FROM THE CAPITOL
JUDGE THTJRMAN CALLS UPON THUS
PRESIDENT,
Senator John Sherman and Family to
Go to Europe Lyman EJ, Knapp
of Vermont Appointed
Oovrnor of Alaska,
The President's health has improved.
Judge Thurvnan culled upon the Pres
ident Thursday.
Lyman E. Knapp, of Vermont, has
boon appointed governor of Alaska.
The pension olhYe lias allowed a claim
-of $14,000 to Phillip FltXMi for arrears.
Th' successor to the Chinese minister
. at Washington has heen decided upon.
Monday is now a -day on which the
.President will not receive oHiee-seekers.
II. G. Jacobs has been appointed su
perintendent of construction at Los An
gles. Thomas II, Sherman, of Maine, will
le appointed consul-general at Liver
pool. Secretary Kusk will reduce the numlier
of employes in the agricultural depart
ment. Ex-consul general to Samoa Sowall
has been appointed disbursing agent at
Berlin.
William Woods, convicted of murder
in -Arkansas, liaa been pardoned by the
1 'resident.
John T. Scott has been appointed su-',
perintendent of public buildings at Port
Townsend.
The work of re-organizing the consular '
Korvice was commenced tins weeic ny
Secretary Blaine.
B. M. Read, jr., of Washington terri
tory, 1ms lieen apjointed register of the
land ollice at Seattle.
C. M. Ogpen has been appointed spec
ial timber agent of the hind dike in
Washington territory.
Ecuador will be represented at the
.conference of American suites to be held
at Washington October 4th.
Major Amies ia being fried by court
; martial at Washington tor having pulled
itae nose of General Beaver.
The Rev. Dr. Scott, the President's
fa-her-in-law, keeps steadily at work at
his desk in the pension otlke.
Henry W. Raymond, of Tennsylvania,
lias received the apxintmeut of private
secretary to Secretary Tracy.
Itias-aid that the President will not
contiue himself to party lines in his an
ointment of Southern officials.
Mrs. Harrison denies tliat any discrim
ination has been made at the White
house against colored domestic.
The secretary of war lias ordered that
the new military post near Denver shall
be named in honor of Gen. Logan.
The comptroller of the currency has
-authorized the Citizens' National bank
to begin business at Spokane Falls.
The President will only apioint men
of ability to office in the South. Party
lines in such cases will be ignored.
All the states and the territory of Da
kota have been provided by congress
with agricultural experiment stations.
The state of Wisconsin has been trans
ferred from the military department of
the East to the department oi lakota.
In the selection of Indian agents the
wnsretary of the inferior has decided not
to apoint men residing near reservations.
The secretary- baa received informa
tion from the consul at Kio de Janeiro of
the prevalence of yellow fever at that
place.
Commissioner Stockslager estimates
that fully 100,000 jeople are now ready
to enter Oklahoma, ten to each home
stead. The maintenance of war ships at Sa
moa w ill lie discountenanced at the Ber
lin conference by the American repre
sentatives. ,
The secretary of etate has been in
formed by the American consul at Pana
ma that there is now no danger of trouble
on the Isthmus.
Tha -charges' of "insubordination pre
ferred against Ensign Schwerin while in
'Alaskan waters, have lieen disnasseu by
ttie navy department.
The bond of Mr. Huston, as treasurer,
has been approved, but he will not take
immediate ixjssession until the moneys
shall liave been counted.
IVnaion Commissioner Tanner will
noon commence a thorough investigation
of hia department with the view of un
earthing supposed frauds.
The New York Knights of Labor have
asked Secretary Windom to prevent the
lauding of silk weavers, alleged to do on
their way under contract from Switzer
land. Secretary Noble has appointed B. F.
K-iyaer and wile, of Marion, 111., assist--i
rit superintendent and matron respect
ively of the Indian school, at Warm
Sj -rings, Oregon.
The n.ival commissioners appointed to
s. t a site for the new navy yard in the
northwest, have finally decided upon a
vii)t, oil Paget sound, midway between
Uittly and'i'acoma.
...... , , ji-
. mtfttaiie in uie rrcsMient, procla
im owning the
territory of Okla-
I, n had toe eiieet oi exemuing
i .ieut oiliciala who had beenap-
to open the two land ollices in
..t.
ft iry Rusk has Iwcn married
!! has been a journeyman eoop
, im-.r, stage drive, soldier, ' gov
,i 1 practical politician.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
TUBS CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS
EXPLODED.
The United States Grand Jury at Port
To nsond, Ind lot Herbert Beeoher,
Wm. Barned and Qulncy A.
Brooke for Malfeasance.
Bees are not permitted in Lou An
gelea.,' At Lodi, Cal.
watermelons.
3000 acres are planted to
The Canyon Diablo train robbers httvo
been captured.
A large hotel for tourists is to he built
at Santa Kosa.
The police at 1-os Angeles have closed
all gambling games.
Carson, Nev has succeeded in stamp
ing out the small-pox.
An artesian well, 1000 feet deep, is to
be bored at Alila, Cal.
Fully 10,000 people are now out of
work in San Francisco.
Marysville, Cal., is now making large
shipments of strawberries.
Ex-Senator Vrooman dropped dead at
Oakland, Cal., Wednesday.
Two colored men have lieen placed on
the Los Angeles jwlice force.
Miss Verona B.ildwin has been sent to
the insane asylum at Napa.
Rev. Samuel Miller, of Scio, drooped
dead of apoplexy Thursday.
A. J. Crab fell in a cellar at Wallula,
last week, breaking his neck.
A band of ten Indians are creating ter
ror on the Colville reservation.
Mrs. L. C. Anderson cut her throat
with a razor at Spokane Falls Thursday.
The relief station at Point Barrow,
Alaska, will not be established this year.
Ex-Lord High Sheriff Hubbell, of Lon
don, England, was in ban Francisco last
week. ,
The head of a fireman killed in a rail
road accident near Reno last week could
not be found.
The old board of directors of the Ore
gon and California Railroad company
have been re-elected.
A Chinaman fell on a gang-saw at
Port Discovery, Saturday, aud his head
was severed from the body.
The canned fruit organization at San
Francisco is again making an effort to re
duce transcontinental rates.
Absolom Parker, a stage driver at Bjio
kone Falls, was shot and killed last week
by his employer, Frank Martin.
Mrs. A. F. Webber, C2 years old, fell
fifteen feet off a bridge and a horse fell
on her at Collegeville, Cal., last week.
John Kelly, of Portland, has been ap
pointed by ttie governor to represent the
state at the World's exposition at Paris.
W. Parlierry, aged 00, was found dead !
on the poarch ot his cabin, nvu miles
above Volcano. He liad Ikjcu murdered.
The California powder works at Pi
nule, Cal., exploded Wednesday, instant
ly killing S. M. Swan, und injuring C.
Sessing. '
The Sacramento Board of Trade is se
riously considering the matter of the pro
posed branch railroad to Amador county
direct from that city.
Santa Rosa, Cal., is making prepara
tions to protect itself against the hood
lum element which visits tliat place dur
ing the picnic season.
Miss May Carroll's eyes, it is feared,
were entirely destroyed by a lotion ap
plied to her face for neuralgia by a Los
Angeles druggist's clerk.
The book-keeper w;ho stole $500 from
the F'irst National Bank of Butte, M. T.,
was captured at Helena and taken to
Butte.
G. W. Callalian has been arrested at
Los Angeles for passing forged checks.
He, it is believed, in the same person who
victimized people of Stockton.
A wharf 2000 feet long is projected for
Santa Monica. Los Angeles is raising
subscriptions for the work, and Santa
Monica will give $20,000 towaru it.
A judgement was entered at San Diego
last week for $8i',,0, with $0,500 addi
tional for counsel fees, against the ex-
Mission Land aud Water company.
Six men have leen arrested at Ban
ning, Cal., for unlawfully seizing and im
prisoning A. Knight, a rancher, whom
the men had accused of stealing cattle.
A boy by the name of O'Donnell. alias
A. M. Allen, of Texas, was sent to jail at
Red Bluff, Wednesilay, for one month
for forging a pass on the O. II. &. N. rail
road. A sensation has been created at Los
Angeles by the statement that W, N.
Monroe, mayor of Monrovia, has lied to
Mexico to escape prosecution for sharp
practices.
The United States grand jury at Port
Townseml has indicted Herbert Beeeher,
William Harned and Quincy.A. Brooks
for malfeasance while in charge of the
custom house at that place.
Mayor Moran, of Seattle, W. T.. has
suspended Chief of Police Mitchell for
malfeasance in ollice and nominated Cup
tain Williard to act in his stead. The
charge against Mitchell is collusion with
gamblers. "
E. B. Gifford, of San Diago, lias match
ed Otto Rex against McCarthy's Lena
Wilkes for $1000. The trot is to come off
at Los Angeles some lime in next Decem
ber, Han Dmgans regard Utto iiexusa
world-beater.
OVER THE STATES.
NATURAL OAS DIB COVERED IN
KENTUCKY.
Th Wife of Theodore Thomas Dead
An Attempt to Assassinate the
Guar of Russia-General
Boulanger a Refugae.
Murders are on the increase in Paris.
Labor strikes in Germany continue
A regency has been established in Hol-
lamt.
Denver has organized a law and order
league.
'General Boulanger is a refugeo from
Franco.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Kentucky.
Onions are ono cent a bushel in Can-
astoga, N. V, '
The Eiffel tower in Paris will be 1000
foot in height.
'Gladstone presided at the Parnell ban
quet on the lltli.
A heavy snow-storm raged throughout
Old Virginia last week.
The wife of Theodore Thomas died at
New York Wednesday.
The town of Smithfleld, N. C, was de
stroyed by fire last week.
A panic prevailed at Pcreyvi'lo, la.,
last week, over uiad dogs.
Henry George has made a number of
speeches in England recently.
Four " marbled polecats " are the lat
est arrivals at the Loudon xoo.
An attempt was made to assassinate
the Czar of Russia last week.
Governor Woltlev was hanged in elficv
!at Flagstaff, Ariz., Thursday.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield,
111., is rapidly falling to pieces.
Hie Michigan legislature has made it a
criminal offense to sell a cigarette.
The Smithsonian institute has re
ceived three elk from Buffalo Bill.
Tile German man-of-war Olgn, recently
beached at Samoa, has been floated.
Tho recent losses by fire in Savanah,
Georgia, is estimated to lie $1,000,000.
The report of the English admiralty is
that the navy of that country is ineflicent.
The effort to duclare the nremmt Chi
cago city government invalid, fell through.
Tho world's conference of Latter D.iv
saints was held at St. Joseph, Mo., last
week.
Canada is in favor of a partial but not
an entire reciprocity with the United
Suites.
Lewis Conklin, of Port Jervis, L. I.,
was brained by his wife with an ax,
Tuesday.
The Oklahoma boomers encamptnl
around Caldwell, Kan., Wednesday, num
bered 2000.
A negro at Clinton, Wis., broke his
neck while trying to pull his own tooth
Wednesday.
Thieves steal horses and buggies at
Chicago and ship them to Denver where
they are sold.
Snow as black and dirty as if it had
leen trampled underfoot, fell at Aitken,
Minn., last week.
Mosella White, a music teacher, was
arrested at Susquehana, Pa., Wednesday,
for stealing $l,r,000.
Sandy Carty, a negro desperado, killed
Police Captain John R. Miller at Besse
mer, Ala., Sunday.
The U. S. steamer Pensacola, which
went down in a storm last week at Nor
folk, has ken raised.
Tho Sultan of Turkey has discovered a
plot to depose him and to place his
brother's heir on the throne.
The All-around-the-world baseballists
were entertained in sumptuous style on
their arrival in New York hist week.
Major Armes has made an abject apol
ogy to General Beaver for pulling the
latter's nose at Washington recently.
Leo Ring, a wealthy merchant of Den
ver, was arrested in Chicago Tuesday for
eloping with another Chinaman's wife.
Kilrain and Sullivan have, agreed to
fight for a wager of $10,000. It is earnest
ly hoped by a long suffering public that
it will be a la Kilkenny in every sense
of the word.
The prohibition state of Iowa has had
five murder trials so far this year within
its borders, in each of which intoxica
tion was urged by the defense as a miti
gating circumstance of the crime.
Andrew Carnegie, in a speech in the
Pennsylvania house of representatives
Tuesday, declared that the Pennsylva
nia Central railroad was injuring the
value of property in large sections of the
state.
It is said that a lack of coal at Pago Pa
go harlior, . Samoa, was the cause of the
recent disaster to shipping. The absence
of coal prevented the German and
American war-ships maintaining steam,
hence they were at the mercy of the
storm. ,
Manuel Perales de Salinas and Dio
nisio Blanco, tho latter a .nephew of ex
President Blanco, were arrested in New
Orleans, last week, on a telegram from
the Mexican legation at Washington on
the charge of forgery and robbery, com
mitted in Mexico,
Editor Stead, of the "Pall Mall Ga
zette," London, while inspecting tho
Eiffel tower at Paris, last week, stumbled
over some loose boards and only saved
himself by clinging to some projecting
iron from an 800-foot fall. He was re
leased from his perilous position by
workmen.
HOME AND FARM.
. : ''
INVESTIGATION INTO THB ORIGIN
OF HOG CHOLERA.
The Superiority of Carrots and Mangle
Wurtzels as a Pood for Milk
Cows Yield of an Acre of
Land In Straw Dorries.
There aro In this country, according to
the governmont statistical bureau rejiort,
44,(112,637 head of hogs, breeding ani
mals and young pigs. ..
Select seed corn carefully from tho
best stalks, choosing the choicest ears,
and then hang them in a perfectly dry
place whore they cannot freeze,
A grindstone conveniently placed ready
for use, leaves no excuse for working
with a dull uxe or other cutting instru
ment that never does good work.
Mashed Potatoes : Boll a quantity of
tiotatoes and pass thorn through a sieve
Put them Into a saucepan with a good
lump of butter, and salt to taste ; add a
little milk, and work them well with a
Biwon on a slow flro for a few minutes.
adding small quantities of milk as it is
required, until they ' get of the desired
consistency.
Potato Pudding; Boll four large po
tatoes mid pass them through a sieve;
stir into them powdered loaf sugar to
taste, and the yelks of two or three eggs;
add a few drops of essence of lemon,
then the whites of the eggs whisked to a
froth ; mix quickly and well ; pour Into a
plain mould, buttered and bread-crumed,
and bake for twenty minutes in a quick
oven.
An acre ol land will produce five or six
times as many strawlx'rries, in bushels,
as It will of wheat, and the prices usimlly
obtained for struwlicrriea are more than
three times as much as for wheat. One
acre of strwlorries will bring as much
profit as fifteen acres of wheat, while the
cost ef raising the Btrawlerrics is propor
tionately but little more than that of pro
ducing wheat.
An extensive apple-grower in Illinois
is said to plant only half as far apart as
the trees should stand iermanently, and
then he brings three-fourths of thorn into
liearing as soon as possible by girdling,
letting them produce all they will until
the permanent ones need the room. The
girdled trees are then cut out and the
others have all ,the needed space for
growth and productiveness.
Have you a good stock of carrots ami
mangle wurtzels in your cellars for your
milk cows? If you have you are a lucky
man. If you have not, It is too late now
to provide them, but tnuke your calcula
tions to sow the seeds of them lllmrally
the present season. Yru will never com
plain that you have tx) many of such
roots for your stock. Cows, oxen, horses,
and sheep actually need green food in
winter as much as in summer.
There is no doubt whatever about the
lienefits to be derived from ft well-conducted
creamery, observes a Dakota far
mer, not only to the farmers, but to ev
ery one within the limits yf interatinns.
It gives the farmer a cash market for his
cream, and enables him to juy cash for
supplies. It gies him an inducement to
lx'ttcr his stocx. and to emnlov Ix-tlcr
and more profitable methods of caring for
them, in addition to many other lienellts.
Cold Slaw: Put three tablesiKionfiils
of vim-gar in a saucepan with a little salt
and iM'pjter; kat two eggs very light and
mix with a teasxKnful of sifted Hour, a
teasHSHiful of butter, a teaHpoonful of
sugar and a half teasoonful of ground
iniiHtiird. Set the vinegar on the stove,
and when it boils stir in the mixture,
addiug half a cup of milk. Cook for two
minutes stirring constantly. Pour the
sauce over the shred cahliage and let it
become cold liefore serving.
Oysters a la Roulette : Put one quart
of oysters in their own liquor. I!t come
to a Ixiil, turn in a hot dish, strain. Put
two ounces of butter in a saucepan, let
heat, sprinkle in a tablespoon ful of
sifted Hour, let cook one minute, stir nnd
add a cupful of the oyster liquor. Take
from the fire and mix in the yelks of two
egus, a little salt, a very little pepper, one
teiifl'Kxmful of lemon juice and one grated
nutmeg. Beat well, return to the lire,
heat well, but not boil. Drop in the oys
ters. Dish and boil.
Salad dressing for Oysters: Take the
yelks nf three raw -eggs, a small table
spoonful of mustard, a teaspooiiful of
salt, two tahlespooufuls of white sugar,
an atom of cayenne pener, a cup of oil
or butter melted, a small half-cup of vin
egar, the juice of a lemon. Beat tho eggs
verv light with the sugar, add the mus
tard salt And pepper. Mix in the butter
and vinegar in small quantities alternate
ly, and, just before poiiringoverthc stiliid
add two cups of whipped cream. To
whip cream, let it stay on the ice a few
hours, then whip with an eggbeater.
Potato Balls: Take half dozen pota
toes, boil them, pass them , through a
sieve, and work into them in a ImiwI one
gill of cream and the yelks of three eggs;
add pepper, salt ami nutmeg to taste,
and some parsley finely chopped. When
they are well mixed and smooth, take
them up by tablespoonfuls, roll each in
a hall, flatten it and flour it slightly.
Lay them in n sauce-pan with plenty of
butter melted, and cook them slowly.
Turn them over when ono side is dono,
and serve hot as soon us both sides ure
colored.
The agricultural department after caro
ful investigation into the origin of hog
cholera, is said to haye proven conclu
sively that it, results from the use of car
rion food drop ied by buzzards, while the
habits of the hog ure such tliat one in a
herd being attacked will soon spread the
disease. ' Typhus fever in man has been
traced to the use of infected meat, of ani
mals slaughtered to avoid the disease.
Thorough cooking of pork in affected dis
tricts will alone prevent man's liability
to typhus fever from that cause. Imme
diate isolation of affected animals is rec-omended.
Shrewd advertisers.
Reader of the -newspapers of the'day
cannot fall to bo Impressed with the fuet
that the modern advertiser is progressive.
He is compelled to bo, else competitors
more active In the Invention of new ad
vertising devices, will outstrip him In
public favor.
The value of printers' ink judiciously
and scientifically employed cannot bo
overestimated ; 'it is tho medium where
by a meritorious discovery is raised from
local fame to a position in the public es
teem. Hence the columns ot the news
papers are daily used by hods of adver
tisers and in the competition which is in
dulged in to attain the desired end, tho
reader is oftentimes umused.
Tho greatest of American advertisers,
and It miiv ns well he said in the world,
is II. II. Warner of Rochester, N. Y.,
whoso name has been made everywhere
familiar in connection with Warner's
Hufo Cure, widely advertised because of
Its merit in the prevention and cure of
kidney disease.
By printers' ink this great discovery
Iiuh achieved world-wide popularity
and thousand feel grateful for the
knowledge thus acquired of this greatest
of modern remedies.
Furthermore, tho public has been
taught that disorders nf the lungs, bruin,
heart and liver which have hitherto lieon
regarded and treated by the profession ns
distinctive diseases are not so in fact, but
are the attending symptoms of disease of
the kidney ; therefore, thecousumptivo,
the apoplectic, tho paralytic, and the suf
ferer from nervous disorders can lie re
stored to health by Warner's Safe Cure,
which will remove the true cause of those
disorders by restoring tho kidneys to
healthy action.
The advertising methods employed by
tbiH greatest of advertisers are invariably
instructive and, although the reader may
sometimes Iki "caught" in reading an
advertisement, which was not at first mi
xHed to lie such, there is nevertheless
no time lost sim'O useful information is
invariably gained concerning life's great
problem.
PORTLAND MARKET.
CROPS GIVE PROMISE OF A GOOD
HARVEST.
In Sugars we Note a Slight Advance
Cured Meats are About Bteady
Oranges and Apples Find .
Bale at Good Prloes.
The lack of rainfall has not brought
forth uny serious complaint from the
farming community, and so far the crops
give every promise of a gMsl harvest.
Sugars havo advanced since our last re
port. Cured meats are unchanged. A
ples and oranges of the liest variety find
reaily sale. Butter is rather weak, but
choice dairy is Bailable at fair prices.
A drop of a few cents in wheat has occur
red since our lust report. The market
is quiet in fecdat tiffs, bran commanding
a fair price. The local freight market is
without uny new business to reS)rtfor
the week, und rates ure therefore noiui-
uil.
OltOCKKIKS.
SlIlHirs. Golden f! Ii?..'c. rtrn ft 71 'n
dry granulated 8?V, ei:le, crushed and
iMiwocrea n-4n. i.oiicc: uostu Una and
Kio K tot! '..c. Java 2T UTc. Mocha 2H
ate, Arlmekle's roasted l'5?4'c.
fKOVISIONS.
Oretron ham lHWfrf i:tc. brentfuut. l.n.
COIl VI ''!. HIiIkm Kluhl'.r HliiiiiLI,.rn Or
ii'.jc. Xlaatern ham l-'JvWl.fi.jC, break-
imsi rxicon jlv&c. sides ltifrflO'c. Lard
lias uectineil Ic, 10s H'ir., lis 8,'4c.
rutin m.
Navel oftimcH H4.7i If!
California lemons $3.)0(c4 per box, ap
pies i.zj(a.i,i).
VKUKTAHt.KH.
Potatoes HOftUoc. onions Ollrsm. rlion-
burb 10c, tomatoes $2.50 per Isix.
DHIKI) KIUUTH.
Apples hmw,. sliced fl'.ic. onricots ISO
14c. Peaches IKttlL'c. lniirn lie (Ireinii
prunes, Italian, 8c, silver 7c, Germau 5
W7c. plum &(f7c. Ruisins $2 per box,
California figs 8c.
IMIKV PKOPUdK.
Butter. Oreifon fsincv '.rie. ninlmm 91V,
Eastern 22c, California 1820o.
KUUS.
Eggs 13c.
POUI.TBV.
Chickens $4S6.f0, ducks $10 U per
dor.., geese $1012, turkeys h(il8o
peril).
' WOOL,
Valley 17al8c, Eastern Oregon 815c.
11018.
Hops 1017c.
OKA1N.
Wheat, Valley $127J'al.30, Eastern
$1.25. Oats 3031c.
laonn.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.00.
Hay $13015 per ton, bran $l5air,
shorts $10al7. barlov 22.fi02.fi. mill
chop $18a20.
PKRSH ill! ATS.
Reef, live, S'Jc, dressed 7c, mutton,
live, 'Jc, dressed 7c, lambs $2.r)0each,
hogs live (Jc, dressed 77ic, veal 08c.
Leather, as it slowly decomposes,
gives off fertilizing matter. Some people
like to bury old boots and shoes near
grape vines or trees whore their valuable
qualities aro realized.
To muko hens lay. make a mush of
coarse corn-meal, boiling in a largo red
popimr in each two quarts of the water.
Cook for an hour and feed hot. Boiled
anplo skins seasoned with red popper is
also good. .
During the summer a great deal of rub
bish collects in the garden, and perhaps
in the orchard. All this ought to bo
raked up and burned, or otherwise dis
posed of. If left on tho ground, it fur
nishes food for insects.