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OrriCIAL UUIEOTOKT.
Uulted Sletea.
Irildant. William MrKliilry
Vlw Prealdant Cam-It A. Ilobart
Heeretarv ol State John hhi-riiian
Seoretery of Trnaaury I.yman J. (in
Secretary of Interior Cnrm-llna N. IIIIm
georeiary of War Kumu-11 A. Aliier
Socrelaryof Navy John l. 1.0111c
ruatmaalvMletivrnl Jamwa A. liary
Attiirney-tleiiural Joaniih MuKrnna
Secretary of ArWtiltura Jam. WIImhi
State of Oregon.
Oovernor.. Win. P. UihI
Secretary of Stale II. K. klnealil
Treaaurer Phil .Melwlian
Atlortiey-tlenaral,,.., ,, M. lillentHii
Hupt, of I'tiblluiimtruvllon (i. M. Irwin
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1 11, W.I'orM-tt
Con.men ZZZTZf mZ
Frtnttif. , w. II. I,e-v
t V., K. Wolverine
Supreme Jwlifeii J , K. A. Moore
(, II. H. Bean
Seventh Judicial Olalrlot.
f'lronlt JndK W. I., Brad-haw
froet-cntlllv Attorney a. A. Jhviii-
Meuttieruf male Hoard W.t. Will.
, Ollllam Counrr.
Joint Senator for illlllain. Sherman and
Wanuo rotuiUe .,. K. M. Imftir
Hepreeeutallve , J. K Hail-
J tula , , , W. J. Martin
t'lerY II. N. Kra
Sheriff , W. I.. Wllco:
Treaaurer , H, II. Harkn
CoinmlMloiiera 'p,"J
Aweaaor M. o. (lark
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WtWli Ji'ddy hmwii
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O, Hi H. ). Tim Oard.
Train arrive at Arlington follow-.
Mo. 2-Kant-lxiiiiid, via Welle Well, I: St a, ni
No. 1 Wvat-lNiiind, via Walla Walla, 2;U. Ill
Train No. 'i luevea I'orlland al 7 11. in.
Ho. 'JaW.'bound freight (pawnio m),":IA a, 111.
no. zar.-noiino in-iym (nauMmin-r), fi i.i o. ill.
Wo. alW.-iHiuiid (rt-lif In (.i'liy'ri, l.'pi m
Niw. 114 and i will i- lirovld.-d with a iim.'l
and liaKKaav rar and will rniinnt al Mlluw.
jnnctlim with llm liinrr Irani.
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tha loral .Miit r Iraln uoiwrn 11 1'orilHiid anil
1 n pail"'..
r"arp by boat In Can Kranelwu have ten rc
duced-Hr.1 caliin, Ir.'; HciTniri', f;, I n.rl n I nii
neala and benti. I IikhikIi tlcki-i. arc wild In
Arlington. K r. IIIMH.K, -M.
JjB. . S. IKKIAX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Condon, Or.
OfficeOregon eve., betwemiCaiholli-limri-li
and mldeme of H. 1. Nliuti.
I. DAKUMJ
i.
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public and Conveyancer,
Condon, Or.
ColUrtli.ti.aniilii.nraiHT. Tvrma rraMinable
Dfoet lu rear of pwtouVe buildlnt, Main .live I
JOHN LVONH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Coudoa Or.
All legal work promptly and carefully at
tended lo. t'ollei'llnx and Aloirai-iing a
HH.ialty.
fj A. I, lil lll.KV
Attorney and Coo'iielo' at Law
l'. M. ('oinmlwi'.iiiier. Notary I'lilillc.
' Arlloa-lon, Or
Ls Admitted In iiraellce In the court of Orrnon
(,1 MaahltiKlon and III the I r. ciiiirl,
lake, niliigaand priHiln 011 lain).
y V. KH I'TT
NOTARY PUBLIC
Jood'in, Or.
Notarial work and enllcoilonii promptly ami
earefully attendnl to.
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OUTES
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Bt. : pacific nr.
VIA
VIA
SPOKANE DENVER
MINNEAPOLIS OMAHA
AND AND
ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY
LOW RATES TO ALL
EASTERN CITIES.
OCEAN STEAMERS
LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 6 DAYS
. . FOB. .
SAN FRANCISCO
oh full details call on O. R. k N.
Afeenty, F. C. Hindis, Arlington, Or.,
R AcjoriEBS :
W. H. HURLBURT,
dsn. Pais. Agent, ,
Portland, Ob,
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EAST
1 imjyii hq
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
CP INTEREST TO OUR READER8
Review mt the laaport-
aat Happealna mt the raat Waak
Called From tha Telerraph Oelamne.
Carter Ilurriwii has bnea elected
mayor of Chiungo.
' Tho president 1ms numrxl Thefidore
Rooaevelt, of New York, to be audi St ant
seoretary of the nary.
The board of control of the state of
Washington unanimously appointed J.
B. Catron warden of the penitentiary
st Walla Walla.
The London Truth says that it learns
that Queen Victoria is doing her best
to secure the appointment of Francis
Joseph Battenburg as governor of Crete.
The Oregon City land office, in an
swer to numerous letters of inquiry,
announces that no date has yet been
announced by the president for the
opening to the public of the Klamath
reservation.
It is reported that the foreign am
bassadors at Constantinople have drawn
up a broail scheme of autonomy for
Crete, giving the assembly power to
choose a governor, to be afterward
approved by the sultan, and granting
other concessions.
A London dispatch says the arch
bishop of Canterbury will personally
deliver into the hands of Mr. Bayard,
on the latter's return to London, the
log of the Mayflower, which the con
sistorial court recently dncided to pre
sent to the United States.
There is a scarcity of onions in the
California markets. Dealers say that
all the California onion crop was ship
ped as soon as gathered to the Eustern
and Southeastern states, and that a
corner has been effected in the Wash
ington and Oregon crop.
The prisoners in the Clatsop county
Jail at Astoria, dug a hole undor an old
sink in the jail and some of thorn made
an effort to escape. Sheriff Hare ar- j
rived Just in time to catch Peter Fus- '
tin, who had crawled through the hole ;
and hidden under the sidewalk.
William Rothlage, an inmate of the
county jail at Union, committed aui
cide in his cell, by hanging. He was
insane and waa in jail waiting to be
transported to Salem. The body was j
taken to La Grande for burial, in ac- j
cordance with the last request of the
deceased.
The supreme courtroom in Washing-
ton, D. C, and the corridors without 1 rrom tho Illinois Steel Company of Cln
were crowded with spectators, attracted and proposed to supply 8,000 tons
by the appearance of William J. Brvan , of "rm"r nt 280 ton, on condition it
lK- .
as counsel in a case. The case, on ! 110 8m'" a 20-year contract to supply
hearing involved the constitutionality j naval r'r- In such case the re
of the law of the state of Nebraska to I "ai'i!r of the armor would be sup-
regulate railroads, to classify freights j
and to fix rates.
The oity authorities ol Memphis,
Tenn., have issued an appeal for aid for
tho sufferers along the submerged Mis
sissippi valley.
The Turkish porto is endeavoring to
negotiate with the Ottoman bank for a
loan of i"200,000, for the purchase of
cannon, but it is not believed the at
tempt will be successful.
A body of coolies numbering 5,000,
who struck recently against an increase
of taxes, engaged in an anti-foreign
demonstration in Shanghai, China.
Two men were killed, and it was neces
sary to call the marines to assist in
quelling the riot
The Pacific con factory at Astoria,
Or., turned out 22,000,000 cans last
year, 8,000,000 of which wore shipped
to the Sound. Superintendent Kendall
says he expects to manufacture more
cans this year than last. The company
paid 22,000 duty on tinplate on April 1.
As a result of the serious disagree
ment between President Errasuris and
the minister of the intorior, Browinu
out of the appointment by the latter of
governors and other officials not satis
factory to the president, the entire
Chilean cabinet has resigned in order
to give the president full liberty of ac-1
tion. !
Brndstreet's reports that the tinnlate I
faotories of tho Unitod States are pro- i
ducing at the rote of 280,000 tons, or !
4,500,000 Imxos a year. The offlcial '
figures in tons of the decrease in imports 1
from Great Britain, are as follows:
1803, 225,628; 1804, 226,870; 1805,
232,001; 1806, 113,051, showing a fall
ing off of 50 per oent in two years.
Governor W. T. Thornton has wired
to Washington his resignation as gov
ernor of New Mexico. His commis
sion will expire on the 15th inst., but
he has always declared he would resign
as soon as tho Borrego gang of conspira
tors was executed. Most of the gover
nor's time for the next year will be
spent in the Sonora, Mexico, gold fields.
A snowslide occurred at the Corinth
mine in tho Slooan country, killing
three men and carrying away the head
of the Aerial tramway rocently erected
there. John R. Brown, a hotel pro
prietor of a Harrison hot springs, is
thought to have perished in a slide
while out prospecting in the Harrison
lake district. Brown was tracked to
the slide by Indians, but no further
trace of him oan be found.
RIVERA WILL NOT BE SHOT.
1 Spanlah MlnUter Maya Hla Eaeeutloa
Was Merer Contemplated.
W'uMhinirtnn. Auril 1 2. Arlvirui ro.
ocived by the .Spanish minister state
that General Uivura, who is lying j
wounded near Havana is not in a aeri-
011s condition, and that his wounds are
not likely to prove fatal. Inquiry as
to the status of the prisoner elicited a
1 statement by the minister to the effect
j thut at at no time has the Spanish
, government or General Weyler had any
j idea of Shooting ltivera.
'
j Havana, April 13. General Ituis
Kivera remains at San Cristobal. He
I is recovering from his wounds. In the
I event of a summary trial, it is not
I likely he will he sentenced, but he will
1 ue nin as a prisoner or war.
A Rumor That ltivera Waa freed.
Key West, April 12. News was re
ceived last night that the Cuban insur
gents had made an attack on the train
upon which General Kivera was being
taken from San Cristobal to Havana.
Reports say the insurgents were suc
cessful in their attack, and that Kivera
was freed. It is impossible to cet a
confirmation or denial of the report as
yet, but the Cuban sympathizers here
believe it to tie true and are according
ly jubilant
BRYAN WAS HURT.
Maria From M'hlch He Waa Speaking
rell-lnjurlee Not Herloua.
St, Augustine, Fla., April 12. Hon.
William Jennings Bryan was injured
here this evening by the caving in of
the piazza from which he was speaking.
Nearly 400 men and women were pre
cipitated alKiut twenty feet to the
gronnd, and many of them were in
jured, bnt none fatally. Mr. Bryan
was picked up unconscious, and re
moved to a physician's office, where an
examination revealed Unit lie lind re
ceived no injuries of a serious charao-
tr. It was deemed lxst. however, to
abandon the reception to have been
given this evening.
Mr. Bryan arrived at 6:50 P. M.,
and was greeted by several hundred
people.
At 8:30 he addressed fullv
I 3,000 people from the piazza of the San
Marco hotel. At the close of the
sjicech hundreds of people flocked about
him, and the strain was so great that
one section of the piazza forty feet
square fell through.
Only One Bid Received.
Washington, April 12. The navy
department received today but one bid
in answer to an advertisement calling
for proposals for supplying 8,000 tons
of armor for three battle-ships, the
Illinois, Wisconsin anil Alabama, and
it was irri'Btilar in form. It came
- . . . ." . .
Pll.e, at f 340 a ton, the armor to be
niu lur 111 gum uom.
An alternative proposition, contem
plated the erection of an armor plant
by the government and its supply with
steel by the Illinois company. No
awards were made, and the whole mat
ter will probably be referred to con
gress. An American Haa the Contract.
Havana, April 12. Michael J.
Dady, of Brooklyn, N..Y., has secured
an important contract to improve the
sanitary condition of Havana. It is
said the contract will involve an ex
penditure of about $15,000,000. Work
will be begun next winter, and it will
give immediate employment to from
4,000 to 6,000 men on sewers and pav
ings, etc. Ail the preliminaries of the
agreement have been decided upon,
and it is rejiorted that Mr. Dady has
as security bonds issned by the city of
Havana to the amount of $12,000,000.
Mr. Dady is now here with his engi
neer, Mr. Byrne, and the papers are to
be sent to Captain-General Weyler for
his approval.
Mallcarrlera A-Wheel.
Oakland, Cal., April 12. The post-
office at 1 if toenth and Broadway will
soon be headquarters for the most con
siderablo and energetio cycling club in
the oitv. for the mailoarriers are to rilo
wheels.
The equipping with wheels of Oak-
land's mail delivery service means
more than would appear at first. It
means possibly another collection and
distribution of mail matter each dav.
and a consequent improvement of the
gonoral service. The hours of each oar-
rier will be shortened and he will tie
supposed to make good time.
It is possible that the territories of
the men will be extended, but this does
not mean a cutting down in service,
rather an enlargement, as the post
master would be enabled to extend his
routes and reach much further from the
heart of the oity.
rainier Got a Verdict.
Canton, O., April 12. Tyndale
Palmer was yesterday given a verdict
by a jury in the court of common pleas
for $1.60 in a libel suit against he
Evening Repository. The suit is one
of the last of the many similar ones
brought by Palmer against newspapers
using a press dispatch in regard to a
land deal. The petition asked for
$50,000. President McKinley is one of
the stockholders of the paper.
Northern
Writes of Asiatic Trade.
!
:
NEW MARKET FOR OUR WHEAT
j
i "ays That He la Building Vp
Trade in the Orient and Suggeete
i. That Tariff Rutlea Be Reasonable.
! Washington, April 12. James J.
Will incident of the Great Northern
Railroad, and also interested largely in
transportation to the Orient, has writ-
iten a letter to a Western senator in
which he points out the possibilities of
trade in China and Japan, and suggests
that tariff duties be so adjusted as not
to prevent trade with the countries
icross the Pacific.
President Hill says:
"The Asiatic trade of the greatest
importance to this country, and partic
ularly to such portions of it as are in-
! terested in raising wheat. A year ago
I last fall wheat sold for from 18 to 22
j cents per bushel in the Palouse country,
touth of Spokane, and this year it has
sold for from G5 to 70 cents. About
j three years ago I sent an agent to China
and Japan to investigate thoroughly
I what steps could be taken to introduce
' the general nse of wheat and flour in
! tliopo countries, as against their own
rice, and found it simply a matter of
j price. I then took up the consideration
of building steamers for that trade, de
I signed to carry cargoes of flour and
;rain at low rates. I found that we
j oould build the Bhips, but, owing to
j the sailors' union fixing the wages of
(tailors at 30 a month, and engineers
and other ship employes at about twice
the wages paid by European steamers,
it was impossible for us to com fie te with
!the English, German, Italian and Scan
dinavian ships on the Pacific. After
the war with China, the Japanese used
a large amount of their war indemnity
for a subsidy to their merchant marine,
and we opened negotiations with the
General SteamshipCompany, of Japan,
which is owned by leading men of the
empire. We found their subsidy was
about equal to the cost of their coal
I and the. waK'" ot their eailors. They
pay their sailors $5 a month Mexican,
or $2.50 in gold, enabling them to hire
twelve good sailors for the wages of one
j American sailor. After some protract
ed and difficult negotiations, we con
I eluded a contract with them for a line
t of steamers between Chinese and Jap
: anese ports and Seattle, on condition
) that they would carry flour from Puget
! sound to Asiatic ports at f 3 a ton,
against from $7 to 8 a ton formerly
charged from West coast ports in the
United States. The low rates fixed the
rate for all lines between the Pacific
coast and Asia, and has resulted in
carrying out about 28,000,000 bushels,
or its equivalent in flour,- from the last
crop. There is left about 5,000,000
bushels between now and their harvest.
"Thus yon will see we have been
able to find new mouths which have
never before used wheaten bread, to
take the entire California, Oregon and
Washington wheat crop out of the Eu
ropean markets. This will reduce the
amount going to Europe about 20 per
cent, and is three times the quantity
shipped to Europe from Argentina dur
ing the past year. The price of wheat
this year, as compared with last is 20
to 25 cents higher, and I think it may
be said that from 15 to 18 cents of this
rise is clearly due to the withdrawal of
the Pacific wheat from the European
markets. I see in this morning's re
ports a telegram that European ships
are loading with barley, rye and mer
chandise from Sun Francisco for Eu
rope, after 'waiting months for cargoes
of wheat, and that no more wheat will
go to Europe from the Pacifio coast.
"The only way we could bring about
this reduction in the transportation of
flour to Asia was by diverting the tea
and matting business, which has here
tofore gone mainly on English ships,
from Asia direct to New York, and car
rying these commodities to the Pacific
coast, by a low rate, and transporta
tion inland by rail, to distribute the
commodities to points between Minne
sota and New York.
"I have given you the facts, so you
will understand tho situation and be
able to see that, unless these ships can
bring their main cargoes of merchan
dise to the Pacific ports at rates thai
will compensate them for the traffic
the business must go as heretofore, tc
! New York, and the rates on flour tc
Asiauc pons win De again at tiie old
figure, or at an advance of about 50
oents a barrel, which would, in my
judgment, destroy the business that
has just been built up with that coun
try. The province of Amoy alone,
which is near the coast, contains over
80,000,000 people, and, at 20 pounds of
flour per capita per annum, would con
sume the product of 40,000,000 bushels
of wheat. The large districts of Ticn
Tsin and Shanghai, both within easy
reach of the se, would consume about
as much more as soon as the trade
could be fully opened. It is not outside
the range of possibility to say that we
could ship wheat at Devil's Lake or
points west, as long as the demand for
flour continues to grow as it has for the
past six months."
There are over 2,000 miles of rail
ways in operation in Jaoan.
j President Of Great
WOOL GROWERS!
.....Hani Your Wool
THE DALLES IS THE BEST MARKET FOR EASTERN OREGON AND
WASHINGTON WOOLS.
With an open river to the sea, The Dalles now enjoys the distinc
tion of having the Best Competitive Freight Rates both by
land and water to all the leading markets in the United
States
THE BUYERS CONGREGATE IN THE DALLES, and during the wool season
all the best markets in the United States are represented.
We have the largest and best equipped brick warehouse in Eastern Oregon with
a storage capacity of 80,000 square feet; consequently we are fully prepared to
handle the entire clip of Eastern Oregon and Washington.
We make liberal cash advances on consignments of wool, enabling the owner to
hold for higher prices.
We pay freight to teamsters, and furnish teamsters' receipt books on application.
e have bought a large consignment of wool sacks and fleece twine for the com
ing season's clip. We are prepared to furnish the same to our patrons at
actual cost.
Our brick warehouse located on the railroad track on the outskirts of the citv is
not surrounded by wooden buildings and hence is not endangered in case of
fire. evertheless we keep all wools insured unless otherwise ordered by the
owner. 3
We respectfully solicit a continuance of the generous patronage we have hereto
fore enjoved, and we assure all those who wish to avail themselves of this
market that we give good clean service at as low a rate as any other ware
house in this town offering the eame facilities.
Mark Yonr Wool Sacks: CareW.W.Co.
WASCO WAREHOUSE CO.
Chief Crowley Reaigna.
San Francisco, April 0. After twenty-four
years' service on the police de
partment of this city Chief Patrick
Crowley handed in his resignation to
night, to the police commissioners, sit
ting as a pension fund commission.
The commissioners are warm friends ot
the chief, and two of them, Alverd and
Tobin, were members of the board
which appointed him to the position in
1880. They hesitated to accept his
resignation, but as the chief insisted.
the resignation was accepted. Isaiah
w. Les, who was born in Oldham,
England, in 1830, and who has been
chief of the detective force of San Fran
cisco since July 1, 1855, was appointed
chief for Crowley's unexpired term,
which will end December 1, next, the
office being filled every two years by the
commissioners.
The Treaty Ratified.
Washington. April 9. Confirmation
of the reported ratification bvth
tuela congress of the arbitration treaty
has come to the state department from
United States Minister Thomas, at Ca
racas, in the following cablegram, dated
yesterday:
Treaty was ratified by coneress yes
terday."
While the treatv provides that ratifi
cation may be exchanged either in Lon
don or Washington, officials of the state
&jXJEllSLm .
worsiea and
SALEM,
WHOLESALE
JHLsyer
Keep Your Money
Oregon Goods.
Best and
ADDRESS.
Salem
P. H. STEPHENSON, Condon, Or. - - - Agent
See Him for Samples and Prices.
to The Dalles.....
department believe this cermony will
take place in London, as it will thus
serve the purpose of initiating the res
toration of diplomatic relations between
Great Britain and Venezuela, after a
suspension of more than ten years.
Clemency Fromlaed for Rivera.
Washington, April 9. Secretary of
State Sherman stated that he had as
surances that General Rivera, the in
surgent leader, would not be executed
but would be treated as a prisoner of
war. General Rivera was captured af
ter being wounded in a recent battle,
and it was feared for a time that he
would be executed by the Spanish au
thorities for his participation in the
rebellion.
Little Child Killed.
Portland, Or., April 12. Gracie
Wade, 3 years of age, the youngest
daughter of Mrs. Florence Wade, met
with a horrible death at 6:45 o'clock
last night, the victim of a street-railway
accident. The child was instantly
killed, the head and body being fright
fully mangled. In order to remove the
body from under the wheels, it was
necessary to raise the trucks from the
track.
The sea has no herbivorous animals.
It is a great slaughterhouse, where all
the inhabitants prey on each other.
OREGON.
AND RETAIL
CLOTHING...
at Home by Using
They are the ,
Cheapest.
Woolen Jfflill Store.
Woolen
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