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PACIFIC COAST NEWS’
In S o u t h e r n
C o m m e r e la l a n d F in a n c ia l H a p p e n in g «
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T e m p o r a r y R e a c t io n F r o m t h e H e a r t« « *
H o li d a y T r a d e o n R e c o r d .
Bradstreet’s says: Holiday influence
Manila, Jan. 8.—The first movement
Nsw York. Jan. 1.—A dsipatch to
and stock-taking impart an appearance
of the general southern advance oc
the Herald from Benm «ays:
Want*» England to Define The Lokal Anzieger publishes the curred this morning, when two huttal-
of dullne«« to general distributive trade,
broken, however, by fair activity in
ions
of
the
Eonrth
infantry
landed
and
oon
tents
of
the
German-English-Portu
Her Position.
Since the first of July the people of
guese secret treaty. This double treaty occupied Cabuyao, on the sooth side Alaska have contributed to the federal reorder business to fill np stocks de
will hat e executive force a* soon a« the of Laguna de Bay. Two Americans treasury in license money the magnifi pleted by the heaviest holiday trade
that has ever been experienced.
Hwisa
Jurists, Messr«. Blaesl-Hensley | were killed and two wounded. Twen
W H A T IS C O N T R A B A N D O F WAR
cent sum of $168,278.40 for the privi
Anticipation of spring trade wants
and Gohlau, have given a decision in 1 ty-four oi the enemy were found dead
in one house. One hnndred and fifty lege of doing business in Alaska and has given a more than ordinarily ac
the Delagoa bay arbitration.
developing the territory, says the Hkag-
'Hie decision, it is expected, w ill be prisoners and four six-pounder rapid- way Alaskan. This is in audition to tive appearance to business in dry
F v a a lb le C h u n g « o f P u l l e y —S ir C h a r i« «
goods at New York, while in industrial
fire
guua
were
captured.
given
In
January
or
February
and
will
U l l lt « W a r n « A g a in « ! a H a a t y O v e r -
the tariff duties paid,internal revenues, lines the efforts of manufacturers to
Tiie
gunlXMtt
Iatguua
de
Bay
bom
probably
be
in
favor
of
England,
in
t u r u ln g o f P r e c e d e n t » .
taxes and all other taxes common to
which case Portugal must pay to Eng barded the town before the disembark the country at large. It is a special keep up with filled order-books is re
land and America an indemnity of £1,- ation of the troops from the cascoes, tax levied upon business in Alaska sulting in unusually active operations.
Following the flurry in money, stocks
London, Jan. 1.— Lord Rosebery 000,000. England obtained in 1801 which was made under the enemy’s
alone, such as no other citizens of the and in some lines of speculative com
write« a« follow« thia morning to tiie from Portugal the right of pre-emption shrapnel fire. The enemy evacuated
United States are required to pay; in modities noted last week, has come, as
in Delagoa bay, and the cession of Del tiie place before the charging Ameri
Time«:
“ There are disquieting intimation« agoa bay to England may therefore be cans, retreating to Santa Rosa, to fact it is a tax that was never before in was expected, a more cheerful tone,
the history of the United States levied and a firming up in quotations is noted
which town they were pursued.
which apjtear to poiut to onr govern expected in March next.
in such staples as cotton, which was
Heavy fighting occurred along the against any of its people.
ment having treated ftxslstuffs uh con
It is possible that President Krnger
effected by last week’s money develop
traband of war. Aa till» ia a matter of may now declare war on Portugal and road to Kauta Rosa, which was occu
P l e n t y o f S u p p lie s a t D a v r « o n .
pied by the insurgents, retreating south
supreme iin]x>rtance, I venture to ad- attack Delagoa at once.
D. W. Bullock, lately arrived from ments, and also in hog products, cof
fee, copper, tin and lead. The strength
dress thin lino to you in the hope that
In order to prevent any interference toward Si Ian. The Americans burned Dawson, said to an Alaskan reporter:
it muy elicit an authoritative statement by France or Bussiu, Enlgand con the country around Cabuyao.
“Dawson is supplied with everything of textiles is still a feature which finds
The gunboat returned to Calarnba, needed there for the winter. The re justification in current statistics of
cluded a secret treaty with Germany
on the subject. “
for
reinforcements, and thence came port as to a great shortage of oats is larger season’s receipts and sales of
The Time«, commenting editorially regarding the complete partition of the
Portuguese colonial possessions. Ger to Manila to get ammunition. She not true. There is plenty of oats along wool, and in reports of enlarged old
upon Lord Hoselierry's letter, nay«:
and heavily increased new capacity in
“ Too little in known of the seisnres many is to receive all the Portuguese recently captured two of the enemy’s the river and in Dawson to supply t>
manufacturing lines.
for any valid inference safely to he possessions in Asia, with 20,000 square steam launches, one under the fire of interior. When we got away fro
In iron and steel, seasonable quiet as
drawn. Au emergency might ariae miles of territory ami 1,000,000 inhab artillery, at Calarnba, and also fdur Dawson, November 7, oats were sell
when certain foodstuffs would b« re itants. Germany further receives in cascoes loaded with rice. Other regi ing for 22 cents a pound and hay at regards new business is observable, but
garded a« contraband while other« Africa all Portuguese territory north of ments are mobilizing tonight at Han 16 cents. Last winter oats went to 40 unabated activity on earlier booked
would not, especially if the latter were Mozambique, except a strip of land Pedro Macati and Pasig, preparatory to and 45 cents, and hay to 35 to 60 cents. orders is reported. In some cases, no
intended for ooncombatunts. There three miles wide, for Mr. Cecil Rhodes’ continuing the southern advance.
Tobacco sells in Dawson, today for $1 shutdown was made for the holidays
Yesterday’s capture of bombs in to $1.25 a pound, less than it brings in by mills and furnaces.
might, for instance, be reaa.mable trans-African railway. For this the
Wheat (including floor) shipments
ground« for treating canned good« a« German government will pay Portugal volved the seizure of documents incul BennetA The Bennett price is $1.50 a
for
the week aggregate 3,610,557 bush
pating
1,000
Filipinos
who
intended
to
contraband and flour aa legitimate.“
pound. Flour that sold for $8 in Daw
25,000,000 marks.
rise against the Americans. Papers son a year ago is worth only $4.75 els, agaist 2,813,714 bushels last week,
After admitting that it “ would l>e
R E S T A T A R L IN G T O N .
were also found showing a distribution there today. There will be plenty of 6,202,625 bushels in the corresponding
tinad vieable to create a precedent w'hich
might some day bo invoked against B u r ia l o f t h e M »rtyr«< l H e r o « » o f t h e of the city into districts, and a careful beef in Dawson throughout the winter. week of 1808. 6,495,061 bushels is
us, “ the article concludes as follow«:
assignment of leaders and followers. Dumbolton had four scows lotwled with 1895.
M a in e .
For the year, failures are the smallest
Tiie precautions taken by the Ameri l>eef on the way in, one cf which is at
“ While we fully share the view that
Washington. Jan. 1.—Upon the
cans Saturday, it is now evident, alone Selkirk and one at Stewart river. I do in number for 17 years past, and were
no serious change of policy should oc
windy heights of Arlington cemetery,
cur without cogent reasons and ample the Maine dead, brought from Havana prevented an uprsing.
not know where the others are. Dum- it not for a few heavy fiancial suspen
The provost marshal has requested Ixjlton will take the meat through to sions in December, liabilities, which
consideration, we cannot but ask our
by the battleship Texes, today were
selves whether, in the event of Great, laid away in their final resting places, that two more regiments be detained Dawson over the ice after the river w ill exceed those of 1892 slightly,
would have been smallest for 12 yeais
for the protection of Manila. Three
Britain lasing engaged in a war, the
with simple religious services, and the thousand troops are now actually in freezes. McDougall & Burns have 80 past.
action, either of the enemy or even o i '
tons below Selkirk and will take it in
neutral powers, in a matter upon, impressive honors of war, in the pres the city.
P A C IF IC C O A S T TRADE.
.over the ice. The labor market of
ence of the president, members of his
Aguinaldo’s wife, sisters and 18 Dawson is glutted. There vHsre 1,000
which such great divergence of opinion i
S e a t t l e M a r k e t« .
still exists is likely to he governed by cabinet, officers of the army and navy Filipinos have surrendered to Major to 1,500 idle men in the town when I
and other officers of the government.
Onions, new, $ 1.00@1.25 per sack.
March’s battalion of the Third infantry left, and more were rushing in from np
any precwleut we or any one else may
A cabinet officer, surveying the flag-
Potatoes, new, $16@20.
have set in the past, rather than by tlx draped coffins before the ceremony l»e- at Bontoo. Three Filipino officers also the river.”
Beets, per sack, 75 @ 85c.
surrendered to Major March, and the
immediate interests of the momt it .“
gan, said: “ The lives of these men ' Filipinos gave np two Spanish and two
A t lln « F u t u r e O u tp u t.
Turnips, per sack, 60c.
cost Spain her colonies.” But there American prisoners.
Charles Christopher, who has nego
A NEW YO R K F IR E .
Carrots, per sack, 60c.
was no note of triupmh in the grim
tiated more large Atlin mining deal»
Parsnips, per sack, 75@85c.
A GREAT Z IN C ~ T R U S T .
T w o S e v e n - S t o r y I t u lh lln g a W e r e D e - scene today.
With a touch of sadness
than any other man in the country dur
Cauliflower,
75c@$l per dozen.
M troyed—F ir e m e n I n j u r e d .
and solemn gravity, the nation i n
ing the season recently closed, is au
Cabbage, native and California, 75
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New York, Jan. 1.—The two seven- formed its duty to the dead and gave
thority for the statement that there @90o per 100 pounds.
t h e C o u n tr y .
story building« at 425 to 436 East1 its defenders u Christian burial at
will be no less than half a dozen large
Peaches, 65 @ 80c.
Chicago, Jan. 3.—Information has hydraulic plants put in operation in
Twenty-fourth street, occupied prinoi- ' home, in soil hallowed by patriotio
Apples, $1.25 @1.50 per box.
reached
Chicago
of
a
proposed
combi
pally by the wall-paper factory of Wil dead.
Atlin with the opening of spring. He
Pears, $1.00@1.25 per box.
nation to control the zinc output of the says the ontpnt of gold in that country
liam Campbell & Co., were destroyed
B a t t l e W it h R o b b e r « .
ITunes, 60c per box.
United
States.
Work
on
the
scheme
by Are tonight. The io«« is fully
Seattle, Jan. 1.—Two masked men has been begun, and the initial steps will exceed $5,000,000. The gold com
Watermelons, $1.60.
$600,000. The plant of the New York held up a Ballard street-car at 11
missioner collected royalty on about
Nutmegs, 50@76o.
Ilygienic Ice Company, which occu o’clock tonight. There were eight have been taken in Kansas City. Ac $700,000 thia summer, but he failed to
Batter—Creamery, 32c per pound;
pied the basement of 426, and that of passengers aboard, and a regular fusil cording to one of the best-known zinc collect on more than half the output. dairy, 17 @ 22c; ranch, 22c per ponnd.
operators,
who
was
in
Chicago
yester
the Manhattan Electric Light Com lade of shots was fired. One of the
There was at least $1,500,000 taken
Eggs— Firm, 30 @ 31c.
pany, on the first and second fltxtrs of passengers inside the car, C. E. Plimp day, the plan includes not only the out of the Atlin gold fields this year,
Cheese—Native.
16c.
the same building, were totally de ton, opened fire on the hghwayman en control of the mines, but of the smelt and next year the output w ill exceed
Poultry—9@10c; dressed, 13@14o.
ing
plants
as
well.
Within
a
short
stroyed. A large portion of the east tering from the rear, ami three shots
$5,000,000. Last summer the great
Hay— Puget Sound timothy, $12.00;
side gets its lights from that company, were returned. One broke Plimpton’s time representatives of the combination majority of the miners did not get to choice Eastern Washington timothy,
will
get
a
price
on
all
producing
zino
and was, on account of the fire, cast arm and the other entered his breast.
work l>efore August 1, and they all $17.00@ 18.00
mines in the Joplin, Mo., district, and
into complete darkness. The Campbell
Com—Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23;
Shortly after midnight the police secure options on them. It has been worked small claims and handled most
company employed 400 hands, who found near the scene of the Ballard
of the dirt with shovels. Next year feed meal, $23.
w ill be thrown out of work by the fire. street-car hold-up the body of one oi estimated by the promoters that it will they will handle it by the hydraulic
Barley— Rolled or ground, per ton,
The projierties of all three firms are de the two bandits. He had been almost take in the neighborhood of $100.000,- process.
$21;
whole, $22.
stroyed beyond the hope of saving a instantly killed by a bullet from a 000 to swing the undertaking success
Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.35;
S n o w s li d e o n W h i t e P a s s .
fully.
and
this
amounnt
of
money,
with
dollar’« worth. The lo««c« are partly passenger’s pistol. The body is still
News of a big snowslide on the blended straights, $3.10; California,
as much more as may be necessary, is
covered l>y insurance.
unidentified.
White
Pass & Yukon railroad was $3 .25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
said to be ready to go into the
Three hook-and-ladder men, Andrew
brought
to Victoria by the steamer ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat
B i g B u f f a lo M in e T u r n « <Ait R i c h .
scheme.“
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Degnan, Joseph Shaughnessy and Jos
Tees.
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rotary and two engines were floor, $3.10; rye flour, $3.80@4.00.
Baker City, Or., Jan. 1.—A seusa
eph Bessinger, were ouught on the sixth
Millstnffs— Bran, per ton, $16.00;
buried
by
the slide,and after they were
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floor ofjthe building, and escaped with tional strike was made today in A.
shorts, per ton, $17.00.
shoveled
out,
the
rotary
ran
into
a
great difficulty. All were severely Geiser’s Big Buffalo mine, two miles P h o s p h a t e C a r r ie r O oen D o w n , b a t
Feed—Chopped feed, $20.60 per ton;
rock, knocking oat 13 of its 20 knives.
burned. Shaughnessy and Bessinger west of this city. The miners took
C r e w 1» S a v e d .
middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal,
The
train
which
was
behind
the
snow-
were sent to Bellevue hospital. The several samples of ore from the tunnel,
per ton, $32.00.
Chicago, Jan. 3.—A special to the bucking outfit was not injured.
other hook-and-ladder men were caught which today tapped the 80-foot ledge. Tribune from Norfolk, Va., says: The
P. O’Regan, one of those who en
P o r tla n d M a rk et.
on one of the high window ledges, with By assays just returned to the owner schooners Fannie Brown and Margaret
deavored to walk to Skagway from the
the flames roaring all around them and of the mine, the samples ail show gold Roper collided off Hatteras, and the snowbound train, was found uncon
Wheat — Walla Walla. 61@52o;
the dense smoke making them almost values ranging from $18 to $102.75 in Fannie Brown sank. The 10 men of
scious, with his face and hands frozen. Valley, 62c; Blnestem, 54c per bushel.
imperceptible from the street. Exten gold and five ounces of silver io the the crew were saved by the crew of the
Flour—Best grades, $3.00; graham,
The operator at Glacier reported tc
sion ladders were run and firemen ton. Mr. Geiser, who was formerly Roper.
$2.50; superfine, $2.16 per barrel.
Skagway
that
the
track
there
was
cov
brought them down in an almost un part owner of the Bonanza mine, said
Oats—Choice white, 34 @ 35c; choice
The collision occurred on the night ered for a distance of 850 feet a depth
conscious condition. One of the men, today that if the values hold out of December 20, daring a high wind.
gray, 34c per bushel.
of
five
to
20
feet.
Telegraph
wires
be
Lee Potter, was very severely burned, throughout the Big Buffalo, the prop The big schooners crashed together be
Barley—Feed barley, $15 @16.00;
yond Glacier are down.
erty will be equal to the Bonanza. The
and was sent to Bellevue hospital.
brewing, $18.u0@ 16.60 per tou.
fore the lookouts saw the danger. The
Big Buffalo is within plain sight of
Millstnffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid
H e n t h e n C h in e s e T h r e w a B o m b .
TW O TRAINS W R E C K E D .
Brown, being loaded with rock and
this city.
dlings,
$22; shorts, $18; chop, $16 per
At
Victoria,
B.
C.,
a
dastardly
at
phosphate, filler! rapidly, and its crew
O ne P e r so n W a s K ille d a n d F o u r te e n
the tempt was made to wreck a Chinese ton.
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Hay—Timothy, $9 @10.50; olover,
Winnipeg, Jan. 1.—rierre Dentzer, boats, the schooner sinkly shortly after Methodist mission church. While the $7 @8; Oregon wild hay, $6 @7 per ton.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 1.—The Chey-
congregation,
principally
Chinese,
wai
they
put
off.
The
Roper,
disabled,
. enne flyer on the Union Pacific rail a German farmer, aged 50, living near
Butter—Fancy creamery, 50 @ 65c;
worshipping, a bomb made of lead pip«
road crashed into the Boulder Valley Rathwell, 100 miles from Winnipeg, stood by, and after a hard stiuggle got and filled with gundpower was ex seconds, 42>t@45c; dairy, 37)i@ 40o;
train, at Brighton, Colo., at 6 thia shot and killed his 10-year-old wife in the Brown’s crew safely aboard.
ploded. No one w’as injured. The store, 25@ 85c.
morning. One man was killed, Win a fit of temper. Dentzer then carried
Eggs— 18 @ 19c per dozen.
deed is ascribed to heathen Chinese
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field ltandelman, express messenger, his baby to a neighbors’ house and -re
Cheese—Oregon
full cream, 13o;
London, Jan. 1.— A dispatch from jealous of the introduction of Christi
Denver, whose l>ody was burned to h turned home. The authorities were Lorenzo Marquez, dated December 23, anity among their countrymen.
Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo
crisp. Fourteen persons were injured. notified, and on approaching the house says a curious story is current, emanat
per ponnd.
T o I .l s t A l l t h e H o p « .
The Boulder Valley train left Denver found that the woman’s laxly had been ing from Boer sources that Matt. Steyn,
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.50@
a little late this morning, and as usual taken inside the house and a cross had brother of the president of the Orange
Directors of the Oregon Hopgrowers’ 3.60 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs,
stopped at Brighton, which is the junc been raised by Dentzer on the ground Free State, and 800 Free Staters have Association met in Salem Tuesday af $2.50@8.50; geese, $7.00@9.00 forold;
tion for the Boulder Valley line from where she had been shot. Dentzer had definitely refused to continue the war. ternoon, and were in secret session foni $4.50 @6.50 for young; ducks, $4.50
the ma’n line to Cheyenne. The Chey spread a sheet on the floor, placed his Matt. Steyn, acting as spokesman of hours. The chief business transacted per dozen; turkeys, live, 12>£@13o
enne flyer also left Denver late, and wife’s body on it, blew out his brains. the party, is reported to have told the was to require every local representa per ponnd.
coming into Brighton in the early
Potatoes—55@70o per sack; sweets,
W e n t T h r o u g h a B r id g e .
president that he was only authorized tive of the association to obtain a com
morning dusk, ran into the rear end of
plete
list
of
hopgrowers
and
the
amount
2@2Jio
per pound.
San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 1.—As to intevene in the interest of peace,
the Boulder train, telescoping two or
of hops now on hand in their respect
Vegetables—Beets, $1; turnips, 90o;
No. 83, west-bound freight train over and that the burghers did not feel that
three cars and derailing the passenger
The board also an per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cauli
the Sftnte Fe route, was crossing Cajon they were bound by his “unwarrantable ive districts.
locomotive.
conduct,” especially as they ran the nounced that it is now ready for busi flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, $1;
creek
bridge
today,
about
12
miles
Section gangs from Denver yards and
beans, 6@6c per ponnd; celery, 70@
north of this city, nine cars went risk of confiscation of their property, 1 ness.
half a dozen passengers occupied the
75o per dozen; cucumbers, 60o per
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and
they
simply
desried
to
be
permitted
the bridge into the creek bot
Boulder train. The mail and baggage through
box;
peas, 8@4o per ponnd; tomatoes,
tom. Hix of the cars weie loaded with to farm in peace and proposed to imme
An opera house is one of Albany’i 75o per box; green oom, 12
car and the smoker of the flyer were
diately return to their farms.
needs for 1900.
burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair cotton, one with telegraph wire, and
16c per dozen.
one
with
general
merchandise
and
sul
Mule-buyers from California are in
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car with six children. None of the
Hops—8 @ llc; 1898 crop, 5@6o.
Cedar Rapids, la., Jan. 3.— The Southern Oregon counties.
Wool—Valley, 12@13o per ponnd;
children were hurt, although she re phur. The cars caught fire and made
a terrible conflagration, destroying the
overland limited on the Northwestern
Eastern Oregon, 8@14c; mohair, 27 @
ceived serious injury. The wounded
A
Burns
paper
reports
a
sale
of
2,700
entire contents and framework. No
were brought to Denver and taken to
railway ran 50 miles last night with stock sheep at $2.60 per head.
80c per ponnd.
Mntton—Gross, best sheep, wethers
out an engineer. No one on the train
the hospitals. Conductor McAllister, one was killed. _________
It is estimated that the call for war
was conscious of the danger until the rants recently made by the county and ewes, 3)^c; dressed mutton, 6% @
of the Boulder valley train was crazed
A M u rd ero u s C o lle c to r .
by the accident. He attempted to
Chattanooga, Tenn.,Jan. 1.—Samuel fireman brought the train to a stand treasurer of Whatcom county covers 7c per ponnd; lambs, 7^fcc per ponnd.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
jump into the burning wreckage, and Mills, a collector for an imtallmeht still at Bertram. Near Mechanicsville, about $170,000 of county indebtedness.
light and feeders, $4.60; dressed,
had to be forcibly restrained.
house, this afternoon attempted to seize Engineer F. J. Fiske, in some unknown
Figures of real estate transfers re
In his proclamation to the burghers, furniture in the house of Mary Ven manner, fell from the cab, and the corded in King county (Seattle) sine« ! $ 6.60@6.00 per 100 pounds.
I Beef—Gross, top steers, $8.50 @4.00;
fireman
did
not
notice
his
absence
until
Baden-Powell makes the extraordi able, colored, for a small debt. The
July 1 show a total of 495 transfers, oi cows, $3@3.60; dressed beef, 6>i@
the
train
had
whirled
over
50
miles.
woman
attempted
to
prevent
it,
and
in
nary statement that the American gov
an aggregate value of $3,989,625, not
ernment has warned others of her in the struggle that ensued Mills shot the Fiske was picked up unconscious a few including, of course, the value of the 7 Jio per pound.
I Veal—Large, 6j(»@7^o; small, 8@
hours
later,
and
died
in
a
hospital
here
woman
and
her
little
win
and
daughter,
tentions to side with England should
transfers for nominal sums.
I 8>^o per pound.
tonight.
all
seriously.
Mills
was
arrested.
any of them interfere.