The Oregon mist., November 26, 1897, Image 4

THE NEW ELDORADO
THE GOLD FIELDS OF ALASKA
AND THE YUKON.
Geography, Climate an Reeoureee
of tha Kw fiuniu Regloa of the
Tut North Grew Kxteut at O round
to Be Protpeetad.
Special Correspondence.) ;
Purchased from Russia In 1867 for
$7,800,000, Alaska waa portion of the
United States for 80 years without Rt
traoting the attention iU resources and
wealth merit Everywhere apathy and
ignorance preaviled in regard to this
latest territorial acquisition. Suddenly
this waa ohanged. In a single day the
eyes of the entire world were turned to
Klondike, aud there they remain fixed.
On the 17th of last July the steamer
Portland tailed into port with $800,000
of gold on board, and to the ends of
the earth was telegraphed the story of
the rich plaoer diggings discovered
along the Klondike and its tributaries.
Then began that rush to the new mines
which has filled the news columns of
the press with its varied experiences tor
four months. Ten thousand men
joined in it Some are now at the
mines; others are scattered all along
the trails from the coast to the Klon
dike; still others are at Juneau, Dyea
and Skaguay, awaiting a more favor
able time for the journey, while not a
fuw, have returned to civilisation, sat
isfied with their experience or to make
a fresh start under better oiroum
etunees. Great and exciting as waa
this first rush, it was but the advance
ripple of the great wave of gold hunt
ers that will roll in upon the Alaskan
coast the coming spring. Probably not
less than 60,000 men will start for the
Tukon next year, and possibly four
times this number may go. For this
reason a clear and suocinot description
of Alaska and its resources, with a
brief review of its rootea ot travel must
be of interest even to those who have
no intention of seeking the northern
wilderness.
In the first place, it must be under
stood that the Yukon river flows partly
through Canada and partly through the
United States, and that the Klondike
region is on the Canadian aide of the
boundary line, though good placers, pos
sibly as good at those of the Klondike,
exist on the American Side of the line.
Beginning at the Arctic ocean, the
boundary line runs due south along the
141st meridian as far as ML St. Elias,
10 marine leagues from the Pacific,
whence it follows the coast line, pre
serving a distance of 10 marine leagues
from it, in a southeasterly direction to
the latitude of 64 degrees aud 40 min
utes, which becomes the southern limit
All east of that line belongs to Can
ada, part being in the Northwest Ter
' ritory and part in the province of Brit
ish Columbia, the dividing line rim
ning east and west across both lakes
Bennett and Teal in. The present gold
discoveries are ail north ot the British
Columbia line, but no one can tell
what may be revealed in the future.
That portion west of the boundary
line and belonging to the United States
constitutes Alaska pmper, and contains
a total area of 617,703 square miles, of
which 87,696 square miles consist of
islands along the coast. , It is only on
these islands and a narrow strip of the
adjacent mainland that settlements
have been made and industries de
veloped, except the gradual development
of gold placers along the Yukon, ending
with the recent startling discoveries.
The towns of Alaska consist of but half
si dozen of any prominence, besides the
new places on the Yukon. They are
Sitka, the capital, Juneau, Wrangel,
New Metlakahtla, Kodiak and Dutch
Harbor. Sitka is on Baranoff island,
off the southeast coast, and has a popu
hit inn of a oou t 600. Juneau is on the
mainland, about 100 miles further
north. It is the chief commercial city
and during the winter season its popu
lation exceeds 8,000.' New Metlakahtla
is a mission and trading point near the
southern extremity, and Wrangel is a
trading point on the coast at the mouth
of Stiokeen river. Kodiak is on the
island of the same name south of the
Alaskan peninsula, and is the seat of
the salmon packing industry. Dutch
Harbor is on the island of Unalaska, one
of the Aleutian group, where vessels
pass from the Pacific into Behring sea.
Alaska is a region of mountains,
there being no great valleys nor plains.
Along the coast a high range of moun
tains rises almost abruptly trom the
water's edge, deeply indented with long
arms of the sea. These present a aeries
of Alpine peaks of the most picturesque
description, the highest being the Fair
weather alps, exceeding 16,000 feet,
St. Elias and Logan exceeding 18,000
feet, and Wrangel, further to the north
west, said to be still higher. Down
the canyons of these coast mountains
many tremendous living glaciers flow
steadily to the ocean, filling the bays
and inlets with great masses of floating
ice.
Beyond this coast range the moon-
tains are lower, but almost continuous
as fur north as the Arctic, and as far
east as the great plains of Mackenzie
river region. Yet there are many fine
mountain valleys, ' with occasional
stretches of rolling table land, in sum
mer time brilliant with a carpet of
grass, mosses and flowers.
The coast mountains divide the cli
mate of Alaska into two distinct
classes. A branch of the warm Japan
current skirts the coast, itt influence
modifying the climate of the islands
and adjacent mainland. The average
temperature for July at Sitka is but
66 degrees, while the mean winter tem
perature is as high as 83 degrees. This
is the most equable olimate in the
United States. The same causes pro
duce copious rains or continuous dric
Eles, there being but an average of 66
clear duys ina year. Aoross the sum
mit of the coast range conditions are
very different. The rains are cut off
by the high mountains, and the
warm ocean air is not felt. From Ko
Vpmber to April the mean temperature
remains continuously below the freezing
point, often remaining for weeks at a
t !,e below zero and occasionally going
t low as 60 or 70 degrees below aero.
It snows about one-third of the time in
winter, but the snow does not become
excessively deep, though frequently the
storms are very severe.
The mean temperature of the interior
during the summer months is 60 to 70
degrees, there being many very warm
days. The Yukon region, being so far
north, has the long summer days and
long winter nights of that latitude,
though, being south of the Arctic cir
cle, it just misses the continuous day
and continuous night of the Arctic
summer and winter.
Aside from gold, the chief resources
of Alaska are timber, fish and fur-bearing
animals, including the famous fur
seals which are giving the United
States, Oreat Britain, Russia and Ja
pan so mucn trouble. salmon are
plentiful in all the streams of the
islands and mainland, and millions are
annually packed for market. Halibut
and ood, herring and smelt, or oolti
choo, abound and have become of great
commercial importance. The seal and
sea otter in the water, and the fox,
bear, lynx, otter, beavor, etc., on land,
contribute thousands of their skins an
nually to the world's fur supply. The
fur trade is handled by the Alaska
Commercial Company aud the North
west Trading and Transportation Com
pany, both of which have headquarter!
on St. Michaels island, near the mouth
of the Yukon, while the Hudson's Bay
Company opo rates on the Canadian
side of the line. '
Coal and coal oil have both been
discovered and may be of future value.
The timber of the coast and islands
grows very large, owing to the hu:nid
atmosphere. It is chiefly cedar, spruce
and hemlock. It has been little used
thus far, though several small mills
have cut it for local purposes. The
timber of the interior is much smaller,
and is found only along the lakes and
water courses. It is chiefly spruce,
alder. Cottonwood and willow. Several
gmnll mitla hava heen taken in for cut
ting this timber. Agriculture is at
yet an experiment, but little having
been attempted. Conditions on the
islands are favorable for grass and suoh
vegetables and cereals as mature quick
ly. Even along the Yukon region
summer vegetables may be grown and
possibly wheat A few years will show
what can be done in agriculture and
stock raising.
The great interest in Alaska at the
present time centers in the Yukon
placers on both sides of the boundary
line. Prospecting on the Yukon began
in 1881. In the fall of 1883 the
first gold was brought to J jneau from
the interior. The next year BOO men
orossed the mountains and the number
of miners steadily increased each year.
The first work was on Stewart river and
then Big Salmon, both in Canada. In
1886 the Forty-Mile creek placer, also
in Uanaila, were discovered, ana tne
next year the famous Franklin gulch,
on the same stream. In 1892 the Miller
creek diggings were found, also a tribu
tary of Forty-Mile, and on the Cana
dian side of the line. The next year
there was a large influx of miners, fully
800 working in the Forty-Mile district.
In 1893 the first important discover
ies on the American side of the line
were made on Biroh creek, and the
town of Circle City, now having 600 log
houses, was started on the Yukon as a
supply point. The next year over
$400,000 were taken ont along Birch
creek and Forty-Mile. In 1896 Eagle
and Porcupine creeks began to produce
in the Birch creek district. The total
output of that year exceeded $700,000.
In August, 1896, it was reported at
Forty-Mile and Circle City that won
derfully rich placers had been discov
ered on the Klondike, a Small tributary
of the Yukon entering that river about
50 miles southeast of the international
boundary and on Canadian territory.
There was a great rush to the new dig
gings, the older ones being nearly de
serted. In a few days $1,000 were
taken out on Bonanza creek, a tributary
of the Klondike. By January 1, 1897,
400 claims had been located on Bonanza
and Eldoradocreeks, and 200 on Hunker
creek, and later many others on Bear,
Gold Bottom and Too-Much-Gold oreeks
and their tributaries. Fully $1,400,
000 were taken from the Yukon placers
in 1896.
It was not so much the amount of
gold brought out by the first steamer to
come down last summer, as the news
that this was the result of but a little
work in a few claims only, and that
there would have been many times as
much bad the hundreds of other claims
been worked in time to send the gold ,
out, which caused the excitement. The
ujewiuu vi wonting meet) mines ie to
sink a shaft into tbe frozen ground in
winter, taking out the rich gravel near
bed-rock and piling it up to be washed
out when the water runs in summer
time. For this reason the gold washed
out last summer could , not be sent
away, and will not be brought down
until next July, when it is expected
that several millions of dollars will
come out as the result of the first year's
work along tbe Klondike. The com
mercial point for the Klondike district
is the new town of Dawson City, situ
ated on the Yukon just below the
mouth of the Klondike and reached by
river steamers.
The Yukon gold fields extend for a
thousand miles along the stream, with
width of 500 miles. In this vast area
there are hundreds of streams and
gulches, offering ample room for tiie
thousands of gold seekers to prospect for
new diggings. The new discoveries re
ported this year are on Dominion creek
and on the tributaries of the Stewart
river, on the Canadian' side, and on
Munnook creek and its tributaries on
the Alaska side, near the month of the
latter the new town of Bampart City
having sprung up.
Not all ot the thousands who go to
Alaska next year will seek fortune on
the Yukon. , Some will go further
north to the streams flowing into Kotz-
bne sound, where discoveries are report
ed. Others will go to Copper river,
flowing south into Prince William
sound and beading in the same region
the Munnook and Birch creeks, and
still others will prospect along the
streams falling into Cook's inlet, where
rich placers havs been worked for sev
eral years. The region where prospect
ing will be dona is as large as the en
tire Paoific coast west of the Rocky
mountains, and should many new dis
coveries be made a population of half a
million people may be expected in a
few years "
Firelighters are made in Germany
by twisting wood into a rope, cutting
it into short lengths, and dipping the
ends of the pieces into melted resin.
EXPIATED HIS CRIME.
Ktliajr Porter Died an the Gallows at
Union, Oregon.
Union, Or., Nv, 82. In the gray
dawn of an approaching day, while
moat of the citizens ot Uniou were ttill
asleep, Kelsay Porter, murderer of tha
Macha family in Pine valley, January
1, 1806, expiated his crime on tha gal
lows. Including the sheriff's jury of
lit men, about 60 people witnessed the
execution. It was carried out with dit
patoh. Seventeen minutes after Por
ter left the jail door to mount the scaf
fold, his' body was in tha coffin, which
was waiting to receive it beneath the
gallows.
It was abont 5 o'clock this morning
when Porter was aroused and told to
m-enare for tlia trying oraeai oeiore
him. Realizing his last momenta had
really come, he displayed nervousness.
After dressing in a suit of blaok
clothes provided for him, he ate a light
breakfast, the first meal for several
days. The appearance of his religious
adviser had a reassuring effect. Kev.
Mr. Shields passed an hour in she cell,
preparing Porter for bis death, reading
Scripturtl passages to him, and dosing
with a fervent prayer for the con
demned man.
Porter, in refusing to see press rep
resentatives, stated that all he had to
say would ba spoken on the gallows,
but before leaving the jail, he changed
his mind, and from the time he passed
out of the door of his cell, mounted
the scaffold and was hurled into eter
nity, he did not speak a word. He
was assisted to the platform ot the
scaffold by Sheriff Phy and Deputy
McLaughlin, who helped him up the
steps. Rev. Mr. Shields and Deputy
Sheriff Oiffen were also on the scaffold.
Porter was placed directly over the
trap, his legs and arms pinioned and
his wrists handcuffed. While this was
going on be became slightly unsteady.
The blaok cap was placed over his
head, the rope adjusted about his neck
by Sheriff Phy, and at 6:65 tha trap
was sprung and the body shot down
ward, dangling at the end ot . the rope.
Death was instantaneous, the neck be
ing broken by the fall. Twelve min
utes later three attending physicians
pronounoed Porter dead, and the body
waa cut down and placed in the wait
ing coffin.
The crime for which Kelsay Porter
suffered the death penalty was the
killing of the Mache family Benja
min Mache, his wife and 17-year-old
son, Benjamin in Pine valley, Union
county, January 1, 1896.
LOCKS FOR THE DALLES
Government Has Abandoned tha
Railway Schema.
Washington, Nov. 23. The probabil-;
ities are that a boat railway will never i
be constructed at The Dalles. Chair
instructed at xne uauea. vuuir-
Hooker, of the river and harbor
sommittee, has made an examination
?f tbe rapids, and has interested him
self more or less In several matters
which will require appropriations com
ing from his committee. Mr. Hooker
is very reticent about expressing his
views, but there were other members of
the river and harbor committee with
him on his Western trip, and the press
correspondent has been able to learn
that the boat railway plan will not be
approved in the next session of con
gress, aud that the committee on river
and harbors will not taken favorable
action for any improvement there that
does not have for its object a different
plan than either a boat railway or a
portage railway. It is very probable
that what will be done is the authoriza
tion of a survey to be made for con
struction of a canal and locks, and
which will secure the passage of boats
of about four feet draft- It is asserted
that boats of greater draft than this
cannot operate successfully above the
dalles, and that boats of this draft can
go far up the Columbia river, the Snake
and the Clearwater. If these boats
could ply between Portland and the
farthest points on the rivers named, a
great deal would be accomplished,
freight rates would be regulated, and
the wheat of Eastern Oregon and
Washineton and Idaho could be trans-,
ported to tidewater at a small cost. It
is the gener.il belief that a canal and
locks of the kind contemplated could be
built at An expenditure of less than
$1,000,000, and also that they could be
pushed to completion at an early day.
It is not known whether the Oregon
rfolecAtinni will annATit ancli a nlnn as
this, but the general understanding is
that it will be offered by the members
of the river and
harbor committee who
visited the Columbia during the past
summer. '
FATE
OF PROSPECTORS.
Three Men Ara Drowned
la White
Horse Kaplde.
Port Townsend, Nov. 23.-News
reached here tonight of the drowning
of two men belonging to the party ol
Colonel Will E. Fisher, of San Fran
cisco, in the White Horse rapids No
vember 4. No details of the acoident
were received. Neither could the names
of the drowned men be learned.
Accompanying this news was the in
formation that Frank Anthony, of
Seattle, was drowned at the same place
October 29. Anthony's boat capsized.
His two companions. Murphy and Hep
burn, were rescued by the Canadian
mounted police.
Heavy snows are reported on the sum
mits of the passes leading into the in
terior. Travel is becoming difficult
and dangerous, yet people are still go
ing back and forth over tbe mountains.
The lakes and rivers in the interior are
more or less frozen. On the Skaguay
trail the snow is fully three feet deep.
It is five or six feet deep on the Dyea
route.
A. Hog-Kllllng Secretary.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 22. Secretary
of State Porter was fined $6.20 in the
police court today for violating the
health ordinance by butchering bogs
within the city limits.
Carrier Pigeons for Alaska
Ban Francisco, Not. 23. A pigeon
fancier of this city has given the
United States government eight pairs
of his best pigeon service between the
more remote portions of Alaska They
will be taken north on the Bear and
sent to vsrions points, such as 8t
Michaels, Point Barrow and Hersohel
island( where they will be taken care
of nntil they become thoroughly accli
mated. The offspring of these birds
will be the messengers of the future be
tween isoluted miners and whalers and
i the outside world.
? , ; KfenCrt AWAKI..
, ,
Some people will never wuk up till tha
fast horn blows, and then they'll ask if
that's the horn for dinner. IVla.ve are dan
gerous and ruinous. Thousands can say If
they hadn't put off au opportunity, they
would havs been rHi and happy. Bonis
itur kimiv tlmv hnv rheumatism until
1 crippled lv It, and all the while In pain,
' thinking It will pass off. But Ht. J aeons
Oil never delays, and Is always wide awake,
' It goes stralKlit to Us work of cure In a hue-
Iness wv, aud cures rheumatism in any
' form a id at its worst stage. It's a Hvs
' Mmmt V
Mid-Channel Mlnoe a rallure.
The recent experiments made by a
anAeinl nnmminninn to ascertain wheth
er the mines laid in the Dardanelles
are capable of preventing the passage
. ot ships have proved the utter useless-
ness of the present mines, and at the
same time the extreme difficulty of lay
ing down mines at all on account of the
strong current.
A BIO REGULAR AKNY.
The mightiest host ol this sort ts the arm? ot
Invalids whose bowels,llversand stomachs have
leen regulated by Hosteller's Stomach Witers.
A regular haliU ot body is brought about
through minx the Hitlers, not by violently agi
tating anil griping the Intestines, but b rein
forcing their energv and causing a How of the
bile Into Us proper channel. Malaria, la grippe,
dvspepsla, and a tendency to Inactivity ol the
kidneys, are conquered by tha Hitters.
Proposed Floating Tunnel
In connection with the railwsj com
munication between Scotland Slid Ire
land it is proposed to send trains
through a tunnel which shall float at a
depth ot 60 feet below the surface, and
which shall be kept steadily In its place
by means of anchors.
AN OPEN LITTER TO MOTHERS.
We are asserting tn the courts our right lo the
exclusive use ot tne worn
CASTOH1A," aud
mCHUK'aCASTOKlA,'
as our'i'rade Mark.
I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
waa theorigiuator of " PITCHKR'SCAS roWA,"
the same that has borne and does now bear the
bc-slmile signature of CHA9. H. FLETCHER oa
every wrapper. This Is the original " PITCHER'S
CASTORIA " which has been used In the homes
of the mothers of America for over thirty yeara
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that It la
Uu timi yom sens atwayi fcW, aud has the
signature of CHAS. H. FLHTCHKR oa the
wrapper. No one has authority from me lo ass
say name except The Centaur Company of which
Chat. H. Fletcher is President
Match 1, 1397. BAMUttl. PITCUBR, kUA
A Falsa Prophet.
The reputation of a certain well
known "prophet" in London, who but
lately announced positively the end of
the world in 1900, has been seriously
impaired by the fact that a fortnight
ago it was discovered that be hail since
paid a high premium to secure the
lease of business premises for 16 years.
Bread can now be cut and buttered
by machinery. The machine has been
invented for use in prisons, work
houses and reformatories. A cylin
drical shaped brush lays a thin layer
i . ..
1 "r n ' brcd " " "O" trom
the cutter.
Berlin, Germany, is to have an un
dorground electric railway to connect
the northern and southern sections of
the city. Trains will run on a head
way of three minutes and carry 160
passengers at a speed of from 30 to 85
kilometers per hour.
Benjamin Bissell, who lives near
Balls ton Spa, N. Y., says be has voted
for 18 presidential candidates, not one
of whom was elected.
FREE TO OCR HEADERS.
Our readers will be pleased to learn
that the great discovery, Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, has been so universally
successful in quiokly curing all forms
of kidney and bladder troubles, that
those who wish to Prove for themselves
its wonderful merit may have a sample
bottle and a book of valuable informa
tion both sent absolutely free by mail.
Nothing could be fairer or more gener
ous thsn this liberal offer, and we ad
vise onr readers to write, mentioning
this paper, and send their address to
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is the dis
covery of a great physician, and as
such is not recommended for every-
thing, hnt will be found just what is
needed in oases of kidney and bladder
disorders or troubles arising from
weak kidneys, such as gravel, rheuma
tism, pain or dull ache in tbe back, too
frequent desire to pass water, scanty
supply, smarting or burning in passing
it. Swamp-Root stands the highest
for its wonderful euros. The regular
sizes are sold by druggists, price 50
cents and one dollar.
English Paers.
Of the entire number of English peer
sges, only five go back as far as the
13th century. Ot the 588 temporal
peers, 850 have been created during the
present century, 126 during the last
century, and only 63 trace their titles
beyond the year 1700.
A HEALTHY WIFE
la a Husband's Inspiration.
A sickly, half-dead-and-alive woman,
especially when she la the mother of
a family, is a damper to all joyoua
nesa in the home.
If a woman finds that her energies
are flagging and that everything tires
her, her sleep la disturbed by horrible
dreams, and that she often wakes
suddenly in tha night with a feeling
of suffocation and alarm, she must at
once regain her strength.
- Tha following from Mas. T. 8. Beit
mitt, Westphalia, Kana., shows the
power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound, and a letter of advice:
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham: I have Buf
fered for over two yeara with falling,
enlargement and ulceration of tha
womb, and this
spring, being In
such a weak
ened condition,
caused me to
flow for nearly
six months.
Sometime
ago, urged
byfrlenda,
I wrote to
you for advice,
the treatment
advised for a
short time, that terrible flow stopped.
I am now gaining strength and flesh
and have better health than I have had
for tha past ton years.'
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WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
OlSoe of Downing, Hopkins A Co., Chicago
Board ol Trade brokers, 711-714 Chamber Ol Com.
mores Building, Portland, Oregon,
Tha action ol the market has been
great disappointment to tha bulls, and
there Is a growing fueling that with
favorable conditions In tha winter
wheat sections for the next two weeks,
that wheat possiliy may sag still lower,
The news has been rather bearish in
many respects, tha enormous receipts
(much of which Is low grade), the
iieavy rains in the winter wheat sec
tions in the past week, the Improved
conditions in tha Argentine, and the
smaller demand for flour has caused a
liquidating movement to set in that has
carried May wheat down to a lower
price than it has seen for a long time.
Claims are made that the ealier esti
mates of Europe's import requirements
of breadstuff's are now thought to have
Iwen somewhat too high. In addition,
the demand has been, so far, easily
mot, causing together a shade of imiif
ferenoe on the part of purchasers. In
all estimates of the future, 'much la
made ot what may be expected of the
crops of the Argentine and ot the Au
stralian colonies. Too many perhaps,
forgot that while harvesting begins in
about a month, tha products of tha
harvest do not appear, to any great ex
tent, before April or Muy. The large
shipments from Kiigsia und America
yet stifle any tiuduo efforts on the part
of buyers in Western Europe to secure
larger shipments at present, especially
as the quantity on passage is about
double the amount so found at the be
ginning of onr crop season. It is not
surprising, in view of these conditions
that the markets have occasions of re
lapse But later, when the two prin
cipal sources of supply begin to show
actu tl exhaustion, as they may be ex
pected to, at the rapid rnteot shipping,
an upward turn in affairs is likely to
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O.IUIISI. S BIVlltl US, ,U MII'MI'I'UUIIIMVIIS
to those who habitual y understate the
resources of exporters to find relapse in j
prices wheu the facts showing it are
developed. Still there need be no great
apprehension of the future for the sup
ply Is none too great for the natural
wants of tha world.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla,7278tfc;Val.
ley and Bluestem, 7576o per bushel.
Four Best grades, $4.35; graham,
$3.70; superfine, $2.40 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 88 34c; choloe
gray, 81 32o per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew
ing, $20 per ton.
Mi list iff s Bran, $14 per ton; mid
dlings, shorts, $15.60.
Hay Timothy, $13 13.60; olover,
$10U; California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $010 per
ton.
Eggs M H 84o per dozen.
Butter Fancy oreamery, 45 50a;
fair to good, 85 40c; dairy, 35 yi 85c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, H,4o; Young
America, I9)c; California, 8(3 10c
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $1.60(3
2.60 tier doezn; broilers, $3.00(32.60:
geese, $5.00; ducks, $3.00(34.00
per dozen; turkeys, live, 10llepor
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 85 40c
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions Oregon, new, red, BOc; yel
low, 80o per cental.
Hoiw 8 13o per pound tor new
crop; 1896 crop, 67o.
Wool Valley, 14lo per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7(3 12o; mohair, 20
22o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, $3.60 2. 60; dressed mutton,
6a; spring lambs, 6(io per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
light and feeders, $8.004.00; dressed,
4. 60(40.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $3.75(38.00;
cows, $3.36; dressed beef, 45jc per
pound.
Veal Large, 4)j6o; small, 6!
to per pound. '
Seattle Market.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick. 84 25o; ranoh, 16($18c
Cheese Native Washington, 13,o;
California, 8'iO.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 80c.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, lOo; spring chickens, $2,600
8 00; ducks, $3. 50 8. 75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $103Q.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $23 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 5)o; mutton sheep,
6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 6c; salmon,
8c; salmon trout, 710o; flounders
and sole, 84; ling cod, 45; rock cod,
6c; smelt, 24c.
Fresh Fruit Apples, S6o$l per
box; peaches, 75(8 80c; prunes, 86(40o;
pears, $1 per box.
Ran Fraueieoo Market.
Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon,
14c; Northern 1416o per pound,
18
Hops lftc per pound.
Millstnffa Middlings, $2033; Cal
ifornia bran, $16.00(316.50 per ton,
Onions New red. 70380c; do new
liilverskin, $1.00 1.15 per cental.
Eggs Store, 1826c; ranoh, 89
41c; Ksstern, 1726; duck, 26c per
dozen.
Potatoes New, In boxes, 80 70c.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 12c; fair
to good, 7 8c per pound..
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valenqias,
$1.60 (3)8. 00; Mexicau limes, $3.60
8.00; California lemons, choice, $2.00
2.50; do common, 75c$l per box.
Hay Wheat, 12 16; wheat and
oat, $11; oat, $1012; river bar
ley, $78; best barley, $1012;
ilfalfa, IS (3 9.50; clover, $8 10.
Fresh Fruit Apples,- 85g85o per
large box; grapes, 2540o; Isabella,
6076c; peaches, 60o$l; pears, 40
65c per box; plums, 26 85a
Butter Fanoy oroaniery, 27 28c;
do seconds, S526o; fancy dairy,
24c; good to choice, 2123o per pound.
To Cateh the Worm. -
It will be interesting to those who
enjoy plain fishing with angle worms
for bait to know the methods of obtain
ing them when the weather is dry and
the bait hides deep in the ground. It
strong salt water or sn infusion of tan
nin or walnut husks is sprinkled on the
surface the worms generally come out.
Again, if stakes or spades are driven
deep into the soil and shaken violently,
the operation frequently calls the angle
worms from their retreats.
Tha South Polar expedition.
The commeroial and Kilentifle exnocH
lion to the South Pols, under llorr
Borohgrovinok, will start from England
next July, Inquiries ara now being
mad for a suitable ship in Scotland
and Norway. The object will ba to
reach Cap Adniri and proceed to the
Bouth Pole on Snowshoes, The party
will include several solentlflo men.
Herr Borohgrdevlnck will go to Norway
at Christmas, and, with soma Nor
wegian friends, practice snow-shoe run
ning. I1UW TO FIND OUT.'
Fill bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand tl hours; a sedi
ment or settling Indicates an unhealthy
condition of the kldiinys. When urine
stains linen it is evidence ot kidney
trouble. Too frequent doalro to urinate
or pain in tha back is also convincing
proof that the kidneys and bladder are
out of order,
WHAT TO DO,
There la comfort In the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's
j Swamp-Root, the groat kidney remedy,
fulfills every wish In relieving pain in
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and
every part of the urinary passages. It
corrects Inability to hold urine and
scalding pain in passing it, or bad
I effects following use ot liquor, wine or
I beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity ot being omnpolled to got up
i many times during the night to urinate.
I The mild and the extraordinary effect
ot Bwamp-Itoot is soon realised. It
I stands the highest for its wonder
i tul cures of tha most distressing cases,
I If yon need a medicine ?ou should
have m best. Hold by druggists, price
fifty wots and one dollar, 8o remark
ably succcbhIuI has Swamp-Root been
that it you wish to prove Its great
merit, you may have a sample bottle
and pamphlet both sent free by mall.
Mention this paper and send your ad-
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Sensational Predictions.
O'd Moore's alraauao, which won
notoriety tbe past year by predicting
the Paris Are, predicts for 1888 a ter
rible civil war in the United States,
the death of the csr and the kidnap
ping of the young king of Spain, and
that about tha second week of Novem
ber of that year communication will be
opened up with Mara
"Kins "olcimon's Treasure," onlji A phrodlslaoal
lunmanv.,! n Mirtioitwrr.l v.w a dus,
"'' treatment. Maaoa I'lieuilutl Co., V. O. Hit
tfij, i'Duaivfmia, at.
Tha Century Magaalue for ISSS.
The Century Magasine, with its No
vember number, enters its twenty'
seventh year. During its long exist
ence, by reason of its many nntable
successes, it has won an assured and
commanding position. During the
coming year The Century will maintain
us exceptional position as mngaiine
of entertainment and aa a leader in art
ami thought.
! Its pictorial features will be notable.
and it will command the services of the
foremost artists, illustrators and en
gravers of this country and of Kuroie.
Nothing like a complete announce'
raeiit rf its literary features can be at
tempted now. Dr. Weir Mitchell,
whose novel of the American Involu
tion, "Hugh Wynne," is the great aua
oess 01 the year, baa written a new
story tor the present volume. It bears
the piquant titlo; "The Adventures
of Francois; Foundling, Adventurer,
Juggler and Fenoing-Master during the
French devolution." The tale is full
of romance and adventure. Mrs. Bur
ton Harrison contributes a new novel
of New York life, called "Good Ameri
cans," in which contemporaneous social
types and tendencies are brightly mlr
rored and described.
There will be s group of clever stories
about horses and people who like
horses, under the general title ot "Oal
lops." "A Woman's Jiominescenceeot
the French Intervention in Mexico"
will be given in a series ot grsphio and
highly picturesque papers by Mrs. Cor
nelius tUevenson. Further contribu
tions to the Interesting series of
"Heroes of Peace" will be made by
Jacob A. Hiis, (lustav Kobbe, Elisabeth
Stuart Phelps Ward, and others.
For the benellt of readers of The
Century an unusual combination offer
is mado for tjiis year. There has been
Issued "The Century Oaltery of One
Hundred Portraits," made up of the
finest engravings that have appeared in
the magazine, and representing a total
expenditure ot nearly $30,000. These
are printed on heavy plate paper, with
wide margins, like proofs. The retail
price of the gallery is $7.60, but this
year it will be sold only In connection
with a subscription to The Century,
the price of the two together being
$(1.60. .
Plan's Cure for Consumption (s our only
medicine for coughs and colds. Mrs. tl.
Belts, W 8th ave., Ueuver, Col., Nov. 8, '05.
The earth probably receives about
one two-thousandth-milllonth part of
the total radiation of the sun's rays.
Trj Schilling's Beat tea and basing powder.
The production of India rubber in
Mexioo is attracting attention, and the
samples which have been exhibited are
said to be of fine quality.
Heeculea Special
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Price, only 1185.
O.- t
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' Schillings JJtst biking pow.
der is such baking; powuci
you would ask us to make if
you knew the facta.
hilling renes
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The man who discovered the Ameri
can beauty rose is worth $50,000, all of
which he .made out of the peerless
flower, which unites all the qualities
of a ierfuat rose.
hows Tiitat
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for the last lft years, anil Wliwe hint perleotle
hurorehltt In all business trausaoiltuia and
SiiMiiulally able to carry out any ubllgalluus
made bv llmlr Arm,
WlT 1 mux.
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faiwaof the system, Tesmnimlals Ires. I' turn
76o. ht tyilile. Hold by all dnigslsts.
Hall's Kantliy t-illsars the best.
The United ptatos has 70,000,000
population, Ktirope has 880,000,000.
But the United status postofnoe ban
dies abont as niricu mail matter as all
Europe put together.
HOHI PKOOI1CTS Attn I'UHst roop,
All Ksstern Srriip, sn-pallsd, nsiially eerf
light milorntl and ol heavy bmlv, Is made from
SI noose. "Ton Mi-ilr )" is made Iroaa
ur Cans ami Is sinril) pure. It It lor sale
by lirst ols.s r,H-,.is, in tsui mil v. ilauiilae.
lured by the inc i:osr Kvsur Co. All gen
uine "TVit Uitrilris (" have the mauulae
Hirer's name lithographed on every ean.
When you feel that soreness In roar back,
that dull pelo near yonr Sidneys, It la time to
do something for yourself, tor Ihesa symptoms
are serious Indications of a growing disease la
the most vital Itnieilons. tlet Dr. Haadvn'S
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by writing THI IRII MEDICal CO.,
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Weearry the moat complete line of (IvmiiMius
Slid Athletic lioods eo the Coast.
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June. It growsoit dry bills where nolhlngelse
will grow. It solvee the problem ol pasturage
in the northwest country, Vtlttv 20c per pound,
Aatiruseaii orders to si, .r ssiai.ns,
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