y f BYR1GIIT0FDISC0VERY United States Has a Valid Claim Upon Palmyra. IT DATES BACK AS FAR AS 1802 .British Occupation and So-Called An« negation Did Not Occur Until Eighty Years Later. New York, Aug. 2.—A Herold special from Washington says: In suppqrt of their claim to Palmyra island, which has been taken possession of by the British government, the London author ities refer to the fact that the British flag was hoisted over this territory in 1889. Even if the official records of the Hawaiian government fail to eliow the title of the Dole regime to the island, the United States is in a posi tion to raise the claim that the island belongs to thia government by virtue of discovery by an American citizen. This fact is recognized by the authori ties in an official publication which contains a reference to its discovery and the action of the British in placing their flag over it. Tne publication is the official directions of the hydro graphic office of Great Britain issued by the admiralty. In regard to Palmyra island, the volume states: “Palmyra was discovered by Captain Saule, of the American ship Palmyra, in 1802, and was formally annexed tc Great Britain by Commander Nicholas, of H. M. S. Cormorant, May 18, 1889. There were no inhabitants on the island at the time of its annexation, although Messrs. Henderson and McFarlane, of New Zealand, contemplated cultivating it.” A high official of the state depart ment said last night that an investiga tion regarding the rights of Hawaii and Great Britain to Palmyra island is now being made. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, said he had not examined into the question of the validity of the Hawaiian title to Palmyra island, anil was not prepared to express a defintie opinion on the subject, though he was inclined to think it a matter of comparatively small importance to the United States whether Great Britain had the island or not, on account of its distance from the United States and Hawaii. The action of Great Britain in taking possession of Palmyra at this time is generally regarded here as a step in her jubilee year policy of strengthening her military lines. Another step in that policy has been brought to the attention of the state department in a report of Consul Miller, at Port Stan ley, Falkland isles, who report that surveys are in progress at that point under the direction of Colonel Lewis, of the royal engineers, for the estab lishment of a naval station and hos pital. Such a station at this point, with repair shops and fortifications would be of the utmost importance to a British fleet operating in the Souther» Pacific. NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA. An Account of the Trial and Conviction of Murderer Butler. San Francisco, Aug. 2.—The steam ship Alameda arrived from Australian ]>orts this morning via Samoa and Hon olulu. The Alameda brings from Sydney papers describing the trial and convic tion of Butler, the murderer, who was captured in San Francisco and returned to Australia, and who has since been hanged. The trial lasted three days, and in some respects was sensational. When the prosecution finished its case Butler was asked if he had anything to say. The murderer was in a state of collapse apparently and the court ad journed until afternoon. He then in low tone made a rambling statement to the effect that he had started for the mines with Weller at Weller’s solicita tion. On the way Weller acted queer- ly, and when he displayed a pistol But ler thought Weller was going to shoot him. Instead, however, Weller placer! the pistol to his own head and when Butler grabbed it in an endeavor to take it away the weapon was discharged and Weller was shot through the head. Butler said he had used Weller’s pa lters to enable him to ship as a sailor. The case was then given to the jury, which deliberated for an hour and twenty minutes before bringing in a verdict of guilty. Workmen Arc DeHcrtlngf. Washington, Aug. 2.—The navy de partment has felt the evil effects of the gold craze. The firm of Moran Bros., located in Seattle, is building the tor pedo boat Rowan, and had made good progress until the Alaskan craze set in. Now they have informed the depart ment that so many of their workmen have dropped their work to go to Alas ka that they are obliged to appeal to the navy department for an extension of time in which to complete the boat. The land office is receiving many ap plications for copies of the public land laws by persons who profess their in tention of going to Alaska. The office has been obliged to notify the appli cants that the land laws have not yet been extended to Alaska, though the mineral laws apply. ELDER ON f THE OCEAN. The Portland Steamer ('learn Eldorado. AT fur the VERY GATES. New York, Aug.«2.—A dispatch to the Herald from Havana says: Ha vana’s outposts have been again at tacked bv a large laxly of rebel«, who before the Spanish troops could be gathered to resist ha<l swept through the suburbs, carrying all before them. They used, it is lielieved, rapid- firing guns and a large quantity of dynamite. The attack was made late last night. Today there is an inclina tion among the Spanish officials in Havana to deny the fact that the rebels had evaded the forts and swept into Havana limits. The facts, however, remain and the path left by the rebels through the suburbs southeast of the city may be plainly traced. At the first sound last night the Spanish soldiers in the city ami suburbs sprang to arms. They proceeded hur riedly to the southeastern part of the ' city where the looming of heavy guns or dynamite could lie heard plain ! ly all over Havana. Then the sound of firing increased, and finally after a few hours, died away, showing that the rebels had retired. Several wounded Spanish soldiers were brought to Ha vana and removed to hospitals after the engagement, ami several were killed. The reticence of Spanish officials pre vents any knowledge of the result of the attack becoming general. It is a fact, however that great damage was done by the insurgents on their bold i raid, and that a considerable quantity of dynamite was used. There was great excitement in Ha vana during the rebels’ attack. Hun i dreds aroused by the heavy firing, poured into the streets and the word passed along, ‘‘Tne. lebels have attacked the city,” created almost a panic in some quarters. There is still much excitement here, due largely to the re fusal of the officials to give out infor mation. This attack on Havana was not unex pected. For weeks past the rebels have been within sight of the capital and have practically moved without inter ference. The insurgent leaders near Havana are Brigadier-General Castillo, with a large force at Mariano, nine miles southwest, and Colonel Nestor Aranguren, of Guanabacoa, across the bay. General Alexander Roderiguez, .ebel commander of Havana province, with a large force, is near Minar and Colonel Aranguren is at Colorado. It is believed the rebel raid was led by Aranguren, who is noted as one of 1 the most daring of the rebel chiefs. Captain-General Weyler has left Ha vana for Matanzas, and the belief is ex pressed that the knowledge by the in surgents of this intention on his part led to the attack. It is understood that large bodies of insurgents have recently crossed from Pinar del Rio and Matanzas. and that the rebels’ strength in thia province has assumed formidable proporitons. Quintin Banderas with 800 men is among those w-Z, have come into the province from Matanzas. The Shooting tn Scottdale. Scottdale, Pa., Aug. 3.—Coroner Owens today held an inquest on the re mains of William Cummings, the non union mill worker who was killed last night in a quarrel with strikers. A large number of witnesses were ex amined, but the only one who gave jiositive testimony was Constable Long- necker, who testified that he was stand ing within a few feet of the parties when the shooting took place, and plainly saw the flash from the revolver in the hands of William C. Hubbs. The jury found Hubbs guilty, and he was arrested. Hubbs was a roller in the employ of the Scottdale Iron & Steel Company before the strike, and is one of the best known men in town. While opinions differ as to the effect of Cumming’s death, it is believed that the trouble last night will end the riot ing and bloodshed, and the strikers will be more moderate in their actions. The town tonight is quiet. Five Violent Death.. Mob Flretl on nt Scottdale. , The Fantsinaker.* Complaint. New York. Aug. 3.—The general strike of the pantsmakers’ union, a branch of the socialist trades alliance, went into effect today in 250 shops in Greater New York. The strikers are enthusiastic, and believe this effort on their part will end the sweating sys tem and restore the old rate of wages. Under the present system they a«-e able to make only #1.50 for a week’s work. Under the old schedule, which they want restored, the operators made from #10 to #12 a week. There are nearly 8,000 operators, and. in consequence of the strike, 5,000 finishers are idle. Shipwrecked Sailor« Reach Home. New York, Aug. 3.—Among the passengers today per the Clyde liner New York from San Domingo was Cap tain Hall and six shipwrecked sailors of the American schooner Belle Hooper, which was lost July 8, on Silver cape, 60 miles northeast of Macons, and be : came a total loss The crew was obliged to abandon the vessel and take to the boats, and was picked up by the Norwegian steamer Bratten and landed at Macoris, and then sent home by the United States consul. Potter« Want Tlieir Wage« Rained. Trenton,*N. J., Aug. 3.—The work ing potters of this city held a mass meeting last night at tjie'r clubhouse, and decided to ask the manufacturers for the restoration witliiA 60 days of the 12 per cent cut in their wages made in 1894. The men claim that the increased tariff rate on jiottery made by the Dingily bill justifies the request. A committee of the men will seek a conference this week with the manufacturers on the subject. The Sheet-Iron Worker«’ Strike. Phillipsburg, N. H., Aug. 3.—The America» £heet-Iron strikers held a meeting, at which the committee re ported the result of its conference with Superintendent Danby. The company offered the men work at cut wages, but they refused to accept the proposition, and decided not to depart from their stand. Scottdale, Pa., Aug. 2. — Wild excite ment prevails here tonight. As the afternoon turns of nonunion men, who have taken places of striking ironwork- ers at the Scottdale works, were going home, one of them became incensed at the remarks of some boys, and fired at them. A large crowd gathered about the station at the time, and they start ed after the nonunion man, who fired five shots into the crowd before he reached the boarding-house. The hotel was surrounded by an excited crowd, and it was with difficulty that Burgess Porter got them cooled down, and had he not had the assistance of strike leaders I there is no telling what the crowd would have done. Another nonunion man, whose name could not be learned, drew a revolver and fired several shots. He was knocked down and pretty badly beatetn before he could tie reached by the officers and taken away. The sec ond crowd is massed about the station and nonunion men are afraid to ven ture out. >• Omaha, Aug. 2.—Judge Sanborn passed on the decree of sale in the Un ion Pacific foreclosure case this morn ing. He accepted the Ames decree with bnt few corrections. There was a sharp debate over the government’s de cree, the attorneys for the reorganisa tion committee objecting. The upset price was placed at #50.000,000. Judge Cornish was appointed special master to conduct the sale. Be will fix the date later. Christiana, Aug. 3.—The storthing has issued a maximum cdstoms tariff against all countries, «according less favorable treatment to Norwegian products and ships than is accorded to other countries. They Tried to Chaste Seat*. Boston, Aug. 3.—Robert Stott, aged 80, and John Peters, aged 91, were drowned by the capsizing of a towboat on the Charles river tonight during an attempt to change seats. ’ By the Breaking of the Dam. Middleton. Conn., Aug. 2.—At 8 o’clock this morning a dam 40 feet wide, containing water from which three factories get power, burst, letting down a tremendous volume of water. Huge stones of which the dam was built crashed into the factory of William Wilocx’s lock shop and the lower floors of the factory were flooded. Forty workmen were compelled to flee for their live«. Much damage has been done. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. WORK FOR THE RAILROADS. Grain aud Fruit Crops East of U»« Cascades. Downing, Hopkin« A Company’# Review of Trade. Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cities and Towns the Thriving Sister States —Oregon. of The Washington oounty court is de bating the question of building a county jail. . A new wheat warehouse baa been built at Mission to take the place of the one that burned recently. The estimated sum of money that has left Grant county during the last year for bicycles is #4 .500. This sum would give a bicycle to about every twentieth voter. A brass shoe weighing 1,800 pounds was cast at the Astoria iron works last week. The shoe is to be put on the keel of the Manzanita to hold the stern post, rudder and screw. Work is piling up at the Pendleton foundry so rapidly that it has been found neceassary to work nights. A night force has been hired and in a few days the hum of the machinery will be heard almost without cessation in the establishment. The citizens of Marshfield, Myrtle Point and other towns in Coos county have complained somewhat of a sugar famine, but Coquille has been worse off. There has been a shortage of flour, sugar, butter, eggs and fruit jars, and steamers and trains would come and go without replenishing the stocks of flour and sugar. The 12th annual catalogue and guide book of the state normal school at Drain, in Douglass county, has been published. A feature of the catalogue, not usually found in such publications, is the remarks addressed to the differ ent classes, to those who expect to be come pupils, to the instructors, ami to the school directors throughout the state. The Odd Fellows hall in Pendleton is being moved ami the contents of the copper box deposited in the corner-stone of the building May 8, 1879, have been removed. The articles contained in tiie box consist principally of a number of coins, two business cards, several newspapers, a copy of the old constitu tion and by-laws and the family record of Lot Livermore. The report of the officials of the La Grande land district, which includes Baker, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Union and Wallowa counties, shows a total land surface area in the district of 8,843,000 acres, of which 15,360 acres are reserved, 2,820,425 acres have been disposed of, leaving a total of 5,- 871,215 acres yet undis|>osed of, of which 4,394,601 acres are surveyed and 1,476,614 acres unsurveyed land. Union county embraces a total land sur face area of 2,028,000 acres; 678,814 acres have been disposed of, and there is yet available 1,849,186 acres, of which 867,353 acres are surveyed and 481,883 acres unsurveyed. Of the land in Union yet undisposed of, 75 per cent its timbered, 20 per cent graz ing land, and 5 per cent farming land. Washington. H. T. Jones has been tendered and has accepted the position of chief grain inspector for Spokane. The salary is #1,200 a year. All arrangements have been made by the Fishermen’s Protective Associa- tion, on Gray’s harbor, to run the can nery at Aberdeen this season. The Whitman County Union Vet erans’ Association of O1<1 Soldiers and Sailors, at its first annua! reunion last week, decided to meet next year in Pullman. The contract for revenue cutter sup plies for the coming year has been awarded to the Adams Hardware Com pany, of Port Townsend, says the Destructive Hail Storm. Denver, Aug. 2.—A Republican spe Leader. Dealers are offering 52 cents a bushel cial from Sioux Falls, S. D., says one of the m^st destructive hail storms for wheat in Pomeroy, but there are known passed this morning. The few takers. One farmer sold 8,000 storm started three miles west of Dell bushels at that figure, and received part Rapids and went southwestr-destroying down. absolutely everything in ’its path One of the Seattle banks is issuing around Galveston. Everything is a letters of credit available at Juneau, total loss. One branch of the storm St. Michaels and Circle City, Alaska, that passed over Hermantown and Lu Fort Cudahy and Dawson City, North verne, Minn., went in two paths, one west territory. north of Luverne and the other south The Port Angeles school district has clear across Nobles county. The path decided by a vote of five to one to val of this branch of the storm Is fully 10 idate its oustanding warrant indebted miles wide. It is estimated that fully ness, amounting to #18,000, issued in 1,000,000 acres of crops were destroyed excess of the legal limits. by the storm. Hundreds of farmer; The receiver of the nail works at have lost every vestige of a crop. Port Townsend has jiostponed the sale Ammunition Kuiuihig tow. of the goods and chattels of the works Bombay, Aug. 2.—The situation at until August 24, at the Request of a Camp Makakland has become serious. majority of the creditors. Word has been received that natives in The shipments of fruit from the city large force made a second attack on the of Walla Walla during the last four forts today. The fighting was severe. months have brought to that place #75,- Thirteen of the British were killed and 000 in cash, being 40 jter cent more 30 wounded, among the latter l>eing than for the corresponding period a year Lieutenant Catello. The tribesmen ago. lost 100 men. The worst feature of Very few idle men are seen on the the situation is that the garrison is short of ammunition, and it is feared streets of Walla Walla as comparecí the whole supply will be exhausted be with the number there a week ago. fore reinforcements arrive. It is fp- Those willing to work secured jobs from ported that Madmullah has mustered at the farmers, most of whom are harvest- i ing full blast. least 40,000 tribesmen. New Norwegian Tariff* Law. Decree Passed O r I r Omaha. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Cubans Kahl th«* Suburb« of th« Kpan- ish Stronghold. Astoria, Or., Aug. 8. — A 4:15 o'clock this morning, the O. K. & N. steamer Elder, with 883 passengers from Port land and 25 from Astoria, bound for the t'londyke, slowly left her dock, and, in the dim light of the early day, set her nose towards the far north, the land of promise to the goldhunters. Hundreds were on the docks even at that hour, and every passenger was on deck to bi<l a last farewell to friends and civilization. As the steamer got under way, a lnighty.shout was given by those on shore, which echoed from the distant hills and was answered by those on lioard. Last words of warning and advice were spoken, and soon the big ship was but a slmdow irr'tbe dis tance. Several joined the ship here at the last moment. One man traded a dia mond and #500 gold watch for another’s outfit; and one man bought half in terest in the outfit of another whose partner left him, and a man from Poit- land, who jumped on the steamer at the last moment, found an outfit here all packed, which the person who or dered it failed to call for. Without question, he paid the invoice price and had it loaded on the steamer. During the day, the passengers of the steamer were entertained by the citi zens, and a jolly time was had while the ship’s machinery,which was slight ly damamged on the trip down the river, was repaired. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 3.—This has been a sad day for Carlisle, a town 30 miles south of here. Four persons were drowned at Hyatt’s Ferry, in the Wabash river, and one was ground to fragments by an Evansville & Terre Haute freight train. The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ammond, Mr. and Mrs. Abner Morris and Charles Hines. The first four were seen to go in bathing, and later their clothing was found on the river bank. It is be lieved one of the women was seized with cramps and the others were drowned in trying to rescue her. Charles Hines was found lying close to the Evansville & Terre Haute track, at Carlile. The head was crushed in, the right hand torn off and the body almost severed. It is thought Hines fell from the train while stealing a ride. HAVANA S The berry-pickers around Lake What com are bringing into Whatcom 100 gallons of wild blackberries every night. One night last week 131 gallons were brought in. The berries retail at 50 renta a gallon. A raft of 845,000 feet of logs has . l>een received at Port Townsend. The logs are to be cut into lumber and used 1 in building a wharf that will be used in connection with the building of ths 'foritficationa at Marrowstone point by the Pacific Bridge Company. Portland, Or., Aug. 2. — General The important factor in wheat last week was the large foreign demand. Agent R. P. Ober, of the Northern A lesser influence was the appearance Pacific refrigerator-car system, was in of the July bulls as large buyers of the the city yesterday. He has just made an extended tour, of the fruit and grain September. The general view of the trade is that listricts of the country tributary to the the situation is favorable for compara Northern Paoific, and had thia to say tively high prices. The fact that the ja the subject: "There will l>e an enormous fruit market has hail within a fortnight an advance of 10c per bushel, and that the -*rop in the Snake river valley, in the new crop movement has not fairly Yakima district, and in the Walla started to keep, however, an influential Walla district. In fact, there will be party in the field. As to the final out a heavy crop wherever there is an or come of the situation, it is remarkable chard in the Northwest. The Sound how close speculators are together. itself will ship a large quantity. The Their differences are hardly more than prices are uniformly good, growers be as to the time for an advance and its ing content to get one to one and a halt cents net per pound in the Eastern extent. Receipts of new wheat at Chicago are markets. “In this connection I observed a away under last year’s. The big Kan sas crop shows in the arriavls at Kansas very noteworthy fact, that is, the im City, which, without being so very mense shipment of green fruit and large, are a good deal over 12 months vegetables to Alaska. One Tacoma ago, yet the foreigners have taken all firm has a standing order to ship every of this Kansas wheat they could get. thing in this line that will, in their None of it is moving toward Chicago, opinion, stanl the trip. That’s a pret Most Alaska boat« unless it is to go through to the other ty good order. side. The small receipts are more sig have cold-storage facilities, and could nificant because July is 4c over Septem use more, for the demand ¡ b surprising. ber, an incentive to rush the grain here. i It is a fact that two cents a pound is Furthermore, Chicago July is lc and netted to the grower on fresh fruit eons 1 over St. Louis, Toledo or Detroit. to Alaska, and, now that this mining The oompleted crop movement last year exoitement is rushing such numbers of developed that the 1896 winter wheat people into that region, it is easy to yield was very much less than anybody force a great and growing market for had assumed it to be. With July al the green and dried fruit and vegetable most ended the receipts this year at products of the Northwest. “The grain crop is everywhere moot Chicago are vastly less than last, the week’s shipments exceeding the ar promising. With the advancing price for wheat, this will be a banner year rivals. Our visible supply showed an in in the annals of the grain industry. I crease of 1,782,060 bushels, and now was surprised to find that over in the totals 17,814,000 bushels, against 46,- Sprague and Ritzville region the wheat crop was even better than in the Pa 754,000 bushels a year ago this time. The foreigners took freight room in louse. ” Traveling Freight Agent Savage, of two days last week for as much wheat as will be received at all the primary the Omaha line, who just returned markets in a fortnight. It is certainly from the Washington fruit and grain nothing against the market that there country, filso says that no description is a clever active bull interest in it. of the crop outlook this year can bo toe This lias made it somewhat uncom glowing. fortable for the professional short selleis. These latter have found out RETURNED YUKONER ROBBED. that there was somebody to meet their raids. The long line haB not, however, Started Out to Do New York and Was Done Up by Thug«. been large enough to be threatening, New York, Aug. 2.—The World and the tactics have at no time been offensive. It looks as if the July-would says: Henry Gauldier, 85 years at go out at a moderate premium over the age, was found in this city unconscious September, and as if the campaign and bleeding from a wound in his head. would be continued through September. Citizens picked him up and oarried him to a saloon. 111 b skull is probably Portlaud Markets. fractured. He telegraphed for his Wheat—Walla Walla, 76@77c; Val brother Phillip, of Laoonia, N. H., ley, 79c per bushel. asking him to join him at once. Flour—Beet grades, #4; graham, Gauldier said he was direct from the #3.50; superfine, #2.25 per barrel. Clondvke, having left Dawson City Oats—Choice white, 38@40c; choice June 18. He came on the steamer gray, 37 @ 89c per bushel. Portland, the first steamer down. Barley—Feed barley, #16@ 16.50; When he arrived in New York he went brewing, #18@ 19 per ton. to the Manhattan hotel. He had a re Millstuffs—Bran, #14 per ton; ceipt for #800 deposited with the clerk middlings, #21; shorts, #15.50. of the hotel. Hay—Timothy, #12.50; clover, With #200 he started out to do th* #10® 11; California wheat, #10® town. He is not quite clear as to bow 11; do oat, #11; Oregon wild hay, #9® he reached Harlem, or how he got to 10 per ton. where be was found, but he had been Eggs—13}^@18c per dozen. robbed of the greater part of his Butter—Fancy creamery, 35 @ 40c; money. When made comfortable in fair to good, 30c; dairy, 25@80e pei the hospital he said: roll. “I wish I had had ‘Old Betsy’ with Cheese—Oregon, ll*^c; Young me when those ruffians attacked me.” America, 12 '4c; California, 9® 10c pei He went to the Clondyxe a year ago. pound. He stopped at Junes and went thencu Poultry—Chickens, mixed, #2.50® to Dominion creek. He located sev 3.0 p«-i dozen; broilers, #1.50@3.00; eral valuable claims. The stories told, geese, #3 @4; ducks, #2.50®8 per dozen; he said, of the finds in that section do turkeys, live, 10® 11c per pound. not begin to tell the truth. He lefneed Potato« s.—Oregon Burbanks, 85® to say how much money he had 45c per tack; new potatoes, 50c pet brought back, but said it was not un sack; sweets, #1.90®2.25 per cental. common n to find a fortune in a few Onion«—California, new, red. #1.25; weeks. yellow, #1.50 per cental. “1 only left at this time because n Hops—10® 11 *^c per pound for new newcomer told me of my father’s death, crop; 1896 crop, 4@6c. I ran away from home and have not Wool—Valley, 11® 13c per pound; seen my people in 20 years. Knowing Eastern Oregon, 7@9c; mohair, 20c that I had a rich find and wishing to per pound. share it with my people, 1 came back Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers to get my brother to go with me. He and ewes, 2l4@2*^c; dressed mutton, will find our claims in good hands with 4}jc; spring lambs, 5% per pound. gold ready to be picked up.” Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, #4; light Gsuldier’s story seems to be verified and feeders, #2.50®8; dressed, #8® by papers found in his pockets, includ 4.25 )>er 100 pounds. ing a number on the banks of the Yu Beef—Gross, top steers, #2.75®8; kon, a receipt for a berth on the steam cows #2.25; dressed beef, 435^0 per er Portland and the hat mark of a pound. tradesman in Seattle. If his skull is Veal—Large, 8J^@4^c; small, 5® not fractured he may be able to leave 5^c per pound. i the hospital soon. Seattle Markets. Butter—Fancy native creamery, brick, 18c; ranch, 10® 12c. Cheese— Native Washington, 10® 11c; California, O^c. Eggs—Fresh ranch, 18® 19c. Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10® lie; spring chickens, #2 ®3.50; ducks, #2.50®8.75. Wheat—Feed wheat, #24 per ton. Oats—Choice, per ton, #21. Corn—Whole, #20; cracked, per ton, #20: feed meal, #20 per ton. Barley—Rolled or ground, jier ton, #19; whole, #¡8.50. Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5^c; mutton sheep, 6c; pork, 6‘4e; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish—Halibut, 4J$c; Salmen, 4®5c; salmon trout, 7®J0c; flounders and sole, 3®4; ling cod, 4®5; rock cod, 5c; smelt, 2V4®4c. Pirate« Are Feared. Washington, Aug. 2.—The steamer Portland, which is expected to leave I 8t. Michaels about September 15, will, it is said, have on board gold from thn Alaskan gold fields valued at #2,000,- 000. P. B. Weare, of Chicago, preei- ; dent of the North American Transpor tation & Trading Company, has advised the treasury department that he fears an attempt will lie made by pirates t«» capture the cargo and has asked that the government detail a revenue cutter to co.ivoy the Portland out of Behring sea. This request has been granted. The revenue cutter Bear and possibly one or two others will convoy the Port land. A Canadian Mystery. Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 3.—Last Sunday a resident named Smith, while fishing with his son on Howe sound found on Bird’s island the headless Itody of what appeared to be an Indian woman. Though the flesh was nearly all gone, the body which was lying in a canoe, cannot have l>een there long, as a shawl and other clothing was in a good state of preservation. The polica are now investigating. San Francisco Markets. Wool—Choice foothill, 9® 12c; San Joaquin, 6 months’ 8® 10c; do year’s staple, 7® 9c; mountain, 10® 18c; Ore gon, 10® 13c per pound. Hops—8® 12c per pound. Millstuffs — Middlings, #18.50®22; California bran, #15® 15.50 per ton. Hay—Wheat,#12® 15; wheat and oat, #11® 14; oat, #10® 13; river barley, #7®8; Itest barley, #9® 11; alfalfa, #7® 8.50 clover, #7.50® 9. Potatoes—New, in lioxes, 30®40c. Onions—New red, 70®80o< do new silverskin, 85c®#l per cental. Fresh frutfc—Apples, 90® 80c per small box; do large box, 85®75c Royal apricots, 20®85c common cherries, 15®25c; Royal Anne cherries, 25® 40c per box; currants? #1.00® 1.50 per chest; peaches, 95®50c; pears, 90® 40c; cherry plums, 20®30c per box. Laborer Badly Burned. San Francisco, July 81.— While dip ping lumber at the North beach creo sote works today, J. Morris, a laborer, fell into a vat of boiling creosote and was so badly burned that his life in despaired of. _____ _ ' New York, July 31.—The Herald’s correspondent in San Salvador says that Otto Munchmeyer, United Staten consul In San Salvador, has COtamittoA suicide.