Mil IH MI LOST
Vreeked in Norton Sound
While on Short Voyage.
ELEVEN
PERSONS
ON
BOARD
Search* for the Ml««lng Ha« Been Cn
• uceeanful—Mau ricked Up at Sea In
an Open Boat.
Port Townsend,Oct. 24.—T. Adney, a
Correspondent of Harper’s Weekly, who
arrived here Wednesday from St. Mi
chaels on the steamer Roanoke, brings
news of the probable loss of the small
steamer Abbie Rowe in Norton sound.
The steamer had on board 11 persons,
composing the Abbie Rowe party, of
Boston. The party left St. Michaels
September 11 for Chignick mission, lo
cated on Golofrim bay, about 85 miles
north of St. Michaels. Barring acci
dent, they should have reached theii
destination in three or four days.
Dr. Brigham and wife, Mrs. Rowe,
Miss Blaine and another woman, mem
bers of the party, considered the Abbie
Rowe incapable of weathering a severe
storm, and took passage on a schooner
which left a few days before the steam
er for Chignick mission, where they
were to meet the remainder of the party.
After vainly waiting for some time,
Captain William A. Taylor, late en
gineer of the revenue cutter Bear, and
M. F. Melsing, formerly of San Fran
cisco, began a search for the missing
steamer in the yacht Edith. They fol
lowed the coast to St. Michaels with
out success.
Just before the Roanoke left St. Mi
chaels, Adney says, a party arrived
from the north with a story to the
effect that the Indians had reported a
small steamer wrecked, stating that
they saw a small crowd of men on the
beach around a fire. It was generally
believed that this must have been the
party from the Abbie Rowe.
Adney also reports that while search
ing for the missing vessel Captain Tay
lor and Melsing picked up a man in an
open boat several miles at sea. The
man had been without food or water
for several days, and was near to death.
He was Sterling Martin, of Chicago,
who was left adrift on a barge which
was being towed from St. Michaels to
Golofrinr bay by the steamer Fortune
Hunter, with a Chicago party on board.
The Fortune Hunter was caught in a
storm and was forced to cut the barge
loose. Several days afterward the For
tune Hunter was picked up by the
steamer Tillamook in a waterlogged
condition. An unsuccessful search was
made for Martin. After being cut
'»loose from the Fortune Hunter, the
barge foundered, and Martin put to sea
in a smal boat.
STORY
OF
THE
WAR.
Tragic Ending of a South Dakota Vol
unteer's Romance.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 24.—A special
to the Republic from Deadwood, S. D., I
says: Albert Martin, a lancher living |
near the Cheyenne river in Ziebeck I
county, enlieted as a volunteer at the
.beginning of the war and fought at the
battle of El Caney. After the battle
jhe met Ramona Perez, the daughter of i
lan officer of Garcia’s command, and
they became sweethearts. Soon after
ward he was attacked by fever and sent
home on sick leave.
He was engaged before his departure
for the war to the daughter of a neigh
boring ranchman, and arranged to be
married while home on hie leave of
absence. Meanwhile the Cuban girl
had learned of his illness and that he ,
had gone home, and she resolved to fol
low and nurse him. Dressing in her
brother’s clothes, she crossed to Ja
maica and secreted herself on a fruit
steamer bound for New Orleans. Reach
ing there she tramped and beat her
way to Hermosa, S. D. When she
reached there she learned of her lover’s |
approaching marriage, and the shock
drove her insane.
At the same time the American girl i
learned of her lover’s flirtation, ami
broke off the engagement. Martin be
gan drinking heavily and disappeared.
A few days ago his body was found
floating in the Cheyenne river.
Whether he fell in while intoxicated or
committed suicide is a matter of con
jecture.
ATTITUDE U N C HANG E D.
American Coininisnionerw Will Not As- ,
«ume Cuban Debt.
FIVE
BURNED
TO
DEATH.
Live« Lost in a Hotel Fire in a Cali
fornia Town.
Susanville, Cal., Oct. 24.—News
just received here from Ciairville, Plu
mas county, Cal., reports the burniug
of hotel and the loss of five lives. The
dead uro:
.
P. Pedrini, Carson Barney, Mrs. Cor-
nado, Florence Roberts, 7 years old;
and a woman, name not yet ascertained.
The fire broke out at 4 o’clock this
morning in Chat Roberts' hotel. Mr
Roberts awoke in time escape by jump
ing front the second-story window, in
doing which he sustained severe injur
ies. The other occupants of the build
ing, with the exception of those above
named, escaped unhurt, but loHt eve: y-
thing but the clothes they wore. The
five unfortunate people were suffocated
while they slept. The origin of the
tire has not been determined, but is
supposed to have been caused by a de
fective chimney. The property loss is
not great.
ACCIDENT ON TORPEDO-BOAT
Seven Men Scalded to Death
on the Davis.
BOILFR
TUBE
BLOWS
OUT
All Died From Their Injurie«—Traffic
Re«ult of tiie Trial Trip—No Fault of
the Contractor«.
POLISHING
HER
GUNS.
Preparation« for War Continue
In
France—Naval Reserve« in Readine««.
Paris, Oct. 22.—The alleged war pre
parations of France are the absorbing
topic of discussion here. According to
French papers there were important
naval experiments at Toulon last even
ing. A flotilla of totpedo-boats was
detai led to make an endeavor to force
the entrance of the harbor and the
whole garrison was called to arms and
forts and batteries were manned ready
for instant action. The result of tho
experiments has not been made public.
Vice-Admiral Barrea presided yes
terday at a secret council of war at
Brest, in which the chiefs of the mari
time forces took part. Confidential
orders were subsequeutly issued to the
gariison.
Aurore asserts that five vessels of
the naval reserves around Brest have
been ordered to hold themselves in
readiness for active service.
M. Del Case, minister of foreign
affairs, has ordered that the report of
Major Marchand, as to the situation at
Fashoda, which is expected at Cairo
tonight, be telegraphed textually. Ow
ing to its probable length it is expected
that at least 48 hours will be required
to reduce it to the French cipher code
at Cairo and to translate it in Paris.
Astoria, Or., Oct. 22.—The bursting
of one or more steam tubes in the for
ward boiler of the torpedo-boat Davis
while on her official trial trip yesterday
fatally scalded seven firemen.
The dead ar.e: Charles Maneely, fire
man, married; Paul Luitlile, fireman,
unmarried; Hany Wood, married;
William Wood, foreman boiler shop,
married; James Ryan, married; Axel |
FOOD FOR
HAVANA’S POOR. Johnson, married; Albert Buehl, mar
ried.
Shipload of Supplier Are to Be Takeu
The accident occurred at 11:40 A.
to the Cuban Capi'al.
M., while the boat was westward bound,
Havana, Oct. 24.—The Red Cmss off Tenas Illihee, near Cathlamet.
Society’s steamer City of San Antonia She had run one of the required two
sailed yesterday from Matanzas for New hours at full speed, and was making
York to bring a fresh cargo of supplies about 235¿ knots per hour, under a
to Havana. Her last cargo was all j steam pressure of 250 pounds.
A CHINESE EXECUTION.
landed at Matanzas.
Seven tiremen, under the direction
The shipment of Spanish silver spe of William Wood, foreman of the boiler The Event Turned Into a Hideous
cie, in anticipation of the American shop of the Wolff & Zwicker iron
Festival.
regime, are very heavy. Yesterday’s works, were working manfully to
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 23.—Accord
Spanish mail steamer, the Jover Serra, keep up the tremendous steam pressure ing to tho latest mail advices from
carried 736,000 pesos.
necessary to supply the flying engines. China eight subordinate leaders of the
It is undeistood that the Spanish Without a moment’s warning, some Kwangski rebellion have been beheaded
cruiser Alfonso XIII will leave Cuban thing inside the boiler gave way, and at Wu Chow. They wore carried in
waters October 30.
a withering blast of live steam, fire ami baskets through the principal streets
General Blanco has directed the mil smoke filled the cramped boiler-room as a warning spectacle, amidst the
itary commander of the Holguin divi and overpowered the helpless workmen. ! laughter and jeers of men, women and
sion to distribute any surplus commis At the same time, the forward smoke j children.
sary stores among those of the popula stack began to vomit forth flame and
Ten thousand people witnessed the
tion in that district who have shown muddy water, and those on deck saw 1 decapitation, and made it a gala day.
the most friendship for Spain.
that something serious bail happened Little children copied their parents,
below. Harry Burrows, a fireman who who joked the dying rebels a second
EXECUTION OF A FRATRICIDE.
was stationed at the tightly closed i before the ax fell. When all was over
the children played among the head
George W. Clark Paid the Death Pen hatch of the boiler-room, threw the
door open, and was thrown backward less, bleeding corpses and made sport
alty at San Quentin.
with the black disfigured heads.
San Quentin, Cal., Oct. 24.—George on the deck by a rush of scalding steam
Mandarins and headsmen improvised
W. Clark, the St. Helena fratricide, that seared his mustache and hair like a sort of Maypole, and the heads of the
red-hot irons.
died coolly on the gallows today.
At the same instant, Joseph Porter, rebels were placed on top in tiers, the
lhe crime for which Clark was exe
children dancing around them. The
cuted was the murder of his brother a machinist, and J. E. Wolff, vice- governor advised the mandarins to
at St. Helena, Napa county. He lay president of the contracting firm, sprang ■ make the beheading as festive as possi
in wait for hie victim and shot him down the ladder and into the seething ble, so as to inspire disgust for the
dead, after taking deliberate aim. A pit regardless of the tearful heat that rebels in the hearts of the people. A
few days before the tragedy, he endeav almost overcame them. Together they banquet was afterward spread.
ored to kill his brother by poisoning lifted Foreman Wood to the hatch,
The Japan Mail says a petition has
where a dozen pairs of hands were
his coffee.
been sent to the government by foreign
waiting
to
receive
him.
And
then,
The crime was the outgrowth of an
consuls requesting that beheading be
intimacy that had existed for 13 years one by one, six more horribly mutilated discontinued.
before the murder between Clark and men were taken from the death trap.
his brother’s wife. Two days after the Several of the most severely injured
STORM IN TEXAS.
killing Clark made a full confession. walked unaided to the after cabin,
where
Dr.
E.
H.
Thornton,
the
com
Several Live« Los* as the Result of
He then changed his mind and fought
the Gale.
hard in the courts to set aside the con pany's physician, who accompanied the
St. Louis, Mo., Oct 22.—A special
fession. He was convicted and ap boat, attended to them as rapidly as he
pealed to the supreme court. The de was able to do so. Few were able to to the Republic from Houston, Tex.,
cision of the lower court was sustained repress the groans that sjioke of their says: The electrio and wind storm
and Clark was sentenced by Judge Ham terrible suffering, but all bore them which swept over Texas last night was
to be banged today. Recently he made selves with the fortitude that men in very severe in South Texas. Damage
a statement exonerating his brother's time of war call heroism. The appear to cotton is enormous. At Deer Park,
wife from all complicity in the crime. ance of that grim procession, as it filed 20 miles from Houston, the residence
Yesterday he accepted religious conso along the narrow deck, is not to be de of G. F. Adams was demolished.
lation from members of the Salvation scribed. It was a sight that no one on Adams, his wife and baby sustained
board will ever forget, and which none minor injuries, while A. J. Cook was
Army.
would see again for any price that could crusher! to death.
be paiij.
AN ABSURD REPORT.
At Pasadena, the residence of John
Dr. Thornton set about the work of Stout was turned over and completely
Minister Wu Say« Li anti the Empress caring for the injured with coolness and
wrecked. Six occupants were injured.
Were Not Married.
judgment, which the strain of a long
The wind was so high at Missouri
Chicago, Oct. 24.—Wu Tingfang, ufternoon did not abate. Naval Con- '
City, 35 miles west of Houston, that it
Chinese minister to the United States, structor Spear, of the tria) board, stood blew a number of freight cars from the
before his departure for Washington by his side through it all, removing the
siding on to the main track. The Cal
said that the report of a marriage be tattered clothing, ministering to the
ifornia express, running 40 miles an
tween Li Hung Chang and the dowager suffering men, as best ire could, bind hour, dashed into the cars at full speed.
empress was absurd.
The steamer ing up their burns and washing the
The engine turned over, instantly kill
which arrived at Vancouver on Wed black soot from their faces. Lieuten
ing George Johnson, of San Antonio,
nesday brought papers from Hong ant-Commander F. J. Drake did like the engineer,and badly scalding the fire
Kong and Yokohama, publishing the splendid service, and, with such help
man an<l injuring the head brakeman.
statement that the dowager empress as the rest of the orew could give, al)
Noneof the passengers were badly fruit.
had become the wife of Li Hung Chang. the sufferers were placed on cushions
“This is the most absurd of all ru in the after cabin and on deck, and the LA GRANDE FACTORY’S RECORD
mors,’’ said Wu Tingfang. “It is im-I worst of their pain allayed with hypo
possible. No reliance is to be placed | dermic injections of morphine. But Three Hundred and Seventy Ton« of
Beet« Handled In One Day.
in telegrams from southern cities about! they were past help. At 2:30 Maneely
what goes on in Peking. It is not | succumbed, followed by Luithlean hour
La Grande, Or., Oct. 22.—The Ore
there like it is here. Your president ’ latear. Harry Wood expired just as a gon SugarCompany is making a record.
goes about shaking hands with tiie peo-, etietcher was laid to take him to a The capacity of its ulant is 350 tons of
pie. We have different ways. This more suitable resting-place. The oth I beets every 24 hours, but today 870
news could not come from Peking. It1 ers died in the hospital here, where tons were handled, and there are now
was made at Hong Kong. The report they had been brought late in the after j on hand 675,000 pounds of sugar. To
is untrue.”
noon. Tiie steamer Harvest Queen day Spokane telegraphed for three cars
towed the Davis from the scene of the “B. 8. O. E ” (beet sugar on earth.)
MADRID PAPER SUPPRESSED. accident to Astoria.
Portland ordered three cars, Walla
The aocident was unaccountable to Walla one, Penideton one, Baker City
Imprisonment of the Editor Lead« to a *
those on board. The contractors have one, and three have been sold here.
MiniNter’ft Kesiffnatiou.
been careful and painstaking in the con La Grande has been sending (3,000
Madrid, Oct. 24. — El Nacional, the struction of the boilers, this being a drafts about twice a month to San
conservative organ, wihch is support branch of their work in which they Francisco for sugar. Now this money
ing General Wevler, was ordered sup have always met with marked success. is distributed among the farmers and
pressed for publishing an article not They have conscientiously followed all workmen here. This year’s crop will
previously submitted to the censor, and the rigid requirements laid down by produce 3,000,000 pounds of sugar at a
its editor, Senor Figuera, a member of the government, sufficient proof of conservative estimate. Today’s tests
the chamber of deputies, was imprison which is the fact that the boilers have showed a greater percentage of sugar
ed. The affair has caused a great sen been constantly under the inspection of , than has yet been obtained from beets
sation, and the suspension order was officers of the navy detailed for that grown in any other country.
annulled.
puuijxise. Before they were placed in
Senor Gamazao, minister of public in the torpedo-boats the boilers were sub
ANARCHY IN VISAYAS.
struction and public works, has ten jected to a water pressure of 360 pounds
dered hie resignation asa protest against to the square inch, 110 pounds more In«arffent« In Control of the Southern
Philippine«.
the arrest of the editor of El Nacional. than that at which they were working
Manila, Oct. 22.—The United States
The resignation has been accepted, at tho time of the accident. The crew
Senor Sagasta taking Senor Gamazao’s volunteered for the service. They have cruller Boston and the collier Nero,
portfolio ad interim.
always been used with fairness and con which October 5 were ordered to pro
The newspapers have addressed a I sideration by their employers, ami not ceed to Hong Kong in connection with
complaint to the supreme court against one of the men on Iroard but disclaimed the recent disturbances at and near Pe
the refusal of General Chinchilla, gov- the belief that their employers were in king, have arrived at Amo, in the pro
error-general of Madrid, to respect the any way responsible for the unfortunate vince of Fo Kien, the former short of
coal and the latter with her cargo afire.
alleged inviolability of Senor Figurea occurrence.
Well authenticated reports have
as a member of the chamber of deputies, j
Winnipeg, Manitoba. Oct. 22.—Of ' reached here of a terrible state of an-
Boiler Explo«ion Killed Two.
an estimated yield of from 26,000,000 sroiiy in the southern Philippines.
Pentwater, Mich., Oct. 24.—The to 30,000,000 bushels of wheat, it is The Spaniards there are cooped up in
boilers of the Pentwater furniture fac now calculated that only about 8,000,- the principal towns.
tory exploder! today. L. C. Tupper and 000 will be threshed and tiie remainder
The Americans continue capturing
Miller Sorenson were killed. Twooth- standing in stacks and shocks, ia th reat the rebel vessels as they arrive at Ca
ened with total destruction.
er men were fatally injured.
vite. Two have l>een captured this week.
Paris, Oct. 24.—The United States '
ami Spanish peace commissioners held
separate sessions this morning.
The joint session lasted from 2 P. M. I
to 4:30 P. M. During this time the
commissioners discussed the second ser
ies of written arguments put forward
by the Spaniards for the purpose of pre
vailing upon the American commission- ,
ers to assume the Cuban debt. No de
finite concflision was reached and the
commission adjourned until Monday, '
when the Cuban question will again
be discussed. It is probable that this
feature of the negotiations will be dis- j
posed of next week.
Thus far there have been seven joint
sessions, four of which have been de
voted to tiie discussion of the first arti
cle of the protocol. In this manner
two wei-ks have passed and no result
¿has been reached. The American com
missioners have listened to all the ar
Filipino« Enforcing Export Duty.
guments of the Spaniards, bnt they
Manila, Oct 24.—The insurgents
have not changed the position which are enforcing an export duty ot (32 a
they first took.
ton on hemp from southern ports
Strangled Her Three Children.
brought to Manila. They are also en
Toronto, Oct. 24.—A dreadful tragedy forcing 5 per cent tonnage on steamers
was enacted in the east end of the city and 23 per cent on freights.
The
tonight, when Eliza Burrill wife of a American and British firms are com
well-to-do mechanic, became demented pelled to pay these chargee, though they
and strangled her three children, aged protest strenuously against an arrange
3, 8 and 11 years. The demented woman ment all the more unjust because
gave a reason for her terrible deed goods are entering Manila by railway
that she did not want them to grow up from the north, which evade duty, and
Vicked.
can undersell the legitimate trade.
Spanish Prlnonern Paroled.
Washington, Oct 22.—The secretary
of war sent a cable message this even
ing to Major-General Otis, in command
of the American forces at Manila, au
thorizing him to parole 20 Spanish offi
cers now in his custody as prisoners of
war. Applications for the parole of
these officers was made by the Spanish
authorities to General Otis and he re
ferred the question to the war depart
ment at Washington. It is understood
the prisoners desire to return to Spain.
Waved American and Britlnh Flag«.
New York, Oct. 22.—A dispatch to
the Tribune from Halifax says: The
regimental reports of the Koval Cana
dian battalion of imperial trrsips were
marked by an unusual incident. At
the conclusion of the sports 100 men,
the pick of the garri.on, former) a pyra
mid by mounting upon one another's
shoulders and the man at the apex, a
fine apeeimen of the British soldier,
stood waving in one hand the Union
jack and in the other the Stars and
Stripes.
NORTHWEST NEWS.
item«
of General
Intereat Gleaned
From the Thrivlnff Faclflo
State«.
This year is a great one for the flsh-
srmen on the Coquille river.
Tho total attendance at the Spokane
fruit fair this year was 73.250.
Steps have been taken at Salem to
I contest the Wright branch asylum site
case.
Lane county’s potato crop is short
this year, and the farmers look for high
, prices.
Winter apples are more plentiful in
Kittitas valley than ever before, and
the quality is first-class.
There is an unusual amount of sick
ness in Palouse at present, most of the
patients having typhoid fever.
Two men who made a voyage from
Lynn canal to St. Michaels in an open
boat have arrived at Victoria.
The run of silverside salmon in the
Lower Columbia river continues heavv,
and the fall pack will be unusually
large.
News has reached Victoria of the ap
pointment of C. C. Sinkler, of Nelson,
as gold commissioner for the Yukon
district, vice Fawcett, removed.
On the steamship Doric, which ar
rived at San Francisco from the Orient,
was brought in opium valued at (270,-
000, on which a duty of (100,000 will
be collected.
The value of improvements in Walla
Walla county, exclusive of cities, ac
cording to the revision of the board of
equalization, amounts to (380,324; per
sonal property, (1,875,382.
The Lincoln county (Wash.) commis
sioners have fixed the tax levy for all
purposes at 14 mills, on a valuation of
(5,666,732. The levy for road pur
poses was increased from 0.82 to 1.35
mills.
The floating indebtedness against the
new town of Kent, Wash., will be paid
off January, after which the city's in-
some will be sufficient to pay all cur
rent expenses and leave a handsome
surplus.
The prune crop of Clackamas county,
Oregon, has been gathered and mar
keted with very little loss, and growers
are elated over piesent profits and
futire prospects. At Clackamas sta-
tio >, 82 tons were evaporated.
A cargo of 100,073 bushels of barley
was shipped from Tacoma the week be
fore last direct to England. The barley
was all raised in Columbia county,
Washington, and being of prime qual
ity, netted the producers a good pl ice.
The charter has been granted for ths
building of the Golden-Fort Steel«, B.
0., railroad, and work will be started
in early spring. The contract for the
Nelson & Bedlington railway has been
let to Larson & Foley, work to com
mence th¡8 month.
Controller of tho Currency Dawe»
has decided that be has no authority to
charter a national bank in Honolulu
until congress passes laws for the gov
ernment of the islands. Consequently
Perrv 8. Heath and San Francisco capi
talists will not have their applications
granted at present.
The Carbonado coal mines shipped
85,000 tons during September, beat
ing all previous records. Roslyn had
belli the record with 30,000 tons. The
Carbonado mines, owned by the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company, are run
ning full time and employ 600 men,
averaging (3.29 a day wages.
The Scully Steel & Iron Company, ol
Chicago, has just closed a contract for
the delivery of 25,000 tons of steel
plates at Victoria, B. C., to be UBed in
the construction of five British steam
ships by one of the largest shipbuild
ing firms at that point. The value of
the contract exceeds (100,000.
A scheme is on foot to construct a
logging road about three miles in
length from the head oi Gray’s liver,
Oregon. It will be operated by A. L.
Saldren, who has in operation a simi
lar road at Clatskanie, and will tap a
district of 5,000 acres of spruce timber
belonging to C. H. Green, of Saginaw,
Mich.
The new association does not con
template any general regulation of
coast lumber values. Its aims are
simply to control the situation at San
Francisco, where the trade Iras been
for some time in a badly demoralized
condition. Puget Sound values, foreign
trade or other departments of the lum
ber business, are not affected.
Henry Miller, of Cathlamet, Wash.,
has contracted to furnish the North
Pacific mills, at Portland, over 2,000,-
000 feet of spruce and fir logs this sea
son. The Astorian says that this cut
will come from Eulokium, the principal
logging stream flowing into the Colum
bia w here over 151! men were employed
at logging during the past summer.
According to the Lumberman there
is a good field on the coast for a small 1
turpentine factory. There are two ’
species of wood rich in turpentine and ;
allied porducts, Douglas fir and "bull” j
pine, wood alcohol, pitch and other
so-called naval products. The yield is
by no means as large as the pitch pin«
of the South, but there is certainly
room for a factory that will utilize the
«tumps and refuse of pitch-hearing
trees on the coast.
Harvesting in the Palouse country j
has >>een completed. Every threshing
machine lias pulled in, and the haul- j
ing of grain to different shipping points
will be finished by Novemlier 1, or per
haps a little loonst. So far this season,
the total shipment of new wheat has
not exceeded 275,001) bushels, most of
this lieing to Spokane for milling, and
to the Sound. Since the completion of
harvesting, farmers and giaindealera
have concluded that the crop of this
year is the largest ever hat vested in
the Palouse oountry.
WEEKLY
MARKET
LETTER.
[Reported by Downing, Hopkins & Co., Inc.r
Board of Trade Brokers, 711 to 71* Chamber of
Commerce building, Portland, Oregon.)
Tho wheat trader’s success last week
depended upon the direction in which
lie happened to be faced. If he looked
toward the west he made no money out
of the market. The influence of the
largest primary receipts on record kept
him off the buying side. He was lucky
if lie resisted the temptation to put out
a short line. The operator who kept
his eye on the seaboard was the lucky
one. He saw there the largest exjsjrt
engagements ever known, about a mil
lion wheat a day. If he did not have
some money to the good at the close
Saturday night it was because he has
no aptitude for the opportunities.
Chicago was incliend to be skeptical
of the export figures. It was not doing
much itself, but the man who was
closest to the shipping position knew
that Duluth was, quality and freights
considered, cheaper than this maiket.
and that the seaboard ulso hail grain of
its own bought on cheap freights that
could be sold ahead of Chicago offer
ings. Tiie best export authorities
agreed as to enormous sales abroad.
Consequently there is no room for de
nial or for pretense that it is largely a
matter of exaggeration. Lobrke, whose
word is to be accepted in this matter,
in an interview yesterday, said the
business accomplished during the past
fortnight was on a scale probably never
exceeded. This authority, when asked
as to the probable permanency of the
foreign demand, in an interesting ex
planation showed how the foreigners
themselves were so uncertain of the sit
uation they were not venturing to specu
late any on the bull side.
The wheat price this year is to be a
matter of mood—the mood of the farm
er the world over. If it were to be de
cided by the facts as to supplies, the
bull, to have any success, would need
to make his purchases on the very
weak days. Every authority is agreed
that the world’s harvest last season was
the fulles. ever known, and with that
alone in mind the speculator might
make comparisons with the low prices
of tiie other years of great crops.
Portland Market.
Wheat—Walla Walla, 63c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 65@67o per bushel.
Flour—Best grades, (8.45; graham,
(3; superfine, (2.25 per barrel.
Oats—Choice white, 39@40c; choice
gray, 37@38c per bushel.
Barley—Feed barley, (21 @22; brew
ing, (28 per ton.
Millstuffs—Bran, (15.50 per ton; mid
dlings, (21; Bhorts, (16; chop, (15.50
per ton.
Hay—Timothy, (10@ 11; clover, (9
@10; Oregon wild hay, (9@10 per ton.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 50@55o;
seconds, 40@45c; dairy, 40@45c store,
25 @ 85c.
CheeBe—Oregon full cream, ll@12o;
Young America, 12>£o; new cheese,
19c per pound.
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, (2.5O@8
per dozen; hens, (3.00@3.60; springs,
(1.25@8; geese, (5.00@6.00 for old.
(4.60(05 for young; ducks, (4.00@
5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12X
12>^c per pound.
Potatoes—60@60cper sack; sweets,
2@34£ c )ier )>ounn.
Vegetables—Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab
bage, (1 @ 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery,
70@75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per
box; )>eas, 3@8*^c per pound.
Onions—Oregon, 75c@(l per sack.
Hops—ll@16c; 1897 crop, 6@7o.
Wool—Valley, 10@12o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8@12c; mohair,
25c per pound.
Mutton—Gross, beet sheep, wethers
and ewes, 8*^c; dressed mutton. 7c;
spring lambs, 7tsC per lb.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, (4.75;
light and feeders, (3.00@4.00; dressed,
(5.50@6.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef—Gross, top steers, 3.5O@(3.75;
cows, (2.50 @8.00;
dressed
beef,
5@6%c per pound.
Veal—Large, 5)£@6c; small, 6^@
7per pound.
Seattle Market«.
Tomatoes, 20 @ 50c per box.
Cucumbers, 10@15e pei doz.
Onions, 85@90c per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, (10@12.
Beets, per sack, (1.
Turnips, per sack, 50@65c.
Carrots, per sack, 65c.
Parsnips, [>er sack, (1.
Beans, green, 2@8c.
Green corn, (1 @ 1.25 per sack.
Cauliflower, 75c per doz.
Celery. 40@ 50c.
Cabbage, native and California
(1.25@1.60 [>er 100 pounds.
Apples, 60c@6oc per box.
Pears, 76c@(l per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Peaches, 75c.
Plums, 50c.
Butter—Creamery, 27c per pound;
dairy and ranch, 18@20c per pound.
Eggs, 30c.
Cheese—Native, 12@12>^c.
Poultry—Ol<i hens, 10c j>er pound;
spring chickens, 10c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats—Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 6^@7c; cows, prime.
6)<c; mutton, 7)«c; pork, 7@8o; veal,
6<g6o.
Wheat—Feed wheat, |19@2o.
Oats—Choice, per ton, (22 @23.
Hay—Puget Sound mixed, (9.5O@
10; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, (18.
Corn—Whole, (23.50; cracked, (34;
feed meal, (23.50.
Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton,
(24@25; whole, (22.
Flour—Patent, per barrel, (3.60;
straights, (3.26: California brands,
(3.26; buckwheat flour, (3.75; graham,
per barrel, (3.70; whole «beat flour.
(3.75; rye flour, «4.
Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, (14;
ihorts, per ton, 115.
Feed—Chopped feed, 917@21 pel
ton; middlings, pet ton, (17; oil caku
meal, per ton, (85.