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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1906)
Bohemia Nugget Bohemia Nun'l Puh. Co. r COTTAGE GROVE . . OREGON. NEWS 0HIIE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Resume of the Lett Important but Not Lett Intereiting Event of the Patt Week. DIX SUNK ON SOUND. Steamer Goes to Bottom Carrying Down 39 of Her Passengers. Seattle, Wash., Nov. l!. The steam er lh'x. Captain P. I.criuon, Isuind f i out Seattle ti li tt Ulakelcy willi pas sengers, sank two milrs north of Alki point soon after 7 o'clock lust night, after a collision with tin- stcainhip Jcanie, Captain P. II. Mason, of the Aliiskii Coast company. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST SUCCESSFUL STAMP MILL. STRIKE A RICH VEIN. MUCH DAMAGE REROUTED. Floods In OrcRon and Washington Destroy Honmi anil Bridges. Cnstlo Hock, Wtch., Nov. HI. Tho ( lit, river Inn !. n 1 1 ii 1 1 1 u; i 1 1 ho nut, currying houses, burns, logs tt i I other drill down in the It-.!. Many families lllc Iioiih'Ics mid have savcp 1 nit few belongings from their ruined DAMAGE ENORMOUS President Koosevelt bads started for l'orto Kieo. Jerome cays" insurance grafters cannot le prosecuted. Tlic loss in the Yakima valley is es timated at $400,000. America ami Britain may unite to stop Congo atracitics. Hank rohlers secured $1 .700 from tho b.mk at Ivohamia, Okla. Three iersons were cremated in a ho tel tire at Ooldticld, Nov. Ket'ugecs in the flooded valleys near Seattle are in dire need of food. John Barrett, minister to Colombia, will spend the Christmas holidays with friends at Portland. Hearst and Joe Pulitzer, Jr. engnged in a tist tight. Neither will say any thing about the affair. The Cowlitz river is falling fast ami reports show that the damage in that rich valley will reach $250,000. The Hawaiian sugar crop for 1900 promises to 1h the biggest in the histo ly of the territory. It will probably amount to more than 450,000 tons. A Black Hand society in New York ha! exploded several hi nibs in the Italian tenement district, shattering windows and blowing doors from thier 1 inges. Idaho people w ill ask Federal aid to relieve the coal shortage. Governor Magoon, of Cuba, denies that he is dissatisfied with his position. A big dock fire at Naplse destroyed property valued at nearly $1,000,000. Mrs. Maud Creffield has been found dead in her cell at Seattle from heart failuie. wreck. The Jcanie was not injured in the least and no mcmlvr of her crew was lost. The master of the Dix was savinl Five Horsepower riant Opens New Era Largo ami Well Defined Led no Dlscov lu Mining Industry. I orod at Cottage Urove. l.a Criuido Assay returns have boon Cottage tlrove flattering find If homes mid are tcmpoim ily quiit len d received by tho Aurclia company from reported, from tlio Bohemia mining dis-'with friends on higher ground. The i Thirt v-nine passengers and tiioiiiWrs concentrates turned out on tlio trial ruu triot. It was made recently In tno Noi lliein lucillc hi idgo across inc i ow of tho crew of tho Mix arc missing and of 1,10 11,411 ri'l',lltlv installed by tliat claim know u in tho Pig Maud, owned by ' iu ,,,, u,.,,,,,, i washed out . rt.,ni..nit if ... ....,..... .... j. i i e ii in..:- ti i- ...:.i I .... . . S were saved. The Dix is a total 1 , ., v. v ,.r . ... . ...u ....... 'ilio tow n ol ! a-l le liock is in a sraio tlratid Ivoudo lnver. those assays show to bo high grads and tlio lodge in largo ,,f , .linos. 1 'lectin' lights are out be- values ranging from $225 to $250 to tlie and well drllnod. The usual degree of .cause of the Hood. The t . v n innrhnl ton, with a loss of about 13 per cent activity prevail throughout tb camp, has closed the snlo..ns to add to the iu tho waste. Tlio recent run of tbo ,..) r...,,n. , i ..1.1,.,.. ti, ' public safe! v. The people are meet ing The collision neciirrod mill show that tho ore will rnu $15 or ,,,. Sll...ri, :, ...,1 v.....vl.. nr., t,, the situation in a philosophic way mid while the sound was almost as smooth " i r u, iu. nou inoumcuinny full operation, omt.lovi.., rK forces 1 ' ' h oming panic st t ic'c.i is iiacri in nrsi i-iass working com. I- ,, ' . i as a mill s.nd, and after the K.ats had liol, from t0 to Vo per ctxnt of the vub ' ,v,," 1,10 n"u,,,1 ""'"""""l w,rk K,-n steaming within siwht of each.ues can bo saved. l.for U,,H v,;ur '' X comp etcd on tho other for a ...lartcr of an hour. The mil. installed but .mall. Only ' l'v.l. The Jcanie was baekinw when she hve horsepower is re.p.irod to run the 1 Afti'vity j tho i,,,,,!,,!,,., ,xirnn ii collide! with the Lix and the impact 'VT "1" -""'f' ""I ' constant W on tho ZTiil' . .k.i ti. , n:.. .. ,i. d. ,Ml 13 iKt'iit'ii iu mi iniuiniti iuu . . . A . t . , M;lr,r:,,',l astic over tho success of the mill, and !'vo tl.eir product. Tho car Hhortago I w ( ,,v al, ,., pori ior ii i,i:.,.. ..i,,.r....t.r f .ii. i,. ...k.,.i """""V " "' l"'n brief ivri.d. righted hetself. then sank thl, IiroM(MU of how to mnj,0 the oro 0f '':,l,,-v,- V"" company ulono hai nl.out stem tirst. There was hardly tune to the li rand Hondo district. A few yours launch life rafts or Imats before she was ago it was tho opinion of minora that ! ..i ...i ,....1 lv... ti,., ...... ...... i i ..... i... ' gei. jumped fion, the decks into the worked with small Jupital; that not less "7 Tt and luen called orders that could hanllv M'''r'l to install a suitable plant for Ih- hear,! nN.vo the din. " 1 1 ri;lt m1"' ,f 'WUUJ The passenger, from the lix who .T th A"r''"J cl'ny but ,. 1 . i ... i I proved that tho oro can be handled on could sw unmade their way to the sides a y(,rv much gmuUor with b- h of the Jcanie and were dragg.-d alx.ard. j porccutago of profits, or even higher, to The Jcanie was not move,! until after; the ton than with heavy stamp machiu- all who had reached her had lx-en cry. It is the intention of tho Aurrlia Loss f rem Ilccil On Fiifjct Sound Over $1,000,000. abaft of amidships on the side. She listed heavilv to 100 carloads on tho docks, mid in simply unable to secure cars. This is the case. however, with all tho mills. Tho hiin- road company when it fails to furnish cars within a specilied time after tho order is placed. Tl.cy contend that they aro not dealt with fairly iu tho matter, na tho railroad company im poses a demurrage of $1 a day when a car is not loaded within 4S hours aftor tbo time it is spotted. The railroud hauled almard. Then shecruiscd als.ut ! company to put in another mill next u'Pr. " " oiuer nnnu, ines ... Picking up several who had managM to iyear. Other owners of mining property " " " " - iu the same district will follow their ex- . , T V ' , , ample. stay alnive water. It was after 10 o'clock K'fore tho Jcanie left the scene of the catastrophe and steamed to the Virginia street dock, Seattle, with the :i0 survivors. The cause of the collision is unknown as the mate, who was iu the pilot house at the time, was drowned. SUOAR OUTPUT IS LAEOE. cut and ready to move, the lumbermen aro hopeful that they will soou jji't re lief. They uro running full capacity and orders for more lumber uro pouring in, D.iil ir car aro not luruislied soou N..ith Yakima, Wa.-h., Nov. lit After falling slightly the Yakima and N aches rivers uro again rising and the damage to property of all kinds is All ' i. i in it 1 1 i'ii t iiii It. I ! el v County bridge in the Miltey is iiii.ler water mid the city is i-,,1.ii.d from the surrounding country. The I'ealS of the porple ale tll.lt the Naelies river may change its course and Collie down the old liver bed to the West of the City. If this ll.ippellf (he damage w ill be n.eM . ma I de, an the Im-sI fruit orchards and some of the lin es! homes ill the valley lie direct ill its course. ROBBER OF SUB-TREASURY. Statndard Oil stock has gone down rapidly on account of the government inquiry. The San Francisco grand jury is still probing into the alleged stealing of re lief funds. Harriman and Gould may be indict ed by a grand jury at Salt Lake in the coal inquiry. President Penna in his inauguration at Kio Janeiro advocated increased armament for Brazil. Thomas C. Piatt is said to have made out his resignation as United States senator from New York. Citizens of Honolulu have subscribed money to return the Royal Hawaiain band members to their homes. The trial of the sugart rust, charged with accepting rebates, has begun in the United States Circuit court in New York. President Koosevelt is seeing the inacal at its worst, as he desired. A pouring rain has fallen since his arriv al on the isthmus. The government has begun a suit to dissolve the Standard Oil company. A San Francisco grand jury has in dicted Kuef and Schmitz fur extortion. A civil war among the Moqui Indians in New Mexico has been suppressed by cavalry. Both pacrties in Colorado are re solved to work for the repeal of woman Buff rage. The Southern Pacific will add a third through train between Portland and San Francisco. The high water wrecked the ware house of the Western Idaho Sugar com pany at Nampa. Two were killed and two others are dying as a result of a battle with rob bers in San Francisco. Japanl has just launched a battleship of 19,000 tons. It is equal and perhaps superior to anything afloat. Three Americans and fix Mexicans were killed by a premature explosion of dynamite at Douglas, Arizona. Finland authorities have seized about 5,000 rifles and 118,000 cartridges in tended for Russian revolutionists. All railroads in the United States are ready to give employes a raise of 10 Teller Dyer It Indicted by the Federal Grand Jury. St. Louis, Nov. 10. The F.sieral grand jury returned an indictment against Receiving Teller I. P. I'yer, Jr., son of United States Attorney P. P. I'yer, Saturday in connection with the shortage of ftil.L'OO in the local sub-treasury. The charge against Iyer is embezzlement. The Federal grand jury was convened on 'Wednesday and at once began in quiry into the shortage. AVheii the in quiry was ajdourncd 3155 witnesses had been examined. Shortly after the grand jury convened Saturday a report of its findings was made to the court. Mr. Iyer was later arrested by the United States marshal and released on bond in the sum of $10,000. Soon after the jury had made a re port to Judge Finkelberv, Ivor surren dered himself. The court named Jan uary 8 as thellate for his appearance at which time a definite date for the trial w ill lie fixed. The indictment contains two counts. The tirst count recites that I'yer, as second teller in the sub-treasury, "wrongfully and corruptly emtiezzled and convortea to ins own use on Sep tember 27 hist $(51, 500 intrusted to his care. The second recites that as an officer of the United States government he did this, and is meiely intended to prevent a technical evaison of the charge. "When Dyer came into the court he was accompanied by his father, United States Attorney Dver, Congressman La Grande Factory WiU Turn Out Over th,'' bo compelled to close their Jime. but it will be u uiuu ..i.vij Hui iuu vu v"". ,Mt( tiatelioe and t lie (o do.uuo sacks. WOEK OF IIATCILERIES. La Grande The new track of the Central Railway has reached tbo Hunt grade opposite Cone, and a spur for loading beet kas becu put in. This Soa3on's Work Has Been Satisfactory reduces tbo hauling distance from tho j In Ail Coast Stations. Cono beet fields materially, at the end' Salem The report of Muster Fish of tho track is now about throe mile Warden H. (!. Van Dusen for the month and a half from the farms. Most of (,f October show tbut tho aeaion's tho Cono beets remain to bo delivered work has been satisfactory in all ('oust and tho harvest in that locality has stream hatcheries, but not so good in . ... .. i t -ii. . i. . i. . : ...1. ..!.. oeeii posiponeu as long as possiuie, mi) iiaicueries on iriuuiurin in oip v -awaiting railroad facilities. Suporin- luinbia. Regarding hatchery opera tendent Iiarnwell says that ten days or tions tho report says: two weeks will bo required to get all, With the exception of n few more the beets to the factory. (salmon to spawn at Onturio, we are Tho factory has been running most through with tho work of collecting satisfactorily, without a hitch or bait, chinook sulmon spawn at our different from the time the season ofened. In hatcheries tributary to tho Columbia addition to tho fine output of beets, tbo River, and from reports received tho sugar perceuage is higher this year following collections have been made: than ever before. It is eitimatod that No. eggs taken. tho sugar output this season will bo Salmon River hatchery 875,000 between 50,000 and 00,000 sacks, or McKeuzie River butchery sta- from 250 to 300 ears. tion 5,970,000 The factory will probaLly run lour Wallowa River hatchery 5.10,000 Wetiatchee, Wash., Nov. 10. The tl'iod still rages unabatl. Added to the destruction by the rain mid water, the wind is blowing. The damage done by the 1hhI between Cashmere and Weliutchee, ill the Weliatehee al ley , cannot be estimated lit the present heavy. The We- biiubia rivers are hither thall they l.ae ever been before. The former is eud.t inches higher than its former record. weeks longer. Ontario salmon butchery 2,1.'10,000 Total 9,571,000 Delegates Appointed by Governor. Salem Governor Chamberlain bat appointed the following residents of IIAY SHORTAGE ON COOS BAY. Fanners Do Not Produce Enough to Supply Local Market. North Bend Bringing bay from tbo Willamette Valley to .North Bend and Oretron to represrut tho state at tho Marshfield is sometbiDir like carrying annual convention of tho Nationnl Riv- coals to Newcastle, yet nearly every ers and Harbors Congress at Washing itut ihut pnmod krrt rnm Portland ton. I). C. December 6 and 7: R. 11. lands a quantity of hay. Around Co- Hoge, J. N. Teal, W. D. Wheelwright, quille some hay is grown for the mar- Portland; John 11. Hmith, Astoria; Po ket, but it costs nearly as much to ter Loggie, Marshfield; J. D. Peters, bring hay from that point to Marsh- The Dalles; L. A. Iwis, Portland; field, a distance of 15 miles, as it does Henry Hahn, Portland; J. A. Smith, to bring it from Portland. If the bay Portland. is consigned to North Bond it must be Portland, Nov. 10. H ream through out the state which have been swollen by the recent rain storms and the Chi nook wind in the mountain are thought to have reached I liei r highest point 'Some have commenced to fall mid the Willamette was st.it inii.iry last night. It is probable that the river ut Port -land will commence to fall today. cepl along the lower Columbia, the danger from high w .iter is t bought to Is- over in iregon. CHOI'S IN GROUND ARE RUM!) MailroA.U Lota Moat Heavily ami 0A Farmera Come Nest - Lumbar men Lose Logs and Uoltt. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 17. The I...kh in the great river valb-vs south o( Se.it. tie, at their height yesleid.iy tin r n m. ale todav subsiding. In the ei ntr,. part of ihe White Uiver country about, the towns of Kent and A ohm n , di v land is appearing and lln people, 1 1 . PORTLAND MAEKETS. Wheat Kxport basis: Club, G3(aHc; transferred from tho cars to boats at Marshfield, and that costs $1 a ton ex tra. Valley grass bay can bo pur chased in Portland for $0 a ton, and it costs 43 a ton for frekdit. This hay Muestem. Gti(t07c: Valley. COc; red, Champ Clark, and ten residents of Pike retails for $13 a ton. There is no cud tile. " clean timothy or clover bny to tie bad (juts No. 1 white, $'J4.50(rCJo..0; hero at any price and Oregon graBS is gray, $'J3.50(24. at a premium. Barley Feed, $21.50 per ton; brow- On the bottom lands in Coos County jng, $1TJ; rolled, four and five tons an acre of oat bay. Kye $1.351.40 per cwt. can bo raised, and clover and timotny grow well on the rich bench lands. county, in which is located the Dvre family home. Bond was furnished by the ten resident friends Land Office Involved. Washington, Nov. 10. Affidavits are on file with the government here, and have Is-en called to the attention of President Roosevelt, charging that the gigantic land frauds whereby th Union Pacific railroad company and the Union Pacific Coal company se cured illegally coal lands in the stat ot yoming vaiuisi at many millions of dollars were perpeturated with the full known'e lge of the gi v.-rnmei.t land ollice, if not with its connivance and were known, if not tacictly assented to, by the department of the Interior. Peter's Heir Is Maniac. Vienna, Nov. 19. Crown Prince (ieorge, of Servia, is declared insane, according to reports from Belgrade to day. "Nor is this the worst," said a well informed Balkan diplomat, "Ser via is drifting hopelessly into bankrupt cy. Civil war, too, is highly probable. King Peter seems powerless to restore per cent in order to prevent trouble at or maintain order. Anarel y prevails everywhere. There are more political murders throughout Servia in a year has nearly the present tune President Roosevelt reached Panama. Witte has returned to Russia and will visit tho czar. Organize a Water Company. La Grande Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Mill Creek Wa ter Company, with a capital stock of Corn Whole, $25.50; crncked, $20.50 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $ll(o)12 per ton; Kastern Oregon timothy, 14fVi) 16; clover, $7fo,8; cheat, $7.50(?ij8.50; grain hay, $7.5()fM;8.50; alfalfa, $11.50; vetch bay, $7r?ij7.50. Fruitri Armies, common to choice, RELIEF FUND IS LOOTED. Money Sent Mayor Schmili It Not Accounted For. San Francisco, Nov. 111. The Chron icle says today : new investigation is progressing in the course of developments in the local graft siiindal. It l.ow appears that many sums of money, large and small, that were sent from different states to San Francisco for the relief of the suf ferers from the calamity never reached the relief Committee. Some of these amounts, which aggregated a large sum, were mailed to the cure of Mayor Schmitz. F. J. llel.ey, I let. stive Wil- liiu.i P.irns and alHiiit loo government agents have been making an investiga tion. President Ijoosovclt is the mov ing spirit behind the inipiiry, and he declare that no man guilty of divert ing the relief funds shall escape justice. The (uses come within the iurisdic- en to the surrounding high l.iml I t refuge, me reluming to then I...n,,m The outpouring waters maintain a lo, l, lev el, at the lie-nth of t he I u w .in, ; I, on the noitli and the health of the I'.o, j, lup on I he wont Ii w In i e ill. .Me backed up by tin- I ide. The proper! V loss will be In-IV , probably exceeding 1 1 .moimhio. 1 destruction of the Nottli, in I'a. ilic i ni. way grade and track ige ino,s.i loss of f.'lno.ooii. 'Ihe Interuiban i 1. . -trie load between Sriilll.' ..Mil T.u i.in.i will have to spend I Ioh.immi f.,t pails, and the ihd.v idnal lows of fann ers and d.urvineii make up the iciimni di r. The Ions of live stock is nt .is jleaVV lis lit Ills! feared, being prohahlv Wlllllll fill, IIOO The I..SS nil crops- 'ill iu ground and m cellars and bams is about $:;iiii,noo. 1 1 iiml reds of houses and bams were swept from their found.it ions, but com p.irativelv few were net ually broken up or carried any great distance The damage to furnishings hi Iioiih-h and merchandise in stotis by the water formed the heaviest item of b-s lloi.ls ill the White, lileeti al.d Stm k Hi v er v al lev s ale sul-snling rap idly, but thl- I uw aini-h river, wle-e wateis empty into I'ugi t sound at tins place, is a might) lake, f.air nnl.s wide by 12 in length, backed up and held iu Ica-h by the lid.' from the sound. W hen t hat g - out late to night, gnat havoc is looked for fr the pent-up waters. similar condi tion exists at tin' hioiith of the Puval lu p al Tacoma . The II.khIs found the city already short of coal and temporarily cut otf from access lo all sources of supply. The great water power plants, of the i pany pmv id.ng elect ric power and light Were Hooded out of Use, ami the street ear and light ing serv ice of l ho city depends on the meager supply of coal in the local bins of the big coin pan ies. So far as known, but live deaths di rectly attributable to (lie lloodshavc occurred north of the Stuck river. These were F. W. Kalliner, a logger of Auburn, Pat Clarice and John Viele, ram hers of (li .ll.a, uud two loggers whose mimes are unknown. .None of the lushes have yet lccn recovered. Prom Tacoma come rumors of several iiieams near me mouth oi me uvaiiup, but tin- reports are so far unverified. $12,500. La Grande will bo the prin- 75o box. clloico to funpy $1.50; grapes, fl.40fojl.tir crate; pears, 75c(a$1.25; cranberries, $10(ii) 10.50 per barrel; quinces, $l(o1.25 per box; per simmons, $l.b0 per box. Vegetables Cabbage, 1 1(71)1 Je pound; cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; celery, 75 (?,85c per dozen; egg plant, $1.50 per eipal place of business. The incorpor ators aro George Kneger, Ambrose Wright and August Bahrens. The ob ject is to appropriate 1000 inches of water from Mill creek, anove Bummer ville, to be used for irrigation and other purposes. Tlio incorporators navo re than in Macedonia." Raise Wages Voluntarily. Chicago, Nov. 10. The Chicago h Attorney General Moody has ordered Northwestern railroad has voluntarily a rigid enforcement of the eight-hour offered the i ail way station agents and law. telegraph operators on the system an . i ii ,t i nnn . increase of wages. Kleven hundred It in probable a force of 1,000 ma- , . , . . . n i i..t :., f., ., t. - ... . agents and approximately oOO telegraph fines will bo kept in Cuba for some h . . '. . 1 , operators will come lu for a share in " ' J the advance. The average increase in Philadelphia Jews will honor the wages as announced by General Manager late John Hay by placing a memorial W. A. Gardner tonight w ill bo $5 window in their synagogue. Trust Is Rood. New York, Nov. 10. Tho directors of the Standard Oil company issued an A desperate battle with knives be tween soldiers at Cheyenne to settle an old fued placed five men in the hospital. cently become interested in large tracts ciate. iettuco, bead, 20c per dozen; or lanu aim sumo caicuuvo lu.ym.s- on,onSi 0(vl2e per dozen; boll pep ments are to be made. rir. ra tmmr.kins. He r.er nound: snin- 1 7 J I ' 1 X r i arh, 4((ij5q per pound; toinatoen, 30(?i;50c New Cement Tester at U. of O. I I"!r P"ejr, iw s.iuas,., Kugene-There has been installed in I'"r "u , .'I" , the Government timber-testing .tat on '"'" '""7i.h 01 standard cement-testing machine ' , 1. ' ,,;.. 'o,,.,oi J,,.- with a capacity of 1000 pounds. Tho "j' " 4 ' 2 1 machine is a neat affair and makes a I' (,'; rm0r 7ai.mi per hundred, valuable addition to tho apparatus al-! .UlU)(tn j,,'.., fancy, rea v in tho i.lnrit. J. is. nnapp, uie Drr.. ; " uovernii.e.H eapen, w..o .u .m.B r.utter-Fancy creamery, 25(77)27Jo l. l T,,il.,.i.4ut i iir utiilmn in li verv - ' ' : , V i: I"'r pound. busy man, as samples of Oregon tun- 1 ,, (, ,..,utt.i,tlv l.ein.r Ki.nf lifirP fur . ' Oregon tho purpose of being examined and , ' ltry-A verngo old liens, 12fal3c ICHtCll. , uriiinil. mlviul .lii.Liria 1 lffi, I ' 1 A (Spring, 12(ovl.'ic; old roosters, ilfodOc; i ion 01 me I'cucriii inn horn ies iecuue of the interstate character of the postal service, which, it is alleged, was crim inally tampered with. A considerable Hum of money was al so sent through the express companies and Wei Is-I'a rgo, which companies Urr how invest ignt ing the disappeiirriiiee of 10,.rH0 sent in one package from (he citizens of Searchlight, New, which the relief committee says it never received. ni.d which the compnriv snvs was deliv ered to tin' representat ive of the com mittee to whom it was addressed. The crime of forgery is said to be included ill the offense of the raiders of the re lief cold ri but ions. It is said that in the aggregate (lie stealings will amount to $1,000,000. FINISH SOUTH JETTY. ranch, 3335o per New Zealand Favors Canada. Ottawa, Out., Nov. 1 . The Canadi an commission reports that substantial preferences nrn given to Caiiiidiaii goods over (hose of the I'nited Slates in the now tariff adopted by New Zealand. On many classes the tariff on I'nited States goods will be 20 or 30 per cent above that on Cunadiun goods. On bi cycles, gas and oil engines, gum hoots, Chief Engineer Mackenzie Recom mends Continuing Contract. Washington, Nov. 17. In his esti mates submitted to the secretary of War, I ieher al Mackenzie, chief of eli- jginccrs, asks ..r an appropi .at nai ot $1 ,000,(111(1 f..r the Columbia river jetty. In his annual report, however, ho points out. (he necessity for continuous work on the jetty until it is completed, lie says that, in addition to the $1, 000,0(10 appropriated, Congress should authorize a coht inning contract to the extent of f 1 ,4511,(1011 additional. Ho estimates that $2,000,001) will com plete the south jetty. If (iei.eral Mackenzie's recommenda tion is carried out ,$ 1 ,000,000 will bo inserted iu the river an. I hnrlsir bill this winter and the remaining $1,450, 000 will be carried ill the sundry civil hill passed at tho first session of tho next congress. Send Immigrants South. Washington, Nov. 17. The recent arrival at Charleston, S. C. , of an im migrant ship carrying more tiiiu 1,00(1 iiiiuiigratuts, marks a new era for tho whole South. The labor problem Iiiik been a very serious one hi the South, and tin attention of the people of that section has been for some time directed toward inducing immigration. Not alone ns laborers are immigrants want printing paper, railwaysnnd tramways. d: hundreds of thousands of i ilii.b. sail cloth, cim viis, surgical and denial inst rumeiits I'nited States products will be taxed a duty of 20 per cent, while the Ciihiuliiin products will enter free. Bandon Enjoys Prosperity. Bandon Bandon is enjoying some thing of a real estate boom, and lots that might have been purchased for $10 each last Bpring are selling for $100 and finding a ready market at that price. Activity in manufactur ing accounts for the boom. The sal mon cannery, broom-handle factory, wood-pipo plant, brewery, match fac tory and foundry are running full time and the Bandon woolen mills are run ning day and night to kocp up with or ders. The shingle mills are running to otl ier I'ircula r today to t he stiH'kholdreS ' i n; ,.ir ounnoiiv and thfl Cnilv Taini. The Chicago city attorney accuses the of tho company, Haying that the com- Company is building a mill that rullman company of bribing judges, pany's position is unassailable fioin wiH have a capacity of 75,000 fset B congressmen and other oflicials. both a legal and a moral btandpoint. i day. dressed chickens, 3iil4c; turkeys, live, fic;)17Je.; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2I(V;) 22Jc; geese, live, tlOJc; ducks, 14(r) 15c. Veal Dressed, BJ(Ti)RJe per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 2(ov2jc pit pound; cows, 45c; country steers, 6(M 5Je. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89c per pound; ordinary, fl(7Z7c. pork Dressed, 6(oy8o per pound. Hops 1U0O, choice, I5(?16c; prime, l.Ku.'Hc; medium, i2(V(J12jo per pound olds, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon average best Bodies To Be Exhumed. Chicago, Nov. 10. .iisluw Pulovicz, who was ihj.lled in the recent, wreck on the l',iilt iinore V Ohio railroud at Woodville, Ind., died today. Ilisdciith makes the total fatalities 51. Much acres have been left, lincull ivated that make one of the richest agricultural sect ions of the world. Nine Killed by Explosion, Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 17. Americans and six Mexicans killed by a premature explosion lime ipiarry nine miles east of Douglas at 0 o'clock todav. Tho men were i :. i i t i . oiiiieo iiiioer a pneoi rock. Tlio cor- liree were at a 1 1 i -J.H I i I'll el i ol I tins been eniiu...l 11 a .. , . . ' I... t .. . 1 , i . MK j ""ci mis. gone ironi nere lo holil an III- the survivors of the wreck over the fuel, quest . The quarry is one at which Hint Ihe .lend, the majority of whom j lime rock is secured for the smellers in were Uomiin Catholics, had been buried, this city. A gang of men has been w tl.oiit religious riles. Ix.cal church sent, from the smelters to assist in ro- oinciais nave arranged Willi Hie railroud .covering the bodies. to nave the hoiiies dug upand relumed. Total Wealth of United States. Terrorists Rob Railroad Safe. Warsaw, Nov. 17. A hand of terror- ; Washington, Nov. 1(1. The total , ists attacked the Vistula railroad depot. ' wealth of the country in 1004 was ; at Siichedniow thin morning, killed a . IIIOH.HHI, 415,000, according to figures gendarme, blew open tho safe and - - " V'" ". t , , ... . I , " . . ' I i.-wfjine. ner nniinn ne.p.nruincr j.n snrinv j ....... ,.M,.r, ,,...,. i,i,iHv, eiiiii.fi u'nii uintin u,,,.. ..f ........i.. ago; Valley, 20(o521e, aeeerding to fine- l-0 tb total wealth was $05,037,091,. j marching off in military order Cob ness; Mohair, choice, 2628e. 1 1X7; in 1000, $88,628,348,708. oacka are pursuing them. V &
