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GENERAL NEWS.
Yakima farmers are planting coin.
Spokan jmshtuds will bear well this
season.
Several Chineso firms in Portland
have failed lately.
Crops never looked better than now in
Grand Hondo valley.
Sheep shearing is eoine on in this val
ley and wili'soun bo over.
Jackson county will grow a large crop
of corn the present year.
Geo. Colqnilett was drowned while at
tempting to ford tho Palouse.
The Snohomish valley is rapidly be
ing filled up with immigrants.
Shad are caught at 'Astoria and sent
to tho fish markets at Portland.
A man named Martin was killed on
Snake river by one named Stover.
Seventy families, comprising 300 souls,
are now settled on Vashnn Island.
Charles O'Connor, tne great Irish law
yer, died last neck, at Nantucket.
California had a good rain Sunday
evening and crops look remarkably well.
The old fum of Ziober & JIcKinnon,
who kept the Clarendon hotel, have
failed.
Tho Bank of Ashland is organized, W.
H. Atkinson, president; E. V. Carter,
cashier.
Tariff reformers aio pushing Carlisle
as the Democratic nominee for the pres
idency. Oregon salmon is laid down in Boston
at 20 cents and retails at 25 cents per
pound.
Tho ship Campbell, loading lumber at
Tacoma will take 1,300,000 feet to Aus
tralia. Tho anti-monopoly national conven
tion has nominated Gen. B. F. Butler
for president.
Reports that come fiom all parts to
Walla Walla speak in unqualified terms
of the crops.
What is supposed to be the army
worm is destroying vegetation in Eastern
Washington.
Sheriff Jacobs, of Jackson county, has
captured Frank Howard, the pscaped
stage robber.
T. C. Campbell, at Waitsburg, was
fined $100 for sending an obscene letter
through the mails.
A man named Sharp was killed while
running the "Thompson's Falls ferry
across Clarke's Fork.
The railroad ferry boat to cross the
Columbia at Kalama will be ready in
about two months.
The conduct of the committee on ap
propriations in the House is denounced
as mean and parsimonious.
San Francisco capital is largely loaned
at Seattle at 9 per cent., and there are
eighty-six saloons in the place.
D. S. K. Buick, a veteran Granger
from Myrtle Creek, has been of late in
this valley on business.
France and China have signed a
peace treaty that settles all the foreign
troubles in a satisfactory manner.
The Public Lands Committee in the
House advises the repeal of the timber
culture act and also of the pre-emption
Dayton, W. T., has $211,320 worth of
real estate and $220,510 improvements
on same ; also personal property, $447,
170. Extensive salmon shipments aro to be
made, using refrigerator cars.which have
been specially constructed for that pur
pose.
Senator Dolph writes a long letter
that is published in the New Northwest,
taking strong ground in favor of woman's
suffrage.
iresh Oregon salmon, packed in ice,
is landed in New York in seven days
from tho time they aro caught in tho
Columbia river.
"The assessment for Clarke county is
completed and shows 2,020 tax payers,
400 increase; the assessment has in
creased $154,000.
Jndah P. Benjamin, tho chief law
counsel of tho Confederacy is dead. He
has lived in England since tho war and
took high rank as a lawyer.
The public buildings bill has no show
to pass this session. It was fixed to
expend $7,000,000 in new public edifices
in large cities.
Judge Mosher has been appointed ono
of the board of visitors to West Point
military academy this year. The ap
pointment is in honor of- his services in
the Mexican war. ,
The Peoples' Party of Umatilla have
nominated David Ashbaugh and J. B.
Eddy for the Legislature and Ben Stan
ton County Commissioner.
Blaine is working his cards finely to
get nominated for the Presidency. It is
difficult for him to conceal his intense
interest in the political campaign.
Tlie Washington county anti-Monopoly
ticket nominated is : Senator, James
Bruce ; Representativec, Ira Turdon, M.
lj. Johnson ana uustal I-u unco.
X special agent of the government is
now ittivoik placing tno scattered Indi
ans on Snake river on homesteads. He
is now treating with the Washtuenos.
At Baker Citv, Bert and Milt Prescott
and Aler. Steefo plead guilty to cattle
stealing ; Milt Prescott goes up for four
years and tho others ten years in the
penitentiary The Baker City Tribune
cays that after many years of losses for
cattle stealing stockmen hired detectives
and trapped the thieve, Unci a portion
of the criminals are now receiving just
punishment. ,
Frederick Billings gives 1,000 to
Whitman Collogo at Walla Walla, i
From Applegate news is that there is
more improvement going on and moio
farms changing hands than ever before ;
also much vacant land is being located
by actual settlers.
Tho Virginia resolution sent from their
legislature to the President pro tern of
tne benate inviting Monono and KiddlC'
Derger to resign, nos never been pre
sented by mat oflicer.
A foolish man named "Warren B,
Johnson left California June 1, 1882, on
toot, unvincft horse and cow and with
a dog, and last week all of the outfit
reached Webster, Massachusetts.
James Dobbins was driving a load of
freight fiom Almota, and in going down
hill fiom Union Flat was thrown and
both wheels of tho heavy wagon passed
over him, severely hurting, not fatally.
Seymour. Sabin & Co., now organized
as tho Northwestern Car Company, have
failed. The concern has $3,000,000 paid
up capital and its managers claim they
.will soon be cloar and working ahead as
usual.
Forty thousand bushels of wheat have
been shipped from Independence lately.
It was long hold for higher prices, could
hav e boen sold for 92 cents and now sells
for 71, a loss of $8,000, besides interest
and storage.
Blaine's friends are confident he will
receive the Republican nomination and
without doubt ho takes the lead in the
convention, having over ono-third of the
delegates certain, mostly instructed.
By a railroad accident in Pennsylvania
many were killed and wounded by an ex.
plosion. The train dispatcher forgot to
stop a certain train a few minutes and
scores of dead and wounded was tho
result.
Klamath county Republicans nomi
nate for county judge, W. S. Moore;
clerk, W. C. Hall; sheriff, Chas. Put
man; assessor, S. W. Kilgore ; commis
sioners, M. Obenchain, and R. A. Em
met; coroner, Dr. M. H. Beach.
The Woild says Gen. Grant's name
made the operations of Ward possible.
It was his business to know what went
on when his influence was the basis the
firm workod on Grant made a great
mistake and his friends are sorry for
him.
George Lloyd, near Waitsburg, was
harrowing with three horses and got un
der tho liaiTow when the horses ran
away. All his clothes were torn off and
yet ho had only ono slight scratch to
show for his adventure.
Grant borrowed $150,000 of W. H
Vanderbilt the day before his failure and
secured it by a deposit of bonds. Since
then Vanderbilt has given him back the
bonds and told him not to worry but
pay him when he got a good ready.
Cyrus H. McCarmick, who invented
the reaper, died lately. He made a great
Invention and it made him very rich.
His father worked at the principle many
years but failed to apply it successfully
and his son took up the idea and per
fected it.
Manly Currier, near Corvallis, had a
flock with fifty lambs in it, but wagons
backed up to his fence and thieves cor
ralled the band and loaded in the lambs.
People heard lambs bleating in the night
often, as negroes drove along the road.
Portland gets good beef now from the
ranges east of the Cascades and Cali
fornia is also drawing on Oregon for beef
from the southern counties, which causes
a decline in San Francisco meat
quotations. Stock men have had a
favorable winter and have a good mar
ket for all beef stock.
It is reported that the O. R. & N. Co
has defaulted on payment of interest on
lease of tho narrow gauge road and the
same will probably revert to tho'Ore
gonian Railway Company, (limited),who
may conclude tc build a main branch
into Portland, which will be a big thing
for Portland as well as for the country.
Tho panic in Wall street culminated
in a few failures of speculating firms
and then the cloud passed over; tho
other great cities did not participate in
the troubles. The Metropolitan bank,
which was forced to close, afterwards re
sumed. During the panic many persons
bought stocks for a permanent invest
ment John Bland and Horace Mace mot at
a saloon in Harney valley and commen
ced shooting. Both fell dead, and F. L.
Mace waalso accidentally shot and may
die. Both came from Southern Oregon
and had borne good characters. Tho
trouble was that it was claimed that
Bland bad insulted Mace's wife.
Yamhill Republicans have nominated
for Senators, Lee Loughlin and Henry
Warren ; Representatives, J. J. Spencer,
E. H. Woodward, A. J. K. Sanders;
Clerk, W. A. Graves ; Sheriff, G. W. Sap-
pintrton: Treasurer, K. f. Uird; Com
missioners, S. Bradschur and J. S. Hibbs ;
School Superintendent, J. H. Freunds ;
Surveyor, D. P. Trullenger; Coroner,
G. G. Bingham.
We stated last week that John Matheus
was supposed tohavo been accidentally
killed when working on Thorton'
farm near Vancouver, Sinco then
Thorton and tho dead mans wife havo
been arrested charged with murdining
him, instead of his being hit in the head
by tho plow, as they asserted, while
adjusting it
Tho Senate committee on public lands
is examining into tlm ways by which
foreign companies obtain title to lands
in this country. It seems that English
cororations aro organized for that pur
pose and fraudulently acquire great
bodies of lands by bogus claims, and by
some apparently good locations. Also,
in California and in Washington Terri
tory a regular system prevails of paying
men for the use of their names to locate
land by peculation.
, East of the Cascades the lamb crop is
much l.ugcr than usual.
A fipi inn n boy fourteen yrnis old lias
started tu go afoot hum liilUboro to
Oinalm.
Louisiana Demociats have nominated
Eiibtis for U. S. Senator, to succeed Sen
ator Jones.
Sam Waul, the great loblijiet is dead.
Hu was a man lemarkablo for litcrary
talent as well as lobbying.
Fishermen at Coos Bay find tho sea
lions are killing the fish so they aie try
ing to kill the sea lions.
Tho Noithcrn Pacific Land Oflico is
having the railroad lands in Umatilla
and Yakima graded for sale.
Fisk & Hatch, Now York b inkers,
failed on account of immense losses in
curred by the late 3 percent depreciation
in U. S. bonds.
In Southern Oregon people aie sink
ing artesian wells nnd easily get vvotcr
for mining and glazing purposes.
Jenerson Davis has been making n
speech, or something, where he tells of
what will happen -."when reason replaces
truth on her throne.
Tho Clarendon Hotel building, Port
land, buined the other niglit, a total loss.
The hotel was closed as tho proprietors
lmd recently failed ; losses about $30,000.
A $500 trotting match is to tako place
in Union county betvvoon Goodnough's
Geneial Spingue and Ben Hullcy's Tip
poo Clay, best 3 in 5, at the Union coun
ty fair.
Tho House committe on Public Lands
reports against the Societary of the
Interior taking any steps to confine or
patent lands granted to raihonds until
the matters aro passed on by Congress
or the Supicme Coiut.
Dolph's Northern Pacific Forfeiture Bill.
Washington, May 19 The bill in
relation to forfeiture of Northern Pacific
lands, introduced to day by Dolph, pro
vides for the immediate restoration to
the public domain and co-operation of
tho public land laws on that portion of
tho grant lying coterminous with its
main lino between Wallula Junction
and Portland, a distance of 214 miles.
It also provides for foifeiture at tho end
of five years from the passage of tho bill
of all lands adjacont to that poition of
tho Cascado grant which shall then be
unbuilt, in effect giving the road fivo
years to build the Cascado branch. The
but proposes to authorize persons in
possession of any of thoso lands to pur
chase 320 acres, if so much has been im
proved by them. The railroad is re
quired to file its assent to the conditions
ot tne bill, so as to avoid all questions
as to tho title of forfeited land.
Appropriations lor Orogoa and Washington
The appropriations for Oregon and
Washington territory as finally agreed on
are as follows :. Yaquina bay, f 40,000;
Columbia river, at the Cascades, $150,000
Columbia and lower Willamette rivers,
below Portland, $100,000: Willamette,
above Portland, $5000 ; upper Columbia
and Snake rivers, $15,000; Chehalis
river, 12000; Cowlitz river, $2000; the
Skagit and four other small rivers of
Washington territory get $10,000. The
recommendations of the engineers for
Ooquille rivor. Coos bay and the mouth
of tho Columbia river in Oregon were
rejected. Congressman George, early in
trie session, introduced a bill for $500,-
000 for the mouth of the Columbia river,
uou,uwjor Coos bay, and f W,wv lor
the Coquille. These several sums wero
recommended by the engineeis
Tne Oregon delegation in the benate
and house made strong argument before
the committee lor cncli ot those places.
Tho .bill which passed the house, but
failed in the senate, appropriated "875,000
to start tho improvement at tho mouth
of tho Columbia, $30,000 for Coos bay,
and $7000 for tho Coquille, Mr. (leorgo
says that unless these matters aro roc ti
fiod, either by tho hou?o or by the senate,
it will strike a inot fntal and socre
blow to tho inercsts of that section.
For $5 we will sond any ono tho Faii
her for one year, also send the pnpor
one year each to two new names.
A high mandarin of China, in his letter of
thanks to Dr. Aver for having introduced
Ayer's Fills into tile Cl atlal Umpire, called
them "S eet Curing 8eds" a viry api ro
prists name! They are sweet, they cure, and
are, therefore, the most profit ible "seeds" A
sick man can invest in.
The Emperor Louis Nsroleon smoked
only the finest cbrars the world ooold pro
auca. l-roi. uorsiora asys utt Emperors
dears wen msde specially (or bus In Ba
Tsna from leaf tobacco grrown In tbe Oolden
Belt of North Carolina, this being the finest
leaf stowu. BlukweU's Boll Durham
Bmoklm? Tobacco Is niada from the umi
leaf used In the Emperor's cljrars. Is sbflo.
lutely pure snd Is unquestionably tbe best
tobscco ever offered.
Thackeray's sifted dsrurhter, Anne, In
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MoniUf, tells of ber visit to tbe great poet.
She found him smoking BlackwtU's Hull
Durham Tobacco, seal him by lion. Junes
RiukU Lowell, American Minister to the
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In the days of sdrdteratlon.lt laaeom
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Blsckwell's Bull Durban) rluioktug To
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