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W IL L B E C O M E S T A T E . President Roosevelt to Approve Constitution. » T A T E S P O S IT IO N H T R O N O . 8 IQ N U P F O R A R ID L A N D S . A ttorney C e n tra l C ra w fo rd Confident Agrsem snt Reached fo r Closing Deal In C ro o k County. o f Telephone Case Halcm— Attorney General Crawford states that lie is preparing the hrlefs for the state in Its light against the Pa cific Slates Telephone compiiny in re gard to the grosa earning*« of the corn- |iuny in which the tehiplione company attacks tiie constitutionality ol the Oregon initiative law. " I do not fear for the state's posi tion In this m atter," esid Mr. Craw ford. "T h e initiative was enacted sim ply as a corrective and does not destroy 1 lie representative form of government o f the state constitution. The tele phone com ¡iwriy ha« undoubtedly pre pare«! its strongest i«se sml I will work along the lines which I hsve just stated so far as I can tell at present. "Che reference In Its papers filed by ttie company to the election of Unite«! States senators by dim :t legislation was «lone simply to involve the Keileral law with a view to carrying the case to the United States Supreme court should the state be Hiitroraful In its light agalnat the telephone company in the state courts." _________ Monsy In C lovsr i M d . Albany— I/xal dealers are building up a lucrative bnainnee In handling the clover see«I pmdnred by the growers o f this section. Carter A Robson, of this city, have mads a specialty in sup plying alsyke and red clover see«) to one of the largest seed concerns In Wiscon sin. Should it h* posslbla to obtain the cars, a total of 240,0<)0 pounds will have been sent to Milwaukse by the end of tliis week. The local Arm seeks to purchase sufficient seed to make out a shipment of seven carloads with a total valuation of about $28,000. This opens up a new market for the clover aee«l raise«! in this section and will have a tendency to strengthen the local market an«l bring the top price to the valley growers. It is raid tlist the supply ie not equal to the dernami and that a lucrative business awaits grow ers who will specialise in the growing o f clover for see«i purposes. Freighting at K lam ath. Klamath Falls— An averags of ISO,« OOO pounds of freight every live days Is being haule<l into Klamath Falls by the J. M. McIntyre Transportation company. Ollier freighters are carry ing emsller amounts. The merchants are stocking up for winter tra«le, as the freight ratos are higher during the bed road» season. Tiie McIntyre com ¡any is keeping 13 teams on the road, each making a round trip every five days. After October 1 tiie freight will be un- Ioil,led at Kcno, 1H miles down tiie river from Klamath Falls, and brought up on the steamer Klamath. While the haul from the end of the track of the California Northeaatsrn railway to navigable water, and thsnce by txiat to Klamath Falls, would be easier than tiie present one it is not likely that there will be any change in the present route until spring. Rush for Lake Lands. Prinevllle— A rush is being ma<le from this part of the ntate to the north ern pnrt of I.ake county, where the Fremont forest reserve will be opened for entry October 28. The land office officials are anticipating great crowds of «ntrymen when tiie office opens October 28. Many people are going prepared to stay on the land and attempt to get ««platters' rights. Kvery means of con veyance will be presse«l Into s««rvice. Railway N ears Completion. Pendleton — Track laying on Ihe Umatilla Central, tiie branch line of the O. R. A N. running to Pilot Rock, 10 mil«* distant from Pendleton, is progressing rapidly, and it is under- stool that the line w ill be completed within six weeks’ time. This will mein much for tiie Pilot Rock country. H oppickers Dig Basts. I«a Grande— A large force of Japan ese are now harvesting the iieets in Grand Honda. Most of these are from the hop fields In the Willamette val ley. Ih e fields will be dotted with i>eet diggers After a week’s work the I.a Grand«» factory will be start«««! for the fall run. Irq u ire Into S . P, Shortage. Hal««m— The state railway commis sion ha* dechled to Investigate on its own motion the car eh« r age on the Southern Pacific. The «late for tiie hearing has not iieen set exactly, but it will probably be about October 10. Postoffics Called H arrim a n . Prinevllle— A postoffice has been ss- tabliihed in Harney county near Low- en. The new office is on fhe proposed Ruras-Ontario railway line and has been named Harriman by the Postoffice department. Sturgeon W eighs 610 Pounds. Astoria— One of the largest sturgeon ever caught in the Columbia river was brought to Rrhmidt'a cold storage plant a few days ago. It weighed 810 pounds and wraa caught in a Baksr’a bay trap. Up Halenri— Without ylehllng a single jtolnt in the conditions, tiie state land ix»r>l has r«<aclie«l an agreement with J. K. Morrison, president of the Des- chute« Land com|«any, ami the new contra«'t for tiie original Oregon Devel opment conijuny’ s segregation of 31,- 000 seres of ari«l lam! In Crook county has been fully signed and seale«!. The new contract, which grant« an increas«» of lien price |*er acre to $30, provide« that tiie land shall be reclaimed and tiie system turned over to the Water Us««rs' association within five years and free from inoumhranoe. The company entered objections to several of the most material conditions, all of which were overruled, and the contract was accepUid practically in toto. Fin« Showing at University, Univeislty of Oregon, Eugene— The University of Oregon opene«! Its doors Tuesday, September 24. The first and secornl «lays’ registration lias shown an increase of more than 20 per cent over tiie registration of the same time last year. Almost every high school and academy in the state is represent- <«d, and a large number are presenting ormientials from Kastern preparatory schools. Tiie year will mark the high est point in enrollment that the uni versity lias yet reache«!. The very ser ious «pieetion that is presenting itself is how to take aare of all stndents. The lack of ftimis has made it impossible to furnish and heat all of the rooms in tiie library building, and for tiie same r««aeon, tiie new girls’ dormitory will have to lie idle for the year. Student«, however, are adjusting themselves readily to the conditions, and the out look for the year’s work is exception ally good. Rich Btrlk« In Quartzvltl«. Albany— A rich ledge of «quarts has been discovered in the Quartsvllle min ing district by Grant Llndley, a iesi- dsnt of Lebanon. Llndley cams out of the mountains this week with samples of some remarkably rich ore, bat said little about tiie mine, aa he ha<! not yet filed his notices of location. He iota now returne«l to the site for that purpose. The sampl«« of ore Lindley found have not yet Iieen assayed, but the discoverer expects it to prove richer than anything yet found in the UoArtr.- ville country, and oays he lias plenty of the ore. Rhodes Man Wins Distinction. University of Oregon, Eugene— Har vey Densmore, the well known Rhodes scholarship etmlent, who went to Ox ford from the University of Oregon, has returned and has accepted a position at the University of Washington as an in- atructor in the classics. He outranked many of the lw»st English scholar* in brunchee eai>ecia)ly affected by their burned men. PO RTLAND M ARKETS. Wheat— Club, 83c; blueetem, 88c; valley, 82c; red, 81c. Oats— No. 1 white, $28(323.80; gray, $24.80028. Harley— Feed, $23(324 per ton; brew ing. $28(327 ; rolled, $28(328. Corn— Whole, $31; cracked, $32. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17(3 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $19(320; clover, $11; chest. $11; grain hay, $11(312 alfalfa, $12(313. Fraits— Apples, $1(31-78 per box; cantaloupes, 75e0$1.5O per crate; peaches, 88c(3 $l .10 per crate; prunes, 50078c per crate; watermelons, ly | lt4e per pound; pears, $1.28(31.80 per box; grapes, 50r(§$t .80 per crate; casaba, $2.26 per dosen; quince«, $1(31-28 per box. Wgetablee— Turnips, $1.28 par sack ; carrots, $1.28 per sack; beets, $1.28 per sack; cabbage, ll%0 l* 4C per pound; celery, 75o0$l per dosen; corn, $1(31.80 per sack; cucumbers, 10(318c per dosen; onions, 18(320c per dosen ; parsley, 20c per doxen; peppers, 8£ 10c per pound; pumpkins, lt^ (3 1 ^ c per pound; radishes, 20c per dosen; spinach, 8c per pound; squash, 80c(3 $1 per box; tomatoes, 40060c per box; sweet potatoes, 2 t4c per pound. Onions— $1.80 per s««»k. Potatoes— 75088c per sack. Butter— Fancy creamery, 274 (J35c per pound. V««al— 75 to 128 pounds, 808 *^c pier pound; 128 to 180 pounds, 7l*c; 180 to 200 ponmls, 607c. Pork— Block, 78 to 150 ¡rounds, 8 0 8)<c; packers, 7)$@8c. Poultry— Average old hens, 13014c per pound; mixed chickens, 12013c; spring chickens. 13014c; old roost ers, 809c; dresse«! chickens, 18017c; turkeys, live, old, 18017c; young, 18 019 c; geese, live, 809c; ducks, 15c. Eggs— Fresh ranch, candled, 8 10 3 2 per dosen. Hops— 1907, 709c per pound; old, 405c per pound. W ool— Eastern Oregon, average best, 16@22c per ponnd, according to shrink age; valley, 20022c, according to fine ness. Mohair— Choice, 29030c per pound. the Washington, Sept. 27. — President Roosevelt anriouuce«l tills afternoon that he had deci«le«I to approve the Ok lahoma constitution, which means that sit doubt regarding tiie addition of an other star to the national fisg is re moved ; tiiat two more lAunocratic sen ators will soon take seats in the upper branch of congress; that four Demo crats and one Republican will l*e added to the rolls of the house and that seven bran new votes will be adde«i to Ihe Democratic column, In all probability, in tiie next electoral oollege. Announcement tiiat Oklahoma's con stitution is to receive formal executive approval comes as a surprise to many of those most directly interested, for the tip ha<! g«me ont that the constitu tion would be rejected. Undoubtwlly it would have been re jected, too, had the president felt free, sfter consultation with his legs) advis ers, to set upon the merits of the docu ment as they appeal to him, or had the convention's work not been so over whelmingly ratified by the voters of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It w u stated at tiie W hile House tiiat the tremendous majority for the constitution at the recent election was tiie impelling forte. Furthermore, it was pointed out that the executive judgment was, generally speaking, con- fine«l to the question of whether the provisions of the enabling act had been ebeerve«]. The final decision followed a conference with Attorney General Bonaparte this noon. Approval, as ap plied to the president's action in con nection with the constitution, is tech nical and does not express the execu tive's real ¡xeition. lie does not ap prove of the constitution at all, but simply signs his name In response to the will of the people who must live under it, for tiie reasons shove stated. Mr. Roosevelt’s actual opinion of the constitution, according to those who are in his confidence, would hardly be fit for publication. ID A H O F R A U D C A S E . Thirteen Dummy Entrymen 8 als o f Claim s. T ell of Boise, Sept. 27.— After having spent all of the previous day in bringing out the testimony of 13 persons who ad- raitte«l they had taken claims to timber land for the express purpose of selling them to members of an alleged land- grabbing conspiracy, the government attorneys in the trial of United States Senator Borah y eater« lay turned the line of evidence into new channels, which they say w ill tend to affect the defendant senator. The testimony ad duced up to until now has been con fined to the activities of John I. Wells and Louis M. Pritchard, two of the men under imiictment. None of the "du m m y" entrymen examined waa cross examine«! and the testimony that they received from W ells tiie money with which to prove their claims and from Pritchard the $250 bonus for sur rendering their titles went uncontro verted. Just prior to adjournment the prose cuting attorneys identifie«! the signa ture's of ex-Governor Frank Steunen- berg and William Sweet to a document said to have been a contract. It is al leged that Steunenlierg and Sweet jointly furnished the money with which the first alleged faudulent trans actions were carrie«! on. Tiie government has divided its case into three sections. The first deals with the claims which were turned over to Albert E. Palmer, of Spokane, who ie said to have acted as "dum m y" trustee for the Barber Lumber com pany. All the testimony bearing on these claims, it is allege«!, was handled through Hnrm«-e 8 . Rand, of Burling ton, Iowa. The third and last set were handle«! by George 8. Long, who, the government promises, will eventually take tiie stand as the most important witness for the prosecution. W a r W ith Japan Inevitable. 8t. Petersburg, 8ept. 27.— Secretary Taft’s tour of the world is'being fol lowed with unusual interest here. The government is taking measures to pro tect the journey through Siberia and European Russia, and tiie press is bus ily speculating on the likelihood of the a«!option of a Rnsso-American conven tion, the object of Mr. Taft’s visit to Russia being, it is allege«!, to negotiate *\n agreement between the Unite«! Htates and Russia. The conviction pre vails here that war between Japan and the Unite«! States is inevitable. Q reat Radium Deposit in Tunnel. Geneva, Sept. 27.— A newspaper states tha* Professor Joly has completed a geological examination of apeeimens of the strata collecte«l in the borings for the Simplon tunnel. He found rich traces of radium, indicating larger de posits than hitherto discovered in Europe. severely censures fra ncke . w il l a id land p r o s e c u t io n U h ler 8aya Dakota Was L o tt Through Captain’s Carslessnss. Ballinger Announces Neuhausan’s As signment to Oregon Cases. Washington, Sept. 28.— In an official communication to Captain Emil Francke, who was commander of tiie ill fste«l steamship Dakota, wrecked on Kinkone reef, coast of Japan, March 3 last, George Uhler, supervising inspect or general of the steamship inspection service, severely censures him on ac count of the loss of the ship. The local board of steamst cat lnap^cUrs at Beat- tie had investigated the wreck of the Dakota and ruspemled the license of Captain Francke for two years. The captain appealed to Supervising In spector General Uhler. Mr. Uhler, after having analysed thoroughly the evidence adduced at the hearing, says in his letter to Captain Francke: " I am forced to the conclusion that the stranding of the vessel and her sub sequent total loss was due entirely to your careless and indifferent naviga tion, as an hour before the disaster you assumed chsrgs of the watch and took the bridge and directed the navigation of the ship yourself. " I t is evident from the teetirnony adduced at the in vestigation that a large portion of the ship remained above the water many days, and yet within two hours from the time the ship struck she was totally abandoned, not a single man being left aboard to protect her, and the sbip left a prey to those who looted her without reetralnt and without meeting any pro test from any one.” Waahington, Oct. 1.— The following statement was given out at the general land office today: "Commissioner Ballinger, of the general land office, is anxious that the land fraud cases in Oregon be disposed of at as early a date as possible. And in accordance with his statement made to District Attorney Bristol, at Port land, when in Portland during the sum mer, that he would render him such assistance as was possible, and in order to facilitate the bringing to trial of the indicted parties this coming fail and winter, he has detailed Acting Chief of the Field Division Nenhausen to dnty with the DUtrict attorney to assist in the prepairation and trial of these cases. "Neuhaosen is familiar with the cases ia question, having had more or lee« to du with them since the indict ments were returned, and in order that he may devote hia entire time and at tention to them, he has been relieve«l of all land office work in that state. The vacancy in the chief of field divi sion, with heaihjnartere at Portland, lias been filled by a transfer of Chief of Field Division Louis R. G la vie, former ly stationed at Oakland, Cal., to the Oregon division " Wu Ting Fang is Im peached. Washington, Sept. 27. — Secretary Root today received a cablegram from Minister Rockhiil at Pekin notifying him of the appointment of Wn Ting Fang as minister to Washington. There is reason to believe that nnoffic'ally some representations hsve been made at the State department within the last 24 hours, impeaching the character of the propoeed new minister, not only on the ground of his eondoct when former ly in Washington, bnt it is stated Mr. Wu Ting Fang took advantage of an abnormal state of affairs in Pekin to se cure his reappointment to this post. May Burn Alaska Coal. Washington, Sept. 28.— The lowest bid for coal for the battleship fleet while on the Pacific cosst was submit ted today by the Pacific Coal A Trans portation company, which offers to de liver 40,000 tons of Chignik, Alaska, coal at San Francisco, half at $8 to $9 a ton, the other half at $8 per ton, pro vided the department takes the fail amount of the bid. This is cheaper than the department can bay and trans port either Welsh or Weet Virginia us I to San Fran iso, but the Navy knows nothing about Alaskan coal. Haney Put in C h arg e Again. Washington, Sept. 26.— It was an nounced t«xiay at the Department of Justice that Special United States At torney Heney, who has been active in the California land fraud cases has been given charge of some of the criminal cases growing out of the lan<! frauds in Oregon. Other cases w ill be conducted by the district attorney. Sloop Saratcgs N o t Sold. Prohibition fo r Waahington. Washington, Sept. 28.— A determin ed effort w ill be made next winter, it is said, to bring about the enactment by congress of a law making Washing ton a "d ry town” in everv sense of the word. Information received here to day from Norfolk, Virginia, where the Anti-Saloon league of America has been in session, to the effect that a cam paign having aa it object the eradica tion of the saloon from this city will be inaugurated at once by the league« and other temperance organisations in the states, and that pressure w ill be brought to bear upon senators and rep resentatives from many source«, urging them to vote for the proposed law for total prohibition In the District oi Co lumbia. Must Obey Laws. Waahington, Oct. 1.— Prosecution was directed against 35 railroads today by Attorney General Bonaparte for a l leged violation of the safety appliance law upon evidence gathered by the In terstate Commerce commission. Forty- one suits w ill be started against the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe and Grand Trank, 31 against the Great Northern, 22 against the Northern Pa cific, 36 against the Southern Pacific, 19 against the Nevada, California A Oregon, 24 against the Oregon Short Line, 7 against the San Pedro, Loe An geles A Salt Lake, and 7 each against the remaining roads, all of which operate in the South and East. Hepburn’s Sensational View s. Washington, Sept. 26.— Representa tive Hepburn, of Iowa, chairman of the house committee on interstate com merce and father of the rate bill which forced the senate to action in 1906, on his retarn here from a trip to Europe. “ I do not see,” he said, "how any man can have courage to invest in American railway stocks after the way they have been manipulated, after $182.000,000 of indebtedness has been sadilled on the Union Pacific, with probably not more than $30,000,000 of actual expenditure." Washington, Sept. 28.— Only two bids were received for the sloop Sara toga, which the Navy dipartment pro pose«! telling, the highest bid, from John H. Gregory, of Perth Amboy, $2,000. Aa the «iepartment appraised N egroes Oppose T a ft. the vessel at $4,300, it ia prohable that Washington, Sept. 25.— A concerted both bida w ill be rejected. No action anti-Taft-Roosevelt movement among haa yet been taken. negroes all over the country is alarm ing the Taft supporters. The negroes No Objection to Wu T in g Fang. Waahington, Sept. 28.— President have a permanent organization and Roosevelt announced today that be as branch«* have been formed in Balti sumed there would be no objection to more, Philadelphia and New York. the appointment of Wu Ting Fang as W. Calvin Chase, a colored lawyer and Chinese minister to the United States. editor of The Bee, a Republican paper He added, however, that he had not published here, is the leader of the formally taken the matter up with the movement. State department. Washington Wins C ontest. C all C entral American Conference Washington, Sept. 25.— President Roosevelt and President Dia* have in vited the presidents of the five Central American republics to send delegates to a conferen«»e to be held in Waahington in November to agree upon a plan for the peaceable settlement of all future disputes between these countries. Root S tarts fo r M exico. Washington, Sept. 27. — Secretary Root left at 3:30 this afternoon to visit President Dias, of Mexico. He trav eled in the private car Signet, attached to a regular Pennsylvania railway train. Accompanying him were Mrs. Root, Misa Root and Percival Cassett, hia private secretary. Washington, Sept. 27.— The scere- tarv of the interior has decided in favor of the state of Washington in the case of that state against a large nnmber of settlers involving about 60,000 acres of valuable lands. There were several classes of claimants, but the secretary held against all except those who had settled on their land before the state’s selections were made. Recruit Engineers to L im it. Washington, Sept. 25.— All the en gineer companies in the army are to be recruited up to the maximum limit of the law. This action was decided upon with a view to complying with a re quest made by Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the Philippine division, that two additinal companies of engineer troops are be deeignated at M e tc a lfs S ecretary Resigns. Waahington, 8ept. 25.— Leon A. that station for service. Clark, private secretary to Seretary B aker City to Have M o rs C le rks . Metccalf, has resigned and will leave Washington, 8ept. 27. — Civil ser here Monday for Oakland. Cal., to de vote himself to law. Mr. Clark has vice examination for a postal clerk and been associated with Mr. Metcalf for letter carrier w ill be held at Baker City October 16. •even yean.