Heppner gazette., October 08, 1908, Image 2

Heppner Gazette
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HEPPNER
OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
pening Presented In a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
New cases of cholera are very few at
Manila.
Evelyn Xeshit Thaw says her hus
band is incurable.
Chicago has started a movement to
systematically care for its hungry.
Official reports show that the num
ber of cholera cases in Russia are do
creasing. Tests of submarine boats are being
conducted by the government at New
port, L. I.
The lumber rate case heard at San
Francisco has been referred to the su
preme court.
The state land commissioner of Min
nesota says none of the best timber has
been burned.
For the first time in a number of
months the Burlington shops are run
ning on full time.
Chinese steamship companies are en
deavoring to secure a portion of the
Facific coast business.
So far cost of prosecution of Thaw
for the shooting of Stanford White is
said to have been $54,837.
Taxieab drivers of New York hav
gone on strike for better pay. Many
strikebreakers are said to be available,
Deaths from the flood in India are
now estimated at 50,000.
A son of Admiral Evans must stand
court-martial on several charges.
Longworth proposes that Roosevelt
run for. president eight years from
now.
ban rrancisco saloonmen accus
one of the police captains of at
tempted extortion.
Six persons were injured at Los An
geles by the collision of a switch en
gine and an electric car.
The Turkish army is moving toward
the Bulgarian frontier and Bulgaria
is preparing for war. .
The Congo Independent State up
holds King Leopold s rule and denie
that cruelties have been practiced.
Jean Dunsmuir, Canada's riches
woman, is dead. Her son was one
time lieutenant-governor of the prov
ince.
Utah Democrats have selected
William Knight as their candidate for
governor. His father was first offered
the nomination.
Government inspectors are investi
gating the wreck of the Star of Ben
gal. The ship's officers will testify
that the vessel could have been saved
together with the 111 lives had the
tugs not abandoned ber.
The American fleet has arrived at
Manila and was received amid great
rejoicing.
English trainmen threaten to strike
for better pay and fully 500,000 would
go out. Wages range from $5 per
week for signalmen to $16 for the
best engineers. Conductors get $8 per
week.
trance will back Kussia in a move
to make Bulgaria give .Turkey a dis
puted line of railroad.
Richard Croker, ex-Tammany lead
er, will visit New York.
Roosevelt has declined an invita
tion to visit Australia.
A freight train collided with an ex
cursion near Toledo. O., and six per
sons were killed and a number in
jured.
The first lid-test case at Portland
was won by the defendant, a billiard
hall proprietor who kept his place
open on Sunday.
The Northern Pacific, Great North
ern and Union Pacific railroads are to
start suits to prevent the new lumber
rate to the east being put into effect
Cholera at St. Petersburg is re
ported to be at a standstill.
MAY MEAN WAR.
Clouds Looming Dark Over Balkan
States Once More.
London, Oct. 6. Events which threat
en to change the political face of Eu
rone are crystallizing with li"htnini
like rapidity. Almost over night the
horizon of the near east, which seemed
gradually assuming a peaceful appear
ance, has become crowded witn war
clouds.
News has reached here from several
sources that two definite strokes are
impending which cannot fail to bring
matters to a crisis, and perhaps force
an immediate war.
One is the proclamation of Prince
Ferdinand, of the Independence of Bui
garia, which will include Koumelia,
taking for himself the title of car.
The other is an announcement by
Austria-Hungary of the practical an
ncxation of the provinces of Bosnia
and Herzegovina as appanages of the
Austro-Hungarian crown.
Either action will be equivalent to
the tearing up of the treaty of Berlin,
while Prince Ferdinand's course seems
almost certain to precipitate a war be
tween Bulgaria and Turkey.
Before these possibilities the quar
rel of the East Roumelian section of
the Orient railway sinks into insignifi
cance. Both armies are reported to be
quietly and swiftly mobilizing on the
borders. . Bulgaria is said to be buying
up munitions and horses on an extensive
scale.
The Bulgarians have faith in their
army, which has reached a high state
of efficiency, although it is perhaps
lacking in officers, and the war for
which Bulgaria has long been suspected
of preparing could be fought with more
advantage to her now than when the
Turkish government has had time to
reorganize its forces, enervated by cor
ruption and neglect of tne old regime.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
LAND FOR HUNDREDS.
Harney and Malheur Acres Removed
from Predatory Ownership.
Burns The stock companies which
have been fencing government land will
have to tear down their fences and al
low homeseekers to file on the land.
Recently the government has been ac
tive in Harney and Malheur counties.
and the predatory land interests have
received their ultimatum as the result.
The William Hanley company, which
bought the holdings of the French Glenn
Livestock company, has about 300,000
acres of land practically under one
fence, which starts near Malheur Lake
and ends in Catloin valley, a distance of
60 miles. Most of the land in Diinond
and Happy valleys, besides a cart nf
Steins mountain, is fenced. Ahnnt
100,000 acres of this laree tract is
owned by the government. Several fine
homesteads have been taken in these
fields lately, which were formerly sup-
poavu to uo ownea Dy the stock com
pany.
riie Pacific Livestock comDanv.
which is the largest livestock company
on the coast, also had large tracts
fenced in Harney and Malheur counties.
One field containing 40,000 acres, 15
miles south of Burns, has been found to
contain several hundred acres of gov
ernment land, and several--homesteads
have been taken in the Dast few
months. 1
BIG PROFIT IN HOGS.
In
AUTOS OFF STREETS.
Whole pages from the city direc
tory were copied at Los Angeles in
preparing a petition for a popular
vote on a new ordinance. Prosecu
tions will follow.
The American battleship fleet will
visit China in November.
John D. Rockefeller has assumed
active charge of Standard Oil business
since the breakdown of H. H. Rogers.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, has married a daugh
ter of ex-Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska.
The Fulton Iron works, one of the
pioneers of San Francisco, is to go out
of business. This firm has built more
than 500 vessels.
Thousands of native houses have
been washed away and there has been
great loss of life in India by flood
waters of the Musi river.
Sixteen counties in Ohio have voted
prohibition, throwing out 390 saloons.
Richmond, Va., is in terror of the
"Black Hand." one man having been
killed after receiving warning letters.
Professor Fisher, of Yale university,
Bays 5,000,000 people now living in the
United States are doomed to die of con
sumption. He further declared that
wore than $1,000,000,000 is spent annu
ally in this country fighting the dis
ease. Austria's design against Turkey are
opposed by Russia.
Chicago Policemen Enforce a Long-
Forgotten Ordinance.
Chicago, Oct. 6 Nearly 1000 of our
very best citizens and several tourists
from adjoining cities were today jostled
otr the South Side boulevard bv sun
dry large, thick policemen and forced
to do their speeding over the ordinary
streets, ihis was due to the discovery
by the South Park commissioners of a
forgotten ordinance which forbids anv
vehicle on the boulevards which emits
smoke or any "stinking odor." Con
sequently many haughty persons whose
touring cars were filling the atmos
phere with the reek of petrol were side
tracked by the police and invited to
retake their "offensive odors" else
where.
At that hundreds of cars escaped for
the reason that they were traveling so
fast the odor did not assail the watch-
pien until the machines were beyond
reach." The game was comparatively
easy while the sun was shining, for the
faint ripple of smoke could then be de
tected, but the officers abandoned
their efforts when darkness fell. Of
the thousands of persons ordered off
the boulevards, none disobeyed, so the
city gains no revenue.
200,000 ARE AFTER LAND.
Last of Uncle Sam's Distributions in
Rosebud Reservation.
Dallas, S. D., Oct. 6 Two hundred
thousand persons will take advantage of
the opening of 820,000 acres of free
government land in South Dakota, to
morrow, me parceling of this vast
tract of farm country in the Rosebud
Indian reservation is the last of Uncle
Sam's big land distributions. Every
one is to have a chance at a 160-aere
slice. Land adjoining it is now selling
at $20 to $30 an acre. It is estimated
that this drawing will surpass all other
government openings in the number
who will take part, at least 200.000
people being expected to register. The
number of 160-aere farms is 5000. This
means that only one person out of every
40 can possibly get a farm.
Already crowds have arrived at the
border, and have set up tents prepared
to make a comfortable stay until after
the drawing. The registration points
are at Dallas and Gregory, S. D., on
the east bonier of the "reservation:
Chamberlain and Presho, S. D., on the
north, and O'Neill and -Valentine, Neb.,
on the south.
Castro Ignores Holland.
The Hague, Oct. 6 Some concern ex
ists here over the report not 'yet entire-
y confirmed, that President Castro has
rejected the second note of the Dutch
governmcnut. Many are opposed to
belligerent action on the part of Hol-
and in. the wish that The Hague, as
the seat of the peace conference, be not
connected in any way with the idea of
war. ine cruiser Trecht has been
placed under orders to proceed to the
Kast Indies, via the West Indies. When
he arrives in West Indian waters there
will be four warships under the Dutch
flag assembled at that station.
TEN ACRES, SI 6,00.
Record Price'lsPaid for Hood River
Orchard Land.
Hood River. Sixteen thousand dol
lars for a 10-acre fruit farm was the
price paid here a few days ago by
Frank E. Deem, an Illinois man. The
tract bought by Mr. Deem has no
buildings on it and the price is there
fore a straight one of $1,600 per acre.
This is the highest price by $300 per
acre that orchard land has ever sold
for at Hood River, and is said to be
the highest ever paid in the state.
The orchard is in 7-year-old Spitzen
berg and Newtown trees that had a
fine crop last year and- also have a
good yield this year.
Ihe purchase is part of a 50-acre
orchard of young trees owned by M.
Al. Hill, a former Iowa man.- who
came here a few years ago and set it
out and is located on the east side of
the valley near the Mt. Hood railroad
While the price is the highest that ha
ever been received here, orchard men
say that Hood River bearing orchard
have not yet reached their top prices
Fine Sized Italians. '
Monroe A careful estimate of th
prune crop, based upon the yield as al
ready gathered, shows less than one
half the usual amount of this fruit in
this section. The petites are showinfe a
tendency to dry faster than usual; they
were taken from the trays in some in
stances within 18 hours from the time
they were put on to dry, and from those
already taken off it seems that this
pruna will be of excellent quality this
season. On account of the poor crop
this -year some orchards will not pay
picking expenses, but a yield of 'from
one-third to one-half will be taken from
a few.
John Day Project.
Rock Creek. For some weeks past it
has been rumored that the government
would immediately install a large elec
tric pumping plant on the Columbia
river between Arlington and Umatilla
for use on the John Day irrigation proj
ect and ultimately for auxiliary use in
filling the reservoirs. It has just been
learned through Irrigation Expert
Stover that the idea had been tempo
rarily abandoned. It is not definitely
Known just exactly what amount the
state of Oregon has to her credit in the
reclamation fund, but it is estimated
that the John Day project complete will
cost $0,UU0,UUU.
Yamhill Farmer Gets Over $670
Cash from 67 Porkers. .
McMinnville. Among Yamhill's di
versities hogs follow dairying pretty
closely in point of profit. James Reid,
living a, short distance cast of town,
sold a bunch of 57 hogs lately, fattened
at a cash outlay of $42, receiving for
them the sum of $616.87, or a profit of
$574.87.
Besides giving the porkers l1 tons of
millfeed at $28 a ton, Mr. Reid allowed'
them to have the run of a 100-acre
field of clover early in the season. He
then let them have a 3-acre clover field,
then an 8-acre field of wheat and later
a 4-acre patch of peas. The 100-acre
field of clover was mowed for seed, the
pasturing being a benefit rather than a
detriment.
Thus, the hogs used only the product
from 15 acres, giving a profit of a
little more than $38 an acre net, fair
interest on land at a valuation of $400
an ticre, after deducting the cost of put
ting in the crop. The hogs did all the
harvesting.
Fishways Uncovered.
Klamath Falls. Old Indian rock
fishways have been uncovered in Link
river, the second time they have been
seen in 24 years. On account of the
unusual low water this season two
fishways are now visible. The oldest
Indians claim no knowledge of the
building of these dams, indicating that
they were constructed many years
ago. l hey are built in runways, with
platforms on either side, evidently
where the Indians stood to spear the
salmon as they made their way up the
swift current in the runways. For the
last quarter of a century the river has
been higher than in the early days and
the Indians have learjied to fish as the
white man does.
SPOKANE NEYT YEAR.
Washington City Secures Meeting of
Irrigation Congress.
Albuquerquo, N. M., Oct. 5. Spokane
was selected as tho meeting place for
the sevontoonth national irrigation con
gress, at tho close of tho sixteenth con
gress Saturday. Pueblo withdrew at
the last moment, and tho vote was made
unanimous.
Tho new governing board of tho con
gress, created by this meeting, was
elected Saturday at a meeting of tho
executive committee. This board has
full powers to manage the affairs of
the congress and to continuo its work
between sessions. The members are:
President, G. H. Barstow, of Texas;
secretary, B. A. Fowler, of Arizona;
W. A. Beard, of California, chairman
of the executive cdmmittee. and Fred
J. Kiesel, of Utah; Dr. W. J. McGee, of
Washington, D. C; John Dixon, of
Montana, and one other member, who
is io ue seiectea Dy tne Doard.
The closing session was made inter
esting by a strong address by Congress
man Joseph E. -liansdell, of Louisiana,
president of the national rivers and
harbors congress, who urged co-operation
between his organization and the
national irrigation congress.
That an international congress will
be hold at some one of the South Amer
ican capitals in 1919 is now fairly as
sured, although the matter will not be
determined until the congress meets in
1909.
The industrial exposition will con
tinuo until October 10. Between $15,
000 and $20,000 in trophies and prizes
will be awarded at the close of the ex
position. RUNS ON TIES.
Canadian Strike is Off.
Winnipeg, Oct. 6 The Canadian Pa-
ific mechanics' strike has been of
ficially declared off. The settlement
f tho strike was first announced to
ight through the conservative govern
ment in this province. Hon. Robert
Rogers has been in Montreal for some
lavs, with the view of brincrintr the
contending parties together, and sue
replied. The terms are those brought
in by the ,oard of conciliation and the
Lcmieux art for settling labor disputes.
Greater Than Thought.
Bombay, O.t. 5. Upwards of 7000
r.ouies already have been extricated by
the health department of Hyderabad.
and the belief prevails that the total
death roll resulting from the floods that
devastated the Hyderabad and Deccan
districts a week "ago will exceed all
previous estimates.
Russia Has Disease in Har d
St. Petersburg, Oct. 6 The cholera
epidemic is being kept well in hand,
fonsidering the hold it had on the city
efore proper measures to prevent its
rrea( wer taken. In the 24 hours
from noon Saturday until noon todav.
te new cases numbered 130 and deaths
62.
Operations Resumed.
Eugene The Eugene excelsior fac
tory, one of the leading manufacturing
institutions of this city, employing
about 30 men, has resumed operations
after a shutdown of about three months.
The mill is operating with a full crew
f'ay and night and has orders enough
ahead for its product to keep it in
operation for an indefinite period. Be
sides the men employed in the factory,
a large number are" kept busy in the
woods, felling trees and cutting them up
into suitable lengths for the manufac
ture of excelsior.
Oakland's' Fine Sheep.
Oakland. George Han of the Oak
land Live Stock company has arrived
home from Portland, where he exhib
ited the best bunch of sheep ever
shown at an exposition in America.
I he sheen were recently imported
from England and were exhibited at
the Royal livestock show at Ontario,
Canada, conceded to be the greatest
exposition of its kind in the country.
At the Toronto show this firm car
ried off all the honors for exhibits in
its class.
Buys Milking Machines.
Hillsboro. Ex-Sheriff John W.
Council has bought two milking ma
chines for his dairy ranch four miles
north of this citv. These arc the
first milking machines ever brought
into the county. Washington countv
mi'ks more cows than anv other sec
tion of like area in the Pacific north
west, and dairvmen are striving to
get the cost nf furnishing milk to
condensers reduced as much as pos
sible.
Lane County Is Short.
Eugene The prune crop in Lane
county this fall is thought to be about
one-half what it was last year, when
one of the best crops in the history of
the county was raised. This year the
late frosts largely affected the crop and
in some exposed places in the county
there is scarcely a prune in some of the
orchards. t This condition prevails to
some extent in the prairie country west
of Eugene, where there are no protect
ing woods to keep off the heavy frosts,
but along the river bottoms, especially
north of Eugene, the crop is heavy, and
in some orchards it isv said Jo be as
-heavy as it was last year.
Record Turkey Shipments. '
Oakland. Turkey shipments from
Oakland the past few days have ag
gregated 30,000. pounds, the price paid
the grovyers averaging 20 cents per
nound, live weight, or a total of $6.
000. the highest figures ever paid at
this market for live birds. The meat
was all consigned to one Portland
packing house, where it will be pre
pared for shipment to the Philippine
islands to grace the tables of Uncle
Sam's soldier boys on Thanksgiving
day.
Boom at Tillamook.
Tillamook Tillamook is taxed to its
utmost to find sufficient rooms to ac
commodate parties wishing to rent
them. Since the announcement that
work would start on the railroad people
have been flocking here from all direc
tions and many people are kept away
owing to the fact that every available
iiiiamooK nouse is rented.
Leavss for Washington.
Salem Railroad Concessioner Clvde
" Aitcheson has left for Washington,
v. i.., wnere he will represent the Ore
gon railroad commission at the meeting
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or me national Association of Hailwav
Commissioners, which will be assembled
at Washington from October 6 to 10.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Fast Passenger Makes Mile a Minute
Without Rails.
Chicago. Oct. 3. Passengers on the
Lake Shore Twentieth Century Lim
ited thought they were taking break
fast in a wreck as the tender trucks
of the giant locomotive hauling the
fast train left the tracks a half mile
west of Gary at 8 A. M. yesterday.
For a mile the wheels of the tender
bumped over the ties, while the en
gineer sought to halt the flyer, speed
ing to Chicago at the rate of 60 miles
an hour. The dining car and the
smoker also left the rails.
For what seemed to the passengers
three or four minutes the train dashed
ahead, but with slackening speed. Af
ter about a mile it was brought to a
stop and it was found that no one was
injured." At the point where the ac
cident occurred the tracks of the Lake
Shore are elevated so that an embank
ment of eight or ten feet descending
on either side promised a dangerous
plunge if the bouncing cars left the
rails.
The airbrake on the diner, loosened
from its fastenings, fell to the ground
This derailed the diner, the smoker
and the tender. An angle-bar of the
track was uprooted and tore through
the floor of the diner, causing a panic
among the passengers at breakfast.
WORK OF PINGHOT
AGAIN INDORSED
Enemies Fall to Sustain Charges at
Irrigation Congress.
Work of Government Bureaus Devel
0.iig West Approved Timber
and Stone Law Indorsed Interna
tional Congress Called for In I9IO.
Create New Reserves.- ,
WRIGHT'S LATEST WONDER.
Wallowa to Have Courthouse.
Enterprise The county court has
accepted plans for a courthouse, to cost
$30,000. Bids for foundation and base
ment wi'l be advertised for immediate
ly in order that the foundation at least
may be put in this fall. Wallowa coun
ty has been set apart from Union coun
ty 20 years, and this will be the first
courthouse erected in the eonnty.
heat Bluestem, 93c: club. 88c: fife.
c; reu itussian, oc; 40-fold, 91c; val
ley, 90c.
Barley Feed, $26 per ton; rolled,
.m(d 28.50; bre'wing, $26.50.
Oats No. 1 white, $31(5)31.50 per
ton; gray. $30rfi,-30.50.
Hay Timothy. Willamette valley.
$14 per ton; Willamette valley, or
dinary, $11; eastern Oregon, $16.50;
mixed, $13; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11- al
falfa meal, $20.
Fruit Apples, new, 60c(JD$1.50 per
box; peaches. 40(fZ,80c per box; pears.
oc(a$i.uu per box- plums, 50c(a)$1.00
per box; grapes, 40crtT$1.25 per crate:
Concords, 20ra22'c per basket: huckle
berries, 810c per pound; quinces, $1.25
per box; cranberries, $10 per barrel.
Potatoes 9095c per hundred; sweet
potatoes, zc per pound.
ivieions cantaloupes, $i(qu.50 per
crate; watermelons, (wlc per pound;
casabas, fl.o(a;2 per dozen.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack;
carrots, $1.(5; parsnips, $1.75; beets
$1.50; artichokes, 65c per dozen; beans,
5(rJ)10c per pound; cabbage, l'Jic per
pound: cauliflower, 15(fli5e dozen; eel
ery, 75c(Ji;$l per dozen; corn, 75c$l
per snck; encumbers, 15(520c per dozen;
eeg plant, 50e(ri)$1.25 per crate; lettuce,
5c(a$l per box; parsley, 15c per dozen;
peas. 6c per pound; peppers, 8(fi)10c per
pound; pumpkins, iml'c per pound;
radishes, 12,ic per dozen; spinach.
per pound; sprouts, S)e per pound:
squash, l'z&c per pound; tomatoes, 60c
(a$l.
Butter City creamery, extras, 32,4(??
34c; fancy outside creamery, 3032'&c
per pound; store, 18c.
Eggs Oregon extras. 31(a32',4e;
firsts. 27tf?30c; seconds, 23(o)26c: east
ern. 25(?i)28c per dozen.
Poultry Fancy hens, 134(o514c;
pring, 144tf? 15c; ducks, old, 1212VC.c
spring, 14tfil5c; geese, old, 9c; young
lOrailc; turkeys,' old, 1718c; young
20c'
Veal Extra, 9c per pound; ordinary
7(5r)7,Ac; heavy, 5e.
Fork Fancy, 8 c per pound; or
dinary, 6c; large, 5e.
Beats World's Record With Passenger
on Board.
Le Mans, Oct. 4 Wilbur Wright, the
American aeroplanist, who holds the
world's record for an aeroplane flight,
established another world's record yes
terday afternoon for the time and dis
tance with a passenger. With a French
journalist by his side, he remained in
the air for 55 minutes and 37 seconds,
circling the field 24 times and covering
a distance estimated at 58 kilometers.
or aDoui jo nines, jus tiest previous
flight with a passenger was 11 minutes
35 2-5 seconds.
By his feat Mr. Wright practically
fulfills the conditions of a contract
signed by him and Lazare Weiller, who
represents a syndicate, whereby Mr.
Wright receives $100,000, and the syn
dicate takes in return the patent rights
or tne v right machine for France and
the colonies, with the privilege of man
ufacturing aeroplanes on this model.
The sun was setting when Mr. Wright
and his passenger started, and the
flight was completed in the moonlight.
When they alighted, the French jour
nalist in his enthusiasm threw his arms
around Mr. Wright's neck, and tho
great crowd of spectators was hardly
less demonstrative in its manifestations
of delight.
Sue for Timber Value.
San Francisco, Oct.' 5 Suit for the
recovery of $5174.87, said to be tho
value of timber cut from the govern
ment lands allotted to the Indians of
the Klamath tribe and sold by the In
dians to the defendant corporation was
tiled by the government attorneys here
Saturday against the Klamath Mill &
Transportation company. In a similar
suit some years ago United States Dis
trict Judge Dellaven held that the In
dians had no right to sell timber off
their allotments unless the proceeds of
such sale went to the government.
Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 3. The
struggle in the National Irrigation
Congress between the supporters and
opponents of the present government
forestry policy resulted in a sweeping
victory for the friends of Chief For
ester Tinchot yesterday. With a few
recommendations for change in the
forest regulations the congress adopt
ed resolutions indorsing the forest
service as well as other government
bureaus conceived in the work of de
velopment and reclamation. It also
took advanced ground in favor of
conservation of natural resources in
general.
Ihe resolutions give sweeping in
dorsement to the work of the recla
mation service, the forest service and
the geological survey and urge on
congress continued support and in
creased appropriations for all of these
bureaus; urge the repeal of the tim
ber and stne act, "to the end that
the accumulation of the public lands
in the hands of a few great corpora
tions may be arrested ; urge- the
speedy creation of the southern Ap
palachian anil White mountain na
tional forests; ask congress for an
adequate appropriation for the use of
the hydrographical division of the
geological survey to determine by ex
periment and measurement and obser
vation the practical effects of grazing
and lumbering on the supply of water
for irrigation and on the erosion of
the soil and that such investigation
extend over the various watersheds,
both in and out of the national forests
and that such investigation be prose
cuted simultaneously throughout all
the states and territories of the arid
and semi-arid west.
A strong resolution against free
sugar is included, also resolutions for
the creation of immigration bureaus
by the western states and territories;
requesting co-6peration with the na
tional conservation commission, a
conservation committee of the irriga
tion congress being authorized; urg
ing that the Carey act be made ap
plicable to the territories; indorsing
the movement to hold a session of the
congress in Washington in 1910. to
be known as an international congress
on irrigation, and asking appropria
tions from the state and the federal
'governments for this congress; and
authorizing the present congress to
appoint a committee of five, to be
known as the congressional commit
tee, charged with the duty of urging
the recommendations of the irrigation
congress.
PERMIT NO SHORE LEAVE.
Miners Accept Old Scale.
Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 5 President
Thomas L. Lewis, of the United Mine
Workers of America, stated yesterday
that the operators and miners of Mon
tana and Wyoming have signed an
agreement for wages on the basis of
last year's scale, and that 12,000 men
who have been idle since September 1,
will now return to work. He savs a
meeting,of operators and miners will be
held next Tuesday at Seattle, Wash., to
agree upon a scale for that state.
Admiral Sperry Decides to Run No
Risk of Cholera Infection.
Manila, Oct. 3. Rear-Admiral
Sperry has finally decided not to land
any men here and to maintain a prac
tical quarantine of the ships during
their stay. Admiral Sperry discussed
the question with Governor-General
Smith this morning, and the above
action was determined upon.
Ihcre are still several new cases of
cholera daily, and it was decided that
it would be safest and best not to take
anv chances of its spreading to the
fleet. The officers will be allowed
brief shore liberty under close restric
tions.
Forty steamers and launches, gaily
decorated, paraded today around the
outer lines in which the fleet is an
chored. Governor-General Smith and
Brigadier-General A. L. Mills, accom
panied by their staff, and Frank
Strong, chairman of the general re
ception committee, boarded the flag
ship Connecticut and spent a half hour
with Rear-Admiral Sperry. Rear-Admiral
Sncrry returned their call later
;n the day.
Harriman Orders New Cars.
Chicago, Oct. 3. It was announced
here yesterday that the Pullman Car
company will begin delivering an or
der for 220 steel passenger cars for
the Harriman lines within 00 days.
The order is but a starter of orders
that are to be placed for steel cars by
all the big railroad lines, it is stated.
The adoption of the steel cars was de
cided upon after a long series of ex
periments conducted by the Harriman
lines. The cars are to be steel shells
with but very little wood in their construction.
Central Amerxa Sends Gold.
San Irancisco, Oct. 5 The mines of
Salvador and Mexico have contributed
$108,508.70 to tho wealth of this coun
try in tho form of gold and silver bul
lion. It came up in the treasure vault
of the Pacific Mail steamship Newport.
Hair comes from the Butters gold mine
n Salvador, the remainder from widely
known mines back of Mazatlan. It is
the Jargest amount of treasure brought
from the southern coast in one consign
ment in months.
Orders Mammoth Painting.
New York. Oct. 3 A nrominent
firm of scenic artists has received an
order from the United States govern
ment for the execution of an enor
mous cvclnrama for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exhibition at Seattle.
The contract calls for a picture on 30,
000 square fect of canvas, represent
ing mountain scenery of Alaska.
There will be besides, minor views of
Crater Lake, Or., studies from the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado and
Yellowstone Park.
Hole Inch Deep Burned.
San Francisco. Oct. 3. While sit
ting at the receiving instrument of
the wireless telegraph station on Rus
sian Hill vesterdav. L. T.
operator, received a shock of elrc'trir-
ty that burned a hole an inch dern in
the marble top of the table on which
the instrument was resting. Crow es
caped with slight injury, and esti
mated that 30,000 volts passed through
his body.