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4 B A N K E R R O S S C O N V IC T E D . » < » I 1 x Guilty o f Appropriating State Monty to Private Use. Salem, Ore., April 24. Guilty of converting to his own use *288,000 of state school ijnds, wa.i the verdict UA u n A n U c H A i a t a &J.3UU. M U a f BPHAY O R C nAH U M . baluroay, April 26 fact to senate leaders today Is re rendered against J. T hoi burn Ross garded as responsible for the an V^ashington, April 25.— Another day by u Marlon county Jury yesterday was spent by the senate in considering nouncement by Hale that he would fcun Hubtcr bod In a Few Minutes to F r u it C a m m L s 'o n e n H e ld W ill M a k e afternoon. The jury was out an hour the amendment to the naval appropria |propose an amendment appropriating B turn the Town.. U w n tr i O bey Law uud ten minutes. tion bill, but a vote was not reached at ‘ $7,000,000 toward the construction La Grande— This city went on Oregon City J. H. Held, of Mll- From what can he learned it ap the close of the discussion, which was of those ships. The president ¿lated his position record tonight hh heartily In fuvor waukle, fruit coinmlHaloner for the pears that the Jury took four ballots participated in by a dozen senators. o f IIHHII 111 IIIK nil tile gl'IlliM Ilf LllOHt Kirnt Oregon District, has announced the first showing nine for conviction Hale secured an agreement for a vote on this point with unusual emphasis his Intention of cleaning up the pest and suddenness today, upon learning before adjournment on Monday. possible will'll It MUllHI rlbl'll In U few armeli d orchnrilM of ClurkainiiM and three for acquittal. A canvass of the senate made during that the bill as passed by the house in I li ut I h the Minn of Iliadi», anil In ml- county. along tue tracks of the Ore- Sentence will be Imposed by Judge the day indicated that the four ship pro was simply a “ paper” provision for «litIon secured a membership nub- gun Water Power & Hallway Com Burnett on Monday morning. The gram will be defeated and that the de naval Increase. Authorization of the pany hrid the Southern Pacific Com bate has changed several votes. Much ships was made, but no money car acrlptlon of 12f> to a reorganized pany, and will hold a conference with penalty provided by law is impris of the discussion today was devoted to ried to make the provision effective. conimurclul club at 11 3och. County Krult Inspector A. J. Lewis onment In the penitentiary for from the improbability of war beiug forced Such legislation as this, the president Not sulUflcd with raising that and ¡»iHtrlct Attorney Gilbert L. | one to fifteen years and by fine of ujMin the United Htates. Beveridge and made known to hla numerous con amount for boosting, the meeting Hedges, for the purpose of carefully double the amount of the defalca Piles were sharply criticised by Aid- gressional callers, was a travesty as piiMMci! a resolution to canvass the laying plans to force the owners of tion. rich, Perkins and McCumber for their to effectiveness, as well as bearing city mo thoroughly tomorrow morn diseased orchards to either spray The case will, of course, be ap statements of yesterday, and several all the earmarks of legislative leg ing that the figures will be brought itieir trees or cut them down. pealed to the supreme court, when heated colloquies occurred. Beveridge erdemain intended to make ridicu up to ftiOOO for the year, and a com “ Marlon and Yamhill counties the case will be tried practically will rejdy on Monday. lous his campaign for the greater mittee was appoint i d to do this. have obeyed the law,” said Mr. Reid, anew, for the defense objected to navy. 'I'hI m sudden burnt if enthusiasm, "and It Is up to Clackamas to do the nearly all the evidence, saved excep That the president's quick and Washington, April 25.— The actou) in backed up by flnancbsl support, was same. it Is a strong and forceful tions, and questioned the ruling of vestigation of the wood pulp and print vigorous action is to ne effective is primed and shot off through the « f- argument that hundreds and perhaps the trial court on all points of law pa|»er question, involving in (»rosjH-ct an evidenced by the action of Chairman forts of Twn Richardson, ti'nnuger of thousands of homeseekers come from that go to the foundation of the case. xamination into the affairs of the paper Hale, of the senate naval committee. the Portland Commercial (Tub, who ihe east through California, and, Attorney McCarnant declined to trust to determine whether or not it is In announcing that at the proper this afternoon raised SHOO at Elgin after traveling through the southern discuss the verdict, but was very as alleged by the American Newspaper time he will propose the $7,000,u00 for Ihe same purpose, lie goes to portion of Oregon and then through plainly deeply disappointed. Publishers’ Association a combination amendment. t'nlon and Cove tomorrow. I Lane. Linn and Marlon counties, % in restraint of trade and maintaining a [come to Clackamas and here are con T u e s d a y , A p r il 21. monopoly of the print-paper supply in T R Y T O K IL L G R A F T E R . fronted by the spectacle of scale-in the United Htates, was begun today by O r e g o n W ill S till H a lts H o p s Washington, April 21.— Against a fested trees, hundred of acres of the select committee up|siinted by united democracy, which denied the Hit lent The very low prices that tbeam absolutely of no value to the E x -S u p e r v is o r G a lla g h e r B lo w n U p Hpeaker Cannon, whose chairman is Rep sincerity of the republican majority, have ruled In the hop market for the owuiM or to any one else.” « resentative James K. Mann, of Illinois, the house today, by a vote of 184 to by B om b last few years have not caused mnny and the other members of which are 110, passed Speaker Cannon’s reso Oakland, Cal., April 24.— What U Hannon of Ohio, Stafford of Kentucky, lution providing for an Investigation Oregon hop growers to go out of bus C O M P L A IN S o f k a i l s . believed by the police to have been Hannon of Ohio, tNafford of Wisconsin, of the paper trust and, in pursuance iness. Perhaps 2f>00 or 3000 acres have been plowed up In the entire E u g e n e M ill F in d s R a ilro a d T a riffs an attempt to assassinate James L. Simms of Tennessee and Ryan of New of its provisions, the speaker an nounced as the committee of six who stute, but enough yards are left, un Gallagher, one of the main witness s York. H a va Doubled will conduct the Investigation Mann der favorable conditions, to produce for the prosecution In the Nan Fran F rid a y , A p r il 2 4 (111.), Miller (K a n ), Stafford Salem- .1. M. Hheliev, nf Eugene, man a crop as large, If not lurger, than Washington, April 2 4 . — Argu (W la .) Bannon (O ), Sims (Tenn.) that of ll>07. Cultivation Is being ager o f the Eugene Mill A Elevator Co., cisco graft canes, was made shortly neglected or postponed In some sec bus protested against a recent raise of after 7 o'clock tonight at the home ments In favor of the president's pro and Ryan (N. Y .) Fitzgerald created laughter by re tions, but In others the growers are nearly lot) per cent in certain local of William H. bchenck, Gallagher's gram for four battleships consumed taking tho best care of tbelr yards. | freight rate« in that part of the state. brolher-ln-law, East Twentieth street most of the session of the senate to ferring to the speaker as “ the whole day. Piles, of Washington, opened business” In the house. He said that The proportion of the matured crop H e oncloNoN a shipping receipt showing that will he picked will depend on that he pays a rate o f 23 cents per 100 and Nineteenth avenue. East Oak the debate, declaring that the Asia he had told some people, who had how money matters can ho urranged |Hiumis on wheat and oats from Eugene land, when a huge bomb placed on tic situation affecting the Pacific written him about wood pulp, not to In the summer. A good many of the to Yoncallu, 44 miles, which rate, be the porch exploded and tore away coast was a menace to that section, waste their time on the white house, small growers are going uhead with says, is excessive, unjust and unreason the whole front of the house. Galla as war clouds might quickly rise as the president had in a degree re their work In the hope that some able. I'rior to .Jauuary 1, li»o7, the rate gher was up stairs with his wife at there over some clash between Am cently lost his Influence with the thing will happen before picking was 14 cents. The rate for a little long the time, and Mr. Schenck was in a ericans and the Japanese. He wanted bouse. " W e will stand by the president time to rulse tho rnnrket to a higher er distance, ns, for instance, from Ku rear room with his wife and four a fleet kept In the Pacific. This, he declared, was a measure to the last ditch,” he humorously re level, when they will he able to bor gene to Roseburg, is now 31 cents, children and Dr. Guy Brown. of peace, and not of war. He came, All escaped but one boy, who was marked, 'and I expect we and the row money on their crops. The pros whereas the former rate was IS cents. he said, from the section of the coun president will go into the last ditch pect Is a gloomy one, however, and It This is an Increase o f over 100 per cent. hit In the neck by a flying missile. That none was killed was little try that must be the storm center of together.” The railroad commission will investi looks now ns If the big crop Oregon short .of a miracle. Gallagher’8 hat any conflict in the Pacific ocean. The The McCall campaign publicity bill Is growing will only make the mar gate. _________ waB pierced by a splinter, and taken people of the Pacific were in favor today was unanimously recommend ket worse. away as a souvenir. The house was of four battleships. He sent to the ed to the house for passage by the H eady to S tr ik e 0.1 completely wrecked. The report was vice president's desk a statement of committee on election of president, S a lo o n Issu e in M a rlo n Monmouth Tho complete* outfit for heard all over Oakland and many a vote of 162 editors attending a, vice president and representatives in Snb'in County Clerk R. I». Allen to- boring an oil well on tho Whlteaker windows In the neighborhood were meeting In New York, which he said congress. Though introduced by a dmv eompletrd rhecking lipon the Nignit furm, three miles north of Monmouth broken. A post belonging to the showed 126 In favor of the four bat republican, it had the undivided sup has arrived and Is being unloaded tures <>n the Marion County local Option tleships and th^ president's policy for porch was hurled 100 feet away. port of the democratic members of |M-tition and fonnd the petition to he in (and placed on the site for the well. Valuable clews to the perpetrators naval expansion. the committee, and of national pub «Ine form and signed bv Hevoral hundred Thu Indications for oil veins in this of the crime were gained While he had never been one of today mnre voters thun the law requires. The vicinity have attracted the attention through the finding of a silk hand those who feared war, it should not licity law association. Muloon quoHtion will therefore he Htih of «-xperts for several years past, and kerchief In which it is supposed the be denied, h said, that there was on Washington, April 21.— The re initted to the voters o f Marion county much Interest among the landowners Infernal machine was wrapped. the Pacific coast a peculiar condi ported purpose of the president to • lulle ]. As thoro will he no fight on is taken In the outcome of this work, In a.search of the debris this morn tion. and the time was coming when nny of the county ofliecs and thoro in which Is hacked by ample capital for ing detectives located some wire and the people of this country would send the fleet o f battleships now on the Pacific coast around the world, no Interest in any o f the state eonteNts a thorough test. fuse und caps, which would Indicate, have to face that condition. The Pa was the basis of a discussion in the «■xropt that for Senator, it in certaiu cific coast, he added, had by its op according to Chief Wilson, that a F r u it N p p e d In O o u g ls s portunities attracted many Asiatics, senate today when the naval appro timt the Hiiloon qneHtion will he the Roseburg— Douglas County fruitgrow bomb of some sort had been used. w ho had been reared in a different | priation bill was taken up for con «'*itcr nf much attention. ers arc much concerned as to the extent way from the people of the United sideration. Defending the policy of sending H eney H a d W a rn e d H im . o f the damage caused by last night's States. There was a possibility of a San Francisco, April 2 4.— “ The clash between these people and those the fleet of battleships to the Pacific frost. From some sections the re|»ort E u g e n e C o m in g to F ie s ta ocean. Senator Lodge said great good Eugene The Eugene Commercial comes that the pears, peaches, cherries prosecution will certainly make a of the Pacific coast. is already resulting from the long Club tonight decided to have Eu and other early fruits will be a total most thorough Investigation of the Washington, April 24.— The busi-. cruise and it is teaching the fleet gene represented at the Cortland loss while in other sections the growers dastardly attempt to kill one of the Rose Carnival In Jun<- by » is men In are ns vet unable to say just how much most Important witnesses for the ness nf the house proceeded today at how to maintain itself away from march and drill. Each inun will ilumage they have suffered from this se state in the bribery graft cases,” said a rapid gait, despite the fact that the i shipyards, by making repairs through Assistant District Attorney Francis J. democrats forced six rollcalls. Over its own mechanics on board. wear a while serge suit, white shoe» vere frost. lleney this morning to the Associated lftOO pension bills were put through, and hat and carry a lemon-yellow Press representative. the largest batch of the session. Ir q -iip y In to P a p e r T r u s t. and green umbrella bearing the PO R TLAN D M AR KETS. Mr. Heney refused (o state whether A bill was passed providing for the words. "Eugene, Lane Coanty.” A Washington, April 24.— A definite special excursion will be run from Wheat— Track prices: Club, 8 4c or not he had any evidence pointing protection of life on navigable waters step was taken today toward a solu during regattas and marine parades, j tion of the wood pulp and newspaper Eugene und a grent crowd "¡11 at- per bushel; red Russian, 82c; blue- to the perpetrators. “ I am satisfied that it was not the There also was discussed at length cost question in the introduction by tm d i he carnival. stem. 87c; valley, 85c. Barley— Feed, *24.50 per ton; work of a fanatic or crank," de the Burleson resolution demanding Speaker Cannon of a resolution for clared the Assistant District Attor the report of the Commissioner of the appointment of a select commit rolled. *27 & 28; brewing. *28. F re e D e liv e ry f o r G ra n ts P a s s , Oats— No. 1 white, *26.50 ® 27 ney. “ Neither did the attempt upon Corporations on the cause of fluctua-' tee of six members to . investigate Grants Pass Grants Pass may Gallagher's life surprise me. I tlons in cotton. The vote on that ' and obtain all possible information j per ton; grny. *2 6. soon have a free delivery system. as to the reasons for the increased Ml list tiffs— Bran, *24.50 per ton; warned him more than three months measure will be taken tomorrow. Postmaster Donnell gives figures! price of white paper "to the end that middlings* $27.60; shorts, country, ago that If he was not careful ‘they showing the receipts for the fiscal w-ould get him,’ nnd at the time urged needful legislation may be enacted." *27.50; city, *27; wheat and barley T h u rs d a y , * p r i l 2 3 him to move from Oakland, telling year ending April 1, 1908, to be over The resolution, which was referr 'd him his home might be blown up. *11.000. a his Is an Increase of j cnVP*. ’ " I '. i : Washington, April 23.— After one Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, to the committee on rules; of which *2000 over Inst year's business. Tno , of the hardest fought legislative bat Aside from this I have nothing to tles of this session, the house of rep the speaker is chairman, empowers city council has under consideration ! *17 per ton; Willamette Valley, or say at present.” dinary, *15; Eastern Oregon, $17.50; an ordinance outlining the number resentatives, late this nDernoon by a the committee to sit In Washington ing of houses. This Increase can mixed, $16; clover, *14; alfalfa, *12; vote of 247 to 8. pasced the Fulton or elsewhere during sessions of the T o r n a d o in N e b ra s k a . land-grant resolution without amend house and the recess of congrecj and only he lustlfled by the Increase In alfalfa meal. *20. Paris. Neb., April 24.— About 6 Butter— Extras, 27*4c per pound; ment. Prior to the vote on final confers the usual authority of sub- the population. fancy 26c; choice, 26c; store, 16*^c. o'clock this afternoon a tornado de passage. Kordney's amendment was pena. the administration of oaths, E ggs- Loss and commission off, stroyed the eastern portion of De voted down, 43 to 227. The resolu etc. port, a town 20 miles southeast of F u g e n e W ill O w n W s ts r P la n t. 1 6*4 4# 17c per dozen. tion will go to the president by the Eugene— At a municipal election Cheese— Fancy cream twins. 15>4c Paris, killing W. R. Isbell, a drug end of the week and will promptly •»•crease W id o w s ’ P e n s*« "» gist, and wounding several others. Saturday the proposition to purchase per pound; cream brick, 20c; Swiss Washington, April 2 4.— Conferees The Isbell fnnilly was at supper when he signed by him. the Willamette Valley Company's blk.. 20c; llmburger, 22V4c. Immediately thereafter sLps will on the widows’ pension bill reached waterworks carried by 635 to 125,| Poultry— Mixed chickens, 13c per the storm came. Practically all the residences on be taken to initiate suit against the an agreement today by adopting the and the proposition to vote *300.000 lb.; fancy hens. 1 4 14 V4c; roosters, the enst side of town were destroyed, Oregon & California Rallioad Com bill practically In the form as passed bonds for a municipal water plant | old. 8c; fryers, lb., 20c; broilers, lb , nt least 26 or 30 being scattered over pany to secure forfeiture of the un by the house. It increases from $8 carried by 567 to 171. The bonds ( 22 »4 (f? 25c; dressed poultry per the country in fragments. sold portion of Us grant. For the to *12 per month the pensions of were voted at several previous e lec-; pound, lc higher. Oak Grove ,a town east of Clarks time being. It Is understood, no pro widows of soldiers of the Mexican, Potntoes-— SeltM't. selling price. 70c ville, on the Texas & Pacific rail ceedings will be undertaken against Indian and Civil wars, and will In tlons, hut each time the election was Willamette Valley, road, is reported almost destroyed, lumber companies and other pur crease the pension list about $12,- declared Illegal on account or tech per hundred; Inlying price, 4 6c per hundred; East many houses being demolished, but chasers from the railroad. nicalities. 000,000. Multnomah, buying price. 55c; without fatalities ns far ns learned Clackamas, buying price, 55c per The path of the storm was several Washington, April 23.— As the M c M in n v ille S tu d ie s E s p e ra n to . « » e k s N a tio n a l R e g is tra tio n senate was about to conclude consid McMinnville— An Esperanto Club hundred; new California, 6®5V4c hundred yards wide. Washington, April 24.— Senator eration of the naval appropriation has been formed In this city with six > P*«’ pnnnd: sweet. 6V4c per pound bill today. Senator Piles, of Wash Curtis today introduced a bill to re charter members, for the study of- Onions Job price, *4-<f*^5 per R e vive C o a c h in g in E n g la n d . ington. proposed an amendment in quire corporations organized under the new universal language. .1. C. hundred; buying price $4.25® 4 50 federal or state charters to register Cooper Is president. Arthur McUhll-, P«*r hundred; garlic. 15c per pound, London. April 24.— Alfred G. Van creasing from two to four the num with the department of commerce lips secretary, Kate Lants treasurer,! Apple»-—Select. *2.50 per box; derbilt. whose effort to revive Inter ber of new battleships to be author and labor and secure a permit there ized. and Rev. C. F. Swander. instructor, fancy. *2; choice. *1.60; ordinary, est In coaching In England has been A spirited debate occurred on the from before attempting to transact Meetings will be held weekly. ^ ,, „ _ _________ Fresh Fruits— Oranges. $2.50®3 so sympathetically received, left Lon amendment for the restriction of the business in a state or territory other don this morning on a series of trial purchase of materials for the con than that in which It is organized. per hot; lemons, $2.75®3.50. Track Laid to Dorris Cattle — Best steers. *4.7 5 ® 5; trips over the Brighton road. He was struction of the battleships and sub A r b it r a t io n W ith S p a in . Klamath Falls Track laying was medium, *4.25® 4.75; common, accompanied by a small party of marine boats to those of domestic ■ Washington, April 24.— A general completed on the California N o rth -( $3.50® 4; cows, best, |3.75®4; friends. A big crowd assembled out manufacture. Amendments to remove that re 'arbitration treaty between the United eastern to Dorris yesterday. This now common, *3 2 503.75; calves, * 4 ® side the hotel, where the start wns made, and gave the American a striction from the hill were defeat States and Spain was signed today. town Is just south of the Oregon line ' 4.5ft. and 11 miles from the steamboat j Sheep— Best wethers, $6® 6.50; hearty send-off. while the police stop ed. Hale estimating that since the In It is understood that the treaty fol landing on the Klnmnth river. Reg- ewes, $5®5.50; spring lambs, noml- ped traffic In Plcndllly In order to al vestigation of the steel trust some lo w s the lines of the general arbl- low the coach to gain a free passage. | years ago the price of steel armor i tration treaties already signed be iiInr train service will be established nal. Hogs— Best, *6 (if 6.25; medium, Mr. Vanderbilt will make his first had been reduced from $550 and tween this and several of the Euro May I. regular trip on May 4. $600 per ton to $ 41 6 per ton. pean governments. $ 5 .7 5 ® «; feeders, $5.25®5.50. Hop»-— 1907, prime and chplce, 4 W e d n e s d ’ y. * P r | l 2 2 M a r k e t L a a t Y e a r's W h e a t. M«ehlnl«ti Htrike ® 6 c per pound; olds, 1 ® 1 V£ c per Millions for District o f Columbia WasWngton, April 22.— President Bend Freighters nre very busy ponl1(i' Marshnlltown, In., April 24.-—Ma- Washington, April 20.— The Dis now hauling wheat from the Mndrns Wool— Eastern Oregon, avernge chinlsts in the various shops of the Roosevelt will veto the naval anpro- country. There was a quantity of best, 11® 15c per pound, according Towa Central railway struck today. nHation bill, should the senate, as trict of Columbia appropriation bill whent loft on hand last fall when the to shrinkage; Valley. 12® 15c, ac- together with helpers and appren- did the house, fall to make any ap- was reported to the senate today. It tlces. A reduction of 4 cents an hour proprlatlon for the 'w o battleshlpe carries *1 1,494,887, an Increase of bad ronds put a stop to hauling, hut cording to quality. It will all be hauled to the Shanlko j Mohair— Choice, 20®20Vfce per In the wage schedule caused the which are authorized In the measure, $1.934,388 over the amount of the strike. |The prompt announcement of this bill as it was passed by the house. ‘ market this spring. | pound.
