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REBELS DRIVEN SOUTH. BRIIISH SOLDIERS Kill!» Filipino Bands Are Being Scattered by General Sehwan. Manila, Oct. 14.—General Schwan’s column, having accomplished its pur A Simultaneous Invasion of pose of punishing the rebels, is return- ing from San Francisco de Malabon Five Separate Points. with artillery and the transportation service. The naval expedition that recently BOERS ENTER CAPE COLONY went to the mouth of the river Pasig to raise the Spanish river gunla»at Ara- The Burgher* Hava Nut Yet Invaded vat, reports that no resistance has been Natal, Though They Hold Lalug'a encountered from the Filipinos, ami that the work of salvage iB proceeding Neck—Aruiured Train Destroyed. slowly. During the early morning hours to Johannesburg, Oct. 14.—War was day there was some tiring near Angeles, formally declared at 10 o’clock this with the result that eight Americans morning. were slightly wounded. Artillery was The Boers' Tians. used, and the enemy responded. Gen London, Oct. 14.—When the cabinet eral MacArthur does not attach special meets at noon today, it is evident the significance to the incident. Boer advance will be in full swing. A small party of Americans was fired Judging from present appearances, the upon by the Filipinos near Maraguayan, Boors are preparing for a simultaneous two of our men being wounded. invasion at five separate points— Promotion for Wholley. Laing’s Nek, Kimberley, Vryburg, Washington, Oct. 14.—Adjutant- Mafeking and Lobatsi. Therefore it is almost inqioesible to guess the plan of General Corbin today stated that the charges that have been filed against campaign. A dispatch from Durban, dated Thurs Colonel John H. Wholly, First Wash day morning at 8 o’clock, announces ington volunteers, have been thorough that the Boers seized Albertina statioi ly investigated, and that the colonel and demanded the keys, which were has been completely exonerated. Gen delivered to them by the station-mas eral Corbin says that this is a repeti ter, who reached Ladysmith on a trol tion of the Stotsenberg case, where vio ley car. The excitement at Ladysmith lent charges have been filed by subor is increasing, and the troops are ready dinate officers, who are malcontents and mischief-breeders, jealous of the to act at a moment’s notice. success of their superior. General Cor- Crossed Into Cape Colony. bin says that Colonel Wholley’s record London, Oct. 14.—The Free Stat« is untarnished; that he has shown him- burghers, according to a private mes self a brave and efficient officer, and, sage just received, have crossed Orange in recognition of this service, General river into Cape Colony and have occu Otis has recommended to the depart- pied Philipstown. Their object, it is ment that Colonel Wholly be promoted supposed, is to cut the railway at Deer to the rank of brigadier-general of vol- Junction, which is considered an im unteers. In view of this development, portant strategic point. According to the charges of cowardice and ineffi- a dispatch from Cape Town, it is as ciency will count for naught with the serted there that the Boers have ar department. ranged with Chief Linchwe, a promi Oregon Farmer Found Gold. nent chief of the northwestern border, Cottage Grove, Oct. 14.—Felix Cur- to take up arms against Great Britain ren, a farmer, living near here, recent English Moved Too Late. ly located a mine in Bohemia that London, Oct. 14.—A dispatch from shows up very rich. There is now a Mafeking, under today’s date, says Col 50-foot tunnel, and the ledge is seven onel Baden Powell has just sent a feet wide, three feet of which is in free strong British force from Mafeking to milling ore, and gold can be seen in ward the border with field, guns and half of the vein. The remainder of the ambulances, presumably with a view ledge is base, but very rich, containing of occupying advantageous defensive black sulphites, most of which is cop- high ground. The movement at Mafe per, lead and iron. Samples brought king this morning is held to indicate in today show that the ore is heavily that he is not prepared for sharp fight mineralized, and gold can be seen all ing, but probably expects it at that through the quartz. point. Bechiianaland Invaded. Vryburg, Oct. 14.—A body of Boers have cut the border fence, advanced to the railway and cut the telegraph wires. Two thousand Boers are now occupying the railroad line. Armored Train Destroyed. Cape Town, Oct. 14.—A dispatch from Vryburg says that an armored train has been destroyed. It is feared that much loss of life resulted. The news has been unofficially confirmed. Mafeking Expects an Attack. Mafeking, Oct. 14.—Half a battery of artillery from Kimberley has just ar rived. Police at outlying stations have been ordered to concentrate within the town limits. Natal Reserves Called Out. Durban, Oct. 14.—The Imperial re serves in Natal have been called out. Everybody has left Charlestown. The Fifth dragoons arrived this morning from India, landed immediately and at once proceeded to the front. Boers Mined a Bridge. Lrenzo Marquez, Oct. 14.—Informa tion has reached here that the Boers have mined three piers of the bridge at Komati port, on the Komati river. Boers Occupy Laing'« Nek. London, Oct. 14.—A special from Ladysmith says: The Biwrs occupied Laing’s Nek the moment the ultimatum ■expired. ________ Streaming to the Natal Border. Volksrust, Oct. 14.—President Kru ger's son and grandson, as well as half the members of the Transvaal legisla ture, are now at the front. Men arriv ing here re;iort that the Boers are still streaming from the different points to the Natal frontier, many who have been refused by the enlisting officers going on foot. | i | j | ' . 1 I i | I . ' | Rejoicing in Kansas. Escaped From Prison. Denver, Oct. 14.—James K. Strat ton, the noted mailbox robber and . forger, has escaped from the peniten- , tiary at Canyon City, where he was serving a sentance of 21 years’ impris onment, in a most mysterious manner. Warden Hoyt says no tools were uesd, and believes the prisoner must have re ceived help from some one on the out side. Stratton escaped from the same prison in September, 1891, and was recaptured a year later in Chicago. Oregon Captain Killed. Washington, Oct. 14.—Captain Woodbridge Geary, Thirteenth infan try, who was shot October 10, while i on a reconnoissance near San Francisco de Malabon, Philippine Islands, and died at 3 A. M. today from the effects, was a native of Oregon. He was born in 1857, was graduated from the West Point military academy, and appointed second lieutenant in 1882 and promoted to first lieutenant in 1891. He re ceived his commission as captain in the Thirteenth infantry, June 30, 1898. Earthquake at Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa, Cal., Oct. 14.—One of the severest shocks of earthquake ever felt here took place tonight at 9 o’clock, and follow ing one of this morning, it created much excitement. Chimneys were thrown down, and plaster in Murdered His Wife. many parts of the city was shaken from San Francisco, Oct. 14.—Ellen Rich the laths. A few minutes after, two ardson was shot in the head and in other shocks of a similar nature, but stantly killed by her husband, Charles lees severe, followed. Henry, in a saloon conducted by the Grain Rate« Advanced. woman on Howard street late last night Chicago, Oct. 14.—Central Freight during a quarrel between the two. The murderer was caught with the Association lines have adopted the weapon still in his hand and taken to recommendation of the trunk line com mittee to make a further advance in ] prison. grain rates on November 1. The rate American« Burned Alive. on export corn from Chicago to New Marquette, Mich., Oct. 14.—Willis York will be 18 cents per 100 pounds, Magurie, formerly an attor.Vy at Mar quette, now of the mining \ istrict of and on domestic corn 20 cents. Temporary Ala«ka Boundary. London, Oct. 14.—Sir Louis Davies, Canadian minister of fisheries and ma rine. will confer again tomorrow re garding the Alaskan question with the secretary of state for the colonies. Sir Louis today informed a press represen tative that the temporary line upon which it is expected an agreement will be reached will be a mere tentative measure for the purpose of preventing local friction while the negotiations on the main question are in progress. AddreM st St. Paul. WAR HAS BEGUN IN EARNEST The Afrikander» Suffered Several Re- pultie* While Attacking; Mafeking— Vryburg Is Threatened. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 14.—Upon the receipt of the bulletin announcing the arrival of the Twentieth Kansas at San Francisco, bedlam broke loose in Tope ka. The whistles of all the manufac turing institutions began to screech, i and every church bell in the city rang out the glad tidings. The streets soon tilled with people and there was great rejoicing. Reports of similar demon strations come from Lawrence, Ottawa, Hutchinson and other cities. Sonora, Mexico, has written that his Will Accept Canada’« Offer. two mining partners, Ramsey and Mil Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 14.—In response ler, undertook to work and prospect in to intimations that the Canadian gov- territory overrun by Yaqui Indians, ernment would furnish a military con were captured and burned at the stake. tingent for service in the Transvaal, a cablegram has lieen received from the Charleston, 111., 14.—Broom, corn war office stating that the imperial has advanced to $100 ton. This is an government will accept two •’units,” advance of $30 in 10 days, and at or about 5»)0 men, for such service, three-fourths of this year’s crop is al No officer higher than a major will be ready out of the farmers’ hands, the required, indicating that the contingent price is likely to go higher. will be attached to an imperial corps. Boers Captured an Armored Railroad Train. ; i | j London, Oct. 16.—An Edinburg pa- per, the Scotsman, asserts that a bat tle has taken place between General Sir George Stewart White, commanding the forces in Natal, and the Boers, who entered Natal by way of Van Keenan's Pass. General White, the Scotsman says, is very sanguine of th* success of the British movement. A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from its correspodence at Ladysimth, dated at noon Friday, says: "A strong mobile column under Sil George Stewart White, accompanied by General Sir Archibald Hunter, proceed ed before daybreak this morning towart Acton Homes for the purpose of recon noitering. General White’s object was to observe what was going on and also to test the mobility and efficiency of his forces. All the men are well and the weather is fine.” According to dispatches from Lady- eimth to the Standard and the Daily Telegraph, dated Thursday, heavy storms have begun and forage is scacre on the veldt. General White has 12 guns and the Boers 11. The Daily Mail’s Cape Town corre spondent says: “I learn on good authority that the ■Boers are attacking Mafeking. They are reported to have already suffered several repulses. It is generally ad mitted that Vryburg cannot stand a strong Boer attack.” The war office has received the fol lowing dispatch from the general com manding the Cape forces: Cape Town, Oct. 16.—An armored train from Mafeking escorting twe seven-pounder guns sent from here to Mafeking was attacked last night at Kraaipan. Apparently a rail had been removed. The train left the track, and the Boers fired into it with artillery for an hour and captured it.” ; The Ladysmith correspondent of the Times says: “A subsequent reconnoisance shows that the invading force from the Free State numbers approximately 12,000 men.” ________ General IN CAVITE. Schwan’s Expedition plishrs Its Object. ALONG THE COAST. Aceom- Manlia, Oct. 16.—General Schwan’s expedition, having accomplished its ob ject, the troops are all returning to their former positions, abandoning the towns taken. General Schawn is eu route from PereB Desmarimas to Imus with the infantry, while the artillery and cav alry and all mule teams are retracing their route from Malabon to Bacoor, with the signal corps removing the wires. Geureal Trias, with the organ ized bodies of insurgents, retreated to Sil»ng and Indan, at the base of the mountain. In Cavite province, the scene of the hottest fights and their gTeat successes over tho Spaniards, the Filipinos might have been expected to make a resolute stand, if anywhere, but after their whippings at Cavite Viejo and Nove lets, their tactics consisted chiefly in a continuous exhibition of their agility and their transformation from warriors to amigos. The marines, while reconnoitering about the scene of Sunday’s encounter, find that the trenches have been already reoccupied, although the enemy mani fested more than their usual willing ness to retreat before the Americans. At Malabon, the Americans corralled 200 or 300 natives, supposed to be fighting men. A few of them were caught with arms in their hands, but large numbers were found in hiding, dressed in khaki, like the American uniform. A majority of them were in the garb of amigos, but they are sus pected of shooting at the troops from houses, a growing habit, which fiour- ishe«l throughout the advance whenever small parties of Americans strayed from the main body. The prisoners are a white elephant on the hands of the Americans. Item. of G.n.ral Interest Gl.au.d From th. Thriving Faclfla Stat... The Stage Robbery. It transpired that Van C. Alexander, the man who gave up $170 of the money stolen from the United States mails on the stage near Westfall, Or., on Sep tember 22, is admittedly the main per son responsible for the hold-up. The indications during the examination in United States Commissioner Hailey’s court here on Saturday, pointing to Alexander as the one planning the rob bery, with the two boys as his accom plices, are confirmed by the develop ments. It is announced here that this phase of the case will be called to the attention of Judge Bellinger, of the federal court at Portland, before who u the two boys are to be tried. Big Steam Heating Plant« Upwards of $600,000 is to be spent by the Boston capitalists who have pur chased the plant of the Seattle Steam Heat & Power Company, and six of the street railway lines of Seattle, in the erection of a new and modern power plant and in the rebuilding and the distributing system. This part of the plant will be almost wholly recon structed, new mains being laid in con formity with the latest ideas of steam engineering. This is but thebeginning of large improvements which will be made. Plans are now being drawn for the new building and plant, which will be finished by January 1, and for the rebuilding of several of the street car lines recently purchased. M otioned Sustained. ACTIVITY IS WIDESPREAD. Volume and Value Te.tlfy to l-revallln^ Prosperous Conditions. . ~ Bradstreet’s says: Trade activity !• widespread, all volume and value testi^ fying to prevailing prosperous condi«; tions. Only good reports are received from distributive trade centers, anti some markets report fall demand a* holding out longer thau exjiectedJ Railway earnings, bank clearings, re-l turns and quotations of staple price* are all encouraging, pointing as thej4 do to a maximum volume of busines* for this ;>eriod of the year. Crop re«^ turns for October bear our earlier im- pressious of shortened yields of mosl leading agricultural products. Expec* tation of more moderate yields of lead« ing cereals is not confined to this conn- try; the world’s wheat crop will admit, tedly be smaller, and rye, barley anef oats yields are not exjiected tolxiLgSlj large as a year ago. The higher rang^ of prices of all staples, and particularly of agricultural products, will furnish a profitable balance of producers. The liberality of foreign demand is, perhaps, best known in the September report of ex]s>rts of leading products. Shipment of breadstuffs are as large as those of August, and there'*«*« natur ally a heavy gain in cotton exports, which are doubled those of the same« month a year ago. Totals of leading1 ex]>orts show an increase of 23 per cent over September, 1896, but a decrease of 8.5 per cent from September 1897,’ which witnessed very heavy shipment? of breadstuffs. Wheat, including flour, shipment» for the week aggregate 5,265,634 bush els, against 5,183,398 bushels last week, 4,729,996 bushels in the corre sponding week of 1898, 5,549,720 bush els in 1897, 4,156,817 bushels in 1896, an«l 2,409,446 bushels in 1895. Business failures in the United State» number 164, as compared with 146 last week. Judge Burnett, of Salem, has sus tained a motion for non-suit against the plaintiff in the ease of L. IL Mc Mahon vs. The Canadian Pacific Rail SHOT HIS RECREANT WIFE. way Company. The action was begun PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Bullet Intended for tho Man Who Was to recover about $550, alleged to be due the plaintiff on account of advertising in the Room With Iler. Portland «Market. Wheat—Walla Walla, 57©58c; Val«r Oregon City, Or., Oct. 16.—A. in the Woodburn Independent and the The defense ley, o8c; Bluestem, 60c per bushel. Brooks, of Canemah, who is employed Salem Independent. Flour—Best grades, $3.25; graham, in the paper mills, returned home un claimed that the agent who made a expectedly between 11 ami 12 o’clock contract for the advertising had no au $2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 85@36c; choice last night anil found Frank Freeman thority to do so, and that the newspa and Mrs. Brooks together in the house. per company was to take pay in trans gray, 33 @ 34c per bushel. Barley—Fee«! barley, $15© 16.00; He shot at Freeman with his revolver, portation. brewing, $18.50@ 19.00 per ton. but missed the mark and one of the Labor Scarce at Fairhaven. Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid bullets entered Mrs. Brooks’ abdomen, Labor is so scarce in Fairhaven, perforating the intestines and lodging Wash., that railroad contractors and dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16 per against the hip bone. Dr. Carl ex others are delaying work on various ton. Hay—Timothy, $9© 11; clover, $7 tracted the bullet, but says the woman enterprises until more plentiful supply cannot live. Freeman was arrested of workmen are to be had—a change @8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton. Butter—Fancy creamery, 45 ©50c; this afternoon, charged with assault from three years ago, when laboring upon the woman, and was bound over meii were sitting around on the curb seconds, 40©42>gc; dairy, 30©35c; to the circuit court. stones, waiting for something to turn Btore, 22 4 @ 27 4c. Eggs—20©224o per dozen. Brooks says he found Mrs. Brooks’ up. Fairhaven’s pay roll is almost 16 Cheese—Oregon full cream, 13c; Glencoe, Oct. 16.—It is reported younger sister in the front room with times larger than it was two years ago, that the Boers have crossed the border Pat Freeman, and in the rear room with a certainty of an increase next Young America, 14c; new cheese 10a per pound. at Ingogo, and that the Free State gov- found his wife and Frank Freeman. yeax. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.00© enment has taken possession of the rail He fired four shots, two hitting the Hillsboro Young Man Hurt. 4.00 j>er dozen; hens, $4.50; springs,; way to Van Keenan, and seized a Natal body of Mrs. Brooks. He further says Charles V. Doughty, a young man $2.00©3.50; geese, $6.00© 7 for old;1 government train. he has been carrying a pistol for a anil resident of Hillsboro, Or., while $4.50@6.50 for young; ducks, $4.50© month, expecting to return home at Plan to Trap Aguinaldo. midnight and find Freeman with his riding a bicycle at a rapid rate over a 5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 124© New York, Oct. 16.—A special to the wife, but he did not muster enough crosswalk, was thrown from his wheel 14c per pound. Herald from Washington says: While and seriously injured. He was render Potatoes—50@60c per sack; sweets, courage to return until last night. General Sehwan is engagod in scatter , Freeman’s father and two brothers ed unconscious for aliout two hours, 2 © 2 *4 c per pount 1. ing the enemy in Cavite proivnee, Gen Vegetables—Beets, $1; turnips, 90c; were drowned nearly two years ago by and received a deep cut across the left erals Lawton and MacArthur are mak accidentally going over the falls in a eye and his upper lip was badly lacer per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cauli ing preparations for an important row boat. The Brookses have only ated. The wheel was completely de flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, $1; movement to the north of Manila. molished. Young Doughty was a mem beans, 5 ©6c ; ht ]xmnd; celery, 70©', General MacArthur and Lawton will resided here a short time. ber of company 11, Second Oregon vol 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c peii LED INTO AMBUSH. proceed to the north in the hope of unteers, and enlisted from Hillsboro. I k > x ; pea«, 8©4c ;>er pound; tomatoes, trapping Aguiualdo and his forces be 25c per lox; green corn, 124©* German Expedition Maaaacred by Na Landlords Smiling. tween the three columns. 15c per dozen. tive« in Southwest Africa. Portland hotels are generally doing General Schwan’s movement to the Hops—7@10c; 1897 crop, 5©6c. Liverpool, Oct. 16. — The steamer a good business these exposition times, southward of Manila is merely in tho Wool—Valley, 12© 13c per pound; Niger, which arrived today from South and would soon lie filled to overflowing Eastern Oregon, 8© 14c; mohair, 27© nature of a demonstration, and for the west Africa, brings news of the massa v. ere it not that guests keep going away 30c per pound. purpose of scattering insurgents who have intrenched themselves in Cavite cre of Lieutenant Guise, German com as well as coming in. About two days Mutton—Gross, l>est sheep, wethert province, the home of Aguiualdo and missioner, at Rio del Rev, near Old Cal is the average length of the out-of-town an«l ewes, 8 4c; dressed mutton, 64© abar river, on the bight of Biafra, ami visitor’s stay in the city, and his place 7c per pound; lambs, 7,4c per pound.' the nest of the rebellion. also of Herr Leemeyer, a German is taken just alaiut as quickly as ho has Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; Situation in Bccl^uanaland. trailer, together with 100 native sol vacated. The principal hotels have London, Oct. 16.—A notable change diers and carriers, constituting an ex good long lists of names on the daily light an«l feeders, $4.50; dressed, $6.00@7.00 per 100 pounds. in the position of affairs is the presence pedition formed by Lieutenant Guise registers. Beef—Gross, top steers, $3.50©4.00; of the Boers at Martiboga, 45 miles to quell disturbances near the Cross cows, $8©8.50; dresse«! beef, 6©74a A Nlnoty-round Pumpkin. south of Mafeking, which seems to in river, which forms the l>oundary be A clothing house at New Whatcom, per pound. dicate that they are endeavoring to get tween British and German territory. Veal—Large, 64 ©74c; small, 8© Colonel Baden Powell between two A native chief was taken as a guide, Wash., gave farmers pumpkin seeds fires. The gravity of the Boer advance but he led the expedition into ambush. last spring, and offered five prizes for 84c per pound. can be better estimated when it is real He was promptly shot when the Ger largest results. The first prize went to Henttle Markets. ized that they will thereby cut the mans received a volley. They fought R. D. Perry, of Clearbrook, whose Onions, new, $1.25© 1.50 per sack. railway and telegraphic communication courageously, but were outnumbered pumpkin weighed 90 jtounds; second, Potatoes, new, 75c@$1. to the north, isolating several British and slain. The natives then looted the Cal Wntkinson, of Edison, 88 pounds; Beets, ;a«r sack, $1.10. positions which must bo sjieedily re neighboring factories and murdered the third, Cyrus Bradley, of Lynden, 61 Turnips, per sack, 75c. lieved. native employes, after which they pounds. The fourth and fifth weighed Carrots, per sack, 90c. crossed into British territory. Tv« 42 and 37 pounds respectively. Parsnips, per sack, 90c. Four Thousand Perished. Cauliflower, 75c per dozen. Amsterdam, Oct. 16.—A dispatch to British traders, who were warned, h. Gold Hill Water Ditch. Cabbage, native au«l California, $1 the Mandetsblad from Batavia, capital a narrow escape, managing to get «loan Engineer J. 8. Howard, of Medford, of Java, says a violent earthquake has the river in a canoe an«l to reach Rio Or., has completed the survey of the ©1.25 per 100 pounds. Peaches, 65 ©80c. visited the south side of the island of del Key, where they found only a soli Gold Hill water ditch. He employed Apples, $1.25© 1.50 per l>ox. Ceram, next to the largest of the Mo tary German official and a half dozen a party of 12 men, who completed the Pears, $1.00© 1.25 per lx>x. luccas, between Booroo and Papua, black soldiers. Prunes, 60c per box. Great excitement prevailed at Rio del permanent survey in 98 days. Much completely destroying the town of Am- interest is shown in the ditch, not only Watermelons, $ 1.50. hei and killing instantly some 4,090 Rey when the Niger left, September 27, by local enterprise, but by many East Cantaloupes, 50 ©75c. people, as well as injuring some 500 as it was thought the natives might ern capitalists, who are ready to invest Butter—Creamery, 28c per pound; others. The dispatch says details of come there. News has l>een sent to money in it. dairy, 17©22c; ranch, 124© 17c per the disaster have not yet lawn obtained. the Camerons, from which point a Ger pound. man relief expedition could be dis To Propagate Steelhead». Wireless Telegraph in Hawaii. Eggs—27 © 28c. patched. The Willapa hatchery will be com Cheese—Native, 13©14o. San Francisco, Oct. 12.—The steamer pleted this week. As steelheads are ConemaiiRli Arrive». Poultry—14c; dresse«!, 15 4c. Australia arrived from Honolulu today. San Francisco, Oct. 14.—The trans more numerous in Willapa river than Hay—I’nget Hound timothy, $8© 11; Among her passengers was Frederick J. port Conemaugh atrived here today, 33 in any other stream in this section, a Cross, who visits this country to confer days from Manila. Fifty-seven sol «l>ecial effort will lie made to propagate choice Eastern Washington timothy, with Marconi, the inventor of wireless diers who deserted from the Newport them here, and to stock other streams $14© 15. Corn—Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23; telegraphy, regarding a system of wire came home on the Conemaugh. Among form this hatchery. The propagation less telegraphy which is to be placed them were 15 men of the Fourteenth of steelheads has not as yet been at fee«! meal, $23. Barley—Rolle«l or ground, per ton, in operation among the islands of the infantry, 7 of the Third artillery, 18 ol tempted in any Washington hatchery. $21; whole, $22. Hawaiian group. the Fourth cavalry, 2 of the Twenty- Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.50; Catch.. All th. Fl.h. second infantry, and 1 each of the Canada’» Contribution. blended straights, $3.25; California, Lew and Sanford Mayhew have one Ottawa, Ont.. Oct. 16.—Ata meet Thirteenth, Twentieth and Sixteenth of their floating traps locate« 1 near the ■ $3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.50; gra- infantry. ing of the cabinet today, a decision was Koint Fxan is portage, near Whatcom, | ham, per barrel, $2.90; whole wheat Civil Rule for French Colonie«. reached to send 1,000 Canadian sol- [ S ash. It has 300-foot leads and i flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.75. diert to South Africa as Canada’s con- | Chicago, Oct. 16.—A sfiecial to th« catches all the fish that come its way. Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $15.00; tribution to the British force now fight- | Chicago Tribune from Paris says: The The boys say the trap’s success is as ! shorts, per ton, $16.00. ing the Boers This is double the cabinet today voted to place all French sured, an«l they will have it towed Feed—Choppe«! fee«l, $20.50 per ton; number of troops asked for by the im colonies under civil authority and to farther up the Sound, where the fall j middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal, perial governm.it. abolish all military administration. per ton, $35.00. run of fish is better. An American Ill-Treated. Cape Town, Oct. 16.—No news of fighting h.s yet l>een receive«I. It is suggested that with a view of retain ing the good will or the Basnetos, the authorities shall not press for payment of the hut tax. An American citizen has sworn to an affidavit before the American consul here, in which he states that he has been subjected by bnrghers of the Free State to great ill-treatment. His limlf America makes 4,000,000,000 cigars yearly | bear marks showing the effect« of th« treatment he has rece. ved. ' St. Paul, Oct. 14.—President Mc Kinley spent over 12 hours in the twin cities today, lea- ing this city a little before midnight for Duluth and West Superior, where he will make a short visit early in the morning, thence pro ceeding direct to Fargo, N. D., to pay his respects to the Dakota volunteers, who have just returned from the Phil ippines. DOWN Activity at Halifax. Halifax, N. 8., Oct. 16.—The mili tary officers here are active on account of the Transvaal situation. Lord Sey mour has issued an order for all the re serve men in and about Halifax to l«e prepared to shoulder guns and go to th« Cape if necessary. New York, Oct. 16.—The committee for the perpetuation of the Dewey vic tory arch in marble has received pledget of 9100,000 toward carrying out th« purpose A potato phenomenon is being dis played in Colfax, Wash. The growth consists of several large vines, on which there are scores of potatoes ranging in size from a bird’s egg to a man’s fist. The potatoes grow entirely alove, in stead of under the ground. The exports from Tacoma last week inclu«le<l 2,100 tons of coal to Honolu lu, 5.000 tons of wheat and barley to Antwerp, and 4,000,000 feet of lumber to Honolulu. The imports were 8,000 tons of tea. silk and curios. Han Franeiaco Market. Wool—Spring—Neva«la, 12© 14c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 12© 15c; Val ley, 17© 19c; Northern, 8© 10c. Hope—1899 crop, 9©12o per pound. Onions—Yellow, 75©85c per sack. Butter—Fancy creamery 29 ©80c; do seconds, 25©28c; fancy dairy, 24 ©25c; do seconds, 20© 22c per pound. Eggs—Store,22©274c; fancy ranch, 86 ©88c. Millstuffs — Middlings, $18.50 © 20.00; nran, $16.50© 17.50.