WEEKLY.
UNION. Etab. JuLjr. 1897.
UAZEITK, Kitab. Uee., 1868.
( Consolidated Feb., 1899.
COE VALIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OBEGOCT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1902.
VOL. XXXIX.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Franca will expel many more relig
ious orders.
The Chinese government is planning
a steamship line to the Pacific oaet.
It is announced that President Roose
velt contemplates a hunting trip in
Alaska next spring.
The prospects are that Oklahoma
only will be admitted as a state at this
session of congress.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to blow up a train in which the em
peror of Japan was riding.
The bank at Bridger, Carbon county,
Montana, was held np by three masked
robbers and $10,000 secured.
The opinion of the press all over the
world is that the president's message
is one of the ablest-ever delivered by
any president or monarch.
A bill has been introduced into con
giess amending the irrigation law. It
would permit reclamation and pur
chase under cash entry law, also allow
the leasing of water power developed
by the government.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress which, if passed, will have the
effect of abolishing the office of com
manding general of the army, now held
by General Miles. It creates a general
staff corps to act with the secretary of
war.
During November the pnblic debt
was lowered a trifle under a half mil
lion dollars.
The United States will not mix with
Venezuela's financial affairs in the pro
posed new loan.
The international copyright treaty
with Spain has been restored to full
effect by the exchange of diplomatic
notes.
A bill will be presented to congress
asking an appropriation of $50,000 to
pay the expenses of the coal strike
commission.
Already there is a noticeable relaxa
tion of sanitary laws in Havana. There
is consequently much more sickness
than during American occupation.
Minister from Colombia Concha has
been relieved and will be succeeded by
Thomas Herran, who has full authority
to prosecute the negotiations looking
to a canal treaty, with considerably
enlarged powers.
Chairman Hale, of Ihe senate naval
committee, has made the statement
that he favors increasing the navy, but
does not think any more big battle
ships should be built. Vessels of the
Oregon type and cruisers are more ser
viceable. Lieutenant Robert E. Peary says the
north pole can be reached.
The United States government has
been asked to help Venezuela.
President Loubet, of France, will be
invited to visit the United States dur
ing the St. Louis fair.
A number of German farmers are
coming to the United States to study
American ways of farming.
All steamships running into Mar
seilles, France, are tied up on account
of a strike among the workmen.
. The engagement of the daughter of
Commissioner Hermann to H. P. Gate
ly, a Washington lawyer, is announced.
The Siamese crown prince, who is
touring the United State, snubbed
Mayor Williams, of Portland, on the
occasion of his visit to that city.
Russia and France have both deco
rated Ambassador Tower. In order to
evade the American law the time be
tween Mr. Tower's leaving the ambas
sadorship at St. Petersburg and taking
np his new post at Berlin was chosen.
Four men were killed, and three
fatally and five Beriously injured by the
explosion of gas in a coal mine near
Shamokin, Pa. An investigation is be
ing made as to the cause of the explo
sion, but it is believed a miner opened
his safety lamp.
Dr. Parker, the most famous preach
er in London, is dead.
Debate on the tariff question in the
German reichstag ended in a riot.
The Big Four railroad has announced
an increase in the wages of its yard
employes, to begin Dei-ember 1.
Secretary of the Government Tamayo,
of Cuba, who sympathized with the
strikers in the recent troubles, has lost
his position.
Chas F. Kelly, one of the St. Louis
boodlers, has returned home and given
himself np on account of the death of
his son, whom he wanted to see.
Kelly is regarded as the only man who
has the evidence to convict the boodlers
now on trial.
Fire destroyed over one-half of the
village of Rockford, S. D. The loss
will be great with only a small amount
of insurance.
Two of the Fort Baker, California,
batteries have been named Mendell and
Alexander, in honor of two army offi
cers of those names who served their
country with distinction.
Emperor William, of Germany, hor
ored Ambassador White at his farewell
audience uj presenting him with a
medal.
5DEATH IN EXPLOSION.
Thirteen Killed and Scores Were Injured
in Chicago Accident. .
Chicago, Dec. 2. With a deafening
report a boiler in Swift & Co.'s plant
exploded shortly after 10 o'clock yes
terday morning. Thirteen lives were
sacrificed, and scores of employes, vis
itors and others were injured. Huge
boilers were sent through the roof of
the boiler house, and hurled hundreds
of feet. Nobody within the boiler
room survived to tell the story of the
accident, and it may never be known
what caused the explosion. A care
ful investigation today, however, con
vinced the experts that the explosion
was the result of carelessness on the
part of an employe, whose own life
was lost. Five minutes after the ex
plosion nothing of the boiler house but
a pile cr twisted iron, bricks and mor
tar remained. Flames sprang from the
ruins, and the spectators realized that
it would be impossible to save the lives
of those who were caught in the wreck.
The explosion was of such force that
adjoining buildings were wrecked, torn
and twisted like toys. Men, women
and boys at work in adjoining depart
ments were hurled through windows to
the ground below. Many of them es
caped with slight bruises, but most of
the victims were hurt to such an ex
tent that it was necessary to remove
them to hospitals. The others were
taken to their homes.
It was soon rumored I. t from 50 to
100 persons were caught i.i the wrecked
building. . This report caused great ex
citement, and in response to repeated
calls, a dozen patrol wagons and as
many ambulances were sent from all
parts of the city. Extra calls for fire
engines followed, and soon the flames
were being fought from every side.
While the fire was still burning fire
men and employes of the packing house
began digging in the ruins. Soon the
mangled remains of a man were discov
ered. At the same time other rescuers
were digging with desperation to res
cue several victims who were still
alive. Bodies torn, bruised and man
gled were taken from the ruins and
sent to the morgue. A boy, scalded
from head to foot and bleeding from
cuts and bruises, staggered toward the
office of General Superintendent Yjung.
The boy was Mr. i'oung's personal
messenger. The lad, however, had
been so badly disfigured that Mr. Ypung
did not recognize him.
It is not thought that the los? to
Swift & Co. will amount to more than
$50,000. The officials of the company
declare that this will cover the damage,
as nearly as they are able to estimate
at the present time. The building in
which the boilers were located was the,
only structure to be entirely destroyed,
and it was a small structure, one story
high. The storehouse, which stood
close to the boiler house, was badly
damaged, a portion of its walls being
torn, but it is only two stories high.
AMERICANS BETTER OFF.
Mosely Compares Their Condition with
That of English Workmen.
New York, Dec. 2. Alfred Mosely,
the retired English merchant, who with
a number of workmen has made a six
weeks' tour of this country to study in
dustrial conditions here and in Cana
da, says:
"Our trip, on the whole, was emin
ently satisfactory. We were all im
pressed with the thorough up-to-dateness
of everything we saw. Another
thing that impressed us was the courte
sy and frankness of American employers
and the pains they were willing to take
to explain the methods in use at their
respective factories and works."
All the delegates will report their
impressions to the unions of their re
spective trades on their return to Eng
land. Terrence Flynn, of the tailors'
union, said:
"Counting the extra outlay in rent
and clothes for food and all else are
cheaper the Americ tn workman is 25
per cent better off than the workman
in England. On the whole he is far
better cared for in respect to good san
itation, general comfort and better
equipment than we are, and on the
whole he lives as long or longer in har
ness than the English workman. This
'too-old-at-50' principle does not pre
vail among the workmen, wherever else
it may be found. We speak from ob
servation. Here pauperism or penury
in old age is almost unknown. The
records of the English workhouses
speak for themselves."
Explosion on the Texas.
Hampton, Va., Dec. 2. The battle
ship Texas had a narrow escape from
being blown up yosterday afternoon.
She left the Portsmouth navy yard yes
terday piorning to the Capes, where
gun practice was held. Two of the
large turret guns exploded,, filling the
gun room with glycerine and water, but
the magnificent work of the gunners
saved the vessel from serious damage,
as well as the lives of those on board of
her. The ship returned to Old Point
this afternoon and a special inspection
board is making an examination.
New Tunnel to Brooklyn.
New York, Dec. 2. Work has been
Inaugurated by the Interborougb. rapid
transit company on the extension of the
underground system to Brooklyn,
through a tunnel underneath the East
river. The opening was made at
Broadway and Ann streets, Manhattan
When this work shall have been conx
pleted the subway system will be in
operation, and it will be possible to
ride from Brooklyn to any part of Man
hattan without change of cars.
Safeblowers Successful Raid,
Bloomington, 111., Dec. 2. Safe
blowers made a successful raid last
night upon the State bank at Stanford,
a village 10 miles southwest of here,
snd 3,000 was taken.- The burglars
I escaped.
PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS
Chief Executive Delivers
Annual Message
AN ABLE DOCUMENT
SPEAKS OUT HIS VIEWS IN FORCE
FUL LANGUAGE.
Favors Revision of Tariff on Some Plan
Which Will Not Disturb the Country
Heartily Commends Action Taken
In Irrigation Matter Alaska Should
Be Given Needed Laws.
THE MESSAGE AT A GLANCE.
Build isthmian canal.
Perfect public land laws.
Protect game on fore reserves.
Give Alaska needed legislation.
Create a ijcretary of commerce.
Extend free rural mail delivery.
Establish reciprocity with Cuba.
Irrigation act should receive attention
Organized capital and organized labor
must work together for the good of the
nation.
International arbitration should be
extended.
A general staff should be at the head
ot the army.
Filipinos" are enjoying greater liberty
than ever before.
Control of corporations should be in
the hands of the government.
Build up navy so as to be able to treat
Monroe doctrine as cardinal feature of
our foreign policy.
Revise tariff laws to the extent of bus
iness demanc'a, but do not jeopardize
the workingman or country in general..
All future financial legislation should
look to an interchangeable currency, .
convertiLle into gold at the will of the
holder.
Washington, Dec. 3. President
Roosevelt's annual address to congress
was read in both houses yesterday.
Following is a synopsis of the docu
ment:
To the senate and house of representa
tives:
We still continue in a period of un
bounded prosperity. This prosperity
is not the creature of law, but un
doubtedly the laws under which we work
have been instrumental in creating the
conditions which made it possible, and
by unwise legislation it would be easy
enough to destroy it. There will un
doubtedly be periods of depression.
The wave will recede, but the tide will
advance. This nation is seated on a
continent flanked by two great oceans.
It is composed of men the descendants
of pioneers, or, in a sense, pioneers
themselves; of men winnowed out
from among the nations of the old
world by the energy, boldness and love
of adventure found in their own eager
hearts. Such a nation, so placed, will
surely wrest success from fortune.
In my message to the present con
gress at its first session I disensesd at
length the question -of the regulation of
those big corporations which are popu
larly known as trusts.
Our aim is not to do away with cor
porations; on the contrary, thee big
aggregations are an inevitable devel
opment of modern industrialism, and
the effort to destroy them would be
futile unless accomplished in ways that
would work the utmost mischief to the
entire body politic.
I .believe that monopolies, unjust
discriminations, which prevent or crip
ple competition, fraudulent overcapi
talization, and other evils in trust or
ganizations and practices which injur
iously affect interstate trade, can be
prevented under the power of congress
to "regulate commerce with foreign na
tions and among the several states."
If it prove impossible to enact a law
that will regulate these corporations,
then, assuredly, we should not shrink
from amending the constitution so as
to secure beyond peradventuie the pow
er sought.
Stability of economic policy must al
ways be the prime economic need of
this country. This -stability should
not be fossilization. The country has
acquiesced in the wisdom of the pro
tective tariff principle. It is exceed
ingly undesirable that this system
should be destroyed or that there
should be violent and radical changes
therein. Our past experience shows
that great prosperity in this country
has always come under a protective
tariff; and that the country cannot
prosper under fitful tariff charges at
short intervals. It is most earnestly
to be wished that we could treat the
tariff from the standpoint solely of our
business needs. The well being of the
wage earner, like the weil being of the
tiller of the sou, should be treated as
an essential in shaping our whole
economic policy. There must never be
any change which will jeopardize the
standard of comfort, the standard of
wages of the American wageworker.
One way in which the readjustment
sought can be reached is by reciprocity
treaties. Lhey can be used to widen
our markets and to give a greater field
for the activities of our producers, on
the one hand, and on the other hand
to secure in practical shape the lower
ing of duties when they are no longer
needed for protection among our own
people or when the minimum of dam
age done may be disregarded for the
sake of the maximum of good accomp
lished. It would be both nnwise and un
necessary at this time to attempt to
reconstruct our financial system, which
has been the growth of a century; but
some additional legislation is, I think,
desirable. It is suggested that all
future legislation on the subject should
be with a view of encouraging the use
of such instrumentalities as will auto
matically supply every legitimate de-
' mand of productive industries and . of
commerce, not only in the amount,
but in the character of circulation; and
of making all kinds of money inter
changeable, and, at the will of the
holder, convertible into the established
gold standard. -
How to secure fair treatment alike
for labor and capital, how to hold in
check the unscrupulous man, whether
employer or employe, without weak;
ening individual initiative, without
hampering and cramping the industrial
development of the country, is a prob
lem fraught with great difficulties and
one which is of the highest importance
to solve on lines of sanity and far
sighted common sense as well as de
votion to the right. This is an era of
federation and combination.
Organized capital and or agnized
labor alike should remember that in
the long run the interest of each must
be brought into harmony with the in
terest of the general public; and the
conduct of each must conform to the
fundamental rules of obedience to the
law, of individual freedom and of jus
tice and fair dealing toward all. Each
should remember that in addition to
power it must strive after the realiza
tion of healthy, lofty and generous
ideals. Every employer, every wage
earner, must be guaranteed his liberty
and his right to do as he likes with bis
property or his labor so long as he
does not infringe upon the rights of
others.
It is earnestly hoped that the secre
tary of commerce may be created, with
a seat in the cabinet. The rapid mul
tiplication of questions affecting labor
and capital, the growth and complexity
of the organizations through which
both labor and capital now find ex
pression, the steady tendency toward
the employment of capital in huge cor
porations, and the wonderful strides
of.this country toward leadership in
the international business world justify
an - urgent demand for the creation of
ich a position.
I hope soon to submit to the senate a
reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On May
20 last the United States kept its prom
ise to the island by formally vacating
Cuban soil and turning Cuba over to
those whom her own pecple had chosen
as the first .officials of the new republic.
Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever
affects her for good or for ill affects ns
also. So much have our people felt
this that in the Piatt amendment, we
definitely took the ground that Cuba
must hereafter have closer relations
with us than with any other power. -
As civilization grows iarfare becomes i
less and less the normal condition of
foreign relations. The last century has
seen a marked diminution of wars be
tween civilized powers; wars with un
civilized powers are largely mere mat
ters ot international police duty, essen
tial for the welfare of the world.
Whenever possible arbitration or some
similar method should be employed in
lieu of war to settle difficuties between
civilized nations, although as yet the
world has not progressed sufficinetly to
render it po. sible or necessarily desira
ble to invoke arbitration in every case.
The congress has wisely provided
for building at once an isthmian canal,
if possible at Panama. The attorney
general reports that we can undoubted
ly acquire good title from . the French
Panama canal company. The work
should be carried out as a continuing
policy without regard to change of ad-
mi iLtration; and it should De begun
under circumstances which will make
it a matter of pride for all administra
tions to continue the policy.
Of Porto Rico it is only necesasry to
say that tbe prosperity of the island
and the wisdom with which it has been
governed have been such as to make it
terve as an example of all that is best
in lrtu'ar administration.
On July 4 last peace and amnesty
were promulgated in the Philippine
islands. Some trouble has since from
time to time threatened with the Mo
hammedan Moros, but with the late
insurrectionary Filipinos the war has
entirely closed. Civil government has
now been introduced. Not only does
each Filipino enjoy such rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness as
he has never before known during the
recorded history of the islands, bat the
people, taken -as a whole, now enjoy a
measure of self government greater than
that granted to any other Orientals by
any foreign power, and greater than
that enjoved by any other Orientals
under their own governments, save
tne Japanese alone. Too much praise
cannot be given to the army for what
it has done in the Philippines, both in
warfare and from an administrative
standpoint, in preparing the way for
civil government; and similar credit
belongs to the civil authorities for the
way in which they have planted the
seeds of self government in the ground
thus made ready for them.
The army has been reduced to the
minimum allowed by law. It is very
small for the size of the nation, and
most certainly should be kept at the
highest point of efficiency.
A system of maneuvering ocr army
in bodies of some little size has been
begun and should be steadily continued.
Without such maneuvers it is folly to
expect that in the event of hostilities
with any serious foe even a small army
corps could be handled with advantage.
Our officers and enlisted men are
such that we can heartily take pride in
them, but they muht be thoroughly
trained, both as individuals and in the
mas. In the circumstances of modern
warfare the man mnst act far more on
hid own individual - responsibility than
ever before, and the high individual
efficiency of the unit is of the utmost
importance.
I urgently call your attention to the
need of passing a bill providing for a
general staff and for the reorganization
of the supply departments on the lines
of the bill proposed by the secretary of
war last year. "."' .
I For the first time in oar history
maneuvers on a lager scale are being
J held under the immediate command of
! the admiral of the navy. Constantly
i increasing attention is being paid to the
gunnery of the navy, but it is yet far
lrom what it should be.
There should be no halt in the work
of building up the navy, providing
every year additional fighting craft
we nave aenrjerateiy made our own
certain foreign policies which demand
the possession of a first - class navy.
The isthmian canal will greatly in
crease the efficiency of cur navy if the
navy is of sufficient size; but if we have
an inadequate navy, then the building
of the canal would be merely giving a
hostage to any other power of superior
strength. . The Monroe doctrine should
be treated as the cardinal feature of
American foreign policy; but it would
be worse than idle to assert it unless
we intended to back it np, and it can
pe backed up only by a thoroughly good
navy.
The striking increase in the revenues
of the postoffice depattment shows
clearly the prosperity of our people and
the increasing activity of the business
of the country.
Rural free delivery service is no
longer in the experimental stage; it has
become a fixed policy. The results fol
lowing its introduction have fully justi
fied the congress in the large appropria
tions made for its establishment and
extension.
Few subjects of greater import
ance -nave been - taken up hy the con
gress in recent years than the inaugu
ration of the system of nationally aided
irrigation for the arid regions of the
far west. A good beginning therein
has been made. Now that this policv
of national irrigation has been adopted,
the need of thorough and scientific for
est protection will grow more rapidly
than ever throughout the public land
states.
Legislation should be provided for
the protection of the game, and wild
creatures generally, on the forest re
serves. The senseless slaughter of
game should be stopped at once. It is,
for instance, a serious count against
our national good sense to permit the
present practice of butchering off such
a stately and beautiful creature as the
elk for its antlers or tusks. '
So far as they are available for agri
culture, and to whatever extent they
may be reclaimed under the national
irrigation law, the remaining public
lands should be hold rigidly for the
homebuilder, the settler who lives on
his land, and for no one else. In their
actual use, the desert land law, the
timoer and stone law, and the com
mutation clause of the homestead law
have been so perverted from the Inten
tion with which they were enacted as
to permit the acquisition of large areas
of the public domain for other than
actual settlers and the consequent pre
vention of settlement. Moreover, the
approaching exhaustion of the public
ranges has of late led to much discus
sion as to the best manner of using
these public lands in the west which
are suitable chiefly or only for grazing.
In view of the capital importance of
these matters, it might be well for a
commission of experts to investigate
and report upon the complicated ques
tions involved.
I especially urge upon the congress
the need of wise legislation for Alaska.
It is not to our credit as a nation that
Alaska, which has been ours for 35
years, should still have as poor a sys
tem of laws as is the rase. It is a ter
ritory of great size and varied re
sources, well fitted to support a large,
permanent population. Alaska needs
a good land law and such provisions for
homesteads and pre-emptions as will
encourage permanent settlement. We
should shape legislation with a view
not to the exploiting and abandoning of
the territory, but to the building up of
homes therein. The forests should be
protected, and, as a secondary, but still
important matter, the game also. Laws
should be enacted to protect the Alas
kan salmon fisheries against the greed
which would destroy them. It would
be well if a congressional committee
could visit Alaska and investigate its
needs on the ground.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
White House Dec. 2, 1902.
MITCHELL WANTS COAST DEFENSE.
Is Busy Getting Official Endorsement for
New Legislation.
Washington. Dec. 3. Senator Mitch
ell has been- busy throughout the past
week collecting recommendations from
the secretary of war and other officials,
touching upon needed legislation for
the coast defense of the country. As
chairman of the committee on coast
defenses, the senator proposes to advo
cate the passage in the short session of
such legislation as is urgently de
manded. In years past, the duties of the com
mittee on coast defenses have been
cared for by the committee on military
affairs. The growing importance of
the coast defenses and their present
inefficient equipment has appealed to
the senator. He is particularly anx
ious that some legislation be enacted
which will permit the complete fortifi
cation of. the mouth of the Columbia
river, but says most of the harbors are
yet inadequately protected.
Found Desperadoes Unexpectedly.
Denver, Dec. 3. A special to the
News from Lamar, Colo., says that
while pursuing three men suspected of
having held up and robbed the post
master at Carleton, near here, Sheriff
Frank M. Tate and Deputy J. H.
Frisbie came suddenly upon the men
encamped this morning. The latter
opened fiie upon the officers, wounding
Tate in the arm. Frisbie's horBe was
shot from under, him. The three
men escaped. As soon as the affair
became known, a large band of cow
boys, heavily armed, took the trail.
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Prosperous Southern Oregon Mine Real
Estate Transfers in Marion County In
creasing Aged Man 56 Hours With
out Food or Shelter Benton County
Hog Discovered with Jaundice.
A case of jaundice has been found in
a hog killed by a Benton county farmer.
- Pendleton commenced free city mail
delivery December 1. There are four
carriers and three deliveries of mail a
day will be made. . - .
Much local interest is being mani-
'ested in the city elections throughout
the state, which occur from December
1 to April 1. Several cities have three
tickets in the field.
Hosea Stokes, aged 78 vears. became
lost in ,xne woods at Looking mass,
Southern Oregon, where he resides.
and when found had been 56 hours
without food or shelter.
Mrs. Bride Sinnott, widow of the late
N. B. Sinnott, died at her home in The
Dalles Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sinnott
was-one of the most widely known
pioneer residents of that section of the
state.
Prospects are verv encouraging in the
gold mining district in the Santiam
country. Considerable development
work is being done and new macninery
installed. A smelter will be shipped
in early next summer.
The real estate transfers in Marion
county during the past week amounted
to over (52,000, which is the largest
for a similar period in many years.
Activity in real estate has been'steadily
increasing for over two years and there
is every indication that it will gain in
intensity during the next two years.
While there is some movement in city
property, the transfers are principally
of farm property.
The Greenback mine, on Grave creek ,
Southern Oregon, has a new 20-stamp
mill completed and ready to begin a
much larger business that it has been
able to do in the past. Over 50 tons of
ore will be crushed daily. Nearly 300
people are supported by the Greenback
mine, the houses of which have made a
thriving little town with a store, hall
and schoolhouse. The town is known
as Greenback and has recently been
made a postoffice.
The postoffice at Pokeama, Klamath
county, has been discontinued.
The building boom, which has been
in progress at Weston for several weess,
shows no signs of abatement.
The citizens of Helix will hold an
election December 10 to vote on the
proposition of incorporating the town.
But very little of the 1903 wheat
crop in the big Umatilla belt will be
fall wheat, the rain proving so heavy
that all seeding has been stopped.
Dr. Leckenby, of Union, Has discov
ered a process whereby he can take
photographs in which all natural colors
ar reproduced. He will not keep the
discovery a secret, but will give it to
the world.
The soldier who was arrested at Fort
Stevens for setting the numerous lecent
fires has escaped from the officers and
no trace of him can be found. He con
fessed to having started the fires as ac
cused. The second term at the state normal
school at Monmouth shows a marked
increase in interest and attendance.
One noticeable feature is the unusually
large number of young men, some 190
being enrolled at present.
The sugar beet crop this year in the
neighborhood of La Grande was excep
tionally good and more beets were
turned into the factory than evei be
fore. Ihe amount received is 17,500
tons, which yielded 4,600,000 pounds
of refined sugar.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7172c; blue
stem 7P80c; valley, 74c.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew
ing, $24.00.
Floor Best grade, 3.603.90; grah
am, $3.203.60.
Millstuffs Bran, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, $23.50; snorts, $19.50;
chop, $18.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.151.17 ;
gray, $1.121.15 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $1011; clover,
$9.00; cheat, $89 per ton.
Potatoes Best Bar banks, 6080c
per sack; ordinary, 5055c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, $1.75
$2 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
4.25 : per pound, 10c ; hens, $44.50 per
dozen; per pound, 10s; springs, $3.00
3.50 per dozen ; fryers, $2.503.60;
broilers, $2.002.50; ducks, $5.00
6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 13c,
dressed, 15c; geese, $6.008.50.
Cheese Fall cream, twins, 15
lQHc; Yoong America, 1817$
factory prices, llc leas.
. Butter Fancy creamery, 3032c
per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20
22)c; store, 1518.
Eggs 2530c per dozen.
Hops New crop, 23 26c per pound.
Wool Valley, 12K15c; Eastern
Oregon, 814)c; mohair, 26 28c.
Beef Gross, cows, 334c per
pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 67e.
Veal 7&8Xc.
Mutton Gross, 3c per pound;
dressed, 6c.
Lambs Gross, 34c per pound;
dressed, 6c.
Hogs Gross, 6J6Jcper pound;
dressed, 7370.
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CONGRESS MEETS
FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION IS CONVENED
AMID BRILLIANT SCENES. . i
Adjournment Taken Immediately Out of
Respect to Deceased Members Visit
ors' Galleries Crowded and Hundreds
Were Unable to Qain AdmLssionThe
Usual Flower Display.
Washington, Dec. 2. The second
session of the Fifty-seventh congress
convened at noon yesterday. Lone be
fore the gavels fell in the two houses
large crowds thronged about the doors
of the visitors' galleries, seeking ad-
-a. orignt, sunny -day
brought out many women, who wra
conspicuous among the visitors. " As
the hour for the opening approached
the crowdi about the doors increased,
but many were neeessarilv Haan;n.
ed, as the space allotted to outsiders
was claimed early. There were many
out-of-town visitors.
Opening of the Senate.
Washington. Dec. 2
was in session 12 minutes yesterday,
the first day of the session, an ad inn.
ment until todav beinc
respect to the memory of Senator Mc
Millan, who died during the recess.
Rarely has the historic chamber pre
sented SUCh an Armnrnnrn Tl, .,
torn ot placing flowers on the desks of
senators on the opening day of a ses
sion is one which has long been fol
lowed, but the dianlair v)o .o -J
' IT '"""J U'
mittedly the most magnificent of any
that has yet been seen. Many of the
senators were early on the floor and
kept busy exchaneinir cruetinoa with
old acquaintances. The galleries were
packed to suffocation, and hundreds
stood outside the corridors
gain admission. Among the interested
B Dec ta tors were RAVAral momnnM
" - "'-'" utl a V trXiO
diplomatic corps. Senor Quesada, the
Cuban minister, occupied a conspicuous
place and exhibited much interest in
wo proceeuings. ine absence of Rev.
Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain, was
particularly noticed. His place was
taken by Rev. J. F. Prettyman.' of
Washington.
No hnsinfiss vao trandonM
w " ni -..v. i vi UDJUUU
passing the customary resolutions that
the senate was readv tn nrnmui
. J "VUVU KyJ uuir
mess and fixing the hour of convenin
i.ue sessions ai ii o clock.
Oay (lathering in the House.
Washington. Dec. 2. Th
the Fifty-seventh congress Jnthe house.
wo, as usuai, a spectacujar event. 1 be
naileries of the fresh lv Wnrw? Koii
were packed to the doors with people
prominent in society and political cir
cles, and the flower show
although not as elaborate as usual!
mieu iub cuamoer witn perfume and
added grace and beantv to tha
The members- were good natured and
jovial, and mere was no outcropping of.
partisan feeling. Speaker Henderson
received a cordial reception as he as
sumed the travel, hnt liounnrl tlia tlm.n
was no demonstration. The proceed
ings were purelv Derfunctorv. A
er, the calling of the roll, the swearing
in of members elected to fill vacancies
created by death or resignation during
the recess, the adoption of the mi Atn fri
ary resolutions to appoint a committee
io wait upon me president, to inform
the senate that t.hn hnii ha nraa -raaA-rr ts
transact business and to fix the daily
hour of meeting, summarizes what was
done.
Then the death of the late Renre-
sentative Russell, of Connecticut.
which occurred in tha earlv full nraa
announced bv his successor. Mr. Rran-
degee, the usual resolution of regret
was adopted, and the house, as a fur-
11 r , . ...
mer mars oi respect, adjourned until
today, when the president's mnnmim
will be received. The session lasted
less than one hour.
RUSSIA MUST PAY.
United States Wins Sealing Arbitration-
Over $100,000 Will Be Received.
The Hague, Dec. 3. Professor Asser.
the Dutch jurist, who has been arbitrat
ing the claims of American sealers for
the seizure of their vessels by the Rus
sian government, about 10 years ago,
has delivered his award in favor of the
United States. . He appraises the dam
ages m the case of the American
schooner C. H. White at $32,444 ; in the
case of the James Hamilton Lewis at
128,528; the Kate and Anna at $10,-
488, and the Cape Horn Pigeon at $38,
750. Professor Asser delivered his judg
ment in the arbitration court in the
presence of the representatives of the
United States and of Russia and others,
including the foreign minister of the
Netherlands, Dr. Van Lyndena. In
giving his reason for the award, Pro
fessor Asser held that the schooner
White was seized octside Russian terri
torial waters, and that the Russian con
tention that a warship of one nation
was entitled to pursue beyond the boun
daries of its territorial seas a ship of
another nation guilty of illegal action
within those waters was untenable.
The arbitrator declared that the juris
diction of a state could not extend be
yond its territorial waters except by
special treaty.
Pensions for Railroad Employes.
Portland, Dec. 3. The O. R. & N.
Co. will inaugurate a 'pension system
at the beginning of the new year for
the benefit of its employes. The
Southern Pacific will also put the
new system into effect at the same
time. It is a move that includes all
the Harriman lines. The details of
the plans will be announced some time
this month. It is somewhat like the
plans that are in effect on many of the
large Eastern roads.