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1IERR STEiNHAllDT'S NEMESIS
BY I. MACLAREN COBBAN.
CHAPTER V Continued.
That vii ell I wanted, end I soon
left the little draper. I went to rail
on Freeman. I found him Hitting with
his pretty, pleaat wife at an early
dinner. They Invited met to lt down
and partake. 1 declined, on the ground
of having Just had breakfast.
"I," Mid ha, "have 'managed wlth
more economy. Thin la my brvakfant
and dinner combined."
"I wished," aald I, "to have a little
talk with you."
"II," raid he, "it Is about that affair
of the night. y on; I and my wife are
one."
I then told of my gossip with the
draper and Ita purpose. .
"You need not have gone to him,"
aid he; "t cootd have told you that
there haa been no death of that sort
Ince we have been here, and that'a
nearly five years. Of course, It's ab
surd to suppose that the death of 15
yearaago lathe one poor Dick waa
thinking of. No; I've come to the con
clualon that he had aome hair breadth
escar from death in hia mind, and
that the rent waa delirium."
"But. dear " said Mra. Fwman.
don't vou forget, both of you, that
Dicl'a ounfewlon. according to himself,
of a murder which haa not been
found out?"
"You are right, my dear," aald be.
"But. at the tame time, there haa no
one ben missed who could have been
disposed of in that wav. Two men, 1
remember, have disappeared, but they
had nothing to do with chemicals, and
thev were last seen near that deep pond
in the dough: it would be detective
peculation thrown away to Imagine
how thev could be done to death In a
chemical vat. Come," aald he. teeing
my serious, anxious look, "let the mat
ter alone, we ran do nothing wnn iv.
The chemical work a are an abomlna
tion. but the oniv recent death I can
suspect them of la that of an unfortu
natedot: aome one had dyed him i
biasing scarlet: for a while he alunk
about the streets, an object of loathing
to himself, and of terror, curiosity and
acorn to the whole dig world ; then he
disappeared withdrew, probably, In
ahame and despair to that pond in the
dough and pnt an end to the glaring
anomalr of hia existence. But, after
all, I think the chief harm they do la
to every green thing and to Stainhardt's
limitation for honest r. I see thla
morning." he continued, turning and
picking up the newspaper, "that he ia
again in court for infringement of aome
patent.
Our talk then turned on the former
case of the same kind, the heavy dam
ages paid, and the strange disappearance
of Mr. Lacroix. I asked him u lie nau
ever heard the romantic history of the
Lacroix family, lie knew all about it;
he had beard it from Birley.
I broached to him my hot of either
finding the lost Mr. Lacroix, or at leant
of finding out what had become of him
and I told him I had written some
weeka before to aome friends who, 1
bad thought, might make inquiries for
me in London, but that I had heard
nothing from them, and that therefore
I thought of going to London myself on
that errand as soon as my six months
had expired. He shook his head.
"I fancy," said he, "all Inquiries
have been made.. However, since it is
desirable to find out it possible aome
thing for certain" he paused am!
looked at me "I tell you what. We
are going foi our fortnight's holiday at
the end of the month: 1 win giauiy
do what I can if you like."
I agreed with him that it might, or
might not, result in something: a very
aafe concord and so it was settled that
it less than three weeks he would be in
London doing his best to emulate Le-
cocq.
CHAPTER VI.
I bad tacitly assented to Freeman'
suroestion. that no more waa to be
thought or said of Dick's horrible pan
toniimic confession; but it Impressed
me as being too vivid to be lightly dis
carded as without any basis of fact. I
continued to think of it very much:
thought of it more - becaure, in spite of
the unreasonableness of such a conjunc
tion ."and its manifest ."waste of detec
tive speculation" (as Freeman would
have said), the vapors, so to say, of
Louise's dream would persist in ming
line in mv imagination with the va
pors of Dick's delirium. Could it
really be that Mr. Lacroix had met his
death in some such way? And if he
had, how had he come by it? and
.where? Was it even possible in the
mystery of things that ' Lacroix had
been smothered in one of his own vats?
But a discovery I made about this
time trivial, apparently, yet to me
significant fixed my idea more firmly
in my imagination. One night while
I sat thinking of my return to London
I took up my Biadshaw, and carelessly
began noting the times of trains from
the neighboring large, town to the me
tropolig. The lines of three companies
.passed through it, and I became inter
ested in noting how the rivals ran fast
and still faster trains against each
other,' In this survey my attention
was fixed by a very small tact: one
company ran one of its two quickest
trains so that it reached the neighbor
inar town about midnight the only
very Quick train within two or three
hours of that time. I found easy op
portunity to test in some degree what
significance this fact might have. ,
Early in the week following Dick
confession, Mr. Steinhardt had gone to
London to attend his trial, in the court
of Queen's bench, I think it was. He
would be absent for more than a fort
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Iilit, and I had therefore many wel
come chances of being in Miss Ia
croix'c company. I was asked several
times to dinner, and waa encouraged to
nd other and sundry occasions for
calling.
On one of three occasions I found
Miss Lacroix alone. After some casual
remarks I began to work toward my
purpose, by alluding to Steinhardt a
businesa in London.
"It will be a serious thing for blm,"
mid I "wont It? If he should be so
unsuccessful in his defence as your
father was?"
"He will not be unsuccessful as poor
father was," answered she, with a sad
shake of her beautiful head; "Mr.
Ktelnhardt Is not scrupulous as father
was; he tells falsehoods with rude slm
plitlty, like his great chancellot, and
so people think him to be all honest
truth. He will succeed in his cse, I
think I have heard him talk it to
Frank and he will come back more
aesjiot than ever. Poor fat her I" She
leaned back, and looked sadly out over
the valley, from which rose the smoke
and sound of Ita " daily toil, fatigued
and forced, I thought, on that warm
summer afternoon.
"I have thought geat deal," said
, seiislng the opportunity her exclama
tion afforded, "of that strange dream
you told me of."
"Yes," said she, turning with sud
den interest.
"Do you still dream it?" I asked.
"Yes, I do; but not often now."
"it Is a veiy strange thing. Does
the dream come at any particular hour
of the night?"
It does," aald she; "and that. I
daresay, makes me think more of it.
It always comes two or three hours
after I have gone to bed. I dream it.
and then become wide awake; and after
I have lain awake a little I always hear
the hall clock strike two my room is
over the hsii."
"And the first night yon had the
dream do you think it came then
about the aame hour?"
"Yes," aaid she, "I think so. But,"
and she leaned forward. eager and pale,
"why do yoa ask me these questionk?
Have you found out something from
your friends in London, perhaps? You
had heard nothing when last I asked
you, i know, leu me nave yon beard
something now?
"No, I am sorry to say, I have not,
Still I do not despair, I have hope I
may learn something soon.
"Oh, what? " she eagerly demanded.
"I think," aaid I, "you had better
not ask me; it may only end in disap
polntment, and thla matter already
preva upon you too much."
"ion are very kind to me," aaid she.
My pulee beat tumultously, and' I
was on the point of saying something
rash concerning my devo.ion, when she
added, almost as if she knew what I
was thinking of, "But I can think of
nothing else much I can be interested
in nothing else. It is very foolish of
me, but I cannot help it. Mr. Stein
nardt sometimes is rather rude to me
about it; he wants me to marry
Frank," said she, simply; "but I do
not wish to marry Frank, and Frank
doe not wish to marry me. I do not
wish to think of marrying at all just
yet.
"I suppose," aaid I, piqued, and leal
ous, too, I dare say. "Mr. Steinhardt
wants you to marry his eon that he
may keep your father money, which
you will inherit, in hia business."
"I do not think," said she with a
smile, "that there Is much now of poor
fathers money; Mr. Steinhardt reckons
off it that 20,000 pounds which, he
says, father lost without any cause."
'But does Mr. Birley, your other
guardian, agree to that fraud? for
fraud it is."
"I do not know," said ahe listlessly.
"But 1 think dear air. Birley Is some-
how in Mr. Steinhardt'a power; I think
he fears to say much." .
Mr, Steinhardt returned from London
resplendent with Success and self satis
faction. He had won his case. He
had been able to lead the court to be
lieve that he had found out for himself
the chemical process for which the
plaintiffs had taken ont a patent, with
this difference, that he had employed a
wet method, whereas they used a dry
or vice versa ; I do' not remember which
it was. The plaintiffs were going to
carry their case to a higher court, but
he did not care for that. He called
together his friends and his neighbors
to rejoice with him, of whom I was
one; for since he got the better of me
over the lecture affair he had been as
amicably disposed as before. The din
nerwasa very sumptuous affair, and
Mr. Steinhardt thought hiuiself so much
master of the situation that, I think,
he indulged rather more freely in wine
than was his hsbit. - In the drawing
room after dinner his eye was the
brightest and his talk the loudest and
most voluble, He watched hia son
paying gallant little attentions to a
strange young lady, while Miss Lacroix
was surrounded by the beaua of the
neighborhood, and he called him, in
audible asides, -"Fooi!"-"Idiotl"
"Blockhead!" At length he became
so impatient that, ahouting "Frank, I
want you!" he strode out of the room
Frank at once arose and followed him
in evident alarm.
After some time he returned, looking
pale and agitated. He came up to me
(I sat talking with Mr. Birley), and to
my great surprise said ;
"Mr. Unwin, the governor wants to
speak to you in the dining room." I
had a disagreeable recollection of a
former interview there, but before I
could say anything he continued "I'm
CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1002.
you Into a row, without
sort. The gov
ernor's always at me to
to to make love
to Louise; he wants me to marry her."
(Mr, Birley shifted uneasily in hia
seat.) "That was what liecauea me
out about now; he jawed me, and I told
him I didn't want to marry liuise; be
got very angry, and then I aaid, what
was the use of my making love to a gin
that was hi love with somebody else.
I shouldn't have said that, I know, but
I was very riled ; I am very sorry."
The hot suspicion now dawnea on me
that I waa the fortunate "somebody
ele" of his legend. I felt I grew
burning red; I scarcely beard what be
said afterward, but it was to the effect
thst this father angrily dlctiiinned him
with the order to seud me to the dining
room. Birley sat nntmually silent and
disturbed. I also was silent a moment.
I turned to blm. ' '
Do yon think I ooght to go?"
asked him.
"Yea. lad; go." aaid be, laying his
hand on my shoulder, "and I'll go wi'
tha."
We entered the dining room together.
Steinhardt stood on the hearth rug
He frowned and pulled his great mous-
tach on seeing Birley with me.
"I wished to apeak to Mr. Viwin
privately, Jim," said he.
"Well, saw Hiney, i ve come io
be a sort of interpreter, 'Manuel, leet
you, being a foreigner like, leastways
not altogether English yet, mightn't
nndentand some things an Englishman
like my friend here would very likely
say. You aee, 'Manuel, for one thing
vou don t aeera to undt-rstand that an
English clergyman is noi tne nunaey
vou may get a pastor of the fatherland
to be. Yon mustn't say 'Come here!'
and 'Do thla!' or 'Don't do that'.' with
out any rhyme or reason but your own
high and mighty will, ihai may t
Biamarcklan, 'Manuel, but it'a not
English. An Englishman would say,
'You be d d, sir! Who are yon
talking to? A dog at your heel' as,
I daresay, my friend here, would say if
he didn't happen to be a parson."
"When yon've quite done, Urn,"
said the brother-in-law. .
"Eh?" said Birley, as if he caught
faintly a distant interrupting sound.
"Perhaps, Mr. Birley," said I, I
had better hear what Mr. Steinhardt
wishes to say tome."
Yes, of course," said he, and im
posed an unwelcome silence upon him
self. I only wish to tell yon, Mr.
Unwin," said Steinhardt, looking hard
at me, "since you have seen a good
deal of my ward, Miss Lacroix" (Bir
ley evidently dialed at that), "especial-
ly lately, I understand, and since It
may have entered your head that eome
time she might make you a beautiful
wife. I wish to teil you thst you must
give up thinking anything of the sort,
because she ia going to marry my son
Frank."
Ob, that d dfor Ule, 'Man
uel" exclaimed Birley, before I could
say a word.
Will you be quiet, Jim?" said
Steinhardt, with restrained voice, but
glaring eyes, and that apoplectic, pur
plish flush aunusing his head and face.
Say, lad," said Birley; "tnara a
point on which I mun ha' my aay. Be
fore you tell anybody Louiee is going to
marry Frank, you mut get the consent
of at least three people the girl her
self, your son, and her othor guardian,
that'a me." Steinhardt looked at him
in unfeigned surprise, but he jffent on:
"Your son, that's your affair, of course;
but the girl, that's Partly mine; and
shall net Paul'a Louise engaged to
marrv anybody against her own wish
and liking."
"Liking!" scoffed Steinhardt
"What has liking to do with it? Lik
ing should come after marriage with a
proper, modest girl, not before."
That may be your loreign way.
'Manue, but it'a not our English way,
nor our Lancashire way, nowther."
"Confound your Lancashire!" cried
Steinhardt.
If it had not been for Lancashire,
my lad," said uiriey, - thoroughly
roused, "you wouldn't be the big man
you are!"
"Are you mad? exclaimed btein-
hardt, striding up and down the hearth
rug, and glaring from Birley to me.
"You shall repent this! Mr. Unwin,
I had better have a talk with you an
other time."
(To bs continued.)
Rugy With a ilUtory.
The king's coronation crown is to be
adorned with what is termed "the
Black Prince ruby." It is not gener
ally known that this stone, which now
forms the center of the Maltese cross
on the late Queen Victoria's crown, is
not a ruby at all, but simply a red
spinel. It is of large sise, and if it
were a true ruby would far surpass in
value the Koh-i-noor itself, for rubies
never run to the same size as diamonds,
and being also far rarer are consider
ably more valuable in price per carat,
A four carat ruby, for instance, would
be worth about $10,000, probably even
more if it were a flawless stone; a four
carat diamond would not be worth the
half of that sum.
The so-called "Black Prince ruby'
derived its name from the fact that it
was given to Edward, the Black Prince,
by Don Pedro of Castile in gratitude
for the victory of Longoro in April
1367, which restored the throne of
Spain to Don Pedro. Henry V wore it
in his helmet at the. battle of Agin
court, arid it has ever since formed part
of the crown jewels of England. In
spite of its having been proved to be
nothing but a spinel it still figures in
the description of the recallia as
ruby," and as such was shown at the
famous exhibition of 1862, when the
royal jewels were one of the most in
teresting exhibits.
True Enough.
The trouble with most of us is not so
much that we have a hard row to hoe
but that we dislike hoeing. Puck.
EVENTS OP THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUAHTER3 Or
THE WORLD.
CMBpfchtiulve fUvkw ef ths Import
ttappcafep el tSs Pt Vek, rVucaUd
la a CeedcAKd femt. hldi It Mt
Utah te freve ef IsUwt U Ovr Many
fUadsrtf
The Marants of Oueentbury has been :
declared a bankrupt.
t , .
YoVk iZ,Iv iil '
Saturday wa Oregon iiy at the
Charleston exposition. :
., i..c t. v.
. v. . , 1 1.!. if.
iri. .i ivr u wiuun v u, n
and child. r i
Tbe Boer agenta in America are try
ing to induce President Kroger to visit
this country.
With peace perhaps in sight, Eng
land is atill sending men and muni
tions of war to South Africa.
A vigilance committee baa been or
ganized in Chicago to drive the rougher
element from one of the wards.
The majority of the inhabitants of
the Danish West Indiea are in favor of
their sale to the United States.
Two New Yorkers have bseo held for
trial nnder the new law against the dis
tribution of anarchistic literature.
The petition for an injunction against
Miss Stone lecturing under a certain
management waa denied at Boston.
Colombian insnrgente have captured
Rio Hatha after an engagement lasting
many hours. The losses sustained are
unknown.
Heavy rains have relieved the situa
tion in Kansas.
Turkey haa released all the suspects
in the Miss Stone case.
The Northern
Pacific machinists at
are on strike.
Brainard, Mont.
The condition of Queen Wilbelmina
is changed slightly for the worse.
The Cuban congress will convene on
May 5 by order of Governor General
Wood.
There have been 1.217 cases of chol
era and 847 deaths to date in the Phil
ippines. . . . , .. ' "
German nobility is shocked at Ejb-
peror William entertaining untitled
business man. , ,,..;.
Great-excitement prevails at Sand
Creek, Mont., over a lich gold strike
made near that town.
Strikers at Patterson, N. J., have
quieted down and show a disposition
to make concessions.
President Roosevelt favors the pend
ing bill appropriating 150,000 for a
monument in Washington to Gen. John
C. Fremont.
The great shipping combine may ac
quire the Hill lines on the Pacific
ocean, thus making a world wide com
munity of interests.
Not a passenger street car has moved
in three days tn ban francisco. -
Confederate veterans are holding
their 12th annual reunion at Dallas,
Tex.
Alexander O'Brodie will succeed
Governor Murphy as chief executive of
Arisona. . -
Although the Rock Island Railroad
will build wetitward from Denver, it
will not seek a Pacific coast outlet.
President Hill, of the Great North
ern Railroad, says he is not worried
ever the decision of the supreme court.
The United States consul at Chom-
nits, Germany, says a good market for
Oregon salmon can bo found in that
country. .
A hydraulic sea dredge rosy be con
structed to cut and preserve a tempor
ary channel through the bar at the
month of the Columbia river.
President Roosevelt Is said to be of
the opinion that Colonel Crowder's re
port on the British horse camp shows
no violation of neutrality laws.
Governor McBride will : not call an
extra session of the Washington legis
lature to provide a fund to pay the ex
pense of fighting the railway merger.
Kansas is suffering greatly for want
of rain.
The plagne has reappeared in Cape
Oolony, 8. A. -
Fire at Quincy, 111., destroyed prop
erty valued at $230,000.
Two masked men held up and robbed
17 laborers near Corinne, Utah.
President-elect Palma is in Cuba
He was enthusiastically received.
The British press is much perturbed
ever J. P. Morgan's steamship combine,
The senate has passed the river and
harbor bill carrying $70,060,000 in ap
propriations.
General E. Daniel, charged with em
benling $40,000 at Seatlle, haa been
discharged. ;
A restaurant has been opened in New
York where food will be furn shed at
one cent a plate.
There are 13,958,622 acres of uncul
tivated land in Italy, which might be
developed and made productive by the
tpplication of ordinary enterprise.
Phenomenally mild weather is being
experienced in Russia. ; At Kiev . the
trees are budding, the river Dnieper
clear ef ice, while at . Warsaw rioleta
are Mooning.
YOUTHFUL WARRIORS.
A UtUr Threws Sens Light ea Ca. Smith's
Order Aatat ritipiites.
Washington, April 28. Adjutant
General Corbin has received a letter
from Henry C. McCook, of Philadel
phia, in regard to the reported orders
of General Smith to destroy all Fill
pinos found in arms 10 years of age
and upward.
"Sergeant Brown, honorably dis
charged after full service from Com
pany G. Second regiment, in which my
ton. First Lieutenant Paul McCook, is
an officer." saya Mr. McCook, "visited
'me this week. His company was era
,n Tayabae Prince, ,d be
practiced, or tny other methods of tor-
iture." I asked him what was the pbyei
leal standing of a youth of 10 year in
the Philippines. .He answered that
I I0-year-oli
. A . . . i.t.
- T?.00"1?
I a 15-year-old boy here
1 J .L.. 1 4
AAV SUI IUW
iniomed me that boys of that age and
np to 12 could bear arms, greatly to the
disadvantage of their opponents; that
be had Men yontbs of that age and two
or three years older among the inur
rectos and iadronee captured, and be
further said that sometimes there
would be a considerable proportion of
such boys in the hostile ranks, as rep
resented by those who surrendered and
those taken prisoners.
Of coorre, it is most shocking to
our ideas of what is allowable, even
nnder the extremest exigencies of war
fare, to think of children of 10 or 12
years of age as being subject 'o the
severities administered to their teniors.
Yet it occurred to me that the above
facts, if they be stated, may pot a
somewhat different color upon the re
puted order of General Smith."
Secccfttful Wirelm Tckcraphy.
Norfolk, Va., April 28.-rTests of the
new government system oi wireiess
telegraphy were made today at Roanoke
ieland, Pamlico sound, before a number
of naval experts. The tests were in
charge of Professor Reginsld Fesfenden,
of Allegheny, Pa., who is now attached
to the weather bureau service, and who
is the'inventor of that system. It is
aknowledged that the feasibtlty and
practicability of sending wireless tele
graphic messages at sea quickly and ac
curately by the new system baa been
demonstrated beyond doubt. The ex
periments were conducted from tape
Hatteraa to Roanoke Island, a distance
of t0 miles by an entirely salt water
route.
Money for Ceast CttUa.
Washington, April 28. Tha omni-
tms public building biii, just intro
duced in the house, carries $150,000
for enlarging the Portland poetoifice
and Federal court building, and $10,000
for the exterior finish of the Portland
custom house. The bill also appro
priates $150,000 additional for the Se
attle building, making the total amount
appropriated $900,000. Sixty thous
and dollars each is appropriated for Ta-
coma and Spokane for the purchase of
public buildjng sites, the bill stipulat
ing that these sites shall embrace an
entire city block, and shall be bounded
by a street on four sides.
Mammoth Drydock.
New Yorx, April 28. Plans which
are being prepared by the yards and
docks departments, of the New York
navy yard indicate that one of the
largest drydocks in the United States
will be built at the local navy yard. It
will cost about $1,000,000, and will be
built entirely of concrete. When fin
ished it will be of. suffiient size to ac
commodate the largest battle ships of
the navy, or any the navy may b ild in
the near- future. It will be 600 feet
long by 00 feet wide at the bottom,
with a clearance of 31 feet of water
over the sill of the dock.
Senator ia Stmt Fight.
Washintgon, April 26. Senator II
D. Money, of Mississippi, had an alter
cation with a conductor on a street car
this morning, which resulted in the
senator receiving two severe blows from
the conductor, and the conductor being
cut quite severely in the . right band
with a knife. . The senator refused to
pay two fares and afterwards bad his
assailant arrested.
Queen Dangerously fit j
Amsterdam, April 28. In official
circles no amelioration of Queen Wil-
helmina's condition is admitted, and
her doctor's admission that she is not
sleeping well is taken as a bad sign.
It is alleged that the dispatches from
the royal family concerning the queen s
condition differ substantially from the
medical bulletins on tbe subject.
Machlas Returns Irom Boca.
Colon, Colombia, April 28. The
United States gunboat Machias re
turned to Colon today from Bocaa del
Toro, where quiet has been restored
T is city w as reinforced yesterday by
350 soldiers from Panama. .
Root Inspects Cuban Improvements.
Havana, April 26. Secretary Root
has inspected the rchools, hospitals, in
stitutions and general improvements
made in all departments under Amer
ican intervention.
Fifty Injured in Wreck.
London, April 28. Fifty persons
were injured this morning in an acci
dent on the Great Eastern Railway,
near the Hackney Downs station. Ab
a train from Walthamstown, called the
three penny train, was crossing a
bridtre. an axle of the car nearest the
locomotive broke, and the coach jumped
the rails, dashed into the side of the
bridge and lodged across both trackB.
The tram was filled with workmen on
their way to work.
NO. 8.
NEWS OP THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTERE8T FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON.
CawiawwUI sad Flnaackl Rappcttmgj ef fa
psrtsacs A Srtd fUvfew sf ths Grewft
TViwjhawt Cur Ihrivtag frauMeewetlili
Lstttt Jfariut (Upert.
John Burke of Whatcom la nnder ar-
rest, charged with embeKliDg 11,000.
The weavers of the Oregon City mills
are on strike for an increase in wagea
City Attorney Chane of Bumper re-
. i .
signed after being reinstate by Mayor
Eofcwns.
A rich discovery of a copper lodge on
Snake river, near the mouth of the
Imnaha, is reported.
The Buzxini placer mines on Beaver
creek are attracting considerable atten-
tion. A strata of very rich gravel ha.
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The state supreme court has decided
that when grain stored in warehouses
is sold without authority of depositors
they may recover from the purchasers.
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Messenger II UMchton Kelly, of the
Clackamas Inited States fih commis-
fion station. Is
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station, is distributing 45,000,
Eastern brook trout in the
streams of ,
J
Eastern Oregon
' Superintendent of Public Instruction
J. II. Ackerman has sent out circulars
calling for bids on books, to be pur
chased by school districts for school
library purposes.
A mulatto who gave his name as
Jackson, and who was caught in the act
of robbing a store in Grants Pat, has
been identified as "Yellow," the fifth
member of gang who murdered Police
man Robinson in San Francisco.
Crane & Thompson, proprietors of
the Brownsville flouring mills, will
soon be ready to install the new ma
chinery in thejr mill. When finished
it will be one of the finest mills in the
county. The null will have a capacity
of 60 barrels a day.
The w heat Kiles lat week in Weston
were the larjKrt for the season. The
Pacific Coast Elevator Company, of
Portland, through its agents, ttought a
40,000-bushel lot. Kerr, Gifford &
Co., and the Northwestern Warehouse
Company bought 29,500 bushels, mat
ing the total sales? for the week 70,000
bushels. The price averaged 55 cents.
Patents have been filed with the
county recorcer at Allwiny conveying
108,656 acres of land from the govern
ment to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, in lien of some worthless
land in the state of Washington. The
new land is located along the Cascades,
only a portion being in Linn county.
v lewer have been in the mountains
during the past year making the selec
tions. Oregon City has two cases of small
pox.
A new eight room school building is
to be built at Albany.
William Abel," of Auburn, an old
time pioneer of the West , is dead. '
The'debate between Albany College
and the Monmouth State Normal School
was won by Monmouth.
The Buck Ridge Placer Company, of
Sumpter, has filed articles of incorpor
ation. Caiptal,.$ 1,000,000. : ' s .-
PORTLAND MARKETS..
Wheat Walla Walla, 6565c;
bluestem, 6666lac; valley, 65c.
Barley Feed, $2021 ; brewing,
$2121..50 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.20; gray
$1.101.15. .".,.,- .
Flour Best grades, $2.85 3.40 per
barrel; graham, $2.502.80.
Millstuffs Bran $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $19; shorts, $13.50; chop, $16.
Hay Timothy, $12I5; clover,
$7.5010; Oregon wild hay, $56 per
ton.-
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 1.251.50
percental; ordinary, $1.10 1.25 per
cental; Early Rose $1.502.00 per
cental; growers prices; sweets. 3.5
2.50 per cental.
Butter Creamery, 1820c5 dairy,
1517$c; store, 18 15c.
Eggs 15 16c for Oregon.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13
13)c; Young America, 1415c; fac
tory prices,! l&c less.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.50
5.50; hens, $5.00(36.00 per ?oen.
1111sC per poind; springs, 11
llc per pound, $4.005.50 per dox-
en ; ducxs, ? o.uo .uu per aozen ; tur-
keye, live, 1213c, dressed, 1416c per
pound; geese, $6.507.00 per dozen.
Mutton Gross, AHc -per pound;
dressed. 7&c per pound; -
Hogs Gross, QXc, dressed, 77c
per pound.
Veal 67c for small; 6)7c for
lartre.
Beef Gross, cows, 44Jc; steers,
5c; dressed, 88)4C per pound.
Hops 12s14 cents per pound.
Wool Valley, 1314; Eastern Ore
gon, 9llc; mohair, 23gc per pound.
The Russian government has advised
all newspapers in the empire to cease
publishing news of student riots.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation to deliver the memorial ad
dress at the National cemetery at Ar
lington on May 30.
Onlv five sailing ships of over 100
tons were built in the United Kingdom
last year. All the vesses were con
structed on the Clyde and were regis
tered in London.
Oe saver cvcartaf
it aetf tm tosses ftStora It
FLOUR ON THE FREE LIST.
SccrtUry Day Monk Caul Mtrchsat ef
ChinsM Trssry.
Washington, April 2ft. Senator
Mitchell recently addressed a lettet to
Secretary Hay, inclosing one protesting
against the United States consenting to
any reciprocity, or ,tner agreement,
with CUaa, by
w hkh a duty shall bo
t g a 1 a i 1
on American flour
British representatives evidently
alarmed the coast merchants. In his
reply to Senator Mitchell, Secretary of
Sut Hay says:
" WhatvM ma Km tfi r,f ilia
lj,ritlA commissioners fc, th revision
5 of the treaty of commerce with China,
J whether the British government con-
CM. IVJlllnt
more particular examination into the
Jft duty on ait import, or n t,
they cannot aiTect American trade. As
long as we do not vgreo to such aa in-
crease, the existing una proviaea lor
in treaties now in force ia Uie only one
applicable.
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Ch na, it was speifi! y provided for
in tlte protocol of September 7, 1901,
As regards Dour Imported Into
wnere it w pjcvu "a m in-e um.
Lumber, not being on that list, is sub-
ject to a 6 per cent effective duty, and
will remain so long as the United
States has not entered into aa agree-
ment by which this tariff ia altered.
v' on tbe r ,bt at th,
,K xui c...
ciwt swum siavwa kmvvn
..Tll. l.tnv.tin. iv.n t th. m.
tt jng,, f(jr the revision of our treaty
of commerce are such that the interests
of American trade in China will not in
any way be sacrificed, and the duty
1 certainly not be put on flour after
its
inclusion in the free list haa but
re-
ceutly been secuerd."
AGAINST THE BEEF TRUST.
Attorney Gcner! AMtnerizcs Fmscdiftp k
, ; the State ef llliaels. :
Washington, April 26. Attorney
Gene-al Knox has made the following
statement regarding the so-called beef
trust: ' '
"On April 4, this department di
rected W..A. Day, Esq., of Washing
ton, in his capacity as special assistant
to the attorney general, to examine
into, as far aa practicable, the public
charges to the effect that a combination
of large meat dealers of tbe United
States had been effected contrary to tbe
provisions of the laws of the United
States. This preliminary examination
resulted in instructions to Mr. Pay and
Mr. Bethea, United States attorney at
Chicago, on April 7, to prosecute simul
"taneously in Chicago and the East a '
allegations and proofs alleged to exist
in support thereof. ,, - -j
"From the reports I am satisfied that
sufficient evidence is en hand upon
which bills in equity for an injunction
can be framed to restrain the combina
tion mentioned from further proceed
ing under their agreements, which
clearly appear to, be in restraint of In
terstate trade. 1 have, therefore, , in
compliance of the law, which provides
'It shall be the duty of the several dis
trict attorneys of the United States in
their respective districts, under, the di
rection of the attorney general, to insti
tute proceedings in equity to prevent
a'd restrain violations of this 'act,'
directed tbe district attorney at .CM
caog to prepare a bill for an injunction
against the corporation and persons
who are parties to the combination
mentioned,- to be filed in the United
States court for the Northern district
of Illinois."
FUNSTON REPRIMANDED.
President Requests the Kansas General to hj. '
sort the Philippine Question, ' "
Washington, April 26. By direction
of President RooseveltK Acting Secre
tary of War Snager has tddressed the
following letter to Genen.1 , Frederick
Fnnston: ':.' ..
"Sir: I tm directed by the" presi
dent to instruct you th&t be wishes you
to cet.se further public discussion of the
situation in the Philippines, and also
to express his -regret thtt you should,
make a senator of the United States
the subject of discussion orcriticism!'.
At a banquet of the Colorado Sons of
the Revolution, General Funston is re
ported to have said of Senator" Hoar: 1
"I have only sympathy for the sen
ior senator fromMasa;husett, who is.
suffering from an overheated , con-f
science."- ,1" "' ' ,''"
General Funston, who is in Denver,-
says he will eliminate all reference to .
the Philippine question, .from future?
interviews and speeches. - " '. .
Oato are Submitting Vf--'
Manila, April 26.--Lieutenant ColoV
nel Frank D. Baldwin, who is operat-.'
ing against the Moros on the island of.1
Mindanao, telegraphs that the capture
of tbe Sultan of Fualo's fort has had a
most salutary effect. Tbe Dates are
submitting. White fligs 'are taking
the place of the red battle flags. The
Sultan of Annudtbak urges that time
be given him in which to give up the
assassins of the American soldiers, and
says that the advance of the Americans
will mean "bristling cannon and im
passable barriers, with God judging the
right." Colonel Baldwin has received .
ordeisto suspend operations against
the datos.
Demand for German Cutlery,
Berlin, April 26. A report of the
chamber of commerce of Solingen,
Prussia, says the depresison in the,
cutlery industry has been partly re
lieved by large American orders. Al
though Solingen gxtda are now largely
made in the United States, behind the
tariff wall, still the American manufac- '
turers are unable to meet the demand,-
which requires them to supplement
J their production with German goods.