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HEPPNER
OREGON
REPORT ON STANDARD OIL CO.
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
Haywood waj given a great reception
at Salt Lake.
Governor Hanley declares that Indi
ana is solid for Fairbanks.
France has invited Spain to join in
an expedition against Morccco.
John Burns proposes a Eritish pure
food law to fight American packers.
A band cf New York Chinese made a
raid on Boston Chinese, killing three.
Union Pacific will encourage coal
mining by independent companies now
that it has lost much of its coal land.
Irrigation work in California, Ari
zona and Nevada will be cut from $15,
000,000 last year to $800,000 this year.
The Alabama secretary of state has
declared the franchise of the Southern
railrcad forfeited for breaking state
laws.
Four American school teachers who
Commission on Corporations Says It
Uses Worst of Methods.
Washington, Aug. 5. Significant
revolutions are made public in a re
port submitted to President Roose
i volt by Herbert Knox Smith, Com-
nilssioner of Corporations, concern
ing the operations of tho Standard
Oil Compauy.
In a previous report the ways nnd
mot hods of the Standard woro ex
plained. The present report sots
forth the results of these methods I
and the effect they have had on the
consumption of oil and on the profits
of the Standard Oil Company. Com
missioner Smith says:'
"The Standard Oil Company is re
sponsible for the course of prices of
petroleum and its products during
the last 25 years. The Standard has
consistently used its power to raise
the price of oil during the last ten
years, not only absolutely but also
relatively to the cost of crude oil."
The Standard has claimed that it
has reduced the price of oil; that it
has been a benefit to the consumer;
and that only a great combination
like the Standard could have fur
nished oil at the prices that have
prevailed.
"Each one of these claims," says
Commissioner Smith, "is disproved
by this report."
The increase in annual profits of
the Standard Oil Company from
1 896 to 1904 was over $27,000,000.
The report says:
"The total dividends received by
the Standard from 18S2 to 1906
were $551,822,124, thus averaging
2 4.15 per cent a year. The dividends
however, were much less than the
total earnings. It is substantially
certain that the entire net earnings
of the Standard from 1882 to 19
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
COUNTY SEAT FIGHT ON.
Wallowa Anxious to Contest Honors
With Town of Enterprise.
Wallowa The Wallowa Commer
cial Club has voted unauimously for
the beginning of a county seat fight.
John McDonald, S. T. Combs and Dr.
G. W. Gregg were appointed a com
mittee on finance, while C. T. Mc
Daniel, Mayor J. P. Morelock and
Councilman Edgar Marvin will ar
range for the circulation of petitions
to secure the vote next June. The
meeting was well attended and the
promise of support from Joseph was
officially announced.
The county seat is now at Enter
prise and much dissatisfaction has
been manifest for the past year. The
county owns no public buildings and
New Buildings for Corvallis.
Salem At a special meeting of
the State Board of Education, the
contract for the building of the new
Mechanics' Hall In connection with
the Agricultural College at Corvallis
was awarded to A. F. Peterson, of
Portland, for $37,3C3, and for the
steam-heating plant for the same
building to Gardner, Kendall & Co.,
of Portland, for $3,525. These were
the lowest bids offered. Each suc
cessful bidder must furnish a bond
in the sum of 50 per cent of the
amount of the respective contracts
and the building must be completed
and ready for occupancy on or be
fore February 1 of next year.
FINtD $29,240,000
NAVAL OFFIGERS
SGENT WAR NEAR
Great Moropoly Is No Better Than
Counterfeiters or Robbers.
Chicago, Aug. 5. Judge Keneaaw
M. Landis Saturday in the United
States District Court fined the Stand-
1 ill 1 1 II.. O O (
240.000 for tons1 of 'the!,;; Movement of fleet to Pacific Will Be
against accepting rebates from rail
roads. The fine is the largest ever
Land Sales Drop.
Salem The total amount of col
lections for the sale of school, tide
and swamp land, interest on certifi
cates, etc., in the State Land De
partment for the month of Julv, as
is practically in the position of a new .shown by the statement issued i
1 a-. A I " f , A J 1 I i"A- Jl
-T'V" i v 1, m, .sibly much more.
,m a0ia?uU . , " r' "These enormous profits have
stopped, in inaia or otner uriusn pos-, bpen basP(1 nn an invpstment wnrth
sessions, Japanese were busily engaged j at the time of its original acquisition
not more than $75,000,000."
The report of Commissioner Smith
shows that the Standard Oil Com
pany is responsible for petroleum
prices for the past quarter of a cen
tury because this company has con
trolled the industry. The report
shows the price history of oil pro
ducts since 1866, or practically since
the beginning of the industry. This
gives an opportunity to compare the
course of prices during the earlier
competitive period with the course
of prices during the later monopolis
tic period. It also shows that prices
would have been lower during this
later period under normal competi
tive conditions and in the absence of
any such overshadowing combination
as has actually existed.
These prices show directly the ef
fect that the existence of this com
bination has had upon the consumer
and also the results that have ac
crued to the combination itself by
way of profits. Just conclusion can
thus be drawn of the way the Stand
ard Oil has used its great industrial
power.
SECOND HEARING BEGUN.
in making sketches of fortifications and
harbors.
Corean soldiers revolted against
disbandment and fought Japanese in
Seoul, but were quelled.
Choate has made a powerful
speech for a permanent arbitration
court at The Hague.
France,' Spain and Italy are to
send an army to Morocco to put down
the uprising.
Roosevelt will positively not allow
himself to be renominated for an
other term but will support Taft.
The Oklahoma Republican conven
tion has nominated Frank Frantz for
governor.
John Sharp Williams has defeated
Governor Vardeman for the Demo
cratic nomination for senator from
Mississippi.
Congressman Jenkins opposes the
state rights doctrine and predicts
civil war if it is enforced.
Haywood will tour the West and
address all unions of the miners'
federation.
Darrow and Richardson, attorneys
in the defense of Haywood, cannot
agree and one or the other will with
draw before the Pettibone and Moyer
cases are called.
A strike has been averted in the
Northern Pacific shops at St. Paul.
A wreck on the Illinois Central
near Milan, Tenn., resulted in four
deaths.
The Georgia legislature has passed
and the governor will sign a prohi
bition law.
The mayor and prominent citizens
of a Mexican town have been arrest
ed for smuggling.
The earnings of the steel trust for
the quarter ending June 30 reached
over $45,000,000.
Nebraska railroads say assess
ments on their property i3 higher
than on farm lands.
Mrs. Thaw has been reported as
preparing to go on the stage, but she
emphatically denies it.
The cornerstone of the Carnegie
peace palace was laid at The Hague
with great ceremonies..
Two more women have been killed
In New York and their bodies muti
lated. The city is greatly excited.
An insane man has been captured
near St. Charles, Me., who has been
living wild for years and who eats
grass like an animal.
The San Francisco & Portland
Steamship Company has given 77 as
the correct number of lives lost in
the wrecking of the Columbia.
A revolt a few miles from San
tiago, Cuba, was quickly put down.
county. The vote to be taken next
June will decide the location of the
county seat definitely, and every ef
fort possible will be put forth on
each side.
The aspirations of Wallowa have
long been growing and have at
length taken form. The struggle
was provoked by the action of resi
dents of Enterprise a week ago in
attempting to get the county court
to build a courthouse. Their offer
Clerk G. G. Brown, of the State Land
Board, was $47,785.37, which is a
considerable falling off from the
volume of business conducted last
month, when the receipts reached a
total of over $100,000. This latter,
however, was due to the transactions
incident to the cancellation and re
purchasing of certificates resulting
from the land fraud investigations.
Railroad Not to Blame.
Salem According to the reply of
Snnerlntendenf- T,. R Fields Inplns-
was a site and $5,000 cash bonus int, Rt.ntempnt. frnm stntinri Af
for a $25,000 courthouse. TheiwlllIam Merriman, of Portland, an
county court tabled the proposal in-!swerlng tne complaint of J. A. Mc
definitely, pending the action of the Donald( of McMinnville, who repre
voters at the next election. The sented to the Railroad Commission
strength of the two towns is almost that he waa unable to get a carload
evenly divided with a large element o sand shipped from Portland to Mc
in the county as yet very uncertain. , Mlnnville. the blame for the non-ar
rival of the car was due to the Cen
tral Sand Company, of Portland,
who failed to load the car delivered
Railroad Laborers Scarce.
Huntington Work on the North
west Railroad is progressing slowly them for the sand, which, at last re-
owing to the scarcity of men, who ports, was standing empty on the
prefer to work in the harvest fields, siamg.
greatly to the Inconvenience ol tne
railroad contractors. Work will be
gin next week of laying rails and
Fund for Maintenance Only.
Salem Attorney-General Craw-
putting in culverts Of iron pipes in forf! y,aa ,Hven an nnininn tn thn
the large gulches leading from the state Board of Normal School Re
mountain sides. This means a great o-pnts that the annronriarion for hot-
saving of time and money to the con- mai3 could only be expended for
tractors, who now have to haul their maintenance and repairs, and no part
supplies 40 and 50 miles by wagon. Gf the money could be utilized for
the construction of new buildings.
More Excuse for Increase.
This is for the especial benefit of
Two jurors say they believe Hay
wood is guilty but yielded to the ma
jority. Governor Folk has removed a
Kansas City police commissioner to
stop grafting.
Great Britain and Germany have
agreed on an international prize
court at The Hague.
Heney is confident of convicting
Glass on the second trial and will not
depend upon Zimmer at all.
Demonstrations are being held In
many places in Haywood's honor and
already there is talk of running him
for president.
A crazy man wrecked a Great
Northern passenger train near Harve,
Mont., because the Almighty told him
to do it. One man was killed and
several injured.
The Royal Insurance Company has
saved the assets of the German In
surance Company from lawyers for
San Francisco people by buying the
defunct company.
Ito plans to disband the Corean
army.
There Is a great famine of teach
ers due to the strike against state
examination.
A Chicago mob tried to kill the
assailant of a girl but were prevented
by the police. j
Federal Courts Continue Investigation
of Standard
Chicago, Aug. 6. The prepara
tions for the second federal investi
gations of the relations between the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
and the Chicago & Alton Railroad,
ordered by Judge Landis of tha
United States District Court on Sat
urday, will begin tomorrow. The call
for the special grand jury will be
issued and United States District At
torney Sims will go over all the evi
dence presented at the recent trial
of the Standard Oil Company, which
resulted in conviction and a fine of
$29,240,000, and will select the wit
nesses to be subpoenaed. It de
veloped that the reason for haste in
this investigation is that the statute
of limitations is running against the
government, and because of it the
Chicago & Alton will escape re-indictment
on between 80 and 100
counts of the 1,462 on which the
Standard Oil Company was con
victed. This statute of limitations bars
prosecution on offenses committed
more than three years before indict
ment. Many of the shipments on
which the Standard Oil Company
was convicted of accepting rebates
occurred between September, 1903,
and August, 1904. When the grand
jury convenes on August 14, a few
days will suffice to present the evi
dence against the Alton.
The jury will consider infractions
of the Elkins Law occurring from
August, 1904, until March, 1905.
Pendleton Will Moore, manager rresiaenu juuiKey, oi tne Asmana
for the Pacific Coast Elevator Com- normal, wno urged tne immediate
pany, says, regarding the advance need of some new buildings to ac-
in warehouse charges: "The ware- commou.ue me growin ana uemanas
house charges, even with the 50 per of that institution.
cent advance, will still be so moder
ate as to afford the grain brokers
but little hope of getting in the same
financial class with the farmers. Ac
cording to the statement of Mr.
Moore, the advance in the charges
will mean just three-fourths of a
Wind Shakes Prune Trees.
! Albany The strange wind storm
which swept this part of the state
last night played the strange freak
of relieving prune-growers of the
assessed against any individual or
any corporation in the history of
American jurisprudence. The case
will bo carried to the higher courts
by the defendant company.
The penalty imposed on the com
pany is the maximum permitted un
der the law and it was announced at
the end of a long opinion, In which
tho methods and practices of the
Standard Oil Company were merci
lessly scored. The judge, in fact, de
clared In his opinion that the offi
cials of the Standard Oil Company
who were responsible for tho prac
tices of which the corporation was
found guilty, were no better than
counterfeiters and thieves, his exact
language being:
"We may as well look at this sit
uation squarely. The men who thus
deliberately violated this law wound
society more deeply than does he
who counterfeits the coin or steals
letters from the mail. The nominal
defendant is the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, a million-dollar cor
poration. The Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey, whose capital is
$100,000,000, is the real defendant.
This is for the reason that, if a body
of men organize a large corporation
under the laws of one state for the
purpose of v carrying on business
throughout the United States and for
the accomplishment of that purpose
absorb the stock of other corpora
tions, such corporations so absorbed
have thenceforth but a nominal
existence. They cannot initiate or
execute any inherent business policy,
their elimination in this respect be
ing a prime consideration for their
absorption. So, when after this pro
cess has taken place, a crime is com
mitted in the name of such smaller
corporation, the law will not consid
er that the latter corporation is the
real offender. And where the only
possible motive of the crime is the
enhancement of dividends and the
only punishment authorized is a fine,
great caution must be exercised lest
the fixing of a small amount encour
age the defendant to further viola
tions by esteeming the penalty to be
in the nature of a license.
"The defendant argues that to
hold it for 1,462 offenses would be a
violation of the constitutional pro
hibition against the imposition of
excessive fines ,and it is urged that
congress could never have intended
to confer upon the court such power.
It is the view of the court that for
the law to take from one of its cor
porate creatures as a penalty for the
commission of a dividend-producing
crime less than one-third of its net
revenues accrued during the period
of violation falls far short of the im
position of an excessive fine, and
surely to do this would not be the
exercise of as much real power as is
employed when a sentence is ini
Immediate Cause.
Official Announcement That Battle
ships Will Come to Pacific Causes
Visions of Promotion to Dares
Before Seadogs' Eyes Hoodlums
Will Become Bold.
Washington, Aug. 3. There was
much jubilation on the pait of naval
officers today over the specific and un
qualified announcement at Oyster Bay
that the battleships of the Atlantic fleet
will be sent to the Pucific. Until this
statement was made by authority of
President Roosevelt there was a grow
ing feeling on the part of naval officers
that these vessels) would not be sent
around Cape Horn.
One of the most substantial officers
of the navy believes that the tending of
these battleships to the California coast
will cause ho much irritation that war
between the United Slates and Japan
will be the result. 1 hey are already
figuring on promotions, as history baa
shown that advancement in the naval
service is much more rapid duiing war
than in peace.
All naval officers are forbidden to
diBcuss international questions fcr pub
lication, but privately they do not hesi
tate to declare that they believe that as
soon as the Altantic fleet Btarts on its
long voyage to the Pacific the Japanese
government will send one of its fleets
to the coast of California or to the At
lantic coast.
They declare that the presence of the
battleehips of Admiral Evans on the
Pacific will cause the people in that
part of the country to become more
bold in their attacks on the Japanese.
This, they say, will cause irritation,
which they fear will lead to serious
consequences.
ADD NEW TRAIN.
cent a bushel to the farmers.
Tiopoccltv of cfialitnir tliplr trooa in
thin out the yield. Many bushels of j Pose tak'nf. frm ta human belng
Tramps Infest LaGrande.
La Grande The town is overrun
with hoboes and many thefts, some
of considerable magnitude, have been
rnminlttpH. Nineteen tramns were
run out a couple of days ago, among down than the growers would have
whom was C. J. Dent, locally known
prunes were shaken off the trees by
the wind and the growers are thus
saved considerable labor and ex
pense as many were planning to
shake their trees this week. Per
haps a few more prunes were shaken
as tne Portland rrince. ne nas
often been in the city jail and boasts
of having "done up" a Portland officer.
Survey Route to Lakeview.
iflamath Falls A crew of survey
ors under Chief Engineer Journey 'of $200 per acre
$200 an Acre for Farm.
Oregon City Forty thousand dol
lars has been paid for the Oswego
farm of Albert Walling and Presley
Jarrisch. The place is practically
all under cultivation and embraces
about 200 acres, bringing an average
This is believed
has pitched camp just east of this
city and has begun work on a rail
road survey to Lakeview. The en
gineers say the purpose of the sur
vey is to determine a route from this
city into Lake county. The men are
In the employ of the Southern Paci
fic Company.
to be the largest price ever paid for
Clackamas County farm property.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 80c; blueEtem, 82c;
valley, 80c; red, 78c
Oats No. 1 white, $25; gray,
nominal.
Barley Feed, $21.5022 per ton;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $2S.50
Clackamas Furm Brings $16,000.
Oregon City Robert J. Brown,
one of the potato kings of New Era, ! . -n
has sold his 270-acre farm 1 miles T, ,
east of New Era, to G. E. Pottratz, Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per
nf Mnrlnn rmintv. for S1 6.000. or I ton.
nearly $60 per acre, and the pur
chaser has taken immediate posses
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17
18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
sion. Mr. Brown will remain int$2123; clover, $9; cheat, $910;
Clackamas county and
smaller farm.
purchase a
Transport Breaks Down,
San Francisco, Aug. 6 The trans
port Warren, which left Saturday
with a large contingent of troops and
passengers, was compelled by a
breakdown of machinery to put back
She had hardly got outside the bay
when the officers in the engine-room
noticed that her machinery was not
working as it ought. Chief Engineer
Donnelly, of the Army Transport De
partment, made an exhaustive ex
amination of the Warren's machin
ery and is in hopes that new con
denser tubes can bo installed by
Tuesday.
England Gobbles Is'and.
Port Arthur, Ont., Aug. 6. Cap
tain S. C. Young returned from Isle
Trains to Wallowa Soon,
Elsrin It is conservatively esti
mated by engineers who have been
over the grade that tra'ins will be
grain hay, $9 10; alfalfa, $1314
Butter Fancy creamery, 27 30c
per pound.
Poultry Average old hens, 12
13c per pound; mixed chickens, 2c
spring chickens, 1516c; old roosters,
89c; dressed chickens, 1617c; tur-
running irom r.igin to wannwa over key8( Iive) i215c; turkeys, dressed,
the Wallowa extension of the O. R. choice nominal; geese, live, 8llc;
& N in 60 days The grade is prac- duck88i4c.
iiCtWi i;umJitrit.u cinu i lie uii ri i
laying the track is being rushed with
all possible speed.
Short Crop About Lebanon.
Lebanon The first threshers in
Linn county started up a few days
ago on this year's crop of grain. The
yield will not be up to the average.
Thp hnv rrfiTi in Linn conntv Is also
short this year and the prevailingapricota, $1.502 per crate.
price for good hay Is higher than
for years.
Eggs French ranch, candled, 22
23c per dozen.
Fruits Cherries, 812Jca pound;
apples, $1.502.25 per box; Spitzen
bergs, $3.50 per box; cantaloupes,
$2.503.60 per crate; peaches, 60c
$1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.25(3)
1.50 per crate; blackberries, 57c
per pound; loganberries, $1 per crate;
one day of his liberty
"It is the judgment and sentence
of the court that the defendant, the
Standard Oil Company, pay a fine of
I $29,240,000."
j Under the seven indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil
Company, an additional fine amount
ing to $88,440,000 may be levied
against the company,
How to Make Public Pay.
How the Standard Oil Company
can exact payment from the public:
Fine imposed by Judge Landis, $29,
240,000; attorneys' fees (estimated)
$260,000; total fine and costs $31,
500,000. Present price (average
grade) kerosene per gallon, 12
cents. Proposed price, same, 13
cents. Gallons refined kerosene to
one barrel crude petroleum, 15.
Number gallons to be sold at In
crease of 1 cent per gallon over pres
ent quotations to reimburse Standard
Oil, 3,150,000. Number barrels
crude petroleum, 210,000,000. In
crease in dollars, $31,500,000. Cap
ital stock Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey, $100,000,000. Capital
stock Standard Oil Company of In
diana, $1,000,000. Wealth of John
D. Rockefeller in excess of $1,000,
000,000. (Exact figures not known
to himself.) Rockefeller's Interest in
Standard Oil (27 2-5 per cent total
capitalization), $2 7,400,000. Figures
based on one barrel crude petroleum
producing 35 per cent kerosene and
by-products, paraffin, lubricating
oils, etc.
ish flag, meeting with no opposition
When asked why he had made his
expedition, he said it was for the
purpose of opening correspondence
between Ottawa and Washington,
which would show that great injus
tice had been done Canada by the
agreement which gave Isle Royale to
the United States.
John D. Is Not Worried
Cleveland, O., Aug. 5. John D.
Rockefeller gives no Indication In
public at least, that the decision of
Judge Landis, fining the Standard
Oil Company the limit, affected him
in the slightest. As far as appear
ances go, the magnate has not given
the matter a thought.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.75 per sack;
carrots. $2 per sack; beets, $2 per
sack; asparagus, 10c per pound; beans,
35c per pound; cabbage, 2c per
pound; celery, $1.25 per dozen; corn,
25(a35c per dozen; cucumbers, SOcfa)!!
- . . I r t M l inrrin
x; lettuce, head, 25c per dozen;,;'' V V
, 15(?20c per dozen; peas, 4ft5c I
on Burnt River, a distance of about omi ni.25 per crate.
40 mlles- Potatoes New, l(5 2c per pound.
Veal Pressed, 5(3;8c per pound.
Beef Dressed
Sulran's Army Vanquished.
Tangier, Aug. 5. Reports from
Tetuan say that mountain tribesmen
last night attacked and vanquished
the government forces under General
Bagdadi, the chief of the Sultan's
army, who is conducting the opera
tions against the bandit Raisuli. Sev
eral Caids are among the killed.
General Bagdadi had his leg broken.
There is no truth In the report tlvit
a bank at Casa Blanca had been pil
laged, and the story that the ser
vants of the British consular agent
at Elksar had been murdered Is dis
credited.
Southern Pacific Will Inaugurate New
Express Service,
Portland, Aug. 3. Ilarriman offi
cials, both in Poitland and San Fran
cisco, are seriously considering placing
a special mail and express train on the
Portland-San Francisco run. It ie ex
pected that a decision will be reached
in a few days. Railroad oilicials are
inclined to think the additional service
is assured, althougirthe train will have
to be officially ordered by General Man
ager Culvin fioia the San Francisco
office.
The proposed new train will be re
served exclusively for handling mail
and express, and is being considered as
an expedient for relieving existing con
gested conditions, which, it is said, ar6
responsible largely for the unsatisfac
tory passenger service on this branch
of the Southern Pacific. This tpecial
will carry no passengers.;
The express business on this line baa
increased to an extent that it is impos
sible to handle it with the facilities
that are now provided in the passenger
trains and at the s mie time make
schedule time with these ttains. By
combining both the express mid mail
business and handling it with a special
tihin, the railroad ofliciflls figure that
t will be possible to operate its passen
ger trains on schedule time, since it in
the discharging and receiving of ex
press that invariably delays trains.
Eight Injured In Elevator.
Cincinnati, Aug. 3. A peculiar
accident on an elevator in the
Power building, at Eighth and Syca
more streets, last evening, seriously
Injured eight persons. The car was
running by electricity and a broken
connection in a switchboard extin
guished the lights and took from the
operator the power to control the
car. As a result the crowd reached
the bottom in safety, although In
darkness, and then, by a sudden re
newal of power, the elevator went to
the top of the shaft so rapidly that,
the balancing weights were thrown
off and in falling struck several passengers.
Virginia Roads Give It Up.
Richmond. Va., Aifg. 5. Shortly
before midnight the state officials re
ceived a telegram from the attorney
Fires'Rage in Foothills.
Visalia, Cal., Aug. 3. A disas
trous fire has raged all day along
the foothills ten miles east of this
city. The territory devastated will
probably amount to 75 or 100
square miles. The entire population
is fighting the fire andreports re
ceived are very meager. From hero
the flames could be seen late at
night, climbing the low-lying hills,
apparently still beyond control. A
number of barns and outbuildings
have been consumed, as well as
many stacks of hay and grain, be
sides thousands of acres of wild feed.
Heavy Hay and Grain Yields.
La Grande The Amalgamated
Sugar Company has begun harvest
ing the hay and grain on Its differ
ent farms. They have 225 men and
75 teams at work. The crop yields
are heavy.
Heinze Buys Mine and Smelter.
Basin, Mont.. Aiie. 3. Rpnre-
of the Virginia railroads to the effect senting F. Augustus Heinze. W. A.
cent rate would be nut Money purchased nt sheriff's sale
or before October 1. on npre np property of the Basin
Bids for New Mail Route-
Baker City Postmaster Laehner
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UUJt"B 1,1 ou'" "."' w',t;re nejton instructing him to advertise for npr bx-
was successful in planting the Brit- bids for a stasre line to operate from'EL.,.
Baker Citv to Unitv and Hereford. 1 " ! 'i. . ',.u on' a'. " or before October 1 , on "re tne property or the Basin Bay
conamon inai tne matter snouid he " company, including
taken to the courts for a final decl-.tne famous Katie mine, his million
slon as to its legality. j dollar concentrator, a smelter, va-
The statement triven out hv the ' rlous other mining claims and nlncer
bulla, 3i4t per railroads is that they have deter-; locations along tne Boulder River
ior S392.S64.71. This was the
smelter used by Mr. Heinze under
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89c per
pound; cows, 66)c; country steers, ' mined to give in to the people and
1 . 1
RUL(d),7c i io enu iue connici.
Dates for Clackamas Fair.
Oregon City The first county fair
to be held in Clackamas county will
take place at Gladstone Park Wed
nesday. Thursday and Friday, Octo
ber 9, 10 and 11.
pound; ordinary, 57c; spring lambs,
99cper pcund.
Poik Dressed, 6(3.8 Vc per pound.
Hops 62)7c per pcund, according
to onahty.
Coin Design His Last Work.
New York, Aug. B. Through a
letter from President Roosevelt,
made public. It was learned that
lease after the destruction
Butte plant by fire.
of his
Bind McGe4 Over for Perjury.
Boise, Idaho. Aug. 3. Dr. I. T,
Augustus St. Gaudens, the famous McGee, of Wallaco was bound over
TJ71VQQtrT, Hron v.t lt .-- " " uc ! "J - uuKe Leonard 1 nUTS-
..e, ..v -r.,.., signed me new gold coins wniefi are day to answer the charge of ner-
1622c per poiind. accordmir to shrink- now belng completed. This design Hury lodged against him because of
age; valley, 2022c, according to fine- i3 probably the last completed work, certain testimony given by him In
nees; mohair choice, 2930c a pound, that left the hands of the sculptor. I the Haywood trial.