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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1891)
i. . Lift '---- ri H B. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. The Sal ton Lake Rapidly Going Down. RICH ALUMINIUM DISCOVERY. Miss Fanny Davenport Purohases 380 Aores of Lnnd in Orange County, California. Portland wants a $500,000 dry dock. There wns ico at Tucson, A. T., luBt week. Water-front thieves at Seattle aro do ing a good business. An English syndicate is buying up all the breweries in British Columbia. An effort is being made to rovoko tho extension of the Hoopa reservation. Los Angeles' business tliis year is a decided improvement on Unit of 1800. The National California Bank at San JVego, it 1b thought, will soon resume "business. Wells, Fargo it Co.'s express has prac tically abolished the Denver and Rio Grande express department. J. G. Ford, ono of tho sheep and wool barons of FJko county, Nov., a few days ago sold sixty yearling bucks at $20 a head. At Blackfoot, Idaho,' a fire dest roved tho United States land office. Union Pa cific depot, Pacifies express ofllce and tho Commercial Hotel. There is a rumor that tho Southern Pacific Company is going to prohibit liquor Bolting in houses located on its Tight of way through Nevada. The Railroad Commission has decided that the Southern Pacific railroad did not discriminate in favor of Tucson, as was charged by outsido towns. Deposits of meerschaum havo boon found on tho Supelio creek, twoiy-llvo miles north of Silver Citv, N. IS.., and near tho alum deposits of tho Gila river. It has been decided after survey to at tempt, to raise the steamship San Pedro near Victoria. It is rumored that the Captain will Ih hold responsible for her loss. W.A. Dagsott, the mail clerk who was injured in tho railroad accident at Port Costa some months ago, has filed a suit nt Stockton in which ho asks for $50,000 damages. South Son Island guano is lniing intro duced in Riverside this season. Tills fertilizer contains ISO per cent, of phos phoric acid, and is especially adapted lor orango groves. Tho case of S. W. Sullivan, who was charged with smuggling arms into San Qucutin prison, has boon dismissed by the court at San Rafael, tho prosecution claiming thero was no evidence to con vict. Portland, having discovered that alio sold her bonds to a pool ami but for ttie combination much less than they were worth, has rescinded its acceptance of the bid, and there is a chance tor a law suit. J. A. Forbes, who made application to Judge Roes at Ixis Angeles to compel the City Clerk to surrender to him the old Spanish archives in tho City Hall, has been worsted, tho court refusing to do so. The recently formed Southern Cali fornia Fruit Growers' Union is receiving much encouragement from horticultur ists. The main object is to make orango growers as far as jwssiblo independent of the middlemen. Tho Yuma Sfntinel says: Tho great faking exploration and surveying expe dition has arrived from the mud volca noes, Tho number of volcanoes has been increased to 7,000. We await fur ther particulars with eagerness. Tho Canadian Pacific Navigation Com pany at Victoria, B, C, has refused to hereafter carry any malls to tho north, tho government not offering to pay a sufficient remuneration. This will much inconvenience the people on the north ern coast. The Truckee 7kVpnfiicdn says ice men have everything in readiness for the harvesting of tho ico crop whenever the pame is ripe enough to cut, which is not likely to Ih for a month yet. The past season has been a good one for the com panies, and only about 25,000 tons re main on hand. Miss Faunv Davenport lias purchased 880 acres of land in Hilton's Canyon, in Orango countv.Cal., eighteen miles from l'omona. Miss Davenport means to build a Urge ranch home on the prop erty, establish game preserves and im mense poultry yards anil barns. The land is but seven miles from Mine. Mod ieska's ranch. A party of prospectors who have Ken oHrating akin' forty miles wwt of Al buiuerue, N.M., brought into that city n sack full of samples, which on being assayed were found to carry aluminium in large quantities. One assay of a sack taken (mm the surface shows 25 Hr cent, of metal, and it is said there are htrmirtsU of acres just the name. The San Bernardino TimO'lndtx says s From a gentleiiiHii who hus just returned from Salloii we burn that the lake is gin iug down very rapidly, twlng only about three feet in the dcoiMM place. 'Hie lake Is divided Into two part, a bar having Ikmiii formed between the two. The lake is now about hvfiity-llvo mile long and even pilled wide. The rail ininpany will rowiiieiire work hUhii Itawiuher 1, The big four mailed hfp Afghanistan, I be larufnt ihip (hat ever mine into tho (;iiiiiiilM nter, i'iini in the .iiimr nv filing after it til eight) -liliiu i from Mil Jane in I'lio Afuhaii itn lavs dii umt, u Ml lVUf uliy. i'f W ilvplli l) hold Hhi H'U'tt lll( jl II H IIVplli ()l ll'Jjil Nitf .... , i . i . . , , .. MM Milt MM, u,. a .wiul ,y . Dilllrll and KI7JI Milppli u iiiii tiny ! W I .....I. nt Ul.-t luklf . ...... i k .. a...' wl ' ' i'ii.-mw pun win nr iijfip ii MtfiJl MHNtfl d UhiI) iH'iivl 'J'ftf PERSONAL MENTION. Charles Emory Smith Has the Happy Faculty of Being a Charming After-Oinner Speaker.. The King, of Greece speaks a doxen languages. Ex-Secretary Whitney is a fearless equestrian. Mrs. General Hancock is in Europe for tho winter. Private Secretary Halford has recov ered his health sufficiently to justify him in resuming his duties at tho White House. They peem to think down at Washing ton that Baron Fava will t:ome back again as Italy's diplomatic representa tive ere long. Tho wife of Frederick Douglass, tho ex-Minieter to linyti, recently delivered an address before a colored high school in Washington. Dr. Brown-Sequard has apparently abandoned his famous "elisir of life, and now thinks that ho has a cure for coughs and sneezing. Carter Harrison will liscard the edi torial "wo" in bis Chicago paper and ueo tiio first-person pronoun. Ho regards this as a capital l-dea. Prof. Alceo Fortier of New Orleans says the Creoles aro tho Knickerbockers of Louisiana. Ho takes Author Cable to task for his characterizations of Cre ole life. Nathaniel Holland, who is 00 years old, voted at the recent election in Barro, Mass. His voto was cast for .Inmes Mon roe in 1810, and ho has never missed an election since that year. Kaiser Wilhelm is eighteen times a Duke, twice a Grand Duke, ten times a Count, fifteen times a Seigneur and three times a Margrave, besides being King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany. Daniel C. French, the New York sculptor, has just arrived in Paris to fill an order for the Chicago exhibition. It will Ihj a colossal statue of the Republic, a female figure, sixty to eighty feet high. Robert Plilson, a banker of Berlin, Pa., is a dwarf, and so diminutive a one that the dime-museum managers have offered him large sunn to exhibit him self to the curious public under their auspices. Bishop Morrill of the MoMmdistChurcli has lx'en taken to tho Wesley Hospital in Chicago for surgical treatment. For a fortnight ':o has been disabled by an ailment which is thought to bo an ab dominal abscess. Charles Emory Smith, United States Minister to Russia, is a charming after dinner speaker. Under theinflumicesof a fetching menu his almost liabi'ual re serve disappears, and ho becomes un wontedly sociable. Henri Rochefort, tho French Anarch ist, who was sent to a penal colony, from which ho escaped, )b now living in Lon don. He is tall, plight and gray. Al though ho has been in England six years, ho does not speak English. Tho canoe in which Poultney Bigoiow navigated tho Danube from tho Black Forest to tho Black Sea has been ac cepted by Emperor William. They knew each other years ago, when tho Ameri can and tho Kaiser wore schoolmates. Joseph Pennell, whom the cable re ports to have been expelled from Russia, was probably mistaken for a spy. His sketching as an artist once beforo led to Ids ar est under n like misapprehension. Mr. Pennell. who is Imth a writer and an artist, f jrmorly lived in Germantown, and his wife, Mrs" Elizabeth Robin Pen nell, is a daughter of Ed war I Robins of Philadelphia. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Artists and Manufacturers In Denmark Making Great Preparations for an Exhibit at Chicago. A big whale-back steamer for uso on tho lakes during tho World's Fair will bo built. The furniture manufacturers of Chi cago havo taken steps to make a collect ive exhibit in their line, and promise that it will open tho tho eyes of visitors. Mrs. Lucas, lady manager for Penn sylvania, lias appointed Mis:i Florence Lewis, a young colored girl, upon hor auxiliary committee. Miss Lewis is one of the press representatives of the Board of Lady Managers of Philadelphia. It is announced in tho Berlin newspa pers that the eutiro organization of the Imperial Opera Company of Berlin, Germany, will come to Chicago in 1893 to give operatic performances in the mu sic hall to be erected on the exposition grounds. The government of Russia has do clded to haul exhibits for the fair at half rates on all government railroads, and at tho same time it has suggested to pri vate companies that they make a like reduction. A similar ariaugement has been effected in Germany. Artists and manufacturers In Denmark are making great preparations for tho fair. United States Minister Thayer, who has just returned from Copenhagen, told Director-General Davis that Danish exhibitors would eclipse their efforts at any previous exposition. "And that means a great deal," ho added, " for the artists of Denmark have made a number of tine exhibits." John McAdams k Co. of Brooklyn have applied for space to exhibit a de vice that cannot be shown In any of the buildings. They will have to go out in Lake Micldgnn to make their exhibit, and that is what they want to do. They have an invention to" prevent luats can ing in collision. It is a marine brake, ltowerful enough, they claim, to stop Umts running at a high rate of sxed. The company wants to operate a steam Unit or ttcam yacht in the lake, carry lug wumengeni, and to give practical domoimtrationd of the elliuienoy of their brake. Secretary Plcklimm hat cent notice lo the Governors of the vurUmi Kuu. nuking them to ehove two member uf their World's Fair Hoard U ixiiiih to Cliiiauo Itat'iHiiber U to attend a big World1 Fair tiuiiveiilMiu. Thi uatice in mint nut In aeouidanrti with a iuol,ilij adapted b) the IWrd uf (Vtttiiwl at ii it ilmi, Tim ubjit uf I he eummi lhn i l be the tUU'iialtM wtt Km jhiaid ul l Willful, duwrUMil rblvU Mud utltDt ilhiU ami l dittiM mhiI'Mw. iilaii (r Mlalu Muk Mia. ll,Mir ivtd; (m il.u nttnaiiuii it tatwu'Hii n.t i u Mlil all Vi'inni ru "I rini iKwrd tm f M ( aii'j li diii Ml ui u i'l(f l )f i lll Vtr tjt-'ll Hf Ml EASTERN ITEMS. La Grippe in the New England States. KANSAS FARMERS' ALLIANCE The Amount of Silver Held on Storage by the Government Pugil istic Women. Omaha is to have a system of parks and lou levards. Rainmaker Ellis is writing his report to Secretary Itusk. The grip is making great headway in New England, especially in Connecticut. Colored men are excluded from the Choctaw nation by legislative enactment. The Economic Gas Company has been enjoined from piping gas into Chicago. A solid vestibule train will shortly bo put on between Cincinnati and Jackson ville, Fla. The initiation feo of the New York Musical Progressive Union has been raised to 20. Tho Vanderbilt lines are arranging for through excursions from New York to San Francisco. A Florida paper says that tho State is filling up with winter visitors at tho rate of 2,000 a week. John D. Rockefeller has virtually re tired from the Presidency of tho Stand ard Oil Company. Chicago is going to try tho experiment of hauling some of its street cars with steam locomotives. Tho estimated value of church prop erty.in Philadelphia exempted fro.n tax ation is 20,000,UOO. Tho Supremo Court of the District of Columbia has decided that the civil orvico act is constitutional. Washington negroes are no - even safe in thejr graves. Ghouls tried to steal Julia Scott's remains for a college. Tho cordage trust hope to secure a complete monopoly by buying the pat ents upon all rope-making machinery. Tho membership of the Farmers' Alli ance in Kansas is said to havo declined from 1-10,000 last year to 00,000 this year. Wolves are rapidly increasing in the sparsely-settled portions of Kansas, and threaten tho lives of the isolated farm ers. A remnant of Big Foot's band of In dians under Red Cloud is in revolt against tho authority of tho agent at Cheyenne. LTnited States Treasurer Nebeeker re ports that the total debt of the District of Columbia on September 30 last was $10,1:53,400. The Dubuque Street Kailway Company declares after a test of the storage bat tery el'ctric-car equipment that tho scheme is n failure. Secretary Tracy is expected to advo cate a change in our treaty with Great Britain, so that naval vessels may be built at yards on the lakes. They are agitating tho question of re moving the capital of Minnesota from St. Paul. The western part of the State is ambitious for the honor. Tho amount of silver now hold on storage by the government would make a column ono foot in diameter and six and one-half miles in height. Tho drop-Iotter service on tho electric road between St. Paul and Minneapolis is very popular. Tho boxes aro placed within easy reach on tho side of tho car. Great opposition is manifested by ad mirers of the late Oliver P. Morton of Indiana to the proposed removal of his statue in Indianapolis from Circle park to the State House grounds. Tho government propose to build an other timber dock in tho navy yard at Brooklyn, the accommodations of the other two docks being insutlicient. It is to lo about 000 feet in length. It is proposed by a number of citizens of Maine to establish an avlum in North Conway, N. II., at which drunkards and opium "fiends will be treated with the Keeley bichloride of gold system. The four churches at Chatham, N. J., tho Parochial School connected with tho Catholic Church and the one public school in tho town are ciosed indilinitely because of tho prevalence of diphtheria. Hattie Leslie, 4 the champion female pugilist of the wrld," and Gussie Free man fought four rounds In a theater at Williamsburg, N. Y. Tho tight, was se vere. Miss Freeman was frightfully bat tered. In Arkansas it has been shown during an investigation that penitentiary pris oners were frequently brands! with a red-hot iron. All the Federal prisoner have been ordered to the Columbus (O. penitentiary becaoseof this treatment of convicts. It is reported at Pittbburg that tho iron and steel manufacturers of the country are preparing to make a gen eral assault on the Amalgamated Associ ation of Workmen in the sprinir. Pre liminary suiirinishiug has to far favored the manufacturers. Giacinto Elifairo, an Italian, who for thfc p:ist lx years carried on a steamship agency, general store and banking bu-i-ne.s Among the poorer class of his conn-trv-meu at Philadelphia, is Mieved to have abounded with, upward of fSO.iHX) belonging to customers. At the Episcopal Congress at Wah ingtnu during the iliseunpton of the method of the aiiruuiciit of inli.iftniH !Uv. Dr. Nichols of .New Haven urged In hearer never to give up the country utrlhc, fur he eharaeteriid the wUk latue of tho country a vaatly uurt than the wickedn of the city, and if the flood that jtuiir Into a illy I to l a (mil one, then the lemiil would Indeed Ui mil HuiMirviiiii ripeeial ApMl Tubh i lheTrwanry )a4iHHHl iu Ui hnuuI luiwrl II rye the rvvUtott at lit -i dutrtni ami law with a vUv aUUllU4UMl ui twutaittUtm tlx iu whiuFi Mill ui wo bttttMM m Ihal Mi'K" aid may w iniiu i.m t I ti hlk Jd MMlliil ,lll. ,, Wi Ui nl'l ill II i S i tttfi vi, i M fi iinr I e . p f k t' 'td EDUCATIONAL. The King of Slam Will Send Six Youths to Pennsylvania to be Educated. I5oston lias a class in Volapuk. Two liundred and four of the 305 col leges in the United States are coeduca tional. The one liundred and forty-fifth cata logue of Princeton College, just issued, shows 0S0 students enrolled. The University of Michigan will erect a Grecian temple as her contribution to the World's Fair at .Chicago. The twelfth annual report of the In dian Training School in Carlisle, Pa,, shows an attendance of 984 boys and girls. The Superintendent of Schools in Dickinson county, Knn., is in favor of the rivival of the American whaling in dustry. The Board of Trustees of the new Chicago University is composed of ''four teen Baptists, one Israelite and six Christians." Ann Arbor (Mich.) University this year graduated O'.'O students. This sur passes in numbers that of anv institu tion of learning in the United States. A college item is to the effect that in the three Connecticut colleges Yale, Trinity and Wesleyan attendance at morniiig prayers is made obligatory upon the students! In the last seven and twenty years the number of students attending Scotch universities has more than doubled, for in bStll the number wns 3,381), and in 1800 it was 7,000 odd. Work on the new building for the Sheffield scientific school of Yale Uni versity will begin at once. It will cost .fL'00,000 and be devoted to tho mechan ical engineering department. Oberlin (O.) Collego recently received the largest ingle endowment it has ever received Hll, 618.03 given it by the will of William B. Spooner of Boston. The University of Kansas receives n like amount. Colorado College haR the lorcest enter ing cuts in its history, numbering over fortv. This is especially encouraging to its friends, as the standard of admission has been rai-ed to the same as that of Eastern institutions. The University at Chicago has bought the library of S." Simon of Berlin, which contains L'80,000 volumes and 120.000 dissertations in all languages. Among them there are 210 manuscripts from the eighth to tho nineteenth century. The King of Siam will fooii send siy youths tVotii ins kingdom tcPennsvivania "to be educated. They are all to become physicians. The oiing men are chosen from t he poorer classes, and the expense of their tuition, about $5,000 a vent each, is to be borne by the Siamese govern ment. Tho class of '05 generally srems to be an unusually large one in the Eastern colleges. William" ha 105 freshmen, Amherst S2. Harvard 400. Yale more than 500, Weslevan 70. Princeton 325, Brown IB'. Smith 240. Colgate 51, Ham ilton 4fi, Rochester 59 and Union 80. Yale opened with 1,800 students, Prince to with 1,000. What may bo done in the way of a university in the West is shown in California. ' There have been 11,100 ap plications for admission as students to the belaud Stanford Jr.) University in California. The Southwest is ripe for the establishment of u great university, and here or hereabouts is the place for it. Kansas City Slar. Yale students aro getting something of a drubbing just now because of a habit which they have of smoking thoir pipes on the streets. Tlrs unfortunately is a practice that is not confined to New Haven. The saunterer along the streets of classic Cambridge will meet with not a few crimson-shirted youth, whose most conspicuous adornment, apart from their ilaring jerseys, are yellow pipes. Now, of course, it'is no more of a crime for a college student to smoke on the public streets than it is for one wl o does not happen o be in that period of tntelogo. There are certain rules, however, which all well-bred men are expected to ob serve, and one whoso time is largely given to scholarly pursuits should cer tainly be in finer touch with these. Gen tlemen do not smoke on the streets. There is no accounting for what "gents" may do. Boston Journal. NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Chief of the Bureau of Equipment Makes His Annual Report to the Secretary of the Navy. In his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy Commodore Dewey, chief of the bureau of equipment, summarises the work of his bureau during the year as follows: During the past fiscal year fifty-three vesse's have been either wholly or partially equipped under this bureau at an expenditure of labor and material of fool,239. Secretary Tracy in an interview is quoted as saving: " We have set out to build two ships that will comply with the requirements of the future. Cruisers Nos. 12 and 13 will be ideal types of commerce destroyers. The Pirate of 7,000 tons burden'will be able to steam to San Francisco on the coal in her bunk ers with which she leaves New York. Not another war ship to-day afloat can do this. I am responsible for these two vessels, 1 have sacrificed their offensive ami defensive powers to speed and coal endurance. No Captain worthy to com mand either of them would think of ep gaging a war ship on the high eas, but they will Ih- strong enough to attack any steam vessel built for trading pnrH)ec's that might he armed iu tinio of war. The Pirate, for example, could b iscnt ! into the ItnglWh Channel and tny there four week without reeoaling. MmcoM 1 keep away from the irum-lad veel vent im rrh of her, and rouM detr..v evry ihlp that put to a or return 1 . that (rlvwtllr havwu. I dnifii-l lui wtlh the Ibi?U inirpiMo lit a l.i tlwleoo'd if -what uo otltr el 4n Mi Hid la ii t l tMMMiali ( Vrr huul mii) u.ir. h.. ' "i I l'i h 1 iiiwmii io li M,al li' i . I ! ! r .i. .t. Ml. h. -I . Hfl llkf H 1 l i . I I ' - ' - ' ' a Mtttfii II i U ti'illtat 1MI ti li r atratittl util . n I .l'll mm! h.r I. nl 1. (litf atviatf kra ilu I' Ilf M ' l ... ...! FOREIGN LANDS, i1 Spain Will Disband Part of Her Army. GOITER INCREASES IN FRANCE Question of Ameliorating the Condi tion of the Farmer Ripens in Great Britain. Russia proposes a tobacco and spirits monopoly. Austria's favorable action on the Amer ican hog is expected soon. Enormous numbers of horses aro bo ing imported into India from Australia. It is reported that Russia contemplates the removal of the land tax in the fam ine districts. It is estimated that tho dan.age in Somerset countv, England, by flood will aggregate $.350,000. The Salvation Army has made an at tempt to enter Russia, and has been promptly expelled. Mexican officials are beginning to be stir themselves to catch tho many cattle thieves on the border. A crusadp against tea has taken place among the nndergraduatesof Cambridge University in England. American quail are being introduced into China for the benefit of American and English sportsmen. It appears that goiter is increasing in France, uo fewer than 420,000 pert-ons being affected in thirty of tho depart ments. The scarcity of "stiff" has caused tho London hospitals to form an anatom ical league for tho apportionment of corpses. A manifesto has been issued to the farm laborers of the lower Welsh coun ties advocating combined effort for wage advance. The government of Japan gets a large proportion of its revenue from the rail road and telegraph companies that it owns and operates. Princess Stephanie, widow of Crown Prince Rudolph, awaits the consent of Emperor Francis Joseph towed Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Geirge Bnt'er, who was secretary to Anson Burlingame while the latter waa American Minister at, Peking, has died in a Hongkong hospital. Jules Simon in tho debate in tho French Senate opposed tariff measures. He did not think the home market of France was broad enough. The English Liberal leaders have de cided to incorporate in tho platform ap proved at the Newcastle conference an English tenants rights bill. The question of ameliorating tho con dition of the British farmer is now being recognized as ripening toward liberal legislation in Great Britain. A man who found a meteorite a few weeks ago in the rotten roots of a willow tree at Lysabild, Denmark, claims to have seen it fall into the tree in 1843. Tho Anarchists of France boast of a force of about 40,000. Their leading or gan, Le Pere Peinard, has a circulation of nearlv 20,000. The Socialists number about 1,000,000. Queen Victoria will go to Flore ce in March. From there she will visit ex Einpresa Frederick at Kronburg. After ward she will be the guest of Emperor William at Coblentz. The toy-doll manufacturers of Thur ingia and Sonnenberg have resolved to exhibit largely and collectively at the World's Fair. A great display of small fancy ironware will also be shown. With a view of economizing the Span ish government i about to tako steps for the disbanding of a portion of tho Btam ing army, suspending the plan of increasing the navy and withdrawing subsidies to railways. The British government still believes in potency of arms, and has decided to erect powerful fortifications on Thursday Island and make it the Gibraltar of Aus tralia. It is situated on the most north erly point of the coast, Seventeen mummies in the Imperial Museum of Berlin wero found by a com mittee of archieologists to be recent fab rications of Alexandrian dealers in an tiquities. The museum had paid 800, 000 marks for these forgeries. The Chilian government lias granted concessions to Sir John Pender, a tele graph man, to construct a line from Val paraiso and Santiago to the Chilian fron tier, there to connect with the projected new transandean wires from Buenos Ayres. Reports from East Africa say that Emin Pasha has readied Usarango, at the head of Lake Albert Edward Nyan za, and has been joined by tho troops he formerly commanded at Wadelai, and had fought several successful engage ments. A visitor to Monte Carlo reports that there are no less than than fifteen new graves, unmarked, in tho cemetery, of persons made desperate by their losses who committed suicide. "Of most of these cases no record has been given or Is kept. The printers of Vienna, long renowned for excellence in their craft, have re solved to form an exhibition there next summer to illustrate the origin, develop ment and characteristics of typography from the date of its disc wry to ttie present time. Hit I II At a iik III i Wl II iltt. land market' Proitnce, Fruit, Etc. Wheat Vallov, $l.G51.7d Walla Walla, $1.601.65 per cental. Flour Standard, $5.00; Walla Walla. $4.80; Graham, $4.00; Superfine, $3.fX per barrel. f Oats New, 4245c per bushel. Hay $1113 per ton. Mill8TUFFS Bran, $19; shorts, $21; eround barley, 'J22.5025; chop feed, $18((il9 per ton ; feed barley, $20 ; mid dlings, $23 pei ton; brewing barley, $1.101.15 per cental. Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 37 40c; fancy dairy, 32$3Sc; fair to good, 2527)c; common, 1522fcc; Eastern, 253lHc per pound. Cheese Oregon, 1415c; Eastern, 1415c per pound. Eaas Oregon, 320? Eastern, 27,c per dozen. Poultky Old chickens. $3.504.00; young chickens, $2.003.50; ducks. $5.00 7.00; geese, $11.0012.00 per dozen;, turkeys, 15c per pound. Veoetahles Cr.bbage, nominal. 75c $1 percental ;cauliflower,$1.25 per dozen;. Onions, 75c$l per cental ; potatoes, 40 60c per sack: sweet potatoes,2)3e per pound ; California celery, 75c per dozen bunches; fancy Oregon celery, 50c per dozen bunches ; carrots, 75c per sack ; beets, 75c per Eack. Fuuits Sicily lemons, $8.50; Califor nia, $5.50G.50 per box; apples, 50(a 80c per box ; bananas, $3.504.00 a bunch ; pineapples, $40 per dozen; grapes, Muscat and black, 5J80c per crate ; pears, 75c$1.25 per box; parsnips, $1 per sack; cranberries, $910 per barrel; Oregon cranberries, $9.50 per barrel; Smyrna figs, 1722.J4c per pound ; citrons, 27c per pound. Nuts California walnuts, 11)6 12c; hickory, 8c; Brazils, 10llc; al monds, 1618c; filberts, 1314c; pine nuts, 1718c; pecans, 1718c; cocoa nuts, 8c; hazel, Sc; peanuts, 8c per pound. . Stnplo Groceries. Honey 17 ,4.018c per pound. Salt Liverpool, $14.50, $15.5010.50; stock, $1112 per ton. Rice Japan, $5.00; Island, $5.5 per cental. . Beans Small white, 2?c; pink, 2c; bayos, 2?.(c; butter, 3sc; limaB, 3i&. per pound. Coffee Costa Rica, 2021c ; Rio, 20c; Salvador, 21c; Mocha, 30c; Java, 25c; Arbuckle's, 100-pound cases, 2134c per pound. Sua au D, 43c; Golden C, 4).c; extra O, 4J&c; granulated, 58c; cube crushed and powdered, 6c; con fectioners' A, 6j&c; inaplo sugar, 15 1' c per pound. Sykup Eastern, in. barrels, 4245c; half-barrels, 4447c; in cases, 5580o per gallon ; $2.25 per keg. California, in, barrels, 30c per gallon; $1.75 per keg. Diued Fkuits Italian prunes, 78c; Petite and German, 07c per pound ; raisins, $1.201.00 per box; Plummer dried pears, 89c; sun-dried and fac tory plums, 9c; evaporated peaches,. 9llc; Smyrna figs, 1722c; Cali fornia figs, 7c per pound. Canned Goods Table fruits, $1.65 LfiO. 2Us: neaches. $1.802.00; Bart- lett pears, $1'.80 1.90; plums, $1,374. 1.50; strawberries, $2.25; cherries, $2.25- 2.40; blackberries, sfi.ooigi.uu; rasp berries, $2.40; pineapples, $2.252.80r. apricots,$1.601.70. Pie fruit: Assorted, $1.101.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, $1 1.10; blackberries, $1.25 1.40 per dozen. Vegetables: Corn, $1.101.75; tomatoes, 95c$3.00; sugar peas, $1.001.15; string beans, 90o$1.00 per dozen. Fish: Sardines, 75cl. 65 5 lobsters, $2.30 3.50. Condensed milk: Eagle brand, $8.10 ; Crown, $7.00; Highland, $6.50; Champion, $5.50; Monroe, $6.75 per case. Meats : Corned beef, $1.90 ; chipped beef, $2.10; lunch tongue, $3.10 Is, $5 50 2s;. deviled ham, $1.252.65 per dozen. Miscellaneous. Nails Base quotations : Iron, $3.00 ; steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per keg. Iron Bar, 3Jc per pound. Steeij 10)c per pound. Tin I. O. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual ity, $8.008.50 per box; for crosses, $2' extra per box; roofing, 14x20, prime quality, o.7o per box; 1. u. coke plates, lixzu, prime quality, $7.75 per box. LiEAd lcper pound; bar, (i)tc. Solder 13)i;16o per pound, ac cording to grade. Shot $1.85 per sack. Horseshoes $5. Naval Stores Oakum, $5 per bale; rosin, $4.805.00 per 280 pounds ; tar, Stockholm, $12.b0; Carolina, $7.00 per barrel; pitch, $6.00 per barrel; turpen tine, 65c per gallon in carload lots. Hide, Wool nnil llnpn. Hides Dry hides, selected prime, 8xi 9e; 73C less for culls; green, selected, over 55 pounds, 4c; under 55 pounds, 3c; sheep pelts, short wool, 3050c; me dium, O0S0c; long, 90c$1.25; shear lings, 1020c; tallow, good to choice, 3 34e per pound. Wool Willamette Valley, 17CH9c; Eastern Oregon, 10017c per pound, according to condition and age. Hoes Nominal ; I010c per pound. Tlie Jlent Market. i BKEr Live, 24.0; dressed, 56c. Mutton Live, sheared, 3c; dressed, 78c. Hoas Live, -Ha5c; dressed, Gc. Veal t7c per pound. Smoked Meats Eastern ham, 12 134c; other varieties, 12)c; breakfast bacon, 1315c; smoked bacon, H4i3 Uc per pound. Lard Compound, 10c; pure, 11013c; Oregon, lU4il-'4.o per pound. nng aim liiicKtmr. Burlaps, 8-oz., 40-inch, net cash, Co; burlaps, lOVoz., 40-inch, net cash, 7c; burlaps, 12-oz., 45-lnch, net cash, TV; W burla s, lu-or., OO-iiich, 11c ; burlaps, 20- jS 1 itkfk ni 11 1 miikH) ..iiiiu V Alh Wtfl hum A UHHl fHH,