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
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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.