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VOL. IV.
LEIIANON, OKEGON, Fill DAY, JANUAKY 1801.
NO. 4Gr
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J. A. BEARD,
Druggist and Apothecary,
DEALER IN
Pure Drugs and Medicines, Taints, Oil, Glass,
STATIONERY, FINE PERFUMERY, BRUSHES AND COMBS,
CIGARS AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES.
MAIN ST. LEBANON, ORG.
PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED.
EAST AXD SOUTH
-Y1A-
Soutliern Pacific Route.
TUB MOUNT SHASTA ROl'TK.
HXFRESS TXAlvS 1.XAYK 1MKTLAKD DAILY!
t .- P. M. 1-v Portland Ar 1 :Si A. M.
10:23 r.. l. Albany Ar-.1S a. M.
10:15 a.m. Ar Ban Francisco l.v 9 gWJuj;.
A bo to trains tp only at the following stations
north ot Roselmrg: East Portland, Oregon City,
Wood burn. Salem, Albany, TanKnt, Shedds,
llal-ey. Harrisbnrs, Junction Cliy, Irving aud
Eugene,
RMebnrf Mall Ually.
8:00 A. M. Lv Portland Arl 4sW P. M.
UHf. M. Lv Albany Ar14sK.
:0 P. M. Ar Koaelu. Lt 30 A. M.
Albany Local Xkaily (Except Sunday.)
6 s) P. M. 1 Lv Portland Ar I 9S) A. M.
S:00 p. M. Ar Albany 1-v S s JJC
Load Iwngrer Train Dally Exrrpt
Snnday.
S :aS P. M. I.v Albany - ArTsliiS A. iu
S:V p. M. I Ar Lebanon Lv B A. M.
? A. M. j Lv Albany Ar j :2s F. M.
8 :rl a t. Ar Lebanon Lv Shu P. M.
PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS.
Tourist Sleeping Cars
For accommodation of Second Class F-asseusvirs.
attached to Express trains.
WEST SIDE DIVISIOJC.
BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALUS.
Mail Train Dally (Except Sunday.)
V :30 A. M.
li :10 P. M.
I Lv
Ar
Portland
Corral Us
Arl 5::
Lv 1 IS a
:30 P. M.
S P. M.
At Albany and Oorvallls connect with trains of
Oregon Pacific Railroad.
(Express Train Daily Except Snnday.)
0 P. M. 1 Lv
t ii& P. M. J AT
Portland
McMlnnvlIle
Ar I 8 :2o A. M.
Lv 15:43 A. M.
S-ThroB h tickets to all points East and Bouth
or tlsketa and full information regarding
rates, maps, etc., call on Co's agnt at lebanon
K. KOEULKK, E. 1. KWiKKS.
Manager. Asst. I. . ft P. Agt
DR. C. H. DUCKETT,
D ENTI ST.
LEBANON', OREGON.
J. K. WEATHERFORD,
ATTORNEY- AT - LAW.
Office over First National Bank.
ALBANY, . . . - - OREtiOV.
. W. R. PILYEU,
ATTORNEY- AT- LAW.
ALBANY KEGON.
G. T. COTTON,
Dealer in
Groceries' and Provisions.
Tobacco and Cigars,
Smokers' Articles.
Foreign and Domestic Fruit s,
Confectionery,
---jueeii8ware and Glassware, Lamps and
. " Lamn Fixtures.
PAY CASH FOR EGGS.
Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon
J. L. COWAN.
J. M. RALSTON.
Bank of Lebanon,
LEBANON, OREGON.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO
CHECK.
Exchange sold on New York, San
rancisco, Portland and Albany, Org.
Collections made on favorable terms .
LEBANON
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Meat Market
ED. KELLLNBERGER, Prop.
Fkesh & Salted Beef, Pokk, Mut
ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham.
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R. L. McCLURE
(iirrcMnr lo C. 11. Harmon.)
Burlier : and : Hairdresser.
Lebanon, Oregon.
Shaving, Ilaircuttin"; and Shampoo
ing in the latest and best fl.vle. Spec-
(til UltailtlAll tV t B.aJi3ii t ' T.failiska
iui wtit iibiuii nti .m vs v iyc ns
hair. Your patronage resjiectfully stv
iiciieu.
I, 11. BOllUM.
Tonsorial Artist
A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair
Cut, Cleaned or Dressed.
Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours.
Children Kindly trwitrd. rait and see me.
CALIFORNIA.
llanford wants a new county to le
formed out of parts of Tulare and Fresno
counties.
The residence of J. K. Lynch ot Ala
meda was Rutted by tire Jan. 11 and
Anna Kunfemann, a domestic, jKM'ished
in it.
Assemblyman Younir has Introduced a
bill providing a tine of from $100 to $3000
for sciuntr liuuor to iersons iinuer in or
allowing them to play billiards in saloons.
SOLANO COVSTY.
John MtKenzie fell dead on the street
at Vallejo Jan. 6. He worked in the
navy-yard.
Natural gas has been found on the
ranch of James Hunter, three miles from
Vallejo.
Vacaville voted to incorporate but the
supervisors threw out the entire vote on
technical grounds.
AMADOR COUNTT.
The Drison directors fear that the
waste way of the dam for the 3 ,000,000-g-allon
reervolr for the school of industry
at lone la too small. The bursting of
the dam would be a great calamity to
the country below.
BVTTE COVNTY.
William Leonard, an old miner, fell
over a thirtv-foot embankment near
Thompson's Flat and broke his shoulder
blade. Manuel King, a teamster, had three of
his ribs broken, his shoulder dislocated
and his body otherwise bruised in a run
away accident near Oroviile.
Lew Jones, a miner, while traveling
alone- a county road Jumped over a ditch
ai'd landed on the eoacealed mouth of
on old mining shaft. The earth gave
way and Jones was precipitated to the
bottom, fifty feet, lie was hauled out
uninjured, but considerably shaken up.
CALAVERAS COUNTY.
Judge Lindsay's son fatally stabbed
Constable George Carson at Angels, Jan. 8.
The rope broke In the Utica mine shaft
Jan. 5 as the cage was going down with
nine men and they were all killed in the
fall which resulted.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY.
An explosion in the California powder
works at Pinole, Jan. 8, destroyed one of
the buildings killed a Chinaman and
rsbably fatally injured Fred Larsen and
C. Campbell.
FRESNO COUNTY.
Charles Schlllman confesses that J. E.
Williams gave him and Fred Miller $300
to burn an undertaking shop at Fresno
which was well insured. All three are
under Indictment and arrest.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
The saloonkeepers are fighting the
Sunday-closing ordinance, claiming that
it Is unconstitutional.
Alexander Campbell, foreman of the
Southern Pacific roundhouse at Los
Angeles, was run over by an engine Jan.
10 and probably fatally crushed.
Frank H. Mandeville tried to kill Mrs.
Millie Shaw at Los Angeles Jan. 3 be
cause she would not marry him. He
failed, and then he shot himself dead.
Martin Reagan, who was badly beaten
by Frank Glencross in a quarrel about
Glencross' stock trespassing on Keagan's
land near Downey, has died and Glen
cross has been held for manslaughter.
SONOMA COUNTY.
Frank Sargent has been arrested at
Santa Rosa, charged with embezzlement.
The acreage of grain is larger than
ever befere and the prospects are ex
cellent.
MERCED COUNTY.
Albert Whistler was killed by the burst
ing of his gun while hunting near Mer
ced Jan. 8.
Mrs. Perry McDowell was shot and
killed at Cottonwood Jan. 9. E. F. Hale
was arrested. The assassin tired through
the window of a house where Mrs. Mc
Dowell was visiting.
MOSO COUNTY.
James lownsend of the Homer Index
was imprisoned in a mining tunnel by a
snowsude and was dug out again alter
three days.
NAPA COUNTY.
Burglars blew open A. Hatt's safe at
Mapa Jan. 10 ana got
James FlamanL Lee Harrall and Bert
Blanchard. Nana boys, have uleaded
guilty to arson. Sentence was suspended
and tney were sent to tne xsoys ana
Uirls Aid society in ban .rraneisco.
NEVADA COUNTY.
The Grass Valley mines shut down
Jan. 10, the ditches that supply them
with water power naving rrozen up.
PLACER COUNTY. , V
7mn.n t-:i . -.i t -1 -. r
Emilia 1 1 y t tt DOVOU-yoU'l.. ft" 1
Auburn, whlK recoverlngfjoin the diph
theria was aflT ted wit'. -.lot e ? eoagm
tatea tuoou -.ie ir--. oi tne
left leg. A v . M-tifl'
SAXTA CI.AHA COUNTY.
The fruit buyers of the county have
formed an organization to grade fruit.
SANTA CKVZ COUNTY.
Santa Crua la overrun with tram.
SHASTA COUNTY.
J. Ollison's 6-vear-old son and 8-year-
uaugnier it'll into a ihuhi and w
drowned near Logan's Ferry Jan. 0.
ere
SlERllA COUNTY.
Michael Foely lost three lingers and a
thumb while thawing out a glnnt car
tridge at liownievillo Jan. 5.
ALAMElA COUNTY.
Oakland demands a induction. In view
of increased tire facilities, ot Insurance
rates, but has not got It.
Mrs. Anna Minotta Valergii, wife of
Frank Yalerga, died at Oakland Jan. V
from a criminal operation of which she
accused Mrs. Dr. Dale of 'H Golden Gate
avenue, Kttn Franclact for whowe arrest
a warrant was issued.
STANISLAUS COUNTY.
T. Wallnce's stable at Modesto was
burned Jan. 7 and Jacob Clnynool, 16
years old. and twenty-two hormu were
burned with it.
BUTTER COUNTY. V
O. Coekiill of Pennington foil dead on
a tratn liound for San Francisco lielow
Sacramento Jan 8,
J. N. Hodefer lost four lingers of his
left hand while sawing wood with a cir
cular saw at Yuba city Jan. 5.
TULARE COUNTY.
Edgar Woods of Woodvllle, a deaf
mute, was run over by a train at Vlsalla
Jan. h and probably fatally Injured.
PACIFIC COAST.
It Is reorted that De Young and Hearst
of the Chronicle and Kxamluer will start
a pajer mill at Oregon City.
ALASKA.
A road is to be built to the Yukon
diggings.
The federal government wants an ap
propriation to purchase reindeer with
which to stoek the territory.
Secretary Noble has promL-W to send
a bill to eongress providing for a terri
torial government for Alaska.
The culture of apples and cherries will
be given a trial, a lot ot trees going up
this spring, and there Is promise that
Alaska may prove a tine Hold for this
branch of horticulture.
ARIZONA.
A jmssenger train was thrown from
the track by a broken rail at Walnut
station, near Flagstaff, Jan. 9, and Kngi
teer George Hauler was killed. Nobody
else was hnrt.
John Snyder, assessor of Pima eount,
was counting the money in htsoflleethe
other day, when he was Interrupted by
the entrance of three masked men, who
took the county funds away from him
at the point of a revolver. There were
$4000 In the drawers.
Four Modoe Indians have been held
for trial at Solomonvllle for forging Cap
tain Uullis' name to a check ror f r23.
They dated the check Sept. 31, which
caused it to be sent back from the San
Francisco Bub-treasury for eorree'ion,
when it proved to be a forgery.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The boundaries of Victoria have been
greatly enlarged.
NEVA1A.
Tuscarora's Chinatown had a $1100 lire
Jan. 10.
The Alta mine has been closed down.
the directors being out of ore above the
Sutro tunnel level and unwilling to pump.
NKW MEXICO.
Albuuuerque is flooded with counterfeit
quarters ot Issh.
Ken 8. Thompson, an engineer, was
killed by his engine jumping the track
with him at Johnson s canyon, Jan. X
Wells, Fargo .t Co. are Agisting a bill
in the legislature to tax express com
panies per cent ot trieir net earnings.
Roulgla Abeytla, a wealthy Indian and
chief among those at Isleta, was called
to his door and shot dead during the
night ot Jan. 5 and there is no clue to
the assassin.
The Hold watch taken from Frank
Sperling and the razor with which he
was killed at hocorro nave been found.
There is a strong case against a Mexican
now in jail for the murder.
Charles B. Bailey was killed while un
coupling cars at Pendleton Jan. 4.
David Patterson, a deaf mute, was run
ower and killed by a Northern Pacllic
train at Portland Jan. 6.
The Union Pacific came to the rescue
ot the suffering employes of tho con
tractors and paid tneni on.
The Portland constables are l aiding
the gamblers because they refuse to pay
the constables as well as the police for
immunity.
Captain William McDonald, as he called
himself, who was arrested at Portland as
William Stuart Brooks for an English
forgery Jand discharged, has ben re
arrested. Bruce Blessing, 14 years old, was shot
In the eye by his brother, probably fatally,
while thev were playing with a pistol at
Portland Jan. 9.
J. W. Pengra of Springfield was given
an almost fatal blow on the head with a
tobacco cutter by Marshal Mulligan, who
had taken up Pengra's horses when they
were turned out to water and with whom
Pengra had got into a dispute Jan. 4.
WASHINGTON. "
A freight train ran into a herd of
cattle near Spckano Falls Jan. 5 and was
wrecked.
The Union Pacille Is expected to finish
the line from the Willamette at Portland
to Puget sound immediately.
Franklin D. Hughes of Tacoina lost all
his money in real estate speculation at
Des Moines and after six attempts at
suicide which were failures killed himself
Jan. 6.
Samuel Brinker, whose wife would not
live with him on account of his dissipa
tion, attempted suicide at Tacoma Jan. 9
but the poison he had taken was pumped
out ot him.
John Miles, one of the Spokane cattle
thieves, was so wounded, though not ar
rested, when the others were arrested
that he fell dead In the road while riding
to town for treatment.
An organized gang of horso thieves is
reported from Whitman county. They
drive the animals oil the ranges to the
nearest railroad station and ship them
ear t. Three carloads of horses were thus
shipped from Spokane to St. Paul.
The Van Cleve brothers. Jack Conley,
August August and George Mulls were
arrested at Spokane Falls Jan. 9 for cattle
stealing. Bands of cattle were stolen by
the gang and slaughtered In the night
and the meat taken to the market in the
city in the morning.
Herbert John Ames, one of the Inmates
ot Hammond's notorious Cleveland-street
house In London, who has been in Seattle
with Hammond, seeing Hammond in the
penitentiary where he was not afraid of
him, has made a confession giving the
names of six of the aristocratic visitors
at the London resort.
Several packers and miners In Okano
gan county have recently been killed. A
freighter named Coles was killed a few
weeks ago and several Indians were ar
rested. One of them was taken from the
county jail and lynched and indignation
runs high among the Okanogan Indians,
who have held four councils and - are re
ported ready to start on a campaign of
revenge. The county commissioners
asked the governor for arms and he sent
200 stand.
Smokers should be smaFfc-enugr? to
s-'--jw that the genuine "'Seal xt - rth
PJugCut" costs A,heml"'"
acco. t 'ieb 4um(?
Ghtri'cnf Bctus.
THE WAR CLOUD CONE.
Hlalne Auks tit Arbitration of Hip ItrlirUig
Sea Ou-ttoM.
There Is no longer a probability of
hostilities between Kngllsh and Amorlcan
shls on Ik'hrlng sea, and the orders for
Increasing the American force there are
explained. Tho report of Special Agent
Elliott, who was sent to the sea to in
vestigate the reports that there wore few
seals left, has been filed at Washington
and Blaine, In view of tho evidence it
contains that ono or two more seasons
will exterminate the seals, has changed
his tactics ami asks, In a letter of Dec.
17 to Sir Julian Pauncefote, that the two
governments send a commission to see
ror Itself which lies, Tingle or Elliot, and
that the entire question at Issue be re
ferred to otbltrallou. Ills suggestion
docs not, as has been stated Ju some of
the pajiers, dodge the Issue of sovereignty
In Behring sea, but ho asks that the fol
lowing questions be submitted to what
ever arbitrators may be chosen.
"First What exclusive jurisdiction on
the sea now known as Behring sea, and
what exclusive right in the seal fisheries
therein, did Russia assert aud exercise
prior and up to the time of the cession
or Alaska to the United States?
"Second How rar were those cluims
or Jurisdiction as to the Bcal fisheries
recognized and conceded by Great Britain ?
"Third Was the body of water known
as the Behring sea Included In the phrase
" Pacific Ocean ' as used In the treaty of
1823 between Great Britain and Russia,
and what rights, It any. In the Behring
sea were given or conceded to Great
Britain by the said treaty?
Fourth Did not all the rights of
Russia as to jurisdiction and as to the
seal fisheries in the Behring sea east of
the water boundary In the treaty be
tween the United States and Russia of
March 30, 17, pass unimpaired to the
United States under that treaty?
" Fifth What are now . the rights of
the United States as to the fur seal fish
eries In the waters of the Behring sea
oubude of the ordinary territorial limits?
Whether such rights grow out of the
cessiou by Russia of any special rights
or the jurisdiction held by her In such
fisheries or in the waters of the Behring
ea or out of the ownership of the breed
ing islands and habits ot the seals In re
porting thither and rearing their young
thereon and going out from the island
for rood, or out or any other Tact or In
cident connected with the relation or
those seal fisheries to territorial jvisses
slous or the United States.
"Sixth H the determination or the
roregoing questions shall leave the sub-jH.-t
la such a position that a concur
rence or Great Britain Is necessary In
prescribing regulations for the killing or
fur seals in any part of the waters of
the Behring sea, then it shall be further
determined :
"First How far, if at all, outside of
the ordinary territorial limits Is It neces
sary that the United States should exer
cise exclusive jurisdiction In order to
protect the seals for the time living uMn
the tslands of the United States and feed
ing therefrom.
" Second Whether a closed season, dur
ing which the killing of seals in the
waters or the Behring sea outside or the
ordinary territorial limits shall be pro
hibited. Is necessary to save the seai
Osldng Industry, bo valuable and im
portant to mankind, from deterioration
or destruction? And If so,
" Third, what months or parts of months
should be Included In such a season, aud
over what waters It should extend?"
Blaine proposes to protect the seals
this year, it appears, and with that end
In view the naval force in Behring sea
Is to be strengthened, but he consents to
submit the question of jurisdiction to
arbltiation, which he has refused to do
heretofore, because It Is evident that pre
vious reports of treasury agents have
been erroneous and that a few yoars of
dallying with the question will leave no
seals to protccL
Meantltno the Victoria sealers have
varied their usual proeeeduro by sending
a man to Washington to ask what course
the United States proposes to pursue
toward them In Behring sea this year.
The Itarrnndia fane Again.
The letter of Secretary Tracy of the
navy to Commander Reiter, who has
been detatched from the service because,
being tho senior commander in the
Guatemalan part of San Jose, ho did not
interfere to prevent the seizure ot Bar
rundia on board the American ship Aca
pulco, has been published. In It Tracy
says:
Your ships were on the spot; you had
full knowledge ot General Barrundla's
approach; you wero Informed of tho In
tention to sob.o him as a political offender.
He was not a fugitive from tho territory
ot Guatemala seeking to escapo terri
torial jurisdiction, neither was ho a con
spirator attempting . to return to his
country to foment a revolution. Ho was
a passenger on board an American ship,
which he hod joined in Mexico with ids
destination for Panama, and he had thus,
without your intervention and outside of
local jurisdiction, obtained a place under
the flag and protection of tho United
States. In this situation you found him
and his safety was threatened. Under
these circumstances it was your plain
duty to proceed at once to meet the
steamer, beforo she cast anchor m port,
to warn the captain or tho danger and
offer to his passenger, should ho desire
It, an asylum on board your ship. Even
after the arrival ot the Acapulco In port
your power of discretionary action was
by no means taken away.
It Is believed that few cases have ever
occurred In the history of the United
States navy whero a commanding officer
so completely abandoned the responsi
bility of his position as, according to
your own showing, you did upon this
critical occasion. A United States officer
does not ask of foreign governments
permission to offer an asylum to any
person on board an American vessel at
sea who stands in need of refuge. An
officer who so abdicates his authority
and that of the nation he represents and
surrenders It to others has a lesson to
learn before be can safely be intrusted
with the eommand of a ship of war.
A child should have a garden if only
In a window box; but happy are the
children who have a great wild garden
r.f t.KAif Awn mmn flTld ran crt In. fji
experiment with, to give them a love of
e soll."Td a bit of the earth hunger
Scl From the State I'nlvrrxlty,
The following aie offered In addition lo
those heretofore announced, to be for
warded from the slate university by E.
J. Wlckson, Berkeley, free of cost except
tho sums named which are to pay for
packing and postage:
Block Wattle ( Acacia decurrens ). This
tree has demonstrated Its adaptation to
most California climates. Is a rapid grower
and very desirable as a shade or orna
mental tree as well as for Its economic
Importance as the source ot tho wattle
lult ot commerce. Small troou sent out
front tho university are already bearing
sed in several localities In the state.
General success Is reported with seed
previously sent out, where the seed has
been put In boiling water and allowed to
stand aud cool li hours before planting.
Otherwise the seed may not gei minute
until tho second year. Tho seed Is small,
and a packet properly handled should
give trees far a" largo plantation; 2c a
luu-ket by mail.
Licorice. This luiHrtant commercial
plant has demonstrated lis adaptation to
California conditions, and offers Induce
ments to those who have suitable luiuls.
The Importation of licorice from Europe
to the United States Is very large and
the market for the local product U very
promising. Isaac Iea of Florin, Sac
ramento county, our largest producer,
obtains He a pound for dried, medium
sized roots, such as druggists use, ami
the manufacture ot stick licorice would
probably iay even better. If one would
give the effort needed to succeed In Its
production. Licorice produces lat on
low, moist ground. Land that Is over
flowed In winter suits it well and sub
mergence does not Injure the plant. It
will, however, grow on almost any soil.
The roots should be planted In rows four
feet apart, the roots filiced one foot apart
In the row and cultivated like corn. Har
vesting Is done by plowing out with a
strong team or digging with spades. The
plants which we send to each applicant
will soon give mils enough to plant a
large area If desire I. Let It be remem
bered, however, that licorice In laud
which Is desired for other purposes Is a
troublesome weed and hard to eradicate.
We send tlve root cuttings to each aw
plicant; lue by malt, poettald.
IKsier Willows. The demand for the
choice varieties of Austrian Osier willows,
which we grew from cuttings received
from the United States department ot
agriculture, soon exhausted the supplies
available last year. We have therefore
produced a larger supply for this year's
distribution. Nine varieties sent In lots
of 10 ot a kind ; llhs a lot or one dozen
assorted, 2'c by mail.
Mulberries. Cuttings of the following
kinds ran be had: Multicaulls; Alba;
Russian; Downlng's Ever-bearing; Lhoo;
Nagasaki. Sent in lots of 10 ot a kind ;
loe a lot or 12 cuttings assorted, 2'Y' by
mall.
Resistant Grape Vines. These vines are
not desirable for trult-bearliig, but are
offered to those desiring to test them as
stocks for grafting. Cuttings of the fol
owing species of Vltls can can be had :
Clnerea; Aestivalis; Cordlfolia; Candl
cans; Riparla; Arizonlca; Californica;
MoiiUcoln; Novo. Mexlcana; Rupestris;
Vulplna; Romanetl; Spido-vitis Davidll.
Sent in lots of 10 ot a kind ; lOu a lot or
a dozen assorted, 2 k) by mall.
Fruit Tree Scions. The university or
chard contains upward ot 500 named
varieties of fruit, and our report on " Ag
ricultural Experiment Slat Luis," 1S.H),
pages 182 to 187, contains a full list. This
report will bo sent to all npplicauts
who may order any of the varieties
named. We may not be ablo to supply
all applications for sonio of the newer
varieties, liecauso the trees are small.
We do not furnish rooted trees, but
scions, for grafting. We do not send
large quantities of any variety, because
the object Is to test varieties and not to
furnish material ror commercial proaga
tion. Send 10c ror each dozen or a single
kind, or 20c tf a dozen or assorted vari
eties Is ordered.
I'ertlnent faraR-raplia.
The shipment of several carloads of
Butte and other northern county oranges
to tho east this year has answered the
contemptuous question which has hereto
fore been asked ot champions of tho
northern citrus belt: "How many car
loads of oranges do you Bhip in a year?"
It does not provo that orange raising
will bo profitable in tho north.
Cotton raising Is not likely to provo
profitable In California until wages fall,
and it is probably best to go on In the old
way, getting good pay for work and
buying the cotton cheaper work else
where has produced.
Sorghum can be grown and syrup man
ufactured at a profit In this state. There
Is no question or that any longer. The
syrup Is prererred to tho many kinds of
drips" that fill tho market by those
who have tried it. Yet the demand Is
not very lively. When the people are
educated up to its use, as they will be in
lime, this will be an Important branch of
California agriculture, for tho sweet tooth
is being developed In the American race
at a rapid rate.
The olive district In Italy suffered Jan.
7 from the severest weather ever known
there.
The Minneapolis Tribune says the west
ern farmers began business on borrowed
capital and have made more money In
loss time than any otherclass of men
have ever made.
Wo do not believe In taxing oleomar
garine or cotton seed oil, but we favor a
law that will compel the selling of such
articles for just what they are, the only
tax being an amount suiucient to cover
the expense ot their Inspection. We ob
ject to oleomargarine being sold as but
ter or a compound oi cotton seeu ou to
bo sold as lord. Let all food products
bo properly named so purchasers will
know just what they are. Western
Farmer.
"No farmer owning suitable land for
garden vegetables with a village market
near by should complain of hard times
as long as his village neighbors obtain
their vegetables and fruits through a city
market,' says an exchange. A large part
of the green grocery supplies which come
to large cities are sent thence into
country towns to sbpply a demand that
could just as well bo tilled by local cul
tivators. Shame on such an extravagant
system of living.
We never saw tho soil too rich for tho
apple. Kitchen ashes, in which the table
refuse Is thrown, is an excellent top
dressing for apple trees. Good ditch
scraointrs are better than nofflinir. The
apple borer leads to starvation oftener
than poor soil, as the supply of food is
cut off by every move the borer makes.
War on borers with wire and lack knife.
Paper tarred, or smeared with printer's
ink. put on in May, will keep the borers
out, and last three years. Gardener's
(Scncral Bcius.
UNITED STATES.
The glass trust fizzled.
Richfield Center, N. Y has been burned.
Smallpox Is becoming epidemic in
Texas.
George M. Storra, son of the late Emory
fitorrs, Is Insane.
A professor of sculling Is added to the
faculty of Harvard college.
The Santt Fe and Missouri Pacific rail
roads are likely to lw eousolidated.
The striking shoemakers at Rochester,
N. YM have surrendered and agreed to
leave the union.
The rnllru'tds of the country prowne
to cease issuing any but limited time
passenger tickets.
James Murphy, a saloon keeper ' in
Chicago, was tortured and robbed of
$15(i0 Jan. 7 by masked men.
Counterfeit $5 pieces which few experts
can detect and which contuln $4 4') worth
of gold are In circulation In the east.
Commander Reiter, removed from the
Ranger for not preventing the arrest of
Barruudia, demands a naval court-martini.
A gang of burglars from 9 to 12 years
old, who have long been robbing busi
ness houses In Kent, O, have been ar
rested. The United StaUs government Is to be
axked to guarantee the Nlgaragua canal
lMtnds and thus Insure the building of
the canal.
Two stores and a double four-story
tenement In which 11XNI Hungarians lived
like pigs were burned at Bergen Point,
N. J., Jan. 7.
Dr. Schllemunu's will shows that he
was an American citizen. He left 100,000
frttiics to his divorced first v ife, who
lives in Indianaiiolis.
Anglican Bisli p J. B. Jenner of De
troit has been fined $23 for cutting down
some siiade trees lit violation of a city
ordinance. He has appealed.
Five men were captured while break
ing Into the safe of Diamond Broker J.
O. Murray In Chicago Jan. 9. One of
them afterward etcaed In the darkness.
The secretary of the treasury says he
proiMises to Mop the coming Into this
country from Canada of sealed railroad
cars without customs inspection at the
frontier.
Cavalry have been detailed to guard
Yiemlte park and the newly established
Sequoia park where Haskell and other
Kaweah colonists are accused of tres
passing. The Free American Colonization com
pany ot Washington petitions congress
tor a loan of $i,(io),0oo at a low rale of
Interest tor forty years to enable the
negroes to form a colony In Lower, Cal
ifornia. The consumption remedies of Dr.
Khurly In Chicago and Dr. Bruse in New
York are beating the Koch lymph, the
New York remedy curing cases so far
gone that Koch s remedy would not
touch them.
E. T. Williams, charged at Arkansas
City, Kau., with the seduction and at
tempted murder of a young girl, has
been arrested at Tacoma. He pixmlsed
to marry the girl, eloied with her and
tried to ioison ner.
William Lame, William Wiseman. John
Wiseman, RoU-rt HagKerty and Edward
Jones were dangerously wounded and
several others seriously hurt with pistols,
knives, stones, dubs aud lists in a con
troversy at a religious meeting at West
Fork, lud., Jan. 6.
Up to Jan. 11 there had been no more
fighting la the Bad Lands. The Indians
were completely surtouuded by Miles'
soldiers. Lieutenant Casey, while scout
ing near the hostile' camp, met a Brule
and an Ogallala. The latter warned him
that he was in danger and he turned to
go back, when the Brule shot him dead.
FOREICN.
rj volution Is reported lu Chill.
Italy Is pleased with the McKlnley act.
Uruguay resumed specie payments
Jan. 8.
The Glasgow strike has caused riots
and bloodshed.
A man froze to death on the street at
Preston, Eng., Jan. 8.
A telephone cable will probably be laid
from Dover to Calais.
Gold went to 229 per cent premium in
Buenos Ayres Jan. 9.
Turkey is alarmed at the number and
activity of Russian spies.
A coal-mine explosion in Polish Ostran
Jan. 3 killed sixty persons.
The victory of tho shipowners over the
strikers at null was complete.
Railroad travel was stopped by snow
all over northern Europe Jan. 6.
The Indian government proposes to
raise the age of consent from 10 to 12.
Sai toils, Nellie Grant's husband, was
on Jan. 11 reported dying from delirium
tremens.
The Central American republics ask
the United States to ssnd them separate
ministers. "
Germany now allows tho Importation
of pork from every country except the
t inted States.
There is a scheme on foot to have the
United States become practically the
owner of the Nidaragua canal.
The debt of Portugal has increased 400
per cent in forty years and the expenses
oi me government ouu per cent.
Tho report comes from New Guinea of
tho massacre of forty inhabitants of a
village by cannibals, who also looted the
village.
Brazil proposes to open her continental
exposition in January, 1893, and after a
rew moutns transfer tne wnole exhibit
to the Chicago world's fair.
Tho Glasgow railroad strikers have
been evicted from the houses thev oc
cupied, which belonged to the railroad
companies, but not without violence.
Gustavo Rothschild, having lost $25.-
000,000 in speculations, attempted suicide
in raris Put nis vaiet caugnt him in the
act, knocked the pistol out of his hand
aud saved his life.
Russia Is refunding her 4l-oer-cent
debt at 4 per cent and it is reported that
Uotnscmid, uieicnrooor & jj'sconto and
the St. Petersburg bank will take the
whole loan of $00,000,000.
Large smelting works aie to be built
at Sun Luis Potosl, Mex the result of
tho duty imposed on silver-bearing lead
ores brought from that country which
tne jiciwuiey act imposes.
The United states Is liko'y to demand
from Spain Indemnity for the seizins' of
tho property of American missionaries at
t'onupe and tne stopping of their work.
as weu as tneir restoration.
During service in the church of St.
Michael at Havre a man walked in, with
kindlings bound around him and a rope
around his neck, the outfit beintr soaked
with coal oU, and set fire to himself and
was burned to death before the blaze
could be put out.
Germany did not recall Emln as re
ported, but made him governor of the
lake recion of tho German East African
possessions, a position coveted by Wise
man, r.min nas established a fort i nod
station at Bukobo, on the 'shore of Vic
toria Nyanza, and is returning to the
coast.
The sultan of Vitu, whom the British
deposed because some Germans who had
been arrested for rioting were killed
while trying to escape, has headed the
natives of Lamu in a revolt and the
British consul has asked the sultan of
Zanzibar for troops.
The grand duke ' of Mecklenbur-g
Schwerln, representing an older and
Rri"?e5..no"2eJinan "SEPVvewta. A Jewish father has
family and has asked Bismarck to take
the presidency of the grand ducal min
istry. Though Bismarck declined, Em
peror William Is uneasy at the action o
the grand duke, who is connected with
the Russian imperial family by marriage
Keliool I,lllirhron.
A large number of school children are
compelled to eat one dally meal, or an
apology for one, out of n lunch basket
on account of the arrangement of ses
sions In cities and long distances to walk
In the country.
If every child were sure of a substantial
breakfast and the appetite to eat it, a
light luncheon might be sufficient, just
as the hurried business wan finds that
In tho rush of mid-day work a simple
meal Is sufficient and all that bis ex
cited nerves wl'l allow tils stomach to
digest. But he wants a good breakfast
and a substantial six o'clock dinner.
The child ought not to eat a heavy
dinner so late and must depend more
upon the othar two meals for material
for growth and activity.
If the mother provides white bread and
coffee for her child's breakfast and a
doughnut aud piece of cake for luncheon,
she has not furnished power to keep the
little body and brain in good condition;
the lack may show Itself in Irritability
of temper or stomach, in dullness ot
mental powers or by stunted growth.
Children need fats and sweets to fur
nish warmth for the body; those are the
fuel foods classified by scientists as car
bonaceous. A due proportion of another
group ot foods called nitrogenous, to
make flesh and force, are also needed.
The fats should be given them In sweet
butter or warm beef or mutton rather
than cold pork or tallow; the sweets in
wholesome light cokes or in pure loaf
and maple sugar, not In unwholesome
candy. Beef, mutton and eggs, whole
wheat and oatmeal are some of the sub
stances that will help growth of bone and
muscle.
Appetizing as well as healthful things
to be recommended for school luncheons
are whole wheat, (not graham,) bread
made into loaves and sliced or sometimes
baked in rolls, corn meal bread, old
fashioned rye and Indian bread ; tender
boiled or baked beef, and poultry baked,
broiled or boiled. The pork given to
children should be eaten warm with
vegetables and la not suitable for lunch
eon. Hard boiled eggs are excellent and
by " hard boiled " Is meant thirty minutes
cooking or until the egg Is dry and
mealy and thoroughly digestible; ten
minutes boiling makes an e?g pasty and
unhealthful food. Eggs are extremely
digestible cooked soft by putting them
into boiling water and placing the pan
where the water will keep hot but not
boll for ten minutes. Custards, blauc
mange or corn starch and rice puddings
may lie baked or moulded in cups. Plain
gingerbread, light tea cake, sponge cake.
cream and molasses cookies are a suffici
ent variety from which to make a selec
tion. Fastidious people insist that a
luncheon should be packed In a paste
board box which can be thrown away
and a new box used for fresh food. But
mothers of a family of school children
And it the best way to furnish baskets
with lids; these may be hung out to air
over-night and with occasional washings
are kept sweet and clean. An air-tight
tin pail makes all food placed in it taste
alike and gives a combination of flavors
mat takes away rrora the appetite. Cot
tage Hearth.
Cbrbttian Teinperavee Women,
The quarterly meeting of the executive
board of the California Woman's Christian
Temperance Union was held In San Fran
cisco Jan. 6, airs. It. it. Johnston pre
siding. -
After fervent devotional services eon-
ducted by the president the following
reports were received and accepted :
Mrs. Nellie B. Eyster, superintendent ot
juvenile work, reported that at the pres
ent time 6000 children were enrolled on
the lists of the "light Infantry."
Mrs. A. B. Gove, superintendent of
prison work, after speaking eloquently of
the work for the building of a home
for discharged prisoners In Oakland, re
ported that a dozen ex-convicts had been
reclaimed and were now leading ex
emplary lives. She also gave notice that
she would present the claims of the homo
for recognition before the legislature.
Mrs. Van Falk of Oakland and Dr. Van
Kirk reported upon the labor fund, to
which all the union women pledge them
selves to earn $1 each, and predicted that
a large sum would be raised, as there
are 5000 such workers now under pledge.
The superintendent of franchise and
Mrs. S. G. Chamberlain protested stren
ously against the proposed uniform
license law, and urged the presentation
of a petition against it to the legislature,
which they stated a number of the ladies
of the union would be willing to present
and urge.
After agreeing that the annual School
of Methods should be held at Pacific
Gre ve in July next and arranging a pro
gramme for the same the board, after
passing several resolutions ot sympathy,
adjourned.
Keep the ITies Down.
The house fly la a very thirsty animal
and cannot go over 3G hours without
water at hand; so one of the simplest
observances of the vigilant housewife is
to keep no liquids around in any way
accessible to them. They are in this
way easily kept away from rooms where
food need not be, and the rooms do not
have to be shrouded in semi-Egyptian
darkness to keep them out either. The
early fly, like the early "worm, la, after
all, the easiest to catch, the hardships
being all the "up and at it" part of the
performance. They come in scant num
bers, big and lazy here in winter. One
finds no trouble in catching them one
by one with the fingers. Later they get
lively and saucy too numerous by far.
unless kept down by an occasional dose
of "buhach" or persistently trapped.
Here la a recipe for a good fly extermin
ator: Take a teaspoonful ot black pepper,
one teaspoonful of brown sugar and one
teaspoonful of cream; mix them well
together and place them in a room on a
plate where flies are troublesome and
they will soon disappear.
Persecution of Jews in Rossia.
Advices from St. Petersburg state that
whole villages of Jews are being depop
ulated on the pretense that they are
within the forbidden districts of the
frontier, and in some Instances where
the villages are not really within fifty
been fined
because his son did not appear for con
scription, the son having died when an
infant many years before. The estates
which the Jews are compelled to abandon
IV .:.
lng obtained
aer eong.
by land speculators
Josephine In Her VoutU.
St Amand'i "Citizeness Bon parte
In her interesting memoirs the Jjuchess
of Abrantes speak of the effeet nvo. ;
dnced on that day by Mine. Bonaparte
nnu ni me. i allien, wno were two of
the principal ornaments of this pa
triotic festival.
'Mme. Bonaparte." she says, "was
still charming. As for Mine. Tallien.
she was then la the flower of her won
derful beauty. Both were dressed
after the fashion of antiquity, which
was at that time regarded as the height
of elegance, and hi sumptuously as
was possible for the middle of the dar.
Junot must sure! bare been Terr
proud to gire bis arm to two such
charming women when they left the
inrectory alter tne reception. - -
"Junot was then 35 years old ; he was a
handsome young man and bad a most
striking niartialair; on that day be
wore s inajrDificent uniform of
Colonel of hussars (the p&ilorm of
ifcjrchini.) and all that tas richness of
such a dress could add to bis fine ap
pearance had been employed to make
the young and brave messenger, who
was still pale from the wounds which
bad stained those Sags, worthy of the
army be represented. On learinir be
offered his arm to Mme. Bonaparte. .
wno natt precedence .is the wife of his
General, especially on this formal oc
casion; the other be crave to Mme.
Tallien. and thus be descended the
staircase of the Luxembourg. "
Would not Junot. as Colonel of
bnssars, with Josephine on one arm'
and Mme. Tallien on the other, on the
staircase of the palace of Maria de'
Medici, make a charming subject of
a genre picture? The Duchess of
Abrantes describes the excitement of
the crowd, who were anxious to see the
young hero and the two fashionable
beauties.
The throng," she savs, "was num
berless. They surged and pressed for a
oeuer view.
"See; there's bis wife! That's his
aid-de-carapl -How young be isl And
how pretty she is!" Long live Gen.
Bonaparte!' shouted the people. Loaej
live Citizeness Bonaparte; she is kind
to the poor!'
xes, yes. said a fat market
woman; she is certainly Our Lady of
the Victories.'"
What She Feared.
The car was filled with excursionists
returning from the exposition, says the
Pittsburg Dispatch. Erery seat con
tained a pair of Buckeye lovers. The
fast bear died in Ohio some time ago,
but the art of hogging has survived.
It was the midnight express, and the
air was right chilly, bat not a soul
noticed that except a poor, little mar
ried roan who sat alone in the half seat
by the nnlighted stove. He looked
down the car and noticed that ap
parently all the yonng men were one
armed ; "at least but one arm of each
male was visible. The light in the car
was very low, however, aud that may
account for the phenomenon.
Lovers like twilight; if Adam and
Eve did not sing "la the Gloaming" it
was because they knew a fresher song.
And it was twilight in that car, lor all
three double lamps were turned down
very low, and before the train was out
of the Alleghany yards the flame in one
of them had sputtered, flared a mo
ment, and expired. C?f coarse every
girl in the car was alarmed when the
gloom deepened. Every girl got a lit-1
tie closer to her protector, and a lew
minutes later, when the second lamp
began to show signs of collapse tne
flame leaping np frantically as if afraid
to die about a dozen pianissimo
screams came from as many feminine
throats.
The conductor opened the door a
few minutes later and the draught
finished lamp number two. This left
one lamp alight at the rear end of the
car. How anxiously it was observed!''
Would it ro out? It looked consump
tive, but there was no draught to ex
pedite its decease. At last the train
whistled for its first stop ana the little
married man came out of his corner by
the stove to alight. He had been a
bachelor once, ana ne remembered it
as be laid bis hand on the door-knob.
The train had not stopped, but he
opened the door, and immediately a
gust of wind murdered the last lamp.
As he stood iu the doorway inhaling
cinders and river fog he had the satis
faction of hearing a sweet, low voice
murmur behind him: "Oh, George, I
was so afraid!"
Of what, my darling?"
"That that lamp would never go
out!"
His Trained Tarantula. - van."
A half-breed boy of Mexican and
Indian blood recently attracted much
attention at Winslow. A. T.. by the f
performances of an educated tarantula
he owns, says the Philadelphia Times.
He carries the big, formidable-looking '
insect in a large wooden box slung
about bis neck, which, when exhibiting i
his pet, he places on the ground as a - '
sort of stage. At the command of its i
master the tarantula mounted a small
ladder, rang a bell and performed oa f
a miniature trapeze. Then, to the ;
thumping of a tambourine in the hands
of the boy, it proceeded to revolve
slowly about, as if waltzing, and when
it had finished saluted the crowd by,
lifting one leg three times. : -
After its performance was over it
crawled to its master's shoulder, where '
it sat, occasionally running around his
neck or down into his bosom. The " . ,
boy says be tamed the spider when it, ,
was yonng. first by feeding it everi i
day until it grew accustomed to him, V
then gradually taught it the tricks it
knows. He declares that it is mud
more intelligent than any dog and '
very tractable, though uncompromis-f
ing in its enmity to anyone but him-'
self. It is as large as a silver dolls''
when cnrled up, though its legs a' -two
or three inches long. ,
.The body is an ugly d all brown, j
covered with short, coarse black hair, l
which also covers the limbs, bnt is ,
very sparse and bristly. The eyes are
small and gleam like diamond points,',
while the month is furnished with
slender, overlapping fangs. The powe
of spring in these creatures is said t.
be something incredible, a leap ofr-ta
feet being no tremendous exertion."
The boy who owns the only one which'
has ever made friends with any othe
living creature is from the Mogolla; - .
mountains.
Gethsemaae's Garden. . -j
It is said that a wealthy gt
of Liverpool has purchased the
of Gethsemane, near Jerusn
which the Savior passed the . '
fore his crucifixion. Th .
was made in ordar to ." . x
lators from carrying f .
of building on the . - "v."
hotel for toe ac -
tat -arj-: - -
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.Alontmy. .
and by sympathy. I tot.