THE PACIFIC COAST.
DOniNQ FOR WATER AND OAS IN
CALIFORNIA.
The Steamer Alaskan Goe to Pieces
Off Cape BUinoo-The Rlghta of
Sheriffs -Steamer Launched
Silver Dlsooverte
The Park hotel at Chieo is ready for
yuets,
Santa Rosa luis applied for a free mail
delivery.
The Eleventh District Fuir will be held j
at Quint y. I
The land-jumping trouble atFelton will j
be amicably settled.
The building of a cannery at Ontario
will receive $;o00 1iiuh.
Five saloons at SanU Ch-ux paid $1000
-eh for heeuae last week.
The Glen Kllen, Sonoma county, iost
otlicc is a mouey-order office.
Tiie wheelmen have a tournament at
Stockton on the Fourth of J uly .
Fasadcna and Fresno will have free de
livery postal service from July lBt.
Noted oarsmen are collecting at Ta
xmn, W. T., tor the coming regatta.
Governor Waterman has len toUfciah
to select a site for the insane asylum
Helena, M. T.', sporting men won $10,
000 on tlie result ot the Kentucky Derby.
J. M. Wallace, a mechanic at Seattle,
was sandbagged and robbed at Tacoma
last week..
The probabilities are that Kern county
bus voted to issue $-'.j0,(XK) in bonds for
improvements.
1
The saloon interest at Petuluma is to
make a vigorous war against me uign i
license ordinance.
Four eowlwva killed four Zuni Indians
ii" . FT . . . ... .1. Tl. '
near wingaw, a. a., utu wwi. .
cowlsns are in prison. ,
A man supposed to be II. Lucas of
Oswego, Or., was killed by the cars in
South Portland last week.
The Fsirhaven, a steamer to run le
tween Tacoma and Bellingham Bay, has
been launched at lacoma.
1). L. ILiekett. the missing editor of
the Napa Kejiorter, is in Su Louis. His j The Roths-hilda have arranged for a
mind is evidently uDHouui. Russian conversion losiu of $40,000,000
The steamer City of Salem at Portland; n conjunction with the Diseouto
lm liech mulcted in the sum of $30 for i Gesellsclmtt.
carrring too many passengers. i It cost the English government $170,-
VUIard'e ol.jer in the Oregon Trans- J3 to keep the royal pidacw in order
continental Railroad deal is to obtain! year, and $-Wa,0tH, for royal parks
control of the Nortliern Pacific. :ana garaens.
Attorney-General Johnsbn has decided j r.'Iof the taulwardiew Bre wearing
that the Oregon steamers must pay the Et-l Tower wa.sU-oats. covered with
quarantine tax at San Francisco. ! ' coui,!,s of
' j ujchoB high.
Grain that was reported to be flat three . ,
4 straighulne.! up under the H ! leo arranged that the young
influence of the warm sunshine. I AkxanJer of Servia shall be
i (tow ned at the monastery of Zissa in the
A man named Coroles lost a team and ; month of June.
load gofnis by trying to smuggle them
into Mexico at Tia Juana, recently.
Tho Nntliem Pacific will onen a road !
from Benton to Billing, M. T., wlncli wul
open a rich section of the Territory.
Seattle is excited over the discovery of
iralena silver ledges on the line of the
Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern railroad.
Charles Shoemaker was killed by
iuicnaei iuroona, uo """'J
ji a I'imol t oitau".ui oka
"week.
The farmers are now surveying the i Wales never pays a tailor bill. The
field after the deluge of rain, and they ; advertisement his 'patronage affords is all
think the lieiietit is greatly in excess of the remuneration Poole wants.
tl,e km-' ! In the British House of Commons a
Boring for water and 'gas is to liegin motion in favor of the disestablishment
very wwn on the asylum grounds at I of the Church of Wales was recently
fWttnit, pniioaals for the work being j rejected by a vote of to 231.
adveniscl. ' , .' Already a great deal of diplomacy and
, .. , . I intrigue is said to (m3 on foot in order to
AiKutoiie thounand song birds lfora(,(,tt,( f(0Ht0( pW!t laureate when Ten
ths Hartr. Mountains are on tneir way to , m mm die8 Tlu m ls 72 a year
Portland, Or., having letl ivew ork last j M
we.-K i-y rai.. contain alnnit :,(MW,0!H) kkkIh, has
Fruuk Codv, who was reported to have i been found at a place called pendshaknta,
been killed' and roasted by Apache ; on the line of the Transeaspiun Railway.
Indians
in Arizona, it seems was knled
bv three Mexhans.
Miss Mau-gie (Minn was thrown from a
buggy and dragged a block at hau Jose, j
hi-t week. She was much bruised and
- f i..- nti,r,.:Vv
H is feared w as injured intcrnahy.
Two biiflars were detected at work at J
i;ntte M "t., last ween, and one was :
k.illetl! r.efore death he stated he was
knovMi iu the West as Pittsburg Jack. j
, .,,.111
John Wilson, a stevedore at I ort and, j
wants M't.issi uauiages "" y,rs" i
Improvement Company for injuries re-,
reived while in the company's employ.
The schooner Rosie' Olsen, which left
Astoria on a halibut cruise in February,
should have ien beard from three weeks
go, and fears are entertained of her loss.
The contractors for building the big
dam at the mouth of the San Felipe
Ce.non, San Diego county, will have to go
-4owu 110 feet to get a solid rock founda
tion. Comity Clerk W. J. Henley, of Esmer
alda, Ne'v., has been removed by the
'Commissioners for malfeasance in office,
and S. D. Rosenthal appointed to fill the
vacancy.
The HUtte's Attorney-General says that
jiheriffs have no right to retain the fees
for escorting prisoners and insane
patients prior to the passage of the law
Iby the hue Legislature.
It was discovered at Fresno last week
Chat (he wife and child of J. M. Wilcox,
n attorney formerly of San Francisco,
were in a starving condition, having j
tasted no iooct lor tiiree days.
'tint
Kln Alexander to bs Crowned In June
Empetor William O vm Audleooe
to the CU nese Minister.
Tho-Khahof Persia has started for St.
Petersburg.
The report of the capture of Khartoum
by the Egyptians is tmtruo.
The Greek Government is concluding
a loan of 5,000,000 in Ixindon.
The attendance at the Turin Exposition
thus fur lias avcniged 71,000 daily.
Tlie cash deficiency of the Mollxnirno
Exposition is oyer a million dollars.
There is no improvement in the mental
condition of the Empress of Austria.
The American delegates have arrived
I at Iierlin to study the Gorman river
system.
j "William O'Brien, M. P., has obtained
I a writ ntmitiHt lnl Siiliriltiirv nn a ciuiri'ft
'0f iiV
The newest word in liOndon is "omni
bont." It describee the river steaniere
and is a success.
An enormous landslide occurred at
Ppiesliaik, Switzerland, destroying cattle,
villages and forests.
Puomovo, Director of Charities, will
succeed the late Count Tolstoi as Kussian
Minister of the Interior.
liOrd Lonsdale says that he saw in the
A.tic country a cataract -00 ieet high and
two and a half mile wide.
At the York. England, spring meeting
Ring-master won the great northern
I Handicap and 500 sovereigns.
Emperor William gave audience lant
week to tlie Japanese Minister of the
Interior who is making a tour of Eurojie.
:
1 he Jone,. an at the head of the
i EiiL'lish c erirv list with 4o0 representa-
tives, while the Ninths follow with lilS.
. .
M.p Mnl hunderson apiml at
the Puns Ojiera t-omique in Lsclarnionde
ilBt week, and lier friends predict great
'
gui-cess.
Emperor Francis Joseph has paid
Crown Prince Rudolph's debts. They
only amounted to the trilling sum of
40,000.
Housthohn, Jutland, has the world's
biggest electric light. It is of 3,1X10,000
candle iower, and has a range of twenty
six miles.
Instead of encouraging emigration, as
hitherto, the authorities of Ireland are
discouraging it, the people are leaving
tne country so last.
The authorities in Holland have de
creed that women cannot serve on a
j School Bosrd. In Sweden it lias been
I decided that they can.
j TV. rliAiiaunfl a'ltavnM mr n1nTnl in tho
tton factories at Thizy.'Di'partment of
Rhone, are ou a strike. It is leared the
' , strise w ill extend to Lyons.
T. P. O'Conuor savs that the Prince of
Jloulanger, who has hitherto befjn
I mostly ignored by Jxjndon society, dined
I va....rtt Itr u-iii I'.'trr.rif.k.u P.nrlnt(.r(iiitta
varioUH iakva aud duchees. niectiing
j1jm
" , , .
?eanv $0,000,000 have een nppro-
. , f ' . . , , .. ' .
I'gislatnro for the Paris Exposition, and
the buildings and parks oc-mpy a space
of nearly two hundred acres.
Tlie death of Kihg John of Abyssinia
and the assumption of the throiie'hv his
rival Uil jteuehdc 0f Hhou, promise tt
1m; ol udvaiiuige to Italy in her eflorts to
8,.,.re a jirim;r foothold on the Red Sen
littoral.
The street-car drivers who have been
on a strike in Vienna, and who have
finally siiccuihImhI, average alxnit 00
ceiits in wages for a day beginning at 7
in the morning and ending at midnight
or 1a.m.
The London Times says : The Samonn
Conference has come to an agreement in
regard to the Land Commission question ;
also, regarding restriction on the sale of
fire-arms and spirits to4the natives. The
election of a Kinf is to be left to the
Samoans.
I Prominent clubs were raided in Lon
don hist week and several Earls and
Lords and Barons were among those
found at play and arrested. The Field
and the Adelpbi Clubs were the principal
placc raided, und the stakes played for
were high.
Young French prieats will before long
le liable to military service in France if
the new Military bill goes through, as it
is thought it will. It is alleged that
thousands of young men enter the
seminaries everv vear in order to avoid
army. 1
EASTERN ITEMS.
AN AMERICN BREWERY SYNDICATE
OROANI2KD.
A Meeting of the Itemoc ratio National
Committee Woman's Amateur
Walking Matoh-Chlneee
Tneater In Chicago.
Secretary of War Proctor is in Chicago.
A Denver Scandinavian Club bus 700
memliers.
A Chinese theater opened In Chicago
on the 13th.
The protracted drought in Illinois . has
Ihjou broken.
' Secretary Blaine's health has much
improved lately.
Cigarettes are wild to ladies in Erie
confectionery stores.
Buffalo Bill with his Wild West show
has arrived at I'aris.
Senator Brown of Georgia is recovering
from a severe illness.
Tho great cycling tournament liogan at
Chicago on the 13th.
Tlie Delaware pear and peach crop
promises to be large. ,
A woman's walking match began in
New York last week.
General Simon Cameron had a slight
hemorrhage last week.
Savannah is said to be flooded with
counterfeit silver dollars.
Pat Killen draws tho color line on
Peter Jackson, the slugger,
Ex-Minister Phelps is to resume his
duties as IWossor ut Yale.
Edward J. Gay, a Lnuisana Congress-
nian, is reputed to le dying
An American Brewery Syndicate has
lKK.n organize! in New York.
Bank-wrecker Fish has len released
from the Autmrn penitentiary.
Cincinnati capitalists will erect a large
cotton factory at Huntsville, Ala.
The President and party had a cruise in
the Cliesajieake Bay on the Lfth.
Sixteen Congressional districts will le
contested in the coming Congress.
St. Louis nroj)os8 having a six-weeks'
electrical exhibition in Septemlwr.
Samuel C. Wright has leen apjwiinted
superintendent of the mint at Carson.
New York puid for California cherries,
last week, $4 to $.r for ten-ound Isixes.
Tlie new military post near Atlauta,
Ga., will known as Fort Mcpherson.
There are five banks and six news
papers in operation in Uuthrie, Oklahoma.
Amateur oresmnn will hold the annual
regatta at Pullman, 111., August 8th and
ytn
The thirty-fourth ssion of the South -
ern Baptist convention has Iwgun at
Memphis.
A paper nt Fort Myers, Fin., publishes
fifteen solid columns of tax Bales for onfi
county alone.
J
A meeting of the Democratic Rational
Committee in New York has been called
for June Pith.
John Allen and E. II. Piatt are going
to ride on horseback from New York to j
Hun Francisco.
The amount of wheal stored in Western
evators is less by J3,000,0UO buahelt j
, i.,
UU luHt ettf' I
elevators
than
The Michigan Legislature has refused
to pans a bill providing for the inspection
of fteef on the hoof.
The mystery attending tho disapjiear
ance of Dr. Cronin, nt Chicago, has not
yet Is-en cleared away.
The eleven grain-elevators of St. Iiuis
have formed a trust to put an end to
comjietition in that city.
Nathan Corwith, senior head of the
lend house at Chicago, which failed last
fall, is at the point of death. j
. , .
An explosion of fire-damp at the Toms
Run coal mines, near I'ltlsburg, killed ,
four Hungarians on the Uth.
Pittsburg, Penn., is enjoying a marriage
lioom. Sixty persons took out marriage
licenses in one day receutly.
Legal means have bwn commenced to
secure a receiver for the Electric Sugar'
Refining Company at New Wk.
It is estimated that fulk $7oO,000 was
pjteut for drinks at the New York bars
each day during the celebration.
Colonel Robert II. Tavlor, one of the
best known and oldest republicans of
Texas, died near Bonham recently.
E. II. Jertlterg. of the New York
Olympic Club, ran a mile in 4:110:10 last
week. Hub is the neat indoor record.
A party of Eastern capitalists will
expend $75,000 exploring for natural gas
in Starke and Marshall counties, Ind.
Morris J. Blaine killed his wife, 8-year-old
daughter and himself at Cincinnati
recently. Jealousy prompted the crime,
Rolmonand Cune appeared together in
New. York for the last time last week.
Each had complimentary words for the,
other.
Judge Henry A. Foster, of New York,
is dead, aged 110 years. He was the
oldest living ex-Senator of the United
States.
The Italian government refuses to sur
render two of its subjects accused of
having committed a double murder in
Pennsylvania.
There is a stampede from Dead wood to
new gold fields in the Black Hills, about
forty miles from Dead wood, lue holds
are said to be very rich.
The revenue officers have captured
some fifteen persons and destroyed
several stills among the moonshiners in
McDowell county, W, Va.
IIONK ANII f'AKM,
The Oare of Horsae-Feed for Breeding
Sows-Fruit Oulture-Handsome
Picture Frames Notes,
April and May are the best months for
hatching.
Cooked rice, fed cold, is g)d for diar
rhoea in chickens.
Don't feed sulphur to young chickens
it produces leg weakness.
. The newer the butter the quicker the
ale and the higher the price.
The pis should be fed to secure as
nearly all their droppings as possible to
the manure heap or Ileitis, and not to the
wash of the streams.
A horse that is naturally courageous
may bo made cowardly by abuse, if he
often receives blows the" fear of thorn ie
uppermost, and any unknown noise is
imagined to be a coming hurt, to escape
which is un uncontrollable impulse.
The high winds shake young trees
severely, and if the ground is very wet
tho trees are liable to le blown over. A
stake should Iks used lor holding young
trees until the summer season opens, or
until tlie trees become firmly rooted.
Old pasture fields are usually full of
weeds which have crowded the grass out.
To utilise such pastures turn sheep on
them. Tho sheep will out the young
weeds as well as the grass, and greatly
assist in dwtroying the pests. In the
fall the sod can be turned under and
reseeded with less danger of the weeds
again apjearing.
Handsome picture frame mny lie
made at home, by gluing ears of rve or
oats, tiny shells, lteatis or scorns, mxn a
I simple wooden foundation. Then coat
uie mime ana ornament witn wnite
paint. When this is thoroughly dry,
-over with metal paint, either gold or
bronxe, and if well arranged the effect
will be liumt satisfactory.
Young bulls of the improved breeds
are boiu at a very low ngure compare.!
with their real value, and farmers w ho
nuve dairy iier.is can graoe up trieir
stfH'k at a very low cost by securing the
males when they are young. Heifers are
high, as they are in greater demand by
those who do not object to jmying good
prices for superior stocx.
It is common practice with many
farmers to delay seeding till the ground
is settled and frosts are over, when, un
less the season Ik? quite wet, the seJ
will not germinate ; or, if it start, it is
very liable to Is killed by drought in
June, More the germ has sullicient
strength to resist it, hence a failure,
which curly seeding would have avoided.
Guineas do not usually commence
laying until late, but after they once
Iwgin will lay very steadily. Like
turkeys, they prefer to hide out their
nests, and will need to Is? looked after if
the eggs are secured fresh. As with
turkeys, ducks and geese, the first eggs
should be set under hens. M re egi;s
and more iioultry will bf securwl if this
1 Ian is followed,
j The Ik lawnre grajie succeeds In nearly
j nil sections, but is not as hardy us the
I Concord. The latter is the "favorite
!,1rl"'t variety but its mdo m greatly
'nl""''1 1 ' lv; e,Hlhng, which is
I sent to market Is-fore it is ripe, thus
; creating a distrust against the Concord,
: whmh is really nn excellent grajK-, but
i strongly res"mbling the Ives. The
Wmton is an exeellent late mi, and
; produces well in this section.
It has Ix-en found that a ton of bay
W m it Prowt' thirty jKinnds of
ni gen, worth $4 ,M; forty pound of
otash, !, and fourteen tsmnds of phos-
phoric acid, worth $1 12. Therefore each
ton ot hay slopped Irom tlie innu takes
with it $7 SYl worth of these three ele
ments, which most lie replaced or the
land wiil be weakened by just this sum.
It does not pay to sell hay at $H per ton.
Better feed where grown and sell in the
form of beef, jiork, butter or milk.
Plum cakes: Take one cup of butter,
two cups of brown sugar, yolks of three
eggH, white of two eggs, half a cup of
milk, half a cup of dark molasMcs, half a
tciiHjioonhil of soda, half a jHiund of
raisins, stoned and chopped, half a tea-
siKtonful of erenm of tartar, half a JHiund
()f nimme , wo tablesssmfiils of any
fnlit vnip fonr ,.U,8 ot thmfi two t1,.
HIKKJnf-uM f ,ix...d spices. If not dark
enough, add a little melted chocolate.
Bake in small tins, and frost part of thorn
with the remaining white of egg.
A correspondent makes inquiries re-1
"11 a 1 II . .... I
parding millet and Hungarian grnsu,
They are very similar m appearance, but
the millet grows higher and affords but
one cutting, while the Hungarian grans
can 1m? cut every five weeks if the soil in
rich. They are summer crops, und are
not usually sown until May. The liny
from millet and Hungarian grass is
highly relished bv all classes of stock.
and the yield is usually heavy. The
ground should lie well manured, harrowed
fine and ten quarts of seed per acre sown,
or even more if a thick growth is desired.
Food for breeding sows should lie care
fully prepared. There is no better food
for breeding sows than skim milk with
wheat bran. There is very little fat in
either, yet such is the appetite of a
breeding sow that she will fatten rapidly
if given all she can eat of either of these.
But the pigs thus nourished before birth
will bo strong and vigorous, and what
fat the sow has will not he in any dan
ger of making hor nervous or feverish.
If a supply of beets and mangel wurtzels
have been provided they w ill be worth
more than grain to feed to breeding sow s
tis to cooling diet for those disposed to
lav on too much tat. No other kinds of
root Is eaten by pigs of any age so greedily
as arc beets and mangels. As a part of
the supply even for the fattening animals
they ure almost indispensable. The ex
clusive grain feeding of fattening hogs is
very had lor their digestion, and if the
pig is made sick while preparing for the
butcher it is hardly to be wondered at
that this pork will give dyspepsia to
those who eat it. '
PORTLAND MARKET.
THE CHERRY AND STRAWBERRY
CROP DAM AO HID BY RAINS.
Wheat Remains Dull and Inactive
Fruit and Vngotablea Meet With
Ready Bala at Good Pr jea
Wool Very Dub.
The heavy rains during the week have
proved detrimental to the abundant crop
of strawlsirrios and cherries, but no com
plaints are hoard from the farmers down
the valley. The local merchandise
markets are a trifle dull, and wheat makes
no favorablo signs to holders. In gro
caries, sugars have ndviinoerr e, while,
coffees are very firm. Provisions are
steady ut quotations. There Is no change
in dairy produce And poultry. Tho wool
and hop market continue dull and in
active. The wheat market Is slightly
lower. Formor quotation for feed and
hay arc fairly maintained. We quote :
OKOCKKfKH.
Sugars, Golden 0 (i'c. extra C S,7-B'c.
dry granulated K'a'c, culie, crushed and
powdered H-'c. Coffee : C'-osta Rica 21 te'
(JClKVc, Rio rJvUTc, Java Zrfi(l'7c, Mocha
231c, Arbnckle's roasted o?4c.
I'KOVIHKINS.
Oregon ham R'.fftlSt;, breakfast ba
con Pic, sides lOtiftiotc'c. shoulders RS,'
SjiK:. Eastern ham l.'twl.'tc, breakfast
laicon VA4l34c sides H,,,C10c. Lard
10s II.HjC,
rKCITS.
Navel orang"S $."ift.50, Riversides
$.'.-Ti, California lemniis S.,rs)ii:4 isr box.
Oregon straw lierries $L'.7o jer crato.
VKGKTAHI.ra.
Potahs ftOc, onions $1.50, rheuharb 3:,
tomatees tt'. lM-r bx.
DKIKO mi ITS.
Apples 4 rt'u; slice..! lie, apricots Pi
Mc, pearlies Kfrfllk-, penrs Hi:, Italian, lie,
, mi ver lc, ijerntau (untile, plums of 7c.
! California figs 8c, raisins $1.'.V -' Jst
rwx.
n.vinr raont'CB.
Butter. Oregon fancy 'Jtki, dairy 1 Srtr'JOc,
common, l"(4,ls15c, Eastern i'c, Califor
nia lSijCl-Oo.
BUUS.
Eggs lso.
pori.TsT.
Chickens $, broilers $.'h',4, ducts $10
11 per dons., geese $!l, turkeys 20c per tt.
WOOL.
Valley KlftlTc, Eastern Oregon 10 15c
noes.
Hops lOtgltic.
GRAIN.
Wheat, Valley tl.L'-'t,', Eastern Oregon
$1.15 OaU30e.
ruT'H.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.1)0.
rur.D.
Hay $13rrl4 per ton. bran $13(314,
chop $lh(.$2o. shorts $15(410, hurley $'.50
:-4.
KKKSII UK.fm.
lieef, live, :i.c, droseed, 7c; mutton,
live, U'jC, dressed 7c j lamini 12.50 each,
hogs live Oc, dressed, 7(i74c vt'al 0t$Sc.
UGLY FASHION LEADERS.
Tlire ranioun Wonm Mar Xlid fur In
trllertl lmn Itmuljr.
Isn't It a bit odd that the women,
who more than any others have con
trolod the fashions within the past
twonty-fivo years have not been beau
tiful women? There uro three of
whom It may be said that they gave
the cue to La Mode, and these are the
Prlncesso do Meiternich, Sara Bern
hardt and the Prinoefts of Wales I
range them as they have cont rol. Mine,
de Mcttemich had an upliness that,
like a Japanese teapot of any value,
was so ugly it was unique the ugli
ness that has more of a cachet than
more beauty, for merely beautiful
women can bo found every day, while
absolutely ugly ones, blessed with
wonderful wit and n peculiar charm of
manner, are noted when found. Sara
Bernhardt was never a beautiful wom
an, nt tho same time, even about her
personal appearance, there was some
thing fasciuatiiig, and wheu she U
acting the (Ire of geulns makes her
dull skin look warm and pink, her al
mHt colorless eyes burn brightly and
her rumpled hair seem an artistic ar-
an. ... - .
rnruromcnt. -The Princoss of Wales.
with her sweet, lady-like, refined face,
is chiu-ming, but that Is all. The Lon
don papers can rave as they will about
her bounty ait hour's walk la any
large city in tho United Stales will dis
cover a hundred girls bolter looking
utid with equal refinement of face. The
first one of these three women made
black very chic; before line time It had
boor, dedicated to the bourgeoise; the
second mndo frills of luco, looso-lltting'
flovos, picturesque hats and all styles
spoclully suited to slendor women tho
vogue, while the last gave to the hiffh
military collar, tho dainty little bon
net, and simple arrangement of the
hair the seal of her approval. Each
one of those women was ulevor enough
to niako fnshiniiable exactly the be
longings that hid her defects, and to
know how to hide a dooct or bring: out
a perfection ls the art of tho modiste
to-day. -Philadelphia Times.
About nine tenths of all the clay
pipes manufactured in the United
Stutes ace made in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where three factories are located that
turn out 16,000 gross annually. Tho
claycomos from Woodbrldga," Jn. J.,
aud costs at Ue factory fire dollars per
ton. .