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HOT TALK IN SENATE. G a llin g e r A c c u s e d P e n r o s e o f U n tru th - fu ln e s s . SYM PATH N ew Y o r k M e e tin g A 'd d r e s s e d M on ta gu W h ite . t w e l f t h census . by A D V IC E S T rade R e v ie w ÍE CH EERFU L. \ikes F a v o r a b le Washington, March 17.— “ I assert New York. March 19.— There was a Buties and Requirements of the 50,000 Sh<Ung. most emphatically that when the sen- ! meeting o fjp e r sympathizers at Cooper K n u m e r a t o r s -F o u r Schedules Filipino War Is Almost^ at ator says 1 told him I should not speak Union toniglfr, at which George H. van Bradstreet’ s say Trade advices Instead o f T e n . are, as a w hole,\heerful, and the Hoesen pre& ed. Montague White* the on this subject, he does not state the an End. stretch of values i apparently una Boer representative; John E. Mul’h ol- truth. ” bated, though som eift spots still pre This was the sensational retort made land and P » . Weasels, a * représenta is nnwhfbCenSUS buildinS « great room tive of the Gauge Free State, made Is now the scene of bustling activity, sent themselves. ALrmanent feature in the senate today by Gallinger, to a j T R O O P S D O IN G G O O D W O R K the work oi preparing portfolios for t is week has beef the increase in statement just made by Penrose. Sen- ! speeches. M- Van Hoesen prophesied use by enumerators in the coming strength of values hi farm products, ators were astonished and the auditors j that “ not n i l all the Boers are count of the population being fairlv nearly all the cereag, pork products their graves*- all'.the English in the galleries quivered with excite are ■©«nierai W h e e le r , W ho A r r iv e d In under way. These portfolios, of whit- and cotton advancing,’¡\yhile materials There had scarcely been the flight will thjwar bVover. ” W a s h in g t o n , Says th e I n s u r g e n ts ment. sh-brown pasteboard, hinged together or manufacture, and the products slightest intimation that the debate Referring! his interview with re A r e S c a t te r e d —M a n y A m b a s s a d e s , with black cloth, are 18 inches long thereof, have generally remained steady would take such a turn. gard to thefcrobablej destruction of or unchanged. . . . 10 wide and tied with W «aWc ___ t and For nearly three hours the senate JohannesbuAy the Bber«, h« a - wBicTf to the ordinary mina sig the retailer by enabling him to dispose ape . 10 “ A nation! a king if ar cannot pro had under discussion the bill appro Washington, March 19.— General nifies circumlocution and delay. The of some carried-over stock. Joseph Wheeler arrived in ths city this priating $2,095,000 for the benefit of vide a drawija room jfor its enemy. law requires speed in the census of Wool is fairly steady, but manufac morning from Atlanta. He went over the people of Puerto Rico. Fairbanks The Boers wc|d neither have lost nor 1900 and common every day white cot turers are out of the market and con gained by th^estruction of Bloemfon to the war department this afternoon. had just concluded some remarks on ton tape w ill fasten the schedule-filled cessions can be obtained, though Lon In the absence of Secretary Root he re the measure, and suggested that the tein; hut thefase of Johannesburg is portfolios in their round from habita don advices are better. different, as itwould provide splendid ported formally to Adjutant-General senate proceed to the consideration of tion to habitation. For convenient, ac Southern iron advices are of steady •Corbin, thus complying Vith the order executive business. Pending a motion barrack accoinnodation for the British, curate and rapid enumeration the U ni prices, and of rather more inqnry on ,from the department which brought to that effect, Penrose who has charge and by reason if its location and other ted States has been divided into 300 export account. Except immediately him from Manila. The general was in of the case of ex-Senator Quay, suggest advantages an invaluable base for oper supervisors’ districts, and these in turn in Chicago, where idleness of many th e uniform of a brigadier-general of ed that a time be fixed for a vote on the ations.” into about 50,000 enumeration dis thousands of men has cause dullness As to the imported statement of the th e volunteer army. He looked the case. In the course of his remarks he tricts, or E. D .’ s, as they are called in in the machinery and kindred trades, picture of health; better than when he intimated that certain senators were British that President Kruger would be the census office. Each of the 50,000 the Western iron situation seems a held persemally responsible for any de left Washington for Manila. throwing obstacles in the way of a vote, enumerators is yet to be appointed, so strong one. He gave General Corbin a brief de and indicated that Gallinger was one struction of property he said: Structural material is in better re “ President¿Kruger is well able to on the portfolios a blank space is left scription of the conditions in Luzon, of these senators. quest and some very large contracts for his name. take care of himself, and if be in not, I He insisted that the war is over, and Gallinger quietly replied that he de The last, census found the unhappy w ill shortly he placed. that nothing more is to be done except sired to be heard on the question, but call upon you to take care of h im .” enumerator loaded down with from 10 Wheat, including flour, shipments Mr. Wessels spoke briefly, beginning to run down a few guerrillas and irreg had not had an opportunity to speak. to 13 schedules, each having volumin of the week aggregate 2,277,450 bush ulars, There is difficluty in this work, To his statement Penrose retorted that with a reference to the reverence with ous instructions, to master which re els, against 2,280,578 bushels last h e said, and there is danger, too, but the New Hampshire senator had assured which the Boers regard their women, quired considerable mental ability and week, 4,114,046 bushels in the corre its prosecution is not “ war.” Ambus him he did not expect to speak on the and the fact that the women have been power of memory. That census was sponding week of 1899. cades were frequent and annoying, and Quay case. Instantly Gallinger was fighting in the trenches. He declared taken under a law whioh required enu Business failures in the United States the Boers had demonstrated and would i t was not easy to tell whether the hid on his feet, and with evident feeling for the week number 190, as compared den foe was strong or weak. Three and with great vehemence, replied as demonstrate their right and fitness to merators to ask many obnoxious ques govern themselves. He charged Eng tions. The census act of 1900 happily with 189 last week, 205 in this week a men had been mistaken for a company above quoted. for all does not require these disagree year ago, 233 in 1898, 233 in 1897, in some cases. “ I don’ t know whether I don’t speak land with supplying the natives with and 300 in 1896. able queries. guns to use against the Dutch; with The general said that the American the truth, ” hotly replied Penrose, “ or Four schedules, not 10, cover enu Business failures in Canada for the troops are doing splendid work there. whether the senator from New Hamp falsifying the surveys* in order to get possession bf the diamond fields; with merator’s inquiries in 1900; schedules week number 28, as compared with 33 They are sound and healthy, and in shire failed to tell me the truth.” requiring information about popula last week, 21 in this week a year ago, <ÿuite as good shape as they would be Gallinger retorted that the whole misusing the natives and Boers, and He tion, vital statistics, manufactures and 23 in 1898, 36 in 1897 and 40 in 1896. ¿at home, engaged in similar service. proceeding of Penrose was unmanly with other reprehensible things. concluded with an appeal that America agriculture. In cities the enumerator This is owing in a mesaure to the ex and beneath his notice. w ill seldom need the agricultural, or P A C IF IC C O A S T T R A D E . cellent care for their men exhibited by The debate on the appropriation bill intervene to stop hostilities, and reiter ■officers, and to the watchful precau. developed difference of' opinion, as ated the statement that European in the rural districts the manufacturing S e a ttle M a r k e t « . schedule, so he w ill infrequently carry tions of the staff of the army. Jones, of Arkansas, offered a susbtitute nations would have intervened if they Onions, new, $2.25 @ 2.50 per sack« for the measure a bill to return the had but known how the United States more than three. Lettuce, hot house, 45c per doz, A general realization by American OPEN TO T H E CAPE. duties to those who had paid them, and stands. Potatoes, new, $15 @18. citizens of their personal interest in a providing for absolute free trade be Beets, per sack, 75 @ 85c. B lo e m fo n t e in H a s T h r o u g h K a il C o m successful prosecution of the canvass T H E CU BA N P R O B L E M . tween the United States and Puerto Turnips, per sack, 60c. m u n ic a tio n . by this white-tape army should arouse Rico. The bill had not been disposed* W il l B e T a k en Up W h e n P u e r to R i c o I s Carrots, per sack, 50c. sentiments of local interest and pride ’ ondon, March 19.—Lord Robertr of when the Quay case was called up. Parsnips, per sack, 75 @ 85c. O ut o f th e W a y . in each enumeration district citizens ;has sent the following dispatch to the Cauliflower, 75c @$1 per dozen. would concern themselves about the The District of Columbia appropria w a r office: New York, March 19.— A special to Cabbage, native and California, Bloemfontein, March 19.—General tion bill, carrying $6,908,878, was the Times from Washington says: selection of their registrar and local $1.00 @ 1.25 per 100 pounds. ■Clements crossed the Orange river yes passed by the house today, and also a Four weeks hence, the year allowed by arbiter. Apples, $1.25@1.50 per box. The white-tape army should he made terday. Repairs to the railway bridge bill granting the abandoned Fort Hayes the treaty of peace with Spain for the Prunes, 60c per box. ¿at Norval’ s Pont have commenced, and military reservation to the state of Spanish inhabitants of Cuba to decide up of men of a high standard. They Butter— Creamery, 28c per pound; it w ill shortly be^ready for traffic. Gen Kansas for an experimental station and whether they will be Cuban or Spanish should be quick, competent, courteous, dairy, 17 @ 22c; ranch, 17c per pound. eral Pole-Carew telegraphs his arrival normal school purposes. citizens will expiré. Immediately tactful and truthful. Eggs— 15 @ 16c. a t Springfontein, so that Bloemfontein after that date, April 11, according to P a r k h u r s t on T h e ir T r a c k . Cheese— Native, 15 c. C o s m o p o lis S a w m ill. now is practically in rail communica- the plan laid down by the administra New York, March 17.— The Rev. Poultry— 13 @ 14c; dressed, 14 @ 15c; The Gray’ s Harbor, Wash., Commer iton with Cape Town. tion at the opening of the present ses Dr. Parkhurst and Superintendent spring, $5. cial Company’s sawmill plant at Cos " M y proclamation is already having sion of congress, preparations are to he Hay— Puget Sound timothy, $12.00; ¿an excellent effeqt. Several hundred Burr, of the Society for the Prevention made for the h-oldingfof municipal elec m opolis, employes 500 men, with 100 Burghers have expressed the-C intention of (Crime, W ill go before the grand jury tions and ultimately for th^ election of men working on improvements; has a choice Eastern Washington timothy, today with e v id e n c e that is *«» a convention wtram w ill Cteciae upon <JS31,0Q0 monthly payroll; has a mess $ 18k0 0 @ 1 9 .0 0 to surrender their arms and Return to snbvv that body how it has been possi Corn— Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23; their occupations. The resident com ble, under the system of official pro the Cuban form of government. To house that takes care of 400 men; missioner of Basutuland reports that tection, for gamblers to flourish in New that government, according to the scores o f dwellings for rent to employes feed meal, $28. -800 Boers lately arrived from Bloem» York. Neither Mr. Burr noi Dr. Park original programme, the United States at a nominal sum, and which, in con - Barley— Rolled or ground, per ton, fontein, and that ^ further contingent hurst would say last night just what is to surrender the control of the island. nection with the plant, presents nearly $20; v Flour—-Patent, per barrel, $8.25; Whether that programme w ill be car a mile of frontage on Chehalis river. from Afiwal North was only waiting to the line of this evidence was, but they know the terms of my proclamation to intimated that the society was after the ried out in its entirety cannot certainly The company is now constructing a blended straights, $3,00; California, Tbe senate committee on new planing m ill, a box factory, a tank $3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra ¿surrender. They had refused to attend gambling commission and the other be said. ¿a council at Kroonstad, to which Presi persons in high places who shared in Cuban affairs has the matter before it. factory, a finished lumber storing shed, ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat The plan was Senator Foraker’s, and new dry kilns, and making numerous flour, $3.00; rye flour, $8.80@ 4.00. dent Steyn had summoned them .” its spoils, while the prosecution of the Millstuffs— Bran, per ton, $13.00; he secured the consent of the adminis other additions. During 1899 its out gamblers and dive-keepers was only in E X P L O S IO N A T B L A S T F U R N A C E . tration to it at a time when powerful put was 45,000,000 feet of lumber and shorts, per ton, $15.00. cidental to the main issue, and would Feed— Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; interests were contending for a differ 90,000,000 shingles. O n e M a n E n t ir e ly C rem a ted a n d F o u r be so treated. middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, ent policy, and when they had pro Sea L io n s W a n t e d . O th e rs I n ju r e d . M rs. B l a i n e ’ s E x p e r im e n t. per ton, $80.00. gressed so far that the plan had been J. E. W . Macfarland, superintendent Pittsburg, March 19.—By the fall of Chicago, March 17.— The Times- announced to the public as the presi Fresh Meats— Choice dressed beef of the new oil and guano factory, at ¿a “ hung” at the Monongahela furnace Herald says: The servants of the dent’s plan. Senator Foraker is confi steers, 7j^ @ 8 c; cows, 7c; mutton 8 c; a t McKeesport today one man was cre household of Mrs. Emmons Blaine are dent that it w ill be adopted, and it is Astoria, Or., is going to try an experi pork, 7 X c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 83^ @ mated, two were fatally burned and now working under union rules. Eight understood that this is the reason why ment this summer, that w ill meet the 10c. ■two others were badly injured. Geo.' hours constitute a day’ s work. The he is so anxious for the immediate approval of the fishermen and the fish Hams— Large, 13c; small, 183£; M artin is the cremated man. Geo. idea is said to have been suggested to adoption of a civil government for ing interests generally. He w ill be breakfast bacon, 12 dry salt sides, Curvan and Sydney Jackson were so Mrs. Blaine by Professor Patrick Puerto Rico, with or without a tariff w illing to pay a good price to fisher 8c. men for all the sea lions that they may badly burned that their recovery is im Geddes, of Edinburgh, who lectured in annex. He wants Puerto Rico out of P o r t la n d M a rk e t. possible. Stephen Stobeowski and John Chicago a couple of weeks ago. The the way’, it is said, in time for the big kill, as he believes that he can extract Wheat — W alla W alla. 52 @ 58c; Borcneck were badly burned, but will scientist offered the proposition that ger Cuban problem to have a free field. oil from them profitably, for they are Yalley, 52c; Bluestem, 55c per bushel. always very fat when they come into recover. | there was a chance for the betterment Senator Platt, of Connecticut, has Flour— Best grades, $3.00; graham, the river. The matter w ill be brought Explosions of this character are fre- of the condition of household servants, started for Cuba with Senators Aldrich ■quent in this section, but the absolute and so well did Mrs. Blaine regard the and Teller. Senator Platt is chairman up at the next meeting of the Fisher $2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel. Oats— Choice white, 35 @ 36c; choice •disappearance of Martin lends an air suggestion that she decided to adopt it of committee on relations with Cuba, man’ s Union for discussion.. gray, 34c per bushel. -of mystery to the affair. Three hun in her home. and he, with Senators Aldrich and N o r t h w e s t N o te s . Barley— Feed barley, $ 14@ 15.00; dred tons of molten ore, coke and min- The system was inaugurated about 10 Teller, form a subcommittee which Polk county, Or., has 2,508 voters; orewing, $17.00@ 17.50 per ton. -erals used in the production of pig iron days ago, and it is said to have proven has been delegatee! to go to Cuba and of them, 1,156 have registered. Millstuffs— Bran, $13 per ton; m id became fast in the furnace, and Martin highly successful. Society and club study the situation. Nothing has been La Grande, Or., has a school popula dlings, $19; shorts, $15; chop, $14 per .and Gurvan, as top fillers, tried to dis women are' highly interested in Mrs. said about the duration of the stay the lodge it. Suddenly the entire mass Blaine’ s experiment, and if it continues three senators wi|l make. It is under tion of 1,377 between the ages of 4 and ton. Hay— Timothy, $9 @ 10; clover, $ 7 @ fell, compressing the gas below and to work well, the plan may be quite stood, however, that their visit relates 20 7.50; Oregon w ild hay, $6 @ 7 per ton. causing a terrific explosion. generally adopted. Miss Oza Waldrop, actress, is the to the plebiscite |f April 11. Butter— Fancy creamery, 50 @ 55c; Not a trace of Martin’s body can be daughter of Rev. Joe Waldrop, of AN E D IC T A G A IN S T R A T S . seconds, 42 % @ 4 5c; dairy, 3 0 @ 3 7 )^ c; found. Curvan, when discovered, was IN T E R V IE W W ITH IT O . Prineville, Or. store, 25)^@323^c. in a horrible shape, and can hardly live F o r m a l P r o c la m a t io n I s s u e d b y t h « Walter Benn, a Siletz Indian, is Eggs— l i e per dozen. R u m o rs o f W aiJP etw eeri R u s s ia a n d until morning. The other men, who M a y o r o f A s to r ia . under bonds at Toledo, Or., to answer Cheese— Oregon full cream, 13c; J a p a n w e U n fo u n d e d . were at the bottom of the furnace, fared Astoria, Or., Match 17.— A procla a charge bf grand larceny. Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c «ome better, but Jackson is so badly mation, of which the following is a New York, M*ch 17.-—A dispatch to A number of strangers are investigat per pound. burned that his recovery is next to im copy, was issued from the mayor's the Herald fron!okoham a says: Mar Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.50@ possible. quis Ito, Japan# ex-prime minister in ing the timber resources in the moun office today: 4.50 per dozen; hens, $5.00? springs, tains west of Pedee. an interview, s # ‘ - “ To the Citizens of Astoria: In F o o d f o r P u e r t o R ic a n s . fj>2.50@ 3.50; geese, $6.50 @7.50 for old; “ The rumorJpw^r between Russia Papers throughout Oregon are still Washington, March 19.—Five hun view of the fact that there has been an $4.50 @ 6 .50 ; ducks, $5.00@ 5.50 per and Japan an unfounded newspaper urging voters to register. More than dred tons of rice, codfish and bacon authentic case of the plague in China dozen; turkeys, live, 10 @ 11c per were shipped on a transport to Puerto town in San Francisco, and the Chi reports. An aTiement exists,between half of them are not yet on the books. pound. Russia and Ja^ii to the f&Fiict that nese are constantly coming from there A. J. Smith is said to have given R ico today by the war department to Potatoes— 50,@ 60c per sack; sweets, relieve the suffering. The shipment to other cities on this coast, and in neither powe fvili enercrach upon option to parties on bis 32 acres of 2@ 23^c per pound. Corea, and weiSjst belielfe that Russia view also that the plague now exists in is made in response to an appeal some» oyster land on Oyster bay, Wash., the Vegetables— Beets, $1; turnips, 90c; tim e ago from General George Daivs, a greatly increased number of ports of is sincere. Tl®ew Russian minister price to be $15,000. per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab m ilitary governor of Puerto Rico, to the Pacific ocean from which vessels to Corea has c ® to Tokio and our re The Brownsville, Or., Times says bage, 13ljC per pound; parsnips, $1; acting Secretary of State Meikeljohn, are constantly coming to the ports of lations are m oirien d ly.” the Calapoola river continues to make onions, $ 1 .5 0 @ 2 .25; carrots, $1. Speaking a h ! the Soiitlu African this coast, and in view also of the fact ion aid for starving Puerto Ricans, Hops— 3 @ 8c per pound inroads on land in the eastern part of war, Marquis )S|said: > v V^eneral Davis’ letter depicts an aw- that rats take this disease more easily W ool— Valley, 12 @ 18c per pound; town, though the water is not high. “ The ou tco »> f the struggle will be \ (»situation on the island. He ex- than man, and are generally the first to Eastern Oregon, 8 @ 1 4 c; mohair, 27 @ to increase lA a n d ’s greatness and Tacoma druggists have organized a take it in any port, and then give it to A Vied that he*intended to discontinue 80c per pound. th.\istribution of food the first of the man; and in view of the fact that the arouse new merest in the armies society which w ill join the Retail Mutton— Gross, best sheep, wethers which her effuies have developed. diseased rats cannot be isolated in case Druggists’ Association of America. mofjh, but owing to the distress he and ewes, 43^c; dressed mutton, 7 @ askeAfor this shipment. He also says of an epidemic; therefore I think it England will jS© trained soldiers all One of its objects is to prevent the sale 7K c per pound; lambs, 7 % c.per pound. of patent medicines and drugs m de that ft is imperative that a further proper that the people should be warned over the g lo b e ! Hogs— Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; “ The p olicy! Japan is not a colonial partment stores. ehipnupt of 500 tons of the same arti to kill the rats by trapping or other light and feeders, $4.50-; dressed, cles b.lmade on the next transport fo l wise, without delay, as a matter of self one. The Jajfese army and navy are A. F. Garr is a Toledo, Or., man $6.00@ 6.50 per 100 pounds. and public protection. This I consider intended to dl§d Japan and her in who went to the residence of his wife, lowing b is shipment. ‘B eef— Gross, top steers, $4.00 @ 4 .5 0; Japan has from whom he had separated, and of great importance, and I hope it w ill terests, not fc»onquest. cows, $3 .50@ 4.00; dressed beef, 6 % @ no money for ar or aggrandizement. he done immediately, while the council F ir e i l a M a s s a c h u s e tts T o w n . “ while she was absent at church, 7 % c per pound. Hodkinfcn, Mass., March 17.— Fire w ill adopt other measures calculated The new deveRpient of commerce in broke open the door with an ax, loaded Veal— Large, K c ] small, 8 @ destroyed five of the best business build to prevent the introduction of the dis* the East renc^fit necessary for each a wagon with what he wanted and took 9c per pound. nation to p ro $ its interests with a it away.” Mrs. Garr will take legal ings in thiAplace today. The loss is ease. Tallow— 5 @ 5 }£ c; No. 2 and grease* show of p o w ® estimated a\ $75.000 to $100,000. proceedings against him. 8 }£ @ 4 c per pound. tvö . “ ISAAC BERGMAN, Mayor."