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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON -SUNDAY 'JOURNAL,4 PORTLAND,' SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1801 ' 13 T"JJ Onion Market Is lower 3e-. 11. : 'ini nri IT rim n nii n f iiiAni T L The Dairy Industry Kcccivcs cause the New Crop KoTe-- ' -esf.Cfarftef ffeve'mr filf I f Hf fIlf Ifl Ifff J AS I mil IK t 11 Vtlthth a Biff Boost Because of the Eastern Stock Also MoTing. ira " . IIW Iff v I I iuMHi M vlfl w llVIII-a lUgh Price of Butter Here, ( ' 1 ' ILl " 1 1 111 WREAK LOWER LEVELS .Price Goes to 20c With Some r Offering Supplies Still $ Cheaper. '.' By Hyman II. Cohen. 1 Unless condition "unforeseen at th moment present themIve. the local gg market will continue on Ha down course daring the coming six days. " Market price are not a matter of aen tlment among receiver! at thla time but of aupply and demand. Every ef tort was made by the commission trade during the past week to hold prices as feign as possible. Receipts began to ac cumulate, and thla resulted In values Haiti,, nut from dav to day. 1 Yesterday the market reached toe, With one or two dealers offering to dose) eut their surplus at lie, so sure were that even lower price would be the outcome of Inoreaaed arrivals during jfethe coming six days. v At tnis time 01 in year is usum for the local egg market to drop. All outside market report the same oondl- lions, ana acn seciion im I forced to take car of It own ouraena una or mi ifliium di ma urrHiii iv- uatlon In egg la that supplies of ast ern stock are wen nigh exnausiea. Poultry 1 a Bull restore, Ther we not much to the poultry market during the past week. Receipts as a rule were quite fair, but the high prices caused the retail trade to buy sparingly. Chicken have been so high all alone that retallera to save tneir trade were forced to buy eastern storage tnclr for the nubile would not Day me price demanded for fresh killed birds. . While arrival were cleaned up at the Close of the week. It would not have taken much to force a lower range or values. Th trade la not disposed to pay outrageous prices all the year for poultry, and th higher the quotations are boosted the more eastern stock 1 consumed. During the week there was quit a good demand at good prices for broilers and fryers, but for ducks and gees there was but little call. Turkeys sold at all sorts of prices mostly low, and ven at depressed values it was hard to dispose of anything but well finished birds. SHARP 1X388 IX WHEAT. Market Prop 2c a Bushel With Still Lower Price in Europe. Wheat Is down Ic a bushel In th northwest markets for tho past week The decline Is due entirely to the un favorable conditions which have o late been ruling abroad. The fact that IJverrmol and other European markets have shown heavy declines during the paat few weeks did not seriously cut any consideration in mis marnei until this week. Portland wheat market val .lies have been held up to th top notoh all durln the Dresent season. Compe tition with northern buyers h a s re sulted In a complete victory for the Portland territory buyers. Thus far during the season their quotations have been generally lc a bushel higher than those maintained elsewhere In the northwest.' and sometimes as high us 28c a bushel sddltional was paid. I riou Drop Take Effect. The sharp decline of 20c a barrel in export grades and 16c on patents took ffect In the flour market' the first tof the week. Followlug the lower (values there were sales of some 60.000 barrels to the orient, most of it beinc do Vladivostok. This is the first spell kt good buying reported In the export jflour market during the present sea Son. In fact since the buying of the arly week, millers report no additional (transactions. It seems that the needs tof th oriental market are well sup- tolled with flour by Japan. ; There still remains a Brest shortage in mill feeds because of the lack of brlental flour trad. Price ar being knalntalned at the top. Hay market 1 sorter out quotation fere snowing out nttie cnange. Home vuycrs have cut their quotations about 11 a ton, dui ine general price is unchanged. SOME HOPS ARE SOLD. Fair Volume of Business Reported In This Market During Week. During the past week there waa a rale volume of sale In the hoo mar- fleet. There was a demand from Eur ope for a few fine lots but the princi pal trade was for cheap quality and heap price from this country. Th fact that the hop organization is lalna- deRarted on all aide has Riven Oh, finishing touch to an already demor Irmed condition. Dealers are no long- In r afraid of union organisers ror tney feay that the growers will never agree 10 eomoine ana save tnemseives irom feeing bumped by the organised buyers. SOME POTATOES MOVING. V, . 11.(0:1 tt.so plg ittc Forty-cent Market Causes Few More Cars to Go to Southwest. No that notatoes are down to 40c tier hundred pound at country shipping points some very fair business is re ported with Southern California and Arizona, with some sales to TexM points. The Supplies in Oregon are still hut slightly scratchedr end unless the movement beoome much heavier soon k great many cars will go to waste for ne want oi a uuyer. niirina- the week there was a falr- Llxprf demand for early rose for seed. find prices ruled at various figures ac- ording to section sent io. valley. 14.46; graham, whole wheat. $4.76; ry. Ralata 4 MILL BTUTTS Nominal Bran, 131 01 toa: middling. $lailj snorts, country. 117: city, tit: chop, izitfit. HAY Producer' prlc rimotny, Omiamott valltv fancy 111: ordin ary tit. KA All: aaatern Oregon. I11A IT; mixed, fl091.60; clover, flOtfli; grain. (); cnoat, t auaua, a.ir 12.60. ' Butter, fcggs and Fotatry. BUTTER FAT F. o. b. Portland. rm, I So; sour, J to. BUTTER Extra fancy frh cream ery, I'Hc: fancy, 16Vtho; cnoic. o ordinary, szfto; Deal siorag. t n v tcunit a-rada. IRo: store. 20a a Dound. EU3S Extra fancy, candled. 10 20c: aaatarn atoraaa. 15a dosen. CHlkJUlBr New Kuil tim, flats. 16 Ho pr lb; Toung Americana, llo per Ih. POULTRT Mixed chicken. It HO IS ih. rnn. in riMiatara. old, 10c; fryer. 160 lb; broilers, la per lb; ducks. ); geese, old, tQo Ser lb; turkeys, alive, jjc per to ressed. 15tlSo lb; squab. 12.60 doien liieona. II. Kt do.: Orerf oouitry. itf o per lo higher; wua gee, i ) aoa. Bop. Wool aad Sid.. HOPS 1107 crop, first prim, to; orim. IKe: madluin to prim. ic: medium. 4um lb; ivtfS crop, 102a lb; contrscia, los, t J. wuuLr lT cup vany, iiqiio; as tarn Oregon. UHQlio. MOHAIR 28 O SI Ue. HIDtU Dry taldea, HOlte lb: green. 4r6o: calves, green. SOToi klpa, Ic lb: bull, green salt, lOto lb BHEEPSK1N8 Shearing. -IoOIOo achj abort wool. I6c4c; meal Mm. wood. lOcOH sch; long wooL 76cti ll.tl each. TAL1XW Prim, per it. acf4c; No. I and grease, ZOIHO. CHITT1M BARK ee. Fralta and Tegetable. POTATOES Select. 700 76c, sell Ing; uuylna-. Willamette valley, 40o; eastern Multnomah and Clackamas, 46 v 60o per cwt: sweets. SHc. ONIONS Jobbing price, 12.60(92.76; buying, spot U.uU2 ii; garlic, 7c 10. APPlbb Heieci. :.uu, rancy fl.t&; ol, tl.26tfl.60: ordinary, 0c1.00. FRESH FRUITS Lranaaa. new. 11.00 ons, nf60 box; grapefruit, $3.60 box; pineapples. 14 06.60 dosen: Dears, fan cy, 11.6041.76; oidinary. $1 a box; tan gerines, 1.76 a box; Jap oranges, 40 4 46o a box; persimmons, 11.71. VEGETABLES Turnips, new. 60 O lOo, sack; carrots, 60o per sack; beets, (6 076c per sack; parsnips, X6c uf II ; cab bage, Sl.26irl.60; tomatoes, Mexican. I3.26O3.50: Florida. 16.25: beana. 16c; cauliflower, California, 11.1041 1.20 dox., local, 76c & 11; peas, 14c, horseradish, 6c lb; artichokes. 16c0Sl.oO doxen; green onions, 16u doxen; peppers, 26c; hot house lettuce. Sl.26ftl.60 box; head let tuce. 96c dozen; cucumbers, hothouse, 11.26 dozen; radishes, 25c dozen bunch es; eggplant, 20c lb; celery, S3. 75 u 4.25 crate, cranberries, eastern. S9.00(r iu.50: sprouts, 8cijigHu Per lb; asparagus. 40c lb; spinach, 31.25 box; green onions, 40c dozen bunches. Groceries, JTuts. Eta. SUGAR California and Hawaiian Cube, 36; powdered, 15.86; berry, 35.66; dry granuluted, $5.65; XXX gran ulated, 35.40; conf. A., 36.65; extra 11., $5.15; golden G., $5.05; D. yellow, $4.96; beet granulated, $5.46; bar rels, 16c; half barrels, 30c; boxes, 66o advance on sack nasi (Above prices are 30 daya net cash Quotations.; HONKY 33.60 per crate. COFFEE Packaze u rands. $15,860 16.68. SALT Coarse Half ground. 100s, $12.60 per ton; 60s, $14.00; table, dairy 60s. $19.00: 100. $18.75, bale. $1.60; Imported Liverpool, 60a, $2u.0: 100a 119.00: 4s. 18.00: extra line warrels. 2a ts and 10S, $4.506.60; 14verpool lumy tock, $20.60 per to; 60-lb rock. $11.60; 100a, $13.00. (Above prices apply to sales of less than car lot. Car lot at special price CALIFORNIA TENDERS LEMON TO OREGON, ONION GROWERS Those Interested in bringing eastern onions to the Pacific coast market are among those clamoring for the Oregon producer to hold back his supplies. They sre dallv receiving ahlnmenta at eantern stock In California and If they can keep I the Oregons from, coming In that direc tion they will be able to put the price In th scuth almost where they please. This Sort of lemon is annually tendered the Oregon producer by southern buy ers in en way or other. PORTLAND BUTTER MARKET REACHED VERY HIGH FIGURES subject to fluctuation) RICK Ir 3. 6Htf6Vc; New Orleans. FRONT STREET REVIEWS. of llrief Notes of Various Lines Trade in tlie Produce District. Dressed meats of all kinds were short t demand during- the week, with prices L-orrcspondlngly high. f Local cabbage supplie are getting hhort and some dealers are bringing htoclc from tne soutn. itigner prices. oo. . Tomatoes from Mexico are In larger bupply. Price holds high. I Apple demand I Increasing, with sales he largest or tne present season. -rices nactive, however. Orange supplies are much heavier, but Ivlth th better quality demand is ltb- ral. Stock too pionurui to neip me rice. Lettuce supplies from local hothouses re very liberal, but demand Is growing nd prices rule steady between $1,25 0 .50 a oox. . Rnrinr vegetables are cominsr to mar ket from local points, and are finding f Celery market Is hlarher. because of hamag to the cror in California. Small er supplies here. i i Tne rouowing prices are mose oo talned by Front street.. . Prices paid ihlppers ar less regular commissions: rain, Flonr and FeeC GRAIN BAGS Calcutta. c; large lot: small lots, IHo. -WHEAT Track price Club, 80, ed Russian, 78o; Diuestera, tzc; vai y. 80o. COPN Whol. $t; cracked, $38 ton. BARLET New Feed. $26 per torn tailed 32ll brewing, ti9. iia e.otr per ewt, OATS--New Producer1 crlee No. whit $17 per ton; fray, $21 0 26. bo. -FLOUR-r- EasUrn Oregon patent, .; straight, $UI; exports, 13.70; mperlal Japan, No. 1, So; No. ic: New Orleans, head. Ic; A lax. 6c: Creole. 6 4tc. IiEANS Small white. $4.25; large white. $4.10; pink. 34.10; bayou, 33.90; LI in as. 36.60; Mexican reds. 4 He. NUTS Peanuts, Jumbo. 7e per lb; VlrEinia. 6c per lb; roasted, 9c per lb; Japanese. 6 6 Vic; roasted, 8 He per lb; walnuts, callloruia, loc per io; fin nut. 16c per lb; hickory nut, Oo Der lb: brasli nuts. 16o Der ib; fil berts, 15c per lb; fancy pecan. 1620o per In: simono. loc. Meat. Fiih and Provision. DRLSSED llEATts Front street- Hogs, fancy, 7 He lb; ordinary, 7c; large, IVstf 'c lb; veal, extra, avt lOc; ?er lb; ordinary, 9c per lo; heavy, ybc per lb; .nutton, fancy, 11c per lb. HAMS. BACON. ETC Portland pack (local) ham, 10 to 12 lbs., 12 He per ib; 14 to 16 lb., 12c per lb, 18 to 20 lbs., 12c; breakfast bacon, 15H022HO per lb; picnics, 9c per lb; coUa roll, I 'Jo er lo; regular snort clears, snioaea. Ic per Ib; unsmoked. 10c per Ib; clear backs, unsmoked, loc; smoked, 11c; Union butts, 10 to 13c lb; unnmoksd, 12o par lb; smoked. ISo per lb; clear bellies, unsmoked. 12 He per Ib; smoked, 13 He per lb; shoulders 10c; per lb; pickled tongues, 70c ?ach. LOCAL LARD Kettle leaf. 10s, 120 per lb; 6, lHo per lb' 60-lb. tins, 12c fr lb; steam rendered, 10s, 11 Ho per b; 6s, 11 o per lb; cooipouna, 10s, He per lb. X .VWrt V W.I. ,,7,v 1 U . 1 1 U U 1 1 II I I CT, 6o per lb; halibut, 7c per lb; striped bass, lac per lt; catrisn, lie per Ib; sal mon, chlnook. 12 Vic; steelhead, 13c per lb; froxen, tc; herrings, 6o Ib; soles, it lb; shrimps, 10c per Ib; perch, 6o per lb; tomcod, llo per lb; lobsters, 26o per lb.; fresh mackerel 8o per lb: crawfish, 250 per doeen; stur- feon. 12HO per id. DlacK pass, zuc per b; silver smelt, 637c per lb; Columbia smelt, 6c; black cod, 7 He lb; crabs, $1.00 1.60 dozen. OY8TER8 Shoalwater bay, per gal lon. 32.60: per 100-lb sack. 35 00: Olym- pla, per aallon, $2.40; per 100-lb sack. $6.0006. SO; Eagle, canned, 60o can; $7 dosen; eastern In shell, $1.75 per hun dred. CLAMS Hardshell, per box. 12.40; razor clams. $2.00 per box: 10c per doc Paints. Goal oa Eta. ROPE Pure manllo, lie; atandard. 12 He; sisal, 10 He Coal Oils Iron Bbls. Cases. Wood Bbls. Water White . .11 Pearl Oil Hend Light ..12 Ho Eocene Special W. W..14HO Elaine .... Extra Star .ft. .... Gasoline Iron Bbls. V. M. and P. Naptha ...12 Ho Red Crown Gasoline ...18'ic Motor Gasoline 18 Ho ho per cent uasonne ...so lHo 19Ho 21 Ho 28"o 21Ho 16 16Ho Ca ses. lHc 26HC 25 Ho 87Ho 17 o By Ilyman H. Cohen. During the year 1907 Oregon dairy men received on an average of 32 22-1 00c per pound for their butter fat. The highest price received during the year was 8(!c and Ihe lowest 21c. During the year the Portland butter market was one of the highest In the oountrv. the price ruling from 22 H to 7 He a pound, tne latter trie present price for extra faney grades or cream- ry. Even the great Elgin. Illinois market was bndlv beaten during tne year ny ortland values, the average In this city for the vear being 32.2c a pound for best quality. In Elgin the average price tor the year was -'7.6c per pound. The average for five years In Portland wan 2S.!'e while in Elgin It stood 24.5c during the mme period. The prices that ruled In Portland for best creamery during 1907 show for the following dates: Por lb. J.munrv 1 to January 28 $5c Januarv 2 to February 11 37 H February 12 to March 21 36 March 22 to April 8 37 H Apill 9 to April 15 32H April 16 to April 22 27H April 23 to April 29 25 April 30 to May 27 22 H May 2R to June 10 24 June 11 to June 30 25 July 1 to July 22 27 H Julv 23 to August 6 80 August 6 t August 11 32 H August 12 to August 20 35 August 21 to September 2 37 H September S to October 31 35 November 1 to December 1 32H December 2 to December 12 36 December 13 to December 31 37H Oregon as a Dairy Country. As a dalrv country Oregon has no su perior according to the leading dairy ex perts of the country. Cllmstlc condi tions make this an ideal place for the feeding of stock and prices on the Pa cific coast and especially In Portland tnve been among the highest in the United States. At this time there Is a great deal of Interest In dairying and an effort Is being made by the creamery butter manufacturers to Interest the producers In securing a better grade of butter fat. For this purpose an organi sation was recently effected amonK the users and producers of cream, having for Its sol.1 object the bettering of cream quality. For the purpOHC of ex perimenting ihe creamery butter makers hnve rlcdged a fund with which to hire experts to visit the various dairvinj; sections. Any cream shipper can have cows inspected and the cream tested so that at the ?nd of a year the producer will know to a certainty which cow la a good or bad investment. Returns from Tillamook Cow. The following returns from 28 cows owned by J. F. Martin of Tillamook are for the year 1907. Four of these cows are 2-year-olds. No account of the milk used for the two families, which is es timated took more than two cows, is In cluded In these figures: 06. I.bs. Milk. Lbs. Hut. Fat. 469.03 Dec. 1P07. Jan. Feb. . . . March . April .. May ... June July ... Aug. Sept. .. Oct. . . Nov. . . Total A Venice per cow 10,666 . S.672 . .l 22 .fi7 , 1I.7K5 . 16.360 , 17 2 4 7 . 1K.239 , 17.048 16.706 1!',090 16,444 166,987 5.964 390.23 357.37 334I 46t. 42 620.31 705.90 756. M 741.62 719.42 831.32 686.05 7,092.16 $2,347.64 WHEAT CROPS OfJKHOlU Conditions Excellent in NorthwestBumper Crop From Argentina. Crop conditions continue very good in the Pacific northwest, the weather be ing Just about right for thla time of year. Where it is cold the plant ar well protected. In California considerable damage Is reported by the ravages of a worm, the roots In many sections being eaten. The amount of damaae is hard to estimate at this time. Brooinhall rive the followln report of the condition elsewhere in his Liver pool Corn Trade News of February 4: United Kingdom. The United Kingdom I getting fairly seasonable weather, that is light to moderate frost and mostly fine days, which weather should be capital for getting the land into good condition for other leld work to be carried on under favorable conditions. It is now stated that but little winter sowing was done In January but should tne present weather hold It is fully expected that the drill will soon be busy with wheat and barley cowing will follow soon af- terwara. Argentina. There apepar to be some districts whlc!. did not fare so well as others, but on the whole the complaints do not amount to very much, and latest thresh ing returns confirm a bumper crop. Ar rivals at the port are now on a lare scale and last week' export eclipsed all previous record, while still larger ?uan titles ar looked for In the near uture. Xnla Mall and cable advice continue to mn tlon the great change for tlw better in crop prospects which have resulted from the January rainfall. Our Kurrachen correspondents, however, do not fe-l very hopeful about any exportable sur plus, and although shippers here hope there may be something, yet they have to state that so far there Is no sign of new crop offerings, and prices are still very high. Anstralla, The rains at harvest bleached a por tion of th crop, but no serious damage from this cause Is mentioned. Esti mates of the surplus available for Eu rope are being reduced and shipments last weeK were light. The pastoral In dustry has been benefited by further splendid rains. Bnsila. Opinions vary as to the winter crops in tne southwest, but our Nlcnlaleff cor respondent mentions the fact that the fields had no snow protection when the thermometer showed 46 degrees Fahren heit of frost. It would seem Impossible that the young crops could escape seri ous harm under such conditions, and they started the winter mostly with poor. DHCKwarci growtn, out still our Odessa crop agent" takes a much more cheerful view than he did some time hack, and the present weather is quite mild. The interior districts are still under snow and more or less snow s found In the southeast. Arrivals of wnest at tne ports continue very light, hut com and barley quantities are mod erate. Home people claim that Interior reserves are fair to liberal, but fre offerings are not expected until a new harvest Is assured. Bonmanla. The weather is mild and reports cf the eropg are favorable. There has boon a sharp decrease In port storks, but it is possible that some quantities may bo temporarily out of sight In barges be tween Braila and Sullna. MORE INTEREST IN LIVESTOCK Industry of Facific North west Is Reviving After Years' Sleep. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK RUN. Hogs. Cattle. Sheep. Psst week 972 m l.fii 1J07 4ii) 1.973 35(1 lDOti 656 4r SX2 1J05 639 419 2,369 22 . live- GB0W SUGAR BEETS IX WALLOWA C0UXTY 263.29 2 tons hay Brnn $2.27 Cost feel 2 t. hay Bran $2.27 per cow. $16.00 Roots 2.00 pasture 6.00 Net per cow 83. M 26.27 26.27 $57.47 SHELTER FOR QUAIL. Missourian's Plan of Growing Cane to Stand During Winter. From the Kansas City Journal. William R. MeCulley of Macon county thinks he has solved the problem of pre serving quail. He owns quite a lRre farm and he discovered that quail were becoming more and more scarce each year. Then he set about studying the cause and came to the conclusion that It was lack of shelter. Since then he has every spring plant ed sugar cane along the side or tne noi leather band diagonally across his chest adorned with a breastplate In gleaming brass which read "Ayun tamlento de Madrid" and some other things. He waa . the cus torus officer whose duty it was to look for tobacco and alcohol brought In. The apparent eagerness of the Amer ican to get away must have stirred .his suspicions. The latter, however, thought It best to keep his calmness. He leaned over and tapped the brass badce. "Very pretty he said In his imperfect Span ish. Then as a bright thought, "llow much did It cost you?" ' The customs man grew angry and with a movement of the hand indicative lows orms iarm ana pBrmjvo inc v d disgust ordered the American to stand during the winter. It afford t n the , ndept him waiting in the quail not only food but shelter of Kroup of 2o or 30 grinning, chattering the kind they like. Other farmers In pnteTf for 20 minutes while he csre- Hoone. Callaway and several counties or ,, -vr,,ir,ori jvrv m-HMa in th hns No. 1 Engine Distillate. .10 BENZlf.K 6 deg , cases, 26c per gal; iron nois 7sc per gal. TURPEN 'INE In cases, 72c per gal; wood bbls, 6 9 Ho per gal. LINSEED OIL Raw, bbls S2c. cases 58c; boiled, bbls 64c, cases 60c a gal; lots of 250 gallons lc less. WHITE LEAD Ton lots, 1e per lb; 600-Ib lots, 8c per lb: less lots. 8e. WIRE NAILS Present basis at 13 10, Moi-rovF County Woolgrowers. (Special DUpotrh to Tbe Journal.) Heppner, Or., Feb. 22. The Morrow Couhty Woolgrowers' association has elected the following officers: Presi dent, George J. Cuirln; vioe-pretildent, W. B. Barratt! secretary and treasurer, W. S. Bpencer; executive committee. Emmet Cochran. Georee J. Currln. R F. Hyns, W. S. Spencer, Oeorge Perry, W. B. Barrett and John Kilkenny. Are Baying Horses. (BpeeUt DlstXtcb M Th Journal.) North Powder, Or.. Feb. J2. Thfc Portland horse buyers, Sklffton & Todd, who were . here and In Powder valley some time looking up a mixed lot of horse,, secured three carloads at prices ranging ffbm $40 to $150. Among the horses at the higher price were some good draught horaea. the state, have adopted Mr. MeCulley s plan, and they think it Is Just what was needed. . It is n fact that quail wlltW stay where they cannot find shelter. In many of the best counties there is very llttl natural shelter left, as every foot of available ground Is under cultivation. In such localities it has been onserveu that the quail have nearly all left, and It seems pretty well settled that they will never return unless artificial shelter Is provided for them. Sugar cane, when thickly planted, fur nishes Just what these birds seem to waht. They are also very fond of the seed, and a th season advances the cane stalks fall down and provide a thick mass In which the quail can hide from their natural enemies, hawks and owls, and also affords a nesting place In the spring and summer. INCaDEXT OF TRAVEL. Showing How Easy It I to Confound Customs Officers With Others. From the New York Bun. The American whose knowledge of Castlllan was not over great left the Lisbon express at the station of Las Dellcias in Madrid, his suit case In hand. There didh't seem to be any thing to hinder, so he walked right through the doorway and stopped on the platform for a moment before he took a cab. He was a little surprised that no customs officer had been In th station to Inspect baggage, but concluded that the inspection at Valencia de Alacan tara on the frontier had been enough. Incidentally the. American was in clined to be annoyed by the Importunity of porter and cabmen, and as he knew where he was going he didn't ears to have his handbag grabbed from him. Thl happened a moment later, a large man in corduroy seising the bag. The American just as hurriedly took It away, supposing him a hotel runner. No. hombre," cried the man In wrdu i-ovb with a marntf Icent arestur. throw lhg back 'hi coat and displaying 4 broad ftrata grirancs. Then he chalked a sign and let the American go. You re lucky you riidn t get arrested. said a Spanish friend to the American. "Those fellows, cheap as they seem, have a big pull. You'd have got Into all sorts of trouble afterward, too. He'd havo tipped off his friends and they'd have made It annoying for you every time you left the city. What made him most anurv was what you said about buying the badfre. They have to pav well to get the place, even though they're not supposed to. That touched a raw place.' 0ST OF MINK TIMBERS. They Add 8 Cents to the Cost of Each Ton of Anthracite. The cost of every ton of anthraclTe Is Increased eight cents by the expense of the mine timbers. To supply these timbers says the Vegetarian Magaslne, requires each year th product of ap proximately 150,000 acres of forest. Timber is used for cross ties for tramroads In the main haulage ways, as wooden rollers and as props. A set of gangway timber consists of two legs, commonly 9 or 10 feet long and about 13 inches in diameter, and a collar, six or seven feet long. These sets are placed on an everago at intervals of five feet; one gangway frequently con tains 1,000 sets and 10 gangways to a colliery Is not an unusual number. The average life of the timber I hardly above two years. Forty-five per pent of the timbers are destroyed by decay, while breakage, wear and Insect destroy the remainder. By peel ing the timbers and properly 'season ing them and especially by giving them a treatment In oils or chemical salts, their length of service i materially Increased. Th threatened strike of marine engi neer at Honolulu has been averted ly the acceptance of a proposition" to arbi- 4 La Grande. Or.. Feb. 22. Field representatives of th La Grand sugar factory will go to Wallowa 4 county early next week with a 4 large quantity of sugar beet 4 seed, which will be distributed free to Wallowa oounty farmers 4 with tho understanding that 4 thorough tests in beet growing 4 be made in that county this sea- son. Th sugar company ex- pcets to have several thousand acres of bcts planted in the e Wallowa valley as soon as the O. R. A N. branch lino la com- pleted into that county. The soil, climate and conditions of V WslloWa are all favorable to a heavy yield of beets of a hlgti percentage of saccharine. PRINCE'S GRIMY COUSIN. The Late King Oscar's Meeting With Another Bernadotte on a Steamer. Erom th0 New York Sun. Dr. Wllhelm Koehler nf Mnnnh.lm Germany, contributes a new anecdote to tlie recollection of the late King Oscar oi oweaen. Jt goes back more than 50 years, to a time when usenr, then crown prince, was traveling about seeing the world. One day he boarded a passenger steamer at Marseille for a trip to North Africa. He waa In civilian's dress and unattended. The captain, who did not know who he was, ac costed him. "It seems to me I saw you at the naval review yesterday," he said. "Very likely you did," said Prince Oscar. "And it seems to me you were wear ing an admiral's uniform." T'I rather think I was." "You must be a remarkable seaman to have reached that rank at your age; you can't be over 25." Oh, a little older than that, but I'm no aeaman at all. I wear an admiral's uniform in right 6f my nam. "wnicn is By Hyman H. Cohen. Portland Union Stockyards, Feb. Those that viewed the Portland stock market during the past year have noted an increasing demand for all products. Th Portland market has been growing In Importance at a rapid rate for several year. At no time dur ing that narlorf ha there been any set bock the development ha been carried onward witnout a naiu Now that, there 1 a certainty that the lara-eat Dacklna concern in th world are to erect Dacklnff plants at Portland, with th Intention of putting this city right at th front In packing circles, th livestock Industry of th state of Oregon and in ract tne eniir Pacific Northwest, la reviving. Ther Is much Interest taken everywhere In the Portland projects for th construc tion snd operation of th monster pack ing house will mean a much Increased demasid for Pacific coast cattle, sheep and hogs. Producers Ax Vraparlag. The word has gone forth of the de mand that will insure as soon as th packing operations start, and producers are preparing for that event. Ther I more Interest today in th livestock in dustry in the Pacific Northwest than ever before. Everywhere livestock men are planning Increased production. Ev ery line will show result f eom thl ac tivity. More feeding ground will be needed and livestock men say they will be ready fdr the reception of th stock when the proper time arrives. However, there are soma who can scarcely realise the full Import of the establishing of such monster packing plants at Portland as Swift & Co. and Swartzchild & Sulzberger are preparing to build at a very early date. Located where it is Portland today would com mand the livestock situation of the en tire country a soon as the packers get their local Institutions under way. Here at the doors of the packing houses are located the producers who will raise the vast amount of stock to feed the plants. Then, too, right at this same door Is one of the best harbors in the world from which ships can sail to any port In the world. Here, too, all lines or rail meet the water and there Is no place that can reach the world's mar kets at so little expense and at such small time as Portland. This is the reason why the world's' greatest pack ers are her. heap Bub I Surprising. While the run of sheep in the local yards during the week wan small. It was surprisingly large for the past few months. In all but 1,632 head arrived In during the six days and the demand was several times as Ereat as the sup ply. However, receipts were ample enough to fill the requirements or the trade at the present high level of val ues and a great run would likely have resulted In a price loss. Ifog market was very firm the past week with a slightly better run. How ever, arrivals were small in comparison with the demand and the market held closer to top figures. The future of the market is hard to forecast at the moment, but prospects are for higher firlces unless there continues for too one a period the present downward tendency of eastern values. This will affect local conditions more than ever from this time forth. Cattle market showed but a small run for the six days and all prices were firmly held at last week s range. The run was but 436 head compared with 1,973 a year ago, 495 two years ago and 419 for thla same week three years ago. A year ago for the past week there was a very firm tone In all lines wltn all markets showing an advance of 25c. Official yard values today: Hogs Best stuff. $5.255.35; stock era and China fats. $4.50fr$5.OO. Cattle Best eastern Oregon steers $4.35iil4.50; cows and heifers, $3.50 3.75; bulls. $2.002.25. Sheep Best wethers, $5.75ift6.00; lambs, $6.00 6 25; ewes, $5.00()5.BO. SHORT INTEREST IS VERY HEAVY Sellers More Numerous Than: Liquidating: Holders Court Decision Helps. r nlted Prees Led Wire.) ;, New York, Feb. 22. During the arir part of the present week sentiment ori . i. . . a .. -1. uie biock exenunffo coniinuea very luutu depressed and thla depression waa r- necieii in a general sagging: oi pricua. Toward the end of the period, however. th., II. 1.1 .. ... ,.f a ...I'l-Allt Mn. ..... .i i, . pi j i , i , 1 1 . 1 1 1 ii j . i,-ww, dltlon began to appear plainly. Indl- vldu.l stocics, which for one reason or another, were especially vulnerable to sDeculi lve hi Lark broke nreiiv oacr but the market as a whole show,!' sieaony less and less sensitiveness uf the uncovering of these weak spot and operators committed at all extensively , to the short side found it extremely dif ficult to buy in their contract at any thing like the fcent low price. On tjia ' other hand, it had to be admitted that : tnere was no attempt to make th r- livrni ui uie niejri. miereai rewy cuiuj : Shrewd Judges of the trading aracon fldent that short selling has Deen pro ceedina at a much faster nacs than ao tufll limilrlatlnn fhnr th hrt AnnmintM at the outset of the present week waa , unusually heavy, and that It was power ful Interests who have sxplolted th) full possibility of the situation. Event ' of the last day or two, however, hav seemed to indicate that no effort will " be made along this line. Stocks may no longer be pressed for sale when tha -market I weak, but they are too freely supplied when the market Is strong tO) allow anything but moderate recoverlea. The triith undoubtedly Is that Inrr financial Interests prefer that the Wall . street trading be kept within narrow bound until they can see the futur of business and of politics much plainer than Is possible now. Trade authorities are rather cautious about commlttlna themselves to a statement that thing , are Improving. They report a better feeling, or as they put It "an Improved tone," with here und there some increase In activity. But In these respects ther . seems to be no particular chunge wlthla liift iuxi wirce nevus. Un the other hand, a most grateful rem'nder has been afforded this week that the reckless efforts to overturn the old regime under wnicn our rail roads have prospered for a decade past are likely to meet a formidable obstacla when it comes to a test in tne courts. , The decision in the Illinois Central, It ' Is assnrUd, is clearly the right of a railroad to cwn stock in other eomoanr les which are not competitors. It ! thereby ursettinK one of the main con tentions of the government In the suit now oen'llnir aitainst the Union Pa cific thst the Investment of the Union . Pacific surplus in other railroad secur ities was Illegal because It aimed at a monopoly. e SHIPMENT OF STEERS. " Choicest L-ots oi tne reason boia ai Echo to Union Meat. (Hperlal Dbpatch to The Journal.) i Pendleton. Or., Feb. 22. Three hun- . dred and twentv-four steers, which wera old this wek by K. B. Stan field and . Fred Andrews of Echo to the Union Meat company of Portland, yielded th sellers $20,000. or about $62 per head..! This Is one of the choicest shipment vet made this spring. There are about 7.000 head to go from the Echo feeding district this season. GARIBALDI'S ROMANCE WINTER LAMBING SUCCESS. Echo Sheepman Proves That Febru ary Crop Is Very Good. (Speflnl Dispatch to The Journal.) Pendleton. Or.. Feb. 22. One of the most profitable and successful experi ments in winter lambing on record in eastern Oregon has Just beer conducted hy Josepr C'unha, an Echo sheepman, lie built sheds 72x200 feet last fall and prepared to havo his lamb crop come in February this year, and so far has saved llo Iambs for every 100 ewes and expects to raise at least 6,000 lambs from 5,000 ewes that will bring lambs in this month and in March. Ninety to 95 per cent of lambs saved Is a large Increase when the lambs come In the ordinary season In April and Mr. Cun ha's record is one of the best ever made In this part of the state. Every tenth ewe brings twin lambs and no far very few have died. The early lambs will be ready for market two months in ad vance of the regular crop and will command higher prices. "Bernadotte." "Ah, some relation of the old mar shal?" "Merely his grandson. I am Prince Oscar of Sweden, brother of the king." "Then maybe your highness would like to meet a cousin. "I shouldn't object. T know there are some, but I have never seen one vet. The captain stepped to the" speaking tuoe ana snouted to tne engine room: "Send up Bernadotte." In a minute or two a grimy stoker, naked to the wast. appeared. "This is your cousin," said the cap tain, who was an extreme republican, with a bow in which the Irony was only latent. But If the captain hoped to embarrass or annoy the prince he was disap pointed. Oscar nut out hi hand and shook his cousin's black one. He asked him about the relationship; about other cousin near Pau, where the marshal was bom, and about his own life and worn, 'men ne maue uie oiuer tser dotte a present worthy of a took his name and address w to future benefits. thr Berna- firinoe-'and th a view Orranlted labor Is preparing to make another tight against the reelection of Representative cnaries is. wtueiwa or the Second coflttfessivnal district of Mala .. i ... HAD SO CHRISTMAS. But Other Travelers Made Up for It by Having Two. From the San Francisco Chronicle. There was one place on the Pacific ocean where there was no Christmas. Travelers toward the orient went to bed on the evening of the 24th and woke the next day on the morning of the 26th. The 25th Christmas Day had vanished completely. It had gone as though it never existed, which was true. All travelers on the broad bosom of the Pacific making westward Were not thus cheated out of a holiday. Only those In ships which reached the ISOth degree of longitude on Christmas evo were robbed of their Christmas. Those traveling In the opposite direction had two Christinas days In succession. So Father Time was not altogether heart less In playing tricks on Santa Claus. An experienced navigator explain the mystery of the missing Christmas for west-bound travelers and the extra Yuletlde for those bound east thus: "In Just about the middle of the Pa cific is the 180th degree of longitude, and when that Imaginary line Is reached the westward traveler drops one day out of his calendar for the year. That line crosses the antipodes or point on the earth's surface which is precisely opposite to Greenwich, England, the place at which by common Consent of all nations the counting of time begins. At noonday, when the sun Is directly over head at Greenwich, at other points to the westward the time will be earliae on hour for each 11 degrees of longi tude, so that when 180 degree It reached it will be midnight. "Twelve hours have thus been nina.1 and th other It would ba addaA it h Journey around th globe were complet ed. So by universal agreement th SSth of December Would be dropped by all navigator reaching th fatal lin on th previou day. and travelers would be cheated out of their Christina at th only place on the earth aurfac vhar auctt lata could Happens " Veiled English Woman Who Entered His Life in Later Years. Achllle Faxzarl, on of the closest personal friend of Oiuseppe Garibaldi, ha revealed in an Interview published . in th Trlbuna of Rom a romance in the later years of the Italian patriot. -The heroine I a Mr. Collin, an ' English woman, who with her husband lived on the Island of Caprera, where Garibaldi mad his home for many, . years. The couple had a hut on th island, but only tenanted it in th wildest - time was spent afloat in a sailboat on whif.h thv nrlalnallv ra, h t Ca rr r A They lived mainly on the fish they caught, on goat's flesh, and on wild birds that the man shot: but every fort night they made a voyage to the near- , by island of La Maddalena, where Cor- . lins landed, made neceasary purchase and got his letters. The woman never left the boat, and 1 all the time that it remained close to . k. V.n-A U A ftrAn .a I J ,1 . muffled up in a thick veil. On theory was that the pair had eloped and h -was afraid of being recognised; but this : seemed to be negatived by the fact that . Collins made no effort to hide bis Idea- -tlty. rjiiuuv m7 but y iui huiusu inni ana : . had been beautiful, but had her beaaty destroyed through burning or scalding. so mat sne was now repulsive to IOOK at. Her husbaud'. affection .was undi minished they seemed to be devoted to each other but she could not bear to have strangers see he Hence th Iso lation in which they lived. j. This story neia good until Collins ' died. His wife dug a grave for him V with her own hands in a sheltered val ley in Caprera. She remained on tha " Island for some years, but ah dis carded the veil. Then she was revealed as a beautiful ' woman, and it was at once concluded that unreasoning Jealousy on the nart . ': of her husband had driven them to aoll tude. t Now comes Fazzarl with th state- ' ment that very shortly after Collin's death Garibaldi made the acquaintance of the beautiful widow. The result was; a passionate I'riendshlp or platonio love, at leat on the lady's side. v, ' , Fazzarl says she, wrote numerous let ters to Garibaldi, beginning In 1860, when he was in Italy taking part in th v war of unification. All ar couched in ' terms of devotion. .. . When asked what 'the end of tho' roA.' mance was, Fazzarl started a new mys- tery. . , i "Let It remain a secret," said he and no persuasions would Indue him to talk any more. . , A CHINESE TRICK, , Rests Gun Across Arm When He Shoots to Kill, V From th. Boston JUraM, ' ; . On peculiar fact developed In ths cour of th trial In th uprior court of nln Chinamen charged with th murder of one of their countrymen, and that i no Chinaman when using a re volver levels it - straight at M person S n obreot. but rests the muirl of. tb un'f on his lft forearm, and with th right hand holding th butt discharges th weapon. - Counsel wanted an explanation, but could not obtain It, and later a mem bar of on of th tongs In th orriUop wa asked for a reason, '-. "Don't know why a gun Is tid In. that manner," wa the response, "tin less It Insure Dior secret y than th American way. For -Instance, a China man may wrap th gun in the folds rf hi sleeve, leaving only the barrot hi. tree. Then a hot may b rwl, . i it would appear a though the on s ' dlsenarged to weapon had-Im folded. ThrT would b or.i-f Steel and nothing but a 'Uii ' f n to teU who tiiacbargtd tit . . W .,