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HOOD RIVER. OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 181)0.
NO. 28.
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Wjlbir. Wash,
rHE PACIFIC COAST.
A Very Large Wheat Blockade in
Eastern Washington.
Swinomish Indians Preparing to Take Up
the Remaining Marsh Land on
Their Reservation.
The Idaho Legislature will be asked to
pass a Sunday law.
The Tacoma Coal Company have just
made a rich strike in their mine at Wil-
keson.
The work of the Northern Pacific in
Washington will not be interrupted by
any result of the recent financial flurry
in New York.
Freight trains are now so heavy on the
Southern Pacific that an extra engine is
necessary to get over the Cow Creek and
Calapooia mountains.
Grading on the branch railroads from
the Southern Pacific to Jacksonville is
nearly finished, and the rails will be laid
as soon as they arrive.
General Carr, Commander at Fort
Wintrate. N. M.. has received orders to
get the Sixth Cavalry ready for trans
portation to uaKOia in anticipation oi a
war with the Sioux Indians.
The Montana State Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision of the lower
court in making John A. Davis adminis
trator of his deceased brothers $i,uuu,-
000 estate. The will contest is not yet
decided.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
fourteen failures in Pacific CoaBt States
and Territories for the past week, as
compared with thirteen for the previous
week and eleven for the corresponding
week of 1889.
Two memliers of the Snokane Falls
City Council have sent in their resigna
tions as members of that body. They
are Judge Bettis and Colonel John I.
Booge. Prensure of private business is
given as the cause for resignation.
The handsome building for the Reform
School, a few miles south of Salem, is
fast assuming shape, and will soon be in
readiness for the erring youth of Oregon.
The roof is now just about completed
and the inside work well under way.
Daniel Keteher, attorney for Dominic
CoelIa,the frtTownsend murderer, has
received an order for a stay of all far
ther proceedings in the case, pending an
appeal. Coella was sentenced to death
and time fixed for his hanging December
19.
Caotain Andrew Haggard, brother of
Rider Haggard, who is now at Victoria,
B. C savs that the commander of Stan
ley's rear guard, Major Barttelot, who
served under hiin in the Egyptian war,
was remarkable then for cruelty and
want of consideration for all beneath
him.
Agent Andrew Andover of the Navajos,
who is at Albuquerque, N. M., says there
is cold enough in the Carrizo mountains
on ihe Navajo reservation to make every
body rich. An enort is being maae to
give the Indians other lands in lieu of
the mountain country and open the gold
fiefas to the puDlic.
A courier has reached Albuquerque,
N. M., from Anton, a small Mexican set
tlpment twenty miles south of Las Ve
gas, bringing news of a terrible running
fight between niteen or twenty cuwnuys
und a laree number of Mexicans. Hun
dreds of shots were exchanged, and sev
eral dead and wounded are reported on
both sides. .
Rev. P. B. Champagne, the old French
Canadian Catholic missionary, who has
established a good many congregations
and built several Catholic churches in
Montana and Dakota, has lately been
appointed by the Most Rev. Archbishop
Gross of Portland to the pastorate of the
Catholic missions of Linkville, Lakeview
and others in the surrounding counties.
William Zeckendorf. Commissioner of
the Wor d'sFair for Arizona, has Drought
suit against United States Marshal Paul
at Tucson for f L'&.UUU tor reiusing to per
mit him to go to the polls on election
dav after he had voted. The Marshal
says he simply carried out the election
requirements.
The cases against the Chinese at San
Rafael. Pal., for catching small fish with
bag nets have been postponea unm next
March, nwimr to the exhaustion of the
venire in obtaining a jury. The defend
ants are conducting an enormous shrimp
fishing business at rant t-an rearo in
Marin county, and should the case he
decided against them it will throwabout
3 1 (h nt.aeoutot employment at mat
place.
There is considerable talk of the gold
minps on the head of Spraeue river in
Lake county. The Gaylord Bros., angi
nal discoverers, have worked down the
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sides of the ledge, and have also made
a tunnel into the hill. They expect to
commence active work on the ledge in
in the spring, at which time numerous
prospectors will probably be found in the
hills. Assays of the quartz vary from
30 to $t5 to the ton, according to the
location in which the rc :k was found.
Over $40,000 of the amount needed to
purchase wuion Pacific terminals at Ta
coma has been subscribed. Chairman
W. J. Thompson of the committee has
been notified by Engineer Bogue that
only thirty-three instead of thirty-eight
acres will' be needed, the Tacoma Land
Company having agreed to give the rail
road ihe rght of way from the passenger
station to and along the water from the
channel of the Puvallup river. This
change will result in a saving of from
$12,500 to $15,000 to the oituenfs. of Ta-
EASTERN ITEMS.
Robert
Ray Hamilton's Wife
Pardoned.
is
A Kentucky Judge Decides That a Man is
Justified in Killing Another in
. Defense of His Brother.
South Dakota townB are short on fuel.
An air brake is being tried on a Chi
cago grip car.
Sanitation against typhoid fever is the
problem in 1,000 Eastern towns.
The Mavor of Findlay, O., 1ms ordered
all gamblers to leave town. Fifty have
left.
TV. Airnus of Chicago claims to have
hypnotized men at the distance of eight
miles. . ,
Kansas City Councilmen are to lie in
vestigated on a charge of receiving
bribes.
A Kentucky Judge has decided that a
man is justified in killing another in de
fense of his brother.
When a criminal is convicted by a jury
in Canada there is no appeal except to
the Executive power.
The Kights of Labor Assembly has re
duced Master Workman , Powderly's
salary from $5,000 to $3,500.
It is said that Governor Beaver of
Pennsylvania will succeed General Raum
as Commissioner of Pensions.
Eva Hamilton, the wife of Robert Ray
Hamilton, who was imprisoned in the
New Jersey penitentiary, has been par
doned.
The father of the lost Charley Ross
failed to discover in Charley McChristy,
th hn imprisoned at Boston, the son
he had so long sought.
Tnrwka. Kan., is now at. work on
scheme to utilize the swift current of the
Kaw as a water power for electric light
ing and other power purposes.
The City Council of Atlantic City has
passed the high license liquor ordinance,
which fixes the price for license at $500
and for concert gardens at $800. .
The report of State Dairy Commis
sioner Tupper shows that .72,000,000
pounds of butter were shipped out of
Iowa for the, year ending October 1. .
Every Methodist church in Kansas, so
far as heard from, cast an afflmative vote
on the proposition of admitting women
as delegates to the General Conference.
One hundred and fifty carloads of
wheat are leaving Manitoba daily, and
soon the figures will run up to 200 car
loads. This is the largest wheat move
ment known there.
A committee from the W. C. T. U. has
called ujion the President and Secretary
of War and urged the issuance of an or
der forbidding the sale of beer and light
wines at military garrisons.
Grflnt, excitement has been caused at
Ann Arbor, Mich., by the arrest of five
youths concerned in the recent row which
resulted in the death of Student Denni
son on a charge of manslaughter.
G. II . Papazinn, an Armenian student
of divinity at Cambridge, is meeting
with support from Boston citizens in the
establishment of a religious and educa
tional journal at Constantinople.
It is reported that Oscar Neebe, the
Anarchist, is likelv to be liberated from
Joliet, as it is asserted that the man who
identified him as me uistriuuior oi
Revenge circular thinks he was mis
taken. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
will admit a chain coupling, in addition
to the patent couplers in use, in order to
provide further safeguards against pas
senger cars breaking apart in rounding
sliort curves.
Thn Market Committee of the New
Ynrk Board of A ldermen has reported
favorably upon an ordinance providing
fnr the sale of fruit and vegetables by
weight instead of bv measure. The mat
ter has been before 'the l5oard for three
years.
T .vino-ton. Kv . wants to become the
fanital of the State, and a special elec
tion will be held on the question of in
demnifying the State to an amount not
to exceed $250,000 for loss in moving the
capital from b rankfort.
The contest for the Speakership of the
nnti Hnnse will be between Crisp, Mills
and Springer. Crisp will represent the
Southeastern section, Mills the boutn
west and Springer the Northern Central
group of Mates.
The Secretary of State has been in
formed that Moussa Bey, whose reported
outrages on American missionaries in
Tnrfcpv are. a matter of note, has at
lemrth been summarily banished to me
interior of Arabia.
Referring to a statement in the New
York Herald that there would be a de
ficiency at the end of the current fiscal
year o'f $31,000,000, Secretary Windom
said there will ceitalnly be a surplus;
but, of course, he cannot say how much.
The Board of Ladv Managers of the
World's Fair has selected the following
Vice Presidents : First, Mrs. Trnutman
of New York ; Second, Mrs. Burleigh of
Maine; Third, Mrs. Price of North Car
olina; Fourth, Miss Minar of Louisiana;
Fifth, Mrs. Wilkins of the District of
Columbia; Sixth, Mrs. Ashley of Colo
rado; Seventh, Mrs.Gintyof Wisconsin ;
Eigh'h, Mrs. Salisbury of Utah; Ninth
or Vice President at large, Mrs, Russell
Uarriifon oi Jloritana.
FOREIGN NEWS.
German Newspapers Digging at
Brewer Bismarck.
Count Von Moltke is the First German
Landed Proprietor to Adopt the
Eight-Hour Rule.
Odessa has been made a free port by
the Czar.
AirTschanch, Austria, a urine is Hood
ed, and twenty men perished.
Electric motors are being introduced
on the underground railway in London.
The Rothschilds have opened another
free hospital in Frankfort on the Main.
A number of Sanchez followers in
Honduras are being tried by court
martial. At Carlsbad, Bohemia, the Topel river
has overflowed, and great damage is be
ing done.
The floods in Bohemia are generally
subsiding, but the Danube and Elbe are
stiil rising.
Heligoland through its incorporation
with the German Empire has been made
part of Pruss a.
The great Russian steppes are to be
irrigated by a company formed by au
thority of the government.
Orders have been given in Russia that
no government work be given Jews out
side the territorial limits assigned them.
By the new arrangement American
mails are being distributed in England
twenty-four hours earlier than hereto
fore. Salisbury believes the time to dissolve
Parliment opportune, owing to the Par
nell scandal, and has decided to do so in
the spring.
A great Nationalist meeting at Dublin
has voted confidence in Parnell, who was
characterized less a man than an insti
tution for Ireland.
The inhabitants of Locheelly, Scot
land, are suffering from want of water.
The underground coal workings have
drained the supply.
T
has
The grout chemicaL trust , in England
is been registered as the United States '
Alkali Company, with a capital of $30,
000,000 in $50 shares.
An indignant crow d at Vienna severe
ly thrashed a member of the Bourse who
liad been suspended for spreading false
reports designed to make money dear.
Cocoanut butter is receiving consider
able attention in Europe The new sub
stitute is declared infinitely preferable
to the too-often bad butter soid in mar
ket. The Queen Regent of Holland has is-
sued a proclamation declaring Princess j
- v rr .
Wilhelmina ijueen ot the jNemenanas ;
and accepting the regency during her
minority.
The German Minister of Railroads has
ordered an empty carriage, labeled
" safety carriage.' to be placed between
the locomotive and the other coaches in
all trains.
The Turkish government has made
valuable concessions to a French syndi-
:ate, granting it the right to construct
quays on the snores oi me uroiuen norn
and to levy landing aues on mercimii
dise. Count von Moltke is the first landed
nronrietor in Germany to adopt the
eight-hour rule for the peasants working
for hiin upon his estate at Crisan, and is
well satisfied with the result of his ex-
..eriment
t. : w .K are in
a osidor: to" wefl formed thai" the I
circulation of the London Times contin
ues to decrease, and that as a ' prop
erty it has not the value by 25 per cent,
it had a few years ago.
Dispatches from the Congo Free State
say the Baptist Mission's steamboat
Peace on the Upper Congo river has been
confiscated bv the officers of the Congo
State for State purposes. The British
flag was hauled down.
The Brazilian government has re
scinded the deciees of banishment
against ex-Premier Preto, Senhor Al
fonso, ex-President of the province of
Rio Janeiro and Senhor Martins, ex
President of Rio Grande do Sul.
A ukase has been issued by the mili
tary authorities (says a St. 'Petersburg
telegram by Dalziel) for the capture of
Jews trying to escape army duty. Any
one guilty of hiding or sheltering such
persons win oe neavny pumsueu. j
Reports from Vienna state that Dr. 1
Cwsar de Pape, tiie founder of Socialism
in Belgium, is dying with consumption
at Cannes, his health having been broken
down under his arduous labors.
According to the London correspond
ent of the Freeman's Journal, a not too
friendly authority, the Irish light-rail-wavs
scheme will give work, to a large
number of laborers in excess of those
resident in the districts to be traversed.
The thirteenth centenary of Gregory
the Great is to be celebrated in Rome in
an international liturgical congress, to
which ail those who are concerned with
musical archieology and ecclesiastical art
will be invited. An exhibition of literary
and musical works in connection with
the origin and growth of " Catholic and
historical church music" will also be
organized,
PORTLAND MARKET.
Wheat There, is no change to be noted
in the local market, which continues in
active but steady. Vallev, $1.20l.22V ;
Walla Walla, $1.12,. Foreign markets
are quiet, but firm.
Floub The market is steady. Quote :
Standard, $3.904.00; Walla alia, $3.00
(83.80 per barrel.
"Oats The market is firm. Quote:
White, 00c; gray, 58c per bushel.
Millstuffs The market is firm.
Quote : Bran, $21 ; Shorts, $24 ; Ground
Barley, $32.50; Chop Feed, $25 per ton.
Hay The market is steady. Quote:
$1018perton. i
Vkoktabi.es The market is firm.
Quote: Cabbage, $1.25 1.50 per cental;
Cauliflower, $1 per dozen; Celery, 60c
per dozen ; Onions, 24P'Kc per pound ;
Carrots, $1 ner sack ; Beets, $1.50 per
sack; Turnips, $1 per sack; Tomatoes,
50c per box; Potatoes, $11.10 per
cental ; Sweet Potatoes, 2jjC per pound ;
squash, $2 per cental.
Fruits The market is steady. Quote:
Tahiti Oranges, $3 per box ; Sicily Lem
ons, $8(S9 per case; Pears, lc per
pound ; Apples, (J0(3S5c per box ; Grapes,
$1.25 per box; Pineapples, $3.504.00
per dozen; Bananas, 2.503 50 per
bunch; double, $6.00; Quinces, $1.25
per box.
Nuts Quote: California Walnuts,
17ijC ; other varieties, 13c ; Peanuts, 12c ;
Almonds, 17c; Filberts, 1418c; new
Brazils, 20c per pound; Cocoanuts,$l per
dozen.
Chekbe The market is steady. Quote:
Oregon, 13(?514e; California, 9)10c;
Young America, 1415c per pound.
Butter Quote : Oregon fancy cream
ery, 404l"c; fancy dairy, 37c; fair
to good. 2730c; common, 2225c;
choice California, 37oC per pound.
Eggs The market is firm. Quote:
Oregon, 3032J$c; Eastern, 25c per
dozen.
Poultry Quote: Old Chickens, $3.50
4.00; young, $2.504.00; old Ducks, $6
i6.50; young, $7; Geese, $910 per
dozen ; live Turkeys, 12c per pound.
The Merchandise Market.
The markets are firm, business if
good, but no changes in prices.
Sugars The market is firm. Quote:
Golden C, ; extra C, 6c ; dry gran
ulated, Ojc; cube crushed and pow
dered, 6,'c per pound.
Dkiep Fruits The market is firm.
Quote: Italian Prunes. 12J14c; Pe
tite and Gorman Prunes, 10c per pound;
Raisins, $2.75 per box: Plummer-dried
Pears, 11 12c; sun-dried and factory
iiri12f!: evaporated Peaches,
24c: Smyrna Fiss. 1416c; California
Viira Do npr rvnnnd.
Kb-avh Th market is firm. Quote:
fimall Whites. 3Ac Pink, 3c:
Bayoe, 4 Me; Butter,. Sc; Limas,.5!f
per pound.
Cannep Goons Market is farm, yuote:
Table fruits. $2.25, 29 ; Peaches, $2.50;
IWrletT. Pears. S2.25: Plums. $1.65;
Strawberries, $2.50; Cherries, $22.50;
ii,.k Wriea 2: Raspberries, $2.55;
J2.75: Apricots.. $1.85. Pie
fnii. AHKnrte(i.3.75 per dozen ; Peaches,
$1.42 ; Plums, $1.25 ; Blackberries, $1.65
ner dozen. Vegetables: Corn, $1.20
fflii RO. according to quality; Tomatoes,
$1.153.50; Sugar Peas, $1.40(81.60;
ctfino- Reans.! nerdozen. Fish : Salmon,
ti 2501.50: sardines. 80c$1.50; lob
aiuni. in. u.i. u vaucifi. i u
sters, $3 ; oysters, tu.u uw.cn.
m5Ik . age brand, $8.25;
Crown $7; Highland, $6.78 ; Champion,
fl ner case,
Pickles Quote : $1.15e 3s; $1.25 5s.
Salt Quote : Liverpool, $17, $18, $19 ;
Stock, $11(8-12 per ton in cariuu luia.
f!rAi. Oiiy Quote : $2.35 per case.
Cranberries Quote : Wisconsin,
tft.BO : Cane Cod. $10.50 per barrel.
rVuriTRK Quote : Costa Rica. 22c;
Rio, 25)c; Arbuckle's, roasted, 20c
per pound.
Rice Quote: $6.25 per sack or 100
ivmTlilflL
Hops The market is steady, with
nominal prices. Quote: 3033c per
pound.
Hides Quote: Dry Hides, selected
nrime. 8(88540. Vc less for culls; green
, gelected, over 55 pounds, 4c; under 55
pounds, 3c; Sheep Peltfl, short wool. 6U
250c medium, 6080c: long, 90c
$1.25 ; shearlings. 1020c ; Tallow, good
Wni.. Quote : Eastern Oregon, 10
16c; Valley, 1620c per pound.
Nails Base quotations : Iron, $3.20
Steel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg.
Shot Quote; $1.85 per 6ack.
The Meat Market.
The meat market is firm. Quote:
Beef Live. 2! 3c: dressed, 6c.
Mutton Live. 3J4c; dressed, 6W7c.
Hogs Live, 465c; dressed, 6$c.
Veal 68c per pounu.
Lambs $2.50 each.
smoked heats and lard.
The market is firm. Quotations: East
ern Hams. 13(S)14c: Breakfast Ba
con, llllc ; Sides, 910c ; Lard, 8fc
lOJc per pound.
The experimental station of the Iowa
Agricultural College at Ames offers to
donate the necessary time and money to
analyze sugar beets grown in lowa lor
whoever will prepay express charges and
send samples, with a full statement as
to the nature of soil, previous treatment
of soil, mode of culture, manuring,
where seed was obtained, name of vari
ety, etc.
There is a rumor that it is in
contem-
plation to make the Governorship of Si
erra Leone, like that of Malta and Gi
braltar, a military post in the future on
account of the growing importance of
the place as a coaling station.
Now that Bismarck is a brewer, the
papers are digging at him right and left.
The Freisstnige Zeitung quotes from a
speech of the ex-Chancellor delivered
in the Reichstag March 28, 1881, in
which he said: "Beer stupefies the
drinker instead of exciting his nerve,
and it ought therefore to be considered
from an economical and national point
oi view as a bad drink." But Bismarck
hi! learned thing or two ince then,
CARE OF PARLOR CARS.
They Really Are Cleaned and Aired for
Kuril Trip, and Stocked, Too.
It would probably be a gratifying as
surance to the minds of many travelers
to know what great care is taken to
secure ierfwt cleanliness in the more
luiuiiuiio cl.mea uf railroad coaches,
known variously as sleeping, drawing
room, dining and bullet cars. A con
viction U widespread, particular); among
women, that the reverse is the case. The
blankets that are always so strangely
suggestive of cold buckwheat cakea,
being of a feel and thickness unlike any
other blankets, are vere apt to be viewed
with suspicion. As for the pillows, how
many women have vowed that they
could sniff the hair oil of the preceding
user upon them? Why, even bed bug
stories have been told of sleeping cars,
and the Anecdote about dropping a gold
dollar in a sleeping car und unding it a
month afterwaru just where it fell, has
become such a stock story among travel
ing men that some of them now actually
believe it. In view of all this, there is
solid comfort in such a story as Superin
tendent C. D. Flagg tells about what is
done with their cars at the conclusion of
every trip. He says:
"Every car, s soon as it is emptied or
its passengerc at a terminal point, is, as
we term it, 'stripped ' in the yard. The
carpets are taken up, carried out. beaten
and aired. The seate and backs are
taken out and thoroughly cleaned in like
manner. The mattresses, blankets and
berth curtains are also whipped, aired
and, if the weather permits, sunned.
The spring beds are freed from the 'bed
dust' that gathers from fraying of textile
fabrics, by brushing and wiping in all
parts. All uteusiis are carried out,
soused in scalding lye and scrubbed.
The pillows are beaten and sunned like
the mattresses The floor and oilcloths
in the saloons are scrubbed, and all the
woodwork, having been scoured thor
oughly clean with soap, brushes, hot
water and drying cloths, is gone over
with furniture polish. About once a
week the veneering or painted canvas
constituting the ceiling is carefully
scoured to cleanse from it accumulations
of smoke and clinging dust. The win
dows are cleansed and rubbed bright.
All brass and silver mountings are pol
ished. Dust and stains are as carefully
washed from the outside of the car as
from the inside. To do that work we
keep 100 cleaners steadily at work here
in New York, and numbers at other
points in proiiortion to the work required.
While all this has been going on, every
shred of textile fabrics that should be
washed sheets, pillow cases, towels,
nankins and cushion covers lias been
sent to, the Jnundry and replaced by a
clean stock of " articles. Each car haa"
two complete outfits of these things,
which are used alternately , one being
laundried, aired and packed while the
other is on the road.
"Then, when the process is complete,
the car has to be retrimmed, by the re
laying of carpets and oil cloths; putting
in place of the springs, mattresses, seata
and backs; stowing away of the pillows,
linen and curtains, and, last of all, the
thorough washing out of the water tanks
and refilling them with fresh water and
ice. That last thing is never done until
the final moment when the car is about
to be drawn from the yard to take its
place in the outgoing train. While all
this has been going on the railroad peo
ple who are resjxinsifcle for the care of
the running gear of the car inspect the
trucks, test the brakes, sound every
wheel, see that the boxes are rightly
packed, and. as far as foiesight can go,
make sure accidents shall be averted.
"That is the regular routine, scrupu- .
lously followed every day upon every
car tliat comes in. No housewife, even
in Holland, ever dreameS of such a
thorough -house cleaning' as this is. In
addition thereto, the blankets are steam
scoured twice a year, which is at least
double the attention they get in most
hotels. The berth curtains are treated so
once a year. Carpets have to be renewed
every fifteen or eighteen months, as the
hard" service wears them out very rapidly.
The only variations upon that elaborate
process of cleaning are in handling the
dining room and buffet cars, where the
oierations involve thorough purification
of all utensils, cleansing of the ice boxes
and kitchens and restocking with pro
visions. One rule c I ways maintains that
the primary thing to Le done when the
car comes into the hands of the cleaners
ia to take out of it everything that can
be taken out. Then every separate pice
so removed must be made faultlessly
clean before it is put back.
"Kach dining room or buffet car has
its steward, whose duty it to to report to
the assistant commissary immediately
upon his arrival what stock he has left
over and what he is short of. To verify
his report the assistant commissary, who
acts as a check ujion him, goes through
his s.ock and then makes out, to replace
shortages and keep up the supplies, a
requisition upon the commissary. That
requisition is filled out upon a blank form,
on which are specified about 300 articles
in constant use on those cars, with spaces
left for the addition of more as the con
ditions of the markets enable increase in
the resources of our commissariat. In
all the management of this department
there is just such a system of checking
in and checking out as obtains in the
stock' room of every big hotel All
groceries, wines, liquors, and other non
perishable goods are bought in great
quantities, and kept in the company's
store houses for i"ue upon requisition
as demanded; but fresh meats, poultry,
game, fisii. vegetables and fruits are pur
chased by the commissary in the mar
kets from day to day. or supplied by con
tract with dealers, just as such things aro
provided by the steward of a hotel."
New York Sua.