PACKING FALL SALMON.
A TERRIBLE DEATH.
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
RELICS OF THE PAST.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS, OF GENERAL INTEREST
from All the Cltlsi Bad Towni of the
Thriving BUUr HUM
Oreon.
One farmer of Curry county bai
shipped 3,000 bead of ibeep this season
. and ezpeott to ship 8,000 more.
The Brooks Hopgrowers' Co-opera tire
Association, has decided to pay piok
en 25 cent per box of Dine bushels
daring the ooming season.
One firm at 8t Helens shipped this
season 140 tons of salmon, for which
the fishermen received, at 4 oents
pound, the prevailing price, 111,200.
A Cincinnati firm, has contracted
to purohase 80,000 pounds of bops near
Salem. The price agreed upon is 6
cents, with an advance of 4 cents at
picking time.
A tramway three miles long has been
built to oarry logs from the Rook oreek
distriot to the river for the Grande
Ronde Lumber Company. The work
of delivery will belgn in a few days.
A oolony of 80,000 silk worms has
coDoluded its ooooon spinning at Oo
quille. It is said tbe work has been
done much quicker this season than be
fore, and if anything the ooooons are
. better also.
Two residents of Canyon City have
just returned after taking three oar
loads of horses to Memphis, Tenn.
They secured from 50 to f 260 per head
' for tbe horses, wbioh were an excep
tionally, fine lot,
Tbe miners in tbe Pueblo district in
, Harney oounty, are experiencing diffi
culty in working the placers on ac
count of the scarcity of water at this
time of year. Considerable development
-work in the quarta claims is being
carried on.
A Linn county firm have signed the
contraot to build tbe bridge across Cow
creek, at Olendale, and have gone to
that place to beign work. They were
also awarded tbe contraot to repair the
bridge aoross the South TJmpqua at
Roseburg, but have refused to sign the
contract, fearing that the upper part
of the bridge is not strong enough to
support it while in the course of repair.
In Benton oounty hereafter all offi
cials must pay their own deputy hire.
The county oourt at its sension deter
mined not.to make any allowanoe for
regular deputy hire, but to allow the
clerk $2 per day for one deputy for
eaoh day that the oirouit and commis
sioners' court be in session, and to also
allow said clerks $2 for eaoh deputy in
making up the tax and delinquent rolls,
and to allow the sheriff $2.60 per day
for two deputies while the jury is in
attendance on the oirouit oourt
' Tbe rheriffs in the different Oregon
counties are allowed deputies as fol
lows: Baker and Union, eaoh one at
$1,200 and one at $900; Wasoo and
Grant, each one at $1,200; Douglas,
Malheur and Morrow, eaoh one at
$1,000; Clatsop, one at $1,260, one at
' $900; Jackson, one at $1,500; Harney,
one at $960; Linn, Polk, Sherman,
Tillamook and Yamhill', eaoh one at
$600; Coos, one at $700; Lane, one at
$76 and one at $60; Marion, two for
$2,500; Washington, one at $500;
.Multnomah, thirteen at $75 to $150.
Washington.
Government Timber Inspector Atkin
son is' after a number of Skagit river
homesteaders, who have been cutting
timber on government land.
Tbe Wenatobee fruitgrower have
perfeoted an organization for the pur-
nose of cettina their modnots on the
market to better advantage.
Tbe Centennial flour mill, at Spo
kane, has been closed down for repairs,
and wben it resumes operations it will
have a oapaoity of 800 barrels per day,
making it by far the largest mill in the
state. '.
Bees, for some reason, seem to be
growing more plentiful in Whitman
county, says the Garfield Enterprise.
Several swarms are captured each sea-
' son, when a few years ago such an oo
currencee was a rarity.
' A crew of men are now at work on a
1,000-aore , farm- 'on the Snohomish
river, preparing it for a oolony of Hoi-
' landers, who are expeoted to arrive in
a short time. A big farm house bas
been finished and a quantity of stock
lias already been secured.
A prominent Spokane bogbuyer says,
that bogs will bring a better price in
the near future, as several 'packing
bouses will be constructed in tbe state
by Eastern capitalists, and that there
will be a market on the coast from now
on for all tbe hogs that will be raised.
The salmon run on the Snohomish
Tiver has begun and there is every
prospect that it will be a large one.
This is the year for the extra big run of
silver salmon, as they are supposed to
run in greater numbers every fourth
year, and it has been four years since
there was a big run. Tbe fish buyers
are paying 3 cents per pound undressed.
Tbe several new canneries on tbe
Sound make the demand for flab very
great
Richard Butte, a Colville miner, is
aid to have invented a device by tbe
aid of , which be is enabled to locate
living water at varying depths under
ground. He refuses to divulge his
method for determining tbe where
abouts of the water, but the method ap
parently differs from tbe Kentucky
goose-bone or tbe ordinary stick of tbe
-water witch, inasmuch as be finds the
deptH b; tbe aid of mathematics.
Tbe attempt at Eennewiuk to assess
tbe district for irrigation purposes has
Preparations for Large Catch Id Traps
and Hbli.
Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Prepara
tions are being made for packing a
large amount of fall salmon on tbe Co
lumbia this season. Tbe fish will,
however, be osugbt principally in
traps and wheels, as seining is too ex
pensive a method for oatobing fall
salmon, and the prices wbioh the traps
and wheels will take will prevent gill
net men from engaging in the business
to any extent
Traps for the fall fishing have been
put In about tbe mouth of tbe Cowlits
in large numbers, where a few years
ago traps were not known. Tbe gill
nets catch only the large fish, while
these traps and tbe wheels oatoh large
and small.
Parties at The Dalles are making
oaloulations for a large oatoh of fish
on and after tbe 10th of September,
when the olose season ends.
The big run of fish whioh oame into
tbe river near the end of July were not
nearly all oaugbt, and the survivors
have been loafing along through the
Cascades and middle river, ever since
tbe season olosed, finding it very enjoy
able to be able to move without run
ning against a trap or net of some
kind. If they had any knowledge of
the monster wheel whioh Mr. Taffe
has ready for them at Tbe Dalles, they
would have passed up and got by there
before the end of the close season, but
as it is Mr. Taffe is preparing to take
all, or nearly all, of them in out of tbe
wet By the time tbey reach bis wheel
they will be all fall fish.
COMMANDER OF THE OREGON
Captain Cook May Bar Charge
of the
Battle-Ship..
Washington, Aug. 26. Navy offloers
regard tbe Oregon as one of tbe finest
ships ot tbe American fleet There is
quite a soramble to get oommand of her
by offloers who have reaobed the grade
in the navy entitling them to oommand
ships ot her class. Some of the ships
are sent out under oommand of lieu-tenant-oommanders,
others under com
manders, but only captains are placed
in command of ships of the Oregon's
olass. It is said that Captain Cook,
who has been for many years the chief
assistant of Admiral Ramsey in the
bureau of navigation of the navy de
partment, will be seleoted for the com
mand of the Oregon when she leaves
Washington. He is a- very fine offloer,
and one of the men who is destined
to make a good record if ever occasion
should require. It was just after the
war that Captain Cook, as midshipman
or ensign, went around Cape Horn
wjth the old Monadnook. She after
wards was left on the Paoiflo ooast
Naval offloers here never tire of say
ing nioe things about the Oregon, and
it is believed that as a battleship she
will prove more effective than any of
the fleet, if she is ever brought into
aotion. ; .
Found on Mountain Top.
San Franoisoo, Aug. 86. The his
toric reoord that was deposited on the
windswept summit of Mount Brewer
thirty-two years ago has been found,
and by a young woman. Since 1864
the snow-capped crest of this giant of
the Sierras that, with its fellows,
dominates the great Yosemite region
and looks down upon the lowlands of
Central . California, has held in its
stony olutoh tbe only authentio reoord
of the result of ' Professor Brewer's
perilous ascent, made in 1864 in tbe
interests of the United States geodetio
survey. The existence of tbe record
and the plaoe where it reposed were
known to many, but for more than
three decades none were so Dold as to
brave tbe perils and hardships of those
soundless solitudes to seek it out and
give it to the world. It remained for
eln uomperra, ot uerxiey, to
Hooept tne task and overoome the dim
oulty that lay between her and the
secret of the mountain top. The record
was found in a bottle buried in tbe
snow.
' Bicyclists In Hard Luck.
Chioago, Aug. 26. Two bicyolists
were killed, one probably fatally in
jured and several more or less seriously
hurt on the boulevards yesterday.
.Those killed were Abraham Smith,
aged 16, who tried to pass in front of
a Garfield-avenue car, was mutilated
in a terrible manner by tbe wheels and
died in a few minutes. The second
'man is unidentified. He was riding
along the railroad tracks and when the
Chicago & Northwestern train oame
along became oonfused and rode di
rectly in front ot the train.
Miss Jessie McKay, of Indianapolis,
was struck by ' an Evanston avenue
1 electric car and burled a distance of
twenty-five feet Her leg was broken
and she received internal injuries. Her
chances for recovery are small.
. Tbe injury of tbe others are not con
sidered serious beyond laying them up
for a day or two.
Swltchllght Tender Killed.
, Louisiana, Mo , Aug. 26. Milton
Davis, a switoligbt tender on the 3t
Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern rail
road at the station, was instantly killed
by a southbound freight last night
In company with two women on a
tricycle be was en route tq attend a
camp meeting at Ashburn. Tb
women escaped by jumping.
Mistaken for a Bear.
Bangor, Me., Aug. 85. Charles
Potter, a guide at Minot, was shot and
instanlty killed at Daer Island by C.
T- Russell, of Boston, a boy of 15
years. Russell is a nephew of the
late ex-Governor RusselL Potter was
mistaken for a bear. He was guiding
tbe party of whom young Russell was
a member.
Tbe law in England now compels
very case of lead poisoning to be re-
. , ,k..,..wiH
The Naphtha Launch Eiplodei With
fatal Kesults.
Marsbfleld, Or., Aug. 85 News of
one ot tbe most terrible fatalities that
has ever happened in tbia locality
reached town this monring wben the
Gardiner stage arrived. Captain Wylie,
wife and child 8 months old were the
victims of tbe sad accident, oaused by
tbe explosion of a gasoline launch be
longing to W. A. Reed, senator-elect
from Douglas oounty, on Smith river.
H. Hengstacken, of Marsbfleld; R. H.
Pickering, of Portland, and Charles
Meade, of Gardiner, bad not ten min
utes before gotten off the ill-fated
launob. Mr. Senstaoken returned to
Marshfield today, and fiom him the
full particulars of the dreadful affair
were learned.
The launch was a small oraft of
about four tons, wbioh was utilized to
oarry milk to Al Smith's creamery.
She left Gardiner at 9:20 P. M. Wed
nesday, loaded with empty milk oans
and several passengers. Tbe night was
dark, and the trip up the Umpqua to
Smith river was not without muoh
difficulty. One time it was necessary
to haul the boat out and repair a huge
hole made by running on to a snag.
This was done and then tbe journey
continued. Messrs. Sengstaoken, Pick
ering and Meade left Captlan Wylie at
the Sherrett place at 1:20 A. M. The
difficulties enoountered before followed
tbe captain during tbe remainder of the
journey. - He had left bis three pas
sengers bout ten minutes behind when
be ran on a rook. Here the fatal acol
dent happened. The gasoline gave
out, and tbe captain attempted to fill
the supply tank from a smaller one.
The liquid evidently took fire before
the explosion occurred, as John Gra
ham, the deckhand, and a boy 14 years
ol'd, saw what wrs about to happen and
jumped overboard. ' The oaptain at
tempted to rescue his family, but before
he oould do so the tank became heated
and exploded. Graham swam ashore
and slept in a vaoant soboolhouse all
night, and at daylight got up and went
to a neighboring farmhouse, stating
what had happened. Tbe bodies were
all reoovered, and tbe boat was found
hung upon the rook and burned to the
water-mark on one-Bide. ,
A FEARFUL FALL.
Defective Parachute Ends the Aero
nautic Career of an Astorlen.
Astoria, Or., Aug. 25. J. Weston
Daggett, the aeronaut, met with an ao
oident this evening wbioh will in all
probability bring his parachute-jumping
to a olose. An ascension and para
chute jump was advertised for 6 o'clock ,
but the usual delay ooourred, and it
was 7 o'olook before everything was in
readiness. A large orowd had assem
bled, from among whom the aeronaut
oolleoted $28. He was dissatisfied
with this, and, before asoending, made
,a short speech, stating that he had not
been treated with a great degree ot lib
erality. "There is not enough in the
money subscribed," be remarked, "to
pay my funeral expense, but I'm go
ing up, anyway." When about to
start, Daggett's attention was oalled
to one ot the parachute ropes, whioh
had been broken. "Never mind," be
said, "let her go." The balloon was
then let loose and asoended to a height
of abont 3,000 feet. "A slight current
ofair carried it in a southerly direc
tion, and, wben a short distance south
of the soboolhouse, the paraohute was
disconnected. .
For the first 800 feet it oame down
like a rocket, and the cry, "He's
killed I" went up from hundreds of
throats. 1 Tbe paraohute then beoame
partly filled, and the descent was some
what obeoked. It was seen that tbe.
ropes had become twisted, but the
aeronaut retained his ' self-possession,
and, bv swinging, endeavored to get
tbe ropes into position. In this he
was "unsuccessful, and he oame down
with a succession of ligbtning-like
flights. When about 100 feet from
the ground, tbe aeronaut seemed to
have lost his power to oheok bis de
scent, and be fell with a terrible
thud on one of tbe sidebills sooth of
the residence portion of the city.' He
was quickly ' pioked up and oonveyed
to St. Mary's hospital, but tbe exaot
nature of his injuries cannot yet be
stated. Tbe legs are thought to be
driven up into tbe hips, tbe collar
bone broken, and it is feared that in
ternal injuries have been sustained.
Discovered a Marble Mountain.
Tromsoe, Norway, Aug. 25. Messrs.
Trevor, Bataye and Grawood, the last
two being members of tbe expedition
headed by Sir Martin Conway, have re
turned in a little steam launch. It is
annoonoed that tbe results to geology
and geography will be very valuable.
Sir Martin Conway's expedition was
the first to corss Spitsbergen from east
to west. In tbe central portion of tbe
island was found a vast system of
glaciers and a mangifloent ice plateau.
Sir Martin Conway's expedition also
made a complete exploration of tbe
Horn sound tynd, a mountain in tbe
southern part of Spitzbergen nearly
5,000 feet in height Tbey report that
it is a peak composed almost entirely
of marble
Across the Bun's Disc.
Washington, Aug. 25. The discov
ery of a satellite across tbe diso of tbe
sun was made at noon Sunday by Louis
Catbman, a Chicago astronomical ob
server, now in this city.
Fire In a Coal Mine.
Dayton, Tenn., Aug. 38. A fire is
raging in the Mason coal mine, owned
by tbe Dayton Coal & Iron Co. Tbe
fire was ignited by blast, tbe fire be
ing oommunicated by the presence of
gas in entry No. 18. Owing to heavy
loss, the. mine will be closed September
1, throwing 500 mea out of work. i
Zsnesville, O., reckons among her
citizens a gentleman who answers to
tbe name of Ebeneser Evilsiaer.
The General Trade Is Confined to
Staple Lines.
New York, Aug, 24. Bradstreet'i
weekly trade review says:
General trade throughout tbe United
States is praotioally oonfined to staple
lines. Tbe volume of business is no
larger. Where orders have inoreased
in number, they are smaller in size. In
most instunoes they are based on near
by requirements. The feature of the
week is tbe inoreased difficulty in mak
ing collections and the higher rates for
mercantile discounts. Credits are be
ing scanned more olosely than hereto
fore, and are granted less freely. Bus
iness in South Carolina is retarded
by drouth, and in Northern Louisiana,
Texas, Southern Arkansas and Missis
sippi prolonged drought bas so inter
fered with business in some seotions
that it amounts to a calamity.. Some
Northwestern lumber mills shut down
owing to low prices, and difficulty in
obtaining money, while the demand tor
woolens for spring delivery is not yet
sufficient to start machinery going.
Wheat exports oontinne well, total
shipments from both ooasts of the
United States and from Montreal this
week (flour included as wheat) amount
ing to 2,991,698 bushels, against 2,
685,000 bushels last week, and as com
pared with 3,889,000 bushels in the
week a year ago, and with 8,182,000
two years ago.
. The total business failures in the
United States is 244 this week, six
more than last week, seventy-two more
than in tbe week a year ago, and thir
teen more than the third week ot Au
gust, 1894, the period of extreme de
pression after the panio of ,1898.
MODIFIED THE ORDER.
Railroads May I arry Certain Letters
Without Postage.
Washington, Aug. 24. Aoting Postmaster-General
Neilson today modified
the recent order of the postmaster-general
prohibiting railroads from carry
ing, without payment of postage, mail
relating to railroad business. The
modified order was issued to meet the
views expressed in an opinion by Attorney-General'
Harmon', to whom the
matter had been referred at the request
of the railway companies.
The attorney-general held first, that
a railorad company has the right to
oarry letters without payment of post
age, that are written and sent by the
offloers and agents of tbe railorad oom
pany whioh carries and delivers them,
oonoerning its business, and these only.
They may be letters to its other officers
and agedta, to those of connecting
lines, or to any one else, so loig as no
other carrier intervenes. The moment
this ooours, such other, carrier is tran
sporting letters for a t'iird party, whlob
is oontartry to law. ' Lettetra of a com
pany addressed to offloers or agents ot a
connecting line on company business
and delivered to an agent of - the latter
at the point of connection may be oar
ried by the latter to any point on the
line, because, suoh letters oomes within
the prinoiple already expressed. But
any oompany or offloer or employe
thereof oarrying letters whioh are
neither written by that oompany nor
addressed to it, is liable to the penal
ties imposed by law. This is the rule,
though the Intervening carrier may
have an ultimate interest in the sub
ject of the correspondence.
AN INFANT MONSTROSITY.
An Elght-Honths-Old Male Child Dies
of Old Age.
St Louis, Aug 34. Sherman Robert
Buroh died of senile debility at tbe
age of 8 months. The ohild was born
last December, and on Monday died of
old age. He had passed through all
the intellectual phases that are oom
mon to mankind, but so rapidly that
be had not time nor opportunity to
gather the knowledge that oomes of ex
perience and preoept or the wisdom
born of thought. His brain developed
and then withered with a rapidity
oomparable only to the growth and
deoay of Jonah's gourd.
Tbe faoe and head of tbe child made
a striking feature. The bead was
wedge-shaped, broad at the top and
tapering to a point at the obin. It
was surmounted by a crop of, dark
brown bair, rather scant, but strong
and of full size. It was not suoh hair
as grows on tbe head of an 8-montbs-old
baby. It was strong and coarse as
that of a man of mature age. On tbe
upper lip was a slight mustache, plain
ly outlined, while all over the faoe a
straggling beard was discernible.
"Tbe baby was unusually bright,"
said tbe father "He began to notice
almost as soon as he was born, and by
tbe time be was a week old be seemed
to know as muoh as bis older brother,
who was a year old. He did not try to
talk, but wuuld look at you as though
he. knew what you were thinking
about. He never did look like a obild,
nor act like one. - He was a litlte old
man."
An Ignoble Red Man.
Olympia, Wash., Aug. 30. Jimmy
Sam, a well-known Indian about
town, some time during last night
stabbed another Indian, named Jack
son, from Lewis 'oounty, five times in
different parts of tbe body. Jimmy
was lodged in jail and Jackson is still
alive. . "
WhJ The Are Fighting.
Madrid, Aug. 34. Senor Sagasta,
ex-prime minister of Spain, in an in
terview, said it was proposed to send a
dispatch, containing a memorandum
upon the Cuban war to tbe United
States government Senor Sagasta
said it was necessary to continue tbe
war in Cuba in order to prove that
Spain is not afraid of threats of a con
flict with a greater nation.
The grandfather of the Rothschilds
is said to bave been a poor man in 1800
Interesting Discoveries by Pennsyl
vania Mound Bsoavators.
Pittsburg, Aug. 34. Great interest
is manifested over the disoovery ot im
plements in a mound at MoKee rocks,
wbioh is being excavated for soientiflo
purposes. The mound is belived to
have been built by the ancient mound
builders, and the implements found
today plaoe the mound on a par with
those that have been explored else
where. Tbe work is being done under
the direotion of Thomas Harper, of this
city, who believes that the specimens
found here are not less than 1,000 years
old, and proves that they were made
by the most anoient people that in
habited tbia oountry. The list inoludes
a bone implement whioh Mr. Harper
belives was a flaker, tbe pieoes of
wbioh are separated in five or six
parts. Bone needles er awls also were
found, and Mr. Harper says they oan
be partially restored.
A tomahawk, whioh Mr. Harper re
gards as being not less than 1,000 years
old, was found. Tbe same kind of
weapons are also found on tbe British
isles. It is made of gneiss. He con
siders this an extraordinary disoovery.
Tbe bone implement, or flaker is tie
implement whioh the anoients used in
making flint instruments. The speci
mens will be placed in the Carnegie
museum.
Slnoe this mound was opened, a
month ago, sixteen skeletons have been
found, many of them ot gigantio
stature. ' '
CALIFORNIA MINES.
Transvaal Operators Looking Toward
That BUte.
San Franoisoo, Aug. 84. If present
indications oan be relied upon, tbe re
cent political troubles in the Trans
vaal, South Africa, are likely to have
a beneficial effect on the mining in
dustry in California. As is probably
well known, there has been an exodus
of mining enlgneers f rom the Transvaal
during tbe past few months. Ham
mond, Perkins and many other mining
experts who bave had a hand in the
direotion of vast mining enterprises in
tbe Johannesburg distriot, have retired
from the scene of the recent disturb
ances for prudential reasons, and are
now in I .ondon. Many of these gentle
men still retain their South Afrioan
oonneotious, but, instead of devoting
their attention to Afrioan mining
affairs, they are looking for good in
vestments in other mining seotions of
the world on behalf of tbe oompanies
and corporations tbey represent Cali
fornia is attracting not a small share of
their attention, and, from what oan be
learned from mining engineers now
here, there is a disposition on the part
of moneyed kings of the Transvaal to
invest heavily in mining properties in
this state.
TO SHOW AMERICAN GOODS
Southern Republics Do the Right Thing
by Manufacturers.
Washington, Aug. 84. The presi
dent of Argentina has issued a decree,
a oopy of which has been forwarded to
the state department, remitting all
duties on articles sent from the
United States for the purpose of show
ing the manufaoturing and commercial
industries of this oountry. The move
ment for these exhibitions originated
in Philadelphia. The Venezuela gov
ernment has granted a oonoession to an
American to establish permanent exhi
bitions of American goods at Caracas,
Maraoaibo and other large oities of
Venezuela..
A new phase of tbe long contest be
twem Chile, Bolivia and Peru is
reaohed by which Bolivia is promised
coast line on the Paoiflo, More than
a year ago the treaty was itlade by giv
ing Taona and Arioa to Chile, thus
leaving Bolivia out off from, access to
the ocean and one of the few countries
situated like Switzerland, entirely
without a ooast line. Sinoe that time,
the' oountries have been negotiating
and it is said a treaty by whioh Bolivia
gets baok a strip through Taona and
Arioa sufficient to give her an outlet to
tbe Paoiflo.
A Bloyole Combination.
New York, Aug. 34. The World
will publish tbe following: The big
manufacturers of bioyles have formed
an association to promote sociability
and good understanding among its
members, it is stated. Tbe associa
tions' members represent $28,000,000
invested in rubber and bloyole plants.
It was formed at a recent meeting held
at the old Manhattan Athletic Club
house. It will hold another meeting,
which will take the form of a banquet,
in September. There will be semi
annual meetings, or banquets, after
that Tbe members will, according to
their own statements, arrive at "tacit
understandings."
Manitoba; School Question Settled.
Ottawa, Aug. 21. It has been as
certained on good authority tbat the
Manitoba school question is ss good as
settled, and there will not be any ne
cessity for remedial legislation. This
decision bas been arrived at after num
erous interviews between members of
the provincial government of Manitoba
and tbe Dominion government
Franklin was widely known as a
writer on economy and political sub
jects before be bad reached 33.
Concerted Action Not Jolt I fled.
New York, Aug. 34. A conference
of bankers, beaded by J. Edward Sim
mons and Frederick D. Tappen, to fa
cilitate gold Importations, wss con
cluded today. Tbe statement was
made tbat tbe financial situation did
not justify concerted action by tbe
banks at present
Wben man wbo makes $70 a
month quits spending $80 the financial
quesion will solve itself.
Trade bas been slackening up tA
past week, and politics are blamed'
somewhat for the quiet condition of the!
markets. The meat and provision,
market is fairly aotive at tbe very low
figures quoted. Hog produots are es
pecially low, and it Is doubtful if Ore
gon ever saw them lower. The butter
market is still weak, with prospeotal
favorable for a further decline. Re
ceipts are very large and there is no out
side market at present to relieve the
srplus. Potatoes are fairly steady.
When Market.
There is still but little movement ir
new wheat, and prioes are nominal.
Harvest is in full blast all over tba
upper oountry, and in many plaoea, es
pecially in the Palouae orops are ex
ceptionally good, in fact muoh better
than was anitoipated. Quotations ares
Walla Walla, 48 to 49o; Valley, 61 to '
62o per bushel.
Produce Market.
Floub Portland, Salem, Cascadia
and Dayton, $2.85; Benton county and .
White Lily, $2.85: graham, $2.50; su
perfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oath Choice white, 3031c per bush
el; choice gray, 2fl20c. Rolled, oats
are quoted as follows: Bags, $4.25
5.25; barrels, $4.607; cases, $3.75.
Hat Timothy, $10.60 per ton; cheat,
$0.50(37 ; clover, $67 ; oat, $6.60 ; wheat,
$5.5030.50.
Bablsy Feed barley, $13.60 per too;
brewing, $1410.
MiLLBTcrrs Bran. $12.50; shorts,
$13.50; middlings, $1820; rye, 90o
per cental.
Bottib Fancv creamery is quoted at
35c; fancy dairy, 26c ; fair to good,
17X20o.
Potatoes. California, 86c; Oregon,
85 90c per sack; sweets, 3c per pound.
Onions 8590c per back.
Potltby Chickens, mixed. $3,003
3.60, broilers, $1.252.25: geese, $4.00;
turkeys, live, 1010c; duoks, $2.00
3.00 per dozen.
Egos Oregon. 120 per dozen.
Cheese Oregon, 9c; California 8c;
Young America, 9c per pound.
Tbopical Fboit California lemons,
fancy, $3.604.60 per box; banana,
$1.76(32.60 per bunch: California seed
ling oranges, $2.602.75 per box; Med
iterranean sweets, $4.60 per box ; pine
apples, $3.005.00 per dozen.
Obboom Vboktablxs Garlic, new, M8
per pound; Oregon peas, 2c; new cab
bage, lc per lb; tomaUxs, 60o per
hnr atrino hnans. 2Ura.Hfl Def lb'. WAX-
2)6 3c per lb; Oregon radishes, lOo per
dozen; cauliflower, 7076c per dozen;
cucumbers, 15 26c per dozen; egg
piani, lUlfflKDU per iu,
Fbbbh Fbcit California apples, $1.25
1.60per box; cherries, Royal Anne,
loose, 6o per lb, 66o a box ; Black Re- '
publicans, loose, 6o per lb, 60o per box;
gooseberries. 22ic per pound; cur
rants, 6c; raspberries, 4c ; blackberries,
3c; apricots, $1 per box; peaches, 66c
75 per box ; watermelons, $22.25 per
dozen.
Dbibd Fbuits Apples, evaporated,
bleached. 4(84X0 ' sun-dried, 3X4c;
pears, sun and evapotated. 66o . plums,
pitlesa, 84c ; prunes, 35 per pound. .
Wooiz-Vallev. 9c, per pound; East
ern Oregon, 67c
Hops Choice, Oregon 23o per
pound ; medium, neglected.
Nuts Peanuts, 67o per pound for
raw, 10c for roasted ; cocoanu s, 90c per
dozen; walnuts, 12Jf 14c; pine nuts,
16c; hickory nuts, H10c; chestnuts,
17c; Brazil, 12c; pecans, large, 14c;
Jumbo, 16c; filberts, 12c; fancy, large,
14c hard-shell, be; paper-shell, 1U
12Hc ' s
Pbovibionb Portland pack : Smoked
hams are quoted at 1010c per lb;
picnic hams, 7c; boneless hams, 7Jcj
breakfast bacon. 10c; bacon, 6c; dry
salt sides, 6c; lard. 6-pound pails, 7c;
10s, 8c; 60s, 6?4c; tierces, 7o per
pouna. ;
Hides Dry hides, No. 1, 16 pounds
end upward, 8),9c per pound; dry
kip, No. 1, 6 to 10 pounds, 7c per pound ;
dry calf, No. 1, under 6 pounds, U13c;
dry salted, one-third lets than dry flint.
Salted hides, sound steers, 60 pounds,
and over, 6c; do, 60 to 60 pounds, 6c;
do; under 60 pounds and cows, 3)6 4c;
do, kip, sound Bteers, 15 to 30 pounds,
4c; do. veal, 10 to 14 pounds, 6c; do,
calf, under 10 pounds, 6(a6c; green (un
salted), lc per pound less; culls (bulls,
stags, moth-eaten, badly cut, scored,
hair slipped, weather-beaten or grubby)
one-third less.
Beeswax 20(322 per pound.
Tallow Prime, per pound, 3(32cr
No. 2 and grease, 2c.
' Merchandise Market.
Salmon Columbia, river No. 1'. tails,
$1.251.60; No. 2. talis. $2.252.W);
fancy, No. 1, flats, $1.76(31.86; Alaska,
No. 1, tails, $1.201.30 ; No. 2, tails, $1.90
(S62.26.
Coboxob Manilla rope, lU-inch, i
Quoted at 8c; White sisal, bard twisted
Rope, lk-in. uir. and upward, Olc;
rope, 12-tLread, 6?c.
' Booab (iolden V, 4c ; extra C, 4 Ji'c ;
dry granulated, 6c; cube crushed and
powdered, ttc per pound; o per pound
discount on all grades for prompt cash ;
half barrels, he more than barrels;
maple sugar. 16(416c per pound.
CorrxE Mdcha, 2731c per pound;
Java, fancy, 242l)c; Costa Kica, 20(9
23&c; Caracal. 22,a25c; Salvador, 19
22c; Arbuckle, $19.66; Lion, $19.66;
Columbia, $19.66 per case.
Kicb Island, $3.604 per sack; Ja
pan, $3.75(34.
Coal Oil Cases, 20c; barrels,
17c; tanks, 15J$c per gallon.
Wheat Baud Calcutta, $4.25(g4.37i
for July and August deliveries.
Meat Market.
Bt,i firnaa. ton atattra. 12.40! mvi.
$1.752.00; dressed beef, 3i44C per
pound.
Mutton viroee, oeet sneep, wetners.
$1.75; ewes, $1.60; dressed mutton, 3
(tf 4!-i,c per pound.
Veal Gross, small, 4jc; large, 3(3
3We per pound.
Uruim Jirnaa. rhoim. hoevv. tTOOft
8.26: light and feeders, $2.76; dressed.
cft3c Pr pouna.
8AN FRANCISCO MARKETS.
Potatoes Garnet Chile, 60(S60c;
Balinas Burbanka, 0(890c: Early Rose,
2640c; River Burbanks, 26(a40c;
sweets, 11?4 Per pound.
Ovioks 30r40c per sack for yellow,
60(?6O for pirkle.
Chbbsb fancy, mild, new, 8' (39c J
fair to good, 7A8l,es Younc America,
86 10c; Eastern. 129 13r per pound.
iiora 2(8 4c per pound for old.
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