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W A S H IN G T O N WORSE. R ep ort rn Down by Can- fCheck Flames, .IVES M in u te d WERE et O ver LOST a M ll- - Ite iu a r k a b le T im e M a d e P a r ly F ro m C h a tta n o o g a . ¡Tenn., April 12.— Never of Knoxville has the |such a loss by fire as it (lowing the breaking out at an early hour this grocery store adjoining hotel. The hotel and ad- lings were soon in flames, heart of the city, includ- the largest wholesale and ss houses in the South, de- be loss is estimated at from fl.500,000, with about )f insurance. |f life is uncertain, as the Jlie hotel, in which 56 peo- eping, was burned. The the hotel says he had five who have not put in an A. E. Weeks, of Locke, nmer for a Rochester stamp- is known to have per- flames. U. W. Hopkins, [drummer, was last seen in 1 building in a suffocating Bppart, ex-secretary of the |commerce, saved the life of {le, an old farmer, by drag- i a window and letting him roof of another building, nped one story and was in is more than probable that lie. He inhaled the flames, ¡speak nor swallow. firemen thought all the in- the hotel had escaped, a an infant in her arms the rear windows and Dr help. A net was stretched nan asked to drop the child the smoke almost choked |d them that if some one both would die. The finally rescued by the tire- io te l building, which Is the fire spread rapidly. A [made the flames very ugly, [fire department was inade- [ wholesale hardware house of si ruff & Co. a large dyna- [>nion occurred, and scores of re hurt by flying bricks and ne necessary at last to have |of one building blown down to stop the mad career of A mountain howitzer of the Legion was called into play, of canister did the work, at (tim e tearing up l» m e resi- | a different portion of the city, authorities, realizing that the Itnient was unable to conquer | h , telegraphed to Chattanooga ince. An engine was placed | flat car and started the run of B, which was made by Engi- |bins in 109 minutes, breaking |d. When the engine arrived, vas about under control, yet |tanooga boys did some good cabinetmaker named P. G. 11 dead on the street from named Robinson, from Pu- bnn., is supposed to be another He was registered in the ho- | has not been seen since. A kce of men is at work clearing le debris tonight and searching ■ns. Street traffic is entirely led. last man to leave the burning K * lie has (wisitive proof that pix persons were burned. He three or four men in the liall- |ho were suffocated, ion, the railroad baggage agent, »wn from the fifth story of the land-over-hand on the water store the engines arrived. Only | the guests saved any of his | l l e g e d N e w S w im m in g ' R e c o r d . Francisco, April 12. — John Ian, the champion swimmer of llphin Boating & Swimming Club, | to have established a record for ping across the Golden Gate yes- Aocording to statements made and George Milne, the Ameri- |presentative of Caville, the Au- swimmer, the feat yesterday omplished in 4 24 minutes, or six minutes less than it took Australian champion to swim | the entrance to the harbor vas accompanied,” the swimmer ( ‘ across the bay by a barge of the |in Boating Club in which were ew Gay, the high diver; Edward baum, the lifesaver at the Sutro Thomas Keenan, Thomas Ken- George Milne and Carl Smith, liner, Smith, is an old towboat- Bnd it was his guidance through irrents that took me across so p y ” ___________________ T a c o m a '* N e w I n d u s t r y . oma, April 12.— Exporting cigar- lo the O le n t is a new, growing jtry at thisaport. Seven hundred *nd cigarefes now await the sail- the next steamship to Japan. F rom th e M la .l.v lp p l H t r ir k e n D is t r ic t . F lo o d - Memphis, April 12.— Notwithstand ing the high winds und heavy rnir> storms reported from the overflowed Mississippi delta last night, the situa tion in the flood-stricken district is cer tainly no worse, if not better tonigiit. Uhe water which has been pouring through five big crevasses for more than a week is rapidly flowing into the Mis sissippi again, at a point twelve miles north of Vicksburg, and is sweeping southward with terrible force. The strain on the Louisiana levees w ill lie something terrific fin- a week, and if tiiey withstand that length of time, all will be well. The Sunflower river is also on a ram page tonight. Two-thirds of the water from the Flower lake crevasse is rush ing into this stream, and a large area w ill be inundated from the overflow. The Tallahatchie ami Coldwater rivers are gradually falling. A t Helena, the river is slowly falling, and indications are that the big stream will continue to decline. The waters below the A r kansas Midland levee are at a standstill tonight. The number of refugees is increasing at Helena almost hourly. The steamer at Helena arrived there late this after noon with more than 100 flood suffer ers, swelling the list there to 3.000. A t Rosedale nothing of special interest has occurred in the situation. After the stormy night that caused buildings to rock and sway like boughs of trees, the sun came out bright and clear in that section today but a cold north wind is blowing. In the Bogue Phalia country, much suffering is reported. The Rosedale relief committee will visit that section tomorrow and distrib ute provisions. A t Greenville, the situation has not changed. A ll the levees along the Mississippi front safely withstood the storm of last night. A t Memphis, the river continues to fall, a decline of one-tenth of a foot being reported by the weather bureau tonight. The railroads, with one exception, are again open for business and in good shape, and all trains are being run on schedule time. A m e r lr a n M o n e y f o r N u n n In C r e t e . Chicago, April 12. — Lady Henry Somerset has cabled Miss Frances Milliard, president of the Women’ s Christian Temperance Union, asking for |1,500 to be spent for the W hite Ribbon nurses in Crete. Miss Willard cabled her consent, ‘ ‘ feeling it is all in the cause of suffering Christians slain by Moslem swords, and the hideousness of the situation is incalculably magni fied because English bullets are help ing on the slaughter of Christians.” M a r b le h e a d S a il o r s D r o w n e d . Key West, April 12.— W hile lower ing a boat today from the cruiser Mar blehead. the davits broke, and three sailors were thrown into the sea. Two were drowned. [rains on an average 203 days in in Ireland, about 160 in Eng- fa t Koaan about ninety days and i only 60 day*. A ft e r a W o m a n F o r a e th le f. Colfax, Wash., April 12.— The sher iff is sconring the country in search of a female horaethief and incendiary. The woman is Mrs. Jane McDonald, 50 years of age. She ran away from the poor farm and returned to Sunset, a former haunt of her family. Here she is reported to have set fire to two stacks of hay, the property of farmers she im- angined hail wronged her or her child ren. Later, the stole a horse fron Farmer Eider and left. HATCHET. RIVERA WI LL NOT BE SHOT. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. WASHINGTON L E T T E R S p a n is h M i n i s t e r H a ys H is E x e c u t io n W a s N e v e r C o n t e m p la t e d . D o w n in g , H o p k in s * C o m p a n y * . K . v l e w o f T r o d .. Washington, April 12.— Advices re ceived by the Spanish minister state k Resume of Events in the that General Rivera, who is lying Northwest. wounded near Havana is not in a seri ous condition, and that his wounds are not likely to prove fatal. Inquiry as to the status of the prisoner elicited a EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH statement by the minister to the effect that at at no time has the Spanish government or General Weyler had any R . « i G a th e re d In A l l t h . T o w n * o f Onr N e ig h b o r in g S ta te .— Im p r o v e idea of shooting Rivera. Buyers of wheat have been slaughter D IS C U S S IO N . ed this week and many holders have loosened their grip on hitherto well held lines, believing as they did, in the many crop reports telling of damage F a r m e r s * I n t e r e s t s W e l l C a r e d f o r l a t h e D i n g l e y B i l l —I n t e r n a t i o n a l B i in the Southwest, and more particularly in stories from Indiana and Eastern m e t a llis m G a i n i n g G r o u n d —H i t l e r Missouri. Their faith appears to have it e s Q u a r r e l i n g A m o n g T h e i u s e l v e a . been misplaced. They received no as sistance from the general public, and E. F. P a m o k i , Special Correspondent. Washington, D. C.— The debate on l>eople who are chronic sellers saw the opportunity and persistently fought the tariff bill in congress during the the campaign, und their efforts have past few days bus developed some in met with success. The result has been teresting facts, both as to the relation* a severe liquidation of the previously of the new bill to the farmer and the existing speculative interests, and there effects of the present taw upon bins. can but he little doubt that the mar The oontrast between the effect of the ket at the close of the week is more McKinley law, and the Wilson law, nearly evened up than at any time in upon the the farmers of the oountry is several years past. Wheat has lacked shown to some extent by a comparisoi» a good cash demand for some time, und of the values of the farm animals o f without it there is only the conclusion the country at the beginning and cloaa to be drawn that valne should decline. of the operations of each of theae acta. The fact that red wheat commands a The total value of farm animals is high premium Inis not iiad the slight 1891, the year following the enactment est effect in preventing or even staying of the McKinley luw, was $2,329,787,- the depression that set in early in the . 770, and in 1893, the year in which its week and which caused a loss of 5 cents | destruction by the free trade congmas in the future deliveries and a priqair- began, was $2,483,506,681, an inoraa— tionate break in the cash grades. A of over $150,000,000. The valuse in great many inclined to the belief that' 1897 are given by a recent report o f the break was due to manipulation and ; the department of agriculture at $1,- not from legitimate causes. This theory I 665,414,612, a falling off of over $898,- is rattier doubtful and can be ques 000,000. W hile more than half of this tioned. The market is always more or reduction is in the single item o f less subject to manipulation, but to the 1 horses, whose values has been depre extent of the deoline that has occurred ciated in part by other causes, a very this week does not seem probable. We \ large proportion of this loss is directly are of the opinion that the current traceable to the general depression in weakness is due to disappointment with industries and lack of earnings due to the rate of flour consumption, which the low tariff law. is smaller than had been expeoted, and ' T h * H tlv e r lte * Q u a r r e lin g . with the larger arrivals than had been The quarrel in the ranks of the fres looked for, and, although the public is silver Democrats grows apace. Con suffering this disappointment, it has no gressman Bailey, of Texas, who waa need to despair, for, at the slow rate of the successful anti-Bryan candidate for current consumption, the world ends the speakership nomination in the the orop season lower in supply than in house is attempting to tecure the lead any season before since the price was 90 ership to which that nomination en cents a bushel for an average of a sea titles him, and is being antagonised by son. the Bryan people, headed by McMillan, For various reasons it is apparent Wheeler and others. Mr. Bailey and' that the present price is to be temi>or- the Bryanites have failed to agree on ary only. the tariff question, Mr. Bailey’s view* being far less extreme than those of Mc M a r k e t Q u o t a t io n * . Millan, Wheeler and other ussooiatMT,! Portland, Or., A pril 13, 1897. Flour— Portland, Salem, Cascadia and the differences of opinion whiah and Dayton, $4.10; Benton county and thus develops, both with reference to W’ hite Lily, $4.10; graham, $3.40; su tariff and the extreme views of til* Bryan wing on other important anbjeota, perfine, $2.75 per barrel. Wheat— Walla Walla, 74075c; V al promises a wide and permanent bread* in the ranks of the silver Democrat*. ley, 76c per bushel. The supporters of the free coinage 0$ Oats— Choice white, 38 0 40c per silver are having a hard time. Their bushel; choice gray, 87089c. Hay— Timothy, $14.000 15. JO per theory that wheat and silver moved ton; clover, $ 11.50@12.50; wheat and abreast was knocked in the head during the closing weeks of the oampaign, and oat, $10.00 011.00 per ton. Barley— Feed barley, $17.50 per ton; is still in the same condition, wheat having remained at a good price while brewing, $18019. M illstuffs— Bran, $14.50; shorts, silver has stili depreciated, having reached almost the lowest point in ito $16.60; middlings, $26. Butter— Creamery, 40c; dairy, 800 history. Coupled wth this misfortune to their cause, is the announcement 324c; store, 1 7 4 @ S0c per roll. Potatoes— Oregon Bu rbanks, 55 (8) 66c; that Japan, to which they had “ point Garnet Chilies, 65@75o; Early Rose, ed with pride” as the leading exponent 80086c per sack; sweets, $3.00 per of their idea, is about discarding the cental for Merced; new potatoes, 8c silver system and going to the gold standard. Between their November per pound. defeat and these two incidents which Onions— $2.00(3)2.75 per cental. Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $2.500! followed it, they are losing courage and 3.00; geese, $4.00 0 6.00; turkeys, live, also adherents._________ 11 @ 12c; ducks, $6.0007.00 per dozen. F i g h t on t h * T a r i f f N o t S u c o e * * f a l . Eggs— Oregon, 9 4 c per dozen. The free traders have had one of their Cheese — Oregon, 10c; Young most relied upon arguments againat the America, 124® per pound. Wool— Valley, 11c per pound; Eastern Dingley bill badly punctured in the* very first days of its use. They started Oregon, 709c. ont immediately after the publication, Hops— 9© 10c per pound. Beef— Gross, top steers, $2.00 0 3.50; of the Dingley bill with the assertion that it would be a failure because tbw cows, $2.2508.00; dressed beef, 406c McKinley law, upon which it waa based, per pound. Mutton— Gross, best sheep, wethers was a failure as a revenue producer. and ewes, $3.5008.75; dressed mut This statement has led to an examina tion of the workings of the McKinley ton, 6c per pound. Hogs— Gross, choice, heavy, $4.000 law, and it is found that from the date 4.25; light und feeders, $2.5003.00; of its enactment, October 1, 1890, to the date of the meeting of the congreaa dressed $4.5005.25 per cwt. which enacted the Wilson law, the earnings of the McKinley law were Seattle, Wash., April 18, 1897. Wheat— Chicken feed, $27 per ton. $14,575,486 in excess of the expendi tures of the government, thus creating Oats— Choice, $23024 per ton. Barley— Rolled or ground, $20 per a “ surplus” during all of the time In which it acted normally. That its earn ton. ing capacity was badly crippled frosn Corn— Whole, $19 per ton; cracked, the time that congress began work upon $19020; feed meal, $19020. Flour— (Jobbing)— Patent excellent, a low tariff measure, waa quite natural, $4.80; Novelty A , $4.50; California us every importer who expected lowar brands, $4.90; Dakota, $5.65; patent, rates of duty, stopped importing, and as a consequence, the custom* revennan $6.40. Millstuffs— Bran, $14.00 per ton; fell off very greatly. But during th* time that it acted normally the Me- shorts, $18. Feed— Chopped feed, $18.00 per ton; Kin ley law was a success. m e n t N o t e d In A l l I n d u s t r i e * —O r e g o n . Havana, April 12.— General Ruiz Rivera remains at San Cristobal. He is recovering from his wounds. In the event of a summary trial, it is not likely he will be sentenced, but he will be held as a prisoner of war. A R u m o r T h a t R iv e r a W a a F re e d . Key West, April 12.— News was re ceived last night that the Cuban insur gents had made an attack on the train upon which General Rivera was being taken from San Cristobal to Havana. Reports say the insurgents were suc cessful in their attack, and that Rivera was freed. It is impossible to get a confirmation or denial of the report as yet, but the Cuban sympathizers here believe it to be true and are according ly jubilant. . BRYAN WAS HURT. P ia z za F r o m W h ic h H e W a s S p ea kin g F e l l —I n j u r i e * N o t S e r i o u s . St. Augustine, F la ..A p ril 12.— Hon. William Jennings Bryan was injured here this evening by the caving in of the piazza from which he was speaking. Nearly 400 men and women were pre cipitated about twenty feet to the ground, and many of them were in jured, but none fatally. Mr. Bryan was picked up unconscious, and re moved to a physician’ s office, where an examination revealed that he had re ceived no injuries of a serious charac ter. It was deemed best, however, to abandon the reception to have been given this evening. Mr. Bryan arrived at 5:50 P. M., and was greeted by several hundred people. A t 8:30 he addressed fully 3.000 people from the piazza of the San THE POSTAL CONGRESS. Marco hotel. A t the close of the speech hundreds of people flocked about C o r c o r a n A r t G a l l e r y B u i l d i n g L e a s e d him, and the strain was so great that fo r the Purpose. one section of the piazza forty feet Washington, April 12.— The post- square fell through. office department lias leased the old O n ly One B id R e c e iv e d . Corcoran art gallery building, on Four Washington, April 12.— The nary teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, for the use of the postal congress, department received today but one bid which is to assemble May 5. It is ex in answer to an advertisement calling pected the cogress will be in session six for proposals for supplying 8,000 tons or eight weeks. The entire building of armor for three battle-ships, the will be fitted and furnished expressly Illinois, Wisconsin and Alabama, and it was irregular in form. It came for the congress. from the Illinois Steel Company of Chi The union embraces the whole world excepting the Chinese empire, Corea cago, and proposed to supply 8,000 tons and the Orange Free State. These lat of armor at $260 a ton, on condition it ter countries are expected to join the be given a 20-year contract to supply union during this congress, and will he all naval armor. In such case the re represented by delegates. Each nation mainder of the armor would be sup can send as many delegates as it de plied at $240 a ton, the armor to be paid for in gold coin. sires, but w ill have but one vote. An alternative proposition, contem The convention w ill be held with plated the erection of an armor plant closed doors, and the proceedings will be in French, according to the usual by the government and its supply with steel by the Illinois company. No custom. awards were made, and the whole mat C y c l o n e In A l a b a m a . ter w ill probably be referred to con Montgomery, Ala., April 12.— A gress. snecial to the Advertiser from Ozark, A n A m e r i c a n H a s th e C o n tr a c t. Ala., says: Havana, April 12. — Michael J. A cyclone passed over a portion of Dady, of Brooklyn, N. Y ., has secured Dale county last night, leaving wreck an important contract to improve the and disaster in its path. Many houses were demolished. Mrs. Powers was sanitary condition of Havana. It is said the contract will involve an ex caught by the falling timber of her home, and died before she could be penditure of about $15,000,000. Work w ill be begun next winter, and it will rescued. The rest of the family were give immediate employment to from resoused. This is the only fatality re 4.000 to 6,000 men on sewers and pav ported. For many miles the farmers ings, etc. A ll the preliminaries of the are suffering, everything they had be agreement have been decided upon, ing swept away by the wind or ruined and it is reported that Mr. Dady has by the torrents of rain. The citizens of as security bonds issued by the city of Ozark have sent several wagonloads of Havana to tlie amount of $12,000.000. supplies to those in need. Mr. Dady is now here with his engi T h e T r e a t y R a t llt e fl. neer, Mr. Byrne, and the papers are to Washington, April 12.— Confirmation be sent to Captain-General Weyler for of the reported ratification by the Vene his approval. zuela congress of the arbitration treaty M a il carriers A -Y V h eel. has come to the state department from Oakland, Cal., A pril 12.— The post- United States Minister Thomas, at Ca office at Fifteenth and Broadway will racas, in the following cablegram, dated soon be headquarters for the most con yesterday: siderable and energetic cycling club in ‘ ‘Treaty was ratified by congress yes the city, for the mailcarriers are to ride terday.” wheels. While the treaty provides that ratifi The equipping with wheels of Oak cation may be exchanged either in Lon land’ s mail delivery service means don or Washington, officials of the state more than would appear at first. It department believe this cermony will means possibly another collection and take place in London, as it w ill thus distribution of mail matter each day, serve the purpose o f initiating the res and a consequent improvement of the toration of diplomatic relations between general service. The hours of each car Great Britain and Venezuela, after a rier w ill be shortened and he w ill be suspension of more than ten years. supposed to make good time. D en ied b y H h a u g h n e.a y . atreal, April 12.— T. G. Shaugh- vice-president of the Canadian railway, states that the report York that a traffic arrangement en effected between the Canadian c, Great Northern and Northern in transcontinental and Pacific is not true. C O irN T T Baker City has something of a build ing boom. Sherman county has paid into the state treasury the full amount of that oounty’ s tax for 1896. Notwithstanding the long and snowy winter in Harney county, most of the horses that were left to winter on the range are at this time in good condi tion. Treasurer Kern, of Umatilla county, had a $12,000 county warrant call pub lished one day last week, and on the same day paid out $7,000 on warrants, included in the call. The annual report of the county su perintendent of Linn oounty shows the number of persons between the ages of 4 and 20 yean residing in the county to be 7,210, of which 3,501 are males and 3,709 females. The school superintendent’ s report in Curry oounty for the years 1896 and 1897 show a gain of just six children of school ago in the county during the year ending March 1, 1897— five males and one female. News from hop yards in Lane county is that but little work has been done toward getting them in shape for cu lti vation. The continued wet weather kept the ground in a condition that prevented cultivation. The sheriff of Umatilla county has begun suit in Pendleton to ascertain what expenses he is allowed under the law to incur. The case will be taken to the supreme court, and the whole question of the salary law will come up for an opinion. A cheese factory of 200 pounds daily eepaeity is being built on Roberts hill, in Douglas county. The gentlemen connected with the enterprise are ex perienced in the cheesemaking busi ness, and are confident of success in their new venture. A Paiem paper says that the Goodale Lumber Company is closing contracts with corporations in Mexico for 5,000,- 000 feet of bridge timber. It will keep the mills running full force for several weeks. The lumber will be shipped direct to Mexican points. Two children were playing on the sidewalk in Empire, Coos county, one day last week, when a band of racing cayuses ran upon the sidewalk and right over the children before they could move. The children were for tunately but slightly injured. A liveryman of Albany says that there are absolutely no young horses in Linn county, and few on the coast. He says within five years a good horse w ill command a handsome figure. He is gathering up a band of thoroughbred animals to send to a ranch in Crook county. W a s h in g t o n . Sheep to the number of 50,000, from many ranges, will be driven to Wallula to be shorn. The grass is long enough around Coulee City now for cattle to be turned on the range. A gentleman of Port Angeles will try the experiment of cultivating Eastern oysters in Washington harbor, Clallam county, Sequiin bay. Thirty-two mining companies have headquarters in Everett, not counting the Monte Crislo properties of the Rockefeller syndicate. The auditor of Kittitas connty last month received $340.45 in fees, the largest amount reoeived for any one month for a very long time. The “ scorcher” has been running over people in Port Townsend, and now tho city marshal says he will enforoe the ordinances prohibiting bicycle-riding on the sidewalks in the business part of the city. The Wenatchee Water Power Com pany is taking advantage of the low stage of the river to secure the head of its ditch seven miles above Wenatchee. The company is putting in a riprapping wall 1,800 feet long, with a slope height of seven feet and a base of four | .set the most of tbe distance, to protect their ditch from high water. Professor Spillman, of the Pullman agricultural college, who has made a special study of the industry and the adaptability of tiie state for producing dairy products, estimates that 300 creameries could be kept busy supply- I ing the market that can be built up for Washington dairy products by the P a lm e r G o t a V e r d ic t . proper development of the industry in Canton, O., April 12.— Tyndale the state. Palmer was yesterday given a verdict “ The reports from Skagit county that , by a jury in the court of common pleas for $1.50 in a libel suit against he l the Italian prune trees were hadt^ in Evening Repository. The suit is one jured by the extraordinary bail January of the last of the many similar ones ; freeze were greatly exaggerated,” says brought by Palmer against newspapers Secretary Cass, of the state board of using a press dispatch in regard to a horticulture. “ In my own orchard of land deal. The petition asked for > nearly 1,000 trees I found the damage $50,000. President McKinley is one of { very slight and many of my neighbor* ! are happily disappointed.” the stockholders of the paper. Walla Walla is soon to have a public F ig h t in g fo r D n rra n t’ i L ife . library. The necessary $1,000 to form San Francisco, April 12.— The attor i the nucleus for a public library sup neys for Durrant today asked the su ported by city taxes, ms provided by the preme court for a w rit of error. Tbs i laws of the state, is at last assured. petition was denied, and the attorneys Five hundred and fifty dollars was de will now appeal direct to the United posited in the Farmers’ Havings bank States supreme court for a stay of exe some time ago by some one whose iden cution pending tbe preparation of pa tity is unknown, for the purpose of ea- pers for an appeal. | tablishing a public library. Nina Eagles do not have different mates hundred dollar* has been raised by th* every season as do birds generally; they ladies of the city, and together with pair for life, and sometimes occupy the old books stored away, the amount will reach tbe neoeaaary ll.OOa tbe same nest for many *e»ra It is possible that the territories of the men w ill be extended, but this does not mean a cutting down in service, rather an enlargement, as tbe post master would be enabled to extend his routes and reacli much further from the heart of the city. T A R IF F A N D C U R R E N C Y U N D E R middlings, $22; oilcake meal, $30. Hay— Puget sound, per ton, $10.00; Eastern Washington, $14. Butter — Fancy native creamery, brick, 22c; select, 22c; tulv, 23c; ranch, 150 17. Cheese— Native Washington, 12c. Vegetables— Potatoes, per ton, $16.50 018; parsnips, per sack, 75c; beets, per sack, 60c; turnips, per sack, 60c; rutabagas, per sack, 50c; carrots, per sack, 40 0 50c; cabbage, per 100 11», $1.50; onions, per 100 lbs, $3.20. Sweet potatoes— Per 100 lbs, $4.00. Poultry— Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10010c; ducks, $6 0 6.50; dressed turkeys, 15e. Eggs— Fresh ranch, 12c. Fresh Meats— Choice dressed beef, steers, 7c; cows, 6,4c; mutton, sheep, 9c per pound; lamb, 5c; pork, 6c per pound; veal, small, 8c. Fresh Fish — Halibut, 4 4 0 6 c ; salmon, 506c; salmon trout, 7010c; flounders and soles, 304c. Provisions— Hams, large, 114 i hams, small, l l * 4c; breakfast bacon, 10c; dry salt sides, 6 4 c per pound. The greatest disappointment which the enemies of the Republican party have met with in attempting to analya* the Dingley bill is the fact that thay are not able to scream “ Sugar trutl” They rememlier puinfully the scandal which attached to the passage of tito Wilson law through which the sugar trust benefited enormously and had hoped that the publication of th* Dingley bill wonld furnish them baai» for the cry " Y o u ’ r another,” but th* most inegniotis and unscrupulous effort to charge friendship for the sugar treat u|K>n the Dingley hill faila utterly. On tiie contrary, those most familiar with the subject assert that the measure ia not only free from suspicion of thia character, but will result adversely to trusts and combinations which have flourished under tho Wilson law. Advocates of the beet sugar indus try are delighted over the new tariff bill, and predict tiiat the nest years will see a wonderful developn in the production of beet sugar in United States. San Francisco, April 13, 1897. Potatoes— Salinas Burbanks, 9()c0 $1.10; Early Rose, 650 75c; River Bur banks, 50070c; sweets, $1.6001.75 per oental. Onions— $3.00 0 8.50 per cental. Eggs— Ranch, 1 0 4 0 1 3 c per dosen. Butter— Fancy creamery, 134c; do seconds, 1 3 0 124c; fancy dairy, 13c; seconds, 104c. Cheese— Fancy mild, new, 6 4 c . fair to good, 5 4 0 8 c ; Young America, 708c; Kaatern, 140144c. While there has been no official an* non. ement as to the immediate policy of the administration regarding inter national bimetallism, the development* have been snch as to warrant the con clusion that the negotiations for an in ternational conference are to be under taken through authorised representa tives of this government at a very early date. Whether this will be by the ap pointment of special representative* | for this purpose is not yet olaai. T r a i t s G e t ft B l a c k l y i . I n t e r n a t i o n a l B im e t a l l l a m *