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I I HAPPENINGS OF 1899 SUMMARY OF A YEAR'S PORTANT EVENTS. IM- War in Philippine Islanda and South Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political Difficulties in Samoa, Death and De , «traction by Fire, Wind aud Flood. Many causes have combined to make the year 1890 a rather remarkable one. Its opening was signalized by Spain’s surrender of the last vestige of her sov ereignty in the western hemisphere; its prugreaa UH br< .Ui 1« forth the declaration of w«r btf w-r, •• ■, d and the Transvaal Kepu Lsrose , leaves these ua- tiou». • ijin a bloody contest, thst t important political «.bn Africa. During the .«tween the iiativi-s ULtlER am | ops in the I’hilip- the war is yet on. c*h\ siLtnr ■oiu warfare, that hav. ■Attention to a great- er or ' e been: Signing of the .with Spain; settle- uient m the Samoan Isl Anda and pardon of Cap tain in France; uumer- OUS lb ,iave destroyed many live« a Mfrty; tornadoes that caused deiijli at Kirksville, Mo., in’ ’ “and at 'N <ew Richmond, Wis- in ______ w- - H | several rat till shipwrecks; deaths » prominent men, among them President Felix Fawre of France, Garret A. llobart, V'ice-Preside nt of the United States, and Robert G. Ingersoll; great street car strike at Cleveland and labor riots at Pana and Carterville, Ill. A brief chronological transcript of the year’s events is given below: and / January. 1—Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba. 4—1 rain held up and rubbed at Macomb, Mo.... Peace treaty with Spain introduced In the Senate. 9— Fourteen persons killed and forty-eight Injured in a collision near Duuelleu, N. J. 10— McCoy defeated by Sharkey in New York... .Severe storm in California. 13— Fire at Memphis, Teuu., destroys wholesale dry goods bouse of J. S. Menkin & Co., aud causes $500,000 loss.... Death of Congressman Dingley of Maine. 14— British bark Audelina siukw at Tacoma with her entire crew of n.neteeu men. 17— Death of John Russell Young, librarian •of Congress. 18— Disastrous flood at Cleveland. .German ■consul at Apla, bamoa, ejected from Su preme Court Building by American aud British consuls. 20— Bunk at Arthur, Ill., robbed of $3,000. 21— Earthquake shakes Peloponuesan pen insula of Greece. ... Massacre of Spanish of ficers by natives at Balabac, in the Philip pines. 25— One hundred thousand dollars damage done by tire at Johnstown, l’a. .. .Adelina Patti and barou Cederstrom married ut Bre con, Wales. 26— Ex Attorney General A. H. Garland ■dies suddenly in Washington. .. .Court mar tial finds Gen. Chas. 1*. Eagan guilty under two charges. 29— Cold wave over the West; 13 degrees tielow zero at Chicago. 30— Two hundred thousand dollar lumber .yard tire in Chicago. February. 1— Seven persons perish In Bnowslide in Rogers Pass, B. C. 2— $7. 0,000 tire in Columbus, Ohio, in which many are injured. ... Burning of the Buck Ingham Theater, Louisville, Ky. 3— $h00,000 tire ut Philadelphia. 4— Battle between Filipinos aud Americans at Manila.... Mrs. Botkin receives life sen tence for murder...-James A. Sexton, Com- uiander-in-chief G. A. R., dies In Washlng- 'n., ’ ” ffgt detachment of Spanish army leaves ...Death ci Gen. Count vou Caprivi, Chancellor German Empire... .Peace ratified by United States Senate. auitoba Hotel at Winnipeg burns; loss j 0. .. . Eleven business houses burn _ in $* _______________________ Ptairie du Chien, Wis. 9— Twenty-one degrees below zero at Chi cago; coldest day in twenty-six years.... -Jboo.OOO fire In Front street, New York.... Five business houses ,at Herington, Kan., burn. 10— Explosion in Baxter Stove Works, Mansfield, Ohio, causes a $100,000 fire.... Kelly Block in Cleveland burns; loss $150,- 000... .$200,000 fire in Toronto, Ont.... American troops capture Caloocan. 11— Troops under Gen. Miller take IJollo ....Engagement outside Manila, in which Filipinos are driven back. 12— Twenty-four Italian miners and fami lies perish in snowslide at Silver Plume, Colo... .McClurg s book store in Chicago burns; loss $562,000. .. .Seventeen insane women burned to death at Yankton, S. D. .... Report of War investigating Board made public in Washington... .Great fires In New York City and Albany, N. Y. 13— Digby, N. S., almost wiped out by fire ....Blizzard in the East and South. 14— $500,000 fire in manufacturing district of Cincinnati. ... Burning of manuiacturers’ warehouse in Chicago; loss $1,(MX),000. 15— Machine shops in Brooklyn navy yard turned. 16— Death of M. Felix Faure, President of Fra nee. 18—Emile Loubet chosen President At France. .. .Riots in Paris. 20—Fire causes $500,000 low al_Pbrt Wash ington, Wis. - 22—City of NlajiiDHfrfed by Filipinos. March. l_Dea(h of Lord Herschell In Washlng- . .Sagasta ministry ton-------- - -------------- . resigns at Madrid. 3— George Dewey made au Admiral by President McKinley. 4— Congress adjourns. 5— Storm destroys life nnd property In East Tennessee.... New ministry takes of flee at Madrid... .Terrific powder explosion at La Goubran, France, kills sixty persons. 9—Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage resigns his Washingion pastorate.... Battle between Americans and Canadians on Porcupine River. B. C. U_Gen. Maximo Gomes deposed from Command by Cuban Assembly. 13—I’aslg captured by American troops.... Understanding reached on Samoan afTalrs ....Herbert Putnam, of Boaton, appointed Congressional librarian. 1G—Mob shoots nine negroes at Palmetto, Ga ..Death of Editor Joseph Medlll.... Fire killed In street riot at Hot Springs, Ark.. Flection riot in St. Louis results In death of two men....B. P. Hutchinson, wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva. Wis. 17—Peace treaty s.gned by the Queen Re gent of Spain.... Windsor Hotel burns In New York, with great loss of life. lg-Fatal riot In Havana. 20-Mrs. Martha Place electrocuted at ' diice war In Little River County, Ark where many negroes are lynched. 231!_j|u|ietoa Tanus crowned King of 8a- **2^-()peolng of ship canal at Port Arthur, T27^,Burnlng of Armour « felt works In Chl- * <-“.fylAmer:can nnd British warships bom ba'rd native towns in Samoa. .. .Sinking of the steamer Rowena Lee In the Mississippi below Caruthersville. Mo. •»—one hundred and twenty Ilves lost by Shipwreck of passenger steamer Stella in the Fnelish channel. ^Si-Fall of Malolos... .»-■■00,000 Are In San Francisco- I April, * 7—Eleven Ilves lost in burning of Wallace Andrews' residence In New York. *^-Deatb of Justice 8. J. Field, retired.... Seventeen dves lost by breaking cf an Ice •forge on Yellowstone River at Glendive, '^Seven persona killed In riot at Pana, ’ ^W?-Fx. hangs of peace treaties with Spain ends the state of war....Greek -master Ma *a sunk off Tripoli with loss of forty See “'Z^ywenty-tbree Crow Indians drowned IO floods near Sheridan. Wyo. ___ 1“. Great Are In Cleveland; lone almoet schooner Elisa loot off Man- i with eleven of her crew. * l’>ea'h of ex Gov. R J < >gb»by of Illi- —^1« Thlrtv persons drowned In wreck of «rt-iah ship i-^b Sloy on Kangaroo Island. ’iL’lViXs City. liaaM, al-oet wiped ,ut by lire. » 27— Tornado at Kirksville and Newtown, Mo., aud In Soldier River valley, Iowa. Scores killed aud Injured. 2&—Earthquake shakes Southern Illinois aud Indiana and Northern Kentucky... .Fa tal mine riots at Wardner, Idaho. May. 1—Destructive foie t tires in South Dakota, Nebrusku aud Colorado. 3— Resignation of Italian cabinet. 4— Opening of Ute reservation In Colorado. 3—Five killed by tornado in Chickasaw na tion, O. T........ Death of Mrs. W. C. Whitney. 7— Report of Wade Court of inquiry given out. 8— Russell & Co.*8 thresher works at Mas sillon, Ohio, burned; loss $500,000. 12—Death of ex Gov. R. P. Flower of New York... .Twenty-live persona killed in rail way collision at Exeter. Pa. 15— Death of Franeisque Sarcey, noted French critic.... Riot at Princeton between students and Pawnee Bill’s Wild West. 16— Cyclone In Ohio and Michigan. at Suu * Isidro, 17— Insurgent stronghold ‘ ‘ “1J P. I., taken by Americans. 20— Agu ina Ido sends envoys to sue tor peace. 21— American ____ liner _____ Paris „ goes _ ashore on the Manacles, off Cornwall, England. 22— Buffalo grain shovelers' strike ends ....Tornado In Erath County, Texas. 25— Death of Don Emilio Castelar, Span ish statesman. .. .Great fire at St. John, N. B., which rendered 1,000 persons home less. .. .Death of Rosa Bonheur, French artist. 28— Tornado devastates parts of South Da kota, Iowa and Nebraska.... Seven persons killed in train wreck near Waterloo, Iowa. June. 0—Railway wreck at Grandview, Mo.... Jeffries defeats Fltzsimmuus at Coney Isl and, Now York. 12— Ne^ Richmond, Wis., wiped out by tornado, 150 persons being killed.... Dupuy ministry resigns at Parts. 13— Herman, Neb., destroyed by storm. 16—Thirteen persons drowned In steam boat accident near Stettin, Germany.... Twelve miners killed by mine explosion at Glace Bay, C. B. 22— New French c abinet < rginia d at Paris. 23— Death of II. B. Plant. 29— Nine lives lost In wreck of steamer Margaret Olwill in Lake Erie. 30— Dreyfus lands in France.... Walkout at Homestead mills, Pittsburg. 28— Disastrous floods in Texas. July. 5— Death of Bishop J. P. Newman. 6— Death of Robert Bonner... .Order Is- sued for enlistment of ten regiments for the Philippines. 7— Death of George W. Julian, Indiana anti-slavery leader... .Lindell Hotel, Lin coln, Neb., burns. 16— Street car strike Inaugurated in Brook lyn, N. Y. 19— Resignation of R. A. Alger, Secretary of War. 21— Death of Robert G. Ingersoll. 22— Elihu Root named as Secretary of War ....Telegraph messengers strike at Cincln- i natl. 23— $1,600,000 loss by burning of C., H. & D. elevator at East Toledo, Ohio. 26— Assassination of President Ulysses Heureaux of San Domingo. 27— Death of A. L. Luetgert in Joliet, Ill., prison. 30—Tupper Lake, N. Y., wiped out by fire. Ausust« I— Elihu Root, of New York, sworn In as Secretary of War. G—Thirty-live killed and twelve Injured In trolley ear accident near Bridgeport, Conn. ....Collapse of a ferry slip at Bar Harbor, Me., kills twenty persons and Injures forty others. 7—Dreyfus trial begins at Rennes, France. 13—M. Lubori, counsel for Capt. Dreyfus, shot at Rennes. 20— Great riot in Paris. 21— Business portion of Victor, Colo., de stroyed by fire. 2<S—Chicago Coliseum framework collapses killing nine men and injuring as many more. Feptem ber. 5— Extremely hot weather in Chicago; thermometer registers 98 degrees. 6— Fifty persons Injured in collision on the B. & O. Railway at Connellsville, Pa. 9— Capt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted at Ren nes, France. 12— Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt. 13— Trust conference begins in Chicago. 17— Seven negroes killed In coal mine riot at Carterville, ill. .. . Death of Chas. A. Pills bury of Minneapolis. 19— Capt. Dreyfus pardoned. 21—Fire in Chicago stockyards; loss $390,000. 26—Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olym pia. arrives in New York. 29— Dewey naval parade in New York. 30— $1,000,000 tire in Big I'yir depot and warehouse at Cincinnati. October. 7— Fall festival in Chicago. II— War is begun in South Africa.... For mal declaration of war made by Boers. 12—Four thousand persons killed by earth quake In Ceram, Molucca Islands. 16— Columbia wins first flrat race for America’s cup. 17— Columbia wins second race, Shamrock being disabled by breaking of topmast. 20— Columbia wins third race.... Boers de- feated at Glencoe. 21— English defeat Boers at Elandslaagte. 23— Battle at Glencoe, South Africa. 24— Boers repulsed at Ladysmith. 26— Death of Gen. Guy V. Henry. 27— Death of Florence Marryat, English novelist. 30- British badly defeated in desperate battle at Ladysmith. .. .Ferryboat sunk In North River, New York, and ten lives lost. November. 3— Jeffries defeats Sharkey in New York. 4— American Steel and Wire Company *a plant at Waukegan. III., burns. 7—Cruiser Charleston goes ashoro aS north west coast of Lu von. 9—A(l•'',•‘’, 1 1 Mrs. Mildred Hazen ‘wedded 11T*Washington... .Joubert begins bombardment of Ladysmith. 12 Major John A. Logan killed In battle in Philippines. 21—Death of Vice President Garret A. Hobart. 23—British defeat Boers in hard battle at Belmont. 25— Death of George R. Davis, of Chicago, Director-General of World's Fair of 1893. 27— Death of Charles Coghlan, the actor. 28— Boers defeated in severe engagement on banks of Modder River. 29— Block of Philadelphia business houses burned; loss $3,000.000. December. 4— Fifty sixth Congress opens. 5— Death of Senator Hayward of Nebraska. 6— Dick Coleman, negro murderer, burned at the stake at Mavsvllle, Ky. 9—British meet decisive defeat at Storm- berg. . . Thirty-two miners killed by gas ex plosion In mine at Carbonado, Wash. 11—British suffer great losses In engage ment with Boers at Magersfonteln. 14— Gen. Buller badly defeated by Boers In attempting to cross Tugeia River. 17— Death of Thos. M. Brumby, flag lieu tenant of U. 8. warship Olympia. 18— Currency bill passed by lower house of Congress. ... Excitement on Wall street causes two big failures. 19— Gen. Henry W. Lawton killed before San Mateo, P. I. 4. AMERiCANS BUY A CANAL. At Least They Now Own an Interest In the Panama. Filipino Bands Returning to Abandoned Towns. NATIVES ASK FOR PROTECTION Colonel Hare Loses the Track of the Prisoner* He Ha« Followed-General Wheeler Goes South. Manila, Jan. 1.—The insurgents who evacuated the coast towns between Dagupan and Vigan, fleeing to the mountains before the advancing Amer icans, are returning in small bands to the towns the Americans do not oc cupy, terrorizing the natives and Chinamen, who showed friendship for the Americans. The natives and Chinamen are seeking the protection of the American garrisons. Colonel Wessel’s cavalry, while scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad, found evidence of Filipino soldiers be ing in that vicinity, but it was impos sible to bring about an engagement. The recent increase in the garrison of Namacpacan against the threatened rebel attack on Christmas day averted trouble. Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in fantry, who has been following a party of American prisoners, lost track for three days, about December 20, of such signs and evidences of their passage as they customarily left behind them. It is thought the prisoners were separated and conveyed to remote parts of the mountains, thus increasing the difficul ties of General Young’s troops to effect a rescue. General Wheeler, who was recently in Manila requesting an appointment south in the line of the expected cam paign, is now at l’arauaque. Americans Captured Stronghold. Washington, Jan, 1.—General Otis cables the war department today as fol lows: “Manila—Colonel Lockett, with a regiment of two battalions of. the Forty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel Dorst), and one company of the Twen ty-seventh infantry, and two guns (Cap tain Van Deusen,) attacked the enemy, 600 strong in a mountain stronghold beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San Mateo. A large nun;ber were killed and wounded, and 24 were taken pris oners. Lockett captured one cannon, 40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica tions, all their food supplies and con siderable other property. “This captured point, located on a mountain trail, was formerly supposed to be impregnable. Our casualties: Lieu’enant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry, and five enlisted men wounded, mostly i-light. Private Matson, Forty-fifth in fantry, drowned.” Not American Vessels. Port Townsend, Jan. 1.—The pur chase of foreign vessels by the United States government for use as transports during the Spanish-American war and their subsequent sale by the govern ment to private citizens has resulted in complicating matters for purchasers from the fact that after purchase of such vessels the government refuses to allow them to be documented in the United States as American vessels. The case in point is the steamship Scipio, which was recently sold by the navy department and was afterwards refused documentation. The purchaser applied to the secretary of the treasury, asking that if he should break the Scipio up, whether the material of which she was constructed would be subject to duty if sold in the United Sr-ates. Yesterday Collector Heustis received a circular letter covering the above case from the treasury depart ment in which Acting Secretary Spaul ding says that uj>on the sale of said vessel in a port of the United States the material or materials taken there from would not be regarded as an ini- portation within the meaning of the customs laws, and would therefore be- exempt from duty. New York, Dec. 80—The iucor|K>ra- tion of the Panama Canal Company of America is said to be the first move in l plan to transfer the Panama canal to Americans in order that it may have a better chance in the struggle with the Nicaraguan concessionaries, The banking bouses and individuals who are understood to be interested are: I August Belmont & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Levi P. Morton, Charles R. Flint, J. E. Simmons, president of the Fourth National bank; Edward Sweet, George Sheldon & Co., Baring, Magoun & Co., and George W. Young, president of the United States Mortgago & Trust Com pany. In addition to these, several banking houses in San Francisco and in cities in the South and West are interested in the company. The Herald says this incorporation of an American company is the result of negotiations between representatives of the French company, including Baron Openheim, who came to this city from Paris several months ago, and leading financiers of America. The representative of the French com pany came to this couutry ompowered to transfer the rights of the company having now been incorporated, the transfer will very shortly be effected, the transfer to be given formal approval by the shareholders in France. Theso shareholders receive shares in the new American company in proportion to their holdings in the old. This “Americanizing” of the Pana ma canal, as one of the gentlemen in terested in the new company styled it yesterday, has been brought about in order to place the Panama canal on a footing in America more satisfactory to the French company, and to place it on the same base as the Nicaragua canal before the United States govern ment. An isthmian canal commission, with Rear-Admiral Walker as chairman, it now at work making an exhaustive study of all possible routes for a canal across the isthmus of Central America. This commission was created in the closing hours of the last congress, and $1,000,000 was appropriated for its use through tthe river and harbor bills. Its report will undoubtedly be final as far as the United’States is c< ncerned as to the best route for a canal. Its par ties, both engineering and exploring, are now scattered over Central America, obtaining material to assist the com mission in forming conclusions. The French company, realizing the importance of the commission's find ings, has taken the steps which have been described, believing that the canal commission would naturally be enabled to judge more impartially between the two routes with both under American control. The gentlemen of the French company long since recognized that the undertaking of a canal across Nica ragua either by the United States or by private parties with the assistance or indorsement of the United States would be a most serious blow to their project, but the American financiers who have formed the new company, now that the two routes are on an even footing, and that judgment will be made only on the grounds of engineering and general desirability, they argue that the "Americanizing” of Panama is the only way by which the 400 shareholder« can have any hope of any return from the $200,000,000 which has gone out of France and into the canal, and they be lieve that this arrangement can pro duce only good feeling between the two countries. Since 1884, when the French com pany was formed, there has been ex pended in work on the canal something like $8,000,000. Several thousand men, mostly negroes from Jamaica, have lieen employed, and experts de clare that the money has been proprely expended, and that good progress has been made. There iB a large numtier of men at work on the canal at the present time, and this force will be found at work by the canal commission when it goes over the route, which will probably lie during February. The canal is alaiut two-tiths completed, and the new American company esti mates that the cost of completion would be alaiut $100,000,000. Hilton Paintings at Auction. The Plague Scare. San Francisco, Jan. 1.—The steamer Gaelic arrived here this afternoon from the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelic was sent to quarantine, owing to the plague scare, but her cabin passengers were allowed to land, towlioats plying lietween the steamer and the city for the purpose. The press correspondent at Honolulu says there have lieen no new cases of plague since last advices. There have been several sudden deaths, and in each instance rumor assigned the plague as the cause. Investigation proved otherwise. The board of health Gruel Opi-ri. now claims but two deaths were caused “Yez needn't be taken on sich airs. bv the scourge, the remaining cases be Missus Mulvaney, jlst beycuz yer man’.« ing doubtful or suspicious. bin made a jigger on 'th perleesh force. Robbed of *12,000. Me man went t’ th’ gran’ oppbra ’n Walsenburg, Colo., Jan. 1.— W. . J. •thy le.” ’’Gran’ opphra nuttln’ It 'ud be Milsap, a prominent stockman. was fakin' a month's whages whurkln' loike seized by two men when alsmt to enter yer man doos. Missus O'Hoolihau, t' get the Klein hotel and was robbed of $12,000. The money was mortly ini dough ernuff t’ go t’ gran' opphra !” "But 'e wint, jhust th’ same, yez bis coat and vest pockets and these desateful cieathur. 'E tauld me Ivry- garments were torn from him. No trace of the criminals has lieen found. thln’ consarnin’ th’ perphormence.” "Oh. did ’e, yez bblo-miln' p-irpharl- Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico' katur? An' bow did 'e injhoy th' songs to buy cattle. in th' Dago linguage’r” HI« I.lner I. A.hnr., "Dago? It wuz good Amerikhan Ixmdon, Jan. 1. —A large <*erman Ooirlsh. begorrah. that they spuk, fur mail steamer, believed to l>e one of the me man tould me sum o' the jliokes.” Hamburg-American liners, has gone “Jhokes?” “YIs, jhokes, yez baytheu. They aground during a terrific gale in East alluz h«*z jliokes whin th' gran' opphra bay, about a quarter of a mile off Dun dims t* th’ Cap-tal Bbquare The a ter.” geness, the southern extremity of Kent. Heavy seas are breaking over the ves —Detroit Free Presa. sel, and life-boats are unable to reach In the San Francisco schools Jap- her. Fears are entertained for the anene children are not segregated on safety of the passengers. It is reported that the position of the the school rolls, but am classed as Liner is very serious. I white*. New York, Dec. 30.—The gallery of paintings collected by the late Judge Hilton is almut to be sold at auction. It is composed of nearly 300 paintings, mostly by modern French artists, and is valued at more than $500,000. Among the masters represented are Meissonier, Cort, Daubigny, < Jerome, Viliert, Ma kart, Muuckaay, llourgereau and Tissot. Quarantine Against New Caledonia. Melliourne, Victoria. Dec. 30.—A passenger who arrived here on lioard the steamer Australian from Noumea, New Caledonia, where the plague is raging, has been quarantined, and eight others havo been placed under surveil lance. Money for Improvement« 8». Paul, Minn., Dec. 30.—The Great Northern directory today in- creasett its capital stock $7,500,000, for the purpose of acquiring new prop erties ami making extensions and im provements on the Pacific coast. The Sioux City & Northern and Pacific k-hort Line, in Iowa and Nebraska, are among the new properties to be taken in. Boumt'i Band G oa « tn Pari«. New York, Dec. 30.—Commissioner- General Ferdinand W. Peck, of the United States commission to the Paris exposition of next year, has appointed So iaa's band as the official American band to play at the exposition. A Chrlitmai Poisoning. Barboursville, W. Va., Dec. 28.— Three members of the family of Man- ford Pollock died last night, having been mysteriously poisoned while eat ing their Chnstmaa dinnog. 4 PACIFIC COAST NEWS Commercial and Financial Happenings of Intercut to the (irowiiif Western States. Since the first of July the people of Alaska hjkve contributed to the federal treasury in license money the magnifi cent sum of $158,276.40 for the privi lege of doing business in Alaska and developing the territory, says the Skag way Alaskan. This is in audition to the tariff duties paid,internal revenues, faxes and all other taxes common to the i*ountry at large. It is a special tax levied upon business in Alaska alone, such as no other citizens of the United States are required to pay; in fact it is a tax that was never before in the history of the United States levied against any of its people. Plenty of Supplies at Dawson. D. W. Bullock, lately arrived from Dawaon, said to an Alaskan reporter: “Dawson is supplied with everything needed there for the winter. The re port as to a great shortage of oats is not true. There is plenty of oats along the river and in Dawson to supply the interior. When we got away from Dawson, November 7, oats were sell ing for 22 cents a pound and hay at 15 cents. Last winter oats went to 40 and 45 cents, and hay to 85 to 50 cents. Tobacco sells in Dawson today for $1 to $1.25 a pound, less than it brings in Bennett. The Bennett price is $1.50 a pound. Flour that sold for $8 in Daw- sou a year ago is worth only $4.75 there today. There will be plenty of beef in Dawson throughout the winter. Dumbolton had four scows loaded with beef on the way in, one of which is at Selkirk and one at Stewart river. I do not know where the others are. Dam- l>olton will take the meat through to Dawson over the ice after the river freezes. McDougall & Burns have 80 tons below Selkirk and will take it in over the ice. The labor market of Dawson is glutted. There were 1,000 to 1,500 idle men in the town when I left, and more were rushing in from up the river.” Atliim Future Output. Charles Christopher, who has nego tiated more large Atlin mining deals than any other man in the country dur ing the season recently closed, is au thority for the statement that there will be no less than half a dozen large hydraulic plants put in operation in Atlin with the opening of spring, lie says the output of gold in that country will exceed $5,000,000. The gold com missioner collected royalty on about $700,000 this summer, but he failed to collect on more than half the output. There was at least $1,500,000 taken out of the Atlin gold fields this year, and next year the output will exceed $5,000,000. Last summer the great majority of the miners did not get to work before August 1, and they all worked small claims and handled most of the dirt with shovels. Next yeat they will handle it by the hydraulic process. Snowslide on White Pass. BRADSTREET'S REVIEW. Temporary Reaction From tha Heaviest Holiday Trade on ltecord. Bradstreet’s says: Holiday influence •nd stock-taking impart an appearance of dullness to general distributive trade, broken, however, by fair activity iih reorder business to fill up stocks de pleted by the heaviest holiday trade that has ever been experienced. Anticipation of spring trade wants has given a more than ordinarily ac tive appearance to business in dry goods at New York, while in industrial lines the efforts of manufacturers to keep up with filled order-books is re sulting in unusually active operations. Following the flurry in money, stocks and in some lines of speculative com modities noted last week, has come, as was expected, a more cheerful tone, and a firming up in quotations is noted in such staples as cotton, which was effected by last week’s money develop ments, and also in hog products, cof fee, copper, tin and lead. The strength of textiles is still a feature which finds justification in current statistics oi larger season’s receipts and sales oi wool, and in reports of enlarged old and heavily increased new capacity in manufacturing lines. In iron and steel, seasonable quiet as regards new business is observable, but unabated activity on earlier booked orders is reported. In some cases, ns shutdown was made for the holidays by mills and furnaces. Wheat (including Hour) shipments for the week aggregate 8,610,567 bush els, agaist 2,813,714 bushels last week, 6,292,625 bushels in the corresponding week of 1898, 5,496,061 bushels in 1896. For the year, failures are the smallest in number for 17 years past, and were it not for a few heavy fiancial suspen sions in December, liabilities, which will exceed those of 1892 slightly, would have been smallest for 12 years past. PACIFIC COAST TRADE •entile Market.. Onions, new, $1.00(91.25 per saclfe Potatoes, new, $16(920. Beets, per sack, 76(985c. Turnips, per sack, 60c. Carrots, per sack, 50c. Parsnips, per sack, 75(985c. Cauliflower, 75o@$l per dozen. Cabbage, native and California (990c per 100 pounds. Peaches, 65 (9 80c. Apples, $1.25(91.50 per box. Pears, $1.00(3)1.25 per box. Prunes, 60o per box. Watermelons, $1 .50. Nutmegs, 50@ 75c. Butter—Creamery, 82c per pound} dairy, 17 @ 22c; ranch, 22o per pound. Eggs—Firm, 80(9 310. Cheese—Native. 16c. Poultry—9@10c; dressed, 13«14o. Hay—Puget Sound timothy, $12.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $17.00(918.00 Corn—Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23j feed meal, $28. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, $21; whole, $22. Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.36; blended straights, $3.10; California, $3.26; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat flour, $3.10; rye flour, $8.80(94.00. Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $16.00; shorts, per ton, $17.00. Feed—Chopped feed, $20.50 per ton; middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal, per ton, $82.00. News of a big snowslide on th« White Puss & Yukon railroad win brought to Victoria by the steamei Tees. A rotary and two engines wer< buried by the slide,and after they wert shoveled out, the rotary ran into a rock, knocking out 13 of its 20 knives. The train which was behind the snow bucking outfit was not injured. P. O’Kegan, one of those who en Fortland Market. deavored to walk to Skagway from th« Wheat — Walla Walla, 51 «52c; snowliound train, was found uncon scious, with his face and hands frozen. Valley, 52c; Bluestem, 54o per bushel. Flour—Best grades, $8.00; graham, The operator at (.lacier rejsirted tc Skagway that the track there was cov $2.50; superfine, $2.15 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 34 (9 85c; choice ered for a distance of 850 feet a depth of five to 20 feet. Telegraph wires be gray, 84c per bushel. Barley—Feed barley, $15(916.00; yond Glacier are down. brewing, $18.00(918.50 per ton. Heutlien Chinene Threw la Bomb. Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid At Victoria, B. 0., a dastardly at dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16 per tempt was made to wreck a Chines« ton. Hay—Timothy, $9(910.50; clover, Methodist mission church. While th« congregation, principally Chinese, wa« $7 @8; Oregon wild hay, $6(9 7 per ton. Butter—Fancy creamery, 50 «55c; worshipping, a bomb made of lead pip« and filled with gundpower was ex eeoonds, 42 S«45c; dairy, 87 S <940c; ploded. No one was injured. Th« store, 26 (9 36c. Egg"—18(919c per dozen. <leed is ascribed to heathen Chines« Cheese—Oregon full cream, jealous of the introduction of Christi Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo anity among their countrymen. per pound. To Elat All the Hops. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.50« Directors of the Oregon Hopgrowers 3.50 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs, Association met in Salem Tuesday af $2.50(98.50; geese, $7.00(99.00 for old; ternoon, and were in secret session foul $4.50(96.50 for young; ducks, $4.50 hours. The chief business transacted per dozen; turkeys, live, 12*i«18o was to require every local representa per pound. tive of the association to obtain a com Potatoes—55(970c per sack; sweeta, plete list of hopgrowerH and the amount 2«2^c per pound. of hops now on hand in their respect Vegetables—Beets, $1; turnips, 90c; ive districts. The lioard also In per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cauli nonneed that it is now reudy for buai- flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, $1; ness. beans, 5<96c per pound; celery, 70« 75c per dozen; cuoumliers, 50c per Northwest Note«. An opera house is one of Albany ’« liox; jieas, 3«4c per pound; tomatoes, 75c per box; green corn, 12 S « needs for 1900. 15c per dozen. Mule-buvers from California are in Hops—8(9 11c; 1898 crop, 5 (3 6c. Southern Oregon counties. Wool—Valley, 12 (A 18c per pound ; A Bums paper reports a sale of 2.70C Eastern Oregon, 8(9 14c; mohair, 27« 80c per pound. stock sheep at $2.60 per head. Mutton—Gross, liest sheep, wethen It is estimated that the call for war rants recently made by the county and ewes, 8 V»c; dressed mutton, «MS treasurer of Whatcom county rovers 7c per pound; lamlts, 7 Sc per pound. Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; about $170,000 of county indebtedness. light and feeders, $4.50; dressed, Figures of real estate transfers re $5.50(36.00 per 100 pounds. corded in King county (Seattle) since Beef—Gross, top steers, $3 50«4.00; July 1 show a total of 495 transfers, of cow«, $3 «3.50; dressed lieef, 6*4« an aggregate value of $3,989,625, not 7>4c per pound. including, of course, the value of the Veal—Large, 6h«7Sc; small, 8« transfers for nominal sums. 8%c per pound. In Umatilla county, wheat farms are Han Francisco Market. advertised for sale at prices from $20 Wool—Spring—Nevada, 12«15opes to $40 an sere. A farm on the foot pound; Eastern Oregon, 12« 16c; Val hills east of Milton sold for $5,800 ley, 20«22c; Northern, 10« 12c. spot cash. Hop«—1899 crop, 11 «12o pee The old mill, on Chambers creek, pound. Onions—Yellow, 75«85c per sack. near Fort Steilacoom, was recently de Butter—Fancy creamery 24 «25c; stroyed by fire. It was one of the old landmarks of that part ot the country, do seconds, 22«28c; fancy dairy, 20 «21c; do seconds, 19c per pound. having been built in 1852. Eggs—Store, 25 « 37 Ho; fanoy ranch, The convention of the Linn county 84c. Christian Entteavorers is to be held in Millstuffs — Middlings, $16.00 « Brownsville on January 12, 18, and 14. 19.00; bran, $12« 14.00.