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Newspaper Page Text:,!. :. THE OREGON SUNDAY 13 OP UNION IS ONLY ; 60- WfTtiE JIOP UNION FOR OREGON JIORE EASILY WORKED THAN FORTIIREE STATES LUTIOtf OF PRESENT SET-f latest Market Reviews IVM ftc Trade Lick in staple price ER HEEDED rs Do Noi Care to Be by Agitators' From thier Coast States. Br Hymen II. Cohan op growers Union l favorsd tlcally every grower In the Oregon but not under present in. The needa of ft strong or- bn te combat the ravages of the ling and blood-sucking dealera len known to the growera for ha. Producera have dealred or n but what thev eeek Is an or- n that will ta representative under control or an operator tne other Dlace. if the principal offlclala of the Linton haa been working In torn- with Mr.- in rat. tne California far several veara. In all of pt's conalgnment campaigna he h nut out aa a leaaer to draw uregon growera. bo mr oime peraonally there haa not nrie inatanoe wnere tneae con yVachemea have been favorable growers. l lie Duyera at ma irl of the line were alwaya wait heae conaignmenta because they ey could be aecurea cneaper bm regular dealera who were ormea aa to foreign conaiuona a alwaya on the apot to take ra or anv favorable nuctua- scarcely any wonder that the ucera-or Oregon do not rare to v theaa failure. The Oregon delation la Buffering from the DroDer leadera. The Uregon need an orKunlaatlon In which knselves will have the full say- tey should In all Instances be altlon to aay ror themaeivea ey would like the production hey can work better among ea .than by tlelng up with aev- ikr atatea where condltlona are different at moat ataaea, Rlnally planned the Oregon hop were to have a union or tneir Ich could cooperate with the of other elates aa condltlona themaeivea. The visit of the a opera to re to thla city downed local Diana tne atate union ng lost In the excitement of :vho prepared thelt own bylawa It I them quickly and forced lo J'ers to Indorse them In the heat moment. Theae bylawa were It Parried' so that growers should ; the proper time to analyse jltlon. However, fow of the by Uet with the preaent vlewa of producers. ffi hop growera now eee the nec- tr doing something ror them- Hops are touching euch low hat. the price received scarcely en pays ror me cultivation rhe dealera re well protected la the reiedti why they forced 'era to sell at such low fleurea. Ilf (he acreage will need to be I re there la likely to be the j Improvement in hop prices. I talk and" all, the organization ' growera can bring forth can S; up the prices unlesa the de- better than supplies. Too j.lea of hops have been grown I few years and too many will n the coming season unlesa dlcal atepa are taken by the B to protect themaeivea. L4L WHEAT GROWING. J Indicate Oood Condition- Wing Plowing General, tvhere throughout the Paclflo t crop condltlona are mostsen- k. The weather haa been bet- tne average ror tma time or I spring plowing la generally In most, aectlona. Fall grain ng well, the growth makinc progreja during recent .weeks. The wintry season. ' if the past week there ruled an pne in tne local wheat market. the period the market dropped owing to severe cuta . In lor es, out this was In turn auc- y atrength abroad, which forced pricea up sc a bushel. While et Is firm, practically no busi oecurred here during the week the inactivity of foreigners, there la a aomewhat better tegardlng local flour, there Is a lack or oriental trade nd most mills throughout the Pacific t are closed, those remaining hg operated but for short Inter GREATER ACREAGE" OF 1VIIEAT BEING SOWN ! (Special Dispatch' V he Joorsal.) . Hay, Waah., Fab. 2.There la e greater activity thla aprlng e among' the wheat growera of e this district thai aver before.; Plowing Is now In full progreaa. Thouaanda of acres will be put - under . euldvation this aprlng and as this district grows wheat equal, to thd Palouae country there will be thouaanda of bush 4 aia of wheat for shipment the eomlng fall from this and near- ' by stations on the O. R. ft N. The couhtry hers is settling up rapidly and on . thouaands of acres that a few' years war covered with cattle, the farmer la taking the placs tit the cow- boy.' Land which, less than 10 years ago was worth 16 an acre Is worth $21 and $30 .and Is steadily advancing In price. aia- mi Anwfi tha value, but conatderlng the extent of the atippllea the market held wonderfully well. The "fact la, the general public haa not yet becoma ac ouatomed to eat any great amount of egga because or tne rormer nign vai uea and the unueualiy - poor quality heretofore ahown. Kaatern egga have been mixed with local-growth and con- aumera bad Become aisguawu. , a" are Juat recovering their appetite and will conaume more egga rn the future. At the cloae of the week the market ruled around loo, with an occasional lot Pnuiirv waa acarea and nigh and ad vanrtA values are shown in all linea except geeae and ducka and perhapa tur keys, broilers and fryera were especi ally In firm request during the week and lor theaa graasa very mu juc u.otd- w.. v.u. creamery Dunor ia uimj .u nrmur weak'a levels, but an early de cline In valuea la likely unleaa weather condltlona ahould harden. FRONT STREET REVIEWS. Notes of . Some Important Trade Lines of Wholesale District. . Run of salmon la emaller but there la plenty to go around at preaent pricea. Dressed meata of all kinds continue aa firm aa a week, a go. Same pricea, too. . Local cabbage season is near an end and few ehlpmente now ahow best qual ity. Some coming from the south aa a result . . , Lent begins Wednesday and whole- ?alers report- good supplies of prepared Ish at moderate values. There continues a very fair sale of applea but suppliea are so liberal at country polnta that the mnrket is crowded from day to day and little chance is given prices to Improve. Oraiiges . are in large euppiy wnn some dealera culling vaiuep ovoh uu the better grades. Tomatoes from Mexico are . eomlng somewhat faster and the result la that quotations are being ahaded considera bly. . ... Hay market la eaaier wun larger or- ferlngs, although the general market remaina unchanged. . ... MiUstuffa are acarea with former prtees continued. Mills ahut down, the cause. .. ........ Front street aena at me lonowing pricea. Pricea paid ahlppera are leaa regular commisaiona. rain, nonr aaa rses. GRAIN BAGS Calcutta. i large lots: small lots. BHc. wheat Track prices Club. 82c: Russian, sic; Diuesiem, etc; vai- tflON PRICES HOLD. re Quite Well Maintained Onions Are a Bngaboo. onion valuea have held rather 4aur the past week, especially la. mflrlfflt. thAra wna Hut UttlA t of surlplles. AH told there 2 cars in the atate of Oregon. seven cars are roiling to other having: been aold. Of the re stocks 12 cars are in the handa s and the remaining amount is producers. -Ice of onlona haa held well luse moat of the local dealera atocKed and scarcely cared to roduct for less than It cost he arrival of Japanese onlona sound mention of which waa luaively in The Journal at the fct the, Oregon pepducere that ffor with eastern growth they esser ngurea man mis states would let go at. the significant features of the if Jap onions la that they were o tile coast Dy tne very dealera been boosting the market from hclaco. Not finding a suitable n the sound for the supplies, the cargo was sent to San l It Is atated that a local bf Japanese products is b ring- applies or onions rrom tne ori i are due to arrive March 2. es ahow a iracuonauy Detter t, but at very low prices. a better demand ror seed atock a are rather good. Only best k wanted. BUYING EGGS AGAIN. Appetite Just Coming Back br Spoil of High Values. prices are ruling in the Front uses lor cbbb. uu rjcr arriv- USE SHEEP HAVE . PINAL MENINGITIS Ul Dtpatcfc to Tbe Journal.) louse, Wash.. Feb. O. Z. ona of the pioneer Palouae rs, has recently lost sev- ! sheep by what Dr. Hadley, tats college yeterinary sttr- calls spinal meningitis. Mr. has about BO sheep in bis but upon' examination it lean found that less than. a dosen is afflicted with . Usease, The farmers claim p the first time spinal men- s has appeared among tbe In the Palouae .country. . t.ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft -ft red lav fUc. Ctt'N wnoie.-ia; cmru, ion. niBi,nvNw Feed. $28 oer ton: rolled $20 tl; brewing. $2. RIB per cwu UAJP ixew -rrouilCTri untw j whits $17 per ton; gray, $202.tO. FLOUR Eaatern Oregon patenta. $4.80; straights, $4.36; exports, $3.76; valley. $4.45: graham, V4a, $4.60; f whore wbtat $.7$s- rye. eee - !.(. MILL STUFF8 Nominal Bran, $: 026 ton; middlings, 30ii31 ; snorts, country. $27; city. $26; chop, $2iw24. HAY Producers'- price Timothy. Willamette vslley. fancy tJ 5: ordin ary. $12.60013: eastern Oregon. $1 17: mixed, $10010.60; clover, $10U; grain, ( ): cheat, ( )j alfalfa. $12 12.60. utter. Eggs and PotUtry. BUTTER FAT F. O- ft. Portland Sweet cream. Jc; aour, $4a BUTTER EUtra fancy freah cream ery, $7c; fancy, 3687Hc; cholcej a6c; ordinary, I2Vc; beat storage, 27feO30c; second grade, 26c; store, 20c a pound EGQ8 Extra fancy, candled, 1S ISMrc; eastern atorage, 15c doz. t'HEKSfc New . Full crtmm. flat. lBHc per lb; Young Americana, lie per lb. POULTRY Mixed chickena, 13lSHc Der lb: fancy hens. 14c lb; roosters. old, 10011c; fryera. $4.606 doz; broll ers, 14 5.00 doz; geese, old, 9)10c per lb; turkeys, alive. i4igii6o per lb, dreased, 16 18c lb; squabs, $2.60 dozen; plgeona. 11.26 doz.; dressed poultry, I ut lVo par lb higher; wild geese, ( ) dox. Bops. Wool and BlCea. HOPS 1907 crop, firat prime, 6&c; prime, Gc; medium to prime, 65Vic; medium, 44i)6o lb; 1806 crop, l-o iu, contracts. i08, t ). WOOL 107 clip Valley. 18018c; eaatern Oregon. 12 4018o. MOMAIR Nominal. HIUKS Dry til cite. 120 lie lb: green. 4 06c;' calves, gre4u. 607ci klpii, 6c lb: bulla, green salt. 8 04o lb BHJKKPSK1N8 8harln. .Be 20c each; ahort wool, S6c04c; medium, wood, 6Oc0$l each; long wool, 76c0 $1.28 each. TALLOW Prime, per It.- 3c 04c; Na 1 and grease, 101 Mo. CHITT1M BARK -6c. rruits ' and ' egatabias. ' POTA'IOKS Select, a0tlti5c, sell ing; buying, Wlllametto valley, 40ift4Oc; eastern Multnomah and Clackamas. ii(f 60o per cwt; aweels, H04c; seed atock t. o. b. Portland, American Wonders, 80c; Early Rose, 80090c. ONIONS Jobbing price, $2.6003.00; buying, spot $U.uo02.25; garlic. 7c lb.' APl'LES Selects i 2.0 ft: rancv 11 chol;e. $1.261.60: ordinary, Oo0$l.OO. FR8U FRUITS OraiiKa, new, $2.00 0$Z.6O; bananas,- 6o per lb; lem ons. $2.6003.76 box; arapefr jit. $3.60'; pineapplea, $4 per dozen; pears, fan cy. 11 bOtpl.78; Oidlnary. $1 a box; tan gerines, $1.65 a box; Jap oranges, 40 0 46o a box;, perslmmona, $1.76. VKOKTABLKS Turnips, new, 600 60o, aack; carrota, 60o per Back; beets, (6 0 76e per aack: parsnips, 86c0$l; cab bage, $1.2601.60; tomatoes, Mexican, $2.7603.60; beans, - 160; cauliflower, California, $1,10 01.20 dozen; local. 7bc(tci; peas, nc, norscraaish,'" be Ibi artrthoktiM, 7Se0$l.OO dozen; green onlona, loo dozen; peppers; 2bc; hot house lettuce, 76c0$1.26 box; head let tuce. 95c docen: cuoumbers, hothouse, $1.26 dozen; radishes, 86c dozen bunch as; eggplant, 20c lb; celery, $4.2604.76 crate, cranberries, eaatern. $9.06010.60; aprouta, 8e0Stto per lb; asparagus, ( );-8pinacn, 90o box; green onlona, 40c dozen bunches. Orocerles, Vats,' Etc. . , . ' " 8UOAR California and Hawaiian Cube, $8; powdered, $6.86; berry $6.66; dry granulated, 16.65: XXX gran ulated,' $6.40; cont A., $6.66; extra B.. $6.16; golden O., 85.06: 6. yellow, $4.91; beet .granulated. $6.46; i par rels, 16c; half barrels. 10c; boxes, 66o advance on sack cast (Above prices are 10 days net cash quotations.) HONEY $3.60 W crate, - COFFJEB Paokfts, brands, t $l.$0 11.6$. - .:. ' SALT Coarse Hslf ground. 100a par ou; SOs, $i0)i UWs, flalrt, MONEY IN POTATOES EYEN NOW SaaaiMa4nHiMaagEaaaMMiwMiHHMMwaMMiaMaiaaMiauHa Lebanon, Orr. Teb. 18. A waronload of potatoes was hauled into Lebanon thla week for ehlpment that weighed 6,400 pound a. This la. about 90 bueheia. The potatoea were grown by A. C. Brown. His field yielded about 300 bush els, to the acre. -It Is estimated that there was raised within a radius of seven miles of Lebanon about 160- carloads of potatoes this year of 600 buah els to the car, or about 80,000 buahels. .Borne of the potatoes were aold early and brought 48 cents per bushel, but the most of them have sold for 3$ cents per bushel. SPRAY YOUR TREES OR FRUIT INSPECTOR WILL VISIT YOU By Richard Delch, Fruit Inspector. Old moss-covered, ecale-infested, pest rldden fruit treea. "What cad be done for them? Prune and spray them. Cut them down and burn them. Leave them stand, a menace to the neighbor hood, an advertisement of thriftlees'heSe to our eastern visitors who have Dean attracted here by the wonderful atorlea of Oregon fruit. No wonder they think we are "stringing" them aero after acre of apple treea that don't average one box of fruit per tree. Sixty or 70 boxea of applea per acre, not fit for hog feed; no wonder their shiftless owner thinks it "don't pay to epray." But let ua eee If It doea or does not. Let us suppose we are In the Hood River, Rogue River or some up-to-dat Willamette valley orchard. Roughly peaking 70 treea to the acre 12 years old, 10 boxes of applea to the tree. 700 boxes per acre. Suppose applea are only $1 a box. Ilka they usually are. Instead of tl or $3. If good applea were $1 or $1.60 per box everybody could and would eat apples, and there would te 100 boxes sold In Portland where one is sold now. Nobody will buy wormy. scaly and acabby apples unless he Is driven to It, and most people cannot prfy a fancy price for fancy fruit, ao we will suppose 700 boxes to the acre at $1 per box, or may be that Is too much. We will aay five boxea per tree, 70 treea to the acra. aurelv that Is conservative and our grower haa worked hard and aprayed. pruned and carefully graded and packed his apples, which cost him 1100 nar acra. Thia onlv leaves him $260 ler acre prorii. ui course iimi ia mnj a nar cant on $1,600 Der acre. But our fruit grower might be one of those mora ravored onea that we reau auoui some times, and if we are not badly mialn fnrmail noma of them live in most all parta of Oregon, at leaat you can if aU tne reporta are true anu, i am onii afraid to aay ao) I have actually Been one or two of them myself along the different lines of tranaportatlon (even Horrimnn llnpal who had only 10 or 20 acrea of apple orchard, to aay nothing about pear orcharda, from which they harvested io.uuu or io,uvu ooca ui my Sles ana got an average ui auuui ox $20,000 or $30,000. That 1b 20 per cent on $9,000 or $10,000 per acre after the man had paid all me expense oi spraying, picking and packing his fruit In the proper manner. Of course, you couldn t tell the man a'hn rmildn't raise one box Der tree and couldn't ffven sell that box to the vine, gar factory at any price, .that It. would pay to spray and take care of his trees. But then it does pay, and every werl Informed man knows it. pays. It would pay the man with the one-tree-one-box-orchard to cut down his orchard and plant potatoea even with potatoes at 60 cents per sack, if he wasn't too lazy to think ao, and bealdea. It would im prove the value of hla own land as well aa his neighbor's. The woods ars full of people with money who want to buy good land, who would rather pay $200 per acre for nice, clfan land than to pay $50 for the same land that made them feel like a funeral every time they looked at It. However, never mind; for If those trees are foot looked after aoon tney will all soon be dead. They are as good as dead now, and they are worse than a nuisance, and for the good of the state of Oregon should be removed from sight as quickly as possible. There Is no occasion for alarm If you really want to clean up those trees and prom thereby;' if your treea are Bound and healthv, but of Inferior variety. It Is an eas"y matter to top-graft tnem over to some better variety. The ' reault would I40 first-class fruit much sooner than if you planted a new orchard. Whatever you do, alwaya remember tnat your fruit trees must have a bath of lime and sulphur at leaat'once a year, and it must be a thorough bath; every twig from the top to the roots, every particle of the tree muat be covered, and tba lima and sulphur must be atrong and property made according to the for mula prepared by the Btate board of horticulture 16 pounda of lime, 16 pounda , sulphur, 60 gallons of water. The Ume and sulphur can be cooked in 16 or 80 gallons of water and then di luted to 60 gallons. If you Use the commercially prepared 11ms and sulphur solution, you had bet ter make It at least one third stronger than the directions given you by the manufacturer A great many people who do not make fruitgrowing a busi ness seem to tilnk that the lime anu aulphur spray ought to keep out tne codlln moth and every other pest and disease that fruit la heir to. It la too bad that It does not, but It doesn't, ao "1 " s X n 4- -:, tt"A'm 1 . 1-31 f '" f A r jf Inspector Richard Delch. you will find It neceseary to apray with something else at other times during the yeah Bu4 lime an. sulp.iur now are absolutely necessary, and the mix ture la worth all it costs, even If your trees are perfectly frco..from San. Joae acale. dead spot, anthracnose. woolly aphis, moss, etc. Do, not waste time and money trying something new: let somebody else ex periment. In fact, Uncle Sam is ex perimenting, and when he finds some thing better he will let you know with out cost to you If you will have your name put on the mailing list of Jamea Wlthycombe, director experiment sta tion. Corvallia, Oregon. The census of 1800 gives the number of apple trees of bearing age in the United SU.te-: as. 201.794.764 and the crop of apples produced 176.397,26 bushels not much over half a box per tree. We' know that here In Oregon we can raise from 6 to 60 boxes per tree, and at that there Is big money In iu We can raise them with more ease than they can be raised anywhere else, we can raise tnera cneaper, too, ana tne people are yearning for good apples everywhere. They will not buy wormy and scabby irult covered with vermin, except when' you starve them to It, and then a very ;uue or it goes a long way. Thev cannot 1 uy the fancy fruit at $2.0 to $5 per box, and. besides. It is not everybody t at Van produce the fancy fruit", and. even If the- did, not all their fruit would be fancy. Let us be up and doing for our own good as well ns the other fellow. Clean up the treea or clean them out and raise spuds. BETTER WES SURELY COMING All Indications Point to a Slow Recuperation in Fi nancial Matters. HOLD IIIG SHEEP FOR SHEARING aivaBaaaaaMaaaMBBM.HaMaaa Light Arrivals in Yards Due to Opening of Wool Sea son Next Week. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK MARKET. . Veh. i 9 -RecuDeratlon Is I s Hogs. Cattle. Shee ye" rteady progreee in the wtk ; 10 B6 1806 ...108S (United Pre Leased Wire.) New York, making alow financial dlatrlct. The betterment go Ing on la generally of a kind not easily aeen, but which Is nevertheless laying foundatlona for a mora visible recovery later. Liquidation haa been very drastic and complete; weak apots have been thoroughly eliminated, and pricea are ao low aa to amply dtacounx all unfavor able condltlona In the bttpr claaa of securities. It Is true that many un satisfactory problems have still to be solved. Business depression, though di minishing, Btlll la general and la likely to continue to some extent until the presidential nominations and the crop outlook are definitely settled. In trade reactionary tendencies prevail and mora or leaa friction and trouble la certain on account of the Inevitable readjuatment of pricea and wagea to lower levela. Rail road a are keenly feel ing thla reaction and their managementa are more or less depreaaed over a com plicated situation. Borne of the" weaker railroads and In dustrials will feel the present reaction severely, possibly with moat unpleasant conaequencea, but In the main theae con ditions have been well discounted on the stock exchange and there Is little otiance for any further fall of consequence In the value of good securities. The market, however, lacka stimulat ing conditions and mora or leas Inertia exlata everywhere. For some time to come fluctuationa are very likely to be within a comparatively narrow range, although each week finda the market In a aafer and aounder condition. There are irood reasons for hoping this period of Inertia will be ahorter than uaual, especially aa thla panic, violent aa it waa In the financial dlatrlct. Is having lesa effect on trade than uaual because of the absence of any great surplus of products. uetier times are aurvijr uvuwui. Range of prices: DESCRIPTION. Amal. Copper Suaar Col Fuel & Iron Brooklyn People's Oas U. 8. Bteel; 0.. do pfd Atchison ...... Bait. & Ohio . . Canadian Pao. Erie I A N Missouri Pac. Pennsylvania . Reading ....... Rock Island 80. Pacldo St. Paul U. Pacific Am. Smelter . . N. Y. Central . N. Pacific . Anaconda C. A O Southern Ry. . Soo, c Am. Locomotive Cotton Oil Cent. Leather . Ont. A West. . O. Northern . - Rock Island, p. Den. & Rio Q. Wabash, pfd. Smelter, pfd. Total sales 214,600 shares O K r a I 61 614 BOH SOX 114 VS 114 US 1144 17 17 16H 1H 40HI 40 S9 40V. . 86 S8V4 85 $ . 28 28 28 4 28 Vi . 92 Vi 62 Vi 91 (2 .j 68 Vk t 67 68 '. Hi" i'ii" lis" 143$. .13 13 12 12 . 8Vi 89V4 . 31Vi 81 30 31 . 112 112 111 112 . 96 96 94 94 . 11 11 11 114 . 68 7 67 . 110 110 108 109 . 113 114 110 111 . 60 60 68 59 . $4 94 93 94 . 122 122 120 121 . 83 33 32 33 . 27 27 26 26 . 10 10 9 9 . 9(1 96 94 94 . 82 32 . 25 26 I 16 16 . 80 80 117 21 . 15 IS 16 16 . 14 14 14 14 1 89 608 8A5 229 683 ft 17?: 767 1671 - By Hrman It Cohen. Portland Union Stockyards, Feb. 29. But a few handfuhl of sheen cams Into the yarda during the paat aix daya and aa a reault tha market sold right up to the top of last week's record prices. All efforts, however, to fore the market higher proved a failure for the reason that killers say they cannot gat their money out of higher-priced goods and will not buy. Thla eventually forces sellers to take the preaent market for which they are not at all thankful. The cauae of auch a nominal run of UaheeD In the yarda at thia time 1b at trlbuted to the nearness of tne shearing season; which starts In a few favored sections Monday morning. In a few weeks shearing will be In full blast and then will begin the annual run of shorn stock to market. . There Is much doubt In tha minds of the wool trade at this time as to whether the prices of a year ago will be continued this seaaon becauaa of tha lower levela reached in all other raw materials. Sheepmen, however, are still aa confident aa ever and aay they will get very close to 1907 pricea. mall Man Holds Cattle. Had the run of cattle been normal during the past six daya It la very like ly that a lower range of valuea would have ruled. Aa matters stood even with the light arrivals tha market was only fair to steady with valuea main tained. In former years at this time there waa a much aofter tone develop ing In cattle and generally speaking some price losses were ahown. A better tone In the price of hoga in the various marketa eaat of the Rockies waa all that saved the local market from developing; severe dullness. Light recelpta held the price Intact, although even with thla nominal run as com pared with the demand, the killers tried to force figures down. Opinions differ aa to the probable course of the hog market in the near future but most in terests Agree that low levels have been reached and an advance would not be surprising. A year ago for this period there waa a firm tone In hogs end sheep, but cat tle were dull with prices fractionally lower. Official yard values today: Hogs Best stuff, I5.254r5.36; atoek ers nd China fata. $4.00(35.00. Cattle Best eastern Oregon steers, $4 3644 50; cows and heifers, $3. 60ft S.76; bulla. $2.00 2.60. Sheep Best wethera, $5.7606.00; iambs, $6.006 25; ewes, J5.005.50. HOGS HIGHER IS EAST. Prices Are 5c to 10c Advanced Cat tle and Sheep Steady. (United Preas Leased Wire.) Chicago, Feb. 29. Hoga. 10.000; rattle. 800; sheep, 8.000. Hoga are 6 to 10c higher; left over from yesterday, 4, 400. Mixed, 84.80S4.60; heavy, 1 4. 50 ft 4.66; rough and heavy, $4.30$4.40; light. $4.8004.60. Cattle Steady. Sheep Steady. COPPER SHARES THE BOSTON MARKET (Furnished by Overbeck & Cooke Co.) uoston, eD. z. umciai prices: Adventure Allouei 2 60s. $19.00: 100s. $18.76; bales. $2.10; imported Liverpool, 60s, $2u.0a. ItOa, 119.00; 4a, 18.uo; extra Una uarrela, 2a Sa and 10s, $4.60a 6.60; Liverpool lump tock, $20.60 per to; 60-lb rock. $11.60; iUOs. $13. CO. (Above prices apply to Sale' of leaa than car lota. Car lots at special prices subject to riuriuaiiona.j RICK Imperial Japan. No. 1, 6c; No. 2, 6Vx($6c; New Orleans, head, 7c; A lax. 6c: Creole. &c. - BKANS Small white, $4.26; large white. $4.10; pink. $4.10: bayou. $S.90; Limns. $6.60; Mexican reds. 4c. NUTS Peanuts, Jumbo. 7o par lb; Virginia, 6 per lb; roasted. 9c per lb; Japanese, 6 6c;, roasted, 8c per id; wainuia. caiuoruia, 10c per 10; pine nufi, 16c par lb; hickory nuia, 10c per lb; brazil nuts, 16o per ib; fil berts, l&c per lb; fancy pecans, li&zvo per ir: aimoncs, ic Heats, run and FroTlslona. DRESSED MEATS Front street Hogs, fancy.. 7o lb; ordinary. 7c; large, 6HWo lb; veal, extra, vvtwil'lc) per Ib; ordinary, Be per lo; heavy, 4f8o per lb; .nut ton, fancy. Ho per lb. HAMS, BACON, KTC fortian.1 pacK (local) ha in a 10 to 12 lbs.. lZfeo oar b: 14 to 1 lbs.. 12o per lb; 18 to 20 lbs.. 12c; breamaai paeon, i6ttv!Ho per 10; piectca, we per id; cottage roll. 1'JC Der lo: resuiar abort clears, smoked. Ho pes lb; unsmoked, 10a par lb; clear backs, unsmoked, 10e; ' smoked. He; Union butts, 10 to ISo lb; unsmoked, 12c per lb: smoked ISo cer lb: clear Denies, unomoKea, io per id; emoaea. 13c per lb;, shoulders, 10c; per lb; pickled tongut 70o each. LOCAL LARD Kettle leaf, 10s, 12c per lb; 6s, 13o per lb; 60-lb. tins, 12o per lb; steam rendered. 10s, 11 o per Ib; 6a, 11 o per lb; compound, 10s, 8 c per lb. FI8H Rok cod, llo lb: flounders, 6a lb; halibut, b6o per lb; striped bass. Ito per in; catfish. Ho per lb; sal mon, chinoon, 12o lb; ateelhead,, lie rer lb; froaen, to; herrings, c lb; aoieav To lb; shrimps, lOo par Ib; perch a par ibj torn cod. He par lb; lobs'.ers, 25c per lb.: freah mackerel, la per lb: crawfish, S60 per dosen; stur geon, 12c per lb; black bass.. lOo par lb; silver ameit, 607o per lb: Columbia smelt, 7c; black: cod, 7 c lb; crabs, $1.0001.60 dosen. 7 OY8TERS--Sboawatsr bay. par ' 1 ion. $2.50: per lpo-io sacs, ift.oo; uiynv pac gallon. $6.006.60; Ragle, canned, 6O0 can: $T docen; eastern In shell, $1.76 per hun dred. CLAMS Hardshell, per box. $2.40; raxor clam a. $2.00 per box: 10o per do. Faints. Coal OIL Eta. . ROPE Pure manlla. 13c: standard. llc; sisal, 9c; I. B. sisal, 8c. Coal Oils Iron Bbls. Cases. Wood Bbls. Water White ..11 o Pearl Oil Head Light ..12o Eocene Special W. W..14o Elaine Extra Star Gasoline Iron Bbls. V. M. and P. Naptha ...12c Red Crown Gasoline ...18c Motor Gasoline 18c 86 per cent Gasoline ...30 c No 1 Eneine Distillate. .10 o BENZINE 86 deg., cases, 26o per gal; Iron titil 23c per gal. TURPEN ' INE In casea, 72c per gal; wood bbls, 69 c per gal. LINSEED OIL Raw. bbls 62c, cases 58c; boiled, bbls 64c, cases 60c a gal; lots Of 250 gallons 1c leas. - WHITE LEAD Ton lots. 7c per lb; 600-lb lots, 8c per lb; less lots. 8c. WIRE NAILS Preaent basis at $1 10. .... is c 18o .... 19 q 160 21o .... .... 18c 28 o .... 21c Casea 19o 25o 26c 37c 17 0 Atlanta 10 Con. Rang. 62 Daly West.. 9 A Dom. Cop. C. Ely Sold Hill Greene . . . Michigan Mohawk . No. Butte Nev. Cons 3iroux 3 1 lOld Dora. . 21 BjOsceola . . . 8 A . .62 Quincy Shannon Tamarack Utah Victoria AiWinona tsuue oaia.ii United Cop. 11 rinny iParrot 17 A iNlpplssing ..6 37 82 84 A 10 67 88 4 la.19 ?.. 64: ...13 Kansas City. Feb. 29. Hoga, 6.000; cattle, 200; sheep none. Omaha, Neb.. Feb. 29 Hogs. 1.600: cattle, 400; sheep none. A SHARP RISE III 15 JITES Takes but Quarter of Hour to Eout Bears and Put Wheat 1 3-8c Up. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. Open. Close. Feb. 21. Gain. May 8f 99 1 1 July 82 94 'tsft 1 (I'nit.d prcai Leased Wire.) Chicago, Feb. 29. With nearly srerr prorusslonal trader prepared to ses , prices lower for wheat, the market want In the contrary direction. An sxoited rise carried the price up le abov where it closed the day bafora and It took only about fifteen minutes to affect that result. There was no materia) change in the situation alnce yesterday afternoon to account for the atrength, but aome points in the early dispatches put conditions In a stronger light than they were before. Liverpool went lower On Quotations. In sympathy with tha decline here the day before. Antwerp and Berlin were unchanged and Buda pest from He to lc higher. Tbe pries continued to advance here and May had soon advanced to 99 r, or practically lo above where It closed Friday. Kansas City dispatchea were stimulating to tha bulls, stating that stocks of wheat in store there were decreasing rapidly. St. Louis and Omaha also reported similar condltlona. Strength of the market for futures was maintained to the endX Demand for corn waa better on acv count of what waa doing in wheat, but trad was comparatively light. Liver pool futures were d lower and the main features of the domestic altuatlon were without change. Dull tone of tha trade In the early part of the aeaalon resulted In greater weakness before the end. The demand waa only moderate from Frldaya prices to o lower. Specutatlvs trade In oats was light and prices without material change from yesterday. There were free sales for September delivery and tha elevator Intereata continued to sell May against their purchases In the country. . Prices wars very little different at tha close from the day before and In tha sample market the offerings went slowly at from Friday's prloes to c lower. Prices of hog products wer ss buoy ant at tha opening as wera those In wheat, the advance at tha Immediate start being quite material, pork show ing a gain of 17c and lard and rib from 5c to 6 c. Cash Bales: W heat No. 2 winter red, '9c9 $1.01; No. 3 retl, 95$1.00: Na 1 hard, 9091c; No. 3, 95$1.0S; No. 3 spring, ll.00ifJl.il. Corn No. 3, 66 c; No. S whita, (7 ff 57c; No. 3 yellow, 58 61c; No. 4, &4H4j65c. Oats No. 3 white. 5l(ft63e: No. 4 white, 48H5'c; standard, 62c. Range of pricea: WHEAT. May July May July May July May July Open. ...97 ...92 High. 95Vi CORN. .61 61 .69 60 OATS. .61 61 .43 43 MESS PORK. .1170 1180 .1206 1216 Ixw. Close. 97 99 92 94 Vi 68 43 1170 120S an. 117 111$ Liverpool Wheat Market. Liverpool, Fab. - 29. -May closed at 7s2d wheat a net loss or Ad. Chicago Cosh Barley. Chicago. Feb. 19. Cash barley, 71 9 90c KIDNAPED IN FIGHT FOR MILLIONS, HE SAYS Kept In Prison Ten Days So He Couldn't Finance Road, De claret Victim. SPOKAXE MINING EXCHANGE. Price of Coeur d'AJene "Shares Dur ing the Trade of Saturday. ( VwrKaA Ytv r)An1nr.lfnntrln C n Members Spokane Mining Exchanae.) Spokane, Waah, Feb. 29. Official prices: Bid. AJax 10 Alameda S Alhanibra 6 Alberta Coal & Coke 20 Bell 6 Bullion , 6 Charles Dickens 16 Canadian Ccns. Smelters.. 60 Copper King 3 Dominion Copper 200 Evolution . 3 Echo 1 Galbralth Coal 19 Oertle 4 Hecla :.235 Happy Dcy 3 Chicago Dairy Markef. Chicago, Feb. 29. Butter, steady; creameries, Sl32c. Eggs. steady price flrsta, 21c, Cheese, atrong, 11 140. : ' ' New York Dairy Market. New Tork, Feb. 29. Butter, ateady; best creameries, 31c. Cheese, steady, 16c. Eggs, ateady, 23c. J. L. Briatow, former fourth assist ant poatmaater-aeneral, has made for mal announcement of hla candidacy for tha . United States senate to succeed Chester I. Long of Kansas, whose term will expire next March. lTanaaa onra tha ttrnnrhnM of PoO- ullsm. has evidently turned its pack on tha party. The Populist atate con vention which was to have been held in'Tooeka next month, will probably bt Abandoned ; t , . x Holden G & C 2 Humming Bird 4 Hyootheck IK Idaho Giant 4 Intl. Coal & Coko 76 Kendall 91 Lucky Calumet 14 Missoula Copper 6 Mineral Farm Moonlight 2 Nabob ' . . 3 Nino Mile O. K. Cons 1 Com Paul .., 6 Panhandle Smelt t - Park Copper 1 Rambler Cariboo 25 Reindeer 1 Rex (16 to 1) 17 6onora S SnowShee 9 Snowstorm ,141 Sullivan 3 Sullivan Bonds 60 Stewart 90 Tamarack A Ches. . , 60 Wonder '. :. 1 paies l.uuu copper King Ask. 17 4 7 33 16 6K 17 76 4 250 2 2 28 3 8 8 2 6 80 100 19 6 2 4 $ z 2 8 8 2 27 !? it 160 7? 99 100 IK o, 3,600 Panhandle at So, 3,000 Sullivan at 2Vtc, 1,000 Evolution at 2c. Take a Suit Case to Market. From tha Cleveland Plain Dealer. 'Is there a tailor Shop in here?" re peated tha proprietor of a stall in the Fourth street market tha other day, in response to a oueatlon. "Oh, yon thought those suit casaa were being earrled to a tailor shop? No, Indeed. That's tha way a lot of men do their marketing: A man doean't like to carry a basket over hla arm, and he finds a suit case will do just as well. That man over yonder with tha big suit case, comes In once a week and gets the caa half full Pittsburg, Feb. 29. A trumped-up charge of a $7 larceny aa the bait; $1,600,000 Btreet railway franchise tha prise; tha use of Pittsburg detectives as tools; the kidnaping of a financier from his New Jersey home, at New Monmouth, near Red Bank. In a wild auto ride into Pennsylvania jurisdic tion; the Incarceration of Charles B Thompson, president of the West Ches ter & Pottstown Railway company for 10 days In the Allegheny county jail without the public's knowledge these are the tacts in a rinanciai ararmi wun a Pittsburg locale that were revealed yeaterday in a civil suit for $50,000, inatituted In the United States circuit eeurt against C. F. Goldstrohm, real ea Late broker of Pittsburg. Simultaneously with the civil BUlt crlfutjtal Informations were sworn out before Alderman John J. Sweeney (aralnat Ooldstrohm). charging conaplr acy on three counts, as well as against John Mcllugh and othi-rs Thompron is in Pittsburg in consul tation with his attorneys. He alleges the uartles named as defendants are Interested in a rival trolley road and desired to get possession of hla road. In order to do this, he alleges, they trumped up a charge of larceny of a $7 watch. Thompson was taken from his homo by Detective Fred Will of Pittsburg. He was a'-Quiticd after a trial in criminal court here. Thompson alleges that the defendanta desired to imprison him so he could not complete the financing of his road. In which event the franchise could be bough, cheaply. HOW 'DRUGS AKE TESTED Ergot ine Tried on Chickens; Digi tal ia on I Yogs. From the Los Angeles Times. A lot cf sorry looking chickens, dogs and cats loafed In the black. lll-srheillng yard of the great chemical plant. "We use these animals to test our drugs on." said the chemist. "They more than earn their board. "Ergotlne is a drug we test on chick ens, it la a simple test, If S ,dose of ergitii.e fulls to turn a chicken a comb black we know that the drus Is, for some reason or other, worthless. , 'Hahheesh test on dogs. Hash eesh is rmicie of female hemp butfs; male medicinal value, yet Borne dishonest dealers put male buds on the market, and since they resemble tha female buds precisely it ia Impos sible to detect them save by an actual teat. Dogs, given hasheesh, get drunk and happy if the stun is goou. "DJKitalis, the heart stimulant, la tested on froge. We Inject a drop of It into a frog'a stomach and in the kymc rraph. or heart recording machine, we study the changes that take plaos in the frog's heart action. Thua we get a very accurate nowu wf. wuat, vr GIRLS AS AUCTIONEERS TO HELP )LD FATHER Weeping, They Sell Furniture M Constables Throw It Out of House. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 29 When con stables evicted Colonel James M. Piper from the liandaoms horns ha had oc eupled for years, his daughters Nellie and Barbara, agad 18 and 16 years, stood on tha lawn and sold soma of the furniture to ralaa enough money to pro. vide a sleeping placs for their aged father. , . It- waa the crash of mirrors and other articles that nerved the young omen in hnM tha Imnromntu auction. Tha constables, when ithey got to the second story, began throwing everything out of the windows. Chiffoniers, dressing tables, cheval glasses fall. Tha girls went, but in the end their courage over came their suffering. Standing on the stone fence, they orrered rurniture ror sals to men and women in the Btreet. "Buy from us. so our father mar sleep In comfort tonight." they cried in turn, in teas man am aour every thing was aold aave a few articles the young women wished to keep as ma- men toes 01 tneir rormer comrori. - ,.- ... , m 111. MONOGRAPH RECORDS ARE GIRLS' LETTERS Children Mail Their "Conversation" to Alaska Mission-aries. Litlti. Pa., Feb. 29 Emily and Marie Shoeckert, little daughters Of Moravian missionaries In middle Alas ka, have a novel way of "wrltlof home." From day to day Interesting thing. which one or the other of the children desires to communicate toHhejfather and mother In the ice-bound north, are , made Into a phonographic record, which is mailed to Alaska. The missionaries are provided with a phonograph, and upon receipt of the "letter" from their daughters at school, the record is at tached to the machine, enabling tha ' parents to listen to the voices of their W gins. Generally It renulre three months 16 transmit the "letter" to the AlasLa station. "rn wa ever teat drugs on ourselves? Oh yes. Indeed; often, j Chemists have i.V their lives, chemists have gone ln-i curably Insane through too rash brav ery In testing drugs nthflr own persons.- . y' '1:; He Knew the Xaagnage. , From Reynold's Newspaper. - . , ! In the Enellah club at Honckona a white-haired old sentlemAn who Lad come down from aome northern port was seated at dinner when he suddenly became very excited. - He had been brought a letter by a solemn-faced Chinese butler and he saw . something; on the outside of this let ter which sent him downatalrs twn steps at a time' to interview the hall porter. when he came back fee told us what was the matter. ' The hall porter had inscribed n the envelope In Chinese for the informa tion of the buUer: ? "This Is for ins old 1 baboon with whit fur." t'nfu tunately for tha ball porter tha lit, gentleman waa a first-class scholar a CUnese Unus(, . a ' I' : , ...I - ; .-rv I