We Present to each Cash Customer buying Goods to the extent of $20.00 : : ... : exokptixo sugar, salt .': and coal oil, " LID 1? 0) JUG J We Dry SATURDAY : . .. .OCTOBER 15, I8g8 r . ITEMS INRIE. H: J. Menefee, of Antelope, .U in-! 1 the city. ; .''':'.- ! Drl Si-H. Sutcliffe of ..Wasco,, is in the city: : . . . Miss Annie M. O'Brien of Kllcicttat counts lain town visiting with, th'.-i family of Mr'. Phil. Brogao;. ; ! Mr. and Mrs: M.' K. McLeod,' pi Kingsley, were in town last night the guests of the Umatilla House. ; ' . ,J. !R.Rauken of "White Salmon, county commissioner, . .of .Klickitat county, is registered at the Umatilla House, . , -.. '. ': .We are sorry to learn that. Mrs. Sohutz, wife of the late Emil Scnutz, i Tery ill of ' pneumonia at the rea idenceof Mr." Storrs in this city, .-.. kriHenry Zlejrler" , accompanied by her sister-Iii-law, left. on the boat this morning to attend the exposition, and also to meet Mrs. Ziegler of Seattle. MrsYAugust Buchier, accompanie d " by her son and daughter, Henry and Jeaanette, left this morning for Mon terey, Cal., to visit her daughter, Mrs. Tibbetts. " Mrs. James Benton, who has been quite 111 the past week and at times seriously ill, we are glad to learn is much better today , and fairly on the ' road; to recovery. . D. P.. Ketchum, Is carrying his ear in-a. fling through its having eome in contact with a sharp pointed sliver. that ran through it and inflicted what, ' tor a time was quite a painful wound. Professor' Gilbert, Miss Ida Wake field and Mlsa Josie Jenkins are en gaged thes days makjpg two copies of the asseesaaeat rolli oie for the sheriff and one the state board of equalization. " ' ""' V . . Sturgeon fishing la a lost art to this neighborhood. There has not been a bit of sturgeon on sale at the fish markets for weeks, and fishermen com. plain that they seem to have complete ly deserted the river. Word came to town today that a man was found dead in the wreck of seven cars that occurred east of Ar lington last Sunday. The maa if sup posed to have been a tramp, beating . his way aa usual. The Dalles hotels are doing an enor mous business these days. One pro mlhent hotel keeper told the Times Mountaineer reporter that ' he was obliged to turn away as many as thirty persons last nignt for lack of accomo dation. - 2 The shipment of Star Feed Grinding Mills which- Mr. Brownhill expected here this week,. will on .account of. un avoidable delays,, not arrive here for 12 off 15 "days. ' However those who contemplate purchasing will do well to wait antu tne mills arrive. Otto Rjn, who lives on the ridge - this aide of Eight Mile, had the mis fortune vesterday to inflict a bad cut on the upper of his foot with the ax be was using lit chopping- wood He was obliged to come to town and hare ---3be wound eawwd-tip. Messrs. Lytic and O'Riley of the Columbia Southern have beea over in Klickitat county for- the- past three or four days look!? over the situat ion with the iewr of ' beUdiur rail roaito 99te$- CoTJenflal' with tbi ; ; Guarantee Profit and Pleasure to every Customer. Profit, because, our Prices. will prove a positive Saving to the buyer. Pleasure, because our Goods can not fail to please in Quality and Style. 1 ' All the Latest and Columbia. river at Lyle. : ;. 1 X3. B. Johnson bat resigned his posi tion with Pease & Mays and accepted the management of the store .of W. A. Wallis. al Moro. Mr. Johnsoo has a host of friends here, who will follow, him to his new field of labor with their best and kid -lies -Wishes. - Dr. Hollleter' wa called to Monk land, to consult with Dr. Edginloo Pf Wasco, in the case of Hans Henson, a -?rcbant of Monkland,who is serious- .v i'l ol typnold pneumonia, it is saia tii in this disease Is epidemic at this time in that immediate neighborhood. John McNeil, The Dalles soldier boy of the 1st U. S. Cavalry who has been on a furlough for a month after partak ing in the. storming, of the heights around Santiago, leaves in . the morn ing for Vancouver where he will re ceive' transportation to join his regi ment in Texas, r.-.-i . Andrew Ganger, an old gentleman of 70 years who lives near Crates Pol n t, dislocated his hip and injured his back yesterday by being thrown off a horse he was riding.' The horse, an old, gentle animal got Bcsred at a grouse, and as Mr. Oanger was carelessly riding-him ladles' fashion, without even a hand on the bridle, when the animal gave a little jump and the old gentle man fell over backwards. ' ' Last week P. F, Fouts visited' his fruit farm, in Baldwin Precinct, 16 miles south of Hood River, and brought back with' him some samples of the products of his farm, consisting of apples, pears and vegetables, ' which were as line as could be produced any where. The fruit is free from worms, and' the vegetables are juntas fine as they can be He has them on exhibit ion at the Germania. Old man Cottingham, whose first name nobody seems to know, notwith standing he seems to have been here almost since the "Bridge of the Gods" spanned the Columbia at the Cascades fell last nigbt on the rocks near his .-hanty back of the old electric light bouse aud broke his collar bone. - Cot tingham had just left the poor house whore be ppent a time nuning a broken arm As he is old and without means he will have to be sent back to ihf n .r farm or depend on private chnrivy. Ttils day week, the 19 inst. will be La Fayette day, when the pupils of the schools and colleges of the United States are expected to devote a por tion of the day to exercises appropriate to the memory of the great Frenchman and take up a popular contribution, to erect a monument in Paris to be un veiled and dedicated, July 4th, 1900, this being United States day ' at the Paris exposition' of that year. Pro fessor Gilbert has - sent circulars to the teachers' and officers of each school in the county, urging compliance with this program, but he feels, as thousands of teachers will feel, that if the nation al management had taken the trouble to suggest some simple proerarn of ex orolses for the day, they would have greatly conduced to Us success. John Da'rlmple, who lives on the Floyd place, brought over from Elic kit-it county this morning 1500 head of sheep that he purchased from R. H. Andrews of Centerville. They are ewes and lambs about evenly divided, and in good condition. Mr. Dalrimple paid for them $2.60 a head ail around. They had no sooner landed on this side of the river than the iambs were sold to D. P. Eetchnm at $2.25 a head, . this leave the ewes to have cost 12.71 and they would probably sell easily for 13, ta are ofte OUR PRICES Assortment Complete and AH Right Prices. Don't fail to see our Splendid Stock and take advantage of the inducements offered in ? : r..:. ; . : - ; Nicest Styles of Day It is impossible to make a mistake in youxv Fall this Great and Fair-Priced Stock; Harked in Plain Figures. Speaking-of the advance in the price of sheep to a Times-Mountaineer re porter Mr. Ar.drewssald: i'Two years ago I was offered all the ewes I wanted to buy for a dollar a head, today the same class of ewes are ready sale, at three times that price." , : ; , ., Charles Wichhaft returned la9t night from a visit to Ran Francisco. v . . . Chas. L. Schmidt commenced buy ing wheat at Lyle yesterday for Moody & Co- ...... . Licence to wed was issued, yesterday, to John S. Clarke and Nannie Mercer, both of Hood River. Asa G. Stbgdill, a prominent farmer of Tygh Valley, was in town last night the guest of the Umatilla House. The management of the district fair have decided to give a grand ball in the pavilion on the last night of the fair. Full particulars will be . given later. . Mrs. Dr. Frank has taken room No. 38 in Chapman block, over the Land office, where -she may be found by those wishing to consult her regard ing their eyes. J. O. Mack bad a letter this morning from La Grande, informing him that sixty horses, now on the circuit, will leave La Grande in due time to attend the district fair at this place. : The Salem - Journal says: Senator Micbell, who wa4 able and dignified presiding officer of the' Republican senatorial caucus, would mase an ac ceptable president of the senate. The invasion of the tin born and sure thing fraternity, that takes place annually just before the fair, has al ready commenced. Who so inclineth his heart unto wisdom, will shun their ways and eschew their counsel. Mrs. Dr. Frank, the eye specialist, carries the' largest stock of artificial human eyes this side of New York City. Any one wearing an eye will be able to get an improvement on any former fit and need to nave no trouble in using an artificial eye. A force of men are at work night and day on the race track getting' it in condition for the coming races. Mr. Mack says it is even now in better condition than he ever saw it and it is getting better every day. About a dozen horses are already on the grounds. . - Frank Malone, a wealthy Aockmas ter of Antelope is in the city. Mr. Ma lone, who has been a longtime entfor er from rheumatism,' was . recently greatly . benefited from ' treatment received at St. Vincent's Hospital, at Portland. He is better now than he has been for many years and hopes to get completely well. It took The Dalles and Rockland ferry between two and three hours of the early morning to take across the river the empty wagons that came here yesterday loaded with. Klickitat wheat. If the wagons had all been strung in a line they would have reached from the warehouses in the East End to the ferry landing. The No. 21 West-bonnd freight train was wrecked at five o'clock' this morn Ing at the narrows, a eoupla of. miles east of Seulert s cannery. The cause is said' to" have been' a ' broken axel Six cars were ditched but no great damage was done and " nobody hurt. No. 3 passenger is blockaded by the wreck and may not get through till after dark.. Mr. ..and Mrs. Seta Morgan and daughter, Miss Rachael, of Three Mile, left oo the Sarah Dixon this Handsomest Fall Goods you ever saw. are the PAmBST YOU HAVE iC the season. morning for Portland. " Miss Morgan expects: to remain there for. a timeapd Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, after visiting the exposlton, will go to the mines on Lewis river, where Mr. Morgan has a promisiog claim.. They expect to get back home in about a month. . - County Surveyor Goit, bad a close call yesterday. Whlle driving in a bug; gy up the o'.d brewery grade,' his horse shied at a boulder that;had: fallen. Into the. roadway ; and j backed the hind "wheels of the tugy over the bluff. Mr. Goit fortunately jumped out in time to catch the horse by the bridle,, and force him to Dull the vehicle back on the grade. A bill has been Introduced in the Oregon legislature by Senator Brown ell, of Clackamas county, to amend Hill's code so as to provide for tne election ot road supervisors by the voters of the road district. The bill is to make the new method go into effect at the general election in 1900, and the term of office of the supervisors is fixed at two years. A fine of $25 is provided in case a man shall refuse to accept the office. V The management of the district fair are doing everything in their power to make the coming one the boat ever held here. They earnestly urge upon farmers and horticulturists the im portance of filling up the stalls and pavilllon with exhibits, while they are doing everything in their power to in duce our local merchants' to make ex hibits of merchandise and to this end offer them any reasonable amount of space without charge. The Misses Effie and Vesta Bolton went to Portland this morning. Truman Butler went on a business trip to Hood River this morning. Mr. Charles Dietzel, wife and daugh ter went to Portland this morning on the Dalles City. J. W. Blake and family, of this city, went to Portland this morning to visit the exposition. . .. i J. T. Rorick and G.'W." Smith, of Grand Dalles, were passengers on the Dalles City this morning. Henry Stegman ahd Wm. Brune, two prominent sheepmen of Klickitat county, were iu town last night. - ' ;'': The difference between anarchists and . rattlesnakes is that the latter will not harm you if you keep out of their way. Judge M. E. Brink, of Prineville, was in. town last night on his way home from a business trip to the Will amette valley. D. A. Turner and John Mohr, two prominent residents of Hood River, were in town last night the guests of the Umatilla House, . Prof. Ryan and Clinton Alden left yesterday for Antelope ' to furnish music for the entertainment to be given at the close of the fair. Residents of . Prineville and Lake view are circulating a petition praying for the establishment of a dally mail service between those towns." . The city council' will hold a meeting tonight, for the purpose of considering aud passing upon an ordinance to let a contract for lighting the city. John Monroe, of Hood River', is in the city Mr. Monroe is a hale old gectleman, of 83. Witb whom time has dealt kindly. He' cast bis first ballot for William Henry Harrison in 1836. Thirty-seven subpoenas, were issued this morning to be served on witnesses before the grand jury, at the coming the o Rilraishing Far term of court. 'And. this is .only, the first - batch. The, docket, it is said, will be unnusually large. , .The warehduses ' today 'raised the price of nheat from 51 to 53 cents.-' Aa immense quantity arrives here daily but cpmparitively little changes bands, the farmers prefering to store- and take chances on an advance in- price, Astoria having profited by former experiences with too numerous speci mens of the genus hobo,' now. has "po licemen stationed in the depot, upon the arrival of every- train, to gather and cart off to jail every Weary .WJllie putting in an appearance. If any one imagines. that the O. R. & N. Co., is not doing much 'business these days he should have seen' four big, long freight" trains pass west on Front street this afternoon within, 'the short space of hall an hour. .. .." :. r.-jni . . Sturgeon fishermen east of the Cas cades will be interested in learning that tbe new sturgeon bill, will not effect sturgeon fishing east of . the mountains, the provisions of .the bill apply only to tbe waters of the ,Col umbia below tide, water. .'. . ... It is said that. Jpseph Simons, la the second Hebrew who has been honored with a seat in the United Stttes ..Sen ate, the other being Judge P. Benjam in who held successively the offices of attorney-general, secretary of war and secretary of state of the Southern con federacy, y . i-- - Three cars of cattle that were on the train that was partially ' wrecked near Seufert's cannery y esterday morn ing were brought to the stockyards this morning and subsequently ship ped to Troutdale.- The cattle escaped injury but were naturally very hungry and very thirsty when they got here. J. G. Walker, who has beedd' the city for a short time representing the New York Mutual Life Insurance' 'Co., has the distinction of beinjg tort first person born in the White -House, - his father having1 been secretary f: the interior under Polk and a resident of the -White House at the timV ' Mr'.' Walker was born. .-.-:-; -v '' The ranges are drier "and! nearer eaten off than ever known before and stock Of all kinds unless' "fed during tne winter will certainly die. In ; fact many horses and cattle are g'6ing "into the winter "spring poor."::" Rain' usu ally falls in September in sufficient quantities to start the vgraas ' but it failed this year, andBtockmen are threatened with serious loss. Prine ville Journal. ' . "-. The objeet of the Zionist movement is the return of the Jewa to Palestine. One million dollars, all in sums of $5, have already been subscribed to the proposed fund of $10,000,000. with which the leaders propose to. carry on the movement.-. 1 he sultan of Turkey has sent a telegram to .the. president of the Zionist congress with his cordial assurance of good will. ' County Clerk Kelsay and wife re turned last night from. . visiting , the Portland exposition. Mr. Kelsay says the Wasco County fruit exhibit is as usual, the best at th,e exposition. He speaks in high terms of the exhibit made by the O- R. & N. Co., of native grasses and cereals; fully three-fourths of all exhibits in this line being made by the company, which, is ' doing a great deal towards advertising the resources of tbe Inland Empire." . The management of. pyvr local . fair have secured the services of two of jbe best singers on the . Pacific Coast. We have already announced the con Honest Goods that So if you tract with Mrs. Reed and now another has been concluded with Loren Peasef the famous tenor. Mrs. Reed will sing Thursday and Friday nights 'and Mr. Pease Tuesday and Wednesday. Dalles people who have heard these singers are enthusiastic in their praise. They will assuredly command a . large attendance at the pavillion. The. sad sews' reached here- a few davs.aoo that: William Field :nn f The Dalles eoldler boys, had died of fever at Manila. "Billy", as he was familiarly called, bad contracted the fever while nursing bis comrade, Wal ter Dickey, in the hospital. Dickey got well, . but poor Billy succumbed. The deceased was well and favorably known in The Dalles where he has many friends who -mourn 'his-' early death. - , . ' - - The Rev. Madison C. Peters, of New York, last Sunday. offered some navel suggestions on the. subject of drink ing; "Every man who feels that he must drink whisky," said be, "ought to buy whisky by tbe demijohn and keep it at home.. . Let his '. wife have the keys to the closet, and every time he wants a drink' ' of whisky . let him pay his wife 15 cents for the drink. In that way he' will keep the profit on the whisky in the family, and his wife will save up enough money to have a decent funeral when the head of the house' reaches the Btage when he is about' to fill a drunkard's grave." The brief announcement of the death of the wife of Governor-Elect Geer in yesterday's Times-Mountaineer was a-surprise and a shock to the people of this community. Mrs. Geer had accompanied her husband, to Omaha to attend the . exposition. When she. left home, she appeared to be in fairly good health. She was attacked shortly after midnight, Oct-i 13, with heart disease. A physician. was promptly summoned but- she. was: beyond help. Mrs Geer .was a native, of Missouri, where she was born 57 years ago. She' crossed the plains with her father in 1864 and was mar ried to Mr. Geer in 1889. The relations between the governor-elect- and his wife were delightfully harmonious, and la the death of Mrs Geer- the state loses a superbly good woman, . - KdjMoo-Johnson's Natural HUtory Testfmonials from some of the most eminent Scholars and educators lh 'the worlds; , Prof. Louis Agassiz, LL.D., Har vard University, Mass: "Particularly valuable as a means of extensively cir culating correct information. Good books." ' Prof. Arnold Guyot, LL.D., Prince ton college, N. J.: "Distinguished by the excellence of its numerous illustrations.- The beauty of its typography and its clear and popular style give it great value for tbe general reader, and the competent zoologists'- work upon it secures for it that truly., scientific character' which should never be want ing in a work of Natural History es- 4eclally designed to spread useful In formation and inspire the young With a taste for the science of nature. I wish the book all the success It so richly deserves." '"- ' . Johnson's works are invaluable for the student. If an opportunity pre sents itself do not fail .to jexvmlne. Sold only by suDscrlptlon. BOBIt. FAULKNER In this city, October U, to Mr. and Mrs. Fie toil Faulkner, a aoa, MON3TRELLA On October 9. to Mr, ao& Mrs. Itus Moisttslla, a daugkur. EVER ESTOWM. Boot Goods possess the Worth' and Honest Merit of select froni UENEiUL APPKOPBIATICMT .. BILL. A rurtial List ot fbm State, tares. . ExpapUt Salem, Oct. 13. Tbe joint 'com mittee of ways and means- has about .-ompleted its labors,' and tbe following' contains about all the 1tem that will appear- in the -general 'appropriation ' bill tfheblt'te passed.' The amounts below-oveiJ the State's ; expenses for fh"f Pf"6 w0 ?''. which no appro- priation was madciiaoluding i-nserest: ; GENERAL FUND, , -Salary ot governor. v.-. ft 3,023 09 Private secretary tq governor .3,797. 70 Additional Clerical aid in of-.' fie'e of governor-. ;.'..' 2-.028 15 Secretary of state........::.." 3,024 91 Chief clerk, secretary of state . 3,055 20 Additional clerical, service in - office of secretary of state 13,950 00 state treasurer:;....'.....-... 1,612 93 Clerk, to -state treasurer: . . 4,219 67- Advertislng state warrants, GCy V., Superintendent,-, public: in-: structlon '. ., Clerical aid in office of tuper. 300 00 3,628 90 lntendent of public In struction ,iv. . . i : .'; . . Traveling expenses of eupeiv 3,588 59 -1,600 00 '3.000 00 6,048 50 2,015 39 300 00 2,800 00 . iDtendent .......... j .. .... . Uniform : series of school . record books and blanks Attorney General . .'. . . .'. . State li brarian Postage and contingent - ex penses, state librarian . . . Books, book cases, binding, . - ' etc., state library. .'.:'...:' Five hundred copies each' -of . . volumes 30, . 31, and 32, '(. Oregon Supreme . Court. . '.Reports .:...'..;.''.. Claim of F V' Drake, : for ' - legal services for state. '.' Insurance and maintenance , ' of pilot schooner. Health officers. .' .'..'. .'.'.,' Janitor; capitol building and - assistant .....'.......;... N 1 g h t w a tc hm a n.capitol building Minor repairs and' Improve: '6;037 78 . 340 93 . 3,000 00 .4,441 09 -2 680 61 .1,827.65 -4 440 0 .4,600 00. mentsy capitol - building etC ... . ...'. V. ak'J . . .'.. Wood and- fireman . .-..-. . . -. Electric lighting, .. capitol building ......... ...l.i.. Teachers -and current ex-' pen sea of the state school ' m for deaf mutes, including. electrio .ltgbtmg.,.. 25,000 00 Teachers . and. current . ex-, penses of state school for' blind, including electricr lighting.'.. il., Deficiencies of 1896, paid.... State board-oi agriculture.... Eastern Oregon districtagri ; cultural' societies... ..... Southern Oregon district agricultural societies. . ... Claim of N B Knight for at- ' tor'ney's fees in re E D Shattuck et al vs H R Kincaid, secretary of state ...' Claim of A C Woodcock, for : 1630 DO 653 25 10,000 00 ' 6,000 00 .3,000 00 - 318 93 k.'.:.flt.tinaiT,a fAAa In uni y i;. j . AflRA 318 93 7,000 00 Domestic animal commission Board of equalization Deficiencies of 1896 paid. . . . . Rewards for arrest, etc ..... . 7,760 00 993 1 3 1,200 00 24000 00 10,000 00 Support of the Oregon Sold-. ier's Home.,.- State agricultural college . . . . Governor $1,000 a year, secre- . ; -,tary of state and: tne state ''treasurer each $500- a year for their service in . supervising public works' public buildings, etc. for which compensation is not otherwise provided State land agent ..- Deficiencies of 18954 paid. .'. Expenses of election blank! .'. Deficiencies of-1896 paid:..;. State board ol horticulture. ; Pilot commissioners . . . . , Clerk to pilot commissioners Boatman at Astoria''. . . . .". . . . ."' Painting capitol roof and . other repairs Fish and game protestor. :. . . 4,419 66 2.500 00 2,605 71 1,742 95 1,943 94 9,000 00 1,256 97 ,266'93 1,X)64 97 - 6,620 00 6,244 89 15,(K60 Expenses state normal school -at Weston-. . . .'. ..: '. . . fi. . Normal school at M onmeeth 19,000 00 tieawng4)ainHng.ana repair'f .j, Monmouth normal schoplrr2t500; QO 5 r Apparatus and collecting his-, , J , i ' tdrfeaJ data for Atate uni-: r - ''r .' verslty . .2,600 00 InterbStOn Indorsed Warrants 45,000 00 R' E Moody, costs advanced ' in case of snattnek vs secretary of state. k.i . ... -. 225 00 Capital Printing Co brief. ... 71 25 Siuslaw salmon hatchery. ... 600 00 Ashland' normal school(con- - ditional) 16,000 00 WT-Wrifht, for money ad- , .. vanced in Eastern Ore- - - gon asylum matter ....... 32.688 88 Z F Moody,- repayment for . fencing state lands... -.i'.- '182 00 Additional clerical aid for ,. state .treasurer. ....... . " 600 00 Reform school....:.,..'.:;.; 61,000 00 John H Hall, 'attorney's" fee ...in case of State vs Mult- '. -. ; . nomah county . Vv-. .,,6,698 89 i . v iHrMGIAl...PUin). : Supreme judges, .circuit .... .. judges, prosecuting it- ' ' - torneys 'and clerks and "' ' 4 bailiffs, and other neoes- . ' j.' sary expenses ptsupreme court.. 129,000 00 ' ' '.UWI8LATIVX itJND. Mileage and per 'diem ot members and officers and other necessary expenses of the 19tb biennial see-, slon of the legislative as ' semblV. :."..'. ....... 31,000 00 Mileage and per diem of mem-' ' ' bers: and o racer and ' other necessary expenses , of special session of legls-, tw. i...-.v.l'. . . N 28,000 00 INCIDENTAL FUND, Gas.fuel for offices and rooms, . -i water,' expressage, ,tele ' graphing, , expenses, of. . ; . state teachers' Institutes, " pay of laborers, messen- ,' : gers, ' and-' other ' Incl-' i . dental expenses of exectf-- t : tlve .and. other . depart ments, etc, and of the ' Supreme' court. . .'. . ; 1 1" i 25,000 00 - INSANE AND IDIOTIC FOND Officers and other general ex ; - penst s of the - Oregon- ' . state insane asylum,, in cluding pay for . the .ser- .. vices ; of the trustees "" thereof, as follows: FOr ' governor, $500 'a year, -: and fpr secretary of state. . . and state treasurer each . - i $100 a year, to: be Paid ' quarterly, with interest. .323,000 00 PeftdencieailS96and interest 3,288 86 PRINTING FUND. Plubllc printing and bihding-,f ' . and for the purchase ot .. , paper , for ,the . public .- printing 60,000 00 Deficiencies of 1895-6, paid, and interest 15,311 40 convict Fund, TransporUtion of convicts.. 15,000 00 Conveying insane and ldlot- - ic patients to asvlum. ::.' 26.000 00 Deficiencies of 1896: . 203 47 FUGITIVE FUND.' Arrest and return of fugitives ; from ustlce .... . .' INDIGENT ' TUND. Support of nonresident poor in the several counties.-. 3,500 00 6,000 00 .. PENITENTIARY rpND. . 3,024.80 Superintendent .. ; ........ . Warden's. v-. - - 'tr Teamsters and farmer. i . i . Bookkeeper .v.r; Shpp guards; Guards, ...... '. . ,' .' .".'.'.'.".", ,'. Engineer and plumber.'.'.'... Four nightWatohmen . . . . v.?. . Prison inspector r.:i .. . Visiting physician.......,. Keeping prisoners and . gen eral expenses . . :'..'.' Rogues' gallery . .'.-. ."'. .:, Firewood A A. . .'. Electrio llghtipg.... . 4,903 67 1,816-25 2,419 61 4,356 60 10,789 05 1.816 25 6,444 28 1,064 92 : 1,814 80 41.000,00 ' 350 00 4,600 00 4,600 00 . Wall R. R. Hlnton, one of the most pros-! perous and thrtfty farmers and stock raiser In Wasco county, after - having riven a Star Feed Grinding mill a thorouh test gives . the following .endorsment of the machine: . Bakiotin, Feb. 18. 1898 , T. Brownhill, Moro, Or. - . r Dear Sir: The Star lead mill I s ' ' bought of you has given perfect satis faction, and is all you claimed for. It. .i 7 . R, B. Eotrw, w Um paatar. The world has no record of cruelty and inhumanity that equals that of Spain, towards tbe inhabitants of the countries it . discovered,: in the New I World. The Oregonian of yesterday quoted from- Oliver Cromwell, to prove how welUhe great commoner under stood the Spanish character two hun dred and fifty years ago. How well the wretched victims of Spanish cruel-: ty themselves understood this charac ter more than a century before Crom-" well's time, is strikingly . Illustrated ' by an Incident that occurred at the? first invasion of Cuba, under Diego Valasques as related in Roberteon's History of the Discovery, and : Settle- ment of . America,' a work writUa; about one hundred and -twenty-flva years ago, Robertson sayst'The . only obstruction the 8 pan! aids met with was from Hatuey, a cazique (chlef)who bad fled from Hisapaalola, (Haytl and had taken possession of the eastern ex tremity of Cuba. He stood upon .the -defensive at their first landing, and endeavored to drive them back to their , ships. . His feeble troops were, how ever,, soon broken: and. dispersed and : he himself being taken prisioner, Val asques . according to the barbarous maxim of the '.Spaniards, considered -him as a slave who had taken arms against his master, and condemned him to the flames When Hatuey was fastened to the stake a Franciscan friar laboring to convert him, ' prom Is- ed him immediate admittance into the joys of Heaven if he would embrace . the christian fahh. ."Are . there - any Spaniards," says he after, some pause, "in that region of bliss which you de scribe?" "Yes;" replied the monk 'but only such aa are worthy and good. "The beat of them," returned the in dignant cazique, "have' neither worth' nor goodness; I will not ge to a place . where I may meet with one of that . accursed race." ...... FaeUlw Ooart-tmt, - i . . ' . ' . i' . '. A large number of grampas, a spe cies of whale, has been sporting in the waters of Puget sound lately. Isaac Howard of Junction, Ore., .will ship 200 dozen turtles to San Fran cisco about November 1. He has 4000 turtles on his ranch. The .Washington state board Of con trol has placed $700 at the disposal ot -Superintendent Westendorf to make some needed improvemeaU at the Che. halls reform schooL , ,' There are at least 60 carpenters at work at their . trade in . Rltsvllle and . vicinity. What speaks better, than that of tba progress of our county, r Is the question, asked by the RitsviUe . Times. ,.. ..' Black bau are said to exiit Jn the Clackamas, and no one app ra ta ., know how; they came there, sajj the ; Portland Telegram. Some fear that -, this fish, which la a fighter, will de-. .; stroy the trout, but those better ao-, - , quainted with the. description of the;. ' latter think the trout is some on, the : "scrap", himself, and well able to oope.' with the black baas. 5 ' Passengera: ; from; Klondike report. . that the Canadian government hai arranged .to plaoe mounted police at . , stated lntctrvaiajof from 20 to 30 miles along the Yukon, from the headwater ; to Dawson, sd-'as to glverellef to any ' parties who may be travelling on the A ice this winter. There will be five or six men at each station, and they will be equipped, with . supplies of toed and . medicine.