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HOW WE KILL OUR INDUSTRIES

Mr.. w. D. Dimock, the Superin-
tendent of the Canadian Court at the
recent Exhibition, in a letter to q
gentleman in the island, comments
very severely on the manner in which
our oranges are exported to Canada,
and states that the way in which we
pick, handle, and pack our fruit, IS
killing trade in foreign markets,
Mr.. Dimock might have gone further
in his complaints and condemned
wholesale. the manner in which our
coffee and nearly ali our products are
cured, and exported. From practical
experience we can inform our read
ers the modus aperandi pursued in re-
gard to oranges, which will afford a
fair illustration oftne deliberate man
ner we 60 about the killing process.
In the first place the ''pickers'' of the
fruit invariably allow it to fall to the
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LSpectator. 1911 Dsc.l

Mr.. Francis Darwin, the son Of the
great naturalist, has been investiga-
ting the effect ON i%nsectivorous plants
ofsupplying them with, and with
holding from them, animal food.
HE grew two lots of plants under
similar conditions. One lot he fed
with roastmeat, one-fftieth of a grain
being placed on the secreting glands;
while from the other all such ma
terial was carefully excluded. The
results were most marked in the
number and weight Of the seeds.
The number of seeds produced by
the, fed, plants was as 240 to 100
of the unfed ones while the
total weight of the seeds was as
$50 to 100" In other words, the
plants which we've restricted to q
vegetarian diet were invalids com
pared with the plants furnished with
animal food. Should not that do
something towards convincing the We
getarians that their doctrine does
not make for health? tits difficult
to suppose that if there are even
some vegetables which do not flour
ish on a vegetable diet, there can be
anything against Nature in supplying
animals provided with allthe instincts
and organs which appear to point to a
carnivorous diet, with a considerable
proportion of animal food. And we
suppose that the heavier seed would
imply also more fertile seed. At
least it is so with wheat, where the
heavier the grain, the more abundant
is its fertility.
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From the Daily Telegraph Dec. 21,(

Rarely has been recorded a more
fragrant case of gross and gratuitous
insolence to magistrates while in the
exercise Of their duties than that
which occurred yesterday in the Pol
ice-Court of Rheims, before which a
prisoner had been brought on a
charge of theft. When he was asked
his name by the Judge he replied i'm
pudently that he knew it well, as it
was written on the paper before him,
and by way ofanswert to the question,
Where were you born?' he exclaim-
ed, Find out for yourself, old boyr'
Still the magistrate, continuing
his inquiry, went on to ask his trade,
but as the answer was Of an excep-
tionally brutal character, the Public
Prosecutor interviewed with the re-
mark that they would not demean
themseltesby paying attention to in
suits which did not affect them. There
upon the man, taking a crust of
bread from his pocket, flung it at the
head of the magistrate, with the 9
mark, ."As my. insults do not touch
you, fake that" This was more than
human endurance could stand, and
he was condemned then and there to
five years imprisonment.
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ings, was the United States Consul
Mr.. Estes who from his own point of
view knew all the bearings Of the sub
ject better than any other person, and
who it is now shown was entirely
ignorant of the views Of his govern
ment. The telegram announcing the
decision Of the United States Govern
ment came yesterday to His Excel
lency the Governor, and instead Of
the large sum tremblingly anticipated
by our contemporaries the very mo
derate figure Of G25 900 was asked for,
a sum which we think should be CON
ceded without a second thought. 1t
will be remembered that the Cleaner
protested against any heavy conces-
sion being made by Jamaica, as we
we're firmly Of opinion that the ne
cessity for it did not exist, besides
which we we're assured the United
States Government. would recognise
that our tariff. was solely for
purposes Of revenue, and was not a
preferential one. Oar position has
apparently been apprehended by the
United States, and hence the moder-
ate concession we are asked to make.
We opine that the remissions de-
handed are similar to those offered
by Her Majesty's Government to the
United States in 1884 when the duties
levied on such articles as bread, but
ter, cheese, flour, lard, lumber, kcro-
sine oil, etc, were proposed to be
abolished involving a loss of revenue
amounting to GIG, 900. On what
articles the present remission will
tell most heavily is amatter ofspecu-
lation, but we suppose that kerosine
oil will bear the brunt Of the burden
while dairy products will, no
doubt also bear their share. AS it is
necessary that a law should be passed
to give effect to the new arrange
ments which will now obtain, we pre-
sumo hat a meeting Of the Legisla-
tive Council will be called to accept
the conditions placed before us, but,
as the arrangement will not come in
operation until The LIST February, the
Legislature will no doubt postpone
discussing the question until a few
days before that date when the an
nual session will commence. The
Council will haveto consider how the
loss entailed 10y the concession will
be met, but we are Of opinion that the
present revenue derived from u
import duties is so large, and has al
ready proven itselfso elastic, that there
would be no necessity for any addi-
tional duties being levied to make up
the loss 70 revenue, a superstition
which the increasing surplus for the
past several years goes to prove.
HOW WE KILL OUR INDUSTRIES
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ground, with the result that it re
ceives a severe bruise the part where
the immediate confusion takes place
is-rendered susceptible to extraneous
influences, and consequently soon
commences to rot, and it is always the
case thatthis portion is the first to give
way. Again there is no discrimina-
ton used in the asserting Of the fruit,
good from bad;-or small from large
50 that when a purchaser buys a lot
he is unaware Of what exactly he is
getting either in number or quantity.
The great orange producing countries
do not pursue so fatal a policy. The
fruit from Messina, and other coun-
tries in the Mediterranean, and from
Florida is carefully separated and
graded, and each package not only
contains a certain recognised quantity
but the exact number of oranges it
contains, is stamped upon it. When
purchasing therefore, the wholesale
buyer can calculate what he can get
for them retail, and in every way is
better able to Judge Of what is a fair
price for the article. On account Of
the careful name in which they are
picked, handledand packed, they keep
for a much longer period than Jamai-
ca fruit, although it is acknowledged
thatour fruit only requires more care
full manipulation, to make it last
longer than the Mediterranean and
Floridian fruit. With all the advan-
tages attending on proper handling it
is only natural that the latter should
command the markets, and it is
equally a natural sequence that buy
ers should fight shy of the Jamaica
article, the purchase of which inva-
riabIy involves a risk. The remedy
lies in our own hands, for there is no
fault to find with the quality Of our
oranges. They are acknowledged to
possess a finer favour than any other
kinds in the market, and the whole
blame must be attributed to the utter
indifference and lack of skill exhibit
ed by pickers, packers and shippers.
So far as coffee is concerned the re-
sponsibility of flooding the market
with inferior qualities lies on the pur-
chasers in the different coffee centres
Of the island. They are so eager to
obtain the article and SO determined
that their neighbors shall not, that
they even go to the length Of paying
more than its value, they buy up
everything that is broughtto them; all
is fish that comes to their net so long
as they a keep other dealers from
the netting. We have seen purchas-
ers take the bags of coffee from the
heads ofthe negroes, weigh them and
pay for the articles without even
opening the bags, and ascertaining
whether the coffee was cured or not.
All the lots, brought in by growers
from different localities, are emptied
into one common receptacle, and
mixed together, no care being taken
to find out their condition or to sep
arate the various qualities, so that if
one purchase had been damp it
would have affected the entire lot.
The same remarks applied to cocoa
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Troublesome Hoboes.

The following from the Pendleton East
Oregonian shows that the tramp nuisance is
terrible afiictlon to that city:
The hoboes visiting PendIeton at present
are plying their favorite trade of stealing,
with begging as a side issue. L. B. jays
room in the Wheeler building was broken
into about II o'clock Wednesday, his trunk
ransacked, and bedding and clothes stolen.
The robbery was discovered, and the .slift.
er" was soon safely under lock and key.
John Davies, whose room in the old Golden
Rule was entered and suit of clothes stol.
en-, succeeded in capturing the culprit
Near the Sisters school Wednesday fore.
noon, while on his rounds with his express
wagon, he saw, among number of other
''bums, young fellow wearing new suit,
suspiclously like the one stolen. He drove
quickly back to towr, and went out again
with Deputy Sheriff johnson. In the
meantime the tourists had taken flight.
Davies and Deputy Sheriff Haley started
IN pursuit, the former up the main Union
Pacific line and the latter up the Spokane
branch. Dayies came up with the boy with
the suit and an older companion In the
brush about three miles above the agency.
They were not disposed to be taken and he
had to use pistol as persuader. By this
means he brought them back to town with
out difficulty. The thief is youth named
Charles Reding, about eighteen years old.
A hobo or two among the number who late
ly struck the town were placed under ar
rest Wednesday night for vagrancy and
begging.
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Union Scout: A young girl from La
Grande arrived in Union last week and put
up at the Centennial hotel, registering as
Mrs. M. Grant, Portland. She claimed to
be a widow, her husband having died about
three years ago, and that she came here for
her health. One day during the week she
claimed to have had her purse containing
S25 stolen from her room She left the
hotel and stopped for a day or two at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. J: 81. Corbin,
who took pity ON her. One night during
the latter part of the week, however, she
struck out for the depot On foot, and we
understand she is now IN Baker City. From
parties from La Grande we learn that the
girls name is Kennedy and that she is only
16 years of age. 1t Is very evident that
she is not in her right mind or else that she
is beating her way. She never had any
money stolen from her r,,a, at the hotel.
1t is also learned that she is the girl whom
the man Bower, OF La Grande, was so in
fatuated with and who committed suicide
because she would not marry him. 1t
would be we'll for the people of Baker City
to profit by the experience of some of our
citizens.
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College Items.
MoNMouTH. March ID. ls9

MONMOUTH, M arcn IL, 1877.
Editor Es-MoUNTAINEER:
At a meeting of the board of regents in
Salem last week the present o. S. N. s.
faculty were reelected, with the addition
of Prof P. A. Getz, present principal OF
the Ashland public school, and gradu-
ate of the Millersville, Pa, Normal
school. He is well and favorably known
as conductor of institutes. Probably
several more professors will be added to
the faculty.
Weather predictions are now received
by telegraph and displayed from the col
lege flagstaff. Arrangements are being
made to get instruments by means of
which observations will he taken daily.
The Library Association will give an
oratorlcal contest on the evening of March
l6th -Four prizes will be awarded The
occasion promises to be one of extreme
interest.
A three days Teachers District Insti-
tute will be held here beginning March
9th. Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook and
Benton counties will be represented.
A Summer School of Methods will be
opened here July 18th and close August
10th.
Several new pieces of philosophical ap-
paratus have recently been added to the
labratory.
An entertainment given al the opera
house by the Dallas Amateurs on March
10th met with much success.
STITDENT
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Wasco News.

WAsco, Or, March II. 1890.
Editor TIMES -MousrAISEER:
Circuit court mas taken rest.
The judge and attorneys returned to The
Dalles last night.
This term of court was very short. 1t
lasted only three days.
In the case of West VS.. Seely, appealed
from the justice court, the jury found for
plaintiff for a portion of the property sued
for.
In the case Of state of Oregon vs.. j. j.
West, who was recently held to answer to
grand jury, the grand jury found not a true
bill.
Walker, the painter, has just finished
painting the Leslie building 1t is now one
of the best buildings in town.
Wasco is one of the best locations in
Eastern Oregon for business of almost any
kind.
Political schemers are getting in their
work at this time. The Republican pri-
mary is held next Saturday.
One hundred head of cayuses camped at
the livery stable last night en- route to The
Dalles. A Nh. Ralston is, we are told, the
owner. RECORDER.
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BAKING POWDERS.
What the Minnesota state Authorities
Know About Them.

l.. st. Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press.
If there is doubt In anybody's mind as
to the quality of the various baking pow
ders of the market, 1t will be settled by the
| evidence given upon the subject by the
state officials of Minnesota. The dairy and
food commission and the state chemist are
the highest official authorities upon such
subjects in this state, and their evidence
will be accepted as dislnterested and un-
prejudiced. 1t Is their business to examine
the quality of the different food products,
and to suppress the sale of those found i'm
pure and unwholesome, and all will admit
that they have performed their duties with
out fear or favor.
At recent examination by legislative
committee to determine the qualities of the
various baking powders sold in Minnesota,
state chemist and analyst to the food and
Dairy commissioner, DR.. Charles w. Drew,
gave the following evidence:
Ques.-Dr. Drew, see by the report of
the dairy and food commission of this state
that in making analyses of the various bak
ing powders of the country you report an
result of your work that the Royal Baking
Powder contains and gives off in baking
greater per cent of carbonlc acid gas Qeav-
enlng gas) than any other baking powder
made; is that true?
Ans.-Yes, sir; that is fact.
Ques.-Doctor, you also found from ex-
pertinent that the Royal Baking Powder
will keep longer and retain its qualities
better than any other powder made, did you
not?
Ans.--Yes, sir; think it does.
Ques.-Now, the most desirable qualities
in baking powder are the amount of carbon
ic acid gas it contains and gives off and the
length 1t will keep, are they not?
Ans.-Yes, sir.
Ques.-Then the Royal Baking Powder,
possessing these qualities, is the best pow
der made, Is it not?
Ans.-Well, that would be the natural |
conclusion.
Cues. Well, that is the fact, is it not?
Ans.-Yes, think it Is. I consider 1T |
one of the best baking powders made.
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| but he is beyond doubt the same Fore
who killed Dell, and then eluded the Off
GERS in the mountain, where it looked al
most impossible for him to do so. The
capture of this man means the clearing
up of a great mystery, as 1t was consid-
cred bv many at the time of the killing
as very complicated case, and that Fore
was not the only gully one.
Baker City BLade:: A shrewd scoundrel
travelling under the name of H. D.
Brown, and bearing certificate from the
commissioners of the worlds fair, has
been playing a bold confidence game in
various parts of the northwest, and is
now headed this way. He approaches
prominent citizens and states that he has
been instructed to appoint board of ex
aminers for EXHIBITS at the fair, and de-
slres them to become officers of the board.
His commissions and letters seem unim
peachable, and in addition to them he
produces a certified check on bank in
which the worlds fair funds are de
posted. The whole transaction is bold
confidence game to work wealthy men
and the banks, and if the enterprising
operator visits Baker City our people will
do we'll TO heed him not.
Democrat: Recently we mentioned the
arrival in Albany of little machine for
making money. 1t only costs so cents,
and is very innocent in good hands, as it
is In Albany. 1t is simply trick, is
built somewhat like wringer, being ar
ranged 50 that when white paper is put
in good money, previously concealed
under the cloths around the rollers, comes |
out, looking exactly as if the White paper |
had passed through. But it seems that |
the machine Is being used by confidence
men in some places in a very loud man
ner. A short time ago an Ohio man paid
$500 tor one, believing it really made
money. In another state one was sold for
$3.50, and in some places they were dis
posed of rapidly at $25 a piece, showing
what lot of greenies there are in the
xorlc. 1t is probable laws will be passed
against the machines in some states. The
confidence scheme of the machine has
lot reached Oregon; but if 1t does there
will be plenty to bite, one might judge
rom the way every new fake is patron
zad
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Real Estate Transactions.

March l6-Julia Harm to Luckey and
M Fl NIckelsen; lot block 6, second addi.
ton west to town of Hood River; $l75.
March l6-M 81 NickeIsen and Inge
Nickelsen to J Luckey; south IS feet of
lot l block 6 second addition west to town
of Hood River; $50.
March l6-Hood River Townsite com
papy to G Dallas; lot block G first addI-
tion west to Hood River; S363. .25.
March 16-Hood River Townsite COM
pany to Mrs Julia Harm; lot block B, first
addition to town OF Hood River; Sl06.25.
March l6-I E KInnicute to Frank s
Holmes; SCI sec II T2NRl IL east; 5000.
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the afternoon by witnesses and friends of
young Bell. Among those present were
Charlie Bell, the young man who BY chance
was made responsible for the death OF Hen
dersop, Captain Bell, his father, aud Mir.
Henderson, the father of the deai 10y.
Captain Bell and Mr. Henderson nlst ior
the first time yesterday and, although the
meeting took pace under uIrcumstan .es
that filled both with sadness and sorrow,
they conyersed III very friendly manner
for some little time. Captain Bell was per-
haps as much affected as Mr.. Henderson,
and Charlie, while waiting in suspense for
the jury's verdict, could only restrain his
feelings by pacing the sidewalk in hopeful
impatience. The verdict of the jury was
as expected. 1t exonerated young Bell from
any criminal intent, and to that extent NIT
igates the crime, If such it may be called,
in the eyes of the law.
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From Fridays Dairy.

Capt. J. P. Shannon, of Oregon City, is
in The Oalles. He is river captain of
over thirty years experience.
Mr.. Henry Hudson came in from Dufur
today, and he says he never saw fall wheat
appearidg in better condition.
The roads from Eight Mile to this city
are represented in very bad condition, and
should be repaired as soon as possible.
Every evidence exists of activity in build
ing at the East End. Several neat cottages
have been erected, and more are in course of
construction.
Yesterday was a very busy day at the
stockyards in this city, and thirteen car
loads of cattle were received from Idaho
and shipped to Troutdale, and to-day there
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It was not generally known that the rea-
son that Mr.. Carnegie remained over an
hour or more at The Dalles was because he
desired.to construct the steel bridge across
the Columbia to the North Dalles from this
city. We do not cay that he received the
contract, and it, is very probable he did
not; because, we believe, from careful ex-
animation of the matter, that the infant
just born will not live long enough to wit
ness an iron or steel bridge across the Co.
lumbia at this point. Notwithstanding
every resident OF The Dalles knows that
this North Dalles land boom Is the widest,
most nefarious scheme that was ever con-
cocted, yet the unprincipled "boomers"
have recommendations from leading cIti-
zens, and some OF the statements pub
lished regarding this pile of rocks
and sand dunes IN Washington contain
more unblushing falsehoods than ever Baron
Maunchausen attempted to perpetrate.
Chickens come home to roost. and already
The Dalles has suffered In various ways by
countenancing this dishonest land.seling
scheme.
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Bell Exonerated.

The inquest on the remains of Pearl Hen
derson, the boy who died at the close of a
twenty-three round glove contest with
Charlie Bell, near Brookdale, in East Port
land, Sunday afternoon. was held at Coro-
ner Rivers undertaking establishment at 2
o'clock yesterday. These proceedings at
tracted considerable attention, and the
morgue was thronged the greater portion of
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fo.ter DENIES the Charge.

NEW YORK, March 17.-In an inter :
view Secretary Foster said that be never
used the term "fannel mouthed" or
''clsm mouthed Irishmen," as attributed
to him in London. O'Donavan Rossa
called at the hotel to take the secretary
to task about the alleged term, but Fos.
ter refused to see blua.
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NoTICE-TIMBER-c CULTURE.
LAND OFFICE AT THE DALLKs, ORE,

LAND OfflCk AT lHB DAlLks, Ohb,
February %, 1902.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
George McIntosh against thomas j. Hill, for failure
to comply with Law as to timber-cuture entry, No.
1888, dared February 10, 1885, upon the NEA, Sec
20, lip S, IA w NJ, in Wasc0 county, Oregon,
with view the cencella tion of saiG entry;
testant alleging that said Thomas J. Hill mas not
planted any trees. seeds cuttings said tract of
land or caused the same to be done, and that said
failure still exists; th said parties hereby sum-
moned to appear at this oiice the 18th day of
April 1892, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, to respond and fur
nish testimony concerning said alleged failure.
mch5 JOHN w. LEWIS. Register.
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VIENNA, March IA dispatch from
WielIczka, Gallcia, states a conflict oc-
Cured there today between Austrian and
Russian soldiers. Two Russians were
killed. This affair created the most in-
tense excitement among the Russian
frontier guards. 1t is thought to be the
result OF drunken row.
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Letters Advertised,

The following is the list of letters re-
naming in The Dalles postofice uncalled
for, Saturday, March 19. 1892. Persons
calling for these letters will please give
the date on which they were advertised.
Bennett, III Boston, Frank
Duvall, VIM L Huber, r w
Hurd, r G Walker, Mrs Mary
Wall, Mrs Sarah Wheeler, Col
Wilson, F II Wilson. Nellie
Vanordstrand, F A (3)
M. I. NOLAN. P. M.
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Gard of Thanks.

The family of the late Mr.. F. Dehm de-
sire to return their thanks to the many
friends and especially to the members of the
Fire Department, who rendered every aid
possible to the bereaved relatives in their
sad aff1iction,