DANGER AHEAD — ny, S—— PROPOSAL CLUBS. C. Williams, in the Chicago News Fleet Now In Magdalena Bay How Guns Fighting Bob”’ Brought the * sn Behind the Safely Harbor. Magdalena Bay, Lower California, via San Diego, Cal.--it is probable that the fleet April 5 and April 10 made at San Diego, Angeles, Santa Barbara and Cruz. At Los Angeles the fleet be divided into divisions of four ships each, to be anchored off Long Beach, San Pedro, Redondo, Venice and Santa Monica. the fleet first will steam in single line formation up the coast along t of the various ports and then divide. This would make a splendid naval pa- geant which might be witnessed by the people of those cities. Again, on departure, the fleet will probably form in single column and sail north, repeating the parade. A simultan- eous salute, such as" was given in some of the South American ports, may be fired, Target Practice. Target practice will occupy prob- ably about three weeks There will | be no battle practice, that being held | in the fall of the year. practice is limited to two ships, the Kansas and the Vermont, which have not yet fired all their guns in All will engage in record target prac. tice. There will be four ranges, ships firing at a time. The rafts forthe targets were finished and towed out to the grounds, the southeast of where the squadron was Three or four of the ships, inein the Georgia, Rhode Island, Kansas and Vermont, were on the ing out the lines and anchoring buoys for the attachment of the targets and for the guidance of the ships. The frames of the targets were towed out by a tug. Coal Problem Met. Captain R. _R. ingersoll, chief staff to Rear-Adn Evans, whom much Pot the tail work connection with the age has fall- en, said “The lated last the presc use of el Th the daily for various ances Wa have able ke Pp ms and n speed, T Stops will be Santa to l upon d VOY formu- coaling on for : mile tons allow- ne August mt nec "eau to wall withis this esti. 1aints the ten-knet ie arrangements for co aling | our various stopping nn Cal ol ott, and the have POV id Lave proved & at all have be anged plans ade quate. **At Rio we took at Punta Arenas prear- entirely on 24.000 tons, 21,000, at Callao 21,000, and at Mazdalena, when we have finished with the colliers., we ghall have taken on 35.000 tons addi- tional. This supply will be adequate to last until we arrive at cisco. This provides also for to be used in our target practice. All this amount of coal was provided, with the exception of the amounts taken on at Rio and Trinidad, from chartered eolliers. The Provisions, “The supply chip loads and the provisions for the fleet were econi- puted at the same time as the coal estimate, and submitted to the ‘de- partment. These have worked out to perfection Our fresh meat lasted until we reached Magdalena, where we still had 200,000 pounds left over. We had 1,090,000 pounds of fresh meat when we started. The bakeries on our ships have supplied us with from $00 to 1000 loaves of bread daily. We started with half a million pounds of potatoes, which supply was exhausted at Punta Are- nas. We jssued the last 4000 pounds there. From there to Callao the | Solé irrs Who Deserted Suse pected of Killing Lugger's Crew. Havena, Cuba.--~Corporal Cooper and privates Crinelly and Farley, of the United States Army. were lodged in jail at Pinar del Rio on the charge of murdering two men who were manning a lagger which they had charcered to get away from the island alter deserting on March O A gunboat picked up the lugger while it was drifting off the coast. The bodies of the missing boatmen have not been found, The soldiers were lurned over to Colonel Parker, 1 { crews were rationed with dehydrated jor dried vegetables, which were i found to be most satisfactory At | Callao we took on 238,000 pounds of | which lasted until we i reached Magdalena. Here the Buffalo met us with 200 tons more. This i will last ten days, until the Culgoa {can get here from San Diego, { she was sent from Callao with orders to take on stores and return here. i She will give us enough fresh provis- fons to last until we arrive at our | final destination at San Francisco ! “The trip has demonstrated that | the Atlantic fleet can go to any part i | potatoes, of the world if coal is provided. men and officers of the fleet have not regarded the present cruise in the same remarkable sense that the pub- jlic has. With them it has merely {been a day's work-—nothing more | However, they are all gratified at the | successful conclusion of the cruise to date Ln merely confirms our expec- tation rnilare to Rescue Jeffs, Much disappointment is expressed i throughout the fleet over the failure of the expedition to rescue the Amer ican sallor Jeffs from Indefatigable { Island. The fleet passed within about forty miles of the island, and the ten. ider Yankten was sent gearch. The landing party from the i tender searched all habitable parts of the island for two days. Remains of camp fires were found in several places, discovered. | found with Jeffs’ { the {that the marooned sailor i picked up by some | Search was made in every | place where the man could have con- cealed himself before perishing, but { it was without result. The Town of Magdalena. i The little town of Magdalena has i not grown to any appreciable ectent because of the fleet's visit. It is about ithe same size that it has been for past, It consists of a row of and two-story white igen located on the nort what is known as Man Cove. The houses git back from the beach some fifty feet and extend for perhaps 1000 yards along the shore. Mr. Heney, a cousin of Francis J. feney, the of San Francisco, white me initials on it years one hot hern shore only full He has re. is the n in the place, ! local manager of a company control- of land whieh | fronts along the bay. A young wom- an, a cousin of Mr. Heney, and her {der of the population is entirely Mex- | lean. people in the place, | horses and cattle are reared. The Water { Ordinarily, it i miles inland, | nished to Mr. ithe harbor, plants. The day before the Atlantic fleet the steamship Curacao, is the great problem. and frequently Heney by warships in {of food and water for them was a so- i rious problem. Mr. Heney solved it by sharing a supply from the ships. party are quartered at Mr. Heney's residence. Within the last two days two or three new buildings of a temporary - nature have sprung up along the beach and are being used by Mexican | vendors. : Hundred Persons Quit Theatre Seats to Shake Schmitz's Hana. San Francisco.--As a demonstra- tion of the feeling against the graft prosecution and its methods, the au- dience at the Lyceum Theatre cheered former Mayor Schmitz as hs stalked up the aisle between the acts of "Rob- ert Emmet.” “Three cheers for Mayor Schmits,"” some one shouted, Nearly every per- son in the audience joined in the cheering. A hundred or more persons left their seats and shook hands with him, ~ COMMERCIAL COLUMN. Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reports. Bradstreet's says: There is quite considerable im- provement in both the tone of gener- al distributive trade and in the vol- ume of business actually booked by jobbers. Withal, however, there is little change to be seen in the char- acter of the buying, which is still along very conservative lines, and while the volume of business doing is larger now than at any time since last fall, the shrinkage from a year ago is distinct and unmistakably large. Collections are still very back- ward; prices of staples tend lower, as for a long time past; the earning power of employes in many lines of industry {8s being curtailed by short time or wage reductions, and the threat is made that a refusal to ac- cept lower wages may result in a wide-spread suspension of activity in the coal trade. The demand for iron and steel shows little real expansion, aside from some lines like wire and similar goods; old material tends to ease, and many consuming plants are running on short time. The long standing curtailment of cotton goods products shows no signs of ending; in fact, a continued heavy cut in production is indicated, and notice has been given, in addition, of a 10 per cent. reduction in wages at some Eastern mills. Dry goods of various kinds, grocer- les, hardware, implements and paints are moving fairly well, Export trade in cotton goods does not gain much, and the outgo of farm products is not as large as in recently preceding months, Wheat, from the including flour, exports United States and Canada for the week aggregated 2,305,902 bushels, against 2,853,808 last week, 2,080,084 this week last year and «006,250 In 1902. Wholesale Markets. New York.—-Wheat— Receipts, 14, 100; exports, 7.906; spot steady; No 2 red, 993%, elevator; No. 2 red 1.00%, f. 0. b. afloat; No. 1 North ern Duluth, 1.13%, f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1.11%, f. 0. b afloat, Corn — Receipts, 1,705; exports 17.203; spot firmer; No. 2, 73 elevator, and 67 f. o. b, afloat; No. I white, 67 and No. 2 yellow, 67% f. 0. b. afloat, all nominal. Optio market was without transactions closing 3 to %c. net lower. Ma? closed 73%: July closed 70%. Oats — Receipts, 105.500; steady; mixed, 26@ 32 pounds, natural white, 26 @ 32 pounds, 60: clipped white, 32@ 40 pounds 60 4 65. Poultry — Alive quiet; turkeys, 15. Dressed steady. Turkeys, 12@ 10G 131%. Butter 86, fy 95 0 20; 1% Eggs— Easier, State, Pennsylvania fancy, selected white, cholce, 23@ 25; brown and mixes extra, 2%: firsts, 21 @ 21% Western and Southern firsts, 21 seconds, 20%. Baltimore. ~—Flour-—-Quiet and un changed; receipts, 1,945; exports, 1, -1 ‘A Wheat 97 No March, 9 88; May, No. 2 red, 923% exports, 16.000; 01% @ 886, Corn—Dull; spot, white, 643, @@ 64%: March, 633%: April, 643; May, 653% C655; ; steamer mixed, S8@583%; receipts R0.053; exports. 120,000; Southern white corn, 613% @ 64%; Southern yellow corn, 82 Gi 65 15. Oats— Easier; No. 2 white, 50%: No. 8 white, 57@59; mixed, 57; receipts, 4.211. Rye—-Dull; No. 2 Western export, RE@ 89; No. 2 Western domestic, 90 gd 81: receipts, 1.584. Hay-Steady; No. 1 timothy, changed: No. 1 clover mixed, changed. Butter — Firm and unchanged; fancy imitation, 25@26; fan creamery, 31; fancy ladle, 23 @ store packed, 184r 20. Eggs Steady, 20ec. Cheese Quiet and unchanged; large, 143%, ; fiats, 14 % ; small, 15. Philadeiphia.—Wheat steady; con- tract grade, March, 961% @ 87c. Corn firm; March, 64@ 640. Oats steady; No. 2 white, natural, FO@HI Me. Butter steady; creamery, 30ec.; do. 31. Eggs 1¢. lower: Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 20c¢ at mark; do., current receipts in re- turnable capes, 19 at mark; West. ern, choice, free cases, 20 at mark: do.. fair to good, free cases, 17@ 19. Cheese firm, good demand; New York full eream. choice, 15% @ 16¢.; do., fair to good, 15@ 156%. Live Stock. New York.~