Heppner gazette., June 10, 1909, Image 2

Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
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.
Rassia will build four new battle
ships. Weakness of the government ham
pers the relief work at Adana.
Ten Austrians have chartered a
2, 400-ton steamer for an Arctic hunting
expedition.
A canoe and the bodies of two young
men were found on the beach near Van
couver, B. C.
A Peruvian mummy at least 1,000
years old has been found wearing a
gold-embroidered Masonic apron.
The Peruvian government has can
celled the exequatur of the Swedish
consul for giving shelter to revolution
ists. Boxes containing 144 pints of whis
key and labeled "Gloss Starch," and
"Tomatoes," have been- seized at El
Reno, Oklahoma.
Eight American cruisers are now in
the Great Lakes, and Canada considers
it a violation of an allegedj interna
tional agreement.
A butcher at Somerville, Mass., went
suddenly insane and slashed five men
with his killing knife. Three of them
are not expected to live.
The departure of Rear Admiral Har
bin's squadron from Honolulu for
Manila has been delayed by the discov
ery that about $1,000 worth of brass
and engine room fittings have been
stolen.
Rockefeller says golf beats finance.
An immense stock boom is on in
Wall street.
Roosevelt made a speech to Ameri
can missionaries in Africa.
The first of this seaon's wheat has
been sold in Texas at $1.35.
Senator Aldrich will kill the income
tax amendment at all hazards.
A San Diego, Cal., woman, her
daughter and two sons will be married
at the same time.
Leaders of the alleged Mexican Na
tional lottery . have been arrested in
New York and a gigantic fraud
broken up.
The fire department of Victoria, B.
C, is using its chemical engines to ex
terminate the caterpillar put on the
trees of the city.
Secretary Ballinger has approved
the regulations for opening the surplus
lands of the Coeur d'Alene, Spokane
and Flathead reservations.
Encarnacion Diaz, leader in the con
spiracy to invade Mexico ana overthrow
President Diaz, who was pardoned by
President Taft, left the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan., Friday.
So-Wah-Ta, a fullblooded Oneida
Indian, stalked into the license bureau
of the police department in Chicago,
and made formal application in excel
lent English for a state permit ttj run
an automobile.
By holding a piece of down-town
Chicago property 24 years, William K.
Lobenstein, of New York city, has
made a clear profit of more than $750,
000. This is at the rate of more than
$30,000 a year.
Bryan is out with his 1912 slogan,
"Be Up and Doing."
Northwest rivers are rising rapidly
and high water is looked for.
For the first time in history wheat is
being shipped west from New York.
It is reported that oil has been found
in Arizona, and great excitement pre
vails. An auto jumped a bridge in Seattle,
killing the driver and injuring his two
passengers.
Martial law is in force at ncCloud,
Cal., and the soldiers have scattered
the strikers.
The Omaha train robbers have been
fully identified and their headquarters
shown to be in Spokane.
Many inhabitants of Molokai are
found to be free of leprosy, but do not
wish to leave their friends on the
island.
J. J. Hill was subpoenaed to appear
before the grand jury in an embezzle
ment case. He accepted the service of
the paper and agreed to appear.
A.-Y.-P. exposition opens with at
tendance of 89,286 on first day.
The prosecution has almost com
pleted its case against Patrick Cal
houn. The Portland water board will im
mediately lay a third pipe line from
1M1 Run.
i .r Methodist ministers at Elgin,
t , 'ying for the recovery of a
J. rs t. ;r lockjaw.
' '..'-(-- - '.'it says he is satisfied with
t ease made in the assessed
v v . of his country residence.
rains and a cloudburst near
Dalles did some slight damage,
r j did an immense amount of good.
DROWNS IN NIAGARA.
Man All But Dies in Effort to Save
Suicide Wife.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 8.
Aaron Cohen, of Buffalo, N. Y., saw
his young wife leap into the swirling
river between Second and Third Sisters
islands today, only 150 feet above the
brink of the cataract.
Without a moment's hesitation, he
followed her, caught her hand, and
struggled desperately to save her.
Mrs. Cohen probably died in her hus
band's arms.
Before it was possible to bring effi
cient help an hour had passed. All this
time Cohen was making frantic at
tempts to reach the shore. But the
struggle against the current at this
point it is about 20 miles an hour was
beyond his power.
Fortune aided him, however. With
his wife tightly clasped to him, he
bumked into a tree stump, and on this
he got a grip with his one free hand.
There he stayed and shouted for help.
Finally word was carried to the res
ervation police, and Policeman James
Martin and three other men with ropes
hurried to the scene. Three times they
threw a rope before it fell within
Cohen's grasp. When he did catch it,
he was too weak to tie it about his own
or his wife's waist.
The two were 20 feet away from
shore, and it was extremely difficult,
owing to the precarious nature of the
footing, to make a good cast. Pinned
against the tree by the terrific rush of
water, all the strength had gone out of
Cohen, and he had been unable to keep
his wife's face above water.
Once Cohen had hold of the rope, the
men ashore bjgan to pull. Martin,
who was in front, slipped and fell into
the stream, but quickly regained his
footing. When within 15 feet of the
shore, Cohen lost his grip on his wife's
body, and it was carried down stream
and was lost to view.
BIG ARCTIC HUNT PLANNED.
Ten Austrians Charter a 2400-Ton
Steamer for Expedition.
Seattle, June 8. Dr. Hans von Ka
dich and Leo Mahler, of Vienna, left
here tonight for Vancouver to prepare
the steamer Transit, which has been
chartered by Rudolph R. von Guttman,
a wealthy coal operator of Vienna, for
a four-month hunting expedition to
Alaska and Siberia. The party will
leave for the North July 1. The other
members of the party, which will con
tain ten people, are still in Vienna.
The purpose of the expedition is to
secure new specimens for Herr von
Guttman 's trophy room. Whenever
duplicates are secured they will be
given to the Smithsonian Institute,
and if a third specimen is secured it
will be given to the New York Zoologi
cal society. The Transit is a 2400-ton
steamer.
BRUTES TORTURE WOMEN.
Put Lighted Candles on Soles of Feet
in Effort to Get Money.
Pittsburg, June 8. The work of
robbers today at Belmont, Pa., near
this city, has so aroused the community
that a lynching is threatened if the
men are captured.
Five men, all masked, broke into the
home of Mrs. Minnie Ashe, 90 years
old, and ransacked the place. With
the aged woman were her daughter,
Mrs. Mary Ober, 60 years old, and her
granddaughter, Miss Minnie Ober, 23
years of age.
The men found only $3.50 in the
house, and, believing there was more,
bound the three women and tortured
them. They used picture wire in fas
tening the women to chairs. Then they
held lighted candles to their bare feet.
Ancient Apron Is Found.
Seattle, June 8. A valuable gold
embroidered Mason's apron, at least
1,000 years old, was found on a mummy
which Captain E. W. Sprague, of the
American schooner Columbia, picked
up on his last trip to Calloa, for a few
dollars. The apron is hand-embroidered
in real gold thread. Captain
Sprague bought the apron from a con
tractor who had unwittingly purchased
a mummy, and was anxious to get rid
of the thing. Many high Masons have
attempted to decipher the sympols, but
no one has yet been able to read them.
Two Drown from Canoe.
Vancouver, B. C, June 8. The bod
ies of two young men, aged about 18
and 25, and a canoe were found about
11 o'clock today washed up on the
shore half a mile west of the Point
Gray wireless station. An invoice, ren
dered to Frank Stendth, was found in
the pocket of the eldest victim. There
was also a watch, which had stopped
at 8:30. It is believed, judging from
the condition of the bodies, that the ac
cident occurred today.
Defends American Colleges.
Ithaca, N. Y., June 8. Warmly de
fending American colleges and univer
sities from the severe criticisms of
President Woodrow Wilson and other
New England university presidents,
who charge that the intellectual life of
American universities is decaying,
President J. G. Schurman, of Cornell,
poured a broadside into the system of
education at the older universities in
his farewell address to the senior class
today.
Whiskey in Tomato Boxes.
El Reno, Okla., June 8. Boxes la
belled "tomatoes" and "gloss starch,"
but containing instead old bourbon
whiskey, were seized here today at the
direction of the United States district
attorney. John Embry, because of false
labels. There were 144 pints of whis
key in the consignment, which was
shipped from Kansas City.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
COST PROBLEM IS SOLVED.
Young Men at University Buy Lot,
Build House and Bach.
University of Oregon, Eugene
Plans are under way at the university
for erection of a number of small cot
tages in which students can bach.
A very small rent will be charged, just
large enough to cover the interest on
the money invested. It has become
the custom for several boys from the
same town to live together while at
tending the university. These new
cottages will furnish a mode of living
at Eugene so cheap as to make it pos
sible for many small groups of self
supporting students to obtain a college
education who could not otherwise
afford it.
Four Hood River boys Cash, Pat
tee, Lucky and Garrabrant, are the
demonstrators of this new scheme.
Last September they began monthly
payments on a $125 lot. On this land
they erected a little two-story house at
the expense of $92. Their living ex
penses per man per month since then
have varied between $5 and $8. Feb
ruary, with its 28 days, cost them
$5.15, while one other month their ex
penses ran as low as $5.55.
The culinary pursuits of these boys
in no wise interfere with their high
scholarship nor are they prevented
from taking part in the different stu
dent enterprises.
Commencement June 24.
University of Oregon, Eugene The
program for commencement week at
the university is now complete and is
as follows :
June 20, Sunday Baccalaureate ser
mon by the Right Reverend Charles W.
Scadding, bishop of Oregon. .
June 21 President's reception at
Collier hall, 3 p. m. ; graduation exer
cises of the school of music, Villard
hall, 8 p. m.
June 22, Tuesday Alumni reunion
and business meeting, Villard hall, 9
a. m. ; university dinner to the alumni
on the campus, 1p.m.; flower and
fern procession and concert on the
campus, 7 p. m. ; Failing Beekman or
atorical contest, Villard hall, 8 p. m.
June 24, Wednesday Commence
ment day. Alumni-senior baseball
game on Kincaid field, 9 :30 a. m. ;
diriner to visitors on campus, 12 m. ;
commencement exercises, address be
fore the clas3 and presentation of di
plomas, Villard hall, 2 p. m. ; class
reunion and suppers, 5 to 7 p. m. ;
alumni and senior ball, Armory,8 p. m.
Oregon Board Files Suit.
Salem The state railroad commis
sion today filed a complaint with the
interstate commerce commission
against the O. R. & N., the Oregon
Short Line and 50 or more connecting
Eastern lines, charging that wool rates
are "unreasonable and unjust, both
generally and relatively in considera
tion of the transportation services per
formed, and are discriminatory and un
duly prejudicial to the said dealers and
shippers in that they are higher than
the rates now in force and charged by
the said defendants for the transporta
tion over their lines of wool of all
kinds from Portland, Oregon, to Atlan
tic coast and other Eastern points."
May Sets New Record.
Eugene The month of May has
been the best month of the year for
building permits. The amount issued
was $135,000. The office of building
inspector was created a year ago in
April. The report for May of this
year is better than for both April and
May of 1908. Among the more expen
sive buildings for which permits have
been granted during the past 30 days
are two school houses for $18,000 each
to be located in Fairmount and West
Eugene, and the Sanford brick, on
Willamette, which will cost $16,000.
The list includes 23 residences, costing
from $1,000 to $5,000 each.
Douglas Cherries on Market
Roseburg Douglas county cherries
are now in the market, the first of the
season being brought in on May 29.
The quality will be extra fine this
year, to some extent owing to the late
frosts which thinned them to a small
extent. Owing to the fact that the
cherry crop of the Willamette will fall
below half of the usual amount, the
growers of this county expect to secure
fancy prices for all their fruit this
season.
Central Point to Sell Water Bonds.
Central Point The city council at
its next regular meeting will take the
initial step for the issuance of water
works bonds in the sum of $25,000.
The city now has $350,000 worth of
taxable property and no indebtedness
and it is believed but little difficulty
will be experiened in floating the
bonds.
Carpenters Are All Busy.
Hillsboro Hillsboro is enjoying an
other building boom that bids fair to
eclipse the progress of last year, when
100 new homes were built. Nearly
all of the homes now under construc
tion are of the better order, and car
penters are all employed. Small piece
work has to wait its turn.
Oregon Fruit for East.
Hood River One thousand crates
of the finest strawberries shipped this
season went out one day this week,
with the price running from $3.25 to $4.
To provide better service for express
shipments going East, empty cars
were dropped here, which will be put
on passenger trains. Carload shipments
are expected to commence immediately.
FRESHIES TO BE GUESTS.
Oregon May Adopt New Plan in
Student Body.
University of Oregon, Eugene
President Campbell called a meeting of
the freshman class of the university
and discussed with them the inaugura
tion of the Oxford system of taking
care of the incoming freshmen. The
president asked the class to appoint
committees to meet the freshmen on
their arrival in September, aid them in
registering, finding rooms and in be
coming familiar with different branches
of student enterprise. He asked that
one committee be selected to pick out
those interested in debate and see that
they were given opportunity to take
part in debate work at the univeristy.
"According to the custom in vogue
at Oxford," President Campbell said,
"the freshmen are the guests of the
older students for the first week of col
lege and a great deal of time is de
voted to entertaining them and making
them feel at home. Some of the East
ern colleges have adopted this English
method and the installment of the cus
tom at the University of Oregon will
bring happy results."
Senator Miller, a member of the
board of regents, then addressed the
freshmen, speaking in a general way
of hazing and its evil results.
Lower Rate Is Requested.
Salem The state railroad commis
sion has taken up with the Southern
Pacific the matter of rates on lumber.
Box shooks, poles and piling take a
higher freight rate than lumber. Other
roads make the same rates, 1 ut the
Southern Pacific charges $1 more. The
commission has requested that the rate
be made the same as on lumber, and if
thh is not done the matter will be laid
before the interstate commerce com
mision. To Survey Coos Bay Line.
Marshfield Sufficient stock for the
Coos Bay, Roseburg and Boise railroad
has been subscribed to warrant sending
out F. A. Haines, chief engineer, and
his corps of surveyors. The business
men have been solicited and many
stock subscriptions received. The en
gineer has everything in readiness to
start on the work of surveying for a
line from Coos Bay to Roseburg.
600 Crates Per Day.
Hood River The daily strawberry
shipment has jumped up to over 600
crates and is expected nearly to double
from now on. Berries went out at
$3.25 to $3.50, with a big demand for
them at Seattle for fair visitors, Big
shipments are now going to Spokane
and orders from Montana and Idaho
cannot, at present, be supplied.
Marshfield Gets Paint Factory.
Marshfield The Baystf e Paint Com
pany, formerly of North Bend, has
moved to Marshfield and will engage in
the manufacture of paint on an exten
sive scale and will conduct a wholesale
business. F. J. Monroe, of the firm,
has gone to San Francisco to purchase
machinery.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices : Bluestem
milling, $1.30(31.35; club, $1.20
1.22; valley, $1.17
Corn Whole, $35 per ton; cracked,
$36 per ton.
Barley Feed, $35 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $40.5041 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14(318 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
(321; clover, $11(312; alfalfa, $13(3)
14; cheat, $1414.50; vetch, $14
14.50. "
Fresh Fruits Apples, $1(32.50 per
box. Strawberries, Oregon, $2(3:4 per
crate; cherries, $1(31.25 per box.
Potatoes Buying price, $1.75(31.90
per hundred; new California, 4(3:5c
pre lb. ; sweet potatoes, 4c per lb.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per
sack; carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.50;
beets,, $1.75; horseradish, 10c per lb;
artichokes, 50(3 60c doz. ; asparagus,
7K(3J2c Per lb.; beans, 10(Til2Kc;
cabbage, 2c per lb. ; cauliflower $3 per
crate; cucumbers, 50c(3$1.25 per doz. ;
lettuce, hothouse, $1(31.50 per box;
lettuce, head, 25c per doz.; onions,
12c(315c per doz. ; parsley, 35c per
doz.; peas, 7c per lb.; radishes. 15c
Butter City creamery, extras,
26c; outside creamery, 25(3"26c
per lb. ; store, 18c. Butter fat prices
average 1 Jc per pound less.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 23(324c per
doz.
Poultry Hens, 13(315c; springs,
22(325c; roosters, 10c; ducks, 14(3)
15c; geese, 10(311c; turkeys, 20c;
squabs, $2.50(33 per doz.
Pork Fancy, 10c per lb.
Veal Extras, 8(3 8c per lb.; or
dinary, 7c; heavy, 6c.
Cattle Steers, top, $5(3 5.25; fair to
good. $4.50(34.75; common to good,
$4(3:4.50; cows, top, $4(34.25; fair to
good, $3.75(34; common to medium,
$2.50(33.50; calves, top, $5(3 5.50;
heavy $3.50(34; bulls and stags, $3
(33.50; common, $2(32.75.
Hogs Best, $7.75(38; fair to good,
$7.25(37.50; stockers, $6(3 6.50; China
fats, $6.75(37.
Sheep Top wethers, $4(34.25; fair
to good, $3.50(34; ewes, c less on all
grades; yearlings, best, $1.25; fair to
good, $4; spring lambs, $5.
Hops 1909 contracts, 12c per lb. ;
1908 crop, 9(310c; 1907 crop, 4(33o;
1906 crop, li(32c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 17(322?4c;
per lb. valley, fine, 252(3 5 ?8c; med
ium. 23c; coarse, 21c; mohair, choice,
24(3 25c per lb-.
AIRSHIP RUNS AWAY.
Inventor Drives Damaged Craft to
Earth and Slides Down Rope.
East St. Louis, 111., June 7. A cast
away in the skies through the breaking
of his guide rope, which formed his
only connection with the earth, and
later ah areonaut on' the ground, with
his ship floating away through space,
pursued on the ground by an automo
bile, Claude M. Zellers, a one-legged
inventor, tonight contributed new
pages to the history of aeronautics.
In a machine of no tpye known to
aeronautics, invented by William
Smith, a cattle-dealer, and described
as the largest aeroplane in the world,
Zellers flew from East St. Louis this
afternoon at 5 :30 o'clock. When 100
feet up the guide rope became en
tangled in an apple tree and Bnapped,
leaving the aviator a 'castaway. He
sailed 40 miles in a zigzag'course and
succeeded in making a hazardous land
ing at Belleville, 20 miles from where
he started.
Zellers was unable to stop his ma
chinery, but pointed the nose of his
craft toward the ground and allowed it
to shoot down like a meteor until the
end of the broken rope trailed on the
ground. Just as Zellers slid down the
rope, a distance of 70 feet, it broke
and the dirigible, its engines going
full speed, soared into the sky without
a pilot.
Zellers pursued the bag'for a time in
an automobile, but could not keep up
with it.
TRAIN GOES THROUGH TRESTLE.
Plucky Engineer and Firemen Minim
ize Disaster.
Cottage Grove, Or., June 6. When
on the middle of Kern bridge, span
ning Row river, on the Oregon &
Southeastern, a mixed train crashed
through and fell, all but the engine, 40
feet into the stream below at 4 :30
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Seven
teen passengers were hurt, all of them
more or less seriously. All the avail
able surgeons from Cottage Grove were
rushed to the scene of the accident by
special train and the report from the
wreck is that, while all the passengers
are still alive, it is believed several
are fatally hurt.
John Coates, the fireman, went down
with the train, fell in the river,, swam
out, hurried to the nearest telephone
and phoned for assistance and all the
available doctors. The work train had
just arrived and having steam up, a
relief train was hurried to the scene.
The wrecked train was due here at 5
o'clock, and the engine had just cleared
the bridge when the center span gave
way. The activity of Engineer Wil
liam Ostrander saved the engine from
piling on top of the other cars in the
ravine. Ostrander set the brakes and
the train parted at the tender, twisting
the rods and the engineer was seriously
injured by the reversing lever. The
tender now rests on top the coach, 12
feet of which is under water.
$100,000,000 FOR SUBWAYS.
That's What Complete System for
Chicago Will Cost.
Chicago, June 7. A complete sys
tem of subways for Chicago will cost
from $100,000,000 to $112,000,000, and
be able to transport from 509,960 to
529,120 passengers hourly, with seats
for all; and with the present surface
and elevated lines will supply adequate
transportation until 1931 or 1950, ac
cording to plans adopted. These are
the conclusions of City Engineer Eric
son and Subway Engineer R. C. St.
John, submitted today to Commissioner
of Public Works Hanberg, in a supple
mental report on subways.
The report has four distinct plans
for construction, with two variations
of each, and with the exception of col
lating engineering details practically
completes the city's report on tunnels
for passenger traffic in down town
Chicago.
Power Plant Wrecked.
Trinidad, Col., June 7. Virtually
every branch of industry in this city
and neighboring towns is at a stand
still, as a result of the destruction of
the new powerhouse of the Southern
Colorado Power company. An explo
sion in the transformer started a fire
which wiped out the plant, causing a
loss on building and machinery of more
than $300,000. The fire is nothing
short of a calamity, as it cuts off the
powr which operates the local and in
terurban electric lines, lighting plant,
newspaper plants, foundries, etc.
Blast Away Huge Hill.
Aberdeen, Wash., June 7. Every
thing is in readiness for the firing of
the big blast that is expected to blow
away a hill a mile long on the Satsop
river, near Elma, on the grade of the
Grays Harbor branch of the Union Pa
cific. The dynamite and powder will
all be placed in caches that have been
made in a tunnel in the hill. All farm
ers have been warned, and all roads
near the scene are guarded. About
100,000 yards of earth will be loosened.
Demand Freeman Kesign.
Orange, N. J., June 7. Because he
invited Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman, anarchists, to a luncheon re
cently given by the exclusive May
flower Descendants' Society, Alden
Freemen, of this place, has been asked
to resign from the Orange chapter.
Sons of the American Revolution.
Peru Sends Swede Home.
Lima, Peru, June 7. The Peruvian
government has canct-led the exaqua
teur of the Swedish consul-general,
Luis Lemoboke, in whose houe on
May 1 Carlos Pierloa and others im
plicated in the rising against the gov
ernment took refuge.
BIG STREET CAR
STRIKE ENDED
Concessions From Boll) Sides Finally
Bring Settlement.
Politicians Act as Mediators Mayor
Suggests an Agreement and Both.
Sides Accept Men Get 22 Cents,
an Hour, Ten-Hour Day, and Buy
Uniforms in Open Market.
Philadelphia, June 5. "The strike
has been settled. Tha men will re
ceive 22 cents an hour beginning to
morrow morning, and 10 hours will
constitute a day's work."
This statement tonight from C. O.
Pratt, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Railway Employes, followed
by the deportation of the 450 non
union workmen, marked the end of the
strike ot employes of Jhe Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company. The trouble
began last Saturday.
The settlement was brought about
primarily by State Senator James P.
McNichol, republican leader of this
city, at conferences yesterday with the
traction officials and labor representa
tives. These conferences were fol
lowed by others today.
After being in session nearly all day
the men agreed to accept 22 cents an
hour. The old "swing system" has.
been abolished, 10 hours will consti
tute a day's work, all employes will be
permitted to purchase their uniforms
in the open market, all future difficul
ties are to be adjusted between the
company and a grievance committee
chosen by the employes.
After a conference in City hall which
lasted until early today, Mayor Rey
burn made public a letter addressed to
John B. Parsons, president of the tran
sit company, in which he offered the
terms for a settlement of the strike.
He suggested among other things the
following: "All former employes will be re
stored to their former positions.
"Your employes to form a represen
tative body which shall from time to
time be accorded full opportunity to
take up with the proper officers of the
company any and all questions affect
ing the rights ofemployes.
"The rate of wages beginning July
1., 1909, to be 22 cents an hour.
"These conditions to continue for
one, two or three years, as may be
agreed upon."
President Parsons made an immed
iate reply accepting the suggestions.
Some dissatisfaction is expressed by
the strikers, who do not regard the rate
of wages named as a concession. How
ever, the agreement gives them shorter
hours and concedes them the right to
purchase their uniforms from whom
they please.
PORK PRICE GOES SOARING.
Almost Highest Price Since Civil War
Is Recorded in Chicago.
Chicago, June 5. Pork for Septem
ber delivery sold today at $20.07.
With the exception of a brief period in
1906, when cash pork sold for one day
at $20 per barrel, this figure has not.
been seen in this market since the
Cudahy corner in 1893, when it sold at
$23. It sold during the Armour cor
ner in 1887, at $24; and the highest,
price on record in this market was dur
ing the civil war, when it sold at $43
per barrel.
With the exception of the manipu
lated markets of 1893 and 1887, there
fore, the price reached today was prac
tically the highest since the civil war.
No manipulation of the provision mar
kets is now charged, but the high
prices are due to the disappointing re
ceipts of hogs during the month of
May, and thus far during the present
month.
Record Made at Lewiston.
Lewiston, Idaho, June 5. The Snake
river recorded a rise of nearly a foot
today, the mark at 5 o'clock this even
ing being 18.9 feet. The Clearwater
came up about one and one-half feet.
Both streams are falling tonight, but
wind is prevailing and a further rise is
expected tomorrow. Last night the
guage stood at 17.8 feet, the highest
known for 15 years. Tonight that mark
is passed. The railroad dykes are hold
ing and the city is thought not to be in
danger from flood, for the present, at
least.
Columbia Still Rises.
The Dalles, Or., June 5. The Col
umbia river rose more than seven feet
at this point during the past 30 houra
and continues gradually to rise. The
beach is flooded up to the Umatilla
House and the Chinese truck gardens
are under water. The Open River and
Regulator lines wharf boats have been
moved on account of the high water
and the ferryboat now lands at the foot
of Washington street, two blocks from
its regular landing.
Taft Not to Visit West.
Grand Junction, Col , June 5. Pres
ident Taft will not attend the exer
cises incident to the opening of the
Gunnison irrigation turnel early in
August, and probably will not make
his contemplated trip to the West this
summer, according to a telegram re
ceived today.