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DROWNED STRIKERS ARE WARNED I IN THE THE SURF. The Officer« The Undertow at Atlantic City Claimed Two Victim«. Work In the Fields. Spokane, Aug. 16.—There is an un precedented demand for harvest hands throughout Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Fears are expressed that enough men cannot be foound to harvest the large crop. The cells in the jail at Dover, N. H., ire arranged in a circle and revolve, so that the inmates can successively see the country at all points of the com pass. Wasco, Or., Aug. 17.—Last night, about midnight, fire broke out in a sleeping tent in which the small chil dren of Mr. C. Huck's family were sleeping. One little one, about flvears old, was burned until only the charred trunk remained. The fire originated from a lighted candle which was al lowed to burn too low. In trying to save the child, Mr. Huck was overcome by smoke, and came near losing hie life. His hands, feet and legs were frightfully burned. Bring RETURNS. the Latest WEEKLY New« Astoria, Or., Aug. 16.—The O. R. & N. Co's steamer George W. Elder ar rived tonight from Dyea, after a very pleasant trip down. She brought “ac commodation” mail, ami one passenger. The officers of the steamer gave the latest news from the north. The passage up was delightful. The ocean all the way was as smooth as a mill pond, and very few ot the passen gers were sick. The livestock fared ex tremely well. Not one animal was in jured in the slightest, and all were landed in safety. When the Elder arrived at Skaguay bay men immediately came alxiard and offered fabulous prices for horses. An imals snch as are being canned at Linn- ton are selling for from $600 to $700, but none could lie purchased from the Elder’s passengers. Gue of the passen gers had a large bull, for which he was offered $600. Tne offer was refused. There is plenty of grass to feed the livestock, and horses are greatly in de mand The men were charged 25 cents per 100 pounds to have their luggage taken ashore. All the baggage was landed safely. The late for taking stuff over Chilkoot pass is 25 cents a pound. The officers state that there is abso lutely no truth in the reports that men are selling their outfits at Dyea. They say that every one who can possibly get over the passes is going. The weather at Dyea is all that could be desired, and but little difficulty will be experi enced in making the trip. The most important item of news brought by the Elder is to the effect that White pass is being placed in a passable condition. One hundred mi ners, who were delayed by the condi tion of the road, banded and agreed to corduroy the road. Timber is plentiful in the vicinity, and the work should shortly be completed. When this is done horses can easily be taken over the trail. Two drownings and a mining-camp incident resultant occurrred at Dyea. On August 8, Dwight Fowler, of Seat tle, lost his life. He was carrying a load on his back ami parcels in each ham! over a log, when he slipped and fell into the Skaguay river. Fowler is said to be the son of well-known Seat tle people. The other fatality occurred August 6. Thomas Wall, of N. naimo, while at tempting to ford Dyea river on a pack- horse, was lost. He left a wife and three children in Nanaimo, who are in destitute circumstances. Two men named Young and Cleve land are engaged in packing near where the drowning occurred, and recovered the bodies. They took them to Dyea, where they demanded $10 for their services. The citizens immediately called a mass meeting and served no notice on one of the men to leave town within 24 hours. He applied for pas sage on the Elder to Juneau, out as she was not bound for that port, he was compelled to leave town until he could secure transportation. The day the steamer left citizens call ed another meeting for the purpose of considering the advisability of serving a like notice on the other man. The partners were making from $200 to $300 a week each, carrying freight, but their demand for pay for bringing in the bodies of the men has lost them fortunes. On August 8 a man was shot and killed for stealing freight on Chilkoot pass. One of the men in charge of a pack train caught him in the act. and his life was the penalty. His name could not be learned by the officers or passengers of the Elder. At Dyea, according to a letter re ceived from C. R. Scovey, of this city, there is a scarcity of provisions. The writer says that the stores were crowd ed, and that all the flour was sold. There will be no difficulty in securing more. The demand was created by men who left with money instead of provisions. There was but one returning passen ger. Theodore Lang, who sailed on the Elder, was attacked with rheumatism and forced to sell his outfit and return. The passage down was made in good time, the steamer being but 71 hours from Sitka. She left up for Portland at 7:15 tonight. The route from Skaguay via White pass is more level and easier traveling, though 25 miles farther. But the pros pector is landed on Lake Bennet, the second lake aixive Linderman, where travelers by Chilkoot pass are landed. Besides, there is plenty of timber on Bennet to build boats, while there is none on Linderman. Every day, hundreds are arriving there, and scows and small steamers are making fortunes in lightering goods from steamers. Letters from Astorians who went on the Elder advise others not go this fall, as they cannot get through except at great expense and hardship. Top Ketch for Wheat. MARKET LETTER. FIRST BLOOD SHED. Dowulni. Hopkins 4 Company's Review 1 A Riot Almost Precipitated Among the Striker«. of Trade. From the North. Atlantic City, Aug. 17.—Two ven turesome bathers were drowned in the j surf today. They were Thomas C. , Laswell, aged 21, of Princeton, Ind., and an unknown man, supposed to be an excursionist from Philadelphia. IS ONLY A TEMPORARY ORDER Laswell came here this morning with his friend P. M. Parrott, also from Princeton, on his first visit to the sea Court Will Render a Final Decision-* shore. The young men went into the President Dolan Declare» Trouble surf shortly before noon, and Laswell, who seemed to be unaware of the dan Will Follow Its Enforcement. gerous undertow, was soon beyond his Pittsburg, Aug. 16.—The much- i depth and calling for help. The life- talked-of injunction against the Unit guards made a brave effort to save him, ed Mineworkers was tiled in the county but the surf was so heavy that they court today by counsel for the New j were unable to reach the drowning York <fe Cleveland Gas & Coal Com ! man. Laswell struggled in the water pany. The defendants are named The , for about 15 minutes in full view of United Minneworkers of America, I about 10,000 people, gathered on the Patrick Dolan, president; William pier, board walk and beach. Warner, secretary and treasurer, and Parrott nearly lost his life in at- others. I tempting to save that of his friend, The plaintiff company sets forth that and was taken from the water in an ex it is a eor|x>ration under the laws of hausted condition. Late in tne after Pennsylvania, with a capital of $1,000,- noon the laxly of Laswell came ashore. 000 invested in coal lands of Pennsyl It was turned over to a local under vania. Three of their mines, employ taker, who prepared it for shipment to ing 1,200 men, are the Plum Creek, Indiana. Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek. The When Laswell checked his valuables bill then recites the conditions prevail at the bathouse where he obtained his ing at their mines since the strike was bathing suit, he laughingly remarked begun and alleges the strikers have to the clerk: “I will leave my ad paid no attention to the sheriff’s warn dress, so that in case I am drowned ings, and that the lives of miners and you can send my valuables home.” property of the company are in danger. I The jest was a tragedy in less than an Judge Collier granted a temporary hour. injunction, restraining and enjoining The second drowning occurred about the defendants from assembling, march 3 o'clock, and the body of the man had ing or encamping in proximity to the not come ashore to a late hour tonight. mines and houses of the miners, for The surf today was the heaviest of the purpose by intimidation, threats the season, owing to a gale which pre and opprobrious words, of preventing vailed, and between 25 and 30 persons the miners of the plaintiff from work were rescued, many of them women. ing. It further restrains the defend ants from inducing or compelling any A NARROW ESCAPE. employe or miner to quit work. A hearing was fixed for August 18. Young Lady Caught on a Kailroad The injunction is regarded as the’ Trestle Near Chehalis. most sweeping yet issued. President Chehalis, Wash., Aug. 17.—A young Dolan expressed surprise when in lady who lives near Newaukum, while formed it had been granted and added: walking o.. the railroad track toward “It will make no difference to us. this town one afternoon a short time We will go right along as usual until ago, had a very narrow escape from the matter is tested in the courts. We death under the wheels of a passenger will stay there regardless of every train. She was upon the long trestle judge in Allegheny county, and if they south of town when the train came. attempt to enforce the injunction they She started to run, hoping to reach the will have to build more jails to accom end of the trestle before the train modate the men.” caught her, but, after running a short distance, she fell. As soon as the en WILL FORCE THE ISSUE. gineer saw her he put on the brakes. When the train came to a standstill, Striker* to Test the Legality ut Julge the nose of the cowcatcher touched her Meili Wayne’« Order. prostrate body. She was assisted to Pittsburg, Aug. 16.— The striking raise and went on her way unharmed, miners at Cannonsburg have determined except for a few trifling scratches. to force the injunction issue by contin When the train got under way the pas uing their daily marches and meet sengers held a meeting and passed a ings in the neighborhood of the Mc resolution commending Engineer Jones Govern and Cannonsburg mines in warmly for the coolness and prompt spite of the order of Judge Meiliwayne, ness with which he acted. < forbidding marches on the roads lead THE COTTON CROP. ing to the mines. The purpose is to have the men arrested in order to test Estimated at Nine an<l Three-Quarter the legality of the injunction. Millions Kales. Patrick Dolan stated it bail been de New Orleans, Aug.* 17. — H. M. termined to keep up the marches, and as fast as one group was arrested an Neill, the well-known cotton statisti other one will take its place until there cian, has issued a circular on the will be so many of them in jail that growing crop. After referring to the opinion will be aroused on the question correctness of his estimate made in July, 1894, of the crop of that season, of urging a new form of injunction. In these movements the support of Mr. Neill says: ‘'At this moment for this year the all the leading trades unions of the country are said to have been pledged promise is equal to any previous year at a secret meeting in Columbus during in every state but Texas, and even al the last 10 days, presided over by lowing that Texas should fall short of her maximum product by 1,000,000 Samuel Gompers. Information has been received by bales, the outlook now is for a crop of the Pittsburg operators that the mineis at least 9,750,000, with 500,000 to ■of the Bell, L-wis & Yates Company 1,000,000 more within the range of have struck in Reynoldsville, ami the possibility. This figure of 9,750.000 is rest of the mines of the company are very conservative. If there are goes! idle. The company is one of the heav rains in Texas, her crop will also be iest tonnage producers in the northern near perfection, and the possibilities field. About 8,000 men are employed. for the total crop would then be some The usual march of miners was made thing enormous.” at Turtle Creek at 4 o’clock this morn Mine« Mu«t Clone. ing, but more men went into the pit to Denver, Aug. 17.—It is probable day than yesterday. Firms from all sections are coming to the rescue of the that the great silver mines of Creede, strikers. A certain cereal company at Colo., will be closed down on account Akron, O., sent a dispatch offering to of the low price of silver, unless the donate two tons of corn meal. The railroad and smelting rates are re offer was accepted. The Fishermen’s duced. Several conferences have been Protective Association, of Astoria, Or., held between the mine-owners ami the has started East by fast freight 100 smelter and railroad officials, and it is cases of canned salmon for the miners. said the latter evinced a dis|>osition to make every concession possible in order to keep the mines in operation. The Injunction Extended. It is also understood that the miners Washington, Pa., Aug. 16.—J. H. Cook, a coal operator of McGovern, at Creede are willing to accept a re •ame into court this afternoon ami com duction in wages from $3 per day of plained that the strikers were again eight hours to $2.75 in wet mines and trespassing on his property, that An $2.50 in dry, rather than have the drew Savage, leader, already enjoined, mines closed. was there, and he thought they had The Work of Whitecap«. instructions to go where they pleased iu Cincinnati, O., Aug. 17.—For three disregard of the injunction. At his re months, a band of whitecaps has been quest the court made another including causing terror in the vicinity of Ken the United Mineworkers of America, sington, Ky., and a dtflermined stand President Ratchford and Secretary will be made against them. About two Pierce, and the Pittsburg district mine weeks ago, they called at the home of workers. President Dolan and Secretary Ward Bolan, superintendent of Ken Warner, in the injunction. sington sub-division, and by force com pelled him to go to the woods with Work of Train wrecker«. them. There they whipped and beat Dallas, Tex., Aug. 16.—The north him in a most brutal manner. Later bound M., K. <fe T. train was wrecked they found a man named O’Hara camp this morning near Caddo Mills by some ing on Kensington lake,with a woman, one removing the fishplates and bend he claims was his wife, and they beat ing the rails. Every car but the rear the man and woman shamefully. sleeper was turned over. Messenger Rawlins was instantly killed. Several Impure air is not always of the same passengers were injured, but how seri weight, there being various grades of ously could not be learned. The in impurity. But an absolutely pure air jured will be taken to Greenville. A always weighs .31 of a deg. rain per wrecking crew has reached the scene. cubic inch. The weighing of air is a No further particulars are obtainable. good test of its purity. Interference With De Armitt’s Miners Must Cease. ELDER Report of the Battle Near Aguacate Confirmed. WEYLER LOST FI LLY 200 MEN liiHiirgent L om Was IJght—Several At« teiupt« Were Macle to Capture the Captain-General. New York, Aug. 16.—A special to the Herald from Havana via Key West says: Further details have been re ceived of the battle near Aguacate, w hich is near the Matanzas line. The fighting, it was first reported, was in Matanzas province, but it was just on this side. There is no doubt of the re sult of the battle, however, and a con servative estimate places the number of Spanish killed at 200, while the rebel loss was comparatively trifling. Preparations for General Weyler’s ar rival at the palace were made on Mon day, but he has only just returned from the field. He left Matanzas on Sunday and reached Aguacate the next day. It was there that a rumor came that he was wounded in the big fight near there, but the statement has proved to be false. The excitement in Havana is intense. The uncertainty regarding the new ministry in Spain is partly to blame, and on top of this there comes news of a big insurgent victory lietween Agua cate and Madruga, and also of a pitched battle in the vicinity of Sagua la Grande. The advance guard of General Gomez has crossed into Matanzas. Whether ne is close cannot be ascertained, but it is reported that he declined the fight at Sagua la Grande. The largest battle that has taken place in several months wax the one fought at Aguacate. It is known that the battle was the result of an attempt to capture General Weyler aud kill him. The captain-generai had made preparations to return on horseback from Matanzas to Havana. Along the road he had posted three columns of Spanish soldiers. General Castillo learned of his plans and gathered a force of fully 1,500 rebels. This force he hurled against the Spanish lines near Aguacate where General Weyler was supposed to be. General Castillo commanded the insurgents in person, and the Spanish were under General Milta. The insurgents dispersed, but later accounts are that both Colonel Aldea and General Mulino were wounded. The battle began about 4 o’clock in the afternoon and continued till night. The Spanish were ranked along the open road and the rebels approached them from the rear, coming from the hills. A body of cavalry was stationed about a quarter of a mile down the road to cut off Weyler if he should be there and attempt to seek safety. The details of the actual fighting are meager, but many reliable persons who passed near the place, which is beside the railroad station, say that from the carriage windows they could see many dead soldiers along the road. The rebels used rapid-firing guns. When darkness came the Spaniards retired, to return the next morning with heavy re inforcements, but the insuregnts only opened fire for aliout half an hour and then disappeared. They divided into small bands and subsequent pursuit was futile. Information has also been received of the big fight near Sagua la Grande. It is said the town was attacked and that a portion of it was burned, but this has not been verified. Correspondence from the field, however, proves that there has been a battle there, Gomez in person, it is said, directing the in surgent ojierationx. After the fight at Aguacate, General Weyler fell back upon Guanabacoa, just across the bay from Havana. The rebel chiefs, Colonel Arnaguara ami General Rodríguez, were in the district and Weyler expected a raid. Weyler arrived at Guanabacoa with 4,000 men. Five miles from Guana bacoa he wax attacked by a rebel force under General Rodríguez. Rodriguez'x plan was to force General Weyler to give battle and pursue him into the hills, where the captain-generai stood a good chance of being either killed or captured. The rebels fired several vol leys from the hills along the roadside, killing 17 and wounding a large num ber of the Spanish, but Weyler refused to give fight ami kept on his march to Guanabacoa, driving 300 head of cattle that he had collected along the line. General Rodríguez followed in Weyler’s rear to within sight of the town. Af ter the rebels withdrew the Spanish troops commenced a heavy fire, the noise < f which awakened and frightened the residents of Guanabacoa. A train running from Mariano in Havana province wax fired ii|xm recent ly. The American vice-consul, Mr. Springer, wax on the train. Bullets struck near him, but he escaped unhurt. Walla Walla, Aug. 16.—The top notch wheat market for the season was reached today. The market opened firm at 75 cents for binestem, 73 cents for club. Several lots were sold at these figures, when the price jutnped up one cent and several thousand bush els were sold for 76 cents This after noon the price dropped back to 75 cents, at which figure it closed. New Orleans, Ang. 16.—A new gold field has been discovered, but this one is in the tropics. Reports have come to this city lately that big finds of gold have been made in Nicaragua, and steamers from that section have been bringing in gold dust in proof of it. No More Fig Brandy. Two Children Drowned. Gold Di«coverie«. San Francisco, Aug. 16. — Acting Crete, Neb., Aug. 16.—Willie and Collector Thomas has retceived a rul Mary Vogel, aged 4 and 10 years re ing from Secretary Gage, of the treas spectively, were drowned in the Blue ury, relating to the distillation of cer river to lay. They fell from a narrow tain fruits, particularly in California. walk, and were carried over a milldam Last May the Tenny Fruit Packing to the rocks below. Company, of Fresno, ditilled some fig brandy, but the treasury department Paper Mill Destroyed. . has decided that the distillation of figs Manchester, Conn., Aug. 1«.—The is illegal. The brandy in question Peter Adams [taper mill, in Buckland, will tie released, but hereafter the law wan burned this morning. Loss, $35,- will be strictly enforced. 000. Pittsburg, Aug. 16 —Injunctions by the court have put a stop to marches by the strikers against the New York <Jfc Cleveland Gas Coal Company, for a time at least. But in the execution of the injunction the sheriff and his dep uties narrowly escaped precipitating serious trouble. As it was, the first blood of the strike was shed. Henry Stewart, one of the sheriff's deputies, struck Jacob Mott, a drummer of the McDonald band, with the edge of a brass horn, and cut a severe gash above his eye. The sight of the blood wrought up the 1,000 idle miners to such a pitch that a desperate conflict was imminent. The deputies also were excited and noisy. The strikers were jeering and yelling and urging a further rush. There were enough of the miners to annihilate the deputies. Captain Bel lingham, Sheriff Lowrey, Chief Deputy Janies Richards and Superintendent DeArmitt were the only cool men in the assemblage. To them and to Cap tain Bellingham belongs the credit of avoiding a riot. When Bellingham saw there was danger of his men getting lieyond his control, he commanded a halt and ad- dresed himself to the task of restraining the more belligerent. Sowell were his efforts directed that lie soon had re stored comparative order. Sheriff Lowrey had a difficult task to perform, but he handled it well, and by his coolness and good nature, did much to neutralize the bitterness and strife invited by his subordinates. The strikers finally retired an I marched back to their camp. There were sev eral other brushes with the deputies, but no actual collisions. After the miners returned to camp, the officers held a conference witle- tlieir attorney, and he advised them to quit marching until the court had heard the argument over a bill in equity brought by the New York <fc Cleveland Gas Coal Company, as it might injure their case if they were brought up for contempt before the court. President Dolan then issued orders that no more marches should be mad» to any of the New York & Cleveland Company's mines until further orders, though marches may be made at other places. Tiiere were nq signs of trouble to night. The strikers remained within Portland Market«. their camp, and while the deputies Wheat—Walla Walla, 81c; Val were on guard they had little to do. In order to more thoroughly fortify his ley, 84c per bushel. Flour—Best grades, $4.15; graham, position, Sheriff Lowrey swore in 20 additional deputies tonight, and dis $3.65; xu|>erfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 88 @ 40c; choice patched them to Plum creek. gray, 36 @ 39c per bushel. AN ARIZONA STORM. Barley—Feed barley, $17.50@18; brewing, $18@ 19 per ton. Millstuffs—Bran, $14 per ton; A Cloudburst Doe« Great Damage te Property. middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. Hay—Timothy, $12 @12.50; clover, Nogales, Ariz., Ang. 16.—Southern. $10@ll; California wheat, $10@ Arizona and Not'nern Mexico have been 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9@ visited by a terrific rain storm. All 10 per ton. telegraph lines between Nogales and Eggs—11 @ 12c per dozen. Guaymax are down, and a great part of Butter—Fancy creamery, 35 @ 40c; the Sonora railway is washed out. The fair to good, 80c; dairy, 25@30c j>er track between Nogales Encinas, a dis roll. tance of 16 miles, is almost entirely Cheese—Oregon, 11 ‘¿c; Young gone. A train started to leave Guay- America, 12'ac; California, 9@ 10c per max this morning, but it was detained pound. by the Mexican government. Thera Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.00@ was a cloud burst which filled the 3.50 per dozen; broilers, $1.50@2.75; stream which flows through the place geese, $3@4; ducks, $2.50@3 per dozen; and flooded the greater part of Nogales. turkeys, live, 10@llc per |>ound. Three bridges were washed away. Sev Potatoes.—Oregon Burbanks. 35@ eral houses were washed away and a 45c per sack; new potatoes, 50c per number of Mexican families are home sack; sweets, $1.90@2.25 per cental. less. The residence of Arilo Ram ria, Onions—California, new, red. $1.25; the mayor, was destroyed. yellow, $1.50 per cental. Marta Ksperanz» Sacked by Cuban«. Hops—10@ll tsC]>er pound for new Key West, Fla., Aug. 16.—Marta crop; 1896 crop, 4@6c. Wool—Valley, 14@15c per pound; Esperanza, a town in Santa Clara prov Eastern Oregon, 10@ 12c; mohair, 20c ince,was attacked by insurgents recent ly, who entered the town at 3 P. M-, per pound. Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers and left at 4 A.M., Backing all th« and ewes, 2L4@2^c; dressed mutton, stores and taking merchandise, clothes, drugs, money, etc. The Spanish force l^c; spring lambs, per |>ound. Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4; light made resistance, but the insurgents de and feeders, $2.50@8; dressed, $8@ feated them with little trouble. The Spanish loss was heavy. The Cubans 4.25 per 100 pounds. Beef—Gross, top steers, $2.75@8; lost one killed and several wounded. cows $2.25; dressed beef, 4@5 tyC per The forces of General Montano came to the aid of the town, arriving one day pound. Veal—Large, 3@3,^c; small, 4}a late. They took arms and ammunition from the guerillas who remained in th® [>er pound. town, although most of them had Seattle Market«. joineil the insurgents. Then they Butter—Fancy native creamery, burned aliout 30 houses belonging to brick, 18c; ranch, 10@12c. Cubans. Calixto Alvarez attacked Cheexe—Native Washington, 10@ and sacked the towns of La Encrucijada, 11c; California, Ot^c. Crucos and Placetas. The Spanish Eggs—Fresh ranch, 20c. forces made no resistance. Thee® Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound, towns are in the pacified province of hens, 10@ 11c; spring chickens, $2 Santa Clara. @3.50; ducks, $2.50@3.75. Lady Rescued From Death. Wheat—Feed wheat, $28 per ton. The Dalles, Or., Aug. 16.—Fire Oats—Choice, per ton, $23. Corn—Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, totally destroyed the Michelbach build ing, on Second street, occupied by Mrs. $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, Britton as a lodging-house, at 1 A. M. It wax a fierce, hot blaze, and only $22; whole, $21. Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beef, prompt action on the part of the fire de steers, 6c; cows, 5t$c; mutton sheep, partment avoided a general conflagra tion. The origin of the fire is un 6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish—Halibut, 4 *^c; salmon, known. The building was insured foe 4® 5c; salmon trout, 7@10c; flounders fl,000 in the Hamburg-Bremen, anti ami sole, 8@4; ling cod, 4@5; rock Mrs. Britton’s furniture was insured for $600. One of the occupants, Mrs. cod, 5c; smelt, 2'a@4c. Gage, narrowly exca[>ed lieing burned to death. Hhe was overcome and suffo San Francisco Market«. Wool—Choice foothill, 9® 12c; San cated. and lay prostrate on the floor, Joaquin, 6 months* 8@10c; do year’s but was reached in time by Fireman staple, 7@9c; mountain, 11 @ 18c; Ore C. G. Stacey. gon, 10(4 13c per pound. The mouth of the octopus is in the Ilo|»—7@9o per pound. center of his txxly and is provided with Millstuffs — Middlings, $18.50@22; a beak closely resembling that of a California bran, $14@15 per ton. parrot. Hay—Wheat,$12@ 15; wheat and oat, $11 @14; oat, $10@12; river barley, Adulterated Tea Destroyed. $7@8; best barley, $9@12; alfalfa, San Francisco, Aug. 16. — Forty $708.50 clover, $7.50@9. chests of adulterated tea, which had Potatoes—New, iu lioxes, 40 @ 60c. been condemned by Inspector Toohey, Onions—New red, 70@80c; do new were burned today in the large furnace silverxkin, 85c@$l |>er cental. in the basement of the appraiser's Fresh fruit—Apples, 40® 60c per building. The imjiorter failed to either small box; do large box, 40@65c Royal appeal from the inspector’s finding, or aprioots, 20 @ 85c oommon cherries, export the stuff at his own expense, as 15®25c; Royal Anne cherries, *25@40c require«I by the law passed by congress,, per box; currants, $1.00@1.50 per and approved March 2, 1897. This ia chest; [teaches, 25 @ 40c; peara, 20@ the first destruction of tea under th®, 40c; cherry plums, 30@ 30c per box. provision of the new law. There was a large and rapid advance in the prices of wheat during the past week with prox|tects of a higher range of prices the rest of the year. Spot wheat is difficult to get, even at a pre mium ami the demand is pressing for old wheat; 1,945,000 bushels have been taken in Chicago this week for prompt and future shipment on foreign orders —the bulk of which was taken at the advance early in the week. This general advance il more the out come of the hand-to-mouth consump tion of twelve months overtaking the small stocks both here and in Europe, as we have pointed out time and again, than of short European crops now being reaped. Prosperity is coming, in the fact that the European consumer is pay ing the American farmer a better price than the majority of speculators pull upon the wheat.. The actual value o| the new crop is 20 cents higher than the professional short seller made it in June, when they were selling Septem ber freely at 63 *2 cents, and the farmer |is to be congrii ulated that this advance comes lx-fore the grain leaves his hands. And so long as the legitimate demand keeps the spot wheat at a premium, no combination or monopoly can profitably depress the futures, ax the experiences of the past six months have proved. So, for the near future, it will be safe to buy wheat on each decline, as the speculative market is broadening and outside buying increasing, and will in crease as the state of the country im proves. Although the sensational press trier! to show local manipulation in July de livery, Chicago is still the lowest mar ket in the country, with spot wheat this week 10 cents over the highest price in July, and we would have seen a much higher price during this month had not holders of wheat been fright ened in June by sensational rumors of large receipts; now the cash demand far exceeds, in proportion, the speculative demand. As in the May and July de liveries, the September speculative price is steadily advancing to the price of the spot wheat, which, ax in thoBe months, will finally fix the value in the latter end of this month. We are now having large receipts of wheat from an ample crop of fine qual ity—this week 5,843,406 bushels at the nine primary markets, compared with 3,217,882 bushels for the same last year.