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M:1iri.CsoIidated Feb., 1599. COB VAXiIilS, BENTON COUNTY", . OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBE R 18, 1903; VOIiV XXXX. NO. 39. EVENTS OF THE DAY OATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP 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. R Sir Thomas Lipton is quite ill at Chicago Frost in the Nebraska corn belt has done much damage to that crop. Bulgaria - will take no steps for until the powers reply to her not. war A heavy snow has fallen aronnd Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, Russia's policy is said 'to do to let Tnrkey subdue Bulgaria, then she will seize the land. Premier Balfour, of England, advo cates retaliatory duties against protec tionist nations. An explosion in the basement caused the destruction of a seven story build ving in New York. - ' -: ' Ex-Senator James K. Kelly, of Ore gon, is dead. Of recent years he had lived in Washington, D. C. He was 84 years of age. The loss from the recent storm along the Floi ida coast continues to grow as communication is established with the outlying districts. The Japanese premier says his coun try will go slow in the Manchuriah affair as a clash with Russia is to be avoided if possible. Admiral Cotton reports all quiet at Beirut. , England is preparing to send a fleet to Salonica. Tho British cabinet crisis has been temporality staved off. Macedonian rebels have decided to adopt a guerrilla warfare. The physician to the Turkish embas sy at Vienna thrashed the ambassdor. The national irrigation - congress opened at Ogden with the largest at tendnce in its history. Secretary Shaw has deposited $4, 000,000 in national banks in the cotton and grain growing districts. - France has sent a cruiser to Beirut: Socialists of Berne threaten to hiss the czar when he visits that city. Turks did not spare a single Chris tain in their massacres at Monastir. It is feared a crisis is at hand in the British cabinet and that the entire body will resign. The situation at Beirut is Improving. The new vali is working hard to restore general confidence. Russia has asked China to grant it more time for the evacuation of a fron tier province in Manchuria. . . The Portland ministerial association : l l : .RuiKUUwfl us mieiinuu ui viuomg gam bling and side entrances to saloons. It is said the American trip of the Prince of Wales is all talk and that he is not planning to visit the St. Louis fair. An excursion train went into a ditch near Kempton, Wis. Three passengers were killed and a numbei of others hart. The agent appointed by the Cuban government to float a loan of $35,000, 000 hopes to be able to secure the money in the United States. . ' An explosion' of a barrel of liquor stolen by sailors and placed on the cruiser Olympia when discovered, cost two lives, injured seven and set the ship on fire. . s ' V.-"".. Turkey shows a disposition to settle promptly the claims of America. ' The czar has abandoned his visit to Roumania, fearing that country cannot guarantee safe trip. - Russia has made new demands on China which have stirred up afresh the ire of the Japanese. .''"--." Lord Rosebury condemns the British cabinet as being larely responsible for the length of the Boer war. Fire in the Southern Pacific's freight j warehouse at San Francisco destroyed ! $115,000 worth of property. . Two Oregon students at Harvard uni versity must answer to the charge of burglary of the school's store. Secretary ; Hitchcock has 'dismissed the townsite inspector of Indian Terri tory for irregularities in office. - - The military at Cripple Creek have the situation well in hand and the trouble is likely to be over soon. - The Pacific packing and navigation company a combine of ' Alaska- and Pnget sound salmon canneries, is ex pected to go to pieces at an early date. Too great a capitalization on overval ued properties is given as the reason. The United States gunboat Maehiaa has not yet arrived at Beirut, r- The ' " 1 005 International - Christian Endeapor convention will be held at Baltimore. -'.-.. - i. --. The Arizona surveyor ' general baa been removed from office for taking il legal ees. :-"a. ' .-' -' Fourth-class postmasters may be ousted for "political reasons" after serving four years. -- - John Bartlett has taken the oath of office as United States minister to Ar gentina and will leave forJiis post Sep tember 2. " -. ' - WAR ON TURK. Knlgbts Templar Recall Old Wrongs and Consider Aid to Rebels. Chicago, Sept. 17. -A 20th .century crusade against their ancient enemy. the Turk, is being planned by the Knights Templar, with the Balkans, in place cf Palestine, as the fie'd in which they will protect Christians against the oppression of the infidels. Prominent members of the order are agitating -the formation of a league that will send regiments of well drilled fighters to the aid of Bulgaria, and the crusaderB of the 12th century may have their proto type in a movement of the Knights Templar against the troops of the porte. The plan has received consideration by the Chicago members of the org nization for some time, and tonight was formally broached at a meeting of St. Bernard commandery, With 500, 000 members' under oath to "be ready to go and fight the enemies of Chiist even to the death." it is expected that an international interest will be stirred in the movement, and 200,000 Knights from the United States and Europe may be massed in Macedonia to fight the soldiery of Turkey. Among the 20000 Knights Templar in Chicago, the outrage at Beirut and Adrianople have revived the spirit that led to the formation of the order eight centuries ago. At the convention at Peoria, leading members of the organi zation discussed seriously the expedi ency of issuing a call for volunteer reg lments to be sent to the scene of depre dations, with the result that tonight one of the eleven local commandaries was asked to take action. As yet the scheme ib not perfected, but the general plan is to muster in regiments of Tern plars and tend them to enlist under the Bulgarian government. - HIQHER THAN THE LAW. Porto Rlcans Wbo Insulted Star and Stripes Sent to Prison. San Juan,: Porto Rico, Sept. 17. Edward Conde and Leondas GiJlot, two socialists, who spoke in a recent meet ing of the American Fedeiation of Labor, were put on trial today for insulting the American flag and threatening the life of Governor Hunt.".' Their speeches teemed with abuse of the government. One of the prisoners was accused of advising the workmen upon the return of the governor- oh October 1 from the United - States to parade carrying black flags and then to make demands upon the government. If these demands were refused, the speaker added, the alternative of kill ing Governor Hunt remained. 1 : The other orator was said to have de clared that the American flag was a rag fit to cover rascals and criminals. : The accused vehemently denied the charges. Thev were tried before Justice Kopel, convicted of anarchist . conduct, and sentenced to six months in prison. " Justice Kopel said the flag is higher than the law and anarchists need never expect any mercy in his court. The case has established a precedent as a Porto Rican official warning that at tacks on the flag and government must stop. The Americans and loyal Porto Ricans are jubilant, while the social ists are angiy at today's decision. The convicted men will appeal from the judgment declaring that Justice Kopel had no jurisdiction and there is no law covering the offense. The interest the case is intense. ' ' . in EXPECTS NO Bid BOOM IN SILVER. Department Official -' Denies a Philippine 'Coinage is to Be Melted. Washington," Spet. 1 7. Colonel Ed wards, chief of the insular bureau of the war department, denied the widely circulated report that the new Philip pine coinage will soon disappear in the melting pot, owing to the greater value of silver as bullion. '- "The present rise in silver is. in my opinion, merely a reaction from a long period of depression. Cooking Dack over the last six years, the increased use of silver in the arts has been too small ; to warrant anything of the sort, and the leading continental nations of Europe that use silver in their coinage are not enlarging . their purchase. So where Is the pretended great use to come from?" Cable Ship tloes North. Seattle, Sept. 17. The United States cable ship Burnside sailed for the north last night, to continue the work of laying the cable . from ' the head of Lynn canal by way of Sitka, the capital of Alaska, - to this city. She has a stretch of 600 miles of cable aboard, which was transferred from the steamship Texan, which brought the cable around the Horn from NewYork. It is expected that the entile consign ment' of cable on the Burnside will be laid - and -the" vessels - will be back for the final link by October 15.- t-:.. Montana Grain Beaten Fiat.. "Butte, Sept.;- 17. A Miner Bpecial from Dillion says: As later reports are received in Dillion, it is evident that the storm of laBt week was one of the most disastrous in the history-of 'Beav erhead county, and all ol the oldtimers assert that it is the severest September storm that has occurred in this country since 1865.' A conservative - esti mate places the damage done to the grain fields of this county at $100, 000. . To Prevent Monopolies. - Wellington, N. Z., Sept. 17. Pre mier Seddon has : introduced a very drastic billtfor the prevention of ' mo nopolies in New Zealand. It proposes to establish a monopoly court, with full powers of a supreme court, to in vestigate all complaints regarding the enhancing of prices by the formation of trusts and prescribes heavy penalties for offenders. ASKS FOR RELIEF BULGARIA SAYS POWERS MUST IN TERVENE OR SHE WILL. Turkish Government Held to Be Syste matically Slaying Christiana En counter Between Two Countries Were Never More Probable Turkey Has Mobilized Entire Army. . Sofia, Sept. 16. The Bulgarian gov renment, through its foreign represen tatives. has addressed a note to the great powers declaring that the . porte is systematically devasti fating Mace donia and masBacreing the Christian population. Further, it says Turkey has mobilized her whole army, which cannot possibly be for the sole purpose of suppressing the revolution. There fore the Bulgarian government appeals to the humane sentiment of Europe to prevent the continuance of the massa cres and devastation, and to stop the mobilization of the Turkish army. - The, memorandum - concludes with the plain statement that unless ' the powers intervene Bulagria will : - be forced to take such measures as she may deem necessary. - ; While it is possible that a Turko-Bul garian war may even yet be averted, the probabilities of such an encounter were never greater than at the present moment. The note to the powers, the most "decided step yet taken by the principality, was dictated not only by the alarming reports of wholesale mas sacers and devabtation daily arriving, but even more by the indifference of the - powers toward . the . severity of Turkey's repressive measures. IPeople here consider that - the anxi ety of the powers seems to be manifest ed chiefly in repeated admonitions to the . porte to suppress the revolution with all speed and energy possible. Telegrams from Constantinople ap pear in this evening's papers, asserting that the ambassadors have urged the saltan's government to suppress the in surrection without any considerations of mercy, and not to hesitate to burn and destroy the villages, or take any other steps . which might be deemed necessary. .""-' The Bulgarian ministry, in the face of the strongest pressure - from within and without, has endoavoied to main tain a strict neutrality, but it appears very possiblethat the government may now depart from this position. c. ". GALE COSTS FLORIDA MUCH. Large Portion of Orange Crop Is Ruined ' Several Ships Lost. : : ;A Jacksonville, ' Fla., Sept. 16. The wires south of Palm Beach and Tampa are still down and will not be in opera tion for a day or two. Further details of the destruction wrought by the hur ricane have been received bv mail and passengers on the incoming trains. r. The steamer Inchulva, from Galves ton, laden with lumber and cottonseed meal, for Hampton Roads, went ashore near Boynton. - The ship strucs the beach with great force and broke into three pieces. The captain, mates, and 14 of the crew were saved. Nine were drowned. . . . : .:-'-'- The schooner Martha Thomas, - lum ber laden, for Baltimore, was wrecked nine' miles south of Jupiter. The schooner is split in half. The crew was saved.- ' - SMALL RISINQ IN CUBA. Rural Quard Battles With the Outlaws, But Fails to Capture Them. ' . Santiago, de Cuba, Sept. 16. Re ports of an armed body. At Sevilly, near : Siboney, this morning caused Governor Yereoto to- send a - force of rural guards, who located - the party, which was of unknown strength, and attempted to arrest the men. A fight ensued, in which the commander of the rural guard was injured, but no cut- laws were captured. There was much excitement in the city this afternoon and wild reports of a revolution were curient. Nearly all of the rural guards in the province were assembled here to receive President Palma, and 200 men were dispatched this evening to the scene of the trouble. - - " Crop Damage In Montana. Butte, Sept. 16. Reports today from outlying' farming districts give conflict ing details as to the damage-done : by the. recent snow .storm. . Beaverhead county appears to have suffered the most, as hardly a third of the gram crop had been Harvested . when the storm broke, and for5 10 hours the snow fell incessantly. . The snow was wet, clinging to the grain and crushing it to the ground.- Estimates of damage are placed as high as $75,000 in that county. . -Many fruit" trees . were stripped of their branches. ; - . Crown tor Eitel. London, Sept. 16. The Vienna cor respondent of the Daily Mail " declares that the Hungarian politic! crisis has become so acute that the abdication of Emperor- Francis Joseph, as - king of Hungary; is ; freely discussed in that country, and, although no party leader openly willing to discuss the proba bility, there is a strong feeling in favor Hungary's right to: choose her own king, the candidate favored being the German Emperor's son, Eitel. -Jj ',--' 1 Guard Kaiser Against Anarchists.-' Vienna, Sept. 16. As a result of the Italian government informing the an thorities here that tnree Italian anar chists have. gone: to Hungary.- extra precautions were taken to safeguard Emperor William, who is to arrive; to morrow at Karapancisa, where he will go staghunting with ithe- . Archduke Frederick. NAMES NEW TERMS. Russia Adds to Conditions of Evacuation . v . ' of nanchurla. --." ' - resin. Kept, io. .Kuesia has pre sented to the Chinese government a new scheme for evacuation, originally fixed for October 8, and proposed certain new conditions in addition to most of the conditions concluded in the last tcheme. ' ' - . Russia now proposes to evacuate' Niu Chwang and Moukden province October 8, Kirin province four months later and the third province a year later, Among the new conditions Russia Btip? ulates that she shall maintain military posts on the road from Tsitsihar, cap ital of Heilungkiang; to Blagovosk chensk and on the Sungari river. The reason Russia gives for - maintaining these posts is that they are necessary to protect the commerce of the railroad There is a vaguely worded clause prohibiting heavy -duties on goods transported by the railway which the dilomats construe as exempting Rus sian goods transported on the railway irom . the surtax which the Japanese and American treaties substitute for the likin dities. " V - The scheme also contains a prevision that Chinese troops shall protect the branches of the- Russo Chinese bank when necessary. 7 - Prince Chmg, president of .the for eign board, has informed the ministers that he considers the Rus.ian condit ions to be very reasonable. , CONVICTS MAKE COIN. Added Scandal In Pennsylvania -Peniten tiaryInvestigation Going On. : " Philadelphia, Sept. 16. following closely upon the exposure of gross ir regularities in the cigar department of the Eastern State Penitentiary came the announcement tonight that illegal coinage of minor silver pieces has been carried on by convicts m the big insti tution. o details of the counterfeit ing scheme can be learned from anv of the officials connected with the prison, or from the sovernment officers that have been assigned to the case. The fact that such a daring scheme has been carriea out in . the ; penitentiarv was made public by George Vaux, Jr., one the prison inspectors, who sum moned newspaper men to his home and voluntarily made the disclosure. He gave out a brief statement, which Is as follows: " i - : . - . - ' "Dr. W. D. Robinson and Mr. Vaux. Jr., who are at present the visiting in spectors on duty at the Eastern State enitentiary, made the statement that it has come to their tjfficial knowledge that within a short time an attempt has been made by certain cenvitts now con fined in the penitentiary to manufac ture counterfeit silver coins. But a few pieces were made, and a number of these have come into the possession of the inspectors, together witn the met als and chemicals used, the attenmt thus-being nipped in the bud. The evidence in the case is not yet com plete, but all that has been secured has been submitted to the United States authorities.". .'. . -.- . v- '.. STIRS UP DYNAMITE. Switch Engine at'"' Bay City. Mich.. Causes a Terrific Explosion, Bay City,-Michl. Sept. 16. Clarence D. Hopper and Roy Boutcher, switch men of the Michigan Central railway. were instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite' in .a . car in the yards at West Bay City today. Robert Roblio, enigneer;- William ; Noble, fireman, and John Cracile. conductor, were in ured, the latter so severely that he may die. v: All of the trainmen were residents of this city. " '; The explosion occurred ' as a switch engine was making up a train. The engine backed down upon several cars, the first containing 1.000 . pounds -of dynamite, a consignment of "Lee-Met-ford rifles and a quantity of reduced charged shells for.' indoor practice, and it is said that the force with which it struck the explosive-laden car exploded the dynamite. . Hopper's body' wsb badly mangled. ' , O'c A big hole was torn in the ground by the explosion, a score of freight cars demolished and ' nearly 300 houses in the - vicinity suffered broken windows. The shock, was felt three -miles from the scene. " . ; (. Large Canadian DeaL Montreal, Sept. 16. Among the con- itions upon which the Dominion Iron & Steel company, has agreed to surren der the lease of the Dominion Coal company is an agreement that the coal company shall pay to the steel com pany $2,635,000 and assume the cur. rent liabilities for wages, supplies, etc., of the coal department of the steel com pany's business, receiving the current cash assets . of the business.-. These should net about $1,500,000.'. The coal, company therefore pays about $1,- 135,001) for the surrender of the lease. . - Irish Party Will be Powerful. LondonS, ept. 16. John Redmond M. P.,-epeaking at Augheym, Wicklow county, Ireland, said the ' Irish party would find an entirely new situation when : parliament ' next met.- The English .'parties would be broken up, and the Irish party would wield , a power such as it never, before po ssessed. ; He counseled a continuance of the policy which had resulted in se curing the Irish land bill, ; which he valued above all.- ". - . : ' -. ' Afraid to Work in Tunnel. Pittsburg, Sept. 16. Alt-but : one of the missing men supposed to have been buried under the debris of the cave-in at the Green Tree tunnel of the Wabash railroad htve been accounted for. ;, Most of the Austrian laborers have refused to return to work, -fearing another- fall, and their places have , been ; filled by colored men.. -f'iiilTJ ";v. f;cr: HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON LEVY IN JANUARY ? Attorney Qeneral Asked to Render . , Opinion on New Tax Law. :: Whether a levy of state and county taxes can be made in January, 1903, is a question that has been before Attorney-General Crawford for nis opinion. The attornev-eeneml ia out of the city and will not take the matter up until his return. " The question arises nut nf tha tar. that the new law changing the time of ikying xaxes goes Into effect January 1,-1904, While the lew of tn-raa nnH the present system will not. lis mnr?o until later in that month, when the county courts hold their regular ses sions. Under the present system the assessment is maderin on vonr tho levy made the following January ind the taxes collected in April. The last legislature in response to quite a general demand, changed the time of payment from sDrine to th preceding fall and provided that the assessment should be made-prior to July 1, the levy be made in September and the taxes be collected before De cember .31.'-,- Since the old law nrn. vided that the levy should be made in January and the -new law -fixing the time in September will go into effect January l. it ia clear that when the county courts meet next January they will find the law changed. -;" i LIVESTOCK SHOW QOOD. oreeaera urine Better Herd tn s.- n ' . "' Fair Than Evev Before. A better lot of dairy cattle er. orougnt together In the North went than those that 3.16 HOW tfi TlA -Goon in the livestock department of the Ore gon state fair. For many years the most progressive and - enterprising ureeaers ano dairymen have heen striving for something better than wnat tney already . had. and earh achievement has but spurred them oh iu auoiner enort. . - - - - The farmer generally was not annrft ciative of the endeavors of the breed. ers until in the last Jew years when aairying Decarue a -promising occupa tion, ano rarmers round that they must raise less wheat and more stock in-order to maintain the productive yuauues ; ui ineir land, jnow . every uue piaces , proper estimate on the alue of the livestock breeders' serv. ices to the country as a whole, and gerat Interest centers in the relative merits of the different - cattle, Individ uals and herds shown at the fair. - Coming Events. M. ATA. C. carnival. Portland.-Sen- tember 14-26. - Mulnomah fair association races. Ir- mgton track, September 21-26. Teachers institutes Oreeon f!itv. September 15-17: Klamath Falls. Sen- tember 28-30; Lakeview,. October 1-3; tiiiisDoro. uctoher 28-30. Harney county fair. Burns. Septem ber 14-20: , - Stock exhibit at race meet, Portland, September 21-26. Fair, Toledo, September 22-24. -Second Eastern Oregon district fair. The Dalles. September 22-26. - Carnival, The Dalles. September 29- October 3. - - - Race meet, Sumpter, October i-5. Klamath county fair. Klamath Falls. October 6-9. - , - Carntval Pendleon. October 6-10. -State .Baptist association. Oregon City, October 19-23. "Crook county jockey club meet. Prineville, October 27-29." Scotch reunion; Fosil, October 27. Bybee Parts With a Big Tract. : The William Bybee tract of land. comprising nearly 4500 acres, changed hands last week. The Jackson county Improvement company purchased 1743 acres of the land, which is that part know nas the "Bybee desert." -The nrice paid for this was $3 per acre. The remainder of the tract, which in cludes the Antelope ranch of 1560 acres and the Rogue river ranch of 1100 acres, was sold to his son, Frnak Bybee; together with about 70 head of goats, 20 head of cattle and 20 horses. The. deaf took place in Ashland and was the closing up of a deal which has been pending for several months. Fine Salmon in River. -; The ' fall : fishing season has now progressed sufficiently to establish the fact that there is an excellent run of steelheadS" and silversides In the riv er of . fine quality. Fall salmon have not Vet put in an appearance, but there are some tules.' "The price paid is 3 ceritsper pound for steelheads and 1 cent per pound for silversides. Sea borg's cannery at Eeagle Cliff is packing--silversides and - is receiving all that can be handled. 1 ' - v , X' Anxious lor Free Locks. ! ' The Independence - improvement league has been asked by outside val ley towns to help in securing free locks at Oregon City. The people there are very; enthusiastic in their support of this matter. Jt is stated that a con siderable reduction - in r freight rates would be the result if this could be secured as there is a toll charged on every boat . that "passes . through the locks at Oregon City. T Shortage of Men for Harvest. - -There Is. any quantity of grain,yet unthreshed and in the - fields around Independence. : And there is an exten sive shortage of- men to handle the threshing . outfits. A -; number of the threshers have ; ben compelled to close' down. Some will not be able to get a threshing crew into their- grain inside of two weeks. ; . -- . s- Looking for a Creamery Site.v- Curtis Seeley of " Walport, Lincoln county, one "of the firm of Diven & Seeley, creamery men, hs been in Jose phine county vlately looking np a loca tion for a creamery, and has been in terivewing, the farmers around Grants Pass, and of the Applegate valley in regard, to the feasibility of ithe enter prlse. " - FOUR CROPS OF ALFALFA. -"r Demonstration of Success of That Crop ', on Heavy Clay Soils. - pointed to study the conditions upon T .. ,- . -which the,construction of the Panama One of the entirely newand valuable canal anthorized. - Thea exhibits made by the Oregon agri- provisions recommended by the corn cultural experiment station at the mittee were: ; state fair, is a collection of specimens -C First Approval of the action of the- of ' alfalfa, showing . the successive senate - in rejecting the Hay-Herran crops taken from a field in a single treaty. ' - ' - season. The station has been expert Second Authority to be given to the menting with alfalfa for several years pjeuident to conclude treaties for a for the purposeof demonstrating what canal or to contract for a canal with can be done on heavy clay soils with- -.s.- u: ... L7 . out irrigation. The college people do The comDanieT U"JW wo "gms or not conduct their experiments under l0?!68'- ., unusually favorable conditions, - butt -ihlrd The Panama railway corn sow their seeds on just such soil as the Pan 1)6 permitted to . transfer its average Willamette valley farmer is using.,. - :. ; " ' v The alfalfa -exhibited -was tafeen from the vfield. at fonr. successive cut ""ss m uilb j-ar. xne nrsi crop was cut on may zz, and yielded In green forage 11.22 tons per acre. The sec ond crop was cut on June 22 and yield ed in green forage 2.70 tons per acre. The third crop was cut on July 28, and yielded 2.80 tons per acre. The fourth crop was cut. on September 3 and yielded 1.47 tons per acre. c . CHALLENGE HOP YIELD. Lane County - Yard Tarns Out Nearly 3,000 Pounds Per Acre. The ' best record for hopyards that has been reported this season, or in fact for several years, comes from the yard of George A. r Dorris, , near Springfield, which is regarded as one of the best yards in the county. Mr. Dorris has 10 or 12 acres, and from the first five acres picked and baled he had 14,000 pounds of hops, or a yield of 2800 pounds per acre. The - yard foreman says that instead of this re port coming from the choice parts of the yard .that the whole yard will not fall below that average, and single acres could be picked that would yield 3000 pounds. - Bg Chunks of Oold. There was a display of gold nuggets at the Medford bank a few days ago which "were taken out of the celebrat ed Sterling mine, owned by H. E. An keny, about 15 miles south of Medford. The value of the- nuggets is between $3500 and $4000.- They were all good sized pieces and were all picked up by hand during the clean up process The largeset nugget weighed nearly $140. This represents but a very small part of the season's, clean up of this mine. The bulk of gold from this mine is made into bricks, which weigh nearly $3000 each, of which - several have been sent to the mint. " 7 Fortunes From Cascara. . Nearly . $60,000 in cash ; is the amount realized from cascara bark purchased and shipped from Benton county this season. Careful compila tion and conservative estimates place the exact figuresat $59,400. The pro duct is represented , in 22 11-ton cars of bark,, either, shipped or to 'be ship ped this season. The aggregate weight of the bark was 594,000 pounds. Though much of it went at 14 cents and better, so much left the peelers' hands at 4, 5 and 6 cents earlier in the lieved to have- fallen ; at about 10 season that the average price is be cents. - ,v High Orade Goats and Sheep. William Riddle, of Monmouth, has taken his pens of pure-blooded Ango ra goats and Cotswold sheep to Salem for the state fair. He has been award ed in-the past a number of premiums and his stock, are in fine condition to enter this year. ... Mr. John Stump also has some pens of blooded Cotswold sheep at the fair grounds, and they are handsome types of the breed. , Both these breeders, have had much experi ence and raise the best of stock. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 78 79c; blue stem, 8082c valley, 80c. Flour Valley, $3.6P3.85 " per . bar rel; hard wheat straights, $3.604.00; hard wheat, ' patents, $4.105.60; graham, $3.38 3.75 ; whole wheat, $3.554.00; rye wheat, $4.50. ' Barley Feed, $19.00320.00 per ton ; brewing, $21; rolled $2121.50. : Oats No. 1 white, $1.10;' gray, $ 1 .05 1 .40 per cental . Millstuffs Bran, $21 per ton; mid dlings, $25; -shorts, $21; chop, f IS; linseed dairy food, $ 19. ' Hay Timothy, $14.00 per. ton; clover, nominal; . grain, $10; cheat, nominal. '- .. . ..-','' - Butter Fancy creamery, . 2527)c per pound ; dairy, 1820e; -store, 15 l6c. ;v-v.-r ' -;. .w;'-t- ; - Cheese Full cream , . twins, 14c; Young America, 15c; factory prices, llKc less. Poultry Chickens, . mixed, 12 12Kc " per pound; spring, 1414)c; hens, 12S13c; broilers, $2.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, -1012c : per pound ;dres8ed,14 15c; ducks, $44.50 per dozen; geese, $56. 50. , Eggs Oregon ranch, 25c I Potatoes Oregon,, 7585c per sack ; sweet potatoes, 2Kc per pound. Wheat Sacks In lota of 100, 5Mc Beef Gross steers, $3.75(34.25; dressect, 67c per pound. ' i Veal . o per pound. ' Mnttea QrosSr $3; dressed, 6 5Mc; lambs, gross, $3.50; dressed, 6c. Hogs GrosSj $5.505.75; dressed, 8c - : . - " Hops 1902 crop, 21c per pound. .. Tallow Prime, per pound, 45e; No. 2 and grease, 2K3c. Wool Valley. 1718c; Eastern SUBMITS NEW CANAL BILL. Colombian Committee Considers the : Transfer of Panama to America. Washington, Sept. 15 The state department has received a cablegram' from Minister Beau pre, dated Septem ber 5, summarizing the provisions of the bill reported to the Colombian con- - ' Sre8B Dv tCe committee , recently ap- property, all existing obligations to be I assumed by the 'purchaser, including 1 the annual navmont nf 9sn nnn - 1 the surrender of th nrnnnrtv tfkni. hia. in 1987. . - Fourth The canal company to be permitted to transfer its rights and property on payment of $10,000,000 to the government of Colombia. ' Fifth The authority to be given to the president of Colombia to make the following concessions and conditions: Lease of the canal zone for 100 years, ' not including therein the cities of Pan ama and CoJon; annual rentals therefor nntii 1967 to be $150,000; lease renew able every hundred years, w it'i increase of 25 per'cent in the rental for each succeeding 100 yearB' period. Neutral ity of the canal and recognition of Co lombian sovereignty over the whole territory and the inhabitants thereof. Mixed, tribunals only in . the canal zone; police and sanitary commissions, to be ecxlusively Colombian; a time limit to be fixed for the completion of the canal and works. Sixth Colombia to receive from the contracting governments $20,000,000 on the exchange of latifications of the treaty. . CALL FOR CONGRESS. Roosevelt Abandons Idea of October Ses sionNovember 9 Will Be Date. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 15. After mature consideration, and consultation hi person and by mail with members of both the senate and the house of rep resentatives, President Roosevelt has abandoned the suggestion that congress be called in extra teeeion in October. The extraordinary s-ssion, which he announced many months ago would be held' this fall will be called, according to present plans, to meet on November 9. --'.-. Notwithstanding the fact that the suggestion of an October session of con gress came from parties who advocated its adoption, the Buege&tion was not re ceived with favor by members of con gress generally. The idea cf an Octo ber session was opposed because ' it would oblige senators and representa tives to leave their Btates and districts in the midst of a campaign which, to many of them and to their party, was of vital imortance. No agreement has jet been reached as to the character of the financial legislation which will be enacted at the next session. It is not certain that an agreement can be reached between the two branches of' congress whereby any special legislation fan be enacted. . THE LAST STRAW. Turks Slay Thousands of Bulgarians and There Is Now No Escape From War. Sofia j Septv15. With the arrival of new and sensational reports ' of the wholesale massacre of Christians in Macedonia, the situation here is hourly becoming more alarming. If the latest m8sages, which state that 6,000 Bul garians have been slaughtered in the districts of Okhrida and Leren should be confirmed, no doubt exists that the J government will be forced to order the mobilization of the army. . According to information brought to the revolutionary paper Autonomye, s force of Albanians, assisted by Turkish regular forces acting under orders di rect from the Yildiz Kiosk, massacred the entire Bulagrian Christian poupla tion of the Okhrida and Leren districts.- . . '.." - r ."- The National Anthem. ' Washington, Sept. 15. The navy department haa issued an order declar ing the "Star Spangled Bannei" the national anthem, and directing that whenever the composition is played all officers and men shall stand at atten tion, unless they are engaged in duty that will not permit them to do so. It is " also required that the same re spect shall be observed toward the national . air of any other country when played in the presence of official representatives of such coun try, i-: ; c Bold Robbers These. Sioux Falls, S.l D., Sept. 15. A band - of eight masked men blew open the safe in the Minnehaha county bank at Valley Springs this morning and se cured between $8,000 and $10,000 in cash. -' Residents - of the ' town were aroused by several explosions. When citizens appeared on the street to ascer tain the cause they discovered that the town was picketed by seven or eight armed men, who drove the residents from' the. streets. , - . - Soldier Dead From Philippines. New York, Sept. " 15. -The United States transport Kilpatrick, from Ma--nila, arrived today. On the transport are the bodies of 300 United States scldiers ' who lost their lives in the Philippine islands; This is the largest number of bodies everjetnrned at one L