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'A THE OREGON SCOUT Is independent in all thins;, neu tral in nothing; devoted to every cause it believes to be right a journal for the people. THE OREGON SCOUT Has as large acirculatiionaaanj two papera in this section of the State combinvd, and is corre spondingly valuablo as an adver tising medium. Horo Will tho Press the People's Rights Maintain. VOL. VII. UNION, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1S90. NO. 7. The Oregon Scout1 An Indrpsadsat w, klj Journal, Issue ersrj Thor.ilr momlnf hj JONES & CIIANCEY, Publishers and Proprietor. A. K. J!i, Editor. II. CfiANCHY, Foreins. Kates of Subscription. ta tofj on tmt, ... $1.50 ) 00 .75 oopj a z uuiiodi, .... One top; thr mouths, .... Iiirarlaltlj Caih In Atlranvf. sjr thance tubieriptioni are not paid till end Rata of adf ertlslnff made known on atinlleatlon 1" Correspondence from all parta o( to country aouotwa. Address 'l communications to the Oreuon Scout, TJaloa,- Orsgon. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. UNITED STATES. FsaaiDiMT Itenjamln Harriion of Indiana. Schbtaky or 8tat James U. 111a ne of Maine. Scbtat or Tin TmuURr-WUUain Windom Minnesota. Ssckitart or War RedfieM I'roctorof Varmont. SaanaTART or the Navi Benjamin F. Tracy of New York. Sbczitakt or tue Interior John W. Noble of Mtuoari. Postm ASTBR-G en KRAL John Waoamaker of Penn AylTAnia. ArroRMBt Giniral W. II. 11. Miller of Indiana. Secretary or AuiucVLTURi-Jeremlah Rusk of Wlaoorwin. STATE OF OltKOilN. Senators, Goofreauaan, Gorernor, Secretary of Slate, Stale Treaaurer. f J. H. Mitchell. I J. N. Dolmi. Di.tuaK Hermann. SYLVEHTER I'rN.NOYER. QaoKUKW. McIIridr. (1. W. Wehii. floperiatendeut uf Public Instruction, E. II. MrKl.KoT. aula rrinter, ... t rank u. llAkEK (K. H. t-TKAlH.N Sapram Judges, W, P. Lokii. (.W. W. TllAYKR. SIXTH JUDICIAL DI8TKICT. ni,-.,i. r., . 1 M. CLirroRB ProMcuMng Attorney J. L. Hand. COUNTY OF UNION. State Senators, Representatives, Judga Sheiiff, Olerk, Treasurer, Schcol Superintendent, arrayor, Asaeaaor, Coroner, Commissioners, 1.1. Vt. Norval. J. II. IUlet. I Charles Goodnouoii. J. L. Hoi. (). P. GoonALL. A. N. Hamilton. A. T. Null. E. C. II it A IMA nu. J. I.. Carter. J. W. KlHBRKLL. J. D. GUILD. B. IIUDKKK. I fl, W, IlENNEiiorr. (John McDonald. CITY OF UNION. Mayor, Recorder, Marshal, J. W. Kennriit. J. K. Tuttlk. M. IIkritaoe. councilmen. I It' . . ...... J. H. CoRIIIN. A. K. JONE.1. S. A. PUKMEL. J. 8. Elliott. E. Kkuillari). LODGES. NION LODGE, No 39, I. (). O. F MEETS EVERY Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock WM. HA LEY, N. G. '0.8 MlLLV.lt, Secretary. GRANDE ltONDE ENCAMPMENT, No. 11, 1. O. O. K., meets ou the first and third Tuesdays in each month. O. 8. MILLER. C. P. J. B. Thompson, Scribe. GRANDE HONDE VALLEY LODGE. No. 56, A F. k A M insets ou the second mil fourth Saturdays every month. II. W. DAVIS, W. M. B. II. Brown, Secretary- GRANDE RONDE VALLEY CHAPTER, No. 20.. R. A. M meets tint u d third Ttieadava each month, W. T. WRIGHT, M. E. II. 1. Turner Oliver. Secretary. BLUE MOUNTAIN LODGE No. 23 K. OF P, meets every Wednesday evening. G. F. HALL, 0 a Turner Oliver, K. of R. S. I'RKSTON POST, No. 18, O. A. R., MKKT8 EVERY third Saturday iu each month at the Odd Fellows' hall. JOSHUA BRADFORD, V. U. Georok IIkininuek, Adjutant. CHURCHES. The Methodist Eiil copal Church holds services at 11 A. M. ani 7 p. Jl. ol I eacu Sunda; Rev S. M. DRIVER, Pastor. av. Services are held at the Presbyterian Church at 11 A, M. and 7 r. li. of each Sunday. Rev R. II. PARKER, Pastor. SOCIETIES. The Union Literary and Musical Society meets eYery Friday evening at the M. E. Church. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOHN R. CRITES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OKoe two doors south of Poatomoe, Union, Oregon. Collecting and probate practice specialties. J. W. SHELTON. J- H. CARROLL. SHELT0N & CARROLL, .ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office two doors south of I'ostorHsn, Union, Oregon. Special attention riven to all business entrusted to us. . B. KAK1N. J A. EAKIN, Notary Public. R. EAKIN & BRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Union, OrrKoti. t Prompt at'ention juld to collections. B. F. WILSON. Jiotary Public. A. J. IIACKETT. NoUry Public WILSON & HACKETT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Union, Oregon. Ootlaetlooa and all other business tntrutteU to us will racair prompt attention. . , A eotapleu abstract ot the land of Union county In MaVn of tht UNION BJEAX KSTATX ABSOCIA. TIOX. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I. N. CROMWELL, H. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offlte one door south of J. II. latin's store. Union, Oregon. T. McNAUGHTON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Klein, Oregon. All cal's promptly attended to day or night. A. L. DANFORTH, H. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, North Powder, Oregon. DISEASES OF WOMEN A SPECIALTY. Calls attended to at all hours. C. H. DAY, M. D Homoeopathic Physician and Surgeon. All Calls Promptly Attended to. Office adjoining Jonei Bros.' s'ore. Can be found uignts at residence in Koutuwest union. WILLIAM K0ENIG, Architect and Builder, Coti), Oregon. Drafts. Diana and destans for dwellings and bridi es luroisueu ou application. DR. A. M. MUSSER, entist, Graduate of Pennsylvania Deutal College, is at th CENTENNIAL HOTEL And la nrenared ts do sM kinds of dental work imln le.iJy. DR, E. N. NORTH, m DENTIST, Orlice II Street, Union, Or. Teeth extracted without jialn by the successful new method. llflioiiTonsofialPariofs GEORGE BAIRD, Proprietor. Shaving, Hair-Cutting and Shampooing' Id the Lasest Style of the Art. Shop two do rs south of the Centennial hotel. Give me a call. City Meat Market Mill n Street, Union, Oregon. BENSON BROS., Proprietors, KKT.V CONBTANTLr ON HAND Beef, Pork, Yeal, Mutton, Sausage, Hams, Lard, Etc. Montreal Saloon Ed Remillard, Proprietor. If you want a refreshing drink ora good cigar, drop in, Billiard and pool tables for the acemniodatlon of customers. Gornaeopia Saloon. William Wilson, Proprietor. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Always in Stock, First-cla's billiard table. Drop In and be sociable. For Information About the South ADDKE8H WITH HTAMP - Tbe Official Immigration Department -OF- FIFTEEN SOUTHERN STATES, GAEL KOUIHSOX, Bers4rr, lUUtfti, . 0. THE PACIFIC COAST. The Liberals Capture the Salt Lake School Board. A California Ex-Assemblyman Arrested for Forging a Supervisor's Name to a Note. Seattle is to vote on a now charter within a few weeks. The scheme for a now theater at San Diego has tollapsed. The codlfn moth is hard at work in tho Upper Willamette valley. Taroma claims to have found a district where l.L'OO had not been county. The School Board just chosen at Salt Lake stands seven Liberals to three Moimons. A valuable vein of lignite is reported to have been found on Mount Yulapa, in Sonoma county, Cal. Henry Jackson, a civil encineer. who disappeared from Astoria, Or., in April, lias turned up in victoria. Th8 troops are leaving Fort McDowell. near Phcvnix, A. T.,and an Indian school will shortly be established there. A plan for the Portland. Or., Chamber of Commerce has been adop'ed. It will be ot sandstone and eight stones high. The assessment roll at Los Angeles shows the total taxable property of the city, real and personal, to be a trillo over $47,000,000. Keceiveer Dyer, at Salt Lake, has re signed his receivership of tho Mormon church property, and asks the court to appoint his successor as soon as possible. Some Bheep men tried to pasture a large band in the Fort Ellis reservation, Montana, recently, but the lt.ish was doctored with saltpeter ono night, and 400 dead sheep were found next morn ing. Mrs. Brown, representing a Chinese mission at San Francisco, succeeded in rescuing a Chinese girl from a vile house in Chinatown at Sacramento, where she had been taken by a party of Mongolian conspirators. During the year ending June 30. 1890, the shipments of wheat from San Fran cisco to foreign countries amounted to i3,7t)V!' centals, valued at 17,snt(J,007. During 1888 and 1889 the exports were 13,385,095 centals. Two hundred coal miners are on a strike at Gallup, N. M. Thr Btrikors de mand that 2,400 pounds of coal consti tute a ton, instead ot .wiu pounds, as now, and have also asked for a raise of 15 cents on the ton. The volcanoes Fugnac and Illama. near Cook's inlet, have been active, and sev eral severe shocks of earthquake have been felt A largo quantity of ashes and in places larno stonea have fallen in the immediate vicinity. Squatters have gone on the military reservation near Fort AngeleH, Wash., and tho jumping fever pxtends even to l'ort Townsend. The pquatters are reg ularly organized and prepared to contest any claim tho government may institute. General J. G. Martine, through whose persistent efforts the owner of the Sutter Fort property was forced to tlx a price thereon, has sent a tter of thanks to Colonel C. F. Crocker for his donation of $15,000 toward the purchase of the famous old landmark. Billy Hoffmann, while at work on the Newmarket ranch, east of Keno, drank copiously from a stream of water, along tho ditchway of which some wild pars nips were growing. An hour alterward a son of tho ranchman found him almost nsensible on the ground. The water of the same ditch has already killed several of Mr. Newmaker's cattle. Admiral Hatham, on his flagship War- spite, has reached Victoria, and was in terviewed on the Behring sea question. He had no orders to specially go into Behring sea, and believed there was no nppd nf a disnlavof force. His onininna on the right ' the United States to a closed sea were flattering to the most pronounced Canadian sealer. The Butte, Mont.. Miner lias won a victory over its compositors, who struck because the foreman, proof-reader and telegraph editor were not discharged at the bidding of the men. Mr. Cummings went to Butte in tho interest ot the In ternational Typographical Union and settled the matter. Everybody returns to work as if nothing had occurred. Over 200.000 gallons of California wine were cleared for New York n fowdays ago on the ship M. P. Grace. This shipment, added to the previous consigoments by rail and sea, makes the total wine ship ments from California to the East ro far this year nearly 3,000,000 gallons, show ing a very considerable gain over that for tho corresponding period of last year. First Engineer Devero of the steam ship Jennie, while the vessel was at Cook's inlet, Alaska, quarreled with the second engineer, mine unknown. Do veee knocked his opponent senseless, then picked him up and threw him on tho moving machinery, which mangled him fo that death resulted. The dead man is said to have a widowed mother and two sisters at San Francisco, whom he sup ported. A man with a handkerchief over his face and a pistol in his hand robbed the money drawer of tho Coronado ferry of fice the other night. Miss Louiso Harri son is the cashier, and she was easily awed into silence, while tho burglar in his nervousness got but 90 cents from the drawer, but this was done with a watch man within fifteen feet of him. Tho robber said he had had nothing to eat for days, and begged tbe lady's pardon for alarming ber, EASTERN ITEMS. The touisiana Lottery "Will Offer Cleveland a Retainer. The Secretary of the Interior Decides in Favor of the . Railroad and Against Spokane. The San Antonio and Arkansas Rail way lias been placed in the hands of a receiver. Citizens nf Ruffiiln. X. V.. dinqntiallrxl with a population of 350,152, demand a recount. Tllft illtprAtntn ivr will nrnlinlilv n amendtd to permit party rates for tivo or more people. Tho population of Columbia, S. C . in 1880 was lO.HOfl. Tint ri'iisnn innr. tnknn 8UOW8 Hl.tKHJ OttntVil i a in tAiO nn Mm ntioaiiiti f tllR COrnoraLinn tilllldiiiir nm .'iininninirn DtlkfifA rflnnrfa imllintrt n ircnarnf n-m Mir iiiiu vio w rnnii una nt'flw uniAVi. imma w J vis I, iti.a ikio VTVI UV-IUiU UUVII gathered there. Tho Commercial Bulletin's estimate of tho Juno tire losse in the United States and uanatia is $o,lK)0,lXX). A double-deck electric car, capable of carrying 175 persons, is being experi mented with in Pittsburg. A llfliv ol,Utinil inu' l'ltlll will iwi ,rn - w. .., . . ....... ..ill lyii 1 1 . . v- t.lf'nllv fll4 AllutrnliiiTi tinllnf Dt'cinm ...ill ''".' taut. ........ ......WW DIU.II ,,,11. be introduced at the called session of the Virginia .Legislature. ws i.iiivivn an U li-Uil I VIjUI f VU ill Washington in regard to a recent act of ii ii . . . uio Roumanian government demonetis ing legal-tender silver. Tl.o law taximr Ohio railroads $1 per mile has neon declared constitutional, and the companies will have to pay up wie uuck uixes lor two years The will of William L. Gilbert, tho Winsted, Conn., millionaire philanthro pist, gives $400,000 to tho Gilbert Homo A 1. aV . 11 alt- . ior me irienuiessai winsted. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fo railroad otlicialf deny a rumor that they are working with a Minneapolis firm to corner tho Kansas grain market. Secretary Noble announces that his de partment has decided to deliver the lands earned hy the Union Pacific railway, amounting to about 2,000,000 acres. In tho PostolFice Department for tho past fiscal year tho total number of ap pointments wero 23,2(J1, an averago of nearly 2,000 per month or eighty per day. Tho population of Albany, N. Y., by the census is 02,408, an increase of 1,505 since 1880. Troy, N. Y., has a popula tion of 00,587, a gain of 3,840 in ten years. A new gas company in Chicago has made voluntary offer to tho city to fur nish gas at $1 per 1,000 feet for illuminat ing purposes and 50 cents per 1,000 feet for fuel. A bill has passed tho Massachusetts legislature to leisalizo and regulato the lobby. Tho lobbyist will bo obliged to register himself before ho can carry on his trade. A girantic company for tho reclama tion of arid land regions, with a capital of $25,000,000, is being organized in New York. It will bo virtually an American company. A statement from the Postoffice Depart ment shows Cincinnati in sixtli place as to gross receipts and at tho bottom of a lift of twenty-nine cities as to percentage of increase. Tho new croton aqueduct has been opened at New York. It is over thirty three miles in length, cost $25,000,000, and has a capacity of 318,000,000 gallons of water a day. Thus far tbe number of licenses under tho modus vivendi issued by the Cana dian Fisheries Department to American fishermen is largely in excess of tho fig ures for last year. The Louisiana lottery people bare de cided to offer Grovor Cleveland a retainer to plead their cause in the pending pro ceedings to test the constitutionality of the recently enacted law. Tho report of tho engineer officers in charge of tho river and harbor improve ments of California for tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, have been received at tho War Department. Abraham B. Patterson, of Now York, has brought suit against a syndicate for $250,000 lor information furnished in re gard to tho purcha80 of gas works and some other property at Indiunapolis. Tho Interstate Commerce Coinmittco has decided to issue an order making a reduction in grain rates from Iowa, Ne braska, Kansas and Missouri to St. LouiB and tho Mississippi river and to Chicago, Tho Kancas State Tomperanco League is in Hession at Topeka. Resolutions were passed asking Congress to legislato so that States will not lie interfered with in tho enforcement of prohibitory Jaws The city government of Worcester and tbe Electric Light Company have agreed upon a three-years' contract for street ligbtihg at 40 cents per night per light of 2,000-cundlo power. The old rate was 55 cents. Tho report is revived that tho Rock Island and Lake Shore roads, which Ixjth go into Chicago over the Rock Island tracks, have decided to elevate the tracks on stone arches, as in London, and will tn tbe near future commenco operations to that end. FOREIGN NEWS. An Austrian Peer Pronounces for General Disarmament. M. Eiffel Reported to be Utilizing His Tower and a Balloon for Aerial Telegraph Purposes. I-ondon has 00,000 families living in cellars. I)iscourtpsy.tO'Amorican8 in Germany is frequently reported. Comment is heard upon the very pal pable increase of intemperance in Ber lin. It is proposed to join tho Danube and tho Adriatic sea by means of a navigable canal. Owing to the rapid fall of iron and steel in Germany, a trade crisis is antic ipated. Russian consuls are to bo appointed at all tho principal towns on tho sea coast of Africa. A ship canal, twonty-Bix feet doop, is projected from Heyst, on tho North tiea, iu imiguH. The Shah of Persia has a great desire to visit America, and mav como to see us nexi year. . Several factories aro closed in Cabilo nia, and over 10,000 workingtnen aro un employed. The municipal government of Moscow bus determined to have tho city lighted wiin electricity. King Kalakaua is expected in England noxt October to take up his residence in uourneinouih. Tho French Chamber of Deputies has .uvtii .uu.uuu iiimub ior uiu renui oi mo Martinique victims. Shio Fou Cheng will until further no tice ho the representative of China ot tbe courts of Paris, London, Rome and Brus sels. Tho importation of swino from Russia into Upper Hileani has ceaBcd. aa the im porters say that tho business ia no longer reuiuueriiiive. Target, shooting contests in the Turk ish army have developed the fact that not ono Holdier in twenty could hit a man at twenty paces. Ada Rohan's "Rosalind" was a de lightful Biirnriso to the London theater going public, and tho curtain wont up three times in answer to the plaudits. Cardinal Mermilloid. who. as tho Bishop of Lusunne, was recently olo- vatod to tho Sacred College, was received by the Swiss Federal College recently. Thero is groat scarcity of coal in Dub lin as the result of the strike of tho coal porters. Numerous small fiirhta havo occurred, but none of thorn worthy of tho mime ot riot. Berlin court circleB aro greatly dis turbed in consequence of tho action of tho Uowager iMiipress Frederick in in vesting the fortune she inherited from tho Duchess of Callicra in England. Iin .InrHltr nf tlin 4j.ii Irmln In ("llitria owing to tho increased consumption of Indian and (Jeylon teas hy Westorn na tions, is producing disastrous results in tho ouco nourishing port of Foochoiv. A conspicuous Austrian peer. Prince Starhomborg, pronounces boldly for gon eral disarmament. Austria, ho says, is drifting rapidly to financial ruin. But lie tsnrs that wur must come before dis armament. It is proposed to start in London a sys tem which will enable business men to call a messenger, a cab, a fire-engiuo, or a doctor bv simply pressing a button. A central office will supply all tho require ments upon receiving the alarm. The Boulanger banquet at Paris a few days ago was a ludicrous fiasco. Only tllty-threo persons wero present, and of these twenty-two wero women and three children. Not a singlo Boulangist Dep uty attended. Owing to tbe fact that somo of the Ni hilists convicted at Paris are Jews, tho Russian authorities are preparing Htrin gout anti-Homitic measures. The editor of the Novosti has been ordered to loavo St. Petersburg. The remains nf tho Peruvian heroes who lost their lives during tho late war with Chili wore landed at Lima tho other day and deposited in tho Pan theon. The procession was the largest ever seen in Peru. A now tenor has been found in Ger many, at the village of Fischen, named Kartour, imssesHing all the attributes of a great sinner, including tho high 0. He will bo carefully educated by his discov erer, an empresario, The dorks and foremen employed on tbe London docks have combined and threaten to strike for higher wages. They assert that their wages averago Iocs than those of the ordinary dock hands, and this is undoubtedly true. It is reported that a New Foundlond fishery cruiser, while endeavoring to capture a French fishing schooner tired a shot nt hor. Tho Frenchman got away, howover. Throe British war ships have suddenly left Halifax. Abbe Courtial. at Rodoz. Franco, who shot Mme. Ciil.net dead in the street with a gun cane. Is now on trial. Tho priest passionately protests his innoconco and declares that lie simply intended to tap tho young woman on the shoulder. His former associations with the woman point to his guilt. PORTLAND MARKET. WHEAT Local trmllrjjr rcmalm light, bat th export demand la rather better. Quotations ranico from 1.22SI.23 for Valley; 1.20 nomi nal fo-Wall Walla. KI.OUK Quote: Standard, 3.75; oaUlde brands, I3.P0 per barrel. OATS The market Is Arm. Quote: S052c per bushel. M1I.USTUFKS The market Is tteady. Quote: Ilrau, lP(tn: HhorU, $1719: Ground Barley, llfiKitSO: Chop Kecd,25; Middlings, 22.5025.0Q per ton. HAY Tho market ts steady. Quote: 1920 per ton. VKflKTAIlI.ES Tho market Is Arm. Oregon produce ts coming dally to supply tho markets, so that merchants will not havo to send to Cali fornia for It. Trices aro Kradually going down. Quote: California Cabbage, $1.75; O. cgon, $2.50 percental; California CaullUowcr, $1.25 perdoz; OregonOn-cu Teas, So per pound; young Ontona and Lettuce, 16c per dozen bunches; new Cali fornia Oulons, 2c per pound; Oregon StrlnR lloaus, 6c per pound; Catlforula Cucumbers, 15 (20c; Oregon, 30c per dozen; Oregon Carrots, 10 16c per buuch; Oregon Asparagus, 10c per pound; Oregon Beets, 1016c per dozen; Oregon Turnips, $1.60 per sack: California Com, $2 per box; Oragon, 15o per dozen; Cxltforula Toma toes, S"0c$l per box; Callornla Potatoes, $1 1.2ft; Oregon, $11.2S per cental. FKU1TS Thero aro California drapes and Crab Apples Iu tho market. Quote: California Unions, $4.60; faucy Hlclly, $77.50 per box; California Apricots, $1.25 per box; California Titans, $1.25 per box; Oregon Teach Tlums,$t per box: small California Tears, $1.252 per box, according to size: California BartlettTea a. $3 per box; Pineapples, $1 per dozen; liananas, singlo bunches, $3.761; double, $0; California, Apples, $1.762.25; Oregou, $1.S01.75 per box; California Teaches, $l.2ft1.50; Oregon, $11.25 per box; Oregou Cherries, 76K)o per box; Ore gon Currants, 5c per pound; Oregon Kaspbcrrlcs, red. 7c; black, 10c per pound; Oregou Blackber ries, le por pound; California Watermelons, $4 4.60 per dozen: California Cantaloupes, $2.65$ft 3 per dozen: California Grapes, $1.80 por box; California Crab Apples, 75c per box. UUITICU Tho market Is firm. Quoto: Ore gou fancy dairy, 25c: fancy creamery, 27for good to fair, 2022Ho; common, 1517c; choice California, is20e per pound. KOGS Tho market la firm. Quoto: 20c per dozen for Oregon. CHKESK-Quoto: Oregon, ll12o; Califor nia, !10c; Young America, 13Uo per pound NUTS Quote: Walnuts, 13c; TcanuU, llo: Almonds, 17c; Filberts, 13lic; llrazils, 13l4a per pound; Cocoanuts, $1 per dozen. TOULTKY Tho market Is arm. Quoto: Old Chickens, $C6.50; largo spring, $3l; smal . spring, $22.60; old Ducks, $l.fO5; young, $5 6; oldQeese, $5; young, $89 per dozen; Turkeya, 1820c per pound. Tho Merchitndlso Market. Tho dlfforout markets continue firm, with no change In prices. 8UGAHS Quoto: Goldon C, iJio-, oxtra C. r?Ac; dry grauulatcd, 0f; cube crushed and powdered, G-o por pound. I1KAN3 The market Is steady. Quoto: BmalL Whites, $3; Thik, $1; Hayos, $1.60; Butter, 3; I.tmas, $5.50 per cental. DKIKI) FIIUITS-Tho market Is stoidy. Quote: Tlummcr dried Tears, 10llo; undrled aud fac tory Tlunir, rjfic; Teaches, sun-dried, 10c: evaporated Teaches, lfil7c; Smyrna Figs, 14 lCc; California Figs, 9o per pound. CANNED GOODS Tho market ts firm, with tho following quotations: Tablo Fruits, 2Jo; Teaches, $2; Bartlett Tears, $1.90; Tlums, $1.65; Btrawbcrrles, $2.25; Cherries, $2; Blackberries. $1.851.95; Itaspberrles, $2.252.60. TIo Fruit: Asiorted, $3.60 per dozen; Teaches, $1.2f10: Tlums, $1.25; lllackberrlos, $1.65; Tomatoes, $1.10 3.60; Sugar Teas, $1.401.60; String Deans, $1. KICK Quoto: 6J50 per pound. HIDKd Tho market continues the same. Quoto: Dry Hides, selocted prime, 89c, fi less for culls; grceu, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c; under 65 pounds, 3c; Sheep Tclts, short wool. S060c; medium, 6080o; long, 90c$l,2S; Shear lings, 1020c; Tallow, good to choice, 33Jc. WOOI, Market Is unchanged. Quote: East ern Oregon, 1016c; Valley, l618o per pound. NAI1.8 Base quotations: Iron, $3.20: Steel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg. Tim Aleut JVturkut. Tho market Is steady. Quotations: Ileef-Llvo, 33ic: dressed, 7c. Mutton Live, 83c; dressod, 7c. Hogs Live, 5o; dressed; 6c. Veal 67o per pound. Spring Lambs $2 each. 8MOKKD MKATH AND LARD. Tho market Is Arm. Quotations: Eastern. Haras, 12K13Wo; Breakfast Bacon, 12K13iic: Sides, 9i9?ic; Lard, 910Jo per pound. Tho returns iBsuod bv the Londoa Board of Trado show that during tho month of June the imports incroanad 3,000,000 and tho oxports increased 2,840,000. as compared with the enrr. ponding month last yoar. A lnrcrn fmpf nf Ttnvavta la i. fnat.wl with worms, which are destroying ver dure of all kinds with great rapidity. It is estimated that upward ot 800,000 pine- tri'PS hflVH hfnn rninivd wlilln vlnna anl smaller plauts have been swept clean. Arcnrdlnir in a rntui,, nvnoanlail In. the Chamber by the Minister of Finance mere are n,u lamiuos, each with seven children or more, which have r.lillmud nxumntlnn frnin pnrraln tnnui recently voted by the French Parlia ment. Tim French nrncmitlonsi nonlnaf nhnl. - - .......... ..UV era on tho Spanish frontier are to be mucn more stringent man in loSH. All tno iourteeu mountain passes are to be lvnfr'hfil- nnrl If llin nlinlitM ur,Aaa north of tho Ebro posts will bo established in them. Tho French postofilco department im examining a now and original system ior uiBtriuuiing newspapers through the mailB. Every publication is to provide the central postofilco with the list of its subscribers, and every numbor is to be sent to tho subscribers without wrappers or printed address. The completion of n new fast ship. IB tended for the Russian fleet in the iilaek Sea, is announced. She Is a dispute) boat. 140 feet in length and 16 feet beau, and Ib uamed the Adler. On her trial trip she made twentv-slr knots an beer. Three gunboats of equal Bwlftaese are now ueiug uuut.