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M IL L IO N S IN L O A N S .
OREGON SIATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
B IQ U J U H B A W M IL L B T A H T E D
M A K E * B IQ R E D U C T IO N .
Cody Plant Will Cut 1 6 0 ,0 0 0 Faat o f Blue Mountain Reserve to Meve 7 Per
Lum bar Dally.
Cent Less Bheep.
Ilandon—The new Cody mill »awed I Pendleton— As a result of the delib
Die Hint Id/ <<f tart mouth which mark« erations of the sheepmen’s advisory
•n epo-h In the hlatory <d the nawniill hoard with A. K. Potter, head of the
buaiiieaM on the Coqutll* river.
Thla I grazing <le|s*rt merit of the forestry bu-
|>huit ia the largest In o|ieratlon in Coo« j teau, he has »greed to reduce the num-
County. The daily <«|«uity, at present, ! her of sheep allowed the eastern d ivi
1« 100,000 feet, and two re-Ha*« and a sion of the Blue mountain reserve to
•|i my liand «aw will I m - addeil, which the extent of 28,000.
This means a
•will give « rapacity of 160,000 feet |ier reduction of over 7 per cent in the
day.
number allowed last summer.
No fur
Ihe plant 1« e<|nip|>e<l with lalior ther cut will Ire necessary after next
Savin/ uiachinery
and
appliances, spring, as the range will Ire sufficient
anion/ which are live roll« everywhere Ur maintain the 18,000 bear! allowed
the lumlier ha« to lie handled. The next summer. Mr. Potter announced
iijn lll and grnundfc cover 35 acre« and there would Ire no stockmen’s meeting,
tiave 1«•/ boom« aooomiuodatlng 15,* as last y<«r, but that instead all should
* 000,000 feet of timber. Already there file applications for range with Henry
are 0,000,000 feet of timber rmdv for Ireland, supervisor of the division.
* the mill and the varlou« logging camp«
| btdongln/ to the orrn|>aiiy along the
M ed ford's Nsw R ecord.
river are placing more tirnlier In the
Medford— The first carload of Beurre
P river daily.
B<rsc pesrms ever »hipped to New York
from Oregon has sold there at suction,
Successful Prune Run.
grossing $2,335, or an average on all
Ku/ene— The local fruit evsporator sizes of $4.10 per box. J. W . Perkins
ha« just closed a very successful w a- Is the grower. This 1« the record price
son’s run on prune«, curing over 800,- for fruit of this variety. Nearly every
000 pounds of /teen fruit, which makes car shipped from Medford this year has
| over 300,000 j/iund« after they are broken existing records. All ¡*jar re
dried. The entire crop in this vicinity cords at all varieties now held by Med
wan saved this year, whereas last year ford growers liaving lieen wrested assy
perhaps ons-fourth of the crop was al from California within the past two
lowed to go to waste on account of lack year«, up to which time California hail
of dryiu/ facilities.
Since then the taken and held all pear records. Five
com|Hiny tirat operates the evsporator hundred acre« of Beurre Boec pears
here lias built one at Irving of similar will come into tiearing here next year.
capacity and other smaller ones have
been built near Eugene. 'Hie crop tbla
Exit W ella-Fargo Express.
year was almost as large as last.
Astoria— W . K. Carpenter, traveling
auditor of the Wells-Fargo F'xpres*
Solid to r A ppropriation.
eorujiany, has lieen engaged during the
University of Oregon, Kugene— A past week in closing up the company’s
plan is being promoted by some of the affairs at the express offices along the
alumni among the students to form the line of the Astoria A Columbia river
student body into a committee of corre Rrailroad and turning the business
spondence to use their influence over over to the Northern Pacific Flxpress
the state to | « h « the university appro company, which will conduct the ex
priation next June. The supporters of press business on this line in the fu
the university, the alumni and the ture.
board of regents particularly are mak
B right Prospects fo r Westen.
ing arrangements now fer the campaign
Weston— Prospects for a good school
next spring.
Most of them express
confidence that the referendum will year at the Weston normal were never
fail, hut none of them intend to leave a better than they are now, notwithstand
atone unturned that will insure their ing the crowded condition of the school
rooms and living quarters. The regis
confidence.
tration In the normal department is
now 155 students, with prospects of 200
T ra ils for Reserve.
I.s firande— Forester Schmitz, of the by Christmas. In the training depart
Blue mountain reserve, announces that ment there are about 100 young pupils.
it is the Intention of the forestry de
Yields Big C lover C ro p .
partment to open 20 miles of trails
Am ity— K. FI. Robbins, of this place,
across the Blue mountains during the
fall and winter months. A h a result of lias threshed 1,08» pounds of No. 1
the work good wagon trail* will Ire clover seed from 2 1-6 acres on his
used by the inhabitants of that district farm, making 405 pounds, or 8% bush
instcad of the rough and in many in- els, per acre. At 22 cents a pound,
stances Impassable trails now being this makes a return of $107.80 per acre.
used. The trails will lead to Ijt Grande In addition, the land furnished the
and other p-rints in the Grand Ronds Inst of green pasture during the spring
valley.
The government 1* offering and early summer.
$2.25 per day for laborers on this work.
T w o Hundred in Line.
Klamath Falls— Refrorts come from
Lakevlew to the effect that 2(H) people
are now in line at the Iarkeview land
otlioe awaiting the date of filing, (krto-
(«•r 28, on the lands recently opened to
entry. County Treasurer l,ewis and
I>. <j. Brown, of Fort Klamath, in their
efHri-h lor claims went to an out-of-the-
way place, south of Silver creek, where
they supposed no one would Ire, but
found the woo Is full of people, and
carno home without trying to locate.
The general lielief is that everyone will
secure at least a contest case.
Reign o f W heat Kings Ended.
Pendleton— A sensation has lieen cre
ated hete by the announcement that
Agent MoFatfidge h«B received positive
instructions to institute new conditions
on the Umatilla Indian reservation re
garding the leasing of Indian land. In
future the leaseholder must reside on
the land leased, which w ill do away
with the wheat kings of Pendleton and
other places who have lieen farming
thousands of acres of reservation land.
The new rule will make smaller farms
and more people on them. It will go
into effect at once.
Sh ark's Tooth in Benton.
Albany— J. O. Crawford, of this city,
while investigating the gravel beds on
the Benton county side of the river,
found a shark’s tooth and considers it
as additional evidence that this wns at
one t imo an inland sea and the abode
o f marine life.
Mr. Crawford is an
expert geologist and student of all forms
of life and ¡ b gradually making a col
lection of evidences of prehistoric and
ancient life of these lands. His col
lection is valued at a higa figure and
is highly interesting.
Big Peaches on W illow C re e k .
Vale— J. T. Logan, one of the best
known farmers of
Willow creek,
brought Into Vale last week a sample of
ten peachea that are prize-winners.
The smallest measured a little more
than 10% inches In circumference and
the largest was 11% inches around. A
selection of four weighed 2% pounds,
This record beats the winners at the
Sacramento Irrigation oongrees.
M ora M yatariea o f Standard O il to
Be Explained In C ourt.
New York. Oct. 11.— Loans aggregat
ing $20,000,000, which the books of the
Houthern Pipe Line company show
were made to P. H. Trainer between
1899 and 1905, became more puzzling
of solution to Frank IL Kellogg, con
ducting the Federal suit against the
Hlandard Oil company, today, when
Mr. Trainer, taking the witness stand
in the oil suit, testified that the money
had never been paid to him and that
he liad never heard of the account.
If. M. Tilford, treasurer of the
Standard Oil company of California,
and president of the Continental Oil
company, when asked to produce the
reimrta of the Continental oompany,
testified that whenever a new report
was received he Invariably destroyed
the old one. The reports of the Con
tinental contain information regarding
business done by competing oil com
panies.
Mr. Kellogg w ill have a conference
with Attorney General Bonaparte at
Washington tomorrow to discuss the
progress of the government’ s rase
against the Standard Oil company.
The resumption of the hearing found
Ooorgo Chesbrough, auditor of the
Htan-lard's subsidiary pipe lines, again
on the witness stand.
He identified
balance sheets ami transcripts from
record* of the pipe line companies,
showing groas earnings, cost of plants
and other accounts.
Mr. Kellogg said that he might call
W illiam G. R«ckefeller, treasurer of
the Ktandard Oil company, of New
York, to give information concerning
the loan of over $32,000,000 made last
year and dearrilied by the company as
brnned to interests other than Ktandard
Oil.
O L D E R 'S K ID N A P E R IN D IC T E D .
Brown Accused o f Inducing C hauffeur
to P erju re Him self.
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
T R IE B T O J O B U N C L E B A M .
T E S T S BY G O V E R N M E N T .
H a rtfo rd Company Furnishes P oorer
Paper Than It Agreed T o .
Forest Service Relieves W estern H em
lock Is Done Injustice.
Washington, Oct. 10.— Postmaster
General Meyer In»* suspended the pay
ment of money due from hi* depart
ment to the Hartford Manufacturing
company, of Hartford, Conn., and has
submitted the matter to the attorney
general for such further action as may
be deemed proper.
The Hartford Manufacturing com
pany, up to July last, supplied the
stamped envelop*«
and newspaper
wrappers scld at the pcstotfices. Chem
ical analysis of samples have disclosed
the fact tliat the composition of the en
velope paper has been below the re
quirement* of the contract, and accord
ing to the computations of the experts
of the Postoffioe department, the com
pany has in the last four years wrong
fully benefited to the extent of about
$425,000.
One of the manufacturers who sup
plied paper to the company has admit
ted to the postmaster general’ s agents
that his firm furnishes different and
cheaper paper than specified in the
contract and that it was made at the
instance of the Hartford Manufacturing
company.
Washington, Oct. 9.— The forest ser
vice is experimenting with hemlock cut
from the western slopes of the Oregon
Cascades, and w ill endeavor to estab
lish that timber as valuable for struc
tural uses. Heretofore eastern lumber
bayers have been prejudiced against
western hemlock because they confused
it with the eastern variety, which is
not of the high quality of the western
kind. Buyers here have refused to ac
cept hemlock, and the forest service
hopes to prove the strength of the tim
ber by a seriee of teats which will show
that it may be well utilized for struc
tural and finishing work.
Ko far aa the teats have been conduct
ed the result« are satisfactory, and the
service men believe they will add to
the assets of the North Pacific coast
states by increasing ths market value of
their hemlock.
State G roup Plan.
Washington, Oct. 15.— H. P. G il
lette and Flngineer Peabody, the expert
rate maker for the Washington state
railway commission yesterday occupied
the entire time of the national conven
tion of state railway commissioners.
Gillette telling the story of his apprisal
of the physical valuation of the O. R.
A N. and H ill roads. Gillette recom
mended
that Oregon, Washington,
Montana, Idaho, the Dakotae, Minne
sota and Wisconsin join in the work of
appra sing the physical valuation of
railroads traversing them, for the pur
pose of ascertaining the bases of taxa
tion and rate making, and that the
plan be followed by other groups of
states. His recommendations received
the apparently unanimous approval of
the members of the convention.
Kan Francisco, Oct. 11.— The grand
jury today returned another indictment
against Luther G. Brown, law partner
in Los Ageles of Fmrl Rogers, and re
puted to be “ the bead of the United
Railroads” detective force in this city.
Brown, who was indicted recently with
R. Porter Ashe on charges of abducting
Fremont Older, managing editor of the
Kan Francisco Bulletin, was today ac
Bumble Beet for Philippines.
cused by the grand jury of subornation
Washington,
Oct. 11.— In resposne
of perjury in procuring G. A. Wyman,
a chauffeur, to testify falsely before to a rush order cabled from the Philip
the inquisitorial body while under ex pines, two cigar boxes of bumble bees
amination as to the alleged kidnaping. are today hurrying across the country
Wyman drove the car in which Older bound for the islands. The Philippine
was taken against his w ill to Redwood specialists of the agricultural depart
City, on the way to Los Angeles, to an ment have been making exhaustive ex
swer a libel suit instituted by Brown periments in Luzon, in the cross fertil
in connection with the present bribery ization of certain plants. Repeated
graft prosecutions. Wyman, according tests with the common or busy bee
to the prosecution, was “ cornered” by showed it to be unequal to the task,
F’rancij J. Heney in the grand jury but complete euocess crowned the ef
room and confessed that Brown had in forts of the scientists when they tried
As the season in
duced him to perjure himself. W y the bumble bees.
which
the
bnmble
bee
can make him
man was not indicted.
The grand jury also returned an in self useful in the fertilization is rapidly
nearing an end in the Philippines, the
dictment against John E. West,
member of the Electrical Workers’ experts yesterday cabled the depart
anion, accusing him of the penitentiary ment to rush the shipment.
PO RTLAND M AR K ETS.
offense of short-circuiting the wires of
Wants M ora Subm arine*
the United Railroads.
Washington, October 12.— Hoping
Wheat— Club, 86®87c; bluestem, 88
Brown’ s t>ail was fixed by Judge
@89o; valley, 85® 86c; red, 84@85c.
Coffey at $10,000 bonds or $5,000 cash. that some company or individual will
Oats— No. 1 white, $28; gray, $27. West's was $5,000 bonds or $2,500 enter the field and build a satisfactory
Barley— Feed, $25.60 per ton; brew cagh. A bench warrant was issued for submarine, Secretary Metcalf has with
held about $500,000 of the appropria
ing, $20.50(3)27; rolled, $2«.
the arrest of each.
tion made by the last congress lor such
Corn— Whole, $31; cracked, $32.
Iwats. Seven have been contracted for,
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17@
and of those some will be assigned to
L IK E B L A C K H A N D .
18 per ton; Flastern Oregon timothy,
the Pacific coast, but how many has
$19(3920; clover, $11; cheat, $11; grain
hav, $11(3)12,; alfalfa, $12@13.
Bigelow Confesses M o re T h reats to not been determined. But one type of
boat proved satisfactory in the tests
Fruits— Apples, $1(3,1.75 per Ircx;
Use Dynamite.
held last spring at New York. One
cantaloupes, 75e® 11.50 per
crate;
Denver, Oct. 11.— Kemp V . Bigelow, other builder whose boat did not come
peaches, 60c@$l per crate; prunes,
the young clerk from Farmer, Ohio, up to the requirements may decide to
50c per crate; watermelons, l(t$l%c
per pound; j>eare, $1(3)1.75 per box; who mailed dynamite package« to Gov builef one which will.
grapes, 40c<4$1.50 per crate; casaba, ernor Henry A. Buchtel and several
Pow der T ru s t Will Reply.
$2.25 per dozen; quinces, $1(3)1.25 per other prominent citizens of Denver,
box; huckleberries, 7(ft8c per pound; confessed today that he wae aNo the
Wilmington, 1 >el , Oct. 10— Forty of
author of Utters mailed cn August 29 forty-three defendants in the govern
cranl>errries, $8(3)9 per Iwrrei.
Vegetables— Turnips, $1.'25 per sack; last to the Burlington railroad, the ment suit to dissolve the so-called Du
carrots, $1.25 per sack; beets, $1.25 Moffatt road, the Adams F'xpress com Pont Powder trust have entered an ap
per sack.; cablagc, lc per peund; cau pany, the Daniels A F'isher Stores com pearance in the United States court
liflower, 25c®$l per dozen; celery. 35c pany, the May Shoe A Clothing com here.
In addition to companies
pany and to Postmaster Paul Sours, de
throughout the country, including the
(4$1 per dozen; corn, $1(41.50 per
sack; cucumbers, 10@15c per dozen; manding amounts varying from $10,000 E. I. DuPont deNemours Powder com
onions, 15020c doren; parsley, 20c per to $50,000, and aggregating $190,000. pany, of New Jereey, the defendants in
These letters contained threats that un
clude Senator Henry A. DuPont, presi
dozen; peppers, 8<410e per pound;
pumpkins,
l® l% c
per
pound; less the demands were complied with, dent of the company; Colman DuPont
squash, 60r®$l per tx)x; tomatoes, 35 passenger trains would be wrecked with and numerous others. Federal Judge
®50c per box; onions, dry, $1.60(41 65 iynaiuite and the Daniel* A Fisher and Archibald, of Scranton, Pa., w ill prob
May stores and the Federal building In
per sack.
ably preside at the trial.
Potatoes— Delivered Portland, 75(3» this city would be blown up and C. H.
I>ay, local agent of the Adams Express
Washington Rural C a rrie rs .
85c per hundred; sweet potatoes, 2%c
company,
would be killed within 30
per pound.
Washington, Oct. 12.— Rural car
riers appointed for Washington routes:
Butter— Fancy creamery, 27% (435c days.
per pound.
Mount Vernon, route 5, W illiam H.
Booms the F air in Japan.
Cameron, carrier; Martha A. Cameron,
Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 8% @9c;
Tokio, <\'t. 11.— Judge
Thomas substitute. Rosa'ia, route 2, W ill C.
125 to 150 pounds, 7%c; 150 to 200
Burke, of Seattle, who is now in this Perry, carrier; Robert F. Dyer, sub
pounds, 6(3)7c.
Pork— Block, 75 to 150 ponnds, 8®8 city in the interest of the Alaska-Yukon stitute.
Pacific exposition, is receiving much
%c; packers, 7 %®8c.
Conspiracy Is C h arg ed .
Poultry— Average old hens, 11(3)12 pr attention on the part of the Japanese
pound; mixed chickens, 11 (412c; spring officials and a dinner will be given in
Washington, Oct. 10. — Formal
chickens, 11 (412c; old roosters, 8(49c; his honor October 15. The department charges were filed today with the de
dressed chickens, 13(3)14c; turkeys, of commerce lias promised to elaborate partment of justice against the Western
live, old, 18c; young, 18c; geese, live, the Japanese exhibit at the forthcoming Union and Postal Telegraph compan
The fiative press urges ies, charging them with conspiracy in
pr pound, 8®9c; ducks, 12%c; pigeons, exposition.
strong support of the exposition, on the restraint of trade under the Sherman
$1(3)1.50; squabs, $2(3)3.
F'.ggs— Fresh ranch, candled, 32% ® ground that Ja)>an should do every anti-trust law.
,
thing possible to show het friendliness
35c per dozen.
N *w Oreg> n P ostm aster*.
Hops— 1907, 9® 10c per pound; olds, for American commercial interests.
4@5c per pound.
Washington, Oct. 15.— The following
W ant to Move C apital.
Wool— Eastern Oregon, average best,
Oregon postmasters have been appoint
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Oet. 11.— A ll ed: Ida W illiams, at Dexter, Lane
16(422c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 20022, according to fine the newspapers of the republic are oc county, vice Jennie Parvin, resigned;
ness; mohair, choice, 29®30c per cupied with the ancient proposition to Charles H . Skaggs, at Hastings, Benton
pound.
remove the capital to Bello Horizonte. county, vice Elsie Broodley, resigned,
i
O re g o n '* Commission Praised,
Washington, Oct. 11.— State railway
commissioners of the states of Wash
ington, Montana, North Dakota, Min
nesota and Wisconsin are holding con
ferences with a view to arranging a un
iform system of reports and blanks of
various kinds for getting data from
railroads.
Following the meeting at
Kt. Paul a week age they are consulting
here. Oregon ia Represented by Com
missioner Aitchison, who brings one of
the beet reports yet offered before the
convention. It ia commented on as
creditable to a commission so recently
organized. One hundred and seventy
complaints have been filed with the
Oregon commissioner. Many of these
have been disposed of.
T ra d e Press Men M eet.
Washington, Oct. 11.— Editors and
poublishers of trade papers of various
kinds, dealing with matters ranging
from postage stamp collecting to rail
road management and hanking, are in
attendance at the national convention
of the Federation of Trade Press asso
ciations. A business session wae held
today, to be followed by a banquet this
evening. The convention will extend
through tomorrow. A ll of the larger
cities and commercial center of the
country are represented among the vis
iting journalists.
Railway Com m issioners M ee t.
Washington, Oct. 10.— Clyde B. A it
chison, of Portland, a member of the
state railway commission of Oregon, has
arrived to attend the nannual conven
tion of the National Association of
Railroad Commissioners.
A ll the
Washington commissioners, H . A.
Fairchilds, John C. Lawrence and Jesse
8. Jones, Ere here. The Washington
commissioners report the practical com
pletion of the work of ascertaining, as
commanded by law, the relative values
of the uses to which railway property
in Washington is put.
A nother Bank fo r S t. John.
Washington, Oct. 9.— Dr. HeDry W .
Coe, of;Poitland, is entering the bank
ing field. The controller of the curren
cy today approved the application of
Dr. Coe, R. M. Tuttle, L. O. Connor,
I. McCowan and H. I. Keeney to organ
ize the Citizens’ National bank of St.
John, with a capital of $25,000.
This
will be the second national bank to es
tablish at St. John, a similar applica
tion of the First National having been
approved last week. Both banks start
with the same capital.
Goes to College in Middle Age.
Washington, Oct. 1C.— Peter Murray,
of Buena Vista, at the age of 57, has
gone to college. He is a student at
Jefferson academy, and the teachers
say he is one of their most diligent
pupils. In his youth he had to work
for a living, and sacrificed his school
ing. He has accumulated money and
his large business interests demand that
he be beitar educated.
N ew Postm aster fo r Laidlaw .
Wahington, Oct. 11. — Edwin B.
Jones has been appointed postmaster
at Laidlaw, Crook county, vice W illiam
C. Stiles, resigned. Permission to or
ganize a Stockgrowers and Farmers Na
tional bank of Wallowa was given;
capital $50,000; organizers, C. T. Mc
Daniel, E. A. Holmes, G. W. Gregg,
G. Stevens, Minnie G. Stevens and J.
A. Jones.
National Bank at W allow a.
Washington, Oct. 10.— The applica
tion of C. T. McDaniel, E. A. Holmes,
G. W. Gregg, Jasper G. Stevens, Min
nie G. Stevens and J. A. Jones to or
ganize the Stockgrowers’ A Farmers’
National bank, of Wallowa, Ore., with
$50,000 capital, has been approved by
the comptroller of the currency.
2 0 0 Acres M o re Restored.
Washington, Oct. 9.— There was re
stored to the public domain October 2
about 200 acres of land heretofore with-
drawn for use In connection with the
Umatilla irrigation project in Oregon.