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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1897)
KIU DAY SEPTEMBER S, nev Ir rH8 went to Salem today fieo W Pickett made Junction C ity a vUit t'"1".'- ietl, McAlixtvr returned from New port today. ltocoo Itrysou arrived up from Cor vallis toiluy. Mrs James McDonald of llarrltihurg, tK'Ut yes'.erda; in Eugene. jtiiuis Heiueuway, of CottagaUrove, M in the city last evening. Judge J J Clelaud, of Portland, wait ,1 btn-intsB 111 Eugene today. The street car company la putting la tome new plank crossings ou Wlllam ette alreft. y T Whitcotub, now a resident of Salinas, CuK, will return to Eugene ,,n w inter toreblde. Mr-i S II Kinney and daughter Edna, f rirunts Pii re visiting her ( iiugliter Mrs Geo V v'roner. prof EH MeAllster and family ar r.veil home today from Newport where tin')' liave l,ceu 8IeD(l'uK the summer. Mi?s Mary MoAlister, who has teu i guest at the home of T M Montague, Albany, arrived home on today's 2:04 local. Mrs Belle Smith of Boise City, Ida- bo arrived iu Eugene on the afternoon imiu and will visit relatives for a whil". Kevand Mrs Wm 8 Gilbert and child were among those returuiug to day from where the breakers roll at Wiuiua Dr C W Sharpies, of Beattle, Wash., sirived in Eugene last evening, and will visit his parents at Ooshen for a few days, Mrs S Ludwhra and children, of Walla Walla, arrived today to vi it with her parents, Mr and Mrs J Kuuflman. Condon R Bean, son of Justice R S Bean, of Salem, came up yesterday and went to Mapletou to visit his grandmother. Mrs T O Hendricks and Miss Ruby returned home today from a short trip to Newport. AN Striker and F Heleukee, offl cent of the State Ileform school, ar rived here last night on a search fir some runaway boys. Mra Lizzie Thompson and children, Herbert and Misses Ethelwynne and Ermine, were among today's resort era returuiug .rom Newport. The California Visitor says that souieorchardista there have been oiler ed f '5 per ton for fresh prunes. Drying lias alieady begun iu a small way. ttoseourg Plalndealer: There was a strike iu au Oakla d hop yard, but Judi;e Stearns informs us that the mutter has been settled and the pickers are at work at 30 cents per box. Medford Monitor: Mr and Mrs J J Holt, of Eugene, formerly of Talent, who have been visiting friend in Southern Oregon for several wteks, re turned to Eugene last Friday The frame work of the newCbristian church Is beluz ranidlv nut up. Its completion will be rapidly hurried from now on, as the contract calls for turning it over to the trus'ees October 15. Miss E Sultzmau returned last night from a visit nt Salem, Portlttud, and ftou Finnclsco, going to the latter place to lay in u stock of Fall millinery for her ntore. She reports a pleasant trip. (rants Pass Courier: Him mini & drowning brought In a good lot of gold from their Ureeubnek mine on Uruve creek last week, which made a $''29 brick. This amount was secured from VI tons of second grade ore. The ys certainly nave a bonanza. Mr and Mra J F Wetherbee and daughters, Misses Mary and Jennie, arrived in Eugene today from Man chester, Vermont, and will make their future home heie. They have leased the it M Day house ou Seventh street, fas R Wetherbee accompanied them up from Portland. Kx-county treasurer S F Lockwood, who voluntarily gave himself up to the authorities at South Bend, Wash,, Monday of last week, to face the music as he said, and answer to tbe indict menu found against him for larceny and embezzlement of county funds, mysteriously disappeared last Friday Qiht and has not been seen since by any one in that vicinity. Prof I N Glen and i ride arrived on ths afternoon train from Dallas, where their nuptials were recently celebrated. Profuien will, this year, enter upon his duties as professor of elocution in the University of Oregon, of which himself and bride are alumni. Eu gene's people will take great pleasure 'n utending to them a hearty wel nie, for both are deservedly p pular. When Frank C Rlchen, recent 'J killed by the rare between Wallula "QJ Umatilla, left Oregon City for Eastern Oregon, be had 60 sewed up ln his blrt. This information was given by his wife, Who recovered tue money w en tlie remain, were disin terred at Umatilla. Why a man with m'py enough to pay his fare would ri8k his life by riding on the truss rods Passenger coach Is a curious ques-, Hon. SATURDAY AUOUSTM J 0 Gove, of Medford, Is Iu the city. J W Bristow, of Portland, is In Eu gene today. W A Teutseh, of ( Well, was Iu Eugene today. Mrs Emma Thoiup ou went to liar risburg today. J A Hiues, of Salem, Is registered at the Hotel Eugene. Dr E D Molten no.. f , iuuurue, was in the city today. George Fisher is having an addition built to his residence. F A Alexander weut to Lebanon on this forenoon's train. The Astoria railroad is to be com pleted by January 1st. Miss Lena KtafTbr.i Im ri...,.i from an ex ei.ded visa al HaUey. James Abratns was a passenger for Cottage Grove on the afternoon local. Dallas Ohm rvr ILiu lt...w.n . -a-iuvi -UirilliCil o family will reside Iu Dallas the coming Ed McClauahan. Jr.. and n. Mm. panlon captured 28 Chinese pheasant in the Spencer Butt neishborhood yesterday. Miss McCallen.of Lakevlew. arrival here this foreuoou to visit with her aunt, Mrs Applegate. Dow Hurt returned to Por' and this morning to resume his position as brakemau of the 8 P K It. Brownsville Tlmao: Bert Miller, ol Eugene, came down on Tuesday's train aud enjoyed a Chinese pheasant hunt with his old friend, W A Calder. A wanant was ordered drawn today ln favor ei Architect Ner for $560, services as architect of the proposed new court bouse. This makes a total of $1,100 paid Mr Neer. Tuesday's Ashland Record: Miss Mercy Applegate, the Eugene teacher, visited Mrs M L McCall ot Ashland this week, and left Tuesday for Lake view, where she will work In the pub lic: schools. Persons who have contracted to pay tbelr subscriptions to this paper In wood, or those who desire to do so are requested to haul It iu at once as we desire to have It under cover before the rainy season arrives. Editor Robt. J Hendricks, of the Salem Statestuau passed through Eu gene on today's 2K)4 local for Cottage Grove, and from there will go to the Shoestring valley to look after landed interests of his in that section. Salem Journal: Eugene City war rants are I per cent premium. Eugene is as far behind in payment of war ranta on the general fund as Salem) yet the brokers here scalp the Salem City warrants 5 percent and more at times. Frank Wetherbee, J II McClung'a popular clerk, is taking his vacation. Business men, only a few of them, were surprised to see Senator McCTung this morning at 5:30 o'clock opening up his store. It made them think of the days when Mr McClung was cor.t siderably younger. The Salem Journal says: The hand ling the many hundred hop pickers seeking tiansportatl n on boats U quite an Item iu steamboat business. Schedule time Is being made by all the boats and a thrifty business It reported In both passenger and freight depart meats. D B Murray, superintendent of the Noonday Mining Co., Bohemia, was in Eugeue today. He reKrts that sec tion iu good condition and says the Music and Champion mines are both doing a good busiuess aud the mil Is of the Noonday will be started agniu next week. He orders the Guakd sent to his address. E D Hager, the Modoc couuty, Cali fornia, cattle man, started home to day. Deputy Sherifl T S Frawley will remain here to take Frank Meredith back for trial. From advices ved bv him today it will be auother week before he will receive the requisition papers to take his prisoner ironi this state. Jl'NJTlON NEWS. Culled From the Columns of The Times. Junction CitV DUbliO schools will commence September 20. The Masons are reananglng the rooms over W S Lee's drug store and when completed will have a very neat and comfortable ball. C P Houston was elected represen- . vr D I , uf fhia ritV tative irom iue i. t to the Grand Lodge, which meets In Portland in October. . . !,.,!,.. xnfmlatinir Of En- A pa uuuivic, vw- o glneer White, Capt. O'UUey, Harry tuiriage, v n muu. i - - - .,! .,unt nn ailpr birds Harry asrnruu, - Wsdceiday and succeeded In killing eigbty-elgni. RIcMe Crow and family expect to more to eastern Washington in a few nf his personal weeas. ni'i --- effects by public sale. This move I. . .. . i r KanofUimz the made in me noj . - health ofMr. Crow. John Bunch and Smlly expect to accompany Mr. Crow. i A PHANTOM TOE. I am not a supi-nitltlous man, far from It, but dtupite nil my efforts iu tlu con trary I could nut help thinking directly I bad taken a surrey of my chamber, that I ihould ueverqult It without going through itrange advrnturo. There wup minotlilng In iu limucu) iiio, hciivintins and gloom that HHMiied to aunlbllato at one blow all iy nvjoluto skeptic-tutu as gBl tnT Daturnl vlsttivtlont It npi'iyinsl to mo to tally Impotslblo to go Into tlmt room nnd 4lbolleTo ln ghosts. Tho fuct U, I hod Incautiously pnrtiiki'ti t supper of (hut fnvorlto Dutch dlh, lauerkniut, and I iiipiwuo It hail disagreed with mo and put strange fancies Into mv head, llu this Ht It limy, I only knuw thn't Kter parting with my friend for th night I gradually worked mulf up Into tueh a tato of lldgetlnes tlmt nt lint I wasn't lure whether I hadn't Ucomo a ghost my Self. ".Suppiising," rumltmhil I, "sopposltig thn lnmllord litiiix-lf slimild lt n pr.'ietlcnl Mlilier and should havetuki n the liH-k and tndt from off thUdimr fiit tho purpose nf entering here in tho dead of the night, ah ' struct In nil my pmivrty, mid perhaps murdering me! I thought the dog had very cutthroat nlr about him." Now, I bad never had any such Idea until that moment, for my Ifost was a fat (all Dutch men nro fat), stupid looking follow, who I don't Mlnvo had senso enough to under stand what a roblx ry or murder meant, but tmuehuw or other, whenever wo havo anything really to annoy us (and It cer tainly was not plenmint to go to bed In a trnngo place without bolng nule to fasten one's door), wo nro sum to aggravate It by myriads of chimeras of our own brttln. So, on tho iTcHent oceiislon, In tho midst of a thousand disagreeable reveries, soino of tho most wild absurdity, I Jumped very gloomily Into bed, having first put out my candlo (for total darkness was far prcfer ablo to Its flickering, ghostly light, which transformed rather than revealed objects), and soon foil asleep, perfectly tired out with my day s riding. How long I lay asleep I don't know bnt I suddenly awoke from a disagreeable dream of cutthroats, ghosts and long, winding passages In a haunted Inn. An Indescribable feeling, such as I never lie fore experienced, hung upon me. It socm ed as If every nerve ln my lsnly had a hun dred spirits tickling It, and this was ao compnnlod by so great a bent that, In wardly cursing in I no host's sauerkraut and wondering how the Dutchmen could enduro such poison, I was forced to tit np In bed to cool myself. The whole of tho room was profoundly dark, excepting at ono place, where tho moonlight, fulling through a orovleo In the shutters, threw a straight lino ot nbout nn Inch or so thick upon the floor clenr, sharp and Intensely brilliant against tho darkness. I leavo you to conceive my horror when, upon looking at this sold lino nf light, I sow there a naked human toe nothing mora. For tho first Instant I thought the vision must be some effect of moonlight, then that I was only half awake and could not see distinctly. So I rubbed my eyes two or thrco times and looked again. Still there was tho accursed thing plain, dis tinct, Immovable mnrblullko In Its fixed ness and rigidity, but ln everything el so horribly human. I am not an easily frightened man. No one who has traveled so much and soon so much and been exposed to so ninny dan grs is I ran be, but there was something so mysterious and unusual In tho apcor ance of this single toe that for a short tlino I could not think whnt to bo nt, so I did nothing but stare at It In a stale of utter bowlldcrmont. At length, however, as the too did not vanish under my stendy gaie, I thought I mjgbt as well changu my tactics, and ro nvmberlns that all midnight Invaders, bo they thloves, ghosts or devils, dlsllko noth ing so much as a good noise l snoutcu out In a loud voloe: "Who's thercJ" Tho too Immediately dlsupoarcd ln the darkness. Almost simultaneously with my words I leaped out of bed and rushed toward tbo place where I hud behelU tlio struugo np poarnnco. Tho noxt Instant I ran against somothlng and felt an Iron grip round my body. After this I havo no distant recol lection of what occurred, excepting that a fearful struggle cnsui'd letwccn me and my unseen opponent; that every now and then wo were violently hurled to tho Door, from w hich wo always roso again In nn Instant, locked in a deadly embrace; that wo tugged and strained and pulled and pushed, I In tho convulsive mid frantlo energy of a fight for life, ho (for by this tlmo I had discovered that tint Intruder wus a human being) actuated by some passlun of which I was Iguorunt; that we whirled round and round and roiiud, cheek to chock and arm to arm, In Her oontest, until tho room apiured to whlx Miind with us, and that at last a dozen people (my fellow traveler among thum, roused, I suppose, by our repented falls, ciiino pouring Into tho room with lights and showed mo struggling with a man having nothing on but a shirt, whoso long, tan gled hair and wild, unsettled eyes told me ho wus Insano. And then, for the llrst time, I became a wam that I had recelv. d In tho conflict several gushes from a knife, which my opponent still held In his hand. To ooncludo my story In a few words (for I darn say oil of you ly this tlmo are getting Tery tlnd), It turned out that my midnight visitor wus a madman who was being conveyed to a lunatic asylum ntThe Hague., nnd that ho and his keeper had been obliged to stop at Delft on their way The poor fellow had contrived during the night to oitcnpo from his keeper, who had carelessly forgotten to lock tho door of his chamber, and with that Irrvslstlblo dmlro to shod blood peculiar to many Insano peo ple had possossod himself of a pocketknlfe belonging to tho man who hud charge of him, entered my room, w hich was most likely the only one In the house unfas tenod, and was probably meditating the fatal stroke when I saw his too In the moonlight, the rest of his body being hid den In tbe shade. Aftr this terrible freak of his he was watched with much greater strlctnoss, but I ought to observe, as some exouso for the keeper's negligence, that this wns tho first set of violence he bad ever attempted. Exohange. Misunderstood. YUlago Doctor Well, Jlyles, bow do yon get on with the new vkarr Ylonr'i Gardener Oh, I don't sny noth Ink ag'ln him, sir, but I fancy he's a Lit of a Joker like. We was looking roiin the bodges the other day. and presently h seys, "Hello, Uyl', there sn hiatus hero." Well', sir, I looked as bard as I could, but I take my UlUe 'lh there weren't uoth Ink at all, nnd when I tells him so he chuckles to blsw If like blazes, and I downy be thought It was a wonuerful good Joks to -ie to a eJd snap like me l lok MEETING A MEUMAID I was hazily conscious of n gentle, rus tling noise near me, and then something wet and oold cam dab in my faox. I sot op with a Jerk, and there sat a mermaid! Qood gracious I You can Imagine how startled I felt Sho sat on the sand quite close to me, resting on ono hand, and with her tall, an Indisputable tall, with beautifully glisten ing silvery brown scales, cottid round In a graceful curve. Sho wns fascinatingly pretty, with a sweet face, laughing now nt my air of bewilderment, nnd with lung tresses of brown hair blowing ntiout her. I suppoxo iny dropped jaw and staring eyes must have struck her as very comical, for she laughed such a tmislcnl, soothing laugh, strangely like the rlpplo of tho waves among the groynes higher up tho Isaeli. "Kxcuse me," she said, "but you look so funny." "Funnyl" I exclaimed Indignantly. "What have you been up to? You've Ix-en throwing water over me." "I haven't." " Yes, you have. Look here, my face U all wet now, nnd my hair Is damp." "I didn't throw water over you. I sup pose It wns rather forward, hut I put tho end of my tall on your face. You loo kid so tempting, you know, lying there. I really could not resist you." "Well, you shouldn't, then," I wild. "Now you've woke me up, and some ef tbo water has gone down my nook." I spoke grumpily. You see, I was scarcely myself yet. It was so utterly In comprehensible that I should be. sitting herewith an absolute mermaid, a creature I hud never for a moment believed In, sit tbig almost close enough for mo to touch. I bad wandered olT that afternoon among tbe bowlders that lay piled up on the shin ing bench at tlie foot of the cliffs to tho lvtft of the little town. It wns very hot, so hot Hint after skimming through the col umns of tho paper I had brought with me I lay buck nnd snoozed, In blissful disre gard of the glaring sun ami tho white rocks and the low rlpplo of the retrentiug tide. And then happeticd all I have (lo ser 1 1 Mil. "Do you know you snorol" sho mild suddenly. Said I, "You must be a very mischie vous girl muruiuld, I mean." "Oh, no, I'm not nut nearly so liad as soino. It's lucky for you my cousin wasn 't with mo when I enmo up nnd found you hero." "A gentleman a merman?" I ventured. "Oh, not She usually comes up hero with mo of an afternoon, but she's up nt tho other ond of tho bay todny. Her name's Oonevlovc, nnd mine's Maud." "Where do you get your nnniesf" I asked. "Out of books we pick up. We got liilno and my cousin Imogen's out of a supple ment tlint dropped overboard from n steam er. I'rctty nnme, Imogen, Isn't Itf" "Not half so pretty as Mnud." "Well, I don't know. We're glad to get anything to road. Is that toduy's pnperr" pointing to Tbe Chronicle that luy on the Lunch. "Yes," I mid. "Would you like It to rondf" ' "Thanks, awfully. No, not now, hut I'll toko It with lue, If you don't mind. Smoke your pipe, will your" "With grunt pleasure. Sure you don't tulndr" "Not a bit. Dosiditi I want you to let mo light It." So I pulled out my pipe nnd tilled It, and Maud, with a sinewy loop of her bill, gilded up to lue. She seemed highly de lighted at being allowed to strike tho match for mo to got a light by. "Isn't this JollyK' sho wild, looking up at mo with wonderful tyo. "Huther," I sold, looking down Into thorn. "Do you often go In for this sort of thing?" "Well, now, I'll tell you," she replied. "You're tho first man I ever spoke to llko this, I mean but old Nop sent mo hero for trying to. You're In my nook, you know. I often come lo re, mid yester day It wus so hot that I lropcd asleep, and when you enmo nlotig I enly Just hud tlmo to get behind that rock." "So you've seen me h-fore, thenr" "Oh, yes, several times! I saw yoti ulong thu bench on Sunday evening." "Tho deuco you did 1 lug your par don !" "Audi saw you kiss tlmt, ilshirglrl. Oh, yes, you did!" "Well," I sold, turning very red, "I ad mit It, but It was only oik." "There ain't any mermen here," sho re plied. "Aren't tberof I mipposo It's riitlnr lonely." "I used to bo spoons a little with olio nt Ilrlghton, but wo never see ono hero. That's old Nep's doings. I haven't kvu kissed for over so long." "Hcallyr" I sold, edging over townrd her. "Itially," sho sighed, looking down. "Kr shall I would you shall we that Is" I leaned over her us she riilsul her faeii, smilingly, mischievously, to mine, when, Justus our lips touelud, with a sudden twist of her lull sho caught me a th.li In tho face With her Wet fill. I fell over bnckwurd, and by the tlmo I had got the sand nnd wet out of my eyes the mermaid had dlNippenrod. No trace of her was left, but my news paper was gone, and us I went slowly borne I fancied I could catch sight of her, lytug out by the Llg black rook that Just showed Itself above tho . I stood still nnd called to her and distinctly saw her white arms waved to mu and heard tho rippling of hor lnugh and saw, too, her long brown hair tossing on thu waves. Exchange. The Iteufrr hide of Lightning Hods. The conventional lightning rods that one sous over hous and barns In the coun try and small towns afford but little pro tection to tho buildings. Small as this security Is, It Is wholly lost If the so culled conductor aw Improperly constructed and not Iu perfect order, when they, In fact, booouio an absolute menace to the build ings thuy are reared to guard. It la essen tial, If tliu conventional rod Is to be a't up, that the work be Intrusted to reliable and capable persona, othorwlso It may bo oomo a shining Invitation to dangers. It Is probable, therefore, all thing consid ered, that a building I a well If not bet ter protected without ucb conductors as are In general use as with them. It I safe to stscrt that the great majority of build ings damaged or destroyed Ly lightning were provided with lightning rods, and ln the majority of these cast tbe conductor Invltod the thunderlxjlts, and for soma cunse, prohnhly Improper construction, could not lead the lightning harmlessly to the earth. Klectrlclan J. E. I'owsll In Ladhej' limine JuurnaL xo " STiKEV ,N It may not U- iii.i.iily known Unit t lie Atntiricnii lituen who "grub Htaki'' .1 111:111 to prnt-pi'd 1 anil vork mini1 on l!io sluiren in tin Klon.lik Cinnnrv ban only tin' p T! 'inil tumor of tin' 1 rosjHv'or to ilt'it'tnl tipiiii. On tlif '.'Slit ay of ( last Jun" tin v.'.inii'1'an government J put into efl'i i t " in ne t 1 restrict the importation ntnl t mploytupnt of aliens, nun tins i.-tw is appucatiio to thn ''grub staking" system. P.y iN provision.! nil cont diets or ngree tnents. t'Xiri'-tt il or i 111 plied, intuit' b.'twccn a.iy person or company ami nny alien to perform lubor or service 'it I'.innila, previous to tho arrival in I'.itvu.l.i i f tho person whose 1 Mi, if ,m mi contracted lor, shall lie void nnd of no tll'ect, which means fist if the fcrubsUkod lilri 11 from tho United States desires to deal dishonestly a ith the person or persons who staked hi 11, ho t un tin so will) ml far of being overhauled by Cui'iidinti authori t es. French people are petitioning their government to nbolis'i tho tlnty on corn. It is not nt cesnry l.) ndviso the ngricultiirits to get t!uir crops under shelter. Whett and oats are iirnctically safe from weather, and hop men uro work'iig every avail able picker. With whom climbing into seven ties potatoes sli mid advance in price. Food products 1111.1. ly keep on an even gungo. The lUurnessi of one encourages lliu use ol a cheaper food, thereby advancing its: price by reason of an inerefed demand. Tho Department of Agriculture has just issued a bulletin ml vacating the extension of tho camphor in dustry in the United States in order to five tho f 100,000 which is an nually expended for the importa tion of that article. The Democrats of l'enneylv .mi 1 are trim to their principles, and like their biethren elsewhere, refuse to wander after tho go U the gold bu,;u would furnish them. At tho state c.nvcntio) held at Uemling on Tuesday the Chicago platform was endorsed, and F. Harrity rea'ovel from Iih position as national committeeman by a vote of '2'M) to 1:11. TI.e Ameri an Wire Nail coin- piny nt Anderson, Indiana, has mad hi plight cut in wigcs. The Dingley la ra sed the price ol trust ht cks but it has no such cflo :t on wagis anywhere. The favors of paternal legislation go to capital; labor run expect ro'liinif from it. l lu) higher capital . i'i m ri-M s, the lower wnges imi-i I iII. liolli ends of a teeter-board c mmi bo in the nir at the same time. It isa Li'imt: fui dtory, tlmt f iln- finding, t,i;ir North capi , Laplauli ofiicirrier pigeon with nnnssa;e from Andre saying he 1 ml passed 82 degrees north latitude nnd all was well. lint why did And roe keep it from loo newspapers before he left that ho was gi.itia I" lake with him carrier birds h r-h an them at different r-tngix d Id journey ? Tho Manuf.i jturt rs Association of Oregon will give a free exhi bition ol Die manufactured produclu of the stute att'.io cxiosition build ing at l'ortlund, commencing Kep lumber '11 aud concluding October 20. The IVrtlanJ Mining Kx change has been given the sole privilege to exhibit ores f:om the inii.crs of Oregon fur exhibition. Samples not exceed i ig ten jioun la in weight hliotlld be ilelivepd at tho tieitrest railroad tulion and the Kxi hariL'e iiotilied thereof, when it will make arrangements for tranr poi tation to 1'ortUnd. Ki.k K11.1.KD. A Mr I'urki'Hou Mon day killed a lingo buck elk, weighing; at leant b(X lbs, In the nelg'ilsirlioiMl of (be Twin Ittllli'", nt the Ilolienila din lilet. '1 liero were twelve cow-i In I lie band, I ut he dl'l not shixit at them, allhoiikh he wn in easy cuti fchot. He carried tbe ui.tlers, which are mag liineent, III the velvet, out for several miles on his back and then loaded tlieru 011 a horse. He was lu tJugeue today try log to sell them for 113. iuuiiriuiukikr rati. T i" i tist of M'lidiug wheat ftotu I'oril.md to Fngland by ship is now nearly twice what it was 11'. this lime last year, the Ilural Northwest. The large 'T'lithi year and the exag ;er ttod c, 'tints as t its magnitude have led ship owners 1 1 bdiovo tiiiu t!ie ooiupo tiliou this year would be a iiong the shippers to get ships id.ue of a iping tho ships to get cargoes and accordingly they advanced their charges. Possibly they 111 ty tind t!u'. they put up their rates to.) high, for already two steam''rs, with ) curving capacity ol about i0 yXH) biwhels h ive been chat tered to carry wheat ironi I'ortl ind to Forope. It is iplite possible ill it there tire other tramp steauiers tint are ready t ) l iko wheat to Fur pe at present ra'es and il there are many such the 8 tiling vessels will havo to come dow n in their charges. UNION OK MLVKK KOIUKS. The strength of the free si ver clement in Nebraska w ill be teste. I at tho coming .November election. Democrats, po.iulists and free sil ver republicans have formed a close and harm uiio.is union on tlie plat form of free and unlimited e. uno ot silver at 10 to 1. That state is republican, or has been on a party vote, by a minor ity of sixty thousand. The union of forces hat been made on tin single issue and there appeaia to he as little hi terness among the new allies as possible under such cir 'umstances. It is a quest i m of principle, not uvui or worn out ol I party t e. ".SAUK ASM." Tho Salem Journal sar astically remarks: "Il is to bo hoped that President Chapm in will not furth er complicate matters by reconsid ering his withdrawal oljhis refusal to serv, lie Bhould give the oonud a fair chance to fire him if they want." Tho Marion county treasurer publishes a monthly summary of county finances. A good idea. The people know next to nothing about li iw county a Hairs are usual ly cotidn 'led. The ourts of Idaho have decided the gambling law iwiconstitutional, and tho kiiights of the green clol'i are j "n plying I heir vocation. Tho I entities of poker and ftro can be discussed publicly instead of in dark buck rooms secludi'd from ollicinl interference. There is n s'li!;') aion harvest bunds al Oakoedaln. Washington, vnd it is tpiito likely tint wages ill bo higher than farmers nn- icipited. l'liero am eight or t -n heieh rs ready 'o start but they cuniiot do so because of lack of men. No legs than o3 idle mon nro Milk ing the streets ot Oakesdalo, but rioiie will go to work for less than if J a lay, and tlij farmers do not is'i to pay tho pri -a I be Salem Ktatestnan gives the f llowlng foil-deserved tribute toan e In utor of prominonco in the west, whoatons timo hdda chair in tbo University of Oregon: Pro! ( i.ilclt presi lent-oleel of the State Agricultunl college at Corvallis, is a man for whom the j eopleof Oregon have an especial liking, lie was for many years a leading educator of this state. He is a loy al and patrioti ) citizen, lie will have a hearty welcome back to Oregon. Portland Telegram: Judge M G Munly, who has just returned from a trip to Alaska on legal business, says lint h his opinion tbe Stick eon river routo to the Yukon 's the n.nst (ea-iilile and practi uiblo and is attended with the least obstacles for fcoid peeker. The judge is most favorably i 11 pressed with thd iut nok for Southeastern Alasta, and he itlks inl9restingly of tue de v ment work outlined for that w imlerful laud of riches o' all kin Is. V b 10m is on tin tapis at Wrangle, be says, and whether Kl u lue proves all that is expected or not, the coast of Alaska is going to enjoy prosperity. O e