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1- n H X Lincoln County Leader. J. . IT1W1BT, Pabllahar. TOLEDO OHEGOS OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Western Federation of Miners Organized at Butte. HE MCEDEEED HIS BENEFACTOR Contract Let to linild a Railroad From Mojave to Independ ence, California. The raisin grower of Fresno have finally decided to make their own salon. The bakers of Los Angeles are on i strike. They want less hours and pay lor overwork. Four Russian warships have gone to the Healing inlands to compel olitvrvance ol treaty stipulations. A new brick armory is to be built at San Diego, to Imj occupied by the na- tuvtial guard ami naval reserve, A move is being made by Han Ilicgo capitalists to secure a ten-year conces- ion from the Mexican government to establish a lottery at Ensenyada, Lower California. The Mexican government has malu a proposition to the 1iwer lalilonua He velopment Company to rarrv tho mail between Knscnyada and Mazatlan on bi monthly trips. . The Tillamook Bay appropriation of 115,000 will be expended this summer principally on (likes, the main oliject he Ing to deepen tho water on whut is known ai I'ry mocking oar. The miners of Montana, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Houth Dukota and Colorado through delegates which met at Butte, Mont., have organized the " Western Federation of Miners." Palmon packers on tho Columbia are very deioiident. The rough weather, freshets and driftwood render fishing Impossible. The pack will be 40,000 shorter than that of last year. Tho Pacific Coast Steamship Com pany's steamers will drop Kan l'edro from their ports of call under the new arrangement with tho Southern Pacific, whereby they are to call at Santa Mon ica. A contract has been given by the Iis Angeles, Owens Valley and Utah Rail road Company to construct a line of rail road from Mojave to Independence, a distance of loO miles. The cost will be about 2,100,000, and the work will be done within nine months. Peter Stanup, the Puyallup chief, whoso body was recently found in a stream on the reservation, is supposed to have been murdered. An examina tion has revealed the fact that his neck was dislocated, and that death was not due to drowning. The deceased hud title to property worth 1, 000,000. There is great excitement at San Luis OhixH) among society peoplu at the sudden disappearance ol tieorgn Man derm-held, who lor the past ten years has acted as agent at Port Harford for the Pacillc ( oust Italhvay ( oinpauy and the Oregon Improvement Company. It is said his accounts aro not correct. Tho validity of tho proposed amend ment transferring the capital of the Slate of California to San Jose will he left to tho determination of tlioKupremoCoiirt. The Sacramento Superior ( ourt having refused an injunction to restrain the Secretary ol Mate from certifying the proposes ed amendment to the County t ler erks of the State, an appeal has Itcon taken by N. 1). Hideout, who hail insti tuted the suit. Joseph, Wallowa county, Or., now lias a telegraph and telephone system, w hlch, although on rattier a diminutive scale, promises to have its uses. Connected with tho system is a burglar alarm, by which the Individual in charge of the local bank can give notice to the other '-business houses of any attempt at rob bcry. As a numlcr of shooting irons have Ihh'Ii placed in hands that know how to use Ilium, it is safe to sav that bank robbers will meet w ith rather warm reception if they visit that town. John Schmidt, a young tailoring man of Pendleton, Dr., who has alwaviWuc an excellent reputation, some time ago bought some pncrty, paving part cash and giving a note of If 700 for the balance. Tho other evening, his savings having reached this amount, he went to take up the note. When it was handed lo him, still retain nu possession of the mouev ho ran awavas fast as his legs would carry him. He was followed homo, and there gave up the money, which he h placed uniler his wile's pillow, lie said he could not explain the impulse that compelled him to act as he did. A meeting ol tho owners ol swamp land along the border of Vpper Klamath Lake has K en held to consider the proposition to remove the rillle at tho source of Link river (or mouth of the lake) in order to reclaim thousands of acres of swamp laud bordering on Klamath 1-ake. It was estimated that a subscription of 10 cents per acre on all lauds to Ihi benefited would complete the work, thereby lowering I'pper Klamath from ten to fourteen inches and render ing thousands of acres now covered w ith back water dry and valuable. A com mittee baa Ihvii apHinlcd to consult with every person iutcrestcd. By the act of the last Oregon legisla ture the town of Cottage 1 1 rove, 1-ane county, was divided into two towns, one retaining tho old name and the other being called Kat Cottage drove. At the election which followed the former itccordcr was chosen (o till a similar position in the new town. Having the books, assessment rolls and other nvonts in his possession, he retained them and proceeded to adapt them to (lie use of Fast Cottage (irovo. Kecorder Medley of Cottage Grove now sue for the return of the books, records, etc., claiming that thev Properly In-long to Cottage Grove as before, and not to lln town of Fast Cottage (.irovo. The IH1 Norte Bceord. publish! at Crescent Citv, Cal., recently reprinted the story ot tlinjumou Indian massacre , manufacturers, object lo the single rx ol aettlera oil the Klamath river from its ! pert system, modeled somewhat alter files ol Ibirty-elgbl years ago. A sub- the Centennial idea. The State Com acriher to tho Kccord living at Gold ' missionera w ilt probably he the l-t to Beach, Or., read tho blood-curdling , tile protests on lehalf of the exhibitor atory.but neglect. -d to notice that it was whom they represent. They want more an event that occurred almost forty year than one man to pass judgment on the go. Fancying that the man-acre' had merit of their exhibits and have a but Just taken place, and that there was lira lot system ol awards. It is not danger of general outbreak, he at one likely that tho National Commission, in roused the licightiorhood. Notices were the (w of theCongrwsional act and the posted, a public meeting was t-alli!, and woikot the Committee on Award, ill company of volunteer orynnucd to tmdt-rtake to upset the plan adopted, proceed at once to take tho Held against lucre may be slight iiio.lillVau.uis made, the bloodthirsty Indians. Commuuica- and iue of tho objector may I t ion with Crcoceut City was then had, brought Into line after a fuller discus and tha volant t'mmiiatl Hi- tlon ol tha taarita nf the American band!. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. It is the purpose of Secretary of the Interior Smith to place army officers in charge of erery Indian agency, except those where tiie Indians are in an ad vanced etate of civilization. Secretary Herbert has announced that the policy of the Navy Ijepartment in uie I u til re will tie to relieve othcers who have held fleet commands over three years and give other officers an oppor tunity. Prof. Harrincton. chief of the weather bureau, has sent a letter to the Presi dent denouncing the report submitted py Assistant Attorney-Oeneral Colbv of the investigation of the charges against Harrington as wiiiiui and malicious falsification of the testimony taken in the case. He requests the President to give nun a hearing in his own defense ucneral winevnas received a te czrsm from New York, stating that Judge 1-a- comoe of the Circuit tOiirt ol ew l ork has decided that Section 6 of the Geary exclusion act, though constitutional, is still ineffectual, because there is no pro vision as to how or by w hom the order of deportation for Chinese should be ex ecuted. This is said to be a new ques tion not raised or in any way involved in the previous appeal President Cleveland has approved the deeds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for their right and title to the "leased" lands in Indian Territory, for merly occupied by the Cheycnnes and Arapahoe Indians, but now constituting a portion of tho Oklahoma Territory, for which 1,W!1,4WJ was appropriated I the Indian appropriation act of Man 3, 18U1. The approval of President Cleveland makes t tie appropriation im- mediately available, and the money will ' lie paid to tho accredited agents of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Chief Harris of the Cherokee nation lias pub lished a notice asking bids for the sale ol 0,040,00 of bonds authorized to lie issued under the act of Congress March 8, 1HUX Major Davis, chief of the war records oflice, has just returned from Gettys burg, w here by direction of the Secretary of War he made an investigation of the effect upon the battle lines and points of Interest by the construction ol an electric railroad. Major I 'avis found tliat the damage to the battlefield had all been done, as the work of excavation and filling was practically completed. About four miles of the railroad arc hod with rails, ami the remainder ol the route is ready for fine grading. The greatei-t injury 1ms been in Hided in one stretch ol alxmt two miles of route, which runs in front of "Jiloodv Angle" and "Death Valley" and skirts "Hound Top." Major Davis' reports will bo accom panied by a chart and sketches, and will be confined to a statement of the actual condition ol allairs on tho battlelleld. It can scarcely go farther, in view of the fact that tho government has no prop erly rights in tho field. Owing to tho small amount of gold bullion deposited, aliout 1 100,000 per month, ami tho heavy expense of coin age at the United States mint at ('arson City, Nov., Secretary Carlisle has di rected a suspension ol coinage operations at tho mint from ami after tho 1st of .lime. Gold and silver bullion will, however, bo received for parting anil refining. Gold deposits will lie paid (or in coin or fine bar, as preferred by the depositor. Heturns for silver deposits will bo made in imparted bars or in tine bars, as desired. Purchases ol silver bullion under the act o( July I I, lwio, will bo continued as heretofore. The suspension of coinage operations at this mint will involve a reduction in force by tliirty-flvecmployes, Reductions in the force of tho employes at tho United States mints at Philadelphia and New Orleans will probably follow. With a suspension of coinage at Carson City the coinazo of silver dollars w ill be dis continued for the present, as there is no demand fortius class ol money, l-rac-tional iinciirrent silver ciiai torn and hall dollars aro now being recoined at New Orleans, San Francisco and Philadelphia mints and gold at the San Francisco uud I'hila lelplu mints. CHICAGO KXPOSITION. Controller Kckels has appointed T, E. Jennings of Seattle, Wash,, tola) a na tional bank examiner. Tho people with kodaks are charged 12 a dav lor the privilege of using them oil tho World's 1-air grounds. The Union Pacific shops at Omaha are repairing the old car in which President Abraham Lincoln traveled in tho 'UOs for exhibition at the World's Fair. Chicago now declares that the extor tions which aro carried on in coiinvction with tho fair are perpetrated by outsid ers. June bids fair to Ik) a prosperous mouth for the fair. From the number of siH'iet ies and organisations that have announced in advance their intention ol visiting the fair during that month it is estimated the daily attendance will be enormously increased. There aro to he a numler of special days selected for some particular observance by the dif ferent nationalities and societies, and each of these w ill bring large crowds. The New York room in the woman's building has been thrown open. It is beautifully furnished, decorated and has a library ol 6,000 volumes. Ilvervthing in it is the work of women. Incident to tho opening was the umeiling of the marblo portrait bust of Harriet Itceclier Stow o. The French stvtion of the woman's building was-ali-o opened. It is very teatiti(ul and attractive in every way, representing a modern trench salon, Tho furnishings are the tlnest, tutwt costly and artistic obtainable in I arts. These aro troublesome days for John iWd Thatcher of New York! Chairman of tho Fxecutive Committee on Awards ol tho National Commission. Protests against the one judge system of award ing tho prize medals and diplomas con tinue to I received by the 1'ircctor (ieiieral. Tho American exhibitors in the manufactures building have added their protest to that ol the foreign min mixsiouers, as a preliminary step, it is understood, to withdrawing their dis plays for examination (or aw ards. While tho present number of those who have (ormallv protested is small in compari son with the total numW-rof fti.OOO ex hibitors, the sentiment in opH-ition to tho non-competitive plan ol tho com mission 1 growing. The American pro tet is at present confined to the manufactures building, where l:W woolen exhibitors, besides oilier largo Eastern ' Ttt. EASTERN NEWS. Internal Revenue Collections for Past Ten Months. FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN. An Underground River, Strongly Im pregnated With Iron, Found in North Carolina. Cincinnati dedicated a new city hall last wee. The ice dealer of Boston have formed an ice trust. Philadelphia has granted 2,181 licenses lor the coming year. Admiral Gherardi is to have charge of tne lirooxiyn navy yard. There is a hay famine in Maine, owinj to the long and cold winter. The Manhattan Club building at New Torn has tieen sold lor $740,000. A Chicago woman has got a divorce in .Minnesota, w ith .io,oou alimony. A society has been formed at New York to befriend Indians and bomeseek- ers. Grave robberies in the Drincinal Ornaha cemetery have excited tha people of that town. T,.,, . . T,- n i . .mm mrtn4 till fW in marking' and preservation of Gettysburg ' battlefield A vigorous fight against the intrusion of cholera will be made by the New York health authorities. The whisky trust is in a state of dis solution, several distiller having given notice of withdrawal. The Legislature ol the Wooden Nut meg Stato refuses to allow electric rail roads to carry freight. Governor Hogg of Texas has commut ed tho sentence of a convicted negro rapist to lite imprisonment. Tho Fifty-third Congress contains twenty-seven Representatives and Sena tors liorn in foreign countries. -Tennesseeans have raised a fund of 1,000 to cancel the niortgago on Kirby Smith's homestead at Sewanee. The legislature not having made an appropriation, Delaware will have no State militia during tho ensuing. A decision handed down in the Kansas City Court ol Appeals holds that shav ing on Sunday is not a necessity. Dr. Talmage announced to his congre gation Sunday that the debt of the Tab ernacle had been cleared, whereupon he was cheered. Governor Tillman of South Carolina is testing the new liquor law in the Su preme Court of tho State before putting it in operation. Tho Commercial Club ol St. Paul ap proves a trade mark of that city which shows a star contained within lines rep resenting tho geographical boundaries of M inm-Kota. Valuable concessions for agricultural, mining and industrial colonies, granted by Mexico to Americans, have been for feited by a failure to make the necessary cash dojKisit. Two hundred feet of land on Michigan avenue, Chicago, sold tho other day lor IftOO.ntKI, or 12.500 per front foot. Mr. Primley, who Ixnight it, ha made a for tune in chewing gum. An underground river, strongly im pregnated with iron, was found recently near Charlotte, N. C. It is reported that tho stream, which Is fortv-rivo feet below the surface, is 700 feet wide and six feet deep. It is apparent from rejiorts received at Albany from tho Interior of Now York State that plant lice aro almost as abun dant on the foliage as thev wore in 1H86. The situation is especially disquieting to nop growers. Hundred of students of tho Illinois State Normal University are depositors of small sums in Schureman'l Bank at Normal, III., which failed last week, and many of the students are now penniless, temporarily at least. A number ol workmen who were drill ing an artesian well at Centerville, la., tapped a subterranean cavity at a depth of nearly OiH) feet that was completely filled with live bats ol the common gray species and ol extraordinary size. The Merchant' and Manufacturers' Association of Cincinnati has estab lished two funds a working fund, for tho purpose ol bringing merchants to the city, and a promotion fund, for the entertainment of them while there. For the llrst ten months of tho present llscal year collections from internal rev enue sources aggregated ti:i2,42,br)(i, an increase over tiie corresponding period of list vear of frt.lKIT.OSO. Tho receipts lor April were fJ'.Tl.lKW les than in April, ISH2. Foreign naval commanders dread to grant shore leave to their sailors when they come to America. The four British ships have lost ISO men in Xew York. IVserters (rom most of the other ships ol the foreign squadron are also re v tried. Frederick Walter, a lens grinder, was found dead in his home in Philadelphia rovonlly. His neighbor believed ho was poor, and his demented wife said they had no money; but the police discovered ;M,Ni in ca-di, bonds and mortgage in a trunk in tho old man' w-orkshop. Forest tin's in Michigan are doing im mense damage. Artigoand Bryant have Iteen nearly wiped out. and quantities ol luitilicrdc.t roved and many mills burned. At IKillar Bay'pcople buried their house hold effect,' and were forced to tight their wav out through a suffocating heat and smoke. In the case ol a discharged letter car rier at Washington, 1. C, the Circuit Judge has ruled that an employe ot the government appointed under and subject to civil-service laws cannot bo dismissed from the service without just and mtli- cicnt cause, and that the courts have a right to pass upon the sufficiency ol the cause. Kesolutions were adopted at the gen eral synod ol the Keformed Presbvterian Church In session at Sew York tliat no church lands v hereafter invested in stock which cause unneoeessarv work on Sunday, such as railroads and many ot tiers, anil that all member ot the chnrvh reprvonted by the vnod with hold their patronage Irom the W orld 1- air if it were opened on Sunday. The Geary act w s also condemned. Governor Hogg ot Texa ha vetoed the sugar-bounty bill passed by the late legislature. He say that in' the first nUco Congress was Bililtv of usiirivation ol power in passing the bounty act, and that to atvept money Irom such a source Texaswould be an accessory to the crime. Further, the Slate would debase herdig nity, prostitute her honor and appear In-fore m dilation as a humiliated suck ling holding on to the brvast ol the Fed eral government, il she accepted this bounty. Bounty law, ha add, are for. raascat ruu. INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. Abont 300,000.000 bushels of wheat are needed to supply the want of consumers in this country." The rice cron of the United States U reported 'o be 60 per cent greater than any previous one. The value of tropical and semi-tropical fruits grown under the American flag is nearly 120,000,000. A cabinet-inakinz (renins has fust de vised an article of furniture which com bines a bed and an onrania. Great Britain, supposed to be a free- trade country, collects 100,000,000of her revenues from Jtaxes on imports. The combined length of the world's telegraph lines is 881.000 miles, necessi tating the use of 2,&S0,O00 miles of wire. Daring the complicated process of manufacturing stamps they are counted eleven times in order to guard against pilfering The profits from the manufacture and sale of chewing gum enabled a man to buy a $500,000 property in Chicago the otner iay Japan is so crowded that land enough cannot be afforded for roads. One rich man who owns eight acres is looked on as a monopolist. More than one-half of all the oil of peppermint, spearmint and tansy used in the world is said to be produced ana distilled in Michigan. The climate and grass of Montana are said to make the best of mutton, and the wool clip of the State now runs close to 12,ooo,:.'JO pounds a year, While the value of our manufactured products in 18'JO was 8,610,(WO,000, the J"tal Talue of our agricultural prwlticts in that year was only about 13,800,000, 000. This country exported 10,675,000 yards of cotton goods to Brazil during the eight months to March 1, an increase of over IW per cent over the same period a year ago. The Carnegie have closed a deal for 400,000 tons of Norrie (Mich.) ores, to be delivered this season. The price was 13.85. Tho same oroe sold for (4.50 last season. Kailwnv traveling Is cheanest in Hun gary. It is possible to go from Buda Pes'th to Kronstadt, a distance of 500 miles, for f 1.00, being at the rate of three miles for a cent. Hon. Redfield Proctor of Vermont, late Secretary ol War, and a number of other wealthy gentlemen will erect at Knoxville, lenn., the largest marble mills in the world. A French medical journal says that there is one doctor in every 2,800 inhab itants of Germany, one to 2,000 in France, one to 1,000 in England and one to 000 in tho United States. Two boys about 13 years of age are running a dairy in South Atchison, Kan. They started two veara ago with one cow and a milk can. Now they have four or five cows and a horse and wagon. A syndicate has been formed in New York with $4,000,000 capital to construct an electric line from Niagara Falls to Albany for the transmission of the Ni agara Falls electric power to cities of the State. Cardinal Vaughn has ordered a prayer for rain inserted into all masses cele brated in England until rain falls. Then a Tc Ileum is to be sung without waiting for another official notice. The daughter of the celebrated Field Marshal Manteuffel, w ho was reduced to poverty through the prodigality of her brothers, lias obtained through the Km press ol Germany a pension ol 6,000 marks. Ixjrd STonkswell has succeeded in get ting the approval of the British House ol LordH tor a return that is to set lortli what each Peer draws from tho govern ment in the way of salary, pension pay or other allowance. An inquiry directed to twenty-nine small cities from Maine to Texas, having their electric street lamps provided and maintained by private corporations. shows that the average annual cost per lamp to the cities is flOu.01 William O. Garrison of Bridgeton, N. J., is making a fortune supplying the market with a tine quality ol gravel for canary turds, lie owns a piece ol land in Salem county, from which the gravel 1 procured, and ho ships it to Philadel phia by the boatload. PERSONAL MENTION. Miss Eleanor Calhoun, grandniece of John C. Calhoun, is making some stir as an actress in fans. Mr. Humphrey Ward istvriting a new novel, a companion work to "David Grieve " and " Robert Elsmere." Tho lato William B. Astor'a personal estate in Great Britain has been returned with an official valuation of 11,320,000. Mr. Pulitzer dined twenty-live of his staff tho day ol his return Irom Europe. Only one around the table hail been with him when he took the World ton years oeioro. Tho movement to raise a fund with which to purchase a residence in Wash ington lor Mgr. Satolli has progressed so lar that the Monsiguore is looking around for a suitable site. Pope liked to write in bed, and would pa days there in quiet composition, whenever an idea occurred to him, no matter at what time of day or night, he always wrote it down at once. Dr. P. II. ReiVho of Waverlv, Md.,has a bronze medal which was struck hvCon gress to commemorate the valorous charge ol loloncl John r.dgar Howard Januarv 17, 17S1, at the battle of Cowpens. Dr. Conan Doyle, the novelist, began life as an eve specialist, but his great ueoesa as a storv-toller has induced his attandonment ol the former profession. Dr. IVylewa born in Edinburgh in lSTti). "Gallagher," whom Richard Harding oavis nas made lamous in ni story, is said to have been working in a mill, and between jobs tho other day visited the Philadelphia Press office in search of better employment. He was ignorant that he had been mado a hero of fiction. General Wade Hampton, Commissioner , .:i I.. ' -.. . oi ivniirunos, is now on an omciai in spection tour of the subsidized Pacific railroad. Ho will travel in a car placid at his disposal, so that lie can stop off at will. General Hampton is not in the beet ol health, but has partially recov ered from the grip, ol which he ha been a victim for a vear or more. Mr. Fenwiek Miller, tho onlv woman ever nominated as a fellow of 'the Eng lish Society ol Journalists and a leader writer on the llliitittl Ixndon New, was lor several days the guest of Mr. Frank Leslie in New York. Mr. Miller graduated in 1S73 with honor from the Women' Medical College of London, but drifted into journalism during her tenure ol office as a member ol the Lon don School Board. The Maharajah of Bhownugswr is the lion ol the hour in London, lie is an Oriental potentate, who has traveler! from India to England to attend the opening of the Imperial Institute and to lulrill a long-cherished desire ol paving personal homage to the Que-cn and Em pre. He it an enlightened young man ol uA, w ho is considered one ol the niewt benevolent ol the native ruler ol India fcaTisg t(st U.OOO.Ot) U thanaas. FOREIGN CABLES. An Englishman Pays $5,000 for a Single Kiss. A VESSEL OF WAR WRECKED. The New Italian Cabinet Louis Kossuth Advises His Parti sans in Hungary. The strikins dockers at Hull. England, continue to ill-treat non-unionista. The Australian failures are not likely to have widespread effect in England Influenza in a virulent form has ap peared in the Grand Duchy ol Baden Surveys are being made for three new railroads in the Transvaal, South Afnca, Among the causes of the Italian Cab inet crisis was the misuse ol the Casea deposit by the Ministers. The Czar proposes to colonize Siberia py the peasants wno were impovensueu by the famine and cholera. In Persia when a railway train kills a man the natives pull up the track for miles and boycott the trains. The volcano Bandaisan in Japan has become active, and widespread disaster has been caused by its eruptions. Louis Kossuth has advised big parti sans in Hungary to support the Weck erle Cabinet and its liberal policy. There are now but four provinces in China Shansi, Shensi, Kansu and Ha nan that are without the electric wire. At the beginning of this year there were 340.000,000 in gold and' 251,400, 000 in silver in the vaults of the Bank ot France. Thero are five bills before the French Chamber whose object is to check or prevent the immigration ol foreigners into tho country. The Brazilian vessel of war Almirante Barrosa has been totally wrecked near Ran Cliarer, a port ol the coast ol Mid dle Egypt, in the Gulf of Suez. Seventeen Berlin bankers havo signed an appeal for an election fund with which to promote ttie choice ot Liberal candi dates supporting the government. Cardiff is eoinz to spend 7 .000.000 to improve her docks and harbor, build new railway connections and generally bid for the American passenger traffic. In 1889 the imperial po9toffice of Rus sia handled 189.816.000 letters, 23,032,000 postcards. 12.530.000 rezistered nackaces and 31,742,000 samples of merchandise. Tail feathers plucked from the feriwah, a rare and beautiful Indian bird, form the plume worn on State occasions by the Princo of Wales. It is said to be worth 5,000. M. do Giers, Russia's G. 0. M., though mentally vigorous, cannot support the weight of h is body, and has to be wheeled about in a chair. HiB weakness is all in hia lower limbs. Kaiser Wilhelm has been issuing or ders with regard to the clothing to be worn by otllcers, in which he says: " I hereby forbid every extravagance in the matter of dress." Ben Jeans has been a passenger con ductor on the Great Western railway of England for fifty years, has traveled in that time 3,494,452 miles, and has never met with an accident. The English Home Secretary has or dered a series of inquiries with the view of protecting tho interests of people en gaged in unhealthy occupations, such as arc carried on in chemical works, pot teries and quarries. A now scheme is being tried in Aus tralia w ith good results for the extermi nation of rabbits. Cartridges generating poisonous gas are put in the burrows, the holes closed, and the rabbits are killed by the poison in tho smoke. The route from England to India is strewn with treasure, owing to the many shipping disasters. An industrious stat istician reckons that fully 800,000,000 worth of gold and jewels lie at the bot tom of tho sea on that frequented way. Some 7,000 members of the British volunteer forces have served continuous ly and efficiently for periods of from twenty to thirty-three years, and it is proposed to bestow a medal or badge on them lor long service and good conduct Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, who has just made a gift of his fine chateau and grounds, valued at over 12,000,000. at Reichenau in the Stvrian Alps for a consumptives Hospital, is the senior member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family. The White Star line has given an order to London Blup builders for the construc tion of a steamer 800 feet long, which will beat anything afloat. The Gothic, 8,000 tons, another new vessel for the same lino, will be launched at London about the end of June. The Glol)e, a brig of 329 tons' register, was recently in the Liverpool docks un loading a cargo. Sie was built in 1836, and has been in constant service for fifty-seven years, but a survey showed her to be seaworthy and apparently good lor many more voyages. The Pope's will has been made for manv years. The document is in Latin, and begins with an humble confession of human weakness and appeals to the merits ol our Iiw and all the saints. In it Io XIII distinctly disclaims all personal inclination in the matter ol the choice ot his successor. Giolitti has agreed to reconstruct the Italian Cabinet, with Giliardo as Min ister of Finance; Canonico as Justice; Grimaldi. Treasury; Brin, Foreign Af fairs; Pelloux, War; Recchia, Marine; I-ava. Commerce; Martini, Public In struction; Genala, Public Works; Fin errehiaro Aprilo, Post and Telegraphs. An English gentleman paid 5.000 for a single kiss in Vienna last week. The Marchioness Pallaviccini was one of the most beautiful boothtender at a charitv fair, and tho Englishman offered to give the sum named tor one kiss. It was ac cepted and the kiss delivered on the spot. It is a serious matter in Armenia should a maiden attain her seventeenth year with no prospect ol marriage, for when the festival ol St. Sergins come round she is obliged to fast threo davs and eat salt fish without quenching her thirst, unless some kind swain promises to take her. Paron Stumm Halben: has 9.000 or in . 000 men employed in his iron works on we tvnine, and give them the kindliest care, tie will not permit one ol hi. workmen to marry without his consent lor example, because, as he mv, ' thev would otten make fool ol the'mvli-. b il he did. I Kaiser Wilhelm is now said to r . good deal ol time wandering about Ber lin in disguise, lie is reported to have gone through the Hebrew quarter of th citv recently in the gnise of a Hebrew peddler and to have discussed the condi tion ol th Hebrew with a great numb I th working el ot th ra. PORTLAND MARKET. peodccb, rani, btc. Whiat Ouote : Valley, $1.20 : Walla WaUa, 11.10 per ecntaL Flocb standard, M.4U; aiia vvaua. 13.40; graham, $3.00; euperttne, 2.o0 per barrel. Oats Choice, 48?50c per buEhel ; fair, 45c; rolled, in bags, $6.256.50; barrels, 16.50(6.75; cases, 3.75. Hat Best, $15 per ton ; common, fio 13. Millstcffs Bran, $19.00; shorts, $22.00; ground barley, $23.d24; chop feed, $18 per ton; whole teed, barley, so 85c per cental; middlings, $23 a 28; per ton; brewing barley, 90.395c per cental ; chicken wheat, $1.17i percental. Rrn-pB Oregon fancy creamery. 221 lg25c; fancy dairy, 1720c; fair to good, lo 5 l'Jc ; common, i-sc per pounu. ; California. 35,344c per roll. Cheesb Oregon, ll13c: Eastern Twin9, 16c; Young Amarican, 16c; Cal ifomia flats, 14c per pound. Eoos Oregon, 15c per dozen. Poultry Chickens, old, $5.00-35.50 broilers, large, $3.005.00; Bmall, $3.00 (S4.00; ducks, $7.00,a8.50; geese, $9.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1718c; dressed, 19g20c per pound. egetablks Labbage, 1 c per pound : onions, 313ac per pound ; po tatoes, $2.00 for Garnet Chilis ; $2.50 for Burbanks; new, 3c per pound; new California onions, ao per pound; Oregon cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen, $5.00 per crate; celery, 80(a90c per dozen; arti chokes, 3oc per dozen, i.w per Dox; Oregon hothouse lettuce, 20X25c; aspar agus, $2.00 per box ; radishes; 1012lijc per dozen ; green Oregon onions, 10c per dozen; rnubarb, 3,vs4c per pound; green peas, $1.90 per box; spinach, 3L;c per pound; cucumbers, (l.oo.ai.oO per dozen ; etring beans, 18c per pound ; Cal- Honiia garlic, ocgoc. 1-KuiTs Ncily lemons, $53o.oJ per box; California new crop, $3.00,34.50 per box ; bananas, $1.50,r 3.00 per bunch ; oranges, seedlings, $232.75 per box: na vels, $a.outt3.oo; apples, $2ic2.2o per box; strawberries, $1.75 per box; pine apples, $6.00 per dozen ; cherries, $1.25,3 1.50 per box; Baldwin apples, $6.00(3 6.50 per barrel. STAPLE GROCERIES. Hoxev Choice comb, 18c per pound ; new Oregon, 16320c; extract, 9gl0c. Salt Liverpool, 100s, $15.00; 60s, $15.50; dock, $10.00? 11.00. Dried Fruits Petite prunes, lli312c; Bilver, ll(al4c; Italian, 13 315c; Ger man, 11312c; plums, 8312c; apples, 6 311c; evaporated apricots, 15 tr,17,l-ac; peaches, 12(3 14c; pears, 7llc per pound. Coffee Costa Rica, 22c; Rio. 22c: Sal vador, 21),'c ; Mocha, 26 30e ; Java, 24,4 30c; Arbuckle's and Lion, 100 pound cases, 24 85-lOOc per pound; Co lumbia, same, 24 85-100c. Rice lHland,$4.75.a5.00 ; Japan,$4.75 ; New Orleans, $4-60 per cental. Beans Small whites, 'Syc; pinks, 34c; bayos, 3,4c; butter, 4c; lima, 4c per pound. Syrdp Eastern, in barrels, 40(355c; in half-barrels, 42 357c; in cases, 353 80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California, in barrels, 20i340c per gallon ; $1.75 per kez. Sugar Net prices: D, 5jc; Golden C, 5?-bc; extra C, 5Jc; Magnolia A, 54C; granulated, 6gc; cube, crushed and powdered, 8c; confectioners' A, 6k,c per pound; maple sugar, 15(3 K3c per pound. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75.32.00; peaches, $1.8532.10; Bart lett pears, $1.7532.00; plums, $1,374(3 1.60; strawberries, $2.2532.45; cherries, J2.2532.40; blackberries, $1.85S2.00; raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2,253 2.80; apricots, $1.652.00. Pie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches. $1.25: plums. $1.0031.20; blackberries, $1.2531.40 per -I r: . ,, . . uw.trii. 1 10 iruus, ganons, assorcea, $3.1533.50; peaches, $3.5034.00; apri cots, $3.60vt4.00; plums, $2.7533.00; blackberries, $4.2534.50. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped, $2.55 34.00; lunch tongue, la, $4 ; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.753?2.75 per dozen. Fikh Sardines, ts, 75c$2.25; ,4a, $2.15,34.60; lobsters, $2.303.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb talis, $1.25 S$1.50; flats, $1.75; 2-lbs, $2.2532.50; ,4-Wrel, $5.50. LIVB A.ND DRESSED MEAT. Beef Prime steers, $3.85(34.25 choice steers, $3.75(34.00; fair to good steers, $3.00(33.50; good to choice cows, $3.15(g3.75; common to medium cows, $2.60(a2.75; dressed bee!, $6.00(S7.00. Mutton Choice mutton, $4.2534.50; fair to good, $4.0034.60; dressed, $8.00; lambs, $2.0032.60; dressed, $7.0038.00; ooeariings, oOJC, live weight. . . Hoos Choice heavy. .0iatV7K- mo. diuin, $6.00; light and feeders, $6.00i3 o.oo ; uresseu, f s.w. Vkal $4.00(36.00. Smoked Meat and Lard Dlaras, targe, iuaioc per pounu j hams, me dium, lU4rtl(4,c; breakfant bacon, 103 ISSjc; short clear sides, 14315c; dry salt sides, 134(314,40; lard, compound, in tins, 123124c per pound; pure, in mis, io(iuc; uregon lard, ll4(312Jic. miscellaneous. Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25: uicv.1, f..ou; wire, fi.o per Keg. tla?Caart'23C Pundi P'8-;ron, Steel Per pound. 10Vc. Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qi&- tiy, .wniy.vfj per dox lor crosses. : extra per box; I. C. coke plates. 14x20. prime quality, $7.50(88.00 per box; terue fjiaie, x. .,., prime quality, f U.50(if 7.O0. Lead Per pound, 4'8c; bar, 6 4c. Naval Stores Oakum, $4.5035.00 per bale; resin, $4.8035.00 per 480 poumis; tar, Stockholm, $13.00; Caro- Tew jut oarrei ; piT.cn, t).U0 per , luiimuic, voc per gallon, in Shot $1.80 per sack. Horseshoes $5 per keg. nors, wool and hides. Hops 10(itl7b.'c ner nnnmf ,tl.'.. in nnuliti- Wool Lmnona valine isdih,. ii clip, 133154c; Willamette vallev.'l53 we, according to quality; Eastern Ore gon, 10316c per pound, according to condition. Hides Dry hides. eWt..l :. 6 . -, fume, tlc; green, selected, over fis tv,.i 4e; under 55 pounds, 3c; ehcep pelts! short wool. 30i50c; medium, oOle long. 90c:3tl.2o: shearlin M j-iiu. ..i low, good to choice, 335c per pound. BAOS AND BAOOIXO. Burlaps. 8-onnco. -to-inl, ... u 8c; burlaps 104-ounce, 40-inch, net cash, ,c; burlaps. 12-onnce. 45-inrh V; burlaps, 15-ounce, 60-inch, 124c: burlaps , 20-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; whea bags, Calcutta. 5:?t-w a, ". busheloatbassc; ' ' ExprasiT Trotutra. ink. n ixrennmihu . el. announced to guest recently returned from a trip. "W hA . m;-t,.- ki bnglntbsbou, J " 'indeed r 'It WU SO. lnrfml m-A . .. The troasen, Mitel VW Hl - . n would cost that r V;v. P""1" replied ut. id never bar iKk. . t wad It with my own ,Jm . -i?,0.,u " "n't tnoanur lJ.:.?n-".mid racWiif hi. iiii.rMMUiacTr7 U, - AGRICULTURAL. The Traffic in Oleomargarine Continues to Grow. SOME AGRICULTURAL NOTES. A Permanent Pasture aa Essential Toward Successful Stock Growing Etc Tin milk pails are the best. Milk the cows with dry hands. Arrange for plenty of pure water. Xever change milkers when it can be avoided. Bran will balance fodder better than corn meal as a milk ration. There is a close relation between pure water and fine, good-keeping dairy prod ucts. When selecting a dairy cow look out for a hearty eater. She must eat if she milks well. Weeding out the poorest is the cheap est way of improving the record of a dairy herd. The flesh which indicates fair thrift also shows good feeding capacity, without wiucn no cow is worm much. Commence this spring to improve your stock by selling off the common breeds and buying a few thoroughbreds. Keep the lambs in clean quarters, and give them clean food from clean troughs. Then they will keep healthy and thrive, but otherwise not. The sheep should not be sent to mar ket unless sufficiently fat. They do not bring paying prices, and help to depress the price of other people's sheep. Grass roots derive their nourishment close to the surface. For that reason a top dressing of good manure upon the timotuv neld will be quickly productive of good results. Cater to the taste of your customers. If they want sweet-crea'm butter, fur nish it put up in the most perfect and attractive manner, and it should be sold and used at once. We cannot do much toward controlling the prices of agricultural products. Con sequently we should use every effort to economize production, as thereby we may add to the profit. Barley straw is a stock feed that is not sufficiently known and valued in the East, although used extensively in Cali fornia. It is an excellent dependence for the winter feeding of sheep. Make up your mind this year that vour corn fodder is a valuable crop, and that you will take as good care of it as of the grain. In this way vou can make corn growing pay better than it has in the past. A soil well prepared prior to planting, sound seed, clean and level culture these aro the things that bring good po tato crops. Where all these are observed and tne bugs kept off there is not often a serious failure. The ewes should now have some suc culent food regularly. If you have nei ther roots nor good ensilage, bran will be the best substitute. Hav and grain alone are apt to produce costiveness, which is especially to be avoided. The expenses attending upon market ing farm products often seriously dimin ish the profits. Good roads and good teams would help to remedy this, and often farmers could work together to ad vantage in hauling, and shipping their crops. Farmers everywhere just now are anx ious to grow more hogs. We all know what the result of this will be. A few wise men are giving instead renewed ef forts toward producing good sheep and cattle. Tiiey are working in the right direction. Keep well in mind the fact that by in creasing the yield per acre you lessen me cosi oi production. Vou do not have to double the crop to double the profit, as is the case where vou double the amount of the land in order to accom plish the same result. A permanent pasture is an essential toward successful stock-growing. This cannot be secured by anv haphazard method, but is the result onlv of definite care and foresight. A rough" field cov ered with weeds and thistles does not constitute a good pasture. It is a waste of time and money to fer tilize heavily or to cultivate thoroughly land whose first and greatest need is drainage. Apply your time and money to remedy that, and it will bring the best return. The intensive cultivation may then follow to advantage The traffic in oleomargarine continues to grow in spite of all legal efforts to cur. tail it. It dairymen would make all their butter so that it was superior to the best oleo, the latter would soon be driven from the market. So much poor butter increases the demand for the substitute. A SERIOUS EVIL, There is a serious and growing evil in his country, says John Gould in Prac tical farmer, that is charged to thedairv men, and vet is as distinct from dairying and to be blamed as little upon them as the butterine business and that is the making of filled cheese. A tilled cheese is nothing more or less than a cheese made with pure skim mill, o.i i i.. of tho natural butter fats snhstitT.Hn lor them some kind of neutral oil, and hears the same relation t i as butterine does to pure cow butter, as butterine is one-fourth good bntter and three-fourths animal fats. The effect is the same in either case, for both are thrust upon the market .,;., .i the profits of the sale depends la'tvelv upon how perfect this H, carried out. While the dairvmen aro nn in arms about fraud i,im, I...i.. aDout tilled cheese cm,, ; 1,. way not a whit hohi.,,1 !.., ...u... :.. damaging eflewa nnnr, ,i, -..1.. j dairy produce. There is a work of re- lonn I'm- me tanners to take up in regard to this, and w hile one mav plead for bet ter cows, cheaper feed and finer produce, so long as dairymen will sell milk to these hi led-chee! concerns or join in what they call a better return in uionev for their milk the time will eoon come iV!? i!lsa?ter wl overtake this whole tilled business, and thn k.. .u 1 1 logic of event the reaction must be met and the path of honesty taken. The Indies' crand council nf rli Prim rose league co.-ue.ins l.:"3 mnmh nro- ided over !r ibc Dowum-i- Dnchsh of Marlborough aa the Marchioness of Salis bury. MorS than fl iJOl IkHI nf lAmrm h.tl been Issued by tba aociatv nnuntinu fari to elector. It U true that th -I 1 ....1 -I. . ,ttbe ulor. acquire often wnat might almost be ovlll.,w.iui y toward books. Coin are cIsmmI. fpMrratioD. a "proof," unctB.-ulaUd,- --BUT" Bd "MOT.- ,