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JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Onr Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Virgil Gavin, who played ball with the Chicago Nationals and New York Giants, is dead. The first steamers fi;oni Seattle this season have reached Nome, after a hard battle with the ice. Races will be held next year under the auspices of the U. S. Signal Service between balloons and aeroplanes. Denver police were enjoined from interfering witn race track gambling, and bookmaking is carried on freely. The American auto lias overtaken and passed the German machine in the New York to-Paris race. They are now crossing Siberia. James J. Hill says the crop prospects for the year are good, and as the crop will not be an unusually large one, it will bring good prices. E. G. Bethel, the English editor ar rested for seditious utterances at Seoul, has apologized for the publica tion, and says he was misinformed. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy says that during the past year new Christian Science societies have been formed at the rate of one every four and one-half hours. A federal grand jury in New York has indicted the heads of the New York Cotton Exchange and the Manila Paper and Fiber Manufacturers’ Asso ciation. An English editor is on trial for se- dition by Japanese authorities in Corea. Havana authorities do not credit the rumors of a well-organized insur rection. A dining car will be added to the A. & C. trains between Portland and Seasjde. Governor Dawson, of West Vir ginia. has a well-developed case of tuberculosis. The transport Sherman will be quarantined at Astoria.' She has smallpox on board. Harry and Evelyn Thaw have be come reconciled, but Thaw must re main in the asylum. A runaway automobile jumped off the docks into the river in New York and drowned four persons. It is estimated that the spring clean-up in the Tanana .district of Alaska will reach $15,000,0*90. The rivers have begun to fall at Kansas City, and it is believed all danger from the flood is passed. A Venezuela war vessel fired on a Dutch sailing vessel and took Jrom them all mail not in regular ' mail sacks. Four thousand of the sultan’s troops are in revolt. A Seattlb man was robbed of $10,- 000 by pickpockets in St. Paul. Bubonic plague has made its appear ance in Caracas, Venezuela. Senator Bailey, of Texas, is recov ering from his attack of bronchitis. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is ill in Chicago. Frederick Arthur Stanley, Earl of Derby, and ex-governor general of Canada, is dead. American warships are gathering at San Francisco, preparatory to their trip around the world. A Southern Pacific gatekeeper com mitted suicide because his gates had accidentally injured a woman. The German kaiser cordially re- ceived the American ambassador, Da- vid Jayne Hili, and talked with him for half an hour. Rev. S. C. Lapham says women are worse than men in supporting per nicious fads, including free love. He says oratory is taking the place of the Gospel in the modern pulpit, and that social conditions are much the same as before the flood. Taft leaders claim he will receive 704 votes on the first ballot. Thaw will remain in jail because be hates the asydum attendant. Leading English steel manufacturers deny the story of a now trust. Suffragettes of all nations are to join in a monster parade in London. The British Columbian government has decided to deport 1,000 Hindus who are paupers. Rapid progress is being made on re pairs to the Northern Pacific roadbed in Montana. Utah democrats have instrueted their delegates for Bryan, but paid a tribute to Cleveland. Railroad commissioners of five states met in Chicago to decide on some uni form measure of doing away with the eadly grade crossings. COUNTY, OBEGQN CONVENTION OPENS. IDOS ■ Republican National Assembly Meets With Great Enthusiasm. Chicago, June 17__ Amid scenes of stirring enthusiasm, the Republican convention of 1908 began its delibera tions at noon yesterday in the presence of an assemblage estimated at more than 14,000 people, with the sounds of patriotic airs alternating with frenzied shouts for Roosevelt, Taft and the other popular heroes, the first tocsin of the coming struggle from the graceful ora tor of Michigan, Senator Julius Caesar Burrows, and the initial formalities which started this momentous gather ing into motion. The opening session lasted less than two hours, and was less notable for the business accom plished than for the opportunity it af forded of seeing again this stirring picture of the people assembled from every corner of the country to select a candidate for president of the United States. The actual work of the day was quickly accomplished and at night the various important committees on credentials, platform, organization, etc., were preparing for the more important business to come. FIGHT ON INJUNCTIONS. Labor Men Offer Radical Plank and Employers Resist. Chicago, June 17—After a session of a subcommittee which continued until 12:20 a. in., the subcommittee of 13 of the committee on resolutions of the Republican national convention, to which has been referred the task of preparing the final draft Bf the plat form. deferred until 10 o’clock this morning final action on the anti injunc tion plank. The principal struggle cen ters upon this plank. Senator Long lead ing the fight for retention of the dec laration contained in Wade Ellis’ draft platform. v The Taft forces claim to have the advantage in the struggle. They assert that the appointment of a subcommit tee of 13 to consider the various con troverted planks was a distinct success and point with pride to the fact that Chairman Hopkins had appointed on this committee nine men who favor the injunction plank and four who are opposed to it. The Taft managers pre dict a favorable result in the full com mittee and in the convention, but ad mit that their fight will be desperate. The opposition, still under the leader ship of Speaker Cannon, who directs his forces from his quarters at the Union League Club, isrtonight clainvng 30 votes to 22 or. the full committee and expressing confidence that w’hen the platform goes to the convention, the objectionable plank will be miss- ing. Hood River PREPARING FOR FAIR. More Space Will be Provided Counties This Year. ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL. for Lincoln County Makes Good Move fcr Higher Education. Salem.—At a meeting of the build ing committee of the state fair board the contract was let for enlargement of the grandstand at the fair grounds so that it will accommodate an at tendance of 6,(H)0 people. McFarlane, Denison & McLaren, Salem con tractors, were awarded the contract for $3,900 From the reports that have been received the state fair this year will be one of the grandest in tb- history of the state. Nearly every county has signified its intention to be on hand with a large exhibit next fall. The board has already concluded to move the administration offices to an other location to make room for addi tional county exhibits, and the build ing committee is seriously contem plating the necessity of putting up new structures. Besides the remodel ing of the grandstand, a new entrance will be constructed before the fair opens. The members of the building committee who were in session are W. F. Matlock. Frank Lee and F. W. Welch. Mike Wisdom was also in Salem with the committee inspecting the grounds. The organization of the Portland Country club and Livestock associa tion has been a great factor in bring ing better horses to the west this year and will continue to be so in future years. It is therefore expected that the racing feature at the fair this year will be much stronger than in former years. The large purses hung at Portland will attract many driv ers and breeders who have never be fore visited the Pacific Coast. The two fairs, coming one following the other, will enable both to get the full benefit of the exhibitions, which will be the best ever seen on the coast. Trainer Goes After New Methods University of Oregon. Eugene—The associated students of the University of Oregon will send “Bill” Hayward, Oregon’s famous trainer, east this summer. Hayward will take six weeks in the Yale summer school, perfecting _ _ himself in the most approved methods in training and physical culture, and studying the best forms of gymnasium apparatus and equipment, and will also inspect a large number of the most prominent university and other gymnasiums of the Eastern States. Hayward will be away from Oregon for a couple of months or more, and FOR GOOD ROADS. will have charge of the training of Dan Kelly and probably Forrest Smith- Plank Will be Urged Upon Both Na- son for the Olympic games. He will tional Conventions. accompany the American team to Lon Chicago. June 17__ “The gospel of don. good roads” will be preached to both Normals Furnish Teachers, the Republican and Democratic ~ na- Salem—One hundred and eleven tional conventions. Every influence will be brought to bear to have a teachers will have been graduated “good roads” plank inserted in the I from the four normal schools of this platform of each party. This program state ’ when the normals close thia Recommendations for the was decided upon at the first meeting ! month.* ............. of 102 were made bv the of the national good roads < congress | graduation here yesterday. Secretary Taft was oxeeutive board of the normal school heralded ns the champion of the move- I regents Monday, Nine were graduat- ment. Timothv Woodruff, ”, chairman of . <‘<1 from Monmouth in February. the New York delegation, in the course | The graduates are divided among different schools as follows: At of an address before the gathering, said !$i.« | 14 will graduate; at Weston 21; he would use his influence in promoting Drain r‘”'> the “good roads” plank. lie said he at Ashland, 28, and at Monmouth, 39; was heartily in favor of good roads which, with those who were graduated throughout the United States. Similar in February, makes a total of 48 grad expressions w*ere given by others who uates from Monmouth. Monmouth is one of the schools that received no ap attended. A meeting of the congress _ will be propriation from the legislature last held in Denver. July 6. prior to the winter. convening of the Democratic national Self Supporting Normal. convention. Arthur G. Jackson, presi Pendleton.—President French of the dent of the congress, read a letter from Weston State Normal states that if t he the president, which said in part: “A few years ago it was a matter school made the progress another term of humiliation, that there was so little that it has during the term just closed, attention paid to the roads; that there the institution would be self support should be a willingness not merely to ing. Tf the normad had 500 students refrain from making good roads, but instead of 200 the income from dormi to let the roads that were in existence tory rents and other fe» s would make the institution absolutely self support become worse. “T cannot too heartily congratulate ing and it would cost the state nothing our people upon the existence of a body to maintain it. such as this, ramifying into every sec tion of the country, and bent upon Experts at Butteville Grange. more eminently proper work of making Salem.—Considerable preparation is the conditions of life easier and better being made for the horticultural meet for the people whom of all others we ing to be held at Butteville under the can least afford to see grow discon auspices of Butteville Grange, Satur tented with their lot in life—the peo day. June 20. Dr. James Withycombe pie who live in the country districts.” of the Oregon Agricultural College, E. C. Armstrong, county fruit in Gamblers Trapped. spector. and prominent fruitgrowers A large attendance New York, June 17.—Three thousand will participate is expected. persons gathered on West Thirty-third street, near Broadway, last night and Timber Transfers in Clatsop. watched the police make a spectacular Astoria.—Deeds have been filed for raid upon a gambling house supposed record whereby J E. Wheeler. of to be patronized bv guests of several Portland, sells to the Jones-Wheeler uptown hotels. Patrons of the place, company 3,092.72 acres of timber land all in evening clothes, endeavored to in the southwest portion of Clatsop get away by the fire escapes, but were county, and W. N. Jones, also of confronted by detectives who had been Portland, sells to the same company placed at every possible exit. The 3.104.72 acres in the same locality. managers of the place and the patrons The consideration named is purely were taken to the police station in pa nominal. trol wagons. Twelve arrests were made. Annual Address by Dr. Hart. University of Oregon, Eugene—The Hundreds Die in Storm. annual address before the graduating Tokio, June 17.—Fiftv fishing boats class of the University of Oregon will have been wrecked off the coast of be delivered by Dr. Albert Bushnell Kagoshima and 350 of their crews have Hart, of Harvard University. Dr. been drowned. The governor of the Hart-is a specialist in American His- province has requested assistance frotrf tory, and is one of the best known the government navy yard at Sasebo. historians in the United States, He is a fluent and pleasing speaker. American Auto's Progress. Nertchinsk. Asiatic Russia, June 17. —The American motor ear in the New- York-to-Paris automobile race, passed through here at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The German ear left at 9:30. I IRRIGATION FLUME DESTROYED Newport—Lincoln county marks an other step forward by providing a high school for th< young men and women who have just graduated from the com mon schools. The county’ court has issued an order giving both Newport and Toledo money to establish high school courses immediately, though the question us to where trie school will eventually’ be located was left to popu lar vote two years hence. Events have been coming thick and fast the past two months on Yaquina bay. The organization of a commer cial club was almost instantly followed by a vote to establish a high school, and at the same time a large influx of capital caused large changes of hold ings of property and promoted building in Newport till now some $20.000 of new buildings are under wav. TOMATOES PAY WELL. Grants Pass Farmers Double Their Acreage. Grants Pass.—The tomato industry of Rogue River valley has made rapid strides, particularly since the erection of the cannery last year, and the small farmer and berry-raiser have found it profitable to set out idle land with the young plants. This year's acreage will be double that of last year, and it is anticipated that it will increase in like manner for several years, for the reason the can nery has a capacity to take all the growers can produce for the next five years; in fact, it is understood that the company will contract to that effect. The plants do well here when planted in rows five and six feet apart, and planted in this manner they will usually produce from 20 to 40 tons an acre, and find ready mar ket at $19 a ton for canning purposes. The necessary expenses for harvest ing and marketing are $25 an acre. The tomato plant, if properly culti vated, will grow from four to five feet high, and cover a proportionate space. Visitors who have looked over the field where the matused plants are laden with fruit, have remarked that they lookell more like trees than vines. ~ During the picking season, and ........... extends which opens in August a...! '. . through November, men. women and children are employed to harvest the crop. Owing tn the soil and rank growth of the plant, many find it necessary to prune the vines after they have bloomed, so as tn divert the energy of the tree into tl^| fruit instead of vine and foliage All raisers use racks This keeps the fruit dean, holding the vine off the ground and preventing rot It is estimated that $209 can be realized as a net profit upon each acre. Strawberries Perish for Want of Water. Hood River, Or., June 16__ Giant powder was successfully used Saturday night in an effort to cause the growers composing the Farmers’ Irrigating Company the loss of a large portion of their strawberry crop. Disgruntled laborers are suspected. About 150 feet of fluine on a hill side on the west side of Hood River was destroyed, and the water in the big irrigating ditch is shut off. j As a result, the crop of two-thirds of the valley, about 400 acres, is without wa- ter until such time as the flume can be repaired, which will take at the least estimate three or four days. The growers stand to lose at least 10,000 erates of berries, worth $30.000, and if the fluine cannot be repaired before Wednesday, the loss will be far greater. The damage to the ditch will not amount to more than $500. The point where the ditch was de stroyed is high on a hillside. The members of the company state that it must have taken considerable work and three or four boxes of powder to product such disastrous results. This is the ditch from which all of the wa ter is taken to irrigate the big straw berry crop on the west side of the valley. Although 25 men were hurried to the seeue of the trouble as soon as it was known today, it is estimated that it will take three days, working day and night, to repair the damage. The Hood River berry season is now at its height, and no water to sustain the plants and ripen the berries dur ing the present warm weather will cut down the yield to almost nothing. For the past few days from fivo to seven ears of berries have been shipped daily. An investigation started this lifter- noon by M. H. Nickelson, secretary, and A. C. Staten, manager of the com pany, in an effort to determine if pos sible who the ditch destroyers were, developed the fact that the noise of the shots was heard two miles away from the spot where the explosion took "place, and that it occurred about 11 o'clock. Beyond this, nothing is defi nitely known. It is said, however, that the officers of the company have under suspicion several men whom they had in their employ last year, and to whom they refused to give work this summer. SMALLPOX ON TRANSPORT. Sherman Reports by Wireless Must be Quarantined. and Portland, June 16.—Wireless patches were received Sunday by Oregonian from the transport Sherman while at sea that there was smallpox on board. The Sherman is bound for Portland from the Philippines with the First Infantry, 585 men in all, un der command of Colonel McGonieal. Before the vessel reached Honolulu a navy man returning died of the dis ease and was buried at sea. Two days ago an enlisted man was taken ill with smallpox. The two men were in dif- ferent parts of the ship, so the whole vessel is considered infected. This means that under the quarantine regu lations each of till* 1182 men on board must be vaccinated and quarantined for 14 days and the transport must be fumigated. This process necessitates disembark ing nil the men, and owing to the lack of facilities at the Columbia River station, tents must be sent from some of the armv posts of the district. Col onel Rogers, in command, fears that since the men have just returned from the Orient, eamping out in this cli mate will be injurious to their health and he has requested the department to have the transport with all on board sent to the quarantine station at San Francisco. What will be done in this matter cannot yet be known. The First Infantry is en route to Vancouver, where it will be stationed, succeeding the Fourteenth Infantry, which was transported a few weeks ago to Manila. TAFT FACTION WINS EXPECT NO FURTHER OPPOSITION Fear That 1 aft Might Refuse to Run if PI ank Was Ignored Forced Opposition to Accept. Chicago. June is.—The biggest problem before the resolutions com mittee of the Republican National convention—that of the proposed plank in tin- platform dealing with the; question of the limitation of court injunctions in labor controversies, was disposed of at 2 A. M. today, when, by a vote of 35 to 16, with one state (South Carolina) not recorded, the full committee agreed to the plank. It was predicted after the vote that there would be no fight on the matter on the floor of the convention when the full report of the committee was made today. The full committee adopted the statehood plank for Arizona and New Mexico, thus reversing the subcom mittee's action. At 2:39 A. M. the committee ad journed. The vote on the injunction plank is said to have been as follows: Yeas—.Alabama, Arkansas, Conner ticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia. Il linois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri. Nebraska. New York. North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio. Oklahoma. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota. Texas, Vir ginia, Washington, Wisconsin. Wyo ming, Alaski, Arizona, New Mexico, Philippine Islands. Porto Rico. Noes—California, Colorado. Iowa Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada Idaho, New Hampshire, New Jersey Oregon, Utah, Vermont, West Vir ginia. District of Columbia, Hawaii. Tile votes of Louisian and Tennes see were not ascertained when this bulletin was sent Under the operation of the strict secrecy adopted by the committee, this vote is unofficial. Dolliver for Second Place. Chicago, June 18.—(2 A. M.)—Sen ator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, will be Secretary Taft’s running male on the Republican ticket. This ha* been definitely decided in important conferences tonight. Despite the protests of Iowa Republicans. Mr. Dolliver is to be drafted, as bis pres ence on the ticket is considered in.- perative in order to wage successful warfare with W J. Bryan in the Mid dle West, the great and vita! battle ground of the campaign. Yells for Roosevelt. Chicago, June 18. The second day of the Republican national conven Cherries by the Ton. tion brought the long expected Roose Cove.—It is estimated that, with velt veil, a whirlwind of enthusiasm, the new cherry orchards coming in which raged within the vast amph - this season, not less than 201) tons of theater of the Coliseum for fully 45 cherries will be shipped from here, miniKes, for a time presenting to the and require twice the number of timid the specter of a Roosevelt stam picking and packing crew of last sea- pede This demonstration was de son. cidedly tile feature of a day otherwise notable for a stirring speech from the PORTLAND MARKETS. permanent chairman of the conven tion. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Wheat -Track prices: Club, 88c per .Massachusetts; for much political bushel; red Russian, 86e; blucstem, 90e; procedure in placing the convention Valiev. 88c. on a smooth running basis, and tor Millstuffs Rran. $26 per ton; mid final defeat of the plan to reduce the dlings. $30.50; shorts, country. $28.50; representation of Southern States at citv. $28; wheat and barley chop, future national conventions $27.50. Probably the most important act of Barlev Feed. $25 per ton; rolled, the day and the one having greatest $27.506/28.50; brewing. $26. significance on the final result of the Oats No. 1 white. $27.50 per ton; convention was the adoption of the gray, $27. report of the committee on creden Hay—Timothy. Willamette Valley, tials . seating the Taft delegation* $1" per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi practically in toto If there had been nary. $15; Eastern Oregon, $18.50; any lingering doubt of the Taft mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12; strength, it disappeared before this alfalfa meal, $20. decisive action, which in effect placed Dressed Meats—Hogs, fancy, Re per more than 700 delegates in the Taft pound; ordinary, 7c; large, 6c; veal, column Equally important and even Refuse to Cut Salaries. extra. 8c; ordinary, 6(iiTc; heavy, 5c; more remarkable was the final ac mutton, fancy, 86/ 9c. Manila, Juno 16. After many ex- ceptance of this result by the '‘allies'* Butler- -Extras. 25c per pound; fancy tended and apparently hopeless con without the formality of a dissenting 24c; choice, 20c; store, 16c. and minority report and without carrying Eggs- Oregon, 17417118|c per dozen. ferences. the Insular Commission tile question to the floor of the con Cheese Fancy cream twins. 13e per the Philippines Assembly have finally vention for the open fight which has arrived at an agreement upon the gen pound; full cream Triplets. 13c; full been long threatened. cream Young Americas. 14c; cream oral appropriation bill, which, it is be lieved, both the commission and the brick, 20c; Swiss block, 18e; limburgcr, assembly will ratify. The compro Cut Out Oratory. 20c. mise measure appropriates 16,809,090 Chicago, June 18. An agreement Poultry Mixed chickens, Hallie pesos, the assembly making a conecs was reached tonight by representa nor nound; fancy hens, 12c; roosters, sion of nearly 1,500,000 pesos, The 9c; fryers. 166hl7c; broilers, 1 17c; commission declined to assent to the tives of all the candidates by dnekp, old. 15c; spring, 201c; reduction in salaries and the consoli- which the nominating ami seconding geese, 86/9c; turkeys, alive, 166/:18c dation of some of the bureaus as pro- speeches fur President will be ma terially curtailed. This agreement is for hens, 146/16c for gobblers; dressed, posed by the assembly. that only the nominating speeches 176/ 19e. shall be made for each candidate, and Potatoes — Obi Oregon, $16/1.10 per American Horse Wins. that the long list of seconding hundred; now California, 26i2|c per Paris, June 16.- Thousands of Amer speeches which have been hitherto pound. Fresh Fruits—Oranges, fancy, $3.25 ¡cans Saturday saw W. K. Vander announced have been abandoned The speeches for Secretary Taft 6/3.75; lemons, $46/ 4.75; strawberries. hilt’s bay colt, North East, with J. 50e(7/$1.25 per crate; grape fruit. $2.75 Childs, up, capture the flrand Prix de will be made by Theodore E. Burton, <7/3.25 per box; l/nnanas. 546/6c per Paris, the blue ribbon event of the of Cleveland, and George A. Knight, pound; cherries. $16/1.25 per box; French turf, which this year was ofCalifornia, gooseberries, 5c per pound; apricots. worth about $72,000. Beautiful wrath $16/1.25 per crate; cantaloupes, $2.756/1 er favored the running of this classic, Pass Up Dividends. 3.25; blackberries, $1(0'1.25 per crate; and fully 150,000 persons gathered at New York. June 18 Directors of Longchamps to witness the race, which peaches, 90e@$l per crate; plums, $1 marked the close of the Paris season. the Lake* Erie X’ Western Railroad par crate. Company yesterday omitted the semi Onions— California rod, $1.656/1.75 annual dividend on the company's Kaw River Falling. nor «ark: Bermudas, $2 per crate; gar preferred stock The last semi annual lie, 15<7i 20c per pound. Washington, June 10.—The Kaw ! dividend paid was 2 tier eent. Hops 1907, prime and choice, 5<7j 5Jc river 1« falling, but the Missouri at i Directors of the Cleveland. Cincin Sells Ranch. per pound; olds, 2<ft,24o per pound. Kansas City continues to rise slowly. | nati, Chicago A St Louis Railway North Powder—H W. Polen ha* Wool—Eastern Oregon, average best, . The stage tonight wan 30 feet, with Company yesterday omitted the semi just completed the sale of a 160- acre l 6<7i,13A»e per pound, according to a further rise of possibly one foot in annual dividend on the common stork. ranch near town to Robert Stark shrinkage; Valley. 106/I2jc. 1 dieated during Monday, from water, A year ago 2 per cent was declared, weather. Consideration $4,000. Mohair—Choice, 18(7/J8jc per pound. now in eight. j and six months ago 1 per cent.