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|LUTEY BROS.
Preserving
Berries

Our Hood River Strawberries are
full, solid pack. Some packs hold
nearly 20 per cent more berries than
others, and we are very careful to
buy only the best packs. Right
now is the time to preserve them,
as they are firmer and better than
they will be later on.
To-DAY'S PRICES
Two boxes ..................$ rs
One-half case, IL boxes..... 40
Case, "a boxes. 2 70
GLASS FRUIT JARS
Pints, dozen ................$ rs
Quarts, dozen ............... So
One-half gallons, dozen..... 90
FANCY LEMONS
Full of juice, dozen. ..15c
PURE FRUIT JAMS
Two cans .....................25 Csc
ROCK SALT
Special Friday and Saturday,
25 pounds for. .25c
DIR. PRICES LEMON EXTRACT
special, 25c bottle for. ........ 15c
DIR. PRICES VANILLA
EXTRACT
Special, 35c bottle for. ..25c
STRICTLY FRESH EGGS
Dozen Observation-Disclosures. ...2Oc
QUAKER FLOUR
SACK ...................$1 %
Per 100 Observation-Disclosures. As
LUNCH TONGUE
Can ..................2 5c
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New York, June 16.-Bradstreets Finan-
cfal Review tomorrow. will say: Strength
and weakness have alternated in the
weeks speculative movement Manipula-
ton, however, appeared to be mainly re-
sponsible for the advances and bear sell
ing and some realizing of profits by trad
ers for the declines. Professional influ-
ences were predominant and the public's
share in the purely speculative market
continues to be small the confident points
which have been in circulation about the
large interests being submitted to the bull
side and planning to cause further gen.
era1 advance of prices having failed to
bring on any appreciate outside partici-
patton. The decline in exchange rates
and the checking of the gold exports has,
to a certain extent. affected the tone of
the market favorably. The investment
demand for bonds and prime investments
is of the same large and eager kind here
tofore noted.
The irregularity of crop estimates, at
this portion of the year, is rather more
pronounced than for some seasons past
and is, in many quarters considered a
good reason for waiting on the part of
the large speculative interests. Some of
the latter have, indeed. given support to
their specialties. but others have been ac-
tive on the bear side, although in all OPP
erations of that character al present the
disposition is to cover for small profits.
Europe has not been a factor in our
markets, the London participat ting being
small here and equally divided between
buying and selling. There have been no
surprise as to earnings or dividends, al
though the street is waiting develop
ments of some kind in connection with
the Vanderbilt properties and also hears
that favorable results are to be looked
for In regard to the anthracite coal prop
critics.
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Fresh eggs, Is cents; bread flour. 80
cents; Is pounds prunes. 81; is pounds
sugar, 81. Cooks, 331 East Park.
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7s7 bushels in the corresponding week of
1895. 2547,319 bushels in 1897 3,22O,177 bush
els in 1896 and 2,s67,317 bushels In 1896
Since July l, this season, the exports of
wheat aggregated 21S,022,954 bushels,
against 225, 272, 1873 bushels last year.
Business failures number $50 against 17S
last week, 2O7 in this week a year ago 226
in 1897. 265 in 1896 and 231 in 1896
Canadian failures number % against 10
last week, and in this week year ago, "a
in 1897, So in 1896 and 80 in 1896
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DR.. N. F. Clifford, dentist. does first
class dental work. Rooms 2 and 4, 10
N Main street.
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Bank Clearinps,

compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank
clearngs at the principal cities for the
week ended June 49, with the percentage
of increase and decrease as compared
with the cnrresnnndins week last wear.
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Personal Paragraphs.

Archbishop Ireland is man of many
tastes, chief among which is that for law,
which study he has pursued for several
years.
Though the name of Coils P. Hunting
ton is generally connected with railways
Mr.. Huntington owns more coal mines
than any other man in the United States
if not in the world
Mrs. Leonard Wood. wife of the gen
eral, interested herself in her husband S
work when he was an army surgeon and
under his direction read medicine to such
good purpose that il is now said she could
easily secure a diploma from any medical
college,
DR.. Sven Hedin, who is soon to start for
Thibet, will make Kashgar, in Chinese
Turkestan, his starting point, and will
again cross by different route the Takla-
Makan desert. in which he nearly persisted
of thirst on his last journey. He expects
to spend next winter in Northern Thi-
bet
Ii Wing Vow. the Chinese consul gen.
eral at Havana, who has just been trans
ferred to the similar post at. Manila, is
a distinguished Chinaman. In his own
country he is entitled to the rank of tao
tai. equivalent to lieutenant governor.
Prior to his appointment to the Cuban po-
sition he had acted as consul general in
San Francisco for six years.
One of the nine days wonders in St
Petersburg just now is the marriage of
the widow of Count Vasloff, beautiful,
accomplished and wealthy, to the former
valet of her late husband. The marriage
lt1c arfp cd tn GU to,
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& o fully was public attention taken
~ up at the time with the prelimi-
naries to spring politics that the
death of Pierre-Eugene Secretan, which
occurred about the middle of last
month, received barely passing notice
in Montana circles. The name of Secre-
tan was never what you would call a
household word in Montana, yet there
was time during his meteoric career
when this states mining circles heard
much of him, and his venture with the
price of copper was more than q DAVIS
uppermost theme in the world of
metals.
Secretan was a sort of evangel for
present-day trusts and syndicate opera
tons. He was just a few years ahead
OF the fulness of trust times: then. too
he was bit shy of the capital that was
needed Wherewith to corner the price of
the worlds copper product The metal
lurgical journals have since his death
been telling the story of Secretan's mis-
adventure. Until the wear 1887 his
career had been without speciaI event
Late IN that year, known already as an
operator in the metal market, he suc-
ceeded in forming syndicate. inclnd-
ing the Societe des Metaux, the Conn
toir d'Escompte, Andre Girod &, Gle.
and other houses, NJ. Secretan himself
being the manager. The object of this
syndicate was stated to be the regula-
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After NIaIOlos.

IF the predictions about the
speedy determination of the
trouble with the Filipincs on
1y proves true! Our troops
have been triumphant - Aguinaldo
abandoned Malolos, the Filipino capital,
without making there the decisive fight
that he had promised The recent re-
cord is one of steady advances for our
forces. with losses which. however de-
pIorable. are not up to the total that
had been dreaded as the result of the
fighting.
AT the same time. the testimony is
doubtless true which says that the Fill
tpinos fought bravely and we'll Doubt
less the prediction about a speedy end
for the warfare that has been given out
is based chiefly on the presumption that
Aguinaido's campaign was correctly
defined In the statement which he is
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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Chicago's Tropical Campaign.

~ HE Chicago newspapers OF Mon
day. the day preceding the Chi
cago election, were especially
hot numbers. For two or three weeks
previous they abounded in cartoons and
editorials, appeals and entreatles, poet
ry and mud, big type and scare heads:
but the climax was not reached. until
Monday. when they all fairly siZzled
with heat. The campaign brought to
the attention of the world several Chi
cago statesmen whose fame heretofore
has been purely of a local character.
Eminent already in their own wards,
they needed only an opportunity like
the one that presented itself to attract
*he attention of the nation, Among
these gentlemen we notice the names of
Bathhouse John. Knockout Dan, Cocoa
nut Morrissey. Tommy the Clock. Six
teen-Mule Pete, Sheeney Mike Cohen
and Knocker O'Fallon. They took up
the white mans burden of running the
polls with indomitable energy.
The excitement waxed so intense and
some men got so hot headed that they
INDUCED in all sorts OF preposterous
bets. Each of the three parties in the
campaign was absolutely sure of sue
cess. One Mr.. jackson agreed to eat his
fedora hat if Harrison was defeated,
while Mr.. Meadows agreed to jump into
the Calumet river if Altgeld fell down.
Both were so sanguine OF winning that
they mutually agreed to pay the double
forfeit. if Carter, the republican candi-
date, won out. Mr.. Rodgers a leading
grocer pinned his faith to Carter to an
extent that will require him, unless he
backs out to parade the streets wearing
a board sandwich" upon which shall
be inscribed the legend Il am one of the
fools who voted for Zina r. Carter If
Harrison had lost, Mr.. OBren would
have eaten a pie whose chief ingredient
was to be sawdust. AS 1t is he will be
treated to a banquet tit for king.
These are only samples of hundreds of
bets equally freakish.
On Sunday the Rev w. H. Thomas,
who breaches in McVickers theater.
took occasion in his Easter sermon to
eSpouSe the cause OF AllSelu. A pof-
ton of his flock got very restless. A
little later he denounced the policy of
making war upon the Filipinos when
suddenly fully one hundred members of
the congregation arose and left the
building. Let them 60 said the Rev.
Mr.. Thomas. and several more worship
ers arose and went with them. The sa
looms, of course, outdid the churches in
warm political discussion. A Mr.. Lund
and Mr.. Lawson being unable to re-
concile their views as to the merits of
the respective candidates, notwiths tand-
ing the soothing influences of a vast
quantity Of book beer, Mr.. Lund arose
and shot Mr.. Lawson in the temple.
But it's all over now and Bathhouse
John, Knockout Dan, Cocoanut Nor
rissey, Tommy the Clock, Sixteen Mule
Pete, Sheeney Mike Cohen and Knocker
OFallon can rest on their laurels till
the next campaign.
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Boxing Exhibitions.

~ BILL to repeal what is known as
u Horton law, permitting SPAR
ring exhibitions under certain
restrictions, has been defeated in the
New York legislature, and so moral and
conservative a newspaper as the
Brooklyn Eagle takes occasion to OBJ
serve: The bill was wisely killed. The
these sparring or boxing matches and
while it may not be the best in the
world it is doubtless better than any
thing that could be substituted for it
by the up-country legislators.
So long as the world lasts there will
be fighting with the fists, and it is bet
ter that it should occur under police
regulation, with gloves of a specified
weight, than in the brutal manner of
the old prize ring times. 1t is seldom
nowadays that we hear of fights in
barns or on barges, as used to be the
case but few years ago, before the
Horton law went into operation, and
such fights as do occur are by no means
so disastrous in their results as the
average game of football. The Horton
law should stand. 1t is in keeping with
public policy, and the assembly has
done well in resisting the attempt to
repeal it."
The Clifford bill passed by the Mon
tana legislature last February, and sub
sequently vetoed by Governor Smith on
moral grounds, was drafted on practi-
cally the same lines as the New York
law. The restrictions it imposed We're
in some regards even more stringent.
An erroneous impression has gone
abroad that it was a bill permitting
free and unlimited prize fighting. But
perhaps, as the Washington Post re-
marked at the time he vetoed it, Gov
ernor Smith thinks Mr.. w. A. Clark s
SENSATIONAL fights are sufficiently inter-
estng to the Montana sports.
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500 a week for the season or $14 week in
advance, just as you prefer. Which will
you take?
Actor (hastily)-Fourteen dollars a week,
Of course. -Somerville Journal.
Judge-Did you knock this man down?
Prisoner-No. judge, I didn't tried to
hold him up.-Yonkers Statesman,
Stranger lin Georgia)-Any profit in
raising cattle around here?
Native-Naw; the trains run so blame
slow that we can't git COW killed no.
how.-Judge.
It is said that very few young ladies
continue their piano playing long after
marriage. This announcement is made in
order to encourage young men to enter
matrimony.-Tt-Bits,
1nspiring.-"How is your young friend
that started out to be an artist coming
on?'
"Oh, so, so. He is very jubilant just
now over a large contract for coloring
Easter ggs."-Detrot Free Press.
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| represented to have made to the effect
| that he would make his stand at Malo-
| los and that, if beaten there, he would
| give up the contest.
| Then, too, there was warrant for the
| belief that the fighting would be not
!! long kept up, in the form of testimony
which. with the American public, is
more trustworthy than any promises
given by the chieftain of the islanders
Some time ago, at Paris, General Mer-
rift told the peace commissioners that
the Filipinos would gladly welcome
American control and that no difficulty
| with them need be feared. Other OBJ
| servers, drawing conclusions from their
personal survey of the conditions in the
islands, confirmed this view. They felt
confident that Aguinaldo would take
hold heartily and Loyalty with the
American authorities in the effort to
put Filipino affairs on an orderly basis.
At the very moment when this hope
full prophecy was given out. Aguinaldo
was plotting and arming. He has made
good no pledge of friendliness that was
given in his name or on his behalf.
Still, the view is now entertained that
the adherents of this rebel, seeing how
hopeless resistance is, will refuse long
er to follow his fortunes and so hasten
the end of hostilities. 1t is ardently to
be hoped that this expectation will be
realized
IDyra MT yy I, Sa11 IN N1Iha
proved more formidable that hostile
guns will be prepared to stalk forth on
its ravages across the region where the
army of the United States is operating.
The advent of the season of sickness
and pestilence is to be dreaded. In
the commission named by the presi-
dent has made its advances; it has car
ried to the islanders a message of good
will, it has proffered peace together
with assurances of our cOuntry's friend
ly offices in restoring order and in es-
tablshing good government.
Confessedly, by all that recently has
been learned respecting these fighting
Filipinos, they have about as much no.
ton of representative government and
orderly administration and free citizen
ship as the same number of Sioux
would have had fifty years ago, when
their contact with civilization was
novelty. However, it may be that there
is a valid consideration for the prom
Uses of speedy peace which are COM
ing from administration agencies at
Washington; surely, it is to be hoped,
in the name of everything that is hui
name. that the contest for the subjuga-
ton of these rebels is not to be running
warfare long kept up, as many intell-
gent Americans have believed TO be the
probable outcome of our presence in the
islands
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Immediately after the troops began
their slow but Irresistible advance upon
Santiago 1t became necessary for the
associated press to locate one man per-
manently at Siboney, whose duty it was
to receive the news from couriers riding
for the boats to carry it to the English
cable office. The man selected for this
responsible duty was \. w. Lyman, of
New York, whose correspondence for
the great newspapers would long ago
have made him famous had his name
gone with 1T. He did not have a tent
for some days, but slept on the beach
with the sand crabs and the insurgents.
Then Dr. LaGarde, in charge of the d.
vision hospital, gave him a bit of can
vas, and he set himself up in business
with a sign made Of a barrel stave
marked Associated Press: please wipe
your feet" over the entrance.
He was the best-natured and most
ed began to pour into the hospital
shortly after he had erected his tent,
and he did more for them than the en-
tire Red Cross outfit. He used the boats
at his disposal to bring ice and fruit and
tobacco and canned goods and clean
linen over from Port Antonio and ia
maica, which he gave away to the suf-
ferers. Whenever he had anything left
over he had 1t taken to the front to
the boys" who Were gathering the
news there. One time Colonel Diehl sent
him a case Of Scotch whiskey-the only
bit in Santiago province-and a few
days later the colonel happened to drop
into the headquarters.
he asked.
Yes" said Lyman, somewhat I'M
easily.
II knew you preferred Scotch" said
the colonel, land so I got that. How
was it?"
"Pretty-er-good. think''-still more
uneasily.
you think! Don't you know whether
it was or not?"
"Well-er-no, not exactly. The fact
is, colonel, I swore off the other day"
The colonel gave a soft whistle He
knew his companion drank very little,
but--but whiskey in those days was
worth its weight in platinum.
What did you do with it?" he asked
Il just sent it out to the front to
Thompson, and Martin, and Beach, and
Mitchell and Cramer, who are getting
full of Mauser bullets and malaria out
there. Fact is the doctor said I was
drinking too much, anyway"
Said it shamefacedly, too-but that
was Lyman. He would have given
away his shirt had somebody else need
ed it.
After the two days fighting on July
l and 2, Siboney became so crowded
with the wounded that the 'headquar-
ters" was squeezed in between an ope-
rating tent, in front of which a barrel
full of arms and hands and legs usually
stood. and another tent full of men who
tossed and moaned and prayed and
cursed and sometimes died Lyman
kept his boats at work carrying copy
for the associated press and ice for the
ever left his lips. One day a GONZALES
cent soldier stole his hat, and he bought
another from an insurgent. 1t was a
typical piece of native headgear, with a
brim a yard wide. That night as Ly-
man was returning to his tent a guard
on the picket line espied him.
Hey, there, Cubano!" shouted the
guard. you're inside the lines. Go
back" He saw the hat, but it was too
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ton and maintenance of the price of
copper, and the purchase Of the copper
produced by such mines as should enter
into relations with the syndicate.
This syndicate later developed into
the famous copper corner" and its
operations extended over more than
year and a half. It's course may best
be traced by the price of copper. In
October, 1887, Chile bars We're sold in
London at an average of G44A a ton;
by December the price had been forced
up to 975A. Through 1883 up to Octo-
Der the quotation was maintained be-
tween EFT and GS5; in October the
maximum was reached at G102 a ton,
the average being E100 for the month.
Some decline followed but the collapse
did not come until March, 1882 in which
month the average price of Chile bars
in London was eTS. But the syndicate
had then reached a point where it was
unable longer to handle the large guam
titles of copper thrown on the market,
and the banks associated with it could
no longer supply the funds required.
Payment was stopped; the Societe des
MetauX closed its doors and was fol-
lowed by the Compton d'Escompte,
while several minor concerns were also
broken down. The price of copper fell
one-half, and the average for April, 1889,
was only s39A.
Describing this collapse, the Engi-
neering and Mining Journal says: "A
very great sensation was caused both
in Paris and London. In Paris, indeed,
widespread financial disaster was only
prevented by the prompt intervention
of the French government and the
Bank of France, supported by Messrs.
Rothschild and other influential bank
ers. M. Secretan was prosecuted and
sentenced, on May 49, 1890. to six
months imprisonment and 10000 francs,
fine, other members of the syndicate re-
ceiving minor punishments, the offenses
charged being improper use of bank
funds to forestall the market
NJ. Secretan, whose wealth had been
placed at very high figure, became a
bankrupt, and his property was dis
posed of at public sale. In his pros
perity he had been a lavish patron of
art, but his financial misfortunes in
volved the dispersion of all his collec-
lions.
In later years M. Secretan returned
to business quietly and interested him
self in the metallurgy of copper. He
acquired an interest in the Gilmore pro-
cess for making copper tubes, ETC., by
electro-deposition, and introduced i'm
provements in that process which over
came. the original objections to it. He
organized the Societe de lElectro-
Metallurgie to work this process in
France and other European countries.
He was very much interested in his
experiments with this and other pro-
cesses.
Recently it has been reported in Paris
that Mr.. Secretan was again speculat-
ing heavily in copper, and his death
caused a reaction in the market. The
latest accounts, however, say that this
was mistake, and that he has not been
in the market at ALL
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A Tribute to Ambrose w. Lyman.

ECENTIY Robert B.
~ efrontdu
Lyman, associated perform
read with
Independent and it was IN
derstood at the that he
He had been successful
lie life
wide Unfortunately
tng had
oppressed
what n new