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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1905)
HA8 NOT 80LD . K lam ath C anal C om pany H olds O ut fo r Its T s rm s . FOR B E T T E R ROADS Linn County Spending H undreds o f D ollars In U n ifo rm W o rk . Albany— Hume of the liest road work in ( trefoil is Ixiing «lone oil the made of Linn county. The work is syste- math' anil uniform throughout the en tire county. I .set spring tlie county court, in fixing apportionment of mon- eye for road plirpo*«'*, offere«! an an additional inducement to huild good roads that every district which by sub scription should laise (100 would lie given 9100 by tlie county. Many of the districts took advantage of this offer, ami not content with rais ing 9100, doubled that amount, the county producing ita pro|«er proportion. As a result, more money has lieen spent improving the roa«la of Lino county this year than ever Indore, Jaml tlie money has been spent to some purpose, tiecause tlie work is uniform throughout the county. One of tlie act ions looking to good roads was the purchase of alxml a dozen reversibly road scrapers, thus making 20 in all the county. The preceding county court put $3,508 into a big steam mad roller, which was not a success for roads in this county. This machine wa* trade«! to a scraper com pany for the 12 machines. Wherever the land is white or clay like, the roiels have lieen rounded uo amt w ill not lie gravel«'«!. They lie- come cninpsrt anil hard, amt make the I>est rornls in the county. Where the lam! is low, roa«ls are roundtxl up with fine gravel. G rass O u tlo ok is P rom ising. Hiitnptcr — There is promise of an unusual grass yield this season on the Blue mountain rang«-*. Rainfall this spring has lieon far in «•*<•«•** of that of previous y«'ars, which, couple«! with the warm weather that prevaile«! dur ing the latter part of February ami first of March, is accountable for this favor able condition. Cattle ami sheepmen are elated over the grazing pros|M*«'ts, and cx|«ect to carry their sbtck well through the season of 11*05 with little «•x|>ense of feeding. The Blue moun tain ranges are still over**l with snow «in the uplamls, while the valleys are showing a gisxl, healthy gr«iwth of grass. This ought to mean a contin ue« I supply of grazing land until the snow again comes late in the fall. Telephone W a r O n. Albany— As a r«*sult of a jietition to the Pacific States Telephone company, which was numerously signe«l by Linn county patrons of the company, a re duction has Ix-en ma«le in the tele phone rat«-* l>et w«*en Albany and Hhedds, Halsey, Brownsville, I Lebanon, Hcio, Crabtree and Jefferson, the prin- c'pal towns of the county. The rate was reduce«! frem 25 «'ents to 15 cents, ami is giMsi only for suliscritiers to the Pacific Htat«*s system. This is consid ered by many as the Itegiuuing of the war between the imle|*»-iT«l«-iit telephone lines and the Pacific States lines in Linn county. Blue M ountain C re a m e ry . Pendleton — «The Blue Mountain creamery hns commenced to receive cream from Cmatilla county points in a«l«lition to that being sliip|M*«l from the Grand Bone valley. In a short time Chari«** Berkeley, who recently pur chased a 110,000 ranch on McKay cr»'*'k, w ill commence milking 20 «'ows, increasing to 30 or 40 this winter. T. G . Hailey w ill milk 22 cows on his W ilil llurs«' ranch, and F. B. Clopton a number on his farm n«*ar this city. Th«'v are professional men of Pendleton ami enthusiasts on dairying. Do C om bines S pread Weeds? Pendleton— K. L . Hitiith, who sells combine«! haivesters, says that the re- |H>rt that the combines spread w«*eds in the fields is not a fiu't, as the temlency of those machines is to gather the see«ls in sacks where they can lie trana- porte«! from the land ami burned, if so desired. Mr. Hraith says that the comhines are taking the place of steam threshers In Umatilla county, there being nearly 200 in the county. Y . M . C . A . is F o rm e d . (•rants Pass— Through the assistance o f Secretary Htone, of the statfc associa tion, final work has been done in the organization of a Young Men’ s Chris tian association in this city. Tlie asso ciation starts out with a memliership of over 100. Many of the prominent business men are inten-ste«! in the asso ciation, ami plans are already timler wav toward the erection of a Y . M. C. A . building. Loth to Lose Land O ffice. Independence— B. C. Curry, attor ney, of Oregon City, has t>een in the city circulating a petition against the removal of the Unite«! States land office from that place to Portsland. S tate School Fund Loans. Salem— The state land board a few days ago approved applications in 22 instances tor the loan of the interest upon the state school fund, aggregating 931,960. f CANAL WILL CURE Washington, May 12. — Up to the present time the government has lieen unable to come to any satisfactory ar P U R C H A S E «90,000 S H E E P . rangement with the Klamath Canal company, whereby that corporation M c C a n d i* & Burgess W ill 8 h ip 118 will relin«|uish its rights and holdings in t the Klamath basin ami withdraw C arlo ad s fro m 8 h a n ik o . Kent — McCamlie A Burgess have in order that the government may un purchased 40,000 she««p ami ex|M«ct to dertake the construction of the Klam commence shipping them in a few «lays ath irrigation project. At a recent conference betw«*en offi to H«sla Springs for fee«ling for the cials of this company and the engineers Rates by G overnm snt R ailroad M u st market. Following are the Irends they Ixiught: Charles Hinton, Antelope, 1,- of the Reclamation service, the com be V e ry L o w to O ffs e t Loss 000 hea«l; kMcGrerer, Antelope, 8,400; pany renewed its offer to sell out for| 9250,000. This offer was rejected. in H andling. M «•< ill very, Antelope, H00; McCamlie, Antelo|ie, 2,800; Charles I^ivene, An The figure named is very much more An esti telope, 1,100; Brogan, Antelope, 1,100; than the property is worth. Smith, (kmdon, 1,500; A. Stahl, Con- mate on the property and work done Han F'rancisco, May 9. — A matter of ■lon, H00; Tobey, Condon, I,W00; Mc by the company places the actusl value great commercial importance to the Intyre, Condon, 550; Josh Hardy, at not to exceed 9100 , 000 , and it is Pacific coast is discusse«! in a report Comlon, 400; Barker, (fiindon, 2,100; the general opinidn among government engineers and residents of the Klamath that has been prepared for the informa Barker, A Filter, Comlon, 2,000; basin that a lion us of 950,000 addi tion of Presfiient Roosevelt, Secretary Reeder A Fisher, Shaniko, 1,300; A, C. France, An tone, 8,400; Parnhouse. tional is more than ample inducement Taft, of tire War department, and J. L. An tone, 1,000; John Thornton, An- to tlie company to step aside. The Bristow, a special commissioner ap tone, 1,000; M«»rrow A Keeney, Hay latest advice received by the Reclama Creek, 4,100; McCoin, Hay Creek, tion servir» here is that the company is pointed by President Roosevelt to visit 000; Wtirzweiler A Thornjison, Prine- holding out (or ita own price, and will this coast and ac«|uire facts. The ques ville, 8,000; Col. Nye, Prineville, not consider an offer of 9150,000. tion refers to the utility of the Panama I , 800; C. W. Colly, Prineville, 1,150; It in ay lie set down as a fact that the route for the movement of freight be J. K. Rolierts, Prineville, K00; Jones government w ill not pay 9260,000, and tween San F'rancisco and the Atlantic Bros., Prineville. 600. Total, 3»,400. it is by no means certain that Secretary states. The report was submitted to They w ill all Ire shipper! from Shan Hitchcock w ill approve the purchase of W. R. Wluseler, W. J. Dutton an«l iko as follows: May 23, 16 cars; May this property at 9160,000, although the Rufus P. Jennings. It was a«lopted by 26, 10 cars; May 20, 10 cars; .May 31, matter has never lieen pr«*#ented to the trustees of the chamber of com 10 cars; June ¿2, 10 cars; June 5, 16 him, and w ill .lot lie until an agree merce and forwarded to Washington in cars; June 0, 20 cars. Total, 118 cars. ment isjreacheil lietween the Reclama printed form by the chamber. tion service and the canal company. The report says in part: If, after a reasonable time, aa amicable “ The present freight schednle via C O N TR A C TS PRUNE CROP. arrangement cannot tie ma«le, it is un- ilersUssI the government w ill acipiire Panama isj apparently based on the Union F ru itd n e r T ie s U p Cove and that property by condemnation pro overland railroad freight Schedule, the charges of the former varying from 78 ceeding*. Union F a rm e rs fo r Five Y ears. to 90 per cent, with an averagejof about Union — S. A. latssalle, of Albany, 83 per cent of the latter; in other Or., owner of the Union fruit drier, D E A D N U M B E R O N E H U N D R E D . words, the differentials in favor of the has just closetl a flv«*-y«'ar contract with Panama route, with ita 30-day trip as the prunegrowera of Cove and Uni«>n, T w ic e as M sny In jured by T o rn ad o com|«are«l with the transcontinental whereby he agr«*«** to buy at 910 route with its 14-<lay trip, are so Bmall st S nyder, O klah om a. |>er ton the entire prune crop of this that the shipper either east or west Snyder. Okia., May 12.— Approxi st-etion, estimate«! at 1,200 ton* per does not consider the saving sufficient year. To aid in handling this prmluct, mately 100 people were kille«l in the to cover the risk of «lamage or breakage tornado which visited Snyder an«l vi a new drier w ill lie erected at Cove in in the necffsaary several handlings of time for this s«*aM<in's crop, ami both cinity, an«l as many more were injured. goo«is via Panama. The havoc wrought by the tornado is plants will lie run to their ca|>acity for “ Under government ownership of the alsuit 40 days during the drying season, complete. Out of a town of 1,000 peo Panama railroa«! and the sea route to estimating the crop at 1,400 tons, the ple not more than a score of houses are New York from Colon, the only ques «lri«*«| pnsluct w ill be 400 tons, weight intact, while two-thirds ot the build tion to be considered wonld be whether being re«luce<l two-thirds by the drying ings are totally wrecked. The most pressing nee«] is financial. the freight rates could be made suffi proceM. The market for prun«*s is Organization was ;«erfected among the ciently low to make the saving on trans found principally from Colorado east citizens today, and ap;>ealH sent out to portation expense an object to the ship ward. per and enough to offset the additional It will Ire seen that the running of lea«iing cities of the territory asking for time required in transit.’ ’ immediate assistance. In addition to these driers w ill mean a revenue <*ach year to the growers of from 910,000 to the many injured who are taring cared G O O D MEN GO UP. $12,000, or about 950,000 Ur 960,000 for at the hospital, many sustained for the total time under contract— a lesser injuries and are incapacitated for p«*ri«sl of tt/e years. A certainty of a the work of caring for those who are in F o restry S ervice Is Im proved U nd er market for prunes w ill stimulate their nee«i of assistance. C ivil S ervice Rules. Hundreds of inquiries have been growth, and it is fair to pr<-8ume that Washington, May 9. — Up to a few pouring in all day from relatives and at the end of five years the yield may months ago the forestry service, includ lie even greater than present estimate* friends of Snyder people in all parts of ing forest inspectors, forest superin the country, sev«*rely taxing the capac indicate. ity of the telegraph office. With the tendents, forest assistants and forest removal of the injured to other points, ranger, were outside the classified ser Gam e Law s are V io lated. vice, and the positions paying all the the Htrain upon the people of Snyder Pendleton— I*eputy Game JWarden way from 9720 to 92,000 a year were w ill be greatly reduced. Joe Noli has returmsl from a tour of As The property loss is variously esti- prey for influential politicians. inspection through Cnion county. He was to lie expected, many incompetents mate«l at from 9300,000 to 9400,000. timls that in the mountain streams the Two hundr«*d reshlences were «lemolish- were loailed onto the government, and game laws have lieen totally ignored ed, and about half the business build there was much complaint berause of and violated in every way. On Cath ings are practically a total loss. The the inefficiency of the forestry force. erine creek, aliove Union, the sawmills De*'eniber 17, 1904, the president remainder are more or less «lamage«l have <lnm|>e<l their sawdust into the brought the forestry under civil service Tire Hilton, the largest hotel in town, streams and have nearly ruined the remains intact, and a portion of the protection; soon thereafter congress fishing in that stream. In a ride of httifiling was use«! for an emergency transferreo forest reserves to the con nine miles down the («rand Ronde river trol of the department of Agriculture, hospital. ,Mr. N oli found 13 «lams over which and now Gifford Pinchot, chief of the fish could not leap in the emleavor to forestry bureau, who is actually in T ID A L W A V E O N L A K E S . go up stream. charge, is inaugurating reforms which he lielieves w ill greatly improve the On MalheurJProject. Damages Chicago Docks and Floods serv es i i every way. Many Basements. Pendleton— After a two days’ s«>ssion The Roosevelt idea of promoting good here, the ls>ar«i of consulting engin«*ers Chicago, May 12.— Rumors of a re men is being applied, an«l the higher of the m'lamation service aeljourned markable tidal wave along the west positions in the forestry service are and left for Ontario, from which place shore of Lake Michigan were received liereafter to be filled by the promotion the members w ill make a personal in today. The wave seemed to be the of competent men in the lower posi vestigation of the land inc)u«lt*d in the highest at Kenosha and Racine, Wis., tions. In the new service the j«osi- Malheur project. According to I>. C. where a wall of water swept in, causing tions w ill be grade«l as follows: Forest Henny, one of the niemliers of the much damage and alarm along the supervisor, $1,800 to $2,500 a year; board, practically all the attention of docks. A t Chii'ago the wave simply deputy forest supervisor, $1,500 to $1,- the hoard was given to the plans for raise«! the stage of water and cause«! a 700 a year; forest ranger, $1,200 to the Malheur and Owyhee projects. The very ht>avy current down the drainage $1.400; deputy forest ranger. $1,000 Umatilla project was not taken up at canal. Boats navigate«! the river with to $1,100; assistant forest ranger, $800 all, and w ill not be on this trip. the gr*>atest difficulty as a result of the to $900. high current. Persons who were in the forestry C h a rg e d w ith Stealing M a il Pouch. Weather conditions in Chicago this service on the date of the president’ s Woodburn — One result of Govern afternoon were such that a recurrence order were carried under civil service ment Ins|x*ctor Butler's investigation of the tidal wave along the west shore protection; hereafter all appointments of the theft of the registered mail is anticipated. The rain during the w ill be made after examination of ap pouch at Woodburn, on A pril 12, is last 12 hours has been almost unprece plicants and preference w ill be given the arrest of B. J. Kuper. He was dented. W ithin a few 'hours the fire to local men, selecting rangers and su arranged before Justice Overton on two department answered 80 calls to pump pervisors, when practicable, from the charges. He gave 91,000 bond for his out basements in various parts of the states in which they are to be em appearance for preliminary hearing. city. ployed. At the time the mail pouch was stolen Kuper was Southern Pacific baggage Iron M ountain G roup Sold. C o p p e r Found in Helena. man at this point and carrie«! the mail Victoria, B. C., May 12.— The Iron Butte, Mont., May 9.— A miner from hags from the p<i*t office to the trains. Mountain group of 22 claims of hema Helena says rich «-opper ore was uncov tite iron, on the west arm of Quatsino ered today within the limits of Helena. PORTLAND M ARKETS. sound, has been purchased for 975,000 The lea«l of this re*l metal was found Wheat— Club, 84(88.5c jier bushel; hv J. A. Moore and W illiam Piggott, a«ljoining the Pur«ell lime quarry, on of Seattle, the latter being the head of the east side of the town, the lead be bluestem, 90<892c; valley, 85(890c. Oats — No 1 white, $28(829.00 per the new rolling m ill at West Seattle. ing worked by the Alberta Mining The purchasers are in negotiation with company. Sixteen inches of very rich ton; gray 928 per ton. H ay—Timothy, $14(816 per ton; prominent F’ astern Canadian capital ore is in the lead an«l the discovery clover, $11(812; grain, $11(812; cheat, ists and contemplate the establishment create«! no little excitement. Some of of blast furnaces involving an initial the ore was “ blistem l” in a black 911 ( 8 1 2 . Kggs — Oregon ranch, 17J^c per expenditure of 9100 , 000 , contiguous to smith’ s f«>rge and the copper and silver the ore supply, an«l if successful w ill were very distinguishable. The ore dozen. begin work at once. runs $75.31 to the ton. Butter— Fancy creamery, 18@20c. Potatoes— Old, 75c(8$l ; new, Denies H e Sold Russia C oal. N ew Road to Pacific C oast. 2)kc P*r lb. Paris, May 12.— The Marquis de Bar Apples— fancy, 91.50(892.50 per box. New Orleans, May 9.— The Colorado thélémy, who with Count «le Pourtalee, Southern, New Orleans A Pacific rail Strawberries, Oregon, 10(815c box. Hops— Choice 1904, 2 3 (825c per operates the French concession at road filed a charter here today to build Kamranh hay, Annam, in the course a railroad from New Orleans to connect pound. Wool — Valley, 25(827c; Eastern of an interview today denies that his with the Colonuio Southern and thence Oregon, best, 17(820«-, mohair establishment furnished coal or pro- to the Pacific coast. The charter bears > isions to the Rnsaian squadron. choice, 31Q32t%c per pound the name« of local directors. Shipment by Panama Now Slow and Expensive. REPORT SENT TO PRESIDENT T W E N T Y -N IN E A R E D E A D . M arq u ette, Kansas, in Path o f T o r nado's D astructiva Sweep. Marquette.^Kan., May 10.— Follow ing a terrific rainstorm, a tornado from the south tore a path through the resi dence part of this town at midnight last night, destroying almost every house in its path and causing the «leath of 29 and injury to 44 persons, several of whom w ill die. An unusually hot and oppressive afternoon, daring which the atmosphere was loaded with electricity, was fol lowed by a night peculiar for a deluge of rain. This continue«! until 11:66 p. m., when the tornado, which had formed about three miles south of town, spent ita force among the beat resi liences, dashing them into ruina, in which tbair occupants were entombed. It was gone in five minutes and contin ued to mark its path with devastation for many miles northward. The people of the town were depend ent entirely on their own resources, for all telegraph and telephone wires ware down and only by tending out to neigh boring towns was it possible to get help. Not until 8 o’clock in the morning did physicians begin to arrive from outside, anil they set to work to care for the wounded. When the missing in Marqnette had been pretty thoroughly accounted for, the searchers directed their attention to the surrounding country. Fkion half a «iozen wagon loa«ls of dead and injured had lieen brought to the town from the district adjoining it on the south. Tonight order has lieen brought oat of the chaos, and a relief committee has liegun dispensing relief. Among the relief sent from nearby towns were 150 pupils from Bethany college, who acted as nurses. T A F T S P L A IN T A L K . T ells Railroad M en R ate Law M u st Be Passed. Washingion, May 10.— Secretary Taft fairly took the breath of the 300 rail way men, members of the Interna tional Railway congress, dining tonight as the guests of the American Railway association at the New W illard hotel, when, after being introduced as “ the ap<jetle from the Philippines,” he em phatically declared that railway rate legislation must come; that, if the rail way men of the country were wise, they wonld aid and not hinder it; that the sentiment of the country is such that failure of proper regulation meant a campaign on the subject that would do no good to the railroads. Absolute silence reigned as Secretary Taft spoke his mind on the subject of rates. He was positively against gov ernment ownership, he said, believing that nothing so deleterious could come to the country as tnis solution of the question. “ But,” he continued, “ yon cannot ran railroads as you would run private business. You must respond to the public demand. I f there is danger of discrimination, then you must allow the establishment of some tribunal that w ill remedy that discrimination.” NEW GERMAN TREATY NEEDED. Gonsul G eneral P redicts Loss o f E x p o rt T ra d e O th erw ise. Washington, May 10.— Consul Gene ral Mason, reporting to the State de partment upon the disastrous effect upon trade with Germany involved by the new German tariff law, which is to go into effect next March, urges “ the preparation of a new and carefully drawn treaty of amity which w ill pro mote a normal and increased reciprocal trade while conserving and protecting the interests of both nations.” Mr. Mason says that it is his opinion Germany is sharply divided on the question whether the moet favored na tion clause of the German-American treaty w ill be allowed to continue after the new commercial treaties become effective. The commercial and indus trial classes generally, he savs, are op posed to a drastic policy which might lead to reprisals and increase the cost of bread. The State department is daily re ceiving protests from large American business houses against the new Ger man tariff rates, which they claim w ill destroy their German export trade. S till in French W aters. London, May 10.— There is no furth er news of the whereabouts of the fieets of Admirals Rotestvensky anil Nebogat- off anil the dispatches wired from Paris to the effect that they have left F’ rench waters are not credited here. That they joined in French waters is certain and that they are still there is likewise a palpable fact. That they are to move northward may be so, but it is not be cause France ilemands it, but rather be cause the Russian commanders feel that the time has conre to risk everything on a desperate move. S h ake-U p Among G otham Police. New York, May 10. — The moet ex tensive shake-np in the New York po lice department in years took place to day, when Commissioner McAdoo an nounced the retirement of two inspect ors, ten captains and 45 sergeants on the ground of phyaieal disability.