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THE OREGON SCOUT Is independent in all thing, neu tral in notlrtu; devoted to every ante it believes to be right a journal for the people. THE OREGON SCOUT Hns pa largo ncirrulntiionasnny two papers in this section of tho SUttc combined, and is corre spondingly valuable as an adver tising medium. Horo Will tho Pross tho People's Rights Maintain. VOL. VII. UNION, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SKPTKMRKK IS, 1S90. NO. 13. mm mtym The Oregon Scout .An nii-ientleiit wo kly jourul, s.ue rmj Thiir dv morning liy JONES & CIIAXOEY, Publish rs and Proprietor. Jl K toe, Kdltor. It. II M'KV, Foreman. Itiitt-H of Siilitci'lptlon. fine copy one year, .... One c py s i lu. nubs, .... One oopy ihree, mouths, .... Invarliilily Cimli In Ailvaixc. S1.50 100 .75 7 by thanve nub'criptinnt are not paid tilt emt oj year, two iwiinrs will be cminjeti. Hates of advertisi 'g made known on application. 4dT Correspondence from all y.rts ut the country solicited. AddrvMa'l communl -u'ioja to the Ob kdon Seoul, Union. Oregon, OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. UNITKD 8TATK8. l'lmxlDKNT-lietljamlu Harrison of Indiana. Hkckktaiiy ok HTATK-James O. Ilia lie of Maine. Skcrktahy ur Tint ThiaiUkv William Wlndom of Miunso'a. Skchetakv op War BedfleM Proctor of Vermort. Hkckktaiiy op thk Navy- llenjtmla K. Tiacy of Jwew York. Hecrktakv op thk Istkkiok- Jolin W N.ble of MI'iiourL l'llXTMAHTKK-CkNKIlAL-John Waiaaiuk.tr of Penn eylvnla. Attohnrv OkNERAI.-W. 11. II. Miller of Indiana. Hkchktary of Aoitlt'ULTURK-Jeiem'ah Husk if W.flconstn. BTATK OF OltKOiiN. Senators, - - - ) J, N. Holpii. Io 'gres'man, - II.mikk IIkiimank. Governor, - - - Svlvkmtkk I'knno er. Hecretaiy of B ate, - UmihukW Mc1Iriik. Htite Treasurer, ... (i. y Wp.mi. fiuperlntendeut of Public Instruction. K. II. McKlkuv. 8tat 1'r.nter, Fksk 0. IIakkr. ( II. K TKAIIA. ! W: P. I,o.i. lW. W. TlIAYKH. -Supreme Judges, SIXTH JUDICIAL MHTKIUT. Clrc it Juices, i'lngecutlnr Attorney ( M. I). Tliffoi 1 Jamin A. Kkk. M. I). rLIFPORD - J. UHtNU. COUNTY OF UNION. flute Senators, Representatives, Judge Slicrilf, Oierk, Treasurer, Hchcol SupeilnteMlerit, Surveyor, - : AiweHior, Coroner, Commissioners, )J. W. NoRVAL. I J. II. ItALKV. iRllAKIKS (toOliMII (III. J J. L. ItOK. (). P. 0(M)HAI.t.. A. N. Hamilton. A. T. Nkii.l. K. C. IIRAINARI). J. L. Uaktkh. . J. W. KlMIIRKIX. J. I). (tllll.I), II. HUHKKH. I O, W. llK.N.NKIIO. F. Jllll.N .M('l)O.NAI.l), CITY OF UNION. Ma) or, ItecurJi r, A,arsbal, J W. Kf.nnp.iiy. J. K. TlITTLK. M. Hkiiitaiie. lor.M'lLMKK. It. F. WlLMIN. J. II. CoHHIN. J. 8. F.LLIOTT. A. K. June. K. 1U.MII.I.AKI). 8. A. l'l'KNKL. LODGES. S LOIM1K, No 33, I. O. O. F , MKKT8 KVERY Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock WM. ItALKY, N. G. C 8 MlLLKR, fieTetury. GKANDK IIONDK FNOAMI'MKNT. No. 11. I. O. O. F., luet ou the flist ami third Tue-d.ys in each month. C. 8. Mil, lit it. C. P J. II. TaoMrhON, 8cr.be. GRANDF. KONDK VALLKY I." I)(1K. No. 56, A V. k A M uie8i on tho secoml .in I fourth naturdays eery mo th. K, W DAVIS, W M 11 II. Hrown, Secretary GRANDK ROVDK VALLKY CIIAPTKR, No. 20.. It. A M.. meets firat a d third Tuuwlms each month, W. T. WKKillT, M. K. II. P. Turner Oi.ivku. Secretary. BLUK MOUVTAIN LODGE No. 23 K OF P, me Jta every Wednesday evenlnir. G. F. HALL, U C Tl'RNBR Ouvt.lt, K. of R. & 8. FRK8T03. P8T, No. 18. O. A. It., MKKT8 KVKRY third Saturday lu eacn month ai the Odd Felloas hall, JOSHUA HRADFOltD, P. O. Gkoruk Hr.lNlNOkR, Adjutant, CHURCHES. The Method! t Kid copal Church holds services at 11 A M, au t 7 P. M, of eacu Sunday. Rev, 8. M. DRIVER, Paator. Services are held at the Presbj terlan Church at 11 A, M and 7 P. M. of each Suni'ay. Kev. It, II, PARKER, Pastor. SOCIETIES. The Union Literary and Musical Socltty meets every Friday tveniog at the M. E. Church. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. JOHN R. CRITES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ottl x two doom south of PostorUc. Union. Orettou. CollectlnB an 1 probate practice spec laities. J W.8IIKLTON. J. M. CARROLL. SHELT0N & CARROLL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office two doors south of Postofflce. Union, Oregon. flpecial a'.tentlon tfveu to all bu lines entrusted to us. R, KAK1N. J- A. KAKIN, NoUry Public. R. EAKIN & BR0., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Union, Ort-Kon. Prompt at'ention paid to oollnctlons. II. Y. WILSON. Notary l"ubUc. A. J. HACKKTT. NoUry Publlt WILSON & HACKETT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Union, Oregon. Oollactlona and all other biulueas eotruted to us will i:lZS!iii?t th. Uod of Union count, In MaWi" of tb. UNION REAL K8TATK ABHOCIA TION. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, O Jce one doir south of J II. Eat n's store. Union, Orp;on. T. McNAUGHTON, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, Kl'ln, Oreiron. All cal s promptly a'trnded to day or n'liht. A. L. DANFORTH, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON, North I'ouilrr, OrKon. DISEASES OF WOMEN A SPECIALTY. Ca'ls attended to at a! I hours. C. H. DAY, M. D., Homceopatbic Physician and Surgeon. All Cull 1'romiitly Atteinlnl to. firlice adiolnlnir Jores llros ' sore. Can be found nights at residence in Southet Union. WILLIAM KOENIG, Architect and Builder, Cove, Oregon. Drafts, plans an! d-slk'ns for dwellings and bridires furnished on ap.lcatiou. DR. A. M. MUSSER, Dentist, Graduate of Pennsylvania Dental College, is at the CENTENNIAL HOTEL And Is nrenared t do all kinds of dental work tialn les.ly. DR. E. N. NORTH, DENTIST, Olllco K Strtt Union, Or. Ttt'th extracted without itain bv the succeflful neW methwt UnionTonsorialParioFs GEORGE BAIRD, Proprietor. Shaving, Hair-Cutting and Shampooing in the Lasest Style of the Art. Shontwodo rs south of the Centennial hotel. Give me a call. City Meat Market 31 ii i ii Strt-ct, Union, Oreenn. BENSON BROS., Proprietors, KEKP CONNTANTLV ON HAND Beef, Pork, Yeal, Mutton, Sausage, Hams, Lard, Etc. Montreal Saloon Ed Remillard, Proprietor. If you want a ri fres ing diluk or a good cigar, drop In, IVHurd and ikxiI tables for tbe accommodation of cutomers. Gornueopia : Saloon. William Wilson, Proprietor. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Always in Stock. Fint-cla a billiard table. Drop In and be sociable. For Information About tbe South -ADDRK8M WITH BTAMP. The OOclal Immigration Department -OK- -FIFTEEN SOUTHERN STATES. CARL KOUINSON. Secretary, tUleifn, V, O. THE PACIFIC COAST. A Young Woman Swindles a SjK) kane Halls Bank. Condensed News From All Parts of the Country West of the Rocky Mountains. Mnlio'a M)iHiIntign in 84,22.t all hi create of 51,319 in ton years. Trictan Burden, Past Grand Command er of the Kiiichts Templar of Calif6rnia, is dead. The total valuation of the property of San Joge, Cal., is 10,127 ,4o0,nn increase of $045,757. No. V fhaft of the Wellington mine at Nanaimo, it. C, is on tire, and will have to lx tlootled. The Hteamer Wellington ran into the sand on the shore of Coronado bench, but no damage is thought to have been sustained. The gram! jury in Santa Fe, N. M., has found indictments against sixteen citizens for the murder of Faustih Ortiz in March last. In accordance with an act of 188! Gov ernor Prince of New Mexico has issued a proclamation calling a constitutional convention Octolwr 7. The works at Kelly in the Magdalena mining district, N. M., were fired bv an incendiary, and all hopes of saving them have been abandoned. H. H. Freeman of Spokane Falls and Drs. J. K. Secord and J. S. Potts of San Jose have been appointed special medi cal examiners in the pension service. Joseph Carreros, the Mexican on trial for the murder of another Mexican named Soto at Iudio on the desert alxnit a month ago, was acquitted by a jury at San Diego on the ground of self-defense. The Marine Firemen's Association of San Francisco has received a letter from Nanaimo, asking it to instruct its mem bers not to fire with Wellington coal. The association will probably issue the orders. TheCocopah Indians have sent a dele gation to Governor Torres of Ix)wer Cal ifornia to protest against the encroach ment of Mexican and American miners upon their placer mines and agricultural domain. The heirs of the estate of Matthew A. Williams, who was killed by the acci dent at the Webster-street bridge, Oak land, on Decoration day, have compro mised with the Southern' Pacific company for i 5,000. Admiral Brown of the Charleston was dined by the Seattle Chamber of Com merce the other evening. The Admiral in a speech praised the work begun by ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney and continued by Secretary Tracy. The bail of Frank Larue, who was lioxing with Mcltride at the Golden Gato Athletic Club. San Francisco, when Mcltride died, has been reduced from $10,000 to $5,000. The bond was. origi nally $U.),000. Larue was tried last week, and the jury did not agree. Fifteen Chinamenwho were refused landing at San Francisco, have arrived at Ottawa. They say they will work their wav across the Sound into Wash ington and then go south to San Fran cisco, their original destination. Tho last month a large nuinler of Chincno have arrived at Victoria, from whence they lay plans for smuggling themselves into the United States. The Exchange National bank of Spo kane Falls has been swindled out of $2, 475 by a handsome young woman giving the name of Hosa Ganth. She was iden tified by Mrs. A. C. Ed wards, wife of a prominent citizen of Spokane Falls, into whose confidence she had ingratiated herself. The swindle was accomplished bv means of a draft raised from $25 to $2,500. It is now definitely known that I). C. Jordan, the forger who is wanted in Ar kansas for securing several thousand dol-' lars on fraudulent drafts, ami who was traced to Seattle, has managed to make good his escape. The Arkansas author ities are after him, and a detective is on tiiH wav to Seattle in search of the fugi tive. Jordan learned of this evidently, for ho has again mysteriously disat peared. The Puget Sound and Alaska Steam ship Company's new steamer City of Se attle, which wraa to have left Philadelphia forTacoma earlv in August, has not yet started. Captain 1). B. Johnson, the general manager of the company, who is now in Philadelphia, will not let the contract for the new steamer City of Ta conia until the City of Seattle is thor oughly tested and her sea-going qualities fully ascertained. If she proves all right, the contract for the City of Tacoma will h let to tho same company. Improvements, especially of railroad construction, in Colorado are greatly re tarded through tho inability of tho com panies to secure labor. The Denver and Kio Grande are the rentest euirorerH. TUev have at present under construction the 'Grand Junction branch, 05 inilcH long; tho Kio Grande Southern, 185 miles; tho Viliagecove branch, 00 inileH; tho great tunnei through tho Tennesseo pass, besides a very great amount of broad-gauging, all of which is almost ut a standstill on this account. Theofllciuls of tho road Hay they can give employ inent to 5,000 to 8,000 men on these now wnrkH at t'l tcr duv. and the work is bo located n,to admit of working all win-J tor. Several ditch companies ana wneiier corporations are equally if not grater auffcrera. I EASTERN ITEMS. The Tunnel Under the St. Clair River About Completed. An Immigrant on His Arrival at New York Confesses to a Murder in Denmark. Texas will-call In her frontier defense'. Iwnds. . , Silver is the mot active feature of Wall-street speculation. It is said that Edison has perfected a noiseless electric motor. Cape May proposes henceforth to be a winter as well as a summer resort. It is said that several more Baltimore breweries will be bought up by English capitalists. The Chicago gas trust is reported to have cleared over $l,0iX),0D0 in the last six months. Counterfeit silver dollars have been discovered in the vaults of the sub-treasury at Philadelphia. Much alarm is felt at the spread of diphtheria in the min:n(j towns of Lu zerne county, Pennsylvania. The Atlanta Constitution thinks that more than two-thirds of the next Geor gia" Legislature will In? farmers. Chief-Justice Morton of the Massa chusetts Supreme Court has tendered his resignation prompted by failing health. James Gordon Bennett has leased for $00,000 a year a lot at Broadway and Thirty-fiftii street for a new Herald of fice. Property along the Hudson river for residential purposes is held at figures to sell higher than have prevailed for sev eral years. A large butter and cheese firm at Mon treal has been seized for importing the best American butter and entering it as an inferior article. The New York health authorities fear that there iH a slight return of la grippe in that city, and it is said Southern vis itors are especially susceptible to it. In 1880 there were nineteen out of thirty-eight States each with a popula tion of less than a million. There are now only seventeeirout of forty-four. Under the new law men who have en listed in the regular army of the United States and served one year may obtain their discharge by tho payment of $120. Miss Francis E. Willard says there iH a movement on foot looking to a union for work of the Women's Christian Tem perance Union and the Salvation Army. White caps are threatening the "stay-1 out-lates" at Arlington, N. J., with con dign punishment. Some have already loon pelted with rocks while returning home late. The elevated railways in Brooklyn are all resisting taxation. ome ot tneiroi ficers say openly that the roads should not bo taxed until they are on a paying basis; others complain of overassess ment. Shing Woon, the Chinese Consul at New York, says ho Was requested by the Chinese Minister at Washington to no tify the public that China had not agreed to 'Corea's plan to negotiate a loan of $1, 500.000. The partial failuro of the North Da kata wheat crop is said to threaten thou sands of farmers with bankruptcy. Settlers will have to be aided with food during the next twelve months and sup plied with seed in the spring. The man who is believed to lo the chief conspirator in the Minneapolis census frauds is in Canada, and he pro jwes to resist extradition on tho ground that his oflense was not il common for gery, but rather a jolitical crime. A convention of Governors of all the cotton States has been called to meet at Atlanta. The convention will consider tho matter of direct trade with Liver pool; also questions relating to weight", freights una the handling of cotton. All the brick in New York have Iwen used. Six million bricks are daily used in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, and brickmakers along the Hudson and about Philadelphia have cut ofl" the sup ply. Tho union workmen of the three cities Ixiycotted tho Hudson-river man agers, and this is the result. One hun dred thousand men will Ixj compelled to quit work. Alexander Philipsen, who arrived at New York with his wjfo and two chil dren in the steerage of the Hamburg steamsliii) Normandie, has confessed to the murder of the man whose lxly was discovered in a barrel of lime that wa brought to thin country on a steamship from Denmark and seized for dutioH by tho customs ofllcials a few mouths ago. There are some very much disgusetd real-estate investors In Chicago. There nre those who bought land near Jackson park at fancy prices, thinking it settled that tho World'H Fair would bo located there. Some of thorn paid $300 to $400 per front toot lor property tnat nve months ago would'not have brought one sixth of that-, And unless the fair should after all go to Jackson park, not a few of them will bo ruined. A scheme iH to build a railway east ward from Quebec Homo eighty miles to St. CharleH bay on the Labrador Coast, from which point largo steamers are expected to make tho voyage to Mllford haven, Wales, in three and a half days, is pro jected in Canada, lty this route it is expected that passengers and perishable freight can bo carried from Chicago to London inside of seven days. The pro visional directory is composed of wealthy men. FOREIGN NEWS. Prince Bismarck Muzzles the Ger man Press by a Threat. The Provincial Treasurer of Soochow, China, llccomcs a Great Moral Reformer of the Drama. Till RllMiintl itiinnrf flflti mi uiitmr lind lieon increased. The British have assumed lmssossioiV' of the Shire highlands. Several steamers have taken military supplies up the Danube to Servia. Several carthuuake shocks have re cently been felt in the Danube valley. A New York dentist has the pleasure of operating upon the Czar of Russia. Prince Bismarck is closely watched, so that he is unable to talk with newspaper men. There is said to 1k an alarming increase in the death rate at Naples the last few months. Englishmen reioice that the proposed restoration of Westminster has been postponed. Experiments with steam life-boats have recenty been made at Liverpool and Havre. , Fires have swept the Soukaras forest in Algiers. Two villages were destroyed by the conflagration. Surgeons in the French army bv a re cent military order have loon 'forbidden to practice hypnotism. Army men, who profess to know all about ft. assert that the much-talked-of smokeless powder is not a success. Of late there has lwen an increase of the bitter feeling in Paris toward Ger mans, especially in public places. And now comes news of a phosphate trust headed by the Duke of Westmin ster and others of the English nobility. Resident Hebrews in London are to build in that citv the largest and finest svnagogue in tiie world, to cost 100, 000. Great Britain intends to use a part of the revenue to be derived from the new duty on spirits to promote technical ed ucation. The returns from the excise revenue in England are this year so good that Mr. Gosc.hen will have a very large sur plus to devote to free education. The Corn Millers' Association of Leeds, England, has advanced the price of flour Is Od per sack. This makes au advance of 4s (d within a mouth. Hei r Krupp, the great gun manufact urer, has a plan for connecting tho city of Vienna with the DuiiuIhs by canal. The Austrian government is considering it. Emperor William is not, it is reported, at all generous in the matter of "vails," as gratuities left by royal personages are called. Tho English flunkies at tho pal ace are disgused with him. Count Villanova, accompanied by a guide and porters, recently startetl to make the ascent of Mount Blanc. Noth ing has been heard of the party since, and it is feared that all have perished. Reports from twenty-five centers of Herniation in County Donegal, Ireland, show that the otato blight is gravest in congested districts like Falcarragh and Gwodore, where the crop is a total fail ure. It is stated that the Sultan has agreed in principle to a number of reforms in Armenia involving communal autonomy and the admission of Ar'nenians to a share in the administration of the vil ayets. A dispatch from Rome says that a big Socialistic intricacy has lx'en ujiearthed in that city. A large number of Iwinb shells were found in the houses of work inginen belonging to secret societies, to Ixj used in case of an outbreak. The French government has accepted the Italian government's proposal for a convention to establish au international maritime service on tho Red sea. The object is the suppression of cholera. England's adhesion is doubtful. Terrible stories of distress are reported from Tokay, where the lire is not yet en tirely extinguished. Men, women and children are constantly running about the desolated streets wringing their hands and calling ou heaven for help. A iKjinbsholl was thrown into tho of fice of tho Chief of Police at Trieste, and exploded, severely wounding the Secre tary. It is BupiHiHcd to have boon tho work of Italian Republicans, who advo cate the annexation of Trieste to Italy. Chinese supremacy in the tea trade bids fair to find it rival in a few years in Asiatic Russia. Already largo shipments from the tea plantations in Russian Cen tral Asia are made to England annually, and a considerable proortion of the product finds its way to the United States. The Bismarck monument fund, which lu lutlnir rnllftf ili.uiilti. ilm jtY.fMiii.i. collor's prejudice against monuments of iiimsoii, now amounts io some f ioo.uuu, Tho members of tho rending room of tho Society of German Students in Prague recently resolved to subscribe $250 to tho fund, but were prevented by.the Chief .of . .Police, who threatened to dissolve their organization in case the contribu tion should bo made. PORTLAND jVl ARKET. Wiikat Tho export demand is goodt and trading fairly active. Receipts are increasing and otlerings more liberal. Shippers quote : Valley, $1.2"'-$ ; Walla Walla, nominallv, ; l.'.'O. Funt Quote": Standard, $3.00; Walla Walla, $:t.W!tf:t.80 per barrel. Oats Quote: 47,Sj(i?rO per bushel. Mii.i.sti'kks Tho market is firm. Quote: Jtrnn, $1719; Shorts. $23(H25; Ground Rarley, $32.50; Chop Feed, $25; Middlings. $25 per ton. H.vv rho market is firm, Quote; $10(Ti 17 per ton, " VKHKTAiit.Es The market Is llriri Quote: Cabbage, $1.75ci2 per cental; 1 eas, 3e per pound ; Onions and Lettuce, I5c per doten bunches) California. Onions. 2?.,'.'5c ; Oregon, 'IK? per pound ; String Beans, .1c per pound (JtU'!inilerflk 10c per dozen; Carrots, 10(!tlfc per hunch; Asparagus, 10c per pound ; Beets, $1.50 per sack; Turnips, $1.25 jut sack ; Com, 10c per dozen ; California. Tomatoes, $11.25 per box; Potatoes. 75e(jf $1 per cental ; Sweet Potatoes, 4 5c per pound. 1 it u its Quote: Tahiti Oranges, $4.25 per 1h)x; California Lemons, $5 per box; lancv Sicily, $0 10 per case ; Peach and Bradshaw Plums, 7580c per lxx; Mad eline Pears, 00c($l ; Oregon Bartletts, $1.25(71 1.50 per lxx; Pineapples, $3.50 4 per dozen ; Bananas, $3.75 jer bunch ; double, $0; Oregon Astrachan Apples. 75c(S$l ; Gravenstein, $11.15 per Iwx; Ciawford Peaciies, $1251.40; other va rieties, $1.15dJ1.25 per box; Nectarines, $1.50(r?l.75 per box; Black-berries, nor pound, $UK)(ur2 per 24-pound crate; California Watermelons, $2.5003 per dozen; Cantaloupes, $1.50(f2 per dozen; Crabapples, $1 per lox. Receipts ther past week were 2,010 boxes and 8 car ioifds. Ciikksk Quote: Oregon, lll2)o; California, Uijnj)10c; Young America, 14? "?15e per pound. Buttkk Tho market is firm. Quote r Oregon fancy dairy, ;ti)c; fancy creamery.. 32'i.c; good to fair, 25(e27le; common, 20otj22,1!e; choice California, 28c per pound. Poumiv The market Is firm. Quotor Old Chickens, $5; largo Spring, $3 (i4; small Spring, $2(32.50; old Ducks, $4.50($5; young, $5(i; old Geeso, $5; young, $80 per dozen; Turkeys, 15e per pound. Etifis The market is firm. Quote r 25c per dozen for Oregon. V.I-ru !..... 1').. . I. ,.,.... green, lie; Almonds, 17c; Filberts, 13 14c; Brazils, 1314c per pound ; Cocoa nuts, $1 per dozen. 1 Ionkv Fancy White, 1-pound car toons, 13c. Potatoes Quote : 7585c por cental. Nau.s Base quotations: Iron, $3.20; Steo', $3..'; Wire, $3.0J pr keg. The Mnrcliniiillaii Market. Si'OAits The market iB firm. Quotes Golden 0, 4e ; extra C, 5)c ; dry granu lated, Oc; cuIhi crushed and powdered, 0)uc per pound. ttc.v.Ns Tho market is firm. Quote: Small Whites, $3.25; Pink, $4; Bayos, $4.50; Iutter,$3; Limits, $5.50 percental. Dim:i) Fiturrs The market is steady. Quote: Pluminer dried Pears, 10lle; undriod and factory Plums, 50e; Peaches, sun-dried, lOiijc; evaporated Peaches, 10rt17e; Smyrna Figs, 14 10c; California Figs, Ho per pound. Cannkd Goods Market is firm. Quote : Table fruits, $2.25, 2s; Peaches, $2.5.); Bartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums, $1.05; Stn.wberries, $2.25; Cherries, $2; Black berries, $1.85(31.05; RasplHJrries, $2.25(9 2.50. Pie fruit: Assorted, $3.50 per dozen; Peaches, $1.251.30; Plums, $1.25; Black Iwrries, $1.05; Tomatoes, $1.10(33.50; Sugar Peas, $1.401.00; String Beans, $1. Hidks Tho market is weak. Quota tions: Dry Hides, selected prime, 8( He, )jc less for culls; green, selected, over 55 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c; Sheep Pelts, short wool, 3050e; me dium, 00(380c; long, t)0c$1.25: shear lings, 10020c Tallow, good to choice, 3 (a3'..e. Receipts the past week were 48,275 pounds. Wool Tho market Is dull. Quota tions: Eastern Oregon, 1010e; Vulley, 1018cper pound. Receipts the post week were 100,745 ixjunds. Pioki.ks Quote: 85c 3s; 00c 5s. Salt Quota: Liverpool, $17.50, $18.50, $10.50; stock, $ll12 per ton ia carload lots. Coai, Oil Quote : $2.20 per case. Riok Quote : Oc per jound. The Meat Murket. Tho meat market is firm. Quote: Beef Live, 8Vj3Jc; dressed, 7c. Mutton Live, 33,c: dressed, 7c Hogs Live, 55c; dressed, 7c. Veal 58c por pound. Spring Lambs f2 each. BMOKKI) MEATS AND LAUD. Tho market is firm. Quotations: East ern Hams, 1314o; Breakfast Ba con, 1314o; Sides, 10Ujjc; Lard, 10 lie per pound. Baggagemen employed on the South ern Pacific whose train route ends at. Oakland want a rule now in force, re quiring them to accompany all bagagtr across on tho steamer to San Francisco, revoked. Tho matter will bo laid befora tho otllclals through the grlovanco com- -mittee of trainmen. A dam will be built across tho North. Uiiijxnia at Winchester to cost $20,000. The river will furnish power to drive thu spindles and other machinery of tho biff woolen factory und other manufactories about to bo erected there. Thia manu facturing plant will furnish employment for hundreds of bunds, and will be k grand affair, Hon. Charles Fitzpatrlck, who is about to bo sworn in as a member of tho Que bee Cabinet, is believed to bo tiio tint ' Irish Land Lcuguer to become u Minis ter of tho Crown in tho Quooii'b domia ions. .The UM sito offered to tho Vorld' 'Fair'. directory is in the northern tart eC the city, and borders on Lake Mtchipuu It is five and a half miles from tho ce terof the city.