IN
FREE
STATE.
Robert«* Column Invades
Iritory.
Boer
WE
Ter-
London, Feb. 16.—General Roberts,
with the bulk of the British army oper
British Finally Relieve the ating against the Boers, has succeeded
in entering the Free State and has
Beleagured Town.
made the first step in his advance to
ward Bloemfontein. General French
RETIREMENT OF THE BOERS hrts turued the Boer line, and with
some 20,000 men. has seized a crossing
of the Modder river, to the east of
The War Olire Ilaa Issued Orders for Jacobsdal, thus placing himself between
the Formation of » 1 New Batteries Cronje’s army and the capital of the
, Orange Free State. Reinforcements are
and Three Battalions of Infantry.
being hurried up to him. The main
Boer army in that section has not yet
London, Feb. 1?.—The war office been encountered, but a great battle is
announces that General French reached imminent.
Ki mberley Thursday evening.
As shown by the dispatches of Loid
Following is Lord Roberts’ message to Roberts to the war office, the movement
the war office:
I began Monday, when Colonel Hannay
“Jacobsdal, Feb. 17.—French, with set out with a brigade of mounted in
a force of artillery, cavalry and mount fantry from Ramah, on the Riet, eight
ad infantry, reached Kimberley this miles from Jacobsdal, the Boer supply
evening (Thursday).”
base.
Monday, General French, with the
Cronje*« Retirement.
cavalry division, seized the crossing of
London, Feb. 17.—As Gen. Cronje’« the Riet river at Dekil’s drift, south of
communications with Bloemfontein Jacobsdal, and 18 miles east of Honey
iave been cut, England would like to Nest kloof. He skirmished with the
‘ear that he elects to give battle among Boers and cleared the way for 20,000
the low hills and ridges east of Kim infantry, who followed across.
berley. Should he determine not to do
Tuesday, with his three cavalry bri
this, he must retreat to a point where gades and the horse artillery, General
be would prefer to fight. This retire French rode to the Modder river, a dis
ment could be a long detour around the tance of 25 miles, and took three fords
head of the British advance to Bloem I with high ground beyond the river,
fontein, or, as seems to military stu j and five Boer camps. He had a few
dents more practicable, he could with casualties in brushes with the Boer
draw to the north, using the railroad i horse.
for his guns and heavy baggage, mov
TWO SUITS FILED.
ing to Fourteen Streams station, and
thence into the Transvaal territory.
The Boers have made no preparations Beckhnui and Taylor Both Want in
J unctions.
to defend Bloemfontein, and there is
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 16.—The suit
no paiticnlar reason why General
Cronje shoud risk a battle to protect the of Beckham vs. Taylor, for the posses
sion of the office of governor, was filed
capital of the Free State.
Operations elsewhere are apparently today in the circuit court at Frankfort.
Up to a late hour the sheriff had not
suspended.
A correspondent, writing from Cheve- succeeded in serving notice on Gov
iey, February 15, says:
‘‘We are ernor Taylor, and the chances of his
still hopeful of relieving Ladysmith.” doing so did not seem bright as all vis
Colonel Baden-Powell, in a dispatch itors to the office of the governor or to
from Mafeking, dated January 29, after the gubernatorial mansion were com
mentioning matters already sent out pelled to run a gauntlet of guards, who
by correspondents, gives his total cas were on the lookout for gentlemen with
ualties up to January 25 as follows: suspicious papers.
The petition in the suit holds that
Killed, five officers and 60 men;
wounded, eight officers and 123 men; W. S. Taylor is not the governor of the
state, and that with an armed force he
missing, 34 men.
No word has been received regarding holds jiossession of the executive build
General Gatacre’s 12,000 men at Storm- ing. It alleges that he is drawing
berg. The impression is that these money without authority of law from
forces are on the way to Lord Roberts. the state treasury, pardoning convicts
Mr. Chamberlain’s announcement in and doing other things that are detri
the house of commons of the intention mental to the welfare of the state.
of the government to encourage the The i>etition asks that the court enjoin
Zulus to defend themselves from the him from exercising any duties as chief
Boers is a contingency the Boers seem executive, and from assuming any con
to have anticipated, as they have been trol whatever over the legislature. Ap
doing everything in their ;>ower to win plication for the injunction will be
the good will of the Ba^utos, who have made before Judge Cantrill at George
thousands ot good rifles.
The Boers ! town.
gave 2,000 Basutos safe conduct.
If
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 16.—Suit was
the British let loose one tribe the Boers filed in the circuit court this afternoon
will probably let loose another.
by counsel for Governor Taylor, seek
The war office has issued orders for ing to restrain .1. C. W. Beckham from
the formation of 21 new batteries and acting as governor, and General John
three battalions of infantry.
I*. Castleman from attempting to dis
The cabinet council was in session charge the duties of adjutant-general.
yesterday for two hours. It will meet Summons were served on the defend
again today. This is quite unusual.
ants this afternoon. The suit will be
British Evacuate Rennberg,
allotted to one of the circuit judges by
London, Feb. 17.—The Cape Town a drawing. An application for a re
correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, straining order will be made. The
suit is brought by Governor Taylor for
telegraphing, says:
“It is reported here that the British himself individually and as governor of
have evacuated Rensberg and retired to Kentucky.
Arundel.”
Blizzard in England.
London, Feb. 16.—The effects of the
Arundel, Feb. 17.—General Clem
ents withdrew from Rensberg during blizzard which started today were felt
the night, his rear guard arriving at I throughout Great Britain. Trains
Arundel early this morning.
The ; were snowed up in all directions, street
Boers promptly followed, reoccupying : car lines blocked and telegraph and
their old position on the Taaisbosch telephone wires are down. There has
hills, when they have been shelling the neen a great number of accidents due
British cavalry patrols, but ineffectual to falling chimneys, roof slates and
ly. The British guns returned the similar causes. Mail vans and people
traveling by foot in the country dis
fire, making fairly acurate practice.
tricts are reported missing, and several
PASSED BY THE SENATE.
persons have been found frozen to death
Decisive Majority for the Financial in exposed places.
The streets of London are in fearful
Bill.
Washington, Feb. 17.—The senate condition from snow and sleet, and
substitute for the house currency bill many pedestrians have sustained frac
was passed by the senate today by the tured limbs from falling on icy pave
ments. Horses have suffered greatly,
decisive majority of 46 to 29.
Prior to the final passage of the bill, many having to be shot after breaking
amendments were considered under the their legs. Severe gales have swept
]o-minute rule. Only two of these the coast.
amendments were adopted, viz: One
Hearing in Loa Angrlen.
offered by the financial committee,
Los Angeles, Feb. 16.—The inter
keeping the door open to international state commerce commission is to hold
bimetalism, and one by Nelson, of Min a session in Los Angeles, March 25,
nesota, providing for national banks news of the fact having reached here
with $25,000 capital in towns of not officially from Washington today. The
more than 4,000 inhabitants.
real object of the meeting will l>e to
The house today completed 26 of 124 continue the discussion of the alleged
pages of the legislative, executive and discrimination against Pacific coast
judicial appropriation bill, without jobbers, which was taken up at St.
amendment. During the general de Louis. The commission, when it ad
bate, which closed at 4 o’clock, a journed at the time, gave it out that
variety of topics were touched upon. other meetings to go further into the
Boutell, of Illinois, Miers, of Indiana, merits of the controversy would lie held
and Showalter, of Pennsylvania, dis at a later date at various places on the
cussed the Philippine question; Gros Pacific coast. Meetings will also lie
venor, of Ohio, and Gillett, of Massa held at San Francisco, Portland, and
chusetts, civil service reform; Briggs, probably at Seattle.
of New York, pensions, and Under
Meeting of Cattlemen.
wood, of Alabama, his resolution to
San Francisco, Feb. 16.—A meeting
repeal the 15th amendment to the con of the cattle men of California, Wash
stitution. The] legislative bill proba ington, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Nevada
bly will be passed tomorrow.
and Arizona, will be held in this city
Lima, Peru, via Galveston, Feb. 17. March 5, for the purpose of taking steps
_ A severe earthquake shock, which to secure the jiassage of the Foster bill
caused great alarm, was felt in this now pending before congress. This
section. In the course of the day the bill provides for the delimitation and
River Rimae flooded its banks in the leasing of the grazing lands on the pub
antskirts of Lima, endangering life and lic domain to stockmen for terms of 10
years,with the right of their use.
property.
____________
ASIATIC
POWER.
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 17.—President
Jacob G. Schurman,
of vumcii
Cornell uuiver-
nui innu, ui
uuiwi*
General cronje Ketreating sitv, in an address before the Business
Men’s Association, of Ithaca, spoke at
With All Speed.
some length on the issues arising out
of the Philippine question. Regarding
, the commercial benefits which the
FRENCH'S STAY AT KIMBERLEY United States is to derive as a result of
the Spanish-American war. he said:
"The markets of the world are open
Boer Wagon-Train Being rnrsued To
to us and receiving our products. The
ward the Capl I al — Kel I y - Keuny liar-
Spanish war gave us a solution to that
H««lng the Bear Guard
question. That war was waged to
London, Feb. 19.—General Cronje, drive from Cuba an effete European
With a start of a day or two, is seem power, a government of tyranny. The
ingly in full retreat from Lord Roberts, irony of fate has followed up our late
moving northward. General French, war, and, paradoxical though it be,
with the cavalry, simply stayed over we are now an Asitic power, with new
night in Kimberley, and then pushed outlets for our products.
“These are hard facts, and as strange
on to get in touch with the retreating
enemy. A long doer wagon train mov as they are true. Where England and
ing toward Bloemfontein, folk wed pre Germany kept us from the coni|>etition,
sumably by a large force of British in it is now all our own, and the lion’s
fantry. In their hasty departure the ! share is coming with it. We allowed
Boers lost quantities of supplies and Africa to be sliced up by European
powers. It is our national crime.
ammunition.
Military opinion here is that Lord China has opened the door to its 400,-
Russia,
Roberts will not push far after the 000,000 human souls for us.
France,
Germany
and
England
were
Boers immediately, because of trans
port problems and the need of rest foi dividing that great empire as Africa
the troops. He has to feed 70,000 per was divided. We might have lost it.
sons in his army and the whole Kim England was in despair. Its trade was
berley population. He must rebuild ridiculed by Russia, Germany and
the railway from Modder River town l France. But the United States alone
to Kimberley, and revictual the latter. opened the doors of China, and acconi-
General French lost a few men only in I plished one of the greatest achievements
action, but the forced marches and the j in history.
"Our flag is anchored in the Pacific;
heat have probably made many ill.
Numbers of lemounts must be provided. I it is floating over the Philippines.
| Henceforth we are to be on an equal
Retreating to Bloemfontein.
fixiting in Asia with Russia, Germany,
Jacobsdal, Feb. 19—via Modder France and England. But our mission
River.—General Cronje, with 10,000 is not alone to make money there,
men, is in full retreat towards Bloem ' although Providence dropped the island
fontein. General Kelly-Kennv is fight ' into our lap.
Eight million people
ing a rear guard and harassing the re with immortal souls have been re
treat. The Boers are reported to be deemed from the tyranny of ages, and
leaving Spyfoutein, going in a north our mission is to share with them our
westerly direction.
| highest American civilization and
The Boers capture« a large convoy liberty. They will accept our flag,
as a result of Thursday’s 1 g'iting at our education, and then our mission
Riet river. The British casualtie« will be accomplished. It will be their
were comparatively light in view oi flag and ours, their glory and ours,
the tremendous bombardment. Less their pride and ours, emblem of the
than 30 men were wounded and but Orient in its highest and noblest form.”
one killed.
BETTER CONDITIONS.
General French’s division was en
thusiastically welcomed at Kimberley.
n General Improvement in
The officers dined at the club last even Oil« Report« the
Philippine«.
ing. The news ot the entry into Kim
Washington, Feb. 17.—The adjutant
berley has greatly cheered the troops,
general received the following cable
who are working splendidly.
message from General Gtis:
Riots io Martinique.
“Manila, Feb. 17.—Bates left today
Fort De France, Martinique, Feb. 19. with two regiments and battery of
—A mob of rioters yesterday at Rivierre artillery on transports for San Miguel
Sallee refused to hear Senator Knight, bay, province of Camarines Sur, to
who is favorably disposed towards move on Nueva Caceres and towns in
their cause. At midnight the planta that section.
The road east from
tions of La Cocollee and Champigny Antimouan through the provide of
were set fire to. News has been re Tavabas is not practicable for troops.
ceived from Paris announcing that the The insurgents in Camarines show
garrison is to be reinforced and the considerable activity' and make attacks
French cruiser Sachet is on her way on our troops along the southeastern
here.
coast of Luzon island. It is reported
The situation grows worse rather that they hold several hundred Spanish
than better, in spite of the concession« prisoners and a few Americans, in the
by the employers. Work is stopped, vicinity of Nueva Caceres.
and the strikers, urged on by their
“Kobbe, with two regiments, occu
ringleaders, are becoming more men pies the southeastern extremity of
acing and exacting.
M. llavott, a Luzon from Tabaco on the north to
prominent planter at I’etitborug, with Donsol on the south: all important
his family, has arrived here, abandon points of the island of Catauduanes,
ing his effects and plantation. There Samar and Leyte.
are more than 2.000 rioters in the Petit-
“The conditions throughout the
borug district, and as there is a consid Philippines are gradually improving.
erable supply of liquor accessible, it is All coasting vessels are now engaged in
feared that the night will witness transporting merchandise and products.
scenes of violence. The governor hav The Ladrone element is troublesome
ing declared himself unable to afford in all of the islands ami keep troops
the desired protection, the command very actively' engaged.”
ant made an urgent appeal, and at 6
Maine Day in Havana.
o’clock this evening the entire local
Havana, Feb. 17.—The second anni
brigade of gendarmerie was called into versary of the destructin of the United
requisition.
States battleship Maine in this harbor
was suitably observed here today.
More Plague in Honolulu.
Honlulu, Feb. 10.—Five cases of S 'veral hundred Americans went out
plague have developed since the Ala to the wreck ol the Maine, over which
meda sailed, February 2. Among tha the United States flag was flying at
stricken ones were two white men—J. half mast. Every available piece of
W. Robertson, a clerk in a large hard the wreckage above the water was
ware store, and J. H. Hartman, a banked with laurels. From the search
stable man who recently came from ' light platform short prayers were offer
San Francisco. Robertson lingered 24 j ed by Dr. McGee, of the Episcopal
hours and then succumbed.
Hartman church, and Father Jones, of the Catho
is said to be improving, under the lic church. At the church of Mercede,
Pasteur treatment. No new eases have the municipality arranged for imposing
developed during the paHt four days. memorial services which were attended
The house-to-house inspection is being by Governor-General Wood and other
civil and military officers.
kept up.
The schooner Golden Shore had a
Fre«het in the Hudaon.
narrow escape from destructionn from
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 16.—Three men
fire on the 7th. The vessel was fumi were drowned and $500,000 damage
gated, and 48 hours later flames were, done to pro|>erty along the Hudson
discovered in the hold. The vessel was river by the worst freshet which this
damaged to the extent of $1,500. The ; city has seen since 1857. The dead
schooner will leave for l’uget sound are: Thomas Shea, of Bath; William
in ballast.
Rhienhart, of New York; Joseph Vo-
gel, of Van Rensslaer island. Shea
* Broom-Corn Truat.
Chicago, Feb. 19.—There was a and Rhinehart broke through the ice.
meeting of the meml>ers of the Union Vogel was drowned while trying to res
•Btjom Company, known as the broom cue four horses on his farm. Fifty men
corn trust, in this city, and it is said are imprisoned in the second story of
an effort was made to advance the price an ice house on Montgomery island,
of brush from $200 to $220 a ton, but across the river, but they are in no
the wiser heads thought it l>est not to danger, as the water has begun to re
do it. The dea'ers outside claim this cede. The flood reached its height at
will be done at the next meeting. From 3 o’clock this afternoon, when it regis
all sections come reports of increased tered 20 feet above the ordinary level.
At midnight it had gone down two feet.
acreages this year.
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Large Shipment of Opium.
San Francisco, Feb. 19.—One of the
largest shipments of opium received at
this port for some time was brought
from th Orient by the steamer Coptic.
It consists of 28,821 pounds, and its
value, with duty paid, is about $400,-
000. The duty on the opium will
amount to $142.926.
Fighting In Albay rroslnce.
Mrs. C'att Suer.it. Mis. Anthony.
In Awintlr Rii««la.
Washington, Feb. 15.—The National
Woman’s Suffragist Association today
elected Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of
New York, president for the ensuing
year, to succeed Miss Susan B. An
thony, who declined re-election.
San Francisco, Feb. 19.—Advices
from Japan, per steamer Coptic, re|ort
that the Japanese government has
knowledge that Russia will place 50,-
000 troops at Port Arthur within two
years. Japan is apprehensive of the
move, as Russia could fill Corea with
soldiers in a very short time. As tha
matter now stands, Ja|«n would have
to dispatch transports to Chemulpo
with men, and this would be a big un
dertaking.
Arrival of Mapply Ship.
AN
United State« Alone Opened the Door
of China.
Manila, Feb. 17. —Insurgent forces,
estimated at 5,000 soldiers, mostly
bolomen. attacked the American garri
son in the convent at Daraga province
af Albay, the night of February 5.
Thev were repulsed, however, after
they had burned much of the town.
One lieutenant wounded was the only
loss sustained by the Americans.
San Francisco, Feb. 16.—The Vladi
mir Vostock, one of the supply ship*
Steel ornaments should always be charter» 1 by the government for the
kept in powdered starch to prevent transportation of quartermaster’s and
commissary stores, arrived from Manila
their rusting.
ARE
jatuu
Corbett-Jeffrie« Fight.
New York, Feb. 17.—The date of
the fight between J. J. Jeffries and J.
J. Corbett has been fixed at May 14.
George F. Considine and W. A. Brady,
managers of the men, met Tom
O’Rourke, manager of the Seaside
Athletic Club, today, and formally
accepted the offer of the Coney Island
Club for the fight.
Rrfx«> the Honds.
CENSUS OF CROPS.
Th. Nsxt Knum.ration Will Bn Take»
lu June, I eoo, of tlie Prod
ucts of la»».
The first really valuable census of
agriculture in the United States was
taken in 1850, of the crops of 1849.
The next enumeiatiou of agriculture
will be taken in June, 1900, of the prod
ucts of 1899.
Instead of recording several farms on
one schedule in the Twelfth census, as
heretofore, each farm will be accorded
a separate blank, the entries on which
xfrill not be known to any save sworn
officers of the department. No names
will l>e published in connection with
information secured from the people.
Tax assessors, collectors, and equal
izers cannot serve as enumerators, or
have access to the census returns, or to
the information therein contained.
There are more than 5,000,900 farms,
plantations, ranches, stock ranges, and
market gardens in the United States,
all of which, for census purposes, will
be designated as "farms.”
A "farm” is all the land cultivated
or held for agricultural purposes uuder
one management, whether in a single
body or separate parcels.
The enumerator will ask for the size
and value of each farm, the value of
buildings, and the aggregate value of
all machinery, implements, vehicles,
harnesses, etc., use! thereon; and the
amount of land owned and leased, re
spectively, by said occupant.
He will also ask for acreage and
value of each crop, and the acreage of
improved, unimproved and irrigated
lands.
The designation "each crop” in
cludes all grains, cotton, corn, rice,
sugai cane, sugar beets, sorghum, hay,
clover, wild grasses, gathered forage,
flax, hemp, hops, peanuts, tobacco,
seeds, nuts, tropical fruits, small
fruits, orchard fruits, nursery and
greenhouse stock, broom corn, Irish po
tatoes, sweet potatoes and yams, all
vegetables, including the product of all
family, truck, and market guldens,
etc.; also new or unusual crops, when
found.
The enumerator will ask for the
number and value of the live stock on
the farm June 1, 1900, which will be
reported under a number of heads,
such as horses, colts, mules, asses,
cows, heifers, steers, calves, bulls,
ewes, rams, lambs, swine, goats, chick
ens (including guinea fowl), turkeys,
geese, ducks, bees, etc.
He will also ask for the quantity and
value of milk, cream, butter, cheese,
raisins, prunes, molasses, sirup, sugar,
eggs, beeswax, honey, wool, wine,
cider, vinegar, dried and evaporated
fruits, forest products, poultry and
meat products, and generally, all ar
ticles made at home, or for the home,
from farm materials in 1899.
If a person who moves from a farm
between the end of the crop year 1899
and June 1, 1900, will leave a written
record of the products and crops of
that farm for 1899 where it will reach
the appropriate enumerator, the statis
tics for bis operatiim for that year will
not be lost. He will be required to
give the enumerator of the district in
which he lives on June 1, 1900, the
acreage, value, buildings, machinery,
implements, and live stock of the farm
be then occupies.
If every farmer will begin at once to
prepare a careful record of all the facts
which the enumerator will be in-
stucted to record in June, 1900, he
will save time for himself and the offi
cer, and insure more accurate returns
to the government.
The twentieth century will begin on
January, 1, 1901. Therefore, the pend
ing census will afford to future genera
tions a measure of the strength and
condition of the United States at the
threshold of the new hundred year
cycle. For that reason everyone should
take an active interest in making it as
nearly perfect as possible. If each
farmer will make his own report per
fect, the aggregated report for every
community, and for the nation, will
be perfect.
S|Hikane is to semi a formal invita
tion to President McKinley to visit the
town in October, w hen, it is said, he
will come to the Pacific coast.
North Yakima merchants are not
worried because a mild winter has left
heavy stocks of woolen goods on their
hands; the price on woolens has ad
vanced 25 per cent in the past three
months.
Thursday 100 horses were shipped
from Walla Walla to Vancouver, says
the Walla Walla Union. Theanimals,
together with a number of other horses,
will be transported to the Philippines
for cavalry use. No more horses will
be purchased for the government in
Walla Walla at the present time.
Blanche Dewey, a 15-year-old girl of
Snohomish county, made complaint
against her father, charging him with
criminal assault upon her, and on the
witness stand swore that the complaint
was false wild that there was no ground
for it. Then she was arrested for per
jury, and, it is said, will be sent to the
reform school.
George Gross, at Junction City, has
a hog that weighs 525 pounds.
C. R. Hunt is about to build a new
barn on his Tillamook dairy ranch, for
which 45,090 feet of lumber will be
required.
Telegraph, telephone and electric
companies have ap|a-aled to the author
ities of Pendleton to protect them from
the tin sign tackers, who persist in de
facing their property by ta< king their
advertisement« on the poles in the
streets.
Chicago, Feb. 15.—After a heated
debate, the resolutions committee of
the anti-trust conference decided to re
port in favor of government ownership
of raimads and for their seizure on pay
ment of actual value and without nay-
ment for “watered stock ot other ficti
George and John Dunsan, of Wilbur,
tious values.”
near Meacham station, are in jail at
The tnanagerof the Belleville Woolen Pendleton, charged with the larceny of
mills, at North Kingston, Rhode Island, two saddles from Ed Lisner's barn, and
granted the demand of the operatives a horse Itelonging to George Adams, of
Pendleton.
for a 10 per cent advance in wages.
BRADSTREET’S
REPORT.
Favorabl. Inrr.si. of Trade a. Coar.
pared to Last Year.
Bradstreet’s says: Satisfactory ad
vices as to expanding trade in dry
goods and kindred lines come from a
number of markets. That the aggre
gate business of the country is of good
volume otherwise is, however, indi
cated by detailed reports of increase*
in trade, as compared with last year,
confirmed by satisfactory railroad earn
ings reports, by fair gains in bank
clearings and by reports of better de
mands for money in commercial ctum-
nels. A year ago, it may be recalled,
extremely stormy weather was exper
ienced, and some effects, notably those
on winter sown crops, were very unfa
vorable. This year opposite conditions
have ruled and though some talk ot
lack of snow in grain-growing region*
is heard no widespread damage from
cold weather is yet noted. In fact,
unseasonably mild weather has been an
appreciable effect on several industries,
notably those engaged in the manufac
ture of footwear, in discouraging sales
of the same actual!)' causing the shu*
down of some rubber manufactories,
and also in the lumber and ice busi
ness. The scarcity of snow in the
Northwest will unquestionably affect
the log cutting season, and a fir met
toue as to values is already perceptible,
notwithstanding talk of labor troubles
affecting the building trades.
The foreign demand for iron and
steel seems likely to have a most impor
tant effect U|xm prices of the domestic
product. It is conceded that any im
portant recession in value would be
met by a heavy enlarged export move
ment.
Failures for the week in the United
States number 199, as compared with
231 last week, 160 in this week a year
ago, 269 in 1898, 325 in 1897 and 27«
in 1896. — o
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PACIFIC
COAST
TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, new, $2.25@2.50 per sack.
Lettuce, hot house, 40c per dos.
Potatoes, new, $18@29.
Beets, per sack, 75@85c.
Turnips, per sack, 69c.
Carrots, per sack, 50c.
Parsnips, per sack, 75@85c.
Cauliflower, 75c@$l per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California.
$1.00@1.25 per 190 pounds.
Apples, $1.25@1.50 per lox.
1’ears, $1.00@1.25 per box.
Prunes, 60c per l>ox.
Butter—Creamery, 81o per pound;
dairy, 17@22c; ranch, 20c per pound.
Eggs—20c.
Cheese—Native. 16c.
Poultry—13@14c; dressed, 14@15o.
Hay—Puget Sound timothy, $12.00;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$18.00@ 19.09
Com—Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $23.
Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton,
$21; whole, $22.
Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.25;
blended straights, $3.00; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat
flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.80@4.00.
Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $14.00;
shorts, per ton, $16.00.
Feed—Chopped feed, $20.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00.
Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beet
• teers, 7S@8 c > cows, 7c ¡mutton 8c;
p>rk, 7 l»c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 8)^@
19c.
Hams—Large, 13c; small, 18H;
breakfast bacon, 12,‘sc; dry salt sides,
de.
Portland Market.
Wheat—Walla Walla. 53 @54 Ho;
Valley, 53c; Bluestem, 57c per bushel.
Flour—Best grades, $3.00; graham,
$2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats—Choice white, 35@ 36c; choica
gray, 34c per bushel.
Barley—Feed barley, $14@ 15.00;
brewing, $17.00@ 18.00 per ton.
Millstuffs—Bran, $13 per ton; mid
dlings, $19; shorts, $15; chop, $14 per
ton.
Hay—Timothy, $10@ 11; clover,$7(9
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $6@7 per ton.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 59 @ 55c;
seconds, 42la@45c; dairy, 39@37.Iiic;
store, 25H@82‘aC.
Eggs—14 *s@ 16c per dozen.
Cheese—Oregon full cream, 13c;
Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.00(9
4.00 )*-r dozen; hens, $4.50; springs,-
$2.50@8.50; geese, $7.00@8.00 for old;
$4.5O«iO; ducks, $5.09@6.00 ;>er
dozen;
turkeys, live, 10@llc per
pound.
Potatoes—55@90c per sack; sweets,
2@2l«c per pound.
Vegetables—Beets, $1; turnips, 90c;
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab
bage, 1 ‘ac per pound; parsui|>s, $1;
onions, $1.50@2.00; carrots, $1.
Hops—7@8c per |s>und
Wool—Valley, 12@l3c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8@14c; mohair, 27@
80c per pound.
Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethen
and ewes, 4 He; dressed mutton, 7@
7 He i » t pound; lambs, 7 l«c per ;>ound.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
$o.50@6.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef—Gross, top steers, $4.00@4.50;
cows, $3.50@4.00; dressed l>eef, 6H@
7 He per pound.
Veal—Large, 7@8c; small, 8S<9
9 l«c per pound.
San Pran.i.ea Marhst.
Wool—Spring—Nevada, 12@15cpe*
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12@ 16c; Val
ley, 20@22c; Northern, 10@l2c.
Hope—1899 crop,
11 @ 13o pe»
pound.
Butter—Fancy creamery 23@24c;
do seconds, 22@22 He; fancy dairy, 2<>
@21c; do seconds, 18@ 19c per pound.
F.ggs—Store, 18@15Hc; fancy ranch,
17c.
Millstuffs — Middlings, $17.50 •
20.00; bran. $12.50@ 13.50.