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„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.
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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.______________-—
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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 $,-
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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