(lttttlPi s member op associated press. VOL. II. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1907. NO. 26. MM. ! Wffll in n p i i j i I rwl LaGrande ManyWoulrJ Nfit Stand foryflackmaiM Offender Caught. JAIL HOdDS Letter and Instructloiih JFuUc Jar Hidden For Crgoit to 1MB Up, La Grande, Oregon. a yucep rr and well-laid ploWlo blackmafj. D. McKennon, alcadlng groegf of this city, was frustrated, It IsJioped, this morning, when arrestyWas made of a man sent by Urngang of black mailers to collect the money demand ed in the anonymous letter to the merchant. Two days ago Mr. McKennon re ceived a letter demanding that ho pay $1000 or lose his home property and even his life. The letter was turned over to the police, who were at the designated spot all night. Their long wait was rewarded by the appearance of a young man. Ho was arrested without difficulty and Is now in jail. The letter was written at Walla Walla on Pendleton stationery, and explains itself. Others of the gang are hero, as evidenced by signs of communication made with the pris oner at the city jail this morning. The letter, verbatim, follows: "Dear Sir You will no doubt be very hostile on coming to possession of this letter. But It will do you no good. My request is more easily complied with than refused. All I want of you Is the sum of $x000, one thousand dollars. See! Now, to business and directions, nnd be very careful of your movements after re ceiving this. For I have two men stopping at LaGrande. "First place the amount named In a 1-2 gallon fruit jar and bury It at the Northwest corner of the Mor mon sugar mill. You will notice post or piling running toward the wagon road. Will put the jar in a hole In front of the nearest post to the road and lnrthest toward bridge. Just cover so It won't be noticed. Two inches from surface will do. Don't forget the dato, August 2,t 1907, at 10.30 P. M. "Now, McKennon, this means you. I will tell you some important facts to keep constantly in your head. Don't think you can havo anybody there to capture the boys, or that you can run away and get around pay ing us, for tho first move you make, you die. If you value your life and family and store in La Grande, come through, that is all. This is the only time I will warn you by letter, and I wll not bother you for any more if you act according to directions. "XAVIEIt 23-23. "P. S.- If you try to bo a hero and get gay, then look out tho best you can do Is to keep still. If you should happen to get tho man that goes af ter the coin, thero Is still some of us left. Now, do as you please. "Tho facts a'ro hero. X 23." Mr. McKennon secured tho ser vices of ex-Deputy Sheriff Tom John son and ex-Chief of Police L. Rny biirn, who took with them enough provisions to last them, secreted themselves in tho best sheds in view of tho proper location last Thursday night and remained thero until they got their man this morning. About C:30 last evening tho special officers saw a man walk by on tho road and look over In their direction. A few moments later another folldwed and the two returned together, one being tho man arrested. A little before 5 o'clock this morn ing tho ofllcers saw a man climb over the fence, walk by them within six feet, then immediately go to the exact spot designated and commence scraping around. Finding the dirt soft he picked up a stick and com menced to dig up tho jar burled thero. At this juncture Rayburn stepped out and covered hlra with a shotgun. Tho prisoner was surprised and made a move to his hip pocket but was ordered Immediately to throw up his bands, which he reluctantly did. SECHfe 'HOP PICKING ANNUAL OUTING FOR CITY FOLKS . jf llllll)l(ail(h Flock foVIIIiiiiietf.- Villi-' During HowflPlekJng i jr i. 4! sW rjprtnWd, AufTG. ConnyKrebs, io has lartfFhop yardsxjm different parts of Ure WillameUrvalley, Is in the clbarranglng Jopen headquar tersjior engaglnojffickers for tho sea son. "PIcklnjifwill beKin about Sot- embor 1,'UJro says, "and as we need about ljfiwb pickers, we havo to be gin enjSJging help early. I look for a gupu supply of pickers this this year, however, as tho people who ve picked our hops In former years ro mostly llgurlng on returning to jour yards this year again. "Whole families take their regular annual vacation in our yards, and ithoy make money at tho same time. i I know of some heads of families j who are making as high as $5 a day I in the city, but they havo notified j their employers that the regular hop 'yard vacation is duo pretty soon and that a leave of abscuco is expected. Whero the family is large and all the members work, they can make as much as $20 a day in our hop fields, and they return to the city with j health renewed as well." Ho says he will have preachers on hand at tho Independence yards to conduct a revival during the three weeks of hop picking, and that this will bo considered quite an attraction by those religiously Inclined. In other yards, however, he will have different kinds of recreation. As for prices for hops, Mr. Krebs thinks thero Is very little encourage ment to pick this season, but he hopes that tho market will change by the time tl.o hops are in the bale, and that the hop growers of the state may be recompensed for their labor and outlay. He expects an average of a ton of hops to tho acre for tho entire 800 acres under culti vation this season. THEY HAD HEARD THE LOUD CALL OF COOS BAY Gathering at Chamber of Commerce Headquarters Compare Notes With Strange Results. The cosmopolitan population of Marshfleld as well cj the remarkable change and Increase in the popula tion In the last few months was well Illustrated today by an Incident which occurred at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. About a dozen men were present and one of them mentioned tho fact that ho was from Now Mexico. Thereupon a censu3 was taken on the spot by states and the following rennlt was scored: Kreltz from New Mexico; Lederlo a'oni Michigan; Stafford froL. Illi nois; Blake from .Indiana; Thurston from Maine; Clarke from Massachu setts; Lyons from Kentucky; Snover from Oregon; Morris from Idaho; Schlagel from Pennsylvania; Whis- nant from South Dakota; Dodge from North Dakota; Watkins from California. It was voted that many states had heard the Call of Coos Bay. FIRE DESTROYS BASE BALL BLEACHERS San Francisco, Aug. 0. A fire which satrted near the baseball grounds this afternoon spread to the bleachers, destroying them. No game. Portland, Aug. C. Oakland 5, Portland 4. Vancouver, Aug. G. No game, rain. Oakland, Aug. G. Los Angeles G, San .Francisco 7. (11 innings.) FOUR PEOPLE KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK Pittsburg, Aug. G. Four were killed and twenty-five injured in a wreck on tho Pennsylvania railroad near Kelly, about 35 miles from this city, today. W1JH passing through Kelly, the TitnsvHe express was "s'ldeswiped" by a gondola car and tho engine, tender, baggage, express and three day coachss wero derailed. The victims all live In Pennsylvania. Convict iUVs Another. Salt Lake, Aug. 6. Abo Majors, doing a life seatence for murder, in tho Utah penitentiary, almost killed another man today. He stabbed Henry Waddel, a long termer, six 'times. Guards wnt to Waddel's res cue, but probably too lato. It Is thought Waddel will die. m VESSELS SHELL MRS French and Spanish War Craft Bombard Arab Quarter at Casa Blanca.- HUNDREDS ARE SHOT DOWN Shore Batteries Show Fight, But Did No Damage Foreigners Are Fleeing. Tangier, Aug. G. Casa Blanca, on the Moroccan coast, has been bom barded by French cruisers, and Moors are reported shot down in large numbers and the town since Sunday night has been practically In possession of landing parties from the French and Spanish cruisers. The first shots wero fired by the Moors. The occupation of Casa Blanca Is a direct outcome of a na tive uprising which resulted in kill ing last week of eight Europeans there. Both France and Spain are hurrying additional warships and troops to various points on the Mo roccan coast. Tangier, Aug. 6. According to a semi-official account, there Is fighting at Casa Blanaca. The French cruiser Galilee asked permission to land a guard of sailors to protect the French consulate. This was granted, but while the guard was proceeding to the consulate, If was fired upon and seven were wounded. The French then cleared the streets at the point of bayonets, killing many Moors. Arriving at the consulate, the guard signalled the news to the Galilee and the French ship notified a Spanish cruiser which had landed a guard for the consulate of Spain. The warships then bombarded the Arab quarter of Casa Blanca. The Casa Blanca battery fired a couple of blank shots which drew the fire of tho warships in the harbor, caus ing tho Moors to retire. The Euro pean part of the city was not touch ed. The Du Chayla shelled the beach where a number of Kalyes assembled, killing many of them. Reports from Kabat say the situation Is critical. Berger tribesmen continue to threat en to invade the city. Europeans are fleeing. Continued For Two Days. Paris, Aug. G. A special dispatch from Tangier says tho street fighting and bombardment at Casa Blanca, according to a refuge who has ar rived there, continued throughout Sunday and was still in progress In the evening when I he steamer Ana tolo sailed, fne l'cnch ships fired about two thousand shells. The number of Moorish dead Is In the hundreds. A single party of ma rines killed 150 Moors. The French wounded number about twelve. Pasha Surrenders the City. Madrid, Aug. 0. A dispatch to tho Imparslal, from Tangier, says It is reported the Pasha at Casa Blanca has surrendered tho town and that guards for the protection of for eigners will be landed soon as pos sible at Mogador, Rabat, Safll, and Mazagan. OIL AND RAILROADS TO FIGHT EXPOSURE Arc Effecting Combination to Beat Government Investigation. Chicago, Aug. G. Conferences in dicating a combination of Interests between tho Standard Oil and rail roads to fight further government In vestigations are In progress in Chi cago and New York, according to the Chicago Record-Herald. Tho Chica go and Alton, tho Chicago, Burling ton and Qulncy and Chicago and Eastern Illllnois lines Jointly named In 3491 Indictments returned by tho federal grand Jury are represented In the negotiations. Tho attitude of Judge Landis in declaring the rail roads equally culpable with tho oil corporatloa In rebating offenses and calling a special grand Jury has caused the hasty banding together of the different interest. A MINNESOTA FARM GIVES UP SKELETONS Likely Remains of Indians Killed In Long Ago Tribal AVars. Manknto, Minn., Aug. G. The skeletons of 16 men, minus their heads, believed by representatives of the Historical Society who have ex amined them to be those of Indians who were burled 200 or more years ago, have been removed from a mound on Arthur Mitchell's farm In South Bend township. Excavating has ceased for the present, but will be resumed within a short time, when it Is expected other skeletons and perhaps some more Interesting things may be found. While residents of South Bend cling to the belief that the skeletons are those of white men, others do not think so. Thomas Hughes, the county historian, is of tho opinion that the bones have laid where found over two hundred years. He believes that a party of Sioux Indians that had gone to Fort Le Hullller to trade was ambushed by a war party of Sacs and Foxes from Wisconsin and a number slain and their heads car ried away as trophies, and that the men from the fort then burled the bodies. One of the skeletons has a flint arrowhead sticking between the ver tebra, thus Indicating the manner In which" this man came to his death. COUNCIL CONTRACTS STREET IMPROVEMENT Bids Let For Macadam and Planking In Various Sections of City Other Business. The city council hold a meeting on Monday night to consider bids on work recently ordered. There were bids to be opened for work on 10th street, and California avenue. The offers were opened and considered, but action on them was postponed until August 19 th when the board of equalization will meet to adjust prices on the improvements. The work on 10th street Is estimated at $1.G per front foot and on Califor nia avenue, $1.18. The meeting was adjourned to last night. At tho adjourned meeting, held last night, bids were let on tho fol lowing work: Grading and macadam on First and Cedar streets, together with curbing and crosswalks, from A street to the north bridge; grading to J, . Burns, and tho other work to Masters & McLain. Second street from Pino to Alder, macadam and grading, together with curbing and crosswalks; grading to J. J. Burns, other work to Masters & McLain. Sneridan avenue, Washington to Pennsylvania; planking, Masters McLain. Pennsylvania avenue, from Sheridan' to Coal Bank Inlet; plank ing, to Masters & McLain. Tho great activity in building af fected the bidding, as there wero no other bids for tno macadam except that of Masters & McLain. Seymour Bell was present at the meeting and gavo notice that ho would apply for a franchise for an electric railroad at the adjourned meeting which Is set for August 19th. PROGRESS SHOCKS BUSINESS BUILDING Marshfield's Palm, the liquid pal ace where Coos Bay's "elite" and others are wont to gather to escape the ennui of life, over a coco cola or a "sodl," as fancy dictates, has been observing banking hours for tho pnst few days. 'Twas not that the man agement had grown purse-bound and wished to allow for an equable dis tribution of Coos Buy's floating cur rency, neither had tho shop been un ionized. That relentless forerunner of tho march of civilization, tho pile driver, did It. Monday, while patrons were par taking of tho hospitality tho estab lishment affords a violent interrup tion which shook tho building from foundation to roof, and otherwise, occurred. Lady patrons trembled In fright while glasses, tables, and other movable fixtures took on sudden ani mation which In many cases proved costly to tho management of tho Palm. The cause of tho shaking oc casioned to the building by the driv ing of piles is ascribed to the fact that there Is a bed of sawdust sev eral feet deep on the lots contiguous to the Palm building. W SALH EGBS ARE TAKEN Season Yet Early and Hatch eries Have Not Obtained Any Eggs from Fish. 12 STATIONS IN OREGON Season, It Is Believed, Will Be Very Late Columbia River Has Five Stations. Astoria, Aug. G. Master Fl3h Warden Van Dussn 13 receiving word every day from the rnen in tho state hatchery department that tho twelve different stations in the stato are getting ready to handle the egg3 which will be swamped from the sal mon thi3 season. At no point in the stato havo any eggs been taken or received Into tho hatcheries. At the Clackamas and Salmon river stations the work will begin earliest in the season. The eggs taken so far at these places have been taken solely for the purpose of determining their condition. The salmon at the Clack amas station near Cazadero are not yet ripe. From Bill Smith, who Is In charge ot the Clackamas station, who re ported to the fish warden yesterday, comes the information that there are plenty of fish In the stream there but that they are not yet ripe. He states that there will be no difficulty In taking the salmon as the seln has been tried and found to work per fectly. At the Clackamas station there is an arrangement of two sets of racks and a place to hold the sal mon in until they mature. This sta tion is only a temporary one, the miles further up the river but as the permanent station being located 20 Portland General Electric Company has a G 0-foot dam at this point no fish could go above it this year. The company, however, Is blasting a fish way over the dam and Smith informs Mr. Van Dusen that the work Is be ing done at tho upper end of tho fish ladder bo that the blasting will not interfere with tho work of tho state in taking eggs. Blasting In or near the water has proved In the past to be tho best way to drive fish entirely out of a stream. The 12 Oregon hatcheries aro ca pable of handling 50 million eggs and Mr. Van Dusen thinks that should everything bo favorable that this amount will be taken this sea son. Should the greater per cent of this take bo hatched and liberated to tho streams there should be no difficulty with a slack salmon season as this one Is reported to be. But among hatchery men this Is not considered to be a dull fishing season; It Is gen erally believed to bo a lato season. Reports coming from Alaska bear this out. The run of salmon there has boon kept down by low tempera tures and at tho time tho last reports were sent In tho run was Increasing. The work In the ofllco of tho fish warden Is just beginning to com mence and after a few weeks there will be all that tho force cares to do. Tho correspondence from men in charge of stations is piling up and this Is merely an Incident of the work. Thero are five stations tribu tary to tho Columbia river. They aro located at Ontario, McKenzle river, Wallowa river, Salmon river, and Clackamas river, which Is a tem porary station. Tho coast has the balanco of tho stations which aro lo cated at Coos Bay, Umpqua river, Slnslaw river, Yaqulna bay, Tilla mook, Alsea and Coqullle, the latter two stations aro now. MAN MURDERS WOMAN AND KILLS HIMSELF Los Angeles, Aug. G. Thomas II. Chapman, aged 50, an expert ac countant, late this afternoon shot and mortally wounded a woman with whom ho had been living ten years, then blew off the top of his own head. Neither can recover. Chap man came from Detroit. The woman was Barbara Hayward, of Sacramen to, Cal., but it Is stated she was mar ried to Raymond Wise, also of Sac ramento. Coalman met her at Bat tle Creek, where she was studying to become a nurse. STRANGER PLEASED WITH COOS COUNTRY Has Recently Seen Most of Western Territory Coos Bay Suits Him. "Coos Bay is good enough for me," was tho earnest declaration of D. B. Crltes, late of Las Vegas, N. M., and who has toured extensively the vast area of country Intervening between the stato of Indiana, southwesterly to where the sluggish Rio Grande di vides tho Sal Del Flerro range lh Mexico. "Of all the cos3t places I have seen in my travels up the Pacific slope," said Mr. Crltes, "none compare with, C003 Bay, either In natural resources or climate. My objective point has always been here, but I desired to thoroughly Investigate the different localities, where promises of won derful possibilities are held out be fore coming. I am free to say that In no way am I disappointed in tho expectations which tho wonderful claims for this place naturally caused me to hold." Mr. Crltes has been on tho bay but a day yet like so many others beforo him he ha3 become one of the en thused converts to tho Coos Bay faith. He says to his personal knowl edge thero wero twelve families in Las Vegas making arrangements to pull stakes and set their faces Coos Bayward. He says tho wide publicity which the Coos Bay country has at tained is nothing short of remark able. Ill the hamlets and cities of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Ten nessee, Kansas and the Indian Ter ritory, he heard of Coos Bay; always the reports spoke the same until It came to him to be like some refrain "Coos Bay, the young man's goal and the Mecca of the opportunity seeker." Mr. Crltes is a young man and af ter a few days spent in looking nround the bay ho will make definite plans for the future. New York City and Suburbs Overrun With Mobs and ' Lynchers. SLIGHT PRETEXT SUFFICES Angered Citiens Ready to I'omico Upon Men Who Show Familiarity. New Yoiilc, Aug. G. Mpro "Near crimes" and "lynchlngs" occured' to day. Scores of complaints were filed against alleged lnsultcrs and assault ers of women and children, but only half dozen required serious atten tion. More than one lnnocont man was pounded until unconscious by angry mobs of men and women, but police were generally on tho seono In time to prevent serious results. Tho least familiarity shown by men to women and children was splzed on as an opportunity for the gather ing of mobs. Superintendent Jenkins of tho Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, denies a "crime wave" and says statistics show no greater Increase In this class of crime than In previous yaers. LIFE RAFT REACHES SHORE Clothing Found on Same Belonged to G. T. Spaiks. San Franclbco, Aug. C. A hfo from tho Columbia was picked up to day at Half Moon bay, thirty miles south of this city. On tho raft was found an oar and under!- rmont bearing tho lnltlnls "G. T. S.". This presumably belonged to Georgo T. Sparks, banker, Fort Smith, rlc, who was among tho drowned. $ $ $ fr 4 ! 4 4 $ t J, WKATHKK FORECAST. Western Oregon, show, cooler, excopt near coast. Soiijih- west to west winds. "VTtsftrn 4- Washington, showers, westerly 4 winds. Eastern Oregon, "$h- lngton, Idaho, showers, Wa- t derstorms, cooler. 4lt.4.jf4ft$4 NEAR CUES fi jjr "rrr- vj -