THE
PRICE
OF
SILVER.
The Smelters’ Trust to Advance It Ten
Per Cent.
■ wk cur ii w.............
••CHINA'S
SORROW."
Yellow River.
A Woman’l Straight Shot.
NEWS OF NORTHWEST
Washington county boasts of th*
obampion female rifle shot of Oregon.
| The other day throe dogs were harass
A Budget of General News Gathered in
ing the goats belonging to John Heis
Several Pacific Coast
ler, of Gales Creek. The owner wa*
States.
absent, but Miss Mary, hie 18-year-old
daughter, grasped a rifle and went to
Abandoned by Their Guide«.
the scene of the chase. Upon her ap
Francis A. Hol ter man, who has «!• proach tiie dogs fled, but she brought
rived at Seattle from Copper river, one of them down, while it was run
Alaska, tells a story of the fortunate ning at full speed, at a distance of 17t>
rescue of himself and son by a mis yards.
sionary after they bad been abandoned
Enjoying Wheat Land Rent«.
by Indians whom they iiad employed
Twenty Indians were arrested fo*
to guide them to the coast. Holter- drunkeness at Pendleton, Or., recent
man. with bis son, Bernard, James
Morris and Anglo Jenkins, were pros ly. The city jail haa been crowded,
pecting on the Altsek river. Their ■nd the force on the chain gang waa
provisions were reduced to a six days’ decorated with gay-colored Indian
Thia was made the occasion foa
supply, and they arranged with a a robes.
“time” bv the Indians because they
party of Indians to guide them to Yaku had just beeu receiving their annual
tat, about 50 miles down the coast. rent for wheat lands. It made the
The Indians compelled them to leave saloon-mau’s opportunity.
their baggage behind. It was appro
Activity at the Le Roi.
priated by the Indians. After taking
llolterman and his party down the
The Le Roi, the ernuk mine of Rose
coast a short distance tire Indian guides land, B. C., is being put into shape
deserted them in tiie expectation that for the shipment of 809 tons per day.
they would perish.
At the 600-foot level the ore runs from
$10 50 to $28.10; at 700 feet, from $14
Memento« of Miinlle Bay.
to $17, and the 900-foot level will soon
Tiie Spanish battle-flag and pennant be opened up, while new veins at lesser
presented to Olympia, Wash., by the depths have been cut. Ttiree hundred
United States cruiser Olympia have at tons daily, the output proposed, at an
length arrived at Washington’s capital average of $17, would yield a profit of
city. Tire flag is made of heavy bunt about $3,000 a day.
ing, and is 10x7 feet in dimensions.
In tiie center re the coat-of-arms of
Four Fin. Ilor.es.
Spain. It formerly flew from tire mast
Spaulding Bros., who have large con
of one of the Spanish vesesla sunk in tracts for cutting logs for the Oregon
the harbor of Manila, on May 1 last by City paper mills, purchsed of Mrs.
Admiral Dewey’s fleet, and bears a Judson, of Independence, recently, four
card with the inscription: “Compli large horses, which weighed, respec
ments of tiie gunners of the United tively, 1480, 1420, 1390 and 1518
States flagship Olympia, May 1. 1898, pounds. The horse that weighed 1518
to G. B. Lane, mayor, from T. P. was a 4-year-old. The price was $450.
Toohey.” The pennant is 80 feet in Their purcbseis will use them in then
length, and varies in width from half logging camps.
an inch to seven inches.
| Washington, March 27.—Citizens of
Topeka, Kan., March 25. — Mr. John I
T.
Graham, of Denver, who owns ex Filipinos Defeated in a Most **'e *
residing in Che Foo,
Negroes Fleeing From the tensive
gold ami silver mines in Colo
China, have made an earnest airpeal,
rado and New Mexico and copper mines
| througli Consul Fowler, at Che Foo to
Little River Country.
Decisive Battle.
in Utah, passed through Topeka to
! the charitable in America and else
day on his way to his home. Mr.
where on behalf of the sufferers from
THE RACE WAR IN ARKANSAS Graham operates smelting plants at AMERICAN
LOSSES
SLIGHT the appalling Yellow river floods of
his various mines, and he has been in
this year. These floods have been de
New York in attendance at tiie meeting
scribed bv the natives as “China’s sor
Many Black* Left Hanging to Treat — of smelter operators which resulted Many of the Enemy Killed and Cap row," and the petitioneis state that
The Country in a State of Intense in the perfection of a gigantic trust,
tured—Town of Polo Taken by Gen never before was tiie distress so great
Excitement—Whites Collecting.
with a capital of $65,000,000.
eral Otis' Troops.
and heart-rending as now. The most
While in this city Mr. Graham made
conservative estimate place tiie number
j i of
and time
oi starving
siaiTing at
ai 2,000,000,
«.wv.vou, anil
lime will
will
the important statement that the first
Manila, March 27.—The movement undoubtedly augment the distress.
Texarkana, Ark., March 25.—A race step made by tiie new trust would be
war is on in Little liver county, and to advance the price of silver 10 per of tiie American troops today swept
Tiie petitioneis say that they are
tiie insurgents hack toward Ma’.abon. daily, almost hourly, in receipt of re
during the last 24 hours an indefinite cent.
number of negioes have met their death
“This is a truet that will prove bene General Harrison Gray Otis' brigade ports from their countrymen in the in
at the hande of an infuriated white ficial instead of oppressive,” said Mr. is in front of La Loloma, where there terior depicting the condition of tiie
population. Seven are known to have Graham. “All tiie smelter operators is a atietch of a mile of rough, open famine refugees; hundreds of villages
been lynched, shot to death or slain in who entered into tiie combine signed a oountry. The insurgent trenches "in are submerged, cities surrounded by
some manner, and the work is not yet contract agreeing not to raise tiie price the edge of the woods are four teet water, homes, furniture, clothing, in
’ done. The bodies of the victims of the on treatment of ore for 10 years. Tiie deep, and furnish a good head covet.
fact, everything, is under water or de
The American troops advanced on stroyed; the natives themselves are
mob's vengeance are hanging to the advance in silver will be made within
limbs of trees in various parts of the a very short time, just as soon as the the double quick, yelling fiercely and living in straw huts; many have abso
occasionally dropping in the grass and lutely no shelter from the winter’s cold
county, strung up wherever overtaken; combine can be perfected.”
firing by volley. The natives stood and snow, ate subsisting on bark, wil
while that of another, who wat shot to
TORTURED BY FILIPINOS.
until the Americans were within 200 low twigs, roots, etc. Tire summer’s
death while trying to escape, was
yards of their position, and then broke crops have been a failure, the seed for
thrown into a creek and left there.
Terrible Experience of Photographer
and ran for the woods. About 30 of next spring’s sowing is gone, and there
The country is in a state of most in
A. R. Peter«.
them were killed in tiie outskirts and is nothing for the starving millions to
tense excitement. White men are col
San Francisco, March 25.—A letter 70 of them on the roads
lecting in mobs, heavily armed and de
hope for in tiie future.
The Montana and Kansas troops met
termined; negroes are fleeing for their from Captain McQuesten, surgeon of
the
Twenty-eighth
regulars,
now
at
the hottest resistance in a strip from TOSSED HIGH IN THE AIR.
lives, and the community is in an
Manila, tells of the release of A. R. ! which the rebels have greatly worried
uproar.
by a Boiler Explosion
The exact number of negroes who Peters, a photographer, who was cap the Americans recently during the Blx Men Injured
in Seattle.
night time.
have been summarily dealt with, or tured and toitured by the Filipinos.
Peters was made prisoner while tak
Seattle, Wash., March 27. — A boiler
Ninety minutes after the start—at 6
those who may yet fall into tiie hands
of the mob before order is restored, ing pictures outside tiie lines. He was o’clock—the whole front, for a dis exploded in the basement of a combi
may never he known. Seven bodies thrust into a filthy jail, where he was tance of three miles to the north, had nation lodging house and saloon on the
have been found, and other victims visited by a native captain, who tested been cleared. General Hale's brigade corner of Washington and South Sec
are being hunted, anil will meet a liis sword on his body and promised to had simultaneously swept in a north und streets, tonight, injuring six men.
kill liim. The rebel chief then called westerly direction, routing tho enemy Three were fatally injured.
similar fate when run to earth.
in
a number of naked savages, all and burning the town of San Francisco
The boiler was located under a side
Little River county is in the extreme
southeast corner of the state, bordered armed, who executed a war dance and del Monte and a number of scattered walk, and all the injured were passing
bj- when the explosion occurred. Two
on the west by the Indian territory made passes at Peteis, one of them huts.
Invalid Warrant Indrbtedneaa.
and on the south by Texas. The negro wounding him in tiie arm. The next | The line was then opposite Nova- men were almost over the boiler amt
Recently tiie local city officials and
population is large, and has for a long morning he was taken to Malolos, liches, the artillery advancing along a were thrown about 50 feet in the air.
time proved very troublesome to the where he found eight Americans, two good road from Loloma to Novaliches, Besides having their bones broken, property-owners of Cheney, Wash.,
whites. Frequent murders have oc Englishmen and a Spaaiard. From the wagons carrying pontoons, tele they were severely cut by broken glass. were greatly stirred up over threats
curred, and thefts and tights have he - here he finally secured his release graph supplies and ammunition follow The force of the explosion was suffi made by owners of Cheney warrants to
through the intervention of American ing. The infantry moved in splendid cient to throw pieces of tiie boiler 100 ask that a receiver be appointed for the
come common affairs.
I order.
officials.
feet in tiie air. All the windows in city. Attorney F. C Robertson, of
“The savages who attacked Peteis,” I Smoke fiom the burning huts marked the adjacent buildings were broken. Spokane, has been engaged to furnish
FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
I
continues Captain McQuesten, “were tiie line of the American advanco. It is thought that the explosion was an opinion concerning tiie validity of
I
Terrible Storie* From the Volga Pro*- of the tiibe known as headhunters and Ambulances and horse litters, led by Jue to the carelessness of tiie engineer, the city’s obligations.
His report was
Inces—Prompt Aid Necessary.
cannibals. They live in the interior Chinese, brought in the wounded, I who allowed the boiler to run dry.
made to tiie city officials. He con
St. Petersburg, March 25.—The of the island, and will not show any among whom were a few Filipinos.
tends that tiie $10,000 bonded debt and
Almost Wiped Off the Map.
newspapers of the city publish pitiable mercy after this to any unfortunate The Americans who were wounded en
about $5,000 of tiie $34,000 warrant
Nashville, Tenn., Marcii 27.—The debt is valid. He further asserts that
accounts of tiie condition of the so- white man who tuay fall into their dured their injuries bravely, one group
called famine districts of Russia, es hands.”
which had been brought into tire hos little town of Liberty, in Dekalb coun under tiie constltuton of the state the
ty, is almost wiped off the map. A $29,000 invalid warrant indebtedness
pecially Samaria, in tiie eastern part
pital singing “Comrades. ”
Leper Settlement at Molokai.
of European Russia. The efforts of
The Pennsylvania troops took nine I furious cyclone swept over it last cannot lie validated at a special elec
San Francisco, March 25. — Rev. W.
the Red Cross Society have staved off H. Tubb will soon visit the leper set- i prisoners, among them a great naked night, wrenching trees from their roots tion, a« it would be beyond the consti
the horrors of actual starvation, but tlement on tiie island of Molokai, as captain of the Macabebee tribe and one and felling bouses in all directions. tutional limit.
the society’s funds are almost exhaust tiie agent of a local improvement club, i Japanese.
All tire prisoners were The Christian church, a handsome
Blueatem v$. Fife Wheat.
ed. and the dire distress, compelling and with the indorsement of Senator | greatly terrified, expecting to be exe brick structure, was blown to pieces in
Some years ago, says the Walla Walla
the outset, and people were panic-
the consumption of all kinds of garb Dwyer, tiie author of tiie concurrent cuted immediately.
Statesman, the raising of Fife wheat
age, has produced an epidemic of terri resolution adopted by the recent legis
General MacArthur's division, con stricken. The damage to property in was all the rage among farmers, and
ble mortality, with typhus, scurvy and lature to convert Molokai into a na sisting of the brigades of General Har the storm’s path is enormous, but no
many carloads were imported from
fatalities are reported.
other pestilential diseases.
tional leper settlement. He will re rison Gray Otis, General Hale and
Dakota, as No. 1 Fife always held the
The peasants are compelled to sell main among tiie lepers for four months, General Hall, supplemented by Gen
top price in the market, as it contained
Lynching in Mississippi.
everything, and are living in oold, and will work in connection with a eral Wheaton's brigade, advanoed at
a
larger percentage of gluten than our
Jackson,
Miss.,
March
27.
—
Three
damp and filthy cabins. Weakened by oommittee to be appointed by President daylight and cut the enemy's forces in
But
late
years — millers
do
as
• ww were
vvviv
vvi VI
-- — —- - -
—
— - of
—-
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negroes
taken a*
from an v.n
officer
of wheat.
hunger, they fall ready victims to ty McKinley to investigate the matter.
two. They captured tire towns of Polo the law and lynched by an armed mob not care for it, and winter Fife is
phus and acute scurvy. Unless the
There are a number of lepers in the ■ nd Novaliches on the left, and San
government gives prompt aid. the Vol San Francisco pesthouse and tiie citi Francisco del Monte and Mariquina on near Silver City, in Yazoo county, 'last' quoted 1 cent below club or bluestem;
ga provinces appear doomed to a repe zens are anxious to have them removed the right, clearing the rebel trenches Saturday morning. After being shot still it is a good winter wheat, as there
to deatli the bodies of the viotinis were is little danger of its freezing out.
tition of the horrors of 1891 and 1893. to Molokai.
in front of the line north from the weighted with bundles of cotton-bale Scotch Fife is still used as a mixture
river
to
Calocan.
They
also
secured
■
ties and thrown into the Yazoo river. for export.
THE BATTLE AT ILO ILO.
Leland Well Secured.
possession of the railroad, practically They were the ringleaders of the ne
To Receive Baptist«.
New York, March 25.—Tiie Herald cornering the flower of Agninaldo’s
The American I.nii We« One Killed
groes in the race encounter on the Mid
Tacoma, Wash., Baptiste are making
says:!
Warren
W.
Leland
will
receive
army
at
Malabon
and
in
the
foothills
and Fifteen Wounded.
night plantation early last week.
preparations to receive tire returning
each day until hie new hotel is com-' at Singalon, 20 miles apart.
»•
_
ItSâÎiâlà,
Liaiclì
—Details of the pleted a sum said to be $150 on “use , The troops engaged were the Third
delegates to the San Francisco meeting
Koch’« Investigation.
fighting at Ilo Ilo on March 16 show and occupanev policies,” which lie for- I
artillery, Oregon. Montana, Kansas,
Berlin, March 27.—Professor Koch, in May. A reception committee has
that 400 rebel riflemen from Pania tnnately held. Thia will be entirely Nebraska, Wyoming. Colorado, South
the celebrated bacteriologist, who in been named and an effort is to be made
were met by seven companies of the apart from tne insurance
will re Dakota and Minnesota volunteers; the 1884, a* the head of the German to induce a large portion of the Eastern
Eighteenth regiment, United States in ceive on furniture. The -.8«. an,i
delegations to return by way of Ta
fantry, and a battalion of Tennessee cupancy” policies provide for the pay. I Third, Fourth, Seventh and Twenty- cholera commission, visited Egypt and coma. E. E. Reeling and Rev. Wil
second
regulars,
tire
Utah
artillery
bat
India
and
there
discovered
the
so-
■volunteers. Supporting these troops merits to the insured for each day h;a '
talion and Twenty-third regiments. called “comma” cholera bacillus, will liam K. Randall, who are named on
were three two-inch Hotchkiss guns business is not in operation.
The American casualties were slight.
■tart with an expedition next month the reception committee, will go to San
tinder General Miller. North of Jaro,
for the tropics to continue his investi Francisco and will endeavor to induce
Preside!*
Mnf
?•»>»•
»<>
Hi.
Coait.
across the river, the Americans were
American River on the Rampage.
gation
as to tiie nature and origin of the delegates to come home by way of
met with a heavy fire. One man was
Sacramento, Marcir 27.—The Ameri
Washtngon, March 25. — It is now
malaria.
Tiie reichstag lias made a the Sound. It is believed many of
killed and 15 wounded of the Eight believed that President McKinley will can river is on tire rampage, especially
them will do so.
eenth regiment, and there were sev take an extended vacation this summer in the neighborhood of Folsom. Word grant of 60,000 marks in aid of the un
Close Beason on the Columbia.
dertaking.
eral cases of sunstroke. General Miller if public business will permit. Last was received today that water was
Fish Commissioner McGuire, of Ore
estimates that 50 rebels were killed spring he wanted to make a trip pouring over the great stone dam at
Rain In California.
gon, has received a letter from Com
and 100 wounded.
through the West, visiting Yellowstone the Folsom prison last night to a depth
San Francisco, March 27.—The rain
Park, and going as far as the Pacific of 15 feet, and at last accounts was is still falling in all parts of Northern i missioner Little, of Washington, stat
Reinforcement. for Otis.
coast, and ire may see his way clear to rising rapidly, A great log boom, California without signs of cessation. ing that he had reconsidered his inten
Washington, March 25. — Additional ' take that trip this summer.
which was held together with cables. News from the valley sections shows tion not to aid in enforcing tiie closed
reinforcements reached Manila this
has collapsed, About 15,000 logs came that the rivers are rising, but there is season law on the Columbia rive*, and
morning, as is indicated by the receipt
To Replace State Arm«.
down the stream, representing over 3,- little danger of flood just at present, would use every possible means to see
«f a dispatch front General Otis, saying
Washington. March 25.—The ord 000,000 feet of lumber. The Sacra- unless the rain should become more that the provisions of the law were
sarried out. This undoubtedly means
that the transport Sherman liad ar nance bureau of the war department mento river is slowly rising.
heavy or the weather warmer, in which that he will put a patrol-boat on the
rived with the troops in good condi has sent a circular to the governor of
case
the
snow
in
tiie
mountains
would
No Escape for Filipino«.
river. Il not, Mr. McGuire, whose
tion.
The Sherman followed the each state of the Union, stating that
Washington, March 27.—It is under ;nalt more rapidly titan tiie water could authority under tire decisions of the
Grant through the Suez canal, these the arms and ordnance stores furnished I
be oarried off.
courts extends from shore to shore.wil)
preceding the transport Sheridan over the volunteers during the Spanish war stood here that General Otis has so far
matured his plane of campaign that
enforce the law on both sides of the
Sherman Continues to Improve.
the same route. Tiie Sheridan is ex will be returned to the state in kind.
within a week or ten days he will lie
____
pected to reach Manila in about two
Santiago, Mardi 2 7. — Mr. Shennas riser.
To Parole the Youngers.
able to begin a movement which is ex is feeling very much better this even
weeks.
A Washington Invention.
St. Paul, March 25.—A bill which pected to mark the destruction of Ag ing, and bis physicians regard his con
These three vessels will add about
L. Harding, of Colfax, Wash., in
5,000 fresh regular troops to the mili will permit tiie parole of the Younger uinaldo’s army. Although stragglera dition aH very much improved. Dar ventor of the Harding differential rolls
tary forces in tiie Philippine islands, boys, wliich was defeated in the senate and fugitives may infest the island of ing tiie afternoon he sat on the deck of system, has been successful in interest
and are expected to aid materially in yesterday, was reconsidered and passed Luzon for some time it is believed that the Baris viewing Santiago
The ing tiie big machinery firm of Edward
the plane which contemplate the com today. The former bandits can be pa- after General Otis has delivered hi* United States cruiser Chicago is ex P. Allie Company in his patent. A
plete subjugation of tiie insurgents be roled with the approval of the board of neit blow, the insurgent army, as an pected here by day break tomorrow, and 2,000-barrel mill is being manufactured
fore the opening of the rainy season, pardons if the measure becomes a law. organization, will have ceased to exist. Mr. Sherman will be immediately using these rolls, for which a good
about the middle of April. The Solac*
transferred to her.
roaylty is paid. The system has had a
A Sweeping Victory.
An Electric Vehicle Company.
has reached Manila.
thorough and successful test in the
New York, March 27.—The World
Leke Steimer Ashore.
Trenton, N. J., March 25.—Articles
Rebels Ute Polnonon* Bullets.
of incorporation weie tiled today with prints the following Manila cable
Racine, Wig., March 2 6.—The Colfax mills, of which Mr. Harding is
New York, March 25.—A dispatch the secretary of state of the New Eng under date of March 27:
Goodrich passenger steamer Atlanta is head miller, and the prospects are
A sweeping victory over Aguinaldo’s on the beach two miles south of this bright for the success of the process.
to the Herald from Washington says: land Electric Vehicle & Transportation
Reports receiver] at the war department Company, with a capital of $25,000,- forces has just been won by the United city. The steamer was caught in the
Lest Not« I'aid.
from the medical officers serving with 000. The company is authorized to States troops.
drift ice, which was driven in by the
The last of many long-standing
The total American loss is estimated southeast gale. She is reported|badly promisor» notes against the First
troops in the Philippines show that manufacture appliances for operating
Aguinaldo’s army is using biass-tipped vehicles and to manufacture and oper at about 100, including troth killed and listed. The passengers are still aboard, Methodist church of Spokane, has been
wounded. The Filipinos loss is be A life-saving crew has gone to the rea- settled. Within 15 minutes during a
bullets.
Several American soldiers ate the vehicles themselves.
tween 800 and 400.
have been wounded by the poisonous
eue.
Sunday morning service, recently,
Buffalo Returns From Manila.
projectiles, and in consequence the
$300
was collected with which to meet
Ruccmor
to
Algor.
Hunter
Off
for
Honduras.
Washington, Match 25.—The Buffalo
wounds are more difficult to heal than
Paris, March 27.—General Porter, the obligation. With ths exception
Washington, March 27. — Dr. Hunter,
sailed
today
from
Manila
for
New
those caused by the ordinary bullet.
York. She comes by way of the Suez United States minister to Honduras, is United States ambassador, answering of the church mortgage and a few trifl
A Walk-Out at Plttabnrg.
canal, and will now ply regularly on about to leave for his post. The min an inquiry of a correspondent, said he ing current acoonnts the church is now
Pittsburg, Pa., March 25.—Six hun that route between New York and ister will demand reparation for the was unable to discuss rumors to the entirely out of debt.
dred employes of the Fox Pressed Steel Manila, making two round trips per killing of an American named Pears effect that he may succeed Alger as
Klamath’« Mean« of Transportation.
Company have quit work because the year, at least, bringing invalids home during the revolutionary disturbances secietary of war, as all information on
Klamath county. Or., has three
firm refused to grant an advance of 10 ■ nd carrying out supplies for the in Honduras. Pears was shot by • the subject ought to come from Wash steamboats and one naptha launch and
ington.
Honduran sentry.
American fleet m the Philippines.
per cent in their wages.
no railroad, except a logging road.
The Harrisburg Scandal.
Suicide on th. Stage.
Regular« Ordered for Cuba.
Puebla Take« Six Hundred Men.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 25.—The
house bribery investigating oommittee,
in pursuance of a resolution adopted
by the house yesterday, began today
a formal examination of all the 204
members in that body. It will taka
several days to question all the mem
London, March 25.—The Vienna
correspondent of the Standard says that
the popular acress, Lolo Balzolla. ex
claiming " ’Tie love that kills,” shot
herself with ■ revolver on the stage in
full sight of the audience during a per
formance at Cilli, Styria, and was re
moved in a dying condition.
Washington, March 27.—The second
United States infantry is under orders
to go from Anniston, Ala., to Cuba.
Before sailing eight companies and
headquarters will go to Savannah, and
four companies to Augusta.
San Francisco, March 27. — Ths
transport City of Pnebla sailed for
Manila tonight with 600 men of th<
Ninth regiment of infantry. Lieuten
ant Vitate, military attache of tli*
Italian legation in Washington, was
also a passenger.
bers.
Li Hung Chang Again In Favor.
Twenty Thousand Men Affected.
Peking, March 37. —It is learned on
Cincinnati, March 27.—Local iron
Palis. March 25. — Paris is suffering good authority that Li Hung Chang la
Berlin, March 25.—The German bat
____ The
___again upon the point of returning to fonndrymen have granted a 10 per cent
tle-ship Oldenburg broke her anchor from the scourge of influenza.
•nd went aground near Kiel today dur death* during the laet seven days hav* power, and that ba haa been restored increase in wages to employes. Th*
I been 338 above the average.__________ 1 to favor with the Chinese government. •graement affects 20,000 men.
ing a heavy snow storm.
PACIFIC
COAST
TRADE
Portland Market.
Wheat—Walla Walla, 57c; Valley,
58c; Bluestem, 60c per bushel.
Flour—Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats—Choice white, 44Q45c; choios
gray, 41 (3 43c per bushel.
Barley—Feed barley, $22.50; brew
ing, $24.00 per ton.
Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay—Timothy, $8 @9; clover, $7
®8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 50 (3 55c;
seconds, 45(350c; dairy, 40®45o store,
35 @ 30c.
Cheese—Oregon full cream, 131{o;
Young America, 15o; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, 13(34
per dozen; liens, $4.00@5.00; springs,
$1.25(33; geese, $6.00(37.00 for old,
$4. 50®)5 for young; ducks, $5.00«
5.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15«
16c per pound.
Potatoes—$1 (31.25 per sack; sweets,
>c per pound.
Vegetables—Beets, 90c; turnip*, 75a
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $1 ® 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, 75a
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery,
70(3 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c p«a
box; peas, 8®81{c per pound.
Onions—Oregon, 75o0(3$l persack.
Hops—8(3 14o; 1897 crop, 4c.
Wool—Valley, 10(3 12o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8 «13c; mohair,
90c per pound.
Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton, 75^c;
•pring lambs, 7*^c per lb.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.3S|
light and feeders, $3.50(33.00; dressed,
$6.00(35.60 per 100 pounds.
Beet—Gross, top steers, 8.50®$8.75;
cows, $2.50 «3.00;
dressed
best,
6®6J^c per pound.
Veal—Large, 6«7c; small, 7j^«8*
per pound.
Beattie Market«.
Onions, 80c(3$1.10 per 100 pound*.
Potatoes, $35(338.
Beets, per sack, $1.
Turnips, per sack, 50® 75c.
Carrots, per sack, 40® 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, 75®85c.
Cauliflower, 90c®$1.00 per do*.
Celery, 85® 40c.
Cabbage, native and California
13 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 60c®$l 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, 15c.
Cheese—Native, 13*^c.
Poultry—Old hens, 14c per pound;
■pring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats—Choice dressed beet
steers, prime, 8J^c; cows, prime,
8c; mutton, 9c; pork, 7o; veal, 6® 8a.
Wheat—Feed wheat, $20.
Oata—Choice, per ton, $26.50.
Hay—Puget Sound mixed, $7.00«
$; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $12.00.
Corn—Whole. $23.50; cracked, $34;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton,
$36®36; whole, $24.
Flour—Pateut, per barrel, $3.50;
Straights, $3.25; California brands,
«3 .25; buckwheat flour, •3 .50; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat floor,
$8.75; rye flour, $4.60.
Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, lis:
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed—Choppe<l feed, $21 «33 pet
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cak«
meal, per ton, $35.
Decrease In Registration.
Ben Franclaco Market.
The Tacoma registrations book show
a total registration of 4,354, a notable
decrease over the total for 1898 ami
1897. A year ago there were 5.454
voters registered for tiie spring election,
■nd at the councilmanic election two
year* ago, the total vote was 4,559.
Wool—Spring—Nevada, 10(3 12c P*t
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10® 13c; Val
ley, 15® 17c; Northern, 9® 11c.
Millstuffs— Middlings, $21(333.00;
bran, $20.00(331.00 per ton.
Onions—Silverskin,50(3 90c per sack.
Butter — Fancy creamery, 21 (333c;
do seconds, 20(3 3 le; fancy dairy, 19c;
do seconds, 10(3 17c per pound.
Eggs — Store,
14c; fancy ranch,
I
A mountain lion was kille-l recently
four miles from Prairie City, Grant
county. Or., the savage beast measur
ing 7)< feet from the note to tip of th* 16c.
Hops—1898 crop. 15(3160.
tail.