Cm GAZETTE WEEKLY. VOL. XXXX. NO. 41. ...iCiasolidatit Feb., 1899. COKVAIililS, BENTCXN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1903. EVENTS OF THE DAY FATHERED 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. F Robert R. WeBt, of Kentucky, has been appointed auditor of the govern ment printing office. Walter S. Chatfield, of Far Rocka way, a trusted express company -employe, who embezzled $6,000. has been captured in Chicago. Aa a remedy for the overproduction of piairon. the committee having the matter in hand will report for a 20 per cent reduction on the output. Professor J. H. Long has given expert testimony that the water supply of St. Louis cannot be contaminated bv Chi cago sewarage through the sanitary canal. Advices receved from Kabul, Afghan istan, under date of August 13, says the cholera epidemic is abating. Sev eral prominent persons were victims of the disease. On state's evidence given by a con federate, ex-Deputy United States Marsha Richards, of Des Moines, la., has been found guilty of engineering a $2,000 robbery. The gunboat Nashville has sailed for St. Andrews island, off the coast of Nicaragua, to investiagte the ill treat ment of Americans at the hands of the native employers. The ringleaders in the Servian army plot which caused the death of the king and queen have been sentenced to two years in prison, but will probably be pardoned by their ruler. The Presbytery of New York- has con structed a portable church for mission work. A severe storm has swept ever the northern coast of Portugal. Sixteen fishermen were drowned. Threatened damage from forest fires in the northwestern section of Maine has been averted by heavy rain. Firebugs are striking terror to thei hearts of all Harlem, N. Y. They start blazes in the basements of flats. The American steamer Sierra has sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., for San Francisco with $250,000 in gold. .Ten nersnng were imured. two sen, ously, in a trolley car runaway at Chi cago. A green gripman was responsi ble for the accident. The Internationa paper company, at Rumford Fails, Me., refuses to accede to the demands of the union, and 700 men are idle. Ground has been broken at Pueblo, Colo., for an electric line from that city to Beulah Springs and across the moun tains for a distance of o0 miles. The city of Dresden will establish a home for drunkards. Anarchists are said to have formu lated a pain to assassinate the saltan of Turkey. y The Chicago university desires a grant to exploie in Babylonia and not Babylon as previously announced. Skilled mechanics in the New York building trades to the number of 1,000, 000 will form a gigantic combine. At New Haven, Conn., a test will be made to ascertain the minimum amount (if food requited for the maintenance of health A Berlin trolley car company, has succeeded in running its cars 117 miles " per hour and hopes to attain a speed of 125 miles. A New York judge ordered a father to whip his' 9-year-old daughter in court. She had confessed to stealing small articles. The Oregon branch of the Masonic Knights Templar met in Albany this year and a lively time had by all. The following officers were elected: George H. Hill, of Portland, grand command er; L. N. Roney, of Eugene, deputy grand commander; D. C. JUger, of Al ban j , grand generalissimo; George H. Burnett, of Salem, grand captain gen- eral; F. J. Miller, of Albany, grand senior warden; F. A. Paine, of Eugene, grand junior warden; B. G. White house, of Portland, grand treasurer; James F. Robinson, of Eugene, grand recorder. The centennial of the founding of Chicago was celebrated by the burning of much red fire and other fire works. The Warner livestock company has been awarded land in dispute with squatters, by Secretary Hitchcock. The land is in Eastern Oregon along the edge of Warner lake and has been in controversy for about 20 years. . Turkey haa appointed a commission to inaugurate reforms in Macedonia. Receiver Scobey of the Olympia land office is cnarged with being absent without leave. At Sanger, Cal., a clevei thief sub stituted a brick for $1,500 in coin. T. Manuel Hermann, brother of the Oregon congressman has resigned from office in the pension service. Great pressure is being brought to bear to have Lord Milner reconsider his refusal to enter the British caDinet. Premier Balfour holds that the best solution of the Balkan problem is for the powers to support a Rueso-Austrian agreement. GREAT TRIUMPH FOR AMERICA. Wilson Tells tf the Stamping Out of Foot and nouth Disease. Washington, Oct. 1. Secretary Wil son Baid today that the receipt through the state department, of an official no tice that Great Britain had removed its embargo on cattle and sheep from the New England ports was the conclusion of the great work in which the depart ment had been engaged since t-eptember 1 for the eradication of foot and mouth disease from the New England Etates. The secretary regards this as the most important and valnable piece of work the department haa done for American agriculture. "No country," he said, "before has succeeded in stamping out such an ex tensive outbreak of this disease. The inspectors and their assistants were obliged to work in the open country with the thermometer far below zero. Some of the men had their extremities frozen and were disabled. It is diffi cult, even at this time, to understand how the pits were dug in the frozen ground lor burying the carcasses, and how the disinfectants were applied with everything of a liquid nature froze in a short time after it was exposed to the atmosphere. But the work was so thorough that not in a single case where the disinfection was conducted by the department's reprefentatives did the disease reoc nr when fresh cat tle were introduced." YUKON ROAD CRIES HALT. Impossible to Get All Freight Through Now in Sight. Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 1. So con vinced are officials of the White Pass & Yukon route that they cannot land in Dawson all the freight which is now at White Horse and on the way there from Vancouver and Puget sound ports that they today notified connecting lines of the seriousness of the situation. Telegraphic advises to the representa tives of connecting lines were today sent out and they were in effect that no more perishable freight billed beyond White Horse would be received. Notification was also made that per ishable or any other kind of freight which had not been billed to Dawson prior to September 1 would be held in the warehouse at White Horse only at the risk of the shipper. Connecting lines were notified that as regards ship ments now on the way to the coast from the East and destined for the Yukon, shippers had better be notified as to the conditions existing and informed that their goods would be probably held up this winter at White Horse. SAD PLIGHT OF INDIANS. Strong Drink Is Causing the impover- hment ofth Washington, Oct. 1. The first re-. port of Henry F. Liston on the Puyal lup consolidated Indian agency near Tacoma, Wash., seems to indicate a deplorable condition. The granting to the Indians of full power to sell their lands and chattels has worked great evil. The Indians, it is said, will sell their birthright for the price of a few drinks, and even the boys and the girls are alleged to be acquiring the drink habit. Drunkenness, according to Lis ten's reports, prevails to a shocking de gree. Liston urges congress to take away from the Indians the right to Fell prop erty, the proceeds,. of which are now being used to purchase alcoholic stimu lants of tne most vile' sort. Some means should be devised, Mr. Liston suggests, to prevent the utter impover- ishmnet and destruction of the Puyal lups through strong drink. CATTLE MAY CROSS PARK. Crater Lake Route to. Range, However, Will be Closed This Year. Washington, Oct. 1. The superin tendent of the Crater lake park at Kla math Falls, was today advised to per mit Al Melhase, of Fort Klamath, to drive 2,000 sheep over the public park to the Fort Klamath winter feeding ground not later than October 14. In the same letter, the superintendent was again advised to ' warn cattlemen in that section that such permits will not be issued during the season of 1904. The interior department is emphatic in stating that other means will have to be devised in future for driving cattle to and from the several ranges than across this section of the reserved pub lic domain. Navy issues Ultimatum to Shipyard. Washington, Oct. 1. The navy de partment has sbumitted to the Crescent shipbuilding company, of Elizabeth port, N. J., the conditions on which the orders cancelling the contracts for the cruiser Chattanooga and the torpedo boats O Brien and Nicholson will be revoked. These conditions are of a confidential character, but involve the resumption of work on these vessels almost immediately and its progress without interruption. The representa tives of the company have asked ten days to consider the conditions. Treaty In His Hands. New York, Oct. 1. A dispatch re ceived from Colon by a newspaper in this city says advices received here from Bogota are to the effect that the Colombian congress has passed a law authorizing the president to conclude a canal treaty with the United States on a certain basis without the approval of congress. Representatives in this country of the Colcmbian government have received no information on the subject thus far. Reported Find of Tin Ore. Butte, Mont., Oct. 1. A 100-foot ledge of tin ore is reported to have been discovered near Lost iiver in the Cape York district, north of Cape Nome. Details of the discovery which may prove the greatest known any where are not given. MOB HOLDS CITY DISCHARGED S00 WORKMEN RESORT TO SERIOUS RIOTING. Men Were Promised Wages But Were Not Paid Everything Moveabls in Office of Mining Company Is Des troyed and the street Cars are Charged Upon and Tied Up. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Sept. 30. The Canadian Soo has been . the scene of serious rioting by the discharged em ployes of the Consolidated Lake Super ior Company all day and tonight the situation is very grave. - Trouble came when the company put the men off the premises when they de manded their promied pay. The labor ers broke away from al t restraint the large force of special police could exert, and smashed every window in the mag nificent building of the company in the Canadian Soo, charged puon the street cars and demanded that the conductors and motormen join them, and were only prevented from doing further dam age by a ciever ruse of one of the com pany's officials, who turned in a fire alarm to divert attention. . In the assault upou the office build ing by the mob early this afternoon, before the arrival on the ground of troops, the frenzied rioters secured pos session of the ground floor of the build ing, destroying everything movable that came in their path. A crowd of the office staff, with drawn revolvers, prevented their gaining access to the upper floors cf the building. Ihearrival of troops on the ground armed with ball ' cartrides about 2 o'clock this afternoon served to restore some semblance of order. The rioters then contented themselves with throw ing stones at the building and hurling invectives at the soldiers, who estab lished "dead line" and prevented any approach towaid the building by any of the rioters. The greatest number of the men are ignorant Italians, Finns, Norwegians and Frenchmen, the latter perhaps the hardest of all to-handle. All have been drinking heavily. DYNAMITERS WANT MONEY. Demand $50,000 From Northern Pacific for Immunity From Outrages. Helena, Mont?, Sept. 30.' It has de veloped that the rceent attempts to dy namite bridgea aDd track on the line cf the Northern Pacific between Livings ton and JMissouIa are in furtherance of a plot to force the' rail way company to pay $50,000 for immunity from the outrages. In August the company received a letter demanding 2d,00!) and it was threatened if the terms proposed were not agreed to, dynamite would be used on the line. No attention was paid to the demand, and shortly after, the rail- ad bridge at Livingston was partially wrecked by dynamite, and a few nights later another stick of dynamite was ex ploded near Bozeman under a passing tram. ' , , Other letters followed, and the dyna miters proposed that the company pay $50,000 and if it acceeded to the de mand it was to carry a white flag on engines hauling trains and September 22 was to run a light engine from Butte to Missoula, and at a point on the road was to stop on signal, and an agent of the . company was to pay over the money. The company, hoping to catch the men, put out the white flags and on the night agreed upon ran the light engine. Behind it followed another engine pull ing two cars. One was filled with armed sheriffs and depntias and the other contained horses and blood hounds. The run was made from Butte to Missoula, but there was no signal, and it was thought the men had been scared off. Soon after, the letters began to ar rive again, the dynamiters making the same demand and telling the railroad if it agreed to the terms to put the flag on tne engines. lnis tne railroad company has not done and in the past two weeks there have been four at tempts to damage the line by the use of dynamite. Firebug at 1904 Fair. St. Louis, Sept. 30. It is Believed that an attempt was made late last night to burn the agricultural building at the world's fair, one of the largest exhibit structures now in the course cf erection there. Abbut 10 o'clock one of the Jefferson guards observed a man acting suspiciously about the building. He attempted to arrest the man, who escaped, although several shots were fired at him. Guards thoroughly in spected the building and near one of the walls found straw and kindling material with oil. - . Jack the Ripper" at Work. ""New York, Sept. 30. With the'dis coveryj of the body of a boy 14 years old on the bulkheads at Catherine street and East river today, the police are confronted with evidence of a crime that recalls the deeds of "Jack the Ripper." Marks on the boy's body shows that he had been cruelly mal treated, and both the police and coro ner are satisfied that he was murdered. There are evidences that a woman was connected with the crime. Cholera Killing Thousands. Tien Tsin,-Sept. 30. Both the plague and cholera are raging at Pei Tang, a seaport 50 miles east of Tien Tsin, where 2000 deaths have occurred during the "past two months." The towns of Neuher Taku and TienJTsin are not yet effected. ...... OREGON IS CHANGING. Forestry Officials Find Reserves Now Wanted. Are Washington, Sept. 30. "Contrary to what appears to be a popular belief, there is a steadily growing sentiment among tne people of Oregon in favor of forest reserves," said H. D. Langille, the Oregon man who la now forest in spector in the bureau of forsstry, and who has just returned from a summer spent in examining lands that have been withdrawn in that state. - "i spent a large part ot tne summer conferring with people living in the vi cinity of various withdrawals," he continued, "and I find they generally indorse the reserve policy, and want more reserves established in Oregon talked to farmers, to lumbermen, to stockmen, and, in fact, to all classes, and the overwhelminhg sentiment fav orable to the reserve policy was very gratifying." v Mr. Langille spent several weeks in the Rogue river country and the re mainder of the season in the vicinity of the other withdrawals in Oregon, save that in the Blue mountains, which he visited a year ago. In Southwestern Oregon he found the people divided, half favoring a reserve, halt opposing in Jbastern uregon, tne sentiment was strongly in favor o new reserves at all localities where withdrawals have been made. He believes the examinations made this year by the various representatives of the bureau of forestry who have been in Oregon, will furnish sufficient data to guide the secretary of the interior in marking, the boundaries of the proposed new reserves. WAR CLOUDS LIFT. Bulgaria Takes New Hope in .Macedonia Porte Lessens Apprehensions. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 30. The situ ation here is much brighter today, and the war clouds appear to have lifted. The porte's assurance that the 32 oat talions recently ordered to proceed from Monaetir to Adrianople will not be moved has lessened the apprehensions of the Bulgarian government. Further satisfaction is derived from the fact that M. Natobovitch is going no Con stantinople in the capacity of Bulgarian diplomatic agent. He conducted the negotians with the porte last June, and after their failure returned to Sofia. The committee appointed for the pur pese at the lime of yesterday's demon stration of 15,000 Macedonians in this city waited on Premier Petroff today and asked him if the government in tended to do anything to help the Mac edonians. M. Petroff ; replied the min istry was acting in what it conceived to be the best interests of Bulgaria, and would continue the. same policy,. ..The spokesman ol the committee told the" premier hia reply would not be satiBfcat ory to the people, and the committee thereupon withdrew. - - The Dnevnik, commenting on the situation, says: -' "Although the Bulgarians remain quiet, it is not a true indication of the national feelings, but it is owing to the approaching elections." The paper adds it will "not be long before everybody will try to force to governmentt o take acticn." MAD RUSH TO DEATH. South Carolina Train Strikes Curve at Very High Speed. Charlotte, S. C, Sept. 30. While running at a high rate of speed, a south-bound fast mail train on the Southern Railway jumped from a tres tle 75 feet high, north of Nanville, W. Va., this afternoon and was almost de molished. Of the crew of 16 men, in cluding mail-carriers, nine were killed and seven injured. The trestle where the accident oc curred is 500 feet long and is on a sharp curve. Engineer Brodia, , who was a new man on that division, came to the curve at high speed. The locomotive had only gone about 50 feet when it sprang from the track. carrying with it four mail cars and an express car. Ihe trestle, a wroden structure, also gave way for a space of 50 feet. At the foot of the trestle is a shallow stream with a ' rocky bottom. Striking this, the locomotive and cars were'r educed to a mass of twisted iron and steel and pieces of splintered wood. All the dead men -were mutilated. No one on any of the cars had 'made an effort to jump, and the' bodies of all those killed - were found in the wiecK- age of the different cars to which they had been engaged. A crowd soon gath ered. Some women among them fainted at sight of the crushed bodies. AH the express matter 'in the express car was destroyed. Threatened Strike of Coal Miners. Altoona, Pa., Sept. 30. -President Patrick Gilday, of District' No. 2, United ! Mineworkers, is authority for the statement that a strike of- the 15, 000 men employed by the Pennsyl vania Coal & Coke company, the new ly formed soft coal combination in the central Pennsylvania field, is threat ened. He has given the officials nntil October 3 to agree to carry out the pro visions of the Altoona scale. Thomas Watkins, who was a ! member vof the Anthiacite Arbitration Commission, is vice-president of the company. Canal Board Has No Hope. New York, Sept. 30. A - Colombian senator who appears to have reliable information says, according to a Herald dispatch from Bogota, that the com mission appointed to draft a new prop osition for a Panama canal will report it to be useless. The senate will ex amine the legality of the canal com pany's extension of time on the con tract of Mancini Caldron before taking any new action on the- canal propo sition. I 7 II . . . v w-. w. m V -w w-v -9 m I nAFFciNlINub HfcKti 1IN UKfcUUIN VALUES ARB HIGHER. J COMMISSION THE JUDGE. Taxable Property of State Is Worth About $175,000,000. ' From what can be learned in unoffi cial advices from different counties of the state, it seems probable that the total value of the taxable property of the state as shown by the assessment recently completed will be in the neighborhood of $175,000,000. This will be in round numbers $25,000,000 greater than last year. From a most every county comes the report that valuations are being ad vanced and that new property is being added to (he assessment rolls, so that the total increase for the entire state will be large. . The highest assessment ever made in Oregon was that of 1893, when the total valuation was over $168,000,000. The valuation had grown to that, sum by steady advances from $84,000,000 in 1887. From 1893 onward the counties began to vie with each other, in reduc ing assessments in order to escape a portion of the burden of. state taxes The state taxes were apportioned among the counties in proportion to the as sessed valuation and as each county controlled its own assessment it could gain something by reduction. In 1900 this process of reduction had brought the total assessed valuation down to $117,000,000. In order to put a stop to this rivalry in reducing assessments the legislature of 1901 passed an act providing that state taxe t shall be apportioned among the counties at a fixed ratio. The ben eficial results of this change were seen the first year, for the total assessment that year was $141,000,000, and in 1902 it had grown to over $148,000,000. If it shall reach $175,000,000 this year, as now seems probable, the valuation will then be the highest in the history of the state. Nearly all of the' advance indicated this year could have been made upon timber lands without placing an unjust valuation upon that class of proprety la nearly all the counties where there is a considerable area of timber land subject to assessment, increased valua tions have been made this year. In cities, where both business and resi dence property has found ready rental at satisfactory rates, the valuations have been put up. Reports received from various sources indicate that the valuation of farm property has not been radicaly in creased, but only in accordance with improvements made. W BOUGHT BY EASTERN- MEN. Cornucopia Group of Mines in Eastern Oregon Sold for $600,000. A telegram received at Baker City by Lack & Schmitz from' Trenton, N. J., announcing the incorporation of the Cornucopia mines of Oregon company, with a capital Btock of $5,000,000. - This announcement closes one of the largest mine deals ever consummated in Oregon. It involves the purchase of the famous Cornucopia mine in the extreme northeastern portion of Baker county, which is included in the Union Companion group, the Red Jacket, the Last Chance and 15 other patented claims, together with the mills, mill sites and extensive water rights. This property belonged to the J. E. Searles bankrupt estate. The price paid for the mining property was $600,000 cash. TbeBe mines have been worked since 1885 with varying success, owing to the leng distance from railroad transportation, all ore and supplies having to be hauled a distance of . 55 miles over a difficult mountain road. A portion of the ore is very rich, while there is a great quantity of low grade ore, which it will not pay to transport by team. : It is understood that one of the first moves of the new company will be the construction of a railroad from Baker City to the mine. A tunnel over one inile long has been surveyed for the purpose of opening up all of the claims. Bernard McDonald has been appointed general manager and has taken posses sion for the new owners. - Will Cut Much Timber, Mayor F; T. Kane and E. J. Hub bert, of Forest Grove, have purchased 50,000,000 feet of yellow fir timber north of Forest Grove and will at once put in a camp of35 men getting out logs to fill the 75,00,000 which they have contracted to deliver each year to W. H. Lyda, who will st once move his mill to the Bellinger bridge on Dairy creek, three miles north of town, where there is a good pond with a storage ca pacity of 3,000,000 feet. The first de livery of logs will be made early in De cember. , ' Cattle Will Have No Feed. The most disastrous fire that has ever occurred in the hayfields of Lake coun ty rage 3 in the lower Chewaucan marsh, 30 miles north : of Lakeview. At least 7,000 tons of hay in the stack and in bunches in the field has been destroyed. The loss is hot only the hay, but the pasture for fall feeding will be completely ruined. The hay ia valuab'e at $5 to $8 per ton, making the losa close to $75,000. The settlers fought hard to put out the fire. Working on Milk Condenser. Word haa been received at Hillsboro that work on the condenser machinery is progressing rapidly in the East, and will be ready for shipment in a few weeks. The engine house is now - in closed and work will commence on the main building next week. It is ex pected that the company will be ready to receive milk by the first of the year or soon thereafter. . - - - - Lewis and Its Hands, Clark Fund in Attorney General Crawford has ren dered an opinion at the request of Sec retary of State Dunbar in which he holds that the state commission for the expenditure of the $500,000 appropriat ed for the Lewis and Clark fair, must, to a great extent, if not entirely, be the judge of what expendituers are author ized to De made Dy them. ... This question was presented by the incurring of an expense of $2.50 for printing a resolution presented to the Trans-Miesissippi congress requesting an appropriation from the national congress in aid of the Lewis and Clark lair, ine secretary ot state waa in doubt whether the commission could use the fair appropriation in trying to get other appropriation's, and referred the matter to the attorney general, with the result above stated. Judge Crawford says, among other things, that neither the title nor the body of the Lewis and Clark fair act attempts particularly to define the pow era and duties of the commission, but in every instance confers a general pow er to carry out the purposes for which it was created. W. C. T. U. CONVENTION. Called for October 20-23 at Salem Rates for Delegates. The state convention of the woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet in Salem, October 20 to 23, inclusive. A fine progiam will ocennv the time from the evening of the 20th, Tuesday, until -the close. Miss Lillian E. Phelps, of Canada, a woman of fine rep utation, is to be the principal speaker. A gold medal contest will take place one evening. AH persons wearing the W. C. T. U. or Demorest gold medal will be peimitted to enter this contest, Send the name, with age and title of selection to be used at this contest to the . state president, Mrs. Helen D. Hartford, Newberg, Or., at once, so that the contestant can be notified of date of contest and the rules governing. (Kates will be granted those who at tend. Delegates will be entertained. Visitors can secure reduction in board by writing to the secretary of Salem union, Mrs. Clarkson Reynolds. ' Addition to College Farm. The purchase of 20 acres of ' land to be added to the Oregon argicultural college farm ia understood . to have beett.pEacticaUjcqnsummated. .The transfer has hot been made, but the de tails have Deen agre-d to by the build ing committee of the board and the owner of the property. The land ad orns the present holdings of the col ege, lying partly soulh of the college campus and east of the farm. The price paid is $6,000, or $300 per acre, which is regarded as very low, consid ering the location. Bored Through Rock for Water. A well 170 feet deep, 152 feet of which penetrates solid rock, and con taining an inexhaustible supply ol water of the depth of 25 feet, exists at Stafford, Clackamas county. Lee Bros. , of Canby have just finished boring the well on Sharp Bros.' farm. An attempt to pump the well dry proved futile. This ia the tenth attempt the Sharp Bros, have made to reach water on their farm that would supply necessary water for farming purposes. Plenty of Water at Agricultural. A complete and copious water supply for the many buildings on the argicul tural college grounds is now secure. Four wells of two-inch pipe, sunk re spectively at 89, 116, 121 and 125 feet afford a stream four inches in diameter that cannot be exhausted by constant pumping. The Capacity is 2,000 gal lons per hour, ample for use in the buildings. A supply for the grounds is a need of the future. . r PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 73c; blue- stem, 77c;. valley, 77c. , Flour Valley, $3.73.85 per bar rel; hard wheat straights, $3.754.10; hard wheat, patents, - $4.204.50: graham, $3.353. 75; whole, wheat, 3.554.00: rye wheat, $4.50. ; '; Barley Feed, $19.0020.00 per ton; brewing, $21; rolled, $2121.50. Oats No. 1 white, $1.10; gray, 1 .00 1.05 per cental. . Millstuffs Bran, $5i0 per ton; mid dlings, $24; shorts, $20; chop, $18; linseed dairy food, $19. Hay Timothy, $15.00 per ton; clover, nominal ; grain, $10; cheat, a -urinal. ' Butter Fancy creamery, 2527c per pound; dairy, 1820c; store, 15 16c. 'Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11 llc per pound; spring, 12)13c; hens, - 11 12c; broilers, $1.75 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1415c per pound ;dressed,16 18c; ducks, $56.00 per dozen ; geese, $67.00. Eggs Oregon ranch, 24c. Potatoes Oregon, 65 75c per sack; sweet potatoes, 2c per pound. ' ; . . Beef Gross steers, $3.75(34.25; dressed, 67c per pound. j i Veal 8c per pound. - Mutton Grosa, $3; dressed, 5 5c; lambs, gross, $3.50; dressed, 6c. Hogs Gross, . $5. 605. 75; dressed, 8c. '-.,r.; -,-. ; Tallow Prime, per pound, ' 45c; No. 2 and grease, 23c. . . Hops 1903 crop, 2425c per pound. 1902 crop 2021c. U Wool Valley, 1718c; Eastern Oregon, 1215c; mohair, 3537Kc Spending of DEAD LETTERS INCREASB. i Receipts for Year Just cioi w. Largest in History of Nation. Washington, Sept ..The annual report of the operat s of the dead let ter office for tfie fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, has been prepared and will De embodied in the forthcoming repcrt of First Assistant Pastmaster General Wynne. The report states that it- is made to appear that ther has been a large and steady increase in its annual receipts, which is due, it is said, to the great and constant increase in the vol ume of matter passing through the mails. The total receipts for the year were something over 10,000,000. pieces, the largest in the history of the office, ex. ceeding those of the preceding year by some 850,000 pieces. Of the aggregate number, 8,895,905 pieces were opened. Ane money lound in opened ietters amounted to $48,6&4, but this sum in cluded money (generally coin) found loose in the mails or in postoffices and consigned to the dead letter office. Commercial paper found, such as drafts, checks, money orders, etc . rep resented a face value of 11,493,563. TRIES TO STEAL GIRL. Oldest Daughter of Governor of Nebraska Nearly Abducted. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 29. It devel oped today that an attempt, waa made last night to kidnap the' 8-year-old daughter of Governor Mickey. While four of the governor's children were playing in front of the mansion ar un known man came along and tried to carry the oldeBt girl away. The other children clung to hia clothes and screamed. The man was bo badly frightened when he saw. neighbors coming that he dropped the child and 'an. r . .. Governor Micxey says the warden of the penitentiary, Mr. Beemer. rertorted to him twice that a kidnaping attempt had been prohesied by the convicts. One convict said some time age such a plan nad been Formed as a way of, get ting revenge upon the governor for his refusal to interfere when William Rhea was hanged last summer for murder. A convict today said that one of his fel lows soon to be released had been as signed to kidnap one of the children to 1 'fln ill Lrt ,, BREAK THEIR WORD. Turks Kill . Refugees Who Had Been Promised Protection. Monastir, Turkey, Sept. 29. Snow has fallen on the higher, mountain ranges, and the refugees mast either leave their hiding places or suffer the greatest hardships. : ' ' '-;, ?T '-'J; C The Turkish troops - continue to former homes at the invitation . of the government, which promised them pro tection. Near the village of ; Zefatan, in the neighborhood of Resta, troops found 15 returned refugees working in a field. They bound their hands, drove them into a ditch and massacred 14 of the peasants. One of them survived . his wounds. A refugee woman subse quently discovered the bodies and car ried the survivor before the lieutenant governor of Rosna, who refused to hear his story1. , One hundred and twenty Bulgarians, including four priests, who had been exiled by the Turkish authorities, left Monastir yesterday. AMERICAN FLEET WILL STAY. Beirut Is Quiet, but fairs Are Letshman Says Af- Uncertain. Washington, Sept. 2. Rear Admi ral Cotton, commanding the European squadron, cables the navy department that Beirut is quiet, and that, the ease of the American vice consul is still pending. Withdrawal of the American warships seems nnlikely for the pres ent, in view of the cablegram received at the state department today from Minister Leishman at Constantinople, stating that although his advices front Beirut indicate that . the situation is quiet just now, nothing like permanent order has been established. . Minister Leishman says that the state of affairs" there may yet be regarded as uncertain. ' Nab Counterfeit Money Men. r -c . Mariette, Wis.. Sept. 29. Officialst yesterday near Koss, iMich:, on .the. Wisconsin & Michigan . railroad, con- fi seated one of the largest and most complete counterfeit money " making1 plants ever taken in this country.. They also captured the leader and took; him to Marquette, Mich.. The outfit of the counterfeiters was a complete one and consisted of dies, for the manu-' facture of silver from 10 cents npto $1, and gold from $5 to $20. r The coin was well made and hard to detect, both sil ver and gold being used, r . : " Arbitrator Is Named. ' The Hague, Sept. 29. The czar has appointed M. DeMartens, professor of international law at the university of St. Petersburg, to be the third arbitra tor in the claims of the allied powers asainst Venezuela for preferential treat-' ' ment, in place of the Portuguese ap- ' pointee, whose illness has precluded his serving. Professor DeMartens was one of the, arbitrators , in , the, , Pious fund claims. The professor has been ' awarded the Nobel peace prize. , Arrive to Study American Ways. New York, Sept,! 29. Among the, passengers who arrived tonight on board the White Star line Arabic, from ? Liv erpool and Queenstown, were Sir David Barbour, Lord Ribblesdale, George Gibb and Sir Dickson Poynder,.mem- bers of the subcommittee of the royal commission on London street traffic, -who came to this country to study th ' American' streetgrailwaygsyitem. s