WEEKLY BUDGET. THURSDAY JULY 17, 1890 gThii notice marked with a blue pencilin dicatcs that your eubmrlptlon has eipircd, and if you with the paper continued you should remit the price of mibscriidion at once. ECHO ITEMS. THE NEICHBORS. BRIEF NOTES. Babbitt-metal for sale at tbis office. Several headers started up this week, and more will commence next Monday. Mrs. C. I.. Andrews took the train last Monday morning for a visit to Linn county. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Penland started tins morning for a visit to their upper ranches. Mrs. Bishop returned last week from Weston, where she has been visiting relatives and friends. Nearly the entire wool crop of south ern Oregon has been sold, l'rices ranged as high as twenty cents in some cases. A 400-foot highway bridge, the longest of its kind on the l'acitic coast, is being constructed at Springfield, Lane county. Marshall Hill, after spending his Fourth of July vacation with his rela tives and friends here, returned to Pasco , last Thursday. Dr. F. II. Young, formerly in the drug business in Lexington with 0. W. Harris, died last March at Woodlmrn, . .Marion county. Interest is again awakened in the wonderful Josephine county limestone cave. It has been explored three miles and lias fine mineral springs. Mrs. Benge, of Social ridge, with her daughter Hosa, left yesterday morning for an extended visit "to the Willamette valley, Washington and California. Tho county records of Harney county have been removed to Burns, as the new county seat, on a peremptory writ of mandamus issued by Judge C'lill'ord. S. B. Hope, at the planing mill, has lumber for sale at such low prices that it will pay the intending buyer to see liim before starting oil' for tho moun tains. Heppner may build a $-10,000 hotel, but in the meantime farmers who want a square meal at a reasonable price con tinue to patronize tho Pioneer hotel and Mountain house. Malcolm I'orrigall, a native of Scot land, residing on Butter creek, has made proof of his right to tho privileges i next year, ol an American ami is nun a citizen ui the United States. Under the deft manipulation of J . L. Kiibson's brush, tho interior of the Lex ington hotel lias undergone quite a change, and now looks fresh and cool on the wannest day. " T. B. Howard, Morrow county's popu lar cx-sheriH', has gone into the grocery business at Heppner with K. i. Sloan. Botli gentlemen are highly esteemed and will make a strong firm. The Albany Herald says it looks now ns if mininir machinerv is to be put in the Santiam mines and the work of de veloping these rich gold and silver de posits cxjnHuenced in earnest. A inane the good things now shipped! - by rail to VWtland from California are peaches, apricots, vhims, grapes, tigs, Vears, apples, cantaloupes, watermelons, tomatoes, cucumbers and torn. Lightning set fire to a field of dry grass mi the B. F. Myer place, near Ashland, during one of tiie thunder storms of last TveeV,ad burned over about foity acres before the flames could be extinguished. The work of preparation for the an nual state fair has already begun. Forty new stables will be erected and the old pavilion will be ceiled. There is a con siderable amount of activity about the fair grounds now. Crops on Jordan Fork are said to be in good shape. J. M. Hamlilet has a fine field of red chaff wheat, the favorite variety in that vicinity, which the neigh tors think will yield at least twenty bushels to Uie acre. The grading camps on the main line of the Astoria & South Coast railroad between Seaside junction and the Lewis and Clarke river are being moved for ward and ecpiipped for the immediate resumption of work. There is a great deal of talk in Port land to the effect that the O. It. & N. 'o. contemplates purchasing the San Francisco & North Pacific railroad and extending it northward from Ukiali to Astoria and Portland. In the house of representatives tho forfeiture bill now comes up almost daily and is put over as unfinished bus iness. There are strong hopes of its being finally considered and passed be fore the end of the session. Last Tuesdav, by the explosion of 11)00 kegs of powder contained in two cars at a powder mill twenty-nine miles from Cincinnati, ten lives were lost and at least twenty persons injured. Much property was also destroyed. Work on both the Northern Pacific and Hunt roads from Centraliatotiray's Harbor is being rapidly pushed ahead. Hunt's graders are in advance, but the Morthem Pacific has captured tho Por ter creek gap which will cause Hunt to make a deep cut. Colonel T. A. Houghton, the newly elected commander of the Third regi ment, is now making a tour of inspec tion among the various companies of the regiment. He visited D company last Tuesday, and created a favorable im pression with all who met him. A very rich ledge of quart has been discovered at Bohemia, says theCottage irove Leader. A man by the name of Miller is the tinder. In a small piece of quartz about the size of a hen egg there is a vein of gold worth about f 16, and it is said there is an abundance of the quartz. It is considered the richest ledge in Lane county. The coming industrial exposition in Portland, which will open on September .'oth and close October 25th, promises to be the best ever held in that city. A large force of men are already engaged in preparing grounds, erecting new buildings and making other improve ments. The music will be furnished bv Liberatti's famous band, which is itself a splendid attraction. A convention of the sheriffs of the hirtv-one counties of Oregon will be lield'at tho court house in Salem, .Mon day, July 21st. This meeting is held for the purpose of better acquaint ing the sheriffs with each other, and their several modes of procedure, and also for the discussion of any topics and taking action on any This week we take pleasure in intro ducing a new correspondent, who will hereafter keep the readeis of the Bi'durt informed as to happenings in Echo and vicinity : "Hottest weather of the season" is the prophecy of your correspondent. The Henrietta mills have shut down for the present, as no more grain can be obtained. The teachers for our public school have been chosen. They are F.. A. Freed and Miss Martha Whitworth. .Mrs. James Taylor is very sick, and nrenarations are now being made to take her to the hot springs in Arkansas. The recent rain, although much need ed, came too late to benefit fall-sown grain. It is said there will be a fair crop of spring grain, but the acreage here is Binall. Fred T. Parsell has the contract for carrying the mail on the new route be tween Kclio and Heppner, by way of Alpine, connecting at Echo with the fast mail train. This will shorten the trip by three and one-half hours. I saw a conv of the Bi'dqet this week. It is a bright, newsy sheet and deserves a generous patronage. Although small, it is ablv edited and far above the av erage village paper. Boxv. Kciio, Umatilla Co., July 11, lS'JO. "Koxy" is hereby cautioned to re frain from taffy or prepare for death. Ed. A HIHl) IN M AND. Poor, or unknown, no mutter which, Though nresent duties chafe tiwl tetter, Still i-liiiK within tlif narrow niche t'littl you're certain of a belter. 1'hilndclphia Pees. , . -- . FROM GOOSEBERRY. Kor the BrnnHT. V. P. Snyder has purchased a team, and means biz. Mr. Caleston proved up on his pre emption last Saturday. Messrs. McVay, Charleston and Akers have purchased a new header. Miss 'Lissa Snyder is visiting friends and relatives in Heppner this week. , V. Brenner is breaking sod, and con templates cultivating about 300 acres Condensed Clippings from Eastern Oregon Exchanges. UMATILLA COUNTY, rentlletou Dally East Orcgonian. Jacob Frazer is now mending rapidly, having taken a decided turn for the better. Robert Walker has commenced head ing at his farm near Stage gulch. He figures on an average of but ten bushels to tho acre. James Nelson has one of the finest pieces of spring wneat in tne country. It will make twenty-five bushels to the acre at least. Pendleton has a puzzle what to do with its dogs. Pendleton has more worthless canines to the square inch than, any other town in Oregon. Much sidetrack is building at Pendle ton by the Union Pacific. A force of about thirty Mongolians is now engaged in the work of making more yard room. John S. Vinson, of Nolin, says that most of the ranchers in his neighbor hood have cut their grain for hay, the crop being too poor to thresh. Farmers are not discouraged, however, and cal culate to "stay with the country." Mr. and Mrs. H. Fliekinger have re turned from a tour of the Willamette valley and a two months' Bojourn at the beach. Mr. Fliekinger says lie found no town below that compared with Pendle ton to his estimation, and he is glad to be home once more. George Bowman, a young fisherman wlio went angling along the Umatilla yesterday, landed a trout a foot in length, lie carried it home in triumph, and while dressing his troutship, dis covered a plain gold ring, with the in itials "I. V." on the inside, imbedded in its anatomy. The ring had evidently been accidentally dropped into the river, ami swallowed by the trout through the natural mistake that it was a new va riety of the insect family. This is no fish lie; it is the earnest, sober truth. 1'enilleton Tribune. Sunday school at Stonv Point school house every Sabbath at 10 A. M. and singing at 4 p. M. Harvesting has begun in this neigh borhood. Crops are turning out better than many farmers expected. Mrs. Sarah K. Snvder's house on her timber culture is completed, and she will soon remove to her new home. tiHINUO. (ioosKiiKimv, July 14, 1NKI. SCANDAL. "They siiy" Nut why the tale rehearse, Ami help' to make the matter worse".' Nuootl can ,oHsihly aeerue From ti'llliiK what may he untrue. -feinted. THE CYCLONE'S TRACK. Great Destruction of Life and Property in Eastern Minnesota. Last Sunday an immense cyclone swept through eastern Minnesota, lev eling everything in its track. In the region to the north and east of St. Paul there are a great many small lakes which are sought by the multitude every Sunday, and many campers pass the hot months of summer there. It was in this section that tho cyclone created the greatest havoc, destroying two or three hundred lives the exact number being unknown and a vast amount of property. The principal loss of life occurred on Lake Pepin, where an excursion steamer with L'OO passen gers was capsized. Among the locali ties suffering loss of life and property are lakes Coleman, Joanna, Vaduars, Maccarone, Little Canada, (iervais, and the towns of New Canada, Lake City and Diamond Bluff. The storm started only a few miles from St. Paul and Min neapolis. TI1K t'OMMKHCIAL TRAVELER. He enre not (or iilory, Neither silver nor gold, If he has a new story l-'or the lambs of his fold. Athlanrt ( II7.) Prut. (. P. Deardorf, of Mountain precinct, says crops up there will be good. The Pendleton market is now abund antly supplied with garden truck, The four-year-old son of (leo. Kidder was badly burned on Saturday evening. Peaches and green apples have put in an appearance. Next thing in order will be water melons and Bella Akin. Many of the orchards down the river will have a fair crop of apples, and gar den sass galore. They don't seem to have suffered from the freeze of May ioth as badly as tho orchards and gar dens near Pendleton and on Birch creek. John L. Gulliford, who has been in Pendleton from the ranges for a few days, reports that hiB wool clip was lighter this year than usual, averaging eight pounds to the fleece. The falling off is attributed to the severity of the winter. Prices offered range from l'2,l6 to IK cents, according to weight and grade. Weston Leader. Pendleton has twenty-one saloons. Born In Weston, July (Hh, to Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Worthington, a son. Pauline Key, daughter of Wm. Key of Weston mountain, died on the 4th inst., aged 20 years and three months. Two families with three teams loaded with household effects passed through Weston last Thursday en route to south ern Oregon. There are now about fifty persons camped at the warm spring pleasure re sort, and the road is lined with parties going to that and other resorts, to rusti cate until the weather grows cooler. One of the pleasure-seekers at the warm springs came near being drowned 1' ridav evening. He had been worship ing at the shrine of Bacchus during the dav, and strolling into the bath house laid down in one of the vats and fell asleep. Somo one turned the warm water on, and he came near drowning before he awoke to his true condition. It was with difficulty that he was res cued and resuscitated. AGRICULTURAL NOTES. ' It is better to pick off half the fruit than to prop the tree. The wild plum is used for hedge rows in some parts of Nebraska. The" "black rot" is killing sweet pota toes in middle and lower Delaware. The average crop of flax in India is said to be only 240 pounds per acre. It is claimed that half of the sugar used in the world is made from beets. A berry-laden currant bush is grow ing in the fork of a tree at Lancaster, Pa. It will take 1,500 persons to pack tho raisins produced in Fresno county, Cal., this year. The people of this country consume, it is said, 200,000,000 bottles of pickles annually. At T. W. Harvev's sale of Angus cat tie in Chicago thirty-three head aver aged ?L"J3 each. Carrots are said to be excellent food for horses, giving a sleek, oily appear ance to their hair. There is no one food that is best suited for producing eggs. A variety is what nils the egg basket. Pure cold water should be allowed in anikulikW limited only bv the cow s ea- paT'ity and desise to drink. The holes for trees Bhould always be made large enough to admit all the roots without crowding or bending. Kurotasmia. the Jersey cow that has lust completed the production of D15'- pounds of butter in one year, weighs 820 pounds. It is estimated that the money which this cnuntrv navs for agricultural im ports from Canada supports some 00,000 Canadian burners. A box or trough containing salt, to which the cows have access every day is a requisite indispensable intho profit able keeping ot cows. Reports from Pope county, Illinois sav that the country is overrun with ruts. They have been especially ae st-uctive of grain and poultry. Barley is our only grain of which the home product is not equal to tne Utj mand. The deficiency is chiefly sup plied by importations from Canada. A farmer living near Atchison,,Kan., will this year harvest 8,000 boxes of strawberries from a 8-acre patch. Last year he realized $540 from a single acre. Tho largest sheep ranch in the world is in the counties of Webb and Dimnet in Texas. It contains upward of 400, 000 acres, and yearly pastures 800,000 sheep. Some unknown disease has attacked the calves and young cattle about Blooin- lield and Tomalcs, Cal. Ihey appear as well as usual at night, but next morning are found dead. Locusts are so numerous in some parts of South Australia that they cause a con tinual roar while Hying, and the conn trv is being stripped of everything green by the scourge. The Ventura (Cal.) I'ire. Pirns says WrtfttrtXK) trees, of apricots in this county and n prospective income of f 150,000 this year from fruit-alono, some people will grumble. The Tulare (Cal.) liftinter says wheat is turning out better than was expected when the season began. Instead of get ting only eight sacks to the acre, the farmers say thoy will get ten. The wheat-louse, which has been de vastating the wheat in central and north ern New Jersey, is now causing alarm among growers of oats. The lice light upon the stalks in clouds, devouring the leaves and sucking the juice from the kernal of the grain. Last year the world raised 3,000,000, 000 bushels of wheat. The United States erow 400.000.000 bushels; trance, 30(1, 000,000; India, 237,000,000; Russia, with Poland, 300,000,000; Portugal, 9,000, 000; Denmark, 5,000,000; Spain, 73,- 000.000: Switzerland, 2,500,000; (tor- many, 84,000,000 ; Hungary, tlo,INXI,(HKl Asia Minor, 37,000,000; Persia, 22,000, 000. IT IS A FACT That for some months past the trade of Lexington has boon sunormu irora tho want of a . COMPLETE AND DESIRABLE ASSORTMENT -OF- GENERA MERCHANDISE -INCLUDINU CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, BOOTS and SHOES, Tobacco and Cigars, DRY GOODS, S M fancy GROCERIES Glass-ware, Croclcersr, 3Ttlcn.s, Etc. ( DKSIRIN'U TO SUPPLY THIS WANT, WM. PENLAND, by WM. BLAIR, Manager, Has received and opened for gonoral inspection just such a Stock. We hT adopted the rule of "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS," Which keeps business moving and enables the merchant to renew his Stock with Fresh Goods, so that tho buyer always has a cfioice of the best. WE HAVE ALSO SECURED THE Agency for FRANK BROTHERS Implement Company, AN' I) WILL KEKP IN STOCK ALL KINDS of FARM MACHINERY the RED CHAFF WHEAT. S. E. Jones, of the Jordan Fork neigh borhood, this week brought in a hand some sample of red chaff wheat, an average of a field of 100 acres. It is all that could be desired in quality and bight, and will be over the average yield. He also has a field of 115 acres that will not do so well, being damaged in spots where standing too thickly. He sowed half a bushel, meas ured, to tho acre on all, but the first named field was sod, and he thinks the seed was not all covered, thus giving a thinner stand and better growth. Mr. Jones is of the opinion that red chaff is a better wheat than the little club under unfavorable conditions. He will start up his thresher about the I'Hth. lorn and foolish. There are inin people In til i s world Who tske Kreat pains To make their fallow men believe That lutiL'H arc brains. Washington Star. CIHANT COUNTY. Canyon City News. Three prisoners escaped from county jail on the tith instant. In a few yearB when means of trans portation are allbrded, Urant county's soda springs will furnish mineral water equal to any on the continent. In some portions of the county the hay crop will not be as heavy as it should, owing to cool weather, but there is an abundance ot hay being harvested ; more than enough to feed Urant coun ty's stock through a hard winter. Several places in Grant county had celebrations on the Fourth, after all. The liveliest was at the Summit house, between Canyon City and Pear valley, where they had a shooting match, with an Irishman for a target. Wo are in formed that Adamson uliot at bin son-iu-law John Mulcare seven times with a rifle, but failed to make a hole in him. -EMURALTSU- Jtuxhford and I'inh liro. Wagons, Ilcitny Hack, Ilodget Header, Siiacusi! Chilled Plows, Jlock Inland Turf and Stubble, Ell Gang, Star Windmills and Punijui, Etc., Etc. PROPOSE TO GIVE FULL VALUE AND TO SHORTEN THE DIS- Inspect AB V V tance for buyers who desire fair returns; for their hard cash our (joods and learn our prices. WM, blaik, Manager. GROCERIES!- 11US1NESS is BEGINNING to MOVE -A.NI) SO IS- "W. IB McALISTEB, WHO HAH Ol'lCNKD THE BOSS CASH STORE, (.V THE POSTOrFICE iWILVIXO) AND IS NOW BECK1VINO MY FRIEND. Not he who oreKHCH rloselv to mv ahto W hi n fortune ninlle" on ine and toy In mine Not he wlnibrhiKK bin laurel ,ray to twine Among the llowcra with which fame decka bla urmu. Not he who nainen my name in eonnelona hrMe, And bows with devoteea about my ulirlne, Kui-'er in mv love-roary to Hhine; Sot he! No; one like him (ball not abide. But he who holds me fast through grief and pain, Though trouble! deepen and disgrace por tend, Through shame of poverty, through men'i dis dain, Cheering me on, and ready to defend My lite from peril or my name from atain, ilraving tiie world lor me: he is my friend. Kiiimn ('. lMiwd, in Helford't Magazine. Off for the Blues. C. L. Andrews and C. V. Younggrcn, the retiring county clerk and deputy, will start on Saturday for a hunt in the Iilue mountains. It will take two pack horses to transport their arsenal and commissary, which will include a large assortment of the most improved and destructive weapons and an ample sup ply of salt. So many friends have spoken for venison that the boys will ' i..: i nrobably hire ten or twelve Indian Big Blast. In about six weeks the biggest blast that has ever been fired in the northwest will be set off at Port Crescent. This blast will consist of ten tons or 20,IKX) pounds of powder, and will be a sight well worth traveling hundreds of miles to see. Men are now at work driving a tunnel into a solid hill of rock for a dis tance of eighty feet and will run a gal lery each side of the main tunnel a dis tance of sixty feet, in which the powder will be placed preparatory to the blast The blear-eyed, bluo-faced editor, (not pf,.j .t) of the morning almanac, who takes a drink occasionally but never pays for it, is terribly worried over what "Citizen" says. People seldom squeal unless they are hurt. linker City licveUU'. Sk.natok Tei.i.ku, of Colorado, owns Pi.OOO acres of pasture lands in the southern part of that state, and it takes something like seventy-five miles of wire fence to surround Senator Saw yer's Texas ranch. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, JSCIXIUXU KVKKYTHIXU USHER THAT HEAD. ALL FRESH AND FIRST-CLASS ! Choice Brands of Tobacco and Cigars. MY GOODS WERE BOUGHT FOR CASH, A7II) WILL BE SOLD FOR cash only, and at the very lowest prices. No stale goods in the Bom Cash Stohk, but everything fresh except tho Hams, Bacon and Baited Salmon. tfCliickens and Eggs taken in exchange for Goods, HENRY PADBERG, THE While we have cheapened letter post age and newspaper postage to a level as , low as, and in some instances lower than I the best governments in the world, wo rotuin a urirn rtn bpavv ttnrlcaif.R nilleh ! ' - ' - 1 i.- higher than other governments, and t STRAYED OR STOLEN I BOM P. A. WflKTHIN'iTOS S KANCII, four mile northwest of l.exiuyton, one brown geldinK, with slur lu forehead, rlpht hind foot white, branded PL eonneeted on left shoulder and stille, weighs about 'JW pounds; alsoa brown Keldina with same brands, weiuh inK tboul l.ooo pounda. The horse are niatebed and will be together. A reward of lu will be paid for information U-adintf to their reeovery. C. II. STA.NTIH.P. (111, belli, ((loll. Kr. TEN DOLLARS REWARD. terest or benefit to the craft. oiiics to bring it in if they kill it. TRAVKI) FROM THE HAN'fiK NEAR WKIX Ri.rlnir about May Inn, a chestnut-sorrel limit the Weight Of these much smaller , ,,) hranded Willi reversed S and slantlnu S Uinn tliov iln In rdhor wnrds wp liavn ; eonneeted at the bottom and reriieinblliiK a ian tucy uo. in otrier woras, we nave , w , , r,.Ward of no for the a tender care for the express companies 1 delivery of said animal to Ed. Cluffat lone I that those governments do not manifest, I - - ... . ... ' 'ANTKI)-MlKK FAKMKKH TO KETTLE and the express companies constitute a i i ,wrrow e,,nnty ami bo. ten the da ! very small part of this government of l-s i the people. T'f'imn iW;"-. ; ' fKOI'KIETOR OF CITY DRUG STORE, LEXIXOTOX, OUEfJOX, (DR. L T. GEOGHEGAN, Pharmacist and Manager.) KEEPS II FUll STOCK OF PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES! ALSO TOILET AHTK1.E8, (.HoK'H 1'EKFI MEKY, NOTIONS, HCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONEIY, CONFECTIONERY, CI 1I.EKY, 1'I TTY FAINTS, OILS, OI.A9H, Etc., Ktc. A FINE LINE of TOBACCO and CIGARS. The llilP.l Urn .id of Ull Hiirf I.ICU OK for Itledlrltiftl fur tW I'KKSCKII'TIONS COMfOIINnaU l)l OR H1HHT. Ji j f !! IllillM II II II II H H K', I) 11 H II II H H u h it n II I! I' r r o it I' N II I' L I! i: v n II V I' u UCL'C I)I(IU) (K)O(I EEEEE TTTTTT I) I) (I it E T I) I) (J (I K T U 1 l O r U E Y T ) II) OK KEEEE T li I) (1 Mi'l F. a T , I) I) (t l, E B T ' I) U (1 O E T f liLiUU 0000 EEEEE T i T ANTFK-KAHTFKN AM) WESTERN ft farmer to know that in Morrow eounty can Iwi found free vaeaut bind and linn roved claims lor sale ebenp. and that the aoll hern eanliot le exe.-iicl, 'lite presitut O,,ortunitlea -bould uol t;i: i - fcg 1 - ' ijiiic at ouec. irEEl I.N MINI) TIIE FACT THAT $1,00 LEX- Inetoii Is lii I he midst of a line farmiui ntr and thai now Is the time to lorale hr. IN NOT MUCH, BUT IT WILLOIVB you the Ul'liUkT lor (Hie year. .