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WEEKLY EDITION. WEEKLY edition ♦ Uuswaye d by tear, unin- ♦ ♦ ♦ fluenced by favor, the East ♦ ♦ Oregonian will tell the truth, ♦ ♦ the whole truth, and nothing ♦ ♦ but the truth, about county, ♦ ♦ state and national affairs. It ♦ ♦ ia fair, abaolutely fair, to ♦ ♦ those who differ from its ♦ views, as well as to its ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ friends. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ !♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ X The East Oregonian of P*n- ♦ dletuB, Oregon, is published ia ♦ the heart of the wonderful 1*- ♦ land Empire You will dad ♦ that it la readable, reliable ♦ and progress!re, and will give ♦ you the nows reliably, occur- ♦ ately and fully. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦C♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ I SPOKANE CONTINUES BOYCOTT IDAHO LAW NOT VALID Lines Must Northern Securities’ Irrigation Statute Said by Supreme Make Better Coast Rates Court to Be Unconstitutional. Spokane. Feb. 29.—Local shippers Boise City, Feb. 27.—The supreme were informed today through railroad court has decided the case of Bear channels of the action of the Chicago iAke County vs. Alfred Budge, judge meeting of freight officials on re of the fifth judicial district, in favor quests for reductions in Spokane of the county. rates. A large number of articles This was an action brought in the are reduced from 5 to 60 cents, and district court before Judge Budge 'o some are rr’sed. The average reduc enjoin proceedings brought under tion is 10 to 15 cents. It is noticea sections 34. 35 and 36 of the irriga ble that these reductions effect prin tion law. passed at the last session cipally the big shippers. Hardware, of the legislature, the contention be dry goods and paper and liquors are ing that those provisions suthoriz- the articles most effected by the lng the proceedings in question changes. were unconstitutional Companies handliug these lines The decision of the supreme court Rochester. N T., Feb 24— Tbs en spread of the flames north The la- are the leaders in the local rebellion sustains this contention The pro tire business section la threatened habitants of several bo—as oa MoT- and. it was probably thought by the OREGON A CURE FOR ALL REOPENS THE ISSUE JAPS SINK THREE RUSSIAN visions in quertlon authorize the HEIGHEST WATER THAT tlmore aveatM were removed from railroads than by granting these re- state officers to commence suits tn by fire which broke out at 5 this their homes by the police Shortly DISSATISFIED PEOPLE. AT PORT SHIPS ARTHUR. OF CAPITAL REMOVAL.. ductions the local trouble could be At 8 o’clock the lose is HAS OCCURRED IN YEARS. their name to adjudicate title to morning afterward the Sfbely wall fell, allayed, Interviews with prominent water, employ attorneys, etc. The |7.i>00,000 crushing these houses. The west business men today, however, show expense thus Incurred was to be 'e- wall dropped into St. Paul street. Rapid Spread of Flams*. the railroads to have erred in their He Expects to Be Instrumental in Fire Department Came From Mil- -overed by taxation. Sixty Thousand Acree Are Flooded Japanese Are Instructed to Tane This wss followed by the explo reasoning. The determination is The fire broke out in the very The case is one of vast Importance sion of boilers that threw fire into Landing a RecordVreaking Num waukee. But Too Late to Accoro- Port Arthur by March 1, and at even more strong than before to hold by the Breaking of the Sacramento to the southern counties and has at heart of the dry goods district, start the Granite building, whoee 12 River ber of Immigrants During 1904-05 pitch Anything — Records and tracted widespread attention. It was ing m the central elevator shaft of Banks — Water Carried Any Cost—Japan Sustains Thre« out for a radical reduction in freight stories were soon ablaze through the rates. Every Levee Before it—Most Die- —Great Efforts Being Put Forth State Library Saved by Citizens’ vgued here on January 21st last by the Rochester Dry Goods Company, shaft. It has been regarded ae ab Badly Damaged Cruiser« in Last It is pointed out that in nearly attorney General Bagley for the solutely fire-proof and was the finest every instance the reduction is insuf Effort»—Fira Chief for Collection end Dissemination aetroua Flood Since 1881 — No Engagement. Hurt—Vaults «late and James E Babb of Lewis- on Main street. office building in the city. The heat ficient to allow Spokane to compete Ten minutes after the alarm Intact — Milwaukee Will Moke a on. tor the county plaintiff. Deaths Are a« Yet Reported. of Literature—O. R. in its own territory with the coast sounded the six-story building was a is so greet the front and rear walla mass of flame« In lees then half have bulged and become dangerous gamzing to Meet Fight for Capital. Liverpool, Feb. 29.—A private tel cities DEADLY SEWER GA8. Shortly after 9 the front wall of an hoar the rear wall fell and the Redding, Cal.. Feb. 29.—The town egram this afternoon reports that Traffic. the five-story Marble building fell flame» spread into the seven-story Russlsns have captured the Brit- the MOROS GIVE FIERCE BATTLE. is under Asphyxiation and Explosion of Adin. Modoc county, and Madison. Feb 27.—Fire started at flre-proof building of the 8lbley-Carr outward into Main street, compelling water, The Pit river broke over its iah cruiser. Oriel, in the Red Sea Three Men Dead. the firemen to abandon the fight .n Company. Wade Gives Reports on an Engage banks, There is over one foot of J H O'Neill, traveling passenger 3 this morning from crossed electric that direction. Chicago. Feb. 27—Friday last Po At 7 the Are chief said he was water in the leading stores of the ment in the Philippine«. agent of the O. R. A N-. whose gen wires, and completely gutted Wls ¡Iceman I.ucisssy was found dead : ; n Port Argtur by March 1. Several cumpan.es mounted the i powerless to stop the flames, which town, When the news reached Red Washington. Feb. 29.—General lai good nature and popularity is cousin's beautiful capita) building a toilet room In the rear of the car by that time were encroaching on roof of the six-story Burk A Fltzsim St. Petersburg, Feb. 29—A tele ding the river was still rising, It metis ¿epartnjent gram from Tiao Yang, Manchuria, Wade, commanding a division in the partly responsible for tbe 40,000 Low. 81.0u0.000 .Insurance, only 96.- barns at Fortieth and Twelf'h the wholesale district is the higest water that has ever pleased and happy tourists whç throwing streams, states i foreigners living at Ylnkow Philippines, cables this morning: street He supposedly died of a Buffalo and Syracuse have been been known here. discovered "Wood reports an engagement at came to Oregon over the Harriman 000. The Are war not heart affection assert t that the Jsgxnese have been appealed to and specials given by Assistant Chief Jayne« Injured. I Local An examination of the toilet room the railway companies have started instructed to storm Port Arthur and Jolo by Major Scott, of the third lines, in 1903, 10.000 of whom re until under groat headway Assistant Chief Jayne« fell from New Hope District Under Water. firemen were mnable to cope with it mained in the state to become citi squadron of 14th cavalry, with a sin capture it at any cost by March 1. • as made today by Sergeant Maher carrying extra fire apparatus. a window and was seriously injur gle gun of the 18th battery of field zens and wheel horses in her pro and appealed to Milwaukee but aid and Health Inspector Long, when a Stockton. Feb. 29.—The east bapks At 7:30 a seririi of explosions were ed. artillery against a remnant of the gress, paid Pendleton a hurried visit ■ ame too late. of the Sacramento river broke, '6 match was struck A terriffle explo followed by the'' breaking out of Sunk Three for Russia. The Syracuse relief consisted at Hessianas Moroe. Scott attacked the last evening. miles north of New Hope at 3 o’clock Fire Chief injured. sion followed, injuring Long so badly flam- « in the 12-story building at the two hose companies, the .-ame relief St. Petersburg Feb. 29. — An •jn- Colta and took it after lively fight- this morning. Sixty thousand acres Mr O’Neill Is always optimistic Governor LAfollette personally 4L he died en route to a hospital, and corner of St. Paul and Main. With coming from Buffalo. of rich lands north of Mokelumne confirmed rumor is current here this in&. Firing was twice stopped to about Oregon and the Northwest, reeled the fight against the •flame«, Maher will probably die in half an bottr flames wers belching All streams were concentrated on evening that two Russian battleships give the Moros a chance to surren- but is more so than ever this spring river were inundrted. Sewer gas is believed to have as through the root. At 10:15 the fire and students and citizens assisted ia the Granite building and surround The flood waters carried every and a torpedo boat have been sunk der, but they declined until all were The Oregon sentiment is contagious removing the records and law books. phyxiated Lnciassy and later caused is practically* under control. ings. dead or captured, but Hassan whose levee before them. The water pour at Port Arthur. He is not running opposition to The vaults are believed to be in tfie explosion. Help From Outald«. Water Main Buret. located friendly Dattos asisted the any of the great medical ed into the Mokelumne river, raising institu tact. with only 88.000 on hand troops. At 8:15 the Buffalo and Syracuse that stream until it burst its banks Three Jap *ipe Damaged. Shortly after 10 the Mg 94-lnch tions which 'have cures for all the CHINESE ARRESTED. Fire Chief Bernard was seriouM; fire companies arrived. It seemed main burst, materially diminishing "Cable was not working, which ac ills, but he is more ready than ever injured by failing bricks on the south side, flooding 7,900 Tien Tsin. Feb. 29.—The newespa- acres of the New Hope district. It per the Courier, learns that the J*P counts for the delay of the news. The this spring to prescribe a treatment Internal Revenue Officers After at that time as though the fire would the pressure. May Remove Capital. cross Main street to the east, sod is the most disastrous flood to the cruisers Asano and Tokena and the wounded are Lieutenant West, thlgo. of Oregon sunshine and zephyrs for The burned district includes from , Them St Ls Grande. The fire involve« building a -new the windows in the stores across a point on Main street fat at Mid Hulburt. troop I. right any run-down Easterner whose tired northwestern part of this county battleship Yashima. damaged in the relirious; I a Grande. Feb. 27. — Two revenue the street began to burst out under way and between Clinton since 1881. Stockton is absolutely last engagement at Port Arthur, are side; Hlnfierer, troop 1, shoulder; feeling in the crowded centers of capital. and a special session of the nreetxe White, battery. knee; Callaway, population is especially oppressive legislature, and probable renewal .f officers. Messrs. Williams and Hol i the terrific heat safe. No deaths are as yet reported. being towed to Nagasaki and St. Paul to St Paul; thence The entire police force is bolding north to Division street, thence half troop M right arm; Cox. battery, or whoee business energy la exhaust the agitation to remove the capital man. are in the city and last evening The arrested a Chines« merchant nam-d i the crowds in check shoulder Hanlfan. troop K. thigh.” ed in the hopeless task of making a from Madison to Milwaukee Employee la way to Mort! mor. The fire wall of Will Fight Unti Death. Hung i>uck. for selling opium with living in the narrow channels of the east and west wings are entirely out pa;ing Internal revenue, confis the threatened buildiags are allow the Cox building marked the line of St. Petersburg. Fen. 29.—A tele ruined. ed to assist in removing goods. flames on the north side Up Dirts KILLED BY TRAIN ROBBERS. Will Fight at San Francisco During gram from Port Arthur East cating 1<* pounds of the crude opl- reports that Tbe streets are piled high with ton street the burned district ex the Last Week in May. To ali suclj his prescription Is a um In old cans General Stoessel, commanding, today m--rrhandle* the merrtants fearing tends half a block. FARMERS' INSTITUTE Negro Outlaw Is Captured by Blood month of Oregon sunshine, Just a The Chinamen have an attorney another Baltimore Are New York, Feb. 29.—Jeffries and issued an order directing the atten In the Sib- The total burned are* is three hounds After Desperate Attempt to glimpse of the West, just a taste of -mployed and the case will come be- iey-Carr store alone were 1.500 em Monroe were matched here today to tion ef troops and inhabitants to the Progressive Grande Rondo Farmers acre» The fire has been confined Escape. its health and its opportunity and tor the .revenue offlrers Saturday, meet in a 20-round contest for the fact that the Japanese intend to land ploye» and as many more in others within thia section, but there will Will Hold Spring Meeting. when a report will be sent into the These are utilized with but small probably be little relief for ths fire heavyweight championship of the at Port Arthur and seize the fortress Birmingham. Ala., Feb. 29— In an all the traditions of the East cant La Grande. Feb. 27.—There will be j bead offic* world at San Francisco in the last He calls on everybody to fight to attempt by a gang of negro despera draw the patient back to the old success In saving goods, so tn the men until tomorrow. a Farmers' Institute held at Imbler ' week in May. the death, as none can save them- does to rob the postal car train of hopeless surroundings. sctaal fir. district the salvage is Danger Is Over. and La Grande this year, the dates selves without CAVEIN UNDER A TOWN. Getting Gut Literature. the Alabama Great Southern limited, small. At 1 this afternoon the Samas are being set for March 14 and 15. under near Meridian this. morning. J. T. Oregon literature. Oregon facts. Temporary Chock. smouldering but the danger to over Stockton, postal clerk, was shot and Oregon history. Oregon tickets, all the auspices of the Slate Agricultur Thirty Acres Sinking and Cracking To Assist Wounded Soldiers. The fire in the Sibley wholesale Later estimates make the toes about al College, There will four sessions in Pennsylvania. Moscow. Feb. 29.—A large meeting killed and Postal Clerk A. J. Bash are in demand this year. Never has at Imbler and four at I a Grande, A building temporarily stopped the 85,000,000. of the nobility and government ofic was shot in the arm Jim Paris, col the supply of descriptive literature morning session at Imbler on the Scranton. Pa. Feb. 24—cavein ored. did the shooting. of the West been so heavily taxed 1 iáis was held to devise methods of 14th and morning and afternoon ses covering SO acres and affecting >00 He secured some registered let as now. LOCKSTEP ABOLISHED. giving sssistance to the soldiers dwelling«, occurred In Bellevue near slon on the 15th. On the return The O. R. 4 N. passenger depart, MINING COMPANIES TO wounded Sunday A telegram ex ters. but jumped from the train and ttain to I a Grande in the evening this city, at 11 last night At 3 this Warden of the Colorado Pen Acts pressing loyalty to the emperor crushed his Jeg. He dragged himself ment will be compelled to burry out there will be an evening session held more ing It gave Indications of BE SUED FOR DAMAGES. three miles, where he was captured the Humane Role. another edition of "Oregon, Wash- brought a reply of gratitude. There here, and on the day following. spreading by bloodhounds. •s a determination of the Russian no ington and. Idaho, to meet the eon- Canon City, Col. Feb. 24 — Warden March 14. there will be a morning, bles to serve the emperor as in for- slant demand. Cleghorn has endeared himself to INDORSED ROOSEVELT. Shoshone County, Idaho. Streams afternoon and evening session at La HOT PRIMARIES. mer days. Letters, inquiries, hurry up calls the 69« convict« conaned in the state Grande. Have Been Poisoned by Refuse for literature, folders, booklets, cir State Committee Also Celled Con- penitentiary here by abolishing the An elaborate program is being ar- Five Hundred Special Officers on From Smelters—Farming Land Has Germany Aids Russia. culars and statistics are pouring in iockstep, co thoroughly detected by vention April 12. ranged for this Important affair, and Guard at Polling Placea. to the offices as evidence of the Been Ruined and Water Rendered every msn who has been so unfort»-1 London. Feb. 29— Tue Gazette of several of the professors and etud- New Tork. Feb. 27.—The republi Des Moines. Feb. 29—With »00 fierce hunger of the East for West ents from the Agricultural college can state committee went late ses- nate as to be sent to prison. Unfit for Use. St. Petersburg states an important ern facts. armed citizens standing over the The order abolishing the old prison vot- conference occurred there last week will attend the meettnfv and lec stou this morning at the Fifth Ave It would be impossible to make a ing places of the seventh style of marching convicts tn a body district, between the czar ’ s confidential bank ture on "Agriculture. ’ ’ nue hotel. The session lasted only Spokane, Feb. 24.—Damages for the republican primary election guess at the number of people that Imbler ia situated 14 mile« from 10 minutes. The state convention from place to place waa Issued a 8546.500 will be demanded by 21 er Rothstein, and Count Buelo, the opened this morning. will come into Oregon this year and I a Grande on the. Elgin branch ”f German chancellor. The latter urged will be held April 12. A strong res week ago. since which time the in farmers of Shoshone county, Idaho, Judge Prouty la contesting with next. The St. Ixniis Exposition will the O. R. A N. railroad, and Is con to keep up the value of the Russian olution indorsing Rooeevelt'e nomin mate« have been drilled in military from the owners of several large start the far eastward stream toward veniently situated for all residents Representative Hui). marching When a body of convicts ation wss unanimously adopted. mines in the Coeur d’Alene in suits securities by German financiers. Bue Repeating fraud charges are plen the Weat and tickets will be made to Is moved from the prison to the lime low acted promptly and personally. of the county. which will be filed in the federal tiful. It is feared a physical clash read ail over the Pacific Coast be and stone quarries now they are He influenced many leading bankers American Cruiser* at Chemulpo. court at Me cow, Idaho, sometime marched in regulation fours with the result that Russians became will occur before night. Prouty ap cause of the opportunity to see the FOR NAVAL EXPANSION. The farmers, all of whom this week. Washington. Feb. 24.—The navy parently controls the machinery. country and enjoy the exposition. This pleases the men. as it ena steady. have assigned their claims to Elmer depart-sent is informed that the ble« them to walk straight and gives But the companies are wondering Radical Defense of Large Navy Doty, claim that by reason of dump cruiser Cincinnati has nailed from the muscle« of tb«tr bodies better Mill Lost S150XX». what will happen next year when Report Wae True. ing debris in the south fork of tbe Policy. Colfax. Feb. 24.—In order to ear« Shanghai for Chemulpo, where she play in the matter of exercise. The Utica, N. Y, Feb. 29.—A portion of the Lewis and Clark fair opens and St Petersburg. Feb 29—The news Coeur d’Alene river their farms have Washington. Feb 27.—In the bouse will remain indefinitely. The Vicks guards say the convicts are much tbe profits now paid to th« middle the Western literature now incubat the New York mill, located at been irretrievably damaged. W T. xgency prints a Port Arthur dispatch small village four miles south of ing in the East begins to bstch and consideration of the naval appropri burg will also remain at Chemulpo more tractable when allowed to men an J to be enabled to bold tL«4r Stoll, of Spokane, and Judge Edwin confirming the report that a Japan here, was destroyed by Are i this bring results. I march in military fashion than when j wheat for higher priceeC the farm ation« bill was ruunml McBee, of Rathdrum, are attorneys ese destroyer was blown up and an morning. Loes. 8150,000. Roberts of Massachusetts, argued More passenger trains, more ac- the objectionable lockstep wss ia er» of the Patous« country are wow other boat sunk in the recent fight- for the farmers. commodations. more equipment wili for an amendment increasing the vogue When the men are summon taking initial step« toward the or It is »contended by the farmers Ing. The wreck of the latter has be necessary to handle the volume submarine torpedo boats from two ed to their meals they walk in single ganfzation of a farmers' warebceae that in former years when the Coeur washed aaore. of business and even now the great to five, and used the Port Arthur file with their hands at tbeir aides. and milling company, with a capital atock of 8500.0« d’Alene river overflowed its banks, it Harriman system is planning for the engagement as an instance of their Russians Marching South. left a sediment that was beneficial to utility. He quoted Dewey to the ef- The purpose of the company to to 1905 rush. WALLA WALLA'S NEW CLERK. feet that with two submarlne torpe- build and operate mills and ware the overflowed land. Chee Foo, Feb. 29.—A Liao Yang Tourist Csrs to World’s Fair, do boats be could meet he strongest It is claimed now, however, that dispatch states that a detachment of Dorsey M. Hill Succeeds Arthur house« in which th* farmers ar* to A special feature of the 8t. Louis warships of England eight miles be the sole owner*, tn which all th* about 3,000 tons a day of debris is mounted Cossacks are marching Haeurbach. Resigned. travel over the O. R. A N. this year from Sandy Hook and prevent .ts wheat grown by tbe stockholder may being thrown into the south fork, vouth, commanded by (.eneral Mlsch- will be tourist parties made up Walla Walla. Feb. 36. — Through reaching New York. be stored and held, at a nominal and that the channel is being rapid tschenko. They are expected to ar THREE SENT UP. ONE along the line at various stations. the filing of a temperay bond in the Also, he sail, that Dewey, in pri cost to each, until th« price«’are rive at Ishio Yang today Korean ly filled up. Such a party will be organized at rate conversation, had remarked MOVE8 FOR NEW TRIAL sum of SS'KxM). whi<h has been ap right. i Whereas, it is claimed, the river ifficials are fleeing and informing Pendleton. A special car will be proved by the county eommiMioner«. that if the Japanese had used sub used to overflow once a year, now, tn Japanese of the approach of the Rus- JOHN 8. BENSON’S TRANSAC This will do away with storage furnished and special rate« offered marine torpedo boats at Port Arthur Dor~ey M Hill, assumed full charge the filled condition of the channel, rians. Snowstorms prevail. _ charge*, eommisston men's profits, TIONS BEING INVESTIGATED. as already made public and excur Also to of the county clerk’s office this morn they could have destroyed the entire Convicted Men Sentenced the slightest freshet causes it to ov <- and other expense« now Incurred tn ing sion parties going from one city will Russian fleet Pay Heavy Fines — Will Serve flow. Jape Make Another Attack. His appointment of Jam»» Wil selling the wheat early, or giving an go through without a change of cars. Clerks in th* Interior Department It Is now evident from the many In It is claimed that after the water, Time in Federal Penitentiary in liams as deputy, was approved by option on it Tokio, Feb. 29.—A report of an ct- INCREASE IN DAIRYING. which mixes with lead in the process tack by four Japanese torpedo boats Farmers claim that they ar* now Whose Statements Caused the Ar quiries concerning thèse excursions West Virginis — These Men Stood tbe board, and he is now engaged in of concentration, flows back into the on the Rnssian torpedo transport being discriminated against by tbe the assisting Mr. Hill in conducting rest of the Gigantic 8windier. Now that nearly every station of any size Kansas More Than for the First of s Large Batch of Her Doubles river, it renders the water absolute Amur, at Port Arthur, has been re commission men. While wheat has affkirs of the office. z Deny That He Attempted Bribery— in Eastern Oregon will furnish one Indictments Brought for Similar Ten ly poisonous, so that when the land ceived here. The result is unknown. Cows in Number of Milch Ex-Clerk Haeurbach has not de advanced 25 cents in Chicago, with or more jolly parties for the St Motion Made to Transfer Hearing is overflowed it leaves a sediment Offense« — Doubt of One Man • in the past few weeks, they have Years. ’fed on hi« future plana Louis Exposition. which destroys the soil. been offered bat 1 cents more than to San Francisco. Guilt. • PAUPER DROPS DEAD. Twenty years ago Kansas had but It is also claimed that for stock to the antewar pricee. NEW FLEDGED CITY TORNADO IN PORTLAND. 471.548 milch cows, and scarcely a drink the water of tbe river means They will build on* ceniral war* Aged Man From Sumpter Expiree at Washington, Feb. 29. — O. H. Har the name, and creamery worthy of Washington. Feb. 27.—Machen, Lo certain death. The valley of the house at some coast point for for Cove. Union County, Former Home Severe Storm Plays Havoc With lan and S. A. Volk, clerkes in tbe Baker City Railroad Station. renz and Diller Groff were each sen their product was unsought. eign shipments, with hundreds of lo Coeur d’Alene, it is pointed out, of T. T. Geer. Incorporati^.. Ten years ago Kansas had 567.353 tenced to two years in the peniten Houses, Telephono Pole« and Big Baker City, Feb. 29.—Louis Col interior department, testified on Sat- cal »xnhoufH“« in the wheat belts. used to be a fine hay country. Now, urday evening in the examination of mlch cows; creameries of a better tiary at Moundsville. W. Va., and I a Grande. Feb. 24. — Cove, situat Tree«. It ts formed on the plan of the In it la alleged, its productiveness has lan bar, an old man who was being 8. Benson, t ie land swindler John class were being slowly established, each to pay a fine of 810.000. Sen ed 16 miles from I a Grande, held a dependent Packing Company, organ brought down from Sumpter yeeter- been destroyed. Portland, Feb. 27.—The worst but their output begged a market. of San Francisco, that Benson .«lid tences are to date from the time of special election Wednesday tor its ized by the stockmen day to the county poor farm, died squall in the history of the city Today Kansas has 802,738 milch arrive! at the penitentiary. Incorporation and election of offic- suddenly while walking from the not attempt to bribe them by offering COLUMBIA SOUTHERN. played havoc with old’ sheds, house cows or more than at any previous Samuel Groff has a motion pend ers. There were 106 votes cast, Sumpter Valley depot to the Crabil) a large sum of money for the privil LEWISTON WHEAT. ege of reading secret reports of the roofs, big tree« and telephones yes time and many high-grade creamer ing for a new trial. voting for incorporation by a ma- Active Work Will Begin by March 15 hotel where he intended to spend department concerning terday. Benson'a Judge Kummler, attorney~for I m - jority of 12 vote«. ies and cheese factories, including Officers werr Little Grain Being Delivered at the night. Amos Seybold, T. H. Starbuck and the largest creamery in the world, renz. made an eloquent plea for hie elected as follows; on Oregon’s Needed Extension. He was taken with a hemorrhage transactions. Warehou»«. The arrest of Benson six weeks Mrs. Sheen were severely injured by hundreds of miles from the principal client when the latter stood up ’o For mayor. D. M. Clark; for The Dalles, Feb 29—Chief Engi and died before assistance could he ago. was based upon tbe the miniature cyclone and houses be markets, Their product is not only receive his sentence. He told the treasurer, Jasper Stevens; recorder. statements Lewiston. Feb. 24— The local neer Hammond, of the Columbia procured. The deceased was about Hal favorably known in the principal court he had borne a reputation that Sherman Reese; of these clerks to the effect that longing to Messrs. Starbuck. marshal. F. E. dealers reported flax yesterday at »0 Southern railway, was at Shaniko 60 years of age. He was formerly Benson had offered them 1100 to be lock, Sheen, Fearing, Thompson. tha latter part of last week, and a miner and has lived in Sumpter for permitted to see certain private rec Thomas and Davis were wrecked. markets, but sought beyond the reflected credit on any family. Judge White; councilmen, A. G. Conklin. cents and wheat from 58 to M. Th* supply. Pritchard said he would make ’io William Reynolds, Joe Tripeer, Wil Liverpool markets were higher and is credited with the statement that about four years. ords of the general land office. Fires were started by tangled tele Thus is marked the progress of remarks on the case at present, as liam Martin. F. C. Pixton. F. E. Peel other markets were fluctuating In active construction of the Columbia They swore at the examination phone wires and big fir trees in the this industry in Kansas—in a decade one other condemned msn remain'd sympathy. Southern extension will be begun by AFTER THE DOGS. that the money paid them by Ben suburbs were uprooted as if they become one of the most prominent to be sentenced. Dealers report that very little CHICAGO GRA'N. March 15. son was for services rendered him were saplings. grain is being purchased at thia time Sentence was delivered in an of successful dairy states. While It is practically certain that the Marshal Carney Will Start the Chase several years ago and that it was War for the reason that moat of the Depressed, this is true, &nd within that time ’he empty court, none being present ex Wheat Slightly railroad will be completed as far as Tomorrow. in no way a bribe. JOHN T. GRAY8ON DEAD. train now tn the warehouses has aggregate annual value of our dairy cept the prisoners and their attor New* Being Nil. Cross Keys during the present year, A motion to dismiss the bribery Tomorrow the dog crusade will be *»een purchased earlier in the season products has nearly doubled, anil neys. and it may reach the Willow creek Chicago. Feb. 27 — Old wheat Mining charges against Benson was at once Promlnent Eaatern Oregon and that on account of the bad rondo Prior to the sentence, defendants’ while our foremost dairymen, by con basin, though it is hardly expected gin. Marshal Carney will put four made by his attorney, and was taken at 97. closed 9714; new July Suddenly at Cln- stantly striving to raise the standard attorney, Douglas, moved for new opened Promoter Died very little grain io being delivered at that thrf road can be extended that dog catchers to work and empound under advisement until Tuesday opened at 96. closed 96%. Corn the warehouses DY every dog found running loose with cinnatl. of production, now have excellent, trials for Machen. Lorenz and the opened at 55%. closed 55%. distance during the current year. the commissioner. out a license. If they arc not re Warehousemen at the tramways Judge Pritchard over Baker City, Feb. 27.—The news of high-yielding herds, It Is unquestion two Groffs. May wheat was again hammered Evidence was also taken in the deemed they will be killed. ably a fact that large numbers of ruled, making an exception, how- Lack cf war news aided the bears. It report that aomo grain to received Bridges Is Register at Roseburg. of at Cincinnati the sudden death case against Benson and F. A. our cow population are not paying ever, for Samuel Groff, because of opened 11.0514 and lost 3% cents at each day but it to not expected that Washington, Feb. 29.—The presi Empersr to Cruise Medlterrsnean. Hyde, also of San Francisco, for de John Temple Grayson, one of the special counsel for the heavy delivery will be resumed foremost mining promoters of this for their keep. The cause of this is the fact that the dent sent to the senate the foilowing closing. until good weather improves the Plymouth, Feb. 29.—The kaiser’s fraudlng the government in securing section, was received to be found either in the man or in the government, Conrad, had ex- here yeeter- nominations: Panama canal com bogus titles to large tracts of land roads. pressed belief in Samuel Groff's ìn- the cow, or both. Jap Fleet Maaaing. day. missioner, Walker. Chairman; regis Hohenzoliern sailed today for Gib in Oregon and California. Brains in the man and blood and nocence. Colonel Grayson was heavily ’n- St. Petersburg, Feb. 27.—The Jap- ter of the land office at Rcseburg. raltar, where the emperor will take A motion was made by Benson’i Another Battle et Port Arthur. aneae are massing a powerful naval Ore., J. T. Bridges; receiver of pub a cruhe in the Mediterranean. attorneys to transfer the hearing ■ >o < terested in the Baby McKee, Alpine feed in the cow are esaential to suc- Formal Ratification. force at Port Arthur, according to a lic moneys at Roseburg, J. H. Booth. Ixmdon, Feb. 27—Minister Haya California, as all the witnesses live and I-ast Chance mining companies, cess in Kansas, as elsewhere.—Hon. Lord Hope Weds Again. Washington, Feb. 26.—A formal dispatch today from General Alex- shi has received an official report of there and many of them cannot be of the Sumpter district, and was F. D. Coburn, in Quarterly Report owner of the Baker City Evening Re Kansas State Board of Agriculture. exchange of ratifications of the Pan left He believes another attack ia a battle at Port Arthur, in which From Suez to Manila. London, Feb. 29.—Lord Hope, the reached from the national capital. ama treaty took place at the state imminent. The fleet now off the har the statement ia made that up to the It is thought that Secretary Hitch publican, which was managed and Suez. Feb. 29.—The United States divorced husband of May Yobe, mar battleship* and present time no Japanese ships had M BunauVarllla, Panama minis department at 11 this morning, be bor Includes 17 destroyer flotilla sailed for Manila ried on Saturday, Olive Thompson, cock will consent to transfer the edited by Edward Everett Young for several years. tween Hay and Bumau-Varllla. cruisers and eight destroyers. been damaged. the daughter of a Melrose banker. ter to Washington, has resigned. case to San Francisco. thia morning. ! One Town is Under Water Advices Say the Cruiser by the Overflowing of Pit Oriel is Seized in the Red Sea. River. A Traveling Passenger Agent Beautiful Million Dollar Struc With Heart and Conscience ture Ruined by Fire Early in His Work. This Morning. Three Acres of “Fireproof” Business Houses Burned_ Great est Fire Loss in the History of That City. FIRM FIGHI WHEAT TRUST I TWO YEARS EACH t