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THE OREGON MIST ""VOL. XX VIII. """"" '- :-rrr-u , ' - . ST.-IIKLKNH, OIIEGOX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1909. NO. 45. ir EVENTS OF THE DA Newsy Items Gathered from Ai Parts of the World. PREPARED fOR THE BUST READER Lii Important but Not La Inter Ming Happening (rem Points Outald tho Stat. Mors arthjuaka arc predicted fur Spanish troop hav ' burned many Mixrl.b village. A Freneh aviator haa established now record In Germany. A llixlon brlda weigh 210 pound and stands 0 11 on high. SI children ware bewjly Injured In hoot Ore at Jeraey Cite, N. J. Harvard unlveralty haa Chinee ihlvta who la looking fur honor. A Sao .Kranelsco highwayman baa bern nlncd to 60 year la the pent' tontiary. The twelfth annual ronventlon of the American mining eoogr la In teuton at ColdOeld, Mev. Mayor Calvin, of Cincinnati, baa tabllahed "kicking day," when all complaint are to be beard by the city offleiala. George P. Har, of the Reading com pany, aaya there la no combine among (! anlhiaelte coal eompanl of Penn sylvania. Three mlnera were burled by rave- In In a UokMeld, Nev., mine. The (ihyaleiana attending Judg Wil liame are hopeful of hie recovery. A big fight U on In Mlaeourl between toe hrewerie and prohibition!!. A r'renrh army dirigible balloon tili.tml In the air and four aviator wore killed. The Omaha etreetrarr company will make conreeeltma to It men and let (I. rntnl la likely. Ileaae la breaking out In the die trlrt oVnoeded by the hurricane along the IMiiaUna coaat and mora death ara e I petted. lUjxiM from Morocco aay the tribe. mn liave Inflicted tembio defeat upon the Spanish, driving them back and killing 7.000. An American company will be awarded the contract over a Ilrltlab concern far fumlehing the machinery fur obstructing email ax ma factory In Australia. Hunger among the Moor haa led to overture for peace. A Colorado man 78 year old la to remarry (he wife be divorced 60 year ego. Moro piratr are .thought to have raptured an American cutter and mur dered the crew. 1'oUce of Omaha are buay In their elTorla to prevent riot In connection with the streetrer etrkk. Several Engltah euffragvttea In Jail In London have refused to eat and had to be fad with atumecn pump. Kaatern railroad establ'shed cheap excursion rate from the Middle Wet to the Atlantis tbl cummer with good result. Clarence II. Maekay aay the report that tha I'oatal Telegraph company I about ot abaorb the Weetern Union I unfounded. Tha Wrlgiit brother rtoUrta fight against aeveral flying machine hlch they conelder Infringement on their patent. The late Governor Johnsono, of Min ne.ot left no will, but It waa hia wih that hi wif ahould have all bla prop erty, worth about $18,000 General Solicitor Loomle, of the Union I'acifle, with headquarter at Omaha, la to go to New York to be come head of tha legal department of the Ilarriman line. French Inventor bava aeveral new asroplanea. Th death loaa In tha Gulf atorm la now placed at 100. Peary aaya hi Indictment of Cook will contain 80 count. KoIIrIou riot at Caetro, Spain, r tulted In tha death of a prieet An Iowa grand Jury haa Indicted 85 vnen for e '"-" CLASHtS WITH GOVERNMENT. .....una. ,roopi May Be Called To oein Qaorgi Trouble. ntere.led In the serious claal, now on r r.T , . lw m Kwl.Tal au. horllia In the rae of Charlea E. Steir in jan at Trenton, Ga., for con. Zi'V.r 0Url 0,u,r JuttK A n. cue, oi me Uade counlv Kii.u.,1... . iniKKHII r.IIM,ll III l..t,fu I.. II . .. . I . " aranu lurv in ri.r.rn. i.. . .11 J J ...... - - .v. "Km uKiniory. Over BteiiKill Uie biltereat legal in uie maiory or (he aute baa --n iirecipiuuKi, with both aidi con ndent and (landing pat Should the State Court tiartfUl In ll. attitude of deflance to the mandate of uie reuerai court, the chance are that moat IntereatliiK development will come U pae thla week, which will re ult In the arreit of aeveral othor oin. clala. It la bvlleved here thut tha V.A eral court will carry lu point, even If obliged to make a direct appeal to the viiiieu niaiea government to enforce I order. Therefore, in the aottle. mem oi uii aitnite, national troopa m7 iibtb io lie ueea. The acute altuation In Dade count aroae over an effort to secure evldxnce man alleged blind tiger caae. The people of Da le county, near Idling Kawn, have believed a distlllrrv ha been located In that neighborhood for aome lime, and that It haa paid the itovemment llcenae to aecure immunity from Feileral raid. In order to set the neceeeary evidence, the grand Jury summoned before that body Charlea Stfggall, alorekeeper and government gaua-er. Hteggall then communicated with tha collector of Internal revenue. II. A. Itucker, asking him what he should do In the matter. Kucker wired him that under the government rules, ha would bava to keep quirt. This la the outcome of a government statute, under th revlacd laws, by which government employes are (labia to lose of position, fine and imprisonment, if they divulge Informa tion aecured In their official capacity. Bteggail promptly Informed the grand Jury that be could not answer the quest ion put to him, and gave the gov ernment rule a hla reason. Hi re- fuval brought the matter to the atten tion of Judge Kite, who ordered him to answer. Three time he was sent for and three time refused to answer, and then he u sent to jail. II mad appeal to the Federal au thorllle In Atlanta for protect on. A the government cannot afford to allow It employe to be kept In prison for obedience to government rule, the federal official determined to atand by Staggall. Before they could take action, how. ver, Judge Kit held that Kucker had Interferred with th conduct of hi court by ordering Steggall not to speak, and so he sent Sheriff Thurman of Dade, to Atlanta, to serve summon on Kucker to appear in hia court CANADA WANTS ASIATICS. STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST Hallroad Contractor a Facing Serious Labor Famine. Ottawa, Out, Sept 2S.Th Cana dian railway are fare to fare with I labor famine, am) unleea a plan can be devised whereby Asiatic labor may be mported for conatrurtion work, much f their railroad building will have to be abandoned. Thla ia the opinion ex. pressed by Collingwood Schrirber, con suiting engineer of the department of railway. On the Western prairie the demand for faim laborers haa temporarily de moralised th railway construction gang, the Urand t runk recinc roan beine? eenecl ly hard hit This road ha been able to retain only a small percentage of it laborers employed on construction work, the farmer in that section having offered as high a $4 a day for men while Uie railroad company pay but 13. In the next two year, tour new con tract are to be let for conatrurtion work, and Zft.OOO men will be needed. Sir Charlea Hiver Wilson, president of th Grand Trunk system, haa been here consulting Sir Wilfred Laurier upon a proposal to employ Asiatic labor in building new llnea. u is proposed to bring the Aslatlra to lanaua ana re turn them to their native countries fter th work haa been completed. Taw Changes In Minnesota. St. Paul. Sept 28. Few changee ara liable to be made Immediately in the administration of the affair of the stat of Minnesota, uovernor r.oer- tart say lis will contnlue to carry on far as pouie me poncius oi m lata Governor Johnson. Many of th l)mocrtlc governor appoint were Kepubllcan. and they may hold over. Som of th Johnson men nave saio it,. t iIiav would reslirn. So far, how- WILD FRUIT QOOO. Old Orchards In Coast Rang Without Cara Give Fine Result. Cottage Grove Lincoln Taylor, who recently returned from an outing in the coast mountain, saya he found a great many vacated homea throughout the section visited by him and th or chards, planted year ago by tha home teadere, have gone wild and the fruit la to b found in great abundance. Hear, coon and other fruit eating animals have Infested th orchard in many place and th limb have been badly broken, bvt that has not affected the bearing quality of th trees. Mr. Taylor saya there Is rarely a rase of scale or other disease to be found on any of the trees, and the cod lin moth ia not in evidence. This Is splendid evidence in favor of th entire coast rang aa fruit producing sections. Henry H. Veatch too, while on a bunting trip on Cedar creek, about eight milea from Cottage Grove, came upon a splendid orchard that bad been entirely taken by the Or timber. He brought out fair aamplet of the apple, which surpasa anything to be found on the lower levela In sixe, color and aro matic excellence. The fruit rraembiea the Gravenstein quite strongly, but is mora highly colored and measures more than 10 Inches in circumference. On th William Lawless ranch. Just east of town, there is a fine Crawford peach orchard in the fir timber which ia heavily laden with beautiful fruit BIG ORCHAROS PLANTED. Benton County Farmers Going In for Apple Cullure. Corvallla The Weetern Oregon Fruit company, of which Judge Borth and J. W. Polk, of GranU Paaa, are the principal (tockbolder. will begin planting 1,000 acre to apples and pear October 1. Tbia company baa purchased 1,700 acres near Monroe. Denton county, cornea into possession October 1 and expects to plant fully 1.000 acre thla fall. The Oregon Apple company will also begin planting at th earliest date pos sible. This company owns 800 acree south of Corvallla and ha ordered tree to plant 600 acres to applea and pear at once. Thia company owna some of th sightliest land in Benton county. The Willamette Orchard eompany. which recently purchased th famous Samuel Wyatt farm, two mile weat of Corvalli. ia preparing to plant 125 acre thla fall. Mayor Virgil E. , Wattes, who put 40 acre of th Pleasant View fruit farm to apple thia spring, will add 20 acres thia fall. Ther hav been mny small acre- aires set to fruit this year and it ia expected that fully 2.000 acrea or new orchard will be set out In Benton county by January 1. Work on Branch to Begin. Albany J. B. Eddy, right of way airent of tha Southern Pacific, etetea that work will begin on tha Lebanon- Crabtre branch next week. He waa in Albany en route to Portland from Ibanon where he ha completed se curing right of wy for thi branch. It will be eight mile long and connect th north and south ends of th Wood-burn-Springneld line, not now operated because of the wrecked bridge across th South Santiam. ROGUE VALLEY LAND SOLD. Eastern Capitalists Invsst In Larte Fruit Tract. Roseburg Three large realty deala were consummated in Roseburg last week. The first was the Henry Riden our farm, aix milea west of this city, comprising 814 acres, which waa sold to John Busenbark, of Kansas, for 140,000. Tha second waa 100 acre at Dixonville, to C. J. Sloven, of Virgin ia, the consideration not being mad public. Tba third was what ia known a the old Booth place, In Garden val ley, and comprise 320 acrea. th con sideration being 125,000 Th buyer are the Overland Fruit & Development company, of Boston, Mass. The purchase by: the Boston company was made by its treasurer and general manager, Charlea A. Brand. The company will act the entire tract out in apple and pear and will con duct the orchard themselves. Mr. Brand decided upon the purchase after inspection of the fruit landa of Wash ington and the district of Rogu river nd Hood Kiver, being satisfied that his present location ia the best for tbe varietiea of fruit the company interds to raise. Albany Needs Mor House. Albany -The Albany Commercial club has Invited all the people or Al bany to an open meeting to be held in the roome of the Commercial club to consider number of questions which have been under discussion in the ex ecutive board of tha club. One pur pose of th meeting is to arouse the in terest of local capital in tha erection of flats for renting purposes, as the de mand for house for rent has lar ex ceeded tho supply for the pat year. Potatoes Success as Fallow Crop. Weston Tha Weston mountain coun try ia demonstrating its fertility by .Ttra pood crona this year, ground used last year for potatoea ia proving especially productive, showing that the tubers are a gooa aummer lauow. Li bert Gould had 84 bushel oi oariey per acre from 20 acrea of "potato ground," and from five acres or similar ground J. E. Walden had the remark able average of 116 bushel of oata. Hophouse and Crop Burns. Woodburn The Kendall hophouse. east of Woodburn, ournea ib wf together with 14,000 pounas oi im. ear a hop, wnicn naa oeon cwiu.- i at 9 cent. Th building wa ownea y Frank Kendall an1 rented ny t.ee iendall. Th cause of th fire ia un- nown. The building and conienu ere insured In th Hopgrowera ire hsuranc company. Cove Fruit Goes Etst. Cove SUckland Bro., probably the .rgest fruitraiser in the brand onde valley, ar shipping mixed fruits i th Eastern marKew. nums, ar, crabapples and apple ar in aeon and full crew ia at work in eo rchrd. Two car wer shipped at week and two mora hav been rwarded this wek. Imports Fin Chickens. Milton B. F. Willlama his received ! thoroughbred young chickens of the iff Plymouth Rock vrlety from St. Wis. Mr. William will end om ' his poultry to th A.-V.-P. how at jattle. Cooa Haa Another Lin. Marshfteld Tbe Coo Bay Electric Railway company ha just been incor porated, with a capital stock of $l,- 600.000. Tbe Incorporator ar James H. Flanagan, W. S. Chandler and F. C. McCollom. Tboae connected with the movement aay their plana ar not sufficiently developed to make any statement of the purpose of the com pany. Mr. Flanagan is a local banker and Mr. Chandler ia a San Franciscan interested extensively in Coo bay. Sand Display East. Hood Kiver Hood Kiver la prepar ing a display or fruit at the National Irrigation eongre to be held in Chi-1 cago in November. Tbe Hood River Anple Grower' union expect to Bend a ear of th finest spple to th great ahow. Thomas Persons ia in Hood River taking scene of the apple in dustry with a moving picture camera. Thee will be used in connection with the diaplsy of fruit THE CENSU8 POSITIONS. Will Irrigate Orchard Land. Cottage Grove S. T. Kelson ha sold hia 875-acre farm to John Spray for f 16,000 cash. Mr. Spray propose to place the ranch under irrigation. The land will be worth from (100 to I2O0 an acre as soon as water is on It and the increase is large, as the or chards Increase in aixe. There ar 27S acrea which can be irrigated, all of which ia bottom land. Appointment Clark Pindell Explain Method of Application. Washington, Sept. 24. Appoint ment Clerk Pindell, of th U. S. Cen u bureau, state on th aubject of the census examination, October 23d, that the distinction between th perm anent census force and tha additional temporary employe provided by th Thirteenth Census act I quite import ant and should be remembered. A vacancies occur on tha permanent cen sus they will be filled, a heretofore, by tranafera from elsewhere in the service, or by selections from the ex isting register of the civil service commission. Persons now on tha register of the commission are, therefore, eligible for appointment to vacancies on the perm anent census roll, but there is no great er opportunity during the decennial pe riod for such appointments than there haa been heretofore. Th additional temporary positions, authorized by the Thirteenth Census act, except those above $1,200 per annum which will be filled largely by transfer from the permanent cemu roll, will be given to tho person who pasa th test exam ination on October 23rd. Tboae now on tbe registers or the civil ervic commission, who desire appointment to these additional census places, should take tbe teat examination aa their pres ent eligibility availa them nothing in respect to appointment to the poai lion, l be fact that a person ia on tne civil service register doe not pre vent him from taking thia test exam ination. Blank application forma and the cir cular of instructions were ready for distribution by September 10th. Aa soon aa the applicant completes his ap plication in every respect, it should be addressed and forwarded to the U. Civil Service commission, Washington, O. C, and not to the census bureau. Lar should be taken that th enve lope containing the application ia prop erly addressed and sufficient postage stamps are affixed. If tbe application i satisfactory a card will be mailed the applicant and it will admit him to tbe examination. An application must be filed in sufficient time to arrange for tha examination at the place selected. No request will be granted for an ex. amination otherwise than aa acheduled for the cities and states on October 23rd. TAFT STARTS WATER. j Jas. Muckle & Son I Jit I z an Successors to Dart & Muckle ST. HELENS Carry a Complete Line of the Best in General Merchandise at Lowest Prices Con sistent with Quality. Country Produce Bought and Sold. When in Need of Gro- ceriesj Dry Goods, Hardware, Boots and Shoes We Solicit Your Patronage and ' As sure You Courteous Treatment. Prompt Delivery. iU 1. 1' i 1 I i tr a nr we win & 3 LOAN You money. RENT You a lock Box. SELL You real estate or farm land SURVEY Your lots or land. INSURE Your buildings. MAKE Your abstracts. SELL Your property. DO Your notarial work. LOAN Your money. COLUHBIA COUNTY ABSTRACT AND TRUST COMPANY M " OCR 3 3 3 3 Will Reprasant Oregon. Salem Delegate to the annual con vention of the Miisissipi to the Atlan tic Inland Waterways association to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., November 17 and 18, have been announced by the governor aa follows: E. w. spencer. of Portland; John Fox, of Astoria; W. J. Mariner, of Blalocks; J. T. Peters. of The Dalles, and O. B. Hinsdale, of Gardiner. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Bluestem, 96c; club, 89c; red Russian, S6.c; valley. 91c; Fife, 89c; Turkey red, 89c; fortyfold, 91c. Barley Feed. I25.6026; brewing, $26.C0(ii,:27 per ton. OataNo. 1 white, 27(f27.50 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette vallev. 1 8f 16 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18 (il9; alfalfa. $14; clover, $14; cheat, $I3fiU4.50; grain hay, $15f.16. Butter City creamery, extras, 86; fancy outside creamery, 33ftf36c; atore, 22C Butter fat prices average lite per pound under regular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 32(i 32 He per doien. Poultry Hens, 16(3T6c; springs, 15H((16c; roosters, OftilOc; ducks, young, 1516c; geese, young, 10Dllc; turkeys, 20c; squab, $1.752 per doxen. Pork Fancy, 9(i 9 c per pound. Veal Extra, 10(il0c per pound. Fruits Apple, $1.26(ci 1.76 per box ; pears, 76c(i.ou; peacnea, H(ii.zo per crate; cantaloupes, 60cC'f$l 25; plums, 25(it Silc per box ; watermelons, lc per pound; grapes, 86c(f$1.25 per crate; 25Cio0c per basket; casabas, $1.50(1(1.75; quinces, $lfti'1.75 per box; huckleberries, 10c per pound. Potatoia 60(if70c per Back; aweet potatoes, 2c per pound. Onion $1.25 per ck. Vegetables Bean, 4 (a 5c per pound ; cabbage, l((('lt4'c; cauliflower, 60c(jr$l per doxen; celery, 50(?f!75c; corn, 16(iJ 20c; cucumber, 10((i:25c; peas, 7c per pound; peppers, 4(cEc; pumpkin, (die; squash, 6c; tomatoes, 50(i;60c per box. Hops 1909 crop, 2223c offered; 1908 crop, 17c; 1907 crop, 12c; 1906 crop, 8c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1623c per pound; valley, 22(Vi24c; mohair, choice, 24c. Cattle Steers, top quality, $4 25(3 4.60; fair to good, $4; common, $3.60 (ii S.76; cows, top, $3.60; fair to good, $3(i?3.25; common to medium, $2.50 2.76; calves, top, $5(Ti)5.50; heavy, $3.604; bulla, $22.26; stags, $2.60 3.60. Hogs Beat, $8; fair to good, $7.76 (if 7.85; stockers, $6(o)7; China fata, $7.50(n!8. Sheep Top wether, $4(5:4.25; fair to good, $3.603.75; owes, X cent leas on all grades; yearlings, best, $4 f4.25; fair to good, $35.0g3.75; spring lamb, $5.255.50. Opens Galea to Famous Gunnison Tunnel in Colorado. Montroee, Colo., Sept 24. Preai dent Taft apent yesterday on the. west ern slope of the Rocky mountain amid a succession of magnificent scenes. In many respect hi day waa one of the most interesting be haa had amce leav ing Boston.- Late in the afternoon Mr. Taft stood on the brink of the deepest irrigation ditch in the West and far out in the foo bill of the mountains, with not settlement in sight, made the elec trical connection that started a flow of water through the Gunnison tunnel that will reclaim 140,000 acres of arid land. The greatest irrigation project the United State government ever has undertaken waa thus put in operation and the opening was the occasion! of a joyous celebration throughout the valley of the Uncompahgre. During his travels yesterday the President had ample opportunity to study the effect of irrigation. For a long time hia train ran through stretch es of country where as far as the eye could reach the only vegetation n sight consisted of a few greaaewood bushes or sagebrush. The i out of a rocky canyon the train would suddenly come upon a veritable oasis, where fields of alfalfa and mile of orchard told of the miracle wrought by the touch of water. The tunnel has been hewn through aix milea of a mounntain range and when the project i completed next spring it will divert the waters of the Gunnison river, now flowing to the Gulf of California, to the valley on thi side of the mountains, where minor private projects of irrigation already have told the wonder of th soil. Big Timber Deal. Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 24. A large timber deal whereby A. B. Kurts, of New York, president of the American Financial Securities company, acquires 64,000 acres of timber land in the Cowichan lake country, was practical ly consummated today. The purchase price waa in the neighborhood of $1, 600,000, ami the - new owner are to spend $500,000 mor in the develop ment of the property by th erection of a sawmill and the laying of spur tracks. The Canadian Pacific railroad will build a branch lin to tidewater. Reyes Goes to Europe. Monterey, Mexico, Sept. 27. Fol lowing the resignation of General Ber nardo Reyes from th presidency of the local casino, it I rumored her that General Reyes ia preparing to leave Mexico and to take up hia residence in Europe. Much color is lent to tbe re ports due to th fact that th horn of General Reyes, valued at $90,000, . I for sal. It i not believed that Reyes haa intentiona of leaving Mexico until after tha election. 71 viiiiUiUlUiUlltiUUliUiUiUliiiUIUiaiUiUiUiUiUittt aj i airv ejp vsv ?w wrw aww vw w ) W Jrw arvw wai vM ww ww aarr arw v JOB PRINTING 18 OUR BU8INE88 WE hare the best and most folly equipped Job Print ing Office in Colombia County 1 And we are prepared to do all kinds of Printini on short notice and at most reasonable prices A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE OREGON MIST v w-vvv v-vvv vvvv -vyv vvvvevvj COLUMBIA COUNTY BANK DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS I Portland, Ore, Portland, Ore. New York First National Bank, U. S. National Bank, Hanover National Bank, Officers Wm. M. Ross, President and Cashier, Edwin Ross, Vice President; A. h. Mone, Assistant Casnier. Directors Wm. M. Ross, M. White, James Dart, Edwin Ross. sagaaassaasassgagaagaaa Frederick Grant for President Chicago, Sept. 4. Major General Frederick Dent Grant, son of th fam ous leader of th Ui.ion forces during the Civil war, is being boomed aa tha presidential candidate of the Prohibi tion party in 1912, by membera of th organization who ar assembling in thi ci ty to celebrate the fortieth annl versary of th birth of the party. Ladies' and Children's TRIMMED HATS In All Shapes Summer wear for infants, wash dresses just received select line of Waists and Summer Goods of every description. All the latest styles in blacks and tan shoes and stockings Ladies' in latest ready made styles. A H. MORGUS ST. HELENS ixaat