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MERCANTILE
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MANUFACTURING
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
ASHLAND, OREGON.
Great Semi-Annual
J. T. Sowditch,
Counsellor at Law
ASHLAND, OREGON.
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Will prn. lice it all courts of the Stale,
oik i tions promptly mu.lc mid remitted.
CLEARANCE SALE!
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Counsellor
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JACKSONVILLE,
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Office tu the court home.
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Albert H&nunoni,
CIVIL ENGINEER and SURVEYOR,
Huminev
ASHLAND. OREGON.
\Vill attend promptly to xuy Imsine«.« iu the
line of land »ur\ eying, liwatiiiu (iitrhes, etc.,
mid everythin* pertaining to civil engineer­
in*. Satisfaction guaranteed
10-12
i^^-ortire at tlie postoHice.
C><» o (I h 9
Ulot liiiijL»’
Htrnw listi''. *<<•.. Xe«. »^4*
J. S. Howard,
-NOW BEGINS Al
Notary Public and Conveyancer
MEDFORD, OREGON.
si; kids of real i -tatb business given careful
attention, and informution furnished cou-
« erning property in the new town.
C. J. Sochrist, M. D.,
PHŒN1X, OREGON.
»lin e lor (lie prêtent, at Dr. Kollier » drug
store.
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Dr. D. S. Bice,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
A shland , O kkoon .
$4.UÜ
.< at liie < ity Drug Store:
he woolen factory.
resideuce near
83.00
2.25
fP'Snecial attention qiren to diseases of wo­
men.
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8’2.50
$1.75
82.00
$1.25.
$1.50
Sl.oo
8 .75
8 .50.
Miss Alena, Weber,
f music at Ashland College, will give
instruí tious in
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PIANO, ORGAN and GUITAR
SUMMER SUHS
REDUCED TO
$3.00
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Ion Bin a ,1 number of pupik outside her
college c I ms .
iJvi<
Mr. A. G. RockfeUow’souC'bwrch
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£ T. B&rtlott,
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER,
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LOOK OUT FOR LARGE PRICE LIST
A shland , O regon .
A .. kurnhh
And I mkc cgduhv LS for
Buildings of al! kinds.
\ wharv of patronage buliciord.
8.’« /> lui-ated jn^t below the licery »table.
A. L. Willey,
SOON TO
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bUM KACTOR AND BUILDER.
A shlanb , O kbuon .
prepur« Ì to give estimate», to iuriash mate­
rial, «nd complete all kinds of btiildinga
IN OK Ot T OF TOWN
ren-M.iiabic terms. All work warranted to
give satisfaction.
-HOP—on Mechanic street, over Youle ,v <ill-
rov’s store-house aud office.
1.10-40
Jotaon's New BlocL
Ashland, Oreion,
O. H. BLOUNT,
Clothier £ Hatter.
M. 1. M CALL.
1’. HAM.MQND.
AS HISTORIC BUILDING.
Some of the Uon<ler«i Accomplished by
Elect ricity.
i A Portland Paper. I
; Bobion (¡lobe.j
A lli attend to < as,-» in the courts of Oregon,
render advice and prepare papers In rhe set­
tlement of estat.-a. make applications for
patents under tlie V H. mining laws, «nd
may be consulted on all matterà |»erti»iuing
to Government Innds. School and S» «nip
l«nds. and claims against the V. S. for »er-
Vice- or loss,'«.
»»FFlt'fe—Main street.
[10-39
township plats on file in ibe <>m<-e
and
ELECTRIC MOTORS.
Hammond & McCall,
REAL - ESTATE - AGENTS
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CONVEYANCER 8,
\ <»li la nd,
Oregon
! <«iii. negotiated. Property bought aud sold;
collections attended to; Abstract» of title fur­
nished.
¿{^^«Siirveying oi «11 kiuds saiUfaciorily and
pnimplly done.
J. M.M’CALL
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We offer for saie the lulioiving ue»cribe<t real
property.
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The Hargadiue property, coum»ting of
very desirable town lots, improved and un­
improved; and farming lands and stock
ranches in sizes to suit purchasers, up to
l>00U acres: also,
A G ood Srr x R anch . *.*k> acre««, six miles
East of AshlAnd—good for summer or win­
ter range.
T wbnty A ches ol good wood land near
own.
Eastern Fruit Trees & ShruWery.
Takes occasion to remark to his old friends and patrons and
the public generally, that being unable to dispose oi his
General Merchandise business he has concluded to
STOCK UP
and run the thing for all there is in it this Spring and Sum­
mer. A full and complete line oi
Tne Old Reliable
Bloomington.Phoenix, Nursery Co Ladies’ Dress Goods, Clothing, Boots and
OF BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,
Shoes, Hats, Gent’s Furnishing Goods.
U ill !«• represented in this part of the country
the cunr.ng season by
Groceries, Crockery, Etc., Etc.
C. S. ENGER,
THESE GOODS ARE
' in. will call on you for your orders for fall
delivery.
Russian and Iron-clad Apples.
BOUGHT FOR CASH,
1 he latest and most approved varieties oi
Peaches, Pears. Plums, Cherries. Apricots,
Grapes and Small Fruits, Nut-beaing Trees,
In Chicago, San Francisco and U.-nianU. ami I am consequently prepared to give
bargains
JAMES THORNTON
io MIIaKîsi FHOM
A«IIL.AFfr>.
E. K. ANDERSON
Vice President.
President
Ashland Woolen Mills,
JACOB WAGNER. Proprietor.
WHITE and C0L()RED BLANKETS,
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.•odium • hlvritk .
( arl*oiuiU of iron
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Carbon*!** mag
Bi<*;»r!>OliiltC •*<>*
24.
Lithium mi bon at
him carbon Hu
.’ov nii‘l (m.« > <4 nitric n< i<i rot estimated
Total amount nf cnri»onie a< Id ga». free aud
■ iTnbiii‘j‘1. equals vi.47^ grains per gallon.
Recently, when in t lie city of New York,
it was my gix»d fortune to ride with more
thiin fifty others in an ordinary Manhat­
tan railw ay car, propelled by electricity.
The current was generated by a dynamo
more than half a mile away, and brought
by a wire to the branch track on which
the trial was made. A third rail has
bee« put down and connected with the
win*. On this rail ran a little wheel to
make connection with the motor, which
was on the forward truck, so that when
Lieutenant Sprague, the electrician,
{»ulled a wire, the current Mowed from
the third rail through the little wheel to
tl»e motor, then along the axles to the
ordjnary wheels, and so to the outer rails
The movable {xirte of the motor, thus
animated, l»e<gau to revolve, the motion
was transmitted to the axles of the truck
wheels, and the car moved. Such was
the {»ower that a condiderable speed was
attained, even iu the up grade, with noise
and jolting niu< h less than on the ears
moved by steam on the name line. By
an ingenious application of electrical
{»rincijials the car was stopped quickly iu
tlie middle of a down grade. Switches
were made without trouble.
Was it not marvelous? Think of glid­
ing along silently, swiftly, safely, l»y a
power generated half a mile away! Y’et
there was. barring certain electric­
al demonstrations,
nothing
novel
about this. For months four elec­
trical motors have been running
on ¡i street rrilway in the suburlre of
Baltimore. For years electric railways
have lieen in ojieration in Europe—not
many years, but enough to prove success.
At Portmsh, Inland, cars are driven
seven miles by a 'waterfall almost a mile
from the nearest point of the railway.
A gas-engine has driven electric cars
twelve hours a day for more than a year
ou the beach an Brighton. England, car-
rying a heavy traffic without liitch or de­
lay. It is said that the Lieherfelde elec­
tric railway in the suburbs of Berlin has
never failed to do its daily work since it
was started, five years ago this month.
Other roads are in successful <q»erations
and yet an electreciau maintained before
the Street Railway Committee of the
Massachiisetts Legislature, last week,
that electric railways are not practicable!
If some electricians are in such ignorance
on this subject, is it any wonder that the
public show so little interest in the [»eti­
tions for electric railway charters now l»e-
fore the Legislature? It has l>een de­
monstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt
that the power of steam can be converted
into tlie jiownr of eleetricy for the opera­
tion of railroads with economy ami safe­
ty«
The question has gone beyond the do­
main of scientific theory’ and experiment.
It is now being answered by the engineer
and the mechanic. These two stand
ready to solve the vexatious problem of
rapid transit in cities, and ultimately to
facilitate and chetipen the carriage of
men and products from region to region.
As their first work must lx« in the cities,
let us see what they offer to do. They
offer to make transit as quick as by steam,
and at the same time with lees noise and
less dirt; for the steam engine is, and al­
ways will be, ilirty ami noisy, while elec­
tricity is silent and clean. To equal the
s[>eed of steam in cities, electricity must
work where stetun is allowed to work, on
elevated or miderground roads, and in
our own city the costly underground
roads must lie left lor our children to
construct. On the surface of the streets
electricity can give a speed greater than
that of horses, with as much safety and
lees cost, with less blockades and more
comfort. Surely this offer of engineer
and mechanic is worth consideration. It
is not an offer to )xi sneered at liecause it
has never lxx?n made here before. It is
not a Hilly offer merely lieeause it is novel.
It is not a dangerous offer liecause only
money can carry it out. No matter what
force the idea of government ownership
of railroads may have in years to come,
certainly in the [»resent state of public
opinion private enterprise alone can
secure the advantage's to lx» deprived
from its acceptance. The question of the
economy of electric railways may seem to
many people one that concerns only the
capitalists who proposes to invest in
them. On the other hand, it is argued
that the public in the long run has to
pay for extravagance in any undertaking
that calls for public patronage. At any
rate the people should understand that
electricity would not lie used as a motive
I»ower were it not cheaper thiin steam/ It
is eheajier to free the caged energy from
coal in one big furnace than a dozen lit­
tle furnaces burning the same gross
amount. Under a stationary boiler can
lie burnt fuel cheajier by one-half than
that bunit under the locomotive boiler.
The stationary engine gets more energy
ont of coal weight for weight than the
hcomotive engine. One big engine
wastes less [lower than a dozen little en­
gines of the same gross capacity. It is
chea[»er to send power along a rail wire
in the form of electricity than to haul it
along the truck l<x«ked up in coal. The
elect • motor is lighter tlian the steam
loci,motive, {»ower for ,»ower, and with
lighter rolling Mick the road-bed or
elevated structure can be- lighter. To
effect all these gain» there is the loss in
converting steam |x»wer into electric
power, transmitting that power and then
turning it into mechanical motion. Both
figures and experience prove, however,
that tlie loss dore not nearly balance the
gain. The saving in cost of fuel alone is
greater than the value of j«»wer lost.
Other savings add to make electricity
far the cheapest motive power ever
known.
«1 I uiirmivii
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t«< the cuiiuvii ua«1
d Jof.inv »«¡hit.
Among tie but, ¡.roveairtit» oi the hotel are the
tmtbsl titled I will» al! ni'Hh rn convenience*.
ROOMS CLEAN. NCAT ANO C0MF0NTASU.
Good Table Fare & Reasonable Prices.
BOTTLED water fresh from the spring
«t Gee Laude’» lu Atlüaad
Plain and Facny Cassimeres, Flannels, Hosiery, Etc.
OVER and UNDERWEAR. - CLOTHING MADE to ORDER.
Office and bales Room» in Masonic Building.
M
M
ITKlNeON. Secretary audGeneral Manager
‘fhu old asylum in East Portland that
burned to the ground yesterday was the
first building provided by private enter- ,
prise or state benevolence for the shelter
of Oregon’s insane. The written records
of this honored institution arc. it is tui-
deMtood, safe. Its history is a simple I
one, and the work of which the name of
Dr. J. C. Hawthorne stands as a synonym
forms one of the grandest chapters in the
history of the state’s charities.
It has been but a few years, compara-
tively, auioe the inBane were regarded as
entitled to any more consideration tlian !
that which is accorded to dangerous ani-
mx*a. An innate reveren<«e for human life»
it is true, prevented the destruction of
th«^e hapless, ho[>eles8 victims of mis-
hut when their vggarire liecame
so wild, and their actions so violent that
those of kindred blood found it impossi­
ble to I »ear with the first without total :
neglect of other duties, and to maintain i
their own lives and that of others against
the demonstrations of tlie second, it be­
came necessary to give them to the care
of others, not touched with the tender­
ness begotten of blood, and those rarely,
indeed, thought anything necessary but
secure confinement and food enough to
keep bare life afoot.
Before the establishment, in 1857, «»f
an insane asylum in the then territory of
Oregon, the population was scant, and j
the insane, relatively even, were few. St ill i
a number of eases of lunacy of various I
types taxed the resources of relative«, ill I
able to endure it, and not unfrequently a
violent person, who should have been a ;
patient in an asylum, frightened a com­
munity by his wandering abroad at un­
seemly hours. Iris antipathy to clothing
or his desire to kill. We remember the
case of a violent man, who wanderrtl in
the vicinity of Oregon City for days, al­
most or entirely destitute of clothing, his
known presence in the neighborhood be­
ing a constant terror to women and chil­
dren, while even men did not care to at­
tempt his capture. Indeed there was no
proper place to confine him had lie l»een
captured, the primitive jails of those days
affording but meager accommodations for
able-bodied prisoners. There was, also,
in those early days in Clackamas county
an aged insane woman whose mania was
of a type so violent that it was absolute­
ly necessary to restrain her. Her rela­
tions were poor, and to compass the ne­
cessary end. a plank house, a sort of plank
I»en, was constructed, in which tlie miser­
able creature raved day and night for
months. There were no appliances for
wanning the wretched den in the winter,
and with the primitive resources of a
poor family in pioneer times it was next
to impossible to provide for her comfort
in this line, so violent ami destructive
w as the demented woman. So pitiful was
ler condition and that of her relatives in
connection with it, that when death in­
tervened in her liebalf a feeling of relief
pervaded the entire neighlxirhood. Such
was the need of an asylum for the insane
in Oregon territory when Dr. Hawthorpe
leased a small building on Front and
Salmon streets in this city and prepared,
not only to confine and care for, but to
treat them. The history of his endeavor
is well known. Much of it, so far as it
applies to individuals, is, and will ever
remain unwritten. Many darkened minds
caught no reflection of light even from
the kindly benevolence that surrounded
them, and the weary, eqient bodies that
held them in thrall were Ixirne from the
friendly, sheltering walls of the old build­
ing to the silence of the grave. Others,
more fortunate, rallied under the touch of
science and were healed by its balm, and
now walk the ways of men, restored to
life and hope ami duty. Still others
inger in the corridors and wards of the
new asylum building at Salem, whither
they were transferred in the fall of 1883.
Truly, indeed, the old asylum has a his­
tory that fire cannot destroy—a record
that will live forever in the annals of the
state’s humanities. Its ashes may lie
blown about by the winds of heaven, and
home« of quiet and peace may nestle
ujx»n its now blackened and desolated
site, but its niche in the world of work is
full of benevolence and kindness and care
to the suffering and the sorely liereft, and
it will never be vacated.
Alxait six weeks ago a la<ly residing on
Hill street, Los Angeles, lost a canary
bird. Last week while visiting San Ber­
nardino the bird Hew into the house
where she was stopping. The little
feathered songskr was identified by its
left leg. which was deformed. The Loe
Angeles Eryrmt stands sponsor for this
little tale.
A NEW MOTOR.
The iast number of the Scientific
American contains an interesting article
on propulsion by the explosion of petro­
leum vapor. It is asserted that with the
best marine boilers, and with the most
approved forms of engine, shaft and pro­
peller, it is only possible at present to
utilize alx»ut five per cent, of the energy
developed by the combustion of the fuel.
This fact has remained, for many years, a
constant challenge to the inventive genius
of the world. Messrs. Samuel and John
Secor, of Brooklyn, have devised a new
system, which they are now putting to
the test of actual pra<«tice in their special­
ly constructed yacht, the Eureka. In­
cited by the admitted loss of ninety odd
{»er cent, in the transformation of energy
stored in the fuel into motion of the ves­
sels both these gentlemen, for a number
of years, have given careful attention to
the subject of propulsion. Their motor
is explained as simply a modified form of
gas engine, in which the gases, resulting
from the explosion of a mixture of air
and petroleum vapor, are made to impinge
directly upon the water, through suitable
port-holes lieueatli the surface.
An upright steel Ixiiler of 25-horse
power is located immediately back of the
bulk-head. A Norwalk air compressor
stands a short distance to the rear of the
Ixiiler, and furnishes the compressed air
necessary for the exploding chamlx«r.
From eighteen to twenty Edison incan­
descent lamps are used to illuminate the
vessel, the main function of the electric
current lieing to fire the mixture of air
and jx-troleum in the explixling chamber.
The motor proper is {»laced in the rear of
the compressor. The exploding chamber
communicates beneath with four radial
port-holes or chutes, protruding through
the bull and ojien to the outside waters.
The petroleum used in producing the
explosion is stored in a copper reservoir
placed in the stern of the vessel.
The motor is in the nature of a gas en­
gine. iu which the piston is replaced by a
wall of water. The probable temperature
during an explosion is 2.<ioo degrees
Fahrenheit. There sire aliout eighty ex­
plosions {»er minute. The experiments
thus far have proved a success. though
the s]»eed was not equal to that of an or­
dinary steam yacht. It is believed that
it will be possible to run from New York
to Newport and return on a dollar’s worth
of oil. Should the experiment prove a
success it may work a revolution in the
science of propulsion.
Nellie Coming Home.
Gen. Grant's daughter Nellie, who
married into the Sartoris family of En­
gland, and whose treatment by her hus-
lxtnd ha« l»ecame so notorious through­
out this country, will leave her unpleas­
ant home in the north of England and
return to America with her children. For
more than two years Mr. Sartoris has not
contribute*! one cent towards his wife’s
support, and she has lived entirely on
the remittances sent her from home. Mrs.
Sartoris, it seems, lieing a high bred
American girl, does not propose to stand
this sort of thing any longer. She has
leen repeatedly urged to leave her un­
natural liuslxind and return to her moth­
er, but up to a few weeks ago she had
refused to entertain the thought. A1
last, however, life at th»* Sartoris mansion
hits lteeome so distasteful to her that she
lias accepted the alternative and will
conic back to her once happy home.
Diego.
A correspondent, writing to the San
Francisco Bnlletinr says: Since the
California Southern railroad was com­
pleted, tlie growth and development of
San Diego has lx?en phenomenal. Pre­
viously, the streets were ungrade«! and
unlightecl; now- the principtd streets have
l»een graded and work is rapidly progress­
ing on ithe others; the town has four
principal electric light masts and a num­
ber of smaller ones; gas and water mains
are laid in most of the streets; a Rtreet
railroad is in course of construction. Col.
Joseph B. Waring, a skillful, sanitary en­
gineer, has lx>en engaged to make plan.«
for sewering the city. The population
has increased from 30IH) to
real es­
tate has risen 1<M per cent in value, and
business of all kinds is Ixximing. Tlie
best is. that this bids fair to lx« promin­
ent, for new-comers are not only pouring
into the city, but filling up the country.
Recent (irewth of San
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LOCAL.
Local Notices, per line............................. 15o
Regular advertisements inserted upon
literal terms.
Job Printing
Of all descriptions done on short notioa
Legal Blanks. Circulars, Business Garda
Billheads. Letterheads. Posters, etc., got­
ten up in good style at living prices.
,
Geo. S. Currey,
Attorney
One square, nrst insertion
Each Additional insertion.
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGI1 ST 6, 1886
VOL. XI.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Attorney and
TIDINGS
ASHLAND
. R!D av ..¡ or
TIDINGS.
Termer’s Silver Bottle.
Since Teenier, by his victory over Hait­
ian, has become champion oarsman of
America, a great deal of interest is taken
in him abroad and efforts are lieing made
to bring about a match lietween him and
Beach of Australia, who now holds the
world’s championship. The Loudon
Sporting Life, in a recent number, pub­
lishes a New York letter giving Teemer’s
record and idso a sketch of the appear­
ance and habits of the American cham­
pion. Describing Teenier's cosy home in
McKeesport. Penn., the correspondent
quotes him as saying: “The only bottle
I am fond of is this one,”—pointing to a
beautiful silver bottle standing on a wall
bracket. The bottle is made of coin sil­
ver, with a satin finish. Engraved on a
burnished space is the inscription: “To
John Teenier, champion oarsman of
America, from McKeesport friends.” It
seems that Teenier used to work in the
iron-mills at McKeesport, where the
workmen are in the habit of using the
well-known German remedy St. Jacolw
Gil for any pain or ailment in the muscles
or joints. Teemer has foiunl it of indis­
pensable value to him in keeping him in
the best physical condition anil his fond­
ness for it is well-known. This fact was
reineniben«d by some friends, who after
his victory over Hanlan wanted to give
him a memento; and so they had made
for him a fac-simile in silver of the style
of lxittle in which St. Jacobs Oil is put
up. Teemer’s pretty little wife seems to
think as much of that lxittle as he does
and promptly resorts to it whenever their
bouncing, big liaby boy hurts himself in
any way.
The Hop Market.
[Willamette Farmer, Jul} ..1,.
Matters have assumed a certainty now,
with regard to the rise in hops, as the
New York state hop growers have given
up all hi»i»e of any crop at all. They ex­
pected to harvest some h«»i»s and, when a
rain came, three days ago, it was hoped
that the effect would l»e healthy but in­
stead of helping, the rain ruined all, the
vines turned black and the hops were all
blighted. This is given as the latest and
most reliable facts concerning the hop
market and the effect has been to cause a
decided rise. English hops are being
ship[»ed across the Atlantic aud tlie de­
ficiency insures an advance, to a high
figure. The quotations were so high as
30 cents and hops ot 1885 wen* selling
for 20 to 25 cents. While it is now cer­
tain that prices will rule high, there is no
certainty how far they will advance.
Hop growers can always afford to take
their own chances, for the statistics of
trade since 1850 show that while hops
have gone to a low pnet» «xcasiomilly, ¡is
a rule they have sold high. Tlie man
who was indejiendent and able to hold
lias, for a third of a century averaged 30
cents per fxiund for hops, and this lx*ing
the fact shows that the grower who stays
with his hop yard, takes good care of it
and waits the [»ennanent market price,
always realize well. This year many
lose by not having a good crop because
they w ere discouraged ¡md neglected to
cultivate; others again have rented their
yard for n song, while a few have plowed
up the vines.
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Horrihle buffering ami Freezing to Death.
The account of suffering by cold and
hunger on the shores of Labrador and
New Foundland are fearfuL The news
of the terrible condition of the whole
population frozen in, and the ice not
breaking away as usual has been coming
for a month. The ice is from 20 to 100
feet deep and the snow mountains high.
80 pereons jx-rished for want and with
cold, eighteen were found frozen in one
place, tweny-two in another.
STATE AM) COAST.
D. P. Thompson wants to build water
works at Eugene City.
Grapes are being contracted for at Va­
caville, Cal., tor $*J0 and $100 per ton.
The Yamhill Reiiorter says the narrow
gauge will be completed to South Port­
land in ninety days.
Parties in St. Louis, Mo., have formed
a company to sink artesian wc II h near
Phoenix, Arizona.
To the rotting timlx-rs in the mines at
Virginia City is attributed the virulence
of diphtheria in that city.
Fruit chocks to the amount of $00,oo('
have been paid at the Vacaville. Cal..
bank from June to July 13th.
The Lus Angeles Herald says that 2.-
5<K),000 grajievines in that county will
coni* into 1 >eai ing Hits yr«r.
An examination of the carcasses of the
jack-rabbits which are dying by thous­
ands in the eastern part of Nevada, shows
that the animals are filled with Uq»e-
worms.
(.hie oi tire praeliees adopted by the
farmers this summer is to run their s» lf-
binders by moonlight. It has proven to
be a great success.
Two Chinamen found a chunk of gold
weighing 115 pounils, at Dutch Flat, Cat.
which sold for $26,(HiO. It is not known
how it was iliscovereil, but it is thought
among the old placer diggings and aban­
doned claims.
Antorian: Figuring on the results of
the June election shows that Gov.-elect
Pennoyer was the only candidate who
got a majority of all the votes cast, His
majority over both competitors was a lit-
tie over 800.
East Oregonian :
there is only
$3648.60 of t«ch<K>l money to lx? apjior-
tioned in Umatilla county this year.
The smallness of the amount is caused
by the shortages of the late county
treasurer. Next year’s apportionment
will l»e, of course, much larger.
Ihiring the past three months alx»ut
30,000 nibbit ««clips have I kvii brought in
and tlie Mixloe county board of suj>er-
vieors at its last meeting last w»>ek al­
lowed nibbit Ixmnty claims to th<-amount
of about 890<>.
Last week Col. B. Jennings, of Chieka-
mas county, received $3000 from the gov­
ernment on a claim that has Iteen liefore
congress for thirty years. Col. Jennings
was connected with the Lind office at
Oregon City before the war, and was re­
moved. It seems he claims that his sal­
ary on fees was cut down to the extent of
$¡3000 and demanded payment. No inter­
est was allowed on the claim.
The whole inuiilter of Post office in the
United States is 53,614. Of these 2265
are presidental offices; Unit is to say , the
jxietniiwters of these last numlx.T ¡ire ap­
pointed by the president. This leaves
51,349 ap{x»intinents to lie farmtxl out
among the friends of congressmen, which
is done without, in most instances,
the slightest regard to the fitness of ap­
plicants.
From the most authentic suurivs it
seems the fish ladder which was con­
structed last season at Oregon City, by
authority of the state, at a cost of $10,-
000, is in reality a thing of the past. The
stone steps have been nearly all carried
away, and the only thing left standing
are the iron liolts, and even they are bent
over. It is very’ evident the work was
done poorly,'and the state is out and in­
jured to the tune of 910,000. High water
and drift woixl are said to be the cause of
the foundation and stone steps being car­
ried away.
Indians have already commenced to ar­
rive at Seattle, says the Post-Intelli­
gencer, to engage in hop picking. T. G.
Wilson, representing the Seattle Hop
Growers’ Association, has gone to British
Columbia to engage pickers for their
crop. Tlie asstx'iation has ¡100 acres in
hops, and will require at least 2000 pick­
ers to secure their crop. Last year they
employed 1500 Indians and -’300 whites.
This year it will )>e difficult to wxure
w hite pickers, and more Indians will have
to lx« employed. It is thought the ad-
vance of 25 cents { mt lx»x will induce
enough Indians to come to the sound to
gather the crop. Picking does not com­
mence until September, and generally
lasts about four weeks.
GENERAL
NEWS.
Vermont proposes to establish a state
institution for the criminally insane.
About 80,000 Ixirrels of oil are pro­
duced daily by the wells of Pennsylvania.
Baker City has one hundred and sixty-
six business houses, of w hich sixteen are
saloons.
J. T. V. Chu k of North Yakima, will
pay $10(1 per ton for morelui(liable broom
com.
During the first six mouths of 1886
Montana mines have paid dividends ng-
gngating $991,750.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, was sentenced
to be hanged on the 27th inst., for the
murder of Preller at St. Louis.
The hi'alth of Justice Field is improv­
ing in Europe. He writes that ho is
much better than wheu he left the United
States.
Wm. P. Iverson, cashier and book-keep­
er of the American Baptist Publication
society, is a defaulter to the sum of $60,-
000.
It is said the failure of the crops iu
Northwestern territory, Canada, is due
more to the ravages of the gopher than
to the drought. Tlie little animals are
countless iu muuber, and when they go
through a field the crop looks as if it had
been cut dow n with a knife.
De Lesseps says it will only take $120,-
000,000 to complete the Panama canal
and enable France to make “peaceful con­
quest of the Isthmus of Panama." Tlie
sanguine Frenchman thinks the canal
can lx- completed in three years with the
small amount named.
A liquor convention in an eastern state
w ill make an effort to “elevate the busi­
ness,’ by “driving unfit persons out of it”
The gauge of fitness is not published, but
the line will probably lx- drawn some­
where in the vicinity of dealers who can
afford to decorate their saloons with $10,-
ilOO paintings.
The N. Y. H 'orhCtt Washington corre­
spondent says that the Treasury’s 1 o ike
show that Charles Francis Adams Jr. is
even further Itehind in paying the obliga­
tions of the Union Pacific than any of
the previous managements. Au official
statement shows that the debt due by the
Pacific railroads to the Government up to
the present time is $112,447,748.97; of this
over $47,000,000 is back interest which
has been paid by the United States.
Boise City paper: The crops are near­
ly all destroyed on Five-mile by nibbits.
The settlers are getting even on the rab­
bits by selling their ears to the county.
If the governor had not got drunk and
lost the bill abolishing the Ixuuity on
rabbit ears which passed the last, legisla­
ture. these settlers would now be in a
suffering condition. It is estimated that
$7000 w ill be {»aid by Ada county this
year for rabbit ears.
Heretofore Yaquiua has been the first,
last and only name of the little town on
the bay, which is located only a few miles
from Newport. For some reason it was
desirable to change the name of the place
and an application was made to that
effect. Mr. Janis Patton, commissioner
of navigation at Washington. has ordered
the name to be changed from Yaquina to
Yaquina City. This order has just been
issued. Persons having letters to send,
or articles to ship to that point should
l»ear tliib change in mind.
A dispatch from New York slates that
John W. Mackay and several of hi«
friends, the names of whom are not given,
have jiersunally undertaken the construc­
tion of an overliuid telegraph lino in eon- ,
nection with the Canadian Pacific rail­
way. It is also proposed, as stated, to
build a line from New Westminster to
San Francisco, in the hojie of securing a
share of California business. Branch
lines are also, as stated, to lx» constructed
to different points in Canada and the
Eastern states. The length of these
branch lines and connections will alone
aggregate over 4<MM> miles, not including
the ihstance traversed by the Canadian
Pacific lines. The work of construction
will, it is stated, occupy only six months,
but this statement is looked upon as a
mistake, as the construction of a line
from San Francisco to New Westminster
alone .would, under the most favorable
circumstances, occupy over two years.
A Badly Slid Mao.
four Applications.
.Portland N'cua.j
The exhibit car which will lx« sent east
in the course of a few weeks seems to lie
in active demand, judging from the ap­
plications made for it. Four applications
thus far have been made to the board of
immigration. The first application is
made by the officers of the Mechanics­
burg, Pennsylvania, exposition, which
will c»pen August 3(»th and continue for
two weeks. Tlie second comes from the
ex{x»sitioD at Minneo|x»lis, which ojxsns
on the 23d of August and does not close
until Octolx«r 36th. Tlie third applica­
tion was made by the officers of the fair
that will lie held at Lincoln, Nebraska,
from Septemlier 10th to the 17th. Mr.
A. W. Swaim, the editor of theOskaloona
(Iowa) Herald, who last year t<x>k so
much interest in Oregon’s exhibit car,
and so greatly favored its , exhibition at
the fair in this city and at Des Moines,
telegraphed the state board of iuiuiigra-
tion, under date of July 28th, as follows:
“Want Oregon exhibit car for 'air here,
one week, commencing August 30th.”
A good story is told on Shan Couser,
the well-known conductor on the East
Side division of tha Oregon and Califor­
nia Railroad. A short time since be
purcliased five lots at Jefferson for 810
apiece. A few days since a neighbor com­
menced to sink a well on a lot adjoining
those owned by Couser. and had delved
but a few feet when he struck gold.
Among smaller pieces unearthed was a
very fair-sized nugget. The trend of the
deposit was toward Coursers claim and
the discoverer determined to secure
Conner’s lot. Couser was soon hunted
up, and after a great deal of liaggltng the
lots were sold for $100, or an advance
of $10 apiece. Then the purchaser told
Conner that he had just sold a valuable
mine, and he has been madder tlian a
wet ben ever since.
4» Many a» He Wanted.
[Buff«lo Couiiaercial-j
c
In Twenty-two Poses.
Since her return from Deer Park Mrs.
Cleveland has given a great deal of time
to a Washington artist, an.l has patiently
posed for twenty-two negatives, taken in
ax many ilifferent {»ositions and toilets.
For several days the White House« con­
servatory was transformed into a photo­
graphic studio, and the whole mornings
were devoted to transfixing the beauty of
the bride U|x»n glass. Half a dozen neg­
atives were taken in her bridal robes, from
different directions, in different poees and
sizes, while others were made of her in
Htreet costumes and morning gowns.
The public has not Ixsen allowed to see
the collection so far, and none will lx» ex­
posed nntil the president and Mrs. Cleve­
land have inspected them all aud chosen
those they prefer to have hung up in the
parlors of the populace.—[Inter-Ocean.
1 he boh of a rich Americmi wan in
Paris with an o{»en credit from his father
on a certain bank there, ami the head of
which ran over to New Y'ork. there he
liapi»ened to run on the father. The
banker reported that the young man was
in good health and having a good time,
but that he was spending a g<xxl deal of
money, “We let him have 10,000 last
month, and just before I left Paris he
came iu for 5000 more’ “What!” cried
tlie father, “pounds?" “Oh, no,” replied
the banker, “francs.” “Oh,” said the
father, with a sigh of relief, “those little
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For gents’ fine dress shoes go U> Hat­
things- let him liav»* as many of them as
he wants.”
field & Herrin.
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