THE OREGON SCOUT.
JONES & CHANCEY,
Publishers
UNION, OREGON.
GROWTH OF ALASKA.
Extract from tlu Anniml Tic-port
of
Governor A. 1. Sirlnrroril.
Tlio Governor of Alaska, A. P.
Swincford, in his annual report to tho
Secretary of tho Interior, states that
tho whlto population has greatly in
creased and ho 03timatcs that thcro
aro 35,000 natives. Tho total popula
tion is -19,850 and of this number thoro
aro G.500 whites, 1,900 Creoles and L
950 Aleuts. In regard to tho settle
ment of tho public lands tho Govern
or states that all settlers in Alaska
upon public lands aro mcro squatters
who aro awaiting' legislation from Con
press which will onablothcm to sccuro
titles. All tho salmon factories in tho
Territory, seventeen in number, aro
located on tho public hinds. Ho asks
favorable consideration by tho depart
ment of tho bill ponding boforo Con
gross proridlng for tho organization
of tho 'Territory. Tho Governor Bays
that as far as ho knows thcro aro no
practical farmer or gardonors in tho
Territory. The only obstaclo in tho
way of agriculture, in tho opinion of
tho Governor, is that tho lands aro not
available for settlement. Ho says that
tho climato is favorablo and tho soil
rich. Ho sees no reason why Alaska
may not ultimately rival Montana and
Wyoming as a cattlo country. Tho
slum) mino on Douglass Island, which
tho report states is tho largest in tho
world, has an estimated output of
$150,000 in gold per month. Othor
gold mines aro being doveloped in tho
sumo, and tho roport notes tho salo of
four claims for $1,500,000. Promising
uilvcr discoveries havo been made.
Tho Govornor thinks that thcro is
enough coal in tho Territory to supply
tho wholo of tho United States for
centuries. Thoro aro fourteen pub
lic schools in Alaska, which last
year woro placod under tho chargo
of tho Territorial board. Tho Goyorn
or recommends that tho gonoral agent
bo mndo moro amonablo to tho authori
ty of tho board of which ho is a mem
ber and socrotary. Last year, tho ro
port statos, tho gonoral agent was ab
Bont for six months from tho Territory
without lcavo. In addition to tho
public schools, thoro uro eight Proto3t
iuit,two Catholio and sovoutoon Grrcco
Jtussian mission schools. Tho Govorn
or roltornlos tho chargos made in tho
annual roport rotative to tho violation
of law and tho ill treatment of tho na
tives by tho agents of tho Alaska Com
mercial Company. Ho credits tho com
pany with adhering faithfully to its
coutraeta with tho Government as to
tho numbor of seals to bo killed on tho
seal islands and tho trontmont of tho
natives, butolsowhoro in tho Territory,
Jio says, wlioro tho company rule Is
Hiiproino, "tho peoplo aro little bettor
than serfs of that powerful company."
Washington Letter. ,
COBBLE PICKERS.
l'oor Wriilolir Who I'lrlc Up a I.lvine
Around Iron Mill.
A peculiar and not altogether pleas
ing sight about tho Iron and stool
works in this city is tho groups of men,
women and children that are con
stantly prodding and digging in tho
elndor dumps, and are known as "cob
bio pickors." lho men aro always
old and froquontly weak and tottering,
Tho mark of poverty is on all womon,
and tho children, who aro in the ma
jority, aro abjeot-looking creatures,
and range from the ago "of eight to
ulxtoon. Cobbles are tho bits of iron
and stool that remain among tho
cinders from tho furnaces and are
dumped with thorn on tho cinder
idles. On tho gathering of those bits
of motal tho small army of toilers re
ferred to ((opond for their living. With
lioos and rnkoa they dig in tho clndoro
as thoy aro dumped, and struggle and
puBh and wrangle for tho possession of
tho motal as it is uneovorod.
Each picker has a basket In which is
placed tho rosult of tho pickings.
Over two l(undrcd persons dally delve
on tho grimy dump for cobblos. While
thoy will use all manner of moans to
sccuro possession of a lucky llnd In tho
dumps, after a picker has tilled his
basket and emptied it on his "pile," a
few foot away, there Is not ono among
tho curious and by no moans scrupu
lous pickers who would touch ono of
tho cobbled in it. Each picker has his
or her pile of cobbles, and tho iron
company's teamu como around at inter
vals. Tho drlvor weighs each pile,
gives tho owner a vouchor for It, una
takes tho accumulated metal to the
scrap heaps to bo molted again.
Tho earnings of tho oobblo-piokors
rango from $10 to $10 a mouth, and
thoro aro womon who havo been on
tho dumps for yours. Tho ease of ono
woman and her twolvo-yoar-old daugh
ter is notorious, because thoy earn not
only their own living, but enough to
fued and clothe tho husband and father,
who Is an employe of tho Iron-works,
und gets $100 a month, which ho
squanders In drink and riotous living
as soon as he Is paid. Ono old man on
tho cobblo dumps, who Is barely able
to buvo enough to keep him from starv
ing, was ouco a prominent business
man worth at least $.10,090.
Tho work of cobblo-plckliig is ono of
the lowest forms of human occupation,
and ita degrading olToct on tho young
glrlH and boys engaged In It Is only too
apparent. Many efforts havo beon
rondo by church nnd other societies in
Johnstown to suppress cobblo-plcklng
among tho children, but with indltior
cat success. Johnstown Special.
MISCELLANEOUS,
iSLECTOHAL At 13 SENOEKS REFUSED
THE1U MILAGE.
Tho Marlow Band of Texas Dospeaadoa
Disband Tho President and Cash
ier of a .Georgia Bank In
Jail for Thoft.
The Clenr Lake Imnk.at Mason City,
Iowa, tins clobed its doors.
Snow fell at Pcnsacola, Fla., last
week, tho first time in 22 years.
Mr. Jus. G. lilnine, jr., has signed a
contract to go on tho stage for three
year.
Two fccliool children near Hitchcock,
I). T., perished in tho snow storm of
last week.
The West Virginia Democratic leg
islative caucus bus agreed to support
Kenna for the senatorship.
Tho messenger with the electoral
vote of Florida did not leave tho state.
No reason is given for doing eo.
Ives and Stuynor woro unable to ob
tain $250,000 bail, and are locked up
in Ludlow street jail, Jew York.
Ex-Governor Porter, of Indiana, is
authority for the statement that War
ncr Miller will bo in tho cabinet.
It is anticipated that about 30 men
will bo discharged from tho apprais
ers' ollico at New York in a day or
two.
The House committee on commerce
will recommend the building of
lighthouso near the mouth of the
Siushuv river, Or.
Jack Carkcek, the Cornish wrestler,
defeated Tom Cannon, tho English
champion, at Milwaukee, last week
best threo in live falls.
President Tolloron nnd Cashier
Ilichards, of the Mercantile Banking
Company, at Atlanta, Ga., havo been
tent to prison for theft.
F. J. Marshall, formerly cashier of
tho Northern Pacihc Express Compa'
ny, at St. Paul, is under arrest for
embezzling monoy from tho company.
Tho Indianapolis peoplo are await
ing with pationco tho roport of the
grand jury to see tho names of thoso
who have hud bills returned against
them.
The Marlow gang of deporadoes, oh
the bordor of Texas and tho Indian
Territory, has been broken up, IJ00110
Marlow, tho head, being killed, and
his two brothers wounded.
Senator Stowart received yesterday
from the Nevada legislature a memo
rial to President-elect Harrison, re
questing tho appointment of a Pacific
Coast man 111 his cabinet.
Tho shortage of Moore, tho Indian
apolis agent of the Connecticut Mutual
Insurance Company, may reach to
$1,000,000, He has been missing for
threo days, and i3 believed to bo in
Canada.
Julian 0. McCluro, a proniinout
man of Jackson county, Ind., has dis
appeared. It was reported tnat no is
short in his accounts as guardian
minor heirs to tho amount of $2:1,000,
Keeloy, of motor fame, who had
been imprisoned for contempt of court
in not answering questions propound
ed to him. lias been released, becauso
tho case in which ho was under exam
ination was not fairly at issuo.
Rudolph Ericsson, of New Britain
Conn., inventor of tho new explosive.
extralito, has received a letter from 1ih
uncle in Sweden, stating that the
right to uso tho discovory in England
has beon sold for lO.OOU.
Tho Supremo Court of Now York
hav allirmcd the verdict of the Circuit
Court of $15,000 against the million
airo cofieo merchant, Charles Arbuokle,
in the breach of promiso suit brought
by Clara Campbell, of Ironton, Ohio,
Ida Wilcox, daughter of Mrs. C
Wilcox, of Bainbridep, N. Y., a pretty
uirl of 17 years, was arrested in Paris
last week, with a Dr. Sellor, of Eng
laud, with whom she had oloped. Dr.
Seller, it is said, has a wife in Eng
laud.
The American ship, Honry Villurd,
cleared from New York last week for
Seattle, W. T., with a gonoral cargo of
merchandise. 1 hi is the lirst vessel
that has ever loft New York for Seattle
and sho wil 00 lobably two nionths
on tho trip.
Thrco messengers carrying state
electoral .o'c havo not beon paid
their mileage, because tho certificates
identifying them are sealed in an en
velope which cannot bo opened until
February 1H. Tho messengers come
from Colorado, Kansas and Alabama,
Tho postniaster-gonoral has sont to
the chairman of the house committee
on pontoflieos and post reads a pro
nosed plan for tho classification of
clerks in all first and second class post
olllccs. The general etlectof thisolas
sulcatum of the present lorce, it is
said, would ho to increase tho nggic
gale salaries by about $300,000.
The roport of tho Atchison directors
resulted in no enthusiasm in Boston,
hut if any increased tho gloom, for it
is evident Unit the wholo truth has
not yet been told, hut that there is
something being held back. Wall
strett tried to boom tho stock, and did
eond it up a few points, but a full de
tailed statement of tho condition of
lho system is necessary to socuro con
fidence. General llarrifon will probably start
for Washington on the evening of Sun
day, February 21. His route is not
Bottled, but it will probably be by the
"Big Four" line to Cincinnati and than
over the Baltimore & Ohio.
The American mechanics of Lan
caster are buying Hags for tho public
schools of that city.
FROMaWASHINGTON.
HAYTIAN PRIVATEERS BEING
TED OUT IN NEW YORK.
FIT-
German Government Spies EngRouto to
tho United States Samoan Mat-
L toiB Becoming Moro So h,
rlous Land Matters.
It is asserted in Washington by
those in a position to know that mat
ters have reached a i-enous state in Sa
moa. The natives have worsted the
Germans repeatedly, and according to
lute dispatches Germany now propones
to subdue them by preventing arms
being sent in. Tho newspapers read
by Americans have beon suppressed,
and the polico of Apia are openly con
trolled by Germans.
A private cablegram recently re
ceived at Washington announces that
the German government has orded a
military attache to report at Wash
ington to the German minister. His
business, it is said, is to investigate
and report to his government every
thing of interest concerning the Amer
ican army and navy.
Tho Kepublican Senators in caucus
have adopted a resolution insisting
upon the admission as States of North
and South Dckota, Montana and
Washington. Whilo it is regarded as
expedient that the two Dakotas hold
a constitutional convention, the Sena
tors are resolved that another vote
shall not be required upon the ques
tion of division. There is a disposi
tion for the adoption of a non-partisan
coiiiso in regard to New Mexico.
The case brought in tho interest of
some Oregon cottiers has been de
cided by tho commissioner of the gen
eral land ollice. Heretofore tho of lice 1
has required a new publication and
new proof in cases whore claimants
havo made proot at a day other than
that indicated in lho notice of publi
cation, or taken before an officer other
than that named in tho notice. Tho
practice now will bo to receive the
proof and submit tho entry to a board
of tquitablo adjudication, where, if
thoro aro no other irregularities, tho
entry will bo approved and recom
menced for a patent.
Commissioner Wright, of tho de-
nnrt.ninnt. nf liihnr. lnifl submitted ai
report which relates entirely to tho
subject of working women in large
cities. Tho report shows that the
working women aro practically girls,
whoso average ago is twonly-iwo years,
and that out of tho 10,427 cases inves
tigated, only 183 wero in bad health.
At a recent meeting of the Ameri
can Mapping and industrial league,
Gen. Joe Wheeler, of Alabama, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
Resolutions wero adopted favoring the
passage of a tounago bill, which auks
for an allowance from the govern
ment for United States built and
owned vesbels, of 30 cents a ton for
each 1000 miles sailed, or Bteamed ;
also favoring a system of coast de
fenses ; tho building and equipment
of a strong navy ; tho improvement of
harbors and rivers throughout tho
wholo couniry; adequate compensa
tion for carrying tho mails; and tho
passage of a navy reserve bill.
Tho llaytian minister at Washing
ton has informed tho secretary of
stato that soveral vessels are being
fitted out at New York for an expe
dition against liny ti. The matter has
been referred to the treasury depart
ment, with the result that the collec
tor of customs at New York was spec
ially instructed to see that no viola
tions of the neutrality laws wero com
milted at that point.
Tho President has sent to tho Son
ato tho name of D. Wade, of Mon
tana, to bo chief justice of that Terri
tory. In Oregon and Washington Terri
tory, and it is stated in California,
there are many excellent government
lands, which would bo at once nettled
on wero tlio land Biirveycu. 1 nore
aro also hundrodu of wttlers, in Ore
gon especially, who are living on land
and have been trying, for years to got.
thoir laud, but, otviig to the small
pneo allowed surveyi-rs iy t no gov
ernment for tho work, thoy could not
undertake to survey it. I
Frionds of silver are romowhdt in
dignant that Senator Allison has re-;
fused to accept tho portloho of tho
Treasury department. Thoy claim
that ho has an opportunity to restore
silvor to its former standing 111 coin
age
An important proviso of tho Okla
homa bill as passed by the house re
cently is one reciting that nothing in
the act orgainiing tho territory shall
be construed to authorize any person
to cuter upon or occupy any lands 111
the Cherokee outlet and Oklahoma
proper, for settlement or otherwise,
until after tho Indian tribes and com'
missioners shall have concluded an 1
agreement to that ell'ect. It is also
provided that any person who may on
tor unon auv part of tho land con
tr.iry thereto and prior to tho time of 1
the President's proclamation opening
the same, shall not bo permitted to
make entry upon any lands in tho tor-,
ritnrv. 1
- - v -
ReprosentatiYO Hormann lias pro-
Honted to Congress a petition signed
by 000 settlers on tho high hunts of
Eastern Oregon, asking for tho for
feiture by Congresu of Tho Dulles mil
itary wagon road laud grant and tho
Northern Pacific railroad land grant.
Petitioneaa aver that neither of thoeo
companies has complied with tho con
ditions of its grant, and that the pro
gress of the couutry is retarded by the
niltiru of tho people to obtain titles to
their homes, or to acquire lands by 1
settlement. . I
THE PAOiflO COAST.
THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A FARMER
AT HANTAQUIN, UTAH.
Antagonism Between the Governor and
Leglalaturoof New Mexico Pros
pectors on the Island of Tex
ada Minor Mention.
Baker City, Oregon, is lighted
gas.
witli
Diphtheria is almost epidemic at St.
J 1 clena.
Osgood,S.ui Diego county, has a new
poatolhce.
Bedding is to have a new three-story
hotel and opera house.
Forestville, Sonoma county, is to
build a $20,000 hotel this spring,
Fires of unknown origin aro becom
ing quite frequent at Los Angeles
A three pointbuck was lassoed while
swimming m Putah creek last week.
A Mrs. Gubleman is charged with
the crime of murdering her infant
child at Woodland.
James Corrigan, lately from Kansas,
while drunk, was kilt by the cars at
Fresno recently.
For 25-ccnts tho hack drivers at
Walla Walla, W. T., will tako a person
to any part of the city
Thirty thousand acres of grain will
be plinted in tho San Jacinto Valley,
San Diego county, this season
The boys at Sonoma celebrated the
arrival of the hook and ladder truck
by a torchlight procession.
The cantilever bridge over the Unip-
qua river at Winchester, Or., has been
accepted ; it is said to be a hue struct
ure.
Bannock Indians, now visiting Pi
utes and Washoes, in Washoe county,
gave a peace dance at Reno on tho
20th ult.
The dedication of the Odd Fellows'
hall, at Redding, was attended with
npressive ceremonies and proved a
great success.
The Arizona legislature have moved
tho eapital from Prescott to Photnix,
where the legislature will assemble in
about ten days.
A now steamboat, to bo named
Mount Tacoma, which is to run
tweon Tacoma and Whatcom, W.
tho
was contracted for lately.
Governor Ross and the New Mexico
legislature aro at swords points. All
his vetoes are passed over his head and
nearly all his appointments are pigeon
holed.
Prospectors aro staking off all of the
island of Texada, where tho recent
gold tind is reported. Many miners
from British Columbia and Puget
Sound have gone thero.
The child of William Allen was
burned to death at the Stonewall Mine
settlement, San Diego county, yester
day. The clothing of the child was
ignited in some unknown way.
Mrs. E. Parks, who lives near Ban
gor, Butte county, fell into the Forbes
town flume Sunday. She shot the
flume, a distanco of three-quarters of
a mile, without injury.
The survey of tho Blackfoot, Fort
Belknap and Fort Peck rcseivations,
in Montana, has boon advertis-ed for.
About 17,000,000 acres will bo thrown
open to lho public.
A move is being made in New Mex
ico to increase the liquor license from
$100 to $1,000. The legislature is
urged to pass a bill to that efl'ect. The
liquor men are making a savage fight.
Eight tons of butter, eggs, cuted
meat, etc., were shipped from Port
Harford on tho 22d ult., tho greater
por'.ion of which was sont south to
feed tho citizens of Los Angeles and
San Diego.
In Utah the census of children of
sciiool age, between six and la years,
shows that thero are in the Territory
011 boys and 3 041 girls of non-Mormon
parents, mid 34.0S2 boys and
2;i,2Sy girls of Mormon parentage.
Tho result of tho Luguna de Tacho
grant land suit at Fresno, it is Ftiid,
will bo to transfer a water monopoly
from one party to another. Nothing
will bo gained for the publio and the
interest is more 01 curiosity to see
who will win than to anticipate bono
ats.
Farmers in tho southwestern part
of Grass Valley township, Nevada
county, are organizing fcr tho purpose
of constructing an inigatiou ditch to
take water from the South uba Canal
Company and lend it over Dross Sum
mit, by Osborno hill, through Forest
Springs, and thon on down tho coun
try. At Santiiquin, Utah, J. Anderson,
aged X years, has for some time past
trained his 8 year-old girl cousin to the
use of lire arms. He would place the
muzzle of nn empty gun to his head
and the girl would pull the triggor and
snap the weapon. Thursday ho loaded
tho gun with buckshot and playfully
placod tho muzzle in his mouth, ask
ing tho child to pull the trigger. She
did so, and Anderson's head was blown
to pieces, lie was despondent and
had taught tho child to act as sho did,
with tho deliberate intontion of being
killed.
Membo.s of the New York legisla
ture complain of being worried by
corrupt lobbyists.
Cincinnati is airanging for fuel gas,
and expects to get it for 10 cents per
1000 feet.
Gold deiios.t of great value are re- J
ported as having been discovered
in
the stale of Guanojuato, Mexico.
Throo womon contested for tho
li-
1'nirianslnp 01 tho state ot tonnessee.
t iu
AGEIOULTTJRAL,
SECRET OF BREEDING
FEEDING CATTLE.
THE
AND
Tho IPropor Management of Seed Pota
toesThe Advantages of Well
fchod Horses A Receipt for
Preserving Eggs.
Grooming should bo thoroughly per
formed on every horse at least once a
day. Never groom a horse in its stall
while the horse is eating, but take it
out for the purpose. Otherwise the
dust and dirt which fill the air becomes
mixed with the horse's food, making it
unpalatable and unwholesome.
. Breeding sows should be given com
fortable, clean quarters, with freedom,
or, at least, the liberty of a yard large
enough for moderate exercise. Do not
let them run with cattle or horses,
though, they should have generous
and plentiful rations of bran and
other muscle-forming food, but not
much Indian corn or meal. Skim
milk, bran, oil-meal, boiled to a thin
gruel, peas, etc., aro good foods for
them.
The management of seed potatoes
is one of tho important arts of the
potato grower. The chief point is to
prevent them from sprouting, and for
this purpose a low temperature as near
to the freezing as is possible, without
touching it, is desirable. Nearly ev
erywhere farmers find that the lato
varieties of potatoes are more product
ive than the early ones. le not this
partly due to the fact that early varie
ties have been injured by sprouting,
while late varieties are less liable to
this injury.
Tho'following receipt has been tried
by a lady who says she has eggs that
were preserved by it four years. They
are still good. Take one pound of
uuslacked lime and one pint of com
mon salt to two gallons of soft water.
Put your eggs on end, in layers, in
any good tight vessel a jar is good.
when as full as you wish, make
enough of the brine to completely
cover tho eggs. If you put the eggs
down as gathered each day, add some
of the bnue so as to keep all complete
ly covered all the while.
In breeding and feeding cattle the
first legitimate purpose is to make the
animal do the very best that it will.
The saving of food in the direction
of depriving the stock of all that it
will eat has no place 111 the calcula
tion at all. It is true that in some
cases the animal will cat its head off,
though that will occur only with scrub
stock. But in such cases the animal
should bo got rid of. It does not de
stroy the rule that profitable dairying
demands abundant food and good
f
aid.
Probably meal will finish up a steer
better than ear corn, but for tho bulk
of tho feeding there aro no trials to
which we can point that show in favor
of meal over whole corn. A step still
further in the right direction is to feed
unhusked corn, fodder and all, to the
cattle. Such innovations may appall
many farmers, but what we aro drift
ing toward is not more complicated
methods of feeding, but big crops to
feed, better stock to feed it to, and
simple, rational methods of getting
feed to the animals.
If the owner of a small farm brings
to his work tho business capacity and
good judgment which the largo land
owner does, it is very evident that,
proportioned to the acres cultivated,
he will have the most money at the
end of tho year. Hired help is not
only expensive, but at times very un
certain and unreliable, but a man's
own hands, with a heart in his work,
which seldom accompanies hired help,
are always available for every little de
tail on which success depends. Many
men will do moro with ten acres and
get moro ut of, and from them, than
others v ill with a hundred. It re
quires as much labor, however, for the
ten as tho hundred. It is intelligent
labor and good management that
count on a farm, hence it is that small
farms pay tho In st and that farmers
continually complain that there is 110
money in farming. To our way of
thinking, and wo aro familiar with
eveiy department of farm business,
and measurably to with tho city,
there is no enterprise one can engage
in which oilers better opportunities
for a healthful, independent and suc
cessful life than a moderate sized farm
under good management.
Thoro are many who never take a
ramble in tho woods in the winter sea
son. They seem to think that because
tho trees, save tho pines, hemlocks,
etc., are bare, and becauso tlio birds
have left for a wanner climate, thoro
is nothing to be seen in tho wotuls in
winter. Those who have learned
properly to use their eyes, will find
that the woods present enough of in
torost at all seasons to make 11 visit to
them profitable at any season. Lum
bermen, who work at felling trees, do
so in the winter only, and can distin
guish trees with great accuracy, and
tell ono kind of tree from anothor as
far oil' as thoy can see them. They do
this from tho peculiar way in which
tho treo branches, and tho color and
markings of tho bark. Wo have
found that these same lumbermen, if
shown tho leaves and flowers of tho
trees with which thoy aro so familiar
in winter, tail to recognize them , in
deed many aro surprised to learn that
forest trees havo flowers. To be able
to recoguizo trees at all season, and
to namo them accurately, whether
they have leaves or not, is a
ful ;ort l(f knowIcd0 ;hiuh cvon.
iner should acquire. Tho carpenter,
the cabinetmaker, and all other work
ers in wood, whilo they may not bo
able to recognize tho troos, oan tell at
onoo, from a more chip, the kind of
wood thoy aro handling.
PORTLAND MARKET REPOR1
GROCERIES -Sugars have fallen C Jc
since oar last report. We quote cube,
extra C 5c. dry granulated 05c. cube
crushed anil powdered 7jc. CoflVs firm,
Guatemala lSjt&iH'c, Costa Rica I81W21C
Hio20 (5!l,c, SalvadorlS&20e, Arbuckle's
roasted 23c.
PROVISIONS Oregon hnras arc qfot
ed at 121 13 c, breakfast bacon 13(toc"
Eastern ni"at isqnoted as fololws: Hams
Vl(alS9, Sfnclairs 14 a 15c, Oregon break
fast b con 13i(o,14c, Eastern 13fel3 c.
FRUITS Green fruit receipts 1239 bxs.
Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap
ples not equal to the demand. Apples (15(2)
$1 per bx, Mexican oranges 84, lemons
iO'ijO.oO per bx, bananas 3.0C?4.50,
quinces 40 u 00c,
VFGETABLES Market well supplied.
Cabbage j p lc per n, carrots and turnips
5c per sack, red pepper 3c per tb, potatous
35;a40c per sack, sweet ljtozc per lb.
DRIED FRUITS-Receipts 01 pkges.
Sun-dried apules 450 per lb, facUry
slic-d 8c, factory plums 70c, Oregon
prunes 7'"0c, pears 0 " 10c, peaches 8 10c,
raUins ?!l'aj2.25 per box, Call ornia figs
Sc, Smyrna 18c per lb.
DAIRY PRODUCE-Oregon creamery
and choice dairy .Too, medium i7(630c Cal
ifornia fancy 30c, choice dairy 27Jc,
eastern 25(ftu0c.
EGGS Receipts 203 eases. Oregon 25c.
POULTRY Chickens 5(5:5.25, for
large jouiik and $1 - 4 75 for old, turkeys
llteloc per tb, ducks ?57 per dozen.
WOOL Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon
10fc15c.
HOPS-Choice 8?14c.
GRAIN Valley 81.35, Eastern Oregon
1.30 Oats 33J835c.
F' OUR Standard 84.50, other brand
St.25, Dayton and Cascade 84.10, Cialiam
?3.25, rye flour 80, do Graham 85.60.
FRFSIl MEATS Reef, live, 3i3Jc.
dressed 7c, mutton, live, tyfl'A c, dressed
7e, lambs S2.60 each, hogs, live, SJOc,
dressed 7&7J, veal CtuSc.
STORIES OF DUMAS.
Huxr lin Omit Novllit Corrortoil
;: i-l 1 til :t li mill n DUIcenro Drlvor.
In tho preface to a new book on
sport by tho Baron deVoux, Aloxandor
Dumas fits tells somo interesting stories
of his father and grandfather, of which 4
we reprodueo the following:
Pt'MAS AND TUP. CAHMAJf.
My father had inherited from my
grandfather remarkable strength, of
which I had tho first experience when
I was fourteen or fifteen yoars of age.
Ono Sunday ho had taken mo to tho
Gymnaso. At tho end of tho play it
rained in torrents. Ho moved toward
a fiacre stationed on tho boulevard and
signaled mo to follow him. Ho gave
an address to tho cabby, who stood up
right boside his vehicle, into which
wo prepared to mount. Tho coach
man put his hand on tho door saying:
"I don't movo a step for less this
time than livo francs for tho journev."
"Will you not movo?"
"No."
"Once, twice, thrice." Cabby did
not respond, but remained with his
hand on tho door. Thon my father
seized him round tho waist, lifted him
up from tho ground, and planting him
on the seat said: "Go now." Then
taking his plaeo in tho cab, ho said:
"Bear in mind always how to do with
in ob.slinnto coachman." I havo not
forgotten tho procedure, but I havo
never put it in practico not that cab
men havo becomo moro civil, but that
other things aro different.
My father did not seek for oppor
tunities to show his strength, but ho
rapidly seized them when they wero
presented. During a journoy wo
nnido in tho neighborhood of Lyons in
tho year 1839 the conductor of tho dili
gence by an ingenious dovieo, induced
us all to descend tit tho foot of a hill,
to unstiffen our limbs, as ho aid. As
soon its the carriage was empty tho
driver jumped into his plaeo and sot
tho horses off at a gallop up tho hill,
leaving ud to mount it on foot. It had
6iiowed tho night before, and, as tho
snow had melted, wo had to wado
through mud. Tho travelers disliked
it tho more, inasmuch as thoro wero
ladies with them. Somo of tho moro
siinplo shouted to lho driver to stop,
but ho went on his way, doubtloss
laughing to himself. You may imagine
tho recriminations of tho pedestrians,
who resolved to mnko n complaint at
tho first stoppage. I walked besido
my father, who breathed not a word.
Except for sport ho "nnd a horror of
walking.
"You don't say any thing," said I.
"No, but you will see when we got to
the top."
Wo camo thoro last, and on tho
plateau, when tho diligence had final
ly stopped, wo found tho conductor
surrounded by complaining travelers.
Ho replied to thorn with tho bantorin?
air of 0110 who had played a cV
trtck, planted on his largo fe t
nncing his head on his broad
dors, sticking out his great cheM. and
mocking tho dollcatc-lookJ.ng towns
men who woro too timid to snow their
displeasure in moro than words. My
fathor politely putononosido with his
two hands thoso who mado a circle
around tho conductor, and said to him:
"Then you find this amusing?" "Yes,"
nnswored tho man, tittering. "I did
find It funny." Ho had hardly flnlshod
tho words before ho received 011 tho
chest a couplo of fist blows which sont
him rolling Into tho mud, hb feet in
tho air, amid tho laughter nnd ap
plauso of tho onlookers. Ho rose furi
ous, and flow at his nssailant, who
landed a couplo moro blew which cov- I
ercd tho nose and mouth of tho un
fortunate man with blood. Tho wit
nesses of this seono now interposed,
ready to help this ready interpreter of
thoir scitimonts; but tho drivor dried
himsolf and resumed his soat, not with
out usliuj language such as was excusa
ble umler the circuiiistauces. We got
into our places Hsrain, ami my father
was soon tnuiqullly sleeping, his hands
on a stick which he hud loft in the car
riage. an.lv !i..h 1 had resolved to
roepver at all hazards. liothu UIuIk.
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