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Bohemia Nugget rwk. c. COTTAGE GROVE. . . OREGON. NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Rttuma of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Event of the Past Woek. Chicago is making; an effort to stop all forms of gambling. Indications are that the secretary of agriculture will have to resign. Receipts from the government cable to Alaska show a remarkable growth. Russia has offered to cede half of Sakhalin to Japan, but refuses to pay any indemnity. The Standard Oil company and its greatest rival in California, the Union Oil company, have formed an alliance The sultan of Morocco refuses to give up his French prisoner and troops are expected 1o cross the frontier at once. A Paris paper says it would be a fine opportunity for Rockefeller to perpet nste his name by paying the war in demnity for Russia. It is proposed to have a "Dewey day at the exposition and the great naval hero has been invited to be pres ent and assume charge of a reproduc tion of the battle of Manila bay The entire North Atlantic squadron came near going on the rocks off New- prot. The vessels became lost in a heavy fog and were only saved by the leading ship colliding with a lightship. France is preparing a flying column to attack Morocco. Morocco has about concluded a loan of $2,500,000 in Germany. Peace negotiations have delayed ac tion on the Oregon judgeship. Health authorities believe yellow fe ver will be extinguished in another month. The president spent three hours on board the submarine boat plunger dur ing a trial trip. A tunnel under the Detroit river con necting Detroit and Windsor has been started. The work will take three years. A new treaty of alliance which draws the two nations closer together than ever has been signed by Great Britain and Japan. Baldwin's air ship has made the most successful flight of any yet in vented. It has even eclipsed the fam ous Dumont balloons. ' The Federal grand jury at Portland has indicetd Claude F. Thayer, of Til lamook, and several others who operat ed with him for conspiracy. The affairs of the Chicago world's fair of 1893 have been wound up. The etockholders were paid 14 percent dividends on the $5,500,000 stock. Citizens of New York have nominat ed Jerome for mayor. Lord Roberts, of the British army, will soon visit the Pacific coast. The Japanese people oppose conces sions and want the war to go on. King Oscar is willing to let Prince Charles take the throne of Norway. Yellow fever is still spreading Louisiana, but not in New Orleans. The president has renewed his efforts to arrange a compromise despite the czar's unfavorable reply.. France threatens to seize a Moroccan town unless one of her citizens held a prisoner is surrendered. An unknown man robbed the First National bank at Collinsville, I. T and escaped with $1,200. Olhcers are in pursuit. A Japanese transport collided with a British steamer in the Indian sea and sank. One hundred and twenty-seven soldiers drowned. There is a building boom in New York City and the muniicpal building departments have doubled their staff. The work started from January 1 to June 22 will cost over $60,000,000, or more than during the four preceding years. All Poland is rioting and every fac tory is closed. F. A. Ileinze, the Montana copper king, is buying copper mines in Mexico. DARE NOT MCE PUBLIC VIEWS. Publication of Roosevelt's Proposition Would Force Envoys to Agree. Portsmouth, N. II., Aug. 2S. In an authoritative quarter it is learned to night that the latest suggestions offered to the emperors of the two warring powcis as to an amicable adjustment of their differences also were communi cated simultaneously to the envoys of Russia and Japan. This action on the part of the president was taken in order that no jwsible ground for offense could be taken by the plenipotenti aries because of his direct appeal to the emperors. While the terms suggested by the president are not disclosed, it is known that they were framed on broad hu manitarian lines. It is permissible to sav, in the wows oi cue aumoriiy re ferred to: "If the civilized world could know at this time the precise nature of tha propositions made to Russia and Japan by President Roosevelt, it would seem that the force of the public opinion of the world would induce the plenipo tentiaries and their governments to pause and consider seriously the result before breaking off finally the present conference without an agreement. In deed, they might scarcely dare face the world's opinion by refusing to accept, in principle at least, the suggestions offered by the president." PREPARES TO FIGHT BACKBONE IS STIFF. Russia Rushing Troops Into Far Eastern Territory. HALF MILLION MEN MAY BE SENT Cars and Locomotives Secured Austria any Germany Preparing 6upreme Struggle. In for a WORST MONTH NEAR. in A number of yellow fever cases have been discovered along the Upper Mis sissippi river. The Norwegian storthing has decided to negotiate with Sweden for the pur pose of dissolving the union. The feeling throughout Europe is that peace cannot be concluded between Japan and Russia at this time. Kermit Roosevelt is hunting in botuh Dakota in an endeavor to break bis father's bear killing record. Five deaths have resulted from the collision between a trolley car and a passenger train at Cincinnati last week. Three persons were killed and two freight trains demolished in a head-on collision 18 miles from Topeka, Kan sas, on the Union Pacific railroad. A Chinese envoy has been sent to America to study the exclusion question. September Has Always Had a Bad Record for Yellow Fever. New Orleans, Aug. 28. Except in 1S53, September has been the month yielding the largest number of fatali ties during visitations of yellow fever and the Federal authorities are there fore taking steps to maintain their present control of the situation. Sep tember frequently brings increased pre cipitation, causing stagnant pools of water, the overflow of cisterns and de struction of the effects of oiling. An incrase in deaths over the past few days was recorded in the report of the past 24 hours, but was regarded as without significance, most of the vic tims being among the foreign classes, and two of the deaths having occurred yesterday too late to be included in the report of that day. Dr. White today telegraphed to Dr. Ileber Boyce at Memphis the result of the investigation of the case of the wo man ill with yellow fever, whom be believed to have been infected in Mem phis. On a report of the Marine Hos pital service to this effect, Jackson, Miss., and a number of other towns. have imposed quarantines against Memphis. The Memphis authorities are reported to have expressed indig nation over the report. Chicago, Aug. 2t. The Daily News' correspondent at St. Petersburg says: That the war is to continue is indi- cated by the feverish activity shown everywhere in preparing for the su preme struggle. Four hundred soldiers of every guard regiment left yesterday for the front; half a million troops that participated in the summer man euvers are a-ailable for duty in Man churia, and a large proportion of them are to be dispatched there as rapidly as possible. They will be replaced in the Russian garrisons by the regular fall conscriptions. Twelve thousand cars and 300 loco motives have been hired in Austria and Germany to convey men and supplies to the war. Prince Hilkof, minister of railways, is personally hurrying to completion the St. Fetersburg-Viatka railway, which will add greatly to the transportation facilities of Russia. The new minister of Siberian railways and waterways, M. Ivanitzcki, is refit ting the Siberian horseways to relieve the strain on the trans-Siberian rail way. Pri nee Wolkont ky said to your corre spondent today: - - - "Peace is impossible. President Rosoevelt's last attempt to bring Rus sia and Japan to an agreement has fail ed, because the czar has solemnly prom ised his people to pay not a single ko pek of tribute and to surrender not an inch of territory. Never since it be came an empire has Russia paid tribute or ceded territory. The first ruler of the nation who does either of these things signs his own death warrant. Such payment, however disgusied, would provoke a revolution." Czar Says He Hs Yieldod All Will Yield. St. Petersburg, Aug. 25. With re gari to a dispatch that tins iccn re eeivoa Here saying Mr. v Itte was awaiting instructions, the lorelgn office says it is daily in constant coin municHtion with Mi. Witte, and that he will bo fully able to go ahead on Saturday. The latest developments clearly indicate that the Associated Press dispatches sent declining that Russia will never consent to the pay meut of an indemnity in any form rep resents Russia a last word with refer ence to the principle of monetary com pensaiion ami the expenses o( the war The authoritative statement made to the Associated Press at Portsmouth which is in the same tenor, was me last evening by a declaration Irom the official spokesman of the Foreign olllce which was made almost with the force of a formal communication, that under no circumstances and under no disguis ee would the principle of indemnity be admitted, and this decision is accepted by the Russian public as final. It was declared at the Foreign office also that Russia's sincere desire for peace was manifested in the spirit of concession shown by the Russian mission on the other disputed points, and that, if Japan was willing to waive this de mand, which was consistent witl neither the honor nor the dignity of Russia, there would be no trouble in arranging peace, Japan's insistence on indemnity being the only barrier to the termination of the war. He If nnrrnii nnriTr iTriio nr HfTrnrOT I minim iiiail iirm ur iimncoi -in H U . I,,,, i, i-hm-if 1 Hi i w mi ii' ii nr-Ti -in nil il 1 1 ill I mill 1 MAKE BIQ CUT. CHEU FOOK BIG MAN. the STARVATION IN ANDALUSIA. Famine Reduces 200,000 Spaniards to Desperation Through Hunger. Seville, Spain, Aug. 28. Heartrend ing reports continue to reach the pro vincial authorities from the outlying famine stricken districts. The latest reports received are from Osuna and Almongia, the respective mayors of which notify the authorities that their resources are exhausted and that they are unable to further assist the fam ished laborers and the women and children, as the distress is too acute. At Ecija the population has looted the bakers stores. The mortality among infants and aged persons is attaining terrifying proportions, and in many localities the working people are living on roots. The government has organized public works on a small scale, employing about GOO men, but this is a mere drop in the bucket of misery, as a moderate calculation shows that 200,000 are out of employment. An Insult to His Children Caused Chinese Boycott. Seattle Wash., Aug. 26. Dr. F. F. Tong. of Shanghai, trade commissioner of China to this country, who is on his way to Washington to confer 'with the Chinese minister regarding the new treaty with the United States, today made the following statement regarding the cause of the Chinese boycott: "I think the boycott really started from the treatment afforded the chil dren of Cheu Fook, the viceroy who rules over the three provinces of Kian su, Che-Kieng and An-Kwei. Shang hai is one of his cities, and it was there the boycott began. His children were returning by way of America from Eng land, where thev had been in school. They lacked passports such as the priv ileged class carries from China, but there was an abundance of proof that they were the viceroy's children and as such entitled to courtiesies. The re port reached China that they were held up at New York and refused admit tance, finally being compelled to give bonds that they would leave the coun try. "When this news came to China, there was indignation among the peo ple and they took up the theory that merchants and students were ill treat ed. I believe that single incident did more than anything else to start the fight against American goods, and to raise the cry for a new treaty." One and One-Tenth Fare for Round Trip to Exposition. Portland, Aug. 25. An unusually and exceptionally low passenger rate in the Pacific Northwest will become ef ftctive on September 1, when round trip tickets will be sold from all points in Oregon, Washington, Idaho ami British Columbia to the exposition for one and one-tenth of the usual fare. This reduction is the direct outcome of the efforts of the exposition to main tain the general local interest in the fair and to the endeavors of the various railroads to do all possible to aid in the success of the West's gieat show. Under the announcement issued by the Ifarriman lines, which include the O. R. AN.a-ul the Southern Pacific, and the Northern Pacific, beginning on Septemlter 1, round-trip tickets will be sold from all oints in Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and British Columbia to Portland for one and one-tenth the usual fare, these tickets having a tune limit of 30 days and to be sold daily fnmi September 1 to Ocotlier 15. This action of the railroads will have the effect of aiding very materially in the success of the fair and will result n largely increased attendance. Throughout the territory embraced by this rate there are many people who while desiring to visit the exposition could not well afford the expense of trip as it stands at present. NEW SYSTEM BEST. State Saves Much In Transporting Insane Patients. Salem After almost three months' operation under the new law governing the trauspiotation of insane, it is found that the new system costs practically one-half as much as the old. Under the former system the sheriff or a dep uty brought insane persons to the asyl inn. receiving a per diem of .') and all traveling expenses. Under the new system the insane asylum authorities send an attendant from the asylum to the county seat to bring the patient to Salem. In some instances the cost of trans iHirtation has been reduced to one-third of what it was formerly, while in other cases the reduction is less than one half. Thus it cost under the former laws $18.73 to bring a patient from Poitland, but now it cost a only $(l.7H. From Clatsop county, which furnishes a large numhei oi patients, the loruicr cost was alMiut 1 15, but now it is only $15. Marion county, which also sup plies a large number of insitne, formei ly cost the state $l.l! for transporting patients, but this has been reduced to $1. In the case of patients (torn dint ant counties, like Baker, I oos, Tilla mook and others, where the railroad or stage expenses are heavy, the saving is not so great. The tlgutus given are not exact, for no cxtct account can be kept of the time of attendants who are sent out after patients. The attendants who are employed in that work render some service at the institution, and spend some time bringing back pa tients who have escaped. I he saving, however, when all allowances are made, will be froinj40 to 50 per cent. EUGENE MILL TO START, Will Willi UNDER ANOTHER CHARGE. Finns Seek Homes in Free Land. Guthrie, 0. T., Aug. 28. Dr. R. A. Shotelowitz, a wealthy physician of Helsingfors, Finland, is in Okalhoma to study conditions for information of his countrymen, whose distress under conditions imposed by the Russian gov ernment iB causing many Fins to seek America. Dr. Shotelowitz said the de sire to find a new home existed for the first time among worthy citizens. He said if suitable land could be obtained thousands of his countrymen would emigrate to America and settle in the Southwest. Workmen Kept Danger Secret. Albany, N. Y., Aug. 21. The coro ner's examination of workmen who were digging a cellar under the Meyers department store st the time of its col lapse recently, snows that the men were warned of the impending disaster nearly an hour before the structure fell and killed 130 persons. When it was noticed that the earth was crumbling from two of the big piers in the cellar, the whole force was put to work to brace the pier. The men continued the work until the last minute when they ushed out. Burton Accused of Receiving Fees for Pressing Indian Claims. Washington, Aug. 25. The Post to day says that officials of the depart mentB of Justice and the Interior who have been investigating the Chickasaw school warrant cases last night made public portions of the records whicl have been unearthed and which are al leged to implicate Senator J. R. Hnr ton, of Kansas, in pressing these claims before the government, whi e holding the position of senator, in contraven tion of law. The Post adds: "In all, 2'1 Chickasaw warrants, ag gregating $14,000, have been paid to bentor Burton, or his brother, Seth Rurton, with whom he is alleged to have formed a partnership since March, 11(01, when Senator Burton took the oath of office. "Six of the Chickasaw warrants is sued in October, 1M01, and aggregating $5,500, were paid directly to J. R. Burton. This was seven months after Senator Burton had taken the oath of office. Twenty warrants, aggregating $9,000, were subsequently made out in favor of beth Burton." Completing Trans-Mexican Road. San Francisco, Aug. 28. William Rossiter, a planter, arrived here from Manzanillo, says that work has begun, alter a ueiay or vz years, on the con necting link on the railroad that will reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific across Mexico. The link stretches from Colima to Tuxpan, a distance or only 45 miles. It will be the first railroad connection between the large city of Guaadlajara on the Atlantic and the Pacific coast. Barracks Are Burned. Canton, O., Aug. 28. The United States barracks at Westlawn cemetery, where Is situated the late President McKinley's tomb, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The origin is unknown. The flames spread so rapidly that sol diers sleeping in a room in the barracks were able only to save personal effects. Twelve guns and tiou rounds oi ammu nition were burned. Exploding cart ridges sent bullets in every direction. Customs Officers Seize Goods. New Westminster, B. C, Aug. 2o A large consignment of goods from the Orient was seized by customs officers here today. The price list value shows $1,200; invoice value $7C0. The goods were consigned to Carter & Co., oi Vancouver, ana then shipped in bond to New Westminster, expecting to avoid customs inspection, but offi cers here were on the alert, and seized the shipment, which is now held for the extra value to be made up. Bennington in Drydock. Valejo, Cal., Aug. 2fl. The Ben nington went into the drydock yester day and was visited by many people. The boiler and engine rooms still pre sent a frightful spectacle, only the de bris having been removed. The gun boat will be taken out of the drydock today, and as no authority has been received to make repairs, she will go out of commission. Gives Thanks for Douma. St. Petersburg Aug. 25. Thanksgiv ing services were held in the municipal hall in commemoration of the promul gation of the national assembly. Seve ral officials were present The services concluded with a prayer for the preser vation of the imperial family, which was chanted by the officiating priests The emperor's manifesto proclaiming the assembly was officially read at the regular session of the municipal coun cil today. The council decided to send a loyal address to the emperor and also to commemorate the event. Military Trains Wrecked. St. Petersburg, Aug. 25. It was stated today that the sudden departure from St. Petersburg Monday night of Prince Hilkoff, minister of railroads, was for the purpose of investigating several serious accidents, which oc curred recently in Southern Russia to military trains going to the Far East. In one of these accidents, which took place in the vicinity of Kazan, 2ft soldiers were killed and two officers and two soldiers injured. Boycott Stops Sunday Pictures. New Westminster, B. C, Aug. 25. The boycott on the Sunday edition of the Vancouver World has proven effect ive, and that journal no longer supplies the market with colored pictures for Sunday reading. The boyoctt was placed by the Christian Endeavor mem bers of British Columbia. Winter Wheat Good. Ij Grande Harvesting in the Grand Ronde valley is now well under way, and so far the yield of fall and winter sown wheat is good, tnt average ncing 40 bushels per acre of an excellent juality, many fields yielding 50 bush els. Spring sown grain is very light and will not yield more than half a rop. The hay crop is very god, and the same condition prevails in Wallowa 'oiinty as to hay and grain as in this valley. The sugar !ect crop is much U'tter than at any previous season, and the sugar factory is expecting a much longeY and more profitable run than last season. Goes Fifty Bushels. Pendleton Mr. Hughs, of Helix, states that wheat junt harvested and threshed on his ranch and that of his brother in the vicinity of that place will yield on an average of 50 bushels to the acre. There are also a number of fields of oats which will nearly if not quite come up to this flgiue. late reixirts from either direction in this vicinity seem to indicate that the esti mates given out earlier In the season understated rather than overstated the yield, as in no rase is the yield falling short of the estimate given. Be Operated In Connection Plant at Union. Eugene John P. Wilbur, purchaser of the Eugene woolen mill, is here ar ranging to reopen the mill October 1. lie will install considerable new ma chinery, and elevators, better to carry on the work and transport goods from one department to another, lie an nounces that this mill will be operated in connection with his mill at Union. A large scouring mill will be erected at Union, and scoured wool from there, will be shipped to Eugene and mixed with the coarser valley product The Union mill will make a specially of white goods, for which it is paitlcular ly adapted, while the Eugene mill will be devoted to the manufacture of (tow ered dress goods, blankets and robes. A 1m tut l; hands will be employed here, making a payroll of something like $4,000 per mouth. Mr. Wilbur states that the two mills will have a combined capacity of about $20,000 worth of finished goods pet month. Linn Wheat Is Short. Albany Wheat is a short crop in I. in1! county this year owing to the long continued diy weather. A few days of rain just at the i igl t limit would have made this year's crop the bumper product for the county, but the rain failed to come. As it is, tho wheat in tnont section I hum alxitit 10 bushels per acre. The beads are not well filled, and the grain is a little light, Some of the harvctitiiig machmcN are unable to make expenses for tho owners at the agr I prices for thresh ing, and threHhiiig-marhine men have in many instances been compelled to give up the rating agreed upon ami charge for their work by the hour. 20,000 Cars Yearly. Klamath Falls Twenty thousand cars of export freight per annum is w hat Consulting Engineer Jacobs, of the Reciamat ion service, estimates as the Hssihi lilies id the Klamath coun try (ora railroad company, when the government irrigation project bas been completed and the lands under it de veloped, together with the rise of con comitant industries. Mr. Jacobs in cluded shipments of general farm and dairy products, stock, timber, and per haps sugar beets. Shortage In Prunes. Salem Not more than one-third of an average crop, or between 4,ft(H),ii(u and 5,00(1,000 pounds of prunes, is the latest estimate placed upon the state yield for the season of 11)05 by authorities upon tho situation here. The average yield for the state is about 13,000,000 txiumln, but the greatest yield was that of 11MKI, which amoutod to 15,000,000 pounds. A great many agencies are ascribed as the cause for the shortage this year, among them being the prolonged warm and dry weather, and consequent lack ol moisture. Fruit and Grain at Milton. Milton Fruit is coming into mar ket now in unite large ouantities. The peach crop is rather short in this lo cality, but the melons are plentiful and cheap, and large shipments are being made to outside points. The second crop oi straw hemes has made lis ap pen ranee in the market here, and while the crop is light the berries are of ex cellent quality. The farmers in this lo cality are about through with their harvesting. Blaze Starts From Slashings. Wcsxlburn Starting from burning slashings on the Mrs. P. L. Kennedy place, east of Woodhurn, fire has burn ed over that farm and the Snyder and Moreland farms. Strenuous efforts of firefighters saved the buildings, al though Moreland's house is encircle I by fire, and not yet out of danger. The course of the flames is now toward Butte creek, and may do considerable damage before the fire is under control. Josephine Farmers' Institute. Grant's Pass From September 1) to 15 three sessions of farmers' institutes will be held in Josephine county, un der the directions of Dr. James Withy- combe, director of the State Experi ment station, accompanied by a staff of professors and directors from the Ore gon Agricultural college. The meetings will be held at Provolt, Grants Pass and Kerby. Few Sales of Wheat. Pendleton There has been little do ing in the wheat market here during the presnt week, and few sales have been made since Saturday, when about 200,000 bushels were sold in Pendle ton. The quality of the wheat in this district this year is exceptionally good, all grading No. 1, with the exception of now and then a little smut. Monmouth School to Open, Independence The Oregon State Normal school at Monmouth will con tinue as though the appropriation asked for at the last session of the legislature nau neen grained, ine lacK oi appro priation must, of course, Inconvenience somebody, but it has not given rise to the qjuestion as to whether or not the school would continue. Slaughter of Lane Pheasants. Eugene County Clerk Lee has Is sued 70 fire permits and 2!0 hunters' licenses since the new laws went into effect. From all reports pheasants are being slaughtered in all directions and the license money is doing nothing in the way of protecting game. Good Chance for Umatilla. Pendleton Following a conferences here between Chief Engineer Newell, of the Reclamation service; Consulting Engineer Ilenny and John T. Whistler, engineer lor Oregon, regarding the irri gation projects in KaMern Oregon, Mr. Newell states that the project of gov ernment irrigtilioii of lauds north of the Umatilla river, near Echo, is very promising, and very likely will be un- leilaken utiles the Malheur difficulty should be settled soon. PORTLAND MAHKETS. Wheat Club, flOdf 70c per bushel: bhiestern, 72?7.'lc; valley, 73c. Barley Feed, $20.50 per ton; brew ing. $21. Oats No. 1 white feed, old, $28 per ton; gray, old, $27; white, new, $23v 23.50; gray, new, $22 per ton. Hay Timothy, old, $13(AI5 per ton; new, $IHi)I2.50; clover. $Hrf!. Fruits Applis, 1K)c(r$ 1 .50 per box; peaches, ftOM.KOe crate; plums, 75cdC $1 per crate; blackberries, ft or He per pound; cantaloupes, 75eW$1.50 crate; pears, $1.25(41.50 box; watermelons, I U'c per pound; crabapples, $1 pel Imix ; grapes, $1 (it 1 .50. Vegetables Beans, ) (( c per pound; cabbage, iMl'c per pound; cauli flower, 75(f!M)c per dozen; celery, 75(. 85 per dozen ; corn, 8(!le per dozen; cucumbers, J0(i15c per dozen; toma toes, iO(i76o per crate; squash, 6c per pound; turnips, $1 ,25r 1 .40 per sack ; carrots, $l.25(il.50 per sack; beets. $1 ($1.25 per sack. Onions Red, $1.25 per hundred: yellow, $1.25, Potatoes, Oregon new, 7680o per sack; Merced sweets, 3jc per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 27((30c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 23oe24c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 13( 14c; mixed chickens, 12(13c; old roosters, 10c; young roosters, 11 (r 12c; springs, lto2 pounds, 14(& l4Jc; 1 to l pounds, H'lSc? turkeys, live lKi23c; geese, live, per pound, 8i)c; ducks, old, 13c; duck gray 12c; white 14c. Hops Choice 11)04. 17CM9e pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, average best, 1021c; lower grades, down to lfic, according to shrinkage; valley, 25027c per pound; mohuir, choice, 30o per pound. Beef Dressed hulls, l2o per pound; cows, 3(44 ; country steers, 45c. Veal Dressed, 37c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, fiiol7c per pound; ordinary, 4(i5c; lambs, 7 7)c. Pork Dressed, C8c per pound. per