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WILLAMETTE FAJRMER: SALEM, OKEtiOJS MAY 13. lJb7. kf' ; i ft : ft t t r "v ' fflttvn cpt;tmeis.. Telegraphic Hews A duel nt Now Orleans botwoen two prominent citizens, ono a nowspapor man who had criticised tlio other, re sulted in killing tlio editor outright, who got sovcral shots in tho head, nnd tho other was mortally wounded. Tho way all duols should ond for thoy are inoTCiisablc in our ago of tho world. At Green Bay, Wis., John Saguot wan last week convicted of murdering his wife fourteen years aijo. Ho wan inti mato with another woman and his wifo and her husband both died suddonly and then thoy married. This verdict camo late, but was just Simon Buckner who surrendered Fort Donolson to Gen. Grant is democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky. Tho torriblo mining disaster at Na naimo B. 0. calls for tho B.vinpathy of tho world in tho shape- of rolief for thoso who survivo and havo no one to cam tho bread thoy cat. Tho racific railway Commiwion is investigating tho management of tho different transcontinental romls taking tho testimony of all tho managers, past and present. Sinco tho Inter-Stato law forbids all Sooling tho transcontinental roads havo oviBcd a way to accomplished tho snmo end by allowing somo companies to make lowor rates whon thoir routs are longer, as tho Canadian Pacific and the rout by steamer via Tanama. Those fellows aro not easy to head off. Enrthqunko occurcd in Sonora Mexico, last wcok Tuesday, May 8, that caused torriblo dnmngo, dostroying novoral vil lages and killing many. In ono 150 persons wore killed nnd adobe houies wcro leveled. Sovoral volanocs broke out destroying timber and pastures near by. Other stocks wcro felt afterwords and thoir effect extended to Tucson, Arizona, nearly every hljpdi mountain in Southern Arizona has ila topography changed. Last Sunday no liquor was sold in hotels or bar rooms in Now York city, becauso tho Jaw was enforce'.!. Crop prospecta aro reported fair as to Wintor Wnoat in most oi tno western States Kansas is an exception however. More rain is conorally nocded to put both fall and spring sown grain in tho best condition. A Yiana Professor thinks that tho na naimo mining disaster was caused by an earth qnako nnd predicts that thoro will bo moro disturbances on August 3 and 19 and on September 2 and 17. Tho annual trado returns of India are published. Valuo of imports during tho year jC73,8C0,G00, against 71,130, 000 tho previous year ; exports, 80,200, 000, against 81,080,000 tho provious year; rovenuo dorived from import du ties, 2,498,000, against 2,250,000 dur ing last year; rovonuo from export du ties, 700,000, against 740,000 during tho previous year. Thoro havo boon copious rainfalls throughout Central, Northern and Northwest Texas during tho past forty eight hours. A Now York dispatch of May 10th, says : District Assembly 19, Knights of Labor, havo been quietly organizing Chinamon into Knights of Labor assemblies. Thoro aro two assemblies in this city now. Thoy aro mixed as semblies, including cigar makers and laundrymon, nil Chincso,and thoy num ber fully GOO. Tho master workmen aro Chinese. Tatonts havo been issued as follows: Oregon, W. Matthowa and II. Murray, Portland, fruit-packer; Washington Territory, Cnurlcs Bull, Old Tacoma, curtain fixtures. Increases o( pensions havo been grant ed to Albert Kaysor, nt Klickitat, and Gorsham II. Reynolds, of Saratoga, W.T. Tho earthquake in Sonora, Mexico, excites much attention, tho world over. Hundreds wcro killed and wounded, and tho damage was universal and wide spread. Tho Southern Pacific intends making tho railroad to Oregon very popular, and will render every sorvico possible to in- duco travel to go by land. Tho great firos in Hungary towns, wero caused by a hot sirocco, that dried lip vegetation, and made it inflamahle. Many towns wero burned, and tho hot wind carried tho firo far and noar. Many wero killed, and tho damago caus ed, reaches millions. Tho corner stono of the Leland Stan ford, Jr., university, at Palo Alto, will bo unostentatiously laid next Saturday forenoon at 11 o'clock. Tho plans of tho architects and landscape gardeners aro completed. Tho architects aro now on tho grounds, having an ofTico there. Two barb-wiro fence manufacturing firms have failed in Chicago. Sherman it Marsh, 51 Dearborn street, havo mado an assignment to Noblo P. Judah. Tho liabilities are ostimatod at $148,000, and tho assets at $250,000. The firm is com posed of Francis T. Sherman and Eberi J. Marsh. Through there 100.000 tons of wheat at tido water in California, there aro no ships loading there for Europe or nnywhero else. The same was truo of Oregon ports, and no vessels are un der engagement to load coon. There are seventy-five vowels waiting cargoes in the ports of tho two States. The reason is that speculation has run wheat up above shipping figures a"s it is held by a few bull operators, who intend to forco a rieo. Tho Pullman car rates on the O. & C. road, are reduced to $2.50 a berth from Portland to Ashland. At tho Nanaimo mining district, a brave man, namod Siimuol Hudson, who had a wifo and littlo daughter at home, risked his life, and lost it, saving a littlo girl of a neighbor's family. Ho saved the child, and died a martyr to his noble nature A foolhardy engineer fell doad in tho express office at Now York tho other night, whilo showing a friend what heavy shocks of electricity ho could take. Ho took too much nt last. Freight arrival at San Francisco, of goods shipped beforo April 1st, when tho Inter-State law went into oporation, amounted to 109,350 tons in thirty days, or 3,500 tons a day. At Oakland, thero wcro 912 loadod cars waiting their turn to unload, Monday, May 2d. An Asiatic express is planned, to run from Now York to Son Francisco, in 100 hours, to mako close connection with steamers for Asia, Tho cars will bo gorgeous, and no chango mndo from ocean to ocoan. Baptist churches of colored people at Now Orleans, baptiso in tho Mississippi river, there, though tho current is very mvlft Last Sunday, a largo crowd as sembled on a wharf near tho placo of immersing, when a railing gnvo way and fifty porsonB went into tho swift current. Many wcro rescuod by skiffs, but seven aro known to bo lost, and it is fonrcd twice that number aro drowned. Judgo Schocnmakcr, ono of tho Inter State Kailrood Commissioner, say tho grcatost clamor comes from California, UocatiKO thoy can't ship fruit, and adds: "thero is nothing in tho law that can hurt California business,'' "to prevent anyono from making rates too or from tho Pacific coast,' provided thoy don't ship to intormodinto points." Superintendent Wilder, of tho railway mail service, is on a tour of inspection in tho cast and northeast portions of his division, and ho will examine tho work of tho department in Utah, Novada, Ida ho, Montana, Washington territory and Oregon. W. B. Todhnntor, n cattlo owner of Sacramonto, Cal., who owns 170,000, ncrcs of lands in Oregon, and 50,000 in this state, has assigned to HnycR, Carrick it Co., Oakland, Cal. His liabilities aro said to be $100,000. Thursday May 12 near Oakland, at Itoso Lawn, rcsidonco of Cant, and Mrs. J. C. Ainsworth, will bo cotcbratod tho wedding of Miss Laura Ainsworth and John S. Baker of Tacoma. Tho core mony will bo porformed by ltov. Francis A. H or ton. Tho floral decorations will bo tho most claborato ever scon in Ala meda county. Tho Southorn Pacific .Railroad Com pany havo exercised tho option hold by them of buying tho controlling intorost in tho Portland it Willamctto Valley railroad, and havo decided to buy said interest. It will bo somo tlmo however, before a formal transfor can bo mado. State and Territorial Mews. Tho steamer Eliza Andorson will lvcrcaftor bo run from Tacoma and Sound points to Vancouver, B. C, tor minus of tho Canadian Pacific, making tnps throo times a week, nnu closo con nections with tho Canadian and North ern Pacific. W. It. Boon, of tho Oregon Siftlngs, has been arrested and taken to Albany on a chargo of libeling Peter IHIoy. Tho Northern Pacific 11. It. Co. has ordered tho gonoral land office of tho company at this end of their lino ro moved to Tacomn, which is considered tlio last attempt to' transfer its bunincss from that city. Tho Oregon Fish Commission has let tho contract for restoring tho hatchery on tho Clackamas. It will cost if 3,000 to refit it, and thoro will bo amplo funds to carry it on afterwards. The storm on tho Pacific ocean for a wook or so bock has tocn severe, as vessels ontoring tho Columbia report. Good coal has been discovered near Hanson's mill, and is being dovolopcd, says a Pomcroy, W. T., papor. A largo sturgeon, weighing 800 pounds, was killed on Snako river by a steamboat, last week. Thoy catch them with linos at tho mouth of tho Walla Walla. A bear camo down from tho moun tains and invaded a Montana ranch, and killed thirty hogs in ono' night in the pasture. Thero is a good prospect for a hoavy hay crop in tho Willamctto counties. Grain around Walla Walla, looks bet ter than ever known at this season. A splendid rain gladdened the hearts of tho farmers of Eastern Oregon, last week. It is feared tho straw will grow too rank. A farmer, near Pendleton, has had trouble with weeds in his wheat, so ho used his header to mow them oit, and succeeded in killing them wjthout dam aging the wheat. M. G. Steel, of Portland, is intending to raiso a compuny, and go to explore tho caves of Josephine county. A terrible mining disaster occurred last week, at Nanaimo, Nacomus Island, in a coal mine, that caused tho death of 167 white men and seventy-fivo Chinese. Several explosions occurred, causing the roofs of the tunnels to cave, and most of them were killed by the after damp. The living, for whom those white miners earned bread, are forty-fivo widows and 130 orphans. The Umatilla county court hat made J. B. Ray inspector of stock. Fanners of Marion and Polk, talk of hunting cayotea, the middle of May. Seattle hod subscribed Saturday, $1000 for the Nanaimo survivors. April 29lh. D. M. Kcycs' Iioubo nnd nil its contents wiia destroyed by firo, at Tillamook. Ncnr NaiiBono, Wasco county, horses have unknown discaso that lasts a few days. Thoy oat woll, but grow guant and thoir ovoa sink in. Cattlo men on North Powder threat en to mix saltpeter with their salt, if sheep are pastured thoro. It kills sheep. J. P. Wagor, Sonntor from Umatilla, is wanting to mako n caso by shipping a carload of wheat from Pendleton to Portland, to test tho reasonableness of present freight ratos, and will bear all expense. There is a scarcity of deep water fish in tho Portland market, and there are fow chinook salmon. W. W. Bnkcr has been appointed stock inspector of Multnomah county, and is to bo paid n salary of $100 pc r year. Tho prisoners aro being moved from Scatco, W. T. to Walla Walla and at Ar lington, Or., two of them tried to cs capo, and ono was shot nnd tho othor escaped. Portland militia men nro 'jubilant' as they aro going to havo a nowarmony building to cost $32,000. It will bo con structed on improved plans. Tho con tractors will havo the building com pleted by September 20th. Tho build ing will bo 100x200 feet. Perry Burbanks, of Bonton county, who shot his log off Bomo weeks ago, has died sinco ; ho was poor, and loaves a wifo and several children. Hundreds of acres of young wheat aro inundated on streams of Washing ton county. Hoavy dnmago is feared. Bon Strang, for many yoars n rosi dont of Salem, and a tinner by trade, was working at Astoria Inst Saturday, roofing a high building, whon ho missed his footing nnd full, killing him instant ly. Ho was well known nnd liked, hav ing resided hero from n hoy. At Spokano Falls thoy cannot got onough lumber to build as fast as isdesir- od, and tho town grows as last as it pos sibly can. Bxclterpent In Texas. O-rnt excitement hi been canted In the vifiiutv of L'aria. Tex., bv the remarkable ro- ovory of Mr. J. K Oorley, who w io help Ire he could not turn in bed, or ralae hit heedj everybody said he wa dying, of Comutnption. A trial bottle of Dr. Klnc'a New Dltcovery wa lent him. Finding relief, ho bought a large bottle and a box of Dr. Kind's New Lite FilUj by tho tlmo ho bad taken two boxee of the Pilli and two bottloi of the Diicorery, he wae well and bad gained in Ueih thlrtv-slx rounds. Trial Bottle of this Great Diicovery for Consumption tree at tho i'ort Drug Uo, VJ Cuticura a Positive Cure for ory form, of own ana bioou Pimples to Scrofula Skin ToivruriEs or A LIFETIME instantly relieved by warm btUi with CvncuaA Boar, a real lain lleautlner, anil a tingle application oium cia tht mat tklu Cur. Thle repeated dally, with two or three doiee ol CiTicvaa UuoiYur, the new Wood i'url'jrer, to keep me bioud cooi, we perepirauon Dure anu unimiaiiDr. the bowele open, the liver and ktdneye active, will peeJIiv cure. Eczema, tetter, ringworm, raoruli, lichen, prnrltuf, ecald head, dandruff, and every epeclct of torturing-, dliflguilntr, Itchln, ecalr and pfropley dleeatee ol the akin and acalp,' with Iota of hair, when phtticlant and all known reiuedlei tall. Bold everywhere, rrlce, Ci'iiciaa, 60c; BoAr, Ok", IlaaOLVixT, 1. Prepared by the 1'onia liaiu am CiiuucAL uo , uoaroi, uea. CO. Bend l-r "How to Cure 8k In Plieuea." PIM pie, hJ.wkht.uii, cha),Hxl aitU oilj tftli )nc venwa vj uiticuba hedicitip or. 1EE Br. UenlynOltrj, B?cfu4 Iran Th larva ul- "! wonderful curat wrought by Dr. iieniey t icieri ucci nu nan. mv kiwhwibwuw. Um Induce l nine unicrvputout ptraon to try and ..!. s.(ff nanaamalmmltlllnn TaVt AlllvDr. Iifle Luteal v tt9tww eu ,hh?-m"i "T - " 1 1 the original. BREEDERS DIRECTORY. 'mn. AUVi'atTlaP.MILTrt like Ike fol- tenia- will be Ineerttd ! our eliimi, la Ihelr proper cluaaMraltoM, for IS Io lie a year, larluillng ropy or paper. gTLAryc. IMC cuJvu iw. fw . CATTLE l. II. LOONKY, Importer and Drcedtr JERSEY CATTLE. I 9arl h.ts tk fanat Prinlf m ltflfrta ani IlulUfort'. AdJieM or call: Jcfff rwn. Or. LADI A REED, Importer, a ad Breeder of rniTi ma a iiauna. Hiuirt.iinrn uamo. Cotiwold and LelceeUr bh ep and Clydedale Home. GEO. !. UOOHHUE, HALE1I. . OREOOX. r The Uadinf WYANDOTTE and BROWN LEUIIUrut breeaeroi upiumn Vh.Ia itimn fur circular. EUCB KOBSALE IN UEAbON. JvVj&sS mm BSL !3W STAVER & WALKER, DEALERS IN Farxn. Dairy, and Mill Machinery. WAGONS, BUGGIES & OARRAGES. Hinder lvinc, Belting. Supplies of 208, 210, 212, and 214 Front Street, Portland, Oregon. BRANCH HOUSES t Wiilln Walla, IV. T.; Lnftrande, Or.; and Moscow, I. T. AGENTS AT ALL POINTS IN NORTHWEST WsBIh J. I. Ciiho Agitator. tit.- tll.a. il.a..l..a ..!.- I. I..& ll.t.1. a. a A..a iiuua ii)iivr eiiiiiiiTP iic(t i ivti iiauio mi fc uuv t order and Mrtiprainbfllcr thin any other Thrfihfr. Acme Harrow, iiod Smasher, Cruiher and Uveler, weljhe much let than any ether I'ult erlilnir Harrow, aella lor about one-third lce, aod withal doee the met thorough work oi ny. W?i.ir:2 Stiidebakcr Wagons. Thimble fia.ln, BUel Bheln, Tubular Ale Waeone and evrrjthlnir on wheel,. J. I. Caae fulky. Cant and Walking I'lowt, nar. .. HBbbbHBBBbHBHBbVHIHIbWZmsv V7y JRJr9 i .i Tii'-A-,.iTT nn.rmt-irwrmmrmm !$m!ti&&tmi .bLLW T3aO. m orwe and Cultivator,. .,,., tW Wo enrry tho InrROflt stock In 'tho Northwest of llimgioH, Onrrlngea, Cnrt?8nrinir Wngon, nnd Veliioloa ol nil Wnd nt pdcoa to milt ovorybotly. It will pay nil FntomlinK purchnscrB to cnll nml oxmnino our slock nnd obtnln prices. tftfMJJKKjtJDP&wmftk IU.m Feed Cutter, gueranteel beet In tho World. taf yjP! f- g imfi SwT BalKjgalgiaBpVHBaVeHaTaTaaaAl MXt jt-mmW at DEDERICK HAY PRESS: Over three-fourths of nil tho hay baled in tho Unitotl Stntes and Caniulu is bnlod by theso prcfleon. mmtmmAtmAimmmtmtelM v 'aajBaifcLjj -vreiSBlaBlBHa ll FAMC O0B For tho convcnicnco of onr patrons wo ha-ro cstablitihod Ilrunch IIousos nnd agencies nt all points of importance throughout Oregon, Wellington nnd Idaho, where we carry a stock of our various machines and vehicle, nnd also rcpiu ro tor same. Wo earnestly ask that you call upon our nearest local agent, examine our goods and obtain our tonus and prices beforo purchasing olsowhero anything you my need in tho lino of Machinery, Vehicles or flupplies. If wo havo no local agent near you, please writo us what you wish purchase and wo will send full information and priccH by roturn mull, or have ono of our traveling enlesmon call upon you. Should there over arino any dissatisfaction in your dealings with ourselves or Agents, please writo us all tho act and wo will soo that ample justici is (Iobo you All onr goods havo beon especially built for this trado of tin1 lest material strongly and durably made, finely finished and painted, and gunrunn ed equal or superior to all others of their class manufactured in tho United Smti h. We shall hope, by furnishing you tho best goods, by fair prices, liberal terms, and courtH)ii8 nnd honorable troatment, to secure your onliro iaironu(,'o. STAVER & WALKER. 206 to 214 Front Street, Portland, Oregon: Oils, and Mncliitic nil Kind.. Buggies and Carriages. End Bprlntr, Side rprlnr, llrewiter epilnir, Tlmken tprlnf Bugitle. and all klndi of Carriage! and Vehicle. J. I. Cue Portable, Straw burnd if, T? action and Skid Krlne. Meet Powerful In the world. lloosicr Fore Fred Orltlf and Seeder,, with True Aulo and Wide Til . Studabakcr. a a I m.i.- I., if m.a. ..-. IPI,... final na rniir niinriD'. laiiurui. nan a aaaaaiiaiia. aiiiw ui'iiui m, w.nr. .w.na. Bissell Chilled Plows Warranted liottf r liullt and better working than any other Chill Plow made. Bob Sleighs Special!) built tor our Trade and lirht class in every respect gbBuvlBBipuflA
