MALHEUR ENTEItPMSE.
'. m I MORSE IS BITTER III ' "!asV
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COMET WILL BRUSH EARTH.
Pacific Coast Will Have Best View
About May 18.
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 6. Halley a
Vntiretr Ttnme TothnKOil fnm 111 comet will five tho Facific Coast a
I cIoxa hrinh thm vear on Mav JS. De
twecn the hours of 4 and 10 o'clock
n. m.. and the "brush" will be some
thini? snectacular. says rroiessor
Charles Hurkhalter. of the Chabot ob
unrvatorv.
I . ' mi ii i . ti
me eartn win men puss mruugu mo
last of the 20.000,000-mile tail or tn
colestial visitor, and the result ought
to be as dazslinf a piece of firework
I ... ii. ... u4 i ... as this feneration has ever witnessed
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Items Gathered from All
Parts o! the World.
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
eating Happening from Points
Outside the State.
Banker Morse begins a penitentiary
sentence as convict No. 2814.
Archbishop Ireland defends King
Leopold's administration of the Congo
states.
Zelaya says he has abundant proof
that American marines aided the revo
lutionists against him.
J. P. Moriran. T. F. Ryan and Levi
P. Morton form a Si 50. 000. 000 bank
trust in New York city.
It ia claimed that the recent aero
plane carnival in France frightened all
the birds from the vicinity.
United States government officials
have planned s raid against nightriders
of Kentucky and Tennessee.
A millionaire cattleman of Texas
rave hia three children $2,000,000
worth of property each for a Christmas
present.
The barkeeper of an American hotel
in Havana refused to serve two negro
congressmen and a riot followed. Fur
ther trouble is expected.
President Taft listened patiently to
the committee of railroad presidents
but will not change the tone of his
forthcoming message to congress.
Postal deficit for 1909 is $17,441,-
719.
Over 50,00 people attended Presi
dent Taft's New Year's receptino.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, opens
campaign tor further triff revision.
If mediation in switchmen's strike
fails, 20,000 more men wil stop work.
Dauehtes of the American Revolu
tion have taken up conservation work.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock urges
postal reforms to avoid a deficit in
190.
Bettinir is even in London that the
Liberals will win in the coming elee
tion.
Indian commissioner reports that tu
berculosis is on the increase among In
dians. Twelve men were lost by the sinking
of a sugar-laden schooner in an At
lantic gale.
Colonist travel to the Pacific North
west for 90 broke ail records, and is ex
pected ti still greater for 1910.
A woman armed with a shorgun
stopped the laying of an oil pipe line
on her ranch gin California.
Trains collided in a snowstorm near
Billings, Mont, killing two. A miss
ing baggageman is thought to have
burnedin the wreckage.
he is still presi-
Th astronomer insists that he has
"nothing to say" about so dramatic
situation, fraacht sot omy with awe
innirinr possibilities to the dwellers
on tho trlobe. but fraught, as well, with
possibilities of tragic moment. Whether
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or not tue eario a uivo iuiuuiiu iuo
comet's tail will mean anything more
than a dazzling starry spectacle, Pro
tensor Burkhalter will not predict. lie
only says:
"Wait and see."
The news that Halley's comet will
ho seen only on the Pacific Coast has
not hitherto been published, although
the fact has been known for some time
to the astronomers of the world, many
of whom will iournev to California to
be on the sccno when the great phe
nomenon takes place.
In discussing the Comet, the astrono
mer says:
"Astronomers Cromelin and Cowell,
of the Koyal observatory at Greenwich,
have probably made the most exnaust
ive researches into tho history of the
comet.
"According to the computations Ilal
ley's comet will reach the descending
node on May 18, 1910, when it will be
in a direct line between the orbits of
the earth and the sun, and it so hap
pens that the earth will reach that par
ticular point of its orbit about the
same time. Should the calculations of
the astronomers prove to be rigidly ex
act, the comet will pass directly be
tween the earth and the sun between
the hours of 4 and 10 o'clock stand
ard Pacific time.
Assuming that it will happen dur
ing the middle of this time, or 7 p. m.,
t will be visible over the Pacific Ocean,
Kastern Asia and Western Korth America.
BANK MERGER GROWS.
In
Zelaya BNSorts that
dent of Nicaragua.
Taft's special messago on trust law
changes will go to congress next wook.
A southern chemist expert asserts
that the aurora boreal is is caused by
gas.
The New York suprome, court says
patriotism has given way to an ago of
graft.
Army engineers have recommended
extentiivfl improvements for tho Colum
bia river.
The Turkish cabinet lias been driven
out of otllcc and a military premier
may be appointed.
It Is considered that tho reclamation
service is sufei from abolishment,
though many changes may be uiado.
A Nebraska man got an appointment
s a deputy sheriff ami then proceeded
to bring homo his orring son from Los
Angeles,
A draftsman on a Britlah school ship
is under arrest for stealing complete
plans of the nritish navy's wireless
system and codes.
.Tames Gordon, once accused of con
spiring with Hooth to kill Lincoln, has
been uamod United State senator from
Teuiienseo by Governor Noel.
Henev hits filed a libel suit against
W. H. Crocker for SO.OOO.
Fifty out of 88 American colleges
will contir.uo to approve of football.
Phviiriann say there is no hope for
Cardinal Siitolli, though ho may linger
several days.
Loss by the tidal wave and Mixard
on the New Kngland coast will reach
.1,000,000, besides many lives.
When elHVH arrives in Mexico, Pre
dent Iinz will attend a reception in his
honor, which is taken as a direct insult
to the I'uited State
Six women are en route on foot from
Poattla to join the 1. W. W. of Spokane
and ngtit for tlie right of free speech
ou the public street.
Zelaya boards Mexican gunboat under
. eyes of American mariue.
J. P. Warren, who pursued ard helped
to capture Jesus James, is dead,
Strike leader for the switchmen
have called off negotiation with the
railroad, and will appeal to WaiV.ug
ton for advice and aid.
Mi Iconise Taft, niece of the presi
dent, will be married to G. II. Suowden,
of Seattle. After a trip to Kurvpe they
win reside in rvalue.
A crippled Italian girl in Chicago
robbed her father' bauk of 30,iKH,
With which she hoped to Induce her
Co mill, also a cripple, to marry her.
Prance is in a panic at the Inroads of
Aniericaa commerce,
President Taft is being urged to tuaks
active war tia the trust.
.!krd sweep th east f rt til Win
Biped to llliuoii, and Chicago face a
l famine.
A ihixmr arrivwd at lloijiilain,
Wkh., H7 d4 out from llypong, China,
with arr pUis kopeUxsly til aud uly
fw HisaJs i prvvuiuai left.
Big Money Trust Adda $61,000,000
One Day.
New York, Jan. 5. J, Pierpont Mor
gan and associates may control, through
further trust company mergers in Isew
York, the enormous sum of $210,000,000
in deposits alone.
This is approximately $23,000,000
more than the deposits of the National
City bank of this city, the largest finan
cial institution in the United States.
Reports of additional trust company
consolidation are given credence in
view of yesterday's announcement of
tho merger by J. P. Morgan & Co., of
the Guaranty Trust, Morton Trust and
ilfth-Avenuo Trust companies, with
combined deposits of about $150,000,000.
This brought a revival in tho finan
cial district of rumors embracing the
Hankers Trust and the Manhattan
Trust enmpo2:c3 jn il0 ,iame combina
tion. There were definite reports that
the Mercantile Trust company and the
Equitablo Trust company eventually
would bo taken into some sort of a
powerful alliance.
In jwint ot fact, the Bankers Trust
company is closely afhliated with tho
so-called Morgan interests in that two
partners in the Morgan banking house
Goorgo W. Perkins and Henrv P.
Davison sit in tho directorate of tho
form or.
Other directors of tho Hankers Trust
company, including A. I). Hepburn and
A. H. Wiggin, presidont and vice-presi
dent respectively of tho Chase National
bank, and William II. Porter, president
oi mo i,nomicni national bank, aro
active in affairs of the Guaranty Trust
company, wtiieli is to bo made tho
titular head of tho Guarantv-Morton
Fifth-Avenue consolidation.
relations between tho Morgan inter
ests and tho Manhattan Trust company
always have boon intimate, though the
latter is not regarded as a Morgan ap
pondnge. It is porhaps significant that
tho building onco occupied by tho Man
hattan Trust compnny is to bo razed
soon to make way for a 30-story build
ing to bo erected by the Hankers Trust
company.
jvejiomifl or mo imnxers Trust aggre
gate f-Jti.miU.UUU nnd thoso of the Man
minim i rust, company !., Jl'H.UtMi, so
that tho two companies, if combined
with those now in process of nbsorn
tion by "J. p. Morgan & Associates,"
would total in deposits moro than $200.
000,000.
Train Is Lost la Desert.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan, 5. Train No.
4, carrying 100 to 1.10 passengers from
Los Angoles to Salt Lake, is marooned
on tho desert, 34 miles from Calinete,
lv., tho track before and behind it
Having been torn out bv the flood of
week. 'Iho train is well stocked
HAPPENINGS FROM AROUND OREGON
MANY NEW PHONE LINES.
Independent Company Connects Boise
With Central Oregon.
Ontario Ontario's independent tele
phone system is nearly completed. The
telephones have been received and the
switchboards will soon be installed. It
is expected that all will be in working
order by the middle of January.
Rural lines will be installed from
hern to Nvssa. and from here to Vale,
including ranches all along both lines.
A modern metallic circuit will be put in
from here to Vale for long distance
use. to connect at Vale with the line
alroady practically complete from Vale
to Burns in Harney county. The Vale-
Burns line is beinz installed by a Brew-
scy corporation, of which W. D. Baker
is one of the principal stockholders and
the manager.
Exchange with this line has been ar
ranged by tho Ontario lines, which will
also have exchange wita me i-ayciie,
Fruitland and Idaho towns as far east
as JJoise. mis will give in eneci a
throueh service from Boise to Burns,
which will be the largest territory that
has ever been served by telephone in
this locality.
The Drewsey line reaches Westfall,
Beulah, Harney and Burns, will soon
be in at Juntura, and will have con
nection with all the ranch homes in
Otis, Malheur and Harney valleys.
NOT BUILDING LOGGING ROAfl
last
with provisions and thero is no suf
lenng. As soon as wagons can reach
the stalled train, a matter of three or
four days, the passenger will bo
buuight to Barclay, six miles west of
Acoma, where a train will bo
to bring them into Salt Lake.
waiting
Town Nearly Wiped Out.
Wutertown, S. IV, Jan. 5. The town
of Castlewood, H mile outh of here,
narrowly missed being wiped out by
flre of unknown origin tonight. The
entire south side of Main street I in
ashes, entailing a loss estimated at
1M',000, when 12 buildings were de
at roved. The tire did not stop until
the Inst building on the south side of
the street was destroyed. I.ate tonight
the fire had burned ' itself out on the
extreme edge of Main street.
President of Pacific Railway Declares
Grade Is First Class.
Portland "Who ever heard of a log
ging road constructed Bt a cost of 40,
000 per mile?"
This the question E. L. Lytle, presi-
ent of the Pacific Railway & Naviga
tion company, propounded when Baked
in regard to a report emanating from
ABtoria to the effct that the line being
built from Hillsboro to Tillamook will
be nothing more nor less than a log-
ing road: that it is not intended for
passenger and freight business.
Why, it is absurd," Mr. Lytle con
tinued, and laughed heartily. "Of
course the report came from Astoria;
Astoria does not want the road built at
II. It never did.
'We are pushing the work as rapid
ly as possible, and expect to have
trains in operation by August 1. At
present 1,500 men are engaged on the
work, and they are certainly doing
something." "The report has it that
the road contains too many sharp
curves, and too steep a grade to make
it practical forpasaenger traffic," Mr.
Lytle was told.
Curves and grades? We have no
steeper grade than the maximum of
the Southern Pacific to California,
wbtch is 3 per cent, and as lor curves,
there is not one exceeding 15 degrees.
You must not lose sight of the fact
that we have 18 tunnels on that stretch
of road from Hillsboro to Tillamook.
These tunnels shoudld do away with
some of the grade that seems' to fright
en those who might have started the
rumor.
"The road will cost in the neighbor
hood of $4,000,000, including the cost of
equipment, and passenger and freight
trains will be operated to supply every
demand.
"As far as logging goes, we do not
own a tract of timber in that district.
Of course, it taps a rich timber coun
try, and logs will, of course, be haul
ed if they are offered, but it will only
be part of the business."
Potato Panning Pays at Elgin.
Elgin Tho country around Elgin is
taking its first stride in potato raising
this year. The crop ran from 100 to
2(10 bushels to the acre, and yielded
nnoiit .4,uuii uusneis irom the nu acres j
planted. Next year it is expected 1000
arres will be planted. We have har
vested the largest crop of potatoes in
the state this year," said 11. II.. With
orspoon. "Off of S" acres we obtained
1 !',((( bushels. This is considerably
larger than the crop at Medford, which
was claimed as the largest."
CANAL FROM LAKE TO SEA.
Pacific Canal Co. Incorporates for
SI.OPO.000 to Build Shipwsy.
Portland Monev makes the sea
port, then the people come. Upon this
policy, it is announced, the Pacific
Caual company has incorporated with
a ranitaliiatlnn nf SI. 000.000 to con
struct a ahinwav between FloreS lake
and the ocean. Pacific City is to be a
new town maintained largely by tim
ber intersets.
"But the building of the city is in
entirely different hands than the canal
project," said L. Reeder, attorney ioi
the promoters of the canal.
"The men who are backing the enter
prise, I might say, went down to
Florea lake and looked over the situa
tion. They saw a natural wooded har
bor. needinar but a short connection
to open it to the ships ot the sea,
They measured and found 10,000,000
feet of virgin timber, and the cleared
land valuable for dairying and near
ly all of it arable. It was practically
an unopened country. They decided
that it would be a sure investment to
build a city; the canal comes as a mat
ter of course.
"In 1912 we will heve there a city
of 10,000 people, possibly. The land
is capable of supporting fully that
many. Railroads are coming and the
largest ships will be given a fresh wa
ter harbor two miles long, three quar
ters of a mile wide and everywhere 40
feet deep. Located about 40 miles
south of Coos bay, we are at a conven
ients hipping point for all coast cities
and for the trade of the Orient"
Wallowa's Lumber Industry.
Wallowa In 1909 the chief advance
ment in the county was the lumber in
dustry. t the beginning of the sea
son there were only three small mills
in the immediate vicinity of Wallowa;
at the close of 1909 there were ten
mills, many of which have a capacity
of 20,000 feet per day. The largest
of these mills is the Nibley Mimnaugh
Lumber company's mill, located in this
city. It is a modern band mill, with
a capacity of 50,000 feet per day.
These mills will market more than
30,000,000 feet of lumber annually, all
of which will be sent from Wallowa.
As the lumber industry increased
rapidly in the past year the population
of the county increased. Wallowa ad
vanced from a little hamlet to a mod
ern town with many magnificent resi
dences. Wallowa county built a modern court
house within the past year, which is
located at Enterprise.
$20,000 Library at. Astoria.
Astoria Arrangements are being
made to accept the Carnegie library of
fer, which provides for the construction
of a $20,000 building in case the city
will guarantee's $2000 maintenance
fund annually. Tho present eha-ter
provides that no more than $000 prr
year be raised by taxation for library
purposes. Mayor Smith favors a sps
cial election to amend the charter in
this particular, so that the required
amount of $2000 could be raised. This
would be no great additional burden,
as the city now raises $1500 by a half
mill tax.
Convicted Banker Claims He Has Been
Made a Victim.
New York, Jan. 4. With a supreme
effort to be cheerful, but with emotion
occasionally getting the better of him,
Charles W. Morse left New York today
to begin a 15-year sentence in the ted-
eral prison at Atlanta, us., ior vioia
tion of the national banking laws.
Before leaving the Tombs, where he
had been confined for the greater part
of the last year. Morse received his
wife and two sons and thon the news
oaoer men. He was too affected to
say anything, but handed out a care
fully prepared statement.
Morse left at 10:45 o'clock in cus
tody of Deputy United States marshals.
The party occupied a stateroom.
Morse's statement is bitter and dra
matic. "I am going to Atlanta to begin
penal servitude under the most brutal
sentence ever pronounced against a
citizen in a civilized country," is his
opinion of the sentence.
"I have hoped," the statement con
tinues, "with that hope which comes
from a consciousness of my innocence,
that I will not have to close out for
ever the light and liberty of this world
under such an inhuman sentence. 1
have felt that the fact that I had paid
a tne of $,0(K),UU0 nnd served a year
in prison would satisfy the cry for a
victim and I have steadily believed
that the courts would be compelled to
give me a new trial.
"When I learned that the private
detectives of the prosecution were the
keepers of the jury, that the jury drank
like men upon a jaunt or a holiday,
rather than citizens engaged in a se
rious service, and that as a result, two
of them were rendered unfit, I natur
ally hoped I would be allowed another
trial by another jury, free from these
hostile influences.
It seems, however, that, the courts
intend to establish the practices which
uiuilu ruHi-uriHKin a pare or a jury
service and private detectives as the
custodians of a jury a permanent insti
tution. By this sentence and judgment
I may be brought to ruin; but the dam
ago done to me is not half as import
ant as the injury to the administra
tion of justice. I am now up in years
and must, with the passing of time,
pass also; but the record of my con
viction and the wav it was broueht
about will remain a lasting and dan
gerous example of a government gone
mad in search of a victim."
OIL FOUND IN ATHABASCA.
Secret Borings Show Inexhaustible
Supply, Cmmittee Is Told.
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 4. Evidence of
the value of the Athabasca oil fields
has been given before the Dominion
senate committee by Alfred von Ham-
merstein. He stated that for the last
eight years he had been exploring the
field between 320 and 350 miles north
of Edmonton, and that some of tho
wells had revealed the presence of oil
and gas in larce auantities.
The wells varied in depth from 250
o 1,200 feet. He showed samples of
naphtha oil and of oil collected in the
sand. He declared that in the wells
which he was boring thero were. ir.AY.
austible supplies of this material.
Near the surface it was found in a
hardened state, while 60 feet lower
down it was found in a semi-liquid
condition.
His work had been carried on secret
v. ucciareu mai mere was no
toundation for the statement in th
prospectus of tho California & Albert
UU company that it had discovered
on on a ao.ooo-acre property 30 miles
norm or .amonton.
NEWS ITEMS FROM
WASHINGTON
Congress Convenes.
Washington, Jan. 4 A lowering of
the bars in favor of fermented, malt or
fruit beverBges at army post ex
changes and on army transports, but
permitting "no distilled nor ardent
spirits to be sold, "is provided by a bill
introduced in the house by Representa
tive Parker, chairman of the judiciary
committee.
The measure provides that the favor
ed beverBges may be sold, under prop
er regulations, by enlisted men or oth
er persons authorized.
The increased cost of living was
the Bubject of a concurrent resolution
offered in the House todsy by Repre
sentative Hull, of Tennessee. It pro
vides for a joint committee of the
house and senate to investigate ana
report what remedies msy be effected
through legislation.
Secretray Wilson, of the uepartmeni
of Agriculture, has ordered a sweeping
inquiry of the same nature.
"Ireslize," said Secretary wnson.
"that we hBve undertaken a big con
tract, hut we can carry it out. We
have the men and we have the money."
A bill making sweeping changesin
the interstate commerce laws for the
regulation of railroads was introduced
today in the House by Representative
Mann of Illionis, chairman of the com
mittee on interstate and foreighn com
merce. Representative Hawley today in
troduceud his bill granting to the State
of Oregon the right to make lieu se
lections, equal in arer and value, to all
school lands embraced in forest reser
ves. Late today after a conference with
Senators Aldrich and Root and Attor
ney-General Wickersham, President
Taft decided to revert to his original
plan of combining his views as to
amendments to the interstate com
merce and anti-trust laws in one mes
sage, which he will send to congress
Thursday noon.
An aggregate of $6,344,000 of re
pairs to naval vessels is provided in es
timates the secretary of the navy to
day submitted to the house. The
recent legislation required recom
mendations for authorization where re
pairs are to exceed $200,000.
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CONSOLIDATE REPUBLIC,
Minister Barrett Says This
Outcome of Trouble.
Washington, Jan. 4.-00,
of the five Central American re
Into one government is the
Stale department is workingon
ing to information from an
tive source tonight. I th,
future only such steps as will k!
about the commercial doi..-
develo
the Countries', their aafokt.-.i.
, -""uiwninent ot
sound financial basis and the ti
tion of an entente between the
lies, are contemplated.
The first note of the new prow
was sounded by John Barrett, dit
of the bureau of American rpUbr
In his recent Toledo speech, fii
declared that eventually the (j v!
States of Central America would be
accomplished fact V
On the heels of this announce,
came the declaration of Senor Cri
the special agent of Mexico, whouu
on leaving Washington: 11
"The United States and Mexico
continue coopearting to bring
peace in Central America and to Z
FOREIGN TRADE $1,475, 000,000
Land-Hungry Men Busy in Lake.
Silver Lake During November 12,
800 acres of land were filed upon before
Commissioner West at this place. There
were 15 homestead filings of 160 acres
each. 2S additional homesteads, three
desert filings of ItiO acres each,
and one of 320 acres. These fig
ures show how eagerly land in this por
tion of Lake county is being sought
after. From the way December filings
have continued, the number will be far
in excess of those for November.
AIR CUTTERS ARE READY.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Big Hospital for Medford.
Medford The mother provincial of
Oregon, who is in charge of all hos
pitals in the northwest under the man $18(ci20 per ton ; Eastern Oregon,
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
$1.20; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.09;
Valley, $1.10.
Barley Feed and brewing, $30((f
30.50 per ton.
Corn Whole, $35; cracked, $36 ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $32.50((i33 ton.
Hay Timothy: Willamette Valley.
$18
agement of the Sisters of the Holy
Names, is in Medford for the purpose
of meeting local business men and dis
cussing with them plans for the erec
tion of a $125,000 hospital in this city,
l'or some time the Sisters of the Hoiy
names have been considering the mnt
ter of erecting a hospital in this city,
but this is the first definite step.
Thirty Potatoes VWigh 8f Pounds.
Junction City Floyd Ilowerd hs on
display here six potatoes which weigh
16 pounds. One potato weighs tive
pounds. F. W. Thorn raised about
4.000 bushels on his Kiverview farm.
Thirty potatoes filled a sack, which
weighed 89 pounds. A dealer pur
chased three sacks of potatoes from
Wm. Michaels and found one that
measured 4 inches in length.
Wild Cats In Linn County.
Albany The foothills of Linn coun
ty are abounding ii wild animals.
Wayne Menear brought the skins of
three wildcats and two cougars to the
county clerk's office, ior which he was
given the state bounty amounting to
6. lie will be given nearly as much
county bounty at the next term of the
county court. I
John D., Jr., Deep Dolver.
New York, Jan. 5. ' ' I am heart and
oul In this investigation," said John
D. Uockofoiirr, Jr., todsy as he en
tered the Criminal Courts building to
talk over the plans for the "white
lave" investigation. Mr. Kockefeller
was yesterday selected a foreman of
the grand jury which is to make the
uiri!gaiion. --ir iheje stories are It created during the year, and which
true. ' he said, referring to the alio- will mean th dividing un nf th-
i?atlon tit h..U.uU . . '
"the truth about them houl.l V .,.,.
definitely. If they are fl. they
should U ailtfuced.'
Orchards In Linn.
Albany The plantina; of thousands
of acres of orchards in Linn county,
through the organisation of orchard
companies, is the real awakening spir-
Taper Trust Trot Nsar.
New York, Jau. 5. Tho fejeral
graul jury here u e,.ectd to taU
up shortly (ho luve.tu-ition of t), .i.
bged paper combination wl.u-k il.- f...i
eral authontiei ha beea looking into,
following (he action whick led to K.
UiMolulwu r (k mauiU fiber
I'vol.
ent Urge tracU of land.
Profit In Wallowa Land.
Joaeph -Augustus Whit has sold
his eUO acr aUvk ranch in Initiation
park to Jo Shinn of Joeeph for $S,uoo.
Kir. While taught this place four years
ago for ft, 600.
paper
Klevlrlc Llhu tor Teu.
Halfiii A complete eleetri 1 g h t ! n
yaleui, Including ou bu'b is rath cell,
ha teea latlallei at Ik pentetlitry
(d.21.50; alfalfa, $16wl6.50; clover,
$15(i16; cheat, $15(il6; grain hay,
Butter City creamery extras, 39c;
i a in-y uuisiue creamery, i54(aayc per
jponud; store, 22 , (d :24c. Butter fat
I prices average Hc per pound under
I regular butter prices.
I Poultry Hens, 15v'(j 16; Springs
! 1 5 . (a 1 6 ; ducks, 20c; geese, 12c; tur
I keys, live, 22c; dressed 25c.
I f.ggs rresh Oregon extras, 41(.i
a ! 1 - J - . ,
i-per aozen ; eastern, zui 3)c per
uozen.
; Pork Fancy, 10d; 10gc per pound
j Veal Extras, 1 lot 11 c per pound
rresh fruits Apples, $l((3 box;
i pears, i.oo per box; cranberries.
, t per barrel.
ioiasoes carload rniying prices:
uregon, tott;e per sack; sweet po-
laioes, zc per pound.
egetables Artichokes, $lf.il.75
per dozen; cabbage, $1.60(n 1.60 per
nunarea; cauliflower, f 1.75 per dozen;
ceiery, 3.ou per crate; garlic, 10c
pound; horseia lish, 12 Si c per pound ;
pumpkins, lV'ISc; sprouts, 6i 7c
per pound; squash, lot 1 i.c: turnins.
$1 per sack; carrot. $1; beets, $1.60;
parsnips ei.ou.
Onions Oregon, $1.50 per sack.
Hop 1909 crop, 20(d21c; old
nominal.
w ool tastern Oregon, lfi(j23c
pound; mohair, choice, 25c pound.
Cascars bark 4 'e pound.
Hides Pry hides, Lioil9c pr pound;
.1... L : i - . i o . j . ... . '
uj "h utilise pouna; dry cailskin,
19n21c pound; salted hides, 10(,i 11c;
salted calfskin, 15(,il6c pound; green
lC IrS-t.
Cattle Pest steer. $4.50u4.75;
fair to good. $4t4.25; medium and
feeders, f.1.25.t6 60;. cows, top, $3.5d
(i4; fsir to good, $:t(,i3.25; common to
medium, t2.5iV.i3.75; bulls, $3.25(.t
5.60; h.avy, $4i.i4.?&.
Hogs-Peat, $S.6iVa8.65; medium,
7.60.tS.25; slikk.r. $tUi)ta.75 ;
Sheep-Hest Wetbrrs. $5.60oi6.75 .
fair to good. f4.6oi.(6: . v,e lea,
yearling, Uat, 6i5.1!5j fair U good.
14 eou4.Ul lambs, $itl.l6.
Aviators Arrive in New York From
Paris Leave for Los Angeles.
-New ork, Jan. 4. Edwin Cleary
who arrived here from Paris a few
days ago with seven aeroplanes, which
ne expects to try out during aviation
ween at i,os Angeles, and Faulhan
wno will arrive tomorrow, will leave
tor Lios Angeles Monday next. Four
of the machines are of the latest model
aeroplanes, two Bleriot's and two Far
man s.
There is also an Antoinette, one Far
man and one Hlenot, which Mr. Cleary
t-.ecis to use auring vtne aviation
snow week. Ho expects to break his
own record for speed, height and Hnr
ation. His record already is more thar
i.fnu reet ror height and with his 50
norse-power motor in a new Rleriot he
expects to be able to travel in the air
at the rate of 50 miles per hour.
i auinan is under contract at a big
oil id 1 jr.
100 Days Weston's Limit.
-New ork, Jan. 4. Edward Tayson
Weston, veteran pedestrian, announced
today that lie will make one more
transcontinental walk, and get from
ocean to ocean in 100 days. Weston
will start from Los Aneeles at 4 o'eloeV
the afternoon of February 1, and will
be due in New York May 2S. His hike
from New York to San Francisco early
last summer took him 105 davs. but
u uiai journey ne encountered a long
c '.A oi Biornis ana unusually hot
. V suro l"al De faa cross
me Lnitea Mates m 100 days.
Mining Plant Is Burned.
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 4. The sort
ing plant and ore bins of the Mace
mines at Mace, Idaho, in the Coeur
il Alenes, burned today, together with
the sorting machinery, heating plant,
blacksmith shop and 200 feet of ex
pensive cribbing, entailing a loss esti
mated tonight at between $",000 and
lloo.OOO. The fire is believed to have
broken out in the heating plant All
the property destroyed is owned bv
the Federal Mining 4 Smelting com
pany. The gorting plant bandied ore
worn mo piandard aud other Ma
in iues.
nee
South Pole Next Goal
Worcester. Mass.. .Ian 4 TV.nUii n
McMillan, member of Commander
esrv a jolar expedition, and Captain
Hartlett, who Commanded V lTV 'a B K i n
the Koosevelt, today said that thev
would like to be members of the expe
dition to seek the South Pole. Cap
tain Hartlett said: ! have heard of
uch a tr.n be:iu iilnn.) T ...... k..
. . f - ...A UD
lected to command the ship which
will carry the exned.tion a.mtWnF.l t
think the Koevelt will be selected, if
the expedition oea thr.ni..
- --.
Imports of Raw Materials Lead Ex
ports of Cotton Show Big
Washington, Jan. 5. The foreign
commerce of the United States in the
year 1909 will exceed in value that of
any earlier year, with a single excep
tion. The imports will be larger than
in any previous year, while the exports
will fall slightly below those of 1906
and 1907.
The above is an estimate of the"
year's trade based on official figures
for 11 months as presented by the bu
reau of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor. Assuming that
the twelfth month, December, shows
figures of imports and exports approx
imately equal to those of the immed
iately preceding month, November, the
imports will aggregate about $1,475,
000,000, and the exports about $1,750,
000,000, of which approximately $25,
000,000 consists of foreign merchan
dise exported, and the remainder, $1,
725,000,000, domestic products.
imports free of duty will be larger
than in any earlier year in the history
of our commerce and will aggregate
approximately $700,000,000, against
a little over $500,000,000 in 1908 and
$636,000,000 in 1907, the high record
year prior to 1909. Dutiable imports
will amount to about $780,000,000,
and will be larger than any preceding
year, except possibly in 1907, when
the total was $787,000,000. This esti
mated total of $1,475,000,000 of im
ports in the year exceeds by over $50,
000,000 the highest import record of
any earlier year, that of 1907.
Of this $1,475,000,000 of imports,
about $525,000,000 is raw material
for use in manufacturing and $260,
000,000 jartially manufactured mater
ial for further use in manfuntnrinn
making the total value of mannfnotnr!
ers' materials imported nearly $800.-
uuu.uoo, or more than half the entire
imports of the year.
solid substance to the Washington 2
ing of high respect to the interna '
court at Carthage."
It is positively stated that the rek
tions of the United States and Meii
have not been strained in the slight
by the Nicaraguan episode.
It is the coonviction of the present
administration that the influential eW
ment of the republics can be won ove
by giving a staple basis of comm....
The removal of Zelaya means the elin- '
ination of the troublemaker of Cental
I America. It is necessary to the buc
j cess of the plan to eliminate all traces
of Zelayanism, for the reason if
una enows any disposition to compro
mise with Zelayanism, his chances for
recognition from the United States art
small.
CAN'T BEACH HIOHEE-TJPS,
Taft's Brother Is Their Attorney, ant
Roosevelt's Relative Is Manager.
Shreveport, La., Dec. 31. Declarint
that if Mark Hanna had died ii
months sooner, he would not have been
tried and sentenced to jail for havijj
represented a corporation that had a
case pending before a government de
partment, ex-Senator Burton, of Kan
sas, today severely criticised President
Taft and former President Koosevelt.
"Tho men higher up in the sugar
fraud eases will never bo molested. hfc
Cause Mr. Taft's brother is attorney for
sugar irusr, anu Mr. Koosevelt'i
the
uiuiuui-m-iaw is virtually tne mana
ger," declared Burton. "The sumr
the most powerful
agency io
owe
imprii-
JAPAN SEfcKS NEW TREATY.
Ambassador Uchida Hopes Immigra.
tion Law Will Be Revised.
Washington. Jan. 1 Amnno- th
official acts of Baron Uchida, new Jap
anese Ambassador, will be a series of
steps leading to a proposal to th
United States for a modification of the
Root-Takahira agreement which I.
poses limitations on the immigration of
Japanese laborers to the United States.
While the subject is now being
spoken of in a conservative vein, it is
said that such a duty is one of th
especially imposed upon the new Am.
bassador by his government.
K is also reported that Jnn t,Dv..
to terminate in 1911 its treaty of com
merse and navigation with 'U rt.i.-j
trust i
r.i l ....
ponucs. ii exercises mora
power in forming the national policy
i.juu any oiner agency. To it 1
me inai wnicn resulted in
onment.
Burton was tried and sent to jail for
a brief term for having represented a
corporation which had interests in the
hands of one of the federal depart
ments. "I first incurred the enmitv of Roose
velt," Burton continued, "for havinu
threatened to oppose his Cuban policy,
which meant letting in Cuban sugar oa
a bas:s that threatened to throttle iU
infant beet sugar industry.
"After the passing of a few years,
Taft comes along with his Philippine
policy. Capital had begun to turn to
the beet sugar industry again, and the
Philippines industry scared it away.
"Koosevelt opposed my Cuban policy,
and at the same time he feared I would
head a delegation at the national Re
publican convention for Mark Hanna.
If Hanna had died six months earlier,
there would have been no charges
against me, and I would still be in the
senate."
Mexico Acts Within Rigets.
Mexico City, Dec. 30. The Mexican
government has -acted wholly within
its rights thus far and according to its
legal methods in the matter of the
American railroad conductor, Cook,
said Charge d'Affairs Bailey, of the
United States embassy, here tonight
'IThe crime with which Cook standi
charged," continued Mr. Bailey, "is
not bailable under the Mexican laws,
and they have a legal riet to keen Cook
in custody six raonthB before rendering
a decision. He has been in jail four
months. The case is waiting the re
turn of the letters rogatory from Gen
eral Manager Clark of the Mexican
line, which have to do with the charac
ter of Cook."
Brigadier General Edgerly Retires.
Washington, Jan. 6. Brigadier
General Winfield S. Edgerly, until re
cently the commandant of the mounted
service school at Fort Riley, Kansas,
wbs today placed on the retired list for
physical disability. General Edgerly
was recently examined by
retiring
To what extent Jaoan will .u board Bt his own reauest. and the
modification of the Root-Takahira ' rePrted tht he was physically
agreement has not been learned. I '""P'Ved for active duty. General
uKeny is irom New Hampshire, ana
Higher-Up Indicted Veiled 1 W,S- raduated m the United States
Washington. Dee ot...." , i military academy in 1870, being in the
ficials are coneratulaiin; 7a."", .?! ! TVlc" ever ".
..... n.t lIlc ciueing ot ia()9
results have been accomniik ; ...
rehabitation of the custom service
E' -d'"the
K . runa ana corpora
t.on. through whom the Government
dollars.
OUt Of m inn.
The department ia am -
, t w mm will WVI1S
tinuing investigations. The offi-
w... .r. aeeping a close secret
iraunaiuj- or toe individual
UP" in the sugar frauds.
the
"higher
Patrick Henry'a Body to be Moved.
Richmond, Jan. 5. It has practical
ly been determined to move the body
of Patrick Henry from Rel Hill, Char
lotte COUnty. to thia rirv .h,inal
! in the churchyard of the old St John's
j church in which Henry made hi famous
j revolutionary speech. ' The present
! grave is in the rear of the old Henry
' house at Red Hill, unmarked except by
a small slab. A bill is to be presented
to the Virginia legislature in January
I appropriating fund for a monument
Heavy Sul Is ja Demand.
New York, Jan. I Si.eciflcationi on
contracts f,r ilnUhfJ p..i.-
w-re hi'svv la the U.t A ik.
yur, notably for structural aimtori.l I
I short and wire product. Or.!.r.
or laiau OU
Dennett Asks For Probe.
ti,. m gt0"' PC 30'- Presents- Panama Canal Work O K
tive Msguire, chairman of the bouse I W..hln. , .
committee charged examination ot th. mJjl
i "vu.m oi me interior H.nrtm. .
- w - "-.'. uiin iiiiiv . . i udtm
t, M mi-. 'J I vt W V III..'"
Ol OI adminialmtUn 1. n.. i
'Hi, in v
airainst It.
annound today that at the r7aa.t of flt ,Pl"dldly, but the
l and C.mmia.,on KiiVkTi ? ! ""-nt. in
I n.-. i. 'v.,,ou. nlte would inveati.t- , " : "7 r"l,c,,m direct! agsins
" ! VI lirDrrunli
" k, of Nrbraska,
. tr l piiii
th country Lara I- ..L....I ..n . 1 cntl n add h. T... 1 nm " xb concensus of ODinioti of tb
.. . ... e wdico return
ror J.vi'00 ton of f.l.ri.i-.l
making ii, IWraib.r total 1
ia. luuira.la for a-,.-
.1 i ......
'"vii iiw,wu voaa.
tl.
uk irrtrp..fw. .....
che of furnttur b ah. ....... i f i
UWi , '"1 of U fun! provided for th.
"D.ngn.n luday, aft.r a visit w
tbe renal tone. J rt tt,e party were
S.nature OJtver, l'enro, Carter, L)U
II y burn and Clark.
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