A
Cruiser Maria Teresa Lost in
the Bahamas.
NOW LIES THREE MILES DEEP
Strain Opened Leak Which Could Not
Be Stopped The Men Were Saved,
But Lost All Their Personal Effects.
Charleston, S. C Nov. 8. The tug
.Merritt put into Charleston this morn
ing, and reported the loss of the cruiser
Maria Teresa off San Salvador, the
Bahamas, November 3, in the midst of
a furious storm.
The cruiser left Caimanera, Cuba, on
the morning of October 80 in tow for
New York. She had already passed
Cape Maysi and started northeast
around the Bahamas. A furious storm
overtook her, and in her condition she
was unable to weather the Bale. The
strain opened rents in the hull which
had been patched to enable her to make
the journey, and she began to fill rap
idly. The Merritt took off Lieutenant'
Commander Harris and crew from the
sinking ship and she soon went down
The Merritt brought the officers and
men here. No lives were lost.
This afternoon the survivors came
.ashore. They lost all their clothing
and personal effects.
The Teresa sank 30 miles off Walling
island at midnight Tuesday. She met
the storm Tuesday morning and began
to strain. Farts of the hull thought to
be safe became weakened, livets broke
and water made rapidly is the hold.
The boilers began to give way and
Anally the water extinguished the fireg
In the engine-room. The pumps would
not work. The whole vessel showed
aigns of collapse and the men stood
Btripped awaiting orders to quit the
ship. The Vulcan was towing the
Teresa while the Merritt rescued 114
of the orew, made up of volunteers
from the Cincinnati, Newark and Vul
can. Ropes were cut and she then rap
idlv filled.
The Merritt then headed for Charles
-ton with the rescued. The orew left
this afternoon for Norfolk.
Opinion at the Navy Department.
Washington, Nov. 8. No orders Were
Issued by the navy department up
the olose of office boors as to the dispO'
sition of Lieutenant-Commander Harris
.and his crew, ' and Captain Crowin
shield, of the bureau of navigation, said
no orders would be formulated tonight
It is the opinion of the navy depart
ment that the government has lost, be
sides the value of the ship herself, only
the amount of the per diem of $800 per
day through the sinking of the vessel
because the contraot appears to have
required the deliveiy by the wreckin
company of the vessel at the navy yai
at Norfolk. According to the contract
salvage was to consist of such futther
.compensation over or above the pel
'diem and stipulated expense as might
be awarded by a board appointed for
that purpose, consisting of a represent'
' ative of each party and a third party
their survey to be made after the veS'
eel's delivery at Norfolk. The first
thing in order now is a court of inquiry
in faot, the department has no option
in the case of the loss of a vessel under
such conditions. This court Is
quired to fix the responsibility for the
loss.
GAS EXPLOSION.
Jnpreme Court Room In National Cap
itol Wreaked.
Washington, Nov. 8. An explosion
and fire at 5:13 this afternoon wreaked
the supreme-court room and the rooms
immediately adjoining it on the main
floor of the capital. The damage is
enormous. " The entire oentral-eastern
part of the great marble pile from the
main floor to the subterranean base,
ment, practically is a mass of ruins.
The foroe of the explosion was so heavy
that the coping stones on the outer
walls, just east of the point where the
explosion oocuired, were bulged out
nearly two inches, and locked doors
were forced open from their hinges
nite 150 feet from the scene of it.
Fire followed the explosion so quickly
as to Eeem pra'ctioally simultaneous
with it.
The explosion shook the immense
structure to its foundations, and was
heard several squares from the capital.
It ocaurred in a small room tightly
inolosed by heavy stone walls in the
subterranean basement, immediately
below the main entrance to the old
capital building. In this room was a
500-light gas meter, which was fed by
a four-inch main. Very little gas is
used in that part of the building, but
at the time of the explosion the gas had
not been turned off at the meter. The
meter itself was wrecked, and the gas
pouring from the main caught fire.
The flame originating from the explo
sion darted up the shaft of the elevator,
which had been completely destroyed
by the force of the explosion, and oom-
municated with the record-room of the
supreme court, the office of the mar
shal of the court and the supreme oourt
library.
Before the flames could be subdued,
the pticeless documents in the record
room had been almost totally destroyed,
and serious damage had been done in
the marshal's office and some minor
rooms in the immediate vicinity.
The library of the supreme'courtr lo
cated immediately beneath the su
preme court room, was badly damaged
by fire, smoke and water, practically
destroying the great collection of law
reference books. The library contained
about 20,000 volumes and was used not
only by the justices of the supreme
court but by members of oongress and
lawyers practicing before the supreme
court.
The most serious damages, in .the
opinion of the justices of the supreme
court, is to the reoords stored in the
sub-basement. These included all of
the records of cases and opinions ren
dered by the fathers ot the judiciary of
the government. Apparently the docu
ments in this room are either totally
destroyed or so badly damaged by fire
and water as to be useless. '
Spain
Refuses to Sell
Philippines."
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ACCUSES US OF BAD FAITH
ON A BURNING SHIP.
NICARAGUA CANAL.
Not Sanctioned by Protocol Demands
the Ucturn , of Moneys Seized at
Manila After the Capitulation,
UNDER A FALLEN ROOF.
COAL MINE
DISASTER.
an Kngl-
-fieven Men Killed Through
neers Carelessness
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 8. Seven
men were killed and three fatally in
jured at the Exeter oolliery of the Le
high Coal Company, at West Pittston,
today. The accident was due to the al
leged carelessness of Engineer David
Price, who, acting in disobedience of
positive orders caused three oars to
run in to the top of the shaft." These
cars, loaded and weighing 11 tons, fell
-down the 360-foot shaft and crashed
with frightful foroe upon a carriage car
rying 10 men. Seven were almost in
stantly killed. They are:
Michael Smith, Andrew Tinko,
Michael Podesabanny, Miohael Bra
tzuke, Joseph E. Culock, Michael Was
lokse, Joseph Andrewsky.
The aooident ocourred as the men
were going to work, and beilg' sent
down the shaft in parties of 10. Price,
in oliarge of the little donkey engine,
was shifting loaded cars from the new
red ash shaft some distance away.
This track approached tbe head of Ex
ter shaft, and at a distanoe of 80 feet
from it curved gently to the right and
around the shaft to breaker. At a
' point where this track commenced to
curve was a switch and 20 feet of track
leading to the head of tbe shaft, which
was used for storing orippled cars,
Close to the bead of the shaft it was
closed by a head block.
The train was going at good speed,
when, instead of curving around the
shaft, the cars dashed into tbe switch,
which was open, struck the head block,
dashed through it, and three of them
tonnled down tbe shaft. About 20 feet
from the bottom they struck the car
riage with awful force, completely
wrecking it. The mass of wreckage
fell to tha foot of the shaft, choking it,
and when, after hard work, the men
were extricated, seven were dead and
three fatally hurt.
A Murderous Boatswain.
San FranoiBCO, Nov. 8. There was a
serious row, almost resultng in a mur
der on the British ship Peleua, in pott
here, today. Boatswain Charles Wil
son came aboard under the influence
of liquor. lie ordered three men to
wash down the decks, which work
they had just done. A quarrel ensued,
during which John Mcintosh and
Michael Scott were stabbed several
times with a large sheathknife by Wil
son. Mcintosh has a very slight
chance to iecover.
Collapse ot a Theatre Building- In De
trott Fifteen Workmen Killed.
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 8. The new
five-story Wonderland theater building
is tonight in a hopeless state of col
lapse, and 16 or more lives have been
sacrificed by an appalling aocident
which occurred there this afternoon.
Shortly before 2 o'olock, while some
85 men were at work in various parts
of the half-finished theater portion of
the structure, the roof fell in without a
second's warni.ig. Nearly every work
man was carried down into the theater
pit. The top gallery was crushed
down upon the lower gallery, forming a,
sort of fatal hillside, down whioh slid
broken steel girders, planks, timbers,
brick and a great quantity of cement
from the roof, and carrying along a
struggling company of men into the pit
below, very few of whom escaped in
jury. The front wall of the building
remained practically intact, but the
east side wall bulged out and buckled
threateningly.
Notwithstanding the latter danger,
the work of rescuing the injured and
taking out the dead was rushed, and
good 'progress made until 5:15, when
the upper portion of the east wall fell.
a shower of bricks striking around the
crowd of laborers, officers and newspa
per men, extinguishing the temporary
electric lights and causing a stampede
for the street. Fortunately none of
those who were struck by the second
downfall was seriously injured, al
though several were precipitated into
tho basement through tbe steel hoist,
over which only a few loose planks
were laid. Mayor Maybury and other
city officials, who were on the scene,
thereupon deoidsd not to further im
peril life in order to save dead bodies,
and the work was suspended until to
morrow.
When the crash oocurred two bodies
were visible in the debris, nut wiey
were abandoned for the present. The
lead are:
August Sallach, George W. White,
Theodore Mertens, Martin Shatter,
Cornelius McArron, James Megersohke,
August Januschowski, John Greselski
Two other bodies had been discovered
in the debris at the time of the second
crash. ,
The missing are: Peter Connors
Jacob Lewen. Frank Wolf, Betts
and O. Mulliui.
TwelVftothen workmen were serious
ly in jiirwll. OffUleee it is feared that
Edward Fisher and J.. W. Wilson will
die.
The disaster Issnpposed to have been
due to the use of faulty iron bea
constructing tbe supports for th
heavy roof.
The I'tes Were ObeHlent.
Denver, Nov. 8. Gam Warden
Swan returned froro ti.jrnV '" P"t
of the state, and eaj s thmo'ate,'. ll"tM
there. The troops),ad no difflcl.; ifl
persuading the Uted to leave, i t' , ..je
had already killed all the gam u.-vv
wanted, l
Paris, Nov. 7. The Spanish commis
sioners, in the course of a two-hours'
session of the peace conference today,
flatly refused to aocept Monday's propo
sition by the Americans to take the en
tire Philippine group and to reimburse
Spain for her "paoiflc" expenditures
there. .
This negative action was expected.
The Spanish commissioners had also a
number of positive declarations whioh
filled some 37 typewritten sheets.' In
this statement the Spaniards held that
the United States had no ultimate
rights in the Philippines' islands, and
could have none save by the consent of
Spain in these negotiations and upon
terms satisfactory to her. .
Aooording to "the Spanish contention
in trie formal statement, the United
States entertained no thought of annex
ing the Philippines when the protocol
was signed, or it would have been ex
pressed in the protocol as clearly as the
conditions regarding the cession of ter
ritory in the Antilles and the Orient.
M. Cambon, before the signature of the
protocol," received from Madrid, the
presentment alleged, cable message,
clearly setting forth that the mainten
ance of Spain's authority over the Phil
ippines should not be affeoted by the
protocol, to iwhich reservation the
United States made at that time no
protest or objeotion. This dispatch to
M. Cambon, as the Spaniards claimed
today, embodied also the view that the
United States had no valid basis for
claims in tbe archipelago.
It was further held today by Senor
Bios and his colleagues that the capita
lation of Manila, having ocourred after
the signing of the protocol, and thus
fter the suspension of hostilities, was
invalid.
With all this for a groundwork, tho
Spaniards made their first positive
move against the Americans, and it
constituted their counter proposition.
They charged upon the United States a
wrongful appropriation of public money
belonging to Spain by seizing the tariff
duties at Manila, and they formally
demand the return ot these moneys in
the sum of nearly 11,000.000.
On these same premises the United
States was alleged to have made and
held as prisoners the Snanish troops at
Manila, in violation of international
law, because done after the suspension
of hostilities under .the protocol.
A further charge was that by the im
pilsonnient of the Spanish troops at
Manila the United States had prevent
ed Spain from quelling the insuneotion,
and had thus' contributed to the vio
lence against Spain after the cessation
of hostilities. .
Today's Spanish presentment also
cited the refusal of the Americans to
consider the Cuban debt on the ground
that it was not sanctioned in the pro
tocol, and demanded an adherence to
this, as a precedence to the discussion
of the Philippines, regarding a cession
of whioh the Spanish commissioners
held that the protocol made no men
tion. ' In support of these assertions,
arguments and demands, the Spanish
presentment invokes Spain's record in
the correspondence by mail and .tele
graph, though it is not known unoffi
cially whether the Spaniards produced
the message said to have been sent
from Madrid to M. Cambon at the time
the protocol ' was signed, in which, it
was affirmed today. Spain reserved her
Philippine sovereignty.
The presentment was read by Inter
preter Ferguson, being rendered from
the Spanish in which it was written,
into English.
At the oloae of the reading, the
Americans said they wished to have
the Spanish statement rendered into
written English for more careful con
sideiation, and an adjournment was
taken to Tuesday.
Disaster Overtook an Atlantle Coast
Steamer Five Passengers Perished
Vineyard Haven, Mass,. Nov. 7. A
disaster at sea, fortunately with a small
loss of life, five persons in all, wag
made known today by the landing here,
of survivors who esoaped from the
burning steamer Croatan, of the Clyde
line, bound from New York for Wil
mington, N. C, and Georgetown", S. C.
The disaster occurred November 1,
about 18 miles north of Cape Charles,
and about 206 miles from New York,
from which port the steamer sailed Oo
tober 31, with a general oargo and eight
passengers. At 3 o'clock in the after
noon, the burned hull of the big
freighter sank beneath the waves. Of
the 27 persons who were on boaid, 22
have Burvievd. These passengers were
landed at this port this afternoon by
the schooner Alice E. Clark, of Port
land, Me., whioh was in the vicinity of
the Croatan at the time she 'was burn
ing. The Croatan's list of drowned is
as follows:
Seoond Assistant Engineer Jeremiah
McCarty, of Nova Scotia; leaves a
widow in New York. Steward James
Curtis, of Jersey Citv; Mrs. , James
Cmtis.wife of the steward; Frank ,
an oiler; Jennie Willard, colored, Wil
mington, N. C.
FELL THROUGH A BRIDGE
A Great Thins; for the Paeifle Coast-.
Would Be a Powerful Aid in
Wescern Development
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Eighteen Men Precipitated Into the
Deg Chutes Hlver.
Olympia, Wash., Nov. 7. A crew
of eight men and a traction engine fell
through a county bridge across the Des
Chutes river, near the Waddell settle
ment, yesterday afternoon. They fell
about 15 feet. Three of the men were
seriously injured. The bridge had
been undergoing repairs. Tbe oon
tractor had finished his work on it only
a few moments before the accident.
The notices for vehicles to keep off had
not been removed, and the county com
mission had not accented the bridge,
The engine and orew were about two
thirds of the way across when the
bridge fell, and tbe machine and crew
were precipitated into the river. The
engine is the property of TJiompson &
Dutcher, who talk of bringing suit
against the oounty if they are not re
imbursed for the damage done their
maohine and the cost ot repairing it,
which will be considerable. The names
of the injured men are Dutcher, Ben
Gibson and Piper.
Joseph McCarragher, engineer on the
steamer City of Olyrania, whioh was
built by a joint stook company of busi
ness men of this city, and sent to
Alaska for prospeoting purposes last
summei, has returned on a short busi
ness trip. The steamer is in winter
Quarters at Skagway. The crew have
13 good claims at Lake Atlin, whioh
they will work in 'the spring. The
men have seoured a wood contraot at
Skagway which will keep them em
ployed till spring. ,
FASHODA INCIDENT CLOSED
ol
France Announces the Withdrawal
'Marchand's .Expedition.
Paris, Nov. 7. A semi-offloial note
issued this evening says the government
has resolved not to retain the Mar
chand mission at Fashoda, adding that
this decision was arrived at by the cab
inet after an exhaustive examination
of the question.
London, Nov. 7. The most teliable
information from Paris confirms the
earlier reports that M. Depuy, the
premier, has decided to wash his hands
of Fashoda and to reoall Major Mar-
ohand, for whose mission L is not re
sponsible. This deoision is, to some
extent, due to a desire to allow nothing
to interfere with the success of the ex
position of 1900. ' .
ENGLAND'S WAR PREPARATION
The Nicaragua canal is a subject very
much discussed just at this time on the
Pacifio coast. :
From statistics carefully gleaned by
the most authentic authorities, it is
shown that from the different nations
of the world and the islands of the sea
there would pass (through the canal a
possible annual trafflo of 14,000,000
tons, a probable tiafflo of 10,000,000
tons, or a certain trafflo of 8,000,OuC
tons, on which, if a toll of $2.50 a ton
was imposed, an annual revenue ol
$20,000,000 would be obtained, or over
$19,000,000 over and above operating
expenses. A saving of $2.50 per ton
on wheat would amount to, say, 7
cents per bushel, and on lumber to $5
pel 1,000 feet. A careful examination
made by the Maritime Canal Company
show that a possible one-half of the
8,000,000 tons trafflo, which is claimed
will pass through the canal, is Ameri
can oommerce, either coastwise or ex
ports and imports. It seems to be fully
determined that if the canal is built at
all it must be built and operated as the
property of the United States govern
mentbuilt with the people's money.
It should be open and free and without
tonnage charge to all American com
merce, coastwise, exports and imports;
and 'to compensate ourselves for our
outlay we should lay a toll of at least $2
per ton on all tiafflo, passing through
between foieign nations.
It is estimated that it wi'l require
not to eoxeed $100,000,000 to con
struct the canal, although it is claimed,
in a recent statement made by Lyman
E. Cooley, a celebrated engineer of this
oountry, that, by reason ol certain dis
coveries on the part of the commission,
sent by President MoKinley to investi
gate the feasibility of the project, the
cost of the canal will be reduced much
below the figure of $100,000,000, on
account of favorable dredging in the
lower end of LakeNioaragua, non-exist
ence of rock in the San Juan river to
Toro Rapids, good foundation for im
mense dam at Ochoa, favorable condi
tions for embankments at San Fran
cisco basin, and a new site for a dam
at Tambro Granada. ,
The fanners of California, Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho, now luither
from the world's markets than any
other agriculturists, would not only be
placed s near Li rerpool as their com
petitors in India, Chile and the Argen
tine, but they would also have an ad
vantage over their competitors of $2
per ton, or 6 cents a bushel; tor the
wheat fiom India must bear $2 per ton
toll at the Suez canal, and we would
have the Paoiflc South American states
pay $2 per ton on the Nicaragua oanal.
Then, too, our Atlantic ana uuu
ports would have this $2 per ton ad
vantage over all their British and
European rivals in the great markets
of Japan, Korea, Australia and the
Pacific islands, as their rivals would be
compelled to pay the $2 per ton toll,
whether they went to market via the
Suez oanal or the Nioaragua oanal.
Said
Pledged Their Policies,
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 7. A remarka
ble petition has been filed in the dis
trict court of Lancaster county by
Charles F., David W. and George K.
Brown, to seek to have tecoivers of the
defunct Lincoln Savings bank re
strained from selling to the highest
bidder insurance policies aggregating
$15,000 on the lives of tbe Browns,
pledged to secure a loan.
The novel claim is advanced that by
thus disposing of the policies the lives
of the plaintiffs are placed in jeopardy.
The policies may be paid only at the
death of the assured, hence the cljjrfTa is
made that by transferring thenr a dual
inducement is offered tvmak away
with the parties injured. Judge
Holmes has assignefkUio case for bear
ing at the termor court which meets
this month
IHtAupoiutrd in Love.
tie, Wash., Nov. 7. E. N.
ch, son of a wr.ilthy Watcrtown,
Y., jeweler, c... utlttcJ u!cide last
night by d' kin acid, reappoint
ment in lc j in asuigned on the cause.
Tacoma, Nov. 8. Clof A!!erg,
employe oi the Hiaauws Rajmion can.
nery, was scalded lata yeut- irtlsy after
noon byt esoaping iteain, caused
carelessness. ,
lt. a 'Derelict.
Tort Townsufi'V'JWaHh., Nov. 7.
Captain Job vllahfc, of the Canadian
KorHKT.jr Victoria, Reports that, September-
29. be passed within 10 yards
of ierelict. The Vraft had turned
turtle, and appeared o be a vessel of
about 100 tons. 'The derelict was in
latitude 61 deg. S min.Wth, longitude
156 deg. 23 min. we, and in the
direct track of vessels coining from
Bebring sea. The derelict is thought
to be tbe British sealing Vonooner Pio
neer, which is consiuerao,y overdue,
in Berlin to Be Connected With
the Philippine Question.
London, Nov. 7. Tbe Berlin corre
spondent of the Daily News says: It
is asserted in well-informed quarters
that the British war preparations are
conneoted with the Philippine ques
tion, in which the United States gov
ernment is working in agreement with
England. The rumors were revived
that the United States intends ceding
to England some of the islands or
granting coaling stations there.
New Consumption Care.
Chicago, Nov. 7. Dr. J. B. Mur
phy'i new treatment for consumptives
has apparently worked its first cures
The patients are William B. Purcell
and j. C Edwards, who have been un
dergoing the treatment for a tittle over
three months. The treatment is that
which excited wide interest when pre'
sen ted in a paper read by Dr. Murphy
before the American Medical Associa
tion at Denver this summer.
Fatal Miner's Blot.
Nanaimo. B. C Nov. 7. A short
time ago the Union Colliery Com pan
imported hundreds of Japs to work
the coal mines. Early this morning
riot broke out among them, which re
eulted in one having bis head smashed
to, pieces and another's abdomen being
btilly lacerated. Latest leports say
the iLjured cannot possibly recover.
Cleared for Action.
Wei-Hni-Wei, Nor. 7. All the
British warships here are now fully
coaled. Their woodwork has been re
moved, and they are completely pre
pared for emergencies.
Two Fatal Accidents.
Brooklyn, B. C, Nov. 7. Yesterday
Otto Anderson was blown up by dyna
mite near here. He was employed in
a railroad. A blast exploded prema
turely. Today John Olsen, in another
railroad camp, met death by a tarop-ing-rod
passing through his head. It
was propelled by a premature bktst.
Spain will permit her soldiers who
have served three years to remain in
Cuba, but they will receive but a small
portion of their salary.
Still Short of Water.
The drought in California this year
has not yet been relieved by fall rains,
and on November 1 the South Yuba
Water Company served notice on all
the mines which are operated by its
power that no more water oonfd be fur
nished nntil after the rainy season had
fully set in, as the company could not
count on more than enough to nil
their contiact to furnish JSevada City
and Grass Vallley with water for mu
nicipal purposes. This will hang up
nearly a thousand stamps in the dis
trict
End of the Salmon Season.
The salmon packing season is at an
end, there being no more vessels due to
arrive from the north, and according to
the best authorities, says the San Fran
cisco Call, all the canneries on the
coast are 1.000,000 cases, or about 83
per cent short of the 1897 pack. Tbe
Alaska Packers' Association is some
48,000 cases short, or less than 6 per
oent of last year's paok. About 19,000
barrels of salt salmon were shipped
iioin Alaska during the season of 1893.
Shipment of Lead to China.
The Puget Sound Reduotion Com
pany, of Everett, Wash., made a ship
ment of 60 tons of lead last week to
the American Trading Company in
Shanghai, China. Arrangements have
bet) n made for weekly shipments to
China and Japan by way of the Cana
dian Paoiflo steamship line.
Maw Brickyard.
A new brickyard will soon be started
at Port Orchard, Wash. The machin
ery has been ready for some time and
last week a consignment of small tools
was received at the point.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 61c; Val
ley and Blueatem, 63o per bushel.
Flour Best grades $3.45; graham,
$3; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 39 40c; choice
gray, 87 38c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $31(322; brew
ing, $23 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $15.60 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $8 9; clover. $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $8 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 4550o
seconds, 4045o; dairy, 8640o store,
2530o. ,.
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o; '
Young America, ,12)o; new cheese.
10c per pound. '
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $23.60
per dozen; hens, $8. 60 4. 50; springs,
$1.25(33; geese, $5.006.00 for old.
$4. 50 5 for young; ducks, $4.00
5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12
12c per pound.
Potatoes 5000o per sack; sweets,
2c per pounn.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75a
per Back; garlic, 7o per pound; cab- ,
bage, $11.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75o
per saok; beans, So per pound; celery,
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60o per
box; peas, 8 380 per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75o$l per sack.
Hops 1017o; 1897 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound'
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair.
25c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, dressed mutton, 7c;
spring lambs, 1a per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75;
light and feeders. $3.004.00; dressed.
$5.608.50 per 100 pounds. -
Beef Gross, top steers, 3.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef.
56)o per pound.
Veal Large, 66o; small, 8)j
7c per ponnd
Seattle Markets.
Tomatoes, 5085o per box.
Cucumbers, 1015o pei doz.
Onions, 85 90o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, $10 12.
Beets, per saok, $90o.
Turnips, per sack, 6065o.
Carrots, per sack, 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Beans, green, 2 So.
Green corn, $1.25 1.50 per saok.
Cauliflower, 75o per doz.
Celery, 4050o. .
Cabbage, native and California)
$1.00 1.28 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 60c 65o per box.
Pears, 76c$l per box.
. Prunes60o per box.
Peaches, 75c.
Plums, 60o.
Butter Creamery, 27o per pounds
dairy and ranoh, 1820o per pound.
Eggs, 80o. . j
Cheese Native, 12 120.
Poultry Old hens, 18o per poundl
spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 10c.
Fresh meats Choice dresBed bee
steers, prime, 6X 7c; cows, prime.
6Jtc; mutton, 7c; pork, 78o; veal.
78o.
Wheat Feed wheat. $19(320.
Oats Choice, per ton, $22 23.
Hay-ePuget Sound mixed, $9,509
10; choioe Eastern Washington tim
othy, $18.
Corn Whole, $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Boiled or ground, per ton.
$24 25; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.60;,
straights, $3.25; California brands,
$3.26; bnckwbeat flour, $3.76; graham.
per : barrel, $3.70; whole wheat flour,
$3.76; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
horts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped feed, $1731 per
ton; middlings, pei ton, $17; oil cakt
meal, per ton, $35. .
Northwest Jottings.
Baker City is to have an extenaive
oandy manufactory.
It Is estimated that $30,000 net was
received by Ashland peaohgroweri this
season.
Over. 120,000 saoks ot grain have
been received for shipment at Almota,
Wash., this season.
A large portion of the Klamath In'
dians are buying flour and other sup
lilies in Goose Lake this fall. Many
Indian wagons are going and returning
from Pine Creek mills each day.
The largest piece of coal that was
ever brought to Spokane is now on ex
hibtition there. It weighs 1,400
pounds, and it took seven men ' to nn
load it from the car and place it in its
present position. It was taken out of
the mine owned by tbe railroad com
pany, at Koslyn.
Tbe Columbia River Logging Com
pany, ot Golden, B. C, is preparing to
do a big business this winter and tha
East Kootenay Miner says they want
160 bush men to work in the woods.
San Francisco Market. , '
Wool Spring Nevada, 1014o per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012c; Val
ley, 1517o; Noithern, 9llo.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1921.00t
bran, $16.60 16. 50 per tan.
Onions Yellow. 8045o per sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 21o;
do seconds, 18c20; fanoy dairy, 21 (J
22c; do seconds, 2024o per pound.
Eggs Store, 1822o; fancy ranob.
8841o.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $1
2.50; Mexican limes, $6.60; Call,
fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choice
$3.504.60; per box.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
Camden, Me., manufactures mora
ships' anohors than any other place in
America.
Ninety-five per cent ot tbe railway
tracks in the country are laid with iteel -rails.
More steel is used in the manufacturer
of pens than in all the swords and gun
factories in tbe world.
Alabama produced 947,831 tons of
pig iron last year, while the output of
Tennessee aggregated 273,730 tons. .
With the exception of the phenomen
al record-breaking fiscal year of 1892
8, the fiscal year of 1897-8 is the biggest
on reooard for tbe cigar industry. An
increase at once of over half a million,
or to be exaot, $511,132,730, in the)
cigar production, after five years ot
stagnation and actual retrogression, it
an event to be marked.
All of the air-brake appllanoes wo
see upon the trains through the country
are manufactured in Pittsburg. One
plant has an annual capacity for turn
ing out air brakes for 260,000 freight
cars, 6,000 passenger oars and 10,000
locomotives.
An individual who delights in statis
tics has figured out that the transporta
tion bf this year's wheat crop will re
quire the loading and unloading of
640,0000 freight oars, provided largo
cais are used. The modern wheat car
bat capacity of 60,000 pounds, "