Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1906)
Bohemia Nugget COTTAGI GROVE . . OREGON. NEWS OFJE WEEK In a Condensed form for Oar Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Net Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. General Greely has reorganiied the relief work in San Francjsco. The friendship of Russia and Great Britain has been cooled by the Jewish tnatsacres. The sultan of Morocco has signed the treaty promulgated by the Algeciras convention. Political signs in the East point to Roosevelt as the candidate to run against Bryan. Cross Creek, a small Pennsylvania town, baa been wiped out by fire caused by an electric storm. The strike of bituminous coal miners in Michigan has been ended "by the men accepting the 1903 wage scale. The president will likely visit the canal sone next fall and see for himself the progress being made on the canal. Canada proposes laws which will stop business of every kind on Sunday, even railway trains. No games or perform ances will be allowed where an admis sion is charged. At a meeting of the board of super visors of San Francisco city and county the tax levy was fixed at $1,322 per f 100. The new levy is 16 cents and 2 mills higher than last year. King Haakon and Queen Maud have been formally crowned as rulers cf Norway. The Russian douma blames the gov ernment for the recent massacres and calls on the cabinet to resign. Experiments are being conducted in Kansas to ascertain the result of meat preservatives. Dogs are the subjects. General Greely says at least 50,000 people in San Francisco are still de pendent on the supply camps for food. Formal announcement has been made by Attorney General Moody that he will prosecute the Standard Oil for ac cepting rebatei. The Transcontinental Insurance company is reported to have only assets sufficient to pay 10 per cent of its San Francis o losses. A grand jury at Portland has indict ed 12 men for connection with frauds in the recent state election. More in dictments will probably be made. Insurance companies have refased to pay a dollar of insurance at Santa Rosa, California, claiming the earthquake rained the city. The state insurance commissions bas pledged bis support. The peasant revolt is growing in Southern Russia. Englieh woman suffragists have been arrested for rioting. Fresh mutinies have occurred in sev eral big Russian garrisons. Bryan says bis kind of conservatism were he president would be to daetroy the trusts utterly. The passage of the lock canal bill by the senate is considered a personal vic tory for Roosevelt. Idaho is asking or information re garding the insurance companies which refuse to pay their San Francisco loeses in full. A bulletin just issued by the census bureau sbowa that there are 83 manu facturing concerns in Alaska with a capitalization of $10,000,000. Los Angeles physicians have just re moved the heart of a man and after washing it replaced the organ. The patient's chances of recovery are good. In an accident the prong of a wooden rake pierced the man's breast, carrying in dirt which lodged on the heart. The United States has a lower death rate than any country in Europe except Norway and Sweden, according to a bulletin issued by the Census bureau. Consumption is far in the lead as the cause of death, but this disease bas shown a decrease of nearly 40 per cent in the past six years. TLe Corean revolt is spreading. Japan plans to monopoloze the trade of the Orient. Fire at Los Angeles destroyed block in the wholesale district. A number of Russian newspapers have been suppressed for printing news of the Bialystok massacre. The house has passed a bill granting California 6 per cent of the net pro ceeds of the sale of public lands. It is expected that the Italian gov ernment will soon issue an order for the complete exclusion of American canned meats. Count Witte expresses the opinion that tbi Russian douma is becoming revolutionary in its character. He also says the Jews have brought their troubles on themselves. A submarine eruption recently threw up a small island near Boroslov, an is land in Alaskan waters. .Boroslov was upheaved in the same way 100 years ago and another small island in 1882. The Hermann land case trial at Port land is expected te take place the first of July. WHIPPED INTO LINE. Few Insurance Companies Have Failed to Comply With Law. Kan Francisco, June 2!S. That the insurance companies fear the weight of official displeasure Is shown by the fuel that there are now but five or six com panies which have neither furnished their lists of policy holders nor extend ed time for proof of loss. Assistant Attorrey General George Stnrtevant said today that his o Hire is now ready to commence action against the com panies which have not been dealing fairlv. He added : "We have found a way to reach both the six-hit concerns and the outlaw companies, as we term those who have neither filed lists of policy holders nor granted extension of time for filing proof of loss. Wherever it Is found necessary, loth penalties under the statutes will be enforced forfeiture of bond and ejectment from the state." The financial condition of practically all of the companies involved here will, it is stated, be disclosed on July 1, when the companies will be compelled to file in the state of Georgia semi-annual statements of their condition. Georgia is said to be the only state in the Union requiring semi-annual state ments. Chairman Spencer, of the "dollar for dollar" committee of the board of un derwriters, said today that the outlook is dubious. "There are undoubtedly a large num ber of companiee which must go to the wall soon," he said. "I do not want to specify, nor would I say that all the honest and solvent companies are in the 'dollar for dollar' class. I do not want to Impugn the motives of any of the companies that propose a compro mise. Some of them undoubtedly cannot pay and ars offering the best thev can. "Some of the companies are now making a delay to learn the extent of their liabilities and will then pay what they owe. Others are delaying in had faith. These will have to wait and go out of business, unless they can make good soon." GUERILLA WARFARE IN RUSSIA. Peasants Murder Two Rural Police for Killing a Cow. St. Petersburg. June 25. The peas ants of the village of Kruntyagork, en raged at the killing of a cow by two members of the rural police, called a pommnne meetintr. formallv condemned the two men to death and executed the sentence. At Kiev messengers on the South western railroad, who were carrying $125,000, were attacked yesteraay Dy fnnr rohhera who killed one messenger. wounded a second, seized the money and drove away in a gaiiop in a cao. Two of the messengers pursued the rob bers and wounded the robber who was carrying the money, with the result that he fell from the cab and the money was recovered. At Ufa, Prince Manveloff, an extens ive landed nrorjrietor and a former offi cer of the guards, was killed on the streets yesterday. lhe crime, it is suppose!, was committed for political reasons. nisnatches from Bialvstok report that the citizens there are panic stricken owing to unconfirmable minors that the excesses would be revived to day. Patrols are to be seen every where, and strict martial law is en forced. Three men, two of whom were Christians, were recently shot for fail ing to obey orders to halt. NO PRISON FOR JOHN D. Government Not Likely to Indict Big Oil Trust Men. Washington. June 25. Although the department of Justice bas announced that it proposes to begin criminal pro ceedings against the officials of the Standard Oil company, the intimation is given out that it is doubtful if in dictments may be found against such men in the Standard Oil company as John D. Rockefeller, H. II. Rogers and John D. Archbold. An official in the department of Justice indicated today that while the government would press the prosecutions vigorously, he did not have an idea that the officials of the Standard Oil company would be reached in the criminal proceedings any more than the presidents of railroads, per sonally, are reached through similar proceedings. Recognize Only the Douma. Moscow, June 25. It is reported that troops in the local garrison have notified their officers that they will remain loyal to the crown as long as the czar and the government respects the rights and privileges of the douma. It is asserted, but not yet confirmed, that the soldiers have notified the offi cers that tbey will decline to obey any orders from them should the douma be dissolved, but will hold themselves un der the orders of the president of that body, declining the recognize the presi dent of the present government. House Built With Cactus. Pasadena, Cal., June 25. Luther Burbank, the California wizard, is building himself a $5,000 residence at Santa Rosa. Two cactus leaveB which he raised on bis own land will pay for it. This is the icteresting statement made by Burbank to I). W. Coolidge. secretary of the Pasadena board of trade, who has just returned from a visit to the Burbank home. It means that $5,000 was the reward for produc ing his new spineless cactus. Roosevelt Signs Traveling' Bill. Washington, June 25. Late this afternoon President Roosevelt signed the hill nutking an appropriation of 125 000 a ve"" I"' the traveling expens es of the president. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST CHANGE CRIMINAL LAWS. Attorney General Crawford Would Remedy Many Defects. Salem Attorney General Crawford has started a movement for the revision of the criminal laws of the state by re moving defect and enacting new laws, so that the guilty shall not escape upon technicalities. He has addressed a let ter to each of the prosecuting attorneys ot the state, asking them to submit to him such recommendations upon the need of criminal legislation as they may think best, and lie will lay the whole matter before the judiciary com mittee of the next legislature. In his letter Mr. Crawford says that probably every district attorney has in his experience found some laws which are so defective in their terms that men who are guilty cannot be convicted, and have found some offenses for which no statute whatever is provided. He says that the time to remedy the de fects in the criminal laws is during a session ot the legislature, and, in order that this may be done properly, the laws should be drafted before the legis lature meets. The prosecuting attorneys, he thinks, are in the best position to learn of the defects in the laws, and he wants them to suggest the changes that should be made. With recommendations before him from all the prosecuting attorneys, the attorney general will be able to lay before the legislature information that will enable that body to place the crim inal laws in a much better condition than they have ever been before. A very striking illustration ot the defective condition of the criminal laws was found when the state land fraud prosecutions were begun in Marion county something over a year ago. There was no law under which men could be convicted after they had sworn falsely in making applications for the purchase of school lands. There was no statute making it a crime to sign a fictitious name to an ap plication for the purchase of school land. There was no law to be found for the punishment of a notarv public who affixed his seal to an instrument which he had drawn, and to which he had signed a ficticious name. At nearly every term of court men who are placed on trial escape punish ment, although proven guilty, because the statute does not quite cover the crime comnrtted. It is defects o this kind that Attorney General Crawford wishes to remove. He is not seeking to make crimes of small offenses which are of no importance, but merely so to correct the laws that ic will be possible to secure conviction when men are found guilty of acta which every one recognizes as criminal in character. Settlement Named After Wagon. Arlington Some 30 years ago a few men settled on a fiat about 12 miles south of Arlington. In the crew was only one wagon an old Schutler. In some way they began calling this neigh borhood Schutler, from the old wagon. A few years later it was, as it is now, known as Schutler Flat. When the Condon branch railroad of the O. R. A N. Co. was built, a station was estab lished near this place, and is named Schutler. This is one of the finest farming sections in Gilliam county, and thus from an old wagon a name is found for a fine wheat belt. Grain Sack Problem Serious. Pendleton The grain sack problam promises to be serious for the farmers of Umatilla county, who will use 2, 000,000 this year. At the present prices, 10 cents each, this means $200, 000 in this county. Other Eastern Oregon counties, it is estimated, will use at least 2,000.000 more, making a total of $4,000,000 for this section. This entails the expenditure of nearly half a million dollars for grain sacks, wbirh, together with the expense of harvesting the crop, represents an enormous expenditure of money before anything is realized from the crop. Historic Sites To Be Marked. Eugene Acting upon a suggestion made by Professor F. G. Young, of the State university, the Native Daughters of Martha Mulligan cabin No. 3 nave taken up the matter of marking some of the early historic places of interest in or about Eugene. Miss Ann White aker has appointed committees of fi nance, location and program. It was decided to mark with basaltic columns, taken from Skinner's butte, the loca tion of the Skinner cabin, the first built in Eugene, the first echoolhouse and the place where the first court was held. Prunes Promise Great Yield. Salem The rains of the past two weeks have not done as much damage to berries in this vicinity as expected, and a good crop is being gathered. The wet weather has made pasturage excellent and an enormous crop is as sured. With few exceptions, prune growers report bumper crops, and in some orchards the fruit is so abundant that weak limbs are already breaking. A few cherries have been cracked by the wet weather. Bend Ships Horses. Bend Many horses are being ship ped from Bend and vicinity to Portland and other points in the valley. Many riders are out on the ranges rounding up all available horses. It is feared that considerable horse thieving has been going on in this section, as a num ber of valuable horses are missing, and as some suspicious characters have been seen on the ranges of late it is feared that the animals have been run off. WILL SHIP 400 CAMS. Bountiful Yields From Grand Ronde Orchards is Assured. La Grande It is estimated lv the principal fruit growers of Grand Rondo valley that the output for Mils section this year will be 400 carloads. The es timate on apples, which are the largest crop, is 314 cars; prunes, (5 cars; pears, peaches, plums and cherries, 20 cars. These figures aie considered reli able, as there was hut little variance in the different estimates given and the estimates on prunes all agreed. This forecast is made on the expectation of a continuation of the present favorable conditions, which could hardly he Im proved upon; the fruit is set on the trees as full as it can he to give first class quality. In securing the foregoing report it was also possible to obtain some inter esting figures relative to the enormous Increase in the apple orchard acreage. There are now 200,000 apple trees in this valley and of this miuihsr 14ti,000 are in bearing. That is to say, this is the number of trees of five years old and upwards. Five years hence, when the whole number of trees are in ler ing, the yield of an average crop year will be a million boxes, or atout l.titW car loads. It is not too much to say that within a short time the apple crop income of this valley will be a million dollars a year. Even at the cider factory price of $5 per ton, ten year-old trees will on aver age years yield at the rate of $142.H3 per acre. While the apple is in the ascendancy as the commercial fruit of this - valley, the cherry plays quite a part. Can nery representatives are here now mak ing contracts for cherries at 4 to 434 cents per pound. The La Grande fruit Krowers w ill have about 20 tuns to offer, hut this includes only the sweet varie ties suitable for canning, such as Royal Anns ami Centennials. Old cherry trees in some orchards in the valley have yielded as high as KOI) po-.nds io the tree. The price paid is $K0 per ton and at this rate old trees will yield $3,200 and upward per acre. All these figures and estimates are based on as reliable facts as are obtain able. It is not necessary to exaggerate the fruit industry of Grand Ronde The truth is good enough. May Test New Law. Salem Just what additional revenue will come to the state treasury as the result of the passage of the laws taxing the gross earnings of telegraph, tele phone, express and other corporations is not known for a certainty. The Western Union Telegraph company will have to pay about 3,H0O. The Pacific States Telephone company will have to pay more probably. None of the cor porations wiM pay until it has tested the law in the courts, so it is said. Some have estimated the revenue at from $50,000 to $100,000 a year. Working for Coast Railroad. Newport J F. Ntewart. William S-arthandO. Krogstad, members of the Toledo corporation organized for the purpose of securing the right of way for the coast railroad, werej in this city last week agitating the forming of a company of Newport people to help in the endeavor to bring the railroad through this section. They succeeded in arousing the citizens to such an ex tent that a company with $5,000 cap italization is proposed to be formed. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 7273c; blnestem, 7475c; red, 7071c; valley, 72c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $31.50032; gray, $31.50 per ton. Barley Feed, $2424 .60 per ton ; brewing, nominal; rolled, $25 0 20. HayValley timothy, No. 1, $12.50 013 per ton; clover, $7.6008; cheat, $607; grain hay, $708; alfalfa, $13. Fruits Apples, $2 5003.50 per box; apricots, $1.250$2 per crate; cherries, 75c$l per b-x; strawberries, 607c per pound; gooseberries, 607c per pound; Logan berries, $1.75 per crate. Vegetables Beans, 608c; cabbage, 1?4C per pound; lettuce, head, 15325c; onions. 8010c per dozen; peas, 405c; radishes, 100 20c per dozen; rhubarb, 3c per pound; spinach, 2 0 3c per pound; parsley, 25c; turnips, $101.25 per sack; carrots, 65076c per sack; beets, 85c0$l per sack. Onions New, l j'02c per pound. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks, 60060c per hundred; ordinary, nom inal: new California, 22c per pound. Putter Fancy creamery, 1720c per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 21022c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 130 per pound; mixed chickens, 120 12: broilers. 1601p; roosters, 9011c; dressed chickens, 13014c; turkeys, live, 17 0 17c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 20022c; geese, live, 8 00c; ducks, old, 11 0 12c; young, 12013c. Hops Oregon, 1905, 9012c. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1823c; valley, coarse, 22$023c; fine, 24 0 25c; mohair, choice, 28030c per pound. Veal Dressed, 47c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound; cows, 4l454c; country steers, 606c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 708c per pound; ordinary, 56cj lambs, with pelt on 8c. Pork Drem-, 79o per pound. AFTER STANDARD OIL. President Decides to Have Criminal Action Begun at Once. Washington, June 22 . Plans to he gin Immediate criminal prosecutions against nltWiala of the Standard Oil company for violations of the Sherman anil trust law and prosecution against Standard Oil olliicala ami high olllclals of railroads for violation of the Klklns rebate law have h i completed by the administration, according to Informa tion from a high authority tonight. These plana, it is understood, were considered at a mysterious meeting of five cabinet olllcers at the While House last night which aroused much specula tion In all circles today. It is said to have been the Intention to keep the matter secret for a few days until the department of Justice was reaiiy to strike the initial blow. Wall street, however, which seems to vet information from every conceiv able source, even when the seen! Is autmosed to he con lined to the presi dent an. I his confidential advisers, got a "tip" today that Standard till ami the railroads were in for new trouble, and on the strength of this stock tum bled. Reports from ew lor lonigni say that Washington had already heard of the "leak" and that steps had been taken to locate it. A person of high authority declare that the department of Justice, as a re sult of investigations conducted prior to and since the (iarlleld report, lias enough evidence on hand to secure me conviction of high Standard Oil and railroad officials under both laws under which prosecutions are to lie made. PREDICTS MUTINY OF SAILORS. Narodny Says Army and Navy Officers and Nobles are Rebels. New York, June 22. Ivan Narodny, a Russian w ho came here in the inter ests of the Revolutionists, said yesler day : "There will be soon a great mutiny in the Italtic fleet at Cronstadt, with vastly more success than the already historic mutiny of the lliack Sea Heel The captains commanding are in sym pathy with the revolutionary move nient and will declare at the appointed time for reforms. "The army officers drawn from the noble class are on sympathetic terms with the men from the peasant and ar tisan classes. The common people and the nobles in Russia are not separated by the gulf that stood between these classes under the ancient regime in France. The nobles throughout Rua sla, and the gentry, too, are the eaa ants' closest friends, on the most cor dial and friendly footing. The nobles are the backbone of the revolution in Russia. The bureaucracy is drawn from neither class, and is hated by hot! classes. "It is the system which causes Hots like that at Bialystok. The rea son why the bureaucracy stirs up this resentment against the Jews is that they are seen to be an element strong for revolution radicals. TEST CASE ON INSURANCE. Lawsuit About Earthquake Clause Losers Unite for Defense. San Francisco, June 22. Two test rases, brought by two women, who are refugees from Han Francisco, against the Palatine Insurance company, of Imdon. England, to recover $(() in surance money, were tried in Justice of the Peace (Juinn s court in Oaklan yesterday and decided in favor of the plaintiffs. Notice of appeal was given in each case, and the matter will he thrashed out eventually in the superior courts. The defendant company announced its intent to rest its defense on the le gality of the "earthquake cluuse" in the policies. The judge said no evidence had been produced showing that the loss was caused by the earthquake. The several commercial bodies of San Francisco will meet Monday, June 25, to organize a policy holders' protective association for ths purpose of securing prompt and fair settlements for their memtters from the various insurance companies in which they hold policies. Britain Will Not Intercede. London, June 22. In the house of commons today Walter Riinciman, par liamentary secretary to the local gov ernment hoard, in behalf of Foreign Secretary Gray, again declined to in form the government of Russia of the vlewB of the British people concerning the anti-Jewish outbreaks. He said the impress ion made and the sympathy aroused not only in this country but everywhere by the disturbance and loss of life in Russia were known to the Russian government, and further pro teats would be useless. Tulare Lake Is Rising. Porterville, Cal., June 22 Tulare 1 ike has now reached the limits it oc cupied in 1881, and is within a mile of Corcoran. It is thought that Corcoran will he flw'ed by the witters of the lake and that the new town of Alpaugh may he destroyed, lhe lake is stead i ly rising and is spreading at the aver age of a mile a day in a northwesterly Unction towards its outlet in the San Jo?q iin river, with no . proipect of Abuti rnent. Hail Destroys Corn and Fruit. Da. las, 'lex.. June 22. A severe wind, rain and hail storm caused much damage throughout the Brazos river fuijn tonight and I ai practicit ly de stroyed all the giowing corn and fruit. Travel n the Texas Pacific railroad be- ween I u'Ihs and Fort Worth has been suspended because of washouts, and all of the section crews have been called out to rpair the damage. tipp Mi 'I 2 i Congress Likely to Divert Money Meant (or Irrigation, USL IT TO DRAIN PRIVATE LANDS Bills Now Ponding for North Dakota Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Other States. Washington, June 23. Larly in the present session of congress Senator llanshroogh, of North Dakota, intro duced a hill authorising ths eipendi- tnre of 1,000.000 out of the naMonal reclamation fund for draining swamps In his state. When the bill went be fore thejeommittce on irrigation it wan found that every acre to he benefitted was In private ownership, and the bill, if enacted, w uld not open to entry a single acre of public land. Notwith standing these disclosures, the senate committee ordered a favorable report out of courtesy because 1 1 ami. rough in a member of the committee. It was then stated that a majority of the com mittee Isnlievnd the bill a had one, and it was sttaed by several senators that It would never lie permitted to pass the senate. Nevertheless the bill did pas and is now before the house, where its chances of passing seem equally good. A hill is now pending to divert f I, 0 )0.001) from the reclamation fund to drain the Dismal swamp in Virginia and North Carolina; another la pending to drain the Krergladts of I lorida; only a few days ko a bill was intro duced to take ano'her $.' immi nun, and expend it in draining the big swamp of Arkansas and Missouri, an I, in ad dition, there re two hills pending lor the draiunge of sw amp in Minnesota, anil three general hills providing for the government drainage of swamps in all parts of the I'nited State. If the Haushroiigh bill passes, it will open the way for these other measure of similar character, and it will be only a short time before the greater portion of the reclamation fund, instead of tm ing used for Irrigating the desert lands of the Wis', as originally intended, will he expended in reclaiming swamps in states that have contributed not a cent to the reclamation fund and never will contribute. This legislation is a rank injustice to the Weal, which is counting on using its cwn public land receipts for the reclamation of its des erts, and unless somebody calls a halt, the work of government irrigation will soon be brought to a standstill. It must he remembered that, once this precedent is established, it will he easy for delegates from the Last ami South to combine and forte through l) 1 1 1 for the drainage of the swamps in the non-a.ld states, an I if the Last and South ever do combine for this purpose, the West will never have enough votea to check the onslaught. REGISTER FOR CROW LANDS. Crowds of Easterners Are Arriving at Billings, Montana. H"tte. June 23 A Miner special from Hillings states that Kasterners aro Hocking to that place by the hundreds to register for the Crow lands. Today they numbered approximately HfiO, which is 200 greater than it was yester day. The crowds which arrived " today were larger than any since the registra tion began, which was a week ago. The delegation of 200 came in thin morning on the Burlington train from the Fast. Most of those on board came from Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska points. But one hailed from Connec ticut, while another gave his address as South Carolina. The Northern Pacific brought in numbers from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Many of the prospect ive settlers have secured tents and have gone to the reservation, where they will establish camps arid make a thor ough inspection of the lauds. At the present rate the registration in this city will not exceed 10,000. Appeals to English Women. London, June 23. The newspapers this morning print an appeal from the Wnnmn ff i Janrtriu Wiiaoia 4 ( men of Enieland. comnlaininir Mint hv i n --- j order of tho Russian government Cos sacks invaded the central and western provinces of Georgia and destroyed, burned and looted four towns and 200 villages, treating the population with the utmost brutality, not even chlidmn escaping'miirder. The names of the signers are withheld at their own . quest, but Ihey include a princess and the wives of many high ofllcials. Dowie's Place of Refuue. Chicago, June 23. Will, ur (S . Vol i VA was again on the stand in th Ii,,u.i hearing today. He told of a secret room ill the basement of Wlu'a dence, the door of which was lined wiin Bteei. lie said Dowie had told him manv times thn I, a ,,) ed this chamber for a refuge because he oeiieveu members of the Masonic order were constantly plotting against his life. Dowie freouentlv iWlnrl Iia Bai l, that he was in constant danger. Root Considers Action on Massacre. Washington, June 23. Secretary Root Ih tiviltfjr i-Mtuiiliia IrtM t r tl Tatar- ish inaiiHacreH in Rusida,having already discussed them with tb fur he had taken no actions 111 lllf TO WEST iimioiiu