Heppner Gazette
Usued Thursday of fnch Week
11EPPNER OREGON
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.
There is a wave of cholera at Lodz,
Ku-.-ian Poland.
Castro lias left the capital for a
month's vacation.
Atlantic Citv. V T.. will keen all
liijuor !hops closed oti Sundays.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul
is seeking an entrance into Winnipeg.
Business conditions m t no hast in
all lines indicate a return of prosper
ity.
Oklahoma banks arc releasing their
National charters in order to get state
charters.
The reception to the American fleet
at Melbourne was tullv as great as
that at Sydney.
England will not aid, but would be
pleased to see Holland give Castro a
sound thrashing.
J. C. Gleason, head counsel for
Thaw during the trial, has sued for
$tu000 balance of fees.
The steamer Asia has just arrived
at San Francisco with a cargo of raw
silk, valued at $2,O0J,QOO.
The Schmitz cases, in which he is
charged with bribery by allowing
prize flights, will be called soon.
Eugene Semple. once territorial
governor of Washington, is dead.
The Springfield grand jury has in
dicted 7s so far for taking part in the
race war.
Three thousand people are home
less at Fayetteville, X. C, as a result
of the floods.
T. P. Shonts says if the railroads
are not left alone there will be fur
ther depression.
The British tramp steamer Duncan
was sunk in Oriental waters by a ty
phoon. Fifty-one of the crew were
drqwned.
Movement of crops all over the
country has greatly lessened the num
ber of idle freight cars, and there may
be a shortage.
A fast passenger collided with a
work train near Hardin, Ok'a. Both
engines were overturned. 1 wo train
men were killed.
The interstate commerce commis
sion has outlined a form of annual
report to be made by railroads, and
savs the companies must tell the
amount of business transacted.
the imperial Japanese bank, at
San FYancisco, has been closed by the
bank commissioners. The officers
made loans to themselves until only
$4(o m cash and a number of notes
were left.
Ex-Senator William F. Vilas, of
Wisconsin, is dead.
Count Tolstoi's condition is such that
recovery is not looked for.
Two Chicago men have been arrested
for forcing two small boys to steal for
them.
Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick, husband of
the notorious swindler, has filed a pe
tition in bankruptcy.
A ban r raniscco man ha3 been ar
rested in Paris, charged with victim
izing jewelers to the extent of $50,000.
Japan is preparing for a grand re
ception to the American fleet. It is
expected to reach Yokohama October
17.
LOSS EXCEEDS MILLION.
Big Fire at New Orleans Wipes Out
Three Blocks.
New Orleans, Sept. 1. Fire which
broke out in the center of the com
mercial district Sunday afternoon
swept over portions of three block
destroying a large number of whole
sale nouses, nianuiaeturing nouses
ami stores. Originating at Brinnvillc
and Chartres streets, the flames
worked their way north as far as
Conti street ami west to Royal, with
a loss of between one and two mil
lions of dollars before the flames
were finally subdued.
At the time the alarm was turned
in, shortly before 3 o'clock, the New
Orleans firemen were in the midst of
their annual picnic at a suburban
park,, and the engines and patrols
responded with a mere handful of
men. It was fully an hour before the
department was in position to make
anything like a successful fight
against the fire, and even then the
handicap against it was added to by
an inadequate supply of water.
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular that has occurred in New Or
leans during recent years.
Two warehouses filled with wines
and liquors were among the buildings
destroyed. Barrels of whisky and
brandy exploded with thunderous
roars, which could be heard for
blocks, which shook the walls of ad-
i: i i , , .
ji'iuuiy uuiiuiiigs ami eiiuaugcreu me
lives ot lirenien engaged in fightin
the flames.
It was not until several hours had
elapsed that the fire was gotten un
der control, and even then it contin
ued to burn well into the night.
Among the establishments burned
are: Central Glass Company, George
D. Scott Lighting and Electrical In
strument Company, Heidenheim, Lew
& Weiss, shirt manufacturers; Noon
.t Dietz, wholesale millinery; Kost
Commission Company, Paul Gelhi it
Sons, wholesale liquor dealers; New
Orleans Junk Company, Isador Keit
fer it Co., boots and shoes, and Thos.
Harris & Co., wholesale liquor deal
ers.
CONSTITUTION FOR CHINA.
Hence,
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
ROGUE RIVER MELONS.
Annual Harvest On and Quality Up to
Standard.
Grants Pass The annual crop of
Rogue river watermelons has begun
to move. The hrst of them are of line
quality, and uniform size.
Shippers load the melons in cars for
transportation very much like brewers
do in packing a car with beer bottles.
The melons of this valley are well
adapted to shipping, and can be quick
ly piled into the cars, tier after tier.
A few years ago this method was not
used, but the melons were promiscu
ously piled, and the shipper very fre
quently found considerable loss from
FIGHT PRUNE COMBINE.
Albany Plant Being Prepared for Big
Season's Run.
AlbanyThe Northwest Fruit asso
ciation, the new organization of fruit
growers, began its fight against the
l'runepackers' association when the
work was begun at the big packing
plant in this city preparatory to opera
tion during the coming prune packing
season. A force of men under Manager
S. A. Laselle is now putting the plant
in shape for the season's run.
The Albany plant has a capacity of
about 175 car loads of dried prunes,
but will not handle nearly as many this
fall. Owing to the fact that the
shifting in transportation. This year , prune crop is light this year, and that
tight cars are being used, and the win
dows and cracks are nailed up.
Experience has proven that many
melons are often plugged and carved
while en route by the use of a jack
knife and long handled spoon, at every
station where the car might stop, and
during the season many melons have
been spoiled in this way by boys who
are lying in wait and note the arrival
of the car upon its entering the yards.
MUST DIP SHEEP
Will
When the American battleship fleet
left Sydney, 80 stragglers had failed
to join their ships and will follow
later. A Supreme court justice has severe
ly reprimanded and discharged a grand
jury because it would not indict saloon
men for keeping open on Sunday at At
lantic City, N. J.
The Amateur Athletic union of the
United States has severed relations
with the British association because of
the unsportsmanlike conduct of the
Britons in the recent Olympic games.
Ten million bushels of the new- wheat
crop of the Pacific Northwest have
been sold.
The French ambassador to Spain has
been called home to discuss the Moroc
can situation.
The president will go to Jordanville,
N. Y., to take part in the dedication
of a public library.
A. O. Brown & Co., a big brokerage
firm of New York, has failed for more
than a million dollars.
Six Chinese have been caught at El
Paso, Tex., who had been smuggled
across the line from Mexico.
The government has about fixed the
responsibility for the big robbery of
the subtreasury at San Frncisco re
cently. Returns from the Demoreatic pri
maries indicate that Governor Ansel
will again be the nomine for governor
of South Carolina.
The Illinois Steel comvany, whose
plant is at South Chicago, has just put
500 men to work and expects to employ
another 500 next week.
St. Paul has asked 300 Sioux Indians
to visit the city during the state fair
and take part in a reproduction of the
massacre of 1862, when 600 whites
were killed.
Be Granted Nine Years
According to Edict,
Fekin. Sept. 1. An edict was issued
today setting forth in detail the stages
that will be reached each year in the
conversion of the form of government
in China to the foreign system and
assuring the people in the name of
the emperor that a constitution will
'e granted nine years hence. An
diet issued last year produced a con
titution within a decade.
Recently there has been a formid
ble movement in the provinces look
ing to the securing of a constitution
and provincial delegations which have
come to IVkin to inquire into the
matter have been treated with srreat
respect by the members of the grand
council.
Recent affairs in Persia and Turkev
have been cited by the members of
the delegations, who declare that
China should in no way be behind the
other countries.
MAKE PAPER FROM CANE.
ArMeirrr !
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new inausiry on Komt o
Trinidad.
London, Sept. 1. A new industry,
that of paper making, seems to be
on the point of arising in Trinidad
A local manufacturer has produced
paper from the fiber of cane megas
and bamboo, and. according to Pro
lessor Carmody. who presented
some specimens of the paper to the
Trinidad board of agriculture, the fu
ture of the new industry is assured
as the demand for fiber is great, and
Trinidad, according to the professor's
calculation, ought to produce about
40.00(1 tons of fiber from the canes
ground annually.
Paper marie from bamboo fiber is
said to retain its whiteness and to es
cape attack on the part of insects.
Professor Carmoi'y produced a copy
of a paper-makers' journal, printed on
paper made in ism, from fiber of
bamboo, which showed no signs of
yellowing, and was otherwise in a
perfect state.
Secretary Smythe, of Oregon Com
mission, Will Seize Offenders.
Pendleton Despite their efforts to
evade the Oregon quarantine law,
Washington sheepmen who grazed
their flocks in Oregon this year will be
forced to dip before moving out of the
reserves. Secretary Dan P. Smythe,
of the Oregon Sheep commission, and
State Sheep Inspector W. H. Lytle are
on the alert for movements of Wash
ington sheep in this state and are pre
pared to seize any herd which may be
moving through Oregon territory.
Washington sheepmen recently se
cured an injunction from County Judge
Gilliland, of Umatilla county, restrain
ing Oregon officials from enforcing the
dipping law, but this injunction does
not prevent criminal prosecutions of
many growers are already under con
tract to the packers' association for
this season's crop, the new association
does not expect to pack more than 60
car loads. Enough growers are in the
organization now to assure about 40
car loads.
Protest Dipping of Ponies.
Pendleton Chief No Shirt and a few
of his conservative followers among
the Umatilla Indians, are vigorously
protesting to the Indian commissioner
against the dipping of their ponies for
the mange by the Federal authorities
through the bureau of animal indus
try, in charge of Dr. S. W. McClure,
of this city. The ponies are badly
affected with the disease and orders
have been sent out to dip all of them
near the old agency three miles east of
this city. However, No Shirt, Uma
pine, Amos Pond, Poker Jim and a few
others are making a vigorous protest
and have employed Bert Huffman, ed
itor of the East Oregonian, of this
city, to take the matter up with the
Indian commissioner to have the order
modified.
BARS NATIVEBOHN.
YVneViincrtnn (itippnmpn vinlpfirtnr ho
Oregon law, and there promises to be P't'tec'
something rlnintr in t.hs wav nf shwn u,e e.vpeeiauon oi me
c o " "r " f TL i 'a. 1 x i
dinnimr when the Washington herds 1 SLale bupermienueni expresses ais-
i i- - r cr
are started out of the Blue mountain
School Session Near End.
Monmouth The special summer ses
sion of the Oregon State normal school
for superintendents, principals and
high school teachers is now half com-
The attendance is much below
the expectation of the management.
reserves across Oregon territory.
May Build Albany Plant. .
Albany A report, said to be well
founded, is current here that O'Shea
Bros., of Portland, are planning to
erect a $20,000 packing plant in Al
bany. Barred from the Portland field
by the terms of the sale of the Union
Meat company's plant, they have se
lected Albany as a desirable site be
cause of its railroad facilities. Accord
ing to reported plans, they have a site
of 25 acres in view and will soon com
mence work on the plant. The founda
tion for this rumor lies in the fact that
John O'Shea spent several days in this
city last week. But real estate men,
with whom he consulted, assert that he
was merely looking for a residence.
Union's Books O. K.
La Grande J. H. Mimnaugh, an ex
pert accountant, formerly connected
with the Grand Ronde Lumber com
pany, has just completed experting the
appointment that the young men and
women in the teaching profession have
failed to avail themselves of this
course. Next year an effort will be
made to choose a more convenient date
for the session.
Line Tl rougn Maddock Canyon.
Condon Surveying on the new elec
tric line which is to invade interior
Oregon, running south from this city,
is going on at full blast. O. Dennv, of
San Francisco, with a gang of survey
ors, reports that the third survey out
of the city, through the Maddock can
yon, will be the route of the new rail
road. R. A. Hollenbeck, a Spokane
engineer, with a number of men, ar
rived last week to survey in the interior.
San Francisco School Board Shuts
Door on Chinese.
San Francisco, Aug. 31. City At
torney Long has furnished the board
of education an opinion dealing with
the question of the admissibility of
native-born Chinese children to pub
lic schools other than schools estab
lished for them. In brief, he holds
that the question of nativity has no
bearing on the case; that Chinese
children are Mongolians, irrespective
of birthplace, and that if special
schools of equal standing are not pro
vided for them, they are entitled to
attend any school. The opinion is
given in response to a query from the
board of education with reference to
the request of the parents of three
native-born Chinese maidens who
wished their daughters to attend
schools uther than the Oriental
school.
The political code provides that
every school shall be open for the
admission of all children between t
and 2 I years of age, residing in the
district. This section also authorizes
boards of education to establish sep
arate schools for Indian, Chinese or
Mongolian children, and provides that
when such schools are established,
such children must not be admitted
to, any other school.
The object of the law is clearly to
segregate the white children of the
public schools from those of Mon
golian or Indian descent, and is not
to deny the latter any of the equal
rights guaranteed by the constitution.
DEATH LIST IS
NOW THIRTY
Damage from Southern Hoods Was
Greatly Underestimated.
Total Loss in Augusta Alone is Now
Estimated at $1,500,000 Other
Sections Have Suffered Heavily
Also Call for Aid Is Issued by
Stricken City.
WOMEN TO BLAME.
All They Live for is To Dress, Says
Hetty Green.
Bellows Falls, Vt., Aug. 31. "The
women of America have helped to
make hard times. All they live for,
all they care for, is clothes the latest
shape in skirts. And they are none
too particular how they get what they
want, or who pays for it."
This is the declaration of Hetty
Green, the richest woman in the
worul, who today began her annual
vacation ot a month. When dinner
was announced on the train, she pro
uuceu an apple ana tliree crackers
from her reticule and cheated the
dining car.
1 do not say tne .American women
are immoral," she continued, "but
nicy clo not care wliat 1 car t ill prices
their husbands, fathers and brothers
may be compelled to pay for thti:
finery. Times are bad in New York
and New York deserves hard times
All are spendthrifts and money-wasl-ers
down there.
i nis win De a nam winter, and we
will not see good times before spring.
The election will not help. The panic
must run its course. Money men are
doing nothing to stop it. Standard
Oil could stop the hard times with
one stroke of the pen, but Rockefeller
will not do it. It will cost the gov
ernment .2s.o(io (cm) to collect that
9,000,000 from him."
ARMY OF GUARDS NEEDED.
Harney County Fair.
Burns The Harney County Fair as
sociation has decided to give away
$3,200 in premiums and purses for
j horse racing and a series of baseball
games, lnere will be about $1,500
Settlers Ready for Rush.
Winnipeg, M-m . Sept. 1 Tn the
provinces of Alberta and Saskatche
wan there will hi? a great rush for
land today. All the D iukhob t land
on which these foreigners refused to
perform home-: cad dut'e. thousands
of acres in extent, wi'l be thrown
open to settlement besides which th
new pre-emption law passed at the
last ser-Mon of parliament goes into
etiect. lias gives the privilege to
all settlers t enter for a second
homestead. Barricades and chute
have been erected around the land of-
ices to prevent a rush.
He
Accused of Park Holdup.
cicna. ..lout.. e;t. l. A snecia'
the Independent from Livingston
say- that advices received at tin
sheriff's office' there state that sol
dier; in the YeUo'.YstoiH' 'at;onal
park had captured a su-piei..us look
ing character in th;- l ire Ho'e bas'n
whom they had arrc-ted on suspicion
of being connected wilh the holdup
)e park. 1 l:c man had consider
money on his ikTsoii. but hi-
name or any other facts could not be
learned.
books of the officials of this county and : b1" awaL lor ne oes,1 agricultural
finds, with the exception of a few un- I exhibits There is good prospects of
important errors and minor discrep-! the f,air bel"? a grand s?ccess as the
ancies, everything in shipshape. The : lH-I,,e a'e "-"--" interest in me
warrant indebtedness of Union county development of the county than in
six years ago was almost four times lormer J ears,
what it is now. On July 1, 1902, war- j PORTLAND MARKETS,
rants were out to the amount of S269,- j
622.38, while July 1, this year, there Wheat Club, 88c bushel ; forty-fold,
was but $(58,061. 53. Within two years 90c ; Turkey red, 90c; life, 88c; blue-
the debt has been decreased nearly 50 ; stem, 92c; valley, 88c
per cent.
Harvest is About Over.
Pendleton Harvest is now over and
several hundred idle men throng the
streets of Umatilla county towns.
Many of these will go to Grand Ronde
to work in the beet fields, many to the
saw mills of the coast and others to the
large cities to spend the winter. Lo
cal merchants report a much heavier
cash trade this fall than ever before
during the prevalence of the saloon. A
different class of harvest hands came
to the county this sesaon.
Better Rules for Shippers.
Portland After a conference be
tween the members of the railroad
commission, agents of the express
companies and representatives of the
Portland commission merchants, it was
agreed by the express companies to
use more discretion in handlintr shin-
n0.i Evri ioa cn . -iij
j $27028; brewing, $26.
I Oats No. 1 white, $27027.50 ton;
gray, $26026.50.
j Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14 ton; Willamette valley, ordinary,
1 $11 ; Eastern Oregon, $16.50; mixed,
$13; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11; alfalfa
meal, $20.
j Fruits Peaches, 600 90c per box;
pears, 75c0 $1.50 per box ; plums, 75c
per box; grapes, 80cO$L25 per crate.
Potatoes -- $101.10 per hundred;
sweet potatoes, 33.,'04c per pound.
! Melons Cantaloupes, $1,5002 per
crate; watermelons, $1.50 per 100
loose; crated. '.C per pound addition
al; casabas, $2.250 2.50 per dozen.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack ;
carrots, 1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets,
$1.50; beans, 5c per pound; cabbage,
1.4C per pound; corn, ZoOf.iVc per
dozen; cucumbers, 300 40c ,erbox;
egg plant, $1.75 per crate; lettuce,
ments of perishable products. The head, 15c per dozen ; parsley, 15c per
representatives of the express compan- dozen; peas, 6c per pound ; peppers,
ies will cause at an early date their in- j 80 10c per pound; radishes, 12 V.c per
structions to agents to be reissued and dozen; spinach, 2c per pound; squash,
brought sharply to their attention. j 40c per dozen; tomatoes, 600 90c per
;c-ate; celery, 50r90cper dozen; arti-
Big Fruit Shipmfints. chokes, 75c per dozen.
Freewater The Freewater-Miltnn ' Butter Extras, 31 '..c
n
ab:
Japs Quit Plantations.
L'io Janeiro, Sept. 1. The Japanese
immigrants who were sent to the
-tatc of Sao I'au'o bv the Imneriai
Immigration Company of Tokio are
leaving that section in large numbers
1 hey have been at work on the cof
fee plantations, but apparenly were
not satisfied with the employment.
Many of them have arrived at Rio
Janeiro for the purpo-c of securing
cmpiojmeni as domestic servants.
truit district will ship out Hod car
leaf's of fruit this season, including
berries and fruits of all kinds. This
will be If 10 more ears than last year.
At present the plum, summer apple
and pear crop is on and an average of
about four cars per day is being sent
out. The fruit area was increased
about 200 acres in this vicinity
season.
per pound ;
fancy, 27'.. c; choice, 25c; store, 18c.
Eggs Oregon extras, 260f 27c; first,
2 10 25c; seconds, 22iW23e; thirds,
150 20c; Eastern, 2fn 25c per dozen.
Poultry Mixed chickens, 1313)Lc
pr pound; fancy hens, 140ll,'.,c;
roosters, 10c; spring, 16c; ducks, old,
12c; spring, 130 15c; geese, old, 8c;
this 'young,. 10c; turkeys, old, 17018c;
young, 20c.
Veal Extra, 8c per
Yellowstone Park Tourists at Mercy
of Robbers.
St. 'Paul, Aug. HI. "The entire
United States army will be needed to
insure travelers in the Yellowstone
Park against holdups. A thousand
men would be required. The main
road alone is l:.'o miles long, and it
takes stage coaches four days to
make the rounds."
Brigadier General Win field S. F.d
gerly. commanding the department of
!) kota. so expressed himself today,
lie was in the park last Monday when
the latest "lone robber" relieved the
purses of l'o tourists. The general
returned to St. Paul yesterday.
"The present arrangements for pro
tecting the park and its visitors."
General Kdgcrly continued, "would
appear to be ,as effective as any that
can ne made vvitn tile small garrison.
Fort Yellowstone has on'y four
troops, about -too men of the Eighth
cavalry, under Major Henry T. Allen.
The horsemen of this single squadron
manage at that to traverse the entire
length of the main road, the road
usually followed by the coaches, at
least once a day. Then there arc de
tached parties or single men going
back and forth on special errands, so
that the coach road is guarded far
more closely than are any of our rail -roarl
lines.
"The only respect wherein the gov
ernment wou'd seem to have incurred
any responsibility f,,r the holdup is,
as civi nans have as-urcd inc. that it
prohibit park visitors from carrying
any firearms with them unless the
arms are scaled so they cannot be
used.
"I understand that although the
robber is said to be in the Jackson
Hole country, where he is safe for a
time, the history of such events has
proved that he will be caught."
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20. Loss of 30
lives, most of the victims colored, a
call for assistance, damage estimated
at $ 1 ,5oo,0(Ki in Augusta alone, $1,000.
000 in other parts of Georgia, and
$1,, lot). 000 in South Carolina, summar
izes the flood situation in the South.
The temperature is falling and threat
ens suflerinw! to people without shel
ter.
Reports of damage from points in
South ami North Carolina are coming
in slowly. Bridges have been washed
away in South Carolina along the
Southern Railway, and until midnight
last night it was impossible to secure
communication with any point out of
Atlanta. In Augusta, the principal
suffering is along deep gullies kown
as Bridwclls Bottoms and Perrys,
Bottom. Here the houses were cov
ered to the eaves. The water also
damaged business blocks in the city,
and the total damage in this city will
be a million and a half dollars. It is
not expected that the loss of life will
be increased. Most of the killed by
high water were caught in their homes,
on the outskirts of the city,
There are many rumors of others
killed, but these have not been veri
fied. In South Carolina the loss of
life will reach probably 20. In North
Carolina possibly half a dozen whites
and as many negroes have been killed.
The flood water at Augusta is re
ceding rapidly, and it is apparent that
the loss lias been underestimated.
LARGE MOB BILL.
Springfield Victims Begin Their Suits,
Against City.
Springfield, III., Aug. 2!). The wife
of Scott Burton, the first negro
lynched in the recent riots here, has
made no attempt to settle with the
city for the death of her husband
heretofore, but today filed suit for
the ;..ooo which the law allows to
the heirs of persons who are killed by
mobs. It is announced also that a
similar suit wii! be filed by the heirs
of William Doiinegan, another negro
whi) was lynched.
The heirs of four other negroes
killed during the rioting cannot ob
tain the money because they were
killed by stray indicts or in open bat
tle and were not slain by tlie mob.
Property owners continue to fiie
suits for damages against the city, and
the sum of the claims already made
is over ..10,000.
It is expected that these cases will
be given preference in the courts and
will receive quick action. The gen
eral sentiment among the citizens is
that the survivors of the families of
the mob victims should be pa.d at
once and that the citv should p.av for
damage done by the rioters
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ANOTHER CLOUDBURST.
Fifteen People Drowned by Storm in
New Mexico.
Trinidad, Colo., Aug 2
in the Cimmaron rier,
cloudburst, washed away ,-dv-.cllinirs
at Folsnm. N'.'.M
--.-A flo
dh iwing
ntimb-T
last nig
ire reported to have
1 welve bodies have
Two miles of track
Colorado e'e
waslied out.
and 1.1 person
been drowned,
been recovered
and 12 bridges on the
Southern Railroad were
trains will be laid out -is hours.
Meager advices received here bu
say that the entire city was swept
the floods caused by the c'oudbur
Many houses were swept comp!c!
away, and nearly every house 111
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nary, 707).jC; heavy, 5c.
pound; odi
pound; ordi-
Alfalfa Hay Brings $6.50 a Ton
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1 1 nit-vim.- nay is sening in crook ' l'ork f ancy, 7c per
county at $6.50 a ton for fresh alfalfa, ' nary, 6c; large, 5c.
000 tons at this price being disposed of Mutton Fancy, 80 9c.
by Thomas Starp, of Crooked river, to Hops 1907, prime and choice, 4
the Baldwin Sheep and Land company, i 0 5c per pound; olds, 1-1 sc; con
of Hay creek. With hay about gath- ' tracta. 70 8c.
ered except for the second crop, most j Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
farmers have commenced threahi
their wheat, rye and other grain, all of i Bhrinkaee: vallev. 150il5r: mohair.
which are an average yield. choice, 180U8$c.
Warrant Out for Banker.
T.os Angeles. Aug. 31 W If Carl
son, president of the defunct Consoli
dated Bank, a s'atc institution closed
by the bank commissioners several
weeks ago because ,,f alleged insol
vency. is to be arrested, charged with
falsifying bank entries. A warrant
was issued by the district attorney
today. About $.V).o(iii was owing de
positors by Carlson's bank when it
failed. Carlson was I'ni'ed State-
railroad coiiinusti, ,ner in t u!a under
the iirst McKinley administrati. m.
Puglia Leaves Seattle.
Set!1-. Wash.. Aug ?. 1 Dipping
her ensign in token of farewell, the
Italian cruiser I'uglia. which arrived
in port Tuesday from Vancouver,
raised her anchor Saturday morning
.and slipped out of the bay and down
the sound nn her way to Portland
She will remain there about three
weeks, while her boilers are cleaned
and her machinery overhauled.
town was damaged to some extent.
The advices say searching parties
have been formed, and that it is ex
pected many more bodies will be
found before night.
F'olsoni is in the northeastern part
of New Mexico, near Raton, on the
Santa Fe Railroad. Its elevation is
about T.ooa feet, and it is constant 1 v
in danger of floods, which sweep
down trom the surrounding mountains
whenever there is a cloudburst or
heavy rain in the hills.
See German Maneuvers.
Berlin, Aug. 29. General Da Fon
Seek, the Brazilian minister of war,
and General Mendez Morales, of the
Brazilian army, will arrive tomorrow
at a Berlin hotel as the guests of Em
peror William. The paryt has come
out from Brazil to witness the fall
maneuvers. The invitation extended
to them and its acceptance are regard
ed as political acts rather than a pure
military proceeding, with the object
of drawing the two governments into
more agreeable relations.
Fir- Snow in Montana.
Butte, Mont., Aug. 31. A dispatch
from Anaconda, Mont., says that the
first snow of the season fell there
Saturday.
California Gil Merger Planned.
Los Angeh s, Cal., Aug. 29. Plana
are being made today for a $:!0,fKi(),(iO()
merger of Southern California oil in
terests, according to the .statement to
day of an official of one of the compan
ies concerned. The merger was first
proposed at a meeting of the represent
ative of the principal operators of the
Whittier district. Combinaton is be
lieved to le the best means of regulat
ing certain business of the companies
and the merger will be effected.
Sage Was Worth $64,153,800.
New York, Aug. 29. Russell Fage's
estate is valued at $64,153,800. This
fact became known today through the
signing of the order for the tranfer tax
payable to the state.