The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918, September 17, 1891, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextB. CHANOEY, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. Fruit-Growing in Ari zona Territory. POPULATION OF MINIVOK Two Hundred Miners Arrive in Ono Day at Iho New Mining Camp in Utah. Strawberries grow in Alaska, and now is mm Benson lor them. Arizona hopes goon to bo a rival California in the fruit-growing lino. to It is again reported that the Dunsmuirs have sold the Wellington collieries to syndicate. It is reported that within the last six months 150 young women have taken up timber claims in the State of Washing ton. The infected Tahiti trees landed fian Pedro are beinc closely watched horticulturists, who claim they are filled with insects. The government steamer AlbatroHs which lias iKien in the service- of the Fish Commission Hineo July 10, 'o at As toria. and will await orders there. The Commissioners have gone East. A party of hind swindlers have been arrested at Portland. They have been locating parties on land on tho pnymcnt of $D, and claimed that a symllcate thev represented would buy tho land at nn advance. The sheen industry in Oregon is growing ono. Oregon is now furnishing sheen for the Black Mills country. The other day 145 carloads loft Pendleton for Mundan, N. D., where they will bo put on the range. Port Townsond according to oflleinl re turns cleared 117 more vessels during tl first threo months of this year than Mow York did. Tho tonnage oi tho siiij cleared was a third more than that those from New York. The run of salmon has begun in dead earnest ami largo catches are reported nil over tho Bound. Iho Myers caiuieiy nt Mukilteo is receiving between 5,00.) and (1,000 llsh per dav, and is now can ning thorn as fast as received. Seventeen cases in which tho United States brought suit against the Pugr Sound Mill Conipanv have been decided by tho acting Secretary and the rulings of tho Commissioner in the same re versed. This is a victory for tho com puny. Tho crow of tho bark Pisngua, which vessel has lust reached Victoria, H. U complain of having been fed with rotten meat, which they could not eat, and they had subsisted on bread for weeks. The captain hnd tho mate and two men irons, and charged them with mutiny in At San Francisco Colonel 0. F. Crocker was quite seriously hurt tho other day by falling from n streot car. Ho was sit ting on the railing of a car, and when it Btnrted suddenly no loll oil, and his head struck the paving. Ho was at once taken to his homo, and a surgeon was called in Tho now freight rates established by the Oregon Railroad Commission aro a reduction on an average of not less than ;H per cent, on grain and millstulls and about 15 per cent, on horses, mules, etc., in carload lots. Tho Union Pacific will, with tho Southern Pacific, contest tho matter in tho courts. At tho now mining camp of La Plata, near Ogdon, U. T., 200 prospectors ar rived recently. At a meeting held to lo cate town streets a row arose, and the meeting adjourned to avoid trouble. Tho renter of tho camp has a slim. "China men and Dagos, take a sneak," attached to a polo, from which hangs a ropo with a noose at mo end. rresno vinoyardlBts have boon at last obliged to employ Chinese to pick their Km pes. I hoy tried to get Indians, and nont agents to the mountains to bring all who would work, but not enough could bo had to pick tho crop. Tho Ce lestials are at lresuo by thousands from nil parts of tho State, and have entered Into a combination among themselves to Btriko tor higher wages. .Many have found employment at $1.75 a day. 'Iho opening of tho terminal road to Long lleach and ban Pedro, which will take place within six weeks, will bo at tended with considerable improvements nt those places. A new hotel will be erected cither at Ixing 1 leach or on tho lUittlesnako Island terminus of the lino, which will bo renamed and made a sum mer resort. The Southern Pacific will nlso probably erect a new hotel on the site oi tho structure recently burned at Long Heach. Nearly two years ago quite a stir was mado at .Mill College, Cal., alwut the loss of a valuable diamond pin lolonglng to Miss Maud Sparks of Reno. Servants nnd pupils weio suspected, and much notoriety was given to tho case in tho papers. Miss Sparks was removed from tho school in consequence of tho sup posed theft, lately, when one of her old gowns was being ripped, the pin was found in tho drapery of the garment, where it had been safely concealed all this time. At San Francisco the Arbitration Com mittee of tho Water Front Federation called nmn (loodnll, Perkins A Co. to arrange for it settlement of the difficulty with the striking stevedores. According to inemlmrs of tho committee the firm refund to coticcd (he advance in wages asked, but agreed to take the strikers buck at the old rates of 30 cents per hour mid 10 cent overtime. This U Mid to hnvo been iiw edeil to by Mr. Center of the I'acllle Mail (Viinpiiny uImi. The KtevHorot' Piiion will meet in consider (lit) proportion. The employ r, how ever, iuwM that they Imve not ugicml ilMiurge the non-union nmn vvlnun they liHVti employed on the dock ami wlllyhe the fdrJker eiiiployinenl only UN there may Ui hhiIhk for litem. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. riio Amx-me.l Valimtlon nf Hie Pacific CohkI Stitti'K mill Utah. A special from Washington says it is believed that ex-Governor Cheney will be Secretary Proctor's successor in the Cabinet. Information has been received that Charles W. Flint of New York has been appointed Consul-General of Chili by President Balmaceda. The Department of State has been of ficially notified that tho city of Trieste, Austria, has ceased to bo a free port and is now on tho same footing with regard to customs duties as tho other ports of the Austria-Hungary Umpire. Tho Secretary of tho Treasury has de cided that Song Chong Hop and Hop Lee, the two Chinese boys, 17 and 15 years of age, who allege they were born in Texas and subsequently visited Can ton, China, are not debarred from re turning to tho United Suites if thoy pro duce satisfactory evidence that they were born in this country. Assistant Secretary Craunae baa issued a circular to customs officers as follows: "In nil cases of seizure of spirituous liquors made on account of violations of customs laws in States wherein local laws forbid the public sale of spirituous liquors Collectors will hereafter hold the articles seized and report each case to this department for auch action as will not contravene local statutes." Secretary Noble has sent the following telegram to Governor Steele of Okla homa in reply to a dispatch inquiring as to tho time and conditions for opening to settlement tho Indian lands in Okla homa Territory : "There is no dav set for opening tho Indian lands. Tho Pres ident has not been consulted, and he will have to determine. I have requested mfnoient force to protect. Indian landB until opened. I am sure the people will understand that they cannot go upon these lands until all conditions with the Indians aro complied with and the proc lamation issued. Tho law-abiding citi zens will be protected so far as my au thority goes, and those disobeying the law and committing trespasses shall gain nothing thereby, but rather incur loss. Please keep mo advised." Tho census bureau baa issued a bulle tin on tho assessed valuation of tho real and personal property of the several States and Territories. Tho bulletin shows that the assessed value of all prop erty baa increased in tho last decade $7,344,5!)7,2(l. Illinois bIiows an appar ent decreaso of $5(1,200,000, because tho Stato Hoard of Equalization declares the assessed value to bo at 60 per cent., and in 181)0 only 25 per cent, of tho true value. Among tho States allowing in crease aro the following: California, $180,524,000; Idaho, $ 111.110,000 ; Mon tana, $87,873,000; Nevada, $4, 028,000; Utah, $7(,i)33,000; Washington. $100, 085,000; Oregon, $113,501,000. Tho as sessed valuation per capita, exclusive of Oklahoma, in 181 HI was $3,870.20, an in crease of about $51) over ISiX William II. Williams, who wont to Seal Island threo months ago as a spe cial agont of the government, baa just returned to Washington. He said that despite the presence of nearly a dozen American and English nien-of war in and around Iiehring Sea illicit sealing was being carried on extensively. Pre vailing fogs in tho sea made it easy for last-hailing schooners to elude pursuit, and Williams ia of the opinion that the illegal catch for tho present season will number 20,000 seals. Of tho 7,500 skins allowed privilege holders thi" year 0,300 caught by natives for food have already passed into thehands of the North Amer ican Commercial Company. This leave only 1,200 seals to be captured Itctween now and May 1 of next year; and, as that nuiulier will not supply tho Aleuts on the Islands of St. Paul and St. George with food, tho Commercial Company will have to keep the natives from starving. Williams is of tho opinion that a coumc of years' protection to seals is necessary in order to keep thoin from loiiig exter minated. CABLEGRAMS. l'roo((D nf l'liolciKraplilii- In Color I'lttcnttMl In London. Over 10.000 minors in South Wales have struck. Denmark will bo heard from at tho World's Fair. Sovoro oarthouakes aro reported in various portions oi Italy. Husflia has authorized r. temporary oan oi K,OJO,oot credit roubles. tV isorun court lias decided that a Diitcher can make and sell dog sausages li ho labels them as such. A process for photographing in colore has been patented in London, and a company is about to begin business. Women in Sweden have now obtained official permission from the government to ho received as pupils ot ajwtheearies ino ivaiser nas sent io mo uueon a flue picture of his vacht, tho Hohonzol lern, representing nuuseii standing on the bridge in full naval uniform. Tho inhabitants of Pivoli, incensed at a Bishop localise ho tried to prevent services in Uoumanla, seized him, pulled his ncard out and drugged him through the streets. From Hamburg comes a report that tho Empress rrvdortok refutes to take any notice of the Princess Hismarck, and even declines to recognize hor when they happen to meet in the course of their drives. LiveriKKil intends spending $30,000 more in attempting to do awav with that nuisance, tho Liverpool bar. Thev have already spent $50,000 buying two power- nil dredgers and carrying away 120,000 tons of sand. Tho British surveying shin Rambler has returned home after triangulating the whole coast liotweon Shanghai ami Hongkong. Manv ootids, lnehulliui lighthouses, were found to bo out of ivo- sitiou on the chart, tho Breakwater Point lighthouse fully a mile. Sir F.dwin Watkin. not content with building a tower which will outdo Kiilol, has an electric light on Suowdeu. the highest mountain in Wales. Tho author ities at Trinitv Motive have approved Sir 1 win WiUkin'ri idea. Iwlloving it will rovo a valuable addition to tho beacon or tho guidance ot mariners on the count of North Wale. In llcnearabia parents am aetuallv of. feriiig their children for vale in order to my food, mid the dealers at I oindantl- huplo huve piiruluwml a connirierahhi iiiiinlKir of female children. Many eutlm httVM iieen iuium through fm. !,,. ,l,l ,HII,IMV MMJ I 9IMIUII HriMUIIV iH'r Ulilnu fioni hmiuur umi liiiddlinu to. in. unit I.iiiiIII.ij iiiiivi lui l.iii.iil .i .. I .. 1 1 yothur )n (hulr common inUuiy, EASTERN ITEMS. lannel Coal Struck at Bath, Maine. WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS Ontario Confiscates Short-Weight Bread and Gives It to Chari table Institutions. Opium-smoking ie increasing in Phial delphia. Only one Indian left in Illinois eays the census. A vein of cannel coal has been struck nt Bath, Me. Tho People's party in Kansaa invites penny contributions. Mr. Blaine thinks of improving his property at Bar Harbor. The Mayor of Philadelphia cannot bo elected to a second term. Tho owners of apartment houees in Boston proposo to organize. Separate cars for blacks and whites in Tflxas have proven a failure. The assessed valuation of real estate in Pennsylvania is $732,300,872. The Wyoming Legislature has passed a law taxing bachelors $2 a year. General Butler is having some grim enjoyment in reading his obituaries. The Alliance speakers who are to stump Ohio will " live on the farmers." In Ontario short-weight bread is con fiscated and given to charitable institu tions. Boodle charges are now made in con nection with tho harbor works at To ronto. Mr. Wanamaker is thinking of intro ducing a pneumatic postal aervice in St. Louis. The Upper Missiaaippi is rapidly get ting into an unsatisfactory low-water condition. Guatemala will probably reproduce at the Chicago Fair one of tho old palaces iu antique. The Francklvn cottage, where Presi dent Garfield died, baa lnjen bought by the Trustees. Tho farmera near Tern! Haute, Ind., want the $105,000 stallion Axtell assessed at that figure instead of $5,0.W. Connecticut is overrun witli skunks; they even peregrinate into the cities and cause many unpleasant incidents. A cotton trust is forming in the South, tho object being to save tho present large crop from being sacrificed to low prices. Canadian authorities have prohibited the circulation through the mails of that country of sixteen papers printed in this country. A leading hotel at Asburv Park, N. J has been lined $100 for serving oleomar garine to its guests, who did not detect the imposition. Following tho suggestion of General Booth in England, tho Salvation Armv in this country is proposing to go about the streets on bicycles. Tho Prohibitionists of Nebraska have placed Mrs. Ida M. Bittenbender. a fe male lawyer of Lincoln, in the field for Supreme Judge of the State. A now dry dock is proposed for the Brooklyn navy vard, to be 000 feet long and 140 feet "wide, to bo of wood and concrete and to cost $000,000. Tho Now York Press announces that tho old John Roach ship yard has re ceived tho contract for an 8.000-ton mail steamer from tho Pacific Mail Company. Premier Ablott savs tho scandals un earthed by the investigations at Ottawa are very serious, but he adds tho govern ment proposes to punish tho guilty par ties. Tho citizens of Stevens county. Kan. in which the countv-seat mutation has caused some bloodshed, want an invest!' gation of tho finances by State author ities. Boston has good evidence of the large ness of tho poach crop. The Transcript Buys that already the Hub has received nioro of the fruit than it sometimes gets lu an entire season. Tho Morgan line of steamers plying between Galveston and New York "baa been taken on and business concentrated at New Orleans, ino commercial inter ests of Galveston will bu somewhat in jured. It Ib estimated by the American Agrh eulturist that tiie farm products in the United States this vear will be worth $1,000,000,000 more 'than they brought during any of the recent seasons of de pression. General Russell A. Alger says ho did not state that Mr. Blaine had told him that lui (Blaine) would bo a candidate for tho Presidency. The dispatch giving General Alger credit lor the Btatoinent was untrue. Judge Seaglo of Alleghany, Pa., dr cides that, although navigable rivers aro in general the property of tho Federal government, a city lying along either kink has police jurisdiction to tho cen ter of the stream. It is said Clans Sprockets is to be pros ecuted for engaging Austrians to come to this country under contract to work in his refineries. Two of tho men reached New York last week, and are to be re turned to their country. Indian lauds iu the Indian Territory purchased during tho past vear by the government will bo opened to settlement by proclamation by tho President op toiUr 10. The knowledge of this fact has attracted many Kwmera already. V. New Orleans dispatch savs: The Texas Farmers' Alliance is responsible for the injury to tiie trade of Galveston. The Tetas Railroad Commission, which has fixed cotton rates, and tho Texas alien laud aro Kith the work of the Alli ance, and both are showing their hurtful eiicciH. I'll ii Ueelev euro fur drunkenness made famous by the publicity given it by I'M Itor Mixltll of Chicago is nut tin unmixed Wooing. It i claimed that bichloride of iold, which U th roimuly. nut only Munoii'H Iho utti for liquor, but dnnug Iho Mriod of active triMilinent nualyo tliu memory. Calient, they ay. forbid the name of tlmir friend and Ihelruwii liuinc it ml thu iiuinci of place, PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Hninmnnit Hay W,.lto-1o Ameri can Iteiiulrn .More KvkI. The Pope approves the exhibition of tho holy coat as laudable and opportune, and promises indulgences to pilgrims. They have a story in Cincinnati that Harry S. New, soil of Consul-General New. will marry a Detroit lady soon and sail for Europe. Miss Levina Fillmore, a relative of President Fillmore, has just celebrated her 101th birthday. Sue resides in Clarence, N. Y. Ella Wheeler Wilcox would have all bachelors over -16 taxed to suport ti-e maiden ladieB over 30. There might be trouble in finding out when the 3J was reached. General Abner Doubleday, who aimed the first gun in defense of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1801, lias been critically ill for weeks at his home in Mondham, N. J. He is in his 57th year. The same day that Mrs. ex-President Polk died a letter was received at the White House, of which she was mistress so many years ago, directed to her "care of the White Houae." Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil has settled into a condition of mental depression from which, Edmund Yates reports, it ia impossible to arouee him. He keeps closely to his room at Vichy. Young Moaby is reported tohaveapol o ized for shooting at Count Mitkie wiecz, but his father, the o.d cavalry partisan, thinks that the apology duo from his otl'epring is for tho failure to hit his mark. Miss Rachel Gurney, the protege of tho Duchess of Bedford, who ia to marry tiie young Earl of Dudley, is, besides being very handsome, extremely accom plished and one of the best amateur singers in England. John Fiske, tho historian, Bays Lowell was a matchless Dante acholar, and no experience waa so valuable and no in struction in any college corner was pur sued with so much pleasure as in his ad vanced class in Italian. Secretary Bayard's daughter, the Countess Lewonhaupf, intends to pass the fall and possibly tho winter in Sweden. It is not improbable that she will make her permanent homo in King Oscar's kingdom. The English artist, Walter Crane, it is announced, is making arrangements for taking his laniny on a long nouuay irip to America in tho autumn. During his visit ho will probably deliver a lecture on "Arts and Crafts.'' Mr. Ward McAllister is quarreling witli his publishers. His book has not been so profitable as ho anticipated. However, it would seem as if he should not turn up his nose at. $15,000 in royal ties, considering the quality of tho book. Governor Eaglo of Arkansas lies got a smart wife, too. She taught him how to read and write, and then she made him Governor. If Arkansas were only a pivotal State, Mrs. liaglo would prob ably be looking toward tho White House now. Dr. William A. Hammond says that even well-to-do Americans require more rest than any other people in tho world nnd ind. less. Ho thinks a human being should have a succession of labors and diversions, as a farmer has rotation of crops. The vouug sons of Senor Miguel mi irez Guinea. Spanish Mini-dor to Un united States, have kodaks, of which they make free use during their present stay at Cape May. It i said they have taken more than one sly shot at the President. Tho late Countess do Chambrun, whoso name was not unknown in the United States, was a unioue figure in Paris society. She was a slender, excit able little old lady, who oven at 08, tho ago at which she "died, was ono of tho best horsewomen in France. English authors and men of letters are saying many pleasant things of the genius and work of the lately deceased liowell. But what will bo thought by the average American of Sir Edwin Ar nold's opinion, which ranks Lowell "next to Walt Whitman?" Sir Hector Lnngovln, who has retired from the Canadian Cabinet under pres sure, is a brother of tho former Bishop of Rimouski, who resigned his charge last spring, ostensibly from ill health, but really because of a protest sent to Rome by Premier Mercier of Quebec against the Bishop'b severity toward cer tain priests after the then recent elec tions. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. Four AVoinon Arrenled In ItiuiKiirjr for 1'oIhoiiIiii; Tlndr II imlnmiU. F. Wilkins, a murderer of Shelbyyille, Ind., was taken from tho jail by a mob and hanged to a lamp jmst. In a battle with the Dalton gang of train roblnirs in Indian Territory Mar shal Short and one of tho gang were killed. In a row growing out of the serving of a warrant at Waldon, Ark., Lewis Grif fin, a Constable, shot and killed u. W. Farwell. John Lerov and Joe Carr have been arrested at Willows, Cal., for the murder of an old German, whoso mutilated lxxly was found iu a mill. James Hill, arrested at Great Falls, Mont., nnd charged with forgery, claims to lo tho brother of Bishop 111 11 of the Methodist Episcopal Chinch at Salt Lake. Nelson A. George, a former employe of the Ogdon (Utah) postollieo, confessed to the crime of euiku.lomont, and has Weil sentenced to one year iu tho peni tentiarv. James M, Daly, who shot and killed F. S. Buckman" at San Francisco last Mutch, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and will bo sentenced to life imprisonment. Tho Columbus Grove (O.) murderer mid train roblxr Inn Iweu captured ami identified by Cashier Mapol, who was wounded at the time of tho robbery, His name is James RutwU. A band of artutkl negroes rnwr Mem- nhis ordered I Iwtiry Jod, a blorttkttoiMr, bi open the safe, lie was so frighten! that ho forgot the combination, and the iiKgrotis shut ami fatally wotmUwi him. Four women have Ixxm urreM at twoiitiaiiieit, Hungary, on a diuruv ot I j4itnliih l heir himUtmU urn I neUtuir MiM)ii to other wo.ni n fur a liinlur mr jkwo. Order have Wii nu to ux Inline (he k1c of many wppocd vio Hiu. FOREIGN LANDS. Gold and Silver Scarce in Portugal. GERMAN CARPET-WEAVERS. iYIr. Gladstone Denies That He Knew of Mr. Parnell's Secret Whereabouts. Prince George of Wales is to be made a commander in the royal navy. Nordica will make a concert tour of the United States on her own account Gold nnd silver have almost entirely disappeared from circulation in Portu gal. Russia has not prohibited tbe expor tation of rve before since the Crimean war. Austria expects to reap a golden har vest out of the Russian rye prohibition with her abundant harvests. The Princeas of Wales fund for the benefit of Mrs. Grimwood. the heroine of Manipur, amounts to $7,500. The famous Sevres porcelain manufac torv is likely to be closed, tho demand for lis wares having fallen oil. The Portuguese are shamefully abus ing the natives in Southeastern Africa, especially in Mozambique, and seize the women as slaves. Tho English colonial office has just consented to the appointment of a Chi nese Consul at Hongkong for one year as an experiment. An Odessa Jew named Kaplan has se cured the punishment of a police agent for assault, having paid the Ulnel ot ro- lice for protection. Everything is quiet at Nankin, where the Viceroy is settling claims. His an swer to the foreign Ministers' demands is eminently evasive. The Manipur Regent in power at the time of the recent massacre m India and Prince Angao Sena have been exiled for life, the death sentence having uoen commuted. A mine of mercurv. said to be exceed ingly rich, has been recentlv discovered in Brazil. This is the only Brazilian mine of that kind of which we have any knowledge. The Catholic papers at Treves urge the pilgrims not to buy relics Ironi the frot- estants. as thev ridicule tho holy coat now on exhibition there, although glad to profit by tho exhibition. Despite ofhcial denial it is still as serted that a government order has been dispatched to all Russian and Polish railways forbidding them to ex port any more wheat, rye or Hour. Loud complaints continue to be mndo of the management ot tno uayreutn mu sical festival. It is alleged that the Di rectors reduced everything to a commer cial basis, and a very sordid one at that. The English government will call the utention of the United States govern ment to the improper packing of cotton cargoes for England, which endangers the los of the vessel while tho cargo is in transit. Spain has given Great Britain formal notice of its intention to terminate July 1 next the treaty by which the products of Canada are admitted into the Spanish West Indies under the "favored-nation" treatment. No prima donna of English birth, it is said, has appeared this season at Covent Garden iu Loudon. Album was lorn in Canada, Melba iu Melliourne, Nordica, Emma Fames and Sybil Sanderson in tho United States. In tho Breslan districts in Germany cotton-weavers are in a conditon lor dering on starvation. Fight of tho largest mills have been closed, and some of tho former employes have been glad to accept work breaking stone at 10 pence a day. Gladstone has written a letter for pub lication denying that he knew of .Mr. Parnell's secret whereabouts. He says he never communicated wUh him by letter except at his ollicial address the House of Commons. Ho was compelled last November to write to Justin McCar thy as the only means o reaching Mr. Par n el I. The very important statement is made by United States Consul Wildnian at Singapore that, if an American house were to le established at Singapore, it would control at once not only all the shipments of tin to tho United States, but the shipments of tho 1 1,000 ,000 of exports from the Straits settlement to the United States. A sensation has been caused by the disappearance of tho Registrar-General of Berlin, Germany, Herr Kanneyses sera. He had been" gambling heavily of late, and in one instance won ' 1,000 marks in a lottery. It is believed that his losses on tho frirf exceed his win nings elsewhere, and that, finding him self nimble to pay his debts, he has com mitted suicide. An old woman died in the south ol France, aged Sit, and in " grateful recog nition of tho intelligent and devoted care of Dr. X., which had enabled her to reach a ripe old age," she left him every thing in her cabinet. After her death t lie executor unlocked the cabinet, and found in it, unopened, unhealed and un corked, all the pills and potions pre en be I for the deceased bv Dr. . dur ing the past ten years. Is the will a f.ir.'trv? Purine (ho HI.OOD, Curoa COVKTIPATION, IMHUKSTION. IIIL 101 S.VUSS, LIVP.K '0MI'LtlTK,hl K IIIUIAnn COLUS, PIMPLi:a, mIINUIN AFll;cri0S, uiultllHlMhUS AUIKlNUfrom n uomnt ir.titiwua rr.. um up ut ykuuw wm m. us tilth t'lUttuutt vt vf HMhWlKhl fotOIHQTCW A (H), Au HI. Sm f'HAHOUOO. MOM WV AM, lUIMJTM AM) UlUH rUH, PORTLAND MARKET. A Itexume of the Condition oT It Dif ferent UeiinrtmvntR. Biisinees has been very active this week, especially in the vegetable and fruit line. The amount of trading was in excess of any previous week this year. In other lines trade has been very good. The local demand for Hour is steady, and the export demand for China and Mu Francisco is larger than the supply. Rt ceipts from the Valley and Eastern Ore gon were very light. Prices have ad vanced, and dealers look for higher quo tations. Oats are more steady, owing to light receipts and a large demand. Millstufls are scarce. The demand for potatoes is fair and the supply very large. Vegetables and fruits aro in" large sup ply. The butter nnd cheese markets are firm. Eggs are steady ami in fair de mand, receipts being light. Chickens are very plentiful, but rind a fair sale. Very little is doing in dried fruits. Thi local demand for wool is fair, holders aie firm, and buyers are not very willing to purchase. I'he hide market is weak. WIIKAT. Telegraphic advices report all markets dull and easier. English cargo market is neglected and 0d per quarter cheaper. Mark Lane spot market is dull and tend ing lower; Liverpool sot is weaker, and futures at the close showed a decline of ldvld percental. Produce, 1'rult, Vic. Wheat Valley, M.fWCHJr.; Walla Walla, 1.47'.j('t!l.f)0 per cental. Fi.oua Standard, Jfo.OO; Walla Walla, $4.00 ner barrel. Oats Old, 4560c; new, 4042l-..c per bushel. Hvy $12in4 per ton. Miu.sti'kfs Bran, 22(S2.'5; short?, nominal, $25 (ft 20; ground barley, $ 0 32; chop feed, !f22frt2(j per ton; barlev !fl.2d((f 1 25 per cental. Berrien Oregon fancy creamery, !50r 82He; fancy dairy, 27 'e; fair to good, oc; common, lo(s-0e; uaniornia, (5 24c pjr pound. Ciiki:sk Oregon, 12&C12MC; Califor nia, 12c per pound. Kuan Oregon, toe per dozen. Pon.THY Old chickens, ifo.50 ; young chickens, 2.504.00; ducks. 4C4 (; geese, nominal, $8 per dozen ; turkeys, 15c per pound. VnoETAHLES uaooage, si.ou per cental; cauliflower, !?11 25 per doztm; Onions, P-de per pound ; beets, 1.2o per sack; turnips, $1.00 per sack; new pota toes, ti0l)5o per cental ; tomatoes, 00(J! 57c per Ikjx; lettuce, 12'e per dozen; green peas, 3QT)4e per pound; string beans. 2(tl'Ac per pound; rhubarb, :c per pound; cucumbers, 10c per dozen; car rots, $1(1.2j per sack; corn, 10c per dozen; sweet potatoes, 2uj:3c per pound. FaiiTs Sicily lemons, $78; Califor nia, $f(?0 per box ; apples, 75c$1.25 per box; bananas, $3.o04 a bunch; pineap ples, $57 per dozen; apricots, SocQ-fl Cer box ; peaches, GOG? 85c per box ; black erries, ti(S7c per pound; plums, 25(j00o per box; watermelons, $1.502.50 per dozen ; cantaloupes, $1.501. 75 perdozen, $2 per crate; grapes, lokay, $1.30 per box, $1.001.10 per crate; muscat and black, $1.25 per crate; pears, $1.25; Rartlett, $1G?1.25 per box; nectarines, $1.25 per crate; crab apples, 3c per pound ; $1.50 per dozen. Nut California walnuts, 11 '.i(fi!12l2C hickory, (isc; Brazils, lOfJt llu ; al monds, Ki(f?i8e; filberts, 13(14c; pine nuts, 1718c; pecans, 1718c; cocoa nuts, 8c; hazel, Sc; peanuts, 8c pet- pound. Staple OrorerleH. Coffee Costa Rica. 21Cc; Rio. 23c ; Mocha, 30c; Java, 25jc; Arbuckle'a, 100-pound cases, Ja-fc per pound. bun a it Golden U,4?c; extra C, 4Re; granulated, 5c: cube crushed and pow dered, tiiic; confectioners' A, 5?c per pounu. liKANs bmall white. 3fic; pink, 3 (!3)ic; bavos, 43ic; butter, 4ke; liinas, 4l4(oe per pound. Honey I8((i:20c per pound. Salt Liverpool, $10,$1G.5017; stock. $1112 per ton in carload lots. Canned Goods lable fruits, $l.t. 2!s; peaches, $2.00; Bartlett pears, $1 .80 ; plums.$l .37 lo : strawberries. $2.25 : cherries, $2.50(i2.00 ; blackberries, $1.00 ; raspberries, $2i40; pineapples. $'.50(a3; apricots, $1.75. Vegetables : Corn, $1.35( l.oo, according to quality; tomatoes, $1.I03.25; sugar peas, $1.25; string beans. $1.10 per dozen. Pie fruit: As sorted, $1.50; jeaches, $1.05; plums, $1.25; blackberries, $1 05 per dozen. Fish; Sardines, 85eorl.l5; lobsters, $2.30 Ct3.50; oysters, $1.50(f3.25 per dozen. Salmon, standard No. 1, $1.2o0il.50 per case; No. 2, $2.55. Condensed milk: Eagle brand, $8.10; Crown, $7; High land, $0.75; Champion. $0; Monroe. $0.75 per case. hvai'i' hastern, in barrels. 47(55c: half-barrels. 50(if58c: in cases. 55f60c per gallon; $2.252.50 per keg. Cali fornia, in barrels, 30c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. kick if 0.20 per cental. Dkied Fm iTb Italian prunes. Q6i 11c: Petite and German, 'J&t 10c per pound; raisins. $1.75nf2.25 per lox : ohnnmer dried pears, looi llc; sun-dried ami fac tory plums, 11(1$ 12c; evaporated peaches, JtKcC'ov; Smyrna hgs. 20e: Ca norma. figs, lie per jwund. lllil-s, Wool anil Hop. IIniL'C lln. Iioluo I. ....... I 01 .......a .i.v.vd, rnctivu jiiuiiu, o-. iio; $3 less for culls; green, selected", over 55 pounds, 4e; under 65 pounds, 3", sheep pelts, short wool, 30ui50o; me dium. OOsfSOc: Ion". t)0euti .'5 - h hour. lillL'H. M?''lk! tnlln , - - ------ ' J )WW V VMVUV J 3L;e per pound. Wool Willamette Valley, 17(Tt 10c ; Eastern Oregon, 10(ffl.,c "per pound, according to conditions and shrinkage. II, V !....! . ... . .r . nura .'urauiiii; wi soe per HtuilU. Afrnrdilltr in (lift a.ft.,l.. ..1.1!1 1 Stiltlaticu tl 0-13 inhabitants in this country and one to every thirty-eight in England.