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BEAVER STATE HERALD ~1 CZAR PARDONS TWO. STORES IN TIERS. Sentence* on Admiral Nabogatoff and Gensral Sto****l Revoked. Crowded Condition of State Street, Chicago. Is Responsible. SL Petersburg, May 19. Th«- csar today ordered th«- release of Admiral Nebogatoff and General Stossael, who Were confin«>d at the fortress of SL Peter and SL 15101, under sentence* of ' life imprisonment Nebogatoff surren dered hi* fleet to Admiral Togo and Soeaeel surrendered Port Arthur during ., . . w . , the war with Japan. They were trie«! for cowardice, and imprisoned for life ------------- after the close of the war. Stoessel is Less Important but Not Les* Inter» believed to be dying and Nebogatoff is very sick. While the illness of the estmg Happenings from Points pair was given as the reason for the Outside the State. czar's pardon, it ia known that popular agitation along other lines had a cer tain bearing upon the case. General Meredith, the novelist, ia There has been an unusually strong dead. undercurrent of unrest for some time, Captain Hains has been sentenced to and the imprisonment of the officers was used as a shield by certain agita- eight years in prison. ; tors. Mr. Taft is suffering from a nervous Another line of attack made on the breakdown, but not seriously. government is criticism over the recent A severe snow storm has just swept appropriation of 80,841.000 roubles for improvement of the army, while no the Alberta, Canada, country. steps have been taken for the relief of The emperor of Russia will visit the thousands of persons who are starv King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy. ing to death in the Kieff district. Dis A suit is to be started by the gov patches are received every day telling ernment to dissolve the United State* of frightful famine conditions in that Express company. district, but as yet no action has been A move has been started by two dis taken by the government Chicago, May 18. Stores in tiers, with each tier connected by private elevator with the floors below, is the innovation to be introduced in the downtown buelneee section of Chicago, *n.l it i* «M th«t will be wati'hiHl with interest. Ths new plan haa been do- vised to meet tho urgent demand for more storeroom on State street "If we can't have stores on tho first floor, give us at least show space there and enough room to run our customer* up to some floor alHive," haa been the cry of thoae merchants anxious to lo cate on State street, but unable to find room, ami tho eatate of L. Z. latter is the first to meet thia urgent demand. The Leiter eatate haa had an-hitei tn prepare plan* for ths conversion of th« seven-story building at tho southeast corner of Stat* and Jackson boulevard, which front* 40 feet on State and 144 feet on Jackson. Architecta plan to divide tho first floor into seven email a lores, and arrangements will be made for tenants to have private elevators connecting with as much additional floor space on the upper floors as they require. GRESHAM OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY TROUBLE OVER BOUNTY. HIGH SCHOOL FOR WESTON. RAILROADS ACCEPT Will Reduce Rates to Contorni to Spokane Decision. New Oregon Law Is Misunderstood Citizen* Propose to Make Good Use in Umatilla County. of Normal School Building. Pendleton From present indications Weeton The district school board there is to be much trouble relative to h«S given i-otu-e of a special meeting the payment of bounties on coyotes May 31 to vote on the proposition of when the now law goes into effect. establishing a high school. This ac Decide Not to Appeal Spokane Rul Though the new law does not operate tion is taken in view of the state nor until May 22. all coyotes killed since mal board's refusal to permit the use ing. but Will Stand Loss to February 1 are subject to bounty. of the state's property at Weston for a Save Trouble. Hundreda of the destructive animate normal school supported with private have been killed in thia county since funds. that date and the trouble is to come The Eastern Oregon state normal Chicago, May 18. The Reconi Her from these acai pa. school will therefore cease to be, with Copies of the law have been received ths commencement exercises May 23- ald says: and it haa been discovered for the first 25, after being conducted more than 20 A lire freight rate schedule from time that all four feet, as well as the yean as a state institution. The state all th« territory east of the Missouri scalp, must be attached to each hide, board will be (letitiooed for the use of river to all the Western cities not lo- and it is thia provision that haa been the state’s plant for public and high cated on the Pacific coast will go into disregarded by the killers. Though school purposes, the district agreeing effect on the transcontinental line* hundreda of hides are ready to be pre to take care of the property for which Jul» I. sented the day the tew goes into effect, no provision was made by the legisl The new rates will be baaed U| mm > it ia not believed that more than a score stare. the rates which the Interstate Com of them have the claws attached. In view of the fact that the com merce commission entered the railroads munity gave all the ground and one of to put in from St. Paul and Chicago to STATE'S FINANCIAL CONDITION the buildings to the state, it is thought BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE BURNTD Spokane and will bo an average reduc that the request will be granted. tion under the present rates of about Treasurer's Statement Shows Over Pride of Japan«** Buddhists »nd It* 15 per cent. Buy Jackson Timber Road. Million Dollars in Strong B om . The railroads decided to do this in Treasure* Destroyed. Medford With the sate of the Paci stead of fighting the order of atbe com inherited son* to contest the wlil of Salem The treasurer's statement fic & Eastern railroad to J. R. Allen, Tokio, May 18. Sojaji, tho famous mission in the courts. the late Claus Spreckles. GENERAL STRIKE IS CALLED. just out shows that the amount of first of New York, during the past week, Buddhist temple in Stub* park, Tokio, One of the officials who are attend mortgage loans outstanding ia the the hopes of Southern Oregon residents ha* be*n destroyed by fire at ■ loa* of Th« laxity of the Porto Rican gov ing said: ernment in caring for its lepers is said Appeal of French Revolutionist* Fail* greatest in the history of the state, that the road be extended to the timber (200,000. "The railroads have decided to try to having reached the sum total of (4,- belt northeast of this city above Butte to Aid Postmen. to be a menace to the United States. Only thoae who knqw the prid* of 390,822.82. As a result the common Falls have risen tremendously, and th* Japanese in th«ir temple* can con carry out tho principle announced by Paris. May 19.—The efforts of the school fund interest is (towing rapidly A Canadian man has offered the de the commission in tho Spokane rate fense of being mentally unbalanced revolutionary labor leaden to bring and there will thereby be a large realty values in the country along the ceive the effect of thia irreparable lose decision, instead of ap|>ealing to the line of the proposed extension have upon the people. The Sojaji temple, when the moon is full and his mother about a general strike of " affiliated amount to apportion among the coun- courts to prevent such a reduction in made a corresponding increase. It next to the great temple at Nikko, our revenue. unions in support of the postal rm- ties August 1. supports the claim. seems that at last the road is to be probably was the moot famous and pop ployes was without result up to mid The common school fund interest ia completed, and with its completion ular show temple In Japan. The New York and New Jersey night. An appeal to the workers of now (232.007.94. Livestock exchange has announetd that one of the largest standing timber Ito wonderful red gate*. which will REWARDS TOTAL «011.000. France to come to the aid of their com The state tax paid into the state it will undertake the promotion of rades in the postal service with a gen treasury during April was large, al belts in the Northwest, a* yet un be rembered by thousand* of tourists, livestock cultivation in the Atlantic touched by the woodman's axe, will be were saved from the flames, but inside Sleuths Flock to Spokane in Search eral strike was issued by the federal most (500,000 being received. On ac coast state« on an extensive scale for the temple compound there remain* committee of the postal employes and count of thia healthy condition of the made accessible. of Train Robbers. food purpose*. only a lonely daibutou of bronte, sur plaarded throughout Paris during the state’s finances, the total amount on Spokane, May 18. Responding to Ontario Demands Action. rounded by piles of wreckage and em Taft ha* been made an associate night. hand is the largest that has ever been Ontario Pltotesting against the ac bowered amid the blackened branches the < ffrr of rewards aggregating (66,- member of the G. A. R. A sensation was caused by the dis held at any time by the state for a tion of private interests who have filed of overhanging cryptomena. A few 000, offered by the Federal authorities covery at the central poetofliee of a Insurance companies of Indiana are great many years, the sum being (1,- on water rights in the Owyhee river other gigantic pieces of bronse stand and the railrood company for the cap being prosecuted under the anti-trust mysterious package resembling an in 173,533.98. without taking active steps to reclaim out lonely amid the mesa of ashea, all ture and conviction of the rubbers who fernal machine. It was carried to the laws. the land, representatives of the Com that ia left of some of the moat won held up and plundered a Great North municipal laboratory and opened under Rogue Bridged at Woodville. mercial club, of Ontario, Weiser, Pay derful art treasure* that were to be ern train near Sjiokane, detectives are Wisconsin propose* to forbid con water. The package contained a de gathering here from many place*. Sev Medford—The court of Jackson coun ette and Vale, met in this city and for found in the Far East tribution* by candidates to churches cayed lobster. eral arrivrd from Denver, and tho ty has ordered construction of a new The fire wee set by a beggar who warded a petition to the Oregon and and secret societies. The committee of the General Fed steel bridge across the Rogue river at Idaho delegations in congress urging was living in a hole underneath the Pinkerton force here haa abren tncreas- A severe wir.d storm at Corry. Pa., eration of Labor today decided to ask Woodville, below Gold Hill, which will The man was odd and • d to 25. an early commencement of the Malheur structure. blew over a circus tent, injuring a the poetmen to return to work, but open a large agricultural district adja Spokane police believe the rul bers irrigation project. There are approxi started a little blaze with a new*|«per with the assurance that the General large number of people. made'their way into Spokane and a Federation of Labor would begin the cent to Woodville but across the river. mately 145,000 acres of fertile land in and a few stick* for warmth. close watch ia kept on the saloons a-d Reno, Nev., is infested with firebugs organization of a series of manifesta The trade of this section has hitherto this district. bulging houses. A number of detec ONE MAN AT HEAD. who are starting numerous fire* in bus tion* in different branches of industry, been diverted to Grants Pass but now tives are working on the theory that iness and residence building*. Sells 23 Acres for «2.133. to emphasize the general claims of the the little city will get all of the trade of that section. A planing mill, a box Weston George Nesbitt, who has General Schatket C*ntr*l Figure in the desperadoes are hiding in the Roosevelt has already started to working class. mountains back of Colbert. factory and a brick yard have recently been employed three yrars on the farm Turkish Affairs. write a series of articles describing Police and railway men say they do been added to the industries of Wixxl- of J. N. York, was surprised recently his African adventures to date. Constantinople, M»y 18.— M uhm id not believe that Charles McDonald, UNCLE SAM AS AUCTIONEER. ville and work has just started on a by the receipt of a "windfall" amount Schefket Pasha, commander of the Governor Hadley has vetoed the in large brick schoolhouse. ing to (2.133. Several years ago Mr. Turkiah Constitutional force*, both on the notorious train robber who broke surance law which was passed by the Smuggled Finery to Be Sold Under Nesbitt acquired for a small sum 23 land and sea, is the man moat fre jail in Helena. Mont., white awaiting Missouri legislature after a long fighL Forest Made Into Orchard, Hammer in June. acres six miles from Boise. He ha t quently in the thought* of tho«* ob trial for holding up a Great Northern Grants Pass — From the primitive since regarded it of no value. When a serving or dealing with the confused tram at Rondo, MotiL, shared in last The army transport Dix, which has New York, May 19.—The govern Saturday's crime. They say McDonald been experimenting with Philippine ment's much heralded sale of costly forest to a field of 50 acres planted to Boise real estate man. Dean Perkins, politic* of th* day in Turkey. would not be likely to agialii Invade coal, reports that it has excellent smuggled gowns will start June 1, thrifty pear trees, apple trees and To came to see him and offered him (2,133 He ia the’ one quiet figure upon steaming qualities and has proven very when the contents of one trunk, con kay grapes is a task that has just been for the tract he closed the deal imme whom rrsta the preservation of order. territory in which he is known to so. many persona. satisfactory. taining 67 shirtwaists, will be offered accomplished by W. B. Sherman, of diately. Th* civil branches of the government this place, within Ave weeks, Just a These waists, appraised look to him to impose their lib*ral rule The Dry Farming congress, which at auction. Dr. Steiner Returns. little over a month ago this same 50- GROWL AGAINST KAISER. upon the empire anil to deal promptly meets at Billings, Mont., in October, at from (50 to (300 each, are said to acre tract was studded with Salem — Dr. R. E. L. Steiner, super pine, fir with persons and factions dangerous to will aim to teach the farmer how to be among the finest produced in Paris and underbrush. Today the intendent of the asylum, haa returned improve- the state. Extravagance of His Welcome Angera conserve moisture by intelligent culti in many years. He was Trunk No. 2. the contents of which ments placed thereon have increased from an extended trip East. The »kill and celerity with which vation and thus increase the producing Austrian Taxpayers. will be offered for sale on June 4, con this property three-fold in value. The accompanied as far a* Chicago by H. General Schefket brought the third area in arid and semi-arid regions. Vienna. May 18.—This city ia echo tains 30 magnificent lace waists, each tract of land in question lies up the E Bickers, superintendent of the fee army cor;is and part of the secorxi The French strike is on the verge of one described as a "dream," and not riveffnear Tokay Heights, and is with ble minded institute. Bickers returned army corps before Constantinople and ing with gossip and comment in con col lapse, but is pledged aid of the labor one appraised at less than (200. several weeks ago. Both made the occupied the capital have amazed the nection with tho visit of Emperor In in plain view of town. unions. trip for the purpose of making a study foreign military men here. Beside* William. It is agreed that the wel trunk No. 3 there are 49 princess of the care of the insane of other those attached to the embassies, seven come of the august visitor was out Two-Day Festival at Lebanon. Three men were killed and 12 badly gowns, the minimum appraisal being I>ebanon The committee appointed states. Dr. Steiner visited Washing officers cams from Germany and five wardly hearty ami that the decoration« injured by an explosion of dynamite (250. They will be offered at auction on June 8. Forty-three princess cos by the Lebanon Business Men's league ton and Senator Chamberlain while British officers from Egypt to observe were on a »cate quite disproportionate near Key West, Fla. tumes in trunk No. 4 will be offered at to make arrangements for the Lebanon there. the development of the campaign. to the brief and Incidental character of Farmerrs of Grand valley, Colo., auction on June 10. Among these are strawberry fair has announced that They have not ceased to discuss the de the visit. Indeed, the extravagance of have protested against Ballinger’s sus PORTLAND MARKETS. several dinner gowns, appraised at (1,- Friday and Saturday, June 4 and 5, tail* of the Constitutional commander’s the municipal authorities haa aroused pension of irrigation work. the indignation of the already overbur 000 and more. On June 12 the shirt have been decided upon as the dates Fruits—Apples, 65cf</(2.50 per box; arrangements. dened tax |>ayera. A bridge on the Wabash railroad waists in trunk No. 5 will be offered at for this festival. The committee has strawberries, Oregon, 12 )4c per pound. "The army is merely an instrument As to the real inward welcome of near Kansas City gave way as a train auction. The total appraisal of the invited the ladies of Lebanon and vi of civil pswer,” said General Schefket Potatoes -(1.751«/2 per hundred. the kaiser, there is lea* Certainty. was crossing and several'persons are smuggled gowns was (520,000. cinity to join with them and have a Vegetables turnips, (1.25 per sack ; today. "The army and I, as an officer Despite glowing panegyrics of the rose festival at the time of the fair. carrots, (1.25; parsn ps, (1.51); beets, in it, derive our authority from the missing. It was also decided to hold a horse (1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; as national assembly. The army is a fin Viennese newspaper* and their as-ev- Sleuths Become Jealous. A non-union baker at New York was erstiona of gratitude for Germany's show at the same time. The horse ex set upon by women and after giving paragus. Oregon, 75ro/(1.25 pFrdozen; ger of parliament only, and works un support in the dark days of the Balkan Spokane. May 19.—The police, the hibition will occur Saturday afternoon, der the will of the cabinet." lettuce, head, 201«/ 50c per dozen; on him a severe beating they threw him sheriff's office and the big force of de June 5. The general had an hour's talk with crisis, coupled with declarations that ions, 125s(7i 15c per dozen; radishes, into a vat of dough. tectives brought here by the Great Hilni l’asha, the grand vizier, at the the future interests of the two empires 151//20c per dozen; rhubarb, 2«/3c per Hill and Harriman officials are con Northern confess they have no clewB Five Miles of Ditch Dug. conclusion of which he said: "The will be still more closely united, poli pound. whatever to indicate the whereabouts tician* are afraid that Austria han ferring with the Interstate Commerce Grants Paas—The farmers and ranch Wheat—Bluestem milling, (1.301«/ grand vizier and I are in perf«-ct ac given Germany a heavy mortgage on commission with a view of forming of the robbers who held up a Great ers of this community are jubilant cord. We have obstructions to over 1.35; club. (1.20; valley, (1.17; red Northern train near Spokane Saturday rates to conform to the Spokane decis come in our progress toward free and her future. Au-tria may be forced to night. There is a woeful lack of co- over the advancement made on the ir Russian, (1.17)44/1.20. ion. , rigating ditches. The gravity ditch on stable institutions I hope we will join Germany in any foreign policy th« Com Whole, (35 per ton; cracked, operatioon'between the sheriff, the po latter choose* to adopt. rise above them." An extra session of the Washington lice and the railroad detectives, and the north side of town has been com (36 per ton. legislature will probably be called to apparently the magnitude of the re pleted almost to the city limits, while Barley—Feed, (34.50 per ton. Drive* Capital to America. Fair Must Make Room straighten out some of the matters wards has excited jealousy and petty on the north side of Rogue river the Oats—No. 1 white, (41 per ton. London, May 18.- -A* a result of the arising from investigation of state offi rivalry. Four suspects arrested a short high land ditch to Fruitdate has been Seattle, May 18.—Unless the officers Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, cials. __ distance from Spokane were released. completed to the opening of the valley. (140118 per ton; Eastern Oregon, (¡8 of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition proposed increased income tax in the Altogether five miles of waterways are 0120; clover, (ll/</12; alfalfa, (130/ provide *pace where the exhibit may budget submitted by the chancellor of Experts estimate that in 10 years ready for use. Water will be turned One Man Can Sink Fleet. 14; grain hay, (130114; cheat, (141«/ be shown to advantage, the display the exchequer, Lloyd.George, the Duke every drop of water available for irri into the ditches within 30 days. sent by the bureau of American repub of Bedford, extensive landholder and 14.50; vetch, (14.Oi 14.50. New Orleans, May 19.—If the de gation will be utilized. For every acre Butter—City creamery, extras, 28c; lic* will be shipped back to Washing scientific farmer, is to invest (2,500,- irrigated there will be 50 acres of dry vice for the destruction of protected Klamath Changes Date. Arrangements were mail« to •too in California, according to a report fancy outside creamery, 270/28c; store, ton. farm land where irrigation possibili magazines aboard battleships and in Klamath Falls—The celebration of 18c. The immens«» Butter fat prices average 1)4 place the exhibit in the mine* build current here today. forts, devised by H. A. Folk, of this ties are exhausted. city, is practical, modem warfare will the completion of the railroad to Kla cents per pound under regluar butter ing. Later this space was given to Thorney estate* in Cambridgeshire Roosevelt says Tolstoi ia a weak other person* and room was reserved were recently sold to the government be revolutionised. Folk claims to have math Falls has been set for June 2 in price*. eader. Eggs- Oregon ranch, 240125c per in the gallery of the Oriental building. by Duke of Bedford fora sum in excess discovered a way by which magazines stead of June 7, so as not to conflict William J. Klob, special agent for the of (250,000. The proceeds of th la sale, A saloon is to be opened in Des in vessels miles distant can be explod with the Rose festival in Portland. dozen. Poultry—Hens, 15)40/ 16c; broilers, bureau, declare* that the space and the it I* said, will be invested in California Moines where treating will be forbid- ed by a wireless spark set off by an This is now authoritative. The event farming lands. den. operator in a tower on the shore. He will be a great one in this section of 280130c; fryers, 220/25c; rooster* location are not in keeping. the Inland empire, and will be made 10c; ducks. 140/15c; geese, 100/11c; Secretary MacVeagh says prosperity claims that one man can destrony an memorable by the gathering of the Prohibit Public Drinking. Welcomed by Jsps. turkeys, 20c; squabs, (2.500/3 per only awaits completion of the tariff entire fleet within a very few minutes. greatest crowd ever known in Klamath dozen. Colorndo Spring», Colo., May 18. Tokio, May 18.- Rear Admiral Giles bill. county. Veal Extra*. 8o/8)4c; ordinary, 7 R. Harber, commanding the Aaaitie An additional precaution to insure th« Czar 41 Years of Age. O/7)4c; heavv, 60/6)4c. Fire at Long Island, Kan., destroyed squadron of the Peciflc fleet, with his carrying out of the wishes of th«-"dry’’ St. Petersburg, May 19.—In the se Presbyterians Plan Big Meet. Pork—Fancy, 10c per pound. five business buildings, causing a loss clusion of the imperial palace at Peter staff and the captains of the ship* co/>- element of Colorado Spring*, victorious Interest in the Presbyterian Brother estimated at (100,000. Hop*—1909 contract. 9c; 1908 crop, posing the squadron, were granted an in the recent loc*l option election wan hof Emperor Nicholas passed his forty- hood convention in Portland June 8 and 80/8 >4c; 1907 crop, 30/4c; 1906 crop, audience with the emperor and empress supplied tonight in an ordinance pre The Farmers’ union, at its national first birthday yesterday. The custom 9 is increasing. A banquet will be yesterday. The officer* were presented sented to the city council by City At convention, has agreed on a plan to ary official observances of the anni given the first night of the convention, Die. Wool Eastern Oregon, 16 0/ 21c; by American Ambassador O'Brien an<| torney C. W. Dolph. By its provision* build warehouses and market wheat versary were held, but owing to the the second day being devoted to ad valley, fine, 24c; medium, 23c; coarse, Admiral Harber was engaged in con drinking liquor in any public place, in tendency of the authorities to suppress without the middleman. dresses and conferences by leading lay 22c; mohair, choice, 240/25c. versation with the emperor for several cluding th«- hotels and restaurant* of any public gatherings or demonstra — . Cattle—Steers, top, (5.50 Or 5.75; minutes. Admiral Harber made an the city. I* a misdemeanor, punishable Physicians attending the annual con tions of whatever character, there was men of the state. The convention will close the second evening jvith a ma»* | fair to gor>1, (50/5.25; common to me unusually favorable impression. by a fine of (100 to (300. vention of the Illinois Homoepathic no popular celebration of the day. meeting addressed by officers of the dium, (4.60014.75; cows, top, (4.250/ Medical association advocated the re National Brotherhood. Ko-em Cabinet Control*. 4.50; fair to good, (3.750/4.25; com moval of tonsils of everyone subject to Railway Travel Growing Safe. Japanese Strike Broken. mon to medium, (2.50013.50; bull* and tuberculosis. Seoul, Msy 18. Obeying a sudden Chicego, May 18. According to a Honolulu, May 19.—The strike of Willamette to Get Stadium «tag*, (3013.50; common, (2O/.2.75. summon* from Prince Ito, Japan**« report made public by the Pennsylvania The postal strike in France is. not the Japanese plantation laborers is *P Pendleton—That Willamette univer Hog* —Best, (7.50017.75; fair to resident g*n*r*l in Korea, who is now lines, the system carried 141,669,543 parently losing ground. More strike general and failure seems probable. sity, at Salem, ia soon to have the larg good, (7.250i7.50; Stockers, (6O/6.50; in Japan, Viscount Sone, vice presi passengers over 23,000 miles of rails breakers than could be used at the est athletic stadium in the Northwest, China fats, (6.757. dent general, departed yesterday for without the loss of life to a single pas Office seekers and office holding by plantations offered themselves today and that it is sure to become the center Sheep Top wethers, (44.50; fair Tokio, and for the first time in two senger train from train accidents dur professional politicians is becoming a and the employers have decided to order for intercollegiate and interscholaatic to good, (3.500/4; ewes, )4c less on year* the affairs of the Korean govern ing 1908. The number of p*nsengera vocation in the Philippine islands, ac the strikers either to return to work or meets, is the statement given out here al) grades; yearlings, best, (4.50; fair ment are being administered by the injured throughout the year was 102, a cording to the report of Acting Direc leave the Honolulu and Oahu planta by President Homan, when in Pendle to good, (40(4.25; spring lambs, (50/ cabinet without the supervision of Jap decrease of 81.6 per cent from the cas tor Harbord, of the constabulary. tions. ton recently. 5.50. anese official*. ualty list of 1907. Newsy Items Gathered from All rariS 01 rne worm« AVERAGE CUT OF 15 PER CENT