Heppner Gazette
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HEPPNER.
.OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General RevUw of Important Hap
penlngs Presented in a Brief end
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
ReadersNational, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
Peary says he is only returning for
provisions and supplies.
The Standard Oil comapny is openly
fighting for control of the Illinois Cun
tral. Alice Roosevelt Longwrrth ia making
politics an important part of her social
duties.
Bodies exhumed in Mount Calvary
cemetery, Portland, are found to be
petrified.
After three days' persistent hunting,
Preedient Foore elt has finally bagged
a wild turkey.
It is expected that records of the San
Jrancisco mint will disclose rank grafts
in that institution.
A big German-American insurance
company has paid all its San Francisco
fire losses and reorganized to continue
in business.
Tne Duke of Marlborough finds it
necessary to practice rigid economy as
a result of his separation from h:s rich
American wife.
At a lonely stige Etation in the Coast
mountains a dog was diecovered to be
gnawing a human hand. Search is be
ing made for the body.
The authorities in New York City
lave maed out ten thousand orders of
arrest, to be ready in cases of emer
gency on election day.
Congressman Hoar, a son of the late
Senator Hoar, is dead.
The navy is badly in need of hospi
tals on the Pacific coast.
High prices of meat in Germany
makes the Germans vegetarians.
Steel building constructors fn New
York refuse to deal with the unions.
revolt have been sentenced to Siberia.
Count Boni refuses to believe his
American wife really intends to divorce
him.
Norway and Sweden are disputing
about the ownership of the island of
Spitzbergeu.
Secretary of War Taft addressed a
PEARY WILL TRY AGAIN.
Message From Labrador Intimates
That He Is Not Discouraged.
Lenox, Mass., Nov. 6. That Com
mand r Robert E. Peary encountered
unusual difficulties In his search for
the North Pole was indicated in a
telegram received today by Morris K.I Seeks nvestment ,n E,ectric
11 L - A 1 11 , n . V 1 f A I '
jessup, president oi me i-i-aij i..iiv.
Club. The most significant portion of
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
BUFFALO BILL TO RESCUE.
NEW LINES IN CLACKAMAS.
the tpWram. however, was that con
taining an intimation that Command
er Peary would again try to find the
Railways.
Oregon City Consequent upon an
increase in population from 23,000 in
the Spring of 1905, as shown by the
FOR LONGER TERMS.
Superintendent Ackerman Favors
Change in Present Law
Salem That the apportionment of
public school funds should be mada
upan the basis of the number or teacn
era employed, and not upon the mini
North Pole The telegram rouows. ' BesBor.B cenSus, to 30,000, which is;ber of chiidren ln the district, is one
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Twillineate. Newfoundland
Roosevelt now here. Repairing rud
der and stern, taking ballast and
awaiting arrival mail steamer to se
cure coal.
"Return voyage incessant struggle
with ice to Cape York, September 26.
Then storms and head winds to Lab
rador coast, October 23.
"Carried away two rudders, stern
post and two blades of propellor, fore
top mast and spanker boom; lost one
boat; burned all coal and some inter
ior beams, using wood and blubber
along coast.
"Expect to communicate again from
Chapeau Bay. All progress will be
slow. Have no anxiety for our safety
and give no credence to exaggerated
reports.
"Roosevelt is returning this year for
additional supplies and for repairs.
Several tons of whale meat and dog
food thrown away last fall after poi
soning a number of dogs. Other sup
plies lost by breaking of ice in April.
"PEARY."
New York, Nov. 6. Although Com
mander Peary failed to reach the
North Pole, Secretary H. L. Bridg
man, of the Peary Arctic Club, be
lieves that his feat in reaching farther
north ought to be a subject for Na
tional rejoicing. Mr. Bridgman, who
received the message from Command
er Peary, announcing his return to
civilization, telephoned the news of
Mr. Peary's safety to Mrs. Peary, who
happened to be in the city.
"Thank God he is safe," was her
first comment. Then she plied Mr.
Bridgman with questions regarding
the details of the news he had re
ceived from her husband.
Mr. Bridgman told her that her hus
band, while he had failed to reach the
pole, because of ice, had now the dis
tinction of having gone farther north,
havine reached 87 degrees 6 minutes.
a point 32 minutes nearer to the .Norm
Pole than that reached by me miKe
of Abruzzi expedition in 1900. In dis
cussing Peary's dash late last fan,
after he had time to study the Com
mander's message more closely, Mr.
Bridgman said:
I am sure it has been the ambition
Fifteen leaders of the recent Russian of every true American to see trie
Stars and Stripes first at the Arctic
pole. And that it should be an Amer
ican who should reach the farthest
north is little less gratifying. It is
evident Peary has had the same ex
perience of getting on drifting ice and
being carried away from his goal that
other explorers have had. Probably
no other man living would have gotten
off so well as Peary has. He found
himself on ice that had been broken
Steamer-' considered a reliable estimate of the
county's population at the present
time, Clackamas county is experienc
ing a new era in its growth and devel
opment. Several agencies are contributing to
this material development of the
county and its resources, foremost
among which is the building of elec
tric railway systems. Idle capital rec
ognizes as a desirable investment the
building of transportation- lines into
Clackamas county, where the various
resources are still undeveloped and
merely awaiting the encouragement
that will follow direct communication
with a market.
The interests back of the Oregon
Water Power & Railw,ay Company,
which has already done a great deal
in building up this county, are recog
nized in the proposed building of an
electric line from Canemah to Salem,
and this enterprise is assured, rights-of-way
having been secured and sur
veys made over the entire route. The
same interests, it has lately developed,
caused the mysterious survey to be
made between this city and Molalla
and Wilhoit Springs some three
months ago. This will be a branch
line operated by the same company
and will penetrate one of the richest
sections of the valley. Assurance is
given that this line will be built.
The survey is now being made for
another proposed electric line between
this citv and Molalla, with the cele
brated Wilhoit Springs as the ultimate
terminus. This is being done by the
Oregon City and Molalla Railway Com
pany, a corporation in which Oregon
City business men own a controlling
interest. Its route is via Beaver
Creek, through a rich timber and agri
cultural section, and the promoters of
the enterprise promise to begin con
struction work within a few weeks.
Oregon City is becoming metropoli
tan. A free mail delivery service for
the city has been ordered established
December 1. An improved telephone
system is being installed by the Pacific
States Company, while the Home Tele
phone Company will begin Installing
its system soon, having completed the
construction of its line to the Clacka
mas river, just north of this city.
The great increase in sales of realty
is added evidence of the growth of
the county. Large farms are being
subdivided and disposed of in smaller
tracts, with the result that a larger
acreage is being placed under cultiva
tion.
RAILROAD PETITION DENIED.
great audience at Po,a:ello, Idaho, on P'DyV storm am i was taken in a
law and order.
A heavy storm has Ewept over
France, accompanied by heavy snow
and a tidal wave at Touion.
It is eaid the czar is practically a
prieoner of the gran l dukes, who force
trim to acquieeca to their orderB.
Up to November 1 the number of sa
loon licenses ieaued in Chicago for the
ensuing quarter was 129 ltea than six
months ago.
- By comparing finger prints a soldier
in the penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan., has been diecovered to be
an escaped murderer from England.
Reecnt storms have dislodged large
quantities "of mud from the Bides of
Mount Vesuvius, causing damage to
the railway and farms on the mountain
side.
It is said that the prosecution has
evidence that Mayor Schmitz and Boes
P.uef, of San Francisco, made over a
million dollars from grafts on building
permits.
Morocco is torn by anarchiets of dif
erent bands and beliefs.
The Panama Canal commission is
having a hard time to find laborers.
An independent telephone company
has gained a right of way in Chicago.
A German steamer collided with a
four-masted ship and sunk, 23 of her
crew being drowned.
A Germtn princess of royal blood has
been investigating slums ot Chicago un
der an assumed name.
Eight person, charged with com
plicity in a recent darinsr robbery in
1st. Petersburg were executed.
Ten anarchist speaker" and leaders
were arrested in New York charged
with inciting to riot and disorderly
conduct.
It ha? developed that Pan Francipco
salome which bought their enppliee
from one certain firm got their licenees
eaeier than others.
A Y. C. T. U. speaker says there
are 10,000 women and girls in CLicaeo
working for $5 a week or lets, and
there are 5,000 ealoons.
People in Montana and adjacent
eta'es ae in grave fear that the entire
Cheyenne Indian nation, numbering at
leaet 809 fighting men, will gi on the
war path.
Standard Oil company is fined 15,001
by Ohio judge, when law permitted a
fine of millions.
Wealthy widow of Chicaeo hav
been robbed of 1 100,000 or more by a
pretended broker.
Miney transport"! in Rupia are now
finTM by etrong forces of Cossacks in
stead of gendarmes.
Demands fin shorter wirV day and
new waee scale have been made on ail
lines cf the Pennsylvania railroad.
contrarv direction. It is likely that
he and his party went to the limit of
human endurance before they gave up,
as instanced by the eating of the
dogs."
"Will Peary ever make the attempt
again?"
"I do not know. Although it was
said by the newspapers when he sail
ed away that if he failed this time he
would never try again, he never told
me that, and I was quite close to him.
I consider that one of the wonderful
features of this expedition is the fact
that the Roosevelt is coming home
with the entire party despite the hard
ships they have experienced.
"Peary probably reached within 203
miles of the North Pole. He passed
the Abruzzi party by about 30 miles."
This was Peary's fifth attempt to
reach the pole. Other sledge journeys
were made in the years 1S92, 1S95, 1900
and 1902.
The following message of congratu
lation for Commander Peary was re
ceived today by Mr. Brideman, secre
tary of the Peary Arctic Club:
"Ppary, Care Bridgman. New York:
Very hearty congratulations upon your
splendid achievement.
"WILLIAM S. BRUSE.
"Edinburgh, Scotland."
Magoon Acts With Vigor.
Havana. Nov. C. To end the feeling
of inseenrity throughout the island,
due to the existence of straggling
bands called into being by the rerent
Insurrection, Governor Magoon has
ordered the employment of strong
bodies of rural guards to pursue and
scatter the bands and restore order.
American troops will replace the rural
guards in the towns in which the lat
ter are withdrawn. Governor Magoon
said That he is determined to prevent
horse stealing and that he will have
persons guilty of this offense arrested
and punished.
Order for Ten New Cars.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. ". Orders have
been riven by the Union Pacific ror
material for ten new motor-cars, which
will b" constructed at onee In the
Omaha shons. N'fw machinery of the
of the most important recommenda
tions in the biennial report of Super
intendent of Public Instruction J. H.
Ackerman, which was made public to
day. This very radical change in the
plan of distribution is suggested as a
means of enabling the sparsely set
tled district to employ as efficient a
teacher and have as many months of
school during the year as the larger
and more favored district. This priv
ilege, Superintendent Ackerman says,
is one to which the smaller district
is entitled. California has such a law.
Among other recommendations
made in the report are: That the
minimum length of the school year be
increased from three to five months;
that the levy for school purposes be
increased from $G to $8 per capita;
that the inheritance taxes be turned
into the irreducible school fund, and
that a part or the whole of the cor
poration tax be turned into the com
mon school fund to be expended each
year for school purposes. In connec
tion with the recommendation regard
ing the length of the school year,
Superintendent Ackerman says there
are too many districts satisfied to
maintain school only the minimum
number of months required by law.
"There is no reason why ,a child
in a small, isolated district is not en
titled to as many months ot scnooi
as is the child in a more favorably
situated district." said he. "Mere
location should not be the test of the
number of months' schooling to which
a child is entitled." The suggestion
that the rate of levy be increased is
founded upon the need of more funds
in order that longer terms of school
may be maintained.
Big Timber Deal Is On.
GOLD HILL Tlie four thousand
acre timber tract, situated at the
head of Foot's Creek, is now being
cruised in the interests of Idaho and
Ashland., Or., capitalists. The sale of
this property would mean much to
(Jold Hill and vicinity, as it would in
volve a large expenditure of money
in building of a logging road to con
nect with the S. P. Railroad at the
mouth of Foot's Creek.
Runners Sent by Renegades for Kelp
to Drive Out Whites.
Cody, Wyo., Nov. 5. Colonel Wil
liam F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), accom
panied by Colonel Breck and several
members of the party which returned
a few days ago from a big bear hunt
in the Big Horn Mountains, left here
for Sheridan, Wyo., intending to hold
a conference with the Utes before the
latter start on their overland march
to Fort Meade, where they are to stay
in charge of the Sixth Cavalry until
spring.
Notwithstanding the agreement
which was reached at the conference
between the soldiers and the Utes,
there are fears of a general uprising
of all northern Indians. "Buffalo Bill,"
who is familiar with Indian charact
eristics, has been kept closely advised
of the developments in the recent
troubles, and he believes the matter
will not be entirely settled by the
arrangement which puts an end to the
wanderings and depredations of the
Utes under Appah and Black Whisker.
At the instigation of the Utes, run
ners have been going to all the tribes
of the Sioux, Northern Cheyennes and
Crows, with a view of inducing them
to join In driving the whites out of
the land, and Colonel Cody believes
that steps should be taken at once to
counteract efforts of these messengers
to stir up revolt.
OREGON SOLONS
IN G0NVENTI0N
Meet at Pendleton and Are Royally4
Entertained by People.
Visit State formal School at Weston
and Washington's Jute Mill at
Walla Walla Not In Favor of Ex
changing Salem Stove Plant for
Jute Mill.
Sheridan, Colonel Cody will confer
with the military authorities as to
the exact methods of procedure.
GREAT FAMINE IN CHINA.
Pendleton, Or., Oct. 30. Whether
Oregon should supplant its stove foun
dry in the Salem prison with a juto
mill wag studied today in the Walla
Walla jute plant of the Washington
state prison by Governor Chamberlain,
of Oregon, 33 members of the Oregon
legislature, C. W. James, superintend
ent of the Oregon penitentiary, and
others. While the lawmakers have not
expressed their opinions on the sub-
On his arrival atlject freely, It Is evident that many of
Ten Million on Verge of Starvation
Crops an Utter Failure.
Shanghai, Nov. 5. Advices received
here indicate that famine conditions
of the most desperate nature prevail
in the Northern part of the great
Province of Kiang-Su, with but one ex
ception the most fertile and valuable
them do not favor the change.
This is the attitude also of Governor
Chamberlain and Superintendent
James. They argue that the stove
foundry brings to the state a revenue
twice as big as a jute mill would do,
that a Jute mill would launch the state
in a business which is in large meas
ure speculative and risky and liable
to heavy losses because the raw pro
duct from India is manipulated by a
trust; that th finished bags would be
sold to consumers near the factory.
of many provinces of the empire. TentuereDy discriminating against others
not favored by proximity to the plant;
that Oregon's participation in the bus
iness would not regulate prices, be
cause it could make only 12 per cent
of the bags used, and the Washington
plant doubled in size could make only
25 per cent of the bags used in that
millions of the total population of 21.
000,000 in the province are reduced
to stern want.
Crops are an utter failure and
scenes of suffering that rival anything
in the empire's history are reported
from every point in the region. Food
riots, which have been marked with
much bloodshed, are reported daily. -state; and that the change to a jute
and so far the officials have taken nomjll woul(l entail upon the state an ex
jute
stens to relieve istress. In fact, to
prevent the rioting spreading to the
J i nil -Mi. Innn 1 irAvrirnnrc Vi'lVtP I
,,,s . w. uc mii- with kec.n interest. It was not
neen oruert-u iu nt-t-p uic yirui.ic
their homes at all hazards, and fur- running, because the day was one of
penditure of perhaps $125,000.
The Oreuonians examined the
PORTLAND MARKETS.
No Reduction ot Assessment of Prop
erty in Linn County.
ATJSANY Before the Equalization
Board of Linn County adjourned its
sessions the Oregon & California Kail
road Company appeared bv its agent,
Geonre Scriber, and requested a re
duction in the taxation value of the
property from $10,000 per mile on
the main line in the county and $11,
miA rv'1o tlm hrnnrh lines, to
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reduction in the assessment on its
timber land from $7 to $3 an acre
was also asked. The company has
(i(',0.")4 acres of the finest timber land
in Linn County. After hearing the
claims of the company, the board de
cided to let the assessment stand as
fixed by the Assessor. The total as
sessment of the railroad company is
.11,732,143. of which $1,209,700 is on
its roadbed and rolling stock and
$4U2,24S on timber land.
GIVEN BETTER FACILITIES.
Cood River Now Ships Apples in Re
frigerator Cars.
HOOD RIVER Refrigerator cars
were taken out over the lit. Hood
Railroad and for the first time apples
are to be shipped direct over the new
railroad. At several points along the
road where there are large orchards
the railroad company has built sid
ings so that growers can load almost
direct from their orchards. This is
proving a great heln to fruit growers
on the east side of the valley as the
apple crop is so large that they are
experiencing considerable trouble in
getting their fruit hauled to the railroad.
Wallowa County's Big Fair.
ENTERPRISE That Wallowa
County is corning to the front in agri
cultural, fruit and stock was shown
by the exhibit is at the County fair
at Ixtstine, which in every way was a
revelation. The attendance was good
t-alnr. nf SIP". 000 has been ordered to
he used in the manufacture of these land the exhibits excellent , varied and i kpys, iVe, h K'c; turkeys, dressed
' WHEAT Club, C4c; hluestem, CGc;
Valley, G7c; red, Glc.
OATS No. 1 white, $24.50 25.50;
gray, $23.5024.
BARLEY Feed, $21.50 per ton;
brewing, $22; rolled, $2:!.
RYE $1.35021.40 per cwt.
CORN Whole, $25.50; cracked,
$20.50 per ton.
MILLSTUFFS Bran, city, $14.50;
country, $15.50 per ton; middlings,
$24; shorts, city, $16: country, $17
per ton; chop, U. S. Mills, $15.50; lin
seed dairy food, $18; acalfa meal, $18
per ton.
HAY Valley timothy, No. 1, $100
11 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$1416; clover, $C.507; cheat, $7
7.50; grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $11.50;
vetch hay, $77.50.
DOMESTIC FRUITS Apples, com
mon to choice. 25?r75c per box; choice
to fancy, 75ef;$1.50; grapes, $101.00
per crate; peaches, 75cft$l; pears,
75efiS1.25: cranberries, $99.50 per
barrel; quinces, $17 1.25 per box; per
simmons, $1,251? 1.50 per box.
FRESH VEGETABLES Cabbage,
l'jSlis pound; cauliflower, $1.25 per
dozen; celery, 75 85c per dozen; egg
plant, $1.50 per crate; lettuce, head,
20c per dozen; onions, 1012V2c per
dozen; bell peppers, 5c; pumpkins,
cents per pound; spinach, 45c per
pound; tomatoes, 3050c per box;
parsley, 1015c; squash, 1'c per
pound; hot-house lettuce, 25c per doz.
ROOT VEGETABLES Turnips, 90c
$1 per sack; carrots, 90c7$l per j
sack; beets, $1.251.50 per sack; gar
lic, 7 $i 10c per pound; horseradish, I
9 (ft 10c per pound; sweet potatoes, t$
2JAc per pound.
ONIONS Oregon, 90c$l per hundred.
POTATOES Buying prices: Ore
gon Burbanks, fancy, 90c$1.05; com
mon, 75cfi 90c.
BUTTER City creameries: Extra
creamery, 30fi32M,c per pound. State
creameries: Fancy creamer-, 25
27M.C; store butter, lfift 17c.
EGGS Oregon raneh. 32fittc
dozen; best Eastern, 20-3 27c; ordin
ary Eastern, 24 25c.
CHEESE Oregon full cream twins,
14W14UC; Young America, 1 5 1 5 ' c.
POULTRY Average old hens. 12'
ffil3',c; mixed chickens, 12ftl2c;
Spring. 12V? ffilSc: old roosters, 9H
10p- Hressod chickens. 13f14c; tur-
ther rioting has resulted from this
step.
All of the local diplomatic represen
tatives have received advices from
foreigners in the famine.stricken re
gion urging them to use all their in
fluence to have the imperial govern
ment take steps to aid sufferers. A
Presbyterian missionary who has just
returned from the region declares that
thousands of persons have already
starved to death, and that unless im
mediate aid is forthcoming the death
list will be appalling.
CINCH ON YELLOWSTONE.
Major Pitcher Recommends That Com
petition Be Established.
Washington, Nov .5. According to
its alternate idle ones, the Idleness
coming from short jute supply. But
several of the 70 looms were put in
motion for exhibition. The visitors,
headed by Governor Chamberlain,
were conducted through the plant bj
Governor Mead and M. F. Kincaid, the
new superintendent.
The chief argument for the jute mill
Is that manufacture of grain sacks, un
like that of stoves, does not compete
with free labor and that it gives farm
ers sacks cheaper than the market
price.
After viewing the Walla Walli plant,
the visitors went to Weston to view
the Normal School at that place and
thence came to Pendleton, where they
the annual report of Major ,ionn , . t. in(,tinn.
.,.f!r,tr Riinorintendent of t ie.6"v" ",u """"'-''
Pitcher.
Yellowstone National Park, tne 1110
nonolv enioved by the Yellowstone
At the Weston Normal School the
party was greeted by Robert C.
Lake "Boat Company for the transpor- j French, president of that Institution,
tation of tourists from Upper Geyser 'and was led to the assembly hall of
Basin to the Thumb is becoming a ser-j the scnool where some 240 students
ions problem. Major Pitcher has rer-,.ere gatnere,i, president French, to
ommended that competition be estab- , th t th jnstitution was not a
local high school for Weston, asked
1 ! call l in cn m o un V nr tbaf. the stage I
lines be permitted to operate their
own boats, in order to give their pat
rons the choice of boat or land trans
portation to the Thumb.
The Yellowstone Lake Boat Com
pany charges $3 a head for the trip,
which is 18 miles' distance. Its fran
chise expires July 21 next. Major Pit
cher emphasizes his recommendation
of last year that the garrison at Fort
Yellowstone be increased to a four
troop or squadron post.
STEEL INDUSTRY EXPANDS.
Washington, Nov. 5. A bulletin is
sued by the Department of Commerce
and Labor says that exports of iron
and steel manufacture show an in
crease of about 25 per cent in the
nine months ended with September,
and imports of a similar character
show also an increase of prartirally
25 per cent in the same period as
compared with the same months of
the preceding year.
The growth in operations of Iron
and steel, the bulletin says, was larger
in the nine months ended with Sep
tember, 190ft, than in any correspond
ing period of our export trade. The
gain in these months over the cor
responding period of the preceding
year was over $24,000,000.
motor cars, hut tlie worn win noi w;t:i
for tho arrival of the new machinery.
Construction of the ten cars now or
f'rred will proceed simultan onsly.
They will have gasoline engines of 200
hors power.
Bull-Baitinn at Colon.
Colon. Nov. fi The rl brat ion of
the third anniversary nf the founda
tion of the Republic of Panama con
tinual hre today. There was a bnll
baiting and other amurements in the
afternoon, .-nd fireworks in the even
ing. A thanksgiving frviee was held
and a nccptlon by the Consular officers.
per
pis-
represented every part of the county. 1 choice, 21T22'c; geese, live,
Fine cattle of several breeds were on 'pound. Si9o; ducks, 14fil5c;
exhibition; also some verv good sheep eons. $lL50; squabs, $2ft3.
and hogs that probably have no su- VEAL Dressed. 75 to 125 pound;
.11. 7iAif'c 125 to 150 pounds. c; 1;
penor m the state. ':r'i''nn. i o,i r
Padinq Road Rsise Waf?.
Philip lphia. Nov. r,. Th Philadel
phia Reading Railway Company an
nouric'I today an increase of wages
of 10 pr rent to all employes whoce
salaries are less than $200 per month.
I
Chinook Becoming Scarce.
HOOD RIVER Employes of the
Oovemmc'it fish station on the Clack
amas River, who have been taking
nImon eggs at the mouth of he White
Salmon River, have completed their
work for this season and rejKrt that
the number of eggs secured this year
is tlie smnlh'r-t since the work of en
deavoring to pp-serve the salmon in
tie Columbia River wa taken np.
Al'ogetl:r but ."i.OOnKiO eggs were
taken this yenr as against KS.OOn.fiOO
last year. The work commenced on
September If and was stopped about
the middle of October.
to 2"0 pounds, Gc; 200 pounds and up.
5i,rf.
'BEEF Dressed bulls. 2fT2tc per
poijnd; cows, 4 5c; country steers,
MUTTON Dressed, fancy. 7c per
pound; ordinary, 5fIGc; lambs, fancy,
8c.
PORK Dressed, 100 fo 130 pounds.
Sr; 150 to 200 pounds, 77i.ic; 200
pounds and im. CffCAc.
HOPS 1906. choire, 15 77170; prime,
1317e: medium. Wl2c per
pound: olds, nominal.
WOOI. Eastern Oregon averago.
best. 137 18c pr pound, according to
shrinkage; Valley, 20g21c, according
to fineness.
MOHAIR Choice, 26928c. ,
Blank Hand Throws Bomb.
New York, Nov. 5. Unsuccessful in
their attempts to blackmail Francisco
Messina, a prosperous tailor of Brook
lyn, members of the so-called Black
Hand Society, so the police say, hurl
ed a dynamite bomb against the front
door of the tenement house in which
he lives and conducts his business.
Damage of $8,000 to the building and : jsiatorB.
surrounding propeity was caused. At tonight's dinner Governor Cham
Scores of persons felt the Fhock of the ! b(irl,iin h , (.0.0,)pration of Oregon
"?""l'r i and Washington for improvement of
.MVMMIIil ItIS If" It'-'l
the pupils residing in Weston to arise,
then those whose homes were beyond
the town. The latter number visibly
exceeded the former.
President French said afterward
that of the 138 pupils in the normal
department, only 2 are residents of
Weston. In addition are 102 young
pupils in the training department, all
from Weston, their studies ranging
from kindergarten to eighth grade The
age of normal pupils ranges fiom 15 to
27, most of them being 17, 18 and 19.
Governor Chamberlain spoke com
mendingly of the school, saying it
would always have a place In his
heart. Representative Davey, of Ma
rion, encouraged the friends of the
school by declaring that it is one of
the indispensable educational institu
tions of Oregon. Representative Vaw
ter, of Jackson, spoke th same senti
ment and Jocularly said that Governor
Chamberlain's remarks had put him on
record and that they would be remem
bered when he should pars upon the
appropriation hill of the Republican
legislature. Other speak-ri were
Senator Smith, of Umatilla, and J. II.
Raley, of Pendleton.
The town of Weston took an after
noon holiday to receive the visitors.
At the station, a mile distant from tho
school, numerous conveyances were
waiting their arrival, to convey them
up town. The keen interest of Weston
in its normal school was evidenced by
the appreciation Its citizens showed of
the visit of the Governor and the Iog-
ing $400 to $1,000. Detectives arrest
ed two men on suspicion.
the Columbia river and the protection
eif salmon. Governor Mead responded
that in Improvement of that river
Washington "ought to co-operate with
your state." But he pointed out that
Seattle controlled a great part of the
Mine Diamonds in Kentucky.
Lexington, Ky., Nov. 5 With a
view of mining diamonds in Elliott Cgsiative power of "Washington
and Carter counties, Samuel Pearson, that it was ne)t so well informed of the
of Scranton. Pa., and W. J. Rice, of needs of the Columbia rive-r as it
San Juan. P. R.. have organized the might be.
Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Mining
Company, with a capital of $100,000. Ute Still Travel.
Pearson, who spent -ars as an en- Sheridan, Wyo., Oct. 31. Luther
gineer in the diamond fie lds of South Dunning, a man living on Otter Creek.
Africa, says that the indications for ( has just arrived from the Indian camp.
iM.-iivnnd are better In Kentucky tnan; where ho mn and talked witn ini"t
in South Africa.
Kannapah. who pays his people are?
prepared to fight before they will bo
Pirates Seize Launches. taken hack to Utah to starve. When
HoncVong. Nov. 5. RejMirts nave f Dunning visited the camp the Indians
been received that Chinese pirates were on Bear Creek,
have prized a British launch and two) This is the latest reliabile informa
rhinQ lminctiea in West River and tion regarding the location of tho Utes
escaped with $10,000 in booty after a and at that time they were 70 miles
running fight. No casualties are re- j rmm fcnerioan ana making wesmaru.
ported. jto Tongue River.