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A STORM-SWEPT COAST. CANAI AND SUBSIDY BILLS Snow, Gale* and High Tides Prevailing on the Atlantic. An Insane Asylum Cottage Burned at Yankton. WOMEN PATIENTS THE VICTIMS The Thermometer Registered 23 Below Zero, But Prompt Action Saved Others From Freezlug. . i Yankton, S. D., Feb. 14.—A most horrifying tire occurred this morning at 2 o'clock at tire state insane asy lum, when one of the cottages was com* pletely gutted and caused tiie loss of the lives of 17 women inmates. Tiie cottage bad stone and granite walls with wooden interiors, and in tended for lanndty purposes. Owing to the crowded condition of the main building, 40 of the female patients were placed here with the laundry in the basement. The fire originated in the diyrootn of the laundry. Here there was a coil of steam pipes, and the theory is that either fine particles simi lar to lint settled on the pipes and ig nited, or that clothes which were thickly hung close by dropped on to the pipes and were fired. The fighting ot the fire was greatly hindered by the loss of power. The only source of water was an artesian well, 400 feet distant, the pipes for pumping which ran through the cot tage. The intense heat soon cause! the pipes to burst, thus leaving the fire men without power, and dependent en tirely upon the direct pressure from the tank. But two streams of water could be thrown on the building, and these did but little good. Fifty-two persons wers in the build ing, 40 patients and 12 attendants. The structure was three stories and an attic high, and had two entrances. There was one stairway from the sec ond and third floors, which led into the main hall, thus giving but one egress for those above the first floor. Patients and attendants fled with ter ror, great confusion resulting, especially among those on the upper floors. Many heartrending scenes were enacted as the inmates, clad only in their night clothes and barefooted, rushed down the narrow flight of stairs, and Anally out into the enow. The temperature was 23 degrees below zero, and further loss of life from freezing was prevented alone by prompt work of the attend ants from the main buildings. The at tendants escaped, as did the others, who were Baved, with none of their personal effects, many losing all they possessed. Portions of charred re mains can be seen in the debris at the bottom of the basement. The four walls of stone still stand, black and grim, and will make the work of re moval dangerous, as a total collapse is liable to occur without a moment's warning. The institution was destroyed by fire in 1882, when six lives were lost. The pecuniary loss at today’s fire is * 18,000, uninsured. Boston, Feb. 11.—A howling north east snow storm has prevailed in the bay and along Massachusetts coast dur ing the past 24 hours. A three masted schooner, name unknown, is reported wrecked off Nantasket beach. The Hull lifesaving crew has sent out a boat. At present writing it is not known whether or not the ve.ovl’d crew are still alive. Boston harbor was a fury of driven snow and scattered spray. The ferry- boat slips were under water, and pas sengers had to wade for it. The storm played havoc with prop erty along the Lynn and Swampscott shores. The exceptionally high tides swept away all buildings and de molished yachts and other small craft lying upon the shore at Kings Beach in Swampscott. At Lynn, at high tide, the water went a considerable distance up New Washington street, flooding the cellars of several residences and making car and foot traffio difficult. The sea de molished $5,000 worth of stone break water on the front. Down on Cape Cod a howling northeast blizzard, such as preaviled last November on the aw ful night when the steamer Portland went down with all on board, raged all day. None of the lighships could be seen and it was impossible to learn whether the Pollock Rip lightship was holding its moorings or not. BY TREMENDOUS LACK OF TIME j ' SEAS. Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 11.—The steamer Empress of Japan arrived yes- , terday from Ilong Kong and Yoko- i liania. Mail advices say that the j steamer Kinshui Maru, which sailed from Seattle December 28, lost six men overboard on her trip across. When two days out the wind blew a gale fiom the northeast with mountainous seas. Some of the crew, led by Mr. Laprack, chief officer, were secuiing hitch covers and all movable fittings on the after deck, when a very heavy sea broke on board, completely filling the after deck and washing overboard the apprentice, officer and four sailors. Captain Brady at once put about in search ot the men, but could not find them. Several companion-ways of the Kinshni were carried away, besides large pieces of bulwarks. INVESTIGATE MILES’ CHARGES. President McKinley Appoints a Court of Inquiry. TO CONSIDER The Army Bill Muat Fa«« or th« Preai dent Will Call an Kstra Heaaiou— Chairman Cannon'« Warning. Six Men Lost Overboard From the Kin« shiu Marti. Washington, Feb. 11.—The president has appointed a court of inquiry to ex amine into the charges touching the meat furnished during the wai with Spain and other matters involved in the charges made by General Miles against the administration of war affairs. The court will consist of Major-General Wade, Colonel George W. Daivs, Ninth infantry, and Colonel Gillespie, corps of engineers. The oourt will meet in this city Feb ruary 15, to investigate the allegations of Miles as to the meat furnished the army. The court will also submit an BURIED IN AN AVALANCHE. opinion upon the merits of the case, and Miles’ charges, together with such Many Italian Miners Victims of the recommendations ot further proceed Slide—Eight Bodies Recovered. ings as may be warranted by tiie facts Denver, Feb. 14.—Two mighty ava- i developed in the course of the inquiry. lancbes combining into one swept Miles declined to discuss the appoint down Cherokee gulch at 8 o’clock this morning, carrying away a dozen or ment of the court. more mine buildings, cabins and ma TO SUCCEED EAGAN. chinery, and causing a great loss of life and damage to mine property. How Colonel John F. Weston to lie Com- m I a an ry-General. many dead bodies lie in this great mass of snow and debris will not be known | New York, Feb. 11.—A dispatch to before spring. Kight dead bodies are I the Tribune from Washington says: now at the morgue, two more persons General Eagan is to be placed on the are known to be lost, and three have retired list of the army in a few days been taken out alive. The rescuing ' on his own application, after 30 years’ party has only penetrated about 15 feet service, and Colonel John F. Weston, into the mass of snow and wreckage the senior officer of the subsistence de piled up at the foot of the gulch to the partment is to be nominated by the president as commissary-general of sub depth of 75 feet. sistence. Agoncillo Ordered the Fight. The arrangement for General Eagan’s Washington, Feb. 14.—The follow retirement was made before the presi ing cablegram was received at the war dent commuted the sentence of dismis department today from Otis: sal imposed upon him by the court- “Manila, Feb. 14.—Adjutant-Gen martial. eral, Washington: It is reported the By hie retirement General Eagan insurgent representative at Washington will forfeit 11,375 from the annual pay telegraphetd Aguinaldo to drive out to which he would have been entitled the Americans before the arrival of re for the next six years under the sen inforcements. The dispatch was re tence of suspension. ceived at Hong Kong and mailed to To Bury It« Dead. Malolos, which decided on the attack Olympia, Wash., Feb. 11.—Gover to be made about the 7th inst. The eagerness of the insurgent troops to . nor Rogers has received a letter from engage the Americans precipitated the the father of a young man killed in the recent engagement at Manila, ask battle.” ing the governor what, if any, provi Panama Strike Continue«. sion would be made by the state for Colon, Colombia, Feb. 14.—At a burial, in the event that the bodies conference held yesterday at Panama, , were brought home by the United a representative of the strikers declared States. The governor referred the mat that the men were willing to accept ter to the legislature in a special mes <2.20 a day in currency, but the rail- I sage. giving his opinion that the state way officials declined to entertain the would honor itself by providing suit proposition. Fifty more laborers from able burial for its soldiers killed in a Fortune island arrived today on the foreign engagement. steamer Finance. The general situa The |M Kins’« Graap. tion, so far as the strike is concerned, Chicago, Feb. 11.—This city is in is unaltered. Thia end of the Panama the grip of the ooldest weather sinoe railroad ia completely blockaded. 1872. Twenty-two below is last night's record. About 20 persons were so se Gal. In England. verely froetbitten during the early London. Feb. 14.—A heavy gale morning that they had to betaken from awept the British islands yesterday and the streets to hospitals. Several por baa continued today, causing floods at tions of the city are suffering from manv pointe. Rivera have overflowed lack of water, due to frozen pipes. theii banks, railways have been sub One man was frozen to death on the merged and there have been numerous street last night while intoxicated. casualties along the coast.__ In reply to the representations of Ambassador White, Germany has as-1 sured the United States that she will investigate the conduct of her agents in Samoa, and should it be shown that they have acted in violation of the treaty of Berlin, she will recall them. Both Will Be Sidetracked at This Session. Washington, Feb. 11.—Chairman Cannon, of the appropriations com mittee of the house, in the course of a general debate on the sundry civil bill today, sounded a note of warning against extravagant appropriations, and particularly served notice that neither ship-subsidy bill nor the Nicaragua canal bill could be passed at this ses sion. Although he specifically dis claimed speaking for any one but him self, the statements he made, coming fiom the chairman of the appropria tions committee, caused great inter est. Cannon made a statement of the expenditures and revenue for the pres ent fiscal year, increasing Secretary Gage’s estimate of the deficiency in the revenues from $112,000,000 to $159,- 000,000, exclusive of the $20,000,000 to be paid to Spain under the provi sions of the treaty of Paris. At the opening of the session of the house today, a bill to amend the war revenue act was passed, providing that when a bond or note was secured by mortgage but one stamp should be affixed, of a higher rate due on either instrument. Among other bills passed was one granting railways the right of way through the Nez Perces reserva tion, in Idaho; to grant Boulder, Colo., 1,800 acres of land in the mountain« for a park; to remove the existing dis ability of Confederates, preventing them from sitting on federal, petit and grand juries (thia was the last of the political disabilities of ex Confederates to be removed), and for the relief of the heirs of the late Edward De Leon, late consul-general to Egypt. The house then went into committee of the whole and took up the consider ation of the sundry civil appropriation bill. Cannon (Rep. Ill.), in charge of the measure, made a general analysis of what it contained. It carries $62,- 928,101, but $20,000,000 ia for pay ment to Spain to carry out the provi sions of the Paris treaty. Exclusive of that, the bill carries $8,095,758 less than the estimates, and $5,929,311 less than the current law. Cannon’s statement of the condition of the ievenues brought on a general discussion, which lasted until adjourn ment. Tn the Senate. Washington, Feb. 11. — Several bills of minor importance were passed by i the senate this morning. One of them was to restore to their original status as to promotion officers of the navy and marine corps who lost numbers by rea son of advancement of othei officers for exceptional and meritorious service dur ing the war with Spain. Another bill passed authorized the purchase or construction of a launch for the customs service at Astoria, Or., to cost not more than $2,500. Consideration of the executive, legis lative ami judicial bill was then re sumed. The paragraph relating to the deposit of copyright works in the na tional library was sti icken out with the intention of revisiug it in conference. A brief but lively civil service de bate was precipitated by an inquiry of Cockrell, concerning the expenditure of money for the office of supervising architect. He maintained that the work of the supervising architect’s office was done slowly, if not badly. The construction of public buildings dragged through year after year. Were those buildings being erected by private individuals they would be completed in one season. Following a general discussion, the pending bill was laid aside, after 51 pages had been disposed of, and at 6:15, on motion of Hoar, the senate went Into executive session and sooon adjourned. Army Bill Must Pass. Washington, Feb. 11.—The Post says: “The army reorganization bill must pass or the president will call an extra session of congress. The opposi tion to the bill in the senate has al ready been frequently referred to in the Post, and the prediction made that some compromise would be agreed upon whereby legislation of a temporary character would be placed in the j aimv appropriation bill. This will not satisfy the administration. No make-shift expedient will be accepted. The president has determined that the passage of the army bill shall be made an issue, and there is no doubt in administration circles that he will be successful. If, however, an ob stacle should prevent action, an extra session will surely be held.” An Independent Line. Portland, Or., Feb. 11.—Millionaire William G. Tiffany, of New York, the largest holder in the proposed Portland and Seattle road, vehemently denies that the Union Pacific or any other road will have any interest in the new line. He states it will Ire entirely in dependent. More to the point, work on the road is to begin at once. Twenty Million Dollar Mortgage. The American Genialities. Denver, Colo., Feb. 11.—A mortgage for 920,000,000, given to the Central Trust Company, of New York city, by the Colorado & Southern railway, was filed in this county today. The rev enue stampe used aggregate«] $35,250. Washington, Feb. 11.—General Otis cables the war department that the to tal casualties resulting from all engage ments since the of evening February 4 aggregate 268, as follows: Killed, 3 officers, 56 enlisted men; wounded, 8 officers, 169 enlistd men; missing, 2 enlisted men. ATTACK ON CALOCAN. town Reduced by Combined Assault of American Forces. Manila, Feb. 18.—The American forces at 3:10 this afternoon made a combined attack upon Colocau and re duced it in short order. At a signal from the tower of the de la Lome church (United States signal station), the double-turreted monitor Monadnock opened fire from the bay with the big guns of her fore tui let on the earth- works, with great effect. Soon after ward the battery bombarded the place from another position. The rebels reserved their fire until the bombardment ceased, when they fired volleys of musketry as the Mon tana regiment advanced on the jungle. The Kansas regiment, on the ex treme left, with the artillery deploying to the right, charged across the open and canied the earthworks, cheering under a heavy fire. Supported by the artillery at the church, the troops fur ther advanced, driving the enemy, fighting every foot, right into the town line, and penetrated to the presidency and lowered the Filipino flag at 5:30 P. M. The enemy's sharpshooters in the jungle on the right fired at long range on the Pennsylvania regiment, but the rebels were soon silenced by sharpnel shells and the Pennsylvania remained in the trenches. As the Americans advanced they burned the native houses. The rebels were mowed down like grass, but the American losses were slight. AFTER A TOWNSITE. A Portion of th« City ot Roalvn Clalm.d by Swan N.l.on—Oth.r Coast N.wa. Ira M. Krutz and Bogle ft Rigg have begun an action in the superior court of Kititas county for the recovery of 160 acres upon which the townsite of lloslyn. Wash., is located, and the im provements of the Northern Pacifio Railway Copmany, amounting to about $150.000. This suit is brought against the coal company and railway com pany in behalf of Swan Nelson, who claims under title of an application for a homestead filing, made in June, 1884, but which was rejected by the local land office. The main ouestion involved in the contest for possession of this valuable properety hinges upon ti e validity of the railroad company’s withdrawals of 1873 and 1879, and re filing of maps of definite location. Fishing Suspended. Fishing lias been practically sus pended on the Columbia and the steel head buyers hava gone out of business for the winter. The steelheads are now running up the creeks tributary to the Columbia. Fanners on the Lewie and Claik, John Day, and other rivers are using setnets and catch enough to supply their tables with fresh fish. Occasionally a chinook ealmon is taken, but these fish, with a few steelheads, are chiefly caught in the sloughs in the vicinity of Clifton. Chinooks sell at Frightened Filipino Envoy«. 6 cents and steelheads at 51« cents, San Francisio, Feb. 13. — On the but scarcely enough are taken to sup steamer from Yokohama today carue ply local demands. “General" E. Riego de Dios and Senor An Old Offender. M. Rivera, who are Aguinalde’s special A. B. Trilwud, who was found guilty eommissoners to Washington. They were very much disturbed when told of in Klamath county in November, for the latest developments in the Philip attepting to kill J. F. Adams, has been identified by the superintendent of the pines. insane asylum at Kankakee, 111., as England Wants Warships. Newton Ritchie, who escaped from Lima, Peru, via Galveston, Tex., that institution in 1881. Trilwud, or Feb. 13.—Great Britain, it is reported Ritchie, is serving a 10 years’ sentence here today, has offered to purchase the in the penitentiary. Chilian and Argentine warships, Henor Profit From Cow$< Carlos Walker Martinez, minister of W. M. Allingham, of Shedd, Or., the interior, has demanded of the Bo livian minister, Dr. Emeterie Cano, a has 14 cows which he milked during guarantee of tire immunity of the lives December and shipped the milk to Al and property of the Chilians in Bolivia bany creamery, lie received a check during the hostilities between Presi for $93.60 for the milk during that dent Alonzo of Bolivia and the federal month, besides selling $1.50 worth of milk to local parties and using plenty ists, or insurgents. for liis family. It is nearly ail average MUST HAVE A CABLE. of $7 per cow a month. President McKinley’s Me.aage to Con gress Vrgea Action at This Seaalon. Gov. Rogers as an Author. Governor Rogers, of Washington, Washington, Feb. 13.—The presi has received the advance sheets of a dent’s message on the Pacifio cable, woik of fiction he is about to issue. transmitted to congress today, is as fol The title of the work is, “Looking For ward; or, the Story of an American lows: "As a consequence of the ratification Farm.” The work is in a sense auto of the treaty of Paris by the senate of biographical in character, and is out of the United Statos, and its expected the usual line of the executive’s liter- ratifiction by the Spanish government, aiy efforts. the United States will come into pos Price of Hay on the Rise. session of the Philippine islands, on Hay was reported a month ago to be the farther shores of the Pacific, the worth $10 per ton in the region south Hawaiian islands and Guam being of Pendleton. It sold for less when United States territory, and forming the warm weather came on; but, now convenient stopping places on the way that the cold has come again, hay com across the sea, and the necessity for mands a high figure. A large quantity speedy cable communication between will be needed to feed livestock through the United States and all the Philip the remainder of the winter. pine islands has become imperative. Artesian Well Irrigation. Such communication should be estab The Wilson artesian well, in Wide lished in such a way as to be wholly under the control of the United States, Hollow, Yakima county, Wash., is whether in time of peace or war. At now down 1080 feet, and water has been present, the Philippines can be reached secured sufficient to irrigate about 10 only by cables which pass through acres. Operations have been tempor many foreign countries, and the Ha arily suspended to await the receipt of waiian island and Guam can only he casing, the drill having struck a stratum communicated with by steamers, in of gravel. volving delays in each instance of at An Old Pioneer Dead. least a week. The present conditions Thomas Finlayson, aged 78, a Scotch should not be allowed to continue for a pioneer, who came to Oregon in 1862, moment longer than is absolutely nec and made the first or second land essary. The time has arrived when a entry in the present Baker county, died cable in the Pacific must extend as far at Baker City last week. The sturdy as Manila, touching at the Hawaiian pioneer’s farm is now a part of the islands and Gimm on the way. thriving Pacifio addition to this city. “Under those circumstances, it be Found His Brother Dead. comes a paramount necessity that meas ures shoo hi be taken before the close of A young man named Piper died near the present congress to provide such Ellensburg last week. A sad circum means as may seem suitable for the es stance was the arrival of a brother from tablishment of a cable system. I reo the East to visit him after a separation ommend the whole subject to the care of eight years. The first he knew ot ful consideration of congress, and to his brother’s death was when he met such prompt action as may Beem ad the party with the body. visable. Frozen Heating Apparatus. BLEAK The steam heating apparatus in the public school at Independence was Bodie* of Andree and Party Probably frozen during tho recent cold snap, Found—Discovered by Natives. and school had to bo adjourned for a Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Feb. 13.—A week, or until the heating apparatus gold mine owner named Monastyrschin could again be gotten into working or has received u letter saying that a tribe der. of Turgusos, inhabiting the Timir pen Warrants Now at Par. insula, North Siberia, recently in Umatilla county warrants are quoted formed the Russian police chief of the district that on January 7 last, between at par at Pendleton. Orders for scrip Komo and Pit, in the province of Yen to be issued at the March term of the iseisk, they found a cabin constructed ooitnty court sell for 100 cents on the of cloth ami cordage, apparently Ire- dollar. Pendleton city wararnts sell at longing to a balloon. Close by were 90 and 92. La Grande on Her Muscle. the bodies of three men. the head of An athletic club, with 63 members, one badly crushed. Around them were a number of instruments, the uses of has been organized at La Grande. which were not understood by the The officers are: Dr. E. D. Steincamp, president; Dr. R. Lincoln, vice-presi Turgusoe. The police chief has started for the dent; F. L. Meyers, secretary and spot to investigate, and it is Irelieved treasurer. that the bodies are those of the aero Killed While Hk.tlnc. naut Herr Andree and his companions. While out skating with a number of other boys, at Independence, Or., re Missouri Fruit Crop* Killed. Nevada, Mo., Feb. 13.—The jreace cently, George W. Phillips fell on the ami a prior« t crops of Vernon ami Cedar ice. His head struck forcibly, and he counties are repotted killed today. The died in the evening. lose is estimated at more than $100,« Native Rons at Ashland. 000. The weather is the coldest known A cabin of Native Sons will b« or here in 30 years. ganized at Ashland February 21. IN SIBERIA. Trial Revision Bill Adopted. Paris, Feb. 13.—The trial revision bill was adopted by a vote of 332 to 232 in the chamber of deputies. Late this evening there was considerable ferment in the streets, caused by the shouting of the rival parties. Olathe, Kan., Feb. 13.—Ai»nt Dicy The chief officer and boatswain of Tra.apnrt Grant Pa.ee« Algl.ra. Dibba, aged 80 years, was found frozen the British steamer Martello, from Algiers, Feb. 11.—The United States Wichita, Kan., Feb. 11. — It is re to death in her home at Shawnee, here Xew York for Hull. England, were transport Grant, which sailed from ported here that many cattle of the she had lived alone for years. She had killed and the quartermaster and a New York January 10, bound for Ma range are suffering from frozen hoof* apparently hurt herself by a fall anj seaman drowned, during a fearful nila, passed here todav. was unable to call for help. This usually proves fatal. etorm recently. The Penny In Business. A Baker City merchant has in augurated the custom of giving even change to customers, and finds that it takes. This puts 1-cent pieces into circulation. A Narrow Escape. Eight hoys and girls,who were coast ing on a bob-sled, at Tacoma, were run over by a laundry wagon. For a won der, every one escaped without a •cratch. New Creosutlng Plant. The creoeoting plant of the Southevw Pacific has recently began operation a* Latham, in Lane county. Huge re torts or boilers, long enough to take its piles 110 feet long, are first filled wit!» timber, which are then covered with jieosota and heated to a temperature of 250 degrees. This heat drive* th* water all out of the wood by evapora tion, and the hot creosote takes its place during an immersion of eight to twelve hours. It is claimed that piling thus treated will last 50 years. The life of untreated piles is about 10 years. Many Horses Perished. Reports from Gilliam county, Or., are to the effect that range horses have perished in enormous numbers during the late cold snap. Persons who trav eled over that section of the country have seen the animals lying by the roadsied, having been frozen to death after reaching the stage of starvation. Moro Goats Than First Reported. Instead of only 1,400 goats in and around North Yamhill, the local pa per says that, according to a recent careful count, made by some local men, there are about 4,000 head, all of which are within a comparatively short distance of the town. N.w Shingle Mill. E. L. Gaudette, a Whatcom county. Wash., logger, is building a new shingle mill at Hamish lake. The mill will cost about $8,000 and be finished and running about March 20 or later during that month. The mill ent about 150,000 shingles a day. Increase in Wheat Acreage. The reports of confidential agents of the Southern Pacifio show that a 10 per cent increase in acreage has been sown in wheat this winter, and also that th* condition of the crop is excellent. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Portland Market. Wheat—Walla Walla, 58c; Valley, 59c; Bluestem, 610 per bushel. Flour—Best grades. $3.20; graham, $2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 41(3 42c; choice gray, 89@ 40c per bushel. Barley—Feed barley, $22 @23; brew ing, $28.00 per ton. Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid dlings, $22; shorts, £18; chop, $16.00 per ton. Hay—Timothy, $9@10; clover. $T @8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton. Butter—Fancy creamery, 50@55c; seconds, 45@50c; dairy, 40@45c store, 25@30o. Cheese—Oregon full cream, 12*^0; Young America, 15c; new cheese, 10c per pound. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $4@S per dozen; hens, $4.00@5.00; springs, $1.25@8; geese, $6.OO@7.OO for old. $4.50®)5 for young; ducks, $5.000 5.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15@ 16c per pound. Potatoes—60 @ 75c per sack; sweets, 2c per pound. Vegetables—Beets, 90c; turnips, 75a per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab bage, $1 @ 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75a per saok; beans, 8c per pound; celery 7O@75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box; )>eas, 3@85^c per pound. Onions—Oregon, 75c@$l per sack. Hops—15@18o; 1897 crop, 4@6c. Wool—Valley, 10@12o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 8@12c; mohair, 16c per pound. Mutton—Gross, beet sheep, wethers and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton, 7Mc; spring lambs, 7^c per lb. Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.25; light and feeders, $8.00@4.00; dressed, $5.00 @5.50 per 100 pounds. Beef—Gross, top steers, 8.50@$8.75; cows, $2.50 @8.00; dressed beef, 5@6J^c per pound. Veal—Large, 6)^@7c; small, 8@9a per pound. Seattle Markets. Onions, 85@90o per 100 pounds. Potatoes, $18@20. Beets, per sack, 75c. Turnips, per sack, 60& 75c. Garrets, per sack, 45@60c. Parsnips, per sack, $1. Cauliflower. 76@$1.00c par dos. Celery, 85 @ 40c. Cabbage, native and California (1.25 per 100 pounds. Apples, 85@50c per box. Pears, 50c @$1.50 per box. Prunes, 50c per box. Butter—Creamery, 26c per pound; dairy and ranch, 15@20c per pound. Eggs, 27c. Cheese—Native, ^@12'^0. Poultry—Old bens, 14c per pound; spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c. Fresh meats—Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 8c; cows, prime, 7c; mutton, 8)<c; pork, 7c; veal, 6@8c- Wheat—Feed wheat, $28. Oats—Choice, per ton, $26. Hay—Puget Sound mixed, $9.00(9 11; choioe Eastern Washington tim othy, $11 @ 14. Corn—Whole, $28.50; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, $25@26; whole, $22. Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.50; straights, $8.25: California brands, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $8.50; graham, per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour, $8.75; rye flour, $4.50. Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. Feed—Chopped feed, $20 @22 per ton; middlings, per ton,'$17; oil cak* meal, per ton, $35. Ran Francisco Market. Wool—Spring—Nevada, 10@12c per pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10@12c; Val ley, 15@17c; Northern, 9@llc. Miilstuffs—Middlings, $19@20.50; bran, $18.00@ 19.00 per ton. Onions—-Si)verskin,50@90cper sack. Butter — Fancy creamery, 27o; do seconds, 25@26c; fancy dairy, 23c; do seconds, 19@22c per pouni. Eggs — Store, 18@ 17c; fancy ranch. 30 @ 22c. Hous—1898 crop, 13@15a.