NEWS ITEMS.
The Walla Walla Liberal Club has
been incorporated
There are oiilv seventy prisoners in
. toe Idaho penitentiary.
Another militia company has been or
ganized at linker City.
A fire company is one of Milton's lab-st
wautH that will re tilled
Many handsome salmon arc noiv being
taken from the Umatilla.
State Senator Watkins, of The Dalles,
who baa been very ill, ih improving
Julius Koesch, whose brewery burned
down at La (rrandu recently, is rebuild
in.
W. W. .Journal : The 0. & W. T. (Train
elevator in this city w ill hold 110,000
bushels and is now ready tor business.
A gambler named Howard was killed
in a variety theater at I'alouse City re
cently by a young man named (. r. l;ox.
More lruit trees than ever helot e are
being set out in Walla Walla this soring.
The Garden 1'itv is blossoming as the
rose.
Ninety-four pounds of opium were re
cently sold at public auction at Port
Townsend hv the United States marshal
for $1200.
Whitman count v delinquent taxes
amount to $19,500. of which $8940 is
against the Northern Pacific Kailroad
Company.
Geo. Thomas, who was hit over the
head with a revolver some time ago,
while tending bar for Joe Crabb, of
Walla Walla, is not expected to live.
The drain pipe excavation on Main
street, Walla Walla, caved in Wednesday
afternoon, covering two men completely,
Pe er Herron, one of them, being badly
injured.
l.a Grande Gazette: Bennett, the
murderer of LeGore, is reported to be
bordering on insanity, and it is thought
he will Boon have to be removed to the
asylum.
According to the passenger list, as pub
lished in the Oregouian, till:! second-class
passengers, or immigrants came in last
Sunday, and 12,300 have arrived during
the month.
Spring chickens, and in fact chickens
of all seasons, sell for $7 per dozen in
Portland, and are scarce at that. Why
don't soino one start a chicken ranch
near the' metropolis?
It is reported that a little accident oc
curred on the mountain last Friday,
caused from an engine colliding with a
caboose, lint no one was injured and no
serious damage done.
Walla Walla Journal: The brick ma
chines at the penitentiary work as steady
as a hydraulic ram, turning out 40,000
bricks daily. One hundred and fifty
thousand are now ready for sale.
E. II. Morrison, of Walla Walla, in
' tends to start a tow n called Truax in
Whitman county, Washington. Rev.
Tichnor will early fill the town's first
''long-felt want" by starting a newspaper.
F. K. Baker, who has lived at Union
for some time, has been arrested at
Iwiston, Idaho, on a charge of bigamy.
He sent his wife to Iowa last summer,
and afterwards married another woman
in Idaho.
Pat McGinnis is yet trembling on the
verge of eternity, so to Bpeak. His exe
cution has again been postoned by a
mandate of the supreme court, but the
day of his doom is coming, slowly and
surely.
The Eagle is printing 10,000 pamphlets
of from 60 to 100 pages, descriptive of
Milton and vicinity, for McLaughlin &
Walker, real estate agents. No wonder
Milton has a little boom under good
headway.
Walla Walla Journal: Harry I'axton
"lias been appointed postmaster of Walla
Walla. All hail the appointment! It's
very good indeed, and all men and
women, irrespective of party, rejoice at
the glorious news.
Special Agent Welton has received his
instructions from the Indian office to al
low sheep to remain on the reservation
until the first of May, giving the sheci-
men plenty of time to remove their bands
Charlie Harrison, the little lxy who
was so badly hurt at Laka, died Wednes
day from the effects of his injuries, after
much Buffering. His little brother, whose
arm was broken in a tumble off the plat
form, is doing well.
Athena Homo Press: A local com
pany is about to be organized, so it is
learned, with the intention of furnishing
the town with pure spring water, the
Bupply being obtained up the creek.
This is joyous news if true.
The O. R. & N . Co. has a force engaged
in fencing its track between Pendleton
and Walla Walla, in order that a stack of
bones with a hide thrown over it may not
tie run into by a locomotive hereafter and
turned into a pricele-s animal.
Walla Walla Union: On Sunday,
Washington was in receipt of 700 increase
in population, 400 ariiving via the North
ern Pacific and 300 by way of the Union
Pacific lines. Of these new-comers
Walla Walla received her full share, the
train arrivals Sunday aggregating three
carloads.
The Headlight says the Northern Paci
fic will bring $8000 worth of machinery to
Pasco for the purpose of pressing brick.
The company controls a bed of clay at that
place, said to bo as good as can be found
in the world, and from which it proposes
to make brick to line the Stampede tun
nel. Pasco is said to be booming.
An exchange gives the following good
advice: When a man points a gun at you
knock him down. Don't stop to ask
whether it is loaded, but knock him
down and don't be at all particular what
you do it with. If there is to be a cor
oner's inquest let it he over the other fel
low ; he won't be missed.
Baker City Reveille: Oscar Benson
came in from Granite creek yesterday af
ter a phvsiciau for a miner by the name
of Hansen, one of the Monumental's
force, who waa very low with pneumo
nia. We learn this evening that Hansen
died shortly after Mr. Benson started to
town for medical aid.
Milton Eagle; The agricultural editor
was rather crestfallen and altogether
misunderstood on Tuesday last w hen a
subscriber entered the office and submit
ted a roll of manuscrijit. We told him
we were full and very sorry, and he
blandly remarked that he'd call again
"when some of us were sober!" But
mistakes will happen.
Caldwell Tribune : While two children,
aged six and three years -cspectively, be
longing to Mr. Shultz, who lives a few
miles below town, were playing at the
wood-pile, the older one accidentally
cut a finger off the younger child's hand,
slick and clean, with an at. The severed
member was picked up and sewed on
again, and shows signsof uniting and be
coming as good as ever.
The Dalles Sun : The coal company's
augur has reached a depth of nearly 200
feet It h8 b" u5st,!U that the clty
assist in sinking the hole three hundred
feet further with a view to discovering
artesian water. It would cost but a
..; n.iidit settle our water ques-
. a manner satisfactory to all. If
tloD . -n water could be found a well on
artesia. , ld bored, and
the biiu j irom source bevond the
water obtain, .j, uniess Dave Thomp-
son got in its neigh
Oregon postmasters " fonM
Grove,
"mV W. I!, Crossley,
vice John R. Gntfin removed 1 ;
at Ger
rylor,
vais,
iceVrancis Mangold removed; at
lurlnn ColiniV. rfumi J.
fereon. Marion county, i nanes i-.
K vice Archibald B. Henderson, re
movedTand at Monmouth. Polk cumv,
Mrs. Almira Davidson, vice Georvte A.
Walker resigned.
Oregon and California papers ure re
ouesTed to copy the following: James
I ansen, aged 46 years, and a native of
Knkria. died5 at GmnUe, Gran
county, Oregon, on March 22, 188y, of
rhTminers". If his Uii -bonld read
ihf.They can learn farther particular, by
addressing L. N. ford, ot Granite.
Baker City Revielle: Miners from i
Rocky Bar and Silver City, Idaho, and
from different camps in this section, as j
well as from points in Montana and i
Eastern Washington, believe that the in- '
flux of miners here this season will sur- j
pass that of any preceding vear. The
report has gone abroad that capital is
i.i,r iw. fi.;a ...;r. tbti
,i.
la
this is the promised land if the prospec
tor can only be readv to meet the capital'
it u-itV. .. ,.A ..U,'m l,o Ku wonta it
exchauge for coin of the realm.
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C haileB Mark, a we 1 known and well-
respected citizen OI luc.uinnviiie, ueulcalle(, Qut every u,,w an(, theu
suddenly Tuesday of heart disease. He
had been walking about town during the
lay and had just gone Dome. ms
laughter. Carrie Mark, has been teach
ing in the public school at that place for
several years, and another daughter,
Sarah Mark, is teaching near Dundee.
They were both summoned home at
once.
The rolliim mills of the Judson Iron
Works closed Monday, and 300 men are
now idle. A reduction ol wages was
about to be made by the company. It
was yesterday learned that the reduction
was as follows : Hookers, eight per cent;
rufi'ers, eight per cent; rollers, twenty
percent; hot-bed men. eiiiht per cent;
gas-furnace men, twenty per cent ; coal-
lurnaco men, ten per cent ; shears men,
ten per cent ; cinderruen, ten per cent.
The schooner M . B. Steadson collided
with a small fishing vessel about twenty-
five miles off the Capo Cod highlands,
Monday night, and the latter was sunk
with all on board. The Steadson was
badly damaged but managed to reach
Boston, Tuesday, where the captain re
ported the accident. 11 is not known
how manv men were on the fishing
vessel.
A syndicate of Albany and Corvallis
men has purchased the entire town plat
of West Yaquina, situated opposite the
docks at Yaquina City. The price paid
was ir,ooo. it embraces 1000 lotB ana
an undivided half interest in seventy-five
acres now owned jointly bv lhe syndicate
and the Oregon Development Company.
i icy propose to place the lots on the
market this summer.
Bak6r City Democrat : The Pocahon
tas mine, an extension of the Tom
raine, lias been leased by the owners,
Messrs. Hardv, Cavin, and Manaudas,
to Messrs. Loomis, Near, and Thos. K.
Bentlev for a period of six months. The
lessees have shijiped out their supplies to
the mine, and will commence active
work the coming Monday morning.
At Jackson, Michigan, Martin White,
24 years old, last night took a double-
barrel shot gun, locked himself in his
bed-room at his father's boarding house,
placed the muzzle in his mouth and fired,
killing himself instantly. His wife left
him six weeks ago and threatened to sue
for a divorce, which is supposed to bo the
cause of the young man's act.
Aaron York, a wealthy farmer living
near Peru, Indiana, while blasting
stumps on his farm, placed several eticka
of dynamite in the stove to dry. An ex
plosion occurred in which the heuse was
entirely wrecked and the farmer's wife
and eldest daughter killed. Other mem
bers of the family were injured, but not
fatally. York escaped uninjured.
Ore estimated to be worth from $5,000
to $7,000 per ton has, according to the
Baker City Democrat, been found in the
Pluenix mine, one mile from Robinson-villi-.
It is so rich tiiat the gold stands
out in lumps on every piece of rock
picked up. The Democrat reporter has
probably been slightly "stuffed."
The steamer Ocotlun foundered Tues
day on Lake Chapola, near Guadalajara,
Mexico. A large excursion party w as on
board at the time. Fifty bodies have
been recovered. Many more are known
to be still in the wreck. Efforts are be
ing made to raise the steamer, when it is
expected additional bodies will bo se
cured. An engineering corps, presumably in
the service of the O. K. & N., are camped
within two miles of the city, having com
pleted a final survey from Rockford to
this point. It is understood that prop-
I erty has been bought by private parties
for the depot grounds, and that the road
will he extended this year.
Herald: Wallula like every other
town in the territory has its share of
moss-backs and chronic growlers. They
want the whole hog and the tail thrown
in, and if they can't get it, they don't
want any one else to. On the other hand
we have citizens who are working for the
town.
Eastern Oregon cannot alone claim
beautiful weather, fine crop prospects,
and other evidences of a prosperous sea
sou. The Willamette Valley is said to
be almost a paradise. The w ebfoot misty
rains no longer appear, and the country
resembles one vast orchard and garden.
W. W. Journal : When Mr. Singleton
first landed in this city he paid $300 in
cash for his right to that now beautiful
100 acre tract adjacent to our city, bun-
day parties offered him $1000 for only two
acres of this land, and be refused.
An "F.lectric Light" baseball nine has
been organized in Walla Walla. The
Garden City now has two good clubs,
says the Union, in active practice, and
the crop of broken fingers and collapsed
bread baskets will be immense this sea
son. W. W. Statesman : V. D. Lambert is
'uierev" candidato for warden at the
penitentiary with about 50 more abreast
with him. Dan Onmev has numerous
signatures to a petition for a penitentiary
coinmissionership with only 05 others
who are after it also.
There is a big stir in Montana over the
appointment of B. F. White to be gov
ernor of Montana instead of L. H.
Hershfield. The defeat of Hershfield
was caused by the personal influence of
Russell B. Harrison, the President s son.
A Chinaman seven feet and four inches
high arrived in San Francisco Friday
from Southern Oregon, where he has
lived tor several years. He is oa years
old, came to this country in 1879, and for
several years traveled with a circus.
Louis II. Rtemmiller, a car-driver on
the Omnibus line, of San Francisco, was
arrested Tuesday. It has been ascer
tained that lie has stolen nearly $700 from
this railroad by opening the money boxes
on the cars with false kevs.
At Clifton, 8. C, a man named Hoging
killed a young man named Mathias with
a shoemaker's knife. Mathias had eloped
with a daughter of Hogins and married
her. The young woman was also
wounded.
Elizabeth Gill, aged 21 years, was
brought to the insane asylum Tuesday
from Jackson county. She has hallucina
tions that her son, now dead, appears to
her, and she tries to throw rocks at him.
A large number of nominations were
sent to the Senate Saturday. Among
them was that of "Corporal" James
Tanner to be commissioner of pensions.
The one case of Bmallpox at the insane
asylum has recovered. As every one
connected with the institution has been
vaccinated, no further alarm is felt.
Another class of physicians has gradu
ated at the State University, their names
being C. W. Cornelius, J. W. Haines, J.
P. Tahnessce and H. A Wall.
Alfred Russell, of Detroit, is being
urged for appointment as Justice of the
U. S. Supreme Court, in the late Justice
Matthews' stead.
The iron bridge across the Snake river
at Kiparia is nearly completed, and the
first iron horse will roll across it in a
week or so.
Mrs. S. E. Young, of Albany, has sold
e! rhty acres of land near Seattle lor $20,
U ), which three years ago c t $1000.
A babe was born a lew days ago in
Mehama, Marion county, that weighed
,nly tiro and one-half pounds.
Senator Mitchell has at last reached
ihe distinguished honor of appearing in
one of Pock's cartoons.
Several of the Japanese minister's
children are sick in Washington with
scarlet fever.
At Rocheater, N. Y-, a little girl 11
months old coughed up a snake 12'3
inches long,
i: u.LfA irAnBaa tumiet-nuM
Taylor Cook killed his wife tuid disap -
peared.
FIVE CENTS APIKl'K. - ,
Thin U What Water Consumers Might
Hare by Creating riut'H-racy of l'orl- (
land Hanker.
From ttioHunUuy Welcome. . Bsl '
In iU capacity of wetnutse to th
witlings of the Legislature who stultified
water bonds at lhe beck of the bankers'
ring, the Oregouian feels called upon ev- j
ery now and then to fortily itself with the I
stale arguments which it fed the!
inemseives ny sustaining me uuuixeu'
arguments wiiicn u leu me
UUUKCIO UUIIICUtlllilTi Killing Hie cr..JlJll .
Tma further administering Gf ,,ap is
grange here and theie takes up the sub- j
: a i 1.. i.. .... I
for his manly and consistent course, in
balking the conspiracy c f the rich men.
wbo designed to Hidden the monev mar-
ket here bv absorbing the untaxed
bond and under cover of tlio strin
gency that would exist by depleting the
banks of one and a half million dollars,
advance the rate of interest to the bor
rowing classes two or three per cent.
The Oregonittn feels chagrined that the
game did not succeed ; and it is pleased
to call those who diner with the bankers
ring in this matter as shallow iools, we
undertake to say when the Oregouian
asserts that a taxed bond would not sell
for over ninety cents that it is simply ly
ing, or if by any possible subversion of
intellect the Oregonian man believes
such stuff, it iB a case of nieutid imbecil
ity approaching the idiotic.
It is likely that a taxable five per cent.
bond issued by the city of Portland
would not sell above par although we be
lieve it would command 103; and it iB
impossible that the Portland ring, in or
der to tighten the money market here,
might take up the issue at 105. Assum
ing the extreme difference to be five per
cent, it would result in a loss on sale of
the bonds of $75,000. The Oregonian
crew are howling about the great burden
this would create against the poor water
taker. Let us figure on it; five per cent,
on $75,000 would represent the an
nual loss to the water takers by
reason of Gov. Penuoyer's stand that
there shall be no privileged classes of un
taxed bonds in this county. That is an
item of $3,740. Now by the time we
could avail ourselves of the expenditure
of the fund for which the water bond
would have lieen sold, there will be unite
75,000 water consumers and the loss to
the dear people would thus be live cents
apiece yearly ! This is the whole head
and front of the Oregouiau's clamor to
set up a plutocracy of wealth in our
midst exempted from their just share ol
the burdens of the government and this
is what the gigantic intellect of the Ore
gonian is engaged in, to save the people,
--live cents apiece annually,.
We think a citizen witli ordinary in
telligence will not be swerved from the
underlying conviction that taxes should
be "equal and uniform" as our law ex
presses it, by the allurements of a five
cent piece, annually accruing as a divi
dend for the sacrifice of a just and equit
able principle.
NOT GREASING THE TRICK SOW.
What ft Farmer Kecelreri tar tilling
Much Trouble to Pausing; Tralutt.
From the Portlauit Orpgoninn.
When the O. R. & N. Co. was building
the branch road to Heppner they could
not agree with a fellow named Larsen
about the price to be paid him for the
right-of way across his place. He has a
claim, which was not considered worth
more than $L'00 or $300, and ho wanted
$000 for the right-of-way.
All negotiations failing to secure a set
tlement in the matter, the contractors
went ahead w ith the construction of the
line. Thereafter there was an ill feeling
toward the railroad and all connected
with it in the breast of Larsen, and when
the track was laid by his place he used
up his stock of fat bacon greasing it.
This made lots of trouble for the train
hands and lots of fun for Larsen, who
would laugh as they shoveled sand off the
track after the sand-boxes on the loco
motive had been exhausted. Varioiw
and- sundry threats of dire vengeance
were made by the mil road employes, to
which Larsen paid no attention, and one
day be took an unusually liberal fit and
greased the track for about a mile.
It happened shortly after that art a
train was going by his place witli a gang
of Italian laborers on board, anil as Lar
son was looking on, a cartridge of giant
powder fell near him with a burning fuse
attached. Before he could get out of
range the powder exploded and shook up
Larsen so badly that he hardly knew
what he was doing, but ran this way and
that, as one who saw it says, "like a hen
with her head cut off," and he kept on
going until he disappeared, and did not
return for two weeks.
Then he caused the arrest of the crew
of the train, on a charge of attempting
to kill him. The arrest was made at
Heppner, and the conductor charged the
sheriff fares for himself and all his
prisoners from here to Pendleton, where
the case was tried. Of course no one
knew who fired the bomb, and Larsen
himself could not tell where the it came
from, so the case was dismissed.
It is stated that Mr. Larsen is not
greasing the track any more.
He Couldn't Rldx.
When a man becomes great some one
immediately tells astory on him. Here's
one on Nelson Bennett, the contractor
who has so many law suits and dollars.
While he was building the famous
Stamjede tunnel, ho issued an order
forbidding the driver of dump cats to al
low any one to ride in or out of the tun
nel on a car. One day Bennett was at
the "heading," clad in overalls, gum
boots, and an overcoat whose better days
were o'er, and started to walk to the
mouth of the tunnel just as a dump car
was leaving. Bennett jumped almard
the platform on which was the driver,
and was promptly told to get
"get off o'here." This somewhat sur
prised the contractor, and he remarked,
'Guess you haven t been unving here
very long." "Naw, I haven't," said the
driver, "but vou get ofl'n this car P. It.
Q., d'ye luar?" "But I have a right to
ride on these cars, said llennett. Not
while I'm driving 'em vou don't," said
the driver, "skip," and Bennett meekly
skipped' and walked slowly out.
When he reached the mouth of the
tunnel be mot . Nat Turner,
superintendent of the business, and told
him his adventure; w hen the driver came
up again Turner stopied him and intro
duced him to Bennett. The driver ex
pecting that he would be discharged
immediately announced his inten
tion of quitting right there, but
Bennett would not hear to it ; he compli
mented the fellow very highly for his
rigid enforcement of the rules, and
seemed to enjoy the joke fully an much
as the rest of the force who heard about
it."
Tha Will of Philip Kit.
From tbe Walla Walla Union.
The last will and testament, onw on
file in the probate court, provides that
Mrs. Catherine J. Ititz shall have during
her life-time half the real and personal
estate of the deceased and all the income
derived from the life insurance. The
remainder is willed to his two daughters,
Ella and Hattie. The will names Mrs.
Ritz as guardian of the estate of the two
children and requires a bond. It also
expressed a wish that Mrs. Ritz execute
the will of the deceased without bond,
assisted by B. L. Sharpstein and B. F.
Boyer, of Walla Walla.
Almost a Flie.
From the Witlla Walla Journal
The little boy of James Haggard, while
uis motner went up town this morning,
to get something for dinner, went up
stairs to hnnt up some picture books, and
finding it dark, he said to himself, "Let
there be light," and there was ligiit. He
soon had a nice little blaze all to himself
which he relished with childlike glee,
and when it got too hot for him, he
quietly went down stairs and sunned
himself. Presently smoke and flames
came through the roof. Fortunately Harry
Keller, Henry Stahl and the ladies from
the neighborhood noticed the flames in
their infancy and rescued ttia hnildincr
! itb a few buckets of water, but it was
V In tl.K rn r I m a Visa U i .. L, 1
hot work. In the meantime Mrs, SUM
'telephoned from the brewery, "fire!"!
Everybody then rushed !out "'5?
as the alarm was sounded, believing that
Stahl's brewerv was in flames, but when
: the department reached the scene,a shout !
i met the liovw, "It's all out!" ' .
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a uaod sign.
In Mr Beert'B letter from London, in
the last issue of The Northwest Trade, be
spoke of the enterprising grocer who con-
stantlv displaved a sign which read:
'. . . ...
NO 1MM1S ALLOWKU IN
I'.NOIH ANY ClKCCMSTANCfcS.
This reminds us o an article from a
Western paper, which some of our read-
er8 "a 0 doupi seen neiore. n j
before. A
tnbutor to the Rocky
Mountain JNuw
who fiuns herself "Housekeeper," gives
the lollowing Hint to uie grocers oi inai
town :
"A lady wants to say a few words to
the grocerv merchants- and really, it is a
delicate subject to handle. You know it
is now the time when our grocerymen
set their vegetables outside on the pave
ment, and you know there are so many
tall dogs in town, and and it operates as
though they drank from the Saratoga
Medical Springs. Now, Mr. Editor, you
must know what I want to say, and if
you will help me out, you will do the
public a great favor. W hat we want is
the vegetables set on boxes, or in other
words, above "high water mark." For
the good women and mankind, the gro
cers will please attend to it. Those w ire
screens they use over basket and bar
rels are not "water-tight." This is a
delicate matter, but you know when a
lady goes shopping for cabbages aud beets
she don't like to be obliged to get peas
also. Please put in shape so as to offend
nobody. '
Willi Honor, of War.
Fiom the Bukor Llty UevcHle.
Rosjiect for the memory of our dead
is sometimes far better portrayed in - the
honors show n those whose lot has been
cast in the humbler walks of life tlialft
in the "storied urn or animated bust
placed above the more favored sous of
earth. A comparative Btranger died in
our city and his remains were given
burial yesterday. As the rosewood
casket left the portuls of the I. O. O. F.
temple and was borne and attended by
the members of that order to the dark
plumed hearse in waiting, it passed be
tween two files of men whose reversed
arms, and flag bearing the sable token
of a fallen hero, gave proof that tho de
ceased had earned this last mark of re
spect that his comrades could bestow in
other days when grape aud canister
sung the only requiem ever heard "at
the front" above the nation's dead.
Mustered out of service forover! Leav
ing a vacancy in the ranks of an ever
decreasing, never recruiting remnant of
a once powerful army. And how many,
w ho heard the musketry above the dead
soldier yesterday, thought as did these
old veterans that soon, very Boon, the
last gun of the rebellion will have tiuly
been fired ; the last call issued from over
the battlements of Heaven ordering them
to "fall in," and the last soldier, w hose
"red hand in the foray" was once the
country's only hope, will be assigned his
quarters in "the bivouac of the dead."
Wenton Notni.
From ttie Leader.
MirS Sarah Ridenour is engaged in
teaching the Vansyclo school. Miss
farah is one ot Weston s most accom
plished young ladies.
The proposed route of the 0. & W. T.
over the Blue Mountains to the Grande
Ronde valley via Mill creek has been
abandoned as impassable.
lhe surveyors ol the O. & v . l. K. K.
passed through town Saturday. They
are engaged in taking elevation, etc.,
preparatory to the selection of a route
across the mountain. From here they
proceeded up the mountain eaBt of town,
probably to take the elevation along the
old survey that was run a few days ago.
The acreage sown to grain this year is
immense. If one desires to form a faint
idea and at the same time seo a land
scape spread out unequalled in beauty,
he would be gratified if on some clear
day he would ascend the mountain east
of the city. Miles on miles of cultivated
fields of growing grain can he Been, tho
immensity of which is bewildering to the
beholder.
Land Office IeclHlonil.
Secretary Noble has affirmed the de
cision of the commissioner of the gen
eral land office in the following North
west land cases: In rejecting the final
proof and holding for cancellation the
pre-emption filing of John J. Campbell
for a quarter section of land in the La
Grande district, Oregon ; in rejecting the
claim of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company to certain lands in theOlympia
district, covered by the entry of Andrew
Everson ; and in sustaining the applica
tion of John B. Smith to make an entry
of certain land in the Vancouver district,
claimed by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
Secretary Noble has recommended that
an investigation be made by a special
agent of the general land office into cer
tain lands in townships 33 and 34 south,
range 19, in the Lakeview, Oregon, dis
trict, approved to the State of Oregon
under the grant of swamp lands. These
lands are now claimed by certain settlers
under the pre-emption and homestead
laws, who allege that the tracts are not
swamp or overflowed land, as stipulated
by tho grant, but are agricultural in
character.
Too Much for Ura Moiqnlton.
Kiom the Tulare (Cal.) Radiator.
W. A. Sanders thus expresses himself
in defense of a tree njHin which there has
of late been a disposition to ojien war
fare: "I have more of these trees (euca
lyptus) growing than can be found any
where else in the San Joaquin valley
great monsters 120 feet tall, containing
over a cord of wood each, grown from
seed in the past ten years. You can sec
my eucalyptus groves from the cars of the
Southern Pacific railroad from Goshen to
Fow ler, a distum e of over twenty miles.
I w ish to add a fact to your recommenda
tion of this tree a fact too important to
be overlooked. The eucalyptus globulus,
when grown in large quantities gives en
tire exemption from' mosquitoes. Here
at my home we have acres of dense
shade, a big sluggish ditch that is always
full of water, and in all our prolonged
summer and autumn heat never a
mosquito, while among the Willows of
Kings river, two miles away, they
swarm at times in clouds and literally
devour their unprotected victims."
Ilurrlson'a Handshake.
From the Philadelphia News' Washington
Ijetter.
President Cleveland gave you a hand
shake like a Montana mountaineer. He
never spared bis ow n big right member,
and constant practice made him dexter
ous in going through the courtesy with
rapidity. The Harrisonian ai is quite
different. The long-bodied man stands
squarely on his short legs, and bis head
is lent slightly forward on the binge of
bis rudimentary neck. He extends a
delicate white hand, then he meets your
own hand by a quick upward slide aud
clasps your fingers quickly. As you en
deavor to reciprocate he suddenly opens
his hand and retracts it as speedily as it
was thrust out. The science of the thing
is admirable, for it will prove more satis
fying to the American citizen than Grant's
fleeting touch, and at the same time Har
rison will lie siiared the lameness that
Cleveland endured after a hard day's
hand shake.
An F.Ten Ihlng.
From Uie Philadelphia Heeord.
Irale lather 1 oung man, I am
amazed, astounded, sir. that you should
seek to marry my daughter on so short
an aeouaintanco. Ton are airnooi a
stramrer to her.
The Young Man Well, she don't take
any n.ore chances than I do. hue s al
moot a stranger to me, too.
The artesian well at Farmington is now
i completed. It is eighty feet deep and a
fib stream of water is the result
. mystkriouh wreckage.
rrobaMy t, lonTTTT th. British ..hip
van.ii
vZt .
Ntw Wk, Marcn 29 -All efforts to
lhe dcnllty ' the vessel w hose
wrec kage was passed by the steamer Col-
orado Saturday, have so far failed. The
. a.Kems ot the steamer Corsenua, of Mad-
"d, which sailed from here a week ago
j 'or Samoa, deny that the wreckage is that
0l their vessel. They say that it does
nt correspond in any particular with that
j of their vessel. The agents of the Clyde
line steamer Seginal also denied that the
wreckage belonged to their vessel. A
possible clue to the vessel was furnished
by two incoming vessels this morning.
The Atlas line steamer Athos, from Point
Limcon, which arrived early to-day, re
ports having passed on Saturday at ' noon
a white painted steamer, disabled aud
bound South, showing German colors.
The brig Lockart, which also got in this
morning from San Domingo, brings a
more definite report of the ship in distress.
The Lockart's captain said that on March
, in latitude 30-45, longitude 73, he
spoke the British ship Yeomandel in a
disabled state. The eomandel had
heavy list to the starboard. Her decks
were on a line with the water, her ma
chinery was disabled and her sails blown
away. The disabled vessel displayed a
series of signals, indicating distress and
uoistea a request to nave her condition
telegraphed to the English owners. The
Yeomandel left New Orleans for Rouen
r ranee, on March 3d. On the maritime
oxchange to day it was thought probable
that the latter vessel had gone dow n, and
that the raft and driftwood nassed bv the
Colorado, on Saturday were all that were
leit to tell the story of her destruction.
BITPOSEO TO BE TUB CONSEKVA.
From the description of the wreckage.
it is believed the lost vessel is the gun
boat Conserva. which had so much trou
ble in getting away from this port, be
cause she was suspected of being for the
Haytian insurgents.
LATEST ADVICES FROM CHINA.
Clituee Rebels Threaten Foreign. Keal
deuti The Chinese Famine Kxag-ffer-ated.
San Francisco, March 29. The Occi
dental and Oriental steamer, Arabic, ar
rived last night, bringing Hong Kong
news to February 28th, and Yokohoma
advices to March 11th.
In Shan-Tung, the anti-foreign excite
ment ruus high.
On February 23d, at Che-Foo, the
Europeans feared attacks from the
mutinous, troops, ft was reported that
Chinese troops were meeting at the fort,
and the mutineers proceeded to inarch
against the custom house and other
places. As no man-of-war was present.
intense excitement prevailed, and the
boats were prepared, and all the foreign
residents made ready to go aboard the
Chin King. No attack was made, how
ever. A missionary from Chin-Choo slates
that the Chinese in that city have posted
placards outside of the various foreign
residences, notifying the tenants that
thev intended to massacre the Christians
before long. The retels are supposed to
be 12,000 in number, 500 on horse. On
February 22d 500 soldiers were sent to
intercept them, but saw no indications of
the enemy, who are supposed to have
gone inland.
Ihe Chinese authorities declare the re
ports of famine in Central China to be
exaggerated, although great suffering is
admitted in the Northern provinces.
ihe toreign employes in Corea have
not been paid in several months, and the
mint has been stopped.
A DISASTROUS FIRE.
IncfUdUrleg Htt Fire to a Chicago Bonded
wareneune.
CuicAflo, March 29. The Grand Cen
tral warehouse, on Rush and North
Water streets, in this city, was burned to
the ground this morning. The building
and contents are a total loss, the aggre
gate now being placed at $1,500,000.
Twico before, within a comparatively
short time, the building has been on fire.
Alderman Manierre, the owner, Raid this
morning that he had no doubt thev were
all incendiary. It was a government
bonded warehouse. Ninety per cent, of
the teas and coffees were in bond for im
port duties. The Owners are widely
distributed. Perhaps the heaviest losers
are Howard & Co., of this city, who had
$250,000 worth of teas in the building.
ihe other uhicago firms who had prop
erty in the building, but the amount of
whose loBses are known, are: C. B.
LathropA Co., Hillyerit Co., Falker &
Stern, Wineman, Contint & tho Union
National Bank. The outside firms which
lose by the fire are: Hyde & South worth.
and F. S. Conant, of Boston ; Siegfried A
Brasdenstein, San rranaisco: Epper.
Smith, Windman & Co., Carter, I law ley
& Co., Geo. W. Lane & Co., and W. P.
Koon A uo., jsew V ork.
THK KLAMKS Sl'UDl.'Kn.
The flames were subdued about 3
o'clock. The losses are $50,000. About
one hundred men and women were em
ployed in the building. One boy jumped
from a window and was fatally injured.
Several persons are missing. It is
thought they are in the ruins.
KILLED AMI MAIMED.
Farther Particulars of Yesterday's Fire lu
a Brooklyn Factory.
New Yokk, March 29. The fire was
immediately followed by a heavy explo
sion and shock, and was attended kv
many casualties. It started in a fotir
story brick building on Kent avenue,
Brooklyn, about 1 o'clock in the after
noon, and inside of an hour the structure
was a mass of ruins. The scene around
the factory beggars description. Woman
after woman, covered with blood, and
many men in like condition, were res
cued from the roof of a small building in
the rear. All were maimed, and one at
least was fatally injured. Hundreds of
people rushed from their dwellings and
places of business. Many believed the
accompanying shock to have been caused
by an earthquake. Ihe explosion had
occurred on the first Hoor, occupied by
the Eureka Shoe Manufacturing; Com
pany. Forty five hands were employed
in the factory, and the greatest excite
ment ensued. All the ambulances and
four patrol wagons were telegraphed for
and hurried to the spot, lhe explosion
occurred in the office of the shoe com
pany, but the cause could not lie ascer
tained. A mong the persons injured are
an unknown man wbo died on the way to
tbe hospital, Edith Boyle, James H
Kaynor (a fireman), Sadie Smith, lttie
Lambert, Katie McLaughlin, William
Armstrong, Henry Doud, John Harrigan
tlia Cottray, W illiam Collins, Iheodore
tlumentield, James Hart ana rred Aliel.
N'KWS FROM SAMOA.
Affairs Very Quiet No Molestation of For
eigners or Natives.
Washington, March 29. Captain
Shoonmaker, commanding the Vandaha,
rejiorts to the navy department, under
d'ate ol Feb. 26, the arrival oi me van
dalia under his command, at Apia
Samoa, the day previous. He found in
nr.rt the Nllwic. II. IS. Al. Hlltll LalllODO
and the German corvettes Adler, Olga
and Eber. Everything has tieeu quiet
since the last reports from Samoa were
sent home, and Commodore .Mullen, hav
ing prepared a full report of tbe condi
tion of affairs in the Islands, it would go
bv tbe same mail. The Trenton had not
arrived.
Commander Mullen, commanding the
Niosic. reports nnder date of February
OA that H. B. M. Ship Calliope arrived
on the 2d of February and relieved the
rovalist. The English paiwr, Samoan
Times, had resumed publication.
Ou the 24th of February a severe gale
visited the barbor. during which the
American barkentine Constitution was
driven ashore and became a total wreck.
Everything possible was done to save the
barkentine. The second cutter of the
Nipsic in charge of Ensign W. P. White,
took off the cajtain and crew. The Con
stitution was owned bv Nicholas Bichfid,
of San Francisco. She was built in
Philadelphia years aco. and was for
merly a steamer, but was rebuilt in 1873
at San Francisco. Other smaller vessels
are reported to have gone ashore on
the west of L'pola island.
Affairs at Apia have been very qmet
since the last dispatch to the department.
No molestation of foreigners or natives
had occurred on the 5th of February.
Herr Brandes, a German subject, and
the president of the so-called Tamasese
government, is reported to have resigned
and left for Syduev in the merchant
steamer Lybeck.
On the 22d of rebrnary the Mpsic was
dressed in honor of the anniversary of
Washington s birthday, and the foreign
men-of-war joined in. Indications are
that the Tamasese party is losing ground.
ON THK ISTHMUS.
The Condition of Affair. Critical Effort of
Suspension of Work on the Canal.
Panama, March 29. The condition of
the affairs on the Isthmus has lieen crit
ical for some weeks past, as already
reported, and everything has worn
gloomy asiiect. 1 housands ol men were
thrown out of work, but fortunately emi
gration on an extensive scale has ensued,
and it is expected that before the mouth
win have elapsed, at least ;0OU men will
nave been sent hence. Commercial mat
ters all over the Isthmus are in a bad
condition, and there is little business do
ing. Colon storekeepers and dealers
nave united in petitioning for a reduction
of all kinds of taxes, owing to the com
plete stoppage of trade in the city. In
the city of Panama things are in much
the same condition. A meeting has been
held, at w hich the Panamaians and the
foreigners of different nationalities alike
8oke, and a decision was reached that
the supreme government should be pe
petitioned to reduce the commercial tax,
which is enormously high as compared
with the amount of business being done.
An instance of the condition of affairs has
been given by Governor Aycardi, who
has issued a decree susjiending tbe pay
ment of the doht of the former state of
Panama, and effecting other economies.
Governor Aycardi states that these meas
ures have been adopted owing to the
suspension of work on the canal having
reduced the receipts ot the government,
wiucn will be further diminished, owing
to the receipts trom the taxes similarly
falling off. In consequence of the col
lapse of local freight and passenger traffic
on the Panama railway, the number em
ployed has been considerably reduced.
At present only two passenger and two
heights cross this line daily from either
end. This reduction in traffic is, of
course, due to the stoppage of canal work.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
A Tronic Agreement lletween the .Northern
j-acinc ana uie n l.rousiu ut-nirnl.
New Yokk, March 29. Reports of the
it-ase or consolidation of the Wisconsin
Central by the Northern Pacific are denied
by the officials of both companies. It is
officially stated, however, that a traffic
agreement between the two companies
will be consummated at a special meeting
of the Northern Pacific directors Wednes
day. The Wisconsin Central Company
is absolutely controlled by C. L. Colby,
Colgato Hoyt and Edwin H. Abbott, the
slick certificates not carrying voting
powers, and the three gentlemen named
have been directors of the Northern Pa
cific road since 1887, when they went in
with Henry Vilhud. Since that time the
Wisconsin Contral has worked as a close
connection of the Northern Pacific, and
it was generally understood that a traffic
agreement would ultimately be made.
A TRAGIC 8EUIIEI..
& Double Tragedy the Kesult of the Fac
tional Fnud lu Kentucky.
Pi nkville, Ky., March 29. The ar
rest of General Sow dors and others, im
plicated in the feud that within the past
few months has caused over a dozen
deaths, had a sequel this morning in a
double tragedy, two miles from town, on
the Cumberland Gap road. Alvis Tur
ner and Jeff King wero going toward the
gap and James (lurch was coming to
town. The meeting was celebrated by
Alvis Turner firing at Bttrch, the ball
only striking Burch's gun. Burch re
turned the fire promptly, killing Turner,
and then King tired on Burch, killing
him, and then beating a hasty retreat up
the creek. Turner was the leader of the
anti-Sowders' faction.
A Dutch King Incapacitated.
Tim Haoue, March 29. Upon the as
sembling of Parliament to-day, the prime
minister announced that the i;amnet had
decided that the king was incapacitated
carrying an the government and had
communicated this decision to the state
council.
Gradually Sinking
London, March 211. John Bright has
suffered another relapse, anil is very
weak. He has not taken food for tbirtv-
six hours except from a spoon. Ho is
gradually sinking.
A Spanish steamer Sunk,
Manilla, March 29. The Siianish
mail Bteamer Miudiano has been sunk
bv a collision with the Sianish steamer
Visayas. luirty ot her crew were
drowned. "
Boulanger Using Morphine.
Paris, March 29. Gaulois says that
Boulanger is suffering from the opening
of an old wound, aud has been compiled
to resort to the use of morphine.
A Fiano Manufacturer Dead.
Bkklin, March 29. Theodore Stein-
way, of the firm of Steinway & Hons, of
Now York, died to-day.
'Tbe .John Hrightof lllgluin."
Antwrht, March 28. Ferdinand Van
dcrtelcn, the merchant prince of this
city, committed suicide yesterday. The
act was due to several allied firms, whose
liabilities will probably reach a colossal
sum. Vandertalun was a leading mem
ber of the Liberal nartv. and had been
dubbed "the John Bright of Belgium."
I'est- Hidden Towns.
New onx, March 28. The steamer
Horrox, from Rio Janeiro, reisirts that
when she went Into port at Santas, Feb
ruary 25, she found the town pest-ridden
with yellow lover, thirty deaths occurring
daily. Yellow fever and smallpox also
raged with great lury at Kio Janeiro,
with deaths numbering thirty a day.
I'reparliig for War.
Bkksk, March 28. The federal council.
suspecting in the event of a Franco-tier
man war, that l.crmany would violate
the territory ol (Switzerland, has recom
mended the adoption of a credit for the
purjiose of fortifying St. Uothard.
A Distinguished Medical Man Dead.
Montiikal, March 28. Dr. R. R. How
ard. dean of tbe medical faculty of the
.VlcGill University, one of the most dis
tinguished medical men on the t.onti
nent, died to-day.
Una Cameron's Daughter Married.
Haiinsuy, Pa., March 28. Margareta
daughter of Senator Don I auieron, was
married at noon to John W. Clark, of
Newark, New Jersey.
Klrhard lllseook Head.
NYKAcrsif, N. Y., March 28. Richard
Hiscock, father of Senator Hiscock, died
at Preble, (,'ourtland county, yesterday,
aged 91 years.
Copper In New York.
New Yoke, March 28. There was one
transaction in copper here to-day at the
low price of $10.05 ier 100.
Eastern Tempeiature.
Chicago, March 28. New York, 4.'!;
Chicago, 20 ; St. Paul, 22; Winning, 8:
New Orleans, 50.
An Fmliielit Surgeon Dead.
Albany, S. Y., March 28. Dr. John
Hwirehiira, an (iniucnt surgeon, died
this morning.
John C. New, recently appointed con
sunsul general to London, has selected
Alex Powell, a colored man, for the clerk
ship in his Loudou office, lie will have
tho honor of lieing the first negro ever
appointed as s clerk in a United States
consulate in any country, rowen was
confidential messenger at the White
House during President Arthur's term.
The President has commuted to im
prisonment for life the sentence of death
imposed in the case of Albert Green,
colored, convicted of murder in the Dis
trict of Columbia, September last, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 6th of
April.
Opening the Reaervatlnns. ,
The Umatilla Indian reservation and
the Yakima reservation occupy the best
territory near Pendleton, in Umatilla
county, and near North Yakima, in
Eastern Oregon and v -ashingf n. Tliepe
reservations cort. .in much niore laud
than the Indianb i.ioiccupy them i to
use. or cultivate, ami iiotf to v.:. so
as to give the Indians land in severalty
and allow them mountain lands for la
tum and then dispose of the rest lu: 'm
use of white settlers is a question. At
Umatilla they have been promising this
for a year or two and not performing. All
the reservations should be made use of.
At Colville and I.apwai the same condi
tions prevail. The best of land is tied
up, doing no good to whites or Indians.
The government moves slowly in all
these matters and promises are not kept.
Not only all the Indian reservations need
to be revised and all tbe spare land made
to give good homes to whites but the
Northern Pacific land grant from Wallula
to Portland should be declared forfeited.
and the land thrown open to settlement.
There is immigration coming in now that
is looking for homesteads and every acre
of good land will be settled on as soon as
it is made available.
The Sacred Season of l.eut.
From the Twentieth Century.
We are now in the midst of the Lenten
season. All the fashionable desciples of
Jesus have stopped their secular worldli-
ness in certain forms, and taken to relig
ious worldliness and milder forms of
secular pleasure. AH large parties are
now in bad form, but when these queer
Christians become a little rested
from tho rush of dissipations w hich jirc-
cede Lent, thev will tide themselves
over the desert days w ith small gather
ings where music is tabooed. There are
certainly sincere souls who will spend
these forty days in selt'-exainination and
self-denial and reap some benelit to their
characters, but, upon tbe w hole, the ob
servance of Lent is a travesty on what
was, jierhaps, meant to Ik- a serious anc"
sacred performance. When we think
of the story of the temp
tation of Jesus, w ho for forty days, is said
to have l eiu in the desert Willi wild
beasts, living upon locusts and wild
honey, and then think of the droning of
the tiresome service of the church bv a
minister with a badly imitated English
drawl, before a conirretration of kid-
gloved people, who confess themselves to
be miserable sinners ' with all the flip
pancy of any other fashonable perform
ance, I think we shall have to admit that
the contrast is striking The idea
of the Lenten season is good, and should
control us all the year round. Self-
study, temperance, character building are
worthy occupations for us to be engaged
in. But the Lenten Heason of tho cur
rent Christian church is a stupendous
humbug, unworthy tho respect of any
one w ho venerates sincere piety and de
spises sham and hypocrisy.
How Protection I'rutects,
New York t able to London M'lnrtay Times.
I have already cabled how the firm of
Higgins, caiiiet-makers. after inducing
their employees to walk in Republican
processions and vote the Republican
ticket so as "to protect American indus
tries," promptly locked them out as soon
as the election was over, because they
would not accept 12 tier cent, reduction of
their wages. The Brooke Iron Company,
the Reading Iron Works and the Potts
ville Iron and Steel Company have fol
lowed their shining example, and ordered
wages to be reduced from 5 to 17 per
cent, or their works to be shut down.
Politicians cannot be hold responsible for
the weather although they always clai-n
the credit for it when it benefits a
country but tho mild, open w inter has
been disastrous to almost all kinds ol
business here and the cutting of wages is
becoming more and more general. The
workingmen have no redress at present,
but they are jireparing for a general
strike next May, when the gravest trou
bles are feared.
The Active Secretary of the Interior.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph's Wash
ington Letter.
Noble is a handsome man, w ith sood
form, compact muscles and springy step.
tie lias already show n evidence of being
an active force in the cabinet meetings.
there is a quick firmness in Ins move
ments; that is, not quite dashing, yet
bold, and showing self confidence and
energy. Hewasouiek to make himself
at home about the White House, While
his associates keep nioro to the cabinet
room or the President's private ollice, he
moves around in Halford's room, in the
room where the type-writers and Col
Prudeu are busy, and on through the
other rooms w here the work is done. He
is with the President more at odd hours
than any other member of the cabinet
He has taken hold of his department
with a very clearnnderstandingof things.
To Kill a Man la Murder.
From the Twentieth Century.
The electricians, w ho are working out
the problem of how to legally kill crim
inals in fw York Stale under the new
judicial murder laws, have shocked some
more dogs, calves and horses to death
with their electric currents and have dis
covered a way to kill a man in a few
seconds. In a certain sense the new
method of murdering murderers is not so
harberous as hanging tl em, but it will
not be long before we will all be ashamed
that for so many centuries wo could find
nothing better to do with our capital
criminals than to kill them. It will not
be long before we will understand clearly
that to deliberately kill a fellow-heing is
murder, whether it is dono bv a private
citizen or sheriff. It will not be long be
fore we will all see that as lietwccu the
murder committed in a moment of ias
sion and the deliberate, judicial murder,
the latter is worse.
Kailroad to Coeur d'AIene.
Track lavinff on the Northern Pacific
extension trom Wallace to Mullan up the
south fork of the Co tir d'AIene river was
completed Saturday. It is understood a
road will soon he mult on an air line
from Cu;ur d'Aleno City to the old mis
sion, the present starling point of this
new road, and extended lioiu Mullan to
a point west of Missoula, when the whole
line will be converted into a standard
gauge, thus avoiding tbe circuitous route
around the lakes ami shortening the
main line from Spokane calls to the
East- The extension just completed will
greatly facilitate the shipment of mineral
from tho Gold Hunter, Morning Central
and other big mines in the vicinity of
Mullan.
The (iranlte Creek "Deestrlrt,"
Advices from the Granite creek district
report that a vigorous boom in that
giou has already commenced, and miners
and prospectors will soon be swarming in
raiud v. Ike Cloi'P recently Bold a halt
interest his claim to the Monumental
Mining Company, which will soon build
a road from their mine to that of the
Cabbelle Bros. Manv rich claims are
owned and oiwrated in the Granite creek
neighborhood, and that Fortune will be
lavish in her smiles to the hardy miners
seems evident. J. P. McCoy, of Pilot
Rock, was in Pendleton yesterday for the
purpose of purchasing a blarksmithing
outfit to transjiort to the mines, which he
secured.
Kobbery and Capture.
At Snohomish. W. T., Sunday night,
the grocery store of M. W. Packard &
Son wasetitered by burglars, who robbed
the safe of $500 in coin, together with
notes and mortgages amounting by esti
mate to tpOOO. Entrance was made
through a side door. Tho Bate was
exploded with powder, a small hole being
drilled through the door and plalo just
left of the combination. Sacks of grain,
sand, etc., were piled against the safe to
deaden the sound ol the explosion, me
door was blown entirely off, the front
plate lying on tho floor. Officers fol
lowed and captured the burulars, three in
number, and recovered alxwt half the
stolen valuables and money.
A new public school house will be built
in Walla Walla this spring, a block of
ground costing $20,000 having been pur
chased tor the purpose.
A Mammot i Elevator.
The Canadian Pacific's new grain el
evator, just completed at Fort William,
on Lake Superior, Elevator B, as it is
called to distinguish it from the first
elevator built there hv tbe fVtiadian Pa
cili'i Raiiwav 0:iMi:ity, ' m a. capacity of
I, -fKKOOil bushels, there a, "NLclevat-
"K vi.1j . a '"'!" ol elevatict : WW
u.-.iiei in?r orrtir. I'.acii oi mete ieg. t
furnished with seif-cieaniiig boot" the
invention MV f. um company's
superintendent of buildings. Owing to a
provision having been made for tightening
the belt which carries the elevating buck
ets, there has always been a certain
amount of grain remaining in the boot,
which requires to be frequently cleaned
out by hand, and always so when chang
ing from one grain to another.
This boot has an ingenious arrange
ment, by which a shield is attached ta
the frame carrying the pullev. This
shield is always kept clear of the buckets,
no matter what position the pulley tukeB
in the boot w hile tightening the belt from
time to time. Grain men will under
stand the advantages of always having a
ciean dooi to start elevating with.
The whole of these legs are driven by
friction clutches attached to the shafting,
two lines of which are run the entire
length of the elevator. These two lines
of shafting are driven by a single massive
seven-ply rubber belt, fifty-six inches in
wiutn and over 300 feet long. This
method was first tried in elevator B at
Montreal, and found to work so satisfac
torily that it was decided to accept the
same arrangement at Fort William. This
elevating machinery, with the Bteam
shovels, will enable a train of sixteen.
ars to be unloaded and stow ed away in
the bins in twenty miuules.
The World's Greatest Lumber Region.
From the Philadelphia Prt ss,
A lumber nile made of boards each 100
feet long and six feet wide would be an
unprecedented sight in the East, but a
gentleman recently returned from a visit
lo the coast of Ihe north Pacific ocean.
says that piles of lumber such as that are
common at the mills of Puget Sound.
itoards loo feet long aud six feet wide,
without a knot in them." he savs. "are
common cuts from the trittantic fir trees
of the Puget Sound forests. These trees
grow to the enormous beigth of 250 feet.
and the forests are so vast that although
tne raw'-miiis nave been ripping ooo.ooo.-
000 feet of lumber out of them every year
for ten years, the spaces made by these
tremendous inroads seem no more than
garden patches.
1 uuet sound has 1800 miles of Bhore
line, and all along this line, and extend
ing thence on both sides, miles and miles
further than the eye can reach, is one
vast and almost unbroken forest of these
enormoUB trees. There is nothing like it
anyw here on the Pacific coast. An offi
cial estimate places the amount of stand
ing timber in that area at o00,000,000,000
feet, or a thousand years' supply, even at
tho enormous rate at which it is now be
ing felled and sawed. The timber belt
covers 30,000,000 acres of Washington
lerritorv. an area eoual to the States ot
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut
ind New Hampshire. The markets for
the Puget Sound lumber are entirely for
eign, being South America, Centra
America aud (he I aeific Oi:ean islands.
llussell Harrison as a Tenderfoot,
From theHt. Paul Pioneer Preis.
Russell Harrison, son of the President,
baB announced that he is a candidate for
Senator from the new State of Montana,
whore he has icsided for several years
past. When young Russell went to the
lerritorv ho was rather inexperienced in
the ways and customs of the wild and
woolly West, and the result was that, like
all "tendetfeet," he had a few escapades
in the mining territory. It is related by
a resident of that Territory, who is at
present visiting in St. Paul, that shortly
after his arrival in Montana Russell made
a visit to Bozetuan. There was a little
dispute between two citizens on the prin-
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town, mid in accordance with the custom
of the frontier. pistols were brought into
requisition to static the difficulty, there
was a scrimmage, and one oi the com
batants dropied his revolver on the side
walk. Just at this moment Russell hap
pened along, and picking up the revolver
very politely proceeded to return it to the
owner, but another person who observed
the action thought Harrison was gomg to
shoot, and gavo him a smash in his left
eye that landed him on his back. Har
rison had a badly discolored optic for sev
eral days, and was never known thereaf
ter to interfere with Territorial amuse
ments. Indeed, it is said that now he is
not very slow himself in taking a hand
in this kind of sport, and consequently
commands the respect and admiration of
the average Montana man.
Long Creek Mlnet.
From the Long Creek Kajflo.
Ihe mining interests of this section
promise greater activity than ever this
spring. Moan A llaskel, who purchased
all the placer claims on Elk creek, from
its mouth up to the quartz null, and who
dug a ditch nine miles long to convey the
waters ot liowlder creek, have com
menced in earnest at the Bite of old Su-
sanvillo. They have a "giant" and in
tend to clean the creek to bedrock all tne
wuy ill) to the mill. At one time Elk
creek was one of the best paying proper
ties in the male, and nloan & llaskel in
tend to make a bonanza this spiing.
(In Big creek the Chinamen have
bought up all the placer claims; they
paid flitlOO lor the lieeson & lily claim,
ind have also bought the Armstrong
.laim. Thev have been working all win
ter whip-sawing lumber, enlarging ditches
and putting in new Humes. They have a
"giant" at work, and the whole of Sandy
Hancocks old channel IB located tor
three miles.
Horace Moan has bonded the "Jim"
mine for $1,000 and has a force of men
at work.
Tucker and lien Cox have jumped the
Princess mine from Smith Bros.
Where Lent Is Kept InRarnest.
From tho St. Louis Keaubltc.
Nowhere in Europe is Lent kopt as
rigorously as it is in Russia. There the
faithful eat neither meat, eggs, milk nor
butter during the entire forty days. Even
in cooking oil is used instead of butter or
lard, and not even the children are al
lowed to drink milk. On the day before
Easter nothing is eaten, and just before
midnight the people all go to church,
bearing with them provisions of every
description. At the stroke of 12 the
church, w hich has previously been kept
in utter darkness, is suddenly illumin
ated, and then, after the food has been
blessed, the eating begitis and the people
satisfy . their hunger before leaving
the sacred edifice. On Easter Sunday
everybody has the privilege of saluting
whoever lie may chance to meet with
three kisses on the cheek. Even the Em
peror himself is not exempt from this cus
tom, and it was the custom in former
years for the Czar to walk abroad on that
clay to receive the embraces of his peo
ple, but this custom has been discon
tinued by tho present Emperor, who is
afraid of being killed by the Nihilists. and
does not care to court publicly in such a
manner.
An Appropriate Text.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The postmaster general has a Sunday
school class of 150 young men in Phila
delphia, which he does not propose to
abandon. It w ould tie interesting to near
Mr. Wanamaker enlarge upon the text,
"Make to yourselves friends of the mam
mon of unrighteousness." He ought to
understand that pretty well.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has at last secured control of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad, and through
it an entrance to Chicago. The Northern
Pacific is to ojierate the road and pay a
rental of 35 per cent, of the gross re
ceipts. Ot course, all the Northern Pa
cific's Chicago business will be thrown
tiKin the Wisconsin Central's line in
stead of being divided up between all
roads running between Chicago and St.
Paul. The lease will add to the Northern
Pacific system 707 miles of road, and ex
tensive terminal facilities at Chicago.