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OREGON NEWS NOTES GF GENERAL INTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. RailrMd Laborer Quit Work Varshfield. Kxoosslve charge for inferior faro and accommodations, ah.irce tor hospital fees. Inflated trios for goods sold by the contract rs. bad working conditions and em ployment under misrepresentation are reasons aliened for the strike of a timber of laborers employed on the construction work of tho Willamette Paoific by Cope nhagen Hros., contract ors, at the Gardiner cud of the Hue. The men quit work this week. ! Biehl Found Guilty of Fraud Portland. After brief deliberation, ( Jury in the United States court found J A. Biehl guilty on three of four counts cf an Indictment charging him with fraudulent use of the malls in exploit- tng the Columbia River Orchards com-, pany. Biehl is liable to a sentence 01 five years In the federal penitentiary d each of the three counts. STATE DEBT IS SMALL Cost of Running Oregon 2 Years Wai $5,240,704. Salem. During the biennial period from October 1, 1910. to September SO, 1912, the office of secretary of state issued warrants aggregating $3. N0.704.64, according to the biennial report of Secretary of State Olcott Outstanding warrants on October 1, 1910, amounted to $37,171.53, while utstanding warrants at the close of this biennial period amounted to $30, 19S.90. The only outstanding Indebtedness is a small amount of "Certificates of evidence of allowance of claims," and "Certificates of Indebtedness." Issued according to law and for which appro priations will have to be made by the legislature. The total amount of revenue requir ed: for state purposes for 1911 waa es timated at $2,082,909.09, which Includ ed $33,795.50 for the normal school at Monmouth. Of this amount $697,293 was receipts from Indirect sources, auch as fees, licenses, etc., and $1, JS3.S15.84 was raised by direct taxa tion. For 1912 it was estimated that $3. 456.433.66 would be needed, of which $592,817.91 came from indirect sources and $3,656,633.66 came from direct taxation. Eastern Oregon Without Mail Burns. Burns has been without nail communication with outside points since Tuesday. C. M. Kellogg, contractor on the Prairie City-Burns route and four other routes, all of them centering In this section of Ore gon, refuse to handle the mail on the ground that the government violated the present mail contracts by the en actment of the parcel post law. Lumber Shipments Are Big Astoria. During the year of 1912 there were 381 vessels which loaded at the mills In the Astoria customs district and their combined cargoes totalled 290,509,033 feet of lumber. Of these vessels, 51 carrying 60,180,000 leet of lumber went to foreign "ports, while 330 vessels with cargoes amount ing to 230,329,033 feet of lumber went to domestic points. INSTITUTE WORK CLOSES Final Session is Held at Crowfoot Grange, Near Lebanon Corvallis. The farmers' institute work of the extension division of the j Oregon agricultural college, in which a number of faculty members have ; been engaged under extension super- i vision during the ChristmaBS recess, ; tame to a close Saturday the final Jay of vacation with an all-day instl- 1 tute at the Crowfoot Grange, near Leb anon. Three members of the college ton county in the case of George and faculty conducted the Crowfoot meet- j Charles Humphrey, convicted of mur ings, and gave instruction in dairying, j der in the first degree for killing Mrs. 3eid crops and home economics. j Elizabeth Griffith. The men will pay Institutes were held Friday at Tul-! the death penalty for their crimes, atin and at Ashland. These institutes j Herman Pooh, rancher and hide marked the suspension of the work ui- i til after the close of the winter short umtrseB at the college, which opened when class work was resumed Mon day, and will continue until February Woman Mayor in Office ri'arrenton. Oregon's first woman nayor, Miss Clara C. Munson, was in augurated at a meeting of the city uaoneil, when she and the three new-1 --efected council members took their aths of office and succeeded the re tiring officials. Gun Clubs Organize State League Sugene. Represented either in per son, or by proxy, delegates from the gun clubs of Eugene, Portland, Salem, Albany, Ontario, Joseph and Coquille City met in the rooms of the Eugene commercial club and organized a Btate league for the promotion of sport. BRIEF NEWS OF ORISON Jobu I.cc, n pioneer of 1S(T, is dead Bt his homo in l-Y.rcft llrove. The finest poultry show ever licit in Oregon l ily was opened Saturday ut the armory. County Clerk li, P. Allen of Marlon contsty was toiind dead In the Y. M C. A. swimming tank at Salem. Francis II. lr in of Hood Kiior com-1 milted suicide by shooting himself through the head with a. revolver. John Francis Smith, one of the ear liest ami best known pioneers of Au rora, died at Salem, aged S4 years. C. 10. Fcrro, city marshal of Flor ence, is accused of nccepticft a bribe and is now under $;!i)0 bail to appear In court. Charles Meckllnburg. tin insane plasterer, who kept officers t bay for two days, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head at his home in Kugene. Thomas Harding, a prominent writ er of the middle west for half a cen- Ulx snd ,uthor of the pwm, He- member the Maine," Is dead at Ore gon City, aged SS year. More than 80,000 prune trees, repre- sentmg approximate expenditure. of $7500 by the people of Dallas and vicinity, have been received at Dallas within the past three weeks. Burglars entered two hardware stores and newspaper office In Springfield, securing loot amounting to about $300 from the stores, but taking nothing from the newspapet office. School children of Oregon will Join in signing petitions to President Wil son asking that the battleship Oregon be designated to lead the first fleet that officially goes through the Pana ma Canal. Judge Galloway In circuit court at Salem granted a writ of mandamus ordering State Insurance Commission er Ferguson to grant a license to tran sact business to the Union Life In surance company, of Portland. Rev. W. F. Reagor, of Portland, la the first president of the parliament of Christian churches for the north west, having been elected the official head of the new organization at the business session held In Spokane. C. F. Howell, of Dallas, was fatally Injured when an engine on the logging road of the Portland Lumber company overturned and pinned him beneath where he was literally cooked by steam following an explosion of the boiler. Frank S. Fields, clerk of Multno mah county, waa honorably acquitted of the charges preferred against him by William L. Finley, state game war den, of falling to turn over to the state treasurer certain game and fish license funds. The permanent endowment fund of $250,000 for Albany college was com pleted on New Year's day. Of the to tal sum, $120,000, including James J. Hill's donation of $50,000, came from the east The remaining $130,000 was raised in Oregon. In the year Just closed the Sluslaw Creamery company at Florence, a co operative concern with 82 patrons, handled 97,718 pounds of butter fat, which brought something like $34,000, a sum, if equally divided, of $414 apiece for the patrons. W. R. Mead and Ed. Hcrmsen have been arrested at Baker on the charge of arson. Mead has confessed to set ting fire to the White studio. His supposed purpose was to destroy com petition, as he warf the owner of the Elite studio, of that city. Coyote hides to the number of 2725, wildcat pelts 268, with 137 bobcats and 7 lynx, comprise the kill of pred atory animals In Malheur county In 1912. Bounty warrants totaUng $6069 have been Issued to hunters and trap pers in the 12 months. Private, but authentic, advices from Salt Lake City indicate the transfer, Jan. 1, of all property and construc tion work vested in the Oregon East ern railroad company from the owner ship of the Oregon Short Line to that of the O.-W. R. & N. company. The supreme court has affirmed the decision of the circuit court of Ben- dealer, was slain at his ranch near I Dplnavilla hv hi 93 VMF old Atpn ROn. Gaylord McDaniel. Poch had accused McDaniel of improper relations with his mother, Poch's wife, which so en raged the boy that he rushed into the house, secured a shotgun and fired a charge through Poch's right breast. An event unique in Oregon annals and the most noteworthy In the his tory of the state was the tribute paid to ex-governors, their wives and wid ows, by Governor West at the state house New Year's night. The barren corridors were transformed into places of light and beauty and the rooms were crowded with men and women whose lives have been Interwoven with the history of Oregon for over half a century. In the receiving line were the wives and widows of those who have occupied the executive chair from 1866 to the present time. Thou sands attended the reception. WM. G, ROCKEFELLER As -)jJfii-S William Q. Rockfeller, Standard Oil magnate, whom subpoena servers for the "money trust" Investigating com mltte cannot find. DYNAMITERS' BAIL FIXED Court Namee Total of It. 100,000 and Hasty Incarceration Criticised Chicago. Bull In the sum of $1,100, 000 for 32 o. the 33 union leaders con victed of conspiracy to transport dy namite must be forthcoming In order that they may take advantage of the granting of a writ of supersedeas by the United States circuit court of ap peals here. Judges Baker and Seaman heard the arguments and the decision waa given orally by Judge Baker. He took oc casion to intimate that undue haste was manifested In committing the de fendants to prison. Mexico Declares Embargo on Freight El Paso. Tex. Due to the railway shop strike and general unsettled con ditions In Northern and Eastern Mexi co, the National .Hallways of Mexico declared an Indefinite embargo on all freight entered at the Port of El Paso. Passenger trains, however, will be run. British Consul Dead Portland. James Laldlaw, British Consul at Portland for the district em bracing Oregon, Washington, Idaho Montana and Alaska, and for 42 years a resident of this city, died of periton itis at St. Vincent's hospital Sunday night, following an Illness of ten days. Fourteen Perish in Sea Collision Baltimore. Fourteen members of the crew of the freighter Luckenback, which was rammed and sunk by the British tramp Indrakuala, lost their lives In the sinking of the vessel, off Tangier island, in Chesapeake bay. Eight men of the crew were rescued after clinging to the rigging for six hours, until they were taken off by the crew of the steamship Pennsyl vania. The Indrakuala was badly J damaged and had to be beached. 1 TAFT PRESIDES AT POLITICAL "WAKE" New York. President Taft presided here Saturday night at what he styled his own political "wake." He made the funeral oration over his political corpse; asked modest praiBe for the deeds that he did while he lived in the White House, recited at length the causes that led to his "demise." and attacked the enemies he held respon sible for his taking off. The president was the only speaker at the republican reorganization din ner, given at the Waldorf-Astoria to more than 1000 republicans from all over the country. He spoke for more than an hour. His defense of his ad ministration was the executhe results it has produced; his reply to personal criticism was that he had b'-en more misunderstood than blameworthy. In the course of his spepch the pres ident made his first public reference to Colonel Roosevelt since the close of the campaign, assorting that probably 1,000,000 voters, normally republican, cast their ballots for Mr. WilBon, "In order to avert the danger of Mr. Roosevelt's election." THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Club, 80c; bluestem, 85o; red Russian, 78c. Oats $25 per ton. Hay Timothy, $18; alfalfa, $12. Butter Creamery, 37c. Eggs Candled. 32c. Hops 1912 crop, 20c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 18c; Wil lamette valley, 22V&C Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 86c; club, 81c; red Russian, 79c. Eggs 33c. Butter Creamery, 38c. Hay Timothy, $19 per ton; alfalfa, $12 ier ton. . liEiVS FROM QUn NATIONAL CAPITAL Congress Must liold Uignt So sions to Pass Many large Measures ia Tint. Washington. With final r.dloiirtv meat of the OOd vtuii:re two mouths aivay. the house is eiiniroiitcd bv a Jammed ;icnd'ir mid the supply bills which rouiu c.ir days nnd bUep !us nights tor llie lei:.iltol'. Only n slnulo appropriation hill, tl.i '-;i!.;a!lvo, executive nnd Judicial sup ply measure, has been parsed by tli lioiise. The I'idlan appropriation bill is no under consideration and It should be completed this week. The tlx appropriation measures which In volve a vast amount of detail likely lo cause lengthy discussion, aro still to come. Tho postotflc aprpoprlailon bill has been reported from the com mittee and Is awaiting action by the house. .Member of the house are looking forward to about a month of night and day grinding Just before the conclu sion of the session and the leader are already making plan to hold quor um of member that work may be rushed through. Senator Bailey 8ayt Farewell The principal feature of the senate the past week was a speech by Sena tor Bailey, of Texa. lung one of the picturesque figure and striking speaker of the United State senate, which he called hi farewell address. The galleries were crowded to hear the senator score his critic and deliv er phllllplc against the Initiative, referendum and other popular Inw. Much of Senator l):i!ley' speech was taken up wrib a vitriolic attack on his enomle and drastic criticism of popular legislation, which he de clared would eventually overthrow the present system of government. He praised Presldenl-elect Wilson and characterised William It. Hearst s "a miserable dog. moral pervert, po litical degenerate, a physical coward." Tariff Hearing Begun The ways and means committee of the house on Monday begun its series of hearings on the all Important sub ject of tariff revision. The hearings will be by schedule, beginning with chemicals, oils and paints, with subse quent dates arranged for the bearings of the various other schedules and the free list. In thl way !t Is expected that most of the preliminary work may be In hand by the end of February, so thnt the work may then begin on the drafting of the measure or measure for tariff reduction In readiness for the extra session beginning In March. During the week another Important series of hearings will begin before the hub-committee of the house bank ing and currency committee, which I seeking a substitute for the Aldrlch currency plan. Many noted financier and economists have been Invited to appear before the committee and give their views. Wood Urges Revival of Army Canteen The restoration of tho army can tcon and enactment of legislation for ihe elimination from the United Slates army of unfit officers are among the prllicipnl recommendation of Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, In his annual report made public. General Wood recommends tho con centration of the army on strategic lines and In areas where It can be maintained more economically. He would transfer all the personnel of the staff corps excepting engineers, medical officers and chaplains to the lino, increasing the number of tho general officers and line officers In the different grades. "The great majority of the officers of the army," says General Wood, dis cussing the canteen question, "are of the opinion that the re-estahllshmont of the canteen under proper supervi sion would tend to Improve the health, discipline and efficiency of the service by dismissing intemperance and Im morality. I concur In this opinion." National Capital Brevities. A democratic caucus of the house was held Tuesday to fill committee vacancies. ' The navy department has awurded contracts for eight new submarines to cost $560,000 each. Tho death of Senator Davis, of Ar kansas, probably means that Senator Chnmberluln will become chairman of the public lands committee when the democrats reorganize tho next senato. The house committee on merchant marine began hearings Tuesday to Investigate the methods and practices of domestic and foreign steamship lines, particularly as to any agree ments, pools or combinations with railroads. The lnanguratlon of tho parcel post on New Year's day was an unqualified success and so complete had tho ar rangements been made that not a hitch was reported from any point. Among the articles sent and received were brindle pups, sides of bacon, eggs, fruit, horse collars and like ar ticles. One firm In Chicago purchased $17,000 worth of stamps. j F. J. SHLTARO C'". V4V';l C S.'v... h. .An - '. I Av - ' ; Finley J. Shepard, the 8t. Louis railroad man engaged to marry Mis Helen Gould. Brief News of the week Chicago will speud $66,000,000 In 191.1. Ilradstreel' report S53 haul liens failures the past week, a compared with -323 In the previous week. During the week legislature will oonvene In numerou slate and many new governor and other official will be sworn Into office. The flntt annual convention of the Women' National democratic league assembled Tuesday In Washington for a three days' session. Italy ha followed the lead of Egyp tian railways, and has placrd an order for 200.000 ton of coal In America, while she has also Invited tenders for a large quantity from tho Yorkshire mine. New comes from San Francisco that the California Atlantic Steamship company ha failed, with liabilities of $:i00.000, A merciless ralo war, when freight rate were cut lo $3 a ton, I given a the cause of the failure. Postmaster In the second, third and fourth-class offices throughout the country are hailing the newly estab lished parcel post service with expres sion of delight, for It la sure to In crease their annual receipt and con sequently their salaries. The United States steel corporation Is to extend the sphere of Its manu facturing operations Into Canada. Judge Gary ha Just announced that construction will soon begin on a plant at Sandwich, Just opposlto Detroit, to cost In the neighborhood of $20.OO0,- 000. A cull has been Issued for a pro gressive conference of representatives of Michigan, Wisconsin. North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota at St. Paul January 24. Tho call was signed by the stntn chairman and national committeeman from each state named. The object Is to decide on desired state and national legislation, People in the News Vnlted States Senator Jeff Dnvls died at his home In I.lttlo Hock, Ark. James It. Keen, the noted financier nnd horseman, died In New York. II whs li years old. I.uther McCnrty, of Springfield, Mo., shattered the heavyweight champion ship amhllioiiB of Al Palter, the Iowa giant, ut tho Vernon arena In Califor nia. Louis K. (Jlavls has resigned from the secretaryship of the California stale conservation commission, fol lowing charges brought against hlra by Surveyor-General Kingsbury. The Itusslan Imperial crown prince, stabbed n few weeks ago by a nihilist, and who It was thought wus mnlined for llfu, has completely recovered his health and returned to his studies. (leneral KiKnrd Merwln l.ee, once acting governor of Wyoming, and a relative of Hubert IC. Lcc, died at his home In New York. In Wyoming ho nlgned tlin first bill giving women the right to vote. Following funeral services In New York, tho body of Whltelnw Held, late ambassador to Great Uritnln, was laid at rest In the vault of Ogden Mills hi Sleepy Hollow cemetery nt Turrytown, less tl'-m 1o0 feet from that of Wash in:,Lou 1vlng. Captain Amundsen, discoverer of the Houlh pole, is to be the guest of honor ut the nnnual banquet of the Nutlonnl Geographic society, which Is to ho held In Washington Saturday night. Hear Admiral Poary of North Pole fame will net as tonst master. Georgo llardsook, a laborer, un earthed $37,500 In gold while digging a trench near tho vllluge of OglOBby, Oklu. Hardsook's, possession of tho tvealth, however, probably will be of short duration, a state law requiring that such funds be surrendered to the owner of the land. yiofiissr.n at Cards. Law Oifice of W. P. MYERS Kilr HM'f. PriiievilU, Ore Dr. Charles Maci aiUlcn Osteopathic I'liytkwn IU.'nle ll-1. lie wiel Vilnrul T!i"nl'i!lle I iiiplot. 'I, I In. Mile l "l"'llt (II fire In kmlr Him k Tlr.ili.nii Pitweer, No. I2fl. r. i:. j. m i i v (k,,, , , l" V. A. Iti lll I'lilM VII I i: Ol, 11.11 Prof. A. W. Grater, Divine Mmltr (lilies 111 M.irri Itiiildiin three disus until ui Join on! tilllee. Prinvill. Orson D. H. PEOPLES Civil and Irrigation Engineer Itisati II .VUllimm Hld'H Prinevillc, Ore. mi Dr. Howard (iovc Dentist. Crank County Bank Building M4 am 'mWmm Jn. HAVE YOU Filed your Deed? Of Course. HAVE YOU Art Abstract? Certainly everyone hn Ulrct now. Dovou know inhere your corner are. Well. No. Not exactly. Brewiter Engineering Company, I'rineville, Orwgon, lll lucslo llmm lor you and iiuiusutee the wik Surtay ln, putting. Irrigation Knglnverliig. I'hon t'iulicer H. tXVUI.IHTH Belknap d Cdwards (County I'hynlcisn.) J. Trcucllcs 1-ox M. It. ('. H. Kng; and I.. H. A. I.on.i.ini LlrstiCf Oregon Stat Medtt-al Hoard. MtMH-taUm In htirifrv! Ilvsiriia: All- niiiia Canal j wonirii and chlldmi'e dl lira. or r and rt li-no. onn door wnl of Innrk Uf alum, I'.lnovllh,, OMun. !7Ajn'nam mm) fre Caiu k.i. faexm.v Hit o Niukt trv"-t nut imoa socth nr aiubmi Dsi'a SToaa. Hnili iiflvp au ra) dvuue uivnuu. PriKtmill. ' Orrm V. A. HULL lawyer The Dalles Oregon ft. Cuutt. SPrtu , Orf. Willard II. Wirtz Attnrnev-ivt.I.nw, (Hike In M. II. Wuit' "Mce. I'ld.M'.VII.I.K, OltKtlOM 55t . Brink jCawyr Jfttrl. Prim fill; Ortf". The Brosius Bar Finest Brand of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. LAGER BEER ON DRAUGHT F. E. BROSIUS, Proprietor If ( P Lodge moets every Sat unlay night. Strangers welcome. (inn. Nom.K, N. fi.; Hkht Barnrs, V, U. ; T. It. Coon, Bee. ; C. B. Dinwid uik. Trrcas. t .. i