Scio Weekly Press. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. EASTERN MELANGE. FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS. MIDWIMER EAIR. There is a prospect that the Panama Senator Dolph has introduced a joint scandal may be revived in France. resolution allowing a number of settlers titles to lands'on the Umatilla reserva­ Peter Jackson’s Constitution China is maiming a chain of forts all The Exposition Started on the along her seacoast with Krupp guns. tion. SCIO......................................... OREGON The Navy Department has assigned Mrs. Langtry has purchased the Cob­ Road to Success. Ruined by Drink. the Thetis, now at San Diego, Cal., to ham Park stud farms in England for $80,000. the duty of conducting surveys along the Pacific Coast. Great Britain, France and Russia each The Committee on Indian Affairs has THE NICARAGUA CANAL COMPANY contribute $20,000 a year to the civil list EASTERN VISITORS IN ECSTACY. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. reported favorably Representative Ellis’ of the King of Greece. bill extending the time of the Umatilla The malady from which the King of Ditch Company for three years. Siam is now suffering is due to the abuse Banking and Currency Committee Mrs. Frances B. Clarke Deserts the of alcoholic stimulants. The 11th of June Has Been Set More Placer Mines Discovered has The decided to lay aside till the tariff bill England’s Admiralitv has ordered a Apart as Hawaiian Day—All Episcopal Church — Our Total is disposed of the bill for the repeal of Near Doler, California. new cruiser that will make at least the tax on State bank circulation. the Buildings Ready. Yield of Wool for ’93. twenty-three knqts an hour. It is understood the Senate Commerce The harbor of Glasgow will soon be Committee has agreed to report unfavor­ undermined by seven tunnels, running THE GOVERNOR IS CONDEMNED. ably the nomination of Scott Harrison, at a safe distance under its bed. [Weekly Circular Letter—No. 9.] brother of ex-President Harrison, to be Thousands of Texas sheep are starv­ The decision of the Court of Appeals Surveyor of Customs at Kansas City. The semi-official opening of the Cali­ ing on the prairies. in Holland that kissing is not an offense Senator Mitchell has secured an order A home for ship builders has been es­ has attracted sonie attention in Europe. fornia Midwinter International Exposi­ A Large Lump of Beeswax —Two from the Postoffice Department estab­ tablished in New York. Russia’s revenue fell off about $10,- tion took place on the 1st of January, lishing a tri-weekly mail from Halsey to The organ of the Chicago saloonkeep- •000,000 in the last nine months of 1893, according to the original announcement. Ocean Steamers en Route Brownsville on alternate days with the compared with the similar period in 1892. Owing to the delay caused in shipping mail that now reaches Brownsville from ers.is called Mixed Drinks. for Puget Sound. There were 315 suicides in New York Lobengula is on the banks of the Zam­ foreign exhibits from Chicago, it was Portland on the railroad. besi with 2,000 young warriors. He pro­ understood, of course, that everything In the Senate a memorial from the last year, against 241 in 1892. Texas railroads killed 180 people and poses to keep up the fight with the Brit­ would not be in readiness on that date, Legislature of Idaho was. read, praying ish. The British Columbia shinglemakers for dredging the Spokane river by the injured 1,712 during last year. Labor agitatorsiin England are enlist­ but the buildings were completed, a Federal government as a means of lower­ Over 2,000 New York painters have have combined to keep up prices. ing public sympathy in behalf of the |reat many of the concessional features ing the level of Cœur d ’ Alene Lake and deserted the Knights of Labor. A chicken epidemic is depopulating barmkids, of whom there are were in full operation, and the Exposi­ Mrs. Cyrus W. Field has applied for a overworked the henroosts of the lower Rogue river reclaiming submerged land. 120,000. tion was practically started on the road General Wheeler, Chairman of the receiver for her millinery business. in Oregon. Emperor William of Germany was to success. Committee on Territories, has no hope New York civil-service reformers are much The Riverside Fruit Exchange says no of pleased with one of his Christmas up the bill for the admission The day could not have been more fruit injured by the late freeze will be of getting presents. It ^M?a bust of himself made New Mexico until after the tariff bill trying to form an anti-spoils league. sent East to market. beautiful if it had been made to order. Cincinnati is about to expend $1,000,- of plaster*-firm^fe>^. is disposed of. Delegate Smith of Ari­ Waldo M. York has been1 appointed. zona, whose bill ftx the adjnission of his- -000 upon thc[improvqiwjjU<4 her parks. vi if ftTfig Californii$ufor - Under arIal^^^^“pwl infi?ce*in 'EUStefn" Superior Judge at Los Angeles to’suc­ Territory has already passed the House, ’ . Several St. Louis dairies have been France only pjiyslcians graduated in the first time went into ecstacies over a ceed the late Judge Wade. says there is no doubt of favorable action condemned as nuisances by the Board of France are allowed to use the title “ Doc­ New Years Day so much like the grand­ Health. The name? of the postoffice at Pend in the Senate. tor ” in that country. est April day in other parts of the world. d’Oreille, Kootenai county, Idaho, has The Brooklyn City Railroad Company A Cabinet officer has stated that th, The tax imposed on women for wearing There were flowers blooming on every been changed to Sand Point. contingency upon which the Secretary 'will equip 1,000 of its cars with life­ trousers W the French government Ashland, Or., is bringing to its aid the of the Treasury could issue bonds with­ fenders. ranges from $10 to $12, but all women hand, and the deep green foliage formed chaingang and bread-and-water diet in out Congressional action was when the ' The: German Americans of Kansas are are nqt given this privilege. a striking background for the gala day dealing with the tramp question. gold reserve in the Treasury was invaded preparing for a vigorous anti-prohibition The nape most whispered now as the costumes of the thousands of ladies who Steps have been taken at San Jose to to such a point as in the judgment of campaign. strongestlandidate for Pope to succeed thronged Golden Gate Park until the form a county wine exchange similar in the Secretary to impair public confidence. The National Rice Manufacturing Com ­ Pope LeoKIII. is Monsignor Dominico Bun went down. Early on this beautiful That point, he said, had almost, if not pany of New Orleans has completed the Jacobinijtthe Papal Nuncio in Lisbon. purpose-to thaLof the fruit exchange. midwinter morning flags were hoisted Portland’s Chamber of Commerce con­ quite, been reached. first rice elevator. When the Paris Salon of 1894 closes on each and every flagstaff on the build­ demns Governor Pennoyer’s statements' It is stated in official circles that there Knights of Labor officials are trying next June the Palais de l’Industrie will in his open letter to President Cleve­ is no probability of the international to mortgage the headquarters in Phila­ be devotefl to an exhibition of books and ings and in and about the Exposition monetary conference reconvening in the. delphia for $20,000. land. of all industries connected with paper. grounds; there were concerts during the as was thought likely some time Receivers were; appointed for the At­ spring, The government is to erect at Sandy The bicycle has brought about the re­ day by the great Midwinter Fair band, ago. At least the suggestion for it to re ­ lantic and‘'Pacific at Phœnix, A. T., on Hook a search light larger than the one opening of many of the old-time country and thousands of people availed them­ applicatidn to’the Supreme Cóurt of the convene will not. emanate from the at;the World’s Fair. hotels in France, Which had closed long selves of the opportunity to view the United States. This information has Territory. The grip has attacked a tribe of In­ ago because of the introduction of rail­ buildings and to witness the special at­ been conveyed to the British government The Mare Island authorities are in­ by Secretary Gresham. dians up in Wisconsin, and has in sev- roads. tractions which were offered. dignant over an article in a San Fran­ eral cases proved fatal. It is said that in making racing arid Among the concessions which opened It is .said Cleveland has called for the cisco papér charging the marine contin­ resignation of members of the Utah The conference of transcontinental pleasure poats French constructors are up on New Year’s Day were the Santa gent wéíé being, starved. Commission with a view to increasing railroad lines at Chicago has failed to creeping rapidly up to their English ri­ Barbara sea lion exhibit, Boone’s wild Many Sacramento officials propose to -its efficiency. It is represented that agree upon anything so far. vals and are seriously striving to over­ animal arena, the Ostrich farm, Heidel­ test the legality of the new charter, and there are conflicting interests among its The.-fire underwriters are lending a haul them. berg castle, the Vienna Prater, the Col­ will not surrender their offices until members, and that good government will vigorous A new insurance company is being in the war against the gold mine, the Japanese Garden, they are required to do so by a court de- be subserved by a new deal. When the trolley on hand organized at Berlin by a body of respon­ orado Manhattan Island. the Scenic Railway, and a great many cision. • . q .. * r ? -. ■ Democrats in Congress come to admit sible men, mainly jewelers, to insure It is predicted that over 1,000 miles of others. The Santa Barbara sea lions *• The City Auditor at Grant’s Pass, Or., Utah as a State the commission will die railroad will be built in Texas this year the members against losses at tha hands will evidently prove to be one of the refused to cash a bill the Council had a natural death. of burglars. notwithstanding the hard times. ordered to be paid, when the Council de­ The Civil Service Commission has A remarkable archaeological discovery great drawing cards of the Exposition. Reports from Dallas, Tex., are to the posed hita, and thé citizens are raising completed the schedule of examinations is from Treves. In excavat­ This is one of the entirely new features money to aid him in his contest before that will be held during the first six effect that Mexican rebels are organizing ing announced the old Roman walls close to the Mo­ —one that was not seen at Chicago. all along the Rio Grande border. the courts. months of the present year to fill posi­ selle a complete Roman pottery estab- Those who witnessed the performance It is stated that Aztec Indians in Mex­ ment was discovered. The Lower California Development tions in the railway mail and Indian in the wild animal arena, and who had ico will join the Yaquis in their fight Company has obtained a concession from services. Examinations will be heid ‘as In Italy oil is now made from grape seen the similiar performance on the the Mexican government for the estab­ follows: Roseburg, Or., April 20; Port­ against the Mexican government. seed. When perfectly clean and well Midway Plaisance in Chicago, say that lishment of a mail steamship service be­ land, Or., April 23; Seattle, Wash., Another span of the Louisville and dried the seeds are ground like wheat. Boone’s show rivals Hagenbeck’s in every tween the ports of San Diego, Ensenada April 27; Walla Walla, Wash., May 1, Jeffersonville bridge is reported to be The finer theiflour thus obtained the particular, and surpassess it in many. and San Quentin. and Spokane, Wash., May 3. out of perpendicular and in danger of greater the yield of oil. The scenic railway did a remarkable An inquiry made for the $3,000 oil The House Committee on Naval Af­ falling. . A letter received from Samarcand de­ painting of Tacoma, which was exhib­ fairs has ordered an adverse report on The New York, Olympia and other big scribes the ravages of the famine through­ business; the crowds in fact being greater ited at Chicago during the. World’s Fair, the resolution introduced in the House war ships, it is understood, will patrol out Turkestan. The cause of the famine than could be easily accommodated. shows it is in hock in Chicago as security by Mr. Holman of Indiana, directing the the Pacific next summer to prevent seal­ is the excessive cultivation of cotton to The Ostrich farm was also well patron­ for funds advanced on account of the Secretary of the Navy to suspend until killing. ized, while Heidelberg and Vienna were the exclusion of cereals. Merchants’ National Bank of Tacoma. furtheii notice was received from Con­ full of visitors all day long. These con­ Erie railroad directors have issued a English scientists are very much wor ­ Official ¡statistics i just ¡compiled . at gress all payments of premiums for in­ notice to road’s security holders propos­ cessionaires, as well as others not speci­ ried over the results of an investigation Port Townsend show 2,350 Chinese pas­ creased speed in naval vessels and call­ ing a new mortgage to secure $70,000,000 fied in this connection, are very well sat­ which hasishown beyond doubt that the sengers in transit from the Orient by ing on him for information relative to in boflds. isfied with their start, and feel confident seas around the British coast are being wav of the Canadian' steamers landed the amount of premiums heretofore paid The South Carolina coast is being rapidly exhausted of fish. that when the Exposition gets in run­ and the manner of determining the in Portland and Astoria last year. With watched to prevent contraband war ma­ ning order, their dearest hopes in the the exception of 500 all obtained admit­ amounts of these awards. Thergto^of 'mortality of London is terial from leaving to aid the Brazilian line of money making will be realized. Mr. Bowers of California appeared be­ insurgents. tance asinerehents. have stead ­ ' Notwithstanding the fact’ that there Walter Chedick, a Carson business fore the House Committee on Rivers and ily decreased wiflftito introduction and The total yield of Wool in the United man, proposes that ’the State float -$3,- Harbors the other day in support of a States last year is estimated at 364,356,- perfection of adequate means of dispos­ were no special attractions of a general nature provided for this semi-official 000,000 3 per cent bonds to build a road plan to protect the mouth of San Diego 000 pounds, the largest crop ever made ing of the sewage of the city. opening day, there were about 10,000 through Diamond Valley, around the Bay from shoaling. The plan contem­ in one year. According to a decision just rendered people who paid for admission to the south end of Lake ‘ Tahoe, along Lake plates .building a jetty at the mouth of A good gold find has just been made by the Supreme Court of the German grounds. The price of admission is only Valley and down the American river to the harbor a mile and a half long. The boycotting is not forbidden by the Sacramento, making Nevada a com­ object is to cut off a lateral channel that in the Esther shaft of the Wolcott Empire has been forming at the mouth of the ground within six blocks of the leading the law of the land, although it is to be 25 cents as yet, the 50 cent rate will not petitive-point. be established until the official ceremon­ condemned on moral grounds. There is now about twenty- thoroughfare of Leadville, Col. ial opening. The date when the open­ Willihm Morton and George Moesser harbor. three feet of water on the bar at low The smallest immigration last year Camels have been introduced upon a ing ceremonies will take place has not in an extended prospecting tour on the tide. The building of the jetty would came from Wales, the number being farm not far from Kieff, Russia. At yet been definitely fixed. It will prob­ desert, about 200 miles north of San increase it to twenty-six feet. only 864, while the heaviest rush was present eighteen camels are at work Bernardino, Cal., and about forty miles ably be about the loth or 20th of this In the Senate Allen, Populist of Ne­ from Italy, which sent us 65,290. plowing, and their keep is found to cost month. It will depend largely upon the from Golèr, . discovered placer mines braska, called up his resolution directing much less than that of horses. The total value of the crops of the never before known, and gathered sev­ rapidity with which exhibits arrive and eral large nuggets as the result of one the Secretary of the Treasury to inform United States during 1893 is estimated Madrid is to emulate Chicago. A royal are installed. All the buildings are the Senate from what source the gold at $3,000,000,000, of which the largest day’s work. edict has been promulgated, and on April ready, and a great many exhibits are coin of this country outside the Federal item is $750,000,000 worth of hay. The Public Administrator at San Jose Treasury 1,1894, there will be opened in the Span­ now being arranged, but it will be fully was increased to the amount of Judge Guillett of the Valparaiso (Ind.l ish capital an international exhibition has filed a statement of the condition of $88,000,000 during the fiscal year 1893, the middle of the month before every­ the estate of Ç., p. Haywards, who, it as expressed in his recent report for that Judicial Court proposes to give all crim­ that will last until October 31. thing will be in readiness. was alleged, took and squandered the year. Dolph joined with the Populist inals who are habitual drunkards the Another Communist colony is to be When the grand day of ceremonial money of the Santa Clara Bank while Senator in expressing inability to com­ gold cure instead "of prison sentences. in East Africa. Everything will opening comes, there will be an elaborate he was cashier. There will be about prehend the report of the Secretary of The State of Connecticut is swarming started $10,000 to distribute among the heirs, if the Treasury, and the resolution of "in­ with bunco men who have been driven be managed by voluntary groups of self- program of exercises, in which all the governing men, who will own all they the bank doesn’t file a claim. out of New York, and it is said that can raise, but have no exclusive right to state, municipal and federal officials of quiry was adopted without dissent. The Pacific Coast Council of Trades in of the Pacific Coast will participate. Senator Dolph has reported from the niany of them are in a destitute condi­ the land. * session at Sacramento has declared in Committee on Public Lands and secured tion. The merchants and residents of San favor of. the municipal ownership of gas, the passage of Senator Mitchell’s bill to Only thirty-five vessels have been built The cold weather causes the greatest Francisco are making extensive prepara­ electric light, water works, street rail­ authorize a patent to be issued to Will­ at Baltimore during 1893, while sixtv- misery in many2quarters of Berlin, and tions to decorate their stores and resi­ ways, the nationalization of telegraph, iam Hendershott for a donation claim in one were built there in 1892. The regis­ additional shelters have been opened for dences and the Exposition will hav? the telephone and railway lines and postal Oregon. He has also secured the pas­ tered-tonnage showed an even greater the accommodation of the 2.000 or more grandest “send off” ever accorded to any people who receive coffee and bread free savings banks, compulsory education up sage of the House bill to authorize proofs decline. enterprise in this part of the world. to 16 years and eight hours’ labor a day. in timber land entries to be made before The employes of the Philadelphia city of charge. There have been received by the chief Two large ocean steamers are now en officers authorized to take proofs in home­ government are contributing 1 per cent Prof. Tyndall’s death by accidental of the Department of Publicity and Pro­ route from the Atlantic Coast for Puget stead cases, and also of his bill to au­ of their salaries for the relief of the poor, poisoning has served to draw attention Sound. They will arrive there some thorize a corrected patent to the Whee­ and will continue to do so while the dis­ to’the fact that in 1892 no less than 500 motion a great many queries in regard time next month, and will carry passen­ lock-Simmons donation claim in Hills­ tress lasts. out of the 876 deaths certified as having to editorial courtesies which are to be gers and freight between Sound points boro, Or., and to grant to the State a been caused by poison were due to mis­ extended during the Exposition. Some A bill to prohibit the running of rail ­ and San Francisco during the Midwinter tract of land for the Crater Lake Park. road trains, freight, passenger or even adventure. of the querists seem to fancy that the Fair period. The vessels are said to be Exposition will, in some way, arrange The. investigation of the water re­ mail, in South Carolina on Sunday has At an inquest held in England recent ­ the property of the Canadian Pacific sources of thé United States undertaken been introduced in the Legislature of ly the evidence brought to light the for railway transportation for visiting Railroad Company. by the geological survey has been prac­ that State. queer fact that the life of the dead man editors. This, however, is not the ease. A large lump of beeswax was recently tically completed. The work was com­ Charles Henderson of Wellston, 0., is had been insured by a liquor dealer The Exposition management has nothing brought up from the Nehalem by a set­ menced in October, 1889, with the object fitting an expedition to seek for whose bar he chiefly patronized. This to do with transportation, but every ed­ tler in that section and sold to M. J. of determining the quantity of water treasure out he claims was secreted practice is said to obtain to a consider­ itorial visitor to San Francisco, upon Kinney of Astoria,,Or., for $25. Its di­ available for the irrigation of arid lands in a cave which an island in the South Seas able extent in England. presentation of credentials to the Depart­ mensions are about 3//x2xl feet, andon ef the West and for use as water power. forty years on ago. one of' the Sides are three'letters, but so Studies have been made of most of the The Bank of France has put in circu­ ment of Publicity and Promotion, will Peter Jackson, the colored prize­ lation notes printed on ramie paper. be provided with a pass to the Exposi- indistinct that they cannot be deciphered. drainage basins west of the 100th merid­ It was found near the spot on the beach ian, as well as several catchments of the fighter, has ruined his constitution by The notes are of the same form as the ti >n during the term of his stay in San where a Spanish vessel is supposed to East. Scientists have devoted a large excessive drink. It is positively asserted old-fashioned ones, but the new paper is Francisco. Visiting editors may rest have gone ashore many years ago, and part of the time in the examination of by a well-posted sportsman that Peter lighter and at the same time firmer than assured, therefore, that they will be where so much Of the wax has been the “run offs” of the Missouri, Arkan­ will never appear in the ring again. the old, and permits a clearer impres­ taken care of in this regard, and that found "from’time to time for twenty years sas, Rio Grande and Snake rivers. Ge­ Romeo Pagliostro was an applicant for sion, renderim^ift^faterfeiting more dif­ any other courtesy which it is possible past. , naturalization papers before a New York ficult. ologist Newell of the survey said in an for the Exposition management to ex­ Collector Wise has discovered a big interview: “It does not appear prob­ court recently, and when the Judge asked The English! rival to the Eiffel tower tend to them will be gladly accorded. him who was the Chief Executive of the smuggling ring, with headquarters in able that even 10 per cent of the land at Wembley Pirk will probably be com ­ Monday, the 11th of June, is' the day San Francisco. Frederick Miller, George now owned by the government can ever United States he answered confidently, pleted by the end of this year. The Wichman, a candy dealer, and Lew be irrigated. In fact, there is not a suf­ “Tammana Halla.” He got his walking tower has a general resemblance to that that has been set apart as “Hawaiian Greenwood haye been arrested for smug­ ficient supply of water to bring under papers instead. of Eiffel, but is more pointed and slen­ Day, ” and that occasion will be taken gling $30,000 worth of opium and ille­ cultivation arid land equal to that which Major Graham Davis of North Caro- der. The four legs which support it are advantage of for the making of a special gally landing thirteen Chinese. Two has passed into the hands of individuals I lina is actively interesting himself in a founded in concrete to a depth of sev­ effort in the way of a general entertain­ other members of the ring, Voss and and corporations. These are, however, ' movement to save from ruin the old fort enty-five feet,.and stand 300 feet apart. ment in which the Hawaiian concession­ Sorenson, were arrested some time ago localities where thousands of acres can of Sir Walter Raleigh on the eastern The entire work is of steel. aires will play the part of hosts. A part in Sacramento, were released oh bail be profitably irrigated by the construc­ coast and preserve to the State the ground the program will consist of a parade Last September Sarah Bernhardt was of and are now in Victoria, B. C. The tion of dams and irrigating canals.” on which it was built. robbed of $50,000 worth of jewelry in Rio by the entire foreign contingent, headed schooner Esmeralda was chartered, and Secretary Carlisle has received from The students who enter Hillsdale Janeiro, and the suspected thief was by the Hawaiian national band of forty brought down from Victoria 1,500 pounds Olney an opinion in (Mich.) College single cannot get mar­ tried for it. The Paris Evenment pub­ pieces, which was formally the Royal of opium and thirteen Chinese, all of Attorney-General which he holds that the Chinese exclu­ ried during their course and remain in lished a pretended interview with Sarah, band of Honolulu. Among other fea­ whom were successfully landed. Ex-In- sion act and prior acts regarding the the college. People already married, in which she confessed the whole thing tures of the day will be a horse race spectors of Customs Pattison and Noyes Chinese permit Chinese laborers coming i however, are not barred. This is in ac- was an advertisement. This article had are implicated. or going to countries other-than the ' cordance with a new rnle laid down by the effect after it reached Rio of causing with female riders, sitting astride, as if the native custom.' There will also be . At a meeting of the Portland Taxpay­ United States to pass in transit to the ' the faculty and just made public. the prisoner to be discharged. Now that native field sports, including fencing, ers’ Committee of 100 the first step to­ country of destination- through the Mrs. Frances B. Clarke of St. Paul, Sarah has returned to Paris she sues for spear throwing and hoola dancing. On ward abolishing the Port of Portland United States. This question was submit­ 16,000 damages in that first the legal Commission was taken. The commis­ ted to the Attorney-General some time ' Minn., has deserted the Episcopal proceedings at Rio were abandoned and Waikiki- lagoon, within the Hawaiian sion was created several years ago by ago by Secretary Carlisle, for the reason Church, and is now on her way to Rome that the article reflected personally upon village enclosure, there will be a com­ the Oregon Legislature, and was given that it is alleged that a number of Chi­ to become a Catholic. Mrs. Clarke is her. prehensive exhibition of aquatic sports. the wealthiest woman in Minnesota, and power to create a twenty-five-foot chan­ namen whilein transit stop off at points ■ her The event of, the day, however, will be a husband is one of the most promi- nel from Portland to the sea. Bonds in this country and thereby gain admis­ ' nent men. She was President of the luau, or native feast, to: which the offic­ aggregating $500,000 were issued, and sion in violation of the law. Many Chi­ Chicago is to cremate its garbage. ials of the fair, the municipal officers, I World ’s Fair Board at Chicago, and at- the Columbia and Willamette were im- nese laborers, too, it is said, who land at tracted a great deal of attention both the press, and others will be invited. proved’so that a great portion of Oregon San Francisco from China, destined for ' because Separate the hogs wanted for butcher ­ of her beauty and ability. and Washington reaped the benefit of Cuba, return to this country by way of ing from the stock hogs and sows. Put Guests will sit on mats and eat from a the improvements. The commission Key West, Fla., or by points on the I A plan of reorganization or adjustment them in a small warm pen and feed well table a foot and a half from the ground. Roast pig and baked dog, cooked in ti lately has been spending money in mak­ Mexican border, holding certificates as of the Nicaragua Canal Company is be­ until time to slaughter. ing a new channel at Snag Island in the “ merchants ” fraudulently obtained. It' ing prepared at the city of New York, leaves, broiled devil fish, and. a large More boiled cotton seed for the cowt number of other Indian fish also cooked Columbia at an outlay of a large sum, was to stop these avenues that the! which will be fuller, franker and more while it is claimed the old channel could Treasury Department consulted the At­ equitable than the one the stockholders should be used in the South. That is. in leaves, native fruits and, of course, be improved at a much less cost. Other torney-General, hoping that his opinion áre now asked to assent to, and they will not more by the individual farmer, who, “poi” with every course, will be some of charges of needless expenditure of money would be that the law could be so con­ be asked to join in the appointment of a if he uses it all, puts it in with othei the items of the menu. It will require have been made, and now it is deter­ strued as to prevent Chinese laborers committee composed of men of national rations., as it is too rich to feed alone; mined to stop it. With this object in from passing through the United States. reputation, strict integrity and ability but more farmers should utilize this about a week of prepartion to properly view the committee will appeal to the The Attorney-General has not been able to reorganize the company or adjust its food in a section where dairying is at get up a luau, and cooks and provisions next Legislature to abolish the commis­ to gratify the department by carrying affairs in the best interests of all the last becoming recognized as a most prof­ are to be specially imported from the itable business. Hawaiian Islands for this event. sion. Qut this expectation. stockholders. FARM AND GARDEN. THE PORTLAND MARKETS. W heat —Valley, 92J£c; Walla Walla, 80@81J£c per cental. PROVISIONS. Cows Need Watering Twice a E astern S moked M eats and L ard — Day in the Winter. Hams, medium, 12@13c per pound; hams, large, llj^@12)£c; hams, picnic, ll@12c; breakfast bacon, 13@15c; short clear sides, ll@13c; dry salt sides, 10J£@llc; dried beef hams, 12J^@13c; SEVERAL PITHY PARAGRAPHS. lard, compound, in tins, 9%@10J^c per pound; pure, in tins, llj^@13%c; pigs’ feet, 80s, $5.50; pigs’ feet, 40s, $3.00. A Man Should Not Condemn a Thing HOPS, WOOL AND HIDES. Until He Has at Least Given H ops —’93s, choice, 15@16c per pound; medium, 10@12c; poor, 5@7c. It a Trial—Pointers. W ool —Valley, 10@llc per pound; Umpqua, ll@12c; Eastern Oregon, 6@ 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. Cold-storage butter keeps best at a H ides —Dry selected prime, 5c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3J^c; under temperature of about 20 degrees. 60 pounds, 2@3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, Color doesn’t make the cow give milk. 10@15c; medium, 20@35c; long wool, Weigh the milk and test it in order to 30@60c; tallow, good to choice, 3@3%c I judge of her worth. per pound. Theoretically cows need watering twice a day in winter, but in practice once a LIVE AND DRESSED MEAT. day seems to be just as good. B eef —Top steers, 2%c per pound; fair Feed cows twice a day—only twice. to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c; Let them chew the cud well "between fair cows, lj^c; dressed beef, $3.50@5.00 meals. They are built that way. per 100 pounds. Wash and cook the potatoes that are M utton —Best sheep, $2.00; choice mutton, $1.75@2.00; lambs, $2.00@2.25. too small for market or for table use. H ogs —Choice heavy, $4.55@5.00; me­ They are good for pigs or chickens. dium, $4.00@4.50; light and feeders, Churn cream from strippers at a high $4.00@4.50; dressed, $6.50. temperature—in some cases as high as V eal —$3.00@5.00. 70 degrees.--The butter fat needs soften­ ing. . CORDAGE, < An exchange ManiRgjrope. lLl in.cirAndup, lila’c; ' •■wpaoas manilia rWpo, iii-tnreaa, diam., ilc; Makes the cream haftl’er manilia rope, 6 and 9-thread, J£ and 5-16 requires longer for the works the other way for us. diam., llj^c; man ilia bail rope, in coils Picking the potatoes over and .remov­ or on reels, 10%c; manilia lath yarn, tarred, 9c; manilla hawser-laid rope well- ing the rotten ones about once a month boring, etc., 13c; manilla transmission- during the winter will lessen the loss of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine, from that source. Look after them once lie; manilla spring twine, 14c; sisal before the holidays. rope, 1J£ in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal During the long winter evenings much rope, 12-thread, % diam., 7J£c; sisal of the theoretical knowledge of agricult­ rope, 6 and 9-thread, land 5-16 (1mm., ure can be acquired. Obtain a few of 8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine the best books on the subjects in which twine, tarred, 7c; sisal paper twine, 8J£c. you are specially interested, and read them carefully and thoughtfully. FLOUR, FEED, ETC. Lose no time now in making every­ F lour —Portland, $2.75; Salem, $2.75; Cascadia, $2.75; Dayton, $2.75; Walla thing secure 'for winter. See that the Walla, $3.00; Snowflake, $2.80; Corval­ crops are properly stored, as it does not lis, $2.65; Pendleton, $2.65; Graham, pay to grow a thing arid then let it spoil before getting to market. One thing $2.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. O ats — White, 33@34c per bushel; that we would call attention to is that gray, 31@32c; rolled, in bags, $6.25@ you keep the potatoes from the light. A 6.50; barrels, $6.75@7.00; in cases, $3.75. dark, cool, dry place is what they want. M illstuffs — Bran, $13@16; shorts, A man should not condemn a thing $15@16; ground barley, $16@18; chop until he has at least given it a trial. We feed, $15 per ton; whole feed barley, 60@ have observed that those who sneer at 70c per cental; middlings, $23@28 per intensive cultivation, extra heavy ma­ ton; chicken wheat, 65c@$1.15 per nuring, etc., are the men who have never CO II Iftl • attempted to practice them. A trial of H ay —Good, $10@12 per ton. these methods js very apt to give one some respect for them. Suppose you dairy produce . make a little experiment in this direc­ B utter —Oregon fancy creamery, 30@ tion next season. 32%c; fancy dairy, 25@27Xc; fair to Double cropping is a matter, that the good, 20@22J^c; common, 10@17JgC per majority of farmers do not see their way pound; Californi i, 50@55c per roll. _ toward practicing. But where it can be C heese — Oregon, 10@13c; Califor­ done it is a pretty certain way in which nia, ------- «; Young America, 12@15c; to increase the earnings of the land. Swiss, imported, 30@32c; domestic, 16 Crops must be used which do not require @18c per pound. long season for maturing, and you must E ggs —Oregon, 20c per dozen; East­ a make up your mind to apply enough ern, 20@22J