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I OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1904 .1 PROM RAILBOAD IROW towns and cities in the Middle West. It is a good railroad and its trains are as com fortable as money can make them. Write or call and I will take pleasure in giving you full information. L. B. CORHAM, Central Agent, 140 Third Street, Portland, Or. ffe Inrst Cimjlioi 'The writer regrets the necessity of lodging complaint concerning your usual excellent service, but in a friendly spirit begs to submit the follow ing: Yesterday you sol J me lower nine, car three, on the Pioneer Limited. But you ne glected to advise me that it would be necessary to have the porter waken me in the morning, and as there was so little motion to the car I overslept. I have covered a large era on some of the other famous trains of the United States and . this is the first complaint of this character 1 have made. I trust you w ill see to It in the future that passengers are advised-" The pioneer Limited runs daily from St. Paul to Chicago via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway H. S. ROWE, General Manager. THE SCENIC LINE Through Salt Lake City, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs Denver, and the Famous Rocky Mountain Scenery and by Daylight to all points east. Modern equipment, through Pullman and .Tourist Sleeping Cars and Superb Dining Car Service Stcpcpers For rates, folders and other infoimaticn sddttfs "The Train for Comfort' in the famous 1 North Western Limited every night in the year between Minneapolis, St. Poul and Chicago The short line between there three great cities'. Before starting on i trip no metier where write tor Interesting inrorminon raui i ortsble traveling H. L. SISTER, Gen'l Agent. 132 Third Street. Portland. T. W.TEASDALE, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minn. These are all you need With a Rock Island System time table and one of our folders, "Across the Continent in a Tourist Sleeper," you can easily figure out your route to any point in the East. The Rock. Island has its own lines from Denver, St. Paul and Minneapolis to Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago. Memphis and 1,200 other 134 Third Street, Portland Jllhwed W. C. MCBRIDE, 42i Third Street, Portland, Ore Corvallis & Eastern Railroad . TIME CARD NO. 25. No. 2 For Yaquina: Leaves Albany 12:45 p. m. " Corvallis 2:00 p.m. Arrives Yaquina 6:20p.m. No. 1 Returning: Leaves Yaquina 6:45 a.m. Leaves Corvallis 11 :30 a. m. Arrives Albany 12:15 p. m. No. 3 for Detroit: Leaves Detroit 1 :00 p. u. Arrives Albany 6:55 p. m. Train No. 1 arrives Altrny in time to connect with the 8. P. south bound train, as well as giving two or tbree hours in Albany before departure of 8 P. North bound train. Train No. 2 connects with the S.P trains Corvallis and Albany givin direct service torNewport and adjacen beaches. Train 3 for Detroit, Breitenbush and other mountain resorts leaves Albany at 7 :00 a. m., reaching Detroit about noon, giving ample time to reach the Springs same day. For farther information apply to Edwin Stone, Manager. T. Cockbkll, Agent, Albany. Foley's Honey and Tar cures colds, prevents pneumonia. LACSt - raught STOCK and POULTRY MEDICINE Stock and poultry have few troubles which are not bowel and liver irregularities. Black Draught Stock and Poultry Medi cine is a bowel and liver remedy for stock. It puts the organs of digestion in a perfect condition. Prominent American breeders and farmers keep their herds and flocks healthy by (living them an occa sional done of Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine in their Tood. Any stock raiser may buy a 25-cent half-pound air-tight can of this medicine from his dealer and keep his stock in vigorous health for weeks. Dealers gener ally keep Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine. If yours does not, send 25 cents for a sample can to the manufacturers, The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat tanooga, Tenn. Rochellb, Ga., Jan. 30, 1902. Black-Draught Stoek and Poultry Medicine is the best I ever tried. Our stock was looking bad when you sent me the medicine and now they are getting so fine. They are looking 20 per cent, better. 8. P. BROOKINGTON. tttntyVihimm I 'Oregon ad union Pacific To the EAST THE 0. R. & N. CO. V Gives the choice of THREE 1A1T V TRAINS UlLllu X :1 A DIRECT LINE To Chicago and all points east; Louisville, Memphis, New Or leans, and all points south. See that your ticket reads via the ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R. Thoroughly modern trains con nect with all transcontinental lines at St Paul and Omaha. If your friends are coming west let us know and we will quote them direct the specially low rates now in effect from all eastern points. Any information as to rates, routes, etc., cheerfully given on application. B. H. TRUMBULL, Commercial Agent 142 Third St, Portland, Or. J. C. LlNDSEY, T. F. & P. A. 142 Third St., Portland, Or. P. B. THOMPSON, F. & P. A., Room i, Colman Bldg., Seattle, Wh. FRESH MEATs Tbe City Heat Market at Canby, Oregon, Pays the highest price for all kinds of cattle. The best of fresh meats are handled at most reasonable prices. I have been in buisness in Canby a number of years, and have tried to treat everybody right. I solicit your patronage for the future and Intend to deserve It. S. J. Schmitt, Canby, Oregon Sick Headache? Food doesn't digest well? Appetite poor? Bowels jstipated? Tongue coated? S your liver 1 Ayer's Pills 5 liver pills; they cure dys- psia, biliousness. 25c. All druggists. Want jrour moustache or betrd a beautiful brown or nrh black? Tnn u6 BUCKINGHAM'S DYEtftffl&r. urn. $ c I mm. Portland Wheat Bas Better tone Prosptcts ct War Betwttn Japan and Russia Strtnqtbtnld ltlarkit. Front street, Jan. 7 The principal events in the local markets today were : Cotton twine and rope up. Better tone in wheat market. Eggs weaker and lower. No poultry in market. Rumors in hop market. Creamery butter still piles up. Excellent tone in meats. Salmon higher. WHEAT HAS BETTER TONE. The prospects of a war between Japan and Russia has strengthened the local wheat market to some extent, but as yet there are no changes in tl e ruling quotations. The millers here are bo thoroughly stocked np with flour that they do care to buy wheat except at the 1 present values, aud higher prices are not even thought of. Up the valley the smaller millers are anxious for supplies and are paying several cents higtoer figures than can be obtained in the Portland market. Some of these con cerns ae paying as high as 82 cents, The flour situation is still in an un settled condition, the city trade being fair but the demand from the outside is still off. Prices are unchanged. CHANGES IN TWINE AND ROPE. On account -f the much higher prices that are ruling in the eastern cotton market, local dealers in cotton twine and rope ware today notified of an advance of about 4 cents a pound in both of these lines. EGGS WEAKER AND LOWER. Although the receipts of fresh Oregon eggs this morning were quite small the luarkest showed a weakening tendency and sales were made all the way from 2T2 to 29 cents a dozen. Among tbe arrivals of eggs now there are a large number 61 seconds and these are selling at 25 cents. The movement of eastern eggs can now be said to be nominal. NO POULTRY IN MARKET. There was practica'ly no poultry in the Front street markets today, but the demand was not over strong, although everything that did come was cleaned up at the top of the market. Tbe de mand for turkeys and geese is not so large as it was during tbe former week and the figures are slightly lower. MANY RUMORS IN IMPS. Rumors ef higher figures than 25 cents are floating over the hop market, but no ai'tual Bales have been reported over this figure. The demand for hops keeps up its strong activity of the past week and sales now are not so good condition can easily be seen by the prices that are ruling for 1904 contracts. A number of growers have already contracted their coming year's crop at 16 cents, but most cf the growers are holding off and 17 and even 18 cents have been "offered and re fused during the past week. CREAMERY BUTTER PILES UP. Notwithstanding the fact that the proprietors of several of the local cream eries are trying to bold up the quota tions on butter, their efforts seem to be proving futile, for the market is again showing added weakness and tbe ten dency of the limes is for a decline. All over the country the creamery butter market is showing declines, and tlie Portland market is the highest. In San Francisco the very best grade of cream ery is going at 26 cents, and the markets of that city are so badly overstocked that one of the concerns there sent a telegram to its Portland representative to get offers on butter from the merch ants of this city. Generally San Fran cisco is a buyer of Portland country store and dairy buSter, but now no stock are wanted there. This cavses a further weakness in those grades here and the price looks like it is about to touch bedrock. DOINGS IN BAN FRANCISCO. According to lute report from the Pan Francisco market, potatoes, except for the very best stocks, are weak, and the latter grades are not showing any too great firmness. According to one of the men on tbe inside of the "produce ring" oi that city, the dealers there are sending out reports of activity in thecal) for tbe better grade of stocks just to make the receipts flow in larger and then break the market. This has beeu done several times before and the local dealers are on the alert. Locally there is a fair demand for potatoes, but the movement cannot be said to be very large. Pii -es today show no change. EXCELLENT TONE IN MEATS. The Front street- commission houses were never in a better condition for larger receipts of dressed meats. The call for hogs and veal of all kinds is very large, and the receipts of late have been nominal. Large veal is showing au upward tendency. SALMON IS HIGHER. On account of ascarity of fish in the Columbia, steelhead salmon advanced 1 cent a pound today. The receipts of all kinds of small fish, with tbe possible exception of OolumDia river smelt, are showing an increase. Raior clams, too, are coming in again. BUTTER, KQGS AND POULTRY. Butter Creamery, extra fancy, 27 1-2 to 30c; ordinary, 27c', cold storage, 2527c; Eastern, 27 l-2c; renovated, 20c; dairy, 16tol71-2c; store) 12 to 13c. J AYNE'S .TONIC . VERMIFUGE IS A' HEALTH BRINGER. has stood the test 25 years. Average Anneal Sales Dottles. Does, tha record fcnciuM win every 1 1 ..J GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED. Wheat Export quotation New "u. joc, Diutsiem yo, valley 77c. Barley Feed $20; robed $21 to $22; brewing $21 to $22. Oats No. 1 whitfl t?3.Rrt t.n fA . $23 to $23.50 pertonjwbite $21.60; gray fn. per ion, larmers price, Flonr Eastern Oriwnri ! Pa font iA IK to 4 60; straights $3 60; valley $3.75 to .. ;granam ?3. I ; ius J3. 70 . Millstuffs Barn 20nrrnn middling $24; ehorts $20.00; chop $18. Hay Timothy $17; Eastern Oregon $19 to 20: mixed 14: elnvnrSlS- shoit $13; cheat $12; oat $13. H018, WOOL AND HIDES. Hops New, 25c for choice: 20 at 22 for piime; poor grades, 10 20c. Wool Valley, coarse to medium. 16 to 16 l-2c; fine,16 16c ; Eastern Ore. gon, 10 15c; mohair, nominal, 35 6IC. i Sheepskins Shearing, 10 20c; short wool. 20 to 30c : medium wool. 30 to BOi : long wool, 50c to $1 each. I Tallowz-Prime, per lb. 4 to 5c : No. 2 and grease, 2 to VM. Hides Dry hides. No. 1, 16 Bounds and op, 14c per lb; dry kip, No. I, 5 t ii idb, izc ; dry call, JNo. 1, under 5 lbs, 15c; dry ealtsd, bulls and Btaga; 1-3 less than dry flint ; salted hides, steer.sound 60 pounds or over, 6 to 7c; 50 to 60 lbs, 6c ; under 50 lbs and co ws, 5 to 6c : stags and bulls, sound, 4c; kip, sound, 15 to 30 lbs, 6c; sound, 10 to 14 lbs, 6c; calf, sound, under 10 lbs, 8c; green(uusalted), leper lb less; cuIIb, lc per lb less; horse hides, salted, each. $1.25 to tl.75: dry, each,$l to $1.50; colts' hides, each, as to oc; goat skins, common, each, 10 to 15c ; Angora, with wool on each, 25c to $1. Eggs Fresh Oregon .nominal 27 l-2c to 29c ; old storage 24c ; baker 20 to 22c : Eastern 27c. Cheese Full cream.twin 13 1-2 to 14 c : Young America 15c. Poultry-Chickens, mixed 11 to 12c lb; hens 12c pei lb; roosters 10 l-2c per lb; broilers 11 1-2 to 13c per lb;tryers 12 l-2c per lb; ducks old 12c per lb; young lac per id ; geese, 8 to e per 10 ; turkeys 18 to 19c per lb; vounii 14 to 15c lb: dressed 19 to 20c per lb. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes 75 to 80c ; buyers' price, for shipping 65 to 75c per cwt ; ordinary 60 to 65c per sack; sweets 22'c lb; new 4c per lb, Onions Oregon. $1.10 to $125; buy ing prices, fob, Portland $1. Fresh fruits Apples, Oregon 40c $1.50 per box; orange, navels, $2 50 per. box: seedlings, $2.00 per box; Japanese, 60 to C5c; bananas, 6to5Kc per lb ; lemons, choice, $3, fancy, $3 60 to$4;limea, Mexican, 05e per 100; pine appleRj $3.50; pears, 75c to $1.25 per box; Cal. $1; cranberries, local, $7 per bbl; Jersey, $10, persimmons, $1.50. Vegetables Turnips, 85 Back ; carrots $1 ; beets, $1 per sack ; radishes, 12J4 to 15c per dox; cabbage, Oregon, 1 to lc lattllpa. nar hnx. Ill tr 1 KO- urann nor,- , ( 1 - ' , Q.WW. J'',' pers, 5c per lb; celery, loca1, 60c doz; tuiiittioeB, $i uuper oox ; parsnips, $i.zo, cucumbers, 50 to 75o box; butter beans, 10c lb; Lima beans, 8c; sprouts, 6c; cauliflower, Oregon, $1 perdoz; arti chokes, 75 to 00c per doz. - Dried Fruits Apples, evaporated, 6 to 7c per lb; apricots, 11 to 13c per lb; sacks, o per lb less ; peaches, 6 to 9c per lb; pears, 8cper lb; prunes, Ital ian, 3 1-2 to 4 l-2o per lb; French, 8 1.2 to4l-Lfi nnrlh! fiW Cal hlnrlrn It rn 6 l-''c per lb; do whites, 6 1-2 to 7c lb; nlumfl. nitt.Hil. hM tnBi'- dtiii. cnldnn. 6 1-2 j lu; tarda, per 15-lb box, $1.50. MEATS AND PROVISIONS. Fresh Meats Inspected Beef, prime, 6'A c ; cowb, 5c ; mutton, dressed, 5 h c ; lambs, dressed, 6c. Fresh Meats Front street Beef steers, S to 5c; bulls, 3c; cows, 44)cj pork, block, 67c; packers, 6c; mutton, dressed, 4'A 5c ; lambs, dressed 55c; veal, small, 8 8c; large, 4 7c. Hams, Bacon, etc. Portland pack, (local) hams, 10 to 14 lbs, 13 3-4c; cot tage, 10c; picnic, 9 l-4c; breakfast ba con, 16 1 219 l-2c;regular short clears, I I in i . . . , , .... . uumiiuKttu, iu i-iu; suiuaeu, clear Packs, unsmoked, it) i-4c; smoked, 111-4; Union butts, 10 to 18 lbs, un smoked, 8c; smoked, 9c. Eastern Packed Hams Under 14 lbs ; 14 1-2c; over 15 lbs. 13c; tancy, 1414 3 4c; picnics, 9,'c; shoulders, 10c dry-salted sides, unsmoked, 10c :ireak faet bacon, 15 l-217Mc; fancy, W'4c. Local Lard Kettle Leaf, 10s, 10c; 5s, 10 7-8c ; 60-lb tins, Ul-4c; 60s, 10 1-2c; steam-rendered, 10s, 9 3 4c ; 5b,9 7-8 ; bOs, 9 7-8c; compound tierces, 7 12c; tubs, 7 3-4c. Eastern Lard Kettle haf, 10-lb tins, 11c; 5s, 11 l-8c; 60-lb tins, 10 l-2c; steam-rendered, 10s, 9 3-4c; 5s, 9 7-8c; 50s, 9 c. Above packing-house prices are net cash 15 days. Saved from Terrible Death. The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of Bargerton, Tenn., saw her dying and were powerless to save her. The most skilllul physicians ana every remedy used, failed, while consumption was slowly bat surely taking her life. In this terrible hour Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption turned despair into joy. The first bottle brought im mediate relief and its continued use completely cared ber. It's the most certain cure in tbe world for all throat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50cond$l. Trial bottles free at C'har mtn & Co's drugstore. PAWNER 8 A LVE Uia moat hoallna aalv In th world. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic of mert appeal to you? bcwjc ;i a i tn. nu p;aose or tirovc I Congress Will Ratify treat? But the Building of the Canal Will Take Time and Money. The Qreat Ditch Has Always Been a Grave Yard Into Which Qreat Treasures and Human Life Has Been Poured ) Washington D. C. Jani 6, '03. The camt.nl nf tha ZreetlllL'3 of the Poannn Vlrim t),., nn other city in the United States, Wash ington is insensible to the fluctuations ot prosperity. Flush times do not much e:ate her or hard times depress her. Here the holidays of the Christmas cycle always go off in a whirl of g.iiety. We are not dependent for our daily bread od the solvency of manufacturing eatnblish ments, or the reports of crops, or the ca prices of commerce. Our Uncle Sam joyously pays his 15,000 clerks some tHJ.LJU every week, rain or shine, and they spend It with an alacrity and reck. lestness peihaps unknown eleewhere, because they feel so certain that he will I i i ... Keep up uin uieuursing naoit. KO it. is a Merry Christmas every year and Happy New Year conies and passes with many festive exchanges. The ratification of the Pannma treaty spems to be assured, fnrnnnmrh n. m.w crats will vote with the solid Republi cans to bring about that lesult. This wm give consiaerame gratification in some quarters, but will not put an end to public anxiety concerning the con struction of the much desired canal. A man who is supposed -to be peculiarly well informed rhvr nf tha iaiitim.. alreaoy made, "There is a ditch into which Uncle Bam will pile dead men and good money during the next twenty veara. It is alremlv a It is conceded on all hands that the prob lem to be Solved is an ext.ramelv ilillionlt one, if the Panama route is adopted. How to get a locked canal over the spurs of the Veragua range, ib the grave ques tion. The great Culehra mountain stands directly in the way, ten miles wide, and competent engineers report that there is not water enough orthe muunmin m me summer time to fill the locks of a canal. PRnnninllo nf a broad enough and deep enough to carry ma wunu s Duma snips. The answer of optiaiiits t "this is that American engi neers can do anything in ibe line of the difficult aud marvelous. It is certain that a Panama canal cannot be finished for the practical transportation of ships in many years. But in view of the great things that American engineers have accomplished, they will not be ex pected to declare this feat impossible. But even if the Panama treaty should fail of ratification, it need not occasion despair. A canal would still be built perhaps, indeed, it would be built soon er. How many rronths is it since Con gress deliberately selected and approved the Nicaragua route ? How many months is it since the House of Representatives passed the Hepburn bill, which provided for the construction of a canal by 'ho Nicaragua route alone? Only two votes were cast against that bill in the whole House, for the Nicaragua route was at that time preferrnd by the Isthmian Ca nal Commission . After this bill reached the Senate the Franrh reduced its price to $10,000x00. and solely on account of that fact, the Canal Commission nlliftpH ilu unafuranni. In tl.o. Panama route. Is this anything short of trifling with a great and important PARK PLACE. Mrs. F. Lucas, who has been sick the past week, is improving slowly . Mrs. Press went to Portland Wednes day to live with her son, Kobert, who. is working there. Rev. Start preached his farewell ser mon Sunday night. We regret his leav ing us very much, as he has won a place for himself in the hearts of the Pirk place people, old and young. Kenneth Latourettn, of Oregon City, visited our Sunday school last Sunday. School commenced aa:n Monday morning with Prof. McCann in charge. The cantata which was repeated by re quest , was mure successful even than the firs' time when it was presented. Especially pleasing were the selections) rendered by the Parkplace band, which everyone appreciated, and especially de serving of mention was the fruit song; given by an Oregon City young ladv, which was so well appreciated that she was forced to respond to an encore. The proceeds were hardly enough to pay for the curtains, wings, scenery, etc.w h:!i, the Parkplace people hope to buy and pluci in the auditorium of the school. The Ladies Society of this place will meet on Thursday to elect new officers for the year. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Portland, were the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rivers, a few days last week. Mrs. George Hamilton was called to- the bedside of a sick aunt, of Portland, on Saturday last and returned home Sunday morning. Stella and Lvle Kellozir. of Orecron City, were visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bravton. on New Year's day. They returned home the following; uay. On next Sunday evening there will be preaching as usual conducted bv Rev. Jones, of Portland. All are wele me. Tub Twins. 1 over One and a Half ffioo No Cure, No Pay. $Oz. WccH JLook. Uver Puis. i