o P olk C ounty O bserver . VOL. I. MONMOUTH, P O L K COUNTY, OREGON, S A T UR DA Y , SEPTEMBER 29, 1888. ÉUS OF GENERAL INTEREST. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Maryland widow named liallet* a bear-1 rap at lier smoke house N E W B O R A X M I N E F O U N D . doer, and the tirst catch wa* a man was courting her. He had fi.M ^ e d up one hundred pound* of T h e S . i . l i i i * f l e e t . N l r l k l i i g S e a m e n . (••on to carry off. I.lgh lliu u st- ( u n i r a i t . , lim ili. who Iir u tio ii Iti,u n i l* a m p lile t . A little colored girl in Albany, Ga., adually turning white, the skin of ^ ^ fa e e and arm* being now hardly Inguishable in hue from that of a asiun child. Her hair, too, which jet black, ha* become white. anbury, Conn., thinks it ha* thing valuable in the Indian ar anil *pear-head quarry recently vered near there. Over one hun- 1 head* in perfect preservation been found, and apparently are hundred* more. M m B co . F. Knapp, of South Bridgton, Me., i* bragging considerably about hia two-year-
e can be bud the laying iff iu the boat. The latter laid his rifle eighteen miles of new ms ins will be across the thwarts, aud it suddenly begun. The city is extending in all direc­ discharged, the shot entering the In­ dian’s side. He diedlwo hours after­ tions, and water is demanded at the wards and hjs body was preserved in north end on the heights aud at the salt and landed at bis home at Aehas- south end. Next summer the city will let. The Maggie Mac on Ajigust 7 use 10,000,000 gallons jter day, and it had 647 skins, and the Favourite on will tax the pumps at the works to July 25 had 664 skins. An Indian their utmost capacity to furnish the died on this vessel from black mea supply. The cost of fuel alone next sles. The American schooner Annie, year will amount to $35,IKK). • There of San Francisco, on the 25th of July will be no pump in reserve as there Had 700 skins. The Viva, on the 25th should be, and if any accident should of June, just entering the sea, had a happen, the water supply would run . catch of 400. ’Her coast catch was short. 75y skins. It is thought that the A t'oillklon Atoidt'd. schooners will all have fair catches Tne Ujnatilla arrived at Victoria, this year. Oilier* of the fleet aie ex­ pected to arrive daily. B. C., from Han Francisco and re|>orts . - - — that while Mteamiug slowly through r. fog 100 miles from Han Fraucisco, a •trlk liig le a m rn . The Coasting seamen are on the verge steamer’s whistle was beard. Umatilla whistled the unseen steamer of inaugurating another strike, and to pass to the starboard, but no notice freights are going down. Seamen are appeared to be taken by the other demanding $50 for the voyage from vessel, and in a few minutes she Port Townsend to San Francisco. The crossed the bows of the Umatilla. The schooner Wm. Renton, lumber-laden distance between the vessels was less for Brisbane, is in trouble with the | than fifty feet. An accident was union seamen. The crew was shipped 1 avoided by the captain of the Uma­ in San Fraucisco for the round voyage tilla reversing the engines when the to Australia at $25 per month. The whistle was first heard. The Uma­ union agent threatens bloodshed un­ tilla shipped, and the captain did less the men are paid $5 more per everything to save the vessel. The month. The revenue cutter is guard­ vessel was the steam schooner Green­ ing the vessel and will probably ac wood, of Han Francisco. company lier to sea. P r o s p e c t i n g f u r l l l u c k ( oil. I . l g h t li o u w e l ' < m t r s r l i A w a r d e d . The secretary of the treasury has awarded the contracts for the cen- struction of a lighthouse at Cape Meares, Oregon, as follows : Erection of tower to C. B. Buhrkoop, Seattle, W. T., $2,900; metal work of tower to Willamette Iron Works, Portland, Oregon, $7,800; erection of keeper’s dwelling and oil-house to Robert Hea- man, Seattle, $26,000. ru lliiiK knng*. The government snag boat Willam­ ette, has been at work pulling snags between Ht. Johns and the Portland Flouring Mills. The work is none too soon' and was needed badly enough. Let them trot out the dredge and then send the old snag boat into service along the upper Willamette next. John Leonardy was fishing with a |n in the river at Matanzas, Fla., a j days ago, when an- enormous saw- Hi ran into the net. The tisli strug- d fieicely, and cut tlnftiet upbadly, It only succeeded in entangling it- |f in the meshes more securely, and (V n slo n s a u d P o s lo ffIrr a . finally captured. It was meas- Pensions Have been granted as fol­ id and found to be 13 feet and 1 lows Washington Territory— Origi­ ch in length. nal invalid, Ira A. Doty, Rockford; increase, Watson Bpencer, Beattie; Daniel C. Rose, Mount Vernon, Ore­ Some of the greatest men the world gon— Increase, Alexander Borthwick, ger saw were superstitious. Napo Portland. Elijah McCalmond has been ap­ On Bonaparte was a believer in aens; the great Duke of eUitig- pointed postmaster at New Dungeness, in would not offer battle on any day at Clallam county. Washington terri- _ cross j __ A new office has been estab- ►at he met or ___ saw I a yellow dog isp a th ; Hannibal used to get out of | (¡„hed at Johnson, Whitman county, (Is camp-lied backward so as to insure with Elizabeth Y. Cooper as post­ ed luck for the day, and Frederick master. |e Great carridl a iabbit’s foot to T h e B o r a x W ine. Hard against evil. Certain commercial circles at Han Francisco are much interested in the A curiosity in Norwich, Conn., is a recent discovery of borax in the Bay Be-Ugged English sparrow which has of Lomer ranch, Curry county, Or. The steamer Newsboy anchored in the Inest on the crown of » column in Bay of Lomar ranch and discharged front Porch of the City Hall. He , - - ^ ^ Qn b. nt worth much at building a nest, ( | T4rying in „ j,« up to 1000 kink as much of him as though pound* weight, imbedded in volcanic two leg*. H. Heldenson spent four weeks on Queen Charlotte islands prospering and trading, aud exploring for black cod banks. He succeeded in taking five or six barrels of black cod, the finest fish in the Pacific, in two days. The weather was very rough, and the fishing was done in a canoe, in 250 fathoms of water. The ox! were lo­ cated without difficulty, and fish found to be very plentiful. Helden- son is of the opinion tln-t a ‘;.xxl bus­ iness can be done in deep »< a fishing. O i m li M g u la t ir i l J u p n i K - a c . Yoshitomi Hirasa and Nobuquoeli Oi, nat ves of Japan, on their way to Tokio, arrived at Han Francisco from the East. Mr. Hirasa is a high of­ ficial in the imjierial bureau of agri­ culture and commerce at Tokio, and was educated at an Engli h college. Fourteen months ago he obtained leave from the Japanese gevernment and made a second visit to Europe. Mr. Oi is a wealthy resident of Tokio, and has been in England for the purpose of obtaining machinery for the establishment of a cotton mill in the city of Tokio. The mill will have 30,000 spindles if the enter prise prove* successful. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. ahead were telescoped. Four men MARKET REPORT. AGRICULTURAL. were killed and eighteen were wounded, | - i ■— .■ and of these all were canvass men, ex-1 cept Andy Hmitli, who was a contor­ D kvotku to rua I ntxrksis or K ahms it a B ei . ia b i . k Q uotation * C aiikkhi . i . t U k tionist. Hmitli is mortally wounded, Vlotll UvKKY W'KKK. a m i S t o c k m a n . and the injuries to the other seventeen I wounded are tritliug. W H E A T — Valley, «1 300$ 1 31 A man near Bangor, Me., i* trying Walla Walla, $1 2001 22$. * f m u < » l u r . il H o i h l l l e t l . the ex(ierimentof grafting apple twig, A fearful battle betweeqywhites and into a pine tree. He wants to raise B A R L E Y — Whole, $1 1001 12$; blacks took place at Hilliardsvi’.le pineappb s. ground, per ton, $25 00027 60. Ala., in which seven colored men were OATH— Milling, 36038c.; feed, 44 Florida promises to become a large killed. The trouble grew out of the Hixteen plants 045c. fact that a white man refused to al­ producer of opium. low his well to be longer used by a will produce an ounce, and an acre of H A Y — Baled, $100$ 13. crowd of camp-meeting negroes. One poppies will yield $1,000 worth of of the negroes expressed a determina­ opium. HEED— Blue Grass, 14$0l6c.; Tim ­ tion to have some of the water, and the othy, 9$0lO c.; Red Clover, 14015o. white man drew a pistol and shot him The whole value of fences iu the >a the neck. That night a gang of United States may l>e set down at FLO U R— Patent Roller, $4 00; negroes-Veiled ttli house and dared $2,000,000.000, and its costs $100,000, Country Brand, $3 75. the white man to come out, but be re­ 000 annually to keep them in repair. fused to do so, and after shooting holes EGGH— Per doi, 25c. iu bis windows and doors they left. Crisp radishes are those that grow The next night a gang, presumably B U T T E R — Fancy roll, |>er pound, friends of the white man, visited the rapidly. They should have rich, fine 25c.; jiickled, 20025c.; inferior negro camp and left several dead bod­ soil, free from stones or gravel, and grade, 15025 j. the rows should la- kept clean. Use ies as a reminder to oilier members of them at any tm^c after they liava- l*‘- the camp-meeting crowd. C H E E S E — Eastern, 16020c.; Ore­ come large enough, for the longer gon, 140 16c.; California, 14$c. they shall remain in the ground the 'l ilt- Mprluler Kt-i-ord llrukeii. less desirable will they lie, as they V E G E TA B L E S — Beets, p*r sack, Bcliifferstern, the California amateur become tough witli age. $1 50; cabbage, per lb., 2 }c .; carrots, sprinter, broke the 100-yard record 1-5 persk .,$ l 26; lettuce, per do*. 20o.; To prevent birds, mice or squirrels onions. $1 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs., of a second, at Sto l^mis, Mo., bis time lieing 9 4-5 seconds. He de­ from pulling up seed corn until it 40050c.; radishes, per dog., 15020o.; feated Joe Murphy, the lia-al cham­ shall have become warm ; tb«n stir in rhubarb, jier lb., 6fc. pion, with a record of 10$,three yards. a little pine tar until every grain shall H O N E Y — I u eomb, per lb., 18c.; be coated. Now mix plaster, ashes or fine earth to dry off tbs corn. It will strained, 5 gal. tins, per !b. 8$c. A » a geii k ie|ii»■■■ iiiiiiie. thus be in a condition to lie planted P O U L T R Y — Chickens, per do«.. John Kaufman, aged about sixty by machine or hand. $4 00(a)6 00; ducks, jxir do*., $6 000 years, was found dead at Brazil, Ind., 7 00; geese, $6 0008 00; turkeys, having died of a brain disorder. He It is claimed that the presence of per lb., 12$c. whb an eccentric character, and bail the castor oil bean plants around the an uncontrollable mania for stealing house will prevent mosquitoes from PR O V ISIO N S— Oregon haws, 12$c Women's shoes, though he was never becoming very numerous. As the per lb.; Eastern, 13(a)13$c.; Eastern accused of stealing anything else. A plant makes a beautiful ornament it breakfast bacon, 12$c. jxir lb.; Oregon few years ago be was arrested and would not be out of place, and might 10(a) 12c,; Eastern lard, 10@1 l$c. per forty or fifty pairs of women’s shoes therefore be given a trial with advan­ lb .; Oregon, 10$c. and slippers were recovered. He bad tage. It is doubtful, however, if buried them on the commons, near a there be any plants that will keep G R E E N F R U IT S — Apples. $ 50 blast furnace. Over sixty pairs of away the pests. (a) 85c.; Sicily lenious, $6 00(a>6 60 women’s shots alnl slipjiers were found California,$3 500 5 00; Navalorangea in his but. He was a veteran of the According to an Engli»h authority, $6 00; Riverside, $4 00; Mediterra­ Mexiua.i aud civil wars and will be the world consumes annually 660,000 nean, $4 25. buried with military honors. |iouiids of coffee, which, at an aver­ D R IE D F R U ITS — Sun dried ap­ age price of $400, represents a value of O r e g o n ’» ( t r i a l K x lilb it . j $260,000,000. Jamaica grows the ples, 7$e. per lb .; machine dried, 100 H e ; pities* plums, 13c,; Italian The Oregon cereal exhibit at the j best coffee ; next in order come Cey­ prunes, 10(o)14c.; peaches, 12$0l4o.; lon and East India, Java, Brazil, Costa national encampment of the G. A. 11., liica and the other Central American raisins, $2 4002 50. at Columbus, Ohio, in charge of Col. BUtes. Java produces the largest crop. W O O L— Valley, 17018c.; Eastern C. E. Dubois of Portland, i* now in Oregon. 9 0 15c. place in a room on the third ll.ior of The American Cultivator recom­ the First National bank building. mends a mixture of hydraulic cement H ID E S — Dry beef hides, 8 0 10c.; and skim-milk for painting farm culls, 607c.; kip and calf, 8 0 lO o.; T liirte i-ii ■ lu llt lln g * llu rn i-il. buildings aud fences. The cement is Murrain, 10 0)12c.; tallow, 303$o. A lire broke out in a store at Cath- placed in a bucket, anil sweet skim- LU M B E K — Rough, per M, $10 00; argus, N. Y., which destroyed thirteen milk stirred in until the mixture is of the consistency of cream. The pro- edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G. buildings. The loss is large. portinns are about one quart of cem­ sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor­ ent to a gallon of milk. Color may ing. per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, iter U c n t t i » 1 Hi«- n i i l . i l I . r i n l i i n tc u l be added if desired. This paint is M, $ 18 00; No. 2 rustic, (M‘r M, $18 00; U i . i P oin t. clear rough, |x>r M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4 cheap and durable. 8, per M, $22 60; No. 1 flooring, per Col. Edward G. Butler, the oldest M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M, graduate of West Poirt, died at Ht. The Massachusetts Ploughman says $22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 60; Louis. He was born in Tennessee in the reason that so many rasplicrry anil stepping, per M, $26 00; over 12 1799 and admitted to West Point in blackberry fields get full of grass is be­ inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 1816. Ho served under Gen. Taylor cause they are neglected during Au­ to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, in the Mexican war. gust and September, and, in fact, dur­ extra, $4 00, 1$ lath, per M, $2 25; ing the whole autumn, so when spring 1$ lath, per M, $2 60. N t t t i o i i a l R i f l e Aivaorliitfeoii. opens the grass lias full iHissession ; BEANS— Quote small whites,$4 60; There wan a large attendance at the but even when thus neglected, if the pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50; farmer will oommence hoeing as soon opening of the annual prize shooting as the frost leaves the ground, it is not Limas, $4 50 per cental. of the National Rifle Association at a very difficult job to clear out all ol C O F FE E — Quote Salvador, 17c; Creedmore. The Wimbledon cup was the grass. Costa Rica, 18020c.; Rio, 18020c.; won by W. M. Merrill of Massachu­ Java, 27$c.; Arhuckle’s’s reasted. 22c. setts by a score of 134 with thirty shots at 1,000 yards. As a pasture for cows no plant M E A T— Beef, wholesale, 2$© 3o.; yields sweeter, richer herbage than dressed, 6c.; sheep, 3c ; dressed, flc.; white clover. Though its habit of hogs, dresseil, 809c.; veal, 607c. t i p r i ' M T r a i n H e l d I p. growth is very close to the ground, it The west-bound express train was HALT— Liverjxiol grades of fine yields more pasture than would be stopi>ed by three masked men at sup|M>*'xl. If not allowed to bloasom quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three Parkers, A. T. They did not get any­ long enough for seed to form, the new sizes; stock salt, $10. thing. A reward of $1,500 is offered herbage springs up quickly after crop­ PIC K L E S — Kegs quoted steady at for ttieir capture, and Wells, Fargo ping. Its roots are near the surface, $1 35. will increase the amount. and are easily reached by light rains, but owing to their spreading habit the SU G AR— Prices for barrels; Golden rixits are not injured by cattle tramp­ C,6$c. ¡.extra C ,6|c.; dry granulated, S a le o t a n O p e ra H o u s e. ing over ’.hem, a* are those of red 7j)c.; crushed, fine crushed, cube and The sale of the Grand Opera House clover. • powdered, 7 }c .; extra C, 6 fc .; halves by the heirs of the Davidson estate to and-boxes, $c. higher. " Lotta” Crabtree, the actress, was Tbst-the plantain is a nuisance is completed at Ht. Paul. The price — A prominent engineer says mat il certain, but it is scarcely unmitigated will be noticed that most boiler explo­ paid was $150,000. except in the sense that where it lias sions come, like black coffee, right once gained iMisxcssion it can never be after dinner. The reason for this, as n u r S r r r * fo r m oney entirely eradicated. The common Miss Ada Flynn, a handsome and ; »lantern has about two-thirds the he explains It, Is* that the water in the boilers Is In perfect readiness to become was feeding value of common hay, rank­ accomplished young lady, ■team, and would be suoh but for the ing higher than most other weeds in mysteriously murdered in her home pressure of the actual steam on top ol near Glasgow, Pa., during the absence this res|iect. Cattle will eat in pas­ i t When the dinner hour is over and ture or in hay without lieing starved of the rest of the family. It is sup­ to it,as they have to lie witii thedaisy. the rnen and machines begin to work posed the deed is that of a robber. The Urge, vigorous plantains, that again, the valves are quickly opened, grow in rich ground, seem to be eaten the stcain rushes out, and the water J e w e l r y l .a a t . more greedily by cows than the puny suddenly becomes steam. A* steam Mrs. Pierrepont Morgan, of New *|x-cimeiis dwarfed by jsiverty of soil. has 1,700 times the expansion of water the efTeut is to ex plosion. York, an-J friends, while out among the Thousand islands, were thrown jnU> the water by the capHizing of their I mmi L Mrs. Morgan loaf jewi lry valne,000^______ ^ _____ — ••What is the th-Ht’ th'.ng to be done In case of fire?" asked the professor. “ Sue the Insurance company,” prompt­ ly answered the boy at the foot of the class, whose father had been burned T r a i n ( »lllal.iii. out once or twice, and appeared to A freight train heavily laden dashed have made a good thing of It— /Vies at full speed into a circus train, which Current. was standing at Corwin station, Ohio. — Paste diamonds are so called be­ The cahooae and rear of circus train cause people get stuck on them so was split in two, and four sleepers j 0.'u-> t ra in a s h in g to il. The House conference report on the fortifications appropriation bill lias been adopted. The bill authorixing the postmasier- g< neral to purchase improved Mare locks snd keys has been paesed by the House. - * * . NO. 28. pir feW Lima beans are grown. j R tjiejr f tate they are nii|>erior coofcjng i an<| would tie more largely | UBed for that purpose, did not their ""«»1 »‘ >8*! price prevent. The Lima liean requires poling, but it is unneces­ sary to make the poles longer than six feet out of the ground. When the vine gets to this height, stop its growth and turn all its strength into fruitfullness. When raised on a very large scale the Limas are grown some times without pobs, the vines trailing on the ground. This is a slovenly practice, but a good many beans may be thus cheaply growu. — It is said that, notwithstanding bis enormous wealth, Mackay is haunted with the fear of the poorhouse. Mean­ time Mrs. Mackay makes merry in London ami Paris, and does not appear to entertain any horrid dreams of possiblo poverty in the near future. — Mrs. Eliza Garfield was the only woman who ever saw her son Inaugu­ rated President of the United States. Washington’s mother was living In Fredericksburg, Va., when the Father of his Country was inaugurated, but ■he did not witness the ceremony, which took place in New York. C • « si