WORK ON TARIFF BILL
McKinley Rates Restored by
the Committee.
THE COALMEN ABE SATISFIED
Tha Coming Weak to Ba Devoted to the
Bchednle of Sundries The Prleo
to Be Paid for Armor Plata.
Washington, Feri 20. The Repub
lican members of the ways and means
oommittee took an important step to
day in their work on the new tariff
bill, by deciding to restore the McKin
ley rates on ooal and coke. These rates
were 76 cents per ton of 28 bushels on
bituminous and shale, and 30 cents on
coal slack, such as will pass through a
half-inch screen. The present rates
are 40 cents and 15 cents. Coke is ad
vanced from 15 to 20 per cent ad val
orem. The changes were made in re
sponse to a general demand from the
coal interests, whose representatives
declared the Wilson rates had increased
Canadian competition so greatly that
the American mineowners had been
obliged to reduce wages to keep in the
field.
The first conference of the week dealt
with the tobacco schedule, and, al
though no final agreement had been
reached, there is a practical understand
ing that the new bill will return to the
McKinley rates on tobacco, except on
the grade known as filler. Tbe rate
on thia will be 70 cents a pound,
double the McKinley duty, which was
85 cents. 'It was represented by the to
bacco manufacturers that most of the
tobacco imported from Cuba as filler
was need for wrappings, and that this
evasion of the law gave the Key West
factories an advantage over those using
Sumatra tobacco. The McKinley du
ties on wrapper tobacco' were $2 per
pound on stemmed and $3.75 on un
stemmed. On snuff the rate was 50
cents; and cigars and cigarettes, $4 and
25 per oent ad valorem, and on tobacco
not enumerated 40 cents.
The committee will devote most of
the time this week to the schedule of
sundries, which includes buttons, ex
plosives, matches, musical instru
ments, furs, jewelry, gloves and miscel
laneous manufactures, and on most of
these the McKinley rates will be re
stored. Bonn Kaval Committee.
Washington, Feb. 20. The house
committee on naval affairs, which is
working on the naval appropriation
bill, spent most of the day in discussing
the question of the price to be paid for
armor plate. The question was finally
disposed of by the adoption of an amend
ment to the bill authorizing the secre
tary of the navy to contract for steel
armor, of domestio manufacture, for
the three battleships now being con
structed, and appropriating a sum not
exceeding $3,210,000 for the purpose.
It is estimated that 8,021 tons of plate
will be needed for these ships, so that
this provision limits the cost to $400
per ton. A substitute was offered by
McCall, limiting the appropriation to
$2,808,750, which would have limited
the price to $350 per ton, but this was
voted down.
Another proposition was. made to
strike the words "of domestic manu
facture" from the armor clause, which
also failed. Members of the committee
who favored this proposition urged
that the hearings showed there was no
competition between the American
firms engaged in the manufacture of
armor-plate, and that the government
did not have an opportunity of buying
of foreign firms, as American firms
were selling armor to Russia at $250 a
ton. . - -
FOR A BEET SUGAR FACTORY.
Active Work of the Commercial Club
- of La Grande.
La Grande, Or., Feb. 22. Recently
Turner Oliver, in behalf of the Com
mercial Club, applied to 'the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation officials to make
a rate on sugar beets, in anticipation of
establishing a sugar factory in this val
ley. The rate applied for was 50 cents
a ton from all points within Union
county. In response to this request,
the railway company guarantees to es
tablish the following rates:
Within 25 miles, 50 cents a ton; 25
to 50 miles, 75 cents; 60 to 100 miles,
.11..
j. ' equivalent to a rate of 60 cents
Moints within the coun
'iprtimttept "' powder. A request
will be mai
iaV X
the latter point
included in tV X rate, the dis
tance from North.,, -hy rail being
82 miles. A letterv received
from Engineer SilecV structor
of a beet-sugar factory ft M
and in it he says that tj . y at
mat piace win oe nnuneavr oon.
As soon as the work is finis, Ji and
some minor details are settled, Mr.
Silech and his associates will come to
La Grande. '
Ciarovltch In Bad Health,
Batoum, Feb. 22. Grand Duke
George of Russia, the czarovitch,
younger brother of the czar, and heir
presumtive to the throne, who has been
in bad health for a long time past, has
started on a sea. cruise. He will pro
oeed to Constantinople..
Six Persons Murdered.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb,22. A report
from Winona, 40 miles south of here,
says Mrs. Waldron, Thomas Spicer and
Wife, their daughter, Mrs. Rouse, and
the latter's two. children were1 mur-
dered at their home near that place.
The Treaty In House of Commons.
London, Feb. 22. A copy of the gen
eral arbitration treaty and President
Cleveland's message on the subject
was issued to the house of commons to-
night. .
, evidence Too Weak,
Bakersfleld, Cal., Feb. 22. E. L.
Willow, the Blayer of Percy Douglass,
has been disohagred from custody in
; the justioe court, as there was insuffi
cient evidence to warrant holding him
to answer,
Victims of the Plague,
Bombay, Feb. 22. Sinoe the out
break of the plague, 6,858 oases have
been reported in this city, and 6,448
deaths have been recorded. In Bom
bay presidency 9,911 oases and 8,008
death from the plague have occurred.
THE BILL REPORTED.
Aathsrlslnc the Proeldent to Call a
Monetary Conference.
Washington, Feb. 23. The bill re
cently passed by the senate, authoris
ing the president to appoint commis
sioners to represent the United States
in an international monetary confer
ence to secure the fixity of relative
value between gold and silver as money
by means of a common ratio, or, in his
discretion, to call such a conference,
was reported to the house favorably to
day by a unanimous vote of ten mem
bers of the house committee on coinage.
The same factions which voted for the
bill in the senate voted for the bill in
committee. An amendmenet was
offered by Stone, and adopted by the
committee. It is as follows:
"The president is authorized that,
if in his judgment the purpose speci
fied in the first section hereof can thus
better be attained, to appoint one or
more special commissioners or envoys
to such of the nations of Europe as he
may designate, to seek by diplomatic
negotiations an international agree
ment for the purpose specified in the
first section hereof; and in case of such
appointments, so much of the appro
priation here made as shall . be neces
sary shall be available for the proper
expenses and compensation of such
commissioners or envoys.
Section 3. That so much of an act
approved March 2, 1895, entitled 'An
act making appropriations for the sun
dry civil expenses of the government
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1896, and for other purposes, as pro
vided for the appointment of delegates
to an international conference, and
makes an appropriation for their com
pensation and expenses, be, and the
same is hereby repealed."
The debate was very brief.
WILL APPOINT HANNA.
Governor Bunnell Make a Public
Statement.
I uoiumDus, u., reo. aa. wovernor
Bushnell tonight gave out the follow
ing statement to the press:
"It has been my intention to make
no announcement in relation to the ac
tion I would take in the matter of an
appointment to fill the prospective va
cancy in the Ohio representation in the
United States senate until the vacancy
actually existed. But, on account of
the manifest interest of the people, and
their desire to know what will be done,
I deem it best now to make the follow
ing statement:
"When Senator Sherman resigns to
enter the cabinet of President McKin
ley, I will appoint to succeed him Hon.
Marcus A. Hanna, of Cuyahoga county,
to serve until his successor is chosen
by the seventy-third general assembly
of the state. I trust this action will
meet the approval of the people.
"Asa S. BuBhnell."
Hanna Notified.
Cleveland, Feb. 23. Chairman
Hanna was at .the Union Club this
evening, when he was shown the dis
patch from Columbus containing Gov
ernor Bushnell's annoucement of Mr.
Hanna's appointment as senator to
succeed Sherman. This was the first
intimation Mi. Hanna had of the sub
ject. Of course he was pleased at the
termination of the controversy, but he
showed his pleasure only by a genial
smile: Asked if he would discuss the
governor's action, the chairman de
clined to say anything, remarking that
he could not talk about the matter for
publication until he received official
notice of his appointment from Gover
nor Bushnell. Mr. Hanna remained
at his club during the evening and re
ceived the congratulations of such of
his friends as had heard of his ap
pointment. MILITIA ON GUARD.
Plot to Blow Up the New Mexico Pen
itentiary. Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 23. Gover
nor Thornton has placed the local com
pany of infantry on guard at the peni
tentiary on account of the discovery of
a plot to blow up the building by the
friends of the four members of the
Borrego gang of assassins, who were
condemned to be hanged next Tuesday,
but who have been granted a respite
for thirty days by President Cleveland,
in disregard to an appeal from the gov
ernor and other authorities to let the
law take its course. Another ominous
feature of the trouble is the appearance
of the cabalistic chalk figures "B.-802-40"
on the pavements and on the doors
of officials, which the knowing ones
recognize as similar to the call for
meetings of tbe secret Button gang,
which appeared frequently in 1892,
just prior to the assassination of ex
sheriff Frank Chavez.
' The Teacher Smoked.
Denver, Fen. 23. Mrs. Louisa Pitt
Tokum, Dolores county superintendent
of schools, has refused a teacher's cer
tificate to Professor Victor C. McGirr,
prinoipal of the Rico publio school, be
cause .he smokes. Mrs. Yokum takes
the ground that a person who smokes
is disqualified to teach in the publio
schools because teachers in this state
are required by law to instruct the
children against the use of tobacco. An
appeal will probably be taken to the
state board of education by Professor
McGirr, who is a graduate of the To
ronto university, and is very popular
in Rico.
Gasoline Engine Exploded.
Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 23. The explo
sion nf a irasoline entrine caused tha de
struction of the county infirmary, locat
ed ton milAH Arur. nf llArA t.hm mnrnlno
Though the building burned to 'the
ground, all oi the inmates were res
cued. The loss is $40,000.
Althbugh the salary of the King of
Greece is four times greater than that
of the president of the United States,
it is said to be smaller than that of any
other European monarch.
To Pay the Southern Pacific.
Washington, Feb. 23. Senator Gear,
from the oommittee on Pacific rail
roads, today favorably reported the
amendment to the general deficiency
bill heretofore introduced by him, pro
viding for an appropriation of $1,810,
427, for the payment of the claim of
the Southern Paciflo Railroad Company
against the government for transporta
tion services.
Russian railways are the most danger
ous in the world. Thirty persons in
every million passengers are either
killed or hurt.
A FACTORY IS NEEDED
To Stimulate Cultivation of
Sugar Beets.
IN THE K0UTHWEST, SECTION
farmers Will Have an Interest as
Stockholders An Expert Who
Will Instruct Them.
M. Richard Kuhne, of Tigardville,
Or., was in Portland recently, and
showed much interest in the agitation
for establishing the beet-sugar industry
in the Northwest Mr. Kuhne is a
graduate of the National Agricultural
college, of Berlin, and for the last
twenty years has devoted his time to
the study and work of producing sugar
from beets. With an extended experi
ence in Germany, and being one of the
prime-movers in establishing the Grand
Island BUgar factory, in Nebraska, he is
in position to furnish valuable informa
tion on the subject Mr. Kuhne was
connected with that factory until about
three years ago, and during the period
was for some time agricultural expert
of the state. When interviewed on the
practicability of the industry in this
section, he was enthusiastic, and ex
pressed great confidence that the move
ment on foot would result in some sub
stantial benefits, as it was a similar
condition of depressed markets that in
duced the Nebraska farmers to launch
into the business. Several tests and
experiments he has made in producing
the beets were said to be most satisfac
tory. The Northwest needs an organ
ization, he thinks, which will take hold
of the matter in a systematic manner,
and concentrate the minds of the peo
ple to the vast wealth that must follow
intelligent cultivation of beets for the
manufacture of sugar. He kindly offers
his services gratis if expenses are de
frayed, to give instructions to any col
lection of farmers that will take an
interest in the matter. To a reporter,
Mr. Kuhne said:
"The belief . prevails that the dry
weather we have for a period during the
summer and autumn months will be in
jurious to beets grown for sugar manu
facture. I have proven this to be not
true by actual experiments. Beets re
quire a deep soil, and careful cultiva
tion. Given these, which the North
west is more capable of furnishing than
many other localities that are now im
mensely prosperous in the the same
business, beets require less rain than
other vegetables. While I was connect
ed with the Grand Island factory, in
Nebraska, this quality of the beet was
fully shown. In 1890 the season was
so dry that the grains on ears of corn
would not form; oats, barley and wheat,
as well as vegetables, were a failure.
Everything was dried up by the south
winds, except the beets. They stood
it finely, and yielded from six to ten
tons per acre, with from Bixteen to
twenty per cent of saccharine matter.
This was the only income the farmers
had that year, and immediately the
state gave the farmers a bounty, in
recognition of the importance of the
crop.
"Beets thrive best in sandy soil, with
a little clay mixed, or in a clayey soil,
with a little sand. This combination
of soil has been proven to produce the
best and richest beets. Bottom lands,
along rivers grow greater quantities, but
the beets contain less saccharine mat
ter. By careful cultivation, bottom
lands can be made to produce beets
yielding from twelve to fifteen per cent
saccharine, while uplands will yield
from sixteen to twenty per oent sacch -J
arine. The uplands have about aver
aged ten to twelve tons per acre, while
bottom lands go much over this.
"During the three years that I have
been in Oregon, I have each year raised
some sugar beets, part of which have
been submitted to analysis at the ex
perimental station in CorvalliB, and a
few have been sent to other places for
tests. My experiments with beets on
the uplands has been a yield of twelve
tons an acre, with saccharine contents
from sixteen to eighteen per cent. This
test of saccharine was made by the ex
perimental station at Corvallis, and by
careful cultivation the per cent could
have been raised to twenty easily. The
same beets, after many Heavy rains,
occurring about the 9th of November,
still showed fifteen to sixteen per cent
saccharine, with the great purity of
ninety-one per cent
"What we need is to get a factory
started in some manner. The persons
who will then be eager to engage in the
business will surprise you. If the
farmers are not able to pay cash for
shares in a factory, arrangements could
be made to have them pay them in
beets. This method of obtaining suffl-,
cient support to start would have a
double advantage. The farmer would
reap a profit, and the factory would also
receive a benefit, as it is necessary for
them to have the beets anyhow. Euro
pean countries have adopted the plan,
and in Germany it is seldom that out
side capital is used to erect a factory.
There are 400 factories in operation
there, and in nearly every one farmers
re stockholders.
"The quickest solution is for each
farmer to sow about a quarter of an
acre with beet sugar, and demonstrate
for himself what the ground will yield.
In sowing this amount of ground, about
five pounds of seed should be used. In
getting seed it is very essential to obtain
the best, for in this rests a large per
centage of the sugar content.
The most approved kind I have 'yet
used is a mixture of half Klein Wans
lebiner Original and half Wilmorin
Blanohe Amelioree. If farmers will
procure seed, and get together in some
kind of a meeting, I am willing to at
tend such and furnish them whatever
instruction I may be able to give, pro
vided my expenses are paid.
By organization in some way, through
which information can be distributed to
producers, individuals entering the
beet-producing business can be aided
immensely. I would urge farmers to
take these preliminary steps at once,
as they do not have to incur any ex
pense, and the possibilities of obtaining
whatever information is necessary are
plainly advanoerf. If the faot of an or
ganization is known, the officers of such
an institution will be common center
both for receiving and distributing
knowledge on the subject.
It cost New York city over $60,000 to
yet rid of the last "beautiful snow."
AN OCTSIDK POCKBT.
A kangaroo wears an outside pocket In
his overs Us. It Is a sort of apartment ar
rangement in which he carries around his
whole family, but this is really suggestive
S3 to tha use of outside pockets in tha over
alls of working men, who, in machine
shops and factories, are subjected to sud
den hurts and severe bruises. If a bottle
of St. Jacobs Oil were stored away in some
of these outside pockets, handy and ready
for us when some of the sudden hurts
and bruises take place, there would be
hardly anv loss of timo in the cure of the'
worst of ttiem. For the worst bruises it is;
known to be the best remedy, curing the:
tenderness and soreness of the spot very
firomjHty, wnue in iae prwvss ui curing,,
he discoloration disappears and the affect
ed parts are fully restored.
About Pepper.
"It has always amused me," re
marked a botanical expert, "to hoar
people talking of their preference for
black pepper over white, and the vari
ous explanations they give for the same:
Little do they know that both black and
white pepper grow upon the same
shrub. Over the pepper seed grows a
black covering. The seed itself is
white, or nearly so. To make black
pepper the seed and its external cover
ing are ground up, while the white pep
per is the seed alone ground up. White
pepper is milder than blaok, the greater
part of the pungency being in the cover
ing. A pepper made of the coverings
alone would be such, to use a slang
term, hot stuff that it would burn the
mouth. The black covering of the pep
per Beed contains the oil." Chicago
Inter Ocean
Li.e An Old Clock.
SET BACK TWENTY YEARS.
Pr. Williams the Instrument.
From the Republican, Fresno, Cal.
A case reported from Fresno county is
that of a well-known former resident of
Kingsburg, though now residing at
Selma.
Mr. J. M. Purves is an old gentle
man of 70, who, during his long resi
dence in Kingsburg, was beloved alike,
by young and old, and he is equally en
deared to the people of his new home.
It was about July 15, 1896, that a
reporter of the Republican met Mr.
Purves, and was astonished to see such
improvement in his appearance. He
looked ten years younger and much
stouter than when he moved away from.
Kingsburg for the benefit of his health,'
and he was congratulated on his im
proved appearance.
"I was all run down when I moved
away," Mr. Purves said; "something
like an old clock that is worn out, but
I have undergone such repairs as I
think will keep me in running order'
for many years to come if no accident'
occurs."
"What was the agent that wrought'
the change, Mr. Purves," the reporter
asked. "Was it Pink Pills? they seem
to be doing all the healing in Fresno1
county."
"Pink Pills are the very things that
have built me up," Mr. Purves an
swered. "I happened to read one ol
the advertisements of their healing
qualities, and then read several more,
and somehow there was somothing in
the way the testimonials read that as
sured me they were true. One in the
San Francisoo Examiner especially im
pressed me, and I sent at once and
bought some of the pills. I took them
as directed, and I do not think I need
tell you what tiiey have done for me.
I am quite recovered and set back in
the journey of life at least twenty years.
I have done more work since I have
taken them than for a long, long time
before. Indeed I may say since long
before you were born.
"I took only two boxes in all, but I
shall always keep them by me as long
as I live, in case of relapse."
(Signed) J. M. PURVES.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain , in
a condensed form, all the elements
necessary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are also a specific for
troubles peculiar to females, such as
suppressions, irregularities, and all
forms of weakness. They build up the
blood and restore the glow of health to
pale and sallow cheeks. In men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork or ex
cesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills
are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk)
at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2. 60,
and may be had of all druggists, or di
rect by mail from Dr. Williams' Medi
cine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
' Diplomacy.
His Father If you marry old Stubbs'
daughter you shan't have a cent of my
money.
The Son But, father, if I don't
marry her I can't get a oent of old
Stubbs' money.
His Father (with a grudge to satisfy)
My own boy I Marry her and render
that old skinflint penniless. Pittsburg
unronicie-Telegrapn.
TWIXS IN
SIZE, SHAPE
TlVITx-.
AND AC-
This Is what those Important little organs,
the kidneys, are when healthy. In disorder
they may differ In all three particulars. Dis
ease usually destroys them successively, not
simultaneously, and one may be active while
the other is semi-paralyzed. Give to both a
healthful Impulse, without exciting thorn,
wm uudichui b mouiucii nmers, wmcn lore
stalls such dreadful maladies as Brieht's dis.
ease and diabetes. Use the Bitters, also, for
malarial, bilious, rheumatic, nervous, bowel
The Princess Henry of Battenburg,
still deeply mourns the death of her
husband. It was with difficulty that
she could be induoed to remain at Bal
moral during the visit of the Czar.
Over ninety-five per cent of the ves
sels which passed through the 8uez
canal during 1895 used the electric
light, so as to be able to continue the
trip through the great waterway during
tne night.
The best way to buy any
thing is to borrow it first.
Get a package of Schil
ling's Best tea pf your
grocer. He pays you your
money back if you don't
like it.
That's our way of lending-
;
A Schilling St Comptay ,
San Frueisee i.a 4U
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Dewnlng, Bopklna A Ceidpany's Review
of Trade.
Wheat advanced 8)c last week and
closed near the top at T6)gO to 76 6-8c,
after touching 78 6-8o on Tuesday,
showing a net gain for the work of 2 H'
to 3 6-8. The action the greater part
of the time indicated that the market
was a long one and that big holders
showed little iutention of selling out,
89 thoy believe the situation is as strong
if not stronger than ever. Further talk
on Friday and Saturday of trouble be
tween Turkey and Greece added to the
firmness of the situation. The news
taken altogether would ordinarily be
considered very bullish, much more so
than was represented by such an ad
vance as was in the end established.
While the foreigners appear indiffer
ent to the comparative strength of the
wheat on this side, it is posniblo be
cause they have so much already bought
for shipment hence. The daily clear
ances of wheat and flour from Atlantic
ports certainly indicate that- United
Kingdom buyers have control of a lnrjre
quantity of w heat and flour in thia
country which thoy are able to take at
their convenience. If that is so, they
must hold it in shape of May options,
which they oau change quietly as suits
their convenience for the actual prop
erty. Either that is the case or those
who do the buying for foreign account
have been for some time carefully con
cealing their operations. If all that is
supposed to be known as the facts about
foreign requirements and Bouices of
supply does not prove to be very far
from what has been and is still claimed
for them, the importing nations are
narrowed down to Russia, the Danubian
countries and North America for sup
plies until next January. The chief
dependence, judging from present in
dications, must continue to be upon the
country. It seems unavoidable, there
fore, that the importing nations must
continue to tako up their present quota
of about 8,000,000 bushels a week, and
if holders of May wheat continue to
hold it as firmly as they are now doing
they should have the power in the cud.
Market Quotations.
Portland, Or., Feb. 23, 1807.
Flour Portland, Salem, Casoadia
and Dayton, f4.25; Benton county and
White Lily, 4.25; graham, $3.D0; su
perfine, $2.75 per barrel.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7980o; Val
ley, 8183o per bushel.
Oats Choice white, 3040o per
bushel; choice gray, 8840o.
Hay Timothy, $13 13. 50 per ton;
clover, $11.00(312.00; wheat and oat,
$10.00 11 per ton.
Barley Feed barley, $18.00 per ton;
browing, $20.
MillBtuffs Bran, $15.00; shorts,
$16.50; middlings, $26.
Butter Creamery, 45 55c; dairy,
3040c; store, 17S0oper roll.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 65 70c;
Garnet Chiles, 70c; Early Hose,
70o per saok; sweets, $3.00 per
cental for Merced; new potatoes, 6jj0
per pound.
Onions $1.501.75 per sack.
. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
8.25; geeso, $8(34; turkeys, live, lie;
ducks, $4 5. 00 per dozen.
Eggs Oregon, 13 14c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon, 12)jjo; Young
America, 180 per pound.
Wool Valley, lOo pur pound; East
ern Oregon, 68c.
Hops 9 10c per pound.
Beef (Jross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00;
cows, $2.25 2. 50; dressed beef, 4
64s per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, $3.008.25; dressed mut
ton, 5 6o per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice, heavy, $3.25
8.60; light and feeders, $2. 60 3. 00;
dressed, $4. 60 5. 00 per cwt.
Veal Large, 65o; small, 6
6 per pound.
Seattle, Wash.," Feb. 23, 1897.
Wheat Chicken feed, $27 per ton.
Oats Choice, $28 24 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, $22 per
ton.
Corn Whole, $20 per ton; cracked,
$21;. feed meal, $20.
Flour (Jobbing) Patent excellent,
$5.10; Novelty A, $4.60; California
brands, $5.20; Dakota, $5.50; patent,
$6.25.
Millstuffs Bran, $14.00 -per ton;
shorts, $18.
Feed Chopped feed, $18.00 per ton;
middlings, $22; oilcake meal, $29.
Hay Puget sound, per ton, $9.00
10.00; Eastern Washington, $14. .
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 25c; select, 24c; tubs, 23c;
ranch, 17o.
Cheese NativeWashington, 13)0.
Vegetables Potatoes, per ton, $18
20; parsnips, per sack, 75c; beets, per
sack, 00c; turnips, per sack, 60o; ruta
bagas, per sack, 75c; carrots, per sack,
S545c; cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.60;
onions, per 100 lbs, $2.60.
Sweet potatoes Per 100 lbs, $3.25,
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 8c; dressed, 10llc; ducks,
$4.005.00; dressed turkeys, 15.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 15o; Eastern,
o per dozen.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 6c; mutton, sheep,
70 per pound; lamb, 6c; pork, 5o per
pound; veal, small, 8o.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 5 6; salmon,
56; salmon trout, 7 10; flounders
and soles, 8 4c.
Provisions Hams, large, 11c; hams,
small, llc; breakfast bacon, lOo;
dry salt sides, 5c per pound.
San Francisco, Feb. 23, 1897.
Potatoes Salinas Burbanks, 90o
$1.10; Early Eose, 75 80o; Eiver Bur
banks, 60 75o; sweets, $1.651.75 per
cental.
Onions 75c $2. 00 per cental.
Eggs Ranch, 12i per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2021o; do
seconds, 18 19c; fancy dairy, 17c;
seconds, 14 15c.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, lOo;
fair to good, 78c;Young America,
ll12c; Eastern, 1414o.
Wool Choice mountain, 67c; poor
do, 45c; San Joaquin plains, 85o;
do foothill, 6 8c per pound.
Hay Wheat and oat, $7 10; best
barley, $7. 00 8. 50; alfalfa, $67;
clover, $6 8; compressed wheat, $6
$9.50; do oat, $6 7 per ton.'
Tropical Fruit Bananas, $1.00
2.00 per bunch; pineapples, $2 4.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, navel, $1.75
8.00; seedling do, 75c 1.25; com
nion leatoHg, 75c $1.00; good to
choi,'$i.502.00; fancy, $2.252.50
pebox. ,
'JApplcs-Common, 60c$l per box;
Eastern, $1.008. 00 per barrel.
NEVER FAILS TO CURE.
Astonishing Record of the Great Paine's
Oelery Compound.
Paine's celery compound has nover
yet failed to cure.
Where all other medical treatment
has failed to relieve Paine's celery com-
pound has succeeded time and time
again.
John W, Boyd, of Mishawaka, Ind.,
Buys of his own caso:
' LaBt winter I was taken down with
very severe attack of nervous and
muscular rheumatism, so bad that I
could not lie down, sit up, or stand,
without the most exoruolating pain. I
was all the time under the care of two
of the boBt physicians of the plaoe, but
I did not improve. I took different
rheumatio cures and used an electric
battery a half hour eaoh day for ten
days, without any relief.
.' Finally I concluded to try Paine s
oelery compound, and to my surprise af-
tar iminff nnphnlf nf a hnttla I aras nhla to
get out and vote on election day, and j
before I used the whole bottle I went to
work, and have worked every day since.
REASONS
Walter Baker & Co.'s
Breakfast Cocoa.
if:
a cup.
Be sure thst you ft tba genuine silicic mede by WALTER
BAKER A CO. Ltd., Dorchtsttr, Mass. I:it.bllihtd I70.
Cheapest Power
IN GUARANTEED ORDER..
i-i H. P. Hercules, Gas or Gasoline.
i-2 H. P. Hercults, Gas er Gasoline.
1-2 H. P. Regan, Gas or Gasoline.
1-3 H. P. Oriental, Gas or Gasoline.
1-4 H. P. Otto, Gas or Gasoline.
1-4 H. P. Pacific, Gas or Gasoline.
i-6 H. P. Hercules, Gas or Gasoline.
mo II. P. Hercules, Gas or Gasoline.
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Gas, Gasoline and Oil Engines, 1 to 200 H. P.
The Cheerful Idiot.
"At this moment and at other mo-'
ments," said the Cheerful Idiot, "there
are thousands suffering for bread." I
"I suppose so, "said Mrs. Hashoroft." ,
"And yet women will persist in wast- j
ing it by making pudding out of it.
Please pass the prunes." Indianapolis
Journal,
BOMB PRODUCTS AND PURR FOOD.
All Eastern Syrup, so-ctlltd, usually very
light colored and ol heavy body, It made from
glucose. "Tea Qnrdm Dript" Is made from
Sugar Cane and is atrfetly pure. It Is for sals
by flrst-claas grocers, In cans only. Manufac
tured by the Pacific Coast Syrup Co. All gen
uine "Tea Garden J)rtpi" have the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every ean.
Plso's Cure for Consumption is our only"
medicine for coughs and colds. Mrs. C.
Beltz, 439 8th ave., Denver, Col., Nov. 8, '85.
EVERY HEN
Hatchad la Vataluaw
Ineubatera hai start
4 Heat, ana la bait.r
pt-apared to slva profit
able rotorna bacauav thawa
mannltiec oaclaatval oin.
bnity taa fMtaraa wbIob pro
due tha graauat nnmbar
of rtinroua OktekaBs.
incsbatora from in ua
Pataluma Incubator Co., retalama, Cal.
INDISFKMSABLl
TO ANY
PIPB SMOKRR.
"AWAY WITH
MAKKHHira."
Dialsrt' Beit
Salltr.
SAMPLE, 10c.
fcULIPBE MFC. CO. By Mail.
A genu Wanted. Portland, Or., U. 8. A.
FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE SICK r,
''Jiiat Don't Foal Wall,?'
KvLIVER FILLS
are the One Tolng to ua1
Only One for a Dot.
Sold by SrnsBiite at SSo. a box
Samples nailed fra. Addrws
Dr. Boiapko Med. Co. FUU. Pa.
RODS
For tracing and locating Gold or Silver
ore, lost or hidden treasures, M. D, FOW
LER, Box UI Southlugton, Conn.
HABIT I
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Oarea, PR. tl.l,.TEPHKN, UUAMN,aU
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AND
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rrao.
I have gained twenty pounds In weight
and am feeling first rate.
"My wife has also been taking it for
nervounnoro, uud thinks that there is
nothing like it. We both recommend
it to all of our acquaintances, and yon
are at liberty to use this letter as you
see tit, for it truly worked wonders in
my caso."
And Paine's oelory compound ' Is
working Just such wonders In every
state, county, city and village of the
country today.
The reader must know some one who
has tried it Ask that person if he or
she was not at once benefited I
Don't let a dealer palm off anything
else on you, however; for there is as
much diffrence between Paina's oelsry
compound and all the ordinary saraaps
rillas, tonics, nervines and compounds
as there is botwoen an electric motor
and a boy's windmill.
There is power to oure in Paine's
celery compound.
FOR USING
Beause it is absolutely pure. "
Because It Is not made by the so-called Dutch Process In
which chemicals are used.
Because beans of the finest quality re used.
Because it Is made by a method which preserves unimpaired
the exquisite natural flavor and odor of the beans.
Because it Is the most economical, costing less than one cent
Rebuilt Qas and
Gasoline Engines.
.FOR SALE CHEAP
Prices..
Hercules Qas
Leading dealers
everywhere sell
FERRY'S SEEDS
Dot risk the loss of tins, labor and frond
. u yiDimseuiiui an Known qasi
k lit. Tho markot is foil of cheap,
snnimmasMas. rtflKT'l IIISI
at. ilwiii tha boat i do not aooapi
lit luMtltutt. Bond Aauoal rnt.
Sent Free!
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matters, or who loves animals, we
win send free, upon application, a
copy of the "ALLIANCE," the organ
of this Society. In addition to its in
tensely interesting reading, it con
tains a list of the valuable and un
usual premiums given by the paper.
Address ,
THE NATIONAL HUMANE ALLIANCE,
slO-411 United Charities Building, New York.
WHEAT.
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Chicago.
sell wheat there on
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full particulars. Heat of releronce given. Sev
eral years' experience on the Chicago Board of
Trade, and
Downing, Hopkins & Co., CWgo Board
a inoroi
oroueh knowledniv-mhe busi-
of Trade Brokers, Offices In Portland, Oregon.
Spokane and Seattle, Wash.
SURE CURE for PILES
Itcalai aod Blind, Blaedlticar Pmradlaa Mlaa rlaUt at anal
PR. BO-SAN-KO'S PILB RKMIDV. " I-
fai, Maurla luuara. A pa.nl v. our.. Circular, arut (taa. Mae
Itta. Urufal.u.r aiall. UK. HnaANK. Iklla Pa.
-pVPTDRK and PILBS cured; no pay until
IV cured; send for book. Drs. Mansfmld
Pobtkrfikld, 8o Market St., San Francisco.
I 'd Ban Conch Irrno.
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