Winaii. William o'Honm-ll and
II. A. Hevnold. The conditions are that
1100,000 be raised in the State of Wash
ington and at least (M,000 in the Walla
Walla Valley.
The Tacoma Light and Water Com
pany ha begun suit against the city for
l.i.iiM lor the water l'iH wlin li .viavor
II iisiiii and the Hoard of Public Works
wi.eil by moonlight over a year ago.
The water company want the piHt re
turned or the value of it. I he seizure
created a sensation at the time, and the
President of the water company, Theo
dore llosmer. swore a great oath and
aid the water company would have the
pMie. It waa claimed liy the city author
it lea referred to, but not by the City
Council, thai the water company ham
IxKiilcd the citv on it report of the
amount of supplies, pipe and other ma'
terial on hand, and the Mayor and the
Hoard of Public Work ostensibly made
the seizure to even up matter on that
core.
Oregua,
Supreme Judge-elect Wulverlon ha
resigned hi place a attorney in Linn
county for the State School ljtnd Com
miaaion. J. K. yatt waa apointcd in
hi stead.
At the recent convention of the Uival
Temperance legion at Salem the Iji
lirande lnjion waa awarded the State
banner lor the largest number ol gradn
ate thi year.
The lixty-dait span over !-olation
rreek at the north fork of the John I'av
river went down recently w ith a big load
of rattle on it. Several of the rattle
were drowned.
The State tiortage railway at the Ca
cade ha lieen seriously damaged by the
IIihmI, ami It will lake some lime ami
considerable repair helore it will le in
running order again. I he portage is
now made bv wagon, and passengers
are forced to walk ijuite a distam-e ami
in many instance in tuna anme ueer
In building and strengthening the
bulkhead at the Cascade lock bar
rel of cement were used, which, ol
course, I a dead loss. It costs ..' DO per
barrel, making tin one item of the ex
pense 7, .'). When the lalsir and other
expenses are figured tip, the cost of pro
tecting me hs'k win rracit ine neigh
lrhoo. ol f -k'.Ww.
May wa a gi"l month for the Oregon
'acitic. According to the Corvalli Times
S.ikiu new tie were put in the track.
other were lanight and paid (or, 1V
pile were driven in the big bridge at
Albany, a ntimler ol extra section men
aere in service, luel lor tao months was
pun based and other hcttermenta of a
tr:mng nature were put on the road
leaving a credit l!nce of .VH.
The mining industry in the vicinity of
Haker I ity I steadily going loraard.
I he Virtue mine recently viehle.1 a I'.'.-
itxi rlcan-up, ami the Misirea mine is
kept running night and day. 1 en stain jw
will sn a-Me.1 to the mill, and a
concentrating plant ha already la-en
a-1. led. A run is l-mg made at the San
ger mine. Dnlv a'axit KM Ion til risk
a ill lie crushed for the present, but there
is Some prostm t of the mine being op
erated on an extensive scale l lor long
The Nelson placer rlai in la running full
blat with an abundance of water. The
Hobbin mine on Pine rreek ha started
up again, liu mine had t-rn iviug
ail for a year. Several Itaker City bu.i
nraa men, who are interested in mining
pmtertie in the Cable Cave districts
Ami It impoaeible to rees h their proper
ties, owing to the great amount of fallen
lnut-r. the result of the recent wind
storm that passe-1 over that po'A' ol
Ilaker rotinty. It la slate.1 that cK ra.l
ia In an iniaaMe condition, and that
ill undoubtedly remain r lor aome
Uane.
BILL DALTON DEAD
Additional Complications
the Prendergast Case.
McKINLEY'S MITE IS SPURNED.
Wllllaaa Asler thaalsr Kataras ft mm
lb Heart it Ibe Uarb Caallaaat
(iaographlsal Itata.
New York. Unheralded and un
known to those on the pier, an unassum
ing young gentleman with smooth,
un-dricd face marched down the gang
way of the steamer Aller the other morn
ing. He was William Astor Chanler,
Just returned home after three yean'
absence abroad, twenty-two month of
which have been passed in the heart of
Africa, in region never before pene
trated by while men. After a warm
greeting from two or three friend 31 r.
Chanlerwa driven to the KnickerUicker
Club. " I am in excellent health," aid
he, "with the exception of a sluggish
liver aa the result of two year in Alrica,
w hich I propose to wash out at larlshad
immediately. I have come borne hur
riedly lor family reason. While my ex-
ieditmn ha not Is-en entirely suci-es-lul.
owing to the desertion of my men
and a plague resembling hskjaw, which
hroke out among my raiiiei and mines,
I have gathered a large anion lit of aeien-
tiflu and geolisical data, which will com-
one the report i propose to make to the
ew York Geographical Society."
RATIONAL CAPITAL KIWI
ii tn n I sox a Ri.Ai r.H.
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Additional t'uniplleatluas May Arise
lha Frendergasl t'asa.
Ciiicaoo, I i.i Additional complica
tion may arise in the case ol assaasin
Prendergast. Judge Chetlain I not sit
ting in the Criminal Court. Judge
Payne, when a continuance a agreed
upon wa submitted to h:in, refused to
enter the order, saying he knew no rea
son w hy a continuance should lie granted.
The matter went over temporarily. Pren
dergast insisted on making a speech. " 1
am defendant here," lie eaid. I want
no continuance. The question to be de
termined is my guilt or innocence, not
insanity. Murder is a malicious taking
of human life; that crime I have not
committed." The prisoner waa thrust
into hi chair by budilts. Judge Payne
said that he would not consider the mo
tion (or a continuance until after a case
now before him is disposed of. An agree
ment ha lieen rciorted by the lounsel
on both side, and State' Attorney Kern
said that the hearing of the insanity
cane will go over until Novemltcr '2.
Merry Hmtm War.
Ciiicaoo, III The excureion agree
ment of the Western Passenger Associa
tion was given a staggering blow by the
new from St. Ixtui that the Chicago
and Alton was making a rate of PJO for
the round trip U-lwccn St. Iiuis and
lieiiver lor the convention of the Home
opathy Sa-iety a cut of tL'.ftO (nun the
regularly authorized rale. I lie .Missouri
Pacific at once put on the IJU rate, and
the Atchison and Toeka lost no lime in
lollowing suit. The other line also
joined in without loss of lime, lieueral
passenger Agent Charlton of the Chicago
and Alton denied that rate were lieing
cut by his line, but the St. Uiui agents
of the other linea were positive and
unanimous in their charge against that
mad. Chairman t aldwell I still ho In
fill that he will lie able to keep the
trouble within bounds, but the prospects
are not hrighl.
MrHlnley' Mils llelurnsd.
M (ssn.uiN, O. The miner' relief
committee of Muasillon ha returned to
liovernor . Mckinley the I0 he contrib
uted to their siiliscription for the relic
of unemployed miner on May 20, which
beNikeof in hi letter of transmission
a In "mile." Thi i the letter from
the relief committee: " IiicIimnsI you
will find 10. yourdonationtotheminer
of Massillon. ' Thev unanimously refuse
lo accept a mite from the hand that aa
sifited in smiting them. Your donation
wa solicited la-cause the miners lielieveil
you were at least as much in sympathy
with them a an ordinary, every day cit
izen, hut since you have divested your
self your true character stand out in
glowing color, and they ahhor vour
charity. Your ambition in a political
aav, ao far a the miner are concerned.
ia sure to be gratified licncrlortli.
Tals Verses OBford.
Nkw II .tVKN,('oN. At a recent meet
ingof the undergraduate of Yale it was
decided to send a Yale team to comn-te
with Oxford in athletic. T. II. Sherrill
Jr., 'Mti, announced thai the Oxford an
Ihoritiea had already procured grounds,
and that a letter of invitation wa now
on it wv to tin country. Compared
with Oxford' record. Yale' showing is
Is-lter than the huglishmen'. Oxford
stipulate that all the Yale men must
conform to the A. A. A. rules, and in ad-
lit ion all comiietitor in the Ox ford-Yale
athletic contests must have taken part
in the rei-enl i ale-Harvard ami Oxford
Cambridge siiort. The contest w ill la-
held on the intern club ground ill Ken
.ington.
Iieaer's t'atd ahwalder.
i:nk, Col.. Sheriir lliirchinell ha
derided that no more Coxevites w ill la-
allowed to enter IVnver under penalty
of arrest and imprisonment for vagrancy.
1 tit 1 1 the commonweal movement ha
sutaoded stx-cial deputies will patrol in
coming trains and all public highways
leading into the city, and no one unable
to give a satisfactory avotint of himself
will be jermittcd to the boundary
line, tneaciion is niaoe neceasary iy
the fact that I enver' extreme generoe
ily ami hospitality in the past have la-en
heralded to all commonaealera through
out the Northwest, aeveral thousand of
whom are headed thi way.
Hill lallaa Kill. d.
A riimori, I. T. Mr. I'alton, widow
of ltd! lllun, the notorious outlaw, ad
mits that her liusland wa the leader of
the lungview bank robber. The other
inettil-er ol the gang were Tom I it t It
n, J ih Wallace and Charle White.
alia Jmi June. Hill Wallace, who was
hot ami killed at liiigynw, waa a
hrother of Houston Wallace, with a horn
lalton waa stopping when kill.il.
t'harlea Henjamin Halton, the oldest of
the la!ton hos. has arrived here, and
lentitie.1 the remains as thus of Hill.
Otlici .v l-ongwew also identified lal
ton as the man who presrnted the letter
f introduction to the cashier.
Old Haas" Madly Marl.
Kit vii it, I- I. Jamerf)Hoey, the
a lor, who ha a country resi-'ence here,
aa thrown from hi rarriage and se
verely injured. He sustainr.1 Internal
njitries. i
o
TU bill to disapprove the treaty her)
toforw nia.1 with the nouthern Cte In
diana !..! miiuiviI tu L'lah and
In brovidina for aettlina them 08 land on
der the severalty act baa been paaawu vj
lu tlooie.
The House Committee on Banking
and Curren. v baa decided to cbooae a
ubcommitteeof five bv the usual method
of ballot to prepare another bill. The
committee w ill report It measure to the
llouee not later than June ll. u may
prove that thi will be a scheme lor a
national currency.
Th Incident growing out of the pull
ing down of the Cnited State flag from
the Cnited State Consulate at St.
Thotnaa on the Oneen'a birthday ha
lieen satisfactorily closed by an explana
tion to the Department of State that the
Perpetrator of the outrage were drunk
and irresponsible and would be properly
dealt with.
Willard W. Samperston of Buffalo, X.
V., the attorney of W. W. Kisminski,
the Pol who returned to Itnssia and
wa arrested and sent to Siberia, saw
acting Secretary of State L'hl recently,
and laid before In in all the paper in Hie
rase in hia praisesaion. Mr. L hi prom
ised him the I' tilted State government
would push the matter and do all In it
power to release Kisminski.
Morrison I. Swift of the Ilostnn Indus
trial Army poke to the House Commit
tee on UtKrf. Charily, ho argued, weak
ened the tllM-r of workiiigmen and ier
hap added to the tramp army. In
Hoslon the policy had l-en adopted of
giving aim to those out of work and in
need, ll would lie better to furnish work,
by which those in want could be pro
ducer instead of a dead weight on the
community. He advocated public farm
or farloric or work on roads. Wage
for government work should lie lower
than the prevailing wages, so men would
resort to them only when private em
ployment could not be had.
Delegate Smith of Arizona will make
an rltort to have the appropriation fur
the Carlisle Indian School (truck out of
the Indian bill. Mr. Smith say the ed
ucation of the Indian at Kaatern insti
tution ha done more harm than goo-1.
His oWrvation in the Western country
has shown him that the woman gradu
ate of these schools consider themselves
siiieriorto their Indian aaaociatea and
turn their attention to miner and dis
solute white men of the Indian country
to the destruction of the morals and de
cency of the Indian girl. The male
graduate are also said to have their vi
cious trait sharpened, no that they are
a more dangerous class than their unlet
tered brother. Mr. Smith' criticisms
are confined to the Kaatern school,
where the pnnils art removed from their
fiiullici and friend.
Senator Sipiire of Washington ha in
troduced a bill for free coinage of silver.
It provides that the ow ner of silver bull
ion may deposit at the mint, receiving in
payment standard silver dollar euual to
the value of the bullion on the day of
deposit, the difference to be retained by
the government a seigniorage a a re
serve fund and used by the Secretary of
the Treasury in maintaining the parity
of silver dollar. The coinage of silver
dollars shall not exceed fl.OnO.OOO each
month. When the aggregate amount of
money in the country reaches $40 tier
capita further silver coinage shall be dis
continued, and shall lie resumed when
it fall below that figure. Provision i
made for coining silver half-dollar of
the present sizu and maintaining their
parity in the same manner aa other sil
ver. They also are made legal tender.
The Western incmlicr of the House
have held a caucus to map out a cam
paign on the irrigation nestion, and
nave resolved to spare no lalatr to secure
action by thi-a'ottgre. lit-prcsvntative
of thirteen esteru StaU-a and Territo
ries, including meuila-r of all parties,
met here the other day. Mr. Sweet,
who called the meeting, waa elected
Chairman, and the matter wa thor
oughly tliscusM-d. In accordance with
instruction of the meeting a committee,
consisting of Representative Sweet,
Cotfei-n of Wyoming and Haker of Kan
aa. called on Speaker Crisp to ask that
the Committee on liules set apart three
dav for the consideration of a hill, which
1 to lie agreed Uon by Western men.
The Sieker suggested that a resolution
1st introduced in the regular order, and
asked to have copies of the bill submit
ted, but made no promise.
Such smooth sailing marked the first
meeting of the RiilM-ommitlee of the
House Committee m Commerce ap
pointed to frame a Nicaragua canal plan
that the niemls-r leel instilled lit pre
dicting that the measure will be prepared
within a week. Several point were
agreed upon. Although Bryan's scheme
for a currency issue tu construct the ca
nal found some favor, it waa finally
abandoned, and Morgan' plan w ill fur
nish the foundation lor the lull, which
provide for the usual method of raising
hinds liy mean ol a Isind Issue. It is
practically decided that the government'
share ol the Pond snail le fhmw.oi!,
The member agree to insert in the bill
a proviso that the canal company must
at some early date (probably January 1,
lMli.")) satisfy the Secretary ol the Ireas
u rv that all outstanding debt or con
tract have la-en canceled and satisfied ;
that the all air of the maritime com
pany's auxiliary, the contract company,
have lieen settled, and that the company
ha gone out of existence. The govern
ment will guarantee the (inula with
which to settle the attain of the present
company, out the latter attair must
la so arranged that the government w ill
find no complications on ila band. Thi
will lie made the first condition of gov
ernment control.
Walker of Massachusetts, a veteran
member of the Committee on Banking
and the senior Republican member of
the committee, say the question of
hanking and currency will be treated in
a comprehensive manner nv a select
committee of live memler under a re-
ii-ii t vote of the Banking Committee.
He savi thi is the most important sub
ject la-lore Congress, not second to the
tariff. Scaled ballot are now being
tih-d for the punxie of selecting a com
nnttee of five. Kach member of the
Hanking Committee haa a vote, ami
name five of his associate on the com
mittee. Walker wa asked what the
new system of tanks would have to do
with the issuance of money, and replied
that the bill undoubtedly will provide
for doing aaav w it It the various forms of
currency now issued and the sutistitu-
t:on therefor of a uniform paper money
issue-1 hv the government through hanks.
At present the government circulate
the Treasury note, grcentcks, silver
cert ideates and various kinds of currency.
anil the government undertake to make
good this motier, but the purpose will
le to make the national lnk the sole
source of issuing currency un.ler goy.
eminent supcrv.sion and direction. The
government thus will I relieved of the
Imrden nl issuing, em ulating and cur
rently redeeming these varum, (onus of
currency, an t the entire r-sinil.iuty
ill 1 placd on the Onk. This na-
tional-l-ank currency would tvstirround-
rd by ail the safeguard of the present
law and other alrguard aa would In
sure its proper redemption. In short,
the Kedrrwl government wonld be re
lieved of direct attention to the issuance
of money and all reaponsihilv for keep
ing iU
THREE GENERALS
Successfully Overthrow the
Paraguayan President.
THE BLACK PLAGUE IN CHINA.
Haglag la taataa aad llaafkung-It I
aimllar ta Iba Uraat flagu Whlrb
Orrumd la Laadua.
Vaxcoi vza, B. C The most Impor
tant new brought by the Kmpre of
China I of the alarming spread of the
virulent plague that first appeared in
Canton at the end of April. The plague
is similar to the great plague in London
in the sixteenth century, and I currying
oft large number of victim. It soon
spread to Hongkong, ajijiearing there in
May. It l chiefly routined to Chinese,
hut two Portuguese hare la-en a Muted.
The plague ha paralyzed business to a
large extent, a many leading steamship
line refuse lo take either passenger or i
cargo from Hongkong. I he symptom
of the disease are aa follows: Without
premonitory warning in the shape of a
chill there la a sudden onset of fever,
rising to 10ft degree or over. There is
much headache, accompanied hy ttupor.
In eighteen or twenty-four hour a glan
dular (welling occur in the neck or arm-
(it, increasing to the size of a fowl segg.
eiiig hard and tender. With or without
decline of the fever the patient sink
TUK PORTLAND MARKET.
Wiiiat The local wheat markut U
doll, and export quotation are nominal
at 77XC ptt cental for Valley and 75c per
cental for Walla Walla.
FLOCB, riXD, ETC.
Flocb Portland, f2.&5; Ealem, 12.55;
Caaeadia, 12.55 j Dayton, 12.55; Walla
Walla, I2.W; Know flake, f 2.65; Corval
li, (2.05; Pendleton, 2.05; Graham,
2.40; superfine, 12.25 per barrel.
Oat White,3 j4-lOc per bushel ; gray,
ai(a:Wc; rolled, in bag, 5.75(d.OU; in
barrel, tl.UO(40.28; iu case, fJ.75.
MiLLarcrr Bran, $15tl7; horta,
IumiIH; ground barley, tJU.OO: chop
feed, 16' 10 per ton ; whole feed barley,
117 per ton; middling, 23id2Jl per ton;
chicken wheat, tlocmll.OO per cental.
JI at Oood, $10(412 per ton.
paibt raoprca.
BfTT Oregon fanrv creamery, ltb
17',r; lanry dairy, 14'dolc; fair to goo I,
11'412'tc; common, 7)(U0c per pound.
Ciixksg Voting America, 12jl5c;
California flat, ll',m2c; Swia, im
ported, SOgXfc; domestic, ltlCglHc per
Millid.
Koo Oregon, 11(3 12.,e per dozen;
candled, Kl,'tc.
PooLTar Chicken, old, $2 6003.50
per dozen; broiler, $3.00(:1.50; duck,
good, $...V):ttl.OO tier dozen; geese, (5.00
I ditt. 00 per dozen; turkey, live, 8ij 10c
per pound; dressed, !0i'12c
VKtlKT.tlll.Ka AND ril'IT.
YgQKTABLM Cabbage, l'jo per lb;
potatoee, 70''.m.ic. peraack ; new potatoes,
I've, per pound; new onions, $1.25 per
rack; Oregon lettuce, 12V4 lie; cauli
flower, $2.75 per crate, $1.00 per dozen;
parsley, 40u jer dozen; airing beans, 7c
tier pound ; asiiaragui, OOidtiftc per dozen ;
rhubarb, l,a((2c per pound; ), -titftic
into a .condition ol coma, and die at the j Ioullli; ,u,.uiiiber, 50el$l.00 per
end of twenty-four or forty-eight hours
If six dav are reached, recovery I pos
sible. The Canton correspondent of
Hongkong paper under date of May 8
says: I here I scarcely a house lutt
ha some one dead. The plague com
menced in the Mohammedan quarter,
and 100 case are reported daily, due
man stationed at the west gate la-gan at
tl o'clock in the morning to drop cash
into a Ikx every time a colli n paed him.
At 4 r. m. he had counted 170 rash. Chil
dren were put in lsket or wrpie! in
piece ol matting and mined, rrom
this district, where the dirt is thickest
and the house moat crowded, it spread
to the center portions, and now ha
reached the country, and the eoplewio
fled there pun the city know not w hich
way to flee. Idols are lieing worshiped
in an extravagant and frenzied manner."
AMHITIOI (iKMMIAM.
They tenter Inlw a Cunsilraey lo Over
throw President Onnsales.
IU'knos Ay nr.. The recent coup
d'etat in Paraguay ended tieacefullv.
Not a shot was fired, (ieneral Kgui-
guida, Cahallero and Kacobar, each of
whom is a candidate for the Presidency,
entered into a conspiracy w ith the Min
ister of War looverthrow President (ion
ralez. When the President, accompanied
by the Minister of the Interior and the
Chief of Police, was entering Congress
in Assumption he wa suddenly sur
rounded and arrested by armed men,
w ho coniieled him lo resign hi otlice.
The Vice-President, who is a nephew of
tieneral Cahallero, at once assumed the
power of President. The object of the
coup d'etat waa tu destroy the otlicial
candidacy ot Dr. iN-cond, Paraguay'
Minister lo Cruguay. A tight for spoil
between the three gentlemen who want
to be President will probably commence
in July during the election of elector.
The Vice-President favor hi uncle,
tieneral Cahallero, while the Minister of
War want tieneral Kgu-guida to suc
ceed and' the Chief of Police supports
tieneral Ksrobar. Hire t telegraph wires
Irom I arnguav have heen cut, ami coin
muiiication is interrupted. Telegram
from the border district say the people
are indilfcretit to the outcome of the po
litical movement. Whatever the issue
of any such allitir, the peojile wishes
are never consulted
Nllvrr Agreement Itlfflcult.
I!kki in. Ilcrr l.udwig BumlH-rger, an
eminent authority iixiii the tiction of
bimetallism and a memUr of the Silver
Commission, declare that after twenty
one day of earnest dicusin no tangi
ble result haa been arrived at, but the
meetings of the commission have fur
nished overw helming proof that in (u
ture no conference, either national or in
ternational, will arrive at a diirerent re
sult. According to Ilcrr Bumlicrger an
understanding uiMin bimetallism seems
to have la-en imjiossible lietween thedif
ferent Slate of Kurope, including Kng
luiiil or without Knglainl. lie savs the
(Inference ol interest of dlllereiit conn
trie preclude any satisfactory agree
ment.
Will Make No Reprisal.
Bkbi.im. Heferring to a report from
Washington, I'. C, that Germany has
protested against the division of the
Cnited States to place a diirerent ial duty
of .1 cent on sugar tin ported to the I luted
State from countries granting Ismutie
to sugar grower, anil that thetiennan
government had threatened reprisal
against American pork, the Nurd
IVuteche Zeitung says the report is false
and probably emanate from Americans
interested in the sugar trade and who
are desirous of stirring up American feel
ing for the furtherance of their own sel
fish designs.
Abdul Ails' rail
I ,o. ooN. A dispatch to the Standard
from Mad riil says: The Spanish Gen
erals at Melilla and Conta report the
triliesmen in that vicinity are all loyal
to AUIul Aziz. The Spanish Minister
at Tangier say AUIul Aziz ha I5.0t0
faithful soldier near Fez and is supported
by the Minister ami the Court and the
coast tnhes. (ieneral Campoa, the com
mander of the Spanish forces in Mo
rocco, believe AMul Ariz will easily es
tablish his authority if he has the moral
support of the Kuropcan power.
Murder .fa ttunsrrh,
TNiiKB. The Sultan of Morocco
diet! suddenly on June 7 at Tadia, lie
tween Morocco and Casa Blanca. Meas
ures have lieen taken here to prevent
anticipated disorder. Sensational ru
mor are in circulation a to the cause
of the Sultan's death, and the populace
I la-coming excited. It I ad. led that
the symptom ol Ins disease point to
poisoning.
Trouhla In M nrsrrv.
Iammim Civil war i anticipated in
Morocco. The Pall Mall tiazette says
the danger to Kuropean peace i due to
the fact that M. iMitmr. the Prrmh
Premier, may take the opportunity of
striking a blow at Knglistt prestige. A
ruliey of ainrreesHin wonld be popular in
ranee and Spain. The tilola counsels
immediately strengthening the British
fleet off the coast of Morocco.
dozen, according to quality; new Cali
for nia tomatoes, $2.50(3.00 per 25- pound
crate.
Kaurra California fancy lemona, $3.25
(13.MI; common, $2.00t 3.00; Sicily, $4.00
n4.75 tier Isjx; Mediterrane in Sweets,
$3.00it:!.25; St. Michael, $3,25d3.50 per
Imjx; bananas, $l.75m2..'iO per hunch;
Honolulu, $3.00(43.50; California navel
oranges (Washington), $3.7Vf 4.00 per
Imjx; seedlings, $2.25i$2.75; Oregon
strawla-rries, U'sc per xund; cherries,
i6tlHc ner 10-iuund crate for black, IHV
(($1.10 for Boyal Ann ; gooHcherrie, 3t
4c kt pound; apricots, $1.00(4 1.25 per
10-pound box; new cooking apples, 1 5c
M-r 2-ViHjiind box; peach plums, $1.25(4
1.40 per box; peaches, $1.50,3 1.75 per
liox.
CAXNID OOODS.
Cam id Good Table fruits, assorted.
$1.75i(2.00; peaches, $1. 75(4,2.00; Bart-k-lt
pears, $1.75(42.00; plums, $1.37 (
1.60; strawberries, $2.2oi42.46; cherries,
$2.25ii2.40; blackberries, tl.85t2.00;
lasplwrries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25j
2.80; apricots, $1.05. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,
$1.00(41.20; blackberries, $1.25(31.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallon, assorted,
$3.15i43.50; peaches, $3.50(44.00; apri
cots, $3.50(44.00; plums, $2.75(33.00;
blackberries, $4.2544.60.
Vkoktablks Tomatoes, $1.10 per
dozen; gallons, $.'1.00(43.25; asparagus,
$2.2.Yii 2.75 per dozen; string bean,
$l.00ii1.10; sugar peas, $1.00(rt 1.10;
corn, Western, $1.00i4. 1.25; Kaatern,
$1.2-W1.70.
M kats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; Ss,
$2.1'.' ; chipped, $2.40; lunch tongue. Is,
$3.50; 2s, $0.75(47.00; deviled ham, $1.60
142.75 per doxen; roast beef. Is. $1.50;
$2.25.
Kiaii Sardines. lm. 75r(4$2.25: Ws.
$2.15(44.60; lobsters, $2.30i43.60; sal
mon, tin Mb tall, $1.25i41.60; flats,
$1.75;2-lbs, $2.25(42.50; 'barrel, $5.60.
STAI'I.B QKOl'KUIKS.
Daiao Fkoits 1HU3 pack, Petite
prune, 0i8c; silver. 10(4l2c; Italian,
b410c; German, otgwe; plum. 0(410c:
evaporated apples, o4l0c; evaporated
apricots, 15(4 ltlc; peaches, 12(4 14c;
pears, 7(4 He per pound.
Corns Costa Kica,2:tc; Klo.22(g23c;
Salvador, 22c; Mocha. 2tPtt't2Se; Ar
buckle's, Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
rases, $23.35.
Sdoak U, 4,c; Golden U, 4',c; extra
frntest Frwsa Turkey.
CossTA!tTtort.R. Turkey has protest
ed to Kngland against the Congo treaty.
o
,b'Hc; rontectioner A, o'.c; dry gran
ulate.1, bc; rulie, crushed and pow
dered, tl'4c per pound; ,l4o per pound
discount on all grales for prompt cash ;
maple sugar, lftiglrlo per pound.
Ukans Small white, No. 1, 3'4'c; No.
2, 3c; large white, 3'4c; pea brans, 3'4c;
pink, 3-; bayou, 3'4c; batter, 3'4c;
l.nim, VuC per ioiind.
Kiel Island, $4.7546.00 per sack.
Salt Liverpool, 200, $16.50; 100s,
$lfi.0; 60, $10.50; stock, $.H.604.60.
Srarr Kastern, in barrels, 4014.W;
in half barrel, 42457c; in cases, 3-r)4
00c tier gallon: $2.25 Der keg: California.
in barrels, 204 40c per gallon; $1.75 per
keg.
Picklks Barrels, No. 1, 28143O0 per
gallon; No. 2, 2tl28c; keg. 6s, H5o per
Keg; nan gauons, t.-.io per dozen ; quar
ter gallons, $1.76 tier dozen.
SricKs Whole Allspice, 18(420c per
pounu; cassia, imcinc; cinnamon, zi'idj
4lc; cloves, 18430c; black pepper, 15(n
22V; white pepper, )(425c; nutmeg,
iOlnoc.
Kaisims Ixindon layers, boxes, $1.75
(i'.isj; halves, $.'.0H4.'.SS; quarters.
$2.25(42.75; eighths, $2.(43.00. Ixwm
Mncateli, boxes, $1.60; fancy faced,
$1.75; bag, 3 crown, 4t(d.V per pound;
4 crown, 6i46'jo. Seedless Sultanas,
uuxen. ll.1013-.ou; Dags, O(jH0 per
noes, wool and iiiuks.
iiora that, cnoice, l.'i'ilJ'.c per
inMiiiu, nieiuuin, loiaic; oor, neg'
Ierled.
ooi- alley. 10t410'c ner tmnnd:
Cmpqna, 10. ( 10l,c; Kastern Oregon, 4
((', atx-onting to quality and shrinkage.
Hidks Dry selected prime. 6c: green.
salted, tsj pounds and over. 3'.c: under
pounds, 2i4 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings,
IOkiLV; medium. 20435r: Ions' wool.
30(460c; tallow, good to choice, 3J3'c
per pounu.
UVI AMD DKKSMKD HZ ATS,
BKKf Top steers, $2.50 d2.75: fair tn
gal steers. $2.002.25; rows, $1.75'!
2.1; dressed beef, 4id5c per pound. '
MrrroM Best sheep, $2.25; ewes,
$2.00.
Hoos Choice heavy. $4.00: liirht and
feeders, $3.75; dressed, fic per pound.
Vkal Small choice. 5c: lanre. 2iite
per ponnd.
rsovisioNa.
Eatkbji Shoikd MlATS AMD I.lln
Hams, meilium. 12 412'tc per ponnd;
ham, large, lP.K'.c; bams, picnic,
11 12c; breakfast baron. 13 IV: short
rlear sides. J'tiillc; dry salt sides.
tdlov; driinl la-rf bams. '.mM.V:
lard, romitonnd. in tin. Hk.idl(le nr
pound; pure, in tins. lOVSll'jC: pigs'
feet, w. $o.50; pigs' feet, 4i, f.1.25;
KlIS, 1 -
The Ileal h tlf la IWembee.
Each time w e rviU h the end of Decem
ber we should think with satisfac tion
that w have got over the moat danger
ens uior.th. since in this country more
deaths are said to occur in December
than at any other tune of the year. A
subject for . : o rfl.-ctioo is it that
3..(sJ.wJ of people die every year few
of these from old ae. In a doctor's
opinion, nearly as many people shorten
their career by ovrreatin; as from ex
ceaaive drinking, while in England 800
persons are annually cut c!T through ae
cidenul rir.isooing. Chambers' Journal
HONEST FARMERS.
Matter Selected for Their
Espocial BoneSt.
BUSINESS METHODS ON FARM.
Tha Method of Breeding, liaising a,
Training Horses la America trlllrl.,)
by lifraiis llorsoniaa.
Ik-fore we can profitably breed hone
we must learn the hard, practical utility
of horse-breeding and raise horses for
some useful class in the industrial world.
The great American trotter, that w
boasted the greatest horse on earth !
cause he could go a mile in less time tlmu
any other, find no sphere of useful ni-is,
and, as we have often said before, is the
laughing stock of Kiiropean horsemen,
who want horses of size, strength and
endurance, with beauty of form to lit
them for the army or for the city streets,
where hones are prized for the woik
they can do, not for the speed they tan
do. Our readers will lie interested in
the following letter to an exchunge ,r
11 err liruchard von tiettigen, the stu'l
masterof the Imperial Mud of liermunv,
sent here by the government to iuvesti
gate the methods of breeding, raising
and training horse in America. Ilcrr
von Oettigen haa visited every stock
farm of prominence in America North,
r-outh, Kaat and West: " I could leu in
a great deal more in a week in Kiiglaml
than a year in this country," be said. " 1
do not mean by thi to in any way reflect
upon the thoroughness of your breeders,
but must ray that thev are care!es.
They do not seem lo look ii)ii horse
breeding as a busiiiesH, one to be studied,
and out of which study they may learn
what means to use in 'proa-rly mating
animal. I have seen a great many of
the farm where foal have been permit
ted to nurse for eight months; while
this in itself may be very giatd for thu
foal, it is very bad for the coming fo.il.
Then your method of breeding is entirely
diirerent. Von mate anything witii
speed. Your breeders seem lo have very
little idea of a prox-r ration for the
growth of the animal. They feed too
much corn, which makes a soft, spongy
bone, instead of having a finer Imiie,
with bran and oats. Some of your breed
ing farms areonascaleol a magnificence
that could nut be allorded by the royal
house of Europe. Kor instance, in 1'alo
Alto there are over 350 men to take cure
of the horses. Thi i a small army, ami
the expense must be something ternlic
The kindergarten system of educating
the trotter is a good one as far as it go--,
hut it only fits them for a good ced
sustained for a mile. That in my opin
ion is where your breeder are making a
serious mistake. Everything is imide
subservient to the one-mile record. The
horse is fitted, trained and worked with
the idea to knock oir a few seconds on a
smooth track with a bicycle sulky, ol
what use is such an animal'.' If be could
not go fast, he wonld not bring over $.V.
I'nderstand that I am not disparaging
the trotter in any way, for American
skill has certainly clone more in a light
with time for a siiort distance than any
home in the world. I am looking solely
on the utility of such a horre. lb is not
useful, because his lames are bad, bis
joints are often too small, and when
large enough have inherent disease. He
is not titled to overcome dihVuilic, and
i only useful in the sense of winning
race. A trotter in the Kuropcan sense
must be able to go over any kinds of
roads, up hill or down hill, In-fore any
sort of wagon, drawing 300 to 4(0 pounds
at a twelve or fourteen mile an bourgait.
We do not in anv way endeavor to
smooth the way of ditlicultiea for the
sake of a record. We want a horse that
can get out and do hi work without any
nursing. Then, another thing, we hear
very little of team records for trotters in
this country. I do not mean, of course,
a sensational ierformance made by the
favorite driving pair of some few gentle
men, but I am talking aliout the country
as a whole. With ti there are four-in-hand
trotting race for gentleman driv
ers, and it takes a good man, I tell you,
to keep your horses on the trot up to
their work every minute of the four
miles, the distance usually gone over."
FARM AtlOIXT.
Huelness Methods In Farming Nhiiuld be
Closely fcierrlsed.
Every rrop planted on the form, every
animal bought and every man hired is
an investment involving sound business
judgment in both the planning and the
management to insure a profitable out
come. Too often crops are planted or
stock raised, simply because other farm
ers raise them, without regard to the
cost, the market or the adaptability to
the particular farm and its equipment.
When planted no account is kept of the
expense, ami not even an estimate is
made of the cost, hut the crop is sold
soon as harvested for what it w ill bring
and the crop repeated the next season.
While it would sometimes cost more
than the crotis were worth lo keep a de
tailed set of accounts with each rrop,
still a simple business-like set of farm
accounts will furnish the data hereby
the profitableness of particular crop or
stock may be closely estimated and thus
furnish a safer basis than guesswork for
the abandonment of the cmn or for
changing it treatment. Many parts of
the estimate made for one vear or field
would answer for other years snd fields.
Whether account are kept with partic
ular fields or crop or not, there should
I an account opened with the farm and
other with household and personal ex
penses. Ity taking stock each year it
can be determine. I whether the farm has
lieen profitable, whether the improve-
menthaveexceeded the repairs, whether
personal pleasures have lieen too extrav
agant and whether the household de
partment has been economically rarritd
on. Of course, there should be an ac
count for every person with whom a
credit business is transacted, for every
one admits that memory utterly fails in
keeping an accurate record ol such trans
actions. Treat the farm as a person,
and see whether it can I credited ar.li
a fair balance of profit every new rear.
II farming I a lustne. then the keep
ing of farm account will pay.
ruiLTKv ntKiMdt.
Do away with all of the nnnrofitable
fowls.
There is
raising.
no idle season in pou'.try-
Leghoft are the !-t
Spanish and
forager.
The egvs from fifty hen will pay for
keeping them.
M lk and wheat make a good feed for
young chit ken.
Money ran often I made by feedirg
cheap wheat to poultry.