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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1897)
the EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH nm vmnereo in ah viic uon vi Our Neighboring States Improve tuent In AH Industries Oregon. A fishing crew caught between 800 and 1,000 herring in one night last week, in Yaquina bay.. A farmer of Malheur county, this year sold 73,000 pounds of wool and 53 head of choice beef cattle. Eighteen thousand dollars in gold bullion was the output of the Bonanza mine in Baser oounty last month. - The Ashland iron works are working on a $1,600 order for pulleys, shafting, etc. , from the Sissons Lumber & Mer cantile Com pa'ny. The keel for the Alaska Gold Min ing & 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 only one ear and one eye. It was born thus, and is fully developed in every other respect. Contractor Jacobson. who is' work ' ing on the jetties on Coos bay and on the Siuslaw, has about 180 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 farmers have been compelled to give up the idea of living in town in . order to send their children to school, because of the laok . of houses. The run cf chinooks in Coos bay was light last week, and silversides were scarce also. 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 salmon, raking in 8,750 at one haul of the seine. There is a large 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 seems to : know just of what specie it is, but such . 3 . A. ,na ann in noA tn4Ai.a nVtnnt . 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 100,000 is always reaay ror ourning, ana mousanas oi 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 the county court to order the stock inspector to . that place to take steps to prevent the spread oi me disease. j ai mis particu lar time, however, the county is with out a stock inspector, but the matter : will be attended to at the next session of the oourt. . , 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)4 cents has . been offered in Salem for choice hops. The price, generally offered, however, is from 18 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. v ' ' ' Washington. The Lincoln oounty tax levy has been fixed at 16 mills. - The shingle mill 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 Tacomacity council passed an ordinanoe making it ' imperative for women to remove their '. hats in places of public amusement. Tea Inspector Palmer has rejected 200 cases of Japanese tea, reoently brought to Seattle on the Nippon Tu sen liner, Einshui Maru. The inspec tor says the tea has apparently once been used. A farmer of Yakima wi 11 this fall sow a lot of the muoh-talked-of Ber- ' muda grass, which is said to thrive on dry hilly ground without irrigation. If the test proves successful the grass will be largely sown for sheep fodder. Tests made at the Washington state agricultural college of beets grown on irrigated lands in Yakima county un der the system of experiments inaugur ated by the Northern Pacifio, show a range of from 14 to 20)4 Per cent of sugar, with an average above 18 per satisfactory. .Thurston county will build a steel : bridge with 200-foot span across the Chehalis river, near Grand Mound. - During the past week grain has been pouring in from the fields to the ware houses and mills in Dayton, and they are now nearly filled to overflowing. Very little grain is being sold or ship- : ped, the farmers desiring to hold for a higher price. Most of them want to hold for 75 cents, but if that price is reached again and the market base tendency to go still higher, they wonld no doubt still continue to hold. A Resume of Events in Northwest. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Office of Downing, Hopkins A Co., Chicago no&ra ot iT&ae jjroKers, 711-714 unamoer oi toil' merce Building, Portland, Oregon. t We have had a very nervous, sensi tive market in wheat the past week, but the undertone has been very strong at times, and prices were np 5 cents over a week ago. The news has been quite bullish in tone, and foreigners have been liberal buyers of wheat for nearby shipment About the only thing that at all favored the bears was the fact that rains had fallen moder ately over the drouth stricken area, and that fall work was again in progress in the winter wheat sections. Reoeipts of wheat have been large, with an ur gent demand for good milling wheat from nearly all quarters.' Exports for the month of September were the larg est on record, footing up 26,000,000 bushels. The American visible supply shows an increase of 199,000 bushels for last week, and now totals 24,629, 000 bushels, against 57,285,000 a year ago. .The fact that France has again been a large buyer of wheat the past week has done much to. stimulate prices, and were it not that speculation is very light we should have seen a far greater advance. Wheat is on a legiti mate basis the basis of supply and de mand but every one seems to be afraid of it because they compare prices with what they were a year ago, and many prediot deolines, but while the cash de mand is as urgent as it is now, and foreigners are buying our wheat and flour at the rate they are now . doing, there is no chanoe for more than slight reactions and everything favors a higher range of values. We feel very bullish on the situation, and advise our friends to get hold of some wheat and it will soon show them a good profit i There has been more weakness shown in corn than the most sanguine bear had looked for, and as holders be came easily frightened and threw their holdings on a market that was narrow and with light trade at the start, the result can easily be foreseen rather sharp decline with shorts the best buy ers. Receipts have been large. Portland Market. "Wheat Walla Walla, 8081c; Val ley and Bluestem, 88 84c per busjhel. Four Best grades, $4.50; graham, $3.70; superfine, $2.50 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 84 85c; choice gray, 82 83c per bushel. , Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew ing, $20 per ton. Millstiffa Bran, $14 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. : Hay Timothy, $12 12.50"; clover, $1011; California wheat, $10; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. ' Eggs 22 Jq per dozen. , Butter Fancy oreamery, 45 50c; fair to good. 8540c; dairy, 2585c per roll. . Cheese Oregon, 11 Jc; Young America, 12c; California, 910o per pound. ' - i Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50 3.00 per doezn; broilers, $2.002.50; geese, $4.005.00: ducks, $3.00 4. 00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 89c per pound, v Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 85 40c per sack; sweets. $1.40 per cental. Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yel low, 80o per cental. Hops 8i5c per pound - for new crop; 1896 crop, 6 7o. Wool Valley, 1416c per 'pound; Eastern Oregon, 712o; mohair, 20 22o per pound. Mutton GroBs, best hheep, wethers and ewes, $2.502.60; dressed mutton, 6o; spring lambs, 5o per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50; lightand feeders, $3. 004.00; dressed, $5. 50 6. 00 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00; cows, $2. 60; -dressed beef, 46c per pound. ' : Veal Large, 45o; small, 6 6o per pound. Seattle Market. . , Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 2325o; ranoh, 1015c. Cheese Native Washington, 10 2c; California, 9o. " . Eggs Fresh ranch, 28S0c." Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens,. 1 1 ac; spring chickenB, $2.50 3.00; ducks, $3. 50 4. 00. Wheat Feed wheat, $26 per ton. Oats Choice, per ton, $21 22. . Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $22. Fresh Meats Choice dressed, beef, steers, 6o; cows, 5c; mutton sheep, 6c; pork, 6c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4c: salmon, 4 5c; salmon trout, 8o; flounders and sole, 34; ling cod, 45; rock cod, 5c; smelt, 24a Fresh Fruit Apples, 75o$l per box; Salaway peaches,' 50 60c; clings, 3040o; prunes, Per pound; pears, 75c$l per box. . -;:' San Francisco Market. Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon, 12 14c; Northern 1416o per pound. Hops 11 15c per pound. Millstuffs Middlings, $2022; Cal ifornia bran, $15.0015.50 per ton. Onions xvew red. 7080c; . do new eilverskln, $1.001. 15 per cental. Butter Fanoy creamery,. 27 28c; do seconds, 2526o; fancy dairy, 28 24c; good to choice, 2022o per pound.' Cheese Fancy mild, new, 12c; fair to good, 7 8c per pound.. Eggs Store, 1826c; Tanoh, 86 88)c; Eastern, 1522; duck, 20c per dozen. Potatoes New, in boxes, 80 70c. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valenoias, fl.508.00; Mexican limes, $2.50 8.60; California lemons; choice, $2.60; do common, $1 2 per box. . Hay wheat, 12 15; wheat and oat, $1114; oat, $1012; river bar ley, $78; best barley,' $10(212; alfalfa, $9.50; clover, $8 10. QTjlEJf SAB'ET Quien Sabe who know is a phrase in rery common use among the Spaniards, Mid helps over many, many difficulties. It is expressive. What the weather may be the coming winter, who knows? It may be snowy, wet, stormy, cold, freezing, and full of sickness and' pain, who knows? Some of us today, hale and hearty, may lie on beds of torture, or hobble about on ;rutches, who knows? Before the autumn merges into winter many may have symp toms of approaching trouble, of the old rheumatism coming on, or of first attacks begun ; who knows? That's a conundrum., But there is one thing everybody knows, the best thing to do is to be ready for the weather coming and to take hold of what is. Everbodv knows what is best. With St. Jacobs Oil in the house, everybody knows they have a sure cure for rheuma tism, acute or chronic. It is likewise known that in any stage of it, the great remedy does its work of cure perfectly. If we suffer, we need not ask who kiows, when it is so well known what is best Great Gifts to Education. M. Eulogious Georgieff, the founder of the Sofia University, who died re cently, bequeathed 2,0000,000 francs to the Bulgarian government to be applied to the country's needs; 6,000,000 francs for a technical school to be established at Sofia and large sums for other pub lic institutions. V HOME PRODUCTS AND PURE FOOD. All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very light colored and of heavy body, is made from glucose. "Tea Garden Vrips" is made from Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sale by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac tured by the Pacific Coast Sykuf Co. All gen uine "Tea Garden Vrips" have the manufac turer's name lithographed on every can. A Fair Inference. When the continual and ' unreason able attacks upon the courts are con sidered, orderly people are apt to take a liberty with the poet and make lis couplet read: "No rouge e'er saw the halter draw , with good opinion of the law." Stockton Independent. Omnibusses were introduced in New York city in 1830. The-first copper cent was coined in New Haven, Conn., in 1687. Plants grow more between 4 and 6 a. m. than at any other time of day. Of 73 historic kings of Scotland 61 are said to have died in battle or to have been murdered. , ';."'... The German emperor' declared in a recent speech that his grandfather was a chosen instrument of heaven. An outlaw, three ' moonshiners and two other men were arrested at the Sun nelton camp meeting at Kingwood, W. Va. " '.' 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On receipt of same we will deliver it at your nearest express office free of charge. ...FRANK NAU.... , Portland Hotel Pharmacy. nnn-r, . un Sixth and Morrison street, . . un BASE BILL GOODS Special Rates TO CLUBS. rWe carry the most complete line of Gymnasium and Athletic Goods on the Coast. . SUITS AND UNIFORMS MADE TO ORDER.' ' ii Send ior Our Athletic Catalogue. . ' WILL & FINCK CO., 18-820 Market St.. San Francisco, Cal. r.uats ihHtut ah use fills. Best Cough 8jrup. Tats Good. Use m lime, eoia or arownBtB. mm.'., ntf (TO ALLI Vmen 1r jaV El "ti4 gem wiiws mm Progress Made Upon Colum bia Fortifications. CONDITION OF PRESENT FORTS Estimate Made for Farther Improve ments of Oregon and Washington's Rivers and Harbors. Washington, Oct. 25. In the an nual report of General Wilson, chief of enigneers, the following is Baid about defenses at the mouth of the Columbia: "The defenses include works of the older type, one garrisoned and one in charge of an ordnance sergeant. With the funds appropriated by the act of 1896, work was commenced during the year on five emplacements for 10-inoh guns on disappearing carriages, two emplacements for 8-inch guns on disap pearing carriages, and two mining case mates. At the close of the year, the 10-inch emplacements were completed, and three 10-inch carriages mounted. A wharf had been bnilt for the con struction of the 8-inch emplacements, all neoessary plant assembled and. the excavation completed. One mining casemate was also ' under construction. With the funds appropriated by the act of 1897, an additional emplacement for an 8-inch gun on a disappearing car riage and a mortar battery for eight 12 inch mortars will be constructed. At the close of the year, plans for these works had been partially prepared. There are no existing works of defense on Puget sound. " The following estimates are made for river and harbor improvements for Oregon and Washington for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1899: OREGON. Coquille river $115,000 Tipper Coquille river 28,000 Coos Bav 600,000 Siuslaw river , ,. 100,000 Tillamook Bay 62,000 Columbia rier below Tongue point 71,550 Columbia river and Lower Willamette... 800,000 Canal at Cascades 834.260 Gauging the waters of the Columbia river 1,000 Upper Columbia and Snake rivers 20,000 WASHINGTON. Gray's harbor j430,000 Puget sound '. 25,000 Everett harbor - 150,000 Swinomish slough , 47,009 Chehalis river ;.. - 8,000 Olvmpia harbor 20,000 Co'whu river 1,000 No action has been taken on the ap propriation for a harbor, of refuge at Port Orford, the secretary holding that the demands of commerce are not suffi cient to occasion the expenditure. The simple announcement is made that the secretary has not approved the project at Yaquina, and no estimate is made. - ' It is stated that the land has not yet been acquired for the boat railway at The Dalles. For the same reason, nothing has been done on the Seattle ditch. ". -' CERTIFICATES NOT REQUIRED. Judge Hanford's Ruling as to Wives and Children of Chinese Merchants. Seattle, Oot. 25. Judge Hanford, of the federal court, today handed down a deoision in a Chinese case, in which he holds that the wives and children of Chinese merchants doing business in the United States do not have to have certificates from the Chinese ' govern ment to entitle them to enter this country. Government officials here say that, if the opinion is upheld by the higher courts, it means that the impor tant section of the Chinese exclusion aot , which provides that sons and daughters of Chinese merchants doing business in this country roust secure certificates from their home government is no longer the law. United States District Attorney Brinker will at once report to the treasury department Judge Hanford's ruling, and it is expected that the attorney-genreal's office will at once take steps to have the oase ap pealed to the supreme court. ' Treasury agents claim that if the de cision holds it will open the gates for a flood of Orientals, for, if certificates are not required, any number of Chinese can claim to be children of merchants in the United States. Judge Hanford's decision is in direct opposition to that of Judge Lacombe, of New York. . HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE KILLED Terrible Loss St Life bj Cyclone in the ' Philippines.; Madrid, Oct. 25. A dispatch from Leyte, Philippine islands, says that place has' been almost devastated by a cyclone, that many persons have been killed and that the damage to property is incalculable. , ; The cyclone destroyed the towns of Tagloban and Hernani, on the island of Leyte, as well as several villages. It is estimated that 400 persons lost their lives through the. disaster. Later advices from Manila say the oyclone occurred on October 12, and added that Carriga and Burga, on the eastern coast of Leyte, had been wiped out, and that an immense wave swept the island. Several hundred natives perished at Tagloban. The cyclone also swept the island of Sammar. The full extent of the catastrophy is not yet known, but the damage is estimated at 7,500,000 pesetas. ' . . , 'v' " , Will Demand Duty. . Victoria, Oct. 25. Hereafter every pound of goods not bought in Canada will have to pay duty before being al lowed in the Klondike country. ,The Canadian government has seen fit to re voke the regulation allowing prospec tors to take in 100 pounds of goods free of duty, ; and customs officers will be placed on the Stickeen route as well as at Tagish lake and on the Yukon., j Swords equal to the best ever made are still produced at Tole do in Spain. Important Recent Discovery. - The Smithsonian Institution baa re ceived a collection which is of import ance to the archaeologist. It is known as the Seton-Karr contribution, having been discovered by this Englishman in Somaliland, on the eastern coast of Af rica. The implements were purchased from the discoverer by the Smithsonian Institution. There are about 50 pieces in the collection, made of flint, of qnr tide, and ranging in size from an inch or so in length to half a foot, some weighing several pounds.' The objects are supposed to be spear heads, battle axes, and wedges, truncheons, blud geons or whatever they may be termed. The discoverer had this to say on the subject of - his find and the locality where the objeots were unearthed: "Certain landmarks as to the four rivers mentioned in Genesis led me think that the Garden of Eden, if it ever existed, may have been here, and that these very tools had been made and nsedby Adam and his numerous descendants. At any rate, my discov eries in Egypt and Somaliland lead me to the idea that man's original home, or the place where he was gradually evolved, must have been in Africa, or at least, in a tropical land, where olothes were unnecessary and food plen tiful to hand." ' WAKE UP. Yes, wake np to the danger which threatens yon if your kidneys and bladder are inactive or weak. Don't you know that if you fail to impel them to action, Brights disease or diabetes awaits you? Use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters without delay. It has a most benelicial effect npon the kidneys when sluggish, and upon the bowels, liver, stomach and nervous system. One of the visitors to the Tennessee Centennial was a Rutherford county man, 84 years old, who, until his trip to the Nashville exposition, had never been on a railroad train. AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive use of the word " CASTOKIA," and ' PITCHER'S CASTOR1A," as our Trade Mark, t. Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does new bear the fcc-simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA " which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Iook Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to nse my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. , March S, 1S97. SAMUEL PITCHER, MUX The relatives of Joe Sullivan, who died in Oakland, Cal., and was seven feet eight inohes in height, have put a guard ov jr his grave, fearing that a showman will steal his body. ' 100 REWARD, SIOO. ' The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its Btages and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dls ease, requires aconstitutional treatment. 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