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WH Of I HIM SHIP The Atalanta in the Breakers at Alsea Bay. TWENTY-FOUR MEN WERE LOST Vestel W hs Racing Down the Coast in Thick Weather—fleavy Surf Pound« ing the Ship to Pieces. Yaquina, Or., Nov. 21.—The British shp Atalanta. oarryng a crew of 37 men I and loaded with 2,800 tons of wheat, | from Tacoma for South Africa, whh wrecked near Alsea bay yesterday morning, and so far as known there are but three survivors. The cause of the wreck of the Ata- ! lanta and the circumstances attending it, produces tale most harrowing. The I mismanagement of the vessel by its : officers is ascribed as the cause of the disaster, and the crippling of the Ya- , quina life-saving station by a penurious policy of that department of the gov ernment, adds horror to the situation. The only three survivors aver that some of their comrades on board the ship may yet be alive. While the members of the life-saving ciew are in sight of the wreck, they are so far powerless to render assistance, owing to the want of apparatus. Meanwhile couriers scoured the beach and coun try adjacent for 10 miles, to procure i horses to bring up the lifeboat and beach cart. The Atalanta lay about a mile off shore, in a field of furious breakers. Every swell passed over her works. Each'honr a section of the vessel was seen to fall away, and the timbers float toward the shore. A strong and steady southwester aided the current from the same direction to bear the wreckage rapidly to the beach. It was this pow er and agency, and this alone that en abled the three sailors who survive to I escape the fate of their brethren. In a lifeboat filled with water, partly dis abler! with wreckage, and without oars to direct their craft, they were borne to terra firma, thus passing over a course of nearly two miles. One man, who was clad in simply a shirt, more hardy than the others, made his way along the beach. He found a farmhouse and announced the news, and solicited assistance for his companions. When the unfortunates on the beach were reached they were so benumbed with cold as to appear beyond help. It has required nearly 24 hours for one of them to regain his powers of mind and body. The rescued sailors have been taken into cabins along tho beach. The most complete and reliable story of the wreck obtainable comes from Frank Fogarty, a member of the Yaquina life-saving crew, who has patiolled the beach in the vicinity of the wreck. Captain Clark ordered him back to the station, which had been entirely deserted, except by the wives of the crew, to guard there tonight. “The officers of the Atalanta paid the penalty of their folly with their lives,’’ said Fogarty. “Not one escaped, un less he is penned up in the forecastle, to be released tonight or tomorrow. “The survivors have started the story down on the beach that the wreck is more the result of carelessness on the part of the captain than of adverse weather. It is to the e.ffect that the Atalanta was racing down the coast witii another sailing ship to make bet ter time, and having a more advan tageous tack, against the southwester, he steered close into Cape Foulweather. Not seeing the lighthouse, he supposed the vessel to be some distance from shore. This can sei 1 him to continue his southeast tack too long. “The logbook at the life-saving sta tion shows that Thursday morning, be tween midnight and 6 o’clock, when the Atalanta was on this tack, the Capo Foulweather lighthouse was concealed by fog and heavy sheets of rain. Nev ertheless, the survivors, according to report, do not excuse the policy of the captain. Had not a race been on, they j say, he would have taken no such chances.” Atalantf* Sailed From Tacoma. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 21.—The Brit ish ship Atlanta left here last Saturday with $65,000 worth of wheat, for Del- age hay, South Africa. She was in command of Captain Charles McBride, of Greenock, Scotland, where he has a wife. The ship left here with 27 men, the only names of those on record here being those of the captain and the fol lowing, who joined the vessel at thia port as seamen: D. F. Green, A. B., 31 Chapel place, Dublin: J. Webber, A. B., 132 Forty- second street. New York; 8. A. Jacob son, A. B., Stockholm; J. Smith, Fins bury; G. Covalis, Callao; J. Jones, Valparaiso; N. Sorensen, Bergen; G. Fraser, 329 Monroe street, Pniladel- phia; R. Codd, 74 Flanders street, Liverpool; J. Marks, Brightwood addi tion, Indianapolis. The Atalanta was of only 1,693 tons register. She was built in 1885, owned by N. Hill, of Scotland, and was woith probably $50,000. Captain Benny, Lloyd’s surveyor here, thinks probably the lost ship is the German bark Atalanta, 2,200 tons, which he says is en route 1 om Santa Rosalia, Central America, ind more likelv to be carried into the shore by the southwest wind that is said to have prevailed. Another German ship, At alanta, sailed from British Columbia November 4. in command of Captain Dormer* with salmon for London, bnt that ship should be past Oregon long before this. ANARCHY Brigand« IN RICO. PORTO Plying Their Interior. Bl MAKE A FIRM SIAND Trade *n th« Washington, Nov. 21.—The cabinet session today was devoted to a large extent to consideration of complainti that have reached the war department, alleging that a state of practical an archy prevails in Porto Rico. These complaints asserted that the lawless elements are committing depredations of the gravest character, and the seri ousness of the situation is increased by the fact that United States troops likewise have been guilty of gross mis conduct. Secretary Alger has cabled General Biooke, inquiring as to the accuracy of the complaints. The most serious allegations are against brigands and lawless elements in the smaller towns away from the coast. It is said that taking advant age of the unsettled state of the coun try, due to the transfer of the govern ment from Spain to the United States, bands of men have organized for rob bery and rapine, burning houses and plantataions and levying tribute upon the people wherever possible. In one case, it is said, they made a raid on a small town of about 1,500 inhabitants, 15 miles from the nearest troops, and burned and destroyed property to a considerable value. AN APPEAL FOR ADDRESS OF SENATOR Washington, Nov. 21.—News of a mixed character came to the navy de partment today from Admiral Dewey touching the situation in the Philip pines. The admiral sent two of his warships, the Charleston and the Con- coid, some time ago, to the southward from Manila to ascertain whether there was truth in reports that the insurgents had extended their activities in that direction. Today he cabled as fol lows: “Manila, Nov. 21.—Secretary of the Navy, Washington: Charleston and Concord arrived today from Iloilo. Glass reports that the entire island of Panay is in possession of insurgents, except Iloilo, which is defended by 800 Spanish troops. All foreign citizens there beg for American protection. The island of Negros has declared in dependence and desires American pro tectorate. DEWEY.’’ Glass is commander of the Charles ton. So far, nothing has been done by the administration toward curbing the insurgents in their operations, save verbal representations from the Ameri can commanders to Aguinaldo, in which it has been pointed out to him that it would be good policy, in view of the probability of the annexation oi the islands by the United States, to pursue a course that would not be ob noxious to the United States. But the situation is now realized to be critical. So far aB the Spaniards are concerned, perhaps they can be left to take care oi themselves, but the foreign residents at Iloilo are differently regaided. SHIPS FOR NAV\w Three Sunken Spanish Vessels to Raised at Manila. B< Washington, Nov. 21.—The United States navy will soon possess more than a sprinkling of foreign-built warships. Admiral Dewey has informed the navy department that he has contracted with a Hong Kong firm of wreckers to raise j three of the Spanish war vessels sunk in the battle of Manila last May day. The cost of raising the ships and put ting them in thorough repair will be $500.000. The vessels to be raised are gunboats of large type, and, in the opinion of Chief Constructor Hichborn, they will be the very best kind of craft for the protection of the United States’ inter ests in the Philippines and along the Asiatic coast. Caused a Stampede. ’’ Spokane, Wash.JNov. 21.—A Lew iston special to the S[>okesman-Review says: A great strike of high grade ore is reported near the Snowshoe pass, on the Warren trail, 20 miles south of Florence, Idaho. A big stampede from Florence is reported. The Florence correspondent of the Spokesman-Review reports that the strike was made between the now fam ous Buffalo Hump and Thunder moun tain. The great vein is from 80 to 90 feet wide, and carries an abundance of free gold. The Salmon river rune through the claims,and the country never has much enow. LODGE Boston, Nov. 19. — Senator Lodge, in an address at the Boston Boot and Shoe club’s banquet last night, said in part: “The success of the English-speaking race, which has carried it all over the world and made it the great industrial and commercial people of the earth to day. has been due to the principle of self help. But there are certain things which the spirit of American enter prise must look to the government to do. “You cannot expect men to carry your products and to extend your trade by establishing themselves in a distant portion of the earth unless you have a government that is ready to protect them at all times and at all hazards. “Wo want no commerce at the can non’s mouth, but wo do want it under stood that wherever an American is en gaged in business lie is to be protected and that there is a navy of the United States big enough to guaid him wher ever lip sees fit to go. Therefore I say that we need a laige navy as a protec tion on the sea as well as on the land. “The question that confronts us is a larger one than what we shall do with the Philippines. They say we are not an Eastern power unless we hold those islands. We are today the greatest power in the Pacific ocean. We hold one entire side of that ocean except the outlet which England has in China. We hold the half way house in Hono lulu, where all ships must stop when the Nicaragua canal is built, as it will be. Are we going to allow the ports of the east to be closed to us and open to Russia, Franoe and Germany alone? Or are we going to stand up and say with England and Japan, the ports of China must be closed to all ot they must be open to all? “It is going to be a struggle, in my judgment, between the maritime na tions and the noil-maritime nations. It is going to be a struggle to see whether the people who speak the English tongue are to go to the wall, or whether they are to have their share in the commerce of the earth wherever they fly their flag. I believe that the United States is entitled to its share of the world’s commeroe. I do not be lieve that we should he shut out from it, and I do not think that there is the least danger of war anywhere if we are far-sighted enough to make it known to the world just what we want and just what we intend to do. Let our govern ment have wisdom in its foreign policy and its treatment of our merchant ma rine, and the gennis of American in vention and enterprise will do the rest.” CHINA Trouble AND Two Vancouver, B. C., Nov. 19.—Accord ing to late Oriental advices there is trouble brewing between China and Thibet. A Yachow dispatch says: “The prefect of Yachow has arrived from Thibet, whither he was sent to settle up troubles following upon the Chang Tunglin’s raid into Chantui and Derge last year. Tho whole raided dis trict has been given over to Lhassaand Lama rule, a retrocession of annexed territory on the part of China that is as little comprehensible as the ‘abdica tion’ of the Russians in Corea. There are those who say that China is appre hensive of hte growing independence of the Lamas and as the treaty between England and Thibet expiree this year, she is afraid the Lamas may open a road for the British from Darieeling to Lhassa. ” MANILA COURTS REOPENED. Spanish Hear Civil Case., Amur- lean Judges Criminal Cane«. Victoria, B. C., Nov. 19.—Advices by the steamship Empress of China are to the effect that the Manila law courts have resumed business with Spanish judges to hear all civil cases ami Ameri can judges to hear all criminal cases. Some disquieting news has been re- ceived as to the health of the American troops at Manila. In addition to the great amount of malarial and typhoid fevet prevailing, malignant smallpox has appeared. Deaths in hospitals will average about 100 a month. There is a leper scare in Manila. Through neglect of Spanish officials nearly 200 lepers esca|>ed confinement. OtderS have been issued that all lepers be arrested and sent to a small unin habited island southeast of Luzon. I Vallejo, Cal., Nov. 21.—The United States steel tug Pawtucket was launched at the Mare island navy yard today. She was christened by Miss Heather Baxter, the little daughter of Naval Constructor W. J. Baxter, in the pres ence of thousands of spectators. The Pawtucket is 102 feet long, is of 225 tons, and is expected to develop 450 horsepower. She will make 12 knots per hour. Her boiier and engines are almost completed, and the Pawtucket A Letter From Feary. will tie ready for commission by Janu- Waterville, Pa., Nov. 19.—A letter 1- _________________ just received fiom Lieutenant Robert Launching of the Wisconsin. E. Peary, by J. F. Hill, says that prob Chicago Nov. 21.—The United ably no message will be received from States battle-ship Wisconsin will be him for seveial years. The Hope launched at San Francisco Saturday, cleared the ioe field all right, but Lieu November 26, and will be christened tenant Peary expresses fears that the by Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, daughter Windward may be delayed by the ice of Isaac Stephenson, of Marinette, Wis. closing in. Tug Pawtucket Launched. Grazing Sheep on Reservation«. Washington, Nov. 21.—The right of the government to prosecute criminally persons grazing sheep on all forest res ervations, except in Oregon and Wash ington, was sustained in a decision rendered today by the attorney general. Secretary Bliss recently asked as to whether such prosecutions would lie Ten rerannn Burned to Death. under one of the series of regulations St. Petersburg. Nov. 21.—In a large recently isaued for the preservation of fire, which completely destroyed an extensive shed, 10 persons were burned the forests, and the decision bolds that they will. to ashes. Seattle Market«. THIBET. Brewing Between the Asiatic Countries. Death in Fifty-Mil« Rapid«. Victoria, B. C., Nov. 19.—Passen gers of the steamer Dirigo, which ar rive«! tonight from Skagway, bring nejvs of the drowning of two men in the Fifty-Mi!« rapids, on the Yukon. Four men left Lake Bennett on a scow Sep tember 21, with 50 tons of provisions. When the scow reached Fifty-Mil« her .earns opened and she sank. Two men, Smith and Hallowav, swam ashore, but the other two, whoae namn arc I unknown, were drowned. TRADE. Partland Market. We Will Be Forced to Ilerlnre That the Port, of China Mint Be Open to All Nattou. or to Nolle. HELP. COAST Wheat—Walla Walla. 59@60c; Val ley and Bluestem, 63« per bushel. Flour—Best grades, $3.45; graham, $8; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 39@40c; choice gray, 37 @ 38c per bushel. Barley—Feed barley, $21 @22; brew ing, $23 per ton. Millstuffs—Bran, $15.50 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50 per ton. Hay—Timothy, $9@10; clover. $7 @8; Oregon wild hay, 6$ per ton. Butter—Fancy creamery, 50@55c; seconds, 45 @ 50c; dairy, 35@40c store, 30 @ 35c. Cheese—Oregon full cream, 11 @ 12c; Young America, 12>*c; new cheese, 10c per pound. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2@3.50 per dozen; hens, $3.50@4.50; springs, $1.25@3; geese, $a.00@6.00 for old, $4.50@5 for young; ducks, $4.00@ 5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12|j 12}%c per pound. Potatoes—50@60c per sack; sweets, 2c per pound. Vegetables—Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage, $1 @ 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, 75c per sack; beans, 3c per pound; celery, 70@75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box; jieas, 3@8^c per pound. Onions—Oregon, 75c@$l per sack. Hops—15@17c; 1897 crop, 4@6c. Woo)—Valley, 10@12c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 8@l?.'; mohair, 25c per pound. Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 3 b; c; dressed mutton, 7c; spring lambs, 7*-£c 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 50@$3.75; cows, $2.5O@3.OO; dressed beef, 5@6J^c per pound. Veal—Large, small, 6Jk@ 7}fic per pound. Our Rights in Far East Must Be Maintained. Foreigners at Iloilo Aak for American Protection. MORE PACIFIC 1 Tomatoes, 50@85c per box. Cucumbers, 10@15c pei doz. Onions, 85 @ 90c per 100 pounds. Potatoes, $10 @12. Beets, per sack, $1. Turnips, per sack, 60 @ 65c. Carrots, per sack, 65c. Parsnips, per sack, $1. Beans, green, 2@8o. Green corn, $1.25@1.50 per saok. Cauliflower, 75c per doz. Celery. 40 @ 50c. Cabbage, native and California Ji. 00 @1.50 per 100 pounds. Apples, 50c@65c per box. Pears, 75c@$l per box. Prunes, 50c per box. Peaches, 75c. Plums, 50c. Butter—Creamery, 27c per pound; dairy ami ranch, 18@20c per pound. Eggs, 32c. Cheese—Native, 12@12)^c. Poultry—Old hens, 13c per pound; spring chickens, 15c; turkeys, 16c. Fresh meats—Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 6,^@7c; cows, prime, 6^c; mutton, 7)^c; pork, 7@8o; veal, 7@8o. Wheat—Feed wheat, $21. Oats—Choice, per ton, $23. Hay—Puget Sound mixed, $9.50@ 10; choice Eastern Washington tim othy, $12. Corn—Whole, $23.50; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, $24@25; whole, $22. Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.60; straights, $3.25; California brrnds, $3 25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham, per barrel, $3.70; whole wheat flour, $3.75; rye flour, $4. Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. Feed—Chopped feed, $17@21 per ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Ban Francuco Market. Wool—Spiing—Nevada, 10@14cper pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10@12c; Val ley, 15@17c; Noithern, 9@llc. Millstuffs—Middlings, $19@21.00; bran, $15.50@ 16.50 per ton. Onions—Yellow, 30@45c per sack. Butter — Fancy creamery, 24c; do seconds, 22@c23; fancy dairy, 21 @ 22c; do seconds, 20@24c per pound. Eggs — Store, 18@22c; fancy ranch, 40 @ 42c. Citrus Fruit—Oranges. Valencia, $2 @2.50; Mexican limes, $6g)6.50; Cali, fornia lemons, $2.00@.800; do choioe- $3.50 @4.50; per box. THE OLD-TIMERS. Elder Abram Perkins of the Shaker settlement, is 91 years old, yet fre quently walks all the way to Concord, N. H., a distance of over 20 miles. James A. Davis, who died in Dor chester county, Maryland, last week, Hteceil the first steamer that crossed Lake Erie. Chicago was then, he said, but three brick houses. Mrs. Nancy Carin« is «lead at Dills boro, Ind., aged 67. For 47 vests she ba«l lived less than a mile from a rail road arul within easy sound of the loco motive whistle, but never saw either road, car or engine. Mme. Ristori, otherwise the Mar quise Capranica del Grillo, is in her 77th year, and is lying critically ill at Rome, being thus unable to accept the invitation of the queen of Italy to {»ass a few «lays with her at Gressony. Frederick P. Panguinet, father of 11 children with 26 grandchildren, has just died at his home, 4353 Evans ave nue, St. Louis. Ilis death is the first that has occur re, I in the family, in- eluding three generations, for ovarjbalf a century. The Sanguinets have lived in St. Louis all the time. During Mr. Kanguinet’s 73 years he has not lieen HI a «lay, an«l until three weeks ago, when taken ill with liver trouble, was engaged in active business as a civil engineer. NEWS OFTHE PACIFIC COAST Gold Bearing Kock Crushed on Douglas Island, Alaska, Equal to That of Any Mining District in the World—Oregon and Wash- ington Lead in the Production of WooL The Greatest Mines In the World. | Cutting Timber nn Public Landa. More gold-bearing rock is being [ The attention of those engaged in crushed on Douglas island, Alaska, ' mining is called to the following pro than in an equal area in any other visions of tlie law pertaining to the cut country in the world. ting of timber on publio lands: “No The Tteadwell and allied companies persons shall be permitted to fell or re now have 880 stamps set up—540 on move any growing tree of any kind the Treadwell, 120 on the Mexican, whatsoever less than eight inohes in 100 on the Union and 120 on the Ready diameter. This will not be regarded Ilullino—anti the engineers will soon as applicable to black or ‘lodge pine’ turn over the mills to the companies giowing in separate bunches along min as completed. These mills will easily eral lands. Persons felling or removing crush 2,500 tons of ore a «lay. I do timber from public mineral lands of not believe there is any place in the the United States must utilize all oi world, South Africa, Australia, or any each tiee cut that can profitably bs where else, where so much rock is be used, and must cut and remove the top ing crushed on so small a space of and brush and dispose of the same in ground. The Treadwell now has 8,- such manner as to pievent the spread oi 000,000 tons ot ore in sight. The forest’fires.” The penalty for such vio Ready Bullion promises to equal tlie lation is in a sum not exceeding $500, Treadwell in the amount ot its produc or imprisonment not exceeding 60 days, tion. All the dirt lias been sluiced off or both. it and it has been traced for 800 feet November Shipping. along the beach and 600 to 700 feet R. P. Rithet it Co. have the follow along the hill. It is from 80 to 100 feet wide on the surface, and is in the ing to eay regarding shippinsg business contact between greenstone ami slate, in their monthly circular for November. as are all the Douglass island ledges, “The past three weeks have brought the ore lieing of the same character as | about a very decided change for the the Treadwell. The shaft is down 650 better in grain freights, although there feet under Gastineau channel and the has been comparatively nothing doing ledge lias there widened out to over from San Francisco. The bulk of the 200 feet and carries from $12 to $14 in season’s shipment, will undoubtedly be made fioui Oregon, and it appear« gold throughout. The Ebner is erecting a new 20- likely that Washington will come next, etamp mill in the gulch leading up to the yield of California grain being Silver Bow basin, and is about to start I small in consequence of tlie drought. a tunnel from that level which will Tho increased activity has tended to tap its ledge at great depth. Further harden heights, but on the whole up the same gulch the Alaska-Juneau changes during the month have been Company has 30 stamps at work on tho unimportant and the demand scarcely ore from a great open quarry of elate as gieat as previously. full of veins of quartz carying free New California Industry. gold. They simply quarry out the Bakersfield is not distinguished aa whole mass, sort out the quartz and being the only place in Amerioa where send it to tbe mill and throw the elate Fuller’s earth is reduced from the raw over the dump. material to a merchantable artiol«. Berners bay is keeping up its repu An unlimited deposit was found on tation. the Ophir, Northern Belle, Poso creek and a mill for grinding and Bald Eagle and Seward all having bolting tbe earth has been erected and their mills in operation. Judge Mel is now running. The process of reduc len, who represents an Indiana Com tion consists of running the lumps of pany, and who successfully opened up clay, the size of hickory nuts, through the Junlin, is now developing the the hopper and bolter, whioh turn it Ivanhoe, over the ridge between the out in tho form of fine flour. Tbe man Jualin and the Comet, and has about ufacture of this earth on the coast will completed a 20-stainp mill. The Jualin result iu a great saving to the olotb has turned out $10.000 or $12,000 a mills. month since it started. Milo Kelly New Steamer Lin. on th. Paolflo. lias some very good claims in the Bern Direct communication between South ers buy district, showing free-milling ore, and is working them. Montana American market! and San Francisoo creek, which runs into Linn canal be will soon be established by one of th« tween Berners bay and Juneau, is com largest French steamship oompanie*. ing to the front. The placers were The Chargeurs Iieunis will start a workeii in the early days, anil now the monthly service next March between Early is working in very rich ore and San Francisco and Liverpool, whioh running a five-stamp mill. The first will make stoppages at Mazatlan, Aca clean-up was very satisfactory. The pulco. Guayaquil, Callao, Peru; Val Boston & Alaska Company is sinking paraiso, Chile, Monteviedo, Uruguay; Santos, Brazil; Liverpool, Havre and a shaft on the Funters bay mine. possibly a Belgian port. The company Wool Clip of the Conntry. haB been organized and operated sino« The annual estimate of the wool clip 1872, and is now having constructed of the United States for 1898 made by three 6,000-tons additional steamer« Secretary North of the National Asso for th« aPciflo trade. ciation ot Wool Manufacturers, and Miller«* War on the Sound. which Is to be published in its No The grocers in Seattle and Taooms vember bulletin, shows the amount to have been 266,720,684 pounds, against are making a run on flour, taking ad vantage of the rivalry between Tacoma >59.158,251 pounds in 1897. Oregon shows, according to tho sta and Seattle mill men. The conditions tistics, -tlie largest yield, 21,291,387 are peculiar. The Washington wheat pounds of washed and unwashed wool, grower wants 50-cent wheat, while ths and, next to Washington, shows the miller is only getting $3.40 for his largest per cent in shrinkage iu scour ground product. To grind wheat that costs 50 cents, add the freight, and ing, or 71 per cent. Montana follows, with 20,985,105 then sell it at $8.40 means something poundsand 62 per cent shrinkage; Cal of a losa. Another Beet-ftugar Project. ifornia, 16,932,998 pounds and 66 per cent shrinkage; Texas, 16,880,442 A party owning 12,000 acres of suit pounds and 70 per cent; Wyoming, able land for sugar-beet raiaing neat 18,626,704 pounds; New Mexico, 12,- Idaho Falls, Idaho, has returned to 838,420; Ohio, 12,114,953 pounds; that plaoe from a visit to the beet sugar Colorado, 9,958,869; and Miohigan, factories in the United Btatea and Ger 8,856,122 iiounds. The amount of many. The soil and climate being pulled wool is estimated at 22,116,871 suited to the cultivation of beets, Chi pounds, making a total of 266,720,684 cago oapital thinks favorably of estab pounds washed or unwashed, or 111,- lishing a sugar factory at Idaho Fa))«. 661,581 pounds of scoured wool. The Good Market for Potato««. aggregrate clip of the six New England The yield of potatoes in the Spokan« states is about 1,745,025 pounds of scoured wool of which Massachusetts country this year was less than halt the amount of last fall, owing to th« furnishes 128,860 pounds. hot weather experienced last summer. The price there is from 85 to 90 cent«, Poor* Old Homei. Running almut the street of Skagway while on the coast potatoes are sell are a number of poor, old, stray horses, ing at 65 cents. The Oregon crop is that have l»eeii worked until their said to be good this year and the price backs and shouldeis were sore, then is expected to to reach $1.50 by next turned loose to starve. The more hu spring. Woolen Mill« Improvement. mane of the citizens, however, have taken up the matter with a view to It is stated that a large manufactur raising subscriptions to secure feed and ing establishment for making wearing care for the horses. A petition has al apparel will tie added to The Dalle«. ready been started, an«! it is likely the Or., Woolen Mill Company’s plant. A friend of man will no longer suffer. new iron and brick pioking-ioom is be ing built, and a scheme for eiectna Threshing 1« Over. lighting is being planned. Threshing may now lie considered New Broom Factory Started. over for this year, in all parts of the Another faotory has been added 1« Intend Empire, the last of the machines having “hung up” for tbe season in the smokestack town of Everett, Wash. the vicinity of Oakesdale and Farming- I The first lot of brooms were turned out ton. Wash. The crop was good every last week from tbe Everett broom fac tory, owned by Frederick Hallin. Th« where. brooms are meeting with great faros Pushing Work of the Yamhill Lock«. with tbe retailers. Th« contractors have finish««! the in shore will of *he Yamhill locks, arid Tbe market for horses and mules is work has beg^tn on the outer wall. again on tbe rise. A California buyer Work is lieing pushe«l as rapidly as was in Morrow county recently looking pos-ible. in or«ier to have it complete«! for draught animals, and offering good before severe winter weather seta in. prices for such as suited him. flii«*res«fui Clam Cannery. About a rear ago the Louian«l clam cannery was started at Anacortes, Wash., an«i the product is now finding a ready market among tbe jobbing houses. Seventy cases was th« output tor the last week in October. Waterworks Extension. Bills have been open««) by the city council of New Whatcom, Wash., for eiterriitig the city waler mains a dis tance of M,6o0 feet. The extension will be of 24-inch wooden stave pipe. Blue grouse are reported aa becoming very scarce in the mountains, on« theorist explaining the fact aa tbe out come of the introiluction of the thous ands of sheep into the bree«ling grounds of the birds. The sheep are said is trample upon th« eggsand young bird«. I Congressman Thomas H. Tongue will have tbe appointment of a cadet to tbs West Point military aoademy next spring, and announeea that examina- tionawili !>« had at Vanoouver barracks the first Monday of March.