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t Bohemia Nugget Bohemia Nant Co. COTTAGE GROVE. . . OREGON. NEWS OFJE WEEK la a Condensed Fern for Our Easy Readers. A Return of the Lei Important but Not Lees Interesting Events of the Past Week. Extreme cold weather prevails in Nevada. The cxar still hesitates between war and peace. New insurance rates may cause a split in the Royal Arcanum. A disabled Russian torpedo loat de stroyer has been towed into Shanghai. The great powers will back Roose velt's efforts for jeaee in the Far Kast. A few cases of yellow fever coutinue to appear daily in the Panama canal tone. As soon as the war is over Russia will commence work on an immense navy. Remedies for San Jose scale and 'brown apricot" have been discovered at Berkeley. Chicago strike leaders have been ar rested for criminal libel and again in dicted for conspiracy. The Forestry bureau says that with care the famous redwood trees of Cali fornia can be grown anywhere. A sailing vessel bound for Portland, Oregon, was sunk by a British warship in a collision off the coast of England. Hvde and Alexander have joined hands to keep Wall street out of the Equitable Insurance company's affaire. John Hoch, who has acquired note riety by having over 30 wives, has been sentenced to death for poisoning some of them. Norway is preparing for war on Sweden. Germany has blocked French plans in Morocco. A Chicago grand jury has indicted a number of labor leaders. Japan is preparing to make another strike against Russia, this time on land. The First Naional . bank of Lady smith, Wis., baa closed. Its depoeits are $42,000. President Roosevelt has told Count Cassini that Russia had better make peace and offers mediaion. The ciar has answered the demands of his people for peace by ordering the mobilization of four more army corps. A graft has just been discovered in the British army by which officers and contractors standing together stole $5, 000,000. Inspector of the New Orleans police has been dismissed on the charge of receiving $200 per month for protec tion of the tenderloin dietrict. It is now practically assured that Judge De Haven, of California, will try the Oregon land fraud cases in place of the late Judge Bellinger. The Pennsylvania railroad will shortly ettabli'sh the fastest long dis tance train in the world. it win De between New York and Chicago, and will make the run in each direction in 18 hours. The Russians still refuse to consider peace. But little lava is now issuing from Vesuvius. A Colorado irrigation tunnel caved in and buried 25 men. Diplomats of the world look to Roose velt as a mediator. Chicago lumber yards will be tied up by the teamsters' strike. Secretary Morton will resign to be come president of the New York Eub way. The executive committee will pave the streets of Panama city, as indispen sable to sanitation of the isthmus. The Russian admiralty claims to have received a dispatch from Rojest vensky, which he sent from Vladivo stok. France will make no move toward ending the Far Eastern war, saying Russia will take such steps when ready for peace. The total tonnage of Admiral Togo's main fleet when he went into action was 136,886. The total tonnage of the ships he has captured or sunk is 153, ai i . Ha has disDoeed of a greater ton- una than he had. and. accordinir to his dispatches, all his ships are still afloat. A revolution is threatened in Hun gary. The crisis between Norway and Swe den is acute. In the yacht race across the ocean tha American boat AUanuc won. German boat finished second.4 Dewey says Togo has not equaled America s navai vicvonen i iio a simile Russian snip w escape. The Rio Grande river has destroyed much property in Texas by overflowing 's banks. One section of El Paso is flxxled. PORTAGE ROAD COMPLETE. Last Spikes Driven by Governors of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The Dalles, June 5. Three blows of the sledge by Governor Chamlierlain, of Oregon, at Celilo Saturday; five by Governor Mead, of Washington; three by Governor Gooding, of Idaho; three by J. X. Teal, attorney for the Open River association; nine by W. D. Wheelwright, president of the Port land chamber of commerce; three by Senator Clark, of Wyoming, and four by . J. Mariner, secretary of the Open River association, and the two last spikes of the Portage road were driven, the line was formally opened 'or traffic, the locomotive was tooting its whistle and soon was moving off from Big Eddy to the lower terminus, with 250 passengers trailing behind and the first stage of a quarter century's dream opening of the river for navi gation from Lewiston to the sea had come to puss. Speechmaking preceded the driving of the spikes, nor could the strong wind that sung about the ears of the 1,000 auditors make them less eager. Fordid they not regard it as natural a phenomenon for the wind to drive the sand in the narrow chasm of the Co lumbia as for the river cataracts to double their foamy church in freshet time or the syringa to blossom white upon the hillside or the salmon-eating squaws of the Palouse nation to t grunt displeasure when stared at amid their buzzing fishskins? The throng hailed from Lewiston, Spokane, Walla Walla, The Dalles, Portland and other towns in the Co lumbia basin. A very enthusiastic gathering it was, too, resolved not to stop with the portage rond but to work onward for construction of the govern ment canal to take its place. CHANGE IN CABINET. Resignation of Morton Causes Gene ral Shifting by President. Washington, June 5. It is gosssip here today that Charles J. Bonaparte, who has been named to fill the vacancy as head of the Navy department caused by the resignation of Paul Morton, will eventually be given the post of Attorney General Moody. Certain other changes will be made in the cabinet. One of these changes will be the retirement of Mr. Moody. Secretary Victor II. Metcalf will then go to the Navy de partment. Mr. Metcalf is bevond doubt the hardest and most conscien tious worker in the cabinet. The vacan cy thus caused in the department of Commerce and Labor will give the president a chance to call into his cab inet James R. Garfield, who wil be given the commerce and labor port folio. It has been announced by Secretary Shaw that he will not remain in the cabinet lieyond February 1 . This va cancy probably will be filled by Mr. Cortelvou. The pos'oflice portfolio will beoffered to Colonel Harry S. New, of Indiana, now chairman of the National Repub lican committee, a staunch Taft adher ant, and a man who has done yeoman service for the party during the last three National campaigns. The rest of the cabinet will remain. REACH MANILA. Three Russian Vessels Reported Lost Arrive Badly Damaged. Manila, June 5. Rear Admiral En quist, who was commander of the heavy cruiser squadron of the Russian fleet, arrived in the bay at M o'clock this morning on board his flagship, the protected cruiser Aurora, accompanied by the protected cruisers Oleg and Jemtchug. All the vessels were more or less damaged and there were many wounded men on board. In an interview Rear Admiral En- quists executive officer said: When the battle began the admiral was aboard the Cruiser Oleg, which was hit a number of times by the large shot. "The admiral transferred his flag to the Aurora, which then drew the combined fire of many torpedo boat destroyers at close range and the attack of submarines. We were overwhelmed by the latter. A mist arising, we made a dash for the open sea and were followed by the Oleg and Jemtchug." Whole Scheme or Nothing. Washington, June 5. The govern ment will not buy the Sunnyside irri gation work in Washington if the sec retary of the interior approves the state of Washington's selection of 57,000 acres under the Carey act in the Yaki ma valley, according to a letter sent to Representative Jones by officials of the Reclamation service. Should the state's selection be rejected, further consideration will be given the Wash ington company's offer to transfer its plant to the Federal government for $250,000. Lena will Become Hospital Ship. New York, June h. A special dis patch received here from San Francisco says the officials at Mare Island navy yard have received from Washington formal instructions to permit the Rus sian auxiliary cruiser Lena, now in terned at the yard, to proeed to Asiatic waters for use as a hospital ship. She will put off within a month, and it is expected her first destination will be a Japanese port, where wounded Rus sians can be taken aboard. Oklahoma Deluged Again. Guthrie, Okla., June 5. A destruc tive hail and wind storm swept over Greer county today, destroying vegeta tion over an area 10 miles wide by 20 miles long. All crops are ruined, cattle were killed by the score, roofs were carried away and many people were crippled. OPEN TO THE WORLD Centennial ol Lewis and Clark Formally Observed. GREAT THRONG ATTEND OPENING Military Pageant, Addresses by Na tion's Dignitaries and Festivities Inaugurate the Exposition. Portland, 'June 2. -The Lewis and Clark Centennial exposition is optn. Portland is playing host to the world. Yesterday, the opening day, will find a bright place in the history of the na tion, marking as it din's, the stinting point of an enterprise that means the greater upbuilding of the West and Northwest; new trade relations with the Orient; closer trade relationship lotveen the Pacific coast and the At lantic seaboard, and the hundred of attendant and incidental benefitsjhat will accrue to the country. The opening ceremonies and demon strations were on a scale commensurate with the greatness of the day. They were carried through without a hitch of any consequence. Old exposition attaches, who have attended the im portant world's fairs of the past de cade, declared they had never before beheld so pretty or so effective an opening. The attendance iassed even beyond the most sanguine official expectations. Crowds, such as have never before lined the streets of Portland, saw the great military pageant that preceded the opening exercises. Manding room on the three miles of streets was at a pre mium. And when the parade was at an end this ocean of humanity turned its tide on the exposition grounds. Across Guild's lake on the peninsula a section of artillery tolled off the pres idential salute of 21 guns, the dark blue smoke from the cannonading lift ing slowly above the government's pal ace and adding enchantment to the peaceful grandeur of the inspiring landscape to the north. This salute brought on the opening exercises. All ol tne speakers were en thusiastically received. Especially cordial was the reception accorded tiie nation's representatives. The exercises were marred by no unpleasant incident. So orderly was everything that the heavy detachment of policemen and guardsmen were not put to the neces sity of issuing a single admonition. It was exactly 12 o clock to the dot when President II. W. Goode, of the exposition, called for order. It was hardly 2 o'clock when President Roose velt was informed by w ire that all was ready. The president was in waiting for the message at the White house. The great crowd leaned forward in a state of high nervous tension waiting for the first peals of the government chimes, which were to have been Presi dent Roosevelt's first response. But, lucklessly, the chimes failed to work, and after a full minute of breathless waiting, the assemblage was informed by Mr. Goode that the president had sent his greeting. At the same time he declared the exposition formally opened and extended a greeting to all the world. President Roosevelt's con gratulatory telegram was then read and received with tremendous ap plause. There was apparently almost as many people at the fair grounds last night as were present at the opening exercises. Although the exhibits buildings were closed, the exposition by night seemed in every particular as great an attrac tion as during the open hours of the day. When darkness fell upon the heights that raise beyond the fairy city the reason was plain. As a feast for the eye the spectacle was incomparably beautiful. The fireworks which were a feature of the evening, were beautiful in the extreme, but they paled before the splendor of the electricity. Admissions 33,577. As nearly as could be estimated by Chief of the Department of Admissions F. B. Davison the total admissions at the Lewis and Clark exposition yester day was 30,577. This estimate was announced last night after the gates had been closed to the public and re portb from the three entrances had been counted. Mr. Davison says that his estimate is not absolutely correct and that he will not know the exact num ber of admissions until today. He says, however, that his estimate will not vary more than 200. Unparalleled Record. That the business record of the pre- exposition period is unparalleled in the history of expositions, is tne statement of Director of Concessions and Admis sions John A. Wakefield. Yesterday he gave out the following statistics: Concessions department Concessions revenue collected, $7,414. Receipts General admissions, $27,222.50 ; com mutation tickets, $1,022.60; admission tickets, $17,070; photograph passes, $3,222; badges, $2,967. Two Revenuo Cutter Here. There are two revenue cutters now in port. The Ruhs arrived shortly after dusk last evening and dropped anchor in the stream above the Burnside street bridge and just astern of the cutter Mo Culloch. The Rush was on her way from Seattle to San Francisco, when she received orders at Port Townsend to stop at this city. She will remain here for some time and will then pro ceed south. FAIRBANKS AT CEREMONY. Magnificent Building Erected by Wash ington Formally Opened. Portland, June II. The bonds of friendship existing between the (wo greatest states in the Northwest were even more firmly cemented yesterday at the Lewis and Clark exposition, when the magnificent Washington State binding was formally dedicated with ceremonies second only to the opening day exercises of Thursday. The spirit of friendliness which binds the two states together In the great task of developing and upbuilding the Northwest was exemplified by the elo quent addresses of the speakers who rep resented both the state of Washington and the state of Oregon, Vice President Fairbanks, the personal representative of the president, honored the Washing ton delegation by his presence and de livered a short but very pointed and appropriate speech. The condition of the weather was perfect before and during the cere monies, but immediately after the close of the exercises dark and heavy cloud appeared on the horir.on, giving the impression that the unfavorable weath er had been delayed because of the iesoct the elements held for the great state of Washington. Long before the commencement of the exercises, which J were held at 11 o'clock, Washington inns, Oregonians and visitors from all patts of the United States la'gan to assemble in anticipation of the dedi cation. By the time the hour arrived for the owning of the ceremonies the exposition grounds east of the Wash ington building were crowded with people. Hundreds of them were from Wash ington, and it is said that there was not a city in the state, no matter how it ranked in importance with its sister cities, that was not represented at the dedication. There were visitors from even the remotest portions of Washing ton, who traveled many miles on horseback to reach a railroad which would take them to Portland. The delegations from Spokane, Seattle, Ta coma and Walla Walla were particu larly large, the most prominent public men leing in attendance. QUOTES HISTORIC INCIDENT Russia Cries for Punishment of Ne bogatorT tor Surrendering. St. Petersburg, June 3. Feeling in the admiralty against Rear Admiral NelogatofT continues to run high, the majority of the naval authorities lieing deaf to the appeals f the few w ho insist that the admiral s action in sur rendering his warshiis should not lie condemned until the circumstances become fully known. The majority say they could forgive anything hut surren der and point to the precedent in the case of the Russian ship Raphael, which, in 182t, during the Russo Turkish war, struck its colors to three Turkish ships which surrounded it. Nicholas I meted out a terrible punish ment to the officers and crew of the Haphael, ordering that all of them should be shot after their exchange and directing that, if the ship should ever be recaptured, its infamous history should he blotted out by the total de struction of the vessel. The Raphael, strange to say, was recaptured 34 years later at Siuope during the Crimean war, a son of the captain who sur rendered her taking part in the battle, and to this son fell the task of execut ing the dead emperor's orders to de stroy her. Many naval authorities claim that the emperor should reserve the same fate for Admiral Nebogatoff. PACIFYING EAST SAMAR. Removal of Corrupt Officials May End Rebellion. Manila, June 3. Brigadier General George M. Randall w ill sail for the United States on June 15. Brigadier General Carter, commander of the department of the Visayas, now engaged in the pacification of the na tives on the east coast of the island of Samar, has 16 companies of infantry and 12 companies of scouts operating in the field, with four more companies of infantry under orders. The uprising of the natives in this quarter is not against the government. They have rebelled on account of the corrupt prac tices of native officials and hemp agents, who have been underpaying the men for their products. Sailors Mutiny in Battle. London, June .'!. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Times wires that he had obtained from high authority a report that Admiral Neboga toff's sailors mutinied in the battle and threw the admiral and many of their officers over board. He states further that the sailors found their officers in the cabins and hoisted a white flag, surrendering to the Japanese. It is said that eight men of Nebogatoff's squadron were hanged for mutiny while the squadron was still in the Red sea. , Limit on Land Acquisition. Washington, June 3. The commis sioner of the general land office has is sued instructions to registers and re ceivers of land offices throughout the courtry that in the future no person shall be permitted to acquire more than 320 acres of nonmineral public land under the existing laws. Heretofore applicants have been permitted to in crease that quantity under the timber and stone and soldier additional home stead laws. Wicked Wind Betrayed Him. Tokio, June 3. A telegram from Sasebo says that Admiral Rojestvensky stated in an interview that he hoped to clear Tsu island in a fog, but a sudden -.1- (a1 j. 1 i it n.A ilia trtt anil Jbouiij wentci it v v-i v.w v-e .... revealed the presence of his fleet, OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TAX ON TRAVELING STOCK. Supreme Court Will Pats on Validity of Recent Law. Salem -A suit has been hmuiiht In l ake county to test the validity of I he act of the last legislature specifying the manner in which livestock shall lx as sessed and the taxes thereon shall be paid. The new law provides that w hen livestock is assessed, the tax shall be then paid or secured at the rate of levy for the preceding year, and that when such stock Is driven into another coun ty tor pasturage, it shall Ih assessed there ami the owner shall pay a tax to that county according to the time the stock was pastured therein. The owner can recover from the first county such portion of his tax as he paid to the sec ond county. The purpose of the law was to place a restriction upon the driving of Mock into this state from other states, or from one county to another, the object being to lessen the ranue troubles. A suit was brought by ijiko county to enforce the payment of th tax, and the defendant set up by demurrer that the law is unconstitutional lcaue it requires payment of a tax at a rate dif ferent ftom the rate charged Uon other classes of projierty. It is understood that the court sustained the demurrer and that the case will be appealed to the Supreme court at once, so that the question may Ik settled. FILES ON 1 HE KLAMATH BASIN. Government Secures Itself Against Speculators in Irrigation Tract. Salem The United States govern ment has filed in the office of State Engineer John II. Lewis, a notice of intention to appropriate all the unused waters of Malheur river ami of the Klamath basin. This notice is given under the irrigation act passed by the last legislature, and serves to prevent any water rights which will conflict with the governments needs. The government has three years within which to file its plans and begin the construction of its irrigation system. The filing of the notice gives the gov ernment protection against speculators during that time. A. K. Black, of Eugene, has filed in the office of the Btate engineer a notice of his appropriation of the waters of Waldo lake, in I.ane county, lor irriga tion purposes. His notice was filed in the office of the county cleik of I.ane county, but under the new law it must be filed in the office of the state engin eer also. Putnam Remains State Librarian. Salem J. B. Putnam has been elect ed state librarian by the judge of the Supreme court, under the provisions ol the act of the last legislature. Hereto fore the librarian has been elected by the legislature. The last legislature was of the opinion that the library should le under the control of the Su preme court, and gave the court power to ernidov a librarian who would serve during the pleasure of the court. Mr. Putnam has been state librarian for 20 years, having leen elected the first time by the legislature of 1885. Annual Fair at Roseburg. Roseburg The annual fair for the 1 Southern Oreiron agricultural district w ill bo held on the fair grounds ime mile east ol Kosctmrg, eptemlier ! to 1(1 ini'hiHive. Arrangements will also probably be made for holding the annual pioneer reunion lor tins county at the district fair grounds rM-pteinher 1 1 Rni 112. The board of trustees has offered the pioneers free use of the grounds during those two uays lor me purpose named. Opp Strike a Real Bonanza. Medford With $8,000 taken out in the first two days after the strike in the Opp mine, and the rich ore promising to continue, the find in this once re jected mine looks like a bonanza equal to the famous Gold Hill ore of early days. Should the rich streak continue even 20 feet, which will apparently be the case, it will yield at least $150,000. The ledge is seemingly a continuous one of wire gold bearing quart.. Offer Money and Demand Land. Salem A number of persons holding certificates of sale of state land, which certificates the Marion county grand jury declared were secured fraudulent ly, are coining forward with money to make payments and are strongly pro testing that there was no fraud in the transactions. Some of the certificates are still in the hands of first purchasers while others are held by assignees. Warehouse for Wallowa Wool. Elgin A large warehouse to be used for a storeroom for the large quantity of wool soon to come out of Wallowa county has been completed. This warehouse was built by a company of farmers of this section, known as the Farmers' Exchange and Forwarding company, which will conduct a general forwarding business, and also carry farm implements and vehicles. - Northern Union Savmill Season. Elgin The many sawmills tributary to this place have begun active opera tions, and ere long a large influx of men and teams will be engaged in hauling the output of these mills to Elgin, where the lumber is prepared for the market, being manufactured into all kinds of building materials, which are shipped to all parts of the country. REVENUE CUT OFF. Eastern Oregon Experiment Station Without Funds for Work. Salem The filing of the referendum ' petitions has left the Fastem Oregon Agricultural experiment stat Ion entire ly without funds, The last legislature raised the appropriation from $10,000 to $15, 000 a year, but at the. same timo passed an act w hich requires that w hen ever public property at any Institution is sold, the proceeds shall he paid to the stats treasurer and he turned into i he general fund. Attorney General Craw ford has given an opinion in which be holds that this latter act applies to articles produced at the experiment station. Since the appropriation was included In the om nibus bill, which has been held up by the referendum, all revenue for the ex periment station is cut oil. When the omnibus bill was up for consideration in the senate last winter, Senator Pierce made a strong pica for the raise of $5,000 a year in the appro priation. Hi argument was that the station has had a revenue of nearly $5,000 from the sale of produce, and that since this had Ix-en cut off by the act requiring that the proceed lm turned into the general fund, the leg islature should make up for it by in creasing the appropriation. As soon as the referendum petition was filed, the Agricultural college people began an effort to hold the proceeds of sales, if possible. In order to get an expres sion from the attorney general, his opinion was asked and his unfavorable answer was given. Might Burn Up Town. Astoria The new crude oil tank of the Standard Oil company, in this city has received its baptism by the oil tank steamer Asuncion pumping 5,000 gal lons of elude oil into it, there !cing no oMisitiou from any of the city author ities, notwithstanding the general dis cussion by the council that it would be a serious menace to the safety of the adjacent property, and might lie tho cause of a lire that would destroy a large Mrtion of the city. It is un doubtedly located in a position that if it should get afire during one of the regular summer Northwest winds, the. entire city would Ik menaced. Speculators are Shut Out. Salem State land officials are ex ceedingly well p1 eased by the decision if the secretary ot the interior, to the effect that the state can select indemni ty land for all state school lands inside forest reserves. While the department has held that the state may select in demnity land for both surveyed and uusurveyed sections, the state w ill have little opMirtunity to select indemnity on surveyed sections for the reason that, these sections were Ismght up by Bec u hi tors before the state land board learned that the government proposed, to create the reserves. State Land Sale. Salem The state land lsiard has de cided to sell to the highest bidder all the school sections in the portion of the Warner mountian reserve that were recently restored to entry. There are 11,720 acres of school land in the tracta restored. Sealed bids for the land will be received by the state land bouid at its meeting on the second Tuesday in July. When the government withdrew ita lauds from entry for the purpose ot creating forest reserves in Klamath and I-ako counties, the state withdrew from sale all state school lands in the same tract. Wood Washes Away. Lebanon A slight rise in the San tiam river at this place caused tbo breaking of the txiom which had been placed in the river to hold the cord wood floated down the river to tbo paper mill at this place, and about 1,000 cords of wood floated down tho river. It is not probable that any great amount of it can ho saved at points below here, and the loss to the mill company w ill lie about $2,000. A few hundred cords were lost by the mill in a similar way last fall. It was be lieved the boom was much stronger. Warner Case to Supreme Court. Salem Attorney General Crawford has returned from Lake county, w hero he tried the case for the. Warner valley settlers against the Warner Valley Stock company. The trial court sus tained a demurrer to the attorney gen eral's complaint and the attorney gen eral appealed to the Supreme court where the question will be settled whether the Warner valley settlera have a good case against the company for title to their lands. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 85c per bushel; bluestem, H0lc; valley, 85($87c. Oats No. 1 white, feed, $21). 00 per ton; gray, $20.00. Hay Timothy, $14(81'! per ton; clover, $11012; grain, $11312; cheat, $1112. Eggs Oregon ranch, 1818c doz. Butter-r-Fancy creamery, 1 7 21 s Apples Table, $1.6002.60 per box Strawberries Oregon, 60c$1.25 per crate. Potatoes, Old, $11.15; new pota toes, l?42c per pound. Hops 11)04, 2325c per pound. Wool Choice, Eastern Oregon, best, 1023c per pound; valley, 272ic per pound; mohair, 3132$c per pound.