SOME OREGON NEWS.
this money,’’ he said in his will “ from
, Savevy> special agent of the gen-'those w bn «pent their lifetime in law-
K i' 1 office for Oregon, tells the j Sluts. Thia legacy is only a slight resti-
-ral lan
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’ tution.”
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)Stl, Falls Express th at the govern
will undoubtedly set aside the sum-
The Queen Regent of Spain is endeav-
the Cascade range in Oregon as a 01 ing to accomplish a noble reform in
‘lte i „„rk This will include Mount bringing her influence to bear against
,ational PalK’
'|ood Mount Jefferson, Mount 1’itt and bull-lighting. However, her earnestness
i has apparently done little so far, for
lllfr points of interest
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,A_ Mitchell, while at Pendleton, j every Sunday the Arena at Madrid, ac-
•«itptl bv three chiefs of the Uni a- j conunodating 16,000 people, is patronized
' who expressed a desire th at their | ils much as ever.
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LEADERS in all k in d s o f s t a p l e a n d
FANCY GROCERIES.
DRY COODS
OF L A T S E T P A T T E R N S A N D
F A B R IC S -IM M E N S E S T O C K .
THE L A B O R
W O R LD.
Yorkers in wheat-fields in India re-
ve$2 per month.
Flie union bakers of Butte, Montana,
ve demanded a ten-hour workday.
)n English street railways the hours
work are from thirteen to fifteen and
lalf daily.
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L IN E S .
BOOTS and SHOES
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FOR B O TH L A D IE S A N D G E N T L E M E N . B E S T
STO C K IN F L O R E N C E .
THE SEATON STORE.
A Cornell college girl is studying vet
erinary surgery.
Keeps a lull line of Extra Quality
DRY COODS g GROCERIES.
A sea turtle weighing 150 pounds has
been captured near San Diego, Cali
fornia.
HARDWARE,
TINW ARE,
BOOTS & SHOES,
Seventeen carloads of Japanese and i
Chinese goods crossed the St. Lawrence
HATS & CA PS,
M El HCI N ES,
N I T S & ( A N DI ES,
from Canada recently, for distribution
throughout the states.
. TOBACCO,
CIGARS,
EV RN ISH IN G GOOI U.
The land on which the new Anglican •
Cathedral at New York is to be built
has cost £175,000, nearly the whole of Goods as Represented.
Prices W ill be Found Reasonable.
which amount lias been subscribed.
While a man was digging a bole in the
cellar of bis house, at New Haven, Con
necticut, recently, he discovered a Img j
containing several large pieces of silver
ware, worth about $120,000.
Volcanic ashes often travel a long dis
tance. A remarkable shower of volcanic
ashes has occurred recently in several
parts of Finland. The ground in some
places has been covered to the depth of |
nearly an inch. The phenomenon is at
tributed to volcanic eruptions in Iceland,
Knowles & Cettys,
her first act was to send the ex-mayor
a magnificent gold-handled silk um
brella.
Chemist» by mean. of certain expert-
vo ladies in Spain who fell in love ments have converted diamond» mto
1 the same gentleman have fought a coke and graphite. These ex|«tr,men«
with pistols, and one of them , whose are certainly expensive ones, lor
j
only seventeen, has been danger- reversal ot the method« have they
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ywounded.
able to change coke into
MANAGERS.
GEO. T . HALL.
C. E. S M IT H .
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The Largest Wholesale Doalors in
¡GENERAL GROCERIES:
In the State, Outside of Portland.
Wo are also the largest dealers in
borrower received a heavy award from
the Spoliation Claims Committee, ami •
ON FOREIGN GROUNDS.
novel form of duel is reported from
n> the combatants being mounted
'¡cycles, and each armed with a knife,
collision appears to have been tre
foils. When cyclist meets cyclist,
list is the inevitable result.
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IS R E P LE TE IN ALL IT S V A R IO U S
C LO TH IN G , H A T S A N D C A PS.
I here has recently been a unique
ladies’ strike in Germany, in one of the
garrison towns. The conduct of the men,
who neglect the unmarried ladies in or
der to dance with the wives of their
friends and acquaintances, displeased
the slighted maidens and their mothers,
and at the last regimental ball not an 1
unmarried girl was present.
!x>rd Rosebery provides his plowmen
h the daily and all the leading agri-
hundreds of miles away.
itnral papers.
Ex-Mavor Smith, of Philadelphia
den going to Chicago to find work in loaned his umbrella to an old woman
y trade will find about five applicants on crutches who was hobbling along m
every situation in the city.
the rain. A short time ago the aged
'erman artificial flower makers who
$15 a month a short tim e ago now
y get $10 per m onth. Their wages
vebeen reduced all around.
C H O IC E S T
CENTS’ DEPARTMENT
,ple be allowed to lease their lands
I unishment has at last been meted
raterm of three.or four years, until out by the Chinese Government to Chou
ponld get money enough to buy 1 ” Han, the author of the infamous pampb
l0V8esand plows and improved agncul- lets which incited the people to attack
.'^1 machinery, and had learned how the t hristiaus. lie has been degraded
. , . Th“ ° senator assured them that from bis high office, and the house of
Njiarm
t, would represent their interests at publication has been closed. One of his
Washington. The Um atilla Indians servants is a member of the Christian
church.
will have a vote next year.
The Umatilla Indian reservation, near
Pendleton, com prises some of the best
¡arm land in Eastern Oregon, There
are250,000 acres in the reservation, of
which "4,000 are tillable and about 50,-
00are now under cultivation, and about
1000,000 bushels of wheat were raised
this year. Of this amount, 75,000 bush
es were raised by Indian labor alone,
174,000 by half-breeds, 253,600 by white
nen married to Indian women, and the
balance by renters.
Dr.Goucher, of Amity, grew ill one
day last week and began spitting blood
and mattery substance from his lungs,
and among that ejected was a strange
looking beast about an inch long, of an
oval shape, with three legs on either
side about half an inch in length, and
on the whole a very queer looking speci
men of animal creation.
The doctor
ays he feels an absence now in his left
lung, where the thing was probably lo
tted, and is much easier now because
of its removal.
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W O O L.
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WE i i m i lead in prices .
The nearewt «upply point to Olenada anil Florence by land.
All order« by mail or Mage guaranteed filled prom ptly, and
correctly, at the loweat market price.
S M IT H
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<& 3EI-A.I_iL,
Oregon.
This is a rule that does not wo
Wa y s .,n d ,ia d g ,n g h y th e .'n c c o f d -
monds, is a poor one. Co e ta
i„ plenty, »nd some of it I,«» 1 « - ^
bard enough to cot gb«».
poMesBes in i t s
Colmar, Germany, a lawyer be- properties of the sal«
lthed the sum of 100,000 francs to
Subscribe for T he " h - r
mad-house of th at city. “ I earned
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THE AMERICAN FARMER.
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