Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887, November 10, 1882, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textjl!3aUtlllJfflBBMB!MaajMM01MMjTO ;i '-i M M 1 I. i; 4 uned every Week by the WILLAMETTE VABMKKPKBUSHIIia CO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One rear, (Poetatre paid). In advance I S.60 glx months, (Postage paid), In advance U)m thn six months will be, per month ADVEItSISINO HATES : Alvcrtlsementswlll be Insetted, providing; tn 're lespxtable, at the followunr table of rates! line iUUI Ui n(nM;o )vi ww""' -- ' -" Thru, lnr-l,Mi nf UTiftCe tier OTOIlth... ....... O.W On half column per month KM On column per month -' soot 1S.tSSn3piO COIHCB SUI1V new ..,....."... Publication Office: No. 6 Washington Street. Up wrs. rooms no. uiiu k ITHUallElVH ANOI.VCEli:T. The following are authorized to receipt for subscrip tions to thin paper. irVhercwehaveno agents re mittances MllhT t maile, (expenses jjald), to us by RckIcIitwI I-cttir, or Money urucrs, or r.ress. ALL PAl'EltH DISCONTINUED AT THE EXl'lKA TION OK THE TIME PAID FOIL Amity BLBIinpson Aurora Goo Sillier Brownsville W 11 Kirk Buttcvllle . . John llatchcller Butte Crock E Bkcrviu Brooks ... W II llarrln Bellcvue .Jell Davis Crawfordsvllle..Kt.bt Glass Oott-o Or..J II Shortrldjrc Lebanon O W Smith Uv. Isvllle. HCMcTlmmonds Looking Glass.. M Cochran Lincoln. . ..L Ahrams McMlnnvlllcJ Jlcl'blllips JlrCoy . . ..S Hobblns Mt Pleasant... K 8 Thayer Marl..... ..11 11 Kutiitriora Mohawk.. ..J 8 Churchill Oorvallls .Meyer Harris Cbampoeg .... A Jcttc Damascus . . E Forbes Dayton.. E C Hadaway Drains... Hon J C! Drain Dallas J D Smith Monmoulh..W Waterhouso NnValnliHl. GV.Hamilni.t01l 'owell Valley. TK Williams Pilot Rock E OIllKm Pendleton.. It Lhermore Perrydale. .J W MeGrcw IIcasantIIill.OWIIandsakcr Itlversldo.i.. .0 F Knowles Dulur -A JDulur, Jr Kola Thomas Pcarce Elkton A II Haines IlosLhurir...S K Itavmond Ku?cne..IIon J II McClunir Sweet Home 7. I) Mom Kllensburg ..Hon M Illlcy Salem B W Church l-orent urovo n uunen fox Valley... A D Oardncr (loshcn J llandsaker Staton AD Gardner Sublimity.. .JnoDownlnjt Scio Ja Morris Oaston ... AC Itajmoml nervals .11 Mitchell ghedd w M Powers Tangent John Luper Golilendale.il PSajluriCo IIarrUliurj,..IIon II Hmlth llalsey..,Illack, Pearl Co lrlnj AC Jennings Indcpcndcnco.W I. Ilodirfn Jacksonville... Max Muller Junction WHIlabcr Turner r H siaiicson Wilbur.... Hon TliosHmmi WlllanicttoF....M Wllklna Welle A A Williamson Weston .. ..LSWood Waltsburir W N SnilUl Walla Walla. . . . J Jacobs Zens S SOlmblo Jefferson.. ,,.,i w lloland Wk have a largo number of interesting Agricultural Reports sent us by Sonator Urov or nnd Senator Slater. They are exceedingly valuable, anil will bo sent to any one upon ap lication, free of charge. Thbso living near Portland will please call, 'llIIH 11 THE TIME OF YEAR when UlO busi- n;8s colleges havo full classes. Many of the young pi'oplo attending thjm coino ftom the country. Happening in the Portland Business College ono day this week, wo saw a full school, and wore informed by Mr. Armstrong that pupili woro coming in so numerously that lie would need another teacher. Ono proof of the improvement in the country is that institutions aro bettor patronized than over before in the history of tho State. The woman's bukviiaui! amendment to the constitution of our State was passed by both Homes of the Oregon Legislature, by hand somo majorities, and will, after being submit ted to the vote of tho Legislature in 1884, be voted on nt the popular election in 1880, (if it is passed by the second Legislature) and will become an important element in the coming campaigns. Our opinion is that tticro is a fair prospect that woman's suffrage will be adoptod in this State by the final voice of the pcoplo in 18S0. An ordinary drinker and tobacco user wastes in ono week $ 3.8.1. Inconsequence he finds himsolf poorly clad, family in want of many neoessarics, and oompletoly behind in his dues, flo is never prepared for accident or sickness financially, and his family, through the effects of theso habits, aro roared in dis order an I unclcanlinose. Never thinking of adopting methods of economy, or changing his mode of living by abandoning theso injuri ous habits, tho burdens of life aro grievous. While it is shown that husband, wife, and four children can procuro a week's supply of food for $4. IS, tho saving of rum and t ibacco wasto turned into clothing aud home con forts would produco comparative 'ease and pleasure where sorrow and despair is now the lot. The 'thriving town of Snrague, Spoka county, W. T., has a country near it, on both vidua of tho N. 1', It, H., that will in time be pprooiatcd for its productiveness. Wo have alluded to this fact frequently, but the last proof of it comes in tho shape of produots, grown 111 miles south of Spraguo, at the farm of John Eaton, on Hock creek. These eonsitt of very large and line White Winter Pearmam apples aud Karly Roso potatoes, both of re markable size, sent to the Ilurcau of Immigra tion by W. II, Smallwood, of the Spraguo Herald. Wo havo groat faith in tho abih'ty of all that Spoknn and Palouso region to pro duco fruit, aud tho aucoens attained in different localities whero fruit trees havu been planted should encourage thousands more to plant or chards. Woman's Sithiuiik is a cause that com mends itself to, many very strongly, aud tho worst argument agnii'at it is tho injudicious oouduct of soiuu of its advocates. If its gen eral acceptance, is to drag the women of tho land through tho mire of politics, we do. not need it. If tho result can bo that woman's in lluencu shall purify politics, then wo need it. Meanwhile, if tho organ of the movement chooses to rv ile good men, bocause thoy do uot vote to suit its editor, that is a strong ar gument against woman's cause, for it conveys the intimation that If woman will abuse her opponents unjustly Morohand, she may piove more venomous still with tho ballot iu her luud, Tho editor of the journal in question, has yet to loam that thero is a free country, aud u'ui aro honestly entitled to their opin ions. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has demonstrated that different trees cau lo sue ctssfully grown on the dry region fiom Atns worth to ltitu lllo by having different shade tree planted near tho stations on that route. Mr. 1'hilip Kits, of Walls Wulla, was tho author of tho planting undatteuded to having it done, Wo mado mention, hat summer, that thtMc trots bad Ixfii set out aud were do lug well). They have boeu irrigated, of course, but after they have made a good start they will no doubt thrive without Irrigation. The access of this year's tree planting induces tho Northern Pacific to undertrake a still larger contract with Mr. Ritzfor planting out trees along this part of the road and experi ments will be made with shade and nut-bear-trees of different varieties. The soil is rich over all thst dry region and with a water supply it can be made to produco abundantly. TAOUINA BAY-THB OREGON PACIFIC 4AIL ROAD. A correspondent who has visited Yaquioa Bay gives an account of the business of the pi ice, tho farming and fruit-growing interests, and particularly alludes to the opportunity for stock raising in that region whero winters ore never severe, which, hc-says,,seeins to be neg lected, though it is not easy to belitve that where so many seek investment and cittle raising is so remunerative, so good an oppor tunity is passed by. It is more reasonable to believe that the country does not afford as much inducement in that direction as the writer supposes to bo tho case. The jeaderj of the Willamette Valley will be interested in learning that the Oregon Pa cific Itailroad is making some progress, though but slowly. No work is being dono on grad ing, but parties are at work on three tunnels between tho summit and the bay. These re quire considerable timo for completion. The company have laid out a new town site on the bay, called Yaquina City, where a wharf and two warehouses havo been constructed. A telegraph line is in operation between there and Corvallis. In various ways the company claim ti have cxponded 150,000 nt that end of the line, and havo construction material of aanio value on hand. Besides this, they claim to have n number of locomotives in New York, whilo 75 miles of steel rails, two .o comjtives, passongr coaches nnd other ears aro said to be stored in San Francisco. On tho line from tho bay to Corvallis are five saw mills, 3,000,000 feet of lumber, 1,000.000 ties, and the company claim to owe no man a cent. Tho manager, Mr. Hoag, says they expect t) complete the tunnels during tho wint-jr, com mence active operations in the spring, and have connection with Corvallis next fall. We havo always dono this enterprise full justice, and have been ready and willing to record its progross. Its managers have been too free to make promises they knew they could not keep. Wo sec, by a publication taade in a New York journal, that this scheme Is counted ono of the Western outlets of tho Unien Pacific road, which wo have heard in timated before. If that company is behind it, of course thero is no doubt of their ability to construct it when they got ready, and that may not bo for somo yoirs. Even if completed to-day, it could do little without an outlay of $450,' 00 by government to mako an entrance to the harbor. The Oregon Short Line is coming this way rapidly. It is possiblo that the U. P. Com pany will cross Middle Oregon with it, come through the passes of tho Cascades on the Santiam, and then seek the ocean at Yaquina, but even if they do this they will also be sure to mike n terminus at Portland and Astoria. The railroad era is upon us, and tho Pacific Northwest offers a wide scope for capital and enterprise to venture, We may look for won derful things to bo done before 1800. TAXATION OF MORTOAagS. The act that amends the law of Oregon and provides for taxation of mortgages, has the following provisions : Seo. 1. Defines that term "real property" and lauds when used for purposes of assess ment ami taxation, shall include all fixtures and improvements, lights and privileges, and a mortgage, or deed of trust, whereby land Is made security for debt shall be treated as laud or real property. Sec. '1. Provides how land shall bo assessed, and that any obligation whereby land is mado security for debt shall bo' assessed, and made ubjcot to a lieu for taxes due, same ai other real property. Seo. 3. Provides that any owner of obliga tion by wliioh land is made security for debt, shall be deemed to bo the person to whom security was given, unloss records show some other person is the owner. All assignments hall bo void, unlets made in writing on tho margin of tho records of tho security and name of assignee given. In all cases, such debt and security Bhall be assessed and taxed to the person on the record as security. Src. 4. Such debt shall be assessed at Its full value, unloss payments made on samo aro recorded ou margin of county record.or unless ajiesaor considers the property not actually wotth tho amount of tho dtbt. Seo. ft. On tho first of August County Qleiks ball deliver a listto msessors of land made security for .payment of debt, with names ot debtor and creditor, amount of debt,, descrip tion of property, dates of record, aud name of present owner, Seo. 0. (lives the form of foregoing ab stract. Sec, 7, Defines duties of County Clerks in premises. Sec 8, Says any debt secured only in one county shall be treated as other property iu all respoots. Tho owner of same cau deduct indebtedness, as from other poperty. Seo. 1), States that piomUsory notes shall uot be taxed, but the debt aud tho instrument by which it U secured, shall lo taxed. Sec 10. Kxempts from operatiou of the law, mortgages, judgments and debts Iu favor of the State. Seo, 11, llepeali ether laws ssn" mm CONoEQUENCE OF BOSS RULS- Tlio elections Tuesday show that the regu lar Ucpuhliea'u tickets were defeated in New York auil Pennsylvania by great majorities1. The elections in 32 States show that in many Democrats have uou. The next Cougrras will hae a Democratic majority iu tho House and cloe vote iu tho Senate. The people reject "ImW rule, aud have condemned machine politicians. The people are right. WILLAMETTE FABLER: PORTLAND, OREGON. NOVEMBER FRUIT QROWtKa WOREOON OPINIONS OF A CALIFORNIA EXPERT. Mr. Edwin Hayden, who has been engaged in handling fruits in California for eighteen years, has been traveling through this valley this fall purchasing fruit for the use of some of the great canning firms of California, nnd probably has as much practical experience concerning fruit of all kinds and the adapta bility of any country to fruit growiug. as any p.'rson to be found. Having met this gentle man and become aware of his general iutell gence and special Information on this ques tion, in which we have taken so much inter est ptrsonally, we have obtained from him his views concerning fruit growing in our own region. To appreciate the impoitance of fruit grow ing as a productive industry in California, we should understand that the value of dried fruits made in that State is two millions of dollars; canned fruits manufactured there are woith four millions to five millions, besides which extensive shipments of green fruit are conUintly made to the East and to other Pa- cifio regions. It is probable that tho total of values of fruit grown in California does not fall below ten millions of dollars, not includ ing the grapes mado into wine. This rude es timate is only mado to show the importance of an industry that is certain to enrich tho.-o who take hold of it in Oregon. Thero are only a few persons as yet who havo attempted fruit growing on a large scale, and the open ing of railroad communication with the East is certain to create a profitable demand for all the fruit? we can produce in both the countrry East and West of the Cascade Mountains. In tho first place Mr. Hayden expresses the decided opinion that Oregon fall and winter fruits are superior in flavor to the same varie ties grown iu California. In early fruits Cal ifornia is usually equal to our growths. This is attributed to tho fact that they have more hot weather there than here, and for that reason our late fruits mature more perfectly. As to plums and prunes, ho thinks ours are sup-rior both in flavor and size, especially the Italian, German and Petite prunes. Mr. Hayden fully agrees with our opinion that Oregon soil and climate especially tho soil of tho red hills are adapted to growing plums of many varieties to perfection, and that we have the world to supply. Concerning varieties of plums and prunes he names those available for canning; to be used as table fruits as follows : The Columbia, Washington, Yellow Egg, Coe's Golden Drop, Silver Piune and Blue Damson, all can be used to advantage for the table, and the peich plum and green gage are used as pie fruit.) For prunes, to be dried whole, he com mends the Italian, German, Petite d'Argen and Silver prune. This last is pronounced by our Horticultural Society to be identical with Coe's Golden Drop, but Mr. Hayden insists that while the leaf and fruit seem identical, the fruit is even a better flavor than the Golden Drop, which may be due to soil and cultivation, as the trees Mr. Alderman planted originally for Coe's Golden Drop plums. It seems to be true that the Coe's Golden Drop or Silver prune dries wholo to good advantage (We should add to this list of prunes tho Beatrix Imperatrice and a pi line that Mr. Sedlack has in his orchard in this oity). As to the profit of growing prunes Mr. Hayden says a little woman,, near San Jose, has ten acres of Petite prune trees in bearing, and the family dry the prunes themselves, re alizing $3,500 a year, or $350 an acre annu ally. That is in nowise beyond belief, and we claim to havo got $250 worth from an acre of this fruit in our young orchard near Salem tho present year, that bore for the second time only. Mr. Hayden thinks our country rsp:cially able to produce excellent small fruits, and that we shall havo an unlimited demand from canning establishments for all we can produce, at " to 3Jo per pound, for all time to come. Blackberries, in favorable locations, will pro duce enormously, and probably pay better than any other small fruit. The Law ton and Kita tinny each succeed well here, and the fruit is very superior. The cherry currant, he thinks, should be produced here iu greater quantity, as it yields largely under good culti vation and cau be relied oa to bring 3c per pound from owners. Gooseberries also do well, and are worth 4 cents. That reminds us that through the Upper Country gooseberries aro grown in perfection everywhere, so wo suggest to fruit-growers there that they can find a market for all they may raise aud can for market, aa gooseberries aro a popular fruit tho world over. Apples for shipping are Yellow JCewtowns, Monmouth Pippin aud lied Clark Pippin; Baldwins, Northern Spy, Hoxhury Husset, Ksopes Spitxenburg, Gloria Mundi, Yellow Belltlower, William's Favorite, Red Roman ite, Virginia Greening; there is a limited de mand for the American pippin as tho latest keeper known. Wine saps, wheu of good tue, aie good shipping apples, but seem to have de teriorated of late years. This he attributes to overbearing, and, with proper cultivation and suitable thinning out, believes they would be profitible to raise. A class of applet that are not salable or not fine enough to ship, but are valuable for home use, are the Hambo, Talpahocking, Waxen, Geuatiu, Smith's Cider, lied Astrachan, Red Juuo aud Fall Pippin. All these dry well; in fact, any fruit, sweet or sour, will answer for drying, so an apple orchard can all be made available without a home market, if the own er has a dryer and force to run it. To work to advantage for drying au apple needs size more than quality. California canuers put up up only two kinds of apples, Red Astrachan and Fall Pippin, aa they come when other fruits are not filling the market The Red Astrachan is au appls that w ill do to raite largely of, as it is especially marketable In any shape, green, canned or dried. Great establishments use all small ap- pita that will uot pay to pare, to dry or can, to get juicita to work up for jams and jellies. Hayden says all dried apples should be bleached, to be salaHe, which can be easily done. Have a box that can noiu trays same size as the oner, anu iuium-v the fruit is pared, ai.d, before it can oxydize from exposuie to the air, spread on a tray, and nut the trav iu this box. Have a pan win. a few coals in the bottom of the box, put a spoonful of sulphur on ther oils, shut the oox, nnd in four or five minutes the fruit is set with tho natural color, and the trays can then be removed to the drier. There is also an easy way of handling fruit in paring and spreading on trays, that once learned becomes mechanical and enables any handy person to do very rapid work, ilie parer runs an apple through the machine, and while he reaches for a fresh apple, takes the other off with the left hand, ana as ne iu tho parer he slides the pared and cored appie on a stick that will hold eight or ten; when the stick is full another expert takes it, runs a knife down one side of the pared fruit, which cuts it into separate liugs, and then taking an apple in his hand and sliding it over the tray, he leaves them spread as accurately as he pleases. One becomes so expert in a short time as to pare and spread apples very rapid ly. Saving time is making money, in all such work. What costs is the timo employed, arid to become expert in this will prove valuable to all interested iu drying fruit. Mr. Hayden Bays, if you want to plant poars plant Bartletts, and if you want to plant more pears plant somo more Bartletts. No doubt the Bartlett is the king of pears, most especially for canning, but we have been told that Chpp's Favorite, that comes just af ter the Bartlett, is very much like it and cans os well, and is pissed off as the same fruit. As the Bartlett only lasts two or three weeks, it is evident that it is necessary to put some other varieties, but no other variety takes its place for canning, unless Clapp's Favorite may. This reminds us that the Bartlett is a very slow grower and makes a small tree. We havo Bartletts, in Salem, that have been out twenty years, and aro not yet occupying over tec feet square if that much ground. So we suggest to those who plant them out that they may as well set them close, say 12 feet apart, which will admit of 300 trees to the acre. Mr. Havden says canners will always pay $20 per ton, or lo per pound, for these pears, and no doubt they will pay that for tho orchard, and gather and pack the fruit themselves. We happen to know that they havo paid three times that, or $1 50 per bushel, for Bartlett pears in California, for several years past. Fears that will do to shipon; Bartlett, Clapps Favorite, Louise Bonne de Jersey, (not too many of them), Bourns Easter, Win ter Nellis, White Doyanne, (or Fall Butter) and the Lickie. Mr. Hayden says the folio wing varieties are not worth cultivating here: Dutchess, Vicar of Wakefield and Beurre Clargo. Those who have those trees will do well to graft them over into Bartletts. Mr. Hayden spoke of the great advantage of keeping swine and sheep in an orchard, a matter we have often touched upon. They do good in many ways, as also do turkeys and chickens, who destroy insects and so preserve orchards from destrmtive pests. Above we have given the disinterested news cf a California fruit bujer, whose opin ions are formed on tho experience of a life time. He unhesitatingly pronounces all the fruit we havo named as superior, when grown in our country, to those grown in California, Wo all know what reputation that State has for its fruits and we cannot doubt that we p ssess a great opportunity for making money in fruit culture, if we venture into it in a judiciary manner. The information we gather from Mr. Harden we endorse from our own observation nnd experience, and we do not believe a more valuable paper on fruit grow ing was ever presented to Oregon readers. Taking this as his guide any farmer can set out trees with confidence, and soon make him self more independent by mixed husbandry, than ho ever can become under the old system of wheat farming. Portland Bmlness College. This institution is now receiving more stu dents from this city and from all parts of Oregon and Washington Territory than ever before, since its organization sixteen years ago. This is a gcod indication, and shows that our young and middle-aged people real ise the importance of properly qualifying them selves for a successful life. From an acquain tance of a number of-years with the workings of this school, we unhesitatingly pronounce it first-cUss in all respects. The branches shattering the left fore arm and (mother mak taught arc just such as every man and woman inS ware flesh wound on the left side. must know sometime, elso grope along through life in comrnritive business-ignorance with out any knowledge of their own financial af fairs or the sources from which money is made anl money lost, 'lhe managtrsof the Portland Business Col lege are practical and successful business men, ) precise and systematic in all their dealings, are always on time with every undertaking and fulfill all promises to the letter; and this of itself is a guaranty of satisfaction to all their patrons. Persous who feel an interest in practical education aro requested by tho managers to visit the school at any time, and examine the books of any of its students if this be necessa ry to satisfy them of tho hote and the ichat in teaching. Shoull you visit Portland at any. time, it wi'l repay you for the time spent to call at the college and see the school in mo tion. You will find there also the finest col lection of all kinds of pen work, both plain and ornamental, to be seen in the State; and wo bespeak for you a hearty welcome at the hands of Messrs. Armstrong and Wesco. In the meantime send for a copy of their Colltgt Journal, containing specimens of ornamental penmanship executed by Prof. Wesco, besides giving full information about everything per taining to the sohool. Au invaluable strengthener for the nerves. muiclts, aud digestive organs, producing tirtngiu ana sppeuie.is wow us iron Hitlers, 10, 1882 STATE NEWS. The Dalles is full of burglars. -1 McMinnville revels It "bal-masqnes." Jacksonville is proud of her schools. There aro millions of ducks in Coos bay. Wheat $1 lO.per bushel in Un'on county. Deer hunting is the principal sport In Bike county. Improvements at The Dalles are going on rapidly. The Prairie academy at Dayton opened on tho Cth inst. Beef continues to command a good price at Weston. The brick work on the now mill at Salem Is completed. One hundred and thlrty-:even studentta a the Oregon university. The foundation for a new Methodist church at North Powder is being laid. The Umatilla Indians havo 10.000 acres un der cultivation and own two mills. Hoodlumscongregateinthe Diyton churches Sunday night, and annoy the minister. i James Carmichael attempted to rape a six year old girl in Union City. He is now in jail. Hank Vaughn has settled down in Union City, and Parker thinks he is too near Walla Walla. The Umatilla county poor -for the coming year will cost $1200. So says the Ecut Ore gonian. A majority of the immigrants that arrive by steamer are seeking homes in the Willam ette valley. . The Albany Democrat expects to see work begin in earnest on the Yaquina Bay railroad next Spring. Sing Lee, a boss Chinaman, has bought a farm in Pierce county and 100 heod of beef cattle for $4200. 1he old school building at Cove, Union county, has been cold "for $30. Valuable piece of property. It isn't razors, but tin cans that fly through the nir in I'rinevillc, and tho people all "got away from the window.' J. T. Miller's store at Coqnille City was burglarized Tuesday last. $50 in money and $500 in jewelry was taken. Fires along the telegraph line between Marshfield aud Rosoburg are now out, and the wires all in good shape. A subscription paper is being circulated by e Christian denomination, for j,he benefit of the a new church building at Drains "What to wear" is a leading article In the Dailif Statesman. "How to get It" would take'better with the average reader. It costs one and a half cents per pound" to pack hay and provisions from Scottsburg to Camp creek, a distance of soven miles. A great many people would like to know by what authority the lands on the reservation along Wild Horse are being squatted upon. The deed has been made and the money paid over for the ground on which the depot of the O. R. & N. Co at Baker City is to be located. A loving couple were married at Lafayette the other day whoso combined ages amounted to 153 years. It is never too late to make a start iu Yamhill county. The eleventh annual fair of the Union County Agricultural Society will be held on the grounds belonging to the society, com mencing Monday, Sept. 17, 1883. Five wagon loads of Chinamen passed through Baker City last Monday morning for the grading camp on Burnt river. They are in the employ of the O. R. k N. Co. A Yamhill man claims to have invented a water teleicope. with which he can see a five cent piece in forty feet of water. If h can now invent a machine to bring the blasted coin up, he will receive the thanks of a tor tured people. A serious accident occurred on Friday, the 27 th, at the tunnel on the Umatilla and Baker City railroad. Eight kegs of -powder ex ploded, blowing one man sixty feet in the air. His eyesight was destroyed and it is thought his injuries will prove fatal. All the insane pitfcnts will be removed from Portland to Salem as soon as the asylum at tint place is ready for their accommodation. It is now in order for some country publisher to ariso and say that iu that event Portland w ill be depopulated. The Post says produce is rated as follows in Eagli valley : Onions, per pound, 4 cents ; beam, 5 cents; potatoes, 1 cents; wheat, 2 cents; oats, 2 cents; barley, 2 cents; pickles, 40 cents a gallon. Uncle Jakey Stouder, the pious old fraud who skipped the country last Summer, leav ing his wife and family and numerous sorrow ing creditors to mourn his departure, was captured at Independence last Tuesday after a long and faithful chase. Says the Union Iiecard: Eggs 30 cents per dozen, butter 35 cents per pound, wood $4 per cord, hay $3 to $10 per ton, flour $9 per bar rel. The butchers have raised on their meata and the hotel and restaurant have raised $1 per week on board. Shouldn't wouder if they raised some of u out before Spring On the ev.ning of Friday, Oct 27th, aa Messrs. Caius Vincent and Wm. Van Goethen were camped upon the Umatilla river about five miles above the Warm Spriogs, the former was shot by some unkuown person, ono ball ) s,r- Dow 66n of the Vancouver nursery, sajs the Timtt-ilountaineer, showed us a fine lot of trees he has for sale in the lot adjoining the planing milt on Third street. He has some of the best variety of pear, plum, apple, Jeacn ana cnerry ana some small Iruic trees. Ir. D. informs us that he has sold a laroe quantity of these trees iu this county and also some in the neighboring territory. At Echo is an apple tree branch, siys the Eal Ortgonian, taken from an orchard near by, which is four feet long and about one inch through at the largest end which has on it over two hundred good looking apples. Au average apple on this branch measured seven and one-half inches in circumference. This is a pretty big story, but it is true nevertheless. Roseburg has the. "model" girl. Every time her mother has the hardest work to do she selects her finest pieces for the piano, like "Sweet Rest By-and-By" and "Mother's Growing Old," just before she goes out to play croquet with the joung men. Most girls would hard-heartedly bang away with "Jor dan ii a Hard Road to-Travel" or "Whoop em up, Eliza Jane," but this girl isn't one of that sort, and tome day abe will marry the president of a base ball club. The Union County Record of La Grande makes a grave charge of cruelty against Rev. R. H Moss of Outerville. It accuse him of starting his neioe, aged twelve years, alcne on her way to St. Louis, Mo., poorly clad and with no one to look after her, either on the way or after her arrival there. Hon. O. M. Jameson finding the girl on the stage, suffer log from the cold, upon heariug her story, took her to his home at the Cove and cared for her. The Jtetord criticize the reverend gentleman In a manner perfectly proper pro viding its part of the stoiy is correct. V 1EERITOKIAL. Sprague polls 400:vote's. Garfield has a literary society. Dayton is full of drummers. Moscow wants a money order office. Missoula has a national bank. The Villard hotel at Now Tacoma is com pleted. . m' The Columbia Chronicle has now pow press. A new hotel will be opened at Snraim. tho 15th. ' " Land ii being rapidly taken up on the Pa, taha. Heavy capitalists aro arriving in Seattle daily. The Boise Statetman says the freightfo. business is dull. Wasco rejoicej in having the largest hotel in the county. Coal oil has been found near Elhi, six miles from Puyallup. The barrel factory in Seattle gives employ ment to 100 men. r ' Sweet peas and aspaiagus still bloom iatha open air at Seattle. Immigration is pouring quite lively int. the Big Bend country. There are thirty-two buildings in course of construction at Waitsburg. The new mill at Port Townsend will bs running in a few days, Columbia county votes on the court boon question Tuesday next. The initial number of the Umatilla Exa. iner has been published. Tho court house at Boiso City, a fine brick structure, cost $37,827. A Montana firm has contracted to furnish 10,000 pairs of buffalo horns. A tri-weekly stage has been put on bt tween Cheney and Colfax. The 30th instead of the 13th is the day tit by Governor Newell as Thanksgiving Day, The Sprague House, at Spokane Kails, will be opened to the public Nov. 16th. The Kootenai Courier is the name of a new paper to be issued at Wcstwood, Idaho. Seattle is feeling good over the prospect the early completion of her new railroad. The only son ot Allen Weir, editor of the Port Townsend Argus, died on the 1st last. Hopkins, of the Palouse Gazette, wants mm ono to open a bath house at Colfax, so he caa clean up. The Walla Walla Statetman thinks Colfu ought to be reached by a switoh from th( main line. The Olympia Standard opposes the admit sion of Washington Treritoty to the Union, ai a State. Eight cents per pound is offered fo: hauling freight from the end of N. F, track to Missou la, 120 miles. The question of prohibition came btfore the Walla Walla debating society, and none is the organization could be found to espouse till cause. Forty-eight immigrant wagons passed through Sprague for the Crab creek country last week. The price of hay and oats has materially ad vanced in Seattle since the recent railroad contract was let. Capt. Smallwood has sold his interest in th Sprague Herald to Armstrong k Co , and bt retires from the tripod. The youn.i folks of Cheney sit up all night to see the comet. They don't get discouraged if the comet is a failure. A burglar broke into a Boise editor's house last week, and when he saw the true state of affairs, pulled off his overcoat aud left it. Walla Walla saloin keepers walk up to the Justice's office every Monday morning and pay $25 fine for keeping their houses open Sundays. The machinists in the Sprague shops set up a locomotive and had her running in exactly four days from the time she was taken from the boxing. The Sprague Herald learns from a relitblt source that the road-bed from Cabinet to the end of the track is sunken so badly as to be almost impassible by trains. During the month of October 107 veueli entered and cleared at the Port Townsend custom house. During the same time $5,7M was collected in custom dues. Politics are hot in Spokane oounty, and the newspapers are wading in head over heels. The tVtoKne salutes Montgomery as a Ihrand the Sentinel calls Kellogg an old slobber mouth. FronTa gentleman recently from Whidby Island we learn that the logging camps in thai section are doing batter this season than for merly, owing to the fsworable fall they havt had. A coal miuer named August Sanders, work ing in the mine at Newcastle, met with a serious accident by having a. heavy body 01 top coal fall on him, breaking one of hit Itp and scratching his head up quite badly. Walla Walla Watchman: Agsin weask, where is Mrs. Eliza Maas, formerly of DenTer, Colorado? Any information regarding tM whereabouts of the lady, who is Germin, will ba gratefully received at this office, where in formation of vast importance awaits her. we would esteem it aa a special favor if some w our exchanges would kindly copy. Charles Seeley's band of fine lamb nj?ye" i: . ,!.,. n.DBai Hintnrrli town rriuay, says the Pomery Republican, bound for their Wint-r range on the Tukanon. There were 1800 in the hand and it is the finest drove ei sheep we havo seen in the country Geo. Hutchinson, working iu a ones,-- at Alki Pciut, become insane, r 1.1. :..:,.. ui J119 inaunjr wiieiM - -- . women and at tne sight oi a icm" to the woods like a deer. An army of men is employed at .the aoutk rn terminus of the Carson and Colorado road, gradiug, leveling, ballasting and word ing ou the Bodie branoh line. The compwj, it is said, will continue the work of construc tion southward until a junction is made the Southern Pacific, 250 miles from tot present terminus. A rumor come, to hand from pdle,r!i says the Washington Democrat, to the edecs that three railroad employes were found mar deredinthe woods nearMeachams ; near the summit of the Blue mfu Moccasin tracks were seen in the viciuity " a broken ramrod was picked up near we bodies. How true is the report is impomow to tell. A "gentleman," hailing trom, no one knowi where, came to thi city last week, sayiiw Salem Statesman, and represented himM" " a cattle dealer from Eastern Oregon. j hired nine or ten of our young men, ana . formed them that he wished to take a bna cittle to Montana, and that they were ceive for their salaries the sum ol jJL month and everything jurniahed. int was set for the boia to start out, and a r ' appointed time all the party were on n"i but the "employer" failed to put in n ? Jance, The boyi think they have been tan I in."