Lincoln County Leader.
J. r. STEWART, Publisher.
TOLEDO OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
A California Justice of the
Peace Goes Wrong.
SHIPMENT OF C1IEBKIES EAST.
The Fall of Silver Crunch Utah and
Nevada Mines to Clone Down
Hoy Robbers.
Orders for the Adams to 150 to Hamoa
are expected at Mure Jumna.
V. A. Lrquhart, a Pan Francisco
drummer, in sought for by the Knit Lake
police, the charge against iiim being
lorgery,
mv Kuc leer, the girl w ho ran away
wiui larson iieains Irom .Merced anil
went to Victoria, JJ. C, iias returned to
tier home.
Montana is trying to gel rid of a lot
of Cree Indians who hclom to ( 'lunula.
but who have bom Jiving near Silver
-lmjw me past winter.
The Canadian Australian Kteamshli
Company iias derided to make Tacoma
the terminus of their line. (Steamships
win maxe mommy trips between la
coma and Kidney, N. H. V.
A Justice of the Peace of Coronado
llea:h named Kdgar Fleming is under
arrest in Ivos Angeles for obtaining
goods under falsi! pretenses. Jlu claims
to have been drunk and oblivious of his
conduct.
The shipment of cherries Fast from
Han Jose hist week amounted to 444 775
IHiuuds, 111 all eighteen carloads. The
shipments of cherries to date this year
amount to l4i5,K70 pounds. l4ist year
me total snipineiii was ;i,U0fj pounds.
J lie Paly-West mine at 1'ark C'itv
Utah, has been ordered closed dowii.
the Diamond mine at Fureka. Nev..
lias been closed down, and the Old Jor
dan and (iiileiia at Bingham, Utah, have
also been ordered closed. This is owing
10 iiie iuii in silver.
miring iuii trial 01 tlireo young
thieves at rnui liernardino Saturdav it
was developed that a number of Isiys of
iiigmands, noiii iu to in years ol agi
bad an organization called the "Black
lliamond," which carried on a Nystem ol
jioiiy roiiiK'ries. inn ikivh were eager
readers ot clieap seusatioiuil literature.
As a practical solution of thestrin
gcury of gold in IIih money market it is
proposed at N111 l-rancisco Hint, 11 the
Federal government would immediately
wunuraw an restrictions to hydraulic
inning, ( aliforiua beforu winter woiil
be in a position to contribute oyer $5,-
uoo.uoy 111 goiii. j ne proposition irom
interviews w ith prominent mining men
is considered entirely feasililu and up
port une.
1 lie rallies are now epidemic among
animals ol nil kinds at ljuijotoa, A. 1,
Several persons have hail narrow escapes,
one man saving himself from a frenzied
horse by knocking it down with a large
stone. The cause is lack of water oil
the mesa, whereby the coyotes no mad
The FantiL'o Indians say the eniilemie
raged thus years ugo, when it was 1111-
safo to leave doom open at night for
mad coyotes.
A young man in Astoria has just sent
Fast for a New York invention which
he claims will catch more lish than any
otner nook ever used. Hv means ol a
transparent 1 11 ho or receptacle, live bail,
. ... : 1 ... .. 1 .
joeiiioiuu illinium s, ci iios, nogs, angle
worms, shrimps or the like, are present
ed in a miignilled form to the lish desired
to lie caught, while safe from injury of
laving iiiuen. mere neing a circulation
of water through the tube, the bait is
kept alive for an indeliuite period of
time, so that uuu bail is good for a day's
Ilslnng.
The test case agreed 11 mm as an out
come of the division of the Washington
l4tnd Commission on l'ort Angeles tide
lands lias la-en made up. Allen Weir,
attorney for Samuel li. Morse, petitioned
mo Hoard lor nudiiiiis 111 Morse, s Ijclialf.
setting forth in detail compliance with
tlie old law. 1 lie Hoard denied the lie
tilion for Hpeeillc reasons that lis-al
Isianls were legislated out of existence
March in, and their plats and reports
men since unit Hate were null and void.
and because the appraisement made at
l'ort Angeles mhs null and void under
Vcvtioii SW of thu new law. 1'hui this
action petitioner applies to the Sucrior
1 ourt lor a wi ll 01 mandate to compel
the Mate Hoard to so certify iu Morse's
behalf, as it would have done had no
question arisen us to repeal of law of
iiiarcii .'ii, lie.w,
A
formal discussion of (he promised
rld's Fair iu San Francisco was held
World
recently at the. I'alace Hotel, prvparu
tory to a general meeting later, llerr
Cornely and Architect llenuett, who ac
rompauicd nun Irom I lilcago, were
present, llerr lornely recited his ex
IM'rieiiccs in the past w ith exHsitions,
and told the gentlemen that it was nec
essary (or San Francisco to take some
action at once on the pmMisitiou to have
tlie lair, lor, lie said, 4,1HU foreign ex
hibitor in Chicago, w ho had sent him
thither to repit-scMt thorn, were anxious
to know as soon as iHissihio whether the
fair would 1st held then: otherwise they
would send their exhibits to Antwerp,
where an exhibition is to Ih held imme
diately after the W orld's Fair. He also
assured (he gentlemen that (hey could
certainly count on all the foreign exhib
itors coining Ihere, and furthermore, if
it were necessary, they would gladly pay
for space for (heir exhibits and also pay
their own (rausportadoii.
It is now considered almost certain
that, contrary to the usual custom, the
canneries along the Columbia river will
be compelled to pack salmon as far
along as tVtolvr, on account of the
great falling oil in oHrations this year.
Fall salmon arc all of the silver-side
species, and are considered second guide,
but. as there is no doubt that the July
pack, however large, will leave a dis
astrous shortage, litis is the only way
out of the ililliculty. The total business
for the w hole season lo date is 122, 2MI
esses, and up (o June '."it last year (he
figure were lHt.l17 cases. All the can
neries are fully 50 per cent Ik hind their
ordinary record. Fvcn the gillnets,
which till to two weeks ago wcrv meet
ing witii exiritoidfsiary success, have
followed iu the wake of the traps ami
cim-t and are now catching next (
nothing. The continued high cold
water is no doubt mainly accountable
for this state of things. ' Fleveu large
traps the other morning caught twenty
tive small Milmoii between (hem, and
the whole of the seines tgether have
not brought in more, than ten' tons o(
fish since the season slarled. The short
age ha already allrctexl the circulation
of money in Astoria by close 011 i;in,0ol,
and 8i2 ' lest men are being employed
now than last ywor.
FEOH WASHINGTON CITY.
Tlie act of Congress necessitating the
recent dismisal of sixty-seven clerks of
the general ia.,d ollice provided for a re
duction of the field expenses of the of
fice. A large number of offices will be
consolidated in such a wav as to make
tne number twenty less than heretofore.
Assistant f-ecretarv fc Vlioblu of Him
Interior fJeoartiiient has iiiaile a tenion
decision which will Is-.omc welcome
news to a large number of women who
ministered to wounded soldiers in the
hospitals during the late war. They are
to be placed on the pension rolls. The
question arose ujion a communication
irom tlie Commissioner of i'ensions as
to whether those women who superin
tended the diet of the sick anil wounded
soldiers are entitled to pensions. Under
me aci s provisions Assistant Secretary
neynoius lioids Uiese persons are entitled
to pensions.
The Collector of Customs at F.I Paso.
Tex., lias la-en instructed by Assistant
Secretary Spaulding to discontinue at
once the practice of admitting sulphides
of silver from Mexico without consular
invoice and in future not to admit silver
bullion from Mexico exceeding $100 in
value, alleged to lie imported as money,
unless accompanied by consular invoice,
unless the bullion is shown by the sliip
cr's declaration, made before the con
sular ollicer at the port of sliipmcnt, to
be forwarded as money or the medium
of exchange at a fixed value per ounce,
ami not as merchandise.
The Wisconsin State and National
Commissioners do not belifvc the Fish
Commission of the liadger State will
withdraw from the fisheries building.
National ('ouimissioiK-rCoburn said that
the Fish Commission had threatened to
withdraw its exhibit a month ago, but
he would not believe the threat would
be carried out until he saw the lish r-
moved. The resignation of It. It. Kirk
land, Fxecutivc Commissioner for Wis
consin, has just been accepted. It had
nothing to do with the trouble over the
lish exhibit. Mr. Kirkland's ill health,
resulting from overwork, was the only
cause of his resignation.
Inquiry at the Treasury Pcpiirtmcnt
discloses the fact that alsiut HTlOOO re
mains lor the enforcement of the several
Chinese acts. In J til v the new appro
priation of $50,000 becomes available, so
that the aggregate fund available for car
rying out the Chinese exclusion acts, in
cluding the (leary law, will lie $(15,000.
As announced by Secretary Carlisle, the
policy of the administration will be in
view of a luck of funds to rid the coun
try of Chinese who have entered unlaw
fully in violation of the previously ex
isting laws before endeavoring to send
out Chinese w ho came in lawfully, but
are now under the ban of the I ieary law,
because they failed to comply with its
requirements ol registration, elc.
They are after fraudulent pensioners.
A list comprising the names of a number
ol pensioners recommended by loinmis
sioner l.ochrcli to be dropped from tin
pension rolls has Ih-i-ii handed to Secre
tary Hoke Smith, and he I111H approved
the recommendations. It has been found
upon investigation by the pen-ion bu
reau that the persons named are for va
rious reasons not entitled to draw pen
sions. The work of examining the rolls
Willi a view lo tlie detection ol Iraud
will he prosecuted with vigor, and at the
same time the current issues w ill be care
fully scrutinized with the same object.
Secretary Smith and Commissioner
Uichreu while prosecuting this work re
new the assurances previously given that
just as much care w ill be exercised In
secure pensions for those who are enti
tled to them under thu law as will he
used to prevent fraud.
Atlorney-tieneral Olney hits decided
mat the appropriations made by tlie act
of Conirress approved AilL'Ust iS. IN02. in
aid of the World's Fair, including the
appropriation lor tlie government ex
hibit, are as available now as before the
decision of (he I iicuit t ourt of Appeals
permanently opening the World's Fair
minimis, huh iiie single exi'i-piioii null
110 more money out-lit to be p.ud the Il
linois corporation known as the World's
Columbian Fx posit ion. The grounds
lor the opinion are that t ongress meant
thai the exposition as a w hole should In
closed Sunday. It did not, however, un
dertake to pass a law to that cited, but
contented itself w itb making certain ap
propriations conditional, not upon the
act 01 Miuiiay-ciosiug, nut upon the
Illinois corporation agreeing to the
proposition of Sunday-closing, so (hat
regulations to that cll'cct might be made
by the government. Representatives of
the World's Columbian Commission, the
Illinois corporation, did agree to the
prosmition. I'ropcr rules were made
by the Columbian Commission, and the
condition upon w hich the appropriations
referred to were made must be regarded
as fully satisliedr
CHICAUO IMPOSITION.
Five days, beginning w ith Odolier A),
have been designated as Veterans' day at
the (air.
The New York Sun informs a corre
spondent that it requires $2,000 and
three months' time to see the World's
Fair. Not manv New Yorkers can allord
to go West on those terms.
The postotllco on the World's Fair
grounds at Chicago will be left open
Sunday hereafter for (he purpose of
giving (he needed mail facilities, This
must tc regarded as a concession on de
part ol (he government, as the working
iiostotlice on the fair grounds has always
'ecu maintained as a part of the exhibit
of the l'ostollice iK'parlment and is
therefore a part of the government
exhibit.
The World's Fair olhViala authori.e
the statement that then-is no truth in
the report that (he government bus
determined to pay out the $750,Ouil
reserve lclongiug to the exposition from
the I'nited States appmpnation. How
the rcHrt thai the government intcndi-d
lo issue this money in souvenir coins,'
thus practically throwini; (hem 011 tin
market, started the otHciiils do not
know, but it is authoritatively denied.
J. C. llovd. "the Onvon inlniiizer."
has hniuglit suit for fJ.isH) damages
against K. W. Allen id Forllaiul for
lilsl and defamation of character. In
Illinois conviction might me.iu impris
onment for one year, llovd alleges that
Mien wrote a letter to lr. J . (iiiv lewis.
stiMrintetideut of tin-gun's exhibits,
charging him (llovd) with obtaining
money (raildulciitlv in New Orleans
This n iHirt- it is alleged, w as circulated
around the horticultural building, can-
nig gnat damage to the business and
n-putation of llovd. Tin, iv primuses lo
lx a lively legal skiruii.-h.
I'nless the uncxinvlcd should hapen.
Ihcrv will Is- a dairy exhibit at tin
World's Fair (his month. This an
tiouiicviiu-ul, which was issued hv Chid
Itiichauan of (he detiar'mcnt of agri
culture was received with thank-givim
hv Mime l.iVK) exhibitors, who for the
past two mouths have Uvii compelled
to submit to exasperating delay anil
tinanciul losses by the failim- of the ex
position company to furnish facilitie
for display ing their pnslucts. The hie
cause o( complaint wi ihe absence '
any kind of rvfrigcrator service, and th
promise is now made that this uiatlei
will be rcctiliixl at once.
EASTERN MELANGE.
Quantity and Quality of the
, Texas Wheat Crop.
THE TRUST LAW OF ILLINOIS.
Colored Successor to Father Mollin
ger Performing Miracles in
the Way of Cures.
St. Taul, Minn., claims a population
of 225,000.
Chinch bugs are doing great damage
to the Kansas w heat crop.
The State of Texas has won a suit to
recover hinds grahls;d by railroads.
The woman suffragists of Kansas
have raised a campaign fund of l)0,00i).
Maine towns this year have paid a
bounty of (ft each on "thirty-two bears.
The St. IOiiis health oflicers have be
gun to inspect emigrants arriving in the
city.
Just Is-fore it adjourned the Illinois
legislature passed a very radical anti
trust bill.
Thirty-two sites are om-rcd for the
new Philadelphia mint at prices ranging
from f l to piU'l.OW.
A telephone line 3,500 miles long is
planned in Canada to connect Halifax
with Vancouver.
Dr. Ernest Hart, the London sanitarv
expert, says that Chicago's water is bad
and may cause trouble.
The women of Kansas, who are to open
their campaign for sullrage in September
next, are already alield.
A plot of ground was sold in Chicago
the other day lor HOO.issl, wlncli was
purchased in 18.S1 for (H,500.
I ron wood, Mich., has such an epidemic
of typhoid fever that tho public build
ings have been made hospitals.
Ily a recent order of the authorities of
Carthage, 111., courting has been forbid
den in the public parks of that place.
(ieorge Vanderbilt has purchased 20,
000 acres of land in North Carolina,
with a view of making it a game pre
serve. Lieutenant-fiovcnior Percy Daniels,
Populist, of Kansas has a scheme by
w hich no one will Is taxed but million
aires. A New York printer has been sen
tenced to a year iu State Prisoa and
lined $1,000 for printing green-goods
circulars,
The big Chicago telescope will lie ap
proximately IU feet long and 4 feet 111
diameter, and the dome will be 70 feet
in diameter.
The Kansas Railroad Commissioners
are going to compel a wholesale reform
iu freight charges on the part of the
roads iu that State.
It is claimed that there is now due the
government iu royalties for coal mined
-hi government funds iu Kansas from
friOO,(MHI to (KIO,000.
Th(! widow of one of (he Italians
lynched at New Orleans tried to bring
suit as an alien, but the courts decided
thai she was an American.
Southern papers say that the machine
cotton-picker is a success, and that in
many districts that commodity can now
be raised at a cost of St'u cents a pound.
A company has just Ih-cii formed in
Oklahoma to develop the immense beds
of asplialtiim recently discovered near
the Arhuckle Mountains on the Chicka
saw reservation.
The World's Lalsir Congress at
Chicago, August 20 to Septemls-r 4, w ill
-conclude w ith what is proposed to be
tho greatest labor demonstration ever
seen iu America.
Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago cable
railway magnate, has commenced the
building of a brow nstone mansion w hich
is to cost ;fl.r00,0(H. Mrs. Yerkes' room
is to cost f:0,tKHI.
The Kerry trust law iu Illinois, it is
stated, w ill enable tho Attorncy-lieneral
to break up Ihe passenger and freight
associations now controlling and lixing
rates to and from Chicago.
Secretary Carlisle has issued a circular
requesting' Collectors of Customs to ex
ercise more care in the selection of sub
ordinates. This notice has Ih-cii called
forth by the Puget Sound scandal.
The raiii-niaking experiments in Kan
sas have resulted 111 me deal 11 01 a
Captain of the Kansas National tiuard
and the serious injury of two men
through the bursting of the cannon
employed in Ihe experiments.
"Victory" monument designed by
Casper Ituberl, which is to lie erected
by the State of New York to her dead
heroes on the battle Held of liettysburg,
measure fniui base to top 1SI fi-ct. The
figure is 1:1 feet inches high.
" llrother" Day, the colored successor
of Father Mollingerat Pittsburg, is said
to he performing miracle in the way of
cures equal to those claimed to have
Ih-cii performed by Father Mollinger.
Dav is a (ull-bl.sv.lcd negro, but his
auditors are nearly all w hite. The cures
are mostly by faith.
An underground electrical railway
system, which was successfully tried at
Coney Island recently, and which, it is
claimed, can be operated at less cost
I ban the trolley, is further said to In
"free from the objectionable overhead
wire and the attending danger lo life."
A. W. Clover of Windsor Ixs ks, Wis.,
claims lo have discovered in the founda
tion of an old foundry a stone eovervd
with hieroglyphics, supHsed to Ih of
Indian origin, (hough no one versed in
Indian lore can decipher them.
The law passed by the late Indiana
Legislature, placing 'nearly all the State
and county ollicer on salaries and re
ducing their compensation more than
one-half, has Ix-cu declared unconstitu
tional In a test case in tlie t in-uit (. ourt.
The Cult, California and Santa Fc
railway has contracted to deliver ti.tKH)
car 01 wheat at the port of Ijalveston,
lex., as fast as s-sible (or shipment to
Furope. Tlie w heat crop of most coun
ties 111 lexas is tar anove me average in
quantity and quality.
The State of Michigan i experiment
tug with the gold run- and the n-sult
willls- watched with iutcrvM. Kvcrv
iiilcndcr w ho commits a crime through
drink mav, if be elect, undergo a
kivley tn ainieut st the expense ot the
ivunty in which he lives.
Then1 have been no less than six fail
ures among the wholesale diamond
tiouw of New York during the month
f June, with liabilities of bom fltVAVV
,0 (AM.OOO in each ce, due cnlirvly to
'befalling oil' of n-tail demand, caused
y commercial and financial depn-ss.on.
Pev. Dr. H. Pereira Mcndc and other
'eading New Yolk Jew are talking of
nhstimt the Jew of the Cnited Slates
.11 ho lding a monument iviiiumimt
ive of the his nil institution which
.la y have cnjoyl under our law and
CouM. lotion. Several hundred thoii-
aud dollars would be needed.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
Thirty million dollars worth of readv
made clothing is produced in Paris
yearly.
Coal that is sold for 80 cents a ton is
mined in large quantities in Lebanon
county, Pa.
New York has a population of work
ing women reaching in round figures to
alxmt 300,000.
Another bonanza lode of silver with
ore worth W)A),b) in sight is rexxjrted
at Chihuahua.
Steps have been taken for a general
reduction in the force of employes of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Last vear onlv 4,633.000 hogs were
killed in" the West for packing the low
est figures in twenty-two years.
In Great Britain the dailvcost of a
laborer's food is 45 per cent of his wages;
in the United States 33 pr cent.
Thirty firms in Pittsburg each do 11
business of over $1,000,000 a vear, Car
negie leading with nearly $10,000,000.
In Manchuria dogs are raised for their
skins. A fair v nrosoerous Mancliurian
dog farmer will own a thousand or more
dogs.
dermanv has one postofhee to every
1,774 inhabitants. In proportion to pop
ulation the United States has twice as
many.
There are sixty-four steamers doing
excursion business out of Chicago this
summer, but so far none has made ex
penses. According to Bradstreet's the income
of American life insurance companies
rose from $0,450,000 in 1S01 to $100,500,-
000 III 18X5.
B. W. Jones. Secretary of the South
Georgia Pear Growers' Association, says
the yield in that section this year will
he over zu.ouu parrels.
An r.nglish watchmaker exhibits an
engine of 122 distinct pieces (not includ
ing thirty-three bolts and screws) which
could be hidden in a lady s thimble.
A new cigarette machine has been in.
vented by a man in Winston, X. C, that
it is said, will feed, roll, paste and make
lO.lKKJ perfect cigarettes ill ten hours.
aii electrically driven rotary planer
that is operated like a lawn mower is
used in some of the ship yards in Glas
gow for smoothing the decks of vessels.
And now conies a project to build a
six-track railroad on tlie viaduct plan
from New York city forty miles north,
to cost f;i5,5(JO,000, right of way $75,000,
000. A society of ladies is forming in Lon
don for tlie adoption of day servants,
who will come into the house by theday
only and return at night to their own
homes.
In Bengal, India, there are three har
vests reaped every year; peas and oil
seeds in April, tho early rice crop in
September and the great rice crop in
December.
Most of the transportation in Havana,
Cuba, is furnished by little horses
hitched to a victoria. There are 3,000
of those rigs in that city and but one
horse-car line.
In the central part of tho Stateof New
York over 15,000 -ople are engaged in
the cultivation of more than 20,000 acres
of grapes, which produce annually from
10,000 to 50,01 K) tons.
In its manufacture the knife is han
dled by seventy dill'erent artisans from
the moment the blade is forged until the
instrument is finished and smoothly
wrapped up for tho market.
Practically all clieap paper is which
wholly or iu part from wood pulp which
comes from the forests of Maine, the
Adiroiidacks and Pennsylvania. Wood
pulp was lirst made from poplar trees
altogether, but spruce makes a stronger
aim neiier siocu.
PURELY PERSONAL.
The C'ar has sent as a present to the
Pope two superb vases, each eight feet
111 height, w ith pedestals of jasper.
William Waldorf Astor has been
elected a member of the Marllxirough
Club of London on the proposal of the
Prince of Wales.
Dr. Delevan Uloodgood, U. S. X., who
became widely known on account of his
striking resemblance to the Into James
G. Blaine, is to be retired in August.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of the late Rich
ard A. Proctor, the famous astronomer,
and the principal assistant in his profes
sional work, has ts-en appointed curator
of the Proctor University at San Diego,
Oil.
Captain Soutllot, who died in Paris
the other day, was the nephew of the
architect who built the Pantheon, and
enlisted iu 1S10 at the age of 17. He
was made a commander of the Legion of
Honor last year.
Charles W. Dayton, the new postmas
ter of New York," is the principal owner
of the Harlem leorter, a society jour
nal. He is also w hat is more impor
tant a ineiiilH-r of Tammany and an
intimate friend of Secretary Lament.
Pmf. T. K. Cheyne, the eminent Bib
lical scholar of Oxford, has the sight of
only one eye, and he cannot use that ex
cept iu natural light. And yet he has
written a large number of books reouir
ing an immense amount of original in
vestigation. It is not generally known that a
brother survives l-'dwiu Booth, He is
Dr. Joseph A. Booth, who was born in
Baltimore and studied medicine at the
South Carolina Medical College at
Charleston. He is at present practicing
his profession and lecturing on surgery
in New York.
Wee Hun Pcnk, the rich Arizona mi
ner, has sold out his interests in that
Territory, and is going to South Africa.
Three years ago this enterprising China
man was cook in a mining camp; now
he is a millionaire and the husband of
an American wife.
The Manpii of ChanaU-llics. who
died recently, was one of Ihe pages of
Uui Will. He was a man of great
wit and chivalry, and his fund of remi
niscence was inexhaustible. Only two
of his fellow page survive him the
Manpiis of Castela and the Count of
Marolles.
Joseph H. Choato of New York, the
silvcr-iongucd orator and defender of
the heathen Chinee, is an epienn and
delights in choice viands as much a he
does in choice language. He ha made
no rvcord as a big eater, however, and
may U- called a dihttante gourmet with
a refmed apH tite.
Lady Pacu.vfote. the w ife of the Brit
ish 1 ml-a-Nidor. announced iniornialiv
the other day that she would be "at
home " 011 a certain afternoon fnnn 4 lo
0. She expected to welcome a tew iit
ors, but during the two hour 1.4tH per
sons, tnot of w hoin she did Hot know,
dropt-e-l in lo see her, and the butler ran
out of tea U-(ore the reception wa.- half
over.
Walter Iterant, the Knglih novelist,
arrived on the steamer KtrurU to attend
Ihe convention of authors in Chicago.
Mr. Bcs.int will spend shout five weeks
in the Cnited Males. He will go to New
Kngl.md Hist, an.l aiitici.iie much
pleasure in meeting 0!iver Wendell
Itoliu.- and other l.terarv men. It i,
also likely licit he will sjs'iid a few d.iv
with hudyard Kipling at Brattlebotv, Vu
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Revenue Returns of Xew South
Wales for May.
A VERY OBJECTIONABLE CRANK.
The Accomplice of the Notorious
Murderer Eyraud Receiving
Offers of Marriage.
Tlie Thames river is at the lowest
ever known.
Cholera has appeared among the pil
grims at Jeddah.
The present British Parliament has
among its members sixteen brewers.
English holders of Argentine bonds
have accepted tlie Rothschilds' compro
mise. A German physician has revived the
apple treatment lor tne cure 01 in
ebriates. A postal reform under the manage
ment of Europeans is to be inaugurated
in India.
Consul-General Collins at London is
alert in trying to prevent the importa
tion of cholera.
The scarlet fever epidemic of last
winter in London has revived with in
creased virulence.
The town of Schneidmehul, Posen
Germany, is slowly sinking into the
workings of a colliery.
The London City Council want to
spend $3,750,000 on new buildings for
their omcial occupancy,
The French government will ask the
Deputies for a loan of $1,000,000 to help
drought-stricken tanners.
The Berlin correspondents of the
London News and London Standard say
the annv hill will snreiy pp jmoaryi,
Germany is looking for Russia to open
a commercial war against her, owing to
the failure recently of a proposed com
mercial treaty.
llerr Liebknecht, the Social Demo
cratic leader of Germany, favors a mi
litia system in place ot tlie present
standing army.
A number of German army oflicers
are to visit the United States for the
purpose of studying the immense sys
tem of railways.
French paupers are provided for by
the funds arising from a 10 per cent tax
on theater tickets. The tax averages
$10,500,000 a year.
Three lots on the corner of Oxford
street ami Oxford circus, London.brought
at auction the other day a price equal to
?u a square loot.
The Czar has officially thanked the
Commissioners who negotiated the
extradition treaty between Russia and
the tinted Status.
Tho Queen has decided that there
shall be ten bridesmaids at the royal
wedding, and that they shall all be her
own grandchildren.
A new cruiser to bo called Minerva
and to cost $2,000,000 is to bo built for
the British navy, and its construction
will be begun at once.
The attention of the British House of
Lords has been directed to the increas
ing danger of navigation in the Red Sea,
owing to the absence of lights.
On many of the railways in Germany
the practice of starting locomotive fires
with gas instead of wood has been
adopted, and proves economical.
H. L. Williams, United States In
spector of Emigrants at Liverpool, is
lieing denounced in the local press for
the undue severity of his methods.
The Uindon Times says there are
fresh rumors of trade failures in Aus
tralasia and the banks there do not
want to send gold back to England.
Mrs. Langtry and the Duchess of
Montrose have joined John Strange
ll'n.la.'. v.. r".!.,. I fri.
v iiiiuuiiu League, iiie
cague now numbers 11.000 members.
Sixty-thousand Italian ladies, led by
tho flower of the aristocracy of Rome, are
petitioning the Chamber against divorce,
which they contend is an offset against
religion.
Endeavors are being made to realize
the contemplated Scandinavian exhibi
tion, which has been discussed a good
deal the last year or two, in Stockholm
in the year lSlHi.
Only four prominent Australian banks
are solvent at the present time, and in
the failure of the fourteen or more
bank in that country England lost
about $i:i0,000,000.
There have been set on foot in Glas
gow an association for the protection of
uninsured depositors in Australian
banks, and one for the protection of
insured depositors.
The revenue returns of Xew South
ales for .May show a decrease of 120,
000 as compared with Mav, 1SI2. Cus
toms returns for May fe'll oil" 50,000,
and railway receips 30,000.
An experimental boring made by tlie
Prussian government in the Rvbnik
district of Prussian Silesia has' been
carried to the depth of a mile and a
quarter, and is still progn-ssing.
The plague of locusts in Algeria is so
phenomenal that a moving train was
recently delayed for two hours, the
engine being powerless to drag the car
riages through the bed of insects.
The Chinese government appears to
be awakening to the fact that the rapid
increase in the sale of Indian teas in
Europe may U due in part to causes for
which the Chinese growers are respon
sible. A curious and very objectionable
crank is one who has developed in Birm
ingham, England. He goes about with
a long sleel hat pin, and stabs all fash
ionably dressed ladies whom he en
counters. The private secretary of Lord Rose-Is-rv.
irovcrnment lna.l. nf .1... 11
, y : : mi- nous?
ol Lonls, has been made a Peer simplv
to enable him to have unimpeded access
to Ins noble master at all times when
the upH-r branch is in session.
The Italian Cabinet threatens to re
sign unless the lnk law advocated hv
the government is adopted by the
Deputies. The Premier said the' coun
try is likely to be shaken hv a financial
panic tinier something is done.
Prince Bismarck is due at Kissingen
July l., and will remain therv at least
tlm-e week. The Prince Regent has
addressed him an autograph letter in
-nun ne oners pi p ace a Mate carriage
d'isHr0' lh0 fUrt frvn, at his ,
Gahrielle Bompard tin .-.-. i; i
the notorious murderer Evraud, is re
cviymg daily osiers of marriage in the '
l'" nerv sue is undergoing punish
ment. Mi reiviyes doiens of letters
weekly, ot ail kinds and from eierv
part ol Europe, some coining even from
America. One show
.... a MC.( -
uis management after her rvlese.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Wbeat Nominal. Quote: Valley,
$1.10ial.l5; Walla Walla, 1.02 per
cental.
FLOCB, FEED, ETC.
Flour Standard, $3.40; Walla Walla,
$3.40; graham, $3.00; superfine, $-'.00
per barrel.
Oats White, 45c per bushel; grey,
42343c; rolled, in bags, $o.2o(ab.o0; bar
rels, $6.o0'?b.io: cases, fj.io.
Hay Best, $15.17 per ton; common,
$10..i 13.
Millstcffs Bran, ?l.ou; snorus,
$22.00; ground barley, $20.24; chop
feed, $18 per ton ; whole teed, parley, ou
85c per cental; middlings, $2328;
ner ton: brewinz barlev. y0295c per
cental; chicken wheat, $1.22S(S1.25 per
cental.
DAISY PRODUCE.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 22j
(425c: fancv dairy. 171!.fu20c; fair to
good, 10' loo ; common, lZ'sc per pounu ;
California. 35'i44c per roll.
Cheese Oreiron, ll(al3c; Eastern
Twins, 10c; Young American, llie; Cal
norma Bats, 14c per pound.
Eoos Oregon, loe per dozen.
Poultry Chickens, old, $3.50(33.75
broilers, large, $3.00(a4.00; small, $2.00(a
2.50; ducks, old, $4.50(6.00 ; young,
$3.00(6.00; geese, $'J.U0 per dozen ; tur
keys, live, 12tc ; dressed, 15c per pound,
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Vegetables Cabbage, l,lagl?4C per
pound: potatoes, $1.60 for Garnet Chilis;
$1.75 for Burbanks; new, $1.50
per cental; new California onions,
$1.50 per cental; asparagus, $1.75
per box; radishes, 10 12 'c per dozen;
green Oregon onions, 10c per dozen;
cucumbers, 40c per dozen ; Oregon cu
cumbers, 75cfl.00 per dozen; string
beans, 10(2 lie per pound; Oregon peas,
l.lz(s2c per pound.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $5.50(56.00 per
box; California new crop, $4.50t5.50
per box; bananas, $1.50(23.00 per bunch j
oranges, seedlings, $2.22.75 per box; na
vels, $3.50(24.00; strawberries, 2(S3c
per pound ; pineapples, $(5.00 per dozen ;
cherries, (K)c(2 1.50 per box ; Oregon Royal
Ann cherries, $1.35 per box ; gooseber
ries, 3(43 '.jc per pound; red Astrachan
apples, $1.25 per box; new California
apples, $1.50 per bushel; peaches, $1.25
(ai.oo per oox; apncois, 14(520; black
berries, $1.50 per 15-pound crate; peach
plums, $1.75 per box; new pears, $1.00
per box.
STAPLE GROCERIES.
Dried Fruits Petite prunes, ll12c:
silver, ll(ol4c; Italian, 13.415c; Ger
man, ll(ttl2e; plums, 8(u 12c; evaporated
apples, 10(iTlc ; evaporated apricots, 15
(ftl7jac; peaches, 12(214c; pears, 7llc
per pound.
Honey Choice comb, 18c per pound;
new uregon, lb(2 20c; extract, 9(u l0c
Salt Liverpool, 100s, $15.00; 60s,
$10.00; stoca, fio.uotiu.oo.
Coffee Costa Rica, 22c; Rio. 22c:
Salvador, 21,Ue ; Mocha, 20 30c ; Java,
24,16a30c; Arbuckle'a and Lion, 100
pound cases, 24 85-100c per pound; Co
lumbia, same, 24 85-100c.
Kick Island, $4.75i! 5.00 ; Japan,$4.75 ;
iNew urieans, f4.ou per cental.
Beans Small whites, 3.'ac: pinks.
334c; bayos, 3a'c; butter, 4c; lima, 4c
per pound.
Sykop Eastern, in barrels, 40(355c;
in half-barrels, 42.2 57c; in cases, 35,2)
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per kea; California.
in barrels, 20tij40e per gallon; $1.75 per
"eg.
Sugar Net prices: D,53c; Golden C,
618t-; extra C, 5JBc ; confectioners' A,
O'.jc; dry granulated, 05c: cube.
crushed and powdered. 7'j'c per pound:
J-4C per pound discount on all grades for
prompt cash; maple sugar, 15(all5c per
pound.
canned goods.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted,
$1.75.2 2.00; peaches, $1.85(2 2.10; Bart
lett pears, $1.75Ai2.00; plums, $1.37 's
1.50; strawberries, $2.25w2.45; cherrfes,
$2.25(22.40; blackberries, $1.85(22.00;
raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25 (
2.80; apricots, $I.05c2.00. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches. $1.25: plums.
$1.00(2.1.20; blackberries, $1.25(21.40 per
uom-ii. 1 10 irons, gauous, assorted,
to.iotira.ou; peaches, 5.00(3 4.00 ; apri
cots, $3.50((i;4.00; plums, $2.75(23.00;
blackberries, $4.25(24.50.
Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s,
$2.40; chipped, $2.55(24.00; lunch
tongue, Is, $4-; 2s, $0.7o; deviled ham
$1.75i $2.15 per dozen.
Fish Sardines, .'is, 75c(2$2.25; '..'s,
$2.15(24.50; lobsters, $2.30(23.50; sal
mon, tin 1-lb talis, $l.25(ii$1.60; flats,
$1.76; 2-lbs, $2.25(22.50; js-barrel, $5.60!
PROVISIONS.
Eastern Smoked Meat and Labd
Hams, medium, uncovered, l'j(2T7)acper
pounu; covered, 10(21,0; nains, large,
uncovered, lStiilfc; covered, 15'4(ri
10l..c; breakfast bacon, uncovered. 10l
3 18'ac ; covered, 15'V ( It! i.,c ; short clear
sides, id4(iii4'...c; dry salt sides, 12'
213l...c; lard, compound, in tins, 11(
1M per pound: pure, in tins. 14(215.-:
vrvgon lam, ll.-jIfll'oC.
LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT.
Beef Prune steers. $3.85(34.00;
choice steers, $3.50(23.75; fair to good
mecru, f.i.uvyio.ou ; good 10 Choice COWS,
$3.00(ir3.50; common to medium cows.
f-.ouii.io; uresseu oeei, f 0.00(2 7.00.
.mutton Choice mutton, $2.75;
dressed, $0.00(2 $7.00; lambs, $2.00(22.50;
dressed, $,.00; shearlings, 2'4c, live
weight.
Hons Choice heaw, $0.50(20.75; me
dium, $0.00; light and feeders, $0.00(2;
u.uo; uresseu, i.oo.
Ykal $5.00(20.00.
hops. wool and iiioks.
Hops 10(2 l'c per pound, according
IU lUtlll ,
Wool Umpqua valley, 14i215c; fall
cup, lot i4c ; uiamette valley, 13(
ne, according to quality; Eastern Ore
gon, Ot 14c per pound, according to
cunuuion.
Hides Dry hides, selected npii
tun 8c; green, (elected, over 55 pounds,
4c; under 65 pounds, 3c; Bheep peltg
short wool. 30.2 50c: medium, ilili.i
long, 1XV(2$1.25; shearlings, 10(220c; fal
low, jjuou 10 cuoice, 3(3 ac per pound.
baos and bagging.
Burlaps. 8-onnee. 4i).in.-l, nni
... i-...i . . ,.,,'-.
, urn lajis, io-s-ouiice, 40-inch, net
isu, ,c; Duriaps, 12-onnce. 45-lnch.
V; burlaps, 15-ounee, 00-inch, Pnac'
burlaps, 2ii-ounce, 7tl-inch, 14c; wheat
bacs, Calcutta. 2:5x.!ii m .
2-busliel oat hairs. 7c, ' 8W
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tin I. C. charcoal. 14 -Jo nrtm.n...i
itv
$S.50.il.00 per hoi: f IIP IStuti.iu 'l
extra per box; . C. coke plates, 14x20
prune quality, f7.50 2 8.00 per box ; terne
plate, 1. l . prime quality, $('..50 a 7.00.
AlLa Base nnotntiioxi- l.,n ..
steel. $2.35; wire. $2.75 per keg. '
SrsKi. Per pound, 10ae.
LEAD-lVr pound, 41,"e; bar, 6sc.
Cm In South Amrrira.
Ducks swim the world ovor Vm
ffeese do not. In South
domestic specie is found that cannot
an onlinary hen in aquatic
no-
It has lived so long
in country whom n-nto. i i
found ill wells that it b-.a W !
lost its
nuuc Mates and abilities cntirelr
Sport Afield.
awii to IU rrond.
r. i,
jicv.aD.iv- An yeve
raised
,1, i (
" Alurpuv iwith nri.lAi &...
oolaceuiia. Mrs. McCanty. '
FAEM AND GAUDEX
Bran Can be Fed to X car.
All Kinds of Stock. '
SHORT AGRICULTURAL
POIXTi
The Process of Grading Up Brin
't
une continually Nearer to
the Full Flood.
The May condition of barlev was W
points below that of last year".
Just as well have two crops from mrsi
ol tne garden. It helps to make tte
Plant corn, peas, beans, as well nj
islies and lettuce, at intervals for a sat s
cessiou ui crops,
Ground barlev is an excellent fnl i. t
fattening hogs. It is a good plan to mil. I
ize everything that will help to vary the (
ration from an exclusive corn diet. t
Horses are very fond of carrots, and I
carrots are very good for the hnrso. I
Tl i ll.i . . vc-
meee are iwo excellent reasons lor feed,
ing them more than is usually dona.
Liberal feeding of the best foods is.
of the ways for maintaining tho fertility
of the farm. Good food makes rich mi.
nure, and rich manure makes fertile soil.
Because a man is farming cheap land
is no reason why he should be content
wiiu cneap block, uoou cauie Will pav
the new settler in the West as well ?
any one else.
The process of grading no brinus on t
continually nearer to the full blood, J
which is the source of u'.l satisfaction
and profit in stock-keeping. Any croa
wnicu aoes not woric toward tliat is fu- i
tile. I.
All colts which are not first-class in I
themselves and eligible to resist rati
eiiould be converted into geldings and f
marketed as soon as thev can be made i
tit. Keep the best fillies for brood f'
mares. f,
The work horses will wear out iust the t
same as the wagons and the farm iuiple- f
menis. iaKe goou care ol tnem bv I
keeping them well groomed, and yoii
can lengthen their period of usefulness
just as you can that of the machinery
Dy keeping it well oiled.
x ue poiaio neeus mucn moisture in i
order to make a successful growth. But !
hub euouiu uoi leau one into ine errorol
planting on a low, wet piece of land, aa
such cannot produce a mealy tuber.
Land that keeps moist, but is well
drained, should be chosen.
The pressing question for American
farmers to study to-day is that of a mure
economical production. The interests
are too wide for any scheme for controll
ing markets and prices to be of an v avail.
Produce more per acre and you will hare
a profit in spite of low prices.
It is easier to train a horse than to
break it. In fact, the latter practice has
become antiquated, and we are glad to
say few farmers follow it. Still it is well,
enough to bear in mind that there is
decided difference between the two, espe
cially if you have some colts coming in.
Sheep are profitable stock only when
a' profitable kind is kept and in a profit
able manner. The man who thinks
sheep of chief value as scavengers, and
keeps them mainly for that purpose and
without much regard to breed or feeu,
will not be apt to find their feet golden
to his land.
Most of the people on the farm learn
to milk, but not all of them become good
milkers. Some make very hard work of
what should be an easy task. If vou
want the best results, see'that the milker
is quiet, easy and firm in his methods.
If lie requires much muscular exertion
and bodily motion in tlie labor of ex
tracting the milk, he is not a good man
for tlie place.
If you keep poultry, regard it as part
of tlie farm stock, and give commensu
rate feed and care. If vou think the
fowls are of no account, they will surely
prove themselves so to you. Just noir
we would suggest that the young chicks
be kept dry, not allowed to run about in
the wet grass in the early morning. It
will have much to do with" keeping them
wed, and that way profit lies.
FEEDING BRAN.
With nearly all kinds of stock bran
can lie fed to a good advantage, and es
pecially go during the summer. At the
prices it is usually sold at during the
summer it makes one of the very cheap
est foods that can be supplied. Some
use more or less in the dairy ; but, while
it makes a valuable food for the cows
and the teams, brood mares and growing
ligo can ue given more or less to a good
advantage. It can be fed for milk, for
growth, to add to the variety and for
manure. For fertilizing alone it adds
nearly or quite its cost to the manure,
and for the purpose at least it is worth
twice the Value of course meal ("Inn
advantage in feeding it is that there is
little or no waste, is easily assimilated
and contains but a small amount of in
digestible materials. It is also in con
dition to be combined to a good advan
tage with other materials. In itself it
is not a complete food; in feeding in
nearly all cases its lt
cured by feeding in connection with
other materials. With the milch cows
oilmeal, cornmeal and bran with good
pasturage make a complete ration for
milk and butter.
ltll growina Dii bran run ha lined
with middlings, irround oats, barlev or
cornmeal. and if made into slon with
sweet skim milk with any of these, it
w ill aid materially in securing a Rtronir.
vigorous growth with good development
of bone and muscle. 1-or t.h loom limn
can be combined with almost anv kind
of gnun with a benefit, while with un-
ttireshed oats, if thev are run tbrom-h a
cutting box, it makes one of the best
rations that can be supplied.
Many purchase bran all th mutrh the
winter from necessity; in manv localities
from this time on it can be secured at
fair prices, so that generally it can be
bought and used in connection with
other materials to good advantage.
When grain-raising is combined with
stock-feeding the manorial value of all
feeds must be considered if the fertility
of the soil is to be kept np. and with
bran this is one item gained, a it is one
of the best materials that can be fed to
stock when the value of the manure is
an item. It is not best lo dejx-nd on
bran alone, but on nearly all arms more
or less can l used to good advantage.
Tha other night at Rford Junction.
England, an immense swarm of bees -t-'
tied in a lamp case on a signal, aud t:
lamp conld not be nlaced in positi. J
w'thont considerable dansrer. Com -
1"entIy the signal wan abandoned ad
night and fog signals snhstitnted.
ReT. Edward Beecher's adopted daugh
ter received at her bap(ijW the name of
oice Adams, She was one of family
" fifteen children, whom her father, a
&TPat-rrnnrirn f T,a. . .t .
snnoorted bv
Mature."