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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-19

Knocked Out by a Sauerkrant Explosion.
A German living on Potato noun
tain made barrel of sauerkraut and
thought to preserve the aroma of
the fermented cabbage in all of its
freshness by driving both heads of
the barrel tight and mailing down
the bung. Finally he decided that
his kraut was about ripe and went
TO the cellar to examine it. He had
hardly entered the cellar when his
family was startled by a terrific ex-
plosion. Something struck the floor
beneath them hard enough to loosen
the boards, and the air was filled
with the flavor of newly opened
kraut.
The mans wife hurried to the eel
lar, where she found her husband
lying on the floor, his whiskers, hair,
clothing and the ceiling of the cellar
filed with Shreds of cabbage, while
the barrel was in pieces and scat
tered about the room. The man was
unconscious, but recovered soon aft
er being carried up stairs. Hestated
that as soon as he had knocked the
top hoop from the barrel the cask
exploded with the force of a steam
boiler, driving him against the cell
ing so hard that the boards were
loosened. The fermentation had
caused gas to generate, and when he
agitated the stuff by driving the
hoop it let go with the force of an
ignited barrel of gunpowder. oil
City Derrick
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An old Colonial Horror.

At Freehold, N, j., negro was
once executed in manner that would
have made the torturers of the mid
die ages blush with envy. An old doc
ument in the clerks Office at that
place tells the tale; Therefore the
court doth judge that thou, the said
Cesar, shall return 10 the place from
whence thou camest, and from thence
to the place OF execution, where thy
right hand shall be cut off and burned
before thy eyes. Then thou shalt be
hanged by the neck till thou art dead,
dead, dead Then thy body shall be
cut down and burned 20 ashes in a
fire kindled for that purpose, and
may the Lord have mercy on thy
soul
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-19

Mrs, Winks So you have taken
another companion for better or
worse, ehl
NIrs. Second Trip Only for better,
my dear. He can't possibly be worse
than the other one was -LondoE
Punch.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-19
ToDAYis MARKETS.
Prices Current BY Telegraph - Local
a.. : Ortland Quotations.

Prices Current by Telegraph - Local
"a -ortIand Quotations.
SALEM, April 19, 1 p. m.-Ofice
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. Quota
tions for day and up to hour of going to
press were as follows:
SALEM PRODUCE MARKET.
FRUIT.
Apples-S1 to S1.Z5 a bushel.
BUTCHER STOCK.
Veals-dressed Sets.
Hogs-dressed 5.
Live cattle-2 to %.
Sheep-alive $l.5O9S2.
MILL PRICES.
Salem Milling Co. quotes: Flour
in wholesale lots $3.50. Retail $500.
Bran S16 bulk, SIS sacked. Shorts S16
OILS Chop feed $40 and S17.
WHEAT.
39 cents per bushel.
HAY AND GRAIN.
Oats-new 25@27lc.
Hsy-Baled, new IS to $40; old $40 to
IL. Wild in bulk, IS to S..
FARM PRODUCTS.
Wool-Best, 10c.
Hops-Small sale, II to 18c.
Eggs-Cash, l0c.
Butter Best dairy, l5@2O; fancy
creamery 20@224.
Cheese-i2 70 Is cts.
Farm smoked meats-Bacon 81;
hams, IL; shoulders,7.
POtatoes-25@3Oc.
OniOns-3 cents.
Beeswax -34c. Caraway seed, 1Sc.
n'se seed, 26c. Ginseng, $1.40.
LIVE POULTRY.
Iou,try-Hens, &c; roosters, 5@6c;
u1k s; turkeys, slow sale, choice,
live lLc
PORTLAND QUOTATIONS.
Grain. Feed, etc.
Flour-Staudard $2.55; Walla Walla,
81 80; graham, $40; supertine, 1925
per uarrel.
Oats-New white, 33c per bu. grey, ,32c;
rolled, in bags, $575@6.0O; barrels,
S. .O0@6. .25; cases, 1915.
Hay-Best, $l0@12 per tor.
WOol-valley, l09l01c.
Millstuffs-Bran, 81 (GlS; shorts, SIG
OILS; ground barley ,Sl9; chop feed, SIS
per ton; whole feed, barley, 40 cts. per
GENITAL; middling. $23@28 per ton;
chicken wheat. 65@1.O0 per GENITAL.
HOps--New l24 to l84.
Hides-green, salted, 80 lbs. BIC, un-
der 6O lbs, 2@3 sheep pelts, 100000.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter-OregOn fancy creamery, zoe
224c; fancy dairy, l5@l74c;fair TO good,
l24@l5c; common, 10 to l2c per 10.
Cheese Oregon, --; Young
American, 12@ l5cper pound; California
l41@l54c.; Swiss imp, 3O@32; Dom.,
l6@1S.
Eggs-OregOn, 9@lOc per dozen.
Poultry chickens, mixed
&.00 @ 450 per dozen; ducks, 500;
geese, S.; turkeys, live, l4@15c
dressed l6@l7c
Beef-Topsteers, q @3cper pound; fair
ogood steers, 292fc; No cows, PC; fair
Ows, llc; dressed beef, "a 00@5 90 per
Mutton-Best sheep, $2.25; choice
ewes, 81.
Hogs-Choice, heavy, 81 O0@4 25;
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LETTER LIST.

The following letters remaining in
he Salem postofiice April 10, 1894, un-
called for. Those calling for them
please say ''advertlsed.n
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Tho naremster Of the senate.

The movements of the press gallery
overlooking the senate chamber are
doubtless the safest barometer of the
Importance of the doings on the floor
below. If the gallery seats are well
taken up, something is surely tran
spring in the chamber that is worth
watching. If they are empty, the
proceedings are apt to possess no in
terest. The public may be mistaken,
and the visitors galleries may be
overHowing, but the curiosity seek
ers do not possess the delicate in
stinct of foretelling impending crises,
and if the press gallery be empty,
though expectancy be written on ev-
cry face that peers down from the
crowded balconies, no gladiatorial
feats of competing oratory need be
looked for, and disappointment will
overtake him who disregards the
signs. Washington Post.
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Proposals for Wood.

C,EALED BIDS-FOr furnishing wood viii be
. received at the office of the clerk Of school
district No "A until o'clock p. M, on Tues
day May !, 1894. Bids will be opened at the
o'clock p. m. OF said ist day OF May, for the
delivery of wood before september %, 1894 at
the following schools: Lincoln, IL cords oak,
East salem. 20 cords osk. i50 enrds A.. North
Salem, u cords oak, so cords fir; Central, 20
cords fir.
All wood must be feet in length, reasona-
blS straight and corded closely.
The fir must be large or body wood and the
oak must be split oak and not grub wood.
The board reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Done by order OF the board April 3, 1894.
Attest, w. l.. WADE, Chsirman
Board of Directors.
SCOT BJZORTH, District Clerk. "A lmdw
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REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE TICKET.

For GoSarhcr W wp.Lord. of MTioR county
For Secretary OF state-H. X. Kincaid, o
Lane county.
FOR state Treasurer PhIl. Metschan, .
Grant county.
For supreme Judge c. E. wOlvsrtOn, o
Linn county,
For Attorney -Seneral-o. N. IdlemaD, G
Mulfnomah,
For superintendent of Public Instruction.
q. N. Irwin, ~ Union.
For state ernter--w. n. Leeds, OF jackson
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DIST
For Representative ia Congress.
BINGER HERMANN.
THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
For Circuit Judge,
II. "A. Hi WITT. of Linn County.
For District Attorney,
JAS. MCCAIN, Of Ysmhill County.
Member Board OF Equalization,
y. d. GIBSON. OF Polk County.
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FOR YOU!

you your community Act?
We present below the valuable list of premiums for
ubs of the best selling newspaper printed the Coast
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For Circuit 5ud2e,
II. IA. WITT. Of Linn County.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-12
AN INDIANS GREAT FEAT.

From the New York Herald.
Harry kellar, the magician, tells of
a singular feat which he witnessed in
the Rosebud agency. in South Dakota,
several years ago, which was as won
derful in its way as anything related
of the east. Among other things OF
note among the tribe who were pointed
out to the party was a mOrose. rather
fl;.Dby-looking Indian. the high priest,
or medicine man, of the Ogaiialas-
The magician endeavored 10 secure an
interview with him. but the old man
was silent and UnaPprOachable. At
last. after obtaining the friendly IN
tercessions of the chief. Red Cloud. the
party made its way TO the medicine
mans wigwam and drew him forth
1t was evening" said kellar. The
sun had SET. and the Indian village
stood forth in the white light OF full
moon. The medicine man heard or
petition in silence. and then, without
word. took down a beautifuily-fash-
toned bow which hung from his tent
pole. He selected carefully seven nne-
*. finished arrows, the shafts OF which
were % HIfA Gnu N4lf k5f-*~@ va -----
The old man examined ms weapons
closely. and then strobe out on the
prairie short distance, followed lit
tie in the rear By our party. II VAS.
bright moonlight. and Practlced eye
could readily follow his movements
Drawing al arrow 70 the head 81
his bovstriag and looking up mo
ment into the sky. as II 20 locate tire
exact spot which he wished 20 pierce,
he let go the powerful bow be A.
row went swift and strsigh: into the
cir. 50 perfectly perpendicular thai i
seemed as If IN It's return i would a.
most fall upon the very head Of the
archer. We tried IN vain % follow rs
course, and a. we waited Tor the whls-
tie cf The returning arrow T-rcrpil-
bic smile creps over the old mans lace
After waiting several minutes he dis
PATCHED . second shaft after the hrsi.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-12
GODS MADE 30 ORDER,

From the New York " oT4d.
losses come from Annoy and Canton,
where there are joss factories which
supply Celestials with any shape. de-
sign or size desired. Josses are either
male or female. If the former they are
fat and ungainly, if the latter they arc
possessed of four arms.
The making of these images is SIM
plicity itself, the manufacturers relying
upon wooden or metal moulds. These
are filled with wet clay. which dries, is
then touched up, dipped in molten
glaze and allowed to cool. An average
workman can make a hundred gods in
a day. The clay used is kaolin, and is
shaded from red and gray to white.
and costs about one cent pound. \
good joss maker can earn from twenty
TO forty cents a day, while an
image costs TO make on an av-
erage about three cents. Natives
pay five cents for them, foreigners five
dollars. losses can be made in all coli
ors, Opaque, transparent or colorless.
The most effective work is made by
painting the clay with thick white
paint and then dipping it in the glaze.
Chinese curio-dealers are very fond of
antique josses, as they can be planted
and dug up TO order from the time of
Confucius to the present day. The
most popular is the black joss" This
is made by painting a kaolin cast with
paint made of tar. bitumen. shellac or
varnish. wrapping it in paper and then
firing II in a furnace. In this way any
shade of black can be obtained and the
color burns through. as can be proven
by breaking.
The josses carved from wood and
covered with CANDY colors are often
very ancient. The prices vary from a
few cents TO five hundred dollars
or more, according to the size. work
manship and amount of decorations.
They range in size from an inch TO ten
or twelve feet. In the larger sizes the
carving is of a superior quality and the
coloring admirable. Josses carved out
of stone are rare and expensive. Those
made of jade. pale green or light blue,
fetch marvellous prices. while white,
yellow or brown are almost as eXpen-
sive. One of these. belonging to Lin,
the ex-governor of Formosa, Is about
eight inches high and is valued at ten
thousand dollars. 1t is said TO be one
thousand five hundred years old. In
Fuchan they make losses out OF stealite
and selinite of various colors. The
stone is so soft that the manufacturer,
by rubbing the newly made images
with sand, can produce Loost deceDt.
i've antique appearance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Twenty years ago Professionalism
vas practically dead in France. Now
there are So preachers in the Reformed
church. 30 Lutheran, 81 Methodist and
IS Baptist
The Massachusetts, Sunday Protec
tive league has issued an appeal &c
members of bicycling. boating and ath-
letic clubs TO avoid all meets" and
games on the Lords Day.
M. Jean Fieury. the father of
Henry Greviile." the novelist. died re-
Gently. lie was professor of French in
the University of 1T. Petersburg, and
author of book on Rabelais.
AT Moscow new conservatory of
music is now being erected by order Of
the ear The building VIII cost $780,
coo. and viii accommodate about ! 900
pupils Statues OF y. Rubinstein. a
former director. and Of Tschaikowsky.
who long taught there. viii be placed
in the square around the new building.
Sixty years ago the incumbent OF
church in Hun used TO be called Vicar
Brombv. just after the passage OF she
first reform bill. in lsSa, he preached
sermon in which he uttered this whole
some Socratic passage; In these days
we hear q great deal about reform
Let me give you piece OF advice: The
best reform i TO make one person bet
ter need not say who that person
should be a."
Pennsylvania Is contributing its
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REIGN or COMMON PEOPLE

]
We are frequently told by cyaical
l critics that democracy is on its trial.
! but when the democracy demands the
! abolition of standing armies, or urges
a mutual disarmament. IL gives d good
answer To critics of this type. Such
! facts are sufficient in themselves to en-
| able us to contrast the blind and stag
| nant selfshness of callous autocracies
with the advance possible under
broader forms of government which
/ stimulate the progress of our race by
putting the destinies of humanity in
to its own hands. We have in
such expressions of the popular
voice an evidence of growing
sense of moral and intellectual
self-respect among the common people
Of the nations of the world. We are
coming TO the time when the peasant
and the artisan will inquire into the
merits of Il quarrel in which they are
ordered to sacrifice themselves. They
may refuse to stand up to be shot down
without asking questions, and not be so
easily led away by appeals TO that
spurious patriotism which has ever
been the device by means of which am
bilious monarchs and willy statesmen
have sought to make their quarrels
those of communities. Hitherto we
have had democracy in name rather
than in fact. The way in which the
sayings and doings of monarchs and
statesmen are chronicled by the press;
the manner in which such people have
been allowed to act without question
upon affairs of the gravest concern TO
humanity; the extent to which they
have been able TO count upon the sup
port of the people in any war they
might resolve upon; the levity often
shown by them toward the interests of
the people-witIfOut whose support the
most powerful among them would be
reduced to the level of common clay
in such matters we have proof of the
extent to which we are still governed
by men whose chief claim to govern
often consists of the fact that their an
cestors did the same thing before them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-12
COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.

Re-afirming Tho Republican national pat
form of 1892
fsp, of our party is ia Itself a guaranty 10 Jht
nation that the Interests OF MS dSit tei n
their widows and orphans, VIII be LIBERAL
cared for and we denounce their cruel and
deliberate betrayal by the present Democratic
administration. -, ?, ,,.
second: We adhere TO the RepubIcan
toctrine of protection, and believe that lariu
laws SHOULD protect the products Oh tine l'i III
es well as of the factory.
Third: The American people favor d.
mefallism and the republican party demands
the use Of both gold and silver as standard
money with such restrictions and under
guch PROVISIONS TO he determined oy Ieglsi a
tion as will secure the maintenance OF the
rarity of Va ,ues of the two metals, and that
The purchasing aud debt paying power or the
dollar. whether OF gold. silver or paper, slaii
be at all times equal. The interests OF the
producers of the country, It's farmers ana ltS
working men demand that the mines De Open
ed 10 the coinage OF tie silver OF the mime
of the United States. and that congress should
enact a iaw leVying a tax on lmportaflons OF
foreign silver sufficient to iully protect Tie
products of our own mines.
Fourth: We favor national ard state IeSls-
lation for the encoui ageIneht OF irrigation.
Fifth: We tlenOunce the present state adj
ministration for Is violation of the laws and
contempt of the courts. the Corruption and
1ncompetency of its officials, liz gross mis-
management of the state Institutions, ana
Ter the discredit it has brought upon the
tosd name of the state. And we pledge the
Republican parfy and the nominees of this
convention TO a faithful and economical dis
charge of all official duties and 10 strict
observance and an honest enforcement 81 the
laws and to obedience TO tue mandates oil the
courts.
pies we invite the support OF all patriotic
citizens.
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in exactly the same manner and toward
exactly the same point. We waited in
suspense and still there was no indica-
ton of the return OF either.
The third. fourth, fifth and sixth
shafts were drawn from his culver and
dispatched at intervals When he had
shot them all the medicine man IN
strung his bow and leaned upon it
thoughtfully. A glance at my watch
showed me that fully fifteen minutes
had elapsed since he had shot the first
arrow. and not one OF them had re-
turned to earth so far as ! could tell.
We waited five minutes more, and the
old man returned to his tepee.
Il followed, but the old man had dis
appeared. | waited for long time,
hoping that through the use Of money
/ could obtain his secret. But he did
not return any more than did his mys-
terious arrows. The only explanation
/ could ever give for this really re-
markable performance was one sug-
gested TO me by a friend. The Indians
have long known the existence of mag
netic iron ore, and have used their Sc
cret among themselves for the per-
Torrance of number of feats. Ny
friend suggested that the hollow cen
ter pole OF the medicine mans tepe was
made of magnetic iron, and that the
old man was an archer of such Won
derful accuracy that he was able to d.
rect his shafts one after another. so
that upon their return to earth. unseen
in the pale moonlight. they buried
themselves in the ground, at the bot
tom of the center pole, swerved. ii
might be, few inches by the magnetic
attraction.
unfortunately this suggestion was
made to me after my opportunity for
examination had gone by, and the old
archer'S performance is still to me a
profound mystery. There is nothing
very improbable though in the sugges-
tion. provided that no wind was blow
ing at the time. / have seen Indian
archers at a long distance drive an ar
row into mark and then split this az
row with a second repea. edly."~
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The town of Polk is situated on the four
corners of 2, o. l., X. counties.
1t is now said that work will begin on
the ChOctaw road November l.
Big crowds have attended the Guthrie
fair which is being held this week.
The next sale of military reservation
lots at Oklahoma City will occur Nov. s.
a company of soldiers arrived at Fort
Sill yesterday. They We're from San Diego
California.
Ralph Beaumont is clear out of the race
IN Oklahoma. 1t looks more like Dennis
Flynn every day.
IL is pretty late in the day but the Pond
Creek News announces that Breckenridge
got there. That is news.
Will Little, the newspaper man, has
been nominated for the lower house by the
Republicans of p county.
w. A. Scott has been nominated for
representative by the Republicans of Lin
coin and Fottawatomie counties
An Alva woman recently refused to take
a dose of Paine's celery compound on the
ground that Tom Paine was an infidel.
Larsen, who escaped from the Oklahoma
City Jail with Vic Casey, is back In his old
quarters. He was captured in Missouri
Judge A. r. Museller is running for of
flee at Perry and stirring the Republicans
up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
lie is an orator
In Canadian county the Democrats have
nominated Hon. W. w. Bush for the
council and Major Simpson of FL Reno and
I IF fop
tives.
1t is pretty certain tina. if 10. WHISKY
could get that man who interrupts his
speeches with "What about Hoke Smith,"
out alone some where he would tell him
about Hoke privately.
The prisoners in the Jail at Guthrie had
planned an escape the other night but
were discovered in time They had cut
the bars aud had bottle of aqua forts
to make the cut look Old again.
Burke and Brown, the two editors of
Oklahoma City who were SO long side
partners, are now fighting each other.
There appears to be something bad about
the atmosphere of Oklahoma City.
There is one thing that St. Peter will not
forget when the Oklahoma editors appear
at the pearly gates. They will have 10
give an explanation for the way they fooled
their readers with that advertisement
headed: How editors are tEAated IN
China"
There i strange coincidence in the
Affections that have recently been visited
upon Mr.. aud Mrs. q. II. Wilson of Deep
Fork. just three years 10 the DAY before
his son VIII was killed, younger son
was killed by an accident at Deep Fork.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Wilson's brother,
Rev. Il. ). St Clair of El Reno, dropped
dead in his chair, and a couple of weeks
prior TO that another brother passed way
IN a similar manner.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-12
DO YOU KNOW
I5S North Main Street.

haunts. habits. and even individual
ties; TO wait for the harvesting with
a hope not untinged with uncertain
ty-for the covies NAV as prob
ably betake themselves % a ground
twenty miles away as not-that j.
hunting. And when the shoot
ing comes, be il among the swamps of
Massachusetts,. New Hampshire or
Maine, or in the wilds .of the Adiron-
dacl1s. there will be no battue, no
brutal slaughter of the innocents. A
few, enough for timely and generous
spread, Will be drawn from the bounty
of nature. and the WAYS of the rest viii
be kept a sacred secret.
The woodcock man, more, perhaps,
than any other, is given 10 this noting.
more or less careful, according TO op-
portunity, OF particular spots and their
possibilities 10 the way of his favorite
sport. The Florida going gunner look,
confidently forward 10 a shy AZ mis- IA
vorite during the winter. They are
numerous there, living along the edges
of the many lagoons that cot hat land
of sand and mudholcS-