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T A F T AND SHERMAN. OREGON STAI! ITEMS OF INTEREST N ew York Congressman Nominated for Vice President. C ooper. J C. 1 S o o . ) .................... Chicago, June 20.— T a ft and Sher man. This is the ticket of the R e publican party, completed yesterday W IL L RESIGN IM M E D IA T E L Y . S A V IN G T H E W A S T E . A N O T H E R HIGH S C H O O L . O F F IC I A L R E T U R N S . as the Republican national conven- tion concluded with the nomination Secretary T a ft Plans to Leave Cabi Paper Makers Looking for Cheaper Largest Plurality for Congressman Lincoln County Makes Good Move for of James S. Sherman, of N ew York, net July I. Higher Education. Materials. Ever Recorded. for vice president, amid a final roar Washington, June 20. — Secretary Washington, June 23.— The American Newport. — Lincoln eounty marks an Halcm.- The official returns from the o f tumultuous demonstration. Again T a f t ’e resignation as a cabinet officer nation has the reputation for wasting recent election give Chamberlain a pin other step forward by providing a high the vast assembly was swept with will be received by President Roosevelt almost as much of its resources as it rality of I .WJ over Cake for United school for the young inen and women Hint cm senator. While the official can who have just graduated from the com wave on wave of wild, exultant today. It will take effect July 1. This uses. Facts are often advanced to show The county court has clamor, as the multitude, realizing was learned last night following a con that there is much truth in such a vass has not been made, Secretary of mon Hiihooln. Htate Henson has tabulated the figures issued an order giving both Newport that at last the work was done and the ference of several hours at the white statement. A practical papermaker re record made upon which the Repub hours, at which Mr. Roosevelt, Secre cently called attention to a few o f the from the different counties, and the and Toledo money to establish high lican party goes before the country, tary Taft, Secretary Root and Assist sources of enormous waste when school courses immediately, though the result is definitely known. There are united in one last, mighty outburst ant Secretary o f State Bacon were pres speaking of the number of materials in nome of the alistrneta yet to la) cor- question as to where tnu school will of enthusiastic tribute to the inen ent. A fter the conference Secretary America’s refuse heap which are worth reeted by the eounty clerks before the eventually be located was left to popu who will bear forward the standard Taft was greeted by a dozen newspaper while considering as promising sul>ati- lar vote two years hence. official canvass can bo made. The o f correspondents who desired to learn of tutes for wood pulp. Kvrnts have been coming thick and in the struggle now at hand. ficial returns gave Chamberlain a gain Another inspiring picture was pre bis plans. fhe Northwest annually produces a o f 100 votes in Crook county, as com fast the past two months on Yaquina “ The president wants me to leave a million and a half tons of flax stalks bay. The organization of a cornmer sented yesterday $ts the convention pared with unofficial reports. named its candidate for vice-presi clean slate for my successor,” said the which are not now used for anything. The totul number of ballots east was cial club wns almost instantly followed dent Th e enormous throngs had in the neighborhood of 113,000, the es by a vote to establish a high school, waited through an hour o f oratory, war secretary, “ and it will take me at The amonnt o f waste remains after the least ten days to settle all pending twinemakers take all they want. It and at the same time a Urge influx of aet number not being reported by all sweltering in the heat-laden atmos matters in the war department. I have makes excellent paper. The farmers in counties, Hinee there are some voters rupitu! caused large changes o f hold phere, packed, as before, into solid no definite plans tonight as to when I the South burn or plow under 13,000.000 who do not mark their ballots as to all ings of property and promoted building masses of humanity, with only here will leave Washington.” tons of cotton stalks every year That in Newport till now some $20,000 of oftiees, it is not possible to determine and there a few vacant spots in the re Mr. Taft intimated that it would be which is plowed under is not wholly new buildings are under way. from the number of votes for any otlieo mote gallery— the delegates in the within a few days. He will attend the lost, for it enriches the soil to some ex the total number of votes east. The broad-arena below, the hright-hued thirtieth anniversary o f the Yale class tent, but not so with that which goes largest vote was that for senator, which lines of femininity in the circling gal o f ’78, with which he graduated. He up in smoke. T O M A T O E S P A Y W E LL. was as follows: leries, aud over all the enveloping will be in New Haven Monday, Tues Five hundred thousand tons of fiber A m o s < P r o h i b i t i o n > ....... ................ 3,787 folds o f Old Glory. day and Wednesday o f the ’ coming have been adhering to cotton seed every 4'iikc I Republican) ............... 50.HI*» Grants Pass Farmers Double Their From the outset it was distinctly a w-cek. year. It lias been fed to farin’ stock <'hamher lain < I »ein oc r a lle ) .......... 52.SIM Acreage. C ooper (Mix la llst) .......................... 5.287 Sherman crowd, with galleries al Asked as to his views on the vice- along with the seed, and has done the Grants Pass.— Th e tomato industry ready trained into choruses of Sher presidential question, the nominee for stock no good. Cattle and sheep do T o ta l ............................................. ! 12.374 o f Rogue River valley has made rapid man songs and an invading host o f the presidency was non committal. He not like the fiber, and the seedcake is Party strength is computed according marchers starting the asked for the latest news from Chi l etter without it. A machine has been strides, particularly since the erection Sherman to the vote on congressman, and by echoes ringing with a huge portrait cago as to who would be his probable invented, which, it i* claimed, will sep this test it is found that the Republican o f the cannery last year, and the o f the N ew Y ork candidate. Among running mate. Upon being told that arate the lint from the seed. Paper- plurality in the stute is 38,702, Hawley small farmer and berry-raiser have the early arrivals on the floor was there was a movement in favor of Fair makers think they can use it. found it profitable to set out idle having a plurality of 17,04H in the first Speaker Cannon, only yesterday a banks. he remarked: Nobody knows how many million district and Kills a plurality of 21,714 land with the young plants. This candidate for president, but today “ Things seem to be in a chaotic state tons of cornstalks go to waste; but in year's acreage will be double that of in the second district. This is by far here and a pillar of strength in the in Chicago with regard to the vice- quality they are ahead of cotton stalks, the largest plurality ever recorded for last year, and it is anticipated that Sherman movement. The widespread p residency. ” and it is believed can be made into pa congressman in either district. The it will increase in like manner for affection for the old warhorse o f the During the conference at the white per, although it has not yet been dono several years, fdr the reason the can plurality, however, is about 41X10 short party was also shown by the crowds house several telegrams were sent to on a commercial scale. o f the plurality for Roosevelt over nery has a capacity to take all the of delegates (urging about him to Chicago and Mr. Taft intimated that Thousands of acjeg of wild hemp growers can produce for the next Parker four years ago. The vote on grasp his hand and bid him welcome. he was expecting responses from grow in the southwestern part of the live years; in fact, it is understood •enator by counties is as follows: T h e preliminariea were brief, and these which would materially affect his country, particularly along the Colorado that the company will contract to at 10:30 the nominating speeches for plans for the immediate future. river. Its only use now is to snelter Uniteli Htates Heoator that effect. vice-president began, with a limit of jaekrabbits and coyotes, but it has Th e plants do well here when G Q > u splendid fiber, and tests on a small scale planted in rows five and six feet ten minutes to each speaker. On the 2.3 O« P R O T E C T T IM B E R . show that excellent paper can be made apart, and planted in this manner call o f states, Delaware yielded to ' 3 • ‘ from it. Papermaking from straw is they will usually produce from 20 to N ew York, and ex-Lieutcnant G ov V = COUNTY. „2, 40 tons an acre, and find ready mar ernor T im othy L. Woodruff mounted Timber Owners and State Will Work a well-established industry. Bookbind ers use thousands of tons of straw- Together. ket at $10 a ton for canning purposes. the platform for a glowing speech : 2 board. The straw which goes t > waste Th e necessary expenses for harvest placing in nomination Sherman as V Olympia, Wash., June 19. — A r • in Western fields would bring fortunes ing and marketing are $25 an acre. N e w York's choice for the vice-presi- • rangements have been made between if made into paper. 1 7 1 T h e tomato plant, if properly culti dcncy. N ow came a surprise, as the 4« 1 , 5 7 2 1 . 8 8 1 Baker State Fire W arden J. R. W e lt y and 3 * vated, will grow from four to five venerable Cannon, with his Lincoln- 65 1.071 1.0 63 Lists of fibrous or woody plants suit M enton .................... 2 . 1 3 2 . ........ 2 5 8 feet high, and cover a proportionate like visage and shaggy beard, emerged D P. Page. Jr., chief fire warden for able for paper are without limit, but 192 « ’ la« k a m i i H 2 3 6 1 . 2 4 5 8 8 7 184 « ‘l û t WOp .......................... the new Washington Forest Fire as only a few may be had in quantity suf 7 3 2 2 0 3 space. Visitors who have looked over from the Illinois delegation, and. HO < o!titnbln . ... 1 6 8 1 . 6 0 5 1 . 3 8 6 4 1 2 the field where the matured plants arc stepping to the platform, was yielded sociation. for co-operation in fighting ficiently large to be vtprth considering. 9 36 1 0 7 83 88 4 unanimous consent to second the forest tires during the dry season this The time has not yet come when it is 4 rook .............................. 196 28 3 3 5 laden with fruit, have remarked that nomination o f Sherman. 7 year. Mr. Page will put 100 deputies absolutely necessary that substitutes « ' u r r v ............................... 8 7 1 . 9 0 3 1 . 8 9 2 2 3 4 they looked more like trees than I i o i m l a s ....................... Such a picture of sturdy, homely, immediately into the field, who will for pulp wood be found, but it is com 448 2 4 vines. During the picking season, 453 18 O IM Ium 853 f»4 which opens in August and extends plain American citizenship as Cannon be paid by an assessment upon the ing. The forests are still able to fur 699 4'< 58 395 IN 486 big timber companies composing the l l a r i M - v ......................... 1 5 7 1 . 7 0 2 2 . 1 8 2 2 6 1 through November, men, women and appeared as he advanced before the association. These deputies will be nish materials for paper, but they can J 14 (‘k n o l l not continue to do so for a great many 9 4 9 2 1 5 children are employed to harvest the throng, which rose to do him hom 908 57 J o M O p h l r u - .................. 8 7 crop. 725 669 57 age, has seldom been seen before a appointed state fire wardens at large, years to come, at the present rate of K lam u th ...... 4 5 0 31 76 383 with power to make arrests and fur rutting and growth. Makers of paper l u i k - ................................. Ow in g to the soil and rank growth national convention. His face was ! . a n - ................................. 1 9 8 2 , 9 8 1 2 . 8 2 2 3 3 9 630 8 2 o f the plant, many find it necessary beaded with sweat, his collar had ther enforce the forest protection anticipate a scarcity of pulp wood, r.ad 482 30 t.ln roln .................... 1 3 3 1 . 9 4 0 2 , 3 3 9 2 3 2 to prune the vines after they have melted to a rag. which hung limp laws. T h e state fire warden will is it is this whieh prompts the active 55 810 791 54 M alheur ............. about his neck. His vest was thrown sue no permits to burn slashings search now going on for substitutes. 2 9 4 3 , 2 0 9 3 . 2 3 5 1 6 3 bloomed, so as to divert the energy M arlon without sending duplicates to the 7 9 of the tree into tjpc fruit instead of nide open, exposing a crumpled shirt, 831 4 91 32 M orrow ............ and the sleeves o f his black alpaca deputies above referred to, and these 8 3 $ 1 2 , 1 7 8 1 3 . 2 4 3 7 9 3 vine and foliage. M ultnom ah T E S T C R U IS E R S . deputies will have power to stop the l * o l k ................................... 1 2 8 1 , 3 0 5 1 . 4 6 8 1 3 5 All raisers use racks. This keeps coat curled up about his dangling 20 442 ! 35 4 41 k h - r i n i n ........................ burnings if a personal inspection 54 4 4 4 7 10.6 the fruit clean, holding the vine off cuffs to his elbows as his waving 37 T illa m o o k . . . . . . them that forest fires Maryland and West Virginia Make * I ' r n n t M l f i .................... 1 8 7 2 . 0 7 1 1 . 7 7 7 1 5 5 the ground and preventing rot. It is arms emphasized his ringing words convinces might result. 1 . 5 5 0 1.5 67 183 125 t ’nlon . .................... for his colleague and friend. James Good Showing. sol ÎI0H 8 7 estimated that $200 can be realized as 51 W a l l o w a ...................... The organizers o f the fire protec S. Sherman, o f New York. 1 4 5 1 , 7 0 0 1 . 8 4 3 1 3 7 a net profit upon each acre. W a a c o .............................. Washington, June 17.— Rear-A d association control 2.500,000 From the outbursts of enthusiasm tion V V n M h l i i f c l " » .............. 20N 1 . 9 1 1 1 . 7 7 8 1 2 0 acres o f timber land in western miral Dayton today reported that the 28 11 390 327 " W h e e l e r ...................... which greeted every mention o f Sher Cherries by the Ton. Y a m h i l l ........................ 2 0 1 1 . 6 9 8 1 . 6 6 5 1 3 4 man's name it was plain that the mind Washington and have been assessed armored cruiser Maryland on a four- T o t a l ........................... 3 . 7 8 7 5 0 . 8 9 9 1 52 , 4 2 1 5 . 2 6 7 Cove.— It is estimated that, with o f the convention had been made up 1 cent an acre for the season’s work. hour full speed, forced draught trial the new cherry orchards coming in and that the decision was only to be A half-cent per acre has been col off the California const, averaged this season, not less than 200 tons of recorded lected in advance. There is, there 133.1 revolutions of her engines per U M A T I L L A DAM FINISHED. cherries will be shipped from here, N o w began the vote, taken amid fore, a fund of $25,000, with $12,500 minute, and the armored cruiser W e st Virginia, under similar conditions, av and require twice the number of confusion at first, which increased as immediately available. W ater Soon Ready fo r 2 0 ,0 00 Acres picking and packing crew o f last sea The state owns 65.000 acres o f tim eraged 131.8 revolutions. Th e aver the totals climbed upward to the o f Arid Land. son. nominating point Th e result was ber land in western Washington, and age speed obtained with a slight ad llcrmiston. The dam of the Uma never in doubt, as the totals of states a force o f about 25 deputies will soon verse current was 22.25 and 22.1 knots respectively. PORTLAND MARKETS. were heaped one upon another. There be put in the field and paid out o f an tilla project is practically complete and The revolutions may exceed those appropriation provided by- the last were scattering votes, but the great the distribution is nearing completion of the records o f the contractors’ Wheat— Trark prices: Club, 88e per body o f delegates swelled the total legislature. trials, and opinions of the naval o f us rapidly as men and teams can <lo the bushel; red Russian, 86e; bluestem, 90e; o f Sherman until it touched 816. W ith ficials speak well for the work on the work. In a few weeks nearly all the Valley, 88c. Blue Outlook in Alaska. keen appreciation of the effect o f cli machinery of the vessels, which have Miilstuffn— Bran, $26 per ton; mid max. Chairman Lodge announced the men who have been employed on the Seattle.— Michael Davis, the repre project will have departed and one of dlings, $30.50; shorts, country, $28.50; result, reserving Sherman’s huge total sentative in Seattle of the miners' been now in commission for three years. _________ the largest and best irrigation schemes eitv, $28; wheat and bariey chop, until the last: union at Fairbanks, today received a in the northwest will be in shape to $27.50. “ Vice-President Fairbanks gets one cablegram from R. Burns, secretary of Alaska Tim ber Burning. Harley— Feed, $25 per ton; rolled, vote; Governor Sheldon, of Nebraska, the Tanana Mineworkers’ Union, in water 20,1100 acres of arid land. J. T. Dawson. Y. T., June 19— Forest Whistler, chief engineer on the project, $27.500/28.50; brewing, $26. 10 votes; Governor Curtis Guild, of which it is stated that the optimistic Outs—No. 1 white, $27.50 per ton; Massachusetts, 75; Governor Murphy, conditions which reports have indicated fires are raging near Minto and along has already left for Portland, where he will open an office, having resigned his gray, $27. of N ew Jersey, 77 votes, and James S. prevail at Fairbanks have been exag Lake Lebarge. Fifteen miles o f Can H ay—Timothy, Willamette Valley, Sherman, o f N e w York, 816 votes.” adian telegraph wires have already position with the United States recla gerated. $17 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi mation service. A fter this the floodgates of wild en “ Operators are bankrupt,” says the been destroyed near Minto. and for I). ('. Henny, supervising engineer nary, $15; Eastern Oregon. $18.50; thusiasm were let loose, as floor and message, “ and $150,000 in time cheeks five miles along the lake. Hundreds of square miles o f valu for the reclamation service, has stated mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12;’ gallery joined in a pandemonium of are unpaid. Dumps are mortgaged be that he expects Secretary James R. alfalfa meal, $20. fore taken out. The pay system is able timber have been destroyed. T h e demonstration for the nominee. Pressed Meats— Hogs, fancy, 8c per Garfield here to visit the project about rotten and corrupt. Men are brought fires were set by travelers en route July 13. He will doubtless make a pound; ordinary, 7e; large, 6c; veal, in here and beat out o f their wages. down the river in small boats. There " T a f t Is American Dauphin.” tour of inspection of the various proj extra, 8c; ordinary, 6@7c; heavy, 5c; Many are leaving the country is dis have been over 800 arrivals here to London, June 20.— Most o f the ects and his visit here will doubtless mutton, fancy. 8(f?'9c. __________ gust. The output will be small this date. Hotter— Extraa. 25c per pound; fanev morning newspapers and the weeklies summer, unless our demands are met.” result in helpful suggestions to the set Georgia to Make Speed Trial tlers. He will be the guest of the 24c; choice, 20e; store, 16e. which came out today printed edi Eggs— Oregon, 17}(Ji'18ie per dozen. board of directors of the Water Users’ torials on President Roosevelt’s tri N av y Yard. Puget Sound, Wash., N o Trouble at Panama. Cheese— Fancy cream twins, 13e per umph in securing the nomination of association while here. June 19.— The battleship Georgia will Washington, June 23__ Reassuring pound; full cream triplets, 13c; full Secretary o f W a r Taft for the presi sail for San Francisco Thursday cream Young Americas, 14r; cream dency. Th e Daily Chronicle says: advices have been received by the n.l morning, and incidentally will at Land Sharks Bharks Busy. brick, 20c; Swiss block, 18c; limburger, " T o save the life of his policies, he ministration regarding conditions in tempt to break all battleship speed Hnlem. People from every other part 20e. loses his life as president. It is an Panama. Dispatches have come from records en route. Th e Georgia is the o f the United Htates as well as from Poultry— Mixed chickens, 11(?i)llje interesting phenomenon.” Th e Daily Chief Engineer Ooethals. Commissioner acknowledged speed queen o f the every section of the state of Oregon per pound; fancy hens, 12c; roosters. Graphic describes Mr. T a ft as an Blackburn and General Counsel Rogers, Atlantic fleet, but her officers are de continue to write the attorney general 9e; fryers, 16(ff)17c; broilers, 16(«>17e; “ American dauphin." adding: "T h e re of the isthmian canal commission, indi sirous o f establishing a record. Sus for advice regarding tho possibility of cating the improbability of trouble at ducks, old, 15c; spring, 15(f?20Jc; tained runs under both natural and acquiring a prior claim to quarter sec geese, 8^7'9e; turkeys, alive, 16(fi>18e is something Napoleonic about this the coming elections. creation o f new dynastic legitimacy forced draughts will be made, and all tions in the Oregon A California lnnd for hens, 14<i?16e for gobblers; dressed, under the Stars andStripes.” records are expected to be smashed. grant. Timber shnr|»s are offering to 17fft'19e. Battleships at Honolulu. locate anybody on a quarter section Potatoes—Old Oregon, $1(75)1.10 per Honolulu. June 20__ The special serv Hearst Gains 109 More. Opium Commissioners. o f this valuable lnnd for all kinds of hundred; new California, 2^?2Jc per New York. June 17__ Tn the exam ice squadron, consisting of the battle prices, nnd many people are biting. Washington, June 18. — President pound. ination of 155 ballot boxes veaterday ships Maine and Alabama, which sailed Roosevelt has appointed three commis “ The people must learn that no at Fresh Fruits— Oranges, fancy, $3.25 torney or timber cruiser or company of (7S3.75; lemons, $4(75)4.75; strawberries. William R. Hearst made a gain of 10*9 from Han Francisco June 8 in advance sioners to represent the United Htates either.“ says Attorney-Oenornl Craw 50e(75)$1.25 per erato; grnpe fruit. $2.75 votes in the recount of the disputed of the Atlantic fleet, has arrived here, on the international commission to in ford, “ can locate any person on a (3)3.25 per box; bananas. Siiei'ttc per mayoralty returns of 1905, now going one day ahead erf schedule time. Sec vestigate the opium question in the Far quarter section of this grant /or either pound; cherries, $1@1.25 per box; on before Justice Lambert, Nine hun retary of the Interior Garfield, who was East. They are: Thomas Burke, attor dred and thirty-six boxes have been ex a passenger on tho Alabama, was re ney. of Seattle; Dr. Hamilton Wright, $50 or $500.” gooseberries, 5c per pound; apricots, amined so far and Hearst has gained ceiver by Governor Frear and other of Maine, and Dr. Charles Tenney. Chi $1(75)1.25 per crate; cantaloupes, $2.7f>(75) 327 votes. There are 1,012 ballot boxes territorial and federal officials. nese secretary of the American lega S e lf Supporting Normal. 3.25; blackberries, $1(75)1.25 per crate; yet to be examined. tion at Pekin. , Pendleton__ President French o f the peaches, 90c@$l per crate; plnms, $1 M etcalf Goes Home. Weston State Normal states that if tho per crate. Lumber Cases Decided. 2,00 0 on Full Time. Washington, June 17.— Secreary school made the progress another term Onions— California red. $1.65(3)1.75 Washington. June 18__ The decision Metcalf called on the President today Omaha, June 17__ Two thousand shop that it has during the term just closed, per sack; Bermudas, $2 per crate; gar employes o f the Union Pacific Railroad prior to leaving for his home in Cali of the interstate commerce commission the Institntion would be self support lic. 15(3)20c per pound. H e will leave Washington in the Pacific Coast lumber Tate cases Hops— 1907. prime and choice, 5(7^5}c were yesterday placed on full time, fornia ing. Tf the normad had 500 students after working short time since Janu late this evening, and will not stop will probably be announced the latter instead of 200 the income from dormi per pound; olds, 2(77)2Jc per pound. H e part of this week. The decisions have Wool— Eastern Oregen, average best, ary 1. A t Union Pacific headquarters at Chicago for the convention tory Tents and other fees would make been written and are only awaiting final said that he was not and would not it was stated that other departments 6(75)138ic per pound, according to ♦ he institution absolutely self support which were cut down a few months ago be a candidate for the senatorship or review and approval before being mad» ing and it wonld coat the state nothing shrinkage; Valley, 10(6)12ie. public. for any other office. Mokair— Choice, 18@18}c per pound. will be augmented about July 1. to maintain it.