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EASTEBX 1 . .
A HEAVY YIELD OF WHEAT IN
KANSA8.
A Deposit of Ztno Ore Cut Raw un
Freight Murderer Ls'noliad
Tim flooded Dl-t low
Lady Pall-Bearwrs . '
Bultiuiore lias 4000 saloons.
Chris buck ley is in Chkajjo.
One death from sunstroke reported at
Chicago.
Kittio Brown won the six-days' bicycle
race at Denver.
John Gilbert, the great actor, died in
Boston on the 17th.
At the South this season has Wen the
coldest for uiauy years.
The present, permanent population of
Oklahoma la about u,uuu.
The wann weather is thinning out the
ollice-seekenj in aslungton
Kinteed horses started in the American
Derby, at Chicago, last Sunday
Berkeley Springs, W. V., has recovered
from Uie enects oi tue wie noou.
Tlie New York boodle Alderman cases
will be tried at Saratoga July Uth.
Bradstreet's calculates the entire Iocs
by the floods at about $45,0lH),0O0.
The International Typographical Union
will meet at Atlanta, Ua., next year.
Two murderers were hanged by a mob
in Scott county, Tennessee, recently.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania was de
feated by an overwhelming majority.
Trunk-Line Commissioner Fink, with
headquarters at Now York, has resigned.
The total flood losses of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad are stated at $13,000.0n0
Iowa is talking alout buihling a $100,-
000 soldiers' monument at Ltes Moines,
Rose Coghlan and her husband, Clin
ton J. Edgerly, have separated tempor
arily.
The test of the pnematic gun carnage
tit Annapolis, Md., recently, proved satis
factory.
The next convention of the order of
-the Mvstie Shrine will be held in San
.Francisco.
Boston is reported as leading America
with its educational exhibit at the Paris
Exposition.
The schools in Wollaston, Mass., have
been dosed, owing to the prevalence of
diphtheria.
Thp Government has resumed opera
tions at Flood Rock improvements, Hell
Gate, N. i .
The hay crop of New York State this
year is expected to be almost unpreee-
denuy large.
A deposit of line ore of workable qual
ity has been cuscoverea in juanuu
county, Ark.
The debris at the stone bridge lielow
Johnstown, Penn., was set on fire on
the 16th inst.
The Board to select a site for the navy
vard on the Northwest coast, favors Port
Orchard. W.T.
It is said that an effort is being made
to form a trust of all the big dry goods
stores in America.
. The battlefields of Gettysburg and An
tietam are now connected by the Western
Maryland Railroad.
The member of the American Phar
macentical Convention, to be held at Han
Francisco have arrived.
The crops throughout Indiana, and
also mut h riparian property, was severely
damaged by recent rains.
3Iissionary bodies are delighted with
the announcement of Mr. Huntington's
Congo Railway enterprise.
J. O. Manion and R. M. Fowler fought
a street duel at Fayette, Mo., on thelotn,
and both were fatally shot.
At the funeral of a young man named
Rice, at Sliamokin, Penn., four young
ladies were the pall-bearers.
The flood in Pennsylvania knocked
the Prohibition campaign endwise and
the State las gone "wet."
The Trenton Rock Oil Company, the
oldest company in the Ohio field, has
lieen sold to the Standard.
Howard of Electric Sugar fame has
been found guilty of grand larceny in the
first degree at New York.
Bonham, Texas, is rejoicing over the
discovery of oil at a depth of 800 feet in
the northern part of the city.
Cut rate in freight are made between
New York and St. Paul. The war has
been opened for the summer.
Fortv indictments were found by the
Federal Grand Jury at Indianapolis for
violation of the election laws.
A gas well has been drilled in at Find
lay, Ohio, with a capacity of over seven
teen million cubic feet per day.
Minnesota is considering the proposi
tion to put the convicts to work making
binding-twine, to circumvent the Twine
Trust. '
The Mormons who are flocking into
the northwest of Manitoba are said to
claim that they have a right to practice
polygamy if they want to. ,
The famine defendant in a divorce case
at Rockford, IU., was rtetonaeu by a
woman lawyer, probably trio nrui
stance of the kind on record.
m-
Attorney-General Miller has accepted
!, -Kwiimations of the United States
Marshals for Florida and South Carolina, j
and of District-Attorney Peters, of Utah.
CO Hi; UN FLA MUCH.
Mormon Missionaries in LlverPool-The
Prosecution of Boulanger An
archy In Crete-Knllrouds
Building tn Africa.
The King of Spain has just entered on
his fourth year. ,
Corke, Ireland, has raised $1200 for the
Johnstown sufferers.
Tho Spanish war-ship Paz has found
ered off Cape Trafalgar,
The French senate advises the imme
diate prosecution of Boulunger.
Prim ess Matternich is revisiting Paris,
and great attantion is paid to her.
Russia threatens the Shah of Persia if
he makes concessions to England.
Complete anarchy prevails in Crete.
Outrages and murders are frequent.
A dog tax ot France gives the ritate an
annual revenue f about $1,500,000.
The tailors' strike at English and Scot
tish ports is on the eve of collapsing.
In England check reins are now en
tirely out of use, being forbidden by law.
There are three leprosy cases on Cape
Brenton, N. fc., two women and one man.
Smoking during service is said to le
customary in some of the rural churches
in Holland.
England and Ireland are overrun with
Americans traveling in parties of from
forty to 400.
William Walter Phelps has sailed from
Europe with the Samoan Treaty in his
possession.
A plan to connect the 8ilerian rivere
by canals is projected by the Russian
Government.
Another woman bus leen murdered in
one of the compartments of an English
railroad train. 1
Raid Melcan, a Scotchman, is Commander-in-Chief
of the Army of the Sul
tan of Morocco.
In Ihrussia the State railroads make
special concessions in favor of poor peo
ple in ill-health.
Buffalo Bill at Paris, recently, gave a
benefit for the Conemaugh suflerers, and
$2000 was realized.
Mrs. Maybrick has leen committed at
London, for trial, on the charge of mur
dering her h'utband.
Official reports concerning the pros
pects of the Russian wheat crop this sea
son are unfavorable.
Two Americans are susiiected of rob
bing a jewelry store at Leipzig of goods
valued at 75,000 marks.
Dowaeer Empress Augusta of Germany
has suliscribed 1000 marks in aid of the
Pennsylvania sufferers.
Proceedings will be continued against
the friends of Boulanger, who were ar
rested in Angouleme, France.
The Paris Le Temtw asserts that Ger
many is negotiating with Belgium to lay
a cable from Osted to Portland, Me.
The m-eat industrial exhibition at Ham
burg, Germany, which has been in pre
paration since loii, will siiomy be
opened.
The police at Paris have seized a num
ber of fetters from General Boulanger to
the Boulangist National Committee in
the house of Mine. Bonlou.
It has been decided in Russia that
women may be pnysicians ; mil iney
must confine their services to children
and adults of their own sex.
The Czar has bestowed a dowry of
1,000,000 rubles on Princess Militza of
Montenegro, who has been betrothed to
Grand Duke Peter of Russia.
The water-power of the Rhine is almut
to lie utilized to work electric dynamos.
which will distribute electric-power ana
light over a radious of fifteen miles.
In Paris, the Saccharine, or sugar made
from coal, has been unanimously con
demned by the medical profession, be
cause it seriously troubles digestion.
Rents in Scotland are getting lower
and lower. Four farms recently relet in
the South for the approaching term,
brought less than half their former rent.
It is believed that three of Lieutenant
Wissman's steamers have been lost on
the African coast, lour uerman war
ships have been dispatched to look them
up.
The Russian army is to lie provided
with breech-loading rifles which will
carry a distance of 0000 feet. Noiseless
powder will also be used in trie mture by
the army.
Four hundred Silesian lace-makers
have fo;cn at work for five weeks on a
magnificent veil for the sister of the Ger
man Empress, who is about to marry
Prince Leojiold of Prussia.
The Belgrade correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News upholds the accuracy of
his statement that Russia has projiosed
the immediate conclusion of a military
convention with Servia.
Mormon missionaries a circulating
broadcast from the Millennial Star office
in Liverpool a summary of Congressman
Springer's report in favor of the admis
sion of Utah to the Union as a State.
In sunny Italy the Royal Family suffer
from chest diseases. The King has never
wholly got over the attack of congestion
of the lungs to which be nearly succumb
ed a few years ago, and the Crown Prince
has a tendency to consumption.
Large subscriptions arc reported to
ward building a railroad between Lower
Falls, on the Congo river in Africa, to
Stanley Pool, about two hundred and
sixiyiwu m ic o two imun 'i
thousaad miles ol navigable water above
Stanley Pool.
THE PACIFIC. COAST.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT VANCOU
VER, W. T,
Bhipment of New Wheat-A Wild
Bteer Goraa a Chinaman The
Debt of Los Angeles A
Deserter Dronned,
The California honey crop la short.
Los Angoles has repealed the dog tax.
The Carson mint begins coining July 1.
Spokane Falls is to have a paid fire de
partment. Los Angeles will have a konnel show
this week.
San Diego has arranged for a chess
tournament.
Camping parties are numorous along
Niles Valley.
Ed C. Wheeler, Mayor of East Port
land, Or,, is dead.
"Walla Walla, W. T., want to get rid
of the Penitentiary.
The Piatt -Alger Alaska party has start
ed from New York.
The joint worm is injuring wheat in
the San Joaquin Valley.
Spokane Falls' now water system was
inaugurated on the 15th.
Everybody at Granlto, M. T.: is jump
ing land on the townsite.
Fires in the grain fields on Robert's
Island have been reported.
Several cases of diphtheria have been
discovered in Virginia City
Tho creameries in Oregon and Wash
ington have proven failures.
A wild steer gored a Chinaman at Col
Ufa, Lift week, and killed him.
The walnut crop in Southern Califor
nia promises to lie very heavy.
San Diego is raiding physicians who
are practicing without lieeiises.
The Bankers' Association of Washing
ton has been formed at Tacoma.
A new Territorial University is about
to be established at Moscow, 1. T.
John Meyer, ex-Recorder of Placer
county, died from paralysis on the liith.
Bernardo Ganatino was killed by An
se'.mo Alexandra at San Jose on the lirth.
Henry Villard, while in Portland last
week, would not talk to newspaper men.
A forest fiie is reported near the Yolo
anil Lake county line in the mountains.
The entire business portion of Vancou
ver, W. T., was burned last Friday night.
The mole cricket has appeared in the
potato patches ut Burbauk, Los Angeles
county.
Port Townsend sent $2000 worth of
provisions to Seattle the morning after
tho fire.
The Oregon Pioneers held their seven
teenth annual gathering at Portland on
the Llth.
A confidence gang is reported to lie
w orking the trains between Fresno and
Los Angeles.
George Winters, a highly esteemed
citizen of Redding, died at lied Bluff on
the itUh inst.
Charles Nelson, John Peterson's bosom
friend, has run away from Fresno with
Mrs. Peterson.
Louis Roth is suing his wife for divorce
at Los Angeles for deserting him on his
wedding night.
Santa Ana real estate has much im
proved in value since the election divid
ing Los Angeles county.
During the recent hot spell, tho ther
mometer at Yakima, W. T., registered
110 degrees in the shade.
FraukLautero, the indicted Los Angeles
ex-Deputy Auditor, for forgoriea while in
ollice, has lied to Mexico.
To get clear of its debt, Los Angeles
county will require a tax of $40 for each
person within its borders.
Sacramento has prohibited the build
ing of wooilen sidewalks. Thoy must le
of cement or patent stouo.
A staee upset while racing near Ward-
ner, Idaho, last week, and several prom
ineu persons were injured.
D. Hakes of Santa Rosa, has hired
twenty-five girls to pick his rasplsirry
ciop that covers veveutecn acres.
Herman Meyers of Fresno, charged
with killing a boy named Bronaugh in
February last, has been acquitted.
The three days' shooting tournament
of the Sportsmen's Association of the
Northwest, opened ut Tacoma last week.
Paul Harry, an Indian murderer, has
been captured on the Cmur d'Alene Res
ervation by Sheriff Martin of Rathdrum,
Idaho.
Thomas Edwards killod Richard Gun
dry at Cundelaria, Nov.. last week, Ed
wards was subsequently released from
ciutody.
The old City Hall at Sacramento
threatens to collapse and jurors refuse to
serve in tho Police Court on account of
the danger. '
San Joaquin county hay-growers find
it takes 40 per cent more. Eastern-miide
rone to bale a ton than it does with Cali
fornia rope.
Mnthnr Alnhonso Costello. Ladv Slllie-
rioreBS of tho Ursuline Academy in Santa
Rosa, died on tito 10th after a long illness
of consumption.
A Chinese leper was discovered in the
Kiicramt'iif) lull last week. He was sent
from Folsom for twenty days for refusing
to pay poll tax.
MOHK AMI FAIUl.
Top-Dressing Wheat tn SpringMillet
and Hungarian Grass -Dairy In-teresfr-Barly
Lambs-Bee
Culture Farm Notes.
There 1h a time when it Is snfs to prune
most varities of decldious fruit tiees, and
that time is when the wood is ripe and
while the tree is in a dormant condition.
In removing crops from the soil we
take away plant food. This is the chief
cause of soil exhaustion. Lack of fertil
ity is commonly due In a large part or en
tirely to lack ol plant food.
Cotton-seed meal will not do for hog
feed, as the lint bulls In the stomach, and
cannot lie voided. This objection to cotton-seed
meal is not applicable to domes
tic animals other than the hog.
Bread for Soup: Cut slices of stale
bread into small squares, throw in boil
ing lard and fry till brown. Skim out,
druin, and put in soup tureen liefore serv
ing the soup. For oyster soup, crackers
crisped in tho oven are nice,
If the space between rows of groie
vines is occupied by strawberry pluutA,
currant bushes or weeds, do not wondor
that the gruHs do not riien early. The
sun's rays must reach the earth und keep
it warm if early ripening is desired. .
If leets or carrots are not up it may bo
that the ground was too cold when the
seed was put in. It is lietter to replant
than to lose the crop. Ihey' should Ih
grown as stock food, and as a lurge yield
can lie secured they will pay well.
Old ewes may bo sold if the lambs are
weaned. Only strong, vigorous ewes
should lie retained. Select those that
yielded plenty of milk for the lumbs for
breeding pur)OHiB, and sell off the rams
in order to infuse new blood in the flock.
If you dissolve bones by fouling them
in a strong potimh lye and then use dry
earth or leached ashes as im absorbent,
you gut a fertilizer or compost, rich in
both phosphoric acid and potash. It will
contain also most of the nitrogen which
wub in the bones.
The liquid manure is more vuluuble
than the solids, and a liberal use of ab
sorbent material will aid in arresting it
loss. It should be saved carefully, and
a drain at the rear of the stalls should
conduct it to some kind of a receptacle
from which it may be pumped over tho
manure heap.
Tho early lumhs are now in demand.
Feed those that ure not up to weight woll
and push them into market as soon as
possible. A daily ration of two parts
ground oats, one part corn meul, and u
small proortion of linseed meal will lie
excellent for them. They should have a
good pasture,
There is as much art in the work of
improving the drones of a hive us to en
deavor to secure better queens. Some
swarms of bees are too inbred to endure
hard winters. In the nutural condition
bees are hardy, but when their care is in
the hands of the liee-keepor his judgment
is important, and he can do much to add
vigor to the swarms.
Choeolute Meringue Pudding: Boil
one pint of rich milk, and a half teacup
ful of butter, one teueupftil of sugar and
three ounces of grated choeolute ; let it
boil and when cool add tho whites of
four eggs; pour this in a pudding dish
lined with slices of sponge cake und bake;
cover with meringue und let it brown.
Eat with lemon sauce.
The dairy interests of the United
States ropresont more thon $3,000,000,000.
The numler of milk cows is estimated at
24,000,000, which give un aggriguta milk
production of 7,350,000,000 gullons. Four
billion gallons aro used for butter ; 700,
000,000 for cheeso and tho balance for
various purposes. The anuuul produc
tion of butter 1,350,000,000 hiiii1s, and
tl,500,X)0 pound of chees. This immense
dairy herd requires 100,000,000 acres of
pasture land to sup(Kirt it.
Top-Dressing Wheat in Spring: It is
sometimes a good plan to tojwlruss win
ter wheat in the spring. It is better still
doubtless to do the work in the full, but
manure is not then to be hud, and if the
wheat is all there after its winter's ex
posure it will pay to give it a further lift.
Choose a time when the ground is either
frozen or has thoroughly dried so it will
not poach. Then draw the manure in a
wagon provided with wido tires. If the
surface is dry the wheels will not sink in
to hurt. The manure will greutly help
the clover as well as the wheat. We
have known farmers to find a profit in
drilling in 150 pounds of suiierphosphate
on the wheat in spring. The drill was
driven so thut its teeth cut the ridges be
tween the rows made in drilling the seed
the previous full. In this wise probably
breaking the surface of the soil did nearly
as much good ns the fertilizer, as is
proven by tun benefit often received from
dragging wheat fields ill the spring.
If sheep are toldcd, and given attention,
a crop of millet or Hungarian grass will
be invaluable to them. Mr. Stewart, the
woll known authority on sheep, states
thut when the crop is eight inches high
sheep may be allowed to eat off four or
five inches. Hurdles should lie used,
and moved daily in order to avoid hav
ing the sheep eat too cIobo to the roots.
In this way it will grow anew, and cover
the ground more completely than before.
It is estimated that a good crop will pro
duct fllwut ten tons of green fodder per
aero, and posture fltty sheep from one to
two months. Jt is udvisiible, for sheep
pasture, to use Hungarian grass, and to
hurdle the sheep in blouks of aliont
twenty-five. Cows und horses are also
fond of green food, and as tho final cut
ting may bo mudo lute, a succession is
had during tho entire summer. H is not
advisable to grow those crops whore
clover and other grosses aro more suit
able, but tho advantage they possess is
that of lieing sown late and growing
rapidly, making their crops in a single
season unu uuring uie warmest penoa oi
the summer as they delight in warmth
and endure drought woll.
PORTLAND MARKET.
PROSPECTS NOT SO ASSURING AS A
MONTH AGO.
Provisions Firm-Fruits of all Kind are
Plentiful and Very Oneap-Vory
Little Doins In Dried Fruit
-Fresh Meats H Inner.
It is currently reported thut in several
sections eust of tho Cascades the exces
sive boat has severely injured the crops,
and that proBects of another bountiful
harvest are not so reassuring us a month
ugo. Tho Columbia rlvtr Bulmon pack
down to June 1 is given at 22,000 fuses
less than last year; the run of sulmon on
the Sacramonto has also foten short, so
that Alaska connnrymen stand a good
chance of making handsome profits. In
the local merchandise markets business
gonorully continues sutistuctory, although
in the m hist of the usual summer lull.
All kinds of fresh fruit are now to be
found in the market at cheap prices.
Eastern meats have a Btlffer tendency,
and provisions are firm. The local wheat
market is very dull and lnuctivo.
OHOCRHIXS.
Sugars, Golden C 7bC extra C 7J4C,
dry griiuuluted 'J'c, cube, crushed and
powdered Ohj'c. Coffee: Java 25 27c,
Mocha 2H(3le, Costa Rica 21,HJ22c,
Rio 21K (322c, Arbiiekle'i roasted 2&jyc.
FKOVfNIONS.
Oregon ham 12,(iel3c. breakfast ba
con I :k:, sides 11 ,'c, shoulders Wc. East
ern hum 13(f I3.'j,e, breakfast foieon 13
13Jfr'c, sides U,l'e. Lard U)fcc for 10s.
raurrs.
Los Angnlcs oranges $2.25, Riversides
$4.50, California lemons $-l.!0(i& per
iiox. Apricots $1.25, cherries 00c.
VKUKTAHI.KH.
Potabics 00c, onions $1.75, rheubarb
3c, tomatoes 12 per Ikix.
d.mhv riuiniicx.
Batter. Oregon fancy 20c, medium 15
17!vjC, common, )0($12jc, EusUrn 22c,
California I8(tf20c
KdOB.
Eggs 17($ 18c.
POULTRY.
Chickens $4(24.50, broilem $2.60(33,
ducks $5W7i geese $7M8, turkeys 15c
per tti.
WOOL,
Valley lRig22c, Eastern Oregon B(13c.
HOI'H.
Hops 10(f 15c.
(IIIA1N.
Wheat, Valley il.!5itl.l7Vi, Eastern
Oregon ll.05Ml.07Ji,'. Oats 30c.
PI.Ol'R,
Standard $4, other brands $3.503.75.
J'KKb.
nav$13(iil4 per ton, bran $13Ctl4, chop
$IS((20f Bhorls $14tU5, lau-loy $20
22.50.
PBKSH IIKATS.
Beef, live, 3c, dressed, (irtctirac ; mutton,
live, 3(d .4c, dressed ('';; luml $2.50
each ; hogs live (ic, dressed, 77yc; veal
8c.
DIIIKP KKI IT8,
Apples 4(aj5e, sliced (ic, pears 8c, Oregon
plums 3(4, Italian tie, silver 7c, Gentian
tkaHi'e, plums 5(7e apricots 1314c,
peaches HOi 12c, California figs 7c, raisins
$1.752.25 jier box.
J-Thi" Into Mr. John Rylauds. a Nap
tist, of Miimihotitor, Eng., loft nearly a
million dollars in bequests to various
instl iilioim and societies. The will
gives (50.000 to Regent's Park College
$25,000 each, to tiio Buptist Missionary
Society, the Union Annuity Fund und
tho Union Augumontittloii Fund, and
nuiiiMi-mm smultor gifts.
Samoa, which is attracting so much
Bttenlion now, Is gonorully rogurdud as
a suvago island, but u lurgo proportion
of tho pooplo are ChriHtiuns. A mis
sionary says: I would guarantee to
lake (he lirst twonty men, womon and
children that I should meet with in
Suiniiit, und I should buck them In Hiblo
knowledge uguinst any twenty I should
uet lu this country."
"Erasmus, you aro sure theno are
spring chickons?" "Yes. Missus. Dey
whur broughten up rile under my own
eyes." "You watched them growing
all lust spring?" Tes, Missus un'
all spring amre dot! Yah dey is
spring chickens." Epoch.
A man of Orlando, Flo,. Is the
owner of valuable Cevlon cat. The
principal distinguishing foiituro of
these cuts is that they have no tail.
They nro grout rabbit catchers, being
able to cfTectimlly deceive a rabbit by
feigning to bo ono, and boing able by
reuson of huvlug no tall to carry out
tbo docoptioti.
"Nosir," said tho oaitor to tho
pooU "Your work is rank plagiarism.
Now get out. Woll, what do you
want?" ho ndded, addressing the
humorist. "I havo some original
jokos " 'Don't wunt 'em. 1 can
got ull tho original humor I want out
of my exchanges. Good morning."
Harper's Buzar.
"Which do you lovo most, your
papa or your mamma?" Little
Charlio "I lovo nimn. mral "
Churlio's mothor "Whv. Charlie 1
am surprised at you. I thought you
loved me most." ChnHln rw
help It, mamma; wo men havo to hold
tojrothor. "Jflxos iUftln
- 'Vhou 'llodms Stop Easturner
"J understand tho croni, 1
Dugout City has collapsod." West
erner "les; no uso koopin' It coin'
ny longer. All tho land now is
owned by outsiders." N. Y. Wooklv-