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FRIDAY, OCTOnKR 2.1, 1908, TIIK MOKMNG AJTOif 1AK; ASTOiUA, OREGON. n ft M i The Daily Market Reporl "Gradually the East in awakening to the (act that the hup market this year ii quite different from that of a year ago," said a local dealer today, f The brewing Interest are" not yet placing order in a free way, and many of them are atill disposed to wait until after election before com mitting themselves, yet the past 10 days have witnessed a considerable revival of interest on the part of the East." WHOLESALE PRICES. Grain, Flour, Hay, Etc. Wheat-Track prices: Club, 8ik; blucHtcm, 93c; turkey red, 90c; red Russian, 86c; Valley, 91c. : ' i.: Flour Patents, $4.80; straights, 3.954.20; export!, $3.70; Valley, $4.45;- l-sack' graham, $4.40; whole wheat, $4,65; rye, $5.50, ' Barley-Feed, $2H; rolled, $27.50 28.50; brewing, $27.00. f Oati-Nof 1 white, $31.00; gray, $30,00. - , t ' 'y MilIitunV-Brs, ?2S.50; middlings, $33.00; shorts, country, $31.00; shorts, city, $30,00; chop,' $22.00. n Hay Track prices: Timothy Wil lamette Valley, fancy, $14.50; do, or dinary, $11.00; Eastern Oregon, mix ed, $15.50; fancy, $17.00; alfalfa, $11.50. Butter, Eggs and Poultry. Butter Extras, 3536c; fancy, 33c; choice, 30c; store, 18c. - Cheese Full cream twins, 15c; full cream triplets, 15c; Voting America, 16c; cream brick, 20c; Swiss blocks, 18cj Limburger, 20c, ;,; Poultry Mixed chickens, 10c 11c; fancy hens, 22c, roosters, old 8c, broilers and fryers, 12(3 12 ic; .dressed poultry, , 1c pound higher; ducks, 1214c; geese, 8&10c; tur keys, 14c. , , Eggs Extra Orrgc-ns, 37Jc; East ern, 2ft5J32c. I' Meats and Provisions. Hama-10-12 lbs., 16c; 1416 lbs., I5ic; 18-20 lbs., 15c. . t. Dressed Meats Hogs, fancy, 7Jc, ordinary 67c, large 5c; veal, extra 81c, ordinary kf7c, heavy 5c; mute ton, fancy 8&9e. J Bacon Breakfast 1722c, picnics 10c, cottage roll Ulc; regular short clears, smoked 12c, do unsmoked He; clear bellies, unsmoked 14c, do smok ed, lie; (iliouldersllle, V - Lard Kettle leaf, 10s, 14c; do 5s, 14ic; do 50-lb. tins, 131c; steam ren dered, 10s, 13c; do 5s, 131c; com-, pound, 10s, 8!c. Fruita and Vegetables. Potatoes Buying prices, 7085c per hundred; sweets, 2c per pound. Onions Buying prices, 90c($l per hundred; garlic, 12(2 15c per pound. Apples Best Oregon, $125(21.50; common, 75c(a$l box. Fresh Fruits Oranges, $3.75(2 4.50; lemons, $3.50(35.00; peaches, 25 60c per box; plums, 2540c per crate; watermelons, fc pound; grapes 50c1.25 per crate'; pears, 75c$$1.50 per box; quinces,, 75c(g:$l per box, Vegetables Turnips, . $1.25 .. per sack; beets, $1.75; parsnips, $1.25; cabbage, $1.752.00; head lettuce, 20 25c;, cucumbers, 25c. dozen; celery, 75c dozen; artichokes, 65c dozen; beans, 10c lb.; eggplant, $1.50 per crate; tomatoes, 4Q(g60c per crate; squash, 1 cent per pound; peppers, $1.75 per box. filberts, 1 ; Brazils, 16c; pecans, 14 20c; hickory, 10c; Virginia row pea nuts, 8 cents; chestnuts, Ita! ian 10c, Ohio 25c; cocoanuts, dozen, 90c(S$lj pine nuts, Jtif 212c pound Dried Fruits -A .plies, 81c per lb; peaches, 10t2c; pears, lll14c; Italian prunes, 56c; California figs, white, in lacks, 7k per pound; black, 6(7c; bricks, 7Sc2,25 per box; Smyrna, 16(17lc per pound; dates, Persian, (7c pound. . .... Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc. , JUips New Oregon, 7&8c pound; 1907, 214c; 1906, Wool-Valley, 143151c lb.; coarse, 125 13c; Eastern Oregon, 8(2 16c, as to shrinkage. ' Mohair Choice, 18(19c pound. Caseara Sagrada (chtttitm bark) 4c5Jc per pound. Oregon Craperoot Per 100 pounds $3(S5. ' Hides-Dry hides, No. 1, 14tc lb; dry kip, No. 1, 131c; dry salted, one third less; dry calf, 151c lb. salted teen, 728c lb.; salted cows, 6ic lb.; stags and bulls, 4c lb.; kip, 61c lb; calf, 10(31 1c lb; green atock, le less; sheepskins; shearlings, 1025c; short wool, 3040c; medium and long wool, according to quality, ,5G90c; dry horses, 50cu$1.50j dry colt, 25c; angora, 80c$l; g6at, common, 10 Oysters, Clams and Fish. Oysters Shoalwater Bay, per gal lon, $2.25; per sack, $4.50; Toke Point, $1.60 per 100; Olympiaa (120 lbs.), $6; Olympiaa, per gallon, $125, Fish-Halibut, 7c lb.; black cod, 7( 8c; black bass, 20c; bass, 18c; herring, 51c; flounders, 6c; catfish, 11c; shrimp, 121c; perch, 7c; sturgeon, 121c; sea trout, 15c; torn cod, 10c; sal mon, fresh, 67c. . ...... Canned Salmon coiumma River, 1 pound tails,. $2.10; 2-lb. tails, $3.00; fancy, Mb. flats, $225; i-lb, flats, $1.40; fancy, 1-lb, ovals, $175; Alaska tails, pink, 9SO redi $1.40; nominal, 2s. tails, $2.10. Clams Little neck, per box, $2.50; rasor clams. $2 per box. Oils, Lead, Etc Benzine V. M. and P. and Union Naptba,,, cases, 20k; iron barrels, i3ic. : - . i Linseed Oil Raw, 5-banrel lots, 54c; 1-barrcl lots, 55c; in case, 61c; boiled, 5-banrel lots, 56c; 1-barrel lots, S7c; in cases, 63c. Gasoline Union and Red Crown, bbls., 151c; cases, 221c. Motor, bbls., 161c; cases, 231c. 86 degrees, bbls., 30c; cases, 371c Engine Distillate, bbls, 9c; cases, 16c WASIIIIiGROfi LETTER COMES HOME TO VOTE. Josiah West, Now in New , "Will be Her in Time. York JOBBERS' QUOTATIONS. .. j . ; 1. I Sugar, Coffee, Etc Sugar (sack basis) D. G, $6.05; beet, $5.85j Golden C, $5.45; extra C, $5.55; powdered, $6.15; fruit or berry sugar, $6.05; boxes, 55c cwt advance over sack basis (less l-4c if paid for in 15 days). Turpentine In cases, 63c; in wood barrels, 611c; in iron barrels, 591c; in 10-case lots, 62c. , Lead Strictly pure white lead, in ton lots, 71c; 500-lb. lots, 8c less; less than 500c lbs, 81c; red lead and lith arge, ie higher than white. ; Rice Imperial Japan, No. 1, $6.35; Southern Japan, $5.75(36; broken, 41c head; fancy, $77.75. Coffee Mocha, 2428c; Java, fancy 2528c; Java, good, 2024c; Java, I .ordinary, 1720c; Costa Rica, fancy, The following is the text of a press telegram from Riverhead, L. I, New York, which will greatly inter est Clatsopians; "Josiah West is going West to vote and -will travel 6000 miles to vote for William II. Taft for Presi dent. He left Riverhead today for his home in Clatsop county, Oregon, and to reach there will necessitate a journey of about 3000 miles and he is only 77 years old, at that. . Mr. West owns a ranch of 1400 acres in Oregon, with a mile front age on the Pacific Ocean. He is as spry as a cricket, well read and a most . interesting conversationalist. He' has been here visiting his neph ew, Judge Stackpole. With him was his youngest daughter, Miss Violet West, who h returning with him. Having lived next ; to nature for the most, part of his life, it is not strange that Mr. West . should have selected botanical names for his girls. There are Pansy, Rose, Daisy, Heliotrope, Violet,, and those people who met Miss Violet declare that she is as modest and sweet as her name suggests. COMSTOCK VERY ILL. I" 18S23c; Costa Rica, good, 1618c; ArbvcLIe, iltlQ cwt ; ' Lion, $15.75 cwt.; Colombia ccSee, ,14c. lb.;. Sal vador, lllSl-Jjc V Si-r.e'- bl 75 2s, bale, $2.25; Uts cf 60 3s, tale, $2.23; bales of 43 4a, tale, $12:; bales of 15-10s, talc, '$221', tags, 50s, fine, ton; $15; bags 5;; getuins Liverpool ton, $17; baps, -Cjc, 1-grcand $13.50; 100s, ton, $13.00; R. S. V.T,' 20 5-lbvcartons, $2.25; R. S. V. P, 3-lb. cartons. $1.75; Liverpool, lump, per ton, $20, Raisins Loose muscatels, ,1-cnwn, 7 cents; 4-crown, ' 71c; bleached, seedless Sultanas, : 9k(3!12c; un bleached, seedless Sultanas,. 61 cents; London layers, 3-crown, whole bbxas of 20 i ounds, $2.00; 2-crown, $1.75, . Nuts Walnuts, 1517c pound; NEW YORK, Oct. 22,-Anthony Cofnstock, president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, is reported as very ill at his home here, and it is thought not un likely that an operation will be found necessary. A consultation of physi cians will be" held today to decide whether an operation is necessary. Mr, Comstock is suffering from gall stones, For Chronic Diarrhoea. "While in the army in 1863 I was taken with chronic diarrhoea," says George M.TFelton of South Gibson, Pa, "I have since tried many reme dies but without any permanent re lief until Mr. A. W. Miles of this place persuaded me to try Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, one bottle of which stopped it at once." For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. , Subscribe to The Morning Asttfrian WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. -President Roosevelt's mail is stacked high these days with letters concerning the Commission on Country Life, which he recently created, and the number of communications on the subject is 'growing greater daily. A rather strange feature of this corres pondence, considering the far-reaching significance of the Commission, is that so far it has contained bo word of adverse comment from any quarter. The suggestions are all con structive, and many of them ''"will prove of great help to the Commis sion when it formulates its plans of campaign, ; Many of the letters to the Presi dent are from men whose names are known everywhere, but the bulk of them are from the men who are most vitally interested the farmers them selves. The general -tenor of the farmers' letters shows that not only arc they deeply concerned in the work of the Commission, but ; that they have clear-headed ideas of the President's purpose in starting the inquiry and of what the outcome mav be. The writers set down to the business and set forth their ideas with a hard headed logic and clear ness of statement that makes it seem little doubtful if the belief of some persons that rural schools ought to be improved is well-founded. The farmers themselves, however, agree that the educational facilities in the country districts ought to be made over so as to fit country conditions and needs more closely. A number of writers urge the need of introduc in some sort of elementary agricul tur into the schools. Not' all are of this opinion, however. Some main tain that there is a danger of trying to make agricultural instruction too academic. Xhe one point' in which all the farmers without exception agree with the President is that the greatest trouble with" "agricultural life is its isolation. The remedy for this that is most frequently proposed is, bet ter roads. Another solution that is advocated by a large .proportion of the writers is that a means be sought to prevent the holding of large farms by persons or corporations who do net work them themselves. The ar gument ii advanced that such action would attract settlers to the country and that the wide spaces between farms would be "broken up, and that further if the big tracts which are now worked by absentee owners or held for speculation ' were split up among independent owners, there would be greater opportunity for small farmers to come in and gain profitable livelihoods. 'Anumber of the President's cor- ' respondents urge a revival in some sort of the old lyceum which provid ed a social center for rural communi ties. Several writers tell of excellent results that have been obtained in their own neighborhoods by liter ary societies not so much in their educational capacity as in providing a community bond. Many suggestions are made con cerning the postofFice service. All these letters are being filed nd the gist of their contents will be brought before the Commission for its consideration. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-An In diana farmhand has written a letter to President Roosevelt about the work which the Country Life Com mission is carrying on. The Presi dent has turned the letter over to the Country Life Commission and the Commission has asked the farm hand to write some more. , "I have been a farmhand just long enough,", says the President's corre spondent, "to learn the cause of so many sons and daughters and well meaning, reliable farmhands leaving the beautiful farm and country and going to the city. A lack of order and system on the farm and too long hours for a day is what is driving the best minds from the farm to the city and shop. What can we expect of a hand, or the farmer's wife and her posterity, in the way of intellec tual development when they get out of their beds at 3:30 in the morning and work from that time until 8 or 9 P. M.? And no attention paid to the sanitary conditions of the home, and necessary conveniences on the farm?; ,', . ...;,-.- . ,. ... .' . ; This man has given the Country farm work.witn the least labor and Life Commission some very interest ing tirst-hand information about ru ral conditions and recommendations based on a lontr excellence in farm work and farm life. He has worked for all kinds of farmers," good and bad, he says, and he has always had his eyes open to detect the causes of their success of failure.; He has drawn his own conclusions and sets them forth in down-right, straight forward fashion. Education pays in farming, he says. The farmer who plans out his work and carries it through in a systematic, business-like manner, just as the city man does, will be able to shorten the hours of labor. "So many farmers measure everything on the farm from the standpoint of musefc," he continues, "and are extreme in some things and slack in others. I decided several years ago that life is too short to work for Peter Tumbledown far mers." "Nowf Mr. President," he writes, "you can take this for what it is worth, I have not given you half of my experience." The Country Life Commission has written him that his suggestions arc so useful that they hope he will send more. r v ' ; "Compel the farmer to be a busi ness man," he says "Go info the homes of some of the farmer and the so-called farmers and ascertain how they live, and learn of their me thods of doing the business in which they are engaged. And you will be surprised what a variety you will find. Ascertain what they read, and what stress they put on the literature that comes into their homes (if any comes) bearing on. the business they are engaged in. ec what per cent they study their business. uive me tne eoucated farmer as a boss and the educated farmhand as a hand. When I come in contact with a hand or farmer that studies his business I find his advancing, and it is a pleasure to work for such men' The, majority of the farmers are eight-hour men, that is, eight hours in the forenoon and eight in the af ternoon. Eigt or ten hours on the farm cannot well be adapted in all cases, but it need not be from, four teen to sixteen hours. If the family arises every morning at 5 o'clock and the wife and daughters attend to the household duties, and . the farmhands and sons attend to the chores and go to the field at 7 o' clock and work until 11 or 11:30 and go to the field again at 1 and keep at it until 6 o'clock, and go to the house and eat the supper and then do the evening chores, they have done a far day's work. Regular hours for work, and regular hours for sleep, and regular hours for rest and rec reation, with plenty of standard pa: pers and books, including the best agriculturaf papers ana books, and full faith in God, and good grub is wanted. ' ' , ;.'! T "The family should rise at 5; o1 clock on Sunday morning as well as on. week days, and do the necessary Sunday morning chores, and then go to church and show the business men in the city that Sunday on the farm does not consist in changing the stock from one field to another, or salting it, or unloading a load of hay that was brught in on Saturday ev enng. "Coming to the meals at the meal hour makes it easy on the wife so she can arrange her household duties in order, as can also the husband his farm work. ... "Men of worth and standing in the shop and city tell me that if order and system were used on the farm they would go back to the farm. If the farmer wants to keep his sons and daughters on the farm he must not lengthen the hours for a day's work at both ends. Limit the hours of work on the farm to twelve "or thirteen with pay for overtime, and freedom to the hired man on Sun day .' ; .;';.- (. ; The Country Life Commission wel comes letters like this, because as Professor L. H. Bailey, Chairman of the Commission, recently pointed out, one of the objects of the inves tigations of the Commission will be to obtain, as fully as possible, the opinions of both farmers and of their hands concerning ' the question of farm labor and the condition of hired help. It is likely that when the Country Life Commission reaches Indiana in the tour of the country which it will make early next month it will endeavor to get into personal touch with this letter writer. THE CHICAGO VAY. Harrlman Still After A Key Fran- tjchise In That City. CHICAGO, OcL.22.-Tbe council committee on streets and alleys south yesterday "turned down" , its own sub committee appointed to con sider the Kensington and Eastern Railway franchise. In the face of an extensive and carefully drawn report referring the matter ta the local transportation company, it ordered the sub-commit tee fo begin summ and draft ai r- fi nance. The tiTcct of tlJs com,-,"';, in action was to encourage the Ma that the Illinois Central Road might gi what it wants after alt A motion t file the sub-committee report, which would have the effect of agaia bring ing the ordinance before the com mittee as a whole, also was defeated. The report which was "turnei down" by the committee explains al length the relations between the Illi nois Central and the Kensington & Eastern, showig the vast' advatagta to be derived by the, former road hf the passage of the ordinance. Free Speech In England. . rrofessor Masrcrman, lecturing at Cambridge on modern England and the liberty of the subject, said there was enough treason spoken in Hyde park. London, on Sunday afternoons to fill a German fortress. Instead, the orators went home ta tea. It Is a re markable fact, however, added the lec turer, that there Is no state In Europe where attat'ks on the sovereign are so rare or so atrougly resented by the neonle at 'largo. London Graphhj. FREE TRIAL-AN ELECTRIC IRON Saves backs, footsteps, blistered fingers, and faces foci and tempers. ..- . J, Ut,V. ''.' ii ' ' " 1 " 1 . ' 1 i1t. 1 . j "r 'jtiTs You feel no electricity attach to any descent socket low espensc would prise you let us explain to YOU. ASTORIA ELECTRIC CO. in can sur- NOTICE L.3 ' Jr ,,tl -. " " " ' 1 ' ' " " The agency .of ..the. San Francisco , Examiner, is 1 now located at Whitman's Book Store. Price 75c per month delivered. Subscribers .loot getting . papers regularly notify us at once and , agent jwili !call. Quick delivery guaranteed. jST.OPE 1 II !! in ii liiL 1 IililL ilM Only All Rail Route to Portland and all Eastern Pu'sts. Two daily trains. Steamship tickets via all Oceaa Lines at Lowest Rates. For rates, steamship and sleeping-car reservations, call on or address . - Q. B. JOHNSON ; Gen'l Agent . 12th St, near Commercial St I , ASTORIA, OREGON. FINANCIAL. Fi rst natiohol B arile of flsto rin DIRECTORS Jacob Kaum W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavi J. W. Ladd S.S.Gordon Capital . . . . . . . ........ .$100,000 Surplus . 25,000 Stockholders' liability .; , . . .... ... ...... ..100,000" ESTABLISHED 18l, J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President J. V. GARNER, Assistant Cashier FRANK PATTON, Cashier ' ? Fifty Years a Blacksmith. : Samuel R. Worley of Hixburg, Va., has been shoeing horses for more than SO years. - He says; "Chamber lain's Pain-Balm has given me great relief 'from lame back and rheuma tism. It is the best liniment I ever used." For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - ; .$232.C:3 Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Depox a lour Per Cent. 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