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IHffll tf ffilSOHS Contents of Notes Between Salisbury and Kruger. OID NOT RELATE TO PEACE Smart Artillery Duel Neur Wnraenton — No News From Natal —Defenses of Pretoria—Situation at Mafeking. London, March 24.—It haa bean learned that no new peace overtures have been made to Lord Salisbury, nor are any expected at present by Great Britain. The telegraphic correspond ence has been confined to the treatment of British prisoners, Lord Salisbury holding the presidents of the South African republics responsible. The question of the safety of Johannesburg and the gold mines there has not been raised. It seems certain that Mafeking’« only chances lie in relief by the column supposed to be advancing from the south, or in the [»ossibility that Colonel Baden-Powell is still strong enough to attempt a sortie with a view of captur ing the Boer guns at a time when Com mandant Fuyman has withdrawn his men to oppose Colonel Plumer’s ad vance. Nothing has developed regarding General Buller’s intentions, but if seems hard to believe that he is again embarking General Warren’s division. It is reported from Lourenco Marques that Pretoria is prepared to stand a siege of two years, and that the Boer women, frantic at the reverses to the Boer arms, are entreating to be allowed to shoot the British officers imprisoned at Pretoria. It is also announced from the Transvaal capital that the Italian government has declined to intervene. Fighting at Warrenton. Kimberley, March 24.—There was a smart artillery duel near Warrenton yesterday morning. A battery under Major lilewitt, supported by the Kim berley Light Horse, located the Boers, who employed four guns, two of which used cordite, but ineffectively. The British battery replied with effect, and silenced the Boer fire. The Boers sent two shells near the railway station, which was not damaged. A scouting party got too close to the bank of the river, and encountered a hot fire. The men were unable to get away, and it was impossible to relieve them without loss, the party being obliged to wait for darkness in order to escape. The party retire^ with only one wounded. This morning brisk firing was re sumed at Warrenton, about 6:30, but it has now slacked up. A detachment of Fusilers has ar rived. Two Vryburg inhabitants, who have been imprisoned by the Boers, were sent into Warrenton under a white flag, after being taken from laager to laager around the district. They say that the big gun from Kimberley has been taken through Christiana to Pre toria. There are women and children in nearly every laager. Trains now run within eight miles of Warrenton. ROBERTS’ Preparing NEXT MOVE. for the Invasion Transvaal. of the London, March 24.—Several tele grams have passed between President Kruger and the British government in addition to the Salisbury-Kruger cor respondence already published. So far as the military situation is concerned, there is practically no change. Lord Roberts is quietly mak ing preparations for the next move. As necessary to a beginning, Generals Gatacre and Brabant are swiftly mov ing from point to point in the southern districts of the Free State, dispersing or accepting the surrender of any remain ing Boers, thus insuring the safety of Lord Roberts’ communications before starting toward Pretoria. A corre spondent of the Daily News at Spring- fontein describing those movements says: “General Gatacre is sweeping through the country like a cyclone, with Hying columns in all directions. His swiftness and strategy have proved of inestimable value to Lord Roberts.” The rebuilding of the railway bridge at Norval’s Pont will occupy two months. The temporary bridge will be completed in about 10 days. Mean while, supplies are transported by an aerial tramway across the gap. These works necessarily delay the providing of supplies for the advance. Lord Methuen’s movements north of Kimberley are believed to be a prelude to the gathering of a column of 20,000 men, with Kimberley as a base, to strike east ward from Fourteen Streams into the Transvaal. GREAT MINING SUIT. Caie Involving Millions Between Rival Copper Kings Is On Trial. Butte, Mont., March 24.—A mining suit between the rival copper kings, Marcus Daly and United States Sen ator William A. Clark, is on trial in the United States court. There are three suits in all, but the trial on one will determine all contentious. The mines involved are the Neversweat, of the Anaconda Company, and the Colusa and Parrot, owned by the Colusa-Parrot Mining Company, of which Senator Clark is the head. The question of apex is involved, and the determination of the matter will mean a great many millions of dollars to the company se curing a favorable decision. Both sides have been actively preparing for the trial for a year past, and every section of the country has been scoured for mining experts to give testimony. Mine models, costing thousands of dol lars, have been constructed for the pur pose of the trial, which will be one of the most notable ever tried in the West. Some of the best known geol ogists and mining men of the country are arrayed on either side. Nome Concessions. Washington, March 24.—Upon the authority of the governor of Alaska, Turner made the statement in the sen ate today that concessions for gold mining in the bed of the sea near Cape Nome, Alaska, had been granted by the secretary of war, and upon that state ment he based a resolution of inquiry. Senator Turner said if such a grant had been made, it was a “shame, a re proach and a scandal.” The resolution was agreed to. In a few minutes, and without dis TO PREVENT NIGHT ATTACKS. cussion, the additional urgent deficien Navy Department Wants an Illuminat cy bill was passed with one or two other measures of choice. ing Projectile. Allison gave notice that he would New York, March 24.—Considerable interest is taken by naval officials here call up the conference report on the and at Washington in the efforts which Puerto Rican appropriation bill. inventors are making to construct a The Yaqui Rebellion. shell containing a chemical compound Monterey, Mex., March 24.—The which, when it strikes the water, will Ninth regiment of infantry, stationed blaze up and illuminate the surround in this city, has received orders to pro ing atmosphere. During the war with ceed immediately to the scenes of the Spain, Rear-Adimral O’Neil, chief of Yaqui Indian war and join the forces ordnance, expressed his willingness to of General Torres in the campaign that try inventions of this character. is now being waged against the rebels. A shell containing calcium chloride It is probable that permission will be was submitted a few weeks ago and has asked of the United States givernment just been fired at the Indian Head prov by President Diaz for this regiment and ing grounds. Lieutenant Strauss, in other military forces to pass through charge of the proving grounds, has re the United States by way of Eagle ported to Admiral O’Neil that the pro Pass, Tex., and Nogales, Ariz., as that jectile is too cumbersome and too light, is the only railway route to the scene tuning over and over in its flight, of the rebellion. though when it struck the water it Murder of a Chicago Barber. burned with an excellent light. Such Chicago, March 24.— Robert W. Gil a projectile would be extremely valua ble in time of war, as a warship equip christ, proprietor of a barber shop at ped with several of this type would be- 1764 Twenty-second street, was shot able to discharge them at an enemy’s and instantly killed while pieparing to torpedo Iroat, for instance, and l>y the shave a patron in his shop tonight. light thus produce would be able to de The assassin came to the door of the shop, opened it about half way, took a stroy the attacking vessel. slow aim with a rifle and fired, bitting Loud Bill Shelved. Washington, March 24.—After a Gilchrist ia the temple before the wit spirited discussion extending over three nesses of the crime could recover from «lays, the Loud bill, relating to second- their astonishment and give pursuit. class mail matter, was recommitted by Religious Fanatics Tarred. the house today to the committee on Gretna, Neb., March 24.—Tonight a postoffices. The majority in favor of mob took Louis Figg and wife, alleged the motion to recommit was so decisive religious fanatics, from their beds and that it is regarded as unlikely that the treated them to a coat of tar and feath measure will appear again during the ers. The mob, numbering aliout 30 present congress. Loud said, after the prominent citizens, made no attempt at vote was announced, that this was the disguise. It is alleged that Figg and third time and out, so far as he was his wife had caused a numbtr of women concerned. The vote on the motion to forsake home, husbandsand children was 148 to 96, with 16 present and not and take up residence in the Figg voting. “heaven.” Recruit« for Manila. New York, March 24.—More than 1,000 cavalry, infantry and artillery recruits will leave Fort Schuyler and Fort Slocum tomorrow for Brooklyn, where they will board the transport Sumner, which will sail Saturday for the Philippines. Alleged Filipino Victory. Paris, March 24.—The Instransigeant has a telegram received by Agoncillo, Aguinaldo’s envoy, announcing that the Filipino General Fava has routed the Americans near Cubat and taken the town. «■ IIIH B SEI Secretary Root’s Reply to the Senate’s Resolution. NO CONCESSIONS GRANTED Permit. Were Given—No I.aw to Pre vent Prospecting Under Water if Navigation 1. Not Obstructed. Washington, March 26.—Secretary Root today trahsferred to the senate lis reply to the resolution requesting information on the war department’s practice of granting permits for gold Hedging off the Alaskan coast. He nates that no concessions or grants to ixcavate the gold-bearing tied of the tea at or in the vicinity of Cape Nome jr in other Alaskan waters have been made by the secretary of war or any >ther official of the war department, but that permits have been given un- 1er the navigation act of March 3, 1899, » excavate or dredge for gold at points where there can be no hindrance to navigation. He states that prospectors must secure such permits to avoid lia bility to heavy fines under the act. Die secretary adds: “As this statute was designed solely for the protection of navigation, it has been the practice of the war depart ment to grant permits to persons desir ing to excavate for any purpose when the work is not such as unjustly to af fect navigation, and is otherwise law ful. Permits thus granted are not ex clusive; they do not preclude any number of similar permits applicable to the same territory; they are not ;rauts or concessions, and they confer no rights .whatever, except immunity from prosecution under the statute. “As there seems to be no legal rea son why all citizens of the United States should net have the same oppor tunity to prospect for gold and acquire mining rights under the mining laws upon land under water as they have upon land not under water, the depart ment determined, as a general policy in the exercise of the discretion vested in the chief of engineers and secretary cf war by this statute, to relieve all citizens applying from the oostacle in terposed by this statute as long as their proposed operations do not, in fact, in terfere with navigation. AU applica tions made under this statute have ac cordingly, so far as it has been possi ble to dispose of them, received favor able attention. No application of this description has been denied. Upon two, permits have been granted. Upon 1 third, papers had been prepared and were awaiting the secretary of war's signature at the time of the passage of four resolution. Three others were approved by the chief of engineers, and were in the bauds of the judge-advo cate for the preparation of the neces sary papers. Eleven others are still in the office of the chief of engineers in process of examination upon the ques tion whether they interfere with navi gation. Four more, just received, are in the office of the secretary of war, ind will today be sent to the chief of sngiueers. Unless otherwise directed by congress, the secretary of war will deem it his duty in the exercise of the discretion vested in him by law, to grant permits in all of these cases and upon all other similar applications by citizens of the United States; provided that the proposed work does not affect navigation.” A Negro*« Six Victim«. Raleigh, N. C., March 24.—A negro, Tom Jones, commonly known iu the country as “Preacher Jones,” this morning murdered Ella Jones and her eldest daughter. Ida, with an ax, and then set fire to the beds in which lay the liodies of his victims and four sleep ing children, ranging in years from a babe one month old to the largest l>oy, who was not more than 5. The four children were burned to death. The crime was committed at Garners, a lit tle town five miles east of here. The murderer, according to the Btory of little 7-year-old Laura Jones, who escajied with her younger sister, de liberately struck the mother four times and then made two cuts into the body of the oldest child. He then fired the house. When the people heard the story of the murder, they went to Jones’ house to arrest him. They found that his clothes still bore stains of fresh blood, and that bis hands were covered with blood. Ice Gorge Flood« a Town. Monroe, Mich., March 26.—Owing to an ice gorge a large portion of the Third ward of thia city is under lour feet of water, and the current of the Raisin river is running down Front afreet on the south and Elm avenue on the north. Great damage has already been done. The city authorities have decided to dynamite the ice gorge. Factory Elevator Fell. New York, March 24.—One of the elevators in the seven-story factory building at 247 Center street broke its cable today and fell seven stories, in juring three of its occupants internally. The injured are: John Pododa, 17 years old, the elevator boy; Bernard Katzung and Anton Schroeder, of Brooklyn. Adopted by the Senate. New York,, March 24.—The threat of the Western leaders of organized labor to tie up machine shops through out the country unless the nine-hour day is granted to all employee, has carrier 1 such weight with local mem bers of the National Metal Trades As sociation as to cause them to take im mediate steps toward organization. The national organization is only par tially formed, but when completed will include the machine manufacturers of thia city an'* adjacent towns. Natural G ns Wrecked a Home. Marion, Ind., March 22.—The home pf Henry Elsroth was destroyed by an explosion of natural gas today. Mr. and Mrs. • Elsroth. their son, 14 years old, and Samuel D. Payne, were in jured. The l>oy and Payne will proba bly die. The family was asleep when the explosion occurred. Vienna’s street railway system cost $40,000,000 and it is estimated that it will pay for itself in 10 veers. Washington, March 26.—The senate today adopted the conference rejiort on the Puerto Rican tariff bill by a vote of 35 to 15, practically a strictly party expression. No Democrat voted for the report, but Stewart. Silver, of Nevada, voted with the Republicans. The time of discussion was consumed mostly by Tillman, who made a fierce attack on the measure, and accused the Republi can senators and the Republican party of indiscretion, hypocrisy and "dirty work.” EXPLOSION OF COLLODION. Wrecked Two Building. In Philadel phia—One Lit. Lost. Philadelphia, March 24.—One person was killed and four injured by a terri- ole explosion of collodion in the photo graphic supply establishment of Thomas M. McCollin & Co., on South Eleventh itreet, today. The dead man is Her man Weiss, aged 19. The more seri ously injured are: George W. Nicho las, August Hauser, Daniel Reed, a fireman, and John A. Granton. The building was almost entirely wrecked, and the adjoining structure, occupied by V. Clad & Sons manu facturers of hotel ranges ami kitchen supplies, was also badly damaged by the force of the explosion. There were over 100 persons iu the Clad building when the explosion occurred on the sixth floor of the McCollin building. The force of the explosion blew out the north wall of the building, and the heavy mass crashed through the roof of the Clad building, which was only four stones in height. Weiss and Hauser, who were work ing on the upper floor of the Clad build ing. were crushed under the falling de bris. Nicholas and Granton were burned by the explosion, and were taken from the McCollin building by firemen. While firemen were working in the McCollin building, the third floor gave wav, and in this crash Fire man Daniel Reed had his leg broken. The property loss is alxmt $75,000. Fire, which followed the explosion, did considerable additional damage. The roof of the Jefferson hospital, the rear of which adjoined the burned structure, caught fire, but the flames were quickly extinguished, and did but little damage. A number of pa tients were quickly removed fiom the hospital as a measure of precaution during the progress of the fire. A REVOLTING CRIME. foung Woman Burned to Death Four Men In South Carolina. by Wadesborough, 8. C., March 24.— Particulars were received today of a re volting crime committed in Chester field county a few days ago. Cassie Boone, a young woman, was enticed from her home by four white men, carried to the woods near by and as saulted with knives. The woman was gashed with knives in the fleshy part of her body, the cuts being from four to 12 inches in length. Then coal oil was poured over her and she was set on fire and released in the woods, to run screaming until she fell dying. When found a small braid around the forehead waB the only shred of clothing left on her body. Cassie Boone was 20 years old, the daughter of George Boone, a farmer. She was one-quarter Indian. The girl’s reputation, it is said, was not good. Last Sunday evening Bhe left her home with Sam Woodward to visit Vinee Melton. She left there later in the evening with Tom Steen and James Jackson, presumably to return to her father’s house. Nothing more was heard of her till she was seen Monday night running through the woods. Ross Jackson, John Jackson, Abb Kirklv and Jim Verner, reported that they heard the screaming, and, collect ing a crowd, went into the woods and found the girl. Some one threw an overcoat over the charred and dying woman, and then summoned help. When a doctor arrived she was dead. TREATY RATIFIED. Relating tn the Dlnpositlon of Estates of Those Who Die Abroad. Washington, March 24.—The senate today iu executive session ratified the treaty between the United States and Great Britain relative to the estates of citizens of one country who die in the other, which has been under considera tion for the past few days. There was no debate today, but several additions were accepted. Article 2 was amended so as to provide for the extension of the provisions of the agreement to depend encies of the United States, “only upon direction of the lawmaking power of the United States,” thus relieving the treaty of the criticism that it conferred too great power upon the president. Article 5 was amended so as to make .t apply only to the right of dis|>osing of property. As drafted, the treaty conferred upon the subjects of Great Britain and upon those of the United States in Great Britain “the same right in acquiring possessions or disposing of property” as is possessed by the citi zens of the country itself; the words “acquiring” and “possessing” were stricken out. As amended, the treaty was ratified by an almost unanimous vote. Held I'p a Train. St. Joseph, Mo., March 24.—A “lone” robber, wearing a false face, with a huge black moustache painted on the mask, held up the southbound Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs train, four miles south of Ham burg, la., at 1:30 o’clock this morning. The train was in charge of Conductor Billy McGee. Flagman Moore was first accosted by the robber at the rear end of the train. Using Moore as a shield, the robber went through the sleejier and chair car, getting $200 in cash and a gold watch. He pulled the bell cord and when the train slowed down jumped off and escaped in the darkness. The robbery was reported to the Burlington general office here from Langdon, the first station south of Hamburg. Bounty on Robbers’ Bodies. Kansas City, March 24. — R. J. Mc Farland, chief of the Kansas City p?!ic« department, has hung up a Isrunty for the liodies of all highway robliera killed in the city while in the act of committing robl>eries or directly thereafter. The price the chief offers to give for the l»ody of each highway man. the money to l>e paid out of hie i alary, is $25. The reward is open to members of the force as well as any titizen. PACIFIC COAST NEWS Commercial and Financial Happening« of Interest in the Growing Western States. Letter From Nome. E. W. Beachwood, of Tacoma, Wash., received a letter from R. J. Becker, at Nome, Alaska, in which he says: “At present all linss of supplies, ex cept dogs, are sufficiently plentiful. Lumber is $250 per 1,000 feet, and hard to get. Milk and cream low, and rice and ham 50 cents per ]>ound. Fuel will be short. Dog teams have cleaned the river and beach already. One hundred pounds, or a single sack, of coal, when you can get it, costs $50. "For profit, canned meats is a good staple, but not flour or sugar. Never in history has there been such stam peding. Bonanza district has been lit on as by grasshoppers, and now there is a grand rush for Koksadapagra. "The big excitement is at Milk creek, 15 miles above Prince of Wales. York is attracting a big lot of atten tion, and good results are shown. Above Cape Rodney is the latest, called New Eldorado district, and it is surely good, along with a three mile free gold bearing ledge of quartz. The trail is hot with people for this district. There will no doubt lie • M3 stampede for Norton creek, as $14 a pan is se cured. Other creeks yield 10 and 15 cents at the surface. “The beach is being worked with good results, and coarse gold at timeB shows up. Several $5 and $15 nug gets, and one worth $37, were found about one and a half miles up, and on top of the ground.” Bonded for 9*300.000. BRADSTREET’S REVIEW. General Outlook Retains Most Kncoar* aging Features. Bradstreet’s says: Some of the irreg ularities are visible in the general trad* and industrial situation, the result« of the working of counter currents in va- rious lines, but, taken as a whole, th* general outlook retains the most en« oouraging features noted for some tint* past in these volumes. Favorable r*- ports as to retail distribution and as to collections dome from Southern, West ern and Northwestern markets, due to better weather. Advances in wages of soft coal miners, of stove molders, and of other workers allied to the iron and steel industry would Beem to point to labor conditions retaining most of th* favorable features which have recently made them features of favorable re mark. Sugar is higher, mainly owing to th* growing strength of raw material. Wheat and corn, among the bread- stuffs, have been weaker, reflecting an other one of those short swings in prices which have been a feature of th* former market, but also expected heavy shipments from Argentina and good es timated crop reports from the South and West. In the Central West, wheat crop advices are disappointing, com plaint of winter killing more than off setting increased acreage. Wool remains one of the soft spots in the market, and though a little more business has been done this week than last, concessions are easier to obtain and prices are quotably lower. Wheat, including flour, shipment« for the week aggregate 2,903,495 bush els, against 2,727,450 bushels last week, 8,764,761 bushels in the corre sponding week of 1899. Business failures foi the week in th* United States number 192, as compared with 190 last week. What promises to be one of the rich est mines in the whole Eastern Otegon district, and which heretofore has been PACIFIC COAST TRADE. practically unknown, was bonded today Seattle Market«. to Captain J. W. Heisner, of Baker Onions, new, $2.0002.75 per sack. City, for $200,000. The property is Lettuce, hot house, 60c per doz. situated on Dixie mountain, near Potatoes, new, $17018. Quartzburg, at the head of John Day Beets, per sack, 75 085c. valley. It is named the Yankee Boy, Turnips, per sack, 60c. and consists of a group of six claims. Carrots, per sack, 75c. Several veins run through the property Parsnips, per sack, 75085c. of high grade ore. The formation of Cauliflower, 75c0$l per dozen. the ledges is porphyry, alate, syenite, Cabbage, native and California, granite and phonolite. The property is well developed by tunnels and shafts, $1.0001.25 per 100 pounds. Apples, $1.2501.50 per box. and the ore is found in hematite and Prunes, 60c per l>ox. quartz. There is plenty of water and Butter—Creamery, 28o per pound; timber, water right and mill site. dairy, 17022c; ranch, 17c per pound. To Use Street Car Track. Figgs—15© 18c. The Lebanon, Or., paper mill com Cheese—Native, 15c. pany has purchased a mile of street cat Poultry—130 14c; dressed, 14015c; rails, that were obtained years ago for spring, $5. extensions of the street car system in Hay—Puget Sound timothy, $12.00; Eugene. The extensions were never choice Easterl AV ashing ton timothy, made. The rails will now be put to $18.00 0 19.00 use in the yards of the paper mill at Corn—Whole, $28.00; cracked, $23; Lebanon. In addition to this, negotia feed meal, $28. tions are pending between the sama Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, parties for the purchase of the street $20; car system now in operation at Eugene. Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.25; blended straights, $8.00; California, Trout From Lake Michigan. $3 .25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra Tom Brown, superintendent of the Salmon river steelhead hatchery, and ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat flour, $3.00; rye flour, $8.80 0 4.00. E. R. Greenman, deputy fish commis Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $18.00; sioner, left today for the hutchery sit« to begin work on the spring run. Mr. shorts, per ton, $15.00. Feed—Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; Greenman will remain there only a middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, short time. Superintendent 8. W. Downing, the Clackamas hatchery, per ton, $80.00. Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beef has received 100,000 trout from Lake Michigan, which he is feeding. Thea« steers, 7Ji 08c; cows, 7c; mutton 8c; I>ork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 8 Ji® trout will be transplanted in Washing ton and Oregon waters. When full 10c. Hams—Large, 18c; small, 13 Ji; grown these trout weigh as much ae breakfast bacon, 12 Jsc; dry salt sides, 85 ¡rounds. 8c. Northwent Note«. The $15,000 necessary to establish a fruit cannery in Walla Walla has been subscribed. A Umatilla county, Or., breeder has a Poland China sow whose offspring last year brought him $100. Her lat est effort was a litter of 14 pigs. The most unique wedding ever sol emnized in S]x>kane occurred when Justice Leonard performed the cere mony uniting Tom Wing, a native of China,and AVeunie, a native of Japan. It is the opinion of many of our ranchers with whom we have s|s>ken on the subject, says the Vale, Malheur county, Gazette, there will 1») consid erable water during the coming Beason, in spite of the lack of snow in th« mountains. They say that as th« ground has not been frozen the rain and snow water has sunk, and this will feed the springs until late in the season. L. Patnaud. who arrived the other day from Alaska, it is said, made a stake large enough to pay dividends to the several Everett citizens who joined in advancing him $50 each as a grub stake, at the rate of $1,350 for every $50. While excavating at Fort Setvens re cently for the new barracks, an old burying ground was discovered and several coffins unearthed. No one seems to now anything about this ancient burial place, and no mention can Isi found of it in the records at th« fort. W. W. Fish, a millionaire of Elmira, N. Y., and Professor B. F. Barge have leased 1,200 acres of choice lands on the Yakima Indian reservation at Siinco station, and have a large force of men engaged in plowing and seed ing. They propose making a great stock farm, in which alfalfa will form the basis of feeding several thousand cattle, sheep and hogs every wintei for the early spring market. Portland Market. AVheat — Walla Walla. 53054c; Valley, 53c; Bluestem, 57o per bushel. Flour—Best grades, $3.00; graham, $2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 85036c; choice gray, 34c per bushel. Barley—Feed barley, $14015.00; brewing, $17.00017.50 per ton. Millstuffs—Bran, $18 per ton; mid dlings, $19; shorts, $15; chop, $14 per ton. Hay—Timothy, $9010; clover, $7® 7.50; Ore^m wild hay, $607 per ton. Butter—Fancy creamery, 50 0 55c; seconds, 42Ji045c; dairy, 80087 Jio; store, 26032 Jic. EggB—12Jic per dozen. Cheese—Oregon full cream, 18c; Young America, 14c; new cheese 10* per pound. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $4.00® 5.00 per dozen; hens, $6.50; springs, $2.5008.50; geese, $6.5008.00 for old; $4.5006.50; ducks, $5.50 0 6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10011c per pound. Potatoes—50060c per sack; sweets, 2®2Jic per pound. Vegetables—Beets, $1; turnips, 60c; per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab bage, 1 He per pound; |>arHiii)>s, $1; onions, $1.5002.50; carrots, $1. Hops—3 08c per |s>und Wool—Valley, k3®18c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 10015c; mohair, 27® 30c per pound. Mutton—tiroes, l>est sheep, wether* awl ewes, 4 Jio; dressed mutton, 7® 7Jic per pound; lamlis, 7 Jicper pound. Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; light and feeders, $4.50; dressed, $6.0006.50 per 100 pounds. Beef—Gross, top steers, $4.00 0 4.50;. cows, $3.50 0 4.00; dressed beef, 6Jv® 7j<c per pound. Veal—Large, 6Ji©7Jic; small, 8® 9c per pound. Tallow—505 Jic; No. 2 and grease, 3 Ji ©4c ¡>er pound. A hole 600 feet deep has been drilled Ban Franeiseo Market« on the ranch of Alex Still, near West Wool—Spring—Nevada, 12015c pet on, Or. Some water has been obtain pound; Eastern Oregon, 12©16c; Val ed and it is expected that a g'sal sup ley, 20022c; Northern, 10012c. ply of water will be found at a little Hop«—1899 crop, 11013c per greater depth. pound. Butter — Fancy creamery 19c; The sheepmen who have been using the mountains included in the Ranier do seconds, 17 H© 18c; fancy dairy, 16 forest reserve have been notified of th« ©17c; do seconds, 15© 16c per pound. Eggs—Store, 12Jic; fancy ranch, decision of the secretary of the interior that sheep and cattle will not be per 14 Millstuffs — Middlings, $17.00 ® mitted to graze on the reserve thif 20.00; bran, $12.00© 13.00. season.