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GALE DRIVES FIRE. HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON ______ _________ J m i * IrtKIU ATlUN Echo the ttcCTION. Pivotal Point Enterprises. for Many Echo.— In no other part o f Kustern Oregon Is ¿here us many Irritation «•chemee under way as along the Uma- Glu river between here and Pendleton on the east und here and Umatlllla on the Columbia river. Echo Is the center of thla unuaal activity In Irrigation enterprises. Home o f the companies which have m-eu Incorporated, many of which are In the midst o f extensive Improve ment work, are Mat well Irrigation Company, ilelthel Ditch Company, Mluuehaba Irrigation Company, Ore gon l.und ft W ater Company. Three Mile Kalla Irrigation Compauy, Hun- 1 11 la Ditch Company, Oregon l.and ft Construction Compauy, ilulley Ditch Company, Inland Irrigation Company, Xirownell Ditch Company, Columbia i.and ft Irrigation Company, Allen others. There are also a number of others. There are also a uuineb of private Irrigation schemes under way by some of the farmers of the sur rounding district. Because water has already been supplied to a large section of the land below here, the district Is now known ns the famous Echo alfulfa meadows. Hundreds of tons of alfalfa are raised there yearly. The Irrigation project under way this year will be prove exceptionally valuable to the farmers who are now entering the sugur beet raising In dustry. Home of the compatîtes have pur chased large tracts of the district und the property will be resold In small plots to be used for gardening and fruit raising purposes. The people ure trying to make this district, which was once u laud of desert and sage brush, a famous fruit belt. HOW C H EM AW A HAS GROWN. Great Indian School Celebrates Birth day With Good Cheer. Chemawa.—The Chemawa Indian School celebrated Its twenty-fourth anniversary one day last week. The pupils were given a half-holiday. In honor of the day, and In the evening the whole school assembled in the auditorium and an appropriate pro gramme was rendered, consisting of addresses and music. Twenty-four years ago the school was started by Captain Wilkinson, of ■the United States Army, at Forest Drove, aud shortly after was moved to Its present location at Chemawa. Then It had accommodations for 25 pupils, now It can care for GOO pupils; then It had three small frame build ings, and a half-acre o f land, now It has 37 commodious structures and 346 acres of as good land as be found in the Northwest. From this small beginning It has grown In sl*e and Im portance and Is now the fourth larg est In the United 8tates, and Is class ed as the Industrial School of the In dian Service. Its pupils come from California, Oregon. Washington. Nevada, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. W ill Condense Milk In Coose. Marshfield.— The establishing o f a condensed milk plant In this city at the terminus of the Coos nay ft Rose- burg railroad Is almost assured. A. J. Seedy, of Newberg. Or., Is here on his second visit with a view o f start ing the enterprise. The Marshfield board o f trade has offered all the In ducements he could ask. and Manager Chandler of the railroad, lias proffered the site, which Is Ideal, being the most central point In the county, from which mlyk can be received from all locali ties dally. The dairy Interests of the <ounly are extensive and the condens er will start with many tons o f milk dally. W ill Quarry Belgian Blocks. St. Helens.—Tho letting of the con tract for 640.000 Belgian blocks for paving the streets o f the metropolis will be a considerable help to the busi ness o f this community, as the blocks are to be quarried here, necessitating the employment o f a large number of men whose wages run from $250 to $K per day. Tw o quarles will be oper ated. -One on Milton Creek, and the other below town, know as the Uls ters' quarry. The latter has several feet of loose rack over the quarry and this will be barged to Portland, crush ed and used on tho city's streets. Mineral Exhibit for ...# Fair, Baker City.— State Commissioners Raffety and Williams, of the Lewis and Clark Commission, are here, looking over the exhibit prepared by Superin tendent Fred Mellls for the St. Ixmls c,xposition. They found a choice col lection of ores nnd mineral specimens niready arranged for the exhibit nnd a long and exhaustive list of specimens secured from the various mines, which will soon be on hand ready for trans portation. It will bo the most com plete collection of minerals ever plac ed on exhibition from this state. To Forbid Insurance Trust. I,ebanon.— In view o f the fact that the cost of Insurance Is steadily In creasing Instead o f decreasing, as companies hero asserted that It would, Hon. M. A. Miller states that at the next session of the state legislature he will Introduce a bill forbidding ln- snr/ince companies to combine, as they are continually doing. Pralrls Fra Sweep* Over Oklahoma With Great Damage. SUNK BY SHELLS! **— ■ — — a NO TROOP8 TO GO. Cabinet Decides to Let Marinee Re- main at Panama. Lawtou, Okla., March 6.— Driven by RUSSIANS AGAIN LOSE IN BATTLE Washington. March 3 — Important a terrific gale from the north, which AT PORT ARTHUR. matters relating to tne Panama canal at time* reached the velocity of 90 were under discussion by President mlela an hour, a prairie fire swept r-Muivl C A T T L t T u b H t t P . over thousanda o f acres of Kiowa and Roosevelt and his cabinet today. A t Comanche counties last night, destroy One Torpedo Boat hunk and T w o U a U io - torney-General Knox and other offi Many Lane County Men Turn to Ing hundreds of farm buildings and ! •Mpa Badly Damaged — Attacking cials o f the department o f justice More Profitable Stock. much live stock, made 1000 persons! Fleet W hich W ithdraw s la (Joed Or have under consideration the title to Eugene— Tho present Winter, homeless, caused the death of several 1 der, Is M et Outside, but Opponents the canal property, which Is to be while tho whiter has beeu unfortunate persons, threatened a number of ly mild, hus sot a number of cattlemen towns und swept away scores of build passed to this country by the Panama hous heck bhcltcr. to thinking ou questions of economy, ings In tbe outskirts of towns. Canal Company, but as yet they have The losses from wind and fire re und the relative profits of cattle aud Loudon, March 2.— A dispatch to reached no conclusion. sheep. A m a result many will gradual ported to date follow : Hobart, $4000; It was said after the meeting that Yinkow, ly work away from cattle and devote Vinson, $8000; I>awton, $10.000; small the Dally Telegraph from no money could be paid by this gov Ihelr attention more to sheep. There country towns, aggregate, $50,000; dated February 29, says: Fifteen Japanese warships furious ernment until a clear title to the prop has been no great profit In range cat farm property, $100,000. The country was very dry, no rain ly bombarded Port Arthur from 10 un erty was obtained, but no Intimation tle for some years, unless they could he kept on range that cost nothing, having fallen for months Grass and I til 12 o'clock this morning. The Rus-! was given as to the length o f time while sheep are paying handsome pro stubble Area set by farmers, as Is cus-1 Sian cruisers Novik, Askold and Hay- which might elapse before a decision fits on any o f the best farms In tbs tomary at this season o f tbe year, an, accompanied by four torpedo- j was reached. Valley, after charging them with feed, were soon driven beyond control by boats, Hteamed out to meet the a t-; The entire subject o f the canal and tack. They were, however, forced to ! Its construction was discussed In ad laMraat Slid all ltema of expense.! the gale, which rose suddenly. A ll estimates of the loss exceed retire. The Askold was in a sinking dition to the legal phases o f the ques The cattlemen are brought to a realis ation that It costa nearly as much to $200,000. A t Hobart, tbe county seat condition. The Novik was badly dam tion. In this connection it was decid keep an animal over the winter as It o f Kiowa county, the fire destroyed aged, and a torpedo-boat was sunk. ed, as heretofore indicated might be Kusslan battleship Retvizan tbe case, to countermand the orders will sell for In the spring, and In this ; uumerous outlying buildings. The 75,- Tho they see no profit. This winter bay Is 000 acres of Government military and was again damaged. Tne Japanese issued to the Third United States In fantry to go to the Isthmus to relieve worth $18 a ton or better. It takes timber and Indian reserve near Ho withdrew In good order. Thla battle shows a repetition of the marines now on guard duty there. no leas than a ton to each animal to bart were swept with loss o f buildings the now familiar tactics of Japan, and For some time the marines will con winter them In decent shape, and very aud cattle. In the Homestead district near Law- It Is presumed the attack was made In tinue to guard the Isthmus. This gov few ranges could sell out their stock at $18 per bead. For this reason they ton, occurred the loss o f life. bad weather, previous telegraphic ad ernment Is opposed to establishing I^ate at night the fire began moving vices having reported a severe gale two jurisdictions on the isthmus, and, ure loo .ng more to sheep, which sub sist almost entirety on the range, re southward toward the city. At 12 raging at Port Arthur. As usual the > as the naval vessels must remain quire little attention, yield an annual o'clock, midnight, 5000 people of this Japanese did not remain long enough there, It was thought best to allow ■ evenue In wool that will pay for keep city were up In battle with tbe flames. off the harbor to enable the gunners the marines to continue to do land ing and have tbe mutton left as profit. The advance line o f tbe fire was fully at the fort to get their range. Again duty. It is the earnest wish o f the Presi two miles In length and moved In a at the time the three cruisers, the Hayan, the Askold and Novik, same dent and the members o f the cabinet semicircular form. RULING ON LAND LAW S. Tw o thousand men turned their ef out to meet the attack, and this sug that no unnecessary delay occur in be Opinion on Important Point Given by forts to checking the grass borders of gests that either they were the only ginning the work on the canal, and It the reservation at tbe city limits. effective ships there, or that the : Is their Intention to press It with the Attorney-General. W ater from every source, carried In larger battleships were unable to get utmost vigor. Salem.— In response to a question ! every conceivable way, was distributed out. propounded by Clerk of the State Land ' along the line and carted all around C H IN A CAUGHT IN A T R A P . Many alleged dispositions of the op Hoard G. G. Brown, Attorney-General 1 the city limits. This served the pur posing forces are published this morn Crawford has rendered an opinion In pose o f checking the advance lines of ing, but they differ too much In de Russia Knows 8he Can Never Take which he held In substance, that If a the fire, but was o f little avail in tail to be o f any great value. Up Siberian Railway as Per Lease. person purchase Indemnity school land A dispatch from Shanghai to tbe hindering the continued rolling of the from the state and divest It of its tim Paris, March 3.— Information has firebrands Into the streets o f the city. Daily Chronicle says the Russians are ber, aud thereafter it is found that In more than a hundred places flames transferring the guns from the dls been received from Harbin which Is the state cannot convey title thereto, arosB from dwellings, barns and out- abled ships at Port Arthur to the extremely Interesting at the present said purchaser Is entitled to the re houBes, but wherever a blaze grew forts there. time, dealing as it does with the payment of hla purchase price paid A dispatch from Chefoo to the men were present to quench It with to the state, under sections 3310 and Trans-Siberian Railway. A corres water. As a result o f tbe cool judg Standard, dated February 29, says a 5311 o f the code. ment o f the fighters, the city’s loss Japanese cruiser and torpedo-boat en pondent of Martin met M. Chaffaujon, Tho Attorney-Genera! adds that If tered that harbor without lights at 1 the noted French explorer, and the was only $10,000. such timber Is removed from the land Stories are coming in tonight of o'clock on the morning of the 29th, latter discussed the railway, which und it is found that the title thereto how families laid out on the barren and ft 1 b believed they embarked the he hag recently inspected. He de lies In the United States, the party re Japanese who took refuge there after moving It Is held accountable for the prairie through the freezing night the attempt to bottle up Port Arthur. clares Russia does not own the land the road is constructed on, despite the rams* to the Government, but that the after the storm had passed with only A Tokio correspondent o f the general opinion to the contrary. Rus the thin clothes on their backfe as re Government cannot hold the state li minders of once prosperous homes. Times cables that the steamers sunk sia merely has a 99-year contract or able for such devastation. by the Japanese on either side of the lease. So far as Is known, there is only one Hundreds of people are destitute and Russian battleship Retvizan at Port are sufferinging Intensely in the cold M. Chaffaujon declares the treaty case of this kind In existence, the one Arthur practically obstruct the en with China stipulates that, if at the In which the question was raised, and with the excruciating pains caused by trance to the harbor. end o f 99 years, China desires to en In this case, the timber has all been their burns. Clothes, medicine and ter into possession o f the line, she cut. but remains upon the land, owing physicians are being Bent out from all NO T RELISHED BY RUSSIANS. may do so, after reimbursing the to a lack of facilities for bringing It the cities and towns of the district to relieve the suffering. company for all o f its expenditures out. Chinese Troops Are Consentrating to for the construction and maintenance of the road. TO RENEW FIRE. the Westward of Mukden. Buys Hroses at Pendleton. M. Chaffaujon declares it is difficult Liao Yang, March 2.— General Pendelton.—John Mlchaela, of North Japanese Ships Believed to Be Re Mlshtchenko, with a detachment of to Imagine China refunding to this Russian company the millions that plenishing Supplies. Yakima, ahlppeu a car oi ..raft horjiea mounted Cossacks. has reached ' would be necessary under the lease, from thla point to hla Washington St. Petersburg, March 5.— The au KashnJa, Corea, and is expected at and declares the Flowery Kingdom Is ranch last week. He paid from $200 thorities are badly puzzled at tbe ap Ichio Yang at once. His men and caught In a trap. to $300 per team, purchasing the most parent disappearance o f the Japanese horses are In good condition and he is The terms of the lease, also, he de of the horses from B. F. McElroy, a squadron which has been investing well supplied with provisions. clares. provides that Russia shall The concentration o f Chinese farmer living about five miles out Port Arthur, and are Inclined to be have the right to place all o f the sol from Pendleton. Good draft horses lieve that the ships are being coaled troops westward o f Mukden, In tbe diers necessary in the territory ad are held at a high figure In this dis and their ammunition supply replen district o f Gubantsa, is not relished 1 joining the line of road in order to trict, said Mr. Michaels this morning. ished, in order to renew the bombard by the Russians. W ar material is being guard it. and also to build such sta brought up and the militia posts are ! tions as it desires. "I could have purenosed horses In Ya ment at an early date. kima county, but not as readily as I The report which is being persis being strengthened. It is doubted if could here. The Seattle buyers have j tently circulated by the “ official” news the attitude o f the population can be RUSSIA IN FEAR. bought up a large number o f the Wash- | agency that the Japanese have retirel relied upon. The people at several points refuse to sell produce to the Ington horses.” discouraged at their lack of success in Snowstorms are raging j Combination of Yellow Races May Be damaging the fortress, and the severe Russians. Formed Against Her. P O R TLA N D M ARKETS. Injury to some o f their ships, is laugh here and the frost is intense. The 1 ed at by the best-posted o f the naval railroad is working perfectly and Moscow, March 3.— Among thought Wheat— Walla Walla, 78c; blue- experts here. They point out that the troops are arriving uninterruptedly. ful Russians, there Is a constantly stem. 83c; valley, 82c. ships o f the Japanese squadron have Their health and spirits are excellent. deepening impression that Russia will Barley— Feed. $21 @22 per ton; used a great deal of ammunition in Lrewing. $22; rolled. $23. their several bombardments o f t h e ; SAY FORT W IL L DESTROY FLE E T yet have to face the combined power Flour— Valley, $3.75#3.85 per bar fortress, and declare it was to be ex-1 of the yellow races, the cunning neu rcl; bard wheat, straights, $3.90# pected they would have to withdraw to j Russian Military Authorities Have No trality proclamations o f China and 4.10; clears, $3.55#3.75; hard wheat, their base in order to load supplies Fear* for Port Arthur. Corea to the contrary notwithstand patents, $4.20# 4.50; graham, $3.75; and coal. Moscow, March 2. — Interest ing. There are serious traces o f des whole wheat, $4.00; rye flour. $4.50# throughout Russia is now fixed on pondency among the better class o f 4 76. C EM ENT BIDS EXCESSIVE. Port Arthur, and speculation as to the Russians, and some solid Russion suc Oats— No. 1 white, $1.17Vi#1.20; probable fate of that supposedly im cess is anxiously awaited and badly gray, $1.1001.15 per cental. Government W ill Erect Own Plant at pregnable fortress takes the widest reeded as a tonic. Mlllstuffs— Bran, $18.50# 19 per ton; Arizona Irrigation Works. range. The government, knowing this fact, middlings,, $26; shorts, $19.50@20; The publication o f General Stos- caused to be circulated a report of a Washington. March 6.— The Interior chop, $18; linseed, dairy food. $19. Hay— Timothy, $15#17 per ton; department today rejected all the bids scl’s order to the troops, while it has Russian success at Port Arthur yes clover, $11#18; grain, $12#13; cheat, submitted several days ago for the had the effect of arousing enthusiasm I terday. In which a Japanese warship supply of some 150.000 to 250.000 bar in Russia, had also attracted atten was said to have been sunk, but the $12#13. Vegetables— Turnips, 80c per sack; rels o f Portland cement to the gov tion to the tremendous strategic val news was received with open skepti carrots, 80c; beets, $1; parsnips, $1; ernment for the Salt River irrigation ue o f that fortress and to the crucial cism In the absence o f direct official cabbage, 2c; lettuce, head, 2 5 # 40c project In Arizona. The action Is the part It plays in Russia’s plans for the confirmation. It is semi-officially stated that the per dozen; hothouse, $2 per box; par result o f the excessive prices submit-1 defeat o f the Japanese in Corea. W hile the failure o f the Japanese Japanese and Russian advance are In sley, per dozen, 25c; tomatoes. $1.50 ted by the cement manufacturers, the # 2 per crate; cauliflower. 75c©$1.00 department stating that first-class attempt to bottle up the fleet evoked sight of each other, and news of the per dozen; celery, 65@75c per dozen; Portland cement can be manufactured sarcastic comment from the Russian first land battle is awaited with a de squash, lV4c per pound; cucumbers, at the dam-site on Salt River from press as to the Japanese cunning and gree of apprehension. good materials at hand there for less the miscarriage o f the enemy’s plans, News o f the activity o f the Chinese $1.75#2.25 per dozen. Onions— Yellow Danvers. $2#2.50 than $3 a barrel. Including the entire the Russian military authorities are troops in the province o f Chi LI Is con cost o f the plant, fuel, operation, etc. pointing out that this attempt having firmed from official sources. Generals per sack, growers’ price. The department will now consider been defeated, therefore it must fol Yuan Shi Kal and Ma are concentrat Honey— $3#3.50 per case. the question o f erecting a plant for low Port Arthur is impregnable ana ing their forelgn-drilled forces at Potatoes— Fancy, 90c#$1.35 per strategic points and trouble is feared. cental; common, 75#90c;, growers' the Government manufacture o f the the Japanese can never capture It. price; sweets, 2V6c In sacks; 2-tic cement, the purchase o f the supply in j open market, or readvertisement of Original fores of Rebels Was 3000. Farmers Form Big Concern. crated. Fruits— Apples, fancy Baldwins and j bids. Omaha. Neb.. March 3.— Twenty Manilla. March 2.— General Leon Spltzenbergs, $1.50#2.25 per box; ard Wood reports, under date o f Feb- states were represented by 250 dele Steamers Intended for Russia. choice, $1#1.50; cooking. 75c. mary 15, an engagement with Datto- gates to the National Co-Operative Tacoma, Wash., Marcn 5.— W hile no ButteT— Sweet cream butter, 32Vfcc Moros, under Hasan, on the Island o f Graingrower8’ and Stockralsers’ As per pound; fancy creamery. 27% # confirmation o f the fact is obtainable Jollo. Lieutenant West and six pri sociation. when that body convened 30c; choice creamery, 25c; dairy and j at this time, the belief Is gaining vates were wounded. One has since here today. It provided that the name ground that the steamers sold by the store, nominal. d:ed. The Moro loss was heavy. o f the association shall be changed to Farmers’ National Exchange Butter Fat— Sweet cream. 31c, sour Northern Pacific Steamship Company Hasan succeeded in making his es the to the Northwestern Siberian Com cream. 29c. cape. His original force of 3000 has Company. Its object shall be to “ buy. Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 12'/6#13c pany are Intended for tue Russian now been reduced to 15. The Island Is sell and deal In grain, livestock and all per pound; springs, small. 14*4#15c; government, and will uever be put on now under control o f the American kinds of produce on commission and liens, t3#13<4c; turkeys, live, 15# the Alaska run, except to pass Alas authority, and Influential Moros are otherwise, and for that purpose build 16c per pound; dressed. 18#20c; ka on their way toKamschatka. The aiding In the pursuit o f the outlaws. and equip elevators, warehouses, cold- ducks, $8#9 per dozen; geese, live, fact tnat John Rosene, manager o f the The members of the constabulary storage plants, stockyards and what purchasing company, recently return 8c per pound. who revolted at Vlgan are all In cus ever shall be necessary for the carry ing on o f the business Cheese— Full cream, twins, 14c; ed from St. Petersburg, and the fur tody. ther fact mat ..e Is owner o f valuable Young America, 15c. concessions from the Ruslan govern Essentially a Military City. Eggs— Oregon ranch. 20#21c. W ill Not Advance for Month. ment, lends odor to uie report. Beef— Dressed, 5# 7 c per pound. Yinkow. March 3.— Liao Yang. Man Paris, March 2.— Reports received Mutton— Dressed, 6@7Vic; lambs, from Russian sources state that the churia, is now essentially a military Siberian Reserves Anxious to Go. *o. Russian land preparations in Man city, as an area comprising three and Veal— Dressed, small, 8@9c; Inrge, St. Petersburg. March 5.— Mall ad churia will not be completed for a a third square miles adjoining the 6% #7c. vices from Siberia say the army re month, and the general advance can railroad has been Inclosed for a mil Pork— Dressed, 7#7V4c. serves from the rural districts seem not be ordered before that time. It itary camp and magazine purposes. Hops— Choice, 25@26c per pound; to be more anxious to go to the front Is then expected that whatever There Is also a military camp at Hal prime. 24#25c. than the townsmen. Many o f the lat ground the Japanese have gained will Cheng, Manchuria, 30 miles from Nlu W ool— Valley, 17018; Eastern Ore ter are presenting physicans' certifi be overcome and they will be finally Chwang. which, with its defenses, gon, 12© 15c; mohair. 32©35c. cates o f Illness. covers over 1000 acres. annihilated.