VOL.
COXJN'
II
OREGON
PUBLISH CONTRIBUTIONS.
Taft and ’Bryan Favor Passage
Such a Law by Congress.
In a Condensed Form lor Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has been arrested
at Pittsburg.
Chester, Pa., is having trouble with
street car men.
Two cruisers and five torpedo boats
have left San Francisco for Portland.
A company of militia is to be organ
ized at Honolulu, the first for the isl
ands.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, will go to
the democratic national convention as
a delegate.
Two Utah mining companies are
fighting over a silver mine said to be
worth $1,450,000.
i Senator Foraker is favoring Roose
velt for another term, as he dislikes
him less than Taft.
A man has just been arrested in
Michigan for a murdt committed in
Colorado 15 years ago.
An ex-member of the United States
secret service is in trouble at Flagstaff,
Arizona, for trying to extort money.
The troops of th? pretender to the
Morocco throne have looted all the gov
ernment buildings and houses of the
sultan.
While preparations were in progress
for the funeral of a Kansas City man,
the supposed corpse sat up and asked
for a dyink.
Mrs. Harry Thaw has withdrawn her
suit for divorce. It is thought this is a
move to gain control of any property
he may have.
Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt has secured
a divorce.
President Fallieres, of France, is
visiting King Edward.
A Seattle woman sent her
_ daugh-
„
ter for a doctor and then i-ommitted
suicide.
W. T. Hamilton, the last living of
General Custer s scouts, has just died
at Butte, Mont.
The Presbyterian general assembly
■will seek a closer union of the Pres
byterian churches.
Thaw has been declared still insane,
but he will try to avoid returning to
the Matteawan asylum.
Senator Slayden, of Texas, is op
posed to the Seattle fair and says the
country is tiring of expositions.
There ii a desperate effort in con
gress to pass a currency bill by hold
ing up the public building bill.
Fully a quarter of a million men
employed in English shipbuilding
yards ljave accepted a cut in wages.
More than 100 government meat in
spectors held a conference in Chicago
on the enforcement of the new meat
inspection law.
The Oklahoma legislature
has
passed a law which provides for a
penitentiary term for any employer
who refuses work to a man because
he is a member of a union. Pinkerton
detectives are also barred from the
state.
Peter Daly, the actor, is dead.
Good progress is being made on the
Seattle fair buildings.
The Northern Baptist convention
for 1909 will meet in Portland.
A statue of the late Senator Hanna
has just been unveiled at Cleveland,
Ohio.
Eastern railroads will resist the In
terstate Commerce Commission’s rates
for accounting.
Thousands of people are swarming
to the Puget Sound cities to see the
Atlantic battleship fleet.
A HoboTten, N. J., justice of the
peace says he married Anna Gould
and Prince de Sagan before they left
for Europe.
The airship White Wing, built by
Baldwin, is making successful flights
in New York. Baldwin was the in
ventor of the airship at the Lewis and
Clark fair.
A Chicago woman brought back to
life after being pronounced dead is
sorry she was revived She says her
soul traversed a beautiful country in
spirit land.
Crop failures in British East Africa
is causing much loss of life among
the natives. More than 40.000 deaths
have been caused by starvation and
the government is feeding 50,000
people.
Rishops in the Methodist general con
ference passed the lie.
France may have to recognize Mulai
Hafid as sultan cf Morocco.
The late Governor Sparks, of Neva
da. was a great cattle breeder.
Before the battleship fleet leaves for
the Orient it will be reorganized.
Inability to get a board of arbitration
is continuing the street car strike at
Cleveland, Ohio.
1908.
MARK PACKAGES IN FULL.
of
Railroads Put Additional Burdens on
Small Shippers.
Washington, May 26.—The first big
sensation of the presidential campaign
came today when William Jennings
Bryan sent a telegram to William How
ard Taft suggesting that thev join ill*
urging congress to pass a bill mak-ng
compulsory the publication of campaign
contributions.
This move byI Bryan is looked upon
as one of great wisdom by the demo
cratic leaders, who say it shows his
sincere determination to conduct his
campaign without the aid of great cor
porate influence.
Bryan's message reads as follows :
"Hon. William Howard Taft, secretary
of war, Washington:
"I beg to suggest that as the leading
candidates of our respective parties, we
join in asking congress to pass the bill
requiring the publication of campaign
contributions prior to elections. If you
think best we can ask other candidates
to unite with us in the request.
"W. J. BRYAN.”
Secretarf Taft replied to William J
Bryan’s telegram, suggesting that they
unite in asking Congress to pass a bill
providing for the publication of cam
paign contributions, as follows :
“William J. Bryan: Your telegram
received. On April 3(1, last. I sent the
following letter to Senator Burrows,
chairman of the committee on privileges
and elections :
“ T sincerely believe that it would
gieatly tend toward the absence of cor
ruption from politics if all the expendi
tures for the nominations and elections
of all candidates and all conti ibutions
received and expenditures made by po
litical committees could be made public,
both in respect to state and national
politics. For that reason, I strongly fa
vor the passage of the bill now pend
ing.”
_________________
Chicago, May 26.—Besides deter
mining to increase freight rates 10 per
cent, the railroads in the "official clas
sification” territory have agreed to
add considerably to the burdens of the
shippers of package freight. At the
same meeting at which the rate in-
creases were decided upon, the repre
sentatives of more than 400 railroads
agreed that after July 1 they will not
receive for shipment any packages in
less than carload lots which are not
marked plainly with the name of the
consignee, the station and state of
consignee, the station, city and state
of destination.
It is estimated that this action will
save the railroads in the territory east
of the Mississippi River and north of
the Ohio River to the seaboard, at
least $2,000.000 annually in loss and
damage claims. On the other hand, it
will cost the shippers of package
freight probably as much, or even
more, to perform the actual work re
quired in marking the shipments as
prescribed by the railroads.
It is
also stated by the shippers that it will
make impossible any secrecy regard
ing the identity of the customers of
any business house.
On the contrary, any business house
may, after the new rules go into ef
fect, station men at railroad ware
houses and learn in detail all about
the shipments of competitors, to
whom shipped and in what amounts.
That this will have a tremendous ef
fect upon this class of business is con
fidently asserted.
It has been the custom of ’he ship
pers to mark their packages with an
initial or some hieroglyphic, the key
to which is to be found on the bill of
lading
It was the theory that this
would save the time and labor of the
shipper and throw a certain amount
of secrecy around the conduct of his
business.
OKLAHOMA FLOODS RECEDING.
Property Loss Estimated $10,000,000
—Eight Lives Lost.
Guthrie, Okla., Mav 27.—The sun is
shining in Oklahoma today, and the
flood waters are fast receding. No ad
ditional loss of life is reported, and the
homeless are beginning gradually to
return to their homes. The death roll
remains at eight.
With miles of tracks washed out and
bridges damaged or destroyed, the rail
roads are still demoralized; train serv
ice on many lines must remain annulled
for several days yet. while on others
only a partial service is possible. The
damage to crops and railroads can, of
course, be only roughly estimated, but
a conservative figure places the aggre
gate at close to $10,000,000. It marks
the costliest disaster ever sustained eith
er in Oklahoma or the Indian Terri
tory or by the new State of Oklahoma.
At Muskogee the Arkansas river con
tinued to rise up to last night, but this
morning began gradually to lower. At
that point 2,500 consumers are still
without gas as a result of the princi
pal main breaking
In West Guthrie, where more than
5<>o houses were submerged, the water
drained off fast today, and conditions
began to assume a normal aspect.
Around Shawnee, Sapulpa. Tulsa,
Jenks and other points hundreds of
railroad laborers are at work repairing
tracks and bridges. At Stigler the Ca
nadian river has made a complete
change of course, and railroad bridges
that formerly spanned that stream arc*
rendered useless.
HORRORS INCREASE.
INVESTIGATE EXPRESS RATES.
CHEAP FUEL IN SIGHT.
State Railroad Commission Has Fancy
Figures to Start With.
If Choppers Can’t Sell to Trust They
Will to Consumers.
Salem. Of., May 26.—An investigation
has been started by the railroad com
mission regarding express rates en
forced by the Wells. Fargo and the
Pacific express companies in Oregon.
Some startling revelations have been
brought to light that will likely de
mand the attention of the commission
in the near future.
Comparisons have been made show
ing the relative charges on lines in Or
egon and the charges in other states for
similar distances and for the same class
of goods. From Portland to Siskiyou,
a distance of 385 miles, the Wells-
Fargo express company charges a mer
chandise rate, of $2.75 for 100 pounds,
while f r tile same distance in Missouri
a rate lias been established by the Mis
souri railroad commission, which is
now in force, of $2 for 100 pounds The
merchandise rate in Texas for a sim
ilar distance is $2.05
The rates charged by the Pacific ex
press company arc even more exorbi
tant according to the figures given out
by the railroad commission. The Pa
cific express company operates out of
Portland east over the O. R. St N. For
440 miles over the O. R. & N„ from
Portland to Huntington, the general
merchandise rate for 100 pounds is $4.
For 358 miles, or the same distance for
which the Wells-Fargo charges $2.75
in Western Oregon, the Pacific express
company in Eastern Oregon charges
$3.75. '
...
Compared with similar distances in
Missouri and Texas, the rates of the
Pacific express company are extreme.
For 440 miles in Missouri the general
merchandise express rate is $2.10 and
in Texas it is $2.30. In both these
states the rates have been fixed by
railroad commissions and have been ac
cepted by the express companies and
are now in force. The rates given arc
for the same classes of goods in every
instance.
Pendleton.—After futile efforts to
sell their wood to Pendleton and
Walla Walla woodyards, ten wood
choppers of Kamela have pooled their
output and have placed an agent in
this city and will sell direct to the
consumer. They have 5,000 cords in
the pool and will fill this territory
with cheap wood, they
, declare. The
woodyards 1 have large supplies
r,___ on
hand, owing to the fact that the mild
weather of the past winter restricted
the sale, and have refused to buy the
Camela pool, which is now being mar
keted here.
Already several cars
have been ordered from the pool and
it promises to demoralize the wood
market in the inland empire.
Keep Salmon Out of Alfalfa.
Pendleton.—Thousands of salmon
fry’ from six to eight inches in length
arc now running out into the canal
of tile Irrigon irrigation project and
many of them are being stranded on
the bars, where they are perishing.
Deputy Game and I'ish Warden O. F.
Turner will take immediate steps to
have proper fish screens placed at the
dam to prevent this destruction of
the young fish. The dam of the Irri
gon project is in the Umatilla River
two miles east of the town of Uma
tilla Thousands of fine salmon fry
are now to be found in the river and
every effort will be made to prevent
them from running into the irrigation
canals Other canals on the river are
properly protected with screens and
ladders.
Wells-Fargo tc Build.
OREGON WOOL GOOD.
Secretary Smythe’Praises Compulsory
Dipping Law.
Portland__ Secretary Dan P. Smythe,
of the Oregon Woolgrowetg association,
passed through Portland recently on his
wav to Salem, where he represents *the
third district of Oregon at the annual
meeting of the state sheep commission.
.Mr. Smythe says the wool clip this year
is as large as usual, and that the woo!
is of exceptionally fine quality.
At this session of the sheep commis
sion the eastern Oregon men intend to
take some radical action to prevent fur
ther encroachments of Washington
sheepmen in the Wenaha forest reserve.
Mr. Smythe, who is extensively en
gaged in sheepraising himself, is em
phatic in praise of the compulsory dip
tiing law passed at the last session of
the legislature. He says Oregon sheep
are now practically free from disease of
every kind, and the wool is of a much
higher grade than in former years.
The administrtion at Washington has
favored the woolgrowers in the Ever
green State, to the detriment of Oregon
stockmen. Just what action will be
taken Mr. Smythe was not prepared to
sav. tut he thinks the commission will
make recommendations that the for
estry department nt the national capital
will not dare to overlook.
Complete Elgin-Joseph Line.
In the Portland mail from the East
Recent Storm in Texas Cost at Least
to General Manager J. P. O'Brien, of
100 Lives.
the O. R & N. company, he has received
Dallas, Tex., May 27.—As the hours |long-expected instructions i from
. i New York to proceed with const!uction
pass the horrors of the flood in
1 | of the Elgin-Joseph branch. About
section increase,
It is believed the $500,000. the amount necessary to com
complete list of dead, when compiled, plete the line, has been provided. From
will show at least 100 lives to have 300 to 400 men will be put on at once.
For the last two months the authoriza
been lost. It is estimated that 10,000 tion
from Mr. Harriman for this work
people are homeless, having been driv has been expected daily. As soon as
en from their houses by the raging wa the effects of last year’s money strin
ters.
gency began to wane Mr. O'Brien made
The propelty loss is estimated to be annlication for the necessary funds to
at least $25.000,000 over the entire complete the road to Joseph.
stricken district.
The Trinity river has surpassed all
Nevada’s Governor an Oregonian.
records. Last night it was believed the
Ontario.—Den S. Dickerson, who is
crest of the flood had been reached here,
but more rains in the north have sent now Governor of Nevada, vice John
the waters down with increased futy Sparks, deceased, is a Malheur Conn
and today the floods were greater than ty boy. aged 34 years. His parents
reside on a farm five miles west of
yesterday and continually increasing.
Business is suspended and Mayor Vale. He left this section seven years
Hay has organized a relief and rescue ago for Nevada and joined the Miners
corps, the members of which have been Union in White Pine County, and
when the union asked recognition on
doing most heroic work.
the sfate ticket he was named as lieu
tenant-governor
He served in the
Big Clock Started.
Philippine war. enlisting in Portland
New York. May 27.—When Mayor
Wittpcn. of Jersey City, pressed a tiny
Auto to Cart y Tourists.
button he set in motion the mechan
Klamath Falls__ Captain J. M. McIn
ism of the largest clock in the world. tyre. of the Mcfntvre Transportation
As the giant minute hand began to company, has purchased an 11 passenger
automobile, and will put it on the lino
move the boats on the river and the between Dorris and this citv. A crow
factories on land joined in a chorus of of >non ;s now wc. king on the road be
whistles The dial of the clock is visi tween Dorris and Keno, getting it in
ble for miles along the Hudson river. shape for automobile service, and it is
It is 38 feet in diameter, with an area expected that the run can l>e made in
of 1,134 square feet. The minute hand two hours from end of rail to this city.
is 20 feet long and weighs a third of a
ton. and the weight of the entire clock
Scouring Mills to Reopen.
is close to six tons.
Pendleton.—It was announced a few
days ago that the wheels of the Pen
Hearst Wins His Fight.
dleton scouring mills would be started
New York, May 27 — William R turning about June 1 The uncertain
Hearst won an important
,
.... victory
_____ to- condition of the wool market is re
day in his long
_ fight for a recount of sponsible for the late start, but it
the ballots cast in the mayoralty elec will not shoitcn the season’s run. Sev
tion in 1905, when George B. McClel eral thousand pounds of wool arc
lan was declared elected, and at last the now on hand and more is arriving
boxes are to be opened.
daily.
i
Eugene.—The Wells-Fargo Express
Company has begun the erection of a
fine brick building on the Southern
Pacific depot grounds in which to
handle its business in this city. The
architecture of the new building will
be in keeping with that of the new
passenger depot, now in course of
construction and to be completed be
fore July 1. The Wells-Fargo build
ing will be of brick and stone an ',
will cost $4,000 to $5,000. It is prob-
abL the downtown office of the com
pany will be done away with when
the new building is finished, as the
location is convenient to the business
section of the city.
Rare Species of Duck.
Klamath Falls.—Hunters on the
Klamath river near Teters landing
report the finding of a pair of red
ducks nesting among the tules. The
birds are small and supposed to be
cinnamon teal, a species of duck rarely
seen in this section. The pelicans
have returned in great numbers this
spring The rapid ’growth of the city
and the settlement of the hills be
tween Lake Ewauna and the Upper
Klamath lake seemed for several years
past to have driven the pelicans to
other fields. However, they are litre
in great numbers this year.
Stocked With Fish.
WHOLE STATE STORM SWEPT
Texas Suffers Untold Damage From
Wind and Rain.
Austin, Texas, May 26.—A terrific
wind and rain storm swept Texas
from the Panhandle to the Gulf early
Sunday. The destruction to crops and
vegetables, trees and shrubbery was
the greatest reported in years.
In numerous places houses were un
roofed and small villages and hamlets
in many instances were inundated by
the terrific rainfall which, in the space
of four hours, reached seven inches in
many sections. Austin was in the
path of the worst of the storm, and
for hours the streets were impassable
for either man or beast, electric light
and telephone connections were dis
abled beyond immediate repair and
many houses were unroofed.
The agricultural sections of Central
and Southern Texas have been im
measurably damaged, according to
general reports received here, badly
demoralized wire service occasioning
slow and unsatisfactory reports from
many sections that are known to have
suffered from the storm.
NO.
Í
GANG USE DYNAMITE
Ruel’s Confederates Wreck Oak
land Houses of Gallagher.
WOULD INTIMIDATE STAR WITNESS
Ex-President of Board of Supervisors
Had Just Closed a $25,000
Deal
Second Outrage.
Oakland. Cal , May 28.—Three large
dwelling houses, built by James L. Gal
lagher, ex president of the board of
supervisors and the prosecution's star
witness in the bribery-graft cases, at
Perkins and Belmont streets, this city,
were wricked
wrecked by dynamite tonight
shortly before midnight. The houses
were not yet occupied.
A heavy charge of dynamite, placed
in the kitchen of the largest of the
three houses, threw the building off the
foundations and almost oompletely
wrecked it. The houses were shat-
tered, while many windows in the
neighborhood were broken by the
shock.
John Rollins, a watchman employed
by the contractor building the houses
for Gallagher, was sitting in a small
shack, near the houses at the time, and
was thrown to the ground. He said
to Captain of Detectives I’eterson that
he was through the three biplditigs
shortly before the explosion occurred.
It is said that Gallagher was negotiat
ing a deal today for the sale of the
houses for $25,(100. Several weeks ago
Gallagher's home in Oakland was blown
up and badly wrecked at night while he
and his wife and several friends were
in the house and narrowly escaped se
rious injury.
FORT WORTH FEARS WORST.
Tri ni ty River Rises Again and Condi
tions Are Serious.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 28.—With the
waters of the Trinity river still near
the summit of the banks another great
volume of water began pouring from
the west fork of that stream toward
this city late last night. Early today
the river is rising at a rate of six inches
an hour, anil wilh such conditions as
already prevail, the outcome when the
crest of this second rush of waters
reaches this city cannot be foretold,
That considerable additional property
loss and suffering will result is consid-
ered certain.
A serious situation has developed
here in regard to the city water supply,
The mains are filled with black, muddy
water, unfit for drinking even after
being boiled The city authorities de
clare it may lie a week before they can
restore the normal water supply. Mean
while. those who can afford it are buy
ing water from private artesian wells,
and those who cannot are drinking the
water that conies out of the mains.
Thirteen men. women and children
wire caught in the overflow in the Den
ton river
Their condition became so
precarious that they were forced to
liold the children upon their shoulders
to keep them from drowning They
stood in water almost up to their necks
for ten hours until rescued.
Baker City.—Thomas H Parker, of
the state fish commission, received at OKLAHOMA TIED COMPLETELY
North Powder the other day 31.000
trout, which have been placed in the
NORTH CAROLINA DRY.
lakes at the hepd of North Powder Muskogee is in Sorry Plight Without
Heat or Light.
river and in other streams near by.
Prohibition Sweeps State From End
Muskogee, Okla., May 26.—Not a
to End at Elections.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
railroad in Oklahoma is in operation,
Raleigh. N C., May 28.—North Car
as a result of the heavy rains and olina was carried for state wide prohi
Wheat—Club, 89c per bushel: red
Russian, 87c; bluestem, 92c; Valley, cloudbursts that have occurred in vari bition Tuesday by a majority estimated
ous parts of the state during the past at 40.000 to 42,000 on reports received
89c.
Barley—Feed, $25.50 per ton; rolled, three days. The last road to suspend up to midnight.
The prohibition ticket carried 78 out
$27.5057 28.50; brewing, $26.
operations was the Missouri-Kansas of the 98 counties by overwhelming ma
Oats—No. 1 white, $27 50 per ton;
& Texas, which was forced to quit at jorities The prohibition ticket hat car
gray, $27.
Hay—Timothy. Willamette Valley. noon Sunday, when the bridge on the ried 20 counties by majorities approxi
mating 5,600. This calculation is partly
$17 per ton; Willamette Valley, or main line at Eufala went down.
To add to the disaster, the main based upon estimates anil the prohibi
dinary, $15; Eastern Oregon. $18 50;
supplying
natural
gas
to
the
Indian
tion leaders say that it is possible for
mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa. $12;
T erritory part of the state was car the prohibition majority to reach 50,000.
alfalfa meal. $20.
..
.............
..
with
the
Clarksville
bridge
ried
away
The election passed off very quietly,
Dressed Meats Hogs, fancy, 8c per
pound; ordinary. 7c; large, 6c; veal, late Sunday, anil the supply of gas no disturbances of any importance being
for
Muskogee
and
several
other
cities
reported.
extra 7c; ordinary, 6c; heavy. 5c; mut
in the southeast part of the state has
The total vote cast in tile state was
ton, fancy. 8579c.
been
entirely
cut
off
Officials
of
the
al> out 175.000
Butter—Extras, 25c per pound;
company
gas C
““ . say
......... it will be a week
Every large town in the state except
fancy. 24c: choice, 20c: store. 16c.
Eggs— Candled. 195/2oc per dozen; before repairs can be made so that Wilmington and Durham went probi-
the gas supply can gain be carried bition
uncandled, 18Jc per dozen.
Under the regulations of the prohibí-
Poultry - Mixed chickens, 1215713c As natural gas is used for light anil
per pound; fancy hens. 13?5/11c; heat, business will be suspended tion bill submitted to the people there
roosters, 8c; fryers. 2215/ :.’5c; broilers. Elevator* have been forced to stop will be no manufacture or sale of intox
2057 22 Jc; ducks, old. 1657 17c: spring. running, and hotels and restaurants icating liquors in the state after Janu
''Ti25c; geese. 8579c; turkeys, alive. have practically been put ont of busi- ary, 1909. ________________
165718c for hens. 145/ 16c for gobblers; ness.
dressed, 1757 18c.
Vehicle Falls Down Mountain.
Apnlcs—Select, $2 50 per box: fancy.
$2: choice. $1 50; ordinary, $1.25.
San Jose, Cal., May 26 Twenty-
Potatoes—O1<1 Oregons. choice, 70 one students, half the graduating class
s0c per hundred; sweet. 5}c per of the Santa Clara High School, were
pound.
carried 200 feet down a mountain side
Strawberries Oregon. 1057171c per when a carry-all toppled from the
pound.
Mount Hamilton road at midnight
Vegetables Turnins. $1 50 per sack;
carrots, $1 50571.75; beets. $125; Saturday night. The vehicle broke up
when it started in its descent and
parsnips. $1 25; cabbage, $1 75572 per most of the young people slid in safe
cwt.: beans, wax. 75/ Rc per pound: ty down the mountain side in the
head lettuce, 1245115c per dozen: cel cover of the vehicle. News of the ac
ery, R5c per doz/tn; asparagus, $1 50 cident reached this citv early Sunday
over
per box: egg plant. 20c per pound; and a ohysician and nurses were dis
new
parsley. 2"c per dozen; peas. 557 6>c patched to the scene in an atitomo
per nound; peppers. 20c per pound;
bile.
radishes. 15c per dozen; rhubarb. 3c
More Plague Appears.
per pound; soinach, 3c per pound;
Sentence Four to Death.
Willemstad. Curacao, May 28 The
cauliflower, $2 50 per crate.
St Petersburg. May 26.—The court- report that the Port of I ji Guayra
Hops—1907. prime and choice, 557
6}’ ner pound: olds, 2573c per pound. martial of eleven revolutionists, in would be reopened in the immediate fu
Wool—Eastern Oregon, average cluding four women, which began a ture is considered here to be prema
best. 1l5?ir,e per pound, according to few days ago, has resulted in the sen ture. as it is unofficially stated that an
shrinkage: Valley, 1057 12*c.
tencing of four of the accused to other case of bubonic plague ti** oc
Mohair—Choice. 1R5i IRjc per pound death and six to periods of penal ctirred there since the issuance ti f Pres
| ident Castro's decree.
servitude. One was acquitted.
Cascara Bark—3fi§.4c per pound.
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