FRIDAY, OCTOnKR 2.1,
1908,
TIIK MOKMNG AJTOif 1AK; ASTOiUA, OREGON.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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