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RIVERA A FREE The Cuban Patriot Raleased banaii Furtres«. McBride Brings Up the Relief Question in the Senate. THE RESOLUTION * l’en.lon Matter. Were GOES OVER Con.I.lered in Both Hou.e.—Beginniiig of a Lengthy Debate. Washington, Dec. 11.—The senate did a consideralbe amount of business today, although no very important I matter was considered or passed. | There was very little debate. Senator I Gallinger, chairman of the committee on pensions, called attention to the { increasing demand for private pension legislation and requested senators in I the future to be careful to see that their bills for private pensions were meritori ous before they were introduced. An attempt was made by McBride to secure an appropriation for the relief of the Klondike miners, but the net result was a resolution calling on the secre- j tarv of war for all information he had j on that subject. An hour was devoted to the consider ation of private pension bills and 45 were passed. The resolution of the Pacific rail road committee asking information re garding the sale of the Kansas Pacific [ was passed which gave Gear and Thurs- | ton opportunity to make short speeches congratulating the country upon the i settlement of the Pacific railroad ques tion. Some work was laid out for next week. Carter securing the right of way Monday and Tuesday for his census | bill, and Lodge hail the immigration bill made the unfinished business dur ing the week. In the House. The house today entered upon the ’ consideration of the pension appropria- [ tion bill and stirred up a debate that promises to continue for several days. Several Southern Democrats offered criticisms of various classes of pension ers, and Private John Allen, of Missis sippi, who led the assault in a speech replete with his characteristic humor, presented a series of amendments de signed, as he said, to correct some of the glaring evils. They prohibit the granting of pensions to widows whose applications were not filed during their widowhood, and the granting of pen sions to widows whose applications were based on marriages contracted after the passage of this act, and to permanently insane or idotic minors who had reached their majority. The Northern Demo crats, however, vied with the Republi cans in their professions of friendship for the soldiers, and one of them—Nor ton of Ohio—declared that the Republi cans could not make the bill too large for him. It was admitted on both sides of the house during the discussion that the <1140,000,000 carried by the bill for pensions would not cover the ex penditures, but as congress would be in session, Cannon said it would be easy to make good any deficiency that might occur. THE HOUSE PROGRAMNE Financial Legislation Will Not Be Un dertaken Immediately. Washington, Dec. 11.—Although no formal action has been taken, a pretty general understanding has been reached by leaders in the house as to the course of action in the near future. It in cludes the disposal of appropriation bills as fast as they are ready. The bankruptcy bill will be reported before the holiday recess, but will not be taken up by the house until after recess. It is understood that for the present there will be no effort to take up finan cial legislation on the floor of the house. This is due mainly to the im pression that the committee on bank ing and currency will not be able to reconcile many conflicting interests in side the committee. When it becomes evident the committee on banking and currency is at standstill, then the ways and means committee will frame a bill on broad lines, calculated to meet the present financial requirements. The disposition of house leaders will be to keep radical legislation to the rear. The Aided Railroads. MAN. DEATH From (a* Terrible l’ate * AT THE Awidlliif Fiend.. STAKE. Three Negro Wesson, Miss., Dec. 13.—Full par ticulars of one of the most atrocious crimes ever recorded have just come to hand. Almost the entire family of Brown Smith, a respectable white farmer, 35 years of age, were brutally killed with a club in the hands of Charles Lewis, a black fiend. Smith was working at a gin a few miles from his home, which is situated about 2 miles from Pearl river, on the east bank in Lawrence county, a wild coun try. The house is off the main road, and no white family lives within two miles of it, though several negro fam ilies live near. It was one of these negroes who, on Wednesday, some time between noon ami dark, crept up to Smith’s house and most brutally assaulted Mrs. Smith, then brained her, and to hide his crime, he tried to kill the children, only sparing a babe, which he left un touched. The fiend’s work was not done as well as he thought, for one of the children, a girl five years old, re gained consciousness, and when her father returned, told him the name of the brute. The mother and four child ren were found dead in the yard, their condition showing how they had strug gled to escape the brute. A posse was organized, and late yes terday the negto was captured and The Eight In I’inar del Bio. taken to Monticello, the county seat Havana, Dec. 13.—Latest reports of of Lawrence county, and at 7 o’clock the late fight in Pinar del Rio province was carried back to the scene of his show tiie Spanish loss was more than crime, where he was fully identified by claimed. The dead or wounded include ! the little girl. The accused negro is being tried be one colonel, one major, seven captains, 11 subordinate officers and 74 privates. fore Justice Holmes. He has given Most of the wounded will die. The testimony implicating two other ne rebel loss was 14. The rebels used ex groes, Will Powell and Andy Smith, who are in custody. It is said the ne plosive bullets. groes will not be lynched tonight, but Want De Louie Recalled. that the recent lynching at Monroe New York, Dec. 13.—The Spanish will be imitated, making it public, and colony in this city has been divided by that every negro will be made to carry a petition sent to Madrid at the time pine knots to burn the others. The of the assassination of Premier Canovas, trial is being conducted in a lawful asking for the appointment of a strong manner, and the company have charge successor to Senorde Lome. According of the prisoners, and will not permit to the World the petition was drawn so them to be sent to jail. During the as to attack Senor de Lome without trial, Lewis broke down and confessed: mentioning his name, and among the ‘‘It’s mighty hard for me to suffer 40 prominent Spaniards who signed it for whit some one else has done.” were several friends of the minister Upon being allowed to talk further, who did not see any attack upon him he said: in the apparently harmless recom ‘‘Get Will Powell and Andrew mendation. The result is a bitterness Smith.” among the factions almost as strong as Lewis is a mulatto about 23 years ol their hatred of the Cubans. ’ The peti age and married. It is believed that a tion says: general clean-up will be made in this “For Spain to succeed in her rela section, and a number of negroeB will tions with the United States she must be lynched. have in Washington a representative of ability and firmness, whose heart will PENSION BILL PASSED. beat with the pulsations of our mother country, and with a head balanced to The First Measure Disposed of by ths base all his diplomatic lelatiuns on an Lower House. indisputable right, and not allow the Washington, Dec. 13.—The house right to be curtailed in the least by tin- j today passed the pension appropriation founded demands or unjust pretensions bill without amendment. The amend from the opposing party.” ments offered by Democrats to correct — alleged existing abuses were all ruled Insurgents Near Havana. New York, Dec. 13.—A dispatch to out on the point of order that they the World from Havana says: An im were new legislation. As passed, the portant battle is expected hourly. The bill carries <141,263,880. The debate today covered a wide insurgents have planned the most for-1 midable demonstration against Havana j range. It touched not only the ques of the year. General Parrados has j tion of our pension policy, but that of started from this city with a strong j civil service reform and the receipts column of troops to meet the insur- j and expenditures of the treasury under gents. Senor Caneljas, the confidential the Dingley law. On the latter ques agent of the Spanish government, went tion Dingley made an important state with him to ascertain the real condi ment, in which he expressed the opin ion that the receipts would equal the tions in Havana province. General Rodriguez, with the com expenditures before the dose of the bined Cuban forces under Juan -Del present fiscal year, and predicted a sur gado Ladarez and Rafael Zeckardinas, plus of <10,000,000 next year. The civil service law was savagely is encamped about 20 miles south of | here. He ha’ fully 1,000 men, who attacked by several members, notably are well armed and is said to have a j by Brown of Ohio and Linney of North Carolina, and was warmly defended by Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannon. Emio Consalo lias hanged Antonio Johnson of Indiana. Just before the close of the session Rivera and a negro named Osman. They went to Consalo from Blanco w ith Hitt attempted to secure unanimous money and a proposition that he lay consent for the passage of the bill to down his arms ami accept autonomy. 4 prohibit pelagic sealing by American A note was pinned on the breasts of citizens, but objection was made. It the hanged men announcing that any j will, under agreement, however, bo one coming on a similar mission would considered Tuesday. meet a like fate. Havana, Dec. 13.—General Rivera, the insurgent leader, who was captured in March last in Pinar del Rio by the ¡Spanish troops under General Hernando de Velasco, and who was recently par doned by royal decree, has been released from Cabanas fortress, where he has been imprisoned for several months, and sailed today by the steamer Colon for Cadiz, his home. The Colon also carries back to Spain 800 sick, wounded and otherwise in capacitated soldier . In theskirmisliesof the last ten days ' the insurgents have lost 113 killed and 1,000 prisoners. Eigiit chiefs and offi cers and 53 armed privates have surren dered to the Spanish. The Spanish column, in the same period, has lost five officers ami 22 soldiers killed, with 11 officers and 110 soldiers wounded. Juan Cossio, who was in charge of the insurgent dynamite corps in the province of Puerto Principe, is dead at the insurgent camp. He was a cousin of Evangelina Cossio. The insurgents fired a cannon shot into the machinery of the plantation of Mr. Rigby, an American, in the Man zanillo district, destroying the ma chinery. The insurgents have forbid den grinding in that neighborhood, under threat of burning the fields. — REGISTERED MAIL ROBBERY. THE ALASKA RUSH. Western Roads Preparing to Ignore the Canadian Pacific. Chicago, Dec. 13. — The Western roads have for some time been figuring earnestly on the business that is ex pected to set in in the late winter and the early spring toward Alaska. They have been doubtful whether the pur chasers of transportation would wish to buy tickets through to Dawson City, or only to the ports on the coast, and today the roads took their first action bearing on the question of Alaska rates. They have decided to get out their rate sheets showing the rates to Alaska and will ignore entirely the claims of the Canadian Pacific for the differential on the business. The rates of the Cana dian Pacific will not be shown on the (beet at all. In the days of the old Transconti nental Association, the Canadian Pa cific was allowed a differential of $5 on ■its Pacific coast business, and it claims the same now, but the roads of the old association, and those of the Western Passenger Association, after the pro mulgation of the supreme court deci sion regarding the formation of pools and associations, absolved them from all further obligations to allow the differentials of the Canadian Pacific. The latter road has never seen the mat ter in that light and it will make a fight that is very likely to demoralize the rates to Alaska, and North Pacific coast ports. ON FIGHT Three THE BORDER. Mexican Guard« and One Dei« perado Killed. Denver, Dee. 13.—News is received of a desperate tight that occurred near the border of Arizona and old Mexico. Three guards of the Mexican service and one desperado were killed. The latter was Franco Phallard, one of Black Jack’s gang, and an outlaw from Texas, whose two brothers were killed while members of Billy the Kid’s gang. A tew days ago the border guards learned of a raid that was designed by Black Jack to loot a town across the river. A start was made from Leander Springe, and the guards had no diffi culty in finding them. The two forces met face to face at a turn in the road. ; There were eight outlaws against three officers, but the latter opened the at tack with orders of ‘‘hands up.” Two of the outlaws turned their horses for the hills, but Phallard dismounted, and drawing his Winchester, opened fire and killed the three officers before he fell with a wound in his side which proved fatal. Phallard is the last of the Sam Bass gang of trainrobbers, who cleaned out Custer City many years ago. HIS LAST HOPE GONE. The California Supreme Court Decides ! Against Durrant. San Francisco, Dec. 13.—Late this afternoon the supreme court dispelled the last hope of "W. H. T. Durrant, the murderer of Blanche Lamont and Min nie Williams, by disposing in a sum mary manner of his two appeals. In a written opinion, from the pen of Chief Justice Beatty, which is con- I curred in by all but oue of his col leagues, the court affirms the judgment of Judge Bahrs, in remanding the pris oner to San Quentin until the time set for his execution, but reverses that sen tencing Durrant to be hanged on Novem ber 11, and remands the case to the superior court, with instructions to pro ceed according to law. As the remittur was ordered issued forthwith and the court holds that ex ecution can only be stayed now by the issuance of a certificate of probable cause, it only remains to resentence the condemned murderer, which will prob ably be done tomorrow. Justice Garoutte alone dissented from this opinion, maintaining that Dur rant’s appeals should have been dis missed, as the time required by law for their perfection had been allowed to lapse. Starving Cuban« in New York. New York, Dee. 13.—The Journal 1 and Advertiser says: Wevler’s policy , of extermination, which he called re concentration, has resulted in an enor mous influx of Cubans into New Yoik. Hundreds if not thousands of them are dying of hunger here. The number of these refugees is variously estimated from 12,000 to 20,000. Perhaps tho great majority are absolutely without means. There are men and women among them who were worth thou sands of dollars before the war began, but are now penniless. Some of these < are working as waiters, porters or seamstresses. Emilio Agremonte, president of the Marti Charity Association, says that many of them have actually died from starvation, ami that the majority have preferred to live quietly in misery rather thau let their desperate wants be known to those who could help them, but who have in the past known 1 them to be people of wealth, influence and refinement. Washington, Dec. 11. — In the house today, Mr. Fleming, of Georgia, intro duced a bill authorizing an investiga tion of the books, accounts and methods of railroads which have received aid from the United States. It provides that, in the president’s judgment the secretary of the treasury shall redeem or otherwise clear off the paramount lien, mortgage or other encumbrance of government-aided railroads by pav ing the sum lawfully due out of the treasury, or may bid and purchase for the United States the projiertv, subject to snch encumbrance, at any sale or sales made under any order of the court or any judgment or decree of foreclo Spain Accanet Cubans of Cruelty. sure of snch encumbrance, or of any- New York, Dec. 13.—A Herald dis lien or mortgage or interest of the patch from Madrid says: A storm of United States. indignation has been provoked here by Indian Affair«. news of tortures inflicted by the Cuban Washington, Dec. 11. — The house rebels upon inhabitants of Guisa, committee on Indian affairs today be where women and children are alleged gan its investigation of the problems to have been lioiind and burnt alive. in Indian territory. It was a long ses The details are given by the Imparciai, sion, and the result was a call for the a paper by no means favorable to the Dawes commission and all others inter present government’s policy, and the ested to appear before it next Tuesday. ! news is now officially confirmed. One of the ministers says that as far as St. Louis, Dec. 9.—The dead body known at present the only crime the of Loo Fook Guey, known as the king unfortunate creatures appear to have of the highbinders, who several days been guilty of is that they favored tho ago tried to rob another Chinese, was acceptance of autonomy. found tonight in a room in Chinatown. Reno, Nev., Dec. 13.—A wreck oc At the time of the attempted robbery both men fired at each other, and a curred on the N. C. <fc O. railway about trail of blood left by Loo Fook, while five miles north of this city this morn making his escape, showed that he bad ing. Two or three passengers are re ported to have been injured. been wounded. Amount Involved 1« in the Neighbor« hood of 9100,000. New York, Dec. 13. — It was learned today that one of the biggest robberies in the history of the New York j>oet- office occurred on November 9. The amount involved is said to be in the neighborhood of $100,000, and was taken from registered letters in the railway mail service on that section of the Central railroad, of New Jersey, known as the New York, Somerville <& Eastern branch. On November 9, it is stated, two packages containing $30,- 000 were taken. How long the defal cations had gone on before has not been ascertained. Major Charles F. Lewis, of the Philadelphia branch of the government secret service, was in this city today investigating the rob bery, which has been kept secret until now divulged by the postal authorities. BRAVE PORTLAND GIRL. Rescued a Woman From a Burning« Victoria Lodging House. Victoria, B. C., Dec. 13.—Through the courage and promptitude of Lily Baldwin, a Portland girl, a life was saved here under sensational circum stances, yesterday evening. There had been an explosion of gasoline in the oil tent factory of Tryon & Co., and the entire premises were soon blazing. On the upper floor was the American lodg ing-house, whose proprietress, Mrs. Fox, was ill in bed. In the confusion she was forgotten until the Portland girl, a lodger, remembered her. She ran upstairs and carried down the landlady, who by that time was uncon scious from suffocation. Both escaped with slight burns, although their dan ger was imminent. Indian« for Logging Camps. Rich Strike in Montana. Ashland, Wis., Dec. 13.—The gov ernment is about to make the exjieri- ment of making loggers out of its In dian wards on reservations in Northern Minnesota. The plan, which is ap prover! by Land Commissoner Her mann, is that contracts for cutting dead and fallen timber on the White Earth and Winnebago reservations will be let to the Indians themselves and to no others. Butte, Mont., Dec. 13. — Reports from the Lowland mining district are that a rich strike of gold and silver quartz has been made in the Ruby mine, and that over a million dollars’ worth of ore is in sight. The owners are taking out over $2,000 a day. The property was purchased last summer from Adolph Moudeliauer, of San Fran- cisco, for $90,000, the principal owner being M. E. Graves, a New York man. A Drowning at Victoria. New York, Dec. 13.—The largest life Victoria, Dec. 13. — W. J. Hendrin was drowned off Beacon Hill this * Insurance policy ever issued has been morning. He and a friend were out in written in this city, calling for $1,000,- a flat-bottomed boat, which capsized in 000 insurance upon the life of George W. Vanderbilt. The policy is what is a squall. known as a 20-payment life contract, The Ala.ka Kell.r Bill«. and provides for a premium of $35,000 Washington, Dec. 13. — Representa a year. After Mr. Vanderbilt has paid tive Ellie has introduced in the house that sum yearly for 20 years the pay the bills for transportation of relief ments cease and the principal becomes supplies to Alaska, which have been due at his death. The« next largest presented in the senate by Senator Mc policy ever w ritten is said to have been Bride. • for £100,000 ($500,000), WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. OREGON STATE NEWS. (Office of Downing, Hopkins Co., Chicago Brl.r Review of the Week Through*«* Board of Trade Brokers, 711-714 Chamber of Com- i the State. metre Building, Portland, Oregon.) Thirty-four marriage licenses wer* Light speculation was the dominating issued by the Marion county clerk ia factor in the wheat market last week. November. Its force was felt more keenly than at [ Fishermen on the Umpqua are ship any time since prices left 64 cents five ping sturgeon overland via Drain to months ago. The bear element is Portland. Four panthers were killed near Marsh working on the idea that all the bullish field last week. One measured influences have been discounted by the feet from tip to tip. advance in prices of 36 cents from the Manager Dorwin increased the force low point in the spring. Wheat that at the Jewett mine and will hereafter cleared last week was all bought a run night and day shifts. Samuel Henry, a veteran of the oivil month or more ago, and prices were ad vanced at the time. Now that the war, celebrated his 94th birthday an niversary at Jacksonville last week. stuff is moving out, the bulls think It is estimated that over 20,000 boxes that prices should continue to go up, of apples have been shipped from the because the stuff is being delivered tc Coquille valley this seasoh, and there the buyers. The latter are not taking are several carloads vet to be forwariled. hold as freely, but export sales during ! The owners of the Oregon Bonanza the week were heavy. For three mine contemplate running a blind tun nel, to begin on the Powell creek side months the market has backed and of the mountain and extend westward tilled around 90 cents for May, getting a distance of 800 feet. 5 cents above it recently, and has been Another shipment of Wallowa coun 2 cents below it. The bears have been ty beef cattle was made from Elgin the unable to maintain a break for more hitter part of last week by a Chicago than a day or two below 90 cents. De dealer. He paid 8 ** cents for the steers weighed at Joseph. cember sold 4 l 2' cents to 17 cents A lot of cattle were recently bought premium over May. The position of on Smith river, in Lane county, and the bulls and their intention are as driven to Harrisburg. The average much of a puzzle as ever. They stand weight of 16 of the band was estimated ready to pay for 5,000,000 bushels of to be 1,750 pounds each. A three-foot ledge of bituminouBCoal wheat, and are very liable to get it be has been found in the south end of fore the first of the year. Elevator Jackson county, as good as that pro people, however, are not disposed to duced in eastern states. Indications make any deliveries until navigation is are that the vein is very extensive. closed, as they want to keep the wheat The judgment in favor of the state of in their houses. The Leiter party have Oregon and against Baker county has from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bushels been recorded in Baker City, and a tax levy will have to be made to raise the bought. There are also scattered lines amount of the judgment, $10,928.60. that will reach above 2,000,000 bushels It was blowing a gale when the Chil- held by parties outside of the pool. kat crossed the Coos bay bar Monday, The claim is made that there iB no and two tremendous seas boarded the shortage, except on the part of the ele- . little steamer. Her stern was stove in, and she is at North Bend, undergoing vator people. The latter have been repairs. bringing wheat down from Duluth. It I An old store building, a landmark, is a deal that no one except rich n»en i at Utter City, Coos county, collapsed can afford to be in. The bulls claim during the recent storm. As many sur that the wheat brought down from the veys started from the old building as a Northwest by the elevator people has corner, some trouble will be caused in running lines. not shown any profit. If such is the It is a. foregone conclusion that we case, it seeais rather strange that two such shrewd business men as Armour will be treated to the operations of a. and Weare should be so actively engaged first-class English mining company, in in it. Government report gives crop of the Ashland district very soon, as one winter and spring wheat at 850,000,000 of the best and largest quartz mines ia bushels. Visible supply of wheat de now being listed on the London mar creased 101,000 bushels, and now totals ket. At the Clackamas hatchery about 1,- 84,744 bushels. 000,000 young fish have been turned Portland Market. out so far thiB season. There are now Wheat—Walla Walla, 72©73c; Val about 5,000,000 eggs in the troughs in ley and Bluestem, 75@76c per bushel. all stages of hatching. The eggs were Four—Best grades, $4.25; graham, obtained from the Little White Salmon $3.40; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. river station, in Washington. Oats—Choice white, 34 @ 85c; choice There was a heavy run of salmon in gray, 32 @ 83c per bushel. the Siuslaw this year, and at the Barley—Feed barley, $19@20; brew Florence cannery 3,500 cases of canned ing, $20 per ton. salmon and 600 barrels of salmon were Millstiffa—Bran, $17 per ton; mid recently shipped to San Francisco. dlings, $21; shorts, $17. Mr. Hurd says that 10,000 cases could Hay—Timothy, $12.50© 13; clover, have been put up had the market price $10@ll; California wheat, $10; do justified. oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9@10 per During the last two months one man ton. has shipped from Brownsville, to out Egg’—18 *^@2 5c per dozen. Butter—Fancy dreamery, 50 (it 55c; side markets, 1,150 turkeys, 650 fair to good, 40@45c; dairy, 30@40c chickens, 71 geese and 95 ducks, mak ing a total of about 15,000 pounds of per roll. Cheese — Oregon, 11,^c; Young poultry shipped by him alone. There America, 12l*c; California, 9@10o are several other poultry buyers in Brownsville, who have shipped a large per pound. Foultry—Chickens, mixed, $1.75© amount also. There have been shipped from Med 2.50 )>er doezn; broilers, $2.00©2.50; geese, $5.50©6; ducks, $3.00©4.50 ford station this season thus far about per dozen; turkeys, live, 10@llc per 40 carloads of apples, and there re mains to be shipped yet 20 carloads pound. Potatoes—Oregon Burbanks, 35©45c more of merchantable apples. Thio includes fruit hauled from the Apple per sack; sweets. $1.40 per cental. Onions—Oregon, new, red, 90c; yel gate and surrounding country. Two carloads of dried fruits of different low, 80c per cental. Ho]»s—8@14c per pound for new varieties have been shipped eastward from that station, too, and about eight crop; 1896 crop, 4 ©6c. Wool—Valley, 14© 16c per pound; carloads more remain to be shipped. Eastern Oregon, 7@12o; mohair, 20 The Alabny Fruit Company baa ©22c per pound. shipped to Davenport, Ia., 600 boxes of Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers Oregon winter apples. The company and ewes, $3.00; dressed mutton, is also arranging to ship a carload of 5c; spring lambs, 5J^c per pound. winter apples to Missouri. There is a Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.00; good demand for Oregon apples in tho lightand feeders, $3.00@4.00; dressed, East, but they must be salable. Thia $1 .50©5.00 )>er 100 pounds. company has dried 8,000 pounds of Beef—Gross, top steers, $2.75©3.OO; apples, which were not good keejier». cows, $2.25: dressed beef, 4@55ic per It is also now arranging to ourry ont pound. the experiment of drying vegetables Veal—Large, 4% @5c; small, 5>£© for the Alaska trade. 6c per pound. While workmen were excavating a ditch in Elgin, at the interesection of Seattle Market. Butter — Fancy native creamery, Front and C. streets, last week, at a depth of two feet or a little more they brick, 28c; ranch, 16© 18c. Cheese—Native Washington, 12t*o; began to uncover human bones, and in a short time almost the entire skeleton California, 91ac. was unearthed. A few feet further on Eggs—Fresh ranch, 30 ©32c. Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound, they unearthed jairtions of another hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.50© skeleton. From the sha|>e of the skull found, the remains are undoubtedly 8 00; ducks, $3.50©3.75. those of Indians, buried long before Wheat—Feed wheat, $22 per ton. the whites settled there, says the Elgin Oats—Choice, per ton, $19©20. Corn—Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, Recorder. $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. There has been received at Astoria a Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, fish from the life-saving crew at Fort $22; whole, $22. Canby that no one seems to recognize. Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beef, Some pronounced it a devil fish, and steers, 6c; cows, 5}*c; mutton sheep, others are certain it is an octopus. It 7c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7. is about three feet long and of dark Fresh Fish—Halibut, 4©5c: salmon, brown color. Its girth is probably 10 8©4c; salmon trout, 7© 10c; flounders or 12 inches and from the tail to the and sole, 3©4; ling cod, 4©5; rock cod, gills varies but little in size. The 5c; smelt, 2‘¿©4c. head is attached to the txxly with a Fresh Fruit—Apples, 50c©$1.25 per sort of swivel, ami the mouth ia hid box; )<ea<-hes, 75©80c; prunes, 85©40c; beneath a clump of tentacles about a pears, 75c©$l per box. foot long. A Lake county man who left last Man Franclico Market. I June to assist in driving 8,000 head of W’ool—Nevada 11 <3> 43c; Oregon, 12 sheep to Amadee, Cal., has returned. ©14c; Northern 7©8c per pound. He says that the sheep were bought be Hops—10© 14c per pound. fore shearing or lambing for $1.78 to MillstufTs—Middlings, $20©22; Cal $2 a head, and that Flanagan & Dunn, ifornia bran, $17.50© 18.00 per ton. the purchasers, have made a little for Onions—New red. 70©80c; do new tune on the speculation, as the culls of silverskin, $1.40© 1.60 per cental. the band are worth $3 a head at Ania- Eggs—Store, 23©28c; ranch, 27© dee. He thinks their profit will be 30c; Eastern, 14©20;duck, 20©25c per nearer 200 per cent than 100. They dozen. had a successful drive and spent the Cheese—Fancy mild, new, 12>^c; fair summer in the Sycan country, in latke to good, 7©8c per pound.. county.