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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; ' '
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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.- ,