The Stayton mail., April 03, 1908, Image 3

H E LO FOR M URDER.
SENO PAM PH LETS
IO V O I ENS
S ecretary Benson H a t Mailad 2 6 ,0 0 0
C opia s in F o u r D ays.
Ha lem—-In (our days 26,000 copias of
Initiative and refer«n«lum pamphlet«
have been mailed to registered voter«
in Oregon by Henretary of Htate Hen«on.
There |«mphletr weighed over 4 %
ten«, filling 106 mail aauks, «och a«
are used for paper mall.
The postage
wsa (760.
The work of «ending out them
pamphlet« la only one«|uarter done,
however, for there will be at least
100,000 registered voters in the «tat«,
and each must receive a copv.
Heere-
ter y llenson lisa five clerk« engaged in
thi« work, ««(dressing envelope«, put­
ting in the pamphlet!, scaling, etc.
They can «end out about 6,000 parnph
let« a day, and al the prenant rate will
have the work done in 16 day«, or by
the 11th of April, if the regiatratlon
list« rear h the secretary fart enough.
in order to aid the poatal clerk«, Mr.
Ilennon is having the pamphlets put
Into ■ -parate aa< ka for each commun­
ity, H« far as (Miaaihle, tini« raving
handling In the postonico.
M IL L S R E S U M E IN B A K E R .
Im provem ent In the L u m b e r M arket
S tart W heels Tu rn in g .
Baker City— One of the largest Indus­
trie« In Baker City that war affected by
the recent panic is aeon to iiegin opera­
tions again and will give employment
to several hundred men.
The Houth
Baker Lumber mills have been idle for
the ¡art few montha, but the wheels
w ill be ret turning as soo n as enough
logs can ire brought down to insure a
steady run. At the time of closing
down, the Oregon Lumber company had
a la*ve supply of finished lumber in the
ya dl, a id owing to the lessened de-
mau.j lor him tier there has been no ne­
cessity to run the m ill.
The Htoddard Brothers Luml>er com­
pany has lieen running its mill in this
city all winter, turning out about 40,-
000 feet of finished lumber each day.
The mill of the Oregon Lumber com­
pany at Austin has liean running steadi­
ly all winter, turning out a like amount
of the finished product.
Lumber con­
ditions are beginning to improve no­
ticeably.
K'am ath at Rose Festival.
Klamath Kalla— Klamath county will
iiave a float in the parade at the Port­
land rose festival, and the committee
In charge are asking for suggestions
from all citlsens of Klamsth county.
Difficulty is being encountered in plan­
ning a float that w ill be fully repre­
sentative of all the county's resources.
The chamt>er of commerce has appoint­
ed Judge George T. Baldwin, John
Kills and T. W. Htephcna as a commit­
tee, and they will ask the cooperation
of all in securing a significant Klamath
county float.
C O W S A R E G O O D M IL K E R S .
Blooded
Block at O . A . G .
S ho w Big Y ields.
Farm
Corvallis— An Ayrshire cow on tire
college farm, in the milk period of a
little more than ten months jnstclosed,
has yielded 11,07ft pounds of milk. The
amount of batter fat was
466.09
pounds, equivalent of 544.47 pounds of
butter. At 30 cents per pound the
gro«« value was $163.34. it coat to
feed her during the |>erlod $40, leaving
a net profit of $123.34. Her diet was
alfalfa, with a very light ration of bran
and rolled oats during the summer,
and 16 pounds of vetch and oats bay,
30 pounds of kale and eight pounds of
bran and rolled Inriey during winter.
The animal is A years old, and came
from the farm of Mrs. Ifoneyman, of
Portland.
A 6-year old Holstein from the
Frakea herd at Hcappoose yielded over
13,000 pounds of milk during a similar
period, which closed in December,
limiting a butter product of over 620
pounds
Hbe has freshened, and is
now giving 70 pounds cf milk per day.
H o rse S ho w at Salem
Halem— Elaborate proparations ate
under way to make the horse show to
be held in this city Saturday, April 4,
tli« tanner horse fair of the year in the
Willamette valley. A ll the citizens of
the Cmpital City are taking hold of the
work Incident to such an undertaking
with a vim that augurs well for the suc­
cess of the affair. The finance commit­
tee is meeting with the very beet of
«nocesr and encouragement, and will
eerily hare collected over $600 in cash,
besides many valuable cups, etc., to
offer as prizes, before its labtrtare
bended. Over 23 beautiful cop« are
already subscribed by the enterprising
Arms of Halem. Many of the leading
horsemen of the state have signified
tiieir intention of entering their high
class animals, and everything points
towards a moat aocceeafui, prof ta de
and educational meeting Salem Fat ir-
day, April 4.
Boosting State F a ir.
Halem— F. A. Welch, secretary of
the state board of agriculture, ia rush­
ing preparsti >nr for the state fair, to
be he'd here In Heptember. Postal
cards advertising the fair have been
sent broadcast over the United States,
and it ia prohahle that a greater influx
of visitors than ever before will attend
ttiis year. Clatsop, Columbia, Imne
and Clackamas counties have already
rent notifications that they want large
sections reserved for their exhibits.
Plan C ondenser at B ro o k s.
Halem—-Negotiations are in progress
for the establishment of a milk con­
densing plant at Brooks, seven miles
north of this city. It is understood
'hat Portland men are back of the en­
terprise and that they are ready to in­
stall the plant as soon as they are as­
sured that the condenser will get the
milk from 1,000 cows. M. L. Jones,
W o rk on Kano Canal.
Klamsth Falls— Work on the Keno a prominent dairyman at Imke Lahish,
canal, a part of the Klamath project lias indicated a willingness to supply
that was oommenced last year, has t»een milk from 300 cows.
remim d.
A small force Is getting
everything in readiness for the large
P O R TLA N D M AR KETS.
force that will Ire put on April 1. This
Wheat — (Nub, 82083c; blueetem,
spring should see the work completer)
as far down as the power plant that 84(486«; valley, 82083c; red, 80081c.
Barley—Fee«!, $26 per ton; rolled,
Moore Bros, will operate in conjunc­
tion with the canal.
Hurveyors are $230)30 per ton.
Oats— No. 1 white, $27(3)28 per ton.
still at work on the extension of th*
Corn — Whole,
$33.60; cracked,
canal down the river to Keno, but it lr
not known when work on that part will $34.60.
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17 per
go on.
ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $19020;
clover, $14(3U5; cheat, $15; grain hay,
I earn to F arm at 8ehool.
$140$15; alfalfa, $12(3)13.
Alliany— Pupils of tire seventh and
Fruits— Apples, $1(43.50 per box, ac­
eight!) grade« of the Albany public
cording to quality; cranlierries, $8(411
schools will devote their spare time
per barrel.
thin spring to growing vegetables and
Vegetables — Asparagus, 12,1
per
tiowers. They will engage in practical
pound; beans, 20c per pound; cabbage,
work in connection with the new study
1)^01 ) {c ; cauliflower, $2@2 25; cel­
of agriculture now required in the sev­
ery, $4.60 per crate; encumbers, $2.76
enth and eighth grades of the public
per dozen; parsley, 26c per dozen; pep­
schools of the state and will be stimu­
pers, 20c per pound; radishes, 30c per
lated to active efforts by a series of
dozen; rhubarb, 8c per pound; spin­
prizes offered through the arrangements
ach, 86- per crate; sprouts, 10c per
of Huperintendent A . M. Hander«, of
pound; squash, 101
per pound;
the local public schools.
turnips, 85c per sack; carrots, 85c per
sack; beets, $1 per sack.
M ust " D i p " M angy Cay uses
Onions— Oregon, $4 per hundred.
Pendleton— Every home on the Uma­
Potatoes— 40065c per hundred, de­
tilla reservation range is to be dipped livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $4
during the month of May, according to per hundred.
an edict isaned by Dr. H. W. McClure,
Butter— Fancy creamery, 26030c per
of thin city, who is head of the bureau ponnd.
of animal induHtry in the Northwest.
Poultry— Average old hens, 14015c
The purpose of the wholesale dipping per ponnd; mixed chickens, 12@13o;
is to eradicate mange, which is preva­ spring chickens, 16(3)20c; turkeys, live,
lent among the Indian horses. The In­ 15017c; dressed, choice, 16(420; geese,
dians will he required to round up live, 8@10c; ducks, 16017o; pigeons,
their own ponies, all other expense be­ 75c(4$l; squabs, $1.50(3)2.
ing defrayed by Uie department of In ­
Eggs — Fresh ranch, 16016c per
dian affairs.
dosen.
Veal— 75 to 126 pounds, 809c; 125
University Data In Bulletin.
to 150 pounds, 7o; 150 to 200 pounds,
University of Oregon, Eugene— A 6(46^0.
new bulletin has just been issued from
Pork— Block, 75 to 160 pounds, 7(3)
the university office containnig a brief 7>*c; packers, 600>{o.
historical sketch of the institution, the
Hops— 1907, prime and ohoice, 4(3)
name« of all regents and their terms of 6 ){c ; olds, 1(3)23.
service, a similar chart of the officers
W ool— Eastern Oregon, average best,
of administration and Instruction and 12<418c per pound, according to shrink­
the names, residences and ooonpationa age; valley, 16018c, according to qual­
of all the alnmni.
ity; mohair, choice, 25c per pound.
F orm al C h a rg e Filed Against Slayer
o f 8 tevent.
Hen Francisco, March 27.— In. Whan
Chang and Ming Wun Chun, the Co-
rean patriots who elected to kill Dor-
ham W. Htevens for what they believed
to be treachery to the Hermit Kingdom,
were this morning charged with mur­
der. They must face trial for their
deed in the court« of this city. Held
in detention pending the struggle for
life which the courageous diplomat
made, the two men were charged on
the police blotter as soon as news of the
end was conveyed to police headquar­
ters.
In Whan Chang, the Corean who
fired the shots which proved fatal to
Htevens, when Informed last night
at the jail of hie victim's death, re­
ceived the news without surprise and
with manifest delight. Hince the day
of the shooting Chang has been ex­
pressing the hope that Htevens’ wonnds
might prove fatal.
Last night, when
asked if he was sorry for what be had
done, Chang said: "N o ; I am glad.
He was no friend of Cores, and he is
better dead."
There ia a movement on foot among
the Japaneee to enot a monument to
Htevens.
Japanese commenced going
about among their fellow countrymen
this morning broaching the idea and
suggesting that subscriptions be forth­
coming. The proposition is still in
the tentative stage, but, judging from
the feeling the Japanse>e show toward
the dead American, there will be no
difficulty in bringing it to aooompluh-
ment. Whether the monument shall
t>e elected In this city, in Tokio or in
Heoul, the theater of Htevens’ services
to Japan, has not yet been decided.
C IT Y RO B B ED W H O LE S A LE .
Im m ense F ra uds D iscovered in C h i­
cago W ater Departm ent.
Chicago, March 27.— An amazing
system of robbery and graft, involving
city employee and big business firms,
and extending back through several
years, has been discover«*! in the water
department. Two employes, including
a division head, were removed, and 38
subordinate employee will be dis­
charged. Home of them may be in­
dicted.
Through tampering with meters and
the oounivance of city employee, seve­
ral large corporations have defrauded
the city of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in water taxee. City employee
have sold meters to junk dealers and
hartered materials for drinks in sa­
loons.
Kupplies never used by the city were
purchased ostensibly for the water de­
partment ami then used by plumbers
in private bnsinesse.
The payrolls were padded with idlers
and incompetents. The ,-force, which
originally numbered 200 men, was re­
duced by Huperintendent W. J. Mc-
Court, of the water bureau, to 50.
TR O O P S ORDERED O U T.
Btriking Alaska M iners M ay Destroy
P rop erty.
Seattle, Wash., March 27.— Troops
have been ordered from Fort Seward,
at Haines, Alaska, to preserve order at
the Treadwell mines, on Douglass
island, where 800 miners have gone on
a strike. The troops are due to arrive
at Treadwell early tomorrow morning,
and serious trouble ¡6 anticipated.
United States Marshal Hhoup, who has
just returned from Washington, left
for the acene of the trouble, on receipt
of dispatches from his chief deputy.
The miners have threatened to blow
up the works if troops are landed on
the island
They stole 10 kegs of dy­
namite today from the mine stores.
Colonel Green, in command of one
company of the Tenth infantry, left
Hainee tonight with a gatling gun, and
should reach the mines at an early hour
this morning.
The other companies
station«*) at Fort Seward have been or­
dered to be in readiness to reinforce the
first company if needed.
Just before his departure for Juneau
at 9 o’clock last night, Marshal Shoup
received a message from his chief depu­
ty that no serious disturbances have oc­
curred, but trouble of a serious nature
is anticipated when the troops are land­
ed on tbe island in the morning.
B rib e ry Is C h a rg e d .
Han Francisco, March 27.— Tonight
it was learned that the new grand jury
which today heard the teetimonv of
many of the witnesses who appeared
before the Oliver grand jury, when Pat­
rick Calhoun, Tirey L. F’ord, George M.
Abbott, ex-Mayor E. E. Schmitz and
Abraham Ruel were indicted on many
counts for bribery in the granting of
the Unite«! railroads trolley franchise,
have voted to bring three joint indict­
ments for the same offenses against Cal­
houn, Ford and Ruef. Schmitz is left
out of the new indictmeifts._
M onday, M arch 30.
Washington. March 30.— The objec­
tion of the president to the construc­
tion of darns across navigable rivers by
private companies, except when the
public interest ia fully guaranteed, fig­
ured in the consideration of a house
bill in the senate today. This bill pro­
poses to suthorze the Benton Water
company to construct a dam across
Hnake river, in the state of Washing­
ton.
The urgent deficiency bill, appropri­
ating $2,000,000 for armor, etc., for
vessels heretofore
anthorized,
was
(«seed. On motion of Warren, $50,000
was added for mileage of officers and
contract surgeons of the army when au­
thorize«] by law.
A bill regulating the sale of liquor in
licensed taverns in Ala«ka wsa passed.
It forbids gambling in places in which
liquor is sold.
Perkins said that in
the dajs of prohibition in Alaska there
was much smuggling and illicit selling
of liquor.
Washington, March 30.— Charges of
a serious nature against Gifford Pin-
chot, chief of the forestry bureau, were
made today in the house by Smith, of
California, and Mondell, of Wyoming,
during consideration of the agricultural
bill. Smith accuse«! him of entering
into a secret on lerstanding with the
city of Los Angeles, with a view to se­
curing to the city valuable water rights
in the Owens river valley, as against
the interests of private parties having
prior claims.
Mondell denounced him
for, as he charged, illegally paying the
expenses of foreet officials in attending
conventions in the West, in which the
government had no part, and also for
spending government money to booet
his bureau in the newspapers.
Mr.
Pinchot was defended by Pollard, of
Nebraska, and 8cott, of Kansas.
Smith, of California, denounced tfc«
forestry service for attempting to ac­
quire the Owens valley in California.
Saturday, M arch 2 8.
Washington, March 28 — But little
progress was made in the house today
in consideringg the agricultural bill.
The discussion dwelt mainly upon the
proposed eeablishmentof Federal stand­
ards of cotton grades and Federal in­
spection of grains.
Mr. Crumpacker
and others opposed a section providing
for the establishment of Federal labor­
atories for examination of samples of
seed or grain.
Tbe clause of the sectiou providing
that the reports made as result of such
laboratorioal examinations "shall serve
as a basis for the fixing of definite
grades, suen grades to become the offi­
cial standards for tbe grading of grains”
was stricken out on a point of order
after a lively debate.
The section was then adopted as
amended.
F rida y, M arch 27.
Washington, Marsh 27.— The Aid-
rich bill was passed by the senate to­
day by a vote of 42 to 16, in the main
a party vote.
Previous to the taking
of the vote on the Aldrich bill, a vote
was taken on tbe Bailey substiute au-
authorizing the government, instead of
the national banks, to issue the emer­
gency circulation for which the bill
provides.
The vote on the substitute
stood 42 to 13, and this vote was en­
tirely partisan, even La Follette cast­
ing his vote with the Republicans. The
bill has been before the senate since
January 2. The vote was not reported
until after 6 p. m. and the galleries
were practically empty.
As passed, the bill provides for not
more than $500,000,000 of emergency
currency to be issued to national banks
upen the deposit by them of state,
county and municipal bonds to be ap­
proved by the secretary of the treasury.
The curretcy is to be issued with a
view of securing an equitable distribu­
tion of the currency over the United
States, and in accordance with the un­
impaired capital and surplus of banks
in each state.
Banks are to pay for
this emergency circulation one-half of
one per cent a month during the first
four months it is circulated and after­
ward three-quarters of one per cent a
month.
The bill provides that national banks
shall not pay less than 1 per cent on
government funds deposited with them.
As amended today, the bill carries
an important change in banking laws
relating to bank reserves. This amend­
ment provides that of the 15 per cent
reserve required to be kept by banks
not in reserve cities, four-fifths is to be
kept in the vaults of the banks, and of
that amount one-third can be in the
form of securities of the kind require«!.
Wahington, March 27.— The house
passed 360 ptivate pension bills, at the
rate of ten a minute.
An urgent deficiency appropriation
bill appropriating $3,000,000 for carry­
ing on the work of the Washington
naval gun factory was passed.
M ore W arships to H syti.
Washington, March 27.— Two sddi-
tlonal war vessels were ordered to Hay-
ti today following a conterence of offi­
ciala of the State and Navy departments.
The Des Moines already had been sent
Th u rs d a y, M arch 26.
to the scene of the recent outbreak.
Washington, March 26.— Although
The two vessel« dispatched today are
the gunboats Marietta and Paducah- the senate met today with the inten­
both of which have been at Guantana, tion of devoting the entire time of the
mo, Cuba, preparing for target practice. session to the currency bill, the cre­
dentials of Senator-elect John Walter
H nlth, of Maryland, early became the
subject of s discussion that consumed
nearly four hours and destroyed all
hope of disposing of the currency bill
before adjournment today.
The r«>aalt of the debate on the pro­
priety of swearing in Mr. Hmitb was a
vote of 34 to 39 in favor of receiving
his credentials and leaving the regu­
larity of his election to be considered
by the committee on privileges and
elections, and by the senate later.
Washington, March 26.— More shafts
of «arcasm and invective were aimed at
President. Roosevelt in the |house of
representatives today. In one of the
most scathing arraignments of a public
officer ever heard in that chamber,
Beall, of Texas, charged the president
with having been guilty of " a disgust­
ing usurpation of power,” not only
toward the national legislature, but
the judiciary as well.
When the agricultural appropriation
bill was read for amendment today,
Macon, of Arkansas, endeavored to
have inserted as a new provision his
bill prohibiting the dealing in futures
in airricultural products, but the chair
«ustained a point of order against It.
Scott, of Kansas, in charge of the bill,
expieseed his entire sympathy with the
proposition which, however, he insist­
ed should be acted on independently.
On a point of order the several new
stations were stricken from the bill.
These stations were propoeed to be lo-
ciated in Texas, Kansas, Virginia,
Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and Indi-
W ednesday, M arch 26.
Washington, March 26.— A good deal
of progress was made by the senate to­
day in disposing of propoeed amend­
ments to the Aldrich currency b ill. It
was evident throughout the seeeiou that
the bill w ill be perfected in the form
approved by the finance committee, as
no proposition that failed to receive
tbe sanction of the committee received
any substantial support. The amend­
ments reported by tbe committee were
all adopted without opposition and
then one senator after another offe>ed
additional amendments which, except
in tbe caees of oDe propoeed by Dupont
and one by Lodge, were voted down.
Washington, March 25. — In the
comae of a bitter denunciation of the
president, on the floor of the house of
representatives today, Stanley, of Ken­
tucky, compared him with Alexander
Hamilton, whom he designated "an
obscure adventurer,”
and both of
whom, he said, had profound con­
tempt for the constitution and display­
ed everlasting impatience with its re­
straints. The president was a man
who relished glamor and who became
intoxicated by applause. On the other
hand, he said, Mr. Bryan had the re­
spect of the country as a statesman and
was trusted as a man.
When Scott, in charge of the agricul­
tural appropriation bill, today sought
unanimous cousent to lim it to five
hours further debate on the bill, Sul-
zer, of New York, objected. That ac­
tion forced the house to a vote, and it
was agreed to confine general debate to
four hours instead of five.
The remainder of the session was de­
voted to brief specchee by Griggs, of
Georgia, who gave notice of an amend-
meont increasing by $100,000 the ap­
propriation for the investigation of
soils; by Bell, of Georgia, who favored
governmental aid to public roads; El-
lerbe, of South Carolnia, who also fa­
vored increased appropriations for soil
investigation.
Tu e sd a y, M arch 24
Washington, March 24.— Upon the
conclusion of Senator La Follette’s
speech on the Aldrich currency bill in
the senate today, a plan was decided
upon by which Senator Aldrich will
tomorrow move to take up the bill and
continue its consideration until it has
been disposed of.
The colloquy which resulted in Ald­
rich’s announcement followed the con­
clusion of the third and last installment
of La Follette’ s speech In opposition to
the Aldrich bill. L a Follette declared
the statement that the industries of
this country were controlled by less
than 100 men had been attacked as sen­
sational. Declaring that such was not
the case, he said that he had been too
conservative, and that in fact a much
smaller number of men dominated the
industries.
Washington, March 24.— Determina­
tion to conduct a filibuster on all occa­
sions where opportunity presented it­
self, in order to force the Rebpublleans
to action cn an employers’ liability bill
and other measntes deemed necessiary
of enactment was announced by Wil-
Hamms, of Mississippi, in the house
of representatives today daring the con­
sideration of the agricultural bill.
He
said he had waited until to«lay to see
some evidence« of an intention to trans­
act business which the people were de­
manding, but, finding none, had reach­
ed the conclusion that the time wsa
ripe to force the hand of the Republican
party. The Democrats cheered tbe an­
nouncement.