EASTERN ITEMS.
PERSONAL MENTION.
FOREIGN LANDS.
PORTLAND MARKET.
The Navy Uopnrtmfint Appro" Re
port of the llonri! of Kiiiinlneri.
Mill Mncde Mitchell of Oregon ll OUC Of
the ltellen l'arlt.
A Rctunin of the Condition nt Its Dif
ferent Deimrtineiitft.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
B.CHANOEY, Publisher, Union, Or.
PACIFIC COAST.
Saloonkeepers Refuse to
Pay High License.
MORMON ELDERS AT POMONA
One of the Longest and Most Costly
Steel Bridges Being Erected
at Vancouver.
A water famine exists on the hills
within tho city limits of Los Angeles.
The Southern California Editorial As
sociation proposes to visit Flagstaff, A.
T., in August.
The Sacramento Typographical Union
has indorsed the nine-hour system, to go
into eneet October I.
Tho Pino Nut (Nov.) cold discovery is
attracting men from ail directions. A
townsito has boon laid out.
Hie Hoards of Equalization in South
ern California aro making radical reduc
tions on assessments of orange orchards.
The great hords of cattle in Southern
and Eastern Oregon are being bought up,
and there is likely to bo an advance in
price.
Tho disturbances at tho mines in
Washington are believed to bo at an end.
Many of tho worst characters have gone
away.
A project to plant 400 acres of lemon
orchards on some of tho best lemon land
in the State is materializing at San Ber
nardino, Cal.
Tho British sealing schooner E. B.
Marvin has been seized by tho Rush
while entering Hohring Sea and turned
over to the British war ship Nymphe.
There is some misunderstanding alxmt
tho stone to be used in the construction
of tho public building at Sacramento,
and work in consequence has been sus
pended. The Board of Trustees of tho Willam
ette Un.vorsitv at Salem has elected
Kev. George Whittakor of Marshall,
Tex., President to succeed Thomas Van
Bcoy, res'gned.
I)cal prophets in Southern California
aro predicting violent disturbances on
the surface of the earth in t he near fu
ture, owing to tho extensive evaporation
of Sal ton .Like.
Warrants have been issued at Sacra
mento for tho arrest of llfly-soven saloon
keepers who refused to pay tho now high
license. Two hundred and Bixty-llvo
more arrests aro to ho made.
Tho foundation of tho big Tenth-street
hotel at ios Angeles, which cost $80,000,
and to complete which many futile ef
forts have Ih'oii made, is to be utilized as
a fruit-drying establishment.
The tire on Mount Hamilton has Won
checked, and no further danger is appre
hended at tho observatory. Alwut 2,f00
acres have been burned over, and much
valuable timber and cord wood lost.
Mrs. McDonald, tho mother of JoMuk
Brown, the Charleston sailor killed ojr
Deputy Marshals, is now at San Diego,
and will push tho presecution of her
eon's slayers. Ho was her only support.
The coyote-bounty law has already had
tho oiled of increasing tho number of
jack rabbits in some sections of South
ern California, and fruit-growers there
nru open in their expressions of indigna
tion. Two Mormon Elders aro proselyting
near Pomona, Cal. S. M. Putney, one
of thoBowho have I wen converted, seems
glad to think his wife is favorable to a
man having more than one wifo. and
protwses to move toward Utah as soon as
xssiblo,
Tho Southern Pacific Company having
Riven a reduced rate of transportation to
everybody connected with tho State Uni
versity at Eugene, Or., tho Kailroad
Commissioners have decided that tho
name privileges aro due and must Ihi
granted to all chartered collegiate insti
tutions. Tho Oregon and California Bailroad
Company has commenced suit in tho
United States Circuit Court at Portland
against fifty-three landlords, who have
taken up claims within tho limits of tho
old Oregon Central grant, for compelling
them to quiet title to tho lauds they have
filed on.
Tho Columbia Ulver Hallway and Nav
igation Company has submitted to the
jK'oplo of Portland a proposal for open
ing the Columbia river to transportation
by completing tho ortago railway,
which has been begun by the State at
Tho Dallas, and by putting barges and
steamboats on tho river.
Ono of tho longest and most costly
steel railroad bridges in the country is
now being erected by tho Union I'ac'itlo
across tho Columbia river at Vancouver,
Wash. Tho length from tho Washing
ton to tho Oregon shore will lo (1,000 feet,
and the draw pier will Ik over 400 feet
long, i no com oi uio structure will be
over f-J ,000,000.
Th Ios Angeles UtraUl publishes a
Hory to the ollVet that C. P. Huntington
has concluded arrangements to mircliiiso
Jones tt Maker's great Sail Vlnconto
lunch of .'10 "00 acres, upon which the
town of Santa Monica Is located: tlmt
the Southern Purl He railroad would Ikj
extended three tulles to Huuta Monica
Canyon, whom a great wharf would lw
t mi! I uii that iKJint Ui made the termi
nus of (lie road, Tint tury is nut given
jihuiIi credent o,
Controller (Allium, who lias received
the wariaiit (or Ihu payment uf iIih runt
till for he 04UMiHtiirv uf iuuiun by tho
Will III V nlr UmiiiiUIuii al fctth f ijui.
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HUU la in my iiuiiii tti ti I lie uuiuiilUlhiu
illy til I hill Al't I jilplulul Mtll it 0, I Ml 1 1,
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Second Comptroller Gilkcson has ap
proved the report of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, amounting to $16S,
000, for telegraph service for the United
States signal bureau at the rate estab
lished by the Postmaster-General. Tho
company has notified the Secretary of the
Treasury that it will accept payments at
tho rate's named under protest until the
question of legality is judicially deter
mined. The Navy Department has approved
the report of the Board of Examiners
for tho foremen and master mechanics
at the Mare Island navy yard, and has
filled all positions by appointmentof tho
candidates whom tho Board recommend
ed. With reference to certain trades,
involving special training in building
hulls of modern steel war vessels, the
Board respectfully states that in its opin
ion none of the candidates presenting
themselves possessed the special knowl
edge desirable. Eight-five candidates in
all were examined.
It. V. Bell, Assistant Commissioner of
Indian Affaire, has returned to Washing
ton after a visit to tho Pacific Coast. Ho
went there six weeks ago to open bids
for the award of contracts for supplies
for tho Indians of the Pacific Coast for
the present fiscal vear. The supplies in
cluded groceries, hardware and agricult
ural implements. Tho prices at which
the supplies were obtained were gener
ally a little lower than those for the past
fiscal year. Bell visited somo Indian
schools in Arizona and Mexico, includ
ing those conducted by the government
and those known as the contract schools,
managed bv tho various religious denom
inations, llell speaks very highly of the
tho general condition of tho government
schools lotli in intellectual and indus
trial features. Ho says intellectually
they aro in advance of the contract
schools, and with respect to industrial
training ho gives no comparison between
the two classes.
CABLEGRAMS.
A Tnlntnl Community nt Klinrknfl' Sup
lircHocil lir tho Government.
Belgium has joined tho triple alliance.
England declines to appoint women
factory inspectors.
Rains in Northwest India are partially
averting tho famine that was feared.
The floods continue in Prussian Sile
sia, and tho damage to lifo and property
is great.
A great battlo is looked for at Coquiin
bo between tho Chilian government and
insurgent forces.
Germany and Austria have liecomo
alarmed by tho vast increase recently of
applications for naturalization.
Two million francs more have been
added to tho fortune of the Comto do
Paris through tho will of the Marquis de
St. Astior.
Tho harvest prospects in tho southern
nrovinces of Persia aro so bad that the
government has prohibited the expia
tion of corn.
A Tolstoi community at Kharkofl', con
taining a nuinlHir of educated men who
have left society, has been suppressed by
the government.
Sir Ilnry Wood. Secretary of th
Royal Commission for tho World's Fair,
savs that Hritisli merchants will make
a $1,000,000 exhibit.
Ijrd Salisbury proposes to reduce tho
Irish representation in tho House of
Commons because of tho decieaso of
Ireland's population.
Mrs. Frank Leslie according to reports
from Iloulogne-sur-Mor. Fiance, where
she is at present, is about to marry a
brother of Oscar Wilde.
soiiii-ollicial journal at Berlin savs
Germany can rest easily and leave the
French and Russians to gush over their
theatrical fraternizations.
Tho Scottish Mission, which has its
headquarters at Jerusalem, reports the
conversion of six .lews to Presbyterian
ism at a cost of $5,000 apiece.
Tho Chilian cruiser Prosidento Erra-
ruris has had to h ave Msbou without a
crew, tho government and foreign Con
suls preventing an enlistment of men.
Willnfrger, Werner and other promi
nent young Socialists propose to get the
International Congress at its meeting in
Brussels on August Ui to pass a vote of
censure against Vollmar lor his recent
German patriotic utterance.
Vienna is soon to have a music and
dramatic exhibition, where will bo seen
tho products of every industry connected
with music and dramatic instruments,
stage propei ties, mechanical appliances
and decorations, with tho highest art de
partment. The excessive attentions paid to the
Prineeof Naples by the Queen and Prince
of Wales during his visit at London have
convinced tho public that the reports of
the probable matrimonial alliance bo-,
tween tho Italian and British royal fam
ilies have somo foundation.
The Natural History .Museum at Ken-'
sington, England, has' received a novel
addition to its shelves in the shape of
10,000 spiders. The injects were be-1
queathed to the institution by the late !
Count Koysorburg, who spent a good
part of his life in collecting them.
Tho (i(iHc, the leading military news
paper at Ixiiitlon, announces that Dr. I
Godfrey Hamhletou h-ts discovered a
method bv which consumption is cured, 1
and tho editor from his personal knowl
edge confidently assorts that the "cute
of consumption is now an accomplished
f,i,.i i
An attempt has just been made upon
the life of Mine. Coustaus, wifo of the1
French Minister of the interior. Ful-J
minute of mercury, a high explosive
umKuiid, was put into w hat appeared
to I h a religious ritual liook, hut which '
had Until hollowed out to hold the ex
ptobive. The French Huudrtiu celebration in
ltuwta have Um made the iHteatduu fur
uino ritahleiil French member Uilong
tug iu the yacht eluU in tit. I'etervhuru
to intuit and ouarrvl with the German
ititftiiUiiu Immhiiuu thty mfiihtttl d panic
ilMilw ill lllH IMitoiiliuii to the Fiunuh
Jin I'mafcliMil uf lUv Wi)HH iW
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The Boston Nationalists
Issue an Address.
A BIG SURPLUS OF WHISKY.
Census Office Roport Shows the United
States is the Largest Producer
of Copper in the World.
Chicago will erect a twenty-five-story
building.
Texas negroes will exhibit at the
World's Fair.
Denver capitalists have secured the
principal tin mines in Colorado.
The Customs Collector at New York
has been ordered to cut down expenses
$Sj,450.
There were 84,000 watermelons re
ceived in Chicago from Georgia one day
last week.
Boston Nationalists have issued an
address calling on the city to run the
street cars.
The President has nominated Henry
E. Nichols to be a Commander in tho
United States navy.
Prominent Haytians at New York say
a revolution against Hyppolite is bound
to come at an early day.
The official investigation at Ottawa is
bringing to light an astounding amount
of rascality in the public olfices.
Chicago's postal receipts last, year were
3,504,7n0.00 and expenses $1,285,028.34,
leaving an income of 2,210,702.32.
Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland has
given $75,000 to the Woman's College of
Western Reserve University at that city.
Cleveland savs he has not the slightest
intention to take the stump in Ohio this
fall, and he has never intimated ho
would do so.
Princeton College intends sending an
expedition this month to "a region in
Montana never before explored" to
Boarch for fossil remains.
By a decision in the United States Cir
cuit Court at New York, the Brush Elec
tric Company has secured a monopoly of
the storage-Cattery industry.
The testimony before the Privileges
and Elections Committee at Ottawa con
tinues to show fraud and bribery in se
curing government contracts.
It is gravely declared at Buzzard's Bay,
Mass., where Edwin liooth has been
lately, that the great actor is dying from
tho efi'ects of too much smoking.
Kentucky whiskymen aro again wor
ried over tho big surplus of their com
modity now on hand, on which $3,000,
000 taxes will come duo next fall.
The striking plush weavers at Dob
son's mills in Philadelphia after ten
weeks of idleness have agreed to return
to work. There are about 400 of them.
Bank Examiner Drew is endeavoring
to convince the Secretary of the Treas
ury that ho did not neglect his duty in
tho case of tho Keystone bank at Phila
delphia. Senator Chandler of Now Hampshire
in a six-column article in a Concord
journal makes a bitter attnek upon Sen
ator Gallinger, whom ho charges with
having sold himself to the railroads.
Dr. Henry T. Ilemhold, the famous
huchu man, who was credited with hav
ing piled up a fortune of $10,000,000 by
tho salo of his patent medicines, is once
more in a madhouse, chained at the
wrists and with Bhackles on his ankles.
There has just been cast at the armor
plate mill of Carnegie, Phillips k Co. at
Homestead, Pa., an armor ingot eighty
inches wide and twenty-three inches
thick, weighing 32,000 pounds tho larg
est armor-plato ingot rolled in this
country. j
According to a now law in Texas for
eigners are not permitted to own land in
fee simple; but it has been estimated
that tho Texas farmers have borrowed
in foreign countries not less than $15,
000,000, which is repro?ented in mort
gages upon their lauds.
Tho Bureau of American Republics is
informod that an association called the
American Colored Men's Mexican Colo
nization Company is preparing to estab
lished a colony of negro farmers, coining
chiefly from .Mississippi and Tennessee,
in tho State of Sonora, Mexico.
During a trial at Findlav, O., it was
brought out in evidence that Peter S.
Williams, wide' known throughout
Northwestern Ohio as a big lumber
dealer, was leading a dual life, and that
ho was keeping up two establishments
ono in F:ndlay ami the other in Fostoria,
only fifteen miles away.
The Forest heavy nr-inance twelve
inch r'lle gun, designed for coast defense
ami made in New York, was fired for tho
first time the other day at Sandy Hook
with satisfactory results. With 250
pounds of powder it hurled a 2,000-.
jxmiul shot five miles. The gun will us-o
440 pounds of jniwder and throw a 2,000
pound shot twelve miloti.
In New York cit the esport fenialo
shoplifter wears a tr'ck skirt under her
gow n, anil can iHtw it up bv means of a
string so as to make a wick largo enough
to hold a half bushel of small articles. '
If fearful of bobg caught in tho act or
apprehensive of a March, she can step
into a dark corner, drop the string and
unload her plunder safely.
The East street reaper works at Spring-'
field, O., the largest agricultural iiuple- .
nient works in the vorld, covering forty
W ae es a .id ranking next in site to the
Krupp gu i works in Prussia, has Uvn
kjI 1 to a syndicate of prominent capital-1
lets uf Cleveland, Cliicagu and .New York
to be iMtl far the manufacture uf rail 1
pay intra and eupplfcn of all kinds. The
works cot fl.wVuKW, and were pur
eha4l by tho njiulleahi for filifcJ.ooo.
The eeiuiUHJiUuo rotort h the
United Mtato lu I mi the laitfe! pimluunr
uf ikpKr In the Murld, iu pnliul fur
ui llJOjMkhxrl Ion TUUlHiHMii
Muri iwioUJ iu hl prwlui uu vw
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MM jjh, Mi. imp!..) it.u nt
hod. i k Mint' i . i w 1 1 1 . I u.i. ,4. ,
Prince and Princess Bismarck have
left Friedrichsrulie for Schonhausen.
Secretary Foster grows so enthusiastic
when he ses good baeeball play that ho
throwB up his hat like any boy.
It is said that the Princess Clemen
tine, the youngest daughter of the King
of the Belgians, will enter a nunnery.
Mrs. Dr. J. S. Hollowavof Springfield,
O., has fallen heir to $1,000,000 left by
her UHcle. Sir James Baxendale, an Eng
lish Knight.
Jay Gould turns the scales at 107
pounds, but he h-i often turmd the
scales on Wall-street men of more than
twice his weight.
President Lyon G. Tyler of William
and Mary College is engaged upon a po
litical history of Virginia, for which he
has accumulated a vast amount of material.
M. Cabinol, the Frencli portrait paint
er, says that Miss Maggie Mitchell, the
daughter of the Oregon Senator, is one
of the most bcutiful women ever seen
in Paris.
j Andrew Lang is tall, thin and dark,
and has a laugh without music. He has
! also a Mark Twain drawl, is near 47 years
j of age and is one of the hardest workers
1 in England.
j Miss Virginia Knox of Pittsburg, who
' married the bogus Count di Montercole,
is going to try her matrimonial luck
I again this time with John P. McKen-
j zie, a Baltimore newspaper man.
1 General Greely has been invited to at
tend a meeting of the International Po
lar Conference in Munich September 7.
The other eleven nations represented in
1 the co-operative observations of 1881-3
1 will be represented.
! Lord Stanley, the Goyernor-Gencral of
Canada, is a jolly good fellow and a pop
ular and easy-going nobleman, enjoying
life to the utmost. He enters into'Ca-
I nadian snorts and pastimes with great
vigor and heartiness.
Ex-Senator Ingalls has solved tho ques
tion which everybody is asking by con
senting to become one of a party which
I is to make a tour through Southern Eu
I rope and the Holy Land. The party is
to consist of twenty-live persons.
The World's Fair Commissioners are
meeting with splendid welcome in Lon
1 don. Sir Cunliile Owen, who has repre
sented England at every world's fair for
the last quarter of a century, tells them
his countrymen intend to make a great
show.
James Gordon Bennett's recent gift of
$4,000 to the omnibus or stage drivers
during their late strike has made him
extremely popular with the French
working classes and led them to regard
him as a benefactor to whom they can
appeal in an emergency.
George A. Pillsbnry of Minneapolis
has endowed the Pillsbury Academy of
Minneapolis with $5,000 for five free
scholarships at the new University of
Chicago, to be awarded to five students
of the academy who have attained the
highest grade in scholarship. Charles
L. Colby ha endowed the Beaver Dam
Academy of Wisconsin with five similar
scholarships.
William Henrv Smith, First Lord of
the Treasury, will boon be elevated to
the peerage. Mr. Smith is the leading
news agent in England, and the firm of
William H. Smith & Sons controls every
book and news stand on all tho princi
pal railway lines in the country. An
appropriate title for liia peerage would
be Ixml Newsstands.
Coum Holstein-Holsteinburg, Chief
Court Marshal of the King of Denmark,
who"o recent marriage with a singer of
a dancing hall created such a sensation
in Copenhagen, has been placed under
guardianship. The sportive Count, who
was successful in the spirited contest
among tho jfttnessf doree of Denmark for
the young woman's hand, enjoys Jie re
spectable age of 80 years.
It is believed that Alexander Dumas
will portrav some gambling scenes from
Monte Carlo in his new conmly, ar he
spent several ueeks last winter "at that
resort, closely observing the play, but
never staking even a son. Dumas has
persuaded M. Febvro of tho Coinedie
Francaise to withdraw his resignation
and remain another year in order to cre
ate the principal role for this comedy.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
Com lo 18 Working 011 the Y1111111 Levee
Attempt to Kxi'mie.
John Eppest, manager for tho Western
Union at Sufiblk. Va., has been assassi
nated. Tho fatal shot was tired from a
cluster of bushes.
Convicts working on tho Yuma (A. T.)
leveo attempted to escape, and one of
them, Francisco Ixipez, a Mexican, was
shot in the back by a guard.
The sum of $75,000 is missing from
the express office at Kounze, Tex., a big
saw-null center. Officials aro making an
investigation, Uut are very reticent.
Thomas Burke, a San Francisco ex
pressman, formerly a fireman on one ol
the Nanaiino colliers, has been caught
smuggling. Opium valued at $3,600 was
found in his possession.
An attempt u na made at Hazeltou, Pa.,
to lynch Giuseppe do Comali, accused of
the murder of Katie Gorgano. An Ital
ian society asked tho Sheritl' to deliver
the murderer over to it.
George Crotts, a well-known bushiest
man of Defiance, O., was shot dead bv
Harry Willey, a real-estate agent. It is
f-aid the murder was tho outcome of a
trial over a lawsuit.
Captain Joxeph A. Thompson of the '
ship K. F. Chapman, which loft San
Francisco in January for Liverpool, was
arrested in New York for cruelty to his 1
crow on tho high sous.
A sensation has !Hn caused in Berlin,
Germany, by the discovery of furgerlen
011 the Dot soh e bank to a largo amount.
The funwr, who is one of thu clwrku uf
the bank, ha scaped. Tho lo in fiAift -(XX).
Of the (U iietfroei! I y m'lted in thefemih
thiw (Ar this your J ur kilUI fur rau-,
lur iMiirunr, iu ut mug, b for U-
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Prof. Koch Resigns All
Public Offices.
RUSSIA PURCHASING CORN.
Zannibalism in the Free Congo State
Leads to an Expedition Against
the Offenders.
The Imperial Bank of Melbourne has
failed.
! Emperor William will return to Berlin
August 17.
', Duties on petroleum and ice in Argen
tina have been reduced.
1 The French squadron was enthusiastic
ally welcomed at Cronstadt.
1 The educational bill has passed tho
third reading in the British House of
Lords.
1 The proposal to construct a canal from
I the Tyne to the Sol way, with a depth of
1 fifteen feet, is again revived,
j The Czar of Russia will celebrate his
I silver wedding next November in a mod
est fashion near Copenhagen.
I There is talk in Paris of an elevated
railway, but the project does not find
favor with the press of the city.
By the will of the late Peter Carmi
chael the Established Church of Scot
land is to receive no less than 100,000.
Models of the Lloyd steamships are
features of the nautical part of the Ger
man Exhibition now open in London.
1 A lively agitation is going on at Co
logne for the purpose of making the
Kliine below the city navigable for ships
of the largest size.
A ship canal is proposed to connect
Venice with tho Gulf of Spezza. It
1 would be 170 miles long, 240 feet broad
and cost 52,000,000.
j The area flooded in Moravia and Si
lesia has increased. In the Tyrolese
Alps avalanches have fallen into tho val
leys and caused great damage.
The gas companies of Paris have in
the last ten years paid over $40,000,000
into the city treasury for the privilege of
supplying gas to the city at cost.
' Agents of Mr. Parnell, so it is ru
mored, have been buying up Mrs.
O'Shea's picture as exposed for sale in
, London shops and endeavoring to ar
range to stop it.
The Labor Expos'Mon soon to open to
the public at Paris will be very interest
ing to visitors. The history of trades
and manufacturers from the fourteenth
century will be a feature.
; The total population of France is 3S,
1005,150. This is an increase since the
! last census of 208,584. and this is entire-
ly in the urban population, the rural
population having decreased.
Queen Victoria has conferred upon
j Earl Cadogan the title of Knight 0"i
I manderot tne Order of the Garter, thus
filling the va am y in the order caused
' by the death of Earl Granville.
I A lKiy delivering bread at Berlin en
, tered a yard here there were two blood
, hounds loo.e, and before the people of
1 the house could reach the loy the beasts
had literally torn him to pieces.
! Ktissia has made large purchases of
. corn, and the government is storing
! large quantities of grain supplies. Tho
1 rise in the price of cereals in Germany
is partly due to Russian buyings.
Prof. Koch has resigned all public of
fices held by him in Germany. This
step is associated with his supposed dis
appointment over the unsatisfactory re
sults of his discovery of "tuberculin."
Visitors in sufficient numbers to make
the Eiffel tower in Paris pay once moro
are reported. The greatest crowds are
on Sunday, when all the elevators aro
run, whereas only one is operated on
week days.
English shipping papers are agitating
for the formation of a volunteer naval 1
cadet corps to bo recruited chiefly from
fishermen and fisherlwys as a volunteer
naval reserve ami a feeder to the active
naval forces.
The Berlin Xational Ztilung announces
that a genuine brotherhoodof French-1
men and Russians is unattainable, hold-1
ing that Hus-ia is uncivilized and France
has " few points of sympathy with bar-1
baric Russia."
The Vatican is absolutely decided in '
spite of the threats and persuasions ol I
the monarchists to continue in France
the policy of adhesion to tho Republic
in order to restore that country to union
and to religious and political pacifica-1
tion. j
Cannibalism among tho natives in the
Free Congo State has led to an expedi
tion against the offenders in which mini
tiers of the natives were killed. The
Bfikumas at Stanley Falls are reported
ii w iviuiiKng iu iiuiuau sacrmces and
feasts.
In tho British House of Commons Sir!
James Ferguson said that the govern
ment had reason to believe that satis
factory arrangements would shortly le
made with the United States iu the mat
ter of arbitration in tho Behring Sea
question.
Mrs. Mayhrick's solicitor savs that he
has been advised by Charles Russell that
her case can le reopened and a new trial
had, grounded on the refusal of the in
surance company to pay the policy. The
solicitor intends tocarry out this scheme. 1
Much new evidence has U'on collected
iu America. Mrs. Maybrick, who is still '
in pribon, Miners mucfi fruin ill hemtn.
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tne line of fruits large receipts
eipts and
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ipts were)
equally large siupments were
in tne produce market recei
oniy iniriy nuerai. 1110 grocers C.lil a
heavy trade, and jobbers in other lines
report business good. The market is
well supplied with eicry variety of sum
mer fruit, and the quantity of tropical
fruit on hand is large enough to supply
the demand. Melons are plentiful and
cheap. The quality is good, and the de
mand is consequently heavy. A large
etock of plums is being carried, and the
fruit is a drug on the market. Peaches
are not so plentiful as they have been,
Blackberries are in good supply, and the
demand is strong. Vegetables are in
sufficient quantity to satisfy the demand.
Sweet potatoes are becoming more plen
tiful. Receipts of eggs do not increase.
Poultry receipts arc fair, and the same
may be said of butter. There is but lit
tle doing in oats. The staple grocery
trade is generally steady. Coffee is firm.
Rice is firmer, and an advance is looked
for.
Iroiltice, Fruit, Etc.
Wheat Valley, $1.42)6 ; Walla Walla,
$1.32) per cental.
Flouu Standard, $4.85; Walla Walla,
$4.60 per barrel.
Oats Old, 5052)c; new, 4345 per
bushel.
Hay $15ftlG per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $222r; shorts,
nominal, $25(Tt2G; ground barley, $ 0i$
32; chop feed, $25(3 20 per ton; barlev,
$1.201 25 percental.
Buttkh Oregon fancy creamery,
30c; fancy dairy, 27c ; fair to good, i'2l6
25c; common, 1520c; California. L'2'a
(a 24c per jound.
Ciieksk Oregon, 1212)c; Califor
nia, 12c per pound.
Eaos Oregon, 18(i20e per dozen.
Pocltky Old chickens, $(i.OO(a6.50;
young chickens, $2.504.00; ducks. $4ol
0; geese, nominal, $8 per dozen; turkeys,
15c per pound.
Vkqktahles Cabbage, $1.50 per
cental; cauliflower, $125 per dozen;
Onions, H4C per pound ; beets, $1.50 per
sack; turnips, $1.00 per sack; new ota
toes, 7075c per cental ; tomatoes, t0cfJ
$1 per box; lettuce, 122C per dozen;
green peas, 34c per pound ; string
beans. 34c per pound ; rhubarb, 4c per
pound ; artichokes, 40c per dozen ; cu
cumbers, $1 per box; carrots, $1 per
sack; corn, 25c per dozen; sweet pota
toes, 4yJ4lr.c per pound.
Fkuits Riverside oranges, $2. 50(S3. 50 ;
Sicily lemons,$77.50 ; California,$4.50
5 per box; apples, $1.25 per box; ba
nanas, $3.504 a bunch ; pineapples, $5
(SO per dozen; cherries, $1.25 per box;
currants, 0c per pound ; apricots, $1 per
box; raspberries. $79c per pound;
peaches, Alexander, 05(S95c per box ;
California Crawfords, $1.25; nlaekber
ries, 6c per pound ; plums, 25(g,70c per
box ; watermelons, $2.505 per dozen ;
cantaloupes, $1.752.25 per dozen, $2.50
f3.00 per crate; grapes, 50c per box;
pears, $2 per box.
Nuts California walnuts, 11 H&1-lsc;
hickory, 8'.c; BrazilB, 10o?llc; "al
monds", 10(318c; filberts, 1314c; pine
nuts, 17(!ilSe; pecans, 1718c; iwm
nuts, 8c; hazel, 8c; peanuts, 8c per
pound.
The Ment Market.
Bef.f Live, 3c; dressed, 56c.
Mutton Live, sheared, 33'c;
dressed, 7c.
Hoas Live, 6c; dressed, 89c.
Smokkd Mkats Eastern ham, 123
13c; Oregon, U4l2a; breakfast ba
con, 1213c; other varieties, 8llc per
pound.
Laud 9?11?c per pound.
Hides, Wool nnd Hop.
Hides Dry hides, selected prime, Sx4
9c; H less for culls; green, selected",
over 55 pounds. 4c; under 6U pounds, 3c;
sheep pelts, short wnol. snKrw m-
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dium, 6080c; long, 00c$1.25; shear
lings, 10M20c; tallow, good to choice, 3
3,'6c per pound.
WooLr-Willamette Valley, 1719c;
Eastern Oregon, 10106c per pound,
according to conditions and shrinkage.
Uors Nominal ; 20c per pound.
Miss Gladys Evelyn is to tell the Brit
ish public from the 'rostrum how she was
wronged by William Henry Hurlbert.
The evidence the Court would not per
mit her to give will be produced.
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