Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
Oeneral Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
Five men and 68 horses were burned
to death in a Duluth Are.
The millionaire son of Cyrus Field is
clerk in a lodging house.
Harriman is ill and has gone to Vi
enna to consult a physician.
New York is experiencing a record
breaking cold wave for June.
President Reyes, of Colombia, has
resigned rather than face a revolution.
Taft may visit President Diaz this
fall. The two presidents plan to meet
at the border.
A burglar in Prussia has secured
damages because he broke a leg while
robbing a house.
One of the trials of Indian railway
men is set forth in a report telling of a
train striking a wild elephant.
Cuba refuses to assume a share of
the Spanish debt incurred when the
islands gained their independence.
A new dirigible balloon built in
France has made two successful flights,
each time carrying nine passengers.
The French budget for 1910 shows a
deficit of $21,800,000.
A prospector has been shot in the
mountains of Arizona by Mexicans.
The government is investigating the
charges that meat inspectors are lax in
their duties.
In his closing address to the jury in
the Calhoun case Heney talked 12 hours
and was still not tired.
A steamer has just arrived at Seattle
from Alaska with six and a half tons
of gold, valued at $3,200,000.
Japanese, who claim to be agents for
the Tokio government, are endeavoring
to secure oil lands in California.
Hawaiian Japanese have preferred
charges against the sheriff who made
the recent raids, alleging burglary.
Chicago surgeons have successfully
grafted a section of bone from the leg
of a lamb into the right leg ol a man.
By a traffic agreement between the
Milwaukee and Harriman roads the
former can enter Portland on the O. R.
& N. lines.
The largest amphitheater in the
world is to be' erected at Chicago.
The huge structure will have seats for
45,000 and with the site will cost $3,
000,000. Morse, the convicted bank wrecker,
says he will repay every dollar he
owes.
Cardinal Gibbons warns women to be
careful about taking up woman suf
frage. An amendment to the Illinois pri
mary law may restore Harrison to
power in Chicago.
The Japanese government treats the
Hawaiian incident lightly and puts the
blame on agitators.
A Rritish steamer was fired on by a
Russian warship for approaching too
near the czar's yacht.
Ten persons in Austria took shelter
from a storm in a barn and it was
struck by lightning and all killed.
Los Angeles police declare that
thousands of young girls have been
shanghaied from Pacific coast cities
and taken to China to live a life of
slavery.
As a result of the observance of the
battle of Bunker Hill, 65 persons were
treated at hospitals for injuries and as
many more received treatment at
home. Fireworks and toy pistols were
the cause.
The fiast victim
for this year was
of excessive heat
reported from El
Centre, Cal.
After six months of hard work under
eight fathoms of water six bags of first-
class mail have been recovered from
the wreck of the Panama steamship
Finance.
A feud at Meadville, Miss., resulted
in two deaths and two fatal injuries.
Two big Eastern steel plants have
ordered a 10 per cent increase in wages
of employes.
Two Missouri towns were wrecked
by a tornado and three persons killed
and a score injured.
California wholesale people are mak
ing a desperate effort to secure the
Klamath Falls trade. -
An eminent Holland physician says
American physicians give too much of
their time to politics.
Governor Hadley, of Missouri, has
signed a bill prohibiting the marriage
of Caucasians with Chinese, Japanese
or other Asiatics.
Paris papers have started an attack
on the United States Steel corporation.
Hundreds of arrests have been made
at Monterey, Mex., in connection with
a dynamiting plot.
X Cincinnati woman who married a
thief to reform him has been fatally
hot by her husband. i
JAP EDITOR APPEALS.
Wants Mikado to Interfere in Labor
Trouble in Hawaii
Honolulu, June 22. In an editorial
appearing in today's issue of the Nippu
Jiji, the organ of the leaders of the
Japanese strike movement, an appeal
for interference in the Hawaiian'strike
situation is made to the Japanese gov
ernment. The article alleged that the
Japanese have been accorded unfair
treatment by the courts and by the
Federal and territorial officials of the
islands.
The Jiji has supported the leaders of
the higher wage movement ever since
the strike of the Japanese sugar plan
tation hands was called. The offices
of the paper were searched on June 11,
and numerous papers were seized by
the territorial authorities which, it is
alleged, contained evidence of a wide
spread conspiracy among the Japanese
on the islands.
Y. Soga, editor of the Jiji, was in
dicted twice by the territorial grand
jury, following the seizure, once on a
charge of conspiracy to incite riot and
once on a charge of conspiracy to com
mit murder. He was released on fur
nishing $2,250 bail bonds to cover both
indictments.
The efforts of certain of the Japan
ese to give the Hawaiian situation an
international aspect are apparently
concentrating here, as evidenced by the
Jiji's special to the Japanese govern
ment. HIGH DUTIES TO BE MET.
Canadian Manufacturers Plan Meas
ures of Retaliation.
Ottawa, June 22. Canadian manu
facturers declare the American tariff
revision will force Canada to make
some radical changes in her customs
tariffs also. That the adoption in its
present form of the Aldrich tariff bill
must result probably in a widening of
the British preferential tariff by Cana
da i the opinion freely expressed by
the officers of the tariff department of
the Canadian Manufacturers' associa
tion, who are now here on business
with the government.
That important tariff changes will
be announced next spring is the opinion
held by many, but the extent of them
is depending much on the developments
at Washingon. There may be no gen
eral increase as affecting the importa
tion into Canada 6t American commo
dities, although in many lines it will
be vigorously urged, but a widening of
the British preference at least is al
ready being pressed upon the govern
ment and plans are being laid for more
actively and aggressively agitating
such a policy.
END IS NOT YET IN SIGHT.
Hopes for Early Adjournment of Con
gress Disappearing.
Washington, June 22. Although the
senate made much progress during the
week in considering the tariff bill, the
date of the final vote is as indefinite as
it was a week ago.
The possibility of sending the btfl
back to the house by July 1 is now con
sidered remote. The discussion of a
duty on hides will occupy the .senate
for possible a day or two. The wood
pulp amendment offered by the finance
committee, which practically doubles
the duty on wood pulp, will then be
taken up.
After these two schedules have been
disposed of it is understood the tax on
corporations, proposed by President
Taft, will occupy the attention of the
senate for several days. The lumber
schedule and the rates on pig and scrap
iron and wire nails remain to be dis
posed of.
The question of free cotton bagging
and ties 1 and binding twine are certain
to result in an interesting discussion.
Peary May Be At Pole.
Washington, June 22. Friends of
Commander Robert Edwin Peary, who
left last July for the frozen North,
said today they believed Peary, by this
time, has planted the Stars and Stripes
at the North Pole. No news has been
received from Peary since he left Etah,
North Greenland, August 17, 1908, for
a dash as far into the ice bound seas as
his vessel would carry him before be
ing frozen in. If he has been success
ful the news of his discovery will not
reach a point of telegraphic communi
cation until August or September.
China to Learn Music.
Seattle, June 22. After eight years
spent in studying music in the con
servatories of Germany, France, Italy
and the United States, Charles Knox
Johnson, a Chinese baritone, is in Se
attle awaiting the sailing of the Great
Northern steamship Minnesota to re
turn to his native land. There he will
undertake1 to teach European and
American music to the Chinese. He
is already engaged to teach music at
the Nanking university at Nanking.
Hard Storm Hits Gulf.
New Orleans, June 22. A severe
storm passed over the Mississippi
coast today. The waters of the gulf
reached a height of from 3 to 5 feet
above the normal tide inflow. A num
ber of steamboats were beached and
property along the shore was damaged.
Big Floods on Isthmus.
Panama, June 22. Heavy ' rains
throughout the past week have caused
great floods all over the isthmus, and
in many place the crops are ruined.
The ChagreB river has overrun its
banks, but without damaging the canal.
WOULD TAX
CORPORATIONS
President Taft Sends Special
sage to Congress.
Mcs-
Favors Constitutional Amendment Al
lowing Income Tax, Which is Now
ImpossibleUrges Senate to Take
Action Along Line of Provision
House Tariff Bill. ,
Washington, June 17. President
Taft yesterday sent the following mes
sage to congress :
"To the Senate and House of Repre-
senatives It is the constitutional duty
of the president, from time to time, to
present to the consideration of congress
such measures as he shall judge neces
sary and expedient.
"In my inaugural address, immedi
ately preceding this present extraordi
nary session of congress, I invited at
tention to the necessity for a revision
of the tariff at this session, and stated
the principles upon which I thought
the revision should be effected. I re
ferred to the then rapidly increasing
deficit, and pointed out the obligation
on the part of the framers of the tariff
bill to arrange duties so as to secure an
adequate income, and suggested that if
it was not possible to do so by import
duties, new kinds of taxation must be
adopted, and among them I recommend
ed a graduated inheritance tax as cor
rect in principle and as certain and
easy of collection.
"The house of representatives has
adopted the suggestion and has pro
vided in the bill it passed for the col
lection of such a tax. In the senate,
the action of its finance committee
and the course of the debate indicate
that it may not agree to this provision,
and it is now proposed to make up the
deficit by the imposition of a general
income tax, in form and substance al
most exactly the same character as that
which, in the case of Pollock vs. Farm
ers' Loan & Trust company, 157 U. S.
429, was held by the Supreme court to
be a direct tax, and therefore not with
in the power of the Federal govern
ment to impose unless apportioned
among the states according to popu
lation.
"This new proposal, which I did not
discuss in my inaugural address or my
message at the opening of the present
session, makes it appropriate for me to
submit to congress certain additional
recommendations.
"The decision of the Supreme court
in the income tax cases deprives the
national government of a power which,
by reason of previous decisions of the
court, it was generaly supposed the
government had. It is undoubteedly a
power the national government ought
to have. It might be indispensable to
the nation's life in great crises.
"Although I have not considered
constitutional amendment as necessary
to the exercise of certain phases of
this power, a mature consideration has
satisfied me that an amendment is the
only proper course for its establishment
to its full extent. I therefore recom
mend to the congress that both houses,
by a two-thirds vote, shall propose an
amendment to the constitution confer
ring the power to levy an income tax
upon the national government without
apportionment among the states in pro
portion to population.
"This course is much to be preferred
to the one proposed, of re-enacting a
law once judicially declared to be un
constitutional. For congress to assume
that the court will reverse itself and to
enact legislation on such assumption
will not strengthen popular confidence
in the stability of the judicial construc
tion of the constitution. It is much
wiser policy to accept the constitution
and remedy the defect in due and regu
lar course.
"Again, it is clear that by the enact
ment of the proposed law, the congress
will not be bringing money into the
treasury to meet the present deficiency,
but by putting on the statute book a
law already there and never repealed
will simply be suggesting to the execu
tive officers of the government their
possible duty to invoke litigation.
If the court should maintain its
former view, no tax would be collected
at all. If it should ultimately reverse
itself, still no taxes would have been
collected until after protracted delay.
It is said the difficulty and delay
in securing the approval of thre-fourths
of the states will destroy all chance of
adopting the amendment. Of course,
Bonilla May Lead Revolt.
New Orleans, June 17. Dispatches
received by local business houses say
that La Ceiba and the Northern coast
provinces of Honduras are in open re
volt and have sent emissaries to New
Orleans to persuade Manuel Bonilla to
return and take possession of the gov
ernment. Davulas has applied to the
United States, and the United States
gunboat Paducah is patrolling Ceiba
harbor to prevent sanguinary out
breaks. General Bonilla is in New
Orleans now. He denies that there is
anything significant in his departure.
Illinois Primary Law Invalid.
Springfield, 111., June 17. The Su
preme court of Illinois today declared
unconstitutional the state primary law,
and as a result the state is without a
legal method of nominating candidates
for office. It is thought a special ses
sion of the legislature will be called to
enact a new law. The decision of the
Supreme court is the result of an at
tack made upon the primary law by
candidates defeated in the state pri
maries last summer.
no one can speak with certainty upon
this point, but I have become convinced
that a great majority of the people of
this country are in favor of vesting the
national government with power to
levy an income tax.
"Second the decision in the Pollock
case left power in the national govern
ment to levy an excise tax which ac
complishes the same purpose as a cor
poration income tax, and is free from
certain objections urged to the propos
ed income tax measure.
"I therefore recommend an amend
ment to the tariff bill imposing upon
all corporations and joint stock com
panies for profit, except national banks,
otherwise taxed, savings banks and
building and loan societies, an income
tax measured by 2 per cent of the net
income of such corporations. This is
an excise tax upon the privilege of do
ing business as an artificial entity and
of freedom from a general partnership
liability enjoyed by those who own the
stock.
"I am informed that a 2 percent tax
of this character would bring into the
treasury of the United States not less
that $25,000,000.
"The decision of the Supreme court
in the case of the Spreckles Sugar Re
fining company against McClain seems
clearly to establish the fact that such
a tax as this is an excise tax upon priv
ilege, and not a direct tax on property,
and is within the Federal power with
out apportionment according to popu
lation. "The tax on net income is preferable
to one proportionate to a percentage of
the gross receipts, because it is a tax
upon success and not failure. It im
poses a burden at the source of the in
come at a time when the employer is
well able to pay and when collection is
easy. ,
"Another merit of this tax is the
Federal supervision which must be ex
ercised in order to make the law effect
ive over the annual accounts and busi
ness transactions of all corporations
wnue the iaculty of assuming a cor
porate form has been of the utmost
utility in the business world, it is also
true that substantially all of the abuses
and all of the evils which have aroused
the public to the ' necessity of reform
will be made possible by the use of this
very faculty.
"If now, by a perfectly legitimate
and effective system of taxation, we
are incidentally able to possess the
government and the stockholders and
the public of the knowledge of the real
business transactions and the gains and
profits of every corporation in the
country, we have made a long step to
warn that supervisory control of cor
porations whicn may prevent a further
abuse of power.
"I recommend then, first, the adop
tion of a joint resolution by two-thirds
of both houses, proposing to the states
an amendment to the constitution
granting to the Federal government
the right to levy and collect an income
tax, without apportionment among the
states, according to population; and
second, the enactment as part of the
pending revenue measure, either as
substitute for or an addition to, the in
heritance tax, of an excise tax upon all
corporations, measured by 2 per cent of
their net income.
OFFERED HUMAN SACRIFICE.
Russian Police Probe Sect That Wor
ships Blood-Stained Idol.
St. Petersburg, June 16. Dispatches
from Perm, European Russia, say the
local police have begun an investiga
tion into the sect of the Crimson God,
the members of which are accused of
human sacrifices and other horrible
practices.
Repeated disappearances of persons
in the district where the sect dwells
throw suspicion on the organization,
which worships a red wooden idol, col
ored, it is said, with humait blood.
The i police have located a secret
grave containing the mutilated body
of a man supposed to have been sacri
ficed, and they expect to find others.
The rural region, of which Perm is
the center, is a breeding ground for
many fanatical cults. It is a meeting
place for the pagan tribes of Asia, as
well as of persons who flee from Rus
sia on account of religious peisecution.
Refugees of this type have lived for
Centuries in the dense forests of the
district, and their beliefs have devel
oped along the most fanatical lines.
Tax Unearned Increase.
Berlin, June 16. The reichstag re
assembled today. Among the official
communications laid before the house
was one from the government concern
ing the proposal to tax the unearned
increasement in real estate values.
The government has decided that it is
inexpedient to do this for imperial pur
poses, masmucn as were are seemingly
unsurmountable difficulties in the way
of an equitable adjustment of the taxes
on city and county values, but it ap
proves as just the taxing of the un
earned increasement for local purposes.
Plan Buffalo Roundup.
Butte. June 16. One of the most
unique roundups in the history of the
West will .start tomorrow at Ronan,
on the Flathhead Indian reservation,
in Western Montana,, when the Pablo
herd of buffaloes will be corralled and
driven to the stockade at Ravilla.
The animals will be loaded on specially
constructed cars, a number of the fin
est specimens going to the Canadian
National park. Others of the animals
will be shipped to Western parks.
Hadley Turns Down Fair.
Kansas City, June 17. Governor
Hadley today vetoed the bill providing
for an expenditure of $20,000 for a
Missouri exhibit at the Seattle fair.
The governor said the state needed the
money more for educating its citizens
and for the poor.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE 0E OREGON
CHECK FOREST FIRES.
State Board Issues Warning and Num
ber of Don'ts.
The Oregon state board of forestry
has set forth a number of pertinent
facts regarding timber resources and
fire prevention in a leaflet and also in
a notice of sufficient size to be posted
in the woods The season of forest
fires is almost here, and the people are
reminded that timber makes pay
checks, while timber that is burned
over pays no wages. On every 1,000
feet burned the stumpage owner may
lose $2, but the community loses $8 in
wages.
About 1,000,000,000 feet is destroy
ed annually in Oregon, which, if manu
factured, would bring in $13,000,000.
This is a loss of wealth that must be
made up from other sources when the
tax collector comes around. The board
of forestry warnings contain the fol
lowing characteristic dont's for the
guidance of campers and all who go on
vacations :
Don't toss away burning matches or
tobacco.
Don't make a camp fire in leaves,
rotten wood or against logs, where it
may spread or you can't be sure it is
put out.
Always clear all inflammable mate
rial away from around your fire.
Never leave a fire until it is out.
Don't burn your slashing in the close
season without a permit from a lire
warden.
Don't operate an engine without
spark arrester in the close season.
Put out any fire you find if you can.
If vou can't, notify a fire warden or
other public officer, or the land owner.
Remember that any little fire may be
come a big one if left alone.
Big Log Contract.
Warrenton The D. L. Kelly Lumber
company has completed a railroad spur
for the purpose of unloading logs in
Skipanon creek. The contract for logs
consists of about 90,000,000 feet of
spruce, cedar and fir, to be furnished
by the Moore Logging company, of As
toria. The surplus over the cut of the
mill will be rafted here for shipment.
A large dredge is now at work at an
expense of $50 per day improving the
channel of Skipanon creek. The War
ren & Lester Logging company is raft
ing spruce logs at this place for the
Oregon City paper mills.
Umatilla Land Sold.
Pendleton The filing of a deed con
veying 560 acres of land from Douglas
Belts and wife to John P. McManus for
the sum of $14,800 records one of the
most important real estate transactions
of recent months. Belts is the pioneer
resident of Pilot Rock, while McManus
is the editor of the Pilot Rock Record.
The land adjoins the town of Pilot
Rock and is to be divided up by Mc
Manus into small tracts and then sold
again.
Heavy Rain is Benefit.
Grants Pass -The heavy showers
that fell in Rogue river valley last
wepk ended in a downpour which flood
ed the roads and soaked up the gardens
and grain fields in a most beneficial
manner. ' Farmers are jubilant over
the results, which mean a large in
crease in farm products of every kind.
Coming so late in the season it is par
ticularly good for potatoes and vege
tables that are not under irrigation.
Warehouse Firm Incorporates.
The Dalles Articles of incorpora
tion of the Crook County Warehouse
company have been filed at the county
clerk's office here by J. H. Horney,
William Harper and H. W. Gard, all of
Madras. Headquarters of the company
will be at Shaniko. The capital stock
is $2,000, with 400 shares at the par
value of $5 each.
Condemn Land for Drainage.
Salem Action has been started in
the Circuit court for this county to con
demn over 2,800 acres of land lying
southeast of Gervai. for drainage
ditches. The Parkersville Drainage
district is bringing the suit. Defend
ants are Josephine Holland, Sylvia Mc-
Tavis and William, Francis, Vallier
and Barbara Wattier.
Low Death Rate in Linn.
Albany There were 22 births in
Linn county during the month of May
and only seven deaths, according to
the health report filed by County
Health Officer Dr. W. H. Davis. The
death rate has been remarkably low in
this county for the past two years,
ranging about four in 1,000 as the an
nual rate.
Glove Factory at Albany.
Albany A glove factory will be
started within a few days at Albany.
For a few months the factory will de
vote its entire output to cotton gloves,
but when in full running orer awnings
and tents and other cotton articles will
be manufactured. Beginning next
week the factory will employ 8 or 10
persons.
Buy Land on Bear Creek.
Wallowa LanH has been purchased
bv Portland capitalists for a nursery on
Bear creek. Fifteen acres were pur
chased nt ?80 an acre, and an addition
al five acres rented. The promoters
are M. O. Potter and H. J. Wilson, of
Portland, and Ford C. Potter, of this
place.
Te Advertise Wallowa.
Wallowa The Wallowa Booster club
has authorized the publication of 5,000
pamphlets to be distributed among in
qu'rjrs. The pamphlet will describe
Wallowa and the country tributary.
PELTS GIVE OUT BAD ODOR.
Cougar Scalps "Spoil" While Stored
in County Court Vault.
Salem County Clerk R. D. Allen is
in a quandry. The last session of the
legislature passed a law offering a
large bounty for killing mountain lions,
coyotes and other wild animals, and
providing that certain parts of the
beasts' anatomies shall be brought to
the office of the county clerk and there
held until the County court shall have
an opportunity of passing on the claims
for county money.
Recently relic of several animals
have been brought to the clerk's office,
the names of the hunters duly register
ed and the scalps of the animals stored
in the clerk's vault, which is not pro
vided with refrigerator facilities. The
warm weather of the past few days
has caused a mighty stench to go up
from the bones.
The young women in the office com
plain strenuously, while holding their
noses, but the clerk, who is trying to
obey the law, is helpless., and the coun
ty court does not meet until July 7.
Ship Wallowa Cattle.
Wallowa The Bales-Jones company,
of Grangeville, Idaho, shipped 570 head
of cattle from Wallowa last week to
the Red Rock, Mont., ranges for the
summer. The cattle were ' purchased,
from Routh & Day, of Asotin, Wash.,
who bought them last fall for June de
livery from John McDonald. The price
is said to have averaged better than
$25 per head. The band consisted of
cows, heifers, yearlings and calves.
Routh & Day also bought 70 2-year-old
steers, which they sold to B. C. Sirgin
son, of Sprague, Idaho. A special
train of 15 cars took the cattle out.
La Grande Horse Show Success.
La Grande The La Grande horse
and live stock show, held last week,
was a splendid success, assembling as
it did much of the thoroughbred stock
of Union county. Dr. J. Withycombe,
of the Oregon Agricultural college,
judged the stock and awarded the
prizes in the different classes. Mar
shals in charge of the parade were A.
A. Roberts, H. W. Stein, F. P. Chil
ders, Fred Gaskill and D. C. Brictioux.
Led by the La Grande band, the parade
moved promptly at ,1 :30, passirg
through the principal streets and being
witnessed by thousands of people.
Hay Harvest on harly.
La Grande Hay harvest was usher
ed in a few days ago by the starting of
two mwores on the C. D. Huffman al
falfa farm near this city. J. W. Mc
Allister and Dexter Ea'on have also
started cutting. Owing to the scarcity
of hay. the first cutting will bring top
notch prices, dealers offering from $13
to $15 pr ton. The high price will
cause a great deal of alfalfa to be cut
earlier than otherwise. The hay harv
est will be on in full blast in a week or
ten days.
One Grower Failed to Dip.
Pendleton The failure of one Lake
county woolgrower to dip his sheep in
accordance with instructions issued,
will necessitate a special inspection of
all the sheep in the county. Dr. W.
H. Lytle, state veterinarian, has just
returned from an official visit to that
section of Oregon, and as a result the
special inspection has been ordered, for
he discovered several thousand heal of
sheep had been infected with ecab
bies. PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.3007
1.35; club, $1.20071.22; valley,
$1.17.
Corn Whole, $35 per ton ; cracked,.
36 per ton.
Barley Feed, $340735 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $410742 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$1707 2 0 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $20
0 23.
Fru'ts Applrs, $1(JT2.50 per box;
strawberries. $1.150 2 per crate; cher
riep, $1071.25 per box; gooseberries,
5c per p und.
Potatoes $1.25072 per hundred.
Vegetabls--Asparagus, 750790c per
dozen; lettuce, head, 25c: onions. 1214
01 5c; parsley, 35c; peas, 50 6c per
pound; radishes, 15c per dozen; rhu
barb, 3T3J-2C wt pound.
Butter City creamery, extras,
26fcc; fancy outside creamery, 250)
26J.cper pound; store, 18c. Butter
fat prices average lc per pound un
der regular butter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 240725c per
dozen.
Poultry Hens, 1407 1 4aC perpound;
springs, 18c; roosters, 80 9c: ducks,
young, 170 18c; geese, 100llc; tur
keys, 180 2Cc; squabs, $2072.25 per
dozpn.
Pork Fancy, 10c per pound.
Veal Extras, 808c per pound;
ordinary, 7c: heavy, 6c.
Hops 1909 contracts, 130 14c per
pound; 1908 crop, 90 10c; 1907 crop,
5053c; 1906 crop, 2(2z.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 17022?4'c
per pound; valley, fine, 23c; coarse,
21 He; mohair, choice, 240 25c.
Cattle Steers, top, $4.75; fair to
good, $4,2504.50; common, $404.25;
cows, top, $4; fair to good, $3,500
3.75; common to medium, $2,5003;
calves, top, $505.50; heavy, $3.500 4;
bulls and stags, $2.75073.25; common,
$202.50.
Hogs Best, $8078.15; fair to good,
$7.50077.75; stockers, $6076.50; China
fats, $6,7507.
Sheep Top wethers, $4; fair to
good, $3.5007,3.75; ewes, c less on
all grades; yearlings, best, $4.15;
fair to good, $3. 7504; spring lambs, '
$4.75075.25.