EASTERN ITEMS.
CANADIANS DON'T LIKE IMPORTED
LABOR.
A Monument ErectM-A Printing Office
10 Coat $L00O.0OO-The Oronln
Murder-Smallpox Iueraa-tmr-Land-Tax
Party
Smallpox 1b Increasing at Minneapolis.
Tittsburg is boiling and filtering its
drinking water.
Foreign capitalists are buying New
York mil estate.
The Milter's National Association is in
session at Milwaukee.
California sent '3,500,000 pounds of
honey to Europe last year.
The Canadians are beginning to pro
test against imported labor.
Unlicensed saloons and breweries have
to close up in Philadelphia.
Over fifteen Inches of rain have fallen
in Baltimore in two mouths.
South Dakota will bring into the Union
an organized Land-tax party.
The Senate Committee on our relations
with Canida, Is at Minneapolis.
Developments in the Cronin murder
are slowly coming to the surface.
A Kansas bride received a barrel of
salt as one of her wedding presents.
A recent cold snap injured the cran
berry crop in Plymouth county, Mass.
J. B. Wellinaton was shot by Dr.
Stewart at Clay Center, Kan., last week.
Members of both parties are interested
inl the high-license movement in Balti
more. At Helenwood, Ten n., the 11th.. two
murderers were taken from the jail and
lynched.
The Grand army men will not obtain
the rates hoped for to their annual en
campment. 8. E. Fields, a Georgia Senator, was
killed by his stepson, at Dalton, Ga., on
the 11 tli inst.
The Connecticut legislature has passed
a bill forbidding the issue of free passes
to legislators.
The tournament of the American
Shooting Association, opened at Cincin
nati on the 11th.
There has been a little breeze in New
York over the cutting down of trees in
the Central Park.
Miss Emma Bond of Taylorville, III.,
notoriety, lias been married to a Mr.
Justus of Helper, Kan.
General Meade suggests that the old
battle flags be hung around the pension
building at Washington.
Two men guilty of murder, robbery
and arson are reported to have been
lynched near Knoxville, Tenn.
At Topeka, Kan., recently, Karl Hoha
niann, a wealty farmer, strangled his
wife and then hanged himself.
Friends of the late President Arthur
have erected a handsome monument
over his grave in Albany, N. Y.
A new underground light, operated by
compressed air, is to iw introduced in
the zmc mines at Friedensville, Fa.
The merchants of Johnstown Pa., on
the 12th, opened their places of business
for the first time since the great flood.
"Another Pig in Clover" is the way a
Mississippi Democratic paperput it when
a negro was appointed postmaster o the
town.
Boone, Iowa, after an unsatisfactory
experience with
electricity for street
lighting, now
talks of establishing gas
works.
The Interstate Railroad Association
lias reduced bulion freights from Utah
oinki to the Missouri river from $15 to
s 13 per ton.
Hatfield, Mass., is to have a big time
on September 19th, that day being the
212th anniversary of the Indians attack
on that town.
A number of the steel and iron manu
facturing companies of New Jersy are
said to be considering a removal to Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
The reported death of Cole Younger,
the notorious outlaw, who is now in the
Stillwater, Minn., penitentiary, is with
out foundation.
The temperance peoplo of Maryland
have determined to make a vigorous
movement to procure the enactment ol a
High-license law.
At Pittsburg, PennM lightening twisted
a lad's head around to one side on hid
newt, and the doctors have thus far been
unable to get it back again.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New
York World, last week entered plans at
the Bureau of Buildings for a 13-story
printing ollice, to cost $1,000,000.
The Wyoming Territorial Supreme
court bus decided that the owners of land
may fenne the same, even if so doing
they inclose government or public hind.
This decision will Ik; appealed.
. Bonifacio Martinez, one of the most
notorious desperadoes that ever infested
the frontier counties of Texas and New
Mexico, was arrested at Bio Grande City,
Tenas, on the 13th.
Ex-millionaire Nathan Corwith, of
Cnicago, died in poverty in that cityojt
May Z8tb.. He made his money in Chi
cago real estate and lost it all in a lumj
ju an attempt to corner the lead inurk'.'i.
The new journal for colored people,
printed and edited by colored men, which
baa just made ita apearance in Charles
ton, S. C., starts oil' well. The editor
proposes that social questions bej kept
entirely out of politics..
English Ironmasters Rejolclng-A Rise
' of 30 Par Cent in Hotel Rates In
;s Paris A Secret Treaty.
The Shah la In Berlin.
The average rise in hotel rates In Paris
is 30 per cent.
Two-fifths of the House of Commons
are bimetallism.
Gladstone spoke at a Liberal meeting
at Weymouth, last week.
Mrs. Mackay and her daughter, the
Princess of Colonna, are in Paris.
The president of Paraguay now wants
to spend $o0,000 to encourage European
emigration.
An interesting long-distance telephone
experiment is alwut to be tried between
London and Paris.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
requested the Shah of Persia to postpone
his visit to Vienna.
The Duke of Portland was married in
London hist week to Miss Delias Yorke,
a Lincolnshire beauty.
A confirmation dress was recently de
scribed by a French fashion pajier as ex
tremely ''coquettish."
A new agricultural machine distributes
manures and insecticides, and sows grain
by means of an air blast.
The death of the author of "Don
Quixote" is still religiously commemo
rated by bis countrymen.
Advieea from Japan report the burn
ing of 1000 bouses and the loss of many
lives on May 3d, at Yokoto.
It is proposed to keep the Paris expo
sition open for a year with the exception
of the three winter months.
The deepest artesian well in Russia
open with a depth of 2090 feet. The
sinking operations took two years.
In 1888 the Italians residing in France
numbered almost half a million, having
increased 76,U00 from the previous year.
The Russian vernment proposes to
take steps for rendering the rivers of Si
beria navigable and connecting them by
canals.
The Vatican has decided that the as
tronomical observatory is to ,be begun at
once, at an estimated cost of 1,000,000
francs.
The prospects of the Icelanders are so
bright this season that it is thought the
flow of emigrants from the island will be
stopped
General Boulanger's second daughter
is to be married to a boa of the Countess
of Bad, sister in-law of the ex-King of
Naples.
The American Methodist Mission has
arrived, it is stated, at Tschomubiri, on
the Upper Congo, where it is forming a
station.
English ironmasters are rejoicing over
the discovery of new sonrces of supply
for Bessemer ores in Spain and Swedish
Lapland.
The German Crown Prince the other
day received a little roan pony as a birth
day gift from his great-grandmother, the
Empress August.
The Queen does not approve of Prince
Edward's courtship of his cousin, the
Princess Victoria, but she lias not yet
vetoed the match.
It is estimated that 400 natives were
killed in a recent fight in Zaadaui. The
bulk of the party destroyed belonged to
the British Indies.
Miss Jane Cobden, the first woman
elected County Councillor in England,
is barely thirty-five years old, but her
hair is snowy white.
A circular lias been issued to French
Drefects instructing them to use their in
fluence to prevent skilled laborers from
leaving the country.
Several trills in Morocco have rebelled
against the Sultan. The reliels have made
nrisoners of a number of officers and
threaten to kill them.
The riding habit and hat of the Gar
man Empress at the grand review in
honor of King Hum bert were white and
Gaineslwrough, respectively.
Andrew Carnegie has forwarded X25
as his subscription for the flags which
are to be unfurled from the field of Ban
nockburn on the 22d of June.
London is declared more crowded than
Paris. It is difficult to get a bed any
where. American visitors overrun the
hotels waiting for the Derby.
Bellini's piano, on which he composed
his earliest ojierai, has just been found
in the possession of a .lady at Catania,
whose husband bought it tor Jti lus.
Fourteen thousand girls are attending
the London School Board Cookery cen
ters. Still further facilities for increas
ing this number are now being made.
Consumption in the German Army is
greatly dreaded by the authorities, since
the recent Parisian Medical Congress pro
nounced that the disease was contagious.
The agitation in connection with the
scheme for improving the condition of
the people of the West Highlands and
islands of Scotland continue and inten
sifies. The Berlin Conference met last week
for the last time. Jt has been settled
that the election of the natives will be
held soon after Malietoa has been rein
stated. The agrarian agitation, which is a re
sult of the widespread misery in the agri
cultural districts of Italy, has now spread
to several provinces, and particularly to
Lombardy.
A report from Sumatra states that the
volcanic crater on the west coast of the
island, which has been nuiet for several
centuries, whs active during the middle
of February.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A CONCERT AT THE MORMON TAB
ERNACLE, SALT LAKE.
Experimenting in Mines-Mold on Qrap
Vines Fire-Damp Kxploston-A
Ferry Boat Sunk-A Mur
derer Arrested Notes.
Anaheim
laries.
complains of many burg-
Merced's
on Ice.
popular drink is buttermilk
Travel over the Oregon road Is very
heavy.
The Tehama Board of Trade has chosen
officers for the ensuing year.
George Hahn suicided at Golden Gate
Park, San t ranclsco, last week
A new postoffice lias leen established
at v aue lata, San Diego county.
T. D. Featherly. a cigurmaker at Butte,
M. T., committed Bulculo on the 0th
Mold has appeared on the grape vines
in some parts of Sonoma county.
The jury in the Hildreth stage-robbery
case at r resno lias tailed to agree.
John FItimaurico, a native of Vallejo,
was drowned at Portland last week.
C. G. Ilarrel, 60 years of ago, was
drowned at Vancouver, W. T., last week.
William A. Martin was drowned in
San Francisco, last week, while bathing.
Henry's stable and six horses at Fresno
were burned on the 8th by an incendiary.
The jewelry store of T. R. Redfield, at
North Yakima, was burglarized on the
12th.
Irrigated alfalfa land in Tehama county
turned off sixteen tons of hay to the acre
last year.
The annual encampment of the Sons
of Veterans lxgan at Sacramento the
10th inst.
O'Connor defeated Lee in a race on
Salt Lake, on the 0th inst. The water
was rough.
The amount raised in San Francisco
for the Johnstown and Seattle sufferers
is $80,000.
John Pilkrt, an official of the South Pa
cific Coast Road, died at San Jose last
week of apoploxy.
Seven horses and mules and a call
were burned in the qurtermaster's corral
at Fort Seldon, N. M., the 0th.
Bob Campbell, or "Three-fingered
Jack," killed Hugh Boyd, near Acton,
Lob Angeles county, on the 8th.
The ferry boit plving across the upper
Columbia fiver at Wenatcheo, drifted on
some rocks on the 0th and was sunk.
C. E. Jones, the proprietor of a shoot
ing gallery on Catalina Island, ac
cidentally killed Miss Eva Bock, recently.
William Lubreck, who killed Thomas
Jones at Needles, recently, has leen ac
quitted, be having acted in self-defense.
George Rhorer, of Pomona, Cal., in
tends to dry his prunes this year and
ship them to St. Louis in white cloth
bags.
One of the bunco men who roblied ex-
Congressman Hawkins in Los Angeles,
has jumjed his bonds, which are worth
less. Pasadena, Cal., has asked for some ar
rangement by which she can connect her
sewers with the Los Angeles outfall
sewer.
A monster concert took place in the
Mormon Taliemaele at Salt Luke last
wesk, for the benefit of the Johnstown
sufferers.
Mary Ann Loup, aged five years, while
asleep on the banns of the creek at
Alviso, fell into the water and was
drowned.
The work of clearing away the debris
of the burnt district in Seattle, preparitory
to rebuild the city, is being pushed as
rapidly as possible.
A cave-in occurred in the Pioche Con
solidated Company's Raymond & Ely
mine, at Pioche, Nev., in which David
Davis lost his life.
The political guillotine took from the
Ienitentiary at New Nexico the heads of
eight old employes, on the 8th. Santa Fe
people were surprised.
W. II. Mills, of Los Angeles, Cal., at
tempted to build a house in the middle of
one of the main streets of the city, but
was stopped by the police.
One ot the party of the Oak-Villa rd com
bination while at Tacoma, said that tlx
Union Pacific road is to go to Tacoma
over the Norther Pacific track.
An explosion of fire-damp did much
damage in the Carlwnadoeoal mine, near
Tacoma, W. T., on the 10th. A miner
named David Evans was killed.
The annual election of directors and
officers of the California Central and
Southern Railroad Companies, comes off
on tne loth inst., at ixs Angeies.
Lieut. Frank Reeves Heath. U. S.N.,
one of the survivors of the wrecked man-of-war
Vandalia, died at the Mare Island
naval hospital, San Fiancisco, 12th inst.
Twenty-two cases of insanity have
been brought before the Judge at Tacoma
since last March, and half of the cases
are of persons who came from the East.
James Killduff, a slate roofer, feel from
the roof of the big hotel at Portland,' last
week, a distance of seventy-live feet, and
singular to relate, escaped with his life.
The Los Angeles Suiervisors have re
solved to py from the county treasury
the expense of introducing more Austra
lian lady-ougs to light the scale on fruit
trees.
IIOKK A RIO KAim.
Stoolt Feed The Potato Beetle-How
to Destroy Crab Grafts Roots for
Feeding Roadside Trees.
One of the essotftlals of soiling is a fer
tile sou.
Every farm ought to have Us experi
mental patch,
A rod of Ixirbed wire, In place of a box
protects trees against horses and smal
boys. ,.. . . ,
Thin out all surplus plants in the hot
beds If they are crowded, and thoso re
maining will Income more stocky. The
hotlied may be loft open during the day
at tills season.
The best food for making hens lay is a
pound of lean meat, chopped tino, given
three times a week to a hock of twenty
hens. But very little grain is required at
this season.
Corn Pudding: Two cups of canned
corn, one pint of milk, two eggs, salt to
taste. Jieat the eggs until very iignt
add the other Ingredients ; put the mix
ture In a tmttered pudding dish, and bake
about forty minute.
The fall colt can lie turned on the pas
ture, and will cost but little. A mess of
oats at night, with hay, is all it requires.
Mares intended for spring work should
always foal In the fall in order that the
colt may )e weaned in spring.
Sorrel thrives at this season and crab
grass later on. Keep it down at all costs,
in order to lessen tho number of plants
noxt season. When crab grass opjiears It'
is easily destroyed when young. Con
stant cultivation Is tho only remedy for
both.
If vou have any corn fodder the sheep
will pick it over and clean the Btalks. If
the fodder is bright and clean all classes
of stock w ill relish it If the fodder is
run through tho cutter and the stalks
crushed by the cutter there will be but
little waste.
The clover field is the place for the pigs
that have been weaned. They will need
very little other food. A mess of
skimmed milk, or buttermilk, with a
small quantity of ground oats at night,
will cauBe the pigs to grow rapidly if they
have the run of clover.
The potato beetle will attack the egg
plant in preference to anything else, and
unless some plants are cnreiuiiy wntcneu
and the beetles picked off they will des
troy the plants in less than a day. To
save the plants they should lie examined
two or three times a day.
When many want to sell is a good time
to bur. and when many want to buy is a
good time to sell ; for many sellers .make
good prices, followed in due season by
small supply and good prices ; and many
buyers make good prices, loiioweu in uue
season by large supply and low prices.
There is no color on the horse which
is so insensible to the heat as tho sorrel
There is seldom any coat so silky or re
sponds so nuieklv as the sorrel, nut
more important still, there is seldom any
horse with such sound feet and limbs, or
possessing the endurance of the sorrel.
Glared Beef: Set the beef that has
lecn kept from the soup to glace in a
moderate ovon for stout an hour, biking
care to tosto the surface once la a while
with the broth and some condensed liecf
buolllon ; drain on a dish, take off the
fat, strain and reduce the liquid to the
consistency of a demi-glace sauce with a
littlo morn broth and two ladlefuls of
tomato sauce. Put Borne mashed iKitatoes
on a round platter, set the heel in the
middle, pour some of the sauce over, and
serve.
Butter or string beanB, If cooked and
pickled according to these directions, are
delicious. Wash them and steam them
until they are tender, but not soft j put
them into a jar anil pour hot vinegar over
them ; sweeten Hie vinegar ami season
highly with cinnamon. Another way
equally excellent, but which gives a dif
ferent flavor to tne pickles, is to poii
them in salted water until tender; then
pour overthom tho hot vinegar which
has leen sweetened, and in addition to
the cinnamon has a liberal allowance of
pepper ; cayenne or black may be used.
Every farmer should himself under
stand grafting, and be able particularly
to do it. The art is simple ana easily
learned. It mav not always pay the
fanner to do all tho largo lobs ol gnu ting
that he has to do, si nee his own time
mav le worth more at something else
Hut it is the little jobs, the setting of
half a dozen grafts not worth sending for
a professional grafter to do, that thus are
neglected from year to year, simply bo
cause no one is at band to do the work.
Professional grafters maae good wages
setting grafts at so much apiece. Most
of them have an assistant who saws off
the limb to bo grafted, while the grafter
tits the scion to the cleft which he makes
and covers the wound to oxeludo air.
This and connecting the scion with the
outer wood ot the branch is all the art
there is in grafting.
Trees by Roadsides: There is two
sides to the roadside question. They are
ornamental, but in early spring they of
ten.shade tho road ho as to keep it muddy
after places more exposed to sun and air
have dried up. Besides, the trees aro
often in the way of needed road improve
ments, and it is hard to go around or re
move them. Then if grain or root crops
are grown in adjoining fields their roots
draw their moisture from so long a dis
tance that the crop near the fence is not
worth cultivating. A row of trees planted
closo enough to the line tomukoa fence ol
damages a farmer in one crop more than
enough to build an excellent fence. So
whether trees should this spring be
planted along the roadside must bo com
plicated with the further question wheth
er in after years the farmer or his sons
can afford the expense of keoping up the
ornament.
PORTLAND MARKET.
A SLIGHT ADVANCE IN SUGARS
DURING THE WEEK.
Good Crops are Assured-Provisions
Remain Steady-Tba Orange and
Strawberry Season Nearly
Over Butter Steady.
The fine weathor throughout tho North
west lias been all that could lie desired,
and good crops are assured ; the demand
for salmon and wool, however, is not vory
satisfactory to the producer, but hopes
are entertained that higher prices will
rule later on. A slight advance in sugars
is noticeable, while eoffocB are without
change. Provisions remain steady as
usual with the single exeption of a drop
of c In Armour's. Strawberries are
rather scarce and the season for oranges
are nearly over. The choicest stocks of
dried fruits have been about cleaned up,
and the demand for other grades is les
sened by the abundant supply of fresh
fruits. The local wheat market still re
mains stagnant, and It is rumored that in
some districts the beat has beeu too in
tense for the cereals.
QKOOKKIKB.
Sugars, Golden C 7?c. extra O ??4'c.
dry granulated 9c, cube, .crushed and
powdered Oc. Coftee: Java iJojaOTc,
Mocha 28C431C, Cos Rica 2122c,
Rio 22323c, Arbuckle's roasted 26 'c.
PKOVISIONS.
Oregon ham 12,(il3c, break fust ba
con I'M;, sides lOlOc, shoulders H
(o6!H:. Eastern ham 12(18.1!, breakfast
bacon 13c? 13,he, sides 0c Lard 10s
O.SiC
raurrB.
I )s Angoles oranges $2.2.1, Riversides
f4.n0, California lumens HMr.r.60 P1"
box. Strawberries $1.40 per 24 n crate.
VKOKTABLXS.
Potatoes 50c, onions $1.75, rheubarb
3c, tomatoes f2 per lax.
DRIED MUITS.
Apples 4(S5c, sliced 6c, pears 8c, Oregon
plums 34, Italian Ac, silver 7c, Gorman
rd50c, plums 6(97c apricotn 13tl4c,
feaches 8(tl2c, California figs 7c, raisins
1.762.26 per lx.
tumv FRonccs.
Butter. Oregon fancy 20c, medium 15(9
17hjC, common, 1012jc. Eastern 22c,
California HJ2fJc.
BOOS.
Eggs 18c.
POULTRY.
Chickens tfm.W, broiler $2.503,
ducks io(s7, geese $78, turkeys 15c
per Bi.
WOOL.
Valley 1820c, Eastern Oregon B10e,
HOPS.
Hops 101.jc.
OKA1R.
Wheat, Vallev l.lo31.17a Eastern
Oregon 1.051.07W. Oats 2H(2;30:.
FUlCk.
Standard $4, other brands $3.503.76.
FKi:i).
Hav$13(14perton, bran $13314, chop
$1820, shorts $1415, barley $20
22.M),
FKKS1T MKATB.
Beef, live. 3c, dressed, Wo; mutton,
live, 3c, (tressed tie; lambs $2.50 each,
hogs live 6c, dressed, 77c ; veal 08c.
Pasteur is a cltoqrfiu man and
takes a hopeful view of the future of
medical science. Ho thinks it will bo
pleiwmit to live in tho twentieth
century when ull epidemics will be
done a way with.
John Bright was the only Cabinut
Minister who never knolt to the
Queen, his reason being that bo could
not render to uu earthly potentate the
homage which he owed to the
Supremo Being alono.
A wealthy woman in New York
City has proposed to make by hor will
tho officers of tho Salmagundi Club
trustees of a fund of fifty thousand
dollars, whoso interest shall bo applied
to helping sick or needy urtists. The
club has accepted the trust.
Corulio Cohon Is claimed by the
F.uropeuri .Tows as a second Florcnoo
Nightingale. Sho is a .Jewish lady,
who was nn angel of mercy during tho
late Franco-German war. and passed
unharmed unions the wounded hi the
two hostile) camps. She in u Knight
of the Legion of Honor, and has
been elected president of that pat
riotic body the Association dos Dumos
Franca! sos.
Mine. Mtinomltsu Mutsii. wife of
tho Japanese Minister nt Washington,
entertains hor intimate frlonds with
muslo on tho "koto," the Jupanoso
piano. It Is six foot long by about
eight Inohos wldo, and tho sillc strings
are drawn lengthwise on tho rounded
top. Mmo. Mutsti is a clever por
formor on the "koto," and she Is
especially aeceptablo whon she renders
tho music of tho "Mikado.
- Chovroul's llfo embraced the
careors of Andrew Juokson, Clay,
Wobstor, Calhoun. Grant, Leo, Stonewall-
Jackfton, Miruborui, Danton,
Marat, Robosplort'o, Nupploon Bona
parte, Talleyrand, Thlors. Giiuibetta,
PalmorsLon, Disraeli, Ghtdslono, G'H-
baldi, Bismarck, Gortohukoff, Ai-(-
rassy, Scott, Dickons T1hioI.oi"a ,
Cooper, Longfellow, Hawta-wio,
Byron, Goorgo Eliot, Goorgo .Sands,
Dumas, Balzac, Maoaulny, Uooohor,
Spurgoon, Livingstone, Stanley,
'Morse, Edison mid mnny others
worthy to bo plucod in this famous
company.