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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
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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