Lincoln County Leader.
J. F. ITIW4KI, Fabllthar.
TOLEDO OREGON
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Colville Indians Congregating
to Hold a Death Feast.
THE TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE
A SU-Foot Vein of Coal Discovered
in Southeastern Arizona
New Trial Refused.
Tho courts at Salt Lake have lioen
asked to appoint receivers (or the Utah
Central.
Victoria Healers arc much disheart
ened over tin1 low price quoted (or Heal
tkuiH in lnilon
The publication ot tho Territorial En
terpriso is to lo resumed at Virginia
City, Ncv., next month
The Puyallnp Indians have platted an
addition to the city of Taeoma. It will
be called the Columbia Addition,
Testimony in tho opium smuggling
raHe at Portland tends to show the
ring's prolits were $300,000 a year.
Tho shores of tho Columbia along I
Tho Dalles, Or., are thickly lined with
wood piled high in anticipation of a cold
winter.
Tho three naval convicts who made,
their escape from Mare Island Italy,
Hull and Cliffy have reached Canadian
territory.
Delegates are in session In Pluenix, A.
T.. f mm ten of tlin twelve, counties of
the Territory to push the matter of
Statehood.
Northern and Central Now Mexico are
enjoying the biggest mining Ixioin ever
known, and all the work seems to be in
the placer gold diggings.
A six-foot vein of coal has just been
discovered in Southeastern Arizona by
)r. Theu. It. Comstock, Director of the
Arizona School of Mines. The coal is
semi-aulhracito of excellent fuel quality.
Many of the farmers of Pullman,
Wash., will fatten hogs with their dam
aged wheat, and are securing them as
fast as possible, it is estimated that a
bushel of wheat will produce ten pounds
of pork.
A case is now In progress in the Fed
eral Court at Yuma which ull'ecls the
Ixiundurv line between Arizona and Cal
ifornia, and it is helieved by some that
it will result in showing that Yuma is
in California.
Owing to the sickness of one of the
luiora in tho ICvuns ca-e on trial at .lack-
son, Amador county, Cal., the trial has
lieen postponed until January 22. The
jurorswho were sworn in aro now do
li.andiiiir their nav.
Sixty settlers on the south fork of the
ivi'i ii river in i aniornia nave noeu
served with an injunction by Walter
Kankin. who claims priority in the use
of the water, which has been diverted
by theso settlers ahove,
Tho Supreme Court ot California has
refused Charles W'eiger a new trial.
Werner Is the di t-uinkIh merchant con
victeil in Sacramento of obtaining goods
by false and fraudulent pretenses Iruin
the Philadelphia llrm of Sharpies 1 1 run
Later reports from the ship (ioslord
stale that verv little iniiirv has been
done to the bull by the action of the
water, and that the attempt to raise her,
which the tugs Fearless and Relief w ill
undertake, will prohably result success,
fully.
'i'iio olllcers of the City of Toiieka re.
tiort no epidemic of the grip among the
Indians hi the vicinity of Juneau,
Alaska, who were rcoiied as dying by
the hundred. Aleuts, 1,001) miles (roin
Juneau, are suilonng from a grip epi
demic.
Twenty stamps of the great 100-stamp
mill of the Phicnix .Mining I ouipauy
started work at Phicnix, A. I. lhe
mine has la-en opened extensively ill
the last ten months, and w ill now take
rank as one of Any.ona's main bullion
iiroducora.
Judge I .origan of the Superior Court
at San Jose has declared unconstitii'
tional the law passed by tho last l.egis.
lit t u i u requiring City Councils in cities
of not less limn iu,(KSi nor more man
2"i.(Hi0 population to tlx by ordinance at
the Hint regular meeting in July the
salaries of the policemen at not lo
than $100 nor more than fvin air
month and that ot I Inel ot 1'ulieo at
not lens than $125 nor more than $150.
Most of the Indians of the Colville
reservation are gathering at the Ultimo
can river opposite Alma, and w ill soon
commence a week's celebration, or in
other words a "death feast," over two
Indians of iutlucnco w ho were burned
to dentil some time ago. Chief Moses
and other celebrities ol bis tribe will he
present to assist In the ceremonies,
which are to bo of a superstitious
nature.
Jump-Oll-Joo quarts mine, one of the
inosl vaiuanies pieces in mining properly
ill Southern Oregon, belonging tolicorgo
it. llauimerslv A Son, was sold In th-to-
Wr lo T. I. Drew for IH.tHKI, $10,000 to
lie paid November 1 and $30,000 Febru
ary 1, 1804. NovemlH'r 1 Mr. Drew
asked (or an extension of time lo make
the tirst payment, which was granted.
Mr. Drew had Hissession of the mine
and had erected a quarts mill, ami
claim to have expended I'H.HKI, The
payment not having lieoti made Deevin
Iht i, the llamuierslys have petitioned
that James ti. Binlsay In appointed re
ceiver pending an action instituted for
forfeiture of contract.
Work on the various buildings at the
Midwinter Fair grounds has lieen some
what delayed, owing to bad went tier,
but will he pushed us rapidly as Hssihle
(mm this on. One of the most attrac
tive exhibits to lie seen in the mechan
ics' building will lie that made by the
(ieneral F.lcctric Company. This ex
hibit will lie equal to some, of the grand
elcc.trie displai made at Chicago.
Word has U-eu otlicially received by
Director-ticncral le Young through the
Consul of the French government to the
etleet that the Minister ol Beaux Ar
liail given penuissiou to all French
artists who were it-presented at the Co
lumbian eXHisilioii to avail themselves
of the opportunity orb red in the sine
connection at the coming Midwinter
Fnisii-ition. Among the concessioua
w hich have not yet made much show ing
on the grounds is the K-quiunn village.
The village will contain aWuit lilty
persons, men, women, hoys and girU.
TheiO aro now over irirmj -ui ouioi
lugs tinder eouiseol construction at the
ejixwil Ion grounds. April 4 is the day
set for the press eongiess. This date
li Iwrn fixed through the medium of
i.. !,.. Club of San Francisco and
after consultation with the California
State Press Association and other who
Ktnte Pres. Aviation and other, who
are Interested iu ucwPaocr work.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Representative Hoi man favors an in
come tax as a just and equitable mode
ol raising revenue.
Secretary Herbert has appointed as
chief clerk of the Navy Department
lis son-in-law, Benjamin Micon of An-
niston, Ala.
Secretary Herbert in his forthcoming
message will ask Congress to appropri
ate money (or one more battle ship and
four torpedo boats ol F-ncsson type.
Attorney-General Olney has rendered
the opinion that certain notes issued by
orporations during the recent currency
' (amine" are not taxable 10 per cent
uniler the bank cin-ulatii law. The
opinion was addressed to Secretary Car
lisle.
The Postmaster-General recommends
that ten ol the largest postotti'-es, in
eluding San Francisco, which yield one-
third of the total postage revenue, oe
nut in a class bv themselves ami ap
propriations made for them by Congress
without the intervention of the rules
applicable to other postoflices
President Cleveland has appointed
First Lieutenant James .. Sawyer ol
the Filth Artillery Captain and Assist
ant (luarterniasler. i'lus appointment
was made umler prouatily ttie most
strenuous pressure ever brought to In-ar
upon the President. Nearly every First
Lieutenant in the army was a candidate
for promotion
Silver will assert its right to a bearing
in connection with the tarill. It will
come in the shape of a proposition to
nut a dutv on silver importations. In
the Senate, if the plans of those who
have the matter in hand do not miscarry,
an cllbrt to secure this innovation will
lie made in connection with the metal
schedule, and it will be coupled with the
item concerning lead and silver-lead ores.
The purpose of this movement is two
fold, it mav prepare the wav for the
free coinage of the American product of
silver, and it is ejpected to prevent
counterfeiting the American dollar in
other countries and the sending of coun
terfeit coins to the United States.
The treasury Department is some
what concerned over the prospect of
f',ftnctr j-rxMuIrM t Inf) II rides f ll piW III ft
passed upon the eve of adjournment of
the extra session and umler which the
department has just issued regulations.
The supposition is that the Chinese will
comply with the law, but no one can say
delinitely until the experiment is tried.
OMicials themselves are as much in the
dark as anyone. If they should again
refuse, the situation would lie awkward.
It is said the intelligent Chinamen gen
erally did liot object to registration and
really looked upon It as a means ol per
sonal protection, hut the hulk of them
would he controlled by their employers
now as formerly. They do not as a race
take kindly to having their photographs
taken for the puroso, but there is no
reason tosup'iosu that this objection will
long stand in the way of compliance with
the law if the Six Companies ami then
attorneys be not obdurate.
The annual report of the Secretary ol
War gives the usual review of the condi
tion and operations of tho army, and in
addition much spine is devoted especially
to the progress of work on the sea-coast
defenses. Now that Indian warfare is
practically at an end, the gradual con
centration of the army on the sea coast
and frontiers should follow. The work
of fortifying thirteen of the larger sea
ports renders manifestly necos-ary the
conversion of a portion of the infantry
to the artillery arm. The total strength
of the army is 2,1 II ollicers an. I 25,778
enlisted men. The Secretary recoin
mends the repeal of the law fixing Un
years as the maximum period of enlist.
nient and a reduction of the period ol
(Irst enlislin"ht to three years. The
adoption of the new magazine rille is the
moot important stop since the clove ol
the civil war. i be entire infantry (orci
will he equipped with the new arm be
fore the close of the coming new year.
It has been delinitely determined that
the income-tax system lo be reported by
the Wavsaud Means Committee will he
confined to a tax on the net incomes of
all corporal ions and on successions and
legacies. Ilryan, Mc.Millin, Wliitingand
others made a strong light for a plan
broad enough to include all incomes of
individuals in excess of $6,000, hut have
been forced to acquiesce to the will ot
the majority and to abandon a graduated
income tax in lavor ol one applying only
to corporations ami successions. It can
lie conlldenllv announced that, the tax
svstem will he narrowed down to these
specilic limits, unless the recoiiimciidii
t ions of the committee are upset in the
House. The tax on successions and leg
acies applies only to personalty and
moneys. The Democrats of tho commit
tee have also decided to increase the
rates radically on cigarettes and to im
pose a tax on plaviug cards. Hoth of
these niints have been delinitely decided
The internal-revenue tax on whisky ii
still an open question. Tho committee
Is maintaining a studious reticence on
this subject for fear of the manipulations
of speculators on the stock exchange.
The annual report of Commissioner of
Navigation C. O'ltricti, which proves
to Ui his valedictory, is full of matters
of public interest. The tonnage of the
country exhibited an Increase from
4,705,001 in 1802 to 4,825,071 in 1803.
There was a decrease in sailing tonnage,
tint an Increase in steam tonnage
American tonnage engaged in domestic
commerce, w hich is absolutely protected
against lorelgii competition, si owed a
gratifying increase. On the other hand
American tonnage engaged in our foreign
commerce, which is ex posts I to the five
competition of foreign nations, oxhib
ited a considerable decrease. The ton.
nago of l-oth American and foreign ves.
sels entered at our Hirts show a decrease
as a result of the general depression of
trade. The shipping interests of the
tireat lakc have proam'iod greatly dur
ing the last six te.irs. The tonnage
hich passed through the Detroit river
during the vear IN1.' amounted to .'l
785,000 tons, whereas the tonnage which
passed through the Such canal during
the same vear amouutiil to only 7,i 12,
028 tons. The l ake Superior tonnage
which pa-sod through the canal im-rca-ed
from M30.ii.Mi ton- in 1888 to 10,017,20.!
tons in IKU3.
The sugar raisers of thecountry, many
ol whom are not satisilcd with the prop
osition to gradually aliolish the sugar
Uiuntv as intended in the W ilsou bill,
w ill continue the contest hi the Senate
and the House, w ith a hope of securing
moditlcntinn ol the clause if tliev can
not get it stricken out entirely. Thev
a-sort that under promise of continna
iioii ol the iHiunty granted liy the Mo
Kiuley law, n men Ihev const rued as a
tunc contract, tbev bad every reus u to
mipiawe the 2 cents a winud Uninty
wool I he continued for fifteen years (nun
the time the Uninty was provided, and
say they will push their light lo the ut
most limit w ith a hope of securing U t
ter terms than the Wilson bill gives.
They assert that they have made large
i nil' on the strength of this promised
lo nit v. and have made contracts many
yer shea I, controlled by the same con
sideration. Thov say that w ith the busi
ness uiice well started the I'nited States
c in produce all the sugar the people of
this country will consume and thus keep
at home overt 100 lHHUH0 annually now
sent abroad for sugar. The sorghum
and Wt-sngsr men of the West are in
terested in the mimiion. a well a. the
vn n;ar men of Louuvaua.
EASTERN MELANGE.
Edward Parker Deacon Now
in the Social Swim.
THE WHITECAPS IS THE STRIP.
Large Number of Idle Miners on the
Gogebic Bauge Illicit Stills
Destroyed Etc.
Another bridge across the Mississippi
will be built near St. Louis.
Texas people demand a cut in railway
rates to attract immigration.
Rhode Island has voted bv a large ma
jority in favor of plurality elections
Several theaters at Cincinnati have
sued a local union (or damages for a boy
cott.
The driveways of Central Park, New
York, are to be lighted by incandescent
lamps
A "concise" report of the World's
Fair in twenty-five volumes is to be pub
lished. The Kansas State Board of Dentistry
is prosecuting the unlicensed dentists of
that State
The President has removed Postmaster
Thomas of Topeka for violating tho civil
ervice law.
The next session of the Ohio Legisla
ture is likely to pass au act providing (or
biennial sessions
There is one child dependent on char
ily for support in every 100 inhabitants
in .viiw i orn cny
The sale of Columbian postage stumps
was only 1,000,000 instead of 2,oO0,000,
as had been estimated.
A whaling captain says 100 whales
were killed and let go adrift in tho Arc
tic seas the past season.
The widow of Jim F'isk is living in
poverty in a little wooden house in a se
cluded part of South iioston.
Kansas City does not pay for her wa
ter, and the water-works company
threatens to cut oil' the supply.
Whitecaps are making things lively
for " sooners " and lot jumpers in the
recently opened v herukee Strip.
There is a gigantic scheme to connect
New York and Chicago with an electric
railway. Tho time can be shortened ten
hours.
Pneumatic-tube mail-carrier service.
which Postmaster Coveney favors adopt
ing in HoHton, can bo made almost self
sustaining. Ollicers of the Guarantee Investment
Com puny at Chicago have been confided
of using the mails in the interest of a
lottery scheme.
Cincinnati's Mayor wants that city's
population to he swelled by 22,000 by
tnnexing seventy-live square miles in
Hamilton county.
Chicago hotel men complain that their
houses are deserted. A house that hail
1,000 guests a mouth ago now has but
;tuil; and so it runs.
It is estimated by tho Register of the
I'reasury that only alioiit tlA.KOO.OOO of
the registered bonds of the United States
are now held abroad.
The discussion still goes on at Chicago
about retaining the World's Fair struct
ures in Jackson I'ark as long as they can
be preserved against decay.
The strike of catchers and hookers
against a 10 percent reduction in wages
Knows MR) men out of employment in
the New port (Ky.l rolling mills.
As a result of alleged basiling the
Mayor of Omaha has been enjoined fiom
approving a fianchise granted the local
gas company by the City Council.
The idle miners on the Gogebic Range
in Wisconsin number alsiut 1&.IHI0. They
are in a helpless condition, and measure's
are being taken to give them relief.
The Iloitou and .Maine road will ab
sorb the Concord and Montreal and
Maine Central, together with another
road yet unnamed, hy long-time leases.
Prof. Marlowe of tho High School ol
lerro llatite, Hid., who sent Ins young
who to tier parents recently, telling hei
he no longer loved her, has boon dis
missed. The number of distilleries operated
during the year was 4,7-18, a decrease of
I, IN.', compared with 18112, but the di
crease was wholly in the class of fruit
distillers.
Predictions are made at Philadelphia
that the Knights of UilMir as an order
cannot long exist. The way the manage
ment has conducted business has been
very unsatisfactory.
According to the last report of the
state Auditor of Iowa there were 1:14
farmers' mutual insurance companies in
the Slate, which in 1S02 carried over
(10tl,IHHI,(HNJol risks.
lhe New ork market is perceptibly
feeling the results of the destructive
methods that have fur vears been em
ployed in taking lish on the chief grounds
on me .iiaiiiic v oast.
Seven hundred and twentv-two illicit
stills w ere destroyed during the year ami
eighty-four were removed. Tlui'iiumlier
ot persons arrested was 487, and throe
IVpuly Collectors were killed.
A spovial agent of the general laud of
fice, who lias I so n examining the Kainv
l-ako region ol Minnesota, reiHtrta thai
it is invaluable only for minerals and
tinht for any other purKwe whatever.
K.dward Parker Deacon, who shot and
killed M. Abielle in Franco, has been
coidially received in society at Newport,
K. 1. He has lieen introduced and wel
comed at the swell chilis on llellcvuc
avenue
The General Assembly of the Farmers'
Mutual Henellt Association, the national
head ot the tarmcis' Mutual lichcttt
Association ol Illinois, Indiana. Ohio.
West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri ami
Ion a, is in session in Indianapolis.
The eople of Kansas City have de
ctded that a parte system is a mvo-sarv
adjunct to the prosKrity of the town
that the city must ow n its water works,
and that the "ring" which has control
of the municipal government must go
The persistent ravages of diphtheria
in Philadelphia and the heavy resulting
mortality during thel last 'two years
make it imperative that no means should
lie neglected which will give promise ol
omcioocv in the etlurt to stamp it out.
On each day of the Chicago Fair lin
net rtwipts averaged o7,0tJ, The total
rvcvipts from all sources wore (2S,l,M.
Ili8; total cxpenditurvs, 2Y6l0.M7 ;
balamt, t2.tW0.tiIl. From this are de
ducted obligations to the amount of
(48,147, leaving net assets, l,8ti2.4S:t.
Governor lillmau ol South Carolina
roast the Supreme Court, u-ing iu h
expression as " the tail wairs thod.-g"
and "judicial insolence." Referring to
railroa I litigation the Governor sava the
uuluckv marriage Meen the dignity
of the Federal Court and these corpora
tion must U annulled and the owners
of UimU must be made to understand
that there is a point hevond which the
Patience ot a State will not permit them
.go.
PURELY PERS05AL.
Considerable stir has been caused in
London society by the conversion to Ro
manism of a niece of Kt. Hon. John
Morley, Chief Secretary (or Ireland.
Colonel Ingersoll closes his lecture on
Lincoln with these words: "Lincoln
was the grandest figure of fierce civil
war. Lincoln is the gentlest memory oi
our world."
A little lad named Otto Freisel. but 5
vears of age, is delighting Viennese audi
ences with his elocutionary and mimetic
powers. He is an infant prodigy in this
respect, they say.
When a child of 5 Lord Claude Ham
ilton, the new Chairman of the Great
Lastern Itailwav Comrjanv. resented a
supposed alfront by obstinately refusing
lo Kiss the ijueen when sue was on
visit to his parents.
Mine. Blanc, the widely-known writer
of Paris, who is in Chicago, will remain
six months in this country, spending
portions of the time in various cities,
including a stav in Boston as the guest
of Mrs. James T. Fields.
The announcement has been made
that Captain Horatio McKay, the com
mander of the record-breaking Cunaruer
Lucani.i, and Miss Klizabeth Swan, the
daughter of lvlward J. Swan of OyBter
liav, I'. I., are to be married some time
Before Christinas.
John II. Miller, son of William the
Prophet, who founded the Second Ad
vent sect, long known as " Millerites,"
many of whom have prepared to ascend
bodily to heaven at various times, died
recently at Whitehall. N. Y.. aged 71,
strong in his adherence to the views of
his father, who died in 1H41).
Few things are too insignificant to en
gage the attention of the German Em
peror. He recently decided that the
gavotte lanrier should be known in the
future as the court dance in his capital
rather than the " quadrille a la oeur,"
which has long hail that distinction.
The revival of this empire dance is due
to the petition of the association ol Ger
man dancing masters.
James G. Blaine, Jr., the grandson of
the Into Secretary of State, is nowfl vears
old. He has been umler the care of one
mir.'c i-iiicu he wan 2 ycar3 o'.l. The lad
attends a kindergarten in New York, and
it is said that he has some marked traits
of his father's family. He is very slow
to make friends with grown-up persons,
but lsiys will chum with him instantly.
He is quite a sturdy, healthy lad.
Sir Benjamin RichardHon, the eminent
union physician, has been interviewed
about bicycling, lie expressed the opin
ion that the sport was decidedly injurious.
The spine becomes almost an arch; the
chest initio is then affected by the unnat
ural pressure, circulation is unpaired
and no doubt the lungs are
interfered '.
with, too. In fact, there is hardly any
lossible evil effect it does not produce.
Tho railroad rhnpol-car evangelist.
Rev. Boston Smith, is meeting with
great success in the Northwest. Mr.
Smith was the lirst missionary to utilize
the railway car as a chapel. The one he
ih now was built for him by John D.
Rockefeller and others interested. It
will seat Hid people. It is sidetracked
at lonely settlements, where services are
held on Sundays and often through the
week.
Tho Sultan has contributed 700,000
francs from his private purse, to be used
in the prevention of the spread of chol
era in Ins dominions. Part of the money
bo devoted to the construction of
dwelling-houses in lledsjas for the suf
ferers and the building ol a hospital in
which several thousand patients can lie
acoomiipxiateil. I he running expenses
if the hospital will be borne also bv the
Sultan.
BUSINKSS BIIKVITIKS
Nearly as much fish is said to be eaten
iu Ixjhdon as meat.
Several women are einraiied in runninit
elevators In uoston.
Slate pencils are among the novelties
made of aluminium.
1 lio depositors in American savings
nanus iiuihimt 4,moo,uou.
No days of grace are allowed In Paris
on lulls payable at sijiht
Texas has 6,000,000 sheep, and clips
.D.wo.mni pounds ot wool
The great ocean steamers use from UH)
to T.O tons of coal per day.
'lhe Western Union Telegraph Com
puny has 7 10,000 miles of wire.
Pennsylvania has 200 000 farms, which
produce over $.(K),"imj,000 in crops.
Last year New ork spent (i0,000 in
cleaning the streets of snow and ice.
There arc 1.K22 railway corporations
doing imsiness in the United States.
American pumps Bre known in China
and Japan, as well as in all parts of Ku
rope.
Two-thirds of the gold in use in the
world has been discovered withiu fifty
years.
Thelireen Mountain Ixvys sell $l,2ri0,
000 worth ot maplo sugar every twelve
inonins.
Japan is importing live bees, and ex
pivts some time to make all the honev
she needs.
A drop of $5 a ton in steel rails is
ery important advantage to railroad
companies.
The earnings of the Virginia peniten
tiary the last year were $20,000 in excess
ol expenditures.
So'diors do not work, but Krupp keeps
2 1, Ik 0 men constantly employed making
nig guns tor mem.
llutlalo has a new graiu elevator that
can handle 45,000 bushels au hour, one
ot the world s largest.
Wheat that is grown in northern lati
tudes produce much more seed thau
gram giowu farther south.
Mow copies of the Bible have Wen
sold in the past twentv-tive years than
ol any other book published.
Li Hung Chang and a number of other
I hinrse olticials are atniut to start Cot
ton spinning mills at shanghai.
Over SO per cent of the shipping of the
world i iniiii on me ttritin isles, and
cany n.ui oi tins on the Clyde,
a Liverpool noiei nits put in penny-in-tho-slot
gas tires, so that a lire in the
g-ate can lie turned on w hen needed.
In 1.0VO ounce of our gold coinage
inert- mv ounce oi pui gold, teu
ounces oi suver and ninety ol copper,
Previous to 1M0 nail w ere made bv
imnd. It oo-t $1,0X),000 to perfect
machine that came into use that vear.
i-i. i . . - ..
in- inrjcsi gnsomeier in the world i
at lai-t lirvonwieh. l'ngland. When full
it contains lS.OoO.Ono cubic feet of gut.
Texas rain- 1 SV.OVO ha'o of cotton,
which yield nearly $.Vl.iHi.000. The
so ton s', ol p rod uct'cx coed 6W.0OO tons.
It is estimated that Mwcn &0.000aud
7V0iM men, women and children are out
of employment in Philadelphia and vi
cinity. The iewolry manufacture of Attle
lsro, Ma.. this year will fall below
Oi'O.'VV. The output last vear was ft.
2J0.0OO. '
Chicago afreet car rarrid 04,000.000
person dur ng the six month of the
existence of the World' Kair. On IV
ttr U, Chicago dav, thev carried 762 -
OOOpadde. " '
FOREIGN FLASHES.
New System of Management for
the Bank of England.
PRIMROSE LEAGUE OF ENGLAND
The Spanish Municipal Elections-
Revolting Treatment of Pa
tients in Asylums.
European navies employ 300,000 men
Liverpool has more exports than Lon
don.
London uses 203,000,000 gallons of
water a day.
Bavaria has a violent influenza epi
demic. The Portuguese Cabinet is to be reor
ganized. All the dangerous Anarchists in France
are in jail.
The assessed valuation of Cape Town,
Africa, is $18,285,085.
The Primrose League of England now
has 1,100,501 members.
Monarchists made large gains in the
Spanish municipal elections.
Italy may be allowed by her allies to
reduce her'army by two corps.
Dervishes are advancing along the
east and west banks of the Nile.
The British South Africa Company
will increase its capital $1,000,000.
The Pope's health is very feeble, and
it is not believed hecan live'until March.
The Marquis of Huntly has been
elected rector of the University of Aber
deen. The Prince of 'Wales opened the Bride
Lane Polytechnic Institute with an ad
dress. Americans are leaving Paris because
the inllnenza has appeared in some oi
the hotels.
The London press unites in advising a
new system of management for the Bank
o( England.
HerrN'agel, a spirit refiner of Ham
burg, has (ailed with liabilities amount
ing to $750,000.
Revolting treatment of patients in
asylums near Berlin is charged by the
Berlin Vorwaerts.
Prospects are bright (or early agree
ment between Russia and Germany on
a commercial treaty.
The spread of influenza in Kussli is
increasing, it is also prevalent in a
mild form in England.
Jylovd s recorder on November W re
ported 144 w recks, the highest ever re
ported lor a single day
The great new bridge across tho
Thames, opposite the Tower of London,
is now very nearly mushed.
Kaiser William worries because the
negotiations for a commercial treaty
with Kussia move so slowly
Danseuse Sylvia Grev of the Gaiety
Theater, 1mdon, has wedded R. L. Ken-
wick, an alleged rich American.
A great railway svstem in the course
of construction will girdle the Holy
band from one end to the other.
There aro in London 120,000 barmaids
Thev are on dutv from fifteen and a half
to eighteen and a half hours a day.
At a recent conference of Swiss hotel
proprietors it was decided to do away
with the system of fees to servants.
Cholera quarantine has cost four
Armenian districts $15,000,000 loss iu
trade, and the famine is increasing.
It is stated that 12,000 people per
ished in the earthquake at Kuchan, Per
sia, together with 50,000 head of cattle,
A prote-t a ' linst an increase in the
Berlin Bourse tax and a petition for its
rejection will be presented to the Reich
stag. The underground electric system
works faultlessly at Buda Pesth, where
14.000,000 passengers were carried last
year.
In order to meet tho competition of
omnibuses and tramcars penny fares
have been started as an experiment in
Mel Untrue.
Mr. Stead has launched his ideal jour
nal, the Daily Paper. It is a forty-page
quarto, very much liko a small edition
of the Review of Reviews.
United States Minister Terrill lias ob
tained from Turkey recognition for fe
male physicians, something that has al
ways heretofore been denied.
In spite of the bombardment horse
racing still goes on at Rio de Janeiro.
Thus excitement is kept up inland, as
well as along the water front.
A new method of coloring iron has
boon discovered in England which
entirely prevents rust, even though the
metal lie brought to a red heat.
The government has resolved to make
a large increase in the Austrian artillery
forces from the lirst of the year. Forty
two new regiments w ill be added.
Mrs. Kea, widow of Dr. John Rea,
the Arctic explorer, has presented her
late husband's collection of Arctic and
other curiosities to the University of
Kdiuburgh.
After nearly sixteen weeks o( idleness
over :t50,(HH) eon I minors went back to
work on Novenilier 20, thus formally
ending one of the greatest and most
ustlv strikes on record.
in Richmond Turk near London 1,300
bushels of acorns have been gathered
this season (or feeding tho door during
the w inter. Acorns have been unusually
plentiful all over England.
The Chilean Times announces that
the .government has resolved to promote
the establishment ot a national line of
steamer between Chili and Europe,
calling at Plate and Brazilian ports.
In gratitude for the treatment the
Russian navy received at Paris the
iH-ople of St. Petersburg are going to
have a bell cast larger than any now in
in France and send it to the cathedral
of Notre Dame de Paris.
France is indicted w ith a now form of
counterfeit coin. Manv 20-frane pieces
in circulation are made of platinum,
gold-plated. The weight and ring are
the same a the real article, and they
can 1h- detected only by scratching
through the gold surface.
Swindler in Rome, among them a
woman calling herself the Countess of
Saint Arnaud. have collected in the last
few months $15,000. They asserted that
the Pope was ajt impostor, whi.n th
real Leo XIII i imprisoned in a cell
in tho Vatican and they were trving to
secure hi liberation and so worked on
the feeling of piou people.
Commander Montell, the French
officer who is to make an expedition
into Central Africa, has had a Hat-bottom
ferry-boat constructed which has
a capacity o( fifteen tons and weighs
only 2.000 pound. The metal part of
l ie vessel weigh 1.S00 pounds and its
hull i made of plate of aluminium 4
i long 2 bit 4 iuche. wide TnV"4
' qTm wh tUiTk.
MARKET.
Whxai Valley,
92c; Walla Walla,
82jc per cental.
HOPS, WOOL AUD BIDES.
Hops '92s, nominally at 1016c per
pound, there being none in the market;
new crop, '93s, 10160 for strictly
choice, and nominally at 8c (or medium.
Wool Prices nominal.
tj u rw alfwtp! nrime. 5c . green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3c; under
no I. od. ihun nelts. shearlings,
owi!.. muliiim. 20035c: lone wool,
30a60c; tallow, good to choice, 334c
per pound.
LIVC AS a DBESBBD MI AT.
Beef Top steers, per pound; fair
...wvl itwril. 2c t No. 1 cows, 2c:
fair cows, l'5c; dressed beef, 13.50(25.00
Mciton Best sheep, $2.00; choice
mutton, $.175(s2.00; lambs, $2.00(32.2o.
Hoos Choice heavy, 5.00(a 5.50; me
dium. H.oU'ttO.uu; ngut auu iotoh,
$4.50(25.00; dressed, $0.50.
Veal $3.00(35.00.
provisions.
Easters Smoked Meats and Labd
Hams, medium, 13 'j(gl4c per pound;
ha.no Ww. 13r214c: hams, picnic.
U(dl2u; breakfast bacon, 15(2T0c;
short clear sides, 12(U3c; dry salt sides,
ll(211lc; dried beef hams, 13tl3'c;
lard, compound, in tins, 10(4 lie per
pound; pure, in tins, 12 14c; pigs' feet,
80s, $5.50; pigs' leet, -jus, .uu.
FmiTR. FEED. ETC.
FinnR-Portland. 12.90: Salem, $2.90;
Cascadia, 2.90; Dayton, $2.90; Walla
Walla, $3.15; Graham, $2.50; superfine
2.2o per barrel.
Oats 35(3.360 per bushel; rolled, in
bags, $6.25(o6.50; barrels, $6.75(37.00;
oases. 13.75.
Mh.lstuffs Bran. $15.00; shorts,
l(i.O0: eround barley, $18.00; chop
feed, $15 per ton ; w hole feed, barley, 70c
. r - i.i,: .O'j oo ...... .
percental; nnumiiigs, ovijo yvi wu
chicken wheat, n.iuigi.io per cenuu,
Hay Good, $10(3.12 per ton.
DAIRY PBODUCB.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 30(3
32 'c: fancy dairy, 25(127 k,c; fair to
good, 20(tt22,'cj common, lb($Yi2c per
pound.
Cheese Oregon. 1012Wc; Califor
ma. itiiu-i-tu: luuiig niuuiiitt,
Swiss, imported, 3032o; domestic, 18
wlZOc per pound.
tons uregon, auc per aozen; j!,asi-
ern, zb iCziyc.
Poultry Nominal; chickens, mixea,
$2.O0rd3.50; ducks, $3.50(d4.50; geese.
$y.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 14c per
pound; dressed, toa;ioc.
veoetauleh and fruits.
Vegetables Cabbage, Is per pound;
potatoes. Oregon, 7oc per sack; onions.
if 1.50 per sack ; sweet potatoes, l'fal.'ic
per pound ; Oregon celery, dO(aouc.
Fruits Sicily lemons, $5.0O(5.50 pet
box; California new crop, $4.00(34.50
per lox : bananas. $1.50(33.00 per bunch ;
Florida oranges, $4.50 per box; Cali
fornia, H5.00vu5.50; grapes, 6090c
per liox; apples (buying price), green,
(i0(375e. per box; red, bowOOc; cranber
ries, $0.00 per barrel ; persimmons, fi.ou
per box.
staple groceries.
Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 2!228c; Ar
buckle's. Columbia and Lion, 100-pound
cases, 25.30c per pound.
Honey Choice comb, loc per pound;
new Oregon. 16(320c: extract, 9(310c.
Dried Fruits 1803 pack, Petite
prunes, 8(3, 10c; silver, 1012c; Italian,
ii... in... Q.?lOn. ..I... ..a A.1ibt.
IM" H'l; , vicuiiaii, oiu.ivi, piuiiin, uvutxuv,
evaporated apples, 8(3 10c; evaporated
apricots, 15(od6c; peaches, 10(12,L2C
pears. 7(311c per pound.
Salt Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s,
$10.00; 60s, $10.50; Btock, $.&Uia.0U.
Beans Small whites, 3(i3'ic; pinks,
34c; bayos, 33'c; butter, 4c j lima,
3'..c per pound.
Rice lBland,$5.756.00; Japan, none
in market; New Orleans, $5.50(3,6.25 per
cental.
Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 40(g55c;
iu half-barrels, 42(357c; in cases, 35(3
80c per gallon ; $2.25 per keg ; California,
in barrels, 20(3. 40c per gallon ; $1.75 per
keg.
Suoar D, 4'c ; Golden C, 4la'c ; extra
C, 4 '4c; confectioners' A, 6 l8c; dry gran
ulated, 5'4c; rube, crushed and pow
dered, O'hc per pound; J-c per pound
discount on all grades lor prompt cash;
maple Bugar, 15(3 16c per pound.
CANNED GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted,
$1.75(32.00; peaches, $1.85(32.00; Bart
iett pears, $1.75(32.00; plums, $1.37'a(g
1.50; strnwlierries, $2.25(32.45; cherries,
$2.25(32.40; blackberries, $1.85(22.00;
laspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25(3
2.80; apricots, $1.65. Pie fruits,
assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums,
$1.00(31.20; blackberries, $1.25(3,1.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted,
$3.15(33.50; peaches, $3.50(34.00; apri
cots, $3.50iu;4.00; plums, $2.75(23.00 -.
blackberries, $4.25(24.50 ; tomatoes,$1.10.
Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.40; 2s,
$2.10; chipped, $2.35; lunch tongue, Is.
$3.50; 2s, $6.75; deviled ham, $1.60(2
2.75 er dozen.
Fish Sardines, 4'8, 75o2$2.25; s,
$2.15(34.50; lobsters, $2.30(23.60; Bal
iiion, tin 1-lb tails, $1.25(21.50; flats,
$1.75; 2-lbs, $2.25(3.2.60; i-barrel, $5.60.
BAGS AND BAGGING.
Burlaps, 8-ounce, 40-inch, net cash,
6c; burlaps, lO-onnce, 40-inch, net
cash, 0',.c; burlaps, ll'v-ounoe, 45-inch,
Sjc; burlaps, 16-ounce, 60-inch, lie;
burlaps, 10-ounce, 76-inch, 14c; wheat
bags, Calcutta, 22x36, spot, 8c; 2-bushel
oat bags, 73.,c; No. 1 selected second
hand bags, 7c; Calcutta hop cloth, 24-
ounce, tug
miscellaneous-
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, 3.ou(r.uu per box ; tor crosses, $:
extra per box; 1. C. coke plates. 14x20.
prime quality, $7.60(38.00 per box; terne
piaie, i. v., prune quality, fo.DUig7.UU
Nails Base quotations: Iron, $2.25;
sieei, -..k; wire, per keg.
Steel Per pound, 10lc.
Lead Per pound. 41;c : bar. 6'e.
NavalStorks Oakum, $4.50(25.00 per
uaio; resin, per 480 pounds;
tar, Stockholm, $13 ; Carolina, $9 per bar
rel ; pitch, $tl per barrel ; turpentine, 65c
per gallon in car lots.
. Io! Bar, 2'c per pound ; pig-iron,
T V fVI Hill,
Mrs. Colin Campbell conducts a novel
pusiness in Rochester, N. Y. She is the
proprietor of a "cricket farm." She
soli the little insects to the snpersti-
nous, woo oeueve tn the luck that
crickets bring.
Kansas Populists are greatly agitated
over .Mrs. Leases acrid attacks on the
Governor and the Populist administra
tion, and are talking of depriving her of
the office she holds and dumping her
uui ui me party,
A (tcmin u4 Thrr WaliH.
Him E. L. Moore, a teacher iu Elk
mountain school district. Carbon county
y., was uitervepted on her way to
school tbe other day br three wolves
She jumped down the bank of a stream
and escaped the wolves, but broke
through the ice and caught culd in ooa
jijuence. San Francisco Call
Am fnr, in lnaurm.
The Imtustn: I S.-iety of Mil I house of
fer a silver uiedal for the application
in any form of electricity to calico print-
' lag. .w ork Journal.
PORTLAND
FAEM AND GARDEN.
The Demand for
Good Mutton
Surely
Increasing.
STEWART RATION FOR BUTTER.
Treat the Farm Hand Humanely
White Corn More Fattening
Than the Yellow.
Remember damp and drafts are both
roup producers. .
Frost is not the purifier that fire is
keep the henhouses clean.
Be sure and put all tools carefully un
der shelter before they are rusted or
otherwise damaged.
Sweet potatoes which are to be kept
through the winter must be handled
with the greatest care.
When feeding corn to cattle be sure
that yon let the hogs follow them and
thus utilize the waste food.
In building corn cribs raise the floors
from the ground high enough to prevent
rats harboring under them.
Continue tile draining until you are
done or the weather stops further work.
Unde-drains, well put in, always pay.
Provide enough bedding for vour ani
mals so they will be :om for table in cold
weather. .Leaves, straw, etc., are good.
Attend the literary society i( there is
one in your neighborhood; take part,
and thus benefit others as well as your
self.
A plow of poor shape or a mistake in
fixing the line of draught makes poor
work and hard work for both man and
team.
There are some lands upon which fall
plowing means a decided saving of time
and labor in the spring. Have you that
kind?
Treat Hie farm Laud humanely, but
impress upon him that his work must
be done regularly, honestly and thor
ough'. At the present prices for good farm
land one can hardly alTord to pay rent.
Better invest the money in a little place
of your own.
Keep a supply of buckles, rivets, etc..
on hand to repair harness. By making
repairs in tune much time and money
may be saved.
Have a box in the back part of the
corn wagon and into it throw the best
formed ears. Dry these and put into a
secure place for seed next season.
There is surely a growing demand for
good mutton. Farmers are slowly learn
ing that it is always the most profitable
thing to raise a high grade of sheep.
It is not so many years since a beef
had to be at least four years old before it
was fit for the market. Now the best
beef is sold at a little over two years.
The quantity of hay imported into
Great Britain in 1892 was 61,000 tons.
It came from ten countries of Europe;
principally from Russia and Holland.
The flinty, glazed-surface corn has ex
cess of starch, and the large, shriveled,
dull-colored seed has excess of sugar.
White corn is more fattening than the
yellow.
A million acres of oats were grown
this year in Scotland, and only 280,000
acres were devoted to all theothergrains
together. The value of the oat crop is
fixed at $35,000,000.
The Stewart ration for butter is fifteen
pounds cut Japanese clover, six pounds
lioilod cotton seed, two pounds cornmeal,
six pounds wheat bran, to be given in
mree leeus aauy, me smallest at noon.
To keep a horse in condition it should
be kept at work. Tread powers are ex
cellent for that purpose, as the grain
mills, feed cutters and fan mills can be
operated by horse power during the win-
ler.
TUE SEED END OF POTATOES,
The question whether the seed end of
potatoes should be removed before tho
seed is planted has long been mooted
among potato growers. Most of them
have decided that the seed end should
be removed, or rather that the noiato
should be 6o cut as to give each set one
to three good eyes or buds. If whole
potatoes are planted, manv varieties
having a multitude of seed eyes will
send ont far too many shoots. These
will crowd each other like so many weeds,
and a great amount of verv small pota
toes will be the result. Varieties of po
tatoes that have but few eyes, and espe
cially those that are very strong growers,
will be better with Whole seed. The
crowding in this case increases the num
ber of potatoes, and they will nearly all
grow to remarkable size. If they have
a less number of shoots, the potatoes
will be fewer and grow rough, pronged
and unwieldy in size and Bhape. We
notice that the Wisconsin station has
been experimenting with potatoes with
results that do not agree with
the conclusion of practical Eastern
farmers. It finds that the whole potato
with the seed end left on gave not only
a larger yield of merchantable potatoes,
but a larger yield altogether than the
potato did where the seed end was re
moved. The Early Rose and Snowflake
potatoes were the kinds chosen for the
experiment. The result might have been
more favorable for the cut potato if some
stronger growing varieties had been
chosen to experiment with.
OLD METHODS AND NEW.
Governor Flower in his address at the
Orange county fair urged farmers to rec
ognize the change that is making from
old methods to new, to get nway from
the old ideas and ways and to make
uiviicj uy catering
to
me expensive
lasies oi modern
CltV folk. To atnn
growing grain and go to market garden
ing. Said he: "The cultivation of wheat
yields about $15 an acre in New York on
an average, and that of corn about $18
an acre. How much more profit there
is in raising sweet corn for canning pur
poses at $50 an acre, asparagus at $180
an acre, beets at $150, eelerv at $00,
cabbage at $130, watermelons at $80,
muskmelons at $150, peas at $67, sweet
po-atoes at $65, tomatoe at $165, grapes
at $122. peaches at 150, strawberries at
$300. currants at $120 and so on indefi
nitely, or in using for making choice
dairy products, to sell at fancy prices,
breeding good horses or raising poultry,
the consumption of whose products is
increasing faster than the consumption
of wheat or corn, and the value of whose
product in the entire country is greater
than that of the wheat crop."
The dividends paid by the vartona
mining rouipuniea last year were greatly
in excess of those of the yeai before and
indicate increased labor in tnis industry
More than two-third of the agncnl
tnral implements, abrogating fTM oou
imported into Natal, South Africa last
year, were from the United Sutea
A New York man wbo waa liberated
from a htwpital a few day ago daotvtl
so violently for joy that he bunt a blood
teaael and died.