TRUST IS WITH SPRECKLES;
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
FAIRGROUNDS A DELIGHT.
Attractive Plan of Beautifying It Being
Carried Out '
Salem Not the leant Important of
the many Improvements being made at
the fair grounds In preparation for the
Greater Oregon State fair, September
10-21, Id the transformation of the un
sightly and barren wastes of dry grass
and weeds into beautiful landscape
effects. This is the first appeal to the
artihtio sense that has been attempted
along this line, and, although it has
been found impossible to make all the
needed changes in one year, the Most
glaring faults have been remedied. The
concessions have all been removed to
one district, and dozens of unsightly
shacks destroyed. New walks have
leen laid throughout the grounds, the
idea being to combine beauty with con
venience as far as possible Buildings
have been moved whenever necessary,
and other conditions made to conform
to the new arrangements. The walks
will all be of fine gravel, dressed with
granite sand.
The main improvement is noticeable
in the square between the main pavil
ion and the dairy building, which has
been moved to a site northeast of its
old position. The visitor is no longer
confronted with the row of eandy stands
and lunch counters of all sizes, ages
and colors, and the expanse of dry
grass which formerly assailed the eye.
The only remaining relio of the old
regime is the fountain, with its famil
iar figure in the center, but even this
lift ViAort TAnninta1 and ramndaled until
it is hardly recognizable, and is now
surrounded with a bed of flowers, and a
winding path.
There are many other flower beds
also, in the shape of crescents, stars
and other designs, and all will be in
blossom fair week. The big center bed
-contains large, spreading palms. Where
there are no flowers green lawns have
been planted. 'Water has been piped
to this section, and the work ol beauty
is being rapidly completed.
A pretty feature is the statues which
-will be placed in this square. Just
ast of the main wing of the pavilion,
' the large, reclining figure, representing
the state of Oregon, was seed last year,
and tvil) again occupy the same posi
tlonJ In front of the pavilion, the
fountain and its small statue have al
ready been noted. Rack of this foun
tain, the large standing figure of Ceres,
goddess of agriculture, which last year
was- located in the pavilion, but seemed
rather cramped and out of place, will
be set up. On either side of this statue
two smaller images will be placed,
making five pieces of statuary in all
They will be set upon suitable bases
and bordered with flower beds. All
these statues were securea irons we
Jjewia and Clark exposition of 1905 in
Portland.
Organize to Fight Railroad.
Salem A concerted movement is on
foot to effect 'an organization of the
valley sawmill men with a view of
taking up again the rate question on
rough and finished lumber shipments
to Ban Francisco bay common points
The mill men are still striving tc
bring about a restoration of the old rate
of 13.50 oer thousand feet and, if the
yalley manufacturers can be brought
together, it is proposed to take the
matter before the Interstate Commerce
-commission at the earliest date posst
We.
Buys Applet at La Grande.
La Grande Contract for the sale of
more than 60,000 boxes of Grand
Sonde apples at $1.40 per box has been
.concluded between E. Z. Carbine, of
this countv. and C. E. Walker, of Kan
as City Sixty thousand boxes of
apples means approximately 110 car
loads. Loading of this monster order
-will begin as soon as the apple picking
commences, or, in other words, at once
PrnnA Drvarc Start In Linn.
Albany Prune picking Is in full
blast in all the orchards of this part of
the state and nine dryers are running
to their fullest capacity in the vicinity
of Albany. The prune crop is one of
the beet in years and Laselle Brothers,
of this cltv. will send 150 cars of dried
' prunes to Eastern markets, the biggest
' hinment of prunes ever made from
the Pacific Northwest.
' Malheur Wins Pardee Cup.
Ontario E. A. Fraser has received
a tfllecrram from Mayor Lackey, of thi
city who has charge of the Malheur
county exhibits at the National Irriga
tion congress, stating that this county
bkd been awarded the Governor Pardee
' silver cup and a $200 cash prize. The
exhibit was prepared and sent at the
expense of the business men oi untario
j in i
Oregon Hay for Alaska.
f Athena Great quantities of fine
i. 1 1 1 k.Knnkf AHTtl
timocny nay are ueiug uiuugu uunu
from the Weston mountains, and is
being sold in bales to the Preston.
Psrtmi Milling company lor fr6ni$16
to $18 per ton. This hay is loaded on
. ri and shipped to Seattle and Ta
coma, much of which it shipped from
HAS NEW SCHEME.
W. 8. U'Ren Would Elect Senators by
Direct Vote.
Oregon City W. S. U'Ren, the
father of thh initiative and referen
dum, has a plan to make Statement No.
1 nearly ironclad and to make the peo
ple of Oregon dominant over the legis
lature and any political party as well.
He proposes to have a bill enacted into
law next June through the initiative by
which candidates for the legislature
will be instructed to sign Statement
No. 1 exactly as it is written in the
law. The members of the legislature
are further commanded to vote for the
candidate for senator who is the choice
of thegreatest number of people.
Mr. U'Ren has been working on such
bill for several weeks and now has it
drafted and all ready to spring. He
believes that if the bill becomes a law
there will be no question of the mem.
bers of the legislature obeying the pro
visions it contains.
Better Train Service Ordered.
Salem Orders have been issued by
the railroad commission requiring the
Southern Pacific company to put on a
pecial train out of Roseburg to make
the run to Portland whenever north
bound overland express train No. 12 is
two hours behind schedule' time of ar
rival at Roseburg and also to require
the O. R. & N. company to run a pas.
senger train each way daily between
Portland and Pendleton, the eastbound
train to leave Portland in the morning
and the westbound to leave Pendleton
in the morning, and requiring the
trains to stop at each station, either
regularly or by signal, for the accom
mqdation of travel between these and
intermediate points.
Mutt Not Invade Reserve.
Pendleton In a letter just received
by County Superintendent Wells from
J.' II. Ackerman, state school superin
tendent, the hopes of a public school
for white children cn the reservation
are dashed. Not long since Professor
Wells wrote the state superintendent
if a district might be established upon
the Uatilla Indian reservation. He
had been asked to take the matter up
by various white renters living, on .the
reservation and who have children
school age. However, in his reply Su
perintendent Ackerman declared the
county has no right whatever to extend
its schools to the reservation.
Profits Pay for Land.
Jacksonville Ten acres of fruit land
within the corporate limits of Jackson
ville, Oregon, cost W. I. Mclntyre, a
well known orchardist of that oity, $1,
900 a year ago. This year he will more
than have paid for the property with
the proceeds of fruit sold from the
tract this season. Mr. Mclntyre is an
enthusiastic fruit grower, who has
adopted scientific methods of producing
the different varieties of fruit.
PORTLAND MARKEST.
i Wheat Club, 82c; bluestem," 84c
valley, 81c: red, 79. x
Oats No. 1 white, $2S.5024; gray,
$2323.50.
Barley Feed, $2323.50 per ton
brewing, $24.5024.75; rolled, $24.50
25.50.
Corn Whole, $Z930 per ton
cracked, $30.50.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17
18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy
$1920; clover; $11; cheat, $11; grain
hay, tiitgiz; anaiia, tizauij.
Butter Fancy creamery, 3035o
per pound. .
Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 88c
125 to 150 pounds, 70 ; 150 to 200
pounds, 67c.
Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds,
8ic; packers, 7K8c.
Poultry Average old hens, 1314o
per pound; mixed chickens, 12c
spring chickens, 12lSc; old roost
ers, 89c; dressed chickens, 1617c
turkeys, live, 1516c; geese, live, 8
9o: ducks, 14c.
Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 2830o
per dozen.
Fruits Apples, $11.50 per box
cantaloupes, $1.251.59 per crate
peaches, 75c$l perorate; prunes, 60
75o per crate ; watermelons, llo
per pound; plums, - 5076o per box
pears, 75c$1.25 per box; grapes, 40c
$1.50 per crate; casabas, $2.25 per
dozen. . , .
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack
carrots, $1.25 per sack; beets, $1.25
per sack; cabbage, llc per
pound: celery, 75c$l per dozen; corn
$11.50 per sack; cucumbers, 1015c
per dozen; onions, 15(2Uc per dozen
parsley, 20c per dozen; pumpkins, 1
l?4oper pound; radishes, ZOo per
dozen: spinach. 6c per pound; squash
50c$l per box; sweet potatoes, 2c
per pound.
Onions $22.25 per hundred.
Potatoes New, $1 per hundred'
Hons Fnggles, 6M7c per pound
Wool Eastern Oregon, average best,
1622c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022c, according to fine.
neeaf mohah, choice, 2930o per
pound.
Hat Large Interett In Spreckelt Com
pany, but Doet Not Compete.
San Francisco, Sept. 10. John
Spreckles, president of the Western
Sugar Refining company, testified yes
terday be 'ore United States Commis
sioner Richards in regard to the rela
tions existing between his company and
the American Sugar Refining company,
of New York, the so-called Havemeyer
sugar trust. It was established by his
testimony that Mr. Havemeyer and his
men own a large minority ol the stock
the Western Refining company, but
he denied that either he or his father,
Claus Spreckles, has any interest in
the American Sugar Refining company
He declared that the price of sugar
on the coast was neiu low enough to
prevent competition from Mr. Have
meyer, except in a few special grades,
which the Western does not manufac
ture.
Mr. Spreckles' testimony is to be
used in a suit brought by the receiver
the Pennsylvania Sugar company
against the American Refining cam
pany for $30,00O,0UU damages as the
result of the Havemeyer interests get-
ing control of the Pennsylvania con
cern and shutting down the plant . The
suit is both for conspiracy and for vio
lation of the Sherman anti-trust law,
and is brought in the United States
District court of New York.
GATHERING AT SARATOGA,
Fifty Thousand Grand Army Veterant
Expected at Encampment.
Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 10. Amid
gaily decorated streets, veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic have been
arriving all day for the Forty-first Na
tional encampment, which will be held
here this week. Fifty thousand veter
ans are expected.
This may be the last encampment
held anywhere but in Washington. At
the business session of the organization
a resolution probably will be introduc
ed fixing that place as the permanent
meeting place cf the organization here
after. It is also probable that within
a few years the annual encampment
will become only a meeting of delegates,
for the veterans, it was stated by Grand
Army officials, are becoming too feeble
to attend the meetings in a body and to
take part in the annual parade.
The encampment program begins to
day.
NEW RULES TO BEGIN WAR.
Hague Corrferen Requires Notice
to
Enemy and Neutralt.
The Hague, Sept. 10. The fifth ple
nary sitting of the peace conference was
held today. The whole American dele
gation was present. The following
rules regarding the opening of hostili.
ties were adopted, a few countries mat
ing reservations:
"The contracting powers agree that
hostilities must not begin without pre
vious unequivocal notice having been
given, either in form of a declaration
of war setting forth its motives or in
the form of an ultimatum with the
additional declaration of war.
"A state of war must be notified
without delay to the neutral powers,
the effect of the latter beginning after
they receive notice, which can be given
even by wire. In any case the neutral
powers cannot protest against the lack
of this notice, if it is establish d that
they undoubtedly knew that a' state of
war existed."
MOB SAILORS IN JAPAN.
Four Men From Cruiser Chattanooga
"Flee for Their Llvet.
Tokio, Sept. 10. While the United
States cruiser Chattanooga was at Hat
odate on her way here from- Vladivo.
stok, four of her men had a thrilling
experience and a narrow escape from
serious Injury at the hands of a Japan
ese mob. j
In a dispute over prices, one of the
American sailors struck a Japanese
shopkeeper. A mob quickly formed,
armed with clubs, and started after the
assailant and his three companions
Two of the sailors were forced to jump
from a dock and swim to a sampan.
The others were rescued from the
mob by the police, who took them
aboard the ship.
Car Shortage Again.
Chicago, Sept. 10. A New York
special to the Record Herald says: Is
the prosperity of the country again to
be threatened this fall and winter by
a shortage in freight equipment and
cost merchants and farmers untold mil
lions?'' This question is being asked
in high railway circles in the East and
on Wall street, and, as a rule, it is
being answered in the affirmative. Men
in the traffic world who control vast
systems are shaking their heads and ad
mitting that a recurrence of the disas
trous car shortage is threatening.
Vaccinated by the Thousand.
Vienna, Sept 10. There are no signs
of abatement in the smallpox epidemic.
Dnrlnc the last few davs 166.000 per.
sens have been vaccinated. Public
meetings and processions have been
forbidden.
NEWS FROM THE
TESTS TIMBER'S STRENGTH.
Ingenious Machine Worked by Forest
Service at New Haven.
Washington , Se pt. 1 1 . The , Forest
service tor some time past nas peen
carrying on a series of experiments at
its timber testing station at JNew Ha
ven, Conn., to determine the effect of
centinuous loads applied for long per
iods of time to wooden beams. The
beams are tested by an ingenious appa
ratus, which is so arranged that the
load on the specimens is constant, how
ever much they may bend.
The most interesting part of the test
ing machine is a large paper covered
drum, slowly revolving by clockwork,
upon which a continuous record ot the
amount of bending in the specimen
under test is recorded. This bending,
or deflection, is shown on the drum by
a pencil mark, the pencil being con.
nected to the center of the beam by a
system of levers so arranged as to con
Biderably multiply the actual bending
of the beam before it is recorded on the
drum.
Information as to the effects of loads
applied to wooden beams for long per
iods of time is not at present very den
nite, and it is expected that the results
of the experiments now in progress at
New Haven will furnish much valuable
information which will be of great ben.
efit to the lumber industry.
DEFERS IMPROVING TRACK.
Southern Railroad Will Not Double
Road Under Present Lawt.
Washington, Sept. 10. It was an
nounced at the Southern Railway head.
quarters in this city that, owing to re
cent adverse railroad rate legislation in
several Southern states, and to "gene
ral conditions," the double tracking of
the Southern railway between Chatta
nooga and Olteway Junction, in Ten
nessee, north of Greensboro, N. C, has
been ordered stopped, pending further
instructions. .
Contracts had been entered into for
double tracking work in Tennessee ag
gregating about $15,000,000. Ihe
money intended for the proposed im
provement in Tennessee and North
Carolina has been withdrawn ana will
be used in operating the road.
Latest on Fleet Movement.
Washington, Sept. 12. Those poll
ticians who are looking for an ulterior
motive behind every move the presi.
dent makes have discovered the real
reason why the battleship fleet is to be
sent around to the Pacific coast. The
president, so they declare, is a candi
date for renomination, and the fleet is
to be sent to the Pacific to promote the
political Interests of Mr. Roosevelt
The presence of the fleet will demon
strate to the people of the coast that
the president is their friend, and in re.
turn they will be expected to send to
the Republican convention delegates
who aro pledged to Mr. Roosevelt.
Talk Butlnett at Lunch.
Oyster Bay. Sept. 12. President
Roosevelt gave a luncheon today, at
which Secretary Straus, of the depart
ment of commerce and labor; Charles
P. Neill, commissioner of labor; Law
rence F. Abbott, and Ernest Hamlin
Abbott, of New York, were guests. Mr
Straus made a verbal report on his re.
cent Western trip, and Mr. Neill took
up with the president certain difficul
ties which have been encountered in
the attempted enforcement of the eight
hour law. It is denied that the tele
graph strike was considered.
A Little Slow, but She'lf Do.
Washington, Sept. 14. The battle
ship Kansas, sister ship to the Ver
mont, has just completed her speed
trials, and, while her record is slightly
below that of her sister ship and a
trifle below the 18-knot speed which
she was required to make' in her ac
ceptance ' trial several months ago, it is
said at the Navy department that her
record is entirely satisfactory. The av
erage speed for four hours with full
power was 17.81 knots and tor Z4 hours
endurance trial 17.09 knots,
Battleship Hat Narrow Escape.
Washington, Sept. 14. The battle
ship Indiana narrowly escaped destruc
tion, according to a report made public
by the Navy department, by a fire
which started in the coal bunkers on
September 6. The ship is now under
going repairs at League island. The
heroic action of the crew in removing
the ammunition saved the vessel.
New Rural Carriers.
Washington, Sept. 13. Rural car
riers appointed: Oregon Hillsboro,
route 2, William M. Tipton carrier;
Paul Ray substitute. .Washington
Cheney, route 4, Thomas R. Riggs car
rier; James V. Cossallman substitute.
Shortage In Cotton,
Washington, Sept. 11. The ginners'
report of the government shows that
69.2 per cent of the normal cotton crop
has been ginned, against 72.1 per cent
a month ago. This accounts for the
recent advances in cotton values.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
NEVER HEARD OF PUTER.
i
Land Grafter's Fame Already Dim In
Government Offices.
Washington, Sept. 12. Fame is
short-lived. Only a few days ago a
letter was received by the Forest ser
vice in this city asking for various bits
information regarding public land
conditions in the state of Oregon. The
letter bore the signature "S. A. D.
Puter." The questions were leading
ones and Indicated that the writer was
not dealing with an unfamiliar sub-
ect, rather that he was an old hand at
it. Some of the questions could not be
answered by the Forest service, so the
letter was referred to the general land
office, and came back with the answers
and with this notation:
'Who ' is this writer PuterT We
never heard of him."
The Forest service was no more ac
quainted with the man or the name
than was the general land office, and
when Puter' s letter was passed from
one official to another, it was always
with the remark: "Never heard of
him." It was not until a complete
answer had been mailed to Puter that
an official asked a newspaper corres
pondent if he had ever heard of Puter.
OREGON LEADS ALL STATES.
Contributes Most to Reclamation Fund
General Increase 8hown.
Washington, Sept. 10. Oregon
again leads all states in its contribu
tion to the reclamation fund. During
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1907, the
total receipts from land sales in Oregon
amounted to $1,429,760, nearly three
times the receipts in the previous year,
when the total was only $545,346.
Last year, when timber entries in
Oregon were tied up, North Dakota
forged ahead of Oregon, but this year
the receipts in that state were but
$300,000 less than in Oregon. There
has been a general gain in land re
ceipts through the West, Washington
increasing from $542,677 in 19UB to
$768,937 in 1907, and Idaho showing
an increase from $351,963 to $709,169.
The total receipts from all states
amount to $9,484,938, and amount to
and out of this total approximiately
$8,000,000 will go into the reclamation
fund, swelling the total to more than
$40,000,000.
New Lumber Rate Reported.
Washington, Sept. 13. The Inter
state Commerce commission today , re
ceived from the Transcontinental
Freight bureau notification of new rates
on lumber from, the Pacific coast to
points in the East, this being the rate,
recently agreed upon, of 50 cents per
hundred. The new rates will become
operative November 1. Notice of filing
of the rate was sent to lumbermen on
the Pacific coast who have informed
the commission of their intention to
enter complaint and ask for a hearing,
but this hearing will not prevent the
rate going into effect November 1 , In
the event the commission decides
against the new rate, lumbermen will
be entitled to a rebate on all shipments
made at 50 cents.
- ' Take Up Coast Defense.
Washington, Sept. 13. An effort
will be made by the War department
to get an appropriation from congress
during the coming winter for the com
pletion of all fortifications exclusive of
guns, at Portland, Me., New York and
Boston harbors on the Atlantic coast
and at San Francisco and Puget sound
on the Pacific coast. General Murray,
chief of artillery, has taken up the mat
ter with the bureaus of the War depart
ment, presumably at the instance of his
superior officers, with a view to getting
ihe money. Searchlights are the prin
cipal items needed at all five points.
Choice Reduced to Three.
Washington, Sept. 12. On the eve
of Secretary of War Taft's departure
for the Philippines, national political
leaders are taking account of stock and
Invoicing the presidential situation as
It has developed up to the present
time. The situation today gives prom
inence to three men: President Roose
velt, Secretary Taft and Governor
Hughes, of New York. Other persons
whose names have been entered in the
Republican presidential nomination
race appear at this stage as nothing
more than probable "also rans."
Mw Mttulfe FiiaI fihirtAVA
Washington, Sept 12. The fuel
problem is quite as acute In British
Columbia as in the states of our Pa
cific Northwest; indeed, British Co
lumbia is suffering somewhat because
much of its coal is now being exported
to American ports on the Pacific
coast.
Naval Station for Pacific.
Washington, Sept. 10. That a strong
recommendation will be made by Rear
Admiral Capps, chief of construction of
the navy, for building a naval station
at San Diego is practically assured. It
is believed his views are indorsed by
Rear Admiral Cowles, the president's
brother-in-law. :
then to Alaska.