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j Bohemia Nugget Robamla Na(Tt C. COTTAGE GROVE . . OREGON. NEWS OFTHE WEEK la a Condensed Form for Oar Easy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important bu Not Leaa Interesting Events of the Past Week. . The canvass of the New York eleo tion ehowa gains for Hearst. California politicians are now be coming involved in the insurance scan dal. The strike in Poland is believed to have been broken and the country is settling down. Indications are thatl a new register of the Lewiston land office will not be named for some time. Secretary Root is preparing to initi ate negotiations for the settlement of all pending disputes with Canada. Many women are going to Panama to work as servants in the various camps along the route of the canal. A prairie fire near Aberdeen, S. D., caused a loss of livestock, grain and farm buildings estimated at $500,000. A fire which started in a Knoxville, Tenn., paint store destroyed $200,000 worth of property Lefore extinguished. Knropean nations are not pulling to gether in their demonstration against Turkey and the sultan doesn't seem badly scared. The contributions for the relief of the Russian Jews totals $740,000 from all parts of the world Of this $370,000 came from the United States. All of Mayor Dunne's plans for im mediate municipal ownership of the Chicago street railways have been shattered by the council reaching an agreement with the companies placing the time ten years hence. Speaker Cnnon has declared against tariff revision. The new king of Norway will receive a salary of $200,000 annually. Governor Folk, of Missouri, says the reform movement now on will last. The president has removed Register West, of the Lewiston, Idaho, land office. More than 300,000 has been raised in the United Sttes for the relief of the Russiaan Jews. Austria fears her Polish subjects will revolt of Russian Poland is successlul in securing autonomy. The Riverside Bridge works, at Mar tin's Ferrv. Ohio, has burned. The loss will reach $100,000 Many Russian capitalists are selling their government and other securities and leaving the country. Democratic and Republican mem bers of the bouse will each hold cau cus December 2 to nominate house offi cers. President Mellen. of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, has declared himself in favor ol railroad rate legislation. The board of canvassers working on the returns of the New York election have found many places where the tally sheets and returns do not agree. Germany denies she will interfere in Poland. Thomas Lawson has been arrested for libel. Balfour threatens to resign if follow ers don't unite. Russian workmen have ordered a new general strike. Garfield is at the head of an inquiry into rebates on oil. Burke, a mining town in West Vir ginia, has been entirely destroyed by fire. Advices from Singapore, China, says the anti-American boycott is strong there. London proposes to establish its own electric lighting system at a cost of $40,000,000. The State department knows nothing of the proposed Anglo-Japanese canal at Nicaragua. New York has bad its first snow storm of the winter. Secretary Root is working on the new treaty with Germany. Washington's congressional delega tion will work for an appropriation for the mouth of the Columbia. American residents oi the Isle of Pines will send a delegation to congress to p" vent ratification of a treaty con veying the the island to Cuba. Riots are occurring in Vladivostok. The American Mining congress is in session at 1 Paso, Texas. Witte has determined to crush the rebellion in Poland with iron heel. Prosecutor Heney is arranging for land fraud trials at the national capi tal. An American cruiser has been sent to Cronstadt, Russia, to protect Ameri can citizens. The national committee for the relief of Russian sufferers reports having re ceived $132,685 raised in the United States. STRUGGLE IS ON. Senate Committee Meets to Consider Rate Measure. Washington, Nov. 20. In tle loom of the senate committee on interstate commerce this morning the itrngglo with the problem of legislation affect ing the railroads will begin. The ques tion has occupied public attention to the partial exclusion of other matters of importance for a year, but the com mittee meeting will mark the real be ginning of the contest, which congress will end before the close of the coming session. The committee, of which Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, is chairman, has been directed ex plicitly by the senate to make a report on the matter of railroad legislation "by bill or otherwise" not later than December 14. Nearly evt ry member of the committee is in Washington and the few absentees are expected to reach the city today. Mr. Elkins has intimated that no bill can be prepared within the time set by the senate for making the report. If this is true, it means that an exten sion of time must be asked and there will lie nothing for the senate to do but grant it. Senator Dolliver, ol Iowa, on the other hand, believes that there is no reason why a bill cannot be presented to the senate within t week after the convening of congress Members of the committee are divid- ed on the question of the extent to which legislation to be recommended should go in the matter of giving an thority to the Interstate Commerce commission to fix rates. This is the mere statement of a fact already well known, but there are indications that Mr. Elkins may be able to obtain a majority report by yielding much from his views and by gaining as touch Irom the members of the committee who have been antagonistic or partly antag onistic to the chairman. REBUILD THE OREGON. Famous Battleship to Remain in Dry dock Two Yeara. Washington, Nov. 20. The Navy de partment expects that the battleship Oregon will remain at the ruget fcound navy yard the better part of two years undergoing a complete overhauling Many parts of the ship are to be prac tically rebuilt". The turrets are to be equipped with electric controlilng ap paratus and features which have be come obsolete are to be replaced by the latest pattern known in naval con struction. Work will be begun early in January, as soon as the Oregon ar rives from the Philippines. Secretary Bonaparte is now consider- ing the navaj estimates. What he will recommend for the Puget Sound navy yard is unknown, but there is a belief that be may endorse the recommenda tion of the bureau of yards and docks that $1,250,000 be appropriated to tuild a new drydock. It seems lm probable that congress, in its economi cal mood, will authorize a new dock this session, but congressional action will depend largely upon the amount of pressure the Washington delegation can bring to bear. CONGRESS MUST ORDER BONDS None for Panama Canal Can Be Issued Without Its Action. Washington, Nov. 20. It can be au thoritatively stated that no Panama bonds will be issued until congrees shall have authorized their use as a bans for national bank circulation at one-half of 1 per cent , the same as the consols of 1930. Two per cent bonds, it is said, would not be worth par if bank circulation based thereon were taxed at 1 per cent, as the law now provides. And even if the bonds were issued and sold, the money would not be available until congress should ap propriate it. Treasury officials are somewhat sur prised at the published statement that the secretary of the treasury is con templating the issuance of bonds under present conditions. Mr. bhaw has twice called the attention of congress to this needed legislation. This will un doubtedly be repeated in his forthcom ing annual report, and Sneaker Cannon has given him assurance that he will do everything in bis power to expedite its passage. Army Needs Officers. Washington, Nov. 20. "The army is unofficered," says Lieutenant Gen eral Adna R. Chaffee, chief of staff, in his annual report to the secretary of war. He says this condition exists for the army in peace, and in "time of war" it wonld be in a badly crippled condition. There are 517 officers ab sent on detailed duty. These officers are detailed in the general staff, re cruiting service, at the various acad emies and schools and on different kinds of duty required by orders and regulations. Filipinos Melt Pesos. Washington, Nov. 20. The rise of silver bullion, which has been going on steadily for a year, has now reached a level that affects the currencies of the world, based on the ratio of 32 to 1, like the new peso in the Philippines and the new Mexican currency. The Philippine commissioners, in consider ation of tli? prospect that the currency will be turned into pots and melted into bullion, have issued an order against the exportation of the coin. Local Government for Poland. St. Petersburg, Nov. 20. It is re ported that another manifesto promis ing a general zemstvo and local munici pal government to Poland, may be is sued shorlty. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST PORTAGE ROAD WILL PAY. Low Water In River Has Interfered With Its Traffic. Salem "f hat the Portage railway will be self sustaining when regular traffic has been established, there is no doubt," said Superintendent L. 8. Cook, of the Celilo Portage railway, when in Salem to attend a meeting of the Fortage commission. "For various reasons we have not been getting the business we should have had at the start, but present difficulties will be re moved and avoided in the future. "Low water has made it impossible for the boats on the upper river to take on wheat at some places to bring it down to Celilo. For example, at Quentin there was 12,000 sacks of wheat piled up on the shore, but the water was so low the boats could not get near enough to load. Some 150,000 sacks of grain along the L pper Colum bia have been shipped out by rail, when under normal conditions of water, it would have come down by boat and the portage road. "I cannot give exact figures at pres ent concerning the expenditure and in come, because we have not made settle ments with transportation companies when the charges are collected by one line and the amount apportioned. In round numbers I should say that it costs us $S00 a month to operate the road and our income is about $(100 a month. If we were getting aM the traffic that is available and naturally tributary to the portage road, we would have an income of $1,200 a month and an expense of perhaps $1,000. We have handled 10,000 to 15.000 sacks of wheat thiis month, whereas we would have handled much more If the boats could havo reached it." WANT WATER FOR CANAL. Deschutes Irrigation & Power Com pany Files on Water Rights. Salem The Deschutes Irrigation A Power company has made two water filings to secure new sources of Mater supply for its extensive irrigation sys tem near Bend. The present source of supply is about two miles above the town of Bend, but it is understood that the land upon which the headgate is located is owned or controlled by A. M. Drake. The Deschutes con pany has now made a filing for 1,000 cubic feet of water per second about three miles further up the stream. The filing is tor the purpose of securing water for the Central Oregon canal. The other filing is for 1,500 cubic inches per second at a' point about 10 miles above Bend, at Beham falls. The tiling is for the purpose of securing water for the Benham falls canal, which will ex tend eastward and northward a distance of 30 to 40 miles, bringing the water to Prineville and irrigating large areas of land north of the canal. The Portland Irrigation company, represented by Edwin Mays, of Port land, has filed on 15,000 inches of water in Chewaucan creek. Lake coun ty, the point of diversion being in sec tion 34, township 33 south, runge 18 eaBt. Fruit Drier Closes Down. Freewater J. P. McMinn, proprie tor of the large fruit drier north of Freewater, has closed for the season, after a very short run, owing to the scacrity of prunes and the active de mand and high price paid for the green fruit, 75,000 pounds being the output this year as compared with 200,000 pounds last year. Heretofore he has shipped his prunes east, disposing of the same in the large cities at prices from 3 to 2 cent' a pound. He has sold half of this year's output at 6 cents a pound to Pendleton and Walla Walla merchants. Sandlake May Talk. Cloverdale The Cloverdale Tele phone company this week completed ten miles of new telephone line to Sandlake. The company has also late ly completed its line to Dolph. This gives Tillamook City telephone connec tion with every voting precinct in the south part of the county. There is hardly a farm house from Tillamook to Slab creek that has not telephone con nection, and it is hoped next year will see the system extended to the valley by way of Willamina. The system now embraces over 60 miles of wire. O. R. & U. Block System. La Grande The construction gang at work erecting the block system on the mountain division of the O. R. & N., has almost completed its labors for the winter. The system is installed well along the line between Meacham and Bingham Springs, and when the crew reaches the latter place work will be suspended this season, although it is likely that it will be extended on as far as Umatilla, at least by another year. Winter Irrigation a Success. Milton W. T. Shaw, the well known Hudson bay rancher, was in the city recently and reports that irrigation on the line of the Hudson Bay ditch is increasing. This ditch uses the sur plus water of the Walla Walla river. and as a result it can only irrigate when the ordinary irrigation season ends. Car Shortage Felt. Freewater Owing to the scarcity of cars on this division the Peacock and Eagle mills are working at a great dis advantage on account of storage capaci ty being blocked with millstuns ready to ship. Manager J. II. Hall advises he has 20 cars of flour and feed ready to move and can get but one car a day. NEED NOT VACCINATE. Children Cannot Be Forced to Take Precautionary Measures. Salem In answer to an Inquiry from State Health O Ulcer Robert C. Penney, of Portland, Attorney General Craw ford has rendered a decision holding that the State Board of Health has no authority to require that children shall be vaccinated before gaining admission to the public schools. The attorney genet al quotes from the la- dealing the board of health, show ing that the hoard has general super vision of the health of the state and power to establish quarantines. The vaccination rule would hot lo in the nature of a quarantine; hence the board cannot find its authority in that provision. Neither does Mr. Crawford think the clause giving the board general super vision will authorise them to establish a new qualification for admission to the public schools unless there is apparent danger of an epidemic of smallpox. AIDS THE CATALOGUE HOUSES. Baker City Merchants Protest Against Numbering of Rural Boxes. Baker City The merchants of Baker City are circulating a petition asking the postmaster general to withdraw his order to the effect that all rural mail boxes must be numbered in consecutive order. In tliU work they have an Iced the aid of all the merchants from Boise to Spokane, and petitions have been sent to these towns for circulation. The merchants allege that the nu:u Wring of the mail boxes on the ruial free delivery routes would give the cat alogue houses in the large cities like New York, Chicago and St. Ixmis a great, advantage, as these big concerns would Ikj enabled to send out their cat alogues and other literature to every patron along every rural free delivery route without knowing the names of the parties, as the literature could he addressed to Box 24, or any number, and reach its destination. Start Free Library. Baker City Baker City now lias a free public horary, the council paving ratified tiie appointment of the library commission as named by Mayor C. A. Johns. A special library tax will lie voted on the the next Jane election, and in the meantime Andiew Carnegie will be asked to renew the offer of $1,000 made alout a year ago for the establishment of a library in this city. The present library was instituted by a private library association and con ducted for the benefit of the public at a small membership fee. Work on Coquille Bar. Bandon Work on the north jetty at Coquille bar is now fairly under way, and will be completed probably within a year. This is part of the improve ments along the Coquille river, for which the government recently appro priated $55,000. The jetty will he ex tended 555 feet seaward. Contractors Wakefield & Jacobsen, of Portland, have the task in hand, and extensive work had to be done before the actual vork of building the extension was started. Nucleus of Permanent Exhibit. Ontario The Malheur county exhib it returned from the fair at Portland is being installed in the office of Don Carlos Boyd. It is to be made the nu cleus of a permanent exhibit of the products of the county. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 73c perbuBhel; blue- stem, 75c; valley, 7475c; red, 69c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $2; gray, $26 per ton. Barley Feed, $21.50(3)22 per ton; brewing, $2222.50; rolled, $22.50 23.60. Rye $1.501.60 per cental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16 per ton; valley timothy, $1112; clover, $89; grain, $89. Fruits Apples, $11.50 per box; huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears, $1 251.50 per box; grapes, $160 1.75 per box; Concord, 15c per basket; quinces, $1 per box. vegetables Beans, wax, 1012c per pound; cabbage, llhic per pound; cauliflower, $1.762.25 per dozen; cel ery, 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 6060c per dozen; pumpkins, lc per pound; tomatoes, $1 per crate; sprouts, 7'tc Per pound; squash, ?4lc per pound; turnips, 90c(i$$l per sack; car rots, 65 75c per sack; beets, 85c$l per sack. Onions Oregon yellow Danvers, $1.25 per sack. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks, 75 80c per sack; ordinary, 6560c; Merced sweets, sacks, $1 90; crates, $2.15. Butter Fancy creamery, 2527 jc per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 8235o per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, ll12c per pound; young roosters, 910c; springs, 11 12c; dressed chickens, 1214c; turkeys, live, 17 (3 18c; geese, live, 8 10c; ducks, 1415c. Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 9llc; olds, 7K10c. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1921c; lower grades down to 15c, ac cording to shrinkage; valley, 25($27c per pound; mohair, choice, 30c. Beef Dressed bulls, l2c per pound; cows, 84c; country steers, Veal Dressed, 37gC per pound, Mutton Dressed, fancy, 77o per pound ; ordinary, 45c : lambs, 1 8c. Pork Dressed, 67gC per pound. CASTRO REFUSES TO PAY MORE Keeps Back Second Installment on Plumley Award. Paris, Nov. 17 The foreign ollice is advised that President Castro yesterday refused to pay the second Installment of the riumley arbitration award. The arbitration covered damages sustained by French cltUens In Venezuela during the revolutionary periods prior to ll0!l. Judge Frank l'lumley, of Nor'hlleld, Vermont, was president of the arbitra tion committee, which met at North field last year. The judgment was in favor of France, which was awarded about $1150,000, and President Castro paid the first installment of the award three months ago. The second pay ment was due yesterday, but was not paid. Apparently the Venemielari Presi dent's failure to pay the installment was on the ground that diplomatic re lations between France and Vcneiuela are interrupted. The olllcials here de cline to admit that this justified Presi dent Castro in not paying the install ment. The incident is considered to be a further provocation. CZAR HELPS PEASANTS. Remits Millions Due on Lands and Makes Purchase Easy. London, Nov. 17. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to Renter's Telegram agency says that an imperial manifento granting land concessions to the peas ants was issued this morning, liy its terms the land redemption tax pay ments irom January 14, lt'Otl, will he reduced by one-half, and from January 14, 1107, the payments will be totally abolished. At the same time the capital of the Peasant bank is increased and the bank is granted additional loan privileges with the object of facilitating to the utmost the purchase of lands by peas ants. It is estimated that theamiuntof taxation thus lifted from the peasants by the manifesto will aggregate $10, 000,000, while the extension of the field of operations of the Peasants hank will enable vast tracts of crown and private lands grad unity to In-come the property of the peasants. PRETENDER LEADS PEASANTS. Army of 50,000 Supports Usurper's Claim to Czardom. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. A false emperor has suddenly made his appear ance near Penza, and already his fol lowers number 60,1)00. This is the startling report received this afternoon in a dispatch from Sibrisk. Penza is in the heart of the vast region extend ing westward from the Volga, where agrarian uprisings on a large scale have occurred, and if the report turns nut to lie true that the pretender to the throne has placed himself at the head of the peasantry, the government will Boon face, besides its other troubles, a form idable agrarian rebellion. It required a year to suppress the famous rebellion lexl by Pugaticheff, who impersonated the dethroned and murdered Peter lit in the time of Catherine II. That up rising was started in the same region on the banks of the Volga. STORM CLOUD IN AFRICA. Germany Protests Against an Anglo-f-rench Agreement in Liberia. 'Washington, Nov. 17. The State de partment has learned that Germany has protested to Great Britain and France against the conclusion of certain negotiations now on foot between those two governments and the government of Liberia. Liberia wished to Isirrow some money and is willing to hypothe cate certain territory as security. Ger many sees in tiiis proposition a threat of undue expansion of British and French influence in that quarter of Africa. The State department has not felt called upon so far to take any ac tion in this matter, and in fact regards the communication merely as informa tion. Anarchy at Vladivostok. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17. The latest reports from Vladivostok indicate that the rioting has not yet been suppressed. Both sailors and fortress artillerymen particapated in the outbreak. The commandant lost his head, the situa tion got beyond control, and energetic measures were not taken until a large part of the city had been destroyed. The population is still seeking refuge on the vessels in the harbor. Accord ing to one report from Vladivostok, 300 rioters, mostly sailors and artillerymen, were killed or wounded. Battleship Idaho Not Ready. Washington, Nov. 17. The Navy epartment has not been aiivised by the Cramp Shipbuilding company that any date has been set for launching the bat tleship Idaho, although Senator I ley burn lias been informed that it will take place December 9. The Idaho is only 40 per cent completed. It is unusual to launch ships in that early stage, and it seems improbable that the launching would be fixed for a date so near with out notifying the Navy department. Standard Oil's Big Dividend New York, Nov. 17. The Standard Oil company has declared a quarterly dividend of $10 a share. The previous dividend was $6 a share and the divi dend at this time last year was $7 a share. Today's declaration brings the total dividends focr the year to $40 a share. Last year it was $36. APPROVE PROJECTS Hitchcock Will Reverse Himself on Irrigation. TO THE BENEFIT OF NORTHWEST Had Taken Bad Advice Walcott Re moves Objections to Umatilla, Okanogan and Sunnyslde. Washington, Nv. 18. Secretary Hitchcock is preparing to reverse him self and approve the Umatilla irriga tion project in F'astern Oregon, as well as one or more projects in Washing ton. This, at least, Is the inference, to be drawn from an author Ized state merit made at his ollice today t ) the effect that action on the Umatilla pro ject would be taken some time next week which would bo satisfactory to the people of Oregon, and that similar action was to bo looked for on one or more Washington project. It is not known at this time what Washington projects will he approved, further than that the choice will lie among the Tie ton, Okanogan and Sunnyslde schemes,, all of which have been favorably re commended by the Reclamation service. This announcement from the secre tary's ollice was made after a confer ence between Mr. Hitchcock and Di rector Walcott, of the Geological sur vey, who is the intermediary between the secretary and the Reclamation ser vice. This afternoon Mr. Walcott re turned to the secretary all papers bear ing on the Umatilla, Okanogan and Tieton projects ami, in addition to the oiiginal recommendations, submitted unanswerable arguments showing that all these projects are not only. feasible and desirable, but that there is no feat ure about them to which objection can be legitimately raised. In point of hut, Mr. llitrhcock, shortly after taking adverse action on the I'matilla, Tieton and Okanogan projects, saw that he had acted on bud advice, and realised that his portion would become untcnahl". He saw that he hail made a blunder which would have to be rectified, and he has cau tiously been feeling his way back to solid ground. He is not yet ready to make the final leap, but is preparing for it and, w hen he does, Oregon and Washington will benefit. Incidentally it might he mentioned that the men who gave ti e secretary had counsel, have heard from it, ami have lieen warned to display more intelligence and common sense in future ONLY AMERICANS AS CONSULS. Root Will Not Appoint Foreigners If He Can Help It. Washington, Nov. 1H. Not a single foreigner has been anpolntcd to the American consular service abroad sinco Secretary Root assumed office. He feels that it is his duty to "put norm but Americans on guard." Aside from the fact that a foreigner naturally might be expected to take less interest than an American in the development of our trade abroad, it is felt that in time of political strens, wherein rela tions might become; strained, no such test should be placed upon the loyalty of a foreign consular agent to his na tive country as would be imposed by requiring him to do his full duty to the country which merely employed him. So, although a number of vacancies have occurred in these posts since Sec retary Root assumed ollice, he has held consistently to the policy above laid down, and where it lias not been possi ble to find Americans to fill the vacan cies, the offices have been allowed to remain vacant. Of course, the vacan cies cannot continue indefinitely, but the secretary hopes that, with the pressure of the business world behind it, congress will yield to his appeal for more liberal compensation for theso small posts, so as to enable him to semi out American officials. Ballot Reform In New York. New York, Nov. 18. At a confer ence yesterday between representatives of organizations interested in ballot re form, a resolution was adopted declar ing that ballot reform in New York should proceed on the lines of the Aus tralian ballot as in use in Massachu setts. As the representative of t lie Corrupt Practices association, D. Cady Herrick asked the support of the con ferees for a bill which his organization intends to present to the legislature- and which he said would be drawn Bo as to do away with election corruption. Peasants Sack an Estate. Kursk, R ussia, Nov. 18. Agrarian disorders are increasing. The estate of Prince Kassalkine Rostkoftsky, in the Novoskol district, has been sacked by peasants, who attacked and wounded the prince and princess. Several build ings were burned and cattle and horses driven off. The police commissary has sent an urge it appeal to the govern ment for regular troops to aid the Cos sacks, who are powerless to cope with the disorders. Plan International Parliament. Paris. Nov. 18. Representatives of the Parliaments of the nrlnelnnl na tions will assemble here November 18 to consider the American appeal for a permanent international nnrlUment and a general arbitration treaty, as presented at the Brussels parliamentary congresb by Congressman Richard Bar tholdt, of Missouri, who represented, the United States at the congress.