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NO. 2
M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, JUNE 18, 1886
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PAPA’S PET NAMES.
Miss Kate an easy chair will draw
Close to the tire for her "Paw."
And Fred jumps nimbly in my lap
To bear a story from his "Pap."
And Willie proudly shows his top
And tries to spin it for his "Pop.
And Ethel says I musn't stop her
When she kisses her dear "Popper.”
And Miss Amanda, full of love.
Gets supper ready for her "Gov.”
And Grace, as big a rogue as Topsy,
With plump wee arms lings “Popsy-wopsj.”
And Tommy gives his head a toss.
Aud wants to ride upon the "Boss.”
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OUR Per bbL standard
1 Others. $2.2 Xad.b.
Per ctJ. 1 vD»«y,
Then quickly will mv little Caddie
Bring forth warm slippers for her "Daddy.”
branda.
I love my tots—yet I would rather
Have tb
only call me "Father.’’
H. C. Dodge, in Gut dull’» Sun.
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nd, '/ urn, *22.5<K«,li.
»on. «.IS- Choice mlfiiig, 4l®42o; choice
B7*l“8c.
iE Pereti. *1.00«1.10.
DIK t ICK WHEAT FLCl'K Per ctl. *3.75.
-tri,. IRN MEAL—Per tl, yellow, *2.5O«l
¡Lfui
*2.5*«.3.25
S acked wheal Per eti, *2.75
, IMINY-Peretl, *4.00.
spits' ¡TMEAL Pern.. ;.5o.
1ARL BARLEY -No. 1, 5c; No. 2, 44c;
THS
llT PEAS-Per !,, 5c.
ttyc.
RL TAPIOCA
TAPIOCA- —In boxes, 64
c*
Ion at SAItL
itisi.., »DO Per Hi, be.
lease JRMICELLI -Per '1-, No. 1, *1.25; No.
3. .
AN—Per ton, *12 .
RTS— Per ton, ;1.'>.
DLINGS—Per t t, *20®25.
P—Per ton, *25.(«l.
Y—Per ton. baled, *7(«8.
C A KE M EAI -Per ton, *30^t»!;.5(l.
S—Per lb, Oregon, nominal; Wash.
3.
IS—Per doz. I2 J<.
TTER— Per ft.fancy roll,22Jc; tnferii r
. 12; pickled, 10 a tzc.
EESE—Per ft, Oregon, 8<i*13c; Cali-
. lOatOtc.
IJIED FRUITS—Per ft, apples, qo iiar
‘Hacks and boxer. :<4: do sliced,
___ , in
« and boxes, 3j<»4): apricots. 17c:
;berries, 13« 15c; nectarines. 16|<sl7c'
halves uupeeted, 7j(«,8c. pears,
tered, 7(a8;
pitted cherries, ltlc;
¡1 plums, California, 8®lllc; do Or
(LUK 5<®7c; currants, 8(0.9; date», ti(u
1 the ge, Smyrna, 17.« 18; California, tkd)7.
iicitlc 3M, California. 5 «.ti; French. 10t«.|2y
"V’n
(K«l7; rateine, Califoria l.on
i a-uo aver«. *2.15(«2.2 > »1 box; loose Mus
loeuo
s, *2(g!2.19; Seedless, p tb, 12c; Sul-
d. Or. * , IJ^c.
-. 1. (CE — China. No. I, *5.80; do No. 2,
«-I-. I; Sandwich ¡-.lauds. No. 1, *5 25.
small
|es, KANS—Per 11>, pea, 2|c;
v. r |es, 2fc; bayo, 2ic; lima, 3c; pink, 2fc.
EGETAHI. ks jieet «•' .<;■ ..
2jc; earrots.*< ton,*1.25: cauliflower,P
1« « « *>1.25(gil.. 0; sweet potatoes, p lb., 3c;
lor ■is, 14<s2e; turnips, p lb. Ro, spinach.
' fit Ik, 40< ca 50 c ; celery, p doz^ *1; green
r, - i, p ft, 4(46c; lettuce, p doz, 20c.
or VTATOES—I’atotoes, new, 14t<H2c; per
l.E “old, 50(O(70c.
JLTRY—Chickens, p doz, spring,
i)2.50: old, * -<«'3.50; ducks, *3.00
; geese, *L0tkg5; turkeys, P lb
oil, 10(g'12c.
MS—Per lb, Eastem, —@—c; Or
9.J«IOc.
ION —Per tb, Oregon sides, 6j$7c; do
lers, 5(g0.
iD—Per lb, Oregon, ll<®74. Eastern.
LLES- Pcr 5 g.il keg, UCc; bbls, V*
ARS -Quote bbls: Cube, Ojc; dry
a ted, 6jc; Hue crushed, ti,1 golden
¡NED GOODS Salmon. I-ft tins, I
1.35; oysters, 2-ft tins, t* doz, *2.25;
tins, *1.40 p doz;
lobsters,
is,
doz, *1.90; clams, 2-lb tins, tl
1.90®2.t5; mackerel, 5-ft tins, & doz.
¡9.U0; fruits, p doz tins, *2.0o(a2.25
and jellies, P doz. *1.75 «2.90; vege-
, t? doz, *1.1091.1».
NEY—Extracted, 6jc; comb. I4c.
'FEE -Per lb, Guatemala, 11J; Costa
■129121c; Old Government .Java. lB(a>
; ’ Rio, 114®12c; Salvador, 109104c:
cha, 224<gi2o; Kona. 18c.
H FEAS - Young Hyson. ‘*M***a| Japan,
¡f! ®55c; Oolong. la.^OSc; Gunpowder and
ui iperial, 25<ui6>c.
¡J; SYRUP—California refinery Is quoted
I 30c. in bbls; in kegs and 1-gal.
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35^45.
FRESH FRUIT—Apples, Oregon, new.
| box,75c(4*1.25; baaanas. s'bunch, *4.50;
I ¡moils, California, ' box. *4.5<kg5; Sicily,
■ box, *7('®7.5O: Himes, p 100, *1.26; pine-
hailV*08’
*L00; Los Angeles oranges,
S iliDOX, *3 a 3 .25; strawlierries,
tt>, 15 u 20.
IsirHALT—Liverpool, »' ton, *10(®20; table.
MT bales, per bale, *2.25.
^¡jiEEDS Per ft, timothy
re I 5<«!flc;
, >ver, l-ldfdSc; orchard grass,, 17<a l8c
e grass, 10($llc.
-NUTS - tialifornla almonds. If 100 ft sks,
'•k ?; Brszlu 150 tb sk-, s’ lb, 14c; chestnuts,
det aigOc; c<*co;uinlH.*“»7.50: mlterts, Sicily,
j IL sks/ If tt>, 14c; hickory, 100 It. sks,10e;
m anuts 0,u7c; pectns, Texas, 100 it> sks,
c; California walinls, tr llO lb sks, lt.’a
ties'
L— Eastern Oregon, spring clip,124
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ft; fall clip 12@13. Valley Or-
pring clip, 12«.15e; lamb«' and fall,
ES—Dry. I4@l>c; wet salted. 6®7.
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Man Frinclwro.
AJIR Extra, *425<a,4.50 f bbl ; super-
'.75&13.50.
lAT-No. 1 dipping. *1.30 01.31*
o. 2, *L25(«tl.:7i; Milling, *1.83«
—No. 1 feed. *1.‘25@1.3> I’ ctl;
J: brewin/. *1.42491.524.
lilllnc aid Surprise. *1.35.'$
tl; Feed, No. 1. *1.-tit ifl.35; No. 2.
1.27*.
Clover. *8<ótl.00 t* ton; alfalfa,
I wheat, *16.(1«» 10 111.
8—Per ctl. S5.uo« 6.00
CORN Small yelk*. *1 174^1.20 * ctl;
rgeyaic V. *1.104115; large whit« *1.10
l.M; «* ik II whit«, * bond. 10.
■JMEWI.374 V cti.
HOPS- 597c If ft.
STB a r--85c®80c7 l«li.
BEAN —Smail win*. *11. I Aval.HO < etl‘
red, *)
M. *1.1 91.73; pink 31 JI Mgl.lO;
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LOO, I bos, *1.0Oat.->.i butter, *l.4o<a
82.2592.5
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BUTT1 i- Store. 1
■ good to fancy,
919c: I Jiinrnia flrfin. I . < itfcl’Je; Eastern,
942fc.
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BESIEGED
BY FLAMES.
Alligators and Moccasins Alto
gether Too Plentiful.
a glimpse of a good-sized critter, a
deer or painter, 1 reckon, goin bylick-
etj-cut, with the flames just catcbin’
onto bis tail.
“1 hadn't been under the blanket
more'n a second, seems as if, when the
red showed through the blanket, and 1
could feel the hot air over me. While
1 was thinkin’ this was about the wust
c.-u I’d over fall in with in these ver
parts, there came a tremenjus crashin'
and swishin’, louder even than the roar
and crackle of the flames, and the
water in the shallow little lagoon la
gan to splash and the boat to rock.
•What’s this?’ says I to myself, and
then there came a tnnk agin my boat
that niizh-a-most tinned her over.
Then she was hit on t'other side ami
sent spinnin', and the crashin’ and
swishin’ in the grass and the splashin'
splashin’ and b'ilin’ in the water was
all the time growin’ louder’n louder.
By this time, too, my boat was rockin’
and bobbin’ about, now h’isted clean
out of the water and now most sunk by
something floppin’ down on the gun'l.
I couldn’t stand it no longer, and I riz
up my head and peered out. ‘’Gators,
by snuckeyl’ says I to myself. 1
couldn’t hold my eyes open but a sec
ond, in the edge of the flame, almost;
but tearin’ along right under the leap
in’ tongue of lire was a solid drove of
’gators, big and little, chinked in with
water moccasins,and they was a-plump-
in’ into the little pond, which was al
ready a foamin’ and bilin’ with them
that was already in there. 1 had to
get my head under right away, but I
could tell pretty well what was goin’
on by the commotion in the water and
the bobbin’ of the boat. All this took
place in a good deal less time than it
takes me to tell it, you know. Then
came a blast ofheatthat singed the hairs
of my blanket, and al the same time
a-tloppin in the water that seemed like
hit was goin to smash the skiff into
splinters. Hit seemed as if this lasted
a terrible time, and then the heat be
gan to moderate. But the smoke set
tled down enough to choke a body, and
the commotion in the water kept up.
If you are a bettin’ man you can bet
yer boots I wanted that skill' to bold to
gether.
“When the smoke had cleared away
so that, after two or three trials, I
could keep my head out from under
the blanket, I sat up in the skiff'; and
such a sight! Well, sir, whether you
believe me or not, that little pond was
plumb full of ’gators and moccasins,
and was actually overflowin’ with ’em.
They was wedged so thick around my
boat that she was h’isted half way out
of the water, and I couldn't have got
her away any more than if she'd been
ketched in a jam of saw-logs. ‘Yer s
a pretty kettle o’ fish,’ says 1 to myself;
‘how’m 1 goin’ to get out of hit, with
these yer ’gators a fermenting’ and
chawin’ at each other, and the mocca
sins strikin’ right and left, and the
skiff nigh-a-most high and dry for want
of room in the water among ’em.’
Well, while I was a-settin’ there pon
derin’ it over and watchin’ the dirty
smoke and flame that crawled along in
the rear of the fire that had passed
over, I saw a big ’gator makin’ his
way out of the pond by the course I
had come in. Others followed him
and pretty soon there was a general
move in that direction, and my skiff
began to settle down to her usual float
in’ position. The moccasins cleared
out, too, some squirmin’ oil' with the
’gators and others crawlin’ up on the
warm stubble that the fire had burned
over, aud in less’n an hour I was alone
in my boat, in the little lagoon, in the
midst of a blackened prairie.”
"You might have killed quite a num
ber of alligators,” suggested the Doc
tor, “if von had gone at it just when
they were the thickest about you.”
“Didn’t kill a ’gator that trip,” said
the hunter. “To tell the truth, I was
sick of ’gators, and I pulled out o’
there in the morning, made for the
nearest bluff, got a bear and a couple
o’ bucks, and came back down the
river.’— N. Y. Sun.
BISMARCK AT HOME.
TERITOHIAL NEWS.
Il ow the Mau of Blood and Iruu Appeared
to a St ranger.
The Chancellor's wife, a tall, aristo
cratic-looking woman, with decided but
pleasing features, and in an elegant
though simple toilet, received each
guest as he arrived with gracious affa
bility. Standing close beside the open
portieres, past which the eye glanced
into the family living rooms, she was a
true type of the position she holds both
in home and public life. A noble wife
and mother, she has faithfully stood by
her husband’s side from the very com
mencement of his political career.
A Chicago paper declares that Bis
marck’s wife is her husband’s private
secretary! How far this statement is
true we do not pretend to say, but an
old friend of the family has repeatedly
told us that during the saddest time
that Germany has witnessed for the
last fifty years, when Bismarck, dis
heartened and dispirited, retired to his
small property of Schonhausen, there
to vegetate as a small Prussian land
owner, while brooding moodily over
all his grand political schemes, his wife
never for a moment lost heart, but was
able to inspire her husband with ever
fresh courage and hope. A number of
old friends and acquaintances quickly
surrounded the noble hostess, while the
remainder of the guests streamed on
toward the billiard room to the right,
the windows of which look out on the
street. In front of one of the sofas lies
a handsome bear skin—the animal was
slain by Bismarck’s own hand; and on
a bracket stands the magnficent vase,
with the King’s portrait and a view of
his castle, which King William pre
sented to the Prince after the wars of
1866. The crowd and the heat increased
every moment. The Prince, we were
told, was in the big saloon. Hurrying
thither, we saw our noble host, standing
just inside the door, ih animated con
verse with some earlier arrivals, yet,
notwithstanding, quite ready to greet
every new-comer — sometimes even
stretching out both hands to right and
left with hearty welcome. How well
and bright he looked! That was
always the first thing that struck one
on seeing this man. His face, from his
long country sojourn at Varzin, has re
gained its healthy coloring, the eyes
are no longer so deeply shadowed
by the overhanging brows or the fur
rowed forehead of last year, his hair is
of that light Saxon hue which defies
both time and impertinent curiosity,
and the figure is as firm and upright
as the youngest man there present.
On this evening he also wore his fa
vorite and mo.-t comfortable dress—that
is, uniform, but not in strict accordance
with regulations.— Chamber» Journal.
On the south shore of Lake Harney
we came across the camp of a solitary
hunter in a clump of stunted cabbage
palms. A small and mildewed "A”
tent pitched on the yellow sand gave
him shelter. His light batteau of
cypress was hauled up on the shore.
From his talk we soon learned that he
was a genuine Florida cracker and an
all-around hunter, preferring alligators
as game, but not averse to deer, bears,
panthers or even ’coons, and that he
was familiar with every water course,
lagoon, mound and bluff in the great
St. John’s prairie from Lake Harney to
Lake Washington. As we sat around
the camp fire that evening the glow of
a prairie fire showed faintly on a dense
cloud of smoke that overhung the
south -n horizon.
“Yes,” he said, in response to a re
mark of the Doctor’s, “hit’s a mighty I
good year for prairie fires. The frost
killed th prairie grass, and hit stands
there now ten or twelve feet high and
dry as tinder. 1 don’t reckon I ever
seen a worse fire than the one 1 fell in
with up eyond Little Mud Lake along
about the last of February.
The Florida cracker knows little of
the heightening effect of the figure of
speech called hyperbole. He is not
skilled in the employnient of profanity
for the sake of emphasis. His yarns,
though containing material for the most
spirited recital, are reeled off slowly
and usually without the least show of
A GOOD STORY.
animation. It is impossible to impart
an idea of our hunter’s droning speech
An Anecdote Illustrating the Courage of
Hie Cate President Garfield.
and his disregard of every effect after
which the ordinary story teller strives,
A retired army officer of high rank
as he
t on to tell us about the prai
told me a new story about Garfield's
rie 11 re.
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canal days. The subject which brought
"1 was a-goin’ up after ’gators,” he
out the story was the question as to
said. “A little way out of Little Mud
whether President Garfield possessed
Lake, and about an hour, or maybe an
hour’n a half, I seen a pretty con-
much moral courage. The, officer said:
sid’rable smoke a-pilin’ up to the
“Whether James A. Garfield had moral
i’uth’ard. The wind was in the north,
courage in a high degree or not I do
and hit’s slow work for a fire to eat
not know. I am sure he possessed a
hits way up to windward; so I pulled
remarkable
amount ofphysical courage,
my boat out of the river into a little
and I heard of an instunce of this while
lagoon just big enough to turn her
he was yet in Congress. It was on the
around in, took a eoltl bite of supper,
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
rolled up in my blanket, and went to
road. I was coming from Chicago to
sleep in the boat. I don’t know how
Washington. As we neared Fort Wayne
long I had been asleep, but some time
a gentleman came into the sleeper, and,
in the night I was woke up by a roar
asking my permission, sat down beside
in’ no’se. I put my head out from un
me. In the course of conversation he
der the blanket and found the wind
informed me that he was division
had changed around to s’uth'ard and
superintendent of the line, and upon
was blowin’ a right stiff gale. Hit
learning that I was going to Washing
didn’t take me long to see that the sky
ton he asked: ‘And how is Jimmy Gar
was all lit up with a red glare. I could
field getting along down there?’ I told
hear the crackle of flames pretty con-
him I was acquainted with Representa
sid’rably close up, and says I to my
tive Garfield, and he then went on to say
self: ‘I reckon the fire’s a-comin’
that he had been the Captain of a canal
this way, and I’d better see about it.’
boat in connection with which Garfield
I’d seen a good many prairie fires, but
as a boy was driver. He said that Garfield
when I stood up in the boat, I was sort
was very brave at tliAt time—that he
ORIGIN OF THUGGEE.
o’ surprised. Hit seemed as if every
would fight any fmlow that dared knock
thing to the s’uth'ard was a-burnin’
Murder Their Principal a chip off his shoulder. ‘One Saturday
up, and the flames was sweepin' north Fanatics Whr Make
Occupation.
night,’ said he, ‘when we tied the boat
faster'n a mule could canter.
The origin of Thuggee is lost in u;Tto stop for Sunday. Jimmy came to
"I looked back toward the north,
and asked if he might not leave the
and saw I’d a-pullcd out of the river a fable and obscurity. The Thugs them nie
boat
until starting time the, next day, as
selves
refer
it
to
the
remotest
antiquity,
good deal furder ’n I thought I had,
wanted to go to a little town about
and I saw that, in the strange glare and, whether Hindu or Mohammedan, he
miles off. I gave him permis
that lit up all the little waterways, claim to descend from seven Moham- twelve
sion and away he went. The next day
’twa'n’t much use to try to pull back dan clans, which are admitted to be the shortly
after noon he came back with a
into the river ahead of the nushin’
of the blackest eyer T ’ -we ever seen
flames. The little pond I had run into most ancient and original stock oi pair
or man. I ask ,1
i what was
was the end of a sort o’ pocket, and which all the others have been en on boy
matter, anti he t<non| Jiere was a
the tali dry grass stood all around it grafted, and the principal of which has the
the village w.f
ae had been
ten feet high, ’ceptin’ the open places given its own name as the generic des boy in
boasted to a t, ad of his some
on the side where 1 come in. The ignation at once of the system and the who
months previous th.^t he could whip
roots of the grass was a-grow-in’ in persons who followed it. Colonel Jim
Garfield out of his boots, and that
water just deep enough to cover ’em, S leeman conjectures that Thuggee he had
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decided
that as soon as he got
got tl the
though ’twas a dry time. In wet owed its existence to the vagrant tribes
to go to the town he won ild give
weather you could pull a boat right of Mohammedans who continued to chance
the opportunity of doing so. He
f
through the tops of the grass, or run a plunder the country long after the in him walked
all that twelve miles and
had walk.____
steamboat over it. Well, seein’ as vasion of India by the Moghuls and back
again merely to fight the boy, and
bow somethin’ had got to be done Tartars, and probability thus attaches I think
he whipped him. After I re
right off, I shoved the skiff into the to the suspicion that the Mohammedans turned to
I told Garfield
middle of the pond, stuck down an oar were indeed the first to give a sort of this story. Washington
He laughed, but would not
in the mud. and tied her nose to it, political system to the Thugs, and the
close up. Before I'd got her made seven clans of Ismailis, whose occupa affirm that it was true nor deny it.”—
fast the fire had come so close that the tion was murder as dreadful as that of Carp, in Cleveland Leader.
sparks and cinders was nigh-a-most the Thugs, nay, when persecuted in the
—“James,” said Tuffboy, Sr., “it is
blindin’ me, and the wind whirlin’ last days of their political existence,
upward with the flame made my have joined themselves to the Hindu now ten minutes past eight. I told you
ha’r stand on end. Hit seemed as I’hansigars, and adopting their ritual, to be in the house at eight precisely.”
if the whole world was a-goin' up in have given rise to what it is a comfort “But I wanted one more slide,” said
the flumes. Laws! you never seen such to regard as a system as obsolete at the Jimmy. “One more slide, sir. You are
a wild sight, and in front of the rush present day as it always was accursed. on the sliding path too much, sir. You
in' fire, sailin’ around in the blood-red The Hindus claim for Thuggee a divine may carry your sled into the attic for
sky, was herrins, marsh hens, black origin in their goddess Bhawani, who, the rest of the winter, and your skates,
birds, cranes and such, all'a-squakin’ under her name and character of Kali, too, sir. And you will not go out of the
and hikin' on, and streakin’ it through was the deity worshipped by the Thugs house evenings any more, nor have any
the tops of the grass was ducks and in their professional capacity, whatever company in the house, nor make any
coots. But 'twa'n’t no place for me to might be otherwise the race, caste, sect noise whatever, and you will go to bed
“Don't
be standin’ and lookin' on; so I soused or religion. Kali is the consort of Siva at seven o'clock, and----- ”
my blanket in the water, got down in in his destroying character of Time, you think, pop,” interjected Jimmy,
the bottom of the boat and covered and as such site is painted of a black or “that ‘the punishment fits the crime'
myself all up with the wet blanket. dark bluecomplexion.- -London Society. too much?” Jimmy goes sliding as
usual.— Hartford Post.
Just before 1 nut mv head under I vni
— machk
Crops in Yakima valley look well
North Yakima is to have a grist mill.
Pomeroy boasts of a female dentist.
A number of buildings are being
erected at Seattle.
Many cattle dealers have byen buying
in the Palouse country.
J. E., Booth will soon launch a news
paper at Salmon City.
A band of 2200 sheep at Pomeroy
«beared 22,(XX) pounds of woo).
The Cheney ¡louring mills are to be
renovated and pul into ofieration.
Jos. M. Snow has been appointed pro
bate judge of Douglas county, W. T.
The Northern Pacific trains run into
Ellensburg three times a week with the
mails.
James Sullivan, deputy marshal under
the late Marshal llillyer, of Alaska, died
at Sitka May 9th.
The Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tut
tle, bishop of Idaho and Utah, lias been
elected bishop of the dioeeae of Mis
souri.
It is expected that Kittitas county will
Utis year produce 650,01X4 bushels of
grain. In 1885 the yield did nut much
exceed 250,000 bushels.
A side track is being put in at the
horn of the Yakima, sixteen miles below
where a trading post is to be established
for the Horse Heaven country.
The one-story frame bouse of John
Brown, the musician on Eleventh street,
in Walla Walla, was destroyed by fire,
with its contents, last week.
It is reported that the Cascade branch
of the Northern Pacific railroad on the
west side of the mountains will be ready
for use to the fifty-mile post in a few
days.
||Walla Walla Statesman: The body ol
George L. Ravenaugh was found last
Week, four miles from Rockford in a ra
vine, apparently having been dead five
or six davs.
John Swanson, one of the men en
gaged in the Tacoma mill, was, on Tues
day, struck in the back and side by the
breaking of one of the saws, a piece of
which cut a gash between the ribs, seri
ously injuring him.
Dr. M. Jones lias been indited at Belle
vue for manslaughter. Some time since
Frank McDaniel, a young man, broke
bis leg, and Jones set it wrong. McDan
iel died from the effects of the operation
to re-set the limb.
Lee Sbon, a Chinese gambler of Walla
Walla, made love to a married Chinese
woman, and because his love was not
reciprocated, proceeded to kill her. He
cut her on the wrist and forehead, aud
was then gathered in.
Janies Close, who was convicted of
manslaughter for killing an Indian at
Walla Walla, was sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary, and also to pay a line
ol $5. Close’s attorney may possibly
move for another trial.
The Cheney iS'enfinei says: z\ private
company, in which President Smith, of
the O. R. & N., is interested, has been
organized to build a railroad from Farm
ington to the south fork of the Cieur
d’Alene river in the mining region.
‘ Including the cost of constructing the
Cascade tunnel, building the switch-
back and closing the gap of seventy-five
miles with track, the Northern Pacific
will expend no less than *3,000,000 in
Washington territory within the next
two years.
AU the bridges on the railroad be
tween Pomeroy and Starbuck are now
completed and the bridge carpenters
have taken their departure for Farming
ton, where they will build (he necessary
bridges on the extension from that place
to Colfax.
Lieut. Kimball, of the Fourteenth in
fantry, is the happy father of the first
twins ever born in Spokane Falls. His
father, Gen. Nathan Kimball, was the
first man who whipped Stonewall Jack-
son, and tl«e lieutenant feels bigger than
his father did on that celebrated occa
sion.
J. M. Buckley, assistant general man
ager, Northern Pacific, has made a trip
down the Clark’s Fork river to the Brit
ish line. He has been in the Calispel
country making an examination of its
agricultural and mineral resources with
a view of running a branch of the North-
srn Pacific down that way.
The Commissioners of Spokane county
have offered a reward of *500 for the ar
rest and conviction of the murderers of
R. J. Rusk, of Spokane Falls, who was
killed about the 22d of last April; and
*300 reward for the arrest and conviction
of the murderers of Charles G. Geiger,
killed on or about June 20, 1885, near
Spokane Falls.
Joe Bowzer many years ago planted
six hundred *20 gold pieces in a stone jar
in Yakima City at the foot of a tree on
tiie corner formerly occupied by Bow
ler’s livery stable, but during three years
past occupied by the First National bank.
It had been buried so long that roots as
large as a man’s wrist had grown over
the jar. Bowzer left for the east a few
days ago, but before going dug up the jar
aid carried off the coin.
Prosser City is situated fifty-seven
miles southeast of North Yakima, on the
Cascade branch road. It has two stores,
a livery stable, two hotels and a saloon.
The first settlers suddenly left, unable
to find sufficient water. But Colonel
Prosser came, and saw and conquered
the difficulty, and he is now Belliug his
town lots and water privileges.
Pomeroy Times: Last Sunday as John
Mitchell was coming down the canyon
from Brooks’, south of Pomeroy, the
team which he was driving took fright
and ran away, inflicting injuries to the
young man from which bo may never re
cover. His injuries were more serious
than at first supposed, two of his ribs
having been broken, together with other
internal injuries from which his recovery
Is doubtful. His mother, Mrs. Mitchell,
was considerably shaken, but will re-
lover in a short time. Th* young man
t about 19 year* a«».
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CONGRESSIONAL.
A Synopsis < f Measure« Introduced in uu>
National Legislature.
SENATE.
The Northern Pacific forfeiture bil.
was taken up, the question pending
being Van Wyck’s proposed amend
ment providing for forfeiture, not of
lands of the Wallula branch alone, but
of lands coterminous to such branches
of the road as shall not have been
completed nt the time of the passage
of this Act
Call said the bill, as reported to tiie
Senate, evaded a great question which
public opinion of tho United States
was forcing on Congress, i. e., the con
viction and determination of our peo
ple that unearned grants should be
forfeited. Some 30,000,000 acres of
the grant to the Northern Pauific had
not been earned and should be for
feited. Testimony before Congress
showed that between *30,000,000 and
*40,000,000 beyond the cost of the
road would be made by the projectors
of the Northern Pacific enterprise.
George—That is, the Government
gave them means to build and equip
the road complete, from end to end,
and *30,000,000 besides?
Call—That is one fact of it.
George—So as to make them a pres
ent of the road and *30,000,000 be
sides?
Call—That is the idea.
Call said he had been informed that
an offer of *300,000,000 had been made
by an English syndicate for the land
grant of the Northern Pacific, on the
basis ot *2.50 an acre.
George stated that the average sales
of land by that company had been
within a fraction of *4, instead of
*2.50. He said the whole cost of the
Northern Pacific road had been esti
mated by the Commissioner of Rail
roads at *75,000,000. The whole land
grant was 42,000,000 acres, which, at
*4 per acre (the average rate at which
lands had been sold by the company)
would make *168,000,u00. Deducting
from this sum the cost of the road,
there was left the sum of *93,000,000
for the projectors of the road.
The Chinese indemity bill was
brought to a vote and passed—yeas,
30 ; nays, 10. Senators voting in the
negative were : Beck, Berry, Cockrell,
Coke, Eustis, George, Harris, Maxey,
Mitchell of Oregon, and Vest.
Beck, introducing a bill to prohibit
members of Congress from acting as
attorneys or employes of railroad com
panies that hold charters or have had
grants from the United States, remark
ed that there had been much crimina
tion and recrimination in both houses
about the matter of members of Con
gress being employed by railroad com
panies. The bill, he said, was intended
to see if a remedy could lie provided for
the trouble
Blair submitted a proposed amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill, making an appropriation to aid
in the establishment of a school in
Utah, under direction of the Indus
trial Christian Home Association of
Utah, and to provide employment,
homes and self-support for the depend
ent class in that Territory, with a view
to aid in the suppression of polygamy
therein.
HOUSE.
The Speikor laid before the House
a communication from the Secretary
of War, rei ommending that *50,000
of the amount appropriated by the
Act of March 3, 1883, for armament
of fortifications, be appropriated and
made available for the construction of
guns.
The Speaker laid before the House
a communication from the Secretary
of State submitting an estimate of
*106,100 lor inaugurating the statue
Liberty Enlightening the World.
O’Neil, from the Committee on
Labor, reported favorably the Senate
bill extending the provisions of the
eight-hour law to letter carriers.
The oleomargarine bill, as it passed
the House, contains the lullowing
features: Butter is defined to be food
product, made exclusively from milk
or cream, or both, witli or without
common «alt, and with or without
additional coloring matter.
Oleo
margarine is defined as “all *ul>stan< es
made of < leomargine, oleomargarine
oil, butterine, lardinc, suine and neu
tral; lard extracts and tallow extracts,
and all mixtures and (impounds of
tallow, beef, fat, suet, lard, Igrd oil
vegetable oil, annotto, and other col
oring matter; intestinal fat, and tTs 1
fat, made n imitation or setnblant e of
butter, or when
made lust is calcu
lated or intel.ded to be cold as butt r
or for butt -r.
S'peci fl taxes are > a-
posed as fi llows Ou nilUlllfgcture 4,
*600; on win • sb dealers ; I”' an
retail dealers
8
Thee .it n.; in*
tern al revenue laws, so far I ¡pplica-
ble, are made to apply to these special
taxes. Penalties are ;mposed on any
person who shall deal in oleomargarine
without paying special tax. Provision
. is made for the projier stamping and
latielling of every package of oleomar
garine. A tax of five cents a pound is
imposed on all oleomargarine manu
factured, and a penalty is prescribe
, for the purchase and reception f
sale of oleomargarine not branded
I stamped according to law.