PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial anct financial Happenings
of Interest to the Growing
IV altera States.
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW.
Since the first of July the people of
Alaska have contributed to the federal
treasury in 1 teen e money the magnifi
cent Bum of S153.270.40 for the privi
lege of doing business in Alaska and
developing the territory, says the Skag
way Alankan. Thin is in -addition to
the tar id duties paid, internal revenues,
taxes and all othor taxes common to
the country at large, it is a special
tax levied upon business in Alaska
alone, such as no other citizens of the
, United Btates are required to pay; in
fact it is a tax that was never before in
the history of the United States levied
gainst any of its people.
Plenty of Supplies at Dawion
D. V, Bullock, lately arrived from
Dawson, said to an Alaskan reporter:
"Dawson is supplied with everything
needed there for the winter. The re
port as to a great shortage of oats in
not true. There is plenty ofoats along
the river and in Dawson to supply the
interior. When we got away from
Dawson, November 7, oats were Bell
Ing for 22 cents a pound and hay at
IS cents. Last winter oats went to 40
and 45 cents, and hay to 85 to 60 cents.
Tobacco sells in Dawson today for $1
to $1.25 a pound, less than it brings in
Bennett. The Bennett price is $1.50 a
pound. Flour that sold for $8 in Daw
ion a year ago is worth only $4.75
there today, There will be plenty of
teef in Dawson throughout the winter,
Dumbolton had four soows loaded with
'beef on the way in, one ol which is at
Selkirk and one at Stewart river. I do
nqfcknow whore the others ore. Dura
Irftlton will take the meal through to
Dawson over the ice after tho river
freezes. McDougall & Burns "have 80
tons below Selkirk and will take it in
over the ioo. The labor market of
Dawson is glutted. There were 1,000
to 1,500 idle men in the town when I
left, and more were rushing in frou up
the nvar." ,
Atllns futrire Output.
.Charles Christopher, who has iiogo
tinted more .large Atlin mining deals
than any other mat; in the country dur
ing tho suarfon recently closed, is au
trority for the statement that there
will be no less than half a, dozen large
hydraulic plants put in operation in
Atlin with the opening of spring. He
says tho output of gold in that country
will exceod If 5,000,000. The gold ,'oin
missioner collected royalty on about
. $700,000 this summer, but he failed to
collect on more than half the output.
There was at least $1,500,000 taken
out of the Atlin gold fields this year,
and next year tle output will exceed
$5,000,000. Last summer the great
majority of the minors did not get to
work before August 1, and they oil
worked small claims and handled most
of tho dirt with shovols. Next year
ii; " iyji'iudie it by the hydraulic
roc'.t.n. '
SiNnwillde on Whit ,
News of a big snowslide on the
Wlilte Pass & Yukon railroad was
brought to Victoria by the steamer
Tees, A rotary and two engines were
burled by the slide.and after they were
shoveled out, the rotary ran into a
rock, knocking out 13 of its 20 knives.
The truin which was behind the snow
bucking outfit was not injured.
P. O'Regan, one of those who en
deavored, to walk to Skagway from the
snowbound train, was found uncon
scious, with his face and hands frozen.
The operator at Glacier reportod to
Skagway that tho traok there was cov
ered for a distance of 850 feet a depth
of five to 20 feet. Telegraph wires be
youd Glacier are down.
Temporary Reaction From the Heaviest
Holiday Trade onKeeord.
Bradstreet's says: Holiday influence
and stock-taking impart an appearance
of dullness to jeuerol distributive trade,
broken, however, by fair activity in
reorder business to fill up stocks de
pie ted by the heaviest holiday trai.e
that has ever been experienced.
Anticipation of spring trade wants
has given a more than ordinarily ac
tive appearance to business in dry
goods at New York, while in industrial
Unas the efforts of manufacturers to
keep up with filled order-books 1b re
suiting in unusually active operations.
Following the flurry in money, stocki
and in some lines of speculative com
modities noted last week, has come, ai
was expected, a more cheerful tone,
and a firming up in quotations is noted
in such staples as cotton, which wat
effected by last week's money develop,
ments, and also in hog products, cof-
fee, copper, tin and lead. The strength
of textiles is still a feature which finds
justification in current statistics ol
larger season's receipts and sales ol
wool, and in reports of enlarged old
and heavily increased new capacity in
manufacturing lines.
In iron and steel, seasonable quiet ai
regards new business is observable, but
unabated activity on earlier booked
orders is reported. In some cases, nc
shutdown was made for the holiday!
by mills and furnaces.
Wheat (including flour) shipment!
for the week aggregate 8,610,557 bush'
els, ngaist 2,813,714 bushels last week,
0,292,025 bushels in the corresponding
week of 1808, 9,495,001 bushels in
1895.
For the year, failures are the smallest
in number for 17 years past, and were
It not for a few heavy flancial sun pen
sions in December, liabilities, which
will exceed those of 1892 slightly,
would have been smallest for 12 yean
past.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
IT IS A QUEEH TOWN. TALK 'nto megaphone, the typewriter does the rest.;! HAPPENINGS OF 1899.
- Heathen Chinese Threw a rtomb.
At Victoria, B. C, a dastardly at
tempt was made to wrock a Chinese
Methodist mission church. While the
congregation, principally uiunese, wai
worshipping, a bomb made of lead pipe
ana mien wun gundpower was ex
ploded. No one was injured. The
deed is ascribed to heathen Chinose
jealous of the introduction of Christ!
unity among their countrymen.
To List All the Hons.
Direotors of the Oregon Hopgrowers
Association met in Salem Tuesday af
, lernoon, and were in secret session four
hours. Tho chief business transacted
was to require every local roprosonta
tive of the association to obtain a com
plete list of hopgrowers and the amount
of hops now on hand la thoir respect
lve rtiHtricts. Tho board also aii
iiouucod that it is now ready for busi
mm
North west Notes.
An opera house ia one of Albany
neads for 1900.
Mule-buyers from California ore in
Nmtho.ru Oregon counties.
A Burns piper reports a sale of 2,700
stock slieep at $2.00 per head.
it isesrimateu mat me call lor war
rants recently made cy tne county
treasurer of hatoom county covers
about i'fu,000 of county iudebtednos
I . a. .
i igiirea ui rem estate transiors re
corded in King county -(Seattle) since
July 1 show a total of 495 transfers, of
n aggregate value of $3,089,625, not
including, of course, tho value of tho
transfers for nominal sums.
In Umatilla county, wheat farms are
advertised for sale at prices from $20
to- f 4U au acre, a farm on the foot'
hills east of Milton sold for $5,800
spot cash.
ine old mill, on Chambers creek,
near tort Menaoooni, was recently de
.stroyed by fire. It was one of the old
landmarks of that jart of the country,
Having ooeu uuut lu 1803.
ine convention of the Linn county
umstian Uuiouvorers is to be held in
Brownsville on Junuary 12, 13, and 14
The Belhiighaui Bay & Eastern
Railroad Comiany cannot find laborers
enough to work on road construction at
20 cents an hour, and is getting i
seine Japs for that purpose. The Ja
labor is not so satisfactory as white la
bor, but enough of the latter cannot be
found.
Among the experiments in progress
at the Puyallup experiment stations is
a series of spraying tests for black
spots, or canker, in hops, which is be
coming so prevalent In that vicinity.
Over $35,000 was spent in Lakeview
in buildins improvements during 1899,
Seattle Markets.
Onions, new, $1.00 1,25 per sack,
Potatoes, new, $18 20.
Beete, per sack, 7585c.
Turnips, per sack, OOo.
Carrots, per sack, 6()o.
Parsnips, per sack, 75 85c.
Cauliflower, 75o$l per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California, 75
00o per 100 pounds.
Peaches, 65 80c.
Apples, $1.251.50 per box.
Pears, $1.00 1.25 per box.
Prunes, 60o per box.
Watermelons, $1.50.
Nutmegs, 5075o.
Butter Creamery, 82o per pound:
dairy, 17 22c; ranch, 22o per pound.
Eggs Firm, 8081e.
Cheese Native, 16o.
Poultry 9 10o; dressed, t814o.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $12.00:
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$17.00 18.00. -$
Corn Whole, $33.00; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $28. .
Barlw MVvOrcreTiriurDer ton.
Flour Patent, per barrel,1 $3.85;
blended straights, $3.10; California,
$8.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat
flour, $3.10; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $16.00;
shorte, per ton, $17.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $20.50 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal,
per ton, $82.00.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 6152o;
Valley, 52o; Bluestom, 54o per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.00; graham,
$2.60; superfine, $3.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 8435o; choice
gray, 84o per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $15 10.00
brewing, $18.00 18.50 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $9 10.50; clover,
$7 8; Oregon wild hay, $8 7 per ton
Butter J ancy creamery, 5055o
seconds, 42.H45o; dairy, 87M.'10o
store, 85 85o.
Eggs 18 19o per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full croam, 13c
Young Amenoa, 14o; now cheese 10c
por pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50
8.80 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs
$2.508.50; geese, $7.009.OO forold
$4.606.50 for young; ducks, $4.50
per dozen; turkeys, live, 12&18o
per pound.
Potatoes 55 70o per saok; sweets
82io per pound.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, OOo
per sackj garlio, 7o per pound; cauli
flower, 75o per doaou; parsnips,
beauB, 5 Co per pound; celery, 70
700 per dozen; cuoumbers,- 60o per
box; peas, 84oper pound; tomatoes
75o jpor box; green corn, 12s
15o per dozen.
Hops 8 llo; 1808 crop, 66o,
Wool Valley, 1213o per pound
Eastern Oregon, 814o; mohair, 27
80o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 8so; dressed mutton, 6j
7o per pound; lambs, 7o per pound
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light and feeders, $4.60; dressed.
$5.606.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $3.504.00
cows, $38.60; dressed beef, 6i
74o per pound.
eal Large, 6,Si7Jso: small. 8
8,Vo per pound.
Baa Franeiaeo Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1215o pel
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12 16c; Val
ley, 80 22c; Northern, 10 18c.
xiops Iowa crop, li&tiao per
pound.
Onions lellow, 7586o per sack
Uutter taney creamery 2425o;
do seconds, 83(i23c: fancv daiir. 20
(Smo; do seconds, 19o per pound.
Eggs Store, 25 27o; fancy ranch.
mo.
Millstuffs Middlings. $16.00 m
19.00; bran, $18 14.00.
Hay Wheat $7.00(89: wheat and
oat $7.509.00; best barley $5.00
7.60; alfalfa, $5.00 7.50 per ton:
straw, 83(540 per bale;
Potatoes Early Kose, $1.00; Ore-
gon Burbanks, 65o1.10; river Bur
banks, 4575o; Salinas Burbanks.
$1.00 1.25 per sack.
Citrus Fruit Orauco. Valencia.
$9.78(28.85; Mexican limes. $4,000
5.00; California lemons 75c$1.60;
do choice. $1.75 8.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.50
50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates, 6 (26 Wo rex
pound.
WILL OF ONE MAN IS ITS ONLY
LAW.
A Booth Carolina Community Which
Thrive. Without Municipal Officiate,
Newspapers, Lawyer or Saloons
Negroes Are Positively Not Admitted.
Pelzer, a South Carolina town of 7,000
population, Is probably the queerest lit
tle city in the United States. It has
existed for twelve years and has never
had 'a mayor, municipal government,
courts, police or newspapers. The town
has four large cotton mills that employ
about 3,000 operatives and consume
150,000 bales of cotton each year. In
one of these great mills there are 00,000
spindles at work In one room, all run
by electricity. In the working equip
merit all that Is old Is discarded; all that
is new and progressive eagerly wel
corned, no matter what the expense
Managed by one corporation on thor
oughly altruistic principles, hundreds of
Children who work in these mills earn
from 2 to 00 cents a day, and a certain
portion of the machinery is shut down
at stated intervals each working day
to allow them to attend school.
Obedience la the constitution on
which the government of the town
rests. The word applies to only one
thing the will and wishes of Capt.
John Smythe. His edict rules the city
as absolutely as the famous "by order
of the Czar" rules the Russians, and the
moral persuasion he exercises over his
population can be compared only to the
deference ehown to Oom Paul in the
troubled Transvaal.
This klngdom-clty is within from one
to three hours' railway Journey of At
lanta, ureenvme, Charleston ana a
number of other prominent Southern
cities Involved In close business rela
tions with it; It has a large export trade
in special cotton stuffs to China; It is
constantly purchasing raw material,
everywhere. Yet If you ask a man who
thinks he understands the South pretty
well, who lives here, and who Imagines
be knows all that Is going on here,
where Pelzer is, be will not be able to
tell you.
The recent experience of a roving
lyceuin lecturer Is Interesting. He was
making a tour of the South In the hands
of an advance agent and found the
namo Pelzer on his list. lie asked the
hotel clerk In Atlanta about It.
"isever heara or It, said the man
who generally knows It all.
The lecturer consulted a map and
could not find It. Finally he took
The invention of a phono-typewriter by Dr. Frank A. Traver ef Racine, Wis.,
Is causing no end of comment throughout the country, and the doctor's an ail Is
becoming so large that he no longer is able to attend to all his correspondence.
Inquiries about his wonderful machine are coming from all parts of the country,
but so far the doctor refuses to divulge just how his machine works, because he
says he Is not yet protected by patents. The claim of the doctor is that by talk
ing Into a phonograph, which is connected with the typewriter by means of elec
tricity, the machine can be set in motion and made to write on paper what has
been dictated Into the phonograph. Just how the vibration of the voice is going
to set the keys of the typewriter In motion the doctor at this time refuses to
disclose, but be says he has convinced his financial backers of the success of the
Invention and will soon begin the manufacture of the machine.
'1
111?
v joHr i;w
I SMYTHg. "
train for Greenville, where the station
agent told him Pelzer was about twenty
miles distant
never oeen mere myself," be re-
marked, "but I've been told It's quite a
place. Queer folks, but they're all
right."
The lecturer settled back In his seat.
He believed he was in for a dismal talk
to forty or fifty persons; a dingy hall
wun a smoky lamp and rickety chairs;
badly paved streets and no cab at the
depot to take him to a wretched hotel.
He made up his mind that he would
have something unpleasant to say to
that advance agent when he saw him
again. When he reached Pelzer he
thought he had made a mistake. There
was a roomy, well-lighted railroad sta
tion, and a gentleman who introduced
himself as the Democratic postmaster
or tne city was there to meet him.
"How does it look for an audience?"
Inquired the lecturer, with an anxious
eye to business.
"Oh. very good. I think you will hare
at least U00 persons out to hear you."
nu-wu-u-w now large is your
town
"M-m. About 7,000. More. Derhaoe.'
Night had come on and the lecture
looked around on well-lighted and well
paved streets. He saw no corner loiter
ers. In fact, most of the shops were
shut. He had a comfortable meal at the
hotel. The postmaster left him to him
self, as ho had to go home to take his
folks to the lecture. An hour later the
lecture hall roomy, bright and cheerful
as the usual V. M. C. A. halls he had
been speaking In elsewhere was well
filled with attentive and appreciative
listeners. What the lecturer did sav
to uis advance agent when he caught
up with him was that it was one of the
most charming stopping places on his
route, and that he wanted to go there
again.
There were no reporters at the lec
ture to take the synopsis that the
speaker had prepared for them, and
there was uo newspaper account of It
next morning because Ituler Smythe
win not Dave a newspaper published
lu the town. Editors and reporters are
lorouiden to live there.
"We have no mayor." said a resident
of the town. "No necessity
'--, - -
We have no aldermen, no courts, no
ruuulcipal councils, no police. The
residents keep the peace and get alone
comfortably without any buncombe of
that sort We have no drunkenness
because we dou't permit liquor within
the city limits, and drunkenness fur
nishes more than half the business of
a police force."
Wbat Is your objection to newspa
pers?"
Nothing personal only the residents
seem to think we get along better with
out them. Local nanora nuhllsh a Lit
f local gossip, and gosstp ia always
likely to do more mischief than good."
"But your citizens must read wbat
Is going on In the world?"
"Surely. We are not dullards. They
buy newspapers from everywhere,
north and south. But they get them
by mail at their homes and see them in
the public library."
"What about lawyers?'
"Well, we have no business for them.
A lawyer would starve to death here
if he depended on an Income from his
business."
"How about doctors?"
"We must have doctors, of course.
We have two of them and one dentist.
We have four preacbers, all picked
men, and one photographer. You un
derstand, our town alms at an Ideal,
and we must be careful. The record
of every person who wants to live here
or who comes here to seek employment
Is carefully Investigated. His antece
dents must be good or he cannot come.
His conduct while here must be good
or he cannot stay. He cannot own any
real estate. The company leases it to
him for a limited period on certVn con
ditions. It Is therefore? eo trouble at
all for us to get td of a dlsaereeable
person. Thtsb nice stores and the
hftaitome residences for the managers
were all built and are leased and own
ed by the company. It controls every
foot of land and everything there Is on
It"
One of the first things to strike a
visitor Is the absence of negroes. Not
one of them is allowed to live within
the city limits. A few of them live Just
over the line and are given housework
to do by some residents of Pelzer. But
Capt. Smythe, while not absolutely for
bidding this, Is doing his utmost to
discourage It It is his policy to do
away with all household servants as
much as possible and make everybody
depend on themselves.
The public library, with free privi
leges to all residents, Is well stocked
with up-to-date literature, conveniently
catalogued and capably managed. The
cotton mills are a marvel. The ma
chinery In them is operated by elec
tricity, generated at a waterfall two
miles from the city, on the Salnda
river. There Is no coal and no steam.
The employes go from one floor to an
other in express elevators. Some of
them are not more than 10 years old,
but their work Is easy and healthy.
Their hours are short They have light
airy rooms to eat their luncheon In,
No grease Is used in the machinery.
The hot air is cooled by huge fans run
by machinery.
At definite periods these children are
required to leave the mills and go to a
school belonging to the company. Ed
ucation Is compulsory. In one of the
schools there are 300 pupils, from pri
mary to the average high school grades.
Pupils who show unusual ability are
selected for a higher course of educa
tion. But while a young man or a
young woman Is getting this education
they are also becoming proficient in a
trade. In no event that can possibly
be foreseen are they likely to become a
burden on the State.
graphs be good,. so that the children
may be trained from thelrearllest years
to appreciate artistic things. A good
picture Is full of teaching to a thought
ful child. Cork carpet Is better than an
ordinary carpet and there should be a
high fender, well secured, before the
fire, to avoid accident
A cupboard In a nursery Is most use
ful and almost necessary. Children lovo
to have a place of their own where they
can hoard their hundred and one treas
ures, and many a wet morning can be
pleasantly passed In turning out and re
arranging them.
Gas should never be allowed in a nur
sery, as It vitiates the atmosphere. " A
good lamp should be used instead, on a
bracket safely out of the way, so that
there Is no danger of Its being overturn
ed. There should be a good, roomy
sora, so that the little ones may lie
down If not feeling very well, and a low
rocking chair and footstool for the
nurse, or, at any rate, low chair, If the
rooking or.,c Is not approved of.
A crawling rug Is a capital thing for
a baby, and It can be decorated and em
broidered with all kinds of comic des
igns and representations of animals,
birds, etc. A thermometer should hang
on the wall and the temperature be kept
as near CO degrees as possible.
SUMMARY OF
PORTANT
A YEAR'S
EVENTS.
RUTHLESS SLAUGHTER.
The
GERMAN COLONY IN BRAZIL.
Twenty Per Cent, of the Population in
Certain Parts of the Eepublic.
Consular reports of recent date de
scribe the German colony In southern
Brazil in Parana, Santa Cathnrlna and
Rio Grande do Sul, where the climate Is
bracing and the conditions favorable to
the Vigorous growth of Europeans. The
Germans here number 300,000 out of
total population of 1,500,000. They do
not intermarry with the other inhabit
ants, or "take any part In national
polities, or, In anything emanating from
the surrounding native element" In
financial and commercial Importance
the German element Is strong out of
proportion to its numbers, but it prefers
to live apart
"They thus," says the consular report
"create for themselves a condition of
Isolation which has often given rise to
the suspicion that they were endeavor
ing to establish a political common
wealth for themselves. Nothinr could
De more erroneous than this supposi
tion. The great difficulty of masteilnir
tne Portuguese tongue, In soocd and
construction so utterly different from
their own, and of assimilating with peo
ple of the Latin race, with whom they
have so little In common, is the cause
of their Isolat'on, so often commented
upon. They have great difficulty In
Increasing their ranks from the old
country. Inasmuch as, for economic and
military reasons, the German govern
ment does not favor emigration, and
there are at present very few Germans
desirous of emigrating." Southern Bra
zil has become a large field for the In
vestment of German capital Baltimort
Sun.
THE NURSERY.
Some of the Thinga that the Children
eed
The room selected for the nursrr
should be If possible laTge and lofty,
with a south aspect says the St. Louis
Star. The walls should be prettily
papered and let the pictures and photo-
Boera Have Killed Over CO.OOO
Graceful Giraffes.
The creditable work of the Boers In
freeing South Africa of the dreaded
Hons, which roamed In such numbers
that life was rendered unsafe anywhere
In the country, is offset by their ruth
less destruction of the giraffe from
Cape Colony to the Botletll Klver. If
they killed 6,000 lions in the Transvaal
before existence was made safe, they
have killed 00.0J0 of the innocent, grate
ful ghaffes. In the early days of South
African history the giraffe was the
most abundant game in the Transvaal
Matabeleland and Orange free State,
but the creature hns been killed off like
our American buffalo, and the few re
maining representatives of a noble race
gradually driven north. For years past
the giraffe has been a profitable quarry
for the Boer hunters, and the animal
was valued by them only because the
hides were articles of commercial use.
They were pot hunted, shot down In
droves, and destroyed In the greatest
number possible In every direction.
A good giraffe skin is worth from $10
to $20 in South Africa to-day, and much
more in Europe. On their hunting trips
10 and 15 years ago it was a common
matter for one hunter to kill 40 and 50
of these graceful animals in one day.
The reason for this Is that the giraffe
Is the most Innocent of animals and Is
easily hunted. It is absolutely defense
less, and there Is hardly a case on
record where a wounded giraffe turned
upon the hunter. It Is true giraffes
have great powers of speed, and they
can dodge rapidly from tree to tree in
the woods, but they offer such a fair
mark that these tactics hardly ever
save them.
The.hide of the animal Is Its chief
article of value. No wonder that the
bullets often fail to penetrate this skin.
for It Is from three-quarters to an Inch
thick, and as tough as it is thick, i'he
skin, when cured and tanned, makes
excellent leather for certain purposes.
lhe Boers make riding whips and san
dais out of the skins they do not send
to Europe. The bones of the giraffe
have also a commercial value. The leg
Donea are solid Instead of hollow, and
In Europe they are In great demand for
manufacturing buttons and other bone
articles. The tendons of the giraffe are
so strong that they will sustain an
enormous dead weight which gives to
them pecuniary value.
Society for Sock-Dtrnin.
In a neighboring Long Island villaire
tne young men have a new privileee.
On paying ten cents a week they can
have their socks darned by the belles
or tbe village, who have organized
themselves into the "Giddy Girls' Darn
Ing Club." One of the young ladles no-
ticea a hole In the hose of a youn man
who was paying her a social visit the
other night and, on comparing notes,
u was rouna that many of the other
girls of the village had been Impressed
by the fact that the beaux of the place
ueetiea neip in Keeping their socks In
order. The young man who was ad
mitted to the privileges of the club
must not be In the habit of smoklm?
drinking, playing cards, or doinir anv.
thing real naughty. All he has to do
men is to pay ten cents a week and
wear his socks Into as manv holea .
pleases hlm.-New York Cor. Pittsburg
War In Philippine Island and Sonth
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties in Samoa, Death and De
struction by Fire, Wind and Flood.
Many causes have combined to make
the year 1809 a rather remarkable one,
Its opening was signalized by Spain's
surrender of the last vestige of her sov
ereignty In the western hemisphere; its
progress brought forth the declaration of
war between England and the Transvaal
Itepublic, and its close leaves these na
tions still engaged in a bloody contest
thiU may result in important political
changes in South Africa. During the
year the fighting between the natives
and United States troops in the Philip
pines has continued and the war is yet on,
Other events, aside from warfare, that
have occupied public attention to a great
er or less extent have been: Signing of
the treaty of peace witli Spain; settle
ment of difficulties in the Samoan Is!
ends; trial, conviction and pardon of Cap
tain Alfred Dreyfus in France; numer
ous large fires that have destroyed many
lives and much property; tornadoes that
caused disaster and death at Kirksville,
Mo., in April, and at New Klchmond,
Wis., in June; several fatal shipwrecks;
deaths of prominent men, among them
President Felix Faure of France, Garret
A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United
States, and Kobert G. Ingersoll; great
street car strike at Cleveland and labor
riots at Pana and Carterville, 111.
A brief chronological transcript of the
year's events Is given below:
January.
1 Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba.
4 Xraln belu up and rubbed at Macomb.
Mo. ...Peaee treuty with Spain Introduced
lu the Senate.
9 Fourten npmnna fetllcwl nnil fnrtv.Mirht
Injured In a coIIIhIou near Dunelleu, N. J.
10 McCoy defeated by Bharkey lu New
York. .. .Severe, storm In California.
13 Fire at Meuinhla. Tenii.. ripntrnTfl
wholesale dry goods house of J. 8. Menkin
& Co., and cuuxes 1500,000 loss.... Death of
Cougressuian JJlngley of Maine.
14 British bark Audellna sinks at Tacoma
with her entire crew of nineteen men.
IT Death of John Bussell Younir. llbrarlnn
of Congress.
18 Disastrous flood at Cleveland. .German
cousul at Apia, Samoa, ejected from Su-
reuia Court Building by American and
Irttlsh consuls.
id Bank at Arthur, 111., robbed of $3,000.
21 Kartbuuake shakes PeloDonapsan nen.
iiiBuiu ui ureece. .. .aiussacre ot.Dnanisn of
ficers by natives at Balabac. In the Philip
pines. 25 One hun1'.,, thnuann Aniarm A n mntra
done l)j tire at Johnstown. Pa Adellna
' Vui and Barou Cederstrom married at Bre
con, Wales.
2tl Ex-Attorney General A. H. -Garland
dies suddenly lu Washington. .. .Court mar
tial finds Ueu. Chaa. P. Eug-un guilty uuder
two charges.
2l-Cold wave over the West; 13 degrees
below xcro at Chicago.
80 Two hundred thousand dollar lumber
yard fire In Chicago.
February.
1 Seven persons perish In snowslide in
Rogers Pais, B. C.
2- S7G0.OOO fire in Columbus, Ohio, In which
many are Injured. .. .Burning of the Buck
ingham Theuter, Louisville, Ky.
8-MOO,000 Are at Philadelphia.
4 Buttle between Filipinos and Americans
at Manila.. ..Mrs. Botkln receives life sen
tence for murder. .. .James A. Sexton, Com-mander-lu-chlef
G. A. It., dies In Washing
ton. 6 Last detachment of Spanish army leaves
Cuba.... Death of Gen. Count von Caprivl,
former Chancellor German Empire. .. .Peace
treaty ratified by United States Senate.
8 Manitoba Hotel at Winnipeg burns; loss
$400,000. .. .Eleven business bouses burn In
prairie du Cblen, Wis.
18 Cyclone In Ohio and Michigan.
17 Insurgent stronghold at San Isldro,
P. I., taken by Americans.
20 AguluaUlo sends euvoys to sua for
peace.
21 American liner Paris goes ashore oa
the Manacles, off Cornwall, England.
22 Buffalo grain shovelers' strike ends
....Tornado lu Erath County, Texas.
25 Death of Don Emlllo Castelar, Span
ish statesman.'.. .Great Are at St. John,
N. B., which rendered 1,000 persons home
less. .. .Death of Kosa Bouheur, French
artist.
28 Tornado devastates parts of South Da
kota, Iowa and Nebraska. .. .Seven persons
killed In train wreck near Waterloo, Iowa.
June. '
0 Railway wreck at Grandvlew, Mo....
Jeffries defeats Fltzslmmous at Coney Isl
and, New York.
12 New Richmond, Wis., wiped out by
tornado, 150 persons being killed. .. .Dupuy
ministry resigns at Purls.
13 Herman, Neb., destroyed by storm.
10 Thlrteeu persons drowned In steum-
boat accident near Stettin, Germany....
Twelve miners killed by mine explosion at
Glace Bay, C. B.
22 New French cabinet crganli.d at Paris.
23- Death of H. B. Plant.
29 Nine lives lost In wreck of steamer
Margaret Olwlll In Lake Erie.
80 Dreyfus lands In France.... .Walkout
at Homestead mills, Pittsburg. ,
28 Disastrous floods In Texas.
July.
B Death of Bishop J. P. Newman.
0 Death of Robert Bonner. .. .Order Is
sued for enlistment of ten regiments for the
Philippines.
7 Deatn of George
W. Jullun, Indiana
Llndell Hotel, Lln-
He In what month were ron hnmt
She-Oh, you needn't be afraid. Tho
diamond Is appropriate. Jewelers'
Weekly.
It Is all right for a woman of 30 tn
say she feels as young as shedid at 1S
but she never looks It
It Is said that many a model woman
eama a living by trying on cloak
9 Twenty-one degrees below sero at Chi
cago; coiaest any in twenty-six years.
0O0,000 fire in Front street. New York,
Five business houses at Herlngton, Kan.,
mini.
10 Explosion In Baxter Stove Works,
Mansneia, oulo, causes a $100,000 fire...,
Kelly Block In Cleveland burns; loss $160,
ww. . . .9w,uuu nre in xoronto, unt.
American troops capture Caloocan.
U Troops under Gen. Miller take Hollo
....Engagement outside Manila, In which
Filipinos are driven back.
12 Twenty-four Italian miners and rami
Skjs perish In snowslide at Sliver Pimnp.
Colo. . . .MeClurg's book store in Chicago
burns; loss $5U2, 000.... Seventeen Insane
women burned to death at Yankton. S. L
....Report of War Investigating Board
made public In Washington.... Great fires
in ivew lork city and Albany. N. Y.
13 Dlgby, N. 8., almost wiped out by Are
. ...Bllriurd In the East and South.
14 $500,000 lire In manufacturing district
oi Cincinnati. .. .Burning of manufacturers'
warehouse In Chicago: loss tl.000.000.
15 Machine shops In Brooklyn navy yard
burned.
10-Death of M. Felix Faure, President of
srauce.
18 Entile Loubet chosen President of
ranee.... Kiots in Paris.
20 Fire causes $500,000 loss at Port Wash
ington, wis.
22 City of Manila fired by Filipinos.
March.
1-Death of Lord Herschell In WashlQj
ton.... Sagas to ministry resigns at Madri
8 George Dewey made au Admiral by
n i i . 1 1 -i 1 -. i -
rrvoiuvui oiciviuitfy.
4 Congress adjourns.
6 Storm destroys life and property tn
tasi Tennessee. ...K ew ministry takes of.
Dee at Madrid.... Terrific powder explosion
at La Goubran, Frnnce, kills sixty persons.
9 Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage resigns his
w asaingion pastorate. ... Buttle between
Americans and Canadians on Porcupine
11 Gen. Maximo Gomes deDaanl fmm
commana Dy cuDan Assembly.
1,1 Pasiff contnrpd hr A
Understanding reached on Samoan affairs
....Herbert Putnam, of Boston, unnnint
vuuKivBBiuuiii iiurttriHU.
10 Mob shoots nine negroes at Palmetto
Ga.... Death of Editor Joseph Medlll. '
Five killed In street riot at Hot Hni-ln
Ark. ...Election riot In St. Louis results In
death of two men....B. P. Hutchinson,
wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva, Wis,
ii x raio imnij Big ueu Dy ine vjueen Ke
ent of Spain. ...Windsor Hotel burns In
new ior&, wun great loss OI Hie.
18 Fatal riot In Havana.
at m. manna riace electrocuted at
oiug OlUg.
21-24 Race war In Little River County.
Ark., where many negroes are lynched.
23 Malletoa Tanus crowned King of Samoa.
25 Opening of ship canal at Port Arthur,
27 Burning of Armour's felt works In Chicago.
29 American and British warships bom
bard native towns tn Samoa. ...Sinking of
the steamer Rowena Lee In the Mississippi
uciow inrutnersviiie, mo.
80 One hundred and twenty lives lost by
shipwreck of passenger steamer Stella In the
English channel.
81- Fall of Malolos.... $500,000 fire In San
9 rauiiscv.
anti-slavery leader
coin. Neb., burns.
10 Street car strike Inaugurated In Brook
lyn, N. Y.
19 Resignation of R. A. Alger, Secretary
of War.
21 Death of Robert G. Ingersoll.
22 Ellhu Root named as Secretary of War
....Telegraph messengers strike at Cincin
nati. 23 $l,000,000 loss by burning of C, H. &
D. elevator at East Toledo, Ohio.
20 Assassination of President Ulysses
Heureaux of San Domingo.
27-Death of A. L. Luetgert in Jollet, 111.,
prison.
80 Tupper Lake, N. Y.,' wiped out by fire.
AugUBt.
1 Ellhu Root, of New York, sworn in as
Secretary of War.
8 Thirty-five killed and twelve Injured In
trolley car accident near Bridgeport, Conn.
....Collapse of a ferry slip at Bar Harbor,
Me., kills twenty persons and Injures forty
others.
T Dreyfus trial begins at Rennes, France.
13 M. Laborl. counsel for Capt. Dreyfus,
shot at Rennes.
20 Great riot In Parts.
21 Busluess portion of Victor, Colo., de
stroyed by fire.
2 Chicago coliseum framework collapses
killing nine men and Injuring as many more.
September.
5 Extremely hot weather In Chicago:
thermometer registers 98 degrees.
o Fifty persons Injured In collision on tne
B. & O. Rullway at Connellsrllle, Pa.
9 Capt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted at Ren
nes, France.
12r-Denth of Cornelius vanderbllt.
13 Trust conference begins In Chicago.
17 Seven negroes lulled In coal mine riot
at Carterville, 111 Death of Chas. A. Pills
bury of Minneapolis.
19 Capt. Dreyfus pardoned.
21 Fire In Chicago stockyards; loss
$300,000.
28 Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olym
pla, arrives In New York.
29 Dewey naval parade In New York.
80 $1,000,000 fire hi Big Four depot and
warehouse at Cincinnati.
October.
T Fall festival in Chicago.
11 War Is begun to South Africa.... For
mal declaration of war made by Boers.
12 Four thousand persons killed by earth
quake In Ceram, Molucca Islands.
18 Columbia wins first race for America's
cup.
17 Columbia wins second race, Shamrock
being disabled by breaking of topmast.
20 Columbia wins third race.... Boers de
feated at Glencoe.
21 English defeat Boers at Elandslaagte.
23 Battle at Glencoe, South Africa.
24 Boers repulsed at Ladysmlth.
28 Death of Gen. Guy V. Henry.
27 Death of Florence Marryat, English
novelist.
80 British badly defeated In desperate
battle at Ladysmlth. .. .Ferryboat sunk,. In
North River, New York, and ten lives lost.
November.
8 Jeffries defeats Sharkey In New York.
4 American Steel and Wire Company's
plant at Waukegan, 111., burns.
7 CrulBer Charleston goes ashore off
northwest coast of Luzon.
9 Admiral Dewey and Mrs. Mildred Hazcn
wedded lu Washington. .. .Joubert begins
bombardment of Ladysmlth.
12 Major John A. Logan killed In battle
in Philippines.
21 Death of Vice President Garret A.
Hobart.
23 British defeat Boers In hard battle at
Belmont.
25 Death of George R. Davis, of Chicago,
Director-General of World's Fair of 1893.
27 Death of Charles Coghlan, the actor.
28 Boers defeated in severe engagement
on banks of Modder River.
29 Block of Philadelphia business houses
burned; loss $3,000,000.
December.
4 Fifty-sixth Congress opens.
6 Death of Senator Hay ward of Nebraska.
0 Dick Coleman, negro murderer, burned
at the stake at Maysvllle, Ky.
9 British meet decisive defeat at Storm
berg. ...Thirty-two miners killed by gas ex
plosion In mine at Carbonado, Wash.
11 British suffer great losses In engage
ment with Boers at Magersfontelu.
14 Gen. Buller badly defeated by Boers
In attempting to cross Tugela River.
17 Death of Thos. M. Brumby, flag lieu
tenant of U. S. warship Olympla.
18 Currency bill nassed bv lower hnina
of Congress.... Excitement oa Wall street
causes two Dig failures.
19-Gen. Henry W. Lawton killed before
San Mateo, P. I.
Why Pishes Ara Slippery.
Fish of almost every sort are, when
fresh caught, slippery and hard to hold.
This sllpperlncss Is due to a sort of
mucus exuded through the scale, and
is of the greatest importance to all
slimy creatures.
One of the important functions of the
fish's slimy coating is to protect it from
the attacks of fungus, a form of plant
life found in all waters, salt and fresh,
foul and pure. If the fish is so injured
that some spot becomes uncovered by
the slime, a barely visible fungus will
be likely to lodge there, and when it is
once lodged the process of reproduction
is very rapid. It soon extends over the
gills and kills the fish.
The primary purpose of the slime of
the fish is to reduce its friction when in
motion through the water and Increase
its speed. It also serves as a cushion to
the scales, which it thus protects from
many injuries.
April.
T Eleven Uvea lost In bnrntnr nt ir.t.
Auurcwa resilience in mew xork.
9 Death of Justice H. J. (.-1.1,1 rati r a
seventeen lives lost by breaking of an' ice
vu ivuuwsiuue lurer at uiendlve
loutana. '
10 Seven nersnni killed In rlnf i--
Illlnols. .
11 Exchange of rieace trearlsa with un.u
ends the state of war Greek coaster Ma
ria auiia ou inpou witn loss of forty-five
drowned
almost
14 Twenty-three fmw Inrti.n.
In floods near Sheridan. Wyo.
15 Great fire In a'li.vdanrl. in..
""""
18 turning' schooner Cllu ! v. n
tucket, with eleven of her crew.
24-Desth of ex-Gov. U. J. Oilesbr of 1111.
nols.... Thirty persons drowned la wreck of
!ci ""'P LjOC" av on kangaroo Island.
28 Dawson Utr. Aiaalti lnn.i
out by fire. " '
27-Tornado at Kirksville and Newtown.
Mo., and In Soldier River valley, Iowa.
Scores killed and Injured.
29 Earthauake shake Rnnthon. nnni.
and Indiana and Northern Kentucky. ...Fa
tal mine riots at Wardner, Idaho.
May.
1 Destructive forest Area In nk rw.u...
Nebraska and Colorado.
Kesignatlon of Italian cabinet
4-Opening of Ute reservation In Colorado.
6 Five killed hv tnrnarin in r-hui..
Hon. O. T Death of Mrs. W. C. Wbitnev.
7 Report of Wade Court of Innnlra
out '-"
8 Rnssell & Co 'a thmhee m-rk. . r.
Billon, Ohio, burned; loss $500,000.
12-Death of ex-Oov. R. p. Flower of New
York.... Twenty-fire persona killed in rail
way collision ai Exeter, Pa.
15 Death of Franntavn Sikm
French critic Riot a
Students a4 Pawnee Bill's Wild West.
Grand Opera.
Yez needn't be taken on sich airs,
Missus Mulvaney, jlst beycuz yer man'a
bin made a jigger on 'th perleesh force.
Me man went t' th' gran' opphra 'n
sthyle."
"Gran' opphra nuttin'. It 'ud be
takin' a month's whages whurkin' loike
yer man doos. Missus O'Hoollhan, t' get
dough ernuff f go f gran' opphra!"
But 'e wint, jhust th' , same, yea
desateful creathur. 'E tauld me Ivry
thln' consarnin th' perphormence."
"Oh, did 'e, yez bhloomln' parphari-
katnr? An' how did 'e lnjhoy th' songs
in th Dago linguage?"
"Dago? It wuz good Amerikhan
Ooirish, begorrah, that they spuk, fur
me man tould me sum o' the jhokes."
"Jhokesr
"YIs, Jhokes, yez haythen. They
alius hez jhokes whin th' gran' opphra
cuma t' th' Cap-tal Shquare The-a-ter."
Detroit Free Press.
A Remarkable Shawl.
The Duchess of Northumberland pos
sesses a shawl given her by Charles X.
of France, which cost a fabulous sum.
It Is manufactured from the fur of
species of Persian cat, the tzlr of
which Is so fine that one strand is hard
ly visible to the naked eye. The spin
ning, weaving, and fashioning of tho
material required several years of labor
and thousands of cat sklna.