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M ÊÊÊÊRÊKM agl SHOT] • t. k, | r f'snoTu ter ol »alita n!{al W A S H IN G T O N SEVEN WIVES CLAIM HIM. "rilerer fll li «trucljT u‘« otb«I “>an lin gj - and iiied Hi» Wife •hen he (1 or ita batf -bastian, i lanieh o J * , Weary of Weyler’s Do- Nothing- Policy. ISSUED FR O M M ADRID lf thè pj le8 aouth] Sake an KITurt to ‘ »tThu orse of 'cd to reti nited Sta, hat geni eived byI ately arJ nd gtivee T believed 1 CioIlL killed < ‘ “ just v| of a lave arrij day as V seen lui ■bina est! liner, jvaswilll « hasj thè qui leader, | to thè j >ain of in moul ie orderi ) C ru sh th » „jon -M iire K a ltU b y I n . u r g e n t . Damaging l l e . u l t . to H pan t.h . York. Aug. 9- — A dispatch to .„id from Havana says: It ia that G eneral W e v le r’s de- Tfor Matanzas was due to orders [from Madrid, sending him to t. W eyler made preparations .the Held some days ago, but ac- w a statem ent made by an the palace, lie delayed his de- i ¡n order to mature a plan to «General C astillo. Jcsptain-general is severely crit- I for not having taken the field For three weeks now bands of LDts have been swarming into '_ and even Havana. They ["¡¡[¡ded small town« and made jlrations before large towns. Hire raided landed expeditions jtime to organize. Y e t Gen- [werler contented him self with j,jD. on tlie defensive and only ging on the insurgents by issuing that considerably aggravated firings of the unfortunate recon- Jos. It was only when the insur- jboldly attacked the suburbs of • that public op in ion forced h im sent si| ilves at l Hicopinion witli regard to Wey- t. Ipoilcy is beginning to manifest ?aring ; Business is at a standstill, and i physici grchants throw the blame upon Sebasti grernment. They say General movas \ r’ledicts practically restrict them noe to | Idomg business with the interior, (tholesale arrests that have been as had i ^maile and the terror o f the people li ad outskirts o f the city help to heattel |tbe feeling of uneasiness and dis- mtwith the way the campaign is assi nati ion. ry of Lgents recently entered Esper- wife, i 1«railroad town o f 3,000 persons. Suddel )they met with some resistance, ppearaf «re was considerable fighting in lohed ets. According to official ac- ne bull the insuregnts left 30 killed d comi [they finally retired. The com- ’, and I of the town was seriously He I yeti. He admits that the insur- *on 8 ciofl jrobbed several stores. Bolondron, ìw won r small town about eigh t leagues his e l I Matanzas, was also raided and intionsl f stores and buildings were de- vere i Extrel Havana province on Sunday last d a SCq pents attacked Santiago de las ition. five leagues from the capital. ed lynf I was playing in the park at the s and [ id most of the citizens were out Det nling. A panic was threatened, • Spanish officers kept their heads lok prompt stops to repel the in- y feal Tliere was brisk firing in he sp{ ets for a time, but eventually fore urgents were forced to retreat, ion both sides were killed. The puts remained close up all nigiit 5TEDI la fire on the forts. [r hundred insurgents under Gen- itillo attacked La Chora, a town |niles nearer Havana, on the same putkeptup a fire on the forts fit. He also used dynam ite with Icffect, throwing bombs into the land destroying several public Three bombs were fired namite guns which were landed *nt expedition. The Spaniards t venture out o f the town, (authorities determined on the morning tc be revenged on and arrested the fam ily of iBottelas, because the daughter ^kouse was the affianced of Cas- [late chief of staff. Mr. and ales, their daughter and two ■were taken outside the town, •tokneel down and were fired [fifa squad of Spanish soldiers. . his wife and one child were the first volley. The daugh- her 7-year-old brother were 1 »nd left on the ground. They oediad le, tri families have moved from n ,ln >« to R o (S c h la t t e r . 0., Aug. 9.— A man who >» the original Schlatter has »ting excitement here. T . C. formerly a state senator, walk- streets, was injured 12 “•so he has not walked without or cane since that time, •solicitation from any one Mr. ^isited Schlatter. H e has now bi* crutches and the cane. ' is the talk of the city and J* is jubilant over the aid Jkeen given him. alleged cure is that of John He had a broken and the •lien healed would not allow **lk without aid. A fte r •tisd treated him he was ena- **• ®p and walk. r o , , * “ ,nuu* * » 1 « J a il. ln „ C h l, C LAIM S ARE ALL C O U N T Y TAKEN. Cloud) ge Throng, ,1 With Disappointed <>olp Hunt'»r*. ri S8u ^ rano’8co- Aug. 9.— S h ak in g of the t londyke output of gold, the chief s ta tin h T in hi“ at ,h* Poll«« clerk of the mint said: , j, 11 '?M 8Worn out by James L. A ll the gold brought to this city * w U ’ who 881,1 be was the father from the Alaskan mines w ill not ex- of Mrs. Bates No. 3. The police sav , coed $800,000, and all that has been Mr. Bates married at least seven women taken out this year and sent to the S e n , H 01 “ ? liTingl 8,1,1 0,1 ^ one Of | other mints of the country w ill not ex hem divorced. This makes the lean ceed $2,000,000. The gold from that anu ««How-faced little bookkeeper a part of the country is generally from polygamist extraordinary. 1 00 to 800 fine and some of it rates 900, The foiiowing women have so far filed the average being worth from $15.55 to C s b a n d T C etheirC laim ,t° Bat‘* 88 $17 an ounce. ” ^ J. C. Butler, o f the Pullman Car Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Julia Mc Company, is in receipt of a letter from Carthy, married in Chicago three years ; **■ Taylor, a financial broker of ago, recognized by the prisoner as his Seattle. A few days ago Taylor re true wife, and dwelling at 840 West ceived word from some men whom he bixty-hrst street. j sent to the Clondyke region last spring, Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss N ettie in w'hich they inform him that every nwaim, married February 25, 1897, in claim within 1.50 miles of Dawson Chicago, and residing at 6402 Bishop City has lieen taken up, and that men street. are rushing all over the country look Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Anna E ing for locations, lie says that star- Herbert, Plainwell, Mich., a sister of i vation and hardship stares many of his brother's wife, married September ! them in the face. 11, 1889, and now in Michigan. i Captain Niebaum, of the Alaska Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Nellie ] Commercial Company, who has made Howard, of Kalamazoo, Mich., married a careful study of the situation, fears in 1885, and divorced two years later. there w ill be a great deal o f suffering Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Ida Cader- in the mining regions this spring. He wood, of Galena, III., who dwelt at 5401 thinks the people going are far in ex Dearborn street, where she gave birth cess of the supplies that have been for to a baby. Her home is not known to warded. the police. A letter from Hart Humber, a pros- Mrs. Bates, whose identity is a my ¡•ector, dated Dawson City, June 18, stery, but known to have dwelt at just received, shows that the gold seek Forty-third and Wallaoe streets, where er needs plenty of capital. A fter reach a child was born. ing Dawson and paving the heavy duty A Wisconsin sheriff says Bates is on his outfit, besides 30 oents a pound really Austin O. Croven, who is under for getting it over Chilkoot pass, he indictment at Waupauea, Wis., for the will have to pay 25 cents a pound to abduction of pretty 15-year-old Olive get his stuff from Dawson to the dig- Vosburg some months ago. Her photo [ gings. graph was found in his coat. It is sug The rush to the Clondyke gold fields gested by the |>olioe that this girl may is affecting the mineowners o f the have been his wife. mother lode in the vicinity o f Sonora, Jackson and Sutter Creek, and if it con A PECULIAR C O M PLIC ATIO N . tinues w ill cause the closing down of 1 the mines in Calaveras, Amador and T w o Ctim inW nioners A p p o in te d f o r t h e Tuolumne counties, or their operation Ht. M ic h a e ls O ffice. with depleted forces. In the past week 200 men have left Washington, Aug. 9.— A peculiar complication has grown out of the fill Amador county alone for the gold fields ing of the posts of United States com in the north and others are preparing missioners for the district of Alaska, to follow. Some of them were hired and two men now hold commissions by mineowners in Alaska, but many of for the same office at S t Michaels. them went on their own resources. The last sundry oivil hill created four The other counties have also sent ex commissionersiiips for Alaska, to be pert miners in large numbers. located at Circle City, Dyea, Unga and A n E x p e d itio n F ro m B r o o k ly n . St. Michaels. There were already four New York, Aug. 9. — A h alf dozen commissioners there, with offices at Sitka, Juneau, Wrangel, Kodiak and ambitions Brooklynites are organizing an expedition to Alaska to search for Unalas ka. William J. Jones, a lawyer of Port some of the Clondyke gold. David P. Townsend, was appointed to the St. Watsons, o f Brooklyn, clerk of the Re Michaels commissionership. The de publican general committee, is making partment heard lie had withdrawn, and up a party, of which he w ill be one, then chose L. B. Shepard, of Nebraska, and which w ill leave early in February for the place. Meantime, Jones’ bond to seek fortunes in the gold fields o f and oath 0f office were received, al the North. THE SW AUK DISTRICT. G. B. Henton Beaches Seattle With Jft 1,000 In Odd Seattle, Aug. 9.— G. B. Henton ar rived in this city tonight witli over $1,000 worth of gold nuggests, the re sult of ten days’ work on Williams creek placer claim on the Swauk dis trict, Kittitas county. One nugget was worth $260, another $120; others $50 and $60 and down to very small pieces. He has been working the claims since January, anil since that time has taken out $5,<300. The Swank placers are old and well known, but have been worked only in a crude way. One man who owns a claim there has been working it quietly for six years, during which time he has made about $50,000. Mr. Hen- ton sunk a shaft 103 feet to bedrock before he made his find. He says the Clcndyke has no attractions for him. F i.h in g Season to Close. Astoria, Or., Aug. 9 .- T h e fishing season closes Tuesday. It is utterly impossible as yet to make an estimate of the pack, but it will probably be in the neighborhood of 500,000 cases. It is kmftvn that the fishermen's union cannerv packed 30,000 cases. Of the other packers, some have made the usual packs, while others have fallen below last year’s output. The fisher men on the upi-er river have done com paratively nothing, the catches being very light. An up-river fisherman says the men have barely made expenses. On the lower river the men have done better, and all cleaned up good wages The high men on the lower river have 19 tons to their credit, valued at about $1 500. The seiners have made light catches but the traps have done very well. Fish arc plenUiul •" the rlTer at present.__________ _______ T a c o m a I s C lo n d y k e M a d . Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9.— Desire to rush off to the Alaska gold fields at once, without waiting till next spring is increasing all the time. Fourteen steamers are scheduled to sail from this |>ort between now and the first of September. TO LAY THE DUST. N o v e l S ch em e o f a N ew J e rs e y R a ilw a y E n g in e e r . New York, Aug. 9.— A dispatch to the Herald from M ay’s Landing, N. J., says: The recent discovery of C hief Engineer Nicholas, of the West Jersey He Seashore railway, that crude oil ap plied to the ground along the railway tracks would effectually lay the dust, has proven after thorough tests to work far lietter than was first expected. Both lines of track leading from Cam den to Atlantic City are being thor oughly saturated for a distance of six feet on both sides of the track. The oil is applied on mnch the same plan as streets are sprinkled. A water and recently an oil train with sprin kling apparatus sprinkled more than 20 miles. The work w ill be completed in a few days. One sprinkling a year at a cost of $80 per mile, it is claimed, w ill lay the dust effectually, but two applications may have to be made. The Pennsylvania system is to be sprinkled with oil as speedily as possi ble. A M ic h ig a n T r a g e d y . Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9.— Last A p ril A . H. Dailey, of Jennison, sent a letter to Mayor Swift, saying he wanted a wife. The letter got into the newspapers, and as a result Dailey received 500 answers. From among the offers he selected Mrs. H attie M. Newton, a Chicago widow, and they were married. Thev quarreled and finally separated. Dailey gave hi« wife three days to return. The time was up at midnight last night and she refused to return. Dailey forced h i« way into her bedchamber and shot her with a musket. Dailey was arrested, and on C aned* E n force* I.n bor L aw . his way to jail was allowed to go into Toronto. Ontario. Aug. 9 .— Canada a saloon to drink. He slipped strych h J C i m to take means to enforce the nine into his beer and fell over dead against Americans. , h. hen Uhor labor law )a » i-e here Qn in a few minutes. The woman w ill recover. __________________ F a ta l Q u a rra l O v a r C a tfla . •®v»wncd W h ile W a d in g . !•-, Aug. fl.— Four girls •oed in Skunk river, near • ’ tois evening Three were i °f Pierce Pam bie, aged 7, 13 l/^f^iively, and the other was [****•■ They were caught in * While wading. fo r H a r d T im e * . pC^ng- 6.— The royal ootnmis- [vbcnlture has issued a report [/•rioui p a llia tive« for the i®*Pr*««ion in agriculture, »»minission attribute« main- * (» ' «nd persistent tell o f •he foreign competition *** Hkely to abate. nature intend« tha I on flower« at night, i are all ef a white W EEKLY Madera, Cal., Aug. 9. — In «q u a rre l over cattle in Crane valley, at Mc- Swain ranch, yesterday, between Patay Reardon and L. A. Woodford, tha lat ter was shot and instantly killed. Reardon gave himself op. ment to strictly enforce the «ew law. r . , — Tarko-Perolan Frontier. ’d o n l . T V - A d i s p . t c k t o th . ■ays that »e out on the Turk jmn frontier, and dispatohed tb„ s * " troop, and guns to m difficu lty.______________-— - ■“ O v e r »•▼ •n ty M lllla » * » W ashington, Aug. 9.— The latest o ffi cial estim ate o f the population o f the U n ited States is 77.000,068. This ia made by the actuary of the treasury an officer w hoaeduty it ia at fixed interval« to report on the per captia circulation of monev in the United State«. He estimate« that the present holding« of money are $9». 6$ for every man. woman •nd child in the United Staten. It ia mnch snsier to And the awn fo e M AR K ET LETTER . D o w n in g , H o p k in a A C o m p a n y 's K o t I ow o r T rn d o . in i v'U aR,>’ ^ »arrant cliarg- g «am y has l>een served on David though lie was supposed to have with drawn, hut the second appointee’s (Ommission had then been forwarded. Both men hold commissions and the department is at sea as to how tv straighten out the tangle. H A T C H E T . K Resume of Events in the Northwest. EVID ENCE O F ST E A D Y GROW TH N ew « Our G a th e re d In N e ig h b o r in g A ll th e Tow n« ol S t a t e « —I m p r o v e 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 . A large cougar, measuring 6 } { reet from tip to tip, was killed near Alsea last week. The Oregon Press Association w ill meet in Baker C ity on October 16, 17 and 18. Quite a number of the U m atilla In dians are in the Grand Ronde valley, in Union county, digging camas. Just outside o f the town of Athena a field of 25 acres of wheat has just been harvested, and the yield was 52 bushels to the acre. The salary o f the principal of the Roseburg school has been reduced to $70, and the under-teachers to $37.50 The janitor’s salary was cut down to $18 from $30. Last week a piece of bridge timber 70 feet long and 40 inches in diameter was cut at Saldun’s logging camp, near Clatskanie, for the Astoria & Columbia R iver railroad. A t the custom house in Astoria one day last week $1,200 duty on coal was paid under the new tariff, or $360 more than would have been required under the old law. Thirty-six bounty warrants for sqnir- rels and gopher scalps were issued by Marion county last week. The sums for which the wavonts were issued amounted in the aggregate to $94.10. Mrs. Mcroy Simons, of Sodaville, is said to be the oldest person in Linn county, and perhaps in the state. She is 105 years old. Mrs. Fisher, who is 95 years old, is the oldest resident in Albany. The Columbia river annnal confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal churoh w ill be held in Pendleton during the week commencing August 25. The con ference has about 85 ministers and more than 90 charges. It is expected that 150 visitors w ill be present. Bishop Foss w ill preside. A dispatch was received in Baker C ity from Weiser, Idaho, announcing the arrival o f a smelter and that the same would he im m ediately forwarded to the Seven Devils. This is the first move of importance toward opening up this vast copper belt. One carload of Bawmill machinery was received at the same time. The smelter is said to be of 75 tons capacity, and one ton of matte w ill equal four tons of ore. As the Peacock ore averages 20 per cent copper, the lessees of the mines expect to reap a rich harvest. Several arras- tras are being put up for the purimse of working some o f the rich gold ledges which abound in the same district. The short sellers of wheat have hut a single argument left to support their views, vis: The admitted fact that the wheat cron o f this country w ill be at least 100,000,000 bushels larger than that of lust year. The current news during the week has been extremely bullish and developments have m ateri ally strengthened the position o f spec ulative buyers. Probably the most im portant annoucement was Beerbohm’s estimate placing the European shortage compared with last year at 324,000,000 bushels. This has been emphasized and confirmed by the active cash de mand and enormous sales for export. ‘ An additional aid in enhancing values has been furnished by the farmers stacking their wheat at a greater ex tent than usual. Should the coal min ers’ strike continue a fortnight longer it w ill prove a powerful, although un natural, factor in enhancing values, and in all probability result in a more serious congestion o f the market for September delivery than lias prevailed i for July contracts. The promise of an abundant wheat crop in Am erica, the absence of competition in supplying the requirements o f importing coun tries, and the oonsequent increased ex port demand for American wheat, all tend to benefit the American farmer. W heat w ill prove a profitable purchase on all reactions and the general tend ency is toward a still higher range of values. The American visible this week shows a decrease o f 164,000 bushels, and now totals 17,650,000 bushels against 46,- 429,000 a year ago. There is mnch to be said regarding both sides of the corn market, but after all is said it is still a fact that values are extrem ely lo w — due to panic and overproduction. The growing crop is not yet assured, and with the enhancing values ruling for wheat compared with producing years, the increasing activity in general trade, corn must participate to a greater or less extent in the general improvements, according as the crop promise to be above or below that of last year. In any event, present values promise to be welt maintained, and there is little if any inducement for speculative short selling. Should the growing crop meet with any mishap much higher values w ill .quickly obtain. P o r tla n d M a r k e t«. W heat— W alla W alla, 78c; V a l ley, 81c per bushel. Flour— Best grades, $4.15; graham, $3.65; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats— Choice white, 38 @40c; choice gray, 37 @ 39c per bushel. Barley— Feed barley, $ 16@16.50; brewing, $18@19 per ton. Millstuffo— Bran, $14 per ton; middlings, $21; shorts, $15.60. I.>w— Tim othy, $12@13; clover, $I0@ 11; California wheat, $10@ 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9@ 10 per ton. Eggs— 12@12,t^c per dozen. Butter— Fancy creamery, 35 @ 40c; fair to good, 30c; dairy, 25@30c per roll. W a s h in g t o n . Cheese— Oregon, l l l^c; Young Aostin has a new flouring m ill. America, 12,l^*c; California, 9(3 10c per The State Bar Association w ill hold pound. Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.00@ its next annual m eeting in Spokane. More than $1,000 was paid the g ill- 3.50 per dozen; broilers, $1.50(32.75; netters in Blaine for one n igh t’s catch. geese, $3(34; ducks, $2.50(33 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1 0 @ l l c per pound. The annual report of the auditor of Potatoes.— Oregon Burbanks. 36@ Adams oounty shows that the county 45c per sack; new potatoes, 50c per an 1 y owes $5,000. sack; sweets, $1.90(9)2.25 per cental. John W. Troy, the alleged defaulting Onions— California, new, red. $1.25; auditor o f Clallam county, has been yellow, $1.50 per cental. taken back to Port Angeles. It is prob Hops— 10(8 1 1,4 0 per pound for new able that his case w ill be settled ont crop; 1896 crop, 4 <3 6c. of court. W ool— Valley, 11 @ 13c per pound; The telephone line to Goldendale Eastern Oregon, 7@9c; mohair, 20c will soon be oorapleted. The poles are per pound. all set, and the wire in place as far as Mutton— Gross, best sheep, wethers YVinans. The line w ill cross toe river and ewes, 2 l^ (§ 2 ){c ; dressed mutton, at W inans’ place, being stretched be 4 ^ 0 ; spring lambs, 6)4 per pound. tween their big stationary fishwheels. Hogs— Gross, choice heavy, $4; light It is reported that the General Elec and feeders, $2.50(83; dressed, $3(8 tric Company, of Portland, has had a 4.25 (ter 100 pounds. Beef— Gross, top steers, $2.75@8; survey of the K lick ita t falls made re cently for the purpose of furnishing cows $2.25; dressed beef, 4 ® 6 ) 4 c per electricity for T h e Dalles and Gol len- pound. V eal— Large, 8(83,^c; small, 4)4 ilale and to bnild an electric line from per pound. L yle to Goldendale. So many men are leaving Skagit S r a t t l. M a rk e t*. county that there is a fear of crippling Butter— Fancy native creamery, the shingle industry in this oounty, as brick, 18c; ranch, 10(812c. the manufacturers say they can’t get Cheese— Native Washington, 10(8 enough men to keep the m ills in opera H e ; California, Of^c. tion. Even the farmers come to Mount Eggs— Fresh ranch, 18(819o. Vernon daily looking for help to work Poultry— Chickens, live, per pound, in the hay fields. hens, 1 0 ^ 1 lo; spring chickens, $3 The W alla W alla Statesman says <33.50; ducks, $2.50(33.75. Wheat— Feed Wheat, $28 per ton. that when the petition of the Commer Oats— Choice, per ton, $28. cial Club of that place to the war de Corn— Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, partment to have two troops of cavalry sent to W alla to replace those sent to $ 2 2 ; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley— Rolled or ground, per ton, Fort Yellowstone was referred to the commanding officer o f the department $ 2 2 ; whole, $ 2 1 . Fresh Meats— Choice dressed beef, of the Columbia, that official mad a a steers, 6 c; oowe, 5 Qc; mutton sheep, favorable report upon the petition. 5c; pork, 6 >^c; veal, small, 6 . Mrs. Espey and her daughter, Clara, Fresh Fish— Halibut, 4 ^ c ; salmon, of Rockford, Spokane county, who 4(35c; salmon trout, 7 (8 10c; flounders walked all the way from Spokane to and sole, 8(34; lin g cod, 4(35; rock New York city, returned a few day« owl, 60 ; smelt, 9 ‘4 <34c. ago to their home. Both mother and laughter report having had a good Han F ra n els eo M a rk e t*. time, and declare that their health waa W ool— Choice foothill, 9(8 12c; San never better, although the long journey Joaquin, 6 months’ 8 (3 10c; do year's reduced them in fleah. Their object in staple, 7(39c; mountain, 11 (3 13c; Ore making the trip waa for the purpoaa gon, 10(8 18c per ponnd. of making enough money to lift a Hop«— 7® 9c per pound. mortgage from their farm. Thay were H ay— Wheat,$12<8 15; wheat and oat, in demand at the varioua museums and $11(3 14; oat, $ 1 0 g l2 ; river barley, other placea, where salaries were paid $7(38; beat barley, $9(g|12; alfalfa, them aa curioaitiea. $7(38.50 clover, $7.50(39. The receiver o f the bank o f Puyallup Millatuffs — M iddlings, $18.50(839; has received permission to sell the real California bran, $ 14 (8 15 per ton. estate and other aseeta o f the inatitu- Potatoes— New, in boxes, 40 (8 60c. tion. Onion*— New red, 70<880o; do new The report of the commissioner of ailrerskin, 85 (8 95c per cental. 1.h and fisheries recently published Fresh fruit— Apples, 90 (8 30c per ihows that the government has dis small box; do larga box, 40(365c Royal tributed in Washington state during aprioota, 90986« common cherries, the fiscal year, 695 large-mouthed 16935c; Royal Anne cherries, 26940c »lack bass, 450 yellow perch and 850 per box; corrants, $1.0091.60 per ench; ia Idaho, 406 carp, 758 tench, cheat; peaches, 369 40c; pears, 9 0 « '.,475 brook trt ut. 400 yellow porch, 40c; I7P largo-mouthed black base and $,- ¡SUGAR j A WILL D E M O C R A T IC D IN G L E Y V IE W RISK OF TH K LAW . I t W i l l G r e a t ly A ii| iu « n t t h $ S u | » r P r o d u ctio n In B o th th e N o rth nnd B« « t k —C on tid en co B e in g R e s to r e d 1 « M m * t n e «« C ir c le s E v e r y w h e r e . E. P. P arsons , Special Correspondent. Washington, D. C .— There are faw men in the Unietd States better posted on sugar production and its posaibilitie* than Congressman Meyer o f Louisiana, a Democrat, who has spent a lifetime in the iieart of the sugar producing dis trict of the United States. H e aaya frankly that he believes sugar produc tion, both as to cain and beets, w ill re ceive a greater stimulus from the en actment of the new tariff law than any thing that has been done for it. It may be added in this connection that the rate of protection given to sugar by the new law is greater than ever given to this interest under any preceding law. Possibly the actual amount o f protection per pound may have been greater under other lawa, but the fact that the cost of producing sugar and that prices the world over are now so low, makes tha ad valorem rata of protection whioh ia given by this tew greater than any in the past. " I t seems to m e,” said Congressman Meyer, talking to a correspondent upon this subject, “ that sugar production in the United States ought to be great ly stimulated by this law. I believa that we can and should, and I hope certainly that we w ill produoe in thia country all the sugar that our peopte require. ” "D o you refer to beet sugar, Mr. Meyer, or to oane sugar when talking about producing enough for the peopte of this country?” “ Both. W e shall, 1 feel sure, in crease our production o f cane sugar very greatly. This increased produc tion w ill undoubtedly stimulate oar producers and increase the number at producers. We ought to increase largely the qauntity of cane sugar produce in this country. ” “ Is there additional area not occu pied suitable for that purpose, M r. Meyer?” “ Yes, plenty o f it. In Louisiana there is a good deal; in Texas and Florida also much land is suitable for this purpose. ” "D o you expect to see the produc tion of beet sugar develop thoroughoat the North?” “ Undoubtedly. Conditions have been so thoroughly tested by those studying this subject that there can be, I think, no doubt of the en tire practicability of producing beet sugar in a broad strip of country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I look to see that interest develop very rapidly under this new law.” " W i l l the additional protection which this law gives prove any more advantageous to the beet sugar enter prise than to cane?” " I n one sense, it may. The cane sugar industry is already pretty w ell developed, w hile that of the beet su gar is not. It takes less capital to go into the production o f sugar beets than it does to produce cane sugar because beets can he transported more readily to the factories even at a considerable distance. Cane is so heavy that the cost of transporting it any distance would he too great This makes it im practicable to produce cane sugar in the way that lieet sugar ia produued. In the production o f beet sugar, the beets are grown on farms and trans ported to a factory which handles the beets of qnite a large number of forme and does so successfully. In the pro duction o f cane sugar, it is not practi cable to do this to any considerable ex tent as the cost of transporting the cane any distance would make it im practicable. Bo I look for a more r$pMI development of beet sugar production by reason of this fact, I believe that we are going to see a very great in crease in the sugar production of this country and that the farmers o f a great belt of oountry, who can produoe beet suagr readily, w ill be participator# in the benefits which w ill uome from it . ” D e m o c ra t« D is a p p o in te d . There are a good many disappointed people in Washington just now, also several in ether parts of the country. The cause o f their disappointment ia in the developments follow ing the en actment o f the new tariff law. Thw hope o f the Democratic leaden was first to befog the atmosphere with theic cries about trusts and especially thw sugar trust, and second, to show that the new law was no revenue producer. In both cases they seem likely to bn disappointed. Certainly their effort In make the Dingley hill as it became n law advantageous to the sugar trnat an compared with the Democratic tew whioh it repealed, was an ahsolnte fail ure Nobody believes that; the men who made the assertion do not believe it themselves; in fact they know bet ter. Now it seems likely that they are to be disappointed in an opportunity to complain of the new law aa a reve nue producer. It ia certainly starting off in a way which surprises ita ene mies and delighta its friends. In the few days In which it has lieen in opera tion, the customs rates under it have been very satisfactory, far in advanee of thoae under the Wilson law ia a corresponding period of ita history. Silver bullion fell to the lowest ] ever known last week. Business in Mexioo ia in bed sh owing to the continued fail in the | of silver, and there is talk of gois 1 the gold standard. “ The house < the tariff bill, >r rate ia written ha t the . It is a
