» Cottage Grove Leader Issued Each Friday ------------- C O A S T 8 T E A M E R W R ECK ED . Hits Recks O ff Fort Ross. Cal.— Pas­ sengers Land, Mail Lost. LO N E ROBSEH M AKES A HAUL. Ridas Ovsr 100 Milas In Mail Car on Qreal Northern. SENTENCE IS DEATH Eureka, Cal., March 18.-—The Spokane, Wash., March 17.— As­ COTTAGE GROVE.............. OREGON steamer Pomona ot the Pacific Coast suming all the airs and authority of Steamship Company, struck a rock a veteran postofUce inspector, a dar­ (at 6:30 tonight off Fort Ross, 25 ing highwayman boarded the Great E X C U H b lU N H A IE S . A P P L E LAND SI.OOO PEH ACHE miles south of Port Arena. The ves­ Northern westbound Oriental Limit­ sel, which at the time of the disaster ed train just as it pulled out of Bon­ was en route from San Francisco to Many Oregon People Expect to Visit | Grower 8ays It Is Worth That With ners Ferry, Idaho, early this morn­ Fleet at 8an Francisco. I Apples SI a Box Eureka and was expected to arrive ing, aud holding the two mail clerks here tomorrow noon, managed to get Portland— Many Oregon people Hood River— The annual meeting®* ,bay at the Point of a revolver off the reef and attempted to run for expect to go to San Francisco to see of the Hood River Horticultural So- locked one of them in a clothes shore. \\ hen halt a mile , om ,t . Admiral Evans' squadron upon Its clety, the largest auxiliary organiza- closet and tied the other to a chair beach she struck another rock and is arrival in the city by the Golden tion to the state society in Oregon, with ropes, after which he rode a distance of 109 miles into Spokane, hanging there at the present time. |(jate So many inquiries have been took place last Saturday. Does Not Believe Orchard Only Man A Resume o f the Less Important but '1 he rising tide will probably wa8",w a d e 0j xhe Harrimau passenger of-| The meeting started in the morn- spending three hours and 40 minutes rifling registered mail, loading and Guilty— Other Proeecutioni her off into deep water and she will ftcials that a special rate will be ing with S. F. Blythe as chairman, Not Less Interesting Events sink and be a total loss, with her|niade gan Francisco and return and with an intermission at noon unloading mall sacks along the route Will Come. o f the Past Week. cargo, including 1U2 bags of mail. from Portland to permit Oregon peo-i lasted until late in the day. A. I. and putting complacently at a cigar The 84 passengers and 62 mem-|pie m aggiat in welcoming the fleet Mason, whose subject was "The Ap­ the while. The lone robber dropped off the bers of the crew were saved and a r e ,to ^ e pacific coast, A first-class ple," stated as his opinion that the The United States navy post at the now ashore at Fort Ross suffering rate of $25 for the round-trip to Sau time was coming when districts train at a railroad crossing Inside Boise, Idaho, March 19.— Stating from lack of food and shelter. They Francisco will be named, with a ten- growing cheap and inferior grades of J^e city limits, carrying with him, it that he believes Harry Orchard, in his Midway islands Is to be abandoned. will pass a dreary night on the beach day limit, aud passenger officials ex­ fruit would be forced to go out of Is believed, much valuable plunder In testimony in the trials of William D. Senator La Follette Bays high finan at the small Russian settlement. a satchel. Just how much he ob­ pect the low figure will be popular business. Haywood and George A. Pettibone for ciers manufactured the recent panic, aDd that many will take advantage J. C. Porter, who was on the pro­ tained Is not definitely known. the murder of ex-Governor Frank Steu­ Mail-clerks Benjamin Stumpf and of it. The present roundtrip rate is gramme to speak on pruning, and Rear Admiral Evans will tie retired SPER R Y WILL CO M M A N D . $40. The dates on which the re­ who Is one of the most prominent John W. Nysteum, who were held at nenberg, told the exact truth, attempt­ alter the fleet reaches San Francisco duced special tickets will be sold growers at Hood River, or else­ the mercy of the robber, tell a re­ ing toomceal nothing. Judge Fremont May 8. Schroedsr ana Wainwright to Become have not yet been decided, as this where, stated that, even If prices for markable story of their experience. Wood, in the District court yesterday, A number of foreign warships are Reer Admirals. will depnd upon the movements of apples should go to $1 a box, land Locked In the small closet, hardly recommended that the state board of two feet square, the latter almost at Port An Prine, Hayti, and the revo­ Washington, March 18.— Rear-Ad­ the fleet. As soon ns it is definitely at Hood River would still be worth fainted from suffocation after the pardons commute Orchard’s sentence of lutionists are to be deported. miral Charles S. Sperry will be com- settled just when the fleet will ar­ $1,000 per acre on account of the train bad pulled into Sand Point, 34 death to life imprisonment in the state rive at San Francisco, the Southern Immense return on the Investment. penitentiary. The sentence of death Viscount Aoki was recalled by his mander-ln-chief ot the Atlantic bat­ Pacific will announce the dates. C. H. Sproat, who was called on miles west of Bonners Ferry« und was pronounced in accordance with tiie fleet when it leaves San government for offensive talk to Rooee tleship to speak on "W hat Shall We Do to rapping on the door pleaded with the "W e expect to take 700 people Francisco in July to encircle the to allow him some fresh air. plea of guilty eDtered by Orchard Tues­ velt regarding Japanese exclusion. globe. This important detail was from Portland alone to see the fleet,” Market the Future Apple Crop to robber The bandit responded willingly and day of last week when arraigned. Judge Get the Best Results?" was strong­ said Assist General Passenger Agent Rear Admiral Evans admires Magda decided on by President Roosevelt Scott yesterday. “ We have had a ly in favor of raising the best grades leaving the door ajar about an inch, Wood preeided at both the Haywood lena bay and Bays it would be a grand aud his cabinet today. and Petttibone trials. Rear Admiral Evans, at his per­ very large number of inquiries from and best quality of fruit, and in this secured it with a piece of rope. Twice thing if the United States owned it. In sentAcing Orchard and recom­ as a director of the Ap- i l®ter on the way into Spokane the sonal request will be relieved of the all over the state in regard to the connection, Rear Admiral Sperry will take com command at the conclusion of the possibility of fixing rates to permit ple-Growers’ Union, read a number robber ceased his work of rifling the mending the commutation of his sen­ of litters from large buyers and lm -lma** sacks to go to the door of the mand of the American battleship fleet big naval review at San Francisco Oregon people to visit the fleet on porters in which they stated th atlc ^ose* *° inquire as to how Nysteun tence, Judge Wood reviewed the case from the time of the killing of Frank to complete its voyage round the world May 8. The admiral considers this its arrival in San Francisco. In re­ they had found it cheaper to pay was feeling. Steunenberg to the present. ' the completion of the work he was sponse to this widespread desire to When Stumpf remonstrated with higher prices for fruit grown at The czar has confirmed the death assigned to do— take the Atlantic see the fighting ships that make up In regard to the part ol Orchard in his captor that the cords which the squadron, we have decided to Hood River than a less price for that sentence on General Stoessel but re fleet to the Pacific Coast. Admiral bound him were cutting into his the trials, Judge Wood said: grown elsewhere on account of its put In the low rate.” commends cimmutation to ten years’ Evans will retire in August. To Rear- “ I am more than satisfied that the quality and keeping properties. Mr. wrists, the genteel robber generous­ Admiral Thomas comes the honor of imprisonment. ly loosened the fetters and made defendant now at the bar of this court F R E E O F 8CA B commanding the fleet on its visit to every effort to make things as com­ awaiting final sentence hae not only An Irish skipper in Galveston bar Puget Sound and until the home­ Professors Quiz Students, fortable as possible for bis victim. acted in good faith in making the dis­ bor hoisted the Irish flag above the ward Journey begins. He has been Eastern Oregon Sheep so Healthy University of Oregon, Eugene While ripping open the registered closures that be did, but that he also American on St. Patrick’ s day, but was second in command during the voy­ The custom of giving a quiz each gacks the pseudo-inspector cut one of testified fully aDd fairly to the whole That Dipping Will Be Omitted. obliged to change them. age and will retire in October. Pendleton— At a called meeting of I“ 0“ 111 i“ the different subjects has his fingers and many of the pieces truth, withholding nothing that was These retirements will make pos­ The Oregon and California coasting sible two promotions to the grade of the board of sheep commissioners become almost general among the Gf mail were blood-stained. Blood- material and declaring nothing which steHiner Pomona struck the rocks off Rear-Admiral and these are to be held in this city, a proclamation was different members of the faculty, hounds were put on the trail of the had not actually taken place.” and as approximately a month of the robber, taking the scent from one of Fort Ross, Cal., and is a total I o b s . The filled by the advancement of Captain issued declaring the annual dipping second semester has elapsed, the Judge Wood, after reading bis ruling, foioody packages, and followed a passengers and hand luggage were Seaton Schroeder and Captain Rich­ for the spring of 1908 unnecessary students are in about the same state ¡trail several blocks through the resi- formally sentenced Orchard and fixed saved, but 102 sacks of mail were lost. ard Wainwright, who will command and that it need not be observed. According to the report made by of mind only in a lesser^ degree, u s ’ deQce district to a carline, where the May 15 as the date for the execution. respectively the third and fourth Letter carriers will receive pay for squadrons of the fleet, and Rear- State Sheep Inspector Lytle and Dr during examinations. Lqder this Iseent was lost. It is believed that the Orchard asked for permission to speak, S. W. McClure, head of the bureau system a student may encounter as highwayman boarded a car and rode and it was granted. He thanked the overtime claimB aggregating! 280,000. Admiral Emory the second. of animal industry in the northwest, many tests in one day as he has • downtown. court lor the review of Jhe ease given, The senate has inreased the salaries the state Is practically free from i!^ and for the kindly remarks in regard to S T KNFORD BO YS R E V O L T . of surveyors general from $2,000 to $3, G R A FT FLOURISHING. scab. A few cases were reported in there is very little likelihood of hav­ him. He repeated that he had told the 000 . the Willamette Valley early in the ing more than two in one day. whole truth and that, no promise of im­ winter, but these have all been at­ Police Rely on Courts to Keep Tnem munity or ot meicy had ever been made Berlin Socialists are preparing to Student Affairs Committee Punishes tended to. In Umatilla county, Sheep Coming Into Klam« co8ts He will crate: eggplant, 20c per pound; let- th “ I am guilty and am ready to take ment if the committee report) the reso­ f . lution as it passed the senate. A street meeting of about 200 per­ tables of the Mzab tribe came out to ®PP®a' the case to the state supreme tuce. head, 65c per dozen; hot house, 1 General d’Amade reports cour* ---------— ----------- 5OC0$1 per box: parsley. 20c per " utt" ’e c0M e a ie n c"s’• sons who had assembled to hear Emma surrender. dozen; peppers, 17 ^ c per pound; — S______ i______ Goldman, the anarchist leader, in Chi­ that 2,000 tribesmen who recently Japs Deny Having Wireless. Harriman in Harney radishes. 30c per dozen; rhubarb. attacked the French column were cago, was dispersed by the police. Russian Press Comments Burns— P. A. Worthington, repre- poc per pound; spinach 5c per beaten off with heavy loss. The Honolulu. March 19—The Japanese St. Petersburg, March 17— The Slo- The senate committee has reported French Infantry captured the renting the Oregon Eastern railroad, pounds; sprouts 10c per pound; vo says that the return of the Ameri- steamship Kasato Mam, which was re­ l © i y 4 c per pound; to -ITO ,y, ,nat tne return or tne Ameri ported from Callao February 16 as hav­ favorably on postal savings banks. The enemy's eamp at the point of the ls here filing at the United States squash mans nf ex/s can fleet as announced Is as sensa banks will pay 2 per cent interest and bayonet and burned a number of land office the amended maps of a ^ 5 0 Mexican crates ,B * ‘ lonal <“ > departure for the Pad- ing been 24 days going from Iqnique to railroad survey and location through tents as a measure of repression. deposits will be limited to $1,000. 5.50; Mexican crates, $3 |f| Apparently the Slovo thinks the Tocapilla, and was snpp >sed to have Malheur and Harney counties. While Root vegetables— Turnips ,5c per dan of wa/ h„ dlgappeared> fo* The French loss was Insignificant. been listening to wireless messages pass­ he claims to know nothing of the In­ sack; carrots, 65c per sack; beets, ,t addg. „ wh|, th, aProuseg ’d Taft's enemies admit he is practical­ ing among Admiral Evans’ fleet, arriv­ tentions of the Harriman company, ly sure of the nominaion. $1 per sack; garlic 8c per pound. | gat,BfacMon ln Europe, the preserva- Cleans Up San Francisco. ed here March 9. Her ofiicers deny his presence gives rise to much talk A great fire swept the port of Bahia, San Francisco. March 18.— The of early construction. nprnKhiinrtiprt - t,on of peace ,s due to the display of that the vessel is equipped with wire­ t t w d ' Japanese the big stick of the United States, Brizil, causing a loss of $1,000,000. citizens' health committee has Issued less. The 24 days were spent in lead­ a report on the sanitary accomplish­ P a u tM . B nvin, price, nrire 40 in iffs t r the prudence Japan and The the N“ good ing nitrates at various landing places. More Water for Vale. Potatoes— Buying 0 65c offlces of Great of Brltaln The town of Big Timber, Mont., was ments of the past six weeks. From Vale— The newly elected members per hundred, dellvcred^Portland; Vremya gay8. . whateyer the or,g,! Part of the 24 days the fleet was on tha three-fourths destroyed by fire. Loss February 2 to March 14, 72,460 about $400,000. n T T potat° eS’ * 3' 50 ® 3-75 Per huI>- M rTurp^se.’ th e ^ u V s i'h M 'd o ^ e a other side of the continent, and was premises have been Inspected; 884 \fonda v Cn l e h r UThe X night. The city Irrigation dred. useful service by a public examina- never nearer than 1,600 miles. premises have been disinfected; 171 Monday system was investigated and a new Butter— City creameries: Extra tjon 0f jjje American navy. Japan Is not on the list of visiting houses have been destroyed; 64 steel flume across Bully Creek or­ state creamery, 30c per pound: points for the battleship fleet, but buildings have been condemned; Habeas Corpus for Ruef. dered. The new flume Is to be 48 creameries, fancy creameries, 25© may be inoluded later. 17,564 nuisances have been abated Inches ln diameter and will carry 30c; store butter, choice. 16