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Oi VOL.. XXXV. CORVALL.IS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1898. NO. 37. mm& 1 NEWS OF THE WEEK From All Parts of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Wees! Called From the Telegraph Columns. Dr. Stephen B. Tyng, president of the American Chamber of Commerce died in Paris. The First Illinois volunteer infantry, which saw service in the trenches at Santiago, has been mustered out of service. Advices received from Seoul say the ! Corean government has issued orders that foreigners are to be stopped from ! trading in the interior. The four-masted schooner Talofa, ! Captain Fletcher, from Guantanarno lor Port Tampa, in ballast, has been totally wrecked on Cozumel island, off the eastern coast of Yucatan, and the 1 captain and seven of the men have ar- j rived at Progreso, two of the men hav ing been drowned. The ship Atlanta, which sailed from Tacoma, loaded with wheat for Cape Town, ran ashore near Alsea bay. She had a crew of 27 men, only two of whom got ashore. The vessel was broken in two, and is probably a total loss. She was commanded by Captain Charles McBride. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific collided at Mos cow, la. One man was killed and one injured. A wrecking train which was about to start to the scene from Wilton was run into by a fast mail train. The fireman of the mail tiain was bad. ly hurt an 16 men of the work train injured, some seriously. The American and Spanish commis sioners in agreeing upon January 1 as the date of Spanish evacuation of Cuba took a precedent from the treaty of peace entered into 50 years ago be tween Mexico and the United States when an agreement was made as to the date of the American occupation to cease. Then, as now, it was known that all the troops conld not be em barked by the date agreed upon. The oretically the Spanish occupation will cease January 1, though it is believed that 25,000 Spanish troops will still remain in Cuba. Wm. Fink, a farmer living near Ty ler, Wash., was killed by a runaway team. A corporal and three merchants ol Guantanamo were arrested for steal ing government supplies. The spruce lumber exhibit of the Clatsop Mill Company, of Astoria, has been awarded the first prize, a gold medal by the Omaha exposition direct ory. While a gang of 20 track hands was at work on the Pennsylvania railroad line, near Jersey City, they were run down by a train. Eleven workmen were killed outright and six seriously injured. Conductor William Hatfield and Brakeman Harry Crogin were killed in the wreck of a caboose attached to a northbound train near Ardmore, I. T. The caboose left the track and waB overturned. There is a leper scare in Manila. Through neglect of Spanish officials nearly 200 lepers escaped confinement. Orders have been issued that all lepers he arrested and sent to a small unin habited island southeast of Luzon. Advices by the steamship Empresi -of China tell of a terrible disaster on October 25, when the steamer Kinshui Maru came into, collision with the steamer Myagawa Maru, off Takami, sinning ine latter, beventy poisons were drowned. The secretary of the navy has ord ered a court of inquiry to meet at the j navy-yard at Norfolk for the purpose ' of investigating the circumstances at tending the abandonment of the Span- j ish cruiser Maria Teresa, with a view! to aeiermining tne necessity and re sponsibility therefor. George W. Lake, an American, re siding at Chemulpa, ha6 been mur dered. Lake kept a big store near the Chinese consulate. The murderer en tered for the purpose of robbery. With an iron weight attached to a Chinese steelyard he killed Lake with one blow ' as he slept. Charles S. Cross, president of the First National bank of Einparia, Kan., I shot and killed himself near that city. ! An hour previous the bank had been closed by order of the controller of the 1 currency. The failure is a bad one, and all the county and city funds are involved. An electric street-car of the Tacoma railway line was derailed five miles from the heart of the city on the Steila coom line, by the controller refusing to shut off the current on a heavy down grade. The car was smashed to splin ters by striking the side of a cut 10 feet deep, through which it was travel ing. Seven persons were aboard, and all received injuries. Minor Neirs Items. Husbands and wives traveling to gether in Norway, Austria and Hun gary pay only ono fare ami a half on the. railways. Mrs. Fred Douglass, widow of the colored orator, is to go on the lecture platform to deal with the history of the race in this country. Lieutenant Jules Q. Ord, son of Gen eral E. O. C. Ord, who was killed in the battle of Santiago, was a great grandson of King George IV. Rudolph Neumann, general agent of the Alaska Commercial Company, while inspecting the Sitka mine Unga fell 209 feet to the bottom of the .shaft and was instantly killed. The National Association of Manu- 1 facturers and Jobbers of Threshing Ma chinery met in Indianapolis in annual eession and elected as president J. E. Brown of Mansfield, O. The authorities found nearly $10,000, secreted in the home of Oscar Os borne, who was murdered near Rich field, O., by robbers while trying to make him tell where his money was Bidden. LATER NEWS. The war departmenthas decided not to occupy Cienfuegos before January 1. Governor Tanner has issued a procla mation declaring Pana, 111., under martial law. Captain McCalla has wiied the navy department that he has abandoned the cruiser Maria Teresa. Senor Garcia, while in New York, on his way to Washington, said that the Cubans have naught but friendly feelings for the Americans. Nine millions and a quarter is the price the Union Pacific. Denvei & Gulf railroad brought at foreclosure sale. The reorganization committee was the purchaser. Senator Quay, Pennsylvania's po litical boss, is in serious trouble Five indictments which are not easily ex plained away, have been returned by the grand jury. A number of Filipinos have arrived in San Francisco on their way to Wash ington to look after their claims against the government for damages sustained by the American invasion of Manila. Star Pointer, the famous pacer with the world's record of l:69 for a mile, was sold in New York to W. J. White, of Cleveland, O., lor $1 5,000, $600 less than he was sold for in 1897 to James A. Murphy, of Chicago. Late advices from Japan state that 10,000 more fishermen living on Etrup island, northern Japan, are on the verge of starvation. Some have noth ing to eat, while others are existing on rats and putrefied herrings. The' Spanish mail steamer San Au gustin, which sailed from Nuevitas for Spain, carried the Columbus monu ment, formerly in the cathedial at Havana, with 287 boxes of archives. She took also 23 officers and 160 sol diers. President Brown, of Norwich uni versity, has received a personal letter from Admiral Dewey, in which the ad miral says: "I trust the entire archi pelago will be retained by the United States. Any other arrangements will lead to no end of trouble." The semi-official Journal de St. Petersburg repudiates the anti-Ameri can views with reference to the Philip- 1 pine islands recently expounded by the i Bourse Gazette, which, it declares, in j no way represents the views held in i leading Russian oircles. Nearly all the bucks of the White river Utes. and part of the Uintah tribe are off the reservation, and probably a i great many of them are in Colorado. ! The Indians say if the government won't pay for the land they bought i from them they will hunt on it as often I as they can get there to hunt. I A highbinder war has again broken I out in San Francisco. Four companies of engineers have been ordered by the war department to Havana. Lx-Queen Lilioukalani has arrived in San Francisco on a visit to this country. The president has appointed John Morgan collector of customs for the Southern district of Oregon. Policeman Luke Curry, of Great j alls, Mont., was mistaken for a bur glar, shot and instantly killed by Isaac bhaeffer, a merchant. Rear-Admiral Joseph N. Miller, who hoisted the American flag over Hawai on August 12 last, has retired after spending 47 years in active service. The London Chronicle criticizes the aution of the United States in killing Canadian shipping trade with Porto Rico, and speculates as to the meaning of the action. Sixteen families of Canyon City, Or left homeless by the recent fire, are shelterless and in dire distress. A Portland evening paper is collecting contributions to relieve them. Aotmg on the recommendation of Captain Dickens, Secretary Long has increased the age requirement in the case of apprentices admitted to the naval service from 14 to 15 years. According to a plan of Secretary Uage, paper money is to be made uni form, and bills of one denomination must alljook alike. It is thought this will make easier the detection of coun terfeits. It is represented by a dispatch from San Jose, Cal. , that the prunegrowers of that vicinity charge that Oregon prunes have been sold there and shipped East as Santa Clara county prunes. The San Francisco Examiner says: No less than five new sugar companies have been incorporated in the Hawaiian islands, and within two years from now the output of raw sugar will be in creased considerably. A Philadelphia dispatch savs that American vessels are aDa tnat shippers are in scanty supply forced to resort largely to foreign ships. Over $200, 000,000 will be paid this year to own ers of vessels under foreign flags by Americans. England is rushing munitions of war to Esquimault. The intention appar ently is in case of war to fit out war ships and transports at Esquimault for service in Eastern waters, and to draw whatever troops are needed for the British forces in India. Fifty-seven officers of the regular army have' sons in the service, and two generations of the same family are even more frequent in the navy. The Sel j fridge family furnishes three genera tions from a lieutenant to an admiral. The life insurance companies doing business in Canada have agreed here j after not to accept risks on the lives of married women, unless they happen to be the breadwinners of the family; or, in other words, wholly independent of their husbands. Mark Twain is said to show the effects of his recent efforts and to be aging rapidly. Joaquin Miller, the poet, who is building his own tomb in the Cali fornia woods, has used only flint and his masonry will last for centuries. In the rock he has cut the words: "To the Unknown." The funeral of Mrs. S. C. Harris, in Atlanta, Ga., was made a public affair owing to the fact that the dead woman had earned the title of "Mother, of At lanta" in 1842 by bearing the first chilli born in that city. Work Stopped on Northern Pacific at Lapwai. MUST FIRST HAVE AUTHORITY The Engineers Say They Will Walt for a Permit and Settle Kight-of-W ll y ClaluiB In Advance. Lewiston, Idaho, Nov. 23. The Northern Pacific let a contract to Wren & Greenough, of Montana, for the con struction of a section of road on Lapwai creek. The agents of these contractors arrived last week, and began prepara tions for grading a roadbed along the narrow LapwaTvalley. This valley is all settled by Indians, except a half mne adjacent to the Ulearwater river,. and the present line of the Northern Pacific road. The Indians hold these homes very sacred, as they were inher ited from their fathers and then allot- ed to them by the government. They protested against trespass, although the railway agents offered to purchase the right of way through every holding and the engineers say they had no in tention of proceeding without legal titles to the land appropriated. How ever, excitement ran high when the large force of graders appeared upon the scene. Indian Agent Fisher also pro tested against the trespass upon the government land without due authority from tLe interior department. These conditions were reported to the government, and it is believed an order was asked placing the military at the disposal of the agent, to be used to eject tne railroad lorce if necessary ine omcers oi tne railroad company say the excitement was uncalled for, that they never entertained the inten tion of proceeding without first secur ing an tne ngnt ot way through proper authority. In the meantime a large force is waiting for orders to begin grading. The engineers say they will wait for the permit from the government, and they will satisfy individual claims for right of 'way before they begin. The Indians, whose inteiests are involved, are intelligent, and they will be guided in the matter entirely by the agent, in whom they have implicit confidetnce and to whom they have appealed for protection in their legal rights. There could be no demand for troops other than to protect the rights of the govern ment and the Indian wards. The call, li mane zor tnis purpose, was irom a misapprehension of the purpose of the railroad company. Lapwai creek is a stream flowing from the southward and joining the Clear water river about 10 mile's east of Lww:?'xn. The line mentioned in the foregoing dispatch is not the main projected line of the Nothern Pacific up the Clearwater and across into Mon tana, but a branch to tap the heavy timber of the Craig mountains, and the rich farming lands of the reservation and Camas prairie. The promptness with which grading crews get at work shows how keen is the competition of the present railroad rivalry. FRANCE AND ITALY. Long Standing Friction Removed by a Commercial Treaty. fans, jnov. 2d. it was quite unex pectedly announced this afternoon that a commercial tieaty has been concluded between D ranee and Italy, granting mutually favored treatment except for silk goods, which will remain subject to the maximum tax. A bill embody ing the agreement will be submitted immediately to .the chamber of depu ties. The government also introduced a bill in the chamber today modifying the wine duties favorably to Italy. The negotiations that have culminated in inese arrangements nave been on foot for two years, but nobody believed that a definite agreement was pending. It is believed that the Fashoda affair was instrumental in inducing France to grant the necessary concessions, though it is noteworthy that the silk duties, which caused the breaking of the treaty in 1887, remain almost unchanged. The negotiations have been conducted with the utmost secrecy. The effect of the concessions involved is not yet known, but it is expected that they will have an important political influence for the removal of a long-standing fric tion between the two countries. The treacy, it is noticed, was concluded dur ing the absence of Emperor William from Germany, and there is much speculation regarding its probable re sults upon European alliances. SERIOUS PLAGUE RIOTS. Thonsands of Natives Making Trouble In India. London, Nov. 23. A dispatch to the Times from Allahabad, capital of the northwest provinces of India, says: Serious plague irots took place at Seringapatam, on the island of Cavery, Mysore, on November 18. Ten thou sand natives from the villages round about concentrated at Seringaj atara, and made a desperate effort to enter the forts and rescue the prisoners there. Another mob from the Mysore side tried to rush the bridge. Irr each case the police fired volleys and succeeded in frustrating the attempt. Many per sons were killed or injured. For 36 hours the police were kept under arms. Ultimatel3' troops were dis patched to the scene of the disturbance to be in readiness for any renewal." Freight Locomotive Exploded. Lima, O., Nov. 22. A freight loco motive on the Chicago & Erie exploded near here this morning, killing David Little, the fireman, and piobably fa tally injuring Walter Shirtleff, engi neer; Edward Quiok, conductor, and Frank Smith, brakeman. About 25 cars were wrecked, and the track was blocked. The Hollo Rebellion. London, Nov. 23. The Madrid cor respondent of the Daily Mail says: General Rlos, the Spanish governor of the Viscayas islands, cabled from Iloilo that the rebellion of the native forces in the Spanish military force has been subdued. Ninety-seven rebels were court-martialed, of whom 25 were shot and 69 sentenced to imprisonment for life with haid labpt. The insurrection at Davas, in Minaoua, has been sup- pressed.-according to General Rios, and trani SPAIN IN DOUBT. Is Considering the American Ultimatum Farther Delay Is Impossible. Paris, Nov. 23. The United States peace commissioners have undoubtedly made their final proposition here. When the conference opened this after noon, Judge Day, addressing Senor Montero Rios and his colleagues of the Spanish commission recurred to the protracted negotiations, and reaffirmed the desire of the American commis sioners to reach an amicable conclusion. Then, handling the American presen tation to the interpreter, Judge Day concluded his remarks by saving that the Americans, preferring not to break the armistice or to resume hostilities, had determined to present another and final proposition, which he hoped would lead to a speedy and amicable adjust ment. That portion of the .presentation set ting forth the new proposal, the pro posal that tha United States must have possession of the entire Philippine archipelago, with a tender of $20,000, 000 for a treaty cession of the islands, was then read. Without betraying their mental attitude, the Spanish com missioners suggested an adjournment until next day. The new proposition, with its col laterals, was embodied toward the end of the American memoranda, which filled 30 typewritten sheets. Only this part was read in the joint session, the memorandum then being delivered to the Spaniards for translation by their ' own staff. Spain's proposition to invoke the offices of a third power to construe the words "control, disposition and gov-' ernment of the Philippines" was re- J jected by the American commissioners on the ground that the diction of the third article of the protocol, dealing with the Philippines, is so broad $nd clear as to afford no justification for ar-1 bitration as between the parties to the I agreement. An analysis of the American memo-' randum shows that all other sugges-! tions and other considerations hinge I upon treaty cession at the amount named by the United States, and within two weeks. In the event ol! cession. Spam may enjoy for a term ol : 12 years rights of commerce in the Philippines equal to those of the United States. If the United States acquires the islands by conquest, Spain may not enjoy such rights. Should Spain refuse cession, she would remain liable for indemnity claims, national and individual, since the outbreak of the last Cuban insur-1 rection. Should she refuse, she would also lose, probably, as further indem-1 nity for the expense of conquest, one of the Carolines, which she may now ! sell; and other cable privileges with; Spanish jurisdiction might be taken by i the United States without any return for them. This evening the Spaniards 1 doubtless do not know whether they will accept or reject the American tei ui6. They are telegraphing the sub stance of the American memorandum to Madrid, and they expect a reply at the next meeting. Possibly they may conclude that be cause one money offer is made, another and larger offer may follow pressure upon the American commissioners. But if this be their expectations, it will not be realized. The Americ; terms, submitted almost at the close of the eighth week of patient hearing and painstaking argument, are a practical ultimatum. Surprising Act of Generosity. London, Nov. 23. The morning papers concede the generosity of the offers'of the United States peace com missioners and express the opinion that Spain would be foolish to reject them. They express universal gratification at the announcement of an "open door" policy in the Philippines. The Daily Mail calls the offer oi 5u,uuu,uw as indemnity, a surpris ing act of generosity. HY STONE'S STORY. Explorer Tells a Racy Tale of Fire and Firewater. Vancouver, B. C, Nov. 23. Hy stone, iormeriy united States govern ment explorer in Alaska, met 600 would-be Elondikers returning from the Edmunton route, at the juncture of the Mackenzie and Laird rivers. Those wno returned oy way of .Laird river have reached Vancouver in safety after passing through great peril.-" Stone ac companied them, and it is alleged that on the second night they camped at the toot of a cliff rising 500 feet sheer from me river, .natural gas was escaping from the sides of the cliff. About midnight, so it is stated, the sides of the cliff broke forth in flames, the fire being started by hostile Indians of the Siwash tribes. The natives appeared in war paint, and demanded wnisky, which the prospectors did not have. For three days the demand was repeat ed, when the Indians fired a volley at the whites, which was returned, and the Siwashes fled. Stone says he noti hed the government, but nothing was done. He did not know any of the white men. Monument Unveiled. Shanghai, Nov. 23. Prince Henry monu- of Prussia today unveiled the ment to the officeis and sailors of the German third-class cruiser litis, which was lost in a typhoon on Julv 23. 1896. north of the Shan Tunc promontory. The ceremony was. very impressive. A large force of German sailors and marines were present, with American, British and Austrian sailors. The Shanghai volunteers were also repre- sen ted. Surgeon-General George M. Stern berg has made his report to the secre tary of war. It relates mainly to the work of the medical corps during the war. The surgeon-general says sup plies were short when war began, and that much of the sickness among the troops was caused by dissipation. Fatal Result of a Joke. Marinette, Wis., Nov. 23. As a re sult of 'a practical jeke, William Men rose, a cedar worker," shot his wife and fatally wounded himself. Fellow workmen, for a joke, made him believe that his wife, from whom he had sep arated, was about to wed another man. He secured a revolver, broke into her home and fired twice at her as she was seated sewing. Only one bullet took effect, inflicting a flesh wound. Thinking he had killed her, he turned the revolver on himself, fired, and died a few hours after waiU. FATE OF 1 PHILIPPINES Spain Will Be Notified Plain Language. in THE ULTIMATUM PREPARED Amount Offered for the Islands Will Probably Be Twenty Millions,. Not More The Cuban Question. Paris, Nov. 22. The Spanish peace commissioners have been notified that the United States commissioners will be ready to treat with them in joint session tomorrow afternoon. Unless the Spaniards have an adequate reason fey further delay the two commissions will join in the most important meet ing thus far held. The American commissioners, in a written communication, will declare that the third article of the protocol re garding the Philippines is capable of only one fair construction, that no arbi tration is needed to elucidate its terms, and that the United States cannot ad mit any ether power to figure here purely as a lexicologist. They will maintain that the two commissions are charged to determine whether Spain or the United States shall in the future own the Philippines. This will be accompanied by the clear declaration that the United States will possess the Philippines. Following this declaration, the Amer ican commissioners will lay before the Spaniards two alternatives: First To accept a sum of money from the United States and to cede and evac uate the Philippines. Second To lose the Philippines to I the United StateB by conquest, with I the possibility of other territorial losses, I or indemnify the United.States for the I added expense of conquest. I This communication may not be for mally designated as an ultimatum, but it will lack naught of the conclusive i ness indicated by that word. This I will be so plain that the Spanish oom- missioners will scarcely haggle for . money, on the first alternative, nor cherish any doubt of American action under the second, should the first be I declined. i No one here, except the American commissioners, know how much will be i tendered Spain as the cheapest and most humane way of settling the d'ffl ! oulty. She is exceedingly anxious to escape the Philippine debt, and possi I bly the.snm to be offered maf be deter j mined bv an analysis of the debt, which consists or ?4u,ouu,uou in Donds, on which she realized $36,000,000. Of , the latter amount she is believed to i have expended some $10,000,000 or I $11,000,000 in fighting the United , States and a part in attempting to quell I the Philippine insurgents. A reasona , ble guess at the sum lor the tender would be $20,000,000, although it may fall below that. The Cuban question may come again tomorrow. The American commission had thought the discussion on that point finished but the Spanish commis sioners are reported to have declared last week that the mortagages imposed by Spain on the Cuban as well as on the Philippine revenues must not be impaired or questioned. This would compel the American commissioners soon and probably tomorrow to de mand whether Spain means to repudiate the plain compact of the protocol to relinquish sovereignty over and title to Cuba. Three weeks ago the Spanish commis sioners acoepted the tJuban article in the protocol without conditions save that its embodiment in the treaty should depend on an agreement here on all the articles of . the protocol. Re cently, however, Spain's representa tives have said that the Cuban matter had only been temporarily passed and was still in abeyance. DOING THEIR BEST. Spaniards Will Be Out of Cuba by New Year's Day. Havana, Nov. 22. Captain-General Blanco received from Paris today a oable authorizing him to draw on Paris for $2,000,000 gold, to be applied in the payment of the Spanish troops in Cuba. This amount is in addition to the proceeds of the draft for 425,000 by the Madrid government on London, which was sold here last week. The Spanish authorities are making strenuous efforts to complete the evacu ation by the end of the year. Martinique, has been selected as the place of rendezvous of the Spanish navy for evacuation purposes. The Spanish auxiliary cruisers Patriot;! and Meteoro, purchased in Geimany before the outbreak of hostilities, are expected here on December 15, and will convoy the Spanish boats from Cuban ports to Martinique, where the Rapidio, Ponce de Leon and Concha, from For to Rico, have already assembled, and from which point all will sail for Spain. Tictim of Elevator Fire. Toledo, O., Nov. 22. After two months' of search, and the recovery of 18 dead, Jhe grain handlers at the Union elevator found the body of an unknown man today. His appearance indicated him to be a well-to-do man, and it ia supposed he was visiting the elevator at the time of the explosion. Anti-Cigarette lav. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 22. The anti-cigarette law pasted by the last Tennessee legislature is declared con stitutional in an opinion given to the press today by Judge Caldwell, of the supreme court of the state. The opin ion declares that, cigarettes are not le gitimate articles of commerce, because tbey are wholly noxious and deleteri ous to health, and therefore are not within the provision of the federal con stitution protecting legitimate com merce. A Quarry man's Mistake. Portsmouth, O., Nov. 22. By an accidental explosion today, George Ferguson, a quarryman, is dying, two of his children are dead, and his wife and another child are disfigured for life. Ferguson poured the contents of a can of blasting powder into the cook stove, supposing it to be coal. A Tie Contract. The Northern Pacific Railway Com pany has contracted with W. D.Wright, of Rathdinm, Idaho, for 40,000 ties, which are) to be delivered at the mouth PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 59 60c; Val ley and Bluestem, 63o per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.45; graham, $3; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 3940c; choice gray, 8738c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $21 22; brew ing, $23 per ton. Millstuffs-Bran, $15.50 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50 per ton. Hay Timothy, $910; clover. $7 8. Oregon wild hay, 6$ per ton. Br.ttep Fancy creamery, 5055o; seconds, 4550c; dairy, 3540o store, 30 35c. Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o; Young America, 12o; new cheese, 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $23.50 per dozen; hens, $3.50 4. 50; springs, $1.253; geese, $5.006.00 for old. $4. 50 5 for young; ducks, $4.00 5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12)4 12Jfc'c per pound. Potatoes 50 60c per sack; sweets, 2c per pound. Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage, $11.25 per 100 pounds; cauli flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, 75c per sack; beans, 3c per pound; celery, 70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box; peas,. 33)c per pound. Onions Oregon, 75c$l per sack Hops 1517o; 1897 crop, 46c. Wool Valley, I012c per. pound; Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair, 25c per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 8c; dressed mutton, 7c; spring lambs, 7c per lb. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75; light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed, $5.506.50 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 3.50$3.75; cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed 56c per pound. Veal Large, 56c; small, 74c per pound. beef, Seattle Markets. Tomatoes, 50 85c per box. Cucumbers, 10 15c pei doz. Onions, 8590c per 100 pounds. Potatoes, $10 12. Beets, per saok, $1. Turnips, per sack, 60 65c. Carrots, per sack, 65c. Parsnips, per sack, $1. Beans, green, 23o. Green coin, $1.25 1.50 per sack. Cauliflower, 75c per doz. Celery, 40 50c. Cabbage, native and California $1.00 1.50 per 100 pounds. Apples, 50c6oc per box. Pears, 75c$l per box. Prunes, 50c per box. Peaches, 75c Plums, 50c. Butter Creamery, 27c per pound; dairy and ranch, 1820c per pound. Eggs, 32c. Cheese Native, 1212c. Poultry Old hens, 13c per pound; spring chickens, 15c; turkeys, 16c. Fresh meats Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 67c; cows, prime, 6c; mutton, 7c; pork, 78o; veal, 78o. Wheat Feed wheat, $21. Oats Choice, per tou, $23. Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.50 10; choice Eastern Washington tim othy, $12. Corn Whole, $23.60; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton. $2425; whole, $22. Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.60; straights, $3.25: California brrnds, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham, per barrel, $3.70; whole wheat flour. $3.75; rye flour, $4. Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. xeea unopped teed, $1721 per ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Ban Francisco Market. Wool Spring Nevada, 10 14c per pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val ley, 1517c; Northern, 9llc. Millstuffs Middlings, $1921.00; bran, $15.50 16.50 per ton. Onions Yellow. 3045c per sack. Butter Fancy creamery, 24c; do seconds, 22c23; fancy dairy, 21 22c; do seconds, 20 24c per pound. Eggs Store, 1822c; fancy ranch, 40 42c. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2 2.50; Mexican limes, $66.50; Cali, fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choice $3. 50 4. 50; per box. THE OLD-TIMERS. Elder Abram Perkins of the Shaker settlement, is 91 years old, yet fre quently walks all the way to Concord,1 N. H., a distance of over 20 miles. James A. Davis, who died in Dor chester county, Maryland, last week, steered the first steamer that crossed Lake Erie. Chicago was then, he said, but three brick houses? Mrs. Nancy Carine is dead at Dills boro, Ind., aged 67. For 47 years she had lived less than a mile from a rail road and-within easy sound of the loco motive whistle, but never saw either road, car or engine. Mme. Ristori, otherwise tbe Mar quise Capranica del Grillo, is in her 77tb year, and is lying critically ill at Rome, being thus unable to accept the invitation of the queen of Italy to pass a few days with her at Gressony. Frederick P. Sanguinet, father of 11 children with 26 grandchildren, has just died at his home, 4353 Evans ave nue, St. Louis. His death is the first that has occurred in the family, in cluding three generations, for over'half a century. Tbe Sanguinets have lived in St. Louis all the time. During Mr. Sanguineus 73 years he has not been ill a day, and until three weeks ago, when taken ill with liver trouble, was engaged in active business as a civil engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Spring Haskell have been celebrating the 70th anni versary of their wedding at 31 Lefferts place, Brooklyn. Mr. Haskell is 90 years old, his wife 86. They are both tar from being infirm. Tbe husband uses no glasses; the wjte reads com fortably with them. They talk spirit edly of the old days when Brooklyn was a wilderness, and they are tbe idol of their children, their grandchildren and their great-grand children. Chinese laundrymen of New York have formed a trust, and prices hav? NEWSOFTHE Gold Bearing Rock Crushed on Douglas Island, Alaska, Equal to That of Any Mining District in the World Oregon and Wash ington Lead in the Production of Wool. The Greatest Mines in the World. Cutting Timber on Public Lands. More gold-bearing rock is being The attention of those engaged in crushed on Douglas island, Alaska, mining ia caued t0 the following pro than in an equal area in any other visions of the law pertaining to the cut M?tTy ' he 7 rld; , A I ng of timber on public lands: "No The Treadwell and allied companies persons shall be permitted to fell or re- . oou DlaujlJ8 up ou on .i.i 'I' ...... J ..... 1 T inn . . ii n : 100 on the Union and 120 on the Ready Bullino and the engineers will soon turnover the mills to the companies as completed crush 2,500 . These mills will easily tons of ore a day. I do not believe there is any place in the world, South Africa, Australia, or any where else, where so much rock is be ing crushed on so small a space of ground. The - Treadwell now has 8,- 000,000 tons ol ore in Bight The! Ready Bullion promises to equal the Treadwell in the amount ot its produc tion. All the dirt has been sluiced off I it and it has been traced for 300 feet along the beach and 600 to 700 feet along the hill. It is from 30 to 100 feet wide on the surface, and is in the contact between greenstone and slate, as are all the Douglass island ledges, the ore being of the same character as the Treadwell. The shaft is down 650 feet under Gastineau channel and the ledge has there widened out to over 200 feet and carries from $12 to $14 in gold throughout. The Ebner is erecting a new 20 stamp mill in the gulch leading up to Silver Bow basin, and is about to start a tunnel from that level which will tap its ledge at great depth. Further up the same gulch the Alaska-Juneau Company has 30 stamps at work on the ore ffom a great open quarry of slate full of veins of quartz carying free gold. They simply quarry out. the whole mass, sort out the quartz and send it to the mill and throw the slate over the dump. Berners bay is keeping up its repu tation, the Ophir, Northern Belle, Bald Eagle and Seward all having their mills in operation. Judge Mel len, who represents an Indiana Com pany, and who successfully opened up the Jualin, is now developing the Ivanlioe, over the ridge between the Jualin and the Comet, and has about completed a 20-stamp mill. The Jualin has turned out $10,000 or $12,000 a month since it started. Milo Kelly has some very good claims in the Bern ers bay district, showing free-milling ore, and is working them. Montana creek, which runs into Linn canal be tween Berners bay and Juneau, is com ing to the front. The placers were worked in the early days, and now the Early is working in very rich ore and running a five-stamp mill. The first clean-up was very satisfactory. The Boston & Alaska Company is sinking a shaft on the Funters bay mine. Wool Clip of the Country. The annual estimate of the wool clip of the United States for 1898 made by Secretary North of the National Asso ciation ot Wool Manufacturers, and which is to be published in its No ember bulletin, shows the amount to have been 266,720,684 pounds, against 259,158,251 pounds in 1897. Oregon shows, according to the sta tistics, the largest yield, 21,291,387 pounds of washed and unwashed wool, and, next to Washington, shows the largest per cent in shrinkage in scour ing, or 71 per cent. Montana follows, with 20,935,105 pounds and 62 percent shrinkage; Cal norma, 16, 932, U9B pounds and 66 per oent thrinkage; Texas, 16,880,442 pounds and 70 per cent; Wyoming, 18,626,704 pounds; New Mexico, 12, 838,420; Ohio,. 12,114,958 pounds; Colorado, 9,958,869; and Michigan, 8,856,122 pounds. The amount of pulled wool is estimated at 22,116,371 pounds, making a total of 266,720,684 pounds washed or unwashed, or 111, 661,681 pounds of scoured wool. The aggregrate clip of the six New England states is about 1,745,025 pounds of scoured wool of which Massachusetts furnishes 128,860 pounds. Poor, Old Horses. Running about the street of Skagway are a number of poor, old, stray horses, that have been worked until their backs and shoulders were sore, then turned loose to starve. The more hu mane of the citizens, however, have taken up the matter with a view to raising subscriptions to secure feed and care for the horses. A petition has al ready been started, and it is likely the friend of man will no longer suffer. Threshing Ts Over. Threshing may now be considered over for this year, in all parts of the Inland Empire, the last of the machines having hung up' for the season in the vioinity of Oakesdaleand Farming ton, Wash. The crop was good every where. Pushing: Work of the Yamhill Locks. The contractors have finished the in shore wall of the Yamhill locks, and work has begun on the outer wall. Work is being pushed as rapidly as possible, in order to have it completed before severe winter weather sets in. Successful Clam Cannery. About a year ago the Lomand clam cannery was started at Anacortes, Wash., and the product is now finding a ready market among the jobbing houses. Seventy cases was the output for the last week in October. Waterworks Extension. Bids have been opened by the city council of New Whatcom, Wash., for extending the city water mains a dis tance of 8,600 feet. The extension will be of 24-inch wooden stave pipe. New Mining Town Growing. The town of Keller is growing fa-' and now boasts of a restaurant, lodging-houses, three general st feed stable, butcher and blacksmu.. shop. Forty cabins are in process of construction. sWie mines in the vicin ity produce copper, silver and lead. Bank Dividend. The comptroller of the ourrency has declared a second dividend of 10 per oent in favor of the creditors of the Ta ooma National bank, making in all 20 yer cent on claims proved amounting to W,6 PACIFIC CGAST move any growing tree of I - o anv kind whatsoever less than eight inches in diameter. This will not be regarded as annlicHhle tn hlnnlr nr 'Imlno nina Trnwin In 0t0 hnhM .i : 6ral lands. Persons felling or removing timhnr fmm r,v,i; ij the United States must utilize all of each tree cut that can profitably be used, and must cut and remove the top and brush and dispose of the same in such manner as to prevent the spread of forest fires." The penalty for such vio lation is in a sum not exceeding $500, or imprisonment not exceeding 60 days, or both. November Shipping. R. P. Rithet & Co. have the follow ing to say regarding shippinsg business in their monthly circular for November. "The past three weeks have brought about a very decided chance for the better in grain freights, although there has been comparatively nothing doing from San Francisco. The bulk of the season's shipments will undoubtedly be made from Oregon, and it appears likely th,at Washington will come next, the yield of California grain being small in consequence of the drought. Tha increased activity has tended to harden freights, but on the whole changes during the month have been unimportant and the demand scarcely as great as previously. New California Industry. Bakersfield is not distinguished'as being the only place in America where Fuller's earth is reduced from the law material to a merchantable article. An unlimited deposit was found on Poso creek and a mill for grinding and bolting the earth has been erected and is now running. The process of reduc tion consists of running the lumps of clay, the size of hickory nuts, through the hopper and bolter, whioh turn it out in the form of fine flour. The man ufacture of this earth on the coast will result in a great saving to the cloth mills. New Steamer I, ine on the Pacific. Direct communication between South American markets and San Francisco will soon be established by one of the largest French steamship companies. Ihe Chargeurs Reunis will start a monthly service .nextJfjiruJjJjBtween. San Francisco and Liverpool, which will make stoppages at Mazatlan, Aca pulco, Guayaquil, Callao, Peru; Val paraiso, Chile, Monteviedo, Uruguay; Santos, Brazil; Liverpool, Havre and possibly a Belgian port. The company has been organized and operated since 1872, and is now having constructed three 6,000-tons additional steamers for the aPcifio trade. Millers' War on the Sound. The grocers in Seattle and Taooma are making a run on flour, tsrfcing ad vantage of the rivalry between Tacoma and Seattle mill men. The conditions are peculiar. The Washington wheat grower wants 50-cent wheat, while the miller is only getting $8.40 for his ground product. To grind wheat that costs 50 cents, add the freight, and then sell it at $3.40 means something of a loss. Another Beet-Sngar Project. A party owning 12,000 acres of suit able land for sugar-beet raising neai Idaho Falls, Idaho, has returned to that place from a visit to the beet sugar factories in the United States and Ger many. Ihe soil and climate being suited to the cultivation of beets, Chi cago oapital thinks favorably of estab lishing a sugar factory at Idaho Falls. Good Market for Potatoes. The yield of potatoes in the Spokane country this year was less than half the amount of last fall, owing to the hot weather experienced last summer. The price there is from 85 to 90 cents, while on the coast potatoes are sell ing at 65 cents. The Oregon crop is said to be good this year and the price is expected to to reach $1.50 by next spring. Woolen Mills Improvement. It is stated that a large manufactur ing establishment for making wearing apparel will be added to The Dalles. Or., Woolen Mill Company's plant. A new iron and brick picking-room is be ing built, and a scheme for electric lighting is being planned. New Broom Factory Started. Another factory has been added to the smokestack town of Everett, Wash. The first lot of brooms were turned out last week from the Everett broom fac tory, owped by Fiederiek Hallin. The brooms are meeting with great favor with the retailers. The market for horses and mules is again on the rise. A California buyer was in Morrow county recently looking for draught animals, and offering good prices for such as suited him. Blue grouse are reported as becoming very scarce in the mountains, one theorist explaining the fact as the out come of the introduction of the thous ands of sheep into the breeding grounds of tbe birds. The sheep are said to trample upon the eggs and young birds. k ' Congressman Thomas H. Tongue will have the appointment of a cadet to the West Point military academy next spring, and announces that examina tions will be had at Vanoouver barracks the first Monday of March. The new aD-American route into the Klondike by. Cook's inlet and Cop- ner river is attracting considerable at ention. It is believed it will be the popular route into the Yukon next spring. More will be learned about it when the government survey parties make their report. Without reference to tbe date of location, application for United States patent to a mining claim may be mads whenever the applicant can file with the register of the land office the certificate-of United States surveyor that labor or improvement to the amount of