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E VAST GOLD FIELD Discovery in Clondyke Dis trict Causes a Rush. t'KW MEN AND HIGH WAGES PAID tlinated to IS Thirteen Miles lu Ex tent Million Taken Out In Few Work!. San Francisco, July 19. A story rivaling in intensity of interest that told of tlie fabulous wealth of Monte Cristo was related by passengers on the little steamer Excelsior, which ban just arrived from St. Michael's, Aluska.' Millions upon millions of virgin gold, according to the story, await the fortu nate miner who has the hardihood and courage to penetrate into the unknown depths of tho Yukon district. There was tangible evidence on the little steamer of the truth of the story told by the travelers, for in the cabin were scores of sacks tilled to the very mouth with "dust" taken from the placers of the far frozen North. The amount brought in is variously estimated at from $500, 000 to 1750,000. There came in on the Excelsior some 40 people among them some women from what is now known as the Clon dyke district, though only 15 of these hud been actually engaged in mining. There were among them men who had been for more than 10 years faoing the dangers and hardships of the frozen North in the hope of making a rich find but who signally failed. But now they come back with fortunes stowed in their gripsacks and "untold millions to be picked up in the country of which so little is known. The new Eldorado lies just across the Aaskan boundary in British territory. It is of recent discovery, but already there are at leant 3,000 people on the ground and more are flocking in that direction as fast as transportation can be secured. The discovery of the Clondyke region presents a story that is uniquely inter esting. Around Forty-Mile, on the" Yukon, is a tribe of Indians known as the Stickers, and with them is a man who years ago was known as George Cormack, but who is now called "Stick George." In September last at the head of a party of Indians, he left his hut near Forty-Mile camp and started in a southerly direction, saying that he intended to find a new gold field before his return. He came back two weeks later and startled the miners with the announcement that 40 miles away there was gold to be found in plenty. The streams abounded with the yellow . metal, and all that was needed was for somebody to pick it up. Many persons flocked to the place, and in time the word reached Forty Mile camp that untold riches could be found along the bottom of Bonanza oreek and its tributaries. Men who had failed at the former camp imme diately packed their belongings and set out for the new fields. It was a hard and trying journey, but that was noth ing compared with the promise of mil lions at the end of the route. The following is an extract from a letter received by the Excelsior. It was sent from the Clondyke region by a prominent and wealthy young busi ness man of San Francisco to his brother in this city: "The excitement on the river is in describable, and the output of the new Clondyke district is almost beyond be lief. Men who -had nothing last fall are now worth a fortune. One man has worked 40 square feet of his claim and is going out with $40,000 in dust. One-quarter of the claims are now sell ing at from $15,000 to $50,000. The estimate of the district, given is 13 miles, with an average value of $300, 000 to the claim, in which some are valued as high as $1,000,000 each. At Dawson sacks of dust are thrown under the counters in the stores for safe keep ing. "Some of the stories are so fabulous that I am afraid to repeat them for fear of being suspected of the infection. "Labor is $15 a dav and board, with 100 days' work guaranteed, so you can imagine how difficult it is to hold em ployes. If reports are true it is the biggest placer discovery ever made in the world, for though other diggings have been found quite as rich in spots, no such extent of discovery has been known which prospected and worked so high right through." AN OFFENSIVE ALLIANCE Spain and Japan Again Said to Be Com bining Against the United State. London, July 19. A Paris dispatch to a newspaper here says that inquiry at the American embassy there has elicited a confirmation of the rumor that the governments of Spain and Ja pan have arranged an offensive alliance against the United States. The terms of the undertaking, which is for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii, provides that in the event of aggressive action on the part of the United States, tending toward interference in Cuban affairs, or persistence in the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, both Spain and Japan shall declare war simultane ously against the United States, and filial 1 make hostile demonstrations along Loth the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines 5 Tln-Flate Work Shot Don. Cleveland, July 19. The Crescent tin-plate works closed in every depart ment this morning. The heaters re fused to go to work, and without them it was impossible to operate the mill. Tbe company decided to shut down in definitely. Cat Ber Children' Throat. London, July 19. Emma Symonds, wife of an engine-fitter, cut tbe throats of her four young children, and then tier own last night COAL AND OIL TO BURN. Company Organlted to Develop Re venlljr Discovered Alaakan Fluid. . Seattle, Wash., July 19. Tho Alaska Development Compauy was organized today, to develop the coal and oil fields recently discovered in Southeastern Alaska by K. C. Johnson, of Los Oa to, Cal. The report made to the company by Mr. Johnson and T. J. Hamilton, of this city, the experts who made a thorough examination of the property, shows that, the discovery is really the moht wonderful find tho world has ever known. The oil fields are located within a few hundreij feet of tidewater, 350 miles west of Juneau. The statement is made in good faith that the oil is dripping directly from the oil rock and, in places can be dip ped up in buckets, while the surround ing coal beds are inexhaustible. Thirty thousand feet of pipe has al ready been ordored from PittHburg, and as soon as received here a steam schooner will be chartered to carry it and take material to the place of the discovery, A prominent oil man has given a guarantee of all the capital necessary to build a refinery there as soon as may be necessary to handle the prod uct. The oil is pronounced of the best quality ever seen and the quantity U unlimitod. IN HAVANA PROVINCE. The Cuban Patriot Are Still Marching Westward. New York, July 19. A Herald dis patch from Havana says: The inva sion of Havana province by insurgent forces on their march westward is now an accomplished fact. The local pa pers are prohibited from publishing even accounts of "official" victories in that province, the object being to dis credit the news of unusual activity. General Weyler may suppress news, but he cannot couveniently hide wounded soldiers, and these keep coin ing in. . The Herald's correspondent at Ma tanzas writes that Colonel Alvarez Ar mandez, with TO men, was completely routed July 11, near Jaguey Grande, by the insurgent General Carillo. The Spanish lost 20 killed and about the Bame number wounded. During the fight 25 of the Spaniards deserted and went over to the insurgents. A report is current and generally be lieved in Matanzas that the insur gents have attacked and partially burned Cardenas. There are fully 5,000 rebels in the vicinity of Matanzas and Cardenas. General Weyler has not sucoeded in capturing Gomez, and has evidently given up the idea, for he has left Sancti Spiritus and is now at Cienfue gos on his way back to Havana. THREE WERE DROWNED. A Scow Ooe Over a Dam With Fatal Kesult. Manchester, N. H., July 19. Five young men employed in Baldwin's bobbin shop ventured out on the swollen Piscaquog river in an old scow without oars, depending for the guid ance of the boat upon a man with a board. The rains of the last two days had caused a flood and the river was a raging torrent. The men were unable to control the old hulk and in a short time it was swept over the dam, the occupants in their efforts to prevent this 'losing the board they used for paddling. When the boat went over the dam it fell bot tom upward with the men" beneath it. Three got clear, but only two ' were able to reach shore, and, although the other man was an expert swimmer, he was drawn under by the strong ourrent. The drowned were: Frank Simmard, Joseph Lavoi, George Tirrien. They were all single. Thomas Tir rien and William Lavoie were swept close inshore, and by hard swimming got within reach of those who had gathered along the bank, and were dragged out. THE DAY IN CONGRESS. Pacific Railroad AfTalr Are Discussed in the Senate. Washington, July 17. Paciflo rail road affairs occupied the attention of the senate throughout the day, and the Harris resolution relating to the pend ing proceedings against the Union Pa cific finally went over. Early in the day, Stewart and White indulged in sharp personalities in connection with the contest over the San Pedro deep water harbor. The joint resolution was passed, accepting the invitation of France to participate in the Paris expo sition of 1900. Stewart moved a reconsideration of the action of the senate in passing the resolution directing the secretary of war to proceed in the construction of a breakwater at San Pedro, Cal. It re opened the long-standing controversy over the location of a deep-water har bor on the coast, and a long and excit ing debate between Stewart and White ensued. In the Home. Washington, July 17. No business was transacted by the house today. Immediately after the journal was ap proved a recess was taken on Cannon's motion until Monday, Cannon having given assurances to Bailey that, in hia opinion, a partial or complete confer ence report of deficiency bill would be ready by that time. s General Forsythe' Petition. Washington, July 19. General George A. Forsythe, U. S. A. (retired), is the author of a remarkable petition, which was presented to the house of representatives yesterday by Mr. Bel knap, of Illinois. The petition prays the bouse-to strike the sugar schedule from the tariff bill The most scathing arraignment of the sugar trust thus far made before congress is conveyed in the statements set forth by General Foreytbe in support of his prayer. OFF FOR THE POLE. Professor1 Andree Start on III Balloon Vuyuge. Tromsoe, Island of Tromsoe, Fin mark, Norway, July 19. The steamer hventkuud, from Spitsbergen, reports that Herr Andree, the aeronaut, ascended in his balloon on Sunday after noon, at 2:30. The at-eent was made under favorable circumstances. As the wind conditions were more favorable on Sunday morning than they had preivously been, the order was given that the start should be made as quickly us possible. The preparations occupied three and a half hours. The balloon, which was christened the Eagle, made a successful ascent amid the shouts of the crowd which had gathered to witness its departure. Despite tho lightness of the wind, the balloon rose rapidly until an altitude of about 600 feet had been attained, when it was forced down nearly to the surface of the sea. ' After a few sandbags had been thrown out, however, it again ascended. Tho weather was clear, and the Eagle was visilbe for an hour, traveling in a north-easterly direction. When last seen, it was moving at the rate of 22 miles an hour. Andree' taut Word. Stockholm, July 19. The Aflom bladet has received the following tele gram from Herr Andree, via Tromsoe, written just before the balloon was cast loose: "In accordance with ouidecision, as was announced, at 1:35 in the morning preparations were made a start; and now, at 2:30 in the afteiuoon, we are ready to ascend. We sliall probably be carired in a north-easterly direction. 1 hope gradually to get into regions with more favorable wind conditions than exist hero. "In the name of all my colleagues, I send our warmest greeting to our coun try and friends. ANDR15E." King Oscar has received a telegram, dated Vorges Bay, July 11, and signed "Andree," convoying the humblegreet iugs and wannest thanks of the mem bers of the expedition on the point of their departure. The Aeronaut' Preparation. Professor S. A. Andree expects, should all go well, to reach the north pole by balloon. He planned ts make his first attempt in July, 1896. The balloon and all material necessary for the ascent were taken to Spitzbergen, and everything was made ready; but, on account of unfavorable conditions, )t was found necessary to postpone tbe trip until this year. PAID THE PENALTY. John Newman, Alia Frank Butler, I Hanged at Sydney. Sydney, N. S. W., July 19. John Newman, alias Frank Butler, convicted of the murder of Captain Lee Wei lor, in the Blue mountain district, in 1896, was hanged here yesterday. He broke down at last, the remarkable stoicism which he had exhibited since his arrest in San Francisco lust February giving way, and he confessed his guilt of this as well a; other shocking crimes. He admitted that his right name was John Newman, and that he was born of good family in Staffordshire, England, in 1858. He professed the profoundest penitence for his misdeeds and at the last moment willingly received the re ligious consolation usually offered the condemned. The execution was effectted without incident. Few spectators were admit ted, those present being principally officers of the court and attendants di rectly concerned in carrying out the law's decree. The ease is one that has excited in tense interest thioughout the colonies, and great satisfaction is expressed in the thorough work performed by the detectives in securing evidence leading not only nthe capture of Newman, but bis speedy conviction and execution. Mew. Fish for the Coaat. San Francisco! July 19. A consign ment of fish new to this coast, and of orabs, arrived this morning from tbe East. They are sent here by direction of Commissioner Brice, of the United Slates fish commission, and are en route in car No. 3, of that branch of the government. The fish are the tautogs, and are to be planted on the reefs of the Pacific ocean nuar the Far allones, while the crabs, which are of the blue shell variety, and tmknows on this coast, will be consigned to the waters of the bay, bnt in a spot to be kept secret in order to give them time to acclimate themselves and multiply and spread before they fall into the nets of the local fishermen. Run Down by a Train. Austin, Tex., July 19. This morn ing at 2 o'clock a freight train in the International & Great Northern rail road yards ran over four white boys, all of Fort Worth, who were sitting on the track asleep, killing three of them instantly and badly wounding the fourth. The killed are: Jonh Bridges, Charles Sweeney, K. L. Montgomery. The injured boy was Henry Estis. The train ran over the boys as it came into the yards. On leaving it an hour later a negro named L. F. Cox, of Waco, who attempted to grab a brake bar to steal a ride, lost bis hold and fell under the cars, being mangled into an unrecognizable pulp. A Corner In Cycle Tablng. London, July 19. There is great ex citement on the Birmingham stock ex change owing to the belief that there is a corner in cycle tubing. There bas been a heavy advance in prices and sev eral speculators have been badly pinched. A bee is never cauhgt in the rain, and you will notice that ant, wasps and spiders will prepare their nests against the coming of a storm many hours in advano- NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cltlf and Town of the Thriving Slater State Oregon. One hundred teachers registered at the recent summer school at Pendleton. It is thought the salmon pack at As toria this season will exceed 650,000 cases. Henry Anderson Humstod, a steve dore, was found dead in a scow on the Willamette river at Portland. A wagon loaded with mining ma chinery turned over on Harry Weaver near Olalla, fatally crushing him. G. L. Wood, of Ockley Green, near St. Johns, committed suicide by swal lowing the contents of a two-ounce bot tle of morphine. The present year's wool clip of Umatilla county has nearly all been disposed of and the buyers have left for other fields. At Susanville two robbers bound and gauged a Chinese merchant and stole from him (400 in oash and a large quantity of gold dust. It is estimated that Umatilla county will harvest nearly, if not quite, 6,000, 000 bushels of wheat this year. This, at 50 cents a bushel, will bring $2,600, 000. The Independence and Dallas Hop growers' Association have Agreed to pay 30 cents a box for picking'. The Day ton association will pay 30 cents a box, or 60 cents per 100. The Portland Horse Packing Com pany, whose plant is located at Linn ton, has received an order for 5000 bar rels of cured horse meat from dealers in Paris, prance, and the order is now being filled. In Linn county there are 71 churoh organizations, 45 church edifices with a seating capaoity of 13,845; 21 halls, with a seating capaoity of 1,165; valu ation of church property, $117,276; number of communicants, or members, 8,495. The superintendent of the state peni tentiary has filed bis report for the quarter ending June 80 with the secre tary of state. It shows there were 850 convicts at the close of the quarter, an increase of three over the preceding quarter. During the quarter 46 were received, 44 discharged, and one re captured. On the trial of the case of Ilartin vs. the Southern Paciflo in Roseburg, last week, it developed . that there was no law in this state requiring that engines should whistle at crossings. But the ruling of the court is that in order to reduce the dangers of crossings to a minimum ' approaching trains should give proper warning. Washington. Everett has 1,255 children of school age, a gain of 206 over last year. The oapaoity of the Cheney roller mills is being increased from 80 to 150 barrels of flour a day. Mrs. C. L. Myers owns the largest hay ranch in Lincoln county, between 6,000 and 7,000 aores. At the potlatch on the Chehalis res ervation the Indians treated their white visitors to a olam bake. Tbe supreme court has granted the petiton for a rehearing in the case of ex-Treasurer J. W. McCauley, of Taco ma. It is estimated that the wheat crop of Adams county will average 40 bush els per acre. Harvest hands are in de mand. The old courthouse block at Sprague, together with the buildings, have .been sold and turned over to a Methodist college. Mrs. Flora Fife, wife of Colonel W. J. Fife, a well-known theatrical and military man, died suddenly inTacoma of typhoid pneumonia. Chauncey Lamb, who was injured by a horse and carried from Florence, Ida ho, to Colfax, on a stretcher, died in Colfax after intense suffering. The Goldendale telephone wire bas been successfully strung across the Columbia, and that city is again con nected with the outside world. The three Simpson camps on the Kamilchie road, in Thurston county, got out 65,000,000 feet of logs from June, 1896, up to June of this year. Dr. Blalock, of Walla Walla, an au thority on fruit raising, says pears should be picked a week to 10 days be fore fully ripe, for commercial ship ment. Captain Matthews, who is now build ing in Hoquiam a three-masted schoon er, has just returned from San Francis co witli a contract to construct a steam schooner at once for Captain Kimball, of San Francisco. A bundle of the ballots tliat were stolen in Tacoma, after the city elec tion, mysteriously reapeared the other day. The bundle was found on Con troller Benham's desk, but no one knows how it got there. Sam Lash says that he was waylaid and robbed of $180 cash while near Shilnh. The robbery was in broad daylight, being about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Alexander Fraser, who served through the Crimean war, was found dead in his cabin in Everett. He was sitting in an easy chair, with his clothes and hat on, clutching a revolv er, which was recognized as bis own He had placed the weapon close to the middle of his forehead and pulled the trigger. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins & Company' Review of Trade. Thore was much activity in the Chi cago market during the past week. There was u temporary advpnee in July wheat of 6 Cbnts per bushel, but the end of the week shows a tendency to sell out on the confident assertions that the present week will see a good begin ning of the movement of new wheat to market. There is no indication that the do mauds from the milling interests will be suffioient to head off any great quan tity of it as the flour trade is appar ently calling for lessened rather than increased production. It therefore re mains with the farmer to say whether or not he will sell now or at some time in the future. The developments of the last few days lead the trade to be lieve that there will be the usual lib eral marketing of wheat almost direct from the harvester. Looked at in the broad sense, however, the wheat mar ket is in a strong position the world over, and the ooming twelve months should see a higher price level than the last twelve. America should take a more than usually prominent part in the trade of the year, as the present crop promises to be not only the finest qual ity but relatively larger than that of any other country. The government figures on production issued July 10, are practically ignored by the trade. They indicate a crop nearly 40,000.000 bushels less than the most radical in the trade will estimate. The weak point in the report is the notoriously inaocurate figures on area. No one in the trade will seriously entertain the proposition that Oklahoma has but 200,- 000 aores in wheat this year. The London Times of recent date Fays: "The prospect of the harvest in Eastern Europe are disquieting indeed. In Austria and Hungary and along the whole line of the Danube the harvest will be bad. Immense tracts of own fields in Servia, Bulgaria and Boumania have been laid under water by destruc tive floods, and what water has Bpared, rust has greatly injured. So bad, in deed, is the prospect that Austria and Hungary, instead of exporting wheat will have to import it. At any rate it is clear that the wheat supply from the Danube is likely to be exceedingly small, if not altogether wanting this season. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 65c; Valley, 68c per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3. 60 3.60; graham, $3.25; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. 1 Oats Choice white, 88 40c; choice gray, 87 39c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $16 16.50; brewing, $18 19 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $13.50 per ton; middlings, $21; shorts, $16.60. Hay Timothy, $11 14.; clover, $11.6013; California wheat, $10.50 12; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. - Eggs 14 16c per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 8540o; fair to good, 80c; dairy, 25 30c per roll. Cheese Oregon, llo; Young America, 12'c; California, 9 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $33.60 perdozen;broilers, $1.608.50;geese,$2 3.60; ducks, $2.50(13 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10llo per pound. Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks, 86 45c per sack; new potatoes, 60o per sack. Onions California, new, red. 90o $1; yellow, $1.25 per cental. Hops 9 10 a per pound for new crop; 1898 crop, Gc. Wool Valley, ll18c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 79c; mohair, 20c per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 22c; dressed wntton, 4o; spring lambs, 6 per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4; light and feeders, $2. 50 3; dressed. $3 4.25 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 76 8; cows $2.25; dressed beef, 4 6)0 per pound. Veal Large, 8; small, 44$o per pound. Seattle Market. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 18c; ranch, 1012o. Cheese Native Washington, 10 llo; California, 9c. Eggs Fresh ranch, 1718o. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10llo; spring ohickens, $2 3.60; ducks, $2.503.76. Wheat Feed wheat, $25 per ton. Oats Choice, per ton, $21. Corn Whole, $20; oraoked, per ton, $20; feed meal, $20 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $19; whole, $18.50. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 6o; cows, 5Jc; mutton sheep, 6c; pork, 6c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4Jfc; salmon, 46c; salmon trout, 710c; flounders and sole, 84; ling cod, 45; rook cod, 6o; smelt, 24ic San Francisco Market. Wool Choice foothill, 912cj San Joaquin, 6 months' 810c; do year's staple, 7(89c; mountain, 10 13c; Ore gon, 10 13c per pound. Hops 812e per pound. Millstuffs Middlings, $t821; California bran, $14 14.60 per ton. HayWheat, $11.60; wheat and oat, $7 10.50; oat, $7 9; river barley, $56; best barley, $68; alfalfa, $55.50 clover, $68. Potatoes New, in boxes, 60$1. Onions New red, 70 80c; do new silverskin, 80$1 percental. Fresh fruit Apples, 2080e per small box; do large box, 80 60c Boysl apricots. 25 50c common cherries, per box; currants, $1.00 1.26 per chest; peaches, 25 60c; pears. 80 ( 40c; cherry plums, 20(3 40c per box. BULLET HOLE IN HIS HEART. Thus Wounded, This Man Live, Defy Ing Nature' Law. Chicago, July 19. Charles B. Nel son, who, -while in Washington Parte n the night of July 1, in company with Mrs. Edith M. Staples, was shot in the breast, expects to learn soon if he is carrying around a heart with a bullet hole bored through it. He sub mitted to the X-rays for two sciagraphs last night, in the hope of locating the bullet fired into his chest on that night. The sciagraphs seem to indicate that the ball cut through the heart on the shortest and most direct line, to lodge near the spine, but they are not quite conclusive. When he was brought to the Chicago hospital the surgeons said ho was shot in the heart and was doomed to death. He surprised them by promptly getting better and he was well enough yesterday to go to Wash ington Park and try to locate tli clump of bushes near which he and Mrs. Staples were sitting when he wag shot. When the photographio plates were developed a person was able to see traces of the bullet. One of the platen showed the bullet in line with the junction of the spine and the ninth rib. The other indicated it was baok of the junction of the fourth riband the breast bone. These two points are in a direct line from chest to baok. It is the opinion of the specialist, judging from the density of the ballet spots in.the negatives that the bullet was lodged about two inches in front of the spine. If that is so. and the ball traveled in a straight line, it must have gone through the heart. If it did not go through the heart, how did it got around the heart and reach its present location? That Is what troubles the surgeons. Nelson's heart is direct ly back of the entrance of the bullet and surgeons say the bullet oould not have gone in direct line without pierc ing the heart. The sciagraphs indicate that the ball was not deflected. It will require another sciagraph showing a lateral view of the patient's chest to determine whether the bullet has passed through the heart or not. If it proves to be baok of the heart, the mystery will be greater than ever. When Nelson was brought to the hospital and his wound was probed he lost a pint of blood. The surgeons were satisfied his heart was pierced and said he had but a short time to live. When he began to recover they con cluded that the bullet had pierced the pericardium, the sack enveloping the heart, and dropped, perhaps, to the bottom t)f the sack after bruising the heart. The sciagraphs indicate that the bullet did not ' drop, but went straight ahead in its course, after bor ing its way through the breast bone. In taking the sciagraphs, Nelson wa exposed to the waist, revealing a round hole in his chest with traces of blood" about the orifice. He sat in front of the apparatus in a small room at the hospital, with his chest to the Crooks tube and the photographio plate fas tened to his back. Several surgeon and white-capped nurses were in the room. The patient held a bit of cloth to his ohest to cover the gaping bullet hole. His body had been smeared with cocaine to lessen the irritation and be declared he felt no pain, only a prick ing sensation. For several minutes the company si lently watched and listened. Then tbe patient was turned around and the doc tor held another plate to his ohest for four minutes. Nelson said he felt no pain either from his wound of from the X-ray. WILL BE NO STRIKE. So the Fishermen In Astoria Have Devilled. Astoria, July 19. There will be no strike of the fishermen this season. This waB decided npon at the meeting of fishermen held today for the purpose of discussing the aotion of the cannera in reducing the price of fish to 8 cents. Only a few men went fishing last night, pending the aotion of the meeting, whioh was largely attended. The situ ation was thoroughly discussed, and it was decided to take no action, bnt to let tl e men do as they choose -fish or refuse to fish. By this decision, the Fishermen's Union cannery will pay hut 8 cents. From the indications tonight it is likely nearly all of the men will fish and make the best of the situation. Some, however, say they will not work for 8 cents, but that they will salt their fish. The action of the anion is heartily indorsed by business men. Will Secure the Iron Work. Port Angeles, Wash., July 19. Ar rangements were perfected today by which the city will get the Pittsburg iron, steel and tinplate works, whose organizatioq was reported in the Pitts burg dispatches several months ago. John Cain, representing the Pennsylva nia syndicate, submitted their proposi tion to the citizens of Port Angeles, and deposited a certified check for a substantial sum as evidence of good faith. At a meeting of the citizens to night, the agreement was signed. Port Angeles furnishes a site for the works and an additional real estate bonus 'of $50,000. The Pennsylvania company agrees to begin work within ninety days, and will employ from 400 to 700 men. The plant will be the pioneer mill of the kind on the Pacific coast. Mlaaoari's Frnlt Crop. St. Louis, Jnly 19. The Republic says today: The fruit crop of Missouri this year is roughly estimated to be worth $20,000,000, and many wha ought to know what they are talking about say these figures are too low. The importance of this crop may be better understood when it is stated that it is worth more than the wheat crop of Missouri and Illinois combined, with the cotton crop of Missouri thrown i for good measure