BROKE ALL RECORDS
House Passed Pension
Without Debate.
Bill,
DEFICIENCY BILL IN THE SENATE
Wa Failed After Displacing the Me.
rague Canal Bill Femion Bill
Carrlei 145,833,830.
Washington, Deo. 17. The house to
day adopted the conference report on
the bill extending the maiine inspec
tion laws to sailing vessels of 700 tons
and over, and providing for licensing
their second and third mates.
Barney (Rep. Wis.), in charge of the
pension appropriation bill, then called
up this measure and made a general ex
planation of its provisions.
Allen (Dem. Miss.), of the appropri
ations committee, in reply to Barney,
called attention to the fact that when
he first came to congress, 14 years ago,
the pension appropriation bill invaiia
bly precipitated a bloody-shirt discus
sion, and he congratulated the country
that oongress had progressed since then
and that there would he no acrimoni
ous discussion on this bill. The coun
try at least had the gratifying informa
tion that the pension roll had reached
the maximum.
! "And 1 congratulate the country for
this," said Allen, in conclusion, "that
while one of the most gallant and des
perate soldiers of the Confederacy (him
self) helped to report this bill, the
mesident of the United States is down in
Dixie doing honor to the Confederate
dead. We all have cause to rejoice."
(Laughter and applause.) There was
no further debate upon the bill. It
, was read through without a word oi
criticism and passed, the whole time
occupied in its consideration being less
than 20 minutes. This is the shortest
time on record for a general pension
bill. The bill carries $145,288,830.
The total number of pensioners on the
roll is 093,714.
In the Senate.
The senate decided upon convening
today to lake a recess from 1:80 until
6:80 o'clook in order to permit senators
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Bright,
wife of the sergeant-at-arms.
Morgan (Dem. Ala.) presented a
memorial from the national board of
trade favorable to the construction of
the Nicaragua oanal, asking that the
document be printed in the Congres
sional Eecord. Allen (Pop. Neb.) ob
jeoted.'and the objection provoked an
animated discussion, involving the
rules of the senate as well as the wis
dom of the construction of the canal.
Morgan accepted the objection as an
effort to obstruot legislation on the sub
jeot of the canal and prevent the coun
try securing information on the subject.
Allen resented this imputation, saying
he was favorable to the canal on gen
eral principles, though advocating gov
ernment ownership. He predioted
that the oanal would cost $500,000,000.
Without determining the mooted
point raised by Allen, the senate, at
Hale's request, took up the urgency
deficiency appropriation bill.
Cookrell (Dem. Mo.) addressed the
senate in regard to the mustering out
of the volunteer soldiers, a large ma
jority of whom he said, wanted to be
mustered out. and many of whom were
making sacrifices by remaining in the
ervioe.
Hale (Rep. Me.) said he had no
doubt that the rank and file of the
army abroad had a great desire to re
turn home, and he expiesbed the opin
ion that they should be allowed to
do so.
Allison (Rep. la.) expressed sympa
thy with the desire to have a large
number of volunteers mustered out.
Sewell (Rep. N. J.) said the war de
partment had for the past several
months been gradually weeding out
soldiers for discharge, and that many
thousands had thus been relieved from
this duty. He had no doubt that even
without legislation 50,000 men would
be released within the next six months.
The urgency deficiency bill was then
passed.
At the instance of Harris, the senate
adopted a resolution calling upon the
president for information as to the
status of the report of the Nicaragua
commission.
Repairing the Maisachtuetti.
New York, Dec. 17. The Herald
ays: So serious are the injuries sus
tained by battle-ship Massachusetts as
a result of the mishap several days ago
that Naval Constructor Bowles esti
mates that the cost of her repairs will
be at least $24,000. Requisitions cov
ering this amount for material and la
bor have been approved, and repairs
will be started at once. Constructor
Bowles estimates that six weeks at
least will be necessary to complete the
work.
Train Ran Into s Sleigh.
Imlay City, Mich., Dec 17. A
louthbound engine, light, on the Pon
tiac, Oxford & Northern railroad, to
night struck a sleigh containing five
people, throwing them out, seriously
injuring two and killing three outright.
The dead are: Mrs. Thomas Robb, of
Lam; Walter Robb, her son, aged 4,
and Mrs. John Yerkes' ion, aged 14
months.
Grain Blockade at Buffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y., Deo. 17. The grain
blockade at this port continues and is
unprecedented. At noon today folly
80 large steamers were in the river
waiting to be unloaded, or frozen in.
They carry about 9,000.000 bushels of
Krain, while in the different elevators
7,000,000 bushels are at present stored.
Lima, Pern, via Galveston, Tex.,
Dec. 17. Advices reoeived here today
confirm the report of revolution in
the Bolivian republic.
plrlt ef Kspaailoa.
Kansas City, Mo., Deo. 17. Al its
annual convention today, the Ameri
can Federation of Labor declared, by
almost a onnanimoui Tote, against a
larger standing army in the United
fcLtea.whlob it in reality recogninl as a
protest against expansion, or the spirit
of "imperialieui." aa it wu termed by
the delegates. This action was taken
after five hours of debate on every
phase of the question. At times, many
of the speakers became eloquent In
their ntlerances and received unstinted
applause from the delegates.
LOOKS BAD FOR MRS. BOTKIN.
Damaging Evidence Introduced at the
Murder Trial.
San Francisco. Deo. 19. Tim .lofon,
in the Botkin murder trial today re
ceiver uie worst set-back it has experi
enced since the case nnpnml rha
dence ot two of the witnesses examined
touay was of such a convincing nature
that the chagrin caused by its introduc
tion was plainly written upon the faces
of the aocused woman arid her counsel.
The evidence clearly showed that Mrs.
Botkin wrote the anonymous letters
sent to Mrs. Dunning from this city,
apprising Mrs. Dunning of the alleged
misconduct of her husband, and in
forming her that she had grounds for
commencing a suit for divorce. The
handkerchief whioh was inclosed in
the box of poisoned candy was proven
to have been purchased in this city by
Mrs. Botkin, another link in the chain
of the prosecution.
DEFIANT ONLY IN TALK.
Admiral Dewey'i Opinion of the Phil
ippine Insurgent!.
Manila, Deo. 19. Rear-Admiral
Dewey, when a press correspondent
oalled upon him today, was oourteous
and pleasant, but absolutely decline!
to discuss the political situation in the
Philippine islands, on the ground that
his Bphere was purely naval. He then
proceeded to cross-examine the coire
epondent about everything ashore. He
was glad to learn that the insurgents
were releasing the sick Spanish sol
diers they held as prisoners, notwith
standing Aguinaldo's grandiloquent re
fusal to do so. This proves that the
insurgents are very conciliatory, in
spite of their defiant talk.
Admiral Dewey always believed that
the insurgents were friendly, especial
ly since the warships of our fleet have
Visited the different ports of those
islands, and since domi of our officers
)iave made tours iulajfl, carefully in
vestigating popular sentiment and ju
diciously preaching the gospel of peace
ful settlement everywhere with highly
latisfaotory results.
Hawaiian Billi.
Washington, Dec. 19. The senate
tommittee on foreign relations made
lome progress today with the bill re
ported by the Hawaiian committee for
the government of the Hawaiian
Islands, but adjourned over without
jomploting the work. The house oom
mittee on merchant marine and fisher
ies today ordered a favorable report on
i bill to extend the navigation laws of
the United States to the Hawaiian
islands.
x-Confederatei In Soldiers' Homes.
Washington, Deo. 19. Repiesenta
:ive Rixey, of Virginia, today intro
iuoed a bill for the admission of ex
Confederate, as well as Union, soldiers,
io soldiers' homes.
Four Persons Killed by a Train.
New York, Deo. 19. A wagon con
taining eight persons was struck by a
kiain on the Pennsylvania railroad to
night at the A lien wood crossing, a few
miles from Manasquan, N. J., and four
people were killed, two fatally injured,
and two others seriously injured. The
dead are: Mrs. Ellen Allen, Bessie
Allen, her daughter; Miss Allie Alger,
and Jennie Crammer. The fatally in
jured are: David 8. Allen, husband
of Mrs. Allen, who was killed, and Kate
Allen, their daughter. Mr. Allen was
of the family of which Allenwood takes
its name, and was one of the most
prominent men in that part of New
Jersey.
Dying by Hundred.
San Francisoo, Dec. 19. On board
the steamer Gaelic, which arrived
from the Orient today, was Rev. II. VV.
White, a missionary. He brings news
of a terrible condition of affairs exist
ing in the Chin-Chow-Fu provinoe, a
section 150 miles long and 70 miles
wide, inhabited by over 4,500,300 peo
ple, mostly farmers. Owing to two
successive droughts the crops have been
failures, and the people of the province
are dying by thousands from starvation
and the outlying provinces and the
government are doing little to help the
suffering. The people of Shang-Tung
province are also starving. In some of
the villages of the latter place there
are hundreds of deaths in a week's
time. In Chin-Chow-Fu there have
been aa many as 180 deatl.s in one
day. ;
Important Mexican Coneenlon.
New York, Dec. 19. A dispatoh to
the Herald from Mexico City says:
The last act ot the Mexican oongress
today was the confirmation of one of
the largest concessions tor many years.
The concession was granted to Captain
A. B. Smith, of Los Angeles, Cal., and
his associates for colonizing, steamship
and railway enterprises of the first
magnitude.
The colony lands include many
leagues on the Gulf of California, with
the condition that a canal be con
structed from the lands to Yuma, Cal.,
and a steamship service be placed from
the head of the gulf to the southern
boundary. The service will also ce ex
tended to the Lower California points.
The line will comprise six modern
steameri. '
Bound for Home.
Paris, Dec. 19. The American peace
commission left fur Havre and South
ampton tonight, and will sail for New
York tomorrow on the steamer St.
Louis.
Killed by a ailing Wall.
Chicago, Dec. 19. Two firemen,
Lieutenant Matthew Myer and Trick
man Patrick O'llern, were killed by
the collapse of a wall tonight during a
fire in the Palace lively stables, at
8i64 Cottage Grove avenue. Several
other firemen were seriously hurt, In
cluding the following: Lieutenant
Albert Llngenberger, leg fractured;
Michael O'Hare, skull fractured;
Thomas Dillon, skull fractnred; Ed
ward Creuscuo, back broken. The
property Ions was about $30,000.
Madrid. Deo. 19. A aemi-offlcial
note issned today says:
"As the American senate must ratify
the treaty of peace before it becomes
effective, our government should wait
for this ratification and not hasten to
cede territory which the United States
senate may not accept."
Durango, Cola, Deo. 12. New i has
reached this city that three men have
Wn killed In the Colurubn mine, lo-
catedlnthe La Plata district. They
'arei Ray Burnett, Joseph Faragher
'and Walter E. Seeling. It la not
' known what canted their deaths.
FOR WANT OF FOOD
Scores of Sick Soldiers Dy.
- ing at Manila.
HOSPITAL SERVICE VERY POOR
Petty Offlclalliin and Jealoaiy Override
All Other Consideration! More
Skilled Maries Needed.
Honolulu, via San Francisco, Deo.
16. The United States transport
Scandia has arrived from Manila, which
place she left November 15. She
brings a number of officers, 91 dis
charged and furloughed men, two Red
Cioss nurses and the largest mail that
ever left Manila, 213 sacks for San
Francisco, and one for Honolulu.
The vessel will resume her voyage on
or about the 10th inst.
Miss Schafer, a Red Cross nurse,
who went from Honolulu to Manila,
arriving there September 26, returned
on the Scandia. She makes startling
charges as to the way the United States
soldiers are taken care of in Manila.
Miss Schafer made the following state
ment for publication:
"Scores of Boldier boys are dying in
the hospitals at Manila just for want
of proper nourishment. They say the
government allows 60 cents a day for
each patient. I could have saved doz
ens of lives on 5 cents a day. Oh I the
utter woe of the soldiers, and the
helplessness of them. ' Men as bright
and noble as God ever made, giving up
to death, hoping for it, seeking for it,
taking poison, doing anything that will
relieve the despair that comes upon
them. Seeing nothing before them but
days of pain and nights of wretohed
ness, without proper care, without
proper food, alone with no one to give
them sympathy or oheer, to write to
their friends, to soothe their aching
brows or moisten their parohed lips, if
by sheer endurance of nature, of ob
stinacy of vitality, ther do get better,
there is before them nothing but a still
more oheer less period of a i elapse of
convalescence, with the probability of a
relapse and the old weariness of despair
to be suffered again. No wonder there
are six or seven funerals a day. No
wonder the dead house is never empty.
"And outside of the hospital, and
even in it, such indifference. Petty
consideration of rank and position,
squabbles about precedence, lack of
consideration in prescribing and pre
paring food, while men are dying, not
merely of heart hunger, but for want
of nourishment. I have gone through
the wards day after day, and as I spoke
to this one and that one, and they
poured out their sorrows, men do not
wear their hearts on their sleeve, cried
for pur agony of their loneliness and
despair, made pregnant and vivid by
their own telling of it.
"I got so 1 just could not go through
the wards. What could I do? I saw
need of care, of pioper nourishment, of
the most ordinary hospital treatment,
and was utterly helpless to do any
thing; just one cog in a great, remorse
less grinding machine, whose material
was noble men and whose grist was
death.
"I do not mean that all in the hos
pitals are careless or indifferent. Many
are trying to do their best. There is a
lot of worthiness and unselfishness
among the attendants at the hospitals;
but in a whole ward there is not more
than one nurse, only one or two awk
ward boys, who, perhaps, never saw a
sick room before.'
Colonel George W. AIcFarlane re
turned by the Coptic and brings word
that the controller of currency has
guaranteed to Perry S. Heath, first
assistant postmaster-general, and his
associates that he will issue a charter
for a new bank in which James Camp
bell and himself are interested as soon
as congress extends the teiritorial laws
to Hawaii. The bank will have an
authorized capital of f 1, 500,000.
CLEARWATER LINE.
Statement by Preildent Mellen, of the
Northern Pactfle.
New York, Dec. 18. President C. 8.
Mellen, of the Northern Pacific, today
gave ont the following statement:
"The Northern Pacific Company is
not constructing, nor does it contem
plate constructing lines for the purpose
of injuring any other oompany, nor do
1 believe that any other oompany in
tend to build lines to injure the North
ern Pacific.
"The only construction which the
Northern Pacific has in progress is about
79 miles in the Clearwater country, in
Idaho. The Northern Pacific is the
only line in that country or within SO
miles of it. A question has arisen be
tween the Northern Paciflo and the O.
B. & N. as io whetehr the O. R. & N.
ahould not also be allowed to occupy
that country without being considered
as invading territory of the Northern
Paciflo.
"Except the 75 mile in question, no
construction has been authorised by
the Northern Paciflo board, and none
will be undertaken without its author
ity. I have none to recommend at
present.
"The Northern Pacific is not engaged
in war with any of its neighbors and
competitors, and does not expect to be.
"Local territorial questions like the
one between the Northern Paciflo and
the O. R. & N, are of common occur
rence between railways, and when con
servative counsels prevail, are generally
aettled br negotiations, as I presume
this one will be In due time.
"Outside the lines covered by the
plan of reorganization, the Northern
Paciflo, since its reorganization was
completed, over two years ago, has
built only 100 miles of railroad (mostly
spurs), and has bought altogether only
160 miles."
attached te Paelfls Station.
Washington, Dec. 16. Orders were
sent from the navy department today to
the commander of the Badger, at
League island, to proceed with that ves
sel to San Francisco, In place of her sis
ter ship, the Yankee, originally selected
lor mis serrica. irie Danger is io mill
the passage by tha Straits of Magellan,
and will be attached to the Pad lie sta
tion when she reaches her destination.
Tba station is particulaily short of ves
sels jutt now, and one of the two, the
Yorktown, la likely to be dispatched '.
aooo to Honolulu.
CUBA'S NEW GOVERNMENT.
Formal Order uf the War Department
Alsigiuiirnt or Command!.
Washington, Dec. 17. The war de
partment made public the formal order
for the military government of Cuba.
The notable feature is that Major
General Ludlow, who is designated as
military governor of Havana City,
while nominally subordinate to the di
vsion commander, General Brooke, is
apparently charged to exercise all the
civil functions in that place under di
rect authority of the president. Gen
eral Lee's functions appear to be limit
ed to those etrioily military, and it i
thought he may he eventually charged
with all the duties, civil as well as
military, of the government of the
province. TLe text of the order is as
follows:
"War Department. Washington,
Deo. 15. By direction of the. presi
dent, a division to be known as the di
vision of Cuba, consisting of geograph
ical departments and provinces of Cu
ba, with headquarters in the city of
Havana, is hereby created under com
mand of Major-General John R.
Brooke, United States army, who, in
addition to commanding the troops in
the division, will exercise the author
ity of military governor of the island.
"Major - General Fitzhngh Lee,
United States volunteers, commanding
the Seventh army corps, is assigned to
the immediate command of all the
troopB in the provinoe of Havana.
"Major-General William Ludlow,
United States volunteers, is designated
s the military governor of the city of
Havana, and will report, direct to the
division commander. He is charged
with all that relates to the collection
and disbursement of the revenues of
the city and its police, sanitation and
general government, under such regula
tions as may be prescribed by the pres
ident. R. A. ALGER,
"Secretary of War."
The commands of military depart
ments of the division of Cuba, com
manded by General Brooke, so far as
deoided upon, are as follows:
Deportment of Pinar del Rio, Brigadier-General
W. Davis.
Puerto Principe, General H. L. Car
penter. Santa Clara, General Simon Snyder.
Santiago, General L. Wood.
This leaves the provinces of Havana
and Matanzas unpiovided for. These
commands probably will be left open
until the return of the president from
the South, but the probabilities are
strong that Major-General Lee will be
assigned to the district of Havana, and
Major-General Henry to the command
of Matanzas.
CALVIN S. BRICE DEAD.
Millionaire and ex-United Statei Sena
tor Panel Away.
New York, Deo. 17. Calvin S.
Brice died at 8:15 o'clock this after
noon at his home in this oity. Mr.
Brice contracted a severe oold one
week ago today. Friday last he went
down to his office, returning home in a
suffering oondition, and Saturday took
to his bed. He grew steadily worse
until this afternoon, when he died.
Calvin S. Brice was a native of Ohio
and was born in 1845. He was the
son of a Presbyterian minister. Three
years befoie the civil war he entered
Miami university, and in 1801 he en
listed in a university company for the
war. He served in West Viiginia in
the Nirjoty-sixth Ohio infantiy. In
1863 ho graduated from the university,
and, after teaching school a few
months, he became captain of a com
pany in the One Hundred and Eighth
Ohio, and served to the end of the war.
In the winter of 1890 Mr. Brice was
elected United States senator to suc
ceed Henry B. Payne, and took his sent
March 4, 1891.
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
The Monthly Statement of Exports
and I in porti.
Washington, Dec. 17. The monthly
statement of the imports and exports of
the United States shows that in No
vember imports of merchandise
amounted to $52,109,560, about $348,
000 lees than November, 1897. The
imports free of duty aggregated over
$22,000,000. Exports of domestic
merchandise last month aggregated
$127,483,467, an increase over Novem
ber, 1897, of about $13,000,000.
For 11 months ended November,
1898, the exports of the United States
amounted to $11,117,681,199, exceed
ing the imports by $537,837,046, an
increase over the same period of 1897
of $143,026,115.
The imports of gold during Novem
ber amounted to $5,825,701, and the
exports $913,467. The silver imports
amounted to $2,268,635, and the ex
ports $4,028,078.
Hurled la a Hog Pen.
Franklin, Neb., Dec. 17. The body
of Peler Kreighbaurn, a wealthy farm
er, who disappeared mysteriously lant
week, was found buried in a bog pen
on his farm, three miles south ot this
place. The coroner has empaneled a
jury and will at once begin an investi
gation. Mexico Preparing Extradition Treaty.
City of Mexico, Dec 17. The for
eign relations department is preparing
a draft of an extradition treaty with
the United States, which will be for
warded to Washington to Ambassador
Romero, who will negotiate it with
Beoretary Hay.
Repatriated Rpanlih Troop.
Malaga, Deo. 17. The Spanish
transport 8t. Augur-tln has arrived from
Cuba with 1.806 repatriated Spanish
troops on board. Two died on the
voyage, and 18 were sick when they
arrived here.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 17. A decision
to hold a greater American exposition
In Omaha In 1899 was reached at a
mass meeting of business men, bankeri
and professional men tonight. Over
$105,000 was subsciibed for the project.
Baldwin Hotel fnqaess.
flan Francisco, Dec. 16. The Inquent
opon the victims of the Baldwin hotel
fire was held today. The Investigation
lasted bat a short time, the jury return
ing a verdict that 1. L. White died from
concussion of the brsln following a fill
from the third story of the hotel; that
Lewie Meyers died from heart diienm,
caused by the bock; that II. A. Prior,
James N. Ixithead and John II. Carter,
died from the iIkx k tainted by burn
ing; that an unknown woman wis
destroyed by fire, and that the deaths
were accldeotaL
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
ltemi of General Intereit Gleaned
From the Thriving raolSo
Statei.
Export or Salted Flih.
Japan has becomes new customer for
the fish Of the Northwfist. anil Innt vonr
I 1,400 tons of salted fish was Bhipped
irom Uie north Pacific coast. The
Nippon Trading Company of Seattle
has gone aotively into the business of
shipping salt fish, and buy in all the
ports ol the Sound and British Colum
bia. This year they are shipping over
600 tons, and have orders for more if
they oould get the fish. Seattle
Bhipped out 800 tons last year and Ta
coma shipped the same amount, while
about 600 tons was bought and shipped
from the Frazer river. There are be
sides the Nippon Company, which is
made up of local Japanese business
men, three or four other firms there
engaged in exporting fish. The North
Japan fishing industry is running out
and her people are looking this way for
a supply, the same as they are looking
to this coast for flour and other natural
products.
Advance In Trice of Flih.
At Seattle the price of salmon has
advanoed from 10 cents per pound to
15 cents per pound in the last few
days, the oause being assigned to the
closing of the season and consequent
scarcity of fish. The demand for fish
in general is reported to be better than
has been the case for some time, steel
head salmon are beginning to run and
the Tyee variety is expected in a few
weeks, but as yet the run is rather
short. Good fishing is reported in the
Narrows, a few miles from Tacoma, and
the run is expected to continue there
until January 1. The catch now is
said to be about 12,000 salmon daily,
of the dog salmon variety. A few her
ring were captured at Quartermaster
harbor on Saturday and it is said that
they were the forerunners of the regu
lar season's run.
Favors Ban Diego.
After viewing all the ports on the
Pacirio Dr. Weigand, general manager
of the North German Lloyd Company,
which has in contemplation the opera
tion of a steamer line from this ooast
to the Griont, is reported by the San
Francisco papers to be on his way home
by way of Hong Kong and Suez cnal.
As many of the stockholders of the
oompany are interested in Northern
Pacific securities, Tacoma was consid
ered to have an excellent chance to be
chosen as a terminus. It' now seems
that the Santa Fe Railroad Company
having interested the Australian gov
ernment in theadavntagesof San Diego
harbor for a trans-Paciflo mail route,
the steamship company is inclined to
favor the Southern California port.
Honolulu Taking Our Flour.
R. I. Llllie, the purchasing agent on
the Paciflo coast for the firm of Theo
dore 11. Davis & Co., of Honolulu, is
In the Northwest. Mr. Lillie will
load a vessel at Seattle with flour and
other Northwestern products for ship
ment to the islands. The sl ort grain
crop in California last year has turned
the greater portion of the trans-Paciflo
demand to Oregon and Washington.
Portland and Washington flour oargoes
have been discharigng in San Franoisco
for a number of weeks past, and then
reshipped by the Californians to Hono
lulu. It is likely, therefore, that the
present engagement of flour by Mr.
Little for Honolulu will be but one
of many siimlar engagements.
New Flour Mill Running.
William Kirkland, with Carl and
Bisinark Slioll, have completed their
flour mill in Walla Walla, and it has
been tinning out flour since Satnrdny,
November 28. Mr. Kirkland, the mil
ler, was with Dement Brothers for
eight years, and in Isaacs' mill for five
years, consequently has all the experj.
ence necessary. The mill building and
ground and the water power represent
an outlay of $0,000, and additions to
the machinery are to be made in the
near-future to the value of from $1,000
to $2,000. Two qualities of the fine
patent process will be turned out, as
well as the ordinary baker's brand.
The mill is one more addition to Walla
Walla's manufactories.
Dig II oiid It III a.
The county commissioners of Galla
tin county, Mont., opened bids last
week for $187,000 worth of 20-year 6
per cent bonds. The premiums offered
were the largest ever bid for bonds in
Montana, ami ranged from $1,712 to
$7,904. The bidders included a great
many of the same firms who bid for
Portland bonds and the acceptance of
the bids is still held in abeyanoo.
Iteady for llnilnen.
Two new banks were opened in Ross
land, H. C, Deoemher 1, and consider
able rivalry exists over which shall
secure the greatest number of commer
cial accounts. The new banks are
branches of the Bank of British Colum
bia and the Bank of Toronto. Of the
former II. F, Mytten is looal manager,
and of the latter A. II. Barker is in
charge.
la nourishing Condition.
The Dallas woolen mills, umlei new
management, has put in eight new
looms. The mill Is a three-set one, and
when fully repaired will be getting out
samples for the Eastern market. It
also has a large government contract
for woolen goods.
Paring Hondi Sold.
Ppokane Riverside avenue paving
bonds to the amount of $28,000 were re
cently sold at a premium of $552,
These bonds are subject to recall by the
city offlcals whenever tl.eie is siiMoient
money on hand to redeem them.
Rrhool Bond laaue.
Sealed bids foi the purchase of $500
worth of five year, fl per cent school
bonds were received December 5, by
the clerk of school district No. 2n,Car
bon county, Mont
Manured Portland Capital.
The promoter! of an he factory and
wild storage plant for Walla Walla have
Interested Portland capitalists in the
enterprise, tnd a company will aoon be
Incorpoiated with ample finances. A
plant with a rapauity of eight tons per
day will be lntaill.
William WrlMgHrtxir, a man of finan
cial standing representing a larga com
pany in Wilesbarre, Pa., I visiting the
Northwest, seeking a suitable location
fur starling a large shoe factory and
tannery to give employment to about
76 men.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Market.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, $10 12.
Beets, per sack, 75c.
Turnips, per sack. 50(3 60c.
Carrots, per sack, $1.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Cauliflower, 5075o per doz.
Celery, 8540o.
Cabbage, native and California
$1.00 1.50 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 8550c per bor.
Pears, 75e$l per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Peaches, 75c
Butter Creamery, 27o per pound;
dairy and ranch, 18 20c per pound.
Eygs, 85c
Cheese Native, 13 12 Jc.
Poultry Old hens, 15c per pound;
spring chickens, 15c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 67c; oows, prime,
6c; mutton, 7)ic; pork, 6 7c; veal,
68o.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22.
Oats Choice, per ton, $24.
Hay Pugot Sound mixed, $9.50
10; choioe Eastern Washington tim
othy, $12.
Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $28.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2425; whole, $23.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straights, $3.25; California brrnds,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour,
$3.75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped feed, $1821 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
t
Portland Market
Wheat Walla Walla, 58c; Valley,
61c; Bluestem, 62o per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 4248c; choice
gray, 40 41c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $22 25; brew
ing, $24 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $16 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $9 10; clover, $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 6065oj
seconds, 6055o; dairy, 4550o store,
8085o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll18o;
Young America, 15o; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.6o3
per dozen; hens, $8.504.00; springs,
$1.253; geese, $0.007.00 for old.
$4. 60 5 for young; ducks, $4.00
5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 11
12c per pound.
Potatoes 60 70c per SHck; sweets,
2c per pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75o
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $11. 25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery,
70 75o per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per
box; peas, 88c per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75o$l persack.
Hops 1518c; 1897 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair,
26c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton, 7jj c;
spring lambs, 7)-gC per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.25;
light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$5. 00 5. 50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef,
5 6 Jc per pound.
Veal Largo, 6Qci small, 7 8c
per pound.
Ban Franclico Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 10 12c per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012o; Val
ley, 15 17c; Noithern, 9llc.
Millatuffs Middlings, $1821.00;
bran, $16.50 16.50 per ton.
Onions Silvorskiii,6075cpor sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 80o;
do seconds, 2024c; fancy dairy, 20o;
do seconds, 1721c per pound,
Eggs Store, 1822o; fancy ranoh,
86 370.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $3
2.60; Mexican limes, $66.60; Cali
fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choioe,
$3. 60 4. 60; per box.
Mnrllia Washington'! Oven.
C. L. Brainard, an Oak Park drug
gist, says the Chicago Inter Ocean,
while searching among some family
heii looms recently, found an oven
which hail once belonged to Martha
Washington. In the same trunk was a
letter which gave a history of the relic.
The oven hus the appearance of a ket
tle. It is a round iron pot, about six
inches deep and thirteen Indies in
diameter. The sides of the kettle are
black. Martha Washington gave the
oven to a Mrs. Mary Denning, in 1778,
in exchange for some knitting. Mrs.
Denning kept it until her death, in
1872, when it came into the poHsession
of her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Ken
sliaw. During the war of 1812 Mrs.
Denning, who was living in Brandy
wine Manor, Pa., buried the oven in
her yard with $:J00 in it. In 1840
Mrs. Itnnshaw exchanged the oven for
some coal oil and tobacco to E. W.
Wright, a storekeeper of Coatesville,
Pa. Mrs. Wright kept It until hor
death, in 187H, when it was stored
away with some other furniture and
forgotten. C, L. Brainard, a grandson
of the stoiekeeper, visited the old
homestead and found the uven.
The Manna of the Jews.
The manna of the Jews is a lichen
(Lichen esculentos, sive Canona escti
lenta). The Sahara nomads and the
Inhabitant of South Algeria cull it
OuHxehel-Anl (excrement of the earth).
It ocelli in lump the size of a pea.
The IriNide resemble a white farina.
It must be gathered early for the rays
of the sun soon wither it, but it can he
kept quite well In closed vessel.
Germany ha 16,000 union shoe
makers. Hrewerr Improvement!.
There has been incorporated the
Grand Fork Brewery Cmnpany, with
a capital of $10 000, fur the pa i pom nf
reviving the bimineM of the old Grand
Fork brewery and bottling work. The
new company will enlarge the present
plant to sufllcieut size to seek the large
trade of thi section of British Colum
bia. The Firt Presbyterian chinch of
Morristown, N. J., hu had but five
txton ilnoa 171S, and but two In 69
year, the present one having served 88
eaia.
A ROMANY MONARCH;
Crowning; the Kin of the Scottish
Gyps lea.
With much quaint pomp and cere
mony, and In the presence of a vast
concourse of spectators, a gypsy king
was crowned on Kirk Yetholm Green.
The chosen of the Romany tribe Is
named Charles Blythe Rutherford. He
has passed the age of three score and
ten, and besides being crowned king,
hla gypsy subjects also proclaimed him
Earl of Little Egypt
Prince Charlie, as he Is familiarly
termed, Is a fine specimen of manhood.
It la years since he gave up the roving
habits of his tribe and devoted himself
to the more prosaic occupation of keep
ing a lodging house In the village ot
Kirk Yetholm, but his admirers proud
ly proclaim that he is descended from
royal gypsy houses of Faa, Blythe and
Rutherford.
Charles Blythe Rutherford's mother
was Queen Esther, the last gypsy sov
ereign crowned at Yetholm. Esther
does not appear to have been too heav
ily endowed with this world's goods,
seeing that she applied for parish re
lief aud was refused on the ground that
she had visible means of support as a
"mugger" that is to say, she possessed
a horse and cart to convey her mugs to
the customers who patronized her. The
gypsy queen was offered admission to
the poorhouse, but refused, and lived
on until 18S3 In her own "palace," a
low, one-storied, whitewashed cottage,
with an open hearth fire, the smoke
from which passed out through a hole
In the roof. Quite recently Charles
himself removed Into this "palace," the
lodging house not having proved a
lucrative Investment.
The "Archbishop of Yetholm," who
placed the crown on the Romany mon
arch's brow, was Mr. Gladstone, the
village blacksmith, whose father
crowned Prince Charlie's mother, and
whose family are said to possess the
hereditary privileges of crowning the
gypsy sovereigns. The crown Itself
was made of tin, adorned with tinsel
and surmounted with a thistle, and
the archbishop, In performing the cor
onation ceremony, delivered a speech
In the Romany tongue. After Trince
Charlie had duly responded, a proces
sion was formed, In which mounted
men, a brass band, a mace bearer and
herald preceded the royal carriage
drawn by six asses, and after the neigh
boring villages had been visited the
proceedings wound up with athletic
sports, a public dinner and a dance.
It Is, of course. ln its association with
the past that the Interest of this novel
ceremony lies. The Faas, from whom
Prince Charlie Is descended, claimed
that their name was a contraction of
Pharaoh, and asserted that they were
connected by blood with the ancient
kings of Egypt. So far back us 1540
James V. of Scotland made a treaty
with "Johonue Faw, Lord and Erie of
Little Egypt," acknowledging his king
ship aud giving him the right to admin
ister law and Inflict punishment on his
fellow Egyptians. Not long afterward,
however, James changed hie attitude
and Issued an order commanding his
loyal subjects .whenever they found
three gypsies together to slay two of
them without mercy. London Dally
Mall.
MINIATURE BICYCLES
Wonder Excited Anions KnglUh Rn.
tlci br the First Koad I kiitci.
Road-skating has been called the
missing link between cycling and wulk
lng; It Is really roller-skating out-of-doors.
A writer In the Standard tells
how he took an extended trip, meeting
with admiration and derision by tho
way; how he fought against the wind,
ran Into tho roadside weeds and knelt
there, and on a favorable rond covered
three miles In fourteen minutes. He
says that, In appearance, the new road
skates resemble nothing so much us a
pair of miniature bicycles.
The wheels art six Inches In diameter,
and are attached to the boot. Jointed
leg-splints extend from the skate to
tho knee, relieving the ankle of an un
bearable strain, and an automatic
brake, acting upon the front wheel,
Instantly corrects "any backward run,
and so removes the greatest difficulty
In hlll-cliinblng. The skates weigh
from six to eight pounds a pair.
The amazement of natives, when this
mode of locomotion dawned upon them,
Is well expressed In the queries of on
old man who, with "an apparently hyp
notlzed donkey," seemed to lie the only
Inhabitant of a certain hamlet upou the
rou I e.
"Wart's them?" ho asked.
"SkateB."
"Wurt?"
"Skates."
"Hkates?"
"Yes."
"Wart are they for?"
"Skating."
"SkatlnT
"Exactly."
"They ain't bicycles, then?
"No; skates."
"Eh?"
"H kales!"
"You needn't 'oiler so loud; I ain't
deaf! Wart's them atlck for?"
"To stipHrt the ankles."
"Uncle'"
"No; aukles."
'Wonderful! I wish my old 'onian
was 'ere to see 'em!"
"Ho do I. Where la she?"
"Dead an' gone well-nigh fourteen
vear ogo."
"I am very sorry for you."
"Wart?"
"I'm sorry. You must ml her sad
ly." "No, Rally wa'n't 'er name. It was
Jane, mine a the donkey's Is. I called
lin after "er."
Then conversation languished, and
tho traveler rolled away.
Johnny's Idea.
"What Is the meaning of the word
tantalizing?" asked the teacher,
"!'leap, ma'am," spoke up little
Johnny llolcomb, "it mean a clrcu
procession passing the school bousn
and the pupils not allowed to look
out."
MocM iriallnt llona.
Young Ioctor-I And It hard to draw
the line between bay fever and Influ
enza. Old Doctor It I hard, my boy, hut
social distinctions have to be made;
there's oo help for It. Ik-trolt Journal.
Every little while you hear peoplo
aay: "There la something wrong."
It's worse than that; there are a lot
of things wrong.