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THE COLUMBIAN.
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'sarjT. HELENS,
Columbia County, Oregon.
. G. AD A1IS,
A. E ADAMS,
E. G. ADAMS,
A. B. ADAMS,
Editor
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VOL. VI
ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, COTOBER 1, 1885.
NO. 4.
THE COLUMBIAN
COLITM
Thkkk are i,000,(XX miles of fences
in the United States, costing over
$2,IK0,0.H,000.
Tiikkk .ire in the United States over
ir,CKXU00 heuil of fwiiyv valued at
inure than jf22C,000,OOl.
Tiik (i'kex favors the bestowal of
medals upon the Canadian soldiers
w ho suppressed the Kiel rebellion.
Two tons of gOld, worth $1,400,000,
are lost every year from the wear and
car of commerce and personal use.
AtvoiiiuxG to reliable- estimates the
visible supply of wheat in this country
is over 42,120,000 bushels, and of corn
about 7,700,000 bushels.
Thk largest artificial tree plantation
in the world is located in Scotland. It
is known as the Scotland Tree Planta
tion and comprises 310,000 acres.
There are three sugar factories in
Kansas and they produced last year
C02,(XX) lbs. of sugar. This product
was manufactured from 19,300 tons of
sorghum cane.
A r a recent meeting of the general
passenger agents of the Transconti
nental Association, held at St. Paul, a
round-trip rate of $50 was agreed upon
from Eastern points to San Francisco
for the Grand Army of the Republic
meeting next year.
It is estimated that there are 100,
000,000 acres of land on this coast
that are especially adapted to wheat
culture. Of this amount California
has 25,000,000, or one-fourth of the
whole ; Oregon has 18,000,000 ; Wash
ington Territory has 10,000,000 acres;
Colorado and Idaho, 10,000,000 each ;
Montana, Utah and Wyoming, 7,000,
000 each, and the bulk of all this wheat
land lies vet untouched.
The lasso commonly used by cow
boys is made of sixty feet of rope, a
third of which forms the loop. When
thrown it is swung over the head and
left shoulder and then over the right
shoulder, with a peculiar turn of the
wrist calculated to keep the loop open
until it encircles the object at which
it is Hung. Expert throwers do not
pride themselves on catching a steer
the horns, but try to so hurl the noose
in front of the beast that he will step
into it, thus entangling his legs and
throwing him. . In a Wyoming exhibi
tion a cow boy repeatedly caught a
lovine by any leg that the spectators
named.
The steamer Great Eastern will
soon be offered for sale under a
mortgage. She cost $0,000,000, and
has already been sold three times to
satisfy mortgages, tho sales realizing
$9S0,000. The Great Eastern .had
hard luck from the very start. Her
launching cost fifteen men their lives,
while over twenty were wounded. She
is the largest ship ever built. Length,
029 feet, or nearly 300 feet longer than
the largest steamboat ever seen on the
Hudson river; depth, 53 feet; breadth,
83 feet; burden, 25,000 tons; will
carry 10,000 troops; has four decks,
ten boilers, 112 furnaces, five engines
(capacity 10,090 horse-power) and ten
anchors ; draught of water when light,
twenty feet ; loaded, thirty feet ; spreads
0000 yards of canvas ; gas in all parts
of the vessel, with electric lights at
the mast head. To walk around a
deck of the Great Eastern exceeds
one-fourth of a mile.
One of the most wonderful pieces
of engineering in the world is the rail
road stretching from Lima and Callao
to the crest of the continent, where
the famous mines of the Cerro del
Pasco are the source of the ancient
riches of the country, from which tons
upon tons of silver have been taken,
and which still hold, if the testimony
of the mineralogists can be relied upon,
the richest deposits on the surface of
of the globe. The railroad was never
completed. Mr. Meiggs carried it from
Lima to the summit of the Andes at a
cost of $27,000,000 and 7000 lives, and
gained for himself a reputation for
energy and ability surpassing any
man that ever came to this continent,
but he died with fifty miles of track
yet to be laid. No one had been found
with the courage to finish the work,
until a few weeks ago Michael Grace,
of New York, whose brother and part
ner in that enterprise is the Mayor of
that city, made a contract with the
Government under the terms that he
is to be given the road as it stands,
with all its equipments, if he will com
plete the remaining fifty miles of rail
road and pump out of the mines of
Cerro del Pasco the water that has
been accumulating in them for a half
century. In consideration for whicl
the Government gives him all the sil
ver he can get out of the mines during
the next ninety-nine years, he paying
the nominal rental of $25,000 a year
for the use of the property.
SLUMBER LAND.
My Vttle chiM. with yHlow hair.
Ami eyes ol' April violets.
My ln-art is full of d in regrets
. For the lonur journey you must go,
A little wraith in rotto of enow;
To-n:jrht. atone, through storm or fair,
A pretty pilgrim, bound for where?
It 1 should put within your hand
A staff, ami suuduls on your feet.
You would uot understand me, sweet;
Yet as in days of old rom-.tnce.
I' nk now iir of their late or chance.
The pilgrims went bv iol s command,
So you will to through Slumberland.
Upon what ocean blue and deep.
Across what mountains fierce and cold.
With snow-wrapped summits, fold on fold.
Or through what valley, safe and low,
Will my wee bed-time traveler go?
While 1 a teiuler visril keep
Over the fortunes of her sleep.
I may not follow or unbar
The unseen rates of Slumberland:
Though fast in mine her wee white hand,
1 shall not know what faces bend
lSeside her, or what thoughts attend
My darling- KOin fair and far,
To worlds beyond the evening star.
Juliet C. Mitt tli, in i'uuth'H Compimtim.
STUPENDOUS SPIDEIIS.
Somo Not Very Pretty Insects
Found in tho Tropics.
Tarr-tula, Scorpions uiail Centipede, and
How They Conduct Themselves
Saud-1'Ues and JI..4piitos Lire
in the lJ.iliumii'.
With the budding out of the fresh
leaves and blai.lo.-5 then? cone out of
tho'r lairs the otd- wild beasts of the
Ihihamas. Thv aro tarantulas, centi
pi; hs a id s orpio:is. They havo lain
hidden soman here or other all winter,
rarely showing themselves, but tho tir.-t
rains of sprhy; put now life into thetn
and they come creeping out. and turu up
always where least expected. They are
to the people of Xus-uu what tigers and
lions are to the Kast Indians. Just
shout "Look out for that scorpion!" or
"There's a centipede!" if you want to
see everybody jump. They are all
small, but all venomous. If one of
them bite vou, you are sure to have
trouble. The poison may uot kill you.
but it will give you more pa.n than any
body cares about enduring, and it will
give you 'the fever." as every bodily
ill :s called here by the natives. If it is
a centipede or a seorp'on, you may ac
cidentally pick one up in your hand;
but you will not hold him long. And
anybody who spends a few months in
the tropics learns to treat them with the
greatest respect. Without much of that
fear of spiders and ins cls in general
that some person have, I tlfnk I
should rather encounter a panther or a
boar than any one of these three insects.
With the big brutes, you sea them com
ing, or know about where to expect
them, and can be on your giianJ. Hat
you have not much chance to guard
against the tarantula, the centipede or
the scorpion.
The ta-antula being the largest of the
tine, the most ImL-om. and, I think
the mo-;t dreaded, he is perhaps entitled
to be looked at first, lie Is known by
almost every body in Nassua as '-the
ground spider," but he is the real
poisonous tarantu'a. t ie same as I have
m;t him in Arkansas, in Texas, in
Mexico and in C.iba. There are more
of them in Arkansas, I th'nk. than any
where e's in the world. In a morning's
walk of s x o: eight m.lo; t! ere, I have
seen several, and c ns'derlng the
spider's dea lly character and great
size, that was runn'ng across theai
pretty fast. Here thoy are not so plenty,
but still there are en nigh about in the
r.inv s aons t; make a stranger feel
rather u.ie t.sy. We have the common
"hou-o spider." t o. as it is called,
sometime almost as large as tho taran
tula: but he is entirely harmless, and
people hardly ever take the trouble to
kill him. Hon e spiders catch and eat
Hies and ants and other small insects
and thus pay the'r rent. lint even the
house spider is not a pleasant com
pan'on in a ro mi. The tarantula, how
ever, will empty a room of its occupants
in about as short ord.Tas a t'ger would.
The lirst on-; I ever s:iw in Nassua was
when I had b e:i at Waterloo about a
month and was having the bushes
cleared away from about the house.
Some of the colored boys were at work
in the flower garden, and one morning
thev made a grand dash for the front
p'a'a They all looked well fright
ened, and I asked them what was the
matter.
'(iroun spider, boss." one of them
replied as soon as he could catch breath
enough.
We a11 went out to kill him armed
with hoes, rakes, brooms and all the
long-ha-idled implements we could lind.
as well as a wagon load or so of good
sized stones. He sat among the grass
and weeds, easily s -cn and watched on
account of his intense blackness, and
did not oiler to move. None of the
brjys would go within eight or ten feet
of" him. because it is commonly be
lieved that tarantulas can and do springy
a lo-ig distance, bei ig well provided
with "muscular and ha'ry legs for that
purpose. I think, however, that this is
a mistake. I have seen a great many
of them and never yet have seen one
jump or make any movement beyond a
slow, crawling w.tlk. Their legs are
kept well under them when they walk.
e'evAt rig them. I should think, about
two inches above the ground. At any
rate we all kept at a respectful d'stance
from th;s fellow and pelted him with
rocks. The iirst shot must have hurt
him. for he made no eilbrt to get away,
and in a minute or two he was pounded
nto a jelly a nasty, ha'ry, black jelly
that no o-ie would care to touch. When
he was used up be . oad all danger of re
suse'at'on we cut him top'ec-js with the
iioes and threw him over the wall. He
was not a very large one for a ta-antu!a
perhaps about four inches long and
three inches broa l. The hairy b'.aek
legs make them look more obnoxious
ami d'sgusting than tiny o'herw'.so
woul 1. It is hard to tell just how large
and powerful the logs are on account of
:he thick black hair w th which they
a iv ioere l. After th's tho boys were
ea it ou.s when they d siurbed a ry big
vo-ies in the yard, and looked carefully
!:t a iy tli ck cluster of weeds before
t'sey d sturbed it.
Opinions dill'er as to whether tho bite
of a tarantula is ever fatal. Any col
ored p rsbn in Nassau will tell you that
his bite is sure death. 1 have taken
some pa'us to make inqu'ries for any
person who has over known, of his own
knowledga, of a fatal result from tho
bite of a tarantula. It is impossible to
find any well-authenticated case.
Tho scorpion is the next gentleman
to demaud attention. He is very much
smaller than tho tarantula, much
livelier, and not mueh handsomer.
There are a thousand scorpions, I sup
pose, to one tarantula, and their bite is
fully as bad. I must confess to having
hal a very vague idea about the scor
pion before becoming acquainted with
the tropics. I th'nk if I ha I been
driven to it, I should have described
him as a creature with wings, black,
and somewhere about the size of a humming-bird.
This would have been about
as inaccurate a description as can be im
agined. He has no wings, he is not
black, and he is nowhere near the s'ze
of even a half-grown humming-bird.
There is an imaginary pTcture of him in
all the almanaes, but "it doesn't look very
much like him that sign of the zodiac.
Kef erring to Mr. Webster to see how
my experience compares with an au
thoritative description of him. I lind
that ho is a pedipalpous, pulmontrv
arachnidan. of the genus scorp'o,"
and I am glad to learn, of course, that
he is a pedipalpous. Anybody would
be a pedipalpous who would take hold
of one of them, if he could help it. Hut
nobody ever does. We hear of snake
charmers, and lion-tamers, and tamers
of wild beasts in general; but did auy
botly ever hear of a man fooling unnec
essarily with a scorprons. A full-grown
scorpion is troni two to two and-a-half
inches long, and his co'or is a sort of
ashy gray. Ho has .eight legs,
upon all ot which minute hairs
grow, and his ta:l is much longer
than there is any necessity for, consid
ering the s'ze of his body. The tail is.
in fact, only a continuat'on of his body,
and I have includ ?d that in measuring
h's length. It is at tho end of his ta'l
that he carries his venomous sting, and
when he curls up his body into a semi
circle, and brings that lively end of his
tail to bear upon an enemy, the enemy
can not drop him too soon. His body is
no wdiere as thick as a lead-pencil, but
at the hea I it branches out into claws,
or horns, or additional legs, whichever
you like to call them; so that in shape
he is somewhat like a tack hammer.
He is shaped very much like a hammer
headed shark, "only hammer-headed
sharks are not familiar enough in
Northern waters to servo for an illustra
tion, lie is a creature of mold and
slime, like the snail. Let an old box lie
on the ground, particularly in a moist
place, till the bottom boards begin to
decay, and your scorpion trap is ready.
When you want your game lift un the
box and there is your scoroidh. But bo
careful to take hold of tlw box near tho
top, and not get your lingers in the way.
for the scorpion is very rapid in his mo
tions and he will give you a sting before
you know it. When Im-strikea you with
the end of his tail, like a wasp, he ex
udes a venomous liquid, and a man
nvght better hold a red-hot iron in his
hand than get the tenth part of a drop
of this liquid into his blood. It is not
necessarily fatal, particularly in the
Kahamas;" but it condenses the heat of
forty furnaces. In some parts of South
America scorpion bites are frequently
fatal, but I have not heard of any one
having being killed by them in Nassua.
Tlrs is easily accounted for. Tho scor
pion likes to fee l upon decaying wood.
The centipede much larger than the
scorpion, and I think even more to bj
dreaded. Ho grows sometimes to be
six or eight inches long, but is slim and
rather flat. He, too. travels rather
fast (he ought to. he has legs enough),
and ho scratches rather than bites,
leaving an ugly m irk wherever he sets
in one of his nunilierless claws. Like
the scorpion he live under boards or
stones or at the bottom of old walls.
He is made up all in joints, like the
tapeworm, ami each joint has cither
two or foor legs. I never examined
one closely enough to see exactly
which, for even after they are all cut
into b ts the pieces have an unpleasant
habit of wiggl ng themselves about.
They say about them here that a centi
pede will not die before ldark. no mat
ter how much you cut him up; but I
think that story will do to go with the
yarn about snakes having the same bad
habit. I have cut up a few dozens ot
them with hoes, here in Nassua, that I
am sure d'ed before I was through with
them. When I say in Nassua 1 mean
here at Waterloo, wh"ch is a mile and
a half out of town. These insects are
rarely seen in the c'ty, and Amer'can
visitors often complain that they have
to go homo without a sight of any of
them. Tho centipede's poison lies in
his claws. There is a bent and very
sharp claw at the end of each leg which
sticks into the Mesh, and if he gets one
of those claws into you he quickly pulls
himself up upon your hand, or whatever
part of you he has hold of, and sets
in the rest. I have talked with peo
ple who have been poisoned by centi
pedes, and they describe the sensation as
anything but pleasant. He has not, of
course, a hundred legs, but ne has a
great many, and makes them all count.
One gentleman in Nassau described to
me a thrilling encounter he had with a
centipede. On going to bed one night
he put on that long white linen garment
which is so comforting to the senses in
a hot climate, and it did not take him
long to discover that there was some
thing in it. A moment later a centi
pede was fastened to his back, and the
gentleman was trying to tear the linen
oil" with as little delay as possible. The
centipede by this time had givon up all
claim to the linen, but held on to the
back for dear life. They stick very
t:ghtly, having to be almost torn off;
and the gentleman had to call for help
to have him pulled off. Hy the time
assistance arrived the insect had crawled
a foot or two up lr.s victim's back, leav
ing a fiery red mark wherever a claw
had touched. And all this time the
gentleman was enjoying the sensation
of having a hundro I hot needles run
into him. From th;s and some similar
experiences it is quite fashionable in the
tropics to shake vo ir clothes well before
putting them on." I remember a lady
a new arrival at the hotel asking me
one day whether I hung up my shoes at
n.ght to keep the insects out of them?
I try to imagine a man taking the
trouble to hang up his shoes before go
ing to bed, but can't quite do it. Centi
pedes are more plentiful than scorpions,
out not quite so likely to sting. I have
seen a barefoot man step on one
without being hurt, probably because
I Mm Inseet ha I no ehaueo to turn ii-. i
use its claws. They aro just abo at in
a par with scorpions as regards , the ef
fect of the'r poison. In somo places the
c licet of a c mt pede's stinghas been
fatal, but it is not so here.
1 wante I to e id th's chapter on lro;
ical nuisances by saying sorueth'ug
about my ancient enemy, the sanddly,
but words fail me. It is very soldo n,
and then only on remarkably st 11 days,
that there are any about in the winter.
Hut during the rainy season they aro ex
ceedingly' thick. No mosquito nett'ng
will keep them out. they are so small.
They give no warning, like a nioseuito.
but proceed at once to business' You
feel a sting on somo part of your
skin, aaid poi haps see there a blaek
speck about the s'ze of a pin's point.
But he must bo full of poison, for tho
b"te swells up and itche.3. an I you get
twenty more of them and you seratc'i
till they're all sore and get little scabs
on them, make an I you look as if you
had small-)ox. When I get back to New
York no mosquito shall ever tempt me
into impatience. I'll just think of the
sand JJiejt and be content. S'asmtt ( II t
hama) Cor. Cincinnati En juircr.
THE EARTH.
II w TliU Terreati tl H.li t e.tlon of Oun Is
(trowing.
Careful mathematical calculations
havo been made recently7 to ascertain
the residuum left on tho earth by the de
posit of meteoric matter. It is known
that the region al ng the earth's orbit
abounds in meteors, and that at two
points the orbit passes through streams
of meteors where these little planetoids
are unusually thick. These two points
are encountered in August and Novem
ber, when the precipitation of the little
bodies marks the firmament vilhlines
ottire. But meteors are falling to the
earth all the time in. other months of
the year as well as August and Novem
ber in tho day time a well as at
night. Very brill ant ones havo been
seen shooting across tho sky in broa 1
daylight, and one who observes the sky
patiently and attentively anv dark
night may count them. A careful esti
mate makes the average number to be
seen by a single observer in a limited
quarter of the skyr about twelve per
hour; and another estimate makes the
precipitation of meteoric matter to the
earth from the whole heavens two and
a half tons per hour. In rare instances
the meteorite, or part of it which is a
solid body, reaches the earth in an uneon
sumed state, but far the greater number
are entirely consumed in the contlagra
tion set up by their passage through the
earth's atmosphere, ami only the ashes
or meteoric dust readies the soil. But
even when the meteorite is thus burned
to ashes, no part of it is lost. All its
original, elements survive in. the residu
um of ashes and vapor," wh'ch, thence
forth, belong to our earth. . These
meteorites or plancto'ds are iron rocks,
and if one of them as large as the St.
Louis court house, in passing through
our atmosphere, were entirely burned
up, it would st'll bring as much incre
ment to the earth as if it fell to the sur
face in a solid mass. The estimate of
this steady and perpetual increment to
our earth's weight is two and a half
tons per hour, or sixtv tons a day, or
21,900 tons a year, or over 2,000,0 0 tons
every century. It would take 100 ordi
nary railroad freight tnjins. therefore,
to haul the meteoric deposit which the
earth gathers from the sky every year,
and if this matter could bo gathered
into one mass and m.di to revolve
round our planet it would make a re
spectable little satellite added to the
earth every year. The earth is demon
strably growing in size and weight all
the time. Relatively, however, the in
crement is small, though it appears
large when considered by itself. The
earth has been weighed. If anyone
wants the firures, here thev ara: 0,000,
000.000,000',000.0.K),)00. tons.
It will take ages of steady precipita
tion of meteorites to appreciably' in
crease this enormous mass of matter,
and the estimate 'of it recently made
has no other interest, therefore, than as
an astronomical curiosity. St.tfLtmis
Republican. '
TOUGH TO THE LAST.
An Authentic Aco.miit of tlie Last Hours
of Vankre Sullivan.
I was very much pleased to meet last
week with Judge .Mc'Jowan, one of the
Argonauts who, in IS 19. discovered the
golden lleece, which h:ts to coin a
term royalzed Californ'a. In the
course of our conversation the Judge
told me the concrete h'story of the
tragic end of the famous prize-fighter,
Yankee Sullivan.
Sullivan, whose real name was Am
brose Murray, was arrested ami im
prisoned. He feared that the Vigilantes
would put him to death, though, as
Judge McGowan tells me. his appre
hensions were unfounded. The purpose
ot that body was to sh'p him back to
Australia on the first clipper ship that
sail -d to Melbourne, it having been
delinitoly understood tha Sullivan, or
Murray, was an escaped convict. The
poor devil, however, was so affrighted
that he took no stock in the hope of es
cape from the harsh business of Judge
Lynch. He called eagerly from his
prison windows for a priest, feeling that
death was settling close around him.,
but was answered by jeers from the
mob without. Finally, in sheer des
peration, he opened the veins of his
left arm with a case-knife and bled
himself to death.
Yankee Sullivan was one of the finest
prise -fighters in tho records. Washing
ton Hatchet.
The Suez Canal is very largely used
by Kngl'sh merchantmen. It is said
that ninety per cent, of the enormous
trade between ' England and British
In lia passes through the canal. Two
thirds of the business done through the
canal is of Anglo-India origin.
Stao-e robberies have become some
what numerous on the Pacific coast,
one stae alone having been pillaged no
loss than four tim-s within s:x months.
Chicago Times.
During the last nine years France
has spent "nearly :f5,000,0J0 per annum
ou increasing and reorgaii'z'ng her uni
versity institutions.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Pacific Coast, Eastern and Foreign.
Switzerland has organized a society to
protect her Alpine plants. !
. Two fast cruisers for the Russian navy
are building at Copenhagen.
A swarm of wasps stung a Mr. Thomp
son to death at Alleghany, Pa.
There is no perceptible abatement of the
ravages of smallpox at Montreal. j
The sloop yacht Puritan was sold at
auction in New York for $13,500. j
Abe Frank was shot and killed by a man
named Randall at Atlanta, Idaho.
Matt. Walker, of Chester, Pa., broke his
neck, and has entirely recovered from the
injury.
Gas was struck at a depth of seventy
feet on a farm three miles from Mendota,
Illinois. I
A levy of all able-bodied men between
the agesof 18 and 40years has beea ordered
in Bulgaria.
Troops will be retained at Rock Springs,
Wyo., until the discharged miners have
left the camp.
There are now over 1000 men tunneling
and excavating on the California ana
Oregon Railroad.
The number of PeleH expelled from
Posen, Prussia, up to the present time is
estimated at 30,000. .
The Princess of Wales has founded a
new English church at Copenhagen, dedi
cated to S- Albans.
Whita .tars about the sizeof a shepherd
dog, ana very ferocious, have been found
on Mount Shasta, Cal.
Christopher Opperman, a shoemaker at
St. Louis, stuck his head in a washtub
and drowned himself. i
J. M. Hill of Chicago has sold to Frank
Siddall of Philadelphia, for $50,CO0, his
team Westment and Lorenen.
Sedgwick, the banner corn county of
Kansas, is expected to produce 9,600,000
bushels of that cereal this year.
The New York Democratic State Con
vention nominated ex- Lieutenant-Governor
David B. Hill for Governor.
The family of William Tallmedge, of
Des Moines, Iowa, have fallen heir to an
estate of 515,000,000 in England.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
have restored prices in all departments,
and the strikers have returned to work.
The corn crop of Missouri will be some
what below the average for the past Ave
years, which has been 151,000,000 bushels.
As a result of a quarrel In a Cincinnati
family, Frank Berte killed William Haz
ard, breaking his neck with a blow of his
list.
A panic prevailed in the London silver
market recently, and prices dropped to
tho lowest point touched in the present
century.
Two men recently captured ten man-eating
sharks in San Diego Bay. There is no
record of a man-eater having before been
seen in that section.
While boring a well near Los Angeles,
Cal., a strong How of natural gas was
struck, and after going a little deeper the
well began flowing oil.
The baby elephant which was injured
in the accident at St. Thomas, Canada, by
which Jumbo lost his life has been sent
to London for treatment. ......
The New York Republican State Con
vention nominated Ira Davenport for Gov
ernor; A. S. Wood, Secretary of State, and
J. W. Wadsworth, Comptroller.
At Toronto, a bricklayer's wife, who was
addicted to drink, cut the throats of her
three little children and' their recovery is
doubtful. The inhuman mother is in cus
tody. A female horse-thiei, giving the name of
Mary L. Sheppard, aged fourteen years,
of Webster City, Iowa, was captured at
Dodgeville, Wis., while attempting to sell
a stolen team.
A man named Edward Jones, who re
cently arrived at San Francisco from Vic
toria, li. C, died from an overdose of
opium, supposed to have been taken with
suicidal intent.
W. A. Dilks of Nelson Point, Plumas
county, Cal., ctmmitted suicide by jump
ing into the crater of an extinct volcano,
which is so deep that his remains will
never be recovered.
Marsh Clements, liviag near Saguache,
Colorado, confesses that he murdered
his brother Thomas and his wife for money
they possessed, and buried the bodies on a
distant part of their ranch.
Commodore Le Due hailed a canal boat
on the Erie Canal to stop and give him a
light for his cigar. He drove too near the
edge, went into the water with his horse
and buggy and was drowned.
A Nevada man who has a herd of Ango
ra goats running on the hills near Verdi,
says this year's crop of mohair, which he
sold to a plush factory at Seymour, Ct.,
brought from 50 to 60 cents per pound, ag
gregating over $4,000.
Three cowboys met the Tacasa stage
near Dodge City, Kansas, and began firing
at the passengers. Grant Wells, one of
the occupants of the stage, returned the
fire and instantly killed one of the caw
boys. The two others rode away.
A passenger train on the Kentucky Cen
til Railroad plunged down a thirty-foot
embankment near Lexington, Ky., carry
ing with it the baggage and smoking cars
and kill ng Engineer Frank Watts and
Fireman If. C. Burger. The injured num
ber eight.
At Stockholm, Sweeden, seventeen per
sons were crushed to death and twenty
nine seriously injured during a jam f
people in front of Mme. Nillson's hotel.
Mme. Nillson was so prostated by the
shocer, that she was obliged to postpone
her engagement.
A yacht, carrying six young men, was
upset in the river near Neenah, Wis , and
Frank Kauchere and Charles Shi plow
were drowned. Five of the men, includ
ing Shiplow, got ashore, but the latter,
seeing Kauchere helpless, swam back te
rescue him, became exhausted, and both
went down.
At Ferndale, near the British Columbia
line, two merchants W. S. Mayfleld and
W. S. Mayfleld, Jr., his son were called
frem their store and shot. The father
was shot through the heart and instantly
killed. Young Mayfleld is still alive, but
his wound is fatal. The perpetrator of
the deed is unknown.
D. M. McCrimmon, S. J. Woods and
Charles Dickson, all prominent residents
of Chicago, were in a yacht which cap
sized. They succeeded in reaching and
clinging to the bottom of the boat, but
Dickson and Woods finally died from ex
posure, The boat drifted ashore and Mc
Crimmon was rescued.
Jack Ballard was sentenced at Owing.
ville, Ky., to twenty years in prison for
murder. As he was being taken from the
court-house to jail Mose and James Bal
lard, brothers of the prisoners, opened Are
upon the guard, who returned the Are,
killing both men. Jack Ballard escaped
during the fight, but was recaptured.
At Topeka, Kansas, Boliver, the big
elephant of Forepaugh's show, became
enraged at some boys who were torment
ing him, and turning on them caught a
nine-year-old boy named Bernhard Dreyer
in his trunk and dashed him to the earth
at his feet, and then deliberately tramped
on him, breaking one of the boy's legs and
dislocating one of his shoulders. The boy
was rescued by the keeper and will re
cover. The boy's father brought suit for
$20,000, aad the Sheriff attached the show.
MARKET REPORTS
Portland.
FLOUR Per bbl, standard ' brands.
81.; others. ?2.2j3.26. i
WHEAT Per ctl. valley, $1.2O01.22J:
Walla Walla, $1.12i1.15.
BARLEY Whole, V cental, $1.117J:
ground, ton, $2125.
OATS Choice milling, 3538c; choice
feed 33S85c. j
RYE Per ct1, $1.50(32.
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Per ctl, $4.00.
CORN MEAL Per ctl. $2.50io)3.
CRACKED WHEAT Per ctl, $3.
HOMINY Per ctl, $4.50.
OATMEAL Per ctl. $3.253.50.
PEARL BARLEY Per ctl, $4.50(i5.50.
SPLIT PEAS Per lb, 6J.
TAPIOCA Per lb, 6AC.
SAGO Per rb, 6c. I
VERMICELLI Per lb, No. 1, $1.15; No.
2 $1 '
' BRAN Per ton, $11 12.
SHORTS Per ton. $1311.
MIDDLINGS Per ton, $1820.
CHOP Per ton, 1620.
HAY Per ton. baled, $79. j
CHOP Per ton, $16 2 J. !
HOPS Per-it, Oregon, 5JCc; Wash.
Ter., 66J.
BEANS Per ctl, pea, $2.06(a$2.23; small
whites,$2.00&2.25; bayos, $3.503.75; lima,
$3.25; pink. $2.00(2.25.
BUTTER Per lb, fancy roll, 25 j; Inferior
grade, 12; pickled, 152uc. i
CHEESE Per lb, Oregon, 1213c; Cali
fornia, 1213c. i
EGGS Per doz, 25c j
DRIED FRUITS Per lb, apples, quar
ters, sacks and boxes, 23c; do sliced, ia
sacks and boxes, 4&(g54; apricots, 15c;
blackberries. 1415c; nectarines, 15e:
peaches, halves unpeeled, 10 lie: pears,
quartered, 7i9; pitted cherries, 20,a25c;
pitted plums, California, 810c: do Or
egon, 7(10c; currants, dates, 9
10c; figs, Smyrna, l&feiiO; California, 07;
prunes, California, 7J10; French, 10(22J;
Turkish, CJ7J; raisins, California Lon
don layers, $2.50$ 2.75 box; loose Mus
catels, $1.00; Seedless, V lb, 810c; Sul
tana, 12c. i
RICE China, No. 1, $5: do No. 2, $5$;
Sandwich Islands. No. 1, v lb, 61c; Japan,
6c j? Ib'. j
VEGETABLES Beets, $1; cabbage, $1
1.50; cauliflower, t? doz, 60c(fe$1.00;
squash, fc? box, $1.25; cucumbers, 1? box,
75c; green corn, I? doz, 10c; sweet potatoes,
V lb, lj2c; onions, new, ljc; turnips, lb,
lc; tomatoes, box, 50c&$L75.
POTATOES Per, lb, c. i
POULTRY Chickens. doz, spring.
$1.752.75; old $2.753.50; ducks, $4.U0;
geese, $0&7.5O: turkeys, V &. 1012Jc.
HAMS Per Jb, Eastern, l314ic; Or
egon, 9J10.
DACON Per lb, Oregon sides, 9Jc; do
shoulders, 8.
LARD Per lb, Oregon, 8(2.9. Eastern, 8
114.
PICKLES Per 5-gal keg, $1.10; bbls, $
gal.,32j33.
SUGAKS Quote bbls: Cube. 9J; dry
granulated, 9c; fine crushed, ic; golden
C, 8c. i
HONEY Extracted. 7ic; comb, 14c.
COFFEE Per lb, Guatemala, 12 J; Costa
Rica, 12c; Old Government Java. 18c; Rio,
12j13c; Salvado, lOJc; Mocha, 22425;
Kona, 18c.
TEAS Young Hyson, 25(Sj65c; Japan,
12(g55c; Ooolong, lU5c; Gunpowder and
Imperial, 25(a 06c. ;
Sx"RUP California refinery is quoted
at 37 Jc in bbls, 52c in kegs , and 1-gal.
tina. ..I
CANNED GOODS Salmon, 1 lb tins,
doz, $1.25; oysters, 2-Ib tins, doz, $2.1
2.J5; 1 lb tias, $1.2:1.75 doz; lobsters,
1-Ib tins, doz, 1.75; clinis, 2-tb tins, f
doz, $2(g2.C5; mackerel, 5-lb tins, V doz,
$0.23(a8.75; fruits, V doz tins, $2.2.75;
jams and jellies, V doz, $1.90; vegetables,
tf.doz, $11.50.
FRESH FRUIT Apples, Oregon, new,
box, 50c(Oi75; bananas, 4? bunch, $3:c4;
cranberries, Western, $15.00 10.00 bbl:
grapes, & box, 75c(gj$l; Lemons, Sicily, 0
V box, $10.00; Limes, 100, $3.00; pine
apples, t? doz, $8; peaches, v box. 5c
$1; plums, V box, 5075c; pears, box,
40((5c; watermelons, $ doz, $1.50(2.
SEEDS Per ft, timothy. 56c; red
clover, 1415c; orchard grass, 16c; rye
grass, 14l5c.
WOOL Eastern Oregon, spring clip, 12
15ctf lb; fall clip, 1012J. Valley Or.
egon, spring clip, 1315c; lambs' and fall,
I213c i ,
SALT Carmen Island, ton, $1517;
Liverpool, ton, $16(g20; 5-lb bags for
t&bl 4 (tzoc !
NUTS California almonds, 100 lb sks,
18Jc; Brazil, lac; chestnuts, 18tt20c: cocoa
nuts, $6(48; filberts, 14c; hickory, 10c; pea
nuts, 9 a,12ic; pecan, 14c; California wal
nuts, 11c.
HIDES Dry, 16;l7e; salted, 66J.
TALLOW Cleariolor and hard, 44i
lb; prime, 4Jc.
Han Francisco.
FLOUR Extra, $4.004.75 bbl; super
fine, $2.50(g3.50. i
WHEAT No. 1 shipping. $1.421.45
ctl; No. 2, $1.32 ftl.37; ililling, $1.42 3
1.47.
BARLEY No. 1 feed, $1.32V; brewing,
$1.373 1.42. - ! :
OATS Feed, $1.15 1.2) V ctl; Surprise
and choice milling, $1.251.35; Bl.ck.
$1.05L12i.
CORN Yellow, $1.22 ctl; white,
$1.151.20.
RYE $1.301.35 ctl.
110PS-6J7c V lb.
HAY Barley, $911 ton; alfalfa, $7
ll.50; wheat, $9 14.50.
STRAW 55c(6 65c V bale.
ONIONS Per ctl, 60700.
POTATOES Early rose, 3oa40c; river
reds, 40cCa45c; sweets, 85Ca$l.
BEANS Small white, $1.45(31.C ctl;
pea, $1.4&$1.6a; pink. $1.25(gl.30; red,$1.35;
bayos, $1.5u2J24; butter, $l(o)1.25; limas,
$l.501.7o.
HONEY Comb, 612i ft for best
grades; strained, 5(5e.
CHEESE -California. 79j V lb.
BUTTER Fresh roll, fancy dairy, 32Jc
lb; good to choice, 22J28c; pickled roll,
2l(&23c; other grades, ll22c.
EGGS 25(tt 35c dozen for California;
Eastern. 18trl9c
HOME AND FARM.
Par's green and plaster may be
mixed in the proportion of one pound
of Paris green to half a barrel of the
plaster. Be sure and mix thoroughly.
To'edo Bladt.
Turpentine, coal oU and vinegar,
equal parts, well shaken together, and
rubbea on the eg js of the botfly on
horses' legs, it is claimed, will kill them
after about three applications. -
A Massachusetts man thinks that
as a rule fanners use too little seed in
powing down to grass. His formula is
half rushel of imothy, a bushel of
red top and twelvo to fifteen pounds of
clover to the acre! Boston Globe.
When rye itf sown for its gra n
about one bushel of seed per acre is
required. If sown as a green crop, for
soiling or feeding out green to cattle,
two bushels or more per acre may bo
used with good eftect Prairie Farmer.
Pulled Fish: After any solid fish
is boiled, pick it clean from the bones
in small pieces, and to a pound of fish
add half a pint of cream, one table
spoonful of mustard, one ounce of an
chovy sauce and one and a half spoon
fuls of ketchup, a little pepper, flour
and butter mixed, and make It quite
hot In a saucepan and serve.-
r
Bill Nye.
Many people have traveled all their lives,
and yet do not know how to behave them
selves when on the road. For the benefit
and guidance of such these few, crisp, plain,
horse sense rules of etiquette have been
framed:
In traveling by rail, on foot, turn to tha
right on discovering an approaching train.
If you wish the train to turn out give two
loud toots and get in between the rails, so
that you will not muss up the right of way.
Many a nice, new right of way has boon
ruined by gettiDg a pedestrian tourist spat
tered all over its first mortgage.
If you never rode in a varnished car bo
fore, and never expect to again, you will
probably roam up and down the car, mean
dering over the feet of the porter while he is
making up the berths. This is a good way
to let people see just how little you had left
after your brain began to soften.
In traveling do not take along a lot of old
clothes that you know you never will wear.
Never walk through a car staring every
body out of countenance, like a Jim Crow
detective hunting for the James boys.
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V tW'
i.
YOU WILL PROBABLY ROAM UP AND DOWJI
THK CAR.
If you have been reared in extreme pover
ty and your mother supported you until you
grew up and married, so that your wife
could support you, you will probably sit In
four seats at the same time, with your feet
extended into the aisles so that you can wipe
them of! on other people, while you snore
with your mouth open clear to your shoulder
blades.
If you are prone to drop to sleep and
breathe with a low, death rattle, like the ex
haust of a bath tub, it would be a good plan
to tie up your head in a feather bed and
then insert the whole ' thing In the linen
closet.
In the dining car, while eating, do not
comb your moustache with your fork. By
all means do not comb your moustache with
the fork of another. It is better to refrain
altogether from combing the moustache with
a fork while traveling, for the motion of the
train might jab the fork into your eye and
irritate it.
If your dessert is very hot and you do not
discover it until you have burned the
rafters out of the roof of ycur mouth, do
not utter a wild yell of. agony and spill your
coffee all over a total stranger, but control
yourself, hoping to know more next tlms.
In the morning is a good time to find out
how many people have succeeded in getting
on the passenger train who ought to bo in
the stock car.
Generally, you will find one-male and one
female. The male goes into the wash room,
bathes his worthless carcass from daylight
until breakfast time, walking on the feet of
any man who tries to wash his face during
that time. He wipe-j himself on nine differ
ent towels, because when he gets home he
knows he will have to wipe his face on an
old door mat. People who have been reared
on hay all their livas generally want to fill
themselves full of pie and colic when they
travel.
The female of this same mammal goes into
the ladies' department and remains there
tmtil starvation drives her out. Then the
real ladies have about 13 seconds in which to
dress. '
Bulldozing,
life.
'Sav. mister, five lis 50 cents to ro to the
roller rink or Til set the dog on yerl"
The Pleasure of Imagination.
The Journalist
Poor old Horace Greeley came down to
The Tribune office one cold morning, and,
approaching the radiator, took off his hat,
sat down and began to examine a pile of ex
changes. He looked.comf or table and happy.
The office boy observed him, and, approach
ing the venerable editor, remarked:
"Please, 6ir, there ain't any steam on In
that heater."
Mr. Greeley cast a withering glance at the
youth and squeaked:
"D you, why didn't you let me alone f
I was getting warm."
Did She Mean Anything Fenonal?
Ark ansa w Traveler.1
She was playfully feeling in his vest
pocket, and he asked: "What are you seek
ing, darlingf "Oh, a nickel, or a quarter,
or a dollar anything,'' she replied. "Why,"
said he, "you do not expect to find feathers
on a hogP And she answered, with the most
innocent smile and naive expression: "No,
dear Walter, I was not looking for feathers."
And he refuses to go back until he knows
whether she meant anything personal or
not.
Two simple Fish Tall.
' Norrlstown Herald.
It is related of a famous cook that he pre
pared flth so exquisitely that they returned
him admiring and grateful looks from the
frying-pan. We can readily . believe this
story. It is no more remarkable than the
conduct of a trout, which, upon hearing an
angler lying about its weight, looked up with
a painful expression and softly murmured
"Oh, come down a couple of pounds.'
How ta BehaT on a Railroad Train.
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