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H« III IS Bill I III
Ueneral
War Can Only Be Averted
by Spain Surrendering.
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NOTE
FROM
POWERS
War Feeling Runs High in Madrid —
Belief Prevails That the Matter Can
not Be Settled Without a Conflict.
Washington, April 9.—There is no
longer any doubt as to the purpose of
this government with respect to the
situation in Cuba. War, in the opin
ion of the administration, is inevita
ble, except in the unlooked for event
of the surrender on the part of Spain.
The president’s message, which lie had
intended to send to congress, has not
been changed in any particular what
ever, and embodies the unanimous
views of the cabinet, without the
slightest variance or excerpt.
A
movement to avert war now must come
from Madrid, and must concede Amer
ican demands, including an end to
Spain’s dominion in Cuba.
The features stand out plainly in the
developments of today. At noon to
day, the six great powers of Europe,
through their representatives here,
called at the White House and present
ed to President McKinley a joint note,
expressing urgent hope for a peaceful
adjustment between the United States
and Spain, to which the president re
plied with unmistakable plainness as
to the duties and unselfish efforts of
this government to terminate the pres-
ent situation in Cuba.
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SPANISH
Lee
PLOT.
Hay. Oltlclal.
the Maine.
Blew
Washington, April 14.—Consul-Gen-
eral Lee was before the senate commit
tee on foreign relations for an hour, late
today. He talked fieely with the com-
mittee in regard to the conditions in
Cuba, and especially witli regard to the
destruction of the Maine. He said in
his opinion there was no room to doubt
that the destruction of the vessel was
due to Spanish agencies.
“Do you mean the Spanish authori
ties in Cuba?” lie was asked by a mem
ber of the committee.
“I mean the Spanish officials,” he
replied, “but not General Blanco. I
think some of the officials were cog
nizant of the plans to destroy the ves
sel, but I do not believe that the cap-
tain-general was.”
REPORTS
OF
SB«J_ CHILKOOT
l’p
CONSULS.
Correapuiidene« Sent to Congress With
the Message.
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Thirty-One Killed and Many
Injured.
LIST
OF
THE
KNOWN
DEAD
Number of Injured Greater Than Firat
Reported—Accident
Occurred
Be
tween The Scale* and Stonehouse.
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Port Townsend, April 11.—A letter
just received from Skagway, Alaska,
dated April 3, says: At about noon to
day on the Chilkoot trail, between The
Scales and Stonehouse, at least 31 men
met death and a large number of others
were injured more or less seriously in a
snowslide.
The dead were crushed
under an avalanche of snow and ice
which came down from the mountain
side upon the left side of the trail
about midway between The Scales and
Stonehouse.
A list of the killed and wounded, as
complete as possible at the hour of
writing, is as follows:
Gus E. Zebarth, Seattle.
Frank Sprague, Seattle,
Steve Stevenson, Seattle.
C. H. Harrison, Seattle.
W. L. Kiley, Seattle.
E. D. Atwood, New York.
C. Beck, Sanford, Fla.
L. Weidelein, Kansas City.
Mrs. Kyan, Baltimore.
John Morgan, Emporia, Kan.
F. M. Grimes, Sacramento.
Mrs. Anna Moxon, Jefferson countv,
Pa.
Ras Hepgard, Baker City, Or.
—. Atkins Idaho.
Tom Geffert, Seattle.
E. F. Miller, Vancouver, Wash.
Tom Collins, Portland, Or.
T. Lamer.
The seriously injured so far recovered
are:
Walter Chappey, New York.
John C. Murphy, Dixon, N. D,
F. M. Holbrooke, Portland, Or.
—. Dahlstrom, residence unknown.
Fully 50 people were overtaken by
the slide, and are either buried in the
enow or scattered along the borders of
the avalanche in a more or less injuied
condition.
The point at which the accident oc
curred is some five miles above Sheep
Camp. The nearest telephone station
is four miles distant. The Scales is
some five miles above Sheep Camp.
The telephone wires at that point were
carried away by the slide. This fact
makes it difficult to obtain further par
ticulars at this time.
A blinding snow storm was raging
all day upon the summit, and as a con
sequence many of those in the vicnity
were making no attempt to travel.
Zebarth, Sprague and Stevenson, of
Seattle, were traveling together as
partners, and were found side by side
in bed.
Thousands of people were encamped
in the vicinity at the time, and were
soon on the scene rendering such assist
ance as was possilbe. Upon receipt of
the news, points below Dyes telephoned
up to know if assistance was required,
and received answer to the effect that
5,000 people were at work on the
debris, and were only in each other’s
way.
All day Saturday and Sunday a
southerly storm, with Chinook wind,
rain and snow, prevailed in this vicin
ity, and it is believed th» softening of
the snow on the mountain side by
those agencies was the cause of the
avalanche.
The quantity of snow and ice that
came down in the slide is estimated at
thousands of tons. It swept directly
across the trail, which, notwithstand
ing the fact that the weather was un
suitable for travel, was thronged with
wayfarers. Tho last vestige of the
trail in the vicnitv was wiped out of ex
istence, and where it led is now a
mountain of snow and ice.
Later reports bring the information
that 31 bodies have been recovered.
There was a preliminary slide at 2
o’clock in the morning. People were
digging out their goods when the sec
ond elide occurred about noon.
The consular correspondence, with
regard to the situation in Cuba, which
was transmitted to congress, was pre
pared in response to resolutions of in- I
quiry adopted by both the senate and !
house. The correspondence includes
communications up to April 1. It
covers the communications of General
Lee at Havana, Consul McGarr atCien-
fuegos, Consul Brice at Matanzas, Con
sul Hyatt at Santiago de Cuba, and
Consul Barker at Sagua la Grande.
The communications made about
60,000 words. They deal largely with
I distress and sufferings which exist in
j all the districts, but General Lee re
ports fully upon the decrees of the gov
ernment with regard to autonomy and
other political phases of the situation;
in preparing the correspondence for
1 transmission to congress considerable
portions of the important communica
tions, and especially those marked con
Severing Relations With Havana.
fidential, are omitted.
Another, and probably the most sig
The consular correspondence in part
nificant Htraw showing the finality | was devoted to the Maine disaster, and
reached by the United States govern in this part of the correspondence,
ment, was the authoritative statement I some important and interesting points
that Consul-General Lee would leave are developed.
The correspondence
Havana Saturday. This step, it is ' consists largely by cablegrams ex
known, will be regarded by Spain as changed by Assistant Secretary of State
akin to an overt act preceding war, as | Day and Consul-General Lee. The
it will terminate the medium of official | first of these telegrams is dated Ha
intercourse between the United States 1 vana, January 12, and relates to the
and the island.
riots which were then occurring in the
Third, and almost equally import- [ city. This and the subsequent docu
ant, was the ominous tones of press ad- | ments on the same subject have been
vices from Madrid, where the war feel- | published either in whole or in part.
ing seems to dominate.
Instead of |
January 24, General Lee was notified
concessions, the opening of prison by the state department that the Maine
doors, and the other manifestations of would call at Havana in a day or two,
peace and good will which Holy Thurs and was directed to make arrange
day was expected to bring forth, and I ments for an interchange of friendly
the more definite announcement of ac- I calls between the officers and the au
tion that would bring peace to Cuba, I thorities. Under the same date, Gen
the heavy guard about Minister Wood- | eral Lee advised postponement of the
ford’s house,, the imperative character j Maine’s visit for six or seven days, so
of the semi-official note, the war utter that the excitement might abate.
ance of Minister Correa and the turbu- | Later on the same day, Mr. Lee was
lence at the Spanish capital, left little advised that the Maine would arrive
hope that pacific counsels would pre- i in Havana the next day, and was
vail.
asked to co-operate with the authorities
No negotiations are proceeding at for her visit. Writing the state de
Madrid on the part of this government, partment the next day, General Lee in
but the powers of Europe are doing formed the department that the Span
their utmost to persuade the Spanish ish authorities professed to think the
government to yield and avert war.
United States had an ulterior purpose
On the highest authority it can be ' in sending the ship.
stated that no instructions have been j
The next telegram of importance was
given as yet to Minister Woodford con- [ sent by General Lee early on the morn
tenrpiating his withdrawal, the only ing of February 16, announcing to the
step in that direction being the deter state department the destruction of the
mination that General Lee shall leave Maine. That telegram has been pub
Havana today.
lished. During the 48 hours that fol
lowed, General Lee kept the depart
The Note of the Powers.
The note of the European powers ment informed of the occurrences in
presented to the president today, has chronological order.
The request to which they are the
not, in the opinion of members of the
administration, changed the situation response, asked only for such corre 1
in the slightest degree. What pressure spondence as it was not deemed in
was brought to bear in this mildly ex compatible with the public interest to
pressed hope that further negotiations make public. General Lee’s corre
would result in the maintenance of spondence runs over the period from
peace, is not known,but it is confident November 17, 1897, to April, 1898.
The first dispatch from General Lee
ly believed that it is the result of per
sistence on the part of Spain for some contains General Blanco’s order of No
expression of peace between the two vember 13, repealing, or rather modify
countries. The note is not regarded in ing General Weyler’s order of concen
any sense as a protest against the tration, which has heretofore been pub
course this government has pursued lished by the press. This order was
thus far or is likely to adopt to secure made shortly after General Lee re
turned to Havana from the United
a stable government in Cuba.
Some of the governments represented States last fall. General Lee also re 1
in the note are known to be in full ao- ports the proclamation of General Kod-
cord with this government in its pur riguez, major-general in charge of the
poses with respect to the Cuban ques western department of the Cuban mili
tion, an<l therefore any theory that the tary operations, addressed to the Cuban
—
note was intended as a remonstrance is people and informing them of the
List of Injured Increased.
“firm resolution” of the insurgent
not regarded as tenable.
A later dispatch via Victoria says:
The reply of this government, which army to continue fighting until the at The horror of the Dvea trail is growing
tainment
of
absolute
Independence.
had previously been read and approved
in magnitude hourly. As the work of
The Proclamation.
by members of the cabinet, is not con
rescue proceeds, it becomes more ap
The state department has received
sidered as indicating any change in the
parent that many more lives were lost
General
Blanco
’
s
proclamation
order
fixed purpose of the president to inter
than at first thought possible. It is
vene in Cuba at once, nor is it believed ing a cessation of hostilities in Cuba.
now believed that between 50 and 100
“His majesty’s government, yielding
it was the expectation of the majority
men and women wete killed by the
of the foreign representatives present to the reiterated wish expressed by his
avalanche.
Many bodies will not be
that the United States should change holiness, the pope, has l>een pleased to recovered until the summer sun melts
its policy or regard the joint note as decree a suspension of hostilities, with tons of snow and ice that now bury
other than an expression in behalf of the object of preparing and facilitating them from sight.
the restoring of peace on this island, in
peace and without significance.
Two or three thousand men are
virtue whereof I believe it convenient
Mediation Will Not Be Accepted.
working in relays of as many as can
to order:
So far as known in administration
stand side by side shoveling away the
“Article 1—From the day following
circles no further representations on the
snow in search of the dead ami dying.
the receipt in each locality of the pres
subject are expected.
No offer of
Twenty-two dead bodies have been re
ent proclamation, hostilities are or
mediation on the part of the European
covered and identified, and 25 persons
dered to be suspended in all territory
powers has been received, and there is
have been taken out alive.
of the island of Cuba. The details for
some authority for the statement that
Seventeen employes of the Chilkoot
the execution of the above decree will
none will be accepted if proffered.
Railway & T'am Company, who went
be the object of special instruction
This has been the fixed policy from the
to the summit on the morning of the
that will be communicated to the sev
first, and there is no prospect of a
elide to work, are missing, and it is
eral commanders-in-chief of the army
change in this regard.
feared they are among the lost.
corps, for the easy and prompt execu
At the embassies and legations, the
It is estimated that 10,000 tons of
tion according to the situation and cir
presentation of the joint note of the
outfits are buried under the enow and
cumstances of the case.
powers was rgarded as the event of the
ice. There were smaller slides before
“BLANCO.”
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day. Ah ambassador from one ot the ,
the death-dealing avalanche was started.
—
Another Chinese Riot.
Al>oiit 2 A. M. a small elide occurred,
great powers of continental Europe
stated that it was without a parallel in
The
London, April 14.—According to a which buried several cabins.
history. That it was the first ami only dispatch from Shanghai, advices have alarm was spread, and many people
^Aime that six great nations, represent- l>een received from Shun King, province were endeavoring to work back to Sheep
•♦ng in the aggregate the powers of civ of Foo Kien, that the region around the Camp when the big disaster occurred.
ilization, had united in this solemn city is in a state of open rebellion. I
DprvhhM Defeated.
manner to secure the peace of the world. The local authorities are powerless to
This was, this authority etated, a move arrest the men who recently murdered
Cairo, Apirl 11.—The Anglo-Egyp
ment historical in character and one the American missionary, and a mob tian forces under General Sir Kitchener
fitting to have occurred in the advent is sacking a French mission in the attacked and rushed Mahmoud’s Zari
of the 20th century.
ba, the center of his fortifications,
neighborhood._____________
withoat a check. The attack was en
Madrid, April 9.—Fifteen Spanish
Baltimore cane 1.230,000 bushels of
tirely successful, and the dervishes lost
men-of-war will leave Cadis immedi oysters per annum.
very heavily.
ately for the Cape Verde islands. *
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THE
HORROR
INCREASING.
Sixty-Nine Bodie* Recovered and One
Hundred and Fifty Still Mi**ing.
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Seattle, Wash., April 12.—Later de
tails received here today from Alaska
increase the horror of the avalanche on Happenings Both at Home
Chilkoot pass, instead of lessening it.
and Abroad.
Sixty-nine dead bodies iiave been thus
far recovered, and the names of 150
missing persons have been reported as
unaccounted for. It is barely possible A WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED
that some of these snoceeded in cros
sing the pass before the avalanche oc
curred. A conservative estimate is interesting Collection of Items From
that between 75 and 100 persons were
Many daces Culled From the Press
killed. The following is a list of those
lieports of the Current Week.
whose bodies have been found:
The
presiilent has nominate«! W. S.
Andrew Anderson, San Francisco;
E. D. Atwood, New York; Albert Aug- Ballard, of the District of Columbia, to
land, Tacoma; A. D. Bissell, Seattle; be assistant agent at the salmon fisher
C. Breck, Sanford, Fla.; Walter Chap- , ies in Alaska.
The government of Switzerland has
pey, New York; Thomas Clark, Idaho;
Thomas Cullen, Portland, Or.; Thomas prohibited the importation of American
Cullenden, Kirkland, Or.; William fresh fruits, owing to the alleged pres
Carroll, San Francisco; W. II. Dohl- ence of the San Jose scale on the fruit
strom, Lincoln, Neb.; —. Durber; A. recently imported.
Doran, Tacoma; George Eggert, Port
Consul Brice, who has arrive«! in
land, Or.; R. L. Easterbrook, Seattle; New York, says that for three days be
William Falke, San Francisco; T. fore leaving Matanzas, the people
Glenn, Spokane; T. Glinn, Portland, threatened his life, and at all times his
Or.; Weed Garrison, Seattle; Con property was in danger.
Gephart, Seattle; W. Grimes, Atkins,
Special dispatches from Madrid say
Idaho; S. M. Grimes, Tacoma; Stan
ley Grimes, Sacramento;
Preston that advices from the Philippines re
port that the rebellion is increasing,
Grizzley, Buffalo,
N. Y.; C. R.
and
that 10,000 rebels ate now under
Homer, Seattle; E. J. Hudson, Seattle;
S. T. Hudson, Portland, Or.; E. P. j arms. Trouble is feared at Manila.
The Republican congressional con
Haines, Seattle; C. P. Harrison, Seat
tle; Harry Holt, Tacoma; Rosmus vention for the first distriot of Oregon,
Hedevard, Baker City, Or.; E. R. which met in Eugene Monday, renomi
Johnson, Spokane; II. Jueger; C. H. nated Hon. Thomae H. Tongue by ac
Kinney, Prescott, Ariz.: A. F. King, clamation. Nearly all of the 145 dele
Tacoma; G. Leon; George Lewis, gates electetd were present.
Spoakne; G. J. Milton, St. Paul; J. R.
A British officer, who has just re
Morgan, Emporia, Kan.; Mrs. Annie turned from Cuba, is authority for the
Moxon, Jefferson county, Pa.; John statement that when an American army
Merchant, Redding, Cal.; E. F. Miller, reaches Cuba the people will flock to
Vancouver, Wash.;
Frank Miller, its ranks. All Cubans want is a surety
Butte, Mont.; C. L. McNeil, Elk River, of help and they will rise in a body.
Minn.; Sanford McNeil, Portland, Or.;
The bodies of C. Rando and G.
J. C. Murphy, Dixon, N. D.; Austin
Hankland
have been found in the Pend
Preston, Redding, Cal.; J. B. Pierce,
d’Oreille river, in northern Washing
Tacoma; J. Reese, Wisconsin; George
ton. These are the two men who were
Ritchie, Chicago; Mrs. W. L. Kiley,
Seattle, C. Rasmus, Colorado; John drowned as a result of their boat be
coming fouled iu the ice two months
Reddy, Kansas City; George Riser, Se
attle; Mrs. Ryau, Baltimore; Matt «go.
A report has been received in Par
Schona, St. Paul; Joseph Smallwood,
Portland, Or.; Gus Seaborn, Chicago; sons, Kan., of a duel fought at Mineral
Steve Stevenson, Seattle; F. Sprague, City between Jack Murphy, a farmer,
Seattle; G. F. Smith, Tacoma; G. W. and an unknown man. Both were
Smith, Woolley, Wash.; Jeff Soley, killed, each receiving four shots in the
Idaho; O. A. Uler, Woolley, Wash.; body. The cause of the tragedy is not
L. Weidelin, Kansas City; O. M. known.
Warner, San Francisco; —. Wilhelm,
O. M. Dean, editor of the Williams
Menlo Park, Cal.; Gue Zebarth, Seattle. County Free Press, shot and killed
A fact that lends horror to the fearful Hank Schulelt, who attacked him when
tragedy is that it may never be known going from Grinnell to his home in
with any degree of accuracy just iiow Williston, N. D. The exposure of cat
many lives were sacrificed, who they tle-stealing by a gang of rustlersis sup-
were or where they came from. Many posed to be the cause of the affray.
5 poor fellow lies buried where no
The senate committee on appropria
¡rnnian aid can reach him, ami where tions has completed consideration of
his remains must rest until the sur»- the naval bill, and it has been reported
met sun melts the tons of snow and ice to the senate. The amendments rec-
under which he lies buried.
ammended by the committee increase
Upon the crowded trail no record was the aggregate appropriation made by
kept of the living, toiling mass, brav the bill, as it passed the house, by #8,-
ing hardships and facing death itself 263,500, making the total #46,277,558.
in the mad rush for gold. In the pro
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch says:
cession that daily passed were people
A
few nights before United States
from all parts of the world, unknown
Consul Hyatt left Santiago de Cuba
to one another.
The work of rescue has continued under instructions from Port Antonio,
night and day ever since last Sunday,, j. Jamaica, a mob of Spaniards made a
being gradually systematized and con’- j demonstration before the consulate,and
sequently meeting with better results. I threw tomatoes, eggs and stones at the
Thus far the work has been confined to Stars and Stripes floating over the con
the outskirts of the slide in the hope of sulate.
The 20 cotton cloth mills of New
rescuing those who are injured, but
not yet dead. The main portion of the Bedford, Mass.,which have been closed
avalanche, which is estimated to be 50 since January 17, when the 9,000 op
feet deep and 150 yards long, has not eratives stiuck as a result of 10 per
yet been touched.
If there are any cent reduction in wages, have again
bodies underneath they cannot be res been opened to give strikers an oppor
tunity to return. All the corporations
cued in time to save life.
Four men were taken out alive after started their machinery, but in many
they had been buried for 19 hours. In of the mills it is sai«i barely a quarter
many instances the bodies of the dead of the working force went in.
are not bruised in the least, and appear
A delegation of a dozen Indians
as natural as in life, indicating that from the Oneida reservation. Wiscon
they were suffocated in the soft snow. sin, in endeavoring to make arrange
As soon as recovered, the bodies are ments for the enlistment of a number
Married to Sheep Camp, where an im of Indians in case of war with Spain.
provised morgue has been constructed. They are disappointed in not being
Some have been removed for interment able to find anyone with authority to
or for shipment to relatives in the enlist them. A company of 100 anil
States.
possibly two companies could be raised
The work of rescue has been orderly on the reservation in a few hours.
and systematic. A public meeting was
Five more munlerB have resulted from
hel<l and committees were appointed to
search for the dead and care for the the Baker-Howard feud in Kentucky.
wounded.
All that can possibly be Saturday, George Baker was shot and
done to relieve the horror of the situa killed by members of the Howard fac
tion, while on hie way to town. Sun
tion has been done.
day, Alex Baker ami his brothers went
The accident was one that could not
to Howard’s home, called the old man
have been foreseen, and it is one that
out and shot him to death, ami then
is likely to happen at any time when
finished their work of revenge by kil
like conditions exist, although it is
ling his wife and two children, after
stated that some warning of the im
which they fled to the mountains.
pending disaster was given by the In
dian packers, who are said to have de
News of the probable loss of tho
serted the trail when the heavy snow schooner Alexandria has been brought |
of Saturday and Sunday night set in. by the Kodiak to San Francisco. The j
They refused to work for fear of slides. Alexandria sailed from that city for |
The work of searching for the dead Unalaska, February 5, carrying sup- |
is to be continued as long as there is plies for the North American Trailing
any hope of recovering any one, though Company. Captain Avery was in com- i
it is feared that it must be discontinued mand ot her with a crew of six men. j
before the whole truth is known.
Fifteen «lays ago the Kodiak was at
Walter Chappey, of New Yoark, and Kodiak island, ami the Alexandria was
John C. Murphy, of Dixon, N. D., were then 49 days overdue at that point.
alive when taken out, but died shortly
Indian John Smith, recently from
afterward.
Missouri, writes down from Vahles, or
Mrs. Moxon was in one of the small Copper City, Alaska, that 1,000 men ■
elides which preceded the large one, are there, ami 2,000 on the trail with
and was on her way to camp when in 15 miles; flour is selling at #8 per
overtaken by death. Her husband was 100 pounds, bacon 17 cents, and coffee
rescued.
60 cents per pound. Miners on the
The federal troops at Dyea took an trail held a meeting and voted not to I
active part in «Jigging out the dead.
allow horses to be used on the trail, on j
Many <lea«l that were unclaimed have account of their cutting it up so ba«lly :
been burie«l near the scene of the die that it made it too rough for footmen
aster. Thirteen txslies reached this to travel over it an«l pull their sleds.
city trslay on the steamers City of Se
Dennis Clifford, a wealthy Mon- j
attle and Australia. They were those
treal man, has been kills«], ami Joseph
of R. L. Easterbrook, 8. Stevenson, J.
O'Meara, for many years one of the
R. Morgan, O. A. Uler, S. McNeil, A. brightest athletes in Eastern Canada, '
F. King, Stanley Grimes, C. P. Harri
is charged with the crime. Clifford
son, G. F. Smith, L. Weidlin, Harry
owned the store occupie«! by Mrs. I
Holt, Gus Zebarth and F. Sprague.
O’Hare, O’Meara’s sister, an«l the '
Advices from Skagway state that
there are many wild rumors there about stock was seized for rent. Fearing that j
the bailiff might allow the goods to be 1
additional slides, attende«! by loss of
remove«I, he decide«! to watch al) night.
life, but none of them can Ire confirmed,
At a late hour that night, O’Meara was
an<J they are not credited.
hear«l talking to him, shortly after
Travel has again been resumed over which Clifford was found on the bal
the scene of the catastrophe.
cony of the he — -<«»•«•
ALASKA
SALMON
FISHERIES^
Secretary of the Treasury Hat » BUM
for Their Protection.
The secretary of the treasury has
submitted to congress the draft of a
bill for the amendment of the law«
now in force for the protection of the
salmon fisheries of Alaska. The secre
tary thinks that the present laws are
inadequate to meet the existing re
quirements and should be amended.
The proposed changes are based on rec
ommendations submitted by agents
who were appointed to investigate ths
state of the fisheries, and are as fol
lows:
Traps should only be erected under
regulations prescribed by the secretary
of the treasury.
The protection to salmon trout
should be withdrawn, as those fish
are said to be destructive to salmon
spawn and fry.
The laws should be extended to ter
ritorial waters so as to prevent the
erection of obstructions in rivers and
streams.
No salmon canneries should be erect
ed in Alaska without permission from
the secretary of the treasury.
An annual statement should be made
by all canneries ami such establish
ments to special agents for salmon fish
eries, and employes of the treasury
department should be assigned to act aa
special agents without extra compensa
tion.
A tax should be levied upon the out
put of all canneries, salteries, fish oil
and fertilizer works; and the penalty
for violation of the fisheries law should
be increased from #1,000 to #5,000.
Portland Market.
Wheat—Walla Walla, 80@81c; Val
ley and Bluesteel, 82@83o per bushel.
Flour—Best grades, #3.00; graham,
#3.55; superfine, #2.50 per barrel.
Oats—Choice white, 88@39c; choice
gray, 35 @ 36c per bushel.
Barley—Feed barley, #19@20.00;
brewing, #21 per ton.
Millstuffs—Bran, #17 per ton; mid
dlings, #23; shorts, #17.
Hay—Timothy, #12.50; clover. #10
@11; Oregon wild hay, #9@10 per ton.
Eggs—Oregon, 11@ ll^oper dozen.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 45 @ 50c;
fair to good, 40@45c; dairy, 35@40c
per roll.
Cheese—Oregon full cream, 12^c;
Young America, 13@14o.
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, #3.50@
4.00 per dozen; hens, #4.00@4.50;
geese, #6.00@7.00; ducks, #6.00@
7.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 13@18}«c
per pound.
Potatoes—Oregon Burbanks, 40 @ 50c
per sack; sweets, #1.75@2 per cental.
Onions—Oregon, #2.25 @2.60 per
sack.
Hops—14@16o per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 4@6o.
Wool—Valley, 14@16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon,
7@12c;
mohair,
25c per pound.
Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wether«
and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton, 6}£c;
spring lambs, #2.50@3 each.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, #4.25;
light and feeders. #3. 00@4. 00; dressed,
#5.00 @5.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef—Gross, top Bteers, #3.50@
4.00; cows, #2.50@3.25; dressed beef,
6J^@7c per jound.
Veal—Large, 6@6}4c; small, 7@8c
per pound.
Seattle Market.
Potatoes—Yakimas, #13@ 14 per ton;
natives,#11 @ 12;Hweets, 2 tfcc per (round;
box of 60 pounds, #1.75.
Butter—Fancy
native creamery,
brick, 25c; ranch, 14 @ 15c; dairy,
16c; Iowa fancy creamery, 28c.
Cheese—Native Washington, 12@
18c; Eastern cheese, 12J^e.
Eggs—Fresh ranch, 15c; California
ranch, 14c.
Meats—Choice dressed beef steers,
8c; cows, 7@7^c; mutton, 8)fc; pork,
7c; veal, small, 8c.
Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 18c; dressed, 14c;
turkeys,
live, 12c; dressed, 16c.
Fresh Fish—Halibut, 6@7c; steel
heads, 7@8c;salmon trout, 12J^c; floun
ders and sole, 8@4o; tom cod, 4c; ling
cod, 4@5c; rock cod, 5c; smelt, 3@
5c; herring, 4c.
Olympia oysters, per sack, #3@8.50.
Corn—Whole, #23; cracked, per ton,
#23; feed meal. #23 per ton.
Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton,
#23; whole, #22.
Flour—Patents, per barrel, #4.25@
4.50; straights,
#4.00;
California
brands, #4.75@5; Dakota brands, #5.40
@#5.75; buckwheat flour, #6.
Millstuffs—Bran, per ton,#16; shorts,
per ton, #17@ 18.
Feed—Chopped feod, #18@20 per
ton; middlings, per ton, #24; oil cake
meal, per ton, #35.
Hay—Puget Sound, new, per ton,
#11 @13; Eastern Washington timothy,
#16@ 17; alfalfa, #12; straw, #7.
Wheat—Feed wheat, per ton, #23.
Oats—Choice, per ton, #23.
Nan Francisco Market.
Wool—Nevada, 11@ 13c; Oregon, 12
@ 14c; Southern coast lambs, 7@8c.
Millstuffs—Middlings, #23 @25.50;
California bran, #19.50@2(1.50 per ton.
Onions—Silverskins. #2.50@2.85per
cental.
Eggs—Store, 12 % @ 18c; ranch, 13*^
@ 14c.
Butter—Fancy c’eamery.lS® 19c; do
seconds, 18c; fancy dairy, 18c; good
to choice, 16@ 17c per pound.
Fresh Fruit—Apples, 25c@#1.35 per
large box; gra;>es, 2<*>@40c; Isabella,
60@75c; («aches, 50c(«r#l; pears, 75c
@#1 ;«r box; plums, 20@85c.
Potatoes—Early Rose, 40@50c.
Citrus Fruit—Oranges, navels, #’,.00
@2.25; Mexican limes, #4410;@4.50
California lemons, choice, #1.50; do
oommon, 50c@#1.00 per box.
Hay—Wheat, #20@24; wheat and
oat, #19@23; oat, #14.50(3 16.50; best
barley, #17@2O; alfalfa,
#18.50@
16; clover, #18@ 15.
Hope—12 @ 15c j«er pound.
Cheese—Fancy mild, new, 10c; old,
10c per pound.