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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Couldn't Tighten That Gloom.

A few days ago some one sent up to
the local room of The Herald sing
ing canary in pretty prison of brass
wires, with water, seed, cuttlefish all
complete, and directed that it be raj
fed off for the benefit of the poor
fund. 1t was to be supposed that a
bird in such strange quarters would
be frightened out of its voice, but not
80 this little songster. He made HIM
self at home at once and proceeded to
fill the room with melody. A young
reporter sat watching the pert little
stranger and listening to his liquid
notes, when it occurred to him that he
had great chance to write a pretty
article upon the way in which the
song of happy bird could tighten up
any gloom. He sharpened his pencil
first, losing some of his sentimental
thoughts when the point broke off
twice, and then started. How sweet
Is the innocent melody of the warbling
bird" he wrote, when a messenger
boy fell through the door, spilled a
lot OF rain water from his rubber coat
onto the reporters shoes, and said
''Sign fer dis" He signed for the tele-
gram and then started to complete his
sentence, but before he could think of
a word man came in and asked if he
could have an old pair of pants. Then
another entered with notice of our
next party-the Octopus Pleasure
club, you know" and asked him to
''send a reporter up" A man who said
he had read The Herald every day
for thirty-four years" dropped in on
the reporters train of thought and
wanted to leave communication on
the drainage question. He signed it
''Vox Pupuli." By this time the re-
porter had written one line and an
swered the telephone four times.
Guess | was off on the melody of
one bird tightening up any gloom like
this" he said. 1t would take whole
- aviary. "-Chicago Herald,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Rohbing a Bank.

One of the most daring bank rob,
berries that | recollect was committed
in Winnipeg in 1882, and there are
many former citizens of that place
now residing in St. Paul who will also
remember this event. The robbers
were never discovered. One morning
about II o'clock two men entered the
Merchants bank on the corner OF Main
and Postoffice streets. As usual at that
hour the bank was crowded. One OF
the men stationed himself in front of
the paying teller's desk, as if awaiting
his turn to transact business, and
hauling a newspaper from his pocket
began to read. The teller left his wire
screen pen a moment, and immedi-
ately the stranger opened the paper
out and held it up high, while the &C
complete Immediately behind him
sprung up on the edge of the counter
and reaching over grabbed big roll
Of bills amounting to about $12, 900.
He rushed from the bank, followed by
the newspaper reader, and before any
one realized what had occurred had
disappeared. No clew was ever OBJ
tained.-St Paul Pioneer Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
PORTLAND MARKET.

WHARF.-THE local market, although
nrm with fair demand, shows little ac-
tlvlty, owing to small offerings. Valley
Is quotable from $1.2218@1.231s; Walla
Walla nominal, 81 20.
FLoUR-Quote: Standard, 1915; out
SIDE brands, $3.50 per barrel.
OATs-The market is firm. Quote: 81
@54c per bushel.
MLLsTUFFs - The market is firm.
quote: Bran, $15@17; Shorts, $17@19 /;
Ground Barley, $3.50; Chop Feed, $25 /;
M1ddhngs, $22.50@25 per ton.
HAY-The market is steady. Quote !:
$1,000 per ton.
VEGETABLEs-The market is firm. Or
egon Cabbage has advanced. California
onions and Oregon String Beans have
fallen. There are Oregon Onions in the
market. Quote: California Cabbage,
$3.50; Oregon, $2@2.25 per GENITAL; Cal
lforn1a Caulifiower, $1.25 per dozen; Or
egon Green Peas, &c per pound; Young
Unions and Lettuce, 15c per dozen
punches; new California Onions, &c per
pound Oregon, &c per pound; Oregon
Strlng Beans, &c per pound; California
Gucumbers, 15@20c; Oregon, 25c per
dozen; Oregon Carrots, 10@15c per
punch Oregon Asparagus, 1Oc per pound !;
oregon Beets, 10@15c per dozen Oregon
lurnlps, $3.50 per sack; California Corn,
y per box; Oregon, 25c per dozen Cal
norma Tomatoes, 90c@$1 per box; Cali
to rn Potatoes, $1@1.25; Oregon, SIG
LIS per Genital.
FRUTTs-Fancy Sicily Lemons have
advanced; California Grapes have adj
vanced Oregon Blackberries have fallen !;
Oregon Cherries and Raspberries are
about out of the market; California wa
termelons have fallen. Quote: Califor-
MIA Lemons, $3.50; fancy Sicily, $6@7. 80
per box; California Plums, 1925; Ore
gon Peach Plums, 75c per box; Califor-
MIA Apricots, $1.25 per box; California
Pears, $1.25@2; Bartletts, $2.5O@2.75
per box; Pineapples, $3.5O@4 per dozen !;
Bananas, single punches, 1878; double,
s.; California Apples, S1.75@2; Oregon,
75c@$1.25 per box; California Peaches,
$1.25@1.5O; Oregon, 75c@$1. 25 per box !;
Oregon Currants, SC per pound; Oregon
Biack1EbSerries, 5@7c per pound; Califor-
MIA Watermelons, $2.50@4.5O; Canta-
loupes, $2.5O@3 per dozen; California
Grapes, 75c@$1 per box, $1.75 per crate;
California Crabapples, 75c per box.
BUTTER-The market is firm. Quote:
Ot0SoA ioACy udlry AAC IduCy CrcdHery,
21ac; good to fair, 20@221ac; common,
l5@177ac; choice California, &c per
pound.
EGGs-The market is firm. Quote:
2OHc per dozen for Oregon.
CHEEsE-Quote: Oregon, 11@121ac;
California, 976@10c; Young America, Is
@14c per pound.
NUTs-Quote: Walnuts, 13c; Peanuts,
green, lie; Almonds, TIC; Filberts, Is
9l4c; Brazils, 13@14c per pound; Cocoa
nuts, 81 per dozen.
PoULTRY-The market is firm. Old
Chickens have fallen in price. Quote:
Old Chickens, $5@5.50; large Spring, SO
ga; small Spring, $2@2.50; old Ducks,
$4.5O@5; young, $5@6; old Geese, So;
young, $500 per dozen; Turkeys, 1870
Zoe per pound.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
The Merchandise Market.

The different markets continue firm,
with no change in prices.
SUGARs-The market is firm. Quote
Golden G, Be; extra c, SIC; dry granu.
lated, 619c; cube crushed and powdered
634c per pound.
BEANs-The market is steady. Quote
Small Whites, So; Pink, 81; Bayos
$3.50; Butter, So; Limas, So. 80 per Genital
PICKLEs-Quote: 85c IS; 90c IS.
SAT- - Quote: Liverpool, $3.50
$3.50, $3.50; stock, $11@12 per ton il
carload lots
Coal On-Quote: 20 per case.
DRIED FRUTs-The market is steady
Quote: Plummer dried Pears, 1O@I1c
undried and factory Plums, 51a@6c
Peaches, sun-dried, 1O15c; evaporated
Peaches, 1917 @17c; Smyrna Figs, 14G
Ice; California Figs, Sc per pound.
CANNED GooDs-Market is firm. Quote
Table fruits, $1.9O, 2119s; Peaches, $2.2
Bartlett Pears, $1.90; Plums, $1.65
Strawberries, 1925; Cherries, 81; Black,
berries, $1.85@1.95; Raspberries, 81. 25 q
$50. Pie fruit: Assorted, $3.50 pei
dozen; Peaches, $1.25@1.30; Plums
$1.25; Blackberries, $1.65; Tomatoes
$l.l5@3.50; Sugar Peas, $1.40@1 80
String Beans, 81.
RICE-Quote: exc per pound.
HTDEs-The market is weak. Quota
tons: Dry Hides, selected prime, SO
Sc, &c less for culls; green, selected,
over So pounds, &c; under So pounds, &c
Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30@50c; me-
dunn, 60@80c; long, 90c@$1.25; shear
lings, 10@20c; Tallow, good to choice,
@3Rc.
WooL-The market is dull. Quota
tons: Eastern Oregon, 10@16c; Valley,
16@18c per pound.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
The Sacred white elephants.

Siam is known as the land of the
white elephant. The elephant is the
imperial animal of the country, and
you see his picture upon all of the
flags. The old coins of the realm have
an elephant on one side of them, and
the white elephant is here sacred. He
is supposed to be the embodied spirit
of some king or hero, and the people
formerly worshiped him, and they do
so to some extent now. Before going
to see the palace | had read a glowing
description of the white elephant of
Siam. | expected to see his tuslls
bound with gold, to find golden chains
about his neck and a superb vel
vet coat of purple, fringed with
scarlet and gold, over his snow
white body. What l did find was
four four wild Ll, eyed, scraggy looking ele-
skins not much whittier than those you
see in the American circus. The only
white part about them was their long
tapping ears, which seemed to be al
flicted with the leprosy. The remain
der of their skins had the whiteness
only of disease, and | was told, as a
rule, the white elephants of Siam are
mad elephants.
These beasts we're in dirty stables
and they were chained by the feet to
great wooden posts. They had dirty
keepers and there was no sign of roy
atty about them. Their Keepers fed
them some grass while we were pres
ent and they performed some ordinary
circus tricks for us. The glory of the
white elephant has in all probability
departed, and the elephants of the in
terror of Siam are made to work quite
as hard as their brothers all over the
world. One of the punishments of
Siam is making convicts cut the grass
for these royal elephants. One of
them killed his keeper the other day,
and this same holy beast made snap
at me with his trunk when entered
his stable. Frank G. Carpenter.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02

Chicago journals say there is on foot
in that city gigantic scheme for irriga-
ting over 100000 acres of the richest
land in Southern California, which is to
be accomplished by impounding water
from the mountains to immense storage
reservoirs, and then conducting it to the
land by system of pipes, bitches and
fumes.
There was cloud-burst the other day
in the foothills of the Santa Rita mount
aims, A. T., covering an area of square
mile. The water rushed down the can
yon in torrents, drowning number OF
cattle and horses. A lot of wild animals,
such as deer, bears and wolves, were
caught in its flow The Schofeldt ranch
was completely devastated of crops, or
chard and houses. A large freight team
was caught in the flow and carried a
mile.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The bill granting the Fort Ellis reser-
walton in Montana to the State and also
granting government land at Miles CITY
for park has passed the Senate.
The President, upon the recommended
ton of Acknowledgement Miller, denied
the application for the pardon of w. w.
Wyman, convicted in California of send
ing obscene matter through the mails.
Senator Mitchell has made application
for an increase in the salary of the clerk
at the United States land Office at The
Dalles, Or, and also for an additional
clerk in that Office. The matter is under
consideration.
Representative Comstock has intro
duced a bill authorizing the Secretary of
Agriculture to establish uniform grades
OF all kinds of grains transported from
one State to another or to any foreign
country which shall be known as Anne j.
can goods.
When the Indian appropriation bill
was being considered, objection was
made to that portion providing for the
payment of the Indian police in Alaska.
Senator Dolph took the floor and demon
strated the necessity of the police for
the protection of property, and it was
agreed to.
Senator Mitchell has been trying to get
bill through for the Warm Springs res
ervation, but it has been loaded down
with Puyallup and Colville, Wash.
amendments, and is now hung up in the
Senate. He proposes now to have it at.
tached to the Indian appropriation bill
before the Senate. The people of Oregon
want the boundary of that reservation
settled. So.
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands has ordered favorable report or
the House bill to amend the act of June
", 1874. 1t extends the privileges
granted by that act, subject to the pro
visions, limitations and restrictions
thereof, to all persons entitled to the
rights OF homestead or presumption laws
of the United States who have resided
upon and improved for five years lane
granted to any railroad company, bu
whose entries and filings have not fol
any cause been admitted to record.
The delay in transmitting the CORE
. spondence in the Behring sea negotia
ton Is due solely to the fact that as We
IL is not proper to make the correspond
ence public. Representative Hit intro
! duced his resolution several weeks to,
soon: The negotiations are still pending
and II the correspondence that is now il
: the hands OF the Secretary of Stat
: should be made public, it would inter
rupt the proceedings. This fact havin,
been made known, it is announced from
time to time that the transmission i
postponed. The President, being awar
OF the facts, has informed Republican
4 leaders OF the state of affairs, and con
seguently the fulfilling of the resolution
VIII not be pressed. 1t Is thought tina
the delay means that an amicable ad
/. justment will be made.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Dangerous Carelessness.

The amount of carelessness display
ed by business men in drawing checks
and other financial papers is almost
beyond comprehension 1t is well
known fact that an enormous sum of
money is lost annually throughout
the country by the frauds perpetrated
by check ''raisers." Business men can
not be too careful in drawing their
checks, and every possible safeguard
should be taken to prevent alteration,
and especial care should be observed
to prevent financial paper from fall
ing into improper hands. The sharp
ers" who are laying for opportunities
to swindle the public are numerous,
and it is needless to say that they are
thoroughly versed in all the arts Of
their trade. st Louis Globe Demo
crat.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
He Got the Egps.

A certain Baron Munchausen is
hunting in Florida, and his stories of
the chase are finding their way into
the letters of admiring correspondents
of northern papers. The baron's name
inevitably calls to mind the immortal
Munchausen whose phenomenal lying
has made his name famous for all
time. This gifted mortal's success in
the hunting of birds can never be sur
passed by the modern Munchausen.
On one occasion the liar of century
ago came across circle of quail feed
ing around grain stack. The latter
was completely environed by the
birds, and the mighty hunter de-
cided to have them all. So he
took careful aim, pulled the trig
ger, and at the same time bent
the barrel of his shot gun SO as to
send the charge quite around the
grain stack. Unfortunately, his aim
was too low, and, instead Of forty or
fifty quails, Munchausen bagged
eighty or hundred quails' legs. Just
how he did this his book does not ex-
plain. Probably, if the Florida MIN
rod is descendant of the Munchau-
sen, the mystery of the circular shot can
be explained. The name is an unfortu-
nate one 10 be associated with hunting
episodes in this skeptical age. Pitts
burg Bulletin.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks and her
sister and niece have gone to the White
mountains.
Dan Rice is going into the show bust
ness again with an old-fashioned one
ring circus.
The Empress Eugene is on her way
to Norway, travelling incog. as the count
ess de Pierrefords.
Mrs. Oliphant is making tour of the
Holy Land, and will write book on the
region, the material for which she is Ia
boriously collecting.
General Fremont was the last survi-
vor of the four Major-Generalsa appoint
ed early in the war. They were Free
mont, Mcclellan, Halleck and Wool.
Mrs. P. S. Gilmore, wife of the famous
bandmaster, arranges most of the music
for the band, and in many ways assists
her husband in his professional work.
Chauncey NJ Depew was on hand at
the Stanley wedding, but, go far as heard
from, he was not called upon to make a
speech. This makes the occasion all the
more notable.
Lord Tennyson, though his health has
improved recently, is said to be much
broken by age and illness, and matches
his physical decrepitude by very OBJ
vious mental slowness.
Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the American Min
lister to England, with her daughters,
will leave London for their home in Chi
cago early in August. Mr.. Lincoln will
not take his leave before November.
Theodore Tilton energies from his Par
isian seclusion long enough to remark !:
mo, shall never go back to America
Society there has committed a crime
against me. defended myself and was
beaten" .
The Nizam of, Hyderabad paid $685.
600 for the big Gordon-Orr diamond to
wear in his head-dress. Before cutting
the stone weighed 6715 carets, and after
cutting, 241a carets. 1t is said to be the
best, purest and most brilliant stone
known.
Bowling Bowser, the newly appointed
United States Consul to Sierra Leone, is
an intelligent colored man. and resided
for number of years on the west coast
OF Africa. Since 1875 he has resided in
Hartford, Conn.,, carrying on a hotel
barber shop.
Chauneey Depew was called upon re-
Gently by middle-aged lady, who was
SO delighted by his urbanity that she
impulsively kissed him when she arose
to leave. A reporter who witnessed the
disturbance asked Mr.. Depew whether
he was used to that sort of thing, and
he replied: at is one of the regular
rules of the office"
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson probably
will return to London in October.
About that time he will wind up COM
pletely his affairs in Scotland. He in
tends to sell off his house furniture, car
ry his books with him, and fix his home
permanently in Samoa, His island es-
tate is said to be very lovely, with no
less than six waterfalls on it.
A. A. Stage, the famous Yale athlete
and base ball pitcher, is not going to be
a minister after all. Stage was the man,
it will be remembered, OF whom it was
said that he always prayed for victory
before entering a baseball contest.
Stagg is now retained as athletic expert
by Young Mems Christian Association
and just at present he is organizing a
baseball nine at the Chatauqua Sunday
School Assembly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
ALONG THE COAST.

The formal opening of new mining
stock exchange was celebrated one day
last week.
The Anaconda Company and the Mon
tana Union railroad fixed up a thirty
day truce, and several hundred miners
who were laid off will return to work at
once.
The thoroughbred racer Shiloh, sire OF
Mikado, Tycoon, Reveille and a long list
of others known to fame, died at the age
of 20 years on ranch at Julian, San
Diego county, Cal.
The striking Wellington coal miners
are ordered to vacate their homes by
Judge Harrison of the County Court q
Nanaimo, B. G. A monster parade o.
miners has been held in protest against
the decision, which has caused much ex
element.
Governor Ferry OF Washington has re
fused to accept from the United State,
Government the prison at McNeeley'
island. He says no provision has beer
made for the maintenance of prisoners
and he has no authority to contract TO
their support.
The Anaconda, Mont, Company ant
the Montana Union Railroad are at out
over the payment of the costs of switch
ing. and unless the difficulty is adjustet
both mines and smelters will be COMPEL
ed to close down, and 4, 900 men will b
thrown out of employment.
D. NJ. Ferry, the famous seedman G
Detroit, and c. C. Bowen have made
proposition to build canals on the soutl
side of Salt river, in Arizona, to build
new dam across the river, and to consol
idate the heads of all the canals on tina
side. The undertaking will cost $500,
600, and will furnish great water power
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Carl Tausic. the Pianist

If Carl Tausig had only possessed
the creative gift in any proportion to
genius for reproduction, he would
have been a giant composer. As a
pianist he has never had his equal.
With Listz's fire and Bulow's intellec-
tuallty, he nevertheless transcribed
them both in the possession of a subtle
something that defied analysis. We
see 1t In his fugitive compositions, that
revel on technical heights hitherto
unscaled. Tausig had force, a viril-
ity, combined with mental insight,
that made him the peer of all pianists.
It is acknowledged by all who heard
him that his technic outshone all
others; he had the whispering and
crystalline pianissimo of Joseffy, the
llquidity Of Thalberg's touch, with the
resistless power of Rubinstein.
He literally killed himself playing
the piano; his vivid nature felt so
keenly in reproducing the beautiful
and glorious thoughts of Bach, Bee
thoven, and Chopin, and, like saber
that was TOO keen for its own scab-
bard, he wore himself out from ner-
vous exhaustion. Tausig was many
sided, and the philosophical bent of his
mind may be seen in the few frag-
ments of original music he has vouch-
safed us.
Tausig was child of the Nineteenth
century, full of its ideals, its aimless
strivings, its restlessness, its unfaith
and desperately skeptical tone. If he
had only lived he would have left an
imprint on our modern musical life as
deep as Franz Listz, whose pupil he
was. Richard Wagner was his god
I'll 10 rfrnUa rIE-~I- err fIi,r, .,r,,1 /, -
mighty creations. The woTiu WORTH las as
much to be grateful for to the genius
Of the lamented Carl Tausig. Musical
Courier.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02

There have long been projects Tor
transmitting photographs by tele,
graphic methods. If one may trNs'
recent reports, this scheme has az
tanned success and been brought lnto
practical operation by the French Pr
lice. Photographs, though OF SINAI.
size and in outline only, appear !"
serve the purpose for which they ale
intended, and fleeing malefactors nayS
been identified by these electr1ca[
ly transmitted photographs. -BoS'oD
Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
An Explanation.

The Pail Mall Gazette says that, 81
cording to the statements of the mos
experienced English printers, inc
moisture of the English climate Pre- s
vents the printing Of such fine lllui u
trations in England as those Wnle as
make American books and magazlns'
such masterpieces of the printer s,: an
The dry, clear American air is credl.s.
with at least half the success, OF Ans,
lean prints. This, if true, will exPlan
why the same results have mol 70
obtained in England with the sap''
materials Pittsburg Bulletin =
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
Elevated Railroad Paralysis.

Residents along the lines of the ele-
waited railroads and persons whose
business has brought them on or near
these lines have developed singular
periodicity in intervals of speech as
the result of enforced habit during a
considerable portion of their waking
existence. Involuntarily they cease
speaking, even in the middle Of sen
tence, at the end of each accurately
measured term of four minutes.
Should not their attention be called to
the habit by the remark of others,
they will remain silent for few sec
onds-the length of time an elevated
train ordinarily takes in passing-and
then go on with their speech, unaware
that there has been any break in it.
During those few seconds there seems
to have been entire cessation of
mental action. The interruption is
like wink in steady visual contem-
plation, only that it is little more
protracted The cause of the habit is
the compulsory stoppage of speech, OF
increased effort, during the regularly
recurrent deafening roar of passing
trains. Only portion of those sub.
jected to this influence are affected
by it to the extent described, but
those who are have been noted
in sufficient numbers to call
attention to this new malady o.
the nerves OF action. Instances of its
manifestation among women are in.
frequent-the deduction from which
fact is obvious York Metropolis,