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THE NEWS OF H E WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
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The killing of Frank Hepburn, son
of Congreaauiau Hepburn, at Cheater,
Ark., ia now attributed to a political
oooapiraoy.
The first report atated
that a duel waa fought.
Lee Ah Mee, a waiter, waa ahot and
instantly killed by unknown aaaasaina
in San Francisco, aa a reault of a high
binder war. Another ahooting affair
occurred iho aanie evening, but no one
waa killed.
Three dead bodiea have been taken
from the Chioago river, and men are
at work dragging the stream for more.
The remaina are those of infanta and
had been in the water for some time.
The doctors aaaert that they bad all
been drowned, and it ia thought that
they have been the victims of a baby-
farmer.
A fatal oolliaion occurred on the
Southern Pacific iailway, half a mile
south of (ireen's station, Oregon, re
sulting in the death of John Motion-
igle, of Portland, fireman, and A. N.
Toy, a brakeman. Five others were
seriously injured. The collision waa
due to a conductor’s carelessness in
mislaying his papers and orders.
In Abbeville, 8. C., Willedge Ma-
loae, a boy 14 yeara old, went with a
shotgun to a colored woman, Mattie
Heilman, who owed him twenty-five
cents and told her he would shoot her
if she did not pay him. 8he replied
that she had no money, and he would
have to shoot.
Thereupon the boy
emptied both barrels of the gun into
her, killiDg her instantly.
Cases of poisoning from eating
smoked whitefish continue to be re
ported from Wisconsin. At Merrill,
in that state, Albert Radloff and an
other man died of poisoning. Twenty-
five cases in all are reported from that
town. Twenty additional cases are re
ported from Hrotherton, on the east
shore of Lake Winnebago, some of
whom cannot recover. Milwaukee has
also received her share, and fifty peo
ple have been poisoned in Oshkosh.
The news iB causing a panic among
fish esters and dealers.
For the third time in six months the
Sonora stage has been held up, near
Cloudman, Cal.
Two masked men
suddenly appeared on either side of the
road and covering with shotguns the
driver, ordered him to "b old up." He
was then ordered to throw out the mail
sacks and told to drive on. The mail
sacks were rifled of registered letters
and left on the road where they were
subsequently found by the postmaster
of Cloudman. The amount secured by
the robbers is unknown, but is believed
to have been large.
The barge Sumatra, the oonsort of
the W. U. Arnold, from Chicago, with
a load of railroad iron, foundered off
Government pier, near Milwaukee.
Four sailors were drowned. The cap
tain, mate and cook were rescued by a
life-saving crew
Jennie Love was shot in the head and
instantly killed by William Swanson
in S t Louis. The testimony of several
witnesses goes to show that the bullet
which ended the woman's life was in
tended for William Lee, a negro with
whom Swanson bad been quarreling.
Jealousy about the woman ia the cause
alleged.
A violons St. Bernard dog attacked
a party of school ohildren in Marys
ville, Cal. Laura Baumann, aged 7,
waa bitten about the faoe and head and
w ill probably die; Baby Kucha, was
almost torn to shreds, its arms and
breast were terribly bitten, and it can
not recover. Albert Kuohs waa bitten
through the wrist, and will reoover,
unless rabies follows. A little girl
waa bitten in the leg, but will reoover
"D o c " Payne and lam Beckwith,
middle-weights, met in Cleveland, O.,
for a finish fight for (260 a side and
the gate reoeipta in Lavao'a gymna
sium. In the seventh round, when
Payne was all but knocked ont, the
police burst in the doors and stopped
the fight, arresting all the principals,
seconds and referee.
Two hundred
spectators were in attendance, and
only ten of them escaped, jumping
from the windows. All of the patrol
wagons in the city made trip after trip
conveying the orowd, which contained
many prominent oitiaena, to the sta
tion.
It is reported that Lewis llimm, of
Cleveland, O., the holder of the Ameri
can 24-hour Indoor biyole record, is
mentally unbalanced from the effects
of hit remarkable performance in that
oity last week. Gimin rode 486 miles
and 1,116 yarda in SS1* hoars, break
ing the American record by more than
S8 miles
He would have fallen from
hit wheel at the finish bnt for the
judges, who notioed the movements of
the rider and carried him from the
track.
There has been a run on the society
known as the Cuida Economics in Rio
do Janneiro. The funds of the society
are guaranteed by the government, but
nanteroua persona withdrew their de
posits. Coffee producers and export-
era are greatly alarmed at the falling
prices in Europe. - Tbs agricultural
congress in San Panlo proposed the
foundation of a bank for the needs of
the rural depositor*. Foreign capital,
it ia said, can be procured to open
saoh an institution, and immediate
i w ill be taken to start it.
A T ouch
COUNTY
F R E D E R IC K C O U D E R T
o f W o m a n ly (ira te.
The members of the party composed
of federal generals who are touring the
oountry in the interests of the Repub
lican party unite in saying that the
most pleasing incident so far of their
From Report of
journey was a delicate bit of courtesy Extracts
shown by Mrs. Bryan, wife of the
Commissioner Browning.
Democratic candidate for president,
who, while the procession in honor of
the visiting generals was moving past
G E T T IN G
T H E W O R S T O F IT
her house in Linooln, Neb , displayed
over her door a large portrait of W il
liam McKinley, tastefully draped in
the national colors. It was a touch of T r o u b l e B e t w e e n t l i e I ' r o n p e c t o n i » m i
tlie A b u r i g n « « o n t h e C o l v i l l e R e s
womanly garoe, beautiful as it was un- j
e r v a t io n O v e r l,a m l T itles.
expeoted, and General Alger says that j
he will cherish it as a sweet recollec
Washington, Oot. 7.— Nearly every
tion plucked from an acrimonious)
report of a commissioner of Indian
campaign until the end of his days.
affairs is tinctured with sympathetic
lines for the pour luidan. In so many
M u tc h G irl* o u a S trik e.
Rather than have their teeth ex ways the report shows the poor ludii.n
amined and repaired, half of the 300 is getting the worst of the deal. Mach
girl employes of Edwin Gould’ s big of Commissioner Browning’ s report is
match factory at Passaio, N. J., have devoted to detail of transactions in the
gone on a strike, and declare they w ill I Indian service, but in several instances
never work for such a horrid man ! there are the usual complaints abc-” t
again. Phosphorous, which ia used in the encroachments of the white people
making matches, if allowed to act on upon the rights of the Indians. One
decayed teeth, will evntually subject of these is in relation to the Colville
them to disease and leave them crip Indian lands, in the state of Washing
The last session of congress
pled for life. Damage suits may re ton.
sult.
Gould, therefore, ordered the passed a law allowing mineral entries
girls to submit to an examination by a to be made on the ceded portion of the
Colville lands. Tho government al
dentist, but they refused.
lows the Indians to take allotments on
W ill R e a d ju st W a s « R ates.
ceded portions of Indian lands, instead
The Carneige Steel Company, of of confining them to the reservations.
Homestead, Pa., has notified ita em This is to give the Indians the best
ployes in the mills that a “ readjust* pick of the lands which the govern
meut” of the existing wage scale is de ment pays for. Until these allotments
sired by the company. This, the men are taken and the lands surveyed, the
say, means another cut in wages. Un ceded lands cannot be opened fur settle
der the agreement with the workmen, ment. The clamor for permission to
each side is required to give a ninety secure mineral entries became so great,
days’ notice of any change desired in however, that in the case of the Col
the wages paid.
The present scale ville lands, special permission was
expires January 1, when the new scale granted to make mineral entries.
w ill be put into effect.
Hepe is what the commissioner says of
the Colville lauds and the encroach
S torm ou the P o to m a c.
ments upon the Indians:
Reports from the upper Potomac
“ Only a few weeks had elapsed after
show that high winds did great dam the passage of the act before the Indian
age to property this side of the moun office began to receive complaints from
tain. In addition to the wind, there the Indians and letters from the white
waa a cloudburst that soon changed the entrymen
themselves, indicating a
small tributaries into raging torrents, dear and determined parpose ou
carrying away much farm property and the part of the latter to use their
washing away many bridges. On a right to make mineral entries tor
abort spur of the railroad leading to the purpose of gaining a foothold ou
Berkley Springs, thirteen bridges were the reservation. Placer claims were
carried off.
staked off on landa which were en
closed with fence and cultivated by In
T lie P o w e r s H a v e A g r e e d .
There is, says a London dispatsh, dians. In the language of one of tln.se
very good reason foi beliveing that an would-be settlers, this was done with
important agreement has been cached the 'intention of pruving op and then
between the great powers and mat all laying off a townsite. ’ He frankly
danger of a European war has, for the stated that ‘ there is not gold enough to
present passed away. Jt may now be pay to work and in many places hard
hoped that the danger has been con ly enough to swear by,’ and that, al
jured by diplomacy, which alone was though the lands be desired were in
capable of dealing safely and ade side of an Indian’s enclosure, he
wished to make himself secure in his
quately with the problem.
location for a business place as qucikly
M ines to Be W o r k e d .
as possible, in order ‘ to get the start of
Preparations are being bnrried for all other placers. ’
The Indian office here at onoe began
the resumption of work in the Bison,
Little Johnny, Mehala and Resurrec the work of looking into tbe com
tion mines, at Leadville. At least 500 plaints, and, in a letter to the secre
men aro expected to go to work soon. tary, the opinion was expressed that
the rights of the Indians were being,
A H .n d .K n d C ollision .
invaded.
Tbe commissioner of the
Two freight trains oollided at Phil- general land office sent an agent to
son, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, make an investigation. This agent re
124 miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., mak ported that none of the lands on the
ing one of the worst wrecks in the his northern portion of the reservation
tory of the road. Twelve tramps have claimed and iinproevd by the Indians
been taken from the wreck, six of contain minerals in such quantities
whom were dead. The other six are that they can be profitably classed as
in a serious condition. The two en mineral lauds. Tbe commissioner of
gineers and firemen were injured seri the general land ollioe instructed tbe
ously and one perhaps fatally. The land officers at Spokane to accept ub
crew of the fast freight train lost con application to make mineral entries of
trol of the train on a steep grade. It any agricnltural or grazing land on
waa going at a high rate of speed when tbe reservation claimed by Indians,
it struck the other train, every oar be upon which they have improvements,
ing thrown to a common center in the and the officers were directed to exer
cise the greatest care to protect all In
collision and ground to atoms.
dian occupants of lands on the reser
I t W m a B o l d IMot.
vation. The Indian agent has been
A plot to ovethrow the government instructed to oo-operate with tbe land
of Nicaragua and kill President Zel- offioers to protect the Indiana.
On the other hand, it is asserted that
aya, has been discovered and frustrat
ed. Some of the moat prominent peo in many cases Indians have gone upon
ple are implicated in the plan, which good mining property at the request of
was well prepared. Since the oloae of certain shrewd individuals, aud are
the last rebellion, in which Zelaya was bolding tbe lands until the amount of
victorious, his enemies and a majority the mineral oan be definitely deter
of his former allies, namely, the con mined by them. By the payment of a
servatives, have been plotting to upset small amount of money the Indian
the government by force of arms. The will pnll up stakes and move over on
barracks and palaces were to be as his reservaiton, leaving the claim to be
saulted simultaneously, and President occupied by the speculator. While
Zelaya was to be assassinated. The occupied by the Indian, the claim need
barracks were to be blown op witb not be worked to be held, and tbe man
who expects to secure it can save the
dynamite in case the assault failed.
(100 a year which must be expended
A n o t h e r B ig D eficit.
npon mining properties.
A comparative statement of the re
In all the time that mineral has
ceipts and expenditures of the govern been known to exist on the Colville
ment for the month of September shows reservation the Indians have made no
the total reoeipts to have been (24,584,- move to have it extracted. They will
244; expenditures, (26,679,535, leav not work mines themselves. In the
ing a deficit for the month of (1,995, present instance it is believed by many
291. The deficit of the three months people that they are standing in the
of ths present fiscal year is (25,194.129, way of the development of mines, and
as oompared with a deficit of (9,884,- this, at tbe request of men who expect
668 In the corresponding months last to make something out of the lands if
year. Reoeipts for the last month show minerals to any extent are discovered.
a loss aa oompared with September of
•If*lmi«y t h e ( ante.
last year of nearly (3,300,000 from cus
toms, and about (580,000 from internal
Peoria, 111., Oot. 7.— The bodies of
revenue.
Charles Williams and his wife Belle,
both oolored.were found Sunday along
K « T l « « l n | Htaud t 'o l la p a e d .
During the parade at the Iowa semi side the Rock island railroad tracks.
centennial celebration, at Burlington. Eych died from ballet shots, and the
Ia., the reviewing stand oontaining coroners's verdict was murder and sui
Vice-President Stevenson, Governor cide. Jealousy is the supposed cause.
Drake, of Iowa, and staff, and many
South Enid. O. T., Oot. 7.— Frank
other prominent people, collapsed, Royoe, a notorious baDk swindler un
throwing all to the ground and injur- der sentence to the peniteutiary, and
ing thirty people.
Vice Preaident John Stearns and William Baker,
Stevenson and Governor Drake escaped charged with horse stealing, escaped
with alight bruises.
from jail laat night.
Part o f P .i
H uron«.
A Tangier dispatch says: The Jew
ish quarter of Fes, the principal oity
of the empire of Moroooo, has been
burned. Several persons perished, and
mans were fatally Injured.
Five
hundred of ths resident! of the burn
ing quarter were compelled to flee in
an unclad condition to the oountry
until the flamea were quenched. It is
estimated that there were 10,000 Jews
In Fes. ont of a total population of
100,000
HATCHET.
T h « R a ilroa d
T hrough
M a n ch arla .
Pekin, Oot. 7.— Consent has been
given by the Chineee government for
the building of a branch of the Siberian
railroad across North Manchuria, with
a pre-emption oíanse, giving China the
right to purchase this branch after
thirty years.
Permission to construct
the branoh through Southern Man
churia was refused. Sheog Tatoi, di
rector of railways,will probably o..tain
the oooomstoo for the Hankow Pekin
lina.
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(J n ea rlh eil V a l u a b l e
In form a tion
Par-
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New York, Oct. 6.—Frederick R.
Coudert, the eminent lawyer and mem
ber of the Venezuela commission, ap
pointed by President Cleveland to in
vestigate the Venezuela boundary ques
tion, returned to this city today from
The Hague, ou the French liner La
Bourgogne. Mr. Coudert went abroad
for the purpose of examining the old
Dutch records relating to tbe Vene
zuela boundary, and has spent consider
able time over government archives,
with the result that quite au array of
new testimony bearing upon tbe point
at issue has been unearthed.
Mr.
Coudert was seen tonight concerning
the result of his trip. He said much
had been accomplished.
"Immediately upon my arrival at
Tbe Hague,” said he, " I met Professor
Barr, of Cornell university, who, as
the representative of the commission,
had already spent much time in gather
ing data. Together we went through
tho records very thoroughly. Then we
went to .London, where many of the
records were transferred at tbe time of
tbe purchase of Guiana, in 1815. Many
of these record had already been pub
lished by the British government and
very fairly. We found other useful
evidence, however, and both in Lon
don and Holland met uniform courtesy
in the prosecution of our search.”
"W ere all the records prior to 1815
transferred to London at the time of
the sale?” he was asked.
“ No, indeed,” said Mr. Coudert,
"n ot all of them. We found some
very valuable papers in the old Dutch
records.
Just how valuable the records were
or what they tended to etablisb, Mr.
Coudert would not disclose, but reiter
ated his statement that they were valu
able.
Another useful source of informa
tion, he said, was the propaganda at
Rome, whero Home of tlie most valu
able records were found.
“ The pioneers in this territory,” he
.aid, "were monks, chiefly of the order
of Capuchins, anil their reports to
their home oTder contain much infor
mation, which both parties to the con
troversy have been allowed to avail
themselves of.
Regarding the correspondence which
ias passed between Secretary Olney
aud Lord Salisbury recently, Mr. Cou
dert said:
“ I understand that this correspond
ence deals wirh tbe subject of arbitra
tion generally aud cannot be specific
ally applied to Venezuela controversy.
The recent visit of Joseph Chamberlain
did not, in my opinion, have any con
nection with this case. So far as I
know officially, nothing further has
been accomplished in tbe matter than
when I left, and if any negotiations are
being conducted by the executive of tbe
government to settle it, they are un
known to me. I cannot say when the
commission’ s report will be ready, nor
whether it will be finished before Presi
dent Cleveland’ s term of office ex
pires. ”
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Pocatello, Idaho, Oct. 6.— United
States Commissioners Hoyt, Goodwin
and Barge, met tbe Indian chiefs, fif
teen in number, of the Bannock and
Shoshone tribes of the Fort Hall reser
vation, at Ross Fork, today, for tbe
purpose of forming a treaty with the
Indians for tbe relinquishment of a
portion of their reservation.
Fully
1,000 people came from Burroundiog
towns to witness the negotiations.
Tbe Indians had been promised a feast
by the commissioners and had looked
forward to the occasion for many
weeks. They were there in force to
participate in the festivities which
promised so mnch enjoyment. When
about to go into council, one of the
Bannock chiefs, Jim Ballard, a leader
of the faction opposed to the sale of the
reservation lands, rode np on horse
back, bedecked witb paint and feathers,
aud forbade tbe chiefs of both tribes
assembled to paritcipate in the festivi
ties. Ballard evidently had tbe chiefs
under bis control, for they refused to
partake of the dinner or listen to any
argument. The chiefs admitted they
had concluded to make a favorable
treaty, but upon witnessing tbe arrival
of special trains bearing hundreds of
whites to witness the council, changed
their minds.
A
B rutal P rizefig h t.
New York, Oct. 6.—Jack Collier,
of Rockaway Beach, and Kid Harris,
of Kentucky, fought seventeen of the
fiercest rounds with bare knnckles
ever witnesed by old-time sports at Far
Rockaway. They were on their feet
when time wns called for the eigh
teenth, but were so badly cut and
bruised about tbe face that they were
unable to see each other, and the bat
tle was stopped. Harris’ ear is half
gone; his cheek, from eye to jawbone,
ia cut open and bia face and body are
one mass of cuts and bruisea. Both of
hia eyes are closed. Collier had both
eyes closed, his left cheek cot open to
the bone, and was badly bruited about
tbe body.
A Resume of Events in the
Northwest.
E V ID E N C E O F S T E A D Y G R O W TH
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ni«>nt N o t e d l u A l l 1 n d u ® t r l # « — O r e g o n .
Polk county warrants are at a dis
count.
The clerk of Lane county will re
ceive bids until October 7, 1896, tor
keeping the county poor for one year.
Prineville proposes to have four days
racing, commencing November 11, and
offers $770 in purses, which are about
the most liberal purses offered by any
place in the Northwest circuit.
Game Warden McGuire has instruct
ed his deputy to enforce the game law
in Linn county, and already two war
rants have been issued.
There is said
to have been a good many pheasants
sold, shooting from the road, etc.
Ibex aud mountain sheep have been
seen this summer on the almost inac
cessible cliffs and crags of Canyon and
Strawberry mountains, says the Can
yon City News. In early days these
kinds of game were quite plentiful.
Captain William Stevens, while out
trolling on Yaquiua bay, caught a big
salmon of the chiuook vaiiety. Cap
tain Stevens is nearly 90 years of age,
but be continues to pull his own boat,
and enjoys the sport of fishing as well
as in his boyhood days.
Mrs. F. H. Kearney, of Pendleton,
has recently returned from The Dalles,
having won the distinction of being
the first woman to ride across the sand
wastes between Pendleton and The
Dalles on a bicycle. Her husband was
with her, aud they rode with flat tires.
Indians who rode into Harney county
with the intention of doing a lot of
hunting this fall were told to “ data-
wa” by the citizens. The siwashes
considered it good policy to leave the
grizzlied pioneers in possession of the
wild game in Harney county’s forests,
aud quietly departed.
Probably tbe largest salmon ever
brought to the Coquillo market, says
the Herald, was caught on the lower
river the other day. It weighed forty-
five pounds dressed, and about sixty
pounds gross. It was a rare variety
for that section, a blueback or Colum
bia river salmon.
Tbe cannery at Empire City is now
receiving tbe largest catch of fish ever
known to come into Coos bay. One
night last week a Mr. Peterson caught
what brought him the round sum of
$85, at the present low prices for fish—
35 cents apiece for Chinook salmon
weighing from 80 to 60 pounds each.
The board of trustees of the Oregon
Soldiers’ Home held its regular quater-
ly session in Hoseburg last week and
transacted the reuglar routine of ex
amining claims aud bills against tbe
home. They inspected the home and
the hospital, and approved the bills of
John Hunter, contractor, for $2,000,
as per contract; recommended furnish
ing the hospital at a cost not to exceed
$1,500, and that a barn be built for not
more than $500.
W ashington.
The electric light plant in Waits-
burg ia about ready to be started up.
Tbe Kalama river boom oompany is
putting in a very substantial boom at
the month of the river.
The Bellingbam Bay bank is expect
ed to declare a dividend of 10 per cent
soon. One dividend of 15 per cent has
already been paid.
The claim is made by the Oakesdale
Sun that from four to six cents more
has been paid for wheat there than at
any other place in Whitman county.
Tbe Farmers’ Warehouse Company,
of Garfield, has received 75,000 bushels
of wheat thus far this season. Tbe
other warehouses there are having a
good run, but have not made public
any figures.
Postmaster Haynie, of Pasco, has re
fused to accept campaign literature
which was enclosed in a franked en
velope, both Democratic and Repub
lican, which had been sent out by the
chairmen of all political parties. Tbe
matter has been referred to Washing-
ton for a decision.
Work has lieguu on the telehpone
line of the Spokane & British Colum
bia Company, between Marcus and Col
ville. Ten men are at work cutting
and delivering pcles along the line.
Work will be pushed from both ends aa
fast as poles can be gotten out. The
company is taking cedar and tamarack
poles in about equal numbers. It ex
pects to have the line completed and
in operation by January 1 .
Recent Austrian observations in the
Mediterranean sea prove that the
deepest spot in that body of water is
nearly three miles in distance.
Triad to S ta ll H l.tn r, Plat*..
San Francisco, Oct. 6.—Tbe officers
of tbe Bancroft Company are still with
holding the name of tbe bnrglar who
attempted to steal (10,000 worth of
history plates from their basement
They now make the statement that be
waa formerly employed by the firm as
a clerk. It ia also asserted by the
members of the Bancroft Company that
the burglar bad no other reason for
stealing the plate, than to melt them
snd sell them for old lead.
,
Work will be commenced soon on tbe
old Plaoerfield mine on the Columbia
river, near the Colville reservation.
The mine is not a new one. It was
formerly owned by "W ild Gooa« Bill”
and others, but these did not develop
the prospect, because of a lack of wa
ter. In after years Chinamen worked
the mine during the spring, while the
snow from the surrounding hills was
melting away, which furnished a small
amount of water.
The contract has been let by the
Northern Paoiflo Railway Company for
the filling in of the space spanned by
the Cedar creek tieatle. four miles
southeast of Garfield. The tresile is .
long one, eighty-three feet high at the
highest point, and will require a vast
smount of work to fill it. The coat of
making the fill ia estimated at (47,000
A new treatle could be built for about
19,000, but aa it would have to be re
built every few years, the company de
cided that a fill would be cheaper in
the long run.
M ARKET
LETTEH
I l o p k l n * & Co.*®
Trade.
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Portland, Or., Uot. 7.— Wheat h
taken a position us the leading 1Mo *
lative commodity, aud there i, » ‘ d
ual return of confidence among the bn*
uesa and upeculative publio. The n i.
toration among the «rat named ola»,
has gone far toward helping the I»,
ter, but the speculators were the
to start it. Importa of gold, wfclcll
have thus far been about (40,¿00,oil«
counting that already received and
gaged and in tranist, will reaoh (so!
000,000 before the end. Those best m
formed among the foreign banker*
that the top flgurea will be reached in.
aide of the next thirty days. Ths
movement, however, will continue a|!
ter that time on a moderate scale, «
our exporta are heavy and the endue»
market w ill be too low for gold ship,
meats to be checked.
It also locks«
, though our exports will be large until
1 the first of the year, as about all the
freight room haa been engaged op B
that date, and steamers that hare been
in the Indian trade are coming to tin
Atlantic ports for loads. This shosi
that. there ia nothing in the Souther«"
hemisphere to tempt the boats in .b«
direction. Last week our exports aert
4,215,794 bushelswheat aud Hour from¡
both coasts, and for the past lour!
weeks have been nearly 20,000,0:
bushels.
All the evidence is at hand toshoi
that the arena of depression t; grad«,
ally passing away, and that tbe pries*
on farm products have touched tb;
lowest poiut.
Inside of thirty dan
there has been a surprising change (s
the better. Wheat has advanced ltd
cents for December; corn and oat* are;
up 3 cents; rye has made a better in.)
provement than the other coarse grain.
H % cents. Chicago has uot been alo
in the advance as prices at other mar-
keta have appreciated rapidly. This
advance in the face of only a fur
trade, with no short interest of a«]
moment and a moderate run of outai"
buying orders, showed that it bid
merit. In the past a large part of
big advances have been produced I
the covering of heavy lines of aboi
The bulge of 82 cents last year»«
largely the result of the cohering I
Pardridge, Rosecranz, aud a few e
big aborts. This bulge has been differ)
ent from all others, being based entire
ly on the cash demand and foreigal
buying, as there have been no larft
shorts Another strong feature of tiH
advance in wheat is the fact that!!
cash markets have followed tutors:
closer than for years. Millers
shippers have taken low grades so fid
that there has not been such a stroi
healthy condition in twenty jem:
Farmers in the winter wheat oonnBjj
are holding for higher prioes, bo:
within the past week there has been^
loosening up in offerings from Nebnd
ka and Northern Kansas, the renellb
the sharp advance. There is also id
of the Northwestern movement enluté
ing. Millers at Minnesota are pape;
a premium for cash lots, and the t
posted men there Bay that the mills n
quire all the wheat raised there tl¿
year. The visible supply increased l,j
410,0U0 bushels on Monday, and 1 ».
totals 50,116,000 bushels.
O R E G O N ’S
Th.
H O P CROP.
Y i e l d W i l l B e A b o u t Whet W
K . t i . n a l e d - 4 0 ,0 0 0 B » l « i.
Salem, Or., Oot. 7.— The hopytff
throughout the Willamette valley
now deserted, picking having
completed and the brokers and Ea»i
buyers are busily engaged forwards
samples and inspecting hops, prep
tory to bnying and filling orders il
ready received, or at least expecn'
says the Statesman.
Many of
growers have contracted their bops,'
odrer to procure an advance to euabi
them to pick. This course has
followed to snch an extent this ]
that hat a small percentage of the«
is really in the hands of indepeude.
growers, and they will, of oourse, 1
their hope until the market suits I'
The orop of Oregon will prove to-
about what it was estimated earlier^
the season, about 40,000 bales,
quality, in most oases, is exceptions^
good, although some overdried bops s
found, and some few have been **j
pled that are badly tainted witb uio«W
Sevearl heavy shipments have t
made from Salem already, the
chases averaging 5 to 6 cents, althcm.
one heavy grower is reported as hart
disposed of his orop in two diffw
lots at 7 cents per pound, one lot e-
to a California firm, represented^
Salem by an agent, the other
purchased by an Eaetern hop factor
A
I I 3 p n o t l.t ’ e R iip o w ilb llltl.s
Atlanta, Ga., Oot 7.— If the rol'-
of Judge Fonle, of Atlanta, oblsi"'
hypnotists w ill have to be very f
what they order their subjects -
The judge holds that the hypnot®1
directly responsible for the aots of
subjects.
During a performance*!
local theater the subject of a hy
imagined he was a monkey. He***"'
a hat off a man in the audience sne*,
a piece out of it. The profei
hie business m anager declined to i
good the cost of the hat and the •
notist was prosecuted before J*
Foule on a charge of malicioa* ”
ohief. The judge sustained the c
and bound the hypnotiat over
er cou rt
A t t .m p t a .1 T r a in W r»«h -
Btraboo, W in , Oot 6.—An
wae made lsta night to wreck p*
train No* 5, on tbe C. R- N. w.
way, near Devil'a lake. Four
were discovered obstructing the ^
Tom PaMeraon, who mad« **"
oovery, ahot one of them- t**.’
turned the fire, and Patterson ***
through tbe leg and hat. Th*
escaped, and a sheriff's po**« ®®
suit
An attempt was uo*d* »
the same train a week *g°-