THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE MONTANA LOTTERY MANAGER
NON EST.
The Oustus Mori of Nevada Otty-7A,Coal
Oil Btrlke-The Lone Highway
man Bobs Up Serenely In ,'.
California.
Ir. W. II. Gearhard, a noted physician
I r rcsno, is dead. ', ' .
The erection of Santa Ana's newOjora
llOUSO lUIS llOgUII.
San Itafacl has voted to disincorporate
and extend the town limits.
' A now ioo coniany with plnty of cap
ital has been formed nt Truekee.
A mutual building anil loan association
is in successful operation at Gilroy.
Verona Baldwin was arrested in Los
Angeles recently hopelessly insane.
The Republicans elected a majority of
the city officials voted for at Ilelcui,M.
T., hint week.
The people of New Mexico are pleased
with the selection of L. Bradford Prince
to be Governor.
A 30-st.unp quartz mill is lioing
erected iu San Francisco Canon, twelve
miles atavo Newhall.
The Montana Iron and Coa Company,
with a capital stock of $-',000,000, has
incorporated ut Helena.
The force of policemen in Saeremento
lias lieen increased from sixteen to twenty-five
men and a captain.
Constable Frazer at Fresno, declares
positively that he will capture the Pixley
train robtara and murderers.
Rev. Father Sullivan, pastor of St.
Francis Church of Sonoma, was severely
injured by being thrown from his buggy
recently.
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state that
will be shipping berries
within two
weeks if the clear weather
continues.
Mrs. Ben Holladay, widow of the late
Ben Holladay, is lying dangerously ill at
Portland, Or., and her death is momen
tarily expected.
Herman Eggere mistook Maurice
Thompson, a friend, for a horse thief on
-a ranch near Holbrook, A. T., last week
and shot him.
Thomas Crafts exhibited in lone last
weeic a magnificent specimen of growing
"wild oats, embracing some thirty stalks
four feet in length.
A well which was being bored for water
three miles west of San Luis Olasjio
struck a gotxl flow of petrolum at a depth
of only twenty-three feet.
Two boys, 'seven and nine years old,
drifted out to sea at Cavueoa Thursday in
a row boat and drifted ashore again at
Port Harford next morning.
The daily atajxe service tatween Gilroy
-and the Gilroy Hot Springs, which was
discontinued during the winter season,
will be resumed on Momlay next.
The Atlantic and Pacific Itoad haslet
the eontrai-t for a large hospital at Albu
querque, N. M., which will be one of the
finest of its character in the West.
G. U. Smith and J. Marion Brooks of
Los Angeles publish communications
showing the illegality of the charter
; under which Los Angeles is now work
ing. Louis Rehloss, a prominent real estate
-man and insurance agent of San Jose,
has, it is currently rejwrted, left for parts
unknown, leaving many creditors.
Young prune trees are selling in Po
mona right along this season at 20, 25
ami even 30 cents. This is alwut 30 per
'cent more tliau they sold for a year ago.
Fine horses are begining to make their
' aplMjarance in our district. Our farmers
are doing their best, and it is surprising
to see their success in this line. In an
other year or two we will have as fine
stock as can ta found in the state. lone
Valley Echo.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany will make the wisbed-for cut on
wood rat ? from Boulder Creek to San
Jose sometime this month, thus termi
nating a difficulty which existed and
caused much bitterness among the lum
ber men of San Jose.
Patrick McGuire has been boring for
voal on his ranch at Doshville, two miles
north of lone, Amandor county. He
savs proMjiects are very good. He has
gone down forty feet and will continue
his explorations until the prospect has
lieen thoroughly tested.
A piarry has recently taen developed
in the neigh borhood of lone which furn
ishes a good quality of sf.nd-stone for
building purjioses, and an endeavor is
taing made to have it used in the con
struction of the Preston School of Indus
try to ta located in that valley
Twelve young men, self-organized
vVhite Caps, or Moral Regulators, have
leen terrorizing some of the people at
Nevada City. They are also accused of
writing anonymous and scurrilous letters.
The identity of the gauges secured and
it is expected arrests will shortly follow.
. In the vicinity of Santa Margarita is
wbat is claimed to bo the largest prune
orchard in California, or in the world.
Its him is somewhere near three hundred
acres and is in a very thrifty condition.
Prunes and olives have been found to do
remarkably well in this locality, as well
as many other fruits.
I). J. Burchett, of 'Kentucky, is to las
'Marshal for the district of Kentucky.
Charles E. Monteith, of Idaho, is to be
Indian agent of the Nez Perces in Idaho.
The senate rejected the nomination of
Isador tavcnthal to 1 Postmaster at Mo
de sto, Cal. He was nominated last Jan
uary by ex-I'residout Cleveland.
OVER THE STATES.
A CYPHER DISPATCH RECEIVED
FROM BISMARCK.
The Cordial Relatione Existing Between
Mexico and the United States
Election of the President by
the Popular Vote.
"The Illinois House has passed the
Valued Policy Insurance bill.
The annual report of the Silk Culture
Society has been submitted.
American lard will lie admitted into
Mexico subject to inspection.
The Sunday closing issue was defeated
in the Denver election recently.
John McComh, a millionaire of Dela
ware, has sued his wife for a divorce.
F. V Wilkins killed Ins wife's para
mour near Marshall, Texas, Thursday.
The Democrats have elected their en
tire ticket at Chicago by 6,000 majority.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is said to have
Ihh'u offered the poetofflce at Richmond.
Va.
The report that Billy Birch, the veteran
minstrel is dead, is now declared to lie
false.
Senator Dolnh has taon mentioned as
a jxissiblo candidate for tho vacant J us-
tieeshtp.
After June Princeton College will have
added to its Permanent Endowment
fund $260,000.
A liankor at Geneva has committer
suicide. He suffered heavy losses in cop
per singulations.
Sir Julian Pauneefnte, the English Min
ister to tho United States, will sail from
1. upland on the 1,5th mat.
The New York Assemhlv has ordered
tn a thin! retulinir tint hill rtHxnilim' tlu
r?aturday halt-holiday law
Steps have lieen taken by the Mexican
Government for the re-examination and
settlement of the La Abra and Weil
claims.
The will of the late Justice Rtanlev
Mathews has leen filed for probate. All
his property is left to his widow and
children.
A negro "burial ground at Camden, N.
J., is in such a shocking condition that
stray dogs are said to feast on the bones
of corpses.
Miss Clara Potten has recovered $15,
OiX) from C. It. Reed, proprietor of the
Hoffman House, New York, for breach
of promise.
The Emperor and Empress of Ger
many dined at the British Embassy re
cently. Representatives of other royal
families were present.
The steamer Wyanoke run down and
sunk the schooner Ruth Darling off iHd-
aware Cape. Two seamen were drowned.
The fog was very thick.
A banquet will be given at the Hotel
Metropole in London on May 2d, in
honor of Waller, the retiring United
SUites Counsel-General.
Eighteen thousand dollars have al
ready been subscribed to tho Popular
fund to ereet a building for ermanent
Republican headquarters at New York.
The President has l.-een asked to issue
a proclamation requesting public worship
in the churches on the centennial anni
versary of Washington's inauguration.
The Florida Legislature recently ex
hibited a strong feeling in favor of choos
ing the President by a popular vote and
doing away with the Electoral College.
The White House was a scene of beau
ty and brillian7 recently at the recep
tion given to Prince and Irincess Take
hito and the members of the Japanese
party.
Three white men suspected of cattle
stealing, who failed to leave the country,
were turned over by a vigilance commit
tee, of Spiingmud, Neb., to Dakota In
dians. Geonre Powell, who stole some jewelry
'while dressed in the garb of a priest, at
Toronto, Canada, confessed, and was
sent to Kingston penitentiary for five
years.
The Lower House of the Pennsylvania
Legislature has passed a resolution de
claring Major Amies, who pulled the nose
of Governor Beaver the other day, "a
cowardly poltroon."
Fir George Baden Powell, who has just
returned to Montreal from a visit to Brit
ish Columbia, reports the urgent neces
sity of properly fortifying the British Co
lumbia Coast.
The Mexican Congress opened Monday.
Diaz, in his message, reviews the foreign
policy of Mexico, and congratulates the
country on its excellent relations with
the United State.
Sir John Macdonald does not think the
Behring Sea proclamation was intended
to affect Canadian interest ; that, it was
done to warn Americans. Perhajw he
will iMJComo better informed by ami by.
Tbe cliangfi in the office of Treasury
and Assistant Treasury in New York will
necessitate the count of all the moneys
and securities in both offices. This is a
work of great magnitude and will hike at
least four weeks to accomplish.
The German Minister at Washington
received a cipher disjMiteh from Bismarck
which, it is stated, called for information
concerning the American vessel sent to
Samoa and of tho condition of the Amer
ican fleet including the cruisers building.
The Mexican Government has decided
that citizens of the United States can en
ter Mexican territory free of restriction,
but subject to custom regulations as to
tho inspection of baggage and goods.
This leaves the way to Lower California
opeu.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
THE PROPOSED BEAUTY SHOW
PARIS, FRANCE.
IN
Tbe Tall Hat Evlt In London-Canada's
Future Doom Understanding Be
tween Germany and Great
Britain.
A case of leprosy has heen discovered
in Dublin. ,
Ouy Lassac, tho Fronch chemist, is to
have a monument. '
Bernhardt is making a tour of Algeriu
with great success.
The strikes in the German provinces
are rapidly spreading.
Martel, head of the great distillery at
Cognac, Franco, is dead.
Tho King of Greeee is an enthusiastic
and successful fisherman.
A vigilance committee for Bridge of
Weir, Scotland, has been formed.
The Princo of Whales has accepted an
invitation to dine with Mrs. Maekay.
The British House of Commons has
voted -'1,000,000 to increase the navy.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone are protwiring
for the celohration of their goldon wed
ding. A new theatre, to cost $7,000,000, Is to
lie built on the Champ do Mars, Ht. Pe
tersburg. Charles Pickens' favorlto Kentish
home at Gad's Hill, and where he died,
is for sale.
Cholera is raging in the riiMippine Is
lands and yellow fever in Cuba and Rio
de Janeiro.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
have taken a house on Carlton terrace for
the season.
A Portuguese anti-slavary society lias
lieen formed, with King Luis on frroftor
ary President.
Deniston, Scotland, has the largest
bread factory. The little baker is disap
pearing in (treat Britain.
M. Beanrepaire, Advocate-General, has
been appointed Protector-tteneral of
France, displacing Bouchez.
The British record of foot ball for 1880
shows the appalling number of eight
death and five serious injuries.
German ship-builders at Scbwerin, Tet
low, Stettin and other places, and Berlin
wood-workers, threaten to strike against
low wages.
There has been a noticeable exodus of
Russia students from Zurich since the
discovery that liombs were being secretly
made there.
The Russian newsnatiers have lieen
prohibited from publishing reports of the
discovery ot tlin illicit manufacturing ol
bombs ut Zurich.
Thre is a iowerful effort in India to
establish the principal seat of Govern
ment at Simla, but the iceroy resolutely
opposes the movement.
Herlert Bismarck declares his inter
views with Salisbury have resulted in u
complete understanding between tier-
many and Great Britian.
A public debate lias lieen arranged in
London for Mav, between Henry George
and Samuel Smith. thuGladstoniim mem
ber of Parliament from ilinshire.
A small leasehold proiierty in Worces
tershire is announced for sale by auction,
held "for the risidue of a term of 2,000
years created in the year 1000.
It is stilted the Egyptian Government
will probably raise a new loan for irrega
tion works. Further movements in this
respect are being carried out year by
year.
Tho Chamber of Deputies lost week
adopted a bill providing for the distribu
tion ol the sewerage of Paris on the plain
of Acheres, near the forest of Saint Ger
main. Countess Itodot.ky, granddaughter of
the famous Field Marshal Kodct.ky, com
mitted suicide at Vienna Monday, shoot
ing herself to avoid a critical surgical op
eration. Among Bismarck's visitors on his seventy-fourth
birthday was Emperor Wil
liam, who presented a mastiff to him to
replace the famous Roichshund. There
were many distinguished visitors.
The St. Petersburg police are saiil to
have discovered in the suburbs of St.
Petersburg an imjxjrtant clew to the ul
ledgcd conspiracy against the Czar. It is
said the Czar is thoroughly alarmed.
Tho tall female hat now so agilatus the
minds of the male frequenters of the Lon
don pits that it is proposed that the pit
should be divided like a Quaker meeting
house the men sitting on one side and
the women on the other.
Ash Wednesday no longer interferes
with theatrical performances in London.
Whereas all the theatres used to close on
that day, only two this year paid any
attention to it, and these merely an
nounced that they would keep open. .
i
The statement of tho Panama railroad
for the year ending December Hist shows
the gross earnings to lie $0,000,050, an in
crease of $201,007. Operating expenses,
including interest charges, $2,540,1.14, a
decrease of $320,030, and net earnings
$1,150,544, an increase of $5.'!0,710.
Paris is to have a beauty show where
the first prize will be $0,000, and t he pub
lic will lie invited to make bets upon the
different contestants. Leghorn recently
had such a show, but the exhibits were
bo unsatisfactory that the audience broke
up the affair by hissing them off the stage.
HOME AND FARM.
THE VALUE OF STRAWBERRIES VS.
WHEAT PER ACRE.
The Best Grasses, Those Naturally
Adapted to the Boll-Tho Odor of
Wends Detected In Milk
Low tirade Fertilisers,
Tho old way of picking apples in a sack
is not tho liest. A basket is preferable,
and a hook of some kind should ho fnst
ened to the handle by u stout cord. The
hook would ullow the basket to be hung
on limb often, giving tho picker the use
of both hands. .
An acre of land will produce five or six
times as many strawberries, in bushels,
as in wheat, and tho prices usually ob
tained for strawberries are more than
three times as much as for wheat. One
Here of strawberries will bring as much
profit as fifteen Hcresof wheat, whilu the
cost of growing tho strawberries is pro
portionately but little more than that of
growing the wheat.
Tho tatter the nropiirution of the soil
the less seed will lie required. Many
failures in the seed are not duo so much
to the vitality in the seed us to the un
favorable condition of the ground. It is
always a matter of chance germination
when seed is brcud-caHted and left to hn
covered by the washing of the rain, and
tho harder ami firmer the seed-lied the
greater the difficulty in securing a crop
from the seed. Pulverize the soil, har
row it down a flue as poesi ble and then
brush the seed in.
The tast grasses are flow naturally
adapted to the soil. In America alxiut
one dozen varieties an made sjiecialtica,
while in England the farmers select from
over one hundred. A firm sod of native
grass should never lie turned under to
make room for some other kind until the
new grass has Is-en tested on the farm.
Soils vary, and grass that may thrive on
one (arm mav fail on another.
The rock on which many who enter the
ranks as breeders of good stock split is
that of stinted feeding, says Professor
Cook, of the Michigan Ajrricultural Col
lego. The Shropshire,. Pereheron, and
Shorthorn owe their excellence to tho
fact that they can make good paying use
of a large amount of food. Unless they
li.ivii l... I.v.I t.. tl-,.rl luu, !..... r.iil ,4
their function, and their keoor fails of l,,,w Uw iU,m' this avocation,
his expected gains. It mav Iw best to ! The wheat market, as heretofore report
half starve tho Jersey in bis calfhood, j ed, continues dull. In provisions the
hut surely it is ruinous to thus treat the ,,.. 1m ,1mi i .i,.,.,,,,,. t.,ut.
Shorthorn or Hereford. Tbe breeder's!
motto should ta: "Keep ull those ani
mals in a thrifty, growing condition from
first to last." Unless we intend and will
feed lils-rally we had tatter keep the
scrub. It was brought up to enjoy rough
ing it.
The intrinsic value of pure dissolved
liones is frequently made npiurcnt as an
ingredient in low grade fertilizers. A few
hundred pounds are introduced in a for
mula mainly coniioscd of cheap mate
rials, from the use of which surprisingly
good but very transitory results follow.
It is a leaven of dissolved bones which
has quickened the Hums and given it the j
oniy vitality reany possesseii. impun-1
lien anil loruiu maucrs iikiii in comr aim , iix;.
weight to dissolved Imnes cannot taifijllo
mixed with them lioyond the chances of j
discovery any tatter than they could
with bone meal. iHrcptinu can no more
taoHirtually practiced with the partially
acidulated Ixme than with the raw Imiiio.
The sulphuric acid employed in dis
solving has simply houoy-conitad the
particles in such a state that the natural
action of the soil und the elements can
convert them immediately into plant
food. Bearing these facts well in mind,
and having the guarantee of the manu
facturer that the article is made of raw
tanes, that pore sulphuric; acid is em
ployed in dissolving; that it in riot made
wholly or in part of foreign mutter, it is
tatter for farmers to use strictly pure dis
solved bones than to invest the same
amount of money in substances contain
ing less phosphoric acid. It is unques
tionably tho better s)licy to select a fer
tilizer that is ready for immediate action
and one sure to give a two-told quicker
return, with an almost equal reserve
store of rich ingredients for the benefit
of grass and hay crops.
The Rural is asked1 if it will pay to
arrange pipes that will. carry water from
a tank filled - with water by a wind
mill, so as to supply water for small
fruits. The same correspondent also
asks if the pines lijtyht not run under
ground with ml vantaxe. We are unable'
to answer the questions, and wo doubt ii
unylKidy can answer them definitely.
Even if some such, system worked well
with one man and we believe thero is
one fruit grower who has udopted some
such system of irrigationlie could
hardly say whether it would pay another
man or not. It is certainly very desira
ble to have water for both fruit and veg
etables. Not to havo it is to lose tho
crop in some cases. To have it artificial
ly supplied is to save tho crop very often.
We think there is no way lor anybody
to settle the question of profit, but to sit
down and give the subject his own close
study. In regard to furnishing the water
from nipes buried in the ground, there
would unquestionably be some advan
tage over supplying it to the surface. In
deed, it is the proper way to do it. It
wonld require less wafer and the soil
would not be iu danger of baking for in
stance. 'In that case, however, thero
would need.be a subsoil, of course, of
such character as would prevent the
water from going down to China as fast
as it came from the pipes. Ujkju a small
sealo such irrigation might perhaps be
practiced to advantage, but when it
comes to a largo scale wo do not know,
and if it can be mado practical for fruit
and vegetables on a large scale, then why
not defy drouth by extending the system
to all crops? It is an interesting sub
ject, but its treatment must be largely
theoretical at present,
"It seems to rue," remarked one of our
citizens the other day, "that physicians
uro allowed extraordinary lieenso in the
manner in which they jugglo with the
welfare of their patients."
"Now hero is Dr. who was attend
ing Mr.- up to the time of his death,
and if lie treated hint for one thing he
treated him for a dozen different disor
ders. First tho doctor said pneumonia
was the trouble j then it was constmii
tiou. Then the patient wits dosed for
heart trouble, mid ho on until just before
he died It was itHccrtiiiimd that disease of
the kidneys was the real trouble, and that
which had linen at first treated us pneu
monia, consumption, heart disease, etc.,
werobtittho symptoms of kidney dis
ease. "Hut then it was too late,
"This is only one case in a hundred,
and I tun beginning to lose faith in the
doctors altogether. In fact I liavn't had
nnv need for their services since 1 beiran
to keep Warner's Sale ('uro in mv house,
n little over three years ago. W'henever
I feel a little out of sorts I take a few
doses of it, confident that the source of
all disease is iu the kidneys, which I
know Warner's Safe (lure will keep in
good order, and will eradicate any disease
that mav be lurking there. Had Mr.
followed a similar course, I have riodouht
that he would be alive to-dnv; but of
course ull people don't think ulfke.
"One tiling is certain, however, and
that is the doctors are allowed a little too
much freedom iu the wav they have of
pretending to know thai which they really
know nothing iilxiut. If they don't know
what is the real trouble with the patient,
they should admit it anil not go on ami
exm-rimeiit ut the cost of the patient's
life."
PORTLAND MARKET.
AUSPICIOUS OPENING OF THE SAL
MON SEASON.
Tbe Dull Condition of the 'Wheat Mar
' ket Htlll Prf vutls-A Slight Fall In'
Sugars Announced -Farm
Produco Active.
The princiul feature of imiHirtandu
is the present activity iu the salmon
industry, necessitating, as it will, an in
crease in freight traffic ami the usual sup-
meats,, however, taking the lead. Ai
ples are scarce and meet with a ready
sule, Butter firm, and in the matter of
Hiultry the market is all that could be
desired,
rimHKMiKs.
SugarB, Golden C O'h'c. extra C ii'.jc,
cuta, crushed and isiwilered '
Collee :
Java -Tic, Rio 0',,c, Arbuckl
o s roasted
ntOVIHIONS.
Oregon ham 'ZX4W., breakfast
ba-
eon ll".,c. Hidi-ri 10'..c. slinulilerM UiitMKU:.
Eastern ham R!!v lli'c, Sinchiire's i:i(
i.jf, breakfast bacon lfttRlu, sidei
Bhoulders liM'vC Luni 10,
FKl'ITH.
Navel oranges $I.Vn4.75, Riverside
$3.lHI(.f5:i.l'5, up)iles $1.60, lemons fo.25 jier
box.
VKOKTAHI.KS.
Potatoes SOmUoi:, onions 1)0a $1.00.
lll(IKI) KltlllTS.
Apples fiWIic, sliced Ik1, apricots 13$
14c, )M'uches Nt.l0o. pears He, Oregon
prunes, Italian, 8c, silver 7c, German 0
'7e, plums 5df 7e. Raisins $2 Jmr tax,
Culiforniu ligs Ht:, Syrmi loc.
UAIRV 1'llODUCK.
Butter, Oregon fancy 2fc, medium JOc,
IIC,
Eastern
I'V I !utif.tiiiiii ''111.
KUtlS.
Eggs 15c.
POULTRY.
Chickens $0.r0Tf7, ducks $12.00 per
do,., geese $10(l2, turkeys 17c jer H,
wool,.
Valley 18c, Eastern Oregon H15e.
HOI'S.
Hops 10 17c.
(tllAIN.
Wheat, Valley $1.3,-), Eastern $1.25.
Outs 30(?32c.
PLOl'K.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.00.
FKKII.
Hay $13(214 per ton, bran $15, shorts
$10, barley chop $24w25, mill chop $18.
PMKHII MKATM.
Reef, live. 4c, dressed 8e, mutton, live,
4e, dressed 8c, lambs $2.60 each, hogs 0c,
dressed 7V7Je, veul OfeSc.
Fresno is to number its houses and
place the names of the streets ut the cor
nors. After which a free postal deli very
system will bo inaugurated, as promised
by tho authorities.
A. Aborn of the Aborn Lottery has
suddenly disappeared from Helena, M.
T., and it is suid witli large sums of
money obtained from tho lottery scheme
There is a rumor in Helena that the draw
ing will take place in July outside of Mon
tana, but great excitement exists among
the many who invested thoir money.
The stage from Murphy a to Milton was
stopped by a lone highwayman last week
about sovcu miles from Angels. Tho
driver was ordered to deliver up Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s box, which ho did, also the
mail bag. both of which ho rifled. A
very small amount was obtained from tho
express box. There were five passen
gers aboard, none of whom were mo
lested. ,
E. T. Terrell, of Texas, has boon nom
inated Minister to Belgium.
Georgo Shields, of Missouri, is to bo
Assistant Attorney General, vice Zacha
riuli Montgomery, resigned.