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to ratuini Tlrtr U Fonl aeh km o
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wm put 08 Mr I At)p!i' bpaM
woaM not J hi tn. IU ihot kt
U MKlwJti,A4 M kitted by Ui
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lb rt)lt illteM bjr lh UolUf.
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lirtM Uuy ou. Ovt 1,000 dmw
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flalui tb nliM tu fei4 ftallHMr ttLr '
C ThMnbr of nllrvMl Mkbat In
JQmil Hriuln It IncwMlDg. - '
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hpw of bolUllog la ClocinoU,
' mMMy U fcrmnktlnc
fits lor m lodiwUUl pM ouuiml
ton.
To of lb largrat topft fiilom Is
Unlr output 60 pr eant.
lit:', .4 1 ri' I l) ...-
', lUnjr JinaM bo bam wporU
Mrtkw ImmI lo Um . UnlM Htta
but (ail to o oa to tblr tkalliutloa.
II. U. Ii In toch poor pbytU
Ml hrIU tht h W nnbl to apfMir
In mji In i eaM (fftUurt tb HtaJidtrJ
t)ll tumn7,
I, imm J. II1U, do tbfcl b bM tor ft
J all boainaM aSalra w to bis ton,
vlll fn4 lb Mat of bit III la racrta
lloa and raat.
' A grand jary at Jacksoo. Mba baa
ratumail Itvllctnwnta afaina fba Hi-
1Mb Oalml and Ta ' MlKkwIppl
atlrjr raiU lot giving
rr vTh KwafwnaM a Uylai to prtrtaut
olwt ami laaitn to fa Waal.
'Wtfilii "tirri'th?nai of
l"'trnoin( drqorka oa tha raciw.
t Tha WMtnm t'olon ofalma tbaraliaa
twin i bmr la th opwrttnrt ttrtka at
J CUvalaxl. Oblo.
Si ' r f ,
t 'A nwpf mnoa a plln, lo
t baa to4 dyakMltad Uoaoaa It fougbt
j lb lawlvaaaltment.
.r- Coast Uknnia far tba Baa Tramleo
t M w?r backad bf tba olty, whlit
Z Vamiouvrr fougbt tba tiotai.
M altort to ba Btcilawl, tbo do-
fcwIMng nrlWm tba' Mirwaakaa
t avMina baakv Cbloaao, panloaad, baa
j; if S
. . Tlwta laa a nooon&imad nport tltat
At Mtiaaitltt tv will ; lao foe tba
I nt Npvt.abar J7 iaitl f tXpea
t bar it; - A w .
RnoafnraH baa rVrad tha atdata to
--Admiral ?ana to aaa bit own Jodg
t main In vlfitlngt Portland wltb b
i Tha nait anoaraptnant ol tba 0rand
f Army ol tha llapubll will ba bald at
Y ToWdovOblo. Jodg Charlaa Burton,
of Nevada, Mo., waa alwtod command-
wU-ablaf at tba Sarittog uatAJag W
anaddd.
5 HutKipada ef ' Jw art bafirg kMnttA
Jand burnad In Ruaala.
J idmUtiaw-ajf Oftoatol adults to aba
, n " "V HUH I IMBV.III WINI -'..
lury m taa jirajr u rm aa,
Mb Kraiiciaoo, baa baan atenrsd.
J iapan d7rTb(routb7asJc7l
ubjacja at Vaneonftr, U. O." --
S "wnoh gnd Bpanlitt' troopi ha? at-
awksd and routed tba Moors and barn
t,,ed:hlroaJnp. r -
I krlklngtelagraph oparalors 'in' Cbl.
I Mf) hava raoaWed strike pa hnd what-
diaMiitlon aiiated bf dlsappMrad.
VL Vha tisns-AtlanWa- liner Loaltanla
tus MUklkibed a new reeord for
Jroa the omo. making tba Ulp to
J Uian (a days,
maanwn baa.oBMrad a, prise
lyUO lor tla mast snooeasfnl 1 airship.
ii r Angio-amsrinan poiar sipoui
Z nndnr Uikkslsorj and Uflnwall
7 sTCfWkCl. - . aa-
7 nports finding a deep saa
7l,klutnooontlnsnt.
A
train
" Mid up near! KeafcmJ, i Mont, by
jiwo-Tnatked -rnew, The? . assured e
J "fKS amount of registered mail bot
I 2n,1. which they Ay
if ,!. jltal
w-n unriMi Ma nnu u a i . . -
Member af Psrllsmsnt Bays Britain
'( anould Ba Careful,
' neouvsr, B. 0.. Sobt. 17.-.fi.
umtsand fir hundred dollan It onoffl
olally itaM to bt th arnonnt of dam
sgas wbkih will bs paid by tba Domln
Ion government for Jspaneas windows
sms.had. Tlis bill will be diiitol.ad
tomorrow to Ottawa and is to be Daid
Immsd lately. t
In the niaan time Mayor Uathnoe la
tclay still trying t icur gorernmenl
0ni.rstloii to brovbie lor the suffering
coiioiwon is raouatnl rs
eliiiglyd by the cold rain ol lb
iaat uay ami a half. Many ais in toatt
snd when they gH S ehsiK-e to lie dean
It is In pools ol wster with wind snd
rain blowing into their facs. The
gruatntt crowd Is at the Maple Leal
boarding hexus, an old shack nrar Ui
waierirout. sou r qoartared.
inix?ary bunks wars put op laat
ni ami me iimuiia, surrounded Fy
larnnie ronjittorui, lie io the suceeasWe
" 01 thair stuff jr quarters. Ouok
tng, slrejilng, rating snd bathing go on
in one room and man ara
oloatly tlt only by Jareful manipnta-
won ia we space tare enough lor all to
stay inwrs. Jim stench la trlshtful
auu ui cirw authorities Iir rnldemlo,
Theatsarmm Woulieb snd Indians
ars aow overdus with mors tbaa 1,000
Jtano, the torruef from Yokonihama
and the Indlsna making ber snmnd trip
mini iiunomin. The mayor believes
liter be no Inrtbnr trouble when
they arrive. It. tl. MacPherson,
mrmW of parliament fur Vancouver.
declare that Ureat IVItain should be-
wars ol another Boston tea Incident, II
the flood of Japanese
immigration is
tilowfel to iMtitlnua.
DISPATCHER BUNQLC8 OR01.R8.
Trains CetUds In New Hampahlrs and
24 Ara Killed.
White River Junction. Vt. Bent. 17
A trerfuj keed-OQ collision between
th south bnuad Ouebea ttnrtas and
a north boand freight train oa the Con
ourd division of the iiwum Maine
rallmed orcumd fonr mil north of
Canaan station Nunday, due to s mis-
take In train dispatcher's onlers, and
I torn a demoluihrd paanenger rtiacb
there were taken out 21 dead and dying
snd 17 ot hr tMMwngers, moat of them
ewiouely wonnded.
brarly all that who were in the
death car wr returning horn a lair at
Hhetbrook, Q tie two, AO ml Ire north.
Tha eonductur ol Uie freight train
wa given to anderaland tlat ha bad
plenty ol time to reach a Siding by the
nfghl opera. si Canaan elation, re
ceiving, according to the ftuperinlend-
enlof thedivieiun, a copy ol a tel
graph order from the train dtepatcher
at Cnnoortl, a hu h coniuevd the tralo
number SO and 34.
ROOT OF tVILNOl REACHED
Physicians Opposed to Compulsory
Pasteurisation or Milk.,
llrowwls. 8t. 17. I. Henry 1. Colt.
of Newsik, , ., tssMentof tba Amer
ican asaoriation of meuiisl milk oom-
miaslon, Is strongly opposed, In an ad
diesa today st thf International Milk
eoogress, UJtlc oonialtary paeteurlra-
Hon ormiis as a meana m envcuveiy
Improving tlie supply of milk. Pr.
Colt Mtld that to employ pssteurimlbm
as anything more than a temporaty es-
POllent woula he nnneelrattie, oecanee
it would remove tne rnoenuv vt u
yuhlte ,to .compel the proiluonr to o
einpl)h an Imprevement. Paeteor-
ImkI milk in nun is not oniy inuin-
ilrJy lees diwltable than clean raw
milk, declared Dr. colt, tint is scuy
nneafe anleee It is eonrumed within 24
boors snd Is kept st or belcw 10 de
gtes centlgiade M degrees : Fshreo
belt. Dr. Colt slsonald:
"Toreeoit to the oompulsory pns-
touritatlon ol the milk supply In large
cities as s protnrthm against tuberculo
sis instead of taking mora radical mees-
arr for Its emuwation 'rom reus
bsrdu, woold be protecting only tbwe
who live In the cities ana wotua e-
. . . . t Jtl.!.ia
posetll wno live in ine rami airw.
The only rtl safigiiard lies in the
oompM cwdlcation of hofi" tubcrco-
tosia.V S i j
Ships Bring Much Salmon.
Han Kianciero, Sep. 17. Four ships
of tu sslmon licet put In an appenranc
twlaf and among them tuey nrongiu
Iroin th Mmnem cannenra
esse ol eslnion. At all put one of uie
canneries tha catch this lesson was
poor, and Uie total wok will ra.ii con
siderably brlow th averag. The aliip
that arrived were etai or rrsnce, jrom
Naknek. wllb 80,86.1 cae ol salmoa ;
James Neamitb, Ircm hsknek, witn
34,272 cseeei 1. r. Cheney, irora
nek, and Charles B. - Ksntiey, from
Noshsgsk, each witn ae.uuo o..
r ' , ;
Bookkeeper Is Arrested. ,
1 Nev.. Bent. 17. Herbert
Biggs, Ijookkceper for Broker Paul New-
man, wno ass L 7 71 j
Newman's ofllre 1st Friday night- snd
il.160 mleslng Iwm tl open safe, has
been taken Into custody. While there
ie no direct evidence connecting him
with the loblwry, his .
menu rogsrdlDg ii' 11
polio, too uiFeut that be know, wore
then be lies told, and lie will be hold
until the mystery has been cltaied up.
, ( :
' Earnings Show Incrssss. t
Denver, Sept. H.-The Iwentfimt
annuel report ol tl.s wnrer
Ursnde llsilrosd comMtnr, I?1"'
tarda by Ireluen n
ghom .that tlie Income ol U.e oompM
It the fiscal yr ending Jon S0i 1907,
was ll,62M. n Inofe80' '"V
r. V. ' J.-.rl with the previous
veal, and the net ssrrflngs wer 18,156,. j
wwiriM. I I FTTnTnmilBrnnnm, , 1 - . I I
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OREGON STATE ITEMS OF MEREST
i ..i i
PROFIT IN FRUIT. , ,
.antral Oregon Country la Rapidly
looming to the Front.
rrinevllle A Ulp to the ranch of
William Boeall. which la aitnatot
sliont SO miles north of this place oa
the Crooked river, reveala to every on
th poasibilltie of Central Oregca as a
fruit growing eretloo. The ranch Is
lt at tba water's edge, and in a gorge
over 1.0CO leet from the level ol tbe
grain growing section ol Crook county
Although there are but about li
scree In tbe body that is In bearing
orcnam, irun oi an kinds is raiaed In
great quantities, Including grapes of
the flneat varieties and other kinds
tuat are commonly clawed as tropical
(ruita.
iota orcnard three veara aim mo.
dueed ovei 2,000 buehels of winter sp-
piea, an w which were readily mar.
keted at (1 per boabel in tha local
market. Tba value of the fruit mar
keted this year will exceed 14.000 snd
doe not include vegetables, of which
Mr. Borgti raiies sn abundance.
tontiderlng tbe fact that this ranch
wss pnrchseed but two years ago at ap
proximately $10,000, tbe profile on this
sind oi so investment are apparent.
Klamath'e Trade Big.
Klamath Falls A an indication of
the ttade that will be eetabliahed In
Klamath Falls with tbe advent ot the
rsilroad, when the market of the coun
try will be opened to this aectlon. the
long Lake Lumber company operations
sRurd a scale. Deepite the facta that
their goods moat be hauled 85 miles
over a stags road, Ibis company has
contracted with a California liuit ax
change for all tbe boxes tbey can pro
duce, and tbey are sending out every
week sboat two carloads. Even at the
freight rats they muet pay, tbey make
s fair profit, and will be on the ground
floor ready to do botineae when the
rsltrosd arrives. They empty SO men
In the making of boxee and tha Quality
of box put out is first-class.
Prune Crop Heavy.
Eocene Tbe fruit svsporatora In
Lans connty are generally in operation
now, the prune coming in Qui. la
crop In this county thia year t said to
bs nearly aa large a the bumper crop of
hut year, when tons of the prunes
ut lo waste becane tbe evepoiators
could rot handle them all. Tula year
there aie mote evaporatora, and th eld
ones have been enlarged, eo it is proo
sbls tliat there will be no wast of any
great amount.
To Advertise Uni County.
La Grande The Grand Bonde Boost
ers' club has luat leaned a tour-page
illustrated newspaper deecriptlve ol
L'nion county. One of theee edition
will be banded to every penon visiting
the exhibition ball from tbe trains.
The lllastrstlcns cover practically every
line of Industry In the county. In ad
dition to the original 10,000, over 4,-
000 additional copies have been anb-
scribed by several individual teal estats
amis, making in all 15,000 copies.
Report on Reform School.
Salem -The report of S. H. Looney,
nnerlntendent of the state reform
hool, was presented to the stabs board
st its laat meeting. During the month
wo inmates were returned from parole,
and two who bad escaped, making the
total eniollment 89 as compared to 8t
at the beginning of tbe month. Tbe
. ..... . a . 1 t M ,L.
sum ol S2.S9.3U waa ree-iv-u irom im
national government a charges on two
inmates from Alaeks.
Cord wood Ready for Market.
Meacbam It Is estimated that there
are now 3,uiaj coroe oi tiwimui wm-
wood on the dumps of Meecnam ready
for shipment to Pendleton and Walla
Walla. Practically all of the wood
prvjred in the forest hss been hauled
in and IS now reeuy iut wm wmimv.
At Kamela and other shipping points
on the mountains there are also large
quanlltie of wood. j
Burs Applss st La Grand. -
La Grande Contract for the sale of
more than 60,000 boxee of Grand
Bonds apples at $1.40 per boa has been
concluded between K. Z. Carbine, of
this county, and C. E. Waiser, or sn
aas City. Sixty thousand boxes of
spple means spproximstsly 110 ear
loads. Leading of this monster order
will basin as soon aa tba spple picking
commence, or, In other words, si one.
Prune Dryers Start In Linn.
Albany Prune picking la la fall
blast In sll ths orchards of this part of
tha state and nine dryers ere running
to their fullest capacity In tha vicinity
of Albsny. Ths pruns crop l one ot
tha hunt in rear and iwiie urouwa.
Aithianttv. will send looesrsor dried,
prunes to Eastern mar seta, ua oigg i
shipment of prunes ever made from
1 . . . I
he IsciuO norinweaa. .
........ . p.. Co..
MBIItwW wwva.w v --S I
0ntrio-E. A. Frassr bas 'r
a telegram from Mayor Lcky. of thia I
city, who hsi chargj . tar r
county "nlb,,,,hJ"i
tlon congreea, stating that this county
i... I Wn awarded ths Governor Pardee
i.l hmn awarded the Governor
tlvMP BHD and a $200 cash prise.
LQ9t
exhibit was prepared and sent at the
expense of ths busineee man of Ontario.
Oregon Hay for Alaska. - "
Athsna Great quantities of fine
timothy hey ars bring brougni aowxi
from the Weston mountains, and ia
being eold In bale to the Preston-
Parton Milling oompany ior irom t
t I18ner ton. This bay is loaded on
cars snd shipped to Seattle andTa-
ooma, mnch of which is shipped nam
there to Alaska.
HAS NEW SCHEME.
W. S.
U'Ren Would Elect Seta tors by
Drrect Vote.,
Oregon City W. 8. V'Rea, th
father of the Initiative and referen
dum, has a plan to make Statement No.
I nearly ftonclad and to make tba peo
ple of Oregow dominant over tha teg te
la tore and any political party - aa wall.
11a proposes to have a bill enacted into
law nest Jane through tbe initiative by
which candidatee for th legielatore
will be instructed to sign Btalement
5o. 1 ' exactly as it ia written In tbe
law. The members of th legislstars
ar further commanded to vote for tbe
candidate for eeaator who ks tha choice
of tha greatest note ber oi people. .
Mr. C Sen hss been working on soeb
s blil for aeveral weeks and now baa It
drafted and all read torpring. Bs
believea that if th bill beromesalaw
there will ba no question of tbe ne
bers of tbe ktgielatore obeying tha pm-
vtatone it contains.
: Better Train Service Ordered.
Kelem Orders hare bee iaeoed by
the railroad eommiasioa reqairiog the
Southern Pacific company to pat oa a
special train out of Boseborg to make
the ran so Portland whenever north
boond overland axprare train 50. IS is
two hours behind aebedala time of ar
rival at Roaeborg and also to require
the O. &. 4 5. company to run a pas
senger train each way daily betweea
Portland and Pendleton, the east boond
train to leave Portland in tba morning
and tha weet boond to leave Pandkrton
la the morning, . and requiting the
train to atop at each station, aitbar
regularly or by signal, for tha accom
modation, of travel between theee and
intermediate points.
. . Muat Not Invade Rsseree. :
Pendleton In a latter just received
by County Super in teodeot Wells from
J. H. Ackennan, etete aeboot snperio
tendent, tbe hopes oi a public achool
lor white children cn th reaerratioa
are dashed. Sot long since Profeeeor
Wells wrote tbe stats superintendent
if a dietrict might bs eetabliahed npoe
the CsUlia Indian rteervaUon. Be
had been asked to take th mattes ay
by varioue white renters living on the
reservation and who have children of
school aye. However, in hia reply 8a
per in tendent Ackermaa declared the
connty has no right whatever to extend
Its ecboolo to the reeervaUon. '
:: Albany Ship Much FrvH.
Albany Mor than 25 ton of Bart-
let t pears have been shipped oat of Al
bany thia aeeeoti and a few more will
ba sent oat before the shipments are
concluded.' More cherries were sent
out of Albany this season than ares be
fore and, according to tbe amounts al
ready under contract, tba blggeet prune
ahi patent ever made from Oregon will
leave Albany this fall. If the prone
crop eomea up to preeent expectation,
this big shipment will be realised.
Profits Pay for Land.
Jacksonville Ten acres of fruit land
within th corporate limits of Jackson
ville, Oregon, eeet W. I. Mclntyre, s
well known orchard ie of that city, 1,
900 a year ago. This year he will more
than hare paid for the property with
tha proceed ot fruit aold from tbe
tract this season. Mr. Mclntyre ia aa
entbnsiastie fruit grower, who bas
sdopted scientific methods of producing
tbe different vatrietiee of fruit. .
PORTLAND MARKEST. ,
Wheal Club, tie; bluestom, Sic;
vslley, 81c; red, 79.
Oats So. 1 white, izxtHngss; grsy,
Barlev Feed. I3( 13.00 par tse;
brewing, I34-M0Z4.7&; rolled, S40
AIS .60. - . -. . ' ' ;
Corn Whole, 12030 per ton;
cracked, 130.50.
Bay Vslley timothy, So. 1, $17
18 per ton; Eastern Oregon Umothy,
(lt0; clover, 111; cheat, $11; grate
bay, Illlt; alfalfa, 111S.
Batter Fancy creamery, $0035
per poond.
Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 8J8S'e;
115 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 3O0
pooada, 6X$c.
Pork Block, 75 to 150 pooada, SQ
8Se; packet. 7J8c.
Poultry Average old bene, 13grt4e
per pound; mixed ehlckena, 11);
spring chickens, 12013c; old roost
ers, 6Q9c; dressed chickens, 16l?e;
turkeys, live, 15016c; geeee, live, S
c; ducks, 14c -
Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, SS0SOs
per doaan,
Piaita Applea, flll-50 per box;
cantaloupes, $1.25010 per crate;
peaches. 76cXfl per erste; prunee.
ou
a.oc per cmie; waasrmeiaoa, iit
per pound; plums, i0oo per box;
h.i or L. - - - - .A.
ipeara, iocqiiu m iwj -w
fl 60 per crate; Cessnas, si.io par
dO - WO 1 V '
.blTnrnips, $1.25 per sack;
"J" XM bJT.i.sS
.u-mMmMm. iK01c par
pound; celery, J6c0$l per doaen; corn,
XXM p,,. cucumber, 1015e
, ' : ! , . a ...
par wnw , wi iuij.um mw w ,
J . 1 J
paraiv, auv l' uvwru, iwvii .1
($l?!tcper pound; radishes, 20c per
dosen; spinach, 6c per poond; qaash,
5Oc0$l per box; sweet potatoes, 24'e
per poond. ' " , " -.
Onions $StB3.SS per hoadred.
Potatoes Hew, II par hundred
Hope Fngglea, $H07o per poond.
Wool Eaatern Oregon, average beat,
16022c per poond, according to ahrlnk
age; valley, 20A22e, acaording to fine
ness; mohsii, choice, 29030s per
poond. . -.
of New Mexico Urged to
Can Convention.
Santa Fa, Jf. M., Sept. lfl-Dela-gate
Andrew, national committeman,
Lunar H. O. Borsnm, chairman of the
BepnUkaa central committee, ex-Unit.
ed State Attorney Child, Jodg A.
L. Morrison, General John P. Victoria,
a Democrat, Postmscter Walters and
other eitiaen today called upon Gov
ernor Ccury to urge him to call a eon
(titational convention within two
months ao that a constitution may be
drafted, eu omitted and adopted by tha
people before congrta meete after the
holidays, with a plea for admission to
statehood. It is proposed to call to
gether tha delegates elected to draaA
th cooetitation susdex th Joint etme
bood plan a year ago, most of whom
have , aits eased a ilUcgneea to
without compensation.
Governor Curry declared himself Is
hearty accord with this plan and prom
ised to take action after hia return
from a eonsultetion jwitL PreeidVbt
Kooeeveix. .
Within the past few days nearly
every newspaper ia Sew Mexico
come oat in hire of holding a eoustito-
Uocal convection tbw tall and senti
ment for statehood is practically onanl-
CITY BURNED LIKE TINDER.
Particular of Hakodate Fire Show
Destruction Waa Great.
. Victoria, B. C., Sept !. Tbe
steamer Hhawmott, which arrived last
aigbt from Manila via Japan and Cbna
with a cargo oi kesop, tea, silk and
general freight and 40 aslion psaai
gers, Including many naval, military
and civic officers from the Philippiaee,
brought further new of the greet fire
at Hakodate.
It aeeme the big conflagration origin
ated in a soap factory near tbe Higa
shigawa scbool and spread with great
rapidity, aareepiox away hnsdieds of
bamboo bouse. -During tbe firs a pow
der maeasine at Kialiomachie exploded,
Involving much lose ol I He. Jn ail
300 lives wrese lost daring the ton la
gnstioa and 13,000 homes buned, a
strong wind fanning th fire, which
spreed with great rapidity.
All tne foreign consulates, adioinie-
tralive orEoea, banks, company office.
ssbooks, theaters, etc wera barned
with th . axception of th American
ooneulate, coarthooee, railway station
and the enatoms bonae.
One steamer, the Sanaye Man, was
bomed and aank In the harbor.
CEMENT, SI A BARREL.
New Factory In Montana May Become
Boon to NortJtwwet.
Helena, Mont, Sept. 18. Work ba
begun on th eonetroction of a $600,000
cement plant at Three Forks, a town
east of Helena, at the Junction of the
Gallatin, Madison snd Jefferson rivers,
on both the Korthern Pacific ad St.
Paal railwaya. As a reeult of cheap
basic materials, the company proposee
marketing tbe product at $1 a barrel,
as against $4 st preeent.
The plant will have an nltoiaate ca
pacity of 1,000 barrels a day, and will
be tbe largest of ita kind ia this ac
tion ot the Northwest. The company
has s fully subscribed capital of $2,
400,000, and is ssid to have five mile
of limeaton snd silica lands.
Jsnx and Hymns Pingree, of the
Pingree National bank, of Ogden, Ctah,
any at the heed of the enterprkse, while
C. Boettcber, of the Billings sugar fac
tory, I. T. McBride, a Butte lawyer,
snd Joseph Scowcroft, ot Utah,, are the
main factors.
Not Enough Coal at Home.
Sew York, Sept. 16. Th itustion
with regard to ths proposals ieeued by
tbe bareaa ot equipment of the Navy
department for supplying coal for the
battleship . fleet on it voyage to the
Pacific has seenmed rather interesting
shspe here by the statements of several
agents of the larger coal mining con
cerns that tbey would not preeent bids.
Their reaaons ars that they nave not
the necessary quantity of coal on band,
aside from the quantity demanded by
private contracts which have been en
tered into.
Drude Threaten Vengeance.
Pari, Sept. 16. Saltan Mukti el
Haflg, it ia reported, bas announced
that he will pay tbe cost of th French
expedition to Morocco, on condition
that the French evacuate the country.
Only two cotumne of tribesmen at now
reported to be under arma In th Case
Blanca district. Tba latest advice re
ceived from General Tirade said that.
if tbe delegates from the tribee suing
for peace did not appear at noon today,
be would destroy ths Moorish camp.
, Boycott Diehoneat Road.
New York, Sept 18. By the uceo!
a rigid boycott on unscrupulous line
and by the elimination of insidious
preferences to favored ahippers, the
latter declared to be worse than open
rebates, tha railway magnates of the
Esst propose to make a streanoas effort
to reduce the impending fall ear short
age, which admittedly la threatening
the industries of ths entire country.
Oppose AO Expositions.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 16. Senator
E. J. Barkers, who leavea thia evening
for Washington, today declared that
be woold fight the Alaska-Yukon ex
position appropriation In congreea. Be
declared that the exposition at James
town had been a lamentable failure and
ha weald oppose all inch protect In
the tutor. ...
SCORES 0.R.&N. CO.
: cIEclIIcg Sleek.
ILL BARUSAJ IMS ill SZSZT
Intaratat) Commerce Commlaioner
ThMk 8hippor Have Can for
Complaint Against Roada.
Portland, Sept. 17. That tha Ore
gon Railroad & Ksvigation company
not adequately equipped to handle tbe
traffic eotrasted to it, and that it is the
worst offender in this respect la tha
tire territory of tbe 5 orth western lines,
ia the verdict of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, whoae
investigation in Portland yesterday in
cluded a look Into the ear shortage. Be
found the outlook very gloomy ia thia
State. He talked with lumbermen and
other shippers daring the day, and ex
preeeed himself freely on this sobjeet
et night.
"The car situation is very serious.
mid ba. "Shipper have a legitimate
cause for complaint at their inability
to get equipment. The railroad n
themselves admit they are unable to
handle the trams offered. Tbe O. K.
Ac K. aeeme to be the worst road in thia
territory aa far as car snpply goes..
"There la aome complaint of discrim
ination in . tbe matter of eara. It ia
charged that the eastern end of tbe sys
tem is favored aa against thia end,
Then ks no way to remedy this, except
for the roads to get a larger number of
cars. Vt course tne question la auu
oosolved whether the O. K. 5. is
using all ita equipment to tbe beat- ad
vantage, bat there is no doubt that for
ao originating road, it has too little
equipment.
"Tbe northern Pacific last year pot
into stmce four times aa many n
a aa tbe O.E.1S. own today.
The O. R. 4 5. had on ita line in June
of this year about 5,421 cars, of which
4,900 were borrowed and 600 ita ow
The Oregon Short line owns 7,000 cars
and had in Jane approximately that
number on ita tracks. Tbe O. S. 4 '
baa 500 cars ordered, and tba Oregon
Short Line 600.
"Tbe managers have on the Southern
Pacific system a car pool, by which cars
owned by any of the Harriman linee
are treated as at home, no matter on
which of the allied lines they are, bat
there is a strong rivalry between all
parts of th sysm to make a showing,
ao that tha O. E. t S., which ia the
worst off for cars of any road in this
territory, bas a difficult time of its
own, owing to its short equipment, in
keeping within seeing distance of its
business." -
DOORS THROWN OPEN.
Canada
WiH Not Restrict
Japanese
Immigration.
Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 17. Thirty-
eight thousand JapaneM hive been
given pertmaeion by the government to
come immediately to British Cotumbia.
They will crore tbe Pacific as rapidly
aa steamer can be secured to bring
tbem. . The news that Vancouver will
an immigration hitherto unprece
dented waa received today by the
steamer Woolwich, which brought 230
of the brown men. The steamer In
diana is overdue now bom Honolulu
with 300. Beet informed eircles de
clare that tbe Dominion government
will do nothing at all to prevent the
farther influx of Japanese despite the
protest of Vancouver. .
The demand for labor ie so great in
the interior of British Columbia and
on the prairies of the North west that
ss many Japs aa wish to come will be
allowed. On tbe other hand, official
statements come from Ottawa that
Premier Leaner and Delegate Ishii will
confer tomorrow and arrange a nominal
limit. Nobody in Vancouver believes
that even if thia is declared it will be
adhered to.
There was no demonstration today
on tbe arrival of tbe Japanese on the
steamer Woolwich.
Moors Have Had Enough.
Casa Blanca, Sept. 17. With the
snbrnisaion of all th tribes, which now
seems practically aesursd, it would ap
pear today that the mteson when, took
General Drode into Morocco has been
fully accomplished. Persona acquainted
with the country declare that ths move
ment of tbe tribesmen is over. Tbey
ara essentially agriculturists and tbey
are in a harry to return to their fields
for their first rains. It is understood
thai when absolute calm kt re-eaTab-liebed
ber th troop will be distrib
uted to eight sesports.
Reduce Rate OnC'Third. .
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 17. Th state
board of railioad commissioners has
prepared a tariff sheet providing a re
duction in freight rates of about 33
per cent, which it will present to the
legislature If a special section is called,
(jorerooc Hoch has practically (aid ha
will call a special session if the roads
do not grant the two-eeot far rate.
This put the quest ion aqua rely up to
tbe railroads ot either granting the
two-cent far or of facing a right
Russian Emigrate to Siberia. '
St. Petersburg, Sept. 17. A tele
gram receiwd her bom Riaan says
that 51,000 emigrants bar passed
through there since the beginning of
the year, bound for Sibeiia.
NEW RIOT AMONG CARMEN.
San Franclec Poftce Are Accused af
Snooting at Strikabrsaksr.
San Francisco, Sept. IS. Another
scene of riot waa enacted at the Twenty
fourth and Ctah streets carbarn bast
night, following tba arrest of William
A. Brace, a nonunion carman, oa com.
plaint of two young women that be bad
annoyed tbem by a remark as they
pa mad. Bruce resisted arrest snd wsa
severely clubbed. . The police sllega
that they were thereupon attacked by
numbers of nonunion men. A riot
aqoad ot 25 patrolmen under Lieuten
ant Tobin came op and in a fight a
eeore of heads wer broken by dab
of the police and a number of arrests
wer mad. Eventually the nonunion
men were driven back into the car
be res. Ths polios ray that tha carman
who started the row ia an ex-con riot.
- Mayor Taylor baa increased th
MiasioB petrel by 22 men, in accord.
sue with his promise of . yesterday.
Th picket' tent at Twenty-fourth and
Potrero streets, s block bom th com
pany's bam. Is to b removed. It baa
been a headquarters for trouble for
weeks past. :
Tbe Chronicle commenting upon the
farioo rioting in the Mission district,
when fir won anion car operatives ba
the employ of th United Jteilroads
wer (hot by onion picket and police
men, charge flatly that the polk axo
baahed tbe nonunion men and towght
against them side by side with their
union tormentors. The Chroniet
points oa that the patrolmen Wade,
B5gelow and Miller who shot down
the earmeo, wer appointed to tha po
lice force from the teamsters and car
men's onions soon atter th commence
ment of th streetcar strike, when a
Union Labor police commieeion and a
crooked chief of polio wire la conteoL
LAND HINDUS AT VICTORIA.
Monteagla Turn Back. Fearing
Vte-
at Vancouver. .
Ottawa, Ont- Sept. 13-Advfese
from Vaneowver state that the mayor of
Vancouver baa warned tha captain of
th steamer Monteagle, which baa on
board 114 Japs nose, 149 Chines and
941 Bindos, dnstined for this port, that
be would be enable to guarantee a safe
tding bare, be causa th iiiilisimt
have expressed their deteiminaUco to
resist th immigration of any mors)
Asiatic borer. Ths steamship aa-
thoritiea feared to sseums tbe risk and
the vessel bas been turned back to
Victoria, where the Asiatics will be
landed.
Vancouver1 ia reported a bin eouv-
parasively quiet, but aa outran by two
Chinamen yesterday has again inflaxaed
the people. Tbe Mongolians, white
panting along one ot the mala sir neat,
r a white baby Bitting oa tbe door
step. They snatched It op and threw
it into th middle of the etreet, which
waa busy with traffic. It fell among
the horses' feet and narrowly saeaped
death Beyond being bruieed it waa
not mnch the won. An angry crowd
started ia pursuit. Tbe Chinees had a
good start and escaped. Tba fact that
no arrest have been made bas not
tended to alky the temper of th peo-pl-
CHARGES AGAINST RUICK.
Said to Have Forced Grand Jury te
Indict Borah.,.,, .v..,.....
Boiaa, Idaho, Sept. 13. Judge Diet
rich in th Federal court ' yesterday ia
sued an .order for a special grand jury
to appear on Thursday, September 19.
Tbe order waa issued at ths instance of
Jodg M. C. Borch, special assistant
attorney general of the United States,
who is here for the purpose of inquir.
ing into rust ten in connection with th
Idaho land fiais.
It ia understood here that th order
waa really th result of a plea in abate
ment filed by the attorneys for Frank
Martin, one of the men indicted with
Senator Borah and other, which plea
makes serious and sensational charges
of misconduct on the part of United
States Attorney Enick.
Theee charges sre that Raick need
force and coercion In securing ths tn-
dtctmenta of Borah and his fellow de
fendants, and are supported by the affi
davits of three of the grand iurrmen
Hoch'a Figtibna; Blood ks Up.
Topeka, Sept. 13. Kansas pclitt-
ciana ars strongly of th opinion that
Governor Hoch will call a special see
si on of th legislature if th railroads
persist La their determine Hon to ignore
tbe 2 -cent far order. Tbe governor
i not been notified of the action of
th road except through the newspa
pers. Be declares that Kansas - will
have a 2 -cent fsrs rat or it will ba
cancelled in the statea around her.- A
conference wss held by Governor Hoch,
Attorney General Jackson and ths at
torney for the railroad commieeion.
Says Laurter WIB Settle It.
Tokio, Sept. 13. The Hothl, which
ia the most outspoken newspaper
ber ia regard to the recant Japanese
difficulties ia Sao Francisco, la aa edi
torial thia evening says: "Th trouble
ia Vancouver appears to bs over, and
wsa confined to one city. Japaa caa
safely leave her Intereata in the hands
of Premier Lauritr, who always baa
been friendly. There ia no reason why
the people should feel uneasy over th
outcome."
Ne Hope for Arbitration. '
Th Hasnr. Sept. 13. The belief la
rapidly growing among th delegate to
the international peace conference that
there ia no hope for a permanent arbi
tration ooort, owing to the German op
position. Tba delegates are greatly
dieeoaraged, although the kaiser's op
position to the pk ba long been inti
mated. .
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