General News.
-Knnsns needs 5000 harvest hands to
save the wheat crop.
Cottage Grove is reported as improv
ine rapidly in the way of new side-walks
beine laid and numbers of handsome
new residences under construction.
Machinery for the Benton County
Prune Packing Co., has arrived at Cor
vallie, and will be put in operation at
once. The plant is a large one complete
in every detail.
"Wool is down to 16 cents in Corvallis,
an English bnver havine closed a deal
therefor 90,000 pounds at that price,
Th clip has been averaging 17 to 17.
per pound.
A ship canal to cost $50,000,000 is to
be built to give Glascow a direct outlet
to the North sea. Oregon only asks
$S,000,000 to open a river that will bene
fit a territory 20 times the sue of Scot
land.
The largest tree in Oregon was felled
recently to be sent as a curiosity to the
World's Fair. It is the Aberdeen spruce
and stood nearly 300 feet high, 40 feet
around and US feet from the ground to
the first limb. Its age is calculated at
440 years, being a good sued tree when
Columbus discovered the land that was
afterward called America.
The Eugene Guard Bays the city couu
cil Ehould lose no time in passing an or
dinance regulating the storage of ex
plosives with in the city limits. The
statement is made that eight hundred
pounds of dvnamite were stored in the
business part of Eugene over Sunday,
While an explosion is not probable it is
possible. An ounce of prevention is
worth a good many pounds of cure.
There is considerable discussion among
the lawyers not only of Albany but
generally of Oregon, as to the reasons
for the small amount of litigation, says
the Albany Herald. Are people getting
better, or do they do less business?
Some attribute the small amount of
litigation to the general spirit of arbi
tration which prevails in this age.
People settle their disputes out of the
courts. The work of the busy lawyer is
not in the court room but in his office.
And it is in the office work that he
makes his money.
There is more activity than ever be
;fore in the logging camps in King's
Valley says the Corvallis Times. L. G.
Price has eight to ten men at work in a
camp that be is operating individually
aa a private enterprise. He has a con
tract with Spanlding Brothers to put
600,000 feet of logs into the Luckiamute.
Fi Simpson works 23 men in the same
vicinity and his contract is for four
million feet. Art C. Miller works 30
men on a contract that is understood to
be a large one. Spanlding Brothers
themselves operate a camp at which 50
to 60 men are employed. The output
goes to sawmills along the lower Willam
ette and to the pulp mills at Oregon
City.
The great atid plains of Nevada,
"which lie contiguous to the Truckee
River, will in all probability soon be
turned into fertile fields and blooming
orchards lands. That is, as soon as the
Department of the Interior shall decide
when and to whom the contract for the
construction of the canals to be used for
irrigating these lands shall be awarded.
The proposed scheme is to tap the
Trnckee River at a point called Clark's
Station, and from there by a circuitous
route build a canal 15 miles in length,
the objective point being Wadsworth
This canal will be bnilt through a terri
tory of sandy plains, which now can
barely sustain a sum growth ol wiry
sagebrush. The building of the canal
practically means the reclaiming of
something like 250,000 acres of at present
useless lands. It is proposed to divert
the entire waters of the Truckee River
from there natural channel and use
them solely for this ii rigation scheme
Last week we mentioned that Million
aire Best was poisoned at San Rafael
Calif., and that his remains were ordered
to be exhumed for a coroners jury to
pass on the case. The body had been
shipped to New York for burial, and on
Saturday the grave was opened and upon
examination of the body it was found
hat the abdomenal cavity of the body
was filled with sawdust and that all the
internal organs that would show ev
dence of irritant poison had been care'
fully removed. Those that were left in
the body has been severed as with a
sharp knife from the supporting mem
branes and were found lying loose. Alfred
Best, son of the murdered man, declared
that he would immediately wire Prose,
cuting Attorney Boyd, at San Rafael,
Calif., to swear out a warrant on a new
charge for the arrest of Dr. JohnD.
Wood and wife, at whose home in San
Rafael. Calif. Best was a visitor at the
tmie of his sndde ndeath.
The Salem flax fiber mills have be;n
compelled to employ Japanese laborers
in order to have the large crop of flax
pulled. Pulling flax is hard work as
there is so much stooping and it is very
hard to get white laborers to do the
work.
The wheat crop of the Pacific North
west will be consideraDly lighter than
last .year, perhaps 15 or 20 per cent les9 ;
but about as much money will be re
ceived for it as for last year's crop, if
prices do not fall much, and in any case
this will still be a region of abounding
plenty.
The Redwood Land and Investment
company of Humboldt county last week
sold 2500 acres of redwood timber land
on the north fork of Mad river to Joeiah
Bell. The price paid was $53 an acre
straight through. The sellers recently
bought the land for J50.000 and their
profits will nevly reach $100,000.
The San Francisco Post says that J
D. Carr has succeeded in buying out the
last independent settler an Tule lake,
and is now preparing to consummate
the largest land deal on this coast by
selling nearly 300,000 acres, holdings in
Klamath and Modoc counties, to a
Scotch-English syndicate.
The biggest deal in timber lands since
thelWeyerhauser syndicate went to the
state of Washington was consummated
last week, when C. H. Cobb, James
Campbell and Rnfus Smith of Seattle
and Frank Brownell of Everett paid $1,
000,000 in cash to the Dunsmuir estate
for 50,000 acres of timber lands on
Vancouver island. This deal has been
on for more than a year.
In affirming the case of Bennett vs.
Carr, the Supreme Conrt practically
gives a death-blow to the Michigan anti
coloring oleomargarine law by declaring
it not a violation of the law to manufac
ture or sell oleomargarine colored with
an ingredient coloring matter, such for
instance, as crude cotton-seed oil, which
is an ingredient, and when not refined
gives the product the desired butter
color.
The Booth-Kelley Lumber Company
are constructing one of the largest dams
yet constructed in Lane county on Fall
Creek. The dam is 30 feet high and will
cause a rise of six feet at the mouth of
the creek. Like others atjthistime of
year, they are compelled to dam small
creeks until sufficient water has been
collected to cause a big rush when re
leased, thus floating all logs below the
dam further and further down the
creeks.
It is necessary now to make official
record of every brith and every death.
A new law that is already in effecs re
quires every physician, midwife- or bead
of the family to give notice by the end
of the month to the county health officer
of any birth that occurs under his or
her charge. Every physician, midwife
or head of family must give notice to
such health officer within 43 hours of
every death. No burial can take place
until a proper burial certificate has
been made out and transmitted to the
county health officer.
A huge dredger has been taken to
Klamath Falls from Fall River, Modoc
county, where it reclaimed 12,000 acres
of land. It will cut a channel from Lit
tle Klamath lake through the stretch of
Tale swampto White lake through which
a river of water will flow, thus making
of White lake a reservoir affording a
limitless supply of water to the big
ditches already leading therefrom
Much land has already been reclaimed
in Tuie lake valley, but thousands of
acres more will take on the wearing of
the green when the dredger , shall have
completed its work.
The repeal of the timber and stone
act will be, according to Senator Gibson
of Montana, one of the most important
measures affecting the West, that will
come before the next session of Con
gress. The bill for this repeal has been
favorably reported by the Committee on
Public Lands of the Senate, but has not
been acted on. It is likely to pass, how
ever, the contest over it promising to be
one of the fights of the session. It is
not a party measure and it seems that
the representatives of the Western
Stateb are not a unit in favor of it. The
mining interests.so far as heard from
are in favor of repeal because they know
in many cases much undeveloped
mineral land has already been grabbed
nnder the pretense that it is valuable
"chiefly for its timber and stone", and
those who favor the settlement of the
states of the far west with a population
such as the homestead law encourages
will be a unit in favor of repeal. The
party who takes up public land for its
timber is rarely an actual settler, but
often is one who has no intention
settle down and live in the community.
The hope of the many western states
lies in the coming of small farmers to
take and hold the public lands.
LADIES
TAKE
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f in r 1 1 t rfllBlftflim
and if our tfrnrcu ana mjmmlk j
Line is not better than any other, don't buy
from us. We are showing this season the
Latest Styles in
Silk Gause Novelties, Sole Jouree, Silk
Zephyr, Corded Chambray, lawn Caladine
Novelties, Taney Madrass Organdies,
Lawn Sinaloa Novelties, Minerva Dimities,
Leno Applique Lawn, Afton Dimity, Blouse
Linens, Organdies, Linen Batiste, Chal
lies, Sursucker Ginghams, Percale
AND ALL THE LATEST IN DRESS GOODS
Cl?f,fr We carry the Finest Line of Made-up Skirts in town, and our line of Underskirts cannot
Oil. 11. la-" equaled for quality and price
Our Spring and Summer Line of Clothing Sr? fSS ul
Highest to the Lowest grade is in even ease finely tailored and thoroughly dependable.' We recommend it
with confidence even though our prices are lower than any other store sell for the same quality. Also a new
0 and up-to-date line of Indies' and Gent's Neckwear. OUR SHOES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
X Sole Agents for the W. L. Douglas Shoo
t The Peonle's Store VrS,1
One Door South of P. O.
P. M. Arthur, the venerable chief exe
cution of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, fell dead while making a clos
ing address before the convention in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Friday night.
Mrs. Mary J. Piercv. said to have
been one of the smallest women in the
world, died of heat at her home in weX
York City a few days aco. She
was 31 inches tall, weighed 50 pounds
and was 40 years of age.
Reports from Sumpter say that never
before were conditions better for stock.
The late rains have resulted in one of
the greatest grass crops ever known
there, and as a consequence horses,
cattle and sheep are doing well.
Ira L. Greninger, of Medford, is at the
hospital there in a dangerous condition
from blood poisoning produced from a
toy pistol exploding in his hand, lacerat
ing it very badly, while attending the
celebration at Gold Hill on the 4th.
The wheat crop of Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho this rear is estimated at
36,000 bushels. This is a fifteen per
cent decrease from last year, vet the
hortage will not so much be felt on ac
count of the corresponding advance in
prices.
Chicago's population is 231,000, ac
cording to the publishers ct the Chicago
city directory for 1903. The publithers
figure the number of names in the dir
ectory of 1890 is to the- population of
that year as established by tbe United
States census as 654,000 (the number of
names in this jear's direotorr)is to 2,
231,000.
The Northwest is reputed to produce
annually from 35,000,000 to 40,000,000
bushels of wheat. Of thi amount no
ess than 30.000,000 are raised in the
Inland Empire and is subject to freight
rates governed by the rocfc in the Col
umbia at Celilo, and it is cot unreason
able to say that the cost of building a
canal would be saved in two or three
years to the farmers of the three sister
states. A reduction of three and one-
third cents a bushel would make the
Inland Empire a million dollars richer
each year.
Report from La Grande says the early
hay crop is being sold in town at til to
$13 per ton, which is about f4 per ton
above the price in former years. The
hay i3 late in maturing and the yield is
light, presaging a scarcity this winter.
Owing to the high price of hay and poor
Quality of erain, much grain will be cut
for hay. Beets are expected to yield
about two-thirds of the net tonnage of
last year. Owing to light early rains
some beets were plowed up, but those
left are making excellent growth.
A comet which was first discovered by
a French astronomer a month ao, has
been visible to the naked eye in south
ern Oregon for sevcarl nights. Its loca
tion at present is in the constellation
called Cygnus, or the swan. It is mov
ing in a southerly direction at the rate
of five degrees every 24 hours. Its pres
ent distance from the sun is 100,000,000
miles. This comet is expected to be tho
brightest since the comet of 1831. It
now has two tails, which is raro with
comets, both tails turned away from
the sun. It will grow brighter and
brighter each succeeding night for prob
ably the next 15 days, after which it
will be lost in the light of the sun. Ac
cording to the astronomers of tho Lick
Observatory its nearest approach to the
sun will occur on August 27th, at a dis
tance of 31,000,000 miles.
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The Superiorty of our Bargains is acknowledged by
Shoppers who are on the alert for merchandise of merit.
Fine Summer Dress Goods
clipped in price to sharpen
your interest. At this
time we are selling off all
things summery and yet
many women want a fresh
new dress or two for this
month and next. Todar
vou can choose from a va
riety of choice stuffs at
much less than the goods
have been bringing until
now. 6c, ioc, iz4c, and
on up to 50c per yard.
Summer Hats for Men.
Little to pay for a new sum
mer hat, we're doing rad
ical clean up work among
the summer stocks these
days, that is our only apol
ogy for making toda3''s
little price on a lot of sum
mer hats for men, desirable
and seasonable styles.
Former prices were 20c,
65c, 75c, and $1.00. Today
they are marked 20c, 60c
and 75c.
Price Reductions on
Shirt Waists. An offering
of Percale waists at reduc
tions that run up to half
original prices.
Bargains extiaordinary
in Ladies Oxfords as com
parison will vuickly show.
Sr.50 and $2.00.
Paying high prices becomes monotonous, try
Hildebrand's for a chausre.
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