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mDu a ' u ij a ----- A v ''"njf VOL. XXXV CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OjfiHttON,- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1898. NO. 34. EPITOME OF THE DiSPMCHES Happenings Both at Home and Abroad. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Interesting Collection of Items Fran Many Places Culled From the Ptnf Keports of the Current Week. President McKinley was the guest. of honor at the peace jublileo banquet of the Phildelphia Clover Club. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has granted two Americans a new conces Bion for an interoceanic canal. The president has issued his annual proclamation, setting apart Thursday, November 24, as Thanksgiving day. The wooden 6teamer L. R. Doty was lost in a gale on Lake Michigan and of 17 people on board, none were saved. The French, anticipating the pro posed demands of England, have with drawn Major March and from Fashoda. The. French court of cassation has de cided in favor'of revision of the famous Dreyfus case, and the immediate pro visional liberation of Dreyfus. At Lake Linden, Mich., a boiler in the Calumet & Hecla boiler-house ex ploded, killing three men instantly and burning one seriously. The San Francisco grand jury has voted to indict Mrs. Botkin on the charge of murder. The trial will be held in the supeiior court. The steamer L. R. Doty, with her crew of 15 men. is believed by marine men to have been lost in the great storm in midlake off Kenosha, Wis. Colonel George E. Waring, jr., for-merl)-- street commissioner of New York, is sick at his home in that city with yellow fever, contracted at Hav ana. - f At Richmond, Tex., Manuel Morris and Peter Autre, negroes, were hanged from a double gallows. Morris mur dered and then outraged a- 6-year-old blind girl. Autre assassinated his mis tress. Vice-President Hobart parrowly es caped being killed in a runaway acci dent in Philadelphia. A team behind which heyjwas riding bolted,-and when a terrible disaster seemed: certain a police officer dashed out, seized the bits of the horses' and stopped them. Ex-State Reprseentativo George Ogle, of Clackamas county, Oregon, has refused to Accept the . money voted him by the recent session of the legis-. lature for full pay for the disorganized house of 1897. Three more warships are to be sent to Manila. Two will proceed by way of the Suez canl and one across the Pacific. The Brooklyn will be the first to sail and will leave n-ew York early this week with supplies and ammun tiow' for Dewey's fleet. The-'Helena iB soon to follow. The Yorktown is to leave San Francisco soon after being placed in commission. Cubans have resented the American assumption of authority at Manzanillo, and the situation is strained; j General Butler has warned .Secretary Alger tliat some show of strength must be made soon or America will lose all prestige with the Cuban9. An electrician has made the startling discovery that escaped electricity in New York-, follows underground pipes and resulting electrolysis cuts away the bottoms of street-car. rails and iron foundations of all kinds of structures. Governor Tanner, of Illinois, says that labor must not be imported to his state, and if an attempt is made the train carrying the imported laborers will be met at the state line and shot to pieces with patling;guns. President McKinley is said to have a plan to get back at Germany by exclud ing impure German products, and thus retaliate against the kaiser's govern ment for the unjust discrimination con tinually being made against American Xoik and other "meat products. The Cuban debt question has been finally disposed of at Paris. The Span ish peace commissioners acquiesced in the refusal of the Americans to have the heavy burden saddled upon the United States. The cession of Guam to America was agreed upon and all differ ences regarding Porto Rico settled by mutual understanding. The monthly statement of tire collec tions of internal revenue shows that during September last the total receipts from allspurces were $21,713,389, a gain as. compared with September, 1897, of 18,858,883. For the three months ending September 30, 1898, the receipts were 171,989,460, a gain as compared with the same period in 1897 of 128,196,823. It is expected that the decision of the secretary of the navy to retain all the vessels purchased during the War will have the effect of causing a boom in American shipbuilding. It comes just at a time when there is an unusual de mand for ships flying the American flag on account of the expanding com merce of the United States in general, and particularly on account of the de cision of the administration to confine trade between American ports and Porto Rico to American vessels. minor News Items. The Virginia grand camp of confed erate veterans adopted a resolution to the effect that there could be no suc cessor to Miss Winnie Davis as the "Daughter of the Confederacy," the title having expired with her death. John D. Rockefeller .will furnish funds to purchase the ground and to build a large social settlement house in the Italian district of Cleveland, O. It will be called the Alta house in honor of Mr. Rockefeller's daughter. Mins. Adellna Patti. who hns been. staying in Switzerland, thinks of adopt ing a youthful niece: -In November she is to sing at a concert in London.. A tract of 1,150 acres of timber land in West Virginia that was granted to George Washington by King George III of England-for - hisservices -in-tire-Irr' dian wats, Trv,iqnj-to the revolution has just been soha . to lumber specu lators. Miss Zephyr Ad ler; who Is regarded as one.oi the most beautiful women is Nashville, Tenn., has joih the Sal. ration army. LATER NEWS. The departure of troops tor Cuba has been post)Oned. Ycliow jack has caused the delay. " 'It jj "; " a General Rio del Pinar, chief rival of Aguinaldo, has been arrested on a charge ot having disregarded the aw thority of the insurgent dictator.- : Controller Dawes, who is treasurer of the Lafayette monument fund, is being deluged with contributions from the school children of the country. The United States of Central Amer ica, the new republic, has sprung into life. It is composed of three countries, Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua. It is the intention of the administra tion to urge the construction of the Nicaragua canal by government aid, in accordance with the concession of the Maritime Canal Company. Rear-Admiral Bunce's retirement on December 25 will make Rear-Admiral Dewey the senior officer of the navy, and if congress revives the grade of ad miral, as desired by Secretary Long, hie appointment to that rank will fol low without any further jumping. A cash indemnity will be demanded of Spain, and the United States will insist upon being reimbursed for every dollar expended directly- -or indirectly on account of -the war-.- A general bal ance of accounts is to be struck and the indemnity will be deducted from the sum allowod for tho Philippines-. The murder of a prospector named Botleau, on the Ashcroft-Glenora trail has been reported to the provisional' police. Tho murderer is variously known as T. Wilson, McGregor and McGraw. The killing was the culmina tion of several weeks of quarreling, in duced by privation and disappointment on that desolate trail. A dispatch to tho Herald from Ha vana says no decision has yet been reached by the commissioners regard ing the date of evacuation. One or two communications have passed on minor agreements as to the day When Spanish sovereignty in the island shall cease. The Spaniards, however, will again be ordered to get out by January 1. Four privates of the Nineteenth in fantry, who were left at Fort Wayne when the regiment went South, were badly injured br an explosion of pow der which they were transferring from tho basernerrt of tho gruadhouse for transhipment to tho rogiment in Porto Rico. The men are Fred Fisher, Archie Miller and Robert Lavall. It i3 be lieved the powder was ignited by a Bpark from a cigarette, which a soldier was smoking. Porto Ricans, it is said, will demand territorial rights. The new Frerrch premier has succeed ed in forming a cabinet. - Agricultural experiment stations are to be established in Alaska. A company of Chinese naval reserves is to le formed, in Philadelphia. rli .i John fl. Dialogue, Jbea.d of the ship building firm of that name, is dead at. his home at Camden, N, J. According to Pension Commissioner Evans the war has. cost the . United States 3,000 lives to date. Ttre Paris exposition has granted America extra floor space, and the allotment now amounts to- 210,000 square feeti . - - A dispatch to theHerald from San tiago, Chile, announcers that: the pro toeol on tho Pnnade Alcala dispute has been signed. This settles the Chile- Argentine dispute.; - The former Spanish cruiser, the Maria Teresa which was sunk during the battle with OerveraV fleet and raised .under . the diteotfqn of Naval Constructor Hobson-,. has- sailed from Caimanerafor Hampton roads. It is rumored, that the United States has bought Samana bay, Santo Domin go, and will establish a coaling station there. Samana bay is a deep inlet in the northern coast of the island and is in the direct route to Porto Rico. A proposition being considered by the Cuban assembly is the division of Cuba into four states, to be called Orient, Camaguey, Las Villas and Oc cident. Between the proposed states pf Camaguey and Las Villas would be a space ot land which would be a spe cial federal .district o territory where the capitol would be built, a new in land town for this specific purpose. In his annual report James A. Dnr mont, supervising inspector-general of steamboats, states that the total num ber of accidents to steamships result ing in loss of life during the year was 31. The resultant loss of life was 283, an increase over the last previous vear of 100. Of the lives lost 84 were pas sengers and 199 crews. The estimated number of passengers carried on vessels inspected by the service during the year is 850,000,000. . ; At a meeting of the Paris peace com mission the Americans presented a Written expression of the purpose of the United States to take the entire group ot the Philippine debt as has been spent for the benefit of the islands in public works, improvements and permanent betterments. It was also set forth that the United States would not assume any part of the Philippine debt whioh had been incurred by Spain tor the furtherance of military or- naval operations to quell the insurrections of the natives. Graham A. Young, of the army en gineers corps, who died at Willett's Point, was heir to over $1,000,000. Thomas Greenwald, a private in bat tery I, Seventh United States artillery, was shot dead while trying to desert from Fort Slocum, near New Ro- chelle, N. Y. k - . The Candian senate is the most pan triarchlal of contemporary nppeu bouses, - one-third of its members being in the seventies, five in the eight ies and one 94. The empress, dovfager of China is U years of age. Her title runs as fol lows: "T2u-hsi-tnan.ryn-Kang-i-shao-yn-cbuana-cbishg- seoukang-chin-hsien-chang-hsi..". Christian Daniel,' invetor of a dozen important machines ased in shoe man ufacture, died at bis Minelii- Brook lyn, S. Y. . . Hi8 machine wae the first deed for sewing welts in shoes. In all the taried 6omeiciature oi the day the nam of Daw ey easily leads, seven sew postofflces having been named after the Manila here in July alone in as many states. A Press Censorship Has Baen '; -Established. , .... THE SILENCE IS OMiNOUS Gathering of a Big Sqnadron tions for War in l'rogress the World. -Prepara-All Over London, Nov. 2. The Daily Mail this morning publishes no nows regard ing England's war preparations, ex plaining that silence iB due to a letter from the war office, asking it not to publish "anything which might be useful to a possible , enemy." The Daily Mail confirms the reports of uh-r exampled activity at the French dock yards, notably at Toulon, where tho, coast ports have been experimenting with melinite shells against an old gunboat. British Ifaval Preparations. London, Nov. 2. There was an un expectedly gloomy-feeling this morning on tho sook exchange and the Paris bourse, both markets being influenced, it is inferred, from the aggressive tono of some of Tthe French papers. Besides this something extraordinary seems to have happened, and it looks as if a crisis was approaching. .: Tire British naval preparations are being pushed with gTKHt;aetiyi-::3;lja. British Bmepgeiroy squadron- iB" gather ing at Devon port, Tw1tl--'alf" possible speed, and severii battle-ships and one cruiser bo far have been designatedho join tire squadron. The officers aid sailors have been hurriedly recalled from leave Of absence, several battle ships and-cruisers at Portsmouth are taking full crews on board, and other warlike preparations are. being made. A number of signalmen, now on duty with the Birtish channel squadron, which arrived at Gibraltar this morn ing, have been ordered home for serv ice. A sensation was caused by the arrest of a supposed Russian spy at a fort near Harwich. The man was already under surverlarrce, and went to the redoubt, where lie tried to obtain some informa tion from the sentry regarding the fortifications. He was arrested, and inquiries are being made regarding iris antecedents. It was also asserted today that officers of tiie volunteers had received orders to prepare for immediate mobilization, and it was stated that tho different army corps had been informed as to the ports on the southern and western coasts to which they have been al lotted. Thre Pall Mall G.izette this afternoon says: "England has been and even now is so near war that the govern ment has carried its preparations to ih farthest limit of tho preparator y stage. It has been arranged to call out the reserveaund militia and to mobilize the voitrhteefs Bimultaheotisly and to form large camps at various ' important railroad junctions where rolling stock and locomotives will be concentrated. Activity at Ksquiinalt. P :. r Victoria, B. C, Nov.. a.-r-Tha.deparfe uro a?grlip Sunday for the Society islands, the French colony in the South seas, did not end the activfty'at the Esquimalt naval station. - As soon as she left t're wharf at the dock yard, the dock-yard crew was detailed to get the drydpek in readiness for the recep tion of her majesty's ship Leander. She, too, is to go on a long voyage, or at least be in readiness for any duty that She may be called upon to perform. The most significant feature outside the departure of the Amphion, how ever, is the activity on her majesty's ship Imperieuse. Admiral Palliser's flagship. Sunday a large number of men were given shore leave, a very unusual thing on Sundays, and this morning she commenced coaling,. It is understood that she goes out under sealed orders on Thursday, but it is not likely that she will follow the Amphion, as that would leave Esquimalt with a small fleet, the Leander, Icarus, two torpedo-boat, destroyers and two torpedo boats. The White Liners. Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 2. An un confirmed report says the Canadian Pacifio Railway Company has received notification from the British admiralty that the three big Empress liners may be required at any moment, to be trans formed into auxiliary cruisers. Guns and other equipments lie at Hong Kong arrd Esquimalt. One vessel is now in Vancouver har bor, or Yokohama. If trouble with France assumes its worst aspect, the two Empresses would be ready imme diately. .... Over an Embankment. St. Paul, Nov. 2. A Winnipeg special to the Dispatch says a special naval train was derailed east of Rat Portage, this morning, by a broken rail. The tender, two baggage and throe colonist cars went over an em bankment 10 feet high. Frank Fleck- ney and William Miller, boys from the training-ship Agincourt, of Chatham, England, were killed. Samuel Harri son, stoker of theEdinburg, and Thomas Burns, a seaman, were injured. His Life in Daager. San . Francisco, Nov. 2. Friendly Ciiinese have warned Rev. Dr. Gard ner, interpreter of the Chinese bureau, who is making an agressive campaign against the trade in olave girls, that at a meeting of highbinders held last; night it was decided- to take the doci tor's life at the .firaLppportBnity, , ii- ha persists in supplying, the government) with information, detrimental, to .thq interests of the. highbinders and their chattels. ; ''"" Not So Warlike. Paris, Nov. 2. Eclairesays it learns on reliable authority that the Fashoda question will be settled favorably to Great Britain by the recall of Mar-chand.- France! the paper adds, yields all, reserving only the question of its right to the Bahr-el-Gbazal district, which she does not consider as belong ing to Egypt. Continuing, Eclaire re marks: F (''' . -. "M. del Oasse, however, haajiow de rided to raise the whole Egyptian ques tiop and than avoid the humiliation of yielding to the British ultimatum.! BIG REPUBLIC STRIKE. Unprecedented In Mining History- of Country Excitement at Fever Heat. Spokane, Nov. 2. A telephone mes sage from Republio, on the north half of the Colville. reservation, says the miners in the Republic mine have now -crosscut 24 eet of ore in the big. ledge on . the 480-foot level, and the drills are still in ore. The irews of the strike has spread to the surrounding mining districts, and the exoitement is intense Conservative mining men say that such an ore chute with such values ($300 per ton) is unprecedented in tho mining history of the continent. The great chute has now been proved for a depth of 430 feot, and a length of 400 feet. It is nowhere less than five feet wide, and the width runs as high 25 feet. Contrary to the general rale in gold mining, the ledge is richest at its widest points. . The mine is 80 miles from a rail road, and the ore is freighted that dis tance over a mountain road and ship ped to a Puget sound smelter. In addi tion to these limited shipments, the company is treating ore at its mill on the ground with the electro-cyanide process. Its reciepts" from ore ship ments and mill runs are averaging $4,000 per day, and these will be greatly increased when the machinery is installed for the enlarged mill. Enough ore is now blocked out to keep the mill running for several years. Mountain Lion, owned chiefly in Port land; tbe-an Poil and the Jim Blaine, owned in Spokane. Buying orders for Republio stooks jvere .telg raulied today . from .:.raauy,- of the surrounding towns.' ' It is liard: to qnoto prices oii the Republio stock. Before the recent big strike it was Belljng freely at $2 per share, butnow there is not a share in sight, and hold ers are talking $$ per share. V In running tho. tunnel which Mas jnst tapped the ledge in the lower workings the miners have broken all records. They cut 400 feet in 29 days. The country rock is porphyry. INDIAN REPORTS IN. Some Kncouraglng; Others Indicate That Lo Is Progressing Backward. Washington, Nov. 2. A majority of the annual reports of Indian agents to the commissioners of Indian affairs are of an encouraging nature, and indicate progress generally along civilized lines. Some of the reports, however, are not so gratifying, and make some surpris ing statements. Unusual in ah annual report is the following arraignment in the report of E. M. Yerian. in charge of the Lemhi Indiana in Idaho. He says: "They are addicted to gambling, horse:racing and dancing, and the in flneucevof the so-called medicine man operates to the disadvantage of the tribe. Their real advancement has not been what it should or what it was possible to have been under the cir cumstances In the agent's annual re port tor 1MB2,.. on the iomi Tpsorvrr- tion, I find 29 Indian families engaged in farming ; 1$ years after I jean,.. report but 41 following agricultural pursuits, an increase: oi- I3i - not one convert a year." Agent Fuller,- "of the Blackfoot agency, Montana, referring to the opening; 6f' 'the cede'd'portfbn under the itinera'. Luid laws last April, says the less, and predicts the abandonment of the so-called mineral strip before No vember 5. NICARAGUA WANTS A CANAL. She Is Now Weary of Maritime Com pany's Delay. Managua, Nicaragua, Nov. 2. After four days of ' public discussion, the Nicaragua congress has unanimously approved of the agreement provisional ly made between President Zelaya and the American contractors and engi neers, E. F. Cragin and Edward Eyre, authorizing the construction of an in ter-oceanic canal and empowering the concessionaries to negotiate with the Maritime Canal Company. The adop tion of the clause declaring that the concession to the Maritime Canal Com pany will terminate on October 19, 1899, was received with prolonged cheers from congressmen and the pub lie in the galleries. Congratulatory telegrams have been received from the chief cities of Nicaragua and the neigh boring republics. Oregon and. Iowa at Bahla, Brazil. Washington, Oct. 2. A cablegram received at the navy department this afternoon announced the arrival at Bahia, Brazil, of the battle-ships Ore gon and Iowa. The battle-ships will stop at Ijahia for a few days, replen ishing their coal bunkers from the Abarrenda and the Celtic, and then win proceed to Kio, where they are to take part in the great demonstration there on November 15, to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the re public of Brazil. Killed an Eloper. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 1. Jnst before midnight, John Belick, a bricklayer, shot and killed Al Sargent, a barber Sargent had gone to Belick's house for the purpose of eloping with Mrs. Bel : .. t. a i i 1 1 . . iok, anu uao me woman's trunK in a wagon when the husband surprised him. Belick fired four shots, each tak ing effect. Belick and his wife are in jail. Mustered Out. New York. Nov. 2. The Ninth reg iment, New York volunteers, was mus tered out of the United States service today. Alleged Embezzler Caught. St. Louis, Nov. 2. Lambert Wilt, the alleged absconding teller of the savings bank at Jnhgbunzlau, Bohemia, was arrested here this afternoon. ; It is said Wilt embezzled f 50,000, and that a considerable part of that sum has been recovered. Caught In the Shaft. Cahto, Cal., Oct. 29. Chalret Britt, a recent arrival from Rookyford, met a frightful death at the Laytonville flour mills. Brlti, In some unknown way, was caught in the main shaft, his lower limbs being ground into a pplp in the machinery. He lived for lQ boors. Brit was 22 years of age and unmar ried, a. . : -; Washington, Now 3. Major-General Law ton, recently in command at Santiago, has been ordered to command of the Second army corps, relieving General Graham, recently retired PHILIPPINES 10 1 OB Settled Faot That the lands Will Be Taken. Is- NOT ONE BUT ALL OF THEM Debt Slay P.e Asgnmed If Spate Re fuses, Hostilities Will Be Resumed aud We Will 8elze the Archipelago. Paris, Not. 1. While the Spanish and American poace commissioners now stand on the threshold of the Philippine question, it seems probable. in the light of this hour, that the United States will take over the en tire archipelago. During the fon't days just passed, those in touch with, though possibly not in the confidence of the commis sioners have felt the concentration of tendencies toward the standpoint in dicated as likely to be occupied by the United States commissioners at Tues day's session of the two commissions. In 1897 Spain issued, by royal decree, bonds in the sum of 140,000,000, to which were pledged tho revenues of the Philippines, and to which the Spanish national guarantee was added. From these $40,000,000 of obligations, Spain realizod $36,000,000 in cash. These $40,000,000 represent the Philippine debt, which is entirely outside of the $500,000,000 of the so-called Philippine and Spanish debt. The conditions also differ, the Philip pine debt having been created by royal decree because the archipelago was not a parliamentary colony, while the so called Cuban debt was created by law. The difference raises the question of the non-responsibility of the Philip pines when removed from the sovereign ty under whioh its resources were pledged. Should the United States absorb the Philippines, none but officials yet know whetber they will assume a part or all of this debt, or more than the Philip pine debt. The Americans have de clined to assume the Cuban debt be cause Cuba is not theirs; but in depos ing Spain in the Philippines, the Amer icans acquire the territory, and it ia believed there will be some financial assumption by the United States. At this point arises the question of how much financial relief might com pensate Spain for her loss of the Phil ippines. Some well-informed persons believe that Premier Sagasta has deter mined to be rid of the Philipines, and would direct his commission to sign a treaty by which the United Statea should take the islands, and assume $40,000,000 of debt. This proposition finds Bupport in tho Parisian press, which today declares that resistance is impossible, and that Spain should abandon the archipelago. Spain Will Resist. Pane, Nov. 1. ahere was a strong impression, wmch baa been growing hero recently, that the Spanish, upon receiving definite assurances of the American determination to tako the entire Philippine group, would quit the conference, but this view was modi fied by the attitude of the Spanish newspapers whioh arrived here today. These are found to have wheeled into line with the Epoca of October 27, which demanded that the Spanish commissioners should sign a treaty in Paris, no matter how onerous the con ditions imposed by the Americans. Nevertheless, despite this attitude of the Madrid press, and, despite the statement given Friday last to the press oorrespondentt by the Spanish commis sioner, who denied that the Spaniards had any intention of withdrawing, the Americans here will not be surprised if one or more of the Spanish commis sioners resign and praotically close the negotiations. This feeling is based upon the faot that Senor Rios early last weeg would nave resigned, if Ins so doing would not have imperiled the Sagasta ministry; and the reasoning is that, if, while pressing the Cuban debt, which is not mentioned in the protocol, Senor Rios was inclined to resign, ha might, in the open field of contention as to the Philippines, feel that resigna tions would help Senor Sagasta, on the ground that the demand of the United States for the entire Philippine group would be extortionate. It is believed here tonight, on the eve of taking up the main question. that the Spanish commissioners are not likely to acquiesce here In any treaty mat the Americans would sign. Cure for Bog Cholera. Washington, Oct 31. During the past two years the department of agri culture has conducted a series of experi ments in the use of a serum as a rem edy for hogs affected by cholera or swine plague. The eexpriments were conduoted by Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry, and the results were eminently satisfactory, proving that the disease can be success fully treated, easily and inexpensively. This year the experiments have been extnesive and far-reaching. The bureau treated 922 boas. Of these, 170 died, the number saved being 81 out of every 100. The loss was only 19 per cent. Miss Nell Thompson, a Christian scientist, died in Los Angeles, while undergoing an extended faBt. Turkish Murderers Executed. Candia, Crete, Nov: 1. Five mora of the Mussulmans convicted of taking part in the massacre of British soldiers September 6, were exeouted today. Will Vote at Spa. Topebka, Kan., Oct. 81. The mem bers of the "first battalion of tbeTwenty- secono ivansas regiment, wh ch hava sailed from San Francisco for Manila. carry ballots with them and will vote on Kansas officers about midway be tween Honolulu and Manila. flail Destroys French Crops. Mentone, France, Nov. 1. This dis trict was visited by a terrifio hail storm this afternoon, which , is continuing this evening. The stones are f Im mense size. The olive and lemon crops have been completely destroyed. . Spanish -Soldier Dfed en Root . Ponta del Gada, Aeore Islands, Nov. 4-The Spanish steamer Montzerrat, from Havana with repaltiated Spanisb troops on board, has arrived here. Tfaer were 72 deaths on board during tile voyage. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Seattle markets. Tomatoes, 5085cper box. Cucumbers,. 10 15c per doz. Onions, 85 90c per 100 pounds. Potatoes, $1012. Beets, per sack, $1. Turnips, per sack, 6065o. Carrots, per saek, 60a Parsnips, per sack, $1. Beans, green, 23o. Green corn, $1.25 1.50 per saok. Cauliflower, 75c per doz. Celery, 4050o. Cabbage, native and Californ'a $1.25 1.50 per 100 pounds. Apples, 50c365c per box. . Pears, 75c $1 per box. Prunes, 50c per box. Peaches, 75c Plums, 50c. Butter Creamery, 27c per pound; dairy and ranch, 1820c per pound. Eggs, 30c. Cheese Native, 1212)c. Poultry Old .hens, 13c per pound; spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c. FreBh meats Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 67c; cows, prime, 6c; mutton, 73c; pork, 78o; veal, 78o. Wheat Feed wheat. $192o. Oats Choice, per ton, $22 23. Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.50 10; choice Eastern Washington tim othy, $13. Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $2425; whole, $22. Flour Patent, per barrel, $8.60; straights, $3.25; California brrnds, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham, per barrel, $8. 70; whole wheat flour. $3. 75; rye flour, $4. Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. Feed Chopped feed, $1721 per ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 61c; Val ley and Bluestem, 63c per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.45; graham, $3; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 89 40c; choice gray, 37 38c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $2122; brew ing, $23 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $15.50 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50 per ton. flay Timothy, $8 9; clover. $7 8; Oregon wild hay, $8 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 5055o; seconds, 4045c; dairy, 40 45c store, 8085o. Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o; Young America, 12)c; new oheese, 10c per pound. Poultrv-Chickens, mixed, $2.508 per dozen; hens, $3. 00 3. 50; springs, $1.253; geese, $5.006.00 for old. $4.505 for young; ducks, $4.00 5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live. 12 U 12c per pound. Potatoes' 4566cper sack; sweets, 2c per pounn. Vcgeta bios Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage, $11.25 per 100 pounds; cauli flower, 76o per dozen; parsnips, 75c per sack; beans, 3c per pound; celery, 70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box; peas, 38c per pound. Onions Oregon, 75c$l per sack. Hops 1017o; 1897 crop, 67o. Wool Valley, 10 12c ner Dound: Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair, 25c per pound. Mutton Gross, beet sheep, wethers and ewes, 3o; dressed mutton. 7o; spring lambs, 7&c per lb. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75; light and feeders, $8. 004. 00; dressed, $5. 50 6.50 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 3. 50 $3. 75; cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef, 56c per pound. Veal Large, 66c; small, 6 7c per pound. San Francisco Market. Wool Spring Nevada, 10 14c per pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012o; Val ley, 15 17c; Northern, 9 11c. Millstuffs Middlings, $1721.00; bran, $15.00 16.00 per ton. Onions Yellow. 30 40c per sack. Butter Fancy creamery, 24 c; do secorfds, 22c23; fancy dairy, 21 22c; do seconds, 20 24c per pound. Eggs Store, 1822o; fancy ranch, 8439c. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2 2.50; Mexican limes, $6 6. 50; Cali, fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choice- $3. 50 4. 50; per box. LABOR AND INDUSTRY. The Detroit steel and spring works oi the Detroit Steel & Spring Company are being operated 24 hours a day lhe fennsylvania tube works of Pitts burg, Pa., have an order from tie Standard Oil Company for 40 miles of eight-inch pipe. Experiments nade in Paris show that an electric wagon costs 47 per cent lesss to run than a horse wagon and 32 per cent less to run than a petroleum motor. Coventry is the center of the British cycle industry. Compared with thin time last year the firms there are said to be employing about 4,000 fewer per sons, while thousands of employes are now woiking only 30 hours weekly. . The Northern Pacifio railway shops a. South Tacoma have practically sus pended the building of the 300 fiat-cars. Two hundred of the cars were finished, and then it became impossible to get enough material to complete the others. Houston is the only interior cotton market in the world that ever received 35,000 bales of cptton in one day. Sixty per cent of the Texas crop will pass through Houston this season and the total gross receipts at this point are expected to exceed 2,000,000 bales. American manufacturers wishing to send goods into Turkey in Asia are warned by the consuls that their circu lars and letters must be written in Turkish or French, preferably Turkish. To write or print them in English Is simply a waste of time and money. It is estimated that the combined tomato pack of Salem and Cumberland counties, New Jersey, tbis year will not be less than 12,000,000 cans. The average output of canned tomatoes in the United States from 1893 to 1897 was about 6,250,000 cases, or 126,000, 000 cans. ' The largest tin ptate establishment In tho world Is to i-be! moved from Wales to the United States. Formerly this co-untry imported annually from $20, 000, 000 to, $30,000. 000 worth 1 tin plate.. Aft the result oi a moderate I pwicwro auur uip .importation l8! year Wee less than W.QO0.00(L. CULTURE OF As Sugar Is Made in Fields, and Important Requirement Henry W. Diederich, United States consul at Magdeburg, Germany, sends the following repoit to the state depart ment. The report will prove of inter est and value to the farmers of the Northwest, who are just taking up the industry. Mr. Diedrich says The resnlts of the war with Spain are bound to effect changes in various direo tions that no one could have foreseen at the beginning of this year. Not the least Important is the bearing they will undoubtedly have on the sugar industry in Germany and in the United States. An enoromns increase in the production of sugar in the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii is probable in tne near future. With coolie and Chinese labor in the Orient and in the Pacific, with the stimulus of American energy and capital in the West Indies, and with the more or less intricate bounties of Europe, the sugar question has become a very complicated one. Though the outlook of the yonng beet-sugar industry in the United States is not so promising as it was a year ago, it is much too early to be come discouraged. While it may be advisable for those planning to start new plants to make haste slowly, yet the good work already begun should continue. Especially should the work of locating the areas in the United States suitable for the cnltnre of the sugar-beet be continued, as this can be done without risk or loss of money, the sugar beets being capable of utilization as feed. In leading the reports of our experiment stations in various states, both as to yield of sugar-beets and also as to their saccharine qualities, one cannot but admire the wonderful prog ress made in this new industry within a few years, and to congratulate our people engaged in it upon their success. Sugar is made, not in the sugar fac tories, but out in the fields. Therefore it is impossible to pay too muoh atten tion to the cultivation of beets con taining the highest proportions of sugar, and, at the same time, with the largest tonnage por acre. In order to produce such, the seleotlon of suitable soil, the climate, the rainfall, and length of season, the fertilizing, plant ing, cultivating and harvesting all these are very important factois. But the most important of all is to start out with the best seed obtainable; for good seed, after all, is the foundation of successful sugar industry. If I may express an opinion, based on my per sonal observation, it is that some of our beet growers should insist more than they have upon getting none but the best of seed, no matr what the price tuy bo. ' " I will not enter npon the history of tho origin and development of the beet seed. Nor will I dwell upon the dif ferent varieties and their merits. I have had occasion to visit several of the celebrated German stock farms, where they produce seed that is sold to all sugar-producing countries of the world. With the accumulated knowl edge and experience of a century of in vestigation, with an investment of enormous capital, and with a vast amount of scienoe and skill, energy, and labor, their methods of producing a pure and high-grade seed are as per fect and successful as ' are those em ployed iu the raising of fine breeds of horses and cattle. The high-grade seed grown in this country is how in the lead everywhere. Even France is beginning to import German beet seed, thereby conceding its superiority. I know that one Ger man firm alone shipped 30,000 sacks of seod to France. I feel safe in saying mat aitogetner not less man luu.uuu i sacks ot vierman beet seed were bought J by Frenchmen last season, in spite of the 80 francs ($5.97) oustoms duty whioh they had to pay on every 100 kilograms (220 pounds). I am in formed that most of these orders have been duplicated for next season, and the amounts in many cases doubled and NEWS OF THE The state of Oregon has attaobed the Loewenberg stove foundry at Salem to secure a claim of $36,267.12. One of the apnle orchards of Southern Oregon has this season paid $100 an acre clear, and this is only the second year of bearing of the trees. The Commercial Club, of La Grande, Or., is sending out a little booklet, de scriptive ot the new beet-sugar factory at that place. Good prices for saw logs have had the effect of stimulating activity in this industry along the Lower Columbia, and a recurrence of last year's soarcitv is improbable. The governor has ordered a special election inMultnomah county, Oregon, November 15, for the purpose of elect ing a state senator to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Si mon. T. W. Lee arrived in San Franoisco last week fiom the Hawaiian islands, whither he went recently to judge buai ness prospects. He declares that the field in Honolulu is already too fully occupied. The Fulton Engineering & Ship building Company, of San Francisco, has brought suit, against the Alaska Yukon Transportation Company to es tablish two liens, one for $12,223. 18 on the steamer J. W. Scammell, and the other for $8,598.83. on the steamer H. J. Barling. The- American schooner, E. K. Wood, sailed last week from the wharf of the St. Paul & Tacoma Mill Com pany, with a full cargo of 666.000 feet of fir lumber for Shanghai, China. The vessel has been in the Puget sound China lumber trade under her present skipper seven years. The $10,000 issue of Park bonds, re cently advertised for. pale at Spokane, has been purchased by W. E. Bell, of that city, who offered ' s' premium b4 $57. and accrued interest. The bonds are to be dated August 1, 1898, and to draw intercst-at the rate of 6-per cent for 10' years.' ' SUGAR-BEETS Not in Factories, Good Seed Is an' German Consul's Report. trebled; all of which shows clearly that" even France now prefers Geiman beet; seed, and I am not at all surprised to. learn that there is a movement on foot in that country to increase the tariff on imported seed. The first-class sugar factories of Eu rope buy none but the very best seed, grown from high-grade individual "mother" beets, to distribute among the beat growers; thus not only main taining the standard of their sugar beets as to quality and quantity, but also putting themselves in a position to compete in all the markets of the world. This first-class seed is sold and delivered by the growers on board carj in the Prussian province of Saxony, at from 8 to 10 cents per pound, which $t a moderate price, considering the fact that it takes at least four years to get it into the market. There is also a second-class seed offered for sale in this country, at from 5 to 6 cents per pound. This is com monly called the "Nachzachtsamen," being a seed produced not fiom the mother beets, but from the first first class seed mentioned above. This in ferior grade, however, is not used by first-class sugar men in Germany,. France, Holland and Belgium, but most of it goes to Austria, Russia and the United States. And this is the reason why I deem it my dnty to call attention to the importance of getting only the very best of seed obtainable. In my opinion, those Amenoan growers of sugar-beets who buy cheap grades of seed, make a great mistake. All kinds of seed have a natural tendenoy to degenerate. Even the first-class beet seed mentioned above will not bring forth beets that come np to the stand ard of the original or mother beet, but will show a loss of to 1 per cent of sugar oontent. Now, the second generation of seed will degenerate more than as mnoh again, and lose from 1 per cent to 2 per oent. This ia a small amount when considered by it self, yet it is sufficient not only to turn the profits of a sugar factory into a loss, but even to drive the concern to the wall. To Illustrate this: Factory A slices 50,000 tons (short) of beets, which would yield about an average of 15.5 per cent sugar in the extraction. After deduoting the sugar left in the molasses and in other waste, this would leave about 13 per cent 6,500 tons of pure granulated, marketable sugar, which at $50 a ton would net $325,000. Faotory B slices the same amount o( beets, grown from second-class seed. which, at a fair average, have about 1.3 per cent lees of sugar in the extraction. After this material also cone T through the process of refining, there " will be 11.7 per cent 5,850 tons of marketable sugar, which at $50 a ton , would net $292,500. It will be seen at a glance that while both factories use the same amount of material, and have the same expenses for labor, fuel, eta, there is a differ ence in the gross receipts for manufac tured sugar amounting to $32,500. Factory A bought 65 tons of first class aoed, at $180 per ton, $9,900; factory B bought 66 tons oi eecond olass seed, at $120 per ton, $6,600. It will be seen that factory B wanted to buy "cheap" and to make money fast. It did, indeed, save $3,300 at the start; but faotory. A began by planting the very best seed obtainable, and came out at the end of the season with $29,200 oash ahead of its competitor, and was in the position of declaring a handsome dividend. Like so many other things in life, the cheapest beet seed are the deareBt, It pays to get the very best, and only the very best is good enough. Let the good work of experimenting in the field of sugar-beet culture continue, in order to learn exactly what we can do in the face of fierce and growing competition, but let American growers determine not only to try different varieties of seed, but also, to plant none but seed of high grade and pure pedigree. - I PACIFIC COAST The Chilkat river, in Alaska, is full of salmon; they are so thick they oan not all keep under the water. They are there by the tens of millions, ana they make such a noise splashing that they sound like a storm. The river is full of the big fish from the mouth to the source and the silver-tip bears are having a rich feast while the run con tinues. A new gold strike has been leported on the Dalton trail, less than 100 mi lest from Skagway. and the story thaS comes back is that five men who were wintering on the trail washed out in. five days over $400 in coarse gold from a bench olaim, utilizing only pick, shovel and pan. The dirt from which this gold was washed had to be carried from the bench to the creek bottom, where there was water. The new gold find is in Amerioan territory, about 75 miles from Pyramid harbor. The halibut season of 1898 on the Flattery banks is nearly ended, and most of the fishing schooners are on their way to Ketchikan and other Southeastern Alaska points to remain; during the winter. Probably the last boat to leave for the north will be the schooner Alcedo, which will make one more haul off Flattery and then pro ceed up the coast. The Alcedo brought in 18,000 pounds of halibut on her last trip and the Pilot 15,000 pounds. This has been an off year in fishing, and tho catch has not amounted to two-thirds. The Astoria Progressive Association has decided to co-operate with the Ore-' gon Road Club, of Portland, in a cru sade in behalf ot better roads through out the state. Word comes from Dawson CitV that Commissioner Ogilvie will issue a license to saloons, but not to gamblers or dance balls. The camblers and danoe balls will be allowed to run a long as they conduct their nlaoes in a quiet and orderly manner. Gamblers vnugut operating oroOKed games Will be summarily dealt with, but as long ai they run a square game they will b allowed to operate.