THE AMERICAN NAVY.
M'KINLEY IN GOLD.
THE PATRIOTS' MANIFESTO.
THE CARETAKER.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
It hunt Conditio Summed Vp hy
Secretary Long.
Washington, Nov. 89. The report of
tha secretary of the navy was made
pnblic today. It shows that the pres
ent effective fighting force of the navy
consists of four battle-ships of the first
class, two battle-ships of the second
class, two armored cruisers, sixteen
cruisers, fifteen gunboats, six double
turreted monitors, one ram, one dyna
mite gunboat, one diepatch-boat, one
transport steamer and five torpedo
boats. There are under construction
five battle-ships of the first class, six
teen torpedo-boats and one submarine
boat.
There are 64 other naval vessels, in
cluding those used as training, receiv
ing and naval-reserve ships, tugs, dis
used single-turreted monitors, and
some unserviceable craft.
There Is, further, the auxiliary fleet.
This consists, first, of more than 20
subsidized steamers, which comply
with the requirements of the postal act
of March 3, 1891, with regard to their
adaptability to naval service, anl to an
armament of main and second batteries;
second, of a very much greater number
of large merchant marine steamers,
which can be availed of at any time of
need.
These auxiliaries, ranging from 2,000
to 18,000 tons, will, if occasion re
quire, form a .powerful fleet of ocean
cruisers, capable of swift and formida
ble attack upon an enemy's commerce.
Their great coal capacity will also en
able them to remain a long time at sea
in search of the whereabouts of hostile
vessels.
The country is congratulated upon
the results obtained in the rebuilding
of the navy. -While its ships are not
as many and it is not necessary they
should be as those of some other great
powers, they are, class for class, in
power, speed, .workmanship and offen
sive and defensive qualities, the equal
of vessels built anywhere else in the
world.
Five additional battle-ships are un
der construction, which should be com
pleted by the end of the year 1899.
One gunboat and 17 torpedo-boats are
also under construction.
The first cost of the gunboats was
about $250,00 each. That of the cruis
ers nearly $2,000,000 each.
Bids for the torpedo-boats were from
16 firms, covering a variety of designs.
The contracts of these " 30-knot boats
were awarded to the lowest bidders, as
follows:
To Harlan & Hollingsworth, one 310
ton boat, at $236,0000; to Gas Engine
& Power Company and Charles L. Sea
bury Co., consolidated, one 235-ton
. boat, at $210,00; to Wolff & Zwicker
iron works, one 247.5-ton boat, at
$214,500.
It is of interest to . note the naval
programmes of the principal foreign
powers which show ' the great activity
prevailing among them in the matter
of naval oonsturction.
NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSION.
Nearly Wrecked an Entire Town in
Indiana.
Anderson ville, Ind., Nov. 29. Ches
terfield, Ind., was almost wiped off the
map at an early hour this morning by
an explosion of 80 quarts of nitrogly
cerine in an oil field half a mile from
town. Tames Gol's house, about 300
rods distant, was torn to pieces. The
explosion tore a bole in the ground
down to the water line. A three-ton
engine was torn to fragments, and ev
ery animal in the neighborhood was
killed instantly.
The little town of Chesterfield is a
mass of ruins. Every house was moved
from its foundation, and windows were
battered, doors smashed in, every
light put out and the plastering shaken
from the walls. Several people were
shaken out of bed.
At Dalesville, two miles away, and
at Yorktown, five miles distant, the
damage was almost as great. ' Many
people were injured, and it is miracu
lous that many were not killed. The
hock was felt 15 miles away. The
damage cannot be estimated.
Will flatten Durrant's Execution.
San Francisco, Nov. 29. Acting Attorney-General
Carter has received
word from Attorney-General Fitzgerald
that he will advise Warden Hale to
carry out the execution of Dorrant, re
gardless of any legal proceedings that
may be instituted, by Durrant's attor
neys, after the present legal quibble
has been decided. Durrant will be re
sentenced as soon as the controversy
now pending is settled, after which the
attorney-general of the state believes
no legal step can accomplish further
delay in the proposed execution of the
prisoner. ..- . -
Manual Blanco's Assurance.
Madrid Nov. 29. Marshal Blanco
has cabled to the cabinet an assurance
that he will be the arbitrator in con
nection with the customs tariff, and
that the interests of the peninsula
hall not suffer thereby. .
An excellent effect has been pro
duced in official circles by the publics
tion this morning, in the official ga
zette, of the two decrees extending to
the Antilles the universal sufferage law
of 1890, and applying also the laws in
scribed in the first chapter of the Span
ish constitution.
There is a white sparrow in Lafay
stte, Ind. "'
The Concord Returns From Alaska.
San Francisco, Nov. 29. The eun-
boat Concord arrived from Alaska to
day. She will go to the navy-yard for
an overhauling, after, which she will
be sent to China to take the place of
Uie x or ktown on that station.
-.
1 Maxim's New Gun Tested.
Portsmouth, Nov. 29. Hiram Max
im's hew 'quick-firing gun was tried
here today with' 'remarkable results
With 25 pounds of cordite it showed an
effective range of 16,000 yards.
.Another Cable to Victoria.
Victoria. -Nov. 39.1 Frank .Tavnes.
- superintendent of the-, Western Union
Telegraph Company, who is in the
city,1-said today that his company
-would enter Victoria by laying a cable
from the mainland.
Railways' in Holland are so carefully
managed that the aocidental deaths on
them average orily one a year for the
entire ouuntcy -
Whife exoavating for a pond on the
farm of.L. V, Harkneis, nenr Donerail,
Kj., recently, workmen discovered the
bonei of a mastodon.
A Statue to Bo Exploited at the Paris
Exposition.
Kew York, Nov. 29. Ada Rehan in
silver is to be outshone by William Mo
Kinley in gold according to the Herald
of today. The added fame which the
actress acquired by posing for the Mon
tana statue of sol it! silver exhibited at
the world's fair is to be approached if
not eclipsed by the president of the
United States who will furnish the fig
ure for a life-sized statue of solid gold.
This will be the most costly lump of
precious metal the jieople of the mod
ern world have ever seen. So says F.
D. Higby, of Chicago, who has been
retained by Western millionaires to
furnish such a statue for exhibition at
the Paris exposition in 1900. Mr.
Higby was in the city yesterday oh his
way to Washington to get the consent
of President McKinley to pose for the
figure.
As Mr. Higby took a prominent part
in the headquarters management of the
late campaign, and has asked for no
office he is confident of success in this
mission.
"You know," said Mr. Higbv "that
I designed and built the Montana
statue at the world's fair for which
Miss Rehan posed. I suppose it was
because of my experience that I have
been retained to build this statue,
which with the base will contain bul
lion to the value of $1,050,000.
"While it will be designed primarily
to first exhibit the statue at Paris in
1900, the directors of the pan-American
exposition to be held in Cayuga island,
in the Niagara river, in 1899, are anxi
ous to have it completed in time to ex
hibit there first. It is likely that this
arrangement will be made.
I cannot say yet who the capitalists
are who are back of this projeot, but
there are a half dozen of them, and
everything is ready to begin work on
the statue as soon as a design is com
pleted." '
OREGON LINEN MILLS.
Reported That Flax Will Be Made l'p
Into Wares at Salem.
Salem, Or., Nov. 29. There are
prospects that the "Scotch Mills," in
Salem, which have long stood idle, will
be converted into an important manu
facturing plant. It is understood that
Mr. T. B. Wilcox, who owns a control
ling interest in the mills, has submit
ted a proposition to Dr. Deimel, the
importer of linen goods, whereby a linen
manufacturing establishment is to be
located here, and Mr. Wilcox is to be
one of the stockholders. The details of
the negotiations, pending between Mr.
Wilcox and Dr. Diemel, have not been
given out, but assurance is given that
the prospects for the establishment of a
large linen manufacturing plant here
are very bright. Mrs. Lord received a
letter from Dr. Deimel last night,
stating that he sailed for Germany
Tuesday. He further Bays:
"I have now more offers for shares
in our present company that I am able
to accept, and if $500,000 or even $1,
000,000 should be required to organize
a company for the spinning of yarn and
the weaving of linen, including linen
mesh, it can be had, on the showing
that you can grow and will grow flax of
a quality equal to the best, and that
yonr people desire the locating of our
industry there by offering us such ad
vantages as you mention in your let
ter." '
Legislation for Alaska.
Washington, Nov. 29. The presi
dent in his message will recommend
speedy legislation to insure the best
possible government for Alaska. He
will point out the difficulties which the
people living there are nnder, and will
urge that something be done to protect
the property of the government. He
will allude to the fact that the govern
ment is losing large sums because there
is no way of protecting timber from
indiscriminate use. A better system of
permits for the cutting and inspection
of timber, not only for the mineral
states of the West, but also for Alaska,
has been presented to the president,
and he will endeavor to have legisla
tion speedily enacted for the better pro
tection of the forcBts.
Rearing a Settlement.
Washington, Nov. 29. Hawaiian
Minister Francis M. Hatch, who has
just arrived in this city on his return
from Honolulu, expressed the opinion
today that the trouble between Japan
and Hawaii has been smoothed over,
and can be settled now without diffi
culty. The Japanese government seems
to be disposed to have the matter set
tled in as amicable a spirit as possible.
Canada's Reply.
Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 29. A reply has
been prepared by the Dominion govern
ment and forwarded to Washington in
respect to the negotiations which' are
going on between those countries. The
government will not say what the reply
is until it reaches Mr. Foster, at Wash
ington, but it is understood that it is a
refusal to stop pelagic sealing for one
vear.
Chicago, Nov. 29. The Luetgert
case will be called for a second trial to
morrow morning, in Judge Horton's
court. The state will announce its
readiness to go on with the trial at
once, but it is very probable that At
torney Phalen, for the defense, will
ask for a continuance or a change of
venue.
A Four-Hand ed Fight.
Mandeville, La., Nov. 2. From
Bayou Lacombe, a small settlement 11
miles east of here, news has been re-,
ceived of a desperate fight between Ar
thur and Edward Jolie, on one side,
and Laurence and Edward Cousin, on
the other; in which all concerned were
killed. : Shotguuns and pistols were
the weapons used. A long-standing
family feud led to the fight.
To every 192 persons in the United
States there is a telephone.
Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 29. K. O.
Skatteboe, prominent farmer and grain
buyer, was fatally injjred this morning
by being struck by a train on the
Korthern Pacific The aocident occur
red near the depot as the train was
pulling in. Mr. Skatteboe and his two
sons were walking along the track, the
boys being in advance of their father.
Mr. Skatteboe, being slightly deaf, did
not hear the train, which was coming
up behind him, nor did he hear the
cries of his boys, who tried to warn
him of his danger. A wagon obscured
the engineer's view, and be did not see
the man until it was too late to stop.
the Cuban Constitutional
Assembly.
New York, Nov. 29. The Cuban
constitutional assembly, which met re
cently at Camaguey, to remodel the
constitution and elect a new president,
issued a manifesto, which reached the
office of the Cuban junta in this city
today. The document is dated Dayaya,
October 80, 1897, and is signed 'by
Domingo Mendel Capote, aa president
of the assembly. The manifesto is the
address of "The representatives of the
Cuban people to all those who have in
dependence and the future welfare of
Cuba at heart." The document says
the assembly, before adjourning,
deemed it its duty to proclaim, among
other things:
"That no special laws, no form of
I autonomy; nothing, in short, that the
Spanish government may be willing
j to grant, that means Spanish sov
! ereignty over Cuba, will be accepted
1 by Cubans as a settlement of the war.
j Independence or death shall be the un
alterable and sacred motto of the Cu
bans. . "Cubans have not resorted to arms
in order to obtain any political nieas-
i tires which do not, onoe and for all,
reason we will accept nothing short of
absolute independence.
"It is onr purpose to constitute an
independent state, orderly, prosperous
and happy, over the ruins of a worn
out colony. We are firmly determined
to carry on the war until victory or
death crowns our efforts."
Autonomy at Last.
Madrid, Nov. 29. The official ga
zette publishes today the royal decrees
granting autonomy to Cuba and Porto
Rico, thus removing the anxiety that
had begun to be expressed on all sides
as the result of the government's reti
cence and unexplained delay.
Article 1 explains the principle of
the future government of the two
islands. Article 2 decrees that the
government of each island shall be
composed of an insular parliament, di
vided into two chambers, while a governor-general,
representing the home
govemmment, shall exercise in its
name the supreme authority. Article
3 declares that the faculty of making
laws for colonial affairs rests with the
insular chambers and the governor
general. Article 4 directs that the in
sular representation shall be composed
of two corporations, with equal power,
a chamber of representatives and a
council of administration. Article 5
provides that the council of adminis
tration shall consist of 85 members, of
whom 18 shall be elected and 17 nomi
nated by the home government.
Artiole 6 provides that members of
the council must be Spaniards 85 years
of age, who have resided in Cuba con
tinuously for four years. It specifies
numerous officials, such as senators,
presidents of courts and of chambers of
commerce and other bodies as eligible
to election to the council. Article 7 to
I 14 deal with nominations and the con
I ditions of election to councils. Article
j 15 empowers the throne or the governor-general
to convoke, suspend or dis
solve the chambers, with an obligation
to reassemble them within three
months.
CHEERED FOR AMERICA.
Released Prisoners Brought on a Riot
in Porto Rico. .
Havana, Nov. 29. Advices from
Porto Rico Bay a riot occurred there
yesterday. It appears that a steamer
having on board a number of political
prisoners, recently released from the
Spanish penal settlement on the Afri
can coast, in accordance with the am
nesty decree, arrived there, and the
liberated men were allowed to land.
They soon found their way to a drink
ing saloon, partook of stimulants and
began cheering for the United States-,
crying:
"Hurrah for free America."
This demonstration was resented by
the crowds about the place, and rioting
followed. The police were called upon
to interfere, and compelled the liber
ated men to re-embark. During the
disturbance, the police arrested the in
surgent, Colonel Aliposanchez.
Senor Marcos Garcia, the governor of
Santa Clara, has arrived at Sagua, in
order to be better able to judge of the
condition of thereconcentradoes. From
this day, these unfortunate people will
receive rations.
The Spanish authorities today re
leased from prison Thomas J. Jordan,
a prisoner captured, according to the
allegations, after the landing of an ex
pedition by the American schooner
Three Friends, and Emanuel Hernan
dez, who is said to have been a mem
ber of another filibustering expedition.
Both men were under sentence of
death. The government has also re
leased from prison Juan Aris, Augus
tine Cossio, Emil Betancourt and Ro
sendo Betancourt.
Baker City, Or., Nov. 29. A fatal
accident occurred last evening at the
Elkhorn Bonanza mine. In some un-
( accountable manner James Cagel ignit
i ed some giant powder, and the whole
, magazine exploded with a force which
; almost jarred the mountain. The un
: fortunate miner was killed as if struck
i by a lightning bolt, his body being
j mangled in a frightful manner. Thos.
Hopkins was painfully though not fa
tally injured.
Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 29. Following
the requests of the boards of trade and
the Commercial Club of Louisville,
come numerous letters urging Governor
Bradley to appoint his daughter, Miss
' Christine, who is now in school in
!. Washington, D. C, to christen the
I new battle-ship Kentucky. - While it
is somewhat embarrassing for the gov
ernor to confer the honor on a member
of his own family, it is quite likely
that he will comply with these popular
requests.
Prairie Fire In New Mexico.
Clayton, N. M., Nov. 29. A prairie
fire is sweeping over the country south
of this point. The grass is very high,
and there has been no rain for weeks.
The course of the fire is through the
great range belt, and for over 200 miles
there is no barrier in its path. Thou
sands of sheep are in danger.
j Coal tar, when used for dyes, yield
j 16 shades of blue, the same number of
! yellow tints, 12 of orange, nine of
' violet, and numerous other colon and
shades,
leaned by
Caretaker is word adopted Into modern
use and means on who takes cars of, and
is very generally applied to those employed
to take care of things committed to their
keeping. The way some people have of
taking care of themselves is very sugirestivo
of the need of a curt-taker. The human
body to such is a mansion tilled with pre
cious things unrarvd for, where thieves
may break m ami rust doth corrupt. Tains
and aches are thieves, and the body left
uncarwi for to their spoilage will be robbed
of all its comforts niul despoiled ol its peace
of mind ami happiness. It is a happy
thought to look upon St. Jacobs Oil as a
caretaker, to employ it as a watchman
against such intruders. There is hardly
an ache, from a toothache to a toeaehe,
that it can't take cure of and ett'ect a cure,
and pains the most violent are conquered
by its use. Its otlice as a caretaker is to
prevent the spread of aches ami pains into
a chronic stage. Keep a bottle of it in the
handiest place and be assured of good care
and comfort.
The most wonderful astronomical
photograph in the world is that which
has recently been prepared by London,
Berlin and Parisian astronomers. It
shows at least 68,000,000 stars.
MISERY BY THE WHOLESALE,
Is what chronic Inactivity of the llrer lives
rise to. Bile gets Into the blood find imparls a
yellow tint, the tongue fouls, anil so does the
breath, sick headaches, pain beneath I he right
ribs and shoulder blade are felt, the bowels be
come constipated and the stomach disordered.
The proven remedy for this catalogue of evils
is Huaieuer's Stomach Bitters, a medicine long
and professionally reeommended.and sovereign
also for chills and fever, nervousness and
rheumatism.
In the period 1383 to 1894 the crim
inal record in the German empire in
creased 23 per cent, or 13 per cent more
than the population.
hows thst
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for an)
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Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Japanese officers who fought in the
late war against China have petitioned
their government to erect a monument
to the memory of the horses that fell
in battle.
HOME PRODUCTS AND PUKE FOOD.
All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very
light colored and of heavy body, Is made from
glucose. "Tea Harden Uript"' is made from
Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sale
by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac
tured by the Pacific Coast 8Y.rr Co. All gen.
uine "Tea Onnirn Vript" have the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every can.
Japan is about to send a lot of experts
to this country to teach the people how
to make tea.
"King Solomon's Treasure," only Aphrodtalacol
Tome known. (See Dictionary.) &V0O a box, 3
weeks' treatment. Mason Cbeaacal Co., P. O. Box
747, Philadelphia, Pa.
,A man who is fond of figures affirms
that in battle only one ball in 85 takes
effect.
My doctor said I would die but Piso's
Cure for consumption enred me. Amos
Kelner, Cherry Valley, 111., Nov. 23, 'S)5.
Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder.
There are more than 500 ordained
women preachers in the United States,
not including the numerous preachers
of that sex.
ABOUT CHANGE OF LIFE.
f "I suffered for eight years, ind
could find no permanent relief until
one year ago. My trouble was Change
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Vegetable Compound, and relief came
almost immediate
ly. I have taken
two bottles of
the Vegetable
Compound,
three boxes
of Pills,
and have
also used
the San
ative W Wash, and
must say I have
never had any
thing help so much. I have better
health than I ever had in my life. I
feel like a new person, perfectly
strong. I give the Compound all the
credit. I have recommended It to sev
eral of my friends who are usiag It
with like results. It has cured aue of
several female diseases. I would not
do without Mrs. Pinkham'i remedies
for anything. There is no need of so
much female suffering. Her remedies
are a sure cure." Mrs. Ella Kbinbh,
Knightstown, Henry Co., Ind.
By the way, the leading druggists
tell us that the demand for Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is
simply beyond their power of under
standing ; and, what is best of all, It
does the work promptly and well. ,
When you feel that soreness In your back,
that dull pain near your kidneys, it Is time to
do something for yourself, for these symptoms
are serlons Indications of a growing disease in
the most vital functions. Get Dr. Sanden's
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your druggist or any wholesale drug house, or
from Stewart it Holmes Drug Co., Seattle.
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Board of Trade Brokers, 711-714 Chamber of Com
merce Building, Portland, Oregon.
The event of the week in the Chicago
wheat market was a jump of 4o in one
day in the price of December options.
The sentimental figure of II was
reached for a moment. The bulk of
the wheat iu CTiiuugo is in the hands of
a powerful clique, who are in a posi
tion just now to dictate to the short
sellers of December. These people
keep on declaring there ia to be no cor
ner, but a squeese is almost certain.
The outcome of the May price de
pends altogether on the world's statis
tical position. Europe would not be
taking 6,600,000 bushels of wheat and
flour from America in one week if there
did not exist extraordinary necessity
for it. But no one knows how long
this demand will keep up or whether
the price fairly discounts the situation.
A good illustration of how little can be
decided with exactness about so vast a
question as the wheat supply is the
conflict of two respectable authorities in
the mere interpretation of an official
lviiaaian crop report. The Corn Trade
News declares it shows a shortage of
103,000,000 bushels, compared with
hut year, while Beoroohui makes the
shortage only 1,000,000 bushels. The
profession of crop statistics is like the
ology. It is so big a field as to permit
of all sorts of differences and to enablo
each teacher to pose before those imme
diately around hiui as the only really
authoritative one.
Nothing would affect the sentiment
at Chicago quicker thai) a falling off in
Northwestern receipts. But on this
comparatively simple problem there is
no unanimity. Pillsbury a fortnight
ago predicted confidently that the car
lots at Minneapolis and Dtiluth by No
vember 20 would be down to small
figures, with not over 20 per cent of
the crop loft in the hands of the farm
ers. There has all through November
been perfect weather fur marketing;
but the authorities at Minneapolis are
now predicting another two weeks of
free movement. The weather Is to
count a great deul on the price between
this and Dec me her 10th. It will make
easy or difficult the continued move
ment of wheat between Duluth and
Chicago; it will keep open or olose up
navigation between Chicgao and Bnf
alo, and will influence, too, the move
ment from the spring wheat farmer into
Duluth and Minneapolis.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7877c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 7879c per bushol.
Four Best grades, 4.25; graham,
3.50; mi per fine, 2.25 per barrol.
Oats Choice white, 84 35c; choice
gray, 82 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew
ing, $'.'0 per ton,
Millstiffd Bran, 15 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, 13 12.50; clover,
$1011; California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $910per
ton.
Eggs 22 25c per dozen.
Butter Fancy oreamery, 60(355o;
fair to good, 4045c; dairy, 8040c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, lljo; Young
America, 12cj California, 010o
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $1.75
2.50 per doeznf broilers, $2.002.00;
geese, $56; ducEs, $3.004.00
per dozen; turkeys, live, 9 (3 10c per
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 85 40c
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yel
low, 80o per cental.
Hops 814c per pound for new
crop; 1898 crop, 46o.
Wool Vulley, 14lGo por pound;
EaHtern Oregon, 712o; mohair, 20
22o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best hheep, wethers
and ewes, $3.00; dressed mutton,
5o; spring lambs, 5c per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
light and feeders, $3.00 4. 00; dressed,
$4. 50 5. 00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2.763.00;
cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45jo per
pound. "
Veal Large, 45o; small, 6
Go per pound.
Seattle Market.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 27c; ranoh, 18 18c.
Cheese Native Washington, I2J40;
California, 9c.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 80 32c.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.60
8 00; ducks, $3. 50 3. 75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $1920.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 6)0; mutton sheep,
6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 45c; salmon,
84c; salmon trout, 710o; flounders
and sole, 84; ling cod, 4 5; rock cod,
6c; smelt, 2)4c.
Fresh Fruit Apples, 60c$1.25 per
box; peaches, 7580o; prunes, 8540o;
pears, 75c $1 per box.
San Francisco Market
Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon, 12
14c; Northern ll12o per pound.
Hops 10 14c per pound.
Millatnffs Middlings, $2022; Cal
ifornia bran, $17.5018.00 per ton.
Onions New red, 7080c; do new
silverskin, $1.401.60 per cental.
Eggs Store, 1826c; ranch, 40
41c; Eastern, 1724; duck, 25c per
dozen.
Cheese Fanoy mild, new, 2n fair
to good, 78c per pound..
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valenoias,
$1.603.00; Mexican limes, $2.00
8.00; California lemons, choice, $2.00
2.60; do common, 75c$l per box.
Hay Wheat, 1214.60; wheat and
oat, $1113; oat, $1012; river bar
ley, $78; best barley, $1012;
alfalfa, $89.60; clover, $8 9. 50.
Fresh Fruit Apples, 2590o per
large box; grapes, 2540o; Isabella,
60 76c; peaches, 50ort$l; pears, 75o
$1 per box; plums, 2085o.
Butter Fanoy oreamery, 2728c;
do seconds, ?428c; fancy dairy,
$4c; good to choice, 19(322o per pound.
Potatoes New, in boxes, 85 80c.
2000
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in Schillings Best baking powder and tea."
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What is the missing wordr-not SAFE, although Shilling's Beit baking
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Get Sthitting't Self baking powder or te at your grocers'; take out the
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tea); send a ticket with ench word to address below before December jut.
Until October 151I1 two words allowed for eveiy ticket; after that only on
word for every ticket.
If only one person finds the word, that person gets fiouo.oo; if several find
it, fiooo.uo will be equally divided among thnn.
Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard
creeping babies at the end of the contest. Those sending three or more in one
envelope will receive an 1S98 pocket cnlem.lnr no advertising on It. These
creeping babies and pocket calendars will be different fiom the oues oifuitd lo
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M. Quinton, as a consequence of his
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as all the higher organisms, according
to the teachings of evolution, have ax
ceuiled from a less highly organized
marine ancestry, the liquid which
bathes all the cells of the individual
ought to be chemically similar to sea
water. During experiments made at
the college of France a dog was bled to
such an extent that death would have
inevitably followed had the animal
been left alone. It was then given an
intravenous injection of sea water. Ten
lays after the operation the dog
showed, as tested bv the colorimeter,
a larger proportion of hemoglobin than
before the bleeding. All dugs experi
mented on not only survived, but re
covered with rotnurkablo quickness. At.
Quinton thinks it is ou account of its
holding in siiKpeiinton the same salts
which are constituents of sea water
that artificial serum holds the reputa
tion that it does, ami that sea water is
physiologically superior.
A pound of the finest spider web
would reach around the world.
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WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THB
EXCLUSIVE USE OP THE WORD "CASTORIA" AND
PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUK. trade 'mark.
J, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Ilyannls, Massachusetts ;
was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the samp
that has borne and does now - on ewr
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This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been
used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see t)iat it is
the kind you have always bought srf $. " on the
and has the signature of(&ffluc&Ae wrap
per. Xo one has authority from me to use my name except
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President. .
March 8, 1897. QJUjC p.
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which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies
on it), the ingredients of which even he docs not know.
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generation of heart, liver and muscles,
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Kn. Egypt's population, according to tha
census junt taken, Is 9,700,300, an in
urease of 2,900,000 since 1882, or about
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