VJLV tBX2E3 Vy V . I 1 says "JLook at me.'1 Schilling's JBest baking powder, and. tea are because What is the missing word? not SAFE, although Schilling's Best .baking powder and tea art safe. . - , v '. ; Get Schilling's Best baking powder or tea at your 1 grocers'; take out 'the ticket (brown ticket in every package of baking powder; yellow ticket in the tea); send a ticket with each word to address below before December 31st. Until October 15th two words allowed for every ticket ; after that only one word for every ticket .1.,. If only one person finds the word, that person gets, f 2000.00; if several find . it, $2000.00 will be equally divided among them. Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket' will receive a set of -cardboard creeping babies at the end of the contest. Those sending three or more in one envelope will receive an IS9S pocket calendar no advertising on it These creeping babies and pocket calendars will be dirferent from the cues, offered in the last contest ''... L ' . .A ' Better cut these rules out J Address: MONEY-BACK, United States Reserve Navy There are 00 modern steamships fit for cruising now available by the Uni ted States Navy in case of war, exclu sive of regular war vessels building or in commission, and there. are rapid-fire guns enough to equip 5 of them with a week. These ships are ocean liners and coast steamships carrying the Amer . ican flag. ' . ; . OIVB US REST. , This Is the prayer of the neryone who do ot sleep well. Let them use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and their prayer will be speedily answ ered. Insomnia Is the product of indigestion and nervousness, two associate ailments, soon remedied by the Bitters, which also vanquishes malaria, constipation, liver complaint, rheu matism and kidney complaints. Oldenburg's dynasty is saved from extinction by the birth of a son to the hereditary grand duke. A Weak Man A man who has wasted the power of youth by excesses and last living is only half a man; to him the greatest pleasur s are only pastime, he enjoys nothing, because his delicate senses are stunted and all his vital powers weak. Are you one of them? Go to the spring of life electric ity; drink to your heart's satisfaction, saturate your body with its vitalizing powers. It will restore your manhood. It is life, and will re new what you hav lost. - - Dr. Sanden's Electric Belt, Invented years ago; now as near perfect as sci ence can make it; physicians recommend it as the one remedv which will restore manly vigor. It will prove a fruitful source of energy to your ihattered nerve forces. T ly It. Cannot Help Recommending: Is. , 1 ' ' Fern Hill. Wash., May 20, 1S96; OR. BANDEN: Dear Bir I got a belt from yon over a year ago which I find is all you recommend it to be, and cannot help but recommennd it to my friends. Yours truly, W. A. M'NAIR. This shows what it does. 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U&fUCAT'si Make tfionav bv nooesful speculation In Chicago. We if IILfll gi buy and sell wheat on mar trins. Fortunes have been made on a small beginning by trading in fu tures. Write for full particulars. Best of ref erence given. Several years' experience on the Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorough know ledge of the business. Send for our free refer ence book. DOWNING, HOPKINS A Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers. Offices in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Wash. Vegetable, Grass ana Flower Bulbs and Roses. Fruit and Shade TreesJ Spray Pumpso Bee Supplies j Fertilizers j Catalogs Free J J a BUELL LAMBERSON, Portland. mnr mil nnnnn nenfel Ratoe BflOt DALL JiUUUO -To Zivr. We carry the mostoomplete line of Gymnasium I and Athletic Goods on the Coast. ' SUITS A0 UNIFORMS MADS TO ORDER. Send for Our Athlstio Catalogue. WILL & FINCK CO., 1S-S20 Market .. San Vranettoo, CM. 1 . . I n $13$ Money-back says they are money-back. 20a SAN FRANCISCO, IMPROVED SPRINKLING WAGON, i - e . 1., '1 . A Device that Does Away; : With Road '.. p?.'nP". 8nd .Tank. ' ' x A recent improvement in SDrinklinc wagons bids fair? to, revolutionize- road and street sprinkling in the ..country where there is no water system to sup ply water from hydrants. .Heretofore it has been the custom to ' erect pump ing plants, or to pipe water from dis tant points to stations along the road at ' Buch distances that the load at one of these stations would last until the wagon reached the next station on its trip. This plan makes necessary She expense of piping, tanks, wells, horse powers, etc., and has always been a very considerable item of expense, and more or less of. an obstaole to having roads well watered. . The improvement consists in attach-, ing a gasoline engine and centrifugal pump on a platform at the rear of the sprinkling wagon so that water can be taken from any convenient source. A suction hose with foot valve is attached to'the pump which ean be lowered into a tank, creek, watering trough, or any water source. 'The wagon driver then starts the engine, and in from six to ten minutes his wagon is filled. , ' The illustration shows a wagon antf pumping outfit' just' completed by the Hercules Gas- Engine ,Qo. .of. San Fran oisoo and now in use by the Supervisors of Tulare county upon the roads near Visalia.' ' "' ' - ; ' ; . It oonsists of an improved type of an ordinary sprinkling wagon, and a plat form built at the rear of the tank upon which stands a 2'H. P.. Special Her cules Gasoline Engine geared to a 8 inch centrifugal pump. . From , this pump runs a rubber suction hose and discharge pipe Into the tank.v The.-tank holds' 13,000 gallons of water which will be filled by the pump in six min utes under ordinary lift, or not to ex ceed ten minutes lifting 20 feet, and at a cost of about 8 cents for each rill ing. The uses to which, this improve ment can be put are not confined v to road sprinkling, but it is applioable to any purpose where water has to be hauled, as, for instance, supplying threshing machinery or conveying Water from one point to another for any. pur pose. The' simplicity of the: engine makes its use perfectly safe and relia ble, as .it is automatic in action, all that is needed being to open, the valve admitting the gasoline, and to give the wheel a start with the hand. It is durable and not at all likely to get out of order, requirng neither engineer nor machinist to keep it in condition for WOrk. '" ;'1 ' ; '' 'Sprinkling country roads ' has been considerable of a problem, and1 it is be lieved that this improvement will go far towards aii economical solution of it. The Hercules Gas Engine Works of San Francisco, furnish these wagons and engines in any desired capacity, and fully guarantee them in everyway. SI 00 REWARD, 8100. The readers of th is paper1 will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires ucointltntional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the sys tem, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers, that thev offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that ft fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials, AddresB, F. J. CHENEY, Co., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. ' H all's Family Pills are the best. The convicts with a good record in the Kansas State Penitentiary now wear suits of oadet gray instead of striped suits. ' , .. The high note of a ouckoo has been determined by an English observer to be usually from F to , E flat, the low note from D to B. .'.-. v I shall recommend Plso's Cure for Con sumption far and wide. Mrs. Mulligan, Plumstead, Kent, England, Nov. 8. 1895. The bridge at Montreal. Canada, it nearly two miles long. Try schilling's Best tee and bgVUr powJar. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER, ' (Office of Downing, Hopkins A Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers, 711-714 Ch amber of Com merce Building, Portland, Oregon. . , . Facts established sooner or later con trol, wheat .values. Speculation may temporarily advance or depress values, but in the end the laws of supply and demand are sure to assert themselves and control values. It has been a" self evident proposition -for several weeks past that conditions warranted higher values. Speculative influences have repeatedly driven prices downward, but the market has rebounded with the buoyancy of a cork upon the water. The news announcements of tfie week have been uniformly favorable to high er values. Crop advices at home indi cate less than an average acreage seeded to winter wheat, owing to the pro tracted drought, -which has been broken only in certain sections of the winter wheat belt. Receipts at primary points are falling off and promise from this on to prove smaller than last year.' Ex port clearances continue large, 5,991, 000 bushels for the " week, which is largely in excess of our exportable sur plus weekly. The export demand shows no signs of diminution. . On the con trary, it is urgent and increasing, the last few days of the week having re sulted in very large sales for export. Foreign advices continue extremely bullish. The reports of our own con suls in Europe more than confirm the maximum estimates of European im port requirements. Advices from Lon don assert that Mediterranean ports are outbidding England for Russian wheat Tbe French chamber of deputies ' has been petitioned, to reduee the import duty on wheat, and some action in this direction will probably be taken sooner or later, although ; not necessarily 'at present, Russian advices, although ak ways unreliable and largely mythioal, are extremely bullish and must neoes sarily have some, foundation on' fact. The Argentine crop is still an unknown quantity. Reports are . conflicting. Drought conditions have, .prevailed. Loonsts have caused some damage, and in the absence of reliable reports it can not be assumed that( the crop will be a large one in yield. Local speculative conditions are extremely favorable for higher values. ; Stocks on contraot grain are very small, practioally .exhausted, and there is no immediate prospect of ; their being replenished.-- We can dis cover nothing in the situation at Home or abroad warranting any deolines in values,' and would regard any decline as but ,, temporary, .'. unwarranted, and therefore a good speculative opportun ity to buy wheat, the final outcome of which we aniticipate to bemuoh higher prioes. ' K -' - ' ' "' , !.- . Portland Market.,, v, Wheat Walla Walla, 7980c; Val ley and Blueatem, 81 88c per bushel. ' Four Best grades, 4.00; graham, $3.70; superfine, $2.40 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 84 85c; choice gray, 82 38c per bushel. :. .Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew ing, $20 per ton., i,. - ,: . .;,'' Millstiffs Bran, $14 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. ' '-.K " ay Timothy, $13 12.50; clover, $1011; California, wheat, $10; do oat, $11; Oregdn wild hay, $9 10 per ton. Eggs 22 Jc per dozen. Butters-Fancy creamery, 4550o; fair to good, 8540c; dairy, 2585c per roll. . : : ' ' Cheese "Oregon, ' 11 o; . . Young America, "l2c; California, 910o per pound. e. '' Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50 8.00 per doezn; ' broilers, $2.00 2. 50; geese, $4.005.00: ducks, $3.00g3.50 per dozen; turkeys, ; live, 910c per pound. . . - . . . Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 3540c per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental. Onions Oregon, new, red, 90o; yel low, 80o per cental. - ,? : 'MHops 8 15c per ' pound for; new crop; 1896 crop, 67o. Wool Valley,'. 14 16c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 712o; mohair,; 20 g 22o per pound. , ' Mutton Gross, best fcheep, wethers and ewes, $2.502.60; dressed mutton, 6o; spring lambs, 5Jc per pound. ' Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50; light and feeders, $3.004. 00; dressed, $5.506.00 per 100 pounds, "f :"''V . Beef Gross, top steers, $2.758.00; jona. $2.25: dressed beef,.45)c per pound. Veal Large, 45c;' small, 5 to per pound. . ''"' r .' ''y-,' if' , Seattle Market. ' .Butter Fancy native !' creamery, .brick, 24 25o; ranch, 16 18c. ' Chefese Native Washington, 10 hlc; California, 9o. ; -y Eggs Fresh ranch; 38c. 1 ;' Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, lOo; spring chkkens, $2.50 8.00; ducks, $3.508,75. . ;' JWheat Feed wheat,' $25 per ton. - Oats Choice, per top, $2Q. Corn Whole, $22;'' .cracked, 'per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton."-'; Barley Rolled or ground, ' per ton, $82;who!e, $22.' " ,' ' Fresh Meats Choice, -dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5o;' mutton-sheep, 6c; pork, 7c; veal',' small, 7. i '" Fresh Fish Halibut, 6c: . salmon, 8ci salmorf trouV 7 10'o; '- flounders and sole, 34j ling cod, 4 5; rock cod, 5c; smelt,' 24c. 1 ! . .,. ' , ; Fresh Fruit Apples, 50c $1 per box; peaches, 7580c; prunes, 85406; pears, $1 per box...; . , r 'iftSah Francisco Market. ; Wool Nevada 11 12c; Oregon, 12 V '14c; Northern 1416o per pound. -'j, Hops 1014c per pound. .. . !';. Millstuffs Middlings, $2022; Cal ifornia bran, $15.5016.00 per ton. , , ' Onions New red. 70 80c; do new , silverskln, $1.001.16 per cental. , Butter Fancy , creamery,;; 2728c;, do seconds, 2526c; fancy dairy, 24 , 25e; good to choice, 2123o per pound. J . Oheese Fanby mild, new, 1238; fair , to good, 7 8c per pound. . the EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH Kews Gathered In . All the Towns of Our Neighboring; States Improve ' meat In All Industries Oregon. , Klamath Indians will haul over 30, 000 pounds of Sour out of Lake county this fall. The government snag-puller is at work in Coos river. Most of the work just now is being done above Paroline bar. More work will soon be done on the south fork. ' 'Peter Wage, of Nehalem. expects soon to put up a flouring mill on his place, near Fishhawk falls, on the main Fish hawk river, to grind for the farmers of the Nehalem valley. - - v '; Thursday 'another big shipment of prime beef cattle was forwarded east from the Baker City stock yards. This shipment required 15 cars, there being 400 head of fine 8-year-old steers. , A farmer who farms the Boyer place southeast of Woodburn, in Marion county, this year rasied 8,040 bushels of Burbank potatoes on 10 acres of land." He had five potatoes in the lot that weighed 15 pounds, The civil service examination for po sitions in the Astoria postofQce depart ment will take place December 4, and all applications must be filed by No vember 18. Secretary Lewis says no applications have as yet been filed. : The largest cargo of lumber-' yet ; to cross the,. Nehalem, bar , was taken out by the three-masted schooner Prosper. jshe carried about 275,000 feet,, and made the round trip from San Francis co to Nebalem and return in about 20 days. " -.' .' " , About 200 pounds of sugar beets, grown in different parts of the Grand Ronde valley, are to be forwarded to Oorvallis for, analysis. The object cf the additional .analysis is to ascertain the amount of sugar and 'percentage of purity in beets of later growth than those heretofore sent. Tho work of locating the Indians in Harney' county has been completed. One hundred and fifteen Red Men have taken advantage of the government's geneorus donation, , , The agent says that the Indians are not allowed to rent or lease their claims, except old, blind and infirm Indians, and the renting or leasing is done by the department. 'Among 'the' personal treasures of State Seoretary H. R. Kincaid is a su perb collection : of autographs ot the famous men of America, gathered by the secretary during his 18 - years of service at the national capital. Many of these celebrated signatures are at tached to letters and documents, ad dressed personally to Mr. Kincaid, in a public or private capacity,.' and are highly valued. ' , ' J. E. Kennerly has completed his contract on the Blue river mines wagon road, in Lane county. ' It now reaches the Kenniston : group of claims, and lacks only about 200 yards of reaching that of the Chaunoy Bale mine. The Eugene Mining Company paid $100 on the last' work done, the county paying the balance. The miners have ,now agreed to construct the road into the heart of the district from' the last named point. It is now thought that the district will at least have one mill in operation next summer, with a prob ability of three. -,; Washington. ,. , Offers of from 11 to 12 cents were made for h6ps in Chehalis, Lewis coun ty, last week, but no Bales were made. , Whitman county won the Dodsnn cup at the Spokane fruit fair, for the best general district display. Lewis ton, Idaho, was awarded second place, and Walla Walla third. ' The treasurer of Adams county re ports that , farmers are, paying delin quent taxes as far back as 1892..: It is expected that the county will be able to pay off her enure debt. . . ' The King County Horticultural So iety met in Seattle, and spent an af ternoon in discussion of the fruit in dustry in the state of Washington, dur ing the' course of.' which. W H.. Brown, inspector of insect peets for King coun ty, exihbited tree, brandies and fruits covered with various . forms of insect life, and, explained ; the best methods for destroying the pests. ; . . , The tax 'levy of the city of Colfax has been fixed at 15 mills, all of which is to be used for the purpose of paying interest and reducing the indebtedness. The total indebtedness of the city on October 1 was $8i,'655.16, and the cash on hand at that .time was $2,4535.79. Since January 1, 1897," the receipts of the city have been $17,409.13, of which $16,895.45 has been expended, ' . , A"decree has been entered in the su perior court of Thurston , county, ex tending the time for fiiing claims with , the state treasurer against the defunct State Insurance Company, of Salem, Or., until the 18th of November, next. This decree was made on a showing of some of the parties in interest; who claimed that they were unable to file their claims with the former limit. w Coyotes are becoming so plentiful in the Country , between Garfield and the mountains as to be a menace to the poultry, businessand. a general ; nul-; ance.' . ., ' ' "'.' : ''' ' ' : ' : : A number of farmers' and business men in the Walla Walla valley 'have conceived the generous idea of loading several cars with potatoes and Other products of the rich soil of that valley for tarnsmission to Ireland, where the potato crop is a failure, and fears are entertained of a famine . among the poorer people. .j A Resume of Events in Northwest. H VPOEKT OF IT. 'The world has come to know that the muscles have much to do with the health of the system, and the era of athletics has so much developed them that the whole man is a stronger being than in former years But the worry of it all is that the muscles are of the Uesh, rleshy. A little twist, or slip, or jerk these happen in all work ana then a sprain. Sprains disable and are costly in time and money, but not if. St. Jacobs Oil is used, for it cures surely and promptly and the worry of it is over. A Sad Beginning. He poised the bivalve on his fork, And then explained the reason: ' "This is," he said, with airy grace, "My fust un of the season." He ' smiled . and gulped the bivalve s down Oh, wasn't he a mad unl ' He pranced, he choked, he kicked,, he . .- swore , His fust un was a bad nn.., t, ,.' Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' A New Hartford (Conn.) man one! day set over 1,000 tobacco plants, and ,' the next morning found that the cut1 worms had destroyed every ; plant but one over mghtl " ' ' ' HOMEaPIlODUCTS AND Ft'RK FOOD. All Eastern Syrup, so-called, nsnally very ligbt colored and of heavy body, is made from eiucose. "Tea uaraen uripn" is roaae irom Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for Kale . by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac tured by the Pacific Coast Syrup Co. All jren- . aine "Tea Garden IMpgV have the manufac turer's name lithographed on every can. I Cherry Creek, N. Y., has a blind and ine-armed man who give lessons to 25 pupils on various musical instruments. AN OPEN To MOTHERS; , .WE ARB ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE . EXCLUSIVE USE OP THE WORD "O ASTORIA" AND, . "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE 'mark. - I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Eyannis,' Massachusetts, was the! originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," t sarrU that has borne and does now xTj r on every "bear the facsimile signature of (ayf-ct4 wrapper. , This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes pf the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought Jnj? f on in and has the signature ofrty&&&4f wrap per. . Jfo one has authority from me to use my name except The v. Centaur Company of which Chas. JST. Fletcher is President. ' ;"": V "'' :'' .. March , S, . 1897. ' Q- . Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substituto , which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which 'even, he does not know. "The Kind You -Have Always Bought" V! i . BEARS THE FAC-SIM1LE SIGNATURE OF 1 Insist on Having ; The Kind That Never Failed You. , : : TM eSHTAUS1 COMMNV. TT MURKAY ITItlT, NIW OKK 01T. .... ' - ' - ( A "A perfect type of the highest order of excellence In maimfactiire." ' - My i - - . few ' Walter BREAKFAST COCOA Jfef Established ' WALTER TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTffffT?yt e JL Hercules Special 24 actual horsepower) f-k-f I Am. . . rrme, uaiy two. ' lie Fainous . Rasslan Bronie 6rass Vtplils linn hi b Che amount of anv other nui' Vlplds ilonhla Che amount of ftnr other rra,RN tor hay or pasture. Will stand the dry season and grows as vigorously In September as in June. It grows on dry hills where nothing else will grow. 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