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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1888)
; The Oregon Kerner TELEGRAPHIC. AGRICULTURAL. CONGRESSIONAL. Ta Make Park Chaaplr- SBIATB. THE LUQKY MAN. rUBLISBBD BVBBT FRIDAY Al Epiteat if i» Pradpl Kvcati Now LA-FATETTK? - - OMOOM Attrwtini; Pnblk htMk Terrible Kxvleelea. S outh V allbjo , Cal.—Just after the T hk reduction of the public debt whistle had blown to signal the de «luring the month of February was partiere of the steamer Julia from the South Vallejo wharf on her first trip, »7,756,000._____________ _ and before abe had got loose I rom her I m Waldeck. Gertnany, a drunkard moorings, a terrible exploaion oc- is forbidden by taw to marry. They cuned, rucking the vessel through its intend to have no hereditary thirat in whole extent, and filling the air with thick volumes of smoke. The early that place. --------- • trip takes all workmen living on the THMartof paper making has reached Vallejo aide to their work in various a point where a tree may be cut down, industries on the Contra Costa side; also those going to San Francisco, con made into paper, and turned out into sequently there were a great many a newspaper in thirty-six hours. passengers on board. The morning being cool most of them had gathered T hi Beecher statue fund has reached about the warm smokestack in the over 131,000, or wilhiu $4,000 of the lower cabin. As the explosion came amount desired, and by tfie time the from the boiler these men were directly design is adopted the remainder will exposed to the terrible shock. Besides this, petroleum used for fuel was scat be collected. ~ tered through tbe steamer, setting it on fire. There was terrible confusion A farmrr in Piscataquis county, and heartrending cries from crushed __ Me , cut. down * .(«fl and hauled it and burning men. The force of the home. Whon he went to split it up explosion was shown on a body that for firewood he was greatly surprised was dragged out of the wreck by Con stable Logan, without bead or limbs, to find a big bear enjoying his winter and utterly unrecognizable. Tbe nap inside the hollow log. . • burning steamer set fire to the wharf, and for hours the flumes held sway, A pbizb of 25,000 francs, instituted until the boat was burned to the wa by the King of the Belgians, is to be ter’s edge. Of the 60 persons on board awarded in 1893 for the best paper on 25 are known to have been killed out means for abundantly and cheaply right or died from injuries. In the destruction of the wharf, the providing large towns, especially Brus sheds, telegraph station and ticket sels, with the best quality of potable office were included, as well as four passenger and freight cars, the loss of water. -_______________ which amounts to »250,000. A compulsory education bill has The St. Louis, Arkansas A Texas been prepared by a oommittee of school superintendents of New York. express train was robbed at Dingsland, The express messenger The leading provisions are that a oen- Arkansas. locked the doors, but tbe robbers sus shall be made by truant officers, smashed them in and secured between and incorrigible truants sent to a State $5,000 and $10,000. truant school. The Union Square Theatre, with all j<S contents, was destroyed by tire at L iverpool ia to be supplied by a New York city. The Mortoa House, reservoir from a point sixty-eight adjoining it on two sides, was badly miles distant. It will coat 115,000,000. damaged. Six firemen were injured by falling walls, three fatally. An entire village is to be removed tq A false alarm of fire raised in a give the reservoir space four and a half crowded synagogue in Hamburg, Ger., miles long by one-half rfiilewide?- It created a panic, during which four women were killed and six persons will be eighty feet deep. seriously injured by being trampled >I n 1887 over 47,000,000 messages upon in the general rush for exit. A bridge crew on the Atlantic & were handled by the Western Union Telegraph Company, and these were_ Pacific road, A. T., numbering twenty sent by less than 1,000,000 people. men, working near Holbrook, were poisoned by eating canned currant The whole of the telegraphing in the jelly, and several are in such bad con United States is done by less than 2 dition that their lives are in danger. j>er cent, of the population. The village of Valtorta, in the nbrth of Italy, was half buried by an ava T he Senate Committee on Post- lanche. Many bouses were wrecked offices has been informed by a firm of and the occupants buried in the ruins. Troops from Bergamo have arrived to American seedsmen that the new aid in disinterring the buried. Twenty- l>ostal convention with Canada is three corpses have been recovered, and likely to throw the seed-growing busi several persons have been extricated ness into the hands of Canadian grow alive, though more or less injured. ,The Montana Bmelting Company ers almost entirely. The postal con has' closed a contract with the Great vention permits Canadians to mail Falls Water Power Company of Mon seeds, plants and scions to any point tana, and will ereot the largest smelt in this oountry for four cents per ing plant in- the world at Great Falls pound, while seedsmen must pay six on the Missouri. The company has a teen oents per pound. The committee capital stock of »1,5000,000, which will be increased, as their plans call for thinks the complaint is well founded, nearly »2,000,000 for the erection of and will suggest a reduction of domes furnaces and other structures. tic postal rates on such matter. Mrs. Albert Traffert and her 12-year old son were crossing the Ohio and T ub people of the United States Mississippi track near 8hattock, II)., spend the following sums annually: in a buggy, when they were struck by For missions, »5,000,000; education, tbe eást-bound mail. Mrs. Traffert had her head crushed and her hand $85,000,000 ; sugar and molasses, »150,- cut off, dying an hour latir. The boy 000,000; boots and shoes, $196,000,000; was wounded in the head and died cotton goods, $210,000,000; lumber, soon after. The buggy was thrown $233,000,000; woolen goods, »237,- sixty yards and ground to kindling 000,000; iron and steel, $296,000,000; wood, the horse being instantly killed. Charles Williams eloped from Naco- meat, $300,000,000; tobacco, »250,- 000,000; bread, »506,000,000; liquors, sari, Sonora, with the, wife of Jack Martin, a cattleman. The woman »900,000,000. Total, »2,361,000,000 appropriated $3,000 and a gold watch The people expend about one-third as and chain belonging to Martin, while much for liquors as they do for all Williams scattered the horses belong other tilings combined. The expendi ing to Martin and neighbors to pre vent pursuit. The day following tures yearly are more than the public Martin procured horses and a posse debt at the end of the war. and started in pursuit. He overtook the party in a canyon near Hill’s C ommodork S amubl B arbom , of the ranch on the San Pedro. Aa soon as late Confederate States navy, died at Williams saw Martin he onened fire liia residence in Essex county, Va., in on him, the shot passing through the hie 80th year. Barron at the early- body and causing instant death. Both Williams and the woman are heavily age of three years was appointed mid armed, and declare they will not be shipman by the Secretary of the Navy, taken alive. and the appointment is the only one A passenger train going east and an of the kind ever made in the United oil train coming west on the Union States Navy. At the age of eight Pacific near Colton, Nebraska, collided with terrific force. Both trains were years he made his first cruise, and piled together in a broken mass and I mm that time on until the breaking took fire immediately. In twenty out of the late war, he served almost minutes all was consumed. Engineer continuously-and rose to the rank of Powell war killed, but all passengers poet captain. At the breaking out of escaped, although some were badly bruised. Among the injured were the war Barron tendered his resigna George McLarry, Portland, an ankle tion to the United States and entered sprained ; A. A. Brown, Portland, haad the service of the Confederatejgovern badly bruised ; Adson Brown, age five ment. He had charge of the purchase (ears, face scratched; Mr. Knowles, Inion City, Oregon, back bruised; of cruisers for the Confederacy at Mrs. Burton Reed, Cascade Locks, London and Paris during the closing bruised ; Mrs. Lighthall, Helena, Mon tana, collar-bone broken. yoara of the war. In a late number it was stated that Mitchell offered a resolution which any person or community that im ported from abroad what they could was agreed to, instructing the Com profitably produce st home failed of mittee on Public Lands totonquire into true economy. This was illustrated by the propriety and advisability of hav showing that moat of the hams, bacon ing seven or eight townships of the nod lard consumed on thia coast is public domain, surrounding and in bought at the east, and that by pro cluding Mount Hood, Oregon, set . ducing them at home »1,000 000 could apart aa a national park. The bill to provide for compulsory be saved. The question arises: Can we make pork at a profit! Many education of Indian children watt fanners say no, but we say yes, and passed. It makes it the duty of the shall now show by the experience of Secretary of the Interior to establish practical men how it baa been done. an industrial boarding school on every The writer lately met on the ears, Coj. Indian reservation upon which there Geei^of the Waldo hills, and started may be located any Indian tribe num this topic with him. Ha-happbned- to bering 500 or more adult Indians. be the right man and gave this ex The pupita are to be taught in perience. In 1881 be had a field of branches of useftil labor, in addition fourteea acres to summer-fallow, and to the usual studies in primary schools. having plowed it only as well as he Nothing in the bill is- to prevent the would to fallow for a wheat crop, con education of Indian children in schools cluded to experiment by planting outside ot the reservation, without the potatoes. They were put in hills four consent of their parents or guardians, feet apart and five bushels to the acre. and no provisions of the act are to Thia was only half as much, «end aa is apply to the five civilized tribe», nor 11 ** . 1. . S «I I,.«* l,rt w > c, I, z-x* 1 4zv v-tlz-xixr V*zx Ykjrxrvzx I'tt!•— Osage Tnzli.ina Indians, r~xf of Tvwllxatl Indian r Ter fisually planted, but he wished to plow to ♦ the both ways, and did so twice, with "a ritory. ’ • result of one hundred bushels of pota The Committee on Commerce re toes of the very best quality to the ported favorably the bill introduced acre. This fourteen acres was dry hill by Hermann, granting a company the land and had been continually sowed right to build a bridge across the Col in grain since 1858 for twenty-three umbia river al La Camas. years. . The land had been consider Vest, from the Committee on Com ably worn by this excessive cropping, merce, reported a bill authorizing the and he was satisfied with the result. construction of a bridge across the The seed cost him not over »2.50 an Columbia river’at Dalles City, Oregon. acre, counting it at a high price; all The bill providing for a national art the cultivation did not cost over three cents a bushel, and he housed twelve commission, to pass upon works of art hundred bushels at a cost of four cents to be purchased by the government, a bushel for-digging, hauling and mak was taken up and^passed. ing cellars for them. He counted the BOVMK. entire cost at not drer ten cents a bushel for the potatoes thus boused. For the removal it the bar in the It happened to be a good year for Columbia river, near the mouth of the tubers, and though he sold to the Willamette river. neighbors lor 25 and 50 cents a bushel For the construction of public build he found a market for near 400 bush ings at Port Townsend, Washington els at 11.25, so his entire crop averaged Territory. him 50 cents a bushel. Bet he fat For the vacation of the Colville In tened sixty head of hogs on them, using a tank to cook them in, salting dian reservation in Washington Ter a little, and mixing two bushels of oats ritory by the Indians. For- the settlement of the Indian with each boiling of twenty bushetaiof potatoes. He found his hogs ready to depredation claims of 1885. butcher when they had been fed ten For the survey of unsurveyed lands bushels of roots and two bushels of in Washington Territory. oats each. They weighed on an*aver- r Hermann presented to the House age 230 pounds apiece, and that was a memorial of the Board of Trade of what -they cost him, adding the time Portland, asking an increase in Uuiteti spent in cooking the food and feeding States Judges' salaries to $5,000. them. _ ___ • ______ - Hermann presente«l a petition from His estimate of the cost of potatoes was 5 bushels of seed per acre . $35 the employes of the Portland poetoffice Labor of planting, 12 days.............. 15 for the passage of the bill which limits m the hours of .service'of officq clerks, Digging 1400 bushels at 4c............ 56 j9 and provides pro rata compensation Six days with team cultivating 12 i for all labor in excess of ten hours a Hoeing same............................. ___ 1 day. 729 Bayne introduced a resolution re- «130 Total cost ................ 700 citiqg the allegation that the Commis- Value ef crop.................... , — eioner of IndianjAffairs has forbidden from teaching the ------- sacred Profit, »40 an acre ...... .............. »570 missionaries ------ ‘--------- He actually fattened sixty hogs at a scriptures in the native language of cost of not over »100, counting the Indians in any school supported in lime and money he was out. Potatoes part_by the United States, and calling were in extra demand that year, and on the Secretary of the (Interior for counting those fed at what the others the authority of law under which this averaged, 50 cento a bushel, he would order was issued. still have made his pork cheaply; but he reasons that as be can raise pota toes in this way any year to fatten his Bort mb — pork on, the rest can do so and can Fancy roll, tf B make pork as cheaply as they can Bregon............. Inferior grade make it anywhere. The meat was Pickled ........... No. 1 when cured, and he could not California roll do pickled.. see that it lacked any quality pos C hkebm — sessed by that which is fed on grain. tern, fall cream As the potatoes were dug late he gon. da did not sew wheat that fall but put in fornia....,....... oats the following spring and saved it E gos —Freeh....... D rikd F ruits - in the sheaf. It was as fine a crop as Apples, qre, ska and bxs he ever raised, very tall and heavy, an do California......... extra crop. The next year he raised Apricots, new crop......... thirty bushels of wheat to the acre on Peaches, unpeeled, new machine dried.., the oat stubble, and he has followed Prare, Pitted cherries................. the same plan more or less extensively Pitted plums, Oregon... every year with similar results, one Figs, Cal., in bga and bxs.. being that after a summer fallow in Cal. Prunes, French........... prunes...................... potatoes he can grow two crops of Oregon F loub - graih, and better crops by far than on Portland Fat. Roller, Fbbl | Salem do a bare fallow.—Portland Oregonian. S A Minorca pullet laid her first egg when ten weeks and one day old. Cabbage brought from Germany now competes with the American produot. In the agricultural districts of Rus sia the women do two-thirds of the field work. Remove every worthless fruit tree. Hundreds of apple trees are now stand ing on farms Which are only incum brances; they furnish breeding places for the tent caterpillar and other pests, and their fruit, which comes in sea sons of plenty, is hirdly worth the gathering. There are many methods recom mended for preserving eggs for a great length of time. All of these methods have as their underlying principle the practically total exclusion of the air, which the shell being porous naturally fails to do. Among the many meth ods thus given it is recommended that the eggs be dipped in a solution of gum arabic, or covered with a coating of paraffine, or two coatings of collo dion—known as gun cotton—and packed in charcoal powder, ashes, salt, bran or eats. White Lily F bbl Country brand..., Superfine ............. G maim — Wtiaat, VallerF 100 Be .. do Walla Walla........... Barley, whole, F ctl............. do ground, F ton........ Oats, choioe milling F bush do feed.goal to choice,old Rye, FlOOfta........................ F bxd — Bran,F ton............... ........ Shorts, F ton........................ Hay, F ton, baled................ Chop. F ton........................... Oil cake meal F ton............. F resh F ruits — Apples, Oregon, F box....... Cherries, Oregon, F drm... Lemons, California, Fbx.. Limes, F 100.................... . Riverside oranges. F box Los Angeles, do do Peaches. F box............. H idbs — Dry, over 18 lbs, F lb.., Wet salted, over 66 Be Murrain hides Pelt»................... ; VaerrABLn— Qahbaue. F tb......... Carrots, F sack .... Cauliflower, F dos Onions ........................ . Potatoes, new, F ICO lbs' W ool — Rast Oregon. Spring dip Valiev Oregon, «in V As was announced* in last u Era the sum of »5,000 was won is nicia at the last drawing of The iana State Lottery. Aa the bold» l he lucky ticket kept the good to himself, hundreds of peoph been giving their leisure tiro» ing to ferret out the fortunate On Thursday noon Mr. LC.it our City Trea-urer and. Munir,’ the Western Uuion Telegraph of this place quietly informed astonished public that he wH holder of the coupon of ticht which won the prise of »100^0001 December drawing of the State Lottery, one-twentieth the ticket or »5,000 having beei ceivtd from Wells, Fargo & Express in hard twenty dollar pieces on Thursday evening. moments aft el its arriVal Mr. accompanied by express-agent repaired to his home and p the money to his wife as a Chij gift. This was her first news o| happy Christmas in store 'fur both herself and husband have the matter very coolly. Of ths hundreds of dollars paid out in for lottery tickets monthly, y good fortune has visited the hoQ, one deserving — ' ‘ ' ftnniiT —“ 7 who ‘ If I • « appreciate the' gift and will make the best of use of it. Ths raous verdict is “I am glad of it M more deserving family could net been favored.” The New Yearl^ its career in this home under ta and happier auspices than they have dreamed for. The lucky tj was the fifth one ever purdhaed Mr. Atwood.—Benicia (Cal.) Jan. 4. ATHLETIC AND SPORTING GO WILLIAM BECK & SON, 166 aad 167 tsooad Street, Portland, Hava-become our authorised Depot of a for that city. They »111 carry a lull U m U «« .Ball Supplies. Lawn T miii U, Ta • I • Bicycle and Bicycle Sundi Ba IltJawiroMe. Cricket Indian Clubs, Bella Boxlug Gloves. Fencing Goodaig kinds of Gymnasium Good, and A Skate,. Challenge Dog Food, and mail epecUlties and novelties that will be. from time to lime. They are prepared to furnish the Trade, and Individuals on equally as favorabla as If ordered direct from our Chicago ar York houses. Respectfully, A. G. SPALDING BHOt ----- , Ns. M Cataloxoe seat ou receipt of x to pay postace. .J. II- FISK A nalytical C hei AMD A8SAYKR TO XI €01,0« I HT, Laboratory, IOO First Sy., Portl OREGON. NALYSES made of all substances, for assay in« gold or silver, ,11.50. for testing ail kinds of ores and metals faotured and for sale. Upon the receipt of |1 will furnish a for making all kinds of metallic allojn; recipes for soaps, dyes, perfumes, fluid essences, liniments, ointments, salves, etc. formation furnished on all kind» of composition. Packages bent by mail or promptly attended to* ~ ' A DISPENSARY. » VOB2LANB <* t <23 l » CS SMS Ksryoos Ehi^tMi alsoK Boas^IWre, 1 t (toaMeattriV 184 THIRD 8T. PEOPLE’S DISPEN8 E. J » o» «ys oo' < t « so <8 w «7 1 1U « 1 26 18 on S17 18 U0 «10 18 » 3V 00 a 33 Î 00 oo 00 tn OC 1 » « 1 so f 00 « 4 so ’ 1 23 The Oregon National OF rOKTMSD. oajt ÄE^^“-™^“ s *’ tar REWARD! • 1 co « 1 u wm he aald tor Meh and rrery i«S -, - - - ooooa nbetaaeea found In W bdoa’a •oknn. eu«ed Ik. moU delightful «nd toile« wtlde mr p.ednred tor «“tre «win« the erannl.rfon. remortn« IM, ■ tr-eMrr and all hlrmiah.. and rough«*«** ** **• U.«d and I nd, ■rued by th* .HI. ot andrl Hold bi al* dmrgMa at 50 eeati Whll. „d Fleet. Manu/Mnind br W M. A OO. CbaaaMa Portland Oraaoa