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HEPPNER.
OREGON
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.
Callao, Peru, is making great prepa
rations to welcome the battleship fleet.
The Kentucky legislature is still in
deadlock over the election of a senator.
The Spokane Athletic club will admit
women to its boxing and athletic con
tests. Smoking will be barred.
Local labor unions in Pan Francisco
are doing everything in their power to
aid the tight against bubonic plague.
Banker Morse, of the New York ice
trust, was much surprised at his arrest
when he landed from a Euiopean trip.
Two Mexican woodcboppera in Cali
fornia ate toadstools for mushrooms and
both died before a physician could
reach them.
Fight for the privilege of railroad
building in Turkey and Austria is cre
ating serious inharmony among the
powers of Europe.
Baron Takahira, who has returned to
the United States as ambassador from
Japan, says the idea of war with Japan
is "too hellish to think of."
STATbHOOO NOT PLEDGED.
New Mexico Must Depend on Future
Developments.
Washington, Feb. 18. Notwith
standing reports sent from Washington,
no agreement has been made by leaders
in congress to pass a bill at the next
session of congress admitting the terri
tory of New Mexico into the Union.
The facta of the case are briefly as fol
lows :
A delegation of New Mexicans, head
ed by the governor, came to Washing
ton several weeks ago to survey the
field and determine whether or not
there was prospect of statehood legis
lation this session. This delegation
was to have been backed by 100 or
more New Mexicans had the Iputlook
been favorable. But after conferring
with the leaders in both branches of
congress, the advance guard decided
that statehood legislation could not be
secured this session, no matter how
many men appeared on the scene to
urge its enactment. inereupon the
"big lobby," was called off and the
original delegation went home.
Two propositions were submitted,
but no pledges of any sort were given.
First, it was suggested that it might be
well to send a congressional party to
New Mexico during the coming summer
to make an investigation and determine
whether or not conditions in that terri
tory were such as to justify its admis
sion into the Union. The other propo
sition waB merely to allow the New
Mexicans to come to Washington in
force next winter and appear before the
territories committees of senate and
house in support of their statehood bill.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
FORBIDS GLAD HAND.
TO WELCOME FLEET.
It is beieved that the larger part of
the battlestip fleet will eventually
make a visit to the Orient, in the in
terests of preserving the entity of
China.
Secretary Metcalf has made public
the report of Admiral Convese on the
effectiveness and standing of the Amer
ican navy, which is to the effect that
our navy iB as good as thejbest in every
thing but numbers.
There is an outlook of plague in
Germany's West Africa colonies.
The report is again current that
Japan is trying to float a loan In
Paris.
Premier Franco has reached
Genoa badly worn out by his flight
from Lisbon.
The garrison at Fort Yellowstone
will be increased to four troops of
cavalry of 100 men each.
Two men were killed while walk
ing on the railroad near Billings,
Mont. They were too drunk to no
tice an approaching train.
The house committee on military
affairs has agreed to recommend
more pay for enlisted men.
J. Pierpont Morgan was an inter
ested spectator during the senate de
bate on the pending currency bill.
Turkey is withdrawing her troops
from the Russian frontier of Persia
and the outlook seems to be for
peace.
Manager Conreid, of the New York
opera, has resigned and will be suc
ceeded by a famous director from
Milan, Italy.
Aner being in tne Hands or re
ceivers for eight years the assets of
a New York bank shrunk from
1150,000 to $36,000.
Count Boni de Castillane was fined
$20 for his recent assault on his
rival, Prince de Sagan, and the lat
ter was given 20 cents damages.
Secretary Shaw deplores the fact
that most of the ships tending the
battleship fleet carry some foreign
flag and he urges the building up of
our merchant marine.
In a speech before the Lincoln
club of Kalamazoo, Mich., Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, said federal
Honors of Vice Admiral for Evans at
Callao, Peru.
Lima, Feru, Feb. 18. The Ameri
can fleet, which is steaming up the
west coast of South America, is expect
ed to arrive at Callao next Thursday,
and the government has ordered that
Rear Admiral Evans be tendered the
honors of a vice admiral. The cruiser
Corone Bolognsi left Callao tonight for
this port.
Everything is in readiness at Lima
and Callao for a glorious welcome to
the Americans. The official program
includes a great banquet which will be
given by President Pardo to the officers
in commemoration of Washington's
birthday. On Friday Admiral Evans,
if his health permits, will visit the
president and the visit will be returned
on board the Connecticut. A bull fight
has been fixed for Monday, at which it
is expected nearly all the officers and at
least 5,000 of the sailors will have an
opportunity to see the sport of the
country. An excursion to Mount
Meiggs has been arranged for Tuesday
and on Wednesday there will be a re
ception at the American legation. The
war minister will give a dinner to the
American officers on Thursday, Febru
ary 27, and the following evening the
National club will give an officers' ball.
Corrupt Practices Act May Be Found
Unconstitutional.
Salem That the corrupt-practices
bill, to be submitted to a vote of the
people under the initiative and ref
erendum, is in direct conflict with
that section of the Constitution which
guarantees freedom of speech is be
lieved by many who have read the
measure. The bill makes it a crime
for any person to ask, solicit or in
any manner try to induce or per
suade a voter on election day to vote
for or against any candidate or meas
ure. This would bar the use of any
kind of argument on election day and
there is doubt whether it would be
constitutional.
Under this section of the law it is
probable that newspapers published
on the morning of election day would
be prohibited from printing anything
calculated to influence voters in de
termining how'to mark their ballots.
The words "in any manner try to
Induce or persuade" would cover a
multitude of acts. Candidates who
went to the polls and extended the
glad hand to voters would unques
tionably come within the terms of
the act, for it is common knowledge
that a warm handshake is one of the
most potent means of getting votes.
LARGE RETURNS FROM COWS
Tillamook Dairymen Make Over SIOO
a Year per Cow.
Tillamook Another co-operative
cheese factory to make its annual
report is that of the Red Clover
Creamery Company, which makes a
good showing and is exceedingly
flattering to the dairymen who take
their milk to this cheese factory.
Following are some of the interest
ing figures in the report: Amount of
milk received for the year, 1,739,048
pounds; amount of butter fat con
tained in milk, 6S.577.7 pounds;
average test, .03943 per cent;
amount of cheese manufactured,
195,009 pounds; returns received,
$27,692.06; average price received
14 1-5 cents per pound f. o. b. Tilla
mook; average yield, 11.21 pounds
per 100 pounds of milk.
The price paid the patrons for
butter fat kept at a high price dur-
TAKAHIRA SAYS ".NO WAN "
HOW TO MARK YOUR BALLOT
Instructions for Votirg on Initiative
srd Referendum Petitions.
Salem That there is a eeneral York from the steamer Etruria, that
misunderstanding as to the manner!"16 JaPanfse know absolutely noth
i -n,., in v ,j v , JlnS ot a break in the cordial rela-
in which ballots should be marked tions which have been historic be
in voting upon referendum measures 'tween the two nations. Talk of war,
is indicated, by the fact that in ad-lBaron Takahira declared, with much
dressing a public meeting a few days emphasis- was utterly unintelligible
o i ito h'm unless, as some one had sug-
ago a prominent speaker made the gested, it was spread broadcast to
assertion mat in oraer to dereat a
referendum measure one must vote
"Yes." This was an error. Ballots
are to be marked in exactly the same
manner as to both initiative and ref
erendum measures
Mercenary Newspapers Have Caused
All the Disturbance.
New York, Feb. 17. Declaring
that war between the United States
and Japan would be the most "in-
uuuiuu eveui m ine worm a uisiory, tr i i r p. r fJ I- llL
and was " too heiiish" to be thought Federal Court So Decides In Wash-
of, Baron Kogoro Takahira, the new
Japanese ambassador to Washing
ton, said today, upon landing in New
RAILWAY BOARD
CANT FIX RATES
Ington Wheat Case.
Power of Commission Limited State
Constitution Gives Rale Making to
Legislature Governor Mead May
Call Extra Session Victory for
Portland Commercially.
serve the commercial ends of some
newspapers.
The new ambassador said there Olympia, Wash., Feb. 15. That
might be some matters pending in 'the Washington state railroad corn
Washington Which Would rCQUire i mtuoion hna nn nnlhurltv In fi lmiv.
ThOSe WhO Wish hlS attention, hilt thPV WprO tint pr. I .., V, ,,lut r,f o rlnnluttiry
, , ... . , ... ' - - - i in u in laivo la me feint, ui ci uvlidiuu
a bill enacted or a proposed const!- ious. As to the cruise of the Amer- handed down by Judge Hanford in
il ll ,imlnulen adIjU:2 snou,d lcaQ fket to tne Paclflc ocean- be the federal court in this city in a de-
"v' .. "ai,"L me woru regaraea n purely as a naval man- clBjon ln the joint wheat rate case
.hM L-8e..v ..arPP.KSed .U e.UVer on a grand scale designed to judge Hanford holds that undei
ntidne , Whether sub- show to the world at large that 'section 18, of article XII, of th
nder
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itreuaum or P'- America Has a wonderful naval pow- state constitution, the power to es
ZZ h i ,i V . Iueusur,ts IT ei: wnicn can De dispatched any-'tablish and fix maximum freight and
w! a f'V116 where at a moment's notice "in sup-, passenger rates is reserved to the
same form. A bill that has been oort of a legitimate causa which al-1 ii.,ir.. f i. ,ii,.,.t,i
naaaoH Uv thu lQrlelnt .,A v, Z. . r.. . . . . rBiaiaiui e auu uiuuui uc uuva..
ub.ouuic auu uaa ways is at me ooiiom oi American
ueen reierrea to tne people stands in diplomacy.
the same position as a measure that
has been proposed by initiative.
PRECIOUS STONES IN RlVER.
Baron Takahira will leave for
to a commission.
By this decision the usefulness of
the railroad commission as to rate
Washington tomorrow morning at i making is destroyed, and Governor
11 o clock to present his credentials jMead Btated tonight that he has un-
lu riesnueui iiuoseven. ne is a der consideration the advisability of
rm personal inena oi Air. noose- calling an extra session of the legis-
Albany Man Make, Great Finds on eetllg with th t0 ffubmltting at th?
ruc, meeting wun tne cnier executive . next general election a proposed
uravei Bars. Iwith a great deal of pleasure. The iamendment to the state constitution
Albany That the gravel bars of baron is returning to the American giving the railroad commission the
the Willamette river are full of val- Lai"ia' aiiei uuseuue oi two years uower of rate making
uable stones is evidenced by the
number found by J. G. Crawford, of
this citv. in the Dast vear. Pennle
spend hours, says Mr. Crawford, j Ninetee" Japanese F'hermen Found
MAROONED ON GLACIER.
searching on ocean beaches for
stones, which can be picked up in
ordinary gravel bars where no one
ever thinks of searching.
On the Willamette just above and
opposite this city is a wide gravel
bar and on this during the past year
Mr. Crawford has found the follow
ing stones and minerals: Agates of
various colors, cornelians, various
Freezing and Starving,
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 17. Cast
ashore on Malaspina glacier near Ya
kutat, Alaska, November 5, after a
The decision is a victory for the O.
It. & N. and the commercial inter
ests of Portland as opposed to the
efforts of the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern to divert Eastern
Washington wheat trallic from Port
land to Puget. Sound seaports.
The case will immediately be car
ried to the supreme court of the
United States. If the ruling is up-
severe gale lasting 72 hours. 19
members of the Japanese fishing held in the higher court of appeals,
schooner Satsuma Maru lived in a tne Btate commission will have power
camp at the foot of the glacier for on'y to take testimony and gather
three months. Then nine of them
escaped in their sampan to Yakutat,
shades of jasper, conglomerate jas- wn"e the ship Jeauie was bailed
per, wnite jade, feldspar which re
sembles the blue ground of South
Africa, indicative of diamonds; chal
ecedony, silicas of various colors,
black obsidian, black and red obsi-
The Jeanie went to the 'glacier
that afternoon. With seveu sailors
the Japanese sampan, which was
towed to the glacier by the Jeanie,
put off towards the beach to rescue
their comrades. The Jeanie's big
lifeboat followed in the wake of the
PINCHOT WILL QUIT.
Reported He Has Plans for Career
in the Senate.
Waohington, Feb. 18. The story has
been put in circulation in Washington
to the effect that Gifford Pinchot, chief
dian ,moon stones, opals, rubitated
intr the whole vear. as the followiner Quartz. Thomnsonite. sprnpnttne
figures will show: January, 30.5 oolitic, sandstone, saturlite, phallus sanJPan. but did not approach the
cents; February, 28.27 cents; March, and mitioritis, composed of iron and su '
3fi rents- Anril 37 R5 rents- Mav snlnhnr On th ia sn m o nla in.a nnoa r. 1 The Sampan had hardly entered
34.37 cants: June. 34.96 cents: .Tulv. i ine eravel bar Mr. Crawford has tne surf when it was rolled over re-,
34 OS rent- Aiie-nst 3R.7S cents- found ln his Rearrhes in the nnst peatedly. Four of the men
data relative to rates and forward
this to the legislature with recom
mendations for fixing rates.
CHILEANS CHEER FLEET.
Navy Thunders Salute Roosevelt and
Evans Toasted.
Valparaiso, Feb. 15. The great
American fleet of 16 battleships, un
der command of Rear-Admiral
Evans, passed Valparaiso yesterday
were afternoon and continued on its voy-
ot.va tcuis, August, oo.io ccnio, iuuuu iu mo ueaiuuea m lue pasi, - -- ----- -- nnrthwirrl fnr r-iiian Pr,i
September, 36.16 cents; October. 36 year a fossil shark's tooth, primitive Ped UP unconsc ious by the life- ;a 3 d ' eCdlJ 5, '
cents; November, 36.5 cents; Decern- axes, pastels and mortars and paleo- boat-and taken back to the ship a f t"PP, r,r rrL r rr,, JJ
her 33 33 cents liths i mlle away. The officers of the Jeanie ' and thousands of persons from every
her, 33.33 cents
As the numerous cheese factories
of Tillamook county are making
their annual returns, the dairymen
are now in a position to know the
results of their year's work, who are
comparing figures with previous
years, and as a result of this a large
number of dairymen have made over
$100 per cow for last year, and con
sidering that they raise all their own
feed on their farms ,and do not have
to buy mill feed, the profit In dairy
ing last year was exceedingly large,
they receiving their itay
liths.
j New Salman Hatchery.
Astoria Master Fish Warden Van
Dusen received from the O. R. & N.
Co. a lease to the property on Tan
ner creek, near Bonneville, which
the state fisheries department de-
saw the catastrophe and the ship
wrecked men on shore rushed into
the sea and took out the bodies of
the other three sailors. Whether
tney were alive or dead is not
known. The Jeanie stood off for two
city in Chile witnessed the passing
oi tne neet.
! President Montt and the other
high officials-of the republic came
out from shore to greet the battle
ships, and almost the entire Chilean
hours, but the sea was running so-113 exchanged salutes with them as
sirps ns a ito fnr tho cietQiiiiaH m cnt high that no boat could live to Dasaltne.y swung around Curaumilla Point
of a la antral salmon hatnhArv the surf. A revenue cutter has ! and into Valparaiso Bay in single
and of a system of retaining ponds,
where the small fry can be fed and
kept until large enough to protect
themselves against their numerous
every natural enemies before being turned
sailed to the glacier to rescue the''e' headed by the Chilean cruiser
other men.
month. As an illustration of this, out.
W. B. Alderman has made $2,385.96
from 21 cows, or $113.61 per cow. I Albany's New Flour Mill.
He takes his milk to the Maple Leaf Albany Albany's new flour
mill
FLEFT WILL GO TO ORIENT.
Creamery Association, and it is made began running today in one of the
into cneese. , . . . ,,
i naicuuuacD ui Liie uiu jxiuauy r ill 111
New Depot for Albany. lers' Company and will be co
Albany Some of the material has by E. A. Johnson, recently
United States Will Take a Hand in
Far Eastern Quebtion.
Washington, Feb. 17. The ques
tion of preserving "Chinese territor
ial and administrative entity" has
Chacabuco and five Chilean torpedo
boat destroyers.
President Montt and other Chilean
officials embarked on the training;
ship General Baquedano and took a
position well out in the harlor.
Around the Baquedano the fleet
swung at a speed of four knots, fir
ing the presidential salute as they
passed in review. It was one hour
from the time the head of the fleet
inducted X;d" lYthe diXmSKSld jS Snt.ered the bay Unt" the last vesSt'1
rt nm 'I. !L J?f the diplomatic world Jn had passed the president's ship and
of Dain., connect h cru se of he turned t d the open 8ea.
riculturf.l department. Government
regulation of railroads had been en-! forestry work was then in ita infancy
tirely justified and was not an at-1 and the work of Pinchot'a division
counted for little. Mr, Pinchot quickly
interested the president in the subject
a Kentucky coal or national loreetry, ana wben the pres
ident became interested the division
sprung into prominence, and has grown
steadily to its preHent proportions. Its
erowth and the extension of ite work
would not have been possible but for
the aid of president Rooeeveit.
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, L . Z": Z:B-Ji: 'p' ib,een received here for the construe- and P. B. Marshall, secretary of the American battle fleet to the Pacific
.... . -ivD.v. uon oi me new union aepot at ai- Albany Farmers' Company. The new. especially since it became an as
veil a iciuj, ouu VJ if cci lu iuw up
with the country. The report goes on
to say that Pinchot has a deeire to mix
in politics, with the hope of ultimately
being sent to the senate from the state
in which he takes hia reeidence.
Since Mr. Roosevelt became presi
dent, Mr. Pinchot has been a very pow
erful man in the administration. He
was holding an insignificant office as
chief of the forestry division of the Ag
bany. The new structure, which will
be one of the finest depots in the
state outside of Portland, will stand
a short distance northwest of the
present structure. Besides the im
provement which will be made by the
erection of the new building, the de
pot will be on the city side of the
tracks, a change the people of Al
bany have desired for years. The
erection of the new depot will neces
sitate the movement of the present
freight depot and a sweeping change
mill has a capacity of 50 barrels a
day. The new firm will also man
age the three warehouses of the old
company at Albany, Tallman and
Tangent.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
sured fact that the fleet is to pro
ceed to the Orient soon after reach
ing San Francisco.
Several months ago it was stated
that certain interests closely in touch
with commercial affairs in China
professed to be informed that the
real significance of the fleet's move-
SHIP GOES ASHORE.
tack on business.
Nine miners were killed by an ex
plosion of gas in
mine.
A New York grand Jury has re
turned two indictments against Ice
King Morse.
Beach Hargis, the young man who
phot his father, a Kentucky feudist,
Js held without baiL
Over 5,000 men have been put to
work by the National Tube Company,
near Cleveland, Ohio.
New York labor leaders want to
nominate labor candidates for pres
ident and vice president.
Foraker insists that Pfesident
Roosevelt is using political patron
age to help the Taft boom.
The Columbia Northern railway
will be merged with the other Hill
lines under one management.
Lisbon papers demand the punish
ment of one of the guards who
Babied one of the king's assassins.
The Illinois Steel Company's mills
In South Chicago are resuming work.
They will employ about 5, Out) men.
A treaty has been signed providing
for the arbitration of any dijficulty
that may arise between the United
States and France.
The United States court of appeals
has again decidod that railroads
must use reasonable precaution for
the safety of their employes.
Two Nevada laborers, while lost in
a ftow storm, found a rich ledge of
gold-bearing quartz under the mow
while making a camp for shelter.
The Portugese nation will provide
funds for the care of the families of
the king's slayers who were killed,
and wealthy families are contending
for the privilege of adopting the orphans.
Deacf ock Is Unbroken.
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 18. The Ken
tucky general assembly has balloted for
a month to elect a United States fena
tor to succeed James B. McCreary, and
is apparently no nearer an election
than it was on the first t allot In the
first vote ex-Governor P.eckham, who
had been nominated at the Democratic
primaries, received f6 votes; ex-Governor
Bradley Republican caucas nomi
nee. 64 votes, while seven Democratic
votes were scattered and one Republican
I abent through illness. There has been
no change.
Wheat Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c; nient to the Pacific had to do with
valley, 82c; red, 80c. affairs affecting the Flowery King
Oats No. 1 white, $27.50; gray, dom, and that, in time their state-
$27.50 per ton. ment of the case would be justified.
Barlev Feed. S26.00 ner ton: Always the well-informed have been
in the present arrangement of the brewine. $32.00: rolled. $29(3)30. , aware that there was something if
yards. j Corn Whole, $32.50; cracked, nothing more than a remote contin-
$33.50. gency aside from the practice fea-
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1. $17 tures of the cruise involved. A pop-
(5 18 ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, ular impression has been that the saved.
$2021; clover, $141i l5; cheat, immigration question was behind it The survivors were brought to-
$15; grain hay, $1415; alfalfa, all. The immigration question now Bay City yesterday morning and are
$12(1x13; vetch, $14. is practically settled, but there is toinow quartered at private residences.
Butter City creameries: Extra be no change in the program of send-; The ship has broken up and will be
31c per pound; state ing the fleet under Admiral Evans a total loss, as will also the cargo of
Sultan is On'y Smiling.
Rome, Feb. 18. "The sultan is rub
bing his hands," said an ambasador of
one of the leading power: in explaining
that the only country to profit by the
breaking up c.f the European under
standing in the Balkans would be Tur-
New College Building.
Milton At a meeting of the board
of Columbia college it was decided
that an administration building cost
ing $25,000 should be erected, and
it is understood that this building
shall be ready for use at the next col- creamery,
lege term next fall. The building Ib creameries, fancy creamery, 20 $j)
to be equipped in the most modern 35c; store butter, choice, 16 (ft 17c
way, giving every advantage to the Cheese Oregon full cream twins,
students
institution, ana is proving very sue- po
cessful. There is an enrollment of Poultry Average old hens, 1 3 (fi)
over 100 students this terms, all 13cj mixed chickens, 12 H 1 21c;
form different parts of the north- spring chickens, 12V& H 13c; roosters,
west. 10llc; dressed chickens, 14c; tur
keys, live, per pound, 9 10c; ducks,
New Bank For Milton. 14(f15c; pigeons, 75c(fJ$1.00;
Milton Application for a charter squabs, $1.50 2.
for a new National bank, with a cap
ital of $25,000, to be established ln
Milton, has been made to the Con
troller of the Currency at Washing
ton. It will be called the First Na
tional Bank of Milton. The stock
holders are: J. I,. Flam, W. H. Steen,
J. If. Hall, C. W. Steen, Highly Har
ris, H. M. Cockburne, H. B. Lee,
David Still, F. F. Cockburne, C. T.
Cockburne and John McEwan.
Vessel an Cargo of Coal Lost or
Oregon Coast.
Bay City, Ore., Feb. 15. The
American wooden ship Emily Reed
10 days out from Newcastle, N. S.
W., with a cargo of coal for Port
land, went ashore half a mile south
of the Nehalem river, on the Ore
gon coast ,at 1:30 o'clock this morn
ing. The vessel immediately broke
in two and ten members of the crew
were drowned. Captain Kessel, hi
wife, Second Mate Charles Thompson
and three members of the crew were
to the Far East.
L hor Will Gn tn Law
lents. This is a South Methodist 15c; Young America, 16&16c per N-ew York Feh 17New York
itntion, and is proving very sue- pound. ' , '
lauor unions contributed about
000 to the fund asked for by Presi
dent Samuel Gompers, of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, for the
purpose of fighting the injunctions
issued by the District of Columbia I
2,110 tons of coal. The vessel was
consigned to the Pacific Coast Com
pany at Portland.
Eggs Fresh ranch 30c, candled, courts in the suit against the Fed
23(fi24c; per dozen; Eastern nomi- eration by the Buck Stove & Range
nal.
Veal
to 150
9c;
to
125
200
75 to 125 pounds,
pounds, 7c; 150
pounds, 5irt6'lAc.
Pork Block, 75 to 150
67c; packers, 56c.
Fruits Apples, table.
3.00; cooking, $1.25 (ft 1.50 per box;
cranberries, $8 (fill per barrel.
Vegetables lurnips, i oc
pounds.
$1.75(fi
Army of Buyers in New York.
New York, Feb. 15. The Mer
chants Association estimates that
fully 700 more buyers reached town
yesterday, making nearly 4,000 now
in the city. Although yesterday was
a holiday, large wholesale houses
were compelled to keep open all day
hpennse nf the irrent niimhor rf luv.
Company. The suit is to determine ;t.rs. The winter goods season which
he right of the federation to black- f3 supposed to close in January has
list manufacturers who do not em-, been lengthened and many large or
ploy union labor. The cases are to:,iprg nre reported as nlnreH vector-
day. Merchants and buyers from tho
west report a great increase of busi-
be taken to the supreme court
Record Raft of Logs
Astoria The Sorensen Logging
Company sold a raft of logs from its
lrTT W,. f.,.-!, U 1 L 1 ' ' -".-: U U UlUltiy I II fi L
j. . ., .?i y ton.ne.i.jieved to have been a record break-
to a commis".nn to study the proposed er. The raft contained 51 logs, the
Ain-rna railways and has not as yet longest being only 32 feet, and still
given the conceeion, and years are no
reary to obtain concessions from the
porte.
Lumber Compiry Assigns.
Murfresboro. Tenn., Feh. 18. The
firm of W. B. Ear hman A Co., oVler
in lumber,' have assigned. The liabili
ties, it is paid, will approximate $700 -
0Q0 with assets between $500,000 and
$600,000.
the raft scaled 222,500 feet. The
logs were purchased by Finke Bros.,
who are operating a cooperage plant
at Brookfield.
sack; carrots, 65c per sack; beets,
$1.00 per sack; garlic, 8c per pound.
Artichokes, 90c(ft$1.10 per dozen;
beans, 20c per pound; cabbage, 1 ffi
lc per pound; cauliflower, $1.75
(fi 1.85; celery, $3.75f 4 per crate;
eggplant, nv2c per pound: lettnc",
hothouse, 50c(?i $1.25 per box; on
ions, 15(f7 20c per dozen; parsley,
20c per dozen; peas, 10c per pound;
peppers, 17'c per pound; pumpkins,
1 (ft 1 '4 c per pound; radishes, 2"c
per dozen; spinach, 6c per pound;
sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, 1 fi)
l'4c per pound; tomatoes, crates (6
Peceiver for Insurance Company.
New York. Feb. 17. Judge Ward
in the United States circuit court.
ner appointed the following receivers for
ness.
the Mutual Reserve Insurance Com
pany: Charles J. Gould, of the law
firm of Gould & Wilkie; William H.
Russell, of the law firm of Russell
& Winslow, and Archibald G.
Haynes, president of the Mutual Re
serve Life Insurance Company. Each
Abolish Race Track.
Oakland, Fob. 15. A mass meet
ing was held here tonight to devise
a means of abolishing the racetrack
at Emeryville. There was a large
attendance. President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler, of the University of Cali
fornia, was the principal speaker. He-
stated that racing horses, of Itself,
receiver was put under a bond of is not harmful, but that the betting
$100,000. Insolvency and inability ring which goes with the modern
to meet its obligations are given
Egles Worry Benton County.
Monroe A pair of larce raeles haskets). S5 (ft 5.50
are playing havoc among the small' Onlons Buying price.
limbs on the foothills west of town, hundred
0"ip His Got London.
London, Feb. 17. Influenza
claiming thousands of victims
is
in
London and the visitation of the
racetrack Is one of the worst insti
tutions of the times. He also took
occasion to score bridge whist.
After Express Company.
Cincinnati, O.. Feb. 15. Viola-
$2.50 per present time is the worst that has tlon of the postal laws by carrying
been known In many years. No less rirst-class mall matter was charged
They are expert in keeping out of Potatoes Buying price, 40(f?60c than three members of the cabinet, against the American Express Com-
I rifle range and no one has been able per, hundred delivered Portland; confined to their beds with the mal- pany in a suit filed In the United)
to get a shot at them. j sweet potatoes $3.25 0 3.50 per cwt. ady. States district court here toda3