linroln fniintv Ipdpr
wuvv,u vvumvj ivuuvi.
J 11 w 1
J. F. ITIWtKT, Pobllibar. kota for (500.000.
i The United State hat 686 vessels en
TOLEDO OREGON f ,?ed exclusively in foreign trade. Great
I Britain has 6,908.
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Beach-Combers in Old Tacoraa
liaise Their Shacks.
PORTLAND OPIUM-SEIZURE CASES
Much Discussion and Alarm Among
Southern California Iieemen
Over a Bee Dlseasw.
Astoria capital will erect salmon
Roberts in time jor .
BUI1IKJI1
cannery at 1'oint
next season's run.
No damage was done to the govern
ment jetty til the mouth of the Colum
bia Ijv the lecent storm.
The work of raising the Hun Pedro,
wrecked oil' Victoria three years ago,
' has been delimtely abandoned.
Operations ill the Went Consolidated
Virginia and California mine were
begun recently through, the Consoli
dated Virginia shult.
There is only one woman among the
303 convicts ut the Oregon ieuileiiliary.
hlie was sent from .Morrow county fur
cutting a harm-Ms to pieces.
At i'oi'ulello, Idaho, an edict has gone
forth that henceforth no married woman
or unmarried man shall be employed in
the public schools as a teacher.
A man mumd Agilar deliberately
threw bhi.ing kerosene on his wifu at
Los Angeles. Hlie was frightfully
burned, and is not expected to live.
A led is to 1)0 mailu ot Hie ieguiity of
Haeninieiilo's new charter. It is be
lieved a decision can bu secured from
the .Supremo Court by the lirst of the
year.
The party in search of Mr. Winston,
who is thought to be lost in the Kierra
Mm I re, has returned to l'asadena. A
search of the Arroyo Seco Canyon is
now to bo made.
The statement of the Southern l'a
citic railroad freight ollice shows that
the total (mil shipments to the East
from han .lose lor the scitsou up i-j
December 2 was 05,432,700 poll'N.'s.
An active volcano On the American
side of tho HtrxilH was one of the scenes
witnessed by the passengers on the
steamer Maud, which returned from Al
berni to Victoria, B. C, recently.
A break in thu main water pipe in a
street in Tombstone, A. T., last week
was loiind to have been caused by thu
roots ot a tree, which had grown around
the pipe and crushed it so that it burst,
It is understood the government in
tends to return another indictment con
taining more Hpccilic charges auainst the
(leleiiilniiis in the opium seiV.uro cases at
at Portland, and also that several other
persons will be included.
The Canadian I'ai'ilhi railroad will
take the business o( the Canadian Navi
gation Company the first of the year,
and will pliuo a new sido-wheeler with
Sieed of eighteen knots an hour on the
route between Victoria and Vancouver.
A woman at Spokane, Wash., was
fined (20 a fowduja uuo (or practical
joking. Shu perpetrated tho exceed
ingly humorous, though not exactly
new, joke of mixing the sugar and salt
on thu talile of a public dining-room.
The court called it disorderly conduct.
President liwight llrainau o( the San
Diego Land and Town Company has
announced that thu company has de
rided to extend thu National City and
Oiuy railroad irom La Prosa into thu
Upper SwecUatcr through the Jamaclui
country into the eastern end of Cajon
Valley.
II. K. Council lias been appointed
general agent for the l'uget Sound anil
British Columbia (or the Oceanic Steam
Hhii Coiii liny of Sail Francisco. It is
said that Mgorous competition will he
inaugurated with the Canadian Austral
ian Stcamidiip Company.
Thu lietrick Steamship Company,
which proposes running the new whale
huck steamer Everett between l'uget
Sound and San Eraiicisoo, announces
that it has closed a contract with thu
Aiueiicaii Steel liargu Company for two
more whalchucka to run between J url
lund and Sun Francisco.
There is much discussion and alarm
among hcciucn of dilleieut localities in
Iais Angeles county, Cal., over a diffuse,
couimonly called thu " nameless dts-ea-e,"
that has pluyed havoc among
iiccs in the Mast mid has crossed the
Rockies into Soiillieru Calliornia. Some
apiarists havu loft as many as lllly and
seventy-live stands, its ravages have
ruiued'oiie or two apiaries in Ontario,
and the Is-emon are puzzled to know
how to check It.
Since the waters of the Coqllillo have
receded it is learned that thu tliiniuue
to thu Cikis Hay and Koschurg railroad
is found to have been overestimated,
but as it was nearly all backwater with
no current, the receding Hoods leave the
track only slightly damaged. There
was a heavy wash at Cedar l'oint,
which twisted and shifted two small
span (n idges, w hich were only temporary
structure. ,u rails or lies were nam-
nmn. anil mere was inn imiiiim ui
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to thu ballasting, which had Just been
completed U'loro tho ruinv season
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opened. Tho total damage will not ex-ce-d
(5.000.
Samuel P. Moise, formerly a wealthy
1 . . t t 1 c... i :
moil mull 01 VM11111111, raiiw iu 1-1111 1 '""'I
..Li., ii.ui u ..til.
incuts. While at the Palace ho pro- l erha.s the most famous distributor
Hetited several checks to dillerent people ' lll''' ' 'uriX w ,l "" w
tor various sums of monev, tho clucks 1 lhown ol New Hampshire, lie Ih
tsmigdrawn on Omaha hunks. These ' ' "'k !. d kept it up until
..1 L ........ ...i.i I.,.. 1. f..r ...,lU-!i., Ins death this year at the age of ,0.
and have been returned as worthless,
with the additlonaiiufoi malion that the
signatures to them are toigerios. The I
k.-.l. v r i.uiiv itenies II. hi Mors..'
holds auv stis k in that eoriMiration, and
the Omaha banks state that the S, P.
Morse Company bus Ih cii out of exist
ence (or twoxears. Meanwhile Morse
lias left the Palace Hotel, l'urtieswho
have lost by him are ol the opinion that
he is mentally unbalanced.
l'ro(. Wicksonol the California Slate
University recently made an examina
tion of reclaimed title lands near the
mouth of the Sun Joaquin river, with
the view of selecting a situ for the sugar
culture exiM-rnnent station, llu was
in accordance i piMpiiation
nude bv the lust C6ligrcM. The pro.
lessor dis-S Hot (eel at liberty to make
public Ills selection. Ho has reported
! the proper othcial at Washington,
If the selection bo approved by the
Washington authorities, the expert-
mental culture ol sugar rune under
intveriinient direction win pmiwniy
- L..I.I.I C, 1 forma durtnii the eoiiilmt
, liia nitibublo that the station
w ill bo established on one ui the Islands
at the betid o! BuUuu Bay.
BUSINESS BREVITIES.
An English syndicate has purchased
300 wren of mining lands in south Da-
New Zealanders boast of an orange
orchard one acre of which yielded (1,000
wonu 01 oranges.
TheWaltham watch-making establish
merit employs 1,800 women among its
u,uw worn people.
A single sponge has been found on the
coast of Florida with a circumference of
live feet six inches.
One hundred years ago the United
States imports aggregated (31,000,000;
to-day, fWitt,H,421.
The bituminous or soft-coal ontpnt in
the United States now aggregates 100,
000,000 tons annually.
Completion of the Tehuantepec rail
road will open Mexico's richest collec
section to the United Suites
Seven hundred and twenty tons of
cardboard are fa id to lie utilized every
year in the use ot postal cants.
More roses are if row n in the nrettv
. ... ... .
' '"cy. vi age m .,,a,,,TOn inan any
nnviu uim: iii iiiu iiiiicu niuies.
During the last lineal year the United
States smoked up 3,(100,000,000 cigarettes
ami borrowed alsiut mill ol them.
Until 1859 no pig iron whh mannf.iet
tired in I'lttshuig. In 1X02 a total of
1,775,257 grofs tons were prodhced.
The total currency of the United States
is alsiut HHHd, 000,000. of this amount
alsiut taoO.OOO.t 00 is in silver dollars.
It is estimated that more than (1,2 10,.
000,000 worth of radroad property h
this country is in the hands of receivers
Aluminium is beginning to be utilized
for rooting, in sheets like tin, the cod of
it for that purpose being alsmt thu saint'
as copper.
The assets of the life-insurance com
panies of the United States aggregate
(850,000,000, while the gross income is
(220,000,000.
Something over 7,000 tons of silver
were purchased under the act id 1890 by
toe kdici.it kuViJiitli.Llil.il iliOnlol iiiAjul
(150,000,000.
Thirteen years ago the Argentine He
public imported 0,000,000 bushels of
wheat. This year it has 40,000,000 bush
els for export.
The gold production of tho United
Slates for 1803 will be over (35,000,000
au increase o( (2,000,000 as compared
with thu previous year. . - . -.
The lumber export of tho United
State in 1H02 amounted to (28,000,000.
At tho present rate of use our supply
will lie exhausted in 100 years.
The carrying capacity of the cables be
tween Australia ami Europe is from 72,-
000 to 100,000 words a day. The uctual
trallic is alioul r,000 words a day.
Excluding alsiut (12,000 small crafts,
the commerce of the world is carried on
by 45,000 vessels of 20,500,000 registered
tons, with a carrying capacity of 48,000,
000. The American Casualty Insurance
Company has got rid of (1,700,000 in its
four years' existence, the company's
losses being muiiily ascribed to its rail
road business.
Upon a recent purchase of 10,000 tons
of raw sugar, not more than two weeks'
supply, the American Sugar Refining
Company will net, it is estimated, u
prolit of'(2:!l,()00.
Mr. l'rcstou, the I i rector of the Mint,
is ipioted us saving that the world's pro
duction of void this year will be full V
(115,000,000, to which South Africa will
contribute aliout (24,000,000.
A statistician finds that the average
value of a mule ii (7 more thun that of
a horse. In Texas the mice of a mule
is iiIkiiiI twice that of a horse, and in other
Southern Stales it takes u longer purse
to buy the long-cared quadruped.
FUKF.LY 1'KUSONAU
Queen Victoria lias presented to the
I'itcairn Inlanders a Hue lilelsiat, which
will Is' taken to them from Esipiiinuull,
II. C, by thu 1'ucillc Hag ship Hoyal Ar
thur. Chief Engineer A. II. Able, U, S. S.,
w ho has roi'cntlv completed his sea duty
on thu cruiser Newark, w ill be Chief En
gineer at thu league Inland navy yard,
Philadelphia.
William K. Smith, who for many years
has Ih-cii the Superintendent of the Bo
tanical liardeiis in Washington, has, it
is suid, personally directed the planting
of more than li.lHHI.POO trees in dill'crciit
parts of the United Mates.
ticncrul Jose M. Hernandez, who has
resided recently in New York, but who
is a revolutionist, a inn riot and 11 candi
date for thu I'resiiiency of Venezuela,
has Itccu prominent in half a dozen rev
olutions, lie has seen the inside of more
prisons than any other distinguished
man in South America.
So fat is Uilietigulu, the Mataliele
monarch, whoso lauds England has suc
cessfully coveted, that, although he is
nearly ix feet tall, he seems to lie much
shorter. When in full dress he wears a
broad-hriiumed lelt hat, w ith a hunch of
monkey skins around his waist.
"Toby, M. I'.," who is thu caricaturist
of thu Imperial I'arliument with the pen
(or Uuidon Punch, as much as is I lurry
Fiirucss with the pencil, is (anion lor
his diminutive phvsical proportions, On
tho stieet or in the lobby of the House
of Commons lie seems merely a walking
tall hat with a thin little pair of legs.
tieiieral O. O. Howard, commander of
i:..:.: 1 .1... it..:. .i
iiiu cncu-iii 1 'i muni, ui mil 1 uiicu
W-t.? J. -...ent attendant at
the louiiu .Men s I tinslian Association
I meetings in New York. On a recent
I Sunday he delivered an address on the
subject. " l-oviug Kind nei-s Between Ka-
llier and !on. 110 la one ot the most
I noted Christian workers in tho I'uited
oi, .,..
states arm
during that time no fewer than 120.000
"l,'' Scriptures wore given out
H,,,l despite his age 111 tho two
year preceding his death he canvassed
lies.
Joseph II. Mauley, Blaine's old-time
friend, remarks caMialiy in passing: "It
is useless to sni'ulute aUnit Presidential
iHUMbiiitics at this tune. I'crtuiniv no
man who bus auv piesidential aspira
tion would (hank any ol his friends fur
launching his boom at this distance (mm
the national convention. It would ho
almost fatal to any man to have his
friends begin to Ihhiui him (01 the Presi
dency three vears Is (ore the meeting of
! "w "' w.nr.u.u.i.
I There I a good deal a'suit the present
Ird Mayor of Mtthchcidcr'l history
w hich rv eiublcs that of the noted Dick
Wlullingtoii. lie was Isim in Iho little
village of Fareet In Huntingdonshire.
He was apprenticed to a draper, and on
the expiration ol his apprentices! ip left
wun no resources to seeK his lortiine
II nil to Manchester, loiind work, pros-
percd and. like Wluttinvton, ihsde a lor-
tuns and. returning to Ins native towu,
uirtted bis first master's daughter.
EASTERN MELANGE.
Annual Report of the Comp
troller of the Currency.
DESTITUTE MICHIGAN MINERS.
The Gross Receipts of the World's
Fair Fostoflice The Virginia
Marl Deposits.
Mcl'herson will lead the fight in the
Senate for the Wilson bill.
A Chicago company lias cornered In
diana's output of block coal.
Iowa lines are to make an effort to
have local freight rates raised.
South Carolina has netted in four
months (32,198.10 on her liquor.
Chiefs of Police of many big cities are
in league to stamp out anarchy.
It cost Philadelphia (3,0iU'l to bring
the lils-rty bell home from Chicago.
The cable-car managers are giving se
rious attention to hfe-faving devices.
A new gold Held, twenty miles square,
has been discovered near UarUel, Col.
Richard Maiifficld declares that there
are 8,000 starving actors in this country.
A Sout hern newspaper says that nearly
every house in Honolulu has a telephone.
Oranges from the Salt Kiver Valley,
A. T., are now arriving in Eastern cities.
The in i 1 at Concord, Mich., has been
utilized for a hotel by a lack of prison
ers. Attorney-General Little is afler the
Kansas lottery companies with a sharp
stick.
The destitute condition of the people
on the South Carolina islands demands
relief.
A Cincinnati man lias lieen fined (50
and conln (or abuaiug uuoliiui ujtn ovci
the telephone.
A syndicate of American capitalists is
said to he organizing to control Nova
Scotia lime kilns.
four hundred coal miners at Ishpem
ing, Mich., havu struck against rwt'ivhijf
their pay in store orders.
Gre.-s' receipts of the World's Fair
Kstollice amounted to (01,388, and the
expenditures were (20,014.
Cincinnati capitalists will invest (1,
000,000 in milling the marl deposits
along the coast of Virginia.,
New York's World's Fair building,
which cost (150,000, was bought by a
wrecking company for (1,200.
Hills providing for investigation of
election methods in several counties of
New York are in course of preparation.
Representative taw! believes that the
prune industry of his district will bu ru
ined if the Wilson turill' bill becomes
law.
Cashier Imis A. Ilillitird, who embez
zled (15,000 from the Chicago Tribune
Company, will wear stripes for four
years.
A company lias been organized in tho
new Territory of Oklahoma to put. a
llouring mill in every county in Okla
homa. The free list will be enlarged by Rep
resentative Wilson's bill, should it be
come a law, by the addition of some 450
articles.
It is not any longer " swell " to wear a
big chrysanthemum in the New Yorker's
hutton-hole, because it is regarded an a
" Western fad."
This year surpasses any 0110 in history
(or railroad accidents. From November,
1892, to November, 18li:i, 2,318 wore
killed on thu railroads.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette
says Honolulu has a charming climate,
hut its pest is the mosquito, with no
frost to cut short its career.
All Chinese laborers in the United
Stales must register before a Collector of
Internal Kevenuu beforu May 3 next, or
else lie subject to deportation.
The total American supply of orange
this vcar is expected to lie 7,000,000
boxes, and the greatest previous yield,
that of 1802, was only 5,450,000 Ihixcs.
The National U'ligue for tho Protec
tion of American Institutions at New
York has issued an address to the public
in defense of thu American free common
school system.
A doctor of Alleghany, Pa., kept a
prematurely-horn infant, which the
mot her thought dead, in an incubator (our
months, and surprised thu mother by re
storing it to her.
A bill prohibiting prize-lighting in
South Carolina has passed the General
. , , ,. ,
Assemblv. 1 he penally is three years
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iMii.iim.iiitii-iiv mm Y-VVW .i.iv iv 'ii....
pals and seconds.
It is slated at Chicago that Wells,
Fargo A Co. lor a cash bonus of (1,7(M,
000 and 40 per cent of tho gross receipts
hud secured a new contract with the
Southern Pucillc Company.
Mam ice Blots, a vote repeater, has
Im cu sentenced in the Federal Court at
Kansas City to two years in the peniten
tiary (or fraudulent voting at tho general
election held November 8, 1802.
The Eiie Mad has cut the provisions
rate Irom Chicago to Boston from SO1.
cents to 21'd cents, and to New York
and Philadelphia in proportion. The
other lines w ill make tho same rates.
Nearly 500 groggeries in Chicago have
lieen lorceil out of business since No
vcnitier 1 on account o( the dull times,
and it is probable that from 500 to 1. 000
others will fail to renew their licenses.
Tho Iowa Tontine Investment Com
pany at IH'S Moines has (ailed. Presi
dent Stone is missing, and so are the
(unds. Among tho victims at Des Moines
are the President o( one bunk and two
or three cashiers ol others.
The result o( tho canvass as to the
condition ot the destitute miners in Iron
Mountain, Mich., is that 150 families, or
alsiut tiOO vcrsons, are found to he iu
actual w ant. In many instances 1 hihlren
were found with scarcely any covering
on them.
It will cost the State of Pennsylvania
alsiut (300.000 to elect a Congressman-st-lurge
to tilt the vacancy can -id by the
death ol General William l.illv, which
' occurred levcmler 1. The entire elee
I lion machinery ol the Stale w ill bo
called into play.
The annual reirt of the Comptroller
of the t urrencv shows s.r.Ht national
banks in operation at the clow ol the
I tiscal vcar, with a capital stock of (,.
.WH I'M. bed tV S0O, WW stock Holder:
total resources o( the banks, (3.1iH,.Vvl,-
284 ; total emulation, e.W.ail.iW, a net
increase during the year ol (3,8S.,mi2.
Mrs. Matilda Simpson died In liar-
rodshurg. Kv., last wee. Mi was
know n all over that section as " the sa I
ludv." (or the reSMin that (or thirty
years she had never lcen known to
smile. Her hulvud tuvsteritin.lv dis-
. appeared a sliott tun ai
fter their inar-
roue, and was never neani 01 aiter-
ward. This occurrence transformed her
(nun a merry young girl to a heart
biokvu woman.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Hermann has introduced a bill to yt.j
the Vaalem band of Tillamook Indiana
(10,500 and interest since 1851.
Delegate Rawlins of Utah baa intro
duced a bill to extend the time for mak
ing proof on desert lands to five years.
The subcommittee of the House Bank
ing and Currency Committee has agreed
to report favorably the bill to issue cir
culating notes to the full amount of the
bonds deposited to secure circulation.
In the Senate Jlr. Mitchell of Oregon
introduced a bill providing for the ap
propriation of (15,000 for a lighthouse
at Caoe Arago. Or., and iC.OOO for ranee
lights at the mouth of the Willamette
river,
The Secretary of the Treasury has
eem 10 ixingreas an estimate ior me im
provement of rivers and harbors,
amounting to i.3.415.000 in addition to
the emanates heretofore furnished for
1804-5.
Uland has introduced a new free-coin
age bill, repealing that portion of the
bill of October, 1873, preventing the
coinage of silver dollars and re-enacting
the coinage act of 1837. liland expects
the Committee on Coinage will report
an absolutely free-silver bill to the
I louse.
The pension bureau officials believe
another nest of pension frauds has been
discovered in New Orleans The charac
ter of the operations are believed to be
identical with the frauds in Norfolk, Va.,
and the newly-discovered eases at Buf
falo. A speciul examiner is now at work
investigating.
Captain Edmund Zulinnki, the noted
inventor of the pneumatic dynamite
gun, is to be placed on the retired list of
the army. The report of the board of
army ollice rs that examined Captain Za
liiiffei at Governor's Island, New York
llarlsjr, was received at the War Depart
ment recently. In it the board recom
mends that the Captain be retired on
account of physical disability.
The House Committee on Indian Af
fairs has a mum cr of bills liefore it, and
the intention of Chairman Ilolman is to
commence active work as soon as pos
sible. Probably the most iiiinnrLnnt
measure is a bill introduced by Delegate
Rawlins of Utah for the relinquishment
of a portion of the Uintah and Uncom
pahgre reservations in Utah. It is
claimed that asphalt deposits, which are
very valuable, are found on lands pro
posed to lie ceded.
There will be great opposition in the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs to
thu resolution o( llittof Illinois on the
ground that it would not be right, in
view of a further promised communica
tion from the Executive on the subject,
for the House to give expression to the
sentiments contained in the Ilitt resolu
tion. Ilitt will make every etl'ort to se
cure a favorable report from the com
mittee of his resolution; but, as it will
take at least three Democratic votes to
bring aliout such a result, it is doubtful
if lie will bo successful.
A decision upon the alien contract law
was rendered in the Supreme Court of
the United States by Justice Brewer. In
the United States Court for tho eastern
district of Pennsylvania John 8. and Jo
seph Lees were lined (1,000 for violation
of the law, ami appealed, attacking the
constitutionality of tho act and the ju
risdiction of the court. Justice Brewer
announced that the Supremo Court
found the law to be constitutional and
the District Court Had jurisdiction. Hut
the proceedmg against l.ees being crim-
nal in .Is mitu e, the court bcUy erred
11 compelling the defendants Uigive tea-1
t moiiv 111 fnvnp of the imvi.nutieiit. Tins
i.rmr u-ny Mil lticii.li t. In u-uri-fiiit ti ntvoi-Mul
of the judgment and to remand the case
to it new trial.
Since the resignation of J. J. Van Alen
from the position of Ambassador to It
uly, w hich tisik cUVct November 25, the
date of his second letter to the President
on the subject, Mr. Cleveland has had
. httlo opportunity to consider the ap-
Hiointinent of his successor. It is said,
uiwever, that he has thought the matter
over ami will not long delay sending the
1 nomination of a new Ambassador to thu
I Senate. The presence in Washington
last week of Oscar Straus of New York
has been coupled with tho resignation of
Mr. Van Alen, and some astute New-
York politicians givo credence to the
story that Mr. Straus may be selected.
It is 11I.-0 stated that the name of Judge
Lambert Tree of Illinois, ex-Minister to
Belgium, will be presented to the Presi
dent by Hon. Don M. Dickinson, if ho
has not already taken action.
The contracts for three new gunboats
have been awarded to the Newport
News Company, tho Board of Naval
Olliccrs having finished its considera
tion of the iilans. Tho Union Iron
Works through its representatives made
a strong etl'ort to obtain a contract for
one of the Imats. Thev oll'ored to hnild
the two larger vessels for (202,000 each,
and made a similar reduction from their
bid on the third vessel. Tho ships will
iiiiiib iiv 1 1 inn ilium 11 o v uiiiiiau mi
40j,. 'i-i....v .... 1. ......... v..
l built by Huntington's Compaiiv for
1 .',i 'v i III 1 m- niv niiunu ..v.o.
7, 8 and 0. As finally settled Uin by
the department No. '7 w ill be 220 feet
long by 30 feet beam, of 1,261 tons dis
placement and 14 knots speed; Nos. 8
and 9 w ill he 2V) feet long by 50 feet
beam, of 1,313 tons displacement and
and thirteen knots speed. All three
will 1h twin-screw vessels with triple
expansion engines, and will carry arma
ment of six-pounders and under.
It is not known delinitely what tho
House Committee on Banking and Cur
rency will do upon the hill to repeal the
10 percent tax on Mate luniks. A bill will
le rcpiwtcd us soon us a vote in the com
mittee is reached. Of the seventeen
members of the committee the six Ke
iiublicans. Springer of Illinois and Sperrv
of Connecticut w ill vote anainst report
ing the bill. Johnson of Ohio, who was
supMscd to Ik1 doubtful, says ho is
against the bill, but w ill report it favor
ably iMin the committee to get it before
the House, lie thinks with a matter ol
this importance, in which so many mem
bers are interested, the question should
lie brought before tho House lor consid
eration, but w ill reserve tho right to vote
atiit list the bill on the floor of the House.
Several tueinliers who were lor repeal
Ndore the message have expressed them
selves since as indill'erent or believing it
would nut lie wise to pass the measure
now.
Si nator Culloni has introduced a bill
intended to meet one of the weak points
that experience has found in the inter
state commerce act. This proposed
amendment is intended to (otce the ac
ceptance by one railroad of the traflic of
another, for the purpose of making a
continuous line and Hi further purH-se
of preventing railroads from discriminat
ing I -el ween roads in the acceptance of
tratlic. Section 3 of the original inter
state eoininciee act w as meant to do this,
but the railways, as Senator Ciillum
puts it, are im bued to be technical, and
there seems to Ih some ditlictilty in car
rying out tho law in that rvcard. An
other amendment by Mr. Culloni defines
with positivcucss the meaning of the
word " hue " applied to railroads, and is
1nie11d.1l to our th act of a defect and
meet the decision ol Jude Itrcwcr, who
in a case before him in the I'nitiil State
Circuit Court construed the word line to
mean something d tlerent from th con
struction which aoiwiimg to Mr. Cull.mi
the franier of the law intended it should
mean. Th 'ast amendment repeat the
present clauso making violators of the
act subject to a tin only.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Ex-King Milan Preparing to
Overthrow His Son.
THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY
The Amount of Property In London
Insured in Fire Insurance
Companies Etc.
Swiss Anarchists are to be expelled
Russia mav build a railroad to the
Arctic Ocean.
One-seventh of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
London Anarchists claim to have allies
in the army, navy and police.
Fifteen Anarchists will be tried at Bar
celona for the fiendish bomb outrage.
The influenza is epidemic in Hesse,
Germany, lO.OH) cases being reported.
Of this year's Russian conscription of
252.502 men only one-fourth can read or
write.
President Carnot is charged with not
wanting a new Ministry created for
awhile.
The betrothal of the CzarowiU of Rus
sia to Princess Heleue of Orleans is im
minent. The - niece of John Morley has been
converted to Catholicism, and will enter
a convent.
Influenza is stated to be raging terribly
in Birmingham, and smallpox is also
prevalent.
Tho delimitation of the frontier of
Ecuador and Peru will be submitted to
arbitration.
Friendly negotiations between Hon
duras and Nicaragua have been tempora
rily disturbed.
Thorp nre indientinno that th phvs
ical force party in Ireland intend resum
ing operations.
Kmperor William is said to be negoti
ating for the purchase of the American
shsiij) yacJit Vigil-nt. . -
The war office of F'ngland has directed
all Sergeant instructors, of volunteers to
attend foot-ball mutches.
In some parts of England barbed-wire
fences are still classed as a nuisance, and
their use is forbidden by law.
The new French Ministry hud a bare
majority of thirty-one in tho first en
gagement with its opponents.
Acertain Peruvian heiress paid Worth
(24,000 for a gown trimmed with lace.
Of this sum (23,000 was for the lace.
Great swarms of locusts are devastat
ing the country around Bloomfontein,
the capital of the Orange Free State.
Instead of using hair cloth an enter
prising Parisian dressmaker has stillened
the skirt of a ball gown with aluminium.
In siiito of the notoriously bad condi
tion of the Ita ian finances the civil list
of the country is tho largest in Europe.
Jerusalem lias been modernized bv a
railroad, and now a concession to estab-
1 linli a water works is being demanded.
T, H , , , u t
, , , t ..orst since the
tt,,)(,ttrallce of lu 1)hvuOXera and pero-
11 1
I riOwpora
It is rumored in London that the de
ficiencies in the Bank of England are
about to be brought to the notice of Par
liament. Last year according to the statistics
recently compiled 24,000 men and 18,000
women left Japan to find homes for
themselves abroad.
All citizens of Ecuador now in Peru
have been placed under German protec
tection, owing to tho departure of the
Ecuadorian Minister.
Iron visiting cards are among the lat
est novelties in Germany. Forty placed
, on the other are said to be only one-
tenth of an Inch in thickness.
A Marseilles (France) cable from a
larne importer of Russian wheat said:
" Wheat very depressed because of large
stocks and likely to continue so."
During the last year the property in
iAindon insured by fire insurance com
panies and the underwriters at Lloyds
amounted to more than (400,000.000."
It is reported that Milan, ex-Kinz of
Serviu, is preparing a roup to overthrow
Ins son, King Alexander, again ascend
the throne and till his own exhausted
purse.
Sir Thonins Esmond, M. P., is conduct
ing a crusade against the English lan
guage in County Cork, Ireland. The
ell'ort is to make the Knglish language
unpopular.
The hanking house of Du Fresno, one
of the oldest established banks in Flor
ence, Italy, has supended payment. Em
etas, the manager of the bank, commit
ted suicide.
The I.ord Mayor of Iyindon is manag
ing a subscription for the bone tit of tho
suHerers from the dynamite explosion at
Suntander, Spain, "ixird Rosx-berv Bent
a check for (125.
I.ord Chai Irs Beresford's proposal that
within the next four vears England shall
expend 18,000,000 upon the navy has
Ihh'U received with friendly criticism bv
the Liberal press.
The United Press correspondent in
Paris has Ihhmi authorized to contradict
tl ut I y and finally the report that the di
vorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon is
about to marry again.
Last year the German Kmperor intro
duced snow shoos into the etiuipinent of
his army on the Eastern frontier, and
this year the troops are to be thoroughly
trained in using them.
The Crown Princes of Austria has
presented her bridal roU's to the Church
01 nozeu. inev have been made up
uno a ocauuim chosutiio, winch lias been
worn at mass by the dean.
The railroads in Italy are now using
coal cars of American pattern and thirt v-
ton capacity, and thev are said to be
giving greater satisfaction than the old
type of twelve-ton cars previously nsed.
Major Cioelil-Adams at Capetown.
Africa, reports that King l.oU-ngula has
w ritten asking that the (orces under Ma
jor rorbes lie withdrawn in order that
lie may come and discns the position of
uuair.
The inouest on the cause of th death
ot Prof. Tvnd.ill at Indon resulted in
a verdict that the pndessor died from an
overdose of chloral. He had been aoc-,-S-toinod
to take the drug to alleviate ais
sufferings.
It is expected that the betrothal of the
widowed Crown Princess Stephanie of
Austria to Archduke Fruni Ferdinand
will take Place at Christmas. The Prin
ces was born on May 21, IV-I, and the
Archduke on IVceinlvr 18, isiu.
Th following Italian Ministry ha
len formed : Zanardelli, Premier and
Minister of the Interior: aratiori. For
eign Affairs : Kortis. Public Works; San
Mariano. War; Kacchia. M.u-ine; Civ-
rtil. Husbendnr ; Kiwis, pints an,i T..
raphs: Ya.rhelh. Treasury; ijallo,
Lducatioq; Roselli, Financ.
asargfci
PORTLAND MARKET.
Whiai Valley, 92Vc; Walla Walla,
82jc per cental.
HOPS, WOOL AXO HIDES.
Hops '92s, nominally at 1016c per
pound, there being none in the market ;
new crop, '93s, 10i216Kc for strictly
choice, and nominally at 8c for medium.
Wool Prices nominal.
Hiois Dry selected prime, 5c; green,
salted, 60 pounds and over, 3,4c; under
(50 pounds, 2 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings,
10rrl5c: medium. 2035c: long wool,
30aoOc; tallow, good to choice, 33,SiC
per pound.
LTVl AND DBK88ID MI AT.
Bxfcr Top steers, 2-ie per pound ; fair
to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c;
fair cows, l'2c; dressed beef, (3.50(35.00
per 100 pounds.
Mutton Best sheep, (2.00; choice
mutton, (.175(52.00; lambs, (2.00(32.25,
Hogs Choice heavy, (4.60W5.00; me
dium, (4.00154.50; light and feeders,
(4.00(84.50; dressed, (0.50.
Vka (3.005.00.
provisions.
Eastern Smoked Meats and Labd
Hams, medium, 135 13 Uc per pound;
hams, large, 12Jigl3,lc; hams, picnic,
U(al2c; breakfast bacon, 1516c;
short clear sides, 11(3 13c; dry salt sides,
lO'lgllc; dried beef hams, 12'i13e;
lanl, compound, in tins, 94(2 IO.SjC per
pound; pure, in tins, llL(ai3,H!c; pigs'
feet, 80?, (5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, (3.00.
cordage.
Manilla rope, in.cir. and up, lOc;
munilla rope. 12-thread. K diaui., 11c;
manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread, and 5-16
diaui., ll'jc; manilla bail rope, in colls
or on reeis, 10'.2c; manilla lath yarn,
tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rope well-
boring, etc., 13c; manilla transmission-of-power
rope, 14c; manilla paper twine,
lie: manilla snrintr twine. 14c: sisal
rope, 1 '4 in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal
rojie, 12-thread, g diaui., i'oc; sisal
rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-16 diam.,
8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine
twine, tarred, 7c ; sisal paper twine, 8gc,
FLOUR, FEED, ETC.
Flour Portland, (2.90; Salem, (2.90;
Cascadia, (2.90; Dayton, 2.90; Walla
Walla, (3.15; Uraham, (2.o0; supernne.
tZ.Zo uer barrel.
Oats 3536e per bushel ; rolled, in
bags, (6.25(g6.50; barrels, (6.757.00;
cases, (3.75.
Millstuffs Bran, (15.00; shorts,
(16.OO ; ground barley, (18.00; chop
feed, (15 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70c
per cental ; middlings, (23(528 per ton ;
chicken wheat, (1.10(41.15 per cental.
Hay Good, (10(5,12 per ton.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 30
32,'ac; fancy dairy, 2527hc; fair to
good, 20(u22,'jc; common, 15oil7-aC per
pound.
Chkksk Oregon, 1012;-sc; Califor
nia, 13(.il4c; Young America, 1510c;
Swiss, imported, 30(532c; domestic, 18
(5 20c per pound.
Eoos Oregon, 30c per dozen; East
ern, 25ii27)ac.
Poultry Nominal; chickens, mixed,
(3.00(54.00; ducks, (3.50(a5.50; geese,
(9.00 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 13c per
pound.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Veoetables Cabbage, Is pr pound;
potatoes. Oreifon. 75c per sack : onions.
1 .25 per suck : sweet potatoes. l3.,c tier
pound; Oregon celery, 3o(ft60c; toma-
toes, $1.25(51.50 per box,
Fruitb Sicily lemons, (5.00(25.50 per
box; California new crop, (1.00(4.4.50
per box ; bananas, (1.50(5:3.00 per bunch ;
Florida oranges, (4.50 per box; Cali
fornia navels, (4.0054.50; seedlings,
I Hil: 0 EA. M AO Cl0 -C. T
I O.IAIIO.UO, ..ICXllUlL, qO.UVKtlo.ltJ , U Wp- j
anese, (2.00 ; grapes, (1.00(5 1.25 per box ;
apiiles (buving price), ereen, 60(S!75c per
liox ; red, 65(500c ; cranlierrieB, (9.00 per
barrel; persimmons, (1.50 per box.
staple groceries.
Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 2b14(52c; Ar-
r..... M.XOe n-r nonnd.
Dried Fruits 1893
pack, Petite
prunes, 8j 10c; silver, 10(a 12c; Italian,
Oiitluc; German, 8;510c; plums, 6(5jl0c;
evaporated apples, 8(5 10c; evaporated
apricots, 15(516c; peaches, 10(o,12,lijc;
pears, 7(3 He per pound.
8alt Liverpool, 200s, (15.50; 100s,
(16.00; 50s, 16.50; stock, (8.50(59.50.
Rice Island, (5. 75(56.00; Japan, nono
in market; New Orleans, (5.60(5,6.25 per
cental.
Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4055c;
in half-barrels, 42(5 57c: in cases, 35(3
80c per gallon ; (2.25 per keg ; California,
in barrels, 20(g40c per gallon; fl.vo per
keg.
Sugar D, 4'c ; Golden C, 4,'ii'c ; extra
C, 4'.c; confectioners' A, 58c; dry gran
ulated, 6'4c; cube, crushed and pow
dered, Bc per pound; )c per pound
discount on all grades for prompt cash;
maple sugar, 15(5. 16c per pound.
CANNED GOODS.
Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted,
(1.75(52.00; peaches, (1.85(4.2.00; Bart
lett pears, (1.75(5 2.00; plums, (1.37.Si
1.60; strawberries, (2.25(52.45; cherries,
(2.25(52.40; blackberries, (1.85(52.00;
lasiilierrieH, (2.40; pineapples, (2.25(4,
2.80; apricots, (1.65. Pie fruits,
assorted, (1.20; peaches, (1.25; plums,
(1.00(51.20; blackberries, (1.25(1.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted,
(3.15(53.50; peaches, (3.50(54.00; apri
cots, (3.60(44.00; plums, (2.75(53.00;
blackberries, (4.25(54.50; 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, (1.50(3
2.75 per dozen.
Kisii Sardines, t-4's, 75o(2.25;
(2.15(54.50; lobsters, (2.30(53.50; sal
mon, tin 1-lb talis, (1.26(41.50; flats,
(1.75;2-lbs, (2.25(32.50; -barrel, (5.50.
Her PUn.
They wsre seated on tin hotel piazza to
grtlier.sml to tell the truth she found him
very dnlL Suddenly she was seized with
ail idea.
"How far off Is that mountain, Mr. Mo
GeorRef"
"Two miles."
"You couldn't walk there and back In twe
hours."
"Couldn't If Well, I guess I could. lean
dolt in an hour."
"Really Well. I don't believe it. I'll
bet you a box of candy that you can't start
now and be back here in an hour."
And of course he hod to go. Harpcr't
Buar.
When we take intoeonsideration what
a blessing a well-ordered creamery is to
the community, it is hard to leel "charit
able towanl a liadly-ordered one. The
first is a gixxl tiling; the second a dis
gusting nuisance.
When fruit or vegetables are stored in
a e!lar. lie careful to give them ample
ventilation. This ran I accomplished
w ithout raising the temperature too high
by having it open during the night.
Much of the trouble credited to in
sects and fungi can be avoided by hay
ing hardy, vigorous plants. "Weak
growths are much more readily overcome
by fungous diseases.
Prof. Henry shows by experiment that
it costs (2 61 "to produce 100 pounds of
grain with lambs, and (3.03 to produce"
tne same graiu wttn pigs ot about the
same age.
A violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius
if predicted.
FARM AND GARDj.
Way in Which a Dairy Barn
Should be Built.
THE EARLY-HATCHED PCLLET.
Carefully Breeding and Selecting to
Secure Fall and Winter Lay
ers Short Pointers.
I wish to give as briefly as possible
what I have learned by experience in
carefully breeding and selecting to secure
fall and winter layers, as our egg market
here in Central New York is the best as
to price during these months, savs a cor
respondent of Farm Journal. I used to
think that pullets hatched in June were
just as good for winter layers as those
hatched in April, but tne last lour or live
vears I have bv careful selection and
comparison found that theearly-hatched
pullets are more prontauie, taking the
year through, than late-hatched ones. I
have found that the June pullets gener
erally did not commence to lay beforu
the last of January or the first of Fell
ruary, even when the conditions were
favorable, while the April-hatched ones
would commence to lay by the last of
September or first of October and con
tinue to lay until next March or April
without showing any disposition to set,
giving me a very profitable return for
feed and care bestowed upon them. It
is " ell to have a lew pullets hatched out
late fr the next summer egg-laying if
one has a variety ol fowls which alter
living all fall and winter do not lay as
well the next summer. My pullets which
were hatched out a year ago la-t April
have laid well this summer. Of course,
1 have ha'1 to break them up from set
ting two or tlnee times, but that is easily
done; just shut them up a few days in a
small coop, and they will get over it and
go to laying again in a few days. As you
ask about the varieties I keep, I would
say in reply that I first tried the White
Leghorns, and found that April-hutched
pullets of that breed would commence to
lay about October 1 and continue to lay
until the next April or the very last of
March before wanting to set, thus hav
ing a nice profit during fall and winter.
The laet tw o years I have used a cross,
combining the following varieties : Hou
dans, Dominick and White Leghorns.
They did finely, laying a large number
of eggs. I had a few pullets which were
hatched out about April 10, which com
menced to lay about the middle of Sep
tember the same season, This year I
have a cross between the Houdans,
White Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks,
and they promise to prove equal to the
others.
BUII.DIXa A DAIRY BABN.
The Practical Farmer says : Within a
few days the writer has received several
letters seeking light in regard to bam
building, with special reference to the
keeping ot a dairy and a possibility of
winter milk. When one takes expense
and convenience into account, with the
Influence that a burn has in the keetiimr
ot stocK well, winch means a light, dry,
clean anil weu-ventuated stable, we 'n-
cliue to the idea that the barn should be
the ration barrack, and the cows should
be stabled in an L to that barn, ex
tending to the south, so as to get sun
light abundantly on three sides of it;
that it should be of lumber, double-
; boarded, so as to have a dead-air space
in the walls, a good-sized window for
; each three cows. The stable should not
be less than thirty-four feet wide for
two rows of cows and nine feet clear on
the inside, and each cow should have at
least three feet four inches of space to
I eactl ) ,f possible, and one between
every other cow in any event, and these
cows tied either with halters or sns-
fiended stanchions. Such a stable, with
oft for hay or straw, ready for the cows,
can be built for not far from (16 per cow,
and is in every way In-Her for a dairy of
cows than it is possible to construct a
basement stable; and when once made
it can be kept dry and free from chilli
ness, which is the "damper" on profit
able milk-making in the winter. In our
opinion the great castle-like barn has no
place in the economy of the modern
dairy. What is wanted is a perfect as
possible stable, and the barns that al
ready exist may be cheaply made to hold
ana protect tne teed tor the stock in the
more concentrated form of silage, clover,
hay and the erains that are now consid
ered essential in making up the balanced
ration.
practical poisters.
Better grow into dairying than go into
A rough hide is a Bign that something
is wrong.
A safe rule to follow is to cultivate all
newly-planted fruit trees the same as a
crop of corn or potatoes.
Some people are not verv particular
about eating dirt, but they all object to
paying for it at prices of butter.
Inspect flocks often during warm
weather to see that maggots do not get
on the animals. They cause trouble.
Do not breed from grade sires if it can
be avoided. They alwavs give the prog
eny a greater chance to "inherit " scrub "
qualities.
The progressive dairyman cannot af
ford to use anything poorer than a lirst
class bull. 1 he future of his herd de
pends upon hi in.
One of the principal points in muking
a success in dairying is that of produc
ing a uniformly lir-t-class product dur
ing all seasons ol the year.
Cover the pits of blackcaps now if von
wish them to root. Better plants will
be obtained this way than if they are
left to do their own rooting.
The money expended for pure-bred
male animals is one of the best invest
ments that can be made, and gains com
pound interest in a short time.
It takes a Christian to properly han
dle a good cow ; a philosopher to" teach
her calf to drink, and a bandit todo jus
tice to the male ancestor of the calf.
An apparatus for spraving will soen
be counted a necessity where fruit is
grown. It is the only "successful wav of
fighting many insect and fungous pests.
Fast-walking horses bIiouUI Ire classed
as a breed and records made in order to
encourage the brhng of them from
pedigree stock. Such a breed would be
in demand everywhere.
Nrnllework an an ArromiiK.hmrtit.
Before the Trojan war the women of
bidon were famous for their erabroiderv;
later the Greek women carried this art
to such perfection that their work riv
aled the finest paintings. Embroidered
garment, wrought by the skillful hnmls
or the Anglo-Saxon ladies, wrr
teemed so precions in all r ul bur
that they were called, by J.wtinction. An
glicum opus. At that pen011 onamenZi
al needlework was considV'1 the
deairable accompluhment Vtch
or aven ns. i Vee. W ora-
C sAm wiuu
an work.