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WEEKLY OREGON STAT ES M A N, TUESDAY, APRIL; 17, 1900. C10GE YET Boers in Natal Are Disappearing. 'Lord Roberts Has Made a Protest To President Krarer. Uegir&lng tb tbe Treatment of Brilbb Pris oners 8Iek, Wounded. LONDON. April 15 (Sunday, Sa ra.). Inhere has been the usual Satur day's absence of news, bofh trorr the war -office and other source of infor mation. The situation in its cfoief points t apparently unchanged. f The natives report, at Kimberley that Colonel Douglas engaged tbe Boers near Zwarlcop on Wednesday, and suc ceeded in driving then back. . The Ilnti&h casualties were sliuhL I r . . . i . " - . , 1 . ui mi j LAagie ia?t evening reporreu hat there had he en no traces of Boers in that neighborhood for the past two days. Their progress southward h2s hect effectively barred hy the British occupation of Jonenoskop on the left, anrrUmhntwani on the right, j The hdief that the Boers action, on Tuesday 'was due to restlessness and i is satisfaction in-the ranks is confirmed 4y the natives, wbo say rhat the Boers ha.ve been ready tor some time, and wanted the British to attack them. In order to force this, the Boers- com menced -ic41ing. at the same time serd- ing a force to make a flanking move ment on the' left. The natives alfo con firm the statement that one of the Boers heavy guns Was put out of action, and the gunners driven off. j Scout -n Satnrday located the Boers , in a strong position'eleven miles north east of the British advanced fashion at IKnemfoirtein. . , f V 'Lord Roberts has strongly protestt d to President .Kruger against the treat ment of the prisoners, sick and' wound ed in the hands of f he Boers, and has - formally demanded the observance of the Geneva convention. ; , It appears from every indication that the Boers are preparing, in the event of Pretoria" being captured, to make rhtir last stand along the- line leading from i.eydcnlxrg along the mountains intt :wa7wand. " r. - CAVALRY SURROUNDED j Lecmokecp, Southeast of Bloemfon tein. April 9. News, received hcr. ?rf-m from Johannesburg Drift, says a Brit ish force of about 1000 men. compoied of Brabant's horse. c with General Bra ;ant commanding, i surrounded' at Rbertsons mfils, with a remote chance or relief or effective resistance. The British force, reported- in tW dispatch alKive. said to be surrounded, at ( Rob ertson's mills, is probably the force of Colonial troops, previously reterred to a .4 surrounded by r1e Boers near We pener. These ; British troops are not commanded by General Brabant in per son. General Brabant was last report ed at Aliwa-1 North, with General Kitch ener. ' - j WHITE AT HOME. London. ApriP 14. Gen. Sir George White, the hero of Lady-smith, who ar rived at Southampton today, received a tremendous ovauon. r A LORD CAPTURED. Cape Town. April 14. The transport Lake fc.rte, -wic upwards ot 500 I ranis vaal prisoner, aded for St. Helena to- cay. j " A LARD CAPTURED, j I-oixJon. April 14. A special dispntf h mm Uioemlonlein. says: A patrol n Royal Irish, with whom was Lord tRosdyn, has (been captured. Lord Rosslyn has been sent to Kroonstatig' AMERICAN LOSSES. ! During the Late War Were Small Com pares! .to British Casualties, j 'Washington, April 14 The war (de partment has prepared an instructive statement, comparing the mortality figures in the Spanish-American ) war with tliose of rlJe first six months of the present .South African war, the purpose being! to how that the casualties i sttf fered by the American troops at the time of their; occurrence, were acttiallT 1 very much less tn nupmber. proportion ately, than those suffered toy the Bnt- flt army up to date. Only 12 per cent of the American death rate resulted from wounds or occurred in battle, while the corresponding rate for the Briti-fll army was 6t.i per cent. I The conditions, both military and cKmatic, under which the campaigns werej car riel on. were so different that it i$. 'dif ficult to make any comparison. h IS A MYSTERY. pweago. April 14. Rufus Wrigfit. a millionaire, ami treasurer of the firm of Morgan & Wright, bicycle ire manu facturers,, is lying at the point of" death in a , room of the Leland hotel, i sfct through tJhe neck by a bullet from the revolver of Mrs. liuisa Lottrklgej of Paw Paw. Michigan The shooting re curred in the departments occupied by rhe woman, and she and the victim oe- dare it jwa acckfental. ! When Detective Sergeant Burns ar rived at the hotel, lie found -Mrs. Lott ridge there. He placed- ber -under jar rest. 1 A friend who had, spent several hours with her, previous to the shoot ing, was also arrested. She gave er name as 'Mrs.. Koss. Much mjstery attaches to the .!aiotin.g. 1 f- Mrs. Ross told tflie crief of detectives she had been acquainted with Wright for tbe last three years, and that, on ev ery one of her visits to Chicago he bad called on her. SCARCITY OF OFFICERS.; 'Washington, April 14. The Navy Department Was itnder the necesity, lay, of ordering the United States D U cruiser, 'Detroit o the-4 Pof ,mouth ravy yard. New Hampsliire, to go out of commission. It addition to this, or der haver been--prepared to put the MarbMiead out of commission at Mare (sland, ami telegraphic orders have been sent to Admiral Watson, to semi the gunboats BenjTington and Concord, now a-t -Manila, to Los Angeles where they will be ako, put out of commission. The bartle-ships Indiana and .Massa chusetts which have just been overhaul ed at the New, York navy yard, are $x be sent to League Island, to be laid up instead of -being commissioned. ; - j i This remarkable reduction in flip number of ships in commission is as criledat -The Navy department. the lack ofi sufficient number bi Officers. t6 furnish the complements for the ships, required for naval purposes. The navigation bureau is authority -for Abe 4atement. that the total ramber of ficers is really less than it was four years ago.- notwithstanding the great increase n the iumber of shrps. i A SWIFT CRUISER. Toulon. France, April 15. The new French first-class cruiser Chateau Ren ault, jn her speed trial yesterday, made 25 knots. SPARE THE SEA GULLS. fMilCneri' agents in New York have engaged tor ten j-ears in tfhe wholesale laughteT ofitheguns-tihicS. umit re cently, were so mimerous on, the Atlan tic coast. In one year the agents of one millinery etabKshment killed 40,000 gulls. 1 One village or tbe New York coast slaughtered 70.000 gull's in a year. Appeal! were made to the women and to the! milKrrers to -spare the gulls and other (birds. This appeal fefton; dull ears,. Hence, the American- Ornithologists union is trying today to save tbe gu31s by appealing to tfhe? public on business considerations. . - It is estimated that nearly a miUion gull feed twice a day in New York bay uponhe ga-rbagc. The whistle of the police boat is the signal to dump tlie garbage. , It summons a multitude of gulls, covering an area of several miles, to feedl These birds consiime the putrid mutter wbich siould otherwise reach ami defile the adjacem beaches. The gulls are the? scavengers of New York bay, and yet the- birds have been deci mated. Tlie mHliners' agents have made prep arations this year to carry on the des tructiort at the breeding grounds. is belie vedi that unless- steps are taken to prevent JWs wholesale slaughter the gulls wiU. be exterminated' and New York will suffer. Tiiere are rumors drat ttoe miiliners' agents in- Chicago are preparing to make the same kind of on slaught on "the gulls that, hover over the garbage and refuse afcng tbe rsortli vihor Thousarids of the bird's breed in chi region. They perform for the lakfl, the river, and tEie drainage clran nel what the gulls oti tbe Atlantic coast do for New York city. -Any cam paign against rhem bereaboists in breeJitng time would mca-ir tliclr prac tical extermination. Our game laws protect all water fowl irt breeding time, or fom April 15 to Sept. r. . If fh-e en forcement of tliese laws will not be suf ficient to protect the gulls on the lake shore, an appeal Kke that issued in New York sliouM be put forth Siere. Some years ago Pennsylvania offer ed a premium for tlhe destritction of oW!s. belie-irfg that they didgreat irr jury to fhe farmers. The reward I! to the killing of 100.000 owls in yhe nae. The next year tbe farmers lost through fie!d rats and mice and o:hcr vcrmar tiport which ifa-e owls preyed fully $4000.000, and the raw was re peated. 'Despite laws to protect the gulls in New York and- oi'Tuer Atlantic states, hundreds of thousand's have been slaughtered, and the cities most inter ested m sanitary improvement have suf fered. We have humane societies and ctubs in Chicago. They should inter eft t(bemilves in the protection of the gulls, not only for seret-i mental but for sanitary reasons. Chicago Inter Ocean. U WASH NHTON 5 1 jit 1 a a CORRESPONDENCE. 5- Washington, D. C. April io. Di rector Merriam, of the census bureau, stirred congress to its deepest depths by rrr-tifying it that he wants fooo women clerks to operate the punching and tabulating machines in bis office. It had been' supposed that men woulJ be "eligible lor this work and that ea--h of thtm would mean at least one nice Iktle vote for his "influence" this fall, and the suggestion that women should get the places instead has caused a panic." But 'Mr. (Merriam stands firm, insisting that all experience has proved that women are two to one betttr than men- for this sort of work and congress will have to submit. Eaclt Republican member can nnme six and each Democratic member three women for these posts. It is extremely likely that some one in congress will soon propose to in crease the rations of soldiers serving in the tropics by the addition of so many . ounces of candy per month. What will probably seem even more singular to those who look upon sweets as desirable only in chiHhood's happy days, it is very probable that tlie -war department will recommend the addition. The demand of pur sol diers in the Philippines for sweets is large, and medical men- assert that more sugar is needed in hot countries than in cold ones. As a result the war department has just shipped fifty tons of sweets to , Manila, in-eluding a large order of the best candy, inter mixed with a good allowance of choc olates. .This order will be -followed bv a much larger one. and chocolates will again hold first place. These confec tions are. of course, not a part of tbe army rations, but are for purchase by the officers and soldiers at- the canteens.- : . j. - Tlie house committee on interstate commerce has favorably reported the bill to prevent misbranding any dairy or food product, and will attempt to secure its passage at this session. It will apply to oleomargarine, mixed flour arid other fraudulent preparations which masquerade under other names than their own. The trill "to prevent adulterating foods is still pending in the eom-mntee but will cettairriy be favorably reported soon-. The length of time that it takes to build a warship U evident from the condition of the Kearsarge and Ken tucky, the contracts for which were let fire year ago, and which were to have been finished in three years, but which are not yet entirely complete. The -delay is attributed to the .failure of armor plate makers to deliver that materia!.',. and. to tardiness in complet ing the guns-. - These were built. at, the Wahnngtoro gun shops, w;here the fa cilities are .no V 'sufficient, it is said, co mamtfacture them as rapidly as they are required and as promptly as the jh'ips are' ready to receive them. Tbe navy -depaxtmcnt: is evidently satisfied at the soundness of this. ple3. lecause it has just remitted the penalties for delay, in completing the i eselsl , r 'Jlie- posftoffice-comniittee has ' made a favorable report on the s new : bill proposed by, 'Mr Loud, of California. fr the. reform ' of second-class mail matter, after tlie defeat of his fi'st bilL " The new measure present but jene issue- and is much more satisfacr tory tharr the tformer. It-merely bars from the mails fpecificaUy all "publi cations purporting to.be issued . peri odically and,to subscribers, but iv'iich are merely books or reprints of books, whether 5 they be , issued complete or in paTts, . whether they be-.bound of unbound, whether ' they be sold by ubscription'( or , otherwise, or whether they purport to be premiums,, or "sup plements, or parts of regular newspa pers or peTicdicals." In this amended form; the bill does not antagonize tbe country papers, as it does not touch on the question1 Of sample copies, and irt this Shape it is believed h can pass txth j houses. - Nothing, however, wib do away with the annual deficit in the postoftice until, the railway rates for caTrs-ing Uie mail are reformed. A ! sub-committee of the sen-ate. which has been in Cuba for sxjme time studying conditions there, returned to Washington a few" days ago. In a statement given ont by it. the sub committee says: "It may be said of all cusses m Cuba that; they, are 100k injr o the establishment, of an inde pendent government a Cuban- repub lie. (A few are impatient and wish f ir immediate and complete independ ence. Others believe that sufficient tune snouut oe taken to avoid, mis takes and to set up the new govern ment upon ch a firm basis as to in sure! its success and permanence." 'Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, has resigned hispost and I will lecture in behalf of the Boers Mr. j Davis j has iust returned from a long trip to South Africa, in the cou-se of which he visited ihe Boer republics and; satisfied himselt that aheir cause just and- that they had been shame fully misrepresented by tlie British. He j says that he was besceched by 2.000 -Boer . women to lay the truth in regard to them before the United States. r.nd that he promised to do so. T1ire has been more or les-s1 friction betweeen iMr. Da-vis and Secretary Hitchcock for some time, and it is possible that this fact has something to do jnith his willingness to resign his office. Tlie Secretary of the- Navy has writ ten to congress suggesting that in stead of increasing the number of ca dets at the naval academy, as is pro posed by a bill now pending in te senate, congress shall enact that the districts represented respectively by the cadets who have completed the -four years' course cf 5tndy at the na val academy be treated as vacant, and such vacancies filled at once. without awaiting the result of the two years' cruise at sea. The services of naval cadets during the two years' 'cruise may be utilised in the performance on board -slrp of duties not materially d:s-sim-ilar from those to 'which ituMO commissioned officers of the navy are assigned. It is noted that any plan effecting an increase in the number of cadets graduated from the naval acad emy would fail to -accompli! sh the de sired result unless the limitations im posed by existing provisions of law upon the number -of officers to be ap pointed annually are removed. C. W. Ganong has a record-breaker in the matter of a thoroughbred eri-ey cow." that he recently purchased frrm .Hon. W'm. Galloway. The cow has a pedigree dating away back of the time when the late J., W. Nesmith irn. .itcd them other stock from th? Eas. into Oregon. - Last week Mr." Ga iong fed the cow on 'grass and a small rillo-w.ce of oil cake each day. The m Ik from this was made into butter and an-sccur-ate account kept of each separate churn ing. tt the end of the week' the tcsalt was fifteen pounds and one ounce of butter. It. is a noteworthy fact :hat it cots no more to feed ar cow like this than, one of the common 'herd, that would produce only two pour.ls a week. Oregon City Courier, A French draft horse, valued at Sani o, i died last week at Tule Lake, of coli:. iNE reason Mrs. Pinkham's promptly is that they have confidence in her: - Throuch some of the man v thousands' of Mm PitiV- ham's friends an ailing woman munam ai ner nome in L.ynn, Mass., and will tell her symptoms. The reply, made withonf charge of any kind, will bear such evidence of knowledge of, the trouble that belief in her advice at once inspires hope. - This of itself is a jrreat helD. Then the knowlAd for advice and women cmlv assist Mrs. Pinkhim in rnl vino- makes it easy to be explicit about the little things that define . the disease.' -.--$. , " I ; : - Ms. ErJtZA Thomas, ot 634 Pine St., Eastern,; Pa., writes: Dear Mrs. PinkhamI doctored with two of the best r MT I it WW I aw) 1 about four years I was a great sufferer from female troubles. I had backache all of the time, no appetite, pains in stomach, faint ing spells, was weak and my system was completely run down. I also had falling of womb so bad that I could scarcely walk across the floor. After taking two bottles of your Vegetable t Compound and one box of Lozengers, can says I am cured. THE PIS FAIR ' " ,'tm """ m f ' Exposition aiid Ameri can Exhibitors AH Countries Outside of 1 France r - Ara Far Beblnil the United States io the Number of Exhibi ta-M from tlie President. PARIS, April r4.-Amcr:cans, espec ially, will "be ! proudj of their country's display . at the World's fair, ; for the United States stands second .on-ly to France herself in'th number jof exhibi tors, which treble those of any foreign country.' Following js the number of ex hilitors,' which speaks .eloquently of American enterprise: France, 30.000; United States, 6,516; Belgium, 2,100; Germany, i.ooo;. Italy, 2,000; Russia, 1.500; Scandinavia i. 400.; Austria. I.ooo Great Britain, 600; British j Colonies, 6oo."- ;.- . j j 1 :... , America has three times -the number of exhibitors that France had at the World's ,f air in Chifcago. She occupies 329.052 square feet -with' her (forty-seven distinct) exhibition: spaces. I American enterprise, however, is not only shown in the size of her represent ation, but j also in, the preparedness of her installation as Icompared with that of most of the other, couirttries., and it can be safely said that, but for the dilatoririess of French workmen, and methods, the United States exhibits would have been exposed in their show cases to today's visitors. Unfortrruate ly such tardiness has hampered all American- efforts tjo rush matters. In comparing" the state of progress of the installation of the various gaitions. the commissioner-general of the exposition .a;d to CommissioJner-'General Peck: "It is an object lesson to us all, to see the American people work. I thank you for your prortptitude and the ad vanced condition pi the wxrk in the United States section." t To many visiting Americans pur Na tional pavilion is a distinct: disappoint ment. It is pretentious, almost ovcr powering with its j big dome and start ling frescoes overj the entrance, but it compares unfavorably with; the beauti ful biddings of even- -the smaller powers like Italy, Spain and Austria. ' - CONGRATULATIONS. Washington. jxrl 14. -President McKinley today jsent a message to President Loubet,;of France, congratu lateing him upon ! the successful open ing of the exposition. TO THREATEN ENGLAND. The Czar - Will I Demand Immediate Peace in ISouth Africa. St. Petersburg, April 14.- Extraordi nary persistent rumors are current at Moscow, that on the Russian Easter Sundaythe Czar will issue; a manifesto, containing an ultijmatum to Great Britf ain. demanding t'liit he conclude jK-r-ce with the Boers forthwith! under the threat of occupying Cabul and Herat if Great Britain fails to comply. THE SILVER CROWD. Dubois ' Will Consult With Populists and Democrats. Black'foot, Idol, April ! 14.- 'Former "Senator Dubois, j chairman of the ex ecutive committed of the National Sil ver Republican pjirty. left for fhe East today. His visit is for the purpose of consultation wit'h!the leaders of the Na tional Democracy! and the Populists re garding combmaitions . in the various states. , ile will 'liicad" the delegation to Kansas City on July 4th, Dubois is satisfied thatsatijsfactory arrangements will be made 4orj the nomination of a Vice-President b the Democrats, Sil ver 'Republicans and Populists, through treatment helps .women so will be led to! write to Mrs. CONFIDENCE MELQ TO CURE letters asking doctors in thl Htv far torn : ... . -z years ana naa no relief until I began the use of your remedies. My trouble was ulceration of the womb. I suffered something terrible, could not sleep i nights and thought sometimes that death .would be j such a relief. To-day I am a well woman, . able to : do my own work, and have not a pain. I used four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and three packages of Sana tive rWash and ; cannot thank you enoueh for the J good it did me.M Mrs. M. Stoddard. Box 26S, Springfield, Minn., .writes: ; --, : ' " ; j Dear Musi "Ptktu AxtVM- committee of. the . three A COLLISLON. Two Vessels Suffer Serious Damage in ? Puget Sound. Seattle. April 14. Tlie steamer Lakme awl rlie -British ship Queen Elizabeth, collided, earhy this morning, between Seattle and .Port. Townsend. The total damage ts estimated at $3.000. . Both ships were about equally injured. The Lakme was outward bound with a load of lumber for San Francisco. The Queen ;" Elizabeth was going to Port hlakely. towed by the tug Tyee. The accident was probably due to a mistake in signals. The vessels came together with great force. The Lakme is now at Seattle, and the. Queen Elizabeth on the way to Port Blakely. MORGAN WINS OUT. Will Succeed IIim5?elf as Senator from (Alabama. Itirm-mgham, Ala.. April 14. Reports from all section of the state indicate a landslide for United States 5 Senator Morgan, for re-election, as the result of the 'Democratic primaries todays Goverrior Johnston, who has waged a vigorous and aggressive fight against Senator 'Morgan, carried but one coun ty as the result of today's voting, which, added to the counties previously in structed -for him. gives the governot five jconnties with a total cf five votes. KRUGER'S FAMILY. Scores of His (Descendants Are Fight ing the -British. . ! London. 'April 14. A special front Pretoria, says: "Mrs. Kruger, on be ing interviewed, said that she trusted. God would soon: stop the merciless bloodshed, but that the republic would 'be vigorously defended, even if Pretoria were finally taken. She added that she had in the field, thirty-three grandsons, two of whom were , killed; four sons, six sons-in-laws nd numerous other relatives. 1 A -CHANGE MADE. 1 Washington. April 14. The promo tion of Assistant Secretary Cortelyou to be secretary to the President was fol lowed today by the announcement of the appointment of iBenjamin F. Barnes, of Pennsylvania, to be assistant secre tary to the President, and Rudolph rorster, of Virginia, to be executire clerk to the President. - . WILL NOT HAVE IT. i Chicago, .April 14. Carter Harrison tolay came out unequivocally in oppo sition to his nomination, by t'be Demo cratic state convention, for ihe govern rship of Illinois. i ONE FATALITY". 3 Pittsiburg, April 14. A fire in the Essen coal mine No. 3. at Hazelton caused the death of one miner, Venzel Sternad. instead of sixteen as ;tt i;rst reported. FBUIT MEN; CONFER MARION COCNTV GROWERS FAVUK ABLE TO ORGANIZATION. Attendance Win Mot Lare Bat n Spirit of Co-opcratton Wu Manifested By Tbem AIL. f (From Daily Statesman. C:pril 15th.) Tlie meeting of Mariori county prune growers held at the city hall yesterday, was not very largely attended hut he spirit of co-operation and organization for mutual protection was quite appar ent. - ' ' Not over fifty growers attends jts terday's conference, maiiy being de tained at home by belated soring work. Chas: Long, of Silverton, who caaed the meeting as director tor Marion county of the Cured Fruit Association of the Pacific ISorthwestTappcd tlie conference to order at 10I30 o'clack Temporary organization was effected by the election of D. Webster, of Rose- dale, as chairman, and J. K. snepliard. of Zena. as -secretary. O. V. 'Allen and Chas. Long, werc constituted a committee -to proceed; to the train and accompany the visitang officers of the state association from Portfaind. to the place of meeting. Pend ing the arrival of the visitors, an fin format discussion of the aims and ob jects of the organization! was partici" nated in. I - Upon the arrival of the Portland vis itors, AVm. Galloway, of; Oregon City president of the state association, lad dressed the meeting. He stated .that the matter of the growers effecting? an organization for mutual protection; vas purely a business proposition, dietiop ed none of the growers would distrust any of their co-workers, but place 4m plirit confidence in. the intentions of the association and the -work of the ofQcers, whom they should select, who would labor to promote -the best interests of tlie growers. Such unanimity of feeling was essential to the success of the f or ganization. 'Mr. Galloway gave aide tailed explanation of the plan of t the state association, and said that k was not the intention of the association- to enhance the price of cured fru'rt beyond the reach of the consumer hut to i get ir closer touch to that class of individ uals. .Mr. Galloway concluded that in Aiew of tbeThright prospects for a tv en ormous prune crop this year, there 'was every reason for an intelligent organi zation of he growers. An adjournment for the noon hour was taken and at the afternoon ses'Sio-.l. ilr. Galloway further addressed the meeting. W. V. PhiHips, cashier of the A ins worth National Bank, of 'Portland, an an extensive fruit grower in Cali fornia and throughout the Northwest, tbtd of the success of rhe Raisin Grow ers' Association, of California, and Very clearly presented the benefits that.wiould result from organization. J. H. Fletcher, of Vancouver. Vah inyton, one of rlie vice presidents of the state association, told of the unanimous sentiment that exists in Clark county, Washington, for organization of grow ers.': '. In the course of thew- addresses the gentlemen- were, very thoroughly inter rogated regarding the plan of opera tion outlined for the association.; and they offered tery intelligent explana tions of the work contemplated. It was the -general conclusion cA the growers present, after the matter had hcen;very I thoroughly discussed, that the associa- a - conterence parties. tion had been organized purely for the benefit of the grower. with a view to b4tering their condition. ; ! 4 Although probably not ever a third of the requisite 75 per cent of rhe prune acreage of "Marion county wasi renfe- M.'iucu i tn-iu(ajr Hicciiiin. u is un derstood practically all of the growers are favoring ro. the scheme, leaving little doubt but that the association of jhe Northwest, will be permanently or ganized, so far as Marion County ii concerned. ;j. When growers representing 75 per cent of the prune acreage of tine terri tory embraced by the Hssociatlon-have become members of the organization, arrangements will be made for an an .ual meeting of the growers to be lickl in liitw -when n board r,f !irpi-tr-c - 1 other officers will be elected and other business transacted. Unless the neces sary percentage of the acreage is secur ed, the attempt to perfect the state or. ganization will be abandoned, j all de- leiKls upon the growers. At 4 p. m.; the visiting officers of the state association left for their hmes in -Portland, when the local grower present began the discussion of an ir- uit.Luiv.. v,.ii.jr. pre sent were favorably impressed with the mow, and a number .signed contracts to become members. -A permanent or ganization was not- perfected, -however. a - nl L Jim v1-!'!. Hi 5Ut-- ficient numbers for such action and thr n:eeting adjourned to Saturday, April 28th. by which time, it is hoped suffici ent; signatures of growers will be ob tained 10 peneci a permanent organiza tion, elect officers and begin the work for the benefit of the fruit growers of Marion county. Chairman Long, in discussing the results of the meeting last evening, expressed himseW a highly pieaseu, ami Sfara tnat tne prospects lor a successful organization of the Marion' county growers were exceedingly brtglit. and that a new era was about to dawn for the Willamette vallev imli growers. Hundreds of Polk county farmers aie changing from strictly gra;n raising to; diversified farming, having conclu-l;d; that it will pay best. Never before ivi so much clover and grass seed being sown, provisions are being niiil.- , keep a greater nnn-.bcr'of slieep, csv.'tt ami goats and more attention ;s bring given, to poultry raising. Better grades of hogs, horses ard. other stark are u pcrseding the scruby kind anl in i ward there is ii-nprove nn-nt .md pr-'trre'ss all along the line. Itimizer i ANIMALS lAND GIKTSTS. 1 here is a widespread oehet in 'Smith Germany, in Ireland, in Scotland, and 1 Know not jiow many countries, mar horses and dogs have Van instinct f-'r rncanny realities. In Gertuany the popular notion is that no horse will pass by the place -where the bodv of a suicide lies, or even the spjit where some one has committed suicide, cr where an execution has taken place. This is something different from the repugnance that all horses have to tlie neighliorhood of a - slaughter lnme. Only a few days ago a Tyrolese- horse of very docile disposition, driven care fully by his Italian owner was greatly' "upset at having to' pa sis 4 wo widely separated government 'shaunblcs.'-used for supplying meat to the crews of Italian war-ships, lie was also great ly disgusted at iiaving to ga near a . . if. - . i . airnj;iT cau, ;iiis r.-rsis. iw ejer. were mild com pared with the lc havior of horses under "uncanny" ijj-, 4lllf.flJ- . '1 It frf-V'c - , V "A horse has a keener nose than any dog." and he talked soothingly to him; "didn't know why that dirt cart wis always in the same place." " "well welled" him. anl told him "tlie slaugh ter house was 50 yards off his road." and so forth. In "haiHKted" quarters, cn the other hand, the horse" refuses with determination; he trcnih'es, snort, is covered front head lo heels, in time.' with a white Joasn. has eyes roll and shoot firef ami tlie end is sometimes a bad accident, sometimes ,a hard-fougiht victory for the driver. sometimes his ignominons defeat. I could imagine Irish crossroads-oast .ti- i- 1 , - ty refused to go quiotly after dart. The last purchase, frohi. mavbe. die uuii --t.-l civil iiinc jii uie c.jhi- other end of the island, mieht be taken to the spot without any (possibly- in doctrinated) equine crvnHianimi ' t frighten him. but he unfailingly "turned rusty as'.foon as he trod -..the 'unhal lowed ground. Tlie local explanations were various; that fire land 011 one side was "cursed;" that formerly crim inals -were executed and then buried at many crossroads, and possibly lure, and that the fir trees and a castellated lodge in one angle of the hUerscctinj? ways, made the spot terribly dark, an 1 so on, London iNcws. 1 In almost every neighborhood there is some one whose life has been- saved by Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera ind Diarrhoea Remedy.: or who has been cured of chronic diarrhoea by the use of that medicine. Such persons make a point of teilin-g of it whwever op porturMty offers, hoping that it may le the means of saving other live. For sale by F. G. Haas, druggist, 5a lm; - . i ' . DIES HARD. "1 asked the xung woman in -front, of me to remove her big hat so that I could see the stage." "Did she do it?" '.' "Xo; she said if she held her hat in her lap she couldn't see the stage her-seir'-Colliers Weekly.' i! j , 'A oill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister was read recently for the first time in the House of Keys", Isle Of (Man. , , ; . 1 Tbs Kind Yea Hats ahw mr. W, R. Mascall. a Grant county sheep man is reported to have suffered the lost of 500 head from poison. ' Nasal CATARRH . la all ltt sUzm there boold b clfnlineM. Ely's Cream Balm demmim. too the ftod hnUe tb dltcssed membrane. It core catarrh and drives way a cold la tbe bead. Cma Balm to placed Into tbe fcortrU "J? vrtr tbe membrane and la a!orbed. TM u im mediate and ft cure follow. It la not drTtnJ' fttsuorbymaU: Trial Siza, 10 eenta by mail. IXY UUOTUZSS.H Warren Street. Nw Boars th - -yf