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WHEAT TRADE REPORT From Portland, San Francisco ; and Eastern Markets., The nominations made by the populists, and the delegates to their national convention, am as follows: For supreme judge Joseph Gas ten, of Multnomnh. Congressman, tirst district W. S. Vanderburg, Coos. Delegates-at-large to na tional convention J. C. Luce, L. A. Ward, J. S. McCain and Nathan Pierce. - Delegates from the judicial districts Second, R. P. Caldwell; third, Harry Watkins; fourth, S. B. Riggen. Delegates from the second congressional district A. P. Nel son and J, J. Sturgill. Judge of the fourth district F. D. Jordon, District attorney -Newton McCoy. District attorney of the Becond district J. M. Upton, Coos; of the third, ,C. H. Dalryraple, Linn. Board of equalization, second dis trict F. Ward, of Douglas. Presidential electors W. D. Hare, Harry Watkins; W. H. Spaugh, M. L. Olmstead. ; Member of congress, second district Martin Quinn. First judicial district Prosecu ting attorney, J. A. Jeffreys; na tional delegate, A. Axtel. Fourth district Board of equalization, D. W. Butler. Fifth Prosecuting attorney, 1. B. Smith; national delegate, Ira Say lor. Sixth Dis trict attorney, Wm. Parsons; board of equalization, G. V. Peebler; na tional delegate. Wm. Parsons. Seventh National delegate, A. B. Craft. Eighth Judge, R. J. Slater; attorney, H. E. Courtney; board of equalization, Odell; national dele gate, J. F. Johnson. " Ninth Board of equalization, G. W. Pierce; na tional delegate, D. L. Grace. Joint senators Coos, Curry and Josephine, W. C.Edwards, Grant's Pass; Umatilla and Union, O. Teel; Washington, Tillamook and Col umbia, John Hansen. Joint repre sentatives Coos and Curry, W. Nosier; Grant and Harney, C. S. Dustin; Lincoln and Benton, A. L. McFadden; Yamhill and Tillamook, John Gill. . ; ' Chairman state central commit tee J. C. Young,, of Baker county. The state conventiou adopted the following platform: "We reaffirm the fundamental principles of the Omaha platform, and instruct our delegates to the national convention to readjust any details, if possible, in such form that all reform elements can unite on one- platform and one na tional ticket. ''We favor changing our national constitution so as to provide some form of direV legislation, and the early submission of important na tional questions to the people. ' "We recommend that our nar tional convention devise some plan for the effective protection of American labor from the ruinous competition of Asiatic and Euro pean cheap labor, including rigid restriction, and the exclusion, if necessary, of foreign immigration. "We donounce the republican party for its entire failure to per form any promise it made to the people of Oregon in the year 1894, and hold it wholly responsible for the reckless and extravagant waste of the taxpayers' money by the legislative assembly last year. "We pledge our candidates for the legislature to vote for the abol ition of all uselees commissions and boards; for a salary system of paying public officers; for state appropriation bills providing only for constitutional salaries and the economical support neces ' state institutions, and aga appropriations for sectaru tutions. "We demand a reduc official salaries to correspc tbe reduction of the wages and the prices of the pro labor We renew our demand for the speedy abolition of all fish traps and fish wheels, and a stringent regulation of seine and gill-net fishing. "We demand there-enactment of the mortgage-tax law. "We favor an amendment to our state constitution providing for the initiative and referendum." The following refolutiona wer adopted later: "We protest against the policy of tbe government in patenting to railroad corporations lands along their lines, of which, in many in stances, mineral lands are patented to said corporations, to the great injury of the miners of the state. 'Wherefore we demand that atl mineral lands in this etate be ex empted from the grasp of Buch corporations and reserved for the ut-e and benefit of the miners and the best interest of the state." The other resolutions adopted were:. "To make bank stockholders liable to depositors for the amount of their paid and unpaid stock; answering the request of the Woman's Christian ; Temperance Union that their desires could best be secured by the adoption of the initiative and referendum; calling for the election of United States senators, president and vice-president by a direct vote of the people; the enactment of such laws as will make stockholders of all banking companies individually responsible to creditors for all liabilities." The convention organized with M. L. 01m8tead, of Baker county, as permanent chairman; Ralph Harper, of Multnomah, secretary. A plan of organization was adopted upon the following basis: That the plan be that of party clubs; that one or more clubs be organized to each ward. When a precinct or ward is organized, the members of the clubs thereof, shall meet in joint convention at a date and place named by the county chairman or the appointed organ izer, for the purpose of electing precinct committeemen and four others who, with the committee men as 'chairman, shall constitute the precinct executive committee. There is then detailed an elaborate machinery of county and district clubs and the manner of conduct ing them. . The following resolution was adopted in place of the first plank of the platform: "We demand the free and un limited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the consent of any other nation." . A clause was inserted in the organization plan that four mem bers and the chairman of the state central committee constitute a body empowered to fill all vacancies. - Forty-seven ofjthe delegates were veteran soldiers. i " THE WHEAT TRADE. Heports From Portland, the East and San: Francisco. 8AN FRANCISCO MARKETS. The condition , of the markets here shows no change over the pre ceding two weeks. , The situation has a depressed tone and values lack stability. Receipts have been light and the volume of transac tions is decidedly small. Wheat in San Franciso is at a standstill as far as spot trading is concerned. Lower prices in the eastern markets, coupled with a weakening tend ency to values in England, has caused a reduction in local quota tions. There is no business on the basis of present rates, however, for holders prefer to keep their grain, rather than accept the prices now ruling. PORTLAND MARKETS. There was a fair speculative trade in wheat during the past week, the prices ranging .between 61c and 64c, with the close show ing an advance over Monday's opening of ic per bushel. Many weak holders have been shaken out, and there is every reason to believe their holdings have gone into stronger hands. Exports for the week were light at 1 ,596.000 bush els, but nobody can be so unreason able as to expect the exports to keep up when supplies at the seaboard have been reduced to such an extent that they will all be needed for home consumption. In explanation of the increased receipts in the Northwest, it is said, the wheat is being sent to market because of the fact that assessments for taxation are made April 1, and a good many farmers wish to get rid of their grain before that date. -EASTERX MARKETS. interest eastern e past ks some- i ruled Is who In over- months have paid the penalty, as prices have declined 6c from the top of the bulge of two weeks previous. They were so elated at the 12c bulge that they induced themselves to believe that there was no limit to tbe upward tendency, and that there was but one side to the market. They brought the market to a standstill, and tbe break of the past two weeks has resulted in most of the large holders getting out with moderate profits on the wheat taken on at COc. but their average profits were small, owing to the losses on their high-priced holdings. PERSISTENT EFFORT Attempts to Poison a Lane County Family. LEFT ttOTES OF WARNING Grand Ronde to Experiment With Sugar Beets. The following from the Eugene Guard, will be of inteiest to many Umatilla county people, who re sided in Lane ond adjoining coun ties before coming to Eastern Ore gon, and who knew the family re fered to; The Guard says: Another attempt was made last Tuesday by some one, who is evi dently crazed or a fiend, to poison Mrs. ilitam Smith and her family, who live near Coburg, in Lane county.' Some unknown person visited the house during the day and left some kind of powder on the tops ot jars of milk. Mrs. Smith does not know what the powder was, but thinks it was some kind of poison that is used to destroy rats and squirrels. On this visit the person . left two notes." They read as follows: "Done by an unknown friend. I intend to kill you all. My name I will hot; May hell punish your g d you. You all, 1 will kill you all. M. A. E. S. F. S. V. S. C. S. L.S." . "Done by an envious friend, and will come, again. Have been five times already; g d - vou folks." . ?' : On the afternoon of the next day the unknown person again visited the premises, and put another kind of powder in the cream in the pan? try. This powder was of a whitish color, looked like soda and tasted like concentrated lye. On this vis it two more notices were left as fol lows: i ; ... r "The ones we want to kill is Hir am Smith, L. Smith, Mary Smith, Clara Smith." -.-v "I am coming again; this is done by one you will never know. God is building the fire for you now; g- r d you." J On the days that the abovB no tices and the supposed poison : was left, Mrs. Smith and the two little girls were alone at the farm, the young men Leet and Hiram be ing absent on business. Judging from the way note No. 3 reads, it would seem that the unknown only desired to take the' lives of the four orphan children who live with Mrs. Smith. Thursday, the family persecutor again gained admittance to the premises, unseen by any one, and scattered poison about the well and in water troughs and in the grain bin. Thwarted thus far in his ef forts to take the lives of the mem bars of the family, this mysterious individual now seems determined to poison the stock on the ranch. The family now live in constant terror, not knowing what minute their stock may be destroyed or their lives taken by this unseen enemy. , The matter has been plac ed in the hands of the officers. Mrs. Smith is the widow of the late Hiriim SmithTa man who was quite wealthy and prominent in social and political life. lie own ed large tracts of land below Co burg, and at one time was a candi date for; congress. He has been dead for a number of years. Mrs. Smith is. now aged 73 years, and lives on a farm about four m.Mes below Coburg. She never had any children of her own, but has four adopted children. She has resid ing with her the four orphan chil dren of one of her adopved who is dead. Tbe first attempt to poison sons Mrs, Smith was made about ten ago- ! years SUGAR BEET SEED. A Quantity for Experimental Purposes Received By the Commercial Club. Wm. Miller, secretary of the Com mercial; Club, has recieved forty half pound packages of sugar beet from the state agricultural college at Corvallis. The seeds have been secured through application of the club and they are to be used for experimental purposes. The seeds will be distributed a halfpouhd each to farmers who will agree to cultivate them according to directions and who will also agree to submit samples of the beets grown for analysis in the fall. A half a pound of seed i con sidered 6uGicient for tbe seeding of one-tenth of an acre of ground, an amount which is amply sufficient for the purpose of making a tett. It is hoped that farmers and othera who may be interested in the mat ter will avail themselves of this op portunity to give sugar bet culture a thorough test, as it is believed that it can be shown beyond any doubt that this section of country is eminently adopted to the pro duction of sugar beets,- and great possibilities may result from these experiments. LaGrande Chronicle Tough Negro Tramp. A negro tramp attempted to steal a ride on the east bound 0. R. &. .N. train Sunday morning when the train was pulling out of The Dalles. The train men put htm off several times and the last time he stood in the center of the track behind the train and threw a stone into a Great Northern sleeper. Luckily no one was hit. The authorities at The Dalles were notified but it is not known whether they cought the rascal. To Commute the Sentence. A petition has been in circula tion the past week asking the gov ernor to commute the death sent ence of Kelsey Porter to imprison ment for life, says the Union Re publican. It will be remembered that Porter was sentenced to be hanged on April 10 for the murder ofBen Mache. Many people are of the opinion that there was . some justification for Porter's, terrible deed and do not think he ought to hang, while others are opposed to capital punishment. The petition is being numerously signed. Wheat Climbing Up. "The price of wheat has been steadily on the increase this year," says a railroad man of the sound, "which fact justifies the farmers in planting every available acre to wheat. This, in connection with the fact that thousands of acres of wheat land have been fallowed, and only need to be planted to produce a rich harvest, makes it altogether natural that tho acreage should be very large this season. And in view of the large acreage of summer-fallowed land, and fall-planted grain, it is very probable that the Palouse country will produce more wheat in 1896 than during the preceeding year." shadow Photography. The principle of shadow photog raphy by the cathode rayB is an easy and familiar one, though the application is rather startling. It has been known for a long time that the dark part of the spectrum beyond the violet emitted rays sep arated from the rest by refraction which convey neither light nor heat, but high medical energy. These are believed to bo the rays which influence s6 powerfully the chemestry of plant growth and they are those which serve the pur poses of photography by their act ion upon certain salts used in pre paring the sensitive Aim. All there is in the new discovery is that these rays will penetrate certain substances, like human flesh, im pervious to light, while they are intercepted by other subttanceH, like the internal skeleton or an imbedded bullet. The Golden Days. The days of '49 are being re produced again in Alaeka. Every steamer that leaves for Juneau, Sitka or Cooks Inlet' is crowded with passengers and loaded with freight, till, as in case of the one which sailed Saturday, the craft wasunktelow the guards. The times and spirit of California forty five years ago will be felt again and the hopes that filled the hearts of fortune-seekers then remain to bolster the courage of the gold hunters now. Alaska has long been looked upon as the last country to be ex plored. Civilization has reached the shore of the Pacific, and the pioneer is pushed northward, where the conditions of life are harder. The old scenes will be re enacted. The hopes, disappoint ments, the successes and failures will come again. The fortunate will rejoice and the luckless curse their fate and search on, hoping against hop that a lucky find may some time be theirs. The rush to Alaska is the last act in the drama that began with Marshall's discovery of gold in 1849. When this lingering scene is over the pioneer, who through all the play, has been an interesting figure, will take his place in history. . An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May Uth, I walked to Melick's drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for inflammatory rheumatism which had crippled me up. After using three bottles I am completely cured. I can cheer fully recommend it. Charles II. Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10r 1894. Walter Shipman, J. P. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Osburn. FACES FOR EASTER Some Novel Decorations for Easter Eggs. LITTLE ONES AMUSED AT Funny Drawings in Fancy Colors: Many If you want to get up some really novel Easter eggs, and some , that will send your boy or girl friends wild with delight, try the following plan: x . . Divide your eggs into three portions; color some of the dark brown (seal), some yellow and leave others' white, merely boiling them hard. :Take$aint8 and brushes (water colors are best, because they dry at once, and if plenty of megilp is used they will not tub) and outline faces on them. Take a dark-brown ege, outline nose and eyes on it in black, touch in ihe nostrils and corners of the eyes in red, and paint a very thick lipped African mouth in the same color. Put the whites of the eyes in with Chinese white, and the iris and pupil with black, then out line a pair of heavy rimmed glasses over the eyes with your Chinese white. One-third of these brown eggs may have white, woolly side whiskers put on with cotton. Just dab on a bit of glue, press your cotton against it, and trim off any that seems too long or ragged, The hair is arranged ir the same way, and it looks funnier to leave the whole top of the head bald, and put only a fringing of it at the base. . :-' On .'the - others'' of your: brown eggs put a gay little turban of plaid China silk, and gum big bead earrings at the side. The rest, on which no spectacles should be painted, may be fixed up as smart young men and girls, using a flamboyant hat made of pasteboard and trimmed with paper ribbon for the young women. A baby, too, is apt to please. Make its eyes rounder, draw its mouth wide open, filling in the open portion with black. Theee eggs are all to be mounted on little circles or squares of heavy cardboard, being attached to them with thick glue. The ; men's heads are finished with tall shirtcollars, cut from stiff white paper, and neckties of narrow red ribbon, the old aunties with a crossed kerchief like her turban, the young woman's with a white ruche, and the baby's with a wide white ruffle. The yellow eggs are for China men, there features are put on jiidl as the negroes' are, only that the eyes must slant, the mouth must be small and red, and a tinge of color rubbed into the cheek is an addition. Queues may be braided of black silk or linen thread and added, and wide hats made of thin yellow cardboard or heavy paper, cut in a circle considerably larger than the cardboard case, slit up tho center and passed a little to make it slant down. A Chinese or Japanese lady is effective, if one has the skill to manage the elaborate hair dressing necessary. If jute or mohair, such as imitation hair switches are made of, eun be had, the little coiffure is quite easily put together and gum med on. The Chinese baby is the funniest of all. Make him looking out of the corners of his absurd slant eyes, and give him a little fringe of black hair arranged as you see it on the heads of Japanese dolls. Of the eggs left uncolored make young women with rosy cheeks, or children with curly bangs, if you can get a bit of flax for these latter; but the most effective will be the baby heads. Draw them laughing and crying, with bluo eyes and brown, leave tho funny egg heads bald, and put big white ruffles around their necks for finish. A bunch of the heads of Blue beard's wives can be made of these too. Draw the eyes shut, put little beard earrings on, and gum on Highest of all in Leavening hair, bringing it up to the top of the head and braiding it in a braid about two inches long. These are not mounted on the cardboard circles, but are put in threes and hung by the braids which should be tied together by a bit of bright ribbon. Take a small'china doll's head, gum it to the top of one of the eggs which is already fiinily li.ieJ upon its cardboard base, enverthe joining with a broad white ruffle, paintthe egg a graudy plaid, cut. n pair of hands and feet fron stiff cardboard, make little puff like sleeves con cealing the upper end under the neck ruffle, and putting the card board on at the other end, setting the arms comically akimbo on the balloon-like body; put the feet at the base, hiding their joining with the egg by a tiny white frill; paint a couple of red triangles on the cheeks, put a pointed capon the head, and you have a very ridiculous-looking clown for the babies to laugh at. In this work your glue must be thick and strong, and your painting must be given time to dry, or you will find your eggs toppling to pieces and smeared before they are completed. These eggs makes pretty . favors for an Easter party or tea.. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy., This is the best medicine in the world for bowel complaints. It acts quickly and can always be de pended upon. When reduced with water it is pleasant to take. Try it, and like many others you will recommend it .to your friefids. For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle bv Osburn. Hard Place for Tramps. The dark cell in the city jail at Phoenix, Ariz., seems to be an un usally unpleasant sort of place. A lazy tramp prisoner was placed in it tho other day, and the fait was noted in the local paper that he would not get the chance to loaf he might expect because of the spikes driven upward through the floor, which preclude a prisoner from sitting down. There is room for tho occupant to stand up between the spikes with some degree of comfort. ' i Drive out the impurities from your blood and build up your system by creiting an appetite and toning the stomach with Hood's Sarsaparilla, if you would keep yourself well. Hood's Pills are the best after dinner pill; assist digestion, cure headache. 25 cents. The Table at Appomattox. The will of Brigadier General John Gibbon, U. S. A., who died in Baltimore recently, has just been probated. He bequeaths a number of war relics to his son, John Gib bon. Jr., including the table, upon which ihe agreement of surrender between Gen. Leo and Gen. Grant was drawn at Appomattox. Gen. Gibbon was appointed by Gen. Grant as the representative of the union to draft the articles of surrender. Col. Chas. Marsh' all, of Baltimore, represented tho confederate side. The partic ipants in the surrender divided am,ong themselves the most im portant implements used in that historic act, Gen. Gibbon Inking th 3 table and Col. Marshall the inkstand. Mr John Gibbon, Jr., the table's now owner, is now in Seattle, Wn. During tho winter of 1893, F. M. Martin, of Long Beach, West Va., contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it he s iys: "I used several kinds of couh syrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved me almost instantly, and in a short time brought about a complete cure." When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not find it necessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It hns been in the market for over twenty years and constantly grown in favor and popularity. For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by Os burn. Notice. All accounts due P. M. Kirkland, are now at the First National Bank for collection, and all are re quested to come forward and settle at once. P. M. Kirkland. Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Mm