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Hymen H. Cohen, Market Ed
itor of the Oregon Daily
Journal, Mokes Estimates.
FARMERS WILL GET MORE
MONEY THAN LAST YEAR.
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Umatilla and Walla Walla Counties
Are the Ran nor Wheat Districts of
the Inland Empire This Ycur
Yield of Umatilla County Placed at
from 4,000,000 to 4,500,000 Bush-'
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YAQUIS INDIANS MAS
SACRE THREE FAMILIES.
El Paso, Texas, Aug. 6.
Thirteen persons were killed
at the Lampazas mine In Mexi
co, by Yaquls Indians, who are
threatening to attack the Pro
montorio mine, where the, sur
vivors have taken refuge, ac
cording to private advices.
A letter telling of the massa
cre which, occurred July 24,
has been received by friends of
A. D. McThee, superintendent
of the Potnontorlo. Without
warning the Yaquls swept
down and slaughtered 13 mem
bers of three families.
AUSTRIAN ARMY SCANDAL.
Premier'; Son Stir Hornets)' Nest
With Startling Statements.
Vienna, Aug. 6. Military circles
-Fight Among: flio Rig Com- were Btortled today by the results of
panics Partly Responsible for High an Investigation following a report
Prices ' rorn Major Sturdza, the premier's
son, , charging shocking immorality,
l drunkenness, reckless extravagance
That wheat will touch 90 cents in anij gambling among the officers of
Pendloton, Walla Walla and other j the Roumanian army and utter lnef
wheat centers of the Inland Empire fc-ency throughout the rank and file,
during the present market season Is He declared discipline in the army
the candid opinion of Hymnn H. Co-Wns Peking, 'and that no regular
nen, mantel editor or tne uiegon ,jrng WPre j.ij. Extensive frauds
Dally Journal, who came down this ,ave been revealed, the officers hav
mornlng from Walla Walla after a i,lff ruled their pockets with the pub
tour of the wheat belt. j 0 funds.
"There Is no cause for complaint As a result of the disclosures Stur
at this year's crop," said Mr. Cohen dza has been challenged to fight sev
to the East Oregonlan this morning, era! duls and has vanquished seven
"as the higher prices will bring the antagonists,
farmers more money than they re-;
celved from laset year's bumper j
crop. Market conditions and the ex-'
port trade are such right now that
everything points to 90-ccnt wheat,
this season, but when It nears the 90
cent mark if I had a wheat crop Ij
THE GIN
Praises Bryan and Ksrn and
Condemns the Republican
Pi r y.
n
should immediately let go at that j
high maik, as the market will neces
sarily be uncertain and shaky after
passing the 8G-cent mark."
Mr. Cohen has
wheat belt of Morrow
tllln and Walla Walla counties, nnd
finds tho cream of the crop In Uma
tilla and Walla Walla counties.
In Morrow county many thousand
of acres will not be cut at all. while
but little of the crop In either Uma
tilla or Walla Walla counties will be
too light to harves.
"It Is a most surprising spectacle,"
said Mr. Cohen, "to see such an
abundant crop where there has been
but little moisture. In Umatilla coun
ty I find there has been no rain dur
ing the growing season, and yet the
land Is yielding almost normally. Of
course It is somewhat below list
year's phenomenal crop, but It Is
almost average.
"Tho sharp competition In the mar
ket and the bitter rivalry among the
big grain buying companies and ex
porters are the causes of the advance
In prices. Then there Is a world
wheat shortage, also, nnd all these
conditions Justify my statement that
wheat will reach 90 cents this year.
But my advice would be to sell when
It gets to the 90-rent mark or a' lit
tle before."
Tir. Cohen leaees tomorrow morn
lng for Echo after conferring with
theleadlng farmers and grain buyers
on crop conditions. He Is one of the
best Informed men in the Northwest
on market and crop conditions and
has built up a reliable and readable
market page on the Journal
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,,0"nom.rOUBt, the;SIIOlLD HAVE RECEIVED
ow, Gilliam, Umn-
(imi,im .Mum. mmi ll.ir.
Keeent Sale at .Miles niy, Moiiiujm,
Enilmslzes SiatniMMit That Clip of
Reaver Slale Should Have Drought
Ftmr Out More Per Pound
I'matilla Growers Are .Heaviest
Logcrs.
SAYS TARIFF IS THE
ONE GREAT ISSUE.
Deelures That Parly In power for 50
Years Has Deliberately Fostered In
terests Which Have Reen Robbing
People-Charge Republican With
Relng Afraid to Revise Obnoxious
Tariff and Change Statute Enacted
by Them Which Made Robbery Possible.
Los Angeles, Aug. 6. Judge Parker
of New York, opened the Bryan cam
paign here last night with an address
to 2000. He eulogized Bryan and
Kern and said:
"How s It that against the Interest
of Uie people, Wie party in power for
more than 50 years, has been able to
shut lis eyes to the fact that the
people have been systematically rob
bed by means of a statute enacted by
this party, which did not have the
courage to change It?"
He was speaking about the tariff.
He continued: "There Is one great
question of all questions to be solved
by the electors.
"Many yars ago a small black
clou appeared on the horizon. A
tariff was imposed for the ostensl
ble protection of the. Infant Indus
trios, which was extended and enlarg
ed until under it there has grown up
a system which has the country com
pletely In its grasp.
"The party In power Is allied with
the protected Interests. These inter
ests have furnished money to the re
publican party at the request of tne
national committee and everybody
knows that for years the leaders of
this party have been engaged In fry
ing the fat out of the manufacturers."
tift rnios
HIT WEI
Declares That Inequality Will
Soon Result in Populor
Condemn t jn,
ARBITRATION NOT
EQUAL TO ALL CLASSES.
Republican Candidate Declares poor
Man Is Handicapped in Contest
With Rich OpKnents Before Court
or Board of Arbitration .Merchants
ami ' Commercial Men rsiikiiig
Courts Altogether Gives Reason
for Delays. .
GOOD YIELDS AT WESTON.
Wheat Is Making Good Average De
spite Dry Season.
A correspondent at Weston says
of the wheat yields In that vicinity:
F. C. Greer, S3 bushels per acre
from 80 acres; II. E. Turner, 2400
sacks of 6 1. pound wheat from 165
acres: J. IJ. nnd J. M, Price, 25-bushe
avernge from ouu iv. ' Vl "v L W
2946 sacks from 165 acres; J. c-
Truner, 35 bushels per acre from 80
acres; J. N. York, 2996 sacks from
240 acres at the McMorrls place, and
1143 sacks from 65 acres at his home
place; George W. Ptnggs, 1420 sacks
from 92 acres of red chaff wheat, SO
bushels per acre from 115. acres of
Dale Glory wheat; J. II. Coffman, 30
bushels per acre from 230 acres. Bar-,
ley Is a good crop this runnng
from BO to 75 btViels per acre,.
Mosc8 Taylor's 40-bushel yield
from a half section west of town re
mains the record crop for this sea
son. Two years ago J. M. Banister
secured a yield of 62 bushels per
acre from 200 ncres in the same
vicinity, and last year 50-bushel crops
were common.
That Oregon woolgrowers were lit
erally "robbed" out of approximately
$6X0,000 this year, was the statement
made to an East Oregonlan reporter
this morning, and tho report of the
wool sales held at Miles City, Mont.,
July 27, was cited as evidence. This
report shows the following sales: 859
swks, or near a half million pounds,
at 18 7-8 cents; 261 sacks at 17 3-8
cents.. 404 sacks at 17 3-8 cents;
495 sacks at from 16 to 17 cents, and
98 sacks at from 15 to 16 cents.
When It Is remembered that the
average price paid for the Oregon
clip was but 12 cents, a glance at the
above figures will lend credence to the
statement made by an Informed Port
land man this morning, who says Or
egon sheepmen were entitled to ap
proximately four cents more per
pound. This man has followed the
situation carefully, not only this year,
but, for a number of years and Is
probably as well posted as to the
facts as any man In the northwest.
The prices for the. Oregon clip was
12 cents, while that for the Montana
clip is probably above 16 cents, cer
tainly not below that figure, showing
a difference of four cents, .which on
this year's 17,000,000 pounds clip,
means a loss to the state of $680,000.
This loss is distributed principally
among a few eastern Oregon coun
ties. It now seems apparent fliat the
buyers came Into the field this year
wllh a determination to take advan.
tnge of the uncertain market and
slump tho prices as much as possible.
The Oregon" fleeces, being the first
clipped, were put on the market first
and were therefore made to suffer.
That the local growers made a hiy
mistake In allowing the sales to oe
held here when they did 'universal
ly admitted and a they will make
A W6rse'"6ne next year if they allow
their sales to be held before the ques
tion of tariff revision Is definitely
settled, Is also generally believed.
While all eastern Oregon flock
owners were heavy losers this year,
those of Umatilla county suffered
more than any of tho others, because
the very first sales were held bero
and 12 cents was close to the top
price here instead of tho average.
CABBIES WOMAN TO
LICENSE COI NTER.
Seattle Man and Legless Sweetheart
Are Wedded in Kentucky Town.
Chicago, Aug. 5. A dispatch to the
Record-Herald from Cincinnati, O.,
says:
A pathetic sight was seen in the
county clerk's office In Newport, Ky.,
yesterday, when a young man carried
ii, his arms a legless young woman
to the license counter and applied for
a marriage license. The pair gave
their names as John B. Bapp of Se
attle. Wash., and Pearl Ruppell of
Portland, Ind. They went from Cin
cinnati in a cab to the city across tho
river and when the man stepped from
the cab with the young woman In his
arms he attracted a crowd. In the
clerk's office he placed her on the
counter while the document was being
prepared. The young woman's legs
were amputated as the result of a
railroad accident. After securing the
license the couple went .to a parson
age and were married.
Hot Springs, Va., Aug. 6. Ta'ft to
day addressed the Virginia Bar asso
ciation, stating that the present court
system while not perfect, Is not so
far from producing proper results that
It calls for anxiety. He said the ine
quality existing in the administration
of Justice will soon give rise to a call
for popular condemnation and reform.
"I know delays have induced mer
chants and commercial men to avoid
the courts altogether, and to settle
their controversies by arbitration.
Such arbitration Is only possible be
tween litigants who are members of
the same commercial bodies. Boards
of arbitration offer no relief to liti
gants with wealthy opponents, hence
the results in the cost of litigation
to the poor being greater than to the
rich, assuming the poor more often
Interest-d in small cases, and the rich
In large ones.
One 'eason for a delay in the lower
courts is the disposition of the judges
to await an undue length of time In
writing opinions. I speak with con
fidence because I was one of the sin
ners.. I b.-lleve a great reform could
be eff -rted with certainty in the fed
eral and state courts by a mandatory
reduction in court costs and fees."
O. R. &S BRAKEMAN
liOST LEG UNDER TRAIN,
Brakeman Wallace of the
Umatilla-Starbuck freight fell
under a train a 2 o'clock this
morning south of Starbuck and
lost one leg Just below the knee.
He was otherwise injured, but
not seriously. He was brought
to the Walla Walla hospital
where his injuries were attend
ed to, and it Is thought he will
recover.
PI RSI ED BY DEVIL; SUICIDES.
Young Man Has Peculiar Hallucina
tion Loaves Notes.
San Francisco, Aug. 6. Believed
that he was being pursued by the
devil, William Letterln, aged 18.
drank carbolic acid and dropped dead
on a street corner today. He left
rambling notes to his mother telling
of his experience with the evil spirits.
He said he feared they would kill
him and was afraid to go home.
Letterln wrote to his sister Ella
that the demons were going to drown
him In the bay and then put his body
In the lot where it was found.
He appointed four pallbearers.
signed tho letter of Identification and
put it In an empty bottle found near
him.
LABOR TO FIGHT CANNON.
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Third Eastern Oregon District
Fair to Be Well Advertised
This Year,
FLRST ONE GOES
TO SOUTH END,
Wagon with naming Sign on Corer
and In Charge of Harry Norwood
Left Tills Morning for Southern
Umatilla and Morrow Counties
The First of Its Kind o Be Soot
Out Others Will Follow Distrib
uting Literature, Posting Bills and
Doing General Missionary Work.
Wife and Daughter Are Passengers
on the Intcrurban Car which Did
' the Work Walking Along Track
Deafness Prevented His Hearing
Motonnan's Warnings Drawn Be
neath Pilot.
Will Try to Relegate Uncle .Too
Private Life.
Without blare of trumpets or roll
of drums, but by gumshoe methods,
the labor forces of .the country are
preparing silently and stealthily to
center their political battle In this
congressional district. For weeks
the political lieutenants of President
Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor have Infested the
district, making Inquiries, conduct
ing investigations and analyzing the J his home walking down the car
political atmosphere. As a result. It j tracks. When first seen he was to
is declared that the signs are propit- one side of the track, but a moment
ious and thnt another warfare will be, later stepped to the center, and before
Wfrlla Walla, Aug.- 6. The first
death cause by an electric car since
the lines of the- Walla Walla Trac
tion company were completed more
than a year ago was recorder short
ly before 7 o'clock yesterday even
ing, when the Milton-bound lnterur-
oan car struck c. it. Scnnassee. a
farmer living near Meador park
Death was instantaneous, the head
of the dead man having been crush
ed to a pulp and his chest horribly
mangled.
" Schnassee, who was almost totally
deaf, had been to College Place dur
ing tne day and was returning to
Sultan Appoints Cabinet.
Constantinople, Aug. 6. The. new
Turkish cabinet was named today by
the sultan. There is not a single re
actionary member In It and it prom
ises to uphold the new constitution.
Tho young Turks are rejoicing.
ltron Is Head Knight.
Boston, Aug. 6. Henry P. Brown
of Clebourne, Texas, was today elect
ed supreme chancellor of the Knights
! ?? Tythlas without oppositjon.
BRINGING WATER 21 MILES.
QUEEN OBJECTS TO HSI'S iRWE
Como, Italy, Aug. 6. Esconsed In
her palace near Stresa on the Italian
Jltalkes, Queen Margherita puts her
royal foot down decidedly upon the
.proposed marriage of the duke of
Abruzzl to Katherlne Elklns, despite
the reported preparations for the
wedding.
Intimate friends of the queen said
today that should the couple per
sist In their Intentions and If the
marriage actually takes place, the
queen will cut both from her list of
acquaintances.
The queen says she has no objec
tions to the girl personally, but thinks
the duke should wed a European
princess, and she suggests some for
the duke.
City of Modford to Install New Grav
ity System.
A special meeting of the city coun
cil was held Wednesday evening to
entertain a proposal for BOO miners
Inches of Little Applegate water from
the Sterling Mining company says
the Southern Oregonlan of Medford.
The proposal was presented by J.
C. Blakeley of Roseburg and as ex
plained by him was merely In a has
tily prepared form and did not enter
into details. If the water committee
would seriously entertain the propo
sition, he would go into details and
specifications which would be agreed
upon later by the city's engineer and
his own representative.
He agreed to. install a filtering
plant If desired, and put In any kind
of pipe to the city limits from the
reservoir above Jacksonville that the
city might designate. He stated there
would be 21 miles of open ditch and
a mile and a half tunnel from the Lit
tle Applegate." The pipeline, reser
voir and filtering plant Is to be deed
ed to the cltw for maintenance.
waged, with the object of relegating
"Uncle Joe" Cannon to private life.
The labor union politicians are not
particular as to Cannon's successor
They would prefer a candidate favor
able to unionism, but would wlllingi)
accept a foe of labor if thereby Speak
er Cannon could be made a perma-
the car could be stopped he had been
stricken down and was ground be
neath the pilot.
The accident occurred on a sharp
curve Just above the Whitman cross
ing, which fact acounts for the falU
ure of the motorman to observe the
nerson on the trarlt hnforo tVin .or
nent resident of Danville. In the eye3j hnd fl,most reached hlm
or uompers, tne uanvuie statesman is
the biggest barnacle on the ship of
state, and the command has gone
forth that he must be removed at all
cost.
There is a big labor vote in this
district, and the union men declare
that the outlook for the defeat of
Cannon is more favorable than it
ever was before. Republican politi
cal leaders, however, scoff at the
Idea that Cannon can possibly be de
feated, and assert that Uncle Joe is
safe in his berth as long ns he will
accept it and that nothing short of
death or voluntary retirement can
remove him from the political arena.
LEGS FROZEN: rU-lVXS ON ICE.
Millions of feet of standing timber
have been destroyed during the past
few days along the Pen d'Orelle river
In Washington by forest fires. Large Thompson had a mother in Oak-
forces of men are fighting the flamee.1 land.
Thrilling Experience of Pi!oscetor in
Alaskan Wilds.
J. R. Thompson yesterday limped
down the Folsom street wharf from
the transport Crook with a story of
suffering In the far north that makes
Jack London's tales of the arctic
seem tame, says the San Francisco
Examiner.
Thompson came on the Crook from
Nome.
Las,t New Years' day he started from
Fairfax on a prospecting tour. He
was caught In a blizzard 400 miles
from his base. It raged three days.
During it Thompson awoke to find
that his foot had frozen. He vainly
attempted to treat the nerveless limb
and then started for Innoce, the
nearest town.
He tolled on, growing weaker, un
til finally he was crawling on hands
and knees through the snow. Then
exhaustion came.
Next morning Thompson was found
by a prospector driving a dog team
and carried Into Innoce. Here lit
was found that his right leg was
frozen. In Innoce Thompson lay for
weeks, and finally he was sent to
Nome, where the Crook found him
and brought him to this city.
Mrs. Schassee and her daughter,
Clara, were passengers on the car,
and when it was learned that a man
had been killed, Mrs. Schnassee im
mediately asked if the injured man
was her husband. Her agitation and
presentiments were verified when
she left the car and looked at the
prostrate figure beside tho track.
According to Motorman W. C. Wil
kins and Conductor J. R. Harper,
who were , In charge of the car,
Schnassee was seen when he was
about the distance of four telegraph
poles away,
The warning was sounded, and the
speed of the car, estimated at about
12 or 15 miles an. hour, was slacken
ed a moment later ,when It was Seen
that the man was not aware of Its
approach. Mothorman Wilklns was
coasting, and as soon as he could
do so the brakes were applied and
the motor reversed, with the result
that the car was traveling about five
miles an hour when H struck the
man.
Although everything possible was
done to bring tho heavy machine to
a sudden stop. It slid along the rails
for probably 30 feet, dragging the
prostrate body with It. When ex
tricated from the pilot the body was
found to be horribly mangled,, mak
ing identification almost Impossible.
Death was Instantaneous.
With the legend "Third Eastern
Oregon District Fair," painted In
flaming colors on the wagon cover,
the first advertising wagon ever sent
out by the Umatilla-Morrow county
fair was started on a 250-mlle ad
vertising tour this morning in charge -of
Harry Norwood.
The fair advertising .wagon will
make a circle of the two counties.
Including Pilot Rock, Albee, Uklah,.
Vinson, Upper Butter Creek. Hepp
ner, Lexington, lone, Cecil, Irrlgon,
Umatilla, Hermlston and Echo, trav
eling In a complete circle through
the southern .portion of Umatilla and
over the central portion of Morrow
county, distributing ctrculars and
premium lists, posting up lithographs
and hanging canvas banners on trees.
fence posts and telephone posts,
where 'they will call the attention of
travelers to the big fair to be held
in Pendleton September 28-October
3, 1908.
This Is the beginning of the 1908
advertising campaign for fhe district
fair, and will be continued until af
ter the fair opens on September 28.
The papers of Umatilla and Morrow
counties' are urged to give the fair
all the publicity possible, as it meana
more to the agricultural, horticultu
ral and livestock Interests of these
counties than can be told in a brief
newspaper article.
The advertising wagon will carry
too kinds of advertising literature for
the fair and will distribute the prem
ium lists to farmers interested and
will also make arrangements for the
collection of exhibits. It is expected
that it will take three weeks to make
the circuit of the two counties, but
the work will be done thoroughly,
and every community In these two
counties will be made ia know that a
fair is to be held here this fall.
Another wagon will be started
north in a few days to cover the
northern portion of Umatilla county,
nnd in this way every section of the
two counties will be thoroughly bill
ed and the fair will be brought to
the attention of the remotest settlements.
Farmers having exhibits of any
kind, whether agricultural, horticul
tural or live stock, are urged to list
them and see that they are on exhi
bition. It is up to the individual
farmers of the counties to make the
fair a success. The commission Is
loing everything In its power to
make it a success, but the commis
sion must have the co-operation of
the farmers.
BRYAN COMING TO OREGON.
Chicago. Aug. fi. It Is likely that at
Chicago plans will be made for a tour
of the United States, taking the dem
ocratic candidate from Providence, R.
I., to Portland, Ore., and from there
to San Francisco and Los Angeles".
Ten Are Injured.
San Francisco, Aug. 6. Ten per
sons were hurt, three seriously, when
a heavy electric car crowded to the
steps with workingmen ran down a
steep grade on Connecticut avenue
and dashed around a curve. Several
passengers were thrown In to the
street.
A large barn owned by S. H. Riggs.
three and a half miles from Rosalia, (
Wash., was burned to the g'round n
early Tuesday morning. The barn,,,,
contained 400 bushels of grain. 3000.
sacks and a quantity of farming lm-,. ,
plements. The loss is estimated , at(l,
$2000, on which there was an lnfyjqr
ance of $100. ,, ,H"
0EUB1TE PLOT TO WRECK PAEH
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Watsonvllle. Cab, Aug. 6. South
ern Pacific detectives are making a
vigorous search In this vicinity for
three lumber men, following a con
fession made by Annie Richardson,
a notorious woman, implicating them
In an attempt to wreck the Santa
Cruz flyer Sunday night at the Pajaro
river bridge.
She says the plan was concocted at
a drunken orge
In which a number
tlelnnted In carrvln
The train wreckers1 f!
ber of fish
house.
men par-
plate ltAH)fttudkMrMt
bridge in such a manner tnat the
train would ,httf:)J,fiJtTO7ttlloj
the river If the engineer had not
seen the obsmdtnj rthrb?own!tYg
scores of lives1'1! ;'' ,ituiiuiJu
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