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ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH.
.The President' signed the commission of J.
, Bancroft Davis as assistant secretary of
ate.
(The new five-cent Garfield postage stamp
I pronounced tne Handsomest stamp ever
ued.
An explosion has occurred in a colliery at
ilton. England. It is reported that 150
Uvea were lost.
;' Owing to the disturbed state of Ireland,
rds Donoughmore and Aushnin will nuit
eir residences.
" nnn Trtn Tnlin.An nnminna TnfT Tnlr of
lever accounting for moneys entrusted to his
re by tho Uonteueracy.
All tho type and machinery of the United
'reland has been forwarded to London where
e paper will be printed.
The police officially estimate the total loss
y fire at the King theatre at 794, of whom
43 have been legally identified.
During the five months ended November
,30th, there arrived 291,318 immigrants!,
gainst 254.2G2 the same period of 1880.
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A Washington special says ex-Secretary
Blaine has declined to deliver the eulogy on
the late President Garfield before the house.
Three hundred vaccine points have been
forwarded to the agent at Assiniboine Indian
Agency, where Bmallpox is alarmingly preva
lent. The Washington Monument Association
will ask Congress to appropriate $200,000 to
X continue the work of completing the monu-
ment
In the senate Farley introduced a bill to
enable the state of California to take lands
in lieu of the 16th and 36th sections, found to
be mineral lauds.
A dispatch from Iran states that 160 Alge
rines, 'wno were driven from their homes by
the recent floods, have 'been rescued from
perilous positions.
The Manchester Guardian joins in the gen
eral condemnation of Blaine's letter, of in
structions to Lowell regarding the Clayton-
Mwer treaty.
The Jewish colony at Tunis has sent an ad
dress of sympathy to Boustan, expressing the
hope that he will resume his functions as
French minister at Tunis.
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The senate judiciary committee unanimously
reea to report oacK tue nomination ui ieuj.
.Brewster, attorney general, witn recom
ndation that he be confirmed.
.esolutions were introduced in the house
ine information concerning American citi-
a confined in British prisons, and in regard
iscontinuance ot star route service.
ive hundred arrests in Russia for political
uses have been made the present year.
nv arrests are due to raise accusations,
id it is stated the false accusers will be pro-
ided against.
A report is current at Berlin that another
ne assassination plot has been discovered
the Russian imperial palace at Gatschina,
d several officers are arrested on suspicion
complicity.
The senate committee on naval affairs, de
eided to postpone action on the nomination of
ray Director waimoutn to ne postmaster gen
eral, and other contested navy nominations
until after tne holidays.
Tribune's Boston: It is denied emphatically
by Rev. J. M. Savage, of the Church of Unity
in Boston, that Rev. 0. B. Frothingham has
in any manner recanted or modified his hete
rodox views.
John A. Ingram, a Mount Union, Pa.,
miner, placed a can of dynamite away to dry
on the 19th, when the package exploded,
tearing the building to pieces and killing
Ingram, his wife anil four children.
The Chicago Driving Park Association at a
meeting decided to offer stakes and purses for
the Summer meeting aggregating $15,950.
The races will last fram the 24th of June to
July 4th. There are 28 events.
The Turtle Mountain Indians in North
Wisconsin are scourged with smallpox and as
these Indians are not under any government
agency' they are allowed to roam and care for
themselves as best they can.
A dispatch from Santander says the excite
ment caused by the excommunication of three
liberal journalists, is increasing. Several
clergymen, not wishing to excite the populace,
refused to read the bishops mandate from
their pulpits. The prefect has telegraphed
the government that no disturbance is feared.
It is stated a prison especially designed for
fema'ea is in course of preparation for the re
ception of members of the ladies land league,
and that the arrest of several prominent mem
bers of the Dublin branch of that organization
is expected.
Commissioners under the land act in Dub
lin have decided that a notice to fix rent if
served only upon an agents clerk will be
deemed sufficient service. This decision,
against which no appeal will be allowed, is to
govern 15,000 cases.
The interior department officially notified
the people of St. Paul and Kodiack island,
off the coast of Alaska, that it is compelled to
refuse to furnish them with medicines which
they bare formally petitioned for, because of
lack of funds.
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt among
Irish constabulary at the new movement at
recruiting their lorce from militia and soldiers
whose terms of service hare expired. So
strong is the feeling that men will refuse duty
with new recruits, and a general strike is ap
prehended. The counteas of Crawford and Balcarry has
announced that she i determined not to offer
a reward for the restoration of the body of
ber husband, the earl, in order not to create
a precedent and encourage a repetition of such
outrages. She has requested ber son to do
the tame.
ITEMS BY TELEGRAI'II.
Opposition to rent paying in Ireland is on
the increase.
Riddlcbergcr, the Rcpudiationist, has been
elected Senator of Virginia.
Judge Davis has qualified as Assistant Sec
retary of State.
Lionel Sackvillc, British minister to Eng
land, is said to be the father of a family, and
yet a bachelor.
W. H. Vandcrbilt s youngest daughter,
Lelia, married Dr. Wm. Seward Webb in
New York on tho 20th.
The Senate has confirmed tho nomination
of Win. II Trescott as special envoy extraor
dinary tn Chili, Peru and Bolivia.
Charles K. Butler committed suicide by
shooting himself through tho head nt T. F.
Uregaby's ranch near Yountville, Cal.
Judge Belford (Rep.) asserted in Congress
that tho Senato committees were mado up in
the interest of corporations and monopoliis.
Jacob R. Shpppatd, temporary president of
the l'eruviui company, regrets decidully that
publicity which has been given to tho forma
tion of tho Peruvian Guano company.
The Senate confirmed Kx-Senator Howe as
Postmaster-General, and Judge Gray nesoci
ato justice of the supeme conrt. Also, T. U.
Acton, U. S. assistant treisurer at New York
City.
The reason that Guiteau failed to make
good his threat about "ripping up" the repu
tation of his former vife was on account of a
threat made by her husband to kill him if he
did
The nomination of Horace Gray, chief jus
tice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, as
successor to the late Justice Clifford in the su
preme court of the United States, is cordially
received.
ThrouL'h the efforts of the immigration bo
ciety the population of the State of Missou i
increased 140,000 in the past year. The
value of tho accession is estimated at not less
than $35,000,000.
A capital of about $200,000,000, invested
in manufactures, threatens to leave the State
of Illinois, because the Illinois railroad com
missioners prohibit railroads from making
special rates for large firms.
George G. Sickles, aged 92, father of Gen.
D. E. Sickles,, was martied to -Mrs. Mary
Sheridan Sawyer, aged 40, on the 21st. He
is said to be worth $12,000,000. Gen. Sickles
is his only son.
The attention of the customs authorities
has been called to the fact that 1,775 cases of
rifles were shipped on the steamer Coma,
which sailed Thursday for Liverpool. On its
manifest the items appear as "hardware,"
and as such were printed in the published list
ot exports.
A Time' Washington says: Jesse Spalding
will be nominated collector of customs at Chi
cago. He is the original choice of Senator
Logan, who kept Ins secret marvclously well.
Spalding is a rich lumber merchant, and was
an intimate friend of Zach Chandler. lie
wanted to be ma) or last Fall.
In the suit of Robert L. Cutting, Jr., as re
ceiver of the Bankers' and Brokers' Associa
tion against John Bonner, formerly president,
judgment for $577,900 were entered against
llio latter, and Judge Lawrence, of the su
preme court, denied the motion to vacate
judgment, on the ground of want of jurisdic
tion. Berry introduced bills recently foreshad
owed in theBe dispatches, to create a new col
lection district as its port of entry, and ap
propriating $500,000 for improvement of the
bar of Humboldt bay; also, a bill for the re
lief of the Santa Rosa Savings bank, author
izing the issuance of a duplicate of a lost check
of the sub-treasury.
Senate committee on finance, by a majority
vote, decides to recommend for passage with
out amjndment.Morrill'a bill for a commission
on the tariff and internal revenue laws, and
decided to report adversely the tariff commis
sion bill of Oartield. Morrill's bill was placed
in charge of Bayard, to be reported after the
holiday recess.
Daniel Hale Haskell died Saturday in the
alms house, San Francisco, having been ar
rested a broken-down, vcrmin-iufeoted beg
gar. In early days he was manager of the bank
ing and express house of Adams & Co.. with
an incoiie of $70,000 per year. He gave all
his means to endeavor to save the hank, re
tired into poverty and took to drink, with the
above result.
Specials say: Joe Johnston, in an inter
view, says he regrets having sp.ikcn so freely
on the questiun of Jeff Davis' stealing $2,000,
000 of confederate gold and says he did not
Know ne was talking to a reporter, i lie lat
ter, he claims, distorted this statement. His
storv is denied bv Col. Harrison, an cr.
confederate, who was cognizant ot the facta at
the time of the alleged stealing.
The Jeanette has been heard .from. She
was crushed iu the ico June 11, 1881,400
miles south of Siberia. The crew embarked
in three boats, which were separated by wind
and fog. No. 3 boat, with 11 men, under
charge of Engineer Melville, reached the
mouth of tho Lena river on Sept 11th; boat
No. 1, having on board Capt, DeLoog. Dr.
Ambler and 12 men, reached the Lena river
in a pitiable condition. Prompt assistar.ee was
rendered. Boat No, 2 has not been heard
from.
Pier number two of the big N. P. R. R.
bridge will be completed this week. Work is
going on finely upon the other, and with a
Continuance of the present good weather the
first span of the superstructure will be put up
this Winter. A party, headed by ex-Mayor
Hallet, left Bismarck for the big bend on
Mouse river. They expect to get ahead of
the Manitoba railroad in founding a city on
the rive. There are 60 men a day arriving
for the work on the Ytllowstooe division of
the Northern VfiSs.
PORTLAND, OREGON,
ITEMS IIY TELEGRAPH.
There are 500 telegraph offices on the Pa-.
ci fie Coast.
Dr. Isaac Hayes, the Arctic 'explorer, died
in New York on the 10th.
The Queen of England will open Parlia
ment on the 1st of Febrnury.
Both France and Germany are ordesing guns
and ironclads in suspicious quantity.
Secretary Frelinghuysen took possession of
the state department on the 19th. '-r'
The new fir. -cent Garfield postige stamp
is pronounced the handsomest stamp ever is
sued. Tho schooner Royal Blue Jacket, of Lon
don, has been lost and the captain and four
of the crew drowned.
Dams near Algiers, on the Avon railway,
have burst, and the line is flooded. Many
lives lost. Several vessels foundered.
Fowler's steam plow works at Leeds are
burned; loss, GO,000. Throe hundred per
sons are thrown out of employment.
Tho Washington Monument As ociation
will ak Congress to appropriate $200,000
to continue the work of completing the mon
ument. A. L Stokes, general agent of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation Co. at Chicago, has
been appointed general agent of the Northern
Pacific also.
A violent hurricane at Tunis, on the 16th,
swept away numerous tents, destroyed tele
graph lines, and demolished the wall, killing
and injuring twelve soldiers.
Lieutenant Lullier, an amnestied commis
sioner, waylaid Al. ouiour, nepnew oi tne
murdered Archbishop of Paris, and struck
him. Lullier threatened to murder Sibour if
he refused to fight him.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is
making arrangements for a heavy tratlic. It
expects to carry wheat from San Francisc to
Liverpool in 33 days, as against 150 days by
the Cape Horn Route.
In a cow boy affray at Caldwell, Ks,, on the
16th, Mike Meagher, city marshal, on one
side was killed, and a gambler named Sperry
on the other. Citizens pursued the four es
caping desperadoes and killed one.
Afire at Bates Hill, Miss., burned a itoie
and livery stable of S. Burchard & Co., and
the Blade newspaper office. Except for efforts
of citizens and favorable wind a large por
tion ot the town would have been destroyed.
In the case of Dr. Lainpson, of London,
charged with poisoning a relative that he
might inherit his property, the prosecution
stated that evidence would be produced that
Lainpson purchased two grains of aconite
previous to his visit to Wimbledon, and that
he was in a great strait for money.
San Antonia special : A report was read
that the bodies of three Mexicans were found
hanging to a tree on the Bandera road, north
west of here. They are supposed to be three
men who have been robbing travelers the
past week in that section, and are thought to
have been hanged by the German farmers of
the section referred to.
The bill introduced by Representative Mc
Millan, relative to the income tax, presides
for the assessment and collection of a three
per cent, tax from each person, corporation,
banking association, telegraph company, rail
road company, or other incorporated compa
nies or firms doing business in the United
States and territories, on all nt incomes
above $3,000.
limes' Wichita, Kansas : Word is just re
ceived here that the agency school and farm
house at the Wichita agency, Indian Terri
tory, was destroyed by tiro at 2 a. m. on the
15th inst. The fire is thought to be the work
of an incendiary.
The bill introduced by Representative Pet
ti bone, relative to the retirement of army offi.
cert, provides that all general officers and
officers of the different staff corps shall be re
tired from active service when they have
served forty-five years in the army, and all
officers of the line be retired when they have
reached the age of sixty.
Up to adjournment of the senate and house
on the 17th there have been introduced in the
senate 592 bills and 16 joint resolutions, and
the call ot states lor presentation of bills in
th house for reference rests with the state of
Pennsylvania. It is supposed that nearly
1.000 more bills and jeiut resolutions will be
introduced when both houses meet on the
19th.
The President has nominated Thos. C.
Acton assistant treasorer of the United States
at New York; Horace Gray, of Massachusetts,
associate justice of the supreme court of the
United States; Wm. Henry Trescott. of
South Carolina, special envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of the United
states to the republics of Chili, Peru and
Bolivia; Geo. M, Duskin, attorney of the
United States for the southern district of
Alabama.
Standard Weight. Mr. If, VT, Dilg
baa been employed for the last four days in
putting in order and adjusting the platform
car scales at the East Side depot, which have
been out of order for some time. Jfe has
lately received from the East four standard
weight testified and certified by a Govern
ment inspector, and is therefore prepared to
accurately adjust all kinds of weighing
machines. It is singular that we have In a
city of so much commercial importance a
Portland no such officer as an Inspector of
Weight and Measure.
Bdtohhu Hihsilt. Mr. J. 8. Keller,
Councilman of the Third Ward, accidentally
ran a big butcher knife through one of his
digit yesterday, nearly severing it from the
nana. Jie is tailing a rest now aim win ue
rote his entire atteution to Council business
till bis f 'jer (tow on ajrain.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1881.
EXrOBTS TO SAX FBAM'ISl'O.
,V From figures furnished by the San Fran
cisco Produce Exchange we obtain the fol
lowing figures regarding the receipt of Oregon
Produco at that port for the eleven months
ending with November, 1881. The export of
lumber, which would mike quite an item, was
not furnished:
Wheat, centals 370,802
Flour, barrels 70,270
Oats, bushels 400,703
Potatoes, sack. 75.402
Flax Seed, tucks.
Barley, centals...
Mil' Feedbacks..
II ran, socks
Hams, pkg
Bacon, cases
Lard. eases
ii.Tli
...185
. ..307
11,850
....32
....SO
....61
Wool, sckl andlialas.27.704
Hide, No 6'),01S
Tallow, pkgs 2,(38
Butter, rllgs 144
Apples, boxes 10,001)
Beef, barrel". 27
Beef, eases, canned.... 108
Driod Fruit, pksn... .5,3i
Hops, bales. 2,6.13
Canned Good), case,
2.0S0
Meal, qr. sacks 1,000
Leather, rolls...... .. .2J7
Salmon, btils 1,7E3
Salmon, hit bids CXI
Salmon, kit 310
SUIPMESTS OF WHEAT AM FLOUR
Reduced to Wheat for Int Severn! Calendar
Years to European Ports.
YEAR. CENTALS. VALUE.
1874 , 2,312,581 4,640,DUi
1675..; i 2,0v5,5S2 8 010.172
1878.., 2,894,722 4,405,029
1877.... 3,388,473 7 310,529
1878...'. 2,420,783 4,337,820
1879 2,425,070. 4,440,040
1880 1,857,817 3,105,240
'1881 3,293031 4,877,306
For eleven months.
HALMOV SHIPMENT
For thfj Season or IK8I, the Shipment
Canneries lime Bern ns Folio wsi
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CANNKRS.
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Aberdeen Packing Co
Adair & Co., hagle Canner) ...
Astoria Fishery
Anglo American Packing Co.
Astoria Packiog Co. . . ,
Badollet&Co
A. Booth&Co...,
Columbia Canning Co
Cuttlovl'acklngCo...
John aADeiun&Co
unksVre.klnffC..."
Elmore Paekiug'Co
Fishermen's Packing Co
I!axrood Cj
Ha .thorn Ida...
Joseph liume
R I) Hume, Bat View
William Hume
Oeorgo W. Hume
J. O. Megler Co
Oregon ParktngCo
Occident Packing Co
1,200
11,474
7,000
7,500
10,428
13,076
18,000
11,600
8,360
10,600
19,350
7,000
7,600
13,725
2.000
13,071
21,510
15.765
fl.000
11,358
60
5,325
1,202
12,83
6,400 1
BU7
4,07
1,822
18,167
138
,12,504
11.035
12.218
1,000
7,890
10,000.
7,102
8,134
22,573
9,000
12,600
20,832
8,060
James Qulnn
3,450
1,800
4,780
300
900
3,070
8,120
181
176,334
Scandinavian Packing Co i
C. Timmins A Co
John West.
West Coast Packing Co
J. Williams Co
Wethsrbee 4 Thomes
F. M. Warren U Co., Cathlamet
Warren & Co., Cascades
West uhoie Brand from Aatorla Can,.
18,431
3,600
11,884
14,870
8,778
6,000
6,000
Total.
325,051
Of this 5,672 cases was of the 1880 catch.
STATE AEWA.
Salemitea are subscribing liberally to the
Waldo Hills railroad.
A man named Moore is scandalizing The
Dalles by keeping a house of ill-fame on a
scow.
Three hundred thousand ties are wanted by
the railioad between Kedding, Cal., and the
Oregon line.
Cress well, Lane county, hunters are to have
a deer chose with blooded hounds $5 for the
bound which first catches the deer.
Hounds ran a wounded deer into Dick
Roach's yard at Ashland recently, which
Kicliard immediately killed with a club.
J. Crawford, of Granite creek, Jackson
county, while handling a Winchester riile
rather carelessly, it was discharged: the ball
going through the wall and severely wounding
nis wue iu me next room.
TERRITORIAL.
Two women were among the opium smokers
recently arrested at alia Walla.
F. Doak's house, seven mill a from Spokan
Falls, was destroyed by fire on the 4th.
It is proposed to organize a joint stock
company with a capita1 of 810,000 to build a
first-class theatre and concert hall in Walla
Walla. The Union thinks such an enterprise
would pay a good interest on the investment.
Jacob Hettinger, a merchant of Cheney, W,
T arrested for perjury in connection with a
case of insolvency with creditors in Portland
and San Francisco, waived examination and
gate bunds for appearance before the irrand
jury at the'April term of the U. S. district
court, holding term at Cheney, Kpokan
couuty.
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A HoitiiliiLK C'niMK. Last Saturday Cor
oner Itostwick visitctl Fox Island, says the
Tacoma Ledjer, in response to a notification
that a cabin on the ltaiuc claim had been
burned to the ground, and the remains of two
human beings lay in the debris. He found
the trunk of an Indian woman near the fire
place ; the limbs were entirely consumed, but
a portion of a blanket and a dn s under the
body were untouched by fire. In one corner.
lay a mass of bones, so thoroughly calcined
that it was impossible to determine whether
they belonged to a male or female, and the
flesh was totally consumed, but several metal
buttons and a small ring were picked up from
the spiit, indicating that the remains were
those of a male. It is supposed that the re
mains were those of an Indian and his trjuaw,
who had taken up their temjiorary abode in
the cabin, that they had been foullv inur-
dered, the housa set on fire and the corpses
burned up for the purposes of concealing the
crr:,
GENERAL notes.
State Line Herald: Messrs. John S. Devine
and Joe Cooksey, of Stein Mountain country,
both extensive catlo dealers and landowners,
were in tonn this week on business. They re-
fiort stock in good condition on their ranch
or tho Winter. The disorder which has pre
vailed among catlc of that section for somo
time lias incurred considerable loss, but is now
abating. 'l'ho ranch is in splendid order.
Union County Jlecortl: Mcrrit Reynolds
returned from his tour of observation in the
Wciscr country, Idaho Territory, on Monday.
He savB that country is settling up very fast.
Wciscr City is fast assuming a city like aspect
and mucli building no9 been done, over ia
houses havinir been erected tho past Summer;
more will bo put up this Winter, but lumber
cannot be procured even at $30 per thousand.
Men-it says tho sago brush laud in Wciscr val
ley is quito good, though light soil, tho only
serious diiliculty being irrigation. Water for
this purposo will havn to bo proem ed by
means of a ditch, which will cost at thu least
calculation, SoO.000.
Tho Dalles Time: IJv Christmas, tho Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Company expect
to nuvo a track laid lioni tho Lower Cascades
up to and tcross Hood river; also from this
city to a point six miles below where there
v. ill be a bridue 700 feet long and 85 feet hiiih.
This will leave a gap of sixteen miles, but in
case ot a Ireczc, tbo worst places, Urates
Point and the Upper Cascades, can bo passed
by rail, and the intervening p irtions of the
river navigated by the Harvest Queen, which
is now being sheathed with iron. Should
there be extraordinarily cold weather, and the
entire river freeze, stages or sleighs will be
put on from Hood river to The bailee, be
tween which places there is a good road. The
company are making every preparation to pre
vent the elements from stopping passenger
traffic and mails.
The Dalles Time: During the week sever
al of our farmers have been m town from tho
country, and from them wo learn that stock
of all kinds wero never in better condition
than now. The feed haa been excellent all
Fall, and the late falls of snow have not been
sufficient to hide tho grass. They believe wo
shall have an open Winter, and that no such
louses win ne experienced as were last year.
Grant County New: Tobacco is said to
thrive iu Haystack valley with proper cultiva
tion. If people will use the weed, and likely
they will so long as there is any to use, it is
better to raise it at home than to buy fiom
abroad.
La Conner Mail: A new logging camp is
about to bo started at Samish by an associa
tion of enterprising men, who have recently
taken up a large tract of timber land. They
Btart in next week to clear the Samish river of
drifts and jams, preparatory to their opera
tions. This improvement will contribute, in
no uiiall degree, to opening up to settlement
the interior lands of the Sain'sh country, said
to contain considerable marsh prairie laud.
Some of the finest timber on the Sound is in
the Samish district,
Whatcom is enjoying quite n boom just now
in the weekly arrivals ot members of thu col
ony. They have not commenced their indus
trial operations yet. They struck Whatrom
at a pretty low ebb, but they may bo ablo to
revive its lost prestige, for bo it known What
com was once in the dim past the queen city
of the Sound.
La Conner Mail: The Liimmi Indian Res
ervution, at the mouth of the Nooksack liver,
is probably the most prosperous and industri
ous community of Indians on tho Sound. They
belout! to the fulalip Agency, and last Thurs
day Agent O'Keane and Rev. Father Iiul
north, missionary of the Agency, passed north
on the steamer Fanny Lake, with n new
threshing machine and a large lot of lumber
for tbo ubo of the Liiiumi reservation, which
the Indians receive in the shape of annuities.
These Indians have lots of marsh land on
which to raise grain, and we expect to sec
considerable shipment from theru and the
Nooksack country generally within thu next
few j ears.
Colfax Democrat: There are fivo stations
between Holies Junction and South Texas.
The first is 4.3 miles oat and is called Mono
ken; tho next is Alto, 1 0 miles; the next is
Relief, 0.7 miles; the next is Starbuck, 5 5
miles; the next is Orange City, .'1.0 miles; then
(.4 miles to South Texas, nr tho south sido of
the Texas Ferry. It is Afl.O miles to Walla
Walla to South Texas. Passengers for Texas
Ferry leave Walla Walla at 7:10 A. H. and ar
rive at South Texas at noon. Returning, they
will Uave South Texas at 1:10 p. M. and ar
rive at Wallaa Walla at V) If P. '.. changing
cars and stopping half an hour ut Holies Junc
tion going and coming.
Walla Walla Unioni After xnMnii manv
inquiries of farmers living iu diU'crait puts of
the valley, we conclude that the acreagu iu
Fall grain this year is much larger than it was
last season. Xot only is tins the cue, but a
largo area has been prepared for eaily Spring
sowing. The indications are very favorable
for another largo crop next harvest. Wo be
lieve it is safe to say that tho area in grain is
one-fourth greater than it was last year. It is
also Kafo to say that tho grain is iu better con
dition now than then. If thu Spring season
opens early, wo expect to see a larger area
put in Spring grain. With an average s-asou,
the crop in the Walla Walla valley next bar
vest ought to be one-third greater than before,
Walla Walla Unions The ground on which
to build a big Hour mill at Prescott, twenty
miles from Walla Walla, and the right of way
for a ditch to carry water to run the mill,
have been secured by Mr. 11. P. Isaacs, whu
will erect the boa flour mill of this country ill
time for grinding part of tho next crop. The
new mill will be driven by a large volume of
water taken from the Touchet r.ver, falliug
eighteen feet.
Correspondence of Seattle Intell'njeneer from
Kittitas; We are having a little wintry
weather here at preseut. the uround beini;
c.vocl r't'i taw rot ciioivt'i frr Ool
NO. 45.
sleighing. Crops havo turned out well tho
past Sum tnci, and some of tho farmers could
not get all of their grain threshed this Fall on
account of the scarcity of threshing machines,
so they will have to wait till next year to get
all of last Summer's grain threshed. There
have been a great deal of buildings during the
past Summer in the valley, and a great many
of the farmers havo put up good, sulwtantial
frame houses and brick chimneys, and havo
neatly painted their housos, and aro making
them look very inviting aud beautiful. There
would have been a rood deal more building
done if plenty of lumber conld havo been ob
tained. Tho mills have been crowded to their
utmost capacity, aud still a groat many pooplo
were turned away without lumber. Good
houses, plank fences and good barns are get
ting to bo plentiful now-a-aays, but two years
ago such tiiines were very scarco here.
Oregon Cedar.
In an article furnished to tho Gardner'
Chronicle, of London, by Prof. Charles S. Sar
gont, ho says: "In Portland, wo had seen in
tho factories a white, closely grained and
odoriferous "wood, everywhere known as Port
Oxford ccdai. This wood was very highly
esteemed for all sorts of insido work, and ap
peared to possess to n high degree ntany valu
able qualities. Although distinct in color,
perfume, and especially in its greater rapidity
of growth, it closelv resembled tho wood of
the Sitka cedar, and unless produced by Law
son's cypress, wo were unable to refer it to
any species with which we aro acquainted.
We had liecn told that Port Oxford cedar was
only shipped from Coos Hay, and to settle our
doubts in tecard to its oricin. and to study the
amount and distribution of tho tree producing
such valuable material was tho principal ob
ject of our visit to tins part ot uregon. 1 lie
belt occupied by tho Poit Oxford cedar ex
tends from the north shore of Coos Hay south
about sixty miles to Rogue river, and from tho
shore inland ten to thirty miles. It ascends,
however, some of tho small streams still fur
ther from tbo coast. This trvo waa first dis
covered by Murray in tho valley of tho Upper
Sacramento river, in California, where a tow
isolated clumps and individuals, small and
stunted, exist. It ia a vcrv local plant, with
its greatest development hero on the Oregon
coast, tho few trees of tho Sacramento valley
bring the extreme southern outposts of the,
species. It selects rather dry sandy ridges,
and grows even in the pure sand of the coast
dunes within reach of tho ocean. Tho heaviest
continuous body of Port Orlord cedar U on
Capo Oiegory, extending south to and beyond
the mouth of the Coquilln. This belt is about
twenty miles long by nn avcrngo width of
twelve, and lie along the western slopes of
the foothills of the Coist range, extending
within three miles of tho coast. In this l.clt
two thirds of tho trees are cedar, the oilier
tide-water spruce, with a few Douglass fir. It
is estimated that it contains 12,000,000,000
feet, board measure, of Port Oiford cedar.
Thoso figures give some idoi of the wealth and
productiveness of the Oregon foresta. In 1807
a terrible forest firo raged dnring tluco mouths
in the vicinity of Co.is Hay, Volumes of nmoko
obscured the sky; it became so dark that all
work had to bo abandoned, and navigation
was impeded for miles out for sea. It has
been estimated that from 200,000,000 to 300.-
000,000 feet of Port Oiford cedar were de
stroyed at this time. It reproduces itself,.
however, very rapidly.
New York Wool Market.
from U. M. Economist.
Nkw Vouk, Deo. (, 1881.
Our market continues dull and is lacking in
buoyancy, as is usually the esse after the
lapso of a two months' quietude. Tho samo is
mote or less truo of Hoaton, Philadelphia,
Troy and Hartford, Manufacturers havo
acted wisely this season by forcing dealers to
carry their stocks during a stringent money
market some of the tune, and now assert that
they prefer small stocks oi wool and larger
hank accounts at tho close of the year than
large stocks of wool and no money in bank, a
I cquo'itly occurs. We have now in our pos.
session news from all tho principal markets in
the world, and they are all inoro active and
buoyant than our own. With prices going up
!n all markets abroad, it is not iu keeping
with the laws of trade that prices here should
remain stationary while strcks are becoming
smaller every day and the mills keep miming
to their fullest capacity iu order to supply
pressing demands.
From San Francisco we hear of continued
dullness. Small quantities of choico Northern
have been sold at edits, equal to 'Hi cents
here. Who would give that prico for Fall
clipp wool ? It is said that all the best lots of
Northern are held firm there at from 'JO to 22
cents. 'I he market hero for one so dull ii re
markably firm, particularly for all choice
wool. The London sales aro very firm at ail
advance since tho opening, of a half-penny.
The sales close Saturday, Dec. 10. Prices aro
comparatively firm in Austialia; soma choico
clips havo sold there at I.IJd for America via
Sail Francisco, One ship, a small one, is on
for lioston, Alxnit 10,000 bales iu all iro
coining for manufacturers' account at high
cost. To-day they could not sell it save at a
loss of fivo tent per pound here.
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(io.se to Vikw this Land, Mrs. R. H
Lamson, T, W, Davenport and If. A. Davis,
having been appointed referees iu the suit of
James D, Walker vs Jos. Teal and others to
view and make partition of lauds iu Linn,
Hentou and Polk counties, have departed on
their mission. They will be absent some
time,
Notarik.1 ArTol.HTti). Governor Thayer
ha commissioned Geo. A. Hrook, of Corvallis,
II. If, Tuttle, of Portland, D. P. Dwight, ol
Weston, aud J. II. Upton, of Port Orford,
cot rii-i p ' 'ia f r Cfj- n.
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