EASTERN ITEMS.
PERSONAL MENTION.
FOREIGN NEWS.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Senator Squire 8ar II Would Not Hare
the Chinese MlMlon.
A Chlnmc Comprador Appointed United
State Depatr Marlial for Amor.
A Ilmunir nt the Condition or It Dif
ferent DeiMirtineiitn.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
B. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or.
PACIFIC COAST.
Nevada is to Have
Gold Boom.
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DROUGHT IN NEW MEXICO.
San Clemente Island Reported to Be
the Scene of a Land-Claim
Excitement.
8and for making glass has been found
near Spokane.
Vancouver. B. C, haa a population of
13,085, and Victoria, 15. C, 10,049.
The drought in the southern portion
of New Mexico iH causing loss to stock
The biggest run of fialinon known for
years has appeared in the Skagit river,
The mackerel along the southern coast
of California are said to be fat, plentiful
and biting freely.
Manv witnesses in the uavis will con
test nt Butte, Mont., are now testifying
to the genuineness ol tne document
Nevada is to be boomed with gold
taken from the Am mine at Pine Nut,
Marvelous stories are told of the rich
TiesH of the quartz in that camp,
The glut of potatoes in Southern Call
fornia continues. In one section thev
are being offered at 5 cents a sack in the
ground, the buyer to dig mem.
The pchooner Hamilton Lewis, Captain
Alexander ,MclAan, has wen captured
Tiy a Russian gunboat while poaching off
Copper Island in Russian waters in the
Retiring Sea.
Oliver Roberts, Charles Colburn and
A. S. Harney have incorporated at Car
son, Nov., the Mountain View, Valley
view and Mascot mines under one head
with a capital stock of $1,000,000
The attempt to create a rush of land
seekers to the Island of San Clemente
sixty miles southwest of San Pedro, has
not leen successful. The island is said
to be Irare of vegetation and not capable
ol cultivation wim any success
At Visalia. Cal., an attempt wag made
by pome unknown party to poison
number of (warders of Mrs. McDermitt
by introducing into the material with
which the ladv made ice cream croton
oil. Eleven persons were made serious
ly til.
Bert Fesfller of Washington. D. C.
haa been appointed master of the young
men's dormitory at the Lelaud Stanford
(Jr.) University, and C. II. Johnson of
San Francisco has been appointed chief
engineer at the Stanford University, vice
& r t-: i- . : i
A. II. riBhu returned.
Within the last few days everv foot of
(1 ! I . ."
me nan Joaquin river irom nampton
ville to a point above Millerton has been
covered with mining claims. It is 1 Re
lieved the bed of the river is filled with
cold, and a survey lias been mado with
a view of turning the river from Ub
channel.
it lias been decided "by a City Justice
at Stockton, Cal , that a man can work
and yet lie a vagrant under the new va
grancy law. The court convicted a young
man, uiiuougn it appeared from the ovi
deuce that the defendant lirul worked
during all tho time ho was alleged to bo
a uisMoiute person.
The " California Colored Colonization
Society " proposes to bring 5,000 negroes
into oaiiiornui tuts vear. The Secretary
of tho society at Fresno savs: "Wo
have aeven sections of land in Fresno
county and boiiio in Shasta, and these
two counties will receive the bulk of our
people for the present."
Tho steamer Signal sailed for Alaska
the other day with a surveyor, engineer
nno additional miners and supplies for
tho Alaska Coal Mining Company at
Kacliomok Bay, making tho third ship
inent within tho past few weeks. The
company haa chartered the schooner
Undaunted to bringdown a sample cargo
next uciooer.
riio local attornov for the Southern
ruclllc railroad has Hied a demurrer with
tho County Clerk in the Hiiit brought by
the county of San Diego for taxes for the
years 1887 and 1888, amounting to $51,
000. Among other tilings the demurrer
alleges that tho statutes of California in
relation to tho collection of taxes are un
constitutional and void.
It Is announced that the San Francisco
Produce Exchange and Call Board in
tends doing nway with tho present sys
tem of buying or selling grain con t met e
or tho year or season and will adopt the
Eastern method of dealing in monthly
options only. The change will bo made,
it is said, as soon as the present year
and season contract expire.
A sen tiel to the sudden disatmenrtmpo
bortson with $0,000 of Fidelity Trimi
Company's money is the subsequent dis-
nppeumuce 01 jonn I. Cnlioon, his
Drotiier-tn-law. Tho two families live in
the same house. It is said that Cohoon
has Iwoii kidnaped by detectives and ia
tMiing subjected to a squeezing process.
In a trial at Santa Barbara, Cal.. which
haa just ended, of one RotartM, who was
cnargeu witn tneil, it was shown that
Roberts had entered government land
which had teon used by farmers to pas
ture Htock.nnd in order to get rid of iiim
tho owners of the stock combined and
put up a job by which they thought
niuj ixiuui oenu nun 10 me penitentiary
The jury wbh out but nine minute's,
when u venlict of not guilty wuu ren
dered. The annual conferenco of the Norwo-xian-Danish
Church for Washington,
Oregon and Idaho has decided to build
a Danish theological rubral at l'ortland
in connection with the denominational
university there. The church lias a fund
of $100,000 for that purkii, and the
plan is to ppeud to(,00) for a site and
$20,000 for a building, retaining fjm.uio
or the maintenance of the school. Nine
trustee will bo apolnted to conferwith
tho trustees, of the l'ortland university
und to proceed with the work if they
ooiuldor the plan leant bio.
It is estimated at the Treasury Depart
ment that there has been an increase of
over 1.0,000,000 in cash holdings since
August 1, representing a decrease in the
public debt to that amount according to
the old form of debt statement.
Immigrant Commissioner Owen haa
directed that the four laborers who re
cently arrived in the Pembina from Can
ada be returned to that country, having
come into the United States in violation
of the alien labor law. The men are
employed by David Meyers of Pittsburg,
N. fa.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the establishment of the First
National Bank of Roseburg, Or. ; capital
stock, $50,000. President, Thomas R.
Sheridan; cashier, John P. Sheridan.
Also the Columbia National Bank of Ta
coma, Wash. ; capital, $200,000. Presi
dent, Henry Oliver; cashier, N. B. Dol
sen. Another decision waa made in the tide
water land case of Washington, in which.
Assistant Secretary Chandler sustained
the former decisions, that the lands be
tween high and low water were not sub
ject to location by scrip. The applica
tions of Jacob C. Mann and Albert E.
Jack in this case is denied. Five appli
cations for entry upon the Puyallup In
dian reservation are also denied by the
Secretary.
Secretary Noble sent the following tel
egram to Governor Steele of Oklahoma :
" The President has ordered that no ex
ception shall bo made of Cherokees lo
cating or placing herds on the Strip after
the order or in evasion of it. General
Miles will be so instructed by the War
Department. The President has further
ordered cavalry troops to aid the agent
in expelling trespassers from the Sac
and Fox reserves in accordance with in
structions written by the President in
his orders.
B. C. Shannon, the newly-appointed
Minister to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Salvador, called at the State Department
and received instructions. He will re
lieve Minister Pacheco of part of his
enormous duties as the sole representa
tive of the United States diplomatic
Hervice in Central America. Minister
Pacheco was instructed to protest airainst
the violent action by the halvadortan ol
ficials against the Pacific Mail steamship
City of Panama, but nothing has leen
heard from him in resixmse. lo reach
Salvador ho must travel 700 miles with
out railroad facilities, and delay is attrib
uted to this fact
" Here is a sainole of what I have had
to endure of late," said Senator Squire
of Washington, showing a telegram he
had Hist received, it was Irom -tattle
and read as follows: " I hope the rumor
that you are seriously considering the
Chinese mission is false. It would Ih
uniust to your friend"." This wan signed
"Hunt." "Mr. Hunt," continued the
Senator, " is the owner and editor of the
Seattle Porl-Intelhiencer. He ha evi
dently given credence to the absurd tu
mor that I was going to China as United
States Minister. It puzzles me to know
how that story could have been evolved
There is absolutely nothing in it. No
suggestion or intimation ever came to
me that the place would be tendered to
me. But to put a quietus on the whole
Jiatter I do not hesitate to aav that I
would not have the ollico under anv con
Bideration. America is good enough for
me. l have traveled in foreign lands.
and have seen a bit of most parts of tho
habitable glole, and I pay in all sincer
ity that the man who would swap Seattle
lor reKin aa a place of residence is non
coinpui."
CABLEGRAMS.
A Heheitie. to Overthrow the llrnr.lllsn
(lovertiine lit llci ered.
Turf losses have lately obliged manv
English noblemen to go into bankruptcy.
Sir John Gorst is likelvto bo appointed
Postmaster-General in tho English Cab
inet.
jus uarcK's eves unit, aim neurine nm
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fast failing, and he falls into a sudden
and sleo-hko torpor.
1 lie Austrian Empress has svniDtoms
oi insanity, ami medical experts pro
nounce the caso a grave one.
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A cvclono. which has iust passed over
San Mauro, Castigliono and Gmsino dis
tricts, has caused great distress.
Queen Victoria is to resident Balmoral
until the third week in November, when
the court will remove to Windsor Castle.
Tho waving of Hags and tho throwing
of dowers as the Emperor is on his wav
to the Nihwanmn festivities have been
forbidden.
Mrs. Annie Besant in her farewell ad
dress in IxhuIoh statwd that she had re
ceived letters from tho other world from
Mine. Wavatsky.
President Diaz has appointed Joenli
Ives Limantour Minister Plenipotentiary
to arrange a commercial reciprocity
treaty with tho United States.
It is now the intention of European
engineers to store tho waters of the Nile
to such an extent as to enable a greater
extension of tho cotton and sugar-cane
crops in that region.
Admiral Elliott expresses tho opinion
since the recent British maneuvers that
numerical superiority in tornedo gun
vossels is of equal, if not greater, im-
jtortanco than in battle ships.
Tho Jour nil of the Chamber of Com-
turret at Pans states that the Belgian
government will declare Antwerp and
other Belgian (wirts free ports, aiming to
initKo noigium the warehouse of Europe
The Calliope, which successfully rode
out the Btorin at Apia, in which German
and American vessels wore lost, it now
Mug recoppered at Portsmouth. The
defects in her hull were of a berions
character.
A scheino to overthrow the govern
ment of Brazil had its origin in Rio
Grande do Sul. A party of travelers ac
cidentally came upon tip hidden arsenal
of the conspirators. Many prominent
porconB are involved.
Tho bureau of iolico at Vienna bus is-
sued a circular, in winch it is stated that
the high Imperial and royal government
has under consideration the question of
the advisability of denying women the
privilege of wearing 'trains to their
drosses on the public streets.
Hie Minister of Education In con
junction with the Minister of the Inte
rior has issued u circular prohibiting
Jewish children whoso parents live in
Riihaia on foreign pasitportH to U admit
ted Into any of the iniddlo or higher in
NtltuMoiiH of learning for the ensuing
hchohiHtic term, 1
Kansas Farmers Paying
Off Mortgages.
PATRIOTIC SONS OF VETERANS
Have Refused to Expunge the Word
"White" in Their Consti
tution Eto.
The fiat haa gone forth that Sve-cent
shaves in New York must go.
Chicago is about to erect an apartment
house which will contain 707 rooms.
The Texas Trunk railroad has been
turned over to the Southern Pacific.
The Wilmington (Del.) $250,000 post
office will probably be built of cut gran
ite. Baltimore is to have a tin-plate factory
in operation in the course of three
months.
Spreckels says he is paddling his own
canoe, and has not nor will he join-the
eugar trust.
The officials of the Auburn (N Y.)
prison have set the convicts at work
making pearl buttons.
The sanitary inspectors in Brooklyn
say that leprosy does not exist among
the Chinese residents there.
An effort to combine the various com
mercial organizations of the Kansas
Farmers' Alliance has failed.
Eight hundred thousand acres of land
in Eastern usiaiioma recently ceded by
Indiana will soon be open to settlement.
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those who perished n the Park place
fpi. i:r 3 .i.. ;,
uieasier at uw iurn una reiicneu .fO,-w,
It is said that there are more salmon
in the Merrimac river now than there
has been at any time during the last
forty years.
During tho months of May, June and
July of this year 11,450.000 Kansas farm
mortgages have been paid oil". Tin's is a
very good sign.
The annual report of the Sr. Paul road
shows that after paying a 7 per cent, div
idend on preferred stock there is a sur
plus of $090,103.
Petrdleun., which actually flows up
unaided through the rocks, has leen dis
covered at Crow's Nest in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
A special from Washington to the New
York livening 1'oit says it is lelieved
that ex-Governor Cheney will be Secre
tary Proctor's successor.
During the past few weeks the exports
of wheat have averaged 5.000,000 bush
els weekly, an increase of nearly three
quarters over this time last yearl
In the 6,000,000 letters that reached
the dead-letter office last year there was
money amounting to f28,012 and checks
and notes of tho value of $1,471,871.
Andrew Sonscal, Superintendent of the
Canadian Dominion printing bureau,
has been dismissed. He was implicated
in tho scandal which ib being investi
gated. Work on the government jetties for
the deepening of Galveston harbor un
der the $0,200,000 appropriation by the
last Congress is now beginning apparent
ly in earnest.
Two-thirds of the applicants for ad
mission to West Point and Annapolis
according to Dr. Clieeseinan of Chicago
are rejected beeausoof the cigarette habit
and its results.
Tho emigration from Germany to
America during the first live months of
the presont year amounted to 55..MS7, or
nearly 10.000 more than the largest total
during any five months of the last five
years.
Tho bureau of American Republics is
informed that the Brazilian Minister
of Finance has ordered the collection
of all iiiiKrt duties in gold and has for
bidden the sale of gold at the custom
houses.
It is a great pleasure to learn that
there are to bo no expensive side shows
at tho World's Fair. Tho directorv has
decided that the entrance fee shall en
title the visitor to Bee everything within
the inclosure.
William E. Bear, tho English statisti
cian, writes to Jiriitlstreet'K that later in
formation leads Imn to mark up the
European deficiency of wheit from 281,
000.000 bushels (his first figures) to 320.-
000,000 bushels.
Tho Patriotic Sons of Veterans in ses
sion at Philadelphia refused to expunge
the word " whito " in their constitution
where it refers to thoso entitled to mem
bership. Udmnon, Pa., has been chosen
as the next plneo of meeting.
Ex-As-istttiit Cashier Lawrence of the
defunct Keystone Bank ut Philadelphia
has made a caufession of the manner in
which i no dookh oi tne concern were
doctored. It shows a system of duplio-
ty and thievery almost unparalleled.
James E. Lyon has brought suit against
Senator William M. Stewart of Navadii
for $1,000,000 damages. The suit grows
out of complications over mining deals,
among tho properties concerned being
the hmma mine of Utah. The Senator
charges Lyon with blackmail.
A dispatch from San Francisco re
ceived at Washington. D. C. savs that
many sailoisof the United States steamer
Peusacola are deserting, because they
fear tho vessel iH not seaworthy and a
trip to China would Ue perilous The
Navy Department says that the Peusa
cola will not f.o to China, but only to
Honolulu.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
sent n iK-rsotiallv-signed letter to the
postmaster at each county-seat through
out the United States, asking hitn for
the public good at his own oxpenso to
make a personal visit to each postolHco
in his county and ma,ke a detailed report
upon its condition, tho needs of the
Kirvico, etc.
A business building 650 feet high ia
proiHwed for Broadway, New York. The
Kllle! tower and Washington monument
only will top it. It is to bo constructed
of steel, with tweptysix stories, more
than 1,000 otllces, and to have a summer
roof garden 300 feet In the air, with ex
pre elevators to the tenth floor and a
change of cars at the twentieth for the
tower, ThU beat tho wurld.
Miss Mary Anderson will shortly pub
lish her memoirs.
Ex-Senator Ingalls is Eaid to receive
$500 for each of his lectures.
Zola writes a novel every nine months.
Miss Braddon has published fifty since
1862.
The Edieon of France is named Ader.
He thinks that he has solved the prob
lem of aerial navigation.
Senator Harris of Tennessee is said to
be the oldest living Congressman. He
waa first elected in 1849 at the age of 31.
Jules Verne has a son, Michel, who is
developing a talent for writing stories
very mucn in nis lather's highly ttnagi
native styie.
Senator est has been wearing this
summer a plain suit of homespun hemp
linen, a gm to mm irom senator lilacfc
burn of Kentucky.
Colonel Inman's history of the old
Santa re trail is to be published in 1802
and is to be a graphic tale of the pioneer
nine.- in me great uesert.
Maurice Bernhardt, the athletic son of
the "divine" fcarah. and his bride are
in New York. They will spend their
honeymoon in this country.
A portrait of Queen Victoria presented
by her Majesty to Mrs. Phelns is the
chief feature in the drawing room of ex
Minister Phelps' house in Burlington
uniei-jusiice iucas ot the Virginia
Supreme Court is but four feet high", but
i...: .i: ui .5 V
iiu is wi uiK"ut-i nun no inceiious law
yer has over dared to dub him a brief.
It has leen settled that Grand Duke
George Alexandrovitch of Russia, whose
neaun :s sun verv precarious, shall re
turn to Algeria at the end of autumn.
The chair occupied by Garibaldi in the
Italian legislative chamber is hung with
a laurel wreath Since the patriot'
deatli no one hat been allowed to use it
The wife of Lieutenant II. D. Borupof
the united Mates Legation tn i'aris is
one of the very few ladi-s who can claim
to have made the ascent of Mount Blanc
Terence V. Powderlv. General Master
Workman of the Knights of Labor, lias
accepted the Republican nomination as
delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitu
tional Convention.
Sir Charles Dilke is a broad-shoul
dered, square-built man, with clear gray
eyes and full grizzled leanl. His man
ner is serious and dignified and dire?
almost to abruptness.
I he choice of Charles r.liot Norton as
the literary executor of Mr. Lowell is
singularly happy one. The duties will
be performed by one who has all he re
ouisiteH of an accomplished critic and
conscientious editor.
A recent visitor to the former home of
John Howard Payne says that it is low
with big roof, and is all "of gray shingles
with a garden in which grow hollyhocks
There is an old well, too, and the house
stands with the end toward the road.
S A. Douglas. Prosecuting Attorney
for the city of Chicago and son of the
famous Democrat of that name, never
visits Snrin-'lield. III., without going to
the tomb of his father's old political op
ponent and friend, Abraham Lincoln.
A Chinese comprador named Chin
Gong has been appointed United States
Deputy Marshal for Ainov. The Marshal
is Dr. Edward Bedloe, said to lie a de
scendant of the family after whom Bed
loe's Island was named in New York
harlwr.
The Bishop of IWrv. Dr. William
Alexander, an eloquent preacher and the
author of a work on the Psalm", has ac
cepted an invitation from Columbia
College to deliver a course of lect
tires next year on the evidences of Chris
tianity.
At the arsenal in Zurich is shown the
bow with which William Tell shot the
apple from his son's head, though some
writers, who assume to give the facts
aver that there is no historical ground
for a belief in the existence of such
person as Tell.
Miss Theo Alice Rnggles, Boston's
wonia:. rculptor. is onlv 20 years old
hen she was onlv 17, two of her works
were accepted bv the Paris salon. She
lias just submitted a model for the statue
of Shakespeare, which tho citv of Provi
dence is to erect.
General Butler's wife, of whom he
writes so tenderly in ii is memoirs, was
an exquisite elocutionist, surpassed in
tho opinion of manv bv Fanny Kemble
alone. She knew several of the Shake
HPeare plays by heart, and believed that
they were the work of Bacon.
Bishop Huntington has gone to farm
ing on the old homestead near Hadlev,
Muss. Ileinow;f and as ardent a
ever, not only in outdoor work, nut also
in his studies of social questions, in
which he is bv some said to bo the spir
itual leader of the Episcopal Church.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
Tramp Tortiir mid Murder a .Mini
IIU Wilt- in Mlihlcau.
ami
Thomas McCreevy, a Montreal ollieial
who tied to this country to escape arrest
for " lvM)dling," has been located at
Portland, Me.
Thomas J. Riley, assistant postmaster
at M.irvsvillo, Cai.. convicted of embez
zling $824, was sentenced to one year'e
imprisonment in the State prison and
fined $S24.
Chris McNamam, a gambler, phot and
killed Reese Fowler, proprietor of a
gambling house at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
during a quarrel over a woman. The
murderer escaped.
A double murder was discovered in
Bloonitleld.Conn., where the bodies of a
German and hio wife were found in a
well. It is supposed they were killed by
Italian laborers employed in the vicin
ity. Two negro prisonero convicted of at
tempting to overpower tho jail guard at
Raleigh. N. C, were sentenced to bo
whipped, and with their consent a
charge of 25 cents to witness the execu
tion of the sentence was exacted, the
victims receiving the benefit of the gate
money.
A dispatch from Monroe, Mich., says
that at a farm house near then- Io n.
Williamson ami wife were tortured an 1
murdered by tramps, who tried to get
the money which they supposed tut
couple owned. Some of the fariiur
grtv- warning, and the noiglU)rn organ
ized and went to the rescue, but found
the couple dead when they rourhed the
h"80. The tramps were sighted near
MttyU station, und Iwth were bhot dow h
by the infuriated alliens.
Germans Will Explore
African Lakes.
THE BARMAIDS OF BERLIN.
Detonation of a Heavy Gun Smashes
the Windows in a Passing
Railway Train.
Bavaria's mad King is growing worse.
The population of Russia is estimated
at 110,000,000.
Police statistics are said to show that
there are 130.000 paupers in Naples.
French newspapers are inclined to
poke fun at London's proposed EtHcl
tower.
Mr. Stead's defense of the Prince of
Wales is said to have made converts of
many.
They arc talking of introducing the
American trolley car on Edinburgh's
streets.
General Latino Caelho, the celebrated
Republican leader and poet of Portugal,
is dead.
There are 18.000 000 farmers in France,
the total population of the country be
ing 3S.000.000.
A bill is to be introduced into Parlia
ment to limit the personal caricatures of
the royal family in comic papers.
A dispatch from Zanzibar says the Sul
tan has declared his dominions within
the zone of the Brussels spirit act.
Two thousand Frenchmen claim re
wards for braery displayed on the occa
sion of the St. Mande railway disaster.
Prof Koch is still experimenting with
his lymph regardless of the sneers of the
French medical men, who are " not in
it."
It is again denied that the King of
Italy manifests any coolness to the
American ladies in waiting upon his
roval wife.
Advices from Buenos Avres are to the
effect that the Argentine Republic is op-
posed to the wholesale immigration of
Russian Jews.
Unless new outlets for Russian cotton
inanufaetufvs are created, there will lie a
wholesale dismissal of workmen from
Russian mills.
The formation of an Irish club has
been legun in London, the Irish popula
tion there about 300,000 having no
place of rendezvous.
A German expedition has been organ
ized to explore the African lakes. Lake
Victoria will be sounded and its banks
thoroughly explored.
Italy's deficit for the last fiscal year
was 1S.000.000. and in spite of all the
talk as to economic reforms the standing
army is being increased.
me detonation of a new heavy calibei
gtiH at Iugolstndtrecentlvsmashed all tlx
windows of a railway train that was
passing the artillery range at the time.
Fortunately none of the passengers were
injured.
The grand prix de Paris will in future
be worth over 10.000, as the Frneh
Jockey Club has added a sum of 150.000
francs to it. while oO.OOO francs more an
contributed by the principal railway
companies.
The Paris waiters, who have formed t,
trade union, are now discussing their ul
timatum with the restaurant keepers
They not only insist upon their right to
wear nearus and no unitonns, but alsc
to smoke when not actually serving.
Russian press censor permitted flu.
following itcn to apper in a Moscow
paper: "It is our opinion that Itii .
needs new railroads, and she will hav
them." For this tie censor was sus
pended for three months and the editor
fined $300.
In November next there will be bold
at the Crystal Palace in London an in-
ternational exposition of electricity
.i.;..i. ,..:n i.,,.. i, .;
.nun mi, iusi.i-ctt.-i.il iiiuiuiis. it was
projected in consequence of the success
ful one held at Vienna, and will be hhIu
ject to the same conditions.
A letter from an officer on an English
war ship at Valparaiso asserts that Hal
maceda insulted and quarreled with the
American .Minister, Patrick Egan, and
the French Minister. The latter refused
to accept an apology, but Minister Egun
renewed his relations with the govern-
ment under threats from Senor Godoy
that if Mr. Egan gave Balmaceda trouble
they would send him homo aboard an
English war ship.
The Heiehtiieitrt Mall pulilUI ma nrt
dor to the effect that the prohibition of
the importation of swine, pork and
eagea of American origin shall no longer
be enforced when such live hogs or ho"
products are furnished with otlii ial cor"
tilicates stating that thev have h..,n
ainined in accordance with Aineri'-an
regulations and found free from qualities
dangerous to health. The Chancellor
has sent instructions to tho
cials that an order be given immediately
to mat eueci.
bile conducting experiment iti.
a view of determining how a weak solu
tion of cocaine would prove eiticacioii"
as a local iiniesthetic, Dr. K. C. Sleigh of
iserlin made a rather remarkable discov-
ery. lie found that a simple wm..r i...
jection in the skin with a syringe ren
ders tho flesh at that point' insensible
and the effect of water is to cr..t., .,'
light SWellim?. reseinbliiur t).,. i i
by the sting of a emit. 'Dip ...n...
marked by tho swelling remains insen
sible to pain for some niinnies k,,
an incision can bo made without causing
tilt) altnlitAal noiti
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Business has been very active in the
wholesale line. Receipts of vegetables
and fruits were heavy. Peaches are a
drug in tho market, and are very cheap.
Iiutter and cheese are plentiful, and have
a good demand. Eggs are still scarce,
and the price will probably go higher.
Millstuffs are scarce, and are quoted at
nominal prices. Oats are plentiful, and
have a downward tendency. White su
gars have advanced c in Eastern Ore
gon, but no changes have been noted on
prices here. Chickens are plentiful.
Side bacon, hams and lard are firm and
higher. Canned meats are cheaper.
Hops ate quoted at nominal prices.
WIIKAT.
The market is quieter and generally
easier, unenngs are moderate, out ask
ing prices are above a parity with mar
ket values. Wheat is coming down
quite freely, and local stocks are accu
mulating. Produce, fruit, Ktc.
Wheat Valley, $1.5) ; Walla Walla,
1.45((t 1.47V. percental.
Fi.oL it Standard, $5.00; Walla Walla,
$4.00 per barrel.
Oats Old, 4550c; new, 40(342
per bushel.
Hav $1214 per ton.
Miu.sTi'iTS Bran, $22(323; shorts,
nominal, $25(ii 20; ground barley, $ Qui
'32; chop feed, $22(t20 per ton; barlev,
$1,200? 1 25 per cental.
Brn wi Oregon fancy creamery, 30ft$
32c; fancy dairy, 27c; fair to" good,
25c; common, 1520c; California, 22 la
(324c per pound.
Ciikkse Oregon, 1212c; Califor
nia, 12c per pound.
Echib Oregon, i022c per dozen.
Pol'i.tuy Old chickens, $5.50;
young chickens, $2.504.00; ducks, $4.00
ytu.uu; geese, jiuuuiiai, i.uuo.w per
dozen; turkeys, 15c per pound.
Vkoktahlks Cabbage, 75c$1.00 per
cental; cauliflower, $11.25 per dozen;
Onions,80c$l percental; beets, $1.25 per
sack; turnips, $1.00 per sack; new pota
toes, 45O0c per cental ; tomatoes, 50o?
75c per box; lettuce, 12l;,c per dozen ;
green peas, 34c per pound ; string
beans, 2(tf3c per pound ; rhubarb, 3c per
pound ; cucumbers, 10c per dozen; car
rots, 7oc per sack ; corn, 78c per dozen ;
sweet potatoes. 2ta2lc per pound.
Fhl-its Sicily lemons, $7(5.8; Califor
nia, $.")('T0 per box ; apples, 50(8.")C per
box: banana", $3. 50(34 a bunch; pineap
ples, $5(ii7 per dozen; apricots, S.)C"j$1
per box; peaches, 40(85o per box ; black
berries, 0(!7c per pound; plums, 23u(;0e
per box; watermelons, $1.50(J3.00 per
dozen ; cantaloupes, $1.50(2 1.75 per dozen,
$2 per crate; grapes, Tokay, $1.30 per
box, $l.uO(gl.lO per crate; muscat and
black, $1.25 percrate.box $1 ; pears, $1.25 ;
Bartlett, $11.25 per 1kx; nectarines,
t)0(!?75c per crate; crab apples, 3c per
pound; pumpkins, $1.50 per dozen.
N ut.- Cal i fo rnia wa I n u ts . 1 1 1 ... (d 1 2 1 2 c ;
hickory, 8lc; Brazils, 10(51 lc; "al
monds, 1018c; filberts, 1314c; pine
nuts, 17(al8c; pecans, 1718c; coco.i
nuts, 8c; hazel, 8c; peanuts, 8c per
pound.
Staple Groceries.
Coffee Costa Rica, 21. c ; Rio, 23c;
Mocha, 30c; Java 25ke:" A- -lukle's.
100-pound cases, 25Jc per pound.
Sua ah Golden C,4c; extra C, 4c;
granulated, 5Jc; cube crushed and pow
dered, 0jc; confectioners' A, 5c per
pound.
Reans Small white, 3c; pink. 3J
3c; bayos, 4-kc; butter, 4c; hnias,
iH 5c per pound.
Honey 1820c per pound.
Salt Liverpool, $10,$16.5017 ; stock,
$1112 per ton in carload lots.
Canned Goods Table fruits, $1.65,
2
Jas; peaclies, $2,00; Bartlett pears,
$1.85
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; straw-berries,$2.25 ;
cherries, $2.5ll2.G0; blackberries, $1.90;
raspberries, $2.40; pineapples. $2.50((i3;
apricots, $1.75. Vegetables : Corn, $1.35
1.05, according to quality; tomatoes,
$l.l0(a'3.2o ; sugar peas, $1.25; string
beans. $1.10 per dozen. Pie fruit: As
sorted, $1.50; peaches, $1.05; plums,
$1.25; blackberries, $1.(55 per dozen.
Fish : Sardines, K5e(f 1.05 ; lobsters, $2.30
('T3.50; oysters, $1.50(3.25 per dozen.
Salmon, standard No. 1, $1.25(tl.50 per
case; No. 2, $2.55. Condensed milk:
Eagle brand, $S.10; Crown, $7; High
land, iti.75; Champion, $0; Monroe,
$0.75 per case. .Meats: Corned beef,
$2.1o( 2.25; ctupped beef, $2.40; lunch
toiisiue, $3.30 Is, .-ili.OD 2s; deviled ham,,
$1.75(a 2 75 per dozen.
Svnt i' Eastern, in barrels, 47(S55c;
half-barreN. 50dT58c: in cases. 55(tS0e
per gallon; $2.25(a2.50 per keg. Cali
fornia, in barrels, 3Uc per gallon; $1.75.
per keg.
Rice $5.25 per cental.
Duied Fm iTS Italian prunes, 10(? 11c,
Petito and German, M(g 10c per pound;
raisins, $1.75(t2.25 per box; pluminer
dried pears, lUojllc; sun-dried and fac
tory plums, ll(i 12c; evaporated peaches,.
18(i20cj Smyrna figs,-20c; California,
figs, 0c per pound.
Th .Meat .Market.
Kkef Live, 2,i(s3c; dressed, 50c.
Mutton Live, sheared, 3(3. c;
dressed, 7c.
I loo Live, (5c; dressed, 6c.
kal -5(u)7e per pound.
Smoked Meats Eastern ham, lSW
13c; other varieties, 10(u12c; breakfast
bacon, UlSe; smoked bacon, llyi
ll?.ic per pound.
iohV'!,vT;Comlun,t 0,.ill".c; pure,
l-ktSl-'V; Oregon, 10..12vj per
pound. " 1
Hide, Wool mid Hops.
llmns-Dry hides, selected prime, SK",
etc; h less for culls; Areen, selected",
oer 5a pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c;
Bheep pelts, short wool, 30a50c; me
hum b0(a80c; long, 00cf.25; shear
Hnirs, 10ca20c; tallow, good to choice, 3
(SJ' jC per pound.
W-Villanietto Valley, 17(319c;
i-astern Oregon 10t.no',.c 'per pound
according to conditions and shrinkage.
Ilors Nominal ; 15c per pound.