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.
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.