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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1903)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 22. 1903. lb EXGE8S OF EXPORTS International Exchange Situa tion Favorable. INFLUENCE ON STOCKMARKET Prices Tended Upward During the Week, in Spite of Some Unset- tlement-No Scarcity of Money-Steel Trust. KBW YORK, Nov. 21. Trading In stocks was of very desultory character today, and the net results in the way of prioe changes are not important. The ruling tone was one of de pression, but th market made- a considerable recovery and closed firm. The publication of assertions that the passing of the dividend on United States Steel common stock and the re duction of that on the prefererd stock had been decided upon. Induced new selling of the United States Steel securities, forcing the preferred stock more than a point lower and the second bonds nearly a point. Both rallied In the late recovety of the market. The bank statement was another discouraging factor. The loan contraction amounted to $2,020,700. The deposit account was further contracted by shrinkage of cash reserves of $3,747,000, so that while the reserve require ment was reduced to the extent of $1,520,425, Che surplus suffered to the extent of $2,227,076, bringing It down to $3,911,350. A year ago, there was a surplus of $19,529,975, and two years ago of $14,450,925. The course of the money market makes a little obscure thej-ecovery in foreign exchange. It Is now evident, however, that the accumula tion of exchange has in view the requirement for the payment of $40,000,000 to the Panama Canal Company In connection with the settle ment of the canal question. It Is to be noted, also, that the value of Imports of dry goods and merchandise at New York this week has risen $1,800,000 over those of last week, while, the exports of grain for the week are nearly 900.000 bushels less than last week. Prices of stocks have turned upward this week In eplte of some unsettlement at times. Transactions have been largely in professional hands, and for the most part devoted to cover ing of short contracts, put out on the previous decline. The most effective Influence In turning the market was the realization of the very favorable position of the International exchange situation, induced by the publication of the foreign trade statement for October. "With the exception of October. 1900, this statement chows an excess value of exports over Imports greater than In any previous month of the country's history. The Increase In the value of cotton exports In October of $18,000,000 over those for October last year accounted for this. Enormous exports of cotton have con tinued up to the present time, foreign consum ers being Influence by the fear of another cor ner In cotton In this country. At the present high price of cotton, It is evident that the mar keting of the present crop will create a vast total of credits to be liquidated for the United States by foreigners. The declining course of, our imports and pros pects of expanding iron -and steel exports are additional factors to be reckoned with In esti mating the future of the exchange market. The heavy requirements thus thrown upon for eign finances have admonished the financial world that delicate and considerate handling of the situation was required to avoid an upset of foreign money markets which might affect unfavorably the best money markets for our products. The sum of over $8,000,000 In gold, which has been taken from London. Is not to be supposed to represent the satisfaction of the trade balance In our favor. The residue Is ac cumulating to our credit in foreign money markets. The purchase in New York by bank ers of exchange bills for Investment Is a pro cops of lending by New York to foreigners. In effect. Competent authorities estimate that the pres ent volume of our Indebtedness to foreigners Is less than for many years, as In contrast to the high level of such Indebtedness of $400, OuO.000 within two years past- Much of this liquidation has been forced during the painful period of violent declines in the stock market. The transformation thus revealed In the money and exchange markets has had an Inevitable effect on scntlmont In the financial world. There was a time early In the year when anxiety of the resources of our money market . was such that opinions were heard that noth- j lng but a failure of crops and the resulting lightening of requirements on the money mar ket oouid save the market from a money panic. On the contrary, normal requirements have been met for crop purposes, as well as emer gencies for the financial troubles at Baltimore. Pittsburg and St. Louis, without disturbing the tranquillity of the money market. The opinion Is now growing that funds may become plethoric In New York by the turn of the new year. The contraction in trade and Industry now going on Is looked to to Increase the accu mulation of Idle funds at reserve centers. The principal offset to this prospect Is the .inclina tion of railroad corporations to Issue bonds, large amounts of which are understood to be overhanging the market In waiting lor the first favorable opportunity. On the Industrial side, attention has been centered In the iron and steel trade and the affairs of the United States Steel -Corporation. Advices from the trade show continued uncer tainty as to customers taking hold at the price reductions already effected, and an expectation that the decline In prices is likely to extend. The reduction In export steel rates accorded by the railroads, while promising to facilitate th export trade, is looked upon as concrete evi dence of poor prospects for domestic trade and the lower level of prices at which business must bo done to 6ocure foreign trade. This effect Is looked for In railroad earnings also. Gross earnings of railroads, while hold ing above, those for corresponding periods of last year, 6how a progressive decline In the ratio of Increase. For. the first six months of the year. Increases In railroad gross earnings were at an average Tate of nearly 14 per cent. For August, the rate of Increase fell to 9 per cent, for September to 7 per cent, and for October to a llttlo over C per cent. The rate of lncreaso thus far In November for the small number of roads reporting Is above C per cent. United States Steel has been affected also by the discontinuance of the process of conversion of the preferred stock Into second-mortgage bonds. The course of the preferred stock has been downward during the conversion process. In spite of the demand for accumulation by the syndicate for the purpose of conversion. The disfavor felt toward the creation of a security of tho preferred stock, with the exclusive privi lege of conversion In tho syndicate, coupled with the unsatisfactory conditions In the trade, steadily overbore tho demand for absorption by the syndicate. Therefore, the stock, and. In fact, all the securities of tho corporation, ral lied sharply on the announcement of the com pletion of tho conversion. The better prospects In the money market have been In favor of the bond market, but the prospect of large additions to the list of rail road bonds has been a deterrent influence on buyers. United States 2s declined and the 8s and tho old and new 4s & per cent below the closing call of last week. WEEKLY BANK STATEJIEXT. ncavicr Loss in Cash Reserve Than Ex pected. NEW YORK. Nov. 2L The Financier this week says: The official statement of tho New York associated banks last week showed a loss of $3,747,300 cash reserve in stead of $720,400, the amount of loss which was estimated upon tho basis ofthe trace able movements of money during the week. This discrepancy of more than $3,000,000 bo tweon the official and the estimated loss cannot be accounted for even on the suppo sition that it was due to the operation of the average system. The away office paid dur ing the week $1,112,419 for imported gold, which payment was not included in the estimates; moreover, tho whole of this dis bursement should. It wquld seem, have been accounted for in cash receipts by the banks, because the payments were distributed throughout tho entire week. There was a transfer to Ban Francisco on Friday of $500,000. which did not appear in the esti mates, but this would count only for an overage of one day. The estimated loss in tho previous week showed a decrease of $4.2CC100 In cash while -the official state jaoat indicated a roduction of $2,913,200. It Is quite possible, therefore, that some of the loss In the -week ending November 14 vras brought over Into last -week, thus partly accounting for the abova noted discrepancy of $3,000,000. The deposits decreased ?G,0S1,700 last week and the required reserve was thereby re duced $1,520,425. Deducting this sum from the loss of cash leaves $2,227,075 as the de crease In surplus reserve to $3,011,350. Com puted upon the basis of deposits, less those of $30,501,100 of public funds, the surplus Is $13,111,625. Loans were decreased $2,020,700, probably reflecting the average of calls made late In the week and also liquidation of speculative accounts on the stock exchange; borrowing upon sterling Investments was most likely not large enough to havo an offsetting Influence. The state of averages of the clearing house banks of thlselty for the week shows: Decrease. Loans $SS7.234.300 Deposits 847.333,400 Circulation 4C.023.100 Legal tenders. C2.790.S00 $2.C20,700 0.081,700 40.100 259.000 3.847,000 3,747.500 1,520,425 2.227.075 2,257,223 Specie .. 152.053,900 Reserve ........ Reserve required. Surplus U. S. deposits.... Increase. 215.744.700 211,833,350 3,911.350 13.111,025 CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Sales. High. Low. Close. , 12,000 C5 04 64 . 300 89Ji SOU 89S Atchison .......... do preferred .... Baltimore & Ohio , 8.450 75 74 70 do preferred .... ..... 80 Canadian Pacific .... 400 118 118Vi H8J4 Cent, of New Jersey. ..... 153 cnesapeake &. Ohio.. 1,200 30 a7 Chicago & Alton.... 100 80& S0V n a ao preierrea Chicago Great West. . do B preferred Chicago North-West. Chi. Term. & Trans. do preferred C, C, C. &, St. Louis Colorado Southern .. do 1st preferred.... do 2d preferred.... Delaware & Hudson. 00 300 15& 15U 15tf COO 20 20 2Ci 200 164 164 JISJ 100 100 s 17$ 17 C3U 100 100 IS 53H. 100 155 155 Del., Lack. & West. Denver & Rio Grand 19 do preferred 604 Erie 3,400 37 20- 205 io 1st preferred 400 -CCJi 00 CCH do 2d preferred 4xi Great Northern pfd. 100 Hocking Valley .... .... t- do preferred J Illinois Central ..... 800 120 129 29 Iowa Central 20 do preferred ..... 3G Kan. City Southern.. .... 1 do preferred . 3" Louis. & Nashville.. 1.000 101 101 101U Manhattan L. 1.000 135 13S 138tf Met. Street Railway. Minn. & St. Louis... Missouri Pacific .... Mon., Kan. & Texas. do preferred Nat. of Mexico pfd.. New York Central.. Norfolk & Western.. do preferred 1,100 114 114 J14H 100 01 61 57 C.100 00& 89& 16 30 35 1,700 117 110 110 55 S3 Ontario & Western 350 20 20 20 Pennsylvania 1,800 114 114 113 Pitts., C. C. &. St. L. 07 Reading 0,300 40?i 39 40 do 1st preferred.. 75 do 2d preferred.... 57 Rock Island Co .... 4,000 24 23 23 do preferred . 58 St. L. & S. F. 1st pfd . 00 do 2d preferred 44 St. Louis Southwest ... 13 do preferred ..... ! St. Paul 0.900 13S 137 137 do preferred ....... Southern Pacific .... Southern Railway ... do preferred Texas & Pacific Tol., St. L. & West.. - 2,040 800 500 200 100 100 44 1S 75 23 20 31 72 ie 34 ic 37 43 18 75 23 20 31 71 "19 34 5c 30 IS 74 22 20 30 72 85 10 34 15 10 30 220 190 100 105 do preferred .. Union Pacific ..... do preferred ..... 10,700 Wabash 100 do preferred 2.100 Wheel. & Lake Erie Wisconsin Central .. 200 do preferred 500 Express companies Adams ...... American .... United States - Wells-Fargo - Miscellaneous AroaL Copper 9,200 Am. Car & Foundry. 200 3S 38 3S 10 78 l do preferred 0' Am. Linseed Oil.. 0 do preferred ....... .... ..... ..... 25 Am. Locomotive .... 13 do preferred -. 70 Am. Smelt. & Ref.. 400 44 44 43 400 44 44 400 88". 88 do preferred 400 8vb it 67 Am. Sugar Refining.. Anaconda Mining Co. Brook. Rapid Transit. Colorado Fuel & Iron. CoL & Hock. Coal... Consolidated Gas .... General Electric .... International Pump do preferred ....... National Biscuit .... National Lead ....... North American .... Pacific Mall People's Gas ........ Pressed Steel Car.... 2,700 117 117 117 , u- 4,200 37 37 38 300 29 27 28 10 470 178 177 177 430 155 153 1S3 no 100 050 30 30 12 12 200 300 20 03 20 93 do preferred CS Pullman Palace Car. ..... 210 Republic Steel 1.000 7 7 6 do preferred 8,300 49 47 47 Rubber Goods 14 do preferred ..... ..... C3 Tenn. Coal & Iron. 500 2S 28 28 U. S. Leather .,... do preferred U. S. Rubber .... do preferred ...... U. S. Steel do preferred ...... Western Union .... Northern Securities. 600 'Yt 7 7 70 8 S0 11 51 5JK 87 15.000 42.900 11 52 10 50 Total sales for the day, 197,000 shares. BONDS." U. S. ref. 2s, reg.l0CtU. S. 5s, coupon.. 101 do couoon 100WI Atcmson aaj. -is.. n&fi U. S. 3s. res 107 do coupon 107' U. S. new 4s, reg.134 do coupon .....134 U. S. old 4s. reg. 110 C. & N. W. con. 7S.131 D. & R. G. 4s.... 99 North Pacific 3s.. 70 do 4s 102 South. Pacific 4s SS do coupon 110' Union Pacific 4s.. 102 U. S. Cs, ng 101JWls. Central 4s... 00 Stocks in London. LONDON, Nov. 21. Consols for money. S9?i; consols for account, SS 13-1C Anaconda 36 Norfolk & Western 67 Atchison 07 do pfd 88 do pfd 02 Ontario & Western 21 Pennsylvania 60 Rand Mines 0 Reading .......... 21 do 1st pfd 30 do 2d pfd 29 Southern Ry 10 do pfd ......... 78 Bait. & Ohio 78' Can. Pacific ....122 Ches. & Ohio 31 Chicago G. W....1G Chi.. Mil. & St. P.143 De Beers 20 D. &R- G 20V do pfd COjFouthern Pacific .. 40 Erie 23 Union Pacific 75 do pfd 89 U. S. Steel 12 do pfd 64 Wabash 20 do pfd SO -do 1st pfd...... 08 do 2d pfd 60 Tillnois Central ..184 Louis. & Nash.... 105 Mo.. Kan. & Tex. 17' N. Y. central.... 121 Bank Clearings. Bank clearings of tho leading cities of tho Northwest yesterday were as follows:- Clearings. Balanced. Portland $418,235-$ 71.002 Seattle G7C.301 130.501 Tacoma 222,302 32.542 Spokane 414.402 95,244 Clearings of Portland, Seattle and Tacoma for tho week were: Portland. Monday $795,170 Seattle. $811,9S4 921,303 705,429 031.070 C99.S34 070,301 Tacoma. $423,303 404.054 391.625 340,024 341,873 222,392 Tuesday. 002.4 8 573,280 093.480 601. T, 10 41S.J35 Wednesday. . Thursday. . . . Friday Saturday. . . . Total $3,704,182 $4.4C0.S43 $2,124,073 Clearings for the corresponding week la former years were: ' Portland. Seattle. TaeomiL 189S. 1S99 1900. 1901 1902. ...$1,593,518 $1.310.3G2 $ 708,018 ... 2.127.070 2,003.841 1.139.0S1 ... 2.373.7US Z.470.U7H ... 2.7SC110 3,740,704 ... 4,013.030 4,705,90 1.157.210 1.204,337 2.000,747 Dally Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. Today's statement of the Treasury shows: Available cash balances $217.40S,332 Gold 115,453.744 Money, Excliange.Etc NEW YORK. Nov. 21. Money on call nom inal; no loans. Time loans steady; CO days and 90 days, 5T25 per cent; six months, C35y$ per cent; prime mercantile paper, 63 per cent. Sterling exchange easier, with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at $4.844.S4123 for de mand, and at $4.8025034.80623 for CO days; posted rates, $4.814.S1 and $4.8434.S5; commercial bills. $4.7934.S0. Bar silver, 68c Mexican dollars. 44c Government bonds steady; railroad bonds heavy. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 21. Sliver bars, 6Sc per ounce. Mexican dollars Nominal. Drafts Sight, par; telegraph, 2c Sterling on London Sixty days, $4.S0; sight, $4.S3. LONDON, Nov. 21. Bar cilvcr dull,27d per ounce. Money, 23 per cent. I Rate of discount in .tho open market lor short bills, 4Q4 1-16 per cent; for three months bills, 4 per cent. PORTLAND MARKETS. Grain, Flour. Feed. Etc Trading in the wheat market seems to be checked. Prices are nominally unchanged, club being quoted at 73c and bluestem at 78c. Oats aro fairly steady with plenty coming in. Barley is weak. Hay is un changed. WHEAT Walla Walla. 73c; bluestem, 78c; Valley. 777Sc BARLEY Feed, $19 per ton; browing, $20 20.00; rolled, $21. FLOUR Valley, S3.75S3.S5 per barrel: hard wheat, straights. $3.1X4.10; clears, $3.53 3.75; hard! wheat patents, $4.2084.50; Dakota hard wheat, $4.9065.00; graham. $3.75; whole wheat. $4; rye wheat, $4.755. OATS No. 1 white, $L07; tray, $1.05 pr cental. MILLSTUFFS Bran. $19 per ton; mid dlings. $23; shorts, $20; chop, U. S. mills, $18; linseed, dairy, food, $19. , HAY Timothy, $10 per ton; clover, $13; grain. $12; cheat. $12. CEREAL FOODS Flaked oats, fX-pound sacks, $5.57 per barrel; rolled oats, 90-pound sacks. $5.25 per barrel; 45-pound sacks, $5,33 per barrel; C-poun'd sacks, $2.90 per bale; oat meal, steel cut, 50-pound sacks, $7.50 pet barrel; 10-pound sacks, $4 per bale; oatmeal (giound), 60-pound sacks. $7 per barrel. 10 pound backs, $3.75 per bale; split pleas, 50 pound sacks, 5 per 100 pounds; 25-pound boxes. $L30 per box; pearl barley, 60-pound sacks, $4 per 100 pounds; 25-pound boxes? $1.25 per box; pastry flour, 10-pound sacks, $2.50 per bale. Vegetables. Fruit, Etc There were no especial features in tho fruit market yesterday. Trading, on tho whole, .was good In tho forenoon. Quota tions are practically unchanged. VEGETABLES Turnips, 65c per sack; car rots, 76c; beets. 00c; parsnips,, 507Cc; cabbage, 161c; lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; hothouse, 76c per box. parsley, per dozen. 25c; tomatoes, 503U) per box; cauliflower, 75c$l per dozen; beans. 4Sc; egg plant- $1.00 per dox; ceiery. 35 & 65c; pumpkins, lc per pound; artichokes, $1 per dozen. ONIONS Yellow Danvcrs, 76c$l per aack. HONEY $3&3.25 per caae. RAISINS Loose Muscatel. 4-crown, 7c; 3-layer Muscatel raisins, 7c; unbleached seed less Sultans 0c; London layers, 3-crown, whole boxes of 20 pounds, $1.85; 2-crown, $1.73. POTATOES Oregon, choice and fancy, 00 675c per sack; common. 50c per sack; sweet potatoes, sacks. 2c; boxes, 2c DRIED FRUIT Apples, evaporated, 66c per pound; sundrled, sacks or boxes. 4h&5c; apricots. SSlOc; peaches, 60c; pears, iesc; prunes, Italian. 44c; Frencn, 33c; figs, California blacks, 6c; do white. 7c; Smyrna, 20c; plums, pitted. 45c DOMESTIC FRUITS Apples, 75$2 box; crabapples, $1.25 per box; pears, $HJ1.50 per box: grapes, 7590c per box; Concord. 5-pound crate. 17h20c; cranberries, $9Q,10.60 per barrel. TROPICAL FRUITS Lemons. $2.7623.75 pr box. oranges. Valenclas, $4.50; navels, $3.75; grapefruit, $3.25&3.50 per box; bananas, 6Sc per pound: pomegranates, $2 per box; pine apples, $3.754 per dozen; persimmons, $1.40 L60 per box. Butter, Eggs, roultry. Etc The turkey market was excited yesterday. Receipts were rather light and prices went up. Llvo were quoted at IS cents and dressed frcm 20 to 22 cents. Many of the llvo turkeys now coming in arc poor and but for the scarcity would have sold much lower. Chickens are weak and neglected. The egg market Is in a curious condition. Only a few Oregon eggs are arriving, but the price is so high that a small Increase in receipts would cause, a drop. Butter is barely steady and may decline next week. BUTTER Fancy creamery. 30832c per pound; dairy. 2022c; more, 1515c. CHEESE Full cream, twins, 16gl5c; Young America, 1616c; Tillamook, 1414c; Eastern cheese, 15 &c POULTRY Chickens, mixed. 9c per pound; Spring, 10c; hens, 10c: turkeys, live, 18c per pound; dressed. 2022c; ducks, $07 per dozen; geese, 7Sc per pound. EGGS Oregon ranch, 3235c; Eastern, 28 627c Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc Business is quiet in tho hop market and the sales that are made are at lower prices. HOPS 1903 crop, 12321c per pound, ac cording to quality. TALLOW Prime,, per pound. 4e5c; No. 2, and grease, 23c ., HIDES Dry hides. No. 1, 1C pounus and up, 1515c per pound; dry kip. No. 1, 5 to 13 pounds, 12c; drx calf, No. 1, under 6 pounds, 10c; dry salted, bulls and stags, one-third less than dry flint; salted hides, steers, sound. GO pounds and over, S9c: 50 to 60 pounds, 708c; under 60 pounds and cows, 7c; stags and bulls, sound, 56c; kip, sound, 15 to 20 pounds, 7c; under 10 pounds, Sc; green (unsalted), lc'per pound less; culls, lc per pound less; horse hides, salted, each, $1.50&2; dry, each, $11.50; colts' hides, sach, 2550c; goat skins, com mon, each, 10Q15c ; Angora, with wool on, 23c eil. WOOL Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon, 129 15c; mohair, 8537c Oils. COAL OIL Pearl or astral olL cases, 2$c per gallon; water white oil. Iron barrels, 16c; wood barrels, none; eocen oil, cases, 25c; clalne oil, cases. 2Sc; extra tftar, cases, 28c; headlight oil. 175 degrees, cases, 25c; iron bar rels, lbc (Washington State test burning oils, except headlight, c per gallon higher). GASOLINE Stove gasoline, cases, 24c; Iron barrels, 18c; 86 degrees gasoline, cases, 2Sc; Iron barrels, 22c BENZINE 03 degrees, cases, 22o; iron bar rels. 15C LINSEED OIL Pure raw. In barrels, 49c; genuine kettle-boiled, In barrels, 01c; pure raw oil. in cases, 64c: genuine kettle-boiled, In cases, 66c; lota of 250 gallons, lc less per gal lon. TURPENTINE In cases, 50c; wood barrels, 70c; Iron barrels, 74c; 10-case lots, 78c LEAD Pioneer, Collier and Atlantic white and red lead in lots of 600 pounds or more, 0c; less than 500 pounds, 7c Groceries, Nuts, Etc COFFEE Mocha 28328c; Java, fancy. 209 32c; Java, good, 2024c; Java, ordinary, lea 20c; Costa Rica, fancy, 18320c; Costa Rica, good, 10318c; Costa Rica, ordinary, 1012c pound; Columbia roast, cases, 100s, $11; 60s, $1L25; Arbuckle's, $12.13 list; Lion. $12.13. RICE Imperial Japan, No. 1, 5c; No. 2, 5c; Carolina head. 7c: oroken head, 4c SALMON Columbia River, 1-pound tails, $1.C5 per dozen; 2-pound tails, $2.40; fancy 1-pound fiats, $1.60; -pound flats, $1.10; Alaska, pink, 1-pound tails, 75c; red, 1-pound tails, $1.20; sockeyes, 1-pound talis, $1.50; 1-pound flats, $1.00. SUGAR Sack basis, per 100 pounds: Cube, $6; powdered, $5.85; dry granulated, $5.75; extra C, $5.25; golden C, $5.15; advance over Back basis as follows: Barrels, 10c; half-barrels, 25c; boxes, 60c per 100 pounds. (Terms: On remittance within 15 days, deduct per pound; If later than 15 days and within 30 days, deduct c; no discount after 30 days.) Beet sugar, granulated. $3.65 per 100 pouads; maple sugar, 15310c per pound. NUTS Peanuts. 6o per pound for raw; 83Sc for roasted: cocoanuts. S590c per dozen; walnuts, 15o per pound; plnenuts, 1012c; hickory nuts, 7c; Brazil nuts. 16c; filberts, 15316s; fancy pecans, 17c; almonds, 1415c; chestnuts, 16c SALT-Bale, $2.25: fine. 60s. 40c; 100s. 75c: Liverpool, 60s, 50c; 100s, 9Sc: 224s, $1.00; half ground. 100s. $8.25; 60s, $9.25. BEANS Small white, 4c; largo white, 3c; pink. 3c; bayou, 8c; Lima, 4c "Meats and Provisions. BEEF Dressed, 60c per pound. VEAL Dressed, small, 58Hc; large, 037c per pound. MUTTON Dressed, 435c; lambs, dressed. 6c PORK Dressed, 037c HAMS 10014 pounds, 15c per pound; 14$, 16 pounds, 14c per pound; 18320 pounds, none; California (picnic), 0c; cottage hams, 10c; Union hams, 436 pounds, average, none; shoulders, 10c; boiled hams, 22c; boiled picnic hams, boneless, 16c BACON Fancy breakfast. 20c: standard breakfast. 18c; choice, 10c; English breakfast bacon. 11014 pounds, none. DRY SALT MEATS Regular short cleats, 10311c smoked; clear backs, 10c salt. llc smoked; Oregon exports, 20325 pounds, average, none; dry salt, none; smbked: Unlcn butts, 10318 pounds, average, 9c dry salt, 100 smoked. SAUSAGE Portland ham. 13e per pound; minced ham. 10Vc: Summer, choice dry, 17c; bologna, long. 0c; wemerwurst, -8c; liver, 5 Vic; pork, 10c; blood, 5c; headcheese, 6c; bologna sausage, link, 6c PICKLED GOODS Portland pigs' feet, -barrels. $5; -barrels, $2.85; 15-pound kits, $1.25. Tripe, -barrels, $5.50; -barrels, $2.75; 15-pound kits, $1: pigs' tongues, -barrels, $6; -barrels, $3; 15-pound kits, $1.25. Lambs' tongues, -barrels, $8.23; -barrels, $4.75; 15 pound kits, $2.50. LARD Kettle-rendered: Tierces, 10c; tubs. 10V4c; 50s. 10c; 20s, 10o: 10s. lie; os. llc Standard pure: Tierces, 9c; tubs. 9c; 60s, 9c; 20s. 9c; 10s, . 10c; 5s. 10c Com pound lard! TlerceB, 8c; tubs. 8c Metal Markets. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Business la the va rious metals today was light, and prices were about tho same as those ruling yesterday. Quotations f or iron continue more or less nom Inal, and the demand shows little sign of Im provement in the near future. Tin occupies a Arm position, with spot at 25.40325.00c Cop per Is quiet, with Lake at 12.50313c; electro lytic, 12.87c; casting, 12.76c , Lead rul6d quiet and steady at 4.25c Spelter, easy and unchanged, at 5.62c Wool at St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 21. Wool, nominal; ter ritory and Western mediums, 1819c; fine x medium, 15 17c; fine, lO.lCc, EXPECT HIGHER PRICES PRUNE MARKET MAY IMPROVE AFTER FIRST OF YEAR. Apples the Most Active Feature of the San Francisco Trade Po tatoes Higher All Around. BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. (Special.) A leading authority reports the dried fruit situa tion quiet. Packers have filled early orders, and are now working on small assorted busi ness. The bulk of the cured fruit la .oat of growers' hands and carried by dealers and packers. Apricots and peaches aro well cleaned up. The regular trade demand Is confined to email actual wants. Small prunes havo nearly all been exported. Santa Clara growers are expecting better prices after outside prunesare all sold. Packers look for improvement In the market after the first of the year. Prices In Oregon are lower than In California. Outside raisins aro slowly cleaning up, but association business Is quiet. Walnuts are active and Ann. The scarcity of car prevents free deliveries on early orders. Almond are quiet and easy. Honey is dull and lower. The grain market, excepting December bar ley, which was strengthened by shorts cover ing, closed easier, owing to renewal of the storm, which, however, has not yet reached Southern California. Apples are the most activo feature of tho' fruit market. Other fruits ore quiet and un changed. Potatoes are higher all around on light re ceipts. Tho steamer Elder, with supplies from Oregon, had not arrived at a lato hour. Fancy onions are scarce and advancing. Butter Is easy, cheese is weak, eggs are strong. Receipts. 17,000 pounds butter, 11,000 pounds cheese, 17,000 dozen eggs. Hops are quiet and steady. VEGETABLES Cucumbers, $ie1.25; garlic, GffSc; green peas, 35c; string beans, 20c; tomatoes, 40cSl.25; egg plant. 6076c. POULTRY Turkey gobblers. 1921c; roost ers, old. $535.50; do young, $5.506; broilers, small. $33.60; do large, $44.50; fryers, $5Q 6.60; hens, $50; ducks, old, $1(35; do young, $136. BUTTER Fancy creamery, 32c;-do aaconds, 25c; fancy dairy, 24o; do seconds, 21c. EGGS Fancy ranch, 65c; Eastern, 25c HAY Wheat, $13.50 17; wheat and oat, $1310; barley. $0.50313; alfalfa, $9U.50; clo ver, $9.6011.60; stock, $S10; straw, per bale, 65C5c WOOL Fall, Humboldt and Mendocino. 12Q 14c; lambs, 94?Uc HOPS 19222c FRUITS Apples, cholco Oregon, $2.25; com mon, 25c; bananas, $1.253; Mexican limes, $43; California lemons, choice, $2.50; do com mon, $1; oranges, navels, $2.6033.50; pineap ples, $232.60. POTATOES River Burbanks, e0365c; Salinas Burbanks, $1.1034.45; sweets, $7.25; Oregon Burbanks, $1.25. MILLSTUFFS-Bran. $19320; middlings, $25 27. CHEESE New, 13c; Young America, 13314c; Eastern, 15lCc RECEIPTS Flour. 15,004 quarter sacks; wheat, 450 centals; barley, 9970 centals; beans, 700 sacks; corn, J160 centals; potatoes, 4290 sacks; bran, 1235 sacks; middlings, 625 sacks; hay, 1C1 tons; wool, 162 bales; hides, 600. LOWER NORTHWEST TRICES. Caused Decline In tho Chicago Wheat Pit Yesterday. CHICAGO, Nov. 21. While cables were rath er Indifferent to the big advance here yester day, a mora potent factor in causing lower prices in tho wheat pit was tho decline in values in the Northwest. The situation, as a whole, remained about the same as for tho past few days, but local traders who bought yesterday were inclined to take profits, and although the markot was supported by some of the interests, a declining tendency was no ticeable. The weather was decidedly favorable, but recolpts in the Northwest continued small. Trading was principally in the May delivery, and that month was a little firmer than De cember, closing o lower, at 78c December opened 3c lower, at 80S0c and after selling up to 80c, the market started on tho down grade, and closed about tho bottom at 79c a loss of c Corn ruled easier along with wheat. Decem ber closed ?rc lower, at 43&c In the absence of support from the leading long, bullish enthusiasm disappeared from the oats pit, tho market slumping along with other grains. December closed &c lower, at 35c Provisions wero easier on selling by packers and on lower prices for hogs at the yards. Some buying by shorts checked tho decline. January pork closed 123tl5c lower; lard was off 7c and ribs wero down 7c The leading futures ranged as follows: WHEAT. Open. High. Low. Close. December ....$0.80 $0.bo $0.70 $0.70 May 78 79 78$ 78 July 74 74 74?s 74 CORN. December .... 43 43 43 43X May 42 42 42i 42 July 42 42 41 42 OATS. December .... S5 35T 35 35 May 36 30 38 80 MESS PORK. January 11.50 11.60 11.42 1L45. May 11.65 11.C5 11.52 11.37 LARD. January ...... 6.05 6.07 6.C2 C.02 May ...- 6.02 0.65 C.C2 6.05 SHORT RD3S. January 0.12 C.12 0.07 C.07 May 6.22 C.23 0.17 6.20 Cash quotations wero as follows: Flour Firm. Wheat No. 3, 793S2c; Nc 2 red, S2 S5c Corn No. 2. 43c; No. 2 yellow, 44c Oats No. 2, 35c; No. 3 white, 3039c Rye No. 2, 69c Barley Good feeding, 373Sc; fair to cholco malting. 47339c Flaxseed No. 1, 90c; No. 1 Northwestern, 96C Timothy seed Prime, $2.02. Mess pork Per barrel, $11.3711.50. Lard Per cwU, $0.C7ga.8O. Short ribs Sides, loose, $0.7537. Short clear sides Boxed, $6.6030.02. Clover Contract grade, S10.05. Receipts. Shipments. Flour, barrels 32.100 9.400 272,900 214,300 81,800 Wheat, bushela ......314,900 Corn, bushels - 151,400 Oats, bushels 232,100 Rye. bushels 33,000 Barley, bushels 170,100 17,000 Grain at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. Wheat weak. Barley weak. Oats weak. Spot quotations: Wheat Shipping, $1.171.40; milling, $1.4351.47. Barley Feed, $L111,13; brewing, $1.16 01.20. Oats Red, $1.2031.32; white, $1.2031.32; black, $L601.00. Call board sales: Wheat Weak; December, $1.35; May, $L32; cash, $1.40. Barley Weak; December, $1.10; May, $1.01. Corn Largo yellow, $1.3001.33. Northwestern Grain Markets. COLFAX, Wash., Nov. 21. SpeclaL) Wheat was stronger throughout the Palouse country today, buyers offering 01c for club and 05c for bluestem. Little was sold. L. Anderson, a farmer living near Guy, sold G000 bushels of bluestem to the Guy Milling Company today for 60c In the warehouse. Thl3 Is tho record price for two weeks. Oats remain firm at 83c and barley at SOc per 100 pounds. European Grain Markets. LrVERPOOL, Nov. 2L Wheat firm. Wheat In Paris steady; flour in Paris Arm. LONDON. Nov. 21. Wheat cargoes on pass age Indifferent. Imports of wheat into United Kingdom. 001,000 bushels; flour, 325,000 bar rels. Grain and Produce at New York. NEW YORK. Nov. 21. Flour "Receipts, 17, 700 barrels; exports. 33,800 barrels. Market opened firm, but demand was light. Wldtef patents. $44.35; Winter straights, '$3.9534.10; Minnesota patents, $4.5334.75; Winter extras, $330.35; Minnesota bakers. $3.7033.83; Winter low grades. $2.8033.15. Wheat Receipts, 100,900 bushels; exports, 94.400 bushels. Spot quiet. No. 2 red. STHc I elevator and SSc f. o. b. afloat; No, 1 North- era Duluth, 90 f. o. b. afloat. After opening steady on local covering; steady cables, small Northwest receipts and mora bullish weekly statistics, wheat eased off under realizing, and tho close was easier at c net decline. May closed 83c; July closed 79c; December closed -87c Hops Steady; Pacific Coast, 1903 crop, 21 2Sc; 1002 crop. 2125c; olds, 912c Hides Steady; California, 21 to 25 pounds, 19c Wool Firm; domestic fleece. 28332c Butter Receipts, 3100 packages. Market quiet fl jmd ton. Creamery, 17-lSc; state dairy, 15Qfj 15c Cheese Receipts, 35330313 ges. Market fir regular. State full cream, fancy, small, col cred, 12c; late-made, 10c Fggs Receipts. 5144 packages. Western, -23 j 26c XJCVESTOCK MARKETS. Prices at Portland Union Stock Yards Yesterday. Receipts at the Portland Union Stock Yards yesterday -were 213 hogs, 40 sheep and SO cat-1 tie. The following prices wero quoted, at the yards: CATTLE Best steera, $3.60; medium, $3 3.25; cows, $2.5032.60. HOGS Best large fat hogs, 6c; medium large fat hoes. 4tAc SHEEP Best wethers, $2.75; mixed sheep, $2.50. EASTERN LIVESTOCK. Prices Current at Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City. CHICAGO, Nov. 21. Cattle Receipts, 500. Market nominal. Good to prime steers, $5.10 5.50; poor to medium, $3.6034.90; stockers and feeders. $234.15; cows, $1.60g.28; heifera, $2 4.60; canners, $1.5032.40; bulls, $25.23; calves, $2.5037.25; Texas fed steers, $2.253 4.60; Western steers, $334.50. Hogs Receipts today, 23,000; Monday, 30,000. Market steady to 10c lower. Mixed and butch ers, $4.5034.70; good to choice heavy, $4.60 .C5; rough heavy, $4.304.30; light, $4.45 4.00; bulk of sales, $4.6034.60. Shocp Receipts, 2000. Market steady. Good to choice wethers, $3.C04.25; fair to cholco mixed, $2.7&83.60; Western sheep, $2.253; na tive lambs, $3.1535.60; Western lambs, $3 5.25. KANSAS XTY, Nov. 21. Cattle Receipts, 1000. Market unchanged. Native steers, $4.25 35.10; Texas ,and Indian steers, $2.4533.40; Texas cows, $1.7532.50; native cows and herr ors, $1.5034; stockers and feeders, $1.5030; Western steers, $2.4034.30; Western cows, $1.60 32.S3; bulls. $1.7533.10; calves, $2.5030. Hogs Receipts, 6000. Market 64J10c lower; bulk of sales, $4.4534.55. Heavy, $4.3034.35; packers, $4.4634.55; medium, $4.504.63.; light, $4.6034.60; Yorkers, $4.C7S4.C0; pigs." $4,400 4.55. Sheep Receipts, 600. Market steady. Mut tons, $2.6034; lamb3, $2.9035.35; range weth ers. $2.1084.33; ewes, $2.2533.45. Mining Stocks. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. The official clos ing quotations for mining stocks today wero as follows: Andes M....$0.15Julia ,..$0.00 iieicner injustice Best & Belcher... 1.3(JMexican - Caledonia Hi Occidental Con 10 C2 34 l.So 13 9 13 5 Challenge Con ... lbiOphir .... Chollar 31, Overman ......... Confidence 64iPotot3l Con. Cal. & Va.., 02Savago Con. Imperial .... 2Seg. Belcher .... Crown Point ... 131 Sierra Nevada .... Exchequer llj Silver Hill 51 Gould & Curry... 10 j Union Con ....... 35 Hal & Norcross. 4'J Utah Con 11 NEW YORK, Nov, 21. Mining stocks today closed as follows: Adams Con .$0.101Llttle Chief .$0.00 . 0.00 Alice J oi Ontario Breece 10 Ophlr .... 1.25 Com. Tunnel .. Con. Cal. & Va... Horn Silver Iron Sliver ..... Leadvllle Con .... ijFotosl 17 90Savage 12 1.00 Sierra Nevada .... 24 jluj sman .Hopes ..... 1a ! Crondanl lift (Standard BOSTON, Nov. 21. Closing quotations: Adventure $ 3.50 Osceola S37.00 Alloue: 4.00 carrot it.iO 3S.50 Qulncy SO.OO 21.23Tan-.arack 65.00 445.00;Trinity 5.00 14.731 United States ... 17.50 42.C2 Utah 21.W) 73.00 Victoria 2.50 7.50 Winona 7.75 35.50 Wolvtrine 65.00 , 8.501 Amalgamated . . . Bingham Cal. & Hecla... Centennial ..... Copper Range . Dominion Coal. Franklin Mohawk Old Dominion . Cured Fruit at New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. The market for evap orated apples continues easy. Common aro quoted at 435c; prime, 53Cc; choice, 6 6c; fancy, 7c Prunes are rather less In demand, and rule quiet, with quotations ranging from 2c to 6c for all grades. Apricots are moving slowly. Cholco aro quoted at 989c; extra choice, 10310c; fan cy, ll15c Peaches dull, with choice quoted at 77c; extra choice, 7-Sc; fancy, 910c Coffee and Sugar. NEW YORK. Nov. 2L Coffee futures closed steady and unchanged to an advance of 10 points. Total saiss, 11,000 bags. Including De cember, $5.15; . March, $5.7535.80; May, $6; July. $C.033U0. Spot Rio steady; No. 7 In voice Go; mild steady; Cordova, 712c Sugar Raw Arm; fair refining, 3c; cen trifugal. 90 test. 3c; molasses sugar, 3c Re fined quiet; No. 4, $4.30; No. 7. $4.25; No. 8. $4.20; Nc 9. $4.15; No. 10, $4.10; No. 11, $4.05; No. 12, $4; No. 13. $3.95; No. 14. $3.90; confec tioners' A. $4.03; mold A, $4.05; cutloaf, $5.30; crvshed, $5.30; powdered, $4. SO; cubes, $4.93. New York Cotton Market. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. The cotton market closed quiet and steady, with prices 135 points net higher. November, 10.94c; December, lie; January, 11.04c; February, 11.05c; March, 11.10c; April, 11.09c; June and July, 11.11c Spot cotton closed steady. Middling uplands. 11.30c; do Gulf, 11.63c; sales, 191 bales. Imports and Exports. "NEW YORK. Nov. 21. Imports of dry goods and merchandise at the port of New York for the week ending today were $11,803,792. Im ports of specie were $1645 In silver and $1,S54, 251 gold. Exports of specie were $747,732 sil ver and $20,575 gold. Dairy Produce nt Chicago. CHICAGO, Nov. 21. On tho produco ex change today tho butter market was firm; creameries, lC23c; dairies, 14 19c Eggs, Arm; 23320c Cheese, steady, 10llc CHAEGED WITH BOODUNG. Ex-Officials of Michigan City Under Fire for Water Contracts. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 21. "Warrants were issued today for 17 ex-city ofilclals, charging them with accepting a bribe in connection with the famous Garman-Cameron scheme for supplying the city with water from Lake Michigan. All of the warrants are the result of the confession made by ex-City Attorney Salsbury, on hia return last week from serving a two years' term In the Detroit House of Correction for breaking the Fed eral banking law, in connection with the scheme. "While in prison Salsbury's con viction on a bribery charge in the State Courts, in connection with the same mat ter was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and with the pros pect of being returned to prison Salsbury went to the prosecutir's office and made a lengthy confession which resulted in to day's Issuance of warrants. Following are those Indicted: Ex-Mayor George R. Perry, State Senator David Burns, Corey P. Bissell, -former member of the Board of Public "Works, and the following ex-Aldermen who- wero In office when tho attempt was made to put the water deal through: James McColl, Peter Depagter, Jacob Ellen, M. Kin ney, John T. Donovan, Jacob Moll, Abra ham Chisells, Charles Johnson, Ryner Stonehouse, Daniel LOsier, John McLach lan, Clark Slocum, John Muir and Adrian Shrlver. The amounts the respondents are charged with having received out of the alleged boodlo fund range from $200 to $3333. Revelations of tho morning In the service of warrants show that tho Com mon Council was controlled during the attempt to ptit through the water scheme with the 14 votes which Included both Democrats and Republicans. The Alder men are charged with having received $300 to $500 each. Mayor Perry's share, It is charged in the warrant was $3333, and Corey P. Bissell is charged with recelv .ing J500 while Stale Senator Burns la o.- Downing, Hopkins &Co. Establlslred 1393, WMEAT AND STOCK BROKERS Room 4, Ground Floor legcd. to have received $200 for his sup port. It has developed that Salsbury's first confessioi, made last week, was not ao complete as the prosecution had hoped lor. Prosecutor Ward "went to work at once upon the leverage offered by the In complete .statement and secured enough additional evidence so that Salsbury was summoned again last night for a confer ence. The result, the Prosecutor says, wus a statement which is regarded as complete. Ex-Alderman Ghysels, after hearing tho lcomplaint at his arraignment charging then said to Judge Uaggerty: "I did not take $330. but I did get 300." Then his attorney pulled him to one side, and he finally announced he wanted an examination. Ex-Mayor Perry was bound over to the Superior Court. The ball was Hxed at $30QC. CONVICTS ARE REWARDED. For Preventing a Utah Outbreak, Two Are Released. SALT 1AKJEJ, Nov. 2L By exercising liberal clemency, the State Board of Pardons today recognized the heroic ser vices of several convicts who rendered material assistance In preventing a gen eral delivery of prisoners during the re cent outbreak at the state penitentiary. Alexander A. Robertson, formerly teller of the "Wells-Fargo Bank, who was serv ing a four years' term for embezzlement, and J. C. Schuckers, serving a like sen tence for forgery, were both granted full pardons and released from prison today. John D. Douglas, sentenced in 1S9S to life imprisonment lor wife -murder, has his sentence commuted to 25 years, and the 13-year sentence of C. L. Maxwell for bank robbery was commuted to expire today. The board also commuted to life im prisonment the death sentence of Nathan F. Haworth. Kaworth was under sen tence to be shot December 21, for the al leged murder of a watchman in Layton, "Utah, 35 years ago. Robbers Blow Open Bank Safe. SEDALIA, Mo., Nov. 21. The Citizens' Bank at Clarksburg, Mo., was broken into last night and the safe blown open. All tho money in the bank was taken, but the officers decline to state how much. A reward of $300 is offered for the arrest and conviction of the rob bers, who escaped. Britain Grants Extradition Papers. LONDON, Nov. 21. Extradition was granted today for Charles Taparae and Kebear, the two Croatians, who were ar rested at Southampton, October 21, charged with the murder of S. T. Ferguson at West MIddletown, Pa. Thieves Enter Home of Mrs. Eddy. CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 2L Tho resi dence of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, was entered today and a number of gold and silver arti cles and other valuables were taken. The police have no clue Mrs. Bowers' Trial Set. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. Mrs. Martha Bowers, accused of poisoning her husband, appeared before Judge Cook this morning, and through her attorney obtained her re quest to be tried on December 14. INEEENAL :&IAC!rm?E IN MINE. Superintendent and Workman In a Colorado Plant Killed. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Nov. 21. Charles McCormlck, superintendent of the Vindicator mine, and Melvln H. Beck, a miner, were killed shortly before noon to day by an explosion in the sixth level of the Vindicator mine. Several other men are reported burled under rocks. Sheriff Robertson, who is investigating tho explosion, says it is supposed to have been due to an accident, and not . plot. The explosion occurred while Superin tendent McCormack and Miner Beck were in the cage. They were the only passen gers. Just as the cage reached the sixth level the explosion occurred. It wrecked the level, cage and shaft at the point, and Instantly killed both men. The explosion was heard at .the surface, and many per sons thought it was an earthquake. It is believed no others "were killed or Injured. It is positively asserted by offi cers of the Vindicator Mining Company that tho explosion was caused by an In fernal machine. This statement was made after a. thorough examination and been made of the shaft. The Infernal machine, containing many pounds of dynamite, was placed in the sixth level, which is part of the abandoned workings of the mine, with in a few Inches of the shaft. Then a loaded revolver was fixed in the shaft with its muzzle pointing directly toward tho infernal machine. To the trigger of the revolver was attached a string, which was thrown across the shaft in such a manner that when the cage came down and encountered the string the revolver would explode, the bullet striking the in fernal machine. Pieces of this revolver have been recovered from the bottom of tho shaft, but not a vestige of the Infer nal machine can be found. Major Naylor and a detail of soldiers were dispatched from Camp Goldfield to tho mine, and took charge of the prop erty. No one is allowed to approach the mine, and no one is permitted to leave. Su perintendent McCormack was one of the best-known mining men in the Cripple Creek district. After receiving news of tho explosion. Governor Peabody ordered the troops in Cripple Creek who were to proceod to Tellurlde tonight to remain In Cripple Creek. The force now there numbers near ly 400 men. BIRTH EEC0KD IS STOLEN. Case of Countess Trying to Get an Estate More Complicated. BERLIN Nov. 22.Tho mystery sur rounding the case of Countess Isabella "Wosierska Kwalickel, charged with pre senting a fatee heir to an estate at "Wro blewo. Province of Posen, which has been before the Courts here plnce October 26, has become more intricate through the erasure of the date of the Mayer child's birth from the St. Nicholas parish regis ter, at Cracow, and the theft of a copy thereof from the municipal records. The Countess Kwalickel's witnesajs testified today that they found a less than a day old child when they entered the Countess' bedroom January 25, 1S97, and the Mayer woman declared that her boy, whom she alleged to have recognized in the person of the Kwalickel child, was born Decem ber 17, 1S96. Long reports of this protracted trial furnish the daily reading supply of the Berlin public Pushing Albina 8treet Railway. A large force of men with teams are at work on Russell street, Albina, builuing a double track for the Maryland-avenue branch of the Portland Railway Company. This stretch of track is being laid between Union and Gantenbein avenues. Forces aro working from both ends. The plank i of the roadwajr ba3 to be cut ouj; for pjS Chamber of Commerce tracks. Cars may be run on this branch by the first of the year. The company is also putting in a sec ond track on Union avenue between East Burnsido street and the bridge across Sul livan's Gulch, so there will be doublo tracks for this distance. "When the steel bridge over Sullivan's Gulch is built tha company will have double tracks across it. 1 AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTIAND. -F VT Vaillc. Cltv IE N Easton, St. Paul P H Ford, do SI H Doogan, N "ST ;A X.onegan, Chgo H Y Drukker, N X Ji iiamberger, S .F !"W" Kay, do ai oaens. Jr.. Pa C W McDougal. do A Demangren, Seattl T H Crosweli. do J ,ilarphy, St LsIh A Mordes, Chgo W F Calvert. Seattle ;W C Camp. Jjoulsvlllo i S illlls. S F- A N Jefferson, N D W B Hancock, Heppn H A Graham. N T ? Gunnel. Chicago jj Meyerstein. N T J I' Bradley. St La C F Martin. Denver S A Kothwell, Chgo Mrs Hothwell. rin Mrs Martin, do H E Kennedy, do J H Ttlchard3. S F X. Thankhousen, N T E 1 Ackerman, S F H J Harris, do C Brown (Mrs K "W "Walden. do H H Seaberry. S F A D Runnel, do C J Riley. Chicago S H Jackson, Denver Mrs Jackson, do W H Roberts, R C S W H Bice. N T Dr R S Vlckey, USA Misses Vlckey C W Colby, Seattle C H Hall & wf. Pa Mips D M James, do Miss O E James, do W H Clark, USA H M Belts, Chgo F J Bardlpg, wife & child, Japan I Louis. Kansas City D M Morr!s,Marylanl H D Boylngton, Chgo S Zelmer, N Y G "W Reynolds, do F Green, do T H Herert, Chicago H 11 Woodruff. S F J S Westlake, N Y. W Armstrong, Seattla F "W Graham. S F J L Marks, do J Elder, do J R Harvey, Gr Pass "VV F Johnson R S Shammeid. S F G H Eberhardt airs W H Hart and cmid H McKInley, YVashn J DavlB. N Y F R Hanlon, Chgo E C White. St Louis J Davis, N X G H Conough, S F W E Haynes. S Clara A TU Wilson, USA Mrs WHscn, do C F Goddard. S F TV Aulps. Chgo S II Woolfolk, Ky H Elliott, St. Paul, Minnesota "VV N Hannaford, do T Cooper, do F "W Gilbert, do H A Gray, do A E Mitchell, do G F Fernald. do "W "VT Starr, do E J Pearson, do H E X.ow, do TOE PERKINS. At Plckard. City R Nelson, Astoria C A Burlingame, do F Schwartz. Seattle Miss Hunter, do J O "Wronn, Joseph Mrs "Wrenn, do Miss "Wrenn. do B Morse, Aberdeen Mrs Morse, do H Matson. Wisconsin Mrs W "W Laughllnc (Mrs Matson, do Chchall8 "Wash J v Stewart, Seattle G F Egan, Spokane J Daly, Wallace Ida J F Trowbridge. Setl Mrs Trowbrldgp. do Mrs L H Millar, do Mrs M A Laughlln Miss Julia Laughlln Mrs E J Hosier. Olynf F S Curl, Pendleton Mrs Curl, do Miss Curl, do Maude Chapman. F W Sandiland, Iowa F u Houser. do Mrs Noad. Falls City Miss Noad, do Mrs Teal, do J Parnell. Olympla C C Hook, Camas Mrs Hook, do Mis3 Hook, do A Trippler. Cove B Swaggert, do Mrs Swaggert. do Mra VV ChlBman, Mc- Mlnnvllle Mrs H H Grant, do Goldendale. Washn Mrs A C Chapman, da A J Parrish. F City D R "Wheeler Mrs "Wheeler Mrs K, C Allen. S F Miss Platzveder. Pndi Mrs F Platzveder, da L Buchanan, do Mrs "W Schulwlsh A H Rlk, Heppncr G yv' Newman, "Wash! Virgil Newman, do A Newman, do W H Wehlng, Hlllsb MM wehing. do F H "Watson, For Grv R E Dugan, Mnmth Mrs E H Horner, do N Beaman, Seattle J H Hughlltt, "Washnl J Lowns, do A M Conley, N Pwdr C S Burchfleld. Vancv VT Armstrong, S F Mrs Burchfleld, do THE IMPERIAL. P McDavId, Astoria Mrs McDavid, do Miss I Gustafson. do B McDevltte, do J F Hu. do F H Richards, City C A Billings, Olympla1 W Beck, City A S Froslld, Seaside R P Clark, City Mrs G H Dunsford. Salem Mrs B Dunsford. do Mra J H Brown. Chn Mrs Fannie Beck, do Jonnie Mc E GalbratW H L Lougee, washn "W H Bennlnghoff, Omaha B A Holt, "Washn C D Metcalf, Spokn H C Herron, Bruce Mrs Herron, do E G Newman, do Mrs Newman, do Sol Israel. S F A Pike, The Dalles S B Huston. Hlllsbor H A Kearns, Salt Lk Mrs Kearns, do L W MUler W J McDonald. SeattJ Mrs McDonald, da A R Seaman Mrs Seaman J "W Walker Mrs E Hitchcock, do G It Fcnton. Chgo C Morfclt. Malheur Mrs Morfelt, do Miss Hitchcock, do "W D Simpson, St PI E A McNeil, do C H Watklns, F City A Longinl. Clty J M Maxwell, Tacom S Hetnroth, Salem J H O'Mallery. Seattl M Winter, City C H Brlggs, Scattlo Mrs Brigg3, do R H Miller. Salem Mrs Helnroth, do F I "White Denver THE ST. Miss M Malar, S F CHARLES. J E Snlvoly, S F C Michael W Smith I E Llmerman, "Wahn R Olllvant, Rosenurg R "W Fisher, Albany G M Allyn, Lexlngtn Mrs Allyn, do V TIchenor, Washn W C Lewis, McCoy J Boydston, Dallas Mrs L Goldbeck. Astr Mrs V Owens, do E E Howard Mra Howard B K Stanley, City A Cambert S Meaney. 1m. Center H Hesse, Scholls W Cameron, Troutd C H Ogden J M Williams. Eugn R L Blnley, Sheridan R J Taylor, Vancvr Mrs Taylor, do R Miller, Boring W A Dunlap, Washa J A York B Kellogg, Dallas G W Schuch, City L E Arnold L A Bftughr C Dlllaboy Miss Jessie Burdlck, Olympla Mrs L Wooley, do Mr? Grace Dray, Seat E R White, City A Laygen, Minnesota Frank Bauer L Mnthiew. Buttevlll W Soinmerfelt, Clats T Butell. USA S A Nichols, do Mrs O Shepardaon, Eufaula R J Wolcka. Hd Rlv Mrs Wolcka, do J L Marsh. Eugene P Van Doren, Chgo G W Scheoff, Pa THE ESMOND. J B Perrott, Or City T L Kay, Cas Rock F Davis, do M R Potts, Holly E Parker, Wdburn G Anderson, Rainier O Browning. Seattle H C Bell, Troutdale Mrs BelL do S E Kramer, City S S Whitman. Aurora! W Swan, Bridal Veil S V Stono. Palmer E W Sachray, Eufala L Jervotte. Astoria Z Whitman. Mnmth G Barrett. T Dalles E M Jarvis, Lyie R C Coleman. S F J Anslng. Warrendl Mrs J B Williams, McMlnnvllle Miss Williams, do Mrs O Shepheruson, Eufala O Rlneseth, Wshugl W Fahey, Gldendale S A Elmer, do W S Haynes. Clty R Spauldlng. D Islnd J H Brick, Juneau J A Barr, Clatskanle F Piper. Rainier J H Mason, Tacoma Mrs Mason, Tacoma D Page. Olympla E A Martin. Toledo Mra Martin, do M Brown, Alaska A West, Astoria E Ferguson, S F Mrs Ferguson, do Miss Ferguson, do E M Anson. Albany Mrs Anson, do G A Lewis. N Y J S Shields, do J Fisher, Salem J Frlor, Nehalem L Fitcher, Cathlamet W G Mclntyre, Rains Hotel Brunswick, Seattle. European plan, popular rates. Modern improvements. Business center. Neas depot. Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma. American plam Rates, J3 and up. notel Donnelly Tacoma. Flrat-clase restaurant in connection, Rainier Grand Hotel, Seattle. European plan. Finest cafe on Coast. Hdqrs. naval, military and traveling men. Rooni3 in suite and single. Free shower baths. Rates, 51 up. H. P. Dunbar, prop. The St. Helens Hotel, Cnelialla. American plan. First-class. J1.E0 to $2.50. COMMERCIAL SAMPLE ROOMS Down Town In Seattle. Wo take pleasure in notifying the TRAV ELLING MEN Msltlng tho Northwest that we have lately built and arranged at a cost of several thousand dollars, FINE COM MERCIAL SAMPLE HOOMS. on tho top of the Arcado building, the MOST CENTRAL LOCATION in SEATTLE, for the use of tho Commercial jnen who stop at THE WASH INGTON, when In Seattle. We hope thereby to greatly extend the patronage of THE WASHINGTON. CHICHESTER'S ENQLlSH NHYBOYAL FILLS . urjpuu una wmij- Pennine 18AFE. AlTirrtiibi Lftdle,MiDnialit fer CHICHESTER'S KNGLISK , la H2D i&d Child BMUnio boxti. tulti 1 ii mm nam. Taie bo etaor. Kefnto I Banroa Substitutions and Imlta tlnBs. Bay f jomt Dmsirt. or ai 4o. la tad h RelloT for L41es, M Utttr, r ro. turn Sf mil. lG.OeQTeailsuraUli. Hold St l&rtllllsU. ChlthfMtClinmbvxl Ca ftaatfes ttU mw. Mdila go aan. PHiLA- .PAi INVESTORS With fifty dollars and upwards should wrlto the STOCK, GRAIN & PROVISION CO., Buhl E12& P.etrgit,. Mch, xjielr plans ar soft Pe m KU