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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1908)
u u r F O U R SACKet O F C K sH B o ld R o b b e r s H o ld U p 1 rain to M iu a b u rg I U t A L L ik a UUNwl I IU C o u n ty H a s O p a n E a rly 8p'lr>|( iio C K U H a LO O K W ELL. . W in te r and Lakevlew— After the moat open winter that southeastern Oregon haa over experienced thla section la now enjoying a spring that Insure« wealth to hor people. At no tlino during the paat winter did the thermometer In Lake county remitter a temperature helow zero, and moat of the time hnlmy spring-like weather prevailed. Th«ro were hut few flurrlea of enow, aud theae melted away before u warm aun. The reauit waa that hut little feeding waa required, atock general ly finding excellent range during the entire winter, and the end of winter flnda aulllrleut feed on hand to tide the atock Intereata through a hard winter, even If no hay ahould he put up thla aouaon. On the desert sheep men have re ported an Ideal winter, with Juat enough enow to furnlah water for atock, and with plenty of feed to put aheep In excellent condition. Aa the vuat desert lying east of Goose Lake Valley la the feeding-ground for the thousands of head of aheep that con stitute a large portion of the wealth of Lake county, a winter like the one Just ended means an addition to the profit column. Since the new year began there has been hut lutin' rain and practi cally no allow. Crops of every kind were put In early, and already there la an excellent growth In everything that depends upon spring weutber. s h ip p in g s t e e l h e a o e g o s . C o n d itio n s A r e tx c a lla n t T h ro u g h o u t J o se p h in e tlo u n y C lo t a Pittsburg, May 1.— Two train- robbers, who evidently boarded the New York and Ht. Louis express, on the Panhandle railroad of the Penn M u nO ay. M a y 4 sylvania system, at the Union Sta W A SH IN G TO N , May 4. The Cana tion In this city, when that train left Jiao international boundary treaty was at 10:60 tonight, ten minutes late, ratified today by tho Senate in execu- overpowered the express messenger I tive session. It provides for the more aud got away with four bags of cur rompleto definition and dernareation of rency, containing an amount of the boundary between the United money us yet unknown. The rob . States anil Canada, but doe* not change bery was committed near Walker’s j in any way the established, existing Station, a particularly lonely and Is line. olated spot In a rough soction of Senator I<odge today introduced a country about 11 miles jyest of the bill appropriating $ 400,000 for the pur city. chase of a building in Paris to be used The train, one of the fastest on as the American legation. A provision the road, which Is not scheduled to for the purchase of the building had stop between here and Steubenville, been stricken out of the diplomatic and O , was brought to a sudden halt by consular appropriation bill on the point an emergency signal from the bell that it was not general legislation. cord, and when William l^tffcrty, Senator Fulton today proposed an the conductor, went forward to learn amendment to th«* sundry civil bill, au the trouble be found N. Hoshen, the thorizing th«- Secretary of the Interior Adams Express messenger, bound to contract for the care o f the Alaska and gagged In the express car and insane, this amendment being in the in so frightened that he could not give terest of Dr. H. W. Coe’s sanitarium. any connected report of what had happened. Except that both of the W ASH IN G TO N , May 4__ The House robbers were white, the express mes completely overran the committee on senger Is unable to give an Identi appropriations in connection with sev fication that would aid the secret eral items in the sundry civil bill. service forces of the railroad com When the measure was laid aside for panies and the city and county de «lay, $250,000 had been added to the tective force, all of whom have been the sum rcrommcn«led by the committee, called out to work on the case. which included $100,000 for gauging GItA.NTH I’ AHH. The general devel opment and progrcaa of farm work in Josephine County haa been far reaching during the winter months, and the open ing of apring has found many acres ready for fruit trees and berries, which will he set out, A splendid rain haa been fulling, and this will increase the hay crop and late sown grain, and gives assurance o f heavy yields. A trip over the county shows that an enormous amount of work has been going on in clearing land end planting out orchards, besides much has been accomplished in other directions toward developing the farming communities. A never failing cron for this part of Rogue Kiver Valley is the strawberry, which grows everywhere, and will pro duce two revenue crops each year, ow ing to the climatic conditions. This is a feature unknown to Hood Kiver rais era, and perhaps to any other part of the state. It is not an unusual sight to see berries almost all the year around; in fact, they are on the market from May until Christmas. With the industrial hum and swing fidt everywhere, the prospects for the future were never better. The lumber A C C U 8 E 8 L E I8 C H M A N . seuson is opening well, and during the summer there will be about 30 mills in this vicinity sawing the sugar pine of N o A tte m pt M a d e to P ro se c u te T u rk W h o M u r a e r e d A m e ric a n . Southern Oregon into material for the factories. New York, May 1.— On board the TO HANDLE THE APPLE8. that John D. Rockefeller, the Stand ard OH Company and J. Plerpont Morgan should be indicted for trea son. He also paid his respects to the press. T h u r sd a y , A p ril 3 0 . Washington, April 30.— Consider ation of the sundry civil appropria tion bill was resumed in the house today. Townsend of Michigan of fered an amendment increasing from $50,000 to $350,000 the appropria tion for enforcement by the Inter state commerce commission of that clause of the Hepburn act directing the commission to cause to be made examinations of the accounts of in terstate railroad to determine wheth er that law is being violated and to make public the result of such ex aminations. After a debate lasting four hours the amendment was agreed to. The house disagreed to the senate amendments to the District of Co lumbia and pension appropriation bills and sent those bills to confer ence. The usual point of no quorum was raised when the house reconvened today on the motion providing that the house go into committee of the whole for further consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill under the five minute rule. The doors were locked and the roll called on the motion, which prevailed. the streams and determining the water supply of the United States; an in crease of $50.000 in the appropriation for testing structural materials, and $100,0(8) in t«-sting coal, lignite, and oth«-r fuels. Th«-se changes were not Washington, April 30.— The Pres accomplished, however, without a pro ident today signed the Fulton land- longed debate, in which the committee steamer Koenig Albert, which ar grant resolution. rived here today, was the body of found itself practically alone. The house public lands committee Bernard Warkentln, president of the today discussed Mondell’s patent S a tu rd a y , M a y 2. Kansas State bank, of Newton. K&s., land-grant resolution, which was In H o o d R iv e r G r o w e r s ’ U n io n In c re a se s who was shot and killed near Dam Washington. May 2.— The policy tended to follow the Fulton resolu s t o c k to 8 2 6 , 0 0 0 . ascus early In April, while riding on sought to be established by the gov tion. In view of the bad faith of S m a ll R u n In R c g u a R iv s r C a u s e s In Mrs. Warkentln ernment of providing and equipping the lumbermen, the committee was Hood River— At a meeting of the a railroad train. v e stig atio n . Hood River Applegrowers’ Union and her son Carl accompanied the buildings for its ambassadors in Eu overwhelmingly opposed to reporting Grants Pass Two million nteel- h«*ad trout eggs were brought In from the Oldenberg butchery on the Illinois river, and were expressed to lluenoa Ayres, South America, In care of the agricultural department. The eggs were closely encased In Ice boxes for the long journey. The fishing Denson on Hogue river so far has been unprofitable, the run of fish being exceedingly light and at present the local Fishermens Union la devoting Its time to Inves tigating the river from here to the mouth for the reason of aurh ahort- nge, aa at this time Inst year thou sands of pounds were being shipped away dally. The officers for this year are: President. Henry Hudsou; «••cretary, A. Auberry. O r e g o n C ity R o a a S h o w . Oregon City— Arrangements are well under way for holding the sec ond annual show of the Oregon City Hose and Carnation Society, which will take place In this city during the fitter part of Way or early In June. Committees have been ap pointed to take charge of the event, and strawberry-growers have been asked to make exhibits, providing the berries are ripe when the roses are in full bloom. The offlclul color of the society is mission pink, adapt ed from the color of the Mission rose, the first to be brought to Ore gon. Local business men have been exceedingly liberal In donations of premiums. The Bhow will probnbly be held In the armory. M u l t B a lla s t T ra c k . Salem — The Oregon Hallroad Commission Is prodding the Oregon Klectrlc Company for the purpose of Inducing that company to hast* n the ballasting of Its line between I’ert- land and Salem. The commission has written the company n letter saying that it Is Informed that the work of ballasting has been discontinued and that In Its present condition the road endangers the lives of passengers. "W hat nre you going to do about It?” Is the question propounded to tho Oregon Klectrlc management. The tone of tho letter Indicates that tho commission will do something very promptly If tho company does not. Excited Over Gold Find. G R A N T S PASS.— An investigation party has returned from Williams Creek, the scene of the reported rieh strike of gold, ami find that between $5000 and $7000 have been extracted by Norrison Pros. 3- Jones in three days, nnd they are still pounding out rich rock. It wns found difficult to get particulars of the full nmount extracted, ns the oper ators were inclined to be reticent, fear ing a Htnnrpedc of prospectors to their «•amp. This new strike is only a short distance from the Jones Pros. ’ niarhle «piarrv and about two miles front this city. Umatilla Short o f Teachers. Pendleton — Umatilla county schools nro facing a teacher famine. Despite the fact that nearly every district In tho county has been forced to raise tho salary of Its teachers from $5 to $10 per mrtnth, It Is difficult to secure Instructors for tho spring terms. The hoards nre now vlolng with each other In their efforts to mnke contracts this far In advance for the fall terms. N e w M ill f r A lbany. Albany— Work Is progressing rap idly on tho new planing mill of M. J. Cameron A Son, at tho foot of Ferry street. It will he In operation In three weeks. In addition to plan ing apparatus, tho mill will he equip ped with woodworking machinery. held yesterday, and largely attend ed, a resolution was passed Increas ing the capital stock of the organiza tion from $2000 to $25,000. The Increase Is for ths purpose of erect ing cold storage facilities to take care of the rapidly Increasing apple yield of the valley. Between $5000 nnd $5000 was subscribed at the meeting within five minutes after the secretary announced thnt sub scriptions would be received. It Is the purpose of the union to build an addition to Its already large ware house here which will contain the cold storage plant. H o g s E a t P o to n e d G ra in . NORTH I ’o W P K R . G. A. Caspar, a prominent farmer «-lose to North Pow der, as usual with farmer* in grain planting season, put out squirrel poison, but gut 10 of tlie fine fattening hogs belonging to one o f tho town butchers, K. Jarman, the hogs having broken into tbo Caspar field. B e tte r T ra in S e rv ic e . body. The cable dispatch«*« announcing the shooting, said that it was done by a Syrian who occupied a compart ment on the train adjoining that in which Mr. Warkentln was seated. The Syrian said he was examining his revolver and that It went off by mistake. Ambassador Irishman, at Constantinople, reported the shoot ing to the state department. He said assurance had been given him that the Syrian would be brought to Jus tice if the act proved to be one of murder. Carl Warkentln said today that the man who killed his father was a Turkish Prince and that Mr. Loish- man told his mother that it would be IniposBeble to prosecute him and advised her to say no more about the matter. From his remarks it was apparent that Mr. Warkentln was of the opin ion that Mr. Leishman had not done all that he could, and he intimated thut charges would be lodged with the state department against the ambassador. La Grande— A now train seh«*dule has gone Into eff«*ct between here W A R S H IP B L O W N U P . and Klgln. which means doubled ser vice for these two cities. The regu lar trains will be maintained and a P o w d e r M a g a z in e E x p lo d e s, K illin g special train will make dally trips, 2 4 0 Ja p a n e se . carrying way freight and logs for lb«1 George Pnlmer mill Tokto, May 1.— Admiral Yoehi- rnatsu, commander of the training squadron, reports that an explosion PO RTLAND M ARKETS. occurred In the stern magazine of the cruiser Matsushima at 4:08 Wheat— Track prices: Club, 84c o'clock this morning while anchor per bushel; red Russlnn, 82c; blue- ing at Makang. a harbor on the Pes stem, 87c; valley, 85c. cadores Islands. The Matsushima Barley— Feed, $24.50 per ton; Immediately sank until only the rolled, $27 i f 28; brewing. $26. bridge was visible. Efforts at rescue Onts— No. 1 white, $26.500 27 by boats from the cruisers Hashidate per ton: gray, $26. and Itsukushima continued until 9 Mlllstuffs— Prnn, $24.50 per ton; a. m., saving the lives of 141 men. middlings, $27.50; shorts, country, tnrltiding some officers. The major $27.50; city, $27; wheat and barley ity of the officers were saved, and at chop, $27.50. the time of the Admiral's report the Hay— Timothy, Willamette Valley, cadets numbered 58 out of a coin- $17 per ton; Willamette Valley, or pk ment of 300. dinary, $15; Kastern Oregon, $17.50; The sons of Baron Chinda, vice- mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12; minister of the foreign office, and alfalfa meal, $20. of Prince Oyama, field marshal, are Butter— Extras, 27^c per pound; among the cadets who it is feared fancy 26c; choice, 25c; store, 16>>4c. are lost; also Captains Name, Yoah- Eggs— Loss and commission off, mori and Yashlro. The cause of the 16V4017c per dozen. explosion is unknown. Cheese— Fancy cream twins. 15 4c per pound; cream brick, 20c; Swiss Washington, May 1.— Commander blk., 20c; Umburger, 22V4c. Taniguchl, the naval attache of the Poultry— Mixed chickens, 13c per Japanese Embassy, said today that lb.; fnney hens, 14014V&C; roosters, the regular complement of the Mat old, 8c; fryers, lb.. 20c; broilers, lb., sushima was about 335 men and that 22 tfc 0 2 5c; dressed poultry per on her cruise she had about 50 pound, 1c higher. cadets aboard, making a total of Potatoes— Select, selling price, 70c 415. His cablegram, he said. Indi per hundred; Willamette Valley, cates that about 175 were saved, buying price, 4 5c per hundred; East which would make the lose of offi Mnltnomah, buying price. 55c; cers and men about 2 40. Clackamas, buying price, 55c per hundred; new California. 6 0 5^c S t r ik e r s A ttack F u n e ra l per pound: sweet, 5*4c per pound. Seattle, Wash., May 1.— Bringing Onions— Job price, $4.75 0 5 per hundred; buying price, $4.25 0 4 50 word of the arrest of Treadwell of per hundred; gnrllc, 15c per pound. 30 strikers for breaking up a fun Apples— Select, $2.50 per box; eral and attempting to make away fancy, $2; choice, $1.50; ordinary. with the corpse, the steamship Dol $1/25. phin arrived in port this morning. A Fresh Fruits— Oranges, $2.50 0 3 popular young man among the per box; lemons, $2.7503.50. strikebreakers wns aecldently killed Cattle — Best steers, $4.75 0 5; recently. The funeral procession ex medium, $4 .2504.75; common, tended for many blocks, making a $3.5004; cows, best, $3.7504; formidable showing of the strike common, $3.2503.75; calves, $40 breakers. Notwithstanding this dis 4.50. play, tho strikers attacked the pro Sheep— Best wethers, $6 0 6.50; cession In fofee and nearly captured ewes, $5 0 5.60; spring lnmbs, nomi the body. nal. Hogs— Best, $60 6.25; medium, Hiamsue Revolt. $5.7506; feeders, $5.2505.60. Paris, May 1.— The Temps today Hops— 1907, prime and choice, 4 0 6c per pound; olds, H i l H c per publishes n special dispatch from B it tambang, a town of Slam, In the pound. . Wool— Eastern Oregon, average French sphere of Influence, saying best, 110 15c per pound, according that the town Is at the mercy of the to shrinkage: Valley, 12 016c, ac natives, who have risen In revolt and are threatening the European cording to quality. The troops are Insuffi Mohair— Choice, 2O0 2OHC per realdenta. cient to insure protection. pound. ropean capitate received a setback today in the senate, where the dip lomatic bill was under consideration. Through a point of order by Culber son, Texas, an amendment to the house bill appropriation $400,000 for such a building at Paris was stricken out. The bill was passed, after which eulogies on the life, character and public services of the late Senators Mallory and Bryan, of Florida, were delivered. Amendments to the diplomatic bill were adopted increasing the sal ary of the secretary of the legation and consul general to Salvador from $2000 to $3500; appropriat ing $15,000 to enable the secretary of state to protect the property and rights of citizens of the United States in the navigation and use of the St. Johns river in case of any litigation. Washington, May 2.— After the usual rolicall to demand the pres ence of a quorum, the house today resumed consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill disposing of it paragraph by paragraph. . An amendment offered by Gaines appropriating $10,000 to aid the Ladies Hermitage to care for and preserve the Hermitage, the home and tomb of Andrew Jackson, at Nashville, Tenn., was rejected on a point of order made by Tawney of Minnesota. An amendnxmt by Smith of Louis iana appropriating $150,000 for con tinuation of work on the St. Mich aels canal, Alaska, until the passage of the sundry civil bill, was agreed to without discussion. The house, after a spirited and somewhat acrimonious debate, passed the bill authorizing the ap pointment of the president of an ad ditional member of the Philippine commission. The-4)111 appropriating $25,000 for the relief of the tornado sufferers in the south was passed without inci dent. the measure, especially if the same end can be accomplished, without legislation. W e d n e sd a y , A p r il 2 8 . Washington, April •'*. — John Sharp Williams today gave the re publican majority in the house an opportunity either to permit or to refuse to permit a vote on the Ste vens bill to place wood pulp on the free list. In the course of a clever ly humorous and satirical speech he unrolled and held to view the fol lowing petition to Speaker Cannon, bearing the signatures of 164 of the 166 Democratic senators: “ We, the undesigned, representa tives in congress, request, each for himself, and each for each of the others, that you recognize one of us, c-r tf you prefer, some other repre- s ntative, to move to discharge the committee on ways an:! means from further consideration and to suspend the rules and pas9 the Stevens bill, or any other bill having the effect to put wood pulp and print paper on the free list.” Mr. Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, of fered an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $60,000 for the establishment of a national art gallery in the Smithsonian institute. The amendment was rejected on a point of order. Washington, April 29.— The sen ate and house conferees on the army bill reached an agreement tonight. The senate conferees receded from the amendment raising *he pay of officers on a percentage basis. In stead. a schedule was adopted in creasing the pay of Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, Colonels, Lieu tenant Colonels, Majors and First Lieutenants $500 per annum; Cap tains, $600 per year; Second Lieu tenants. $300 and cadets $100. ' On this schedule, the salary of Major-Generals will be $8000 per annum: Brigadier-Generals $6000; Colonels $4000; Lieutenant-Colonels $3500; Majors $3000; Captains $2.- 400; first Lieutenants, $2000; sec F rid a y, M a y I. ond Lieutenants, $1700 and cadels Washington, May 1.— The house spent all of today's session in con $600. sidering and passing, paragraph by T u e sd a y , A p r il 2 8 paragraph, under suspension of thé rules, the sundry civil appropriation Washington, April 28— Ostensibly bill. As the outcome of a deter considering the sundry civil appro mined effort to strike from the bill priation bill, the house devoted most a r«*striction prohibiting the employ of its time today to speeches cover ment of secret service employes in ing a wide range of subjects and any detective work other than the con«-!uded the session by giving an guarding of the president and the attentive hearing to the president’s running down of counterfeiters, special message. Although nearly which was vigorously opposed by every member had read the message members of the appropriations com In the newspapers, a large number mittee, the limitation was agreed to remained in their seats, carefully and the paragraph adopted in sub following the words of the reading clerk. When the portion of the stantially Its original form. Objection by d«‘mocratic members message referring to the multi-mil In pursuance of the minority ftlll- lionaire ‘‘whose son is a fool and his buster, to unanimous consent defeat- daughter a foreign princess” was ted the passage of a bill for the reached there was a storm of ap printing and distributing of 100,000 plause, equally loud on both sides of copies of a special report by the de the house. partment of agriculture, describing At 5:05 p. m. the house took a recess until 11:30 o'clock tomorrow diseases of cattle. morning. Washington, May 1.— In the sen Washington, April 28.— The pen ate today. Senator Davis, of Arkan sas. moved to discharge the commit sion and District of Columbia appro tee on the judiciary from the fur priation bills were passed by the ther consideration of his bill, “ for senate today. In addition the spe the suppression of trusts, pools and cial message of the president urging combinations in trade.” He spoke a legislative program was head and for about two hours, reading much another chapter of Senator War of the time from a typewritten state ner’s speech on the Brownsville af ment which he said he had prepared fair van heard. Several measures of in advance, “ that no Intemperate minor importance and the resolution language might escape his lins on of the house to give government aid this occasion,” a thing which he said to cyclone sufferers In the south were passed. The resolution to extend he had never done before. During his speech he roundly de the time when the commodity clause nounced the trusts, commended the of the railroad rate law shall be president’s recent message outlining come operative was called before the measures for relief, spoke of the re senate by Mr. Elkins, but went over moval of the motto, “ In God We under objection from Mr. Culberson. Trust” from the coins, and declared The senate at 5:27 p. m. adjourned.
