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Show NEWS SUMMARY. NORTHWEST NOTES. No new cases of yellow fever have occurred in New Orleans for several days. There are a few cases of yellow fever at Key West, but they are of a mild type. The revolution in the southern provinces of leru has been completely crushed. For the past, month the revenue collected in Peoria, Ills., has averaged Qf.ite a number of the Wyoming volunteers remained in the Philippines, The strike at the capitol building at Helena, Mont., is believed to be at an end. The state of Wyoming has 279 pensioners, and they drew 839,053 last 550,000 a day. At Cordova, Mexico, there have been t deaths from yellow fever to up August 26. The queen regent of Spain has signed a decree calling out 60,000 men of the 1899 class for military service. There is active recruiting everywhere in Paris, and the government continues to send troops to the interior. Havana Diario Delamarine says that none of the cattle which are n g imported into Cuba are tit forhuman consumption. A Peoria, Decatur & Evansville train was held-u- p by robbers at Lincoln, 111. The crew resisted and one robber was killed. It is generally understood in Johannesburg that there is the strongest inclination in the volksraad to repudiate 'British suzerainty. The famous Wilder brigade meets at Chickamauga, September 8 and 19, to dedicate a monument which the brigade survivors have erected. It is expected that the president's proclamation relating to the taking oi the census in Cuba will be made public at Havana very soon. The threatened strike of bakers in Havana has been averted, the men, according to the terms of agreement, receiving an increase of 87.50 per month. Disastrous forest fires are raging in the southern portion of Calhoun counare workty, Arkansas. become have ing day and night. Many exhausted. Thirty-fiv- e Spanish soldiers, survivors of the garrison that so long held Balor, on the east coast of Luzon, against the Filipinos, have arrived at Barcelona. The monthly statement of the public debt shows the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to 81,157,306,554, a decrease as compared with the last month of 84,281.16. Negotiations are now in progress looking to a modus vivendi for the definition, temporarily, of a boundary line between Alaska and the British Northwest territory. The Transvaal has decided not to prosecute iD the case of Richard Elroy Nicliol and others, charged with treason, and they have been released. Nichol is an American. While mentally unbalanced, nenry Emede, a Chicago carpenter, shot aiid killed his wife, Emma, and fatally wonnded his daughter. He then committed suicide. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico, says the military authorities there have received news of an attack on the municipality of Guadaloupe by a force of about 200 Yaqui Indians. General Isidro Jimines will arrive at Puerto Plata during the week, according to cable advices from Santiago de Cuba. It is thought he will be able to succeed Figuero as president. Ponta Delgada, Azores islands, reports a violen t cyclone raging there, doing much damage to shipping and to property all over the island of San Miguel. Several lives have been lost. Senor Trujillo, editor of Santiago el Porvenir, and Eduardo Yero, editor of Cubano Libre, will tight a duel in consequence of differences on questions arising out of the elections of the city sixty-eigh- b.-i- Fire-fighte- rs council. The statement that Watson, commanding the United States naval forces at Manila, has asked to be relieved of his command because of ill health, is denied in Washington ofll cial circles. An Employers' association, repre-senting from 87,000,000 to 89,000,000 of local capital, has been organized in Spokane to resist any demand of organized labor in the city which its members may regard as unjust. The Peruvian cabinet crisis has been solved by the formation of a coalition cabinet, as the result of the conference between Eduardo Romano, presidentelect, and the leaders of the ministerRear-Admir- al - ! Francisco.. Sn London ' 27 1 lo-l- I AD. ...94 675,24 New York Exchange New York brokers 4 35 eis18 50 COPPER. I New York Exchange New York Brokers w thousand young trout river that the electric light works are unable to run. The Colorado regiment will probably be mustered out on September 8 and leave San Francisco for home on the following day by the special train. The total output of Cripple Creek for the month of August, according to the most careful estimates, is S3, 650 tons of ore, having a value of 81.332,000. The mine owners aud business men of Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, will send to the Paris exposition in 1900 a pyramid of gold worth 81,000,-00- Long-distan- ce service. 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Wheat Corn $ (Tacked corn .7 Rye Barley Oats Alfalfa Mixed hay 100 1 !.'.'.!.7 1 !.'.!!'.'.!!'' 1 I Timothy Straw, per bale Live Turkey Gobblers Live Turkey Hens Chickens, hens Old roosters Broilers, pr lb Young duck Young Geese Eggs, Utah, per case Butter, creamery Ranch C'wt. 1 10 1 0) 0) 30 60 777777 65 60 2a !!!' 10 12 8 6 12 10 19 7.7 7777! 4 56 26 butter I2q13 San Francisco Grain. May wheat December Barley December New Gi ieq 84 q Portland. Walla Walla Valley 61 62 LIVE STOCK. Cli g, millionaires recently acquired title to a large tract of oil land in Wyoming and, under the name of the Union Oil company, will sink wells and develop the properties. Three prominent members of the firm, accompanied by oil experts, are now en route to Cheyenne to complete the arrangements for starting work at once. Machinery was pur- Chicago I Abla t Support a Western League Team The Retirement of Brooklyn's Kin tit Fihlr. Lwlng from the Management of the William H. Keeler, the clever right iieds Little Sympathy for Bergen. fielder of the Brooklyn club, who has for two successive seasons been the Westerners Want Concession National leagues champion batter, beThe Westtru league magnates want gan his professional career with the important concessions from the Na- Troy Eastern league team in 1892. Betional league. They with to add Cleve- fore the season was over his fine fieldland and probably Louisville to their ing and great etickwork caught the eye circuit, and are desirous of locating a of Manager Pat Powers, of the New club in South Chicago. The officials York club, and he finished the season of the Chicago club, it is stated, will In that city. lie was utility man for not consent to the presence of a rival the Giants for several months, and was club even in an infeiior organization then sold to Brooklyn for $800. Owing unless they are interested in its own- to his being handicapped by his ership. President Hart and his assothrowing, he was farmed out. ciates are within their rights under and he closed that season with baseball law, and it is to be hoped that in the Eastern league. Manthe parties interested can reach an un- ager Hanlon traded Shindle and Treadderstanding. Chicago is capable of way for Keeler and Dan Brouthers. supporting two clubs and it would be Keeler developed into one of the most an easy matter to avoid a clash in artistic and valuable players in the schedule dates. There is no better profession, aud his great fielding, subaseball city in the country than Chi- perior base running, and fine stiekwork cago, and the Sunday patronage of the Western League club would more than pay Its operating expenses for the season. The only way for the Western league to get a footing in Chicago without bringing on a baseball war i through an arrangement with those In control of the territory under baseball law. President Vanderbeck would not permit a Michigan league club to be located within five miles of Detroit, nor would President Franklin assent to the operation of a New York State league club within the prescribed distance of Buffalo. The Western league magnates are accorded the same territorial rights that they are asked to respect. If they should come to the conclusion that they can do business more satisfactorily and profitably by WILLIAM KEELER. breaking away from the National agreement, and locating an opposition were of great value to the Orioles and club In Chicago, there is nothing in contribuied largely to the success of their way. But men of the ability and the Brooklyn Ruperbas. He is earnest, experience of Messrs. Manning. Comis-ke- but well behaved on the diamond, and Loftus and other owners of clubs during his career with the scrappy in the Western league want to live at Orioles, has never been accused of peace with each other and their neigh- dirty ball playing. bors. Their interests are too large to be sacrificed even in a fight for prinBergen Withont Sympathy. ciple, unless it is forced upon them. Those who protest against the treatWar would depreciate their property ment of Amos Rusie by the New York and might wreck the savings of a life- club, have no sympathy for Martin time. The Western league has grown Bergen, the erratic catcher of the Bosin strength and importance in spite of ton club, who has deserted that club handicaps by the major league mag- annually since his connection with it nates. Year after year its teams have and always at a time when his services had to contend for championship hon-- I were most needed. His grievances are ors with a team composed, in the main, fanciful. Of a moody disposition he ur National league talent, forcing tne imagines that his fellow players are less favored clubs to increase their salleagued against him and are intent on ary lists beyond the limit set by pru- bringing about his downfall. The condence. The Indianapolis club is of late trary is the case. Manager Selee and run in a far less objectionable manner. his players have treated the great Mr. Brush, the most powerful personbackstop with unusual consideration. age in baseball, sought to confiscate This has given him an undue appreciathe plants of six clubs of the Western tion of his importance and encouraged league in 1S96, but was checkmated for him to make an exhibition of himself the first time in bis baseball ex- with almost a certainty that his ofperience. The Western league asked fense would be condoned. His eccenfor an amendment to the National tricities were known to Manager Selee agreement, permitting its clubs to re- before he bought his release from the tain a player for two years. The Na- Kansas City club. It will be rememtional league was willing to make this bered that he deserted Mannings concession provided it was given the Western League club, while that team right of trying out a drafted player be- was in Indianapolis and returned fore his purchase. This brought about home. At the close of that season, his friction and there was no change in the release was purchased by Boston. Susreserve rule. pension for 1899 would bring him to his Senses. It is gratifying to know that flank O'Day Empire. his brother, who is making such a good Henry ODay, one of the best um- record as a catcher with the Fort pires of the National league, is a Chi- Wayne club of the Interstate league, is cagoan by birth. Honest, fearless and without any of the bad traits of his relIntelligent in the discharge of the try- ative, who is the hardest man In the ing duties of his onerous position, he National league to manage. gives the plays as he sees them regardless of consequences and influences. Retirement of Ewing Before beginning his career with the The retirement of Buck Ewing from Indicator, O'Daf was one of the most the management of the Reds is posprominent pitchers of thd game, and itively settled. In all probability, he this experience has made him an ex- will not be displaced before the close pert in judging balls and strikes. His of the season, but it Is reasonably sure retirement as a player was not due to that his successor will begin the reorganization of the Red3 for the 1900 campaign, fjis opposition to young hiaJu and nia- .inability to control the about hilt older players have broub. undoing. He lacks the initiative faculty and Is content to follow theories that have long been out of date. Ills one great failing as a manager Is utter helplessness when his team gets in the rut of defeat. Instead of enthus-ing his men, he resorts to charges of robbery against the umpires and seeks refuge behind threadbare hard luck stories. His policy of playing favorites creates trouble in the ranks and handicaps his team. He has had all the cordial support of that great quartet of baseball writers, Messrs. Grillo, Zuber and Weldon, until his maladministration of the management beUMPIRE ODAY. came so palpable that the three former trouble with his arm, but the hardships deserted his standard and demanded of training down to weight. In addi- his retirement. have shown to tion to long and honorable service on the satisfaction ofThey patrons that he is the National league staff of umpires, incompetent and the indications are ODay made a creditable record in the that Messrs. Brush and Lloyd have Western league. Partisan patrons and reached the same conclusion. W. H. players do not always agree with the Watkins will, it is said, be entrusted decisions given by Umpire O'Day, but with the control of the players, but they unite in paying tribute to his in- neither Mr. Brush or Mr. Lloyd will tegrity and impartiality. He insists on confirm or deny this. R. G. Allen, the the players conducting themselves be- manager of the Indianapoli club and comingly, and while tolerant to a de- Walter H. Wilmot, the manager of the gree, when the zeal of the players in- Minneapolis club, have also been menspires them to protest, he rules the tioned as E5vings successor, but there kickers with a firm hand and removes is little ground for belief that the latthem from the game when .heir ac ter has been seriously considered Bing-hampt- Blueslem Through the arrest at Butte, Mont., of Mayer., an assayer of Butte; John F. Boyd, brother of Mayor Boyd of and James McDonald, an emof the Granite Bimetallic mine, ployee the disclosures of wholesale thefts of silver bullion from the Bimetallic At company have just been made. least 850,000 worth of bullion has been made away with. Advices from Binghamton, N. Y., state that a company of New York er left-hand- 0. At Billings, Mont., Alonzo Teeters, a fish vender, attempted to criminally assault the young daughter of J. A. Morley. Upon the fact becoming known a warrant was issued for Teeters arrest. When the sheriff entered the house he found Teeters dead and on the floor an empty bottle which had contained strychnine. telephone service between Denver and Cheyenne was established last week, when the line was formally opened to the public. Governor Thomas of Colorado, and Chief Justice Potter of Wyoming, exchanged congratulatory messages in behalf of two states over the completion oi the line and establishment of telephone tion justify it. Ted Sullivan, who managed the Washington club of which team ODay was a member, declares that he had the best break ball ever pitched. His record as a pitcher entitled him to class as a among the twirlers. 'top-notch- d have been distributed in the streams of Northern Laramie county, Wyo. From Reno, Nevada, comes the news that the water is so low in the Truckee A young hobo robbed M. J. King, a Keystone, S. D., prospector, f 8270 and a gold watch at Rawlins, Wyo., and made his escape on one of the westbound soldier trains. A report is current that the Wyoming Southern will soon be built, al reports to the contrary notwithstanding. A large amount of capital is said to be interested in the line. Civil service examination will be held at Carson, Nev., October 7, to establish an eligible list from which appointments may be made to positions in the mint and assay office at that place. Two Wyoming volunteers. Sergeant Benjamin Moore, company H, and Corporal Thomas Olsen, company F, died on the voyage home of dysentery. Moore was buried at sea and Olsen at Nagasaki, Japan. The following Wyoming postoftlcea have been lately ordered discontinued1 Cheeseman, Big Horn county, mail to Sunshine; Davidson, Laramie county, mail to Mountain; Omstead. Crook county, mail to Morse. Governor Thomas of Colorado in a letter praises the action of the department of the Pacific for the manner in which Colorado soldiers we treated. Secretary Root has thanked the governor for his communication. John Tooker Henderson, who died at Denver recently, was at one time captain of the famous vigilantes at Virginia City, Mout., and at several periods in his life he helped make the stirring history of the Rocky mountain region by subdueing lawless elements. TOPICS THE GAME. .1 year. Fiprhty-fiv- e EE CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF sn.vcn. New York Good to fancy steers Common graoes Icago. 5 Btockersaml feeders Bulls .77. Cows and heifers..'.! Calves Texas steers Lambs Western lambs..'....'.'!.. 77! Culls 4 3 2 2 70 10 0) 00 ID 00 50 3 50 3 5'J 2 00 Muttons...'."...'.'.". Native beef steers Texas steers 3 85 5 65 ($4 75 5 35 00 5 7 4 35 4 25 25 20 6 25 3 95 6 25 4 30 3 05 4 50 00 85 5 00 4 4 00 Omaha, 90 3 60 3 60 2 25 3 80 4 00 2 80 6 00 4 40 4 25 3 50 4 90 3 75 4 3 60 3 25 4 00 3 85 3 85 5 00 3 75 2 50 3 30 3 75 2 25 5 4 4 4 4 3 75 4 50 25 5 00 14 Cows and heifers. ....!'.!".!" Canners Stockers and feeders Calves !....." Bulls and s'ags.... 7.7.7.'.! Sheep Yearlings Western muttons Stockers LamTs 7! an 4 3 Kansas City. Native steers. Texas si ears ..in,. 7.V. V" 7 ' H25 8 0 isxas cows ,!!!! !!'.!!' 2 80 Native cows and iieHers!!!. 2 25 Mockers and feeders.... 8 00 Bulls and stags 8 00 Lambs 3 00 ' .77 7 chased some time ago. The battery of the Wyoming light artillery came back with three officers Denver. men. and Captain Clarke, Beef steers Cows ".7! the commander of the battery was left Feeders, freight paid behind in Yokohama. It is presumed Stockers, freight paid toto riVer. river. Bulls aud stags he missed the transport. First Lieu- Good fat muttons tenant J. M. Gilmore is in command, Lambs ialist factions. aided by Lieutenant C. A. Bristol. The RECEIPTS. The war department is making every Chicago Cattle deaths recorded in that command only effort to secure the removal of the two was that of Frank II. S'mex, who died Sheep K ansas City Cattle ... .!! ..! Sheep batteries of artillery garrisoned at Key in San Francisco of typhoid fever, and Oman a.. Cattle....!.!!! West, but so far has been unable to do that of Pat Sullivan, who died in Hono- Sheep Den ver Ca ttle ....!.!'.!..! 7 ! so, because of the strict quarantine lulu of pneumonia. Sheep drawn by the Florida state officials. tEX- - - BASE BA MARKET REPORT fl 25 4 0J 00 fifty-seve- n 50 00 65 85 00 4 14.000 15.000 14.000 3.000 3,100 1.700 5ot) 400 Mul-for- d, ed on |
