The Wasco news., October 28, 1897, Image 1

VOL.
W A SC O ,
V II.
Grant, Wasco and Moro T h e N ew
STAG E LINE.
G a lle ry ..
F. E. BROWN
H IS
LESSEE
F IR S T
COUNTY,
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
OREGON,
TH URSDAY,
OCTOBER
STATEM ENT.
L n e t g e r t » w e a r s I l e I« I n n o c e n t
C r im e C h a r g e d .
Next Door to the
Hot»I Wasco.
o f th e
Chicago, Oct. 25.—The press Unight
obtained the one great feature missing
in the famous Lnetgert trial—the sworn
testimony of the defedant nimself,
Adolph A. Luetgert.
Standing tonight in the gloomy jail
adjoining the grim-looking graystone
court building, in which his remark­
able trial bad at last been brought to
a finish, the burly sausage-maker
capped the climax of the extraordin­
ary series of events which began with
his sensational bankruptcy and the al­
leged frightful diabolism of boiling his
wife to death at midnight in a vat in
his factory cellar. Tonight, closely
following the result of the trial which
has attracted world-wide attention,
Luetgert nfade under oath » statement
for the press concerning the fearful
crime ebraged against him, the first
sworn statement yet made by him and
the first statement of such kind ever
known in newspaper anrals. The
affidavit was put in writing in due
legal form, certified to by a notary.
Ex-Judge William A. Vincent, the
leading counsel for the defendant, in
this celebrated case, the man to whose
brains and skill and energy Luetgert,
beyond all doubt, owes his gieat legal
victory, gave consent to the affidavit
being made.
The scene in the jail when Luetgert
took the oath was as dramatic as the
circumstances were unique. - In the
dimly-lighted jail corridor, Lnetgert,
standing erect, and grasping the bars
that still kept him from liberty, lifted
his right hand and solemnly asserted,
as the notary administered the binding
form.
The grewsome surroundings
were a reminder in some degree of the
midnight occurrences in the factory
cellar that have become familiar to
hundreds of thousands who have fol­
lowed the details of the great trial.
Few, if any, of the curious prisoners
and turnkeys who were spectators had
any inklings of what was taking place.
Luetgert, the notary and a representa­
tive of the press conferred together for
a few minutes and then Luetgert, with­
out hesitation, made the affidavit and
signed it in ink with the hand that is
alleged to have committed one of the
most fiendish crimes on record.
The affidavit explicitly declares Luet-
gert’s innocence. The document in
full is as follows:
“ To the Public:
“ The result of my trial, ending to­
day, is a victory for me, because of the
disagreement of the jury; but I am
very much dif appointed, and very
much surprised that the jury did not
bring in a verdict ot not guilty.
“ 1 did not kill my wife, and do not
known where she is, but I am sure it is
only a question of time until she comes
home.
“ I did not go upon the witness stand
because my lawyer, Judge Vincent,
was bitterly opposed to my doing so,
and because he advised me that it was
not necessary. I am grateful for the
tremendous change in public sentiment
in my favor, and time will demonstrate
that I am not only innocent, but a very
grievously wronged man.
“ Adolph A. Luetgert.”
“ Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 25th day of October, A. D. 189?.
“ M. F. Sullivan, Notary Public.”
I). B R A D LEY .
Potter’s (Beat (Darket
Sherman County Bank
Choice Fresh
Meats
FISH ....
ßlacksmithing
Wagonmaking
R. DINGLE.
CHAS. RICHMOND.
Hcod River Nursery...
O ut
Upon Colum­
bia Fortifications.
P r o g r e s s M ad e
William Tillet - - - Hood River, Or.
I
Marsh & Medter’s
MARSH & MEDLER
Slade & Cooley Hotel
HOTEL WASCO...
Meals and Rooms, 25 and 50c.
T he O regonian
THE NEWS
’»■ $2 PER YEAR.
turaig miners.
i withered put others la.
28,
STARVED
Has all the latest appliances
for the best work.
A specialty of Carbon and TERSE T IC K S FR O M T H E W IR ES
C O N D IT IO N O F P R E S E N T F O R TS
and platinum work. It is the
very latest.
Gallery open Thursday, Fri­
E s t im a t e « M a d « fo r F u r t h e r I m p r o v e -
day and Saturday. The first I n I n t e r e s t i n g C o l l e c t i o n o f I t e m s F r o m
Strict attention given to all business en-
t h e N e w a n d t h e O ld W o r l d I n a
in e n t s o f O r e g o n a n d W a s h i n g t o n ’s
three
days
of
the
week
will
be
trusted to them.
devoted to doing outside work.
C o n d en sed a n d C o m p r e h e n s iv e F o r m
R iv e r s a n d H a r b o r s.
Sheldon Jackson, United States su­
LEAVkS.
ABKIVES.
Washington,
Oct. 25.—In the an­
perintendent of Alaskan schools who
nual report of General Wilson, chief of
has
just
returned
from
Alaska,
says:
(iraut. 7 :30 a . m. Moro ..11:30 a. m.
enigneers, the following is said about
There is but one solution to the trans­
Moro ... 1:30 p. m. tirant.. 4 :00 p. m.
defer..- at the mouth of the Columbia:
portation problem in Alaska, and that
“ The defenses include works of the
is the reindeer.
oldt ~ type, one garrisoned and one in
V. C. BROCK,
JOHN MEDLER,
A special to the Kansas City Journal
C ashier
President.
charge of an ordnance sergeant. With
from Muskogee, L T., says: Tho
the funds appropriated by the act of
treaty between the Dawes and Creek
K eeps co n stan riv on b a n d a full
1896, work was commenced during the
supply oi
commissions, which was concluded
year on five emplacements for 10-inch
here last month, was rejected by tha
guns on disappearing carriages, two
Creek courcil in seseion at Okmulgee.
W a s c o , O re g o n .
emplacements for 8-inch guns on disap­
A patrol of dervish horsemen raided
pearing carriages, and two mining case­
a village seven miles from Berber, kill­
am C u r e d
mates- At the close of the year, the
Siigni Exchange Sold on New York, ing 11 men and capturing many
10-inch emplacements were completed,
women, children and cattle. A detach­
Portland and The Dalles.
and three 10-inch carriages mounted.
Also Lard and Sausages of
ment of Anglo-Egyptian cavalry sent in
A wharf had been built for the con­
all kinds.
pursuit of the dervishes overtook them
struction of the 8-inch emplacements,
ail necessary plant assembled and the
Transacts a General Banking Busi­ and routed them with heavy loss. The
In their season.
ness. Accounts kept subject to check. dervishes abandoned their booty and
excavation completed.
One mining
Collections made at reasonable rates.
fled.
casemate was also under construction.
J. G. POTTER, Prop.
Office hours from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
With the funds appropriated by the act
The body of William J. Lyons, an
of 1897, an additional emplacement for
, employe of the Pacific Ga9 Improve-
an 8-inch gun on a disappearing car­
1 ment Company, of San Francisco, was
riage and a mortar battery for eight 12-
found in the hills back of Berkley with
inch mortars will be constructed. At
a bullet-hole in bis head. He was
the close of the year, plans for these
short in his accounts and attempted to
works had been partially prepared.
burn his books to hide his criue. Be­
There are no existing works of defense
ing discovered in this he killed him-
on Puget sound.”
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i self in despair.
The following estimates are made for
Senator Morgan, who has just re­
river and harbor improvements for
turned from an extended visit to Ha­
Oregon and Washington for the fiscal
waii, has expressed himsetlf as well
year ending June 30, 1899:
pleased with what he saw and the man­
OREGON.
ner in which he was entertained on
C oquille r i v e r ................
|115,000
the islands. He is more than ever en­
U pper C oquille riv e r...............„ ............... _ 28,000
thusiastic on the subject of annexation,
Coos B i v ........................................................... «00,000
Siuslaw riv e r..........................................
100,000
intimates that Hawaii will become
T illam ook Bay................................................ 52,000
W e are prepared to do all kinds of iron and wood work on and
a part of this country before the close
C o lu m b ia r i» e r below Tongue p o in t ... _ 71,550
C olum bia riv e r an d Lower W illam ette... 300,000
short notice, and at very reasonable rates.
of the coming year.
C anal a t Case * •«........................................ 334.260
G auging th e
u ers of th e C olum bia
Call on us at the old stand, Opposite Krause’s harness shop.
According to Chinese advices just re­
riv e r...... ....................................................
1,000
U pper C olum bia and Snake riv e rs........... 20,000
Iron, Steel, Coal, Crucible Share Steel shaped to plows. ceived in Tacoma, Earl Li Hung Chang
will no longer take an active part in
WASHINGTON.
Bolts of all kinds ahd anything that comes out of an iron government
affairs.
G ray ’s h a rb o r.................
|430.000
P uget so u n d ..................................................... 25,000
butcher shop.
Twenty million feet of hemlock and
E v erett h a r b o r ............................................... 150,000
Sw inom ish slo u g h ......................................... 47,000
2,000 cords of bark have been con­
C h e h alis riv e r..............................................
3,000
sumed, resulting in a loss of $100,000
O lym pia h a rb o r.............................
20,000
C ow litz r iv e r ..............................
1,000
by a forest fire near Austin, Pa.
No action has been taken on the ap­
The government has completed ar­
propriation for a harbor of refuge at
rangements with the Canadian author­
Port Orford, the secretary holding that
ities to have letter mail taken into
the demands oi commerce are not suffi­
Dawson City once a month during the
cient to occasion the expenditure.
winter season. The first carrier has
The simple announcement is made
just left Dyea for Circle City and Daw­
that the secretary has not approved the
son.
•
project at Yaquina, and no estimate, is
By an explosion at the Cclma fuse
made.
works, at Colma, Cal., Mary Beek was
It is stated that the land has not yet
Has a full line of standard fruit trees, grown without ir­ killed and eight were sreiously and four
been acquired for the boat railway at
slightly
wounded.
The
remains
of
the
rigation. AU the best variety of apples, pears, cherries,
The Dalles.
For the same reason,
girl have not been recovered 'rom
peaches, apricots, prunes, plums and small fruit. Also dead
nothing has been done on the Seattle
the building, and it is believed they
ditch.
the only stock of the beautiful new red winter apple, burned.
.
YAKIM A, that is fruited here; the fruit of which I will
The London Daily Mail says it has
C E R T IF IC A T E S N O T R E Q U IR E D .
exhibit in Wasco this fall. Persons intending to plant information from a reliable source that
cholera has attacked a battalion of the
will do well to deal direct with the Nursery, as I employ Shropshire regiment, which i9 stationed
J u d g e H a n f o r d ’« R u l i n g a» t o W iv e « a n d
C h ild r e n o f C h in e s e M e r c h a n t s .
no agents. I will save you 25 to 40 per cent on agent’s at Sitapura, Northwest India, and that
40
non-commissioned
officers
anil
pri­
Seattle, Oct. 25.—Judge Hanford,
prices. Write me for estimates and see for yourselves.
vates have already succumbed.
of the federal court, today handed down
STR A W B E R R Y PL A N TS A SPE C IA LT Y .
a decision in a Chinese case, in which
The Nueste Nachrichten, of Leipsio,
he holds that the wives and children of
has published a rejiort of a conversa­
T h e J u r y D is a g r e e d .
tion in which Prince Bismarck is
Chicago, Oct. 25.—As Adolph Luet­ Chinese merchants doing business in
quoted as saying that the Monroe doc­ gert, who has been on trial on a charge the United States do not have to have
trine is “ uncommon insolence towards of having murdered his wife and boil­ certificates from the Chinese govern­
the rest of the world, and does violence ing her body in a vat, beard this morn­ ment to entitle them to enter this
to the other American interests.”
ing from the forerranof the 12 men country. Government officials here say
F MEDICINE you have to take.
A census ot the Russian empire has who have been cons.dering his case for that, if the opinion is upheld by the
I t ’s not good policy to procrastinate,
just been completed. The population, the past 66 hours the words, “ We are higher courts, it means that the impor­
Bur, at once yon had better go
as now published, is 129,211,113, of unable to agree upon a verdict,” he tant section of the Chinese exclusion
To the leading drug store of Wasco,
which 64,6116,280 are males and 64,- was as imperturbable a9 ever, evincing act which provides that sons and
Where at all times can be found
KRUG
STORE
daughters of Chinese merchants doing
584,833 are females. The population no joy.
The purest drugs of the world around.
The wonderful nerve of the defend­ business in this country must secure
of Russia in Europe is nearly 100,000,-
000, or more than three-fourths of the ant was with him to the end. He certificates from thoir home government
Is undonbtedlv the place to get inything to be found in a well regulated
stood up, and with a good-natured is no longer the law. United States
drug store. They also keep a fine line of d’ugzists’ sundries, toilet articles, whole.
smile on his swarthy face shook hands District Attorney Brinker will at once
Telegraphic
advices
from
the
New
albums, Christmas goods too numerous to mention, cigars and smokers’ ar­
ticles generally. A fine line of French candies, etc. Prescriptions care­ York Heradl’s correspondent in Rio de with his son, Arnold, his counsel and report to the treasury department Judge
bis business partner, William Charles, Hanford’s ruling, and it is expected
fully compouuded DAY or NIGHT.
Janeiro state that a servant in the em­ and
in less than five minutes was led that the attorney-genreal’s office will at
ploy of William T. Townes, the United
back
to jail. The jury was dismissed once take steps to have the case ap­
States consul-general in Rio Janerio,
pealed to the supreme court.
and
the
great trial was over.
made an unsuccessful attempt to mur­
Treasury agents claim that if the de­
der the consul-general. Mr. Towne’s
cision holds it will open the gates for a
T H E S T IC K E E N R O U T E .
assailant was placed under arrest.
flood of Orientals, for, if certificates are
Admiral John L. Worden, retired, A r r a n g e r a e n t s B e i n g M a d e b y a B r i t is h not required, any number of Chinese
died in Washington. He commanded
can claim to be children of merchants
C om pany.
J. C. COOLEY the Monitor during its engagement
CUAS. SLADE.
....T H E»
in the United States.
Winnipeg, Oct. 25.—Frank Water- I Judge Hanford’s decision is in direct
with the Merrimac in Hampton Roads
house,
president
of
the
Foit
Wrangel,
during the late war. In 1886 he was
opposition to that of Judge Lacombe,
retired with full rank and the pay of Glenora & Teslin Lake Transportation of New York.
an admiral, the only instance of the Company, passed through this city
today on hi" way to London to appoint
kind.
agents and arrange for the trip frem H U N D R E D S O F P E O P LE K IL L E D
C ftA N T , O R E C O N .
The director of the mint has submit­ Europe to Dawson. From Engi »ud
ted to the secretary of the treasury a the first-class fare wiil be $1,000; sec­ T e r r ib le L o n o f L if e b y C y c lo n e in t h e
Special attention to commercial travelers. Commodious report for the fiscal year covering the ond-class,
P h ilip p in e « .
$750. These amounts in­
rooms well and neatly kept. The table supplied with the best operations of the mints and assay offi­ clude transportation of supplies and Madrid, Oct. 25.—A dispatch from
together with statistics of foreign other necessities for one year. The Leyte, Philippine islands, says that
the market affords. Will meet all trains. Stage leaves for ces,
countries relative to production, coin­ company will have a line of si earners place has been almost devastated by a
Goldendale and Moro every morning except Sunday.
age and monetary condition. The value between ports on Puget sound to the cyclone, that many persons have been
of the gold deposited at the mints and head of navigation of the Stickeen riv­ killed and that the damage to property
assay officer during the fiscal year 1897 er, a distance of 130 miles from Fort is incalculable.
The lead :n g h o tel of G ran t, located w it£ o 100 feet of th e depot. New b u ild ­
ing, new iu r n n u re , an d e v e ry th in g tirat-class.
was $129.105,500. Of this amount Wrangel. From th6 river to
-- Teslin
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The cyclone destroyed the towns of
$87,003,337 was original deposits, and lake, a portage of about 115 miles, ■ Tagloban and Hernani, on the island
$42 ,102,162 redeposits.
SL A D E & COOLEY, Proprietors.
pack trains will convey the travelers, of Leyte, as well as several villages.
By the explosion of the boiler of the it being intended to have about 1,000 It is estimated that 400 persons lost
steamer G. B. Force, in Charleroi, Pa., horses cn the route. Thence on Teslin their lives through the disaster.
the captain, James Ryan, and the cook, lake and the river (onrse to Dawson, a
Later advices from Manila say the
William Patterson, were killed. The distance of about 459 miles, boats now cyclone occurred on October 12, and
New
body of Patterson was found buried in in course of construction are to be used. added that Carriga and Bnrga, on the
the sand ami terribly mutilated. The
eastern coast of Leyte, had been wiped
Proprietor
Stockton, Cal., Oct. 25.—This after­ out, and that an immense wave swept
body of the captain has not yet been
found. The others of the crew were noon. the jury in the case of George the island. Several hundred natives
badly
and bruised. The ex­ Williams, charged with attempting to perished at Tagloban. The cyclone
......A FIR ST-C LA SS HOUSE plosion scorched
was so heavy that the earth wreck the New Orleans express at also swept the island of Sammar. The
trembled for more than a mile, and Morano station, on the 4th u lt., re­ full extent of the catastrophy is not yet
Special service for
windows ware broken throughout the turned a verdict of guilty, fixing the known, but the damage is estimated at
the traveling public.
penalty at life imprisonment.
town.
7,500,000 pesetas.
T h e s s a lia n » M ay R e tu r n .
John Falongo9, a -esident of Clifton,
W ill D e m a n d D u ty .
Or., for the past six years, was killed
Athens, Oct. 25.—The Turkish gov
Victoria, Oct. 25.—Hereafter every
P. L. KR ETZER , Wasco, Or.
by the caving of ar embankment on ernment has granted permission to pound of goods not bought in Canada
. the grade of the As.oria & Columbia Thessalians who fled from Thessdy af­ will have to pay duty before being a l­
River railroad.
ter the invasion of the conquering lowed in the Klondike country. The
A dispatch from Madrid says there is Turkish troops under Edhem Pasha to Canadian government has seen fit to re­
I also operate a first-cliss well drilling machine, run by much discussion at toe Spanish capital return to their homes through Phourka voke the regulation allowing prospec­
' on the subject of an alliance between pass, Monzenki pass and two other tors to take in 100 pounds of goods free
g isoline engine. Write for particulars.
Spain and Portugal, reported to be in passes near Trikhala and Amiroud.
yf duty, and customs officers will be
process of negotiation. The Portu­
A weak solution of salt in water is placed on the Stickeen route as well as
guese minister of marine, who is now
it Tagish lake and on the Yukon.
in Madrid, has expressed the belief good for sore throat when used as a
that such an alliance may be accom­ gargle, and this is still better if a few
Swords equai to the best ever made
grains of red pepper are added.
plished at any moment.
»re atill produced at Toledo in Spain.
■
T u n n e l i n g in D o u g l a s C o u n t y .
It is said that the lose by fire in
S o v e r e ig n s F r o m A u s tr a lia .
Is t h e g r e a t e s t n e w s p a p e r o n t h e P a - Windsor, N. S., will run into the mil­
Roseburg, Or., Oct. 25.—The tunnel
San
Francisco, Oct. 25.—The steamer
c i f i c C o a s t.
I t g iv e s
t h e g is t o f t h e lions. Two people lost their lives in of the Roseburg Mining Company on Alameda, which arrived today, brought
Brushy butte is now in about 150 feet.
the flames.
n e w s , a n d t h e r e a d i n g m a t t e r , a n d is
Recently information was sent out It is thought the vein will be leached £2,250,000 in English sovereigns from
from
Tacoma that a miner named John­ eoou. Robinson brothers and H. M. Australia, a9 a part of the balance of
g o t t e n u p in a b u s in e s s m a n n e r .
It is the second large shipment
son had died at the Klondike with Oatman have finished their 200-foot I j .rade.
)f gold received here within the past
tunnel
contract
on
the
Black
Republi­
$30,000 gold in his possession, and had
10 days. The money was deposited at
X I V E N W IT H .
left no relatives to claim it Since can. They cut through a number of
then letters have been received at the very large stringers but did not strike :he m in t
K ille d b y E a tin g W a x C a n d le s ,
local Alaska information bureau from the main vein.
t A girl named Alice Weaver died in
a dozen different parts of the country, I
Try the putting of two good sound the Worcester infirmary, according to
trying to establish relationship with a
apples
in your cake box to keep your the London Chronicle, after eating wax
view to getting the dead man’s wealth.
The Kory was brought down by JT | caks moist. When the apples beome jandles, which she had taken to im­
New Coaches, with zoo-1 accommoda-
lions (or passengers. Express and
packages promptly delivered.
Accommodating drivers.
4L"
SH ER M A N
prove her oom plexion.
1897.
TO
NO.
DEATH.
W EEKLY
o f a P o p u la tio n o f T w e n ty -F iv e
H u n d r e d , O n ly F i v e S u r v i v e .
New York, Oct. 25.—A Herald dis­
patch from Havana says:
A local
newspaper publishes and vouches for
the following: At Chascapeba, in the
district of San Julian, belonging to the
municipality of Melana del Sur there
were concentrated 2,500 persons. These
reconcentrados were the oniy inhabit­
ants of the place. Now there are only
five survivors, the rest having died of
hunger and fever. In Havana city it
is no unusual sight to see 10 or 12
dead on one plaza early in the morn­
ing. The employers employ regular
roundsmen to remove bodies from the
parks.
There is no abatement in the activity
of the rebels in the western provinces.
The special regiment of Veragua on
its way to the Rubi hills in Pinar del
Rio, stumbled across a dynamite bomb
and lost 10 killed and 41 wounded.
Further on thev came across another,
but it failed to explode. The soldiers
became terrified and refused to proceed.
In Havana province 100 rebels of
Raoul Arango’s command entered and
i aided a town. They carried away a
quantity of clothing aftd provisions
without a shot being fired by the garri­
son. Near Artemisa, Havana province,
a band of insurgents under Acoa at­
tacked and macheted the Spanish guer­
illa force stationed on the Neptuno
estate.
In a railroad collision between Arte­
misa and Mangas several soldiers were
killed.
Inhabitants of a suburb of Havana
report hearing firing just outside the
town last night. The firing continued
for several hours, and this morning
some wounded troops were brought in.
No details of the fight ha e been ob­
tained.
A n o th e r F ilib u s te r .
New York, Oct. 25.—The Herald ha3
made investigation into the alleged de­
parture of the filibustering expedition
from New York on the schooner Silver
Heels last Saturday. As to the suspic­
ious circumstances attending the depar­
ture of the vessel, H. P. Brown, her
agent said: “ There is nothing suspic­
ious about the sailing of the Silver
Heels. She took nothing which could
be regarded as contraband goods. She
sailed for Norfolk and Charleston in
search of a charter. As her agent, I
should certainly have known if she hud
taken cargo from this port.”
Despite the emjJiatiG denial of
Brown, the Herald learns from other
sources that the Silver Heels did leave
New York Saturday night loaded with
arms and ammunition, and that she
went direct to sea. At some point on
the high seas she is expected to trans­
fer her cargo to another craft which
would have armed men oh board,
whose destination is Cuba. Tomas
Estrada Palma, the Cuban representa­
tive, said:
“ I am positive that no armed expedi­
tion left this port for Cuba.”
H o ld - U p o n S i s k i y o u M o u n t a in .
Ashland, Or., Oct. 25.—D. C. Pit-
zer, a gardener, living four miles south
of Ashland, came to town this morning
and repotted that, while returning
from a trip to Northern California,
where he had been with a load of pro­
duce, and while on Siskiyou mountain,
near Steinman, where the stage road
crosses the railroad, at 7 o’clock last
evening, he was stopped by two high­
waymen, who ordered him down from
his wagon with drawn revolvers, after
which they rilled his pockets of a sack
containing $48 in silver, but over­
looked $30 in gold in a trousers pocket.
The robbers then told him to get on
his wagon and make himself ecarce,
which he did in a hurry, reaching his
home at 8 o’clock, and not reporting to
the local authorities until this morn­
ing. Tne authorities are now investi­
gating the case. Prtzer is not able to
give a very complete description of the
highwaymen.
C h e r o k e e « A r e A r m in g .
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 25.—A spe­
cial to the Gazette from Fort Smith
says: It has leaked ovt here that the
full-blood Cherokees have been secretly
arming themselves and securing large
quantities of ammunition for several
weeks, but it has been especially brisk
since the return of the attorney sent to
Washington to enjoin the Dawes com­
mission from proceeding to make the
citizenship rolls. The majority of the
Cherokees are opposed to the treaty,
but the most bitter feeling Ì9 among
the ignorant full-bloods. They are
prepared to resist any attempt to
change their tribal government. No
immediate outbreak is anticipated, but
a great deal depends upon the action of
the council next Mondav.
MARKET
15.
LETTER.
[Office of D ow ning, H o p kins & Co., C hicago
B eard of T rade B rokers, 711-714C h am b er of lo rn -
xcerce B u ild in g , P o rtlan d , Oregon.]
A Resume of Events in the
Northwest.
E V ID E N C E O F S TE A D Y G R O W TH
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m e n t in A i l I n d u s t r i e s —O r e g o n .
A fishing crew caught between 800
and 1,000 herring in one night last
week, in Yaquina aay.
A farmer of Malheur county, this
year sold 73,000 pounds of wool and 62
head of choice beef cattle.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gold
bullion was the output of the Bonanza
mine in Baker county last month.
The Ashland iron works are working
on a $1,500 order for pulleys, shafting,
etc., from the Sissons Lumber & Mer­
cantile Company.
The keel for the Alaska Gold Min­
ing <x Navigation Company’s boat that
is being built in the Siuslaw, near
Florence, measures 125 feet in length.-
There are now - 1,200 signers in
Astoria to the petition for the bridge
across Young’s bay. Only about 1,400
names are required to put the measure
through.
Among Mr. Dade’s sheep on Birch
creek, in Umatilla county, is a lamb
with oniy one ear and one eye. It was
born thus, and is fully developed in
every oilier respect.
Contractor Jacobson, who is work­
ing on the jetties on Coos bay and on
the Siuslaw, has about 130 men em­
ployed. He says his contracts will be
finished in two or three months.
There are no. empty houses-in Vale,
Malheur county. Several fanners have
been compelled to give up the idea of
living in town in order to send their
children to school, because of the lack
of houses.
The run of Chinooks in Coos bay was
light last week, and silversides were
scarce aho. There has been a great im­
provement, however, in the last few
days, and boats on the lower bay are
making good catches.
One day last week Hume’s fishing
crew at the mouth of Rogue river made
a regular old-time catch of salmop,
raking in 3,750 at one haul of the eeine.
There is a larze run of salmon coming
into Sixes river, in Curry county.
A fish eight or nine inches long and
somewhat resembling the Sound mack­
erel is being caught along the water
front in Astoria. No one scorns to
know just of what specie it i9, but such
a fish was seen in these waters about
1 five years ago.
There is greater activity witnessed
in and around Drain this fall than has
been seen here before for years. New
buildings are being built, old ones re­
paired. sidewalks made and improved,
empty houses are rapidly filling up, a
brick kiln of over 100,OQ0 is always
ready for burning, and thousands of
cords of wood are being handled by
woodmen.
A disease called glanders is causing
the death of quite a number of horses
in Paradise. Wallowa county. The
people there have asked \he county
court to order the stock inspector to
that place to take steps to prevent the
spread of the disease. At this particu­
lar time, however, the county is with­
out a stock inspector, but the matter
will be attended to at the next session
1 of the court.
Movement of the hop crop has not
yet started, except on sales contracted
before harvest, and neither buyers nor
growers are able to say when it will.
A few sales are reported from Polk
county at 15 cents, and it is stated on
good authority that 15*^ cents has
been offered in Salem for choice hops.
The price, generally offered, however,
is from 13 to 13^ cents. This, grow­
ers are unwilling to take, and in some
instances, agents having failed to buy
at these figures, the orders have been
recalled.
W a th in g to n .
The Lincoln county tax levy has been
fixed at 16 mills.
The shingle m’ll in Kelso, Cowlitz
county, is cutting 170,000 shingles in
11 hours. This is at the rate of over
150,000 in 10 hours.
By a vote of 10 to 4, the Tacoma city
council passed an ordinance making it
imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement.
Tea Inspector Palmer has rejected
200 cas^9 of Japanese tea, recently
bronght to Seattle on the Nippon Yu-
sen liner, Kinshui Maru. The inspec­
tor says the tea has apparently once
T a co m a W o m a n K ills I ie r s e lf.
been used.
Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 25. — Mrs.
A farmer of Yakima will this fall
Frank Alwyn, wife of a Saloon-keeper, eow a lot of the much-talked-of Ber­
shot herself in the breast at an early muda grass, which is said to thrive on
hour this morning, dying almost in­ • dry hilly ground without irrigation. If
stantly, The act was committed in the test proves successful the grass will
SL Joseph’s hospital, where she was be largely sown for sheep fodder.
admitted last night. She carefully
Tests m?.le at the Washington state
planned for her death, wrapping her­
self in a rubber blanket, so the bed agricultural college of beets grown on
clothing would not become bloody. irrigated lands in Yakima county un­
She left a note saving she was tired of der the system of experiments inaugur­
life with directions for her funeral. ated by the Northern Pacific, show a
In a bureau was found a shroud, made range of from 14 to 20)$ per cent of
by herself, with a card pinned on it sugar, with an average above 18 per
upon which was “ Bury me in this.” cent. These results are said to be very
satisfactory.
Mrs. Alwyn was 26 years old.
Thurston county will build a steel
A P r e m a tu r e E x p lo s io n .
bridge with 200-foot span across the
Kingston, N. Y., Oct. 25.—At Ros­ Chehs.’ia river, near Grand Mound.
endale today the premature explosion
During the past week grain has been
of a blast in Snyder’s cement quarry . pouring in from the fields to the ware­
killed Arnold Johnson instantly and houses and mills in Dayton, and they
inflicted probably fatal injuries on are i ow nearly filled io overflowing.
three others.
Very little grain is being sold or ship­
ped,
the farmers desiring to hold for a
A b y s s in ia n « D e v a s ta t in g S o m lila n d .
Cairo, Oct. 25.—News reached here higher price. Moat of them want to
from Somalil and that the Abyssinians hold for 75 cents, but if that price is
are devastating that country. They reached again and the market has a
have already dispersed or wiped out 10 tendency to go still higher, they would
no doubt still continue to hold.
great Somal tribes.
Reports firo current 'in Seattle that
there are agents of the Japanese and
S h ip w r e c k e d C rew R e s c u e d .
Greenock, Oct. 25.—The British British governments on Puget Sound
ship Waterloo, from Vancouver May seeking information regarding coast-
22, arrived here today, She landed defense preparations which the United
the crew of the Austrian bark-Gloria, States government is now making at
from Buenos Ayres for Havre, who Marrowstone point and other Sound
were picked up after having abandoned points.
The action of Great Britain in dis­
their ship in a sink’ing condition Sep­
tember 9 in latitude 42 north, longitude criminating against convict-made sacks
will, it is said, mean that the farmers
17 west
of Washington will have to pay 10
H o w to T e ll F r e sh E g g s.
cents for sacks. They have been pay­
The freshness of eggs may be told by ing
cents a sack this year for the
placing them in a pan of cold water. per itentiary-made sack and last year
If fresh, the ¿mall end will come to . the price was 4 3-5 cent».
the t o p .
The past week has been a very quiet
one in the grain trade, ' with narrow
fluctuations. Europe took 6,300,000
bushels of our wheat, and from other
countries about 8,000.000 bushele.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Buenos Ayres eays that there have
been good rains in the south and a
slight rainfall in the north, so that the
harvest is now secure. It is estimated
that 1,000,090 tons of wheat will be
exported. -
Broom hall, a commercial authority
of Liverpool, cabled that a special
agent investigated crop conditions in •
Russsra and pronounced the spring
wheat-crop in the important southeast
district to yield not over 50 per cent of
last year.
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The leceipts of spring at Minneapo­
lis by the flouring mills have been very
large, running as high as 1,100 oars in
one day. The American visible supply
increased 1,136,000 bushels, and now.
totals 23,930,000 bushels. A year ago
today the visible increased 2,411,000
bushels and totalled - 64.858,000
bushels.
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Regarding the fall w heat Much re­
lief in the drought regions has-been ex­
perienced by quite extended rains,
w’hich in many places were fairly lin-
eral, and in others less important. .The
effect has been to revive cheerfulness
and confidence where the seriousness of
drought conditions was having a d is-.
couraging influence. These rains have
not accomplished all that is needful;
hut if they be soon followed by more
moisture there will .be much done to
overcome the drawbacks whi;h have
been attending autumn seeding opera­
tions.
It is yet too early to offer an explicit
opinion as to the probable relative area
of autumn sown wheat, but it now
seems practically conclusive that there
will be shown considerable gain over
last year. It is in evidence that Oc­
tober sow ings of wheat if followed with
ordinary favorable conditions may be
expected to result well, and .ip fact-the
wheat sown as late as the middle of
November has possibilities favoring a
good yield.
The rains have had the effect to
weaken the market sentiment to some
extent, and wheat values have receded.
Other influences have also had more
or less bearing in the same direction.
The large foreign demand which served
in an important degree to stimulate the
advancing tendency of values some
weeks ago has been modified, as might
have been expected as a natural result
to follow that abnormal activity.
P o r tla n d M a rk et.
Wheat—Walla Walla, 79@80c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 82 @ 83c per bushel.
Four—Best grades, $4.50; graham,
$3.70; superfine, $2.50 per barrel.
Oats—Choice white, 33@34c; choice
gray, 31@32c per bushel.
Barley—Feed barley, $19@20; brew­
ing, $20 per ton.
Miiistiffe—Bran, $14 per ton; mid­
dlings, $21; shorts, $15.60.
Hay—Timothy, $12@ 12.50; clover,
$10@ ll; California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 @10 per
ton.
Egg«—20c per dozen.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 45 @ 50c;
fair to good, -85@40c; dairy, ?5@36c
per roll.
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Cheese — Oregon, 11 )$c;
Young
America, 12J$c; California, 9@10c
per pound.
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.00@
2.50 per doezn; broilers, $1.50@2.00;
geese, $4 00 @5.00; duckaj $3.00 @4.00
per dozen; turkeys, live, 8@9c per
pound. w
Potatoes—Oregon Burbanks, 85 @ 40c
per sack; sweets. $1.40 per cental.''
Onions—Oregon, new. red, SOci yel­
low, 80c per cental.
Hops—8@15c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 6 @ 7c.
Wool—Valley, 14@16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7@12c; mohair, 20o
per pound.
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Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers,
and ewvs, $2.50@2.60; dressed mutton,-
6c; spring lambs, 5J$c per pound.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
light and feeders, $3.OO@4.OO; dressed,
$5.60@6.COO per 100 pounds.
Beef—Gross, top steers, $2.75 @3.00;
cow-s, $2.50: dressed beef, :4@5,1*e per
pound.
Veal—Large, 4%@5c; small, 5)$ @
6c per pound.
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S e a tt le M a rk et.
Butter — Fancy native creamery,
brick. 23@25c; ranch, 10@16c.
Cheese — Native Washington, 1 0 @
12c;. California, 9^0.
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Eggs—Fresh ranch, 26c.
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Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10c;- spring ehickens,* $2.50@
8.00; ducks, $3.50@4.00. •
Wheat—Feed wheat, $27 per ton.
Oats—Choice; per ton, $21 @22.
Corn—Whole; $22; cracked,-per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 @23 per ton.
Barley—Rolled or ground,. per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats—Choice .dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 5)$c; mutton sheep,
$c; pork, 6)$c; veal' small, 6.
Fresh Fish—Halibut, 4c: salmon, 4
@5c; salmon trout, 8c; flounder« e—o ’
sole, 8)$@4; ling cod, 4@5; rock.cqd,
5c; smelt, 2 ) $ ^ 4c.
Fresh Fruit—Apple», 40 @65$ • per
box; Saiaway peaches, 50@60c; ciings,
30@40c; prunes,
@ %o per pound;
pears, 75c @$1 per box.
S a n F r a n c is c o M a r k e t .
Wool—Nevada 11 @ 14c; Oregon, 12
@14c; Northern 14 @ 16c per pound.
Hops—11 @ 14c per pound.
Millstuffs—Middlings, $30@22; Cal­
ifornia bran, $15.00@ 15.50 per ton.
Onions—New red. 70@80c; do new
silverskln, 60c@$l.’0 percental.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 27@28c;
do seconds, 25@26c; fancy dairy, 23@
24c; good to choice 20@22o per pound.
Cheese—Fancy mild, new, 9 )$c; fair
to good, 7@8c per pqund..
Eggs—Store, 16@25y; ranch, 34 @
37c; Eastern, 15@21, duck, 20c per
dozen.
Potatoes—New, in boxes, S0@90c.'
Citrus Fruit—Oranges, Valencia,
$1.50@3.00; Mexican bmes, $3.00@
3.50; California lemons, choice, $2.60;
do common, $1@2 per box,
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Hay—Wheat, 12 @15; wheat and
oat, $11@14; oat, $IO@12;' river bar­
ley, $7@8; best hei^vv, $10@12;
alfalfa, $8@9.50; clove;, $8@ 10.
Fresh Fruit—Apples, Sb@?5o per
large box; grapes, 15@80c; Isabella,
40 @ 50c; peaches, 25 @ 50c; pears, $1.00
@1.40 per box; plums, 8o@4Oc.