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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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