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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1889)
THE PACIFIC COAST. NEWS MISCELLANY. HOME AND FARM. PORTLAND MARKET. JUDGE FRENCH NAMED FOR INTER STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. SALMON BOATS ON THE COLUMBIA ." RIVER. PARNEU'S ACTION IN THE IRISH COURTS. THE CULTIVATION OF CORN, FOTA TOES, ETC. CROPS GIVE PROMISE OF A GOOD HARVEST.' FROM THE CAPITOL Safety of the Crew and Passengers of the Steamer Danmark-Tbe Pro posed Relief Stations for Alaska-Appolnttneuta. James A. Saxon has been appointed postmaster at Chicago. A. C. Palmer has been appointed post master at Prineville, Or. William J. Mariner has been appointed 8t!iiaster at Blaloek, Or. J. S. Mann has lieen apixriuted jvist masterat HoV9onville, Or. Milton Redding has lieen appointed postmaster at Lafayette, Or. John N. Martin has leen appointetl postmaster at Edmunds, W. T. Judge Asa Irench is named (or the Inter-state Commerce Commission. George A. Pysen has Ihh'ii commis sioned postmaster at Brownsville, Or. t Red Cloud, the lug Sioux Indian chief, called on the president last Thursday. The government will immediately fur nish ammand equipments for the Oregon militia. The president's callers last Thursday ontnum tiered that of any other time for ten days past. Secretary Noble, on the l!)th inst., ren dered A decision relative to townsites in Oklahoma. Sadie Apung has been appointed post mistress at Deep Creek Falls, Spokane t-ounty, W. T. Senator Stewart is using his Itest efTorts to liasten the ousting of Land Commis sioner Stockslagcr. The new cruiser Charleston w'as to liave started from San Francisco on her trial trip last week. Secretary Windom has signed the com mission of E. S. Lacy, of Michigan, as comptroller of currency. Ex-Congressman Woodburn left for Nevada last Tuesday, where he will re sume the practice of law. George Vasey, of Washington territory, has been appointed special agent of the department of agriculture. It is said that a company has lieen formed to run electric cabs over Wash ington's asplialt pavements. The appointment of Timothy Guy Phelps to lie collector of custom at San Francisco, has lieen determined upon. William II. Calkins, of Washington territory, has been appointed associate juptice of the supreme court of the terri tory. The resignation of General Franz Segel as pension agent at New York city, was received by Commissioner Tanner last week. The department of state has been in formed by the Canadian government of the continuation of the special rates of last year on the Welland canal. The president has made the following appointments : Robert P. Porter, of New York, to be superintendent of census ; G. W. Cunningliam to be assayer at Boise Citv, Idaho. Assistant-Secretary Bussev last week rendered three pension decisions, in which is involved the important question of when may and when may not a soldier be considered in the line of duty. The senate committee on Indian affairs, under the BUjiervision of Senator Dawes, have arranged for a trip this summer through the Northwest for the purpose of investigating the condition of Indians. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week insued orders instructinga large numlier of railroad companies to apjiear before it, and make explanations in the matter of free passes and free transporta tion. The Board of Bureau Officers, which has been considering the projwsals re ceived for the building of the armored coast defense vessel, has completed its worts and reported to the Secretary of the Navy, The gold medal and $100 in gold, offer ed by the late Dr. James C. Watson, for the most important discoveries in as tronomy, has lieon awarded to Dr. Ed ward Schoeufcld, of the University of limn, Germany. . Orders signed by Assistant Adjutant General Kelton, suprtosed to have re sulted from the Cabinet meeting last Saturday, have just been gent to the Commanding General of the Division of the Mississippi, at Chicago. Lieutenant Cantwell, of the marine corps, has left for San Francisco, with plans and specifications for the construc tion of the proposed relief station at Point Barrw, Alaska. The house will be built in sections and shipped to Point Barrow. Charges have been filed with the I "resi dent against Ex-Representative Small, of North Carolina, which if proved true are likely to prevent his apjiointment as Collector of Customs at Beauford, said to have been previously determined upon. Superintendent Bell, of the foreign mail service, has received a communica tion from tiie postal authorities of Ger many recommending the establishment of "sea nostoffices," for the distribution of the German-American mails on ship board. The postoffiee department has reminded the order issued during the last adminis tration having for its object tho discour agement of the practice by trainmen of carrying special ncwspajier. correspon ! n e ad other matter in other than i.-a.l trains. The New System of Balloting In Cali fornia One of the Canon Diablo Robbers Escape State Fruit Growers' Convention Redding has twenty four saloons. Fresno will have a swimming bath. Sacramento has the pugilistic craze. San Diego is to have a pi-kle factory. Bees arejiot permitted in Los Angeles. Shasta is to have a military company. Kittitas county, W. T., has 10,000 pop ulation. Santa Rosa will have a lire tournament May 8th. At Lodi. 3000 acres are planted to watermellons. Salmon boats on the Columbia river are catching few lish. Butte county has planted 100,000 onmge trees this year. The East Oregonian, at Pendleton, was burned out last week. Dr. Gray of Colusa, has a thrifty olive orchard of 1,500 trees. The Knights of Pythias finished its la bors at Fresno last week. A large hotel to accommodate tourists is to be built at Santa Rosa. Cherries have been shipped from the Briggs orchard at Marysville. Chinatown, at Bordon, Fresno county, was destroyed by tire recently. The State Fruit-growers' convention began at San Diego last week. The criminal charge against Borchcrs, at Stockton, has been dismissed. Sonoma has taken the preliminary steps toward establishing a cannery. The sleeping Swiss at Santa Maria shows unmistakable signsof insanity. The Navajo Indians raise alwut one million pounds of wool yearly for market. A new railroad is soon to lie built from Helena, M. T., to the Canadian Pacific. Ilundreds of jelly-fish of a now species have been driven ashore on tho Oregon coast. The San Francisco baseball players has lost but one game since the season opened. John Bronkee was shot dead in bed in Grant county, Or., last week, by Peter Sullivan. Montana will hold a special election for memliers of the Constitutional Conven tion May 14th. The new system of ballot counting, re cently adopted in California, proves to be a dismal failure. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company will run boats from Portltand to Puget Sonnd Ports. . The Santa Rosa ranch in San Diego county, is said to liave liem sold to an Englishman for $750,000. The acreage sown to wheat this year in San Benito county is 50,000. The acre age to barley is alxmt 18,000. Severe earthquakes are reported to have occurred at Guavmus, Mexico, on the 7th, but no damage is mentioned. Jacob Hommel. aged 65 years, at Los Angeles, took a dose of poison and then shot himself through the heart. Butte, M. T., has elected its municipal officers. The democrats carried all the offices by from 100 to 400 maiority. The trial of John Oak's for the murder of Cashier E. II. Morse, at &m Bernar dino, last December, began last week. A. C. Hamilton has brought suit in Winnemucca, Nev., against the Southern Pacific Company for $100,000 damages. Thirty thousand orange trees have been planted in San Diego county this season. Most of them came from Florida. J. J. Smith, one of the Canon Diablo robbers, escaped by jumping through a car window with his shackles on, near Raton, N. M. Two coa-hes filled with negro emigrants from the Carol inas, passed Colton on the overland train last week, bound for North ern California. Details of the investigation in the Port Townsend custom house, show that fraud has lieen practiced very extensively for a number of years. The defeated candidates at the Fresno election talk of contesting the result, on the ground of the illegality of the procla mation calling the election. Leslie Cullom, acting collector of cus toms at Port Townsend, has telegraphed his resignation to the treasury depart ment, to take effect May 15. A suit to set asid the deeds made by James B. Stephens, of East Portland, lately deceased, has been brought by his daughter, Mrs. Lizzie McCalla. Caotain John Mullan loft Portland, Or., for Washington last week. He has lieen collecting evidence to establish the claims of Oregon against the government. The rumor is again current that the Southern Pacific has purchased the At lantic road in Pasadena, with a view to extending it to a junction) with tho line at Alhambra. C P. Huntington.' the railroad mag nate, entertained sixty-eight railroad of ficials ol the Southern and (jentml J'a- eific system, at the Palace hotel, San r rancigco, hist week. All the freight brukemen on a 150 mile division of the Atlantic. & Pacific, be tween Winslow and Mojave, went out on a stroke because the company refuse to allow three men to a train. , I The Steam r Wisconsin Mlsalngr-Salls-bury to Visit Blsmarok-The Danmark'a Passengers Heard From. Mary Anderson, tho actress, is ill. Dr. Bergman, bishop of Munstor, Is dead. T'-e l'rinco of Wales dines with- Mrs. Miu'kay, It is rumored that Sulisbury will pay a visit to Bismarck after Easter. Purnell'a action in the Irish courts ugainst tho Times will he abandoned. One hundred awl forty-six men lost their lives during the. remit storm at Samoa. Kossuth is rapidly sinking. His sons have lieen summoned to his bedside at Vienna. The new Comptoir d'Escompteof Paris, will lie constructed on the lines of the old concern. Light sets of twins and five of triplets were recently bora in Piko county, Ga., within two days. Georgia peach trees have blossomed so heavily this spring that it has lieen ne cessary to thin them out. Philadelphia is tho only city in the country where the tolwggan s'hio has paid expenses the past winter. The steamer Wisconsin of the Cunard lino, which sailed fnim Liverjiool last week for New York, is reported missing. John Albert Bright was chosen to fill the vacancy in the British parliament created by the death of his lauier, John Bright. The Iowa cattle quarantine has lieen revoked, except as against New York. Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware anil Maryland. "The Kansas farmer, who wants to go to Obkhoma," says a local paper, "is the man who uses his $200 harvester for a henroost." Two toads found imliedded in coal at Thomas C. Ilenn's premises, in Tioga county, Penn., a few days since, were alive, but stone blind. The Minnesota legislature is consider ing the convict lalxir problem and a bill has been introduced lor the adoption ot the State Account system. Bismarck offers to cede Damaralund to England. It is entirely reasonable to in fer from this that Damaraland is not worth the first syllable of its name. A committee of 100 has lieen apixdnted to arrange for the celebration at .Lancas ter, Penn., on July 4th, of the 100th an niversary of the signing of the first Tariff law. ; All the dogs in Pittsburg have grown fat on the garbage, which can not lie burned now that natural gas is the only fuel used in most ot the houses of the city. The safes of the wrecked men-of-war, aiic uuieo ui mo rumeu iiu..;-oi-'iir, ireuwiu mm uuuuuu, touuiiumg mrgo j aurfuee soil loose, thus preventing evap amounts of money, have been recovered, oration of moisture and enabling tho crop A 41...- ...lit. I -il I I 1 . . . . .. . together with a number of other valuable articles. Postmaster-General Wanan?ker has established an inviolable rule that no i postotlice shall be kent in a saloon, or in any room from which a saloon may be entered. Patrick Molloy, the perjured witness for the London times before the Parnell commission, was convicted last week and sentenced to six months' imprisonment at hard labor. Sixty-five Indian lxiys at the govern ment school at Carlisle have lieen dis tributed among Pennsylvania farmers for summer work. The lioys represent half a dozen tribes. It is rejiorted that Mr. Parnell talks of coming over to America this summer. If he comes and can stand the racket, he will have one of the biggest times ever granted to a foreigner. At Ruatan last month tho Rev. Henry Hobsun, his wife and a young lady, all natives of Jamaeia, were murdered bv Joseph lsures wniie tney were asleep. Robbery was the object. At a caucus held in Detroit recently, the burden of all the speeches was that tho best man should be voted for. After the ballot it was discovered that every man had voted for himself. In Madisonville, Ky., the authorities have tiasscd an ordinance forbidding brass bands from meeting "for the pur jkihu of learning new pieces of music with in liOO feet of a d welhnghouse." Alexandria, Va., has a population of 20,000, yet during the thirty-days consti tuting the month of March, not a wed ding occurred in th place, and not a marriage license was issued by the clerk of the court. Claries Hodges and Evan Madden while passing through an working in tho Grand Tunnel mine. Pennsylvania, one day last week, ignited a large amount 'of accumulated gas and both men were blown to pieces. The thief who distinguished himself several days ago by forcing a Denver bank president to turn over $21,000 at the point of a revolver, will thunder down the ages as the most daring rogue that evr cracked a sale or forged a note. A telegram from Lisbon on the 21st to tfic United States Steamship 'Company, announces the safety of thecrew and pas sengers of steamer Damniirk, and some of them are now on their way to New York, having been rescued from the sinking vessel by the steamer Missouri and landed at the Azores. Only ono life was lost, In the Soleatton of Good Seed Lies the Success In Farming Cruelty to AntnialB-Where to Build the Pitt Pen, Eto. Cruelty to nniumls does not always consist in dunning ami neuung tnem. ii may be, and quite often is done m food- bur. Wlint ciin lie ninre hnrburiniiH t.liitn - r- . .... - - - fn linen utnek I'milliteil in elnHi" iiiinrterH all winter, with but one or two kinds of food and with little or no exercise l Tube the woielit of twelve niri'H in white "sugar, take the weight of twelve in Hour, the weight ot nine in butter, ureani tne butter after washing from it nil the salt, then cream the Hour into it by degrees. Meanwhile, luivmir lienten the eififH Men- arateiy until very light, stir them in, beating constantly, iintfaild lastly u sea soning ol mace or lemon nmi ami some flavoring say two tahlesimfliifuls of rose water, and you mivo an excellent pounu cako. Take two large lemons and rub tin; rind with one pound of loaf miliar , so that all the yellow part is removed, place tho sugar in n basin, squeeze the juice of the lemons over, then add the yolks ol six egirs and beat it all well up, and put it in n jur for use. It will keep for years. Any tlavor. such as vanilla or cinnamon, may he added if liked. When required for use, having made the paste and lined the tins, mix one tahleHoon of the mixture with a teacuimil of good milk and place a little in each tart, and you have a cheese cake. Where to build the pig pen, seems of ten to puxxlo the farmer. The pen should lio located at a considerable distance from the house, and in a direction from which the prevailing winds will not watt the odors toward it. Better still the bad smells Bhould lie reduced to a minimum by cleanliness and deodorizing at the jh'ii. This is easily done and profitably, too, by throwing in a few shovelfuls of dry earth on that portion where the nigs resort, so that their munure is mixed up with it in the pen, and still more thor oughly when the pen is cleaned out. Every en should lie eoriBtruetiHi so it can lie denned out from one of the sides without entering it at all. Enough space should lie left between the floor ami the siding for introducing a long handle serajier or hue for the purpose of clean ing it out. If tho pen has lieen liberally supplied with dry earth, bud odors will Ik? prevented and the value of munure increased. Experiments show that cultivation lienofits tho crop in more ways than by the destruction of weeds, though if the weeds and grass are kent down the corn crop will lie much lienefltted, as the weeds rob the plants of moisture existing in tho soil. The moisture rises to tho surface by fore of uapillary attraction, the compacted earth lieing jiorous. If the earth is covered by any substance eviip ration is thereby lessened and the water is turned into tho stalks of the plants. When tho ground is loosened, or the sur face of the soil broken, it lieeomes a dry mulch and prevents evajwration in the same manner as though a covering was afforded. It.is not necessary to cultivate deeply. What is required is to keep the deeply. What is required is to keep to endure severe drought. The earth it self is covered into a storehouse of mois ture, and the soil should lie cultivated j-and loosened even if not a weed can lie seen. On a field cultivated level and the sur face all mellow, the rain goes right down where it falls, wetting all the soil and carrying what fertility it has in it right to the growing roots that extend nil through lictwecn the rows. Where a shovel plow is used during a heavy shower, much of the water runs off in the furrows, The ground in the hill instead of being a "yielding medium," often gets so dry and hnrdthut the yield is injured. Level sand will withstand drought liest. In a wet season potatoes will stand hilling bet ter, button drained land even then hills are an injury. When one takes soil from be tween the rowi to pile tip around the hills he is laying bare, or nearly so, the roots that are along in tho center. This is abusing the plants, and on drained land I know of no possible benollt to bo derived. Better plant about four indies deep and keen the ground nearly level In practice I have to throw a little dirt in under the plants once with tho Planet horse-shoe to keep the weeds down without the use use of a hand-hoe, but wo keep the surface as nearly level as possible. After raising many thousands of bushels in this way, we find no more greened or sunburned than we hilled up high in truth, 1 think not so many. Selecting and planting good seed is very essential to the fanner. It is often true that farmers are too careless in selecting mire seed. or. wiv the bent thov can irnt. is also a fact that, iih a general tiling, it is incurring unnecessary exienso to send away for a great variety of seeds. It is a common error to suppose that anything that will grow at all, is good enough to plant. Seed corn should be carefully selected at the proper time. By a little abandoneJlcxtni.tn,l,,,,1B V,1 thi" 're tioti, the com may no grauniuiy improved irom year 10 year, and will 'by no means found run ning out. In almost every field of corn there is a rich spot, or place where the corn seems to come much nearer to the point of perfection, and with some extra cultivation, fertilizing and care, superior quality will bo the result of every effort. While ou the other hand, without atten tion, tho best seed may soon bo entirely run out, and in one-half the time it takes to build it up. Tho plan of planting po tatoes that are two small to market, is generally regarded as economical ; but in reality, It proves to bo quite the contrary. Although the saving in valuable seed appears to overbalance tho loss from the planting of that which is inferior, it is but temporary gain, and the final results are utul. In Sugar we Note Another Advance Cured Meats are About Steady Wool Market Dull-The Hop Market Is Firm. Cool, refreshing showers during tho week have aided crops of all kinds, and the harvest prospects are better than ever. In Eastern Oregon a sluirp froHt injured some of tho fruit trees, hut that is the only misfortune reported. In the local merchandise markets trade con tinues reasonably good, and the general feeling buoyant, la sympathy with tho excitement in other markets sugar has continued to advance, and shows a gain of J4'c per pound. There has been a heavy increase in receipts of green fruits, with u scarcity of apples, (1KOCKKIKM. Sugars, Golden 0 7,'hC. extra C 7 life, dry granulated -Hc, culie, crushed anil powdered lie. Cotiee: Costa Rica and Rio aiSC-'Vo, Juvii 25 27c, Mocha 28 Die, Arlmcklo's rousted 25?4c. l'HOVISIONS. Oregon ham I'MdiV.ic, breakfast ba con 12,'vjC, sides 10uim..c, shoulders 10!...c. Lastem ham iSyitfi.ii:, break fast Uicon 12e. sides lOfrfll lyC. Lard has udvuneed lc, 10s H?4's, Its 10c. Fauns. Navel oranges $4.75, Riversides $3.25, California lemons $.1.00(4 jier box, ai- ples $1.1)0(1.7.) VKUKTAHI.KS. Potatoes SOriMOe, onions $2, rhouburb 10c, temntoes $2.50 iter Ikix. DMIKII niu ITS. Apples 5(tk', sliced 5ulle, apricots 13(5 14e, iieuches 8(c( 10c, jwure K(?!k:, Oregon prunes, Italian, He, silver 7c, German 11 Wii'yC, plums 5(37c. Raisins $2 per box, California tigs 8c. HAIKY l'HObirCK. Butter, Oregon fancy 25c, medium 20c. Eastern 22c, California lHii'Oc. BUGS, Eggsloc. FOIILTRV. Chickens $(!&S.r0, ducks $10(311 per dm:., geeso $1012, turkeys 1718 perih. WOOL. Valley 17al8c, Eastern Oregon 15c. uoi's. IIojs 10 15c. OKAIN. Wheat, Valley $l27Wal.30. Eastern $1.17)ttt.2). Oats S0(i2c. KI.ODK. Standard $4.25, other brands $3.1)0. KKKII. Hay (13(915 per ton. bran $14al5. shorts $UkiI7, hurley $22.5024, mill chop $!8u20. FBKSH MEATS. Beef, live. 3'.,c, dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3,'ic, dressed 7c, lambs $2.50 each, hogs live 0c, dressed 77V: veal G8c. TWO GIGANTIC WAVES. Ilow m YoMiifter Thrown Overboard ml IdtMiuml. Mr. John McLood Murphy, of En pine No. 7, of the tire depurtmout of this city, tolls this story: "It was in tho summer of 1877 that I then u student on tho training ship Minnoaotn was drafted out to take tho captaincy of tho after guard Btar board wutch of tho cruising sloop Sup ply. Evory summor It was customary to send out a draft of two hundred and fifty boys on a 'cruise on the Supply, and this year there was nofexcoption made. Tho ship was in chargo of com missioned officers of the United States navy, tho latter being under tho com mand of Liontonnnt-Commandor John B. Newman. Tho cruise was for the throe summor months, during which tinio tho boys practiced tacking and wearing ship, and wore drilled in roof ing and furling sail. "Ono fine day In July a boy numed Bob Hyde was detailed lookout at the starboard cathead. "We wero about forty-eight hours out from Block Island. The sea guvo indications of an approaching galo. Soon a heavy storm-cloud was soon off to luowaid, and we made ready to re ceive it. ' We were not long waiting. It struck us to leeward, and sent us spinning. Tho wind blow a hurricane. Tho waves ran mountains high, and still the little ship ran on. "Hydo was, as 1 ,said before, at the starboard cathead. It took all the strength ho could muster to keep him from boinj? washed overboard. At last one hujro wave carriod him off. Ilis strength had givon out '"All hands to man tho first cutter,' sang out the dock officer, Lieutenant Andy Ivorson. "To his uttor surpriso and conster nation no ono of tho watch hustunod to obey him and to endeavor to roscuo tho poor follow. "Turning around to soo the cause of this disinclination to assist a drown ing man, he saw u sight that made him for an instant believe that ho was dreaming, for thore, being- lifted ovor tho fifo rail of the poop dock, waj Bob Hydo, He had boon swept on board again. Ono wave carried him off; tho next brought him back agaln."--N. X. Suu- Ofln, Iloulnnger goes to the Imrber once a week, puyH the artiHt ten francs and 'gives five francs to thn assistant. He neVer pwk, and the harbor, knowing his preference, done not presume to ojxm a coavursntlou.