Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
from All the Clttea and Towm of
the Thriving Sister States
Oregon.
The Grant county court has declared
that taxes for the year 1896 will not be
delinquent until May 15, 1807.
The oounty treasurer of Umatilla re
ceived from the sheriff last week $1,
653.79, the first installment of 1805
taxes turned over by the sheriff. "
Carl Parker has started for the John
Day country to buy 80,000 head of
sheep, if that number can be bought,
forFoss & Co , says a Baker City
paper.
President William H. Hampton, of
the Miner's As.ooiation of Southern
Oregon, has called a mooting of the ex
ecutive committee, to be held in
'Grant's Pass, in the near future.
George and Edward Sally, two boys
who were born and brought up in
Baker connty, were sentenced to the
penitentiary by Judge Eakin, in Baker
City, George to two years, and Edward
to one and a half years. George is 22
years old, and Edward is 18.
The Grant oounty court has awarded
the contract for putting in steel fix
tures at the county jail to the Moslor
Safe Company, of Portland, for $2,750.
Among the improvements will be steel
cells, closets, bathtubs, etc. The work
is to be done this spring, and after
that it is hoped thore will be no more
-escapes from this jail.
T. A. Walker helped Engineer Nioh
oison in his recent geological surveys
around Coquille. Among other things
found was one of the government's ini
tial points at the courthouse block,
which had been tampered with. A
fine of (250 is provided for arrest and
conviction of the party or parties med
dling with or defacing these posts.
J. B. Tuoker, a farmer of Weston,
says that wheat in his section of the
counry is looking fine, and he does not
think that there is any danger of its
being hurt from this time on. He said
that where he lived the wheat was
much more likely to be injured than
in the wheat bolt west of Weston, be
cause of the altitude, which causes
more thawing and freezing.
Three horses belonging to R. It.
Cleveland, of Beagle, Jackson county,
died last week of a disease similar to
spinal meningitis. The disease seemed
to weaken the spine, and the animals
grew rapidly worse, resulting in their
deaths within four days from the day
-of the first symptoms. During the ill
ness, they ate and drank heartily until
within a short time before death.
George B. McKenzie, the expert ac
countant appointed by Judge Fullerton,
to go through the books of Lincoln
oounty, is now busily engaged at his
task. He says that his instructions
from the court are to go through the
books and aooounts of the sheriff, clerk
.and treasurer, checking up the same,
and find out how much money has
been received by these officers, and
what disposition has been made of it.
Washington.
Garfield is working to have a cream
ery established there.
William Rowe, an old Walla Walla
county pioneer, was buried last week
in Walla Walla city.
Fishermen on Willapa harbor are
busy tarring their nets and otherwise
preparing for the fishing season.
The people of Kettle Falls are build
ing a bridge acrosss the Colville river,
for the use of farmers coming to town.
Frank Smith, a tree pruner, living
near Walla Walla, drank three bottles
of a patent medicine one day last week,
and died the next day.
A majority of the Indians on the
Yakima reservation ore said to favor
the proposition to sell their lands, but
a few of the more wealthy among them
are against it
Ah Sam and Ah Mum, two Chinese
laborers, were arrested in Walla Walla
last week, charged with being unlaw
fully in the United States. They will
be sent before United States Judge
Hanford, in Seattle, for a hearing.
Even the wheat raising district of
Walla Walla has its mines. A carload
of gold-bearing ore from Blue and Mill
oreeks, has been shipped to the Tacoma
smelter. Should the experiment prove
successful, a large force of men may be
put to work at the mines.
The reference library of the Cheney
normal school has received a valuable
addition of about 200 volumes, consist
ing of literary, scientific and historical
works by the most eminent writers of
ancient and modern times. The liter
ary work consists of both prose and
poetry.
The telephone company is distribut
ing poles between Myers Falls and Spo
kane. Teams are daily hauling poles
between the falls and Chewelah. Pres
ident Oakes and Secretary Aris say
they expect soon to have the line in
working order between the falls and
Spokane.
A tree on the Northern Pacific track
between Aberdeen and Monteaano
caused Fireman Hampden to jump
from the engine one day last week.
The engineer stuck to his poet and the
engine knocked the tree, which turned
out to be rotten, all to pieoes. The
fireman was found unconscious, badly
bruised, and bleeding, but he is recov
ering from his injuries.
Fifty-three persons joined the Meth
odist church during th recent revival
meetings ia Colfax.
A Polish Centenarian.
Chicago, March 22. Adam Adam
icek, a Pole, has just celebrated his
112th birthday. His wife is still liv
ing and is 87 years of age. Both are
almost totally blind, and yet their gen
eral health otherwise is remarkably
good. Adamicck is believed to be the
oldest man in Chicago, and as far as
known the oldest in the United Status.
Until recently, none but the parish
priest and his Polish neighbors know
his remarkable story, although his
habitation had stood in the stretoh of
muddy pruirie near the ruilrouds for
ovor thirty years.
Adamicek's abnormally large head,
his short stature Mid bent form gave
him a brownie-like appearance. This
is heightened by a surprising activity.
His long gray hair straggles out from
under a poked hat, and he wears a
thin gray beard. For the last twelve
years, ever since he passed the oentury
mark, Adamicek has remained within
his muddy cuhin. His muscles are not
shrunken, nor his form shriveled. It
is pitiful to see the uncertainty which
his blindness gives to his walk, but he
steps firmly about the house and the
palisaded enclosure. The old man is
an inveterate snufftaker, and has
smoked nearly all his life. He has not
been a total abstainer from liquors.
i ,
Run Into an Open Ilrlilge.
Chattanooga, March 22. News has
just been received here from Cole City,
Ga., of a terrible railroad aocident thore
at noon. A switch engine of the Dade
Coal Company, running between tho
mines ami the furnaces, ran into an
open bridge, washed away by high wa
ter. The locomotive plunged down an
embankment, carrying with it tho en
gineer, Stewart, and the fireman, Cagle.
The locomotive turned upside down,
and the coal from tho firebox fell across
the engineer's breast. The fireman
was pinned to the side of the cab, and
could not render Stewart assititance.
Stewart begged the fireman to kill him.
Stewart was burned to death.
llartemler Let Him Drink.
St. Joseph, Mo., March 22. "Either
give me w hisky, or I'll drink this," ex
claimed " --nk Lewis, 20 years old, as
he steed bo re the bar of a saloon this
afterr.ion h lding a small phial in his
hand an., uudressing the barkeeper who
had asked him to pay for a round of
drinks. The barkeeper did not see fit.
to forgive the debt and Lewis poured
the contents, three ounces of carbolio
acid, down his throat. Lewis was
carried to the police station, where he
died in a few minutes in horrible
agony. His father ia one of the
wealthiest business men of King coun
ty, Mo. No reason is assigned for this
act
A Bay Collision.
San Franoisco, March 22. A colli
sion, fortunately unattended by loss of
life, occurred on the bay this afternoon
between the stern-wheeler Sunol, bound
for Napa, and the bark Olympic, in
ward bound from Philadelphia, while
the latter was beating up the harbor.
Although the Sunol's engine-room was
wrecked, she only partly filled, and
was towed to the flats. Her passengers
and crew escaped by climbing over the
bows of the Olympic, after she crashed
into the steamer. . The accident was
due to carelessness of the Sunol's cap
tain, who tried to cross the Olympic's
bows.
Killed by Ilia Brother.
San Luis Obispo, Cal., March 22.
P. H. Dalidet, jr., one of the best
known business men of this county,
and member of a well-known and
highly respected family of this city,
was fatally shot by his younger brother,
John Dalidet, at the family residence
yesterday. The shooting was the re
sult of a family difference. The tragedy
caused a big sensation here, owing to
the prominence of the family.
Spanish Deffat in Philippine!.
New York, March 22. A special
cable to the Herald from Manilla says
2,000 troops under Solodo were' led on
March 9 by the native guides into an
ambush near a strong position occupied
by the rebels. The latter, 8,000 in
number, attacked the Spaniards and
defeated them. The Spaniards re
treated in confusion, after almost a
hand-to-hand fight. The extent of the
Spanish loss is unknown.
Pari! Hm a Genuine Duel.
Paris, March 22. A duel with
swords was fought this afternoon in the
park of St. Quen, between the Chev
alier Pinea, master of the Italian school
of arms, and M. Thomageux, a French
amateur swordsman. The meeting
which excited intense interest, arose
from a letter insulting Pinea as the out
come of a recent assault at arms.
Thomageux was wounded in the face.
Misery of Turkish Troops.
Constantinople, March 22. The Im
perial Ottoman bank advanced only at
the last moment the 600,000 required
by the porte for military expenses. The
misery of the Turkish troops is intense.
Their wages have not been paid for the
last nine months, and many officers are
selling their arms and uniforms to get
food.
The Largest Schooner.
Bath, Me., March 22. The schooner
Frank A. Palmer, the largest of its
class on the high seas, was successfully
launched here this morning. The ves
sel measures 261 feet on the keel, and
from the end of the jibboom to the end
of the spinnaker 412 feet
Oxford Followed Suit.
Oxford, England, March 22. The
honorary degree of doctor of civil law
was conferred here today upon Dr.
Nansen, the Norwegian explorer.
According to the Botanical Gazette,
a notable cactus garden has been estab
lished at the University of Arizona.
It is the intention to bring together
eventually all the cactaceae which are
indigenous to the United States, and
already more than one hundred species
are represented.
THE BILL REPORTED.
i
Tariff Debate Will Continue Five Days
I House Rules Agreed Upon.
! Washington, March 22. This was a
stormy duy in the house of representa
tives." The Republican leaders, before
adjournment, secured the adoption of a
special order fixing tho limits of the
tariff debate, and two of tho regular
appropriation bills which failed to be
come laws at the last session were
passed and sent to the senate.
I The sundry civil bill carried $53, 147,-
551, and the general deficiency Din
$8,160,214.
The gallorics were thronged and
there was hardly a vacant seat on the
floor. At times partisan fooling ran
high, and the hall echoed the cheers of
the majority or opposition as their re
spective spokesmen made effective
points.
All the premonitory symptoms that
the house was about to plunge into the
work before it ceased when the speaker
rapped the members to order today.
The desks were piled high with the ap
propriation bills that failed.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal, Dingley, amid some applause,
reported the tariff bill.
After a good deal of crossfiring be
tween Dingley and McMillin, it was
finally arranged that 5,000 extra copies
of the majority und minority reports,
and also 5,000 copies of a comparative
statement of tho tariff, should be
printed.
Dulzell, from the committee on rules,
presented the special rules undor which
the house was to operate during the
tariff debate. The rules provided that
general debate will continue five days,
with night sessions, after which the
bill should be open to amendment un-,
der the five-minute rule (committee
amendments to have precedence), un
til March 81, when the bill, with pend
ing amendments, should be reported
from the committee of the whole and
the previous question be considered as
orrdered, on the third reading and final
passage of the bill. The rules also gave
leave to print for twenty days.
Dalzell demanded the previous ques
tion, which was ordered by a strict
party vote, the Populists voting with
the Democrats.
In deference to the request of the
minority, Dalzell agreed to an extension
of debate on the general order to be
thirty minutes on a side.
The Senate Proceedings.
Washington, March 22. The first
copy of the senate calendar was on the
desks of senators today. The two Pa
ciflo railroad bills, reported yesterday,
were numbered 1 and 2. These and
Turpie's resolution for the election of
senators by the people constituted the
calendar.
The claim ot J. Edward Addicks to
a seat as senator from Delaware made
its reappearance by a petition from Ad
dicks, presented by Burrows of Michi
gan. ' Following this, Chandler presented a
memorial from Governor W. P. Lord
and the secretary of state of Oregon,
detailing the circumstances of the re
cent failure of the legislature of that
state to organize and elect a senator.
The document stated that as a result of
this failure, no session of the Oregon
legislature had been held, since Feb
ruary, 1895. The purpose of the
memorial was to establish the right of
the governor to appoint a senator. The
memorial, like Addicks' petition, was
referred to the committee on privileges
and elections.
The early opening of the tariff work
in the senate was indicated by the
agreement to a resolution for the prepa
ration of a comparative statement on
revenue questions and for an increase
of the clerical stuff of the finance com
mittee. .
A resolution by Gear was agreed to,
calling on tho attorney-general for in
formation as to the Pacific railroad
foreclosure suits.
A resolution by Pettigrew for a com
mittee of five senators to look into the
Pacifio railroads questions, was re
ferred. At 12:50 the senate went into
executive session on the arbitration
treaty, and at 4 o'clock adjourned.
Senator Davis, chairman of the com
mittee on foreign relations, spoke at
length in the executive session of the
senate today, presenting the views of
the majority of the committee favorable
to the arbitration treaty, and be was
listened to with the utmost attention
by the senators.
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
I A Husband Returns to Find His Wife
i in Knickerbockers.
j Vineland, N. J., Maroh 22. Twenty
years ago Captain Moses .Lucas went
away. He was not heard from and it
was supposed he was dead. When he
went away he left behind a wife and
daughter. They have continued to
work the farm which gave them sup
port To facilitate movement about
the fields and barnyard they donned
many years ago a more fitting style of
dress for that work than skirts. Since
knickerbockers became fashionable they
I have modified their dress to knicker
j boekers.
! Lucas suddenly returned and in a
carriage was driven to the door. Mrs.
Lucas answered and in a minnte she
and the stranger were clasped in each
other's arms, the man being her long
lost husband. Lucas is said to have
become wealthy.
London, March 22. A Times dis
patch from St. Petersburg says over a
thousand students have been arrested
at the doors of the cathedral of Our
Lady of Kaean. They were endeavor
j ing to attend prayers said for the soul
; of a girl student named Vitroff, who it
, is alleged set fire to a blanket and
burned herself to death in her prison
cell to escape the insults and violence
of a prison official. She had been im
prisoned since December on the charge
I of bing a political agitator.
SULTAN WANTS PEACE
He Offers to Withdraw His
Forces From Crete.
WILL ASSIGN IT TO KING GEORGE
lie to Retain Imperial Suteralnty
Taking the Form of an An
nual Tribute.
London, March 19. The secretary of
the Byron Society has received a tele
gram from Athens, stating that the sul
tan, desiring to preserve peaoe, has
offered to withdraw the Turkish gar
rison from Crete and to ussign the
island to King George; to be occupied
and administered by Greece, with im
perial suzerainty of the sultan, taking
the form of an annual tribute. The
telegram states that those terms are en
tirely agreeable to the Hellenic cabinet,
as well as to the Cretan Mohammedans,
who prefer annexation to uutonomy.
lin Apparent Conflrinatlan.
Cunea, March 19. Tho admirals of
the combined fleets in Cretan waters
mudo a formal proclamation of the in
tention of the grout powers to confer
upon tho island an autonomous govern
ment, subject to the suzerainty of the
Jul tun.
The Proclamation's Provisions.
Cunea, March 19. It is learned this
morning that the powers have irrevoc
ably decided to assure complete auton
omy of Crete, under tho sultan's suzer
ainty, but they huvo agreed upon meas
ures intended to regulate the adminis
tration of un autonomous regime, to
restore peace and order and to guaran
tee to every one, without distinction of
race or religion, liberty, the security of
property, the resumption of husbandry
and industry, und the development of
the resources of the country.
FRENCH LINE STEAMER LOST.
A Story Horrible Even In the Annals of
the Atlantic Ocean.
New York, March 19. The steumer
Ville de St. Kuzaire, belonging to the
French line to the West Indies, sailed
from New York March 6 for Port-au-Prince
with, thirty-seven persons on
board, and has not since been reported.
She was a bark-rigged screw steamer of
2,640 tons register. The World this
morning publishes the following:
The sohooner Hilda, that plies along
the coast between Perth Amboy and
Savannah, came into port lust night,
bearing a story horrible even in the
annals of the Atluntio oeun. She car
ried in her cabin four passengers whom
she had picked up in a boat on Monday
ten miles off shore. It was Captain
Reims, skipper of the Hilda, who first
sighted the boat. As the schooner drew
nearer, the outlines of human figures
were made out. On the prow of the
boat they saw the words, "Ville de St.
Nazaire." A boat was lowered, and
the chief mate rowed to the helpless
craft. Nearer anil nearer they cume,
and the faces of the sailors gradually
came into view. At the bow of the
boat, and apparently in charge of the
party, was an old man wearing the
uniform of a ship's officer. The mate
presently recognized the face, hollow
and sunken with the cold and want of
many days, the features of Cuptuin
Jules Berry, one of the best known of
the commanders of the Hnvre branch
of the French line, and now long trans
ferred to the West Indian service. Be
hind him on the center seat were two
half-dressed, . coatless, hatless men,
hugging themselves together from the
blast of the cold wind, and gibbering
at the startled faces of the Hilda's Bail
ors. At their feet was a fourth man.
The old man at the prow opened his
lips, but no sound came from them.
One by one the men were lifted in.
In the stern of the craft was a fifth
man. One of the sailors touched him
on the arm and began to draw him
gently forward, when he slid quickly
off the seat and settled a lifeless heap
in the boat. Three more corpses were
in the boat. Then the sailors towed
the dreadful freight back to the Hilda.
Nothing could be done but consign the
dead to the sea. Captain .Berry and
the three men were looked after and
partially brought back to life and rea
son. All they could toll wus that the
St. Nazaire had somehow been wrecked
or abandoned, and that these men were
the survivors of those who had taken
to the boats, but how many Were dead
and how many were living remained
untol until midnight Tuesday, when
Captaiun Berry, the first to recover,
was able to gasp out some words of his
story.
"Eight." were his first words in an
swer to a question. "Eight there
were more than eight; there were
eighty souls on the boat when we
abandoned the St. Nazaire. Of all
these, we four are only left. The
others starved or froze where they sat.
Tbey died in all ways; they sank,
dropped off one by one, except where
they went mad and then some jumped
into the sea, and ended in that way.
The captain was the first to go. The
men were quiet till they saw the
women die, then they got raving, stark
mad. All are here now. One, my
comrade, Dr. Maire, Stants, our engi
neer, and Tagardi, the first mate.
That's all I can tell now."
Bat the old man gradually grew
stronger and able to talk with some
thing like coherency and clearness.
Dr. Maire, too, recovered his speech and
strength enough to talk.
Chicago, March 19. After careful
preparations to conceal her identity, a
daughter of Gustave Strawingcr, a
wealthy contractor of Wester Grove, a
suburb of St Louis, committal suicide
by shooting herself in a boarding-house
in this city. She had plenty of money,
and the cause of ber suicide is a mystery.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Brief and Uneventful Session In the '
Senate.
Washington, Maroh 20. The session
of the senate today was brief and une
ventful. A large number of bills was
introduced, and the first report of the
session was received. A smile went
around the chamber when Stewart, a
resident of Carson City, Nov., where
the pugilistic contest occurred yestor
day, offered a bill for the relief of one
Corbett. It proved to be a private
pension bill.
One of the measures introduced by
Gallingor proposed an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting legislation
in behalf of any religious denomina
tion. Turpie gave notice of a speech on the
election of sonators by popular vote,
and that he would introduce a resolu
tion proposing an amendment to the
constitution for this purpose.
The first report of the session was
presented by Gear of Iowa, from the
committee on Pacific roads, and was
favorable, to tho bill for an adjustment
of the Pacifio railroad debts by a com
mission, consisting of the secretary of
the interior, secretary of the treasury
and attorney-general. Gear asked that
the bill be made the unfinished busi
ness of the Benate, with a proviso that
it should not be taken up for a month.
There was no objection, however, from
Cockrell, and after considerable discus
sion the bill went to the calendar.
There was an objection also to Gear's
resolution calling on the attorney-general
for information as to the foreclo
sure proceedings against the Pacifio
roads. Morgan gave notice that he
would later submit a minority report
of the bill for a commission.
In the executive session, the report
in favor of the arbitration treaty was
presented by Senator Davis, as chair
man of the committee on foreign rela
tions, and was in the shape of a reso
lution for ratification. Morgan's
speech was a statement of his position,
and those of Daniel and Mills were in
the nature of a minority report in op
position to the treaty.
Presidential Nominations.
Washington, March 20. President
McKinley today sent the following
nominations to the senate:
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister plen
ipotentiary to Mexico.
William Osborne, of ' Massachusetts,
consul-general at London.
John K. Gowdy, of Indiana, consul
general at PariB.
John M. Brigham, of Ohio, assistant
secretary of agriculture.
Perry S. Heath, of Indiana, first as
sistant postmaster-general.
Captain Charles Shaler, of the ord
nance department, to be major.
Henry L. Marindin, assistant to the
superintendent of the United States
coast and geodetic survey, to be a mem
ber of the Mississippi river commission.
APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR.
Regents of Washington State Agricul
tural College.
Olympia, Wash., March 22. The
governor today appointed Walter W.
Windus to be regent of the state agri
cultural college, vice E. S. Ingraham,
of Seattle, whose term expired March
9, 1897. H. S. Blandford, of Walla
Walla, is reappointed to be regent of
the same institution. His term will
end March 9, 1903.
The governor has announced there
will be no appointment to the office of
adjutant-general. The duties of the
position will be performed by Major
Ballaine, the governor's private secre
tary. The governor gave an audience to
night to a committee that submitted
for the executive's consideration rea
sons why he should approve the capitol
bill.
The governor today vetoed senate
bill No. 194, which gives holders of
tide, shoal and oyster lands certain
privileges. This bill is held to be un
constitutional, as it attempts to take
away rights already acquired by.certain
parties under the law, without giving
them any remedy; also that bill No.
224, which has been signed, gives the
improvers of tide lands all of the privi
leges asked for in this bill, and pre
vents infringements of the rights of
upland owners.
The other bills vetoed are:
House bill No. 182, to construct a
wagon road from Lyle, in Klickitat
county, to Washougal, in Clark county.
No. 250, appropriating $1,700 for
the relief of George Babcock, of Walla
Walla.
The governor approved these house
bills:
No. 459, providing for a state wagon
rioad from Marcus across the Cascades
to Marblehead, and appropriating $20,
000. No. 428, to survey and establBh a
state road , from Buckley across the
Cascades to Yakima.
No. 485, appropriating $15,000 to
establish a state road from Wenatchee
to the mouth of Methow river.
Several Americans Liberated.
Havana, March 22. Louis Day, an
American, who was arrested at Beglat
last December and confined in Cabanas
prison, has been set at liberty and ex
pelled from the island. Charles Scott,
the American, and Yenero, a natural
ized American, have been ordered set
at liberty.
Fatal Railway Collision.
Denver, March 22. Patrick Casey,
Hugh McBride, aged 15 and 13 years,
respectively, were scalded to death
this morning in a wreck caused by a
collision of engines on the Union Pa
cific, Denver & Gulf railroad, in this
city. Ed J. Hayes, aged 36, was so
badly burned that he died in a few
hours. John W. Berndt, aged 40, was
severely injured. The four were em
ployed in factories, and were riding to
the city on an engine tender.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins Company's ReTlear
of Trade.
Thore was a fair trade in spr -.dative
wheut the past week, tho mar'.et being
iiibject to frequent but moderate
changes. Tho feeling manifested was,
on the whole, firm, though at times the
market exhibited rather un easy under
tone, the week closing with about 1 Jo
advance. Thore has been fuir buying
of late by certain interests which has
led many traders to believe that the
market is having suport from opera
tors who of lute huvo favored the short
sido, und no doubt this huying was
something of a power this week. Con
ditions of supply and demand have not
changed since our last review, and cer
tainly do not warrant lower prices for
wheat Values muy drug a little lower,
owing to luck of speculative support,
but natural laws cannot be ignored
with impunity any more in business
matters than in physical life. It is an
assured certainty that American sup
plies of wheat will be more nearly ex
hausted before next harvest than at
any time since the late European war.
It is equally certuin that the amount of
wheat on passage will fall below the
lowest previous record. Stocks of
wheat at home and abroad are being
rapidly depleted. That values should
decline under such conditions is one of
those inoxplicublo phenomena that
should invito rather than repol specula
tive investment
Thomas Bellas, the most indefatig
able compiler of figures in Chicago,
having a bullish tendency on wheat,
draws attention to the visible supply
now, compared with former years. Mr.
Bellas says: "The visible supply of
wheut in this country, has decreased
from the first of tho year, or during the
close season, 12,929,000 bushels, and
should it continue to decrease only in
the same proportion till the first week
in Muy (and it is almost certain to de
crease some millions more when spring
shipments begin), it will stand at that
time 29,493,000 bushels, compared
with 55,458,000 bushels last year at
the same time. It will be the small
est stock in the first week of May in
twelve out of fifteen years."
Market Quotations.
Portland, Or., March 22, 1897.
Flour--Portland, Salem, Cascadi
and Dayton, $4.25; Benton county and
White Lily, $4.25; graham, $3.50; su
perfine, $2.75 per barrel.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7879o; Val
ley, 79o per bushel.
Oats Choice white, 8840o per
bushel; choice gray, 86 87a
Hay Timothy, $1318.50per ton;
clover, $11.00 12.00; wheat and oat,
$f.00ll per ton.
Barley Feed barley, $17.60 per ton;
brewing, $18 19.
Millstuffs Bran, $15.00; shorts,
$16.50; middlings, $26.
Butter Creamery, 4550o; dairy,
8040o; store, 17 30o per roll.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks,6070c;
Garnet Chiles, 70o; Early Rose,
8090o per saok; sweets, $3.00 per
oental for Meroed; new potatoes, 8o
per pound. I
M Onions $1.75 2. 00 per cental. '
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50,
,8.00; geese, $3-.504.50; turkeys, live,
ll12o; ducks, $3.00 4. 00 per down.
Eggs Oregon, 99c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon, 12o; Young
America, 13o per pound.
Wool Valley, llo per pound; East
ern Oregon, 79o.
Hops 910opcr pound.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2.758.00;
cows, $2.252.50; dressed beef, 49
6)o per pound.
Mutton GrosB, best sheep, wethen
and ewes, $3. 00 3. 25; dressed mot
ton, 6 6o per pound.
Hogs GroBB, choice, heavy, $3.25
8.60; light and feeders, $2.608.00f
dressed, $4. 50 5. 00 per owt.
Seattle, Wash., March 22, 1897.
Wheats Chicken feed, $27 per ton.
Oats Choice, $28 24 per ton.
Barley Holled or ground, $22 per
ton.
Corn Whole, $19 per ton; cracked,
$1920; feed meal, $1920.
Flour (Jobbing) Patent excellent,
$5.10; Novelty A, $4.75; California
brands, $5.35; Dakota, $5.65; patent,
$0.40.
Millstuffs Bran, $14.00 per ton;
shorts, $18.
Feed Chopped feed, $18.00 per ton;
middlings, $22; oilcake meal, $29.
Hay Pnget sound, per ton, $10.00;
Eastern Washington, $14.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 26c; select, 24o; tubs, 23c;
ranch, 1517o.
Cheese Native Washington, 12c.
Vegetables Potatoes, per ton, $179
18; parsnips, per sack, 75c; beets, per
sack, 60c; turnips, per sack, 60c; ruta
bagas, per suck, 60c; carrots, per sack,
40 50c; cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.60;
onions, per 100 lbs, $2.00.
Sweet potatoes Per 100 lbs, $4.00.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 11c; dressed, 10 11c; ducks,
$4.00 5. 00; dressed turkeys, 15.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 120.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 6c; mutton, sheep.
To per pound; lamb, 5c; pork, 6o per
pound; veal, small, 8c.
Fresh Fish HaIibut,48;salmon,
66; salmon trout, 7 10; flounders
and soles, 8 4c.
Provisions Hams, large, 1 lc; hams,
small, llc; breakfast bacon, 10c;
dry salt sides, 5 lie per pound.
San Francisco, March 22, 1897.
Potatoes Salinas Burbanks, 90c
$1.10; Early Kose, 70 80c; River Bur
banks, 60 70c; sweets, $1.25 1.75 per
cental.
Onions $1.50 2.00 per cental.
Eggs Ranch, 11 120 per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 1516c; do
seconds, 15 16c; fancy dairy, 14
14)c; seconds, 12 13c.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 7c;
fair to good, 68Jc; Yonng America,
8 9c; Eastern, 1414tfc.
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