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B.'Chancey, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. Nevada Piutes Attacked With La Grippe. ALASKAN EXPLORERS SAFE. Stook of All Kinds in New Mexico Has Braved tho Severe Winter, and is in Fair Condition. The Umatilla Indian lands sold for about $200,000. More lats nro runnintr on Puget Bound than there in paying business for. Gold was discovered n few days ago on Hangman creek, only three miles from Spokane. lioiso City, Idaho, has voted $100,000 in lwnds to build u system of sewerage nml a City Hall. A few shrimps have this season made their appearance in Baker's Hay, a very unusual occurrence. Port Angeles has extended her city limits, and is now eight miles long by three and a half wido. Tho body of Louis Munson, late editor of the Banning Herald, was cremated at Ilosodalo cemetery at Los Angeles. Tho Jacarrillos in Now Moxico are tak ing to tho government plan of allotting to tho Indians their lands in severalty. Stock of all kinds in New Moxico has braved the severe winter excellently, nnd will go into the spring in fair condi tion. Eureka, Cal., is to extend tho city limits to lticludo the outlying districts, which contain about one-third of tho population of tho placo. Tho Piutes of Mason and Smith Val leys, Nov., aro attacked by la grippe, and there is scarcoly a a buck, squaw or pap pooso that is not down with it. An Indian known aB Joo committed suicide by eating wild parsnip at Reno. Tho cause of his shullling oir was that a white man had interfered with his do mestic relations. It is stated at Taconia upon authentic Information that tho Great Northern railroad has decided to cross tho Cascade Mountains through Natchez Puss in building to tho Coast. Tho late warm weather has melted tho enow and caused a largo rise in tho Mo kclumno river, which threatens to over flow grain lands along the rivor bottouiB. No heavy damage is feared. A deposit of $100,000 has boon mudo in Victoria, I). O., as tho first payment of a total sum of $1,500,000 offered for the purchaso of tho Silver King mino on Load Mountain, West Kootenai. Monterey has originated a movement toprosontthocruisor Monterey with a sil ver Bcrvico as a token of tho appreciation of tho great honor conferred upon tho town in tho naming of the cruiser. The official count of tho following cities of tho Pacific Coast baa just been completed, and is now mado public for tho first time: Albany, Or., 3.079: Pre ..4 A rn t Tito. Vtr i in , oott, A. 1., 1,751); fapokano, Wash., 10,- ; 22. Acting Secretary Willard of tho Los Angolos Chamber of Commorco reports that 100,000 persons viBited tho orange exhibition in Chicago. Tho gross re ceipts wcro $12,600, but the expenses Lou been largo. ar-1 Attornoy John Trumbull has been Tested at Port Townsand on a charge of aiding and abetting tho entering of Chi nese into tho "United States by procuring mid Belling at Victoria certificates of en try. Thoy brought $30 to $00. Tho Alaskan explorers, Wells and Iiarty, are Bafo. They havo arrived at rt TownsiJiid from Sitka on tho steam Bhip Moxico. Their experiences havo been of a thrilling character, and will appear in tho Now York journal which tent the party out. Tho Northern Pacific railroad is to bo improved between Paso and Taconia to tho amount of nearly a million dollars. The road from Stampede Pass to tho Columbia river will bo put in such a nhnpo as to permit of u safe running time of forty-ltvo to fifty miles per hour. The estate left by Governor Waterman of California is valued at $800,000, and tho heirs named aro: Mrs. James (i. "Waterman, his wife; Mary P. Race of Is'ow York; Helen J. Waterman, Waldo Waterman and Annie C Waterman, his children. Tho witnesses to tho signature are Holon .1. Waterman, Elmer E. Row ell and C. W. C. Rowell. Tho Luinmi Indians, hearing of Presi dent Harrison'H visit to the Sound, 1 bought ho intended to visit Whatcom, and went to that town with the intention of showing him how the noble red men could paddle their own canoe. They were doeplydisappolnted when thev din covered tliiit the great American father would not come to Whatcom. Tho Rcrsagliori Italian military com pany at Sacramento volunteered to turn out to do escort duty in honor of Presi dent Harrison. General T. W. Shoehun, marshal of the day, told them their nervlces would be acceptable, but it would lo expected that they should carry no flag but tho Star-spangled Banner. "The Captain appealed to Mayor Coinstock nnd tho Executive Committee, who sup ported Sheehan. The Italians then re fused to go out. Tho Supremo Court of Idaho bus ren dered a decision that the act of the Leg islature creating the counties of Alia and Lincoln out of the old counties of Altu ran and Logan is unconstitutional and void. Tho opinion is by Justices Huston and Morgan, Chief-Justice Sullivan dis fcnting. This restores tho old counties of Alturas and Logan to life again, and tho Logan officials in Boise City to hear tho decision are jubilant. Dispatches from Bellovuo, the county seat of Logan, ay the town U wild with joy over the PERSONAL MENTION. Horace Chilton la the Flnt Native-Horn Texan United State Senator. Jerry Simpson, the Kansas Congress man, owns a farm of COO acres, and has eighty acres in wheat. Joseph Pulitzer has a fad. It is to commence whatever he has to do of im portance on the 10th day of tho month Baron Rothschild, who recently lost $40,000,000 in speculation, told a friend that his opinion of himself could not bo put into words. Mrs. Nathaniel Williams of Crockett, Tenn., is tho mother of twelve children, and lias twenty great great grancliiluren. She is 04 years of age. Horaco Chilton, whom Governor Hogg has appointed United States Senator in Mr. Reagan's place, is tho first native Texan to hold that office. General Hawloy of Connecticut is to be orator and Mies Louiso Imogen Guiney poetess on the occasion of tho Sherman memorial exercises in iJoston juno -i. Christopher P. Cranch, tho Boston poet, has written his biography for the , benefit of his children and grandchil- dren, which doubtless some day may bo , published in book form. I Ward McAllister, who met a AVaterloo I in attempting to write a book about the , doings of tho 400, is now drumming tho j salo of liquors, and his present literary i efforts are expended in pulling certain j brands of wines. ; The young King Alexander of Servia ' will, if all goes well, travel considerably LIUB aillllllll'I UUU VIDIl. CIIU VUUUIIB UUUIIB of Europe, but ho will need a Bhrewd, conservative and refined gentleman as It.!.. 1 : ... companion ana guardian. Hon. John Lathrop a member of tho Massachusetts Supremo Court, has laid aside tho gown for a time, and is making a tour of tho Southern battlefields, upon which ho fought as a Captain of tho Thirty-fifth Massachusetts. The lato Prince Jeromo Bonaparte for vnriniiH masons nlwavH rnfused tn lv nrn- scnted to ex-Premier Crispi of Italy. By a straiigo decree of fate Crispi was one of tho two witnesses to tho official an nouncement of tho Prince's death. Justice L. Q. C. Lamar has aged per ceptibly in tho last few years, and is now a thin, stoop-shouldered" man, with flesh Icbs checks, to which tho skin hangs in folds; long, thin gray hair, claw-liko hands and a general air of feebleness. General Bragg tolls a good story of his first meeting with Oliver P. Morton, the great war Governor. " I've heard a great deal of you, sir," Baid Bragg. " Yes," said Morton; "what's tho use of bciig a feller unless you're a hell of a feller?" Uev. Francis Bellamy, a brother of " Looking Backward " Bellamy, has re signed bis Boston pastorate to take an editorial position upon tho Youth' Com panion. He informed his congregation that ho would give place to a " freEher man." M. Lambert, who was married into the Rothschild family a few years ago, is to iliecomo tho head of tho Paris house of that famous firm upon the death of Huron Alphonso do Rothschild. M. Lamlort is now known as Albert de Rothschild. A fund to provide for General Banks in ltis old ago will be collected in Massa chusetts, tho movement having Iwen started by Sonators Hoar and Dawes and having tho support of two Democratic members of Congress, Messrs. O'Noil and Andrew. Rov. Philip S. Moxom informs tho Ministerial Union of Boston that "tho pulpit has been superseded by nothing," nnd that "thero aro clergvmeit living to day who havo a wider and greater inflti enco on the conduct of men than any nowspaper in tho world." Rev. Father Sherman, now at St. wionun it iiiiui-iaiiiixi ne IB u uvi llothil,K to do with editing any future Louis, wishes it understood he is to have biographical matter about his father, tho great General, but that his brother, Te cuinseh.will have charge of all Sherman publications prepared for the public. Mrs. James A. Garfield is President of tho Cleveland auxiliary of tho Amer ican McAU Association, and made tho address of welcome at the recent na tional gathering. Of the work she said : "All denominations of Christians, all good people, find bore a field for united effort, and to each has come a great good in tho lesson of tolerance and loving kindness," CRIME AND CRIMINALS. An Kpltomti of 111 ii IIi'IiiIoiidkIiiI Uolnci of Urn Wlrktul. Two members of a gang of green-goods men havo been captured at Chicago. A negro girl has been sentenced at Rome, Ga., to ninety-nine years' service in tho convict camp'for arson. Edward M Grant, Western agent of the carriage-manufacturing firm of B. Manvillo it Co. of Now Haven, Conn., is under arrest for swindling tho linn out of about $20,000. The knifo used to kill the old woman, Carrie Brown, at New York has been identified as ono stolen by " French No, 1," now in arrest, while 'imprisoned in tho Queen's county jail. Mine. Achet, the young widow who was tried tit Moulins, France, for tho murder of it notary named 1 aplne, has liven found guilty and sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. Cattle thieves are at work around Ju mul in Southern California. The other night they killed eight steers, stripped oil' their hides anil left the carcasses ly ing in a lavino near the cement works. At Del Rio, Tex., a Mexican "Jack tho Kipper" visited the house of a Mexican woman named Sanchez, killed her and cut her body in pieces. Alter the butch ery he wrote ujKin tho wall with her blood " Fresh beef for sale." At Dresden Herr Mehiert. a well known Socialist, failed in killing a inon-ey-order txstinan, whom he uttempted to rob. 'Iho alarm being given, three gendarmes appeared, and two were shot as they mounted the stairs after him. Seeing his chances for escapo were hope less, tho would-be murderer hanged him self, and life wits extinct before IiIh body was reached. It has been learned definitely that J, S. Dunn, who is under arrest at Atlanta, Ga., for forging a bill of lading for cotton which enabled him to secure $12,500, is ThouiHs F. Uhbv, who on March 17 last swindled Wood Bros, of Chicago eut of $6.1130 with forged bills of lailing on a shipment of wheat supporod to be in transit at thetimt. EASTERN ITEMS. Irish Heirs After A. Stewart's Millions. T. LAND COMMISSIONER CARTER Surpised That Survoyor-Generals tho Coast Aro Not Rushing the Work of State Surveys. of The Washington arch fund in New York city amounts to $03,0 !, and $17, 370 are still needed to complete the work. By the voluntiry net of the oflicinlH of the 'Baltimore mid Ohio railroad all the trackmen on the line have been given an increase of wages. C. P. Huntington is charged with dis obeying a subpenu in a New York court, and may be placed in arrest when he returns to that. city. Notwithstanding the MeKinley bill the exports Irom the Dominion of Can ada for the past nine months show an increase of over $500,000. MM... rni.n.tn,l ,!:,. nt o t..ori.. 1 iw iujai ium winuuw,., in i. fcL-m.i- I acre gold field on Sage creek in the Bad Lands near Rapid City. S. 1)., is not be lieved bv the Black Hills miners. Secretary Foster has fixed the maxi- i mum numour of seals winch tne Com mercial Company will be allowed to take during the coming season at 00,000. A Washington correspondent says the President will probably give three or four of the nine Judges to be appointed to tho new Circuit Courts to the Demo- ! crats. About 100 societv women of Memphis have organized a company, and will build a free hospital for women and children, to bo known as the Women's Hospital of Memphis. A Kansas authority says the total amount of farm-mortgage indebtedness in Kansas does not exceed $50,000,000, and it is being paid oil' at the rate of $1, 000,000 a month. Owing to the action of the Legislature in cutting down the State World's Fair appropriation to $05,000, all the Wiscon sin Commissioners and the Board of Women Managers will resign. A disastrous split in the ranks of the Farmers' Alliance organization in Mis sissippi is reported. Within tho last few months the membership in that State has shrunk from 25,000 to 15,000. After three successive failures at farm- mir tho Wlniinliilcn ImliMtiH lillldf ill) i their minds to abandon farming, and I wni m.,u nn frtliei effort tn rniso nnv. thini? thin vcar on their reservation. o The contest for tho A. T. Stewart mill- ions is being renewed. Many neirs or Stewart are reported to have turned up in Belfast notwithstanding Hilton's dep osition that tho deceased had no living relatives. Tho Chicago and Erie railroad refuses to permit the Standard Oil Company to parallel its pipe from Lima, O., to Chi cago, and the Standard has been put to enormous expense securing right of way off railroad territory. Statistics furnished by the Iowa Board of Health show that insanity is increas ing in that prohibition State at an alarm ing rate, especially in the rural districts. ITI... ...! f : j nv mini niiiiiuei ui ciise inercusuu from 1,:J2;S in 1880 to 1,040 in 1800. The census bureau has issued a bulle tin on tho subject of floriculture through out tho country. California stands third in he list of States in the total value of jila at sales, Now York and Pennsylvania alone excelling her in that particular. Under tho provisions of tho McKinley taritT act all special tuxes imposed upon dealers in leaf tobacco, dealers in manu factured tobacco, manufacturers of to bacco and peddlers are repealed. The law went into effect on the 1st instant. Acting Secretary Chandler has corn- tied to the Secretary of the Treasury that in compliance with tho act of Con gress of August !i0, 1890, $10,000 is due to the State of Oregon, to Iks need in the maintenance of an agricultural college. At the Agricultural Department at Washington thero has been received a collection of animals, such as ruts, liz ards and the like, found by tho agents of tho government sent to expldio Death Valley, Cal. It will bo properly arranged for exhibition. Assistant Secretary Spaulding of tho Treasury Department has writton to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco, requesting at tho instance of the Nica raguan government that V. L. Merry Ikj recognized thero as Consul-General of that government. Tw members of the Italian colony at New Orleans have quit quarreling with the American population, and having in a measure recovoied from tho effect caused by tho summary action of the citizens of that city, thoy havo begun to i quarrel among themselves. ! Tho architect of Now York's Grant1 monument will lie John H.Duncan of that city, who designed tho soldiers' and sailors' memorial arch in Brooklyn. The Grant memorial will cost $500,000, and the mausoleum up to tho first story may bo finished for half the sum. There is talk in government circles that Secretary Proctor seriously contem plates abolishing tho division iieadauar- tors and have tho entiro army divided into departments, each in charge of a Brigiulior-Genenil, who will transact all all business directly with headquarters. The Senato Committee of the New York Legislature in its rejKirt on the su gar trust says : " It was plainly one of tho chief purposes of tho trust to pro vide for tho issue of certificates afford ing mi opjHirtunity for great speculation obviously to the advantage of tho per sons managing tho trust and to the dis advantage of tho general public, who were ignorant of tho secrets of tho trust." Land Commissioner Carter is very much surprised that the Survoyor-Generals of tho Coast States are not rushing the work of State surveys. Tho general fund appropriated to be used for making tho various surveys, setting asido bcIiooI hinds and sectionirlug public lands where settlements have been made, was divid ed among tho States by tho IjiiuI Com missioner according to the ratio tho de mand would require. CABLEGRAMS. HelrcMv of I,oniln rt-t Agnlimt tlie ltottiKchlliln I.cmllni,- liuxMn .'Monti)-. The rush to Europe is unprecedented this spring. The trade of American beef continues to boom in Germany. Emin Pasha is marching on Kibiro to recover the money . e left. Koch's lymph is now on sale in the apothecary shops of Germany under se vere regulations. Italy is cutting down expenses, and will not be represented officially at the World's Fair at Chicago. Tho Irish fund bill has been given preference in the British House of Com mons over every other measure. H. M. S. Emerald has received per emptory orders to proceed at onco to the ecene of the difficulty in Newfoundland. Mr. Griffin, United States Consul at Sydney, says that the people in Australia have begun to discourage immig.ation. Imbriani has apologized for tho row ho created in the Italian Chambers. Ho said he was simply inquiring concerning rumors. Another Russian volunteer transport has been stopped at the Bosporus, and the net brings forth another protest from the Russian Minister at Constantinople. Advices from the city of Bogota, Co lombia, state that Montserrat and Gua dalupe Hills threaten to slide down upon tho citv, and the citizens are greatly alarmed. The St. Petersburg Xovosti, the only Russian paper which defends tho Jews against their calumniators, has received tho "second warning" from tho Minis try of the Interior. Prof. Bryce of London in an article on the New Orleans afl'air holds that Italy is entitled to redress for the punishment inflicted on its subjects whether the treaty grants it or not. Count Herbert Bismarck has been "severely reprimanded" by tho ex Chancellor for losing 200,000 francs at Monte Carlo. Bismarck the elder is too shrewd a man to believe in losing. A meeting of Hebrews is in prepara tion at London, tho object of which is to protest against the floating of Russian loans by the Rothschilds and nther wealthy banking houses associated with them. The French merchants of St. Pierre, it is reported, have furnished Newfound land bait-carriers with arms, and have incited them to rebollion. Much anxiety is felt at St. Johns, and serious trouble is expected. Thero is good authority for saying that the United States has no't had any nego tiations with France respecting Mole St. Nicholas. Tho squadron o evolution was not sent to Port-au-Prince with the intention of creating a naval demonstra tion. Tho New York Herald correspondent has been visiting at Palermo the family of Monastero, one of the Italians killed by tho mob at New Orleans, and a very pathetic story of their poverty and be lief in the innocence of Monastero is the result. Rudini is a Sicilian, and in Sicily the Mafia alone floui'shes. In fact, the old kingdom of Naples, or tho two Sicilies, is the scope of the Matin's operations. On tho Island of Sicily the Mafia is much stronger than on the mainland j provinces. Italy's exports to Austria and Germany ' have fallen from 107,000,000 francs in 1885 1 to 181,000,000 francs in 1889. In tho latter j year France bought of Italy products to I tho amount 140,000,000 francs. In 1890 ! tho United States bought 130,000,000 1 francs' worth of produce. j United StateB Minister Lincoln at a meeting of the British and Foreign Sail- j ors' Aid Society at London incidentally remarked that'ho folt euro that tho Behr ing Sea dispute would bo settled amica bly and honorably and in a manner sat isfactory to both countries. Tho Transafrican railroad has been j completed from Loanda to Ambaca, 100 miles in the interior. It is the only rail road in operation in Equatorial Africa. 1 It has been built by native workmen. and daily trains aro run over the lino. hour years have elapsed Binco tho lino was started, iho l'ortugueso govern' merit guarantees tho interest on its cost. The road is to bo pushed several hundred miles farther into the interior. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Sccretnry Fouler Will SiiHtaln tho Action of ILiKllea In Oiirttlnir .Mis Gouclns. The Treasury Department has not vet ! received the April vouchors of Miss ! Couzins as Secretary of tho Board of t Lady Managers of tho World's Fair. All , tho vouchers of tho malo members of tho commission havo been received, but the I vouchors for tho lady commissioners aro xi'ii, limit I ho rrottulirv ntlimrlla nrn m, formed that Miss Couzins refused to sign Tho treasury ollicials her voucher for fifteen days, holding that she is entitled to a full month's salary. She says she will send a brief to Secre tary Foster with her account, showing that sho is still Secretary. Secretary Dickenson will, it is said, send in .Miss Couzins' account up to April 15, tho date on which she was displaced as Secrotary ot tho isoiiril oi liuiy iiianagers. This will raise tho question of tho legality of the action of the Board of Lady Mana gers before Secretary Foster. No doubt is expressed that lie will sustain tho ! board. I Tho superintendent of the census has ! issued a bulletin on tho subject of asy lums tor the insane in tho United States. Tho total number of insane persons treated in both public and private insti- I tutions during 18SU was 97,53:1, while ! during 1881 there woro 50,203 treated, showing an increase in uiuo years of 41, 330, or 73.53 per cent. This percentage ol increase, compared with percentages of increaso of population, namely 24.80, does not indicato an increaso in tlie pro portion of insane persons to tho popula tion, but rather a great increaso in the amount of asylum accommodation pro vided and willingness on tho part of tho public to mako uso of the facilities pro vided. Tho actual number of insane in the United States cannot bo ascertained until the work of eliminating all cases has been completed. Tho number of in sane in each geographical division were : North Atlantic division, 30,690: South Atlantic division, 11,283; North Central, 28,090; South Central. 7.759, and West ern division, 0,820. Of tho 0,820 in the Western division 4.598, or 07.42 per cent., are in California, leaving but 2,222, or 32.58 per cent., for the remaining States composing the Western division. FOREIGN NEWS. Electric Launches Pop ular on the Thames. NAVAL OFFICERS IN TURMOIL. Tho Suppression of the Opium Trad in India Will Provoke a Revolt Among Warlike Tribes. London will have a new Thames tun nel. A London firm published 77,000,000 tracts in a year. Havre guns fire nine times in three quarters of a minute. The Miners' Convention at Paris rep resented 1,000, 0o0 men. The law business in Scottish courts shows a steady decrease. King Humbert has 2,000 blood horses in his three stables near Pisa. Gladstone says labor organization has saved England from revolution. A large number of the members of the British Parliament are ill of la grippe. The EifFel tower at Paris has been opened to the public for its third season. Telephone connection between Chris tiana and Stockholm will soon bo estab lished. The Pope has established tho Bishop ric of Zanzibar, and will shortly appoint a Bishop. The Austro-German treaty has been signed for a period of twelve years, be ginning in February, 1892. I Queen Victoria has commanded strict ! enforcement of the new regulations lim I iting presentations at court. i TJVi.mMi Tinvnl rtflir.nra nrn !n n hirmnil . .,. ti. Rminn)titiniia wnrtlilpsanesa of ' .i.' . .. . i- , i. many of their torpedo boats A strong war feeling has been aroused in Berlin by the proposed maneuvers of the French near the German frontier. Five English Generals were retired week before last through non-employment, and not one under the age clause. The movement of the German and Austrian governments lo isolate France commercially begins to alarm the French Ministers. To accommodate the forthcoming Eis teddfod n large oval building capable of holding 15,000 will be erected at Swan sea, Wales. It is semi-officiallv announced in Cal cutta that the suppression of tho opium trade in India will provoke a revolt among the warlike races. The interment of Baron Drais, who died thirty years ago, and who, when living, claimed to le the inventor of the bicycle, took place at Curlsruhe the other Oay. Riotous and revolutionary meetings have been held at Warsaw. " They were the occasion of doing honor to tho dead Russian political economist, Schelgou noro. A vast opposition is being developed in London to the increase in the size and number of tall buildings on the sanitary ground that they shut out air and sun light. The Spanish government's deficit of 62,000,000 pesetas in the current budget is only half that of last year. In two years it is expected it will have entirely disappeared. So popular havo electric launches be come on the Thames that a Iiondon firm will orcct a charging station, where boats of all sizes will be supplied with elec tricity at a moderate fee. Fourteen voung Turks have been sent to Germany "by the Sultan to study agri culture, upon their return they will conduct model agricultural establish ments for tho instruction of Turkish farmers. Tho latest canal project is ono to con nect tho Black Sea with the Sea of Azov. Tho total length will lo seventy-live miles, the breadth about seventy-three feet and the depth from thirteen to six teen feet. In Altorf, Switzerland, tho Toll Monu ment Committee is making every effort to press forward its work. Four prize of $02,), $375, $250 and $100 have been ofTered for tho four best plans for the monument. Joseph Chamberlain proposes a na tional insurance for the support of the aged. He suggests that the parish should contribute a certain sum for every child born and put that to tho credit of the cl,ild national insurance fund Tho enormous consumption of coal in tho gas works of London is indicated by tho fact that the Gaslight and Coke Company- is seeking tenders from coal owners lor its supply for ono year, and that the supply is set down at about 1,750,000 tons. The Turkish Sultan's kitchen costs the empire 200,000 annually. Tho building extonds 150 feet on everv side. The dishes aro sealed in the kitchen by nc less a person than Osman Pasha, the liero of Plevna, and aro unsealed in the Sultan's piesence. Electric cars are now Iwwling along the classic highways of old Rome, n short line between tho Place del Popolo and tho Panto Mollo, having juet been completed and put in operation. There are three cars, each carrying a fifteen-horse-power motor. A special committee of Bordeaux busi ness men has been formed for the pur ose of dctt'sing ways and means for the proposed snip railway across France to convoy vessels from tho Atlantic to the Mediterranean without their having toi go around Gibraltar. The latest fad in Ixmdon for hard up nobility, or rather impecunious society ladies, is to open a florist's stand and diepeuso flowers for the million. Mrs. Wellsie, cousin of the Duke of Welling ton, is the pioneer in this movement, which promises to be a great success. Emperor William at a banquet at Dus seldorf said when speaking of a com mercial treaty with Austria ; "As to my homo policy, which is becoming estab lished, I shall not deviate a hair's breadth from the course I have adopted. I alone am master of this countrf and nobody else," PORTLAND MARKET. I'rlcei of AVlient Still Continue Too Illch for Export 1'tirposen. Wiif.it The market remains in a dor mant con lition. A few parcels are offer ing, but prices asked are considerably above an export basis, and purchases, onlv made when urgent wants must bs supplied, are few and far between. Ship pers generally have fcuflicient on hand t. meet present and near futuie require ments, and evince no disposition to op erate unless at concessions, which seller are apparently unwilling to grant. Quo tations under existing circumstances are impossible. Flouk Quote: Standard, $5.25; Walla Walla, 5.U0 per barrel. Oats Quote : tiSWOOc per bushel. Hay Quote: $1017 per ton. MiMiStupfb Quote: Bran, $2122; Shorts, $241125; Ground Barley, $33.00(S 34.00; Chop Feed, $25(I20 per ton; Bar- joy, $1.25 1.30 percental. Butt mi Quote : Oregon fancy cream ery, 27'oc; limey dairy, 22l.c; fair to good, 1 70? 20c; common, 15ltic; Cali fornia, 22"j.J(ft;24'sc per pound. Ciikhsk Quote: Oregon, 1415c; Cal ifornia, 12(l3e per pound. Eoos Quote : Oregon, 17c per dozen. PotM,Tav Quoto: Old Chickens, $0.50 (??7.00; voung chickens, $3.003.50; Ducks, i012; Geese, nominal, $12 per dozen; Turkeys, 1017c per pound. Vkoktahlks" Quote: Cabbage, $1.50 per cental; Early York, $2.00; Cauli flower, $1 00 per "dozen ; Celery, 90c H;r dozen ; Onions. 4 'sc per pound ; Carrots, $1.00 per sack ; Beets, $1.50persaek ; Tur nips, $l. 75 per sack; Potatoes, 50 00c per cental; New Potatoes, P., 2c per pound ; Tomatoes, $2.00(12.50 per 1kx ; Asparagus, 40'5c per pound; Parsnips, $1.00; per sack; Lettuce, 15 (ft 20c per dozen; Squash, 2lB(rf2J4e per pound; Green Peas, S'nC per pound: String Beans, 15c per pound; Rhubarb, 4c per pound ; Artichokes, 40c per dozen ; Pars ley, 25c per dozen ; Radishes, 20c per dozen bunches ; young Onions, 20c per dozen bunches. Fkuits Quote: Ixs Angeles Oranges, $2.252.50; Riverside, $:i.00(.3.25 ; 'Na vels, $4. f).)u5.50 per box; Sicily Lemons, $0.507; California, $4.505" pur box; Apples, $1.00(12.50 per lxx; Bananas, $2.503.50 per bunch ; Pineapples, $5.00 8.00 per dozen ; Strawberries, 15c per pound ; Cherries, 25c per pound. Nuts Quote: Calitornia Walnuts, ll,:s 12'tc; Hickory, Sc; Brazils, 12c; Almonds, IOCJI80; Filberts, 1314e; Pino Nuts, 1718c; Pecans, 1718c; Cocoanuts, 80; Hazel, 8c; Peanuts, 6c per pound. Fish Salmon, 8c per pound ; Halibut, 12l4o; Cod, l()c; Soles, 10c; Flounders, ll)cl Shad, 12c; Carp and Catfish, 5c; Canned Salmon, Standard No. 1, $1.35 per case ; No. 2, $2.55. Hops Nominal. Quote: 20c per pound. Wool, Quoto: Willamette Valley, IS 20e; Eastern Oregon, 1319a per pound, according to conditions and shrinkage. Hides Quote: Dry Hides, selected prime, 8j9c, a less for culls; green, selected, over 65 pounds, 4c; under 6& pounds, 3c; Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30 60c; medium,0080c; long,90c$l.25 ; shearlings, 1020o; Tallow, good to choice, 33Jc per pound. Nails Base quotations: Iron, $3.00; Steel, $3.10; Wire, $3.75 per keg. The MerclifinilUe Market, CoAh Oil Quote: $1.95 per cose. Rick Quote: $(.00(iti.75 per cental. Honkv Quote: 10(18c. Salt Quote: Liverpool, $10, $16.50, $17: stock, $11 per ton in carload lota. CoppKic Quote: Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 23c; Mocha, 30c; Java, 25lv,c; Ar bucklo's, roasted, 263.,(i27e per pound. Bbans Quote: Small Whites, 3c; Pink, 3':,((3lc; Bavo, 4J.1c; Butter, 45s,c; Lmms. 4'ae per pound. Suoaks Quote: Golden C.S'c; extra C, 53r'c; dry granulated, ($8; cube crushed and "powdered, (P.c per pound ; confectioners' A, O'c per pound. Svitri-s Eastern, in barrels, 47(?55c; half barrels, 50((f5Se; in cases, 55(?80e per gallon; $2,.2.)fii2.50 per keg; Califor nia, in barrels, 40c per gallon; $2.25 kt keg. Dmitri Fiturrs The market is firm. Quote: Italian Prunes, 10'2(12c; Pe tite and German Prunes, 10c per" pound ; Raisins, $2.25 per box: Plummer-dried Pears, 10 lie; sun-dried and factory Plums, ll12c: evaporated Peaches. 18 20c; Smyrna Figs, 20c; California Figs, 9c per pound. Canned Goods Market steady. Quote : Table fruits. $2.25, 2ls; Peaches, $2.50; Kartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums. $1.5; Strawberries, $2.50 ; Cherries, $22.50; Blackberries, $2.25; Rappberries, $2.75: Pineapples, $2.75; Apricots, $2 40. Pie fruit: Assorted, $1.50 per dozen; Peaches, $1.05; Plums, $1.25; BlaokU'rries, Jl.(55 per dozen. Vegetables: Corn, $1.35 1. 05, according to quality; Tomatoes, $1.153.50; Sugar Peas, $l.t01.60; String Beans, $1.10 perdozen. Fish : Sal mon, $1.251.50; sardines, 85c$l.3; lobsters, $2 25C?3.25; oysters, $1.50 3.25 per dozen. Condensed milk : Eagle brand, $8.25; Crown, $7: Highland. $0.75: Champion, $0.00; Monroe, $0.75 per case. Shot Qnoto: $1.75 per sack. VEGETABLE PANACEA PREPARED FReM ROOTS fie HERBS. FORTHE CURE OF ' AND ALL OTHER DISEASES ARISINO FROM A DISORDERED STATE of tuc STOMACH OR AN .INACTIVE LIVER. rt)l 3ALC MY ALL DRU6C1STS 9c GENERAL DEALERS! i i.