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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worth, has rescinded its acceptance of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
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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
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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
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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 .
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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
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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
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