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Newspaper Page Text"Y... ..V OREGON LEGISLATIVE PRO CEEDINGS IN BREVITY Saturday, February 23. Salem, Feb. 23. The legislature which adjourned today went down in history as the most lavish Oregon has ever had. A grand total of $3,500,000 has been appropriated. The senate refused to adopt the house bill changing Ihe brush fire law. The house reconsidered a vote of yes terday and passed two bills giving farm laborers and threshermen liens on crops for money due them. Indorsed by nearly every assessor in Ihe state, the bill providing for an equitable system of assessing the tim ber lands of the state went down to de feat in the senate. The house finished up its business at 11:30 but it was 2 o'clock before the senate was through, and it was neces sary for the house to continue in session until that time. It Mas announced to the members of the legislature that it would be more convenient to buy tickets at the depot than to pay fares on the train. Passes would not do, as the new anti-pass law is in effect. Friday, February 22. Salem, Feb. 22. The bill creating the state board of tax commissioners was killed in the senate by failing to pass. President Haines was presented with an elegantly framed photograph of the members and officers of the senate. The senate banking bill was passed by the house. Several unimportant amendenfs were made. The senate dis posed of all business but 12 bills which will be taken up tomorrow morning. The normal school question Is the only vexation they have on the table. The house bill appropriating money to pay interest on certificates issued in 1905, when the appropriation bill was held up, was passed by the senate, amended so that interest is not to be paid on such certificates as were dis counted. The senate passed the house bill ex tending the law regulating hours of fe male labor to mercantile establish ments. Another house bill papsed by the senate gives conductors and engineers authority of sheriffs on trains. Kight hours is to constitute a day's work in underground minas according to a bill passed by the house, which the senate has already approved. Altogether the Benate passed 68 bills today and the house 26. Thursday, February 21. Salem, Peb. 21. The Normal school question is still unsettled and may be passed up to the next legislature. Both houses passed a bill providing for a discontinuance of two normals, but this wa8 vetoed by the governor. Both houses have passed appropriations for Weston and Ashland, and the senate for Monmouth. The house passed a bill allowing farmers to burn brush before June 1 or after October 1 without obtaining per mits. The house indefinitely postponed the senate bill for the purchase of the half block east of the capital grounds. The irrigation code bill was indefi nitely postponed by the house. The senate passed the locks bill ap propriating $300,000 for co-operation with the Federal government in pur chasing the Oregon City locks. Land barons were successful in the senate today securing the defeat of the Coos bay grant bill. The proposed tax laws have passed the house and were favorably reported to the senate. The house changed the provision for taxes to be paid the coun ty treasurer to sheriff as at present. The senate committee made minor changes in this measure that the house overlooked. All bills looking to the creation of new counties have been killed. Th house passed the senate reappor tionment bill and shortly afterward the fenaie passed the house bill appropriat ing $20,000 for new buildings at the state fair grounds. The passage of ( the two bills was in the nature of a trade. 1 Today the house passed 27 bills and the senate 13. Wednesday, February 20. Salem, Feb. 20. The bill for an ap propriation of $2,500 for the importa tion of song birds was defeated by the house. House bills for free text books in public schools were killed in the sen ate. The sentae by indefinite postpone ment killed the house bill annexing to Baker county a part of Grant county. The same disposition was made of the bill proposing to create Nesmith county. The bill alxlishing the 3 per cent tax relwite was indefinitely postponed by the senate. The house defeated the bill appro priating $25,000 for the construction of a bridge across Snake river near Ontario. Hart's blil to found a state library at. Pendleton met a hasty death in the house. The senate passed the house bill ap propriating $10,000 for maintenance of the portage road. Timber Becoming Scarce. Albany So great has the rush for timber land claims become in this part of the state that many people are now using their timber entry right to secure 40-acre claims. The law gives every person the right to take 160 acres, but having once filed on a smaller amount he can then take no more. The entry men realize this, but since timbefland values have risen so remarkably in the past few months they are content to take a vacant 40 acres well timbered. House members and attaches today presented Speaker Davey with a gold watch and chain. ' An adverse report has been made in the senate to compel Southern Oregon 1 land barons to sell their land at $2.50 per acre as provided in the grant. The house passed a bill for the re- I pair and maintenance of the fish way at Oregon City. The joint resolution providing for a recall of public officers was indefinitely postponed by the house. Thirteen bills were passed by the house today. The senate passed 20 and killed 13. Tuesday, February 19. Salem, Feb. 19. Veto of the $125, 000 appropriation for the State uni versity was overridden in each house today. Compulsory passes for public officials was carried over the governor's veto in the house and will be taken up in the senate tomorrow. Two additional appropriation bills were reported to the house by the ways and means committee. One carries $1,000 for making an exhibit of fruits and vegetabes grown in this state under irrigation at the National Irrigation congress at Sacramento next Septem ber. The other bill carries $66,552. made up of small items such as caring for es caped insane patients. The bill to establish two or more state hospitals for tuberculosis patients was killed in the senate. The senate refused to pass the Smith normal bill over the governor's veto. The senator will endeavor to secure a reconsideration. The senate bill for the purchase of voting machines passed the house. The house passed the senate bill ap propriating $100,000 for the purchase of a site and erection of a house for feeble minded. Agricultural college improvements was cut from $75,000 to $60,000 for 1907, and $65,000 for 1908 by the sen ate. The house is working from early morning until midnight in an endeavor to get its calendar cleared by time of adjournment. Today 31 measures were passed, only three failing of pas sage. Monday, February 18. Salem, Feb. 18. The Haines state banking bill passed the senate today. It is very lenient, allowing banks to re duce their reserves to 15 per cent of their deposits and 10 per cent of their time demand deposits, only one-third necessarily to be cash. The house this afternoon passe I the bill repealing the 3 per cent rebate for payment of taxes prior to March 15 each year. By unanimous vote the house passed a bill to reimburse Indiau war veterans to the extent of $50,000. A bill appropriating $40,000 to the various charitable institutions of the state was passed by the house. By unanimous vote a pure food bill similar to the Federal statute was pass ed by the house. Beginning with the second Monday in January, 1911, the state printer is to be placed on a flat salary of $4,000 a year if a bill passed by the house today becomes law. The house today parsed 43 bills and killed 17. The senate passed 16 bills. Both houses have adopted a resolu tion to adjourn at noon Saturday, Feb ruary 23. The senate has its business well in hand, but the bouse has an im mense amount to dispose of. PORTLAND MARKETS. Butter Fancy creamery, 3235c per pound. Butter Fat First grade cream, 33Jc per pound; second grade cream. 2c le9S per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 21 22c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 13Va 14c per pound; mixed chickens, 12 13c; spring, 13J149c; old roosters, 910c; dressed chickens, 1415c; tur keys, live, 1617ac; turkeys, dressed, choice. 1820c; geese, live, 10c; ducks, 17(SU8c. Wheat Club, 69c; bluestem, 71c; valley, 69c; red, 67c. Oats No. 1 white, $29; gray, $28.50. Barley Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew ing, $23; rolled, $23.50 24.50. Rye $1.45 1.50 per cwt. Corn Whole, $24.50; cracked, $22.50 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $14 15 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $1718; clover, $9; cheat, $9; grain hay, $910; alfalfa, $14. Apples Common, 75c$1.25 per box; choice, $1.5O2.50. Vegetables Turnips, $11.25 per sack; carrots, $11.25 per sack; beets, $1.251.50 per sack; horseradish, 7 8c per pound; sweet potatoes, 3c per pound; cauliflower, $2.25 per doz en; celery, $3.75 per crate; onions, 10 12c per dozen; parsley, 25 30c;. sprouts, 9c; radishes, 2530c; rhu barb, $1.75 per box; asparagus, 20c per pound. Onions Oregon, $11.25 per cwt. Potatoes Oregon Burhanks, fancy, $1.351.50; common, 90c$l. Veal Dressed, 5a9c per pound. State Railroad Commissioners. Salem Oregon's three railroad com missioners will be Oswald West, of Salem, now state land agent; Clyde B. Aitchison, of Portland, now attorney for the Title Guarantee A Trust com pany, and Thomas K. Campbell, of Cottage Grove, a lumberman of the firm of Campbell fc Alexander. These se lections were derided upon by the state board, which is given the appointment under the Chapin law. West is a Dem ocrat and the other two Republicans. HUNDREDS LOST. Big Steamer Wrecked and Passengers Washed Overboard. London, Feb. 22. The worst disaster foi many years in the history of the busy cross-chanel traffic between Eng- land and the continent occurred during this morning, when the Rotterdam mail steamer Berlin, from Harwich to Hook of Holland, having satisfactorily weathered the hurricane, was wrecked as she was entering port. Altogether 143 persons are either dead or clinging hopelessly to the wreck The terriffic seas broke upon the steamer with such awful suddenness that attempts to jiave life appear to have been utterly hopeless. Late to' night it is reported that a few surviv' ors were clinging to the wreck, but as the heroic efforts all day of the lifeboat crews had failed to reach them, little hope that they will be saved remains The cause has not yet been assigned for the disaster and it probably never will be known how the steamer came to miss the channel. It is conjectured that some derangement of the engines or steering gear may have rendered the vessel uncontrollable. Captain Pre cious has a good record of 14 years' ser vice. The list of pasesengers was lost, and all the names of those who were on board have not yet been learned, but as far as has been ascertained there were no Americans among them. A terrific Bouthwest gale was blow ing inshore, and drove the steamer on a sand bank close to the northern jetty as she was trying to enter the new waterway. Heavy seas quickly pound ed the vessel to pieces,. She broke in two, her fore part sinking immedi ately, while the doomed passengers and crew clustered upon the after part. PLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN. Roosevelt Endorses Movement to Ac quire Them in Cities Washington, Feb. 22. Municipal playgrounds within easy walking dis tance for every boy and girl in the large cities were advocated tonight by President Roosevelt in a letter, and by Representative Boutell, of Chicago; E. E. Brown, United States commissioner of education; Henry S. Carlis, superin tendent of Washington playgrounds, and other speakers at a "playgrounds banquet" given under the auspices of the Washington Playgrounds associa tion. Mr. Boutell explained the ob ject of his bill now pending in congress. The president in his letter expressed hope that Mc. Boutell's bill for play grounds in Washington will pass con gress, that sites may be secured before prices become prohibitive, saying; "I regard this as one of the most import ant steps toward making Washington the model city which we all feel that the capital should be." He praises the work in this direction done by Chicago and the High School Athletic league of New York, and calls attention to the inclusion of games in the curriculum of German and English schools and several noted private schools in America. GREAT REJOICING IN UTAH. State Legislature Congratulates Sen ate, Smoot and Sutherland. Salt Lake City, Feb. 22. Among the active Republicans and the leaders of the Mormon church there was great rejoicing when the news came from Washington that Senator Smoot had been sustained. By unanimous standing vote the lower house of the LTtah legis lature adopted the following joint reso lution, which was also introduced in the senate: "Be it resolved by the legislature of i the state of Utah, that, in determining that Hon. Reed Smoot is entitled to his seat, the United States senate has stood for constitutional rights against powerful influences and has avoided a dangerous precedent. "Therefore, the thanks and the con gratulations of the state of Utah are nereby extended to the senate for its final action in this case. "Personal congratulations are sent to Senator Smoot and his colleague, Sena tor Sutherland, and to the other sena tors who spoke and voted in protection of the rights of the state of Utah." Committed to the Asylum. Seattle, Feb. 22. Esther Mitchell, who since July last has been confined in the county jail here, was sent to the state asylum for the insane at Steila- coom today. Superior Judge Frater, who called a lunacy commission to ex amine into the girl's mental condition, signed the commitment this morning. The killing of George Mitchell by his sister was the result of the reien of Holy Rollerism in Oregon. George Mitchell killed Franz Edmund Creflield. the Holy Roller leader, in this citv last May. Montana, Too, in Line. Helena, Mont., Feb. 22. The Rail road Commission and Warehoune bill is now a law. The bill went to Gover nor Toole today, who immediately re ferred it to the secretary of state with the notice that he would allow the measure to become a law without his signature. He objected to the power and policy of the legislature naming the commissioners, saying he was con vinced that the method was wrong in principle and will be bad in practice. Chamberlain a Physical Wreck. London, Feb. 22. An interesting an- thoritative statement concerning the An American expert, who examined health of Joseph Chamberlain is pub-, the water Fystem, said the water sup lished here today. Although it does ply would be better than that enjoyed not confirm the worst rumors, it shows by most of the cities of the United that Mr. Chamberlain is completely States, and that filtration is not neces broken physically, although he is men- sary, but it was decided to install the tally alert. plant nevertheless. GOVERNMENT HAS STRONG CASE Evidence SnOWS Hermann Kept Pub- lie Letters In Private Books. Former Land Commissioner, Either Destroyed Official Correspond ence or Violated Postal Laws by Mailing Letters Under Depart ment Frank Liable to Fine. Washington, Feb. 19. Japanese children are to be admitted to the white schools of San Francisco under certain restrictions; skilled and unskilled la borers coming from Japan are barred from the mainland of the United States, and American laborers, skilled and un skilled, are to be excluded from Japan. This is the basis of the agreement between President Roosevelt and Secre tary Root on the one hand and Mayor Schmitz and the San Francisco school board on the other, as an adjustment of the anti-Japanese agitation brought about by the segregation of Japanese children in the San Francisco schools. The agreement means that the schools of San Francisco will be conducted in the same manner as they were before the bosr 1 of education adopted the reso lution last October, providing for the segregation of the Japanese, except that adult Japanese who are in primary grades must continue to attend the Ori ental schools, and that Japanese child ren under 16 will be admitted to classes with white children of their own ages. The State department since the pas sage of the immigration bill, is prepar ed to take up again the negotiations that were already in progress with the Japanese government looking to the regulation of Japanese immigration into the United States. It is expected the negotiations will result in agreement between Japan and the United States for the withholding by the former of passports to Japanese of the laboring classes seeking to enter the United States. For several years past the Jap anese government has declined to issue any such passports, but the intention is to make this matter of formal agree ment, if possible. In the short time remaining of the present session of congress it is not possible, it is said, to frame anything in the nature of a treaty, which would require the action of the senate. In-fact it is bv no means certain that a formal convention is necessary to in sure the continuance of the present Japanese policy of refusing passports in the United States to coolies, so it may be decided to give this agreement an other form than a treaty. HERMANN TRIAL. Letters Do Not Show He Was Con nected With Land Fraud. Washington, Feb. 19. Two facts were brought out in the Criminal court yesterday while arguments were being presented in the case of Hermann on the motion of the district attorney that he be allowed to amend his bill of par ticulars. The most important fact was the admission by the prosecution that there is nothing whatsoever in the let ters written by Hermann and now in the possession of the government which in any way implicates him in the land frauds. The second disclosure was the fact that the government had many of these letters in its possession prior to Hermann s indictment and subsequent- ly, while the ease was being prepared, notwithstanding which fact, the prose cution in its original bill of particulars declared that the contents of Hermann s so-called private letterbooks were "un known." The progress of the case was delaved by unavailing efforts of the defense to prevent the amending of the bill of particulars so that the letters of Her mann to various parties in Oregon and other Western states secured by the prosecution might be placed in evidence. Turpentine Trust is Fined. Savanah, Ga., Feb. 19. In the Unit ed States court today, the S. P. Sholter company, the ratterson-Downing com pany, the Standard Naval Stores com pany and the Belgian company, corpor ations, IS. P. Sholter and J. F. Meyers, individuals, known as the tur pentine tnut, entered pleas of guilty to a violation of the anti-Sherman trust act and were fined $5,000. Judge Em ory Speer fined each individual and cor poration $5,000, making an aggregate of $30,000. The other indictments were nolle prossed. Japan is Calmly Resigned. Tokio, Feb. 19. The passage of Pres ident Roosevelt's passport bill by the senate of the United States was semi officially announced this morning. The leading newspapers today explained that this is perfectly legitimate and in accordance with treaty stipulations. It is also pointed out that the promise of success of the judicial procedure in the ' school quest ion is lessening. The pa pers thus far have refrained from mak ing comment on this latest news. Filter Water for Canal Cities. Panama. Feb. 19. A filtration plant lis to be installed in connection with the water supply of Panama and Colon. BITTER FIGHT PROMISED. House Will Endeavor to Pass Ship ,; , Subsidy Bill. Washington, Feb. 20. Ship subsidy will probably be considered by the bouse at night sessions late this week. Speaker Cannon and Representative Watson, the Republican whip, con ferred with the president concerning the matter today and, although no pos itive argeement has been reached, Mr. Watson said that it now seems likely that the Littauer bill will be consid ered on the floor. In case the subsidy measure is taken up by the house it probably will be under a rule limiting the debate to two evenings, and the bill will be subject to amendment. After the postoffice appropriation bill, which the house will dispose of today, the measure limiting the hours of railroad employes to 16 out of 24 will be taken up at the day sessions. The sundry civil bill will then be brought forward and, as there has been a general refusal to grant ship subsidy any time during the session, its friends asked for its consideration at night. They seem now about to win their point, although the general impression is that the subsidy bill will be bitterly attacked on the floor and amended in many ways, if not defeated entirely. CONFER ON CANAL CONTRACT. President Questions Oliver and Asso ciates in Bidding. Washington, Feb. 20. The president told a number of contractors who are associated with W. J. Oliver in his bid for the construction of the Panama canal that a decision would not be reached before March 1. What will probably be the final conference pre liminary to the decision was held today with a number of contractors associated with Mr. Oliver. Secretary Taft said that no conclusion had been reached to day. Those at the conference included, in addition to the president, Mr. Taft, Chairman Shonte and Mr. Rogers, counsel of the Isthmian Canal commis sion, and the following contractors and others associated with 'Mr. Oliver: Patrick F. Waleh, of Davenport; P. J. Brennan, of this city, Robert Russell, of Lynchburg; R. A. Chester, of the Commercial National bank, of this city, and L. C. Gunther, of Knoxville, Tenn. All of them were questioned by the president and his advisers as to their experience and as to the qualifications to do the work which they contract to do. All the contractors associated with Mr. Oliver have now been interviewed by the president except the dredgmen. It has not yet been determined whether or not they will be required to come to Washington. GREAT NORTHERN INDICTED. Hill's Road is Accused of Rebating on Sugar. New York, Feb. 20. Ihe Federal grand jury today indicted the Great Northern Railroad company on charges that in 1904 it paid $10,000 in rebates on sugar shipments to Lowell M. Pal mer, traffic agent of the American Sugar Refining company. A second count of the same indictment charges that $554 additional rebates were paid to Mr. Palmer by various railroads in conjunction with the Great Northern. The indictment charges that the Great Northern effected freight combin ations with the Lehigh Valley, at the New York Central and the New York. New Haven & Hcrrtford railroads, the through route of the last named being in combination with the Erie railroad, the Great Northern Steamship company and the Great Northern Railroad com pany, whereby sugar was transported from New York and Boston to Sioux Cityi Iowa, at less than the published tariffs. The latter, the indictment charges, was 52 centa, per 100 pounds, but through an agreement alleged to have been made by Alonzo W. Dike and A. W. Steel as agents of the Great North ern company, and Lowell M. rainier, the agent of the American Sugar Refin ing company, it is charged that the sugar refining company was granted a through rate on sugar between the points named of 33 cents per 100 pornds. Hawaaian Japanese Protest. Honolulu, Feb. 20. The following cablegram was sent to President Roose velt last night by prominent Japanese: "The Hawaiian Japanese respect fully protest in the name of humanity and civilization against the prohibition of their emigration to the United States. It enslaves us permanently to Ha waiian capitalists." The Japanese For eign office was cabled as follows: "The Hawaiian Japanese are unanimous in firm opposition to the action of the American congress in prohibiting them from emigration to America." London's Consumption of Food. London, Feb. 20. The total amount of foodstuffs that reach London yearly. according to the secretary of the public heatlth committee, is between 2,500, 000 and 3,000,000 tons. Three-fifths of the whole quantity is consumed by Londoners. Shipments include 1,000, C00 tons of meat, fish, milk, butter, eggs, lard, etc.; 500.000 tons of fruit and vegetables, including sugar and preserved fruits, and 1,41X1,000 tons of grain and flour. Great Cement Works Burned. Alpena, Mich., Feb. 20 The plant of the Alpena Portland Cement com pany was burned tonight. The loss is estimated at $400,000. WILL EXCLUDE JAP COOLIES Children to Receive Equal School Privileges in Return. San Francisco Will Admit All Alien Children to White Schools and Roosevelt Will S.op Flow of Jap anese to United States Through Immigration Law. Washington, Feb. 21. The Her mann trial is now well under way and the prosecution is making rapid strides with its case. The evidence given yes terday by Hermann's two private sec retaries tended to indicate that at least a part of the correspondence copied in Hermann's so-called "private letter books" related to business before the land office. Another development was the establishment of the fact that many letters copied in these books and desig nated by Hermann as "personal" were mailed under the department frank, which is permissible only on official correspondence. This evidence, given by Dr. Reger, would tend to place Hermann in the position of either destroying books which contained official letters or of having violated the postal laws, which impose a penalty of $300 for every in stance in which personal matter is sent through the mails under the govern ment frank. With the intention of establishing the official character of many letters copied in Hermann's private books, the district attorney brought from Ll liott P. Hough, Hermann's secretary, the admission that clerks and officials of the land office were frequently ob liged to consult Hermann's private let terbooks in regard to cases pending be fore the office, the inference being that letters copied therein contained refer ence to departmental business. The defense succeeded in having kept out of evidence for the time being the stenographers' notebooks that were used by Hermann s secretaries. BUYS ANOTHER ROAD. Harriman Secures Control of Corva! lis & Eastern Stock. New York, Feb. 21 . Though much worried over the approaching Interstate Commerce commission investigation and busied most of the time in prepar ing prompt answers to expected ques tions, E. II . Harriman has retained this week enough of his ruling passion to pick up one small railroad. The new purchase is the Corvallis & Eastern, a single track line, only 142 miles long and of no great strategic importance to the Union Pacific system. Mr. Harri man bought it, one of his associates said, just to keep his hand in. The road runs from Idanha, in the foothills of the Cascade mountains to Yaquina, on Yaquina bay. The rail road was constructed many years ago by Eastern capitalists, who sunk a large amount of money in it. HUNGER AND PLAGUE RULE, Terrible Misery Prevails in Russian Famine Provinces. Kazan, Russia, Feb. 21. A corre spondent of the Associated Press has returned here after a 25 days' trip through Kazan, Samara and Ufa, three provinces of the 20 affected by famine. The population everywhere was found to be absolutely dependent on outside relief. The present state of affairs is characterized by slow starva tion and extreme misery. The relief machinery organized by the government, the Red Cross, the Zemstvos and private societies is work ing with reasonable smoothness and few localities are utterly neglected. But the government's allowance of 36 pounds cf rye per person a month is most inadequate, and this amount is cut by IS or 20 pounds by cost of trans portation and milling. Men and even women between the ages of 18 and 55 are excluded from receiving the govern ment ration. Confer on National Defense. Washington, Feb. 21. By invitation, Secretary Met calf and the entiregeneral board of the navy called at the White House this afternoon to discuss with the president questions concerning the national defense. It is understood that the main point of the eonferencejwas to ascertain whether there was any prospect of development? in the recess of congress requiring action now in ad dition to the measures already incor porated in the naval appropriation act to put the navy in shape for emerg encv. Boy Who Made Test Case Will App'y San Francisco, Feb. 21. Within a week little Keikichi Aoki, the Japanese lxy who was made the plaintiff in the suit to test the right of the school board to exclude him from educational insti tutions of the city, will make applica tion again for admittacne to the Redding primary school, and in accordance with the terms of the agreement reached at Washington between the Federal autho rities and the San Francisco officials, will be admitted. Again Denounce Swettenham. Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 21. A mass meeting of citizens held Monday night condemned Governor Swettenham for refusing monetary assistance coming, here. The meeting adopted petition to parliament for a grant of $750, IN) and a loan of $5,000,000 to aid in the rebuilding of the city.