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, 1888-01-13

Petroleum continues to be one of the chief
speculative features of the markets. From
II cents a barrel in January it dropped to 81
cents in July, which was tho lowest it ever
reached on the New York Exchange. From
the upward tendency which it showed during
the last half of the year it may be considered
probable that it will reach n higher figure in
the spring than it has for many years.
Tho following chart shows the changes in
the prices of the principal articles of food
during tho last seventeen years, ut intervals
of two years. As there is no standard article
among the different food products, the on
deavor has been to show the wholesale price
of tho same quantity of n like grade during
the different years. The pound prices of
butter, tea, sugar and coffee are given and
the can prices of peaches. Western creamery
butter has averaged "a cents a pound; owing
to the prohibitory law on oleomargarine
more milk has been turned into the cream
cries to be made into butter than has been
forwarded to the factories for the manufact-
ure of cheese, consequently the price of the
latter has been higher than it will be next
year, when the factories will likely get more
than their proportion OF milk. The relations
of milk, butter and cheese to one another are
fixed as follows: 100 pounds of milk equal
4 pounds of butter, or 10 pounds of cheese.
As n consequence of the enforcement of the
Federal legislation against o-leomargarine,
the manufacturers nave found n market out
side, over 100000 pounds being shipped to
Europe alone during 1887.
In teas Americans seem to demand n better
grade than formerly, consequently the inn
porters are ~endeavoring to cater to the taste
With a greatly reduced article. ons of their
, 1888-01-13

sour poultry used to get very excited when
a snake was about; the crows and other
birds would similarly show its vicinity by
fiocking together near him in a state of much
perturbation. On one occasion my wife was
irritated by the continuous scolding croak
of n crow. When she went out to drive him
away, she saw n large cobra striking angrily
at him. The crow danced about Just out of
his reach. My wife and the servants, taking
the snake in the rear, decided the contest
much to the cobra's disadvantage. On one
of our police sepoys being bitten, 1 found,
on examining his foot, the unmistakable
mark of the two fangs of a poisonous
snake. 1 gave him some brandy, extern
ported n rough tourniquet, and was pro-
ceeding to carry out the government ~instruc-
tions for snake bite. The man himself, how
ever, and his companions thought he ought to
go to the representation of n Mussulman
saint at n neighboring mosque, and while /
was finding q razor they carried him off.
Next morning, on making inquiries, l found
the man was alive, though very sick-the
holy saint had repeated prayers over him,
had bound a pebble on his right arm, which
was only to be removed by the holy man
himself, after eight days, with appropriate
prayers; if taken Off by any one in the in
terval the man would die. In n few days tho
sepoy was well, the saint removed the band
age and pebble, and 1 was appealed to as u
witness to a veritable miracle. Had l not
seen the bite and testified that it had been
caused by a venomous snakel 1t is
seldom one hears of n European being
bitten. L only know of two authenticated
cases while in India. One was bitten by Il
cobra belonging to some snake charmers,
whose fangs he thought had been extracted.
The other had touched with his foot what
looked like n whip lash, but which was in
reality one of the little Indian vipers (Echis
carinata); both cases recovered. The i'm
munity enjoyed by Europeans is doubtless
due TO the fact that they wear boots in place
of the native sandal; but even so, one won
ders that there are not moro cases when it is
'reckoned how often n snake is found in a
bungalow n recollection which conjures up
the excitement caused Mt a dinner party by
, 1888-01-13
A YEARS BUSINESS.
CHARTS SHOWING THE FLucTUA-
TIoNs OF STOCKS IN 1887.

How Petroleum Has varied-Compari-
sons of Prices of Food Products for the
Last Seventeen Years-They Arc Now
Mt the Lowest Recorded Point.
Tho following charts show by their zigzag
lines the fluctuations of the business baron,
eter during the year just closed. They trace
in the clearest and most concise manner
possible the ups and downs of the principal
stocks at the New York Stock Exchange
during 1887.
Though the difference between the highest
and lowest prices for each month indicates,
to some extent, the manipulating power of
Wall street spectators, still the general
trend of the lines from month to month
shows tho increasing or decreasing value of
each property. These general changes are
governed chiefly by the freight and passen-
ger earnings, and these in their turn reflect
the prosperity of the country through which
each line of railroad runs.
, 1888-01-13
SNAKES In INDIA.
THE COBRA DI cAPELLo IN HIS
NATIVE LAIR.

Snake Charming n Profession by Itself.
How the Most Deadly Serpent in the
World is ~Tamed-stories Told by Euro
pean Residents of the East.
When other topics are exhausted at an
Anglo-Indian dinner table, the company
always drifts into a subject very common in
tropical climates-snakes. Europeans are
seldom bitten by snakes in India, but the rep
tiles are ever present, a large number of
natives die annually from their poison, and it
is natural that q subject so important to the
inhabitants of the country should excite n
keen interest among the pale faced sojourners.
OF course snake charming is one of the
professions in India. A certain Englishman
of the royal engineers has given the results
of some personal observations of the methods
of snake charmers. The beginner, he says, is
always carefully instructed by his master in
snake lore, including the habits of the whip
snake, "whow whips and whips you until you
die.n
SIT was during one of these lessons con
tinues the writer, 'that 1 first saw snake
charming. Parties of natives carried round
baskets slung at the end of bamboos, and,
~squatting down in front of the veranda, of
fered in a jargon as peculiar to them as the
squeak is to a Punch and Judy man in Eng
land, to get up a very good dance The
lids of the baskets were opened and two or
threo cobras were u-nceremoniously pulled
out. Then, while a squeaky pipe was played,
the snakes raised their heads, spread their
hoods and assumed the oft pictured attitude.
As the musician menaced them with his
hand, they ducked their heads up and
down, and this was the very good dance
Then another of the party produced an
unhappy, ragged looking mongoose Gchneu-
, 1888-01-13

tons he returned PHOF. +. V. HAYDEN.
with valuable fossils. His specimens attracted
the attention of the authorities of the Smith
sonian institution, and he was appointed to
assist Lieut.. G. K. Warren, of the %topograph-
ical engineers, then in tho northwest. In
1859 he was appointed naturalist and surgeon
to an expedition sent out to explore the Vel
lowstone.
During the civil war DR.. Hayden entered
the United States army as a surgeon. He
resigned when peace came, and from 1865 to
1872 held the chair of mineralogy and geol-
ogy in the University of Pennsylvania.
During his professorship he was also engaged
on the upper Missouri, making from 1869 to
1872 a series of geological explorations in
Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, his
Investigations extending into the natural
history, climate, resources and %ethnology of
the region. 1t was largely ON account of his
explorations and reports that congress set
apart the Yellowstone National park rs n
perpetual reservation.
DR.. Hayden resigned from the government
service in 1886, on account of i'll health. He
was the author of numerous scientific papers,
and his government publications are very
large. His name appears on the rolls of
many scientific societies in the United States
and abroad.
, 1888-01-13

studied me licine
Mt the medical
college at Albany,
N. Y. In 1853 he
explored the "Bad
Landsn of Dakota
for j es Hall,
state geologist for
New York, and
again, the ne K t
year, went west to
spend two years in
the exploration of
the basin of the up
per Missouri. From
both these explora-
NsA-- L. l
, 1888-01-13

The Mexican woman who is obliged to
earn her W living has a hard time of it.
Seamstresses annot earn more thar fifty
cents per day, cigarette makers from thirty
two to thirty-eight cents, and m~atchmakers
thirty to forty cents, and these are the only
employments that are open to women in the
City of Mexico.-Boston Budget.
, 1888-01-13

at 100000 when
she died. OF this
vast sum she be-
queathed 100000
to charitable insti-
buttons, while to her
employees she left
IS, 900. Tw o
hundred thousand
dollars of this sum
is to be devoted to
the founding of u
a hospital for m
ployes of the ''Bon
Marche," while tho
, 1888-01-13

The gradual rise in Manhattan Elevated
and the noticeably slight fluctuations, par
ticularly during the month of May, were
evidently intended by the controller of that
property to lead the investor into buying it
as the most solid of securities. But the house
was built of cards and the architect had de
signed it so ill that at the slightest touch il
would collapse. The crash came on June %,
after 10000 shares of Manhattan Elevated
railroad stock had been disposed of in one
hour at 1856 1-2. hen without the slightest
warning the price broke and within the sec
ond hour after the market opened this same
stock was selling at lis, n drop of over Al
per cent. Then followed the tumble of Jay
Gould's other pet stocks, as graphically shown
in the chart.
, 1888-01-13

choicest brands, which in 1886 was s1.50 a
pound, has fallen this year to 90 cents. The
lower grades of tea have dropped 2 or 8 cents
a pound A curious fact in relation to tea is
that Oolong or black teas are used chiefly
east, while the Japan or green teas are con-
sumed in the west.
, 1888-01-13
DEATH OF PROFESSOR HAYDEN.

A Distinguished Geologist, Who Has
Gone to His Reward.
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, the distin-
guished g%eologist, who died recently in Phil
adelphia, was born in Westfield, Mass, on
the 18th of September, 1929. He was gradu-
nted at Oberlin COLLEGE. Ohio. in 1850. md
, 1888-01-13

The general tendency of stocks, which, for
the years 1855 and 1856, was upward, contin-
ucd so for the first six months of 1887 until
the alarming drop of Manhattan Elevated
railroad stock in June. Then a sympathetic
chill seemed to strike stocks all along the
line, md prices shrunk gradually till the
close of tho year, the only notable excep-
ton being Reading, which, owing to the
change in its affairs, could be bought for "a
cents in February, and reached 10 cents in
NOYcmbcr.
, 1888-01-13

Nine Boucicaut, the recently deceased
owner of the celebrated Bon Marche,n of
Paris, was n remarkable business woman.
Her wealth was enormous, being estimated
, 1888-01-13

spoil him of his money, can rightfully claim pay for such
extra services on the ground that said services are outside of
the scope of his legitimate employment, then am of opin-
ion that upon a like equitable principle the members of the
late Arizona legislature ought to be allowed a very consid-
cradle amount of extra compensation in consideration of
services performed which were not authorized and certainly
never intended to be paid for by the United States.
In conclusion, 1 will say that L am of opinion that all
appropriations made by said Arizona legislature at its 18th
session for the compensation of its members in amounts
over and above the compensation paid them by the United
States, and all appropriations for printing in amounts ex-
ceeding in the aggregate $500, as well as all additional APP
preparations to e efray the expenses and Incidental expenses
of said Legislature during its said 18th session Outside of
the expenses of the Secretary's office, in excess of the said
sum of $25,G9Oappropriated by Congress for that purpose,
were in violation of law and void.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
T.. MONTGOMERY,
Asst. Atty. General.
, 1888-01-13
IN CONCLUSION,

desire to impress upon you the necessity for strict economy
in providing for all the public and needed wants of the terri
tory, so that not one dollar may be appropriated where it
can possibly be saved, without injury to the public service.
The expenses of the territory are increasing year by year,
and the taxable property must bear the burden, whether the
increase of taxable valuations keep pace with the increaes
of expenditures or not. What is true of territorial matters
is equally true of county and municipal affairs, and unless
the legislative assembly sets an example of economy it can
not be expected of the county and municipal organizations.
have only been able to touch upon some of the important
points, but enough has been said to draw your attention to
the many needed reforms in the interest of good govern
ment.
[ am quite sure the session will prove earnest and harmo-
NOUS, and that there will exist between the legislative and
executive departments of the Territory, reaching out to the
people:
"Chanhy for all md malice to~adsn none"
THOMAS MOONLIGHT.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,
CHEYENNE, WYO, Jan. 10, 1888.
, 1888-02-02
Seattlc's, War Anniversary.

On Thursday January 26 was the an
anniversity of the attach OF the Yakima,
Kikitat, Walla Walla and Spokane
tribes OF Indians, numbering from LOO
to 1000, upon the town of Seattle in
1856. The gimes gives the following
interesting facts:
The only defense of the place, besides
the local volunteers, Company I'll, of the
second regiment, numbering eighty men
who, having served out their terms of en-
listnent, had been disbandod on the af-
ternoon of OF the previous day, was the
United States sloop-of-war Decatur,
armed with sixteen guns 90 poupders1
and 225 men. By the vigilance of the
night guards, or the friendly office OF
local Indian informcrs, the approach of
the hostile savages was discovered before
they could effect complete surprise and
their advance fired on from the shore,
Midshipman Geo. Morris, Who com
manded the Cumberland at Hampton
roads in 1862 aud went down with her
firing the first shot from brass boat
howitzer. The conflict was fought with
desperation on both sides, all day long
the sound of the Decatur's continuous
broadsides only dying away at 10 o'clock
p. m. The result was a complete and
final repulse of the bloodthirsty savages
who went back to their bunch-grass
ranges as they had come, via the Sno-
quaimie pass, the winter having been a
very mild and open one and molested
the firesides OF the clam -diggers no
more. Two citizens were killed dead.
The Indian loss was reported at seventy
four. They burned several dwellings in
the suburbs other houses more remote,
and destroyed much property, such as
cattle and various chattels.
, 1888-02-02
- Large Purchase

On Monday last G. VI. Bradshaw,
Henry LaBdes. and NJ. b. Sashs of this
city. and A. Il. Johnson, of Nanaimo, B.
O., through Mr. Bradshaw, who went to
Seattle Sunday night for that purpose
entered from Government at the United
States laud office there, eighty business
lots, at Port Angeles, for which they
paid $4,000. Most of the purchase lie
on the water front of the town and the
streets backed and adjacent thereof.
There seems TO be quite a strife for
rea! property IN Port Angles, as other
parties from this town, and from Veto
ria, b. G., we're also at the Seattle Land
Otfice seeking to make early entries
thereat, aud did enter most of the town
site that had not already been entered
prior to Mr.. Bradshaw's entries. The
now before congress to maize
Angeles port of entry, stimulates this
rush for property there.
, 1888-02-02
From saturoax,s DaiIx.

The Port Townsend Fouudrp and Ma
chine Co. will start up its works on
Monday mording next.
Steam Schr. Perry arrived yesterday
from the Islands with fifty tons Of hay
to go to Alaska on the next steamer.
Str. Geo. W. Elder will take the place
of the Umatilla now in quarantine, sail.
ing from San Francisco February 3rd.
Jas. L. Davis of Lapez came over on
the j. L. Libby, yesterday, and proceed
ed to Seattle an the OlympiGn on busi-
ness.
Stewart Snyder, of Seattle. has been
appointed night inspector of customs to
take the place of E. Ma.herson lately
promoted.
Capt Johnson left here yesterday on
the Olympian er route TO San Francisco
where he will take command of the
Chilian bark Lota.
Geo. A. Dickerson. New York, W. b.
Day, Chicago, j. L. Nudge, st. Paul
and E. Lerman. Sitka. Alaska. arrived
at the Central yesterday.
No finer italian skies ever stone over
the vatican dome of Rome than shines
over Puget Sound today. They are all
mortal man CAP desire.
One of the men supposed to have been
implicated in the murder assault of
Preston, at Seattle. was arrested here
Wednesday and yesterday, Friday Dep
uty Clark of King County arrived and
took the bird hand cuffed to Seattle.
He had congenial companions while
here, probably some of them also from
Seattle.
DR.. Minkler, the Health Officer, in
forms The ARGUS that quite large
number of people are being vaccinated
in view of danger from smallpox. This
should be attended to promptly by every
one. Parents should have their children
vaeeinated as prevention against the
dreRG disease, which is now epidemic in
San Francisco.
HC Ol tnc OEI 4cWnsSuu
Southern railroad says sixty-five miles
uf his road will be built during the pres
ent year.-Snohomish Eye, The Eye is
on the right track. Work is expected to
commence early in February President
informs The ARGUS. and when it once
begins, it will be will pushed forward
southwark as fart us mon and money can
do it.
The WaIla Walia JournI says that
Wyoming is shipping its convicts to Joi-
let. Seven were dispatched last Thus
day, and the territorial authorities hope
to clear their hands in a few days entirsly.
Wyoming has already 76 prisoners at
Joliet. At home they cost 60 cents a
day and at Joliet % cents. On being
liberated from prison each Wyoming
convict will be presented with suit o!
clothes and S5 in money by the territory
The convicts in Washington territory
cost the people about rs cents day.
Why can't Washington territory drive
as good bargaine as Wyoming?
, 1888-02-02
From WedncsGaY's Daily.

February.
Legislature adiourns this week.
City council meeting next Friday.
Clarence Brown has become ''of age"
Our local machine shop has started
up.
Rev. J.N. Denison was up to Sea tile
this week.
Supreme court session ends at Olym-
pia Saturday.
Mr.. Bradshaw arrived home yester-
day from Seattle.
Steamship Idaho due from Portland,
bound for Alaska.
Ye editor is home again from Olympia,
Tacoma and Seattle.
T. M. Hammond, jr., arrived home
yesterday from up Sound.
Presbyterian social at the residence
of Mrs. Capt. Grant last evening.
McMurry, ye photog.. has to enlarge
along with the rest OF the town.
In spite OF bad weather new buildings
are multiplying in all directions.
Our young lady Husband Hunter SO.
ciety is making the most OF leap year.
Mr.. R. K. Latimer is visiting Olympia
Seattle and other points-on business.
Steamer Cleaner sunk Monday at the
mouth OF the Columbia river. Three
lives lost.
| Delinquent city taxes must be paid on
or before March 1st, or the penalty will
| be added.
"Olympic" Lodge, K. of P, will occupy
the second story of Sheehan's new
building.
Railroad legislation that would affect
tho Port Townsend Southern adversely
has been effectually "scotched."
Capt. Henry McAlmond is fitting out
the schooner Mary Parker for the com.
ing season.
Harry Tibbais has q twentv-borse
| power steam engine for the water works
and will increase the capacity of thai
| institution.
What's the matter with the local edi
tor OF the Call? He grows so eloquent
over the subject of matrimony. Wher
! is it to be.
The Roller Skating club will meet al
| Starrett's rink Feb. 9Th. They have
full sway as against ice skaters for about
| 81 weeks out of the yerr.
On Thursday Messrs. Bradshaw
Sachs moved their law Office from tn,
Clapp building opposite, where the,
will have more room and be finely fixed
Mr.. J. E. Ebey and family arrived
yesterday from Olympia, and proceeded
, 1888-02-02
What might transpire.
Seattle: Lake shore and Eastern
Railroad.

On Tuesday the ship Joseph s. Spin
ney arrived at this port from Callao, with
cargo of $3.50 tons Of railroad iron for
the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern
Railroad Company. Yesterday Gel. c.
NJ. Sheafe, general manager of the road,
arrived on the Olympian from Seattle, TO
pay the government duty on the iron,
which amounted to $685. S,25O. To-day the
ship Spinney will be towed to the rail
road company's dock at Seattle, where
tho iron will be uuloaded and at once
distributed along the grade alre dy pre-
pared for it.
This road shows much life and push
in its construction. Mr.. Sheafe informed
an ARGUS representative that % miles
are now being operated and dong a
good business; that 20 miles more are
ready fer the iron, which will be laid by
the 10th of February, making 43 miles
which will then be operated. In add
ton to the 43 miles to be completed by
February 18th, ten miles mora are nearly
ready for the surplus iron now on hand
which will be completed by April LIST,
thus making So miles. This will take
the road to the Snoqualmie pass of the
Cascade range.
Rolling stock is being built in Seattle
as fast as needed. Mr.. Sheafe said that
the road would be pushed forward the
coming year as fast as money and men
could do it. 1t is the present purpose
of the company to diverge the line after
crossing the range, one thI ough the Sal
mon mining and Big Bend country, and
the other through the Walla Walla
country. "Where is to be the final ter.
minus OF your road, Mr.. Sheafe," we
asked. 'New York City," was the re-
ply. So it appears that the Seattle
"paper road" is a pretty extensive pro-
iect.
Mr.. Sheafe returned to Seattle by the
Olympian to-day.
, 1888-02-02
venabIe smith Heard Frsm.

Martin Bird, printer from Chicago,
arrived at Port Townsend on Tuesday,
by way of the Canadian Pacific, under
an agreement with Geo. Venable Smith,
who was at Chicago early in December.
He assured Mr.. Bird that he would give
him steady employment as q printer at
SO, per day; that he could get board at
$3.50 per week. The conditions OF
steady employment was $40 for initia-
ton fee, so for one share Of stock, and
$40 for suburban acre lot making 300
cash to be paid in advance, which some
persons he knew had thus paid. How
ever, Mr.. Bird declined to pay any Of
Smiths demands until he came and saw
the situltion for himself. Since his ar
rival here he has learned so much con-
cerning the methods of Smith and the
colony, that be will not go there. Having
seen parties from the colony and Chi
csgo victim now working in town, he
leans that the man whose place Mr..
Bird was to have, ID filled by printer
who purposes to remain. He concludes
that Smith and his colony methods are
fraud.
, 1888-02-02

here last night from points on the
Northern Pacific between the Switch
back and the Columbia river crossing at
kennewick, which are the first from
Central Washington for about two
weeks 1t now seems that the back
bone of winter aud blockades are bro
ken.
Rev. J. n. Denison returned on the
Olympian this morning, having made
the entire RUIZ to Tacoma and back
since one p. N. yesterday. Bishop Foss
had gone, having started for San Fran
cisco yesterday morning. The Taco
mans found out or let out that they had
only a bag of wind instead of Univer-
sity bonus. The proposed site, valued
at about $4,000. was found to be in
litigation. The bottom finally dropped
out Of the whole thing when it was dis
covered that the subscriptions all
lap5ed on the 1st of December. So
there was absolutely no bonus offered
from Tacoma. The story by yesterdays
P.-I. correspondent from Tacoma TO the
effect that 1t was from lack OF quorum
that nothing was done, is incorrect, as
We understand that quorum was pres
ent. The meeting was a strong one,
Rev. j. +. DeVore clashing with the
Bishop and with others pretty furiously.
1t is now coufidentially believed by Mr..
Denison that Tacoma will cease to be
factor in the struggle If so Townsend
has the entireIield- Mr.. d. Was very
much disappointed that Bishop Foss
did not come down TO Townsend, but
The Bishop comPlained of lack of time
and left thoroughly Disguised with Ia
coma's brazen effrontery. To3ay's P.-I
will have full accounts OF the whole mat
Ier