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.k Bohemia Nugget RahMnta Nnr Ph. Co. ' COTTAGE GROVE .. OREGON. NEWS OFTHE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Bnsy Readers, A Resume of the Lets Important but Not Lest Interesting Events of the Patt Week. J. Fieroont Morgan is in deidly fear of assassins. Grover Chveland has just celebrated his 69th birthday. Coal miners are working hard to pre Tent a general strike April 1. Nebraska thermometers are register ing from fi to 10 degrees below lero. John D. Rockefeller maintains an armed guard at his house in New Jersey. The house and senate are likely to disagree on the type of canal to be bai't. General Wood defends the action of the American troops at Mount Dajo, Philippine islands. Secretarfyy of the Navy Bonaparte insists that the United states should build a greater navy. Customs authorities have decided that Chinese josshouse fittings are sub ject to a duty of 15 per cent. Snow slides in Colorado have caused a number of death and a property loss that will reach close to a million dol lars. Latst returns from the Color? do train wreck give the number of killed as 22. Telegraph operators are blamed for the accident. New York proposes to establish a municipal seaside resort. The president will not appoint a su preme judge for eix months. Susan B. Anthony's sister will stump Oregon in the suffrage campaign. The Japanese parliament has voted to buy all railroads in that country. The house will take np the amended Btatehood bill Wednesday, March 21. Official figures ebow the population of Germany to joe. 60,605,183, against 66,367,178 in 1900. The Ohio legislature is considering a bill which will give the courts power to punish witnesses who refuse to talk. King Charles, of Roumania, is near death. The crown princo is unpopular and a movement has been started to crown his 13-year old son. The Dietrict of Columbia court hao overruled Biuger Hermann's demurrer to indictments for destroying public records. He will ask for an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Western railroads are facing a labor famine. Twenty-five thousand men are needed in the Northwestern and South western states to build the roada that are already under way, and it is esti mated that before June twice that number will be needed. Denmark may put a tariff law into effect. Russia suspects Japan of hostile de signs in Siberia. All railrc-dfi throueh Colorado are blocked by snow. Senator Depew is too ill to attend to his duties in the senate. The first severe blizzard of the win ter has just swept New York. The house will reject the senate amendmnets to the statehood bill. The czar has ordered extreme meas ures to be taken to protect Jews from maBsacre. Secretary Taft has consulted with three of his brothers regarding the place on the supreme bench. A Chicago man has asked a divorce from his second wife that she may marry his son. The husband is 56, the wife 22. Chicago is now about to oust the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies or make them pay a good price for the use of streets. The anthracite coal miners will ar range another schedule for presentation to the mine operators in the hope it may be accepted and thus prevent a etrike. Colonel Knight, Major General Wood's chief of statff, has returned from a reconnaissance of of the situa tion in China. He reports that there is absolutely no danger of trouble and that tranquility abounds. A new French cabinet has been formed. Mrs. Dowie denies the rumor that she has deserted ber husband. Taft'a retirement from the presiden tial race revives the hopes of Fair banks. The Standard Oil company will only give evidence at the trust investigation under compulsion. The Iowa legislature has passed a law preventing the employment of children under 18 years of age in any occupation injurious to health. Vice President Fairbanks honored Senator Fulton by calling the senator to his chair and turning over his gavel to him for the greater part of an atfer noon. ' WILL QUIT CANAL. Shonts Will Give Entire Attention His Railroad. Chicago, March 19. A Washington special says : Information from trustworthy sources makes it seem uraeticallv assured that Theodore Perry Shonts, of Chicago, chairman of the Isthmian Canal com mission, intends soon to send his resig nation to President Roosevelt. It is unquestionably the intention of Piesi iKiit Roosevelt to nominate John F. Stevens, the chief engineer, to succeed Mr. Shonts. Mr. Stevens w ill combine the duties of the two olhces. Pressure from his associates on the railroad with which Mr. Shonts is con nected has been strong for sometime to bring about this result his return to railroad work and his resignation from the canal board. Mr. Shonts had withstood the pleas of his business as sociates, but recent events have induced him to consent. Mr. Shonts is still president of the Clover Leaf railroad, and it is said that the interests of that road, in the mind of his colleagues, demand that he return and take active charge of the property. It is said he owns securi ties in the road to the value of about $3,000,000, and, in the interest of these holdings, as well as the holdings of others, it is declared that he feels he must no longer divide time and his labor. There has been no secret that the re lations between Secretary Taft and Chairman Shonts have been strained at times. They are probably today not of the most amicable nature. It is prob able that Mr. Taft will succeed to th4 vacancy in the United States Supreme court caused by the resignation of Jus tice Brown, but will not take his seat before next October. Mr. Taft has his own views about the canal work, which are not in accord w ith those of Mr. Shonts. When Mr. Tift goes to the Supreme the intention of President turn the supervision of court, it is Roosevelt to the canal over to Secret try Root's de The secretary of war de partment sires to arrange the construction plans to suit his own judgment before the transfer is made. T MBER LAND BILL READY. Senate Committee Favors'Repeal, but Fulton Will Fight It. Wasbington.March 19. The senate public lands committee today virtually completed the bill to repeal the timber and stone act and authorize the sale of public timber at not less than its ap praised value, small dealers to be given preference in the sales and miners free use of timber for domestic purposes, the same as in forest reserves. An amendment insisted upon by Sen ator Fulton will be adopted giving the counties 10 percent of the amount of sales in their respective limits in lieu of taxes. The committee ie also framing a bill to permit homestead entry of agricul tural land in forest reserves. This bill is designed particularly to meet the principle objection to reserves in Ida ho. Senator Dubois is strongly urging this measure and predicts its passage. Mr. Fulton is the only member of the committee opposed to the repeal of the timber and stone act, but other West ern senators agree with him and will join him in opposition to the bill when it comes up in the senate. In case it is impossible to prevent the passage of the bill by the senate, Mr. Fulton wi'.l seek to increase the amount to be paid countieB from the receipts of timber sales from 10 to 25 per cent. " The Oregon senator is so thoroughly convinced of the inadvisability of re pealing the timber and stone act that he will carry his fight to the house and seek to induce the house committee to table the senate bill, just as it has heretofore tabled a sim'lar bill in the house. He feels certain that this leg islation will be killed in the house, if not in the senate. Kaiser Would Be Boss. London, March 19. Reynolds' News paper prints a dispatch from Berlin stating that Kaiser William is more de termined than ever to have his own way in regard to the Moroccan question at the Algeciras conference. His latest ambition is to pose as the dictator of Europe, and he seems to consider the present moment a favorable one to as sume the role. The more moderate of his ministers are anxious lest the kais er shall provoke France too far, for fear that France and England may throw down the gauntlet to Germany. Constitution Is Saved. Washington, March 19. The famous old war frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," is to be saved from rotting at the Boston navy yard and will also escape the worse fate of being used as a target by the North Atlantic fleet. The gallant old craft is to be patched up and rehabilitated, so she may indulge in an occasional cruise in mild weather. This is the decision of the house com mittee on naval affairs. It is estimat ed that it will cost just $6,000. Started I 000 Rivets. Baltimore, March 19. The British steamer Belfast, Captain McKee, which arrived from Las Patinas, Grand Ca nary, today, brought mails from the drydock Dewey. Captain McKee re ports that when he left Las Falmas re pairs were being made to the dock, which had started a thousand rivets on the trip across the Atlantic. to li inrrniT otitt itciig nr iirirnreT VOTERS CANNOT CHANGE. Attorney General Sayt Original Regis tration Must Stand. Salem Attorney General Crawford is of the opinion that there, is no autho rity for the changing of a votei's regis tration after it has once Wen made. He has not rendered a written opinion upon the subject, but after hearing the report that changes have been permit ted in Linn county, he examined tho statutes governing registration and said that the only change provided for by law is that which becomes necessary when a voter changes his residence from one precinct to another. Mr. Crawford said that if a voter registers as a Socialist and then changes his registration so that it shows him to be a lVsmocrat, this would be in effect a second registration, and more than one registration is expressly forbidden. It the clerk should make a mistake and write the word "Socialist" after a man's name, when the voter had an nounced himself as a iHsmocate, Mr. Crawford thinks it would be- permissa ble for the clerk to correct the error, but where the party amliation has tnen recorded as given by the voter, there is no authority for a subsequent change. It has been many times asserted that in Marion county many Democrats are registering as Republicans in order to take part in the contest for the Repub lican primary nominations. Inspection of the registration lKks shows that this is not true, and that if any persons are registering improperly the instances are so few and so unimportant as to es cape notice. The disposition here is for each to register his party atti nations hooestly and fairly, if givea at all. Farmers Tired of Waiting. Ontario The farmers of Dead Ox Flat, tired of waiting for water from the various projects contemplated, have- taken steps to organize an irrigation district under what is known as the Wright law. A petition to the County court will be considered at a special session April 16. The proposed district includes about 10,000 acres of the best land on Dead Ox Flat, in Malheur county, just across the Snake river from Weiser, Idaho. When this district is organized and the means of watering it have been installed, there will have- been added to Malheur county many thousands of dollars of taxable proper ty. The success of the enterprise mans much for the county. Wallowa Bridge by July I. Wallowa When the O. R. A N. Co. started to secure right of way in this county for an extension of their line it was not definitely known how soon the road was to le in operation. In a re cent conversation with a pentleman who is in a position to know the activ ity of all projected railroads, it was learned that the extension to the O. R. h N. was expected to reach the Wal lowa bridge by July next. With rail road accommodations so early, much of the crop raised in Wallowa county, as weli as the surplus Btock, will be shipped from that point. Change Wool Sale Dates. Pendleton Owing to dissatisfaction with the schedule of wool sale dates re cently announced for Eastern Oregon, the executive committee of the State Woolgrowers association has ms.de out a new one, as follows: Pendleton, May 22-23, May 29-30; Heppner, May 24 25, June 7-8, June 21-22; Condon, May 31, June 1, June 27-28; Shaniko. June 5-6, June 19 20. July 10-11; Baker City, June 25-26, July 12-13; Elgin, July 13. The sale for the Wal lowa county wool has been set for Elgin instead of the town of Wallowa as pre viously arranged. Closed Season To Be Enforced. Oregon City "A strictly closed sea son will be maintained on the Colum bia river this year," says Deputy Fish Warden H. A. Webster, who has gone to the Iwer Columbia. The closed season began on the 15th inst. and con tinues for a month, and in order that all illegal fishing may be prevented the authorities of Oregon and Washington will co-operate and maintain a thor ough patrol of the river. Oregon this year has two patrol boats and Waih ington has one, anil all three will do service onthe Columbia. Seaside to Astoria. Salem Charles M. Cartwright, Wil liam L. Dudley, Edgar J. Daly, San derson Reed, B. F. Allen and J. Frank Watson have filed articles of incorpora tion with the seertary of state for the ABtoria & Coast Interurban company. They propose to build a stearn or elec tric railroad from Astoria to Seaside, ending at the Halladay or Old Seaside property, in Clatsop county. The cap ital Btock is $300 000 divided into $100 shares. Prospects Good in Sumpter. Baker City Conservative mining operators are of the opinion that dur ing the coming summer greater results will be obtained from the mines of the Sumpter district than ever before. In an interview on this question I. R. Bellman, a well known operator and manager of the Crack Oregon, at Bourne, stated that this is assured by the fact that so many properties have been fully developed and are now on the verge of being placed among the regular producers. FRUIT CANNERY FOR ALBANY. Gardeners and Orchardiitt of Linn County Take Stock. Albany Active work looking to the erection of a cannery and packing plant in Albany has begun by the gardener and fruitinen interested. The new company will be known as the Fruit growers' and Gardeners' Co-Operative association, and will U owned by the men w ho sell their products to the com pany or by citixens of Albany. Stock in the new company is selling under a restriction that no one man could se cure more than 25 per cent of the stock. Besides packing, preserving ami can ning fruit and vegetables, the new con cern will handle all kinds of produce, acting as a kind of distributing jHiint where all produce for the local trade can be secured at a uniform price. In this way all stores will be able to keep up with the market, and the farmers will have no trouble in disposing of their product. The plan is to start with a cannery, prune packery and cider and vinegar works. All of these industries have been needed very much in Linn county, lecause of the immense amount ol small fruits and garden products grown here, and because the county had no such enterprises the development of the fruit and gardening industry has been much retarded. Wool Sales at Condon. Condon An effort is leing made by the Condon Commercial club to estab lish at this place wool sales days. The secretary of the club is in communica tion wi'h the State and National Wool growers' associations, and with the aid of the Joe at woolgrowers' association, which it is expected will be organized, it is thought dates may be seemed. Endeavors are also being made to se cure a reduction in freight rates on woot from Cndon to Boston, and also on local shipments of sugar, salt etc. Cannot Use State Money. Salem Attorney General Crawford holds in an opinion that the State Lewis and Clark commission cannot use the $50,000 appropriated by the state for a memorial building, even il an individual is willing to supply the 150,000 which the Portland Lewis and Clark corporation refused to donate. Mr. Crawford says the law is explicit in its declaration that the corporation must supply the money and the city of Portland donate the site. Beet Acreage Largely Increased. La Grande Manager F. S. lliam well, of the sugar factory, has been in Cove, making contracts for the growicg jf sugar beets for this season's run, and reports having contracted for about I, 000 acres of beets in that locality. The sugar company expects to have a larger acreage this year than ever before. Heretofore the factory haB never had aiore than 2,800, aires but this season is counting upon at least 4,000 acres. Big Yield in Gilliam. Condon Crop prospects for a large yield are said to be better than ever l fore in Gilliam county. There is a greater acreage of wheat than ever seeded in this county before and con ditions are unusually favorable at this time. The ground is wet to a depth of more than two feet. Range is im proving rapidly, owing to the splendid growing weather of the past two weeks. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, tiH67c; bluestem, 66 68c; red, (4(5t(l5c; valley, 70c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.50; gray, $27 per ton. Barley Feed, $2324 per ton; brewing, $2424 50; rolled, $24.50 25.50. Buckwheat $2.25 per cental. Hay Kastern Oregon timothy, $13(5J 14 per ton; valley timothy, $89; clo ver, $7.508; cheat,'$rj7; grain hay, $7(38. Fruits Apples, $12.50 per box; cranberries, $ 12.50ft? 14. 50 per barrel. Vegetables Asparagus, luetic per pound; beans, 2)c; cabbage, per pound; cauliflower, $22.25 pert-rate; celery, $4 bWSo; sprouts, o7c per pound; rhubarb, $2.25 per box; par sley 25c; turnips, 00c(5$l per sack; carrots, 05(5? 75c per sack; beetB, 85c(j $1 per sack. Onions No. 1, 7080c per sack; No. 2, nominal. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks, 50(5i60c per hundred ; ordinary, nom inal; sweet potatoes, 242gC per pound. Butter Fancy creamery 27)$30c per pound. Kggs Oregon ranch, 1 6 1 7c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, J 3(5 1 4c per pound; mixed chickens, 12(413c; broilers, 2022c; young roosters, 12(U 12jc; old roosters, 10 Qc dressed chickens, 1416c; turkeys, live, lfl 17c; turkeyB, dressed, 1820c; geese, live, 89c: geeBe, dressed, 1012c; ducks, 1618c. Veal Dressed, 37c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 2'ivt per pound; cows, 3$ country steers, 45c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89cper pound, ordinary, 4 5c; lambs, 8 9Kc. Pork Dressed, 68lc per pound. Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10 lOJc; prime, 89i; medium, 78; olds, 57c. Wool Eaitern Oregon average best, 16521c per pound; valley, 2426c; mohair, choice, 25 (2 30c ACT ON JETTY HILL. House Rivers and Harbors Commit tee Will Soon Meet. Washington, March 1(1. Chairman Burton, of the house rivers and har bors committee, suld ho would call a meeting of his committee at an early day to consider Senator Fulton's will appropriating $400,000 tor work on the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia river. The. committee is due to arrive here from its southern trip by Saturday or Sunday and it is probable the meet ing will be held some time next week. If it shall be the opinion of the com mittee that this separate bill should be presented to the house and pressed on its merits, the bill will be reported w ithout amendment. There is every reason to believe that the committee III favor the appropriation of $100,000 inasmuch as the chiel of engineers and secretary of War have both stated that this amount is absolutely necessary to preserve the jetty work from destruc tion and have specitlcnlly stated that any less amount will not answer. There is a report that the members of the house committee may favor en larging the Fulton bill by add ng pro vision for three or four other emergency projects, so as to make it virtually an emerucnev river and harbor bill, such an was suggested earlier in the session This is not cerUin. however, as the committee has had no meeting this session, and its sentiments cannot be accurately ascertained. If the bill can Ihj so amended without making it general river and harbor bill, its chances of passing the house will be brighter than would the bill making an appropriation for the Columbia river alone. CONSTITUTION FOR CHINA. Commissionert Predict This n Result of Study of America. New York, March 16.-- Prince Tssl Tse, High Commissioners Shang Chi Heng and Li Cheng To, envoys of the emperor of China, their secretaries and attaches, sailed on the White Star liner Baltic today to continue their investigations in Fngland, France and Itelgium. The prince said hist night: "I have greatly enjoyed my visit to this country, and the uniform courtesy that has been accorded me, including the reception by President l!ooevelt, has deeply impressed me with the friendly attitude of the American peo pie. I believe that such contact makes (or a better understanding and must bring benefit to Isith of otir pioplcs." That China will soon have a coutsi tutional government is the opinion of some of the comiiiiHnior.ers. Annotii o ment of t' is belief was made by one of the secretaries of the commission Just before the Baltic eailel. It followed a brief conference between all members of the party. "We 'have been making a com pre hemiive study id the political situation in this onntry," he said, "and have hih-ii the application of your laws ami the workings of the governing bodies I believe that China will souli have a constitutional government. It w probably be modeled much on the lines of the British constitution, but will contain some ('. the good features ol your own constitution." WRECK KILLS 150 PEOPLE. Head-On Collision of Fast Passenger Trains in Colorado. Pueblo, Colo., March 10. No. 1, southbound, and No. 3, northbound, passenger trains on the Denver it Rio (irande railroad collided head on near Portland, Colo., shortly after midnight, and it is reported at least oil persons are killed and a largo number injured. Relief trains have been ordered from Pueblo arnl Florence. At this hour de tails are unobtainable. Meager but authentic information from several sources states that the number killed in the collision will reach 150. The craches caught fire am most of the victims were roasted to leath. Money for Guns and Powder. Washington, March 16. The senate committee on appropriations today completed the fortifications bill, and it was reported by Senator Perkins. It carries appropriations aggregating $5, 618,993, an increaso of $780,000 over the amount appropriated by the house bill. The increases are: For mountain, field and siege cannon and equipment and machinery for their manufscture at arsenals, $290,000; for thoenction and equipment of a powder factory and or Hcacoust cannon, equipment and ma chinery for their nianfacturo, $365,000. Did They Steal Money? New York, March 16. The grand jury which is investigating evidence in the insurance matter submitted by District Attorney Jerome is at sea as to whether a political assesment by a di rector of a corporation constitutes the crime ot la-ceny. The members of the jury questioned Mr. Jerome on the matter and at tils suggestion the matter was plHcod before Judge O'Sullivan, of the Court of General Sessions, who will render an opinion next week. Will Nationalize Railroads. Tokio, March 16. The parliamen tary majority in favor of nationaliza tion ol laawsys is reported to he in creasing and (lire teems to lie little toubt. the pr ) ct will be cairied hromih. Wotk on the elevated rail r a 1 i" ToWio, suspended during the tv-ir, has been resumed. Japan and Rns.da are planning to exchange im perial envoys to signify the restoration of peace. BURNED ii. Certain That Tlilrly-llvc lioiilus Arc Keiluccil to Ashes. TRAINS COIlllli: IN COLORADO Flames Do Work So Thoroughly That Only One Body Has Uoen Identified. Pueblo, Colo., March 17. A wreck accompanied with horrors exceeded only by the F.den disaster, w hlch oc curred August 7, 1994, on the line ot the sairo railroad, resulted from a head on collision ot two passenger trains on the Denvnr A Kin Grande railroad tour miles east ot Florence, Colorado, at an early hour yesterday morning. The trains were the t'tah Calitornia express No. 3, west tmiiiid, from Denver, and the Colorado-Near Mexico express No. 1", east ImxiihI, from I.cadvillrt and Grand Junction. They met tut a sharp curve and wcro less than 200 yards apart when the en gineers dlscoveie.l th U a collision was imminent. The disaster was made more horrible by the manner ot the death of many of the passengers, variously estimated trom 20 to 35. Fire swept over the. wreck, engultliig the victims in a cauldron ot flame and leaving only charred and blackened bodies to tell the tale ot slaughter. A list of injured given out by offi cials of the railroad company comprises 32 names. None of the Injured are dangerously hurt, and it is Ixdieved all w ill recover quickly. It is reliably reported that but one body is sufficiently inta:-t to make re cognition possible, all the others hav ing been incinerated. The identifica tion of the victims W ho succumbed to the merciless llsmes Is only possible, il is believed, through a c uiiparisoii ol lists ot rescued nnd missing. No ac curate estimate of the number ot dead was possible by reason of tit fact that so many of the bodies were practically destioyed , One of the pathetic tragedies of tho disaster was the w iping out ot all but two of the family of 'l ay lor I lew itt, ol I.elto, Kan. father, mother, daughter grandchild, and the wives ot the two sons are missing. The sons, A. K. Hewitt and W. I.. Hewitt are among the injured in the hospital here each ol them having leg fractures in addition to other injuries. ACT LIKE CAT-AND DOG. Russia and Japan Ready to Spring at One Another. St. Petersburg, March 17. General ( Snslekofl's order issued yesterday ex cluding Japanese from Kussiau .Man churia, and at the same ti'iie beginning the distribution of laud among the dis banded troops whose fainilis are helped by the government to cinitfratu to Man churia, and the (act that many ollicers are dispatched to Vladivoi-tok daily in dicate that the situation in the Far Fast is considered mis 'fo. A lamous general who recently returned from Manchuria is quoted as saying: "Despite official and diplomatic de clarations at Tokio, we believe tho Japanese consider the war unfinished, and that they will seize occasion to conquer the Amur region from Harbin to Lake Ilaikal. Their military forces in Manchuria have been strengthened rather than diminished, ami o I liters allow no one to visit headquarters. Kven Fnglishmen am excluded. "Tl.o disorganized state of tho Rus sian army in Siberia favors tho plans ol the Japanese. This is the reason for General Grodekoff's order and General Kennenkampl's excessive severity in crushing the revolution at Chita in. Tnuis-liaikalia. Robbed of Large Sum. Great Fills. Mont.. March 17. A Tribune special from Kalispel reports the loss of $8,000 by the O'llrlen Lum- her company at the hands of highway men. John Peteison, a trusted em ploye, was carrying the money from Kalispel to the works at Timers, about nine miles distant. Near the mill ha was stopped by three men. One held the team, another held a iun at Peter. son's head, and the other secured the currency. The robbers were disguised. but are believed to the bo men from that locality. Russia Threatens China. Pepkin. March 17. The Seoul an. thorities have sent an official dispati h to the Pitkin government stating that a large body of Russian troops has nenn- trated to Wusuli and ilelunkaug, near the northern frontier of Corea. This extraordinary move is perhaps intend- e i as a demonstration to influence the Kusflo-Chinese negotiations. which show little progress. The Pekln mi. thorities wired instructions to the Tar tar general at Helunkang. Bond Company a Fraud. Louisville. Kv.. March 17.Chari of fraud and insolvency were made in a liniati ... suit, nieu iaie yesteraay against the American Reserve Bond company, of Chicago, asking for the appointment of a nceiver. Millions of dollars belomr. inn to investors all over the ITnlrml States are involved in the suit, which was filed in the United States court for the eastern district of Kentucky by Levi Hake and Mary- Welch, investors . in the company. V