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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
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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.
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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.
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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.