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Scio Weekly Press. PURELY PERSONAL Prof. Garner Goes to Africa to Study the Language ef the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee—Etc. SCIO.......................... .........OREGON OCCIDENTAL MELANGE The Chinese Renting Rooms in the City of Tacoma. OREGON’S WHEAT CROP FOR 1892. Fruit Men of California in a Pleasant Frame of Mind—Composition of Oregon* Legislature. Portland and San Bernardino have in augurated a war on dives and dance houses. The Utah Liberals have decided to nominate a candidate for delegate to Congress. Los Angeles is having an epidemic of burglaries. Several expert crooks are believed to be at work. The Sacramento Federated Trades has begun a crusade to compel the Chinese to move outside the cffy Hunts. The Umatilla reservation is overrun with large black crickets, which are proving destructive to the grain fields. Grasshoppers in swarms have appeared in Williamson Valley, sixteen miles north of Prescott, A. T., and all vegeta tion is suffering. The fruit men of California were never in better humor than at present. The rise in prices for fruit has made a delight ful change in affaire. The Interstate Commerce Commis sioners will soon be in San Francisco to look into the alleged discriminations on Missouri river and Pacific Coast rates. One hundred and fifty Japs have been run out of Nampa and Caidwell, Idaho, and there will probably be a further up rising against them on the Oregon Short Line. The Temescal tin mine has been closed to the public owing to the late pub lished reports of its standing. No one will be allowed on the premises except employes. Rev. J. A. Smith, the absconding evangelist, has returned to Santa Cruz from Seattle in company of the Sheriff. Bail was set at $2,000, in lieu of which he is in jail. He acknowledges his guilt. The Wolfley Canal Company, in Mari copa county, A. T., is working 5)0 men, and the monster enterprise will be com pleted by November 1. The ditch is over 60 miles in length and is now near ing completion. The San Luis and San Joaquin Rail road Company has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $100,000, to con struct a railroad northward from San Luis Obispo to El Moro, a distance of about ten miles. At Phoenix, A. T., four member of the Philharmonic Band (Mexican) have been arrested on a charge of maintain ing a nuisance, in playing their instru ments between the hours of 10 and 12 A. M. and late at night. During the last two weeks over 15,000 head of beef cattle have been brought from the mountains to Maricopa county, A. T., to fatten on the Alfalfa fields in the valley preparatory to shipment to California and Eastern markets. Judge Van Vleet has decided to re sign his position as Superior Judge a< Sacramento, to take effect within the next lew months. The Judge proposes to resume the practice of his profession and will locate in San Franc sco. Rooms at Tacoma have been rented through third parties, prestimab y for Twin Wo, of Portland, for the use of a mercantile house. This is the first de ci si ve move to establish Chinese mer chants in connection with the Northern Pacific Oriental Steamship Line. The weeds on the monitor Monadnock, which vessel has been lying tor a yeai near the ferry-gate entrance to the Mare Island dock yard, were found to be from three to twelye inches in length, and it required considerable labor to get them off the'hul). Articles of incorporation of the Gran - ite and Greenhorn Consolidated Mining and Milling Company of Gran te, Grant county, Or., were filed in the office of the Secretary of State by A. J. Tabor, Joseph N. Ditmars and C. N. Miller; capital stock, $1,250,000. Dun’s Commercial Agency has advices from every wheat-growing county in Oregon, ‘showing that Oregon’s wheat crop for 1892 will be 2,810,000 bushels less than in 1801. The yield in the State of Washington will, it is stated, be considerably diminished. Edward Hyatt is fitting out a camp ing expedition to collect specimens tor the Stanford University. The object of the trip will be to make as complete a showing as possible of birds, snakes and lizards of Southern California. Tne trip will last about two months. The political composition of the Ore gon L“gislature is as follows: House— 89 Republicans, 18 Democrats, 3 Peoples’ party. Senate—16 Republicans, 11 Dem ocrats, 1 Democrat and Prohibitionist, 1 Peoples’ party and 1 Citizens'. The Democrats gain four in the Senate and lose one in the House over the last Leg islature. The Republicans lose nine, o' which seven are in the Senate and two in the House. The whaling schooner Blakely of San Francisco was wrecked at Middleton Island, Alaska, on June 24. She is al most a total loss. While rounding Mid dleton Island to allow some of the crew to go ashore and hunt for wild geese the vessel struck a hidden rock not marked on the charts, three miles south-; east of the island. She ran ashore and beached. Her hull was shattered, but the pails, furniture, instruments and provisions were saved. A Virginia (Nev.) dispatch says : A number of members of the local compa nies of the Nevada National Guard have decided to resign on acconnt of the pun ishment recently inflicted on Private lams at Pittsburg, by order of Lieuten ant-Colonel Streator. A large majority of the members of the local malitia be long to labor unions, and their resigna tions are likely to result in the disband ment of two out of the three companies in this county. The Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors has passed an ordinance which has for its purpose the protection of a number of birds and animals which are now undergoing in that county a very rapid extermination. The animals and birds are the seal, the sealion, mountain gray squirrel, go'den oriole, mocking bird, and the California road runner and meadow lark. It is also a crime to rob the nests or destroy the eggs of any of the birds. Fines and im prisonment are the penalties for viola tion of the ordinance«. Some famous men’s letters do not need to be burned. One of the ‘‘Iron Duke” of Wellington has never yet been read. Princess Louise and President Harri son’s wife are said to be the only lad es- who have ever been permitted to entei the cloisters of the Monastery of Santa Barbara. . Tom Carter, Chairman of the Repub lican National Committee, was once a book agent in Illinois, and has sold cop ies of the “Footprints of Time” to Quincy people. Mr. Moody will not return to America in time to conduct his general conference at Northfield this year, and Dr. A. J. Gordon of Boston will have charge ot the meetings in hie absence. William T. Adams, better known as “ Oliver Optic,” has written altogether more than 10J books for boys and he is now busy at work with another. Mr. Adams is 70, but well enough preserved to laBt for thirty years to come. Some Ne.w England newspapers speak; of Miss Ruth Burnett, who is a postu lant for admission into one of the Cath olic sisterhoods, as a niece of James Rus sell Lowell. The Boston Herald sets them right by declaring her a sister of the poet’s son-in-law. Josephine Werner, a New York confi dence woman with the expressive alias of “ Weeping Caroline,” has been sen tenced to five years’ imprisonment for, obtaining money under, false pretenses. For’ihifty years ^enas bfed the^cnar- itable by way of her tear ducts and false stories. General Kirby Smith’s children all have “ Kirby ” in their name«, and there are a great many of them. The Aldrich collection of autographs in Des Moines, I»., has just been enriched by General Smith’s last official order in the Confed erate service, commanding an aide at New Orleans to turn over some funds to General Canby, the Federal commander there. The first year that Mr. Nikisch, the leader of the Boston symphony orches tra, was in this country he was exceed ingly lonesome without his wife, and, though idolized by many a winsome maid and matron in the modern Athens.' “ his heart was true to Poll.” The sec ond year he visited Germany during his vacation, and brought his wife and chil dren to America. Last year they both went to the Fatherland, but this season they are to spend in this country. Prof. Garner, who has gone to Africa to study the language of the gorilla and the chimpanzee, says he will not return to this country until he has secured suf ficient phonographic records of the speech of these two great types of mon key life to be able to settle definitely the subject of monkey language. He has so far in twelve years’study been able to produce three sounds in the monkey lan guage which are intelligible to monkeys. Thev were sounds expressive of a desire for food, for drink and of terror. THE CHICAGI Warm and Friendly Expressions of International Good Will. EXPOSITION. t Harvard .University tplies for Space a Représentatif Exhibit From That Ir Station. The World’s Fair directory ______ ____ has ML ex- pended up to date approximately $7,250,- 0J0. The famed, “i Nations” in New THE PRESIDENT AND KING HUMBERT York State will bdkveil represented in the Indian exhibit it tfife World’s Fair. It is proposed to mid World’s Fairs in Berlin in 1898 and it Paris in 1900, but definite action has n>t yet been taken by The Wheat Expor's of the United States the nations concern#. In Denmark’s exhibit at the World’s List Year—The Canadians on Fair will be a fini, array of porcelain Canal Reprisals. ware and a notable art display, including reproductions of mzny of thè Thoswald- sen sculptures. Several Amazon! of the King of Da- Cattle in Lyon county, Tex., are suf- homev will probably be seen in the Di homey village, whfeh will be established faring from Texas fever. A Chicago dispatch says the whisky at the World’s Fair. <_Sixry or seventy natives and their tanner of living will trust is in danger of disruption. Tne Salvation Army slum workers in be shown. An effort is being made to have the New York say the slums of that city are cotton mills of Georgia make a fine ex as bad as those in London. hibit at the World’) Fair. It is believed Cruiser No. 12, denominated hitherto that such exhibitjwould greatly stimu as the Pirate, is to be named the Uolum- late the investmenlof capital in cotton ■bia by order ef Secretary Tracy. mills in the South/; Dr. F. L. Sim, a noted specialist on The exhibit to be-made at the Wor'.ó’j nervous diseases, has declared Alice Fair by Krupp, th« celebrated German Mitchell, who shot Freda Ward at Mem gunmaker, will repiesentan expenditure phis, insane. of $1,500,030. Thelargest cannon ever General Weaver was presented at Den made, weighing 122tone, will be in the ver with a silver pen, with which to s gn exhibit, as will alsoseveral hundred tons the free-coinage bill when he is elected of w President of the United States, I Ti ion fpr Peru Iz^pal capitalists, actizg witlit-ah ^¿¿8-1 tjitusn___ HUbie irto side sy ndicate, have made offers for the mike all Wlig ani Inals of purchase of some of the street railways that country. It has suggested the im of New Orleans so as to consolidate them portance to all breeders, especially of the all. animals peculiar to that region, such as The people of Louisiana have resolved l.amas, alpacas, paco-vicunas and others, not to be drowned out again, and the and there is no doubt that a very credit general levee system is to be raised three able exhibit will be sent to Chicago. feet above the height of the recent The authorities of Harvard University flood. have applied to Chief Peabody of. the The United States exported last year department of liberal arts of the World’s 225,000,690 bushels of wheat, its largest* Fair for 7,000 square feet for a thorough export, and Eastern grata men are of ly representative educational exhibit the opinion that next year will be still from that historic institution. The offi cers of the university say they are pre larger. The Secretary of State is advised of pared not only to fill, biit to splendidly the denunciation by Salvador of the and representatively fill every foot of treaty concluded in December, 1870. The space which can be granted to them. The Washington State building at the treaty will, however, continue till May World’s Fair will show to some extent the 30 next. The Canadians on the question of ca forest resources of the State. The founda nal reprisals threaten to return blow for tion alone will contain 171 logs, some of blow, and if the Americans want to fight, them 120 feet long and forty-two inches they can have as much of that article as in diameter at the small end, The su perstructure of the building will contain they want. besides heavy timber fine finished woods, The most conservative estimates put showing the grain and structure of the the wheat yield this year at 550,000,000 woods, and a complete exhibit of ship bushel-? and the corn yield at 1,700,000,- building material. 000. This is a falling off from 1891 on Director-General Davis has announced both cereals. that he will probably create a bureau of A watch company in Canton, O., is athletics in the department of liberal suing the American watch trust for dam arts of the World's Fair and appoint ages resulting from a boycott instituted some well-known promoter of athletic bv the trust to force the company into sport as chief. Colonel Davis has a plan the organization. also for securing a forty- acre camp ground Assistant Superintendent of the Coast one mile south of Jackson Park. On this and Geodetic Survey Davidson will be street, if the plan is followed, will be a detailed to assist Colonel Mendell in pre wheel course and a big grand stand. It paring a plan for a system of sewerage will be suitable for military reunions and for San Francisco. for the tents of the soldiers. Of a total of 896 convicts in the Kan EDUCATIONAL NOTES. There will be in the liberal arts build sas penitentiary but nineteen are fe ing of the World’s Fair a library ol males, showing that women possess only works on charities and penal, institu Many Discouraging Features in the Edu a little more than 2 per cent, of the tions. It will consist in the ihain of the cussedness found in men. reports that have been issued by public cational Situation in the United . Commissioner of Internal Revenue officials and public and private institu States—Yale University. Ma-on in his report for the fiscal year tions of either a charitable or penal na ended J une 30 says: “ The total collec ture. To make the .collection complete Chicago schools will cost $5,933,034 for tions of internal revenue were $153,!-57, Chief Peabody of thfe department of lib 1892. >43, an increase of $7,822,128 over the eral arts asks that a Uharitable and pe- nological officials, ii stations and soc e- The new. fourth class at West Point previous year. has 206 members. The newest innovation in cars is the ties send to him at I iL their last pubi.c whaleback’’ freight car, made of steel report. Forty-three electrical engineers were ind said io be superior to the ordinary graduated from Cornell this year. C0NGRESSÌ0N D MATTERS. car. It is claimed that in The University of Notre Dame, Notre ■-quare-builc ••ollis'on they will be able to withstand Dame, Ind., has just completed its forty an enormous push. eighth year. has been created at Den Message Relative to the Practicability of The total g'fts to Yale during the last ver A sensation a Cable Between California and by the arrest of J. H. Cross and J. vear have been $600,000, while Harvard McDaniels, who are charged with tht the Hawaiian Islands. received but $500,000. robbery of President Moffatt of the First Ya’e University has just celebrated National Bank, which created such e her one hundred and ninety-first birth -ensation theie years ago. The House bill for ,the admission o’ day. Old age is honorable. It is expected that the cable road on New Mexico will not lie called up until The pupi's of the Doylestown (Pa.) Third avenue, New York, will be in op- next session. public schools have about '1,400 to then «ration by' next November. The road As a precautionary measure against credit in the national bank. ■will be divided into three sections, with .the introduction of cholera Secretarj Over 12,000 volumes have been added t separate cabie for each section and a Tracy has directed the Collectors of Cus- oms along the Atlantic seaboard to pro to the library of Columbia CAlege lifferent speed for each cable. within the last twelve months. A New York woman has been making hibit the landing of Immigrants from ■ ,* i good thing by having her teeth pulled France. The commencement of the Universit) oy The presiding officer.-of the Senate has barbers and then informing on them. of Michigan was heal June 30. Six hun The fine for the unauthorized and irreg laid before that body a message from the Ired and eighty-nine students wert ular pulling of a tooth by any tonsjrial President ->f the United States, with the graduated. . . accompanying papers, relative to the practitioner in that city is $50. Philadelphia pays school teachers $42f oracticability of laying a cable be’ween At one time there were $3,000,000,030 California and the Hawaiian Islands. for a first year, increasing $30 a year lot five years, when the maximum of $57c of United States bonds out, payable in Secretary Tracy of the Navy Department ibid money or its equivalent. Tnese in a letter states that the result of the is reached. have been redeemed, except about $500,- There are now seventy schools for thr ti0,000, and most of these are held survey shows that a practicable route can be easily selected. The report of deaf and dumb in the United States, and against national bank currency. the hydrographic office ot the bureau ol there is also a college for them located al A spark from a Ibcomotive set fire to navigation states that the survey shows Washington, D. 0. the Standard Oil Company’s warehouse that the laying of the cable on almost At the recent commencement exer it Ludlow, Kv. Thirty-thousand bar any line between California and the Ha cises of the Ohio Wesleyan University, rels of oil, turpentine and benzine were waiian Islands is practicable. A lin» Delaware, O., a class of precisely 100 wat destroyed besides much railroad prop about 300 miles wide was developed be graduated in the various courses. tween California and Hawaii, and the erty. The losses will reach $75,000. results as shown by the report seem to The American Society for the Exten sending of the cruiser Giovanni ind’.cate the most favorable route to be a sion of University Teaching has decided by The Laly to take part in the New York rhomb line between Monterey Bay, Cal., to establish a university extension sem Columbus has caused the and Honolulu. inary for the training of lecturers anti passage of celebration very warm and friendly ex organizers. Senator Allen’s bill granting about pressions of international good-will be The Univers!ty of Pennsylvania hat- tween the President and King Humbert. twenty-pight acres of the Fort Walla Walla fitilitary reservation to the city of this year 1,764 students, which makes it A syndicate of capitalists has pur Walla Walla for a public park has parsed fourth in the list of great educational in-' stitutions. The three greater are Yale, chased Columbus R. Cummings’ stock the Senate. The bill allows the city ol in the Union National Bank of Chicago. Walla Walla the use of the triangular Harvard and Michigan Universities. The price paid was 180, the transaction portion of the reservation on the north Cheese-making in Canada has enor involving $1,000,060. Five mem corner, which is separated from the main mously improved within recent years at bers of the over syndicate are Presidents of body of the reserve by the county high a result of the method of instructior. other Chicago banks. way and the Oregon railway and naviga which has been promoted by the govern The Working Girls’Vacation Society tion track, for a public park. It pro ment in sending competent instructor!- of New York city js now in its ninth vides, however, lhat before beginning to among the cheesemakers. year. Last year 900 girls were sent use any of the land thqgitv gpall present The-National Educational Association away* vacations of about two weeks to the Secretary of' waitaetailed plans recently in session at Saratoga, resolved each, for and 4,0Q0 excursion tickets for the improvement, and it shall re to hold no meeting in 1893, but instead were given over to girls could only leave ceive his approval; also that the United to take part in the. World’s Educational the city for a day at Who States reserves to itself the title in the a time. Congress to be held in Chicago during tract and the right to resuHie possession The official figures of the Philade’phia and occupy any portion of it whenever the Columbian Exposition. The Pennsylvania College, with the bureau of building inspectors show that in the judgment of the Presdent the Ohio and Ann Arbor Dental Colleges, from January 1 to June 30 of this year public interest may require it without are the only ones that admit women to nearly 3,600 two-story houses and over any claim for compensation to the city study dentistry. Madame Hirschfeldt, 1.100 three-story ones have been put un for the improvements made or for dam who was dentist to the family of the late der way, which, when completed, will ages which the government may inflict. Emperor William, was graduated from c rst, exclusive of the land value, nearly Representative Wilson has introduced $10,000,000. the first-named institution. a bill granting the Northern Pacific St. Louis will have over six miles of The Ohio University at Athens enjoys right of way through the Puyallup In the un'que distinction of being the old illuminated streets during the autumnal dian reservation, which has recently estivitiev. Tnere will not be less than est institution of collegiate rank in the been favorably reported by the Commits Northwest territory and of antedating fifty arches and over 75,000 electric lamps ♦ee on Indian Affairs. The bill proposes and gas jets in each night ’ s display. all similar institutions in that region by to ratify and confirm an agreement be nearly a quarter of g century. One of The electric light- companies are putting tween the Puyallup Indians and the its Presidents was Dr. W. H. McGuffey, in engines and dynamos especially fur Northern Pacific, made in 1876, which whose series of school readers have been the occasion. granls right of way through the reserva in extensive use for more than a genera At Cincinnati last week was a gather tion for the Cascade branch of the tion. I s recent commencement c’osed ing of leading capitalists to discuss a Northern Pacific. There has been a the most successful year of its history, proposition to organize a steamship line number of bills introduced before for both numerically and financially. between New Orleans and South Ameri rights of way through the Puyallup reser There are many discouraging features can | orts. The sum of $4.000,000 has vation, but all have been postponed or in the educational situation in this coun already been subscribed, and $2,000,000 hung up, awaiting some action which try, but there are also many signs of is asked irom Cincinnati and other cities will forever settle the Puyallup Indian progress. E lucation is weakest in the that wi 1 be benefited by the direct trade difficulties. Perhaps this hili will be treated in the same way, although it is secondary school« and strongest in the with South American ports. A letter has been received by Editor now represented that the Northern Pa universities and in the primary schools. That wh'ch many of our intermediate Medill of the Ch-cago Tribune from the cific needs the granted right of way and 8cho »Is— the public schools especially— Marquis de Mores, expressing disap the station grounds, and there is really lack in freshness of sp rit, vitality of in proval of the wry he has b'en t-eased in no reason why come bill should not pas«. terest and variety of m°thod the kinder- the Tribune and asking if Mr. Medill as» Ot course the various railroad companies girtens and colleges and nniv°rsities are Burned the responsibility. Mr. Medill is generally fight each other on bills of developing in a retrain bl: degree. 65 years o age. He looks on the. letter this character, each desiring to secure _ the hest lands on the water front. . It is The Bpreid of the kindergaitjn and the ________ a» a cha lenge, but says he is willing to VW A A the Lv Marquis • in »-* A a twenty-fon »^ ,1 _ - * oot ! ! probable, however, that|this bill will be enthusiasm with which the spiritml idea . meet of ediçation 1 ehind it is heinr re ring in Jackson Park with glove«, mns- | hung up until some actidn is taken next ceived ptomise notable results in the kets or anything suitable. The Tribune ; winter on the pending i Puyallup bill in treats the matter humorously, the Senate. near future. How * Hindoo Uses Clocks. The Hindoo places a clock in his show rooms, not- be'eause he ever desires to know what the hour is, but because a clock is a foreign curiosity. Instead, I therefore, of contenting himself with Inebriety Among the Fashionable one good clock, he will perhaps have a dozen in one room. They are signs of Women in England. his wealth, but they do not add to his comfort, for he is so indifferent to time that he measures it by the number of bamboo lengths the sun has traveled LAVA DESTROYS MOUNTAIN HUTS. above the horizon.—Temple Bar. If you want your umbrella, and es- | pecially a good silk one, to last twice as The Eyesight of the Cz irina Growing long as it otherwise would, always leave it loose, whether in use or not, and dry Worse—An Insurrection in the it open, handle down. Congo Free State. It is reputed to have cost the present Emperor of China $10,000,036 to get married. A recently discovered manuscript proves that Columbus was born at Sa vona, Italy. They call the bicycle the devil’s char iot in Turkey, and the Sultan has for bidden its use. Buffalo Bill was one of the lions of the evening at one of Mrs. Mackay’s recent London receptions. It is proposed to have an exhibition at Milan in 1894 similar to the one now in progress at Vienna. Miss Terry’s little slice for her share of the Irving-cum-Terry tour in America next year is $53,000. Rio to have been caused by the cholera regulations in Taehkend. The troops killed and wounded seven persons. A street-car line is now being built in Taehkend, the capital of Russian Turk estan, by a French company. The lava stream from Mount .¿Etna has destroyed many mountain huts, and is rapidly approaching Nicolosi. At the Bisley (England) rifle meeting Scotland won the national challenge trophy with an aggregate score of 1,692. All the pawnshops in Moscow owned by Jews will be closed before the end of this month by order of the government. Verdi has consented to compose a can tata or symphony in honor of the Co lumbus celebration at Genoa this au tumn. It is said that only five passengers were killed on all the railways of Great Britain and Ireland during *the whole of last year. A series of fires have been reported from the Philippine Islands, rendering thousands of inhabitants homeless and destitute. The Arabs of Yong we on the Upper Congo have revolted against the Congo Free State and cut off communication with Tanganyika. All the tickets for next summer’s per formance at Beyruth have been sold; $140,000 in all has been received for the twenty performances. Latest advices from the Argentine Re public etate that wages are again going up in the colonies, owing to the great scarcity of farm laborers. The greatest oculists of Europe will soon be called in to consult upon the condition ot the eyesight of the Czarina, which grows from bad to worse. It is said by those within the pale that overindulgence in intoxicating beverages is lamen'ably on the increase among ■ashionable women in England. Information respecting the cereal ex ports of the Argentine Republic for the first quarter of 1892 indicates a large in crease over the same period in the apre viou-s_year. _ ■' *-~__ A scheme is now being developed in Scotland by which a high grade of brick is be.ng ma le from chipped granite and clay. The experiments are said to have been successful. The newlv elected Municipal Councils, composed of Socialists, have dissevered 'he police force in several towns of France. The government will reorgan- ze them as State police. For the first half of the current year the returns of no less than seventeen English railroads show a falling off, and the loss in coal freights is responsible for more than half of that. The London Times, which tried to ruin Mr. Parnell thiongti a series of Pigot letters before he had ruined himself, is now coddling the Parnellites, who are wavering in their support of Gladstone. Riimunds Indueza Palacio, ex-DictatoT of Venezuela, has arrived at Paris; with $15,000,000 as a golden solace for the ills of defeated ambition. He says the good of his country was all he desired, but he got more. The medical department of St. Peters burg is distributing cholera disinfectants at cost prices. The Ozar presided at a discussion of- the appointment of an of ficer with dictatorial power to combat the epidemic in the Volga provinces; An oppartunity will bs presented to the arcbsealogists who visit the Colum bian Exposition at Madrid to inspect one of the well-known European palaeo bthic sites, that of San Isidro, in the Valley of the Manzanares near Madrid. It is predicted that the earning mobil ization of the British naval forces will be on a very large scale, With the ex ception of the Minotaur, Indefatigable and possibly the Latona all the ships ol the Portsmouth fleet reserve will be commissioned. The Cologne Gazette alleges that the African natives who recently repulsed Baron von Bulow’s forces, in the Moshi territory, near Kilimanjora, were sup plied with a large number of Snyder rifles and 31),(Mi) cartridges by the British East India Company. The trial of the Anarchists at Liege, Belgium, concluded with a v.rd:ct o’ guilty. Moineau, the leader, was sen tenced to twenty-five years’ penal serv itude. Wolff and Beaujeau got twenty years each, the four others fifteen years each and nine to shorter terms. One of the largest camellia trees in Europe is that which is just now in full bloom at Pi luitz near Dresden. It form» one of the sights of the district, it was imported from Japan about 150 years a to, is about seventeen yards high and has annual average of 40,000 blossoms. M. Spiridon, a wealthy Frenchman, has offered to loan to the World’s Fair, to be exhibited in the departn ent of fine arts, the original model of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome. The model will come with an authentic<ted history, showing it to be the one designed by the architect, San.Gallo, in 1540. The blessing of the banner of the anti Socialist Clerical I eaeue by the Bishop in the Cathedral at Brussels was the oc casion of a disturbance. A body of So cialists forced their way into the hall, and fiercely attacked the anti-Socialists, numbers of whom were seriou-ly in jured, and the blesed banner was de stroyed. . In the recent British elections the Bi cyclist Touring Club put lor th strenuous efforts io obtain irom each Parliament ary candidate a pledge to vo e in favor of making the carrying of lights by all vehicles at night compnleory. _ Many a close contest was decided on this point, for there are 590,000 riders of bicycles in the United Kingdom, GOINS, CYRUS & CO., Proprietors. Capacity, 1B0 Barrels Per Day. —THE BEST BRANDS OF— Sold Again. “It’s a bully site for a coal yard?" “What is?” “Anthracite.”—New York Herald. D. R. N. B lackbukn . H. C. W atson . BLACKBURN & WATSON, A ttorneys Flour and Feed Constantly on Hand. L aw , at Albany, Or. Highest Market Price Paid for Grain. Office—-Odd Fellows’ Temple. W. R. BILYEU, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Farmers will find it to their interest to call and see us. Albany, Or. W1H practice in all the courts of Oregon. Spe cial attention given to collection*». L. H. MONTANYE, St. Charles Hotel, L ebanon , O r . AT V LAW, ATTORNEY Albany, Or. BUD THOMPSON, Proprietor. OF Office in Strahan building. J. K. WEATHERFORD, Tables supplied with the best the market, af fo d$. Good accommodations fur com merci al ulen. ATTORNEY V AT *.’ LAW, L. W. BROWN, Albany, Or« Bank. Office in Finn block, over First National E. O. HYDE, Physician and Surgeon, Contractor and Builder. WUl furnish plans, estimates, etc., for build ings upon appliea*ion. All uprk dune at lowest ratesaood workniaiihhipconst iciei. -A dMT* Leave orders at Bank of Scio. SCIO, OREGON. Medical Examiner for À. O. U. W. and New York Life.. LIVERY, FEED IND SALE STABLE, SCIO, OREGON. J. W. CUSICK & CO., Bilyeu & Shelton, Proprietors. Bankers Good Turnouts at Reasonable Rates. ALBANY, OREGON. Hacks will meet all trains on the Oregoniiin and Oregon Pacific railroad* at Miinkers and West Scio. ALoruu fW* STAGE TO JORDAN. Transact a >eneral hanking business. Draw sight drafts on New York San Francisco and Portion 1 f>r. Loan money on a .»pr ved security. Horses boarded by the d<«y or week at lowest Receive d posit» subject to check. Collections rates. made on favorable terms. Interest a.lowed on Commercial men conveyed to and from any time deposits. point with d spatch. RUSS HOUSE, THE *.• NORTHWEST Albany. Oregon. F ire and M arine W. W. ROWELL, Proprietor. Having purchased the interest and good will of tue late proprietor. Joint Giblin', in the above ho ise, I rake pie »sure in sta'ing that the house h first-class in a l its appointment«. Rates, |1 a •lav and upward, according to room. Special r*tes t » irntni rants and families. JC9 Free coach to and irom the house. Insurance Company —HEAD OFFICE- 33 Washington Street, Portland, Or. A Leading Home Company. BANK OF SCIO. Prompt in Its settlements. largest business of any lion e c< mpanv. Rese ve fompii ed in excess of statuto! y n quiiemeiits. Capital Stock................... $20,000 RELIABLE! INDKMN11Ï Officers. Under direction of the leading capital's'* Potland. J. LOWEN BE KG, rre.-iutni H. M. GRANT, Secretary and Manager. President..................:........ J. 8. MORRI* Vic® President....................................... J. L. COWAN Cashier.............................. O. 8. MAY T. L. DUGGER, Local Agent. Directors. £* Office with Scio P bkss . J. 8. M orris , a . J. J ohnson . A. E. R andall . T. J. M unkers . r. O. S mith . Does a general bank'ng and exchange busi ne*8. Sigiit d afts issued on Albany, Portland and San Fi ancEco. BANK OF OREGON, ALBANY, OREGON, Capital............... .....$5O OOO President.................. H. F. MERRILL Vice President.................................E. J. L a NNING Cashier...................... J. W. BLAIN ÇAST AND SOUTH —VIA—* Southern Pacifc Route. S hasta L ine . Ftpress Trains Leave Portland Daily. North. South. 7:00 p. M. Lv.. ........ P riland.. ........Ar 10:23 r. M Lv.. ...... .Al »any... ...... LV. 8:15 A. M. A*... ..San Fran' isi* ». ...Lv 7:3« a . M. 4:23 a . M. 7:00 p M. Transacts a general banking business. Ex Roseburg Mail— Pally. change bought and sold on New York, San Fran cis ‘o and Portland, Or. A's > draw our own drafts 8.30 a . M. Lv... .........Pordand.. .........Ar. 4:30 1-. M. on Loudon, Patis, Ber Hn. Frankfort on the Main 12:45 a . M Lv... .......... Albany... ........ Lv. 12:30 M. and all the principal cities of Europe. Interest b:60 r. M. Ar... .......Koseburg.. .........L\. 7:00 a . M. allowed on time deposits. OF“ Collections made on favorable terms. Albany Local— Daily Fxccpt Sunday. 5:00 p. M. Lv.......... Portland......... ..Ar. l'»:30 a . M. 9:00 P. ». Ar........... Albany............ .L« • 6:3(' a . M. StCharlesHotel, ALBANY, OR. EARL RACE, Proprietor, Lebanon Branch« 2:36 P. 3:25 p. 7:30 a . 8:*42 a . M. M. M M. Lv.............. Albany........... Ar. Ar............ I^banou.......... Lv. Lv...............Albany........... Ar. Ar............. Lebanon............Lv. 9:25 i*:40 4:2> 3: 0 P P. P. P. M. M. M. M. Woodburn-Springfield Branch« 4:30 P. M 8:30 A. M. Lv.......... Portland,.......... Ar 2:19 p. M, Lv........... VV»at. 8i*io........... uv. 10:15 A. M. 6:30 p. M. Ar.......... Natron.............. Lv. 6:<5 A. M Pullman Buffet Sleepers. Soio H otel . George W. Morrow, Proprietor. First-class accommodtrJons. Table* supplied with the best the market affords. B0ARD FROM SI TO SS PER DAY. Headquarters for Commercial Men. SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS For accommodation of sec -class passengers attached to express trains. West Side Division. Between Portland and Corvallis. Mail train daily (ex* ept Simdny’._______ 7:30 A. M.ILV c ... Port-Ian L... ..... Ar.l 5:M) P. M. 12:10 p. m .|A»...... ..... !orvaiii».... ..... Lv.| 2:55 1*.. M. At Albany and Corvallis c nnect with trains of the Oregon Pacific railroad. Express train daily (except Suni’ay). 4:40 P. m .|L v .... ...... Port and...... ..... Ar.l 8:20 a . h . 7:25 P. ...McMinnvii ».. ;...LV 1 5.45 A. M. Through Tickets to All Points South and Ea*t. FARMERS’ HOTEL For tickets and full information rcga-rUng rates, map»*, etc., apply to th<> co npanv'K a < nt at WeRt Scio. R. KOE4I.EK. Mana er. E. P. ROGERS, Asst. G. F. <fc Pa,s. Agent, Poit- laud, O . South Side of Bridge, Scio, Or. MBS. WM. BILYEU, Proprietress. Sample *.* Rooms, South Main Street, Scio, Or. Having again nasumed charge of thia popular hotist-. I have r<-novat»-<l and refund,tied it WM. BILYEU, Proprietor. throughout, and am now b -Iter P'epared than ev«-r to entertain t ie travelinerrablic. My tables are always well mppHed. Bo>.rd bv the dav, I week or mouth. Special accommodations tor i Th» bett Wine«, T/quon and Cigar, constantly eemmerolal m«n. > •a hand. Gir. m« • call.
