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mi TT 1 River Gr acier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. X. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1898. NO. 23. me ' ''''' ' ' ,' moa tlltflDlllES Yfappenings Both.' at. 'Horn? and Abroad. : WEEK'S, NEWS CONDENSED Interesting Collection of Item From , Many Flaees Called From the Press Kenarts of the Current Vlwli ;'. . 7 ,-' . :- i' ; The lockout ' in the window glass trade at Pittsburg is ended. ' Yellow ' fever has ' been completely Stamped out at Guantanamo. Charles Kugadt was hanged at Hous ton, Tex., for the murder of his sister. Fully 10,000 people participated in a reception to General Shatter at Lima, O. The independent battalion of Wash ington volunteers has been mustered oat. r - .t: ' ' : Ex-Governor' Charles Sheldon, of South Dakota, died at Dead wood of rheumatism. Superintendent Lnkens, of the Chi-oago-Virden. Coal .Company has' been released from custody on bonds. . : s:' 1 ' ' ' Hhe wireworkers' strike at Cleve land, O., has failed, and a general re sumption of work will soOn follow' The Colorado supreme court has de cided the silver Republican .factional quarrel in favor of the anti-Tellerites, who are given the right to the title and emblem of the party. : Battery :B,' Oregon' volunteers,' has been mustered out of. service, and its members returned to private life with out having the much -sough t-for chance to battle for. thejr,;otntry., Agonoillo, envoy of the Filipinos, las reached Paris, In reply to a Span ish statement, the American peace com missioners have declared that the 'United States refuses, , to assume sovereignty over Cnba. ' ' ' ' A Havana dispatch says: ' An agree ment between the two commissions as to the date of evacuation again seems 'probable. The American ultimatum fixes upon January 1, and this data will be finally accepted, by the Span iards. ' .' , Lieutenant Peary's vessel is oaught in the ice, and there is little prospect ' that it will get out this year. The present position of the steamer is muob farther' north than whalers usually go. The vessel will return ' safely next spring after, .the ice .thaws, , . A sensational Btory comes from Ha vana to the effect that Captain-General . Blanco together with other prominent Spaniards, had formed a plot to set up a republic in Cuba, and eventually turn the island back to Spain, y Their plans were upset by the signing of the peace protocol. i v Bev. ,Chas. Heath,, oolored, is dead at . his home in .New York" city, aged 101 ; years. The first notable event in his ' life was in 1799, when his mother car ried hjm to the funeral, of ;George 'Washington; so that he could always' 'say, that be had attended the burial of ithe first president of his country. . ' . President McKinley addressed a -large body of railway emploves before ileaving Chicago. ' r: . .. Advioes from Porto Bico 'says -all' High officials there have taken steps to beoome naturalized Americans. The, British ship Blenfeld burned' at the mouth of the Thames river, and . 14 of tliose on board lost their lives. ' The Spaniards at Havana are becom- , ing insolent, and, disregarding the, American demands.. Blanco has auc tioned ..off cannon which rightly .be-'' , longed to the United States ' In the Jririual report of ' the third :assistant postmaster-general a strong ,eoommendation is made that negotia-, lions be opened looking to the reduc tion of the international rate to 3 oents 4Uialf ounce or fraction thereof. In a ten ible typhoon off Formosa hundreds of lives were lost. -..Among the ships lost was the American bark Comet.. The crew was saved. Homeward-bound passengers say they passed ' numerous abandoned vessels. - The losa of life must have been enormous., .. The coal-mining, town of Welling-' ton, Vancouver island, has been the , scene of several Subsidences'; and 'there is general alarm there owing to indica tions that another . is likely to take -place. The whole town is under mined, owing to the extensive opera tions for coal mining.' A dispatch . from Manila says: ! .The 'insurgent general, Pio Pilar, has agreed to evacuate Paco Paco, the last' suburb -of Manila held by the Filipinos Tues day. This completes the American conquest of the city. . The last rebel i has left Cavite and Manila, the rest of tthe island of Luzon being in the hands iof the insurrectionist faction. ' " Disastrous typhoons, sandstorms and 'floods have caused fearful loss of life :and property in the Orient. In the district watered by the river Feng, in .Japan, hundreds of villages have been sawept away and 2,000 people drowned. Another report says 250 towns are un der water. . : Thousands of refugees are flocking to the cities. The Ishkarie river also pverflowed, drowning over j J,000 people. LATER NEWS. Cbanoine, the French minister of war, has resigned. The total registration of voters in New York was 556,889, as against 576, .192 in 1897. Fire broke out at pier -No. 89, East river, Brooklyn, and did damage to the amount of $500,000. , v.,. ; . ' John H. Dialogue, head of the ship. building firm of that name, is dead at his home at Camden, N, J. . , " ': A great improvement 'is reported in the health of the Spanish troops at Ha vana during the past ten days. " v' ' : A movement to restrict the town of Pullman, III., to its oharter limitations has been approved by the supreme court of that state. ,'.',"..' , '.'' Another demonstration has been made in Havana by city . officials who have not received their , salaries for many months past. - ' The steamer Beina de Los' Angeles has returned to Santiago after carrying the Garcia and Cespedes factions to Santa Cruz del Sur to attend the Cuban assembly. " I American exports are increasing more rapidly than those of any other oountiy. In 18? 0 we had 1 per cent bf the world's oommeroe; now we baye 13 per oent. Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hob son has i arrived home again. He Re lieves the sunken Spanish warship Viz bay a can be saved, but it would cost $1,000,000 to raise her. Emperor William has designated a large . fountain which he-; proposes. to'J erect in Constantinope as a gift to com memorate his .visit and that of Empress Victoria to the sultan's capital. I , '. . ; The steamship Victoria brings news to Tacoma that two more battles have been fought in Formosa between Japan ese troops and the native savages,-' who seem bent on exterminating all the Japanese onV the island, r: .. Aguinaldo is desirous of going to Paris for the purpose- of -appearing be fore the peace commissioners, says a Manila dispatch, but he is prevented from so doing by the jealousies existing between the insurgent leaders. The principal fact brought out by the newest British blue book is that no offer to negotiate on the matter of pos session of Fashoda was ever made. The French papers now seem hopeful of a peaceful solution of the dispute. " " '-J' , The oanar,,rputo. survey -has 'been completed and there is an exodus of civil engineers from Nicaragua. Louis Wiokman,. who has just arrived at New York from Greytown, thinks Zelaya's opinion as to the time of the expiration of the Maritime Canal Company's conr cession is faulty. Time to the Yukon will be short ened as the ' result of the discovery of a new channel for vessels. Steamers of moderate draught may enter the mouth of the -river and ascend four or five hundred miles before - trans-shipping. -Expansion , of territory under the new survey is important.- - ;. , The last detachment of Spanish troops have sailed from Porto Bico and evaouation is complete. -.--: -.:---- . The Utah troop of oavalry, which has been doing guard duty in the Yosemite,' has been ordered to the Presidio. f; Major-General Wesley Merritt, ;U. S. A., was married privately in London to Miss Laura Williams, of Chioago. News has been .received in Washing ton of the launching at Havre of the cruiser Bio de la Plata, which is to be presented to Spain by the Spanish resi- ' dents of Argentina.-, V:; vjj. The joint traffio'associatioh has re ceived a death-blow by the United States supreme court, which'' has just decided tnat its existence is unlawful, and the anti-trust law is being violated. A Madrid dispatch' to the New York World says that leading men at Madrid concede ' that America, will not assume the Cuban debt, that-the- Philippines will probably , be lost and that .the Amerioan commissioners' demands in all matters will be acceded to. Secretary Long has taken the initia tive steps' to make San Juan de,, Porto Bico the first naval station in the West Indian waters. Congress, will be asked to appropriate money enough to make it one of the best equipped naval sta tions the United States has. . Serious trouble is brewing among the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians. For 80 years, since the Medioine Lodge treaty, the government, has fed these Indians, but that treaty expired July 1-. They have commenced killing oattle be longing to Texas cattlemen, and a oriBisi is near, 1 .. f -' ', '".'.! The California superior court has decided that Mrs. Botkin, accused of the murder of Mrs. John 1 P, Dunning and sister, of Dover, Del., is not a fugi tive from justioe of Delaware. Mrs. Botkin has been 'remanded, in custody -of the ohiet of police of San Franoisco, and the date of , her. trial will .be set later. '';; .' .';';,,.:::V,rV:.' ' The president has approved; ' the recommendation ol General Wade, at Havana, that the Spaniads be allowed until Deoember 1 to evacuate Cuba; meantime, however, United States troops now in Cuba and others . to be dispatohed will take possession of .the territory as fast as th Spaniards vacate it, probably leaving Havana last. , Overwhelmed by Tide Rips i in. Turnagain Arm.' NINE MEN WERE ' 1 DROWNED Iwo Searching; Parties Have Been Sent Out. to Find the Missing- Men Im poaslble to Swim Ashore. . : Sunrise, Alaska, Sept. 28. A small Sloop was wrecked in Turnagain arm early in the morning of September 16, and nine men lost their lives by the-ao- cident. The men were: Kit Carson Payne, of Portland, Or.; Frank L. Rob inson, of Santa Cruz, Cal.; A. M. Adams, of Bellevue, Pa. ; Louis E. Zim- mer and J. M. Bonner, of Pittsburg, Pa.; M. Walcott and his son Oliver, of New York: Mr. Soott, of Scottsburg, 111., and Chris: Johnson, of Sunrise City, owner of the sloop. , This three-ton sloop left Peter's Creek landing, on- Kulkarm, the even ing of the 15th, bound for Sunrise UUy, near the head of Turnaeain arm. She was overloaded so that her deck was only six inches ; above the'; water, and some of , the men objocted: to making the trip with her 6n that aocount, but they all started 'finally." She left witn favoring wind and smooth water. At about 12 o'olook the sloop passed Firs island and steered toward the entrance to Turnagain farm, some 20 miles away. This was the last that was seen of the Johnson sloop or her passengers. Somewhere between the island arm the tide rips overwhelmed and swamped the overloaded boat. The dog belong ing to the sloop swam to the south shore and made its way to the mining camps on Bird creeks and was brought from , there to Sunrise. : The steamer Pery brought in the small skiff belong ing to the sloop, which 'was found floati ing'bottom "up near Tyonic. "' Broken pieces of the sloops's cabin and several small articles were -found on the north shore by Mr. Duncan, 'of this place. Two searching parties have been ou( from this town, where the -men "have many friends and acquaintances, but none of the bodies have been found. II js probable ; that all the men but John son were asleep in the hold when the sloop was swamped, and were carried down' with it. , It would have been im possible for a man to swird ashore from the middle of the rough channel whertl the disaster occurred. Several of these taen had just leturned from the Copper and Tanana rivers, by way of the new trail just opened by Captain Glenn's party. They were feeling jubilant over the discoveries they had made, - an1 were going back with supplies this winter. . J :''' ' "I a .' f' :, The entrance to ; Turnagain arm,' at the northeastern extremity , of Cook inlet, is known as' the most perilous water in this part of the world. ' The arm is really a rocky cayon, and three to five miles wide. With precipitous mountains rising abruptly on eaoh side, it extends nearly through the Coast range of mountains. In fact the large glacier at the eastern end extends over the narrow ridge " of mountains and joins . that from Portage bay on Prinoe William sound.,! Through this deep and rocky gorge the wind and tide rush with terrible foroe. The tides rise and fall some 50 feet arid' run like a torrent over miles of mud flats and reefs of ',ragged rook. " A powerful steamer can make no headway against them; and a sailing vessel entering the arm is entirely at their mercy, unless the wirld happens to be very favorable. Here, when the wind is in - certain di rections, the waters pile up and a tidal wave sweeps in like a rushing wall of water. ' Adams, Bonneri Pa?ne, Zimmer and Scott left for the Copper river country ;last February, going over the Valdes glacier and thence 90 miles up Copper river. From there they followed the Nalcheena': waters Of the Matamuska, which flows into Knik arm. There they built a double-end scow, 84 feet long and 6 feet wide, and started for civilization. -They made the 175 miles to Knik in just 12 hours, so swift is the stream, and called ' at Stone's camp, known as Knik City. They arrived there the. latter part of August, and remained until they started on the voy age that ended in their death, and the death of the four others who had joined them there. Bobinson was a well known baseball player in California. TRe Walcotts had intended starting a store at Sunrise City, f .-J . - .'; '.' Several parties have made quartz and placer locations in the mountains -west of the Matamuska river, and will send in their supplies thiB winter. Many miners from this district, will try to sled their outfits over the new trail as far as , Copper, river ..this winter, and many others ' will pack in' their sup plies with horses next spring. : Anarchists 'Follow Emperor William. , ; Haifa, Palestine, Oct. 26. The police made an important arrest of a well known anarchist here yesterday.' Ex troardinary precautions are being taken te insure the safety of -Emperor Wil liam' and Empress Augusta Victoria. During the time that they are here veiled women will not be allowed in the streets, as the police fear that an archists might assume these disguises. SOUTHERN RACE WAR. Eleven -Jfecroes and One - White Man . ' Dead at Forest. New Orleans, La., Oct. 26. The Picayune s Forest, Miss., special says: Eleven dead negroes and one dead white man, and one negro and three white men seriously wounded, is the result at this writing of the bloody war being waged between the white and black laces in the Harpersville neigh borhood, of this (Soott) county. Sev eral of the rioters have been captured and lodged in jail at Forest today, but the others escaped into the- swamp. Large crowd of white men are in close pursuit, however, and more names are hourly expected to be added to the death list. It is impossible to obtain a full list of the killed, for the reason that some of the negroes were shot down in the woods and were hurriedly buried by the whites where they fell. . Governor McLaurin went to Harpers ville last night and appealed to the whites not to molest the prisoners in the custody . of the sheriff. He finally persuaded the crowd to permit the pher iff to take the prisoners to jail. - Sheriff Stevenson had placed additional guards at the Forest jail to prevent the lynoh ing of the rioters now in custody, j, The negroes who are under arrest have made full confession. ' - WHAT THE WAR COST. Uncle Sam's Expenses- Something Over a Million Dollar Per Day. Chicago, 'Oct.-' 26. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: 1 Cnole Sam's expenses for the Spanish war sink into insignificance when compared with the cost of the oonflict between the states. . Thus far the war with Spain has cost $167,529,941, or a frac tion over $1,000,000 per day sirice the beginning of hostilities April 21 against the enormous, sum of. $3,065, 413,156 during the civil war, or an average of $1,685,156 per day. ' The largest amount paid out. in a single day during the war with. Spain was $4,110,000, July 28, or nearly enough to construct and equip a first class battle-ship. The next highest days were September 19, when $3,775, 000 was spent, and July 19, with a to tal of $3,770,000, but -the daily ex. penses frequently run above the $3, 000.000' mark. The ' budget for ; the four months of the present fiscal yeai waa $125,112, 540, while the exepndi tures for the whole fiscal year of 1897, were only $83,611,713," and for this month the average of $1,000,000. r.er day. was maintained. ;-, , ; In April the expenses for the amy and navy were considerably above nor mal figures, when they reached $19, 000,000. May showed a perceptible increase, when $26,000,000 was spent. June was a further increase, $39,000, 000 passing over the tieasury counter, and July showed the highest expend iture of $43,000,000. The next month witnessed a deorease, only $31,000,000 being spent, but September reaohed nearly $33,000,000, and for the 23 days of October the expenses were about $19,000,000, or nearly $1,000, 000 per day. The total disbursements of the government for the four months of the present fiscal year, which in cluded the civil list,' pension 'payments and interest on the public debt, was $223,587 114. The. total receipts were only $153,754,445, showing a deficit of $69,0000.000 for the fiscal year.' , The $3,000,000 spent on the operations of the army and navy during the war of the rebellion includes the period of the first three months of 1861, when active preparations for hostilities were being made, and the last nine months of 1865, when the expenses of the govern ment were unususally heavy. : . . : Hawaiians Want a Cable. Washington, Oct. 26. Of the sev eral commissions adjusting the rela tions of the United States towards its newly acquired . possessions, the Hawa iians will be the first ready with a bill for the consideration of congress. This, of course, will make provisions for the government of the island, but, aside from this matier, there will be another of the utmost importance. It will provide for the construction of a cable between the Hawaiian islands and the United States. Owing to the growing trade with this hew territory and the necessity of having quick means of communication with its offi cials there, congress will probably sub sidize a cable. . : - Four New Record?. :- v Norwood, Mass., Oct. 26. Four new American bicycle road records were made today over ; a measured mile by Frank Ourish, of Dorchester, Mass. The first was the paced mile, flying start, which was covered ' in 1:41 1-5, the previous record being 1:45, made by W. H. Dodge,-of Lowell. Ourish next made the mile paced, standing start, in 1:45 3-5, the old record being held by Dodge in 1:53. The third re oord was the one-mile unpaced, stand ing start, which was made in 2:11 1-5, the previous record being , 2:16 4-5, by O. A. Foster of Terre Haute, Ind. With the aid of F. Wold, Ourish broke the tandem mile paced, standing start, in 1:54 8-5, the old record being 1:55 1-5, made by Hulman and Ferguson, also of Terre Haute. " Controller Treadwell, of the treasury department, has decided that postoffice inspectors are entitled to a per diem of $4 for expenses only when on duty out aide of offleSj Being Planted in Cuba by Agitators. . DIRECTED AGAINST AMERICANS Insurgent - Officers Preaching- a Holy - Wir -Against the New-Comers Garcia Also Denounced. . -' ' v: ., ,ti;. ,, . '.,.: v Havana, via Key West, Fla., Oct. 28. Pazy Libertad, one ,of the daily papers of Cienfuegos, published with the sanction of the government, prints a manifesto with over 300 signatrties, a great many of which are Spaniards, openly proclaiming Cuban independ ence. About 50 Cuban patriotic clubs have been organized in Havana under the management,, in a large number of cases, of physicians, lawyers and pro fessional men. Many mem bers of some of the clubs attended the first meeting wearing the Cuban and Amerioan flags erossed. The presiding offloers of sev eral of the clubs, noticing the insignia in the buttonholes of the coats of the members, ordered that in future only the Cuban flag should be worn. In many instances this order was complied with. ' -The Cuban general, Bego, has ar rived at Havana from Puerto Principe, and is preaching in the Havana cafea and the insurgents' camps near the city a holy war against the Americans, He has interviewed many of the leaders of the Cubans and has urged the carry ing on of war against Americans if in dependence is not at once granted to Cuba. The Cuban oolonel, Torriet, has also arrived from Havana at the east, and is carrying on a strong campaign against the ' Americans and Calixto Garcia, whom he professes to look upon as a traitor to the Cubans who has been bribed by American gold. ' The col onel, in an interview with one of the leading newspapers in Havana, made all sorts of charges against Garcia and the Americans, but the censor would not allow an account of the interview to be published, fearing that ' it might give rise to disturbances. . , - "' A secret circular has been sent to the presidents of all the Cuban patriotic committees, denouncing a large num ber Of Cubans, who are looked upon as traitors to the oause of Cuban inde pendence, and are charged with being attached to the Americans.. The circu lar ' recommends .' a vigorous contest against not only Spanish residents, but against the Americans as well, "who are endeavoring to steal the Cubans victory." ,. ; The Spanish colonel, Cervera, mill tary governor of Mariano pays daily visits to the insurgent camps in his dis trict, advising the Cubans not to sur render their arms and to make resjs- tenoe until the independence of the island is declared. Colonel Cervera is an intimate friend of General Parrado, president of the evacuation commission. ; During the last two weeks, several hundred Remington carbines and large quantities of ammunition have been sent from Havana, it is presumed, by some of the Spanish chiefs. The Span ish residents, manufacturers, merchants and planters are somewhat alarmed and criticise in very Eerere terms the behavior of some of the Spanish chiefs, who, it is alleged, are acting suspic iously in many places, and are working in favor of Cuban independence, advis ing the Cubans to persist in their i evo lutionary attitude.' For this reason, many of the Spanish residents here have written long letters to friends in Madrid in order that the4iome govern ment may be acquainted . with what is happening in the island, and have re quested that on behalf of Spain's inter ests and the part of the Spanish resi dents, the evacuation may be completed as soon as possible, so as to avoid pro longing the existing dangerous condi tion of affairs. . Owing to the fact that Spanish offi cers are selling commissary stores at any price obtainable, the army supplies are now ta drug on the market in the interior, making legitimate trade im possible. : - It is asserted as the Spanish rule in Cuba draws to a close,- corruption and robbery daily become more open and wholesale. The committee on transpor tation, charged with furnishing pas sage tickets to Spanish officers return ing to Spain, are charging an arbitrary rate of $4 each for a berth. If the' vic tim refuses to give up, he is made to wait several steamers, the commission claiming there is no room.,. Generally the officer is glad to pay the tax in or der to get away. - This abuse is openly spoken of, but the present, situation is a free-for-all, grab-as-grab-can game, and every one appears eaer to make money while the Spanish sun shines. -, . ... . . The official report of the burials in the city of Havana since the first; of the present year Bhows that there have been 16,821 interments. The average death Tate keeps on steadily at 47 pel day. ; - ".:..?.'... Great discontent pievails among the Spanish trooops because of . nonpay ments, in some cases for six months, in others for seven months, and in still others for eight months. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Reported by Downing, Hopkins & Co., Inc.. Board of Trade Brokers, 711 to 714 Chamber ol Commerce building, Portland, Oregon. The wheat trader's success last week depended upon the direction in which he happened to be faced. If he looked toward the west he made no money out of the market. ' The influence of the largest primary receipts on record kept him off the buying side. He was lucky if he resisted the temptation to put out a short line. . The operator who kept his eye on the seaboard was the lucky -one. f- He saw there the largest export engagements s ever known, about a mil lion wheat a day. If he did not have ' some money to the; good at the olose Saturday night it was because he has no aptitude for the opportunities. i Chicago was incliend to be skeptical of the pxp'ort figures. It was not doing much itself, .but the. man who was closest to. the shipping position knew tharDuluth was, quality and freights oonsidejed, cheaper than this market, and that the seaboard also had grain of its own bought , on cheap freights that could be sold ahead" of Chicago offer ings. The best, export authorities agreed as to enormous sales, abroad. Consequently there is no room for de nial or. for pretense that it is largely a matter of exaggeration. Lohrke, whose word is to be accepted in this matter, in an interview , yesterday, said the business accomplished during the past fortnight was on a scale probably never exceeded. This authority, when asked as to the probable permanency of the foreign demand, in an interesting ex planation showed how the foreigners themselves Were so uncertain of the sit uation they were not venturing to specu late any on the bull side. The wheat prioe this year is to be a matter of mood the mood of the farm er the work' over. If it were to be de cided by the facts as to supplies, the bull, to have any success, would need to make his purchases on the very weak days. Every authority is agreed that the world's harvest last season was the fullest ever known, and with that alone in mind the speculator might make comparisons with the low prioes of the other years of great crops. '. .' 1 ' . Portland Market. ... Wheat Walla , Walla, 63c; Val ley and Bluestem, 65 67c per bushel. 'Flour Best grades, $3.45; graham, $3; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. ' ; Oats Choice white, 89 40c; choice gray, 87 38c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $21 22; brew ing, $23 per ton. Millstuffs-Bran, $15.50 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50 per ton. - i Hay Timothy, $10 11; clover, $9 10; Oregon wild hay, $910 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, S055o; seconds, 4045o; dairy, 4045o store, 2585o. . . i Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o; YouDg America, 12o; new cheese, 10c per pound. '': Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.508 per dozen; hens, $3.003.60; springs, $1.253; geese, $5.006.00 for old, $4.505 for young; ducks, $4.00 5.00 per dozen; turkeys live, 12 12Jc per pound. . : . . Potatoes 50 60c per sack; sweets, 22Jc per pounn. ' Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75o per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75o per sack; beans, 8c per pound; -celery, 70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box; peas, 83c per pound. OnionB Oregon, 75c$l per sack. Hops M'16o; 1897 crop, 67o. ' Wool Valley, 1012o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair, 25c per pound. ; Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 8o; dressed mutton, 7c; spring lambs, lv per lb. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75; light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressod, $5.506.60 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50$3.75; cows, v $2. 50 8. 00; . dressed , beef, 56Jc per pound. Veal Large, 66c; small, 6 1c per pound. Seattle Markets. Tomatoes, 2050o per box. ' Cucumbers, 10 15c pei doz. -. Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds. ' Potatoes, $1012. . Beets, per saok, $1. - Turnips, per sack, 5065c. Carrots, per sack, 65c. : Parsnips, per sack, $1. Beans, green, 23o. . ; Green corn, $1 1.25 per saok. ' . , Cauliflower, 75o per doz. .. Celery, 4050o. -1 , Cabbage, native : and California $1.251.50 per 100 pounds. ' i Apples, 50c65o per box. , ' Pears, 75c$l per box. Prunes, 50c per box. V Peaches, 75c. . Plums, 50c. Butter Creamery, 27c per pound; dairy and ranch, 18 20c per pound. ; Eggs, 80c. - ' - ' Cheese Native, 12 12 c. Poultry Old hens, 10c per pound; spring chickens, ,10c; turkeys, 16c. Fresh meats Choice dressed beef Bteers, prime, 67c; oows, prime, . 6Jc; mutton, 7o; pork, 78o; veal, 56o. -' - -.--.' - Wheat Feed wheat, $192rj. Oats Choice, per tonf $22 23. Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.50 10; choioe Eastern Washington tim othy, $18,