VOL.
IL
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
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Ambassador O’Brien says Japanese
war talk is absurd.
The Elks will bold their grand lodge
at Los Angeles in 1909.
The hot weather which has prevailed
in New York for two yeeks has been
broken.
Herman Ridder has again appealed
to President Roosevelt against the pa-,
per trust.
A Greek who accuses himself of
blowing up Gallagher's house is de
nounced as a fakir.
Attorneys in the Steve Adams trial
at Grand Junction, Colo., are indulging
in many bitter words.
Seven men aspire to head the Na
tional Prohibition ticket.
Charles
Scanlon, of Pittsburg, appears to have
the advantage.
Oxaluria is the latest disease discov
ered by enterprising physicians. It has
to do with the blood and is brought on
generally by a nervous breakdown.
General Caceres, twice president of
Chile and leader of the army in the
war with the I’nited States, says his
country is endeavoring to emulate
America.
A San Francisco woman is suing the
Pacific. Coast Steamship company for
loss of voice occasioned on a trip from
Seattle to San Francisco and caused by
inhaling the fumes of sulphur.
Bishop Potter has so far recovered
that he is able to sit up.
A Chicago official in moving left the
ashes of his grandmother behind.
The Prohibition national conven
tion may adopt a platform with a sin
gle plank.
Honduran rebels have abandoned
two captured towns, but are advanc
ing on Puerto Cortez.
A barber shop at Rawhide, Nev.,
was wrecked by a runaway automo
bile crashing into the place.
A 16-year-old girl at Delmonte, N.
J, shot her father to prevent him
front killing the entire family of five.
President Ridder, of the American
Publishers’ association, declares the
action against the paper trust has
failed.
A new Japanese cabinet has been
formed, but there have been no
changes in the war and navy depart
ments.
A lone robber rifled three jewelry
stores in Portland, securing several
thousand dollars worth of plunder.
He was captured.
Two women were drowned at Eng
lish bay. B. C., near Vancouver, in
the presence of hundreds, who were
unable to help them.
United States secret service men
are attending the sessions of the
Corean patriotic convention to pre
vent any possible demonstration.
Senator Platt criticises the Oregon
primary law.
Heat in Chicago is causing numerous
deaths and prostrations.
The United States and Mexico may
intervene in the Honduran revolt.
If elected, Bryan says he will share
the white house with Vice President
Kern.
The steamer Ohio has arrived safely
at Nome after a trip of 41 days from
Seattle.
June building statistics for the entire
country show a large gain, indicating a
recovery from the panic.
Japan is trying to steal more terri
tory from China. She is using the
Corean revolt as an excuse.
A San Francisco girl has just been
caught in Denver dressed as a boy and
waiting tables on a dining car.
A Chicago domestic is accused of de
luding an insane old man into marrying
her and giving her his property.
Twenty of a Chinese crew were
drowned in New York harbor while
trying to escape from their ship.
Peary will organize an expedition to
explore the Antarctic, but will not go
himself as he will be busy with the
north pole.
Nicaragua has appealed to the new
Central American alliance against Sal
vador and Guatemala for helping Hon
duran rebels.
A break is imminent between Ven
ezuela and Holland.
French merchants are trying to
open up a trade with Poland.
Taft will spend at least a week pre
paring his letter of acceptance.
Populist national convention hissed
Bryan and cheered for Roosevelt.
The American minister to Paraguay
was fired upon during the recent revo
lution.
JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON
COUNTY, OREGON, JULY
18,
1908.
JAPAN CHANGES TUNE.
PANAMA ELECTIONS QUIET.
New Cabinet Bases on Army and Navp
Retrenchments and Economies.
Tokio, July 15.—Marquis Katsura,
loader of the progressive party, who
was ordered by the emperor to reor
ganize the cabinet, has announced his
appointments. Marquis Katsura will
be both premier and minister of finance.
Minister of War General M. Terauchi
and Minister of the Navy Vice-Admiral
Mv Saito are to retain their seats in the
new cabinet. Count Komura, now am
bassador to England, is to be minister
of foreign affairs, but until his return
from England General Terauchi will
act as head of the foreign ministry in
connection with his duties as minister
of war. Baron T. Hirata, formerly
minister of agrieullure and commerce,
is named as minister of home affairs.
M. Goto, president of the South Man
churian railway, is to be minister of
communications. E. Komatsuhara, for
merly vice-minister of home affairs, is
to be minister of education. Viscount
Okabe is minister of justice and K.
Oura, formerly minister of communica
tions. is to be minister of agriculture
and commerce.
Baron Katsura has gathered most of
the members of his former cabinet
about him. The new cabinet is ex
pected to inaugurate a policy of re
trenchment in expenditures for the
army and navy.
The fact that Katsura is to be the
head of the ministry of finance as well
as premier indicates that a careful
watch is to be kept on the treasury.
This new policy is in response to a
peneral demand from the people of
Japan.
No Opposition Develops to Election
of Senor Obaldia.
Panama, July 14.-—The presidential
elections throughout the Isthmus of
Panama passed off Saturday without
disturbance. Jose Domingo de Obal
dia, formerly minister to the United
States, and acting president during
the absence of Dr. Amador, was elect
ed president. The supporters of
Ricardo Arias, who recently withdraw
his candidacy, decided not to vote,
and as a consequence no opponent to
Senior Obaldia was placed in nomi
nation.
Notwithstanding this a large num
ber of voters registered their choice
and demonstrated the overwhelming
majority of Senor Obaldia's support
ers.
From all parts of the republic news
is received here that the elections
were carried on in an orderly man
ner. and that Senor Obaldia recived
all the votes cast. At the conclusion
of the balloting enthusiastic crowds,
headed by a band of music, paraded
the streets of Panama, cheering con
tinuously for the newly elected presi
dent.
There appeared to be an absolute
absence of ill-feeling between the for
mer supporters of Senator Arias and
the adherents of Senor Obaldia.
Never before has such a friendly spirit
been shown so quickly after an elec
tion.
STORM DAMAGE SLIGHT .
Heavy Rains at Heppner Cause No
Serious Losses.
Heppner, Qr., July 15—Monday’s
heavy rain storm was not so serious as
at first reported. Other than the de
struction of four small bridges and the
covering of lawns with sand and debris,
the actual loss is very slight.
A foot of water covered the floor of
the electric power plant at the mouth
of Donaldson Canyon, wetting the belt
ing so as to stop operation of the ma
chinery, and the city was in darkness
for the one night.
In Sand Hollow the hay crop was
considerably damaged by the overflow
of water, which covered the alfalfa
with mud and laid it flat on the
ground.
Lightning struck a barn belong ng to
B. F. Clark, who resides about 15 miles
north of Heppner. Two horses were
killed in the barn.
The O. R. & N. train was unable to
go out yesterday morning, owing to
drift which lodged on the track at
Valentine, a small station near Lexing
ton.
COAL SHORTAGE ALREADY.
Serious Situation Expected in British
Columbia This Winter.
Vancouver, B. C., July 15—Accord
ing to a dispatch received here reports
gathered from various parts oi the
prairie west outline a rather serious
prospect in regard to the fuel supply
for next winter. Following a serious
shortage in the winter of 1906 7 coal
dealers and the consuming public
stocked up largely last summer, but
the winter turned out so unusually
mild that the need for these precautions
was not apparent.
Railways last winter had abundant
rolling stock owing to the light «rop,
and there was never anything approach
ing a famine in any district. This sum
mer, however, the financial conditions
forbid the dealers to carry large stocks
and prevent consumers from iaying in
even an average supply ahead. At the
same time it. is already clear the rail
ways will likely be blocked in an effort
to handle the immense cron, and in a
month or two a large coal movement
will be physically impossible.
If,
therefore, a severe winter follows, the
situation may become serious.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
OREGON HAS SURPLUS.
NO MORE DICTATION.
State Treasurer's Report Shows Al
most $375,000 on Hand.
Salem.—State Treasurer Steele has
issued his semi-annual report for the
period ending June 30 It shows that
#642,726.02, or over half the state
taxes, had been paid in up to the close
of the report, which remonstrates the
good financial condition of the state
generally. The tax on foreign insur
ance companies, being 2 per cent of
their net premiums during the period
covered by the report, amounted to
$60.039 01, and the state income for
inheritance taxes totaled $17,162.88.
the largest amount ever collected in
six months before.
Cash on hand in the several funds
of the state, June 30, was $374,203.62,
is against $116,377.08 at the close of
the previous semi annual term, Janu
ary I. 1908, and shows a gradual and
healthy increase of the state funds in
all departments over the same period
of a year ago.
The total amount of the income
from the 'oan of the irreducible school
fund during the year closing June 30,
from all sources, was $227,792.07, of
which amount $6,169.94 was paid out
in warrants, and $119,100 was appor
tioned among the several counties in
April of this year, leaving a balance
of $102 522.13 on hand, to be appor
tioned August 1. The cash on hand
in the irreducible school fund January
1, 1908, was $293,281.60, and this has
been increased to $373,995.85 up to
July 1.
The total amount of the irreducible
school! fund, including outstanding
first mortgage loans, school district
bonds and certificates of sale of state
lands, is $4,953,204.92, and this will be
increased to the $.">,000,000 mark be
fore the close of the present year.
Cherry Growers in Marion County to
Fight Canneries.
Salem.—Cherry growers in Marion
county who are facing 3-cent prices
are contemplating the organization of
an additional cannery association. The
Mutual Canning company, now under
the absolute control of one man. is
declared to have overreached itself in
its efforts to compel the growers to
submit to three-year contracts. In
v ew of past experiences and the con
ditions confronting them this year,
the fruit men are talking seriously of
building a new cannery.
In Liberty precinct a number of
growers have expressed their willing
ness to subscribe $500 toward the
erection of a cannery. Growers in
other parts of the county are also
realizing the necessity of concerted
aetii n if they desire to stay in the
fruit business.
“Cherry growers and other small
fruit men.” said Fruit Inspector E C.
Armstrong, “will lose enough this
year to build a good cannery. I shall
do everything in my power to assist
the growers to organize an associa
tion that will remain a mutual organi
zation, and I believe such a cannery
can be built for less than $10,900.”
It will be impossible to erect a can
nery this summer, but it is the plan
to start in the fall. The Liberty
growers' plan is to erect a cannery as
a packing plant this summer, and next
spring enlarge it and add the machin
ery necessary to take care of all the
fruit that may be offered
The Mutual Canning company is
buying cherries at 3 cents a pound.
The growers refused to sign the three-
year contracts, but there is little hope
of better nrices from the cannery this
year or next. In California the can
neries are paying from 6 to 8 cents for
REGENTS PLAN EXTENSIONS.
the cherry crop and it is said the fruit
will not compare with the Marion
Important Announcements Expected county product.
From University of Oregon.
Auto Stage for Cascades.
University of Oregon, Eugene.—The
Albany.—George B. Whitcomb, of
board of regents of the University of Big Bottom, has established a stage
Oregon will meet in annual session here. line to run across the Cascade moun
The meeting will be one of the most tains during the summer season. It
important ever held. Plans for the fu will stop at Whitcomb, Cascadia. Fish
ture are extensive and when the board lake and Sisters, and will reduce the
has adjourned it is expected that some distance to Eastern Oregon to a min
very definite and gratifying news will
The stage connects with the
be made public in the wav of improve imum
trains aS Lebanon In addition to the
ments to the state university. The con Whitcomb line, Templeton brothers,
ditions demand the addition of instruct
ors in some departments. President of Brownsville, have placed a big
flyer on the Cascadia route,
Campbell will go east shortly in the in Thomas
terests of the institution. Improve and plan to make a round trip each
The car has a capacity of eight
nients and enlargements will be made day.
persons, and it is thought will prove
in several departments.
an incentive to tourists.
Heavy Yield of Good Wheat.
Pendleton.— Every bushel of wheat
threshed in Umatilla county so far
this season, according to reports
which have reached this city, has
made grade one when tested, and the
reports from those portions of the
county in which threshing has fyeen
carried on during the past week show
that the yield is going to be much
heavier than the most sanguine had
hoped for. Many farmers are bar
vesting just as large crops as they
'ever did
Laying Rails on Northwestern.
Baker City.—Following the state
ment given out by officials a few
weeks ago, the Northwestern rail
road. which is building from Hunt
ington north to Copperfield, on the
Snake river, has begun laying steel
One mile in four hours is the record
made by one steel gang, and there is
considerable rivalry among the work
men to make a record in this depart
ment.
Fight High Insurance.
Astoria.—On account of the exorb
itant rates for fire insurance that are
being charged by the companies, a
resolution has been adopted by the
Astoria city council directing that an
amendment to the city charter be sub
mitted to the vote of the people in
December, authorizing the city to
Sun Starts Fire,
make contracts with citizens to carry
Reno, Nev., July 15—Damage caused
insurance on their nroperty at cost.
by a celluloid comb in the window of
Frank Golden’s jewelry store is being
Cement Industry in Sight.
repaired today. The heat of the sun’s
Klamath Falls__ Abel Ady, owner of
rays Sunday caused the comb to ex thousands of acres of tide lands in this
plode and set the place on fire. For county, reports the finding of a large
several days the heat in Reno had been ledge of gypsum on his property, and
intense. Sunday it was hotter than states he has all the ingredients neces
usual. Frank Ilall yas looking into sary for making cement. He claims
Golden’s show window when he saw that a few feet below the surface of the
flames «uddenly burst forth from one marsh there is a layer of mineral sand,
of the several celluloid combs which which when washed is better building
were on display. He gave the alarm, sand than is found in this section.
but the fire had done considerable
damage.
Silverton Mill to Resume.
Silverton.—After having been shut
Heney Anxious to Let Go.
San Diego, Cal.. July 15—Francis down about four week«, the Silverton
J. Heney, who has been making a brief Lumber company's mill, in this city,
visit in this city, addressed a large •s expected to start up this month
gathering here last night. Tn the course The company has received eastern or
of his speech, referring to the San ders for more than 60 cars of lumber,
Francisco graft prosecutions, he said: which will clean out the yards. The
“I liken myself to a man with his hand mill was shut down owing to tempo
on a bear’s tail. If anyone will help rarily unfavorable conditions of the
me let go I will never take hold of it market.
again. ’ ’
First Step for Fair.
Salem.—Frank A Welch, secretary
Tom Platt is 75.
of the state board of agriculture, has
New York. July 16.—Senator Thos. taken up his office and headquarters
C Platt was 75 years old yesterday. at the fair grounds It is the first
He spent the anniversary quietly at step toward preparations for the an
the Oriental hotel at Manhattan nual state fair to be held in Septem
beach. He is very feeble, and he had ber The grand stand and exhibition
few visitors.
buildings are to be enlarged at once
NEW CHARGES FOR ADAMS.
Acquittal in Collins Case Means Re
arrest of Prisoner.
Grand Junction. Colo., July 14.—In
troduction of evidence for the defense
will begin today in the trial of Steve
Adams, a member of the Western
Federation of Miners, on the charge
of murdering Arthur Collins, mine
superintendent at Telluride.
Despite Judge Sprigg Shackelford's
decision ruling out Adams’ alleged
confession of this murder, the end is
not yet in sight in the cases growing
out of the murders and mysterious
disappearances that occurred during
the troubles in the mining camps of
Colorado. If Adams is acquitted he
will
be
immediately
re-arrested,
charged either with the murder of
Detective I.yte Gregory at Denver, or
with having set off the bomb at the
Indepedence depot at Cripple Creek,
when 13 miners were killed.
According to the prosecution. Ad
ams confessed to having had a hand
in both these crimes in eight state
ments secured from him by Detective
McPartland in the penitentiary at
Boise, Idaho.
WALES COMES TO QUEBEC.
NO.
11.
BRYAN NOMINATED
Result of Long and Enthusiastic
Session at Denver.
CARRIES DAY ON FIRST BALLOT
Delegates Shout and Wave Flags for
Over an Hour—Bryan Listens
Over Long Distance.
Denver, Colo., July 16.—(3:45 A.
M.)—William J Bryan has just been
nominated for president of the United
States by the Democratic national
convention. It was a sweeping vic
tory, the vote being:
Bryan ..................................................... 8921
Johnson ................................................. 46
Gray ...................................................... sai
Not voting ............................................ 8
T he nomination was immediately
made unanimous, and at 3:40 A. M.
the convention adjourned until 1 P.
M. today.
The defeat of the “allies” was more
than a defeat; it was a rout. After
all their boasting of their ability to
withhold from Bryan more than one-
third of the vote on the first ballot
and thus prevent his nomination with
out a struggle, all they could muster
was a beggarly 1051 votes out of a
total of 1006.
New York remained silent as to its
intention until the last moment, then
cast its entire 78 votes under the unit
rule for Bryan, after a poll in which
Parker, Sheehan and Chairman Con
ners sullenly refused to respond.
The nomination was the closing
scene of a night of the most delirious
excitement ever witnessed even in a
Democratic convention. The wait for
the report of the committee on reso
lutions was prolonged until midnight,
and after an hour of freelance ora
tory the delegates decided to get the
agony of nominating speeches over as
soon as possible. They therefore sus
pended the rules and called for nomi
nations before the platform was re
ported.
I. L. Dtfnne, of Omaha, electrified
the convention with a lurid panegyric
on the Commoner, and at its conclu
sion every Bryan delegation joined in
a most tumultuous outburst of en
thusiasm. They tore the state stand
ards
from their fastenings and
marched around the hall, beating
drums, blowing horns, clashing cym
bals, bearing down every person who
came in their way, women included.
They massed the standards around
the speaker's stand, and waved them
so recklessly that they tore the dec
orative eagles from their perches.
This din continued to rise and fall
by turns for an hour and 14 minutes
in a vast building packed so densely
with humanity that it was impossible
for any person in the galleries to
move in his seat and with many of
the aisles and doorways jammed so
that ingress or egress was impossible.
A lesser demonstration greeted the
nomination of Governor Johnson, of
Minnesota, by Winfield Scott Ham
mond On an ordinary occasion this
demonstration would have been con
sidered very much out of the com
mon. fer it continued for 14 minutes,
and the cheers and yells made up in
earnestness what they lacked in vol
ume.
Judge Gray’s name was greeted
with a spasmodic outburst of cheering
from the scattered delegations which
supported him, but bv this time every
body was too much exhausted for any
prolonged demonstration
The adoption of the platform was
marked bv an outbreak of decided ill-
feeling A resolution in favor of the
celebration of the centenary of Abra
ham Lincoln’s birth had been declared
carried unanimously, when I. L.
Strau, of Maryland, attempted to of
fer an amendment. His voice was
drowned by hoots, and when later, in
seconding the nomination of Bryan
he tried to explain his intention to
move the addition of the name of R.
E Fee to the resolution, he was
howled down so furiously that he was
forced to abandon the attempt to
make a speech.
British Heir Apparent to Attend Cele
bration.
Quebec, Ont., July 14.—Quebec on
the occasion this month of the tercen
tenary celebration of its founding, is
planning a great historic and military
pageant The heir to the throne of
the British Empire is coming to honor
tile memory of Canada's founder.
Samuel de Champlain, and his official
landing will be made a brilliant spec
tacle.
The dedication of the battlefield will
be made the occasion for a military
display on July 24. Thousands of sol
diers will be mobilized from all parts
of Canada, and a score of battleships
PORTLAND MARKETS.
ami cruisers will be in port, repre
Wheat—Club. 84c per bushel; red senting the United States, England.
Russian. 82c; bluestem, 86c; valley, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and
the Argentine Republic.
84c.
Barley—Feed, $24.50 per ton; rolled,
France Still to Protect.
$27.50(328.50; brewing. $26.
Oats—No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton;
Pai*is, July 14. — M. Constans,
gray, $26.
French ambassador to Turkey, in an
Hay—Timothv. Willamette valley, interview discredited the report that
$15 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi Germany will assume the protection
nary. $12; Eastern Oregon. $17.50; of Turkish subjects in China. Here
mixed. $15; alfalfa, $12; alfalfa meal, tofore France has assumed the pro
$20.
tectorate. and he lias not received the
Fruits—Cherries. 2(3 5c per lb ; ap least intimation that such a step was
ricots. $1 25 per crate; peaches, 75c(3> to be taken. It has always been the
$1 per box; plums, 5013 90c per crate; custom, he says, for the porte and the
currants, $2(3'225 per crate; black French representative in Constanti
berries, $1.25 per crate; raspberries, nople to have an exchange of views
$1 per crate; loganberries, $1 per on any affair of importance, but the
crate; blackcaps, $1.2517?3
question of transferring the protec
Melons—Cantaloupes. $2672 25 per
torate has not been discussed.
crate; watermelons 2(a2ic per pound
Potatoes—New Oregon. 1 (a 1 ic per
Rebels Beg for Amnesty.
pound; old Oregon. 60(365c per hun
London. July 14 A special to the
dred.
Bridge Goes Down.
Vegetables—Turnips, $1 50 per sack; Daily Mail from Teheran says that
Cologne, July 10.—The new bridge
carrots, $1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets, Rachin Khan. who. in command of a
$1.50; beans, 6c per pound; cab large force, including several bat tinder construction over the Rhine at
bage, 1(3 1»c per pound; cucum teries of quick firers, entered Tariz a Cologne fell yesterday, and many of
bers; Oregon. 50(3 75c per dozen; egg few days ago, is now bombarding the the workmen engaged on the struc
plants, 17jc per pound; lettuce, head. revolutionists, who are massed in the ture lost their lives lip to noon 14
15c per dozen; parsley. 15c per dozen; Khiavana quarter. The latter, the bodies hail been recovered, and nine
peas, 2(3 3c per pound; peppers. 10c disnatch says, have telegraphed to the men had been taken from the water
that amnesty be seriously injured
per pound; radishes. 12ic per dozen; shah begging
The scaffolding
rhubarb 1(3 2c per pound; spinach, 2c granted.
supporting the powerful rrane used in
per pound; tomatoes, Oregon, $2.50
*he erection of the central span of the
per crate.
Haytiens Show Hostility.
bridge collapsed, and the crashing
Butter—Extras, 25c per pound;
Paris, July 14—Official advices re down of the span carried down several
fancy. 24c; choice, 20c; store, 17c.
ceived here from Port an Prince state other spans. Several workmen were
Eggs—Oregon. 2313 24c per dozen. that the situation there is becoming thrown into the river Some of them
Poultry—Mixed chickens, 12'3 12 Jc more and more disquieting since the are still underneath the scaffolding.
pound; fancy hens, 131313c; roosters, burning of the French hospital An
713 9c; springs, 18/3 19c; ducks, old.
New Rockefeller Baby.
outbreak is feared among the Hayti-
10c; spring, 12}(315c; geese, old. 813' en«, who arc showing hostility to for
Bar Harbor, Me, July to Mrs.
9c; young. 121c; turkeys, old, 186719c; eigners. The French cruiser Chas
John D Rockefeller, Jr . gave birth
young 206» 21c
scion Kitbab is the only warship in to a son late yesterday at the Rocke
Veal—Extra, 86/9c per lb; ordi
the harbor.
feller summer home here This is the
nary, 6(3 7c; heavy. 5c.
third child, the others being a boy
Pork—Fancy, fij(ij7c per lb ; ordi
Independence for Corea.
and a girl.
nary, 6c; large, 5c.
Denver, July 14.—Coieans coming
Mutton—Fancy. 7j(3 9c.
Window Glass Goes Up.
Hops—1907 prime and choice, 56J(tc from all parts of the world will meet
in convention in this city to discuss
per pound; olds. 26^2|c per pound.
Cleveland, July 16—A raise of 16
Wool—Eastern Oregon, average measures for making Corea independ and 26 per rent in the price of glass
best. 10i316ic per pound, according to ent. There are only 36 delegates, but wa« decided upon by window glass
shrinkage; valley. 14*3 15c
they are men of high education and manofaefirree« of the United State*
Mohair—Choice, 18(^18}c per lb.
absolute devotion to their cause.
there yesterday.
Better Telephone Service.
McMinnville—Representatives of the
DeVarnev • Waggoner company met
met with the directors of the McMinn
ville Local & Long Distance Tele
phone company last evening and an
nounced active work to begin on the
line connecting this city with the
Home company in Portland. All poles
necessary for construction have been
purchased, and are m!..„- ’
red
along the line. Work is to begin at
Sherwood, one crew working toward
Portland and another in the direction
of McMinnville.