OREGON SCOUT. Oregon news.
COAST CULLINGS.
JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers.
Everything of Qoneml Interest in
Condensed Form.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
u.viox. oitK;o.
Adolphus Chambers, nerd 03,
walked off the pontoon of the Album board of trade
xhk uovornment oi uuatemaia nas lorry ana was drowned. Q'j,0 citizonn
"Wailsburg, W. T., has organized a
sanctioned the existence
IMaaonry in that republic.
of Freo
Fibh must have air in winter as well
as summer, and if they cannot got it
4 1 l fttn HMiifn i o - Sol rt
uiuj will UIU JLJiUiu io ill JDitiivuii I t i . . i rnp
I llnrmrr fm lacif frmr rvirttitlw nf I HUT
laca mat tno nsn irozen in bouu ico .i,,i,Bnn fP1I;. ui,:n.i
win survive, nnu wncn uie ico maws over itfZo.wu worth 01 mm
. . .1
they will exhibit healthy life. It is It is estimated, says the Jacksonville
not the case. They survivo but a few Sentinel, that 10.000 deer were killed
anionics. lur wvir iuh in tins county last year.
Robert Cloiv has been removed from
of Lcwiston, Idaho,
iV postofhee has been established at have organized a board of trado.
si. Junns, jJoiiglas county, ana V. D. Th(J Bteumer Qeorgo W. Elder will
IIofT appointed postmaster. run between Portland and Alaskan
A postoflico has been established at
I'erry, Curry county, and Sarah E.
Cooley appointed postmistress,
The English co-operatives have a the position of Superintendent of tho killed
hank whoso transactions amount to btato l'nson. His successor is Geo
asnnrmnnnn var ti,ov lmvn i .ion s-UownnS-
.Ur,vv j J -I
ports.
Washington Territory has 100,000
acres of coal lands, and 2,000,000 tons
have been marketed.
George W. Lewisjof Elko, Nevada,
was sentenced to ninety nine years in
tho State Prison for murder.
A boy named James Hooker, son of
a widow who lives in 'Sacramento,
Cal., was run over by the cars and
t,..: . (imnnnnnn vr. unuo huh causcu every one
Their 900,000 members rc- lum wllo hns not bo(!n 5n()C11iIllr(1 m.
of
a. year,
ceivo an annual profit of $15,000,000.
Their profits during tho past twenty
four years havo been $50,000,000.
side of five years to be vaccinated.
William E., son of William and
Captain H. W. McDonald, late of
the whaling brig Hidalgo, committed
suicide at San Francisco by taking
carbolic acid.
Tho Spokane Falls city council has
adopted an ordinance taxing Chinese
washhouses at the rato of $50 por
Gov. West, of Utah, has returned
tho anti-tobacco bill to tho House.
Tho bill prohibits tho salo of tobacco
and cigarettes to minors. Ho sug
gested that a provision bo inserted
making it a misdemeanor to sell to
bacco to a minor only after written
notices from parents or guardians for
bidding such sales.
Gardiner, and stabbed him in the
back, which it is thought will prove
fatal. Nyberg was arrested, and now
languishes in jail at Koseburg.
Officer Merritt, of Baker Citv, was
Amono tho "fowls of tho air" are shot in tlio left leg, below the knee,
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il, tlm r.n.ln.Rwm ami r.ive.n.whmh wiino attempting to arreBi a man WHO
' O I (rivnu u niiinn t u J .rwtailnir i wl vitts
. - nr. I .iTa .sin uiviiiu tQ JiVMllDuaiUi iviivi lYllU
1 im 4n n iin rtf 1 1 HI tena " vi rft I ... '
u fcw w.u bU Ui j.v1D u. "'u,v' it was thornr it wiw ondnavnr ni? to
Biancti Hill, of Wilbur, died from a quarter,
lractliro Ot IllO SkUll, CaUteU by a fall n,,,.; Mm nWnr. mnnllm omlinir
from a bluff of rocks near his home. iw,in,r 1 1RR7 tim ,l,inmnn.H r.f nm
Near West Stayton an old man from Hailev. Idaho. aueroEated 22.-
nained Jesse Morris was struck by a 829,877 pounds.
falling tree, and his skull WHS mashed f!,irl Tv'r.iMn tnnnnl mnn nf Mif.
so that ho is not expected to live. Cloverdalo & Ukiah railroad, near
A man by tho name of John Nyberg Cloverdale. Cal.. was drowned in ltus'
got into a row with a half-breed at sian river by a boat capsizing.
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to
the Interests of
and Stockmen.
Fanners
Tho charred remains of Louis Gib
bons wero found among the ruins of
his burned cabin in the Huerhuera
region, near San Luis Obispo, Cal.
The Presidont has nominated Edwin
Eolls, of Washington Territory, to be
agent for Indians of the Puyallup
iirfnrTr nnnonl win f m l 1.. Wa alii 11 rrl. n
or more. .hi. i "t""j vuudv....i.....; ... ,.D,Ubu
wub ii uui:iil was anno avnrinc to 'ir,,r-
, ... . . " a v.. . i vw. r
I I. nnrnnnnf n.i.l Itnrnn nf Inln I lift I nTV.nl .... I -. i .. i ... I
gooaiy age oi uu years, xno sparrow- uno advices from tho Chlondo mine SPrihPfl in finlilmwlalo W T m lmild
Jiawk, duck and pelican may livo to bo at iiocK creek give tho width of the ,i armory for Company B. The
40. wh lo tho ncacock and linnet reach vi' eigiiu icui, aim cxceeuingiy nen. building will bo about 40x100, and
tho canary Xll . L . u." ' " "? ior.! , Klxtecn Icet lnB-
r .i .i i ,j.irfi i i ' .V While tho freight train bound for
ruin uiu ..urui ur.u .Tiuu. gom to uie Garrigon WU8 8witobinB at 1)oer Li)dfio,
tho quarter century, and
24 years.
In this country the chief creators
ton.
'I Im trnvfirnmnnl. ia laamnir vtilinna
oi wenitn are uie larmors. i no money to tll0 HUrvimr piute8 ; tho vieinitv
received for our surplus agricultural of Fort McDormit, says tho Lake
products is almost wholly tho total
amount of wealth this country draws
from foreign peoples. Tho valuo of
farm products Bold in foreign coun-
County Examiner, About twelve tons
of Hour and 22,000 pounds of beef will
bo distributed among them by the
military. . ,
A burgkr ontcrcd tho rcsidonce of
trios, it is estimated, has averaged for John Williams, in linker City, a fow
tho hist ton years $600,000,000 por nights ago through a bedroom window,
Annum 1111(1 holped himself to all the cold
victuals that could bu found, setting
Ariioros of tho recent salo of an the table and partaking of his meal m
... . .... . lfimrlv llt.vlo TCilfriri) lf.nvitirr Mut Iimiui
tfc n t in crnnt mile wnmii lotclind -ov t
i r ho wroto a note returning thanks to
j,iud mo nignest price on recom ior f..milv fo. .... o-C0lIcilt Inni.i
t .ti ?i i r i
a oirci s egg n is wormy ui i.uu, uum, SnyH tho prinovillo Newa : A fatal
according to Prof. Nowton, there aro accident happened on, or rather in,
but sixtv-six of these eggs in existence. Bridge creek, near its mouth. A
Montana, it backed on to and killed a
man nnmed John Ganloy, from Helms-
villo, who waB walking on the track.
Montana has an area of 92,016,048
acres; a population estimated at 17o,
000, and a taxable property valuation
in 18S6, of $55, 076,831. Indian res
ervations in that territory comprise
20,574,618 acres.
Josoph Garcia do Cadiz, aged 84
years, formorly professor of mathemat
ics, while sitting on a window sill in
nis room at San Francisco, lost his
balance and fell. Ilia brains wcie
dashed out on tho sidewalk below.
and forty-threo of them aro in tho.
British Isles. Tho great auk is now
believed to bo extinct.
Swede, hording slieop for Mr,
crossed tho creek on tho ice in the
morning, and when ho came buck in
tho evening tho ice had brokon up and
was floating furiously and madly with
tho swollen current. Ho attempted to
At a meeting of Alaskan fishermen
held at San Francisco, a resolution
was adoptod fixing tho rates for tho
coming season as follows: Wages, $50
iVustin, a month, and ton cents additional for
One of tho laws passed by tho recont
Legislature of Washington Territory, recross tho ttroam on horseback to his
-nrnvi.loH that r.niintv enmniisHionerH Hi was drowned
aro authorized to levy a tax not ex
cooding thrco'tenths of ono mill, to
create a fund for tho relief of indigent
Union soldiers, sailors, marmos and their snawn. Tho rack will conmut of
families of those deceased or indigent, pifkots drivon into tho bed of tho
to bo expended under tho direction of v,ur Jlt 11,1 aiiRlool 4!j degiees, in front
flnm.l A rinv .,. of ft.r(.)W .f l),hnB- wt year wire was
J 1 1 hilt, hna liiin diunnTvfrwl nu Ttiibnta
driven two inches anart havo been
Thk mystotious Phlladelphian who found to answer tho purposo bettor.
jb inviting proposals irom an over tne Plncor minill 0,)erationa hllV0 com.
country as to tno best disiiosition to menecd at tho old camp at Mormon
niako ot ifuu,uuu, which ho will gtvo oasui, unci uiougn tno water Biipply is
awav when ho finds thu best wav tn u'88 man usual, a run ol two or threo
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each king salmon, and half a cent for
each small salmon caught.
Tho Governor of California has ap
pointed James F. Houghton and
Colonel C. F. Crockor, as regents of
tho State University, tho former in
place of A. L. Ithodes, and the latter
Preparations aro being mado to put in placo of John Swift, the terms of
a rack in tho Clackamas livor at tho both gentlemen having oxpired.
lish hatchery, in order to catch salmon mu, r v..M.;.rio Tnr,:inr,. ;
bound up tho river and strip them of ,,,...,., ... 4.i7!jG.160 acres, of which
j i ' - f
4,107,558 are Indian reservation hinds.
The population in November last was
bestow tho money, is bolievcd to bo
Isaac V. Williamson, a wealthy and
oharitahlo Quaker. Mr. Williamson
is worth $18,000,000, lives at tho rato
of $2,000 a your and gives away thous
ands of dollars on the dead quiot and
-without making as much fuss as tho
ordinary millionaire would over a $5
bill.
paper. Tho placers of this camp are
estimated at 160,000, and the taxable
property in 1887 was given at about
$56,000,000, not including railroad
property.
Black meaclcs aro creating frightful
havoc with tho Nez Perco Indians of
Chiefs Joseph and Moses' bands, on
thu western side of tho Colvillo In
dian reservation. Forty-two aro dead
from tho disease, and fourteen more
aru at tho point ot ucatu. liiomeui-
all rich and tho body of gravel exten- eino men thoro treat it with hot steam
sivo. 1'ortor Colt, superintendent of under a blanket, and then a din in tho
I lie treatment is attended with
tho Colt claims, anticipates a good
season up to tho month of July. Tho
mines of Amelia, a few miles from the
basin, aro aUo being worked.
The report of Superintendent II.
McBride, of thu Multnomah county
poor farm, for February, shows that
during the month two persons wero
admitted, while sixteen left or wero
discharged. On March 1 thoro woro
fifty porsops at the farm, including
Since tho
farm was opened 1,564 persons havo
river.
fatal results in narly ovory case. The
whites in that section have it, but tho
disease yields to treatment in their
eases. The Indians a Hooted are tlioe
transferred from Indian Territory on
account of their ill health, some time
since.
In tho Chewala mining district
Washington Territory, a shocking ao
cuient is reported, a man named
Louis Gilmoroaud his partivr Hiiichu
wero working in tho "Sam Slick" mine,
uno nrsi punsion over granted a
Chinaman has been given to Ah Lin,
of San Francisco, who on tho 4th of
July, 1867, was in tho service of tho lourtoon Chtneso lepers.
......... . farm wiim rmnnoil 1
united btatos navy as a landsman. . ., 'ftf ; ml a blast w s prepared, but it failed
Whiles firing a salute on board a vossol 1056 wm w)iii. tunli.c foi a .;. to explodo. Very soon after Gilniore
in San Francisco bay, tho gun ox- cans and 463 foroiirners 135 colored Mklessly went to tho shaft to ascer
and 7:t whim wnmnn "o irouuio, ami commenced an
I iiivnci irrtitirwi rlMi.i Itltiuf iiImIiw! inuf
! im ...... I .1.1 ..1 " "b--v.
cu tu m iciiubi iiimiaii.m uLuuBanr', -imuutuu uiumrcdH ui wild came hoforo him His head was nearlv
W. , . . I Za. .l.n l.Ill . ..1.11-.. .1. IT I-. . .
ilia claim ior a ponsion was presented "' d BKiriuignno uiupqua blown away, and tho body was shock
but no favorable action could bo so- ' T Jnu ,"10,0." f r,irb MKly mangled. llencha, who was
....,. Hn,.u.n, M, i.i ohl' ..Ahy' '!ro concealtH in thu dense sUnding near, had his face and head
,...vM -bb-" growtnot oak and ttr in tho mountains.
Ulimaman has been mado happy by While feeding there aro alwaye a fow
receiving a pension of $8 ner month hulls to act as sentinels. They irot
with um-arnucw. which amniiMt in nvr wild in 1853, when tho first tettlors
0 mi...! ,
T fWVl viuuu m iiiu vaiie', anuir cows wano
nri.il off .iii.t ,,l,l .,! In. 1..
. n ii i i .
Tjik Senate has passed a bill which n " f.Bur" HU V1" l'10"0" ? "
is of great importance to tho and ro- thu lmniuluillB ,id kill it. Some of
gionifof tho country. It requests tho tho cattle aro very lrgo nd fat, ono
Becrutury bf tho Intorior to direct tho luryo bull weighing at least 1,400 lbs.
director of tho geological survey to Nay Simmons, a young man of 19,
examine tho water courses in tho committed suicide in a mokt shocking
Western States and Territories from M!"""wr larm 01 Wm.bapping-
hich water is taken for purposes of n,rff
irrigation, and to locatu at various Lixty-llvo aoro field with a throe-horse
points thereon sites for tho construe- team, and when on the opposite side
iion of reservoirs, to hold, out of th0 of tho field east of tho house, hitched
abundance of tho winter supply of vti V n . ' , 11 ,", ,or 8lr,"P
waUir, Btilhcient for irrigation in tho lllMMn nf tl.n mimr oml ..k l it. m.. i
summer. Tho reservoirs are to be I his neck, and then started tho team.
located in natural basins adjacent to walked a few steps, and then fell down
tho stroums from which thoy will bo was ma,-ged todou h. 'Iwoyoung
M.w.iin.i 'ii.v. iuiu iv, i;, i ... i mun hunting for cattlo found him
supplied, 1 hey will only bo located .iu.i.1. Thu hnr-..- ,iM,,..,r.,i i.,.v
In such portions of tho publio domain walked about 600 yards and to havo
i are suscoptiblo to cultivation. choked tho life out of tho young num.
very seriously injured by tiying trag-
meuts of stone.
During a galo tho steamor Alico
Garrett, which was anchored in San
I' rancisco bay, having on board seven
teen passongors from tho .China
steamer Citv of Pking, dragged her
anchor and drifted to and ag.iinst the
Spoar-btreot wharf. Tho Ahco Gar
reti was in quarantine on account of
Binallpox which had developed among
tho passeugurs and tho City of Peking's
crew while on route from China. J?rom
Spear-street wharf tho stoamer drifted
down to Stuart wharf, breaking off
several piles en route. Tho passon-
gers, mostly women, scrambled ashoro
as best they could. Some took des
purato chances and mado reckless
leaps. Others climbed tho slippery
piles, and more hauled themselves up
by means of chains. Every ono es
caped. Tho Belief tug camo to tho
rescue and had towed tho steamor
hcarcely a hundred yards from tho
whurf when tho Alico Garrett sank.
Sho turned completely over, nearly
twampiug tho tug, and appeared
bhunly after on tho surfaco, bottom up.
Vnlne of .Strnir.
Said a well-known farmer: "The
time has come when every man should
bale his straw as soon as threshing is
over, and what he cannot uso ship to
Portland and sell for seventy- five cents
per cwt. or whatever it will bring. He
should have his own feed mill, or there
should be one owned in every neigh
borhood, and fanners should thus co
operate to bo able to grind their own
meal."
Now, every man should have a tank
or boiler for steaming stock feed. The
cut straw should be put in tho boiler,
and meal or chop mixed with it, and
when steamed or cooked it should be
fed to stock. This feed will keep cat
tlo gaining and make them fat enough
for beef.
Any farmer can have cattle worth
raising and fattening, and should uti
lize his straw for that purpose. His
oats, wheat, barley or corn can be
ground into meal or chop, and by
mixing with straw and cooking and
steaming you can make beef or feed
milk cows to advantage. When our
farmers get this far ahead there will
bo no complaint made by tho grange
that "agriculture does not pay four
per cent, interest on the investment."
Of course it does not pay where men
uso no judgment or are too lazy to
work, but hero in tho Pacific North
west, the best country to farm that is
known, any good farmer should earn
bis living and clear ten per cent, per
annum upon the value of tho farm
and tools and the stock on the place
or on all the capital he has invested.
The farmer who burns his straw
sins against knowledge and deserves
no sympathy. Last summer, stand
ing on a hill in Bight of tho state Capi
tol, tho writer saw columns of nmoke
by day and fire by 'night, going up
towards heaven to bear witness against
Oregon farmers. It is criminal and
inexcusable. Tho time is come when
all this waste should stop, and straw
bocome a means of income. To farm
properly men should mako all things
around them that can bo utilized a
source of income.
A man with a forty aero farm well
tilled can rajse grain, roots, fruits and
vegetables ; can fatten sheep, pork and
beef and sell wool; can sell live stock
and poultry; make butter and sell
eggs and honey, and put to shame
tho showing of many farmers, so
called, who now pretend to cultivate
a wholo section of land. Portland Ore
goniun. This is generally -a month of abund
ant rain on tho Pacific Coast. See
that tho poultry yards are well drained,
and that all depressions where muddy,
filthy water may collect are filled up.
As a rule short-legged fowls will
fatten more rapidly than those "well
up on their pins" This is important
to tho broiler raiser, as his object is to
get a nice plump chick as soon as
possible.
A good supply of dry earth and fine
gravel will bo found a great conven
ienco during the winter months. The
gravel supply should not bo neglected
until the creeks aro running full of
water, and it is impossible to get it.
Almost the entire crop of hemp
grown in tho United States is raited in
Kentucky. Tho total is about 12
000,000 pound. But the annual pro
duct of tho manufacturers of cordage
in the United States is ten times as
groat, or 120,000,000 ioiinds.
The best roots for horses in winter
is tho carrot. Give two or three iircs
a week, though when they aro plenty,
feed some every day with oats or other
grain, tho rat'on ol which muy be pro
portionately diminished.
A damp roosting- place is an abomi
nation and yot fowls prefer a wet
roost freo from lico to a dry ono eov
ered with vermin, which sap their
blood and strength. This will explain
why some people's chickens prefer to
roost in trees.
If eggs are tho main desideratum in
keeping fowls, avoid short-legged fowls
of any breed. They rarely lay well
tho second year on account of laying
on too much fat, while a (owl with
good length of leg will ordinarily luy
well until three years of age.
When scalding hogs, if tho water be
too not tne nair will not come on as
readily as if the toniporaturo bo lower,
Boiling water discolors tho skin. A
temperature of 100 is warm enough
for a young hog, but there aro some
hogs that require as high as lbO . A
slab or smooth surfaco permits of the
work being done in a cleaner manner
than when a rough bonch or tablo is
used.
Some years ago benevolent-minded
people donouueed tho dehorning of
cattle as a cruel practico, only worthy
of barbarians. Lately tho stock jour
nals of tho country have asserted tho
contrary, and cito proof that the op
eration of cutting oil tho horns of a
milch cow is not a painful or any way
dangerous act, as the flow of milk does
not lesson and tho relibh for food does
not weaken. These assertions arc
homo out by the actual experience
narrated in the Seattle Post'Intelligeii'
err, wnoro it assorts that at tno ruy
allup creamory they havo cut off tho
horns from sixty-eight head of stock
within two weeks, many of them being.
much cows. Tho operation is simply
to cut off tho horns us clcso to tho
head as possible. Tho result has been
that more than twico tho number of
cattlo can bo put in tho same inelos-
uro and tho vicious ones havo no way
to imposo on tho quiet ones. That is
tho chief reason .for to doing, and that
is enough of itself to justify dehorning.
It would seem that cattlo without
horuB were to be tho rule hereafter,
TELEGRAPHIC.
4b Epitome of the Principal
Events
Now
Attracting Public Interest
A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas,
destroying tho carriage works and
causing two deaths.
;The French steamer Fleur de la Mer
foundered off the island of Cayenne.
Sixty passengers were drowned.
Thos. J. Potter, Vice-President and
General Mannger of the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company, died at
Welcker's hotel, in Washington.
The survey of the canal contem
plated in Southern New Mexico is
about completed. It will co.-t nearly
$5,000,000, and, will reclaim 3,000,000
acres.
At St. Johns, Arizona, Alex. Itudd
shot and instantly killed a slieep
herder named MeCaw. The difficulty
was over sheep. Immediately after
the killing Itudd mounted his horse
and fled to tic mountains.
Tho state deaf and dumb asylum at
Fulton, Mo., burned. The fire caught
in the dome in the fifth story, and the
building burned down. It was a large
one and cost the state nearly half a
million dollars, and was insured for
but $50,000. There were 180 pupils
in the building, but all wero removed
without injury.
A fire, occurred in the Methodist
University, at Mitchell, Dakota, from
the spontaneous combution of rags in
the art room. There were forty in
mates in the building, including the
faculty, students and servants. All
but ten of these escaped. Four young
men jumped from a second story
window. Four others and a professor
jumped from third story, and another
professor descended from the roof by
a clothes line. The building was com
pletely destroyed. The loss is $50,000.
The university will ba rebuilt.
A man and his son living at Poplar
Grove, Dakota, wero eaten alive by a
pack of wolves. The facts, as near as
can be obtained, are that the father
and son left their house with shovd
to clear snow from some haystacks not
more than fifteen or twenty roils dis
tant. They wero at once attacked by
a pack of sixteen wolves, which liter
ally ate them alive, whilo the wife and
mother gazed through a window at
tho horrible sight, knowing it was
certain death to go to their assistance.
After the brutes hud eaten all the llesh
off the bones they came up to the
house, ran around it several times and
then went away. Next day the re
mains were visited, but nothing was
found but a few bare bones.
The new office of the Evening Union
at Springfield, Mass , was burned out,
and the blaze was attended with the
most sickening horror ever witnessed
in that city, six of the employes meet
ing a terrible death, most of them
jumping from tho fifth story and being
crushed into a shapeless mass below,
six others were badly injured. A large
canvas sheet was stretched over the
i-idewalk. Three men jumped on this
but broke through and fell on tho
pavement. A woman also fell through
the canvas and launed on the sidewalk
insensible. Joseph Lindford was
standing on the sidewalk at the cor
ner, when Mrs. Farley fell. He stood
his ground and reached out his arms
to catch her. She fell on his neck,
throwing him to the ground senseless
Mrs. Fai ley was killed instantly. The
dead are as follows : Henry J. Gould
ing, foreman of tho composing room,
burned to death ; Miss G. Thompson,
proof reader; Mrs. Frederick E. Far
ley, iditorial department, fell from the
window and killed; Mr. Lamzon,
Quebec, jumped and killed ; W. E.
Hovey, ot Boston, fell to the sidewalk ;
Mr. Brown, a compositor.
It).
I'OUTliAKI) l'KOIUJCK MAJtltKT.
BuTTun
Fancy roll, IP
Uregon
luferlor grade
Pi.kled
California roll
tto picklod . . .
CiniKsu
B.slern, full cream.
On'Kon, do
California
Ekgs Frewh
DlilKI) Fwuits-
15
SO
i8 4
1(5 3
14
Apples, lira, kn and bxs.
.1., r..il...i.. .
18 &
8 C4
37
iu
20
3)
30
20
10
14A
18
0
0
28
14
10
40
124
U
10
12J
AnricotH, new crop
Peaches, un peeled, new ...
Pt-ars. machine dried
Pitted cherrloH
Pitted plums, OreRon
Fitrs. Cal.. hi bus and bxs..
CaT. Prunes, French
Oregon prunes
ixoun -Portland
Pat. Roller, bbl a
Salem do do
White LHy V bbl
Country brand 3 60 ffl
Superfine 2 iO
URAIN
Wneut, Valley, 100 lba...
do Walla Walla
Barley, whole, f ctl
do irround. fc ton
Oats, ohoice nitllinpc t' bush
Co leed.KOOil tocliolce.old
live, PlOOtlm 1
r kkii
Uran. y ton 16 00 ffllT 00
Shorts, tf ton 18 U0 felO 00
Hay, b ton. baled fol8 00
Chop, t? ton ?3 TO 2. 00
Oil cake meal V ton 32 00 a83 0C
Fhksii Fruits
Applea, Oregon, K box 1
22J
15
00
00
5
75
75
25
20
121
20 00 325 00
47 60
48 (to 47
10 1 25
Cherries, Oregon, fdrni.
Lemous, California, pbx,.
Limes, 100....
Rlvertide oranges, box...
Los AnKeles, do do ...
Peaches, box
HlOKS
Dry, over 16 rba, fc tt
Wet salted, over 65 Its.....
Murrain hides
Pelts
Vkoetahlks
Cabbage, k lb
Carrots, V? sack
Cauliflower. v doi
Onions
Potatoes, new, f 1C0 lbs , .
Bast Oregon, Spring clip,.
Vallev Oregon, dn ,,
21 3
00
1 60
50
23
U 12
C4 5
7 (ai 0
10 1 23
21
1 CO
1 10
76
14 ffl 10
16 d 20
SCIENCE AND IN DUSTY.
-Profs. Trowbridge and Hutcbins,
of Harvard College, report that their
extensive and careful researches tent
to disprove tho view that oxygen cxi&U
in any part of the sun.
Illgh scientific attainments seem tc
be favorable to longevity. The average
a;;e of .the fourteen members of the
Royal Society of London who have died
during the past year was no less than
sevonty-live. N. Y. Ledger.
Chicago has over 7(W shoo factories
employing 13,000 people. It is only of
late, however, that the Chicago girls'
shoes have been made nt homo' since
some fif the factories have enlarged...
Detroit Free Press.
A company has been formed in
Buonos Ayres forworking the petroleum
deposit recently discovered near the
city of Mendoza. The Argentine Ite
pulilic has hitherto obtained the bulk
of its petroleum from tho United States.
Public Opinion.
In tho wood-working and lumber
industries of Momphis, Tenn., about 750
men are employed, and these are paid
in wages from 323,000 to $350,000.
The value of the business done by
Memphis concerns each year now is
over 8:5.003,000. The business and the
industries are constantly growing. The
mills in that city are now running night
and day. and m nt of them employ two
sets of men. The wood-working busi
ness will likely increase twenty-live pur
cent, within the next twelve mouths.
The woody melon-shaped fruit of
the and-box tree ot -.Iki Vet Indies is
made into a neat box by sawing oil' the
top ami scooping out the seeds and is
ned in Batbadoes for holding saniL
When, however, the fruit is allowed to
ripen on the tree, it bursts explosively,
scattering the seeds over the ground.
An experimenting naturalist recently
nought to preserve a specimen of thu
fruit by drying carefully, but it ex
ploded with such violence as to destroy
the box containing it. Arkansaw
Traveler.
During the past fowyears Japanese
manufacturing industries have made
very considerable progress, and full
advantage has been taken of the limited
liability principle. Foreign residents
in Japan looked upon tho movement
with soiiii! amount of suspicion, think
ing it might be wanting iu stability.
Recent returns, however, have shown
that substantial profits havo been
earned. Iu a miscellaneous lit ol
thirty-four companies tho dividends
vary from four to twenty-six por cent,
for tho half year.
Mr. C. V. Boys, whose extraordi
nary success in producing extremely
minute threads of mineral substances
was recorded some time f-ince, has con
tributed a paper on the subject, to the
Journal of the Physical Society of Lon
don. The mineral libers which he has
produced are described as being far
finer and more perfect than those
made of spun glass. Light arrows of
straw were attached to beads of incited
mineral and then shot out of a power
ful cross-bow. Threads of rook crys
tal obtained in this way wero less than
the one hundred thousandth part of an
inch iu diameter. Threads of this sub
stance are as strong as steel and pos
sess enormous elasticity. They aro
useful iu many kinds of delicate scien
titic apparatus. N. Y. Ledger.
Dr. Dubois has investigated the
light-emitting organs of tho cucuyo, or
I'yrophorus noctilucus. They are three
In number two prothoracic and one
ventral. The prothroraeie plates give
a good illumination in front, laterally
and above, and servo when tho insect
walks in the dark; when it llieo or
swims iu tine abdominal lantern is un
masked, throwing downward an in
tense light with much greater range.
The insect seems to he guided by its
own light. If tho prothoracic appar
atus is quenched on one side with a lit
tle, black wax tho cucuyo walks in a
curve, turning toward the Mdo of the
light. If both sides aro quenched it
walks hesitatingly and irregularly,
feeling tho ground with its auteuiite,
ami soon stops. I'h'jUc Opinion.
FUNERAL EXPENSES.
of
A Clerlcul Sicl-t.v lor tint Promotion
Iturlitl Uitrorni.
Tho Episcopal clergymen of New
York, under the advice of Bishop Pot
ter, have organized an association for
the promotion of burial reform. Tho
first purpose is to do away with the ex
travagance of funeral expenditures.
Most burials aro unnecessarily expen
sive, by reason of costly burial caskets,
and numerous carriages anil people go
to an expenditure which their means do
not justify. Besides, there arc sanitary
considerations, such as are leading to
the growth of tho cremation sentiment.
One of tho aims of tho new association
will bo to abolish thu uso of close
colli i. and metallic burial oases, and
tho substitution, of wicker-basket or
paper-macho coverings, so that "dust
to dust" will have a literal and whole
some meaning.
Bishop Potter mado tho following re
marks after tho various points had
pbcon discussed at the first meeting: "I
am in entire sympathy with this move
inont, and it will receive my hearty and
active co-operation. I trust tho 6rgan
ization will be so formed as to includo
representatives of all roligious de
nominations, to tho end that its work
may bo mado as ellectivo and far-reaching
as possible. It will bo necessary to
bear in mind that at every stop tho or
ganization will be fought by powerful
oombinations of trailesinon, whoso in
comes this movement will tend to
diminish, and whoso hostility, thore
iord, may bo confidently predicted. It
is my belief tlnr.t tho methods of intor
nient at present iu vogue aro vicious,
and that the highest typo of Christian
burial will only bo attained when tho
administration of cemeteries is placed
entirelv In the hands of tho church."-
Milwaukee StntmcL