WILLVMETTE FARMER; SALEM, OREGON JUNE 0, '7. F VK vPT" tytivn 4pcpr;tmeiit. BUte and Territorial Nw. Wool is 20 cents n pound nt Jackson ville. Travel over tho Cascades is lnte, ow ing to tho great dopth of snow. Pupils numbering COO, linvo attended ABiilanu schools. Hon. Geo. II. WilHama will deliver tho oration nt Eugene on tho Fourth of July. Farmers on tho Columbia were not satisfied when oilercd $20 a ton for their hay and hold over whilo dealers sent to California for liny. It turns out that thcro is an nbundanco of hay to answer homo uses. Ono nian hns 100 tons and now that tho wator is up cannot movo it easily. Hay has gono down on half and thoso who "hold on" can keep hold ing it. Tacoma will eclobrate tho Fourth of July in grand stylo, and expects that Eastern Washington will bo thoro to see.' Apples, cherries and plums will bo n light crop noar Wnlln Walla thU season. Governor Fcnnoyor is having a suito roums fitted up nt tfio Stnto Capitol for his own uso and intends to spend con siderable titno thcro this summor, with his family. Tlioy will occupy appart nionts hnndsomoly frescoed and elegant ly furnished and summor thoro instead of going to tho soa beach or tho mount ains sensible Tho Portland Reduction works havo docided to incrcaso tho capital stockand onlargo their business. Walln Walla boats tho world withn prizo strawberry that measures n foot in circumference. A largo and distinct rfirlglo borry, too, not a cluster, that was grown by Frank Orsclli. ' Frosts havo damaged gardens in Blodgitts' Vnlloy, Donton county. Parties tnlk of building fruit evapora tors at Salem and Albany, on n largo scalo. Perhaps thoy had best wnit for a good crop of fruit. It is claimed Hint tlio ncroago in hops in Orogon and Washington is 20 per cent, greater than Inst yonr, and pros pects good for tho coming crop. A Corvallis paper says, monumonta erected in Crystal Lako Cometory, have bcon broken nnd dispoilod by vandal hands. Such vandals should servo a term in Stnto prison. Forty Itniinn coal miuortt havo been brought to Bnndon, Coos Bay, to work tho coal mines. Tho now paper mill nt Ln Camna, W. T. is being re-built in tho most substan tial manner. Old potatoes nro no snlo and thoso who hold them regret not ncccpting tho high prico offered not long ago. A cavo in tho Mullan tunnel, on tho N. P. It. Itoml. cannot bo remedied casi ly nnd tho company will lay an over head track on tho bed that was mado nnd used beforo tho tunnel was finished. Thoro is every prospect of a lively war between steamboat lines on l'ugct Sound, tho present season. Tho 0. It. it N. Company hns lost tho Northorn Pacific trade, nnd will light for business to mako it up. Linn county prohibitionists will hold n Convention nt Albany, Juno 1-ltb. Bridgo Enginoor Morrison will moot Vice-President Pottor, of tho 0. It. & N. Company, noxt week, nt Portland, nnd they will lounta tho now rnilrond bridgo, uftor which work of building samo will bo rapidly pushed. Tho now county of Malheur is .f 30,000 in debt. Over a million pounds of wool will bo shipped from Echo this season. Tho Bailor crook country is hauling its wool , mostly to Cntlo Itock. Baker City Domocrnt: Sheop-shenr-ing is now in full blast in this county. Tho wool crop will yield hnndsomoly, wo nro informed by sheep owners. Taxes in Jackson county nro at present 2 per cent on from one-third to one-half valuation. In tho town ndd 1 por cent, extra for graded schools and city prop erty. t It is estimated that tho amount of building improvements this season at Hailoy will reach $100,000. Tho Oregon Pacific is to bo pushed eastward via tho Minto pass to meet the C. & N. W., which is rapidly approach ing Boise1 City. About Roberts' creek in Southorn Oregon, sheep shearing is about over, the fleeces is said to bo n good averneo weight while thoro is considerable snort ago in tho number of old stock sinco Inst shearing. Long Creek Eaglo : Tho Davis broth ers, Stone, Lcvorton Hunsaker, Freddy Clover, MoThomas and partner did tho biggest day's shoaring ever done in this region by any equal number of shearers. It was 000 merinos. Tacoma hns raised pvor $7000 for tho Fourth of July celebration and is still at work. Mo-t of th sheep havo reached tho mountains, and herders havo begun their summers picnic beneath tho ehado of towering pines, sayB a Loxington ex change In about a month from now, when grata begins to get scarce, tho fcbf-phcrd'a troubles begin. The abandonment of tho mail route between Ashland and Linkvillo will tako plaeo sooner than previously announ ced, and the formor placo will in a few days no longer bo one of the terminim, says tho Jacksonville paper. A semi weekly mail will bo carried over the old ro Ue as far as Sliako postoffice, or Jenny creek. Southern Orogon farmers havo bcon having favorable weather for the harvest ing 'd their fit crop of liny this week M.lton Enp : Although grain fields still look f rf-h nnd green, yot n good shower hist iiowwonld bo regarded ns a godsend. According to The Dalles Timcs-Mauu-taineer, tho wheat output of Wasco Co., this year is estimated nt over 2,000,000 bushels. Haying will soon commence in earnest about Elln in Morrow county, ltyo is nearly ready to cut, nnd tho whirr of tho mowing machine will soon bo heard. Jackson county will hnvo better gain crops this year thnn of somo timo past, and will harvest moro grain than over beforo tho acrcago being greater than nt nny time in tho past. Haying has commenced nnd will soon bo underway throughout Southern Ore gon. Tho crop will bo a largo one, but nono too much so, as noarly nil tho liny i was led out to stock last eenson. All through tho stock ranges cast o tho Cascades, stockmen nro waiting for buyors from tho East, but they do not com?. Tho boef markot will bo lower in prico if this continues. Tacoma has raised ovor 7,000 to cclo brato the "glorious Fourth." All over Western Orogon, including tho Southern valtoys, reports stnto that fruit will bo n small crop often not over ono-fourth an nverngo yield. A compnny is being formed ntHnlcm, with $0,000 capital to build n fruit evaporator. Mr. Troscotto from tho Enst, takes half tho stock. Tho Linn county Grango Council has docided to hold tlio annual picnic, ns hcrotoforo, in tho woods on tho Snntiam bottom, opposite Jefferson. Ono who has been through Linn county and other Willametto counties, reports that fruit will not bo ovor one fourth of n crop, of nil kinds. Lnto frosts did it. At Young's river falls, nenr Astoria, a pulp mill is boing built to supply n Californin Pnpor Company. Fifty logging camps nro all buy on tho Lower Columbia, nnd it is that that during tho season tho log harvest will amount to 10,000,000 feet of lir, codnr nnd spruce. The Cascade division will bo open to business traffic Juno lfith, but passen ger trains may be n fnw days Inter. Jacksonville is determined to have n branch to connect it with tho O. it C. road. Saw mills on Shoalwatcr bay and Gray's Harbor uro all busy and as lum ber benra n fnir prico, times nro good in nil tho lumber districts. Crops in Umpqun vnlloy nro in lino condition und nover wcro bettor. At Conuillo and Ynouina work on tho jotties is being stondily prosecuted. At tho mouth of tho Columbia n wharf js being constructed to enablo boats to land rock for tho broakwater. A quarry is oponod nt Tonguo Point, of oxcollont rock nnd now material pan bo furnished easier nnd chenper than bo fore. Many residents of Sauvics island havo had to rcmovo to high ground, owing to tho Hood riso, nnd their hogs nro drowned in many instances. In trying to rcmovo boiiio largo hogs and pigs to tho mnlnlnnd tho boats upsot nnd many moro wore drowned. East Portland lovies a tax of 8 mills for school uses. Tho old property will bo sold and now bought nnd commo dious school houses orccted. Crop prospects enst of tho Rockies nro improved by sc.wiinnhln inins. Report nro published from the Northwestern States thnt show u fair average prospect for tho coming harvest. Croat Salt Lako is to be stocked with shad from tho Chcenpcako breeding sta tion. Michnol Dnvitt advises resistance on on the part of thoso to bo evicted and thoy defy tho police, lighting for their homes with boiling water and swarms of bees loose on the onemy. An earthquake that occurred in tho provinco of Quobec, Canada, dislodgod masses of rock and uprooted largo troes. A cyclono of tho India coist wrecked a steamer with 750 on board, tho Sir John Lawrence, and all nro supposed to bo lost. It is reported that nearly five hundred millions of dollars of hidden trcasuro has bcon discovered in tho nalnco of n deceased vizier nt Morrocco rnthcr n fishy yarn to tell. Chas C. Itogers. of tho U. S. ship Galena, who officially accompanied Chas do Lcssops, vico president of tho Panamn canal takes a discouraging view of tho success of thnt enterprise. Ho thinks tho mountain moves into tho cnnnl nnd that it will bo almost impossiblo to finish it. Explorers sent out by Gov. Torres of Sonorn, reports finding an active volcano in the Siorra Mndro Mountains that pours out smoke, lire nnd lava and boil ing wator that destroys all vegetation. It is a fearful volcano and does immouso work filling up tho mountain canyons with lava. For 10 miles around tho world 1b a desert. Tho Californin produce exchange gathorg facts that show that northorn California, including Snornmcnto county, will turn off tho smno wheat crop as Inst year, San Joaquin valley (JO per cent of Inst ycnr'B crop: From San Francisco south tho yield will bo -10 por cent of Inst year west of tho coust range. A fow Apaches havo broken out from San Carlos Agoncy, Arizona and nro prosecuting their natural dovilmcnt by tiro and murder, as usual. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway will noon havo a lino of lino steamers at work tnkimr freight and pasHOtigora between Sun Francisco, Portland nnd Port Moody. Cook county, Illinois, includes Chicago, and in a recent eloction for six cerciiit judges tho citizens elected their nicn,by almost threo to ono in every district. It is nnothor great victory against socinlism nnd machine politici ans. Ex vico picldont Wheolor is doad. Violent storms nnd Hoods in Hungnria and Gcrmnuy havo dono immouso dam ago causing loss of lives ns woll as prop erty. Groat distress exists and in dis pair thoy hnvo given up trying to hold tho flood in check. STAVER & WALKER, DEALERS IN Mill Farm, Dairy, and Machinery. WAGONS, BUGGIES & GARAGES. Binder iwlne, Kelting, Oils, and IHnehine .Supplies of all Kinds. 208, 210, 212, and 214 Front Street. Portland. (Won w "()WM BRANCH HOUSES I Walln Wnlln,. W.T.; LaGrnndc, Or.; nnd Moscow, I. T. AGENTS AT ALL POINTS IN NORTHWEST J. I. Case Agitator. Hunt Ilchlct, thrrthra ftr, li l lMr to ttl cut 01 oiutr aDuntri grain Drnmmn any ilncrllirrnlirt. 1 Acnio Harrow, lod Smasher, Cruiher ami Leveltr, weljiht much ItM than nny other l'ult erliing Harrow, eelle tor about one-third Ini, il withal tloetthe moat thorough work o. any. Telexntpolo Newt. Kx vico Presidont Wheolor is at tho point of death. Presidont Cleveland is nctuniy coming West and may visit tho Pacific coast bo foro ho returns. Tho now Labor pnrty is making great headway in Now York. It is a custom for members to take their wives and chil dren, to thoir meetings and women tako part in debates at times. II. G. Dunn and Co's business state ment for tho weok says : Itenorts arc cheering as to crops and goncrally favor nblo ns to stnto of business, collections nnd supply of monoy. Sacramento has had an enrthqunko nnd tho shock was felt on both sides of tho Sierra Novnda Mountains. Tho Salmon catch on tho Sacramouto river is very email this season, whereas tho canneries on tho Columbia an. doing a fair business nnd nro suro of good prices. Tho president denies, omphntically thnt ho intends coming West, or has nny intention to visit tho Pacific. Wo hnvo dono without him a long timo and can for n whilo longor. It is thought over 200 lives wero lost by the burning of tho opera comiquo at at Paris last week. j-argo tracts 01 lanu in Hungary uro submurged by floods, which nro now subsiding. Evictions in Ireland nro carried on by aid of COO police nnd troops. Tho inmatos are uamcaucu ami nouses aro entered by tearing down walls and ro moving furniture. Tbo dominion Senate has decided that divorce granted in tho United States has no force in Canada. O'Brien has had a dillicnlty with Henry Georgo and Dr. ifcGlynn, a great meeting was had and O'Brien -was un willing to compromise the Irish cause by mingling the Labor canto in this meet ing. Ho objected also to John McMackin presiding at tho meeting, and to the resolutions nronoscd. Tho meatim went ofl without him and ho was scored by Dr. Glynn. ralpltatlon ot tbo Heart. Persons who sudor from occasional palpitation of tho heart aro often una ware thnt thoy nro tho victims of henrt discaso nnd nro linblo todio without warning. Thoy should banish this alarming symptom and euro tho disonso by using Un. Punt's Hkaht Hkmkdy. At nil druggists, or J. J. Mnck & Co., U nnu 11 j-ront stroot, a. i Buggies mid Curringcs. r.n.l 8prlnr Hide aprlnir, ltrewilfr trg, Tlmten iptlnir llurelo. and all klmlt ,.t Carriage and Vehicle!!! r J. I. Gate PorUblr, Sir, buttil K. Traction and Skid hiiglnee. Moat I'owciful In tlit world. Studehnker Thimble Skrln, Steel Sarin, Tubular anil err) wire on lieei, Wagons. Axle Wacom .lakakaV f ks f. M J. I. Cue Sully, Cnc and Walking P'ot, liar orwa ana iwiimori. Hoosier I'orra fceil Drllta and Stadtra, with Truia Aile and WldeTlirf. sSLjEFtEnJKlaak Httidnlmker. Knur 'prlcj,'. I'lUf'i'tn, half PLtforni, Tbrce and l.'iprra W.r i. Sprlnr IIS HLalaLaLaB . V EEE Wo carry tho largest stock in tho Northwest of Huggiiw. Carriages, Cnrts, Spring Wagon, nnd Vehicles of, nil kindi nt piicoa lo Hiiit evorylody. It will pay all intending purchasers to can ami twttimuio our mock ami ouiiiiii priccB. Bissell Chilled Plows f&tPz&$f - "''.SKVPKai rxirl3iAt&r- JtSS 'k' !& Hum Feed Cutter, fruarantto beat In the World Warranted hcttt r built and hotter working Hum any other Chill I'low made. Ir. Hrnlry'a M'oBilcrful Tunlr. Tliiuundi ol ladlia troubled ith nervou.um and ftnula troablee hate b-en curwl by uilriK Dr limit) ' Calery, lkct and Iron. The urct, pliut, and moat effective tonic the world ttcr knew, (fold by all drugxtaU and country tora, Oldest House In the Trade. A. ROBERTS, 13 Pint atreet, PortlanJ, Or. CLOTHING OF ALL KINDS! Men's Dress Suits. .Hen's Itnsiness .Suits. Youths' Suits, Hoys' Suits, full assortment of Furnishing Goods. Hats and Cups. Ki. A complete atHk t! Kooda frtthly bought that DEDERICK HAY Over throe-fourths of all tho liny baled in tho billed by theso presocs. PRESS : I'nilrd States and Cannda ; i sm a- f)J r I -.Jl JUaaal Bob Sleighs Spccinllj hullt lor our Trade and first class lu every respeet cannot be uodtraold junl mmmL taa Flvo.CaUona a HI iMtlaUuiM. lauucf.iK tTrae;a. Strnatfins au4 pari. tMaibaU'id, lu purity and StlUti fwimwut it wall. HUA tjr ania4a aud Hmnkymn nmjwbmn. pmra For the convenleiico of our patrons wo havo established llrauch Housos nnd agencies nt nil points of iiuportnnco throughout Oiogon, Wiishington und Idaho, whero we carry a stock of our v.nious machines mid vehicles, mid also n pairs for same. Wo oarnently ask that you call upon our nearest local agent, ozamino ourg.nlg and obtain our tonus and prices leforu piircliaiiug olsowlioro nnything you may need in tho line of .Machinery, Vehicles or Hupplies. If wo have no local agent near you, pliMMi write us what you i to purchaso and wo will send full information and priccri by return mail, or lii one of our traveling salesmen call upon you. Should there ever arise any din?.ilisfactioii in your dealing v h ourselves or Agouti, plcaho write us all tho fact and wo will mo that ample jmi o is done yon All our goods havo lieon especially built for lliif trndo of tin- Ix-xt material strongly and durably made, lincly flnishetl und painted, and t niininitt'd equal or ttuperior to all others of their class manufactured in tho lJnit H hi is. Wo shall hojKt, by furnishing you tho beht goods, by fair prjc"". liberal terms, and courteous and honorable treatment, to secure your ontini pairunge. STAVER & WALKER. 206 to 214 Front Street, Portland, Oregon: t0tyUmfit96irfiwtt? frywBacapsay Wi t imwmimvmerm! -&Am-im'- ?' -.'- -&. t rsi;