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Washington, Feb. 26.— Tw o ex­
perts In naval construction— Rear
Admiral Converse, retired, president
of the board of construction, and
Rear Adm iral Capps, chief of the bu­
reau of construction and repair, were
before the senate committee on
naval affairs today In the Investiga­
d
tion of charges against the navy
made by Henry Reuterdahl in a re­
cent magazine article. The charges
A R eturn« o f th e Lass Im p o rta n t but
were taken up In the order they ap­
N o t Lass In teresting Evants
peared In the article and at the con­
o f tha Past W e e k .
clusion of the extended refutation by
Admiral Converse It was Btated by
Senator Perkins that the apologies
Governor
Toole,
of
Montana, of the committee were due the offi­
whose resignation, on account of 111 | cers for having called them to an­
health takes effect April 1, Is In Los swer such charges. Chairman Hale
assented to this view and no mem­
Angeles.
ber of the committee took Issue.
It Is estimated that over $2,000,-
This Incident at the conclusion of
000 will have been paid by New York the first day's proceedings is thought
patrons of opera before the present to Indicate that the Inquiry will be
season ends in April.
short. It has not been determined
The senate committee has ap­ whether the committee will enter up­
on an Investigation of any subject ex­
proved the dismissal of the negro
cept those embraced In the criticism
troops engaged in the Brownsville of the battleship construction, but.
riot in August, 1906.
If other questions are taken up, it Is
Having been left an annuity of certain no long-continued discussion
$2,500 a year as long as he remains will be permitted. It is likely that
In college and lives in a college dor­ the entire Inquiry w ill be concluded
mitory, W. C. B. Kemp has contrived before the naval appropriation bill is
to remain at Columbia university, taken up. _________________
New York, 27 years without grad­
M AY C A U SE W AR.
uating.
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
I a Condensed Form lor Our
Busy Readers.
Four mail clerks were Injured in a
M inister W arns P arliam ent o f D an ger
train wreck near Flovilla, Ga.
Ahead in E urope.
Work is about to begin in New York
London, Feb. 26.— The Macedonia
on a building for the various Irish so­
difficulty was raised In both houses
cieties.
New York hotel clerks have organ­ of parliament tonight. Sir Edward
ised a club under the name of the Grey, secretary for foreign affairs,
made a statement in the house of
Greeters.
commons on this subject, and Lord
Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, in an address
at Chicago, denounced Germany as a Fltzmaurlce, under secretary for for­
eign affairs, did likewise in the house
menace to the peace of the world.
of lords, the gist of both statements
Sixteen persons were Injured, five being that, because of the P orte’s
seriously, by the derailment of a car on obduracy, matters had reached a
the Bcenic railway at one of Denver’s critical pass; that the government
deprecated any Isolated action, but
amusement parks.
was doing Its utmost to preserve
Mrs. Yerkes, widow of Charles T. the concert of powers and press Tur­
Yerkes, intends to devote a portion cf key to an acceptance of the reforms.
her $10,000,000 estate to the erection
Sir Edward Grey said that In dis­
cussing the Macedonian question the
of a hospital in New York.
government was not far from the
A man disguised as a girl obtained Turkish question, which more than
employment in the St. Louis telephone once had led to an European war.
office and wag only discovered when he They were rapidly nearing a point,
proposed to one of the girls.
he said, where the concert of powers
must either justify or stultify Itself,
First-class west bound ocean travel
and, If the concert disappeared, It
is at its lowest ebb at the present time. was Impossible to foretell what mis­
Four big liners have just arrived with understanding might arise. I f Mace­
their cabins practically empty.
donia continued to be neglected, he
That there is less graft and business added as a note o f warning, It must
sooner
or later provoke a catas­
dishonesty in America today than there
trophe.
was In Washington's time, is the opin­
Sir Edward suggested that. If a
ion of Dr. R. H. McArthur, of New Turkish Governor were appointed for
York.
a term of years and he was a man
American naval officers were ban­ whose capacity and character were
recognized and accepted by the pow­
queted at Lima, Peru.
ers, the whole question might be
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A Frenchman has invented a wireless solved.
eleotric power system.
The Hearst Independence league has
decided to nominate a national ticket.
Russia P róvidas W o rld -W id a
o f S a c ra l Service.
E xperts Testify B efo re C om m ittee on
Naval C onstruction ,
C O T T A G E G R O VE ............. OREGON
Mexico is devising ways for the re­
form of the public credit system.
T R A R j F O R T E R R O R IS T S .
C H A R G ES ARE FALSE.
E X P E C T F ..E E T A T H O N O L U L U .
Enough C o a l
Being S tored
Battleships.
U p fo r
San Francisco, Feb. 25.— Advices
The sale of ex-Ministei Conger's Chi­
from Honolulu o f February 19 say
nese curio collection has realized $26,-
plans are already beginning to be
533.
laid for the victualling and enter­
Japan has asked for a larger appro­ tainment o f Rear Admiral Evans’
priation for the Tokio exposition in
fleet, should it come to Honolulu.
1912.
The addition of the 20,000 men
Russian authorities have captured whom the fleet may be expected to
plotters against the life of Grand Duke bring to the population o f Honolulu
will quickly exhaust the normal sup­
Nicholas.
plies of fresh vegetables and Island
Fire for a time seriously threatened a fruits grown here unless large addi­
large part, of the business district of tions are made to the area culti­
New Orleans.
vated.
Although there has been no offi­
A mortgage for $225,000 has been
foreclosed on the Yerkes home and art cial announcement that the fleet Is
coming here, there Is a feeling of
collection in New York.
certainty that It will. There is now
A Columbia, Mo., man has just died here and on the way to arrive with­
who for the past 20 years has drunk at in a few weeks fu lly 60,000 tons of
coal belonging to the navy. This
least a quart of whisky a day.
coal has all been brought here since
The children of Eureka, Cal., have the announcement was made o f the
petitioned the forest serv .ce for the cre­ sending o f the fleet to Pacific
waters.
For the ordinary purposes
ation of a redwood national forest.
o f the navy at this port, 4,000 or
An attempt wsg made to burn the 5,000 tons a year Is all that Is need­
Hoalee hotel, at Muskogee, Okla., where ed. Hence the provision o f 60,000
about 100 delegates to the Democratic tons here now Is looked on ns prac­
tically conclusive that the fleet Is
convention were quartered.
coming.
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Railroad unions deny the necessity
for wage reductions.
W ill Advertise San F ra n e itc e .
San Francisco, Feb. 26.— One of
The Northern Pacific has reduced
grain rates from Montana points to the beneficial results of the agita­
tion for the cleaning up o f the city
Chicago.
and the extermination of rats w ill be
Senator Ankeny has given a banuet made evident this week when the
to a number of senators, at which he consuls o f several foreign countries
w ill prepare their reports to their
boomed the Seattle fair.
superiors on the sanitary conditions
Early fruit and vegetables for ship­ In San Francisco. Dr. Rupert Blue
ment to the North have been damaged will prepare a full report to submit
to the consuls. The federal health
in Louisiana by a cold wave.
officers will have a report prepared
The Illinois Supreme court holds that In a day or so, which will show the
a labor nniont’ s unfair list is in effect percentage of infection among the
10,345 rats caught last week.
a boycott and can be enjoined.
The Pullman car company has issued
T h a w 's M ind D iseased.
,
orders to sell no liquors while the cars
New York, Feb. 26.— Statements
are passing through dry districts.
emanating from the alienists who
have examined Harry Thaw Indicate
The cruisers West Virginia and
that nothing short o f a miracle will
Maryland are to undergo extensive re­ save Stanford W h ite’s slayer from
pairs at the Mare Island navy yard.
spending the remaining days o f his
life in an asylum for the.lnsane. It
Members of the marine hospital ser­ is said that Thaw Is the victim of
vice have condemned a large part of paranoia, which Is a progressive dis­
San Francisco’s packing bouse district. ease of the mind. Thaw Is entirely
Changes will be made at once.
In the hands of the state board o f
lunacy and the alienists at Mattea-
General Nelson A. Miles will make wan and his fate rests with them.
his home in Washington, D. C., here­
after.
Big F leet at Frisco
San Francisco, Feb. 26.— From
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf will
go to San Fanrclsco to welcome the fleet present figures there w ill be 50 ves­
sels, If not more, belonging to the
on its arrival there.
United States navy, assembled In San
During the next nine years Russia Francisco bay with the arrival of
w ill spend $1,000,000,000 for the con­ "F igh tin g Bob” Evans’ big fleet in
the early part o f May. These ves­
struction of a new navy.
sels will come from the north and
Fire which started in a large depart* south, where many are either en­
roent store at Woburn, Mass., destroy­ gaged In maneuvers or making re­
ed $100,000 worth of property.
pairs.
System
FAVORS WATERWAYS
8t. Petersburg, Feb. 25.— The skilful
performance of the police in tbe round­
up of the great band of plotters has
F IL IN G P E T IT IO N S .
I O S E W O O L C E N I EH
won praise throughout the city, bearing
witness to (he thoroughness of the
B aker C ity 8e cu res Lo w Rates on C andidates fo r O ffice Have M o re methods evolved for fighting terrorists.
The secret polioe are spending unlim­
Th en a M onth
Shipm ents to Boston.
Salem— Candidates for office have ited sums in bringing the terrorists to
Baker City— Baker City w ill become
justice and have drafted agents of in­
one ui the greatest wool markets in Ore­ more than a month yet In which to ternational experience who are thor­
procure
signatures
to
their
petitions
oughly familiar with the by-ways of
gon. sheepmen have been in Portland
consulting with the O. R. A N. officials and to file them in the office of the Western anarchists and who will in­ Lays G reat S tr a ta on P reservation o f
secretary of state or the county clerk troduce an ’ improved technique here.
and have secured a rate of $1.75 from
O u r N atu ra l Resources Against
as the case may be. Some of them
The police department has entered
Baker to Boston. The Sumpter Valley are not fam iliar with the details of
M onopoly and W aata.
Into relations with detective agencies
has made a rate of 20 oents from Aus­ the direct primary law and are mak­
abroad, and has organised an extensive
tin to Baker, and the reduction by the ing Inquiries as to dates. The last
two roads means that more than 1,000,- day for filin g petitions for nomina­ service in all the centers where Russian
emigrants congregate, particularly in
Washington, Feb. 27.— W ith bis
000 pounds of wool from Grant and tions for offices to be voted for in
New York, Paris and Switzerland, and hearty indorsement In a special mes­
Wheeler counties will be hauled to the state at large, or In any district
, are making a special effort to penetrate
Austin and then shippd to Baker for composed of more than one county,
sage, President Roosevelt yesterday
baling. Iktyville is the present center or in judicial or prosecuting attor­ within the innermost councils of the transmitted to congress the prelim­
of the sheep industry in Grant county, ney districts, Is March 27. This class Social Democratic and Social Revolu­ inary report of the Inland Waterways
of offices Includes state offices, con­
and the ranchers would much rather gressional offices, joint senators, tio n is t organizations.
Commission, recommending a gen­
Ia connection with the latest plot the eral policy of waterway improve­
haul their wool to Ausitn because of Joint representatives, circuit judges
men of the secret service were aheo- ment.
the good roads. They have been pay­ and district attorneys.
There peti­
The president proceeds to point
ing $2 to have their wool hauled to tions are to be filed in the office of | lutely trusted by comrades of the revo-
| lutioniets, who attended the meetings out .the connection between naviga­
Hhaniko because of the lower rate. The the secretary of state.
I
held
in
Finland,
where
the
final
plan
tion of the lower reaches of a stream
Petitions for nominations for o f­
shipping of the wool via Baker City
will mean that Instead of the ranchers fices to be voted for In only one for the assassination of Grand Duke and control of methods aud preven­
Nicholas
Nicholiavitch
and
Judge
Tche-
tion of soil erosion. Use of a stream
buying their supplies at Shaniko they county must be tiled In the office of
for domestic and municipal water
will haul their wool to Austin, leave the county clerk not later than April glovitoff, minister of justice, was elab­ supply, power and Irrigation must
orated. Two hundred plain clothes
their teams there and come on to Baker .
The secretary of state will certify men were called in by heads of the po­ also be taken Into account. He says
City to secure their warehouse receipts
deep channels will have high value
the state, congressional and district
and while here purchase their supplies. portion of the ballot to the county lice department and given precise in­ for national defense; use of water
structions as to what action ehould be
By this means the local hanks will clerk by March 30.
The primary taken and apparently they arrested power will relieve drain on the coal
supply; transportation by water in­
handle $200,000 that would go to other election will be held Friday, April
without error the persons Involved. stead of rail will conserve iron; for­
cities. Although the rate on wool is 1 7. The general election will be held
Thus
far
the
police
have
failed
to
ex­
est protection will prevent tim ber
still higher from Baker than from Monday, June 1.
tract a confession from any of those ar­ famine and perpetuate th f remaining
Shaniko, the ranchers can afford to
rested
as
to
their
identity,
but
several
forest; Irrigation will sustain m il­
ship via Baker because of the low cost
W o rk Is Expedited
undoubtedly are members cf aristocrat­ lions; and pure water will promote
of getting their wool to Austin.
The work is national in
Klamath Falls— The reclamation ic houses. It is certain that numbers health.
service Is advertising for bids for of the conspirators have managed to scope.
The commission recommends a
the construction o f the Clear lake evade arrest, and a careful watch is be­
LARGE C U P E X P E C T E D .
policy for developing all commercial
dam, bids to be opened April 15. The ing kept fur these.
and Industrial uses of waterways at
specifications call for the placing of
Eastern O regon W ool Industry Looks I 54,000 cubic yards of earth and rock
the same time. To this end the work,
BLACK HAND BUSY.
Encouraging.
o f the various departments con­
fill, with the building of necessary
cerned should be, co-ordinated, that
Pendleton—The fixing of the wool spillway and outlet. The dikes will
there may be no delay. The cost will
sales dates for Eastern Oregon is tbe require the placing of about 25,000 T h reaten to B low U p Governm ent
be large, but far less than would be
cubic yards of earth and rock fill.
first step in what promisee to be one of The Clear lake dam represents the
required to relieve the congestion o f
P o w d er S to res .
the best years for sheep and wool in the principal work in the upper Klamuth
New York, Feb. 2 6 — In a letter rail traffic, and the benefits will be
history of the state. Owing to the mild ¡Falls near Bonanza and Merrill. The
signed “ Black Hand’ ’ and addressed to large also and will unite the Inter­
winter all over Eastern Oregon the landowners In that region had be­
ests of all states and sections.
Commander Braunstiueter, in charge
lamb crop promises to be heavy and come discouraged over the beginning
The president calls attention to
of
the
United
States
naval
magazine
at
the great amount of detailed infor­
the wool clip will aveiage higher than !of work In that section this year, and
Iona
island,
the
threat
has
been
made
mation needed to carry out the com­
ever before. It is estimated that the this advertisement for bids comes as
that the enormous stores of smokeless mission's plan, but says beginning
Eastern Oregon herds will average nine a surprise and as very good news.
powder on the island will be blown up of work should not be postponed till
pounds or more this year, owing to the
unless the married men discharged all the facts are obtained.
constant improvement of the grade of
N ew F ru it Packing House
from employment on tne island Janu­
The president says our policy
sheep. Shearing is now being discussed
Milton— At a meeting of the Milton ary 1, 1908, be put bsok to work at hitherto has been purely negative— -
and prices will be fixed soon.
It is
Fruitgrowers’ union the following dl once. There are 3,000,000 pounds of one of repression and procrastina­
thought the price for shearing will be
rectors were elected for the ensuing smokeless powder and other explosives tion— and frequent changes o f plan
about 7 H cents per head,rand there ¡ b
and piecemeal execution have further
year:
J N. Stine, T. L. Ragsdale, stored in the numerous magazines.
a large preference shown for hand
William Forsythe, O. K. Goodman and
Secret service men are working to hampered Improvement. In spite o f
shearing, owing to the fact that the
E P. Jenson. The union is in good discover the identity of the writer of large appropriations our rivers are
machines injure the roots of the wool
less serviceable than half a century
condition and its affairs have been the letter. Printed by band, tbe letter ago and are less used.
by cutting too close to the skin of the
handled in a veiy creditable manner. was mailed at the Harerstraw poetoffice
In Its report the commission first
sheep. The skin of the machine shorn
It is the purpose of tbe union to build two weeks ago. It was as follows:
states the facts It has found.
It
sheep being clipped extremely «lose,
a new and larger packing house on tbe
“ I f the married men that were dis­ finds that there are 25,000 miles o f
sunburns badly and this retards tbe
site of the present one for this season charged from Iona island are not taken navigated rivers and at least an
growth of the wool for another year.
The new building will probably be a back again at once all the magazines equal length, which are navigable or
Wool and sheep buyers are already
three-story structure and will be con- on the island w ill be blown up. The might be made so; 2,500 miles o f
ou the ground, and there promises to
navigable canals and over 2,500
venienttly arranged for the handling of writer does not fear death.
be spirited bidding for wool and mut­
miles of sounds, bays and bayous,
fruit.
Black Hand.”
ton sheep all over this section.
Ewes
On January 1 between 30 and 40 which could be connected by less
than 1,000 miles of canals parallel
which will bear a lamb this spring and
O il Com pany fo r Klam ath
men, who had been employed on the with the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
haing a heavy fleece of wool upon them
i-iland, were discharged, owing to delay These waterways are In 42 states
KlaraaL.
Falla—
The
incorporators
of
are now worth $6 per head in Eastern
the Klamath Oil company have elected In forwarding funds from Washington and development of rivers for Irri­
Oregon.
This delay was gation. power, etc., will make cer­
the following officers: G. Heitkemper, to continue work.
Jr., president; E. B. Hall, vice presi looked upon at the time as temporary, tain waterways navigable in the re­
F ru it Replaces Fo rests.
dent and general manager;
Pierce and it was understood the men would g a in in g states.
Railroad interests have been suc­
Grants Pass— I f the progress of clear­ Evans, secretary, and G. White, treas­ be taken back as soon as the money ar­
cessfully directed against mainten­
ing up raw land and improving it keeps urer. It has long been claimed that rived.
ance
and development of water traf-
on at the present pace, Josephine indications are very strong of vast de­
Among the men discharged, most of
county, within five years, will be en­ posits of coal oil beneath the volcanic whom were laborers, were many Ital­ ' fic.
Successful waterway Improvement
tirely cleared and planted to fruit. As blanket in this region, as proven by ians.
[ must provide for adjustment of the
an instance of this work it may be stat­ the fact that it oozes up at various
Since the receipt of the letter every j relations of rajl to water lines. Rail-
ed that one country store in Applegate places,
approach to the island has been guard­ ! roads can so control traffic as to
valley has placed seven grubbing ma­
ed day and night by marines, it is said. leave waterways insufficient to sup­
chines within the last month. These
and the civilian employes have been port vessels and terminals, for they
Colem an O u t o f W illam ette.
mechanical devices dc the work of sev­
can so reduce rates on traffic for
Balem— The resignation of Dr. John kept under the strictest surveillance.
eral men, with greater ease and less ex­ H. Coleman as president of the W il
Inna island is about seven miles south which waterways compete as to de­
stroy profits, and can recoup them­
pense. Within short distances of town lamette university has been accepted of West Point.
selves with higher rates on traffic for
where heavy machinery may be used, by the board of trustees.
Coleman
which waterways do not compete.
D eath a t G rad e C ro ssing.
donkey engines play a prominent part tendered has resignation some months
in pulling Btumpe and brush.
Spring Valley, N. Y ., Feb. 25.— A Waterway improvement will not re-
ago, but the board failed to act on it
l lieve rail congestion unless co-ordi-
Nothing has thus far been done towards foam specked pair of horses that tore I nation Is arranged to Insure harmon­
through the streets early today, drag­ ious co-operation.
C lackam as M ay G et C annery.
appointing his successor.
ging with them a splintered wagon
Oregon City— If the present plans of
In some Instances the cost o f
pole, brought to the village the fitBt works to control floods and Improve
the members of the Clackamas County
PORTLAND M ARKETS.
news of a grade crossing accident in navigation would be less than the
Horticultural tociety are carried out,
which nine members of its most prom­ ¡loss by floods and drought.
Clackamas county w ill have still an­
Wheat— Club, 81c; biueatem, 83c;
inent families were either killed nut-
The annual soil wash is about 3,-
other enterprise in the shape of a fruit valley, 81c; ted, 79c.
right or frightfully injured. Four of 000,000,000 tons, mostly the most
cannery. A meeting of the society was
Barley— Feed, $26 per ton; brewing,
valuable
part of the soil, which pol­
the
party
were
iustaDtly
killed,
two
held last week.
Mr. Britton, of East­ $32; rolled, $29>@30.
died while being removed to tha Hud­ lutes the water, necessitates dredg-
ern Oregon, addressed the meeting on
Oats— No. 1 white, $27; gray, $27,
son county hospital at Hoboken N. J , I ing and reduces efficiency o f river
the subject and stated that he had made per ton.
and the other three lie in a serious , Improvements.
a careful exanaination of the fruit acre­
Corn — Whole,
$32.50; cracked,
Forestry, farming, mining and
condition at that institution tonight.
age of this vicinity and finding it high­ $33.60.
other Industries affect the flow o f
ly satisfactory, was willing to finance
streams for commerce.
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17@
O p e ra te on Edison
the scheme.
W ide variation in the level of riv­
$18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
New York, Feb. 25.— Thomas A. ers hampers establishment of water
$20@21;
clover,
$14@15;
chest,
$15;
C annery 8 tn c k Subscribed.
graip bay, $14@16; alfalfa, $12(5)13; Edison, the inventor, is a patient at the terminals.
Corvallis— Announcement has been
Manhattan hospital, where last night
vetch, $14.
made that enough stock had been sub­
Mon«y to Fn tertain Fleet.
Fruits— Apples, table, $1.75(3)3.00; he underwent an.operation intended to
scribed to insure the success of the cooking, $1.25(3)1.60 per box; cran­ relieve him of trouble in the left ear.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 27.— T b e
movement for a fruit cannrry, and a berries, $8011 per barrel.
The operation, whioh was not consider­
committee soliciting funds for the
meeting of stockholders has been called
Vegetables— Turnips, 75c per sack; ed especially serious, was performed by ientertainment o f the officers and sea­
to perfect an organization. The capital
catrots, 65c per sack; beets, $1 per Dr. Arthur D. Deull, the ear specialist, men aboard the battleship fleet has
stock is $11,000, and the plant is to
sack; cabbage, 1(3)1 >4c per pound; cau­ who opened an abscess in the middle 'obtained pledges covering $16,000
have a capacity of 12,000 cans dailv.
The operation was seemingly of the $25,000 which will be ex­
liflower, $1.76 @1.85 ; celery, $3.75(5) ear.
The machinery and appointments are
4 per crate; onions, 15(3)20r per dozen; wholly successful and a prompt recov­ pended by the committee of citizens
to be of the very latest models, em­ parsley, 20c per dozen; peppers, 17 t$c ery is anticipated.
headed by Postmaster Flint.
The
bodying everything necessary to turn­
city and county each contributed
per pound; pumpkins. l @ l> ic per
ing out a perfect product.
$5,000.
The
entertainment
will
be
R ep air a t Puget 8o un d.
pound; radishes, 20c per dozen; spin­
Seattle, Feb. 25.— The Colorado and repeated on four successive days.
ach, 6c per pound; spronts, 8c per
The men will be given free transpor­
Pumping Out Red Boy.
the Pennsylvania, armored cruisers of
pound; squa»h, 1(3)1 H e per pound.
tation to and from the beaches. T w o
Baker City— After lying idle lor
the first class, arrived at the navy yard parks will be leased during the en­
Onions— $2 50 per hundred.
months, the pumps of tbe famous Red
Potatoes— $2.50 p r hundred, deliv­ today for dry docking and repairs. The tire week.
Boy mine have been started again and ered Portland; sweet potatoes, $3.50(5) Colorado w ill be equipped with a new
the mine will «oon be in condition for 3.75 per cwt.
main battery of fonr eight-inch breech
W ill C u t W ages
operation. The monster pumps throw
Butter— Fancy creamery, 30O35c per h ading rifles. The two vessels will he
Butte. Mont., Feb. 27.— The man­
out about 600,000 gallons of water every pound.
followed by eight other warships which agement of the Northern Pacific rail­
24 hoars, and i t this rate the mine will
Poultry— Average old hens, 13@13Hc will be repaired by April 26.
road has notified all the telegraph­
be ready for operations in about 30 per pound; mixed chickens, 12>y@13c;
ers employed on the system that
M
ain
W
a
te
r
Pipe
Bursts.
days. The Red Boy mine was one of spring chickens, 12)y@ i3c; roosters,
their wages will be reduced from $5
the beet producers of Eastern Oregon in @ llc ; dressed chickens, ’ 4c; tur­
Patle, Feb. 26.— The main water to $10 a month. In all probability
for many years and it is thought that it keys. live, 14@15e; dressed, choice, 15 pipe of Pane, under Tnilleriee etreet, this means a strike of these men.
w ill againsoccnpy a front rank.
@17c; geese, live, 9@10c; ducks, 14(5) nurat la«t evening and converted the The telegraphers are now voting on
the question of accepting or reject­
15c; pigeons, 75c@ $l; Squabs, $1.6002 rtreet into a torrent. The water flooded ing the reduction. The cut in wages
A fta r Federal C o u rt.
Eggs— Fresh ranch candled, 22H@ -ellars n caricne side streets, eztin- is due directly to the new federal
■nlehing fires and stopping the dyna-
Pendleton— The Pendleton Commer- 23\ e per dozen.
nine-hour law. which goes into e f­
rial aeociation w ill send a delegstien to
Veal— 75(3)125 pounds, 7c; 150 to •nna In »♦ lrp«t one large hotel, potting fect March 1.
the building in darkness.
Washington to fight for the Federal 200 pennds, 5(3)6He.
district headquarters when the date of
Pork— Block, 76 to 160 ponnds, 6)$
Reclamation W o rk in N evada.
Russia Backs D ow n.
the hearing with the honee judicial @ 7c; packers, 5@8e.
Salt Lake City, Feb. 27.— T h »
Copenhagen, Feb. 25.— It ia under­ Utah-Nevada Irrigation Conlpany,
committee is fixed.
If the Oregon del­
Hope— 1907, prime and choice 4 H O
stood in diplomatic circles that as a re­ will begin work promptly on a dam
egation think it necessary, expreesione 6c per pound; olds l@ 2c per pound.
Wool— Eastern Oregon average best sult of pressure from other powers Rus­ and Irrigation system in Eastern Ne­
from attorneys of Morrow, Gilliam,
Sh-rman and other Eastern Oregon 18@20r per pound according to shrink­ sia has abandoned her plan of fortify­ vada near the Utah line. The com­
counties in lavnr of Pendleton for the age; valley 18@20c according to fine­ ing the Aland islands and that an en­ pany plans to reclaim 230.000 acres
o f land In the Meadow Valley, Wash.
headquarters will be secured.
ness; mohair choice 29@30c per pound. tente will soon be arranged.
Roosevelt Says Rivers Should
Be Improved.
GREAT VALUE OF THEIR POWER
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