PAGE TWO THE ECHO REGISTER, ECHO, OREGON, Fill DAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1900 BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK Condensed Dispatches from All Parts of the Two Hemispheres. Interesting Events from Outside the State Presented In a Manner to Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader Matters of National, Historical and Commercial Importance. The widow of Claus Sprecklf s baa been awarded $3,000,000 of her bus- Land's estate. It now seems as though the Chicago streetcar men will win their fight with the company. Williiam R. Wallace has been chosen for the Democratic candidate for may or of Salt Lake. James J. Hill ssys too many people are going to the cities instead of stay ing on the farm. Thousands of acres of pasture and wood land has been burned over in So noma county, Cal., by forest fires. Peary reiterates that he is the only white man who ever saw the Pole and promises to disprove Cook's claim. Dnvid E. Thompson, United States ambassador to Mexico, has secured control of the Pan-American railroad, a line 244 miles long. The port of Mulege, on the east coast of Lower California, was over whelmed by a tidal wave September 4. Considerable property was destroyed. By the election of J. P. Morgan, Jr., as director in a Harriman bank, har monious relations are shown to exist between the Morgan and the Kuhn Loeb-Standard Oil group of financiers, Dewey says the United States needs a larger navy. It is said the Harriman estate will not be divided. The Peary-Cook controversy baa grown very bitter in New York. Rear Admiral Schley favors Cook, notwithstanding that reary is a navy man. Sweden has taken steps to end the labor war. Arbitration will be in aisted upon. The biennial convention of the na tional association of machinists is in session at Denver. It is expected that 10,000 delegates will attend the Eagles national con vention at Omaha. St. John's Catholic church, New Or leans, has been almost totally destroy ed by fire. Loss $200,000.. General Reyes says he has never been a candidate for the vice presi dential nomination in Mexico. New York, fears a tong war in its Chinatown, and has sent scores of ad ditional police to that section. Cardinal Gibbons saya that while he should like to see prohibition rule, he does not believe the present move will be successful. Fairbanks has left China on his way to Manila. The Santa Fe ha withdrawn its or ders for fast trains from the East Hurglara succeeded in getting away with jewelry valued at $100,000 in rittshurg. Spanish forces in Morocco have been greatly reinforced and now hoe to de feat the Moors. The first snow has fallen in Mon tana. Should it continue much uncut grain will be damaged. Hill has attacked the Southern Pa cific land grant in order to force an entrance into Southern California. The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound road has ottered to carry mail from Chicago ato Puget sound in f9 hours. Pernicious anaemia and oedema of the lungs was the chief cause of llarri man's death, according to Dr. Lyle, his physician. Ex-I"resident Roosevelt has been named as a delegate to the worl l's mis sionary conference at Edinburgh, Scot land, next June 14 to 24. reary says he will prove Cook was never at the Pole. Harrman lines are not likely to have any more one-man power. Canadians are determined to re-open the Bering sea sealing question. Harriman stocks did not drop on the Stock exchange as was expected. Lord Roe 'berry has left the Hritinh Radical party and joined the Liberate. The first drawing in the Cuban na tional lottery yieldtd the government $100,000 profit. Latest advices say 10.000 lives were lost in the earthquake which destroyed Acapulco, Mexico. Chicago carmen are again endeavor ing to arrange for arbitration with the streetcar company. The situation in Northern Mexico is still serious and there is much suffer ing among the people. Unusual building operations throagh out the United States is reported for August. Portland shows an increase of 29 per cent. J. P. Morgan has offered financial aid to Explorer Cook. FOREST FIRES RAGE. Blaze Threatens Many Ranches and California Resorts. San Francisco, Sept. 15. Several thousand men are engaged in a dozen counties of this state in fighting nu meroua forest fires that threaten ranch and resort buildings, as well as many square miles of valuable timber lands. As a result of these conflagrations un usual heat prevails along the coast Great damage already has been done to ranch houses and several groups of summer resort hotels and tent cottages have been destroyed. The most serious fires reported today are in Northern bonoma. Western Nampa. Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Lake and Los Angeles counties. In Nampa county, where Walter Springs was de stroyed and the cottages and tent hous es at Burk's sanitarium were badly damaged, the fire burned itself out to day, but in the hills near Preston the flames are spreading. In the icintty of Ukiah the whole country is ablaze. Fire fighters are back firing to save the city from de struction. In the vicinity of Cal is toga the conflagration that threatened that town last night has been controlled. A hundred men from St Helena succeed ed in saving suburban residents scat tered through the foothills. Near Watsonville a fire has been burning for two days, spreading in the direction of Gilroy. Rangers sureeded in saving the big trees. Thousands of acres in the foot hills west of Donovan valley, Lake county, have been swept by the flames, but they are now under control. For a time the oil region around Whittles was in danger. Most of the fires so far reported originated at points where campers had leit embers or from sparks from engines. WOULD REFORM FINANCES. at President Opens Western Tour Boston With Revelations. Boson, Mass., Sept 15. President Taft yesterday began his toor of the country, by coming to this city from Beverly in an automobile, accompanied by Mrs Taft, his daughter and Pro fessor and Mrs. Louis Moore, and mak ing a speech at the Boston Commercial club, which was devoted mainly to a discussion of financial reform. The president revealed that the Mon etary commission will recommend the establishment of a central bank and that Senator Aldrich intends to stump the country in order to arouse interest in his plan of financial reform. He also dwelt on the need of reform in the interstate commerce and anti-trust laws and strongly deprecated section alism, either between East or West or North or South. The president said he was going to take his Western trip because be be lieved it would enable im to be much more efficient president and make him better acquainted with the needs of that great section. He also outlined some of the matters to be sub mitted to the next congress. SEPARATION IDEA GROWS. Begin Southern California Taxpayers Spreading Propaganda. Los Angeles, Sept. 15. Members of executive committees appointed at a mass meeting of taxpayers in Symphony hall yesterday, will meet tomorrow to organise and issue a formal call for a conference to consider the formation of the state of South California. Under the terms of the resolution the conference is to be held within 30 ays. Although yesterday's meeting went on record as favoring state divi sion, the conferences are to consider II phases of the question carefully, ard to decide whether the formation of a newstate is desirable. If it decides in favor of it. a convention is to be called, to which all counties and all the prin- ipal cities in Southern California will be asked to send delegates. Boy of 80 Beats It in 10. I -s Angeles, Cal , Sept 15. When Dr. B. W. Lawrence, 80 years old. lined up at the taje opposite the Hol- enbeck horn to go against time for 50 yards an inconsiderate youth yelled "Beat it. kid." The venerable anti- rigarettist twiddled his white whiskers disdainfully and "beat it " He trav eled that 50 yards in 10 seconds flat. The time was taken by two men, hut not. of course, under sanction of the A. A. U. "I'll sign against anybody for Thanksgiving day," the aged phy aician said. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON WATER UMATILLA LAND. Seven Irrigation Projscts Supply 100, OOO Acres. Pendleton Between Pendleton and the town of Umatilla are seven big irrigation projects able to furnish we ter in sufficient quantities for first class irrigation. The United States government is ir rigating 20,000 acres of choice land immediately surrounding the town of Hermiston. This land ia telling f r $100 to $1,000 an acre, the price de pending on the improvements that have been made. The Columbia Land company is irri gating 10,000 aces of land around the townsite of Stanfield, and has already sold to two big parties of buyers' this summer and expert to sell the entire tract this fall and winter. The Hinkle Ditch company is irri gating 17,000 acres of land between here and Hermiston. The. Butter Creek Water company is irrigating 6,000 acres of choice land in the same neighborhood. The Brownell company is irrigating 1,500 seres and in addition is furnish ing water to the town of Umatilla. J. P. McManus will, within the next month, throw open for settlement a fine body of land near Pilot Rock. In addition to these projects the Irri- gon Irrigation eompany is irrigating 20,000 acres of land around Irrigon, and the Milton and Freewater project, that embrace something like 30,000 acres mora. With this body of land already under irrigation the movement ia but in its infancy and the next few years will see thousands and thousands of choice acres brought into cultivation which are now in a non-productive state. Plan Model Farm. Med ford The Modoc orchard, fam ous as the old Bybee tract ia not to be subdivided and sold in small tracts, as was first planned, but will be planted and operated as one of the greatest orcharda in the world by the Potter Palmer estate of Chicago. Approxi mately 200 acres will be set to fruit trees this winter. Ninety acres will be prepared and planted to potatoes next spring. Between 200 and 300 acres will be sown in grain. Nearly 1,300 acres, mostly bottom land, com pose the tract which lies along both sides of the Rogue for two miles. All the land can be irrigated from the Rogue or from Little Butte creek, which flows through it V Land Board Defendant. Salem State Treasurer Steel has been served with a copy of the sum mons and restraining order in the Lin coln county tidelands case. This is the case in which the state land board restrained from declaring forfeited to the state certain tidelands in Lin coln county. The papers are filed in Marion county and the state land board is required to appear within 10 days after service of the papers. The board will be represented by the attor ney general'a office. Cody Company Leases Mill. Ban Jon The Cody Lumber company. whose mill burned here recently, has leased the Lyons & Johnson mill. which haa been shut down for some time, end is manufacturing lumber while the burned mill is being re placed. The Cody company is also negotiating with the owners of the Aberdeen mill, which hss also been shut down, and if the deal is com pleted the two mills will ssw mi re lumber than the one that was burned, DRY FARMING AREA. Ore- Canadian Scores Tariff. Hamilton. Sept 15. The annual meeting of the Canadian Manufactur ers' association began here todav. President R. Hobson characterizes the condition of the American senate as violation of the trut reposed in it by the people of the United States and barren cf all desire to create closer trade relations with Canada. He called upon the Canadian government to take them at their word and bring into effect the surtax act of 1909. Tidal Wave Sweeps Port Mexico City, Sept 15. The Port of Mulege, on the east coast of Lower California, was overwhelmed by a tidal wave September 4, There were several casualities and considerable property wa destroyed. The tidal wave flooded the inland district for a distance of about two miles. Mount Vesuvius in Action. Rome, -Sept 15. A dispatch from Portico, on the Bay of Naples, to the Glornale d'ltalia says that Mount Ve suvius is active again. Guides report rumblings followed by slight seismic shocks. The small craters have been unusually active in the last few days. New Judge for Lincoln. Salem B. F. Swope, county judge of Lincoln county, has resigned and Governor Benson has appointed C. H Gardiner, a retired hardware merchant of Toledo, to the office. Mr. Gardiner was highly recommended for the posi tion by the citizens of Lincoln countv. He is 55 years old and a Republican. Earlier in life he traveled out of Port land for a wholesale hardware house, and was county clerk in Illinois 15 years before coming to Oregon. Irrigation Brings Settlers. La Grande Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars would be a conserva tive estin ate of the improvements that will be made in the building of new homes on the land roon to be placed under irrigation just east of town. This means 100 new homes. It is possible and quite probable that twice this numter of families will be build ing new houses, barns and furnishirg homes and farms with required stock and implements. Market Place Provided. Oregon City After a vain struggle for more than 10 years to secure a commission house for Oregon City, the desired end hss at last been accom plished, and there has been organised the Oregon City Commission company, with a capital stock of $15 000, more than half of which has been paid in. Articles of incorporation has been filed in the office of County Clerk Green-man. Governor Benson Home. Salem Governor Benson is in his office sgain after a vacation of a month in San Francisco. The governor is looking fine and ssys he feels as good aa he looks. Prunes Se at High Price. Can by Clarke Brothers are prepar ing to dry 50 tons of prunes from their big orchard near her. The output haa been contracted at S cents per pound. Railroads Building Into Central gon Opsn Vast Tract. Bend One more Or f gon treasure chest haa been opened by the magic key of transportation. With the prom ise of a railroad for Bend interest has suddenly centered on the opening of the prairie-like desert land lying south east of town. From 15 to 80 miles from Bend is a huge area of untouched government land just placed under the Mondell act, which makes possible 320 sere home steads under certain conditions. More than 250,000 acres of as good wheat land as thst offered by any dry farm ing country are opened to settlement on this "high desert" as it is general ly known by ranchers. All of the land is vaid to be level and practically free from rock, with water everywhere pro curable at depths varying from 10 to 50 feet Although the great value of this vir gin stretch of country has long been recognized, St has hitherto been im practicable to open it for wheat rais ing, no matter what the yield may be without transportation to the markets. It is a curious phenomena that abundant water supply for wells should be found in a country apparently so entirely dry. In one place it is re ported that a three foot hole scratched out by coyotes became a tiny well. At a dozen places in the Deschutes coun try springs bubble up in the midst of arid dust unaccountable except by subterranean river passages in the lava rock. A dosen miles from Bend, and as msny from water, is a great rave, perpetually full of ice, well illus trating the erratic pranks of Dame Nature, when she fashioned Central Oregon. Boise-Coos Road Incorporated. Salem Articles of incorporation of the Boise & Western railway have been filed in the office of the secretary of state. The purpose of the corporation is to construct a railroad from Boise, Idaho, to Marshfield, Or. The incor porators are : C. W. Mallet William N. Hanley and J. W. McCullock. Power is conferred upon the new cor poration to condemn rights of way, to acquire property and to contract for the construction of a railroad and operate it after it hs been construct ed. The capital stock of the enter prise is $50,000. The managing offices of the railroad are to be in Portland. Wallowa Sugar Beets Good. Wallows The sugar beet fields of this county have been investigated by the representatives of the Amalgamate 1 Sugar company. Job Pingree, gen-e-al field superintendent, and J. F. Wbeatstone, an experienced field work er for the company, highly compliment ed Foreman T. W. Workman on the work be baa accomplished. If suffi cient land can be secured the growing of beets will be continued in this county by the company. Union Ships Poles. Union L. M. Sturgill is filling a contract for five cars of 35 foot poles for Boise. The poles are being hauled out Shipment will take place as fsst as cars can bo bad. PORTLAND MARKETS. Butter City creamery, extras, 85c; fancy outside creamery, 30fi34c; store. ziqizc. outer rat prices average 1 He per pound less than regular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 30 Sic per dozen. Poultry Hera, 15f(?15'c; fprinj?, 16il6)c; roosters, miOe; ducks, young, 14 Hc; geese, young, 10c: tur keys, 20c; squabs, $1.75rn2 per dozen. Fork Fancy, 10M1 0,4c per pound, Veal Extra, WnlOc per pound. wneat uiuestem. 94c; club. 840i 85c; red Russian, 82c; valley. 89c; nre. 84c; Turkey red, 84c; fortyfold. Barley Feed, $26.5Cft27; brewing. $27.50 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley. $13(?iI5 per ton; Eastern Oregon. $16.60W17.50; alfalfa. $14; clover. $14; cheat $13(14.50; grain hay. Fruits Apples, $1(?2.25 per box: pears, $1. 25M 1.50; peaches, 50cfd $1.10 per crate; cantaloupes, 60c($2: plums, Z5fi i be per box ; watermelons. lftrlc per pound; grspes, 75c(r $1.25; casabaa. $1.75fti2. rotatoes si per sack; sweet pota toes, z'4e per pound. Onions New, $1 25 per sack. Vegetables Beans, 4r.i 5c per pound : cabbage, lfnl4c; cauliflower. 75cfi $1.25 perdozen; celery. 50cri$l; corn, IMiZO?; cucumbers, J0(ii25e; onions, 12M?15c: peas. 7c per pound; pep- pert. 661 10c; pumpkins. l(iile: squash. 6e; radishes. 15c per dosen; tomatoes, 40i 60c per box. Hops 1909 contracts. 21c; 1908 erop, 16c; 1907 crop, 12c; 1906 crop, 8. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1 6(i?23c per pound; valley, 23425e; mohair. choice. 24ri25e. Cattle Steers, top, $4.50; fair to good, $44.25; common. $3.75(34; cows, top, $3.25; fair to good. $3(4 S.25; common to medium. $2.50xf f75; calves, top, $6i5.50; heavy, $3.50614; bulla, 1202.25; stags, $2.50 (13.50, Hogs Beet $3.25619.50; fair to good. $7.758; stackers, $66J7; China fata. $7.60i S. Sheep Top wethers, $4: fair to good, t3.50j.75: ewes. He less on all grades; yearlings, best $4; fair to good, $3.50613.75; spring lambs, S544&.25. Producing I Orchards I For Sale- fc We will sell a limited amount of land and set the w Jjj. same to peaches, apples or pears, care for the same for three years paying all taxes and other expenses. For terms address j R. R. WOOD, Secretary. FRANK SLOAN, Superintendent Columbia Land Co., jjg. PortltnJ, Ore. Peidletoi, Or. Ecl-,0re. g. Louis Scholl jr., For Reliable Fire Insurance, Surveying, Notary Public and Real Estate. Phone Main 27 Bridge St., Echo, Or. Grain Wanted We Want to Buy WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, RYE And Will Pay the Highest Market Price. Our Mill is again ready to run, having been thoroughly overhauled. Henrietta Milling & Grain Co. . ECHO, OREGON NEW LIVERY STABLE C. R. Bonney & Sons, Props. New Rigs New Harness KEW WHIPS, NEW ROBES, NEW HORSES t COURTEOUS TREATMENT A SNARE OF THE PATRONAGE SOLICITED TI-IE IDLE IIOTJR Hell Norman, Prop. Cigars, Tobaccos, Nuts, Candies, Soft Drinks. Etc. Pool nnd Billiards Lunch Counter In The Rear 2 I ttttttMMMItMMMMMM Shaving, Haircut! in, Shampooing Everything First Class Dath Room In Connection. Glw9 n, m XrU1 Hotel Echo Tonsorial Parlors KUIUH I STEWUT, Prop. The Echo Register AND T-ricM-wetlOSECCJIja'mL ?2 a Year