NEIGHBORING TOWNS
Taooma have gone over to Seattle to 1
Washington, the reoords in the office of
where before it took one ounce of gold, Western railroad official and asserted
investigate the methods and familiar- ]
the secretary of state at Olympia show
or $20, it now takes one-half ounce of the idea of the fluctuation of the gold.
ize themselves with the workings of
that there have been filed for record in
gold or $10, and then the prices of these He then fairly laughed at me. I as
the civil service commission of that
the last three months articles for
commodities will read: 1 bushel of serted that not only wheat, silver, and
eighty-three mining ooprporations. PROGRESS AND DOINGS OF THE city.
W
wheat, 50 cents; 1 ounce of silver, 62 X other commodities would fall, but
* SCIO
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
At Port Townsend an unofficial test Principal
]
OREGON These, in conncetion with others, have
Cause of Financial cents; 1 pound of wool, 12X cents; 1 their own railroad stock would fall in
of the new revenue launch Scout show
netted to the state an amount for re
pound of butter, 25 cents; 1 sheep, the same proportion. That stock was
Troubles.
ed her to be able to easily make four
cording fees little short of the running
$1.25; 1 pound of cotton, 5 cents; 1 quoted at 35 cents. After the bonds
expenses of the secretary of state’s office A Budget of Interesting and Spicy teen to sixteen knots an hour. Reve
pound of sugar, 5 cents.
were issued it fell to 32 X cents. The
News
From
All
the
Cities
and
Towns
nue officers are delighted to think that
for the same time.
No one can fail to see that in this gentleman gracefully acknowledged the
on the Coast—Thrift and Industry the first government boat constructed THE
r
T. A. Phillips, a merchant at La
ORIGIN OF OUR MONEY case the variation of prices is not correctness of my assertion.
on Puget sound is such an eminent suc
in Every Quarter—Oregon.
caused by the fluctuation in the value
Dun’s report was that the visible
A DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS OF tham, Mo., on returning home from
cess.
of
the
goods,
but
by
the
fluctuation
of
his place of business, was shot from
supply
of wheat in Russia had turned
An Oakville - teaoher whipped five
THE WORLD.
ambush by a neighbor’s youth, aged 14 boys and one girl on a reoent forenoon.
out to be larger than anticipated,
A few days ago, while a workman People Traded for Gold and Silver Be the value of gold or of money.
The pkrty whioh had the gold has which had caused the drop in the price
years, named Stout. The young rob
was excavating for the Stahl building
fore It Was Made Into Money
Elgin has a new tent of Maccabees, in Walla Walla, he found a ooffin con
the profit, he can buy twice as much of wheat; silver had gone down, be
ber was hid behind a tree, and, as
Comprehensive Review of the Import
—
Valiie
of
Money.
for his $20 as formerly, and if a party cause about 150,000 ounces in New
Phillips passed by, he shot him, the and will soon have a camp of Wood taining human bOnes, under the Alheit
ant Happenings of the Past Week ball taking effeot in the arm. Phillips men.
had promised to pay $20 he has to York had not been shipped,and the price
building. The new building will be By F. C. Meyer.
F. W. Blumberg has been made sec lower than that of the adjoining struc
Culled From the Telegraph Columns ran for his home, but was overtaken
The fluctuation of gold or money is furnish twice as much commodities for of stocks in Loudon had fallen on ac
retary
of
the
Albany
board
of
immigra
—At Home and Abroad,
by his assailant and struck over the
count for want of confidence in Ameri
tures, and the ooffin was exposed to the principal cause of our financial and it—his obligations are doubled.
tion.
Today an ounce of gold or exactly can securities. The only truth was,
view when the excavators got below economical troubles; most of the other
It is said that the war costs Spain head with the weapon and felled to
Kern & Church are going to build a the foundation of the Alheit building. apparent oauses are only the effects of $20.67, buys more than twice as much gold had gone up on account of the de
$100;Q00,000 annually and 10,000 sol the ground. In the encounter, Phillips cannery
at the mouth of the Siletz I A number of sheepmen from Adams, it, and will cease as the fluctuation of commodities as before the demonetiza mand for it.
seized
Stout
by
the
throat
and
choked
diers every year
river.
tion of silver in 1873, but an ounce of
him to death.
With each per cent of value which
Whitman and Lincoln counties are in the value of money ceases.
A fight between negroes and Hun
The Wollowa county grand jury re Walla Walla to answer in United
The object of this article is to silver buys as much as ever, therefore gold advances the burden of our debts
Dr. Salmon, the oldest Freemason in
garians at Keystone, W. Va., resulted
turned a true bill for each indictment States court the restraining orders re demonstrate such fluctuations.
it is the rise of the value of gold which advances 1 per cent, because we have
in two negroes and one Hun being the world, died in London. - He was submitted to it.
As most people have a wrong concep produced low prices, and not an over to furnish 1 per cent more produce to
108
years
old.
cently
served
upon
them
by
United
killed. Wilson Worthington and Geo.
pay those debts.
A. J. Knollan is gathering up 12,000 States Deputy Marshal F. J. Parker. tion of money, 1 will explain matters production of commodities.
According to the monthly crop report
Manard were also injured.
For the sake of argument, I have as ..When we wpre broke after June 26,
sheep
at The Dalles, whioh he will The orders were issued by Judge Han first with other commodities.
just
issued,
the
average
condition
of
Rear Admiarl Kirkland has been or
Suppose we have 1 box of soap in sumed even figures for the prices; I 1893, we got the blessing of the bond
have driven across the country to East ford, on application of the receiver of
dered to command the Mare Island winter wheat is 82.9 in May, 1895.
100 one-pound bars, 10 bushels of I will continue that in the following de issues for the purpose of strengthening
ern
markets.
the
Northern
Pacific
company,
who
The last clean up of. the Apollo
navy-yard in place of Captain H. L.
monstration, and assume that gold had our credit.
wheat, 100 pounds of cotton.
Increase to the flocks of Morrow
Howison, who is ordered to special mine, at Unga, Alaska, was $87,500, county will not be above 80 per cent wishes to stop tresspass upon the com
Each article equal in value of the evenly doubled its former valpe in re
The first time the burden of our
pany
’
s
lands.
the product of a three months’ run.
duty in connection with the Oregon.
other. If we expressed the value of gard to silver and commodities.
debts rose 9 9-51 per cent, the second
net, onjmcount of the severe weather.
The
Wyandotte
Mining
&
Milling
Anti-missionary riots have broken Shearing has just begun.
In Asia, South America and Mexico time 9% per cent, total about 19 3-20
Carl Albrecht, who killed his wife in
wheat and cotton in soap, we would
Company, a Chioago concern, has
silver is used as a money standard; they per cent.
Marshfield, Or., February 18 last, was lout in Kiang Yin. The British mis-
Sheep are getting so numerous in made arrangements to do a large say:
Before our last bond issue when the
convicted in oircuit court at Empire sion was looted and burned. The mis Lake county that unless 50,000 are sold
One bushel of J wheat is worth ten i produce all kinds of commodities like
amoun&»<if development work on its one-pound harsfof soap; one pound | WO dQ. . * , ._ . ._____ _
City of . murder in the first degree. ¡ sionary escaped.
this summer the ranges will be covered.
known as the Black of cotVon is wort h1 "Pile'
‘ If'oSe'trashel of wheat cost here 50 papers stated that gold was at a half
The jury brought in a verdict after fit-
The docker’s strike in Rotterdam
county." A’Targe 1
cents in a silver-standard country that per cent premium.
teen minutes’ deliberation.
_ .
_ .has assnmaA.. an ugly aspeot.-The ■ o'i"lqWte large.
, he^/hoisting plant Will soon be erect of soap.
wheat would be worth 37IX grains of, Now one ounce of gold is $20.67, just
If
the
■
value
of
soap
rises'
100
per
’T^^railroad station in Florin, Cal., I civic guard, police and marines have
E. Broughton oame very near losing ed; 1and the properties extensively cent, then it will take half as much silver, or $1 in silver.
as well as an ounce of gold is 480
was entered by burglars. The bur ! been called out to protect the workers. his life near Athena by squirrel poison | worked from'now on.
Now, if gold goes up 4 per cent in grains.
soap
to
buy
the
same
amount
of
wheat
glars robbed the railroad station, the
William Deering, the reaper manu a few days ago. ' He put a pooket knife
Mrs. James Walters, of Garfield,was or cotton.
Dollars and cents is a system of
You would express the value then it will take 4 per Cent less
postoffice and Wells-Fargo express facturer, has made a donation to the in his mouth that had been used to stir
frying eggs for breakfast the other value of wheat and cotton in soap: | gold to buy the wheat, and the price weights like ounces and grains, there-
office, which are all in the same build Northwestern university amounting to a poisonous mixture.
inorning. She broke one into the fry One bushel of wheat is worth five one-1 in gold would drop to 48 cents per fore no one would give a fraction of a
ing. A small sum of money was taken. ! $215,000. The gift is in real estate
Klamath. Falls is to form a Crater ing pan and was surprised to see a pound bars of soap; one pound of cot bushel; in a silver-standard country it oeht or of a grain of gold more for a
Crazed with drink and brooding over I and bonds.
Lake club to co-operate in the summer small egg inside of it. Mrs. Walters ton is worth half of one-pound bar of I still would be $1 in silver. But if dollar than the qunatity which consti
trouble which he considered a disgrace
Miss Mazie Todd, aged 20, daughter excursion and to induce the Mazamas took a spoon and lifted it out and soap.
wheat would advance from 50 cents—2 tutes a dollar; therefore gold was not,
to himself and relatives, Frank Wal I of Dr. Lyman P. Todd, was killed in to return to the valley by way of the found it to be a perfectly shaped egg
And if anyone had contracted to per cent in value, then the price would nor could it be at a premium, but our
ton, aged 30, threw himself in front of I Lexington, Ky., by a trolley car while fort, agency and Klamath Falls.
nearly two inches long and covered furnish a box of soap at future time be here 51 cents per bushel, and in a greenbacks were at a discount.
an engine on the Rock Island track she was bicycling. She was a cousin
with fa shell nearly as hard as the and the soap went up 100 per cent, he i silver-standard country $1.02. Though
The making of debts will strengthen
The
city
marshal
of
La
Grande
pro
near Lincoln, Neb., and was ground to of Robert Lincoln.
usualegg shell. It was inside the yolk would have to furnish double the quan ' if at the same time as the wheat ad our credit.
poses
to
strictly
enforce
the
law
pro
a pulp.
The president has approved the act hibiting the riding of bioycles on the of the larger egg.
tities of cotton, wheat, and other com vances 2 per cent the gold would ad-
THREE LIVES LOST.
In the Canadian prohibition case, making provisions for the deportation sidewalks. Union has a similar ordin
i vance 4 per cent in value, the price in
Judge Norman Buck, oommander of modities for it.
the privy council has decided that par to Canada of the Cree Indians from ance that is continually being violated. the department of Washington and
A box of soap in one-poun'd or half gold-standard countries would drop 2
of a Skamokawa Sailboat
liament cannot pass a general prohibi Montana, and their delivery to the
It is stated on good authority, says Alaska, G. A. R., has issued orders for pound bars may cost a little more than cents, that is from 51 cents to 49 cents, Sad Kliding Pleasure
Party»
tory law, nor oan the provinces abolish Canadian authorities.
the Astorian, that about 200 gamblers the observance of Memorial day*, Satur if the soap were in ten-pound bars, be while in silver-standard countries the
the traffic in liquor, but they can pass
Skamokawa, Wash., May 15.—A
The Abyssinians in Massowah have and all-around toughs have recently ar day, May 30, in compliance with-orders oause it costs more to press into small price would advance 2 cents or be
laws to regulate it by licenses, under ¡ liberated the Italians who were made rived in Astoria from Portland and from national headquarters. The de pieces, but it would not add to its value | $1.02.
very sad ending was that of a boating
reasonable conditions.
A man in a silver standard country party which left this place yesterday
i prisoners at Agama, and it is said that other cities from which they have been partment commander earnestly urges for washing purposes.
Ten one-pouhd bars haye no more needs 2 per cent less products to pay afternoon, for a sail in a fishboat to
every post in the department to invite
Notice has been given by the Soo line Ras Mangasoia will liberate the re- shut out.
of its intention to put into effect a I mainder within a week.
Cut worms are said to be doing con the Woman’s Relief corps, the Sons value than one ten-pound bar; conse off his debts, we need 2 per cent more Cathlamet and return. The party was
round-trip rate of $60 from St. Paul I Mathias Jensen, of Astoria, has in siderable damage to growing crops in and Daughters of Veterans, the school quently, [if we express the value of products to pay our debts. This shows composed of Mrs. A. R. Crosby, Miss
wheat or cotton in soap the quantity that the prioe of an article does not Retta Kennedy and Messrs. Frank Pet
and Minneapolis to Kootenai points. vented a machine for the manufacture Sherman county, A few warm days, children and* all of the people-
I represent its value.
erson, Charles Newell and Mrs- Crafts,
The tickets will have limits in both di of gillnets whioh, he claims, will knit however, would put a stop to their
Owing to the fact that the supreme of soap, not the number of pieces, is
I will now demonstrate how, with of Portland, who is visiting here. The
rections of forty days and final return 500 fathoms of net in ten hours. He ravages, and set everything growing court has deoided that school districts the measure.
the price of silver, the prices of all boat was in oharge of young Peterson,
in that oounty.
limits of ninety days.
intends to apply for a patent.
Origin of Money»
could not legally validate indebted
other commodities are controlled.
who had the reputation of being very
In
the
Albany
schools
one
afternoon
The city of L’Anse, at the' head of
ness, as was done in Pullman, the pub
Jaok B. Alexander, a great nephew
It is evident that people traded for
For the sake of argument we will
Kewana bay, Michigan, has been wiped of Jeff Davis, was shot and mortally they had a “bird day. ” Cages of can lic school there closed Friday. The gold or silver before it was made into | say that one bushel of wheat cost there skillful and careful in handlinga boat,
and everything seems to have gone
out by fire. The L’Anse company’s wounded at his saloon in Paris, Ky., aries filled the rooms, reinforced by warrants drawn since the districts money.
one ounce of silver or $1.30 in silver pleasantly until the party attempted
lumber mill and nearly all the business by John Steers, brakeman. He had re parrots, red-birds, owls, etc. A pro voted to validate are said to be illegal,
Silver and gold are precious metals, money. The silver is quoted at 70 to return.
gramme made the occasion useful as and the teachers who sold them have
houses were bunred. Two hundred fused to trust Steers for a drink.
are not changeable, don’t rust, nor de cents per ounoe. You can buy a bushel
When off the mouth of the channel,
well
as
entertaining.
persons are homeless. The total loss is
been asked to take them back. If they
Henry Cuyler Bunner, editor of
Henry Conn, sr., died at his home are foroed to do this a great hardship cay, consequently they were very much of wheat for 70 cents; if silver is quoted which turns into Cook’s slough, on the
$250.000; insurance small.
sought for the purpose of hoarding.
Puck, died at his residence in Nutley,
at 60 cents you can buy that wheat for return trip, they caught a heavy
A dispatch from Panama says: { N. J.,’ from tubercular consumption. near Melrose, in Douglass oounty, last will be worked upon the teachers.
Undoubtedly Other metal composi 60 cents. That rule applies to all other squall. It is thought that the sheet of
week.
He
oame
to
Oregon
and
settled
Puerto Vi jo, the capital of Manabi, Mrs. Bunner and three children were
A man by the name of Peterson of tions were worked off as gold or silver commodities, as copper, lead, zinc, the sail got jammed or fouled in some
in Douglas oounty in 1853. He was
with a population of 10,000, has been at his bedside when death oame.
Spokane believes he has a method by on confiding and ignorant people. The sugar, cotton, meat, hides, etc. Con way, and the boat capsized. Crafts
buired
under
the
auspices
of
the
entirely destroyed by two earthquakes. I Carl Albrecht, the man who brutally
which he oan save the flour gold con endless number of compositions, which sequently every producer, or in ' faot succeeded in climbing on top of the
The shocks were succeeded by floods, ’ murdered his wife upon the streets of Masons in Roseburg.
tained in rivers, and is building a look like gold or silver, are the best everybody, is interested in the prices boat, and for a time he held Mrs.
'
J.
H.
Townsend,
of
Newberg,
has
a
inundating the city. Many lives are I I Marshfield, Or., February 18, has been
plant for that purpose. The water and evidence of this, and who does not of silver.
Crosby, but she had no strength, and
prospeot
of
making
a
contract
with
the
supposed to have been lost.
The Rothschilds in London quote the he could not hold her. , He thinks
sentenced by Judge Fullerton to be new immigration board of Portland te gravel is run through a sluice box know today of counterfeit money or
price of silver as they please, conse someone pulled her away from him.
In a boxing match between John hanged June 26, 1896, at Empire City.
’ contains six copper plates, one bogus gold brick schemes?
East with his stereopticon and a se which
T-here was quite Beet of boats near
Furthermore the weights for gold or quently they regulate the prices of all
upoit
the
other.
These
will
be
charged
Houlihan and Pat Nolan, which came ' A cave-in of the Standard mine at go
lection of views, to be furnished by
Qviiekeilver.
They are not flat silver (in former times especially) in I oomnooditjes in tbe world a a they
dirl "f>r on tn tha
off in Farmington, Conn., Houlihan Burke, Idaho, instantly killed a miner the board, and in this way advertise with
Horfaoea,
I
assistance of thè drowning people as
was knocked out in the eleventh round i named Schofield Ax tel. The, .deceased^
...
sheets to oaten the fine gold. A patent weights commonly used for other
Whether
a
crop
has
been
short
or
soon
as
could
have
been
expected, on
and rendered unconscious. He was-not I was abbiit "3nT’,'SHd' SifigTS"1 Efe had 1 ^oKirm?TO ¿nippecT fdur carloads of has been applied for." The machines commodities, and the average of the bountiful has nothing to do with the
account of the squall.' Young Newell
resuscitated, and it is believed his in-1 been ¡n the Coeur d’Alene several sheep from Pendleton one day last will sell for from $150 to $200 apiece people are not conversant with it.
prices. The rise and fall in prices is could not swim, and, although Peter
juries will prove fatal.
week, about 1,050 head, to Long Pine,
years.
Even our own troy weights are evi mostly in according to the fluctuations son was a good swimmer, he seems to
Idaho.
Neb.
He
has
already
made
contracts
In Rome, N. Y., J. Watson Hil
The Spanish caravels which came
dence of former cheating: one pound in gold, less in the fluctuation of values
A four-foot vein of coal has been dis of troy is smaller than one pound of in commodities caused by under or* have perished in his attempts to save
dreth, the boy trainwrecker, receievd a over during the world’s fair have been for 6,000 head more, all of whioh will
Miss Kennedy, Mrs. Crosby and New
life sentence. His companions, Plato given to the Field museum, in Chica be shipped to different points in Ne covered within four miles of Montpe avoirdupois, one pound of troy has overproduction.
ell combined. A fishboat at last got
lier.
and Hibbard, who pleaded guilty of go, and will hereafter float in the la- braska at an early date.
twelve ounces, one pound avoirdupois
The fluctuation in gold can be no near enough to rescue Miss Kennedy
manslaughter in the first degree, were gbon directly in front of the museum
The big Boonville stamp mill will be has sixten ounces, one ounce of troy is ticed the quickest in the change of the and Mr. Crafts. Miss Kennedy was
The town marshal of Mitchell at
sentenced to twenty years’ imprison building.
tempted the other day to arrest Frank located at De Lamar, and will cost smaller than one ounce avoirdupois.
price of silver; for instance, if silver nearly dead when taken into the boat,
ment, on two indictments, or forty years
So the men who traded for a pound drops from 70 cents per ounce to 66X but the fishermen suceeded in bring
The senate passed Mitchell’s bill Stice, but Stioe drew a revolver and when completed, $100,000.
in all.
pensioning the veterans of Indian wars. chased the marshal around the bar
Parties coming in from the Nez of silver or gold, and thought that he cents per ounce—that is 5 per cent— ing her to life, and about 7:30 in the
William Laverone and Jack Roberts, This bill will pension all who served room of the Central hotel. Stice was Perce reservation say that the rains got a pound of avoirdupois, found him then you can surely calculate that gold evening, she and Mr. Crafts were land
self widely mistaken.
rose 5 per cent in value, and that the ed at Skamokawa. Mrs. Crosby was
highwaymen, captured a few days in the early Indian wars in Washington afterward arrested, however, and held have made the roads impassable.
Evidently in order to protect the peo prices of all commodities will fall in the wife of Mr. A. R. Crosby, the
since, overpowered the jailer in Ma- and Oregon, their widows and depend- to the grand jury in the sum of $500.
The base of service supply for the ple, the governments made pieces Of short succession 5 per cent. That in
T. R. Sheridan has been appointed
dera, Cal., beating him severely over ent survivors.
bandsaw filer at the mill. They had
special mail service from Glenn’s
the head with a brick. They took his
The supreme court at Pendleton has administrator with the will annexed Ferry to Roseworth, Cassia county, gold and silver, of certain sizes con cludes all stocks, bonds, etc.
been married but six weeks. Mr. Peter
venient for trade, and thus trade was
After having recognized the fluctua son was the only son of Mr. P. O.
keys and arms and esoaped. They are aeoided that women are not eligible as of the estate of Stephen Minard, of has been changed to Hagerman.
facilitated; just like the soap in one- tion of the gold, I have observed the Peterson, of this place, and was about
desperate characters and it is feared candidates for the office of county Douglas county. The executor named
will kill some of the posse before they sohool superintendent. There are at in the will, John H. Minard, died a • The Consoldiated Tiger-Poorman pound bars is more convenient to trade facts closely, and here I will quote 23 years old. Young Newell was the
are oaptured.
only son of Mr. Henry Newell, of this
present fifteen women candidates for few days after his . father. The bond Mining Company is the Couer d’ with than when cut up in ten-pound some of my observations.
On the 26th of June, 1893, the mints place, and was 29 years old.
of the administrator has been fixed at Alenes have satisfactorily settled their, bars, just so is the trade in silver and
News is received of a brutal murder this office in the state.
losses with the insurance company.
gold; it is more convenient in coins in India were closed to the free coinage
$20,000.
oommited in Ooonto, Wis., in a dis-
In Van Buren, Ark., Jailer Stamps
J. H. Albert, of Salem, has a bible
The new cable for the Bunker Hill than if in bars of gold or silver which of silver, inconsequence the gold rose
GROUND WAS BROKEN.
• pute between two farmers about a was1 assaulted by two prisoners, who,
33 8-10 per cent in value, and the prioe
years old, that has been in the & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating had to be cut up in order to trade.
team of horses, in which a man named after beating him insensible, took his 250
The
value
of
a
coin
is
in
the
gold
or
of
silver
fell
from
83
cents
to
62
cents
Olsen shot one named Lissot.
He keys and liberated five others. Stamps Albert family 175 years. It is bound Company has arrived and is being put silver which it contains, and the being per ounce; wheat and other commodi Work Begun on the Rogue River Min
ifc full oalf, with stout wooden covers
ing Canal.
then .carried the body to a brush pile is probably fatally injured.
The
“ and back, and is 15X inches long, 10 in place. It weighs eight tons and is in the coin does not prevent the gold or ties were offered at any prioe, but
3,800 feet in length.
and set it oh fire. A deputy sheriff ar prisoners were not oaptured.
Gant
’
s
Pass,
Or., May 13.—The
silver from being a commodity and sub gradually silver rose again to 70 cents
inches in width, 6 inches in thiokness,
rested Olsen and had him handcuffed
Ten of Lewiston’s business firms ject to fluctuation according to the de per ounce and wheat to 60 cents per breaking of ground for the large min
While the 9-year-old daughter of and has a weight of 12 pounds, and
by one hand, but by a desperate effort William Ashby, of Pine valley, was
have become associated to exploit some mand for it.
ing canal of the Rogue River Water &
bushel.
the man escaped and hid in the woods. crossing Pioneer creek on a footbridge was formerly clasped with iron. The mining claims on Snake river forty
Though in either case is the value
In February, 1894, our government Mining Company took place today at a
old and new testaments take 1,180
By a vote of 425 to 98, the Methodist in company with another child, both pages of the volume, the remainder be miles above the city, twelve miles be enhanced, in the one-pound bar of the issued $50,000,000 of bonds that caused point three miles south of Gold Hill.
general conference, in session in Cleve were precipitated into the water and ing devoted to the publisher's prefaoe, low the Salmon river, and just opposite soap or the silver or gold in the coin; a demand for gold, the value of gold At least 1,000 people witnessed the
Oregon and Washington state whoever trades for the silver or gold rose to 9 9-51 per cent, the price of sil- ceremony, and enjoyed the barbecue
land, O., deoided the four women dele the Ashby child was drowned.
glossary, indexes, the Augsberg confes the
boundary line.
it contains, no matter what the gov-, . ver fell from 70 cents to 64 1-8 cents dinner. Short addresses were made
gates might retain their seats. This
D. W. Watson, a wood-dealer, was sion, and to numerous biographies of
There is a prospeot of the comple ernment stamp on the money is, the per ounce, and wheat from 60 cents to by Governor Lord, Hon. C. B. Bellin
does not mean that the women have instantly killed in Seattle in a runa the Saxon princes, under whose pat
tion of the Palouse branch of the stamp only guarantees that the coin 55 cents per pushel; these prices re ger, judge of the United States dis
won a complete victory. The decision way. In falling off his leg Was ronage the work was done.
Northern Paoifio railroad to Lewiston. contains as much metal as the law re- mained about stationary until Novem trict court; Brigadier-General C. F.
was the result of a ccompromise, and caught and torn off. His body was
W ashington.
An agent of the company has been in quires.
with the understanding that it should dragged about 100 feet, his leg being
ber, 1894, when another $50,000,000 Beebe, Dr. C. F. Chapman, Rev. Ro
There is much inquiry'throughout the field looking over the prospects
Probably hundreds of readers want bonds were issued that caused another land D. Grant, W. S. Crowell and J.
not prejudice the claims of women in left behind. He died instantly.
the Yakima oountry for beef cattle.
and gathering statistics. He filed the to contradiot me right here, and say rjse of 90 2-3 per cent in value of the W. Northup.
the future or establish a precedent for
A convention of the Western Feder
The oompany intends to construct
Seattle has contracted Lfor the feed right of way grant from the interior that our 50-cent silver dollar passes for gold, the price of silver fell from
future conferences to follow.
ation of Miners met in Denver, Colo. ing of city prisoners at 9 cents a meal. department for a traok across the reser its face value everywhere.
two canals, a lower and upper one.
64
1-8
cents
to
59
X
cents
per
ounce,
The Vulcan iron works of San Fran- Colorado, Idaho and Montana were
I cannot go into any lengthy discus and the price of wheat from 55 oents The lower canal will be for its own
Many small thefts have been com vation with the oounty recorder.
oisco. were destroyed by fire, and the largely represented, and delegates were
use, and the upper one for the sale of
sion on the subject right here, but the to 52 X cents per bushel.
Montana.
loss is estimated at $100,000, with in present from most of the Western mitted at sooial entertainments in
water to those having ground, to work.
facts are as soon as 3 7i.Xi grains of sil
Each
time
the
whole
quantity
of
Olympia
recently.
The
Pacific
has
received
surance at $31,500. The fire spread to states and from British Columbia.
The company expeots to have the canSV~~
ver
with
10
per
cent
oopper
are
coined
gold
was
paid
at
once
into
the
United
The
eighth
annual
session
of
the
patents
tar<ll
their
lands
classified
as
the third floor of the Reliance machine
completed within two years. Tne size
into
a
dollar,
it
is
a.
legal
tender
for
all
States
treasury;
at
the
last
two
bond
The
increase
in
the
price
of
bolts
state
grange
of
the
Patrons
of
Hus
non-mineral
land
in
the
Bozeman
dis
works, damaging the building slightly
of the ditch will be twenty feet wide
These patents cover nearly debts; it is the standard dollar of the issues the syndicates had time to fur at
and destroying considerable stock. The and nuts in the iron trade the past bandry will convene in Vancouver trict.
the bottom, six feet deep and thirty
United
States
of
Amerioa
and
has
to
three
weeks
is
the
evidence
of
a
re
nish
the
gold
when
it
suied
them
best,
June 2.
200,000 acres.
loss of the Reliance company is more
be taken as such in the United States; consequently the changes of prices were feet at the top. The water for this
than covered by the $25,000_insuarnce. ported gigantic pool of manufacturers
At least 200 people have passed
There has been received at the Hele but if you go with an American and not so violent.
caual will be taken out of Rogue river.
in these goods, the organization of through Pomeroy, on the way to North
na land office 761 patents for lands in Mexican silver dollar to a country
While ohasing a robber from his which is mow in progress in Boston.
According to silver standard we Its present objective point is Foot’s
ern
Idaho
this
year.
Many
of
them
that district, of this number 587 are whioh commercially is not in close con make in the United -States out of an creek, a distance of about ten miles.
store, T. J. Marshall, proprietor of the
At Eau de Vie, Mo., while sitting
Golden Rule dry goods store, at 274 up with her sick child near the open come from southern Idaho.
for agricultural lands, 150 for mineral nection with the United States, you ounoe of silver $1.2929 cents; now if Ultimately, however, it will be ex
The receivers of thejfAberdeen bank, and 24 for ooal lands.
West Madison street, Chicago, was fireplace, Mrs. John Edwards’ clothes
will buy more with the Mexican dollar you take the different silver quotations tended to and below Grant’s Pass about
shot twice, and died -a few moments caught fire, and the flames communi have wiped out over $30,000 of the
than with the American dollar beoause per ounce from above quotations and twenty miles. The objeot of the ditch
Articles
of
incorporation
of
the
Sil
later on the sidewalk in front of his cated to the cradle. The baby was cre bank’s indebtedness, leaving only ver Bow Mining Company have been the former contains more silver.
is to supply water for the imn^nse
figure—
place. The robber escaped, after firing mated and the woman seriously burned. about $4,000 more to pay off.
Going back to the argument, I will
If 1 ounoe of silver or 70 oents is stretches of gravel bars whioh lie along
filed with the secretary of state. The
several shots to intimidate the people
The contract for keeping the county
oompare a number of commodities
then 60 cents or 1 bushel of the line of the ditch, and which are
Over 500 union carpenters in De poor of Walla Walla has been awarded company propose to carry on a general with gold; we will assume the follow $1.2929
in the street. He wounded two other
known to be very rich in gold.
wheat is $1.108.
mining business in Silver Bow county
troit,
Mich.
,
struck
for
eight
hours
a
persons.
to L. L. Hunt, for $1,700. The poor with the principal office at Butte. The ing articles are interchangeable for
The successful construction of this
If 1 ounce of silver or 64 1-8 is
day at 25 cents per hour. The bosses will now be housed at Lakeside.
each other: 20 bushels of wheat, 1 $1.2929 then 55 cents or 1 bushel of ditch will revolutionize mining in
In Birminhgam, Ala., Reddon Wil are willing to make the minimum
capital stock is $100,000.
Southern Oregon.
ounce of gold, 16 ounces of silver, 200 wheat is $1.112.
liams, a prominent white farmer, was wages 20 cents per hour and promise
The total receipts of the Spokane city
The woolmen of Montana at a recent
If 1 ounce of silver or 59X cents is
Said to Have Been Rilled.
lynched by a mob of forty masked to concede the eight-hour day on Janu water works for the three months of meeting, endorsed the position taken by pounds of cotton, 80 pounds of wool,
white men. Williams was arrested on ary 1 next.
1895 were $14,038.40, and in 1896, Senators Mantle and Carter in voting 40 pounds of butter, 8 sheep, 200 $1.2929 then 52X cents or 1 bushel of
Hermosillo, Mexioo, May 13.—Ad
wheat is $1.131.
the oharge of making a criminal as
$16,627.65, an increase of $2,589 25, against the Dingley revenue bill. They pounds of sugar.
vices reached here today from Ures, in
Now if you were to express the value
These figures prove that there was the southern part of this state, that
sault upon his 16-year-old daughter. - An effort was made to burn the large or 18 per cent.
olaim that the interests of the wool of those commodities in gold, you very
Bunker
Hill
oonoentrator
at
Wardner,
little fluctuation in. the relative John Lebner and Forest Moss, the,
At the preliminary examination the
A sawmill, with a daily capaoity of grower and manufacturer and the
evidence indicated his guilt and he was Idaho. The concentrator was fired 8,000 feet is being built on Chinook miner are too closely allied to admit of would say that each respective quantity value of wheat and silver; that in real young men who left Nogales, Ariz.,
and
a
portion
of
the
flume
blown
up
at
of those commodities were worth one ity the prioe of wheat had risen in the two months ago to walk to Guatemala,
taken from the sheriff and hanged to
the same moment, extinguishing the river, in Pacific oounty, by Mr. Wil the least discrimination of one against ounoe of gold; if you coin one ounce of silver-standard oountry, while here it have been killed by Yaqui Indians west
the nearest tree.
son,
of
Clatskanie,
Or.,
and
will
saw
the
other
by
legislative
action.
lights and stopping all the machinery.
gold into $20 and divide each dollar fell 5 cents and 2X cents respectively. of that town. Both are Americans,
Renters and owners of land Kin the The fire was promptly extinguished by to fill looal demand.
In addition to the wealth of Montana into a hundred cents, then you would These figures verify my former demon and their route for nearly 100 miles
Umatilla reservation met in Pendleton, one of the mill hands, No arrests
Tommy Lane, chief of the Puyallup in gold, silver,popper, lead, coal and say the prices of goods were: 1 bushel stration. .
.ay through the Yaqui Indian country.
Or., and organized a vigilance com have been made.
Indians, was knocked down by a hobo iron, recent investigations show the of wheat, $1; 1 ounoe of silver, $1.25;
Those of my readers who handle They were warned of the danger of
mittee, to shoot down cattle straying
last
week,
near
Puyallup,
and
robbed
The strike of forty-four firemen of
existence in the southeastern portion of 1 pound of wool, 25 cents; 1 pound of other products can apply that rule to
upon grain lands. The movement is the Armour packing plant, in Kansas of twenty oents, two pounds of beef- the state of an extensive and easily butter, 50* cents; 1 sheep, $2.50; 1 their articles, and they will find that their undertaking before leaving No
gales.
caused by the Indians tearing down City , has assumed international propor steak and an umbrella.
recognized belt of oil-bearing strata. pound of cotton, 10 oents; 1 pound of cotton, oil, sugar, lead, copper, silk,
fences and turning stock loose. It is tions, and there is no telling where or
—The “water pril” forge is a new
A forty-room hotel is being built on The location of this petroleum field is sugar, 10 cents.
eto., all fell in the same proportion in
expected this action will provoke a test how it will end. The strikers have Long Beach, a short distance from the in Carbon county, within- the limits
But if gold went up 100 per cent in short succession after the dates men mode of heating iron to a white heat
law case to more clearly define to what already petitioned the naitonal council site of Tinker’s hotel. It will be com
in water that has been subjected to
the ceded strip of the Crow Indian value, it would take double the quan tioned.
extent the Umatilla Indian is a citizen. of the Federation of Labor to declare pleted in plenty of time to accommo of
In November, 1894, when the seoond eleotrical action.
reservation and on the headwaters of tity goods to buy the same quantity of*
As an indication of the unprecedent an international boyoott against the date the summer rush.
Butcher creek, an easterly branch of gold, or half of the quantify of gold to bond issue was first disoussed in the
—Paper telegraph poles are in
obtain the same quantity of goods and I / newspapers, I spoke with a prominent creasing.
ed mining activity in the state of Armour products.
The civil service commissioners of the Rosebud river-
Scio Weekly Press.
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